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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

08/26 Links Pt1: We are not being told the truth about Gaza; Six killed in Nasser Hospital were terrorists; The numbers just don’t support the UN-backed Gaza famine report

From Ian:

Brendan O'Neill: We are not being told the truth about Gaza
The truth – as we have come to expect on everything Israel-related – is far more complicated. What the IDF database actually says is that 8,900 – around one in six – of the dead in Gaza are ‘named fighters’ from ‘Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad’. There will be many other dead, it says, who are either fighters who could not be identified or fighters from other Islamist groups. Indeed, the purple-prose ‘exposé’ of the IDF’s supposed genocidal ruthlessness undercut its own claims by acknowledging that the number of fighters killed is ‘likely higher’ than 8,900 since the IDF’s database ‘does not include… operatives who were killed but could not be identified by name [or] Gazans who took part in fighting but were not officially members of Hamas or PIJ’.

Right. So it’s not true that only one in six of the dead are militants. That was a reckless and sinister misrepresentation of the facts. It’s even feasible that the number of fighters who could not be identified is higher than the number who could be: war, after all, is a messy business where establishing facts is hard. And yet the post-truth insistence that 83 per cent of the dead are civilians spread like a fire in influencer circles. ‘Barbarians’, they cried. ‘Demons’, even. The small print, the truth, was incinerated in the rush to damn Israel as genocidal.

It seems the butchery of truth is a small price to pay for that most jealously coveted goal of the West’s cultural establishment: to find Israel guilty of genocide. It’s not only numbers they’ll twist – it’s language, too. Recall when the Irish government said the International Court of Justice should broaden its definition of genocide in order that Israel might be put in the dock for its ‘collective punishment’ of Gaza. Can’t find Israel guilty of genocide? No problem, just change the meaning of genocide. Classic Orwellianism. One human-rights expert reminds us dimwits that genocide is ‘a crime that can be committed without a single person dying’. So whether Israel had killed 60,000 people or none, it could still be deemed a genocidal state. This is a species of madness.

Also last week, the IPC – the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification group linked to the UN – ruled there is famine in Gaza. No one doubts there’s huge suffering in Gaza, including deathly hunger. And yet some scepticism is warranted here, too. Israel says the IPC applied a lower ‘famine threshold’ to Gaza than it does for other countries. The IPC report also seems highly politicised: one of its contributors is an expert on international nutrition who has a track record of stinging commentary on Israel, including describing its founding in 1948 as being built on ‘the destruction of the state of Palestine by Jewish insurgents’. Could we not have some neutral analysis for once, please?

The screws are truly being turned on Israel. A sick union of anti-Semitic militants and fashionably Israelophobic Westerners has devoted itself to damning the Jewish nation as the wickedest nation. Nothing better captures the crisis of civilisation than this sinister pincer movement, this double siege of Israel by the neo-fascists on its borders and their gurning useful idiots in the cultural citadels of the West. Israel should win in Gaza City. But that other flank, the one overrun by Westerners so suspicious of our civilisation that they find greater common cause with its enemies – that will be a harder fight. And not just for Israel – for all of us.
The numbers just don’t support the UN-backed Gaza famine report
However, using an unjustifiably low threshold was only part of the problem. The much bigger issue was that the IPC discarded half of the available data and misrepresented what the remainder actually showed. The key claim for declaring famine was that child malnutrition had surged from around 10 per cent in early July to 16 per cent later in the month, supposedly crossing the famine line. But this “trend” can’t be backed up by the data.

In reality, the IPC based its conclusion on only half of the July sample, covering about 7,500 children, which gave an average of roughly 16 per cent. The full dataset of more than 15,000 children showed rates closer to 12 per cent – well below the famine threshold. Even within the partial sample, the claim of a dramatic upward trend did not hold: the numbers remained flat across the month with no increase at all. By failing to use the complete data, the IPC created the illusion of both a breach and a surge that never occurred.

The same pattern played out with mortality, the second key pillar of a famine declaration. The IPC analysis quietly admitted that reported deaths were below the famine threshold, but then suggested that many deaths might not have been counted. What they did not spell out is just how enormous the gap really was.

For Gaza City, the famine line would have meant close to 200 deaths every single day from hunger or related disease. The actual reported figure was about six deaths per day across the entire Strip – nowhere near the threshold. Even if every one of those deaths had been in Gaza City and directly caused by malnutrition, the rate would still have been more than 30 times lower than the famine threshold.

Of course, in any war zone some deaths may go unreported. But to claim that actual mortality was 30 times higher than the numbers on record is an extraordinary leap. And as the late Carl Sagan famously said: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” The IPC did not provide such evidence. Instead, it relied on speculation and on a few highly controversial studies that were far from sufficient to support claims of hundreds of unreported starvation-related deaths per day. Yet it was precisely this assumption that underpinned the famine declaration.

In addition, the report downplayed or ignored positive signs of recovery, such as increased aid deliveries, falling food prices, and expanded humanitarian access. Observers have also noted that at least one of its authors has a record of anti‑Israel bias.

Taken together, these issues raise serious questions not only about the technical rigour of the analysis, but also about its objectivity and neutrality. In short, the evidence presented by the IPC did not even come close to justifying the use of a famine designation. By lowering the bar and relying on speculation, the report turned a situation of undeniable hardship into a claim of catastrophic collapse that the data simply did not support.
Front-Page NY Times Falsehood Charges “Most” Food Blocked from Gaza
According to the first sentence on the front page of Saturday’s New York Times, Israel “has blocked most food and other aid from entering the Gaza Strip” during the war with Hamas.

The damning charge is repeated in a second Times story, published around the same time, which tells readers that “Israel has blocked most food and other aid from entering the enclave since the war began nearly two years ago,” on Oct. 7.

The statements, a clear message to readers that Israel has allowed only a trickle of food into Gaza, are categorical, sweeping, and definitive.

They are also false.

On average, thousands of tons of food aid per day have entered the Gaza Strip since the Hamas attack. Even with the temporary blockage of most aid between March and May 2025, which contributed to concerning food insecurity (and a spate of dishonest reporting), the rate of food aid into Gaza since Oct 7 massacre has exceeded the pre-war rate.

OCHA’s dashboard shows an average of 2,285 trucks of food per day entered the Gaza Strip in 2023 before the war.

A data portal by the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs documents the entry of goods both before and after the start of the war. From January through September 2023, an average of 2,285 truckloads of food per month entered the Strip, according OCHA. With an estimate of about 15 tons of food per truck, that amounts to 1,142 tons per day of food entering Gaza prior to the war.

OCHA’s dashboard shows 17,665 truckloads of food between Oct. 23, 2023 and May 7, 2024.

The same portal describes 17,665 truckloads of food aid entering between Oct. 21, 2023 and May 7, 2024, the last date for which OCHA has complete data. That comes to about 1,332 tons per day.


Hamas Blocks Civilians From Evacuating Gaza City Amid Israeli Offensive: Report
As Israel begins its offensive in Gaza City, Hamas is preventing the city's civilian population from evacuating in order to "exploit" the Israeli military's efforts to avoid civilian casualties, according to a Tuesday report.

"Hamas is preparing for the IDF's entry into Gaza City by threatening Gazans in the area and ordering its fighters to block exit routes," Israel's Channel 12 journalist Amit Segal reported, citing his colleague Nitzan Shapira.

Shapira added that after an Israeli airstrike accidentally struck Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis and caused civilian casualties on Monday, Hamas "has further recognized that it can exploit the IDF's attempts to avoid civilian casualties to its own advantage—and increase its cynical exploitation of the civilian population," according to Segal's report.

Hamas has a long record of using civilian residences and infrastructure to shield its terrorist activity. The group has built tunnels and command centers beneath the European Gaza Hospital, Al-Shifa Hospital, U.N. Relief and Works Agency schools, and even the U.N. offices in Gaza City—knowingly putting civilian lives in danger.

Hamas terrorists also planted mines among children's toys inside a civilian building and stored rockets inside a child’s bed in a Gaza apartment, according to videos referenced in an April report by the Henry Jackson Society's Centre for the New Middle East, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

The terror group's blockade on civilian evacuations comes as Israel has launched an offensive, known as "Operation Gideon's Chariots II," to take control of Gaza City and dismantle Hamas's last stronghold. President Donald Trump has signaled his backing for the offensive, saying that Hamas "can't stay" in Gaza and that "we will only see the return of the remaining hostages when Hamas is confronted and destroyed!!!"

Israel has vowed to bring home all remaining hostages and disarm Hamas. Israeli intelligence estimates that around 20 hostages are still alive in Gaza, alongside the bodies of up to 30 others killed in captivity.


Netanyahu recognizes Armenian Genocide on Patrick Bet-David's podcast
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he personally recognizes the Armenian Genocide as a genocide in an appearance on Patrick Bet-David's podcast on Tuesday.

This came after Bet-David asked Netanyahu why Israel is so reluctant to recognize the massacre committed by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1917 as a genocide, given the context of worldwide recognition of the Holocaust.

Netanyahu informed the host that the Knesset recently passed a bill recognizing the massacre as genocide, but the host pushed him for personal recognition.

Netanyahu responded: "I just did."

Patrick Bet-David commented that he, as an ethnic Armenian-Assyrian, is particularly interested in the subject and that many ethnic Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks want to hear recognition of the genocide from world leaders.

Previous attempts to pass bill recognizing Armenian Genocide in the Knesset
Israeli MKs have repeatedly submitted bills to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide, including in 2018 and 2021, but these bills were voted down.

Recognizing the Armenian Genocide remains controversial; the US did not recognize it until former president Joe Biden assumed office in 2021.

This resulted in Turkey summoning the US ambassador to a meeting to denounce Washington's recognition.


Six killed in Nasser Hospital were terrorists, IDF finds, as probe into tank shelling continues
The IDF on Tuesday revealed that six of the around 20 Palestinians killed in the military’s tank shelling of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis on Monday morning were Hamas terrorists.

However, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir did not make this declaration to clear the military of mistakes in the operation.

Rather, this was only the second release of additional details, with more probing necessary into why tank shells were mistakenly approved for the operation and who gave the order.

Curiously, the IDF statement distinguished between potential errors made by commanders in the field as well as commanders back at IDF Southern Command Headquarters in Beersheba.

Numerous IDF officials had already slammed the decision to use tank fire on a hospital, as opposed to other precise targeting measures and operations, which have been used more often in the last two years.

Also curiously, Zamir said that the target was a video surveillance camera and not the six terrorists.

In other words, while there have been reports that the IDF Golani soldiers in the field had seen suspicious movements, the order to fire was given without knowing for sure that there were Hamas forces there, how many there were, or who they were.

So far, the IDF has also not presented all of its information regarding which of the six were terrorists, though information about some of those killed has already leaked unofficially.

According to the IDF, one of the six terrorists was also involved in aspects of the October 7 invasion, although videos have shown the individual carrying a flag into Israel, not specifically carrying out any of the around 1,200 murders.

The IDF already admitted that the attack, or how it was carried out and its results, was a mistake early Monday afternoon. The issue immediately swelled to major global media coverage, partially because well-known journalists, including from Reuters, were killed in the attack.

According to the IDF message on Tuesday, clearly some, and likely the majority, of these journalists were not Hamas. The military said it did not intend to harm journalists or innocent Palestinian civilians.
Germany's Merz: Israel's attack on Gaza hospital did not target journalists
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that he did not believe at this time that an Israeli attack on a hospital in Gaza that killed at least 20 people was targeting journalists.

"But the Israeli army and the Israeli government have both promised to launch a comprehensive investigation into this incident," said Merz at a press conference in Berlin.

"And I would like to wait for the results of this investigation before making a final judgment," he added.

Israel struck Nasser hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists who worked for Reuters, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera, and others.

Palestinians live among the ruins of homes destroyed during an Israeli military op


‘Israel Cares More About Gaza Civilians Than Hamas’ | Five Journalists Killed In Gaza
David Lammy has condemned Israel’s missile strike on one of Gaza’s main hospitals, which has killed at least 20 people.

The Foreign Secretary said he was “horrified” by the attack on Nasser Hospital, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

Five journalists were among those killed in the series of strikes, part of a wider offensive Israel has launched on Gaza.

Former deputy mayor of Jerusalem Fleur Hassan-Nahoum joins Talk’s Julia Hartley-Brewer to discuss this further.


Erin Molan: Aussie Commando’s BRUTAL reality check after Hospital hit in Gaza
Non Israeli. Non Jew. Also… non idiot.

Aussie commando’s brutal reality check!

“THIS IS WAR!!!”

So turns out the hospital hit by the IDF was being used by terrorists… 6 of those killed were terrorists… any innocent life lost ever is an absolute tragedy BUT THIS IS WAR: horrific, ugly, devastating… and it can all end NOW - when the West stops providing a protection racket for the terrorists and they are forced to: release hostages/lay down arms!

It’s NOT ROCKET SCIENCE…




Kassy Akiva: Gaza Aid Truck Drivers Detail Attacks And Looting
The truck drivers tasked with transporting aid throughout Gaza say they have been villainized while they put their lives at risk, often attacked by mobs and armed looters as they try to carry out the humanitarian missions.

Near Gaza’s Kerem Shalom crossing, where thousands of United Nations aid truckloads sit undelivered and rotting in the sun, drivers told The Daily Wire of the dangers they face on the road. One driver explained that the mobs use tools to yank their doors open and assault them. Another driver said it feels like “a thousand” people climb on the windshield, completely blocking his line of sight.

“We can’t see a thing,” one driver in the group of men who transport aid for various humanitarian organizations, including the United Nations, said. Another pointed to a truck hit by gunfire behind him during the interview.

“People make us aid drivers feel like we caused the war that we caused hunger in Gaza, that we’re thieves, that we run people over,” one driver said. “We have videos to prove that people cause the problems.”

The drivers’ comments come as new UN data shows that almost all of its humanitarian aid in Gaza is being looted before it reaches its destination. In July, 1,123 trucks collected aid, but 1,055 were intercepted by Gazan civilians or “armed actors,” leaving just 73 trucks—6.5% of the total—successfully delivered.

“There is no future for Gaza, no future left,” one of the drivers said. “No homes, no water, nowhere to sleep, no food! Half this aid is damaged under the sun. The other half sold by thieves and traders.”

Humanitarian aid trucks in Gaza are reinforced with wire and metal to protect drivers. (Photo: Yisroel Teitelbaum/The Daily Wire)

“They break our doors to hit the driver,” he said. The drivers claimed that they face problems when entering the dense areas with aid and when exiting.

Several trucks nearby were fortified with metal cages over the windows and windshields and barbed wire on top.

The drivers hope that in the future there will be an exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners and that the war will come to an end.

“We want to be done with this,” one driver said.

Another—who said he was working in Israel at the time of the October 7 massacre—reflected positively on his time working in Israel.

“They, as a people, treat us well, war or not,” he said. “I was treated with kindness. I lived with them and worked there two years before the war… My boss gave me complete trust.”


Cam Higby: I went INSIDE GAZA - There’s PLENTY Of food
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Qatar state media urges Hamas to kidnap Israeli ‘rats’ in Gaza
Pro-Hamas journalists for the Islamist state of Qatar called for Hamas terrorists to capture Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers in Gaza and praised Hamas’ violence against the IDF in late August.

The Qatari regime’s push via its state-controlled reporters to cheerlead Hamas efforts to kidnap Israeli soldiers coincides with a German Die Welt news report that the country’s main wire service—German Press Agency—has joined a controversial media project in the gas-rich non-democratic state.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) revealed on Monday that “Although Qatar is perceived by international elements and by the Israeli government as a mediator in the negotiations between Israel and Hamas, the emirate's government press continues to express unreserved support for Hamas's terrorist activities and even calls on it to intensify them.”

Jaber Al-Harmi, editor of the Qatar government daily Al-Sharq, lauded on X on August 20 Hamas terrorists from its Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, who are seeking to kidnap IDF soldiers in Khan Younis in Gaza.

He wrote, according to a MEMRI translation of his post, that "Even if the Al-Qassam heroes failed to abduct Zionist soldiers this time around, the second, third or fourth attempts, Allah willing, will manage to add new rats to the number [of hostages] held by the heroes of the brigades… In today's attempt, during a high-quality raid on a new [Israeli] military position in Rafah [sic; the operation took place in Khan Younis], the Al-Qassam heroes managed to send several Zionist soldiers to hell, and good riddance. “

Al-Harmi continued "[They sent] several others to suffer torment in this world by [causing them] permanent disfigurement and disabilities, or [by sending them] to lunatic asylums. I strengthen the hands of the heroes, and may the hands of the impure criminals, riff raff from all over the world, become paralyzed."


Former Israeli politician says what no one else else DARES say about 'Palestine' (w/Einat Wilf)
Why does the world insist on repeating past mistakes when it comes to the Israeli-Arab conflict?

Israeli innovation envoy Fleur Hassan-Nahoum hosts former Member of Knesset, party leader and author Einat Wilf to challenge prevailing narratives and outline what genuine Middle East peace would require.

Wilf retraces a decade-long “awakening” from the 1990s peace camp to a data-driven conclusion: multiple offers for a sovereign Palestinian state (including 2000 and 2008) were rejected, followed by violence, with little internal criticism from Palestinian leadership. She unpacks the ideology she and Adi Schwartz call “Palestinianism”, a sustained fixation on preventing Jewish sovereignty in any part of the land and argues that lasting peace depends on defeating this ideology rather than recycling failed diplomatic formulas.

The conversation explains why the 1990s land-for-peace hypothesis collapsed and what the evidence indicates today; how UNRWA and the manufactured “right of return” entrench the conflict; and post–October 7 insights from Wilf’s updated work framing the massacre as another chapter in the long “war of return.” It also details how Western discomfort with Jewish power drives misguided policy, and how to flip the script with creative diplomacy. Practical benchmarks are laid out: conditioning any recognition of “Palestine” on an explicit renunciation of violence and terror, defunding UNRWA and affirming that there is no right of return. The episode highlights the rise of courageous Arab and Muslim voices who openly support Jewish sovereignty and presents fresh thinking beyond the stale two-state mantra, outlining what becomes possible once the ideology of destruction is decisively defeated.

Chapters
00:00 Awakening to Reality: A Personal Journey
10:12 The Collapse of the Peace Camp
20:11 The Ideology of Palestinianism
30:04 Opportunities for Change in the Middle East


Call me Back Podcast: Why Aren't Israelis Alarmed by Global Isolation? - with Amit Segal
On Friday, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) — an internationally recognized set of standards established by a group of NGOs for determining food insecurity — was applied to Gaza to declare for the first time that famine has struck North Gaza. It was a charge Israel quickly denied. This comes after many countries – including Britain, France, Canada, and Australia – have announced plans to recognize a Palestinian state.

On today’s episode, we ask how Israelis are reacting to the world’s ire. Do they recognize the severity of the situation, or are they insulated from global opinion? Is Israel’s plummeting global standing cause for serious concern? Ark Media contributor Amit Segal joined us to discuss.


Germany will not join efforts to recognise Palestinian statehood at UN meeting
Berlin does not believe the requirements for recognising a Palestinian state have been met and will not join efforts to do so at the United Nations in September, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said.

In a departure from positions adopted by the UK, France, Australia and Canada, where governments have signaled a willingness to recognise Palestinian statehood at the UN General Assembly in September, Germany has described such a move as “counterproductive”.

“The position of the federal government is clear, as far as the possible recognition of the state of Palestine is concerned,” Merz said at a joint press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney today.

“Canada knows this. We will not join this initiative. We don’t see the requirements met,” the German leader continued, Reuters news agency reported.

On Friday, a government spokesperson declared that Germany had no immediate plans to recognise a Palestinian state, calling such a development “counterproductive”.

“A negotiated two-state solution remains our goal, even if it seems a long way off today,” the spokesperson told a press briefing.

“Recognition of Palestine is more likely to come at the end of such a process. Right now, it would undermine efforts toward peace.”


Despite report to contrary, Canada says it intends to recognize Palestinian state
A spokeswoman for the Canadian government corrected a report circulating in Israeli media on Tuesday that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had changed his mind and would no longer recognize a Palestinian state, telling JNS that it was incorrect.

“Canada has long been committed to a two-state solution,” Charlotte MacLeod, a spokeswoman for the Canadian foreign affairs department, told JNS. “The prime minister has stated that Canada intends to recognize the state of Palestine at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September.”

Canada’s aim to recognize an independent Palestinian state is “predicated on the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to much-needed reforms, including the commitments by Palestinian Authority president Abbas to fundamentally reform its governance, to hold general elections in 2026 in which Hamas can play no part and to demilitarize the Palestinian state,” according to MacLeod.

“Canada will increase its efforts in supporting strong, democratic governance in Palestine and the contributions of its people to a more peaceful and hopeful future,” she said.

The Israeli media reports, which Canada denied, came after the German chancellor stated at a press conference with Carney that Berlin doesn’t intend to recognize a Palestinian state.
Is the Palestinian Movement on the Brink of Collapse?
The Palestinian movement risks collapsing under the weight of its own history.
What comes next could shape the future of the Middle East, and it won't be pretty.


'I am yet to see a starving Palestinian adult': Famine claims in Gaza questioned
Sky News contributor Will Kingston says conflicting reports on Gaza’s humanitarian crisis have cast doubt on UN-backed famine declarations.

“It doesn’t add up, I am yet to see a starving Palestinian adult, at least one who doesn’t have pre-existing medical conditions, which I find is curious,” Mr Kingston said.

“Given that all of the media are desperate to make Israel the bad guys.

“That reflects very poorly on the media and the global commentary establishment.”


ABC's 'obsessive' contradicting coverage on Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Sky News Host Danica De Giorgio raises concerns over ABC's perceived bias against Israel and its prioritisation of a pro-Palestine stance while neglecting other important issues.

“I think they’re obsessed with their own pro-Palestine stance,” Ms De Giorgio said.

“What I would suggest to the ABC is perhaps to actually fact-check yourself.

“It just tells you a lot about the public broadcaster we pay a lot of money to.”


Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims AIPAC Controls America, The TRUTH is FAR More Disturbing!
In this episode of "Axis of Truth," host Emily Schrader begins by dismantling misconceptions about AIPAC, directly addressing criticism from Marjorie Taylor Greene who falsely claims Israeli government control. Schrader reveals AIPAC is entirely American-funded, spending just $3 million compared to Big Pharma's tens of millions, while foreign lobbies like Qatar and China actually outspend AIPAC through less transparent channels.

The episode also features Egyptian human rights activist Yasmine Mohammed, bestselling author of "Unveiled: How the West Empowers Radical Muslims." Mohammed, who survived forced marriage and extremist abuse, explains how the Muslim Brotherhood operates through both violent jihad and institutional infiltration. She compares Western support for Hamas to the useful idiots who helped Iran's regime seize power before being eliminated, and reveals how Egypt uses anti-Israel scapegoating while secretly cooperating with Israel.

Schrader then exposes how international bodies like the IPC corrupted their scientific standards to declare famine in Gaza, lowering malnutrition thresholds from 30% to 15% while ignoring evidence of plummeting food prices from massive aid deliveries.

The episode doesn’t stop there. Schrader continues to highlight escalating Houthi attacks on Israel using Iranian-supplied banned cluster munitions, Iranian domestic protests in Shiraz and the regime's persecution of the Bahá'í community.




Michele Tafoya: Eyal Yakoby
UPENN grad Eyal Yakoby is fighting antisemitism in America and around the world. He is a brave and bold voice, and a must-follow on X.

Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster turned political and cultural commentator.




Vancouver politician seeks private prosecution against PFLP front group coordinator
A British Columbia legislative member filed a private prosecution for terrorism offenses last Wednesday against the Vancouver-based coordinator for an organization that serves as a branch of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group.

OneBC party interim leader and Vancouver-Quilchena MLA Dallas Brodie filed the rare citizen-laid criminal charges to be screened by a judge, alleging that Samidoun coordinator Charlotte Kates had facilitated and counselled the commission of terrorism offenses.

In her sworn written statement, Brodie alleged that Kates had facilitated and counselled terrorism by glorifying and defending terrorist entities at an April 6, 2024, Toronto rally and the April 26 Vancouver Art Gallery event in which she led the crowd in chants of "long live October 7." Kates had called at both rallies for the removal of PFLP, Hamas, and Hezbollah from Canada's list of terrorist entities. The Samidoun leader was arrested for her remarks during the April 26 rally.

Kates allegedly participated in the activity of a terrorist group in February when she attended the funerals of former Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hisham Safieddine in Beirut. Brodie said Kates had also urged followers to promote the deceased arch-terrorists' cause, counselling the commission of terrorism offenses.

While Samidoun had been designated as a terrorist organization by Canada and the United States in October, Brodie said that Kates had continued to share Samidoun communications on social media urging "to escalate our actions" and to "inflict pain on the enemy."

On May 24 Kates also allegedly praised the murder of Israeli embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim in Washington, and according to Brodie instructed others to commit acts of terrorism by encouraging followers to consider "how they can escalate meaningful consequences on the war criminals through organized mass action."

Brodie also argued that Kates had called for terrorist activity among followers by directing followers to "answer the call from the resistance" and to act to create "criminal cost" in a social media post lauding the activities of the proscribed political vandalism group Palestine Action.

The MLA also sought to hold Kates responsible as Samidoun's director, noting that the group had held an October 7 anniversary event in which crowds cheered "Death to Canada," Israel, and the United States. Materials were allegedly distributed explaining how to conduct attacks on infrastructure. "I won't have a terrorist attack on my conscience here in BC, here in Canada," Brodie said at last Wednesday's press conference. "The indicators are here that it is just a matter of time before it happens."
Four arrested after Palestine Action copycat group attacks UK defence factory
Police have arrested four people for criminal damage after a new anti-Israel direct action group attacked a defence factory in Wolverhampton, claiming the site had “involvement in the F-35 programme…being used in the genocide against Palestinians”.

Staffordshire police confirmed that “four people have been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage offences following an incident at an industrial unit in south Staffordshire earlier today.

“We were called at 3.50am today to Valiant Way, in Pendeford, following reports of criminal damage. A number of individuals had entered a manufacturing building and gained access to the roof. Significant damage was caused to a number of sky lights and solar panels.

“Officers, along with colleagues from Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service, were deployed to the scene and four individuals were arrested. This is an ongoing investigation and we would ask members of the public to avoid the site at this time.”

In videos shared to social media, “Palestinian Martyrs for Justice” used a vehicle to ram through the gates to the Moog defence and aerospace company’s facility in Staffordshire, scaling the roof and attempting to cut holes through it. One of the videos shows sharp electrical tools being used to attempt to penetrate the roof, with a female narrator saying “what we are trying to do now is to cut down into the workshop to destroy the machines that are being used to make parts for F-35 fighter jets”. Subsequent images show that attempts to breach the roof were successful.

Moog, which has operated for more than 50 years in the UK, opened its Wolverhampton site in 2012. It describes its production facilities in locations including Wolverhampton as places where the company “manufacture[s] advanced systems for complex aerospace, defence, space, and industrial applications”.

The techniques used by “Palestinian Martyrs for Justice” appear extremely similar to those used by Palestine Action prior to its proscription as a terrorist organisation last month. Since its creation in 2020, Palestine Action carried out a series of attacks on defence factories which it claimed were linked to providing weapons or help to the Israeli military. In early July, Palestine Action members videoed themselves breaching RAF Brize Norton and causing damage to military planes. Later that month the organisation was proscribed as a terrorist group – a court challenge to that proscription is set to take place later this year.


Bob Vylan singer calls for ‘armed resistance’ against the ‘f**king London Met’
“Death to the IDF” singer Bobby Vylan has launched another incendiary rant on stage at a concert after calling for “armed resistance” in support of Palestine, and against “the *f**king London Met.”

In comments that will once again raise calls for tough police action against the group, Bob Vylan’s lead singer took aim at the IDF, London’s Metropolitan Police and the New York Police Department as arms of their respective governments as he spoke to the crowd at a concert in Spain a few days ago.

To cheers from fans he then said the band was in favour of “armed resistance” against “these arms of the government” before confirming: “We want to make that explicitly f**king clear.”

Bobby Vylan calls for armed resistance against the Met Police

Online footage of Bobby Vylan’s remarks has been placed on Instagram by a user named celebrities4palestine, where the call for “armed resistance” was openly welcomed by those who commented.

“So damned proud of all these brave people standing up and saying ‘No, we will not be silenced, we will not condone genocide’, wrote one person who viewed the post.

Another said:”Free Palestine by all means”.


Microsoft asked FBI to track Gaza protests after activists showed up on kayaks outside homes of CEO, president
Microsoft has reportedly asked the FBI and local police to help track and contain a wave of Gaza-related protests by its own employees — who over the weekend showed up on kayaks in front of the lakeside homes of the tech giant’s top executives.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators took to Lake Washington on Sunday, circling near the waterfront mansions of CEO Satya Nadella and President Brad Smith with banners and chants accusing Microsoft of profiting from Israel’s war in Gaza, according to Bloomberg News.

The report was published hours before at least two pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested for taking part in a group sit-in during which they occupied Smith’s office at Microsoft headquarters, according to a report.

Scenes from the sit-in were streamed on the Twitch service on Tuesday afternoon. The Post has sought comment from Microsoft.

The dramatic scene was the latest in the growing revolt inside the world’s largest software maker, where a group of workers calling itself “No Azure for Apartheid” has spent nearly a year demanding the company cut ties with Israel’s military.

They argue Microsoft’s Azure cloud service is helping fuel war crimes. Instead of bowing to pressure, the company turned to law enforcement.

Internal emails reviewed by Bloomberg show Microsoft investigators contacted the FBI’s Seattle office, flagging employees and even relatives linked to protests while warning that demonstrations could disrupt major events.




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