Jesse Kline: Western media wilfully ignorant of Hamas using hospitals for war crimes - "The Oct. 17 “bombing” of the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City led to a “day of rage” against Israel throughout the Muslim world. Of course, when it was revealed that, rather than a hospital being bombed by Israeli war planes, a parking lot was hit by an errant Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket, we did not hear calls for a day of rage against Palestinian terror groups. In reality, Al-Ahli was just a test run, a prelude to a concerted Hamas campaign to falsely accuse the Jewish state of committing war crimes against vulnerable civilians while covering up its own violations of international law. And many in the West, fuelled by anti-Israel media outlets, are buying the terrorists’ propaganda hook, line and sinker. Over the past week, international media has been dominated by stories about Israel attacking hospitals, ambulances and schools, of children and babies dying as medical facilities in northern Gaza run out of fuel and other supplies. All of this is heartbreaking, but it’s not the full story. Hamas has been using hospitals, playgrounds and schools to shield it’s military assets. And the same Hamas-run health ministry that perpetrated the Al-Ahli fraud to incite violence against Israelis is now using Israel’s attempts to dismantle those terrorist assets to perpetuate the lie that the Jewish state is committing some sort of “genocide” in Gaza. And many of the wire services that are reporting on the ground in Gaza are basing their stories primarily on the statements made by those same Hamas officials, whose mistruths are being repeated by protesters on the streets of Canada and elsewhere... the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) provided journalists with what it said was “concrete evidence,” including intercepted communications and admissions made by several enemy combatants, showing that Hamas had built a tunnel network underneath the hospital and that hundreds of terrorists “flooded into the hospital” after massacring Israeli civilians on Oct. 7. The White House subsequently confirmed on Tuesday that it has evidence that Shifa Hospital is being used as a “command-and-control” centre and likely a weapons depot. This is no mere coincidence. Hamas’s history of using human shields is well documented. And this is exactly what it looks like. Hamas has been using its base underneath Shifa to store weapons and direct rocket attacks against civilian targets in Israel. It has been exploiting the hospital’s generators to power its underground bunker, while allowing babies to die as incubators and other life-saving medical equipment run out of electricity. Hamas fighters have been caught on video firing at Israeli forces from inside the Sheikh Hamad Hospital, inviting the Israelis to fire back to be used as further “evidence” of Israel’s alleged atrocities. Videos and photographs showing the IDF uncovering a tunnel entrance from within Sheikh Hamad Hospital and a command-and-control centre that included a large cache of weapons hidden below a children’s hospital have been made public. Meanwhile, Israel tried to provide Shifa Hospital with 300 litres of fuel, but it was refused. Israeli government sources say they intercepted a phone call from a Hamas official who told hospital administrators they were not allowed to accept the fuel, even though it would save the lives of their own people. Israel has spent over a month telling Palestinians to flee northern Gaza and has offered to help transfer patients to safer medical centres. Yet Hamas has told them to stay put, to be used as martyrs in its deadly PR war against Israel. Hamas is barely trying to hide its use of civilians trapped in hospitals as human shields, yet reputable international media outlets and anti-Israel protesters have been willing to turn a blind eye to the overwhelming evidence of the organization’s continued war crimes. This is not unexpected from people who take to the streets simultaneously accusing Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians, which it is not, while advocating for a Palestinian state “From the River to the Sea” — a call for genocide against the Jews. But one would have hoped that western media would be more apt to accept the evidence provided by a liberal democracy with a free press over the word of a designated terrorist organization that just finished slaughtering, raping and mutilating over 1,200 people, mostly civilians. Unfortunately, there are some in the media who simply don’t care about the truth. An open letter published late last week that has so far been signed by over 1,200 “reporters, editors, photographers, producers and other workers in newsrooms around the world” (though the list includes many former journalists, freelancers and others who are not affiliated with major news outlets) seeks to inject even more anti-Israel bias into the press. The letter — whose signatories include those from the Washington Post, the Guardian and MSNBC — begins by lamenting the death of 36 journalists throughout the course of this war, which is tragic, though certainly a known risk for any correspondent venturing into a war zone. But it goes on to accuse Israel of “lethally targeting journalists,” while hailing the “brave efforts” of “our colleagues in Gaza.” This, despite the fact that Israel is listed by Reporters Without Borders as having the freest press in the Middle East and North Africa — a far cry from Gaza, which the organization notes is “a particularly inhospitable territory for press freedom.” The letter charges that, “News coverage has positioned the attack (of Oct. 7) as the starting point of the conflict without offering necessary historical context” — insinuating that indiscriminately murdering children and babies, sodomizing young women and taking civilians hostage was somehow justified by history, while conveniently leaving out the Arab rejection of the United Nations partition plan and numerous offers of Palestinian statehood, along with Israel’s complete withdrawal from Gaza. It also accuses Israel of committing war crimes — without, of course, providing any evidence — and calls on the media to use false and inflammatory terms such as “apartheid,” “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” when describing the Jewish state. This push for even less objective journalism than we already have has real-world consequences, inflaming mobs who swallow Hamas’s BS and putting pressure on politicians to withdraw their political support for Israel’s war against a terrorist organization that doesn’t even try to hide its genocidal intent. All while inciting continued violence against Jews, in Canada and around the world. This just goes to show the importance of supporting reputable news outlets that are committed to the truth and reject the notion that journalism should be driven by progressive ideology, rather than facts."
When the double standards and anti-Semitism are clear
Jonathan Pollard calls for hostages' families to be silenced, arrested - "Jonathan Pollard, who spent 30 years in prison on espionage charges and was released in light of intensive public and diplomatic efforts, called for the families of hostages to be silenced, including by imprisonment... Pollard added that, while he was in prison, he had opposed a proposal by the US to release him in exchange for Israel releasing Palestinian prisoners as a gesture to the Palestinian Authority. The released spy asserted that Hamas intends to drag out the hostage exchange and ceasefire as long as possible in order to rearm and warned that as soon as the hostages are released, the US will increase pressure on Israel and force an end to the war... Pollard stated that if he had a child fighting in Gaza now, he would tell them to drop their weapons and come home. "The casualties that we are incurring right now are pointless. The future is quite discernable. We will not be allowed to destroy Hamas.""
Tasha Kheiriddin: Africans are being slaughtered, but with no Jews to blame, the left shrugs - "There’s a place on this earth where terrorists are shooting babies in the head, mass-raping women to “punish and terrorize” populations, and burning entire communities to the ground. Where women and girls have been taken hostage and are being held in “slave-like conditions.” Where an ethnic group is being targeted for its race by Arab terrorists bent on driving them out of their homeland... The place is Sudan, and the targets are Black Africans, the Masalit. And this horror show has been happening for seven months, without much more than a peep from world leaders, human rights activists, and the “progressive” left. No marches, no rampages at universities, no vandalizing Arab businesses. No calling Muslims colonizers, baby killers, or any other number of epithets being thrown around these days. No protests by Black Lives Matter or other allied groups decrying the killing of people for the colour of their skin, everyday, by a religious-based group bent on their extermination... The world has seen this movie before. Between 2003 and 2008, 300,000 Masalit were murdered and 2.5 million displaced by the Janjaweed, an Arab militia force... And their tactics are brutal. Researchers at the Center for Information Resilience verified videos of militiamen rounding up and whipping Masalit men in Ardamata. One video shows men being struck with rifles by uniformed men, some wearing the RSF insignia, who called their victims “sons of dogs.” The RSF reportedly targets men and boys, to take their land and wipe them out as an Indigenous Darfuri group... at the “civil society” level, the reason is simple: the conflict doesn’t fit the left’s anti-colonial narrative. The oppressors are not white or white-adjacent. This crisis cannot be blamed on capitalism, the United States, or Jews. There is nothing for the left to gain, politically, by calling out a community that is part of its own coalition. So just like feminists stay silent when Jewish women are raped, progressives fail to stand up for Black Africans when they are massacred. The crisis in Sudan exposes “intersectionality” for what it is: a big, fat anti-semitic lie. The hypocrisy is beyond belief. And the Masalit are the ones to pay the price."
It's not just the left. Muslims don't care either
FIRST READING: Federal commission declares Christmas holiday is 'religious intolerance' - "Canada’s increasingly extreme “pro-Palestine” demonstrations have yielded their first mass-arrest. On Thursday, Toronto Police arrested 11 people in connection with the vandalization of a Toronto Indigo store. On Nov. 10, the location was splashed with red paint and covered in posters accusing Indigo CEO Heather Reisman of supporting “genocide” (she’s Jewish and also supports a charity that provides tuition to former Israel Defense Forces soldiers). Among the 11, what’s notable is the suspects are not a group of radical university students; most are in their 40s or 50s, one’s a York University professor, one’s a public school teacher and one’s a psychotherapist"
Instagram video by Rose Hamad • Nov 17, 2023 at 8:43 PM - "The perfect response to October 7th"
This (asking what about October 8th and all subsequent days) is literally whataboutism. Also does this mean the nakba is irrelevant and Palestinian supporters need to stop going on about it?
By this logic, Pearl Harbor is irrelevant because of the firebombing of Japanese cities. But as we know, according to pro-Palestinian logic, Germany and Japan were the victims in World War II and the US was committing genocide, since the former 2 had so many civilian casualties and the latter had none
KINSELLA: UBC banner links trans and Palestinian 'liberation' | Toronto Sun - "“TRANS LIBERATION CAN’T HAPPEN WITHOUT PALESTINIAN LIBERATION.” Universities being places of higher learning and all that, it looks like the banner-hoisters maybe forgot the apostrophe in the word “can’t.” So I added it for them. They must have gotten up on the roof to hang the banner, too, because it’s several stories up. Interesting, that... let’s do a fact-check on that one, shall we? Here’s a short summary of the reality for lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer and two-spirited folks in Palestine, which is mainly run by Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. To avoid any accusations of settler-colonial-genocidal-apartheidish bias, we’ll try and rely on non-Israeli sources, okay?"
Malaysia slams students, teachers carrying toy guns in schools in solidarity with Palestine - "Online images showing children and teachers in Malaysia bearing mock firearms in local schools as part of government-endorsed nationwide Palestine solidarity programmes have raised concern among locals. The Education Ministry also criticised the extremist elements in those activities. One video shared on social media on Friday showed teachers parading before assembled students at an unidentified school, carrying toy guns while wearing black-and-white chequered Palestinian keffiyeh, or scarves... Malaysia’s Education Ministry on Friday condemned the use of the toy guns in the solidarity programmes and said it prohibited the use of replica weapons, icons and symbols in a “provocative and confrontational manner”. “This programme falls outside the period set for the Palestine Solidarity Week and does not adhere to the guidelines set by the ministry,” it said in a statement, adding there will be no room for activities with extremist elements... The educational programmes have raised concerns online among Malaysians. “What about rights for other refugees? What about doing the same for those slaughtered in Myanmar, for example? Championing issues shouldn’t be based on religion but human rights principles,” wrote Malaysian activist and film-maker Mahi Ramakrishnan on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday. Others disagreed with bringing the support for the Palestinian cause into local schools. “If a student does not intend to participate or donate, would they be labelled as Zionist or anti-Palestinian?” wrote another X user. “If politics can be used to exploit this matter and incite racial sentiments, what more students who are not mature enough to understand this complex issue?” Multiple civil society groups also raised objection to the solidarity week. The Kuala Lumpur-based Global Human Rights Federation released a joint statement representing 17 non-governmental organisations to state the proposed programme was “not adequately considered for its long-term impact”, and decided without Parliament discussions or consultations with parents. Some states are looking to break away from the ministry-issued directive. Schools in the eastern state of Sarawak would not be obligated to organise the solidarity week programme, said Mr Chong Chieng Jen, MP for the state’s Stampin constituency, adding that he had obtained confirmation from federal Deputy Education Minister Lim Hui Ying. “The Ministry of Education should not involve school students in the international political conflict of Palestine and Israel, as the conflict is a very emotive and complicated issue. Anger and hatred are normally associated with such issue,” Mr Chong said on Thursday. “These are not what we want our young children to get involved in during their childhood in schools.” Sabah schools will also not be required to hold Palestine solidarity programmes"
Jotam Confino on X - "Update on Al Shifa hospital in Gaza: Israeli army releases more footage of what it says is evidence of Hamas forcibly transporting hostages, a Nepalese civilian and a Thai civilian, who were kidnapped from Israel on October 7. The army says the video and stills are from Al Shifa Hospital on October 7th, between the hours of 10:42 and 11:01 a.m. “in which hostages abducted from Israeli territory are seen surrounded by armed Hamas terrorists. One of the hostages is injured and is being carried on a hospital bed and the other is walking.”"
Shai Goldman on X - "Not only were hostages brought into Al Shifa hospital , they were also murdered in the hospital. Nobody in the hospital said a thing: doctors , nurses, UN, WHO, not a soul. The false narrative that Hamas were the only bad guys in Gaza is going to be more revealed via hard evidence."
Rita Panahi on X - "Are the anti-Israeli folk really arguing that Hamas were taking the hostages to Al Shifa for medical treatment? Does it look like they’re concerned about the health of this poor man?"
Ronen Lahat on X - "That’s why they breached into Israel, to take as many Israelis as possible for urgent medical care"
Asaad Sam Hanna on X - "Look at this, if Hamas was taking the hostages to AlShifaa hospital for a medical treatment, however they would go, they would passed at least two other hospitals before reaching Alshifaa hospital."
Hillel Neuer on X - "BREAKING: First images from Hamas terror tunnel built right below Gaza's Al Shifa hospital. Items found from Kibbutz Be’eri, site of Oct. 7 massacre, and IDF-issued weapon & helmet, indicating Hamas held hostages there. @DrTedros, isn't this a war crime? Report by @ItayBlumental"
Literally "this is not happening, and it's good that it is"
Irish Jewish Voice on X - "Hamas live stream and record their massacres and you don't believe they happened. Hamas say Israel bombed a hospital killing 500 and you believe Hamas. Hamas say Israel killed 11,000 and you believe Hamas. Hamas drag hostages into Al Shifa hospital with weapons including a meat cleaver. You say they are bringing them there for treatment. Israel says there are tunnels under Al Shifa, you say show us the proof. Israel shows you the proof. You still don't believe them. The ONLY thing this shows is your continued gaslighting of Jews and your deranged belief in Islamic Jihadi terrorists #Antisemitism"
Opinion: Muslim leaders should've condemned Hamas instead of fomenting hate - "Part of the reason we are seeing division, hatred and unrest in the streets of Montreal, Toronto and other communities across Canada is due to the collective failure of Muslim leaders, in Canada and around the world, to condemn the despicable Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians. It was a horrific and cowardly attack by a terrorist group — not by all Palestinians, Arabs or the wider Muslim community. It should have been condemned and contained immediately. Muslims who pride themselves as followers of a peaceful religion should have empathized and consoled the grieving Jews. There was a lot of time to do this. There was a lengthy delay between the attack and Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza. Instead of taking this time to condemn Hamas’s slaughter, Arab and Muslim politicians and government leaders promoted anti-Jewish hate to shore up their political support. This is nothing less than encouraging antisemitism. Muslim political and religious leaders, barring rare exceptions, chose to contextualize, equivocate and, in most cases, justify Hamas’s barbarity. What we have, as a result, is widespread hate bordering on violence in Canada — a country where communities have historically lived side-by-side in peace. The situation got worse due to the statements made by community leaders like Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s special representative on combating Islamophobia, who did not hide her partisan and divisive outlook by clearly siding with the protesters on Canadian streets, characterizing them as “peaceful demonstrations,” even though we have seen people supporting Hamas, calling for genocide against Israeli Jews and harassing and intimidating Jewish-owned businesses. On Twitter, Elghawaby approvingly cited a quote from a Toronto Star column reading, “The stories I have heard are both fantastical and true. Muslims (and others who silently sympathize with the loss of Palestinians lives) are being disciplined, maligned, isolated and targeted at work.” Instead of reaching across the aisle and consoling the Jewish community, she has instead chosen to focus her public comments on rising Islamophobia. Seriously? Remember the Muslim family who were killed in a hate-related attack in London, Ont., a couple years ago? All communities, including the Jewish community, across the political and religious spectrum unambiguously condemned that hate crime. And it brought a sense of relief and security to Muslims in Ontario. Remember how, after more that 50 people were gunned down while worshipping at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019, political and religious leaders from all faiths stood behind Muslims and consoled them? Also, after the Quebec mosque attack, almost all communities in Canada chose to stand with Muslims. There were images of people in Alberta who formed a human chain to protect Muslims. Similar scenes were witnessed elsewhere in the country. Jewish community leaders spoke out, loud and clear, in support of Muslims and against hate and bigotry. But that is not what Elghawaby did. Instead, she makes it sounds as though it is Muslims who are the victims, while failing to mention the barbarity unleashed on Oct. 7. This is not leadership. This is not her mandate. Her job is to promote tolerance... What we are seeing instead is a rising tide of anti-Jewish hate on our streets, promoted and peddled by Muslim leaders themselves, either by gaslighting the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, or wallpapering it with the political colours of the Palestinian cause."
Arrests made at Calgary pro-Palestine protests - "As a result of the obstruction, three have been charged with assaulting a peace officer, while a fourth person was charged with obstruction of a peace officer... Calgary police said Monday three people — 30-year-old Wassime Taha, 25-year-old Wafik Kassem, and 25-year-old Mohamed Hamdanie — have all been charged with one count of assaulting a peace officer. Investigators say this is in relation to the individuals “pushing against police officers to break through the police line.” Those three are set to appear in court on Jan. 12, 2024. Mervat Hamdanie, 27, has been charged with one count of obstruction of a peace officer. Police say this is because she “[interfered] as police attempted to make an arrest.”"
NYC Muslim-We Will Not Stop Until Islam Enters Every Home - "Emboldened devout Muslim in NYC after the October Hamas strike against Israel"
Pro-Palestine protesters block train tracks in Winnipeg - "The group protesting in Winnipeg is demanding the federal government call for a ceasefire."
Blocking infrastructure only gets your bank accounts frozen if it's a protest the left disapproves of
He's a Communist Trust Fund Baby Who Inherited Millions. Now, He's Using Daddy's Money To Harass Jews. - "avowed communist James "Fergie" Chambers secured "multiple hundreds of millions of dollars" from his family, which controls the Cox Enterprises empire. Now, he's using his inheritance to bankroll a far-left activist group that's harassing Jews across the country. Chambers, whose billionaire father James Cox Chambers co-owns the NBA's Atlanta Hawks, in July revealed that he cut ties with his family, securing a significant payout from Cox Enterprises in the process. Months later, following Hamas's Oct. 7 terrorist assault on Israel, Chambers began using that money to pay the legal fees for members of Palestine Action U.S., a radical group that is targeting Israeli businesses and other friends of the Jewish state with vandalism and harassment. Those actions, Chambers says, are part of a broader effort to popularize coordinated attacks against Jews and their allies. "We need to start making people who support Israel actually afraid to go out in public," Chambers said in a Friday Instagram post. "We need to make all of white America afraid that everything they have stolen is going to be burned to the ground. That's what makes them listen." Anti-Israel groups have long received financial backing from liberal megadonors—one of America's loudest Hamas apologists, for example, is a subsidiary of left-wing dark money giant the Tides Center. Still, Chambers's spending and stated mission reflect a troubling new era of fringe activism, one in which well-funded militant demonstrators are eager to break the law and immune to the subsequent financial repercussions. Palestine Action U.S. members have in particular targeted Elbit Systems, an Israeli defense company that provides the Jewish state with counterterrorism equipment. The group's members last month clashed with police outside of the company's Boston office, a demonstration that the group boasted "completely halted" Elbit's business and led to "multiple arrests." Within hours of the ordeal, Palestine Action U.S. members were back on the street, having been released from jail thanks to Chambers's funding... Those demonstrations have already caught the attention of law enforcement officials, who argue that Palestine Action U.S.'s militant tactics and Chambers's deep pockets could lead to serious violence. Two such officials told Los Angeles Magazine that federal agencies have "received intelligence" that Palestine Action U.S. could threaten homeland security and heed calls from Hamas to carry out attacks in America. Chambers, who did not respond to a request for comment, has dismissed those concerns by saying his "comrades" are "not violent" and merely "break things." "We have made absolutely zero threats to anyone's well being or personal safety." But Elbit employees disagree, saying Palestine Action U.S. members have followed them home from work. Chambers has also disparaged "Jews in New York or L.A." who "make themselves out to be the victims" and said he wants to "up the stakes."... Chambers, who serves as Palestine Action U.S.'s spokesman in addition to his role as the group's benefactor, has long espoused radical beliefs. He serves as general secretary and founder of the Berkshire Communists, a Massachusetts-based group that uses "agitational methods" to combat "the structural oppression of bourgeois fascism and its protectors." He opened a martial arts gym in New Hampshire that he describes as a "free, anti-fascist training space, where cops, active military, landlords, and Zionists are not welcome." And he claims he sent a grant to an Israeli-designated terror organization, the Samidoun Network, to support Palestinian "political prisoners." "No faction of the Palestinian resistance, Hamas or other, has done *anything* wrong," Chambers wrote days after the terror group's attack on Israel, which included the slaughter of innocent women and children. Elbit, meanwhile, is far from the only entity to face Chambers's wrath. Palestine Action U.S. has also taken credit for spray painting anti-Semitic graffiti on the Israeli embassy and American Enterprise Institute office in Washington, D.C."
Anti-semitism is only bad when it comes from the "right"
Pro-Palestinian graffiti seen scrawled on monuments around White House - "Video showed a Palestinian flag raised on the statue of the Marquis de Lafayette near the White House, with "Free Palestine" spray painted on its pedestal. A Palestinian keffiyeh, popularized by the Palestine Liberation Organization, was put on the head of one of the figures at the foot of the pedestal. A Palestinian flag was also raised on President Andrew Jackson's statue. Red handprints resembling bloody handprints were seen on the entrance gate to the White House."
Defacing monuments is only sacrilege when the left doesn't approve of it
Benny Johnson on X - "I’m at the White House right now. Every monument has been desecrated and vandalized. Most of the graffiti says “F*** JOE BIDEN” This one is literally across the street from Hunter’s room at the White House. Weird how I’m not seeing this anywhere? Where are the reporters?"
Debate over ‘from the river to the sea' chant rages after Calgary protester charged - "Many pro-Palestinian activists have said the chant is a call for peace and equality after 75 years of Israeli statehood... "Israel is bordered … on one hand by the Jordan River and on the other side by the Mediterranean Sea," he said. "When you have … people chanting 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,' the question I would pose is: Where do the Jewish people go? "Going into the ocean is not an answer. That is hate speech, that is targeting a group of people and saying you don't belong in that country.""
It's telling that calling for Israel to be wiped out (with Jewish genocide implied) is seen as "freedom" and "equality"
The left hates hate speech laws when their speech is in question
EU nations condemn Hamas for what they describe as use of hospitals, civilians as 'human shields' - "Israel says Hamas shields itself among civilians in hospitals, and that Gaza City's largest Shifa Hospital is a prime example of that. Israel claims the militants have a command center in and beneath the medical compound. It has not provided photos or videos to back up its claims though it has shared footage of militants operating in residential neighborhoods and positioning rockets and weapons near schools and mosques."
Weird. According to that meme Israel considers all civilian installations Hamas bases
FIRST READING: The Canadian lawyers and professors signing petitions to 'contextualize' Hamas terror - "The 700 signatories are not mere student activists. The list comprises a cross-section of influential professors and authors who have been championed by their universities, quoted as experts in the media and used to guide public policy... Canada is not the only Western country to be calling for some kind of “ceasefire” in the Israel-Hamas conflict, but we do appear to be the only one calling for “détente.” Even the Western countries most critical of Israel (such as France) want Hamas destroyed in principle, but they just want it to be done with less collateral damage somehow. Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly went well beyond all of this with a bizarre Thursday statement seemingly calling for a negotiated settlement with Hamas . Israel should stop its pursuit of Hamas in order to foster “détente, and so allow … even more negotiations at a negotiating table where there are Israelis, Hamas and Qatar which is present.”"
Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 on X - "Ngo exclusive: A source in Portland, Ore. sent me this video. On Nov. 17, extremist pro-Palestine protesters stopped a truck on Sandy Blvd., climbed on it and confronted the terrified driver. The Portland area has been marred by multiple Palestine direct actions involving leftist criminal activity. http://ngolocals.com"