Seth Mandel: The Danger Isn’t That the Cease-fire Will Collapse, But That It Will Become Permanent
The collective armies of Gaza understand that they can stretch out this phase of the process by stalling on the return of the final hostage’s body. That is why Israel is considering moving on to the second phase anyway—not because its leaders don’t care about the remains of Ran Gvili but because waiting for Hamas to trigger the second stage will itself incentivize Hamas to hold on to the body in perpetuity.JPost Editorial: The West refuses to call out Hamas's blatant manipulation of public opinion
Refusing to advance to the second stage without the last hostage remains would be a significant strategic error on Israel’s part. For now, Hamas is waiting to see if it can bait Israel into exactly this error.
The pressure should be on Hamas of course, but also on the Arab states that have signed on to back the fulfillment of this deal. And on Europe, too, for that matter. Any time Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron move from pretending to care about Palestinians to actually caring about Palestinians, it will be welcome.
No one, except perhaps Hamas, wants this state of affairs to remain permanent.
At least that’s what they say. Let’s remember that after the Six-Day War, Israel was prepared to trade back the territories but the Arab states said, famously: no peace with Israel, no recognition of it, no negotiations with it.
Why were they so adamant? Because although they had lost the war against Israel, the Arab states received a consolation prize: The Palestinians were someone else’s problem now. Egypt was glad to be rid of Gaza and Jordan gave up its claims on the West Bank in the 1980s. The Palestinian Arabs could once again be used by the Arab world to weaken Israel with a permanent insurgency, unless by some miracle the Palestinians pulled themselves together enough for statehood.
The Arab states—and the wider Muslim world—are not exactly champing at the bit to contribute to the Gaza stabilization force that would be needed if Hamas were to be disarmed and replaced. Do they want Palestinian life rebuilt and the Palestinians given a chance to be free of Hamas’s totalitarian terror? Because from a certain angle, it’s starting to look as if maybe those Arab states would rather Gaza be split into an indefinite Israeli military occupation and a Hamas-controlled enclave. Perhaps the Arab world is not yet ready to contemplate the end of its conflict with Israel.
The Palestinian refugee crisis? Israel’s fault – never mind that it was Arab leaders who rejected partition and then launched a war to destroy the Jewish state.UNRWA is beyond repair, so it's time to move on
Hunger in Gaza? Not because Hamas brutally attacked Israel and triggered a war. Not because it hides infant formula to inflame a crisis. Instead, blame defaults to Israel, the cruel party in a narrative shaped long before this war began.
For centuries, people were conditioned to believe in Jewish cruelty – the grotesque libels of killing children and using their blood for matzot. Old habits die hard. The vocabulary changes, but the instinct remains: Accuse the Jews first, believe the worst about them, and then investigate later, if at all.
Once in a long while, however, someone from within Arab society, such as Alkhatib, who has lost 31 family members in Gaza since the October 7 massacre, dares to speak up.
He exposed a truth many in the West find inconvenient: Hamas manipulates public opinion while showing utter indifference to the suffering of its own people. If that suffering helps advance its ultimate goal of Israel’s disappearance – and if Western “useful idiots” assist along the way – then so be it.
One final point deserves attention. Alkhatib said the hidden baby formula was stored in warehouses belonging to the Gaza Ministry of Health, the same ministry whose casualty figures are treated as indisputable fact by much of the international media. If that ministry conceals life-saving supplies to manufacture famine, why should anyone unquestioningly trust its numbers or its claims?
The answer should be obvious. The tragedy is that, for many, it still isn’t.
Moving from axing UNRWA to a constructive post-Gaza-war framework, the “international community” must focus on rebuilding Palestinian society – free from rank corruption, destructive indoctrination, coddling of terrorism, and the overall moral rot that for too long has contaminated international politics relating to Palestinians.
First and foremost, this means elimination of refugee status for all Palestinians living in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria. “Refugee camps” must be transformed into regular neighborhoods or towns, and their residents redefined as, well, local residents – not refugees.
Second is that meaningful curriculum overhauls should be undertaken in Palestinian educational institutions from kindergarten through university, eliminating antisemitic and anti-Israel materials, and the adoption of population-wide deradicalization initiatives.
Third is that action toward total demilitarization of Palestinian areas should be taken (excepting lightly armed police forces), as envisioned and promised in the Oslo Accords 30 years ago – but never pursued seriously.
Alas, Israel has little confidence in the ability of anybody to swiftly rebuild Palestinian society or “reform” Palestinian government, unless the Palestinians themselves wish to do so.
Throwing more aid money at the Palestinians certainly won’t help, just as it has not done the trick over the past thirty years since the Oslo Accords were signed.
Despite tens of billions of dollars and euros invested in the Palestinian Authority by the “international community,” there is no democracy, no rule of law, no transparency, no sustainability, no investment in economic stability, and no peace education in the PA. Not a single refugee has been resettled. Not one hospital has been built in the West Bank: only one sewage treatment plant.
But there is plenty of nepotism and corruption, “pay-for-slay” handouts (meaning the incentivizing and rewarding of terrorism against Israel), violent propagandizing against Israel (including support for Hamas’s October 7 invasion and massacres), and diplomatic assault on Israel in every possible international forum.
As for Western “security assistance” to the PA, this has produced mixed results, at best. The authority does not effectively control key terrorist nodes in the West Bank, and its security personnel have repeatedly participated in or facilitated terror attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers. PA security personnel account for 12% of all Palestinian terrorists held by Israel.
In short, the overall return on Western investment in Palestinian maturity and independence is abysmal. Real reform of Palestinian government and society is going to be a long, arduous process and must involve penalty and penance, not just reward and recognition.
Which is why it is asinine of France, Britain, Canada, and others to resurrect illusions of imminent Palestinian statehood. Regrettably, their gambit is a recipe for devastating disappointment and protracted conflict.
Israel said to give mediators a list of terrorists who know where Ran Gvili is buried
Israel has provided mediators with a list of the names of Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives believed to have direct knowledge of the location of slain hostage police officer Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, Channel 12 reported Friday, as Jerusalem intensified efforts to secure the return of his body and warned that progress in talks hinges on the issue.Freed hostage and NVIDIA employee Avinatan Or meets CEO Jensen Huang
According to the report, Israel passed the mediators not only the names of the Islamic Jihad members, but also detailed maps tied to areas where Gvili is believed to be buried.
Israeli officials assess that the information was conveyed clearly and expect terror groups in Gaza to step up search efforts as weather conditions improve following the recent Storm Byron, the report said.
An Israeli official quoted by Channel 12 said that if the terror group genuinely chooses to cooperate, Gvili’s return could potentially be achieved “within a short time.”
Israeli officials have also made clear that there will be no advancement to the next phase of the ceasefire deal without the return of Gvili, the last remaining hostage in the Strip.
Security officials confirmed that in recent days, Israel has identified several possible leads regarding the location of Gvili’s burial site and has begun preliminary checks. The area under examination is reportedly connected to Islamic Jihad, whose operatives abducted Gvili during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel.
Released Hamas hostages Avinatan Or, an Israeli employee of chip giant NVIDIA, and his girlfriend Noa Argamani met Thursday evening with the company’s founder and CEO Jensen Huang at its US headquarters, marking Or’s first meeting with the tech executive since his release from Hamas captivity.
The meeting was organized by Amit Krig, senior vice president and head of NVIDIA’s Israel research and development center. Members of NVIDIA’s Israeli management team, currently visiting the US headquarters in Santa Clara, California, also took part in the gathering.
Or was held hostage in Gaza for 738 days after he and Argamani were abducted by Hamas terrorists from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023. Footage showing the couple being violently separated during the attack became one of the most widely circulated images of the massacre.
Argamani was freed on June 8, 2024, in an Israeli military rescue operation known as Operation Arnon. Or was released in October as part of a ceasefire deal, alongside 19 other living hostages, and reunited with his girlfriend upon his return to Israel.
Following Thursday’s meeting, Argamani published a post on X highlighting NVIDIA’s support for Or and his family throughout his captivity, describing the company as “one big family.”
She wrote that employees who had never met Or held signs with his photo daily, that company meetings routinely opened with calls for his return, and that his workspace was left untouched until he came home.
Somewhere in early 2022, Avinatan started his first job with @nvidia, a decision that would later prove to be one of the best he ever made in his life.
— Noa Argamani (@ArgamaniNoa) December 11, 2025
Throughout the entire two years that Avinatan was held captive, @nvidia was much more than just a workplace; it was one big… pic.twitter.com/6T2cC2fFU2
Freed hostage Eitan Mor recounts abduction, captivity and hunger in Gaza
Eitan Mor, who was freed about two months ago after 738 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza, spoke to the newspaper Makor Rishon about his abduction on Oct. 7, the harsh days in captivity, his conversations with Izz al-Din al-Haddad and the criticism directed at his father, Tzvika Mor, during his captivity.
Mor, 25, was abducted from the Nova music festival near Reim, where he was working as an unarmed security guard. Before he was taken, he managed to help other revelers who came under attack by terrorists, together with his friend Elyakim Libman, who was killed that day. At one point, he said, “We reached some hollow in the ground and hid there. We saw fires and heard gunfire. I told Rom Braslavski, who was also abducted, that I had seen bodies of young women I wanted to evacuate. The two of us went and started carrying Shira Ayalon. I asked two others to help, and we placed her in a small recess. Then we went to take someone else who had been severely assaulted, but we didn’t make it in time.”
Mor was abducted when he returned to the festival grounds to search for Libman, together with Braslavski. “On the way, we see people dying and collapsing, and you can’t help them. There’s nothing you can do,” he recalled. “Suddenly, three gunmen wearing vests come toward us, shouting in Arabic to stop. They were about 30 meters away. We started running, and honestly, I don’t know how I stayed alive. They shot at us, and the bullets whistled past my head.”
They spotted security ATVs and Braslavski asked if they should try to start one. “I told him we wouldn’t make it and that it was better to keep running,” Mor said. “We managed to escape them, but later we were caught by civilians.”
“Five people grabbed Rom and threw him to the ground, two grabbed me,” he said. “One left and went to Rom, the other I managed to push away. I punched him and kept running. There was a small hollow in the ground with bushes and I jumped in. Then eight civilians caught me, some of them children, maybe third-grade age. They had knives, saws, hammers. All of them beat me with whatever they had. They put a knife to me. I was sure I was going to die. Then the biggest one said to me in English, ‘Either you die now or you come with us to Gaza.’ I said, ‘Gaza.’”
Describing the drive to Gaza, Mor said he was beaten repeatedly but did not initially feel the pain. “I told myself this is the situation now, and I’m probably going to die, or they’ll cut off my hands, or I don’t know what Hamas will do to me there. I prepared myself for the worst,” he said. “When they filmed me, I made a thumbs-up sign. Right after that, they yelled at me to be quiet and pushed my hand down. I understood I was going to Gaza, who knows for how many years, who knows if I’d come back alive.”
“They dressed me like a Gazan, put a hat on me,” he said of his first moments in the enclave. “After about an hour, a gray jeep arrived, and they took me to a place near the Indonesian Hospital. I was sitting there, extremely tense. I thought I was the only hostage.” After more than an hour, Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the Gaza Brigade commander who is now considered the head of Hamas’ military wing, entered the vehicle.
“He was wearing a hat and started speaking to me in Hebrew,” Mor said. “He said, ‘Don’t worry, in two weeks you’re out of here.’ He took my details, my name, my father’s name, my ID number, my phone number and my father’s phone number.” Mor said he did not know who Haddad was at the time. “As time passed in Gaza, I understood. Over the following two years, I sat with him several more times.”
Mor believes Haddad genuinely thought he would be released quickly. “They thought the state would fold because of all the hostages,” he said.
One family, two survivors of the unimaginable: Matan Angrest, freed after more than two years in Hamas captivity in Gaza, together with his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor.
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) December 12, 2025
Their resilience stands in defiance of those who sought to destroy them.
Matan was violently kidnapped… pic.twitter.com/7WLA1gsGJN
Crowds are now participating in the Kabbalah Shabbat service at Hostages Square with one clear call: Israel is waiting for Rani - the last hostage in Gaza 🎗️
— Bring Them Home Now (@bringhomenow) December 12, 2025
Photo credit: Paulina Patimer, Uriel Even Sapir, Adar Eyal pic.twitter.com/iJlCyL9DTZ
The families of the six hostages who were murdered by Hamas terrorists in captivity in August 2024, release additional footage that was recovered by the military during operations in the Gaza Strip.
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) December 11, 2025
Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Ori Danino, 25, Alex Lobanov, 32,… https://t.co/87sdHrPUwv pic.twitter.com/pM2ifcyoU6
Newly surfaced video of hostages subsequently murdered by Hamas, shows Alex shaving Hersh & Ori’s heads in captivity - part of the group of six, including Carmel, Eden & Almog.
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) December 12, 2025
Alex says: “There’s the movie The Pianist, right? From the Holocaust .. so I’m the barber now.”
A… pic.twitter.com/H69tu3ie2d
Hamas made their victims perform for the cameras. It reminds me of the Nazis when they made a ‘model camp’ for the Red Cross. Except in Gaza the Red Cross didn’t visit them. https://t.co/q2nMQvnqMw
— Heidi Bachram 🎗️ (@HeidiBachram) December 11, 2025
Idan Amedi, one of the stars of Fauda, almost lost his life deployed in Gaza.
— dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ (@DahliaKurtz) December 12, 2025
He was so badly burned that no one recognized him.
He shared his journey of rehab since.
And now you'd no longer recognize that he was ever even slightly wounded — let alone gravely wounded.
HERO. pic.twitter.com/wIRQ2xfDMR
‘I learn to live with tragedy,’ says Israeli who lost eyesight, relatives in 2003 terror attack
In October 2003, Oran Almog lost his eyesight at age 10 in a terror attack at the Maxim restaurant in Haifa. His father, brother, grandparents and cousin were among the 21 people killed in the attack, which wounded 60, including his mother, sister and aunt.
Sami Jaradat, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad member who dispatched the bomber, was released as part of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in January.
Almog, 32, told JNS on Sunday that it was hard for him to come to terms with Jaradat being free, but he understands “the bigger picture.” Oran AlmogOran Almog, an Israeli who lost his eyesight during an October 2003 terror attack, speaking to the StandWithUs Festival of Lights gala at the Fairmont Century Plaza hotel in Los Angeles, Dec. 7, 2025. Credit: Courtesy.
His murdered family members are never coming back, but Jaradat’s freedom enabled Israeli hostages to return to Israel, he told JNS. “This is what’s most important to me, and this is the reason why I supported the deal,” he said.
“My pain doesn’t matter now,” Almog said. “Their family is what’s important.”
He told JNS that his cousin Chen Goldstein-Almog and three of her children were kidnapped and taken to Gaza. The four were released alive 51 days later as part of the first hostage deal. (Chen’s husband Nadav and daughter Yam were killed on Oct. 7.)
“I know the joy and happiness of freedom,” he said, of the liberation of his four relatives.
Blinded in a 2003 terror attack in Haifa, Israel, Oran Almog has turned unimaginable loss into a life defined by resilience, strength, and unwavering hope | StandWithUs Festival of Lights 2025@Oran_Almog pic.twitter.com/1Pki23Gxq2
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) December 12, 2025
Biden administration briefly withheld intelligence from Israel during Gaza war
United States intelligence officials temporarily suspended sharing some key information with Israel during the Biden administration over concerns about its operations during the Israel-Hamas War, according to six people familiar with the matter.
In the second half of 2024, the US cut off a live video feed from a US drone over Gaza, which the Israeli government was using in its hunt for hostages and Hamas terrorists. The suspension lasted at least a few days, according to five sources.
The US also restricted how Israel could use certain intelligence in its pursuit of high-value military targets in Gaza, said two of the sources, who declined to specify when this decision was taken.
All of the sources spoke with Reuters on the condition of anonymity to discuss US intelligence.
The decision came as worries intensified in the US intelligence community about the number of civilians killed during Israel's war against Hamas, which had embedded itself in civilian infrastructure. Officials were also concerned that Shin Bet was mistreating Palestinian prisoners, the sources said.
Officials were concerned that Israel had not provided sufficient assurances that it would abide by the law of war when using American information, according to three of the sources. Under US law, intelligence agencies must receive such assurances before sharing information with a foreign country.
What is Judea & Samaria - and what is its international legal status? My testimony Wednesday in the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. Thank you @RepBrianMast @RepMikeLawler @BradSherman pic.twitter.com/cA2rk0MLFG
— Eugene Kontorovich (@EVKontorovich) December 12, 2025
ICC officials confront curbs to travel, finances in face of sweeping US sanctions
Judges and prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are struggling to live and work under far-reaching, unpredictable financial and travel restrictions imposed by the United States earlier this year.Ex-ICC prosecutor says UK threatened to defund court over Netanyahu arrest warrant
Nine staff members, including six judges and the ICC’s chief prosecutor, have been sanctioned by US President Donald Trump for pursuing investigations into officials from the US and Israel, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The two countries aren’t among the 125 member states of the court in The Hague, Netherlands.
Typically reserved for autocrats, crime bosses and the like, the sanctions prevent the ICC officials and their families from entering the US, block their access to basic financial services and extend to the minutiae of their everyday lives.
Among the others who have been hit with the sanctions are Russian President Vladimir Putin and, before his death, Osama bin Laden.
The court’s top prosecutor, British national Karim Khan, had his bank accounts closed and his US visa revoked, while Microsoft canceled his ICC email address.
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, who was named in the latest round of sanctions in August, immediately lost access to her credit cards. Amazon’s Alexa stopped responding to her.
“Your whole world is restricted,” Prost told The Associated Press last week.
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has alleged that an official from the previous UK government threatened to defund the ICC and leave the Rome Statute if the court pressed ahead with arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant.UN General Assembly adopts resolution demanding Israel cooperate with UNRWA
Karim Khan, who has been placed on leave pending an investigation into sexual abuse allegations that he denies, made the allegation in a submission to the ICC defending his decision to issue arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant, The Guardian reported Thursday.
He did not identify the British official who issued the threats, but said they came during an April 2024 phone call.
The Guardian speculated that reports suggested the UK official was then-foreign secretary David Cameron, a former British prime minister.
According to the report, Khan said the British official argued during the call that issuing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant would be disproportionate, and warned that London could respond by withdrawing funding from the court and exiting the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC.
In his submission, Khan also alleged pressure from Washington. He said a US official cautioned him in April 2024 that there would be what The Guardian called “disastrous consequences” if the warrants were issued.
Despite calls to delay, Khan said he pushed back, telling the official there was no indication Israel was prepared to cooperate with the court or alter its conduct.
The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution demanding that Israel cooperate with UNRWA by a majority of 139 countries on Friday.
Twelve countries voted against the resolution, and 19 others abstained, according to Israeli media. The resolution also stated that Israel should cooperate with other UN organizations. One of the countries that voted against the resolution was Bolivia, which recently resumed diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.
The vote on Friday came after Reuters revealed this week that the Trump administration wanted to impose sanctions on UNRWA due to its "connections to terrorism."
"We will not forget the crimes committed by UNRWA employees on October 7," Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, wrote in a post on X/Twitter in response. "We will not forget that UNRWA employees kidnapped the late Yonatan Samerano to Gaza. UNRWA should hand over the keys and go home."
Yonatan Samerano killed, body taken on Oct. 7 by UNRWA employees
Yonatan Samerano was an Israeli who was murdered on October 7 before his remains were taken to Gaza and held hostage until they were returned to Israel in June of this year. One of the terrorists involved in Yonatan’s death and kidnapping was later confirmed to be a UNRWA employee by a Washington Post investigation.
His mother, Ayelet, said in February 2024 that "an UNRWA worker kidnapped my son's body. How can a social worker for an organization that claims to promote good in this world do something so cruel and inhumane?" She confronted the UN organization's Secretary-General Philippe Lazzarini during a speech in August of that year, shouting: "UNRWA kidnapped my son's body. Where is he, Mr Lazzarini? I want my son back!"
An N12 News report from September of last year found an official document filed in a US court in which the UN, with support from the US Department of Justice, argued that UNRWA employees who were involved in the October 7 massacre should be immune from legal action.
UNRWA: "We are a neutral organization."
— Yehuda Teitelbaum (@chalavyishmael) December 12, 2025
UNRWA student: "I will fight the Jews with my education. If we're united and educated, we will defeat the Jews."pic.twitter.com/GGntedppbY https://t.co/gyBhmwvgrF
Estimated Average Temperature in Gaza for the Last Month
— 𝔸η𝐓 (@AntSpeaks) December 12, 2025
For late November to early December in Gaza:
Average daily high around 19–23 °C (66–73 °F)
Average daily low around 13–18 °C (55–64 °F)
Overall daily mean around 16–20 °C (61–68 °F)
But according to @FranceskAlbs people… pic.twitter.com/ERMTif7nPS
I read Amnesty’s report. The findings are serious. The organization still isn’t.
— Sarah Ettedgui (@SarahEttedgui) December 11, 2025
Amnesty has finally published a detailed account of the atrocities of Oct. 7. It confirms that Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups carried out deliberate mass murder, torture, hostage taking…
Amnesty is a sophisticated political actor. Everyone should treat it exactly as such.
— Sarah Ettedgui (@SarahEttedgui) December 12, 2025
Two points keep coming up. Here are my thoughts.
Before getting into the substance, it matters to understand what Amnesty is. Its legal status is not uniform across jurisdictions, and that is… https://t.co/Ya47U4rrV8
It took Amnesty a year to accuse Israel of a fabricated genocide.
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) December 12, 2025
It took two years to acknowledge Hamas’ atrocities as crimes against humanity, including extermination… which is what genocide actually means under international law.
We promise: you don’t hate Amnesty enough. pic.twitter.com/VxmLoJhA0g
Hend al-Muftah, Qatar’s Ambassador of Hate, tried to Chair the UN Democracy Forum.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 12, 2025
We blocked her after exposing her virulently antisemitic, anti-American, anti-Western & anti-gay tweets.
Now she may become President of the UN Human Rights Council.
✍️:https://t.co/H76xeTd5V4
3/ Qatar’s UNHRC Ambassador @halmuftah: “We learned from a young age that the Jews are our enemies!” pic.twitter.com/6IUCJNu6o5
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 12, 2025
Report: Israel agrees to US demand to pay for massive Gaza rubble-clearing operation
The United States has reportedly pressed Israel to assume responsibility for clearing the vast rubble left behind by more than two years of war in the Gaza Strip, a demand that could burden Jerusalem with a massive, multi-year engineering project costing upward of $1 billion.
According to a Thursday Ynet report, Washington has conveyed to Israel that it expects the country not only to finance the removal of debris across Gaza, but also to oversee the operation itself — a prerequisite for reconstruction that has yet to begin under the proposed postwar framework.
The Gaza Strip has been devastated during the war that erupted after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage. Israel launched a military campaign against Hamas in response, leading to widespread destruction across the enclave as fighting expanded on the ground and from the air.
A senior Israeli official cited by Ynet said Israel has, at least for now, agreed to the American request. Initial efforts would focus on a limited pilot project in the IDF-controlled southern city of Rafah, clearing a single neighborhood as a test case. The cost of that first phase alone is estimated to run into the tens or even hundreds of millions of shekels.
Beyond that, the senior official acknowledged, the price tag would escalate dramatically.
With Arab states and international donors signaling reluctance to fund debris removal, Israel could ultimately be required to clear the entirety of the Strip.
On October 7, a Hamas commander sent his men into Israel with these instructions:
— Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@JewsFightBack) December 12, 2025
“Know this enemy of yours is a disease with no cure, except for decapitation and uprooting hearts and livers! Charge them!
Bring down upon them the sword of Abu Sulayman, and decree upon them the… pic.twitter.com/ywgGJBYx3i
A couple of days ago, I exposed how Hamas deliberately hoarded tons of infant formula and children’s nutritional shakes to manufacture a famine narrative in Gaza; consider this Vol. 2 of that same cruelty. This 2008 footage shows Palestinian boys, some as young as 14, crawling… pic.twitter.com/fmFIWL3Gap
— Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (@afalkhatib) December 12, 2025
Israel Advocacy Movement: I Asked Palestine Supporters Where It Is… The Answers Were Unreal
“If You Murder Hostages, You’re Not the Good Guys”
— Jake Donnelly (@RedWhiteBlueJew) December 12, 2025
It’s a shame we have to say this out loud. If you murder hostages, you’re not the good guys.
If you let hostages “Celebrate” Hanukkah for propaganda purposes and then shoot them in the back of the head, you’re the baddies.
If… https://t.co/3TJt3whZEs pic.twitter.com/o46Pnxwa30
Mamdani pays tribute to a Jew! Oh, wait. An anti-Zionist Jewish cult leader whose movement has spent 80 years making common cause with terrorists. MAMDANI'S KINDA JEW! https://t.co/kQUCY2VNs2
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) December 12, 2025
Dear @PeterBeinart,
— Shai Davidai (@ShaiDavidai) December 12, 2025
The question isn't whether Jews *could* perpetuate a genocide, but whether they *are* engaging in one.
And the answer is a clear no.
No intelligent being is falling for your highschool-debate-team-level bait-and-switch tactics.
Best,
Shai https://t.co/E9niJlMLZ3
CHANUKAH GREETINGS FROM PM ALBANESE
— Australian Jewish Association (@AustralianJA) December 12, 2025
The festival of Chanukah commemorates the Jewish victory in Judea led by the Maccabees and the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem including the miracle of the oil in the menorah lamps.
It is also about the restoration of Jewish… pic.twitter.com/jHd590NLK6
No, @TuckerCarlson, Francesca Albanese is not a “human rights attorney.” In fact, despite her numerous prior claims, she's not even a lawyer at all. https://t.co/Fhy8E6SuKT https://t.co/b9qop5Dn5p pic.twitter.com/SG9M53AXxx
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 12, 2025
Israel has no reason to target RFK Jr. In Israel, Bobby's father is considered a hero, a Zionist who was the first major figure in the world to be assassinated by a Palestinian for supporting the Jewish state. This is still a deeply felt view on all sides of the political divide.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) December 11, 2025
Even if @TuckerCarlson wasn’t so obviously on Qatar’s payroll, he has clearly become the High Priest of the Woke Right, peddler of Critical Nazi Theory.
— Strxwmxn (@strxwmxn) December 12, 2025
After @MattWalshBlog argues for a big conservative tent, Tucker brings up Gaza as a loyalty test, separating (((them))) from… pic.twitter.com/Jept0okNJf
Primal Scream reported to police after Stars of David entwined with swastika at show
The Community Security Trust has reported Primal Scream to the police after the rock band featured a video of swastikas repeatedly shown inside Stars of David during a North London performance.
As reported by the Daily Mail, the band, which has been vocally critical of Israel, was playing their song “Swastika Eyes” at a performance at Camden’s Roundhouse earlier this week. Behind them, however, a video showed various politicians, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, with Stars of David featuring swastikas inside where their eyes would usually be. Other politicians featured included US President Donald Trump, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Argentine President Javier Milei.
A spokesperson for CST told the Mail: ‘CST is appalled by the grossly antisemitic image displayed at Primal Scream.
‘Entwining a Star of David with a swastika implies that Jews are Nazis and risks encouraging hatred of Jews.
‘There needs to be an urgent investigation by the venue and the promoter about how this happened and we will be reporting to the police.’
Numerous music publications covered the band’s show at the Roundhouse, meant to mark a quarter of a century since the release of their “XTRMNTR” album. None of the publications in question remarked on the use of the Star of David and swastika imagery.
By falsely comparing Israel to the Nazis, Primal Scream are doing precisely what the Third Reich did: demonising Jews as a prelude for their oppression and destruction. The irony!
— Jake Wallis Simons (@JakeWSimons) December 12, 2025
Great to join @petercardwell on @TalkTV pic.twitter.com/el0k1p8Jcy
London venue appalled by Primal Scream’s use of ‘antisemitic imagery’ during gig
A spokesperson for the Roundhouse insisted that the band had acted without its knowledge.
They said: “We deeply regret that these highly offensive images were presented on our stage and unequivocally apologise to anyone who attended the gig, and to the wider Jewish community. The content, which was used entirely without our knowledge, stands against all of our values.
"Acts of hatred, discrimination or prejudice of any kind are entirely unacceptable and have no place in our community or spaces. The safety of our staff and gig-going audiences remains of paramount importance to us.
“We stand in solidarity with the Jewish community and remain committed to ensuring that our spaces are places where everyone feels secure, respected and valued.”
A Jewish fan who attended the gig 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 [the band’s lead singer] is sympathetic towards the Palestinians, so I was already a bit nervous.
"But when I saw this image - pure racism - I felt sick.
“Obviously, there are a million conversations about what is and what isn’t antisemitism, and I know some people get frustrated because they feel they can’t show any sympathy with Palestinians without being called antisemitic.
“But using the Jewish star, not even in Israel’s colours, with a Swastika, isn’t even vaguely a grey area. It is pure antisemitism.”
Reviews that I saw celebrate this anti-Jewish racism as being “resistance”, standing against “injustice” and “corporate greed” https://t.co/H1z30HxEGu pic.twitter.com/bo4hG6nA9N
— Alex Hearn (@hearnimator) December 12, 2025
Anti-Israel activists vandalize UK justice ministry with red paint
Two activists from anti-Israel group Palestine Action were reportedly arrested Friday in central London after spraying a Ministry of Justice building with red paint to demand that Justice Minister David Lammy agree to meet with fellow activists currently on hunger strike.Woman admits racially aggravated abuse of diners outside kosher restaurant
The two suspects were protesting the treatment of eight Palestine Action activists, who have been held in custody for more than a year before trial and have been conducting hunger strikes ranging from nine to forty days, they told the Guardian. Five have been hospitalized.
In a video posted online, one activist said that the group has tried to meet with Lammy but that he “continues to ignore the friends and family, the lawyers of the hunger strikers. He ignores the fact that their lives are [in] imminent danger.”
Several Palestine Action activists have been arrested in the last year and are awaiting trial.
Six are on trial over what prosecutors have described as a meticulously planned assault by the group on the Elbit Systems UK facility in Bristol, southwest England, in August 2024. They are being charged with aggravated burglary, violent disorder and criminal damage, with one also charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent for allegedly hitting a police officer with a sledgehammer.
Another five Palestine Action activists have been charged after breaking into an air force base in southern England and causing an estimated £7 million ($9.3 million) of damage to two aircraft in July. A trial is scheduled for January 2027.
A woman has pleaded guilty to racially aggravated harassment after an incident outside Reuben’s kosher restaurant in central London, a court has heard.
Mary Clarke, 32, admitted the offence at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday in connection with a confrontation outside the popular kosher eatery on Baker Street in July.
The court was told that Clarke approached diners seated outside the restaurant and began aggressively accosting them. Footage of the incident, which later circulated on social media, showed her shouting at customers, throwing food in their direction and hurling a mobile phone onto the pavement.
Witnesses said Clarke questioned diners about the restaurant and their identity before the abuse escalated. The court heard the language she used during the incident, including: “Is this a Jewish cafe?”, “Free Palestine”, “I’m the only one saving babies”, “You Jews are killing us”, and “This is my country, I’m Irish”.
Clarke has been charged with three further offences in relation to the same incident, for which she has not yet entered pleas.
These include racially aggravated assault by beating, racially aggravated criminal damage relating to broken plates and glasses and racially aggravated threatening and abusive words or behaviour.
She was granted bail with conditions, including that she must not return to Reuben’s restaurant.
Mary Clarke, the woman in this video, has pleaded guilty to racially aggravated harassment.
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) December 12, 2025
Ms Clarke’s unhinged diatribe and attack against Jewish people simply trying to dine at a kosher restaurant was abhorrent.
Jews in Britain must not have to feel as though they may be… https://t.co/lHnqJgVuAR
This is not the first time the thugs have targeted the restaurant. "Not welcome" - who do they think they are?
— habibi (@habibi_uk) December 12, 2025
Always reject 21st Century brownshirts and shun their backers. pic.twitter.com/jL6fmbcamY
In its letter, Amnesty International UK says: “We can confirm that these protests were peaceful and that those participating in them were not engaged in inciting violence, hatred or discrimination.”
— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) December 12, 2025
Really?
Here are screenshots from a group for those arrested at Defend Our… https://t.co/woswtExDuE pic.twitter.com/E7sXGan0kY
The other night pro-Pals protested outside an arms company office. Except it was just a block of flats and they caused mayhem for residents who got very angry.
— Heidi Bachram 🎗️ (@HeidiBachram) December 12, 2025
Police officer: This isn’t an arms company. This is a random flat.
Pro-Pal: “BABY KILLERS OFF OUR STREETS”
🤡 pic.twitter.com/zjyYMl5f1A
Don't you love it when antisemites like @NerdeenKiswani (founder of @WOLPalestine) are triggered by simply seeing Jews smiling? pic.twitter.com/QAjbuaaOUC
— Shai Davidai (@ShaiDavidai) December 11, 2025
Sigh..... Dickheads for Palestine shut down another iconic Australian bridge. pic.twitter.com/wlgwfTfqI4
— Daniel (@VoteLewko) December 12, 2025
The thing that I immediately noticed is that it says “mask encouraged”…it always fascinated me how “masks” became a totem of these types of extremist things. https://t.co/jDpUteLkyW
— Seth Frantzman (@sfrantzman) December 12, 2025
You won’t BELIEVE how far these ladies travelled just to protest proud Aussie-Jews having a BBQ in Caulfield
— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) December 12, 2025
Don’t miss a thing!
👉 https://t.co/LUukKKteWt pic.twitter.com/trzmbNsqZb
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