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Friday, September 26, 2025

09/26 Links Pt1: Bibi: We won’t let the world shove a terror state down our throat; France’s recognition of Palestine is a license for terrorism; I Went to Gaza So You Won't Have To

From Ian:

It’s not Israel that should be charged with a campaign of genocide
Throughout Israel’s long two-year war with Hamas, accusations of “genocide” have been loosely tossed at Israel from many sources, including by U.N. officials and prominent world leaders. One recent example was the resolution of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), which turned out to be a shameful, secretive attempt by a small clique of antisemites within the organization to dupe the world on false academic pretenses. This carefree use of the charge of genocide against the Jewish state threatens to undermine the valued safeguards established in international law against this greatest of crimes. It also reveals the duplicitous motives of those who seek to malign Israel.

Genocide is rightly called the “crime of crimes.”

It is defined in the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) as acts committed “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.” The central requirement is specific intent (dolus specialis) to eradicate a protected group simply for who they are.

This definition was formulated in the aftermath of the Holocaust, when the Nazi regime sought the systematic extermination of the Jewish people in Europe. Since then, it has been legally applied to such horrific tragedies as the widespread massacres in Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. Thus, the legal concept of genocide is deliberately defined in precise, narrow terms to shield it from frivolous or politicized abuse.

Yet in our day, we increasingly see “genocide” charges routinely brandished as a rhetorical weapon in global discourse, especially against Israel. This dilution of the core meaning of genocide is an affront to both history and the true victims of this heinous crime.

For the Jewish people, accusations of genocide against Israel carry an even deeper, double meaning. These charges are not only patently false; they are a painful inversion of Jewish suffering in the Holocaust, trivializing that immense catastrophe while, in the same breath, turning Israelis into the Nazis.
France’s recognition of Palestine is a license for terrorism
For France to extend statehood recognition is not peacemaking. It is moral bankruptcy and political cynicism at its most dangerous. It is a signal to terrorists who fight against Western democracies that violence is the solution. Instead of seeing Hamas terrorists as the source of their suffering, Palestinian public opinion will gain inspiration and follow them. This symbolic decision risks creating a “butterfly effect,” which will likely destabilize Western democracies’ resilience against terrorism.

Macron offers no answer to this most basic question: Who does France envision ruling this “state”?

Macron’s popularity is collapsing at home, squeezed between the far Right and far Left. By posturing as the West’s liberal conscience, he seeks to appeal to progressive and pro-Palestinian voters while distracting from domestic weakness.

Macron’s attitude is a blatant double standard, considering that France is still intent on maintaining its colonialist legacy. France has continued to exploit its former colonies on the African continent to preserve its privileged geopolitical position. French President Charles de Gaulle crafted the CFA franc monetary system in 1945. This legally obliged 14 newly independent French African colonies to put 50% of their foreign currency reserves into the French treasury, with their currency being printed under the supervision of the central Bank of France.

According to the late French President Jacques Chirac, this exploitative arrangement — over four and a half centuries — has proven to be a major boost to French banks and the country as a whole, while depriving former African colonies of their wealth and growth potential.

France also maintains 13 overseas territories and refuses to recognize the demands of Basque separatists seeking to create an independent homeland within its national borders.

If France does not even commit itself to the same standards it seeks to impose on its own possessions, then what could be the reason for Macron seeking to divert international attention against Israel?

Macron seeks to strengthen his geopolitical position while the United States continues to dominate the world stage. President Donald Trump closed a major trade deal with the European Union several months ago, which many European ministers and the public at large view as an unbalanced compromise favoring the U.S.

In the face of increasing irrelevance, Macron has sealed a strategic partnership with Qatar — a chief financier of Hamas that has given the terrorist group billions of dollars since 2007. Qatar also plays a duplicitous role as a mediator for the negotiations to release Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip while hosting Hamas’s leadership in its country.
Arsen Ostrovsky: Close the UK and French consulates in Jerusalem or admit recognition was a sham
International law is equally clear. The 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations states that consular posts require the consent of the receiving state, and their functions are limited to relations with that state. There is no such thing as a consulate in one sovereign country for the purpose of conducting relations with another.

A consulate in Jerusalem can only be accredited to Israel. To insist otherwise is not just anomalous. It is a flagrant breach of the Vienna Convention.

If the UK, France and others truly believe “Palestine” is a state, then the logical step would be to move their missions to Ramallah or Gaza. Let them tell us this new state’s capital. Let them show us its borders. But of course, they cannot, because the entire recognition is a farce and Israel, as the sovereign host, has no obligation to continue indulging it. On the contrary, under international law, Israel has every right and indeed an obligation to close down any mission on its soil that conducts relations with a third party.

The hypocrisy could not be more glaring. Imagine Israel opening a consulate in London for an independent Scotland, or in Paris for an independent Corsica. UK and France would shut them down in a heartbeat. Yet they expect Israel to tolerate precisely this in Jerusalem.

This is not just about technical diplomacy. It is about whether the rule of law applies to all, or only when convenient for European appeasement and political expediency. The UK and France cannot preach about international law to Israel while brazenly flouting the Vienna Convention and trampling on the Oslo framework they themselves endorsed and continue to champion.

Israel has already condemned these recognitions as “rewarding terrorism”, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar vowing retaliation. Closing these consulates would be entirely consistent with that stance. Countries that engage in such hostile policies and egregious violation of Israel’s sovereignty in its capital, cannot expect the Jewish state to sit idly by, as if it is “business as usual”.

Jerusalem is Israel’s eternal and undivided capital. It is home to its parliament, courts, and government. For foreign states to maintain missions there that explicitly deny Israel’s sovereignty is not only illegal. It is intolerable.

If UK and France want to recognise “Palestine,” then they must face the consequences and abide by international law. Move their consulates to the so-called Palestinian state. Or admit their recognition is nothing but a hollow gesture.

What they cannot do is run a diplomatic mission in Israel’s capital for the benefit of a different entity. That is a grotesque violation of law, logic and diplomacy alike.

If UK and France refuse, Israel not only has the right but the duty to shut these missions down. No sovereign state can permit such an assault on its authority, let alone in its own capital.


Full text of Netanyahu’s speech: We won’t let the world shove a terror state down our throat Benjamin Netanyahu addresses United Nations General Assembly
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the United Nations General Assembly during the fourth day of speeches in New York City.


IDF ordered to broadcast Netanyahu’s UN speech to residents of Gaza Strip
The Prime Minister’s Office instructed the Israel Defense Forces to broadcast Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Friday speech to the UN General Assembly live to residents in the Gaza Strip.

After reports Friday morning that the IDF was ordered to disperse loudspeakers on trucks throughout the Strip, the PMO confirmed that it was planning to play the speech live for Gazans, but asserted that it would only be doing so from the Israeli side of the border.

But contrary to the claim, some of the loudspeakers — mounted on trucks and cranes — were brought to army posts inside the Strip, including those more than a kilometer deep in the territory, according to the IDF.

“The Prime Minister’s Office instructed civilian entities, in cooperation with the IDF, to place loudspeakers on trucks on the Israeli side of the Gaza border only,” the PMO said, “with the aim of broadcasting Prime Minister Netanyahu’s historic speech today at the UN General Assembly into the Gaza Strip.”

The move is part of the “public diplomacy effort,” Netanyahu’s office said, asserting that the prime minister “explicitly ordered that this operation must not endanger IDF soldiers.”

The IDF later confirmed that it had been ordered by Netanyahu’s office to broadcast the premier’s UN speech to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, as part of an “influence campaign.”


Trump presents Gaza peace plan to Muslim leaders at UN
U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a peace plan for Gaza and the Middle East to leaders of several Muslim-majority countries during a meeting at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.

“We had a very productive session. We presented what we call the Trump 21-point plan for peace in the Mideast and Gaza. I think it addresses Israeli concerns and, as well, the concerns of all the neighbors in the region,” Reuters quoted U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff as saying at the 15th annual Concordia global affairs summit in New York on Wednesday.

“We’re hopeful, and I might say, even confident that in the coming days, we’ll be able to announce some sort of breakthrough,” he said.

Trump met with leaders and officials from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan to discuss the nearly two-year-long war between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza. The war started when Hamas led a mass invasion of the northwestern Negev on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and kidnapping 251 others, of whom 48 remain in captivity.

According to Axios, it is the first time that Trump has presented an American plan for ending the war in Gaza. Journalist Barak Ravid cited sources as saying that the president told the leaders at the meeting of the urgency of ending the war and that he was presenting the plan because every day that the war continues, Israel become more isolated internationally.


Hamas hails walkout during Netanyahu’s UN speech, says it shows Israel’s ‘isolation’
Hamas said a mass walkout of delegations before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations on Friday showed Israel’s “isolation” as a result of the Gaza war.

“Boycotting Netanyahu’s speech is one manifestation of Israel’s isolation and the consequences of the war of extermination,” Taher al-Nunu, the media adviser to the head of the terror group’s political bureau, said in a statement.

As Netanyahu walked up to the General Assembly rostrum, a number of delegations walked out — in a deliberate protest as the premier was the day’s first speaker.

But the room was filled with applause from the public gallery as Netanyahu had invited supporters to watch.

Izzat al-Rishq, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said the prime minister had been left with “nothing but a chorus of cheerleaders who entered the UN hall only to clap in support of genocide.”

In a statement, Hamas accused Netanyahu of repeating “lies and blatant denial of the genocide, forced displacement and systematic starvation committed by him” and the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza.

Hamas said that the boycott of Netanyahu’s speech showed the “growing global solidarity with the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and the establishment of their independent state.”

“If he truly cared for his captives, he would end the brutal bombing, massacres and destruction of Gaza, but instead, he lies and continues to endanger their lives,” Hamas said, referring to the hostages held by Palestinian terror organizations.


New Zealand says it will not recognize state of Palestine at this time
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said that New Zealand will not recognize the State of Palestine at this time but remains committed to a two-state solution in New York on Friday.

“With a war raging, Hamas remaining the de facto government of Gaza, and no clarity on next steps, too many questions remain about the future state of Palestine for it to be prudent for New Zealand to announce recognition at this time,” Peters said in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly.

“We are also concerned that a focus on recognition, in the current circumstances, could complicate efforts to secure a ceasefire by pushing Israel and Hamas into even more intransigent positions," Peters added.

New Zealand's position is out of step with traditional partners Australia, Canada, and Britain, which all recognized a Palestinian state on Sunday in a move that aligned them with more than 140 other countries also backing the resolution.

A handout from the New Zealand government on Friday said that it hoped to recognize a Palestinian state at a time when the situation on the ground offers greater prospects for peace and negotiation than at present.
UN adds 68 companies to blacklist for operating in Judea, Samaria
The United Nations added 68 companies to a blacklist it maintains of firms that do business with Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, the Associated Press reported.

“Businesses working in contexts of conflict have a due diligence responsibility to ensure their activities do not contribute to human rights abuses,” Ravina Shamdasani, a U.N. Human Rights Office spokeswoman, stated. “We call on businesses to take appropriate action to address the adverse human rights impacts of their activities.”

The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights initiated the blacklist in 2020, seeking to punish companies that it accuses of being complicit in violating Palestinian human rights.

This week’s additions include German building materials company Heidelberg Materials, Portuguese rail systems provider Steconfer and Spanish transportation engineering firm Ineco, along with companies in the security, travel and financial services sectors.

“Israel categorically rejects the publication of the database, a document with no legal ground and far beyond the scope of the OHCHR,” the Israeli mission to the United Nations in Geneva stated.

The blacklist, officially known as the “database of companies,” now stands at 158 companies. The overwhelming majority is Israeli. Others are based in the United States, including Expedia Group, Booking Holdings and Airbnb, which serve the travel sector with lodging listings in Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem.

“Israeli companies are at the forefront of innovation, development and growth,” the Israeli mission stated. “We call on friends not to yield to this ugly attempt to blacklist Israeli firms.”

Companies from Canada, China, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom also appear on the blacklist.


Surprise in Spain: Warship protecting Gaza flotilla found equipped with Israeli weapons
Spanish media outlets reported that a Spanish Navy vessel deployed to protect the Gaza flotilla is equipped with Israeli-made military systems produced by Rafael.

The Spanish ship, a Meteoro-class vessel, is armed with a 76mm Oto Melara cannon and two MK-38 25mm automatic machine guns. These advanced weapons, designed to defend ships against a range of threats — particularly fast attack boats — were jointly developed by the UK’s BAE Systems and Israel’s Rafael.

Spanish media noted that Rafael, founded in 1948, is one of Israel’s oldest state-owned defense firms. The company employs 7,500 people and developed systems including the Iron Dome missile defense and Spike anti-tank missiles — the latter a purchase Spain recently canceled.

Spain has led Europe’s sharpest criticism of Israel since October 7, 2023, when Prime Minister Pedro Sรกnchez openly declared his intention to reduce his country’s dependence on Israeli weapons. Under his leadership, Spain has imposed an arms embargo on Israel and has refused to allow ships carrying weapons to Israel to dock at its ports.


Uri Kurlianchik: I Went to Gaza So You Won't Have To
I don’t believe a word the media says (ours or the enemy’s), so I make a point of touring the Gaza envelope every few months and seeing with my own eyes what’s going on. Let’s call it citizen journalism.

I met my friend Dani in Ashdod and from there we drove to Sderot. People usually observe north Gaza from Givat Kobi, which is easily accessible and has powerful binoculars installed. However, there’s a nearby spot outside the city called Givat Gamal which is closer to Gaza and has a nicer atmosphere.

Givat Gamal, called so because it’s supposed to resemble a camel.

The best spots to observe the center of the strip are the ANZAC memorial (when you can access it; it’s often closed for security reasons) and the Kissufim Tower, which is about 15 meters high and offers a terrific view of the center of Gaza.

We started our trip on Givat Gamal, where we saw a large group of soldiers commanded by an aging colonel who were busy collecting litter from the site. I’m happy to see that at the height of the bloodiest war in Israeli history, the army has its priorities straight. I guess the real enemy was climate change all along…

The colonel told us that this is as close to Gaza as we could get. Within a couple of hours, we were driving along the border fence. With unaware colonels like that, it’s no wonder that October 7 and the Yom Kippur war happened. But hey, at least our national parks are clean…

From there, we visited the usual sites and observed the destruction in Gaza. The locals have moved to the west of the strip, so we couldn’t see any people. In fact, I haven’t seen any people in Gaza since the ceasefire, during which you could see a lot of movement in the north.

Afterwards, we turned in the direction of Khan Yunis and drove through a field until we reached the border fence. It’s important to note that at no point did we break any laws or trespassed any signs. Every time we saw soldiers or cops we slowed down, giving them an opportunity to speak to us if they wanted.

The situation was not as bad as last time, but still typical Israeli balagn.

We reached the fence and started driving south in the direction of Rafah along the rickety fence that separates Israel from her most devious and dangerous enemy in living memory. The destruction along the fence is indescribable. As the Arabs say, “dmar kabir.” This is the border with Gaza, post October 7

There was a lot of aid scattered along the road, including whole boxes in good condition—Tahini, flour, rice, beans, jam, spaghetti, baby formulas, diapers, boiled garden vegetables, mineral water, lots of cereals a vulgarian like me couldn’t name—I don’t know how tit got there. Airdropped but missed Gaza? Fell of a truck? This is very strange.

Along the way we passed two open gates into Gaza. One was unguarded. Ostensibly, we could have walked into Gaza. Not good.

When there were no earthshaking explosions or the chattering of machine guns, it was amazingly quiet and peaceful. Every few kilometers we passed something cute. A family of wild dogs with half a dozen playful puppies that ran towards us with wagging tail, chubby and happy. A family of gazelles with a tiny fawn who kept testing his parents’ patience. I guess war is bad for people but good for animals.
IAF hits over 140 terror targets amid advance into Gaza City
The Israeli Air Forces struck more than 140 targets across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, including terrorists, tunnel shafts and military infrastructure, the IDF announced on Friday.

As part of operations in the Gaza City area, Israeli troops dismantled above- and below-ground infrastructure and uncovered weapons along with numerous explosive devices planted in the area, the military said.

Separately, Israeli forces spotted a terrorist carrying a booby-trapped object nearby and called in an airstrike, which triggered secondary explosions indicating the presence of additional arms.

“We are intensifying pressure on the Hamas terrorist organization and advancing according to a structured and systematic plan to achieve the war’s objectives,” IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said on Thursday.

The IDF announced on Thursday that it killed Wael Mutrieh, a Nukhba platoon commander in Hamas’s Shati Battalion, in a strike in the Shati area of Gaza City.

According to the IDF, Mutrieh participated in the Oct. 7, 2023, infiltration of the Nahal Oz outpost bomb shelter and, during the war, was responsible for planning and carrying out attacks against Israeli soldiers in Gaza.

Defrin revealed that as part of the second phase of Operation Gideon’s Chariots, the IDF has targeted more than 2,000 terror assets across the Strip, with the air force conducting over 100 daily strikes using fighter jets, drones and helicopters—often in support of Israeli ground forces and on an “unprecedented scale.”


UNRWA: ‘Mercenaries’ who weaponize food assistance causing ‘famine’ in Gaza
The head of the embattled United Nations agency for Palestinian aid blamed aid shortages in the Gaza Strip on “replacing a principled humanitarian operation with mercenaries who weaponize food assistance.”

While UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini did not specify to whom he was alluding, his and other U.N. agencies have been harshly critical of the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which emerged as a centrally distributed aid alternative to UNRWA, which has been plagued by documented ties to Hamas.

The GHF uses security contractors, many of whom are former U.S. military personnel, to guard their aid distribution sites.

The comments by Lazzarini came on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly, where UNRWA held a ministerial-level event on Thursday to attempt to close a cavernous budget deficit due to a complete donation freeze by the United States and European Union and reductions by other countries.

Israeli legislation led to the shuttering of UNRWA’s field office in Jerusalem and other UNRWA facilities, such as schools and health clinics, in the nation’s capital, along with the shutdown of communication between Israeli and UNRWA officials.

Lazzarini condemned a “fierce and well-funded disinformation campaign spearheaded by the government of Israel,” blaming it for “tarnishing” UNRWA’s reputation and the effect it had “to strangle both political support and funding for its vital work.”

As of June, UNRWA faced a funding shortfall of some $200 million.

Asked by JNS at a Thursday press briefing why Gulf Arab funding for UNRWA had taken a precipitous drop, especially this year, as Lazzarini himself pointed out at a recent League of Arab States meeting, he pointed to “a combination of factors.”

These include Gulf Arab funding patterns that point to end-of-year donations, giving Lazzarini hope that Arab states will back up with money a cause they claim publicly to support.

Lazzarini said, though, that “there is still a perception that the agency is constrained when it comes to Gaza,” and unable to carry out its mandate.

He said his comments to the League of Arab States were “more a warning. Let’s not end the year that way,” even as Arab funding has tailed off over the last five years.


Comedy Cellar USA: John Spencer on Gaza: Wrestling With the Unbearable Questions of War
Impossible choices haunt every war.

John Spencer, executive director of the Urban Warfare Institute, joins Live from the Table to confront the hardest questions raised by Israel’s war against Hamas.

How are civilian deaths justified in war?

Can Israel defeat Hamas?

What does it mean to fight an enemy that will not protect its own people?

Is Israel held to a different standard than other nations

Difficult questions, no easy answers.


Douglas Murray: Media Lies, Campus Protests & the War on the West | EP576 | The Dr. Phil Podcast
Dr. Phil and Douglas Murray revisits media bias, campus indoctrination, and the moral crisis in the West after the Hamas massacre.


Yishai Fleisher: Europe Wants To Make “Palestine”, Israel Has A SURPRISE For Them!
Amichai Chikli, Minister of Diaspora Affairs, is a rising star in Israeli politics. Hear his take on Israel's bombing of Hamas in Qatar, his formula for how to win in in Gaza, and how to defeat to diplomatic tsunami of "Palestine".


‘Shambolic policy’: Albanese ‘abandons’ Australian values with Palestine recognition
Shadow Attorney General Julian Lesser discusses Anthony Albanese’s recent recognition of a Palestinian state during his UN address.

“I think it was an example of our shambolic foreign policy on display,” Mr Lesser told Sky News host Danica De Giorgio.

“We have abandoned our values and abandoned our friends with this decision.

“We’re abandoning the only Western liberal democracy in the Middle East.”


Yisrael Medad: Jews engaged in Jewicide
The propensity of Jews to link their identification to the Arabs of Palestine—never a state or even a country, but rather, an internationally charged territory to become the reconstituted historic Jewish national home—is mind-numbing. They falsely accuse the State of Israel of conducting actions that somehow remind them of the German Nazis and the Holocaust in a most psychologically corrupt and pernicious comparison.

Sanders not only resorts to hyperbole when discussing Jews. When he mentions Hamas, all he can do is write “Hamas, a terrorist organization, began this war with its brutal attack.” They apparently are not evil. They did not intend a genocide. They did not engage in a Nazi-like slaughter. They are not at all extreme, though he insists that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “extremist.” He quotes Hamas-propagated numbers and claims and dismisses any of Israel’s counterclaims.

A third instance of Jewicide is the “Statement From US Jews,” predictably published in The Nation, that condemns U.S. President Donald Trump’s “disingenuous” weaponization of antisemitism to target universities and deport campus activists. More than 100 “Jewish Americans” signed on. They proclaim:

“We write, specifically, as Jewish Americans who condemn the charge of antisemitism being leveled against student activists—many of whom are Jewish—for their legitimate criticisms of Israel’s violence in Gaza and their universities’ connections to the Israeli occupation.”

One signatory, sports editor Dave Zirin, added that he signed the letter “out of respect for my great-grandparents, who fled the pogroms.” He then assumed that his progenitors would be pro-Palestinian and “certainly would have been appalled that anyone would take seriously … an administration of Nazi-curious Christian Zionists.”

If only these oh-so-important Jews would take on the Tucker Carlsons, the Candace Owens and the other outright anti-Jewish figures of the right with the same courage and forcefulness as they do Israel and its 3,000-year old Zionist essence—from the time that Abraham was told to go to Moriah, when the Children of Israel set out for the Land of Israel and those who had been exiled to Babylonia returned to Zion.

But they do not.

Their target is the authentic and genuine fundamentals of Judaism—a religion, a culture and a community that has a sacred territory at its core. They prefer to commit Jewicide. In doing so, they harm the more than 7 million Jews who live in Israel and the additional millions of Jews of the Diaspora who support Israel. They misrepresent what Judaism is to those from whom they seek favor and adulation.

It represents an act of betrayal that will also, eventually, come to harm them, too.


Israel Advocacy Movement: I Offered Muslims $1000 To Prove Palestine… Then This Happened



Maureen Lipman brands Miriam Margolyes a 'self-publicist' and 'shock jock' over her comments on Gaza as war of words breaks out between the stars
Maureen Lipman has branded Miriam Margolyes as a 'shock jock' and 'self-publicist' over her views on the war in Gaza.

The Coronation Street actress, 79, criticised Harry Potter star Miriam, 84, who described Israel as a 'vicious' and 'genocidal' nation in an interview with The Big Issue.

Miriam, who is of Jewish heritage, said: 'I was born in '41, at the height of the Holocaust. I cannot bear to think that my people are doing exactly the same thing to another nation.'

She also claimed Hitler had changed Jewish people 'from being compassionate and caring... into this vicious, genocidal, nationalist nation, pursuing and killing women and children.'

Maureen, who is also Jewish, criticised Miriam's comments in her latest column in The Spectator.

The actress said she recently had an email exchange with a fellow Jewish actress who expressed her horror at the Israeli Defense Forces' actions in Gaza.

Maureen wrote: 'At least her opinion is thought-through, measured and civil.

'Miriam Margolyes, on the other hand, is a shock jock, a potty-mouthed controversialist and self-publicist, so I'm uninterested in her latest PR splash comparing Israelis to Nazis and the Gazan war to the Holocaust.'

Miriam took to her Facebook page on Thursday and shared a photo of Maureen's column and simply wrote: 'From Dame Maureen Lipman (alas!)'

In her Big Issue interview, Miriam also called for all Jewis people to 'shout, beg, scream for a ceasefire'.

Her comments about the war and Israel were strongly criticised by groups like the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) who called for her OBE to be rescinded.


Palestine Action co-founder claims ban on group is discrimination
Lawyers for Palestine Action’s co-founder have claimed that the ban on the group is discriminatory.

Huda Ammori, 31, is seeking a judicial review of the measure, and her lawyers have cited equality laws in her fight to get it overturned.

Yvette Cooper, the former home secretary, outlawed the group following an alleged attack on two Voyager aircraft at RAF Brize Norton on June 20.

The ban, which began on July 5, means membership of the organisation, or support for it, is a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison. A Police officer walks past as protesters gather in support of the pro-palestinian group "Palestine Action"

Ms Ammori’s lawyers told the Court of Appeal that Ms Cooper “failed to have regard” for Palestinians living in Britain, who they said had protected characteristics under the Equality Act.

More than 1,600 alleged Palestine Action supporters have been arrested since the ban came into place, according to the campaign group Defend Our Juries.

Mr Justice Chamberlain, a High Court judge, later allowed Ms Ammori to proceed with a challenge over the ban after finding that two arguments put forward on her behalf were “reasonably arguable”. The Home Office is challenging this decision at the Court of Appeal.

Addressing a panel of judges on Thursday, Blinne Ni Ghralaigh K, one of Ms Ammori’s lawyers, said: “[Our] first point is the Secretary of State failed to have regard at all to the particular impacts on the Palestinian Community as a community in Britain.”

She went on to say the proscription of Palestine Action was going to have a “significant impact” on the Palestinians in the UK, which could include “disincentivising free speech” and “their [Palestinians’] place in British society”.

Legal documents also compared the ban on the pro-Palestine group with that of other Left-wing groups such as Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion.


Colombian president’s Jew-hatred ‘increasingly troubling,’ 18 Congress members say
A bipartisan group of 18 members of the U.S. House of Representatives is urging Marco Rubio, the U.S. secretary of state, to respond to “increasingly troubling antisemitic rhetoric and discriminatory policies from Colombian President Gustavo Petro.”

Rubio should consider Petro’s “continued provocations” and embrace of Jew-hatred as the United States reviews its relations with Colombia, perhaps using existing aid programs to push for change, the members of Congress stated.

Led by Reps. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) and Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), the group said it is concerned about the threats Petro poses to Colombia’s Jewish community.

“President Petro’s ongoing antisemitic remarks on social media, along with his aggressive criticism of Israel that resulted in the severing of diplomatic ties, have contributed to an increasingly hostile environment for Colombian Jews,” they wrote.

Petro named Richard Gamboa, “a self-proclaimed ‘rabbi’ with anti-Zionist views and dubious credentials who lacks ties with Colombia’s Jewish institutions,” as the religious affairs director at Colombia’s Interior Ministry, per the lawmakers.

“This appointment demonstrates a calculated effort by President Petro to normalize anti-Jewish hatred for political gains, as Gamboa has repeatedly directed harmful and disturbing rhetoric towards the local Jewish community,” they stated.

Dina Siegel Vann, founding director of the American Jewish Committee’s Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs, stated that the AJC “remains deeply concerned” by Petro’s rhetoric and policies and that his administration “poses a direct threat to the safety and well-being of Colombia’s Jewish community.”




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