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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Stop the Anti-Semitism on campuses
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Hamas on CampusColumbia Encampment Antisemitism April 17 24 2024Posted 26April2024 Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus: This is what’s going on at Columbia University. Must Watch.
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Israeli student at Columbia-NO health services allowed
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” Israeli student at Columbia-NO health services allowed
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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,
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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.
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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
George Soros paying student protesters across US Colleges – report
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.
George Soros is paying student radicals who are fueling nationwide explosion of Israel-hating protests
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.
Who Is Funding the Pro-Hamas Protests; Are They Aiming to Take Down America?
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.
Lawsuit by October 7 Victims Against Two Pro-Palestinian Groups
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.
Antisemitism surging, report finds, prompting fear for future of ‘Jewish life’ in West
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.”
In Our Name: A Message from Jewish Students at Columbia University
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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…
— Shai Davidai (@ShaiDavidai) May 8, 2024
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.
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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Alexander Rosenberg GS/JTS ‘26 |
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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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Noam Josse, CLS ’26 |
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Saphira Samuels, Barnard ‘26 |
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Aliza Ruttenberg, Barnard ‘27 |
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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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David Padover, CBS/CLS ‘24 |
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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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Dalia Moallem, Mailman ‘24 |
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Stella Vayner, Columbia Engineering, 2026 |
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Jonah Chill, Columbia Law School, ‘26 |
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Avi Fixler, Columbia Law School, ‘24 |
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Dahlia Bernstein, Barnard ‘27 |
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Sam Lisner, SPS, 2024 |
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Hannah Wander, CLS ‘25 |
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Noga Aharony, CUIMC 26’ |
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Esther Kishk, 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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Beverly Dweck, Barnard ‘27 |
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Olya Skulovich, PhD, ‘24, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science |
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Ariel Nurieli, Gs, 25 |
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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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Rachel Freilich, CC ’27 |
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Matan Malka, VP&S ‘25 |
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Dori Baron, CC ‘26 |
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Ella Waisman, SEAS, ’27 |
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Sarah Ginsberg, Barnard ‘27 |
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Risa Farber, SEAS ‘27 |
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Robyn Beyda, Barnard ‘27 |
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Frieda Catton, Barnard ‘27 |
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Joy Reeve ‘25 |
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Aryeh Krischer, Columbia, ’26 |
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Bracha Weinberger, Barnard 24′ |
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Rachel Landesman, Barnard ’25 |
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Sam Nahins, Columbia GS ‘24 |
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Eytan Abramowitz, SEAS ’27 |
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Nathan J Saldinger, GS ‘24 |
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Omer Nauer, GS ‘24 |
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Ilana Bramson /GS/JTS ‘27 |
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Yehuda Dicker, Columbia College ‘25 |
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Leo Salkind Columbia GS 26 |
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Daphna Spira, Barnard ‘24 |
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Lucy Hecht, CC ’26 |
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Abraham Jacobs, Columbia ‘24 |
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Ali Levontin, GS 24 |
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Zachary Krivine, SIPA ’24 |
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Gideon Marcus, GS, ’25 |
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Sally Schuster, SIPA ‘24 |
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Yahli Bibi, GS ‘27 |
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Michael Kolber, GS 26’ |
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Katya Kantor, GS ‘22 SIPA ‘24 |
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Sarah Hamerman, Columbia College ‘27 |
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Dor Lev GS 26 |
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Maya Jubas, CC ’25 |
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Evgeny Manzhosov, PhD Candidate, Columbia |
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Aiden Englander, SEAS ‘25 |
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Caroline Ulrich, BC ‘25 |
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Elya Levi, SPS ‘24 |
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Jaya Fainzilber, Touro ‘27 |
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Lihi Tal, GS ‘25 |
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Danielle Feit, Barnard ‘24 |
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Danelle Tuchman, CC ’25 |
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Jacob Resnick, GS/JTS’ 26 |
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Liana Marks, GS/JTS ‘27 |
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Alexander Dobensky, School of the Arts ’24 |
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Shai Goldman, CC ’24 |
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Andrew Stein, GS, ’25 |
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Rebecca Dyckman, Barnard ’27 |
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Henna Krauss, Barnard ‘27 |
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Molly Nelson, Barnard ‘24 |
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Simone Miller, CC ‘26 |
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Emily Silverstein, Barnard ‘25 |
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Stella Lessler, Columbia Engineering ‘24 |
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Ariella Burnstein, Barnard ‘27 |
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Ariel Slomka, Columbia GS ‘25 |
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Yael Amiel, CLS ’24 |
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Joseph Kaplan, CC 25 |
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Sonya Poznansky, Columbia GS ’24 |
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Sabrina, Columbia TAU 25 |
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Mendi Hecht, GS ‘26 |
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Zippy Wilson, Barnard ’26 |
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Avi Kohn, CLS ’26 |
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Tal Zussman, SEAS PhD |
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Esther Rotlevi, Neurobiology and Behavior (GSAS), ’27 |
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Mali Lobel, GS ‘26 |
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Tans Rosen, SEAS ’26 |
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Meira Saffra, Barnard ’24 |
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Eliza Binstock, Columbia College ‘27 |
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Yasmine Abouzaglo, Columbia ‘27 |
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Rebecca Glanzer, Columbia College ’16, Columbia Business School ’24 |
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Nora Samadi, Barnard ‘25 |
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Daniel Glick, SEAS 24’ |
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Riva Rubin, Columbia College ’25 |
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Jared Axelowitz, Columbia Law School ’25 |
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Annika Erickson, Barnard ’24 |
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Talia Kesselman, Columbia School of Social Work, ’24 |
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Tallie Steiner, Barnard ‘24 |
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Gal Lev Ari, GS’26 |
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Noam Zolty, CLS ’22 |
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Natalie Carnoy, Columbia College ’26 |
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Emily Kahan, Columbia College ‘26 |
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Noam Woldenberg, CC ‘27 |
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Joel Sontag, Columbia Law School, ’24 |
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Lexi Berger, Barnard ‘24 |
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Rachel Neplokh, TAU General Studies Dual Degree ‘24 |
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Ava Quinn, GS/JTS ’25 |
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Ann Mizrahi, Columbia University ’24 |
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Shimon Nataf, Columbia Law School ’26 |
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Sam Horowitz CLS 25 |
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Josh Sussman, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health ‘25 |
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Eden Shaveet, Bridge to Ph.D. Scholar, ’24 |
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Nickia Muraskin, SEAS PhD Student |
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Joshua Strongin, Teachers College ‘24 |
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Sasha Isler, SEAS ‘26 |
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Molly Litvak, CC ‘26 |
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Alon S. Levin, Electrical Engineering PhD Student |
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Alex Malamud, Barnard ‘24 |
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Hannah Solon, GS/JTS ’25 |
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Danielle Yahalom, Barnard ’25 |
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Emily Vayner GS/JTS ’27 |
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Daniel Barth, GS ’24 |
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Noa Salkind GS 26 |
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Sapir Agam GS ‘25 |
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Rebecca Wernick, Barnard ‘25 |
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Asher Dayanim GS ‘24 |
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Ariel Weinsaft, Barnard ’25 |
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Samantha Tarlowe, GS/JTS ‘27 |
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Simone Glajchen, Columbia College ‘27 |
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Jessica Major, Columbia School of Social Work, ‘25 |
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Aaron Bruce, JTS/GS ’25 |
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Lola Hurst, Barnard ‘27 |
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Michael Lippman, GS ‘25 |
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Yaniv Yatziv, CBS ’25 |
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Emma Vorchheimer, Barnard, 25’ |
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Yola Ashkenazie, Barnard ‘24 |
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Clementine silver Schwartz, GS ‘27 |
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Daniel Becker, GS Tel Aviv Dual-Degree ‘25 |
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Jessica Brenner, Barnard ‘26 |
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Sharon Nagy, Tau-Columbia 28‘ |
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Eliana Steinlauf, Barnard ’24 |
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Hana Cohen, GS/JTS ‘26 |
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Tomas Fiure, SEAS ‘24 |
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Gabriela Bentolila, SEAS ‘25 |
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Gabriela Bentolila, SEAS ‘25 |
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David Rabbani, CC ‘25 |
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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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Andrew Leibert, SIPA ’24 |
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Daniella Davis, GS, 2027 |
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Mikael Rochman, GS 25’ |
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Ben Wald, JTS/GS, 25’ |
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Chloe, TAU/GS Dual Degree Program, ’25 |
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Danielle Gillai, Barnard ‘27 |
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Thomas Zev Huneycutt, GS ‘27 |
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Sarah Cohen, SIPA ‘25 |
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Maya Gal, GS/TAU ‘24 |
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Gabriella Jacobs, TAU-Columbia ‘27 |
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Natan Sharansky: A landmark letter from 500 Jews at Columbia University
Natan Sharansky, Former Jewish Agency Chairman
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/natan-anatoly-sharansky
The 500
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
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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Natan (Anatoly) Sharansky
(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
UC-Berkeley Law Prof: Don’t Hire My Anti-Semitic Law Students
“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.
CEOs Vowing Not to Hire Harvard Students Who Signed Letter Blaming Israel for Hamas Attack
“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.
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. pic.twitter.com/JBrmJdslPa
— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) November 2, 2023
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:
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. pic.twitter.com/ng9OL1J29N
— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) November 12, 2023
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
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Examples of Anti-Semitic Law Students
Top US law firm Davis Polk announces in an internal email that it had rescinded letters of employment for three law students at Harvard University and Columbia University who signed on to organizational statements regarding Israel. https://t.co/nN14suluby
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 17, 2023
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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. pic.twitter.com/RfWKo7CvrN
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 18, 2023
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.
Do better, @Newsweek
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…
— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) November 20, 2023
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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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White-shoe law firm Sullivan & Cromwell to screen job applicants for participation in anti-Israel protests
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?
Harvard 2024
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… pic.twitter.com/Mfd7ckP3n9
— Harvard Chabad (@HarvardChabad) April 25, 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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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. pic.twitter.com/UaGHb7RbD6
— Hillel Fuld (@HilzFuld) April 24, 2024
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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… pic.twitter.com/Ew3gLhXxYg
— Yael Bar tur 🎗️ (@yaelbt) February 15, 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 onDo we really want to encourage student bodies behind this culture? Students of the classes of 2024 – 2028 should be held to a standard pic.twitter.com/PFaNwt2dqV
— AsperGirl (@an0nygir1) February 15, 2024
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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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Harvard Graduate Hiring Freeze
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) December 31, 2023
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Company Background Check Won’t Turn Up a Harvard Diploma
A Jewish social work student was forced to leave her clinical rotation due to blatant antisemitism
🚨 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… pic.twitter.com/maTGQ83wPi
— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) May 25, 2024
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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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When You Realize Nearly Everyone In Your University Wants You Dead
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.
[See Next Post: Not So Safe Space ]
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 pic.twitter.com/YyrpTD0o6s
— Geoffrey Datz (@gdatz) October 11, 2023
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
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 pic.twitter.com/dXXQI6mwQM
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 18, 2024
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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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Why Can’t They Just Leave The Jewish Hostage Posters Alone?Mentally healthy people just walk by a poster they don’t like. Psychopaths and sociopaths tear them down, and when you throw in DEI-infused dehumanization of Jews, you get the anti-Israel movement we now have.Posted by William A. Jacobson, 9November2023 https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/11/why-cant-they-just-leave-the-jewish-hostage-posters-alone/
 NYU Students Destroy Israeli kidnapped Posters There has been a wave of vandalism of posters placed in various locations of Israelis who were kidnapped by Hamas, other terrorist groups, and “civilians” on October 7.
While I haven’t done a rigorous statistical survey, anecdotally I and others have noticed that the poster-rippers and other violent anti-Israel protesters disproportionately are young women.
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Los Angeles. 2023.
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Recognize them? DM us!
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The lack of humanity by your students is not only heartbreaking but extremely concerning @nyuniversity
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There are many more examples posted at StopAntiSemitism, Canary Mission, and elsewhere on Twitter.
They have smug grins and a glee on their faces just like the sadists who tortured and mutilated Israelis on October 7. The posters for them are a proxy for Jews in the flesh. If you wonder how “normal” people can turn into barbarians, you are witnessing it in real time.
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The posters attract these deranged haters like flies. They just can’t help themselves. Why not just walk on by? Why not put up your own posters? Why the need to destroy? They are taking out some life frustration and letting loose the demons within them on Jews who are victims.
I read a really good description of what is at least part of the problem, by Antonio García Martínez writing at The Tablet:
A lot of people are waking up to the dehumanization of Jews through CRT/’anti-racism’/DEI. We’ve been screaming about it for years. We even started a website to document how deeply the racialized pathology has spread (CriticalRace.org).
But we’re just “right wing” so we never penetrated the broader and mostly liberal American Jewish community. Now that Bari Weiss is writing about it, though, its okay for liberal Jews to call out the DEI monster:
It’s no coincidence that so many of the poster-rippers are in college or work at colleges. That is where the DEI-indoctrination is the most intense.
This is not a working class phenomenon.
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This is a DEI-addicted illness.
Of course, there are other factors. Some are motivated by traditional Islamist Jew-hatred, some by traditional leftist-Jew hatred, some are just deeply unhappy and disturbed people with deep emotional problems who have found someone else to make miserable.
Mentally healthy people just walk by a poster they don’t like. Psychopaths and sociopaths tear them down, and when you throw in DEI-infused dehumanization of Jews, you get the anti-Israel movement we now have.
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Liberals more distant from Israel
New JPPI Poll: The survey examines whether the events make US Jews feel “closer” or “more distant” from Israel. In this question, there is a substantial decrease in the proportion of very liberal or fairly liberal Jews who consider that the events will make them feel closer to Israel, alongside a slight increase in those who estimate that the events will make them feel “more distant ” from Israel (notably, among very liberals, from 5% to 13%). Additionally, there is an increase in the proportion of those who believe that the events will “not change” their degree of closeness to Israel. The survey was conducted among 696 Jews in the United States.  JPPI-tweet-6November2023-New JPPI Poll
If your entire worldview is that the world is divided between “oppressors” and the “oppressed,” then anything that shows that you are wrong and sometimes Jews can be oppressed enrages you. Which is why people tear down the “kidnapped” signs. The signs violate their religion.  Elder of Ziyon-tweet-6November2023-If your entire worldview
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Please walk away from the people in your life who are..
Let. Them. Go.  Jordyn-tweet-8November2023-Please walk away from the people
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How are Jewish students coping with antisemitism on campus?
How are Jewish students coping with antisemitism on campus? A @UBCPsych study is recruiting Jewish students to take part in a study on stress and coping. If you self-identify as Jewish and attend a college or university, we would love to hear from you. https://delongis.psych.ubc.ca/participate/jewish-on-campus/  How are Jewish students coping with antisemitism on campus
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Jewish students, university campuses can be tough places these days
So I want to run through a few things that you will encounter on college campuses. Because you need to be prepared. When you get to college you’re going to run into groups which are a part of the boycott Israel movement. These groups will pretend to be all about justice, freedom and human rights, which is great, except that’s not what they are about. These groups intention is to destroy the only Jewish state in the world. They don’t hide it, they just hide it from you. They will tell you that they don’t hate Jews, they just hate Israel or even better “Zionists”. Never mind that Zionism only means that Jews are allowed to have a state, like every other people, and that most Jews believe in that. They will tell you that Jews have nothing to do with the Land of Israel. But the simple truth is: Israel is a massive part of Jewish identity. It’s where Jews and Judaism come from and where we have always had a presence. We’re called Jews because we come from Judea. Why am I telling you all this? Because they want to tell you that your identity is wrong and that there is something wrong with you. That being Jewish, being a Zionist is something to be ashamed of. They want you to hide your Jewish identity. But Jewish people are done hiding. We are not going to live in hiding. We live in a time when everyone is encouraged to celebrate who they are. Every identity is expected to be accepted. And should be. Gender identity. Sexual identity. Ethnic identity. We have to celebrate our Jewish identity as well! So now, at college and beyond: walk with your heads held high. Take pride in who you are and what you represent. Flaunt your star of David, invite all your friends for Shabbat. find a nice Jewish boy. We will not hide and we will not let the haters tell us who we are or who we can be. Now go have a great weekend, have fun get inspired and don’t forget – Am Yisrael Chai  noa tishby-tweet-3March2024-Jewish students-university campuses can be tough places these days
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21April2024-Jewish students at Colombia University, “Return home as soon as possible and remain home antisemitism explodes on campus.”
“It deeply pains me to say that I would strongly recommend you return home as soon as possible and remain home…” Belaaz News-tweet-21April2024-Jewish students at Colombia University Return home as soon as possible and remain home-Rav Elie Buechler-21April2024 It deeply pains me to say that I would strongly recommend you return home as soon as possible and remain home until the reality in and around campus has dramatically improved. It is not our job as Jews to ensure our own safety on campus. If you need assistance please reach out to me.  Belaaz News-tweet-21April2024-Jewish students at Colombia University Return home as soon as possible and remain home  Jewish students at Colombia University Return home as soon as possible and remain home-Rav Elie Buechler-21April2024
Shame on you @Columbia. @NYCMayor @GovKathyHochul it’s fucking time to do something.  Dr. Logan Levkoff-tweet-22April2024-Jews are not safe in NYC Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream US & CAN 1-866-4-ALIYAH | UK 020-8150-6690 or 0800-085-2105 | Israel 02-659-5800 https://www.nbn.org.il/ info@nbn.org.il It’s time to come home! Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream 1-866-4-ALIYAH
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Israeli student at Columbia “We currently fear for our personal safety”
Don’t listen to me. Listen to them: “Dear Shai, I am writing to you as a concerned Israeli student at Columbia University, along with 133 fellow Israeli students. On April 23rd at 8:00 AM, we addressed a letter to President Shafik, Co-Chair Shipman, and Co-Chair Greenwald, expressing our fears about our safety on campus and the critical need for immediate action. I have attached the letter for your reference. We are reaching out because we believe that our concerns are being neglected by the university administration, and we recognize the significant role that the media is playing in these recent events. We fear further escalation of violence on campus and want to ensure that our voices are heard and that preventive measures are taken to safeguard all students. We believe that increased media attention can help bring about the necessary changes and hold the university accountable for ensuring a safe environment for everyone. We request that when posting the letter it is done anonymously, as we currently fear for our personal safety.”  Shai Davidai-tweet-24April2024-Israeli student at Columbia
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Columbia deans sneering at antisemitism and Jewish students
 Canary Mission-tweet-3July2024-Columbia deans sneering at antisemitism and Jewish students
‘Amazing what $$$$ can do’: New Text Messages Show Columbia Deans Sneering at ‘Privilege’ of Jewish StudentsHouse Committee on Education releases newly obtained text messages from Susan Chang-Kim, Matthew Patashnick, Cristen Kromm, and Josef SorettAaron Sibarium and Jessica Costescu
The deans at the center of the Columbia University texting scandal scoffed that Jewish students concerned about the eruption of anti-Semitism on campus are “coming from a place of privilege” and suggested those students have more institutional support than their peers because of their supposed wealth, according to new messages reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
The messages, obtained by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and released on Tuesday, show that three of the deans—Susan Chang-Kim, Matthew Patashnick, and Cristen Kromm—engaged in a more extensive pattern of disparagement than has been previously reported and shed new light on how Columbia officials reacted in real-time to a panel on anti-Semitism held during the university’s alumni weekend.
“I’m going to throw up,” Chang-Kim, Columbia’s vice dean and chief administrative officer, wrote to her colleagues roughly an hour into the panel. The text’s timing aligns with remarks from an audience member and daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Orly Mishan, who described how her own daughter, a Columbia sophomore, “was hiding in plain sight” on campus after the Oct. 7 attacks.
“Amazing what $$$$ can do,” replied Kromm, the dean of undergraduate student life. The new messages suggest that the administrators, who were placed on leave pending a university investigation after a Free Beacon report revealed snippets of their text exchanges, see concerns about anti-Semitism as manifestations of entitlement.
“They will have their own dorm soon,” Patashnick, the associate dean for student and family support, said of Jewish students, after the head of Columbia Hillel, Brian Cohen, said that many Jews felt more comfortable spending time at the Kraft Center he runs than in their own dormitories following the Oct. 7 attacks.
“Comes from such a place of privilege,” Chang-Kim wrote two minutes later. “Trying to be open minded to understand but the doors are closing.”
The deans also ridiculed Cohen’s efforts to provide support services, including psychological counseling, to Jewish and Israeli students following Oct. 7, implying that they were receiving special treatment denied to other groups.
“Not all heroes wear capes,” Patashnick texted sarcastically. “If only every identity community had these resources and support,” Kromm replied.
In 2024, Columbia hosted separate graduation events for black, Asian, Native American, LGBT, and “Latinx” students. Jews were one of the only minority groups not to host a ceremony of their own.
The release of the texts comes as Columbia faces renewed pressure to take action over the ordeal. A petition put forth on Tuesday by Columbia alumni, students, and community members calls on the Ivy League institution to remove Sorett, Chang-Kim, Patashnick, and Kromm “from their positions immediately.”
“All four of the deans implicated must be held accountable and terminated. This incident exposes a profound issue at Columbia that cannot be dismissed,” the petition reads. “Failure to address this quickly can only be interpreted as a lack of seriousness and urgency in dealing with campus antisemitism within Columbia’s administration. Columbia University must deliver an immediate and unambiguous message that antisemitism will not be tolerated.”
Sorett, Chang-Kim, Kromm, and Patashnick did not respond to requests for comment. A Columbia spokeswoman pointed the Free Beacon to a June 12 statement saying the school is “committed to combatting antisemitism and taking sustained, concrete action to ensure Columbia is a campus where Jewish students and everyone in our community feels safe, valued, and able to thrive.”
Other text messages obtained by the Free Beacon from the same panel show the four deans dismissing claims of anti-Semitism.
At one point during the panel, Chang-Kim texted Sorett to say the panel “is difficult to listen to but I’m trying to keep an open mind to learn about this point of view.” Sorett responded, “Yup.”
Kromm, meanwhile, used vomit emojis—”🤢🤮”—to reference an op-ed from Columbia campus rabbi Yonah Hain that raised concerns about the “normalization of Hamas” on campus.
After the release of those messages, Sorett issued a private apology to Columbia’s Board of Visitors, saying the texts did not “indicate the views of any individual or the team.” He later informed his colleagues that Chang-Kim, Patashnick, and Kromm had been placed on leave. Sorett was not included in the disciplinary move, and a Columbia spokesman declined to say why.
Shortly thereafter, on June 21, the Free Beacon obtained a photo of another text sent during the panel that showed Sorett sneering at Cohen. After Chang-Kim sent Sorett a sarcastic text calling Cohen “our hero,” Sorett responded, “LMAO.”
On the same day, Sorett broke his silence on his involvement in the scandal in an email to the Board of Visitors. “I deeply regret my role in these text exchanges and the impact they have had on our community,” he wrote. “I am cooperating fully with the University’s investigation of these matters. I am committed to learning from this situation and to the work of confronting antisemitism, discrimination, and hate at Columbia.”
Sorett sent that message after calling the cops on a Free Beacon reporter who knocked on his apartment door to ask him about his involvement in the texts. While Sorett never came to the door or asked the Free Beacon to leave, when the Free Beacon left the building, several New York City police and campus security officers were outside. A Columbia security official said Sorett “raised a whole big issue.”
The new texts obtained by the committee, meanwhile, show Kromm and Chang echoed an assessment from Patashnick that Cohen took “full advantage of this moment” for its “huge fundraising potential.”
Those texts were sent around the time Cohen cited a visit to Columbia’s campus from prominent Israeli politician and human rights activist Natan Sharansky.
“Who was the speaker he mentioned?” Kromm asked. “Natan Sharansky,” Patshnick responded before sending a link to Sharansky’s Wikipedia page.
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Columbia is currently preventing its Jewish professors from entering the campus
A dark day in the history of the US 🇺🇲  Dr. Eli David-tweet-22April2024-Columbia is preventing its Jewish professors from entering the campus
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Purge Jewish faculty from universities
Hillel is a cultural lifeline for Jewish students. If you want it gone – that means you want Jews gone. There’s no negotiating on the antisemitic nature of this demand. Also, I am intentionally not mentioning other demands because I think it’s important to focus solely on Hillel here, as the demand is so plainly antisemitic there isn’t even room for a nuanced discussion.  Caroline Glick-tweet-5May2024-Purge Jewish faculty from universities
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Soros DA dropped charges against Columbia University protesters
 Caroline Glick-tweet-21June2024-Soros DA dropped charges against Columbia University protesters
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Technion Israel Institute of Technology Invitation to Faculty and Students letter 26April2024
 Technion Israel-tweet-28April2024-Invitation to Faculty and Students
Invitation to Faculty and StudentsThe Technion, Israel’s leading technological university, is troubled by the growing prevalence of anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric on university campuses around the world. We extend an invitation to all faculty and students who are facing these distressing circumstances to join us for study, teaching, and research at our Haifa Campuses.  Technion, Israel invitation letter 26April2024
There is a Jewish brain drain going on elite US universities. We should all be concerned about the future of technological innovation in this country when some of our greatest minds are being pushed off campus for being Jews.  Talia Khan-tweet-26April2024-Technion Israel invitation letter 26April2024
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Aliyah is now an emergency – act on itIsrael was caught off guard and unprepared on October 7th. Is it prepared to facilitate the mass wave of Aliyah that may be coming?Tzvi Fishman / 25April2024 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/389003  63rd Nefesh B’Nefesh chartered Aliyah flight – Shahar Azran
In the wake of the events which took place on October 7, and because of Israel’s ongoing war against demonical enemies, the Israeli public has come to realize that many previous false conceptions must be changed in order to guarantee a better future.
Just as military conceptions must be changed and illusions about Hamas and other Islamic groups must be altered, conceptions regarding Aliyah must be rethought and altered as well.
Israel was caught off guard and unprepared on October 7th. Is it prepared to facilitate the mass wave of Aliyah that may be coming? Does Israel have a plan to evacuate the Jews of Paris, London, New York, South Florida, and LA if the violence against Jews explodes out of control around the world? Is Israel prepared to house the millions of Jewish refugees who sooner or later will flock to our shores? Has the Government of Israel purchased hundreds of thousands of emergency tents?
This may seem like a futuristic scenario, but it could easily come to pass and soon. Who ever thought that 300 missiles would be launched against us from Iran? Who can promise that the situation won’t heighten? The State of Israel was founded to be a refuge for all Jews. Is it prepared today to fulfill its chartered mission?
In response to the increasing global anti-Semitism and the havoc on college campuses throughout the United States, grassroots Aliyah activists in Israel are holding an emergency conference after the Pesach holiday in Jerusalem.
Yosef Mendelevich, Jonathan Pollard, Rabbi Leo Dee will be present, along with representatives from NBN and the Israel Ministry of Aliyah and Klita, and a hall filled with grassroots Aliyah activists.
It is obvious to us that the Master of the World is bringing about upheavals in Israel and throughout the world in order to bring His Chosen People home, just as He has done many times in out past. For decades since the founding of the State of Israel, He has waited patiently for the Jews of the West to come home on their own, but now His patience seems to be ending. As Ze’ev Jabotinsky warned a decade before the Holocaust: the Diaspora must be liquidated before the Diaspora liquidates us. It is time to come home.
Due to the urgency and seriousness of the situation, and to the likelihood that world Jewry will face greater outbursts of hatred as Israel continues to fight its very just war, we have to think “out-of-the-box.” Old formulas won’t help. While new programs of outreach and new incentives to lure immigrants are important, they will only succeed in bringing a few thousand more immigrants to Israel if Aliyah does not become a number-one national priority.
Fortunately the heads of Nefesh B’Nefesh and the Ministry of Aliyah and Klita are open to implement new ideas. They will be present at the Aliyah conference to hear what we have to say. Since they, along with the Government of Israel and its various agencies dealing with Aliyah like the Jewish Agency and the WZO, have the manpower and funding to put new ideas into practice, we hope that we can influence their dedicated, around-the-clock work.
By thinking together as a team, we can, with G-d’s help, bring about a revolution in our continuing Redemption which began long ago in ancient Egypt and which must gain momentum today with the ingathering of our millions of brothers and sisters from their no longer comfortable exile in the West. The call, “Let my people go!” must be resounded once again.
Just as Israel needs to be more aggressive in Gaza, we need to be more aggressive in Jewish communities and on college campuses throughout Diaspora. Israel is at war but there is a burgeoning war against the Jewish People everywhere. Instead of spending billions of dollars in trying to strengthen Jewish identity in the exile, the focus must be switched to Aliyah.
For example, the Jewish groups at work on college campuses blessedly try to strengthen Jewish students against the rabid anti-Israel sentiment – but Aliyah is not in their agenda at all.
-“Aliyah commando” teams of young idealistic Israelis must be sent to college campuses immediately to invite the beleaguered Jewish students to become a part of a much higher mission in the Jewish Homeland.
-The Government of Israel will provide free tuition for students making Aliyah and the word must be spread. Full university bachelor-degree curriculums must be immediately created in several Israel universities in various majors to offer the beleaguered college students in America a real option for escape.  Aliya college programs – Jewish Agency -Other teams of idealists, for example from the settler community, must be sent out far and wide to bring families to Judea and Samaria where the Government is prepared to offer new and significant incentives.
-Diaspora Rabbis must begin to encourage aliyah. To help inspire this change, leading Rabbis in Israel must be summoned to issue a proclamation calling on Rabbis and Jewish educators in the Diaspora to actively teach the Torah commandment of living in Israel.
-Diaspora congregations must establish funds to help people make aliyah.
-Parents must push their children to go to college in Israel.
-Chabad must jump on the aliyah bandwagon and hand out aliyah brochures in addition to Hanukah candles and Tefillin. In addition, Chabad must be pushed to relocate its world headquarters to Israel to carry out our Pesach yearning: “Next year in Jerusalem.” It must no longer provide a “fig-leaf heksher” to Diaspora Jews as if it is OK to live in gentile lands where assimilation is constantly skyrocketing and where Jewish hatred will only get worse.
-And the Government of Israel must begin to build the proper infrastructure to absorb the mass wave of Diaspora refugees who will soon seek a safer haven in Israel.
Concurrently a much greater effort must be extending in bringing the Lost Tribes home, the myriads in India, Afghanistan, South America, and other places who maintain Jewish traditions and who want to be fully converted and immigrate to Israel. These people have proven to become outstanding citizens in Israel, hard-working, hard-fighting, happy with their new life in the Holy Land.
(These are just a few of the proposals that will be discussed at the upcoming Emergency Aliyah Conference and then passed on to the official government bodies. All Aliyah activists are invited to attend. The Emergency Aliyah Conference will be held at the Hibba Center in Jerusalem, 75 Herzog Boulevard, on May 1 between 5-9pm. For further information call: 0507810595).
Tzvi Fishman was awarded the Israel Ministry of Education Prize for Jewish Culture and Creativity. Before making Aliyah to Israel in 1984, he was a successful Hollywood screenwriter. He has co-authored 4 books with Rabbi David Samson, based on the teachings of Rabbis A. Y. Kook and T. Y. Kook. His other books include: “The Kuzari For Young Readers” and “Tuvia in the Promised Land”. His books are available on Amazon. Recently, he directed the movie, “Stories of Rebbe Nachman.”
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JerusalemCats Comments: Time for UK Jews to make Aliyah (Move to Israel). Contact the Jewish Agency @JewishAgency 0-800-0852-105 E-MAIL: gci-en@jafi.org https://jewishagency.org/aliyah/
Anti-Zionist [Antisemitic] beliefs ‘worthy of respect’, UK tribunal findsJudges say unfairly dismissed academic David Miller’s views on Israel should be protected by antidiscrimination lawsMatthew Weaver and agencies
 In February the tribunal ruled that Prof David Miller was unfairly discriminated against when he was dismissed by the University of Bristol. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA
The belief that Israel’s actions amount to apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide are “worthy of respect in a democratic society”, an employment tribunal has concluded in a landmark decision.
In February the tribunal ruled that Prof David Miller was unfairly discriminated against when he was dismissed by the University of Bristol over allegations of making antisemitic remarks, in a decision the Union of Jewish Students said set a dangerous precedent.
The tribunal has now published its 120-page judgment setting out why Miller’s beliefs warranted protection under antidiscrimination laws.
Passing the ruling, the employment judge Rohan Pirani said: “Although many would vehemently and cogently disagree with [Miller]’s analysis of politics and history, others have the same or similar beliefs. “We find that he has established that [the criteria] have been met and that his belief amounted to a philosophical belief.”
Miller, who lectured at the university on political sociology, told the panel he thought Zionism was “inherently racist, imperialist and colonial”.
He added that Zionism was “ideologically bound to lead to the practices of apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide in pursuit of territorial control and expansion”. But he told the panel that his anti-Zionism did not equate to opposition towards Jews. < |
ISRAEL AT WAR 5784: Time and Again
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-21June2024-Shabbat Shalom
#ShabbatShalom is a bit like the Jewish version of “TGIF” but with a dash of spiritual elegance. “Shabbat Shalom” is Hebrew for “peaceful Sabbath,” and it’s a greeting used by Jews around the world to wish each other a serene and meaningful day of rest.
The expression of “Shabbat Shalom” embraces the spirit of the Sabbath. It’s our chance to unplug from the hustle and bustle of the week. Shabbat reminds us that we are souls and not robots. Shabbat replenishes the soul. Shabbat means connecting with Hashem, with family and with our own souls
So, whether you’re praying, munching on challah, sipping a glass of fine Israeli dry red wine or just taking a nap in the middle of the day, remember to spread the “Shabbat Shalom” love and enjoy a peaceful day of rest. Shabbat Shalom, cherished friends.
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Israeli Citizen Spokespersons’ Office
4 Hostages rescued ALIVE from Gaza
This is what happens when you make peace
Israel Derangement Syndrome
Los Angeles – Pico-Robertson Pogrom 23June2024
Around the World
“If today the heads of government are unsure of their ability to withstand the nations – if they are fearful and weak – it is better that they leave the task of leadership to others.”
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-8July2024-if they are fearful and weak
Prophetic words of the Lubavitcher Rebbe osb”m, 1970: “If today the heads of government are unsure of their ability to withstand the nations – if they are fearful and weak – it is better that they leave the task of leadership to others.” Tonight, 3 Tammuz, is his 30th yahrtzeit.
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-8July2024-if they are fearful and weak
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-30July2024-Finish the job
When talking about the 1st Lebanon War in 1982, the Lubavitcher Rebbe said, “You’re fighting terrorists. Hit them before they hit you. Finish the job, swiftly and completely.” Prophetic words on deaf ears. The deafness is from a lack of emuna.
harabi_770-tweeet-30July2024-We must end the war in the north!
חייבים לסיים את המלחמה בצפון!
We must end the war in the north!
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-30July2024-Finish the job
Bibi, switch the horses already
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-21August2024-Bibi, switch the horses already
This tune is going viral in Israel, “Bibi, switch the horses already,” sung by Ariel Zilber, and it really makes you smile because it’s so true how the anti-emuna junta here messes things up. Enjoy – smile, don’t get angry. Hashem is doing everything for the best.
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-21August2024-Bibi, switch the horses already
Caroline Glick-tweet-29July2024-This is the Hatziri of the Hatzi
זאת הפצ”רית של הרצי וחונטת סיירת מטכ”ל בראשות אהוד ברק. הם האחראים הבלעדים לאסון שמחת תורה. לא נוכל לישון בשקט כל עוד הם ממשיכים לשלוט במטכ”ל.
This is the Hatziri of the Hatzi and the commander of a general patrol led by Ehud Barak. They are solely responsible for the Simchat Torah disaster. We will not be able to sleep peacefully as long as they continue to control the General Staff.
Michael Ben-tweet-29July2024-
במו ידיה הגברת הזו תביא לנו את הרפורמה המשפטית.
כמה את טיפשה גברת….
With her own hands this lady will bring us the legal reform.
How stupid you are lady…
Caroline Glick-tweet-29July2024-This is the Hatziri of the Hatzi
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This is leadership
Hillel Fuld-tweet-24November2024-This is leadership
This is leadership. This is what good leaders do for their people. This is how a normal society functions. Too bad our enemies still haven’t gotten it.
Hillel Fuld-tweet-24November2024-This is leadership
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Netanyahu fires Gallant as Defense Minister
PM dismisses Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, citing ‘significant gaps’ and lack of trust, appoints Israel Katz in his place.
Israel National News / 5November2024, 8:16 PM (GMT+2) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/398672
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday evening.
Netanyahu explained that this is the result of a crisis of trust and significant differences between the two in the management of the war.
“As the Prime Minister of Israel, my chief obligation is to preserve the security of Israel and to achieve our total victory. In the midst of war, more than ever, complete trust is required between the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister,” Netanyahu began.
“Unfortunately, even though such trust was present during the first months of the military campaign, and we had a very productive cooperation, during the past several months this trust between myself and the Defense Minister has begun to crack,” he stated.
Netanyahu continued, “Defense Minister Gallant and I had substantial disagreements on the management of the military campaign, disagreements which were accompanied by public statements and actions that contravened the decisions of the Government and the Security Cabinet.”
“I have made multiple attempts to resolve these disagreements, but they became increasingly wider. They were also brought to the knowledge of the public in an inappropriate manner, and what is even worse, they have reached the knowledge of the enemy; our enemies have taken great delight in these disagreements and have derived much benefit from them,” he added.
He explained that “different opinions in open debates, as anyone who knows me can attest to, are my way of holding discussions and consultations, and making decisions. Everyone knows that. However, the increasingly wide crisis of confidence between myself and the Defense Minister had become public knowledge, and that crisis is hindering the continued proper administration of the military campaign.”
“I am not the only one with this opinion; in both the Government and the Security Cabinet, the majority of the members of which, virtually all members, share the feeling that this state of affairs cannot continue,” he noted.
“In view of the above, I have decided today to remove the Defense Minister from his post. In his stead, I have decided to appoint Minister Israel Katz to this position. Israel Katz has proven his abilities and has made a contribution to national security as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Finance, Minister of Intelligence for five years, and equally important, as a long-standing member of the State Security Cabinet,” Netanyahu declared.
“Israel Katz brings to the table an impressive combination of rich experience and executive capabilities. He is known as a man of action who combines responsibility with reserved decisiveness, all important qualities for driving a military campaign,” he said.
He further stated that former Minister Gideon Sa’ar would take Minister Katz’s place as Foreign Minister. “Also, I have spoken today with Minister Gideon Sa’ar and proposed that he join the coalition along with his faction and serve as Minister of Foreign Affairs. As a member of the Government and Security Cabinet for many years, Gideon Sa’ar will bring to the table much experience and consideration in the areas of policy and security, and will be a significant addition to our leadership team.”
“Gideon Saar’s addition and the addition of his faction will increase the stability of the coalition and the government, important factors at any time, and especially important in time of war. I am convinced that these steps will reinforce the Government and the Security Cabinet, transforming them into bodies that work cooperatively and harmoniously for the security of the State of Israel, for the citizens of Israel, and for our victory,” he said.
Gallant stated in response, “The security of the State of Israel always was, and will always remain my life’s mission.”
Incoming Defense Minister Israel Katz said, “I thank Prime Minister Netanyahu for the trust he placed in me in appointing me to the position of minister of defense. I accept this responsibility with a sense of mission and a deep commitment to the security of the State of Israel and its citizens.”
“We will work together to advance the defense establishment to victory against our enemies and to achieve the goals of the war: the return of all the hostages as the most important mission, the destruction of Hamas in Gaza, the defeat of Hezbollah in Lebanon, the curbing of Iranian aggression and the safe return of the residents of the north and south to their home,” he added.
The move was welcomed by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who said, “The prime minister did well to remove him from his position.” Ben-Gvir claimed that “it is not possible to achieve absolute victory” with Gallant as Defense Minister.
On the other hand, opposition figures condemned Gallant’s firing, Democrats chairman Yair Golan called on the public to “take to the streets” in protest.
National Unity MK Orit Farkash Hacohen said, “A Defense Minister who announces conscription orders for thousands of Haredim is fired in the middle of a war on the eve of an [expected Iranian] attack for the sake of the evasion law.”
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A coup attempt in the shadow of Oct. 7
Many fingers are pointed in the direction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But the evidence—and blame—says otherwise.
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy, Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security and Mossad chief David Barnea attend a ceremony of laying of the Israeli flags on each fallen soldier’s grave at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, on May 8, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash 90.
Caroline B. Glick
https://www.jns.org/a-coup-attempt-in-the-shadow-of-oct-7/
Caroline B. Glick is the senior contributing editor of Jewish News Syndicate and host of the “Caroline Glick Show” on JNS. She is also the diplomatic commentator for Israel’s Channel 14, as well as a columnist for Newsweek. Glick is the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington and a lecturer at Israel’s College of Statesmanship. She appears regularly on U.S., British, Australian and Indian television networks, including Fox, Newsmax and CBN. She appears, as well, on the BBC, Sky News Britain and Sky News Australia, and on India’s WION News Network. She speaks regularly on nationally syndicated and major market radio shows across the English-speaking world. She is also a frequent guest on major podcasts, including the Dave Rubin Show and the Victor Davis Hanson Show.
(6December2024/ JNS) This week, Channel 11’s journalist Ayala Hasson broadcast a two-part exposé on the Israel Defense Forces’ self-investigation of the massacre at the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, which took place a kilometer from the Gaza Strip. Hasson’s reports reinforced the fact that the IDF and Shin Bet top brass are to blame for Hamas’s successful day of genocide.
A total of 364 people were brutally murdered at the Nova music festival and along avenues of escape. Thirty-nine were taken hostage. The rave opened on Oct. 5 with 3,800 revelers.
According to earlier investigative reports, the IDF intercepted Hamas’s invasion plans a year before Oct. 7. They received multiple, rapidly escalating warnings of the impending invasion from a variety of sources in the Southern Command in the months, weeks and days prior to that day. Intelligence head Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi and Shin Bet director Ronen Bar did not share the warnings or Hamas’s intercepted invasion plans with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Instead, they repeatedly briefed him that Hamas was deterred, and Israel simply needed to provide it with more cash from Qatar and more work permits for Gazans in Israel to keep the terrorist regime fat, happy and deterred.
On Oct. 10, we learned that on the night between Oct. 6 and Oct. 7, Halevi, Bar, Southern Command Chief Maj. General Yaron Finkleman, Operations Directorate Chief Maj. Gen. Oded Basiuk and Haliva’s assistant (Haliva was on vacation and not answering his phone), held two telephone consultations, at midnight and 4 a.m., when they discussed multiplying indications that Hamas was about to carry out its invasion, slaughter and kidnapping plan. They chose to do nothing, told no one and agreed to meet again at 8 a.m. Hamas invaded at 6:30.
Hasson’s reported excerpts from two-and-a-half hours of recordings of a conversation between Halevi’s representative Brig. Gen. Ido Mizrahi and police commanders in the Southern District. Halevi appointed Mizrahi to conduct the IDF’s inquiry into the slaughter at Nova.
The police were the heroes of the festival. By declaring that Israel was under invasion at 6:30, Southern District Commander Superintendent Amir Cohen precipitated the Ofakim police station commander’s order to disperse the concert-goers. That decision is credited with saving the lives of 90% of the party’s attendees. According to Mizrahi, about 200 people were at the party site when the Palestinian rape, murder and kidnapping gangs arrived a bit after 9 a.m.
Forty policemen and women died staving off the invading Palestinian terrorists from the Nova festival. IDF forces didn’t show up until after the massacre was over and the 39 hostages had been taken to Gaza. All the same, Mizrahi tried to shift the blame for the mass slaughter from the IDF onto the police, asking why there were still 200 people at the party site at 9.
Surprised, the police explained that they couldn’t enforce the order because they were busy fighting Hamas since the IDF didn’t arrive.
Mizrahi disclosed to Cohen and his officers for the first time that on nighttime telephone calls, Bar, Halevi and their associates discussed the Nova festival but opted to do nothing. The police officers noted that had they known this at 4 a.m., the slaughter would have been prevented.
Plugging the leaks
Hasson’s reports were a grim reminder of the IDF General Staff and the Shin Bet director’s unforgivable and arguably criminal dereliction of duty in everything related to the events of Oct. 7. They were the only ones with knowledge of Hamas’s preparations to invade. They were the only ones who knew that Hamas was taking concrete steps to invade in the hours before the invasion. And they told no one and did nothing.
Since Oct. 7, Halevi and Bar—and their equally culpable subordinates—have tried to deflect the blame onto Netanyahu by insisting that the reason they were unprepared was because of the prime minister’s longstanding policy of containing Hamas. But this claim is nonsensical given that Netanyahu based his policies on false information they provided him.
Their efforts to avoid accepting responsibility for their cataclysmic failures—and to deflect the blame onto Netanyahu whom they kept in the dark—has brought us to Israel’s current state, where by the looks of things, Halevi, Bar, their comrades in the legal system (led by Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara) and the justices of the Supreme Court are engaged in an all-out effort to oust Netanyahu from power as quickly as possible.
Their efforts have been ongoing since the start of the war. The generals have all but openly accused Netanyahu of blocking a hostage deal. This comes despite the fact that they have known all along that Hamas has never been willing to free the hostages, whom it rightly views as its life-insurance policy. Halevi, Bar and their subordinates are assumed to be behind nearly all of the leaks to the media related to Israel’s internal discussions regarding the hostage talks. Those leaks have repeatedly been used by Hamas to justify their consistent refusal to make a deal.
The generals are likewise fingered as the most likely sources of real-time leaks from cabinet meetings, geared towards scuttling Netanyahu’s plans to advance military operations in Gaza and Lebanon. They have cooperated under the shadow of the Biden administration to subvert Netanyahu’s orders.
The leaks from the cabinet meetings are all felonies. Yet, despite Netanyahu’s repeated requests that criminal probes be opened to find the leakers, Baharav-Miara has refused.
Her visible determination to enable the subversion of normal workings of government by refusing to investigate the leaks is prima facie illegal. All the same, this is her policy.
In shocking contrast to her consistent protection of anti-government leakers, over the past six weeks, Baharav-Miara has been at the center of a bold-faced effort to criminalize any IDF officer, police officer or public servant who provides Netanyahu and his ministers with information that the IDF and Shin Bet are determined to hide from them, as they hid Hamas’s pre-Oct. 7 invasion plans from Israel’s elected leaders; or advance ministerial policies that Bar, Halevi and Baharav-Miara oppose.
Six weeks ago, Shin Bet officers staged dramatic bedroom arrests of two military intelligence officers and an intelligence NCO, dragging them out of their homes in the middle of the night. They also brutally arrested Eli Feldstein, a military affairs spokesman in the Prime Minister’s Office. The two officers were later released, but despite three orders from magistrates and district courts to release Feldstein and the NCO, acting on appeals from Baharav-Miara’s prosecutors, the Supreme Court has kept them behind bars. The NCO is accused of transferring classified information to Feldstein in a manner that endangers national security. Feldstein is accused of leaking classified information to Germany’s Bild newspaper in a manner that endangers national security. The cover story is that the NCO gave Feldstein a Hamas document showing that the terror group is unwilling to make a hostage deal under any conditions and is using Netanyahu’s political opposition to blame the premier for the absence of a deal.
This week, attorney Uri Korb, who represents the NCO, explained the actual story. Several months ago, a group of intelligence officers and NCOs were concerned because Haliva, his replacement Maj. Gen. Yossi Binder, Bar and Halevi were deliberately blocking information from Netanyahu that the officers and NCOs considered essential to the premier’s ability to make decisions related to the war. The NCO transferred this information to Feldstein to be delivered to Netanyahu. The Bild story was just one of many documents the IDF and Shin Bet were hiding from the premier. From the prosecution’s court declarations against Feldstein and the NCO, we learned last week that the NCO provided Feldstein with information about a state actor’s collusion with Hamas in perpetrating Oct. 7. The name of the state entity is blacked out in the document. But the most reasonable interpretation of the text is that it refers either to the Palestinian Authority or Egypt.
In both cases, blocking Netanyahu from receiving the information undermines his ability to understand the nature of the enemy. It also prevents him from developing a strategy to effectively combat hostile actors that the IDF, Shin Bet and Biden administration have been keen to shield from public scrutiny.
Feldstein and the NCO were denied communication with their attorneys for several weeks. Their families attest that the men have been treated as terrorists, and are in psychological and physical distress. Both have also been subjected to massive pressure to incriminate Netanyahu.
Rupture among law-enforcement agencies
The public persecution of Feldstein and the NCO serves two ends. First, it seeks to criminalize Netanyahu and second, it aims to deter other intelligence officers from providing the prime minister with critical information about the war.
In response to the two men’s plight, the Knesset is advancing a bill that would provide immunity for whistle-blowers who share classified information with the prime minister. In an act of gross insubordination, IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Daniel Hagari harshly criticized the bill in a press conference on Wednesday night.
The legal system, IDF General Staff and Shin Bet’s joint abuse of Feldstein and the NCO has exposed Israel’s three ruling institutions to harsh criticism for their political subversion. But they don’t care. Far from standing down, last week they upped the ante precipitously.
Last Monday, the Shin Bet arrested Koby Yaakobi, head of the Israeli Prison Service, at gunpoint. They similarly arrested Avishai Muallem, deputy superintendent and the head of the Serious Crimes Unit in the Samaria and Judea District. Yaakobi is suspected of informing Muallem that he was under investigation. Muallem is suspected of refusing to open investigations against Jewish Israelis in Judea and Samaria that the Shin Bet’s “Jewish Division,” has fingered as terror suspects. The Shin Bet accuses Muallem of seeking a bribe in the form of a promotion from Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir in exchange for not prosecuting Jewish Israelis.
In recent testimony before the Knesset, Muallem told lawmakers that most complaints filed by Palestinians and anarchists in Judea and Samaria against Israeli Jews are frivolous. Until Muallem took over the unit, its officers served as rubber stamps for the Shin Bet’s Jewish Division’s accusation against Jews.
The self-evident political nature of the two senior officers’ arrests and interrogations has caused a rupture of relations between the police and prison service on the one hand, and the attorney general and the Shin Bet on the other. As in the case of Feldstein and the NCO, Yaakobi and Muallem’s arrests serve a twofold goal.
First, the purpose is to intimidate police officers not to work with Ben-Gvir. Second, Muallem and Yaakobi are being pressured to incriminate the security minister. Last month, Baharav-Miara unsuccessfully tried to coerce Netanyahu to fire Ben-Gvir. Under extra-legal Supreme Court guidelines, if she indicts Ben-Gvir, then Netanyahu will be required to fire him. Baharav-Miara and her colleagues are convinced that if he is fired, Ben-Gvir will pull his party out of the governing coalition and precipitate its overthrow.
This brings us back to Oct. 7.
Bar, Halevi and the political left have demanded the formation of a commission of inquiry to be controlled by the Supreme Court. The government seeks the establishment of a public commission of inquiry whose members will be chosen in equal numbers by the coalition and the opposition. A judicial commission of inquiry will be chosen by radical leftist Yitzhak Amit, acting president of the Supreme Court. He is expected to appoint commission members who will protect the IDF and Shin Bet from scrutiny and place all the blame for their failure on Netanyahu.
If Netanyahu’s government falls and the left is able to form an alternate government in the existing Knesset, that successor government would pass a law authorizing a commission of inquiry into the Oct. 7 invasion to be appointed by Amit.
As the days and weeks pass, and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration draws nearer, Israel’s ruling class is becoming desperate to oust Netanyahu from power. They fear that without Biden supporting their efforts and with Trump determined to rout out their American administrative state counterparts, they will lose their grip on unchecked power. Muallem, Yaakobi, Feldstein and the NCO have become victims of their desperation.
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Think for yourself
Finally: Prayer rally in Hevron, Sept 12th 2024
by Rivka Levy 19August2024 https://thinkforyourselfpublishing.com/finally-prayer-rally-in-hevron-sept-12th/
I just got sent this:
Prayer rally in Hevron-12September2024
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The Rav has called for a prayer gathering in Hevron, on Thursday September 12th, 2024, beginning at 9pm.
BH, the Rav will be coming, too.
Strange to say, this is a very good sign.
All year, I’ve been waiting for one of these prayer gatherings to be called in Hevron – because I’ve seen so many times in the past, how they literally make ‘the problem’ disappear overnight – and all year, it just hasn’t happened.
I guess we hadn’t reached the part in this massive process of awakening and teshuva where the prayer gathering would be effective.
Now, BH, I’m hopeful that the end of the nightmare situation that has been 5784 is in sight.
If, enough people show up in Hebron on September 12th.
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While I was browsing the RavBerland.com site, looking for more stuff about the concept of ‘MBY’ from the Rav, I came across something I wrote five years ago now, in 2019:
https://ravberland.com/5779-the-year-in-review/
It talks a lot about different prayer gatherings in Hevron that took place throughout the year of 5779 – just before the Evils unleashed the scamdemic on the world.
Perhaps more to the point, it reminded me of how many ‘tough times’ were going on in 5779 – and how these prayer gatherings literally turned everything around for Am Yisrael.
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Five years ago, it was way harder to ‘get with the Rav’, in some ways.
You had to have already figured out that the masonic media lies about everything, collaborates with the corrupt State to frame innocent people for political ends – and that the State itself is rotten to the core, morally.
That was quite an ‘ask’ five years ago.
But now?
This should be obvious to any awake person (awake defined as, literally, not asleep, and with two functioning brain cells.)
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So, if you can make it to Hevron on September 12th at 9pm, even with mesirut nefesh, please come and join the prayer gathering, with the Rav.
At the very least, these prayer gatherings ‘work’ to sweeten things for the people who make the effort to participate.
And if you only help yourself by coming – dayenu.
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Rabbi Lazer Brody’s predictions 28July2024
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I hope I’m wrong on both counts, but here are my predictions:
1) Israel will make a very lukewarm attack against Hezbolla, maybe killing 12 porcupines in a deserted Hezbolla base;
2) Kamala Harris will win the US Presidential Elections.
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Rabbi Lazer Brody: Kibbutz Be’eri 7January2025
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In case anyone has a short memory, this is what Hamas did to the lovely south of Israel. This is one of the visible scars, still an open wound (photo from yesterday, Kibbutz Be’eri). Other scars are invisible, because they’re either buried or still captive. Why are we still feeding Hamas?
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Chanukah did not simply happen 2200 years ago
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Chanukah did not simply happen 2200 years ago, when the leftist, assimilationist Hellenist Jews collaborated with the Greeks and Seleucids (Syrian Greeks) against those Jews who remained loyal to Hashem and to His Torah, led by a family of High Priests known as the Maccabees.
Here’s Chanukah repeating itself, which manifests itself in the current war. Maybe you don’t like conspiracy theories, but the following is simply a puzzle of facts coming together:
Chanukah, 5783 – present:
1. Collaboration and Conspiracy: The Biden administration is today’s Greece. Blinken and his Israeli counterparts – Israel’s Attorney General, Gantz et. al., the IDF Chief of Staff and Head of the Shin Bet are the collaborators, conspiring with the USA to overthrow Bibi. They are willing to enable a treacherous and treasonous act tio justify their sinister goal.
2. The Plot: To discredit and overthrow Bibi and his government by allowing a mass kidnapping event.
3. The Method: The military hid vital intel from Netanyahu. Their reports claimed that there was no threat or danger from Hamas during the High Holidays of 5784 (October, 2023). Refusing to listen to frantic on-the-spot reports from the forward observers, many of whom were capured and killed on October 7, Chief of Staff Herzi HaLevi ensured that the army would be dormant and that no forces would be mobilized to stop the invasion even when all the signs were there. His part was to prevent a response on the ground that would curtail the invasion and prevent the kidnapping.
4. Neutralizing Netanyahu: Herzi was also responsible for ensuring that Netanyahu would know nothing about what was brewing on the Gaza border. He knew that Bibi mobilize in full force the moment he would know. As such, the ShinBet and IDF top brass did everything to keep Bibi in the dark.
5. Bibi bounces back: better late than never, Bibi jumped into action as soon as the war started, but the the wicked assimilated witch from the North – the Attorney General – delayed the IDF in a bureacratic ploy demanding an official declaration of war before full mobilization. She managed to hold off the declaration for 12 critical hours during which the mass kidnapping occurred.
6. Blinken rushes to Israel: amazingly, this traitor against his people was allowed into the “pit” – highest level warroom in the Tel-Aviv Kirya (our Pentagon) to intervene in shaping the Israeli response. First, they tried to establish the narrative that Israel would not respond militarily at all, but would only negotiate under American mediation for the return of the kidnapped in exchange for a Palestinian state.
7. Israeli public outrage: when that didn’t help and they saw the public outrage in Israel, the USA and Israeli collaborators changed course and tried to lead a process in which the IDF would indeed take revenge on Hamas for a few days, but would then stop and return to negotiations. They did this by trying to dictate to the War Cabinet that the main goal of the war would be the return of the kidnapped and not the overthrow of Hamas (only a secondary goal).
8. The Perfidy – Blinken and Austin claimed that the overthrow of Hamas was not a possible goal at all, and they brought in military experts who pumped this message over and over to the War Cabinet and the General Staff. They therefore devised a plot to disarm the IDF, known as “humanitarian aid.”
9. Keeping Hamas in power: Humanitarian aid was the means to ensure that Hamas would never fall, as it has indeed done and continues to do to this day.
10. The Stooges: Gantz and Eisenkot were the collaborators of the Americans who were deliberately planted in the war cabinet, and they were the ones who were supposed to provide the goods to the Americans and make sure that Bibi did not deviate from the hostage deal (a primary goal) and did not seek to topple Hamas (a secondary goal). This is why this double-dealing duo always opposed everything that would advance the war on Hamas: they opposed ground entry, they opposed the expulsion of Gazans from the northern Gaza Strip, they opposed entry into the southern Gaza Strip, into Rafah, into the smuggling route. They also opposed entry into Lebanon.
11. Bibi alone against them all: The ground op in Gaza, the Rafiah campaign, the invasion of Lebanon and bucking the USA was all Bibi, who bucked the disloyal IDF Chief of Staff, the Americans, and Gantz. As a result, the Americans ordered Gantz to resign in order to make Netanyahu more fragile, to take away the legitimacy of the “left” from him and to leave him alone in the fight in the hope that he would fold and realize that there was no choice. This did not help either.
12. Backfire – Bibi unchained: From the moment Gantz resigned, Bibi loosened his reins and took his gloves off, leading to the elimination of Sinwar and Nasrulla, on the way to fulfilling Bibi’s strategy of “the absolute victory.”
13. So where will this go: Hashem has been giving Bibi power, otherwise there is no explanation how any human can have the strength to withstand the opposition from within and without. Bibi must now understand what the Lubavitcher Rebbe told him, that he would represent the light against a dark world. Bibi must set an example and remove the Hellenism from his own life and declare his loyalty to Hashem and His Torah. This could be the sanctification of Hashem’s Name that becomes the final catalyst of Moshiach.
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Israel hits Iran
“Operation Days of Teshuva” 26October2024
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The more the smoke clears from yesterday’s miraculous IAF strike against Iran, the more we must thank Hashem and praise His Name for giving our airmen the skill and success for accomplishing the impossible. Iran is now completely exposed, and that’s not all:
1) Satellite photos show damage on Iran’s missile production that will take 2 years to repair.
2) All four Russian supplied S300 missile defense systems were destroyed.
3) All radar defenses surrounding Tehran were destroyed.
4) 12 different ballistic-fuel mixing centers were destroyed.
5) Several weapons research centers were destroyed. One of them may have been a nuclear research center as a message to Iran: You could have been hit much worse…
Successes like this carry a pricetag. No wonder the mission was called, “Operation Days of Teshuva (Repentance)”; maybe the IDF was referring to the recent High Holidays, but Hashem is referring to the coming days, when all of us should strengthen ourselves in emuna and Torah observance. Hashem is showing us what He can do for us when we do. Let’s start with something easy – stop badmouthing other people and stay away from those who do. Unity is what Hashem wants from us.
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Thank You, Hashem, for a successful “Operation Days of Teshuva” strike against Iran, early Shabbat Breishit. Here’s what we know now:
1. Dozens of IAF F16s, F15s and support aircraft departed for Iran at about 2AM Shabbat, local time.
2. Iran’s proxy air defenses in Iraq and Syria were first neutralized.
3. Israel attacked the plant that produces Russian S300 ballistic missiles, drone-manufacturing plants and other strategic sites.
4. There was no attack against oil fields, nuclear plants or civilian centers.
5. The attack lasted for 3 hours until 5 AM.
6. All of our personnel and aircraft returned home safely, Baruch Hashem.
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19April2024 Israeli strikes on Iran
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According to @abcnews, at least 7 different #Iranian locations have been struck so far tonight by #Israeli airstrikes.
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Those who destroy you and lay (your land) in waste, come from your midst
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Why were Isaiah’s eyes red from crying? Yet why is Sinwar laughing?
Sinwar wants the address of the National Labor Union (Histadrut) head to send him a bouquet of flowers. While foreign governments, including Biden and Blinken, are condemning the Hamas savages who murdered our hostages in cold blood – Bar David, head of the leftist deep-state mafia aka Histadrut, is calling for a general strike tomorrow. While Israel’s right is busy fighting the enemy, Israel’s left is busy fighting Israel’s right. This is what brought tears to Isaiah’s eyes: מְהָרְסַיִךְ וּמַחֲרִיבַיִךְ, מִמֵּךְ יֵצֵאוּ. – “Those who destroy you and lay (your land) in waste, come from your midst (Isaiah 49:17).
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List of Cities not striking
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This is a partial list of the cities which have refused to take part in the demoralizing and highly politicized strike the labor unions decided to foist on the backs of Israelis who have already been suffering and struggling for almost a year:
Jerusalem
Ashdod
Netanya
Ramle
Dimona
Holon
Petach Tikva
Tzfat
Efrat
Ariel
Katzrin
Kiryat Yam
Kiryat Motzkin
Kiryat Bialik
Beit Shemesh
Mitzpe Ramon
Arad
Maale Adumim
Migdal Haemek
Harish
Nahal Sorek
Bnai Brak
Shlomi
Maale Tarshisha
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Who is the architect of the move designed to bring about surrender? Yoav Galant.
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ל”עסקה,” איננה סיבה למסיבה. להיפך. זה איום אסטרטגי ממעלה ראשונה. התזמון אינו מקרי. מדובר ככל הנראה במהלך מתואם עם ראשי כנופיית קפלן שמאשימים באופן בלתי נתפס, את ראש הממשלה בפשעי חמאס. הלחץ האמריקני לא מופעל כיום, ומעולם לא הופעל עד כה, על חמאס אלא רק על ישראל. והמסר שמועבר בהודעה על “הצעה סופית,” הוא, זהו יהודונים, שיחקתם מספיק. עכשיו תתקפלו! ומי מחולל את הכל כאן בפועל? מי אדריכל המהלך שנועד להביא לכניעה? יואב גלנט. כאשר ההיסטוריה של תקופה זאת תיכתב, נדמה שגלנט ייזכר שם כמולל המערכה שנועדה להביא להתפרקות של המהפכה הציונית. אם אני צודקת, אז ההתנהלות הבלתי נסלחת שלו בקבינט ביום חמישי והציוץ שלו אתמול בבוקר יתבררו כמצית של ליל גלנט השני, והאסוני ביותר. בפעם הראשונה, המעשה שלו הביא לפירוק יכולת נבחרי העם לתפוס את הגה השלטון מהפקידים הפוסט ציונים העוינים לעם ולשלטונו. בפעם השנייה, כעת, המעשה שלו עלול, חלילה, להביא לאובדן הריבונות שלנו. לא הגענו עד הלום כדי להתקפל. אסור למצמץ. אסור להתבלבל.
The American announcement that the administration is preparing a “final offer” for a “deal,” is no cause for celebration. on the contrary. This is a strategic threat of the first order. The timing is no accident. This is apparently a coordinated move with the leaders of the Kaplan gang who unimaginably accuse the Prime Minister of Hamas crimes. The American pressure is not applied today, and has never been applied until now, on Hamas but only on Israel. And the message that is conveyed in the announcement of a “final offer,” is, this is Jews, you have played enough. Now fold up! And who creates everything here in practice? Who is the architect of the move designed to bring about surrender? Yoav Galant. When the history of this period is written, it seems that Gallant will be remembered there as the instigator of the campaign that was intended to bring about the disintegration of the Zionist revolution. If I’m right, then his inexcusable conduct in the Cabinet on Thursday and his tweet yesterday morning will turn out to be the igniter of the second, and most disastrous, Night of Gallant. For the first time, his act resulted in the dismantling of the ability of the people’s elected officials to seize the helm of power from the post-Zionist officials hostile to the people and their government. For the second time, now, his act may, God forbid, result in the loss of our sovereignty. We didn’t come this far to fold. Do not blink. Don’t get confused.
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Israel Must End The ‘Palestinian’ Charade
By Sha’i ben-Tekoa 26December2024
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/israel_must_end_the_palestinian_charade.html
It is welcome news that Sweden’s Aid Minister, Benjamin Dousa, has said that Sweden will no longer fund UNRWA, apparently satisfied with Israel’s evidence that it has been a HAMAS front. The Arabs there need not worry, though, because Sweden is going to increase the amount of its aid, only using other agencies.
Lucky for them. However, Israel could help itself by going further and attacking the very idea that the recipients of UNRWA largesse are “Palestinian refugees” entitled to such aid when there are virtually no refugees among them. And in any case, there is nothing Palestinian about them.
History explains why there is nothing “Palestinian” about these people on the UNRWA rolls. In 1948, when the armies of five surrounding Arab states attacked Israel, there were in Israel thousands of foreign, overwhelmingly unskilled, and illiterate migrant workers in the country who had come into Mandatory Palestine looking for work.
The Arabs Declare Holy War-a 1947 newsreel
Image: Screengrab from a 1947 newsreel following the UN’s Recognition of the State of Israel. They were not “Palestinians,” and it was not a fight for their “nation.”
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These workers did not want to be caught in the middle of the fighting. Because they were migrants who did not own and did not have to worry about immovable property, they ran behind enemy lines in the belief that the Arab armies would murder all the Jews in a few days. Then, they could run back to loot all the Jews’ property and possessions. (As we saw on October 7, 2023, following the Muslim Brotherhood rapists, torturers, and arsonists, masses of unarmed Muslims followed to loot the possessions of the dead Jews.)
Unfortunately for the migrants, things in 1948-49 did not work out as the migrant workers had hoped. The neonate Jewish army stopped the Arab invaders, ceasefire agreements were signed, and the migrant workers were caught behind Arab enemy lines, with none of the Arab states taking responsibility for their welfare.
And why not? Because in the Arab mind, the war was the UN’s fault for allowing the Jews to live free of the Muslim domination that had been in place from the earliest days of Islam. It was the UN’s fault for letting the Jews have their own state. Therefore, held the Arabs, the UN was responsible for the refugees. Ergo, the creation of UNWRA.
And because these migrants were from all over the Middle East—Morocco, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, etc.—the UN referred to them as the “Arab refugees.” So did the whole world, including all the Arab and Muslim states. They all used the generic term “Arab refugees” because they were a mixed bag from all over Araby with absolutely nothing “Palestinian” about them.
And to this day, there is undoubtedly no more than a statistically microscopic percentage of current recipients on the UNWRA rolls who were refugees. After 76 years of UNRWA, there can be only a tiny number of refugees receiving benefits. A 20-year-old refugee in 1948 would today be 96 years old, and how many of them have lived that long?
The only reason these people are on the UNWRA rolls is the PLO’s success in foisting on the UN the notion that the status of “Palestinian refugee” adheres to that person’s children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, etc., until the “Palestinians” are allowed to reclaim their “ancient” homeland. In fact, after Israel’s War of Independence, some 150,000 Arabs became citizens, i.e., those who did have property and did not run away.
Since then, unlike all other refugee populations in history that assimilate into their countries of refuge and die off, the “Palestinian refugee population” is today ten times larger than in 1948-49. UNRWA is arguably the greatest welfare scam in history.
Ergo, the recipients of UNRWA aid are neither refugees nor Palestinians in any recognizable way—none speak any ancient Palestinian language as Jews speak Hebrew. Their principal religion is native to the Arabian Peninsula and not to Palestine. There is not one book on any shelf in any library or bookstore in any language in the world on the history of “Palestinians” in Palestine before the advent of the Zionist movement, and there never will be.
In 1857, American novelist Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick; or, The White Whale, visited the Holy Land and reported it was a “caked, depopulated Hell.”
Ten years later, his fellow great American writer Mark Twain made his pilgrimage and said the land “sits in sackcloth and ashes.”
Every scrap of evidence about Eretz Yisrael as it was in the 19th century before the movement to return Jews to their Promised Land tells us it was largely a barren, uninhabited wasteland. There were no roads, only animal tracks. It took Mark Twain on horseback a whole day to ride up from Tiberius on the Sea of Galilee to Mount Tabor—today a 15-minute car ride on roads the Zionists built—and he said he never saw a single person on the way.
In sum, the Zionists dispossessed no “Palestinian” nation from its imaginary ancient homeland. It was the Jewish people and only the Jewish people that brought the mournful, desolate country back to life.
When the League of Nations created Mandatory Palestine in 1922, the Grand Mufti in Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, was furious, as he had been even before the Paris Peace Conference opened for business in 1919. It was already known that the British were bent on implementing the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which process would culminate with the signing of the Palestine Mandate text “recognizing the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country,” with no mention of any “Palestinians.”
Haj Amin was murderously adamant that there never was such a country, and in Islamic history, he was right. Muslims never used “Palestine” to refer to the Jews’ Promised Land; only Jews and Christians did.
Before 1919 was out, Haj Amin began publishing a newspaper in Jerusalem to resist the League’s creation of a new jurisdiction called Palestine. He called that paper Southern Syria (Al-Suria al Janubia) This remained the Arab position for the next Biblical generation of forty years.
Not until 1959, in an Arab League meeting in Cairo, did Gamal Abdel Nasser, the reigning Egyptian “pharaoh” and head of the Arab League of States, propose rebranding the generic “Arab refugees” into “Palestinian refugees.” The rest is history: It’s the greatest historical hoax ever, according to which the “Palestinian people is the indigenous people of Palestine whose ancient homeland was stolen by the Zionist Jews.” For this lie, Jews are today being murdered and raped, and their synagogues burnt to the ground.
That is the essence of the “Palestinian cause,” and it is time for official Israel to end the charade and tell the world “Palestinian nationalism” is nothing but an antisemitic fantasy used to justify murdering and raping Jews in an unholy Muslim “holy war” to destroy Jewish freedom.
Sha’i ben-Tekoa’s PHANTOM NATION: Inventing the “Palestinians” as the Obstacle to Peace is available at Amazon.com in hard cover or a Kindle ebook. He podcasts on www.phantom-nation.com.
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Hamas digs up the water pipes of their own people so they can make rockets
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Hamas digs up the water pipes of their own people so they can make rockets
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The Palestinian Tradition of Celebrating the Death of Jews
by Bassam Tawil
8October2024 https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20998/palestinians-celebrate-death-of-jews
Palestinians celebrating in the streets
Palestinians have a custom of celebrating in the streets every time Israel is attacked or a Jew is murdered by terrorists.
The latest Palestinian celebrations took place on October 1, 2024, when Iran launched hundreds of ballistic missiles at Israel. The celebrations occurred even though some of the missiles fell in Palestinian areas in the West Bank and the only person killed was, ironically, a Palestinian man in the city of Jericho.
In one West Bank village, Palestinians erected a monument from the tail of an Iranian missile to celebrate Iran’s attack on Israel.
Similar celebrations took place in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and in many countries when Iran launched its first direct missile and drone attack against Israel in April. According to a report by Iran’s Tehran Times:
The largest celebrations occurred a year ago, on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Iran-backed Hamas terrorists and “ordinary” Palestinians invaded Israel from the Gaza Strip and murdered 1,200 Israelis. During the attack, thousands of Israelis were raped, tortured, and burned alive, while more than 240 others were kidnapped into the Gaza Strip. A year later, 101 Israeli hostages are still being held by Hamas terrorists.
A video from the Qatar-owned Al-Jazeera television network titled “Palestinians overjoyed with the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation” (the name Hamas uses to describe its October 7 attack) showed celebrations in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
The Iranian-affiliated Lebanese TV station Mayadeen aired a report about Palestinian celebrations in the West Bank, where sweets were handed out in Nablus and guns were fired in Jenin “in jubilation.” A little girl can be seen waving a rifle and a handgun in the air.
Palestinian activist Omar Assaf praised the Hamas attack:
In 2004, thousands of Palestinians spilled onto the streets of the Gaza Strip to celebrate a twin suicide bombing in southern Israel that killed 16 people. The Palestinians celebrating, estimated to number about 20,000, threw sweets in the air and chanted slogans in support of Hamas, which took credit for the terrorist attack.
The Palestinians are also happy to see Americans targeted by terrorists. While Israel declared a “national day of mourning” in solidarity with the US after the 9/11 attacks, Palestinians celebrated by handing out sweets, firing guns in the air and chanting Allahu Akbar (Allah is the greatest).
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has since been celebrating the 9/11 attacks with cartoons glorifying Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden or mocking and attacking the US.
The PA’s official media outlets made a concerted effort to bash the US by rubbing salt in its most sensitive wounds, and by depicting America as evil, while appropriating Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims as the victims.
In one Palestinian cartoon, bin Laden is shown forming a victory sign with his fingers, which are made up of the smoldering Twin Towers next to a plane about to fly into them.
In another cartoon, the PA mocked the US by portraying Uncle Sam fleeing in terror from the date “September 11.”
After the massacre and atrocities committed by Palestinians on October 7, a senior Palestinian official repeated the accusation that the US knew about the 9/11 attacks but wanted them to happen:
It is hard to forget how the Palestinians also celebrated when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein fired Scud missiles at Israel more than 30 years ago.
Here is what The Washington Post wrote about the celebrations back then:
It is hard, if not impossible, to find one senior Palestinian official who is willing to criticize his own people for celebrating terrorist attacks. It is also hard, if not impossible, to find one senior Palestinian official who is willing to condemn the October 7 atrocities and massacres against Israelis. Palestinian leaders have good reason not to speak out: they are afraid of being killed by their own people.
Last month, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly, ignored the Hamas attack and instead accused Israel of committing “massacres,” “crimes,” and “genocide” against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Needless to say, Abbas also ignored the fact that a large number of Palestinians expressed support for the Hamas-led October 7 attack and took to the streets to celebrate the brutal mass-murder of Israeli women, children and the elderly.
Palestinian leaders who do not have the courage, or are unwilling, to denounce terrorism will never be able to call on their people to recognize Israel’s right to exist, let alone make peace with it. Palestinians who celebrate the murder of their neighbors are not ready for a state, which will undoubtedly be used as a springboard to slaughter more Jews and to try to destroy Israel.
There is no excuse for celebrating murder. A society that celebrates murder will never be a partner for peace. True peace will only come when Palestinian leaders values their people’s lives more than celebrating the murder of Jews.
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JerusalemCats Comments: The Palestinians won’t be celebrating when they are Deported to some “Hell-hole”.
Law allowing deportations of families of terrorists approved in second and third readings
The law permits the Minister of the Interior to order the deportation of a family member of a terrorist, if it is proven that he knew in advance of his relative’s intention to commit an act of terrorism and did not make efforts to prevent the act.
Hezki Baruch / 7November2024, 3:31 AM (GMT+2) http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/398747
The Knesset plenum approved early Thursday morning the second and third readings of a law allowing the deportation of families of terrorists, proposed by MKs Hanoch Milwidsky (Likud), Eliyahu Revivo (Likud) and Almog Cohen (Otzma Yehudit).
61 MKs voted in favor of the legislation and 41 voted against it.
The law stipulates that the Minister of the Interior will be permitted to order the deportation of a family member of a terrorist, after a hearing, if it is proven that he knew in advance of his relative’s intention to commit an act of terrorism and did not make efforts to prevent the act.
In addition, the option will be given to deport a family member who expressed support or identified with the act, or published words of praise or encouragement for a terrorist act or a terrorist organization.
The validity of the deportation order for an Israeli citizen shall not be less than seven years and shall not exceed 15 years, and for a permanent or temporary resident – shall not be less than 10 years and shall not exceed 20 years.
The explanatory notes to the bill read: “In recent years, and in particular after the beginning of the Swords of Iron war, which broke out following the terrorist attack that began on October 7, 2023, the cases in which citizens and holders of a permanent residence permit in Israel incite to terrorism have increased, either by publishing direct calls to commit terrorist acts or by publishing words of praise, sympathy or encouragement for these acts, supporting them or identifying with them.”
The notes further states that “from various studies conducted over the years, both by the National Security Council and by the IDF related to dozens of terrorists with Israeli citizenship, it emerged that the terrorists’ only concern was what would happen to their families after the attack. There is no doubt that many terrorists will refrain from carrying out an attack, as long as they know that their families will be punished for it.”
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Why should Israel be responsible for providing aid to Gaza?
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U.S Senator Tom Cotton:
“Why should Israel be responsible for providing aid to Gaza? Israel is the victim. We did not provide aid to Germany and Japan in World War II.”
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A Nova survivor is asked if Israel should provide Gaza with food
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A Nova survivor is asked if Israel should provide Gaza with food.
Her response?
“For me, Gaza should not exist. I stared death in the eyes. I was there. I came back from the dead…It doesn’t matter who you are they simply want to kill. Someone who doesn’t want that the other side lives, for me has no place in this world”
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Qatar wants Hamas to win
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Qatar wants Hamas to win. Qatar told Hamas to keep the hostages. Qatar mourned the death of Yahya Sinwar. Qatar condemned Israel on October 7. This is what the State Department calls “promoting regional peace.”
Matthew Miller-tweet-24October2024-SecBlinken in Qatar
In Doha, @SecBlinken will meet with officials to discuss seizing the moment to end the conflict in Gaza and secure the release of hostages. The U.S. is grateful for Qatar’s indispensable role in promoting regional peace.
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JerusalemCats Comments Remember who is in Qatar.
Gaza’s sky is black but Qatar is always sunny
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Qatar expels Hamas after Trump win
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Qatar has started expelling Hamas officials, reportedly telling them, “You’re no longer welcome here” 🇶🇦🚫. This major shift comes just hours after @realDonaldTrump U.S. election win, according to @kann_news.
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Fatah demands Progroms
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Reminder, this is Fatah, the party of Mahmoud Abbas. These are the folks you wanna give a state too? They would do a pogrom every day of the week if they could!
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Dr. Einat Wilf
Episode #1 UNRWA | Deep Dive with Dr. Einat Wilf
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Introducing Episode #1 – UNRWA of the Deep Dive series with Dr. @EinatWilf
Dr. Einat Wilf is a former member of the Knesset and author of the best-selling book “The War of Return.”
#deepdive #israelicitizenspox
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Episode #1 UNRWA | Deep Dive with Dr. Einat Wilf
Episode #2 – ‘Anti Zionism’ is now live!
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Dr. @EinatWilf is back with Deep Dive!
Episode #2 – ‘Anti Zionism’ is now live!
If you like to access a free course on Zionism and Anti-Zionism taught by Dr @einatwilf
you can access the link here: https://tikvahfund.org/course/zionism-and-anti-zionism-the-history-of-two-opposing-ideas/
#israelicitizenspox #deepdive #einatwilf #antizionism
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Episode #2 Anti-Zionism | Deep Dive with Dr. Einat Wilf
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Dr. Einat Wilf explains how wars should end
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FULL VIDEO: It is time to bring back words like “victory” and “defeat.” Citizen Spokeswoman Dr. @EinatWilf explains how wars should end.
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4 Hostages rescued ALIVE from Gaza
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Noa Argamani (25), Almog Meir Jan (21), Andrey Kozlov (27), and Shlomi Ziv (40) were rescued in a special operation by the IDF, ISA and Israel Police from 2 separate locations in the heart of Nuseirat after being kidnapped by Hamas from the Nova music festival.
They are in good medical condition and have been transferred to the ‘Sheba’ Tel-HaShomer Medical Center for further medical examinations.
We will continue to make every effort to bring the hostages home.
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Noa Argamani’s dad praying at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s holy gravesite
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Noa Argamani, taken hostage on Oct.7, was rescued yesterday in a miraculous special-forces mission in Gaza. Despite 2 rescue vehicles that broke down, Hashem made the mission succeed. The photo, from a few months ago, is her dad praying at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s holy gravesite.
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הבקשה שנענתה: יעקב ארגמני, אביה של נועה שחולצה השבת מהשבי בעזה, מעתיר בתפילה על ציונו הקדוש של הרבי לפני מספר חודשים.
The request was answered: Ya’akov Argamani, the father of Noa, who was rescued on Shabbat from captivity in Gaza, petitions in prayer for the Rebbe’s holy grave a few months ago.
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hostages return celebrations
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Just imagine the celebrations when all the hostages return!
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If our leaders would say, “Thank You, Hashem” and “B’ezrat Hashem,” Hashem would give them many more reasons to smile
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If our leaders would say, “Thank You, Hashem” and “B’ezrat Hashem,” Hashem would give them many more reasons to smile. Before you do something, solicit Hashem’s help by saying “B’ezrat Hashem.” Once you’ve done it, say “Thank You, Hashem”. Wait and see how successful you’ll be.
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Hamas abuses the hostages
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We are learning more about how Hamas abuses the hostages (and these are the ones held in civilian homes):
▪️Beatings “almost every day”
▪️No protein, so muscle wastage
▪️Malnutrition, periods of “almost no food whatsoever”
▪️Medical neglect
▪️No sunlight
Eylon Levy-tweet-10June2024-Hamas abuses the hostages
Hostages were beaten, abused ‘almost every day,’ says doctor who treated rescuees
10 June 2024, 10:05 pm https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hostages-were-beaten-abused-almost-every-day-says-doctor-who-treated-rescuees/
File: Itai Pessach, director of the children’s hospital at Sheba Medical Center, during a television interview (courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)
The doctor in charge of treating the hostages rescued from Gaza on Saturday tells CNN that the abductees were regularly beaten by their captors.
“It was a harsh, harsh experience, with a lot of abuse, almost every day,” Dr. Itai Pessach of Sheba Medical Center says. “Every hour, both physical, mental and other types, and that is something that is beyond comprehension.”
According to the American outlet, Pessach says the eight months the hostages spent under Hamas captivity “left a significant mark on their health,” despite them appearing outwardly to be in good shape.
“They had no protein, so their muscles are extremely wasted, there is damage to some other systems because of that,” he says, adding that they said the supply of food and water varied, and that they were moved a few times and dealt with different guards.
“There have been periods where they got almost no food whatsoever,” Pessach adds. “There were other periods where it was a little better, but all in all, the combination of the psychological stress, malnutrition or not getting enough food or not getting the right kind of food, medical neglect, being limited to space, not seeing the sun and all of the other things have [a] significant effect on health.”
Elaborating on the psychological strain, he says: “As time passes, hope of being released kind of decreases and you start wondering if this would ever end… losing that faith, I think, is where you get to the breaking point.”
Rescued hostage Andrey Kozlov
Oli London-tweet-13June2024-Rescued hostage Andrey Kozlov
Rescued hostage Andrey Kozlov had his hands and feet bound for 2 months during captivity.
His parents have revealed the horrific conditions he was subjected to during the 245 days he spent as a hostage.
“He told us that for two months, they were tied up by their hands and feet. In the first weeks, their hands were tied behind their backs…
In other cases, they had to relieve themselves in a bucket. The terrorists engaged in psychological abuse, constantly telling each captive, ‘Israel has forgotten you.”
Source: Ynet News
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The inside story of Israel’s dramatic Gaza hostage rescue
The JC can reveal previously unknown details of the daring mission, which was the result of weeks of intelligence work culminating in a 45 minute shoot-out with Hamas terrorists
BY Elon Perry
13June2024 08:32 https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/the-inside-story-of-israels-dramatic-gaza-hostage-rescue-e2t1d8qu#:~:text=On%2012%20May%2C%20Israel%20received,to%20locate%20the%20exact%20location
On 12 May, Israel received intelligence about the location of four hostages in the Nuseirat refugee camp area in the Gaza Strip. From that day on, every branch of Israeli intelligence was focused on the area 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to locate the exact location. A team of undercover ‘Mista’arvim’ (units that assimilate into local populations to gather intelligence) were sent there, mainly in the local market of Nuseirat.
Their role was not only to gather intelligence from locals but also to check information from the interrogations of captured terrorists. In addition, information was gathered by aerial observation and other sophisticated technological means.
After 19 days of intensive cooperative intelligence gathering work, the combined units managed to compile solid and accurate information about the location of the Israeli hostages. It was discovered that the hostages were being held in two separate buildings in the same area. Noa Argamani was held in the first floor of one and three other hostages were in another building, 800 metres away, on the third floor.
At the beginning of June, this information was brought to the War Cabinet, and the Chief of Staff of the IDF and head of the Shin Bet were asked to present a rescue plan. The intelligence was kept top secret. Even the other forces in Gaza, including senior commanders, were not informed about it. As the War Cabinet discussed options, the preparations and training for the operation began.
In order to finally verify the information and to prepare the ground for the operation, another team of undercover soldiers (including several women dressed in hijabs and long black dresses) was sent into the Nuseirat refugee camp. Pretending to be two Gazan families looking for a large house in Nuseirat, they arrived in two cheap-looking old cars loaded with domestic items characteristic of those families displaced in the Strip, such as mattresses and clothing identical to those of the locals.
When the residents of the Nuseirat camp asked the undercovers where they came from and what they were looking to do in Nuseirat, they replied that they had fled from Rafah due to “deadly shelling from the Israeli army”, and decided to rent a house in the area. Then they pointed to the building where Noa Argamani was being held. They showed one of the locals a large amount of cash and offered to pay three times the going rate for rent. The local agreed to help and within three hours found a large house on the very street where Argamani was held. This was only 800 metres away from where the other three hostages were held.
A few days later, after settling into the house and getting to know the area, including shopping at the local market, and realising that they did not arouse suspicion, the undercovers began their mission: verifying the location where the hostages were held. They split into two teams. One team consisted of two commandos, a man dressed as a typical Gazan local and a woman dressed in a long black dress and hijab. They began marching down the street towards the ‘Al-Auda’ medical centre where, in a nearby residential building 200 metres from the hospital, Noa Argamani was held. The undercovers walked with complete confidence as if they were walking down a street in Tel Aviv. To add to their authenticity, they stopped from time to time at stalls along the sides of the street, showing interest in the products while complaining about the difficult situation in Gaza. This was done in fluent Arabic with a perfect Gazan accent. Behind them, walked four more undercover men, armed to give backup in case a ‘Fauda-like’ situation occurred (Fauda in Arabic means unexpected chaos).
The second team consisted of four female soldiers dressed as typical Arab women (one feigning being pregnant) carrying plastic bags full of food products and vegetables. They walked in two pairs (a young Muslim woman is not allowed to walk around alone) towards a nearby residential building, where, on the third floor, the three male hostages were held. Behind them walked four more undercover men armed to give them backup.
Meanwhile five other members of the undercover team stayed at the house to guard it and make sure the teams had not been exposed and that no nasty surprises would await them.
Three hours later, at the prearranged time, the two teams came back to the rented house and began to process the information they had obtained. Now it was confirmed: the four hostages were being held in two homes of Gazan families. The force commander confirmed to Israel that the two locations were correct.
The cabinet decided to act. Twenty-eight fighters from the ‘Yamam’, a commando unit that specialises in fighting terrorists and rescuing hostages, began training on two specially built models that replicated the two buildings where the hostages were held. After three days of training, the commander of the force informed the IDF Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, who then informed the Minister of Defence, Yoav Gallant, that they were ready to carry out the operation. After Prime Minister Netanyahu had been informed and given permission to launch the operation, it was able to proceed.
On Thursday night, 5 June, the undercovers were ordered to leave the area of Nuseirat refugee camp without arousing suspicion, although four remained to keep an eye on the buildings to make sure that the hostages were not transferred to another location.
Only at this time were senior Israeli commanders and other cabinet members informed about the operation.
On Friday morning, 6 June, the 28 commandos of the ‘Yamam’ unit began making their way in two teams towards the two buildings in Nuseirat refugee camp. To maintain the element of surprise as much as possible, the unit’s fighters travelled hiding in two trucks.
Just before 11 am the commandos arrived with precise timing at the two targets and awaited the order to attack. Observations and technological surveillance measures from IDF aircraft reported that the area was ‘clean’, with no suspicious movements near the two buildings. The information and live coverage of the alleys and the 800-metre-long street that separated the two target buildings were transmitted directly to the screens in two command and control rooms in Israel from which the operation was being overseen.
At 11.00 am exactly the commandos received the order to go ahead and stormed both buildings simultaneously in full coordination, to prevent the terrorists from endangering the hostages and the entire operation.
The Israeli soldiers eliminated the terrorists guarding Noa Argamani, and within six minutes had rescued her unharmed from the apartment. They then took her to a waiting helicopter that immediately flew her back to Israel.
But while the rescue of Argamani went smoothly, the task of rescuing the other three hostages on the third floor of the second building became complicated.
They were held in the home of Dr Ahmed al-Jamal, a medical doctor, who was a Hamas activist. His son, Abdullah, a journalist who had written for Al-Jazeera, was also staying in the apartment.
Some of the commandos used a ladder to enter directly into the room where the three hostages were held. This coincided with the entry of the rest of the force who came up the stairs from the main entrance of the building.
But Commander Arnon Zamora’s team, which broke into the apartment at the head of the force, encountered massive fire from around thirty Hamas terrorists in the apartment They fired with machine guns, threw grenades and some even fired rocket-propelled grenade missiles at the surprised Israelis. This is how Arnon Zamora was killed.
The fact of the presence of 30 terrorists in the apartment had not been known to the undercover teams who had reported the information about the hostages’ location back to Israel. It is assumed that the terrorists arrived at the apartment only that morning or the night before, to strengthen the guarding of the three hostages.
Nevertheless, the experienced Israeli commando fighters were not deterred by the deadly surprise and continued to fight the terrorists with determination at close range, joined by the other fighters who were waiting outside the apartment. The three hostages had to hide in the bathroom of the apartment, protected by several Israeli fighters, during the battle. There was no way to leave the apartment due to the massive unexpected gunfire as it might endanger the hostages.
After a long face-to-face battle, the Israelis managed to eliminate all the terrorists in the apartment. But during the shooting from dozens of guns inside a crowded two-room apartment, Arnon Zamora was hit and lay on the floor bleeding, while three medics and a doctor leant over him, under heavy fire, trying to save his life.
Meanwhile, dozens of terrorists emerged from the tunnels around the building and began to fire at the Israeli fighters with machine guns and RPG missiles. The Israelis started making their way out of the building (several of them carrying Arnon Zamora on a stretcher), running through smoke-filled alleys and the nearby market which was crowded with thousands of Gazans who would not have hesitated to lynch them. The Israeli forces tried, under constant fire, to get to the rescue vehicle that was waiting for them, but it was hit by two RPG missiles.
The commander of the operation in Israel then activated ‘Plan B’, the rescue plan that had been prepared in advance: a daring operation under massive, very close fire from the enemy, covered by Israeli fire from ground, sea and air.
With the help of tanks, hundreds of soldiers (from the Golani and Givati infantry brigades and paratroopers) charged on foot into the refugee camp, fighting face-to-face battles with Hamas terrorists while navy ships covered them from the west and air force helicopters from the east. Fire from the air hit the terrorists just ten metres from the Israeli soldiers.
The reinforcement forces and the air force managed to isolate the battle scene, providing a safe escape route for the main force escorting the three hostages.
At the end of an exhausting and continuous battle the Israeli fighters eliminated all the armed threats in the battle arena.
Hamas claims that during the rescue operation in the crowded streets of the refugee camp, 274 Palestinians were killed. However, the IDF says that 104 Palestinians were killed or wounded – all of whom were Hamas terrorists or armed civilians who collaborated with the terrorist organisation.
After the battle, the three abductees (who had kept their cool throughout) were led by the fighters to one of the Israeli helicopters waiting for them and flew them to Israel.
Meanwhile, the air force planes bombed the building which collapsed within seconds.
The special forces soldiers then boarded the other two helicopters that took off back to Israel. Attempts to revive Arnon Zamora continued on the short flight, but l he was pronounced dead on arrival in hospital.
Elon Perry is a journalist and former commando in the Golani Brigade of the IDF
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Everyone in Gaza is Hamas! There are NO Civilians.
Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-8June2024-Why did Hamas hide hostages among 30,000 people
Why are not enough people asking the question: Why did Hamas hide hostages among 30,000 people?
Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-8June2024-Why did Hamas hide hostages among 30,000 people
Hamas is intentionally involving the civilian population of Gaza in its war crimes
Israel Foreign Ministry-tweet-10June2024-Hamas intentionally involving Gaza civilian population
We need to talk about the elephant in the room.
Many Gazan civilians participated in killing, raping, and kidnapping Israelis on October 7.
It is also reported that Gazan civilians were paid by Hamas to hold hostages captive in their homes.
Hamas is intentionally involving the civilian population of Gaza in its war crimes.
The world must condemn this in the strongest terms.
Israel Foreign Ministry-tweet-10June2024-Hamas intentionally involving Gaza civilian population
Al-Jazeera held hostages
The Persian Jewess-tweet-10June2024-Al Jazeera tries to deny links to kidnapper Abdullah Aljamal
Al Jazeera tries to deny links to kidnapper Abdullah Aljamal, despite the fact that he is literally listed on the Al Jazeera website.
But even more telling, they call the rescued Israelis “PRISONERS” and not “HOSTAGES.”
Prisoners? What was their crime? Being Jewish?
The Persian Jewess-tweet-10June2024-Abdallah AlJamal-Al Jazeera journalist terrorist
Meet Abdallah AlJamal, Al Jazeera journalist by day, terrorist kidnapper of Jewish civilians from peace festivals by night.
The Persian Jewess-tweet-10June2024-Al Jazeera tries to deny links to kidnapper Abdullah Aljamal
Abdallah AlJamal-Al Jazeera journalist terrorist
OSINTdefender-tweet-9June2024-Al-Jazeera held hostages
The Israel Defense Force has now Confirmed what was reported earlier today, which is that Abdallah Aljamal, a Photojournalist as well as Writer/Editor for Al-Jazeera and several other Palestinian New’s Organizations was a Member of Hamas and was holding several of the Hostages which were Rescued yesterday from the Nuseirat Refugee Camp, inside of his Home in the Central Gaza Strip. Both Abdallah and several Members of his Family were Killed while trying to Resist the Rescue of Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv who were all being held within the Home; with Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora, the Commander of the Israeli Police’s “Yamam” National Counter-Terrorism Unit, who the Operation is now named after, being Killed while entering the House.
OSINTdefender-tweet-9June2024-Al-Jazeera held hostages
UPDATE
Rescued hostage filing lawsuit against U.S. non-profit
Oli London-tweet-9July2024-Rescued hostage filing lawsuit against U.S. non-profit
Rescued hostage filing lawsuit against U.S. non-profit The Palestine Chronicle after one of its employees held him hostage.
Almog Meir Jan was held in the home of Abdallah Aljamal, a contributor to the website The Palestine Chronicle for nearly 250 days.
His captor also worked as a spokesman for the Hamas-run labor ministry in Gaza before being killed in the rescue mission to free Almog and the other hostages.
The Palestine Chronicle is a U.S. operated non-profit, run by the tax-exempt group, the People Media Project.
Whilst Aljamal kept the Israeli man hostage, he continued to write articles for the newspaper and pushed anti-Israel propaganda.
The lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in Washington state alleges The Palestine Chronicle “knowingly and willfully procured and disseminated Hamas propaganda to the Palestine Chronicle’s readers in the United States,” citing reports alleging “at least six Palestine Chronicle writers and contributors have been affiliated with Iranian propaganda outlets.”
Source: Fox News
Oli London-tweet-9July2024-Rescued hostage filing lawsuit against U.S. non-profit
Hostages were held here
The Persian Jewess-tweet-9June2024-Everyone Knew about the imprisoned hostages
As a Middle Easterner, I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that there is ZERO CHANCE Abdullah Al Jamal imprisoned hostages in his home for 246 days without his neighbors, in laws, cousins, second cousins, siblings, and mother’s uncle’s cousin’s dentist knowing about it.
The Persian Jewess-tweet-9June2024-Everyone Knew about the imprisoned hostages
Nioh Berg-tweet-8June2024-hostages were held here
Apparently this was the location in Nuseirat where the hostages were held.
If you as a civilian agree to keep hostages imprisoned in your home, you become a combatant. Simple as that.
Nioh Berg-tweet-8June2024-hostages were held here
Hamas firing RPGs in a populated area
HonestReporting-tweet-10June2024-Hamas firing RPGs in a populated area
🤷 It’s really that simple.
No one is saying Palestinian lives don’t matter. It’s about who you’re blaming and where you’re directing your anger. Hamas firing RPGs in a populated area during the IDF rescue mission tells you everything you need to know.
HonestReporting-tweet-10June2024- Hamas firing RPGs in a populated area
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The Entebbe Rescue
IDF-tweet-4July2016-Entebbe-Rescue 40 yrs ago, the IDF rescued 102 hostages in the historic Operation Entebbe rescue mission
Operation Entebbe was a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by commandos of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976. A week earlier, on 27 June, an Air France plane with 248 passengers was hijacked by a hijacker of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations (PFLP-EO)
Operation Entebbe was a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by commandos of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976. A week earlier, on 27 June, an Air France plane with 248 passengers was hijacked by a hijacker of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations (PFLP-EO)
Operation Entebbe
This is the remarkable account of the successful completion of Operation Entebbe as Lt. Col. (res.) Avi Mor – the navigator of three of the four planes sent to rescue the hostages in Uganda – describes in detail his experience in directing 103 Jewish hostages to freedom.
02January2018
IDF Editorial Team
https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/wars-and-operations/operation-entebbe/
Lt. Col. (res.) Mor knows what it means to fight for freedom. He was born in Poland and escaped to Israel with his parents and seven siblings during the Nazi regime. He enlisted in the Israel Air Force and passed the rigorous Flight Academy course. During his time as a captain in the IAF, he became a trained navigator. His talent for navigation was put to the test when, on June 27, 1976, Air France Flight 139 was hijacked.
Evacuated Entebbe hostages
The flight, which had originated in Tel Aviv, had a scheduled layover in Athens, Greece, before it was to continue to Paris, France. Shortly after taking off from Athens, four of the new passengers hijacked the flight and demanded the release of hundreds of prisoners worldwide. The hijackers – Wilfried Böse and Brigitte Kuhlmann of the German Baader-Meinhof militant group, and two Palestinians from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – directed the hijacked flight to Entebbe Airport in Uganda, where Ugandan soldiers, under the leadership of then-Ugandan President Idi Amin Dada, helped support the hijackers and trap the hostages.
Upon arrival, the terrorists immediately separated the Jewish and Israeli hostages from the rest of the captives. “Even now, as I am telling you the process by which the terrorists selected their hostages, it hurts me to say it,” Lt. Col. (res.) Mor said, recounting that “it was a similar selection process the Nazis administered when selecting who would go work and who would be sent to the gas chambers.”
Evacuated Entebbe hostages landing in Israel
The Israeli security establishment faced a ticking clock. Room for negotiation? None. Information about the terrorists’ plans? Minimal. Deadline for terrorists’ demands? Forty-eight hours – or else, they threatened, they would start murdering hostages.
Gathering Intelligence
With the deadline in motion and little known about the underlying motives of the hijackers, their exact whereabouts in Entebbe Airport, and their plans moving forward, Israel’s government and security officials sought to collect information about the situation as quickly as possible.
“One of the biggest problems we had,” recalled Lt. Col. (res.) Mor, “was that we were operating with minimal clarity throughout the entire mission, as we had no reliable source of information. And, when faced with an ultimatum, time is of the essence.”
In the week before the raid, Israel tried a number of political avenues to release the hostages. Faced with little choice, the Israeli government announced that it would enter into negotiations. This provided Israel with just enough time to consolidate a seemingly impossible military rescue operation, as the terrorists issued a new ultimatum for July 4.
Gathering intelligence took a few days and, by midday Tuesday, IDF forces were able to gather enough information about the situation to provide them with basic clarity to work desperately on a possible rescue attempt.
In the middle of the night on Wednesday, Lt. Col. (res.) Mor received a house visit from a friend and fellow soldier in the Israel Air Force.
“My wife answered the door. My friend told her ‘Norit, I suggest you go to your room and close the door,’” Lt. Col. (res.) Mor recalled. “By 6 the following morning, I was at an exercise with Sayeret Matkal.” From that moment on, every single person who was in some way relevant to the mission was in a period of intensive brainstorming for the best possible rescue scenario to present to Israel’s governing officials.
A few options were thrown around until, on July 1st, the mission’s main commander, Brig. Gen. (res.) Dan Shomron (later to become the IDF’s Chief of Staff), presented the rescue plan to Lt. Gen. (res.) Mordechai Gur (then Chief of Staff), Shimon Peres (then Israel’s defense minister) and Yitzhak Rabin (then prime minister) for final authorization to complete the highly secretive rescue mission.
One of the aircraft crews that landed at Entebbe poses with their plane after the mission.
One of the aircraft crews that landed at Entebbe poses with their plane after the mission.
Ready, Set, Don’t Fire
Out of this plane emerged two jeeps and a black Mercedes, practically identical to the car of then-Ugandan president Idi Amin Dada. Lt. Col. Netanyahu’s unit drove slowly and calmly towards the old terminal, appearing as if they were Ugandan forces in familiar vehicles. They were ordered not to shoot before reaching the old terminal and to take the terrorists by surprise. However, one of the IDF soldiers shot at a Ugandan soldier who was heavily armed and close to their vehicle. They were no longer undercover, and their plan was now altered as they had to reach the old terminal as quickly as possible.
The second and third Israeli planes arrived six minutes later, carrying reinforcements and troops assigned to help fight the Ugandan forces surrounding the airport. “I had the great honor of being the leading navigator for aircrafts two, three, and four,” Lt. Col. (res.) Mor said proudly.
The fourth aircraft – the only aircraft with enough gas to fly to Entebbe and back to Israel, arrived empty, ready to evacuate the hostages and take them home. “The rest of us had no details about the first aircraft and what was going on down there. I was in the second aircraft and, whether the first was successful or not, we had to land at the airport precisely six minutes after them,” Lt. Col. (res.) Mor said. “Luckily, they succeeded and, in six minutes, killed the terrorists and rescued the hostages.”
Within 20 minutes of their arrival, IDF soldiers began evacuating the hostages in the fourth aircraft. “Our mission was accomplished the instant the hostages had left Entebbe,” Lt. Col. (res.) Mor recalled.
Entebbe Raid-two jeeps and a black Mercedes
Everyone was accounted for besides one: Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, the commander of the first aircraft’s Sayeret Matkal rescue unit, who had been shot and killed while helping hostages return to the aircraft. At least five other soldiers were wounded during the escape, but the soldiers finished evacuating the hostages, loaded Lt. Col. Netanyahu’s body into one of the planes, and left Entebbe Airport only 58 minutes after their arrival. The operation was later named “Operation Yonatan” in honor of its commander and one of Israel’s greatest soldiers.
Returning Home
On the morning of July 4, 1976, the rescued hostages and their defenders landed safely in Israel, concluding one of the most daring chapters in the history of the IDF. “I did not register it then, as we were still in mission mode,” Lt. Col. (res.) Mor explained, “but we landed at Ben Gurion [Airport in Israel] to a sea of Israelis swarming with pride, elated to welcome us home.”
Looking back, Lt. Col. (res.) Mor insists this was one of Israel’s finest moments, as its heroic actions were heard around the world. “It marked one of the best times in Israel’s history in terms of international recognition and respect,” Lt. Col. (res.) Mor stated.
Operation Entebbe marked a dramatic victory over international terrorism, but it did not eliminate the danger. Thirty seven years later, as Israel continues to cope with the threat of terror, the rescue at Entebbe serves as a reminder that victory is worth the fight.
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They Criticized the Entebbe Rescue, Too
The Soviet and Chinese governments denounced what they called “the Zionist aggression.” United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim charged that Israel had committed a “serious violation of the sovereignty” of Uganda.
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/372241/they-criticized-the-entebbe-rescue-too/
It may seem perplexing that anybody would criticize Israel’s rescue of four hostages from Gaza. But in 1976, there was criticism of Israel’s rescue of hostages from Entebbe, too.
While Israelis celebrated the June 8 rescue of hostages held by Arab terrorists and civilians in Gaza, United Nations special rapporteur Francesca Albanese accused the Israeli commandos of “perfidiously hiding in an aid truck” in order to enter the neighborhood where the hostages were imprisoned.
MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin asserted that the rescuers’ tactics “raise(d) moral and ethical questions,” while former MSNBC host Krystal Ball denounced celebrations of the rescue as “depraved.”
In June 1976, Palestinian Arab terrorists hijacked a French plane on its way to Israel and forced it to fly to the Entebbe airport in Uganda. There they released the non-Jewish passengers, and held the remaining 106 passengers and crew hostage, demanding the release of terrorists who were imprisoned in Israel. Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was deeply sympathetic to the terrorists, and Ugandan soldiers helped the hijackers guard the hostages.
On July 4, Israeli commandos raided the airport and freed the hostages. All seven terrorists, and several dozen Ugandan soldiers, were killed. The only rescuer killed was the raid’s leader, Yonatan Netanyahu, brother of Israel’s current prime minister. Mrs. Dora Bloch, an elderly passenger who had been taken to a local hospital, was murdered there by Ugandan soldiers.
Most of the world celebrated the rescue raid on Entebbe. But not everybody.
The Organization of African Unity, consisting of several dozen African countries, accused Israel of “wanton aggression” and demanded reparations for damage to the airport. The Soviet and Chinese governments denounced what they called “the Zionist aggression.”
United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim charged that Israel had committed a “serious violation of the sovereignty” of Uganda. A few years later, Waldheim’s past as a Nazi war criminal was exposed. (However, that did not prevent his election as president of Austria in 1986.)
The Mexican government criticized Israel’s “flagrant violation” of Ugandan sovereignty, and declared its “firm rejection of the use of armed force by any state as a means of trying to solve conflicts.”
The Mexican position was especially surprising because just months earlier, it had explicitly promised to refrain from anti-Israel policies. That promise was made in order to secure an end to the boycott of Mexico announced by Jewish organizations following its support of the infamous Zionism-is-racism resolution at the U.N. in 1975.
The French government’s response to the Entebbe rescue was particularly troubling, given the fact that it was a French plane that was hijacked, and French crew members who were held hostage. The French Foreign Ministry issued a brief statement which expressed satisfaction at the rescue, but emphasized its condemnation of the casualties, almost all of whom were the terrorists or the soldiers who assisted them.
A spokesperson for the Air France crew read a statement hailing President Amin for his “constant care to ensure our safety, our material comfort and even our health.” The statement appeared to have been dictated by French officials.
The U.S. government publicly praised the Israeli rescue mission, but it also introduced an “even-handed” resolution at the U.N. Security Council. While condemning the hijacking, the resolution also affirmed “the need to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all States.” The resolution did not secure enough votes to pass, so it was withdrawn.
At the same time — according to declassified documents — Secretary of State Henry Kissinger informed Israel’s ambassador in Washington that because the Israelis had used US equipment in the raid, “we will have to put a temporary freeze on military shipments.”
Ambassador Simcha Dinitz replied: “You are kidding me.” Kissinger was not kidding. “You know you have no right to do this without prior consultation,” he admonished the ambassador. Dinitz argued that the relevant U.S. law applied to “only weaponry, not equipment.” But Kissinger insisted that the U.S.-made C-130 transport planes were a “military version” of that aircraft and therefore could not be used outside Israel’s borders. Kissinger could have looked the other way; instead, his response was to penalize Israel following its miraculous rescue of the hostages.
Israel’s prime minister in those days was Yitzhak Rabin, and the government was ruled by the Labor Party — a reminder that whether Israel’s government is from the political left or the right, and whether its leader is named Rabin or Netanyahu, there will always be those who complain when Israel takes action to defend the lives of its citizens.
Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and author of more than 20 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust. His latest is “Whistleblowers: Four Who Fought to Expose the Holocaust to America,” a nonfiction graphic novel with artist Dean Motter, published by Dark Horse / Yoe Books.
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Making peace with invaders
Brett Chapman-tweet-13June2024-Land stolen from Native Americans
Native Americans didn’t simply “lose” land, it was stolen from. Important distinction.
Historic Vids-tweet-13June2024-Land stolen from Native Americans
This is a map that shows the land loss of Native Americans in the United States
Brett Chapman-tweet-13June2024-Land stolen from Native Americans
Jose Muniz-tweet-11July2024-Christians kick Islam out of the Peninsula
In 722 a group of christians in the north of Spain decided that they would wake up every day for the next 800 years with just one mission. To kick Islam out of the Peninsula.
In 1492 they did it
Jose Muniz-tweet-11July2024-Christians kick Islam out of the Peninsula
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Israel gave up the Sinai and Southern Lebanon for what?
Remember Gush Katif, What did the “Disengagement” get you? Rockets landing in Tel Aviv!
Map of Israeli Withdrawal from Sinai
South Lebanon security zone
South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)
Israel gave up land for a piece of Paper
What did the Jews of Israel get with the “Disengagement”?
Rockets from Gaza rain havoc on Israeli cities in latest war
15 Seconds in Sderot, Israel
An Open Letter to Critics of Israel
BLOOD CELLS EVERYWHERE: An IDF map of the locations of rockets launched from Gaza from July 8th to August 4th. (Still awaiting a map from Hamas, in case the terrorist group disagrees.)
Violent Hamas Riots and Rockets summary 2018
Friday, 11 July 2014 Miracle in Ashdod: Direct Hit on Gas Station, no Fatalities What’s the war like in Ashdod?
Tel Aviv hit with rocket fire from Gaza
LONGSHOT: At a cost of as much as $100,000 per unit, Israel’s Iron Dome, seen here in action, has a rocket-interception rate of 85-90%. But it doesn’t cover the whole country—not by a longshot.
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Listening to Bad Advice
Alex Traiman-tweet-20June2024-This is when momentum shifted in the war
This is when momentum shifted in the war:
When photos began to surface of Hamas terrorists and their supporters being arrested, blindfolded and stripped to their underwear, I knew the end of the war, including the release of hostages was just weeks away.
Yet almost just as quickly, the images stopped appearing, with the Biden Administration claiming the images were “disturbing.”
These images were actually benevolent, and could have saved thousands of lives.
Why? If you want to survive in the Middle East, it is critical to understand the Arab culture of honor vs shame.
These images completely humiliated Hamas. To destroy Hamas, and to make the Palestinians stop supporting them, they need to be thoroughly humiliated by the IDF.
The IDF’s killing Hamas terrorists, in the eyes of Palestinian society, is projected as an honor. Those killed are “martyrs.”
To defeat Hamas, Israel needs to create less martyrs, and create more losers.
In preventing the IDF from publishing the photos, and by Israel’s adhering to the Biden administration’s Western sensitivities and directives, the war has dragged on to the detriment of all parties.
Alex Traiman-tweet-20June2024-This is when momentum shifted in the war
Nioh Berg-tweet-29July2024-Israel’s most successful war was in 1967
Israel’s most successful war was in 1967.
– No significant foreign aid.
– No American terms and conditions
– Pre-emptive strike instead of responding after being attacked
Seems to me like relying heavily on US weapons and money is a recipe for failure.
SELF SUFFICIENCY NOW.
Nioh Berg-tweet-29July2024-Israel’s most successful war was in 1967
Nioh Berg-tweet-29July2024-We now know
We now know:
– The US doesn’t want Israel to retaliate
– The US has been leaking Israeli attack plans to Hezbollah
Israel needs to become self sufficient, stop taking US aid, and fight wars on their own terms. Demcrats clearly are backstabbers.
Larry-tweet-29July2024-Israel has to make all their military equipment themselves.
Israel has to make all their military equipment themselves.
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Israel vs. its mortal enemies: Deeper meanings of terror, violence against Jewish state – opinion
In Israel’s no-choice war against Hamas and Iran, the death and injury of Palestinian noncombatants are the legal responsibility of “perfidious” jihadist enemies.
By LOUIS RENÉ BERES
22SEPTEMBER2024 https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-821136
Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and other jihadist foes of Israel are ultimately more focused on transcendent goals than on tactical or strategic advantages. This focus is “power over death.” How ought Israeli military planners to grasp and operationalize such an abstract notion?
While Israel’s attitude to counterterrorism is based on logic, science, and engineering, jihadist violence revolves around mystery, paradox, and witting self-delusion. Accordingly, a core question should now present itself in Jerusalem: In what usefully precise manner should jihadist beliefs in immortality be understood by Israel’s national security decision-makers?
There are pertinent particulars.
In facing jihadist ideologies that promise eternality to the faithful, Israel needs to be wary of projecting ordinary political and strategic preferences onto Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the Houthis, and Iran. While enemy irrationality may not be uniform, certainly normative secular political preferences, such as self-determination, are generally secondary.
Though Israel’s immediate security concerns center on counterterrorism in Gaza, Judea and Samaria (West Bank), Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, direct conflict with Iran is on the near horizon. What would be the longer-term implications of such a direct war – one that could become continuous and protracted?
If Israel’s national decision-makers were to survey the current configuration of global jihadist terrorist organizations (Sunni and Shi’ite) from an augmented analytic standpoint, the need to acknowledge the enemy philosophy of “power over death” (the nexus between “martyrdom operations” and “life-everlasting”) would be clear.
Jerusalem’s national security planners could then begin to place themselves in an improved operational position to deter Islamist murderers, hostage-takers, and suicide-bombers as individual terrorist-criminals and as enemy states that support the jihadist terrorist microcosm.
There are corresponding elements of law to be applied in such scenarios. In law, right can never stem from wrong.
Jihadist insurgents who seek to justify barbarous attacks on Israeli noncombatants in the name of martyrdom are acting contrary to international law. Insurgents’s intentional killing or maiming of noncombatants is always defined as terrorism. It is irrelevant whether the expressed cause of the terror-violence is presumptively just. Using unjust means to fight for allegedly just ends is never permissible.
Sometimes, martyrdom-seeking terrorist organizations such as Hamas or Hezbollah advance a supposedly legal argument known as tu quoque. This authoritatively discredited argument stipulates that because the other side is allegedly guilty of “similar, equivalent, or greater criminality,” the terrorist side is innocent of any wrongdoing. Jurisprudentially, any such argument is invalid – especially after the landmark postwar legal judgments of the Nuremberg and Tokyo Tribunals.
A no-choice war
In Israel’s no-choice war against Hamas and Iran, the death and injury of Palestinian noncombatants are the legal responsibility of “perfidious” jihadist enemies. Because Hamas and its Iranian state mentor place terror fighters in protected places (schools, hospitals, mosques), these places are no longer off-limits to defensive military action by Israel. For the Jewish state, enemy use of “human shields” is exculpatory of all necessary exertions of military force. In law, this is called “military necessity.”
Whenever an insurgent group resorts to unjust means, its actions constitute terrorism. Even if adversarial claims of a hostile controlling power could be taken as plausible, corollary claims to “any means necessary” would remain false. Recalling Hague Convention No. IV: “The right of belligerents to adopt means of injuring the enemy is not unlimited.”
Though Israel’s bombardments of Gaza produce Palestinian casualties, legal responsibility for these harms still lies entirely with Hamas/Iranian perfidy. While Israel-inflicted Palestinian casualties are unwanted, inadvertent, and unintentional, the killing and wounding of Israeli civilians are the verifiable result of Palestinian mens rea – criminal intent.
In law, there is a consequential difference between raping and murdering celebrants at a public music festival and the lethal consequences of a state’s self-defense operations. Insurgent movements that fail to meet the test of just means can never be defended as lawful or legitimate in themselves.
Even if relevant law was somehow to accept the argument that terror groups had fulfilled all valid criteria of “national liberation,” it would still not satisfy the equally significant legal standards of distinction, proportionality, and military necessity. These critical standards were applied to insurgent or armed sub-state organizations by the common Article 3 of the four Geneva conventions of 1949 and by the two 1977 protocols to these conventions.
Standards of “humanity” remain binding on all combatants by customary and conventional international law, including Article 1 of the Preamble to the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907. This rule, commonly called the Martens Clause, makes “all persons” responsible for the “laws of humanity” and associated “dictates of public conscience.” There can be no permissible exceptions to this universal responsibility.
Terrorist crimes mandate universal cooperation in apprehension and punishment. As punishers of “grave breaches” under international law, all states are required to “extradite or prosecute” individual terrorists. Under no circumstances are states permitted to treat terrorist “martyrs” as law-backed “freedom fighters.” International law is binding on all nations, including the United States and Israel.
Remarkably, legal authority for the American republic was largely derived from William Blackstone’s Commentaries, a magisterial work that owes much of its clarifying content to the principles of the Torah.
The writer is an emeritus professor of international law at Purdue University and the author of many books and scholarly articles on international law, nuclear strategy, nuclear war, and terrorism. His 12th and latest book is Surviving Amid Chaos: Israel’s Nuclear Strategy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016; second edition, 2018).
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The Supreme Court does not have sovereignty!
Im Tirtzu-tweet-28July2024-The Supreme Court does not have sovereignty
Galia Hoshen, the mother of Hadar Hoshen HYD, who was murdered in Nova, cries out:
“The Supreme Court does not have sovereignty! The people are the sovereign power. The time has come for the court to stop taking powers that are not in its control and to stop deciding on matters that are not theirs to discuss!
Im Tirtzu-tweet-28July2024-The Supreme Court does not have sovereignty
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https://www.fdd.org/
June 19, 2024 | The Washington Times
Israel’s long war
A “ceasefire deal” won’t end it
Clifford D. May
Founder & President https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/06/19/israels-long-war-2/
The Nova Music Festival was billed as a celebration of “Friends, Love, and Infinite Freedom.” On Oct. 6, 2023, attendees from more than two dozen countries gathered in Israel’s Negev Desert just three miles from Hamas-ruled Gaza to sing, dance, and celebrate peace through the night.
At dawn the next day, Hamas terrorists used bulldozers and bombs to break through Israel’s high-tech fence that was thought to secure the border. Arriving at the festival grounds, they began slaughtering, raping, mutilating, and kidnapping concertgoers, exuberantly shouting: “Allahu Akbar!” – “God is greatest!”
On a visit to Israel earlier this month, I wandered through that killing field, now a makeshift memorial. Atop a small forest of poles are pictures of the more than 360 victims, most of them young, and, in these photos, smiling and full of life. Flowers and Israeli flags surround them.
I also toured Be’eri, a nearby kibbutz, a farming community, where the invaders from Gaza gleefully tortured, shot and burned alive men, women, children, toddlers, and babies.
Oct. 7 was the bloodiest day in Israeli history, the worst Jew-killing orgy since the Nazis overran Europe. Within hours, jihadists and their secular allies were blaming Israelis and/or Jews for Hamas’ crimes and atrocities.
Hamas, they insisted, was responding to the Israeli “occupation” – ignoring the plain fact that, in 2005, the Israelis withdrew from Gaza, a territory they’d taken from Egypt in the defensive war of 1967.
Hamas seized full control of the territory in 2007, after waging a brief war to oust the Palestinian Authority.
Hamas then began importing weapons and ammunition – provided mostly by Iran’s rulers – and constructing the expensive and elaborate subterranean fortress in which Yahya Sinwar and other Hamas honchos are believed to be ensconced, presumably surrounded by hostages in chains.
Aboveground, Hamas fighters have blended in with noncombatants serving as human shields.
That this is a key component of Hamas’ warfighting strategy was confirmed by the Wall Street Journal’s publication last week of secret messages Mr. Sinwar has sent to his compatriots outside Gaza. Dead Gazans, he told them, are “necessary sacrifices” in the long war to annihilate Israel and exterminate Israelis.
Israel’s many critics and enemies refuse to recognize this reality. On June 8, Israeli commandos staged a daring broad-daylight rescue of four hostages from two civilian buildings in Nuseirat, a city in central Gaza.
Joseph Borrell, the European Union’s foreign minister, called the operation a “massacre.” How dare Israelis return fire at those trying to kill them as they were extricating their citizens! Indeed, the leader of the Israeli mission was mortally wounded by heavily armed Hamas terrorists.
The Washington Post headlined: “More than 200 Palestinians killed in Israeli hostage raid in Gaza.” The Post is one of many media outlets that parrots whatever numbers Hamas provides without attempting to verify or distinguish civilians from combatants. (Israel’s military estimates about 100 Gazans were killed or wounded, most of them gunmen.)
BBC news anchor Helena Humphrey asked Jonathan Conricus, a former officer in the Israel Defense Forces, whether Gazans should not have been warned of the impending rescue operation. (The BBC has gone beyond parody.)
While the media remains focused on Gaza, there are other fronts in this war. Most significantly, since Oct. 8, Hezbollah, Tehran’s most formidable foreign legion, has been firing rockets and drones from southern Lebanon into northern Israel, the Galilee and the Golan. The attacks have sharply escalated over recent days.
This demonstrates – to anyone with eyes that see – that “ceasefire deals” and “peace agreements” with proxies of Tehran are useless or, worse, lethal traps.
Recall that Hezbollah’s last major war against Israel was in 2006. U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 mandated a “full cessation of hostilities” by Israel in exchange for the establishment of a zone from Lebanon’s border with Israel to the Litani River “free of any armed personnel, assets and weapons other than those of the Government of Lebanon” and U.N forces. It also called for Hezbollah’s disarmament.
But the 10,000 U.N. troops charged with enforcing the demilitarization of southern Lebanon merely watched as Hezbollah hid thousands of missiles in mosques, hospitals, schools, and homes. And the American-supported Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) has acted as Hezbollah’s auxiliary.
Hezbollah’s attacks have forced more than 60,000 Israelis to abandon their homes, farms, villages and cities. Hezbollah rockets have sparked fires that have consumed thousands of acres of forest.
Another full-blown war with Hezbollah would cause many deaths and much destruction in Israel. As for Lebanon, already a failing state thanks largely to Hezbollah, it might never recover.
But it’s hard to see how the Israelis can long allow a proxy of Tehran to turn regions of their small country into an uninhabitable free-fire zone.
Final note for today: On June 10, the U.N. Security Council passed an American ceasefire proposal for Gaza. Biden administration officials then pleaded for Mr. Sinwar to agree to it.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken observed that Gazans are “suffering every day,” adding – with determined naivety – that if Mr. Sinwar “has their interests at heart, he will come to a conclusion to bring this to a conclusion.”
To what should be nobody’s surprise, Mr. Sinwar rejected the proposal. He expects President Biden to pressure the Israelis to offer more concessions – or end the war as Mr. Biden ended the conflict in Afghanistan: by capitulating.
For now, the Israelis are continuing to battle Hamas in Gaza while preparing for the eventuality of an all-out war against Hezbollah. And, at some point, they will need to attend to unfinished business with the patron of both terrorist groups, the jihadist and genocidal regime in Tehran.
Clifford D. May is founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and a columnist for the Washington Times.
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Islamophobia
Imtiaz Mahmood-tweet-19November2024-Islamophobia definition
Imtiaz Mahmood-tweet-19November2024-Islamophobia definition
Imtiaz Mahmood-tweet-12June2024-Islamophobia
They can’t live peacefully with Hindus
They can’t live peacefully with Jews
They can’t live peacefully with Christians
They can’t live peacefully with Atheists
They can’t live peacefully with Buddhists
They can’t live peacefully with other sects of Islam
They can’t live peacefully with LGBT.
They don’t like Free Speech
They don’t like Religious Freedom
They don’t like free Women
But they constantly want Islamophobia criminalized.
Imtiaz Mahmood-tweet-12June2024-Islamophobia
This is Islam
Salwan Momika-tweet-14July2024-This is Islam
This is Islam
Salwan Momika-tweet-14July2024-This is Islam
Kitty Surprise-tweet-13November2024-The optics: behead
The optics:
Kitty Surprise-tweet-13November2024-The optics behead
Kitty Surprise-tweet-13November2024-The optics: Rape
The optics:
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Muslim Scholar Says it’s OK to Rape Non-Muslim Women
The Jordan Rules-tweet-14November2024-I came to correct God’s word said Satan
Islam is a cancer in the world
The Jordan Rules-tweet-14November2024-I came to correct God’s word said Satan
I came to correct God’s word said Satan
RoyR-tweet-13November2024-Please list what can say about Islam
Please list what can say about Islam without being accused of Islamaphobia?
How can anyone be accused of such when it’s been 100% proven that Islam isn’t a religion but an idealogy cult with baseless foundations & a threat to all in society across the globe?
No racism
No hate.
RoyR-tweet-13November2024-Please list what can say about Islam
Winston Churchill on Islam
Anglophobia
Margaret Thatcher on Islam
Pandora’s Box-Hope
Oscar Ekman-tweet-12June2024-Freedom of religion
Freedom of religion was designed for Christian denominations or Judaism.
But it should not apply to Islam as a warfaring and conquering religion. It should only be allowed with severe and specific restrictions.
Oscar Ekman-tweet-12June2024-Freedom of religion
Imtiaz Mahmood-tweet-12June2024-Famous Personalities from Different Religions
Famous Personalities from Different Religions
Imtiaz Mahmood-tweet-12June2024-Famous Personalities from Different Religions
Famous Personalities from Different Religions
Amateur Jew-tweet-12June2024-Buddhists on Islam
Amateur Jew-tweet-12June2024-Buddhists on Islam
Buddhists on Islam
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How to properly treat Islamophobia
Imtiaz Mahmood-tweet-14June2024-K9 Neutralizes Terrorist
K9 Neutralizes a Terrorist that Threw an Explosive on Soldiers and then Went into Hiding.
Jihadists killed by women or dogs don’t win 72 virgins. They become unclean and lose the heavens pass.
There is no “I’ll just be a tough guy” when one of these dogs bites you. Same for all the big predators of the animal kingdom. It’s somewhat like taking pliers to your body.
Congrats! You are food. Your primal brain is now on fire.
Add to your knowledge. Jihawg ammo (You can Google)
Not only does Jihawg guarantee that all of their ammunition meets or exceeds S.A.A.M.I. standards for velocity, penetration, and accuracy, they also coat each projectile with a special ballistic paint infused with pork to make it “Haraam” or unclean to a radical Jihadist.
This makes Jihawg Ammo the only commercially available ammunition with the added deterrent factor of eternal damnation for the fundamentalist Islamic Jihadist.
Christian Hall-tweet-14June2024-ammo
Imtiaz Mahmood-tweet-14June2024-K9 Neutralizes Terrorist
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Back to the Future: 1948 All over Again
Uri Kurlianchik-tweet-18November2024-Zionist resisting the Nazi Islamist Mufti
“Not like Dachau, is it, herr mufti?”
I absolutely love this 1948 New York Times cartoon.
Notice that “Palestine” represents here the Zionist resisting the Nazi Islamist Mufti. At the time, when people said “free Palestine” they meant “establish a Jewish state.”
Uri Kurlianchik-tweet-18November2024-Zionist resisting the Nazi Islamist Mufti
Not like Dachau, is it, herr mufti?
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Start fighting for our existence
The Persian Jewess-tweet-11June2024-Start fighting for our existence
Dear Jews,
We could be perfect and they would still find reasons to hate us.
It’s time to stop apologizing for existing and start fighting for our existence.
Because if we won’t do it for ourselves then why in the world would anyone else want to do it for us?
The time for silence is over. SPEAK UP!
Precious Ndlovu-tweet-11June2024-
😡☠️😎
The Persian Jewess-tweet-11June2024-Start fighting for our existence
Mossad Commentary-tweet-13November2023-Israel
Mossad Commentary-tweet-13November2023-Israel
Nioh Berg-tweet-29October2024-Womaan Praying in tartan skirt with M16 Gold Boots
Nothing infuriates them more than this.
Nioh Berg-tweet-29October2024-Womaan Praying in tartan skirt with M16 Gold Boots
Vivid-tweet-19June2024-Only in Israel
Only in Israel. 💙
Vivid-tweet-19June2024-Only in Israel
Hillel Fuld-tweet-14March2024-Jews are able to fight back
Not something you’d see very often 6 months ago, but a pretty normal thing you’d see now.
I know that it’s inconvenient that the Jews are able to fight back but you’re just gonna have to get used to it.
💪✡️🇮🇱🙏
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Dearborn, Michigan: “We don’t have terrorists”
Open Source Intel-tweet-19September2024-Dearborn, Michigan
Dearborn, Michigan: “We don’t have terrorists”
Also Dearborn, Michigan: “Come to the memorial of one of our neighborhood Hezbollah Martyrs”
Open Source Intel-tweet-19September2024-Dearborn Michigan
Medical fundraiser for Hezbollah
Joe Truzman-tweet-19September2024-Medical fundraiser for Hezbollah
Following the Israeli targeting of potentially thousands of Hezbollah fighters, the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan, will be holding a medical fundraiser for Lebanon on Friday.
Joe Truzman-tweet-19September2024-Medical fundraiser for Hezbollah
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Muslim countries taking Palestinian refugees-No Fucking Way
Imtiaz Mahmood-tweet-16June2024-Muslims taking Palestinian refugees-No Fucking Way
On auspicious Eid day, feeling charitable, 57 Muslim countries’ foreign ministers voted in a Zoom meeting, on taking Palestinian refugees.
The results are: 46 countries politely voted, “No”
11 countries voted non politely, “No Fucking Way”
Imtiaz Mahmood-tweet-16June2024-Muslims taking Palestinian refugees-No Fucking Way
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Despite conflict, scores of Jews move to Israel
Despite the ongoing war and lack of safety, a new wave of Jews from the US and France choose to make aliyah, demonstrating an unwavering commitment to the State of Israel.
By VERONICA NEIFAKH/THE MEDIA LINE
JUNE 10, 2024 15:33 https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-805738
The October 7 Hamas attack on Israel sparked an emotionally charged phenomenon: a new wave of Jews choosing to move to Israel despite the war, lack of safety, and numerous challenges.
For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org
According to Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, from the war’s onset until the end of May 2024, 1,169 new immigrants arrived from the US and 587 from France. Remarkably, the number of new Israelis from America and France has not decreased in comparison to last year. The same period last year saw 1,321 immigrants from the US and 628 from France.
Marc Rosenberg, vice president of Diaspora partnerships at Nefesh B’Nefesh, a nonprofit organization that promotes and facilitates aliyah from North America, told The Media Line that Americans are now mainly moving to Israel for ideological reasons, although some are also coming for practical reasons.
Desire for connection
“We’ve seen that a majority of North American Jews want to make their connection with Israel stronger. Therefore, those who were thinking about immigration to Israel, have sped up their plans,” Rosenberg said.
“People seem to be determined, despite the insecurity that’s happening here. War increases passion for Israel, they want to be a part of the story,” he continued.
According to Rosenberg, Nefesh B’Nefesh now sees three main groups of people who are immigrating to Israel: singles under the age of 30, who are coming to serve in the Israeli army or study in Israel; people who are 60+ and are coming to retire; and families.
“We see an increase of people asking about serving in the army, which is fascinating considering the danger that is involved,” Rosenberg said.
An event for Israeli immigrants. (credit: Gvahim)
Another reason that American Jews are immigrating to Israel is antisemitism, which has increased since the war in Gaza began, asserted Rosenberg. “It’s something that people are mentioning, but usually it is not the main reason [for their move t Israel]. But surely, even a few antisemitic cases create a certain atmosphere,” he said.
Twenty-four-year-old Hadar Amar from California hadn’t thought about moving to Israel before last year, although her two older siblings moved to Israel six and nine years ago, respectively.
“I got my degree in the States and started working at a corporation. However, there was always a sense of loneliness. I just didn’t feel connected; in America, I felt like a stranger,” she told The Media Line.
In 2023, when Amar found herself in a romantic relationship with an Israeli, she started thinking about moving to the Jewish state. She got a job offer during the summer of 2023 and planned to make aliyah on October 18. But then the war happened.
“On the 7th of October, I was still in America with my family and boyfriend. He was visiting us at that time. As the war started, at first I was doubting my decision to come to Israel,” Amar explained. “Physically, I was in America, but my heart was in Israel,” she added.
‘My heart was in Israel’
Amar said that both her brother and boyfriend serve in the Israel Defense Forces.
“They were in reserves for weeks, and I decided to come to Israel and be with them. Talking to them with the difference in time zones was horrible. Being far from them was pure torture,” she said.
Amar came to Israel on November 6 and received Israeli citizenship on November 14. Amar’s mother decided to travel to Israel with her daughter to support her children and stayed in the country for five months.
“My parents understood that I wanted to be in Israel, although everyone was scared. They were trying to be as supportive as possible, but I know it was hard for them,” she shared.
Regarding antisemitism, Amar said that although it hasn’t affected her personally, she saw many instances of antisemitic while still in California.
“When the war started, I saw that a lot of people who I grew up with were sharing pro-Palestine posts on Instagram. I know that they just aren’t educated about the situation. There was nothing that personally targeted me. I did lose some friends though, but I am okay with it because now I know that they weren’t my true friends,” she said.
Jacob, Panina and Miriam Licht. (credit: Courtesy)
In the middle of February 2024, Jacob Licht, 50, moved to Israel from the US with his wife Panina and their daughter Miriam.
“One of our other daughters had already made aliyah and was serving in the Air Force in Israel. Now she is working for the year, and then she’ll start college in Israel,” Licht told The Media Line.
Licht explained that 22-year-old Miriam has a disability, and she gets better support in Israel than she does in the US.
“That’s why we had started the [immigration] process and decided that we want to move over the summer, but when October 7 happened, it accelerated the process in our minds,” he explained.
“Our desire was even stronger after October 7, because there was an attack on our people and our land,” Licht added.
Licht emphasized the importance of Jewish people having a homeland, a place to live unconditionally.
Working in the business side of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, Licht expressed his deep desire to help Israel develop this industry.
“I’ve been doing this for 25 years, and some of my work has overlapped with Israeli companies, but I’ve mostly worked in the US, Europe, and in Asia. I understood that Israel has a lot to offer, and I want to be a part of the Israeli ecosystem,” he explained.
“I want to be here and help companies grow through partnerships and alliances with the rest of the world,” he added.
Licht further shared that his niece is now finishing her first year at Columbia University.
“She couldn’t go to Pesach seder there as the police said that it would require protection… My daughter then said to me: ‘Isn’t it strange that we’re sitting in a restaurant in a country that’s actually at war, and it’s my cousin in America who is afraid?’” he recalled.
Besides the US, Israel has seen an influx of new immigrants coming from France, despite the ongoing war.
Leon Cohen, the head of France projects in Gvahim, an organization that facilitates the successful integration of new immigrants into the Israeli labor market, explained to The Media Line that Zionism has been one of the most important reasons for French Jews to move to Israel during the war.
“In their hearts, October 7 activates and embraces the thought that Israel is their place, it’s the place where they have to go,” he said.
According to Cohen, in his professional experience, most of the Jews in France have felt an increased desire to come to Israel since the war began.
“They were hurt in their hearts, as if they, themselves, were in the Kibbutz Be’eri, as if the attack happened to them. For many, it felt like something terrible was happening to their family members and they just have to be in Israel,” he said.
Cohen also mentioned that for some new immigrants, ordinary household situations also motivated them to leave France and come to Israel. “They divorce, or don’t like their job in France, or want to change something in life… Some people also immigrate to Israel simply because of it,” he said.
Conversion to Judasim
Meanwhile, Rebecca, who requested not to use her surname, immigrated to Israel from France in April 2024 with her husband Michael and their 3-year-old daughter after October 7.
Rebecca grew up in Morocco but felt a strong connection to Israel and the Jewish people. She converted to Judaism three years ago.
“I come from Sumerian parents. My path of life made me discover Judaism and feel very close to it and to the land of Israel. Conversion took years. It [the desire to convert] emerged when I was 17 years old, and I started the process when I was 21. I had to study for three years,” she explained.
Given that she hasn’t yet found unemployment in Israel, Rebecca said that she feels “new” to the country and as if she’s still experiencing the aliyah process.
Rebecca shared that although she and her husband had thought about moving to Israel before the Hamas attack on October 7, the events of that day inspired them to embark upon the immigration process faster.
“We felt that everything that’s happening in Israel was affecting us. We felt that for us it is better to be here,” she said.
Rebecca shared an example of antisemitism that she had experienced in France. Their nanny had refused to take care of her daughter once Rebecca told her that they were Jewish.
Another Zionist who made aliyah from France is 27-year-old Maxime Horwitz from Metz, who moved to Israel in mid-November 2023.
“It was planned at the beginning of mid-October. I really wanted to come but because of the situation, my parents were really afraid. We had a clash because of my departure, and I agreed to wait, but no more than one month or a few weeks,” he told The Media Line.
Horwitz explained that he prefers to live in a Zionist environment.
“I feel that there is one place for Jewish people, and it’s in Israel. I just knew that I want to live in Israel,” he shared.
Today, despite the difficulties of immigration and the danger of war, Israel’s new immigrants felt that living in a Jewish state was a positive experience.
“Being in Israel now makes me feel safe, happy and connected. I’m with my loved ones. I’m also creating the life that I have been waiting for, for years. It’s not easy, especially having the people closest to you serving in the army, but this experience helped me to realize what it’s like to be a Jew in today’s society,” concluded Amar.
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Israel Revamps Aerial Bomb Production
Defense Business Weekly News Summary
By News Desk – 3October2024 https://defense-update.com/20241003_defense-business-news-summary.html#:~:text=Elbit%20Systems%20has%20signed%20a,before%20Elbit%20Systems%20acquired%20it.
Elbit Systems has signed a 1.5-billion-shekel (approximately $400 million) contract with Israel’s Ministry of Defense to establish an aerial bomb manufacturing bombs for the Israeli Air Force. In the past, the government-owned IMI operated this factory before Elbit Systems acquired it. This strategic move aims to reduce Israel’s dependence on bomb supplies from abroad.
Elbit System’s product portfolio comprises a wide range of aerial bombs and deep penetrator bodies with precision-guided aerial weapons. Until recently, Israel’s defense companies focused more effort on the advanced, precision guidance kits rather than the explosive and bunker buster bombs used as warheads, considered by many as ‘commodities.’ The shortage of bombs and other munitions emphasized the need for Israel to maintain local supplies of ammunition. The company currently operates several production lines for manufacturing artillery and tank rounds, mortar bombs, and small-caliber ammunition. Expanding those lines is part of Israel’s broader strategy to strengthen domestic production capabilities and expand manufacturing lines within Israeli industries, as outlined by the Ministry of Defense.
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NIS 2 billion deal to expand Iron Beam laser defense system signed
Defense Mistry signs landmark deal worth approximately NIS 2 billion (over $500 million) to expand serial production of Israel’s first domestically developed laser interception system, the Iron Beam, with lead developers Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Elbit Systems.
Israel National News / 28October2024, 6:13 PM (GMT+2) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/398230
Signing of Iron Beam deal
The Israel Ministry of Defense signed a landmark deal worth approximately NIS 2 billion (over $500 million) yesterday (Sunday) to expand serial production of Israel’s first domestically developed laser interception system, the Iron Beam, with lead developers Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Elbit Systems.
Director General of the Ministry of Defense, Maj. Gen. (Res.) Eyal Zamir, signed the deal at a ceremony at the Ministry’s headquarters in Tel Aviv attended by Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Dr. Daniel Gold, Head of the Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D); Yoav Tourgeman, CEO of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems; Bezhalel (Butzi) Machlis, CEO of Elbit Systems; Dekel Cohen, CPA, Head of the Ministry’s Finance Department; attorney Itay Ophir, Legal Advisor to the Defense Establishment; and other senior officials.
Iron Beam is a ground-based high-power laser air defense system designed to counter aerial threats, including rockets, mortars, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and cruise missiles. The Ministry of Defense’s (IMod) DDR&D’s R&D Unit leads the project with primary developers Rafael and Elbit Systems. The Iron Beam system represents a global technological breakthrough, with its impressive interception capabilities demonstrated through a series of successful trials. The system is expected to integrate into Israel’s multi-layered defense array as a complementary capability to the Iron Dome system. This integration will significantly enhance Israel’s defense capabilities against current and future threats while offering substantially lower operational costs.
Maj. Gen. (Res.) Eyal Zamir, Director General of the IMoD: “Since the outbreak of war, the Ministry has signed hundreds of orders worth billions of dollars to strengthen domestic production capabilities and build the IDF’s force. The Iron Beam deal is among our most significant agreements, as it heralds the beginning of a new era in warfare. The initial capability of the ground-based laser system developed through collaboration between the DDR&D, major defense industries, and startup companies is expected to enter operational service within one year. The Iron Beam deal will ensure continued and accelerated procurement of many additional laser systems.”
Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Dr. Daniel Gold, Head of the DDR&D: “The Iron Beam system further demonstrates the exceptional expertise of our defense industries under DDR&D’s leadership, combining creativity, innovation, and inventiveness with effective management and execution capabilities. We have achieved a qualitative military edge and its battlefield implementation by successfully integrating defense industries and startup companies. The Iron Beam will complement the Iron Dome, and the combination of laser and missile interception will further strengthen our defense systems against rockets, missiles, UAVs, cruise missiles, and additional threats.”
Yoav Tourgeman, CEO of Rafael, commented: “Rafael is proud to lead the development and delivery of the world’s first advanced high-power laser system for intercepting a wide range of aerial threats. After years of research, development, and significant technological breakthroughs in laser technology at Rafael, along with an extensive series of successful trials, the Iron Beam system will soon reach maturity for operational deployment. The Iron Beam project marks a significant milestone in upgrading Israel’s air defense capabilities. Iron Beam will join Iron Dome and David’s Sling, providing optimal protection for Israeli citizens through breakthrough technologies and superior performance.”
Bezhalel (Butzi) Machlis, President & CEO of Elbit Systems: “As Israel’s global leader in high-power laser technology, Elbit Systems welcomes the significant progress in the Iron Beam project and is proud of its contribution to its success. The capabilities developed at Elbit that will be integrated into Iron Beam represent a quantum leap in future defense technology against various threats. Elbit’s management and employees take pride in contributing to Israel’s defense through groundbreaking strategic systems. The development of laser technology and its integration into a national project led by the IMoD is another significant step in maturing Elbit Systems’ diverse capabilities in transforming and advancing defense and warfare technologies.”
In the photo alongside the Director General of the Ministry of Defense, from right to left: Legal Advisor to the Defense Establishment, attorney Itay Ophir; President & CEO of Elbit Systems, Bezhalel (Butzi) Machlis; Rafael CEO Yoav Tourgeman; Head of the DDR&D, Brig. Gen. (res.) Dr. Daniel Gold; and Head of the Ministry’s Finance Department, Dekel Cohen, CPA.
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France bans all Israeli defense companies from the Euronaval Defence Expo in Paris
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The Paris 2024 Olympics and Israeli society
An Israeli mother-tweet-23July2024-The Paris 2024 Olympics and Israeli society
A thread on some of the Israeli delegation to #paris2024olympics. It’s also a thread on Israeli society.
Let me begin by saying to all of those who will use the incredible diversity of the team to pretend we’re not “indigenous”: you’re WRONG.
Jews, as we celebrate today with the 17 Tammuz fast, have been exiled and dispersed all over the world, that’s true. Now they’re BACK, each with what they picked during their travels.
It would have been easier, and many did it, to just forget about our roots and assimilate.
That’s why each and every Israeli Jew you see here is the scion of a family Jewish enough, and attached enough to its ancestral Land of Israel, to bear 1950 years of exile and humiliation, in the inextinguishable, stubborn waiting to go back home.
We came back from places as diverse as Ghana and Ukraine, USA and China. We’re coming home.
An Israeli mother-tweet-23July2024-The Paris 2024 Olympics and Israeli society
Donna Barford-tweet-12August2024-The Games May Never Recover
Olympic Committee Announces $2 Billion in Lost Revenue: “The Games May Never Recover”
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Haredi leader Goldknopf on army draft: ‘You don’t want us and you don’t need us’
At event marking Bnei Brak centenery, UTJ chief wonders why ultra-Orthodox parties’ electoral achievements do not enable them to strike deals to avoid enlistment for their community
By ToI Staff
17 June 2024, 5:00 am https://www.timesofisrael.com/haredi-leader-on-army-draft-you-dont-want-us-and-you-dont-need-us/
Leader of the United Torah Judaism party Yitzhak Goldknopf argued Sunday night that Israel does not need or want Haredi conscripts, while wondering whether ultra-Orthodox parties’ electoral victories did not give them the right to strike deals to avoid enlistment for their community.
Goldknopf, speaking at an event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of Bnei Brak, a city whose population is mostly Haredi, said: “You still don’t understand us, why we say we live on the Torah, that without the Torah who knows where we’d be.”
Citing a tweet by former politician Haim Ramon, Goldknopf claimed that “four thousand Haredim asked to enlist since the beginning of the year — though that’s not good to hear — but you ruled out 3,300 of them. You don’t want us and you don’t need us. Why do you abuse us?” (Ramon in his tweet cited data from the Knesset, though he later acknowledged that some individuals had challenged the data as problematic.)
Goldknopf went on to ask: “Have we no worth, since we won elections? The attorney general says ‘This can’t be done, this can be done.’ It has nothing to do with her legally. Do we have no right in elections to negotiate and receive what we deserve?”
Israel has seen an intensifying public and legal debate over blanket ultra-Orthodox exemptions from the military draft, as the High Court of Justice considers multiple petitions demanding the immediate drafting of young Haredi men.
Ultra-Orthodox men of military age have been able to avoid being conscripted to the Israel Defense Forces for decades by enrolling in yeshivas for Torah study and obtaining repeated one-year service deferrals until they reach the age of military exemption. In 2017 the High Court ruled that mass exemptions to military service on a group basis are illegal and discriminatory. Successive governments have since that time tried and failed to formulate new legislation to settle the matter, while requesting repeated deferrals from the court.
However, justices have shown diminishing patience, and the need to fill the military’s manpower shortfalls has become far more acute since the outbreak of the war in Gaza and the threat of war on the Lebanese border.
The court ruled in March that the state must cease subsidizing Haredi yeshivas whose students are eligible for the draft, since the legal framework for doing so had expired. As a result, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had to deal with a severe political headache owing to the high priority Haredi political parties place on both yeshiva funding and military exemptions.
Lawmakers last week voted to apply “continuity” to a bill from the previous Knesset dealing with the military service of yeshiva students, reviving the contentious legislation, but it is not expected to solve the matter.
If eventually approved, the bill would lower the current age of exemption from mandatory service for Haredi yeshiva students from 26 to 21 and “very slowly” increase the rate of ultra-Orthodox conscription. The vote was to renew the legislative process where it left off, without having to start from scratch in the current session. The legislation will now advance to the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to be prepared for the second and third readings it must pass to become law.
Netanyahu declared his support for advancing the bill last month after failing to come to an agreement with his ultra-Orthodox partners on legislation to enlist members of their community. By working to advance the legislation, Netanyahu appeared to be trying to show the High Court that he is working on the enlistment issue, which would buy him time while keeping his Haredi coalition partners on board.
However, deep abiding disagreements over the bill between Haredi lawmakers and Likud members mean it is highly unlikely to advance through the committee stage.
Meanwhile the government on Sunday gave its backing to a draft bill raising the retirement age for IDF reservists, amid widespread criticism of its recruitment policies, which many Israelis believe place unequal burdens on different segments of the population.
The proposal, a Defense Ministry-backed “draft Security Service Law,” calls to extend for several more months a temporary measure raising the exemption age for reserve military service from 40 to 41 for soldiers and from 45 to 46 for officers due to an ongoing manpower shortage.
Specialists such as doctors and air crewmen will be required to continue serving until 50, instead of 49.
The current law raising the exemption age, which was initially passed by the Knesset late last year, is set to expire at the end of the month.
After canceling a scheduled cabinet discussion on the measure on Sunday morning following harsh public criticism, the government referred the matter to the Ministerial Committee for Legislation. The committee approved sending the legislation to the Knesset, where it must pass three readings to become law.
If eventually approved by the Knesset, the draft bill would mark the second extension of the measure, which was intended as a stopgap solution to prevent a mass release from the reserves of those soldiers reaching the exemption age amid ongoing combat operations in Gaza.
It was first extended for four months by 44-33 a Knesset vote in late February.
Despite the Defense Ministry calling to extend the measure until the end of the year, the committee only supported a three-month extension, following objections by Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara.
Baharav-Miara told the government on Sunday that the bill was legally unacceptable unless an immediate effort is made to draft extra military power “from the entire population,” a reference to the tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students who receive blanket exemptions from military service.
The government has faced harsh public backlash over extending reservists’ service while appearing to take little action to draft the ultra-Orthodox.
While being careful not to comment on any current legislation or wade into politics, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi also endorsed integrating the ultra-Orthodox into the army during comments released on Sunday.
Speaking to soldiers during a visit to Gaza over the weekend, Halevi said that there “is now a clear need” for Haredi soldiers and that every new “ultra-Orthodox battalion [the army establishes] decreases the need for the deployment of many thousands of reservists.”
Over the past eight months, reservists have complained of economic and familial problems brought about by their long, repeated stints in the army. In many cases, spouses were left alone to care for children — sometimes with schools and kindergartens closed due to the war, depending on the area — and were unable to work for months.
Jeremy Sharon contributed to this report.
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How the Allies in World War 2 treated German Terrorist after 1945
Werwolf pennant with the Wolfsangel symbol
Werwolf (pronounced [ˈveːɐ̯vɔlf], German for “werewolf“) was a Nazi plan which began development in 1944,[1] to create a resistance force which would operate behind enemy lines as the Allies advanced through Germany in parallel with the Wehrmacht fighting in front of the lines. There is some argument that the plan, and subsequent reports of guerrilla activities, were created by Joseph Goebbels through propaganda disseminated in the waning weeks of the war through his “Radio Werwolf”, something that was not connected in any way with the military unit.
Allied reprisals
According to Biddiscombe “the threat of Nazi partisan warfare had a generally unhealthy effect on broad issues of policy among the occupying powers. As well, it prompted the development of draconian reprisal measures that resulted in the destruction of much German property and the deaths of thousands of civilians and soldiers”.[52] Ian Kershaw states that fear of Werwolf activities may have motivated atrocities against German civilians by Allied troops during and immediately after the war.[53]
The German resistance movement was successfully suppressed in 1945.[54] However, collective punishment for acts of resistance, such as fines and curfews, was still being imposed as late as 1948.[55] Biddiscombe estimates the total death toll as a direct result of Werewolf actions and the resulting reprisals as 3,000–5,000.[56]
Soviet reprisals
In the Soviet occupation zone, thousands of youths were arrested as “Werwolves”.[57][58] Evidently, arrests were arbitrary and in part based on denunciations.[57] The arrested boys were either executed or interned in NKVD special camps.[57] [ See Below:] On 22 June 1945, Deputy Commissar of the NKVD Ivan Serov reported to the head of the NKVD Lavrentiy Beria the arrest of “more than 600” alleged Werwolf members,[59] mostly aged 15 to 17 years.[60]
The report, though referring to incidents where Soviet units came under fire from the woods,[59] asserts that most of the arrested had not been involved in any action against the Soviets, which Serov explained with interrogation results allegedly showing that the boys had been “waiting” for the right moment and in the meantime focused on attracting new members.[60] In October 1945, Beria reported to Joseph Stalin the “liquidation” of 359 alleged Werwolf groups.[57] Of those, 92 groups with 1,192 members were “liquidated” in Saxony alone.[57] On 5 August 1946, Soviet minister for internal affairs Sergei Nikiforovich Kruglov reported that in the Soviet occupation zone, 332 “terrorist diversion groups and underground organizations” had been disclosed and “liquidated”.[57] A total of about 10,000 youths were interned in NKVD special camps, half of whom did not return.[58] Parents as well as the East German administration and political parties, installed by the Soviets, were denied any information on the whereabouts of the arrested youths.[57] The Red Army‘s torching of Demmin, which resulted in the suicide of hundreds of people, was blamed on alleged preceding Werwolf activities by the East German regime.[61]
American reprisals
Eisenhower believed he would be faced with extensive guerrilla warfare, based on the Alpine Redoubt.[52] The fear of Werwolf activity believed to be mustering around Berchtesgaden in the Alps also led to the switch in U.S. operational targets in the middle of March 1945 away from the drive towards Berlin and instead shifted the thrust towards the south and on linking up with the Russians first.[62] An intelligence report stated “We should … be prepared to undertake operations in Southern Germany in order to overcome rapidly any organised resistance by the German Armed Forces or by guerrilla movements which may have retreated to the inner zone and to this redoubt”.[62] On March 31 Eisenhower told Roosevelt, “I am hopeful of launching operations that should partially prevent a guerrilla control of any large area such as the southern mountain bastions”.[62]
Eisenhower had previously also requested that the occupation directive JCS 1067 not make him responsible for maintaining living conditions in Germany under the expected circumstances; “… probably guerrilla fighting and possibly even civil war in certain districts … If conditions in Germany turn out as described, it will be utterly impossible effectively to control or save the economic structure of the country … and we feel we should not assume the responsibility for its support and control.”[52] The British were “mortified by such a suggestion”, but the War Department took considerable account of Eisenhower’s wishes.[63] In addition, civilians held by the U.S. climbed from 1,000 in late March to 30,000 in late June, and more than 100,000 by the end of 1945.[64] Conditions were often poor in the camps for civilians.[64]
British reprisals
In April 1945 Churchill announced that the Allies would incarcerate all captured German officers for as long as a guerrilla threat existed.[63] Hundreds of thousands of German last-ditch troops were kept in the makeshift Rheinwiesenlager for months, “mainly to prevent Werwolf activity”.[63]
Prior to the occupation SHAEF investigated the reprisal techniques the Germans had used in order to maintain control over occupied territories since they felt the Germans had had good success.[65] Directives were loosely defined and implementation of reprisal was largely left to the preferences of the various armies, with the British seeming uncomfortable with those involving bloodshed.[65] Rear-Admiral H.T. Baillie Grohman for example stated that killing hostages was “not in accordance with our usual methods”.[65] Thanks to feelings such as this, and relative light guerrilla activity in their area, relatively few reprisals took place in the UK zone of operations.[65]
NKVD special camps in Germany 1945–1950
NKVD special camps (German: Speziallager) were NKVD-run late and post-World War II internment camps in the Soviet-occupied parts of Germany from May 1945 to January 6, 1950. They were set up by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) and run by the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD).[1] On 8 August 1948, the camps were made subordinate to the Gulag.[2] Because the camp inmates were permitted no contact with the outside world, the special camps were also known as silence camps (German: Schweigelager).[3]
The Soviet occupation authorities did not admit to the existence of the camps until the Western press led the Soviet Union to respond with a moderate propaganda campaign of their own admitting and defending the camps’ existence.[4] No inmates were released before 1948.[2] On January 6, 1950, the camps were handed over to the East German government,[2] who tried the remaining detainees.[2] Officially, 157,837 people were detained, including 122,671 Germans and 35,166 citizens of other nations, at least 43,035 of whom did not survive.[2] The actual number of German prisoners was about 30,000 higher.[5]
Inmates
The NKVD Main Camp Administration (GULAG) controlled the special camps from Moscow. All of the camp commanders were senior Soviet military officers. and the camps were laid out to GULAG camp specifications just as in Siberia or Central Asia. The camps, however, were not slave labor camps attached to factories or collective farms. On the contrary, prisoners were not allowed to work. Strictly speaking they were not death camps such as the Nazi annihilation camps in Poland, but the death rate nevertheless was very high due to malnourishment and disease.[6]
Charges
People were arrested because of alleged ties to the Nazis, because they were hindering the establishment of Stalinism, or at random.[7] The legal basis for the arrests was the Beria-order No. 00315 of 18 April 1945, ordering the internment without prior investigation by the Soviet military of “spies, saboteurs, terrorists and active NSDAP members”, heads of Nazi organizations, people maintaining “illegal” print and broadcasting devices or weapon deposits, members of the civil administration, and journalists.[8] This was the same type of NKVD order for administrative arrest and deportation to Gulag camps in the Soviet Union used extensively by the Soviet security services where the victims had absolutely no legal recourse.[9]
Inmates were classified “sentenced” or “interned” depending on whether they were tried by a Soviet military tribunal (SMT) or not.[10] A decree[11] issued by the Allied Control Council on 30 October 1946 made a trial prior to internment obligatory, yet in November 1946 only 10% of the inmates were “sentenced”, this proportion rose to 55% in early 1950.[10]
Of the “interned”, 80% were members of the Nazi Party in early 1945, two thirds in late 1945, and less than half after February 1946.[7] Of the “sentenced”, 25% were members of the Nazi Party in 1945, 20% in 1946, 15% in 1947, just above 10% in 1948, and less than 10% since 1949.[7] A significant actual prosecution of Nazi war crimes by the SMT did not take place.[7] Among the alleged Nazis were also boys suspected to be Werwolf members:[12] About 10,000 internees were youths and children, half of whom did not return.[13]
Among the inmates were many supporters or members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), which the Soviet authorities sought to suppress, particularly from 1946.[14] When the Social Democratic Party was merged into the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), renamed Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), Social Democrats were interned to ensure Marxist–Leninist dominance in the party.[14] Also, people were interned as “spies” because they were suspected of opposing the authoritarian regime, e.g. for having contacts with organizations based in the Western occupation zones, on the basis of Article 58 of the Soviet penal code dealing with “anti-Soviet activities”.[14] In the Bautzen special camp, 66% of the inmates fell into this category.[14]
Isolation policy
The Soviet authorities enforced a policy of total isolation of the inmates. A decree of 27 July 1945 reads: “The primary purpose of the special camp is the total isolation of the contingent therein and the prevention of flights”, and prohibits all mail and visitors.[15] Another decree of 25 July 1946 confirmed the “total isolation from the outside world” as a primary purpose, and further reads:
No inmate could contact a relative, nor the other way around (with some exceptions in the early stage of the camps).[16] Relatives were not able to retrieve any information and were not even informed of inmate deaths.[17] Exceptions were not made. In one case, the chief of special camp No. 8 asked the supreme chief of the special camps, Colonel Mikhail Sviridov [ru], whether people arrested in their summer clothes were allowed to request winter clothes from their relatives, and pointed out that the situation was very urgent and that some of the inmates did not even have shoes. Sviridov forbade contact.[17]
In late 1947 the inmates were allowed limited access to Communist newspapers, which represented their first contact with the outside world since their arrests.[18]
First releases
A first 27,749 were released mid-1948 after a revision of 43,853 cases by a joint commission of SMAD, MGB and MVD (the successor of the NKVD).[2] Among the released were primarily people whose arrest was based on a suspected Nazi background, which was found to be of low significance by the commission.[2]
Numbers and casualties
The total number of detainees and deaths is uncertain. In 1990 the Soviet Ministry for the Interior released numbers, which were based upon a collection of data compiled after the dissolution of the camps by the last head of its administration in 1950. According to these numbers, 122,671 Germans, 34,706 citizens of the Soviet Union, and 460 foreign citizens had been received. While 40,244 detainees were deported to the Soviet Union, 45,635 were released, 786 were shot and 43,035 died. 6,680 Germans were turned over to POW camps, 128 inmates managed to escape. 14,202 German detainees were handed over to the East German Ministry of the Interior.[19] A critical examination of the data by Natalja Jeske concluded that approximately 30,000 more Germans were detained in the special camps than officially acknowledged.[5] The official number of deaths is nonetheless considered to be accurate. Older estimates, according to which 65,000 to 130,000 or between 50,000 and 80,000 interned persons had died, are too high.[20] Most people died from starvation and diseases. The death rate was particularly high from the end of 1946 to early 1947, when the already low food rations had been reduced further. The food rations for detainees did not differ significantly from the food rations in the Soviet occupation zone in general, but the prisoners were cut off from the black market.[21]
Among the dead were an estimated 12,000 discovered in 1990 in mass graves near the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Six thousand of the captives in Sachsenhausen were German officers sent there from Western Allied camps.[22] The major causes of death of the prisoners were starvation, disease, particularly tuberculosis and dysentery or torture and execution. Their health was completely neglected.[23]
Camps in Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD)
See also: Soviet Military Administration in Germany
A total of ten camps existed, set up in former Nazi concentration camps, former stalags, barracks, or prisons.
In addition, numerous prisons were either directly assigned to or seized by the NKVD.[10]
Prisons and camps in East Central Europe prior to May 1945
Numerous prisons and filtration camps were set prior to May 1945, in an area that is today Poland and Russia, Slovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia. The Soviet forces detained German civilians in the regions they conquered in early 1945. Some were sent for Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union and others transferred to the NKVD special camps in occupied Germany after May 1945. These temporary prisons and camps were set up according to the same Beria-doctrine as their counterparts west of the Oder-Neisse line.[24] Almost the complete male German population remaining east of Oder and Neisse, numbering several tens of thousands, was arrested as “Hitlerites” by the NKVD.[25] Only very few actual Nazis were among them.[25]
According to records from the Soviet archives by early May 1945 215,540 persons were interned by the Red Army on the territory of present-day Poland: 138,200 Germans, 36,660 Poles,27,880 USSR citizens and 10,800 from other countries. Amongst the 215,540 detained 148,540 were sent to the USSR, 62,000 were held in prisons in the battle area and 5,000 died [26]
As of 10 May 1945, there were NKVD camps in what is today Poland and Russia
NKVD prisons in
and NKVD camps as well as NKVD prisons in
An additional NKVD prison was in Slovak Ružomberok.[27][28]
A couple of weeks after the war had come to an end, the prisoners were subsequently transferred to the Soviet Occupation Zone.[29] While immediately after the Soviet occupation of that zone some people detained west of the Oder-Neisse line were transferred to Landsberg east of that line, inmates from camps east of the line who had not been deported to the Soviet Union for forced labor were transferred to camps west of the line following the Potsdam agreement.[30]
While the abovementioned camps and prisons were all listed in attachment 1 to the Beria-doctrine 00461, signed by Beria’s substitute Tshernyshow, there were other camps not included in this list.[28] Already on 15 December 1944, Beria had reported to Stalin and Molotov that
These were all the people holding German citizenship remaining in these countries.[31]
Additional NKVD camps in Poland, which were likewise not listed in the Beria-doctrine 00461, are known from Polish sources.[32] These camps included
and others.[32]
Handover to East Germany
The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union decided on 28 September 1949 to hand the camps over to the authorities of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), that was about to be formed from the Soviet occupation zone in Germany.[2] The East German republic was officially founded on 7 October 1949. On 6 January 1950, Soviet Minister of Internal Affairs Kruglov ordered[33] the handing over to the East German Ministry of Internal Affairs of 10,513 inmates for further detention and of 3,500 for trial.[2]
These trials were the so-called Waldheim trials [de] (German: Waldheimer Prozesse) – a series of show-trials. They took place in Waldheim prison in Saxony and handed down previously prepared and overly long sentences.[2] The trials often lasted only a few minutes, and took place behind closed doors. The judges refused to admit evidence for the accused. The sentences were based on the original NKVD arrest protocols, which often involved torture. By June 1950 over 3,000 had been condemned to various additional prison sentences. Many of the convicted had already spent over four years interned in the special camps, and more than half were emaciated and sick. The Waldheim trials introduced the vigorous use of the judicial system as an instrument of political repression of all dissident elements in the GDR.[34] Many of these sentences were revised in 1952.[2] Before the hand-over, a number of inmates were deported to Siberia – their fate remains unknown as of 2015.[13]
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Israel must defeat bloodthirsty Jew hating Islam
Cheryl E-tweet-18November2024-Israel must defeat bloodthirsty Jew hating Islam
keep seeing the same tired question being asked over and over for months now by Islamists and peaceniks and leftist delusionals – “What is the number? How many lives will it take for Israel to be satisfied and have their revenge?”
This isn’t about revenge, at all, but I’m going to answer these questions here and now as clearly and brutally honestly as humanly possible:
On October 7, between 5000 and 6000 heavily armed terrorists from Gaza, both Hamas and civilians, and even Gazan children, both broke through the fences and paraglided into Israel and raped, mutilated, burned alive and massacred 1200 innocent men, women and children in the single largest loss of life of Jews since the Holocaust. If they could have massacred 5000, 10000, 100000+ more, they would have done it in a heartbeat. They came to slaughter anyone and everyone. They did it with joy and excitement. They then kidnapped 250 more with the intention of holding them hostage in Gaza indefinitely.
Not only during the massacre, but also on their return into Gaza, they were met by the hysterical celebrations of every Gazan. They celebrated the murder of Jews.
Within minutes of the massacre beginning, thousands of Islamists and Gazans took to social media to celebrate the ongoing massacre and to cheer the terrorists on, laughing about it all. Hours after the atrocities, tens of thousands across many countries flooded on to the streets to celebrate the massacre of Jews. All this still on October 7.
The very next day with Israel still in shock and grief, Hezbollah chose to fire barrage after barrage of rockets into Israel in an unprovoked attack. Nearly a hundred thousand Israelis were evacuated from their homes in the North and still are to this day.
Just a day after that, on October 9, mass protests erupted around the world calling for a ceasefire many days before Israel even went into Gaza or fired a single airstrike. Everything was funded and choreographed months in advance. Hamas then spent a week coordinating with their friends at the UN to gather as many Gazans into pre specified locations for use as human shields in anticipation of Israel’s response. Everything was planned. The UN immediately called for Israel to not attack and even before the first airstrike, the UN inadvertently already were calling it a genocide. This was followed by the fake massacre at the hospital where it was claimed 500 civilians were killed and this was pushed by media around the world. Yet this was shortly after proven to have been a PIJ rocket that hit a car park and just 26 people died. Everything from start to finish was a lie and a sign of what was to come. The casualty rates were being thrown out by Hamas like sweets. And the media just bought it and fed it to the world.
While all this was happening, Hamas’s leaders were giving interviews from the safety of their homes in Doha where they promised this was just the beginning and that they will repeat it over and over and over again until every Jew was dead. They are the only ones wanting OUR genocide.
And for 13 months, tens of millions of people around the world have been marching openly on western streets calling for the total elimination and genocide of all Jews in Israel and the destruction of the state.
So here is my answer to all those who ask:
I don’t give a flying f*** about “the children” or the women or any of them. Our IDF have done everything humanly possible to avoid civilian deaths. Every death is on Hamas.
So what’s the number? The number is how ever many it damned well takes for the Islamists to stop murdering Jews which they have been doing with for 1400 years, and within just the land that is now Israel, since at least the 15th century. Pogrom after pogrom. In the 1930’s they even allied with Hitler and the Nazis to exterminate us. So the number is however many it takes for them to stop trying to wipe us out.
The world may not care, but when we said Never again, it means NEVER AGAIN!!!
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This is what you get when you start a War.
Bombing of Cologne in World War II
By http://www.anicursor.com/colpicwar.html credited Courtesy of Kevin “The Rocketeer” via flickr-Website., Public Domain, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4579919
For those who don’t recognize it, the picture is Dresden February 1, 1945.
Hiroshima atomic bombing
Gaza Today
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Gaza Today.
Don’t start wars you can’t win…
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New drone footage from the red. Media Gaza crew shows the scale of destruction caused by Israel’s nonstop 7-week shelling. Israel has destroyed half of all homes in Gaza, 278,000 residential units, either completely or partially.
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Irrationally anti-Israel
How is a rational person to deal with someone under the influence of Israel Derangement Syndrome? One possibility: Don’t waste your time with such a person.
By Alan G. Futerman and Walter E. Block – Published on 04June2024 11:14 – Last modified: 04June2024 11:14 https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/irrationally-anti-israel/
Participants march way up Fifth Avenue in New York City during the annual Israel Day Parade on June 4, 2023 | Photo: Getty Images / Ryan Rahman
There is a new virus that has been spreading all over the world. It is called Israel Derangement Syndrome. It is especially virulent at prestigious university campuses, newsrooms and left-wing political parties the world over. It consists of simply being unable to see any merit in the Israeli side in its present battle with Hamas, and also, to see any fault with the latter group of terrorists. As early as October 8, 2023, one day after one of the worst, most vicious attacks on civilians in all of history, those afflicted with IDS were blaming the victims.
Consider trying to show someone suffering from IDS the error of his ways. If you show him pictures, he’ll claim they’re fake; show him videos, he’ll claim they are created by AI; show him testimonies, he’ll say they are lies; show him documents, he’ll claim they are fabricated; show him audio, he’ll claim they are hoaxes; show him historical facts, he’ll claim they never happened or are lies; show him the videos uploaded by Hamas assassins themselves, he’ll claim that Israelis died of “friendly fire” anyway; show him that even if Israelis died as a result of “friendly fire”, this was in the course of eliminating the Hamas invaders and as a consequence of Hamas genocidal invasion, he’ll claim that in fact it was all a false flag because the border “could not have been easily overcome by Hamas” (paraphrase); show him that Hamas indeed prepared for the attack and launched its operation motivated by what they themselves say in their own Charter, he’ll claim that the Charter changed; show him that the Charter really never changed, he’ll claim that Hamas in fact was created by Israel; show him that Hamas was created by followers of the Muslim Brotherhood and is funded by Qatar, Iran and Turkey, he’ll claim that Hamas is the result of Israeli “occupation”; show him that the intent to destroy Israel preceded Israeli control of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, he’ll claim that it all began in 1948 with the ethnic cleansing of Arabs; show him that there was no ethnic cleansing of Arabs in 1948 and that the Arabs who left (most of them due to fear) or were displaced while the ongoing fighting during the War of Independence did so as a result of the war the Arab states themselves launched, he’ll claim that Arabs were dispossessed before the creation of Israel and that created the animosity against Jews; show him that Jews were attacked by Arabs in the preceding decades even before the creation of the state of Israel, he’ll claim again that this was due to dispossession; show him that Arabs sold land to Jews and Jews homesteaded a part of the land, he’ll claim that Arabs owned most of the land anyway; show him that Arabs did not own most of the land, that a great part of that which was regarded as Arab land was considered “uncultivable” and hence unhomesteaded and illegitimately owned actually as government concessions, and that most of the land was really owned by the government (Ottoman or British), he’ll claim that the Jews had no right to any land in any case and that the land was “Arab” anyway; etc. etc. etc.
In other words, it is impossible to convince someone who doesn’t want to be convinced. No evidence could be shown to those who are not willing to look at it in the first place. He already knows that Israel and Jews are to blame and that no good can come from Jews and no bad can come from Israel’s enemies since Israel is the source of all evil.
The motto of those afflicted with IDS might well be, “Don’t confuse me with the facts.” Or, “No matter what has happened, Israel is in the wrong.” Or, “No matter what are the facts, Israel is a colonist, racist, genocidal, western, evil country, unmatched by any other in all of human history.”
How is a rational person to deal with someone under the influence of Israel Derangement Syndrome? One possibility: don’t waste your time with such a person. Another is to keep on trying since this issue is so important, not only to Israel but to all civilized people. If Hamas can get away with its depredations, no civilized people are safe. Perhaps IDS can be overcome with patience and generosity despite the foregoing considerations.
We doubt it because IDS, as the Anti-Zionist mentality in general, is not motivated by reason but by hate. In any case, truth will eventually prevail.
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You may be Jewish, but any connection between you and Judaism is purely coincidental, you are definitely useful idiots
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You may be Jewish because you were born into Jewish families, but any connection between you and Judaism is purely coincidental. One thing’s for sure, though: you’re definitely useful idiots
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Antisemitic Zombies in Valley Village-California
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HAPPENING NOW 😡😡😡
Outside the school at Shaarey Zedek Congregation in Valley Village
Protestors yelling in loudspeaker at Jewish school: “FREE FREE PALESTINE!”
Parent: “You’re coming to our school?!”
Protestors: “Go across the street if you’re going to be an agitator!”
Parent to police: “But this is our school!”
Police to parent: “We understand but they have the right to protest.”
Is this a protest? Or is it targeted harassment of Jewish kids?
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Los Angeles-Pico-Robertson Pogrom 23June2024
‘They came for the Jews’: Inside the LA pogrom
Caroline B. Glick
(June 25, 2024 / JNS) A mob attacks Jews outside of a synagogue in Los Angeles; pro-Hezbollah and pro-Hamas protests crop up across America; AOC spreads antisemitic rhetoric; and a new communications hire at the White House, Tyler Cherry, has a terrible history of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish rhetoric.
All this and more on Caroline Glick’s “In-Focus!”
Inside the LA Pogrom: “They came for the Jews” | Caroline Glick In-Focus
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Anti-Israel mob surrounded a synagogue in LA hosting an Israel real estate event Sunday. The mob spread out to a Jewish neighborhood & restaurant. In all locations, they were met by Jews defending themselves & pushing back after word went out that police were told to stand down.
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Jewish victim of the Palestine mob, outside of a synagogue in LA.
This is not what fighting for human rights looks like.
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What I Saw at a Terrorist Rally Outside a Synagogue
“Billions of us will come and kill you.”
25June2024 by Daniel Greenfield
https://www.frontpagemag.com/what-i-saw-at-a-terrorist-rally-outside-a-synagogue/
Thirty minutes after Hamas supporters first set up their operation outside a Los Angeles synagogue, they maced their first Jew. And the Los Angeles police did nothing.
Not until an hour into the terrorist rally outside a synagogue, did the LAPD finally step in, pushing back masked Jihad supporters in keffiyeh terror scarves from the entrance of Congregation Adas Torah (Congregation of the Bible) which they had occupied.
And then the mob, chanting calls for “intifada” and the destruction of Israel, moved outward to target two smaller synagogues attended by Persian Jewish refugees from Islamic terror in Iran.
“Billions of us will come and kill you,” a heavily accented Middle Eastern man in a keffiyeh unprompted rasped at me as I walked up. Only dozens had actually shown up, but they made up for it with bullhorns, robotic chants, and assaults in the middle of a Jewish neighborhood.
The Jewish counterprotesters had come waving American and Israeli flags while the other side was a sea of terrorist flags. A man wore an Antifa cap, another had come in ski goggles during 90-degree heat, while others toted bear spray, metal bottles, and other implements of violence.
The Jewish community members included older men and women, as well as families, while the Hamas contingent was mostly young and many were masked. A pair of rabbis led a melodic song that could hardly be heard over the harsh clatter of the hateful terror chants.
Despite knowing that a terrorist rally was planned outside a synagogue, the LAPD had allowed the terrorist supporters to take over the entire sidewalk leaving only a thin lane for attendees to walk through to get inside. The LAPD did little to interfere with the terrorist supporters, but did block Jewish counterprotesters from reaching their own synagogue. The police also did nothing as clumps of masked Hamas supporters broke away from the synagogue and began confronting, threatening, and attacking Jewish community members on the street.
LAPD officers did not stir as confrontations escalated into assaults, shoving into mace and bear spray. Jewish community members rushed to provide water bottles to the affected. Only after several such incidents did the LAPD finally bring in reinforcements and push the Hamas supporters away from the synagogue entrance (dispersing them to harass and threaten two other synagogues) while also clearing Jewish families away from the other side of the street who had been peacefully waving flags near a children’s school.
The terrorist hate rally spread outside three synagogues, Congregation Adas Torah, Chabad Persian Youth, and Congregation Ateret Israel (Glory of Israel), and the confrontations in the center of the street continued. There were running battles along the large commercial street with violent assaults outside a Kosher luncheonette and running battles down a residential street in the Jewish neighborhood.
The terrorist hate rally was not an aberration, It’s become the new normal.
On Thursday, Hamas supporters showed up at Congregation Shaarey Zedek (Gates of Righteousness) in the San Fernando Valley formerly attended by Ben Shapiro, yelling abuse at parents taking their children to school. Other Jewish schools have been similarly targeted.
Beginning with the assault on the Museum of Tolerance when it was screening a documentary on the Oct 7 massacre to the violence at UCLA, it has played out this way for 8 months.
The LAPD has consistently failed to secure protest zones, to separate different groups of protesters and to prevent violence, and only steps in when it escalates past a set point. That point usually comes when the Jewish counterprotesters start fighting back. And then the LAPD begins arresting both sides while politicians, including Mayor Bass, deplore the violence.
Media accounts, especially from the Los Angeles Times, CNN and the JTA, falsely characterize the violence as coming from the Jewish counterprotesters rather than the terrorist supporters.
I had previously heard first person accounts from people who were assaulted while the police and security at UCLA did nothing, but now I saw it for myself. And after 8 months of the same thing, it’s hard to believe that it’s simple incompetence or that a major urban police force has no idea how to handle the same kind of protests and is incapable of figuring out how to do so.
Especially when it’s been standard procedure by other urban police forces.
The LAPD is clearly aware of the potential for violence because it sends out offices in riot gear. But rather than engaging in proactive policing to prevent violence, they stand passively and wait for orders from higher up before taking any action. This is not normal policing during protests and counterprotests when the standard doctrine is for police to set up barriers and stand between groups of protesters before they bring out the riot gear. But the LAPD brings out the riot gear, allows the radicals free rein and waits as long as possible before taking any action.
Why is this happening? I previously reported that Mayon Karen Bass is a close political ally of BLM LA boss Melina Abdullah, who has backed the pro-terrorist campaign against Jews. When Jews were attacked at UCLA, Democrat members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed a motion to fund legal support for the terrorist supporters. The resolution to use taxpayer money to fund legal defenses for antisemites was put forward by Supervisor Lindsey Horvath who ‘represents’ CD3 where the synagogue hate riot was taking place. After all the antisemitic violence at UCLA, the only one facing serious charges is a Jewish student.
The Democrat leadership of Los Angeles does not stand with the Jewish communities being targeted by hate, but with the antisemitic mobs surrounding synagogues.
Behind the masks, keffiyehs and the terrorist flags is the new Democratic Party.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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Fed up Canadians are leaving
Gad Saad-tweet-7June2024-Leaving Canada
Hopefully my family and I will follow suit. Canada is a failed society. The top 5% of earners are sucked dry in order to create the parasitic Ponzi scheme known as the socialist welfare state.
Maxime Bernier-tweet-6June2024-fed up Canadians are leaving
While the Liberals are destroying our economy and society, and importing the third world, fed up Canadians (including disillusioned immigrants) are leaving for greener pastures in increasing numbers.
Gad Saad-tweet-7June2024-Leaving Canada
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Hamas celebrates October 7 in New York
“Long Live October 7”
Aviva Klompas-tweet-11June2024-Hamas outside the Nova Exhibit in NYC-Long Live October 7
Cover of today’s @nypost shows the mob outside the Nova Exhibit in NYC with a banner that reads “Long Live October 7”
Aviva Klompas-tweet-11June2024-Hamas outside the Nova Exhibit in NYC-Long Live October 7
Hamas at Nova Exhibition in NYC
Israel-tweet-11June2024-Hamas at Nova Exhibition in NYC
Pro-Hamas demonstrators violently set off smoke bombs in front of the Nova Exhibition in NYC which commemorates the hundreds of Israelis murdered by Hamas at a music festival.
When people show you who they are believe them.
Israel-tweet-11June2024-Hamas at Nova Exhibition in NYC
Todd Richman-tweet-11June2024-Hamas Protesting in front of the Nova exhibit
OMG THESE PEOPLE HAVE LOST ALL THEIR MORALS!!!! Protesting in front of the Nova exhibit, honoring the hundreds massacred, raped and kidnapped by Hamas. Totally disgusting and shameful. My sister said she was trapped inside and could not get out. Really, 2024 in NYC and Jews are unable to leave a building!?!? I thought we had a few decent people there. On my way to a charity event I stopped to speak to a few people. We even shook hands thinking we could agree to disagree. Had a good feeling about them until they started telling me that I was a Nazi and all Zionists were Nazis. And that Hitler was a Zionist and then to F@&k off. And then another got in my face until the @nypdnews told him to back off. Wow, these are my fellow New Yorkers. Freakin scary!!!!! Well you know what, I am a Loud and Proud Zionist! And I love @Israel and America. #AmYisraelChai! @bringhomenow #BringThemHomeNow
Todd Richman-tweet-11June2024-Hamas Protesting in front of the Nova exhibit
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New York City Jewish voters are terrified of living in NYC
Marina Medvin-tweet-11July2024-New York City Jewish voters are terrified of living in NYC
Wow.
New York City Jewish voters are terrified of living in NYC.
44% has experienced personal fear about living in NYC. That’s astounding.
Marina Medvin-tweet-11July2024-New York City Jewish voters are terrified of living in NYC
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Most American Jewish organizations are leftist first and foremost
Karol’s Substack
I have spent the last year angry at Jews.
What if Jews don’t wake up?
Karol Markowicz
Karol Markowicz
6October2024
Tragedy unites.
I was in New York on 9/11 and despite the pain and fear, or because of it, there was so much warmth, care and love. I know Israel had a similar occurrence, briefly, after 10/7. Buildings in Tel Aviv were lit up with the message “together, we will win.” Israeli flags were everywhere.
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In the diaspora, Jews attempted the same. But in America, Jews and their Jewish organizations had leaned so far into their leftist identity that this was difficult to accomplish, especially as October 7th brought the realization to many of them that their leftist friends were very much not on their side.
For those of us on the right, we had to be patient and watch them figure out for themselves the serious mistakes they had made over the course of decades. Some are not quite there yet and it’s been hard to watch.
Some Jews, you can not reach. Every Jewish society in history had people who lined up to help the enemy and ours is no different. Jewish Voices for Peace, and nonsense groups like that, are Jews who use their Judaism only to harm other Jews with it. Their stupid tallit, meant to be worn only in prayer, suddenly a shmata they wear to choke other Jews. They cry out for peace only when it’s time for Jews to fight back and never when Jews are attacked. They are best shunned and forgotten.
Then there are Jews who do get the moment, understand what we are up against, but have spent so long in their “we’re Democrats-first” world that they don’t know how to adjust to our current time.
An important Jewish teen organization held a major conference in Florida in February and one of the speakers was anti-Israel Congressman Maxwell Frost. Frost had called for a ceasefire in October. Yet he was invited to speak to Jewish youth at an organization that touts its connection to Israel. When I called the organization, with smoke coming out of my ears, they explained to me that yes, their event featured only Democratic politicians and elected officials but hey, they had Meghan McCain too. I love Meghan McCain, this is in no way a shot at her. She is an incredible friend to Jews and I’m so grateful for her voice. But the event was in Florida and they couldn’t find a single pro-Israel Republican elected official to speak? They actually had to work to locate an anti-Israel one, even among Democrats in Florida.
The problem is, if they could have the entire Democratic party, even the squad who openly despise them, at their event to talk to the next generation, they would. They could have prominent Republicans, who actually support them, at their event but they don’t. They seemed shocked that anyone thought they did anything wrong. They have been on the Democratic reservation so long that they openly celebrate people who punch them in the face and expect the rest of us to do the same.
Jews are traditionally liberals, that’s true, but we’re not traditionally stupid. We can see with our eyes who is on our side and the lack of gratitude from Jewish organizations, because they still hope that their political team will someday take them back, is abominable.
There were the galas, for example, thrown by many Jewish organizations. I don’t begrudge anyone pretty dresses and rubber chicken or self-congratulating awards. It was a tough year and the people who helped us get through it, standing up for Jews in general and Israel in particular, should be singled out for praise.
But where were the invites and awards for the conservatives who had unwaveringly stood by us? Where was Megyn Kelly? Where were Clay Travis and Buck Sexton? Dan Bongino? Xaviaer DuRousseau? Erick Erickson? Dana Loesch? Glenn Beck? Guy Benson? Sohrab Ahmari? Stephen “RedSteeze” Miller? Kurt Schlichter? Mary Katharine Ham? Pretty much everyone on Fox News? I only leave off Douglas Murray because he did get one from the country of Israel and one from the Manhattan Institute for his “unwavering defense of Western values,” which is for something even wider than just his defense of Israel and Jews, and Meghan McCain because she got one from the right-leaning magazine Algemeiner Journal. They both deserve even more.
My list of well-known non-Jewish conservatives, with giant platforms, who spent the year standing up for Israel and for Jews in America, could go on and on. These people went above and beyond and got no official thank you from the American Jewish community at all, not a single Jewish organization celebrated them. It’s sickening. These mensches didn’t benefit one iota from standing with Jews and with Israel. They took shots for us, they suffered abuse for us. They’ll say they don’t need the praise. They did it because it was right. But how dare we not say thank you? Throw your Tikkun Olam in the nearest trash can and learn Hakarat Hatov. And then wonder: where is the similar cadre of liberal writers and media personalities to defend you? It does not exist. Face it.
And that’s before we get into the moguls and the politicians. If there was a non-Jewish leftist billionaire who went to Israel, wore the dogtags, he would be headlining every major Jewish event. But it was Elon Musk so that didn’t count? Nearly every Republican politician effusively stood up for Israel and demanded the protection of American Jews. Where is Ted Cruz’s award? Ron DeSantis’s? Tom Cotton’s? Where is Donald Trump’s?
We know why. Most Jewish organizations are dinosaurs, committed to Democrats just as the Democrats make clear they are not at all interested in them. That’s the problem with tying your religion to a political party. The political party can tell you that your enemies, who want to destroy you and murder your children, “have a point” and you’ll just take it.
Then there are the Jews who do get it, who know what history has taught us about times like these, but think they can somehow duck this moment. They’ll never find out that you’re Jewish, Betsy Silverman [this is a generic Jewish-sounding name, not attacking anyone named Betsy Silverman in particular], or that you’re obviously a Zionist because that word means that you have faced the reality that Israel exists and will exist and should. You’ll stay popular at your safe job in Hollywood or Fashion. You’re one of the good ones, they’ll believe, because you’ll always highlight every single cause but your own. You couldn’t post about the hostages, because then they’d know you don’t want Jews killed or maimed and you can’t let them find out! You also couldn’t laugh with us when crotches of Hezbollah fighters exploded in supermarkets. Oh no, serious face, this might lead to escalation. As if the 80,000 people evacuated from the north of Israel because Hezbollah shoots rockets at their house daily isn’t already an escalation. You couldn’t celebrate the hostages being rescued, the fist bump between the IDF guy and Almog Meir Jan, even though you know what you felt in that moment. You have to performatively hate Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, and celebrating the successes of Israel would place you on the wrong “side.” Your politics have separated you from your people. It’s pathetic. I feel sorry for you for having to live your lie.
Or the actual Hollywood stars who are super Jewish when they can profit off of it but mute when it matters. Jews control Hollywood? I wish. Hollywood controls Jews and makes sure they stay quiet.
Even groups I should like, formed to combat antisemitism, are leftist first and foremost. They post about pride month, they celebrate the almost entirely mute Barbra Streisand. What is the point of you, I want to yell at these groups. But instead I google what they’re up to, hoping it’s something more than the nothing I see on X, and see they’ve gotten another $100 million for their…what, exactly? Ads with silly blue boxes and a hashtag that makes it sound like they’re fighting hateful Jews?
I’ve never been to a therapist. I know it’s the Jewy thing to do but I always felt I could ask myself the questions a therapist might. What are you mad at, really? What’s at the root of this anger?
It’s this: It was not hard to be a Jewish conservative my entire life because my Soviet Jewish community in Brooklyn got it. They understood what the world was really like. When I met liberal American Jews, they seemed to live in a land of make believe but I never held it against them. They were the luckiest Jews in history. I got why they prioritized other issues ahead of our collective interest. They had known nothing but security. They were unbelievably naive. I understood.
I no longer have that space in my heart to understand. I don’t even mean just voting right, though why not talk about the election: Donald Trump was the most pro-Israel president in my lifetime and it’s not particularly close. Other presidents said the right words, he had the actual right deeds. The American Embassy is now in the capital of Israel, in Jerusalem, where it should be, because of Donald Trump. You don’t care about that? You’re into peace? The Abraham Accords normalized relations between Israel and UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan. There hadn’t been a peace agreement in nearly 30 years but Donald Trump got one done. Democrats see Israel as a problem to solve. Donald Trump sees Israel’s enemies as the problem. They are not the same.
But forget about Israel. You’re an American Jew and, ahem, it’s America first. Think about your kids on college campuses, think about where your family is safe and where it is not, think about the side that lets you fight back and doesn’t want you to just take it. It is not the side you’re desperately trying to find your way back to.
Jews are changing, I wrote even before October 7th, for the better. But what if I’m wrong? What if they don’t? What if they put all of us in peril because they have chosen a side the way a child might choose a football team and they will support that side to our collective demise?
Antisemitism thrives when Jews are weak. There’s a reason the glee on streets around the world was on October 8th and not when Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah, not when Israel shrugged off Iranian ballistic missiles, not when Israel went into Gaza and saved hostages. People are drawn to the strong. When we cower and fear, we lose. When we’re begging to be loved, that’s when we’ll be most hated.
Chazak, Chazak, V’nitchazek we say on Shabbat mornings when we finish a book of the Torah. Be strong, be strong, and let us strengthen each other. When the safest Jews in the world don’t speak up, don’t fight back, don’t care about each other, it harms us all.
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Suicidal Jews
By Joan Swirsky 23September2024 https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/09/suicidal_jews.html
When individuals kill themselves, we look for answers in their DNA, their environments, their personal reactions to feelings of impotent rage, rejection, disappointment, heartbreak, and mental illness.
But how to explain group suicide? There are numerous examples, going back to 206 B.C., and these relatively recent cases:
Clearly, some groups took their lives en masse for ideological reasons, whereas others — particularly vulnerable people in dire need of a “leader” — simply followed orders. In all the mass suicides in recorded history, dozens, hundreds, and up to one thousand people took their own lives.
But today, when looking at suicidal Jews, the numbers could be in the millions!
Currently, out of a worldwide population of eight billion people, there are about 15 million Jews — approximately seven million in Israel, almost seven million in the United States, and one million throughout the world. This is, by any measure, a few grains of sand compared to the massive total population of the world.
According to U.S. voting patterns, Jews are overwhelmingly liberal — up to 80 percent — which means they vote in huge numbers for leftists like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden. These people’s staffs have comprised, almost exclusively, career antisemites, who have done everything in their power to effect anti-Israel policies like the Iran nuclear deal, knowing that the fanatical mission of the mullahs in Teheran was — and is to this day — to wipe Israel off the map and exterminate every Jew in existence.
As Karin McQuillan explained in “Leftist Jew Hatred Has Come to America,” “the Left began with blacklisting and boycotting conservatives. Now American Jews are in the crosshairs, no matter how liberal their politics.”
But they won’t jump off the bandwagon, she wrote, because that would mean “losing your friends, being shunned at synagogue, and stunting your career[.] … [C]hanging party affiliation is such a tall cliff, it feels suicidal, that is the loss of their entire identity.”
McQuillan quotes the estimable Daniel Greenfield: “There is no future for Jews on the left except as collaborators in anti-Semitism.”
Look no farther than the full-bodied ideological and financial support that liberal — suicidal — Jews lend to virulently anti-Israel organizations, many of them founded and financed by leftist Jews, such as the Women’s March, Black Lives Matter, the fascistic Antifa, J Street, If Not Now, Americans for Peace Now, B’Tselem, Bend the Arc, Breaking the Silence, New Israel Fund, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, the newspaper The Forward (recently defunct), Michael Lerner’s Tikkun magazine, Reform Action Center, T’ruah (formerly Rabbis for Human Rights), Jewish Voice for Peace, and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, et al.
Why? Because it’s hard to be a Jew, and liberal Jews are simply not up to the task. The desperate need to be liked, accepted, admired, and embraced is the historical downfall of weak Jews.
That is why so many Jews adored President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who stacked his administration with Court Jews and then stabbed every Jew in the world in the back, refusing refuge to the few who escaped Hitler’s murderous onslaught by turning away thousands from our shores and sending them back to their grisly deaths. And he counted on — who else? — weak liberal Jews and a complicit leftist media — to cover for his mortal sins!
WHO HATES THE SUICIDAL LIBERAL JEWS?
We Jews are taught by our sages to accept and embrace all Jews, no matter their flaws or shortcomings. We are a tiny people, and only by understanding the imperative for unity will we survive. Look for the good in even the most egregious behavior of our fellow Jew — does he help the poor, take in the widow and orphan, donate generously to charity, etc.? Then accept that Jew, embrace him, love her.
In Genesis 12:3, God tells Abram (before he becomes Abraham): “I will make you into a great nation[.] … I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you.”
Personally, I don’t embrace the quisling Jews and other antisemites who opt for the toxic American liberalism that vilifies Jews and Israel. I curse them. And I promise them that their determination to destroy the Jewish state — because of their rancid hatred and obsessive jealousy — will fail as thunderously as all attempts over the past 5,000 years have failed.
Joan Swirsky is a New York-based journalist and author. Her website is www.joanswirsky.com, and she can be reached at joanswirsky@gmail.com.
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Auschwitz style selection line at Heathrow Airport
UK Lawyers For Israel-tweet-12June2024-Auschwitz style selection line at Heathrow Airport
Customs officers @HeathrowAirport selected all incoming passengers from El Al flight last night after seeing Israeli flag on suitcase & directed them to room on left where their bags were scanned. No other passengers selected for this treatment at the time. @UKLFI writing to HMRC. Does it remind you of anything?
Jacklondon-tweet-11June2024-the last time Jews’ luggage was segregated in Europe
@HeathrowAirport the last time Jews’ luggage was segregated in Europe:
UK Lawyers For Israel-tweet-12June2024-Auschwitz style selection line at Heathrow Airport
Jacklondon-tweet-11June2024-the last time Jews’ luggage was segregated in Europe
Heathrow accused of Harassment of Jewish and Israeli passengers as Security Staff sport Pro-Palestine Badges
June 19, 2024 https://www.uklfi.com/heathrow-accused-of-harassment-of-jewish-and-israeli-passengers-as-security-staff-sport-pro-palestine-badges flag, Travelling
All five security staff at Heathrow Terminal 4’s Fast Track lane were sporting Palestinian Flag badges when scanning El Al passengers and their luggage.
El Al passengers who were on their way to catch their flight back to Tel Aviv last Sunday 16 June 2024 felt intimidated by this display of badges on the lanyards of the security staff. Two of the staff were also wearing watermelon badges – these days a symbol for Palestinian solidarity and “resistance”.
One of the passengers remarked “The people responsible for making sure terrorists don’t blow up aeroplanes were wearing badges that identify with terrorists.” A passenger complained and eventually the five security staff were moved and replaced by others, and their badges were taken.
UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) has written a letter of complaint to Heathrow’s services director, pointing out that not only were the staff in breach of Heathrow’s own uniform regulations by wearing political badges, they were also breaching the Equality Act 2010.
By wearing the badges, the security staff engaged in “unwanted conduct” relevant to a protected characteristic (being Jewish and Israeli), and this had the purpose of creating an intimidating and hostile and offensive environment for them.
This show of anti-Israel feeling amongst Heathrow staff comes just a week after all the passengers from an El Al flight were taken to one side at customs at Heathrow, whilst going through the Nothing to Declare channel, and made to have their luggage scanned. The passengers were made to feel as if they were being called out as Jews.
A spokesperson from UKLFI commented: “It is obvious that if staff wear these badges it would make most Jewish, Israeli and Israel supporting passengers feel uncomfortable and unsafe, particularly in the area of security checking at Heathrow.
We would like to know why so many security officers were allowed to wear highly offensive, divisive and political badges attached to their Heathrow uniform, when it was a breach of Heathrow’s uniform policy.”
Canary Mission-tweet-22June2024-Heathrow Airport security staff identify with terrorists
“The people responsible for making sure terrorists don’t blow up airplanes were wearing badges that identify with terrorists.” El Al passengers called out security guards in @HeathrowAirport who had Palestinian flags pinned to the lanyards of their uniform https://www.uklfi.com/heathrow-accused-of-harassment-of-jewish-and-israeli-passengers-as-security-staff-sport-pro-palestine-badges
Canary Mission-tweet-22June2024-Heathrow Airport security staff identify with terrorists
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IDF magical bunker busting mushrooms
Cheryl E-tweet-13July2024-IDF magical bunker busting mushrooms
Many studies on the effect of psychedelics on depression and mood have proven that they are an effective therapy to treat anxiety and depression.
Well, I can say without any doubt that these magical bunker busting mushrooms that took out Mahmoud Deif, Rafe Salame and 75+ other Hamas terrorists made me feel very very bloody happy 🤭. I can’t stop smiling and dancing.
Cheryl E-tweet-13July2024-IDF magical bunker busting mushrooms
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Houthis in Yemen attack Israel, The results.
20July2024-Israel attacks Yemen Houthis Port
Israel Nitzan-tweet-19July2024-Iranian-made Yemen Houthis UAV exploded last night in Tel Aviv
Iranian-made UAV exploded last night in Tel Aviv. The drone was launched from Yemen by the Houthis.
This attack is part of the Iranian war against Israel, using Iran’s terrorist militias in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Syria.
It’s not about Gaza.
It’s about Iran.
Israel Nitzan-tweet-19July2024-Iranian-made Yemen Houthis UAV exploded last night in Tel Aviv
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-20July2024-Israel attacks Yemen Houthis Port
After 9 months of continuous aerial attacks by the Houthis in Yemen toward Israel, IAF fighter jets conducted an extensive operational strike over 1,800km away against Houthi terrorist military targets in the area of Al Hudaydah Port in Yemen. This port serves as an entryway for Iranian weapons for the Houthi terrorist regime.
The IDF is capable of operating anywhere required and will strike any force that endangers Israelis.
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-20July2024-Israel attacks Yemen Houthis Port
War Monitor-tweet-20July2024-Israel attacks Yemen Houthis Port
Big. Mistake.
War Monitor-tweet-20July2024-Israel attacks Yemen Houthis Port
Video
Visegrád 24-tweet-20July2024-largest port of Yemen is now completely engulfed in flames
BREAKING:
2 days ago, the Houthis in Yemen carried out their first ever deadly drone attack against Israel.
Now, Israel has answered with their first ever missile strikes against the Houthis.
The largest port of Yemen is now completely engulfed in flames.
Visegrád 24-tweet-20July2024-largest port of Yemen is now completely engulfed in flames
Summary of the Israeli strike
Open Source Intel-tweet-20July2024-Summary of the Israeli strike
Summary of the Israeli strike according to what is known so far:
– Approximately 25 F-15 and F-35 aircraft, accompanied by refueling planes, flew about 2000 kilometers toward the city of Hodeidah in Yemen.
– The strike was carried out in 8 waves.
– The attack destroyed fuel depots, inflicted damage on the port, and destroyed a power station north of the port.
– The fire is still burning and is expected to continue for several more days.
– There is a power outage across the entire region.
– The message of the strike is clear: this is not a strike on military targets (which has been done by the coalition over the past 9 months) but an attack on the already struggling Yemeni economy, causing significant economic damage.
– The attack on the port is a direct response to the damage Yemenis have caused to the port of Eilat.
– The message to the rest of the Middle East is also clear: the Bandar Abbas port and the Kharg Island, from where most of Iran’s oil is exported, are in Israel’s sights, as well as the port of Beirut.
– Israel has decided to take off the gloves; this is not a minor strike like those in Iran.
– The Houthis are threatening to retaliate, but it is unclear what the threat entails, as they have already attacked Israel 200 times.
@orfialkov
Open Source Intel-tweet-20July2024-Summary of the Israeli strike
29September2024-The IAF struck Houthi military targets
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-29September2024-The IAF struck Houthi military targets
⭕️BREAKING: The IAF struck military targets belonging to the Houthi terrorist regime in Yemen in response to their recent attacks against Israel.
The targets included power plants and a seaport, which were used by the Houthis to transfer Iranian weapons to the region, in addition to military supplies and oil.
Over the past year, the Houthis have been operating under the direction and funding of Iran, and in cooperation with Iraqi militias, in order to attack the State of Israel, undermine regional stability, and disrupt global freedom of navigation.
The IDF is determined to continue operating at any distance—near or far—against all threats to the citizens of the State of Israel.
Israel Defense Forces-tweet-29September2024-The IAF struck Houthi military targets
V.O.H-tweet-29September2024-Yemen’s oil depots refineries power plants and airport now on fire
Yemen’s oil depots, refineries, power plants and airport controlled by Houthi terrorists are now on fire. 👇
Israel is on a roll and is sending a clear message: we will screw those who attack us. 🇮🇱THE EXPLOSION 💥 SHOWS YOU MUST OBEY OR YOU (KPAI)DIE!!
V.O.H-tweet-29September2024-Yemen’s oil depots refineries power plants and airport now on fire
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History is repeating again, first with President Ronald Regan in 1981 with Iran
Trump War Room-tweet-2December2024-Hostages-what will happen in 2025
🚨 🚨 🚨
Trump War Room-tweet-2December2024-Hostages-what will happen in 2025
Ash-tweet-2December2024-Here is how you get it done
Here is how you get it done.
1. Go to Qatar and demand every penny of Hamas’s money.
2. Go to Abu Mazen and demand that he intervene or he will lose 100% of his funding and you will recommend that Bibi annex Gaza + Judea & Samaria immediately.
3. Tell Iran that if they do not call off their dogs, their nation will become the largest pane of glass on planet earth.
4. All Hamas captives will face medieval torture, to be inflicted by the families of the hostages. Their family homes will be demolished, and their families will be extradited to Antarctica.
Ash-tweet-2December2024-Here is how you get it done
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The terrorists got instant karma
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-13August2024-terrorists got instant karma
This is the power of teshuva, and there was a lot of that in Israel today, TY, Hashem!
Documenting Israel-tweet-13August2024
A car bomb exploded earlier in Hebron which had terrorists in it and it was supposed to be used against Jews in Israel.
The terrorists got instant karma
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-13August2024-terrorists got instant karma
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Thank You Hashem! Miracle in Tel Aviv
OSINTdefender-tweet-19August2024-Miracle in Tel Aviv
Israeli Police are now almost Positive that yesterday’s Explosion in Tel Aviv was the result of a Failed Terrorist Attack, which if Successful would have been First Bombing within the City in over 18 Years. The Terrorist, who is now believed to have been a Palestinian Resident of Nablus in the West Bank, was carrying the Explosive Device in a Backpack when it suffered some kind of Malfunction and Prematurely Detonated, resulting in his Death. His Intended Target is still Unknown, though he was nearby several Synagogues and Shopping Centers at the time of the Detonation, with him even being seen on CCTV Camera near multiple Large Crowds right before the Explosion. Sources with the Israeli Police have stated it is a “Miracle” that the Explosive Device suffered such a Malfunction, and that if it hadn’t the results would have been Catastrophic.
OSINTdefender-tweet-19August2024-Miracle in Tel Aviv
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-19August2024-Divine protection
Look what a 50lb backpack of nails & TNT did last night in S. Tel Aviv near the Rashbi shul. The terrorist was on his way to downtown, but the bomb exploded before planned on a quiet street. Only the terrorist was killed. It could be that your one mitzva, prayer or daily Gemara learning saved dozens of lives. No one – not police, IDF, Shin Bet or anyone else – thwarted this heinous crime. It was some special mitzva that someone – maybe you – did. Don’t let up!
Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-19August2024-Divine protection
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