Palestinian prisoners emerge wealthy men thanks to Palestinian Authority payments | The Australian - "A five-star Cairo hotel has removed 150 Palestinian guests after it was revealed they had been released from Israeli jails in exchange for Hamas hostages, and included members of the militant organisation... BA crew were shocked to learn of their fellow guests’ identities, with some considering barricading their doors for safety. The militants were removed to a remote, secure facility an hour from the city with strict limitations on excursions into the city. The furore came as it was also revealed more than half the Palestinian prisoners freed in exchange for Israeli hostages have become instant millionaires, thanks to years of payments from the Palestinian Authority. Lieutenant Colonel Maurice Hirsch, a former military prosecutor and a researcher at the Jerusalem Centre for Security and Foreign Affairs think tank, told Israeli media 160 of the 250 terrorists released in the deal – including Hamas militants – are rich men thanks to monthly payments of roughly 8,000 shekels (AUD$3450) over many years. “The Palestinian Authority rewards our child murderers with hundreds of millions of shekels annually, exactly as a prize for their participation in terror,” Lieutenant Colonel Hirsch told the Israel Hayom newspaper. “The payments accumulate to millions and they leave prison for a life of prosperity – not remorse.” Israel’s Foreign Minister, Gideon Sa’ar, accused the Palestinian Authority of continuing to pay salaries to prisoners, despite claiming to have ended the controversial “pay to slay” program that critics said incentivised terror attacks against Israel... Mr Sa’ar said the Palestinian Authority had not stopped paying Palestinian prisoners and Hamas operatives but had only changed its payment methods so the operatives did not receive the money directly. Speaking in Hungary, Mr Sa’ar told reporters: “Contrary to the Palestinian Authority’s promises in English, the PA continues its policy of paying salaries to terrorists. “The PA pays salaries to terrorists and their family members for murdering Jews and Israelis according to their law from 2004 until this very day. The PA rewards Palestinian terrorists, including Hamas operatives, who have Jewish blood on their hands – both those sitting in prison and those released in the latest deal. “The PA never stopped paying salaries to terrorists – the PA only changed its method. Terrorists now receive the money from Palestinian postal branches. The PA even makes additional payments to terrorists released under the agreement.” Mr Sa’ar accused the European Union of encouraging terrorism by ignoring the payments... Lieutenant Colonel Hirsch, who is also an adviser to Israel’s Ministry of Defence, said Israel was partly responsible for the large payments due to agreements under the Oslo Accords. “Out of every 100 shekels the PA pays terrorists, 65 come from us – from the VAT and income taxes we transfer to the PA under the Oslo Accords. We are literally funding the murder of our children,” he said. “A terrorist murderer knows he won’t die in prison, but will exit to a good life with an inflated bank account. The time has come to cut off this money pipeline once and for all.” A former Israeli intelligence officer told the Mail some of the men staying in Egypt would be free to move on to Qatar, Turkey and Tunisia. “There are no restrictions on their movements in these countries,” he said. “The first thing these terrorists will do when they reach Turkey or Qatar is contact their associates in Gaza and the West Bank to send money and re-establish their networks. They will quickly regroup and form new terror cells.”"
Meme - Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby: "Dave Smith is reaping what he has sowed for over 2 years."
Dan Bilzerian @DanBilzerian: "No I said you're ducking a good faith convo, because you told multiple people that you were scared to talk to me, which is odd because we agree on many things, anyway..."
Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith: "You're actually a fucking liar. I've never told a single human being that I'm scared of you. I've told several that I think you're dumb."
Dan Bitzerian @DanBilzerian: "You are a subversive lying jew. @jakeshieldsaijj said you were scared. Everything I I said was a fact, you ducked the convo and then lied about doing so."
The cope is that solidarity is not contingent, and that decent human beings stand up for what is right regardless of whether they are personally hurt by it. Of course, leopards eating people's faces is only for people who defy the left wing agenda
Meme - The Misfit Patriot @misfitpatriot_: "Dave Smith might finally understand the meaning behind the famous poem “first they came for the socialists”. Being a useful idiot for Jew hating scum only protects you while you’re useful. Once that use runs out, they know you’re an easy target. They know the people you helped them attack won’t come to your defense, and all that bullshit about how “you can’t be antisemitic because you’re a Jew” is all they need to treat you like one. “Don’t shoot, I’m on your side” are the famous last words of the useful idiot, and it’s a hard lesson to learn."
Dave Smith @ComicDaveSm...: "Weren't you profusely apologizing to me last time you saw Rob? Weren't you an open communist into your 50s? Shut the fuck up about opposition. I regret supporting you substantially more than I regret supporting Trump. Go take another gummy, clown."
Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D.: "That's the Chomsky view--the U.S. empire is in charge. LOL. Classic liberal zionist hasbara. Dave Smith is controlled opposition-if he's even opposition at all."
Left wingers like to claim that not all Trump supporters/Republicans are bigots, but all bigots are Trump supporters/Republicans. So since all anti-Semites are "anti-Zionists"...
Meme - Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM: "The far left and the far right have an excellent division of labor: the far right wants to drive all the world's Jews into Israel and the far left wants to destroy all the Jews in Israel."
Man painting graffiti slogan: "JEWS OUT"
"He's A RIGHT WING ANTISEMITE !"
Man painting graffiti slogan: "JEWS OUT OF PALESTINE."
"OH! SORRY COMRADE!"
Julie Kahan on X - "The left is also doing a great job driving Jews toward Israel, by encouraging the immigration into western countries of Muslims who hate Jews."
Meme - *Daily Struggle*
"Free Palestine" "Kill Nazis"
*Hitler2 shop*
Hijaz Abu Shanab. Gaza City Resident: The name of the shop is 'Hitler' and I like him because he was the the most anti Jewish person
Description: Gaza: Hitler 2 clothing store puts Palestinian knife-wielding mannequins on display
We asked Hitler why he left some of you alive.
إسلامي: لقد أثبت انتصار القيادى الشيخ خهر عدنان مجددا أن إرادة الحق أقوى من جبزوت البادها
He did so in order to show us how wicked you are.
ميادي الشيخ خضر عدنان مجددا أن إرادة الحق أقوى من جبروت الباطل وأن عزيمته الصلبة نموذج
Description: Inside the Gaza Summer Camps Training Children to be the Next Generation of Terrorists"
Meme - Bouken Kabuto: "Can someone explain how a country that's only 71% jewish is considered an ethnostate but none of 17 other countries that are 99% arab are not ethnostates? Explain how that works"
Palestinian shunned for selling land to Jews to be buried in Jewish cemetery - "A chief rabbi of Jerusalem allowed a Palestinian man to be buried in a Jewish cemetery following his body’s exclusion by imams over his sale of real estate to Jews. Aryeh Stern, the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel’s capital, this week ruled that Alah Kirsh may be buried at a Jewish cemetery as an exception because he was a “righteous gentile,” the Ynet new site reported Friday. Kirsh was killed along with five other people in a traffic accident on November 4. His family sought to bury his body at a Muslim cemetery in East Jerusalem but the imams there turned them away because he had been accused of selling real estate in that part of the capital to Jews several years ago. Family members were not allowed to bring Kirsh’s body to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and were forbidden to pitch a mourner’s tent and receive guests there, as is the Muslim custom. Ekrima Sa’id Sabri, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, cited a 1935 fatwa, or religious Muslim edict, issued by his predecessor, Amin al-Husseini. A publicly anti-Semitic leader of Arab Israelis and ally of Nazi Germany, al-Husseini wrote that year that “anyone who sells a home or land to Jews will not receive a Muslim burial.” Basing a new fatwa on the old one, Sabri wrote: “Whoever sells to the Jews in Jerusalem is not a member of the Muslim nation. We will not accept his repentance and he will not be buried in the Muslim cemetery.”"
Damn Zionists! Clearly, as Israel is the source of all problems in the Middle East (not to mention the world), its founding in 1948 is why Amin al-Husseini ruled in 1935 that Muslims cannot sell land to Jews
Hajj Amin al-Husayni: Arab Nationalist and Muslim Leader - "Al-Husayni cultivated the perception that the demand of the Jews for free access to the wall (the holiest place for Jews) had threatened the very existence of the al-Aqsa and Dome of the Rock shrines (one of the holiest sites in Islam). He thus had exacerbated religious tension, infused the secular issues of Jewish immigration and land purchases with religious fervor, internationalized the political dispute by equating the Jewish presence in Palestine with an existential threat to the Muslim faith, and enhanced his own political position among the Palestinian Arab leaders. That al-Husayni explicitly encouraged or incited the violence is not documented; yet he did not do much to prevent it. After the riots, he presented himself as a preeminent defender of Islam and of Muslim rights in Palestine... The British authorities sent the Peel Commission to Palestine to investigate and propose a political settlement. Al-Husayni's testimony before the commission implied that the safety of the Jews residing in an independent Palestine could not be guaranteed... When the commission report recommended partition on July 7, 1937, radicals escalated a new wave of violence... After insurgents murdered the District Commissioner for the Galilee on September 26, the British dissolved the Arab Higher Committee and arrested its members... n mid-October 1937, al-Husayni, now fully committed to violent rebellion, fled to Lebanon. The British crushed the Arab Revolt in the autumn of 1938. The violence left 206 Jewish civilians, 454 Arab civilians, and 175 Mandate authority employees dead. In addition, British troops killed 1,138 armed Arab insurgents. The British never unequivocally linked al-Husayni with the insurgency in 1936-1937. There can be little doubt, however, that the Mufti maintained contacts with the radicals, whom he clandestinely encouraged when he thought it opportune... Before the arrival of British troops, Iraqi civilians mounted a pogrom, known as the Farhud, against the Jewish population of Baghdad on June 1-2, 1941, that claimed the lives of 128 Jews and the destruction of almost 1,500 businesses and homes"
Damn Zionist terrorists!
Mark Gist's answer to Why is it so hard for Israelis to share land with Palestinians, who have been living on that same land for many centuries? - Quora - "That word “share” is the problem and it’s because of this guy. That’s Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He was an antisemite, and anti-zionist, and a Nazi collaborator. He ruled that it was unacceptable for Jews to rule any land, no matter how small, that had once been ruled by Muslims. Because of him and his protege, Yasser Arafat, the Palestinians will not sign any agreement that allows the existence of Israel. Because of him, Israel has been under constant attack since it first declared its independence from Jordan. Israel has tried to trade land for peace multiple times. It appeared that a peace agreement was possible in 2000 in an agreement negotiated by Clinton’s Secretary of State, Madeline Albright. But Arafat ended up walking out on it. You can’t share land with people who want it all."
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour on X - "Anyone who's familiar with Arab politics knows that anti-Zionism is a cognitive trap that collapses all political analysis into a single explanatory theory. Why no democracy? America protects Israel. Why poverty? The regime serves American-Israeli interests. Why corruption? The rulers are traitors working for Israel. Every domestic failure gets routed through this singularity, which means the actual causes of the failure become literally unthinkable, genuinely unavailable as categories of analysis because the entire space of political reasoning has been totally consumed. The political decisions that flow from this captured consciousness are then what actually produce the conditions of poverty and unfreedom that the theory pretends to explain. This is, without doubt, what the rise of anti-Zionism threatens will do in Western societies and you can already see it. The American opposition that forces everything through Palestine/Israel isn't just wrong about chains of causality; it's actively generating the dysfunction it attributes to the Zionist-American conspiracy or empire or whatever. The singular theory is not merely a misdiagnosis but the very pathogen that produces the disease it claims to name. Every population whose political cognition has been captured by the Palestine/Israel symbol ultimately and inevitably becomes an open field of exploitation because they become incapable of seeing the causes of their own immiseration, and thereby unwittingly but actively reproducing the conditions of their immiseration, often through the very act of trying to resist it."
It's not just Arab politics. Other Muslims also blame "Zionists" for everything wrong in the world
Conspiracy theories are comforting but prevent you from actually solving problems
Meme - "'Palestinian identity only an anti-Zionist tactic'
LONDON (JCNS) - Golda Meir's assertion that the Palestinians are not really a separate people, has received the surprising endorsement from the most unexpected quarter, reports the JCNS diplomatic correspondent. It came from Zuher Mohsin, leader of Saiqa, the Syrian-sponsored Palestinian units, and head of the military depart- ment of the Palestine Liberation Organization. In an interview for the Dutch newspaper "Trouw," he said: "There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all one people. It is for political reasons only that we carefully emphasize our Palestinian identity. For it is in the national interest of the Arabs to en- courage the existence of Palestinians against Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity is there only for tactical reasons.""
Melissa Steinberg Brodsky | Facebook - "In 1977, the head of the PLO's military department gave an interview to a Dutch newspaper and said something that should have changed everything. He said Palestinian identity is emphasized for political reasons only. That a separate Palestinian identity exists for tactical reasons. That there are no real differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese. His name was Zuher Mohsin. He wasn't a dissident. He wasn't breaking ranks. He was one of the architects of the movement and he said the quiet part out loud. Eight years earlier, Golda Meir had said the same thing and been destroyed for it. But that's not even the beginning of the story. The PLO was founded in 1964. Three years before Israel controlled the West Bank or Gaza. Whatever it was built to liberate, it wasn't land Israel acquired in 1967. Before Arafat, there was no Palestinian national identity. Not because the people weren't real. Because the identity hadn't been built yet. And Arafat built it the same way you build a city — founding story first, then institutions, symbols, a flag, a claim of ancient dispossession, and enough foreign funding to make it stick."
Textbook row triggers vote to suspend EU funds to Palestinians - "MEPs will vote on Wednesday on a resolution to freeze EU funding to the Palestinian Authority amid allegations that its school textbooks promote violence, including by encouraging students to take up arms to ‘liberate’ Palestine from Israel. Investigations by advocacy groups and independent researchers, such as the Germany-based Georg Eckert Institute, have repeatedly found in recent years that PA textbooks promote violence and antisemitism. Although the PA has promised changes, the revisions have fallen short, according to a new study. While the European Commission claimed that “tangible progress has been observed” and the PA textbooks were being aligned with UNESCO standards, researchers from Impact-se, a UK-Israel-based institute that examines school materials from around the world, found that changes in textbooks used in the 2025-2026 school year were “very limited, partial, and cosmetic”. Hours before the vote on funding in Brussels, the US State Department released a report to Congress, citing Impact-se’s findings that textbooks used by the PA Ministry of Education “continue to glorify jihad and incitement to violence.”... Since 2008, the EU has funnelled about €3.8 billion to the PA through its PEGASE fund, which finances the salaries of civil servants, teachers, and education systems, responsible for drafting, approving, and delivering the curriculum.
Grade 12 Arabic Language textbook printed for 2025–26 includes a poem that urges students to “return” to Israeli cities “with a weapon in your hand”
In fact, most of the content remained unchanged, a review by Euractiv found, often reproducing earlier editions verbatim. Revisions frequently removed neutral material, while leaving problematic content intact. Researchers also found a revised textbook stating that “jihad is a contemporary religious duty to ‘liberate’ Palestine from the Zionist Occupation,” effectively encouraging students to pursue armed struggle. Another allegedly revised Grade 12 Arabic textbook urges students to “return” to Israeli cities “with a weapon in your hand,” using what Impact-se called “vivid, emotional verse to romanticise armed invasion “in a way disturbingly reminiscent of the violence witnessed on 7 October 2023.” An Islamic Education textbook also marked as revised portrays “the Jews” as liars and associates them with Satan. Even some cosmetic revisions may not have been implemented. In an internal document issued by the PA ministry of education and seen by Euractiv, school principals were instructed to reinstate previously removed Grade 12 lessons “omitted in error”, including a lesson on jihad."
Time to condemn Israel for "genocide" by defending itself from Palestinian terrorists and to excoriate Japan for having one or two textbooks that are not mandated nationwide which gloss over what happened during World War II. Celebrating war and genocide and spreading racism is okay when "minorities" do it
Clearly the textbooks meant "Zionists", not Jews
Troubling News for Jews from the Michigan Democratic Party - "There have been troubling developments in both parties regarding antisemitism in the last few years, but I found this one especially perverse and disturbing. And of course, it shouldn't be just Jews who are worried about it, not only because everyone should oppose antisemitism, but because antisemitism on both left and right is based within the growing illiberal constituencies in both parties. In short, you don't have to be worried about antisemitism to wonder what the heck's going on when the Democrats nominate a supporter of a radical Islamist, Iran-allied anti-American terrorist group that has murdered hundreds of Americans, weeks after an immigrant tied to that group tried to murder dozens of American schoolchildren."
Jewish Insider April 20th, 2026 - "Michigan Democratic delegates, at their statewide convention Sunday, nominated a Hezbollah supporter, Amir Makled, to the University of Michigan Board of Regents, choosing to oust a Jewish member, Jordan Acker, whose home and car were repeatedly vandalized with antisemitic graffiti and his family threatened. Acker’s offenses? He backed efforts to hold anti-Israel campus protesters at the University of Michigan accountable for assaulting police and engaging in intimidation of Jewish students, among other instances of student misconduct. He declined to support efforts to divest university funds from Israel, along with other members of the Board of Regents, as a radical faction of students had demanded. Acker’s non-Jewish Democratic ticketmate, Paul Brown, who also supported discipline against anti-Israel students, wasn’t targeted and was renominated for election. But the Democratic delegates ousted Acker in exchange for Makled, who has posted on social media with comments praising Hezbollah’s leaders and retweeted antisemitic messages from the conspiracy-theorizing influencer Candace Owens. The results mark a new low for Michigan Democrats. Also over the weekend, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed told CNN that he believes the Israeli government is just as evil as Hamas"
Time to jail the "far right" to keep Jews safe
Rep. Mike Levin on X - "This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America. A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts. In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention. Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, the Trump family’s deals are expanding, and not a single Washington Republican is willing to say a word about any of it. This is a corruption of everything the office of the presidency is supposed to stand for, and the American people deserve to know about it."
Daniel Friedman on X - "This is a wildly misleading framing. The US imposed sanctions on Syria in the 1970s for being a state sponsor of terrorism and added new ones in the 2010s as the regime of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, with the backing of Iran and Hezbollah, devastated his country and slaughtered nearly a million of his own people during a decade-long civil war. After Israel destroyed Hezbollah and weakened Iran, Assad was left defenseless and was overthrown by the rebels. Al-Sharaa, the rebel leader who deposed Assad and replaced him has a terrorist past but has signaled openness to engaging and allying with the West. After Assad was overthrown, Syrian businessmen came to lobby the US to lift sanctions that had been imposed on the country under the Assad regime. Lifting sanctions is something that is likely to happen when a sanctioned regime has been overthrown by its friendlier enemies. Assad was sanctioned because he used chemical weapons on his own people and was aligned with Hezbollah and Iran. Al-Sharaa fought Assad and is an enemy of Hezbollah and Iran. Lifting sanctions is a totally reasonable olive branch to show him the kind of opportunities that are available to Syria if Al-Sharaa decides to be a peaceful member of the international community. I think any administration likely would have lifted sanctions on Syria after the sanctioned regime was overthrown by its opposition."
Cambridge college’s response ‘wholly inadequate’ after students accused of making death threats over Israel visit - "A Cambridge college has been accused of failing to suspend students who made death threats against an undergraduate who visited Israel. Bradley Smart, a 21-year-old third-year student, told The Telegraph he was targeted with threats after returning to Homerton College. Smart took part in a trip to Israel organised by the Pinsker Centre think tank, which invited students from Oxford and Cambridge to meet both Israelis and Palestinians and to better understand the conflict. Smart, who is not Jewish, alleged that upon his return, fellow students posted messages in a college group chat, including “I’m going to kill him”, “kill him”, and “he needs to die”."
More disgusting censorship of pro-Palestine speech!
Iranian propagandists ‘given platform by British charities’ - "The charities watchdog is investigating claims that British charities could be providing a platform for supporters of the Iranian regime, The Telegraph has learnt. Two London-based charities have been accused of backing supporters of the Islamic Republic and the banned terror group Hamas. One of the charities, the Dar Alhekma Trust (DAT), stands accused of promoting a backer of the hardline regime in Tehran who appeared in videos praising Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader, who was killed in an Israeli air strike at the start of the current conflict with the US. Another charity, the Abrar Islamic Foundation (AIF), is accused of platforming an alleged supporter of the Iranian-founded Al Quds Day and the Oct 7 attacks on Israel."
