Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Links - 23rd April 2024 (1 - Hamas Attack Oct 2023)

Peter Savodnik on X - "Hamas is now saying Israel has killed 22,000, not 33,000 Gazans -- meaning the combatant to noncombatant ratio in this war is greater than 1:1, which would be a phenomenal, life-saving achievement. Unsurprisingly, legacy media is crickets."
Noam Blum on X - "The one source everyone is using for the Gaza death toll just casually said "oops, we overcounted by 33%." You fools. You utter imbeciles."
The Persian Jewess on X - "Gaza Health Ministry (Hamas) admits Gaza fatalities (civilian and militant) actually number 22,091.   With Israel’s estimate of 13,000 militant deaths, this means only 9,000 Gaza civilians have died.   A civilian casualty ratio of LESS THAN 1:1.   **The average casualty ratio in modern warfare is 9:1  #StandWithIsrael"
The terrorism supporters won't update their numbers, since they rely on lies

FDD on X - ".@adesnik : "The sudden shifts in the ministry’s reporting methods suggest it is scrambling to prevent exposure of its shoddy work. For months, U.S. media have taken for granted that the ministry’s top-line figure for casualties was reliable enough to include in daily updates on the war. Even President Biden has cited its numbers. Now we’re seeing that a third or more of the ministry’s data may be incomplete at best — and fictional at worst.""

Meme - Sole Danni is with Elba Bonia.: "We will NEVER stop sharing. FREE PALESTINE"
"ISRAEL'S WAR IN GAZA AND THE WORLD'S INABILITY TO STOP IT IS A TRAGEDY FOR HUMANKIND AND A DISGRACE FOR CIVILISATION." PRESIDENT OF CHINA"
Lincoln Kirby-bell: "He's responsible for the genocide of the Uighur people and many other cultural minorities within China , not to mention the violent suppression of any dissent from his own people"
Jose Felix: "Posting pro palestinian comments of a guy that has muslim concentration camps makes this post look so smart."
It's hard for terrorism supporters to be more explicit that this is about anti-Semitism and Jew hatred

Laura Powell on X - "A group of Berkeley law students accepted an invitation to dine at the private home of dean Erwin Chemerinsky and his wife, a law professor, then disrupted the event and refused to leave. Bizarrely, this student claims her conduct is protected by the 1st Amendment. Activists are attacking the dean and professor as "white supremacist" and "Zionist.""
i/o on X - "Erwin Chemerinsky, by the way, is the guy who was caught on hidden camera last year bragging that he and Berkeley Law would continue to find ways to evade affirmative action bans. He described how these evasions work in practice. These people all deserve each other."
The Persian Jewess on X - "Imagine being so blinded by antisemitism that you enter the home of the world’s EXPERT on constitutional law, and falsely claim it is your “first amendment right” to spread vicious hate speech.   If she had bothered to attend Erwin Chemerinsky’s lectures, read his textbooks, use his study guides, or review his SUPREME COURT CASES, she would know that the first amendment does NOT apply to a private residence.   Which Chemerinsky politely tells her. Over and over again.  #AntizionismIsAntisemitism"

Thread by @ProfDBernstein on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Let's review the Chemerinsky incident: Student shows up to celebratory graduation dinner at the dean's house with a speaker system, begins political tirade. Dean and wife plead with her to stop, then ask her to leave multiple times, as they have every right to do. She refuses. She is now a trespasser. Wife, instead of calling police, tries to stop disruption by the much more peaceable means of taking trespasser's microphone away. Pro-Hamas progressives: Dean's wife is a violent racist. The pro-Hamas progressive subtext, of course, is that the dean is a "Zionist," ie Jew who doesn't think that Israel should be destroyed and therefore he and his family deserve to be given no quarter, and also have none of the normal rights people have, like stopping trespassers from disrupting events, when confronted about their "Zionism" by a Muslim student."

CAIR National on X - "Our San Francisco Bay Area office @CAIRSFBA today condemned the alleged assault on Malak Afaneh, a Palestinian Muslim University of California Berkeley (@UCBerkeley) law student, by @BerkeleyLaw professor Catherine Fisk. @ZahraBilloo"
Dr. Abdullah Ali on X - "I wish I could support this statement. I’m sorry, but I don’t think you get to play the victim after being invited to someone’s home, asked to leave, stage a protest, and refuse to leave because someone told you you had a 1st amendment right. This doesn’t help Palestinians. It just makes you look unreasonable and disingenuous. Calling it “speaking truth to power” all you want. It’s 100% fruitless."
LAWYERGONEROGUE on X - "The student who harassed chermerinsky is a PFLP terrorist. It is actually a group designated as such on the US foreign terrorist list."
Ofra Haza Stan Account on X - "Aggressively instigating a conflict then crying victim, like your Hamas heroes. Pathetic 🤡"
🇵🇸 🔻 CeasefireNOW 🔻🇵🇸 on X - "i don't understand why was she there harassing elderly Jewish people? is this what muslims do for Ramadan? harass elderly Jewish people at their home?"

Steve McGuire on X - "She showed up at a dinner party to protest with a microphone and now she’s playing the victim and claiming Professor Fisk is a racist:"
Hussain Abdul-Hussain on X - "Never knew one could fit as much nonsense into one clip. She's a law student who does not know that she cannot practice her First Amendment inside a private residence. This should tell you all you need to know about how disturbed Global Intifada mobsters are, how they think that loud noise and racist instigation of white v black and brown are carte blanche for doing whatever they please. If Palestine is going to be in the image of this lady and her tired fallacies, which seems to be certainly the case, then the world is better off without Palestine."

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib on X - "Aside from the embarrassing entitlement/self-righteousness of this Berkeley law student & how ineffective/unhelpful many pro-Palestine activists & students are, the way in which the Arab & Muslim communities are becoming single-issue activists & voters risks permanent alienation & marginalization from broader political & societal discourses, minimizing the possibilities of future coalition building to work on critical issues impacting our country and communities. This impulsively-driven behavior is not only ineffective in highlighting the plight of the Palestinian people in Gaza, but it creates long-term fissures that may never heal."

Marc Zell on X - "Results of the IDF investigation into the killing of the 7 humanitarian workers from the Word Central Kitchen (WCK). Things are not what they seemed to be. ⚠️BREAKING⚠️ IDF has revealed that Hamas PURPOSELY drew fire to the WCK truck.
At around 10 pm, the IDF noticed suspicious activity as the WCK vehicle was joined by a convoy of several other Hamas vehicles. 🔥 Hamas terrorists then climbed ONTO and INTO the WCK truck and FIRED several times indiscriminately into the air to ensure the IDF would see them.   🔥The convoy then split up and entered a hanger, where it became difficult to distinguish between the Hamas vehicles and the WCK vehicle.  ðŸ”¥IDF attempted to call both the WCK workers and WCK HQ on TWO separate occasions to confirm whether they were with the Hamas convoy but their calls remained unanswered.  ðŸ”¥When the vehicles left the hangar OVER AN HOUR LATER the IDF drone unit misidentified the WCK vehicle for a vehicle from the Hamas convoy and mistakenly struck.
The IDF has provided their full findings to both WCK and Jose Andres, and are now requiring new stickers for aid vehicles which can be seen via drones even in the dark."

Meme - Sebastian Marinaio: "Hi @chefjoseandres care to explain this picture? You've spent the week accusing Israel targeting @WCKitchen volunteers & now we know Hamas was riding with the vehicles. You also accused Israel of genocide which is an absolute lie. Now YOU can be seen hanging with Hamas. WTF???"

Jake Wallis Simons on X - "David Cameron writes in the Sunday Times that although Israel has called the killings of the aid workers a “grave mistake” and sacked those responsible, there is “no doubt where the blame lies” and “this must never happen again.” Strong words. But when Cameron was prime minister and took us to war in Libya, 13 were mistakenly killed in a NATO airstrike, including an ambulance driver, three nurses and some friendly troops. He didn’t have any strong words then."
QuantumAI on X - "In stark contrast to NATO, which escapes the relentless, granular examination of its military conduct, Israel is held to an impossible standard, expected to execute a war perfectly…  Even when Israel apologises for its mistakes during the conflict - a rarity compared to other countries- it receives no latitude; its every misstep is met with unforgiving scrutiny, leaving no room for the fog of war or human error."

John Hasson on X - "Shot: Biden attacks Israel for accidentally killing 7 civilians in a drone strike
Chaser: Biden’s final act in Afghanistan was an airstrike killing 10 civilians, including 7 children"
Stephen L. Miller on X - "And he has not faced a single journalist who has asked him a single question about this, in an Interview or a press conference."

Dr. Mika Tosca, Chicago professor, apologizes for calling Israelis 'pigs' and 'very bad people' - "Dr. Mika Tosca, a climate scientist and associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), issued an apology on her Instagram Wednesday for her incendiary post amid the Israel-Hamas war... Tosca came under fire when she called Israel’s retaliatory offensive against Hamas — the terrorist group that killed about 1,400 people and is believed to be holding around 200 hostages — ”downright evil” and “propaganda.”...   Joseph Massad, a politics and history professor at Columbia University, made headlines when he called Hamas’ attack on Israeli citizens “awesome.”... at Cornell University, associate professor of history Russell Rickford is struggling to save face after he boasted that he was “exhilarated” by the wave of anti-Israeli violence.   On the other side of the divisive issue, Washington University professor Seth Crosby claimed to have been fired because he referred to Israel’s airstrikes in Gaza as “a much-needed cleansing.”  The off-color remark was criticized by Muslim advocacy groups for dehumanizing Palestinians — many of whom have lived in quasi-exile in the Gaza Strip and West Bank for decades."
Is it Islamophobic to call Israeli Muslims pigs and very bad people?
It seems you're not allowed to denounce terrorists. Why are Muslim advocacy groups equating Hamas to all Palestinians?

Stanford teacher suspended for singling out Jewish students - "A Stanford University lecturer has been suspended for allegedly making Jewish students stand in a corner while branding them “colonizers” — while also downplaying the Holocaust and defending murderous Hamas terrorists as “freedom fighters.”...   The lecturer also reportedly justified the slaughter of more than 1,300 Israelis by Hamas terrorists over the weekend, saying it was part of Palestinians’ resistance. The teacher then asked Jewish students to raise their hands, separated them from their belongings and ordered them to stand in a corner, saying that is what Jews were doing to Palestinians...   “He asked how many Jews died in the Holocaust,” said Cohen. When someone said 6 million, “he said, ‘Yes. Only 6 million.’”... The lecturer asked students to say where their ancestors were from, and labeled each a “colonizer” or “colonized” based on their heritage...  the lecturer made no mention of Hamas’ atrocities against Israelis and offered a full-throated defense of the terrorists’ actions.  “He said, ‘Hamas is a legitimate representation of the Palestinian people,'” Greenberg said. “‘They are not a terrorist group. They are freedom fighters. Their actions are legitimate.'”   Cohen, the student leader, said the episode left her feeling “dehumanized.” “It’s like I’m reliving the justification of Nazis 80 years ago on today’s college campus”"

ToI ALERTS on X - "Live update: Dutch Jews record unprecedented number of antisemitic incidents following Oct. 7"
Alex גדעון בן װעלװל on X - "Nothing has radicalized me as much as the knowledge that a Hamas massacre of Jews in Israel had a global response of harassing and beating diaspora Jews."

Scott Adams on X - "Hamas gave Israel no way to win and two ways to lose, so Israel picked the losing path that kills Hamas (and many of their friends and family) first.  "Losing" in this context means spending the Holocaust capital and losing international support to reduce the future risk from Hamas.  You don't have to like what Israel is doing. But it is the only rational path.   The idea of going slow and using precision and ground forces to reduce civilian deaths is impractical because it would take years, and international pressure would squeeze them to resettle civilians before they finished. That would be a complete waste of time.  I assume some of the reported war crimes are real, which is typical for any war.   I no longer support Israel after the ADL came after me. I'm just describing their options.  @netanyahu  @JGreenblattADL"
Deforester Kelly on X - "Proportional warfare only serves the smaller, less capable enemy. It scales warfare into only what THEY can manage and incentivizes them to attack larger, more sophisticated enemies, knowing their full power won't be brought to bear. Asymmetrical warfare is cruel but preferable."
Farmer Bob on X - "What would “retaliating in proportion” mean to you? Should IDF soldiers have dressed as civilians, attacked Gaza, targeted 1200 civilians for the most barbaric murders, rapes, & dismemberment all while recording themselves doing it & calling their mothers to brag about it?"
jrwUTE42 on X - "Usa dropped two atomic bombs bombs because first one was insufficient. People forget proportional response usually means more of your own forces die."
Logic, Reason & Decency on X - "There were a few wars where arabs tried and failed to exterminate the jews. Are you justifying extermination? Or just when arabs do it?"

Jacob Magid on X - "US President Joe Biden has called on Israel to unilaterally agree to a six-to-eight week ceasefire, in an apparent retreat from his administration’s stance that conditioned a truce in Gaza on Hamas releasing some of the hostages it’s holding in the Strip. (1/11)"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Unilaterally?! The mainstream left position in the USA is stated preference for a Hamas victory."

Toronto demonstrators urged to 'live up to the example' of Hamas - "Even after six months of routine anti-Israel rallies hitting the streets of Toronto, a series of weekend demonstrations featured a notable increase in pro-terror rhetoric and extremist symbology. On Saturday, a child holding a sign reading “Hamas is a Palestinian Resistance Movement” was recorded... The child was flanked by a man using a microphone to address Jewish attendees. “It’s so wonderful to see all the little kids here … ask your parents to give you a history lesson about how they rape and murder children,” he says. The day before, speakers were recorded telling cheering crowds to emulate the example of Gazan or Yemeni terrorist groups. “On October 7, we saw the potential for a Palestine liberated from Zionism by the forces of the resistance,” said Charlotte Kates of Samidoun, a Vancouver-based non-profit with close ties to the People’s Liberation Front for Palestine, a Gazan terror group whose members participated in the October 7 attacks. She urged attendees “to live up to the examples that every fighter in the brigades and every Yemeni marine are showing on a daily basis.” Brigades was likely a reference to Palestinians terrorists fighting Israeli forces in Gaza. The “Yemeni marines” are in reference to Houthis, a Yemeni terror group that has been attacking civilian shipping in the Red Sea for the last several months. Canada, notably, is technically at war with the Houthis, having joined a multinational operation to destroy Houthi missile and drone sites... The occasion for the ramped-up rhetoric was Al Quds Day, a holiday conceived by the Islamic Republic of Iran for the explicit purpose of calling for Israel’s destruction... Al Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem. In Khomeini’s words , Al Quds Day was to be an international day of Islamic solidarity to call for the destruction of the “usurper Israel” and “the victory of the Muslims over the infidels.” For years before the most recent violence of the Israel-Hamas conflict, sparked by the massacres of October 7, Al Quds Day was a reliable source for anti-Israel and pro-terror demonstrations on the streets of Canada’s major cities. Last year’s Al Quds Day demonstrations in Toronto, for instance, featured speakers endorsing “intifada” and repeating the now-familiar “from the river to the sea” chant — a motto explicitly rejecting a “two-state solution” in favour of Israel’s destruction. “Ultimate liberation from the river to the sea under one Palestinian state,” went a 2023 Al Quds Day declaration by Moe Jabri, an organizer with Toronto4Palestine. Only a few months later, Toronto4Palestine would be at the forefront of organizing celebrations of the October 7 massacres. While Toronto police have mostly exercised a hands-off approach to the more than 500 anti-Israel demonstrations that have hit the city since October 7, the police have recently begun to take a harder line against the protests. The Easter weekend saw the rare sight of an anti-Israel demonstration being subjected to crowd control by mounted Toronto police officers. And on Friday, Deputy Chief Lauren Pogue convened a press conference to say that “agitators” within the demonstrations would not be tolerated... the Toronto Police Association, the union that represents rank-and-file Toronto officers, issued a lengthy public statement saying that officers attending these protests “have been threatened with injury or death.”... The statement stood in notable contrast to only four months ago, when the Toronto Police Association defended a decision for officers not to arrest a masked anti-Israel demonstrator within Toronto’s Eaton Centre who was recorded issuing a threat to “put you six feet deep.”"

Authorities push back as anti-Israel blockaders get more radical - "McGill University in Montreal saw widespread class cancellations and building closures as part of an ongoing “Shut Down McGill” campaign organized in part by the campus group Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights. This is the same group that was ordered by university administrators to stop using the word “McGill” in its name after an early October statement in which it openly celebrated Hamas’s taking of Israeli hostages as a “heroic” act. Although anti-Israel demonstrators have staged McGill blockades before — including a February shutdown of a building named for Jewish philanthropist Samuel Bronfman — this one represented an escalation in both scale and aggressiveness... a group of about a dozen activists in keffiyehs can be seen pounding on the locked doors of a classroom and chanting through megaphones, “You can’t hide, we charge you with genocide.”... At Western University in London, Ont., a Thursday rally included a speaker naming three specific Jewish students and alumni and urging attendees to report them to campus authorities for alleged Islamophobia and “Palestinian racism.”... council members in Port Moody, B.C., rescinded a relatively routine motion calling for a ceasefire in Gaza after they deemed that the council had unintentionally aligned themselves with “a group that has spread hate.” A group known as Free Palestine BC had packed council chambers to push Port Moody to adopt the motion earlier in the week, but council members soon balked at revelations that anyone who spoke against the motion had been barraged by insults and threats encouraged by Free Palestine BC. “I cannot in good conscience agree to send a letter to our federal government on behalf of a group that does not practice what it preaches, and is actively stoking fear, hatred and division in our community,” Coun. Kyla Knowles said in reversing her vote calling for a ceasefire. “I regret not listening to my gut on this one.”"

Richard Marceau: Why we're taking the federal government to court over UNRWA funding - "Canadians do not want their hard-earned money to go to an agency that is supporting Hamas, a terrorist organization under Canadian law . With this application now officially submitted, it would be inappropriate for the Government of Canada to continue to transfer Canadian tax dollars to UNRWA until a decision is rendered... intelligence reports revealed that at least 12 UNRWA employees had connections to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and approximately 10 per cent of UNRWA staff in Gaza have ties to Islamist militant groups. Further confirming this participation, one of the hostages released from Gaza during November’s humanitarian pause revealed that he was held for nearly 50 days in an attic by a UNRWA teacher. UN Watch has documented a multitude of cases of UNRWA staff and teachers indoctrinating Palestinian children to extremist hate by glorifying terrorism , praising Hamas , advocating for the killing of Jews and other abhorrent activities that contravene the values of the United Nations... Given UNRWA’s well-documented links to Hamas, by resuming Canadian funding to UNRWA, the government is in violation of its own anti-terrorism legislation"
Too bad votes from terrorist supporters are too importantMeme - *Bike Fall Meme*
*Hamas*
"Hamas attacks Israel and starts a war"
"Those Israelis are attacking us"

Meme - "Hamas Iron Dome" *kid strapped to metal shield*

Naftali Bennett נפתלי בנט on X - "Israel needs now to live as a Silicon Valley in Sparta.   Part of Israel’s colossal failure of October 7th was a result of complacency.   Your typical Israeli was enjoying life, thinking about work, the next startup and the upcoming vacation.  Wars? Nah..that’s passé.   We got soft.  We lost tolerance to casualties.   We forgot that we’re surrounded by the craziest terror savages on earth: Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hizbullah and ISIS.  Physically on our borders (!).    Israel’s a first world economy, GDP per Capita of $58k bordering Nassrallah.   Imagine San Jose neighboring Kabul.   October 7th is as if savages with machetes tore down the screens of The Truman Show and we saw the barbarism hiding behind those tenuous facades.  We realized that our neighbors aren’t Belgium, Canada or Vermont.   We were cruelly reminded that Israel’s existence depends on our being constantly alert, vigilant, strong and very very tough.   At the same time, we must continue to be the StartUp Nation:  innovative, technology savvy, agile and connected to the latest and best stuff going on.   It’s a challenge no other nation faces: To be a Silicon Valley in Sparta.   We will."

Oli London on X - "On October 7th, Palestinian civilians cheered and chanted “Allahu Akbar” after the body of a Jewish person is mutilated, shot and kicked in Gaza. One man gets down on his knees to pray and kiss the ground, thanking God for the massacre."

Meme - Hamas waving fist while standing on rubble of Gaza: "And let that be a lesson to you. Israel!!!"
I got 2 comments accusing me of being a bot. Clearly if you don't support terrorism, you're a bot

Meme - Expectation *Terrorists with Palestinian flag parachuting into Israel*
Reality *Devastated Gaza*"

Meme - Adele Scalia @AdeleScalia: "A Holocaust survivor is coming to speak to my son's grade History class on Monday. Wonderful. What's less than wonderful, though, is the opt out for this lesson because "We understand that all students have different experiences." What does that even mean?"
"We understand that all students have different experiences. If you prefer to opt your child out from participating in this presentation, please email your child's history teacher and they will be provided an alternate assignment. Please email your child's history teacher with any questions that you may have."
Stacey E. Burke @StaceyEBurke: "My kids' school does an grade trip to DC every year for the entire grade. They removed the Holocaust Museum from the schedule permanently because....parents complained."
Clearly we need to crack down on the anti-Semitic "far right"! It's shocking that teachers and schools are accommodating white supremacists!
Ironically, left wingers usually forbid parents to opt out of whatever they want to thrust on kids

Star of David graffitied on Berlin homes in chilling echo of Nazi crimes - "The Star of David has been graffitied on the doors of several homes in Berlin, in a chilling reminder of the persecution Jews suffered under the Nazis. Four cases have been reported to German police in recent days, escalating concerns about the safety of Jewish people in the German capital... The incidents, which are a crime under German law, appear to be an intentional imitation of the antisemitic persecution of Jews during the 1930s when Nazi brownshirts painted the Star of David on the doors and windows of Jewish businesses in an attempt to discourage Britons from shopping there.  It came as one of the country’s top spies warned that Hamas sympathisers could stage terror attacks on Jewish buildings. Hamas supporters may “no longer stop at demonstrating and using hate speech... but may carry out specific attacks against Jewish and Israeli buildings and individuals,” Stephan Kramer, head of domestic intelligence in the state of Thuringia, said. Speaking to Handelsblatt newspaper, Mr Kramer said that the war in Israel could also motivate other Islamist groups to “intensify” their activities, saying that they see “the whole of Germany as the enemy of muslims.”  He said that the protests by pro-Palestinian groups on German streets in the wake of the Hamas terror attacks proved “a new level of escalation and lack of inhibition has obviously been reached in this country as well.”... Meanwhile, Germany’s largest network of mosques has denied that Israel was mentioned in Friday prayers after Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan had reportedly encouraged them to describe Israel as a “rusty dagger” in the heart of the Muslim world.  Ditib, an organisation which runs over 2,000 mosques in Germany and whose imams are on the payroll of the Turkish government, was ordered by Ankara to give a sermon condemning Israel as carrying out “the worst tyranny in history,” according to a report in German newspaper Bild. The sermon was written by Mr Erdogan’s chief cleric and sent out to all mosques under the control of the Turkish state... Despite the Islamist group being listed by the EU as a terror organization since 2003, Berlin only banned public displays of support for Hamas in 2021."
From October

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