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Tuesday, July 08, 2025

07/08 Links Pt2: Dinah Project Report Unveils the Sexual Violence of October 7th; ADL Slams Nation's Largest Teachers' Union for Banning Its Materials; On what planet is the BBC pro-Israel?

From Ian:

Andrew Fox: The Dinah Project report
Now, however, the truth is out in a way that can be shared with the world’s general audience. The Dinah Project report provides detailed descriptions and aggregated data that convey the scale and nature of the sexual violence without splashing explicit gore all over social media. It allows us to discuss the facts in a dignified manner, grounded in research and testimony. There is no longer any excuse for journalists, diplomats, or activists to parrot Hamas’s denials. The evidence is meticulously documented by a panel of legal experts and partially funded by the UK government (hardly an Israeli propaganda outfit). This report is the answer to anyone who still sneers “Where’s the evidence?” when confronted with the rapes of 7 October. Here it is, in black and white. Read it and weep (if you have a soul).

This is a personal issue for me, as it should be for anyone with a conscience. I am not Israeli, but as a human being, as a man, as a former soldier and writer about war who stood on that charred ground in the Gaza Periphery and later held back tears talking with survivors and hostage families, I feel an obligation to amplify their truth. We must ensure that the rape and sexual torture of 7 October are recognised globally for what they were: crimes against humanity. The dehumanisation that Hamas practised, in which Jewish civilians were not only to be killed, but degraded most intimately, needs to be utterly condemned by every decent person, no matter their politics on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Now the question is: what will the world do about it? Acknowledging the truth is the first step. Next must come accountability. No Hamas fighter who took part in the 7 October invasion should escape justice, even if their individual rape victim did not survive to testify against them. The patterns and evidence are enough to indict them as a group for sexual war crimes. The report also pushes for international bodies to step up: it calls on the UN Secretary-General to officially blacklist Hamas as an organisation that uses sexual violence as a weapon of war. (Incredibly, that has not happened yet; a scandal in its own right.) It lays out a roadmap for prosecuting these crimes in forums such as the International Criminal Court. In short, it demands justice.

I am outraged that it took this long and this much effort. I am furious at the chorus of denial that forced survivors to scream into a void for months. I take some solace in knowing that the facts have finally pierced the lies of denial. To those who still want to avert their eyes or peddle conspiracy theories: shame on you. To those who bravely gathered this evidence and spoke out, the Dinah Project team, the survivors who broke their silence, the first responders who testified to what they found: thank you. You have done a service not just to Israel, but to humanity.

In the biblical story, Dinah was a woman who survived a horrific rape, and her brothers sought justice (albeit violently) against the perpetrators. Today, the Dinah Project carries on that legacy in a more enlightened way, through truth and law. Now that the truth is in the open, we must not let it be ignored. The innocents of 7 October deserve to be remembered in full: not only how they died, but how they suffered. We owe it to them to be outraged and to ensure that never again will such barbarity be waved away or denied.

The evidence is here; the world must face it. For the sake of our shared humanity, we must hold the perpetrators of these horrors to account, however long it takes. Anything less would be an unforgivable betrayal of the victims and of truth itself.


October 7 and beyond: Hamas's use of sexual violence was systematic weapon of war, report finds
A new report on the systematic use of sexual violence by Hamas terrorists against Israelis in the Gaza border area on October 7, 2023, offers a framework to approach the legal monstrosity of proving and eventually indicting the perpetrators of such crimes.

The fact that the attacks were carried out by a group driven by a particular ideology is itself enough of a basis for a new evidentiary model, the report suggests, adding that there is legal precedent for this type of model.

This model suggests that when the perpetrators agreed to breach Israel’s borders on that fateful Saturday, they consented to all the crimes that would be carried out. As such, the group as an entity bears responsibility, as do the individuals within, especially given the systematic pattern of sexual violence evidenced on October 7 and by some who did them to captives later on.

The full report can be viewed at www.thedinahproject.org.

The Dinah Project, which authored the report, is comprised of five women, legal and gender experts in their own right, who came together after October 7 to form “the leading resource for recognition and justice for victims of Conflict Related Sexual Violence.”

The report finds that “Hamas used sexual violence as a tactical weapon of war,” a conclusion that carries potentially far-reaching consequences in the international realm. CRSV has been documented in other conflict zones, such as Nigeria and Iraq.

The report, titled “A Quest for Justice: October 7 and Beyond,” was authored by the Dinah Project’s founding members: Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, Col. (res.) Sharon Zagagi-Pinhas, and retired judge Nava Ben-Or. The team, led by Halperin-Kaddari, analyzed and verified what they could on CRSV from October 7, including incidents of rape, gang rape, torture, and humiliation. Other team members include Eetta Prince-Gibson and Nurit Jacobs-Yinon, the visual editor of the report.

The report documents the widespread and systematic use of sexual violence during the October 7 attacks across at least six different locations: the Nova music festival, Route 232, the Nahal Oz military base, Kibbutz Re’im, Kibbutz Nir Oz, and Kibbutz Kfar Aza.

The main issue that confronted the researchers was gathering the evidence, as “most victims were murdered; survivors and released captives may be too traumatized to come forward and testify against their abusers; and forensic evidence required for criminal convictions is difficult to obtain in crime scenes that remain war zones.”
New Dinah Project Report Unveils the Sexual Violence of October 7th & Beyond
The Dinah Project’s report takes a meticulous approach in documenting the sexual violence committed by Hamas during the October 7 assault. The initiative is named after Dinah, the biblical figure and Patriarch Jacob's only daughter, whose story of the rape she suffered in the Book of Genesis is told without her perspective ever being given a voice. Similarly, the victims of the October 7 massacre remain largely silenced, either through death or by the profound trauma that prevents them from sharing their experiences. The project’s mission is to document, analyze, and seek justice for the gender-based crimes carried out during the Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel. Key Findings

Through comprehensive research and analysis, the report confirms that:
- Sexual violence was rampant and coordinated during the October 7 assault, taking place at minimum 6 different sites, including the Nova music festival, Route 232, Nahal Oz military base, and the Kibbutzim of Re'im, Nir Oz, and Kfar Aza.

- Distinct patterns of sexual abuse emerged, such as victims found partially or fully undressed with their hands bound to trees or poles, gang rapes followed by executions, genital mutilation, and instances of public humiliation.

- Sexual violence persisted during captivity, with several returnees reporting instances of forced nudity, sexual harassment, assaults, and threats of forced marriage.

- Most victims were permanently silenced, killed either during or after the attacks, or remain too traumatized to share their experiences, creating substantial challenges in evidence gathering that necessitate a specialized, context-driven approach to documenting conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV).

Evidence Framework

The report draws on 5 main sources:
- Survivor Testimonies: One survivor of attempted rape on October 7, along with 15 returned hostages, either having experienced or witnessed accounts of sexual violence.

- Eyewitness and Earwitness Accounts: At least 17 individuals have provided testimony regarding over 15+ separate incidents of sexual assault, including, individual rapes, gang rapes and mutilation.

- First Responder Testimonies: 27 first responders reporting dozens of cases of sexual violence across six locations, with clear evidence of assault on the victims.

- Forensic Evidence: Morgue attendants describing bodies showing signs of sexual violence, with photographic documentation supporting these claims.

- Visual and Audio Documentation: Videos, photographs, and intercepted communications provide further evidence of sexual assault and humiliation during the attacks.




Former Sky News Australia presenter Erin Molan: ‘I don’t know my country anymore’
Erin Molan loves her homeland, Australia, but says she now feels “lost because I don’t know my country anymore.” Molan is a journalist and social media influencer who was fired from Australia’s Sky News last year—many observers attribute the dismissal to her pro-Israel stance. She said she is appalled by rising antisemitism and even more disturbed by the millions who fail to stand up for the Jewish community.

“Every country in the world has people who are evil, has people who are stupid, has people with violent mentalities,” Molan said. “It’s the silence of the majority that I can no longer tolerate. It’s the fellow countrymen and women here in Australia who are not speaking up. It’s just as bad.”

Speaking via Zoom from Australia on Sunday morning—hours after Melbourne was rocked by three violent antisemitic incidents—Molan described the silence as both “deafening” and “heartbreaking.” Her remarks echo the feelings of Jewish leaders who say they feel angry and abandoned in their own country.

Antisemitism rising fast
“We have learned the limits of the government,” said Alex Ryvchin, co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. “The government alone cannot deal [with rising antisemitism]. This requires a societal approach.”

Ryvchin, who immigrated from Ukraine and now advocates for the Jewish community, said that large segments of civil society have remained silent as antisemitism has escalated from a concern to a full-blown crisis. He asked why Australians are not taking to the streets to denounce the violence, as they do for other causes, and said it feels as if both the public and the government are passively allowing Jews to be targeted for a war taking place more than 11,000 kilometers away.

“Russia invades Ukraine, unleashing a barbaric campaign against civilians. No Russian restaurants in Melbourne are attacked,” wrote documentary filmmaker Danny Ben-Moshe in an open Facebook post over the weekend. “China commits genocide against Uyghurs. No Chinese restaurants in Melbourne are attacked. India responds to a terror attack in Kashmir by attacking Pakistan. No Indian restaurants in Melbourne are attacked. Israel is at war with Hamas (and yes, innocent Palestinians are dying). An Israeli restaurant in Melbourne is attacked.

“We know for the ‘protestors’ this is not about justice or human rights, for they are universal,” Ben-Moshe continued. “This is about targeting Jews and only Jews. There’s a term for that: antisemitism.” Community leader Adam Slonim echoed the point on social media: “This is not just a Jewish problem. This is an Australian problem. A country where another house of worship is firebombed and it doesn’t dominate the news cycle for a week—that’s a country in moral retreat.”


Charges laid amid restaurant’s distress over protest
A restaurant targeted by pro-Palestine protesters has revealed the “profound impact” the incident has had on its staff as police arrest and charge protesters.

The owners of an Israeli restaurant that was targeted by protesters have broken their silence, detailing the “profound impact” of the incident as police charge more people over the incident.

The demonstration outside Miznon in Melbourne’s CBD on Friday was one of several incidents targeting Melbourne’s Jewish community in recent days, with protesters smashing a window, upending tables and throwing chairs.

About 20 protesters converged on the restaurant, some chanting “death to the IDF” (Israel Defence Force).

Police on Tuesday charged a 50-year-old Richmond man, a 48-year-old Footscray woman and a 28-year-old Essendon woman with assault, affray, riotous behaviour and criminal damage after another person was arrested and then released for hindering police that night.

The restaurant said the actions of a few had caused much distress to customers, patrons and staff in neighbouring restaurants.

“The events on Friday evening had a profound impact on our restaurant and staff,” the owners said in an Instagram post.

“We are a restaurant, a place of hospitality, of warmth and welcome … we respect everyone’s right to their own nationality and religion. We ask for the same.”

Miznon added: “We would like to thank all those in Melbourne and beyond for the outpouring of well wishes and offers of support.

We do not intend to make any further statements. We want our cooking and hospitality to do the talking. We welcome anyone who wishes to dine with us with open arms.”


Eve Barlow: The Art of the Con
The con artists like the socialists of times past have redefined concepts around good and evil. What’s right and wrong? They will decide. It’s fine to ban Jews. It’s protective. We are a threat. They are morally convinced they are correct. Get us out. It hurts to be around us. You might catch something. Like the truth.

Unfortunately, a lot of people in our lives have fallen prey to cultists. It’s a cult. Socialism is a cult. Progressivism is a cult. They are terrified of being ousted from the cult of moral purity; the one place they’ve been convinced they belong in a world that wants to otherwise oppress them. They are hyper vigilant about the perceived harms of the world, preferring to hide in the shadows of a “safe space” - but how safe is that space? Is it free? Or is it manipulative? They believe in their mutual victimhood and they have an empty anger at the mere fact of existence. They therefore feel like a fake utopia is the only answer. They feel high in their collective hatred of others. It’s a “joy” that requires constant topping up by more and more extremism and trauma bonds. I think social media has facilitated it but it’s a social contagion that has arisen during a time of unrest and a lack of leadership, guidance and faith. I wish I was wrong. But I’m not wrong, am I? I’m bearing witness to it right now.

So what do I do? This. Golda Meir once said that the Jews’ secret weapon is that we have nowhere else to go. I have nowhere else to go. Ergo I write.

Tomorrow the Dina Report is released, documenting the most evidence to date of sexual violence and rape on October 7. There are many people in this socialist utopia who consider themselves “feminists” but they will not talk about this. Please ladies, don’t wait for Cosmopolitan or Glamour magazine to make a nice graphic of it first before you post, cos they’re not going to. #feminism

How did I become an enemy of the state? That may seem like a hyperbolic question but I am currently in shell-shock. I’m stunned. All of the betrayals I have survived have come via sociopathic (I believe we call that “neirodivergent” now) cry-bullies who identify as righteous joyful perfect humanoid progressives. I have experienced too many to recall in the social shunning that has decimated my life since 2019 when I decided to object to a potential socialist Prime Minister of the UK called Jeremy Corbyn; King of the progressive cyborgs. I’ve become so accustomed to shunning that I can see it happening in slow-motion over months, sometimes years, in fact. (Like the Palestinians, these people are patient because they’re bored). A shunning involved me piece by piece being surgically removed from my industry without a trace. Same with my social circles. A shunning involves to this day me being publicly shamed, callously smeared and trolled to death online every single day, and potentially I suspect in real life rooms I’m no longer welcome to enter. I would congratulate the ones doing the shunning for their success but it’s so easy to shun me. It involves such little creativity or intellectual nous that a rattle snake on Runyon Canyon could do it better.

This part isn’t fiction, unfortunately. It’s my life.

Why did millions die in the 20th century at the hands of socialism? Oh. That’s a rhetorical question. There’s no answer. Because there was no reason. Utopia was a con. It was for nothing. It’s fiction for kids desperately in denial about how much they want a meaningless religion.

We Jews, and our gentile allies, and anyone with their brains switched on stand between the fiction and the reality. And that is why they hate us. That is why they have reinvented morality to make any resistance to us justified. And they will continue to reinvent morality to protect their lies. Here is the reality. If they can convince you to betray the ones you love, they will eventually betray you. If they can write fiction about their own lives and the people they hate, they will eventually write fiction about you. If they can steal and cheat to achieve what they need for their sense of inclusion, they will one day steal from and cheat you.

We are not the martyrs, you are.
Britain’s craven appeasement of Islam is an insult to the victims of 7/7
Twenty years after one of the most heinous terror attacks in British history, our borders are effectively open. Some 20,000 undocumented young males from backward, misogynistic cultures, often exporters of Islamist violence, have entered the UK by boat since the start of this year, and are being seeded in towns up and down the land to try and hide them from a furious populace that is done with immigration. There is now overt sectarianism in Parliament, with Muslim MPs forming their own political alliance with Jeremy Corbyn, trying to affect British foreign policy in favour of Islamic fundamentalists.

Another unholy alliance of far-Left, woke Corbynists, Hamas supporters and Greens is poised to form a new party – working title: Jezbollah.

On the anniversary of 7/7, I asked someone who was operationally very senior in counter terrorism, both nationally and internationally: “How bad is the Islamist threat today compared to July 2005?”

“The truth is the threat has grown inexorably,” he replied. “Perversely, the reason why there are no real terror attacks now is because we are better at monitoring them since the London attack, but also because they are getting what they want. We are where they want us to be. We have their religion enshrined outside of UK law and their community leaders have got the police under control. They are wily; when they see do-gooders they walk all over them. Like the scorpion and the frog it is what they do. The numbers are now so huge that our own government has sleepwalked into a nightmare of extraordinary proportions. They are building while we are continually lying to ourselves.”

This former senior figure in counter-terrorism is one of many people who now talk openly about the chilling possibility of civil war in this country. Let’s hope it never comes to that, but, at the very least, it is hard not to feel huge sorrow at how the memory of the 7/7 victims has been betrayed by the craven appeasement of our worst enemy.

Our institutions may be cowardly, but individual strength and determination remain. At the 7/7 inquest all those years ago, a softly spoken man called Philip Duckworth said he had been thrown by the blast from Shehzad Tanweer’s suicide bomb out of the doors of the carriage at Aldgate and into the tunnel. He was blind in one eye because he had been hit by a splinter from the bomber’s shin bone. Lying semi-conscious on the track, Philip heard someone say: “Leave him, he’s gone.” So incensed was he, that he hauled himself up on to his knees and willed himself to live.

Our wonderful, brave Laura walked past him at that defiant moment of resurrection. Yes, it was the charred man, back from the dead. That kind of courage is in the DNA of our people, and it has served us well all these centuries; no terrorists or alien creed will vanquish it, nor take our country from us.
BBC’s former diversity manager shares antisemitic conspiracy theories and Nazi terminology
The former senior diversity manager for the BBC has shared antisemitic conspiracy theories and Nazi terminology from her social media account.

Arts and politics magazine The Critic revealed that last month Caro had shared a post in which the words “Start wars then play victims. Rat ideology” were placed above a 1933 Express front page about the global Jewish response to the election of Adolf Hitler.

Caro also appeared to endorse conspiracy theories that Jews were responsible for 9/11 and that “Zionists have a thing for false flags and terrorism” in posts shared on 29 June.

Caro worked as senior diversity manager for the BBC between 2001 and 2011 but advised the corporation on inclusion as recently as 2018 in a freelance capacity.

The “diversity” expert reposted a message on X – written in response to a post by an anti-Israel activist – saying he “isn’t the first person to blame the Zionist Jews for 9/11. I’ve heard tons of people, mostly American, speak on who is responsible for 9/11. The ADL is targeting him because of his pro-Palestine stance and anti-genocide stances and nothing else.”

Caro’s LinkedIn account shows that she currently works as a diversity and media consultant.

Her most recent work for the BBC – as a freelance consultant – was as diversity adviser for the Cbeebies series My World Kitchen in 2018, for which she provided information and insight into how to source contributors from a range of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

Her freelance consultancy work includes advising the Thomson Foundation, which champions ethical and reliable communication and information in journalism and media.
Who is the Irish student who took on a furious anti-Israel crowd at an Ilan Pappé lecture?
Jamie O Mahony, 21, had already lost his position as chair of a university society and his girlfriend over his support for Israel.

On Saturday, during a lecture by Ilan Pappé in Limerick, he nearly lost his Israeli flag too, after a furious backlash over his pro-Israel comments – and his Israeli flag – turned into a physical altercation.

But speaking to the JC after the incident, O Mahony said: “The Israeli flag came back with us. The event was shocking and quite disturbing, but I am proud of myself for standing up for my beliefs, that I fought back, and I am particularly proud that he didn’t get the flag.”

The confrontation unfolded on Saturday afternoon in Limerick, during a sold-out lecture by Ilan Pappé advertised by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

When O Mahony, who is not Jewish but is a fierce advocate for Israel, saw the event publicised, he decided to attend with a few friends. He had previously read a book by Pappé – an Israeli professor at the University of Exeter who frequently speaks out against the Jewish state – and thought, “I can’t let a guy like that come along to my home city and not give him a bit of a challenge.”

He sat through the 40-minute lecture before raising his hand during the Q&A. Speaking from the back of the room, O Mahony pointed out that Israel is the only country in the Middle East where critics like Pappé enjoy freedom of speech, and claimed the professor “hates Israel also because it’s a capitalist success story.

“By that stage,” he recalled, “70-plus people were booing and shouting at me.”

Undeterred, he took out an Israeli flag. As he began to unfold it, he told the keffiyeh-clad crowd: “Boo all you like – Am Yisrael Chai.”

At that point, a man sitting in front of him tried to snatch the flag.

O Mahony resisted. “Adrenaline kicked straight into action,” he told the JC from his home in Limerick. “The main thing I was thinking was that I cannot let him take this flag from me.”

With a background in rugby, he managed to hold on. “I tried to put up a fight.”
Video exposes Mamdani as more radical than thought
A 2021 video of a virtual Youth Democratic Socialists of America meeting featuring Zohran Mamdani has recently resurfaced, revealing that despite his previous denials, the New York City mayoral nominee does, in fact, hold views that align with a universally accepted definition of communism.

In the video, an interminably smiling Mamdani—oddly dressed in a tight, green spider web-like sweater—spoke to what appeared to be college students submitting questions to him about how to succeed as a true socialist in the DSA. He repeatedly distanced himself from even mainstream DSA Socialists, strongly implying that they were not real ones and insisting that the true way to DSA’s success would come from embracing not progressives but the idea of socialism itself.

At one point, Mamdani went so far as to state that “seizing the means of production” was the “end goal,” evoking Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, both of whom famously spoke of socialism being merely a transitional phase to be used in achieving the true end goal of communism. In Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875), he explicitly described socialism as a transitional stage (the “lower phase”) of communism, when the state controls the means of production, eventually leading to a Communist society (the “higher phase”).

Mamdani casually refers to his fellow Socialists as “comrades” and boasts of numerous antisemitic affiliations and promises. He admits to his affiliation with the militant and virulent anti-Zionist hate group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The often violent or harassing group has repeatedly been banned or suspended from at least a dozen college campuses in the United States. What he doesn’t reveal in the damning video is the fact that he was not merely a supporter of SJP but a co-founder of the Students for Justice in Palestine’s chapter at Bowdoin College in Maine.

Just as concerning for the Jewish people of New York, Mamdani promises in the clip not just that he will work to revoke the city’s anti-BDS executive order, but actively campaign to push active boycott policies into place. He brags about his work in pushing the BDS movement, which is widely viewed as antisemitic.

The video, in which Mamdani explicitly claims that “capitalism” is the problem in the United States, undermines claims made by Mamdani in a “Meet the Press” interview on June 29, where he denied being a Communist and stated that he identifies as a Democratic Socialist.


'Radical, Antisemitic Agenda': Anti-Defamation League Slams Nation's Largest Teachers' Union for Banning Its Materials
The Anti-Defamation League condemned the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers' union, for voting to ban its members from using any ADL materials in the classroom, calling the Sunday measure "a radical, antisemitic agenda."

The ADL, a civil rights organization that combats anti-Semitism, says it is "profoundly disturbing that a group of NEA activists would brazenly attempt to further isolate their Jewish colleagues and push a radical, antisemitic agenda on students," Jewish Insider reported.

Thousands of NEA delegates gathered in Portland, Ore., to green-light the measure that instructs educators to "not use, endorse, or publicize materials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), such as its curricular materials or statistics." The resolution now heads to the union's nine-member executive committee for final approval.

The vote comes as anti-Semitic incidents have surged in the United States following Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel. President Donald Trump, who signed an executive order in late January to "combat anti-Semitism" nationwide, has cracked down by revoking visas of foreign nationals linked to anti-Semitic activity and withholding billions in federal funding from universities that fail to protect Jewish students on campus.

The NEA measure stemmed from a grassroots campaign called #DropTheADLFromSchools, which began with an online open letter and later gained traction among left-wing educators and unions, according to Jewish Insider.

The NEA's Jewish Affairs caucus condemned the resolution, saying it "sends a troubling message of exclusion" at a time when "incidents of hate and bias are on the rise across the country." The caucus told Jewish Insider that its members will continue using ADL materials in classrooms.


On what planet is the BBC pro-Israel?
A psychiatrist sits in front of a man, assessing his mental health. The man admits to seeing demons coming out of a toaster and pixies speaking to him from his wife’s moisturiser bottles. So far, nothing conclusive. Then the man states, ‘I think the BBC is pro-Israel’. The psychiatrist immediately prescribes a high dose of chlorpromazine and recommends sectioning.

How else are we supposed to account for the over 400 media figures, including 111 BBC journalists, who last week wrote and signed a letter expressing that very sentiment? Was it temporary mass insanity? A gas leak in W1A? Spiked lattes at the Starbucks next to Broadcasting House?

Funnily enough, the 92 per cent of British Jews who rate the corporation’s coverage of Israel as unfavourable would most likely agree with the letter’s conclusion: that the BBC needs to re-embrace the ‘values of impartiality, honesty and reporting without fear or favour’. Hear, hear.

Some might say the letter is proof that the Beeb is doing a good job. After all, if both sides feel antagonised by the BBC’s coverage, then is this not proof of its lack of bias?

For this very reason, I suspect that BBC management was only too happy to receive this letter from pro-Palestine activists. Last year, Danny Cohen, its former head of television, published a damning report examining the first 11 months of BBC News’ output since 7 October 2023. It listed over 60 pages of mistakes in the BBC’s reporting, and concluded that it is ‘institutionally hostile to Israel’. But now the BBC gets to point to this new letter as evidence that it is balanced after all.

Of course, the letter is spectacularly misleading. ‘In some instances’, it reads, ‘staff have been accused of having an agenda because they have posted news articles critical of the Israeli government on their social media’. Which is a strange way of saying that multiple BBC employees have been caught expressing unbridled anti-Semitism. Staff at BBC Arabic, a foreign-language service broadcast in the Arab world, even appear to have celebrated Hamas’s atrocities on 7 October.
Channel 4’s ‘Gaza: Doctors under attack’ is an assault on journalism
Some of the doctors profiled support Hamas. The documentary admits this but, in a strange contortion, can’t admit to admitting it. One doctor was arrested on suspicion of terrorism without evidence, we are told. Then we are told he praised the October 7 attacks and has been supportive of militant groups in the past. Which is it?

Released hostages say they were held at Nasser hospital – the documentary tells us this - but they are not interviewed, or even quoted, here. It was put to a doctor working at Nasser that Israeli hostages were held there. He replies, “I didn’t see any Israeli hostages. When I arrived, I went to the operating theatre and stayed working from there. Even if doctors…dealt with the hostages and treated them… does that mean that for saving the life of a hostage or treating one you should be killed or interrogated?” In his telling they were less hostages than patients: elusion again.

We are told that the body of the Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar was found in a tunnel under the European Hospital, but it was not framed as part of a wider, indisputable truth: Hamas operates in hospitals.

This is not a forensic investigation then, but a howl of fury. By all means do this, but do not call it journalism and do not expect the BBC – on one of its better days – to run it. There is nothing on how Hamas embed themselves within civilian areas and fight in civilian clothes; nothing on whether the men shown tied up, or dead, are members of Hamas; nothing on the allegations that Hamas hid fighters among the wounded; nothing on the claims that Hamas is using medics as human shields. Instead of illumination we have demonisation. We are told Israelis watch the bombing of Gaza from a hill in Sderot: the insinuation is – for fun.

I do not shout, as George Orwell’s animals did: four legs good, two legs bad. I cannot say whether the allegations of war crimes made against Israel here are true or untrue: but I can’t trust them from a documentary as shoddy as this. Everything good begins with the truth. It isn’t here.
The Teddy Bear in the Rubble: The Image That Keeps Returning in Gaza
You’ve probably seen it before, not just in Gaza, not just in this war, but in war zones around the world. Amid the twisted metal and shattered concrete, there it is: a teddy bear. Soft, childlike, absurdly out of place. The implication is immediate and visceral. An innocent child has died here. The toy, half-buried in dust, is all that remains. It’s an image designed to evoke grief, outrage, and blame.

The grim truth is that war is horrific, and the innocent often suffer most. The death of a child is always a tragedy, whether in Gaza, in Israel, or anywhere else.

But in Gaza, as HonestReporting has documented repeatedly, Hamas not only puts civilians, including children, in harm’s way, it also manipulates the narrative. It inflates the civilian death toll, especially that of women and children, as part of a broader propaganda war against Israel.

And it works. The media has helped enable this strategy, often by repeating Hamas-supplied data without question, or worse, by using imagery that advances a one-sided emotional message. One of the most familiar examples is the teddy bear in the rubble.

These images tend to surface soon after Israeli airstrikes and spread quickly across international news outlets and social media. The message is unmistakable: a child was killed here. No caption is necessary. The toy says it all.

One example appeared in a BBC report on a blast at a Gaza café, where a senior Hamas terrorist was targeted. Amid the destruction, a teddy bear, barely damaged except for some dust, sat upright and prominently placed in the wreckage. The implication was clear. But are images like this always as genuine as they seem?

A review of the Getty Images archives, which supplies photographs to the world’s major news outlets, raises doubts. In several cases, teddy bears seem to have been deliberately placed.
Drop the dead donkey - teddy

Bombshell report exposes attempts by Muslim Council of Britain group to censor UK media
The Muslim Council of Britain's media monitoring unit "acted in bad faith" by trying to suppress accurate reporting about terrorism and risks curtailing press freedom, a bombshell report has claimed.

Policy Exchange tonight released its 94-page report, titled 'Bad Faith Actor: A study of the Centre for Media Monitoring', which exposed the organisation's inadequate methods of documenting Islamophobia and its partisan agenda.

Despite the CfMM claiming that 60 per cent of stories about Muslims are "offending" and negative, Policy Exchange found that just one complaint made by the group resulted in a newspaper being required to make a correction.

Policy Exchange revealed that CfMM, which sat on a working group at press regulator Ipso, counted factual reports of Islamist terror attacks in its 60 per cent figure of Islamophobic journalism, including a Manchester terror attack report by agency AP that accurately used the phrase "knife-wielding man yelling Islamic slogans".

CfMM also complained that it was "misleading" to refer to British Isis executioner Mohammed Emwazi, also known as 'Jihadi John', as a terrorist because he was never convicted.

Policy Exchange's report even made direct reference to GB News's coverage of predominantly Pakistani rape gangs.

It said: "In 2024, CfMM published a report attacking GB News for an alleged 'routine delegitimisation of Islam and Muslims,' referring among other things to its reporting of 'so-called grooming gangs’.

"By then it had, of course, long been established, including by multiple court cases and official reports, that grooming gangs were and are real.


Musk’s AI repeats antisemitic trope that Jews ‘control Hollywood’
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has sparked outrage after asserting that Jewish people “dominate leadership in major studios” and influence Hollywood content with “progressive ideologies” – comments widely condemned as perpetuating an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

As reported by The Telegraph, the response was issued on X, formerly Twitter, just days after Musk claimed he had “improved Grok significantly”.

Asked if a “particular group runs Hollywood,” the chatbot replied: “Yes, Jewish executives have historically founded and still dominate leadership in major studios like Warner Bros, Paramount and Disney.”

It went on to state: “Critics substantiate that this over-representation influences content with progressive ideologies, including anti-traditional and diversity-focused themes some view as subversive.”

The statement echoed longstanding antisemitic tropes about Jewish media control, prompting renewed alarm from Jewish groups already concerned about Musk’s track record on hate speech and misinformation.

The tech billionaire – who owns both X and xAI, the company behind Grok – has positioned the chatbot as “truth-seeking”, contrasting it with other platforms he claims are infected by a “woke mind virus”.

But Grok’s output has previously included Holocaust denial and white nationalist talking points. In May, it questioned the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust, saying it was “sceptical of these figures without primary evidence” – an error later blamed on faulty programming. It has also made unsolicited references to “white genocide” in South Africa, which xAI attributed to an “unauthorised modification”.


Can the EU Reform the Palestinian Authority?
On June 23, 2025, the EU announced that it was allocating 202 million euros to UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority. The EU's "multiannual Comprehensive Support Program" for 2025 to 2027 is predicated on a July 2024 "Letter of Intent" signed between the PA and the EU Commission.

The letter says: "The Palestinian Authority commits to undertake the necessary substantial and credible reforms, with support from the international community. These reforms aim at establishing a democratic, transparent, efficient, and sustainable governance system by the Palestinian Authority."

The commitments made by the PA expose the harsh reality of the failed EU support for the PA until now. From 2011 through 2023, the EU donated hundreds of millions of euros to the PA to establish functioning democratic institutions. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is now in his 21st year of his first four-year term. The last elections for the PA parliament were in 2006. In December 2018, Abbas decided to dissolve the parliament - which had not functioned for over a decade.

The PA has been devoid of any semblance of democracy for almost two decades and, realistically, there is little to no prospect of the PA ever truly adopting democratic principles. Yet, the EU is still willing to swallow the PA's empty commitments and provide the PA with more and more funds. Perhaps the EU should ask the PA what happened to all the aid it has already received to promote this goal.

It would seem that the EU has a foundational principle: No matter how broken the product is, the solution is just to throw more and more money at the PA, even in the knowledge that nothing will change. The PA apparently interprets EU willful blindness as accepting and even condoning the PA's actions, policies, and outright deception.


How Is the Mossad Able to Recruit So Many Spies in Iran (Jerusalem Post)
Israel's Mossad has an "extensive network" of spies operating in Iran, former Israeli intelligence officer Oded Ailam, 71, told the German newspaper Bild in an interview last week.

He said only 40% of its population of 90 million are Persian. "This makes it extremely difficult for the government to control the people." Kurds, Turkmen, Baluchis, and Azeris can all be recruited to turn on the regime.

"There are many dissatisfied people in Iran. Large parts of society are impoverished. While Iran sits on huge gas reserves, instead of investing this money in their own country, the mullahs have poured billions into terror organizations like Hizbullah."

"There is also the fact that Iran is a large country with borders that can't always be monitored, making it possible to smuggle anything into the country."
Iran and Hizbullah Implicated in Ireland's Biggest Cocaine Seizure
Iran and Hizbullah worked with the Kinahan cartel in a foiled plot to traffic more than 2.2 tons of cocaine through Irish waters, authorities believe.

Two Iranians were sentenced on Friday for their involvement in a drug trafficking operation on the MV Matthew, in the biggest seizure of cocaine in Ireland's history.

Saied Hassani, 39, a third officer, and the former captain of the MV Matthew, Soheil Jelveh, 51, are believed to have direct links to Hizbullah. The ship loaded its cocaine cargo in Venezuela.
Russia 'Ready to Assist Tehran in Refilling' Uranium Stockpiles, Foreign Minister Says

Following Pushback, John Cusack Deletes BlueSky Posting Linking Jeffrey Epstein with Jews and Israel
An actor known for a string of successful romantic comedies more than 20 years ago has again emphasized his antipathy toward the Jewish state with a meme he posted on the BlueSky social media network depicting a four-degrees connection between former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Israel’s espionage agency, and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Entertainment journalism site Deadline captured a screenshot of the since-deleted image shared by John Cusack, which includes a photo of Blinken linked to his stepfather Samuel Pisar, who is in turn tied to Robert Maxwell (labeled as a Mossad agent), the father of Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted Epstein accomplice who received a 20-year prison sentence on June 28, 2022.

The image’s creator chose to label each individual with a blue Star of David ripped from the Israeli flag.


Reginald D Hunter appears in court over alleged antisemitic communications
Reginald D Hunter has appeared in court after a private prosecution brought against him by the Campaign Against Antisemitism, with the comedian being accused of three offences under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003.

Hunter, 56, appeared at Westminster Magistrate’s Court yesterday, having failed to appear at a first hearing in late May. He confirmed his personal details, and was told that he would need to return for a hearing on 14 November, at which time it would be decided whether the private prosecution would be going forward.

Hunter is alleged to have sent both a computer-generated sexual image and antisemitic messages via Twitter last year to Heidi Bachram, a counter-antisemitism activist.

The comedian, who has previously graced BBC shows including Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News for You and Eight out of Ten Cats, has sought to crowdfund his defence, describing the case as an “Israel lobby prosecution.”

The crowdfunder goes on to describe the private prosecution as “a warning shot to every artist, speaker, and dissenter who refuses to stay silent on Palestine and is critical of Israel.”

The alleged communications from Hunter to Bachram are reported to have taken place shortly after the comedian received significant censure for a performance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year. At that performance, Hunter was involved in a verbal altercation with a Jewish couple, who took issue with a line in his show about Israel. After the couple left, Hunter told a “joke” about his wife in which she supposedly said, in reference to a Jewish newspaper, “Typical f***ing Jews, they won’t tell you anything unless you subscribe.”
Auto manufacturer sued for antisemitic workplace discrimination
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a Title VII lawsuit in Detroit against an automobile manufacturer for allegedly discriminating against a Jewish employee and refusing him religious accommodations.

According to the commission’s lawsuit, FCA US LLC, an international automobile manufacturer of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram and Fiat car brands, refused to accommodate the plaintiff’s request to observe Shabbat and take unpaid leave for Passover.

FCA initially allowed the employee a religious accommodation that excused him from working on Saturdays, the day of the Jewish Sabbath, but revoked the accommodation. The plaintiff then obtained a position and schedule that did not conflict with his religious beliefs, according to the EEOC.

However, FCA later instituted “mandatory Saturday work” and disciplined the plaintiff for attendance violations despite complaints issued by the plaintiff highlighting the company’s discriminatory practices.

The employee filed a charge of discrimination against FCA. Three months later, the company denied his request for a two-day, unpaid leave to observe Passover and subsequently fired him when he took the leave anyway, according to the lawsuit.

“The EEOC will hold employers accountable for violations of Title VII’s religious protections,” said Andrea Lucas, acting chair of the EEOC. “Employees have a right to request reasonable religious accommodations without fear of punishment or termination.”

“Firing someone for asserting those rights violates federal civil-rights laws,” she said.
Man cleared of assaulting Jewish father outside daughter’s Bat Mitzvah venue
A man who punched a Jewish father outside Bat Mitzvah venue has been found not guilty on all charges, after a jury rejected claims that the assault was religiously motivated.

As reported by the Jewish Chronicle, Samir Magdy Hassan Aly, 32, was acquitted at Wood Green Crown Court of religiously aggravated common assault, assault by beating, and causing intentional alarm or distress.

The incident occurred in November 2022 outside St Mary’s Church on Stoke Newington High Street, where the hall had been hired for a bat mitzvah ceremony. Aly, working nearby as a removal man, admitted throwing two punches at Daniel Lewandowski, the father of the bat mitzvah girl, during a dispute over a parking space.

“I feel very sorry,” Aly told the court. “I was angry and upset… When I saw the second punch [on CCTV], I was disappointed with myself.”

Jurors were shown footage of the scuffle, which began after Lewandowski asked Aly to vacate his van. Aly refused, saying he was working and had been instructed to remain. The exchange turned hostile, with both men allegedly swearing at each other.

Lewandowski’s legal team accused Aly of making antisemitic remarks during the confrontation, including “Hitler was right” and “you think I’m going to move for those people killing Palestinian children.” Aly denied the claims, insisting he did not know the venue was a synagogue and had no idea Lewandowski was Jewish.

“After I see them I see they were Jewish,” he said, referring to people exiting the building in religious dress. “That’s how I knew.”

Aly said tensions escalated when he was allegedly shoved and punched by Lewandowski, prompting him to retaliate. “The punch made me very hot, very upset,” he said. “My body did not act with my brain.”


Six African countries form pro-Israel parliamentary groups
Six African countries have established pro-Israel parliamentary groups, strengthening diplomatic, economic and faith-based ties with the Jewish state amid regional geopolitical realignments.

The move, which was announced on Monday, two weeks after the Israel-Iran war ended with a ceasefire, was the latest in a growing diplomatic tug-of-war between supporters and opponents of the Jewish state in Africa. While South Africa has emerged as one of the fiercest critics of Israel worldwide, other African countries have pushed back and are now further strengthening ties rooted in a mix of shared interests and faith.

“Israel sees Africa as a strategic and values-based partner, and we continue to deepen our cooperation through initiatives in agriculture, healthcare and employment,” Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel, who has led the government’s outreach to Africa, told JNS in a statement welcoming the move. “These growing ties reflect our shared values of liberty, innovation and faith.”

The new Israel Allies Caucuses launched in Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Lesotho, Seychelles, Gabon and Guinea Conakry join a network of more than 60 such faith-based parliamentary groups in countries around the globe, more than one-third of which are now in Africa.

“The addition of both Ethiopia, where the African Union is headquartered and is seen as the gateway of African diplomacy, as well as several francophone countries offers both the political and diplomatic diversity that Africa represents,” said Bishop Dennis Nthumbi, Africa Director of the Washington, D.C.-based Israel Allies Foundation, which spearheads faith-based diplomacy and runs the global parliamentary network, encompassing more than 1,500 pro-Israel lawmakers. “The Trump administration has opened a window where Africa can express itself freely devoid of the fear and threats previously coming from Iran,” he added.

“The principles of justice, peace and mutual respect that underpin your mission resonate fully with my personal beliefs and political commitments,” said Guinean MP Dorcas Nema Dione, the new chair of Guinea Conakry Israel Allies Caucus, a country under military rule.

“I seek to deepen and broaden my nation’s relationship with Israel, the nation of God,” said Lesotho MP Rev. Paul Pusetso Masiu. “The ultimate intention is to establish much stronger binational relations between Lesotho and Israel, to the extent that Lesotho establishes an embassy in Jerusalem and Israel in Lesotho.”


OPINION: That’s (the extraordinary) Life of Sir Nicholas Winton
There are certain YouTube videos guaranteed to elicit joy however long one has been stuck behind a desk. The video for Girls Aloud’s ‘The Promise’ is one, Mike Parry eating cinnamon another. The Australian icon being arrested for enjoying a succulent Chinese meal and anything involving sickly children unexpectedly meeting sporting heroes are fail-safes. But one short clip surpasses all others in this regard and it involves Sir Nicholas Winton, who died in July a decade ago at the age of 106, the exception that proves Billy Joel’s rule about the good dying young.

The footage comes from a 1988 episode of That’s Life, a BBC consumer affairs programme fronted by Esther Rantzen. Winton, commonly regarded as the “British Schindler”, had been responsible for saving 669 children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the war and had largely kept quiet about his humanitarian work for half a century. The past is a different country; there was no social media there.

Winton’s Czech Kindertransport heroics would probably have gone unnoticed for eternity had his wife not discovered a scrapbook containing the names of the children he saved as well as the names and addresses of the families who took them in. Letters were sent out and 80 of the children were found in Britain.

Little is more moving than humanity in the face of inhumanity and Winton was goodness incarnate. In the footage, Rantzen displays the scrapbook before introducing one of those saved, Vera Gissen. It then cuts to the audience and Vera is informed by the presenter that she is, in fact, sitting next to the man who saved her life. Vera proceeds to gently take Winton’s hand before whispering “hello” and embracing this smartly dressed man to her right.

Winton, at this stage in his late seventies, is clearly overwhelmed and uses his finger to wipe away tears obscured from our view by the thick lenses in his glasses. Vera only says one other thing on camera but she says it twice. In a sense, it’s the only thing she could possibly say. Two words that have never been more deserved in the course of human history: “Thank you.”




Former hostage Karina Ariev completes IDF service, five months after being freed from Gaza
Former hostage Karina Ariev was discharged from the IDF after completing three years of service, according to a post from her Instagram on Monday.

She spoke about how she wished it had been different, referring to the IDF observers who were killed on October 7, and said, “I wish everyone was here.”

Ariev had returned to the IDF to finish her service after being taken captive by Hamas on October 7 from the Nahal Oz base.

On October 7, Ariev, who was taken hostage along with fellow IDF observers Naama Levy, Daniella Gilboa, and Liri Albag, was able to repel a grenade that the terrorists had hurled at her. During the massacre, she pretended she was dead. However, a terrorist began pulling her hand to ascertain whether she was alive.

After understanding that she was alive, the terrorists began handcuffing her and brought her to Gaza. “I survived for my family and for my friends so that I could tell their stories, fight for them together with their families, and commemorate them,” she wrote.

“I was lucky to survive, and that’s not something to take for granted. I will do everything to be worthy of it.”


Eli Sharabi’s memoir about life in Hamas captivity to be released in US this fall
A memoir by former hostage Eli Sharabi, who was held in captivity for more than a year by Hamas, is coming out this fall in the US.

Sharabi’s “Hostage,” written in Hebrew and already a bestseller in Israel, is the first published memoir by anyone kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists during the deadly onslaught of October 7, 2023. Harper Influence, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced today that the English-language edition of his book will come out this coming October 7, on the 2-year anniversary of the Hamas-led atrocites.

Sharabi, 53, was released in early February and has said that he had shrunk to under 100 pounds (45 kilograms) — less than the weight of his youngest daughter, who was killed along with his wife and older daughter. Some 1,200 were killed in the attack and 251 were taken hostage.

“It was important to me that the story come out as quickly as possible, so that the world will understand what life is like inside captivity,” Sharabi said in a statement. “Once they do, they will not be able to remain indifferent. But I also want readers to know that even in the darkest of times, you can always seek out the light and choose humanity.”

According to Harper Influence, Sharabi writes about his experience with his captors in “stark, unflinching prose, detailing the relationships the hostages formed with one another, including Alon Ohel, still a hostage in Gaza, with whom Sharabi formed an unbreakable father-son bond.”

“Along the way, Sharabi reveals how his faith gave him the resilience to endure the horrific conditions and overcome mental anguish,” the announcement reads in part.




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