“Oct 7 2023”

Pro-Palestinian marchers chanting “jihad” at a protest on Saturday should be arrested, the government’s independent adviser on political violence and disruption has said.

Lord Walney added that protest organisers should contribute to the spiralling costs of policing as up to 200,000 people are anticipated in London for the first big demonstration of the year.

Police sources anticipate that the military action in Yemen will add to the crowds expected at the protest and that about 1,700 officers will be on the streets, some brought in from outside Scotland Yard.

Four Royal Air Force Typhoon jets slipped into Yemen’s airspace in the early hours of Friday morning, loaded with 230kg Paveway IV precision-guided bombs intended to pound rebel positions.

With a range of just 16 miles, the bombs were likely carried inland and then launched as part of a night-time raid responding to Houthi attacks on the Royal Navy in the Red Sea.

Explosions soon lit up the sky as an airbase, military camp and the Houthi’s Al-Masirah television station were targeted before the warplanes banked away to return to base, videos on the ground in Yemen show.

A Jewish man who lost family in the October 7 attacks was jeered at by protestors who made pig noises and pretend horns while at a San Francisco council meeting.

The incident occurred on January 8 at a San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing scheduled the day before a vote on a resolution to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.

In a moving speech to the Board the man described how his first cousins were killed at Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7.

Jewish man who lost 5 family members in Kibbutz Be'eri during the Oct 7th attack and had 2 family members kidnapped gets BOOED and JEERED by anti-Israel activists in San Francisco.

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— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) January 12, 2024

Two Voice of America staff members posted blatantly anti-Israel material on Facebook in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre and continuing through the Houthis’ ongoing campaign against civilian vessels in recent weeks, a review of their profiles by National Review found.

One of the posts appeared to call for the elimination of Israel in 2024. Even those that did not urge the country’s destruction clearly backed Palestinian or Hamas narratives, an ostensible violation of Voice of America’s standards guidance.

Jews and Israelis underestimated the profound effect that the anti-Jewish narrative, coupled with a half-century of funding intersectionality,critical race and ANTI-ISRAEL theories, etc. would have on the coming generations.

Several weeks ago, Matti Friedman published a very astute piece about Hamas’ understanding about global Jew hatred–and the failure of Israeli and American Jewish organizations to do so. Just as the Israeli government did not anticipate the kind of attack that Hamas launched on 10/7, so too, did Jews and Israelis underestimate the profound effect that the anti-Jewish narrative, coupled with a half-century of funding intersectionality,critical race and ANTI-ISRAEL theories, etc. would have on the coming generations of students, professors, journalists, human rights activists, and public intellectuals in America.

We now see what their underestimation has led us to–a globalized Intifada, peopled by activists who have learned their public performance “tricks” from Act Up, Blacks Lives Matter, anarchists, anti-capitalist Marxists, and Democratic Socialists.

The unprecedented savagery and depravity of the October 7 pogrom in Israel shocked all decent-thinking people in the world. To many Jews living in the West it, and the reaction to it, came as a particularly brutal wake-up call. In the words of a self-styled former progressive leftist, Hamas “slaughtered his wokeness.” Shocking reactions—even of denial—to the murderous attack on Israeli civilians was the final straw that shattered his previous complacency, revealing to him the dark reality that “our Western culture is riddled with ambient anti-Semitism.”

The question we ask here is how did such complacency come about, that liberally minded Jews blinded themselves to this growing undercurrent in what was meant to be a “never again” world? How, in turn, has this contributed to, or even sanctioned, the rise of and support for Hamas and its Jihadist war against the Jewish state? In a word, how culpable are they? Has liberal Judaism appeased Islamism when it should have challenged it? Is it time they apologised for what has happened on their watch? The answer to all these questions, we believe, is yes.

A very interesting article.

Jews and Israelis underestimated the profound effect that the anti-Jewish narrative, coupled with a half-century of funding intersectionality,critical race and ANTI-ISRAEL theories, etc. would have on the coming generations.

Several weeks ago, Matti Friedman published a very astute piece about Hamas’ understanding about global Jew hatred–and the failure of Israeli and American Jewish organizations to do so. Just as the Israeli government did not anticipate the kind of attack that Hamas launched on 10/7, so too, did Jews and Israelis underestimate the profound effect that the anti-Jewish narrative, coupled with a half-century of funding intersectionality,critical race and ANTI-ISRAEL theories, etc. would have on the coming generations of students, professors, journalists, human rights activists, and public intellectuals in America.

Israel has said South Africa has distorted the truth in its case to the International Court of Justice, where it is accusing Israel of genocide.

South Africa had presented “a sweeping counter-factual description” of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Israeli lawyer Tal Becker told the ICJ.

South Africa says Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in its war in Gaza.

It is also asking the court to order Israel to halt its military activity.

The blood libel accusation against Israel has now begun in The Hague. The failed nation of South Africa has brought genocide charges against Israel in the International Court of Justice.

What is the International Court of Justice? It is not international, because it excludes judges from certain countries. It is not a real court, because the judges are selected by their countries and many of them simply follow the instructions of those who appointed them. And it has never done justice, because it has long been biased against Israel. It is the United Nations court, and that tells you all you need to know about it. The United Nations has become the megaphone of bigotry and anti-Semitism. As an Israeli diplomat once put it, if Algeria introduced a resolution that the earth is flat and that Israel flattened it, it would win 120 to 27 with 32 abstentions. And you can name the countries in each of the groups before any evidence is presented.

It is time to stop talking about the risk that the war in Gaza will spread elsewhere in the Middle East. It has already happened.

Hopes for containing what is happening rest on the fact that it is still relatively low-level, compared to the worst-case scenarios of regional war.

The US and British attacks on the Houthis in Yemen are not just, as ministers in London have suggested, about the freedom of navigation and world trade.

They are directly linked to events in Gaza and represent an escalation of the crisis that is gripping the region.