Four-in-five in the US public supports Israel, Netanyahu cites poll in response to Biden - "We have had significant successes in this area, as today in the United States, the Harvard CAPS-Harris poll was published, showing that 82% of the American public supports Israel. In other words, four out of five citizens in the United States support Israel and not Hamas. This gives us additional strength to continue the campaign until absolute victory."
The terrorism supporters keep claiming Israel has lost support due to its "genocide"
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim on X - "The new Harvard Harris Poll shows that 82% of Americans support Israel in this war, and 68% think Israel is doing what it can to avoid civilian casualties. A few takeaways from this poll are quite meaningful: 1) Americans support their fellow democracies. 2) Americans hate terrorism. 3) The attempts of pro-Hamas demonstrators to disrupt American lives have backfired. 4) Zoomers are not convinced by the histrionics on campus, and 72% of them support Israel now. 5) Israel is winning the war of opinion AND the war on the battlefield. 6) Gaza is NOT a winning issue for the left. They are barking up the wrong tree."
Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 on X - "America loves Israel and isn’t buying the Palestinian propaganda. Most of the anti-Israel accounts on social media are foreign but use English, creating the perception that they’re in the U.S. Social media is a grand illusion."
voz.us/from-anti-israel-activist-to-kidnapper-laura-allam-arrested-for-planning-the-kidnapping-of-jewish-employee-in-australia/?lang=en - "Australian authorities arrested influencer and anti-Irael activist Laura Allam Monday, accusing her of being the mastermind behind the kidnapping and torture of a Jewish employee. The 28-year-old woman has been charged with kidnapping, armed robbery, illegal detention, assault and battery against a 31-year-old man. The events occurred in the municipality of St. Albans on Feb. 16. That day, according to Victoria Police, the victim was dragged from his vehicle. He was beaten and kicked and transferred to the trunk of another car. After being held by the criminals, the man was released in another municipality. The injuries the man suffered required medical intervention. Two people have been arrested for the incident, among them pro-Palestinian influencer Laura Allam. According to Australian outlet The Herald Sun, Laura Allam is part of the Lebanese community. Through social media, Allam maintains several active profiles which have tens of thousands of followers... She dedicated herself through the internet to praising the action of some governments in the Middle East, such as Saudi Arabia. She also spread hoaxes. In one of her latest posts, she claims that a British aircraft carrier had broken down when heading to the Red Sea to deter against the Houthis. According to The Herald Sun, she also posted comments online that called to "avenge the martyrs in Jenin and Gaza," saying that "it is a jihad of martyrdom or victory." Allam was the head of an Islamic foundation in Australia. According to Sky News, Allam's foundation was dedicated to helping Palestinians immigrate to Australia after the war in Gaza. Allam also made a brief appearance in Parliament in Canberra, along with several far-left protesters, who were shamed for appearing at a public protest along with someone who mocked the death of Israeli soldiers on social media."
Nothing to see here, just "anti-Zionism" and Zionists censoring "pro-Palestinian speech". Time to arrest people for "Islamophobia"
The intellectual roots of why so many support Hamas' terror attacks - "If we want to understand the violence perpetrated by Hamas and those who supported it, we have to understand the political motivation behind the attack. For that, we need to understand the mind of Frantz Fanon. Not a name known by the general public, but certainly known in the academy in post-colonial studies and political theory. A new biography by Adam Shatz’s beautifully written and well-researched book, The Rebel’s Clinic, gives us a highly literate account of Fanon’s life that brings us closer to understanding how Fanon became an icon of the left and the justification for violence in his classic work, The Wretched of the Earth, published just before he died of leukemia at the age of 36 in 1961. Fanon’s book did not go unnoticed. It was widely translated and “cited worshipfully” by radical movements, including the Black Panthers, the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa, Latin American guerillas, Islamic revolutionaries of Iran, and the Palestinian Liberation Organization... For Fanon, physical violence and severe mental and emotional harm define the natural state of colonial rule. This violence is further compounded by the reduction of the native to a lower form of a human. He saw a Manichean world split between good and evil with no chance of mutual understanding, compromise, or peaceful coexistence. The colonizer is “the corrosive element, destroying all that comes near him.” Under these conditions, violence is a natural and logical reaction to the violence that the colonialists bring to their colonies. Shatz’s biography shows that Fanon truly believed in the regenerative potential of violence and the mass killing of Europeans as beneficial medicine for the colonized; further, it would liberate the white man from his awful identity. In his famous introduction to Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth, Jean-Paul Sartre aggressively supported the need for violence, saying, “To shoot down a European is to kill two birds with one stone: there remains a dead man and a free man.” Fanon went on to serve the FLN (Front de Libération Nationale) as an ambassador throughout Africa while raising funds for the liberation of Algeria. Independence may bring some form of moral compensation, but benefits are often short-lived. That was the case after Algeria became independent in 1962, a year after Fanon’s death. His dream of a free, democratic country fell apart under radical Islamism. Citizenship was restricted to Muslims only while almost one million pieds noirs left, along with most of its Jewish population that had been in Algeria since the times of the Romans. The misery for Algeria did not end there as tens of thousands of Algerian peasants were slaughtered for their association with the French, the very people Fanon idolized in leading the revolution. Fanon’s vision of a “new man” rising from the ashes would have to wait another time. What didn’t wait was the zeal of revolutionary groups around the world, which took up Fanon’s passion for using violence to justify their cause for liberation, especially in the Middle East, where Zionism is now seen as the new settler colonialism. In a world split between settler-colonized and post-colonized nations, violence seems acceptable and justified after Fanon who gave if not his permission then a rationale for indiscriminate destruction... Not all intellectuals concerned with the liberation of African nations sided with Fanon’s methods of political salvation. Hannah Arendt’s essay “On Violence” was a direct response to Fanon’s vogue appeal to New Left radicals. She made the point that violence is not power but the absence of it. Through his writings on anti-colonialism, Albert Memmi—a Tunisian Jew and novelist and one-time supporter of Fanon—came to realize that the struggle for meaning is not found solely in the social and political struggle against colonialism but also in the need for “inner emancipation,” a message hardly conducive to modern post-colonial studies. But after five decades of post-colonial studies and courses on French existentialist thought, moral relativism, anti-western and Eurocentrism, Marx and Gramsci, historicism, and critical race theory (an idea inspired by Fanon’s writing) many students were uncritically conditioned to side with the terror of Hamas."
The left have hated white people/the West for a long time
Visegrád 24 on X - "Anti-Israel activists masked up and vandalize a supermarket in Milan, Italy yesterday. Why? Because the supermarket sells some some products in Israel. These aren’t protesters at this point, they are criminals. Via @OliLondonTV"
Oli London on X - "Palestinians SELL humanitarian aid on the streets of Gaza despite the fact the aid is supposed to be distributed for free to hungry citizens."
Why would the Zionists do this?!
Hillel Fuld on X - "Not enough people are talking about the fact that victims of October 7th and Israeli hostages who were abducted by Hamas were impregnated and had to undergo an abortion. 🥺 I’ve worked extremely hard to avoid seeing or hearing about the details of Hamas’ atrocities. I’ve been asked to watch the whole video and declined multiple times. For the most part, I’ve been successful at staying away and saving my soul. But there have been a few instances when I saw something unintentionally, and I can’t stop thinking about it. I genuinely cannot believe human beings can be so deranged. As I write these words, I keep going back and forth whether to say anything about what I saw, so before you continue reading, here’s a trigger warning. Stop reading it you don’t want to hear about what Hamas did. Second warning. You won’t be able to unhear this!! Continue reading at your own risk. Ok, one of the sickest things I’ve heard is that Hamas made children and mothers watch them rape their family members. They forced them to watch it. How does a human being do something like that? But that, as sick and disgusting as it is, pales in comparison to the next thing. Third trigger warning. Stop reading if you don’t want to know. Hamas and the thousand of “innocent” Palestinians who carried out the atrocities of October 7th not only raped little girls and beheaded babies, Israeli women were found with machine guns and grenades stuffed into their genitalia. I can’t. I literally just can’t. If you don’t stand with Israel in this war, you stand with that. Just so we’re clear. Every single person who elected Hamas, supported Hamas, marched for Hamas, chanted in solidarity with Hamas will be held accountable and will pay the highest price possible for their support of murder, rape, pedophilia, kidnapping, and beheading. That includes UNRWA, the UN, South Africa, The Red Cross, Al Jazeera, and the rest of the vile antisemites who hide behind organizations. They will pay. Mark my words. Every last one. If you read this and didn’t want to know that stuff, I am really sorry but I did warn you and I did need to get this off my chest."
Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 on X - "Los Angeles — People trying to go inside the Berkeley Wilshire hotel for a Nancy Pelosi event are confronted by radical leftists. Far-left groups organized a direct action as revenge for the Biden administration supporting Israel."
Daniel Rubenstein on X - "Senior Hamas official: Nobody could have predicted that our invasion, massacre, rape, and taking children and grandparents as hostages would have sparked such a strong response from Israel."
S Sebag Montefiore on X - ""How could we have guessed that our attack where we slaughtered civilians and subsequent admissions that we planned to repeat this attack again and again until Israel has been destroyed would lead to a war to remove us from power?????""
Melbourne Writers Festival engulfed in conflict over Gaza and Israel - "The war in Gaza has split the Melbourne Writers Festival, with the organisation’s chief executive and deputy chairman quitting over the promotion of an anti-Israel line at this year’s event. The 38-year-old festival is the latest major cultural institution to be upended by the social and political fallout from the deadly conflict in the besieged Palestinian territory, which has driven a wedge between writers, artists and performers and the arts organisations and patrons that support and fund their work. The dispute within the Melbourne Writers Festival centres on the unpublished program for this year’s festival and accompanying promotional material that casts Israel as an illegitimate, settler colonialist state, accuses it of atrocities and seeks to align Indigenous Australia with the Palestinian cause. The program claims in part: “Aboriginal and Palestinian solidarity has a long history, a relationship that is more vital than ever in the movement to resist colonialism and speak out against atrocities.” This proposition, while embraced by the pro-Palestinian and black sovereignty protest movements, is historically contentious, as it denies the ancient connection of Jewish people to Palestine and challenges Israel’s right to exist. The decision to frame this year’s program in this way has put Melbourne Writers Festival artistic director Michaela McGuire and her curatorial staff at odds with the board, which last year unanimously agreed that while writers should be free to express their views, the festival should not take a public position on the war... Dr Leslie Reti, a retired Jewish clinician who served as the festival’s deputy chair for the past two years, said while he respected the festival’s curatorial independence, the inclusion of “historically untrue and deeply offensive” material compelled him to quit the board... The organisation’s interim chief executive, Fiona Menzies, has also stood down from her role, having agreed to take on the vacant post in December. Menzies, an experienced arts administrator who has run government agencies, served on boards and worked as chief of staff to former arts ministers, declined to comment when contacted by this masthead. Her departure means the festival is looking for its third chief executive within four months. This year’s program is scheduled to run in the second week of May. Former chief executive Vivia Hickman, who resigned in November to take up a position as executive producer and co-CEO at Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre, last week confronted a separate Gaza-related schism, when Besen Family Foundation chair Debbie Dadon quit the theatre board to protest against its staging of a show featuring feminist author Clementine Ford, a vociferous critic of Israel. The Besen Family Foundation is the philanthropic trust of one of Melbourne’s most prominent Jewish clans... The upheaval within the Melbourne Writers Festival follows The Seagull saga at the Sydney Theatre Company, where three directors resigned from the company’s foundation after actors performing the Chekhov play wore keffiyeh scarves on stage; the ongoing legal stoush between the ABC and presenter Antoinette Lattouf; and a failed campaign by pro-Palestinian activists to remove Jewish singer/songwriter and author Deborah Conway from the Perth Festival... University of Melbourne Professor Marcia Langton, one of Australia’s leading Indigenous scholars, while horrified by the loss of life in Gaza, has rejected the idea of Indigenous solidarity with Palestine as historically flawed. “This is false; it is the view of a tiny few, if put in those words,” Langton wrote in The Australian. “Most of us are aware of the complexity and that there is very little comparable in our respective situations, other than our humanity.” Langton described as a “moral outrage” the failure of black sovereign activists who adhered to this view to condemn Hamas. “They do not speak for me,” she wrote. “I fear and loathe the possibility of further loss of life in this terrible crisis. I fear also that our multicultural society is being torn apart by people deluded about terrorism who have used their protests as a cover for antisemitism.” The New York-based Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish organisation dedicated to eradicating hate speech, says applying the term “settler colonialism” to Israel fails to recognise that Jews and Arabic Palestinians are both indigenous to the land and that Israel was lawfully established under the auspices of the United Nations."
For all their talk of "solidarity", the left love tearing themselves apart, and the fact that they insist on shoving politics into everything makes it inevitable
Pro-Palestine students disrupt Stanford Family Weekend - "Pro-Palestine protestors from the Sit-In to Stop Genocide disrupted President Richard Saller and Provost Jenny Martinez’s in Memorial Auditorium today at a welcome session, which commenced Family Weekend events. The protestors were escorted out by security and cited for misdemeanors. Martinez said they would also face disciplinary action. Throughout the panel, protesters stood, shouted and chanted at the panelists. Around 45 minutes into the session, protestors unfurled two banners directly next to the stage and threw slips of paper from the balcony reading “29,000+ Gazans killed,” “Israel bombs, Stanford profits” and “Stanford uses scare tactics on your kids.”"
Clearly, if you don't like terrorism supporters shut down society, this is censorship and oppression. But speech that the left disapproves of is still violence, of course
Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 on X - "This is how Palestinians kidnapped Israeli girls into Gaza— dragging limp, naked bodies off the side of their motorcycles, screaming Allah Akbar."
Clearly, allegations of rape are just Zionist lies
The Straits Times on X - "MOE clears the air over Israel-Hamas lesson material after some parents express unhappiness"
mirax on X - "Ah, the MOE made a fundamental mistake - it can NEVER be neutral enough for the terror lovers. They want the freedom to jump on school desks chanting "from the river to the sea.""
If MOE starts from the anti-Semitic bits of the Koran (not like that'll ever happen), the terrorism supporters will be even more upset
Teachers don't impose personal views, advocate for any party in school lessons about Israel-Hamas war: MOE - "Members of Parliament had in November called for discussions to be held in schools to educate the young."
That went well. Terrorism supporters will never be happy if you don't let them support terrorism
Meme - "Parents and students when...
Millions of people die of hunger each year *sleep*
Thousands of civilians lost their lives in the Russo-Ukranian war *sleep*
It comes to the Israel-Hamas conflict *awake*"
جزية كليكتور on X - "We all know the puppet state of zionists in SEA is Singapore and now they're cracking down on Muslims who practice their faith and are pro-palestine"
Singapore and Israel are hated for similar reasons. Ironically if you suggest dual loyalty otherwise that's islamophobic and racist
Meme - Claudia Webbe MP @ClaudiaWebbe: "Israel does not want peace. They want Gaza. They want to slaughter Palestinians, drive them into the Sinai Egyptian desert and eradicate Palestine. Yet, our political leaders still refuse to call for an immediate ceasefire."
Kosher @KosherCockney: "This you? While the slaughtering and raping of innocent Jews was still happening?"
Claudia Webbe MP @ClaudiaWebbe: "One side is the occupier. The other side is occupied. There must be a ceasefire and negotiations towards a free Palestine." - 07/10/2023
Geoffrey Miller @primalpoly: "Hamas rejected the ceasefire offered a couple weeks ago. Do you not follow the news?"
Weird how they pulled out in 2005 since they want Gaza. Hilariously, someone suggested that this is because they were weak in 2005 but are strong now
China’s Defense of Palestinians’ Right to Armed Resistance Gets Muted Response in Israel, Welcomed by Both Hamas and Iran
Too bad they didn't get the memo about the Uighers
Thread by @sfrantzman on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - " When Hamas launched the October 7 attack, likely with backing and advise from several countries that host and back Hamas, it knew that there would be an Israeli response. It assumed if it took enough a hostages then it could somehow force talks to go on for years...while it benefited. It's important to understand that Hamas has been able to carry out massacres and attacks for three decades because each time it does it, it relies on the international community to quickly rush to make sure there is a ceasefire. So the process is:
1. Hamas attacks
2. Israel responds
3. Ceasefire.
4. Hamas attacks again.
Hamas is the "tool" that was found by some in the international community in the late 1980s and early 1990s to prevent peace and it was always on hand to be picked up to attack Israel whenever there was any sign of peace. They reach for the "tool" each time, during the Oslo process, in the Second Intifada...after Disengagement etc. It's so obvious because Disengagement was an opportunity to help Gaza thrive...but the international community and other backers of Hamas reached for their tool to have Hamas take over Gaza. No one reached for the tool of peace and moderation, which would have been easy to reach for.
October 7 was planned as a major moment for Hamas, it would committ an unprecedented massacre, then hold hostages for years to bring in billions more for its tunnels in Gaza and then use the hostages to gain more influence in the West Bank. When Abbas passes, Hamas would swoop in...it would make itself a "tool" again to be picked up to take over Ramallah for its patrons and benefactors abroad. It's important to understand also that Hamas believed on October 7 that there was a time limit to Israel's reaction...Israel would be allowed to "run wild" for a few weeks...and then there would be a ceasefire and deal and the war would stop so Hamas can replenish its thousands of rockets and start a new war the next year or two. This is the model for Hamas. Start a war, bring ruin on part of Gaza...use the rebuilding of Gaza to construct tunnels and arsenals...start a war, bring ruin, reconstruct tunnels...
It's important to understand that Hamas did this because in past wars it didn't lose very many fighters. Usually 100 to 1,000 fighters and then it would replace them. All the destruction caused by Israeli bombs can be rebuilt and Hamas contractors make the money doing reconstruction and for each dollar that comes half of it or something like that goes to Hamas and tunnels. In fact each war was a "win" for Hamas because for each building hit by an IDF bomb, Hamas can then openly build a tunnel underneath as part of "reconstruction"....it doesn't even had to hide that it replaces whole ruined areas with new terror infrastructure, enhanced and embedded in new civilian homes. Fully integrated. As militaries say "5th gen"... And Hamas always benefits from war because when there are civilian casualties it can use this to bring the ceasefire faster and bring condemnation of Israel. Hamas has its connections abroad via its allies and partners who mobilize protests and activists. In the May 2021 conflict with Israel there was a dry run to mobilize attacks on Jewish communities abroad, for instance.
So we have to understand how Hamas thought on October 6. It believed it would use the hostages to bring itself power in Ramallah. It believed that after a few weeks the war would end and it would thrive.
Now, four months in, it knows that it has not been able to get Israel to do a ceasefire, but it watches the UN and it knows the votes are getting closer. It is being advised by its host country to hold out a little longer. Hold out in Rafah and then filtrate back to northern Gaza and return to power. Hamas also knows that quietly, behind the scenes many international organizations prefer its rule in Gaza. For instance they speak about Hamas police as "law and order" and if there aren't Hamas gunmen to guard the humanitarian aid they are displeased...they feel secure when Hamas is there. It's their partner. The idea that anyone but Hamas could or would control Gaza is worrisome to many international stakeholders there. Hamas has been their loyal partner for decades. Hamas police are the ones they work with. In areas without Hamas they call it "lawless"....in essence Hamas is the preferred authoritarian they want."
Nova music festival survivors file lawsuit against Associated Press - "Survivors from Hamas’ massacre at the Nova music festival have filed a lawsuit against Associated Press for using freelance journalists who allegedly were embedded with terrorists who stormed Gaza’s border fence on 7 October. The survivors are suing AP for damages under the Anti-terrorism Act, accusing the outlet of using the four men despite knowing their ties to Hamas... One of the journalists, Hassan Eslaiah, caused uproar after a photo of him from 2020 resurfaced, showing Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar kissing and hugging Eslaiah. The survivors allege that Eslaiah was next to Hamas terrorists as they slaughtered civilian Israelis. Following allegations against Eslaiah after 7 October, AP severed ties with him. But the survivors claim that “AP wilfully chose to turn a blind eye to these facts, and instead profited from its terrorist photographer’s participation in the massacre through its publication of the ‘exclusive’ images, for which it certainly paid a premium, effectively funding a terrorist organisation.”"
Thread by @Aizenberg55 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "UN issued short press release claiming IDF raped Palestinians. Zero evidence is presented, not one shred. It was clearly issued to balance indisputable & growing evidence of shocking Hamas sexual crimes, to blunt justification for Israel’s assault on Hamas. See analysis:
Release says “allegedly,” “reports” or events “reportedly” occurred 15 times meaning no evidence, we just heard it may have happened. Not one single detail provided, when, where, who, etc. The “experts” cite allegations offering zero information, hiding behind “reportedly.” Release says “UN experts expressed alarm over credible allegations.” They don't explain why it's credible. Who are these experts? Antisemites like @FrancesAlbs who was rebuked on Feb 12 by US Ambassador (and others like France & Germany) for her ongoing antisemitism. Another lead “expert” is Jordanian Reem Alsalem @UNSRVAW who never condemned Hamas sexual crimes, claimed these events are unverified. But in an incredible and vile inversion of reality accuses Israel of these same actions with zero evidence. Other "expert" @DorothyEstrada chairs UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women & Girls. She posted ~90 times since 10/7 but NEVER about Hamas rape of Israelis & Jews. Like UN, she covers for Hamas crimes and does not care about Jewish women in a gross double standard.
Israel forcefully rejected the “despicable and unfounded claims” by “so-called UN experts.” Israel also said no complaints have been received and is ready to investigate claims – so when will the “experts” come forth with details on the "credible allegations"? Do not expect “experts” will ever follow up because that's not the aim of this release. The true goal, which was successful, was to get media & NGOs to report UN says IDF soldiers are raping Palestinians, so you see it’s not just Hamas (allegedly) the Jews are doing it too.
Let’s not forget that the UN Human Rights Council, which issued this release, most recently named Iran as the chair of the recent meeting in Geneva. Yes, one may recall that Hamas is an Iran proxy. So UNHRC is covering up for Hamas, saying Jews are the real rapists!
The release marks another antisemitic low for UN bodies and further cements @FranceskAlbs as an enemy of Israel and the Jewish people who will stop at nothing to see Israel destroyed. Here by whitewashing Hamas sexual crimes and projecting the same crimes on the Jews."
