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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Links - 14th April 2026 (2 - Palestine/Middle East Peace)

Meme - Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630: "37.8% chance he forcibly rapes her if she "repeatedly denies sexual congress," if we're citing the same study.   Something something wonderful people genocide the West did this to them and is evil."
Max ๐Ÿ“Ÿ @MaxNordau: "If you meet a married man in Gaza, there’s a 70.4% chance that he beats his wife."
"The 2019 survey conducted by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) revealed that 59.3 per cent of Palestinian {age 15-64) were exposed to violence by their husband. As indicated by the survey, domestic violence started young, with more than half of 15- to 19- girls and young women to have been abused. IThe highest rates of violence (66.9 per cent) against women were found to be among 20 to 24-year-olds. Women and girls in the Gaza Strip had a higher level of exposure to violence from their husbands with an estimated 70.4 per cent compared to 52.3 per cent in the West Bank. As indicated by the survey, psychological violence is the most common type of abuse, affecting 57 per cent of women and girls."
Time to condemn all cops because many of them are wife abusers, and say ACAB and say they all deserve to die

Hen Mazzig on X - "The Arctic Centre at the University of Groningen, Netherlands ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ, refused to work with an Israeli researcher simply because he’s Israeli.  Not because of his research. Not because of misconduct. Not because of qualifications. Just because of his nationality.  The Centre explained it was “reluctant” to collaborate with Israeli institutions. The researcher says his work has no ties to the government or military, but of course, that didn’t matter.  Boycotting someone solely for being Israeli is not activism. It’s discrimination."

Aleph ื on X - "Hezbollah terrorist organization announced the death of its member Ahmed Hussein Termos "Abu Hussein," eliminated Tuesday in an IAF ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ strike in Talloussah, southern Lebanon ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง   His son, also a Hezbollah fighter, was eliminated by the IDF in February 2024.  According to the IDF, Termos was responsible for the connection between Hezbollah and civilians in the Tallouseh area with regard to military and financial matters and operated to seize private assets for terror purposes."
Israel War Room on X - "Insane story from a pro-Hezbollah journalist in Lebanon:  Minutes before Hezbollah terrorist Ahmed Termos was eliminated, he received a call from the IDF.  The IDF gave him an opportunity to leave his brother-in-law's house, where several family members were gathered, and spare his family. The IDF then eliminated him in his car, alone.  According to the reporter, there's been a pattern of this: the IDF calls terrorists and gives them a chance to spare those surrounding them.  That's how far the IDF goes to preserve innocent lives."

Max K on X - "Lol. From an ‘Antizionist’ event in Birmingham. Guy complains about censorship, says ‘in Palestine we never say [the] Zionists, we say the Jewish’. Yeah we know you do ๐Ÿ˜†. One of the best things about this moment in time is watching pearl -clutching ‘anti-racists’ desperately trying to put a woke spin on the genocidal bigotry of their Islamist allies, while the Islamists totally fail to play ball and repeatedly admit they hate Jews, want to kill Jews, want to wage holy war etc.   So slapstick.   (video via @HeidiBachram  @habibi_uk )"

@freedomtoffend.com on X - "At a supposedly serious university, this is what passed for “process.”  Melanie Spence-Ariemma, Vice-Provost at the University of Guelph-Humber, filed a human rights complaint labelling me a violent threat to children — because I called Hamas Nazis in an exchange with someone in Pakistan. That was the leap. That was the logic. The woman had no standing so the complaint was illegal but the human rights manager, an indirect subordinate of the VP violated the most basic tenet of her office.   She then brought in a radical Islamist professor — not as a neutral witness, not as part of a fair investigation — but to stand before senior management and denounce me.   He was allowed to scream, to threaten that he would get me fired. I found out about Wael Ramadan because John Ivison of the National Post exposed him.    All witnesses were otherwise anonymous.   No evidence.   No defence allowed.   All appeals returned unread.    Professor Ramadan? I had never heard of him. He was not a stranger. He was not an independent party. He was a 15-year personal friend of the VP. He had her on speed dial.  Within hours, the language of her complaint metastasized into campus slander: that I had been arrested, that I had a violent history. Complete fiction. I would not get charges for 4 weeks but the character assassination campaign initiated by management was off and running.   Faculty were permitted to mobilize activist networks, generating external pressure campaigns demanding my termination - Into the tens of thousands.  Threats to my family.    When I tried to defend my record — 15 years of strong teaching, published textbooks, no prior discipline — I was warned by Humber Public Safety to “watch” my social media and threatened with police arrest for asking staff to stop spreading defamatory lies to students. She regularly copied police division 22 /23 on emails to me.     Senior management knew. All of it. They supported the Vice-Provost 100%.  Has Melanie Spence-Ariemma been disciplined? No. Has the Public Safety manager who repeatedly threatened me with police involvement for trying to stop defamation been investigated? No. Has the Human Rights manager — who openly applied one standard to Muslims and another to Jews and Christians — faced any review? No.  At any decent university, such conduct would trigger independent investigation at minimum. Here, there has been none.  No firings. No accountability. No scrutiny.  Only institutional clustering around Spence-Ariemma.  Welcome to the University of Guelph-Humber.  The rot runs deep.  Shut it down.  Investigate it now.  Below a typical post by the VP’s friend.  And GH’s convocation.  #closeguelphhumber"

Christian Missionary Kristine Luken Mistaken for Jewish by Palestinian Killers - "Four Palestinian men have been indicted in the stabbing death of American woman Kristine Luken who the suspects say was killed because they thought she was Jewish.  Luken, 44, was a Christian missionary working in Israel... two suspects, Kifah Ghneimat and Iyad Fatafa, "decided to enter Israel illegally in order to kill Jews."  In a forest inside Israel but adjacent to the West Bank they encountered Luken and Wilson. Wilson "tried to convince them they were not Jewish, in order to convince them not to hurt them," according to the indictment, but one of the suspects grasped at a Star of David necklace around her neck, saying, "What's this?"  The suspects then stabbed both women repeatedly, killing Luken, according to the indictment. Wilson, badly wounded, played dead, eventually reaching another group of hikers before she collapsed and was taken to a hospital with multiple stab wounds in her chest.  The cell is accused in a string of murders, rapes, robberies and shooting attacks against the Israeli military and Jewish civilians dating back to 2009. Some of the attacks took place in the same area where they killed Luken"
From 2011. Clearly, the Palestinians were framed and she was killed by "Zionists" to make Palestinians look bad

Facebook - "Before labeling a country an “ethnostate,” it’s worth asking what that term actually describes. In Israel, about 21% of citizens are Arab. They vote in national elections. They hold public office. They’ve served in the Knesset and on the Supreme Court. In 2021, an independent Arab party joined the governing coalition and helped determine who formed the government. Now zoom out to the broader region. In several Middle Eastern countries, Islam is formally established as the religion of the state in the constitution itself. In some cases, the president or monarch must be Muslim. In others, Islamic law is explicitly defined as a principal or primary source of national legislation. That means religion is structurally embedded in the legal and political system. By contrast, Freedom House — which evaluates countries worldwide based on political rights and civil liberties such as free elections, minority participation, and rule of law — rates Israel as “Free.” Most of its neighboring states receive lower classifications of “Partly Free” or “Not Free,” reflecting restrictions on political competition, civil liberties, or both. If “ethnostate” means minorities are excluded from citizenship and political power, that does not match Israel’s internal legal framework. If it simply means a country has a national majority identity, that describes many nation-states around the world. Using the term selectively isn’t consistency. It’s a double standard."

Pro-Palestinians plan protest at Nazi concentration camp during liberation anniversary
Clear proof that "pro-Palestinian" people are "anti-Zionist", not anti-Semitic
Left wingers were upset about the proximate source, even though the original source was a Swiss newspaper. Left wingers love their logical fallacies

An Egyptian Goes to Israel - WSJ - "Thousands of years ago, Abraham and Sarah went from Israel to Egypt. So did Jacob and his sons. In my lifetime, I have made the reverse journey, traveling from Egypt to Israel by way of the U.S. During my travels I quickly discovered that the presence of the Jewish people in Arab lands did not end with the Exodus. As a child in Egypt, my image of my Jewish countrymen was shaped by the numerous Egyptian television dramas that depicted them as spies, thieves and fifth columnists. I never knew any Jewish people personally. Naturally it came as a shock when, during my first visit to Israel in 2014, I met a man who spoke to me in perfect Iraqi Arabic, laced generously with profanity. He introduced me to the concept of “ Mizrahi Jews,” or those from the eastern lands. For more than a thousand years the Mizrahi Jews lived and thrived in a wide swath of land, from Morocco to India and Central Asia. Some arrived in biblical times while others came after their expulsion from Spain in 1492. Often treated as second-class citizens, they nonetheless created a culture as diverse and distinctive as the places in which they settled. But this story came to a crushing end for most Jews in Arab lands in 1948, when states like Yemen and Libya responded to the creation of the state of Israel by forcing out their Jewish populations. Since 2014, the Israeli government has designated Nov. 30—the day in 1947 when the United Nations voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states—as the “Day to Mark the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from the Arab Countries and Iran.” When I attended graduate school at Tel Aviv University, I befriended Egyptian Jews who were good, kindhearted people. They invited me to their Shabbat dinners, where we ate delicious Egyptian dishes, shared our love of Arabic music and culture, and discussed politics. I felt at home.  In the heart of Tel Aviv I met Rachmo, a vivacious 73-year-old Egyptian Jew whose restaurant served falafel made of beans in the Egyptian style, rather than the Israeli-Levantine version made of chickpeas. Still a proud Egyptian, he had mounted pictures of the pyramids and the sphinx at the entrance of his shop. In perfect Egyptian Arabic, he described the trauma of immigrating to Israel with his family at age 13. After escaping persecution in Egypt, his family was placed in a camp in Israel, where his upper-middle class parents had to work in construction to earn a living. Living in a land settled and dominated by European Jews, or Ashkenazim, they often felt denigrated by their Jewish brethren. “They did not know that we Egyptians were more cultured, polite, and not troublemakers,” he told me last year. Like many immigrant groups, Mizrahi Jews sometimes felt the price of acceptance was full assimilation, or abandoning their old culture. Many of the succeeding generations do not speak Arabic or observe their unique customs. One of my professors in Tel Aviv once said in class that as a child of Iraqi immigrants, he used to brag among his peers that his father spoke English and French. He never mentioned Arabic.  At the same time, Mizrahi Jews remember all too well the discrimination they suffered in the old country. Many Iraqi and Morrocan Jews in Israel were alive when persecution was at its worst in the 1940s and ’50s. Some continue to harbor a bitterness that drives them to support Israel’s far-right parties. “The Ashkenazim will never understand the Arabs as we do,” a friend recalled his grandmother’s admonition. “They only know about the Holocaust.” But today the landscape has changed as Israeli society becomes more inclusive. Eastern Jewish culture is honored. Intermarriage between Ashkenazim and Mizrahim is a nonissue. The Mizrahi Jew Avi Gabbay heads the Israeli Labor Party, the current main opposition party and historic domain of Ashkenazi Jews going back to the Zionist ideologues of Europe. As a Muslim, I am acutely aware of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees who have been left to languish in camps for decades, unwelcome in the lands of their Arab and Muslim neighbors. Most recently, Syrian refugees are isolated in tent cities or face discrimination when they try to integrate into new countries. The successful absorption of Jews from eastern countries in Israel—across linguistic and cultural barriers—is a modern-day success story that deserves to be remembered, celebrated and emulated."

Jonathan Eric Lewis on X - "The notion that Mizrahi Jews didn't face persecution in Arab lands and only left for Israel because of Israeli "false flags" is as historically false as it is pernicious  It also strikes to the core of a problematic aspect of far too much political discourse in the Arab world; namely, the tendency to blame anything that puts the Arab world in a bad light as the work of "Zionists""

When Antisemitism Stops Pretending - "antisemitism at Sarah Lawrence College is routinely treated as background noise—acknowledged in theory, minimized in practice, and excused as political expression rather than confronted as civic failure. What has happened since makes that posture no longer tenable.  In advance of a campus talk, graffiti on the centrally located campus free speech board appeared labeling Ezra Klein a “genocide denier,” a “fascist normalizer,” and a “Zionist pig.” Students affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine posted and circulated the image approvingly.  This is not protest. It is defamation, intimidation, and antisemitic degradation; plainly so. And the choice of target exposes the moral incoherence of the movement responsible.   Ezra Klein is not a right-wing polemicist. He is not a defender of Israeli maximalism. He has spent years publicly criticizing Israeli policy, questioning Zionist orthodoxies, and amplifying Palestinian suffering. If anything, Klein has been one of the most prominent Jewish writers trying— often unsuccessfully—to persuade progressive audiences that moral seriousness requires grappling with complexity rather than slogans.  That is precisely why this episode matters.  When someone like Klein is branded a “Zionist pig,” the oft claimed pretense that today’s campus antisemitism is merely opposition to Israeli policy collapses. The label no longer tracks beliefs, arguments, or actions. It functions as a marker of identity. A Jew who fails to perform the correct posture—who speaks as a Jew but refuses to self-denounce—is recoded as subhuman.   That is not political critique. It is classic antisemitism with contemporary vocabulary.  The language matters. “Pig” is not an analytical category. It is an insult with a long history in antisemitic propaganda, designed to dehumanize and humiliate. “Genocide denier” is not a good-faith disagreement; it is a moral accusation that places the accused beyond the bounds of dialogue. And “fascist normalizer” is the final move in a familiar pattern: Once disagreement is equated with evil, coercion becomes permissible.  What makes this episode especially revealing is how little it has to do with Israel itself. Klein’s actual views are irrelevant. His identity—and his refusal to conform—is the offense.   This is why institutional responses that frame these incidents as “heated political expression” fail so badly. They misunderstand what is happening. These are not disputes over foreign policy. They are boundary-policing rituals aimed at determining which Jews are allowed to speak, and on what terms.  Universities like Sarah Lawrence have been here before. Over the past year, administrators have repeatedly assured Jewish students and faculty that they are “listening,” that “all voices matter,” and that the institution is committed to inclusion. Yet the pattern persists: antisemitic acts are contextualized, minimized, or subsumed into broader narratives about protest culture.  The result is a perverse moral asymmetry. Slurs directed at Jews are explained away as political speech, while objections to those slurs are treated as attempts to silence activism. Jewish students are asked to absorb abuse as the price of participation in campus life.   This is not neutrality. It is abdication.  When someone like Klein is branded a “Zionist pig,” the pretense that today’s campus antisemitism is merely opposition to Israeli policy collapses. If a Muslim speaker were defaced with slurs tied to extremist violence, the response would be swift and unequivocal. Only when the target is Jewish does the institution reach for euphemism.  The Ezra Klein incident strips away the last remaining excuse. This is not about silencing a powerful pro-Israel voice. It is about disciplining Jews who refuse to disappear, repent, or repeat approved slogans.   Universities exist to cultivate argument, not enforce moral unanimity. They are supposed to distinguish between critique and harassment, between dissent and degradation. When they fail to draw that line, they teach students a corrosive lesson: that intimidation is an acceptable substitute for persuasion.  The graffiti was crude, but the institutional failure it exposed was not.  When a campus cannot say, plainly and without hedging, that calling a Jewish speaker a “Zionist pig” is antisemitism—full stop—it forfeits any claim to moral seriousness. At that point, the problem is no longer a handful of radical students. It is an institution that has decided that some forms of hatred are tolerable if they arrive wrapped in the bastardized language of justice.  Sarah Lawrence is not merely failing to address antisemitism. It is producing it—through years of selective enforcement, biased programming, and a faculty culture that treats Jewish discomfort as illegitimate. The College now faces a test it can no longer evade: either enforce its own standards and defend the basic dignity of Jewish members of its community and Jewish visitors, or continue signaling that intimidation is an acceptable mode of campus politics. Universities do not drift into this outcome by accident. They choose it."
Clearly, all Jews are Zionists, so it's right that they are condemned

Open Source Intel on X - "Doctors Without Borders said it will not share staff details with Israel, warning that doing so will endanger its personnel following NGO suspensions What are they hiding?"
Shoshana๐Ÿฆ๐ŸŒž๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿชฌ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท on X - "Doctoirs without borders is a terrorist organization that refused to share information with the parents Kayla Mueller, letting her be murdered by ISIS!  " Even though she was kidnapped by ISIS from a Doctors Without Borders vehicle, and had helped a friend install equipment at a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Syria, the prestigious humanitarian group refused to help negotiate for the freedom of American hostage Kayla Mueller, her parents tell ABC News.  Marsha and Carl Mueller of Prescott, Arizona, said the group refused to speak with them for months and then withheld critical information provided by freed Doctors Without Borders hostages -- information that directly concerned their daughter and was needed in order to begin negotiations for her release.""

ROM’s new labels could 'erase Palestine,’ activists warn - "The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is revising how it labels artifacts from the Roman Empire, opting in some cases to replace origin sites identified as Palestine and/or Syria with the historical descriptor “Eastern Mediterranean coast” and a list of six present-day states in the region.  The museum’s communications department said the changes have been in process for several months and will only impact glass vessels from the Roman Empire when their exact providence is “unknown.”  Updating the labels to include both a historic geographic descriptor, such as the “Eastern Mediterranean coast,” and a swath of modern day state and country names will “aid visitor comprehension," the ROM said.  The process has “been guided by dialogue between curators, interpretive planners, and sectoral peers,” the communications department added.  However, the labelling reform has led to accusations the ROM is bowing to political pressure because its previous labelling practices have faced criticism from a local Jewish organization...  if the ROM can only estimate that these Roman glass artifacts originated from the Eastern Mediterranean, labels that say they came specifically from Syria and/or Palestine are inaccurate."
When your history is made up, the truth hurts

Meme - "Egypt's border with GAZA *heavily fortified*
Egypt's border with ISRAEL *unfortified*"
Clearly, they need a strong border with Gaza to stop Israel from ethnically cleansing it

Uri Kurlianchik on X - "To those claiming they obsess over Gaza but ignore Sudan’s much bigger war because “their country isn’t funding it”: The US gave Sudan $2.3B in humanitarian aid since 2023—plus $573M in 2023 and $772M in 2024 in foreign aid. You are funding it. So, what’s your new excuse?"

Hen Mazzig on X - "“This beach isn’t for Israelis”  Five Israelis were relaxing near Lake Vouliagmeni outside Athens when a group of 15 people in their 20s began glaring at them. One girl shouted “Free Palestine,” then a man approached aggressively: “Where are you from?” When they said they were Israeli, he shouted they had to leave, saying “this beach isn’t for Israelis.”  He repeated: “You Israelis have money, go to a beach with a fee.” When asked what his problem was, he said: “You’re baby murderers. You're committing genocide while children die in Gaza.”  He ended with a threat: “If you don’t leave, something will happen to you.”  The attackers were arrested. Trial is expected Tuesday.  This is the reality of being Israeli — or visibly Jewish — in Europe today."

Ahmed Al-Khalidi on X - "An American woman went to Ramallah to open a cafรฉ. Almost everyone involved in the project, including local authorities, scammed her. She was detained, lost all her money, shut the business, and returned to the U.S. seeking donations."
Jacob Ben-David Linker ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ•Ž๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ✡️๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ•Ž๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ on X - "People are mercilessly mocking this girl.  I get the schaudenfreude they have from somebody experiencing directly some of the real reasons why things are the way they are  But she’s a doe-eyed American girl who got f***ed over. Be a little nicer please  Basically, she got screwed over by everybody. Her landlord cheated her. The Palestinian authorities cheated her. She got locked up. She lost all of her life’s savings.   I’m sure she has views I don’t like. But she got ruined all because she was trusting and because she tried to do something peaceable, constructive, and harmless.  She tried to do what we ultimately want Palestinians and Pro-Palestinians to do, right? She was nice, peaceable, constructive, harmless, and trusting. And she got ruined for it.  So, please don’t be so nasty about her online."
Time to blame "Zionists"

Captain Allen on X - "So when Arabs killed Jews in Jerusalem with a bomb and knives in November 1921, was that was "resistance?" 27 years before Israel's independence? Or was it a premonition about "Israel's actions in Gaza" more than 100 years later? Or maybe learn some history before you march."

Ben Green on X - "It's almost hilarious how a story about a kid's football pitch would make worldwide news and appear, with prominence on the BBC, but also wholly predictable  There are some absolutely classic BBC explanations in this article.  You have to get to the 18th paragraph for why the pitch was to be demolished. “The Israeli military repeated its claim that the football pitch, built so close to the wall, posed a security issue.”  Then we get to the reason why Israel built a wall. To stop Palestinians coming to Israeli cafes and buses and blowing themselves up.  Yet, for the BBC the actual evidence of this has to be couched in their weird language.  “It says it is vital for Israel's protection and that it has dramatically cut the number of attacks.”  The separation wall was one of the most effective anti-terror moves in history. The BBC can’t admit this though. As it will paint the Palestinians as aggressors when they must only be victims.  And, as ever, the Palestinians have absolutely no agency here. It really sucks for them that a wall stops terrorists from coming into Israel and blowing themselves up.  Have you thought maybe to stop educating your children to be “martyrs”?"

Oren Barsky ๐ŸŽ—️ on X - "95% of “Palestinians” are labor migrants who came illegally after Zionists turned that swamp land into a booming place.   I know it’s hard for some to acknowledge this because Qatari money ensured universities adopted the Palestinians' fake narrative.   But in real time, those who lived through it know exactly what happened.   People who did in-depth studies before wokeness manipulated history, also know the truth."

Chaya’s Clan on X - "At last, the true history of the Palestinian people has been uncovered.   Declassified U.S. State Department telegram quoting an Arab League meeting in Lebanon in August 1960, when Arab states decided to create a "Palestinian entity" aimed at undermining Israel through UN manipulation & military action.  With the help of the Soviets, this resulted in the 1964 founding of the PLO, as a tool for collective Arab action against Israel, consistent with Russia's efforts to counter Israel's alliance with the West.  Arab-Soviet alliances during the Cold War shaped modern Palestinian nationalism primarily as an anti-Israel strategy rather than an indigenous pre-1948 movement.  (Credit: Steven Phillips @StevePhillipsMD )"

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