Hamas official boasts Oct. 7 'resistance' revived Palestinian statehood push around the globe - ""Without our weapons, no one would be looking in our direction," senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad stated during the interview with Al Jazeera. Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official, boasted about the role that the terror group's October 7 massacre played in bringing the issue of Palestinian statehood back to the international agenda"
When Hamas boasts that they have been rewarded for their terrorism. But "experts" and "the international community" still encourage their terrorism
KINSELLA: Protestors have become what they claim to oppose - "They started to advocate for a global revolution (“Intifada”). They started to demand that Jews be removed from their ancestral homeland (“From the river to the sea”). They started to use symbols (the red hand, the red triangle) that literally advocate murder. And they, themselves, changed. They devolved into a dark, dangerous pro-Hamas adjunct. They fully became what they had so often accused Israel of: a violent, intolerant cabal of thugs. Capable, even, of murder, in places like Washington, D.C. or Boulder, Colorado. Along the way, they started to terrorize kids and families who had gone to see Santa Claus in a shopping mall. They blocked major roads. They vandalized. They started to attack places linked to Jews – even hospitals. And some of them even started to firebomb or shoot up synagogues and Jewish schools. (All in Toronto.)... the literal definition of terrorism, by the by: using force to achieve some political end. On the weekend, on a sunny and beautiful Sunday, some people shut down Ottawa’s big pride event. They actually did that: they blocked the road on which LGBTQ people were peacefully walking. They did that right on Parliament Hill, at the centre of our democracy, demanding that Ottawa Pride “boycott” Jews. In culture, in academia. The event was cancelled... Now, pride parades aren’t allowed in Palestine. The Palestinian criminal code says that anyone who “commits an act of sodomy” faces up to a decade in prison, because it’s “acting against the laws of nature.” The United Nations has actually helped resettle LGBTQ people facing persecution in Gaza and the West Bank. Says the UN’s Human Rights Council: “LGBTQ persons living under Palestinian Authority and Hamas control suffer severe persecution and ostracism. Many Palestinian homosexuals end up fleeing to Israel.” And: “Testimonies from gay Palestinians who managed to escape recount harrowing torture by both family and PA/Hamas security forces, often successful attempts to coerce them to inform on others, forced marriages and death threats, among other things.” A few years back, a Hamas commander, Mahmoud Ishtiwi, was executed. His crime? He was suspected of being gay. Even though he came from a long line of Hamas terrorists, even though he commanded 1,000 other terrorists, three bullets were pumped into his chest. Before that, they tortured him for several days – whipping him, hanging him from the ceiling with wires. How, you might ask, can the people who shut down Ottawa’s Pride parade not know these things? How can they now do what they (falsely) claim Israel is doing – cancelling others? It takes a lot of hate to reach that point. It takes a lot of self-delusion."
There have been many terrorism supporters who have been clear from October 8th that they've wanted to wipe out the Jews, so
Pride can either stand up to pro-Palestinian hijackers or lose funding - "Queers for Palestine managed to shut down the Ottawa Pride parade by blocking its path on Wellington Street, in front of Parliament Hill. They claim to have done so “with the permission” of the parade’s grand marshal. Capital Pride responded by cancelling the rest of the parade — and the fact they did so says everything you need to know about where Pride has drifted... [Last year] Sponsors and politicians pulled out, and the pro-Palestinian statement was eventually removed from Capital Pride’s website, but the organization’s executive director, Callie Metler, told the CBC last week that the organization still stood by its “principles and values.” The organizers invited politics into Pride — and now they’ve lost control of it. In a news release, Queers for Palestine made it clear they hijacked the event for their own agenda... The key question is whether Capital Pride organizers intended for this to happen. Their refusal to enforce basic rules of order, their unwillingness to ensure the parade carried on and their silence as a small group took control on a day that was supposed to belong to tens of thousands of participants all speak volumes. A Pride organization that cannot guarantee its own parade isn’t fit to hold one. But whose Pride is it? Those of us who lived through the decades when Pride was radical simply for existing remember the real milestones: equality under the law, protections against discrimination, the right to marry. These were hard-won gains. And when we achieved them, many of us dreamed of the day we wouldn’t need Pride parades at all — because every month would be Pride month. Because we would simply live our lives in dignity and equality: at work, in the suburbs, or with friends and family. That dream feels far away now. Instead of being a unifying celebration, Pride has drifted into something else: a stage for political posturing, divisive slogans and activism that often leaves members of the LGBTQ community feeling excluded or unrepresented. Worse, there’s a creeping sense of entitlement within the leadership of these organizations. Rather than being accountable to the communities they serve, they increasingly behave as though their funding and sponsorships are owed to them — not earned. They’ve shifted from underdogs demanding a seat at the table to gatekeepers policing who belongs and who doesn’t. It’s no wonder there’s growing pushback. I don’t have to be straight to say I’ve had enough of the hijacking of Pride by political activists. So how many more political Pride parades do we endure before the funding spigot is turned off? How long before taxpayers and sponsors alike say enough is enough? Public dollars, in particular, demand accountability. It’s not unreasonable to ask whether Pride organizations should be required to prove that their events are inclusive, representative and safe before receiving a dime of taxpayer money. Likewise, corporate sponsors should consider whether their millions are going toward building community or amplifying division. Pride should be a celebration of our victories, not a platform for fringe politics. It should be about community, not confrontation. It should make LGBTQ people feel included, not sidelined by activists with other agendas. The Ottawa parade collapse is a wake-up call"
Of course, if you refuse to fund and/or support Pride, you're a homophobic bigot
Pro-Palestinian activists record Israeli nationals attacked and hospitalized - "Dutch media outlet Jonet reported that the Israelis had been secretly recorded by pro-Palestinian activists, and their images were shared online. The footage of the Israeli families reportedly appeared on the social media page of the Amsterdam branch of Students for Justice in Palestine, according to Omroep Flevoland."
More censorship of pro-Palestinian speech! Time to imprison everyone on the "far right" to keep Jews safe
Meme - Momodou @MomodouTaal: "All praises due to Allah in every state. We do not say that which does not please our Lord. We will not forget the names of the martyrs, whose blood illuminates the path towards liberation. Bearing the bruises of empire, the Palestinians have ripped off the bandage from the liberal order. With our new eyes, like never before, we see victory laid bare. Glory to the martyrs. Long live the resistance. Free Palestine."
Meme - Momodou @MomodouTaal: "Axis of Evil: lsrael, USA and United Kingdom."
Momodou ✊🏿 on X - "“decolonization is always a violent phenomenon” - Frantz Fanon"
Steve McGuire on X - "The leaders of several black student organizations at Cornell say “Black students do not feel safe at Cornell” due to the suspension of Momodou Taal. They accuse the president of using “racialized rhetoric” and recommend a list of books, incl. White Fragility, to him:"
Isn't it racist to say black students support Hamas and terrorism, and hate their country, the USA?
Meme - David Collier @mishtal: "Hey @bbcnews ... Is this Ahmed Abu Sweid. The Aussie Doctor currently in Gaza that you are using as a key reliable witness? You report that he says he has 'never seen anything like it'. Do you have any reason to think he may not be completely impartial? Asking for a friend..." *doctor at Pro-Palestine demonstration*
Amir Mizroch on X - "I speak to Arab friends, who abhor what’s happening in Gaza, but nobody can credibly explain what’s stopping Hamas from releasing the hostages and surrendering. The Nazis and Imperial Japan surrendered and they were just as fanatic if not / X
Even the Nazis weren't so evil as to sacrifice their children to make their enemies look bad
Ars Sababa 🇮🇱 🇫🇷 on X - "Gazans are not special. Everyone suffers in war. That’s why smart people don’t start them unless necessary. But the world taught Gazans a different lesson. Gazans learned they could start wars with a far superior neighbour and the world would pressure Israel to stop prematurely…then give them free money to rebuild. The world treated Gazans like they were unique and special, so they could always start wars and never suffer the consequences. But Gazans are not special. For once, they are receiving a valuable lesson. Don’t steal this valuable learning experience from them by demanding a premature end to the war. Don’t steal this knowledge from them by rebuilding everything. Gazans are not special."
Turkey bans French singer's concert after protest calls over his pro-Israeli stance - "Turkish authorities have banned a concert of Enrico Macias, a French singer of Algerian-Jewish origin, after calls for protest over his pro-Israeli stance. The Istanbul governor's office late on Wednesday said that Macias' performance scheduled for Friday evening in the city has been banned "after intense calls for protests against the concert.""
Clearly, Istanbul is a Western city, at home in Europe
"Mild Islamism" strikes again
Petition to revoke Mohamad Fakih's Order of Canada gets 11K signatures in 3 days - "While Fakih’s persistent anti-Israel activism has long been a point of contention online, an Aug. 25 post on X — in which he declared Canadians who support Israel lack “basic human values, let alone Canadian values”– caused considerable uproar. The post continued, stating “tweets and messages” by Israeli supporters “are saved and known to all of us,” and their “lack of Canadian and human values will never be forgotten.” “To suggest that anyone who is a supporter of Israel lacks human values is dehumanizing,” Baber told the Toronto Sun. “And to suggest that someone’s identities are being saved and recorded would reasonably be construed as threatening. This is conduct unbecoming of someone called to the Order of Canada.”"
New Green Party leader under pressure to sack deputy for defending Oct 7 terrorists - "The Green Party’s new leader is facing calls to sack his deputy for “sickening” comments about the Oct 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel. Mothin Ali, a councillor in Leeds, was elected co-deputy leader of the Greens on Tuesday to serve under Zack Polanski. In a video on TikTok, which is now private, Cllr Ali claimed Israel would use the “pretext of the fightback by Hamas fighters, or supposedly Hamas fighters” to attack Gaza. Writing on Facebook on Oct 8 2023, within 24 hours of the massacre, Cllr Ali suggested that Hamas fighters were “indigenous people defending themselves” and that condemnation of the attack was “white supremacy”... Cllr Ali wrote on Facebook on Oct 8 2023: “This didn’t start yesterday, it started nearly 80 years ago by European settler colonialists. “Never forget that the Western media will always portray indigenous people defending themselves as barbarians, however they dress it up it’s just another manifestation of white supremacy.” The Green co-deputy leader also claimed Israelis were “not victims, they’re occupiers, they’re colonialists”, and said their supporters were using “the weapon of anti-Semitism” to stop criticism of the Israeli government."
Israeli family ‘intimidated’ by pro-Palestinian airport staff member - "An Israeli woman has said she is hesitant about returning to Britain after her family were allegedly “humiliated and intimidated” by a member of security staff displaying pro-Palestinian logos at an airport. The family, including a baby and five-year-old girl, claimed they were all subjected to additional security checks at Luton airport. They were flying back to Tel Aviv at around 6pm on Aug 26 after a holiday in the UK. Each family member was called up individually when they passed through security. The family claimed the member of security staff was wearing a Palestinian flag bracelet and had a phone with a cover displaying a Palestinian flag, which he placed on the floor in view of the passengers he had stopped... In December, an Israeli author claimed he was subjected to anti-Semitism by staff at the airport over a poster promoting a talk on the October 7 attacks. Alon Penzel said he was challenged by a security guard while on his way to the departure gate to catch a flight from Luton to Tel Aviv. He was wearing a T-shirt with the slogan End Jew Hatred and carrying an A3-size black and white promotional sign emblazoned with the title of his book, Testimonies Without Boundaries Israel: October 7th 2023. Mr Penzel claimed that, after passing through security checks, a security guard stopped him and told him his sign was “offensive”."
Meme - Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig: "UNBELIEVABLE: The organization that the BBC credited as "the world's leading association of genocide scholars" merely requires a $30 fee to join. The International Association of Genocide Scholars has no background checks and members with names like "Adolf Hitler" are free to vote on resolutions accusing Israel of genocide. After this was brought to light, the once easily accessible members list on the website was hidden. Nothing shady going on here, right?"
*Hamas fighter in mask* "Adolf Hitler. Inactive member. CITY, STATE: Gaza city. COUNTRY: Palestinian Territory. AFFILIATION: IAGS expert"
Associated Press cites ‘genocide scholars’ group that anyone can join for $30 - "A “leading genocide scholars” group, cited by the Associated Press, Washington Post, and other news outlets, is open to anyone who has $30. The “International Association of Genocide Scholars is a favored source for the AP – it cited the group twice already this week. “Top genocide scholars accuse Israel of genocide,” a Sept. 1 article stated. PBS republished this story as well. “Leading genocide scholars organization says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza,” a Sept. 2 article from the AP reported. The Washington Post parroted the language in its own Sept. 1 article But the group, hailed by the AP as “The largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide,” is in fact open to anyone who wants to pay the membership fee. There’s no verification process – one journalist “signed up” and “became a genocide expert in Yugoslavia, gender, and the Holocaust.” Conservative commentator David Harsanyi likewise shared how he joined the organization in September. Once inside the system, he found a widely-reported genocide “resolution” occurred without any debate and only included about 25 percent of the members (who include, according to reporting, “Mo Cookie,” “Emperor Palpatine,” and “Adolf Hitler). The organization also did not disclose who authored the resolution... The Free Press editorial team also noted this is why people do not trust “experts.” “Activists are dressed up as scholars and subject matter experts, and their words are taken as gospel in news reports,” the editorial stated."
Damn conservatives abusing a good faith signup process to score political points!
Meme - Eylon Levy @EylonALevy: "Journalist Yaniv Zohar was murdered in his home in Kibbutz Nahal in the October 7 Massacre. His wife and daughters were also slaughtered. But according to @pressfreedom, he was killed on "dangerous assignment" and his killers were a "political group'."
Killing journalists is only wrong when they are really Hamas fighters
BBC uses journalist who called for ‘Jews to be burned like Hitler did’... again - "A journalist who called for Jews to be burned “as Hitler did” has been used by the BBC as an expert commentator on the Gaza conflict. Samer Elzaenen, who has appeared on the BBC’s Arabic channel more than a dozen times since the conflict erupted following the Oct 7 Hamas attacks, was quoted extensively as he accused Israel of using starvation as a weapon against Palestinians... In a Facebook post in July 2022, he stated: “When things go awry for us, shoot the Jews, it fixes everything.” Mr Elzaenen has also appeared to call for a repeat of the Holocaust, stating on Facebook in May 2011: “My message to the Zionist Jews: We are going to take our land back, we love death for Allah’s sake the same way you love life. We shall burn you as Hitler did, but this time we won’t have a single one of you left.”... Mr Elzaenen was used again by the BBC despite concerns about his comments having been raised... Mr Elzaenen’s social media output over the past decade has included endorsements of more than 30 separate attacks against Jewish civilians in Israel. He has called the actions “blessed” and “heroic”, described the perpetrators as “heroes” and “martyrs” who “ascended” to “heaven” and appeared to express joy at the victims’ deaths. Commenting on a February 2023 attack in which a Palestinian terrorist killed two boys, aged eight and six, and a 20-year-old man after ramming his car into a bus stop in Jerusalem, Mr Elzaenen said the victims “will soon go to hell”. The Palestinian journalist has also repeatedly described the Hamas terrorists who carried out the Oct 7 attacks as “resistance fighters”.... Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative Party leader, called earlier this year for “wholesale reform” of BBC Arabic after a report by Camera accused it of “appalling anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias”."
Clearly, the BBC supports Israel's genocide, and we all know he really meant "Zionists"
Jay Engelmayer on X - "When Terrorists Wear Press Vests: The Dangerous Farce of “Journalists” in Gaza
Exposing Western Media’s Complicity in Hamas’s Propaganda Machine
Once upon a time, the word journalist meant something. It carried a weight of integrity, a promise of truth, and a badge of credibility. A journalist was expected to inform, not inflame; to investigate, not incite; to shine light on reality, not cloak terror in the language of human rights. But in today’s Middle East, especially in Gaza, that word has been hijacked, hollowed out, and weaponized. Anyone with a GoPro, a Telegram channel, or a blue vest with the word PRESS slapped across the chest now claims the mantle of “journalist.” And astonishingly, international watchdogs, Western newsrooms, and global press associations swallow the claim without question. The result? Hamas operatives and Islamic Jihad propagandists are canonized as martyrs of free speech, while Israel is demonized as the executioner of journalism. It is a grotesque inversion of reality.
The Hospital Strike: Truth vs. Theater
Take the most recent incident. Israel admitted that in striking Hamas assets at Al-Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, four “journalists” were killed. Western media ran with the predictable headline: “Israel kills journalists.” But peel back the propaganda and the story looks very different. The IDF was targeting a high-end surveillance camera, mounted on the hospital roof and operated by Hamas militants, used to track Israeli forces. At least two of the so-called “journalists,” Mohammad Salama of Al Jazeera and Mu’ad Abu Taha of Falasteen al-Hayum, were not innocent bystanders. They were participants in the October 7th massacre, captured on film invading Israel and glorifying the atrocities. Were they wielding pens, or rifles? Cameras, or Kalashnikovs? The answer doesn’t matter, because in Hamas’s playbook, and apparently in The New York Times’ obituaries, both are weapons against Israel.
Activists, Terrorists, and Propagandists Masquerading as Journalists
Let’s examine some of the “fallen journalists” Gaza’s defenders are lionizing:
Ismail Baddah & Suleiman Hajjaj – Reporters for Islamic Jihad-affiliated Palestine TV. Hajjaj was also a known operative in the terror group’s ranks. That’s not journalism; that’s double-dipping in propaganda and blood.
Ayat Khadoura – Self-described “freelance journalist,” in reality a social media agitator. She admitted openly that her work was activism for Palestine. Her “last messages” videos, produced repeatedly before IDF strikes, were not courageous reporting but staged agitprop.
Mohammed Salama (Al Jazeera) – Filmed himself invading Israel on October 7, while moonlighting as a Hamas cameraman. He even directed staged “horror scenes” to be fed directly to Western outlets hungry for Gaza content.
Mariam Abu Daqa – Praised by AP and Rolling Stone, she openly taught journalism under Hamas’s Information Ministry, whose job is not reporting but indoctrination. Her “students” learned not the ethics of truth but the mechanics of manipulation.
Muath Abu Taha (NBC) – Publicly called Hamas terrorist Ahmad Jarrar a “hero” and October 7th “the greatest day of our generation.” No attempt at neutrality; just celebratory terrorism parading as news.
Hassan Aslih – A photographer beloved by AP and CNN. In reality, a man with direct ties to Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s terror chief. He was inside Israel on October 7 documenting atrocities. Only after exposure by HonestReporting did CNN and AP cut ties. Why were they paying him in the first place?
Anas al-Sharif – Registered as a Hamas commander in internal documents. Yet somehow, Western media continues to portray him as a “journalist killed by Israeli strikes.”
The list goes on. Hamas snipers, Islamic Jihad propagandists, and registered Hamas soldiers are being remembered in solemn obituaries as if they were Bob Woodward and Edward R. Murrow.
Western Media’s Complicity
The real scandal is not only that Gaza’s so-called journalists are embedded terrorists, it’s that Western outlets rely on them. Reuters, AP, and AFP outsource coverage to whoever is holding a camera on the ground. They rarely vet. They rarely question. The result? Hamas’s propaganda pipeline flows directly into CNN’s broadcasts and The New York Times’ front pages, wrapped in the veneer of professional journalism. This is not accidental. It is a systemic rot. The desperate chase for speed and “authentic” footage has replaced due diligence. The hunger for emotional imagery has overridden the pursuit of truth. Hamas knows this. They exploit it. And Western newsrooms oblige.
What Jews are facing today will face the whole country tomorrow - "I watched in shock a decade ago as a BBC presenter interviewing a Jewish woman about the murder of four Jews at a kosher supermarket in Paris, interrupted her observation that “Jews are a target now” to exclaim “Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands”. Now, the BBC serves up scandal after scandal, from broadcasting Bob Vylan’s death chant and rant about “working for f---ing Zionists”, to the revelation that the BBC paid licence fee money to the family of a senior Hamas terrorist. Whilst many will be aware of some of this, few will know that in just the past fortnight, we have seen a Jewish mother and her daughter rammed by a man on a scooter shouting abuse, a Jewish man shot with an air rifle, a nanny confronted by a man demanding that she hand him the Jewish child in her care, faeces daubed on synagogues (yes, multiple synagogues), a Rabbi’s home defaced with a swastika, a local council cancelling a museum’s display of Jewish heritage over “safety concerns”, and so much more. I cannot emphasise forcefully enough how much life has changed for Britain’s Jews in the past two years alone. The canaries are in an extremely bad way... The question now is not whether Britain’s Jews will thrive, but whether they will thrive here. When Britain’s integrated and patriotic Jewish minority questions whether it has a future in the UK, that should ring alarm bells. We are already seeing evidence that anti-Jewish hatred is spilling into anti-British hatred. For years, Palestine Action targeted Jewish-owned businesses and terrorised our community. They openly published manuals explaining how to set up a ‘cell’ structure, obtain burner phones and cause maximum damage with pickaxes. Police and politicians refused to treat them as a criminal gang. Only when these well-organised thugs and extremists broke into Brize Norton and wrecked RAF jets were they proscribed. Were that the end of the matter, one might consider the initial inaction to be a misstep with minor consequences, but now Palestine Action’s supporters overwhelm police in mass demonstrations because they apparently want the right to sabotage our military’s equipment. That is why anti-Semitism is so dangerous, and why its hatred never ends with Jews: it is because anti-Semitism enables one to hold deranged beliefs. This is increasingly evident amongst young people. Our YouGov polling published today by The Telegraph shows that whereas 21 per cent of British adults now hold four or more Antisemitic views (such as that Jews cannot be trusted or have too much power), that figure rises to 40 per cent of 18-to-24-year-olds. One in 10 of our young people now have a favourable view of Hamas, and 19 per cent think that the medieval rape, torture and murder of the October 7 atrocity was “justified”."
