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Thursday, December 11, 2025

12/11 Links Pt1: Hamas’s Stenographers Own Their Share of the Carnage; Trump Admin Weighs Terror Sanctions for UNRWA; Hostages shown celebrating Chanukah underground before execution by Hamas

From Ian:

Seth Mandel: Hamas’s Stenographers Own Their Share of the Carnage
It’s not enough to be horrified by Hamas. Any healthy society must also be horrified by anyone who shared Hamas propaganda throughout the war.

The legions of pro-Hamas lemmings marching throughout American and European cities have tricked us into lowering the civilizational bar. We tend to be sated with scraps—just denouncing Hamas has become some kind of achievement. But the scale of Hamas’s depravity should leave its useful idiots tortured by their own conscience as well.

Because they ran interference for stuff like this:

“The father of Noa Marciano has spoken publicly for the first time, sharing harrowing details of his daughter’s final moments in Gaza.

“Speaking to a small crowd, her father Avi claimed that Noa was murdered by a doctor in Shifa hospital, who injected air into her veins – and that the family found out about her death after they were sent a video of her murder via the social media network Telegram.

“‘Noa is begging for her life,’ he said of the video, adding that, by the end of the clip, ‘she’s sweating but there’s no life to her body.’”

Noa Marciano was taken alive from Nahal Oz on October 7, along with six other female soldiers. Hamas blamed her death on an Israeli airstrike, and media were happy to repeat the claim. Hamas filmed Marciano in a hostage video pleading with Israel to stop the airstrikes, then filmed Marciano’s dead body.

What had actually happened, however, was that Hamas brought Marciano to Shifa Hospital alive and then executed her there in cold blood. Shifa was one of the hospitals that Israel said were being used by Hamas, sometimes to hold hostages, while the media pooh-poohed the claims. This is why “according to the Gaza Health Ministry” is insufficient, even if it’s followed by “… which is controlled by Hamas.” Once you know a claim or statement comes from Hamas, you cannot play the he-said-she-said game, as if dueling Israeli and Hamas claims have equal weight. Reciting Hamas talking points isn’t “reporting.”

That is especially true on subjects such as how a hostage died in Hamas captivity. The lie that IDF strikes killed the Bibas children persisted until the truth came to light: Palestinian terrorists brutally murdered the children with their own hands, then mutilated their bodies to hide the evidence.
‘Everything Is On the Table’: Trump Admin Weighs Terror Sanctions for UNRWA
The Trump administration says that "everything is on the table"—including terrorism-related sanctions—as it moves closer to taking fresh punitive measures against the Hamas-linked United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), according to three senior officials, who told the Washington Free Beacon that the aid group’s "time playing a role in Gaza is over."

"The Trump Administration is currently exploring all options to hold [UNRWA] accountable," a senior State Department official familiar with the matter said. "UNRWA is a corrupt organization with a proven track record of aiding and abetting terrorists."

Reuters reported earlier on Thursday that "terrorism-related sanctions" are among the list of options. The official said "no final decisions have yet been made," but did confirm that "everything is on the table."

The high-level discussions come as federal investigators compile mounting evidence of the U.N.’s complicity in Hamas’s aid diversion schemes. This includes instances in which 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," as the Free Beacon reported earlier this year. Internal Hamas documents reviewed by the Free Beacon last week show the extent to which the terror group infiltrated U.N.-affiliated NGOs in Gaza, using them as intelligence resources and effectively controlling the network of non-profits operating in the territory.

A second U.S. official briefed on the UNRWA discussions said that, whatever route the administration takes, the aid organization will not play a role in Gaza’s future humanitarian landscape.

"UNRWA was found to have explicitly supported Hamas and other terrorist groups," the second senior official said, noting that dozens of UNRWA staffers were found to have directly participated in Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror spree. "Their time playing a role in Gaza is over."

Israeli intelligence, for its part, determined in April that "among the 12,521 UNRWA employees in the Gaza Strip, at least 1,462 (12%) are members of Hamas or other designated terrorist organizations."

The Trump administration has already taken action against UNRWA in the months since President Donald Trump returned to office. In April, the administration stripped UNRWA of its immunity in U.S. courts, allowing a flood of lawsuits from the families of those killed by Hamas. The State Department informed Congress in July that it had "determined UNRWA is irredeemably compromised" and must be dismantled, according to a notice first reported by the Free Beacon.
NYPost Editorial: Europeans finally waking up to Hamas-enabling UNRWA scam
It looks like the days are numbered for the terrorist-infested UN Relief and Works Agency, as UNRWA loses support from major European nations that have long backed it.

Cheers for Germany, Italy, Czechia and Hungary, joined by Bulgaria and Latvia last Friday in withholding support for the renewal of UNRWA’s charter. Austria, Romania and Lithuania joined in on a separate resolution.

Close observers have always known that UNRWA — the special UN agency charged with caring for Palestinian refugees, and only Palestinian refugees — works hand-in-glove with Hamas in Gaza.

But then it turned out that UNRWA directly employed Hamas fighters who joined in the Oct. 7, 2022, terror assault on Israel; the course of the war exposed many more, deep Hamas-UNRWA ties.

Israel has since banned UNRWA from working in its territory, and Washington cut off aid to the agency early this year, following a temporary suspension under President Joe Biden.

Israel, citing non-payment of taxes, even took over a former UNRWA center in East Jerusalem, raising the national standard in place of the flag of the United Nations.

Without Israel’s cooperation, UNRWA’s capacity to work in Gaza is next to zero, but that didn’t stop more than 150 nations voting Friday to keep the agency rattling along.

Remember: Every other refugee population in the world is helped by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, which assists people displaced by war or persecution in resettlement and integration into their new homes; former refugees become residents and eventually citizens, losing their refugee status.

Only Palestinians, under UNRWA’s “care,” retain refugee status forever, even unto the third, fourth and fifth generations — and so perpetuating the eternal victimhood of the Palestinian people by shackling them to aid and legalizing their segregation inside neighboring nations long decades after their forebears arrived.
Deradicalizing Gaza Is Measured in Decades, Not Months
Hamas in Gaza was not merely a militant faction but a ruling system embedded in society. For nearly two decades, Hamas shaped culture, education, and everyday life. Hamas's ideological appeal remains durable because hostility toward Israel in Gaza is not dependent on Hamas alone; rather, Hamas has cultivated a social base that can keep it alive even without formal rule.

Hamas may be too weakened to govern Gaza effectively in the short run, but still strong enough - through ideology, loyalty networks, and residual armed capability - to prevent stable alternatives from taking root. The organization's disarmament is framed internally as betrayal of a divine cause. Voluntary demobilization is close to impossible. Hamas has every incentive to reorganize under another name or structure rather than dissolve.

Moreover, Gaza's wider armed ecosystem still remains, with dozens of jihadist factions and clan-based militias, many of which are hostile to Israel and in some cases more extreme than Hamas.

Hamas is sustained by a public it helped shape. Over decades, Hamas embedded religious and political indoctrination into schools, mosques, charities, youth institutions, and cultural life, producing a population in which jihadist framing became routine and institutionalized. For roughly 1.4 million Palestinians across Gaza and Judea and Samaria, born and raised under Hamas's ideological influence, Hamas is part of the worldview they inherited.

Accordingly, deradicalizing Gaza is measured in decades, not months. Hamas is embedded in a radicalized society. Deradicalization without social transformation is impossible. Gaza's future turns on whether a non-Hamas authority can emerge that is strong enough to govern, legitimate enough to win public compliance, and capable enough to dismantle the wider militia culture that Hamas helped entrench.


An Exhibit that Honors the Oct. 7 Hostages Still Draws Crowds in U.S. even After Their Release
I traveled to Chicago recently to tour the Nova Music Festival Exhibition. 1,200 visitors had purchased tickets. The traveling exhibition, which uses actual objects from the Nova festival grounds to reconstruct the scene of the attacks, has been drawing massive crowds since it opened in Tel Aviv in December 2023. After stops in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston, Washington, D.C., Berlin and Toronto, more than 500,000 people had already passed through its doors.

It took two hours of walking through the installation to understand what exactly had motivated me to visit this re-creation of the site where so many people had met their brutal ends. The rave party was shattered when the "Angel of Death" swooped in, firing a barrage of missiles. From these very first words, the story turns away from naming Hamas as the perpetrator. Its focus, instead, lies solely on the experiences of those who were abused, terrorized, kidnapped, and killed.

As visitors enter the festival grounds of Oct. 7, screens are scattered through the wreckage. One woman hiding between bushes, speaks into her own camera, "I'm filming so that later there will be a video of all this." Another captured himself huddled with others in a trash bin.

More footage comes from the Go Pro cameras of the terrorists. One shows terrified people running, trying to escape. Some are shot and collapse to the ground. Additional screens feature survivor testimonies. One tells how her husband took a fatal bullet so she could flee, another lived by keeping cover beneath dead bodies. At the Nova festival alone over 400 were killed and 43 were kidnapped.

In the final room, people take seats, facing a Nova survivor who is regularly present at the front of the room. Articulate and composed, she begins with photos of her best friend whom she lost in the attack, and ends with a story of her own survival, and a message of not taking life for granted.
Video shows hostages lighting candles for Chanukah in Gaza tunnel months before murders
The Israel Defense Forces recently recovered video footage showing six hostages, who were later murdered in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, lighting candles for Chanukah during the winter of 2023, Ynet reported on Thursday.

The video, found by IDF troops during military operations in Gaza, shows Alex Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin and Ori Danino marking the Jewish festival of light some eight months before their execution by Palestinian terrorists.

Chanukah 5784 was marked from Dec. 7 through Dec. 15, 2023.

The festival, which this year starts on Dec. 14 and lasts through Dec. 22, commemorates the Maccabees, who led a revolt against the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire that ended in victory and the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem around 2,200 years ago.

The footage in the Gaza Strip shows the six men and women reciting the candle-lighting blessing in Hebrew and singing the traditional holiday song “Ma’oz Tzur” (“Rock of Ages”).

Yerushalmi can be heard saying, “Make a wish, friends,” while another hostage urges fellow captives: “We need to ask for good things. It’s always good to ask for good things, to ask for miracles.”

One of the hostages remarks that the shamash (a “helper,” referring to a candle used to light the other candles) is “problematic” after its flame dims. Another hostage says it happened because of a lack of oxygen.

The video footage released by the IDF also features a speaker with an Arabic accent—apparently, a Palestinian guard—talking to the hostages.

‘Light into a world of darkness’

“We will never forgive, and we will never forget how our hostages were treated by Hamas in Gaza,” Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon stated, sharing a clip from the video on X on Thursday.

“Despite the horrific torture and humiliation, our brave and courageous hostages never lost hope, and even continued to light Chanukah candles to bring light into a world of darkness,” he added.

The footage was seized about three months ago during an IDF raid on the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, where Hamas terrorist leader Mohammed Sinwar had also been staying before he was eliminated in mid-May.

The material was shared with the bereaved families some six weeks ago after processing and production by the Military Intelligence Directorate.


Trump reportedly plans to tap US general to head International Stabilization Force
US President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly planning to appoint an American two-star general to command the International Stabilization Force (ISF) in Gaza.

The report in the Axios news site on Thursday, citing two US officials and two Israeli officials, did not name the general in question.

According to the report, US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to Israel this week that the Trump administration is going to lead the ISF and appoint a two-star general as its commander.

An Israeli official quoted by the news site said that “Waltz even said he knows the general personally and stressed he is a very serious guy.”

The appointment would mean that the US will officially command the nascent security force, but White House officials stressed to the site that there will not be any US boots on the ground in Gaza.

The White House and the Pentagon did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment.

A United Nations Security Council resolution adopted on November 17 authorized a Board of Peace and countries working with it to establish a temporary International Stabilization Force in Gaza. Under the plan, IDF forces — who currently control 53 percent of Gaza — will gradually withdraw as ISF troops deploy in the Strip.

Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he will only announce the members of the Board of Peace overseeing the postwar management of Gaza early next year.


Qatar, Turkey, and a deal undone: How Doha, Ankara are taking over Trump's Gaza plan
The Gaza plan championed by the Trump administration is on the verge of being hijacked – not by Israel, but by the very states that have spent years arming, financing, and glorifying Hamas. At the Doha Forum, Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey dispensed with diplomatic subtleties and openly demanded changes that would render the entire plan meaningless. Their proposed “revisions” would force an Israeli withdrawal before Hamas disarms, insert an international force that refuses to confront Hamas, and hard-wire Hamas’s continued rule into the future of Gaza.

The astonishing part is not that Qatar and Turkey are attempting this maneuver – it is that Washington is allowing it. The US is ignoring the plainly anti-Western ideological motives of its supposed partners, and in doing so, it is sleepwalking into a strategic catastrophe.

The speeches delivered in Doha could not have been more transparent. Qatar’s prime minister announced that mediators must “force the next phase” of the plan and insisted a ceasefire “cannot be completed unless there is a full withdrawal of the Israeli forces.” Egypt’s foreign minister echoed the line, accusing Israel of breaking the ceasefire and demanding that an International Stabilization Force deploy immediately – not to restrain Hamas, but to restrain Israel. Both stressed that the ISF should deploy on the Israeli side of the “yellow line.”

Meanwhile, Turkey declared that the transition to a Gaza governance system must precede Hamas disarmament. Hamas, never one to miss the joke, reiterated that it will only give up its weapons to a new Palestinian government. In other words, they would give their weapons to themselves, and pretend they aren’t Hamas anymore.

Washington's strategic failure
What these leaders are proposing is not a small modification. It is a total inversion of the 20-point plan Israel actually signed. The deal’s sequencing is explicit: Hamas is removed and disarmed first; stability is established second. Once these steps have been carried out, the ISF enters the Strip and Israel gradually withdraws its forces “based on standards, milestones, and timeframes linked to demilitarization.” Doha now wants the opposite: withdrawal first, international force second, and Hamas disarmament… never.

Why would the United States indulge this farce? Why pretend that these governments are acting in good faith?

This is where Washington’s strategic failure becomes glaring. For years, American policymakers have clung to the fantasy that Qatar and Turkey are “moderating influences,” countries that can rein in extremist groups. This is willful blindness. Qatar and Turkey do not moderate extremists – they sponsor them. They do not want a stable, demilitarized Gaza – they want a Gaza in which the Muslim Brotherhood retains its foothold.
U.S. Envoy Pushes for Turkey's Inclusion in Gaza Security Mission
Israel has publicly opposed Turkish participation in the proposed multinational force for post-war Gaza, citing Ankara's close ties with Hamas. But at the Jerusalem Post conference in Washington on Wednesday, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Trump's envoy to Syria Tom Barrack suggested the U.S. still sees a role for Turkey's military on the ground. Turkey's large, experienced ground force, along with its dialogue with multiple actors, "could help cool the temperature." He insisted Ankara harbors no aggressive intent toward Israel.

Barrack also described Syria as fundamentally disinterested in aggression toward Israel, consumed instead by threats from ISIS, the remnants of foreign fighters, and Iranian proxies. He revealed that with help from Turkish intelligence, the U.S. and Syria have jointly taken out nine Hizbullah cells and several ISIS cells in recent weeks. "Every day, Syria is taking out ISIS and IRGC assets," he said.

He believes that a return to a variation of the 1974 disengagement structure between Syria and Israel, updated with modern mechanisms, is entirely feasible. Israel, he noted, is seeking a withdrawal model similar to agreements with Egypt: zones of limited weaponry, airspace arrangements, and verifiable layers of demilitarization. "After October 7, Israel doesn't trust anyone," Barrack said. "That's why we've offered to serve as a peacekeeping force. Verification replaces trust."
Israel Warns Hizbullah Is Rebuilding
The U.S. has asked Israel to give Lebanon more time to complete the demilitarization of southern Lebanon, meaning the area south of the Litani River. U.S. officials told Lebanon that if it does not act now, Washington will not be able to stop Israel from acting on its own. Israel's message to the Americans, and through them to Lebanon, is that it will not wait indefinitely.

Israeli assessments hold that the Lebanese government wants to disarm Hizbullah but lacks the ability to do so. Hizbullah still retains significant power in Lebanon, especially in the south, and is now working to restore its capabilities. Israeli officials describe a renewed flow of Iranian money to the terrorist group, primarily through Turkey.

A security arrangement with Syrian President al-Sharaa is deadlocked over Israel's demand that southern Syria be demilitarized. Israel is seeking guarantees to preserve a humanitarian corridor for Druze communities in Sweida province, while Syria opposes any step it views as infringing on its sovereignty.

Officials are looking for a mechanism that would ensure the free flow of humanitarian aid to the Druze. Israel will not withdraw from areas it has entered until it is confident that demilitarization is real and humanitarian access to the Druze is guaranteed.
A Year into al-Sharaa's Regime in Syria: Is the West Celebrating a Mirage?
Dec. 8 marks the first anniversary of the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the arrival to power of Ahmed al-Sharaa - an event celebrated in many Western capitals as the beginning of a new era. I hope this aspiration comes true. After 15 years of war, economic collapse and social fragmentation, who would not wish to see the emergence of a pragmatic leader eager to rebuild his country? But one year later, the results are not there.

Certainly, al-Sharaa masters the codes of a head of state. He speaks of economy, administration, foreign investment; he presents himself as open to regional dialogue, including, verbally, with Israel.

But beneath this varnish lies the fact that the new Syrian power was not born of any democratic process, but of an internal compromise between Islamist factions supported by Turkey and Qatar. In other words, Syria has not broken with the ideological matrix that fueled the worst excesses of the past decade; it has merely reconfigured it into a form of Islamism with more moderate appearances.

The notion of a "moderate" Islamism is a fiction. It failed in Egypt, produced a terror-based dictatorship in Gaza, paralyzed Tunisia, and allowed militias to flourish in Syria and Iraq. Can one reasonably believe that a figure emerging from a jihadist network, even equipped with a skillful communication strategy, could transform himself into a guarantor of regional stability? And would he, in the current configuration, have the means to impose his will upon the militias that control Syria's security apparatus?

The reality on the ground is that one year after Assad's fall there is coercion of minorities, increasing pressure on the Druze, religious courts, informal taxation, collusion with Turkish and Qatari networks, active presence of Islamist militias stemming from al-Qaeda, and repeated threats against Israel. The regime speaks the language of compromise but governs according to the codes that brought it to power. And the more the West multiplies gestures of recognition, the more this system feels free to act without constraint.

International aid must be tied to measurable transformation: progressive disarmament of factions, guarantees for minorities, credible engagement in a security process with Israel, a clear break with jihadist networks, financial transparency, and the establishment of a genuinely inclusive institutional model. Without clear requirements, the West will not consolidate a transition: it will nourish a monster.
Murder, rape, and extermination: Hamas guilty of crimes against humanity, Amnesty charges
After two years, Amnesty International has concluded for the first time that Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder and torture, on and after October 7, 2023.

The global human rights movement’s unequivocal condemnation of Hamas’s crimes against humanity is striking, considering its historical reticence to condemn Palestinian actors outright.

Its 173-page report applies the ICC’s Article 7 criteria and concludes that Hamas leadership intended to attack civilians.

Based on video footage, testimonies, and other evidence, Amnesty International found that, while Israeli forces killed some civilians on October 7, the vast majority of those who died were killed by armed Palestinians.

Amnesty also said it considered all those taken to Gaza to be people “unlawfully detained as hostages,” and that all of these individuals “were subjected to psychological abuse.”

However, while it admitted there is documented evidence of sexual abuse, “it could not reach conclusions on the scope or scale of the sexual violence.”


CMCC Achieves Gaza Support Milestone, Welcomes More Partners
This week, the main coordination hub for Gaza assistance achieved the milestone of facilitating movement for more than 30,000 trucks worth of humanitarian aid and commercial goods into Gaza.

Established Oct. 17, the U.S.-led Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) achieved this milestone following five consecutive weeks of at least 4,200 truckloads of aid and goods entering Gaza. Additionally, the international staff expanded to include representatives from approximately 60 partner nations and organizations.

The CMCC is designed to support stabilization efforts in Gaza by coordinating the flow of humanitarian, logistical, and security assistance into the densely populated 25-mile-long area.

“The CMCC’s integrated approach has proven essential in addressing complex challenges,” said U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Brad Hinson, who leads CMCC’s humanitarian assistance working group. “This central platform, where stakeholders can align priorities and resolve challenges in real time, enables us to increase the efficiency of humanitarian delivery and address urgent needs on the ground.”

Coordinated aid deliveries have included life-saving assistance such as food, shelter supplies, winter clothing, sanitation materials, and medical equipment. Humanitarian partners have also provided equipment for local bakeries to increase operations in Gaza.

Nearly 20 internationally supported bakeries are now able to produce more than 160,000 loaves of bread daily. Additionally, hot meal kitchens currently provide an estimated 1.6 million meals daily – a 140% increase since September.

“While there is more work ahead, the value of coordinated action is quite clear,” said Hinson.


UN SCRAMBLING - Hamas Documents Uncover Shocking Ties To United Nations Employees!
Daniel Seaman tears through the week’s most explosive controversies, from the backlash over Israel’s new Mossad chief to the political firestorm surrounding left‑wing protest groups, battlefield propaganda and foreign efforts to delegitimize Jewish sovereignty. Seaman exposes how global activists, Western media, NGOs and even Hollywood celebrities are fueling narratives that empower Hamas, undermine Israel’s right to self‑defense and distort the truth about the war. Add in President Trump’s looming Mar‑a‑Lago meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu, revelations about NGO infiltration, and a White House “Wall of Shame” targeting dishonest journalism and this episode becomes a blistering takedown of the misinformation machine Israel is facing on every front.


Majority of young American adults 'active in Hamas resistance,' Khaled Mashaal claims
A slight majority, 51%, of Americans between the ages of 18-21 are not only involved in the Palestinian cause, but are active in Hamas "resistance," leader of the terror group Khaled Mashaal said in an interview with Al Jazeera on Wednesday.

"Can you imagine that the Palestinian case entered into the minds of young Americans and Europeans? This is a new division of resistance. In the street, the youth, university campuses, political parties, and countries throughout Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia - there has been a great gain for the Palestinian cause," Mashaal claimed.

Israel's image has also been damaged during this period among that demographic, Mashaal stated. "What happened during the two years for the image of the Zionist entity before the world - this Israel which used to glorify how they are a democratic state and a pioneer for Western civilization in the Middle East reared its ugly head."

"You see it in the international area. [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu has been issued an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court. Israel has become a target. It is a killer who committed the crime of a real Holocaust - the massacres," the terror leader accused.

Mashaal reaffirmed his rejection of disarming Hamas's weapons, emphasizing that disarmament is "rejected in the culture of the Palestinian people," because their weapons "represent the spirit of resistance and a means of protecting the people under occupation."


Ed Husain: Will Muslims Always Be At War With The West?
In this episode of The Brink, we’re joined by Ed Husain, author of The Islamist and Among the Mosques, to explore the roots of Islamist extremism, the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, and what has gone wrong inside parts of Britain’s Muslim community.

Ed traces the movement’s origins from Hassan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb through to modern-day Hamas, explaining how fascist ideas, humiliation after empire, and Western missteps helped shape today’s jihadist ideology. He reflects on his own journey out of radical politics, the role of mysticism and Sufi Islam in countering extremism, and why banning alone can’t solve the problem.

The conversation widens to Britain today, from Islamist influence in mosques and the dangers of an official “Islamophobia” definition, to the country’s own moral crisis, where secularism and self-doubt have left a vacuum easily filled by extremism. Together, we ask whether the West can rediscover confidence in its own values while helping a new generation of Muslims find peace within faith, not war against it.


‘Aggressive chants for death’: Australia’s social cohesion is fraying
Sky News host Chris Kenny analyses the issues surrounding Australia’s social cohesion and how it is deteriorating within the country.

“Celebrating the slaughter of innocent Israelis one minute, marching for humanity the next,” Mr Kenny said.

“We heard aggressive chants for death directed at Israel.”




Primal Scream under fire for showing allegedly antisemitic images on stage at a London gig
Primal Scream have come under fire for showing allegedly antisemitic images on stage at a London gig.

The rock band, whose frontman Bobby Gillespie has long been an outspoken critic of Israel, showed images of a Jewish Star of David merged with a Swastika - the emblem of the Nazis, who killed 6million Jewish people during the holocaust.

The Jewish charity Community Security Trust said it had reported the band to police for antisemitism while The Roundhouse music venue told the Daily Mail it would be launching an investigation.

The images came on screen during the already controversial song ‘Swastika Eyes’ which was written in 1999 about American foreign policy.

As the band played the song, footage of a devastated Gaza was shown on screen. Then images of a Star of David – made up of two triangles and representing the Jewish people for centuries – were shown, interspersed with a Swastika.

Photos of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, other Israeli politicians, Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer then appeared with the Star of David/ Swastika image twirling in their eyes. The segment ended with the words, ‘Our Government is complicit in genocide’.

One 47-year-old Jewish fan of the band, who asked not to be named, said he had to leave the concert temporarily as the images so chilled him.

He told the Daily Mail: ‘I knew it would be a political concert and that there would likely to be something on Gaza because Bobby Gillespie is sympathetic towards the Palestinians, so I was already a bit nervous.


European Jewish Association initiates legal action against Bob Vylan following his performance at Brussels concert hall
The artist led the crowd in chants of “Death to the IDF” and “Everybody hates the police,” while displaying a Samidoun-branded t-shirt — an organisation officially classified as terror-linked in several countries and undergoing formal designation procedures as a terrorist organisation in several additional countries where its activities have already been banned.

“A moral failure and a security threat to Jewish communities and to Belgian society as a whole,” says the EJA

The European Jewish Association (EJA) has initiated a legal proceedings following the 2 December performance of Bob Vylan at Ancienne Belgique, a concert hall in Brussels, during which the artist led the crowd in chants of “Death to the IDF” and “Everybody hates the police,” while displaying a Samidoun-branded t-shirt — an organisation officially classified as terror-linked in several countries and undergoing formal designation procedures as a terrorist organisation in several additional countries where its activities have already been banned.

The investigating judge of the Brussels Court of First Instance on Thursday received the complaint filed by Belgian attorney Christophe Boeraeve and EJA legal counsel Adv. Shlomo Dahan, and authorised the opening of an investigation into Vylan’s performance for the following offences:
Incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence;
Dissemination of ideas based on racial hatred; assistance to a group promoting discrimination;
Public provocation to commit a terrorist offence;
Glorification of terrorism;
Participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation;
Provocation to commit offences against public authorities.

The EJA recalls that in Israel, the law requires every citizen to serve in the army. ”Therefore calls for the death of IDF soldiers are, by definition, understood as directed at every Israeli and every Jew,” it said.

”The fact that thousands of Belgian citizens were incited and roused to call for the death of the overwhelming majority of Israelis, while hurling insults at the Belgian police, reflects a profound moral failure and a security threat that Belgian authorities must treat with utmost seriousness,” the EJA said.

Boeraeve and Dahan explained: “Criticise Israeli policy as you wish. But leading thousands to call for the death of the vast majority of Israelis? That is not speech, that is pure incitement. Some might call it rock and roll, provocative performance art. But there is a line. Belgian law draws it clearly. When you lead a crowd to call for the death of people defined by their nationality, that line is crossed.”




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