Tuesday, October 21, 2025

  • Tuesday, October 21, 2025
  • Elder of Ziyon
A new poll by the (Muslim) Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) shows something unexpected: when asked about how most American Muslims act , American Jews were less likely to be critical than the Muslims themselves!

The poll asked, "Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with the following statements in regard to most Muslims living in the United States. - Most Muslims living in the United States are more prone to violence than other people." Nearly all religious groups were less likely to agree than American Muslims themselves.

17% of Muslims agree, compared to 15% of Jews, 14% of Protestants and 18% of Catholics. 

On whether they agree that "Most Muslims living in the United States are less civilized than other people," 10% of Muslims agreed - more than Jewsor Protestants, and not much less than the others.

On the question of "Most Muslims living in the United States are partially responsible for acts
of violence carried out by other Muslims," again, Muslims themselves gave comparable agree answers to other religious groups.


The only question that showed sharp divergence between Muslims and others agreeing was "Most Muslims living in the United States discriminate against women."  And I would argue that people agreeing with that statement are not necessarily Islamophobic to begin with, unlike the questions mentioned above  which do indicate bias.

The bottom line is that Islamophobia is really not a problem in the US, if Muslims themselves are as likely to be Islamophobic as any other group. with the possible exception of white evangelicals. 

Their own poll proves it. 

Another interesting part of the poll was that 40% of the Muslims polled were born outside the US, and 21% were not US citizens. That is a huge percentage of Muslims in the US who are not citizens if the sampling is correct. 



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  • Tuesday, October 21, 2025
  • Elder of Ziyon


No one can question that Hollywood was largely founded by Jews. The antisemitism comes from the conspiracy theory that somehow these Jews are all working in lockstep with some major plan to take over the world. As if Hollywood movies and TV series are helping Israel or fighting antisemitism. 

But guess what is really happening? Saudi Arabia has been investing billions into Hollywood. And it has a very clear political agenda.


Erik Feig is launching an indie production banner, Arena SNK Studios, to expand the Hollywood producer’s reach in movies, TV, gaming and live events.

Feig’s company says it has secured around $1 billion in financing backing for the new venture, which is led by backers in Saudi Arabia. That’s part of a step investment deal with a major tranche received up front, followed by the remaining funds coming as milestones are hit. 

The financial stakes are coming from MBC Group, the Saudi-owned Middle East broadcasting giant and the largest media operation in the region, and SNK, the Japanese video game company now owned by MiSK Group, a foundation led by Saudi leader Mohammed bin Salman.

The major Saudi stake in Arena SNK follows Saudi Arabia and its sovereign wealth fund quietly building a multibillion-dollar foothold in Hollywood and American sports in recent years as a gateway into the American market and a diversification from its oil-based riches.
There are no "Elders of Zion" secretly controlling what the world sees on its screens, but Saudi Arabia is still an Islamic state, dedicated to Sharia law, no matter how it tries to sow itself to the world. It is a political entity and has a clear political agenda - to promote its own form of Islam and to fight any criticism of Muslims (except for those that the Saudi leaders oppose.) 

In other words, the very structure of Saudi Arabia and its political investment into media is the exact analog of the Elders of Zion myth but in full public view. The country, like all countries, wants to spread its influence and political agenda worldwide, and media is the best way to do this culturally.

What is its agenda? 

We can see what it has already done - adding Muslim prayer in a promo for FIFA 2021 videogame, for example. The Saudi government is heavily involved in promoting its narrative of empowered women in the kingdom, but suppressing any news about feminists who want equality. 

You won't find any movies that support LGBTQ characters from a Saudi-run studio.  "Palestinian liberation" is a central part of its agenda, and you can be sure that the Saudi backed studios will not greenlight any movies that show Israelis in a positive light. Capitalism is suspect in favor of Islamic style banking. Criticism of Islam, or historical dramas involving Arab or Muslim characters, will all go through their filter. 

Hollywood is already moving in this direction, avoiding any mention of Israel even when the actors and characters are clearly Israeli. This proleptic dhimmitude will only snowball as actors and directors vie to partner with the cash rich Saudis so even studios that are not run by Saudis will change their offerings to be more palatable to the new influencers. 

Will the Saudis directly control Hollywood? That is unlikely. But their soft power and influence are already evident, and this will only increase - both in the types of shows they promote and the ones that will silently be quashed.






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Monday, October 20, 2025

  • Monday, October 20, 2025
  • Elder of Ziyon
From The Social Post (Italy):

Cecilia Parodi , the writer who seriously insulted  Senator for Life Liliana Segre , a Holocaust survivor,  has been sentenced . The preliminary hearing judge in Milan, Luca Milani , handed down a sentence of  one and a half years in prison , already reduced by a third due to the fast-track trial. The charge concerns not only defamation, but also  propaganda of hatred on racial, ethnic, and religious grounds , following a video posted on Instagram on  July 19, 2024 .

In the video, Parodi attacked the senator with violent and offensive words: "When a person suffers from severe senile dementia, it's blasphemy to pay them a life pension." She then doubled down, saying that "when people listen to a heartless lunatic, they should be treated" and that "her existence and authority are blasphemies." But the most serious part of the video came immediately after, with a statement that shocked public opinion: "I hate all Jews, I hate all Israelis, and if one day I were to see you all hanging by your feet, Piazzale Loreto isn't enough, we need Tiananmen Square to hang you all, I swear I'll be in the front row spitting on you."

Parodi claims that she only regrets the "I hate all Jews" part, and the rest was simply political expression. 

But this seems doubtful. In a cartoon she drew she blames the "Zionist lobby" for taking away her income after this incident - her antisemitism has nothing to do with it - and she even blames some on  the pro-Palestinian side for condemning her antisemitic statement.



Parodi doesn't have too much self-awareness. 

And in this post, she shows her true colors: she adores what Hamas did on October 7. She idolizes rapists, is enraptured by murderers, cheers kidnappers.  The video was made with Hamas' own GoPro cameras that they used to proudly document the most heinous crimes.


Antisemitism and anti-Zionism are identical. And exhibit #1 is Cecilia Parodi.





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From Ian:

Macron Occupies a Jewish Family Home in Baghdad
France appropriated the home of a displaced Jewish family and has used it as its embassy in Iraq for 50 years without paying the family a single euro in rent. Now, instead of returning the property to its rightful owners, or compensating them for its continuing occupation by the emissaries of the Quai d’Orsay, the government of Emmanuel Macron has apparently determined to continue dragging the family through the courts and belaboring them with technical questions like whether they voluntarily surrendered property ownership when they fled Iraq in the 1950s.

The family has launched a lawsuit in the French courts, asking for a trial to decide the ownership of a house whose desirable location, ornate balconies, carved columns, cornice entries, grand mirrors and marble mantels give it an estimated market value of more than $22 million. After rejecting an offer to mediate, France now argues, citing lack of jurisdiction, that any trial should instead take place in Iraqi courts, which are ill-disposed to rule against a diplomatic ally and in favor of a Jewish family that was chased out of the county a half-century earlier.

The descendants of the original owners, who today live in Montreal, reject the French argument. “France is using our house, so France can choose to pay for the house it’s using,” said Philip Khazzam, the grandson and grand-nephew of original house owners Ezra and Khedouri Lawee. “Instead, it pretends to have no authority and hides behind Iraq.”

Khazzam added that France is paying its rent to Iraq at a low rate. “They know they’re getting a sweet deal,” he said, adding that paying market rates for its lavish embassy would cost France much more.

The French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs’ defense brief argues that by fleeing Iraq the Lawee brothers technically lost ownership of their house. Copied link

When asked for comment on questions relating to the property and Khazzam’s accusations, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs responded that “the case is before the courts, so we cannot comment.”

Last month, Khazzam traveled to New York to personally ask the French president for the back rent that he believes he is owed. He planned to approach Macron when the president was visiting the French Cultural Center on Fifth Avenue but never got close enough to ask his question.

Iraqis began attacking Jewish property under King Faisal I in the ’30s and ’40s following Iraq’s independence from the British. 1941 was among the worst years for such attacks. Following a failed pro-Nazi coup in June, Iraqi riots exploded into a pogrom known as the Farhud that killed, raped, robbed and looted the properties of thousands of Baghdad Jews.

Farhud—a word which loosely translates to “devour” or “gobble” in Arabic—launched what would become a mass exodus of Jews from Iraq, as the storied 2,500-year-old Jewish community fled increasingly restrictive discriminatory laws accompanied by terrifying and repeated outbreaks of mass violence and state-sponsored show trials. It marked the beginning of the end for Iraq’s thriving Jewish population, who in many cases traced their lineage back to 587 BCE when Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II conquered the Kingdom of Judah and enslaved and exiled much of its Jewish population.

More on the Jews of Iraq
Conditions for Iraqi Jews became especially acute after the creation of Israel, during the period known as “denationalization” in 1950-51. New laws stripping Iraqi Jews of their nationality and their property accompanied a bombing campaign aimed at local synagogues and Jewish businesses.

Ezra and Khedouri Lawee were among the thousands of Jews who fled Iraq during this time. The Jewish Iraqi brothers had built and owned a beautiful house—nicknamed Beit Lawee, or House of Lawee—which was eventually seized by Saddam Hussein after he came to power in 1970, two decades after they had left the country. Records show Khedouri traveled to London and New York before settling in Montreal. His brother Ezra also settled in Montreal, after stopping along the way in Israel, Egypt, and New York.

Responding to lawyers representing the Lawee descendants, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs’ defense brief argues that by fleeing Iraq the Lawee brothers technically lost ownership of their house under a set of discriminatory laws from 1951 whose very aim was to strip Iraqi Jews of their property.
Anti-Semitism has infected the NHS
Britain’s National Health Service has become a hotbed of anti-Semitism. It seems nearly every week brings a new case of an NHS doctor expressing foul views about Jews. Worse, these views seem to be expressed with impunity. The problem is now so serious that the health secretary, Wes Streeting, has vowed to overhaul the UK’s medical regulator to ‘root out the evil of racism’ from the NHS.

A report in The Times cites the case of Rahmeh Aladwan, a trainee doctor from Manchester. In September, she faced the Medical Practitioners’ Tribunal Service (MPTS) for describing the Royal Free Hospital in north London as a ‘Jewish supremacy cesspit’. She also said that the Holocaust was a ‘fabricated victim narrative’ and described the terrorists who carried out the 7 October 2023 pogrom as ‘martyrs’ who were repelling ‘foreign Jews’. According to The Times, she was even filmed making a ‘throat-slit gesture’ towards a group of Jews.

Shockingly, the MPTS didn’t see what the fuss was all about. It dismissed the complaint made by the General Medical Council (GMC) against Aladwan, declaring her fit to practise because she posed no ‘real risk to patients’. Her lawyer successfully argued that, as a Palestinian and ‘direct victim of genocide and dispossession’, she was merely ‘exercising her freedom of speech to oppose crimes by Israel, including those identified by the UN’. She was the real victim here, in other words.

This was a bridge too far for Streeting. In response to the MPTS’s decision, he promised to overhaul the GMC, which he said he had ‘no faith’ in. Alarmingly, he added that medical regulators are ‘completely failing to protect Jewish patients’. His most significant proposal so far has been to make sure that doctors accused of misconduct are stripped of their right to practise while under investigation. At Streeting’s instance, Aladwan will face another hearing at the MPTS later this month.

Indeed, it may be shaping up to be a busy few months for the medical tribunal. That is because Aladwan is far from alone: there have been more than 500 complaints of anti-Semitism, made against 123 separate doctors, since 7 October 2023.

One case that stands out amid this vast catalogue of hatred is that of Manoj Sen, who until recently was a surgeon at Northwick Park Hospital in north London. In a series of social-media posts, Sen referred to a Jewish man as ‘Jew boy’, ‘circumcised vermin’ and ‘Untermenschen’ – a phrase used extensively by the Nazis, meaning subhuman. Sen’s defence – that alcoholism was to blame for his ‘injudicious’ statements – was to no avail, and he was struck from the medical register last month. Evidently, there are limits to playing the victim card. Even at the MPTS.

It gets worse. Ellen Kriesels, a consultant paediatrician at London’s Whittington Hospital, was due to treat a disabled Jewish child in June last year. However, the young boy’s family objected to the doctor’s pro-Palestinian lanyard. Further investigation of her beliefs – boastfully articulated on her public X account – revealed what can only be described as a profoundly disturbed mind. On X, Kriesels said that ‘virtually every Jew has some feelings of supremacy’, which she attributed to their ‘Zionist upbringing’. She opined that ‘secular Jews are very much part of all this evil and they certainly have feelings of supremacy’. ‘World Jewry’, she claimed, had been ‘complicit or silent’ in the ‘slaughtering [of] Palestinians’.
Jewish Onliner's Table of Anti-Israel Lies
Since October 2023, an unprecedented wave of disinformation targeting Israel has flooded social media platforms, spreading faster than fact-checkers can respond and reaching millions of users worldwide before verification can occur.

This non-exhaustive, continuously-updating list examines the most viral and damaging false narratives that have circulated about Israel since the war began. By debunking each claim with verifiable evidence, expert analysis, and credible sources, we aim to restore clarity to a landscape deliberately obscured by those who profit from confusion and conflict.

The lies documented here are not mere mistakes or misunderstandings, they are calculated attempts to manipulate public perception through emotional manipulation and selective presentation of facts. Understanding how these falsehoods spread and why they gained traction is essential for anyone seeking to navigate the current information environment and distinguish between legitimate criticism and deliberate deception.
From Ian:

NYPost Editorial: The ‘pro-Palestine’ crowd must be the first peace movement ever to pray for war to resume
The “pro-Palestine” crowd must be the first peace movement ever to pray for war to resume.

In the next phase of the peace plan, Hamas’ combatants are supposed to lay down their arms and exit Gaza — but that’s not happening anytime soon.

At least, not voluntarily — and who’s going to make them?

Images of Hamas terrorists publicly executing local Palestinian “collaborators” did not emerge by accident: The brutal Islamists staged this savagery to let everyone — inside as well as outside Gaza — know that they mean business.

Anyone who accepted food aid outside of Hamas-approved channels counts as a collaborator, as do members of families that have historically challenged the terrorists’ rule.

Meanwhile, Hamas has re-opened detention and “interrogation” facilities at Al-Shifa and other Gaza hospitals.

It’s telling the world, Yes, we are the bad guys. What are you going to do about it?

President Donald Trump has said Hamas better behave or “we’ll take care of it.” But he’s not going to send US troops to pacify the territory.

Perhaps the Muslim nations that signed on to the peace plan will deal with Hamas, though what that force would look like is a mystery, with no historical precedent.

Waging war with unprecedented caution for civilian casualties and world opinion, the IDF in two years failed to wipe out the terror group that conducted the Oct. 7 attack.

Yet the Jewish State has redeemed the hostages, defanged Hamas’ ability to strike outside Gaza and established a protective buffer zone.

Israel has every right to finish the job if Hamas won’t go, but it has no duty to save the poor people of Gaza from the terrorists’ rule.

If “pro-Palestine” folks won’t save them, how about some of the governments that just recognized that Palestinian state?
When Hamas turned its guns on us Gazans, the ‘pro-Palestinian’ chorus fell silent
Repression is the regime’s primary instrument: surveillance, arrests, intimidation and unspeakable scenes of public executions and torture. Just as Hamas live-streamed the atrocities of October 7 to terrify Israelis, it makes use of video recordings of its brutality against alleged enemies within to strike fear into ordinary Gazans. A careless word can brand someone a traitor, a blasphemer, or a rival to be eliminated. And it works: Hamas is gradually reasserting control over areas beyond the reach of the IDF.

Meanwhile, the world’s sympathy flows easily, but moral clarity does not. Where are the protestors who for two years claimed to care for Gazans, now that footage of Hamas’s cruelty against its own people floods social media? Are the activists who filled the streets of Western cities and all those human rights organisations truly for us Palestinians – or simply against Israelis?

On Hamas Telegram channels the group pronounces that they won't disarm. They see the ceasefire as merely time to rebuild to restart the next war. It already broke the deal, attacking IDF positions, prompting deadly retaliation.

Humanitarian concern is necessary, but without political honesty it becomes another ritual that sustains the cycle. Viewing Gaza purely as a battlefield between two sides ignores the internal oppression that prolongs its suffering.

Real peace requires more than ceasefires or aid. It demands dismantling the economic and ideological machinery that profits from endless conflict – from regional patrons to local rulers who depend on despair to maintain power.

The vision of a Gaza governed by civilians rather than militants is not naïve; it is the minimum condition for recovery. A society that values education, opportunity and safety over martyrdom could, for the first time in decades, begin to resemble a normal community rather than a permanent front line.

The longing for normal life now outweighs the appetite for heroic slogans. People want to wake up without fear, to rebuild without permission, to live without being told that survival itself is victory.

Over the rubble, banners of triumph still flutter. Yet beneath them, the truth endures – one that even an old man with fading memory can still recall: those who have lost everything cannot celebrate defeat disguised as victory.
Khaled Abu Toameh: The Implications of Hamas's Public Executions and the World's Silence
Hamas, in short, has decided to eliminate any Palestinian opposed to terrorism and supportive of coexistence with Israel.

Hamas's actions also demonstrate that the terror group is determined to exploit the current ceasefire to reassert its control over the Gaza Strip.

The silence, or apathy, of the international community, including so-called pro-Palestinian groups and individuals, towards Hamas's crimes only encourages the terror group to proceed with its crackdown on its own people. The silence of the world, in addition, sends a message to the Palestinians that they should refrain from rising against Hamas and other terror groups in the Gaza Strip.

We have not yet heard of a single Hamas terrorist talking about recognizing Israel's right to exist. In the eyes of Hamas leaders, the Trump peace plan is just another temporary ceasefire that should be used for rearming, regrouping, and preparing for massacring more Israelis.

In recent months, Hamas has been quoting a famous statement by its former leader, the late Ismail Haniyeh, to confirm that the terror group will never recognize Israel's right to exist: "We said it five years ago and we say it now... we will never, we will never recognize Israel."

No transitional government or "Board of Peace" will ever be able to enforce law and order as long as Hamas terrorists feel free to murder any Palestinian who wants peace and coexistence with Israel.

De-radicalization will happen only after Palestinians see that Hamas has been totally defeated, disarmed and removed from power.... Failure to eradicate Hamas will only pave the way for another October 7 massacre against Israel.
  • Monday, October 20, 2025
  • Elder of Ziyon
From Tagesspiegel:

They see themselves as progressive, as left-wing. But in Berlin-Neukölln, that doesn't mean much anymore when it comes to Jews, the Middle East conflict, Israel, and Gaza. Even in left-wing projects like the so-called collective café "K-Fetisch," a place that aims to be a "safe space" for queer people and is committed to fighting racism, sexism, and discrimination.

This is what happened to Raffaela and Abby, whose real names are not being used here to protect them. Both are in their early to mid-30s. She works in the social sector, focusing on interreligious conflicts, and he is an artist—and a Jew. An Israeli who has been living off his art in Germany for several years.

Late Friday afternoon, at 5:30 p.m., they were at K-Fetisch. The name of the bar is pronounced "coffee table." It describes itself as follows: "We currently define ourselves as a left-wing trans* and non-binary collective that advocates for people with diverse life experiences and identities."

Raffaela's identity apparently wasn't among them. "I was wearing a T-shirt with the word falafel written on it in English, Arabic, and Hebrew," she says. "When I went to order something at the counter, the waitress looked at my T-shirt and then asked me if it was Hebrew."

Raffaela replied, as she later told Tagesspiegel, that the text on her T-shirt was in Hebrew, with the word falafel written next to it in Arabic. "After that, she refused to serve me," Raffaela says. "I don't serve you," the counter employee said. And that she didn't serve Zionists.

"She began to loudly insult me, saying I supported the genocide in Gaza, that Hebrew was the language of the oppressor, and that they wouldn't tolerate people like me in their café," Raffaela recounts two days later. "She ordered me to leave the café immediately, whereupon my companion and I left."

But that wasn't enough. "When we were standing in front of the café, she took a photo of us from inside," Raffela says. They then went back inside and asked the waitress to delete the photo. "But she demanded my name to officially ban me from the premises." Raffaela didn't give her name,

The overall situation was deeply hostile and intimidating.

The employee then aggressively ordered her to leave the café. Raffaela says: "We said it was anti-Semitic, because she rejects the Hebrew language per se. And that it was like the 1930s, that she didn't know us and had no right to judge us."

But the employee continued to insult them and told them they should be ashamed of themselves. Other employees tried to calm the situation but were shocked themselves. It had become loud, and the café was busy. "One guest asked us to finally calm down," says Raffaela.

"The overall situation was deeply hostile and intimidating," the victim continues. And all because of the Hebrew lettering on her T-shirt. "This clearly has an anti-Semitic background."

In addition, the "Falafel Humanity Shirt" is part of a charity project to promote peace and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians. It was initiated by Hamburg-based designer Nikolai Dobreff, with the help of Iranian designer Golnar Kat Rahmani, who lives in Berlin, and Israeli designer Liad Shadmi, who lives in Hamburg.
Die Welt adds that the coffee shop used to be pro-Israel - until October 7, 2023, when it issued a long statement against Israel and then mentioned, by the way, that they were also against antisemitism;  please don't vandalize us.







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  • Monday, October 20, 2025
  • Elder of Ziyon



The language that the New York Times uses is maddeningly consistent in its pro-Hamas tilt.

Yesterday:
Israel Strikes Gaza and Temporarily Halts Aid, Saying Hamas Broke Truce
Israel launched a wave of attacks on Gaza after accusing Palestinian militants of attacking its forces across cease-fire lines. 

Israel on Sunday launched its heaviest wave of attacks on Gaza since a fragile cease-fire took hold a week ago and said it had temporarily suspended humanitarian aid after accusing Hamas of violating the truce by firing on its soldiers, killing two.

If two soldiers were killed, then there is no doubt who broke the truce. Yet only Israel is framed as having acted aggressively, while Hamas actions are mere Israeli claims.

Next, the headline for a video report:

Flare-Up of Violence in Gaza Tests Cease-Fire

Israel launched a wave of attacks on Gaza and temporarily suspended aid on Sunday after accusing Hamas of firing on its soldiers.

Two dead soldiers? A mere accusation.

And today, from a third writer:

A new round of violence on Sunday showed just how arduous the road to a broader agreement in Gaza will be between the two sides, which have repeatedly accused each other of violating the truce.

Two Israeli soldiers were killed and another was wounded when Palestinian militants launched an anti-tank missile at an army vehicle, the Israeli military said. The attack took place in Rafah, in southern Gaza, on the Israeli-held eastern side of the cease-fire line. Israel called it a blatant violation of the agreement’s terms. Hamas officials were quick to disavow the attack.

Israel responded quickly, with a punishing bombardment of what it described as Hamas installations and Gaza officials said that 44 Palestinians were killed across the territory on Sunday. Israel said it was cutting off the supply of humanitarian aid to the devastated territory indefinitely, but later tempered that, saying that aid deliveries would be paused only until the bombardment was over.

Practically all the information comes from the IDF. But only IDF claims of its own attacking are considered factual, any IDF assertions of Hamas attacks are mere "claims."  That language subtly makes the idea that Hamas shot the RPGs that killed two soldiers suspect.

Here are the two soldiers:

Based on NYT reporting, they may have died from falling into a ditch, or friendly fire, or a car accident. The idea that Hamas killed them is merely an Israeli claim, and we all know how unreliable those Jews are with facts. Not like the principled, factual New York Times, which righteously subjects every Israeli statement to high skepticism - especially when the virtuous Hamas denies it. 






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Sunday, October 19, 2025

  • Sunday, October 19, 2025
  • Elder of Ziyon
We see it happen every day - people make up lies about Israel and they get repeated as truth because, hey, of course Jews would do these awful things they were accused of.

Jewish Onliner published a partial list of lies about Israel popularized during the war.

I just saw an Egyptian op-ed that claimed that Netanyahu's speech to Knesset in front of Donald Trump "reflected the deep-rooted extremist Zionist ideology and its adherence to the illusion of 'Greater Israel,' raising flimsy religious slogans based on the so-called 'Abrahamic Promise' ...Netanyahu's speech confirms the renewed rounds of conflict with the Zionist enemy, and that it is a fundamental issue in the conflict, constantly seeking to destabilize the region from a Zionist perspective, under the banner of the 'Abrahamic Promise,' that is, the promise of God to the Prophet Abraham, by which they claim that God granted the Children of Israel vast lands between the Euphrates and Nile rivers, according to the Book of Genesis, Chapter 15, Verses 18-21.  "

Only one problem: Netanyahu didn't say any of this. 
 
The article's description of the speech is fiction. But how many Egyptian fact checkers are there to point this out?

Whether it is Al Jazeera, or social media, or speeches by anti-Israel activists, there is no downside to lying. When the lies are pointed out, they are denied or brushed off as not respecting the larger truth. No one loses credibility from lying about Israel, whether they are journalists or politicians. On the contrary, those who tell the truth about Israel are the ones who are in fear because they will be hounded and harassed. 

It is like Israel is a distortion field where lies become received wisdom and facts are treated as conspiracy theories. 

This is a screwed-up world.




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From Ian:

Mark Zlochin: The shape-shifting story of Hind Rajab
Over the months following Hind Rajab’s death, the narrative about the circumstances of this tragic incident changed shape many times. Through successive retellings by Al Jazeera, Forensic Architecture, and others, what appears to have been a fog-of-war incident was gradually recast as a seemingly clear-cut case of deliberate targeting. Yet the deeper examination shows something far more uncertain — a scene defined by confusion, poor visibility, and overlapping gunfire. These central issues were steadily pushed aside even though they are essential to understanding what really happened.

Summary of main findings:
1. Ignored contextual factors affecting visibility: None of the reconstructions considered the combined effect of three critical factors — the cloudy, low-visibility weather; the car moving north despite Israeli instructions for civilians to evacuate south; and the use of plastic sheeting over the car windows, which would have further obscured visibility inside the vehicle. This crucial context undermines claims that those inside the car could have been clearly seen and deliberately targeted, while its omission in every reconstruction undermines the integrity of those investigations.
2. Early vs. later accounts: Early descriptions depicted a car under fire while still moving — a scenario which, in combination with the low‑visibility factors described above, explains why the car could’ve been reasonably perceived as a potential threat. Later accounts, however, shifted to a stationary car parked in clear view, eliminating the motion factor that made misidentification under conditions of high uncertainty plausible and recasting the episode as deliberate attack on an unambiguously civilian target.
3. WhatsApp transcript omissions: Two key messages appear in the Arabic screenshots featured in the English-language Al Jazeera investigation, but are missing from the English narration and all subsequent coverage: the first message noting that two family members had left the car, and the final message in which Mohammed Hamada informs the Red Crescent that Layan has been killed. These omissions directly contradict both the narrative that the family remained trapped inside the car throughout, and the Red Crescent’s account of their supposed final call with Layan — underscoring the significance of what was left out..
4. Forensic Architecture’s analysis: Their modelling depended entirely on the contested recording, which — even taken at face value — reveals at least two weapon types, inconsistent shot counts, and contradictory sound signatures — strong indications of crossfire rather than a single, deliberate volley. Moreover, the claim that the shooter had a “clear view” of the children ignores the evidence that the shooter’s view was heavily obstructed by the plastic‑covered windows, the seatbacks, and the low-visibility conditions on that cloudy day.
5. Shifting timelines and destinations: The family’s supposed route and the timing of the attack changed repeatedly across accounts. Apart from the obvious issue of the reliability of these accounts, in the latest version, which places the first attack in the early morning, there remains a gap of over six hours between the alleged start of the incident and the first documented contact with the Red Crescent. No published reconstruction acknowledged or attempted to explain this glaring six-hour gap, even though it fundamentally affects how the sequence of events — and any claim about intent or coordination — can be interpreted.

Taken together, these inconsistencies reveal how a battlefield encounter clouded by uncertainty in the midst of crossfire was gradually reframed into a narrative of deliberate atrocity. The evidence instead suggests a chaotic encounter in which poor visibility, miscommunication, and the pressures of combat likely resulted in tragic misidentification and the deaths of civilians caught in the crossfire. Recognizing these complexities does not diminish the human loss; rather, it restores factual integrity to a dramatic event that has been repeatedly weaponized for political ends.
Melanie Phillips: The Birmingham jihad
Yet Khan turned this “Jew-hunt” into Maccabi “hooligans” who he called “violent fans,” thus reversing offender and victim. This kind of inversion, of course, characterises the Palestine cause itself, which preposterously accuses Israel of the genocidal intentions that the Palestinian Arabs have towards the Jewish state simply because Israel defends itself against such an onslaught. As with the Palestinian Arabs and Israel, so with these British Muslims and the Maccabi fans.

The British state in unable on every level to deal with this. Indeed, it doesn’t even understand what’s happening to it.

Keir Starmer said he was appalled by the ban. His government is reportedly “doing everything in our power” to reverse it and is “exploring what additional resources could be required” to guarantee public safety.

Good luck with that one. Given the incitement against the Maccabi fans by Khan and his ilk, this has now become an even bigger headache than it originally was. But the real problem is vastly more huge and significant than one football match in Birmingham.

Sectarian Islamic politics and the demonisation of Israel and Jews are now out of control in Britain and have breached the walls of Parliament itself. Although one Muslim MP, the Conservative Saqib Bhatti, has spoken out bravely against the Maccabi ban, others along with Ayoub Khan are making vicious statements. Iqbal Mohammed MP has said:
Thank you all who put the safety of Aston Villa fans, Birmingham residents snd the British public above the zionist and political pressure to let Israeli hooligans and terrorists run riot in our country.

Zarah Sultana MP, the former Labour MP who now sits as an independent and has a long history of eye-watering hatred of Israel, also posted on X:
Next UEFA must ban all Israeli teams.We cannot have normalisation with genocide and apartheid.

The presence of such virulent Islamic extremists in parliament reflects in turn the antisemitism, threats and incitement being promoted by Islamic clerics to which successive governments have resolutely turned a blind eye.

A Nottingham imam Asrar Rashid, who has said that if the Maccabi fans come to the Birmingham match “we will not show them mercy,” has also called for Muslims in the UK and “other white nations” to take up arms to carry out pre-emptive strikes against “white people and white nations” who have been committing “genocide” against Muslims — in Canada and Australia, don’t you know, as well as in Gaza.
Stephen Daisley: Anti-Jewish sentiment has poisoned our police
It says that officers who have been trained to avoid victim-blaming in other circumstances feel comfortable intimating that a Jew making known his Jewishness is asking for trouble. It is outrageous, too, that a detective would pursue a line of questioning that suggested there was something provocative about a Jew wearing a modest Star of David pendant. It seems we are very much in the realm of: ‘Well, you were wearing that miniskirt, love.’

What do we think would happen if the police had behaved the same way with, say, a Muslim woman? She turns up at a pro-Israel rally in her hijab seeking to document the activities of protestors. The police arrest her and an interviewing officer suggests her head covering is ‘antagonistic’. How long do we reckon it would take between the video hitting social media and the Met commissioner issuing a grovelling apology and sending half the force on Islamophobia awareness training?

The hijab hypothetical would never happen because the police are scared of Muslims. Not the majority of Muslims who cause no trouble for anyone but that minority who take to the streets to protest offence, and sometimes attempt to intimidate, as seen with the Batley Grammar teacher who was hounded after showing a picture of the Prophet Muhammad, the schoolpupils who scuffed a copy of the Quran in Wakefield, and the mobs who forced The Lady of Heaven film out of British cinemas in 2022.

Muslims who wish to bully authorities into submission have the implicit threat of public disorder or violence. Wouldn’t want a Charlie Hebdo attack on your hands, would you? Jews have no such calling card attacks in the West to demonstrate the consequences of failure to bow to their demands.

The experience of Jews in Britain is an object lesson in the brutal realities of a multicultural democracy. The more law-abiding, productive, and integrated a demographic, the more likely it is to face mistreatment by institutions of the state.

The primary duty of the state is not the protection of its citizens but the maintenance of the illusion of harmony in a country where thuggishness prevails. Jews, on the whole, are not thuggish. They pose no threat. They have no power.

You can arrest them, you can interrogate their religious apparel, you can call the Star of David ‘antagonistic’, and no mob will come for you. This is where we are and where we’re heading.
  • Sunday, October 19, 2025
  • Elder of Ziyon
The Mennonite Central Committee has a webpage to help Gazans. Here's what it looks like in most browsers:


You see people stuck in a temporary, ad-hoc shelter. 

But when you look at the entire uncropped picture, you can see other interesting details.


A city largely untouched by any bombs, with people living in the apartment buildings around the tent, including one that looks almost luxurious.




And we even see a couple of satellite dishes:



I can't help but wonder why don't the people living in the buildings surrounding the makeshift shelter, like the ones who are enjoying Netflix and football matches in their living rooms,  invite their fellow Muslims in to their own apartments? 

And when you look up this photo (taken in 2024), we  read that the woman has two disabled children. I cannot imagine any Israeli who sees a homeless family with disabled children out their window letting them stay on the street. They would gladly crowd them into their own house rather than leave them in the rain and cold.  And in the months after October 7, many Israelis did house the tens of thousands of suddenly homeless Israelis near Gaza and Lebanon.

No one doubts that Gazans are not living in great circumstances, and many indeed are homeless as their cities have been destroyed by Israel rooting out Hamas terrorists and booby traps hidden there. But this specific photo raises more questions than it answers. 

(h/t Irene)





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  • Sunday, October 19, 2025
  • Elder of Ziyon
Images have emerged of Japanese men cosplaying as Hamas terrorists on city streets.




It is hard to tell if this is genuine admiration or simply the gamification of what is seen on the news as if real terror is another form of videogame. An interview with one apparent cosplayer indicates that he is doing it as a joke, unsure if he is pretending to be Hamas or Hezbollah.




It is not the first time this has happened, Already in December 2023, there were photos of Japanese men pretending to be Hamas, but in this case they were clearly imitating Hamas videos, indicating that they are more fans than trying to shock. And this wasn't an individual but a group, less than two months after October 7.





Whether or not they are aware of what they are doing, all of this normalizes Islamic terror as a joke at best, or something to be emulated at worst. 

Japan does not designate any group as "terrorist" by that name, but it does have financial sanctions on Hamas since October 7 2023. However, there does not seem to be any laws against pretending to be a Hamas member. 




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  • Sunday, October 19, 2025
  • Elder of Ziyon


From Dagens Nyheter:

The Jewish International Film Festival in Malmö cannot proceed as planned.

One reason is that cinemas do not want to lend out their premises due to safety concerns.

"We made that decision for the safety of our employees," says Irene Hernberg, PR manager for Filmstaden Norden...."We made the decision in the spring because the geopolitical situation was unstable. Our employees were worried. It was the employees themselves who said there could be demonstrations outside," she tells DN.

In the end, [festival organizer] Ola Tedin received positive signals. The Jewish film festival was to be held at Moomsteatern. But then new information came:

"Fourteen days ago, I got the message that they had needed to check the booking with Folkets Hus, which owns the premises. Then the board came back with the message that it wasn't possible to hold the film festival there,"   Ola Tedin explains.

DN has sought out Roger Olsson, chairman of the board. He informed Ola Tedin via email: "The board has assessed that we cannot ensure the safety of existing tenants, participants, staff, and the surroundings." 
The police said they didn't see any problem with security. This was purely a decision made by the venues.

"Safety" has been the excuse to exclude, or attempt to exclude, Israeli and Jewish participation in other events recently, such as various cycling events and Eurovision. But in the end it is always the Jews who have to suffer - and the boycotters and violent protesters are the winners.

The Panora venue claimed they lacked the capacity for the festival. However, it hosted the Nordic Palestinian Film Festival last March with no issues.

Its funny how there is always a reasonable sounding excuse to discriminate against Jews. 





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