Marina Medvin ๐บ๐ธ on X - "Video of Palestinian civilians kidnapping a child, then breaking into an Israeli home and kidnapping a mother with a baby and a toddler that they found inside. All were taken to Gaza. 43 days later and still no proof of life or update on their safety."
Brian Lilley on X - "This kid, at Toronto’s “pro-Palestinian” March Saturday is praising the resistance and the intifada. In this context, the resistance is Hamas, a terrorist group. The kid, is cheered on by adults. The intifada in this context is also Hamas. Terrorism."
StopAntisemitism on X - "McLean, Virginia - a pupil at a Muslim Student Association student meeting at Langley High School flashed a sign replacing the U.S. flags stars with swastikas along with "Free Palestine". The Nazi regime murdered 6 millions Jews - this blantent hatred must never be tolerated at your school @langleyfcps @fcpsnews @malgill68"
StopAntisemitism on X - "Fairfax County, VA - in a shocking development, Langley High School has suspended an Asian student who REPORTED this vile hatred! Please contect Langley High Principal Kimberly Greer to voice your outrage: kpgreer@fcps.edu Students who courageously bring attention to such incidents deserve commendation, not punishment! Fairfax County Public Schools has emboldened students to become even more aggressive in their open antisemitism where they explicitly express support for Hamas and include swastikas in their signage. Last week, teens at Robinson Secondary School, rallied in front of their school with a shocking chant breaking out, “Long live Hamas!” Parents who witnessed the chant asked administrators to intervene, but they did not."
Weird. We're told that no one supports Hamas
Hillel Neuer on X - "Meet Samantha Pearson, head of the University of Alberta's Sexual Assault Center. https://t.co/hXcDKMAZky Their motto is #WeBelieveYou. She signed this open letter denying women were raped during Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel."
Hillel Neuer on X - "GOOD NEWS: Samantha Pearson, denier of Hamas rape, has just been fired from her position as head of the University of Alberta's Sexual Assault Center. Bravo to @BFlanaganUofA for his swift action. https://t.co/DIgNCUrJyy All universities should fire their Hamas apologists."
Israeli Tanks Reach Shifa Hospital, Fierce Firefight Underway - "the Red Crescent and Doctors Without Borders have reported that Israeli tanks have reached Shifa Hospital and Hamas fighters are involved in fierce clashes. Both groups have reported that the hospital is being raked by gunfire as Hamas militants fire at Israeli troops from within the hospital... Israel has overwhelming intelligence that since 2014, Shifa hospital has been effectively converted into a Hamas stronghold with a confluence of tunnels and underground bunkers honeycombing the facility. Since ejected Fatah from the Gaza Strip, where a fierce battle took place between the two groups, the once-British army barracks has been the site of Hamas atrocities including the torture and killing of Palestinians accused of working with or being loyal to Israel. Amnesty International reported on the conversion of a wing of the hospital intel a Hamas interrogation facility."
Damn Zionists attacking a defenceless hospital with only unarmed civilians inside!
Visegrรกd 24 on X - "BREAKING: Israel releases video evidence proving the existence of a complex tunnel system near the Al-Shifa hospital. The debate is over. Israel wouldn’t have been able to build such tunnels in two days."
Opinion | I Might Have Once Favored a Cease-Fire With Hamas, but Not Now - The New York Times - "For 35 years, I’ve devoted my professional life to U.S. peacemaking policy and conflict resolution and planning — whether in the former Soviet Union, a reunified Germany or postwar Iraq. But nothing has preoccupied me like finding a peaceful and lasting solution between Israel and the Palestinians. In the past, I might have favored a cease-fire with Hamas during a conflict with Israel. But today it is clear to me that peace is not going to be possible now or in the future as long as Hamas remains intact and in control of Gaza. Hamas’s power and ability to threaten Israel — and subject Gazan civilians to ever more rounds of violence — must end. After Oct. 7, there are many Israelis who believe their survival as a state is at stake. That may sound like an exaggeration, but to them, it’s not. If Hamas persists as a military force and is still running Gaza after this war is over, it will attack Israel again. And whether or not Hezbollah opens a true second front from Lebanon during this conflict, it, too, will attack Israel in the future. The aim of these groups, both of which are backed by Iran, is to make Israel unlivable and drive Israelis to leave: While Iran has denied involvement in the Hamas attack, Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has long talked about Israel not surviving for another 25 years, and his strategy has been to use these militant proxies to achieve that goal... Israel is not alone in believing it must defeat Hamas. Over the past two weeks, when I talked to Arab officials throughout the region whom I have long known, every single one told me that Hamas must be destroyed in Gaza. They made clear that if Hamas is perceived as winning, it will validate the group’s ideology of rejection, give leverage and momentum to Iran and its collaborators and put their own governments on the defensive. But they said this in private. Their public postures have been quite different. Only a few Arab states openly condemned the Hamas massacre of more than 1,400 people in Israel. Why? Because Arab leaders understood that as Israel retaliated and Palestinian casualties and suffering grew, their own citizens would be outraged and they needed to be seen as standing up for the Palestinians, at least rhetorically. Nowhere was the instinct to cater to the mood of the street more vividly revealed than in the quick denunciations of Israel after Hamas claimed that Israel bombed Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza. Israel has denied hitting the hospital but in several Arab countries, Hamas’s claims were accepted. At this point, multiple national intelligence agencies have said it was most likely a Palestinian rocket that hit the hospital. Nevertheless, people across the region — and the world — saw Israel bombing Gaza and were ready to believe this, too, was deliberately done... What would a defeat of Hamas mean? It would mean its military infrastructure, much of which is physically connected to civilian infrastructure, was largely destroyed and its leadership decimated, leaving the group without the capacity to block a reconstruction for demilitarization formula for Gaza, as it did in the past. In essence, this would mean there would be no war-making capacity in Gaza and that capacity could not be rebuilt. That formula must guide the day-after reality in Gaza. It would require Israel to remain in Gaza after the fighting ends until it could hand over to some kind of an interim administration to prevent a vacuum and begin the enormous task of reconstruction... it is worth noting that polls taken not long before the Oct. 7 attack revealed that 62 percent of Gazans were against Hamas breaking the cease-fire at the time with Israel. Getting aid into Gaza quickly and starting the reconstruction effort as soon as the fighting stops could help show residents that life can get better when Hamas is no longer preventing the rebuilding of Gaza... There are no easy solutions to Gaza, but there is only one path forward in this war. An outcome that leaves Hamas in control will doom not just Gaza but also much of the rest of the Middle East."
Damn Zionist, Islamophobic Arab officials who don't support "resistance"!
Meme FJ @Natsecjeff: "And there will be a third Nakba and a fourth Nakba unless Palestinians give up their genocidal struggle to destroy Israel. FAFO all the way."
dunia @missfalasteenia: "October 7th became a new holiday for Palestinians
maybe it's coming sooner rather than later
me watching the downfall of isr*el one day
My moms making knafa to celebrate I cannot she's been waiting for this one"
Weird. I thought normal Palestinians all condemned war and hatred
Meme - Guy Benson @guypbenson: "(He's not talking about the pro-Hamas agitators)"
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon: "11 Hate will never win. My statement on events in central London today:
MAYOR OF LONDON
I'd like to pay tribute to the Met Police who have dealt with a very difficult day with exceptional professionalism. The overwhelming majority of people who used their democratic right to protest on the streets of London today did so peacefully. Sadly however, we have seen far-right thugs attacking the police and some who have used the pro-Palestinian protest to spread hate and racism, including antisemitism. This is unacceptable - as is attempting to intimidate politicians. The far-right have clearly been encouraged and emboldened by what they have heard this week, including from senior politicians like the Home Secretary. I hope everyone takes the time to reflect on the impact their words and actions can have on others. The Met have my full support in taking action, without fear or favour, against those who broke the law. I continue to support them in taking a zero-tolerance approach against anyone found committing violent offences or spreading hate.
Mayor of London
SADIQ KHAN"
Meme - Andy @MrAndyNgo: "Actually quite a bit of violence and arrests at night from attendees of the Palestine "Million Man March," you liars @Channel4News"
Channel 4 News: "After being branded "hate marchers" by the Home Secretary, a massive pro- Palestinian protest passed off peacefully, with hundreds of thousands in attendance. The only scuffles on the day involved far-right protesters who clashed with police. @janedodgeC4 reports."
Kab Carr @KabCarr: "I was watching British news on and off most of the day ( different sources )and I was very surprised how they did not cover any of the violence at all - just the arrest in the morning of 82 "far right " trouble makers . Pretty obvious London is now a Muslim city"
DistrustYourGovt @Brian28121903: "Sounds exactly like the BLM riots of '20"
StopAntisemitism on X - "Oregon - watch Barbie Minor (center redhead with megaphone) shout at the top of her lungs Hamas’ raping of girls, beheading of babies, and kidnapping the elderly on October 7th was “justified”. Minor was elected to the Tualatin Hills Board of Directors in 2021 (please note she no longer works for Columbia Sports as written in her bio). Barbie Minor’s justification and defense of Hamas terror supports is concerning to say the least."
Andy Ngรด ๐ณ️๐ on X - "Barbie Minor (yes, that's her name) was also at the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots in Portland. Now, she's serving on the Tualatin Hills Board of Directors. Many, if not most, of those serving in public office in the Portland area are far-left radicals who support the use of extreme violence."
Meme - David Collier @mishtal: "Sure was a fun day out yesterday... Two from our wonderful dedicated @metpolice stopping to have their picture taken with a child dressed as a terrorist. I mean why on earth wouldn't they. Frame this. When people ask if a few years - what went wrong - just show it to them."
Meme - Khaled Beydoun @KhaledBeydoun: "From a follower on IG
'Go back to your country dirty Arab '
'I cant. Your government gave Israel $14 billion last week to destroy it (Gaza).'
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: 'Blue on Instagram means that the message was sent from his own phone. Khaled presumably sent the racist message to himself.'"
Of course, he deleted it, then claimed his account got hacked
Billboard Chris ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ on X - "“Hitler knew how to deal with these people,” he says. To all of you Jew-hating domestic terrorists, you will never be welcome here. The West was built on Judeo-Christian values. If you don’t like it, get out."
James Lindsay, manspreading into feminist angst on X - "So is this a, like, punch a Nazi moment? Like, it seems like the people who spent years saying that might have meant something else."
Islamophobia!
Joe Truzman on X - "Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arrives in Saudi Arabia to attend an emergency Arab summit on the Gaza war."
Gurwinder on X - "Arab leaders meet to condemn Israel’s bombing of Gaza, and the guest of honor is a man who slaughtered more Muslims than Israel has in its entire existence. Like those marching in London today, the only deaths they seem to care about are those that can be blamed on Jews."
MIT Explains Why It Didn’t Suspend pro-Palestinian Students Threatening Jews: ‘Visa Issues’ - "The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has acknowledged that the reason it did not follow through with threats to suspend students participating in an unauthorized anti-Israel protest this week was its concern that they could face deportation because they were not U.S. citizens. This acknowledgement appears in a statement issued by MIT President Sally Kornbluth in response to the protest, which according to Israeli and Jewish students, posed a danger to their physical safety and prevented them from attending classes that day... According to the MIT website, last year, international students accounted for close to 30 percent of the total number of students enrolled at the elite institution. There has been considerable speculation in recent weeks that many of the students at the forefront of the anti-Israel protests on campuses across the country are not U.S. citizens. The MIT statement appears to be the first time a university has acknowledged that this may be the case."
Weird. I thought rule of law meant everyone had to obey the law. Turns out that's only for the left's enemies
Oli London on X - "WWI Memorial desecrated with the Palestinian flag in France."
Emma Webb on X - "Ask yourself, why are they targeting these monuments?"
Andy Ngรด ๐ณ️๐ on X - "“Million Man March” for Palestine protesters in London today chanted in Arabic a battle cry that references Muhammad’s army returning to massacre Jews. #RemembranceDay #VeteransDay #ArmisticeDay"
Andy Ngรด ๐ณ️๐ on X - "Unfair policing is one of the accusations against police in London by those on the right. A woman at the London “Million Man March” for Palestine refuses to follow police orders and sits on the ground to prevent being pushed back but officers let her go repeatedly. She encourages her comrades to block the road to slow down police. #RemembranceDay #VeteransDay #ArmisticeDay"
Kiyah Willis on X - "My support of Israel does not stem from religion I'm an atheist because I rely on facts to make my decisions, and religion is nonfactual I support Israel because while they are an imperfect government (military draft and no Second Amendment, for example), they are overwhelmingly liberal, mostly secular, and protect the rights of their citizens They treat all of their citizens as equal under the law (no matter their race or religion) and are fighting this war with the intent of self-defense from Islamic terrorism Gaza's government, Hamas, forces its citizens to live under Islamic Sharia law and is fighting this war with the intent of killing Israelis/Jews You don't need religion to see which side is good and which is evil here All you need are facts"
Konstantin Kisin on X - "Useful notes from the last few weeks:
"Rise up, army of Mohammed" - ๐
"Jihad" - ๐
"From the river to the sea" - ๐
Ripping down posters of kidnapped kids - ๐
"England till I die" - ๐ก๐ก๐ก
Praying silently outside an abortion clinic - ๐ก๐ก๐ก"
Shai Goldman on X - "Oct 6: ceasefire in place , no Pro Palestinian rallies.
Oc 7: Hamas kills 1500+ (mostly Jewish civilians, kids , etc) & abducts 240+ people (mostly civilians , etc). ceasefire ends.
Oct 8: Pro Palestinian rallies start."
Uri Kurlianchik on X - "Interesting! Asked if they felt part of Israel, 70% of Arab citizens answered "yes", up from 48% in June. This is the highest finding for the sector since the start of the surveys 20 years ago. The war brought all Israelis closer together, not just the Jews."
German Man's Door Pounded By Pro-Palestine Protester Over Israeli Flag - "A German man had his front door pounded on by an angry pro-Palestine protester after the guy flew an Israeli flag from his balcony ... this as a demonstration was going on outside. Check out this wild video that was taken and posted by a man named Finn Wandhoff, who lives in Berlin and who was watching a massive pro-Palestine rally take place right outside his apartment Saturday evening. It seems he decided to voice his own view symbolically... he then called cops to report this but alleges the police told him he was being "clearly provocative" here."
Yoni Michanie on X - "Israel has spoken with medical staff at Gaza’s Al Shifra hospital to coordinate the moving of infants and children to safer hospitals. Before drawing moral equivalences between the warring parties, remember that Hamas burned and beheaded Israeli infants on October 7th."
David Collier on X - "Breaking... Israelii forces found an Arabic copy of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” inside a child's room in Gaza that was being used by terrorists. The terrorist even made his own notes. The forces that line up against Israel are genocidal - and we recognise them."
Liberals Need a Reckoning With Anti-Semitism - WSJ - "Mr. Biden gave a commendably robust denunciation of Hamas’s terrorism. But I still wonder whether he feels as alarmed by the threat to the “soul of the nation,” to borrow a phrase from a 2022 speech, from the sympathy large numbers of his fellow travelers on the left feel for Islamist slaughter as he does about that posed by the modern Republican Party? To be sure, there’s more than enough racism and anti-Semitism on the right to go around. Donald Trump has done plenty to help sow that evil, for instance by hosting one of its proponents at Mar-a-Lago—though he famously didn’t say what Mr. Biden and almost the entire American media continues to insist he did, that there were “good” neo-Nazis protesting that day in Virginia. But the past week has given us a moment of unusual clarity about the extremists in our midst who drape their hatred and intolerance in the clothing of “progressive” ideology. We have learned fresh detail about the disordered intellectual condition of our most important educational institutions. The near-total control of the most prestigious universities and colleges by intolerant extremists of the left is breeding not only generations of entitled little authoritarians but legions of apologists for violence against their own perceived enemies. The response of the authorities at Harvard to a statement by student groups blaming Israel for the mass murder, rape and kidnapping of its own citizens was instructive. First, nothing. (Unlike the murder of a black man in Minneapolis in 2020, the slaughter of more than 1,000 Jews, including Americans, wasn’t a moment for a moral “reckoning.”) Then, only after a wealth of donors to Harvard—along with other colleges with similarly Hamas-coddling tendencies—threatened to pull their funding, came a belated condemnation of terrorism. Finally we got a risible defense of “freedom of expression” from the president (of a place that in 2021 responded to a pressure campaign by left-wing students by canceling a course). We’ve learned also about the fatal contradiction at the heart of one of the core ideological tenets of the ideology that dominates elite institutions. “Intersectionality” is the proposition that all victims of the various vectors of discrimination, on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, etc., are somehow interlinked. In fact, some supposed victims of oppression are the most enthusiastic perpetrators of oppression against other groups. There can have been few more weirdly humorous spectacles this week than the protests of gay-rights groups expressing solidarity with Hamas, under whose jurisdiction homosexual activity can get you executed. Israel is the only country in the Middle East that tolerates sexual nonconformity. And we’ve had a chance to glimpse the darker implications of another of the left’s favorite totems—“decolonization.”... for some on the left it may have to involve an occasional massacre. Walaa Alqaisiya, a research fellow at Columbia University, tweeted: “Time to understand that Decolonization is NOT a metaphor. Decolonization means resistance of the oppressed and that includes armed struggle to LITERALLY get our lands and lives back!”"
How the Democrats betrayed the Jews - "We New York Jews have always voted for the Democrats, as their policies appealed to the immigrants and the first generation (my parents). A Fair Shake, a safety net, and unionism were manna to the newly arrived — in spite of (in both their and my lifetime) quotas and antisemitic discrimination. The immigrant Jews did well here, and voted for Franklin Roosevelt. And we are voting for him still. His Advisor on Jewish Affairs (jude-suss, or “house-Jew”) was Rabbi Stephen Wise, the “dean” of the American Rabbinate. He referred to FDR as “Boss”, and brought home to his community Roosevelt’s assurance of aid to the dying Jews of Europe. Yet Roosevelt’s aid stopped with his assurances, and tens of thousands of Jews died because of his restrictive immigration policies, and millions in Europe because of his refusal to interdict the Holocaust. Still, today, Jews vote Democratic: electing Presidents who refused to meet with the Israeli Prime Minister (Obama and Biden) in times of “peace”, who gave and give aid to the terrorist state of Iran in exchange for some semi-specified “deal”. American “Aid” to Iran pays for the equipment and ordnance, which is, at this moment, eradicating Jews. Why do Jews vote Democratic? Partly from tradition — conservatives have heard a Liberal Jew, when asked to defend or explain various absurd or inconsistent Democratic positions, shrug and joke: “I’m a Congenital Democrat.” I understand, for I was one, too. But there is no more cosy mystery in the antisemitism of the Democratic Party; Representatives are affiliated with the Democratic Socialists and pro-Palestinians, calling for the end of the state of Israel — that is, for the death of the Jews. And Democrat Representatives repeat and refuse to retract the libel that Israel bombed a hospital, in spite of absolute proof to the contrary, and will not call out the unutterable atrocities of Hamas. The writing is on the wall. In blood... Many German Jews served the Kaiser during the First World War, and explained to the Nazi thugs that they were Good Germans. And they were killed. And many defended themselves, in the Thirties, by admitting, among themselves, that the Eastern Jews were uncouth; just as today some Western liberal Jews “agree” with the Squad that the terrorists, though they have “gone too far”, “may have a point”: that Israel’s desire to exist is not consonant with an enlightened humanism. This is, in effect, a plea for exemption, not only from terror, but from conscience, for the liberal Jew means the Israelis “are making it hard on the rest of us”. Which is true; for if Israel’s innocent anguish is acknowledged, he will have to admit he has been living a terrible lie. Many good German Jews in the Thirties ignored their brothers and sisters to the East, and later died with them. My generation, born right after the Holocaust, wondered: “Good God, didn’t you see what was happening around you? Are you literally willing to die rather than admit you were mistaken?” The answer, today, to many liberal American Jews, is “Yes”. In response, the world’s Leftist media calls for the chastisement of Israel and support for Palestine, while those who consider themselves mere “liberals” moderate their cowardice by calling for a “ceasefire” — which is to say, a pause while Hamas re-arms."
Tamil Tigers used truce to rearm, says former commander - "The Tamil Tiger guerrillas used peace talks as a cover to rearm and prepare for a return to war in Sri Lanka, according to the group's former military commander Colonel Karuna. In an interview the ex-rebel fighter, who broke with the Tigers in 2004, said he was told by the guerrillas' supreme leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, to "drag these talks out for about five years, somehow let the time pass by. Meanwhile I will purchase arms and we will be ready for the next stage of fighting." The former Tamil Tiger, who was a member of the peace talks team, told the BBC the rebels never had any commitment to ending the war. Col Karuna left the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) saying his troops were being used as cannon fodder for the northern leadership."
The left faces a reckoning as Israel divides Democrats - "American Jews, who are overwhelmingly liberal, have often supported social justice movements. Simonds said while most progressive leaders have offered support, he feels betrayed by others on the left who have not. “It’s not going to change the way we look at justice,” Simonds said. “It’s going to change the way we look at our allies.” Israel has been so fraught in some progressive circles that many preferred not to talk about it, enforcing a sort of strategic silence to avoid dividing the movement and distracting it from common ground issues. That long-stifled debate is now spilling into public view in heated and sometimes ugly ways, dividing Democrats and exposing what some say is antisemitism that has been allowed to fester on the left for years. “There needs to be some soul searching about the extent of antisemitism within these groups such that these organizations are blinded to the worst form of terrorism,” said Rep. Shri Thanedar, D- Mich., who renounced his membership in Democratic Socialists of America on Wednesday after several of the group’s chapter seemed to applaud Hamas’ attack. “No one should be supporting such a thing,” Thanedar said... a growing portion of the party’s base has come to view Israel as the chief villain in the conflict, a colonial oppressor of Indigenous people, going far beyond the “pro-Israel, pro-peace” vision long espoused by center-left (and often Jewish-led) groups to advocate for a peaceful resolution for both Israelis and Palestinians... In 2021, a Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs survey found that just 22% of Democrats called Israel an ally, while another 37% viewed it a "necessary partner" and 30% said they didn’t know how to characterize the U.S.-Israel relationship... antisemitic conspiracy theories about the attack and misinformation claiming no Israeli civilians were harmed have been promoted on social media accounts linked to the Black Lives Matter movement."
