The conflict between Israel and Hamas is fast becoming a world war online.
Iran, Russia and, to a lesser degree, China have used state media and the world’s major social networking platforms to support Hamas and undercut Israel, while denigrating Israel’s principal ally, the United States.
Iran’s proxies in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq have also joined the fight online, along with extremist groups, like Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, that were previously at odds with Hamas.
As the sun was setting over the Mediterranean last night, the mortar rounds fired from a concealed Hamas stronghold were getting closer.
When one struck about 200 yards from the command post of an Israeli brigade combat group in a northern neighbourhood of Gaza City, the soldiers took up defensive positions.
“Such an act of violence is unthinkable. I offer all my support to the victim and her relatives,” said Lyon Mayor Gregory Doucet on the social media platform X.
A spokesman for the national police gave no further details about the suspect, and said he could not confirm whether police were treating the attack as an anti-Semitic hate crime.
Hamas delayed the evacuation of wounded Palestinian civilians from Gaza by placing its own fighters on border departure lists.
A senior official in Joe Biden’s administration said Hamas had repeatedly provided Israel, the United States and Egypt with lists of Palestinians who were wounded and should be allowed to depart – only for it to later emerge during security checks that many of those included were Hamas fighters.
A rabbi on the French island of Corsica has reported that many Jews in France have contacted him about moving to the island as they fear for their personal safety on the French mainland as antisemitism continues to surge following the massacre of over a thousand Israeli civilians by Hamas last month.
Levi Pinson, rabbi of Corsica, told broadcaster Europe1 that he has received many requests from Jews elsewhere in France regarding the possibility of moving to the Mediterranean island, saying, “Many people contact us to find out about the living conditions here and to talk to us about a possible move.”
Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters massed in Washington, DC, Saturday afternoon before descending upon the White House to chant, “Allahu akbar” and “F–k Joe Biden” as they accused the president of genocide and demanded a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” the crowd dotted with Palestinian flags and signs cried at the start of the event, which drew attendees from across the country.
The chant – which is growing increasingly popular in the wake of Hamas’ deadly incursion into southern Israel last month and Israel’s subsequent retaliatory attacks on Gaza – is widely considered antisemitic because it implies the elimination of the State of Israel and its people.
One protester with a Hezbollah flag at the Palestine protest outside the White House https://t.co/3g5Z1Waij4 pic.twitter.com/h3C2f7oUPR
— Timcast News (@TimcastNews) November 4, 2023
🧵 Remember this day. Nov. 4, 2023. 5:41 PM. The Woke Army is at the White House. “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” they bellowed in the war chant that means only one thing: the annihilation of Jews in the state of Israel.
I stood with my back pinned against… pic.twitter.com/TxxGfsOzMO
— Asra Nomani (@AsraNomani) November 5, 2023
Police were forced to close Charing Cross station in central London as pro-Palestine protesters occupied the concourse, as calls intensified for marches to be banned on Armistice Day next Saturday.
Riot police cleared a group of masked protesters letting off fireworks in and around Trafalgar Square. Some of the fireworks and other missiles appeared to be deliberately aimed at officers.
As a Metropolitan Police helicopter circled overhead, riot police charged into the top end of Whitehall to disperse the youngsters.
Western society, including Canada, must very soon face up to the full gravity of the widespread antisemitic demonstrations that are occurring in major public squares and universities. No attempt to represent these demonstrations as simply manifestations of sympathy for the stateless Palestinians can be allowed to become conventional wisdom. What it is important for the entire West to realize is that those who are now demonstrating in favour of Palestine are seeking the extermination of Israel and that in doing so they are implicitly approving the slaughter of Israeli civilians and particularly the sadistic mutilation and murder of children and women.
Toronto @ Bay & Wellington @T4Palestine🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/medMVwpoYB
— Camila (@camilapress) November 4, 2023
Something you will never see drive by a Hamas Rally in TO.
Van with LED screens outside Union Station used to convey demand to bring hostages home. #cdnpoli #Toronto #Palestine #Israel #Gaza pic.twitter.com/FlETAVY3P8
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) November 4, 2023
h/t Sweetpea
On the morning of October 7, Hamas terrorists broke out of Gaza and went on the rampage in Israel, killing more than 1,400 people and taking an unknown number of hostages back to the territory.
Those abducted men, women and children are now vital bargaining chips as Israel intensifies its attacks on Gaza from the ground and the air while diplomats engage in a frantic cycle of international negotiation.
There it was, a banner reading ‘Jews against genocide’ among a crowd chanting, among other things, ‘From the river to the sea’. The presence of this banner was one of the most monstrous features of this week’s sit-in by hundreds of baying anti-Israel protesters at London’s Liverpool Street station.
Despite their fealty to “People of Color,” members of the media just love blonds, especially when those blonds are photogenic young women who slap around Israeli soldiers. No one was more beloved than Ahed Tamimi, a young woman from a village in the West Bank who got the star treatment after a video of her violent act went viral. The same outlets that once thrilled to her dynamism, though, have been strangely silent since she’s revealed an openly expressed, antisemitic genocidal bloodthirstiness that makes actual Nazis look kind of colorless.
They can mourn George Floyd but not condemn Hamas.
The worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust has been greeted with silence by some of the nation’s Holocaust museums including those which issued statements about BLM, the death of George Floyd and every possible issue and cause except the mass murder of Jews.
The Democratic Party now faces a choice.
The Hamas atrocities of October 7th have forever fractured any political alliance between centrist and liberal Jews and woke, anti-Israel progressives.
It’s either them or us.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
In the face of a massive global outbreak of anti-Semitism following Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, the Israeli government is advising its citizens to hide the fact they are Jews when travelling anywhere in the world.
By cautioning Israeli Jews against displaying any outward signs of their religion – for example, head coverings called kippahs worn by many Jewish men – Israel’s warning is, in effect, to Jews everywhere, including Canada.
