Tuesday, November 25, 2025

11/25 Links Pt1: Israel receives body said to be hostage held in Gaza; You Cannot Build a Stable Peace with a Partner that Openly Prepares for the Next Massacre

From Ian:

You Cannot Build a Stable Peace with a Partner that Openly Prepares for the Next Massacre
Kobi Michael, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies and the Misgav Institute, said that Washington's basic assumption that Hamas can be induced into a demilitarized political arrangement is flawed.

"The Americans still believe they can implement the [ceasefire] plan by having the Turks, Qataris, and Egyptians pressure Hamas. They are convinced that with an international force and Arab involvement, Hamas will eventually comply. I think this is naive and wrong. Hamas does not intend to comply."

For Michael, Hamas's behavior during and after the fighting shows that it sees any ceasefire not as an end state, but as a tactical pause. "They continued recruiting people, training them, rebuilding tunnels, and reconstructing their capacities from the first day of the ceasefire."

"They butchered opponents in the streets, they appointed new governors, and they operated ministries. They are reconstituting their governmental and military capacities since day one. This is not the behavior of a movement preparing for demilitarization."

"As long as Hamas remains in control and is committed to another Oct. 7, the American ceasefire framework will not get anywhere. You cannot build a stable peace with a partner that openly prepares for the next massacre. At some point, the United States will have to recognize that Hamas is the obstacle, not part of the solution."

"Israel has to give the Americans the time and space to try their way, so that the responsibility for the failure of the plan falls on Hamas. But in the end, I believe they will move to Plan B, securing eastern Gaza under IDF oversight, expanding it gradually to the west while crushing and dismantling Hamas if it continues to violate the agreement."

"Hamas will regroup simultaneously in Gaza, the West Bank, and other countries, rebuild its capacities, and look for the second opportunity for another Oct. 7. This is exactly the reason we have to crush them and dismantle them. As long as they hold on to their weapons and ideology, no ceasefire framework, American or UN, will produce real peace."
The World's Been Too Rough with Israel
Israel's response to the October 2023 Hamas-led massacres and kidnappings of over one thousand civilians, as well as to missile and drone attacks from Iran and its regional militias, has been vigorous.

Pursuing victory - ending the threats to Israeli towns and cities from Hamas in Gaza, Hizbullah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and the regime in Tehran - requires the application of determined, and at times overwhelming, military force.

In Gaza, Israel's army has been operating in some of the most difficult urban warfare conditions in history.

Tragically, thousands of Palestinian civilians have died during the fighting over the past two years. But here is a simple truth: Hamas's leaders could have released the hostages and ordered their men to lay down their arms at any point.

They knew Palestinian women and children would be collateral damage as they fired missiles and launched attacks from apartment buildings, inviting airstrikes.

Preeminent news outlets routinely accept Hamas's allegations and lies at face value and downplay or overlook the group's actions, whether its use of human shields that have caused thousands of civilian deaths or its vicious tyranny and misogyny.

The coverage and political gesturing in the West have been, at best, disproportionate and prejudiced, and, at worst, dishonest, malicious, and likely to extend the war and the suffering.


Israel receives body said to be hostage held in Gaza
Israeli authorities received a coffin, said to contain the body of an Israeli hostage, from the Red Cross in Gaza, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said on Tuesday afternoon. In the past, Hamas has lied about such remains.

“Israel has received through the Red Cross the body of a deceased hostage that was transferred to an Israel Defense Forces and General Security Agency force inside the Gaza Strip,” Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said.

Hamas is believed to have held three bodies of hostages prior to the handover.

The Israeli military’s rabbi is scheduled to receive the body when it arrives in Israel and to transfer it to the National Forensic Institute near Tel Aviv.

“At the end of the identification process, an official notice will be given to the family,” the prime minister’s office said. It did not name the hostage, whose remains are believed to have been transferred.

The Israel Defense Forces said that Hamas turned the remains over to the Red Cross at a “meeting point.” The Red Cross delivered the body to Israel.

The IDF “requests that the public act with sensitivity and wait for the official identification, which will first be provided to the families,” the Israeli military said.

Earlier in the day, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad said that they intended to return the remains of a murdered hostage at 4 p.m. local time. The previous handover took place on Nov. 13, when Hamas transferred the body of Meny Godard.


Jonathan Tobin: Can’t fight the Muslim Brotherhood while groveling to Qatar
Doha is involved in lobbying, though it exerts more influence as a major player in the business world, creating connections with a broad array of political affiliations on both sides of the aisle. In this way, it has used its financial clout to help and/or bail out some prominent persons, such as Trump’s foreign envoy Steve Witkoff, with purchases amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. It has also invested heavily in American media outlets that add to its ability to project its views on the world. That is in addition to the clout it has via its Al Jazeera news station, which dominates the market in the Arab and Muslim world.

Just as important is the way Doha has poured money into academia, essentially purchasing the Middle East studies departments at many prestigious institutions of higher learning. Qatar isn’t just the largest foreign donor to American education. It has played a part in ensuring that these schools are uniformly bastions not only of anti-Zionism, but also of exponents of anti-Western and anti-American ideologies.

The point here is that the differences with Qatar go far beyond the obvious ones in terms of the values of a diverse democracy and those of an Islamist absolute monarchy. Qatar does business with the West while playing both ends against the middle in a never-ending game of diplomacy with Washington in a way that can be represented as similar to that of any nation with interests that don’t coincide with those of the United States. The regime’s real goals, however, are no different from those of the Brotherhood—namely, to undermine and subvert the West.

Both Qatar and the Islamist government of Turkey, which plays its own double role seeking a restoration of the old Ottoman Empire and supporting terror groups like Hamas while also remaining a NATO member, have clout in Washington. They also sit on both sides of the American dispute with an aggressive, terror-supporting Islamist regime in Iran. They and their American clients and auxiliaries have a pro-Islamist agenda and were able to stop the first Trump administration from taking action against the Brotherhood. And they have helped limit its current tentative steps toward designating it as a terrorist group and, no doubt, think they can prevent the follow-up necessary to put the executive order into effect.

The irony here is that while the portion of the political right led by Carlson that is hostile to Israel, and soft or even welcoming to antisemitism, likes to speak of defending “America First” or “America only” policy priorities against those who support the alliance with Israel, who are falsely labeled “Israel firsters.” But they seem completely uninterested in noting the way a country like Qatar is actively seeking to undermine a bipartisan American foreign-policy goal of opposing Islamist terror that threatens the West. While Carlson falsely labels Qatar as a faithful U.S. ally and trashes Israel as manipulating Washington against its own interests, the truth is just the opposite. The real opponents of “America First” are not supporters of Israel but the pawns, both witting and unwitting, of the jihadists of Qatar and the Brotherhood.

Trump’s choice
Trump faces an important choice about the Muslim Brotherhood. If he allows this toothless order to be as far as he goes with respect to efforts to stop this dangerous group, then he will be demonstrating that the administration is hopelessly compromised by its ties to Qatar. That ought not to happen. The president needs to understand the dire nature of the threat from fanatic Islamic terrorists, along with the insidious impact the Brotherhood’s Qatari funders and hosts are having on American media, culture and education. And, as he’s done time and again on many issues—not least his support for Israel—he needs to ignore the voices telling him that protecting U.S. interests means groveling to establishment thinking and Islamists.

The time is long past due for the United States to recognize that it is at war with the Brotherhood and act accordingly. If it doesn’t, it will just be setting in motion a process by which those who seek to spill American blood as well as that of Israelis will be given a leg up in their generational war against the West. That is something an administration that represents its policies as a clean break from the failed ideas of the Washington establishment and which says it is all about defending Americans, should avoid at all costs.


MBS’s pushback on Israel normalization reportedly irked Trump
US President Donald Trump was left “disappointed and angry” after a “tense” exchange with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over normalization with Israel during their White House meeting last week, Channel 12 reports, citing two senior American officials and an additional source familiar with the conversation.

According to the unconfirmed report, Trump was the one to raise the issue, urging the crown prince to move forward immediately with normalization. In response, Bin Salman pushed back, saying that while he isn’t against normalization in principle, widespread anti-Israel sentiment in Saudi Arabia following the war in Gaza doesn’t allow for the move at this time.

While the conversation remained polite, a senior US official tells the Hebrew network that Trump was “disappointed and angry” over the crown prince’s refusal.

The official adds that “bin Salman did not say ‘never’ in the meeting regarding normalization with Israel. He left the door open to doing it in the future — but the issue of a two-state solution is a major problem” — a condition bin Salman stated publicly at the White House.


Federal Investigators Work To Blacklist Hamas-Tied UNRWA Staffers
The chief oversight body responsible for monitoring American foreign assistance has launched an independent investigation into United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staffers’ ties to Hamas, building a blacklist that will prevent them from migrating to other U.N. agencies that may be involved in the Gaza reconstruction project, nonpublic briefing materials reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.

The U.N. has never designated Hamas as a terrorist organization, so membership in the terror group "would not automatically disqualify an applicant from working on a U.S. taxpayer-funded U.N. program," according to investigatory documents provided to Congress by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) inspector general’s office, a law enforcement entity separate from USAID. Federal investigators have already given the names of at least three current or former UNRWA employees who participated in the Oct. 7 attack—and another 14 otherwise affiliated with Hamas—to the State Department.

Though Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said UNRWA will not play a role in post-war Gaza, the Trump administration’s 20-point peace plan does authorize the U.N. to participate in the humanitarian aid process. The inspector general is using its investigation, named Operation Stop the Carousel, to ensure that UNRWA’s terror-affiliated employees cannot circulate to the U.N. agencies and other NGOs allowed on the ground in Gaza. Once the investigation identifies Hamas-linked UNRWA employees, the inspector general will report them to federal officials for placement on a publicly available blacklist and potentially refer them to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.

The inspector general’s briefing for Congress comes after the Free Beacon’s report that the U.N. tossed out Israeli intelligence to minimize UNRWA’s relationship with Hamas. U.N. investigators looked into 19 UNRWA employees’ ties to the terror group based on Israel’s findings. The subsequent report portrayed the intelligence as likely authentic yet deemed it "insufficient" to support the termination of 10 of the 19 employees.

The USAID inspector general investigation, by contrast, "will not rely on self-reporting by the U.N. or other organizations, or their vetting processes," the briefing materials state. "Failure to cooperate with our requests will result in referrals to the administration and the United States Congress."

The Free Beacon first reported on the initial USAID inspector general probe in August, when investigators documented evidence that Hamas "commandeered U.N. aid trucks," embedded terrorist operatives in "U.N. agencies or at U.N. facilities," and ensured humanitarian goods were "directly delivered to Hamas officials."
CAIR: Trump's Revocation of Somali Deportation Protections Is Part of 'Israel First' Campaign
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) lashed out against President Donald Trump's decision to eliminate deportation protections for Somali immigrants in Minnesota, blaming the move on an "Israel first" campaign that it says is also targeting podcasters Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson.

"We believe this is an Israeli-first public campaign targeting a very vulnerable community—the Somali-American community—and a very vulnerable congresswoman—Ilhan Omar—as an effort to try to win back the many young Americans who believe that America should not be getting into wars for other countries," CAIR-Minnesota executive director Jaylani Hussein said during a Monday afternoon press conference. He went on to praise Owens and Carlson, warning that "Israel first" Americans have also come after them.

"I know for sure that this campaign mirrors the same campaign targeting Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, major influencers on the conservative side, who have gained tremendous support in the younger generation of Republicans who are refusing to accept—refusing to accept—that America will continue to take the wars of Israel, destabilize the Middle East, lose their own tax dollars while committing carnage and lossage in the lives of Muslims, and many of these young generation today have woken up," Hussain continued.

CAIR's press conference came in response to Trump's announcement that he would rescind Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in Minnesota. "Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State," the president said, turning it into a "hub of fraudulent money laundering activity." Trump's decision came on the heels of a City Journal report from Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Rufo detailing how Somali-American criminal networks help redirect welfare money out of the country and back to Somalia. Millions of taxpayer dollars, the report states, have ended up in the hands of the Al-Shabaab terrorist network.

Hussein condemned an "article" during the press conference, saying CAIR believes it is "based on false information that is being wrongfully connected," without naming the specific story. He told the Washington Free Beacon he was referring to the City Journal piece.

The CAIR-Minnesota executive director also said his organization would like "the federal government to monitor funding that is coming directly from Israel into the pockets of social media influencers to do their foreign bidding."


US to deport Jordanian man who donated to Holy Land Foundation, overstayed visa
Attorneys for Marwan Marouf, who allegedly overstayed his visa in the United States by more than a decade, said on Nov. 21 that the 54-year-old will be deported to Jordan, where he is a citizen.

Federal officials alleged that, in addition to overstaying his visa, Marouf donated nearly $14,000 to the Holy Land Foundation, a terror organization, in the 1990s, reported Fox 4 in Dallas. The leaders of the foundation were subsequently convicted of sending $12 million to Hamas.

Marouf, who lives in Dallas, has been held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since his Sep. 22 arrest. ICE alleged that Marouf, who first came to the United States in 1993 on a student visa, re-entered the country without a valid visa after a 2011 trip. The federal government later added terrorism charges.

“ICE is executing its mission of identifying and removing criminal aliens and others who have violated our nation’s immigration laws,” an ICE official told JNS. “All aliens in violation of U.S. immigration law may be subject to arrest, detention, and, if found removable by final order, removal from the United States, regardless of nationality.”

The Jordanian national’s attorneys sought to have their client allowed to deport himself voluntarily to Jordan, which would have given him 60 days to leave the country at his own expense. Immigration judge Abdias Tida denied that request.
Holocaust museums are 'false propaganda' used to blackmail world, AMP director claims
Holocaust museums are “false propaganda,” and Israel has blackmailed the world with the Holocaust, said Osama Abu Irshaid, national director of American Muslims for Palestine, in a speech published to YouTube last week.

Irshaid, who also serves on the board of the nonprofit United States Council of Muslim Organizations, said, “Israel has blackmailed the world with the Holocaust” and that “if you call what is happening in Gaza a Holocaust, you are labeled antisemitic.” Antisemitism is at a record high. We're keeping our eyes on it >>

He accused Jews of having “a monopoly on the victim mentality” and called for the formation of a new narrative called the “Palestinian genocide” narrative.

He went on to criticize Holocaust museums as a project of the “Zionist lobby.”

“Friends of mine who are Palestinian activists in America said that they went to the Holocaust museum in Washington, DC, and left crying; they were influenced by this false propaganda.


IDF kills five terrorists who evaded troops for hours after emerging from Rafah tunnel
Soldiers from the IDF's Nahal Brigade killed five terrorists who had emerged from tunnels and initially evaded them in eastern Rafah, the military said Tuesday.

The terrorists were killed after a five-hour-long manhunt that began in the early morning hours. The incident occurred near the Yellow Line marking IDF-controlled territory.

When IDF observers and Golani Brigade soldiers initially spotted the terror cell and opened air and ground fire, the suspects managed to escape. Israeli forces carried out a manhunt in the area of Rafah, which ultimately concluded with the deaths of the five terrorists.

The incident occurred while the troops were conducting searches in the area.

Dozens of Hamas terrorists still remain in tunnels in eastern Rafah, trapped behind the Yellow Line.


Clashes in Syria’s Homs show Damascus still can’t control tensions
Clashes in Syria’s Homs province have shown that Damascus continues to have a problem controlling internal fighting between various groups, which usually results in the persecution of minorities.

The recent skirmishes began after two people were killed. The victims were a man and wife from a Bedouin tribe who were killed in their home south of Homs, and Bedouin began attacking members of the Alawite minority in turn.

The Syrian government responded with a curfew over the last several days. However, this doesn’t necessarily solve the problem of armed men taking the law into their own hands.

The events in Homs are very similar to clashes over the summer that targeted Druze in Sweida and also those in March that were aimed at Alawites in Latakia. In each instance, the minority group was accused of a crime, and then large numbers of mostly Sunni Arab men mobilized to attack.

Some will argue that this is a false narrative and that, actually, it is groups such as the Druze who have instigated by seeking to carve out areas of their control.

There is some truth in that because the Druze have sought to make Sweida autonomous, and they are well armed. As such, the Bedouin who clashed with them were also victims. In the case of the Alawites in Latakia, some claimed that they were regime supporters. However, the incident resulted in large numbers of uninvolved Alawites being killed.

The overall picture that has emerged is that Syria still can’t control many areas of the country from descending into these clashes. In Homs, the state did respond quickly.

One could see this as a positive development: The government is getting better. However, the problem of having different groups take the law into their own hands is still a major hurdle for Damascus.


Fake accounts exposed by X found to be taking Gaza donations
Sky News host Sharri Markson reacts to the “so-called” accounts claiming to be posting from Gaza are not from there at all as exposed by X’s new location feature.

Ms Markson sat down with Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel to go over the fake accounts.

The new feature has exposed many claiming to be part of Gaza as fake.


Ayn Rand Centre and David Reaboi: X Feature Reveals: Gazan Journalists are Neither Gazan Nor Journalists

Ask Haviv Anything: Episode 63: New York in the age of Tucker and Mamdani, with Noam Dworman
Noam Dworman is the owner of the legendary Comedy Cellar comedy club in New York. He a lifelong New Yorker, a podcaster and an astute observer of his city and his country.

What does he make of the incoming mayor and his anti-Israel views? What about the rabid new antisemitism on the Carlson-Owens right? And how does he understand the weak responses to both by American Jews?

And finally: Will America weather these challenges, or has American Jewish life become less safe going forward?

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Noam Dworman and the Comedy Cellar
02:35 The Evolution of the Comedy Cellar
05:09 Comedy as a Platform for Serious Debate
07:49 The Impact of October 7 on American Jews
10:18 Understanding Anti-Semitism and Jewish Identity
12:54 The Role of Comedy in Political Discourse
15:59 The Psychological Effects of Conflict on Jewish Communities
18:56 The Future of Jewish Identity and Advocacy
21:48 The Intersection of Comedy and Serious Issues
25:07 The Rise of Anti-Semitism in Contemporary Discourse
26:18 Concluding Thoughts on Jewish Resilience and Identity
32:46 Understanding the Uncertainty of Current Events
33:48 The Role of Antisemitism in Modern Politics
35:24 The Intersection of Religion and Politics
35:36 The Future of American Jewish Identity
45:28 The New York Political Landscape and Its Implications
50:47 Strategies for American Jews in a Changing Society


Erin Molan: The ‘ATM for Terror’? WTF Canada! AND Why It Affects YOU!
In this special edition of The Erin Molan Show, Erin speaks with Canadian citizen activists, a national security expert and the country’s Deputy Opposition Leader about what they say is a surge in antisemitism, rising extremism, failing leadership and “suicidal empathy” that is putting all Canadians — not just Jews — at risk. In this Canadian Special:
🇨🇦 Panel: “Voices From Canada”
Revi Mula, head of Canadian Women Against Antisemitism.
Aaron Hadida, Erin’s security when she visits Canada.
Matthew Taub, from Unapologetically Jewish.

🛡️ National Security Segment — Casey Babb
🏛️ Political Reality Check — Melissa Lantsman Canada’s Opposition Deputy Leader Melissa Lantsman gives a scathing assessment of the current government’s handling of antisemitism, security and foreign policy.

⏱️ CHAPTERS
0:00 – Why Canada Matters to the Whole West
3:15– Panel Opens: How Fast Did Antisemitism Explode?
23:00 – National Security Briefing: Casey Babb on Hamas in Canada
30:00 – Deputy Opposition Leader Melissa Lantsman: Government Has Failed
39:00 – Erin’s Final Message & Call to Action


Palestinian activists copy Israeli ‘Bring them home’ hostage campaign with ribbons, posters
Pro-Palestinian activists are copying the slogans, ribbons, and ubiquitous hostage posters from the Israeli hostage advocacy campaign to demand the release of Palestinian security prisoners.

Swedish activists outside the Israeli embassy in Stockholm on Sunday night protested with a banner with a variation of the slogan of the Israeli Hostages and Missing Families Forum, “Bring them home.”

“Release all Palestinian Hostages,” read the banner, complete with a red ribbon, similar to the yellow one used by the Hostages Forum.

Red Ribbon campaign similar to hostage campaigns
“There are 9,500 Palestinian hostages in Israeli concentration camps,” shouted an activist through a megaphone in a video posted by climate activist Greta Thunberg and Europe Palestine Network, referring to a figure that includes terrorists, unlawful combatants, and rioters.

The activists displayed hostage posters similar to those used by Israeli activists to demand the release of those abducted by Gazan terrorists during the October 7 massacre.

The red ribbon campaign has appeared the most in the United Kingdom. Activists associated with the Bristol Palestine Alliance on November 15 tied ribbons and placed Palestinian “hostage” posters onto the St. Agnes bridge.


Tucker Carlson vs. Tucker Carlson: How a Host Became His Own Warning Sign on Antisemitism
Peddling Antisemitism & Conspiracy Theories
Tucker’s violation of the very rules he once outlined for defining antisemitism goes beyond his warm welcome of antisemitic guests and his approval of their comments on the show. He can invite these guests and excuse their rhetoric, in part, because he himself has made antisemitic statements, creating a permissive environment in which antisemitic ideas can circulate unchecked.

Following October 7th, in a conversation with Candace Owens, Carlson remarked on how the “real tragedies” facing Americans are internal, despite numerous American citizens being murdered or taken captive by Hamas. The threat of terrorism, as it faces both Israel and the U.S., is undeniably a real and shared concern.

At the same time, Carlson has remarked that “everybody’s afraid of Israel,” and society has not “had an honest conversation about this ever.” He goes on to question how much antisemitism online is organic and from real antisemites and how much is “not organic at all,” thus implying Israel is at fault for the rise in antisemitism seen online. He spews out antisemitic propaganda as some sort of elaborate scheme to divert the public’s attention away from the mutually beneficial U.S.-Israel relationship.

Carlson, however, is unable to recognize the benefits of the U.S.-Israel relationship because he claims what “Israel is doing in Gaza is immoral,” and collective punishment. He has indulged in this charge so frequently, claiming that Israel believes “everyone who lives in Gaza is a terrorist because of how they were born, including the women and the children.” Of course, this is not an accurate analysis of Israel’s war, where it has been fighting a terrorist organization whose goal is to rid the land of all Jews and abuses civilian infrastructure as a means to achieve its war goals.

This misrepresentation feeds into a broader narrative of existential threat and persecution, a narrative Carlson extends beyond Gaza. For instance, he has suggested that Al Aqsa Mosque could be “blown up” by Israel to make room for the Third Temple. Beyond the baseless claim that Israel is endangering sacred sites, Carlson portrays the situation as one in which Israel is perpetually on the attack. This lie has been spread for decades, including by none other than Hamas and other terrorist organizations.

Similarly, Carlson has claimed the USS Liberty was targeted by Israel “on purpose,” despite this being thoroughly debunked. He further asserted that the incident was a step in the IDF’s alleged stranglehold on the American military. This is a control which he says continues to persist today, claiming – without providing any evidence – that IDF officers in the Pentagon during the 12 Day War with Iran were supposedly enraging Pentagon staff by barging into meetings and giving orders. Beyond the complete lack of evidence supporting this claim, Carlson’s framing taps into longstanding antisemitic tropes of Jewish influence and control, portraying Israel and Israelis as manipulative and sinister.

Carlson’s comments should not be viewed as isolated incidents, but rather as part of a broader ideological shift occurring in the extreme right of the U.S. This shift has been further amplified by podcast and social media influencers. As a veteran news reporter, Carlson has been a driving force in this movement. He has consistently welcomed voices to his show that exemplify this trend, encouraging him to take part.

Carlson today is now at odds with the standards he presented thirty years ago. In platforming antisemites and perpetuating misleading and outright antisemitic conspiracy theories, he has become both an enabler and an active participant in the very antisemitism he once denounced, leaving his own legacy fractured and his influence on society profoundly troubling.


The St John’s Wood debacle exposes a policing culture of capitulation to extremists
The spectacle at St John’s Wood Synagogue was not an aberration. It was the latest entry in a now-familiar pattern: a police culture that has quietly redefined success as the absence of physical violence – even if that requires sacrificing the rights of the very people the law is meant to protect.

The Public Order Act was invoked; maps were drawn; stern warnings issued not to protest near the synagogue. And then – having done the easy part – the police let protesters walk straight through. Officers looked on for far too long as anti-Zionist protestors assembled in front of the synagogue, muttering about not wanting to “antagonise the situation further”. Chants of “from the river to the sea” – a slogan the Prime Minister himself has told this newspaper is antisemitic – were allowed to ring out in the vicinity of the doors of a Jewish house of worship. All this at a moment when British Jews are the most targeted minority in the country, and only weeks after two congregants were murdered in a synagogue. That is not public order. It is capitulation.

The very community that already has to live behind steel gates, reinforced glass and private security is told, implicitly, that it must simply endure. They are victimised twice: once by those who hate them, and again by a policing model that rewards their civility with indifference.

Let us be frank. Had there been a risk of aggressive counter-protest, those conditions would have been enforced with an iron zeal.

This cannot continue. If operational independence allows police forces to decide, case by case, whether the law is actually worth enforcing, then operational independence becomes an alibi for inaction, and inaction becomes a threat to our democracy. If existing legislation gives them too much discretion to avoid “antagonising” those most willing to cause trouble, then that legislation must be tightened.
Jonathan Sacerdoti: UK Police in fresh 'two-tier' row after failing to stop mob descending on London synagogue
After police in London said they were unable to stop a protest taking place directly outside a synagogue, questions have been raised about whether this is yet another case of two-tier policing.

Jonathan Sacerdoti debates lawyer Mahtab Aziz over the demonstration, the police response, and whether protesters were engaging in legitimate activism or attempting to intimidate Jewish worshippers. The pair clash over policing standards, the legality of the event, and comparisons with other protests that have been swiftly restricted or relocated.




UKLFI: Natasha Hausdorff on claims police used false intelligence to justify ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans
A new report has raised serious questions about the decision by West Midlands Police to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from attending the Europa League match against Aston Villa on 6 November 2024.

According to The Times, intelligence used to justify the ban included claims about events surrounding Maccabi Tel Aviv’s match against Ajax in Amsterdam in November 2024 which Dutch law enforcement now says were false.

Dutch police have publicly stated that allegations attributed to them — including claims of mass violence by Maccabi supporters, links to the IDF, and the need to deploy 5,000 officers — were not accurate.

Four individuals were later jailed for attacks on Maccabi supporters in Amsterdam after social media messages called for a “Jew hunt.”

In this interview, UKLFI Charitable Trust Legal Director Natasha Hausdorff examines what the newly surfaced information suggests about the reliability of the intelligence, the decision-making process, and the implications for equalities law, policing, and future fixtures.

Natasha also discusses the publicly available reports in the Netherlands from 2025, including analyses by COT (the Institute for Safety and Crisis Management) and the Justice and Security Inspectorate, and how their findings contrast with the allegations used in the UK.

The conversation covers:
How the disputed claims surfaced
Why the information was not previously disclosed despite parliamentary and media scrutiny
What the Dutch reports actually found about the November 2024 attacks
Concerns regarding alleged “inversion” of events in the intelligence picture
Equalities Act considerations
Issues raised by the policing of protests at Villa Park
Calls for accountability and review






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