Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 on X - "You can debate the merits of how Israel fought the war, but the amount of humanitarian activity the Israelis facilitated and the various actions the Israelis took to move people out of combat zones belies the idea that the Israelis had any sort of specific intent to destroy a substantial part of the Palestinian population of Gaza for the purpose of extinguishing them as a national category. And that intent aspect is THE central part of what makes genocide genocide.
[1] Israel paused fighting in 2024 order to vaccinate upwards of 600,000 Palestinian kids below the age of 10 against Polio; and 1.1 million vaccines total.
[2] 90,000 aid trucks went to Gaza by June 2025, totaling 1.8 million tons. 1.3 million of that was food.
[3] 79,000 trucks of food specifically went in by July 2025, carrying 1.7 million tons of food.
[4] 100,000 large trucks (not all trucks) reached Gaza by mid-August 2025, totaling 1.9 million tons of aid. This apparently included 4,000 tons of baby formula.
[4] 112,000 trucks carrying 1.8-1.9 million tons of aid went to Gaza by early 2026
[5] The IDF and Israeli Electric Corporation restored a power line (which Hamas broke) to supply energy to a desalination plant serving 900,000 Gazans. It also cooperated with the Egyptians and Emiratis to link the Mawasi enclave (relative safe zone) to a desalination plant in Sinai.
[6] As of October 29, 2023, Israel had two pipelines going into Gaza providing 28.5 million liters of water. This was compared to 49 million liters before the war, which relied on three pipelines. The third pipeline was knocked out of operation by Hamas's October 7th attack, so the amount of water Israel was providing was the maximum it was able to provide. At that point 2 of Gaza's 3 desalination plants were operating too.
[7] Israel continued to provide electricity to the Gaza Strip until March 2025, when Hamas rejected extension of the ceasefire. Electricity was restored in July 2025 in response to worsening humanitarian conditions.
[8] In response to worsening humanitarian conditions which were approaching famine by July 2025, the Israelis unilaterally paused fighting
[9] As of late 2023, the Israeli military reported having sent approximately 15 million text messages, 12 million recorded phone calls, and made more than 40,000 personal phone calls to Gazans, alongside dropping hundreds of thousands of warning leaflets, in order to get them to evacuate areas of military operation.
[10] By December 2023 they published an interactive, block-numbered map of the Gaza Strip on December 1, 2023, designed to identify specific areas for military operations and guide civilian evacuations. The map divides the enclave into hundreds of small zones, with instructions for residents to evacuate to designated safe areas, such as Rafah, via social media and QR-coded leaflets.
[11] The Israelis cooperated with the 2024 Gaza floating pier project, intended to provide a new outlet for aid going in to Gaza
[12] The Israelis coordinated with outside countries on air drops
[13] The Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said it distributed 187 million meals by November 2025.
The main counter example somebody is going to bring up in response to the above is going to be how from March 2025 to July 2025 the Israelis stopped supplying electricity and how the Israelis put in an 11-week blockade from March to May 2025, and continued to regulate aid tightly until July 2025. But in the December 2024 to March 2025 truce period enough aid went in that should have lasted for another six months. The Israeli government's assumption was that people in Gaza had adequately stockpiled aid to last a pause until new mechanism of aid provision [Gaza Humanitarian Foundation [GHF]] which Hamas and others hopefully couldn't steal from or divert came into effect. This proved to be a stupid and reckless assumption because people didn't stockpile aid equitably during the truce period and the GHF's distribution very effective at distributing aid widely across geography due to a variety of reasons. But being stubborn and obstinate isn't the same as having the specific intent of trying to make people go hungry. And when the situation got really bad, the Israelis paused fighting to resolve the humanitarian crisis in July 2025. There was international pressure, yeah, but they still participated. Meanwhile Egypt closed the Rafah Crossing in 2024 and it remained closed throughout the war. And the UN and other NGOs were highly resistant to actively cooperating with the Israelis in aid provision matters, including protection for their distribution (they even said they preferred "Gaza Police" - meaning Hamas - protection). And Hamas and other criminals were diverting and hoarding aid. A bunch of the reasons for there being aid issues were from actors other than Israel. The Israeli response to a bunch of this was "well if it's not our fault it's not our responsibility to deal with it", which annoyed a lot of people (and I think indicates a shocking degree of inability to recognize that even if not the Israelis' fault its still the Israelis' problem). But the point remains that the source of much of the humanitarian issue was the UN, NGOs, Egypt, Hamas, and Palestinian criminal gangs."
Gabriel Epstein on X - "Summing up: PIJ announced the deaths of 41 high-level commanders, including:
- 3 Members of its General Staff Council and 1 of its Military Council
- 16 deputy (or assistant) commanders in manufacturing, missile, administrative, operations, and other units
- 6 deputy brigade commanders
- 15 battalion commanders
Dual civilian roles for 8 of 41 commanders are currently known, including four in medical roles, two in media/journalist roles, one religious position, and 1 apparent NGO worker. 34/41 are listed on the November 2025 MOH death toll list. Of the missing seven, five died during or after October 2025."
Thread by @ArminRosen on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Terrorists had a far higher chance of dying during the war in Gaza than civilians did, despite being like 5-7% of the pre-war population. Your chances of dying greatly increased with seniority and rank. Ie, terrorists were killed at roughly an order of magnitude higher frequency than their share of the population. Civilians were killed a little over half as frequently as their population share."
Mike on X - "Hamas just announced it will hand out 9.6 million shekels (over $3 million) to the widows of 19,306 martyrs from the war. That’s an official admission that at least 19,306 Hamas operatives were killed. But that’s only the married ones. Plenty of fighters are single, so the real combatant death toll is even higher (experts estimate ~30,000+ including Islamic Jihad). Yet Hamas’s Ministry of Health still claims 72,037 total Palestinian deaths — a number the entire world media and UN keep quoting as gospel. What they “forget” to subtract: Their own people they murdered (collaborators and opponents of Hamas); Gazans killed by their own misfired rockets (10-12% of launches); and natural deaths (over 6,500 per year from old age/illness). When you do the basic math, even if we accept Hamas's dubious death total, Hamas accidentally revealed that the combatant-to-civilian fatality ratio collapses to somewhere between 1:1 and 1:2. In other words: One of the lowest ratios in modern urban warfare history. Hamas literally exposed its own lie — but the world is still running with the inflated propaganda."
Israel-haters can't stop lying about a 'genocide' - "numerous media outlets reported that an unnamed Israeli “security official” conceded that the Israel Defence Forces believes the death toll in Gaza to be around 70,000, which is in line with the number reported by the Gaza Health Ministry. Israel’s enemies predictably seized on the reports as proof that a “genocide” has been taking place, but that is simply not the case. Throughout the war, numerousindependentresearchers have found serious discrepancies in the numbers put out by the Hamas-run Health Ministry, but whether this was evidence of a deliberate attempt to mislead or simply a function of trying to keep statistics in an active war zone was never clear. We still don’t know for sure: shortly after the briefing was given to local media, an IDF spokesperson cast doubt on the reports, saying that, “The details published do not reflect official IDF data,” and that, “Any publication or report on this matter will be released through official and orderly channels.” But even if the figures put out by the Health Ministry, which claims that 71,667 people have died since the start of the war, are generally accurate, it is only evidence that this has been a brutal and punishing war — something we already knew — not that Israel is guilty of war crimes. The fact that Israel-haters consistently try to conceal is that Hamas’s numbers do not distinguish between civilian and combatant deaths, which is vitally important. Simply stating that 70,000 people have died in two years of war is intentionally misleading, as the insinuation is that Israeli forces are slaughtering civilians en masse. The reality is that, last August, the IDF estimated it had killed at least 23,600 terrorists since Oct. 7, 2023, or 38 per cent of the 62,000 Gazans that the Health Ministry claimed had died up to that point. The Health Ministry numbers also don’t distinguish between those who have been killed as a result of Israeli actions and those who perished in “friendly fire” incidents, such as the 471 who were reported dead after an errant terrorist rocket hit the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital. Even if we take both sides’ August 2025 numbers at face value and count every dead civilian as a war death, it would indicate that civilians accounted for 62 per cent of the war dead. This number is certainly high, but still lower than estimates for the Korean War (74 per cent), the Gulf War (87-88 per cent) and the Iraq War (66-67 per cent). It is also lower than the 67 per cent civilian death rate in the October 7 massacre, so anyone screaming about “proportionality” should check their facts. There is no doubt that the harms caused to civilians in Gaza are much higher than they should be, but that is because Hamas embeds terrorist infrastructure in civilian areas, including neighbourhoods, schools, hospitals and mosques. Even so, Hamas’s persistent claim that the overwhelming majority of deaths are women and children is likely a complete fabrication. An April 2025 report written by two Australian academics and published by the U.S.-based Henry Jackson Society examined the Health Ministry’s own data and found that, between October 2023 and March 2025, 51 per cent of the casualties were women and children — a far cry from the 70 per cent that Hamas’s Government Media Office has been claiming throughout the war and media outlets have been repeating ad nauseam. When specifically examining the effects of Israel’s military operation in Khan Younis, the researchers found that males between the ages of 15 and 40 were over-represented, and that females under the age of 18 made up nine per cent of the fatalities, while underage boys constituted 13 per cent. This shows that the vast majority of the dead were fighting-age males — which one would expect to see in a war, but not in a genocide. The higher percentage of underage boys also indicates that many of them were not innocent children who happened to get caught in the crossfire, but child soldiers brandishing AK-47s. Indeed, Palestinian terrorist groups like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have a long history of recruiting child soldiers, dating back to the Second Intifada, when they were used as suicide bombers. Before the war, Hamas ran annual summer camps, attended by tens of thousands of children, to “prepare the youth” to make “sacrifices.” These, according to the U.S. State Department, “involved firearm instruction and military training,” and “served as recruitment events.” And during the war, Israel found hard evidence that “minors are active in the military wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip.” Part of the disconnect stems from the fact that while the Gaza Health Ministry is responsible for collecting data, the numbers are often spun by Hamas’s propaganda arm, the Government Media Office. Even if the baseline death toll is relatively trustworthy, it’s completely irresponsible of the global media to unquestioningly parrot Hamas’s claims about women and children being over-represented among the dead. And even if it’s true that over 70,000 have died since the start of the war, this cannot be construed as evidence that Israel is perpetrating a genocide. Even being generous and assuming that 10,000 people are buried under the rubble and have yet to be added to the death count, the number of dead after more than two years of war still only represents around 3.7 per cent of Gaza’s population of 2.2 million. By comparison, the global Jewish population was reduced by 34 per cent during the Holocaust, and in Rwanda, the two-year genocide in the early 1990s caused the population to decrease by 28 per cent. It’s telling that Hamas and its useful idiots in the West were accusing Israel of “genocide” on October 7, before its military campaign even got underway, despite the fact that the Palestinian population in the territories increased by 336 per cent between 1967 and 2017. There has clearly been a concerted effort on the part of Hamas and its backers to push the narrative that Israel is committing crimes against humanity in order to gain sympathy in West and among world leaders, even though the data shows that there has never been a systematic attempt to eliminate Palestinians — not before the war, and not after. People on both sides of the debate should have a keen interest in knowing the truth, yet Israel’s enemies only seem interested in peddling lies intended to demonize the Jewish state."
Moral shortcuts have fuelled the surge of antisemitism in Canada - "In the summer of 2015, I travelled from Berlin to Montreal to attend an annual conference on Israel studies. It was my first time in North America, and what struck me immediately was not only the scale of the cities, but the visibility of Jewish communal life. Compared with much of continental Europe, Jewish institutions in Canada appeared confident, established and deeply embedded in the social fabric. I still remember my first visit to Montreal’s Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue. The experience was breathtaking — not because of any spectacle, but because of stability. Jewish presence there did not feel provisional or defensive. It felt secure. Ten years later, I returned to Canada during a record-breaking snowstorm season, this time to Toronto, to attend a workshop on antisemitism. What I encountered was not overt hostility in the streets, but something more unsettling: a pervasive sense of fragility within Canada’s Jewish community. Over the past two years, Jewish communities worldwide have faced the most serious crisis since the Holocaust. That much is widely acknowledged. What is less discussed is why, in Canada, a country that prides itself on moral clarity and social protection, antisemitism has surged to levels exceeding those in the United States. This cannot be explained simply by political temperament or enforcement style. The problem is structural. When political leadership, intellectual discourse and security realities fail at the same time, even a well-organized and historically rooted community can become vulnerable very quickly. At multiple antisemitism-related events I attended in Canada, one pattern repeated itself: the audience consisted overwhelmingly of older Jews. Younger Jews were largely absent. At the same time, antisemitic rhetoric, particularly online and in activist spaces, has become increasingly youth-driven. This is not because young Jews are indifferent. Rather, in today’s political climate, openly expressing concern about antisemitism often carries a social cost. Silence has become the price of remaining within progressive coalitions. When an entire generation feels compelled to mute itself to prove moral acceptability, that silence is not neutral. It is a warning sign. It is against this backdrop that the Toronto mayor’s decision to juxtapose Chinese suffering during Japan’s Second World War invasion with the humanitarian toll of the Gaza war becomes especially troubling. This comparison, which Olivia Chow made during a speech at a National Council of Canadian Muslims fundraising gala in early November, was not an act of empathy, but a moral shortcut that removes history from its cause-and-effect framework... A mayor standing in front of a “From Selma to Gaza” placard, which was the backdrop for her November speech, is not a neutral act. When Olivia Chow lent her office to that slogan, she authorized a moral shortcut that rewrites history. Selma invokes a non-violent civil rights struggle; Gaza is being invoked after Oct. 7. To place them on a single line is to assign guilt by analogy. For Jews, it turns the targets of terror into moral defendants. For Chinese people, her speech reduced an anti-invasion history to a prop in someone else’s political theatre. It hurts. This confusion is not limited to politics. It is now amplified online, including by an English-speaking commentator with global audiences. Jiang Xueqin, a Chinese-Canadian education commentator with high-profile links to global education circles, and appearing in Harvard-adjacent initiatives and on platforms such as the Qatar-funded World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) — has openly promoted that Israel is committing ritual child sacrifice in Gaza. It is the old blood libel in modern packaging: Jews portrayed as people who sacrifice children. In any serious society, an educator should recognize the weight of that accusation. Instead, it is broadcast to a wide audience as if it were moral clarity... Perhaps one of the most telling moments during my visit was seeing Jewish organizations repeatedly writing letters to the mayor’s office or appealing to members of Parliament, seeking recognition, clarification or reassurance. In a functioning pluralist society, minorities do not need to lobby for the legitimacy of their fear. When a community must repeatedly explain why it feels unsafe, the problem has already moved beyond rhetoric and into institutional failure. One detail deserves particular attention. Israeli consular officials had initially planned to attend an antisemitism workshop at the University of Toronto last month, but ultimately withdrew citing “security reasons.” That explanation should not be dismissed. If Israeli officials now assess participation in discussions about antisemitism as a security risk, it suggests that hostility towards Israel and hostility towards Jews have become practically inseparable in public space. What I encountered in Canada was not a single incident, but a convergence. When political leaders distort history, when intellectual figures lend authority to ancient accusations in modern vocabulary, and when security risks are quietly acknowledged yet publicly minimized, even the most established communities can find themselves exposed. Canada’s Jewish community is not fragile because it lacks institutions or memory. It is fragile because too many of the structures meant to protect it are no longer doing their job."
Meme - Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown: "SCOOP: The UK gave £90,000 to an Israeli report claiming that Hamas used sexual violence as a "weapon of war". The Israeli government used the UK-funded report in a massive propaganda campaign, while Israeli officials called it a "significant public diplomacy tool"."
"UK Gave £90k to Sexual Violence Report Central to Israel's Genocide Propaganda. 'A significant public diplomacy tool for us.'"
Mak K @MaxE2review: "I note you're more outraged by a report on sexual violence during a rapey jihadist massacre - involving the execution of hundreds of unarmed 'infidels', incineration of families, desecration of corpses & kidnapping of holocaust survivors - than you were about the massacre itself"
Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown: "Today should be a day of celebration for supporters of democracy and human rights worldwide, as Gazans break out of their open-air prison and Hamas fighters cross into their colonisers' territory. The struggle for freedom is rarely bloodless and we shouldn't apologise for it."
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No wonder she blocked him. Left wingers can't stand it when people point out their perfidy and lies
Islamic school teacher escapes conviction after blaming ‘stress’ over Gaza flotilla for assault of Jewish man - "An Islamic school teacher has blamed the “stress” he felt about his brother being on a flotilla headed to Gaza for why he assaulted a Jewish man at an anti-Israel protest. Useid Mohammad Rafiq, 30, escaped conviction on Wednesday for his assault of the counter-protester at Bondi Beach on September 7. Earlier this month, Sky News revealed footage of the punch-up and that Mr Rafiq had lost his job as a high school teacher at Malek Fahd Islamic School - one of the biggest Islamic schools in the country, based in Sydney’s west - after his teaching accreditation was suspended by the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) following his guilty plea in January. Mr Rafiq’s lawyer Osman Samin told Waverley Local Court his client had been “in a constant state of anxiety” about his brother being on the Global Samud Flotilla, a fleet of ships that was headed for Gaza at the time of the assault... Magistrate Hugh Donnelly ultimately accepted Mr Rafiq had acted “out of character” and that the offending as at the “low” end of the range of seriousness... Despite expressing remorse over what he had done in a six-page letter to the court, Mr Rafiq declined the opportunity to publicly apologise to the victim outside court, nor answer questions about whether he thought it appropriate to seek to teach and mentor students again... Mr Rafiq’s sentencing comes two days after Sky News revealed Malek Fahd Islamic School board director Faraz Nomani had resigned and the school is being investigated by NESA after questions from this network about a video Mr Nomani shared of Hamas militants with an Arabic prayer for their victory and revelations of his past links to Islamist hate group Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is in the process of being banned by the federal government."
Good luck if a white man attacks a Muslim and blames it on "stress"
Aizenberg on X - "When the IDF said Hamas was posing as journalists the world was skeptical. But now Hamas themselves confirm Israel was right all along. @pressfreedom if you care about journalist safety focus on Hamas’ abuses."
NizNellie3 on X - "🚨 Victoria Huynh, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley. After the Oct 7 massacres by Hamas, she offered students extra credit if they attended an anti-Israel walkout, or gave them the option to watch a documentary on Palestinian "resistance." Professors are acting as conduits between terrorist organizations and student groups like Students for Justice in Palestine. They feed college students a steady stream of extremist propaganda, all under the shield of "academic free speech." HT @JessicaCostescu for SJP video🫡"
Hen Mazzig on X - "Luton Airport in the UK has issued an apology and is overhauling its staff training after Jewish Israeli author Alon Penzel was detained and mistreated by antisemitic workers. Alon was carrying a sign featuring the name of his book, Testimonies Without Boundaries, Israel: October 7th 2023, for a promotional event, which airport guards told him was "offensive." The guard found it so offensive, in fact, that they called the police. Several airport security guards and two police officers rounded Alon up and interrogated him for 90 minutes. Now the airport is retraining its staff. Not sure why "treating Jews like human beings" wasn't part of training in the first place, but, hey, it's progress."
Israel Now on X - "Toronto Police tell Jews that they cannot count on the police for protection."
Dryad✡️ - normie centrist democrat on X - "I read a Holocaust survivor once said the time for Jews to leave is when your government refuses to protect you."
David Bernstein on X - "I'm not against reasonable gun regulations, but this sort of thing is why you can't completely disarm the public. Jews in Canada are facing increasing violence, including shots fired at synagogues and schools. The Toronto police quite honestly say there's a limit to what they can do. So Canadian Jews need to supplement the police with their own defense, including being allowed and even encouraged to carry personal firearms to communal venues--proper licensing and training requirements, as noted, are fine."
Terry Newman on X - "I don't have security or a constant 360 video stream to make sure I'm safe, so I left early today. I'm a journalist in Montréal who does not feel safe covering terrorist supporting protesters that the SPVM happily babysit every week for overtime. Montréal is lost."
Thread by @HillelNeuer on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "“Montréal is lost”: Journalist doesn’t feel safe covering pro-terror protesters that police “babysit” every week. In Toronto, three synagogues were just attacked by gunfire. In Canada today, the jihadi mobs get police protection. Jews and journalists have to fend for themselves.
@TLNewmanMTL: “The group ‘Montreal for Palestine’ calls for jihad—like they've done weekly. No politicians in Canada seem to care. News outlets never mention it. Why is that?”
Pro-Jihadis rally openly on the streets of my beloved hometown Montreal, pledging allegiance to “resistance” in Gaza (Hamas), “resistance” in Lebanon (Hezbollah), and “resistance” in Montreal. This terror supporter should be deported or prosecuted.
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“The local police in Montréal, the @SPVM, didn't stop members of Montreal for Palestine from climbing a church, setting off smokebombs and calling for Intifada...” @TLNewmanMTL
“One Solution!” “Long Live the Intifada!” “Resistance is Justified!”"
Hen Mazzig on X - "Here's a list of synagogues that have been set on fire, or targeted with arson, since October 7: - Oct 17: El Hamma, Tunisia - Oct 18: Berlin, Germany - Nov 8: Montreal, Canada - Nov 18: Yerevan, Armenia - Nov 19: Lakewood, USA - Feb 28: Sfax, Tunisia - April 5: Oldenburg, Germany - April 10: Moscow, Russia - May 1: Warsaw, Poland - May 17: Rouen, France - May 30: Vancouver, Canada - July 11: Obninsk, Russia - Aug 24: La Grande-Motte, France - Dec 6: Melbourne, Australia - Dec 18: Montreal, Canada - Dec 30: Mykolaiv, Ukraine - Jan 11: Sydney, Australia - July 4: Melbourne, Australia - Aug 13: Obninsk, Russia - Nov 27: Chernivtsi, Ukraine - Jan 10: Mississippi, USA - Jan 14: Giessen, Germany
Every time a synagogue is set on fire, I have to update this list. And it never gets easier."
