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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Stop the Anti-Semitism on campuses
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Anti-Semitism on campuses in the United States is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s.
The world cannot stand idly by.
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Hamas on Campus
Columbia Encampment Antisemitism April 17 24 2024
Posted 26April2024 Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus:
This is what’s going on at Columbia University. Must Watch.
Antisemitic Pro Terrorist, Pro Communist, Hamas supporting Students camping out on the grounds of Columbia University during Finals Week. They are intimidating and fighting Christian Americans Students and Jewish Students.
Columbia University judenrein
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Chaos @Columbia as President Minouch Shafik clearly has made a decision not to intervene and allow her campus to be LITERALLY taken over by the pro-Hamas mob. WATCH
https://canarymission.org/campaign/Columbia_University’s_Antisemitism_Problem
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Israeli student at Columbia-NO health services allowed
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Breaking: An Israeli student at Columbia who went to see health services, was not seen as the healthcare workers stated they would not treat her because she was Israeli.
Columbia University has truly been infiltrated with radicalism and terror ideology at every level.
 Eyal Yakoby-tweet-30August2024-Israeli student at Columbia-NO health services allowed JerusalemCats Comments: Read the underlined text: “Healthcare Professionals would not treat her because she was Israeli”
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Students chant “Kill the Jews” at the Northeastern University
Oli London-tweet-27April2024-Students chant Kill the Jews at the Northeastern University
Students chant “Kill the Jews” at the Northeastern University campus last night.
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UCLA 2024 Germany 1938
 Nazis prevent Jewish Students from entering University of Vienna, Austria 1938
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Jewish @UCLA student is prevented entry by masked pro-Palestinian mob 👇
These are exactly the scenes last witnessed in 1938 Germany.
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The Chabad Rabbi of UCLA was just physically assaulted
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The Chabad Rabbi of UCLA was just physically assaulted live on camera. The students subsequently began calling him a “Zionist pedophile Rabbi,” telling him to “go back to Poland.” We are in such a dark, dangerous time in our country, with almost no leadership fighting back
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The Chabad Rabbi of UCLA was just physically assaulted-11June2024
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What the real intifada is
Eylon Levy-tweet-3May2024-What the real intifada is
Come closer, children, you have nothing to fear. Your friendly neighborhood jihadists just want to wish you a peaceful intifada. Take a candy.
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Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing (MFA-Suicide bombing of No 2 Egged bus in Jerusalem – 19August2003)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel_HaNavi_bus_bombing
The Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing was the suicide bombing of a crowded public bus (Egged bus 2) in the Shmuel HaNavi quarter in Jerusalem, Israel, on August 19, 2003. Twenty-four people were killed and over 130 wounded. Many of the victims were children, some of them infants.[1] The Islamist militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
The attack
 Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing was the suicide bombing of a crowded public bus (Egged bus 2) in the Shmuel HaNavi quarter in Jerusalem, Israel, on August 19, 2003. Twenty-four people were killed and over 130 wounded. Many of the victims were children, some of them infants. The Islamist militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. On August 19, 2003 (22 Av 5763), a Hamas suicide bomber sent out by the organization’s Hebron cell disguised himself as a Haredi Jew and detonated himself on a No. 2 Egged bus traveling through Jerusalem’s Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood. He blew himself up after entering the back door.[2] The double-length bus was crowded with Orthodox Jewish children returning from a visit to the Western Wall. The huge explosion killed 7 children and 16 adults, among them an eight-months-pregnant woman, and injured more than 130 people. The bomb was spiked with ball-bearings designed to increase injuries on the crowded bus. Hamas said the bomber was a 29-year-old mosque preacher from the city of Hebron.
Because so many of the dead were young children,[3] the media dubbed it the “children’s bus”. According to an Associated Press report,
Strollers were scattered near the stricken bus, medics carried away children with blood-smeared faces and a baby girl died in a hospital before doctors could find her parents. At least five children were among the 18 dead in Tuesday’s suicide bombing by a Palestinian militant who blew himself up on a Jerusalem bus. Forty children were among more than 100 people injured. The attack was the 100th Palestinian suicide bombing against Israelis since the latest round of fighting began in September 2000. The youth of the victims stands out in that grim list, and the government said the choice of target was particularly cold-blooded.[4]
Suicide bombing of No. 2 Egged bus in Jerusalem
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Twenty-three people were killed and over 130 wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated a five-kilogram device packed with ball-bearings on a crowded No. 2 Egged bus in Jerusalem’s Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood. Many of the passengers were returning from prayers at the Western Wall when they were killed. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
For the ultra-Orthodox, the attack took place not only during the vacation, but also on the eve of the month of Elul, the month of selihot – the special penitential prayers recited during the week before Rosh Hashanah.
As a result of the attack, the Cabinet decided on September 1, 2003, among others, to wage an all-out war against Hamas and other terrorist elements, and to freeze the diplomatic process with the Palestinian Authority.
The victims:
– Avraham Bar-Or, 12, of Jerusalem
– Binyamin Bergman, 15, of Jerusalem
– Yaakov Binder, 50, of Jerusalem
– Feiga Dushinski, 50, of Jerusalem
– Miriam Eisenstein, 20, of Bnei Brak
– Lilach Kardi, 22, of Jerusalem
– Menachem Leibel, 24, of Jerusalem
– Elisheva Meshulami, 16, of Bnei Brak
– Tehilla Nathanson, 3, of Zichron Ya’acov
– Chava Nechama Rechnitzer, 19, of Bnei Brak
– Mordechai Reinitz, 49, and Issachar Reinitz, 9, of Netanya
– Maria Antonia Reslas, 39, of the Philippines
– Liba Schwartz, 54, of Jerusalem
– Hanoch Segal, 65, of Bnei Brak
– Goldie Taubenfeld, 43, and Shmuel Taubenfeld, 3 months, of New Square, New York
– Rabbi Eliezer Weisfish, 42, of Jerusalem
– Shmuel Wilner, 50, of Jerusalem
– Shmuel Zargari, 11 months, of Jerusalem.
– Fruma Rahel Weitz, 73, of Jerusalem died of her wounds on August 23.
– Mordechai Laufer, 27, of Netanya died of his wounds on September 5.
– Tova Lev, 37, of Bnei-Brak died of her wounds on September 12.
 MFA-Suicide bombing of No 2 Egged bus in Jerusalem – 19-Aug-2003-The victims
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JerusalemCats Comments: Showing the Truth about the Antisemite George Soros is not Antisemitic just because he claims to “Be A Jew”. Just look at Korach. He was so bad they gave him his own Parshah, Parshah Korach, Numbers 16:1.
 The Punishment of Korah (detail from the fresco Punishment of the Rebels by Sandro Botticelli (1480–1482) in the Sistine Chapel) From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Brendan Taylor April 26. 2024
https://insiderpaper.com/george-soros-paying-student-protesters-across-us-colleges-report/
George Soros paying student protesters across US colleges – report
George Soros is paying student radicals who are sparking a nationwide surge of anti-Israel protests at colleges throughout the country, NY Post reported.
George Soros and Rockefeller foundations paying students of US colleges who are arranging nationwide protests
Two major American philanthropic foundations, Rockefeller and Soros, are backing a group that pays certain activists. These protestors are disrupting college campuses across the country, WSJ reported.
The anti-Israel demonstrations initially erupted when students occupied Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus lawn last week, now spreading across the nation.
Copycat tent encampments have emerged at various colleges, such as Harvard, Yale, Berkeley in California, Ohio State University, and Emory in Georgia. All were arranged by branches of the Soros-backed Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), resulting in clashes with law enforcement at some locations.
At three colleges, protests are being fueled by paid radicals who are fellows of a Soros-funded group called the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR).
The USCPR offers community-based fellows up to $7,800 and campus-based fellows between $2,880 and $3,660 to dedicate eight hours a week to organizing campaigns led by Palestinian organizations. They’re taught to “rise up, to revolution.”
This radical group has received over $300,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations since 2017 and $355,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund since 2019. The SJP’s main organization has been financially supported by a network of nonprofits ultimately backed by Soros and other left-wing investors.
USCPR fellows driving protest actions on college campuses
Three individuals serving as “fellows” have been prominent figures in the nationwide protest movement. Nidaa Lafi, previously the president of the University of Texas Students for Justice in Palestine, was spotted at a encampment at UT Dallas on Wednesday, delivering a speech urging an end to the conflict in Gaza.
At Yale, USCPR fellow Craig Birckhead-Morton was arrested on Monday and charged with first-degree trespassing as SJP’s branch, Yalies4Palestine, occupied the school’s Beinecke Plaza, according to the Yale Daily News. Birckhead-Morton, who also previously interned for Democrat Maryland representative John Sarbanes, later spoke at a sit-in blocking traffic in New Haven after being released from custody.
The most prominent fellow is Malak Afaneh from Berkeley, who serves as co-president of the Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine. She has been actively speaking at an anti-Israel protest on campus this week. Previously, Afaneh gained attention for disrupting a dinner at the law school dean’s house by shouting anti-Israel slogans. She later accused the dean’s wife of assaulting her when asked to leave.
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By Isabel Vincent
Published April 26, 2024, 6:00 a.m. ET
https://nypost.com/2024/04/26/us-news/george-soros-maoist-fund-columbias-anti-israel-tent-city/
George Soros and his hard-left acolytes are paying agitators who are fueling the explosion of radical anti-Israel protests at colleges across the country.
The protests, which began when students took over Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus lawn last week, have mushroomed nationwide.
Copycat tent cities have been set up at colleges including Harvard, Yale, Berkeley in California, the Ohio State University and Emory in Georgia — all of them organized by branches of the Soros-funded Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) — and at some, students have clashed with police.
 Israel hate camps explode – funded by Soros George Soros is paying agitators who are fueling the explosion of radical anti-Israel protests at colleges across the country.
The SJP parent organization has been funded by a network of nonprofits ultimately funded by, among others, Soros, the billionaire left-wing investor.
At three colleges, the protests are being encouraged by paid radicals who are “fellows” of a Soros-funded group called the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR).
At three colleges, the protests are being encouraged by paid radicals who are “fellows” of a Soros-funded group called the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR).
USCPR provides up to $7,800 for its community-based fellows and between $2,880 and $3,660 for its campus-based “fellows” in return for spending eight hours a week organizing “campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.”
They are trained to “rise up, to revolution.”
The radical group received at least $300,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations since 2017 and also took in $355,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund since 2019.
 George Soros and Wall Street moguls financed radical anti-Israel groups behind campus protests at Columbia University. Rikki Schlott
 The University of Texas-Austin is one of the campuses where anti-Israel protests have exploded this week, copycatting the takeover of Columbia University’s lawn. AP It has three “fellows” who have been major figures in the nationwide protest movement.
Nidaa Lafi, a former president of the University of Texas Students for Justice in Palestine, was seen at an encampment at UT Dallas Wednesday making a speech demanding an end to the war in Gaza.
Lafi, a former legislative intern for the late Democratic Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, graduated from the school last year with a degree in global business and is now a law student at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
 Lafi was seen at the University of Texas-Austin on Wednesday leading a protest against Israel. Alamy Live News
 Nidaa Lafi returned to the University of Texas, Dallas, campus Wednesday to lead a “teach-in” at the Students for Justice in Palestine’s occupation of the college lawn. She is paid as a “fellow” by a group backed by George Soros. In January, she was detained for blocking the route of President Biden’s motorcade after he arrived in Dallas for the funeral of Johnson, her former boss.
At Yale, USCPR’s fellow Craig Birckhead-Morton was arrested Monday and charged with first-degree trespassing when SJP’s branch, Yalies4Palestine, occupied the school’s Beinecke Plaza, the Yale Daily News reported.
Birckhead-Morton — also a former intern for a Democrat, Maryland rep John Sarbanes — emerged from custody to address a sit-in blocking traffic in New Haven.
 At Yale, Craig Birckhead-Morton (circled) is paid up to $3,360 for his work encouraging protests. He was arrested for trespass Monday and charged with first-degree trespass.
The most high-profile of the fellows is Berkeley’s Malak Afaneh, co-president of the Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine.
She has been a serial speaker at an anti-Israel protest on the campus this week — which came after she first shot to prominence by hijacking a dinner at the law school dean’s home to shout anti-Israel slogans, then accused the dean’s wife of assaulting her when she asked the radical to leave.
 Serial protester Malak Afaneh is paid by the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights as a “fellow.” She has repeatedly spoken to an encampment of students at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is a law student.
 UC Berkeley law student Malak Afaneh speaks to a large crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters during a protest on the campus of UC Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., Monday, April 22, 2024. AP
The cash from Soros and his acolytes has been critical to the Columbia protests that set off the national copycat demonstrations.
Three groups set up the tent city on Columbia’s lawn last Wednesday: Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Within Our Lifetime.
At the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” students sleep in tents apparently ordered from Amazon and enjoy delivery pizza, coffee from Dunkin’, free sandwiches worth $12.50 from Pret a Manger, organic tortilla chips and $10 rotisserie chickens.
 Afaneh posted this video after hijacking a dinner to which she was invited by the dean of the law school and shouting anti-Israel slogans — then claimed she was the victim. TikTok/@realsairarao
An analysis by The Post shows that all three got cash from groups linked to Soros. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund also gave cash to JVP.
The fund is chaired by Joseph Pierson, and includes David Rockefeller Jr, a fourth-generation member of the oil dynasty, on its board of directors. The non-profit gives money to “sustainable development” and “peace-building.”
And a former Wall Street banker, Felice Gelman, a retired investment banker who has dedicated her Wall Street fortune to pro-Palestinian causes, funded all three groups.
 Free sandwiches from upscale takeout joint Pret a Manger are on offer at the encampment, worth up to $12, and $10 rotisserie chickens. Cash for the encampment has come from billionaire investor George Soros. NYPJ
Both SJP and JVP were expelled from Columbia University in November for “threatening rhetoric and intimidation.” JVP blamed Israel for the Oct 7 Hamas terrorist attack that left 1,200 Israelis dead.
“Israeli apartheid and occupation — and United States complicity in that oppression — are the source of all this violence,” JVP said in a statement on its website.
SJP called the terrorist strike on Israel “a historic win.”
 Also on offer for the thirsty anti-Israeli protesters camped out at Columbia is free coffee from Dunkin’. Behind the scenes, the groups organizing the encampment have received cash from Soros and another former Wall Street banker. NYPJ
An analysis by The Post shows how Soros and Gelman’s cash made its way to the students through a network of nonprofits that help obscure their contributions.
Soros has given billions to the Open Society Foundations which his son Alexander — whose partner is Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s top aide and the estranged wife of pervert Anthony Weiner — now controls.
In turn, Open Society has given more than $20 million to the Tides Foundation, a progressive nonprofit “fiscal sponsor” that then sends the cash to smaller groups.
 George Soros, the billionaire investor, is the ultimate source of cash for JVP and SJP, two of the groups encamped on Columbia’s lawn. It comes via a series of intermediaries. Andrew Toth
Those groups include A Jewish Voice for Peace, which between 2017 and 2022 has received $650,000 from Soros’ Open Society. Its advisers include the academic Noam Chomsky and the left-wing feminist author Naomi Klein.
JVP has been a prominent part of the protests at Columbia and one of its student members was among a group expelled from the university for inviting the leader of a proscribed terrorist group, Khaled, to the “Resistance 101” Zoom meeting.
Soros has also donated $132,000 to WESPAC, called in full the Westchester People’s Action Coalition Foundation.
 Soros’ Open Society Foundations is now controlled by his son Alexander. It has been the ultimate source of funds for all three groups that set up camp on the Columbia lawn.
The White Plains-based nonprofit was founded in 1974 to rally for civil rights and against the Vietnam War but is now a major funder of anti-Israel groups, including Within Our Lifetime and Students for Justice in Palestine.
SJP has also received funding from the Sparkplug Foundation, a New York-based nonprofit run by Gelman and her husband, Yoram Gelman.
The couple funneled their $20,000 donation to the group through WESPAC in 2022, according to public filings.
 Alexander Soros’ partner is Huma Abedin. The Hillary Clinton aide separated from her husband Anthony Weiner after he was caught sexting an underage girl. X/@humaabedin
Gelman was previously on WESPAC’s committee for Justice and Peace in the Middle East in 2009 when she was invited to Gaza by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, according to the group’s website.
The UN group has been slammed for its support of Hamas.
Gelman is on the board of the Bard Lifetime Learning Institute, an offshoot of the infamously progressive college, as well as the Jenin Freedom Theatre, located in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.
 David Rockefeller Jr., seen with daughter Ariana, is a fourth-generation scion of the Standard Oil fortune. He chaired the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which champions progressive causes until 2022. It is now chaired by Joseph Pierson. Paul Bruinooge/PatrickMcMullan.c
 Felice Gelman, a former Wall Street investment banker, gave Students for Justice in Palestine $20,000 through Sparkplug, her family foundation. Bard LLI
WESPAC president Howard Horowitz, a former Orthodox Jew, is a member of the New York chapter of JVP, which says it works for “advocacy and public education for Palestinian human rights.”
Horowitz said he embraced the Palestinian cause after time spent living in Israel, according to a report in the Israel Times.
WESPAC has also given money to Within Our Lifetime, founded by the ubiquitous anti-Israeli protester Nerdeen Kiswani.
 Howard Horowitz, a former Orthodox Jew from New York, is the longtime leader of WESPAC, which funds radical anti-Israel groups, including Students for Justice in Palestine. 914Wired/ YouTube
Within our Lifetime uses a loophole in the law to avoid declaring how much it receives from donors by not being a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, meaning it is unknown how Kiswani has benefited.
However, WESPAC is named as a fiscal sponsor of Within Our Lifetime.
After The Post published our story, an Open Society Foundations spokesperson said: “For the record, Open Society Foundations has a long history of fighting antisemitism, islamophobia and all forms of racism and hate.
“Open Society has funded a broad spectrum of US groups that have advocated for the rights of Palestinians and Israelis and for peaceful resolution to the conflict in Israel and the OPT.
“This funding is a matter of public record, disclosed on our website, fully compliant with US laws, and is part of our commitment to continuing open debate that is ultimately the only hope for peace in the region.
“The Open Society Foundations proudly support the right of all citizens to peaceful protest — a bedrock principle of our democracy.”
None of the other groups responded to requests by The Post for comment.
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by Robert Williams
4June2024 https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20680/funding-pro-hamas-protests
- Rather more jarring is that the Biden administration, and therefore taxpayer money, is also funding the protests, through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
- “U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference and Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee… discussed oversight findings from the EPW Committee that revealed a $50 million grant was awarded from the EPA through the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to ‘Climate Justice Alliance,’ a group that engages in pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic activities.” — US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, May 21, 2024.
- “[We] went to the website of Climate Justice Alliance. This is what we found on the website that our taxpayer dollars are going to organizations such as this. This, at the bottom, is a picture of the bulldozer that went through the fence when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.” — Senator Shelley Moore Capito, May 21, 2024.
- The People’s Forum’s executive director Manolo De Los Santos called for the complete destruction of the United States at the conference to great applause: “We have to bring down this empire with one million cuts, and those one million cuts have to come from every sector of struggle in this room.”
- Terrorists and their billionaire, as well as less-affluent supporters, are actively conspiring to destroy the US with the backing of foreign powers — and very little, if anything, is being done to stop it.
The answers to the question of who is funding the groups behind the pro-Hamas, anti-Israeli protests on US campuses, continue to grow in complexity. It appears that a multitude of donors are falling over each other to help promote the cause of the officially designated terrorist group, Hamas – whose openly stated aim is the destruction of Israel and the Jews — to impressionable young students and the public at large.
Politico revealed — to those who still had doubts — that many of the people bankrolling the campus protests are the same as Biden’s largest donors. They include Democratic mega-donors George Soros, and David Rockefeller Jr. of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Both have donated to anti-Israeli groups through the Tides Foundation, once described as a “charitable money laundering” organization. It sponsors anti-Israeli groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow, both of which are active in the protests. In addition, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund has given nearly $500,000 directly to Jewish Voice for Peace over the past five years, and donated to the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR).
Hamas-affiliated Professor Hatem Bazian, a founder of Students for Justice in Palestine and chairman of American Muslims for Palestine, calls himself “an ally and partner with Jewish Voice for Peace.” Bazian began calling for an intifada in the US at least 20 years ago.
The Libra Foundation, founded by Democratic megadonors Susan and Nick Pritzker, heirs to the Hyatt hotel empire, has also donated money to organizations behind the protests, including Solidaire Network. According to Influence Watch:
[Susan] Pritzker is board treasurer of Solidaire Network, a left-of-center donor group supporting race, gender, and climate based causes. Its 10-year strategy is “a roadmap to liberate wealth for movements to build lasting left power in the United States.”
Rather more jarring is that the Biden administration, and therefore taxpayer money, is also funding the protests, through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
“U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference and Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee… discussed oversight findings from the EPW Committee that revealed a $50 million grant was awarded from the EPA through the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to ‘Climate Justice Alliance,’ a group that engages in pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic activities.”
According to Moore Capito:
“[We] went to the website of Climate Justice Alliance. This is what we found on the website that our taxpayer dollars are going to organizations such as this. This, at the bottom, is a picture of the bulldozer that went through the fence when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7. They have a rendering on their website, it says ‘Decolonize Palestine’ and it has a picture of that same bulldozer going through that fence.
“If you dig deeper. They want to defund the police, defund the military, either them or their affiliates, want to have very radical, drastic initiatives that I think are anti-American, and they’re certainly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic. So, the Biden administration doesn’t seem to care. $50 million dollars in December, who knows how much more in the future and other like groups because there are other associated groups with this group… all they care about is the mission, the climate mission, no matter what the radical ideas that are associated with the groups.”
Foreign actors are involved behind the scenes to foment chaos and reap the benefits of a United States in turmoil: China, for instance, is maneuvering by means of an organization named Code Pink, which has been highly active in demonstrations, sit-ins and harassment of members of the pro-Israel camp.
According to the New York Times, American millionaire Neville Roy Singham, “works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide.” He does so through a web of organizations and in a mix of “progressive advocacy with Chinese government talking points.” The Times describes how Code Pink went from criticizing China’s human rights violations to defending its reportedly genocidal treatment of Muslim Uyghurs after Singham, in 2017, married Jodie Evans, the co-founder of Code Pink. Singham, a long-time admirer of Mao Zedong, lives in Shanghai, where he helps promote the Chinese Communist Party. His wife ardently defends China. “If the U.S. crushes China,” she said in 2021, it “would cut off hope for the human race and life on Earth.” Code Pink is currently under investigation by the House Committee on Natural Resources for its ties to the CCP.
Singham is also the primary sponsor of the People’s Forum, which has helped organize many anti-Israel walkouts in New York City public schools – telling students to chant the slogan advocating the destruction of Israel: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
Significantly, the People’s Forum was behind the recent three-day conference in Detroit, “People’s Conference for Palestine”. The event featured Wissam Rafidi, a member of the terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) — a US designated terrorist entity — who said that “there is no longer a place for a two-state solution for any Palestinian. The only solution is one democratic Palestinian land which will end the Zionist project in Palestine.”
Sana’ Daqqa, the wife of late PFLP terrorist Walid Daqqa — who served a life sentence in prison for kidnapping and murdering an Israeli soldier — praised the US campus protests, and then said, referring to the October 7 massacre, in Arabic called “Al-Aqsa Flood”:
“The only thing that can stop this is a flood…. This is what the resistance intended, that the flood would become floods throughout the entire region.”
US Representative Rashida Tlaib was also at the conference, where she called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “murderous war criminal”. The People’s Forum’s executive director Manolo De Los Santos called for the complete destruction of the United States at the conference to great applause:
“We have to bring down this empire with one million cuts, and those one million cuts have to come from every sector of struggle in this room. I know all of you in this movement are exhausted… but it is not about gathering and talking. It is about transforming that work into action.”
Terrorists and their billionaire, as well as less-affluent supporters, are actively conspiring to destroy the US with the backing of foreign powers — and very little, if anything, is being done to stop it.
Meanwhile, at the end of May, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei thanked and praised the pro-Hamas protesters on US campuses.
“Dear university students in the United States of America, you are standing on the right side of history.
“You have now formed a branch of the Resistance Front and have begun an honorable struggle in the face of your government’s ruthless pressure – which openly supports Zionists.”
Khamenei then added:
“Dear university students in the US, my advice to you is to become familiar with the Quran.”
Robert Williams is a researcher based in the United States.
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A battle for justice.
20June2024 by Hugh Fitzgerald https://www.frontpagemag.com/lawsuit-by-october-7-victims-against-two-pro-palestinian-groups/
There is no point in invoking morality, decency, or any suchlike stuff, in appealing to the pro-Palestinian groups that have been spewing their antisemitic venom on campuses from sea to shining sea to cease and desist. But a just-announced lawsuit against two of those groups could lead to a possible hit to their pocketbook, and that’s another matter. That will get their attention. That will fill them with anxiety. And so will another possible outcome of that lawsuit: both the groups, and those of their officers who are non-citizens, could also face expulsion from the country.
Now a group of nine victims of Hamas’ attacks on October 7 are suing two of the most important anti-Israel groups on American campuses, the umbrella groups National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJUP) and American Muslims For Palestine (AMP), for aiding Hamas as “collaborators and propagandists.” More on their lawsuit, which will bring great grief to both NSJUP and AMP, including possibly bankrupting both groups and their officers, as well as leading to the expulsion of both groups from the United States, can be found here: “Israeli Terror Victims Sue Anti-Semitic Campus Groups for Aiding Hamas,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, May 2, 2024:
Israeli victims of Hamas’s Oct. 7th terror spree are suing two anti-Israel campus groups, alleging they are partially liable for the attack due to their role “as collaborators and propagandists for Hamas.”
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. district court Wednesday, seeks damages for nine American and Israeli victims of Hamas’s unprecedented terror assault. It targets two campus umbrella groups—American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP)—that are responsible for fomenting a tidal wave of antisemitic protests on college campuses across the country.
The suit marks the first time terror victims are taking aim at campus anti-Israel groups for their alleged role in bolstering Hamas propaganda on campus and driving a series of increasingly violent protests that have endangered Jewish college students across the country.
“Survivors of Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack, family members of those murdered by Hamas, civilians still under fire from Hamas’s ongoing terrorism, and persons displaced by Hamas’s ongoing terrorism have been, and continue to be, injured because AMP and NSJP knowingly provide continuous, systematic, and substantial assistance to Hamas and its affiliates’ acts of international terrorism,” the lawsuit states.
In a joint statement, the terror victims and their families said the AMP and NSJP should be held legally liable for Hamas’s terror campaign and face expulsion from the United States….
Arsen Ostrovsky, an attorney and CEO of the International Legal Forum, one of several groups supporting the lawsuit, said that NSJP “has effectively become the U.S. campus arm of Hamas.” The suit is jointly being handled by Greenberg Traurig, the National Jewish Advocacy Center, Schoen Law Firm, and Holtzman Vogel.
These groups are “directly aiding and abetting the terror group on American colleges, and facilitating the conditions necessary for Hamas to continue carrying out acts of terror and the holding of hostages, including American nationals,” Ostrovsky said. “Enough is enough, we must bring to justice not only the perpetrators of the most heinous massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, but hold accountable all those who enable, support, and collaborate with them, like NSJP and AMP.”
The legal team arrayed against the Hamas “collaborators” AMP and JSJP is formidable. It is led by lawyers from Greenberg Traurig, one of the biggest firms in the world, with 2750 lawyers. It should not be hard for those seasoned lawyers — who are going to be relentless, because for them, given their backgrounds, far more than billable hours are at stake — to prove that both groups have aided and abetted Hamas, providing It on hundreds of campuses with moral and political support, justifying and praising the October 7 atrocities, vilifying Israel, and acting as propagandists for the likes of Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh.
A world of woe awaits AMP and NSJP in the courtroom. It will be a pleasure to observe.
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The US saw a 103% increase in incidents fueled by Gaza war, a global report for 2023 shows, while France stands out with near-quadrupling of cases
By Canaan Lidor
5May2024, 11:07 am Updated at 1:05 pmhttps://www.timesofisrael.com/in-global-surge-of-antisemitism-france-stands-out-with-near-quadrupling-of-cases/
 Thousands gather for a march against antisemitism in Paris, France, November 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Sylvie Corbet)
In 2023, France registered the highest increase in recorded antisemitic incidents of any country with reliable statistics, according to data released in a new report that warned that current trends could threaten the very “ability to lead Jewish lives in the West.”
Published Sunday by Tel Aviv University and the Anti-Defamation League, the report showed a near-quadrupling of incidents in France, from 436 in 2022 to 1,676 last year. It also highlighted antisemitism on US campuses, which the head of the ADL called the “most alarming” aspect of the surge of Jew-hatred in the United States.
Of last year’s antisemitic incidents in France, the tally showed that 74% happened after October 7, when invading Hamas terrorists killed some 1,200 people in Israel and abducted another 253, triggering a still-ongoing military campaign by Israel in Gaza and daily exchanges of fire with Hezbollah along the border with Lebanon.
In the United States, the tally more than doubled, from 3,697 incidents in 2022 to 7,523 last year, with 52% of the 2023 total occurring after October 7. In Canada, the increase was from 65 to 132; in the United Kingdom from 1,662 to 4,103; in Germany from 2,639 to 3,614, and in Italy from 241 to 454.
On an incident-per-capita basis, French Jews, who according to the report number about 440,000, were three times likelier to experience an antisemitic attack than Jews in the US, whose population the report estimates at 6 million.
“For those whose views serve an anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist ideological and instrumentalist purpose, October 7 was a golden opportunity to advance further their hateful and racist fringe perspectives into mainstream conservative discourse, using it to attack rivals, mobilize supporters and attract new followers,” wrote the authors of the US chapter of the report, which is titled “Antisemitism Worldwide Report for 2023.”
 Illustrative: Anti-Israel protesters call for an intifada at a protest in New York City, September 17, 2021. (Luke Tress/Flash90)
The authors of the chapter on France interviewed Jonas Jacquelin, the rabbi of the Copernic Street Synagogue, the first Reform synagogue in France. He does not wear his kippa on the street, partly because he was raised not to and in part because he does not want to provoke antisemitic attacks, the authors wrote.
“The year is not 1938, not even 1933,” Prof. Uriya Shavit, head of The Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and the Irwin Cotler Institute, wrote in a press release. “Yet if current trends continue, the curtain will descend on the ability to lead Jewish lives in the West – to wear a Star of David, attend synagogues and community centers, send kids to Jewish schools, frequent a Jewish club on campus, or speak Hebrew.”
The 148-page report features an essay devoted to antisemitism on US campuses, where the ADL recorded 913 incidents in 2023, or 12% of the annual tally for the entire country.
“Antisemitism today seems to have taken firm root in the academy,” the author of that essay, Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn, wrote.
On campuses across the US, anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian students have staged demonstrations that included the occupation of campus buildings and other disruptions and led to clashes with police, who have arrested hundreds of student protesters. A standoff at Columbia University in New York City between police and students occupying campus grounds ended in fresh arrests last week.
 A car with smashed windows and anti-Israel graffiti reading ‘Intifada’ and ‘Free Gaza’ is seen at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon on May 2, 2024. (John Rudoff/AFP)
“Jewish and pro-Israel students have been physically assaulted, verbally harassed, bullied online, and generally made to feel unsafe on campus, while Jewish fraternities, Hillel and Chabad houses, and even dorm rooms have been vandalized,” Hirschhorn added.
Nearly 75% of American university students have said they experienced or witnessed some form of antisemitism since the academic year began, the ADL report notes.
“All this occurred as the leadership of academia fell silent, particularly at America’s most elite universities,” wrote Hirschhorn. She connected that reality, as she described it, to ethnic studies and discourses that vilify Jews and Israel as colonialist or oppressive; prevailing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) frameworks that fail to account for antisemitism; and Qatari and other funding from the Middle East.
“By dint of their affiliations, campuses sponsored by despotic and anti-Zionist regimes are sometimes silent partners to rampant human rights abuses and illiberal agendas,” Hirschhorn wrote.
 Jonathan Greenblatt participates in a panel during the TAAF Heritage Month Summit at The Glasshouse on May 5, 2023 in New York City. (JP Yim/Getty Images via AFP)
In his essay in the report, Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the ADL, called the proliferation of antisemitism on US university campuses the “most alarming” aspect of the national surge of Jew-hatred after October 7.
“We have seen instances where Jewish students barricaded themselves in a library because a pro-Palestinian mob was outside. We have heard stories of students being afraid to cross their campuses at night for fear of being attacked, or attending Shabbat dinners at their Hillels with armed guards posted at the doors,” wrote Greenblatt.
These and other events on US campuses, he added, mean that “the Jewish community is facing a crisis unseen in generations.”
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Shai Davidai-tweet-8May2024-In Our Name
Hundreds of Jewish students at @Columbia just published one of the most incredible student letters I have ever read.
It’s not only magnificently written, but it also clearly articulates their experiences on campus for the past six months.
Their letter tells the story of what’s it like being a Jewish student right now better than any professor like myself could ever do.
Please take 4-5 minutes to read their letter.
Give Jewish students a voice.
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/e/2PACX-1vRQgyDhIjZupO2H-2rIDXLy_zkf76RoM-_ZIYsOfn9FkI7TETgRtOfXK9VobMvGh6iEZfDPgALXJTCR/pub?pli=1
 Shai Davidai-tweet-8May2024-In Our Name
In Our Name: A Message from Jewish Students at Columbia University
To the Columbia Community:
Over the past six months, many have spoken in our name. Some are well-meaning alumni or non-affiliates who show up to wave the Israeli flag outside Columbia’s gates. Some are politicians looking to use our experiences to foment America’s culture war. Most notably, some are our Jewish peers who tokenize themselves by claiming to represent “real Jewish values,” and attempt to delegitimize our lived experiences of antisemitism. We are here, writing to you as Jewish students at Columbia University, who are connected to our community and deeply engaged with our culture and history. We would like to speak in our name.
Many of us sit next to you in class. We are your lab partners, your study buddies, your peers, and your friends. We partake in the same student government, clubs, Greek life, volunteer organizations, and sports teams as you.
Most of us did not choose to be political activists. We do not bang on drums and chant catchy slogans. We are average students, just trying to make it through finals much like the rest of you. Those who demonize us under the cloak of anti-Zionism forced us into our activism and forced us to publicly defend our Jewish identities.
We proudly believe in the Jewish People’s right to self-determination in our historic homeland as a fundamental tenet of our Jewish identity. Contrary to what many have tried to sell you – no, Judaism cannot be separated from Israel. Zionism is, simply put, the manifestation of that belief.
Our religious texts are replete with references to Israel, Zion, and Jerusalem. The land of Israel is filled with archaeological remnants of a Jewish presence spanning centuries. Yet, despite generations of living in exile and diaspora across the globe, the Jewish People never ceased dreaming of returning to our homeland — Judea, the very place from which we derive our name, “Jews.” Indeed just a couple of days ago, we all closed our Passover seders with the proclamation, “Next Year in Jerusalem!”
Many of us are not religiously observant, yet Zionism remains a pillar of our Jewish identities. We have been kicked out of Russia, Libya, Ethiopia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Poland, Egypt, Algeria, Germany, Iran, and the list goes on. We connect to Israel not only as our ancestral homeland but as the only place in the modern world where Jews can safely take ownership of their own destiny. Our experiences at Columbia in the last six months are a poignant reminder of just that.
We were raised on stories from our grandparents of concentration camps, gas chambers, and ethnic cleansing. The essence of Hitler’s antisemitism was the very fact that we were “not European” enough, that as Jews we were threats to the “superior” Aryan race. This ideology ultimately left six million of our own in ashes.
The evil irony of today’s antisemitism is a twisted reversal of our Holocaust legacy; protestors on campus have dehumanized us, imposing upon us the characterization of the “white colonizer.” We have been told that we are “the oppressors of all brown people” and that “the Holocaust wasn’t special.” Students at Columbia have chanted “we don’t want no Zionists here,” alongside “death to the Zionist State” and to “go back to Poland,” where our relatives lie in mass graves.
This sick distortion illuminates the nature of antisemitism: In every generation, the Jewish People are blamed and scapegoated as responsible for the societal evil of the time. In Iran and in the Arab world, we were ethnically cleansed for our presumed ties to the “Zionist entity.” In Russia, we endured state-sponsored violence and were ultimately massacred for being capitalists. In Europe, we were the victims of genocide because we were communists and not European enough. And today, we face the accusation of being too European, painted as society’s worst evils – colonizers and oppressors. We are targeted for our belief that Israel, our ancestral and religious homeland, has a right to exist. We are targeted by those who misuse the word Zionist as a sanitized slur for Jew, synonymous with racist, oppressive, or genocidal. We know all too well that antisemitism is shapeshifting.
We are proud of Israel. The only democracy in the Middle East, Israel is home to millions of Mizrachi Jews (Jews of Middle Eastern descent), Ashkenazi Jews (Jews of Central and Eastern European descent), and Ethiopian Jews, as well as millions of Arab Israelis, over one million Muslims, and hundreds of thousands of Christians and Druze. Israel is nothing short of a miracle for the Jewish People and for the Middle East more broadly.
Our love for Israel does not necessitate blind political conformity. It’s quite the opposite. For many of us, it is our deep love for and commitment to Israel that pushes us to object when its government acts in ways we find problematic. Israeli political disagreement is an inherently Zionist activity; look no further than the protests against Netanyahu’s judicial reforms – from New York to Tel Aviv – to understand what it means to fight for the Israel we imagine. All it takes are a couple of coffee chats with us to realize that our visions for Israel differ dramatically from one another. Yet we all come from a place of love and an aspiration for a better future for Israelis and Palestinians alike.
If the last six months on campus have taught us anything, it is that a large and vocal population of the Columbia community does not understand the meaning of Zionism, and subsequently does not understand the essence of the Jewish People. Yet despite the fact that we have been calling out the antisemitism we’ve been experiencing for months, our concerns have been brushed off and invalidated. So here we are to remind you:
We sounded the alarm on October 12 when many protested against Israel while our friends’ and families’ dead bodies were still warm.
We recoiled when people screamed “resist by any means necessary,” telling us we are “all inbred” and that we “have no culture.”
We shuddered when an “activist” held up a sign telling Jewish students they were Hamas’s next targets, and we shook our heads in disbelief when Sidechat users told us we were lying.
We ultimately were not surprised when a leader of the CUAD encampment said publicly and proudly that “Zionists don’t deserve to live” and that we’re lucky they are “not just going out and murdering Zionists.”
We felt helpless when we watched students and faculty physically block Jewish students from entering parts of the campus we share, or even when they turned their faces away in silence. This silence is familiar. We will never forget.
One thing is for sure. We will not stop standing up for ourselves. We are proud to be Jews, and we are proud to be Zionists.
We came to Columbia because we wanted to expand our minds and engage in complex conversations. While campus may be riddled with hateful rhetoric and simplistic binaries now, it is never too late to start repairing the fractures and begin developing meaningful relationships across political and religious divides. Our tradition tells us, “Love peace and pursue peace.” We hope you will join us in earnestly pursuing peace, truth, and empathy. Together we can repair our campus.
Signed:
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Eliana Goldin, GS/JTS ’26
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Elisha Baker, CC, ’26
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Eden Yadegar, GS/JTS ’25
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Rivka Yellin, Barnard ‘26
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David Hidary, CC, ’26
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Natan Rosenbaum, Columbia School of General Studies ‘26
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Jesse Spear, GS 26
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Amiel Nelson, General Studies ‘27
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David Tarrab, SEAS ‘27
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Nicholas Baum, General Studies/JTS ‘27
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Daniella Coen, GS ‘24
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Rosie Alchalel, Barnard ‘26
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Robbie Fox, CC ‘24
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Stephanie Tarrab, SEAS ‘25
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Charlotte Roiter, Columbia/JTS ’26
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Jonathan Lederer, CC, ’26
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Benjamin Trau, Columbia ‘26
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Daniel Katz CC’27
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Michael Pagovich, GS/JTS
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Gabriel Nelson, CC ‘27
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Tova Segal, Barnard/JTS, ’25
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Shira Weiss-Ishai, GS/JTS ‘27
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Eliana Wagner , CLS ‘26
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Ayelet Glaser, Barnard ‘24
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Adam Vogt, General Studies ’24
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Rachel Halpern, Barnard ‘26
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Rebecca Kalimi, Barnard ‘23
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Mariana Lederman, Teachers College ‘24
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Cecile Toussaint, School of General Studies, 2024
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Jonathan Rosen, Columbia ‘25
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Daniel Kroll, Columbia 24
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Josef Korich, SEAS ’27
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Rachel Lisbona, general studies, 2025
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Alice Loiferman, Barnard ‘27
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Jamie Cappell law school 24
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Jonny Rosen GS/JTS ‘25
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Menachem Weiss, Columbia Law ’24
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Talia Rabban, Barnard ‘25
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Jacob Schmeltz, Columbia College ‘24
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Shira Eisman, GSAS ‘26
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Austin Stoll, GS ’24
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GSAPP, 2024
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Jordan Sumberg GS/JTS ‘27
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Haley Wiener, Barnard ‘24
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Danya Gewurz, Barnard ‘24
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Maytal Polonetsky, Barnard ‘27
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Kyra Weisberger, Barnard ‘27
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Beth Kahn ‘25
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Jake Schwalbe, Columbia ‘24
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Talia Bodner, GS/JTS ‘27
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Bo Kizildag, Columbia ‘25
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Lily Penn, GS/JTS ‘25
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Matthew Meltzer, CLS ’25
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Asher Strell Columbia school of General Studies 26
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GF, Barnard ‘24
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Dore Feith, LAW ‘25
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Kendall Bender, Columbia Law School ‘24
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Jessica Yeroshalmi, Columbia Law School ’26
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Ron Chalamish, GS, 26
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Brandon Rosenberg, Columbia Law School ‘24
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Jaime Israel CLS ‘24
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Raphael Kepecs, SEAS ’27
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Shiri Gil, GS, ‘25
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Maya Jamil, GS ‘26
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Jonathan Shapiro, CC ‘18, LAW ‘25
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Laura Bellows, Barnard/JTS ‘27
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Lior Kreindler, Biomedical Engineering PhD
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Bar Maman, GS ’26
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Avital Kobrin, Barnard ‘27
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Inbar Brand, GS/TAU ’25
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Jacob Dubin, CLS ‘25
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Gabriel Kahane, General Studies, ‘26
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Jessica Weinfeld, CC ‘27
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Noa Siegel, GS ‘24
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David Lederer, SEAS, ‘26
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Parker De Dekér Cabral-Vásquez, Columbia College ’27
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Alix Gilkarov, GS/JTS ‘26
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Liv Shalom, Columbia ‘26
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Sheina Benzaquen, General Studies ‘25
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Mark Kava, Law School ‘26
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Daniel F. CLS ‘24
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AR, Law ‘24
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Dina Herzig, Columbia Law School ‘25
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Stella Vayner, Columbia Engineering, 2026
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Jonah Chill, Columbia Law School, ‘26
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Victoria Kontsevich, General Studies ‘24
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Maytal Rahimzada, Teachers College Columbia University ’25
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Olya Skulovich, PhD, ‘24, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
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Ezra Dayanim, GS/JTS ‘24
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Marc Nock, Mailman MPH ’24
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Moshe Gershenfeld, Columbia Law School ‘24
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Liam Schorr, GS/JTS ‘27
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Franziska Sittig, GSAS ‘24
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Aryeh Krischer, Columbia, ’26
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Lihi Tal, GS ‘25
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Jessica Major, Columbia School of Social Work, ‘25
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Daniel Becker, GS Tel Aviv Dual-Degree ‘25
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Sharon Nagy, Tau-Columbia 28‘
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Eliana Steinlauf, Barnard ’24
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Emily Bejerano, SEAS PhD ‘27
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Benjamin Hadar, CSSW ’25
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Ilana Goldstein, Barnard/JTS, ’26
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Katie Friedman, TAU GS ’25
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Danielle Dorfman, Barnard ’24
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Daniella Davis, GS, 2027
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Mikael Rochman, GS 25’
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Sarah Cohen, SIPA ‘25
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Maya Gal, GS/TAU ‘24
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JerusalemCats Comments: This is Important!
Natan Sharansky: A landmark letter from 500 Jews at Columbia University
 Natan Sharansky, Former Jewish Agency Chairman
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/natan-anatoly-sharansky 
A letter from 500 Jews at Columbia University may be a landmark in the struggle to escape a stifling regime of doublethink and ensure the American Jewish future through proud and open dissent
by Natan Sharansky
May 28, 2024 https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/500-jewish-students-columbia-university
 Columbia University, April 29, 2024 SOPA Images Limited/Alamy
Twenty years ago, just after the second intifada, I went on a tour of American and Canadian campuses. Shaken by what I saw and heard, I told (then) Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that the major battle for the future of American Jewry will be fought on campuses. So disturbed was I by this visit, that I titled the article I wrote about it in the Hebrew press “a journey into occupied territory.”
The “occupiers” in my metaphor were the centers for Middle East studies that had sprouted like mushrooms in American universities to spread anti-Zionist propaganda. Their influence was palpable, not only in events they organized, but also in their effect on the Jewish students I met. While many expressed deep solidarity with Israel and support for its struggle against terror, a few young men and women told me that for them, as liberal Jews, it would be better if Israel didn’t exist. “Then,” they told me, “I won’t be perceived as responsible for such awful crimes.”
Such statements, which foreshadowed attempts by groups like Jewish Voice for Peace to dissociate themselves from Israel, didn’t concern me as much as yet another, and far more alarming, set of statements. People who wish to fully sever their association with Israel neither reflect nor sway the sentiments and opinions of the overwhelming majority of American Jews. No, the statements that concerned me and led me to speak of occupation and battlefields were the many variations I heard on one young woman’s quietly spoken and regretful admission that she would very much like to speak against divestment and other anti-Israel measures, but she couldn’t. Her professors won’t like it, she told me. It would harm her future career.
“The ideological regime of antisemitism that has entrenched itself in America’s universities will only collapse when enough Jews stop being afraid and stop unwillingly aiding it by hiding and self-censoring.”
Dear Lord, I thought, when I first heard these words. We are not in the Moscow of my youth, where one’s career depended on pretending to buy the Soviet credo hook, line and sinker! Yet the more students I met, the more I heard of similar, stifling concerns. Having grown up in the Soviet Union, I knew very well how catching and pervasive self-censorship can become. No one will need to “occupy” the campuses physically if the Jewish students will carry out their own occupation themselves by growing too afraid to speak their own truths.
Totalitarian societies survive by relying on a core of true believers to frighten even those who don’t buy the ideological party line into becoming “doublethinkers”—people who adhere to the party line in public regardless of their private thoughts—rather than outright dissidents. In the normal course of events, the percentage of doublethinkers is always on the rise, as more and more people grow disillusioned with the false promises of the regime yet continue to pledge allegiance to it out of fear instead of faith. The regime controls them not through their own convictions but through the power its institutions hold over their lives, livelihoods, and safety. In other words, it controls them by frightening them into censoring themselves on the regime’s behalf.
Of course America is a free country and not a totalitarian regime. However, it was impossible to miss the resemblance between the culture I encountered in the American academy 20 years ago and the Soviet worldview of my youth. Like the Communist party (following Marx), more and more people started dividing the world into oppressors (read: always bad, always in the wrong) and oppressed (read: always in the right), and claiming that whoever belonged to the first camp wasn’t worthy of the same rights, freedoms, and protections as the latter. Since Israel and successful “white” Jews elsewhere were a priori classified as oppressors, hating and indeed abusing them became less and less taboo.
In the past 20 years, the ideologues of this new antisemitism continued to pour their fervor into demonizing Israel, and to use every tool at their disposal to press the majority of American Jews who don’t believe their lies into becoming doublethinkers. They made it more and more difficult to get a public position in a student body for students who supported Israel or even visited it on a Birthright trip. They gaslighted Jewish students who spoke about their personal experiences of antisemitism by telling them that what they experienced was really “only” and “legitimate” anti-Zionism, putting them on the defensive for their so called “alarmism” and “rejection of legitimate criticism.” More and more Jewish students found that standing up for their beliefs marked them for discrimination and harassment. Jewish students found themselves unwilling doublethinkers in the very places that are supposed to be the bedrock and bastion of free society.
After Oct. 7, the campaign to vilify Israel and scare its potential supporters on campuses has exploded into the open. Explicit antisemitism became legitimate and accepted on many American campuses, as so-called “anti-Zionism” revealed itself to be a flimsy cover for unadorned antisemitism. At Drexel University, “anti-Zionist” protesters demanded that the university sever its association with Hillel and Chabad, eliminating Jewish life on campus. At the University of Toronto and other campuses, protesters proudly recite classic antisemitic canards about Jewish control of the banks and the press while calling for genocide and praising Hitler. At UCLA, the university administration reached an agreement with protesters allowing them to bar students with the “wrong” opinions—i.e., Jews—from campus. At Columbia, a leader of the student protests expressed his personal desire to kill Jews.
None of these are isolated incidents; they are in fact true expressions of what “anti-Zionism” means to its proponents, namely, to drive Jewish students and professors off campus or at the very least to force them to live in disguise. Jews are now routinely warned not to speak Hebrew or wear a kippa on campuses for their own protection, while their would-be harassers are lauded as heroes and are at best given slaps on the wrist which are revoked weeks or days later, when presumably fewer people are watching (imagine the outrage if female students were warned not to dress immodestly on campus for their own protection, while their would-be harassers were lauded as heroes!). A flat denial of Israel’s right to exist became an axiom that goes without saying. Surrounded by classmates and professors who celebrate the worst violations of human rights in recent history—Hamas’ horrific massacre on Oct. 7—as a legitimate step toward liberation, the Jewish students are left to fend for themselves, abandoned by the progressive allies that Jewish institutions and individuals supported unquestioningly in their own hours of need.
The occupation of the campuses, which 20 years ago was but a metaphor, has become a real movement with funding, leadership, and physical presence. Young Jews no longer face ostensible threats against their professional futures; they face daily threats against their physical safety and the core of their identities as Jews and as human beings.
It was into this foul atmosphere that Columbia’s Jewish students wrote their letter. Five hundred of Columbia’s Jewish students declared that they won’t be cowed by the haters, that they reject the attacks against their Jewish identity, and that Zionism is a part of Jewish identity. They called out their haters for the antisemites they are, and the administration of the university for downplaying and mishandling the attacks that target Jews. They flatly rejected attempts to victim-blame the Jews for the hatred that targets them. Most remarkably, they all signed the letter with their full names, proudly and openly, shedding the self-censorship and silence of the doublethinker for the proud stance of the dissident. In the days since then, more and more Jews added their names to this list.
When I was a dissident in the USSR, my friends and I knew well that a revolution can only start when a critical mass of doublethinkers stops being afraid and crosses the line into open dissent. Only when the masses lose their fear and drop the mask of pretense, can they lead their society into a different future. It was true in the USSR, and it is true today: The ideological regime of antisemitism that has entrenched itself in America’s universities for decades will only collapse when enough Jews stop being afraid. It will only collapse if they stop unwillingly aiding it by hiding and self-censoring, and instead speak their truths openly and loudly.
When we were fighting the USSR from within, we estimated that once approximately a fifth of the population will transform from doublethinkers into dissidents, the authorities will no longer be able to contain the spread of free thought. Heartwarmingly, more than a fifth of the Jews of Columbia University have already signed the letter that marks them as dissidents to the reigning ideological regime. I hope that our estimations decades ago about the tipping point from oppression to revolution will prove right in the case of this revolution as well.
The next year will likely be as tough for Jews on campus as this one. Of course, in democratic America there are many tools that can be used to fight antisemitism: going to court, encouraging hearings in Congress, using the press to unmask the dangerous actors who finance the new antisemitic waves, and so forth. But in order to defend your rights, you have to first define and claim them. Until America’s Jewish students publicly claim their right to their Jewish and Zionist identity, they will continue to fight at a disadvantage.
However, if the Jewish students of Cornell, Stanford, Harvard, and the other campuses will join Columbia’s Jews in their public statement, they stand a chance to do more than stand up for their own truths—they stand a real chance to revolutionize the campuses, defeat the antisemitic forces that have occupied them, and win the battle for American Jewry’s future.
Dear Jewish students of America, today, you are on the front line. The future of American Jewry, and maybe even America itself, is in your hands. Be brave.
Natan Sharansky is a former political prisoner in the Soviet Union, former minister in Israeli governments, former Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel, and Chair of the Advisory Board of ISGAP (Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy) and CAM (Combat Antisemitism Movement), and founder and Chair of the Adelson Shlihut Institute of the Jewish Agency.
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 the Jewish Virtual Library. logo https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org (1948 – )
 Natan Sharansky, Former Jewish Agency Chairman https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/natan-anatoly-sharansky
Natan Sharansky is one of the most famous former Soviet refusniks and an Israeli politician, author and human rights activist.
Sharansky (born January 20, 1948) was born and raised in the Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), and graduated with a degree in mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Early on, Sharansky got associated with the human rights movement when he became an English interpreter for Andrei Sakharov. Later, Sharansky emerged in his own right as one of the foremost dissidents and spokesmen for the Soviet Jewry movement.<
In 1973, Sharansky applied for an exit visa to Israel, but was refused on “security” grounds. Following this denial, Sharansky became more overtly involved with the refusnik movement and became an activist for Soviet Jews.
He remained prominently involved in Jewish refusenik activities until his arrest in 1977. In 1978, Sharansky was convicted of treason and spying on behalf of the United States, and was sentenced to thirteen years imprisonment in a Siberian forced labor camp. For the first 16 months of his sentennce he was held in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison, frequently in solitary confinement and in a special “torture cell,” before being transferred to a notorious prison camp in the Siberian gulag.
Years after his release, Sharansky stressed the need he maintained throughout his imprisonment to remain emotionally independent. He attributed his survival of the lengthy incarceration and the brutal conditions to his resistance to any sort of emotional surrender. Hence Sharansky’s expression of the paradox that while an ordinary Russian, he was in fact a slave to the system; but that once he discovered his Jewish roots and was restricted for his allegiance to them, he was in reality a free man. Sharansky’s memoirs of his years as a prisoner of Zion are described in his book Fear No Evil.
 Natan Sharansky, with wife Avital, thank President Ronald Reagan after his release from Soviet prison in 1986. (Photo By Nati Harnik,cuurtesy of the Israel Government Press Office(2/11/86)
During the years of his imprisonment, Sharansky became a symbol for human rights in general and Soviet Jewry in particular.
A campaign for his release was waged tirelessly by his wife, Avital, who emigrated to Israel immediately following their wedding with the hope that her husband would follow shortly. Intense diplomatic efforts and public outcries for his release were unsuccessful until 1986, when Sharansky was released as part of an East-West prisoner exchange. Sharansky became the first political prisoner ever released by Mikhail Gorbachev due to intense political pressure from Ronald Reagan and the United States.
Freed on the border of a still-divided Germany, he was met by the Israeli ambassador who presented him immediately with his new Israeli passport under the Hebrew name of Natan Sharansky.
He arrived in Israel on February 11, 1986, and was greeted by leading government officials, including then Prime Minister Shimon Peres, and was given a hero’s welcome.
In 1988, he was elected President of the newly created Zionist Forum, the umbrella organization of former Soviet activists. He also served as an associate editor of the Jerusalem Report.
Increasingly disappointed with Israel’s absorption of the large influx of Soviet Jews, he wrote frequently on the subject, and in 1995 created a new political party, Yisrael b’Aliyah, dedicated to helping immigrants’ professional, economic and social acculturation. In the elections the following year, the party won seven Knesset seats, and Sharansky was named Minister of Industry and Trade.
Sharansky served as Minister of Industry and Trade from June 1996-1999. He served as Minister of the Interior from July 1999 until his resignation in July 2000 and as Minister of Housing and Construction and Deputy Prime Minister from March 2001 until February 2003. In February 2003, Natan Sharansky was appointed Minister without Portfolio, responsible for Jerusalem, social and Diaspora affairs.
Sharansky resigned from the government on May 2, 2005, because of his opposition to Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan. He had served in four different Knesset governemnts.
In November 2006 Natan Sharansky resigned from the Knesset and assumed the position of Chairman of the then newly-established Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies of the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. In June 2009, he was elected and sworn in as Chairman of The Jewish Agency for Israel, a post he still holds.
Natan Sharansky’s memoir, Fear No Evil was published in the United States in 1988 and has been translated into nine languages. Another book, The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror (2004) attracted wide-spread attention and was famously quoted by President George Bush during his presidency.
Sharansky’s latest book, Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy (2008) is a defense of the value of national and religious identity in building democracy. He also maintains a website and blog.
He is married to Avital and has two daughters, Rachel and Hannah.
Sources: Joint Authority for Jewish Zionist Education; Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Wikipedia
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“It’s time for the adults to take over, and that includes law firms looking for graduates to hire.”
Posted by Mike LaChance October 16, 2023 https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/10/uc-berkeley-law-prof-dont-hire-my-anti-semitic-law-students/
Steven Davidoff Solomon is trying to hold these students accountable. There is a lot of this going around right now and it’s encouraging.
He writes at the Wall Street Journal:
Don’t Hire My Anti-Semitic Law Students
I teach corporate law at the University of California, Berkeley, and I’m an adviser to the Jewish law students association. My students are largely engaged and well-prepared, and I regularly recommend them to legal employers.
But if you don’t want to hire people who advocate hate and practice discrimination, don’t hire some of my students. Anti-Semitic conduct is nothing new on university campuses, including here at Berkeley.
Last year, Berkeley’s Law Students for Justice in Palestine asked other student groups to adopt a bylaw that banned supporters of Israel from speaking at events. It excluded any speaker who “expressed and continued to hold views or host/sponsor/promote events in support of Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine.” Nine student groups adopted the bylaw. Signers included the Middle Eastern and North African Law Students Association, the Queer Caucus and the Women of Berkeley Law.
The bylaw caused an uproar. It was rightly criticized for creating “Jew-free” zones. Our dean—a diehard liberal—admirably condemned it but said free-speech principles tied his hands. The campus groups had the legal right to pick or exclude speakers based on their views. The bylaw remains, and 11 other groups subsequently adopted it.
You don’t need an advanced degree to see why this bylaw is wrong. For millennia, Jews have prayed, “next year in Jerusalem,” capturing how central the idea of a homeland is to Jewish identity. By excluding Jews from their homeland—after Jews have already endured thousands of years of persecution—these organizations are engaging in anti-Semitism and dehumanizing Jews. They didn’t include Jewish law students in the conversation when circulating the bylaw. They also singled out Jews for wanting what we all should have—a homeland and haven from persecution.
The student conduct at Berkeley is part of the broader attitude against Jews on university campuses that made last week’s massacre possible. It is shameful and has been tolerated for too long.
It’s time for the adults to take over, and that includes law firms looking for graduates to hire.
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“I would like to know so I know never to hire these people”
Posted by Mike LaChance, 12October2023 https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/10/ceos-vowing-not-to-hire-harvard-students-who-signed-letter-blaming-israel-for-hamas-attack/
Some of the student groups at Harvard who signed on to this are already scrambling to distance themselves from it. This is why.
The New York Post reports:
A dozen CEOs back Bill Ackman’s call to not hire Harvard students who blamed Israel for Hamas attack
At least a dozen business executives have endorsed Bill Ackman’s call to deny hiring members of student groups at Harvard who signed on to a letter blaming Israel for Hamas’ deadly attack on Saturday that killed more than 1,200 people, including at least 22 Americans.
Jonathan Newman, the CEO of salad chain Sweetgreen, was among a group of business honchos who seconded Ackman in urging that the signatories of the letter circulated by the a coalition of 34 Harvard student groups who “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.”
“I would like to know so I know never to hire these people,” Newman wrote in response to Ackman’s post on X on Tuesday.
“Same,” David Duel, CEO of healthcare services firm EasyHealth, wrote in response to Newman.
The backlash and possible blacklisting has led to a flurry of backpedaling by four of the initial student organizations attached to the inflammatory statement — while board members of other groups have quit to distance themselves.
Late Tuesday, 17 other Harvard groups joined around 500 faculty and staff and 3,000 others in signing a counter-statement attacking the other groups’ letter as “completely wrong and deeply offensive,” according to the campus paper, the Harvard Crimson.
A third letter from nearly 160 faculty members also ripped Harvard’s response to the scandal, writing that it “can be seen as nothing less than condoning the mass murder of civilians based only on their nationality.”
Fears that some of the nation’s brightest young minds had doomed their futures led former Harvard President Larry Summers to caution against singling out students who were “naive and foolish” about what they were signing.
Joel M. Petlin-tweet-2November2023-message for the deans of law schools
Some of the largest law firms in the country have a message for the deans of law schools who have tolerated Antisemitic activities conducted by their students:
If you want your graduates to get good jobs in our law firms, stop producing Antisemites.
 Joel M. Petlin-tweet-2November2023-message for the deans of law schools  largest law firms-Letter to Deans UPDATE:
Joel M. Petlin-tweet-12November2023-message for the deans of law schools
More law firms keep lining up in the fight against Antisemitism.
There are now 2️⃣0️⃣6️⃣ firms that have signed the @sullcrom
letter to law school deans.
Each one sends an important message. I hope that they get it and remove Antisemitic students and faculty from their campuses.
 Joel M. Petlin-tweet-12November2023-message for the deans of law schools  largest law firms-Letter to Deans-12November2023
Examples of Anti-Semitic Law Students
See Post: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/corporations/harvard-letter-israel-columbia-ivy-davis-polk-law-firm-student-rcna120881
 NBC News-tweet-17October2023-Top US law firm Davis Polk announces it had rescinded letters of employment for three law students
The @ColumbiaSJP @ColumbiaJVP letter had nothing to do with supporting Palestine & everything to do with celebrating & glorifying the torture, murder and mutilation of 1,300 Israelis and abduction of an additional 200. Civilians. Women. Babies. Innocents.
Do better, @Newsweek.
 HonestReporting-tweet-18October2023-The @ColumbiaSJP @ColumbiaJVP letter had nothing to do with supporting Palestine & everything to do with celebrating & glorifying the torture, murder and mutilation of 1,300 Israelis and abduction of an additional 200. Civilians. Women. Babies. Innocents.
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Statement on Israel and Anti-Semitism From Leading Asset Managers
Noah Pollak-tweet-20November2023-Statement on Israel and Anti-Semitism From Leading Asset Managers
Some of the biggest names in finance have signed a public statement declaring they will not hire Hamas supporters and anti-semites at their firms:
“We call on our colleagues to join us in pledging to protect and support our Jewish and Israeli employees, family, and friends against violence and hate.”
Signatories include @BillAckman, @CliffordAsness, David Einhorn, Michael Steinhardt, Sander Gerber, Jon Jacobson, Peter Feld, Seth Fisher, Jeff Talpins, Doug Silverman, Ross Stevens, @boazweinstein, @michaelfertik, Dan Sundheim, Ryan Tolkin, and many more. Over $1T total under management.
Thank you gentlemen for taking a stand.
Statement on Israel and Anti-Semitism From Leading Asset Managers
Alex Berger New York https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/asset-manager-community-supports-israel
Asset Manager Community Statement of Support for Israel
We stand united in our support for the State and people of Israel. We mourn the senseless and barbaric acts of mass terror. We condemn Hamas and their collaborators.
The attack in Israel is an attack on all of us. Israel is the Start-Up Nation. Its innovations make the world a better place.
We stand with Jewish communities around the world, which are experiencing antisemitic harassment and violence. We are profoundly disturbed by people who are indifferent when confronted with Jewish suffering or who organize to blame Jews and celebrate hate. Supporters of hate will have no place in our organizations or our community.
We call on our colleagues to join us in pledging to protect and support our Jewish and Israeli employees, family, and friends against violence and hate.
Since 1948, the State of Israel has been a source of hope, strength, and innovation. Israel has given our industry and the world an abundance of moral, intellectual, and material gifts. Now, in Israel’s hour of need, we, the undersigned, pledge to do everything we can to support the Jewish state and the Jewish people. We support Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas, and against all people, states, and organizations who threaten the State of Israel and the Jewish people. Never again will we sit by while peace-loving people are slaughtered en masse.
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The following are among the signatories to the petition.
Sander Gerber, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner, Hudson Bay Capital
Yoav Roth, Managing Partner, Hudson Bay Capital
Bill Ackman, Chief Executive Officer, Pershing Square Capital Management
Robert Agostinelli, Co-Founder, Rhone
Clifford Asness, Managing and Founding Principal, AQR
Brett Barth, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, BBR Partners
Zachary Berger, Managing Director, ArchPoint Investors
Andrew Bernstein, Chief Executive Officer, Aeolus Capital Management
Marty Burger, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Artisan RE Ventures
Douglas Cifu, CEO, Virtu Financial
Brett Cohen, JGB Management
Aaron Cowen, Chief Investment Officer, Suvretta
Alexander Crisses, Managing Director, General Atlantic
David Einhorn, President, Greenlight Capital
Isser Elishis, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Waterton Global Resource Management
Peter Feld, Managing Member, Starboard Value
Seth Fischer, Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Oasis Management
Matan Friedman, Chief Investment Officer, Generate Capital
Stephen Goldstein, Senior Managing Director, Evercore
Adam Herz, Co-Founder, Coalition Investment Partners
Jon Jacobson, Non-Executive Chairman, HighSage Ventures
Todd Kantor, Founder and Managing Member, Encompass Capital Advisors LLC
Adam Katz, Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Irenic Capital Management
Jeremy Katz, President and Chief Operating Officer, D1 Capital
Ilya Koffman, Founder and Managing Partner, Turnspire Capital Partners
Jonathan Kolatch, Partner, Jasper Lake LLC
Greg Lippman, Chief Investment Officer, LibreMax Capital
Marc Majzner, Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Clearline Capital
Candice Richards, MidOcean Partners
Evan Roth, Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, BBR Partners
Steven Roorda, Partner, Stonebridge Capital
George Rohr, President, NCH Capital
Douglas Silverman, Managing Partner, Senator Investment Group
Paul Singer, Chief Executive Officer, Elliott Management
Michael Steinhardt, Steinhardt Management
Ross Stevens, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Stone Ridge Asset Management
Dan Sundheim, Founder, D1 Capital
Jeffrey Talpins, Chief Executive Officer, Element Captial
Udi Toledano, Managing Partner, Good Springs Capital
Ryan Tolkin, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, Schonfeld
Boaz Weinstein, Founder, Saba Capital
Rich Abbe, General Partner, Iroquois Capital
Aimee Almeleh, BlueMountain Capital
Alex Berger, Managing Director, Hudson Bay Capital
Scott Black, Chief Legal Officer, Hudson Bay Capital
Shlomo Cohen, Managing Director, Jones Trading
Halit Coussin, Chief Legal Officer and Chief Compliance Officer, Pershing Square Capital Management
Seth Damski, Chief Executive Officer, Old City Securities
Victoria Drabkin, Senior Vice President, Macquarie
David Feldman, Portfolio Manager, L1
Michael Fertik, Founder & Managing Director, Heroic Ventures
Jay Freedman, Principal, KPMG
Ian Jacobs, Managing Partner, 402 Capital
Max Karpel, Partner, Akin Gump
Nadav Klugman, Partner, Mayer Brown
Sam Leffell, Hudson Bay Capital
Alan Leifer, President, Leifer Capital Advisers, LLC
Noam Lipshitz, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig
Amy Margolis, Hudson Bay Capital
Michael Masri, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis
Abel S. Osorio, Partner, Turnspire Capital Partners
Greg Racz, President and Co-Founder, MGG Investment Group
Zoya Raynes, Managing Director, Bank of America
Brian Rebhun, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
David Reichsfeld, JP Morgan
Adam Rosenbluth, Managing Director, Bank of America
Michael Roth, Ares
David Salanic, Co-Managing Partner, Whitefort Capital
Craig Sedaka, LibreMax Capital
Mark B. Spiegel, Stanphyl Capital
Matthew Weinstein, Portfolio Manager, Hudson Bay Capital
Rami Zaitchik, Director, Bank of America
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By Ariel Zilber
Published July 9, 2024, 12:13 p.m. ET https://nypost.com/2024/07/09/business/white-shoe-law-firm-to-screen-job-applicants-for-anti-israel-protests/
A white-shoe law firm whose clients have included Goldman Sachs, Google and Tesla will screen job applicants to determine whether they took part in incendiary anti-Israel protests, according to a report.
Sullivan & Cromwell has hired HireRight, a company that specializes in background checks, to scrutinize pro-Palestinian college graduates fresh out of law school who are seeking a job with the firm, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
Job applicants who seek to work at Sullivan & Cromwell can be disqualified if they are found to have taken part in demonstrations in which protesters utter phrases that are “triggering” to Jews, according to Joseph Shenker, a partner at the firm.
Sullivan & Cromwell will review news footage, social media feeds and viral videos to determine whether anyone applying for a job at the firm took part in protests.
Shenker said the firm, which employs more than 900 lawyers in 13 offices scattered across four continents, could disqualify a prospective employee even if they do not utter phrases that are deemed controversial.
He told the Times that anyone who takes part in a protest in which demonstrators chant antisemitic slogans was embracing a “mob mentality” and that they would be held responsible for comments made by others.
Shenker said the law firm will not interrogate applicants about their personal beliefs and opinions.
According to the Times, Sullivan & Cromwell rivals are mulling the adoption of similar rules for applicants
The Post has sought comment from Sullivan & Cromwell.
On Oct. 7, Hamas terrorists overran Israeli towns near the border with the Gaza Strip, killing nearly 1,200 people and taking scores hostage.
Israel’s military response against Hamas in the Gaza Strip sparked massive protests and demonstrations across college campuses nationwide — with some participants chanting slogans deemed antisemitic.
In the weeks following the Hamas attacks, Davis Polk, a prominent law firm, rescinded job offers for three law students from Harvard and Columbia over their alleged connection to a letter circulating across the two campuses which blamed Israel.
Another law firm, Winston & Strawn, revoked a job offer for a New York University law student who wrote in a student bar association online publication that “Israel bears full responsibility” for Hamas’ deadly attack.
Rawda Fawaz, an attorney with the Council on American-Islamic Relations who was hired by a big law firm after graduating from Columbia in 2022, criticized the policy implemented by Sullivan & Cromwell.
“When we went through big law recruitment, we knew your social media better be clean, you better not have on there anything that you can’t defend, you have to be a respectable person to be able to get a job at any of these places,” Fawaz told the Times.
“That has always been the practice. Why do you have to have a special policy on this?
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Harvard 2024
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I’m hearing from first-year students who, while studying for exams in their dorm room, are being confronted with terrifying chants of globalize the Intifada – a call for the murder of Jews. I’m now receiving calls from their parents who are frightened to learn that Hamas supporters are being allowed to camp out in Harvard Yard – in brazen defiance to the university’s explicit guidelines – and are chanting in support of terrorism and call for the murder of Jews.
The last two nights at the Harvard Chabad Seder table, along with Jews around the world, we read the words of the Passover Haggadah
how “in each and every generation they rise up against us to destroy us. And the Holy One, blessed be He, rescues us from their hands.” That those who seek the destruction of the Jewish people are receiving support from Harvard students and other university students around the country – as we heard today from Hamas, should shake every moral person to their core.
We call on University leadership to remove these Jew haters and Hamas lovers who are continuously and brazenly violating university code of conduct, not to mention their own humanity.
– Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi, Jackie and Omri Dahan Harvard Chabad Jewish Chaplain
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Hillel Fuld-tweet–24April2024-Antisemitism in America is not so bad and you’re exaggerating
One month ago, I heard this sentence over and over: “You are being an alarmist. Antisemitism in America is not so bad and you’re exaggerating. It can never happen in America. The public wouldn’t allow it.”
Ladies and gentleman, Harvard, 2024.
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Harvard Yard 2024: Jewish students woke up this morning to see posters of innocent Israeli hostages completely defaced.
Let’s put aside discussions of codes of conduct and ousted presidents for a moment. I want to ask @Harvard: what is the value of my degree when fellow students think that it’s acceptable to use intimidation and violence as an argument? What are they learning if they repeat hateful lies to a point where the face of a kidnapped baby held by Hamas for over 4 months is too offensive to bear?
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1. Declare a boycott/moratorium on hiring Harvard grads
2. Recruit firms & large companies to sign on
Do we really want to encourage student bodies behind this culture? Students of the classes of 2024 – 2028 should be held to a standard
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A Jewish social work student was forced to leave her clinical rotation due to blatant antisemitism
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🚨 Jewish Student Ejected Over Pernicious Woke Antisemitism
Then this student receives the following email. 👇
⚠️ “We Will Not Condone White Violence. Decolonize Your Mindset (Jew).”
📰 A Jewish social work student was forced to leave her clinical rotation due to blatant antisemitism.
She then received an email from her clinical supervisor, Barbara Andrea Garza Guzman of the Transformative Justice Project of Colorado, stating,
👉👉 “TJP is not the internship for you. We stand with Palestine and denounce Zionism. We will not condone white violence. I encourage you to decolonize your colonial mindset and learn the true history of the world.”👈👈
ℹ️ It’s clear these individuals took joy in excluding her because of her faith.
🚨 Absolute scumbags: The toxic spawn of DEI brainwashing, controlled by their extreme leftist puppet masters.
✅ Want to ask the business responsible what happened?
Email, call, visit:
📇Barbara Andrea Garza Guzman, MSW, SWC
Email: barbs@tjpcolorado.org
Phone: (303) 961-7048
Elie Zwiebel
Email: elie@tjpcolorado.org
Erin Pier
Email: erin@tjpcolorado.org
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How, how, how did this come to pass? There is no evil like the academic who provides the ideological foundation for the extermination of a people, and insists that you call that program “virtue.”
Posted by Andrew Pessin 22October2023 https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/10/when-you-realize-nearly-everyone-in-your-university-wants-you-dead/
 University of Wisconsin–Madison 11October2023Hamas Israel Palestine Protest
Four days in, after explicit images of the slaughter had been blasting around the internet nonstop for days, my college administration, and my faculty colleagues, had remained silent. In contrast, when a single Black man died by a police officer far away a few years ago the place had exploded for days. When an administrator more recently scheduled an event at a venue that 40 years earlier had racist admissions policies there were weeks of outrage, the canceling of classes and then of the administrator. The misuse of pronouns here can get you disciplined on a bias charge, in this age of microaggressions and in the name of promoting inclusion.
But when (now) 1400+ Jews are slaughtered in cold blood, live on camera, there is—silence.
And not just slaughtered: bloodthirsty murderers going house to house, murdering entire families, children, grandparents, medics and first responders, raping women and little girls, abusing corpses, burning down houses with their families inside like in medieval times, paragliding into a music festival with automatic weapons gunning down 260 young adults (same age as our students), not to mention taking 200+ hostages (women, children, elderly) whom they have threatened to execute publicly (assuming they are still alive) —no different from the Nazi Einsatzgruppen, except that the Nazis didn’t have the ability to also livestream their atrocities—
There was silence.
Actually worse: business as usual. Chatter about upcoming events, department business, the usual weekly newsletters, announcements re upcoming meetings. Nothing to talk about, folks, it’s just Jews being slaughtered on the largest scale since the Holocaust.
“We must take care of our students”—a wonderful rallying cry that fills up our airwaves whenever any identity group is perceived to have received a harm, however abstract that harm is, however removed that harm might be from them directly and personally.
Except for Jews—whose family members, friends, and acquaintances were literally just gunned down, raped, burned alive, decapitated, all livestreamed. (They used one grandmother’s phone to film their execution of her, then posted the video to her own Facebook account so everyone she knew could witness it—which is how her family learned of her fate.)
How would they feel if that were their grandmother?
If they watched her be executed with their own eyes?
Did this community truly have no care or concern for its Jewish members?
I didn’t want to believe it.
But this isn’t just about my institution. Apart from a small handful of university presidents who responded appropriately (such as at the University of Florida), most were either silent like mine or (eventually) expressed tepid, neutral, general words of dismay without truly acknowledging what had just happened before our very eyes. Although admittedly these responses were at least marginally better than what happened and continues to happen on many other campuses: active, large, loud rallies where students and faculty and at least the occasional administrator openly endorsed and called for the deaths of Jews.
But only marginally: the silence, and the tepidness, convey the same message, if slightly less explicitly.
The problem is nearly—everywhere.
Other people saw the problem earlier, but for me it was around 2014 that I began to understand that nearly everyone not merely at my institution but at these very many institutions, including the best institutions, really—hated—the Jews. But since I first saw it I’ve also seen it getting worse, and now it is shockingly unambiguous. I no longer have the occasional worry that my concerns are maybe a little paranoid, apocalyptic, overly emotional.
It is now clear.
Many, many people in our universities don’t merely really hate the Jews, but actually—want them dead.
In 2023 America, not to mention around the globe.
Take a look at the rallies the first week after the massacre at Harvard, at Yale, at Princeton, at Columbia, at Georgetown, and at the University of North Carolina where one very excited young woman screamed exuberantly, “We are all of us Hamas!”
Hamas, which openly calls for, and acts to bring about, the death of every Jew on the planet.
At the University of Washington rally “for Palestine” a young woman Jewish student was filmed sobbing in front of a seemingly indifferent administrator, “Why are you allowing this to happen here? They want us dead!”
How, how, how did this come to pass?
Know this to start: Israel is home to half the world’s Jews, and the majority of the other half are closely connected to it, identify with it, support it, have family, friends, acquaintances there. It is safe to assume that most Jewish persons on your campus either know someone who was just murdered in their homes or taken hostage and perhaps soon to be executed publicly, or knows someone who does. That means not only that most Jews on your campus have just suffered an incalculable concrete personal loss, but that anyone who wants Israeli Jews dead must also want these Jews dead—because these Jews mostly support those Jews, and may even be related to them.
There is no comfort in imagining, well maybe they want to kill the Jews there, but here, in the US of A, in 2023, I am safe.
Do not forget that point.
This may be the US of A in 2023, but what we’re seeing is an old story, dressed up fresh for the 21st century Western world.
Years of lies, fertilizing the soil, all deliberately designed to delegitimize and dehumanize the Jew, to label the Jew as inhuman, demonic, pure evil. Once you are convinced that the Jew represents evil, then killing Jews becomes not only acceptable but even obligatory. If the Jew is evil, then you in turn must be a very good person in killing him. The Christians did this for centuries, portraying the Jew as literally the fleshly embodiment of evil in their rejection and crucifixion of Jesus. The Germans and the Nazis did this for decades in racial terms, inspired by the antisemitic conspiracy-theory forgery Protocols of the Elders of Zion, even developing a whole academic discipline to document and thus demonstrate the evils of the Jews. After some decades of this program, killing Jews isn’t merely easier but becomes an act of virtue.
The newer lies, now also several decades old, are merely superficial variations on the older lies, aiming to better reflect the specific evils of today. The charges of “genocide,” “ethnic cleansing,” “settler colonialism,” “apartheid,” and more recently “Jewish supremacy,” not to mention probably every single thing most people believe about Gaza—you may be sure that all of these are lies, in fact easily documentable and demonstrable lies for anyone who takes a few minutes to honestly evaluate them. (Maybe people don’t know that rather unlike most “open air prisons” or “concentration camps” Gaza has four-star hotels and restaurants, luxury cars, ritzy malls, affluent neighborhoods, fancy beach resorts, and an obesity problem, not to mention a massive military infrastructure.) These charges don’t have to be true, they just have to be widely circulated, widely repeated, and widely believed, so that the Jew becomes the embodiment of whatever is considered most evil today.
And this is what the “pro-Palestinian” movement, along with its numerous “progressive” allies, has successfully accomplished.
After twenty years of the “Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions” (BDS) movement against Israel, orchestrated on campus by the now more than 200 chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), their short-term goal, that of damaging Israel economically, was a bust; but the long-term goal, the real goal, has succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Whether or not a particular BDS resolution passes or fails on a given campus, the campaign itself soaks the campus in all the lies above for weeks on end, year after year. Most students don’t really follow the details, but come away thinking, man, those Jews with their genocide, apartheid, and supremacy, must really be pretty evil.
And now in 2023 no one blinks an eye when SJP asserts boldly, baldly, as if factually, on their recent social media celebrating the slaughter of 1400 Jews, that every single Israeli Jew is a “settler.” In today’s campus vernacular the slur “settler” rivals in evilness the slur “Nazi,” which they also sling against Israelis. If every Israeli Jew is a settler, then every Israeli Jew is evil, and therefore legitimately murdered. That includes the babies, and the grandmothers, and the unarmed dancing teenagers, and by the way it also justifies torturing them and raping the women before you murder them, which also occurred on a significant scale. (The first report to the Red Cross on the hostages noted that many suffered from “severe injuries due to rape.”)
Every Israeli Jew is guilty. And if every Israeli Jew is guilty, is evil, then so is every other Jew who supports them and may even be related to them.
There are no innocent Jews.
The actual Nazis couldn’t have orchestrated it better.
Those administrators, those faculty members, those students who say nothing while 1400 Jews are slaughtered—and livestreamed, with the most horrific recordings circulating the globe getting millions of views and shares and likes and celebratory comments—Do they remain silent because they too believe these Jews actually—deserve this?
One liberated kibbutz included the bodies of 40 babies.
Babies.
Some beheaded.
Are there no innocent Jews, who don’t deserve this fate?
Babies, grandmothers, dancing peaceniks, living in their ancestral homeland, in an internationally recognized UN member state, in territory that is not disputed except by those who believe that no Jew is innocent?
If they can’t condemn this—if they remain silent—then they must believe these Jews deserve it. I can draw no other conclusion. Is it possible that these academic colleagues, sophisticated, educated, refined, “experts” in values—for do they not daily proclaim their expertise in values, in their anti-racism, their anti-hate, their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion?—is it possible that the people we work with, share offices with, who teach our children, share the belief and value system of the ancient and medieval Christians, the modern Nazis?
And of the contemporary Islamic Resistance Movement, otherwise known as Hamas?
Hamas has made no secrets of its views. From its founding charter—which literally openly endorses the murder of every Jew on earth, and quotes repeatedly, and “factually,” from the antisemitic Nazi-worshipped forgery Protocols in order to support its view that every Jew deserves to be murdered—to literally every action, every behavior, and every statement in the 40 years since, it has been telling you exactly what it thinks.
They tell us this openly, and have been telling us this openly for decades. A week after the massacre their leaders called on every Muslim on earth to bring the jihad to everywhere on earth, which prompted attacks in several European countries and had the FBI on alert here.
This isn’t hard to figure out. This movement is not about peace, about negotiation, not about “two states,” not about “justice,” not about Palestinian self-determination, not even about bettering the lives of Palestinians, all the things that should rightly matter to genuine progressives.
It is about murdering every Jew on earth, starting with the ones in Israel. (They also are interested in removing Christians, for the record, but the Jews are the first priority.)
That the animus is not restricted to Israeli Jews is also clear by the global reaction. Mass rallies in major cities around the globe, celebrating the slaughter and attacking local Jews and Jewish institutions. And back to campuses: SJP immediately launched a social media campaign celebrating this mass slaughter of Jews (which they call “resistance”), and then launched a campaign to “bring the resistance” to every campus they could, in order to “dismantle” Zionism on every campus. Lovely words—except when “resistance” openly means “slaughter every Jew,” when “dismantling Zionism” means removing, “by any means necessary,” anyone on campus who believes that Jews have human rights too, and when they illustrate their campaign with a celebratory image of the paraglider armed with automatic weapons about to embark on gunning down every unarmed dancing teenager in his sight.
This is open endorsement of, and incitement to, mass homicidal violence—occurring on, and directed towards, not only Israel and Israelis but our very campuses.
They don’t even hide it. They’re proud about it.
They were exulting in it.
“We are all Hamas!” the young woman in North Carolina screamed. Can you imagine if she were your roommate, your classmate, your student?
Hamas, SJP, have never hid their intentions. “Resistance,” and “By any means necessary,” even “decolonization,” are the sanitized way they like to put it, but as you see them chuckle in glee, in ecstasy, over this mass slaughter, giving those snuff videos millions of views and likes and glowing reviews, it looks a lot less sanitary.
When an openly genocidal Jew-hating group declares, and then perpetrates, their intention to slaughter Jews, is it not advisable to #BelieveThem?
And when a campus group does the same?
Silence?
Really?
Is there any other identity group about which it would be acceptable to celebrate their mass slaughter, and campaign to bring that slaughter to your campus? What exactly are all those diversity and inclusion administrators paid to do, if not to prevent this?
Or at least condemn it?
But silence is what we got on my campus, and on many campuses.
Is that because people—our administrators, our colleagues, our students—agree? That every Jew is guilty, that every Jew is evil, that every Jew must be eliminated?
Is that what they are thinking, when they look at their Jewish colleagues, students—at you—even if they are good enough not to say it aloud?
That the answer is yes is supported by what, of course, predictably, happened next.
Jews began to defend themselves. And the world, including campuses, promptly erupted and continues to erupt in outrage at every single measure Jews take in so doing. There isn’t a single nation on earth that wouldn’t respond massively to such an attack, but when Jews do it, every measure is instantly labeled an aggression, an atrocity, a war crime, there will be international tribunals, etc. That is because in their eyes Jews do not have the right to defend themselves, the right that all other human beings have—because after a generation of the program academics and their students now apparently believe that Jews are so demonic they are not even endowed with the “human rights” championed by all the anti-Israel “human rights” NGOs, whose condemnations of Israeli self-defense are as loud as anyone else’s.
One other thing also happened next. The more decent among the academy did have some words of concern about the massacre but couldn’t resist even a nanosecond before appending to those words their “explanations,” their “context,” the “nuance,” the “what choice did they have” rhetoric—invoking, after all, the “blockade,” the “occupation,” the “apartheid,” etc. The lies, the damned lies, doing all the work, obscuring the fact that the Palestinians, even Hamas, did and do have many other choices available besides slaughtering Jews, including that of actually making peace with Israel.
One academic actually said the following to me. The reason she was silent to that point wasn’t that she hated Jews, she said, but that she was trying to understand the conflict from multiple sides, because it is after all extremely complicated. When this person was confronted with the mass sadistic slaughter of 1400 mostly civilian Jews including babies, in other words, her response was “I need to hear more perspectives.” Imagine saying on a campus today that you were suspending judgment on the George Floyd case, and on the general phenomenon of anti-Black racism, and while you’re at it on slavery too because the situation is “complicated” and there are other “sides,” including the side that held that all Blacks are evil and deserve to be enslaved or eliminated.
Is there any other identity group about which it would be acceptable to justify their mass slaughter by providing “context,” insisting on “nuance,” wanting to see the “other side”?
Academics are supposed to be in the subtlety and nuanced business, and indeed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is complex, and there is lots of room for reasonable debates about many aspects of it.
But that is not what’s going on here.
The issue at hand really is extraordinarily simple: either those raped and murdered and abused and burned and decapitated babies and families and grandmothers deserved that fate, or they did not. Any “but,” any “explanation,” any “context,” any “complication,” any “both sides,” any “all lives matter” (as many of those tepid university statements exhibited) blames the victim for their slaughter and comes down as a vote that they deserved it—because, in the end, because no other explanation is possible, they must believe that every Jew is evil, and that the medieval Christians and modern Nazis and contemporary Hamasniks have it right.
Anything less than outright unqualified condemnation of this act is a signal to your Jewish colleagues, peers, and students, that their very existence on this planet is an aggressive provocation to you. The tepidity and the silence may be marginally better than the “Intifada!” and “Resistance by any means necessary!” and “Death to the Jews!” chants heard on all too many campuses this past week, but they signify exactly the same thing.
Here is one other neat trick, pointing again to the same conclusion. Many instantly responded to the onset of the Israeli response by calling for de-escalation, by condemning genocide. Beautiful: who could be against de-escalation, and for genocide? But here’s the problem. Wasn’t Hamas’s mass sadistic slaughter of some 1400 mostly civilians just a little bit of a, you know, escalation? And part of an explicit campaign of, you know, genocide? How does one come out for de-escalation only after the Jew-slaughterers have finished their slaughter, and without even acknowledging that slaughter? How does one come out against genocide only after the openly genocidal group has finished its round of genocidal activity, and do so without even acknowledging that genocidal activity? Think about the message that sends to Jewish community members: we have no objection when you are attacked, but we condemn you when you respond. Or maybe: genocide is dreadful, except when it’s perpetrated against Jews.
Not to mention that there is a whole other mode of de-escalation, and genocide prevention, that these folks entirely overlook. They could demand that Hamas return all the hostages immediately and surrender, and then the war is over, instantly. You don’t get more de-escalating and anti-genocidal than that. Yet somehow that is not the mode they are calling for.
Make that condemnation of the Hamas slaughter, full stop, unconditional—and then perhaps we can have reasonable discussions about many things, including about the scope and nature of the Israeli response.
Anything else and the conclusion is inescapable: they just want Jews dead.
For the record, it is possible to be “pro-Palestinian” yet also condemn this massacre, full stop. That really isn’t so hard to work out. And yet finding a person or two on a campus taking that position will keep you busy for a pretty long time.
Even as I write this I cannot fully believe it, but it really is past denying. As that young woman at the University of Washington sobbed, “They want us dead.”
It is Hamas, I obviously believe, that is profoundly evil. But one thing to their “credit,” I suppose: they at least tell you who they are, they are open about it, they may be violent religious extremist fanatics but at least you know who you are dealing with.
But the academics—the professors, the administrators, now a full generation of students and young alumni—the people who justify that violence, who create entire ideologies that fertilize the ground by painting the victim as the evil one, as the one who deserves this extermination, are at least equally evil. They may not pull the trigger but they create the conditions that make the trigger pulling justifiable and therefore feasible, and do so in a massively deceptive way. The entire “Anti-Zionism” campaign of the past two decades was just that, a wolf in sheep’s clothing: take the eternal hatred of the Jew and wrap it up as “political critique,” or “human rights,” so that it will be allowed to enter the academic arena, where it will seep into the brains of unsuspecting students. In the past decade the “wokeness” and “diversity” program added fuel to this fire, prettying up that sheep, turning Western Jews into privileged white supremacist oppressors of people of color while their Israeli Jewish siblings oppress the Palestinians of color, so that in the name of all the higher virtues it became acceptable and then obligatory to start hating the Jews, all of the Jews, who now represent the ultimate evil in their 21st-century eyes. That is precisely what the medieval Christians and the modern Nazis did, and what those academic “progressives” and “Anti-Zionists” who have been propagating these vicious lies for many years under their various jargony names have been doing.
There is no evil like the academic who provides the ideological foundation for the extermination of a people, and insists that you call that program “virtue.”
“Death to the Jews!” at least has the decency to be explicit.
But the tepidity, and the silence from administration, from the diversity administrators, from the faculty, on so many other campuses—says the same thing.
They really want us dead.
[Featured Image: Pro-Hamas protest at University of Wisconsin (“Glory to the martyrs, glory to the murders”), via Twitter]
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Andrew Pessin is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Connecticut College, and Campus Bureau Editor of the Algemeiner. Among other works he is co-editor of Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS. More information about him and his work may be found at www.andrewpessin.com.
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Stumbled upon a protest today at the @UWMadison
campus, gross chants including “glory to the murders”
They believe the only good Jew is a dead Jew #IStandWithIsrael
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The folks screaming “Intifada, Revolution” on college campuses aren’t talking about Israel anymore
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The folks screaming “Intifada, Revolution” on college campuses aren’t talking about Israel anymore.
They’re talking about America.
Wake Up and Smell the Jihad.
#AmericaUnderAttack
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Hezbollah War 5784-5785
Updated 2024 words in the dictionary
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As it will be one year since the October 7th massacre, I want to provide you with the updated 2024 words in the dictionary.
📖 Genocide – Lost a war.
📖 Famine – War isn’t going as planned.
📖 Nakba – Starting a war that backfired.
📖 War criminal – Wins wars.
📖 Innocent civilian – Holds hostages in their home.
📖 Occupation – Started a war with no plan and lost.
📖 Resistance – Terrorist with media backing.
📖 Diplomacy – War with a smile.
📖 Ceasefire – Losing side can regroup.
📖 Peace process – Get your ally to lose.
📖 Humanitarian aid – Smuggling weapons disguised as food.
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Israel is fighting a “milchemet mitzva”,
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Terrorist aggression from Hamas, Hezbolla and Iran forced a war on us that we certainly did not seek. If our enemies are now crying about getting burned, they shouldn’t have played with fire.
Israel is fighting a “milchemet mitzva”, a war that’s a mitzva. How? Living in Israel is a mitzva. As to the north, Hezbolla has caused nearly 100K residents to uproot. Unfortunately, only in recent days did our govt. list the return of the displaced to their homes as a war goal. An emuna-oriented Govt. would have done that 11 months ago.
The Govt & IDF brass seem to be adopting the same unimaginative tactics in Lebanon as the did in Gaza – politically correct ones, to meet Blinken’s approval. Massive bombing and populistic eliminations, but no victory. That must change now.
We live in a tough neighborhood and our neighbors only understand the language of force.
As long ar our people are displaced, Hezbolla and Iran are winners. Their whole goal is to uproot us. Therefore, we need a new strategy up north that’s completely different from the last 11+ months in Gaza. This is a Torah-based strategy:
1) To enable our northern residents to come home, we need, with Hashem’s help, to assure their security. Therefore, all Lebanese citizens south of Litani must evacuate to the north.
2) The Litani River, which is the geographic northern border of the Galilee, must become Israel’s new northern border. All Lebanese remaining there currently, Hezbolla or otherwise, must evacuate to Lebanon north of the Litani.
3) After steps #1 and #2 have been implemented, any Lebanese individual found south of the Litani should be considered a terrorist and a threat to be dealt with accordingly. As such, all the current bridges over the Litani must be destroyed.
4) The Lebanese govt. must be responsible for any long-range missiles fired from north of the Litani, and suffer the consequences thereof.
If the current Israeli govt. won’t take these 3 steps, Moshiach will. Soon, speedily and in our days. Blessings for an inscription in the Book of Life for a wonderful New Year 5785. Ein Od Milvado. Am Yisrael Chai. Don’t ever forget.
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Israel-Lebanon border after the war
Back to the Future
Map of the 12 Tribes of Israel
BACKGROND
Elica Le Bon-tweet-26September2024-Jihadist history in Lebanon
A little history on how imperialism has destroyed Lebanon. It is in fact dual imperialism – both from the PLO out of Palestinian Territories and Hezbollah out of the Islamic regime in Iran. This tag team of imperialist forces have crippled Lebanon, using it as a base to attack Israel and drawing it into unwanted wars. Lebanon showed so much promise from its founding, as the “Paris of the Middle East.” The Lebanese people deserve their sovereignty free from imperialist forces. This is why I say I blame the jihadists for every death, and I stand in solidarity with the Lebanese people to be free from the consequences of death, destruction, and war that the jihadists bring with them on their coattails wherever they go.
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A prayer for safety and protection.
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A prayer for safety and protection.
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, as all eyes turn to the Holy Land, take a moment to say a special prayer for the safety and protection of our brothers and sisters in the land of Israel!
1 A song for ascents. I shall raise my eyes to the mountains, from where will my help come?
2 My help is from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
3 He will not allow your foot to falter; Your Guardian will not slumber.
4 Behold the Guardian of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is your Guardian; the Lord is your shadow; [He is] by your right hand.
6 By day, the sun will not smite you, nor will the moon at night.
7 The Lord will guard you from all evil; He will guard your soul.
8 The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in from now and to eternity
א שִׁ֗יר לַֽמַּֽ֫עֲל֥וֹת אֶשָּׂ֣א עֵ֖ינַי אֶל־הֶֽהָרִ֑ים מֵ֜אַ֗יִן יָבֹ֥א עֶזְרִֽי:
ב עֶזְרִי מֵעִ֣ם יי עֹ֜שֵׂ֗ה שָׁמַ֥יִם וָאָֽרֶץ:
ג אַל־יִתֵּ֣ן לַמּ֣וֹט רַגְלֶ֑ךָ אַל־יָ֜נ֗וּם שֹֽׁמְרֶֽךָ:
ד הִנֵּ֚ה לֹ֣א יָ֖נוּם וְלֹ֣א יִישָׁ֑ן שׁ֜וֹמֵ֗ר יִשְׂרָאֵֽל:
ה יי שֹֽׁמְרֶ֑ךָ יי צִ֜לְּךָ֗ עַל־יַ֥ד יְמִינֶֽךָ:
ו יוֹמָ֗ם הַשֶּׁ֥מֶשׁ לֹֽא־יַ֜כֶּ֗כָּה וְיָרֵ֥חַ בַּלָּֽיְלָה:
ז יי יִשְׁמָרְךָ֥ מִכָּל־רָ֑ע יִ֜שְׁמֹ֗ר אֶת־נַפְשֶֽׁךָ:
ח יי יִשְׁמָר־צֵֽאתְךָ֥ וּבוֹאֶ֑ךָ מֵֽ֜עַתָּ֗ה וְעַד־עוֹלָֽם:
Chabad.org-tweet-1October2024-A prayer for safety and protection
A Song of Ascents
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“With Hashem’s help, together, we shall win.”
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-29September2024-With Hashem’s help together we shall win
Last night in his address to the nation following the fall of Sayyed Haman Nasrulla, og”r (of good riddance), Bibi’s concluding 4 words were the 4 most important words he ever said. Translated, “With Hashem’s help, together, we shall win.”
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-29September2024-With Hashem’s help together we shall win
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Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah leader is Dead
Israel-tweet-28September2024-Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah leader is Dead
The Israeli @IDF confirms that Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Hezbollah terrorist organization and one of its founders, was eliminated yesterday, together with Ali Karki, the Commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front, and additional Hezbollah commanders.
Nasrallah will no longer be able to terrorize the world.
Vivid.-tweet-28September2024-The entire top-chain command of Hezbollah in 10 days
The entire top-chain command of Hezbollah in 10 days.
Insane.
Israel-tweet-28September2024-Hassan Nasrallah Hezbollah leader is Dead
Hezbollah chain of Command DEAD
Hezbollah hides among civilians
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-29September2024-Hezbollah hides among civilians
53 meters. That’s the distance between a @UN school and Hezbollah’s underground headquarters where Hassan Nasrallah was eliminated alongside 20+ additional terrorists.
The terrorists were in Hezbollah’s central headquarters, located in the heart of Beirut, embedded beneath civilian buildings.
This unequivocally proves that Hezbollah hides among civilians, endangering the lives of the people of Lebanon.
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-29September2024-Hezbollah hides among civilians
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Thanking God that our enemies have fallen once again
Yishai Fleisher-tweet-28September2024-celebration and thanking God
This is how a major Israeli news show began tonight – with celebration and thanking God that our enemies have fallen once again:
il7217-tweet-28September2024-A solid opening for the program
פתיחה סולידית לתוכנית…😜
A solid opening for the program… 😜
Yishai Fleisher-tweet-28September2024-celebration and thanking God
The elimination of the oppressor is celebrated with baklava and a toast.
Malkah Fleisher-tweet-1October2024-The elimination of the oppressor is celebrated
itamarbengvir-tweet-29September2024
חוגגים עם בקלאוות והרמת כוסית את חיסולו של הצורר. לחיים!
The elimination of the oppressor is celebrated with baklava and a toast. Cheers!
Malkah Fleisher-tweet-1October2024-The elimination of the oppressor is celebrated
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Israel’s secret weapons on the Rosh Hashana table
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-2October2024-Israel’s secret weapons on the Rosh Hashana table
Iran’s attack against us was badly timed. Tonight, we retaliate. You’ll find our secret weapons on the Rosh Hashana table. Leeks in Hebrew are “Carti” – they destroy our enemies. Beets in Hebrew are “Selek” – they cause our enemies to disappear. My leeks turn into a rocket launcher and my beets into bunker busters. Bye-bye Bushehr* and Happy New Year! (*site of Iran’s nuclear reactor; if you believe that Nasrulla and Haniya are no longer with us, then believe that Bushehr will soon be a sand dune). Thank You, Hashem for all of last night’s miracles and for all the miracles on the way!
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-2October2024-Israel’s secret weapons on the Rosh Hashana table
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Hezbollah is now massively bombing the city of Safed in northern Israel.
Megatron-tweet-24September2024-Hezbollah is now massively bombing Safed
BREAKING:
🇮🇱🇱🇧 Hezbollah is now massively bombing the city of Safed in northern Israel.
Israeli media reports that the Iron Dome is no longer operational.
Megatron-tweet-24September2024-Hezbollah is now massively bombing Safed
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The Plan-Hezbollah Human Shield Strategy
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-26September2024-The Plan-Hezbollah Human Shield Strategy
Hezbollah doesn’t want you to watch this video.
And they really don’t want you to share it.
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-26September2024-The Plan-Hezbollah Human Shield Strategy
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The complete Hezbollah battle plan to conquer Israel
Revealed for the first time, this was the Hezbollah battle plan for the invasion of the Zionist State (Israel).
Barry Shaw / 24September2024 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/396650
These are the stages of the Hezbollah battle plan for the invasion of the Zionist State (Israel).
THE “CONQUEST OF THE GALILEE” PLAN
One of the main lessons Hezbollah learned from the Lebanon War was the need to change the goals of the next war against Israel.
Hezbollah sought to develop offensive capabilities that would enable it to conduct a war within Israeli territory.
Imad Mughniyeh, the architect of the plan, determined that in the next war, Hezbollah would invade, capture territories and take hostages in the Galilee (North Israel).
Hezbollah targeted areas where it had topographical superiority compared to Israel’s topographical disadvantage near the border.
THE PLAN’S HIGHLIGHTS:
• Training Hezbollah’s special forces to take control of isolated Israeli towns along the northern border.
In Hezbollah’s terminology, this was referred to as the “Conquest of the Galilee.”
• Digging tunnels penetrating Israeli territory near Israeli settlements. These tunnels were intended for the passage of hundreds of fighters, not for the abduction of soldiers or civilians.
Mughniyeh’s model was the North Korean infiltration tunnels, which Iranian instructors had studied closely.
• Hezbollah’s operational plan also involved building a massive missile-launching capability targeting population centers and strategic sites from the Haifa area in the north, through Tel Aviv in the center, down to Dimona in the south.
Hezbollah’s concept was that this situation would attract all of Israel’s military attention, allowing Hezbollah’s special forces to execute the “Conquest of the Galilee” plan.
THE OPERATIONAL PLAN:
The source reported that Hezbollah’s operational plan, developed in coordination with senior Iranian strategic experts, is based on deploying a force of 5,000 fighters, recently trained in Iran specifically for this purpose. In another report, it was stated that Hezbollah forces recently completed intensive training in Iran and were deployed in southern Lebanon and the Beqaa.
It was also reported that in the Maydon area in western Beqaa, Hezbollah engineering units finished excavation work and position improvements, and Iranian Army engineering units mined areas in eastern Beqaa, marked as potential landing zones for Israeli special forces, whose goal would be to strike Hezbollah’s missile and artillery arrays.
• The 1st brigade will take control of the city of Nahariya, or parts of it, after crossing the border in the Rosh HaNikra area. According to Hezbollah’s information, the defenses in this area are minimal, the distance is short (7 km), and there are no special military or topographical features that would delay the brigade from achieving its objective.
At the same time, a force of 150 fighters from the first brigade will reach Nahariya by sea using speedboats that Hezbollah already possesses. The mission assigned to this force is to take as many hostages as possible to prevent Israel from bombing Hezbollah forces in this sector.
• The 2nd brigade will take control of the town of Shlomi, which has a population of 6,500 and is located about 300 meters from the border. The goal is to sever the IDF’s supply lines and force it to send reinforcements from the east to areas in North Israel, where a large number of military forces are located.
• The 3rd brigade was instructed to reach the city of Karmiel and take control of areas south of it in order to block movement from Acre on the Mediterranean coast to Safed.
• The 4th brigade will take control of the the towns: Malkia, Ramot Naftali, and Yiftach to prevent the IDF from producing fire from these areas toward southern Lebanon.
•The 5th brigade will serve as a strategic reserve force assigned to special missions.
The Hezbollah-affiliated source reported that Hezbollah’s fighting force will consist of 5 brigades, each composed of 1,000 fighters. Each brigade has been assigned a defined combat zone in Israel to take control of. Therefore, each brigade is familiar with the structure and topographical conditions of its zone and has trained for its conquest.
This is the major attack planned against Israel that the IDF is currently destroying in Lebanon.
All this, armed and trained by Iran.
Furthermore, Hezbollah has thousands more forces trained and prepared to attack Israel which are stationed in Syria and in Iraq.
Barry Shawis at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
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Hezbolla murdered 12 Druze children of Majdal Shams
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-28July2024-Hezbolla murdered 12 Druze children of Majdal Shams
Precedent: On 24.11.22, Pally terrorists in Jenin killed Tiran Fero, a 17 yr-old Druze lad from Daliat al Karmel. The Druze gave Jenin 12 hours to return Tiran’s body. Meanwhile, they abducted 3 Pallys and threatened to level Jenin. The body was returned pronto.
Now, the Druze of Majdal Shams, agonized over the fresh graves of their 12 murdered children, have given an ultimatum: “Bibi, you have 72 hours to level Hezbolla. The blood of Majdal Shams is just as red as the blood of Tel Aviv. For one Tel Aviv fatality, you levelled a port town in Yemen. You are now being tested. If you don’t take action, we shall!”
The Druze have fierce emuna. They fight for what they believe in and make no compromises. There’s no such thing as political correctness or empty threats. They are loyal brothers in arms and you can believe what they say. They speak the language of our neighborhood.
If our Druzi brothers would have led the IDF and the government, the hostages in Gaza would have been returned within a week – maximum – and the war would have been over in a month. Hashem didn’t let that happen because He wants us to be disgusted by the defeatist concepts of the hedonistic, anti-emuna deep state that controls (temporarily) our beloved homeland. Moshiach now!
Now14Israel-tweet-28July2024-
שי גולדן מגיב לריאיון שובר הלב עם עד הראייה סמיר חלבי שזעק מדם ליבו על הטבח הרצחני: “דין מג’דל שמס כדין תל אביב, גבעתיים, נהריה, ראש פינה וכל מקום אחר שבו נהרגים יהודים! נתניהו, אתם במבחן ואנחנו מסתכלים עליכם”
לריאיון המלא – https://now14.co.il/?p=986661
@atayshalev6
#ישראל_נלחמת
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-28July2024-Hezbolla murdered 12 Druze children of Majdal Shams
Hillel Fuld-tweet-28July2024-No words
No words. Just tears.
Hillel Fuld-tweet-28July2024-No words
Leslie Young-tweet-28July2024-DRUZE TO HEZBOLLAH
DRUZE TO HEZBOLLAH:
Druze communities in northern Israel have released a video warning ‘Hezbollah, you have opened the gates of Hell on yourselves.’
Leslie Young-tweet-28July2024-DRUZE TO HEZBOLLAH
Caroline Glick-tweet-28July2024-The Druze in Syria have declared war on Hezbollah
הדרוזים בסוריה הכריזו מלחמה על חיזבאללה. מניחה שיהיו לכך השלכות (חיוביות מבחינתנו) גם בלבנון. אין לנו זכות קיום אם לא נפעל כעת באופן שמסיר מעל כולנו את איום איראן/חיזבאללה אחת ולתמיד.
The Mossad: Satirical, Yet Awesome-tweet-27July2024-Druze militia in Syria Announcement
Announcement from the Syrian Flag Brigade, a Druze militia in Syria.
The terrorist Hezbollah committed a {war crime} against our people in Majdal Shams… Public Statement:
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The horrific crime committed by the terrorist Hezbollah against our people in Majdal Shams clearly and explicitly indicates Hezbollah’s insistence on pressuring the Druze community and dragging them into the ongoing war in the Middle East.
In recent months, Iran, along with Hezbollah, has imposed a military siege on the province of Suwayda, taking control of all airports and military units surrounding the province. They have begun to exert pressure in various ways and directions on the people of the province, who oppose the Iranian presence in southern Syria.
Previously, Iran and Hezbollah played a major role in spreading drugs and supporting ISIS in the Suwayda desert to threaten the province.
The terrorist crime committed by Hezbollah today will contribute to the expansion of the war and puts Suwayda at risk due to Iran and the Syrian regime’s attempts to invade and control the province from within.
The escalation in the Middle East is becoming more dangerous, and Hezbollah is a partner to all terrorist organizations in the Middle East in spreading the ideology of terrorism and extremism, targeting the Druze community and all Syrians who reject its presence.
We consider what happened today a clear and public declaration of war by the terrorist Hezbollah and Iran against the Druze community, an act of criminal pressure aimed at dragging them into the ongoing war in the Middle East.
Mercy to the souls of the martyrs of Majdal Shams and a speedy recovery to the wounded.
Political Bureau / 28/7/2024
Caroline Glick-tweet-28July2024-The Druze in Syria have declared war on Hezbollah
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-28July2024-11 of the 12 children who were murdered by Hezbollah
Millar Maadad al-Shaar, 10
Alma Ayman Fakhr al-Din, 11
Naji Taher Halabi, 11
Yazan Naif Abu Salah, 12
Izil Nashat Ayoub, 12
Finis Adham Safadi, 12
John Wadie Ibrahim, 13
Hazem Akram Abu Salah, 15
Fajr Laith Abu Salah, 16
Amir Rabi Abu Salah, 16
Nazem Fakher Saeb
These are 11 of the 12 children who were murdered by Hezbollah yesterday.
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-28July2024-11 of the 12 children who were murdered by Hezbollah
Aviva Klompas-tweet-27July2024-12 children who were murdered by Hezbollah
These are the 12 children and teenagers murdered by Hezbollah in Majdal Shams, northern Israel today.
Look into their eyes and remember their faces. Their deaths will not go unanswered.
Aviva Klompas-tweet-27July2024-12 children murdered by Hezbollah
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What the Iron Dome can do
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-25August2024-Nice sound and light show
Today’s excerpt from Midrash Lazer:
Dad: Where’s my car, son?
Son: A bully stole it from me.
Dad: Did you put up a fight?
Son: Yes, Dad. I threw a rock at him.
Dad: Not good enough, son. You didn’t get my car back.
Northern residents to IDF brass: Nice sound&light show this morning, but you didn’t get our homes back. @netanyahu @yoavgallant @IDFSpokerperson
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-25August2024-Nice sound and light show
Hillel Fuld-tweet-25August2024-What the Iron Dome can do
Hezbollah announced that their attack on Israel in response to the assassination of Fouad Shukar, a senior Hezbollah terrorist has begun!
Well, Israel had other plans.
This is some of the coolest Iron Dome footage I’ve ever seen.
Hillel Fuld-tweet-25August2024-What the Iron Dome can do
There is no greater danger then underestimating your opponent
Brian BJ-tweet-25August2024-There is no greater danger then underestimating your opponent
There is no greater danger then underestimating your opponent
Sun Tzu
An analysis of today’s attacks; Israel v Hezbollah
1. Hezbollah planned to launch a large rocket & drone assault on northern Israel (mostly on military targets), plus attacks on strategic sites in Tel Aviv area (i.e. Glilot base housing Mossad HQ & IDF Intel Unit 8200)
2. Hezbollah must have known that its preparations that take time(especially for its longer range missiles) would be seen by Israel in time and the scale on which it happened () and the sort of missiles) would likely trigger a pre emptive strike.
So why go ahead with it? i see two options:
a. attack nonetheless and claim to have won as in politics and world opinion perception is everything, not reality. As they were under pressure to act cause of the elimination of Shukr
b. Or this is not the real attack. And the launchers and rockets lost today were to give Israel a false sense of security. To make Israel underestimate hezbollah’s capabilities just like Israel’s intelligence community vastly underestimated hamas capabilities which led to the intelligence failure of oct 7th and the massacre of over 1200 Israeli’s
Which is a real possibility as the same intelligence community who failed preventing oct 7th is still largely in place now. Would 10 months of war suddenly have improved their judgement? Their blind spots is something enemies would love to exploit again.
I see many jokes going around on social media on how hezbollah hit a chicken coop and ridiculing them. But underestimating them would be a deadly mistake
Hezbollah is next level
Hezbollah is not your hamas, it is next level organised, battle hardened and outfitted.
Hezbollah has been funded with billions of dollars from Iran’s regime. Many of its terrorists have been trained by irgc instructors. Many terrorists have been battle hardened in the syrian civil war
Its stockpile of weapons is immense, it has many rocketlaunchers, and between 150-200 k rockets and drones. It has elite Radwan forces trained in infiltration of enemy territory and ground invasions.
It has vast underground tunnels and networks and facilities across southern Lebanon, the Bekaa valley and parts of Beirut to name some strongholds.
It has had years to prepare with tunnels, underground facilities under schools, hospitals and homes. And to hide their capabilities well from eyes in the sky.
So it is a dog that can not only bark but also bite hard.
3. Israel & Hezbollah are now closely watching each other, as well as the Gaza ceasefire talks, before making their next moves. Also what is decided in Tehran regarding their response to Haniyeh’s elimination will be important.
As feelings of victory are running high in Israel today it is important to prevent any sense of underestimating Hezbollah. and to keep an open mind to any realistic scenario including the possibility that today’s events were to deflect from a coming real attack.
Brian BJ-tweet-25August2024-There is no greater danger then underestimating your opponent
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The results: Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel-25August2024-Attacks Chicken Coop
Amjad Taha-tweet-25August2024-Hezbollah attacks Chicken Coop
Let’s all condemn Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel. What’s amazing is that even Israeli chickens didn’t run away; they stood firm on their ground and survived those rockets, while Hamas terrorists in Gaza hide like rats. At least learn from an Israeli chicken. Hezbollah should pay for this.
Amjad Taha-tweet-25August2024-Hezbollah attacks Chicken Coop
Top Secret military facility training special attacking chicken agents
Dr. Eli David-tweet-25August2024-Hezbollah attacks Chicken Coop
Hezbollah claims they targeted a military facility in Israel 👇
Why so many dead chicken there? Is it a chicken coop or a top secret military facility training special attacking chicken agents? 🐓
Dr. Eli David-tweet-25August2024-Hezbollah attacks Chicken Coop
Joshua of Jerusalem-tweet-25August2024-Hezbollah attacks Chicken Coop
Joshua of Jerusalem-tweet-25August2024-Hezbollah attacks Chicken Coop
Revenge is a dish best served fried.
Chris-tweet-25August2024-Hezbollah attacks Chicken Coop
Not all chickens. Revenge is a dish best served fried.
Chris-tweet-25August2024-Hezbollah attacks Chicken Coop
SEE: Calling Hezbollah
Jonathan Elkhoury-tweet-17September2024-The chicken association-explosive-pagers-for-Hezbollah-in-Lebanon
The chicken association took responsibility for the pager attack on Hezbollah terrorists. “You hit us, we’ll hit your eggs” statement said.
Jonathan Elkhoury-tweet-17September2024-The chicken association-explosive-pagers-for-Hezbollah-in-Lebanon
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Hezbollah Attacks the North 22September2024
StandWithUs-tweet-22September2024-Hezbollah Attacks the North
🚨BREAKING: In the fourth barrage of rocket fire by Hezbollah terrorists from Lebanon this morning, red alert sirens sound across the Haifa region and central Galilee, in northern Israel. Details to follow.
StandWithUs-tweet-22September2024-Hezbollah Attacks the North
Hezbollah attack on Kiryat Bialik
Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-22September2024-Hezbollah attack on Kiryat Bialik
From the Hezbollah attack on Kiryat Bialik this morning.
Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-22September2024-Hezbollah attack on Kiryat Bialik
Hezbollah hit Barn 22September2024 Kills Cows
OSINTdefender-tweet-22September2024-Hezbollah hit Barn Kills Cows
A Direct Impact from a Hezbollah Rocket on a Barn in Beit She’arim, resulting in the Death of several Cows.
OSINTdefender-tweet-22September2024-Hezbollah hit Barn Kills Cows
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Calling Hezbollah
Hezbollah Pagers and Walkie-Talkies explode through out Lebanon
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-18September2024-2nd wave of explosions
Beirut, this afternoon: 2nd wave of explosions, this time walkie-talkies. See Nahum, Chapter 2, for today’s news from Beirut: “The chariots rush madly in the streets, they jostle one against another in the broad places; the appearance of them is like torches, they run to and fro like lightning…She is empty, and void, and wasted; her heart melts and her knees knock together in fear, and all her limbs convulse, and the faces of them are sooted in blackness.” Moshiach is coming, faster than we all can imagine. Get ready, and don’t put off until tomorrow what must be done today – teshuva!
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-18September2024-2nd wave of explosions
The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome-tweet-18September2024-5000 Hezbollah terrorists pagers exploded
If simultaneously popping 5000 pagers exclusively owned by Hezbollah terrorists causing minimal collateral damage is a war crime, then what do you call 8,500 Hezbollah randomly fired rockets killing 43 people including the 12 children who were playing soccer?
The Mossad Satirical and Awesome-tweet-18September2024-5000 Hezbollah terrorists pagers exploded
NEXTA-tweet-17September2024-More than 3,000 Hezbollah terrorists
❗️ More than 3,000 Hezbollah terrorists have been wounded in explosions of communication devices
Dozens have been killed and another 500 are dying, Lebanese media reported.
The devices that exploded were from a new shipment that Hezbollah received in recent days, according to The Wall Street Journal.
NEXTA-tweet-17September2024-More than 3,000 Hezbollah terrorists
Im Tirtzu-tweet-17September2024-explosive pagers for Hezbollah in Lebanon
Lebanese media report that the explosive pagers in Lebanon have wounded some 1,000 people.
Israel allegedly hacked the communication devices used by Hezbollah, causing them to explode.
According to the reports, among the 1,000 are at least five critically wounded. There are no deaths, Lebanese media say.
Im Tirtzu-tweet-17September2024-explosive pagers for Hezbollah in Lebanon
Brian-BJ-tweet-17September2024-explosive pagers for Hezbollah in Lebanon
Trigger warning, very GRAPHIC:
Severely injured and dead in a Lebanese hospital. This is one of Hezbollah’s worst days since the 1980s when it was established.
Brian-BJ-tweet-17September2024-explosive pagers for Hezbollah in Lebanon
Nioh Berg-tweet-17September2024-Hezbollah members are blowing up EVERYWHERE
🚨 There’s footage like this all across Lebanon.
Hezbollah members are blowing up EVERYWHERE.
Nioh Berg-tweet-17September2024-Hezbollah members are blowing up EVERYWHERE
The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome-tweet-19September2024-The graduating class of Beeper U so far
The graduating class of Beeper U is growing steadily.
The Mossad Satirical and Awesome-tweet-19September2024-The graduating class of Beeper U so far
You dared to strike at a wise and courageous people on October 7th
daniel hanukha-tweet-18September2024-Amjad Taha-political strategist and analyst from the UAE
Amjad Taha, a political strategist and analyst from the UAE, wrote:
“You dared to strike at a wise and courageous people on October 7th—committing genocide, kidnapping their children, and violating their women. You thought they would fall, but they rose again. After 11 months, they returned to correct what briefly slipped—their intelligence. Now, they will send you back 1,000 years, to an era without technology, where a ringing phone feels like a death sentence and a beep is a nightmare. You will be haunted by your own shadow, too afraid to use any technology, cut off from the advanced world.
They will defeat you—not with bullets or tanks, but with the unbreakable will of brave and intelligent people. Over a simple cup of coffee, with a decisive click, they will seal your fate and that of anyone who dares to harm their children. This is a nation the world respects.
Lebanon—Hezbollah’s beeper attacks and today’s V82 strike aren’t just military victories; they represent a triumph for the Middle East over radicalism—a victory not just for Israel, but for all who stand against terror.”
daniel hanukha-tweet-18September2024-Amjad Taha-political strategist and analyst from the UAE
IDF Goals:
Baba Banaras-tweet-IDF-terrorists will be afraid of going to the toilet
Israeli Chief of Staff on Lebanon attacks: “We still have many capabilities, at every stage we operate we are already 2 stages ahead. At every stage the price in Hezbollah should be high. We will make it so that terrorists will be afraid of going to the toilet & even eating food.”
Baba Banaras-tweet-IDF-terrorists will be afraid of going to the toilet
A Hezbollah man exploded in the bathroom
Olia-tweet-18September2024-A Hezbollah man exploded in the bathroom
A Hezbollah man exploded in the bathroom. According to witnesses, his last heard words were: “Sh*t!!!”
Olia-tweet-18September2024-A Hezbollah man exploded in the bathroom
Vivid.-tweet-20September2024-Israel is absolutely destroying Hezbollah
Israel is absolutely destroying Hezbollah.
– 9/17: Pager’s Operation – 4,000+ injured.
– 9/18: Radio Devices Operation – 500+ injured.
– 9/19: Massive and relentless airstrikes.
– 9/20: The entire high-ranking commanders of Hezbollah’s “Radwan Force” eliminated.
Insane.
Vivid.-tweet-20September2024-Israel is absolutely destroying Hezbollah
A Jew invented the Pager
StopAntisemitism-tweet-17September2024-A Jew invented the Pager
StopAntisemitism-tweet-17September2024-A Jew invented the Pager
Alfred Gross details
Hashem sting 3,600 Hezbolla terrorists simultaneously
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-17September2024-Hashem sting 3,600 Hezbolla terrorists simultaneously
If someone would have told you yesterday that Moses summoned a beeper hornet to sting 3,600 Hezbolla terrorists simultaneously, would you have believed it? Don’t attribute this to hi-tech. It’s all Hashem. With Moshiach soon here, we all must strengthen our emuna.
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-17September2024-Hashem sting 3,600 Hezbolla terrorists simultaneously
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-18September2024-an eye for an eye
Mojtaba Amini, Iran’s minister to Lebanon, carried a Hezbolla pager in his pocket. Why? He was one of them. Only Hashem knows how many innocent Iranians he blinded. He now tastes Divine justice, literally, “an eye for an eye” (Exodus 21:24).
Kaveh Shahrooz-tweet-18September2024-Rarely is karma so perfectly exact
Per the NYT: “Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amini, lost one eye and severely injured his other eye when a pager he was carrying exploded…”
It was Iranian regime policy to shoot Woman, Life, Freedom protesters in the eye.
Rarely is karma so perfectly exact.
Emily Schrader-tweet-18September2024-The Islamic republic’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amini, lost an eye
The Islamic republic’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amini, lost an eye and injured his other eye when his Hezbollah lager exploded. 19 other IRGC terrorists in Syria were also reportedly killed when their pagers exploded.
In a poetic way, justice was served to the countless victims of the Islamic Republic who were intentionally shot in the eye during protests against the regime in the last few years…by, allegedly, Israel.
May everything the Islamic regime in Iran has done come back to haunt them for eternity.
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-18September2024-an eye for an eye
Emily Schrader-tweet-18September2024-The Islamic republic’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amini, lost an eye
Hashem’s protection exposing terrorists
Amjad Taha-tweet-19September2024-Hashem’s protection exposing terrorists
Is it Israel’s intelligence service, or is it God’s protection exposing terrorists? Just moments ago, Hezbollah had prepared hundreds of rockets from #Lebanon aimed at Israeli civilians, schools, and hospitals. Miraculously, just minutes before the launch, #Israel discovered the plot, struck, and successfully destroyed all the rockets.
Amjad Taha-tweet-19September2024-Hashem’s protection exposing terrorists
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The Revenge of Israel’s Women on Hezbollah
Dividing and taking apart an Islamic terrorist group.
3October2024 by Daniel Greenfield https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-revenge-of-israels-women-on-hezbollah/
Some were shocked to learn that Israel’s successful ‘Pagergeddon’ operation had been the work of a female intelligence operative under thirty. But they shouldn’t have been.
Israel’s digital intelligence capabilities rely on the work of young women operating in arenas like Unit 8200 which monitors enemy communications, plants surveillance devices and puts together intel data to form a bigger picture, and Unit 414, the unarmed observers on the front line, many of whose members were killed and a number captured during the Hamas invasion on Oct 7.
Women from 8200 and 414 had sounded early warning alerts about Hamas training drills and movements that went unheard before Oct 7. And Unit 414 had lost 27 of its own on Oct 7.
Unit 8200, which is 55% female, had taken some of the blame for the failures on Oct 7. The assault on Hezbollah provided a unique opportunity for Israel’s women to strike back.
‘Pagergeddon’ went viral on social media but it was only a piece of a bigger puzzle. The Israelis had deconstructed the lessons of Oct 7 and turned them against the Islamic terrorists. Hamas and its Iranian masterminds had wrecked Israeli battlefield communications in the initial attack. Israeli military units were slow to respond, aerial units were unable to strike and hours passed before the military leadership understood the scope of the terrorist assault on the homeland.
The first thing Israel came after were Hezbollah’s communications. ‘Pagergeddon’ was a crucial last step that began with Israel infiltrating Hezbollah’s landlines and then its other communications. When Hezbollah leaders fell back on the pagers and handheld radios, also favored by Hamas, that had been rigged to explode, communications were fatally scrambled.
Hezbollah leaders were forced to begin meeting in person and retreating to bunkers which made it all too easy to take them out. With a broken leadership and communications structure, Hezbollah lacked the ability to decisively move its forces and quickly respond. Within a week, its protectors at the UN and the White House were frantically urging a ‘ceasefire’.
Destroying communications and the chain of command is standard military doctrine, and Israel’s successful implementation of it within such a short time and against one of the world’s largest Islamic terrorist groups will be studied in military academies for generations, but there was also something feminine about breaking apart Hezbollah’s social bonds before a bombing campaign.
While misleading photos and videos of female IDF soldiers carrying rifles circulate on social media, the burden of front line combat is largely handled by men. The killing and capture of unarmed Israeli female observers from Unit 414 remains a deep moral failure. The true role of Israeli women is to act as the invisible heart and soul of the country’s national defense.
When Iron Dome and other interceptor systems take down incoming attacks, the odds are very good that the country’s female air defense controllers are alert and responding. And the extent to which Hezbollah’s communications were penetrated and turned against the terror group owes much to nameless female ‘keyboard warriors’ who exposed the enemy’s weaknesses.
Hezbollah was uniquely vulnerable to these tactics because it was in the awkward stage between terror group and terror state, too big to hide in tunnels, too small to have an effective air defense system, and too dumb to realize that tens of thousands of rockets were still no match for what a first rate air force could do to all its infrastructure and weaponry.
The Iranian-backed Jihadists who had taken over much of Lebanon’s power structure still thought like terrorists even as Hezbollah had grown much too big to function like one.
Terrorist groups start out as individual cells carrying out lone attacks, recruit more members, build militias, seize control of entire areas, transition to guerrillas and then become states. Islamic terrorists naturally adopted the same model employed by Marxist guerrillas across Asia because it was already innate to nomadic raiding culture and foundational to the rise of Islam.
Western militaries perform badly against terrorists and guerrillas, but very well against states.
Islamic armies never achieved much success against Israel, but their terrorists proved quite effective. Peace accords that turned over territory to the PLO and Hamas created safe zones for terrorists inside Israel in which the terrorists were surrounded by civilians who shared their cause of establishing Arab Islamic supremacy over Israel and the entire world.
Hezbollah’s position in Lebanon was much more precarious. Unlike Gaza, Lebanon is genuinely diverse. Apart from its large Christian population, Lebanon contains Arab Sunnis and groups that hate Hezbollah and resent the country turning into an Iranian and Syrian colony.
Mao had advocated that guerrillas should move like fish in the water among the local population. Hamas does this, Hezbollah, like its Shiite counterparts in Iraq, however built an intimidating sectarian power base by controlling entire neighborhoods and areas. Dahieh, the center of Israel’s bombing campaign, is Hezbollahs’s version of Sadr City. Rubbing shoulders with Christians and Sunni Muslims, every move Hezbollah makes is highly visible and reported to the Israelis by both allies and enemies who are eager to see the Shiite terrorist group fall.
Dahieh was not Rafah, it was the Green Zone in Iraq, and Hezbollah was not moving among the people like fish in the water, but like a widely resented occupying army making a lot of noise.
All of that allowed Israel to infiltrate its communications, track its personnel and strike decisive blows against its leaders. Hezbollah had alienated the local population, built up its forces and assumed that the sheer threat of its rocket arsenal would be enough to deter Israel, allowing it to shell Israel’s north with thousands of rockets in order to depopulate the region in preparation for its own version of the Oct 7 attack. But a rocket arsenal is a very crude tool. Like suicide bombs and other terror weapons, it’s useful for attacks carried out from hiding. But the response to a large visible terrorist group isolated in its areas launching rockets is all too obvious.
The inability of the Biden-Harris administration to stop the similar Houthi attacks by its sister Iranian-backed terror group out of Yemen had given Hezbollah a false sense of confidence.
Not only did Israel take out the Hezbollah leadership planning an invasion of the Galilee, providing a redeeming narrative for Unit 8200 after the horrors of Oct 7, but Hezbollah had made the fatal mistake of planning to invade Israel from a territory it did not actually control.
Everything that Hezbollah had thought was a strength, its arsenal, its power and its numbers, were actually weaknesses. Outside Iran and Dearborn, Michigan, Hezbollah has no friends.
Hezbollah is not only widely hated in Lebanon, but in the Arab world. Even the Sunni Arab Muslims clamoring to save Hamas had little more to offer than disdainful shrugs for Hezbollah. The wounds of the Syrian Civil War run deep and many Sunnis hate Hezbollah more than israel.
Israel isolated Hezbollah’s leaders and cut them out, just as it isolated the terror group.
Iran and Qatar had set out to divide Israel. Hamas took hostages, living or dead, while its Qatari backers pushed for rallies that demanded Israel surrender to Hamas to free them. The terrorists had hoped to fracture Israeli society into factions in order to tear it down the way they had torn apart Lebanon. But Israel turned to Lebanon to divide the terrorists and unify Israel.
By attacking Hezbollah, Prime Minister Netanyahu exploited the divisions among the terrorists and reunified Israel around the mission of defeating them. Syrian Sunni Arabs celebrate the downfall of Hezbollah while Shiites lash out at them. Iran is trying to pressure Syria’s dictator to bail out Hezbollah and Iraq’s Sunnis are taking issue with the Shiites dragging them into a war.
Behind the scenes, Israeli women had played a vital unsung role in dividing the terrorists and uniting the country just as they had done in keeping the nation and families together during the war. Countless wives and mothers had watched their husbands go off on deployment after deployment and had kept households going, sometimes from bomb shelters, and then still found time to volunteer and to pray after putting the children to bed.
Thousands of mothers of families displaced by Hezbollah’s rocket attacks have had to do all this without a home to come back to. As the fires burn in Hezbollah compounds, hope rises that all Israelis will be able to return home, that backyards will no longer have to give way to bomb shelters and that Israel’s families may once again know some measure of peace.
In the Bible, the Prophetess Devorah had predicted that “into the hand of a woman the Lord will deliver Sisera”. And in her song she described Sisera’s mother being comforted with promises that the Canaanite general and his armies were seizing women and loot. “Are they not finding and dividing the spoils? A girl or two for every man?” she imagines them saying and concludes with “So may perish all Your enemies, O Lord.” Once again history repeats itself.
And many a woman has repeated the same words and sentiments tonight in Israel.
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This is the time to reclaim Lebanon from the sadistic Iranian regime
Fatima J-tweet-18September2024-This is the time to reclaim Lebanon
To the people of Lebanon, this is the time to reclaim our country from the sadistic Iranian regime.
This is the time to ensure there is a homeland for our future generations.
This is the time for us to remove all foreign allegiances and symbols from our country.
This is the time to pledge our loyalty to the only flag that will fly in our skies.
This is the time to shout,
!لبّيك لبنان
Fatima J-tweet-18September2024-This is the time to reclaim Lebanon
Lebanon belongs to the Christians and the Druze
Sachin Jose-tweet-18September2024-Lebanon once had a majority Christian population
Lebanon once had a majority Christian population. According to the 1932 survey, 56 percent of the population were Christian. Once a wealthy a country, Lebanon has also become economically very unstable. The Islamist group Hezbollah has dragged the country and the peaceful Christian community into yet another conflict.
Sachin Jose-tweet-18September2024-Lebanon once had a majority Christian population
Lebanon was created by Christians
A continuous Christian presence in Lebanon since 1st Century AD
Archaeo – Histories-tweet-25September2024-A continuous Christian presence in Lebanon since 1st Century AD
Christianity was introduced to Lebanon in 1st Century AD. Tradition states that it was brought to Lebanon by St Peter and St Paul, and there has been a continuous Christian presence in the country since then.
Lebanon, then part of the Roman Empire, was one of the first places Christianity spread to in the first century AD. Sidon, on Lebanese coast, is mentioned in Acts (27:3). It is where St Paul (then a Roman prisoner) was allowed ‘to go to his friends so they might provide for his needs’, possibly indicating a very early Christian presence.
St George’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Beirut was said to have first been built by Eusebius of Nicomedia, Bishop of Berytus (modern-day Beirut), who died in 341 AD, although the current building is much later. But it’s the Maronite Church that has had the biggest influence in Lebanon and its history. In 4th Century, Maronite Christians (followers of St Maron, an aesthetic monk from Syria) moved into Lebanese mountains and began converting the population. Their monasteries in Kadisha Valley are some of oldest in the world and Maronite Church is largest Christian presence in Lebanon today.
Although part of Catholic branch of the church, it developed independently and has a unique character. Maronite community lived for many centuries in seclusion of Lebanese mountains, largely cut off from Rome (and rest of church). They and other indigenous Christian communities (Greek and Syriac Orthodox), resisted assimilation with Arab conquerors, who moved into Levant in 7th Century, and maintained a significant level of autonomy.
During 11th-12th Centuries, Crusaders briefly established Western Christian rule in region. Before they were driven out by the Muslim army, they built several churches and castles, including St John-Marc Cathedral in Byblos, and reestablished contact with Maronite church. Congregationalists and Presbyterian churches began to appear after Protestant missionaries arrived in Lebanon in around 1820s, and first Baptist congregation was founded in Beirut in 1895, but their numbers have remained small.
More significant in terms of numbers are Armenian Christians. Many fled to Lebanon during the Armenian Genocide in 1915, bringing with them their unique Christian heritage. Armenians are considered to be the world’s first Christian nation, when King Dirtad III converted to Christianity in 301 AD. By 1926 there were 75,000 Armenians in Lebanon, many concentrated around Beirut. Today this number has risen to around a quarter of a million. For much of Lebanon’s history the indigenous Christian community and larger Muslim community have lived in relative harmony. Notable exceptions being 1860 Mount Lebanon Druze-Maronite conflict and the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). Power-sharing agreements between Christians and Muslims have been part of Lebanese politics since at least 19th Century and Christians continue to play a significant role in government and culture of Lebanon today.
Today, Christians in Lebanon face an existential crisis, as their country increasingly has become controlled by Hezbollah terrorists who answer to Iran, prompting a mass exodus. Over the years, Lebanese Christians have faced multiple attacks, now they also face a new threat in the form of a rapidly declining proportion in relation to the Islamic element in the country. Many “unfortunately now feel like strangers in their own home country,” Maronite priest Jad Chlouk said in 2021. “This is negatively affecting the whole Christian community, because it is losing most of its brightest and best, and especially its young people, who are supposed to be the future of the Christians here. Hence, the number of Christians in the country is decreasing day by day, and this is badly affecting the situation and causing still more pressure for those who remain, in a situation where they might soon suffer from persecution.”
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Archaeo – Histories-tweet-25September2024-A continuous Christian presence in Lebanon since 1st Century AD
The St. Paul Greek Catholic Basilica in Harissa, Lebanon
Dr. Maalouf-tweet-27September2024-The St. Paul Greek Catholic Basilica in Harissa, Lebanon.
The St. Paul Greek Catholic Basilica in Harissa, Lebanon.
Reminder that Lebanon was created by Christians to be a safe haven for all persecuted Christians in the Middle East.
Hezbollah and other Islamic terrorists have no right to exist in Lebanon!
Dr. Maalouf-tweet-27September2024-The St. Paul Greek Catholic Basilica in Harissa, Lebanon.
Hezbollah occupied predominantly Maronite villages
Mount Levnon-tweet-25September2024-Hezbollah occupied predominantly Maronite villages
PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH THE #WORLD: IT’S VITAL TO KEEP THE #MARONITE COMMUNITY SAFE.
The claims that Israel is targeting Christian villages are entirely false.
The town of Lassa, which was recently struck by the #IDF, is indeed owned by the Maronite Endowments, but Hezbollah has occupied it for years, establishing military installations within its schools. For instance, the Mahdi School in Keserwan is also a launch site for Hezbollah missiles.
If we look at the villages surrounding Lassa, they are all predominantly Maronite, such as Aqoura, Yanouh, and Ehmej. Therefore, instead of using Shiites as human shields, Hezbollah resorts to using Maronites, knowing full well that the Maronites despise them. In doing so, Hezbollah hits two birds with one stone.
As free Maronites, we tell Israel to strike Hezbollah wherever they are, especially when they are entrenched in our villages. We do not want this occupation in our lands.
Mount Levnon-tweet-25September2024-Hezbollah occupied predominantly Maronite villages
Dr. Maalouf-tweet-18September2024-Lebanon belongs to the Christians and the Druze
Lebanon was never meant to be an Islamic country.
Lebanon belongs to the Christians and the Druze!
F*ck Hezbollah!
Dr. Maalouf-tweet-18September2024-Lebanon belongs to the Christians and the Druze
Hen Mazzig-tweet-18September2024-the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
Can someone please tell the American students and Squad members mourning Hezbollah terrorists that the group killed 241 U.S. service members—220 Marines, 18 sailors, and 3 soldiers—in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing?
They then, mere minutes later, detonated a second bomb and killed 58 French troops, and six Lebanese civilians.
Hezbollah is not your friend. Neither is Hamas.
Hen Mazzig-tweet-18September2024-the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
Jowelle Michel Howayeck-tweet-22September2024-You cannot ask a hostage to free himself
You cannot ask a hostage to free himself.
We are hostage of the terrorists militia.
On August 4th 2020 Hizballah caused the death of 230 civilians and the injuries to more than 6000 others by storing Ammonium Nitrate in beirut port.
They have been blocking the judicial process since then.
Please check about the political assassination they are accused of.
They’re killers.
Jowelle Michel Howayeck-tweet-22September2024-You cannot ask a hostage to free himself
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Israel puts the people of Lebanon first
Fatima J-tweet-18July2024-Israel puts the people of Lebanon first
September 5-6 1972 Palestinian terrorists of the group Black September kidnapped, held hostage and killed the Israeli team that was in Munich for the Olympics. One of the terrorists Ali Hassan Salameh became Arafat’s right hand man, an asset for the CIA and husband to Miss Universe Georgina Rizk (Lebanese) He was living in Beirut, Lebanon.
October 1978 – for 6 months Operation Maveer observed the going and comings of Salameh, studying his routine and the company around him.
January 22, 1979 – Salameh left his 6 month pregnant wife’s apartment and began heading to his mothers who was also living in posh Beirut. As him and his convoy turned onto Rue Madame Curie in Beirut the terrorist was assassinated by explosives that were attached to a parked car.
It took 6 months to find the perfect time to assassinate this terrorist because Israel wanted to be certain of there would be no civilian deaths.
Lebanon was housing a terrorist. Lebanon is still housing terrorists.
Lebanon’s daughter sold herself to a terrorist. Lebanon’s sons still sell their daughters to terrorists. Lebanon was protecting a terrorist. Lebanon still protects terrorists.
It was Israel that puts Lebanon’s civilians first. It is Israel that continues to put the people of Lebanon first.
Lebanon has and continues to put herself in the devil’s hands.
I am a Lebanese Maronite and I stand with Israel.
Fatima J-tweet-18July2024-Israel puts the people of Lebanon first
List of massacres that the Palestinians did in Lebanon
Phalangist – Lebanese Forces-tweet-20July2024-List of massacres that the Palestinians did in Lebanon
Phalangist – Lebanese Forces-tweet-20July2024-List of massacres that the Palestinians did in Lebanon
1976 Damour Massacre, Palestinian Fighters Murder at least 582 Christian Civilians
Saffiya-tweet-25September2024-1976 Damour Massacre
Stay safe. We know the sectarian history of Lebanon. ♥✡ ✝
1976 Damour Massacre, Palestinian Fighters Murder at least 582 Christian Civilians
Saffiya-tweet-25September2024-1976 Damour Massacre
1976 Damour Massacre, Palestinian Fighters Murder at least 582 Christian Civilians
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“Thank you Israel.” Celebration of Israel eliminating Hezbollah leader Nasrallah
Oli London-tweet-29September2024-Thank you Israel
“Thank you Israel.”
Iranians hold a street party in Toronto and hand out cake in celebration of Israel eliminating Hezbollah leader Nasrallah in an air strike.”
Oli London-tweet-29September2024-Thank you Israel
Iranians thank the IDF for eliminating Nasrallah
Kosher-tweet-28September2024-Iranians thank the IDF for eliminating Nasrallah
🚨 HAPPENING NOW 📍
Amazing to see!
Iranians gathered outside the Israeli embassy in London to thank the Israeli army for taking out Nasrallah
Singing of the Iranian Monarchy anthem 🥂
Makes a difference to Anti-Israel Hate Marches we see in London
Kosher-tweet-28September2024-Iranians thank the IDF for eliminating Nasrallah
Half of the Arab world celebrated Israel’s dominance over Hezbollah
Vivid.-tweet-27September2024-Half of the Arab world celebrated Israel’s dominance over Hezbollah
Half of the Arab world celebrated Israel’s dominance over Hezbollah and called Benjamin Netanyahu a hero.
This video has gone viral on Arab social media.
Vivid.-tweet-27September2024-Half of the Arab world celebrated Israel’s dominance over Hezbollah
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In Jerusalem and central Israel: Home Front Command limits gatherings on Rosh Hashanah
IDF restricts gatherings in Jerusalem and central Israel to 30 people outdoors, 300 indoors, following rocket barrage on central Israel. Central Selichot prayers at the Western Wall expected to be canceled.
Israel National News / 1October2024, 2:51 PM http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/397025
The IDF’s Home Front Command on Tuesday updated the guidelines for a number of areas in Israel, limiting gatherings on the Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) holiday.
The changes affect the following areas: Hacarmel; Wadi Ara; Menashe; Samaria; the Sharon, Dan, and Yarkon areas in central Israel; the central area of the “coastal” plains; Jerusalem; and the Judean plains.
The IDF explained: “Following a situational assessment, it was determined that as of today, at 14:00, changes will be made to the Home Front Command Guidelines with immediate effect.”
“As part of the changes, it was decided to implement additional restrictions in areas throughout the country. Restriction on activities and gatherings have been put in place for the following areas: Carmel, Wadi Ara, Menashe, Samaria, Sharon, Dan, Yarkon, Shefela, Jerusalem, and Judean Shefela.
“The guidelines in the rest of the country remain unchanged.”
Home Front Command guidelines 1-5October2024
The IDF added: “The main changes are as follows: Educational activities can be held in a place where you can reach a protected space in case of an alert.”
“Gatherings and services can be held with a limit of up to 30 people in an open area and up to 300 people in closed spaces.
“Workplaces can operate in a building or place where you can reach a protected space in case of an alert.”
Beaches will also be closed under these guidelines. Under these guidelines, it is expected that the central Selichot prayer event at the Western Wall will also be canceled. Larger synagogues and community prayers will also be affected.
The IDF stressed: “The instructions published on the official Home Front Command channels must be followed. The full instructions are updated on the National Emergency Portal and the Home Front Command app.”
Following the Home Front Command’s update, the Western Wall Heritage Foundation responded: “The central Selichot prayers at the Western Wall will take place in a restricted format, within the Western Wall Tunnels and in accordance with the Home Front Command’s guidelines.”
Are precautions still necessary, if the Home Front Command removed restrictions?
The IDF’s Home Front Command removed restrictions on large gatherings for Israelis in Jerusalem and Central Israel. Here’s why you might not want to attend a large gathering.
Chana Roberts / 2October2024, 12:29 PM (GMT+3) http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/397079
The IDF’s Home Front Command on midnight Wednesday morning declared that restrictions on large gatherings in central Israel, Jerusalem, and its suburbs would be removed, following a situational assessment.
With this declaration, the Home Front Command enabled thousands of Israelis to revert to their original plans for the Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) holiday.
The restrictions led to the cancellation of the central Selichot prayer gathering at the Western Wall, included a limit on gatherings of more than 30 people outdoors and more than 300 people indoors. These limits forced Jews around Israel to rethink their plans for Rosh Hashanah, especially if the plans included large gatherings.
However, the removal does not provide any real indication of what might happen over the course of the next three-and-a-half days, until the holiday and the Shabbat (Sabbath) which immediately follows draw to an end.
It is for this reason that a wise Israeli (or tourist) would do well to avoid banking on attending large gatherings during the holiday, and ensure some way of receiving Home Front Command updates if they do wish to attend large gatherings.
The IDF’s Home Front Command is constantly updating its guidelines for Israeli civilians, and does so even in the middle of the day. Earlier this week, security sources urged Israelis to reconsider their holiday plans in light of potential security threats, and choose a synagogue from which a bomb shelter could be reached within the required amount of time and without pushing or rushing.
Though as of this writing the Home Front Command removed restrictions on gatherings in Jerusalem and central Israel, it is not out of the question that the restrictions will be reinstated closer to the holiday’s start, or over the course of Rosh Hashanah itself.
In such a case, Israelis who observe the religious requirement to turn off electronics on the Sabbath and holidays will not be alerted when the restrictions are reimposed, but will hear the air raid sirens when they sound in real time. However, in cases of large gatherings, not everyone will be able to reach shelter in time, unless the gathering is held within a bomb shelter. There is also a real danger of crushing; in the vast majority of cases, those injured during a siren are injured while running for shelter, and not by the missile or interceptions.
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Iran attacks Israel 1October2024
Iran attacks Israel with 181 ballistic missiles
Iran launches attack on the State of Israel, triggering sirens throughout the country. 181 ballistic missiles fired at the Jewish State
Israel National News / 1October2024, 7:39 PM (GMT+3) http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/397039
At least 181 ballistic missiles were launched from Iran towards the State of Israel on Tuesday evening.
Magen David Adom reported that despite several impacts, no casualties during the attack have been reported so far.
United Hatzalah Deputy Spokesman Elias Romano stated, “Following the sirens throughout the country – so far no casualties have been found as a result of the missiles fired. United Hatzalah volunteers went out to scan several scenes where it was reported that there had been missile hits or shrapnel. A number of people were treated after injuring themselves following falls on their way to shelters.”
“United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit provided assistance to over 20 people who suffered from emotional shock.”
The IDF stated in a message to Israeli citizens when the attack began, “You are instructed to remain alert and precisely follow the Home Front Command’s instructions.”
“In the last few minutes, the Home Front Command has distributed life-saving instructions in various areas across the country. The public is asked to adhere to the Home Front Command’s guidelines. Upon hearing a siren, you must enter a protected space and remain there until further notice.
“The IDF is doing and will do everything necessary to protect the civilians of the State of Israel.”
In addition, IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari stated in an announcement to the nation, “Dear citizens, A short time ago, missiles were launched from Iran towards the State of Israel. You are asked to remain vigilant and follow the Home Front Command’s instructions precisely.”
“In the last few minutes, the Home Front Command has sent messages to mobile phones in certain areas with life-saving instructions, directing people to enter protected spaces. You must reach the safest protected space in your vicinity. Upon hearing a siren, immediately enter a protected space and remain there until further instructions are given.
“The air defense system is fully operational, detecting and intercepting threats wherever necessary, even at this moment. However, the defense is not hermetic, and therefore it is essential to follow the Home Front Command’s instructions. You may hear explosions, which could be the result of interceptions or impacts.
“Due to the variety of threats, alarms may be triggered in widespread areas. Stay updated on the instructions via the official pages of the Home Front Command and the IDF Spokesperson.
“Continue to act responsibly and keep calm, as you have done so far, and make sure to follow the guidelines. We are strong and can handle this event as well.
“The IDF is doing and will continue to do everything necessary to protect the civilians of Israel. The IDF is fully prepared for both defense and offense at peak readiness.
“I will continue to provide updates on all developments,” Hagari said.
Multiple explosions were heard in Jerusalem.
Hell hath no fury like a million Jewish women whose challahs just flopped in time for the holiday.
Malkah Fleisher-tweet-1October2024-Hell hath no fury like a million Jewish women whose challahs just flopped
We have just been notified that Iran is now preparing to launch long range ballistic missiles at Israel. They could be launched at any moment, and many of us have faced the unenviable task of notifying our children of the possible alterations to the daily schedule.
Alongside this, Jewish women have been toiling for days to prepare for the momentous and powerful Rosh Hashanah holiday.
And so Iran, I would like to pass you this message, on behalf of the House of Israel:
If you knock our electricity out while our challahs are baking, so help me I will gather such a flood of Jewish women that we will come over there and tear your missile silos down with our bare manicured hands.
Hell hath no fury like a million Jewish women whose challahs just flopped in time for the holiday.
Malkah Fleisher-tweet-1October2024-Hell hath no fury like a million Jewish women whose challahs just flopped
Result so far: 0 Israelis killed 1 Palestinian killed 5 Iranians killed
Dr. Eli David-tweet-1October2024-Result so far: 0 Israelis killed 1 Palestinian killed 5 Iranians killed
🚨 Breaking: 5 Iranian Revolutionary Guards forces were killed and at least 12 injured in the explosion of a ballistic missile during launch.
Result so far:
🇮🇱 0 Israelis killed
🇵🇸 1 Palestinian killed
🇮🇷 5 Iranians killed
Well done Iran 🙄
Dr. Eli David-tweet-1October2024-Result so far 0 Israelis killed 1 Palestinian killed 5 Iranians killed
The entire country just had air raid sirens
Im Tirtzu-tweet-1October2024-The entire country just had air raid sirens
The entire country just had air raid sirens
Im Tirtzu-tweet-1October2024-The entire country just had air raid sirens
JerusalemCats Comments: Just Wait.
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The IDF requests that no footage of impacts be shared for operational security (OpSec) reasons.
Open Source Intel-tweet-2October2024-operational security
The IDF requests that no footage of impacts be shared for operational security (OpSec) reasons.
Important message!
You revealed the locations of falls and documentation
From areas where there are inquiries?
You helped the enemy!
Open Source Intel-tweet-2October2024-operational security
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Article 51 of the UN Charter – the right to self-defense
Amichai Chikli-tweet-22September2024-Article 51 of the UN Charter – the right to self-defense
ידידי המשפטן דוד פטר (@ptr_dvd) הפנה אותי לנקודה חשובה מאד בעניין המלחמה בצפון, סעיף 51 למגילת האו״ם – הזכות להגנה עצמית.
1. לאחר פיגועי 9/11 מועצת הביטחון של האו”ם העבירה החלטות 1368 ו-1373 שגינו את המתקפה של אל-קעידה והבהירו שהזכות להגנה עצמית עומדת גם מול ישויות לא מדינתיות וקראו למדינות לנקוט בצעדים נגד טרור בינלאומי.
2. בעקבות הפלישה של ארה”ב לאפגניסטן התפתחה נורמה בינלאומית לפיה מדינה מותקפת זכאית להפעיל כוח נגד ארגון טרור שפועל מתוך שטח מדינה ריבונית כאשר אותה מדינה לא מסוגלת או לא מעוניינת לטפל בארגון הטרור.
כמו שאמר ג׳ורג׳ וו. בוש בנאומו כמה ימים לאחר מתקפת הטרור:
״We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them״
3. העיקרון של מדינה שלא מסוגלת או לא מעוניינת לטפל בארגון טרור שפועל משטחה אומץ גם בעניין המלחמה מול דאעש.
4. לבנון לא מקיימת אף לא סעיף אחד מהחלטה 1701 ועל שכן זוהי זכותה וחובתה של מדינת ישראל לקחת את המושכות לידיה ולעצב מחדש את המציאות הביטחונית
בגבול הצפון.
מצ״ב: צילום מסך מדו״ח מפורט של מכון קהלת בנושא.
My friend the lawyer David Peter (@ptr_dvd) directed me to a very important point regarding the war in the north, Article 51 of the UN Charter – the right to self-defense.
1. After the 9/11 attacks, the UN Security Council passed Resolutions 1368 and 1373 that condemned the Al-Qaeda attack and clarified that the right to self-defense also applies to non-state entities and called on countries to take measures against international terrorism.
2. Following the US invasion “In Afghanistan, an international norm has developed according to which an attacked country has the right to use force against a terrorist organization that operates from the territory of a sovereign country when that country is unable or unwilling to deal with the terrorist organization. As George W said. Bush in his speech a few days after the terrorist attack: “We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them”
3. The principle of a country unable or unwilling to deal with a terrorist organization operating on its territory was also adopted in the matter of the war against ISIS.
4. Lebanon does not comply with even one clause of Resolution 1701 and moreover it is the right and duty of the State of Israel to take the reins and reshape the security reality on the northern border. Mtsev: a screenshot from a detailed report by the Ecclesiastical Institute on the subject.
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What is Resolution 1701 of the UN Security Council?
What is Resolution 1701 of the UN Security Council?
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What is Resolution 1701 of the UN Security Council?
Security Council Resolution 1701: The Diplomatic Solution the U.N. Failed to Implement
https://www.aipac.org/resources/un-1701-hezbollah
UNSCR 1701 Requirements
The failure of the Lebanese government and the international community to enforce U.N. Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1701 has enabled Hezbollah to significantly expand its military capabilities, attack Israel, and push Israel and Lebanon to the brink of a devastating war.
UNSCR 1701 was a negotiated resolution to end the 2006 Second Lebanon War that Hezbollah initiated. Israel withdrew from Lebanon, but the U.N. and Lebanese government have failed to uphold three key demands that were also a part of the resolution:
Unfortunately, UNIFIL and the Lebanese government have failed to enforce the resolution. As a result, Hezbollah has turned Lebanon into a military fortress from which it is attacking Israel.
Israelis must be able to live in peace and security without the constant threat of terror. Lebanon and Hezbollah must be brought into full compliance with UNSCR 1701.
Requirement: Disarm Hezbollah and prevent it from rearming.
Reality: With help from Iran, Hezbollah’s weapons stockpile has multiplied dramatically.
From the resolution: UNSCR 1701 “require[s] the disarmament of all armed groups in Lebanon, so that […] there will be no weapons or authority in Lebanon other than that of the Lebanese State.”
With Iran’s help, Hezbollah’s arsenal has grown tenfold since UNSCR 1701’s passage. In 2006, the terrorist group possessed around 15,000 rockets. Today, it has more than 150,000 missiles and rockets — many of which are capable of precisely targeting any location in Israel.
Since October 7, Hezbollah terrorists have launched more than 8,500 missiles, rockets and drones into Israel. More than 40 Israelis, including 26 civilians, have been killed by Hezbollah. Around 80,000 Israelis remain displaced from their homes in the north.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has boasted that the group’s “weapons and rockets come from the Islamic Republic of Iran,” and that it will continue to receive Iranian arms shipments.
Requirement: Demilitarize southern Lebanon.
Reality: Hezbollah has entrenched its military infrastructure within civilian areas throughout Lebanon.
From the resolution: UNSCR 1701 requires “the establishment between the Blue Line [the 2000 border demarcation between Israel and Lebanon] and the Litani river of an area free of any armed personnel, assets and weapons other than those of the Government of Lebanon and of UNIFIL.”
Hezbollah has turned major Lebanese cities, including the entire area south of the Litani River, into a military fortress from which it can attack Israel — in blatant violation of UNSCR 1701. Today, many Lebanese cities are a Hezbollah maze of underground bunkers, rocket-launch sites and interconnecting tunnels, with at least one out of every four houses in some areas reportedly hosting a Hezbollah base, post, weapons depot or hideout.
Hezbollah has put the lives of Lebanese civilians in danger by using them as human shields and positioning its forces and weapons inside hospitals, homes and schools, in direct violation of Article 57
of the Geneva Conventions. Major Lebanese cities and critical infrastructure have been taken over by Hezbollah for terrorist purposes, including Lebanon’s major international airport in Beirut. In 2018, the IDF revealed six Hezbollah tunnels dug from residential Lebanese neighborhoods into northern Israel.
Requirement: Strengthen UNIFIL.
Reality: The U.N. force has completely failed to prevent Hezbollah’s weapons smuggling and terrorist activity.
From the resolution: UNSCR 1701 “supplement[s] and enhance[s] the [U.N.] force in numbers, equipment, mandate and scope of operations, [including] to authorize an increase in the force strength of UNIFIL to a maximum of 15,000 troops,” up from 2,000 troops. Also, authorized UNIFIL to take “all necessary action” to enforce the resolution.
Due to intimidation by Hezbollah and lack of cooperation from the Lebanese Armed Forces, UNIFIL’s roughly 10,000 troops do not act against Hezbollah. UNIFIL routinely fails to patrol areas known to host illicit Hezbollah weapons and neglects to report on Hezbollah violations. Hezbollah outposts are often situated mere feet from UNIFIL outposts. The U.S. has repeatedly called on UNIFIL to increase its capacity and commitment to investigating and reporting these violations.
Lebanon’s porous border with Syria has also allowed Hezbollah to import significant arms from both Syria and Iran. While UNSCR 1701 does allow UNIFIL to deploy along the border with Syria at the Lebanese government’s request, such a request has never been made — largely due to Hezbollah and Iranian intimidation.
The Way Forward
Hezbollah must cease all attacks on Israel and be brought into full compliance with UNSCR 1701. The international community must exert all possible pressure on the Lebanese government to compel it to take action against Hezbollah.
Simultaneously, America must stand by Israel as it responds to Hezbollah’s increasingly aggressive attacks and continue to ensure Israel has the weapons it needs to protect its families and destroy Hezbollah’s capabilities.
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Saudi Arabia does not care about Palestinians
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BIG NEWS 🚨 Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salman tells U.S. secretary of state that he doesn’t care about Palestinians.
Hamas, Hezbollah in SHOCK !!
Liberal leader MBS ⚡- Do I care personally about the Palestinian issue? I DON’T
“70% of people in my country are younger than me. For most of them, they never really knew much about the Palestinian issue” – Mohammed Bin Salman
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