How the attacks on Israeli football supporters in Amsterdam unfolded - "The attacks on Israeli football supporters in Amsterdam this week followed tensions that began brewing days before between the fans and pro-Palestinian activists and other people in the city, a chronology of events showed. Supporters of Israeli soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv were targeted for beatings by groups of thugs in the early hours of Friday following a match with Amsterdam's Ajax, the city's mayor Femke Halsema has said. Among dozens of Israeli supporters who were chased and assaulted, five suffered injuries needing hospital treatment, police said. In all, 63 suspects have been arrested and authorities promised an investigation, as politicians within the country and beyond expressed their condemnation. Tension began to build on Wednesday as some of the 3,000 visiting Maccabi supporters had minor altercations with locals including taxi drivers and Ajax supporters in the city centre, police said. A police report said groups of Maccabi supporters burned a Palestinian flag on Dam square, pulled another down from a nearby building and vandalised a taxi. After a call on social media, angry Muslim taxi drivers came together outside a casino where 400 Maccabi supporters were gathered, and police intervened in skirmishes. Some Dutch media have reported that social media videos from Wednesday show the beating of a Muslim taxi driver and youths yelling antisemitic slurs at a Maccabi supporter who was pushed into a canal. Reuters was unable to verify those descriptions of the scenes. On the day of the game, Maccabi supporters were filmed chanting anti-Arab slogans in front of the National Monument on Amsterdam's central Dam square, including "Fuck you Palestine", in videos verified by Reuters. Dutch pro-Palestinian groups planned a demonstration outside the stadium during the game. They argued that the match should have been cancelled because of Israel's war in Gaza, in which more than 43,000 Palestinians have been killed... Calls to target returning Maccabi supporters began circulating on Dutch messaging groups, leading to what mayor Halsema described as "antisemitic hit and run assaults". Police used to dispersing football mobs could not easily stop smaller, highly mobile groups of attackers with no obvious club allegiance. Police said they collected around 200 Maccabi fans on Dam square to protect them and escort them back to their hotels. But many others were assaulted elsewhere in town, and the perpetrators quickly fled on motor scooters. Social media videos verified by Reuters showed groups attacking Israelis, kicking victims after they had fallen, throwing fireworks and in one instance shouting: "That's Palestine. That's Gaza, mother-fucker...now you know how it feels."... Antisemitic incidents have surged in the Netherlands since Israel launched its assault on Gaza after the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023. Many Dutch Jewish organisations and schools have reported threats and hate mail. Less than 1% of Amsterdam's population is Jewish following the Holocaust, while around 15% is Muslim, mostly second and first generation immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East. The conservative Dutch government has vowed to implement Europe's strictest measures to limit immigration and reject asylum-seekers."
Terrorist supporters were pretending that this was just "Zionists" who taunted Palestinians getting their just desserts. By this logic, October 7th justifies nuking Gaza and killing everyone in there
Antisemitic violence plagues Amsterdam streets, trams set alight - "Violence erupted on the streets of Amsterdam on Monday night in the second wave of antisemitic attacks to hit the Dutch capital over the last week, according to local media reports. One of the city's famous trams was set alight by rioters dressed in black and armed with fireworks, according to De Telegraaf. The rioters threw debris and shouted "Kanker Joden" (cancer Jews), but it is used to mean "f*** the Jews."... Masked men reportedly roamed the streets yelling "Free Palestine." De Telegraaf reported that journalists witnessed a bystander being ripped from his bike and beaten by the rioters. It was later reported that private vehicles and bikes were destroyed. The young rioters reportedly actively sought to confront officers. Geert Wilders, leader of the PVV, responded to the events by saying, "After the Jew-hunt, the Intifada."... Following the attack, the city announced a three-day ban on all demonstrations to maintain public order. Furthermore, the government had announced it would hold stricter border control until December 9. Hundreds of people defied the ban, which had been upheld by a local court earlier in the day. They chanted "Free Palestine" and "Shame on you" and called for an end to the war in Gaza."
Jewish youth soccer team attacked in Berlin by knife-wielding mob - "Players from TuS Makkabi, a youth under-17 soccer team in Berlin, were reportedly chased and assaulted on Thursday after playing against DJK Schwarz-Weiß Neukölln, according to international media reports. The players were reportedly chased by a crowd wielding sticks and knives, according to German news site Tagesspiegel daily. Players from the opposing team reportedly yelled “Free Palestine” at the Jewish team, one of the player’s fathers told the media. The children were also allegedly spat at repeatedly, and the father claimed the referee failed to intervene... The club members have reportedly faced similar abuse over the last month, the Telegraph reported. A fan of the team, wearing a scarf representing the team, was in a cafe when he was reportedly punched in the face after being asked if he was Jewish."
Terrorist supporters can't lie that this is self-defence. But they hate "Zionists" anyway and think they deserve to die
The Amsterdam 'Jew hunt' wasn't spontaneous. It was planned - "“I’m not Jewish!” cried one man as he was beaten by a mob. Others were forced to prove this by presenting their passports. One man jumped into a canal to escape his tormentors. Still others were attacked with fireworks, punched in the head, and, in one case, kicked repeatedly while unconscious on the ground. This could be mistaken for a scene from one of the many antisemitic purges Europe has witnessed in past centuries. But it happened in Amsterdam on Thursday night, when Israeli football fans were hunted down in a coordinated act of violence... Some media outlets, however, have framed the violence as more of a “clash” between rival football thugs—sparked by Israeli fans chanting anti-Arab profanities and tearing down a Palestinian flag. Admittedly, the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, who refer to themselves as “super Jews”, were at times chauvinistic and loutish in the build-up to their game against Ajax; reportedly harassing locals, bellowing “f*** you Palestine”. And this may have grated some of Amsterdam’s large Arab-Muslim population. But what followed transcended the bounds of uncouth football rivalry: it was an act of calculated barbarism, organized over WhatsApp and Telegram. “Tomorrow after the game, at night, part 2 of the Jew Hunt,” one message read. This was not idle talk. Legions of antisemitic ghouls, some carrying knives, prowled around the Dutch capital in search of targets. A short drive from the Anne Frank House, Jews were hounded, beaten and humiliated for one reason only: because they are Jews. Those targeted may have had no association with the Maccabi troublemakers. This mattered little to their attackers, to whom they pleaded for mercy, appealing in vain to a humanity and reason that simply weren’t there. Predictably, some pundits were quick to attempt to justify the unjustifiable. I suspect this is in part because the villains of this story — who are modern-day Brownshirts — consist largely of Dutch-Arabs. Some donned keffiyeh scarves, others wailed “free Palestine” and “now you know how it feels” as they pummelled Israeli tourists. This pogrom-in-miniature, rooted in an ethno-religious conflict thousands of miles away, is emblematic of a far larger problem in Europe. For years, Holland and other European countries have invited vast numbers of people whose values and culture are often at odds with their own. This was a bold experiment made to appear less hazardous through rose-tinted spectacles. Europeans thought vainly that because we had largely set aside ethno-sectarian politics after the atrocities of the 20th century that others would do the same once they arrived. But they have not. Instead, many newcomers have brought their cultural and political allegiances with them — often responding to events in the Middle East with violence in Europe. To make matters worse, the problem tends to compound as later generations can display more cultural separatism than their forebears. As a result, our societies have gradually splintered into fragile, Lebanon-like entities, where sectarian divides often eclipse any sense of cohesive national identity. Some of the consequences of this were made apparent on Thursday night. Perhaps the most unsettling part of this self-described “Jew hunt,” which left five people hospitalized, was the paltry response of the Dutch police. Reports suggest officers failed to act swiftly and, in some cases, to act at all. “I and two others ran to the nearest police station, but they didn’t open the door,” one of the victims claimed. One hopes there is a reasonable explanation for this. Yet Amsterdam’s police force — with its increasingly diverse make-up — may have had other reasons for their reluctance to intervene. Last month, the Dutch Jewish Police Network warned that some officers “no longer want to protect Jewish targets or events,” vaguely citing “moral dilemmas.” Ethnic fault lines in policing aren’t unique to the Netherlands; a similar trend can be seen in Britain, where the Metropolitan Police sometimes deploys ethnic associations to manage crime in their own communities — in effect, allowing certain ethnic groups to police themselves. The erosion of impartial law enforcement is one of the many unintended consequences of Europe’s experiment with mass migration and multiculturalism — outcomes which politicians have, for decades, either failed to foresee or chosen to overlook. The events of Thursday night highlight a painful truth: Europe’s experiment with mass migration has left Jews increasingly vulnerable. Antisemitism has risen as the continent has absorbed more people from regions where this prejudice is endemic, particularly in parts of the Islamic world. In France, for example, “nearly all” violent antisemitic acts have been linked to individuals with a Muslim background, according to sources cited by the Times of Israel. The consequences of this rising antisemitism are stark: Jews are leaving Europe. Over the past 50 years, Europe’s Jewish population has halved—from 3.2 million in 1970 to 1.3 million in 2020. During the same period, Europe’s Muslim population has doubled, now totalling more than 26 million people. The scenes in Amsterdam — reminiscent of Europe’s darkest hours — will likely accelerate this trend, as more Jewish Europeans are made to feel unsafe. Ironically, they also serve as a stark reminder of the enduring need for the state of Israel."
Clearly, they meant that they were hunting "Zionists". The Mossad must have sent that false flag message about the "Jew Hunt"
Diverse police are obviously more effective
'We're being rejected outright': Amsterdam mayor bans rally against antisemitism - "Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema banned a rally against antisemitism that was set to occur Thursday evening, citing a concern for Jewish citizens of the city, according to the mayor’s office. “This Thursday is one of the busiest shopping evenings of the year. There is a good chance that there will be spontaneous dissenting voices,” a spokeswoman for the mayor said. “The police do not have sufficient abilities at that location to guarantee the safety of participants in the demonstration and for the shopping public.”... “It is deeply disheartening that in 2024 the safety of peaceful demonstrators cannot be guaranteed on the Dam in Amsterdam. Meanwhile, pro-Palestinian demonstrations continue to be held at the very site where we annually commemorate the horrific murder of Jews during World War II,” said van Oordt, according to De Telegraaf. “It is extremely unfortunate that the Amsterdam triangle reached this decision, especially since pro-Palestinian demonstrations continue to take place at Dam Square, the site where the annual commemoration of Jewish victims of the Holocaust occurs,” van Oordt added. “Moving the rally feels like a slap in the face to the Jewish community. We are being told we cannot unite at the National Monument to stand against hatred and intimidation.” The mayor’s office defended its decision and claimed that it had made the same request for pro-Palestine rallies at the same location, according to De Telegraaf. An upcoming pro-Palestinian protest is set to be held on Saturday in Dam Square. De Telegraaf reported that no statement has yet been made about whether it will be moved."
They are hunting Jews in Amsterdam. Canada could be next - "Anne Frank famously wrote: “What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it from happening again.” Anne Frank was from Amsterdam, the sight of last night’s bloody pogrom and the Netherlands failed to prevent it from happening again. If Canada, which is a mirror reflection of the Netherlands, continues on the path it is today, it too will see this unfathomable eruption of violence. Antisemitism today is surging unabated. The streets of Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and beyond, are witnessing almost daily protests by pro-Hamas mobs, with chants to “Globalize the Intifada” and “Free Palestine,” just as in Amsterdam, while the police watch from the sidelines, and many elected leaders remain silent. Synagogues are being attacked. Jewish kindergartens and schools are being shot at, and Holocaust museums are being protested. Elite Canadian universities are welcoming convicted terrorists, Hamas sympathizers and UN officials, with deep-seated histories of employing antisemitic tropes, Holocaust distortion and justification of the October 7 attacks. All this while the Canadian government proudly announces an unchecked mass intake of purported refugees and migrants from Gaza, the same Gaza that produced such widespread support for the Hamas monsters responsible for October 7... Whilst the denunciations of antisemitism are nice, without real, tangible, and urgent action, they are entirely meaningless, and it is only a matter of time before we see a pogrom on the streets of Canada. It should not be lost on us that the attacks in Amsterdam occurred on the eve of Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”), when in 1938, Nazis and their enablers across Germany and Austria razed over 1,400 synagogues, smashed the windows of and plundered over 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses, murdering almost 100 Jews in a violent pogrom, that was a jarring prelude to the further evil that would ensue."
Time to use Charlottesville from 2017 as an excuse to jail more white "far right" "extremists" to keep Jews "safe"
Jews and gay people should hide identity in 'Arab neighbourhoods', says Berlin police chief - " Jews and gay people should hide their identity in parts of Berlin with large Arab populations, the German capital’s police chief has warned. “There are areas of the city, we need to be perfectly honest here, where I would advise people who wear a kippah or are openly gay to be more careful,” said Barbara Slowik. “There are certain neighbourhoods where the majority of people of Arab origin live, who also have sympathies for terrorist groups,” she said, adding that they were often “openly hostile towards Jews”. She told the Berliner Zeitung newspaper that “violent crimes against Jewish people are few and far between, but every act is one too many”. A fortnight ago, a youth football team from Makkabi Berlin, a Jewish sports club, reported being “hunted down” by youths carrying sticks and knives after a match in an Arab neighbourhood of the city. The victims, aged 13 to 15, said they were spat at and insulted throughout the match. The incident took place on the same night that migrant gangs filmed attacks on fans of the Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv after a European football match against Ajax in Amsterdam. Germany has seen a surge in anti-Semitism since the beginning of the war in Gaza, with reported incidents doubling in 2023 compared with previous years. Since Oct 7 last year, Berlin’s police have opened more than 6,000 investigations connected to anti-Semitism, according to Ms Slowik. Most of these concern online hate speech or graffiti. Other incidents in Berlin include a football fan being attacked for wearing a scarf with a Star of David on it, a petrol bomb attack on a synagogue shortly after the Oct 7 massacres in southern Israel, and a couple being attacked in a fast-food outlet for speaking Hebrew. On the day of the Hamas massacres, men handed out sweets in celebration in the Berlin neighbourhood of Neukolln, an incident that shocked Germany and led to deep anxiety over whether the recent waves of migration had made Jewish life less safe. Neukolln, also famous for its LGBT nightlife, is the Berlin district with the highest Arab population. The two communities have coexisted for years, although there have been several incidents of gay couples being physically assaulted in recent years. Earlier this month, a large majority of lawmakers in the Bundestag, Germany’s national parliament, voted for a new resolution against anti-Semitism that mentioned migration from the Middle East as a factor. The resolution, drafted by the Greens, the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats, warned of an “alarming extent of anti-Semitism based on migration from countries where anti-Semitism and hostility to Israel are widespread due to state indoctrination”. The resolution could lead to refugees having their asylum status taken away if they are found guilty of committing anti-Semitic crimes."
Weird. I thought no go zones was a far right conspiracy theory and misinformation
Berlin police advise LGBTQ and Jews to avoid Arab-majority areas : r/worldnews - "don't you know, it's my religious freedom to hate you but it's xenophobic when you are afraid of me"
Berlin police advise LGBTQ and Jews to avoid Arab-majority areas : r/worldnews - "Lol...soon Jews and LBGT will be forced to leave Europe so they won't upset the Muslim community."
"People keep telling Israelis to "go back to Europe" but when Europe is like this, where are they expected to go? Absurd"
"Also over half of Israelis are from Arab countries and they can't go there either"
"yep, that's why they came up with Israel in the first place..."
"Setting aside that only 25% of Israelis are Ashki and the vast majority of Israelis are Mizrahi or Sephardi or Beta Israel (so ... not 'european' at all)... And setting aside that Jews were never 'europeans' according *to* europeans at any point in history up until basically the modern era--Jews did 'go back to poland" after the holocaust. After the holocaust many who survived camps went back to the places they were living before. But what happened? The locals welcomed them? No... over and over and over the locals killed them. After the war. And so the Kielce Pogrom was the last straw. What happened in Kielce? A European kid lied blaming the Jews for something bad happening and the locals slaughtered them. So when people say people went to Israel because of the Holocaust—no! Jews went by the hundreds of thousands to Israel because of Kielce, Poland … which was after the war was over. Because Hitler wasn’t the only problem. His death didn’t mean squat to locals who still hated Jews. We knew after Kielce that no one learned a damn thing. Meanwhile the absurdity of people saying 'before zionism' everything was fine in 'Palestine'. BHAHAHHAHAHA. No. The Jerusalem Riots of 1834, Safed Pogrom of 1834, Safed Pogrom of 1837, Petah Tikva Raid of 1886, Jaffa Riot of 1911, Jaffa Riots of 1921, and 1929 Massacres and Riots of Jerusalem, Safed, and Habron... I could go on and on and on. Jews living under Arab Muslim rule were never welcome or safe. We were the target of massacres and rape and looting. It's such a fucking asshole thing when people peddle that bullshit that we all got along if only Israel didn't exist. Israel exists for a very good reason that isn't only about the holocaust or what happened in Europe. No, it exists as much for Jews who have literally been in eretz Israel since the birth of Judaism in that land."
Berlin police advise LGBTQ and Jews to avoid Arab-majority areas : r/worldnews - "I feel like this fetishization of other cultures is a mere symptom, not the cause. Anything but the West! We're so terrible. This self-flagellation and cultural masochism is truly pathological. Douglas Murray covers this brilliantly in The War on the The West."
"It was weird to me as an immigrant, reading my school textbooks about all these great scientists and thinkers. Made me feel “wow this culture is great, Western enlightenment values changed the world, we should be like this!” But then when I got older, I noticed the western self hate termites burrow deeper, disparage western culture at every turn and elevating other cultures in some way to make themselves look sophisticated and progressive. It’s all so strange and disappointing. Large portions of our populations have this affliction."
"Yeah, and it's managed to permeate education, basically turning universities into indoctrination camps where any viewpoint diversity, failing to toe the "party line," gets you ostracized. Entertainment media and a massive chunk of the news media have been co-opted for the same purpose. Our greatest enemy is ourselves. This is a very odd cultural self-destruction that is taking place."
Berlin police advise LGBTQ and Jews to avoid Arab-majority areas : r/worldnews - "If you can't protect your own citizen anymore, maybe think if offering protection (Asylum) for foreigners is still feasable?"
Jesse Kline: The lie behind definitions of 'anti-Palestinian racism' - "Rather than working toward a world in which everyone is treated with dignity based on their inherent human worth — not treated differently due to their religion or ethnic background — we are now locked in an arms race between groups seeking to define various forms of racism. This process has been spurred on by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who seems to think that stuffy conferences and lengthy dissertations are the solution to the ever-growing levels of hate on Canadian streets... he ended with an acknowledgement of “anti-Palestinian racism,” lest he violate the left’s prohibition on discussing Jew-hate without conflating it with racism perpetrated against Muslims... We live in a world in which the Jewish state is constantly accused of committing “war crimes” and perpetrating a “genocide” despite the fact that the number of Arabs killed in all of Israel’s wars combined over the past 76 years is dwarfed by the number of civilians killed in Afghanistan during the 20-year war of which Canada was a part (double standard, anyone?). We live in a world in which Israel’s enemies have adopted every vile antisemitic trope of the past but re-framed them as being anti-Zionist rather than anti-Jew. “Zionists” have been told they are not welcome on university campuses. A mob in New York went on a “Zionist” hunt . A protest sign claimed , “Zionists Are Not Humans! They Are the Evil of the World!” A university professor kicked up a fuss over an Israeli flag displayed in an Ontario school during Jewish Heritage Month, something that wouldn’t be made into an issue if it were a Greek flag commemorating Greek Heritage Month. And the “Zionist state,” as the Jewish state is referred to by Iran and its minions, is blamed not just for all the trouble in the Middle East, but the world at large — just as the Jews were in past eras. The list goes on and on. It’s little wonder that Jew-haters want to exempt criticism of Zionism and the Jewish state from any generally accepted definition of antisemitism... Just because it’s become unfortunately necessary to have a common definition to antisemitism, however, doesn’t mean we need to go about defining novel forms of discrimination, such as “anti-Palestinian racism” — a term coined by the anti-Zionist crowd to silence pro-Israel voices. I can already hear my critics accusing me of rank hypocrisy, but bear with me. The main issue is that we already have a term for racism espoused against Muslims: Islamophobia. There is no need to obfuscate the issue by creating separate forms of racism for Muslims or Arabs of different geographical origins. The only reason to do so is to try to pretend that legitimate differences of opinion over the admittedly very complex Israeli-Palestinian conflict are somehow racist, or that criticizing the tactics of Palestinian terrorist groups should be verboten. And make no mistake: the definition put forth in a 2022 paper from the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association does just that. It defines “anti-Palestinian racism,” in part, as “failing to acknowledge Palestinians as an indigenous people with a collective identity, belonging and rights in relation to occupied and historic Palestine,” and “defaming Palestinians and their allies with slander such as being inherently antisemitic, a terrorist threat/sympathizer or opposed to democratic values.” This is far more specific than the double-standards test included in the IHRA definition and would seem to define as racist hard truths such as the fact that the Jews’ claim of indigeneity far predates that of the Palestinians, Israel’s borders are still subject to negotiation under the Oslo Accords, rates of antisemitism within the Palestinian territories are exceptionally high , terrorism has become a common tactic used by Palestinian political groups and elections have not been held in the West Bank or Gaza since 2006."
Of course, left wingers claim if you're tough on crime, you're racist, so once again it's double standards with the biggest dog whistle in the world
NDP is right to question Canada's definition of antisemitism - "I suspect they’re right for a bad reason, namely, to placate their anti-Israel constituency. (They need any constituency they can get nowadays.) The party certainly isn’t a stalwart on free-speech issues, happily promoting Winnipeg MP Leah Gazan’s private-member’s bill that purports to outlaw “residential school denialism.” And as recently as 2015, New Democrats supported the Ottawa Protocol on Combating Antisemitism, a predecessor document to the IHRA definition that contained nearly identical language about applying double-standards to Israel... At best, I think, this is going to sow even more confusion among Canadians as to what constitutes illegal and illegal speech in this country. Since 2022 there has been a law on the books that purports to target someone who, “by communicating statements, other than in private conversation, wilfully promotes antisemitism by condoning, denying or downplaying the Holocaust.” Here’s how you know the Liberals took the initiative very seriously: It was jammed into that year’s budget implementation bill, and it doesn’t bother to define “antisemitism.”... Why is the government adopting a definition of antisemitism if it doesn’t intend to use it in any official capacity? And what will it attempt to define next?"
It is very important to protect hate speech the left approves of, even celebrating proscribed terrorists like Sinwar, because of freedom of expression, but speech the left hates must be banned because it is harmful
Chris Selley: The perils of 'defining' bigotry - "Some of the definitions of anti-Palestinian racism out there certainly seem studiously, deliberately vague. Citing the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association , Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East includes as examples “erasing the human rights and equal dignity and worth of Palestinians,” which is meaningless; and “justifying violence against Palestinians,” which could easily include defending Israel’s right to retaliate against Hamas atrocities."
Qatar reportedly tells Hamas they are not welcome in the country
What a coincidence. I wonder what can have caused this
I was told that Putin didn't invade Ukraine under Trump because he was waiting for Trump to pull the US out of NATO. How curious that he ended up invading under Biden when the US was still in NATO
Sediq Sediqqi: Canada must redouble efforts to ensure foreign aid is not appropriated by the Taliban - "a recently released report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revealed the details of the Taliban’s systematic interference in aid operations throughout the country. In September alone, the OCHA recorded 173 incidents of the Taliban interfering in humanitarian operations, which led to the suspension of 83 humanitarian projects. The report also said that during this period, the Taliban arrested nine aid workers, closed three aid facilities and restricted the movement of aid workers. This is part of a trend that has seen the Taliban work to infiltrate aid operations and exert control over international aid organizations, including setting up fraudulent non-governmental organizations to appropriate foreign aid in order to fund the regime. The Taliban also benefit from taxes levied on foreign-funded aid programs and their employees. The Taliban’s survival rests on illicit drug revenues, arms sales and extortion. It has used this money to build and fund jihadi madrassas intended to shore up its support among future generations. The country is now home to 21,000 madrassas, where a new generation of Taliban are being trained to take up the mantle of global jihad. The Taliban’s draconian laws, gender-based discrimination and oppression has severely exacerbated the country’s humanitarian crisis."
Damn Zionists, interfering with aid agencies in Gaza! Hamas seizing aid and killing "collaborators" is Israel's fault, because if Israel had never existed, it wouldn't be a convenient scapegoat for them
Meme - Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres: "Every college and university has a constitutional right to teach whatever content it wishes, unencumbered by government interference. Having said that, the government is under no obligation to use taxpayer funds to pay for courses that romanticize antisemitic terror and violence as “resistance.” The government should stop subsidizing ideological indoctrination masquerading as instruction."
"Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance. E. Cheyfitz.
The first half of the course will be devoted to situating Indigenous peoples, of which there are 350,000 globally, in an international context, where we will examine the proposition that Indigenous people are involved historically in a global war against an ongoing colonialism. The second half will present a specific case of this war: settler colonialism in with a particular emphasis on what the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has termed a "plausible genocide" in Gaza.
Outcome 1: Identify and analyze key components of Indigenous perspectives on political, social, and environmental systems(this can be through written reflections and discussions).
Outcome 2: Define and differentiate key terms such as "Indigeneity," "Resistance," "SettlerColonialism," and "Genocide" in both international law and Indigenous can be through writing assignments and presentations)."
Israel Defense Forces on X - "The same civilians that Hamas outspokenly claimed to be fighting for, are the same civilians being tortured in this video. Hamas is not only Israel’s enemy—they’re Gaza’s enemy also."
Damn Zionists! How can they torture the poor Palestinians?!
AG on X - "It has been almost a week since Israel published CCTV footage of Hamas torturing Palestinian civilians. I can't find one article on CNN, Reuters, NBC News, the AP, WaPo, or NYT covering it. Imagine if these were videos of Israel doing the same thing..."
The terrorist supporters are still trying to find a way to blame Israel for this
Eyal Yakoby on X - "Van Jones with absolute moral clarity: "The Palestinian cause has been hijacked by a Nazi organization called Hamas, they are not freedom fighters, they are freedom takers... They are trying to destroy Israel way more than they are trying to help the Palestinian people.""
Caroline Glick on X - "Hamas didn't hijack anything. They won the election. The "Palestinians" don't want a state. They want to annihilate the Jews. Hamas is not an alien entity. It is the Palestinians."
Israel is not a 'settler-colonial state' - "Akub, a fashionable Palestinian restaurant in London’s Notting Hill. It is more than just a high-end eatery. In an interview with the New York Times in 2022, its French-trained chef and founder, Fadi Kattan, said his mission was to ‘reclaim a cuisine that is part of a broader Arab tradition involving foods like hummus, falafel, tabbouleh, fattoush and shawarma, that he felt was being co-opted by Israeli cooks’. It seems that whereas normal people cook food, in the eyes of Kattan, Israelis ‘co-opt’ it. This position relies on a highly selective view of history. As one reader remarked in the comments section: ‘Jews have also been making these foods for centuries and have appropriated nothing. There’s been a continuous Jewish presence in the land of Israel for thousands of years. What’s more, many of these foods are not limited to the land of Israel, but common across the former Ottoman Empire.’ People often forget that Judaism is two millennia older than Islam and 1,500 years older than Christianity. Israel was the cradle of Jewish civilisation. At least a thousand years before the birth of Jesus Christ, Jerusalem’s most famous Jew, King David, made the city the capital of the Land of Israel. It has been home to greater or lesser numbers of Jews – the very word ‘Jew’ is a shortening of Judea, the ancient kingdom radiating from Jerusalem in the Iron Age – in Jerusalem ever since. Culturally, Jews have always intertwined their identity with the land of Israel... By 1896, more than three-fifths of the 45,300 residents of Jerusalem were Jewish (2). Yousef al-Khalidi, the mayor of the city, wrote to his old friend, Zadok Khan, chief rabbi of France: ‘Who can contest the rights of the Jews to Palestine? God knows, historically it is indeed your country.’ In 1915, as the contours of the future Jewish state were continuing to emerge, Palestinian Arab nationalism had yet to appear. ‘Questions of Arabs and their nationality are as far from them as bimetallism from the life of Texas’, wrote TE Lawrence of Arabia at the time. ‘Christians and Mohammedans come [to Jerusalem] on pilgrimage; Jews look to it for the political future of their race.’ (3)... The Jewish side had accepted the UN partition plan. After all, to the north, the Syrians and Lebanese had likewise agreed to be partitioned, despite much grumbling from the Alawites and Druze. But the Palestinians – led by the Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, who had collaborated closely with the Third Reich during the war and relished the idea of exterminating the Jews – rejected any treaty that involved the establishment of a Jewish state. Just hours after Ben-Gurion’s speech, following Husseini’s lead, the armies of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria attacked the fledgling Jewish country. ‘This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre’, announced Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, secretary-general of the Arab League, ‘which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades’. The Mufti called for jihad, crying: ‘Murder the Jews! Murder them all!’ Ironically, as the scholar Joseph Spoerl has pointed out, ‘the plan for ethnic cleansing in Palestine in 1947-8 was an Arab plan, not a Zionist one’ (4)... The existence of two million Arab citizens of Israel today shows how allegations of ‘ethnic cleansing’ have long been twisted and weaponised... The 1949 Armistice Agreement, supervised by the UN, split Jerusalem and placed the Old City in the hands of King Abdullah of Transjordan, who had also succeeded in annexing the West Bank, which the UN had set aside for the Palestinians. ‘Nobody will take over Jerusalem from me unless I’m killed’, he declared. The terms allowed Jews access to the Western Wall, the cemetery on the Mount of Olives and the tombs of Kidron Valley, but these pledges were never honoured. Jews were not able to visit the wall for the next 19 years, and their gravestones were defaced... Today, nearly 80 years after the War of Independence, 80 per cent of Israeli Jews were born in Israel and half of the country’s Jewish population is now black or Middle Eastern, meaning that whites are in the minority. Far from being a white-supremacist state, Israel is a deeply multiracial one. The demonisation of Israel presents it as a unique historical evil. In truth, the manner of its creation was typical of the period... aside from the singularity of the ancient Jewish story, the Holocaust and the volume of migration from the diaspora, only two things were exceptional about Israel’s birth. First, the 50 per cent of the Arab population that had remained within its borders were granted full citizenship. Second, despite its messiness, it became a liberal democracy with a strong economy, which made it unique in the region. Yet despite all this, Jews are still blamed for stealing the hummus. Customers of the Akub restaurant are served their ‘reclaimed’ dishes against a backdrop of rows of keys displayed on the wall. These represent the property that was lost by the 700,000 Arabs who fled when Israel was founded, fuelling demands for restitution. Palestinian dispossession has become one of the world’s best-known historic injustices. In that same period, millions of other people were driven across borders in Europe and Asia, amid the same post-colonial turmoil, in more violent circumstances, their homes seized, their relatives killed, their cultures lost and their families fragmented. Yet their stories have been buried by history. Who laments the plight of the Greek Orthodox Christians, or the Indian Hindus and Sikhs, or the Armenians, or the Irish refugees created after the bloody British partition of 1921, or the 12million ethnic Germans expelled from Eastern Europe on Churchill’s instigation after the Second World War? Or the Jews of the Middle East, for that matter?... no nation it seems is more singled out and demonised than Israel."
Gunmen shoot and kill aid worker in Gaza, charity and family say - "Gunmen in the Gaza Strip shot and killed a Palestinian aid worker from a U.S. based charity, firing on her car in what officials from the Hamas-run government told her family was a case of mistaken identity. The car in which Islam Hejazy, Gaza program manager at HEAL Palestine, was traveling was intercepted on Thursday in the area of Khan Younis in the south of the enclave."
Weird how there's never any outrage when Palestinians kill aid workers
A Battered and Diminished Hezbollah Accepts a Cease-Fire - The New York Times - "For years, Hezbollah told the Lebanese that it alone could defend them from Israel. It boasted of powerful weapons and hardened commandos who would unleash deadly “surprises” if war broke out. And it assured its followers that a regional alliance of militias supported by Iran would jump in to support it in battle. Those myths have now been shattered. After 13 months of war, Hezbollah entered a cease-fire with Israel on Wednesday that it will struggle to convince anyone, other than its most fervent loyalists, is not in fact a defeat. The 60-day truce, which is supposed to lay the groundwork for a more lasting cease-fire, comes after three months of withering Israeli attacks that have thrown the organization into disarray. Deep intelligence infiltration enabled Israel to assassinate many senior leaders, including Hezbollah’s secretary general of 32 years, Hassan Nasrallah. Israel bombarded the group’s most loyal communities, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee and blowing up dozens of villages, ensuring that many people have no homes to immediately return to. And Hezbollah’s fateful decision to consult no one before firing rockets at Israel, setting off a conflict that grew into Lebanon’s most deadly war in decades, has left it isolated in the country and in the wider Middle East, with Lebanon facing an exorbitant bill for reconstruction. Many of Hezbollah’s opponents in Lebanon and elsewhere hope that the war has weakened it enough that it will no longer be able to impose its will on the country’s political system. But it remains unclear whether Lebanon’s other parties will now feel empowered to stand against it. Hezbollah still has many thousands of fighters in Lebanon and commands the loyalty of a large share of the country's Shiite Muslims... Many honked their horns, waved yellow Hezbollah flags and said the fact that Hezbollah survived amounted to a win... “None of this is important,” he said. “What is important is the victory and the resistance. We are with them to the end.”... Hezbollah began firing on Israel in solidarity with Hamas after that group’s deadly attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. For months, as Israel and Hezbollah exchanged fire across the Israel-Lebanon border, Hezbollah’s leaders swore that the battle would end only when Israel stopped attacking Gaza. That demand is nowhere to be found in the new cease-fire, leaving Israel free to continue its quest to destroy Hamas. The new cease-fire also gives an oversight role to the United States, which Iran and Hezbollah have long railed against for its staunch support for Israel. Iran and Hezbollah would have only accepted such an arrangement if they were desperate to stop the war, analysts said. “It indicates the degree to which Iran is concerned and worried about its new vulnerability and the incoming Trump administration,” said Paul Salem, a Lebanon expert at the Middle East Institute, a think tank... “The shoe that hasn’t fallen yet is the obvious fact that there is a huge imbalance between Israel and Iran,” Mr. Salem said. “Israel can attack Iran at will and Iran cannot do the same.” In Lebanon, too, Hezbollah is likely to face an array of economic, social and political challenges if the cease-fire holds. For years, it justified its arsenal to other Lebanese as essential to defend the country against Israeli attacks. Now, it has not only failed in that defense but must answer to fellow Lebanese who are angry that it single-handedly dragged the country into a costly war that no one else wanted... The war has displaced 1.2 million people, the government says, mostly Shiite Muslims from Hezbollah strongholds in southern Lebanon, the southern suburbs of Beirut and the eastern Bekaa Valley. Many of them are now sheltering in areas dominated by other sects — Sunni Muslims, Christians and Druse — many of whom do not want them to stay and fear that Hezbollah members could draw Israeli fire... Hezbollah’s remaining public figures have already begun marketing the cease-fire as a victory, saying their fighters kept firing missiles, rockets and drones into Israel and valiantly confronted the Israeli troops who invaded southern Lebanon. “From now, we confirm that the resistance will remain, will continue, will carry on,” Hassan Fadlallah, a Lebanese parliamentarian from Hezbollah, told Reuters"
Clearly, if Hezbollah attacks Israel again, it will be Israel's fault for refusing to be destroyed
Weird. We were told that Trump being elected would embolden dictators and cause another World War, just like the World War that happened during his first term
Strange how Israel only committed "genocide" against Shiite Muslims (of course, this has nothing to do with Shiites welcoming Hezbollah), not Sunni Muslims, Christians or Druse. The Zionists' fingers extend further than expected! The non Shiite Muslim Lebanese don't know that it's their Duty to Resist till the end of time
