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Sunday, July 12, 2026

07/11 Links: Coordinated anti-Israel propaganda campaign blindsided the West after Oct. 7; Trump: 1,000 missiles are locked and loaded and aimed at Iran; One detail changes the whole Ro Khanna story

From Ian:

Coordinated anti-Israel propaganda campaign blindsided the West after Oct. 7, author says
Shortly after the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023, Warren Kinsella began noticing what he considered the fingerprints of a professional propaganda campaign.

A Canadian political strategist who has worked for decades in war rooms advising prime ministers and political campaigns in Canada, the United States and Israel, Kinsella makes that case in his new book, “The Hidden Hand: The Information War and the Rise of Antisemitic Propaganda.”

According to Kinsella, Hamas and its networks, along with their Western followers, had thousands of social media accounts primed, protest banners ready, and talking points translated into multiple languages long before the IDF’s response to the carnage had even begun.

Kinsella believes that what may appear to be spontaneous outrage on Western streets and social feeds is, in fact, a coordinated political operation that could only be executed by state actors and professional agitators.

His new book claims Jew-hatred is being mainstreamed by outlaw states and extremist groups who use tools of modern campaigning such as message discipline, cash payouts and logistics training. These actors push slogans like “From the river to the sea” and “Globalize the Intifada” so quickly and uniformly that they cannot be dismissed as organic, Kinsella said.

And, he says, Western democracies have barely begun to respond.

“Almost immediately after October 7, I looked around and quickly formed the opinion that what I was seeing was an organized, professional-style political campaign, pushing out this vile, hateful propaganda against Jews, the Jewish state and Western democracy,” Kinsella, a resident of Prince Edward County, Ontario, told The Times of Israel. “I spoke to other political people I know, and they all had the same reaction.”

In October 2023, “there were thousands of protests around the planet using the same slogans,” said Kinsella, who is also a columnist for the Toronto Sun and founder of the Daisy Consulting Group.

That, to Kinsella, was either “one hell of a coincidence” or evidence of central planning.

Kinsella sees that conclusion as central to the book’s thesis and points to comments by US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, who has accused Iran of seeking to fund and encourage anti-Israel protests.

“The bad guys,” he said, “have unlimited resources and armies of propaganda,” with which they have successfully convinced Westerners that Israel is an “apartheid state” and a “white supremacist colonial state bent on destroying a powerless non-white minority.”

Kinsella’s documentary film “The Campaign” — which complements the book — was first screened in Toronto on March 30. Last month, it was shown in Tel Aviv at Israel’s largest documentary film festival, Docaviv, and at Canada’s Parliament Hill for legislators.
Nova Festival survivors face torrent of abuse
Survivors of the Nova festival massacre on October 7 are facing a torrent of online abuse from bots believed to be manned by Iran.

Thousands of coordinated fake accounts linked to hostile state actors have targeted those who attended the festival, at which 364 people were murdered by Hamas and dozens more injured or taken hostage in 2023.

Social media platforms are failing to remove abusive posts, comments and videos about the survivors, according to a new report monitoring the abuse and shared exclusively with The Telegraph.

The report, set to be published by Fighting Online Anti-Semitism in the coming days, documents a “sustained and multi-layered digital campaign” against survivors of the attack.

The researchers said the “coordinated” campaign was intended to erase, distort and justify the events of Oct 7, not only by challenging the facts of the massacre but also the survivors themselves.

They pointed to social media posts calling for the death of survivors, denying their experiences and labelling them with racist, sexist and other highly offensive slurs.

Conspiracy theories have abounded ever since the massacre, suggesting that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) fired on its own citizens to justify a ground assault on Gaza.

“The phenomenon ranges from complete denial – claiming the attack was a staged event involving ‘crisis actors’ and fake blood – to posts and comments that shift blame onto the IDF,” the report states.

The organisation believes Tehran is behind the campaign of abuse.
Holocaust author said book was ‘canceled’ because he wouldn’t bash Israel, US
A book about the Holocaust was “canceled” after the author said he refused his editor’s insistence that the introduction include criticisms of Israel for committing “war crimes” in Gaza and the Trump-led US for creating “concentration-style prisons” for migrants.

Rafael Medoff, the author of the book “Cartoonists Against the Holocaust,” said he refused to publish what he believed were falsehoods editor Craig Yoe wanted to put in the book contracted to be published by Dark Horse.

Prior to the current controversy, Dark Horse published two of Dr. Medoff’s other books, “Whistleblowers” and “Cartoonists Against Racism” without incident.

It was only after the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion of Israel that Yoe began demanding that Dr. Medoff denounce Israel as the price to be paid for publishing his new tome “Cartoonists Against the Holocaust,” said Medoff and the Jewish civil rights group StandWithUs.

“The book was canceled. I was canceled,” Medoff, who has written op-eds for The Post, said.

Yoe sent a Sept. 1, 2025 email to Medoff saying he “thought long and hard” about adding a separate “note” in the book to unload on Israel and the US before its planned publication.

Yoe said Trump is “attempting to create concentration camp-style prisons, is sending American residents to gulag type prisons in other countries without constitution guaranteed trials,” Yoe said.

“At the same time,” he added, ” a country populated by an ethnic religious group who were immorally and horrifically tortured and killed in the Holocaust for their ethnicity is led by a prime minister that the world’s top war crimes court has issued warrants for his alleged acts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.”

Medoff sent a detailed response to Yoe objecting to slamming Israel and the US, saying the claims Yoe wanted to print were “factually inaccurate” and would politicize the book.
Head of PEN America, a free expression group, quits because it’s against Israel boycott
Dinaw Mengestu, the head of the free expression group PEN America, resigns after the group said it was against cultural boycotts in an article about anti-Jewish and anti-Israel discrimination.

Mengestu tells The New York Times it is “unethical” for his free speech group to oppose cultural boycotts because it’s discriminatory to the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

He accused PEN America of “defending some rights while not defending others.”

PEN America’s Thursday article focused on Israeli and Jewish writers “facing rising isolation and exclusion.”

The article said the group believes boycotts threaten free expression, but recognizes the right to boycott.

PEN America says its mission is to “protect free expression” and the “freedom to write.”


California Dem congressman says he was detained by ‘Israeli settlers’
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who is facing backlash at home after supporting a Maine Senate candidate with a Nazi tattoo who dropped out after being accused of rape, said on Saturday that he had been detained during a trip to Israel.

“Israeli settlers, brandishing American made M4s, detained me and other Americans on my trip to Palestine,” he said.

The United States does not recognize an independent state of “Palestine.”

On the trip, Khanna reportedly declined to meet with former Israeli hostages, and Israel Police reportedly said that it dispersed the crowd and sent the congressman on his way. Some accounts said that it was local security, and not “settlers,” who detained the congressman when he reportedly went to a closed military area.

JNS sought comment from the Israeli government and the congressman.

“When the IDF arrived, they sided with the settlers and continued our detention,” Khanna said in a social media post, in which he shared a four-second video. “They made a huge mistake. You will be hearing more soon.”

In response to a comment from a co-founder of Democratic Majority for Israel, Khanna said, “let’s put politics aside.”

“Would you join in calling for the arrest of the settlers who threatened us with M4 guns and of the four IDF soldiers, who aided them in detaining American citizens?” the congressman said. “Surely we can agree that threatening holders of an American passport should have consequences.”

Khanna’s colleague Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.) wrote that the congressman’s post “sounds like another plea for publicity.”

“Anything to get in front of the camera,” Murphy wrote. “Why else would you be there? It isn’t your country.”


One detail in the IDF statement changes the whole Ro Khanna story
So why am I writing this column? Because I spent Saturday night reading everything published on this story, in English and in Hebrew, and the version Khanna is telling America has grown in the telling.

He told Reuters, twice in one sentence, that the men had machine guns. The M4 is a carbine. A small thing, maybe, from a politician who demands precision about every bomb Israel drops. The bigger problem is that the IDF statement says it is reviewing the identity of "the armed individual." Singular. The army's account has one armed man. His tweet has settlers, plural, brandishing rifles. Somebody's description is wrong, and it can be checked.

Khanna's story ends four different ways
Then there's the ending, or rather the endings. His tweet says the IDF continued his detention. His own aide told reporters they were released when officers showed up. Khanna told CNN they were freed after the embassy reached a senior Israeli official. Haaretz reported it was the Foreign Ministry. The army says its troops cleared the road. I've read four accounts of how this ended, and Israelis get him out in all of them.

By Saturday night, an American news headline said he was detained by the IDF, and the men who actually blocked the road had disappeared from the story.

There's also a question nobody in the American coverage has pressed. Khanna says the Israeli government was notified of his trip. An Israeli security source says the visit was never coordinated, which is why he had no security. Those are two different claims.

Remember, this was a tour of Judea and Samaria exclusively, with programming built entirely by Palestinian hosts, by a man who declared before boarding the van that anyone unwilling to say "genocide" and "apartheid" is morally compromised, three weeks after signing a pledge committing him to those exact positions, and who told the Times it is not a good idea to detain long-shot presidential candidates. He knows what Wednesday is worth to him.


Ro Khanna blew off offer to meet former Israeli hostages, Oct. 7 survivors on ‘campaign trip’: source
Lefty California Rep. Ro Khanna callously ignored an invitation to meet former Israeli hostages and survivors of the horrific Hamas Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attack during a visit to the Holy Land this week, a source familiar with the planning told The Post.

Staff for Khanna (D-Calif.) first got in touch with the Israeli Embassy July 2, and claimed that it was a private trip, and that he wouldn’t be meeting with Israeli or Palestinian politicians, according to the source.

On Monday, the Israelis offered a meeting with Oct. 7 survivors and former hostages to Khanna’s team, but they blew them off, the source said.

The Israelis followed up the next day and Khanna’s team never got back to them, the source said.

“Congressman Khanna didn’t come to understand the situation — he came looking for a headline. Israel went out of its way to provide Congressman Khanna with access to communities that reflected the complexity of the situation, he chose a different path,” the source said.

Over 1,200 Israelis were murdered and 250 taken captive during Hamas’ barbaric Oct. 7 terrorist attack, some were held hostage for as long as 843 days.

The Israelis also offered for Khanna to meet with Druze communities in the Golan Heights, representatives from Israeli border communities and to set up a briefing on aid getting into Gaza, but the congressman never took them up on it, the source added.


Ro Khanna bankrolled pro-Platner rally after women’s ‘unsettling’ allegations exploded into public view
The backlash surrounding controversial Maine Democrat Graham Platner, who withdrew his bid for US Senate on Friday after accusations of rape, could dog one California Democrat all the way through 2028.

Silicon Valley Rep. Ro Khanna, who is widely expected to run for president, is facing accusations of hypocrisy for hyping the disgraced New England pol even after disturbing reports emerged about his treatment of women.

Khanna even went so far as to share a stage with him after a New York Times report described Platner’s “unsettling” conduct toward former girlfriends.

“We reject misogyny. We reject it. You know who else rejects it? Graham Platner,” Khanna said on stage at the get-out-the vote rally in Bar Harbor last month.


Jewish Wikipedia editors ‘traumatized’ after editing Israel-related content, study finds
Jewish Wikipedia editors said they felt “traumatized” and emotionally exhausted after editing topics related to Jews and Israel, according to a recent study in the journal Convergence by University of Haifa researcher Shlomit Lir.

Lir conducted video interviews with 19 veteran Jewish editors between February and August 2025. Most remain active on the platform, though several have stopped editing.

There was a “great sense of fear” among the editors to even talk about the subject, Lir told JNS. Some participants kept their cameras off during Zoom interviews, and one used a pseudonym.

“Editing on Wikipedia is a great part of their identity, and the fear of being banned is great,” she said. “Some of the conversations were very alarming.”

Wikipedia editors are unpaid volunteers, and anyone can contribute to the online encyclopedia.

The editors interviewed live in the United States, Europe and Israel and have between two and 24 years of editing experience. All have contributed to articles about Israel, and some identify politically with the Left, according to Lir.

Several said their experience on Wikipedia was largely positive until they began editing articles related to Israel after the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

One editor cited the lead section of Wikipedia’s article on the Gaza war, saying it emphasizes devastation in Gaza, with only a brief mention that “there was an axis of resistance led by Iran and its proxies.”

Another said that after Oct. 7, “all kinds of entries related to Palestinian terror and such things were deleted.”


Trump: 1,000 missiles are locked and loaded and aimed at Iran
U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out at the Iranian regime on Saturday, in light of its threats to assassinate him, writing on Social Truth that “1,000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat.”

He continued, “Orders have already been given, and the U.S. Military is ready, willing, and able, for a one year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran—PRAISE BE TO ALLAH!”

Israel recently shared intelligence with the United States indicating that Iran was considering a new plot to assassinate Trump, according to a report published Thursday in The Wall Street Journal.

The report, citing people familiar with the matter, said the intelligence represented a potential escalation in the confrontation between Washington and Tehran. According to the newspaper, U.S. officials had not previously been aware of the specific intelligence provided by Israel.

Meanwhile on Saturday, Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei issued a threat to avenge the killing of his father and predecessor, Ali Khamenei, in a written statement read on Iranian state television, Reuters reported.

“We pledge to avenge the blood of the martyred leader and all the martyrs of these two wars from the criminal and disgraced killers,” the statement read.

“Whether we are there or not, this will be accomplished, and soon every free person around the world will fulfill a part of this divine mission,” it added.
US striking Iran for third time in a week after ‘blatant’ Islamic Republic attack on ship in Hormuz
The U.S. military struck 140 military targets in Iran—the third round of strikes in a week—after the Islamic Republic “blatantly” attacked the Cyprus-flagged container ship GFS Galaxy as it went through the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Central Command said on Satruday night.

The military used “land- and sea-based fighter aircraft, drones and naval vessels,” and it targeted “Iranian missile and drone sites, naval capabilities, ammunition storage facilities, communication networks and coastal surveillance locations,” CENTCOM said.

“A civilian crew member is missing, and the vessel is unable to continue the journey due to an onboard fire and significant engine room damage,” the U.S. military stated. “Iran was provided yet another opportunity to demonstrate adherence to the memorandum of understanding after being held accountable for earlier attacks on commercial vessels but has again failed.”

The U.S. military is responding by “imposing a heavy cost by continuing to degrade Iran’s ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial ships freely transiting the strait,” CENTCOM said.

“These strikes are welcome, but they are being carried out to ‘degrade’ Iran’s regime’s ability to threaten commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz,” stated Jason Brodsky, policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran. “However, if the U.S. wants to deter the regime, there will need to be a more robust response.”

“Iran made a poor choice,” U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stated. “Now they pay.”

Earlier in the day, the Iranian regime declared the strait to be closed.


Huckabee confirms Israel warned US about Iran assassination
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee confirmed to Fox News on Saturday that Israel had warned the United States about a specific Iranian assassination plan against US President Donald Trump.

Huckabee also stated that he saw no significant evidence that there was any "peaceful part" of the Iranian regime.

"What the Iranians are saying and doing is nothing that they haven't been doing for 47 years," Huckabee explained. "This is a longstanding 'death to America' chant they've had. They really haven't changed."

The Wall Street Journal, which had previously reported on Israel's warning to the US, wrote that some US officials were concerned that Israel's motivation behind revealing the assassination plot had been to entice the United States back into war against Iran.

According to the WSJ, officials noted that Israel may have presented Trump with a single piece of information which, in isolation, may push him to begin bombing Iran again.

Israel's Embassy to the United States denied the WSJ's claim, stating that Israel had shared its intelligence with the United States as part of the two nations' partnership, without ulterior motive.

Trump threatens Iran over assassination threats

Earlier on Saturday, Trump responded to the alleged Iranian assassination threats, saying "1,000 missiles are locked and loaded" in a Truth Social post.

"Orders have already been given, and the US Military is ready, willing, and able, for a one-year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran," warned Trump.

On Friday, Trump told the New York Post he left instructions for the US to retaliate if Iran succeeds in assassinating him.

“I’ve left instructions, if anything happens, to just literally bomb them at levels that they’ve never seen before,” the New York Post cited Trump as saying.


Trump admin subpoenas NYT journalists over report on Air Force One security concerns
The Trump administration has subpoenaed several New York Times journalists after their report on security concerns involving the new Air Force One, according to the paper.

The new jet, which US President Donald Trump received as a gift from Qatar, entered service last week.

The subpoenas issued Friday seek to force the reporters to testify before a federal grand jury in Manhattan on Wednesday, the paper said, adding that federal agents delivered some subpoenas to the reporters at their homes.

There was no immediate response from the White House or the Department of Justice to requests for comment on Saturday.

“The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects,” David McCraw, a lawyer for the Times, said in a statement.


Israel has slain 2,561 terrorists who invaded on Oct. 7—report
Israeli security forces have eliminated 2,561 terrorists from the Gaza Strip who took part in the Hamas-led attacks on Israel’s south on Oct. 7, 2023, broadcaster Channel 12 reported on Friday night.

This includes roughly a thousand who were killed in skirmishes in the northwestern Negev as Israeli forces battled to regain control of the region in the first week of the invasion.

The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) estimates that several hundred terrorists who participated in the atrocities are still alive, adding that the hunt for them continues, the report read.

The unit tasked with hunting down the perpetrators was formed in the wake of the Oct. 7 terror rampage and includes elements from the Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet.

The unit was named after the World War I-era Jewish underground organization Nili, an acronym for a biblical phrase (1 Samuel 15:29) that translates as “the Eternal One of Israel will not lie.”

It was given the operational responsibility to kill all those who took part in the massacre, as a principled decision made by the Israeli government.

On Friday, the IDF announced it had killed a Hamas Nukhba cell commander who infiltrated the Re’im military base on Oct. 7. Yahya Hamdan was killed in a precise airstrike in southern Gaza on Thursday, the military said.
Beersheva terror plot foiled, security forces say
Authorities arrested four Israeli citizens from the Bedouin town of Segev Shalom in the Negev on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks targeting police and other security forces, as well as an attack in Beersheva, the Israel Police said in a joint statement with the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) on Friday.

An indictment against the four was served on Friday morning.

The suspects planned to open fire on the Segev Shalom Police Station, carry out an attack at the Beersheba Central Bus Station and establish a terrorist infrastructure intended to target the security forces operating in Segev Shalom, investigators said.

The investigation was led by the Southern District Israel Police’s Major Crimes Unit during May and June, the statement read.

Officers from the Yamas South unit of the Border Police operated undercover, helping to expose the cell.

After their arrest, the Shin Bet and the Southern District Major Crimes Unit’s counter-terrorism squad found that one of the suspects had posted content on social media that allegedly incited terrorism and expressed support for terrorist activity, according to the statement. The authorities further found that the suspects subsequently conspired to carry out terrorist attacks.


In written message, Mojtaba Khamenei said to vow revenge for slain father will come ‘soon’
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said on Saturday that avenging his slain predecessor and father was “the will of the nation” and “must inevitably” take place “soon,” according to a written message attributed to him and released on his Telegram account.

Khamenei issued the message on the occasion of funeral ceremonies for his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, held months after he was killed in the US-Israeli airstrikes on February 28.

“We pledge to avenge the blood of the martyred leader and all the martyrs of these two wars from the criminal and disgraced killers,” Khamenei was quoted as saying in the message.

The new supreme leader has not been seen or heard since assuming the role, with only written statements being issued in his name.

“This vengeance is the will of our nation and must inevitably be carried out,” the letter said. “These criminals — of whom we have a complete list from top to bottom — will take with them to their graves the wish for a peaceful death in bed.”

“This matter depends neither on my personal existence nor on that of other officials. Whether we are present or not, it will come to pass,” it said. “Soon individuals among the freedom-seekers across the world will each carry out part of this divine mission.”

Ali Khamenei was buried on Friday in Mashhad in northeast Iran after a week of mass funeral processions, rallies and mourning ceremonies that coincided with renewed conflict with the United States following weeks of truce in the four-month-old war.

The whereabouts of Mojtaba Khamenei, proclaimed supreme leader by a clerical assembly in early March, a week after his father’s death, have remained a mystery to Iranians.

He is reported to have suffered debilitating injuries in the strike that killed his father, his face disfigured and limbs badly wounded.


New Discourses: Propaganda and the Palestinian Cause
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 212
The entire world is turning today around the "Palestinian" Cause, but what is it? It is a fabrication. It is a manipulation. It is a forgery. It is a psyop. This fact, and the many facts it is based upon, is plainly and beautifully articulated in Danny Burmawi's (https://x.com/DanBurmawy ) new book Islam, Israel, and the West: A Former Muslim's Analysis (https://amzn.to/4y7rgAQ), which New Discourses recommends, especially for beginners to the subject. Burmawi himself is a Christian ex-Muslim who originally hails from Jordan, lived many years as a Christian in Lebanon, and has since moved to the United States where he has established the Ideological Defense Institute (https://idicenter.org/) (IDI) (https://x.com/idicenter). In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay reads just a little over two short sections from Burmawi's book to introduce the realities of the so-called "Palestinian Cause" to New Discourses listeners. Join him to understand that much with that situation is not as it appears.




One in four ‘progessive activist’ Green voters say Hamas support is acceptable
Nearly one in four Green voters classed as "Progressive Activists" believe it is acceptable to express support for Hamas, according to polling shared with the JC from a report co-authored by Britain’s first Counter-Extremism Commissioner.

The research conducted by pollsters More in Common found that 23 per cent of Green voters within the progressive values-based demographic said it was "sometimes" or "always" acceptable to support Hamas, while a further 35 per cent said they did not know.

The same level of support was recorded across the wider "Progressive Activist" segment – 23 per cent of the group said it was "sometimes" or "always" acceptable to support Hamas, while 32 per cent said they did not know.

Hamas, which carried out the October 7 massacre in southern Israel in which 1,200 people were murdered, and more than 240 were taken hostage, is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK. Inviting support for the group is a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years' imprisonment.

The findings are drawn from More in Common's values segmentation, based on polling of around 20,000 people. The organisation describes "Progressive Activists" as "idealistic and globally minded, driven by social justice", with the group making up roughly 12 per cent of the UK population.

The polling was commissioned for a new report, titled Britain Under Strain: The Broken Social Contract, Democratic Distrust and the Mainstreaming of Extremism, which launched in Parliament this week.
Green Party wants to twin Manchester with Palestinian city
The Greens have said they want to twin Manchester with a Palestinian city in their manifesto for the city’s upcoming mayoral election.

In the document titled ‘Hope for Greater Manchester’, produced ahead of the July 30 poll that was triggered by the resignation of former mayor and now PM-in-waiting Andy Burnham, the party’s candidate Geraldine Coggins claims she wants to focus on “practical action” to help struggling Mancunians and not “flashy announcements”.

However, later on in the manifesto she says: “I will explore opportunities to twin Manchester with a city in Palestine, creating lasting partnerships between our communities and demonstrating our commitment to peace, justice and human dignity.”

Coggins goes on to say she will “call on Westminster to stop arming the genocide in Gaza and call for urgent international efforts to end the illegal occupation of Palestinian land”.

Elsewhere in the manifesto the Green mayoral hopeful says she plans to engage the Greater Manchester Pension Fund in order to “press for divestment from oil and gas and companies complicit in illegal aggression, war crimes or genocide”.

Guidance from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government prohibits councils from boycotting Israeli companies or those that trade with Israel. Companies are able to sue any council practising boycott, divestment and sanctions under procurement laws.
Green politician and GP who praised ‘death to IDF’ chants being investigated by medical regulator
A GP and Green Party councillor in Lewisham who described chants of “death, death to the IDF” as “amazing” is being investigated by the General Medical Council (GMC).

Dr Rebecca Jones, a GP who represents Blackheath ward, confirmed the investigation on her Instagram page.

She claimed she was being targeted by campaign group UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) “because I speak up against apartheid and genocide in Palestine”.

Jones further claimed that the GMC was being “used to censor and silence doctors who speak out against Israel’s genocidal regime”.

Prior to being elected as a councillor in the South London borough, Jones reshared a post depicting an Israeli flag in flames with the words “burn Zionism to the ground”.

She also said chants of “death, death to the IDF” were “amazing” and described a reading of the last will and testament of Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, as “so beautiful”. She later claimed to be the victim of “right wing… smear” because of her opposition to Zionism.

UKLFI said it wrote to the GMC in April this year to express concerns about the posts, which they said exhibited “extreme discrimination against Israelis and Zionists”.


UKLFI: Oxford museum urged to remove “genocide” claim from Palestinian exhibition
UKLFI has written to the Oxford University museum objecting to the introduction to its “Palestine: Pieces of Me” exhibition, which describes Israel’s actions in Gaza as an “ongoing genocide” and presents a disputed account of Palestinian displacement in 1948 as established fact.

The exhibition, which celebrates Palestinian embroidery and culture, states that “531 Palestinian towns and villages were destroyed by Israeli forces” and that “85% of Palestinians were forced into exile or displaced”. It adds that Palestinian culture and life face a similar threat from the “ongoing genocide in Gaza”.

UKLFI wrote that the claims were “offensive, untrue and harmful to the public perception of Jewish people, Israel and Israelis”.

UKLFI observed that the account of the “Nakba” omitted the wider context of the 1948 war, including the invasion of the newly established State of Israel by neighbouring Arab armies.

The displacement of Palestinian Arabs resulted from a range of factors including fear, the collapse of Arab administration, evacuation encouraged by Arab leaders and, in some cases, expulsion by Israeli forces.

By attributing the displacement simply to Israeli forces, the museum was giving academic legitimacy to a contested political narrative.

UKLFI also challenged the unqualified use of the word “genocide”. Genocide requires proof of a specific intention to destroy a protected group, and no domestic or international court has made a final finding that Israel is committing genocide.
Universities ordered to adopt antisemitism definition under new standards
Australian universities will be required to adopt a formal definition of antisemitism under new governance standards released by the Albanese government.

The threshold standards require universities to take steps to prevent racism and antisemitism, respond appropriately, and adopt recognised definitions for hate.

Universities will also be required to establish clear and transparent complaints processes so students and staff understand how complaints can be made and handled.

The reforms represent the federal government’s strongest intervention yet into university governance following sustained concerns about rising antisemitism on campuses.

Education Minister Jason Clare told Sky News Sunday Agenda it was changing the law to mandate universities “to take certain steps in relation to antisemitism”.

“You're going to hear some pretty horrific evidence tomorrow and over the next few days, in particular from Jewish students about the abuse that they suffered,” he said.

“Universities were caught flat-footed here, and in fairness to the universities, some of them have made important improvements over the course of the last few years.

“But not enough. There's a lot more to do. We said last year that we would change the law to mandate or require universities to take certain steps in relation to antisemitism.





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