"Workshopping" genocidal chants against Jews at Oxford

"A chant that we've been workshopping in Oxford that maybe you guys want to join in? It goes "Gaza, Gaza, make us proud, put the Zios in the ground."

Yes, the most privileged of the world's youth at the most prestigious university on the planet huddled together to come up with a rhyming slogan to support Gaza terrorists murdering Jews. 

And in the end, it doesn't even rhyme.

I'm just trying to picture the scene of the workshop in Oxford.

Scene: The WorkshopMagdalen College JCR, late evening. Fairy lights flicker over armchairs and tea stains. Four students in ill-fitting keffiyehs huddle around a low table littered with gin glasses and scribbled notepads. SAMUEL WILLIAMS, floppy-haired and commanding, leads the circle. OLIVIA lounges elegantly, THEO sprawls like a lacrosse jock, ELIZA fidgets with her pen.SAMUEL: (adjusting his keffiyeh) Right, comrades. Rally tomorrow. We need a chant that rhymes with "proud" but stings like settler-colonial guilt. Punchy. Political. Not another bloody "river to the sea" —that's so last term.OLIVIA: (sipping gin, iPad glowing) Edge, Sam. Something that calls out the oppressors without triggering the dean's wine hour. "Zionists" is too wordy. "Zios"? Short, snappy. Like a slur with a syllabus.THEO: (scrolling TikTok, spilling IPA) Zios works, dudes. "Jews" is too grandma's attic—ADL nightmare. "Israelis"? Nah, sounds like a travel agency. Zios it is. Now the kill shot: "Kill the Zios"? Straight fire.ELIZA: (shivering theatrically) Kill? Too American Psycho. We're poets of resistance, not slashers. "Burn the Zios"? Evocative, but climate vibes are off—think wildfires in the West Bank.SAMUEL: (nodding, scribbling) Implication over incrimination, Eliza. Met's watching. "Genocide the Zios"? Fanon would approve—violence as history's midwife.OLIVIA: (rolling eyes) Heavy, Sam. Alienates the normies. Remember "Exterminate the Settlers"? Vice-chancellor called it a "lapse." I Ubered home from cocktails in tears.THEO: (snorting) Tears? Bro, go big or go home to Daddy's estate. "Bury the Zios"? Nah. Wait— "put the Zios in the ground." Earthy. Final. And it half-rhymes with proud if you slur like we're pissed at evensong.ELIZA: (clapping, giggling) Yes! Gaza Gaza, make us proud, put the Zios in the ground. Nursery rhyme for the apocalypse. Try it—rhythm's got that gritty incompleteness. Real resistance aesthetic.SAMUEL: (standing, keffiyeh fluttering) Brilliant. All in? Gaza! Gaza!ALL: (chanting, voices rising) Make us proud! Put the Zios in the ground! (Repeat twice, echoing off portraits.)THEO: (frowning mid-chant) Half-rhyme though. Ground-proud? Like a haiku on bath salts.OLIVIA: (snapping selfie) Perfection's propaganda poison, Theo. It's raw—like Rafah rubble. Post-rally, we're viral. Noble work.SAMUEL: (smirking at window reflection) Steadfast. To the spires—and the streets.Lights dim as they disperse into fog. Chant fades like a flawed echo.

It almost demands a response chant: "Oxford wankers waste their time/cannot even make it rhyme."

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10/15 Links: After 738 Days, it’s Finally October 8th; Trump, Israel Pile on Pressure as Hamas Fails to Return Hostage Bodies; Hostages describe torture and torment in Gaza

From Ian:

Eitan Fischberger: After 738 Days, it’s Finally October 8th

The trauma has been relentless. Yet we did not waver. How could we, when our hostages endured horrors we could hardly imagine? So we remained resolute, clinging to the sliver of hope that maybe, just maybe, we would see them dance again. That hope and resilience makes us who we are.

That doesn’t mean we aren’t filled with righteous anger. For two long years, the international media told us our fight was futile. That if we only allowed Palestinians to declare a state, Hamas would kindly free the hostages out of the goodness of their hearts. That we should stop fighting evil and instead appease it. They were wrong.

And that doesn’t mean we aren’t worried. Amid our euphoria, we are already bracing for what may come next. Many of the 1,900 Palestinian detainees and security prisoners just released into Gaza and the West Bank have Israeli blood on their hands. They will harm us again if given the chance. Hamas, despite assurances from its patrons in Qatar that it seeks a “new chapter” with Israel, has already begun reconstituting its forces and blatantly violating the ceasefire by withholding the bodies of hostages they murdered, who were guaranteed would be released. As we speak, Hamas is executing Palestinians in Gaza en masse, and there is no clear mechanism to demilitarize them. We know this moment is a respite, not an end. We know we will again have to take up arms against those who seek our destruction.

To those abroad insisting this deal could have happened sooner: it could not have. Only Israel’s courageous campaign in Gaza, including the dismantling of Hamas’s military machine, the destruction of its tunnel empire, and the elimination of its leadership, created the leverage for this agreement. Only Trump’s diplomacy, combined with Israel’s battlefield victories, made it possible. Peace is not conjured by handshakes and lofty words on paper; it is compelled by strength.

This is not the end of our war for survival; it’s a brief breath between battles. Israelis understand that freedom and safety are not permanent conditions. They are achievements that must be won again and again.

But we won’t be thinking about that tonight.

Tonight, as we sit with our families around the dinner table, we marvel at what was just accomplished. We pray for the return of every last soldier, and for the souls whom we could not save in time.

Tonight, on the two-year anniversary of the massacre that shook our world and made us hold our breath — we’re finally dancing again.

Seth J. Frantzman: Why Donald Trump’s Diplomacy Appears to be Working

A key feature of Trump’s foreign policy doctrine is to approach US foreign ties through the prism of personal relationships with leaders abroad. In the lead-up to the Gaza peace deal proposal, which was announced on September 29, Trump met with Arab and Muslim leaders on the sidelines of the UNGA. This face-to-face meeting appears to have paved the way for the deal that took place in Egypt on October 8.

Several key tactics helped push the deal forward. Trump frequently announced progress before the two sides had fully agreed. He was also willing to appear to pressure Israel, demanding an end to bombing in Gaza, for instance. This appearance of being willing to pressure everyone involved has succeeded because the pressure is combined with win-win promises for all the countries.

The president thanked Turkey, Qatar, and Egypt on October 8 as the deal was concluded. Israel also feels it has secured most of what it wanted in Gaza. Trump has appealed directly to Israelis and spoken with freed hostages and families of hostages to show he is in tune with what the Israeli public wants.

There is a sense that the White House believes this deal can reset strategy in the Middle East. One part of this policy portrays Trump as helping Israel get out of a conflict that was increasingly unpopular around the world.

“Israel cannot fight the world,” Trump said in a phone call with Netanyahu. He also believes that this deal will pave the way for future progress on peace in the region, much like the Abraham Accords, which were secured during the first term between Israel, the UAE, and Bahrain. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also praised this “historic moment.”

The question now is whether a successful doctrine will emerge from these first steps in ending the Gaza war. First, all parties must uphold the ceasefire. There is also a question as to whether the peace plan moves to its second phase. Last January’s ceasefire never reached the next stage of its planned sequence.

If the deal can be finalized, then the White House might try to apply this model for success to Ukraine and other conflicts. In any case, the United States has long sought to focus on Asia and near-peer rivalries with countries such as Russia and China.

Beijing and Moscow aim to establish a new world order, one that challenges the US-led order that emerged after the Cold War. They have been working to achieve this goal diplomatically, militarily, and economically. That means that after success in the Middle East, Washington will find its credibility increasing in other areas. Trump has claimed to have helped end seven conflicts in his first year in office. The Gaza deal will be the largest test yet for his doctrine.

Meet the Liberators By Abe Greenwald

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The war between Israel and Hamas has ceased. That means Hamas can come out of hiding and start killing Gazans to reassert its grip on the population. It’s wasted no time doing so. While Israel rejoices in the return of its loved ones and the resumption of prewar life, here’s what’s going on in Gaza, as reported by the Wall Street Journal:

Clashes around a hospital in Gaza City on Sunday left dozens dead, according to the Hamas unit that conducted the raid and members of the family it was fighting. Videos that emerged Monday—verified by Storyful, which like The Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp—show Hamas fighters dragging a number of men from the family into a public square in broad daylight, forcing them to kneel and executing them in front of a crowd of onlookers.

That’s just a snapshot of one incident among many. In Gaza, the absence of war doesn’t mean peace.

To the anti-Israel fanatics who marched through Western streets and campuses for two years, I say this: These are the men whose side you’ve been on. It is their cause you took up, not the cause of those they now murder. You echoed Hamas’s rallying cries for Jewish extermination. You dressed up like Hamas soldiers, waved their banners, legitimized their sadism, and sustained their spirit while they waited for the day when they could go back to openly killing their own.

Of course, many of the pro-Hamas activists understood perfectly well that they were supporting a murderous terrorist organization. How could they not, given that Hamas recorded their bloody rampage for the world to see? But for the protesters, the massacre of Jews was an expression of resistance, and that’s all that counted. Once Israel was defeated, so their thinking went, there would be no need for terrorism.

There is another, not insignificant, portion of the anti-Israel protesters who were even more out of touch with reality. I know this because they eagerly flaunted their ignorance online. These are people who rarely if ever thought about Hamas before their friends and classmates put on keffiyehs and headed down to the local tentifada. Such ignoramuses dismissed claims of Hamas brutality as Zionist propaganda. They were told, and accepted, that October 7 was an Israeli false-flag operation. Hamas, they genuinely believed, wanted Gazans to enjoy freedom.

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10/13 Links Pt2: Hamas is terrorising Palestinians once again; The sinister truth about Greta’s selfie ship; How can anyone now deny these are ‘hate marches’?

From Ian:

Andrew Fox: Hamas is terrorising Palestinians once again

The ceasefire with Israel has also allowed Hamas to turn its murderous attention to any opposition to its rule in Gaza. Throughout the war, small groups of Palestinian fighters and local clans have taken advantage of Israeli military bombardment to put pressure on Hamas. Now that a truce is in place, Hamas has started to brutally eliminate these rivals.

Hamas is trying to instil as much fear in the Gazan population as it can. Last month, outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, it publicly executed three men accused of collaborating with Israel. They were blindfolded, kicked to the ground and shot in the head – all to cheers from those who had gathered to witness the executions. Hamas aims to terrorise potential challengers, whether ordinary civilians or members of hostile clans.

Critically, Hamas has openly refused to disarm. A senior official was even quoted recently as saying this would be ‘out of the question’ and ‘not up for negotiation’. Having seized Gaza by force in 2007 and maintained control since then, Hamas is committed to surviving both politically and militarily.

Hamas’s second objective is to influence the court of global public opinion. Hamas has framed the Gaza war as an Israeli-made tragedy of genocidal proportions. This has galvanised international pressure against Israel and partially absolved Hamas of blame for starting the war. Central to this propaganda push is the narrative of a ‘Gaza holocaust’ – an outrageous inversion of reality that casts Israel as a Nazi-like perpetrator and Palestinians as the victims of an extermination campaign. Indeed, Hamas leaders and their media mouthpieces have repeatedly invoked the Nazi Shoah to condemn Israel’s actions. While this media jihad may have been based on lies, it has succeeded in isolating Israel on the world’s stage.

Hamas’s ruthless and malignant nature means it will continue to be a difficult foe. We know it will stop at nothing in order to cling to power. It will use intimidation and bloodshed – and show the same contempt for Palestinian lives as it has shown for Israeli lives.

If Hamas manages to hold on to power in Gaza, any hope for a stable and non-violent future will vanish, at horrific cost to ordinary Palestinian people. It will take real pressure and determination – particularly from Arab countries – to remove Hamas for good.

Regardless of the outcome of the Egypt peace conference, one thing is crystal clear: Hamas’s actions are further proof it is a morally bankrupt, evil organisation. Its aims are not statehood or peace for Palestinians, but the perpetuation of its own Islamist tyranny and terror.

True progress in Gaza remains impossible as long as Hamas continues to poison the well.

Netflix, BBC and Others Sent Legal Letter Over Israel Film Boycott Signed by Joaquin Phoenix, Olivia Colman: ‘Highly Likely to Be a Litigation Risk’

Some of the U.K.’s most prominent studios and screen organizations have been sent a legal warning over an industry boycott of Israeli film institutions.

The letter from U.K. Lawyers for Israel states that the boycott, which has been backed by Hollywood stars including Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Olivia Colman and Mark Ruffalo, is a breach of the U.K.’s Equality Act and may also have a knock-on impact on financing and insurance.

The U.K. outposts of Netflix, Disney, Amazon Studios, Apple and Warner Bros. Discovery are among those who have been sent the letter as well as domestic companies including the BBC, Film4 and ITV. Other recipients include film organizations such as the BFI and Pact, agencies Curtis Brown and United Agents and unions including Bectu and Equity.

“[The Equality Act 2010] is the key legislation in the U.K. protecting against racism and discriminatory treatment,” states the letter, which has been seen by Variety. “If the U.K. television and film industry colludes with acts contrary to this legislation, organizations are themselves likely to be in breach. It also creates a dangerous precedent: one that condones the exclusion of individuals and/or organizations based solely on their nationality, ethnicity, and/or religion.”

The letter also claims that the boycott’s attempt at “selective application — exempting some institutions based on the ethnicity or religion of their members — strongly indicates that [its] operation is based not only on nationality but also on religion and ethnicity.” According to Film Workers for Palestine, which organized the boycott, it does not apply to Palestinian Israelis, for whom there are different “context sensitive guidelines.”

Although the boycott claims only to target Israeli-linked film institutions and not individuals, the Equality Act protects organizations as well as people. This is likely to be particularly relevant in the screen industry, where many actors and producers contract their services through companies.

Studios could potentially be liable for any breaches of the Equality Act carried out by their “staff and agents,” according to the letter. Actors, producers, agents, managers, production companies, producers and “anyone else who instructs, causes, induces, or helps to implement the Boycott– for example, encouraging a distributor not to deal with Israeli outlets, or advising a colleague to insist on a Boycott clause” could also incur liability.

The sinister truth about Greta’s selfie ship

After Israeli forces had detained and removed her from a flotilla supposedly carrying aid to Gaza, all-purpose activist Greta Thunberg arrived at Athens airport on Monday night to a raucous hero’s welcome.

If you listen carefully, though, the crowd seemed less interested in the plight of Gazans than in calling for the death of Israelis. Specifically, members of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). Cries of ‘Death, death to the IDF’ were so loud and protracted that they, and other chants, twice interrupted Thunberg’s press conference.

The 40-boat Global Sumud Flotilla on which Thunberg had been sailing had been intercepted by the IDF roughly 100 kilometres off the coast of Gaza. Those on board were taken to the Port of Ashdod in southern Israel, arrested and mostly flown home by Israeli authorities on Monday. Thunberg has alleged ‘abuse and mistreatment’ at the hands of Israelis – a claim that is hard to reconcile with the sight of a healthy, unharmed Thunberg, energetically addressing a crowd late at night after an international flight. Then again, she could hardly have told the crowd that she had been rescued by the very people they wanted to kill.

The crowd’s intense loathing for Israel was evident from the moment Thunberg arrived. A supporter who introduced the Swedish activist to the crowd emphasised the importance of her giving a speech ‘the day before Israelis use 7 October to lick their wounds’ – which is one way to talk about the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. These were hardly the words of someone who ‘believes in human dignity and power of nonviolent action’ – a core principle of the flotilla, at least according to its website.

Other members of the flotilla have expressed views even more repugnant. The public comments of activist Sarah Wilkinson afford a glimpse of the kind of small talk that might have been on offer below deck. ‘The Israelis are not human’, Wilkinson said. ‘They have hands, they have faces, but they are not one of us. They are monsters.’ She described Hamas fighters who took part in the 7 October attack as ‘heroes’, and celebrated the news of Israelis ‘fleeing their homes’. She posted these comments along with a picture of an Israeli woman running for her life from Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival.

There is a distinct possibility that Wilkinson’s views were the rule, rather than the exception, among flotilla members. This week, an Israeli government department published a report linking several of the armada’s ‘steering members’ with Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The evidence includes members of the flotilla being photographed at meetings with senior members of Hamas and attending the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, the former leader of Hezbollah.

One thing the flotilla appeared to have no interest in, despite its public objective, was delivering aid to Palestinians. Israeli police claimed that none of the ships on the flotilla was carrying food, water or medical supplies. Not an ounce, they said, could be detected of the purported 300 tonnes of vital supplies that the media told us the flotilla was so gallantly conveying to Gaza.

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