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Monday, February 24, 2025

Links - 24th February 2025 (1 - Hamas Attack Oct 2023)

Egyptian NHS doctor who 'glorified' Hamas spared deportation - "An Egyptian NHS doctor who mocked Israeli festival-goers for fleeing Hamas gunmen on Oct 7 has won a legal challenge against deportation.  An immigration tribunal judge backed Dr Mennah Elwan in her claim that James Cleverly, the home secretary at the time, was wrong to cancel her leave to remain in the UK after ruling that her presence was “not conducive to the public good”... the judge quashed the expulsion decision on the basis that it was not “reasonable or proportionate” and breached her rights under both the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and common law.  He said Mr Cleverly should have had “proper regard” to the “short-lived and one-off nature” of the posts, which were quickly taken down, and her previous “blameless” record during her seven years in the UK... Mr Cleverly said he stood by his decision and urged Ms Cooper to stand firm and expel Dr Elwan.  He told The Telegraph: “I stand by the decision I made. Celebrating murder, championing the vile acts of a terrorist organisation, and victim blaming, all tell me this is a person who does not share our country’s values and does not deserve our hospitality.  “The Home Secretary should stand firm and have this person removed for our country.”"
Allison Pearson on X - "Help me, I’m confused. Judge says Egyptian doctor’s truly vile posts about Hamas massacres were “one offs and short lived”. But I had a criminal investigation by ⁦@EssexPoliceUK⁩ for a mild short lived one-off tweet. Is it because I support Jews?"
It is racist and Islamophobic to deport foreign Muslims who support terrorism

Chris Rose on X - "So Dr Mennah Elwan can escape deportation after glorifying Hamas on X/Twitter since the judge classed her posts as “short-lived and one-off nature” which were quickly taken down. However, Lucy Connolly received a 31-month jail sentence for a stupid post she deleted. Two Tier."

Owen Jones on X - "The BBC have systematically whitewashed Israeli crimes, erased Israeli genocidal intent - and sidelined Palestinian voices. They do an actual documentary about what it’s like to live through Israel’s genocide. They end up pulling it. History will not be kind"
(((Dan Hodges))) on X - "A documentary literally narrated by the son of a Hamas official. That's how much the BBC has "sidelined Palestinian voices"."

Thread by @jonsac on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "In 2007, the BBC faced an internal crisis over a misleading edit of Queen Elizabeth II walking out of a photoshoot. Within hours, they apologised. Senior resignations followed.  Fast forward to 2025: they’ve been caught again. But this time, it’s much worse. The BBC’s new documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, was marketed as an unfiltered look at children’s lives in the Strip.  In reality, it was a blatant Hamas propaganda piece—narrated by the son of a Hamas minister. Instead of issuing a swift apology, like they did for the Queen, the BBC dug in.  No resignations. No accountability. Just a limp defense that the film “met editorial guidelines.” Only after relentless scrutiny—from investigative journalists, former BBC execs, and outraged viewers—did they quietly remove the documentary for “further review.”  But the damage was done. Hamas’s narrative had already been broadcast to millions. The BBC’s featured “child paramedic” was supposedly volunteering in a hospital, assisting journalists, and cleaning ambulances—all in a single day.  Absurd? Of course. Grooming and using children for PR is a well-worn Hamas propaganda tactic: manufacturing child “heroes” to deliver scripted anti-Israel monologues."

David Collier on X - "The BBC has known about my investigative skillset on Gaza for well over a year.   @bbcnews  knew I was often able to find links between the people in Gaza who were pretending to be journalists or innocent civilians - and the Hamas or Islamic Jihad terror groups who were pulling their strings.  My work even made the BBC Verify experts look like fools when I caught them using an Iranian state asset as a reliable witness.  The most obvious move would have been for BBC to reach out and use me now and again to help to actually verify the authenticity of the  people that the VERIFY team - or other amateur hacks were using from Gaza.  I mean wouldn't the BBC executives want to know if their journos were being duped and they were lying to the public?   But such a logical move was a step too far for the elitist arrogance of the BBC. So instead of calling on me to help - BBC journos called me names and treated me like the enemy.   All while they continued to use Hamas puppets to spread lies (and antisemitism) throughout the UK.   And this is where that elitist arrogance took the BBC News to.  Shamed, embarrassed, and with its reputation in tatters."

Hillel Neuer on X - "UNRWA CHIEF “SHOCKED”: Lying Lazzarini says he's “shocked” hostages were held in UNRWA premises. Same guy who did nothing when he was sent this list of 100 Hamas terrorists on his UNRWA payroll:"

Visegrád 24 on X - "Hamas announced in Nov. that Daniella was killed in an Israeli airstrike. Today, she came out of Gaza alive. Hamas are liars. That’s worth remembering when talking about things such as whether the Bibas family is alive or when the ”Gaza Health Ministry” announces death figures"

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: Australia has announced it will welcome thousands of Palestinians with generous incentives, including free money and healthcare. This week, a Jewish leader faced an assassination attempt, and a Jewish daycare was firebombed. This is the government's response."

Brianna Wu on X - "I’ve seen a lot of shocking things in my life. I remember seeing the guy jump of the Twin Towers on 9/11 and ugly weeping for an hour.  I’ve never seen anything as horrific as Palestinian civilians kidnapping children, murdering their mother and strangling infants to death. Then parading the coffins through the streets in jubilation."
TAVOR Fanboy 🇳🇬🇮🇱🎗📟🎮🎸 on X - "Now you understand why things like Dresden and Hiroshima needed to happen. Our Western norms of "surgical war" are delusional. Based on the fallacy that most people are decent and good and it's just a few bad guys to take out before everyone is freed from "oppression" and takes up knitting.  Some societies are so far gone that only a cataclysmic level of death and destruction will make them turn away from their path."

Drew Pavlou on X - "Hamas murdered this young Jewish woman with muscular dystrophy on October 7 and they did it in the name of killing Jews. And people celebrated it all across the world as a day of “resistance.” This was a moment that really woke me up to left wing extremism"
Graham Linehan 🎗️ on X - "Began to wake up after Charlie Hebdo but Oct 7th made me realise that the left in the West is the enemy within. In its misogyny, homophobia and antisemitism, the modern left has become the old right."

A 🌷 on X - "Hamas is just shooting Palestinians in the head and filming it and uploading the videos and not a single "Free Palestine" person cares."

Iranian anti-Hamas activist arrested by London police - "Niyak Ghorbani was arrested while holding an anti-Hamas placard at a London pro-Palestinian protest on Saturday, police confirmed.   The Iranian 38-year-old activist held a sign reading “Don’t attack the law. Hamas is a terrorist. U.K. added Hamas to the terrorist list “Terrorism Act 2000” in March 2021.” Footage from the incident shows Ghorbani’s sign garnering attention from the surrounding protesters as people began chanting “Free Palestine” and “shame on you” at him while attempting to cover his sign with the Palestinian flag.   The altercations quickly turned physical with protesters attempting to grab at his sign and Ghorbani was filmed being shoved by a protester before trying to leave the heated situation.  Metropolitan Police followed Ghorbani and multiple officers were recorded cornering and arresting him. One officer was also filmed crumpling Ghorbani’s banner to the cheers of the demonstrating crowds.  Ghorbani later told the Jerusalem Post that the police injured his hand and back during the arrest... “Initially, the police claimed my intention was to disrupt the gathering. They threw me to the ground and arrested me. Despite seeing my poster and realizing I hadn't said anything against the laws of England, they detained me… the police told me I was arrested for disrupting the gathering, then after five minutes, they said someone had complained about me for resisting. However, eventually, when my friends presented videos to the police, they realized their grave mistake and released me, warning me of arrest if I return[ed] to a Hamas-supporting gathering.  “However, instead of apologizing, the police issued a statement full of lies and played with my dignity. It's shameful.”  Jonathan Turner, executive director for UK Lawyer for Israel, reviewed footage of the arrest and confirmed to the Post that the police may have broken the law during the arrest and prevented those who assaulted Ghorbani from being identified.   “It appears from the footage that the police brutally arrested the wrong person,” Turner said. “Niyak Ghorbani was entitled to use reasonable force to prevent a person who was attempting to steal his poster, which said ‘Hamas is Terrorist.’   “In arresting Mr Ghorbani, the police appear to have committed criminal offences of assault and false imprisonment. In addition, it appears that a policeman took and screwed up his poster. As well as theft of his property and criminal damage, this was also destruction of evidence that might have had fingerprints identifying the real offender.”... Last month, Metropolitan Police forcibly removed Ghorbani while he was protesting against Hamas in a similar incident, according to an exclusive by the Daily Mail. Leading up to the removal, Ghorbani claimed that protesters threw bottles, sticks, clods of earth and other items at him... London has been the grounds of  weekly pro-Palestinian demonstrations which have been repeatedly condemned by politicians and Jewish community groups.  A November survey by Campaign Against Antisemitism found that 90% of British Jews say that they would avoid traveling to a city center if a major anti-Israel demonstration was taking place there and more than 6 in 10 British Jews have either personally experienced or witnessed an antisemitic incident since October 7, or know somebody who has."

Arbitration Committee bans eight editors in Israel-Palestine debate - "Of the editors banned from the topic area by the Arbitration Committee, often referred to as Wikipedia’s “supreme court,” six are from the pro-Palestinian camp and two from the pro-Israel camp... Last June, Wikipedia faced backlash after it said the ADL is untrustworthy on the topics of Israel and Zionism. The classification of the ADL as an unreliable source cast it into a group with websites focused on conspiracy theories, partisan politics and marketing content.  Now, the ADL is saying that several of the banned editors were active in the discussions that led to the ADL’s downgrading as a source."

Aizenberg on X - "🧵BOMBSHELL FINDING: Hamas inadvertently admits in new data release that far more men died than shown on “identified” list of fatalities, corroborating IDF claim of 20,000 combatants killed. Hamas reports 7x more fathers killed than mothers during war! Sources & analysis:"

Eyal Yakoby on X - "An Israeli student at Columbia who went to see health services, was not seen as the healthcare workers stated they would not treat her because she was Israeli. Columbia University has truly been infiltrated with radicalism and terror ideology at every level."

Netanyahu in Gaza: 'Hamas will no longer control Gaza, we will pursue and defeat them' : r/worldnews - "Either way they gave money to a more extreme organization to undermine a less extreme one. Have we learned nothing from the mujahedeen. God fucking damn it"
"Less extreme? That’s some revisionist history if I have ever seen it.  Check out the PLO from inception through to 2005. Their leader literally has a PhD in holocaust denial. They’re also a principal group behind mass waves of suicides bombings that killed thousands including school children.  Check out Hamas during the same time and their efforts to seem less extreme."

Jewish doctors consider fleeing Canada amid rising antisemitism rates - "Nearly one third of Jewish medical practitioners in Ontario are considering leaving the country in response to rising antisemitism, according to a new survey that found that doctors across Canada are worried about what’s happening to their profession... The survey of over 1,000 Jewish medical professionals across Canada found that while just one per cent of Canadian Jewish doctors experienced severe antisemitism in a community, hospital or academic setting prior to the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, now 29 per cent, 39 per cent and 43 per cent say they have experienced some antisemitism in each of those settings, respectively...  “more than 80 per cent of respondents in Ontario said they’ve faced antisemitism at work”... “One of the hospitals where I work is unionized, and I have seen firsthand how the union has been visibly targeting Jews with hatred,” Lee-Segal said during the press conference. “Union members have been attending protests that condone terrorism, and I’ve witnessed colleagues showing up to these protests with union flags, chanting dangerous slogans. This environment has made me feel unsafe in my own workplace.”"
There're more Muslim votes than Jewish votes, and the left hates the Jews unless they can be used to shit on white people, so they're out of luck

Jewish doctors consider fleeing Canada amid rising rates of antisemitism in their profession : r/canada - "Speaking as an ex Muslim who was granted asylum in Canada things began to feel less safe for me the last few years and it exploded after October 7th.  Because of my name and appearance most Middle Easterners assume I am Muslim. I used to correct them. Now, after one particularly bad incident, I just play along and pretend to be Muslim sometimes.  I have no doubt the most radical extremists on the planet have been emboldened...   I've gotten death threats on my own private social media for a while but it was always just online but in general I noticed people are more aggressive about it offline as well.  The worst was a cab driver who assumed I was Muslim and when I told him I am no longer religious started threatening me to where I had to leave his cab in a dangerous spot.  I get a lot of Muslim cab drivers and now I always just lie and pretend I am Muslim."
Jewish doctors consider fleeing Canada amid rising rates of antisemitism in their profession : r/canada - "I remember growing up in the 90's the biggest religious threat I faced was Jehovah's Witnesses leaving pamphlets in my door.....I'm so thrilled to be experiencing new exotic cultures I truly feel blessed enriched."

Jewish doctors consider fleeing Canada amid rising rates of antisemitism in their profession : r/canada - "The government and police handling of these increasingly aggressive "protests" has been close to nil - even as they morph into intimidation and, sometimes, outright riots. The stated reason for their inaction is that the right to protest is enshrined. Yet, they happily strongarm counter-protesters for the sake of public peace - even when there are few of them and they are acting peacefully.  I can't help but conclude that the authorities are hoping for one of two outcomes - and perhaps both.  First, the general public will become so frustrated by the endless disruptions and terrible behavior that we will cry out for it to be stopped and, with a mandate from the majority, the government will grant themselves powers - via the notwithstanding clause - which allow them to get the job done by overriding Charter rights. Once these rights have been trampled, they will stay trampled. And going forward, the rights of all citizens to protest will be curtailed forever more.  Second, they hope to bait blue-collar and old-stock Canadians into taking a stand against these attacks and insults to Canada. This would give the establishment the optics they seek and allow them to say that the real danger in this country are - in fact - the settled citizens, who are persecuting vulnerable minorities. The majority become the problem that needs to be corrected!  With this they can take action against any citizen, of any background or social situation. All it takes is a couple of poorly worded posts here or on some other site to justify erasure from social media, destruction of livelihoods, and perhaps even jailtime.  These provocative policies - whether action or inaction - aren't incompetence. They're intentionally chosen to reach a particular outcome."

Samidoun says 'death to Canada' an accurate summation of its goals - "After Samidoun was roundly condemned for chanting “death to Canada” at a Vancouver rally celebrating the one-year anniversary of the October 7 terrorist attacks, the anti-Israel group has doubled down on the slogan, saying it’s an accurate representation of what it intends to do... Samidoun confirmed that the “death to Canada” chant was led by a member of its organization and accurately reflected its goal of destroying the “colonial, capitalist state of Canada.”  “We are not just fighting against the zionist state, we are fighting against imperialism,” read the statement.  It then praised the perpetrators of Al-Aqsa Flood, and promised to echo their example in Canada. “We see it as our duty to escalate the resistance here,” it read.  This kind of rhetoric was in line with earlier Samidoun statements. At the rally itself, the group handed out pamphlets detailing the risks and benefits of “complex coordinated terrorist attacks” in pursuing political aims. In the wake of the rally, the Thawra Vancouver Instagram account posted images of a Vancouver SkyTrain station graffitied with the words “GLORY 2 AL-AQSA FLOOD.”  A caption praised the “brave resistance fighters” who committed the October 7 attacks, and said that in tribute, “autonomous activists in so-called ‘Vancouver’ took to the streets early this morning, graffitiing on skytrain stations, targeting complicit businesses, to remind residents that despite the lies of the Occupation and its Western allies.”... It was a Samidoun rally held in the immediate wake of the massacres, for instance, that featured former B.C. Civil Liberties Association executive director Harsha Walia indirectly praising the mass murder of more than 300 attendees at the Nova Music Festival in southern Israel.  “How beautiful is the spirit to get free that Palestinians literally learned how to fly on hang gliders,” said Walia in apparent reference to the paragliders that Hamas gunmen used to ambush the music festival.  Charlotte Kates, the wife of Khaled Barakat, has repeatedly praised the October 7 attacks in public speeches held everywhere from Vancouver to Toronto to Madrid.  For all this, Samidoun has retained its official non-profit status, with one of its only government sanctions being a temporary ban against Kates making public appearances in Canada — although she’s been free to travel abroad. That ban expired on Oct. 8."
What will the left wing cope be now?

‘Sinister’ Oxford Union debate on Israel broke law, dons tell Hague - "An Oxford Union debate on Israel in which a speaker described the Oct 7 attacks as “heroism” broke the law, dons have told Lord Hague, the university’s newly elected chancellor.  Baroness Deech, Prof Sir Vernon Bogdanor and the philosopher Prof Peter Hacker are among 300 signatories of an open letter decrying the “inflammatory rhetoric, aggressive behaviour and intimidation” witnessed during the event last Thursday... Mr Sacerdoti described the atmosphere in the chamber as “hideous, sinister, and suffused with tension”, with one female student removed for “screaming obscenities”.  He wrote: “This was not an audience interested in debate or even in hearing arguments. It was a baying mob, openly hostile and emboldened by the president’s refusal to enforce the most basic rules of decorum. They interrupted every pro-Israel speaker with jeers, coughs and outright abuse.”   He also accused Ebrahim Osman Mowafy, the president of the Union, who is an Egyptian Arab, of being “openly biased from the outset”, and “fostering an environment of unchecked hostility”.  When one of the speakers for the motion withdrew, Osman Mowafy forwent his impartial role as chair, and spoke in favour of Israel being an apartheid state.  According to Mr Sacerdoti, Mosab Hassan Yousef, a fellow speaker and the son of a senior Hamas founder who defected to Israel’s side, was met with jeering derision and cries of “traitor” and “prostitute” by some in the audience as he recounted his story.   Mr Sacerdoti added: “Yoseph Haddad, an Israeli Arab who has dedicated his life to dismantling the apartheid lie, faced similar treatment.  “The international law commentator Natasha Hausdorf was hectored to finish her speech far quicker than her proposition counterpart.”  He also says that when Mr Yousef asked the audience to raise their hands if they would have reported prior knowledge of the Oct 7 massacres, “the vast majority of the room remained still”... Yousef Haddad, a pro-Israel activist, was ejected from the chamber after dismissing audience members as “terrorist supporters”, at which point he put on a T-shirt that read “your terrorist is dead” with a crossed-out face of Hassan Nasrallah, the former Hezbollah leader. Mr Haddad later took to X, formerly Twitter, to describe Oxford as being “occupied by antisemitic … and racist Middle East peoples”.  One student in the audience said: “I have never felt so targeted at Oxford. The rhetoric from Peled glorifying violence, and Haddad’s provocative behaviour, made the chamber totally toxic. Outside, the chanting from protesters only added to the intimidation.” Mr Sacerdoti told The Telegraph: “The Union’s president deliberately cultivated an environment of hostility towards me, my colleagues, and anyone prepared to challenge the inflammatory motion he chose.  “Institutions like the Oxford Union must not become playgrounds for sinister cliques pushing divisive and prejudicial agendas.”  In a statement, The Oxford Israel Society, representing Israeli students at Oxford, said: “It was pure unfiltered hatred. We left the debate feeling physically ill and unsafe, ultimately deciding to leave together rather than alone”.  Ben Freeman of the Pinsker Centre, a charity advocating for respectful debates on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said: “This event was a debacle, showing the chaos that ensues when divisive extremists hijack crucial debates in tense campus environments."
More suppression of "pro-Palestinian" speech! But of course those who criticise "pro-Palestinian" "speech" are racist Islamophobies whose hate speech is literally violence, and they need to be jailed

Douglas Murray on X - "If anyone wonders why the ⁦@OxfordUnion⁩ has become a terrorist-supporting hub, look to the vast sums of money they received in recent years from the terrorist regime in Qatar and their terrorists at Al-Jazeera."

Eyal Yakoby on X - "The 5 people who abducted Shani Louk into Gaza have all been eliminated. A reminder that these 5 are included in the "civilian" death toll in Gaza, as used by the NYT and WaPo."

Israel strike near designated safe zone in Al-Mawasi : r/UnitedNations - "The structure targeted look like nothing into the area. What it was?"
"Missile ramp. Or, if you believe the Hamas fanboys in the thread, it’s totally just a random missile ramp-like structure that they built and pointed perfectly at Israel for no reason."

Gaza hospital chief admits to being Hamas commander - "The head of a Gaza hospital has admitted to being a senior Hamas commander — and detailed how the terror group transformed the medical site into an operational hub that once housed a kidnapped Israeli soldier.  Ahmad Kahlot, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabaliya, made his taped confession to the Israeli security service Shin Bet...   Kahlot revealed that about 16 hospital staffers, including doctors, nurses, paramedics and clerks, were also members of Hamas’ notorious military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. According to the hospital chief, the medical facility under his care had been turned into an elaborate military hub where up to 100 Hamas terrorists had been holed up for days before moving to a different location. Some of the group’s leaders even had offices with private phone lines inside the hospital, Kahlot said.  “There is a designated space for interrogations, internal security and special security,” he revealed.  Asked by the Shin Bet interrogator why Hamas’ top brass chose the hospital as its bolthole, Kahlot said, “Because from their perspective, the hospital is a safe place. They won’t be harmed inside the hospital.”  Kahlot also revealed that Hamas had once brought a kidnapped Israeli soldier to the hospital and used its own private ambulance service to transport the bodies of hostages tied to its Oct. 7 massacre. He did not name the soldier or say what happened to him later. But the Hamas chief had some choice words for other leaders of his terror organization — blasting them as “cowards.  “They left us out in the open while they have gone into hiding,” he said. “The people are the ones who got screwed.  “They sacrificed us, unfortunately,” the hospital director added in a dejected tone of other bosses.  Israeli forces breached the Kamal Adwan Hospital on Dec. 12. Over the next few days, troops rounded up about 90 suspected Hamas terrorists inside the medical facility and seized piles of weapons, as seen in a viral video."
Terrorism supporters will just ignore this as usual, or pretend this was a fake confession extracted through torture, and that the weapons were planted by the IDF

Why Hamas Brought Hostages to Shifa Hospital - YouTube

Ambulance Driver Exposes Hamas’ Exploitation of Hospitals - YouTube - "We conducted precise, intelligence-based operations inside the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabaliya following indications that terrorists embedded themselves inside. 🎥WATCH an ambulance driver from the Kamal Adwan Hospital — who was apprehended due to suspicion of terrorist involvement — speak on Hamas’ use of this place to conduct terrorist activity:"

dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ on X - "I'm Aya. I study at UNRWA school. We'll return to Israel and shoot Jews. I hate the Jews. A lot. Oct 7 happened to take our land back. The land cannot be divided. It's ours. I like to watch videos about Hamas. I want to become a martyr so I can rise up to Allah. 📽️TT @UNWatch"
Why don't the Zionists want peace?!

Protesters try to topple Queen Victoria statue near pro-Palestinian encampment in Montreal : r/montreal - ""Peace is the white man's word"
"Fuck kkkanada"
"Intifada now"
"Escalation for palestine"
These among other vile slogans written on the walls of the encampment in letters big enough to see from across the street. Just disgusting."
"Is peace... bad? "

Protesters try to topple Queen Victoria statue near pro-Palestinian encampment in Montreal : r/montreal - "Funny how that statue, since 1869, lived through the 2 referendums on separation, a number of separatist governments and over 150 St-Jean Baptiste/Fete Nationale parades unscathed, but was almost taken down by a bunch of Pro-Palestine protesters...  Showing you with whom decency really resides in this province..."

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