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Thursday, May 21, 2026

Links - 21st May 2026 (3 - Hamas Attack Oct 2023)

Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng on X - "I am Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, a medical doctor & the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right of everyone to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, I continue to demand, since his abduction, the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya from the brutal detention by Israel.  He faces imminent and grave danger as a result of ill-treatment and inhumane conditions & the denial of medical care has been leading to severe physical mental harm and his current deterioration is rapid - these are gross human rights violations.    #FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya #ReleaseDrHussamAbuSafiya  #FreeThemAll"
Jewish Tim Flack ๐• on X - "A question for the UN Special Rapporteur: have you actually visited him, or is this based on "received reports"? Because there are other reports worth noting. A photo exists of Dr Abu Safiya in full Hamas uniform at a gathering of Hamas senior officers. Arabic media has long referred to him as Colonel Hussam Abu Safiya. He posted celebratory content on October 7. What's your threshold for vetting a subject before demanding his unconditional release?"

Brianna Wu on X - "The thing that Westerns don’t understand is Islamists do not think the way we do. It’s a death cult.  When I was taken to IDF base to see the secret October 7 footage, it opens with a father trying to save his two children from Hamas terrorists gleefully slaughtering civilians.    He takes his two children to hide in a shed. Moments later, an Islamist terrorist gleefully throws in a grenade. Later, a child comes out with his eye blown out by shrapnel, soaked in his father’s blood. Weeping, he manages to grab his brother’s hand and escape.   I sometimes have nightmares of that child, eye gouged out, hands slick with his father’s blood, escaping through the side yard. Later the Islamist notices he’s gone and smiles at the horror he’s inflicted.  It’s the most evil thing I’ve ever seen.   Westerners who have never scrambled to run in a bomb shelter from a missile think of Palestinianism like the 1964 civil rights movement. This is a false categorization.  The reality is, it’s a death cult that will sacrifice themselves and their children to hurt Jews. They are not rational actors.   Once you realize that, you can understand the lengths Israel has to go through just to survive. You can’t make peace with someone who is so obsessed with hurting you, they don’t care if they live or die."

‘Game on’: NHS doctor accused of inviting support for Hamas challenges Streeting - "An NHS doctor charged with inviting support for Hamas challenged Wes Streeting after she was released on bail.  Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, who allegedly posted online that “I don’t condemn Hamas”, goaded the Health Secretary with a shout of “game on”.  On Friday, the 31-year-old appeared at Westminster magistrates court, where she denied charges of inviting support for a proscribed organisation, namely Hamas, on four separate dates from July to December last year.  Dr Aladwan also indicated not guilty pleas for stirring up racial hatred using words or behaviour at a speech she allegedly made at a protest on July 21 in Westminster, and stirring up racial hatred through the publishing and distribution of written material on Nov 19.  Dr Aladwan was released on bail, and told supporters outside the court: “Wesley Streeting, game on.” The suspended doctor, who was training in trauma and orthopaedics, then led them in chants of “Free, free Palestine”.  Mr Streeting had previously said Dr Aladwan’s comments were “sickening”, and that “action needs to be taken to root the evil of racism out”. Carl Kelvin, prosecuting, told the court that the doctor was accused of writing “I don’t condemn Hamas. I don’t condemn October 7” and “I condemn the existence of Israel” in a social media post on July 23. On Dec 31, it is alleged she wrote “Free the world from Jewish supremacy”, he said.  The court heard that, on the second anniversary of the October 7 attacks, she allegedly posted an image of a bulldozer along with text reading “Glory to the Palestinian resistance”. Mr Kelvin said: “Between July and December, she posted a large quantity of material on social media and took part in a number of protests against Israel and in support of people in Gaza.”  Posts included one calling Sir Ephraim Mirvis, the Chief Rabbi, a “genocidal murderer”, it is claimed.  Dr Aladwan also allegedly said that Mr Streeting taking money from “the Israeli lobby” was a sign of “Jewish supremacy”. She is also accused of calling her followers to “join the Palestinian armed resistance”... Dr Aladwan, of Pilning in Gloucestershire, was arrested at her home on Thursday morning for breaching police bail conditions. She had been arrested on Thursday morning by Metropolitan Police officers for breaching the bail conditions imposed following previous arrests."
Clearly, she meant "Zionist supremacy"

StopAntisemitism on X - "CHARGES DROPPED against Mai Abdulhadi, the Montreal woman who ran a coffee shop inside Jewish General Hospital and was filmed giving Nazi salutes.  Abdulhadi was arrested and charged for threatening Jews, shouting: “The final solution is coming your way… you know what that is?”  Judge Nathalie Fafard ruled Abdulhadi completed a “program" and withdrew all charges.   A complete failure of accountability and disgrace."
Of course, the anti-Semites were claiming that because it was the owner of a cafe inside a Jewish hospital, it was a Jewish false flag

Mario Zelaya on X - "The guy arrested for firing 14 bullets into a Jewish-owned restaurant,  DURING PASSOVER,  has a name.   Mohamed Mahdi.   It’s in the Toronto Police news release.  CBC didn’t use it.  CTV didn’t use it.  Global didn’t use it.  Canadian Press didn’t use it.  Every major Canadian outlet quoted the police release.   Every one of them omitted the name that was IN the release.  I’m sure it’s just a coincidence ๐Ÿ™„"
ADRAB on X - "Pattern noticed: When an Islamist or trans goes on a deadly rampage (which is often these days) our politicians, media & police suddenly hide the attacker’s identity and motive. If the shooter were white? Name splashed everywhere, 'white extremism' blamed instantly."
Terrorist supporters were claiming that this was a Jewish/Mossad false flag. Of course, they won't acknowledge that they were talking rubbish once again, as usual

Arrest made in Jewish restaurant shooting small step in right direction - Mohamed Mahdi, 35, of Brampton, charged with four gun-related offences including discharge of a restricted firearm : r/OntarioNews - "The never ending holy wars."
"Only one side is shooting up businesses and places of worship in Canada."
"And the other is causing irreparable harm to Palestinians and Lebanese. The shooter sucks and has no place but we can't just pretend his motives fell from the sky... Then again... maybe they did.  ESH"
"What does that have to do with jewish people in canada?"
"Because context matters, especially to some. You're framing this as one-sided domestic violence while completely ignoring what's fueling the anger. Condemning the shooting doesn't require pretending it happened in a vacuum."
"Were any Muslim businesses in Canada shot up after October 7th? Or after rockets rain down on Israel? Or after the many suicide bombings and other terrorist attacks that have plagued Israel for decades? The answer is no."

Genocide once meant something – now the term is just political invective - "Of the many examples of moral collapse that followed October 7, the debasement of genocide has been among the ugliest. Using the megaphone of social media, activists, hostile states, the media and non-governmental organisations have corrupted a precise legal term to smear troops who were issuing evacuation orders, facilitating aid handouts and fighting an enemy that used human shields. What begins with Jews never ends with Jews. If the meaning of genocide is lost, no Western army will be safe.  As Keir Starmer’s failed attempts to marshal international law against our own troops who fought in Iraq demonstrated, such instincts are strong amongst progressives... Since 1945, only five legally-confirmed genocides have been recognised by the British government: the Holocaust, Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia and the liquidation of the Yazidis by Islamic State. Between the Srebrenica massacre – the last time the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered a guilty verdict – and Myanmar, times have changed.  As part of the hearing this week, hostile Facebook posts were presented as evidence. Social media has become part of life since 2007, but there are fears that relying upon such contextual and emotive ephemera may eclipse the hard facts, especially as the ICJ’s next case is against Israel... One of the presiding judges, 84-year-old South African jurist Navi Pillay, has already been accused of turning genocide into a political tool. For many years, she headed a UN Human Rights Council “commission of inquiry” that was dismissed as laughably biased. As long ago as 2014, 100 members of Congress said the commission Pillay later led could “not be taken seriously as a human rights organisation”. It has relentlessly condemned the Jewish state while overlooking Hamas; when another commission member claimed that social media was “controlled by the Jewish lobby”, Pillay – who has called for sanctions against “apartheid Israel” – defended him.   Last September, the commission produced a contemptible report which pre-emptively found Israel guilty of “genocide” by airbrushing Hamas out of the conflict. Remove the combatants from any war and you have a crime against humanity. Is Pillay a proper person to preside over genocide cases at the UN’s highest court?  Like the rest of the world, the UN seems to be deploying “genocide” as a campaigning tool, fuelled by ideology and the empty rage of social media. This week, the California state senator Scott Wiener, who is in line for Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco Congressional seat, said the quiet part out loud.  “In terms of the word ‘genocide’, it’s traditionally been a very technical legal term under the Geneva Convention,” he said. “But for so many, the word is not just a technical legal term. It is a descriptor for an extreme level of devastation of a people. It’s a heartfelt descriptor.”  Heartfelt or not, replacing facts with feelings is a dangerous game. Just 10 days – 10 days! – after October 7, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention accused Israel of “genocide”. Hamas, by contrast, had conducted an “unprecedented military operation”, it later declared. Members of Lemkin’s family are fighting to have his name removed from the Institute’s title. So we arrive at last Tuesday, Holocaust Memorial Day. As any schoolboy knows, or used to know, victims of that genocide totalled about 11 million, of which six million were Jews. Regardless, the BBC and other broadcasters repeatedly paid tribute to the six million “people” who were murdered, erasing the Jews once again as a reprehensible coda to the genocide.  Was that “heartfelt”? Probably. Unsurprisingly, of the 2,000 secondary schools that marked the Holocaust in 2023, 1,146 have since given it up. Lurking in the background is the cunning little piece of anti-Semitic propaganda, shamefully endorsed by the UN, that when it comes to genocide, the Jews are as bad as the Nazis. Yet nobody has used the g-word for massacres by the Iranian regime, enemy of our democracies. How easily is truth dismissed as a quaint and old-fashioned habit, like trilbies or good manners! But unmoor legal definitions at your peril. When genocide becomes a political weapon, it is wielded against the West."

Dr. Eli David on X - "An innocent doctor and an innocent journalist were killed by Israel yesterday. Dr. Ahmed Al-Jamal (right) and journalist Abdullah Al-Jamal (left) were brutally murdered. Their only crime was holding Israeli hostages in their home."

Drew Pavlou ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ on X - "Update from the Gaza flotilla: activists are furious that a senior organising member of the Steering Committee is having sex with people on the boats “To have sex on the boat - while heading to a nation undergoing genocide - is a clear violation of ethics and power” Lmfao"

Meme - Max ๐Ÿ“Ÿ @MaxNordau: "None of the people who accuse Israel of being genocidal act like they believe it.  It’s just a game to them, with the ultimate goal of inciting actual genocide against Israeli Jews."
"Footage: Gaza flotilla activists frolicking on Israeli Navy ship"

Grace Tame says her livelihood has been destroyed after she 'spoke the truth' at pro-Palestine rally - "Grace Tame says her livelihood has been 'completely destroyed' in the month since she shouted 'globalise the intifada' at a pro-Palestine rally. The former Australian of the Year penned a first-person piece for the Crikey website in which she claimed to have been the subject of a 'concerted smear campaign' by conservative politicians and media. 'I do not support violence,' she wrote in the piece published on Friday. 'I do not condone antisemitism, Islamophobia or hatred of any kind... After her comments were reported by the ABC, Tame took to Instagram to rip into the national broadcaster, accusing it of pandering to the 'pro-Israel lobby'. Tame has drawn condemnation from the Jewish community... Tame accused the ABC of peddling 'right-wing propaganda' as she defended the 'globalise the intifada' chant. 'Intifadas' refer to two violent uprisings in the Middle East which involved the deliberate targeting of innocent civilians... Tame faced calls to be stripped of her 2021 Australian of the Year honour in the wake of her speech at the Herzog demonstration. More than 25,000 Australians signed a petition calling for authorities to charge Tame with '[alleged] criminal incitement to violence under existing Australian law'."
When you support violence and then accuse those of pointing that out of slandering you
You should only listen to minorities when they push the left wing agenda

Jews Fight Back ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ on X - "๐Ÿšจ A JEWISH TEACHER REPORTED ANTISEMITISM AT A U.N. SCHOOL IN NYC. THEY INVESTIGATED HER. ๐Ÿšจ
At the United Nations International School.  Nadine Sรฉbag filed eight detailed complaints alleging a hostile climate toward Jewish faculty.  No real response.  Instead: a 15-month investigation into HER.  Outcome?  Termination.  Three decades in the classroom.  Gone.  This is a U.N.-affiliated Manhattan school charging up to $50,000 a year.  It received a $60 million pledge from Qatar in 2023. Qatar holds a seat on the school’s board.  The message is clear:  Report Jew-hate.  Lose your job.  They thought it would end there.  It didn’t.  Now they’re being dragged into court."

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: Francesca Albanese says that 380,000 kids aged 0-5 have been killed in the Gaza Strip. That’s impossible considering there has never been 380,000 children aged 0-5 in Gaza. These people just lie."

Threads - "Gaza has been “enduring starvation” for 598 days yet has fewer starvation deaths than the U.S.    It has had “indiscriminate bombing “with more payload dropped on it than 6 Hiroshimas” yet has the lowest civilian casualty rate in all modern warfare.    Israel is “committing Genocide,” yet facilitated over 3500 cal/day/person of aid during the war.    Libels all. This war is a massive PR campaign."

Daniel on X - "This is a map of the Hamas tunnel network in the Yavneh 'refugee camp' in Rafah, Gaza. Roughly 7 kilometers covering just one section of Rafah.    I asked @Grok  to convert the manpower effort into civilian terms.  The complex reaches 25m deep, with 80 rooms (including where they held Israeli hostages and remains). Remember "All eyes on Rafah"? Well now you know why so many activists didn't want the IDF there. This is just a single location. There are more to come.  The ~250,000 man-days poured into this single complex equals roughly:
10–16 mid-rise apartment buildings (1,500–2,400 new homes)
15–20 modern schools
2–3 fully equipped 50–100 bed hospitals
1–2 large desalination plants (enough to give the entire Gaza Strip reliable drinking water)
1–2 major sewage treatment plants (ending the flow of raw sewage into the sea and water supply)
One additional 140 MW power-plant block (roughly doubling Gaza’s electricity supply and ending reliance on Israel for electricity)
6–10 km of elevated highway
 In other words, the same human labor secretly invested in one tunnel system under one refugee camp (there are more) could have solved one or two of Gaza’s worst humanitarian crises: Housing, water, electricity, sewage, education and healthcare for tens of thousands of civilians.  Or... All that money and every shovel of dirt could go toward infrastructure whose sole purpose was to enable attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers.  Guess which option the people who were given billions of dollars in international aid chose?"
Angelina on X - "I have to admire their industriousness. If people here were willing to work half as hard it would solve generational unemployment. Pity they didn't use that energy to cultivate food or make it a better place to live."
Daniel on X - "There is an interesting study between the cost to build that Hamas infrastructure (using smuggled materials, prison/slave labour, child labour and no regulatory oversight) versus comparable Western infrastructure projects. In simple cost-per-kilometre terms, Hamas beat almost every formal public infrastructure project on Earth. Their tunnels were circa $5-10M per kilometer versus say $2-4bn per km for the Boston Big Dig or $420M per km for the Channel Tunnel (in today's money terms)."
Israel are such monsters, stopping Gaza from developing

Meme - Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM: "This is the stadium in which Nasrallah made his famous "Israel is as fragile as cobwebs" speech. Now Nasrallah is dead, the stadium is destroyed, and an Israeli flag flies over the ruins."
When you threaten to destroy another country, attack it and kill its people, and get defeated, that's "genocide"

Albert Aaron | Facebook - "I am sure some of my friends noticed major changes at the New York Magazine in recent years. There was a time when the magazine was an important publisher, printing some of the most influential pieces of the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s. But more recently and especially since October 7, 2023, their direction seems to have changed. What was once a reputable magazine printing stories of national importance has unfortunately turned towards fringe and obsessive anti-Israel activism. Lest you think this activism is a sound business model, I believe the data suggests otherwise. As reported by Semafor in March, New York Magazine’s parent company, Vox Media, began looking for a buyer at some point last year. While some expressed interest in its less toxic and more successful verticals like The Cut, there seems to be less interest in buying the entire magazine. We will see how that plays out. So why hasn’t anyone purchased the mag since last year? Perhaps that tilt towards anti-Israel activism isn’t profitable? Puck reported, for instance, that New York Magazine’s profit margin is 6%. If true, while that is still in the black, it is unusually low for a media company with such an iconic history. I also suspect that profit trends are moving in the wrong direction. By comparison, the New York Times’s margin is double that, at roughly 12%. The magazine’s anti-Israel hit jobs do not seem to be one-offs as the anti-Israel coverage appears to be happening more frequently and seems to be an important component of its business model. They are also attempting to redefine who speaks for American Jews. For instance, the magazine seems to portray fringe anti-Israel groups like “Jewish Voice for Peace,” which have harassed our communities for decades, as the true voice of the Jewish people. Simultaneously, the publication paints those who have demonstrated animosity towards Israel, like Mahmoud Khalil, as heroes and victims. Two recent examples highlight how the mag uses half-truths to promote specific ideological narratives. Days ago, the magazine published Mahmoud Khalil’s essay, "I Miss My Old Life," framing his ICE detention as a political abduction. But if you’re familiar with Khalil’s case, you’ll immediately notice that the piece is heavy on portraying Khalil as a victim, but conveniently omits important facts.  Before we get to what they omit, one part of his essay jumped out at me. Khalil notes that he noticed Jewish people “singing ‘Am Yisrael Chai’“ and then claims that this is “an Israeli nationalist anthem often chanted by racist mobs while harassing Palestinians.” Of course there’s nothing racist about Am Yisrael Chai. The slogan translates to “The people of Israel live,” signifying Jewish resilience. Certainly Jews wanting to live is not racist. But New York Magazine just went with Khalil’s hateful version. What didn’t make it into the New York Magazine’s Khalil coverage? That Khalil is being accused of material misrepresentations on his green card application, specifically his failure to disclose his work with Hamas-affiliated UNRWA and his prior work at an embassy in Lebanon, among other material misrepresentations. The magazine also fails to detail what Khalil did in his leadership role at Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD). In terms of CUAD, the organization was found to pervasively harass Jews on campus, telling them they were “not welcome” there. Khalil’s co-leader at CUAD stated that “Zionists do not deserve to live” and that people should be grateful he “was not murdering Zionists.” The magazine omitted that CUAD-affiliated groups hosted a "Resistance 101" event featuring speakers from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and Samidoun, both designated as terrorist entities. They ignored that a university task force on antisemitism found that Jewish and Israeli students experienced pervasive harassment and ostracism led by Khalil’s group. They failed to note that the group celebrated the October 7 massacre and led "globalize the intifada" rallies, or that CUAD’s social media accounts posted "Death to America" in Farsi following US strikes against the Iranian regime. Another example is a June 2025 essay called "Israel’s Crimes of the Century." In it, the author claims that Israel committed war crimes. Like other Israel hit jobs, the piece is intellectually dishonest. The author repeats the accusation of war crimes, but the legal support in the middle of the essay is weak. The author uses the International Humanitarian Law (IHL) definition of war crimes, but the definition provided is so broad that every nation fighting a defensive war in an urban setting, including the Allied Forces during WWII, would be guilty of war crimes too. Deeper in the article, she admits that intent is difficult to prove in international law. The magazine’s pivot toward anti-Israel radicalism is particularly shocking given its history. For decades, New York Magazine counted pro-Israel American Jews as important subscribers. Under its new leadership, writers portray Zionism as evil, effectively alienating the magazine’s once most loyal readers. Advertisers and subscribers have many options. Why would they pick a publication that has traded its intellectual rigor for the comforts of an activist echo chamber? When a magazine becomes indistinguishable from the social media accounts screaming “EtHnIc ClEaNsInG” and “GeNoCiDe” without presenting a complete picture and the full context, it loses the appeal that would justify a subscription. I have no idea where the magazine is heading, but its current trajectory seems like a dead end."

Dutch intelligence: Hamas organizing protests, raising funds in Netherlands - "A Hamas network has been involved in organizing protests in the Netherlands, according to a Thursday General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) report, which also detailed that it had identified individuals raising funds and lobbying on behalf of the Palestinian terrorist organization in the country.  The AIVD annual report for 2025 assessed that Hamas was involved with the groups that organized pro-Palestinian demonstrations. The AIVD said that while in 2025 these protests didn’t lead to violent incidents, they could lead to divisions within society.  The Hamas network involved in demonstrations has been active in propaganda, lobbying, and fundraising for the terrorist organization for years, according to the AIVD. Part of a broader European Hamas network, the report shared that about ten people have been linked to the cells. On April 14, the  Netherlands Public Prosecution Service (PPS) announced that it was seeking three years’ imprisonment and one year suspended for a 58-year-old Leidschendam man who allegedly transferred about €8 million to Hamas between 2010 and 2023. AIVD is also investigating potential national security threats posed to Hamas following a series of arrests across Europe in relation to Lebanese Hamas cells seeking to attack Jewish or Israeli targets on the continent.  In November, German authorities arrested five alleged Hamas operatives, two of whom resided in Denmark. Another British citizen was arrested in relation to the cell in London, and had a cache of weapons in Austria... “The AIVD observes that there is a major, persistent espionage threat emanating from intelligence and security services in countries such as Russia, China, and Iran, but also from services in countries with a large diaspora community in the Netherlands, such as Morocco.”"
Damn Mossad!

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