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Sunday, November 30, 2025

11/30 Links: UNSC Resolution 2803 and the ‘Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict’; Yom HaPlitim: How one day honors a million displaced Jews; The BBC’s staggering hypocrisy on anti-Semitism

From Ian:

Alan Baker: UNSC Resolution 2803 and the ‘Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict’
United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 (2025), adopted on Nov. 17, 2025, represents a serious attempt to restructure governance, security and reconstruction mechanisms in the Gaza Strip.

Presented alongside, and built upon, President Donald J. Trump’s “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict” of Sept. 29, 2025, the resolution endorses a multilayered framework involving an unprecedented Board of Peace (BoP), an International Stabilization Force (ISF) and a transitional technocratic Palestinian administrative structure.

1. The resolution’s legal character and Chapter VII elements
Although Resolution 2803 does not invoke Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter, its wording adopts components associated with Chapter VII determinations. The operative clause stating that the situation in Gaza “threatens regional peace and security” reflects the terminology of Article 39, signaling that the Security Council perceives a threat to international peace.

However, by refraining from expressly stating that the resolution was adopted under Chapter VII, the council avoids establishing binding enforcement measures. Key operative verbs—such as endorses and calls on—further demonstrate that the resolution’s obligations are largely recommendatory rather than mandatory.

Legally, this carefully calibrated language creates a gray zone:
It strengthens the political authority of the plan.
It provides Security Council endorsement of it.
Yet it withholds the coercive weight of Chapter VII.

This ambiguity allows states to claim U.N. legitimacy for participation, while simultaneously preventing the council and the U.N. from assuming direct responsibility for implementation or oversight.

2. Endorsement of the Comprehensive Plan: Scope and limitations
The council “endorses” the Comprehensive Plan rather than “adopting” it. This distinction is essential. Endorsement acknowledges the plan’s existence and supports its aims, but:
It does not transform the plan into a U.N. instrument.
It does not give the U.N. operational control over implementation.

The Comprehensive Plan is thus validated politically but not incorporated legally into the UN’s institutional architecture. The United States, in some form of loose coordination with Qatar, Egypt and Turkey remains the principal diplomatic driver.

This distinction directly affects:
the legal authority of the Board of Peace
the status and obligations of U.N. agencies operating in Gaza
the status of future political negotiations

The Board of Peace: A novel international governance mechanism
The resolution welcomes the establishment of the Board of Peace, assigning it “international legal personality”—a term commonly associated with international organizations but undefined within the resolution itself.

Questions arise:
Is the BoP envisioned as an independent international organization?
What treaties or instruments grant it legal personality?
What “relevant international legal principles” govern its operations?

The BoP is empowered to oversee:
a transitional civil administration in Gaza
reconstruction and economic initiatives
coordination of humanitarian aid
establishment of operational entities (including bodies with their own international legal personality)

Importantly, the BoP is not a U.N. body, nor does it operate under U.N. authority or financing. Its legitimacy stems solely from the political endorsement of the Security Council and the states participating in its creation.
Gazans' Stark Choice: Either Hamas or Reconstruction
It will be many years before the great majority of Gaza residents are living in anything more than makeshift or temporary housing. The future of Gaza hinges entirely on the willingness of the world to take an active role in reconstruction. But for that to happen, Hamas has to step out of the way by disarming and ceding any role in governing Gaza.

Allowing Hamas to continue as a fighting force means that its war with Israel will resume, and with it will come another round of death and destruction. Understandably, the Gulf governments that are expected to foot the bill for reconstruction costs don't want to see their investment go up in flames.

Allowing Hamas a significant role in governance also risks undermining the reconstruction effort. In its years in power, Hamas never showed any particular interest in the welfare of the Gazans under its rule, leaving basic services like education and health to the care of others; it had even less of an interest in economic development. Hamas would almost certainly use the civilian institutions of reconstruction as a cover to rearm.

Gaza thus faces a stark choice of an armed Hamas preparing for the next round of war with Israel, or reconstruction and a functioning economy. Given how desperate the situation is, you would think the gun option would be a non-starter for Gazans. But it seems that Gazans want to have both, according to a recent poll.

A demilitarized Gaza means, in effect, raising the white flag and acknowledging that the most audacious and sustained act of "armed resistance" in Palestinian history was a failure. Yet however steadfast Palestinians may want to be in the fight with Israel, living in a tent amid rubble, with minimal access to basic services and no means to support a family, is not a long-term option.
Yom HaPlitim: How one day honors a million displaced Jews
Yom HaPlitim, meaning “Day of the Refugees,” is the Israeli national day honoring the 850,000+ Jewish refugees who were expelled from or forced to flee Arab and Muslim majority countries and Iran from the 1940s to the 1970s. In Israeli law, the day is officially called “The Day to Mark the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from the Arab Countries and Iran,” and is sometimes referred to as Yom HaPlitim (“Day of the Refugee”) or Yom HaGirush (“Day of the Expulsion”). The first official Yom HaPlitim was commemorated on Nov. 30, 2014, after the Knesset resolution adopting the day was adopted in June of that year.

Nov. 30 was chosen particularly because the day before marks the anniversary of the UN Partition Plan vote on Nov. 29, 1947, a day that also sparked violence and persecution against Jewish communities in many Arab countries.

Why did Jewish refugees flee Arab countries and Iran?
Before 1948, around 850,000–900,000 Jews lived across the Arab world and Iran, in places like Iraq, Egypt, Yemen and Aden, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Iran. After the partition vote and especially after Israel’s establishment, many of these communities faced anti-Jewish riots and pogroms, mass arrests, and laws stripping Jews of citizenship, jobs, and property. Within a generation, most of these ancient communities had been emptied; today, only a small fraction of the Jews who once lived across the region remain.

Yom HaPlitim was created to acknowledge the trauma, loss, and displacement of Jews in Arab and Muslim countries; preserve the history of ancient Jewish communities, many thousands of years old, which were declining and then destroyed in the mid-20th century; to promote awareness of confiscated and revoked property; and to correct the historical gap in which Jewish refugees from Arab lands received very little recognition and delegitimization of their Middle Eastern identities. By the 1970s, over 95% of Jews from Arab countries had left, many never allowed to return. In some cases, entire communities were moved in dramatic rescue operations, like Operation Magic Carpet (airlifting Yemenite Jews to Israel) and Operation Ezra and Nehemiah (airlifting Iraqi Jews).

Some advocates frame Yom HaPlitim as a way to highlight a “second” refugee population alongside Palestinian refugees. Others caution against using one community’s trauma to negate another’s. At its best, Yom HaPlitim is about adding a missing chapter to the story of the 20th century, not erasing or minimizing anyone else’s suffering.




Qatar: Israel must not obstruct Gaza deal over two deceased hostages
Qatar's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said in the interview that progress is being made on the implementation of the Gaza agreement and on regional efforts to secure an extended ceasefire. He argued that "Israel must not be allowed to delay the agreement or block the move to its second phase."

Al-Ansari stressed that efforts in Gaza are underway to recover the two remaining deceased hostages who are still being held, although he noted this is a "significant challenge". He said Israel must not be allowed to use the delay as a pretext to undermine the framework.

According to al-Ansari, "Qatari efforts carried out within the framework of US President Donald Trump's plan have focused on three goals: ending the war and the bloodshed, ensuring humanitarian aid enters the Gaza Strip, and preventing any annexation of Palestinian land."

The spokesperson said the main challenge now is transitioning from the first stage of the deal to the second, which he believes could pave the way for a long-term arrangement and a complete end to the state of war in Gaza. Still, he acknowledged there is no clear answer as to whether the process will stall if the two deceased hostages are not returned. "Two deceased hostages remain, which is an achievement, although he said major obstacles remain." He said Qatar does not believe Israel should be permitted to interfere with the deal's implementation.
Brendan O'Neill: The BBC’s staggering hypocrisy on anti-Semitism
It is my firm belief that the BBC and the Guardian, with their BS claims about the world’s only Jewish nation and their turning of a blind eye to Jew hatred in the here and now, have helped to stir up the crisis of anti-Semitism we are living through. That they now think they can imperiously lament the alleged making of anti-Semitic comments in a playground 50 years ago is extraordinary. It is a testament to how blinded they are by their own depthless moral vanity. So convinced are they of their own ethical perfection that they think they can bait Jews one day and then cry over the alleged baiting of Jews by a child in the 1970s. I’m here to tell them they can’t do that. I’m here to remind everyone that the BBC associates with people who say ‘gas them’ today.

The insanity of the Farage scandal was brought home by the intervention of Owen Jones. Britain’s chief pipsqueak loather of Israel made one of his wild-eyed YouTube vids about how Farage has been ‘OVERWHELMED’ by this scandal (his caps). Is this the same Owen Jones who spent his young adulthood feverishly editing Wikipedia entries about Israel, at one point writing that ‘the notion of Jewish ethnicity is a lie’? What a vile comment. Jones later retracted it, saying it was ‘entirely ill-informed’. He was 19 years old at the time. He called the people who later dredged it up ‘obsessive’ and ‘angry’. Okay. So what do you call people poring over what a 13-year-old boy allegedly said 50 years ago? And we don’t even have proof for Farage’s comments, unlike with Jones’s sick denial of Jewish ethnicity which he made not when he was at school but when he was at Oxford University.

Rarely have we had such a crystal-clear view of the cant and self-regard of the bourgeois media. Britain has been rocked by a surge in anti-Semitism these past two years. Schoolkids have been attacked, synagogues besieged. Mobs of the influential possessed by a curious hatred for the only Jewish nation have traipsed through the streets calling Jews ‘Nazis’. In such circumstances, to focus on things allegedly said at Dulwich College in the 1970s is not only ridiculous – it is a ruthless, unforgivable distraction from the truth of Jew hatred in modern Britain. The reason the Guardian and the BBC are finally talking about anti-Semitism is not because they care for Jews but because they fear the working classes and the possibility they’ll vote for Reform UK. It’s not the death of racial hatred they seek – it’s the death of populism.
Manchester synagogue hero who was shot by police as he barricaded doors may 'move children to Israel' as he no longer feels safe in the UK
A hero from the Manchester synagogue terrorist attack who was accidentally shot has admitted he is contemplating moving his children to Israel because he no longer feels safe in the UK.

Yoni Finlay, 39, was among several worshippers who barricaded the doors of the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, in Manchester, when Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, went on the rampage with a knife in October.

The father-of-three needed seven hours of surgery after being accidentally shot by armed police. They fired at Al-Shamie as he tried to get into the building on Yom Kippur – the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

Melvin Cravitz, 66, was killed in the attack and 53-year-old Adrian Daulby, who was with Mr Finlay trying to stop Al-Shamie entering, also died after being mistakenly shot by officers.

Since the horrifying attack, and with the rise in antisemitism in recent years, Mr Finlay has been discussing with his former partner if a move to Israel with his four children might be the best option.

'It would be really upsetting to leave Manchester. This is my home town. I am Mancunian. But I can't bring my kids up in this environment,' Mr Finlay said.

He added that the Jewish community in Manchester, which is the second largest in the UK after London, has been treated differently since Hamas launched its deadly attack on Israel on October 7 2023 leading to the start of the Gaza War.

The father believes that anger that should be directed against the Israeli government has instead turned into anger and hatred towards Jews in Britain.
Jake Wallis Simons: Ban on Maccabi fans was pure anti-Semitism
Khan’s petition, which he launched with Jeremy Corbyn, had mainly called for a boycott of Israeli sportsmen in protest at the “ongoing genocide (sic) in Gaza”, but also claimed that Maccabi fans had caused “clashes and riots in Amsterdam”. Whatever happened that night, attacks on Maccabi fans last year had been planned in advance and co-ordinated using WhatsApp and Telegram.

Amid allegations of antisemitism, Khan, a barrister, insisted that his main concern was to protect the public. West Midlands police – which regularly liaises with mosque representatives and community elders – supported this narrative, with Chief Superintendent Tom Joyce claiming that the ban had been imposed due to “intelligence” about the “significant levels of hooliganism” among Maccabi fans. Khan was jubilant, demanding apologies from politicians who had spoken out.

That version of events was amplified by sections of the media. At the height of the row, a YouGov poll showed that 42 per cent of the public supported the ban. Then things began to unravel.

Dutch officials have said that the West Midlands police report had contained exaggerations about the behaviour of Maccabi fans in Amsterdam.

Moreover, an Israelophobic campaign group called the Hind Rajab Foundation, whose chairman, Dyab Abou Jahjah, was formerly a member of Hezbollah, had “laid the groundwork” for the police’s decision, it was alleged. Indeed, the Foundation’s report and that of the police showed striking similarities.

On Thursday, an Aston Villa match against Young Boys, a Swiss team known for hooliganism, had to be temporarily suspended after violence. Yet there was no petition to ban the fans; no vows of “no mercy”; no demands for them to be ejected from UEFA.

To anybody of sound judgment, it is obvious what is going on. It’s textbook. The Gaza war may be over, but the “Gaza independent” movement is just getting started.


Yisrael Medad: Peter Beinart: Pummeled and purged
Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah reacted that Beinart “arrogantly chose to ignore [calls not to speak]. It’s hard not to see this as anything other than an exercise in damage control, to restore his marketability following the overwhelming backlash to his informed, conscious, willful decision to violate a clear picket line.” (Marketability means Jews and money.)

First, Kiswani, in a reaction to Beinart’s explanation why he would be appearing in “Zionist-land” (my term), wrote: “There’s a scourge of Zionism and normalization in so called antizionist (self-congratulatory) Jewish spaces which also happen to write books, cash in honorariums, and travel the world while talking about being morally superior for recognizing the bare minimum.”

She added that Beinart is “a Zionist. I keep saying it. He’s not interested in justice—just in looking morally superior while cashing in on our struggle. Man really thinks his ‘once-in-a-generation’ brain is gonna convince baby killers to grow a conscience.”

Afterwards, she tweeted: “Peter consistently disrespects communities he claims to support, particularly Palestinians, and then apologizes for it after. What does everyone who was defending him have to say now that even he admits he was wrong?” In other words, no amount of kowtowing on Beinart’s part can absolve him of his sins.

Palestinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd had lashed out at Beinart that he is an “arrogant, insidious war-profiteering” and, correctly, knew you “will apologize for this in a few years, after you benefit from it, because that is what you have always done.”

Indian actress and model Sana Saeed called Beinart’s new book “tasteless” and “morally egregious, as it “put the identity of the genocidaires of Palestinians at the forefront of their genocide” and wondered why people didn’t understand “what Beinart was about when he spread the mass rape hoax and said how Palestinians/pro-Palestinian people have disappointed him in not condemning it.”

Surprisingly, James Zogby, founder and president of the Arab American Institute, was supportive, posting: “This attack on Beinart is not only wrong, it’s stupid. … He’s now bravely challenging establishment pro-Israel thought, forcing many to rethink their views.”

Issa Amro, a Palestinian activist based in Hebron, said much the same, writing on X: “I have known him as one of the most sincere friends and steadfast supporters of the Palestinian people. His voice, his courage, and his actions have helped make the occupation more costly. … Thank you, Peter, for standing on the right side of history.”

Beinart perhaps counted the pros and the cons, weighed them and decided to hang his head in shame. As the above texts seem to indicate, it will not help. He will be politically and socially hanged. The show trial will go on.

The only thing left is that we Zionists assure that he remains in his self-induced exile from the Jewish community, never to be returned to the fold. He made his choice: “Palestine.” Let him enjoy the bitter fruits he helped nourish.
Pardoning Netanyahu is an imperfect - but necessary - end to the PM's long legal saga
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s formal request on Sunday for a presidential pardon marks the most dramatic turn yet in a legal drama that has consumed Israel for nearly a decade.

Five and a half years into the trial, nine years after the investigations began, and 28 years since the first inquiry into his conduct as prime minister – the Bar-On-Hebron Affair – the question is no longer only whether he is guilty of the charges in Cases 1000, 2000, and 4000.

The deeper question is what prolonging this trial is doing to the country, and whether ending it – however imperfect the mechanism – might finally allow Israel to move on.

It is impossible to understand the reaction around Sunday’s development without recalling the full history of the myriad investigations into Netanyahu’s actions over the years. Netanyahu has lived under some form of investigation for most of his long tenure as prime minister.

The list is long.
What to know about Netanyahu’s request for a pardon in his corruption trial
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has requested a pardon from the president during his trial on corruption charges that has long divided the country. The request was met with indignation Sunday by opposition politicians and government watchdogs, but some Israelis signaled support and indicated it is time to move on.

The president’s office called the request “extraordinary,” with “significant implications.” At stake is the reputation of Israel’s justice system, as well as Netanyahu’s hold on power.

Here’s what to know.

The charges
Netanyahu is the only sitting prime minister in Israel’s history to stand trial. He is charged with fraud, breach of trust, and accepting bribes in three separate cases, which accuse him of exchanging favors with wealthy political supporters, including a telecom company, a Hollywood producer, and a newspaper publisher.

The Justice Ministry announced the indictments in the three cases in 2019, after years of investigations, and the trial began in May 2020.

Netanyahu rejects the allegations and has described the case as a witch hunt orchestrated by the media, police, and judiciary.

He has repeatedly requested postponements of his testimony, citing diplomatic engagements or security issues around Israel’s wars in the past two years with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran. He has not been convicted of anything.
Bennett voices support for Netanyahu pardon, coupled with political exit
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett affirmed on Sunday evening that he would support an agreement that leads to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu being pardoned by President Isaac Herzog, if Netanyahu fully withdraws from political life.

The affirmation came in a post on Bennett's X/Twitter on Sunday evening.

"In recent years, Israel has been led to chaos and to the brink of a civil war that threatens the very existence of the state," Bennett said.

"In order to extradite Israel from this chaos, I will support a binding agreement that will include a dignified withdrawal [for Netanyahu] from political life alongside the end of the trial," he continued.

"This way, society will be able to put it behind us, unite, and rehabilitate the state together."

Bennett is considered a frontrunner in the opposition in the next round of elections, slated to take place before October 2026.

Weekly opinion polls frequently show that Bennett would be highly likely to form a coalition, ousting Netanyahu as prime minister.


Dublin Council withdraws plan to rename Herzog Park due to administrative issues
Dublin City Council will withdraw the plan to rename the Irish capital's Herzog Park due to "insufficient information contained in the report to allow councillors to make an 'informed decision,'" and other administrative issues, local media reported on Sunday.

The prime minister and the deputy prime minister of Ireland came out strongly against Dublin City Council’s plans to rename Herzog Park earlier on Sunday.

“The proposal should be withdrawn in its entirety and not proceeded with,” said Prime Minister Micheal Martin. He added that going ahead with it would erase the distinctive and rich contribution to Irish life of the Jewish community, and that such denial of history would “without any doubt, be seen as antisemitic.”

“It is overly divisive and wrong,” Martin added.

Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Simon Harris also said he “strongly opposes” the move. “It is wrong. We are an inclusive Republic. This proposal is offensive to that principle. I urge all Party Leaders to join me in opposition to this.


Perception is not the problem with Herzog Park
Remember also, dear reader, that the original proposal was to take the park – which as I say is smack bang in the middle of one of Ireland’s few remaining slightly Jewish areas – and name it after a Palestinian. This would be the equivalent of Belfast City Council deciding to re-name the Falls Road “The King William the Third Parkway”. Even the most ardent loyalist wouldn’t be so petty.

This coming, by the way, from a City Council that is entirely useless when it comes to solving actual problems afflicting Dublin. This is the second newsworthy thing that Dublin City Council has done in recent weeks. The first was to decide that Dublin no longer has Christmas lights, but Winter lights.

It is notable to consider these two proposals alongside each other. The idea of de-linking the “winter celebration” from Christmas is, presumably, to protect the feelings of those minority of Irish people who find the very notion of Christmas offensive. In that case, so important are the sensitivities of a small minority of Dubliners that the rest of us must be compelled to give up any public acknowledgment that Christmas even exists.

Compare the City Council’s explicit sensitivity for the feelings of the Christmas-haters to its explicit insensitivity to the feelings of Irish Jewish people over the significantly more permanent matter of the naming of a City Park. This is a council that is perfectly capable of taking the feelings of minorities into account – even at the expense of the rest of us – when it wishes to.

And of course, this is all in substitution for any real work. A City Council that presides over record homelessness and drug addiction and record levels of petty crime. A City Council that presides over dereliction and commercial flight from the City Centre. A City Council that just this month raised taxes and rents on the people of Dublin to raise more money, presumably to pay for more winter lights.

I am very reliably informed by someone in Iveagh House that Irish diplomats are feeding back “very grave concerns” over “how this is being perceived”.

In the days to come there will be much chatter about how this – as the Taoiseach says – might be “seen” as antisemitic.

That’s not the problem. The problem is that Ireland is, increasingly, an antisemitic country. But then, if you are a fish, you do not know that you are wet.
The End of Irish Jewry?
Ireland today is the most anti-Israel nation in Europe, which is no mean distinction. Its history, though, is far from bereft of Jewish thriving. Robert Briscoe and his son both served as Lord Mayors of Dublin. Robert was an Orthodox Jew and a veteran of the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence. He was named after an 18th century Irish revolutionary, Robert Emmet. The Irish hero Michael Collins called Briscoe “my Jewman.”

Briscoe accompanied Prime Minister Éamon de Valera to America and wrote that he worried about having possibly violated the Second Commandment by loving Ireland more than the God of Israel. Briscoe was also a Zionist and a friend of the Zionist prophet Vladimir Zabotinsky. The Revisionist lion even paid him a secret visit in Dublin to take notes on guerilla warfare against the British. Briscoe advised Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

Then there is Leopold Bloom from James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” The protagonist of the 20th century’s greatest novel is Jewish on his father’s side, Irish on his mother’s. The poet Robert Pinsky calls him the “most famous Jew in modern English literature,” and in the pages of “Ulysses” Bloom parries antisemitism and even dreams of “orangegroves and immense melonfields north of Jaffa.” He tells a bigoted nationalist in a pub that Jesus was a Jew, too.

Amid the crisis in the Middle East, Dublin’s City Council could embrace this history. Were it to choose the opposite course, and strip Herzog’s name from a piece of Ireland, it would confirm the animus that has surfaced. In a sign of how serious all this is, an op ed last week warned that antisemitism and pro-Palestinian mania are now so virulent that Irish Jews — the heirs of Herzog, Briscoe, and Bloom — face “extinction.” Is that what Ireland wants?
Erin Molan: IRELAND: “SO LOW” Israeli Foreign Minister unloads!
EXCLUSIVE: Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on IRELAND’S latest disgrace:

“So LOW”

“Reminds us of what the Nazi regime did when they removed Jewish names from the streets just before the Holocaust”

@gidonsaar @IsraelMFA

Full conversation on The Erin Molan Show drops 6am ET Monday…




International Palestinian Solidarity Day draws worldwide protests against Trump's Gaza plan
Activists commemorated the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Saturday, at times disrupting a busy holiday weekend in the US due to Black Friday, with rallies and marches demanding an arms embargo on Israel and rejecting the US-led phased peace plan.

Over 85 protests were held across Europe, according to the European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine (ECCP), and another 13 were organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) across North America.

Protesters rallied at Colombus Circle, with NYC PYM calling US President Donald Trump’s “board of peace” plan an attempt to colonize Gaza and strengthen US-Israeli imperialism. People’s Forum co-director Manolo De Los Santos decried rising tensions between the US and Venezuela, charging that Trump was backed by an “army of criminals” in Washington.

“If you stand with Gaza, you have to stand with Venezuela,” Los Santos said, according to a video published by his organization.

In Dallas, activists disrupted Black Friday shopping at the North Park Mall, accusing the brand stores housed there of being complicit in “the genocide and humanitarian crisis unfolding in Sudan and Gaza.”

“Hands off Gaza! No to US occupation,” read signs supplied by the Party for Socialism and Liberation at a protest in Los Angeles.

Over 40 organizations rallied at the Los Angeles city hall, according to PYM LAOCIE (Los Angeles, Orange County, and Inland Empire). At the Harry Bridges Plaza in San Francisco, activists criticized the November 18 United Nations Security Council vote in support of the Trump plan and a mandate to establish the International Stabilization Force (ISF).

Over 20 organizations rallied in Washington at a Lockheed Martin facility, demanding that the Virginian Retirement System divest from the company due to the jet fighters used during the Israel-Hamas War.


IDF undercover commandos capture 'major' terrorist arms dealer near Tulkarm
Soldiers from the IDF's Duvdevan commando unit arrested a terrorist who served as a "major" arms dealer near Tulkarm, the military announced on Sunday.

Duvdevan, the unit responsible for undercover counterterrorism operations in the West Bank, conducted the arrest following intelligence from Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency).

The terrorist was identified as Ahmed Nasrallah.

Nasrallah, who was detained in Irtah, was transferred to Shin Bet for further questioning.

IDF soldiers and Israel Police Counterterrorism Unit (YAMAM) officers arrested five terrorists planning a terror attack in the Barta'a area near Jenin, the military, Shin Bet, and Israel Police said in a Sunday joint statement.

The five were part of a larger terror cell operating in the area that was apprehended by Israeli security forces.


‘Deadly’: Palestinian Authority continues to pay terrorists and their families
Spiked Chief Political Writer Brendan O'Neill says the Palestinian Authority continues to pay money to terrorists and their families, despite promises to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

“We should react very strongly indeed,” Mr O’Neill told Sky News host Danica De Giorgio.

“It incentivises violence against Israelis, which is fundamentally violence against Jews.”


Australia’s mainstream media puts out ‘misinformation’ about Israel
ILTV News Executive Editor Maayan Hoffman claims “Australia has been a challenge for Israel” in terms of the nation’s mainstream media bias against Israel.

Ms Hoffman claims Australia’s taxpayer media faces “disinformation and misinformation”.

She also claims reporters who come to Israel have a “headline already in mind, and they just try to find the facts to fill it in rather than actually reporting what’s actually happening on the ground”.




Protesters picket Israeli-owned donut shop in London
A Black Friday protest march in London against Israel broke out into an unlicensed rally outside an Israeli-owned bakery, prompting a leader of British Jews to warn of Fascist-like street thuggery.

The hundreds of protesters, who had marched down a main shopping street in London to promote a boycott of Israel during a busy shopping day, picketed the Donutelier shop, which is owned by the Roladin chain of bakeries in Israel and was opened last year.

“These protests constitute yet another step in accentuating the comparison between the Jew-hating thugs in the so-called ‘pro-Palestinian’ marches and the actions of the Nazis in pre-war Germany and Austria,” Gary Mond, the chairman of the National Jewish Assembly, told JNS. “Next they will return during working days and link hands to stop customers or suppliers from entering Jewish-owned stores.”

Whereas anti-Israel protests take place routinely in London, few public actions involving many participants have targeted Israeli-linked businesses.

Mond called Friday’s rally outside the donut store “yet another wake-up call to governments to act against hate before it is too late.” By, he added, “Sadly, I fear that they won’t.”


UKLFI: Inflammatory Casting Call Published on Spotlight
Spotlight, the professional casting platform for actors, has published an inflammatory casting call, which includes misleading political statements about Israel. UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) has called on Spotlight to ensure that its platform is kept free of inappropriate content, in accordance with its terms.

The casting advertisement by Lane Casting for the short film Broadcast breached industry standards and Spotlight’s own terms of use, by including gratuitous and misleading political statements about Israel and Gaza.

The advertisement claimed that “the ongoing genocide in Gaza has seen the Israeli government be caught out with their frequent statements of disinformation”. UKLFI has made clear in letters to Lane Casting and Spotlight, that these assertions were politically partisan, and wholly irrelevant to the film being cast. The film Broadcast concerns themes of disinformation and state power but has no connection to the Israel–Hamas conflict.

In a letter to Hannah Ashby Ward, Casting Director at Lane Casting, UKLFI expressed concern that the advertisement used “offensive, discriminatory and politically inflammatory language” in a way that “promulgate[s] a partisan political view” in the context of a deeply sensitive real-world conflict.

UKLFI highlighted that:
The advertisement refers to an “ongoing genocide” in Gaza as if it is an undisputed fact.
The advert’s claims of “frequent statements of disinformation” by Israel appear to rely uncritically on Hamas-sourced casualty figures and overlook evidence that terrorists have posed as journalists and aid workers.
The inclusion of these statements breaches industry requirements that casting calls be professional, legal, ethical and inclusive, as set out in the Equity Casting Manifesto and required by Spotlight.


Beaten, starved, pressured to convert to Islam: Ex-hostage Segev Kalfon on Hamas abuse
Hamas battalion commander Bayan Abu Nar pressured former Gaza hostage Segev Kalfon to convert to Islam during the 738 days the terror group kept the Dimona baker hostage, the former captive told the New York Times in a Saturday interview.

From the moment he was taken from the Nova Music Festival, terrorists assaulted him, he recounted, while explaining how he eventually became numb to their blows. While blindfolded and bound, he told the NYT he recited the Shema.

Beatings, abuse, and danger in Hamas captivity
Speaking from a rehabilitation center in Ramat Gan, Kalfon described how his conditions worsened after National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir bragged about furthering restrictions on Palestinian prisoners. He is one among many hostages to tell the NYT they suffered worse treatment, in some cases beatings, for the Israeli official’s public statements.

Adding to the psychological torture, the terrorists would often play around with live grenades to scare them, Kalfon said.

In one instance, the terrorists forced Kalfon to play what they described as the “execution game” with hostages he was kept with. When the hostages refused to nominate three of them to be killed, the terrorist drew lots to decide which would die.

The execution never went ahead, as Abu Nar claimed that Islam prevented the killing of prisoners. He told Kalfon and the others that they had been saved by Islam, and began pressuring the hostages to convert - forcing them to listen to recitations of the Quran on the radio.

Even in the hours before his release, terrorists employed psychological torture. Kalfon recounted how they told him he alone would be sent back to the tunnels and would not return to Israel.


Italian tenor Bocelli welcomes Israeli former hostage to Miami home
International tenor Andrea Bocelli hosted former Hamas hostage Segev Kalfon at his Miami home last week, offering a private visit that included music and encouragement, according to VIN News and social media reports.

Bocelli, who is not Jewish, and his wife, Veronica, spent time with the Israeli survivor in what sources described as a warm, personal meeting. The tenor sang for Kalfon and offered words of support.

The gesture continues Bocelli’s outreach to freed hostages. He previously contacted Yaffa Adar, 85, after learning she survived captivity by recalling his music. Bocelli sent her a personal letter and offered to host her at any of his concerts at his expense.




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