Why Aren’t Women’s Groups Condemning Hamas?

‘We have come so far in believing survivors of rape and assault in so many situations,” wrote the former Meta executive and founder of LeanIn.org, Sheryl Sandberg, in a recent CNN op-ed. And yet, Western organizations supposedly devoted to women’s issues have spent the weeks since the 10/7 massacre of Israeli civilians — a slaughter that featured the methodical rape, abuse, and torture of Hamas’s female victims — laying low. In conflicts elsewhere around the globe, Sandberg observed, evidence that rape has been used as a weapon of warfare “evoked a loud response from global women’s organizations.” But similar crimes committed by Hamas have not.

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The Treachery of Gazan Day Laborers

The repayment of evil for good.

In order to help people in Gaza, where unemployment is high, the Israeli government has in recent years allowed thousands of Gazans to work in Israel as day laborers, where they earn salaries that are three to five times what they can earn in Gaza itself. This past year, the number of Gazans receiving Israeli work permits rose to 20,000; in Judea and Samaria, the number of permits for Palestinians increased to 100,000. What Israel has now discovered is that many of those Gazan workers collected intelligence on Israel and provided it to Hamas.

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‘Squad’ firebrand Rashida Tlaib’s astonishing links to shady Hamas group held liable for DEATH of an American Jew

Rashida Tlaib had the crowd eating out of her hand.

It was March 2018, and the hookah lounge in a working-class suburb outside of Chicago was packed.

Warm and engaging, switching frequently between English and Arabic, Tlaib – a Michigan State representative with larger ambitions – pleaded for out-of-state donations to help her become the first Palestinian American in Congress.

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York University suspends at least three employees after charges in Indigo store vandalism

A York University sociology professor who studies protests and at least two other employees of the school have been placed on leave from their jobs after they were charged in connection with hate-motivated mischief over the defacing of a Toronto Indigo bookstore.

Colleagues and students have announced an hour-long walkout from class on Tuesday afternoon in protest of the suspensions, which organizers say will interrupt studies, create fear and damage the reputations of those accused.

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Biden About To Betray Israel?

While the release of the first groups of hostages held by Hamas has inevitably raised hopes about the fate of the remaining Israeli hostages, it also exposes the Biden administration’s worrying lack of commitment to supporting Israel’s declared aim of destroying the Islamist terror group.

In the immediate aftermath of Hamas terrorists committing the worst terrorist atrocity in Israel’s history on October 7, US President Joe Biden was quick to reassure Jerusalem that Washington fully supported Israel’s right to defend itself.

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Two women charged with hate crimes after assaulting Jewish victim who confronted them for tearing down hostage posters in NYC

Two women have been charged with hate crimes after they attacked a Jewish victim who confronted them for tearing down posters in New York City of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas.

Mehwish Omer, 26, and Stephanie Gonzalez, 25, allegedly assaulted the 41-year-old woman after she approached the duo as they took down posters of Israeli hostages from a light pole in the Upper West Side on the night of November 9.

The Jewish woman told police she began recording Omer and Gonzalez and arguing with them before she was attacked. The young women then assaulted the victim, ripping off her Star of David necklace and knocking her cellphone out of her hand before running off, per the NYPD

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Trudeau offended Israel with call for ‘maximum restraint,’ says Israeli president

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offended his country earlier this month when he asked Israel to exercise “maximum restraint” in military operations in Gaza.

“We were offended by the comments of Prime Minister Trudeau because I spoke myself with Prime Minister Trudeau just a week before [he] spoke to me about enabling the exit of Canadian civilians, who are in Gaza, and Israel has done its best and made it a priority,” Herzog told CBC’s The National on Sunday.

The Israeli president said Israel “truly” cares about civilians in Gaza and warns them of imminent attacks through leaflets, text messages and other methods to give them time to flee.

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How Hamas built a force to attack Israel on 7 October

Five armed Palestinian groups joined Hamas in the deadly 7 October attack on Israel after training together in military-style exercises from 2020 onwards, BBC News analysis shows.

The groups carried out joint drills in Gaza which closely resembled the tactics used during the deadly assault – including at a site less than 1km (0.6 miles) from the barrier with Israel – and posted them on social media.

They practised hostage-taking, raiding compounds and breaching Israel’s defences during these exercises, the last of which was held just 25 days before the attack.

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Why the Arabs ‘Betrayed’ the Palestinians

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.

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Musk Meets Netanyahu: ‘There’s No Choice’ but to Destroy Hamas

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.

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Jesse Kline: Murderous jihad didn’t begin with 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.

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Europe’s Jews Fret Over Rising Tide of Antisemitism Across the Continent

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.

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