IDF says intel shows two slain Al Jazeera journalists were members of terror groups - "The IDF says intelligence shows that two Al Jazeera journalists targeted in an airstrike on Sunday in southern Gaza’s Rafah, were members of terror organizations in the Gaza Strip. The strike was carried out after the IDF said it spotted a terror operative piloting a drone, and subsequently hit a car they were in. Hamza Wael Dahdouh, the son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza correspondent Wael Dahdouh, and Mustafa Thuria, a video stringer for AFP who was also working for Qatar-based television, both died in the strike. The IDF says its intelligence confirms both are members of Gaza-based terror groups and were “actively involved in attacks against IDF forces.” It says Thuria was identified by a document found by troops in Gaza as a member of Hamas’s Gaza City Brigade, serving as a deputy squad commander in one of the battalions. Dahdouh, according to the IDF, is a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. It says documents recovered by troops in Gaza reveal he served in Islamic Jihad’s electronic engineering unit, and previously was a deputy commander in the Zeitoun Battalion’s rocket firing force. The IDF attaches a copy of the document showing Dahdouh was a member of Islamic Jihad’s electronic engineering unit."
So much for Israel killing journalists and being an enemy of press freedom. We also know from 7 October that some "journalists" were unusually close to Hamas (one even was holding a grenade)
SPECIAL REPORT: THE ‘JOURNALISTS’ OF GAZA. A MODERN-DAY ANTISEMITIC CONSPIRACY THEORY PROMOTED BY MAINSTREAM MEDIA - "‘Journalist’ Mohammed Jarghoun celebrating Jan 27 as seven Israelis were murdered in Jerusalem..
Journalist Hisham Alnwajha, celebrating on October 7 as Hamas massacred 1200 Israelis.
Journalist Duaa Sharaf celebrating on April 7 2022 as a terrorist slaughtered 3 Israelis in Tel Aviv...
The war in Gaza is the worst type of war, with Hamas deliberately hiding behind (or under) civilians and using bodies of dead civilians as part of a desired military strategy. This report deals with claims that 70- 107 journalists in Gaza (depending on which list you follow) have been killed during this conflict... This report shows that the claim Israel has been targeting journalists to silence them is an unsupportable and disgraceful fiction. The report does not replace one fiction with another. It has no theory of its own and states nothing beyond those facts that speak for themselves. Finally, the report contains 100s of footnotes and there are 1000s of individual points. A lot of time was spent checking and rechecking accuracy. Much of the original material was in Arabic. Because not all information is publicly available it is likely the report may contain a small number of unintended and minor (and inconsequential) errors. These may be searched out (or invented) by detractors and used to try to discredit the report. The mountain of evidence contained below is overwhelming and minor inaccuracies (invented or real) will not change the overall picture it paints...
The research below was based on a thorough online search for the 107 names presented as Palestinian journalists allegedly killed by the IDF since the start of the Gaza/Israel conflict... The Hamas list was quickly found to be full of errors, containing many Hamas / Islamic Jihad members along with others who are not connected to news gathering or reporting. On the CPJ list, 35 of the 70 named journalists (50%) are openly associated with proscribed terror groups and are therefore active parts of terror organisations at war with Israel. Approximately 19 (27%) others on the CPJ list do not seem to be ‘’journalists’ at all. A freelance graphic designer who works for a PR company, a builder, the unemployed, someone whose father runs a sports club, and administrative employees of media companies, are examples of people listed as journalists by the CPJ. The CPJ reports are full of errors and misplaced assumptions. The research is sloppy, citations do not support statements, and the CPJ appear to work backwards (an assumption that a person named by Hamas is a journalist unless proven otherwise). The CPJ do not appear to have even bothered to look at publicly available social media accounts before making increasingly outrageous statements against Israel. Many of those listed died at home (approximately 70/107 -63% or CPJ 45/70 -68%), some visibly in strikes on Hamas leadership settings – not in the field. This is of vital importance when considering the reason for their death. For example, an employee of an Islamic Jihad channel is included even though he died in the house of his father - a top Islamic Jihad commander. The CPJ’s methodology and research appears to be consistently amateurish and significantly compromised. Of those with publicly available social media accounts at least 79% promoted and celebrated terrorism and the death of innocent civilians (evidence contained below). The CPJ have consistently broken its own rulebook to include people it shouldn’t have. Given the overwhelming support for terrorist atrocities against innocent Jewish civilians, it is fair to conclude that these people are not impartial, nor there to just ‘report the news’. Each of the 54 people captured in the journalist directory on p42 would face arrest in almost every country in the west for their support of radical Islamic terrorism. It is therefore misleading, and inaccurate for western media outlets to refer to them as ‘journalists’. If mainstream media figures consider these people to be journalists – and therefore have been relying on evidence they (or those like them) provide – it suggests our mainstream media is parroting the propaganda of proscribed terrorist groups and their supporters, whether unwittingly or actively...
There are also numerous duplicates. For example, Mustafa Al Naqib and Rajab Naqib (numbers 9 and 19 on the list of the PJS) are shown as the same person.Huthaifa Lulu (number 71 and 98) are also the same person...
everything that follows was publicly available information. Any media outlet or NGO could have easily uncovered the truth. Yet not a single one of them did. Most of them willingly chose to help to spread the lies"
Embedded Gazan Journalists II: Jody Foster movie comes to mind - "I critiqued a piece on the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) website in which they began by rejecting the claims of the first Honest Reporting exposé regarding possible prior knowledge on the part of Gazan journalists of the impending violation of the 2014 ceasefire between Israel and Hamas/Gaza and the ensuing pogrom on Israeli soil. In this article, I address journalist complicity in the pogrom itself... We saw photographs of civilian Gazans streaming through kibbutz gates opened by the terrorists. The journalists were there when hostages were being carried off into Gaza. we know they were because they provided the news agencies with photos, one of which was named among the list of “Images of the Year.” They photographed Gazans carrying away the dead and identifiable body of an IDF soldier (included in “Photos of the Year”) and of the naked and mutilated body of Shani Louk, whose crime was attending a music festival with her boyfriend... I read the newly published Honest Reporting continuation of their investigation into the photojournalists who had breached the fence along with Hamas. And that cinched it. The central thrust of their article was to point out the personal connections of particular journalists with Hamas leadership but within that article I found support for comparing the journalists with the crowd that egged on the gang rapers in the Jody Foster movie. In the following two “X” posts, we see excited Gazan journalists sharing their experiences, calling the events “global-scale scenes,” laughing, saying “all of Gaza” was there, and even inviting others to join them as the pogrom progesses. I suggest you watch the videos yourself. Note that in the second post, Abu Mustafa talks about “young people” taking about 50 female settlers back into Gaza — “young people” and not Hamas terrorists or however he, himself, would refer to a Hamas terrorist (soldier? militant?). Then he descibes a scene inside a home, making it clear he directly observed at least one scene of the atrocities. What else did he see? Probably a lot more, as he says that he will download more videos. Mostly, we see his infectious way of describing “a one-time opportunity” that is not to be missed. And he gives instructions regarding the best place to cross the fence. I rest my case."
BBC suspends several Arabic journalists for social media posts endorsing Hamas terror attack - "The BBC has suspended several of its journalists associated with the BBC Arabic news portal and launched an internal investigation into their actions after staff appeared to endorse Hamas’ terror attack in Israel... An independent investigation by the U.S.-based Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), reported its findings to the BBC, providing evidence of concerning behavior by several members of the organization. One journalist allegedly described the atrocities committed by Hamas on Oct. 7 as a “morning of hope,” while another posted on X, formerly Twitter, that the attack had left “Israel’s prestige crying in the corner.” Others, including Cairo-based correspondent Salma Khattab, liked a post describing Hamas as “freedom fighters,” while Beirut-based programs editor Nada Abdelsamad reposted footage of Israeli civilians in hiding who were described as cowering “inside a tin container in fear of the Palestinian resistance warriors.” Another senior correspondent was reported to have poked fun at the relatives of an Israeli grandmother who was abducted by Hamas and is being held captive in Gaza. In addition to the remarks of certain individuals, the impartiality of BBC Arabic’s output, both through its TV channel and news website, has been called into question after referring to towns within the recognized state of Israel as “settlements” and the local residents as “settlers.”... The public broadcaster has been embroiled in controversy following the attack on Israel, which has sparked formidable retaliation in Gaza after editors refused to refer to those involved in the Hamas surprise attack as “terrorists.” This is despite Hamas being classified as a proscribed terror organization by the U.K. government back in 2021, thus justifying the use of the term for a corporation that strives to be impartial."
'We Must Dezionize Because Zionism Is A Death Cult. We Must Normalize Massacres As The Status Quo' - "Speaking at a pro-Palestinian rally in London, poet and activist Mohammed El-Kurd unleashed a furious tirade where he equated Zionism with all the world's ills, calling to purge all institutions in Western democracies of this alleged monstrosity. Kicking off by accusing of Israel of perpetrating a genocide in Gaza, El-Kurd moved on to "the culprit," i.e. Zionism, a word that before 1948 had designated the aspiration for a sovereign state for Jews in their ancestral homeland, and thereafter has come to refer to the belief that the world's only Jewish state should not be violently eradicated. Yet El Kurd invests the word with the sinister overtones it has acquired in Cold War-era Stalinist and Islamist rhetoric, whose echoes in the language of today's activist circles in the West are unmissable. "This is a moment for transformation. There have been 30,000 martyres. This is our moment to transform the world," he called. "We must reject Zionism in all of our institutions because to be anti-racist is to be anti-Zionist." "It does not contain multitudes, it does not contain double meanings, it is not romantic. Zionism is apartheid, it's genocide, it's murder, it's a racist ideology rooted in settler expansion and racial domination and we must root it out of the world. We must de-Zionize because Zionism is a death cult." Signing off, the activist called to "normalize the massacres as the status quo." The Anti-Defamation League said of El Kurd that he traficks in "unvarnished, vicious antisemitism. El-Kurd has accused Israelis of eating the organs of Palestinians and of having a particular lust for Palestinian blood. He has compared Israelis to Nazis, negated the historic Jewish connection to the Land of Israel, and vilified Zionism and Zionists.""
Obviously they just want peace and to stop genocide
Israeli soccer player arrested in Turkey after dedicating goal to hostages - "Israeli national team forward Sagiv Jehezkel was taken into custody and interrogated on Sunday after celebrating a goal with a tribute to hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip for 100 days during a Turkish Süper Lig match. Turkish Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunç announced on Sunday that he will initiate an investigation against the player, and local media reports that the Jehezkel has already been taken in for police questioning... Two weeks after the war began, the Turkish Football Federation held a minute’s silence to commemorate "Palestinian citizens who lost their lives due to the Israeli attack," with all teams wearing black armbands in solidarity with Gaza."
Clearly, if you want Jewish hostages released, you support Palestinian genocide and must be fired and jailed
Irwin Cotler: South Africa is inverting reality by accusing Israel of genocide - "In the wake of the Oct. 7 atrocities, apologists for Hamas — as if there could be any justification for mass murder — took the position that the events of Oct. 7 had to be understood, if not justified, in their “historical context.” The true historical context of the Oct. 7 invasion — the context that set the stage for those heinous acts — is the standing crime of incitement to genocide not only by Hamas, but by its patron, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and by Iran’s other terrorist proxies, including Hezbollah in Lebanon and Ansar Allah (the Houthis) in Yemen, all of whom have called for the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews. Indeed, Hamas’s founding charter openly declared its genocidal intentions, and since it took power in Gaza in 2006, it has engaged in a domestic campaign of antisemitic indoctrination, while its leaders have clearly and consistently incited genocide against Israelis and Jewish people worldwide. Since Oct. 7, Hamas leaders have continued to proudly declare their genocidal intentions, with senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad pledging to commit the Oct. 7 atrocities “again and again.”... Israel’s actions in Gaza are impossible to reconcile with the intention to commit genocide — a necessary element of the crime. Israel consistently seeks to minimize harm to civilians using measures including leaflets, messages and phone calls to urge civilians to evacuate targeted areas, creating humanitarian zones and corridors, and facilitating humanitarian aid. On the other hand, Hamas embeds itself within civilian structures, places its headquarters beneath hospitals, fires rockets from within schools and mosques and adjacent to UN sites, and builds the entrances to massive terror tunnels under children’s beds. Not only are there over 130 innocent Israelis still being held hostage in Gaza, but over two million Gazans are also being held hostage, as Hamas uses its own people as human shields. Indeed, Hamas has repeatedly murdered Gazan civilians who have sought to flee combat zones. While Israel seeks to minimize civilian casualties, Hamas seeks to maximize them. For when innocent Gazans are killed, Hamas benefits in a twofold manner — it enables the demonization of Israel internationally, and the radicalization of Gazans domestically. Painfully, the weaponization of the genocide libel serves the same purpose, reflected in the global incentivizing of antisemitism. In asserting standing before the ICJ, South Africa has emphasized “its own obligations as a State party to the Genocide Convention to act to prevent genocide.” But by launching a baseless proceeding against Israel for the crimes of genocide and incitement to genocide, it provides protective cover to Hamas and its related Iranian terrorist proxies, who themselves are the ones guilty of those crimes. South Africa thereby inverts reality and subverts the rules-based international order. This subversion is dangerous, and deeply concerning, following the pattern set by Vladimir Putin’s Russia — with President Putin using false accusations of genocide in his “Nazification” libel as the pretext for launching his criminal aggression against Ukraine. Indeed, South Africa’s cynical weaponization of international law was further demonstrated when, on Jan. 4, less than a week after launching the ICJ proceedings against Israel, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomed the leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to his home in Pretoria. The RSF, complicit in the Darfur genocide 20 years ago, is once again perpetrating mass crimes against humanity in Sudan, including the massacre of innocent civilians and the systematic use of sexual violence. Recently, over 100 legal experts warned that Sudan sits on the precipice of another genocide."
Mario Nawfal on X - "🚨BREAKING: SOUTH AFRICA TO TAKE U.S AND UK TO COURT FOR COMPLICITY WITH ISRAELI WAR CRIMES South African Lawyers have announced they intend to file a lawsuit against the U.S. and UK, charging them with accusations of complicity with Israel on alleged war crimes. The news comes as UK Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron said it is "nonsense" for South Africa to accuse Israel of genocide. Source: Sky News"
Dr. Eli David on X - "LMAO 🤣 One of the world's most failing and corrupt countries, is taking the rest of the world to court 🤡"
Opinion: The genocide case against Israel is an abuse of the postwar legal order - The Globe and Mail - "South Africa – the country that in 2015 refused to send former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir of Sudan to the International Criminal Court to stand trial for his contribution to war crimes in Darfur, and instead facilitated his return to Sudan where he continued his crimes... we find ourselves in the perverse situation where a genocidal organization such as Hamas is able to escape legal scrutiny or sanction for committing genocidal acts, while the country that is the intended target of its genocidal intentions is being called upon by the International Court of Justice to defend itself from allegations of genocide. This is an insult to what genocide means, an insult to the perception of the ability of international courts to retain their legitimacy and transcend global politics, and an insult to the memory of all of those on whose behalf the Genocide Convention was created. History will judge Israel’s response to Hamas’s genocidal attack on Oct. 7 and determine whether the retaliatory measures it took to protect its security were conducted in accordance with the law. That is a legal question that will necessarily balance purpose, cause, effect and context. It will consider issues such as what limits there are on a state defending itself from terrorism – Israel’s Supreme Court has been the global judicial leader in defining the requisite legalities; how a state can address, let alone eradicate the threats to its security and survival when it is confronting an adversary like Hamas, which ruthlessly uses innocent civilians as human shields and embeds itself in civilian public spaces such as schools, hospitals and mosques; what measures justify the search for kidnapped civilians; and the consequential harm. There will inevitably be accountability – if only the world showed the same obsessive interest in holding other countries to legal account."
South African leaders had 'cosy' meetings with Hamas after deadly October 7 terrorist attack before accusing Israel of genocide - "A Hamas delegation visited South Africa in December, at a time when even Arab countries were distancing themselves from the terrorist group, which killed nearly 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped about 250 during the atrocity. Israeli sources said the visit by Hamas leaders shows the 'cosy' relationship South Africa has had with the group over the years, which the sources say helps to explain why the ANC-led government decided to accuse Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice... Israeli minister Amichai Chikli has claimed that among the sitting South African delegation at the ICJ hearings at the Hague was Shawan Jabarin, a 'peace activist' accused of having ties with the terrorist group, the Popular Front For The Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)... Basem Naim, a leader in Hamas's political office, led the December delegation to South Africa, which included the group's representative in Iran, Ali Al-Qaddumi. The group visited the South African Parliament and African National Congress politicians, as well as holding a press conference in memory of the country's former president, Nelson Mandela. They also met Mandla Mandela, Mandela's grandson, at a ceremony held at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, the seat of the South African government. It also emerged that South Africa's foreign minister, Naledi Pandor, spoke to Hamas's political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, days after the October 7 attack... The South African government's apparent support for Hamas has divided both politicians and the public, as two victims of the October 7 attacks were Jews who were South African nationals."
Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ on X - ""The late South African President Nelson Mandela would be ashamed of this immoral action and in view of this, I hope you can understand that regrettably I cannot continue in good conscience to serve the current Government of South Africa." Powerful words! An Honorary Consul to South Africa resigns, over SA's baseless proceedings against Israel over 'genocide', that were heard last week at the International Court of Justice!"
Freed Israeli hostage says she endured ‘psychological warfare’ during 50 days of Hamas captivity - "Asher, her mother and daughters, 5-year-old Raz and 2-year-old Aviv, were thrown into the back of a tractor with other hostages from the kibbutz, before gunmen opened fire. Asher was shot in her back; Aviv was shot in the leg; her mother was shot dead... After 16 days, Asher and her daughters were taken from the apartment to what she described as a “so-called” hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. Why “so-called”? Because a hospital is “a place that is supposed to take care of people, but instead it was taken over by Hamas and they used it to hide hostages,” Asher said... When they were “smuggled” out of the hospital into a Hamas vehicle, she did not know where she was being taken. “No one told us that we were getting released,” she said, “so the drive through the streets of Gaza was very, very frightening.” She said the streets were lined with thousands of people – including children and the elderly – trying to hit the car and knock on its windows. Asher said she feared she would be lynched... “I can’t comprehend what has happened to my family, and I can’t comprehend the inhumanity of them. People who murder people in their beds. Who does that? That’s not human.”"
Obviously they're lying. Believe women, unless they threaten the left's agenda
Toronto synagogues reportedly turned down for federal security dollars - "“The denial doesn’t give them a reason why,” Lantsman told the National Post, expressing dismay that the prime minister and cabinet ministers seem to talk tough on protecting Canada’s Jews, but don’t facilitate getting the funding to those who need it. “These guys go around saying they’ve increased funding and the prime minister is taking pictures in synagogues, and yet four of these institutions just in the past couple of weeks have been denied.”... Antisemitic hate crimes have exploded in Toronto since Oct. 7, with police saying 53 per cent of all hate crimes reported to them since the war began were committed against Jews."
Too bad. They need to reserve the money for "Islamophobia"
Protesters paid to take part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations - "a Victoria, B.C., organization was distributing thousands of dollars to anti-Israel protestors. The Plenty Collective, as it calls itself, created what it called a “Solidarity Fund” for Victoria-area “folks or groups” to pay for “costs related to supporting or organizing actions in solidarity with Palestine and Palestinian people.” Said the Plenty Collective: “This fund is to help cover costs incurred when organizing or participating in local actions. This can include, but is not limited to, the costs of lost wages, supplies, items for fundraising, paying speakers, etc.” Priority was given to Palestinian, Black or Indigenous people. And thousands have been paid out for weeks now — typically close to $20,000 every month. The Plenty Collective did not respond to multiple attempts to seek comment. Ian Ward, a municipal councillor for Colwood on Vancouver Island — along with local activist Charles Bodi — discovered the pay-a-protestor payment scheme. And he’s seen the effectiveness of the paid-protests up close. Says he: “They are highly organized. I’ve watched them. A van pulls up, and they’ve got flags, signs, and they’ve got organizers from the Plenty Collective wearing orange vests controlling the crowds.” “And they have control because they are holding the cash for the protestors.” Much of the money is being generated locally, says Ward, who was the first to break the news that Victoria City Councillor Susan Kim — along with Ontario MPP Sarah Jama — had signed on to a pro-Hamas letter that denied Israeli women and girls were sexually assaulted on Oct. 7. But some of the money, he says, seems to be coming from elsewhere: “We don’t see them being this organized, and this well-funded, without offshore money.” It’s not just happening in Victoria, B.C. In the U.S., there is now confirmation that anti-Israel — and often anti-Semitic and violent — protestors are getting paid to protest. A multi-millionaire tech mogul, Neville Roy Singham, has — along with his wife Jodie Evans — been bankrolling pro-Palestinian protests since last year. Their “People’s Forum” has organized multiple anti-Israel protests since Oct. 7 — including a number of efforts designed to “shut down” public and private sector offices. On Nov. 24, they posted on X: “Are you ready to disrupt business as usual? No celebrating in peace while genocide takes place!” Some of the anti-Israel funding has seemingly been right out in the open. On Craigslist, a now-deleted November ad read: “We are looking for 5-7 actors or activists to hold panels and distribute flyers in front of a venue as a peaceful, legal protest. Needed for November 24th, evening, 2-3 hours, paying $30/hour.” Nov. 24 was the same day, of course, as the pro-Palestine “shut down” protests, where 34 were arrested trying to disrupt the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade and Black Friday sales. “They’re paying for protestors to try and lend credibility to their movement,” says Ward. “Oct. 7 was just stage one. These carefully-crafted and controlled protests are a public relations campaign, and I think are the real objective. “They are really an attack on Western democracy and Western values. Our way of life is literally being challenged here. And we are in danger.”"
Paid protests are only invalid when the left disapprove of them
Toronto police ban protest at Avenue Rd. overpass - "Toronto police are banning protests, rallies and demonstrations on an Avenue Road highway overpass following a series of high-profile incidents... The announcement follows recurring protests on the overpass over Highway 401, protests that have been criticized by some city councillors and Jewish groups for the location in a neighbourhood with a large Jewish population. Councillor James Pasternak recently presented a motion, which passed, calling on the city to look into whether it should ban protests on the overpass. The motion said “it is only a matter of time” before the protests, meant to “deliberately distract drivers,” cause a fatal accident... Police have shut down the bridge at least three other times, citing the safety of demonstrators, counterdemonstrators and passing traffic."
Of course, many left wingers were very upset. Of course, if you harass Muslims to protest what Islamic countries do, you're an Islamophobe
Three anti-Israel protesters arrested for defying bridge demo ban - "Three protesters were arrested at the scene. Cyrus Reynolds, 33, of Newmarket faces a single charge of mischief. Hesham Aly, 36, of Toronto, and 26-year-old Ali Nasser of Mississauga both face charges of obstructing a peace officer."
I wonder why they travelled so far to protest
Three anti-Israel protesters arrested for defying bridge demo ban - The Avenue Road bridge over Hwy. 401, in the heart of Toronto's largest Jewish community, has been a popular site for anti-Israel protesters : canada - "The "hitler" signs are comparing Netanyahu to Hitler, an apt comparison when both are conducting ethnic cleansing campaigns. This whole thing is such terrible journalism. But what can you expect from conservatives, they lie like their mom would die if they didnt"
"That's what at least one of the Nazi flags at the "Freedom Convoy" was doing (comparing Trudeau to a Nazi), but no one seemed to notice a difference there."
Toronto police chief reverses course, identifies 'terrorist flag' waved at demonstration - "A day after refusing to identify the "terrorist flag" held at a demonstration last weekend that led to charges being laid against a man for public incitement of hatred, Toronto's police chief said the flag belongs to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine... Dania Majid, president of the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association, said police "tactics" and "messaging" are re-enforcing anti-Palestinian racism and creating a public perception that Palestinians and Arabs are a threat to public safety."
Naturally, this is unrelated to the protests. Guilt by association only applies for protests the left disapproves of. And arresting someone for waving a flag the left supports is monstrous (if it's a Confederate flag, that racist must be locked away forever, of course)
All the anti-semitism, intimidation and violence have nothing to do with "anti-Palestinian racism" and the "public perception that Palestinians and Arabs are a threat to public safety", of course
Israelis attacked in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz after speaking Hebrew - "Couple in their 20s is approached by an Arabi speaking assailant who first shouts abuses at them and then throws a bottle at the woman followed by a chair and punches the man who rises in her defense, before fleeing"
Just anti-Zionism. Nothing to see here. All Jews must be held responsible for what the Israeli government supposedly did. But if you hold any Palestinians responsible for what Hamas does, you're a monster
Bloodied and scared: families share photos of girls held hostage by Hamas - "The images, taken just hours after their abduction, showed the terrified and bloodied faces of four young women, Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Daniela Gilboa and Agam Berger... Subsequent testimonies revealed harrowing accounts of rape on the day of the massacre and other atrocities committed during captivity... "There were girls who spent 50 days and more alone. When they were sad, crying, their captors would stroke them and touch them. They described accounts of sexual abuse under gunpoint on a regular basis. "Some of the girls were badly wounded and haven't been getting proper medical care. Gunshot wounds, even lost limbs. They said they can cope with the disability but not with the manner they were constantly violated."
Believe women. Unless it threatens the left's agenda
'A museum of horrors': A sexual violence expert arrives in Israel to witness atrocities firsthand - "Tatiana Kotlyarenko, an advisor on anti-trafficking issues at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), has arrived in Israel to examine more closely... Kotlyarenko was also puzzled by the egregious demand for photographic “proof” for women being raped, as cases of rape around the world never encounter that sort of skepticism to begin with. When it comes to Israeli and Jewish women experiencing a different standard, she said it’s a clear sign of discrimination and an inexplicable will to get legitimacy to sexual violence stemming from antisemitism. “The reality is sexual violence is prohibited by international law,” she said. “There’s no excuse or justification for sexual violence in any form.” She described the violence she witnessed as methodical, which she emphasized as a point that needs to be examined thoroughly. When it comes to the puzzling silence, at least up until recently, exhibited by women’s organizations around the world, Kotlyarenko wanted to understand why it took them so long to get on the same page with their Israeli counterparts, as they’re usually the first to sound off when sexual violence occurs, even in cases that are not as horrific as the events of October 7. “In cases of conflict, a woman’s body becomes a battlefield, and what happened in Israel is a testament to that effect. If they ignore it in Israel, they’ll ignore it in other places as well,” she said."
Noa Argamani not kidnapped by Hamas but by Gazan civilian mob, NBC finds - "Noa Argamani became a symbol of the monstrous cruelty of Hamas terrorists in the massacre on October 7, after a viral video documented her abduction from the Nova music festival in Re'im, along with her boyfriend Avinatan Or. She has been in captivity in Gaza for 74 days. However, a new report published Tuesday suggests that it is possible that Hamas is not the one who abducted her."
Clearly, normal Palestinians don't support Hamas and are not anti-Semitic
Opinion | My Second Trip to Gaza Was as a Hostage. I Will Never Return. - The New York Times - "in the years that followed, my interactions with Gazans grew. I met Gazan businessmen who traded with my brother-in-law in the city of Be’er Sheva and who came as guests to my home in Nir Oz. I sat alongside them in the traffic on weekend journeys to Tel Aviv. For a time, you could imagine that we were destined to live together. Nevertheless, we expected that Gaza would eventually return to the Egyptians in exchange for peace and normalization but hoped that the ties with Gazans would remain. After the Camp David Accords left Israel in control of Gaza and the failure of Oslo led to the bloodshed of the second intifada, our hopes for coexistence were extinguished. By the time Israel disengaged unilaterally from Gaza in 2005 and sealed the border, we were strangers once again. I could feel the old shadows slowly returning to Nir Oz as Hamas took power. On Oct. 7, masked Hamas gunmen burst into the bomb shelter inside my home and kidnapped me; my daughter, Keren; and my grandson, Ohad. My husband, Abraham, was knocked out trying to stop the screaming men from entering the safe room and was taken away separately from us. He is still in captivity, his condition unknown. Hamas also killed my son, Roy, as he tried to defend Nir Oz. Later that day I was back in Khan Younis, 56 years after my trip to the beach. Over the next 49 days, I spent most of my time locked in a small room on the second floor of a hospital. My jailer, who went by Mohammad, called himself a soldier of Hamas, but he didn’t look like a soldier. I was being guarded by a man in civilian clothes and held against my will in a civilian building... Mohammad told me that had it not been for Hamas, he would have had no money or opportunities. It was not quite an apology, more of an explanation, but the bitter irony is that because of Hamas, we both now have nothing... I will not go to Gaza a third time. Perhaps one day Israelis will again take a trip to the beach in Gaza or host merchants over coffee at their homes. I hope our two peoples can finally live in peace, side by side. And I know that if Hamas remains in power, that will never happen."
Damn Zionist liar!
Clearly all the people in civilian clothes who get killed at civilians, and Hamas is not using civilian buildings for military purposes
Richard Hanania on X - "Israel has lost 14 soldiers in 48 hours, and at least 468 in the war so far. Remember that Israel has the capabilities to starve and bomb Gaza until an unconditional surrender. But it sacrifices its young for a population that cares about hating Jews more than its children. On October 12 I called for a siege of Gaza. Unfortunately international pressure hasn’t allowed it to be total, which is the reason the war hasn’t already ended. But Israel is still on the path to victory, it just takes the sacrifice of more Jewish lives."
The Ethical Case for a Siege of Gaza - "The classical liberal or libertarian emphasis on individual rights can only be transferred to the realm of international relations with great difficulty... Some will talk of the “right” of Israel to defend itself, or the “right” of Palestinian self-determination. But Israel’s right to defend itself means killing a lot of innocent people. And the Palestinian right to self-determination is just a fancy way of saying men with guns telling other people what to do because of where they happen to live, which given the record of Arabs I’m sure they would screw up much more than most other states have. With utilitarianism, we might at least hope to make some progress, unlike what tends to happen when we engage in endless debates about who has the right to do what. All reasonable people agree that Hamas is a bad actor, and both sides would be better off if they no longer had power. The problem is that they hide among civilians, and there’s no way to eliminate them without causing a lot of pain to innocent third parties. There’s also the question of what comes afterwards, and who exactly ends up governing Gaza. What seems certain is that there is no decent future for the people of the territory as long as the current leadership is in charge. Hamas will not only continually attack Israel, but keep its own citizens poor, repressed, and subject to reprisals. The question of what to do about this seems like a classic dilemma in which we have to ask ourselves whether we want to inflict short term pain for a greater long term good... Anti-war types will make the argument that repression hasn’t worked up to this point. Yet given the power disparity between the two sides, Israel has been remarkably restrained. The 2008-2009 Gaza War, for example, led to 1,000-1,500 combatant and civilian deaths, a tiny fraction of the population. We can analogize this to the struggle against crime in El Salvador, which I’ve previously written about. People for a long time said you can’t just arrest your way out of the problem. Then Bukele came along, went much further than everyone else while ignoring the human rights crowd, and suddenly the murder rate plummeted... Israel would be wise to extract at the very least a demand for recognition before it lifts the siege. Direct governance is probably impossible, but they could eventually perhaps hope for their own Kadyrov, which could in the best case scenario be the first step towards something better down the line once the death cult of Palestinian resistance is extinguished. The recent attack has in any event shown that the status quo is untenable, by making it impossible to deny the ultimate ambitions of Hamas, while reminding us that their capabilities are likely to only increase over time. Israel has tried the path of seeking to ensure that Gazans suffer as little as possible for the actions of their government, based on the theory that they are not responsible for what Hamas does. This moral intuition is correct, but it does not give guidance regarding how to go forward. On the question of fighting crime in El Salvador, I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation and came to the conclusion that even if you assume Bukele’s crackdown has swept up quite a few innocents, the benefits of reducing the murder rate by an order of magnitude suggest it is worth it. We can conduct a similar analysis here... getting rid of Hamas has potentially massive benefits down the line for future generations of Israelis and Palestinians alike"
Canada to accept 1000 family members of Palestinian-Canadians into country
When the anti-Semitism increases, it'll be time to blame white people and obsess over "Islamophobia"
Weird. We are told that Egypt won't take them because it will fulfil Israel's nefarious plot to chase the Palestinians out. So the pro "resistance" crowd should oppose this
Meme - "*peace sign* FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA
*In Mirror: armed militant*
YOU'RE NOT A PEACE ACTIVIST
YOU'RE A WAR ACTIVIST"
Gazan influencers move from joy to tears following IDF operation - "One of the major influencers in Gaza is Saleh Aljafarawi, who has become a familiar figure in Israel during the war. On October 7, he posted a video of himself cheering against the backdrop of rockets fired toward Israel from near his home. A few days later, he posted another video in which he was seen crying and scared, saying that his close family members were killed in IDF attacks... Daniel Wachtel is compiling posts made by Gazans at the start of the war compared to their thoughts two months later. For many Gazans, the result is a bleak picture that illustrates the gap between their cheering for the terrible massacre carried out by Hamas on October 7 and the suffering that followed them due to the war... In one of Silwan's posts since the start of the war, she wrote: "The realization that there some messages that will never be answered." In her latest post on X, she wrote: "I don't know how they conquered this country; may Allah curse those who gave them weapons and left us defenseless." Silwan, 29, added to her account the caption “R.I.P - rest in peace” a nod to the possibility that she might be killed during the war. Anas Matar, a civil engineer and student of architecture and building restoration, has over 60,000 followers on X. He also celebrated the massacre, and on October 7 he posted a picture of an IDF soldier who was killed, writing: "A soldier lies dead at our feet." Today, Anas sees Hamas' terror attack in a different light. "While you encourage and celebrate because of the videos and the resistance’s achievements, I've been looking for shelter for my people in Gaza since morning, after the tanks approached them. My family has two options: siege and death or displacement," he wrote... Another Gazan influencer is Ahmed Balousha, who has about 13,500 followers on X. "The sword is crossed against the other one; we’re Mohammed Deif’s people," he wrote on the day of the Hamas attack. However, as the days passed, it seemed Ahmed began to realize the situation to which Hamas condemned Gazans in the Strip. In a post Balousha wrote after the start of the IDF's ground operation into the Gaza Strip, he said: "Who can send me $5,000 to get me out of Gaza? I'm not joking." Ahmed also criticized other Arab countries, claiming that they abandoned Gaza in its difficult hour. "We will never forget, even if we live, we will teach our children that all of the Arabs are traitors, and no one stood by our side or helped us. On the contrary, they stood against us," he wrote."
The first guy is aka Mr FAFO
Hamas launched an attack on Israel, but Arab nations are traitors for not helping them