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Tuesday, October 28, 2025

10/28 Links Pt1: Make Believe 'Global Justice'; Hamas’s Latest Barbaric Stunt; In truce violation, Hamas returns further remains of hostage recovered in 2023

From Ian:

Make Believe 'Global Justice'
The events of October 7, 2023, one recalls, began on a quiet, peaceful holiday morning. Innocent Israelis near the Gaza Strip were either still asleep in their homes, had just started going about their day, or were enjoying the Supernova music festival. All at once, thousands of rockets launched from Gaza came raining down, terrorists flew in on motorized paragliders, and bulldozers crashed through the Gaza border fence, followed by pickup trucks and motorcycles pouring over the border carrying murderous hordes intent on slaughtering them. As a result, Israelis of all ages, babies included, were cut down, raped, burned alive, and beheaded – for no reason other than living in Israel.

Israel retaliated, as any normal nation would have done. Nonetheless, it was viciously blamed, starting the next day, for defending its people and homeland, and pursuing the perpetrators of atrocities.

The use of the term "global justice" for charges against Israel is therefore an artifice -- a slogan designed to deceive the public into believing an invented people is a "just cause," as the late senior Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official, Zuheir Mohsen, admitted in 1977:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

Israel's war against terror, if one regards it as a fight between a civilization with laws vs. seventh-century terrorism with machetes, is the quintessence of a just war. Unfortunately, for its critics, it happens to be a righteous, justifiable, act of self-defense...

If Israel is committing genocide, they're really, really bad at it. They could have had genocide on October the eighth.... It's absurd. If they were trying to commit genocide, it would not have taken them 22 months." — US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, CBS News, August 8, 2025.

"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters." — Antonio Gramsci, Italian politician, 1924.

Many of Europe's leaders, in pandering to terrorists for votes, can be considered complicit in the rise of Jew-hatred and are therefore culpable for the consequences – which, ironically, look as if they will be worse for their countries than for Israel, the country they have been trying to undermine.
The "Gaza Tribunal" Brings Together Western Academics, Journalists, and UN Officials With Convicted Terrorists
While the Gaza Tribunal is filled with speakers and organizers linked to terrorism, it also counts a number of former UN officials and prominent academics among its ranks. The Istanbul conference featured Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Territories, Craig Mokhiber, ex-Director of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ New York office, and scholars such as David Whyte, Ussama Makdisi, and Wadie Said.

The tribunal’s leadership includes figures with UN experience like Hilal Elver, former Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, and Michael Lynk, former Special Rapporteur on human rights in Palestine. Its advisory council is populated by seasoned UN veterans, including Mouin Rabbani, Christine Chinkin, Georges Abi-Saab, Aslı Bali, and Karim Makdisi. Their participation provides institutional credibility to an event otherwise dominated by individuals with direct or familial ties to terrorist organizations. UN Special Rapporteur Micheal Lynk – Sadaka, The Ireland Palestine Alliance

Shedding light to the rott at the UN, a WHO doctor just went public, revealing that UN officials had decided since December 2023 to fabricate a narrative of famine in Gaza. This raises serious questions about whether elements of the UN, at its highest levels, are implicated in the same alleged coordination described in the Baroud lawsuit.

The lawsuit currently facing Ramzy Baroud alleges a broad network of coordination between media, academia, NGOs, and Hamas — an operation the Gaza Tribunal exemplifies. Last year’s Gaza Tribunal included UN Francesca Albanese, who also co-founder of a legal network whose board includes Baroud and several others with known links to terrorist organizations.

Taken together, the Gaza Tribunal, its participants, and the involvement of international organizations illustrate the lawsuit’s claim: that a coordinated network of media, academia, and terror-linked figures is working systematically to amplify Hamas propaganda under the guise of scholarship and humanitarian advocacy.


Seth Mandel: Hamas’s Latest Barbaric Stunt
One of Israel’s disadvantages throughout the Gaza war has been that Hamas’s actions are so demonic that they are genuinely difficult to talk about. Videos must be edited and censored, descriptions of scenes must be handled with care and loaded with euphemisms. The full extent of Palestinian crimes is obscured by the fundamental decency of Hamas’s victims and targets.

Overnight, Gaza’s governing force added a new example, a reminder of its savagery.

Yesterday began with the clock ticking down on President Trump’s deadline for Hamas to continue returning the bodies of its victims to Israel. The terror group announced that it would be returning another body that evening.

Meanwhile, Hamas set to work staging a grotesque scene. Its operatives dug a hole, then retrieved a body bag from a nearby building and threw the body bag into the hole. The operatives then buried the body bag. Soon, Hamas used an excavator to dig up its own hole, pretending to “discover” the remains it had just buried.

Hamas then returned those remains. It turned out that they belonged not to one of the missing bodies but to a different murdered hostage whose partial remains were already recovered by the IDF, Ofir Tzarfati.

Hamas took pieces of a body, buried them, dug them up, then pretended they belonged to someone else.

An IDF drone filmed the whole thing. It was done in broad daylight, reportedly with the Red Cross there for at least part of the pre-ruse process.

American media have been slow to report the story, but you can almost understand the hesitation: Without the video of the whole incident, one would find the story difficult to believe. The monstrousness of it all does not fit within the framework of human activity through which we examine modern conflict.

There are two points worth emphasizing here. The first is that while this is a uniquely disturbing scene, it is not the first time in this war or even since the cease-fire that Hamas has played with corpses.
Netanyahu orders ‘forceful strikes’ in Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered “forceful strikes” in Gaza on Tuesday after accusing Hamas of violating the ceasefire-for-hostages agreement.

“Following security consultations, Prime Minister Netanyahu has directed the military to immediately carry out forceful strikes in the Gaza Strip,” the Prime Minister’s Office stated.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Prime Minister’s Office said that Hamas had released additional partial remains of a fallen Israeli soldier whose body Israel had already recovered in 2023 instead of releasing a 16th deceased hostage.

“This constitutes a clear violation of the agreement by the Hamas terrorist organization,” the Prime Minister’s Office wrote. “Prime Minister Netanyahu will hold a security discussion with the heads of the security establishment to discuss Israel’s steps in response to the violations.”
In truce violation, Hamas returns further remains of hostage recovered in 2023
Hamas overnight on Monday only released remains of an Israeli hostage whose body had already been retrieved for burial, and not a 16th body, in violation of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip.

Under U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan, the Palestinian terror organization committed to handing over all 48 hostages—both living and deceased—on Oct. 13. While the 20 living captives were all freed that day, Hamas has been slow-walking the return of the 28 bodies.

So far, Hamas has returned only 15. Jerusalem reportedly believes that the terror organization can find at least 10 of the 13 remaining bodies.

“Following the completion of the identification process this morning, it was found that last night, remains belonging to the deceased hostage Ofir Tzarfati, of blessed memory, were returned from Gaza,” Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office stated on Tuesday afternoon, adding that Tzarfati’s family had been notified.

Tzarfati’s body was retrieved from Gaza as part of an Israeli military operation in December 2023, the PMO noted, adding that Hamas’s refusal to return a 16th hostage body “constitutes a clear violation of the agreement by the Hamas terrorist organization.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to hold a discussion with the heads of Israel’s defense establishment on Tuesday, “during which Israel’s response to these violations will be discussed,” it added.

Ynet reported that Israel was examining several potential responses to Hamas’s violations, including expanding the Israeli military’s control of Gaza territory.

Unverified footage published by Israeli media on Tuesday afternoon appeared to show Hamas terrorists staging the recovery in front of the Red Cross, initially by throwing remains out of a window into a pit and then covering it with dirt in front of what appears to be a ICRC team.
Israeli hostage to be buried for third time after Hamas releases further body parts
A hostage family is being subjected to reburying their loved one, Ofir Tzarfati, for a third time, after forensic investigations confirmed that remains handed over by Hamas on Monday night belonged to him rather than one of the remaining 13 deceased hostages.

Ofir, who attended the Nova festival to celebrate his 27th birthday, was abducted into Gaza by Hamas on 7 October 2023 and was subsequently murdered by the terrorist group. Part of his remains were recovered by the IDF in Gaza in December 2023, and were buried at that point.

In March 2024, additional remains of Ofir were returned for burial in Israel. In August of that year, Hamas published a photograph of his body.

On Monday, Ofir Tzarfati’s family said they were shown eyewitness video of Hamas digging a hole in Gaza, bringing their son’s remains there, burying them, and then calling the Red Cross to witness the apparent retrieval, in what was described as “despicable” manipulation by the terror group.

Times of Israel reports that Israel Army Radio said that the entire incident was filmed by a military drone.

In a statement released via the Hostage and Missing Families Forum, the Tzarfati family said: “We went to sleep last night with anticipation and hope that another family would close an agonising two-year circle and bring their loved one home for burial. But once again, deception has been inflicted upon our family as we try to heal. This morning we were shown video footage of our beloved son’s remains being removed, buried, and handed over to the Red Cross – an abhorrent manipulation designed to sabotage the deal and abandon the effort to bring all the hostages home.

“This is the third time we have been forced to open Ofir’s grave and rebury our son. The circle supposedly ‘closed’ back in December 2023, but it never truly closes. Since then, we have lived with a wound that constantly reopens, between memory and longing, between bereavement and mission.

“Our Ofir went to Nova to celebrate his birthday and never returned. We ask all the people of Israel not to forget the fallen, not to forget the hostages, and to continue supporting the families until their return and beyond -only then will we have a future. Only then can we continue to live in our country.”


Footage appears to show Hamas staging recovery of hostage remains in front of Red Cross
Unverified footage published by Israeli media on Tuesday afternoon appeared to show Hamas terrorists staging the recovery of hostage remains in front of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The Israel Defense Forces drone footage, which was reportedly captured on Monday, shows the terrorists throwing remains out of a window into a pit and covering it with dirt in front of what appears to be an ICRC team.

JNS reached out to an ICRC spokesperson for comment on the video.

Hamas, overnight on Monday, only released remains of Israeli hostage Ofir Tzarfati, whose body had already been retrieved for burial, and not a 16th body, in violation of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip.

Tzarfati’s body was retrieved from Gaza as part of an Israeli military operation in 2023, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said, adding that Hamas’s refusal to return a new hostage body “constitutes a clear violation of the agreement by the Hamas terrorist organization.”

In response to the incident, the IDF said the footage “clearly shows that [Hamas] is attempting to create a false impression of efforts to locate the bodies, while in fact holding deceased hostages whose remains it refuses to release as required by the [ceasefire] agreement.”

The army added that the terror group’s conduct “is accompanied by false claims of shortages in engineering equipment, equipment that is clearly unnecessary for the transfer of remains, and therefore these claims do not constitute an obstacle to the return of the remaining deceased hostages.”


Hamas says it managed to ‘retrieve’ 2 bodies of hostages today
The military wing of the Hamas terror group announces that it managed to “retrieve” the bodies of two hostages in the Gaza Strip today, although it does not say it intends to hand them over to Israel tonight.

The Al-Qassam Brigades names the two hostages it claims to have found today. Israeli media outlets generally refrain from publishing the names until the families of the hostages have been notified.

Earlier, Hamas said it had located the body of a hostage in a tunnel in southern Gaza, and planned to hand it over to Israel at 8 p.m. Hamas later said it was postponing the handover due to Israel’s “violations” of the ceasefire.


Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson praised terror before 2022 appointment
Majed al-Ansari, spokesperson for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry and an adviser to the Qatari prime minister, praised Palestinian terrorism on social media prior to his appointment in 2022, it was revealed on Sunday.

Al-Ansari glorified Palestinian suicide bombings and rocket attacks targeting Israeli civilian population centers, according to social media posts uncovered by Israeli researcher Eitan Fischberger.

The posts date back to Al-Ansari’s tenure as head of the Qatar International Academy for Security Studies, an institution reportedly funded by the Qatari government that has provided training to the country’s general security services.

During the Israel Defense Force’s 2021 “Operation Guardian of the Walls” against the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Al-Ansari voiced support for rocket attacks, writing on X, “Palestine emerges to remind this nation of its glory and the greatness of its message.” His post—published as PIJ launched hundreds of rockets toward Israel—included the hashtag #Tel_Aviv_is_burning.

During the war, which also sparked rioting by Arab Israelis, he tweeted: “Jerusalem, the interior [of Israel], the West Bank, Gaza. Decades of plans and projects meant to break them apart and isolate them are collapsing—they are emerging together with one voice against the occupier. This unity is what terrifies the enemy the most. Oh Allah, unite their word and guide their aim.”

In a 2021 blog post, Al-Ansari praised the Second Intifada, the Palestinian terrorist campaign against Israeli civilians that killed more than 1,130 people and wounded over 8,000 between 2000 and 2005.

“Then, years later, and with our growing awareness of the cause, the al-Aqsa Intifada broke out with its martyrdom operations and bloody confrontations, and the mechanisms of conflict evolved there into an organized guerrilla war that inflicted large losses on the enemy,” he wrote. “One of its results was the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, making it the first Palestinian land liberated from the occupier.”

Al-Ansari also lauded what he described as the evolution of Palestinian terrorist groups, from “resistance with stones and bare chests” to “the launching of 3,000 rockets in ten days toward the entity’s [Israel] cities.”


Winston Marshall: Bureaucrats of Terror: Francesca Albanese, The UN & The Rules-Based Delusion
In this episode of The Winston Marshall Show, I sat down with Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, to expose the corruption and hypocrisy within the United Nations and how it has become one of the world’s biggest enablers of antisemitism and terror.

From the Soviet Union’s 1975 campaign declaring “Zionism is racism” to today’s Hamas apologists like Francesca Albanese, Neuer reveals how the UN was captured by authoritarian regimes and weaponised against Israel. He details how organisations like UNRWA have been infiltrated by Hamas operatives, turning schools and aid programmes into fronts for jihad — all funded by Western taxpayers.

Neuer explains why the so-called “rules-based international order” never truly existed, how the Human Rights Council became a haven for dictatorships, and why Britain and Europe continue to bankroll organisations that indoctrinate children to hate.

A shocking and essential conversation on the UN’s betrayal of its founding principles, the persistence of antisemitism in international institutions, and the urgent need for moral courage and reform in the West.

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
2:59 Francesca Albanese and the UN's Inconsistencies
5:16 Albanese's Support for Hamas and Anti-Semitism
8:03 The UN Human Rights Council and Its Members
11:00 The UN's Political Nature and the ICJ
13:24 The UN's Decline and the Soviet Influence
17:17 The 1975 UN Resolution on Zionism
29:52 UNRWA's Role and Its Radicalisation
34:24 UNRWA's Operations and Corruption
52:15 The Need for De-Radicalisation and Reform
55:04 The Role of the UN and Future Reforms


Israeli envoy calls UN adviser a ‘witch’
Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, directed some of the harshest language he has used to date against Francesca Albanese, a United Nations special rapporteur, or independent adviser, with a long history of anti-Israel remarks.

“You have tried to curse Israel with lies and hatred, but your poison has failed,” he told Albanese, as a U.N. committee discussed a report she penned that Danon said “vilified Israel and blamed countries that support it.”

“You are a witch, and this report is another page in your spell book,” he said. “You wrap your bias in the language of law, hoping it will hide what it really is: Hamas propaganda.”


House panel chair demands documents on UNRWA probe of staff tied to Oct. 7 attack
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is probing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency based on “credible reports that UNRWA staff members participated in the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks Hamas carried out against Israel,” Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chair of the House panel, stated on Monday.

Comer wrote to António Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, requesting documents and communications from an investigation, which the global body’s internal oversight services office conducted into UNRWA staffers “accused of assisting with or directly participating in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack,” the congressman said.

“This request follows UNRWA’s repeated failure to adequately respond to the U.S. government’s oversight requests,” he added. “Despite repeated U.S. oversight inquiries, UNRWA, either on its own or at the direction of U.N. headquarters, has refused to provide necessary documentation related to its staff’s involvement in this atrocity.”

Comer noted that the United Nations redacted “valuable information” from documents about the “termination of several UNRWA employees implicated in the Oct. 7 attack.” That decision obscured “involvement of current and former UNRWA staff in the attacks,” he stated. “This is unacceptable, as the lack of transparency greatly undermines U.S. efforts to assess risk and obstructs the oversight responsibilities of Congress.”

The Biden administration suspended funding to UNRWA, and Congress passed its own funding freeze. U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order terminating UNRWA funding due to concerns over its ties with Hamas.

Comer wrote to Guterres that there are “serious questions” about whether the global body “deserves to receive any continued funding from U.S. taxpayers.” (He noted that Washington is the largest funder of the United Nations.)


Binyamin Regional Council announces: Reservist Yonah Ephraim Feldbaum fell in Gaza
The Binyamin Regional Council announced Tuesday evening that reserve soldier Yonah Ephraim (Efi) Feldbaum was killed in a clash with Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

“With deep sorrow, we announce the death in battle of Yonah Ephraim (Efi) Feldbaum, a resident of Zayit Raanan-Neria in Binyamin. Efi, 37, a father of five, lived in the community and worked as a contractor in the area. During the war, he dedicated his skills to meaningful reserve service in the Gaza Strip. Efi is the 59th fallen soldier from the Binyamin Regional Council,” the council’s statement read.

Friends from his community shared, “Efi was well known and deeply loved throughout the region. He was heavily involved in developing young communties. Efi was deeply connected to the land of Israel and fell while defending it.”

Israel Gantz, head of the Binyamin Regional Council and chairman of the Yesha Council, paid tribute, “Efi fought on the front lines of the war in Gaza and continued even after the ceasefire was declared - despite repeated violations by Hamas terrorists. On behalf of all Binyamin residents, I extend my condolences to his wife Shulamit, his children, and the entire family. Thanks to Efi’s bravery and sacrifice, the people of Israel will prevail.”

The terrorists who opened fire on the IDF unit in the incident in which Feldbaum was killed emerged from a terror tunnel in the Jenina neighborhood of Rafah, violating the ceasefire.


IAF strikes cave outside Jenin, eliminating three terrorists
The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday morning conducted an airstrike near the northern Samaria city of Jenin, eliminating three terrorist operatives and neutralizing an underground terrorist structure.

“At the direction of the Shin Bet [Israel Security Agency], the Israeli Air Force struck terrorists from the air in the Menashe Brigade area” of deployment, the military stated.

“During an offensive operation in Kafr Qud … IDF, Shin Bet and Yamam officers operated under Shin Bet guidance to arrest terrorists who were part of a terror cell in the Jenin camp,” it said.

During the operation, officers of the Border Police’s Yamam National Counter-Terrorism Unit “identified a terrorist squad inside a cave and fired at them, eliminating two terrorists and injuring one,” per the IDF.

The subsequent IAF strike on the cave “closed the circle and eliminated the additional terrorist” who was wounded, according to the statement.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz praised the IDF, Shin Bet and Israel Police for the operation, saying it helped foil a “serious terrorist attack threat.”

“Any attempt by terrorist groups to rebuild the terror infrastructure in Judea and Samaria that we thwarted and destroyed in the terror camps in northern Samaria will be met with a heavy hand,” the minister said.


Erin Molan: The UNTOLD Nova Festival story — Her Brother Died Fighting the Terrorists Who Came for Her In this powerful episode 37 of The Erin Molan Show, Erin sits down with Ofri Reiner, a young woman who survived the Nova Festival massacre on October 7.
She recalls the harrowing moments when terrorists stormed the festival — unaware that her brother was nearby, fighting those very attackers. He never made it home.

Ofri’s story of courage, loss, and purpose is one you’ll never forget. She shares how that day changed her life — and why she’s now speaking out to honor her brother and the friends she lost.

0:00 – Intro
1:20 – Ofri Reiner’s Nova Festival story
14:30 – The moment she realized her brother was fighting nearby
22:50 – Life after October 7 — Ofri’s mission and activism
32:00 – Jack Jackson on AI & national security
40:00 – How AI is changing the world faster than we think




The Israeli Right’s Plan to Carve Up Gaza | The Ezra Klein Show
Israeli forces still occupy half of Gaza. In the cease-fire deal, Israel agreed to fully withdraw its presence there once Hamas fully demilitarized. But Amit Segal thinks that’s unlikely to happen anytime soon. Instead, he believes Gaza will end up divided. So what does that really mean? What are the implications?

Segal is the chief political analyst for Channel 12 News in Israel and is known to be quite close to the Netanyahu government. He writes the newsletter It’s Noon in Israel and is the author of the book “A Call at 4 a.m.: Thirteen Prime Ministers and the Crucial Decisions That Shaped Israeli Politics,” which was recently published in English.

In this conversation, he talks about why most Israelis don’t see the cease-fire as the end of the war between Israel and Hamas and how this conflict is mapping onto Israeli politics — both at present and as the country looks toward its next elections.

0:00 Intro
1:58 The state of the cease-fire agreement
18:00 How the Israeli right thinks about Palestinian self-determination
30:37 How Trumpism has affected Israeli politics
41:00 International public opinion of Israel
1:00:17 The future of Israeli politics
1:09:24 Book Recommendations


What we saw in Israel DESTROYS the left's 'apartheid' narrative
We joined Tommy Robinson in Northern Israel to uncover the truth about a Druze community’s unwavering loyalty to the Jewish state — a reality rarely shown in Western media.




'No room for extremist ideologies': Cumberland councillor Steve Christou slams motion to boycott Israeli companies
A western Sydney councillor is attempting to force a boycott of Israeli companies and services in a move slammed as "disgraceful" and a waste of ratepayers' money.

Councillor Ahmed Ouf is set to move a motion on Wednesday night which will force the council to cut any ties with companies linked to "serious human rights violations".

While Mr Ouf does not specifically mention Israeli companies, his motion calls on the council to follow the "BDS principles" as a reference point.

Boycott Divestment Sanction also known as BDS is a global movement launched in 2005 by a coalition of Palestinian civil society organisations aiming to pressure Israel through economic boycotts.

Former Cumberland Mayor Steve Christou said the motion was directly outside the purview of the council.

“I am absolutely shocked, appalled and disgusted that such a motion would be submitted to our council,” Mr Christou said in a statement.

He said the council should be focused on delivering infrastructure and improving quality of life for its residents, not "wasting time with these sorts of moronic motions crafted to support the extremist elements in our society".

"The notion that a Council in Australia would instruct its General Manager to boycott companies and terminate contracts that the extremist Boycott Divestment Sanctions Movement frowns upon is preposterous, concerning, and a complete waste of ratepayer, taxpayer time and monies," he said.
‘Trailblazer’: Ita Buttrose ‘unapologetically’ denounces government leadership in memoir
Sky News host Sharri Markson praises Ita Buttrose for entering the debate about multiculturalism in her new memoir.

“Ita calls for federal government leadership on the issue of antisemitism and she expresses dismay about the violent protests that have unfolded on our streets,” Ms Markson said.

“Ita Buttrose writes of the lack of leadership in the past two years.

“Her book, unapologetically Ita, tells her life story. Ita is a trailblazer.”


ICE detains British commentator, who cheered Oct. 7, on his way to speak at CAIR gala
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained British commentator Sami Hamdi at San Francisco International Airport on Sunday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security stated.

Hamdi, who also serves as managing director of International Interest, a London-based political advisory group, was attempting to fly to Tampa to speak at the annual gala of the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the department, stated that Hamdi “is in ICE custody pending removal.”

On Monday, the department shared an Arab media video clip of Hamdi cheering the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. “How many of you felt it in your hearts when you got the news that it happened?” he said in the video. “How many of you felt the euphoria? Allahu akbar!”

“The U.S. has no obligation to host foreigners, like Sami Hamdi, who support terrorism and actively undermine the safety of Americans. And we won’t,” the department wrote.

U.S. officials have not specified which of Hamdi’s statements or actions prompted the visa revocation. (JNS sought comment from the department.)

CAIR released a statement claiming that Hamdi was “abducted,” specifically in response to his “vocal criticism of the Israeli government.”

“Our nation must stop abducting critics of the Israeli government at the behest of unhinged Israel-first bigots,” it said. “This is an Israel-first policy, not an America-first policy, and it must end.”

Before Hamdi’s scheduled speech at the CAIR event, RAIR Foundation USA, a conservative activist organization, alleged that he is an “anti-American open apologist for Hamas,” who has participated in overseas training programs linked to Muslim Brotherhood networks and used U.S. stages as “deployment nodes” to radicalize and mobilize activists.


Mainstream Media Lament Deportation of Foreign ‘Journalist’ Who Celebrated Oct 7
ICE on Sunday detained British-born Muslim activist Sami Hamdi over his open support for Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel and plans to deport him from the country. Mainstream media outlets from CBS News to CNN to the New York Times have described Hamdi as a "journalist" targeted for criticizing Israel.

Hamdi told a mosque in London to "celebrate the victory" just days after Hamas massacred 1,200 people in Israel, asking, "How many of you felt the euphoria?" He also accused Israel of manufacturing evidence of Hamas’s sexual violence against Israeli women, saying Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu "had to make a lie about rape," according to the Daily Telegraph.

Hamdi is the managing director of The International Interest, which "advises on geopolitical environments and risks across the globe," a description on its website says. He has appeared on British television stations as a Middle East commentator, but his most recent bylined piece was published in Arabian Gulf Business Insight in March 2024.

Mainstream media outlets failed to mention Hamdi’s radical beliefs and in many cases cited the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR's leader, Nihad Awad, said he "was happy to see" Hamas's Oct. 7 attack, which led the Biden administration to sever ties with the organization. CAIR has drawn congressional scrutiny over its ties to Hamas.

The Times, for instance, referred to Hamdi as "a British political commentator and critic of Israel." The paper noted Hamdi "is the managing director of the International Interest" and cited his credentials as "a commentator on the British television news channel Sky News and other outlets."

USA Today described Hamdi as "a British Muslim journalist" and "political commentator," relying on CAIR to claim ICE detained him over his "criticism of Israel" and quoting the group to declare it a "blatant affront to free speech." The paper went on to question "why the administration believes Hamdi supports terrorism."

CNN also told its readers that Hamdi is a "British commentator," repeating CAIR’s claims that the administration targeted him in "retaliation for his criticism of Israel."


Alex Hearn: The Cable Street myth: how the left launders antisemitism in Britain
Last week when UKIP planned a march through Tower Hamlets to “reclaim” it from “Islamists”, the Metropolitan Police rightly banned it to prevent violence. Even so, the counter-protest went ahead as a show of strength. Men clad in black with face coverings shouting “Zionist scum off our streets” once again filled the streets of East London.

Speaker after speaker invoked the legend of Cable Street in this grotesque inversion of our heritage, with this charade supported by “anti-fascists” who were kept separate, with some told they weren’t welcome.

The Guardian and others eagerly endorsed this fiction, invoking the defiant stand of East End Jews against Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts in 1936, claiming “history is repeating itself”. They cast hundreds of masked young men, themselves dressed menacingly in all black, screaming for “intifada” – for violence against Jews – as the rightful heirs of Cable Street.

What marks another sharp contrast with the past is that, in 1936, Mosley’s march was not only allowed to go ahead, it enjoyed police protection. Many of us had relatives at Cable Street – one of mine brought marbles to throw under the hooves of police horses.

So if the Guardian really wants to write about “history is repeating itself”, it could examine how once again, anti-Jewish agitators march the streets under police protection. Only recently, a Jewish legal observer was arrested at an anti-Israel protest and interrogated for wearing a Star of David necklace, which police said was “provocative” on the grounds it could agitate the marchers.

The distortion of the events that took place nearly nearly 90 years ago in East London has long been wielded by figures on the left. In January, Jeremy Corbyn told supporters that Cable Street was where communities “stood for the right to protest,” revealing how thoroughly the mythology has been corrupted. Jews were trying to get the fascist march banned. For years, Corbyn invoked his mother's alleged presence at Cable Street as a shield against antisemitism allegations – even speaking at a Cable Street rally alongside an activist suspended for antisemitism.

But all too frequently, those who invoke the celebrated battle for various causes show limited solidarity with the Blackshirts' original target. On the contrary: while they enjoy cosplaying Cable Street, they more often embody the threat to Jews.

The left has a long history of dismissing the Jewish community's warnings about where the real threats lie and the mythology of Cable Street has helped to cover that failure. This celebrated moment of unity against fascism was never quite what the legend suggests. The notion of the Communist Party riding in like white knights to join British Jews is more myth than reality. As Joe Jacobs, a Communist activist of the time revealed, the party had in fact initially opposed standing up for their Jewish comrades.

That week, the party leadership – following Moscow’s orders – had other priorities. Rather than confronting the British Union of Fascists, it instructed members to attend a rally for the Spanish Republic in Trafalgar Square. It was only due to pressure from Jewish members and local activists that two days before the BUF march, the party changed course, fearing it would otherwise lose support in East London.


‘Palestine Action vandal’ leads anti-Israel protest using prison phone
An activist who is accused of targeting an RAF base with Palestine Action has led anti-Israel protesters outside his jail using a phone from behind bars.

Videos have emerged showing Muhammad Umer Khalid speaking via a phone from inside Wormwood Scrubs to protesters outside the jail with his voice amplified by a microphone. In one clip, he is seen leading a call-and-response with the demonstrators outside.

Khalid, 22, is being held on remand charged with offences in relation to a break-in by protesters at RAF Brize Norton. Two Voyager planes were sprayed with paint in the incident, causing £7m damage.

In one of the videos, published 10 days ago, protesters outside the prison in west London are heard shouting: “Zionism has to fall! Zionism is a crime! Get your hands off Palestine,” and, “Umer, you make us proud!”

It has been branded another “security farce”, coming days after sex offender Hadush Kebatu, an Ethiopian asylum seeker, was mistakenly released from jail rather than sent to a deportation centre, prompting a 48 hour police manhunt before he was recaptured.

Palestine Action has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation, which means that supporting or belonging to it can carry a maximum jail sentence of 14 years in jail.

The charges against Khalid were laid before the Government introduced its terror ban on the group after the protest at RAF Brize Norton. There is no suggestion that either Khalid or the protesters outside the prison made any comments in support of Palestine Action.

In one video recording, Khalid is heard saying: “We can’t let things like being in prison stop us from achieving what we have always [wanted].”

He adds: “It’s our victory. We’ve pushed the state to the point of vulnerability... We have exposed that. On a daily basis we continue to achieve victory over the state. As long as we live, we win and if they kill us, win.

“As long as we keep fighting, we keep winning. That’s always how it has been done and that’s always how it will continue to be.”




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