The Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group and its supporters are once again disappointed that the Arab countries did not come to the rescue of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during the current war which erupted after the October 7 Hamas massacre of Israelis. At least 1,200 Israelis were murdered and more than 4,500 wounded in the massacre. Another 240 Israelis, including toddlers, children, women and the elderly were kidnapped to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
Elon Musk made a fact-finding trip to Israel this weekend after taking criticism for a tweet response that critics called anti-Semitic, and ended up discovering the obvious. After touring some of the areas attacked on October 7, the self-professed Chief Twit had a one-on-one with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the implications of the massacres in southern Israel.
Well you’re not going to destroy them by “Truce.”
Israel and Hamas agree to extend truce for two more days, and free more hostages and prisoners
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel and Hamas agreed to extend their cease-fire for two more days past Monday, the Qatari government said, bringing the prospect of a longer halt to their deadliest and most destructive war and further exchanges of militant-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., I wondered if the events would finally force the world to understand what the Israelis had been going through. A year earlier, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat rejected a historic peace offer at Camp David and launched a deadly second intefadeh against Israeli civilians.
As he sits in Geneva, Michel Dreifuss does not feel all that far away from the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 and the subsequent war at Gaza. The ripples are rolling through Europe and upending assumptions both global and intimate — including those about his personal safety as a Jew.
“Yesterday I bought a tear-gas spray canister at a military-equipment surplus store,” the 64-year-old retired tech sector worker said recently at a rally to mark a month since the Hamas killings. The choice, he says, is a “precaution,” driven by a surge of antisemitism in Europe.
“Credibility, an editor once said, “is the lifeblood of our profession. Without it not one person will believe a single word that we write.”
Hence, Reuters’ categorical denial of bias in reporting the Holocaust-like events of October 7 in the Gaza envelope can be, as the saying goes, laughed out of court. “Reuters is committed to delivering independent, accurate and unbiased news.” Really? A freelance “stringer” from Gaza, whose Bible is the Koran and whose family are back in Gaza City scared stiff of what Hamas might do to them, can deliver independent, accurate, and unbiased photographic or video images of a pogrom on Jews? His work must inevitably be advocacy journalism at best or anti-Semitic propaganda at worst.
Inside Gaza as you have never seen before: Palestinians share footage of people swimming on the beach, shopping at markets and playing football in a rare glimpse of what life was like in the city before October 7
Three Palestinian men were shot and injured near the University of Vermont on Saturday in what authorities suspect could be a hate-related crime.
The Burlington Police Department said in a press release that two of the three victims are in stable condition while the third sustained “much more serious injuries.” The three men, who are each 20 years old and of Palestinian descent, were visiting the home of one victim’s relatives in Burlington for the Thanksgiving weekend and were walking along a street when they were confronted by a white man with a handgun.
It’s no small task to hijack a whole system of education to achieve a political end, but Canadian academics — “critical race scholars,” “decolonial theorists” and the like — seem to have accomplished it. Congratulations are in order. Once believed to be underdogs doomed to a life of underemployment and student debt, these scholarly activists have created a red guard of radicalized students willing to march in the street calling for intefadeh.
Ideological entrepreneurs in progressive academia (most of academia) embraced the theories of Kimberlé Crenshaw, a Columbia University professor of critical legal studies who came up with the idea that identity is the root cause of disadvantage. They then applied the work of academics like Ibram X. Kendi, who discovered the solution to oppression: “anti-racism,” or the levelling of the social justice scales by discriminating against the privileged. The takeaway: those who are considered to be privileged colonizers deserve whatever anti-oppressive resistance comes their way.
Some are horrified by the massacres, others feel the bloodshed and devastating Israeli retaliation are the price of freedom
On the morning of October 7, Sara, a mother of two from Gaza, woke to the news that Hamas fighters and crowds of civilians had broken through the billion-dollar fence that for 16 years had penned her and 2 million of her people into a strip of land slightly smaller than the Isle of Wight.
Former federal NDP candidate Yavar Hameed, a human rights lawyer from Ottawa, is threatening to bring a private prosecution against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Hameed claims Israel is committing war crimes against Palestinians, and since Trudeau is supporting Israel, the PM is abetting war crimes.
The fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was back on track Sunday as the militants freed 17 more hostages, including 14 Israelis, in the third set of releases under a four-day ceasefire deal.
Red Cross representatives transferred the hostages out of Gaza. Some were handed over directly to Israel, while others left through Egypt. Israel’s army said one was airlifted directly to an Israeli hospital.
Tommy Robinson has been arrested today as he joined thousands of protesters who gathered in London to protest against antisemitism across the UK.
The English Defence League founder was seen being escorted away from the march by police after arguing with officers for around 10 minutes outside Soho coffee shop opposite the Royal Courts of Justice.
Prior to his arrest, the Mr Robinson said: ‘Met Police attempting to intimidate me and stop me from reporting on the antisemitism march happening today in London. Absolute disgrace @metpoliceuk.’
The Met Police has been in frequent contact this week with the march’s organisers who had raised concerns that Mr Robinson attending would ’cause fear for other participants’.
BREAKING: Tommy Robinson handcuffed, forcibly removed from march in London before he could cover event pic.twitter.com/eVvD0iwviT
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 26, 2023
I guess things can’t be that bad if the organizers can afford to cast out would be allies deemed undesirable.
Hundreds of “radicalized” kids rampaged through the halls of a Queens high school this week for nearly two hours after they discovered a teacher had attended a pro-Israel rally — forcing the terrified educator to hide in a locked office as the teen mob tried to push its way into her classroom, The Post has learned.
The scene at Hillcrest High School in Queens as a Jewish teacher hid in her locked office for hours while students demanded she be fired for attending a pro-Israel rally. pic.twitter.com/jzVCEofvJS
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) November 25, 2023
This is pretty fecked.
The German security authorities carried out raids against suspected supporters of Hamas — a militant Islamist organization categorized as a terrorist organization by Germany, the EU, and some other countries — and the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network this week. Properties were searched in four states, with a focus on Berlin.
The move is an attempt to enforce the ban issued by German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser on November 2. “By banning Hamas and Samidoun in Germany, we have sent a clear signal that we will not tolerate any kind of glorification or support for Hamas’ barbaric terror against Israel,” said Faeser about the raids.
The hostages-for-a-humanitarian-pause deal between Israel and Hamas has been cheered as an important step towards peace. But is there really much to celebrate about a deal, accepted by Israel under Western pressure, which in wider terms can only benefit the genocidal Islamists in their war to wipe out the world’s sole Jewish state?
