IDF specifies terror affiliations of 12 Gazan soccer players killed in Israeli strikes; one was a FIFA ref - "The Israeli military provided details Wednesday on 12 soccer players killed in the Gaza Strip during the war between Israel and Hamas who it said have been identified as terror operatives, slamming their international portrayal as innocent athletes. Seven of the 12, including one who was a FIFA referee, have been acknowledged as members by Gaza terror groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. “Following an intelligence investigation, it is now possible to reveal the terrorists’ organizational affiliation and their roles, despite the fact that in many cases they were presented to the world solely as soccer players, without any mention of their affiliation with terror organizations,” the military said. Some of the information was based on open sources, but all of those listed were identified by the IDF as members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. They were named by the military as:
Mohammed Barakat Barakat, nicknamed “the Legend of Khan Younis” for his soccer prowess, was a terrorist in Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, the IDF said...
Mahmoud Kamal Mohammed Ali Al-Rifi Al-Rifi was the captain of the Al-Jalaa soccer club in Gaza and a company commander in Hamas’s aerial array.
Mohammed Mansour Mansour played for a soccer club in Nuseirat and coached the club’s youth division. He was a deputy commander of Hamas’s Nuseirat Battalion, who invaded Israel on October 7, 2023. Hamas’s military wing identified him as a member in March.
Ahmed Mohammed Hassan Abu al-Atta Al-Atta was a soccer player and a platoon commander in Islamic Jihad. Atta, who played for Al-Ahli Gaza, was recently identified by the terror group as the deputy commander of the Gaza City Brigade’s rocket unit.
Abdullah Riyad Abdullah Khattab Khattab was a player for Gaza’s al-Ribat soccer team and Ittihad Shabab Deir al-Balah, and a member of Islamic Jihad’s anti-tank missile array. Islamic Jihad identified him as a commander in June.
Mohammed Sami Mohammed Khattab Khattab, a FIFA international referee, was a member of Islamic Jihad in central Gaza. The IDF said Khattab refereed matches in the West Asian Championships and other international games. The Islamic Jihad also identified him as a platoon commander in the terror group.
Ali Mahmoud Ahmed al-Kurd Al-Kurd was a soccer player and coach for two teams in Rafah, as well as a platoon commander in Islamic Jihad in the Strip’s southernmost city. Islamic Jihad identified him as a member in May.
Mohammed Imad Atta Hassouna Hassouna was the captain of the Al-Shabab al-Zawaida soccer team and a Hamas terrorist who invaded Israel on October 7, 2023. Hassouna was identified by Hamas as a member of its military wing last week.
Tarek Ziad Hussein al-Hour Al-Hour was a midfield soccer player who played for several teams in the Gaza Strip, according to the IDF, and was a member of Hamas’s military wing.
Mohammed Ziad Hussein al-Hour Al-Hour was a beach soccer player and platoon commander in Hamas’s military wing in Nuseirat. The IDF said al-Hour competed on the Palestinian national team in the 2013 West Asian Beach Soccer Championship.
Mahmoud Osama al-Jazzar Al-Jazzar was a goalkeeper for two soccer teams in Rafah, and an Islamic Jihad operative. Islamic Jihad identified al-Jazzar last week as a deputy commander of an elite unit in Rafah.
Mohammed Nidal Mohammed al-Hawajri The IDF said al-Hawajri was a soccer player but did not say what teams he played for, and was a commander in Hamas’s military wing in Nuseirat."
Meme - "The zionist billionaire fears the friendly socialist"
Anonymous @YourAnonNews: "Mamdani just unlocked the rarest political achievement, actually scaring a final boss."
objkshn: "Wow. He's declaring Mamdani and Mamdani-policies to be what it will take to protect a city from Blackrock, a vulture predatory private equity firm that doesn't invest in community but bleeds them dry. He just elevated Mamdani to God-like status with this admission."
The General: "BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says he may abandon investing in New York City because Zohran Mamdani is a threat to his business"
There's no evidence he's a "Zionist". This is a good reminder that terrorist supporters just use "Zionist" as a dog whistle for Jew, and left wingers who are normally super keen on "exposing" "dog whistles" to claim their opponents are saying something they're not love the biggest dog whistle in the world. Also left wingers hate investment and want to destroy the economy
Islamist thugs are firebombing politicians into compliance is the US and UK - "a senior American politician made a highly disturbing admission. Washington Representative Adam Smith, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services committee, revealed that he had voted in favour of cutting American military aid to Israel because of the violence and intimidation he and his family were facing. Mr Smith said: “My family and I have had our home vandalised, a fire has been set in my driveway, my neighbours’ lives have been disrupted by demonstrations in the middle of the night, town halls meant to be forums for dialogue have been shut down, and a staff member has been physically assaulted.”... In February 2024, Mike Freer, the Conservative MP for Finchley and Golders Green, announced he would not stand again after his constituency office was firebombed. It was, he said, “the final straw” after more than a decade of threats tied directly to his support for Israel and his work challenging anti-Semitism. “Because I have such strong views on the Middle East, and I’m pro-Israel, this has led me to become a target,” he said at the time. What links Mr Smith’s Washington and Mr Freer’s Finchley is not a shared position on the Middle East – it is the methods being used against those who believe that the West should continue its support for the region’s only democracy in its fight against jihadism. The lesson these campaigns of political violence teach is explicit: back away from support for Israel and for the Jewish community, or your family pays the price. The experiences of Mr Smith and Mr Freer represent direct evidence of the growth of extreme Left-wing terrorism and intimidation. It is debate replaced by threats, the ballot box replaced by firebombs. We cannot blame this simply on Iranian proxies operating on foreign soil, or on the destructive division deliberately driven by China’s TikTok. We must accept that citizens of our country believe that it is permissible to commit violence and bullying in service of their hatred for the Jewish State. We should also be in no doubt that this intimidation extends beyond our political representatives. Since October 7, this culture of intimidation has been felt across society by the Jewish community. It has been experienced in the education system, in arts institutions and the workplace. It has left many British Jews feeling isolated, displaced and in fear."
Damn right wing violence! This shows why it's so important to crack down on Islamophobia and jail Islamophobes
The inconvenient truth about Gaza’s ability to govern - "First, there never was a sovereign, independent Gaza in recorded history. Ottoman Turkey, for instance, ruled Gaza for four centuries. No effort was made to establish a state. Later, Egypt governed Gaza for 19 years. Again, there was no move towards Palestinian independence. To the contrary, Cairo imposed harsh military rule. Ironically, the first country to offer Gaza the opportunity to chart its own destiny was Israel. Yes, Israel. In 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew every last soldier and settler. It also left behind scores of greenhouses intended to help kick-start Gaza’s economy. Within days, however, those greenhouses were looted and destroyed. Second, over the strong objections of Egypt, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority, the United States pressed for Hamas to participate in the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections. That legitimised a terrorist group which, predictably, took full advantage of the opportunity. Within a year, Hamas had violently seized total control of Gaza, killing or expelling Palestinian Authority officials. No election has been held in the ensuing two decades. Third, while some in the West romanticise, if not fetishise, Hamas as an “anti-colonial liberation” group, the truth is quite different. It is an outgrowth of the extremist, transnational Muslim Brotherhood, whose stated objective is to replace existing nation-states in the Middle East with a Sharia-based caliphate, while extending the reach of political Islam to the four corners of the world. At its core, it is virulently anti-Semitic, misogynistic, homophobic, authoritarian, and intolerant of “infidels”. The murderous Iranian regime has been its principal supplier of weapons and funding. Fourth, when Israel gained control of Gaza in the 1967 war of self-defence, by all accounts, the strip’s population was under 400,000. When Israel withdrew unilaterally in 2005, the population had more than tripled to 1.3 million. Thirty-eight years of Israeli control clearly did not prevent rapid population growth. Fifth, in the past two decades, Gaza has been the recipient of billions of dollars from governments and nongovernmental organisations earmarked to develop its economy and address humanitarian and social needs. Instead, the funds were largely syphoned off to build a vast terrorist infrastructure, including a tunnel system reported to exceed the length of London’s Underground. In other words, instead of seeking to emulate Dubai or Singapore, Hamas’s leaders opted to weaponise Gaza as a launching pad for Israel’s destruction. Meanwhile, some of those same leaders managed to become billionaires in the process, with homes in hospitable Qatar. Sixth, pro-Hamas voices frequently refer to Gaza as an “open-air prison”. That choice of words resonates with Hamas’s ideological sympathisers, but fails to note Israel’s withdrawal in 2005 and its long-standing interest in a peaceful and prosperous neighbour. It also conveniently ignores that Gaza has two borders, not one. The other is with Egypt, an Arab and Muslim-majority nation. Why is so little attention paid to Cairo’s opposition to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, its sealed border with Gaza, and its refusal to offer help to Gazans in need, either before or after October 7, 2023? Seventh, what happened on October 7, 2023 cannot simply be forgotten, dismissed, or minimised. It was the deadliest single day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. In proportional terms, it would have been the equivalent of more than 8,000 British women, men, and children slaughtered in 24 hours, plus more than 1,750 people, including the elderly and babies, kidnapped. What would the British government’s response have been? No, this was not an initiative from Gaza to advance a two-state solution, send a message of coexistence, or launch an interfaith, intercultural dialogue. It was a genocidal effort to kill as many people as possible simply because they lived in Israel and were presumed to be Jews. Eighth, the immense challenge any Israeli government would have faced was how to cripple Hamas, rescue the hostages, ensure this could never happen again, and minimise harm to civilians. Not easy tasks when the enemy deliberately weaponises civilians by placing them in harm’s way, stores weapons and command centres in schools, mosques, and hospitals, cynically manipulates media images, and cares not a whit for notions of international humanitarian law, proportionality, de-escalation, Red Cross access to the hostages, and the like. Ninth, in the fog of any war, innocent people are tragically killed and wounded. That is unspeakably heartbreaking. But one side, Hamas, cannot launch a war of aggression and then thunder to the world about its consequences. Despite all the freewheeling accusations launched against Israel, few armies in history have ever gone to its lengths to grapple with the moral dilemmas of war, even as its foes have no such scruples. Apropos, exactly how many humanitarian corridors were created by Allied nations to provide aid to German or Japanese civilians during the Second World War? None. Finally, the long-term goal must be to de-radicalise Gaza. Not an easy, overnight job, but a vital one. Is the American-created Gaza Peace Board, established in 2025, up to the challenge? Only time will tell. Radicalism and rejectionism run deep throughout the coastal strip. And they are abetted, wittingly or unwittingly, by an extensive network of governments, United Nations officials, and nongovernmental organisations. Unless and until that changes, the prospects for peace and stability are, alas, dim."
The narrative is important. The truth is not
Uri Kurlianchik on X - "I wonder what the Middle East would have been like if Israel was as brutal as Turkey was in the 20th century? Israel would have been 99% Jewish with clear borders. No occupation, no intifadas, no Palestinians. Just one brief atrocity that only historians would speak about."
Anna Mae on X - "I think the historians would make an exception for Israel."
How would a doctor know who fired the bullet? - "Numerous reports came out a few years ago from doctors claiming that ‘IDF assassins’ were targeting innocent children in Gaza, which was accompanied by an image of a bullet imbedded in a child’s skull. Brutal and sick... the doctors wouldn’t have been at the scene - they would have been at the hospital when they were told what happened. Why would they tell the world that this was the work of ‘IDF assassins’ when they couldn’t have possibly known if it was true, and why would so many news outlets run these stories with no fact checking? And why would so many of us buy it hook, line, and sinker? Maybe it’s because we want to. Meanwhile, here is a photo of Hamas shooting their own citizens in the head ‘assassin style’. There are probably real cases of war crimes committed by IDF soldiers, which should be dealt with, but to believe that the IDF targets and assassinates innocent children, especially when it’s coming from people who think that strangling the life out of a seven month old baby is a legitimate form of ‘resistance’, shows some serious moral confusion. If we actually care about the children in Gaza we should look at the cause of their suffering so we can help rather than using their suffering with the sole purpose of blaming everything on Israel."
Rawan Osman روان عثمان on X - "You can’t make this up. Zionist Tracker posts faces on X, one at a time, over a dripping red handprint. Gal Gadot. Mayim Bialik. Helen Mirren. Gwyneth Paltrow. Jerry Seinfeld. Leonardo DiCaprio. An Israeli actor accused, without evidence, of things no article substantiates. And now, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The hand isn’t decoration but a direct lift from a specific photograph. October 12, 2000, Ramallah: two Israeli reservists, Vadim Norzhich and Yosef Avrahami, took a wrong turn and were seized by Palestinian police, then killed by a mob that broke into the station. A man named Aziz Salha walked to the window afterward and held up his hands, covered in their blood, to the crowd below. They cheered. An Italian news crew filmed it. That image — a killer displaying his victim’s blood as a trophy, to applause — became one of the defining photographs of the Second Intifada. That is the symbol this account chose to brand every post with. What does the visual grammar of a lynching, repurposed as a content template, invite? Post the face, post the hand, let the crowd do the rest. And now AOC is in the crowd’s sights. This is a woman who tried to block a $735 million missile sale to Israel. Who told the Senate to choose between upholding the law and “cowering to Netanyahu.” Who pledged publicly to vote no on any Israel funding at all, defensive systems included. Her file, by the movement’s own logic, should read: ally. Her crime was a single vote against an amendment that could never have passed (422 to 6) because the amendment also cut a missile defense system, and she said so out loud. That’s the whole indictment. So what does this tell us. She isn’t hateful enough. And she was never anything but disposable. That’s the tell. The moment anyone in this camp declines to hate on command and obey blindly, the hand comes up, and it’s suddenly their face on the poster. @trackzionist @AOC #zionism #israel"
Henshi on X - "If @AOC is a Zionist then you guys are all in trouble 😜"
No Room at the Inn: BDS Hotels in Europe That Won’t Accept Israelis or Jews
So much for people's existence not being political and discrimination based on national origin being bad. People's existence is only political when it pushes the left wing agenda
It's Islamophobic to expect all Muslims to condemn Islamist terrorism, but if Jews and/or Israelis don't condemn Israel, it's good for them to not receive service
Meme - "LEFTIST AMERICAN WOMAN WHO HAD "FUCK ICE" IN HER SOCIAL MEDIA BIOS, FOUND BEATEN TO BY HER ASYLUM SEEKER BOYFRIEND"
"Jamey Carney
1.1K friends . 4.5K posts
New Yorker in Ireland
Free Palestine
Fk Ice"
Dr. Maalouf on X - "This is Jamey Carney, a 43-year-old woman from New York who became involved in the pro-Palestinian movement and decided to move to Ireland. There she met her partner, Ahmad Al-Saqar, a Palestinian refugee from Jordan, and converted to Islam. She frequently posted on social media about their trips together. It didn’t last long. She was brutally beaten to death by him. Her disfigured body was found by her 13-year-old daughter. The suspect has been on the run since Tuesday. Western leftist pro-Palestinian women and those willing to convert to Islam need to wake the fuck up. Or they could end up like this."
Kosher on X - "Mohamed Sabry Soliman. He burnt an 82 year old female Holocaust survivor to death. “Justice for Palestine” at University of Colorado, Boulder just publicly declared support for him calling it an “act of resistance” This is the Pro-Palestine movement. They are the lowest of the low."
"Resistance" means murdering Jews everywhere in the world
Roz Rothstein on X - "A disabled elderly Jewish woman walked into a Vodafone store in Melbourne seeking help with a device. She left in tears on the street. The employee became agitated, shouted "Free Palestine" at her repeatedly, called her a "dirty Zionist," told her "Jews are disgusting," and filmed her without consent while she stood trapped at the counter, unable to leave without her device."
Ken Benneth on X - "So yelling at elderly disabled Jewish woman "Jews are disgusting" is a legitimate criticism of Netanyahu policies, while questioning real statistics on Muslim attitude on raping white girls and murdering Jews is Islamophobia. Got it."
Matthew Kolken on X - "For the first time in my life I have concerns about being a Jewish American, and it is the left that concerns me."
Fugitive Caesar on X - "Congratulations for your success as an Immigration Lawyer! You successfully imported tens of millions of people who hate you. This is your life's work."
Kaveman Reprobate on X - "They never seem to grasp the story of the Golem, and it's their story!"
StopAntisemitism on X - "Boston (Lexington), MA: William Diamond Middle School Principal Johnny Cole sent an email apologizing to Arab, Muslim, Palestinian, and Lebanese students who were offended by a mandatory Holocaust lesson. Since when is teaching historical fact something that requires an apology? And why is a school principal validating outrage over Holocaust education instead of defending it?"
Jonathan Eric Lewis on X - "This is going to be the newest front in the war against Jewish peoplehood in the United States and I'm not entirely sure legacy Jewish organizations are ready for it. What we have here is the emergence of what I have previously called "neo-negationism," an ideological movement that doesn't seek to outright deny the Holocaust, but to marginalize it in western discourse. The ultimate goal, of course, is to replace the Holocaust with the "Nakba" as the epitome of human evil, so as to position Jews not as the primary victims of the 20th-century, but as its perpetrators"
Clearly, there's no link between anti-Semitism and "anti-Zionism", and only bigots opt out of Pride so we need to make it compulsory, and it's right wingers and conservatives who are against accurate history being taught
Rabbi forced to condemn Israel before booking French holiday villa - "A rabbi from London was refused a holiday rental in France after the owners demanded that he condemn Israel before being allowed to stay at the property. Rabbi Yoni Birnbaum was told he could only stay if he confirmed that he was “a member of a progressive, liberal Jewish movement”. He was asked to “condemn the violent actions of the Israeli army” or his family’s holiday booking in eastern France would be cancelled. Mr Birnbaum, 45, labelled the request a “purity test” and said it reflected rising anti-Semitism around the world... The owners rejected his complaint and cancelled the booking. In their response, they did not apologise, insisting they did not discriminate on the basis of religion or ethnicity. “We would indeed ask the same of someone whose email address starts with Imam,” they wrote. “Just as we sometimes check on Facebook, for example, and if we see that someone glorifies the far-Right or far-Left, he or she will not be admitted.”... Mr Birnbaum said the incident fitted a historical pattern in which Jews had repeatedly been forced to prove their acceptability to society. He noted that Jews in medieval Europe were often pressured to prove their religious purity through conversion, while the Nazis imposed racial tests... Mr Birnbaum said the incident reflected a wider climate in which anti-Semitism had been allowed to “fester” in parts of society. He added: “I look visibly Jewish, I walk around with a kippah on, people can see that I’m Jewish, and I often experience this type of low-level anti-Semitism, people shouting things from cars at me. “But this was of a different level, because this to me spoke of a deep entrenched problem in society, which is where Jews have once again got to pass a purity test, as the Nazis had a racial purity test, which is basically how pure are you vis-a-vis the Israel-Palestine conflict.”"
Weird. We're told it's Islamophobic to demand that Muslims condemn Islamist terrorism
Meme - Smug Soyjak: "Not everyone that criticizes Israel is antisemitic."
Normal person: "Oh, so what do you think about Jews?"
Confused Soyjak:
Angry Soyjak: "FUCK THOSE TALMUDIC BABY PENIS SUCKING BLOOD DRINKERS!!!"
Bruce Fenton | Facebook - "Is antisemitism increasing? Absolutely. Without question. 100% yes it is. Is this because people suddenly randomly decided to hate Jewish people around 2024? No. Antisemitism is rising is because
1) the majority of the USA and the world feel that Israel is committing war crimes and
2) both Israeli and Jewish leaders continually work to conflate the State of Israel with the religion of Judaism
Against and again we are told that criticism of Israel the country is antisemitic and equated to criticism of Jewish people. Personally I don’t prefer to conflate the evil actions of Israeli politicians with an entire religion. But the overwhelming majority of both Israeli people and Jewish people DO conflate the two. The official spokespeople and most prominent leaders make a mission of conflating the two. So either Israel and Jewish people are one in the same - in which case antisemitism is because of the actions of Israel (I don’t prefer this option) OR the actions of politicians in Israel do NOT reflect the religion - in which case Jewish people have not often or loudly enough condemned Israel and those who seek to conflate it with their religion."
Terrorism supporters once again claiming that the reason "anti Zionists" are anti semites is Jews claiming criticising Israel is antisemitic (which they don't claim, but that's another story). By this "logic", "Islamophobia" is the fault of Muslims and left wingers
Mazelit Airaksinen 🎗🇺🇸 🇮🇱 on X - "My freshman year at Barnard College — I was placed in the “Social Justice House” dorm with 3 pro-Palestine activists. My roommate was co-president of SJP at Columbia. Down the hall, the president of Barnard JVP was living. Guess what happened when they found out I wouldn’t sign their petition against Israel? I was 18. I couldn’t even locate Israel on a map, yet I was attacked, harassed and eventually stalked for refusing to condemn it — a country I barely had heard of before. This is the spark that led to my conversion. Read my story, and if you do, I’d love to know what you think 💕 "
