UN, UNRWA and Terror

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This is what the war is all about

The Building of the 3rd Holy Temple in Jerusalem

The Building of the 3rd Holy Temple in Jerusalem

 

Hamas ADMITS the Red Heffer is Their Cause of War – Ari Abramowitz: The Land of Israel Fellowship
Judenstern_Yellow Star of David Symbol that Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust, so that they could be identified as Jews.

Judenstern_Yellow Star of David
Symbol that Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust, so that they could be identified as Jews.

Why is The United Nations Truce Supervision Organization Armon Ha’Natziv, Government House, Jerusalem here?

The only way to punish Hamas for October 7th is to build The Beit HaMikdash (Holy Temple)


Rafi Weinstein – Joke-tweet-11August2024-Build The Beit HaMikdash
The only way to punish Hamas for October 7th is to build this –

Rafi Weinstein - Joke-tweet-11August2024-Build The Beit HaMikdash

Rafi Weinstein – Joke-tweet-11August2024-Build The Beit HaMikdash

 

The Truth Behind the Israel Hamas War: Israel’s War for the Holy Temple

 

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Latma – Fake it Out (Israel-Hamas Satire)

 

All About the Facts

Legal Grounds 13August2017
Narrative, shmarrative! This biting musical parody, featuring the talented Latma team, will have you laughing out loud. To learn more about the actual facts, see: http://legalgroundscampaign.org/en/the-facts/

UN Propaganda

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United Nations |
Peace, dignity and equality on a healthy planet |
The United Nations came into being in 1945, following the devastation of the Second World War, with one central mission: the maintenance of international peace and security.

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UNICEF-United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. And we never give up.

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)

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Obama and the UN betray Israel (yet again)

Caroline B. Glick

“The Caroline Glick Show IN Focus”
(October 25, 2023 / JNS) On her show, Caroline Glick tackles the following: U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres justifies the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas on southern Israel; former President Barack Obama lectures and lies about Israel; and the moral depravity of the world continues to be exhibited in cities and on college campuses.

Caroline Glick: Obama and the UN betray Israel (yet again)

Caroline Glick: Obama and the UN betray Israel (yet again)

Obama and the UN Betray Israel…Again | The Caroline Glick Show IN Focus

Posted 25October2023 JNS TV:
The UN Secretary-General justifies Hamas attacks, Obama lectures and lies about Israel, and the moral depravity of the world continues to shine through. All this and more on the Caroline Glick Show IN Focus!

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Dr. Einat Wilf-tweet-26October2023-Finally someone says it

Dr. Einat Wilf-tweet-26October2023-Finally someone says it

Finally someone says it! “It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum.”

And isn’t it great that the person who said it is UN Secretary General Antonio Gutteres, who presides over the organization that has played a defining role in creating, sustaining, and nourishing the fertile soil from which Hamas has sprung?

Let us examine the evidence (Part 1, Part 2 in the first comment):

Exhibit A: UNRWA.

This still temporary agency, established more than 70 years ago to settle the Arab refugees from the war of 1948 (Israel settled the Jewish refugees), was unable to carry out its mission throughout the 1950’s due to the complete refusal of the Arab refugees (later to be known as Palestinians) to be settled, knowing that this would mean they have abandoned their ongoing war against there being a state of sovereign and free Jews anywhere in the land.

Having failed in its resettlement mission, UNRWA was then hijacked by the Palestinians themselves to become the organization that enables Palestinians, uniquely among all the world’s refugees, to persist in the view that they do not need to accept new realities, new borders, and can go on thinking of themselves as perpetual refugees, generation after generation, until such moment that they can turn back the clock, have a “redo” and win the war against there being a state for Jews anywhere in the land.

UNRWA, its compounds, its education system, its almost exclusively Palestinian staff, have been the womb in which not only a unique Palestinian identity was consolidated, but one that was singularly focused on “revenge” and “return”. As a result, from the planners and perpetrators of the massacre of Israeli athletes in the 1972 Munich Olympics, to the current planners and perpetrators of the Oct 7 mass massacre, every generation trained murderers rose up to realize the dream of “return”, “Free Palestine” and “From the River to the Sea”.

(For more on this you may read this post of October 13 https://x.com/einatwilf/status/1712875687407726766?s=61&t=7v41xX2_j-eRVLBysOWtgA or the book “The War of Return” for the full and definitive review of UNRWA’s uniquely destructive goal in sustaining the Palestinian dream of “no Israel”)

Exhibit B: A whole administrative UN structure devoted uniquely to Palestinians

In 1975, the carefully developed Soviet replacement for the Tsarist “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” known as respectable “It’s only Anti-Zionism” was inserted into the UN through the “Zionism is Racism” UN General Assembly resolution. While the resolution was repealed in 1991 under US pressure, the entire infrastructure that it erected remained intact. These include three UN bodies with staffs and budgets that only exist to promote the Palestinian vision that the Jews deserve no state in any part of the land and it is worth noting that no other people have an entire division in the UN Secretariat dedicated to it:
(1) The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP)
(2) The Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR)
(3) The Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Human Rights Practices (SCIIHRP)

(For more on this go to https://ajiri.us/about)

Exhibit C: The UN “Human” “Rights” “Council” obsession with condemning Israel

In 2006 the UN established Orwellian named “Human Rights Council” to replace the rabidly anti Israel UN Commission on Human Rights. And yet, surprise, surprise, nothing changed. For example, every (every!) session of the UN Human Rights Council features a standing agenda item targeting Israel. No other country in the world is singled out in this fashion. In addition, since 2006 UNHRC passed 104 resolutions against Israel alone, compared with 97 against all (all!) other countries combined. Mind you, it’s not just the number. Resolutions against other countries are always framed in the softest language as in “we commend Sudan/Syria/Iran for their efforts to do better and if they could just try a bit harder, that would be nice”. Resolutions against Israel are always phrased in the darkest of dark words with clear definitive blame. And of-course these resolutions often establish more bodies and commissions with more staff and budgets entirely devoted to criminalizing Israel.

(For more on UNHRC’s obsession with Israel: https://unwatch.org)

Exhibit D: The UN General Assembly and its obsession with Israel

The legendary Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Abba Eban, already in the 1960’s made the evergreen observation (remember, this was before the “occupation” which Mr. Gutteres thinks is the cause of Hamas atrocities) observed that: “If Algeria introduced a resolution that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.” (Or my version that in the United Nations, the nations are only united against Israel).

The UNGA, with its automatic majority against Israel, has been the arena whereby repeated anti-Israel resolutions get passed, where days of “solidarity” with Palestinians are marked, and where ideas that exist in no other context, such as a “right of return” are repeatedly affirmed, leading people with little knowledge of how the UN works to assume that these form “international law” (they don’t).

I sometimes wryly conclude that it seems as if the UN General Assembly momentarily voted in November 1947 to uphold the international legitimacy to the establishment of a Jewish state in half of the land initially allocated by the League of Nations… and then has spent all subsequent decades trying to backtrack that.

And why does this matter so much? Because some of us might think that it should be obvious by now that the UN is useless and corrupt and hijacked, but it still retains the post WWII halo of an organization birthed on noble principles to create a more peaceful world. And this halo is why so much of the war against the Jews having a state is being waged in that arena. Those who seek the eradication of the world’s only Jewish state (“Keep the World Clean” in recent placards), need the authority of the UN to legitimize their annhilitionist cause. (For more on how high authority is needed to legitimize anti-Jewish ideologies in my speech here: https://youtu.be/1qGewRDWJGo?si=2IDhytGfl2uPbdbQ).

And that’s the UN. That’s the fertile soil from which generations of trained murderers of Jews emerged, whether they were called Fatah, DFLP, Hamas or Jihad. The names change. The soil doesn’t. Indeed, none of the carefully planned massacres by Palestinian terror organizations of sovereign Jews ever “happened in a vacuum”.

Dr. Einat Wilf-tweet-26October2023-Finally someone says it

Dr. Einat Wilf-tweet-26October2023-Finally someone says it

Dr. Einat Wilf-tweet-26October2023-Exhibit C-The UN Human Rights Council

Dr. Einat Wilf-tweet-26October2023-Exhibit C-The UN Human Rights Council

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Dr. Einat Wilf-tweet-1November2023-Why are there even places called “refugee camps” in Gaza?


Dr. Einat Wilf-tweet-1November2023-Why are there even places called “refugee camps” in Gaza?

Why are there even places called “refugee camps” in Gaza? And why are two thirds of the people living in Gaza, who were born there and lived there their entire lives, called “refugees” from a war that ended more than seven decades ago? The answers to these question unlock the core of the conflict. Here they are (Part 1; Part 2 in the first comment):

1.The 20th century has been marked by a transition from empires to states. We begin the 20th century when much of the world is divided between empires. We end it when much of the world is divided between states. When lucky, those states were based on the self determination of a people who share a common history, language, ethnicity, background religion and connection to a territory. (Zionism emerged in this context based on the idea of self determination for the Jewish people in the only territory to which they were ever connected as a people). When unlucky those new states were artificially created by receding empires drawing boundaries, forcing different peoples to share one state, leading almost always to civil war, dictatorship, or both. This transition has been bloody. It involved two world wars and numerous regional and civil wars. In the bloody process of empires receding and new states emerging to replace them, tens of millions of people were displaced, fleeing across newly created borders, typically to new countries with an ethnic makeup similar to their own. This was true of Hindus and Muslim, Ukrainians, Poles and Germans, Bulgarians, Greeks and Turks and Arabs and Jews. This was not unique.

2.What was unique is that one group only of refugees from that time and those wars were allowed to maintain themselves as endless refugees in anticipation of one day winning a war they had lost. Those were the Arab refugees from the war of 1948, later to be known as Palestinians. All other refugee groups, except the Palestinians, were presented with a clear message: “it’s tough, it’s tragic, move on”. There was a clear understanding that in the most fundamental sense there is no going back – not in place and not in time (thus, there was no such thing as “a right of return”). To seek to go back would mean endless war. And so the message was forward looking and future facing. Tens of millions of refugees and displaced persons, among them millions of Jews, would build new lives in the new countries to which they fled.

3.Except Palestinians. The war that the Arabs of the land and the surrounding countries waged to prevent a Jewish state from emerging and gaining independence failed to achieve its goals. Despite the violent onslaught of 1947-49, Israel emerged as a sovereign state. But the Arabs of the land, sustained by broader Arab support, refused to accept this outcome. They proceeded to undo it through a variety of means, including repeated wars, economic boycotts, international condemnations and a complete refusal of the refugees themselves to be settled, as it would effectively mean accepting that the war was over.

http://4.To that end of keeping the war of 1948 alive until its goal of undoing the Jewish state could be achieved, a temporary agency established to resettle the refugees – UNRWA (initially called REWA, but the Arabs insisted on the letters UN so that it would appear to enjoy international legitimacy) – was hijacked by the Arab refugees. As a result of this hijacking UNRWA effectively became a Palestinian entity devoted singularly to sustaining and stoking the idea that uniquely among the world’s refugees, Palestinians don’t need to move on and can keep insisting on “return”, both in space and in time, to a time when there was no Israel. UNRWA thus became the mechanism by which the Jewish people alone were denied the right to to consider their hard won self-determination and sovereign statehood as a done deal.

(Part 2 continues in the first comment:)

 

5.One of the most important means by which UNRWA fulfilled its mission is inflating the number of Palestinians it registers as refugees. It does so by engaging in several unique practices, not applied to any other refugee population in the world: (1) Counting descendants of the original refugees displaced by the War of 1948 in perpetuity (by now into the fifth generation) automatically and with no qualifications; (2) Never removing any “refugees” from the count even if they acquired citizenship of another country, a status that for all other true refugees ends their refugee status; (3) Counting Palestinians who continue to live in the West Bank and Gaza, so in “Palestine” as refugees “from” Palestine. Once UNRWA’s inflationary practices are removed, almost none of the Palestinians who claim to be “refugees”, either as registered by UNRWA (around 5.7 Million) or self-claimed by Palestinians living in the West (a total of 8-9 Million) are actually refugees by any international standard. The vast majority of them are either (1) living in the West Bank and Gaza, and so clearly are not refugees “from” Palestine, still very much living there, and since almost all of them are by now second to fifth generation claimants they have also never been displaced by war – 2.2 Million; (2) Citizens of countries such as Jordan – 2.2 Million or various countries around the world – 2-3 Million. Citizens of countries are not refugees by any international standard. This leaves about 250,000 Palestinians who remain stateless in Syria and Lebanon, despite having been born there and never having been displaced by war. Those countries refuse to give them citizenship. They are certainly no longer refugees, but they are stateless. Of them, perhaps 30,000 are indeed refugees by international standards in that they were displaced by war, crossed the border and have not been given citizenship by any other country. Them, and only them, should be recognized as refugees. That is less than 1% of the total number of Palestinians who claim to be “refugees”.

http://6.In addition to its inflationary practices, the UNRWA compounds (“Refugee Camps”) and schools are the incubators in which the Palestinian national ethos of “revenge and return” was created and shaped. It is the ground zero Palestinian political organization in that it daily reinforces the Palestinian ethos that the Jews have no right to a state in any of the territory between the Jordan River and the Sea, and that Palestinians will one day undo Israel by means of “return”. Since the days of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, planned and perpetrated by UNRWA graduates, to the October 7th massacre by Hamas, also planned and perpetrated by UNRWA graduates (Muhammad Deif was raised in an UNRWA compound and studied in its school), UNRWA has sustained, nourished, educated and raised generation after generation of Palestinians dedicated to undoing Israel by “all means”, primarily violence and terror. Hamas, like Fatah before it, merely recruits UNRWA graduates ready to commit any atrocity in the name of “revenge and return”. It’s no coincidence that the two places where the perpetual refugee culture is strongest – Gaza and Lebanon – are also the most violent.

In short, why are there still millions of people claiming to be refugees from a war that ended more than seven decades ago? Because to the Palestinians, that war has never ended, and they continue to believe that one day, with enough patience and violence, they could still win it to achieve their original goal: no state for the Jewish people anywhere from “The River to the Sea”.
(The full history is of-course available in “The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream has Obstructed the Path to Peace”).

 

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Dr. Einat Wilf-tweet-27February2024-We need to understand that UNRWA is Palestinian


Dr. Einat Wilf-tweet-27February2024-We need to understand that UNRWA is Palestinian
“We need to understand that UNRWA is, first and foremost, a Palestinian organization. UNRWA started with the best of intentions to settle Arab refugees from the war, was hijacked by the Arab refugees themselves to become a purely Arab Palestinian organization, for the singular cause of ensuring that the Jewish state knows not a day of peace until it is undone.

UNRWA is a classic case of you get what you pay for.
So we need to make sure that we pay for something else.
For 75 years, money, legitimacy, support, services, aid, were given – were funneled – to the perpetuation of the myth that Palestinians are still – uniquely, from all the tens of millions of refugees throughout the 20th century – refugees from a war that we think ended 75 years ago. But they don’t think it ends until they win it to their cause of no Jewish state.

So all the Western legitimacy, the global legitimacy, the funding, the aid, the services were funneled to the perpetuation of the myth of the refugee status and to the belief and the fictional idea of a right of return.

And lest we think that return is an innocent idea of just feelings of nostalgia to a home that belonged to a great-grandparent in today’s Israel, October 7th is return.
October 7th is the realization of the Palestinian vision of return. It was never an innocent idea. It always had the element of violent, brutal triumphalism over the Jewish state. All the money supported that for 75 years.

So what we need to ask right now is not who will replace UNRWA – that doesn’t matter – but what? What will replace UNRWA?

And what needs to replace UNRWA is any mechanism that only funnels legitimacy, support, money and aid to those who are taken off of UNRWA’s rosters; those who are no longer registered as refugees; those who sign and make it clear that they understand that they’re not refugees and that they posses no such right of return. Only then can something be built.

So this is what we need to say: It doesn’t matter who replaces UNRWA – but what replaces UNRWA? Reverse the equation. Legitimacy, money, aid, services will flow only to individuals who have been stricken off UNRWA’s rosters, if it still exists, and who themselves testify that they understand that they’re not refugees, that they do not possess the right of return, and they have no intention of liberating Palestine from the river to the sea.

And I want to end with one thought: October 7th should put an end to the notion of “the poor Palestinians” – the ones who constantly need aid, aid, money, support. The Palestinians are a highly capable people. October 7th required years of planning, massive investment in infrastructure, strategy, discipline, vision – a perverse vision – but vision. The Palestinians are not an incapable people. They are a people with terrible priorities.
For a century they decided to devote all their substantial capabilities not to building something for themselves, but in order to destroy the Jewish state. And as long as this is their ideology, anyone who gives them any kind of funding, aid and legitimacy is guaranteed that this will be funneled to the destruction of the Jewish state and to continued war. And if people really want peace, and really want to abide by the principles and the vision of the United Nations, reverse the equations: Support those who want to put the war behind us, not the ones who want to keep fighting that war.”

My words yesterday at the @UNWatch Summit on Replacing UNRWA. Link to video here:

https://unwatch.org/einat-wilf-at-the-international-summit-for-a-future-beyond-unrwa/

 

Dr. Einat Wilf-tweet-27February2024-We need to understand that UNRWA is Palestinian

Dr. Einat Wilf-tweet-27February2024-We need to understand that UNRWA is Palestinian

 


UN Watch-tweet-27February2024-Palestinian vision of return
“October 7th is the realization of the Palestinian vision of return. It was never innocent. It always had the element of violent, brutal triumphalism over the Jewish state. Aid should go only to those who declare no intention of ‘freeing Palestine from the river to the sea.’”

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UN Watch-tweet-27February2024-Palestinian vision of return

Einat Wilf at the International Summit for a Future Beyond UNRWA

 

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Israeli refugees receive ZERO AID from the UN


The Persian Jewess-tweet-2March2024-Israeli refugees receive ZERO AID from the UN
500,000 Israelis are currently displaced due to the events of October 7 and nonstop rocket barrage from Gaza and Lebanon.

Many have nothing more then the clothes in their backs.

They receive ZERO AID from the UN.

#StandWithIsrael
#DefundTheUN

The Persian Jewess-tweet-2March2024-Israeli refugees receive ZERO AID from the UN

The Persian Jewess-tweet-2March2024-Israeli refugees receive ZERO AID from the UN

 

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Illegal construction at the UNTSO compound in Jerusalem

The United Nations Truce Supervision Organization Armon Ha’Natziv, Government House, Jerusalem.

JerusalemCats Comments: Why is the UN in Jerusalem?
Arutz Sheva http://www.israelnationalnews.com/

Israeli government admits: UN has broken the law in Jerusalem

Israeli government says it is in contact with UN to resolve issue of illegal construction at Government House.

Arutz Sheva Staff / 28May2017, 10:56 PM (GMT+3)  https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/230300

 

Armon Hanatziv Jerusalem UN Compound

Armon Hanatziv Jerusalem UN Compound

 

After repeated delays, the state finally responded Sunday to the request for an interim injunction filed by Regavim against the illegal construction carried out by the UN at the Government House in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood.

 

The state admitted for the first time that the extensive construction activity there, including works to preserve the historic buildings in the compound, as well as the construction of additional illegal structures in the compound, were carried out without permits. “The planning and building laws of the State of Israel apply to the compound and to the works that are the object of the petition, and the UN is expected to act in accordance with the principles of the relevant planning and building laws.”

 

In a petition submitted by the Regavim movement to the Jerusalem District Court two months ago, it was revealed that the United Nations had committed a large number of building offenses during the past year, in a site registered in the Land Registry in the name of the State of Israel.

 

The state expressed its opposition to issuing an interim injunction prohibiting continued construction of the compound, since the UN enjoys immunity from prosecution and legal action against it.

 

The State noted that “if there are differences between the State of Israel and the United Nations on this issue, they should be brought to a solution through diplomatic channels” and detailed the contacts held by the Foreign Ministry over the past few weeks with relevant UN officials in Israel and New York.

 

The government’s intention was to establish a ministerial team to examine the government’s policy on the issue, and at the same time examine the possibility of using appropriate tools in addition to the construction being carried out in the area, including measures against Israeli entities involved in the construction work.

 

In this context, the State announced that it did not object to Regavim’s request to include the Israeli construction companies involved in the illegal construction activity as respondents to the petition.

 

“In addition to all this, the State is working through the diplomatic channels with the aim of resolving the issue of construction in all its aspects, including setting an outline with the UN regarding existing construction and future construction, as far as the UN will do. This dialogue is in favor of regulating the issue. ”

 

Regavim responded to the state’s position by stating that violations of the law must be dealt with without delay. “Illegal work must be stopped immediately, even by means of an order against the Israeli companies that are actually carrying out the building violations while the law is in place,” said attorney Avi Segal of the Regavim movement.

 

“The claim that the UN has absolute immunity that allows it to build as much as it likes in the assets of the State of Israel and in violation of the building laws is unacceptable. Its immunity is only for the fulfillment of his diplomatic duties, not for offenses and the theft of land from the country that hosts him free of charge in its land and properties.”

 

 

BACKGROUND:

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Illegal construction at the UNTSO compound in Jerusalem

23 September 2020 https://www.regavim.org/illegal-construction-at-the-untso-compound-in-jerusalem/

 

Regavim’s petition regarding the UNTSO Compound in Armon HaNatziv continues.

In March 2017, Regavim petitioned the Jerusalem Magistrates Court for a temporary injunction requiring the Israeli authorities to issue evacuation and restoration orders against illegal construction at the UNTSO compound in Armon HaNatziv, in southern Jerusalem.

 

This petition was the result of Regavim’s discovery that the UN was carrying out blatant violations of Israeli law and sovereignty at the site, including seizure and unauthorized use of property adjacent to the compound originally “rented” to the UN by the State of Israel, and construction of a number of buildings – including an illegal gas station – at and around the original site for which permits were never requested or received. The work that had either been completed or that was then underway had already caused significant changes to protected historic structures, and posed a possible environmental threat, aside from the basic violation of Israeli law and Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem.

 

In the hearing of Regavim’s petition on 8 November 2017, the State’s representatives confirmed that these construction projects had, in fact, been carried out and were still in progress, but stated that the Israeli government would be carrying out diplomatic discussions with representatives of the UN on this matter.

 

Over the course of the next three years, these “diplomatic discussions” continued, and last week (15 September 2020) the State’s representatives notified the court that this process had reached a successful conclusion: The sides agreed that all future construction work at the site will be “consonant” either substantively or substantially (the wording in Hebrew is extremely vague) “with Israel’s Planning and Construction Code, and will be carried out according to mutually acceptable parameters.” In addition, the government’s attorney notified the court that its inspectors had received and studied plans and other documentation for the construction work that has already been initiated or completed at the site, and found the documentation “satisfactory.”

 

The State therefore argued that Regavim’s petition had been made redundant and should be rejected.

“While Regavim is happy to hear that the Israeli government and the United Nations have reached an understanding regarding future construction at the site, with all due respect – this ‘understanding’ is worthless,” said Naomi Kahn, Director of Regavim’s International Division.

 

“There is no argument that Israel’s planning and construction laws apply to the Armon HaNatziv compound, and that the UN and its representatives are required to obey these laws; in fact, this is stated clearly in paragraph 5 of the State’s response. The ‘understanding’ reached with the UN that future construction will be ‘consonant’ with Israeli law is another way of saying that the UN is somehow above the law, and has voluntarily agreed to take Israel’s Planning and Building Code into consideration. At the same time, the Israeli government’s acquiescence to this ‘understanding’ exempts it from enforcing the law.”

 

“This is an ‘understanding’ that we must not accept,” Kahn continued. “Regavim’s petition, from the very outset, has been as much about the physical damage caused to the historic compound as it is about the blatant disregard for Israeli sovereignty in our capital. ”


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Here’s a story about #UN🇺🇳 illegal activity & pathetic #Israeli🇮🇱 governance.
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– 1967. Israel grants UN a compound in Armon HaNatziv, in southern #Jerusalem, to allow #UNTSO personnel to monitor ceasefire between #Israel & its neighbors post-war.

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“We are unwilling to accept the Israeli government’s behavior in this matter,” added Attorney Avi Segal, who represents Regavim in this case. “The ‘satisfactory’ documentation presented by the UN should not empower our government or its agencies to undermine the basic principles of equal and universal law enforcement. If the planning and building code becomes nothing more than a set of recommendations, if the ramifications for our environment and the allocation of national resources of large-scale projects are only of secondary concern, and if political pressure suffices to suspend all semblance of legal process, Israel is in sad state indeed.”

 

“Regavim will continue to pursue this matter in court,” said Meir Deutsch, Director General of Regavim. “We will not accept our government’s willingness to forgo Israeli sovereignty – particularly when the challenge is posed by an organization that acts consistently against Israeli sovereignty on every possible front.”

 

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin calls U.N. ‘transparently antisemitic’ after report on tech firms and Gaza

His comment on an internal company forum came in response to a United Nations report alleging that Google profited from “Israel’s genocide,” screenshots show.

8July2025 at 8:55 p.m. EDT Today at 8:55 p.m. EDT  https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/08/sergey-brin-united-nations-gaza-israel/

 

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin called the United Nations “transparently antisemitic” on Saturday in an internal forum for employees, according to screenshots reviewed by The Washington Post and verified with a current member of the forum.

 

His comments came in response to a U.N. report released last month that alleged technology firms including Google and its parent company Alphabet had profited from “the genocide carried out by Israel” in Gaza by providing cloud and AI technologies to the Israeli government and military.

 

“With all due respect, throwing around the term genocide in relation to Gaza is deeply offensive to many Jewish people who have suffered actual genocides. I would also be careful citing transparently antisemitic organizations like the UN in relation to these issues,” Brin wrote in a forum for staff at Google DeepMind, the company’s artificial intelligence division, where workers were debating the report, according to the screenshots.

 

The U.N. report was authored by its special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Italian legal scholar Francesca Albanese. The U.S. representative to the U.N. has asked for her removal, accusing her of antisemitism and bias against Israel.

 

Critics of Israel have said its war in Gaza meets the definition of genocide, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected those claims, saying his country is defending itself against an attempted genocide by Hamas. The Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, has said the war has killed over 57,000 Palestinians.

 

“My comments came in response to an internal discussion that was citing a plainly biased and misleading report,” Brin said in a statement provided by his spokesperson. Google and the United Nations did not respond to requests for comment.

 

Brin rarely comments in the internal forum, which is hosted on Google Chat and has nearly 2,500 members, many of them AI researchers. His accusation against the U.N. confused and upset some employees, according to the forum member and screenshots reviewed by The Post.

 

Google’s leadership has previously clashed with and fired workers who protested the company’s dealings with Israel after its military action in Gaza following the Hamas attacks on the country on Oct. 7, 2023, that killed about 1,200 people.

 

The company moved to sell its AI tools to Israel’s military after the incursion by the militant group, The Post reported in January.

 

Brin immigrated to the United States as a child with his parents, Russian Jews who sought to escape the antisemitism they faced in the Soviet Union, according to the 2009 book “Googled: The End of the World as We Know It,” by Ken Auletta. Brin and Google co-founder Larry Page left their daily roles at the company in 2019. But Brin has become involved with Google’s efforts to compete in AI following the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022.

 

The U.N. report names corporations that the organization’s special rapporteur Albanese says should be held accountable for Israel’s military action in Gaza. It claims American tech giants have capitalized on a lucrative opportunity created by its military’s expanding need for computing services and cloud storage, driven by the copious data generated by Israel’s control of Gaza

 

The report highlights a $1.2 billion cloud computing contract that Israel awarded to Google and Amazon in 2021 called Project Nimbus, claiming that they “stepped in with critical cloud and AI infrastructure,” after Israel’s internal military cloud overloaded in the wake of the Hamas attacks.

 

Amazon declined to comment. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.

 

Last week, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations called on the secretary general of the U.N. to condemn Albanese’s activities and remove her from her role, reiterating a request it made earlier this year opposing the renewal of her appointment.

 

Google has sought to publicly distance itself from Israel’s national security agencies, but The Post reported in January that documents inside the company’s cloud division showed staff directly helping the country’s Defense Ministry and the Israel Defense Forces access AI technology after the Oct. 7 attacks.

 

In February, the company dropped a pledge not to use AI technology for weapons or surveillance from its ethical guidelines for the technology around AI. The broad guidelines, first issued in 2018 after employee protests against Google’s military contracts, promise to pursue responsible AI that aligns with “widely accepted principles of international law and human rights.”

 

Some tech companies have cracked down on employee activism and political dissent following worker protests for doing business with the Israeli government.

 

After Google fired some workers in 2024 for protesting its cloud contract with Israel, CEO Sundar Pichai said in a company memo that employees should not use their workplace to “fight over disruptive issues or debate politics.”

 

Brin’s comment on the AI forum, named GDM Hot Goss in reference to Google DeepMind, followed a message from an AI research engineer who appeared dismayed by the report’s findings but noted much of Google’s AI investment focused on its virtual assistant app, Gemini. “The only bright spot here is that we’re spending all of our time and money on Gemini and not anything more useful for genocide,” screenshots show.

 

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Israel gets a VASTLY disproportionate amount of criticism by the UN


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I used to think America disproportionately protected Israel from the international community until I looked into it. Now I see it the other way around. Israel gets a VASTLY disproportionate amount of criticism by the UN and the wider international community.

Here is evidence for this belief:
✅ The number of UN resolutions condemning Israel is VASTLY more than countries with much more serious records of human rights abuses.
✅ The UNHRC has a permanent agenda item focused on Israel/Palestine, Item 7. No other country is singled out like this
✅ Objectively, the UN focuses much more time and attention on Israel than other extremely serious global issues

I know no one wants to hear the A word, but I think antisemitism is a primary factor. There are roughly 500 million Arabs in the MENA region and 9 million Jews.

America is often alone standing with Israel because we are a democracy, and American Jews and their allies work to elect leaders that understand the value of the alliance. This is unsurprising to me since we have the second highest population of Jewish people.
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Hi Brianna. Yes, I understand the time constraints.
Do you agree with the substantive aspect of my argument though? That the US has acted unilaterally to defend Israel diplomatically in a way that is quite radical and different from what other Western countries have done?

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Symbol that Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust, so that they could be identified as Jews.

Israel Ambassador to UN: We Will Wear the Yellow Star Until You ‘Condemn the Atrocities of Hamas’

“Some of you have learned nothing in the past 80 years. Some of you have forgotten why this body was established.”

Posted by Mary Chastain 30October2023 https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/10/israel-ambassador-to-un-we-will-wear-the-yellow-star-until-you-condemn-the-atrocities-of-hamas/

 

Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Gilrad Erdan, has had enough of the farce that is the United Nations.

Erdan and his team will wear the yellow star the Nazis forced Jewish people to wear until the UN comes to its senses and condemn Hamas:

“Some of you have learned nothing in the past 80 years. Some of you have forgotten why this body was established,” he says.

“So, I will remind you. From this day on, each time you look at me, you will remember what staying silent in the face of evil means.”

“Just like my grandparents and the grandparents of millions of Jews, from now on, my team and I will wear Yellow stars. We will wear this star until you wake up and condemn the atrocities of Hamas.”


Yonatan Gonen-tweet-30October2023-
Israel’s ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan wore the yellow badge at the Security Council:

“When Jewish babies were burned in Auschwitz the world was silent. Today Jewish babies were burned in Be’eri and the southern towns of Israel by the Nazi Hamas and the world is silent again. I will make you remember the shame of your silence every time you look at me.”

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Yonatan Gonen-tweet-30October2023-Israel’s ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan wore the yellow Star of David at the Security Council

 

Translation from Google:

Today I announced in the Security Council that a yellow patch will be worn to remind the disgrace of her silence in the face of the atrocities committed by the Hamas Nazis. I made it clear to the council members that we swore after the Holocaust, NEVER AGAIN, therefore there will be no ceasefire and we will continue until Hamas is destroyed, so that such atrocities will never happen again. Watch and share >>

 


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היום הודעתי במועצת הבטחון שאענוד טלאי צהוב כדי להזכיר את החרפה של שתיקתה אל מול מעשי הזוועות שהנאצים של חמאס עוללו. הבהרתי לחברות המועצה, שאנחנו נשבענו לאחר השואה, NEVER AGAIN ולכן לא תהיה הפסקת אש ונמשיך עד להשמדת חמאס, כדי שזוועות כאלו לא יקרו שוב לעולם. צפו ושתפו >>

 

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Today I announced in the Security Council that I will wear a yellow patch to remind the disgrace of her silence in the face of the atrocities committed by the Hamas Nazis. I made it clear to the council members that we swore after the Holocaust, NEVER AGAIN and therefore there will be no ceasefire and we will continue until the destruction of Hamas, so that such atrocities will never happen again. Watch and share >>

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Israel halts UN staff visas as officials pan Guterres’s ‘truly insane’ Hamas remarks

After UN chief says terrorist massacres ‘didn’t happen in vacuum,’ Foreign Ministry says words ‘tarnish both him and organization he heads’; Edelstein says they fan antisemitism

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff 25October2023 https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-halts-un-staff-visas-as-officials-pan-guterress-truly-insane-hamas-remarks/

UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan, left, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, center, and Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan browse the Yad Vashem Book of Names of Holocaust Victims Exhibit at United Nations headquarters, January 26, 2023. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan, left, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, center, and Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan browse the Yad Vashem Book of Names of Holocaust Victims Exhibit at United Nations headquarters, January 26, 2023. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan, left, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, center, and Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan browse the Yad Vashem Book of Names of Holocaust Victims Exhibit at United Nations headquarters, January 26, 2023. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Israel stopped issuing visas to UN officials Wednesday, a day after UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appeared to say Hamas’s murderous October 7 assault on southern Israel was brought on by Israeli occupation.

 

The development came as Israeli officials continued to rail against the UN chief and demand his apology or resignation, with a senior lawmaker branding his words “truly insane” and adding that they were fanning the flames of antisemitism. The chairman of Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum accused Guterres of having “failed the test” of the refrain “Never again.”

 

An Israeli official confirmed the new visa policy to The Times of Israel on condition of anonymity, after Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan gave additional details in an interview with Army Radio.

 

“Due to his remarks we will refuse to issue visas to UN representatives,” Erdan said. “We have already refused a visa for Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths. The time has come to teach them a lesson.”

 

During a UN Security Council meeting Tuesday on the Israel-Hamas war, Guterres said, “It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum.

 

“The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing,” Guterres said.

 

He later added that “the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas. And those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”

 

Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza began after the terror group sent thousands of gunmen over the border to ravage Israeli border communities. Terrorists killed some 1,400 people, the vast majority of them civilians, massacring them at their homes and at a music festival. They also kidnapped at least 224 people and took them into the Strip.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, October 24, 2023. (Seth Wenig/AP)

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, October 24, 2023. (Seth Wenig/AP)

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, October 24, 2023. (Seth Wenig/AP)

Israel evacuated all settlements and military forces from the Gaza Strip under the 2005 Disengagement. Since then it has faced years of rocket attacks from Hamas, which rules the Strip, and from other terror groups there, as well as multiple rounds of intense combat.

 

It has maintained a tight blockade of the territory since Hamas took control in 2007, as has Egypt, with Jerusalem saying it must do so to limit the terror group’s ability to arm itself for attacks. In the West Bank, settlements have expanded under consecutive governments with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly arguing the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority is not a partner for peace, having rejected several offers in the past.

 

Guterres’s comments drew outrage in Israel. On Tuesday evening, Erdan called them “shocking” and demanded that the secretary general resign, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen canceled a meeting with Guterres, and Minister Benny Gantz labeled the UN chief a “terror apologist.”

 

The strongly worded reactions continued on Wednesday morning.

The Foreign Ministry tweeted that Guterres’s remarks “provoke anger and astonishment and tarnish both him and the organization he heads,” reflecting “a biased and distorted attitude towards Israel on the part of the UN and especially on the part of the Secretary-General himself.”

 

“The UN Secretary-General must retract his words, engage in deep personal soul-searching and apologize for his statement, which distressed millions of Israelis who are still experiencing the consequences of the murderous terrorist attack of October 7,” the ministry added.

Israel Foreign Ministry-tweet-25October2023-
The severe assertions of the UN Secretary-General in his speech at the Security Council provoke anger and astonishment and tarnish both him and the organization he heads.

The Secretary-General’s assertions reflect a biased and distorted attitude towards Israel on the part of the UN and especially on the part of the Secretary-General himself.

The UN Secretary-General’s words support the monstrous violence of the Hamas terrorists and legitimize the heinous massacre of October 7.

The atrocities committed by the Hamas terrorists on October 7, the slaughter of women, children and the elderly, the abuse of bodies, the burning of bound children and the rape and abduction of hundreds of Israelis should be censured—there is no way to justify such monstrous atrocities.

The UN Secretary-General must retract his words, implement deep personal soul-searching and apologize for his statement, which distressed millions of Israelis who are still experiencing the consequences of the murderous terrorist attack of October 7.

@UN @antonioguterres

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Israel Foreign Ministry-tweet-25October2023-UN Secretary-General in his speech at the Security Council

Likud MK Yuli Edelstein, the chairman of the Knesset’s Foreign Affair and Defense Committee, sent an English-language public letter addressed to Guterres expressing “a profound sense of shock” and saying it would have been “best had you said nothing at all.”

 

“Mr. Secretary-General, you opened by saying that ‘nothing can justify the deliberate killing, injuring and kidnapping of civilians.’ However, you then [made] an about-face and added that the ‘attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum.’ Statements of this kind legitimize murderers, rapists, and terrorists around the world — rendering your condemnations null and void,” Edelstein charged.

 

Edelstein tweeted a photo of the letter, adding in a Hebrew-language post that Guterres’s remarks had been “truly insane” and that “against the backdrop of surging antisemitism around the world, his grave remarks are fueling a giant fire [of hate].”

Yuli Edelstein-tweet-25October2023-

בעקבות דבריו המטורפים ממש, שיגרתי הבוקר מכתב גינוי וזעזוע למזכ”ל האו”ם.

על רקע האנטישמיות הגואה בעולם, דבריו החמורים הם בגדר שמן למדורה הבוערת בלהבות ענק.

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Following his really crazy words, this morning I sent a letter of condemnation and shock to the UN Secretary General.

Against the background of rising anti-Semitism in the world, his harsh words are like fuel for the fire burning with huge flames.

Yuli Edelstein letter 24October2023 to UN Secretary General

Yuli Edelstein letter 24October2023 to UN Secretary General

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Yuli Edelstein-tweet-25October2023-UN Secretary General crazy words

Israeli leaders and US President Joe Biden have noted that the October 7 atrocities were the single worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust.

 

Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan, who met with Guterres earlier this year at a Holocaust-related exhibit at the UN headquarters in New York, said the UN chief had “failed the test” regarding ensuring atrocities against Jews don’t repeat.

 

“The slaughter of Jews by Hamas on October 7th was genocidal in its intents and immeasurably brutal in its form. Part of why it differs from the Holocaust is because Jews have today a state and an army. We are not defenseless and at the mercy of others,” a statement from Dayan said.

 

“However, it puts to test the sincerity of world leaders, intellectuals and influencers that come to Yad Vashem and pledge ‘Never Again,’” he continued. “Those who seek to ‘understand,’ look for a justifying context, do not condemn the perpetrators, and do not call for the unconditional and immediate release of the abducted – fail the test.

“UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres failed the test.”

In a shock assault on October 7, Hamas bombarded Israel with thousands of rockets while over 2,500 gunmen breached the border with the Gaza Strip. The terrorists rampaged murderously through southern areas, slaughtering those they found, butchering entire families in some communities and also killing 260 at an outdoor music festival. Some victims were mutilated, raped and tortured. Dozens of babies were killed. Over 220 people of all ages were abducted and dragged to Gaza as captives. Four have since been released.

 

Israel has responded to the Hamas assault by vowing to destroy the terror group and launching intensive strikes in Gaza, saying it is hitting terror targets while trying to avoid civilian casualties. It has told over one million Gaza residents to evacuate the northern part of the Strip ahead of an expected ground incursion.

 

The Hamas-controlled Health Ministry says the strikes have killed over 6,000 Palestinians so far. Those numbers cannot be independently verified and are believed to include Hamas’s own members, as well as civilians killed by hundreds of misfired Palestinian rockets.

Agencies contributed to this report.

 

 

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One-month visas to replace automatic documents for UN aid agency, Israel says

Danny Danon told the Security Council that the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs “violates the U.N.’s own standards in every other conflict, but when it comes to Israel, those standards disappear.”

Mike Wagenheim https://www.jns.org/one-month-visas-to-replace-automatic-documents-for-un-aid-agency-israel-says/

(July 24, 2025 / JNS) Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, accused the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of intentionally publishing false and misleading data, and OCHA leaders of spreading slander.

 

“Hundreds of OCHA employees are undergoing security vetting,” Danon told the U.N. Security Council during its meeting on Wednesday. “Key employees will not have their permits renewed following clear evidence of strong affiliation with Hamas.”

 

Israel will no longer grant automatic visas to OCHA’s international staff, and the visas it does issue will be limited to one-month terms, Danon said.

 

Danon said that Jonathan Whittall, the head of OCHA’s office for the Palestinian territories, has “consistently and outrageously demonstrated his bias and agenda against the State of Israel.” The Israeli envoy told the council that Israel won’t renew Whittall’s visa, and he will have to leave the country by the end of the month.

 

“We will no longer allow anti-Israel activity under the guise of humanitarianism,” Danon said. “Israel will continue to protect its citizens and stand against mechanisms that promote lies, incitement and terrorism, even if they bear the U.N. logo.”

 

The Israeli envoy also criticized Tom Fletcher, U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, for accusing Israel of committing genocide and for the claim—which he hasn’t retracted—that Israeli aid restrictions in Gaza would lead to 14,000 dead babies in a 48-hour period.

 

Fletcher partly acknowledged days later that the claim was based on misinterpreted data. “His irresponsibility has infected OCHA from top to bottom,” Danon told the council.

 

The Israeli envoy said that Fletcher leads a disinformation campaign, which included an OCHA revision of casualty data in May that shaved off more than 10,000 purported deaths of Gazan women and children from its reporting.

 

“No explanation. No accountability. Just a quiet adjustment, as if the original numbers weren’t already plastered across headlines worldwide,” Danon told the council.

 

OCHA relies solely on Hamas data in its reporting, according to the envoy.

 

“There is no independent verification, no cross-checking, no effort to distinguish between civilians and terrorists,” Danon said. “This violates the U.N.’s own standards in every other conflict, but when it comes to Israel, those standards disappear.”

 

Doing the U.N.’s job

 

OCHA’s figures for aid entering Gaza, which the international press reports to assess food security conditions in the Strip, only document that which the United Nations coordinates, “ignoring the thousands of trucks of food, medical supplies and fuel that Israel, the private sector and other partners have delivered,” Danon told the council.

 

The Israeli envoy noted challenges in the region, including Hezbollah’s refusal to disarm and the massacre of Druze in Syria this month. He addressed Kazem Gharibabadi, deputy Iranian foreign minister for legal and international affairs.

 

“What is your plan now? Will you continue with your murderous agenda? Will you keep running toward a nuclear bomb?” he said. “Will you keep expanding your ballistic missiles for attacks on civilians? Will you keep pumping money into your terrorist proxies?”

 

Danon said that Israel played a significant role in rooting out Iran’s power in the region and “is making the Middle East safer for everyone who values peace and calm.”

 

“In other words, we are doing the job of the United Nations,” Danon told the council.

 

Dorothy Shea, interim U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said that accusations of Israeli genocide in Gaza “are politically motivated and categorically false.”

 

“They are part of a deliberate, cynical propaganda campaign as Hamas attempts to win symbolic victories to compensate for total defeat in war,” she told the council. ”The United States refutes these allegations entirely.”

 

Shea said the council “must meet the moment” in ongoing Israel-Hamas ceasefire negotiations “by pressuring Hamas to accept the ceasefire proposal already accepted by Israel, release the 50 remaining hostages held for more than 650 days and disarm and leave Gaza forever.”

 

Barbara Woodward, the United Kingdom’s ambassador to the United Nations, was among the envoys who were harshly critical of Israel at the meeting.

 

“The IDF is shooting at desperate Palestinian civilians on an almost daily basis,” she said. (Israel has repeatedly denied that charge.)

 

“Hamas is exploiting this disorder,” she added.

 

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres persona non grata in Israel


Israel Katz-tweet-2October2024-UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres persona non grata in Israel
Today, I have declared UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres persona non grata in Israel and banned him from entering the country.

Anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran’s heinous attack on Israel, as almost every country in the world has done, does not deserve to step foot on Israeli soil.

This is a Secretary-General who has yet to denounce the massacre and sexual atrocities committed by Hamas murderers on October 7, nor has he led any efforts to declare them a terrorist organization.

A Secretary-General who gives backing to terrorists, rapists, and murderers from Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and now Iran—the mothership of global terror—will be remembered as a stain on the history of the UN.

Israel will continue to defend its citizens and uphold its national dignity, with or without António Guterres.

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Israel Katz-tweet-2October2024-UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres persona non grata in Israel

 

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UPDATE: UN visa extension denials

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UN official, leaving post in Jerusalem, says Israel won’t extend visa

Asked how widespread visa extension denials are for U.N. staff, a spokesman for the global body told JNS, “Let’s just say it’s spread.”

Mike Wagenheim https://www.jns.org/un-official-leaving-post-in-jerusalem-says-israel-wont-extend-visa/

 

(August 2, 2024 / JNS) Israel is refusing to extend visas for a significant portion of U.N. staff and other non-governmental organizations, a Jerusalem-based official with the United Nations said on Thursday.

 

During a briefing about the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, Andrea De Domenico, head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Palestinian territories, told reporters that would be his final briefing, as Israeli authorities had not granted his visa extension request.

 

The relationship between Israel and the United Nations has spiraled since Oct. 7, with Jerusalem repeatedly accusing U.N. officials and bodies of siding with Hamas, showing little to no care for hostages held in Gaza and applying double standards to the Jewish state, as it fends off attacks and threats on multiple fronts from Iran-aligned terror groups.

 

De Domenico accused the Israeli military of “becoming more and more aggressive” in dealing with U.N. staff in Judea and Samaria, claiming that his colleagues have been “systematically stopped at checkpoints.”

 

The Israeli military “request the staff to step out of the vehicle, take out the keys, and [is] wanting to ID every single staff,” he added.

 

Over the last 10 months, most national U.N. staff cannot access the global body’s facilities in the eastern portion of Jerusalem because of a lack of permits, according to De Domenico.

 

Colleagues of international nonprofits operating in Judea and Samaria “were telling us that roughly 90% of the international staff have issues with visas,” De Domenico said. “They were saying that as we speak, basically, the visas of many of those are coming to an end, and in the coming weeks, most of them will have to leave the country, or they will not be able to operate.”

 

Before Oct. 7, Israel granted year-long visas to U.N. staff members. However, after Hamas’s terror attack on southern Israel, the Jewish state granted only six- or three-month visas, according to De Domenico. He told reporters on Thursday that his visa was extended for a month, and he was told it would not be renewed again.

 

“The reason that has been put on the table—the straw that broke the camel’s back—is the publication of the Children and Armed Conflict report,” De Domenico said. “They alluded to long-standing issues or reporting that we also have been doing, but this has been communicated verbally.”

 

“There is no formal communication that I received despite asking repeatedly for that,” he added. (JNS sought comment from the Israeli Foreign Ministry.)

 

The annual Children and Armed Conflict report, or the so-called “list of shame,” included Israel for the first time this year and accused Israeli military and security forces of grave violations against children during wartime.

 

JNS first reported on systematic problems with the compilation of the report, which included contributions of data from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. De Domenico’s office has been criticized for publishing Gaza casualty data from Hamas offices without challenging the numbers.

 

At the Thursday briefing, JNS asked Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, how widespread the lack of visa extensions are for U.N. officials in Israel and Judea and Samaria.

 

“Let’s just say it’s spread,” Dujarric told JNS.

 

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The UN is irrelevant!


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“Let me state the obvious, Israel does not care about your condemnations,” said Riyad Mansour ambassador to Palestine @Palestine_UN to members of the Security Council.

“[Israel] dismisses your resolutions. It does not even listen to your debates. Their representative will be playing with his iPhone while you are talking.”

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Dawn Clancy-tweet-13August2024-Israel does not care about your condemnations

 

 

 

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Palestine – A state that exists only in hallucinations


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Science tells us that there are 5 states of matter:

1. Solids – Where particles are closely packed together and the particles cannot move freely.

2. Liquids – The particles are fluid and can move about but retain a constant volume.

3. Gases – The particles are further apart and can move freely and expand.

4. Plasma – Where gases are super heated forcing electrons to leave the atoms thus creating free electrons.

5. Palestine – A state that exists only in hallucinations borne out of the minds of delusional psychotic propagandists and mentally unstable people with paranoid schizophrenia and a psychological disorder that makes a person want to massacre innocent people, take over the world, believe in flying donkeys, and that cry victim whenever someone tries to stop them.

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Cheryl E-tweet-14August2024-Palestine-A state that exists only in hallucinations

All About the Facts

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UN is Pro Terror


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Meet the current United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres

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The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies BESA https://besacenter.org/

The UN Is Against Peace

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Lady Justice and the UN

Lady Justice and the UN

 

 BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,284, June 20, 2024

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The UN decision on May 10, 2024 to upgrade the status of the Palestinian state is not surprising. It is a direct continuation of previous UN decisions, most notably that of November 29, 2012, which granted the Palestinian Authority the status of non-member observer state. Since the 1970s, there has been an almost automatic majority for anti-Israel resolutions in the UN. This majority includes Muslim countries and countries that define themselves as part of the “Global South”, such as African countries and some South American countries, all of which are known for their invariably critical approach towards Israel. The UN’s recognition of the Palestinian Authority grants the Palestinians an independent state without a negotiated peace process or clearly defined and agreed borders between it and Israel. This is precisely the situation the PLO has been striving for since 1974. The establishment of a Palestinian state without peace with Israel is a sure recipe for instability and perpetual war in the Middle East, and those negative consequences are being deliberately fomented by the UN.

 

In June 1974, the Palestine Liberation Organization approved a ten-point plan known as the Phased Plan. The plan was presented at the time as a considerable moderation of the PLO, which at the time was considered Israel’s most bitter enemy. The 1970s were full of bloody terrorist incidents committed by Palestinian organizations, including airplane hijackings. The leading terrorist organizations at that time were the Fatah organization headed by Yasser Arafat, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) organization headed by George Habash, and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) organization headed since its inception by Nayef Hawatmeh.

 

The reason why the PLO’s ten-point plan was considered a political advancement was that for the first time since the adoption of the revised Palestinian treaty of 1968, the activists of the Palestinian organizations seemed to have agreed to an incomplete “liberation” of Palestine. A careful reading of the plan, however, shows that its goal remained the destruction of the entire State of Israel – “from the river to the sea”.

 

The second section of the plan says: “The PLO will fight by all means, primarily the armed struggle, to liberate the Palestinian land and establish an independent national government over any part of the Palestinian territory that will be liberated.” This clause was allegedly fulfilled – not through armed struggle but mainly through diplomacy via the Oslo Accords of the 1990s.

 

Another section of the phased plan defines the establishment of self-government on part of the territory as only one step on the way to the total “liberation” of the entire land of Palestine. According to the phased plan, the establishment of a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip was a temporary solution that was never meant to stop the war between the two national movements. The phased plan was designed to promote a continuation of the fight for the other “rights” the Palestinians demand, such as the complete “liberation” of, and purported right of return to, the entire land of Israel.

 

Despite lengthy negotiations between Israel and the PLO on the permanent agreement, the parties were unable to reach a satisfactory settlement. The most intense attempts were in July 2000 at Camp David with the mediation of President Bill Clinton, and in 2008 with the mediation of President George Bush, Jr.

 

The Palestinian state that was supposed to be established was meant to include most of the territories of Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip (over 90% of the territory); provide safe passage between the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria; and make agreed-upon special arrangements regarding Jerusalem and the refugees. Almost all the details were settled, but Israel asked for something the PLO was not willing to give. Israel requested that in exchange for a comprehensive agreement, representatives of the PLO, as the recognized representatives of the Palestinian people, would sign a document stating “the end of claims between Israel and the Palestinians” – i.e., a contractual obligation to make peace with Israel. No Palestinian representative has ever been willing to sign such a document because peace with Israel has never been their goal.

 

Because of this, negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority have been stuck for decades, with neither side possessing the ability to reach a binding permanent settlement. The Palestinians cannot force Israel to withdraw militarily from the territories of Judea and Samaria without a political agreement, and Israel cannot force a political agreement on the Palestinians that would include recognition of Israel and a final end to the national-religious conflict between the parties.

 

At this stage, the Palestinians turned to the United Nations to try to upgrade the status of the Palestinian Authority to that of a sovereign independent state. The Palestinian attempt to establish a state unilaterally was not new. On October 1, 1948, shortly after the establishment of the State of Israel, the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip announced the establishment of the All-Palestine Government. The president of the independent state of Palestine, which declared its sovereignty in all of Mandatory Palestine, was Nazi sympathizer and virulent antisemite Haj Muhammad Amin al-Husseini; the prime minister was Ahmed Hilmi Abd al-Baqi. This government lasted for about a decade, ruling the Gaza Strip under Egyptian auspices. After its dissolution by the Egyptians, Prime Minister Hilmi continued to serve as Palestine’s representative in the Arab League until his death in 1963.

 

The Palestinians flatly denied the existence of the State of Israel. The Palestinian Declaration of Independence states:

On the basis of the Palestinian people’s natural and historical right to freedom and independence, a sacred right for which he shed blood and made sacrifices, and for which he fought against the imperial forces and the Zionists who conspired against him, we, the members of the Palestinian National Council who gathered in Gaza, the city of Hashim (the Prophet’s grandfather), declare this today… October 1, 1948, on the independence of Palestine as a whole within its borders: in northern Lebanon and Syria, in eastern Syria and across the Jordan, in the western Mediterranean and in southern Egypt. This independence is full independence and within its framework a free, democratic and sovereign state will be established, and its citizens will enjoy freedom.

 

The next time the Palestinians declared a state was on November 15, 1988, at the conference of the Palestinian National Council in Algiers. In the declaration of Palestinian independence drafted by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, it was stated, among other things, that the declaration was based on Partition Resolution 181 of November 29, 1947. The Palestinians recognized the right of the countries of the region to live in peace, but conspicuously did not mention Israel. In addition, they declared the continuation of the struggle until the end of the “occupation,” without clarifying whether the term referred to the territories of 1967 or beyond.

 

The announcement led the UN to invite Yasser Arafat to address the UN General Assembly (UN General Assembly Resolution 43/177). Unsurprisingly, 104 countries voted in favor of the resolution recognizing the Palestinian state unilaterally declared by Yasser Arafat. Only two countries voted against this recognition – the US and Israel.

 

The Palestinians understood that in order to have a basis for this type of decision, some sort of fact on the ground was required. The Oslo Accords of the 1990s gave them political-autonomous status for the first time in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. The Oslo Accords were defined from the beginning as temporary interim agreements that were intended to lead to a permanent settlement of the two political entities living side by side in peace, security and prosperity.

 

After the peace talks with Israel at Camp David 2000, the Palestinians ignited a bloody intifada. After the failure of the negotiations in Annapolis in 2008 between Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the Palestinians realized they had exhausted all the Israeli concessions they could obtain via regular negotiations. This was the reason for their appeal to the UN Assembly and their request to upgrade their status to a state on November 29, 2012.

 

Their request was approved due to the automatic majority that exists in anti-Israel resolutions at the UN. For the first time, a UN observer body that does not have either effective control over territory or defined borders was granted the status of a state (in this case, that of an observer state). One hundred thirty-eight countries voted in favor this time, with nine opposed and the rest abstaining. This step was directly contrary to the principles of negotiations the parties had signed in the Oslo Accords.

 

The vote on May 10, 2024 was the most recent step in the Palestinian journey towards an independent state without a binding border agreement with Israel. The vote was intended to grant the Palestinians various rights reserved for sovereign states recognized by the UN, even though the Palestinian Authority is still defined as an observer state. This time, 143 countries voted in favor, with nine voting against and the rest abstaining.

 

The role of the UN is supposedly to maintain peace and world order. Upgrading the status of the Palestinian Authority to a state despite its having neither effective control over territory nor clear borders – and in the process empowering a political entity whose majority population openly supports a terrorist organization, Hamas, that rapes women and murders children – will not add to world peace and stability, but will only deepen the war between Israel and the Palestinians. Nor will it create an incentive for the moderate elements in Palestinian society to strive for true peace with Israel.

 

 

Dr. (Lt. Col.) Shaul Bartal is a senior researcher at the BESA Center and a research fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Lisbon. During his military service, he served in various roles in the West Bank. He has also taught in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Political Science at Bar-Ilan University.

 

 

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The time for Jewish silence is past. For the @UN to regain its credibility, its leadership @antonioguterres must unequivocally renounce the anti-Semitic statements made by their “Special Envoy” @FranceskAlbs and remove her from her position immediately. Barring her entry to Israel will serve as a stark reminder of the atrocities committed by Hamas, including the ruthless targeting of innocents.

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UN special rapporteur for the Palestinians, Francesca Albanese, has been refused a visa to enter Israel after comments that seemed to justify Hamas’s October 7 massacre.
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Sanctioning Lawfare that Targets U.S. and Israeli Persons

Press Statement
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State
9July2025 https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/sanctioning-lawfare-that-targets-u-s-and-israeli-persons/

 

Today, I am imposing sanctions on Francesca Paola Albanese, the United Nations Human Rights Council “Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied since 1967,” pursuant to President Trump’s Executive Order 14203, “Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court.” Albanese has directly engaged with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute nationals of the United States or Israel, without the consent of those two countries. Neither the United States nor Israel is party to the Rome Statute, making this action a gross infringement on the sovereignty of both countries.

 

The United States has repeatedly condemned and objected to the biased and malicious activities of Albanese that have long made her unfit for service as a Special Rapporteur. Albanese has spewed unabashed antisemitism, expressed support for terrorism, and open contempt for the United States, Israel, and the West. That bias has been apparent across the span of her career, including recommending that the ICC, without a legitimate basis, issue arrest warrants targeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

 

She has recently escalated this effort by writing threatening letters to dozens of entities worldwide, including major American companies across finance, technology, defense, energy, and hospitality, making extreme and unfounded accusations and recommending the ICC pursue investigations and prosecutions of these companies and their executives. We will not tolerate these campaigns of political and economic warfare, which threaten our national interests and sovereignty.

 

The United States will continue to take whatever actions we deem necessary to respond to lawfare, to check and prevent illegitimate ICC overreach and abuse of power, and to protect our sovereignty and that of our allies.

 

Albanese is being designated pursuant to Section 1(a)(ii)(A) of Executive Order (E.O.) 14203.

 

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The Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, Eli Cohen has Delievered a Warning to the U.N. National Security Council from the Government of Israel which states that if the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is not able to get the Situation in Southern Lebanon back under Control and Remove the Military Capabilities of Hezbollah away from the Border in following with Resolution 1701, which Ended the Lebanon War of 2006, the Israeli Defense Force will be Forced to take “Military Action” which could lead to a Regional War.

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Hezbollah launched several rockets toward Israel last night, including from a point 20 meters away from a @UN compound in southern Lebanon. Additional launches have been made from the area toward Israel in recent days.

By continuing to fire at Israel from near a U.N. compound, Hezbollah endangers the lives of @UNIFIL_ personnel and continues to systematically violate UNSC Resolution 1701. UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander @aroldo_lazaro was notified of the incident.

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UN and Women’s rights groups Silent About Hamas Attacks on Women


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Amb. Erdan: UN Women maliciously disregards Hamas rape and murder

Israeli Ambassador to the UN lambasts UN agencies at Security Council for deliberately ignoring Hamas crimes against women and humanity.

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22November2023, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380775

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Erdan shows photo of Hamas leader with child

Erdan shows photo of Hamas leader with child UN Photo/Evan Schneider

In an emergency United Nations Security Council meeting held today on the situation of women and children in Gaza, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan harshly criticized UN Women for its malicious disregard of the rape and murder of Israeli women by Hamas terrorists and UNICEF for its disregard of Hamas’ indoctrination of children to terror and use of children as human shields.

 

The Ambassador presented a photo of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, “This is Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas. And the child he is holding, is a victim of UNICEF’s indifference. A picture is worth a thousand words and this says all you need to know about Hamas’ treatment of children in Gaza.”

 

The Ambassador asked the Executive Director of UNICEF Catherine Russell, “Executive Director Russell, have you never seen this picture? Are you unaware of the terror summer camps that Hamas runs every year in Gaza to indoctrinate children to murder? So many Gazan children were born into a culture of hate. A culture that glorifies violence and educates kids to murder. It is a death cult that puts martyrdom ahead of life, coexistence, and the pursuit of peace. How many UNICEF reports have been written on this? None. While we teach our children to love and accept others, the children of Gaza are taught that the murder of Jews and Israel’s annihilation is their life goal. They are educated on this in their schools – yes, including UNRWA schools. Why has this child abuse never bothered UNICEF? There is absolutely no chance that UNICEF is unaware of this. So, Executive Director Russell, where has your organization been all this time?”

 

“Rockets have been found in children’s bedrooms in Gaza. Rocket launchers were located inside a scout’s youth movement clubhouse. Missile manufacturing facilities were found under mosques. And caches of assault rifles were found in UNRWA schools. We have not heard UNICEF’s outcry over Hamas’ exploitation of Gazan children as human shields. Where is it?”

 

The Ambassador presented a photo of Hamas terrorists surrounded by children, “This is a photo taken a few days ago in Gaza. These savage Hamas terrorists are walking around in broad daylight armed and in uniform, after effectively strapping children to themselves as live body armor. This is the enemy that Israel is defending itself against. This is who you hardly have a single word of criticism against.”

 

The Ambassador asked members of the Council, “Where have the briefers been for all of these years? Where are their voices now? Why are Hamas’ crimes almost non-existent in this briefing, when Hamas – and only Hamas – is solely responsible for the situation in Gaza? There is no other explanation for this other than apathy towards Gazans, coupled with burning hatred for Israel. This is not a briefing – this is an inquisition.”

 

Ambassador Erdan presented a photo of Naama Levy, one of the women taken hostage by Hamas who was raped by her captors. “I sent this picture of Naama Levy who was dragged out of the trunk of a jeep by a Hamas terrorist, as part of a video, wearing sweatpants soaked in blood around her backside….You want to discuss women in conflict? Women’s rights? Women’s dignity? What about the dignity of Naama Levy…Sadly, to our briefers, the horrors endured by these young women are not worthy of mentioning. After all, they’re Israeli – and as today’s briefing has made abundantly clear, Israeli victims don’t matter.”

 

“Nearly fifty days have gone by since these atrocities were committed – since young girls were savagely violated – yet the world is still waiting to hear a clear, public condemnation from UN Women against Hamas sexual crimes. Shame on you UN Women, shame on you. Is UN Women not charged with ensuring that, I quote from their website, “All women and girls live a life free from all forms of violence?” Doesn’t the banner of the UN Women website currently say “Hashtag ‘No Excuses'”? Hasn’t the world come to believe women? Hasn’t the UN? To the UN and its agencies, Israeli women are not women. Israeli children are not children.”

 

The Ambassador presented a picture of Shani Louk, a German tourist who became an international symbol of Hamas’ atrocities when a video was posted of terrorists parading her nearly dead body in Gaza. “I also sent this picture of Shani Louk. Shani was dancing at the peace festival before she was abducted and murdered by Hamas. This is what her body looked like, with a Hamas terrorist on top of her. Look at her. Look at Shani.”

 

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To the UN and leading women’s rights groups: The mass rape and sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas terrorists on and since October 7th towards Israeli women is being shamefully denied, minimized…and even justified.
Hamas terrorists have admitted to these atrocities. Why are you ignoring them?

Apparently, it’s: #BelieveAllWomen…unless they’re Israeli.
#MeToo_UNless_UR_a_Jew

 

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Enough with the double standards!

Hamas’ rape and murder of Israeli women is met with global indifference of feminist movements.

 

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Women’s Rights Organizations Still Stunningly Silent About Attacks on Women on October 7th

“The absurdity has reached peak levels since October 7”

Posted by Mike LaChance, 22November2023 https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/11/womens-rights-organizations-still-stunningly-silent-about-attacks-on-women-on-october-7th/

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Hamas attacks on Women 7October2023

Remember when Michelle Obama and celebrities launched a #BringBackOurGirls campaign on Twitter when girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram? No such campaign this time.

Benjamin Folkinshteyn writes at the Times of Israel:

#FeministsforRape and Other Observations

In the current Through-the-Looking-Glass world, absurdity has become the norm. Israel has been accused of the unspeakable crimes of . . . protecting LGBTQ rights (you can’t do that – that’s #pinkwashing!), substantial participation by Arab citizens in all walks of civil life (you can’t do that – that’s #democracy), and protecting the environment by being a leader in environmental sustainability (you can’t do that – that’s #greenwashing!), all to cover up its alleged crimes perpetrated against the Palestinians.

 

The absurdity has reached peak levels since October 7 with the timely re-emergence of the Queers for Palestine bloc, marching alongside Hamas supporters who justify terrorist atrocities as a response to the “occupation.” Putting aside the fact that Gaza has been Judenfrei with Israel’s withdrawal in 2005, the lack of self-awareness is staggering.

 

It is, of course, a well-known fact that Arab countries, and the Hamas-run Gaza Strip in particular, are Edenic paradises to LGBTQ-identifying individuals and other minorities compared to Israel. Examples abound. Thus, in 2016, Hamas executed one of its own high-ranking leaders, Mahmoud Ishtiwi for being gay. Just last year, Ahmed Abu Marhia was beheaded for being gay – his head was found on the side of a road. Many Palestinian LGBTQ individuals seek asylum in Israel due to their being persecuted in Gaza and the West Bank, not only by the authorities but even by their own families.

 

But that’s not all, folks. Even before bodies of the victims of Al Aqsa Flood pogroms were cold, “from the river to the sea” chants pierced the air in many US metropolitan areas in celebration of the surprising success of Hamas’s efforts at harmonious coexistence, which featured peaceful activities such as rape, beheading, mutilation, torture, and kidnapping.

 

Yet, to date, not a single prominent women’s rights organization in the US has decried these unspeakable brutalities against women. Where are the #IamShaniLouk posts? Where is former First Lady Michelle Obama with her #BringBackOurGirls hashtag diplomacy for the kidnapped women and children of Israeli, Arab and other communities? So much for #silenceiscomplicity!

 

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Feminist groups are whitewashing Hamas’s crimes

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17November2023  https://unherd.com/2023/11/metoo-unless-youre-a-jew/

Women Kidnapped by Hamas (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Women Kidnapped by Hamas (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

After accompanying British troops as they liberated Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, Richard Dimbleby produced one of the most viscerally horrifying — and powerful — dispatches in the BBC’s history. “I find it hard to describe adequately the horrible things that I’ve seen and heard,” he began, “but here unadorned are the facts.”

 

His language was spare, his descriptions factual — and yet, his bosses didn’t want to broadcast the report. A compromise was only reached after he threatened to resign and his script was cut in half. The reason, his son Jonathan later revealed, was that “the BBC needed more sources to support what had happened to Jews and worried that if you mentioned one group of people and not others, it might seem biased or wrong”.

 

The events of October 7 do not compare to the Holocaust, but a similar reluctance to consider both its primary victims remains. We see it in the defaced posters of kidnapped Israelis by people who claim they are “propaganda”, in the antisemitic disinformation peddled online, and in the weekly pro-Palestine demonstrations that fail to call out Hamas’s terrorism. But perhaps most peculiarly, we also see it in the silence of organisations and activist groups dedicated to fighting for women’s safety.

 

After Hamas terrorists set about murdering, raping and abducting as many women as they could, one might have expected widespread condemnation from the West’s feminist groups. After all, Hamas had provided enough evidence of its crimes — within hours, they were posting footage of abducted young women in bloodied trousers being paraded around Gaza. Even beforehand, its feminist credentials were hardly glowing: it mandates the hijab, has made it illegal to travel without a male guardian, and refused to ban physical or sexual abuse within the family.

 

The response among the majority of groups committed to ending violence against women and girls (VAWG) was threefold: to keep quiet, to disbelieve the victims, or to insinuate they deserved their fate. In the words of 140 American “prominent feminist scholars”, to stand in solidarity with Israeli women is to give in to “colonial feminism”.

 

Here in the UK, this approach is perhaps best embodied in the work of Sisters Uncut, a charity that boasts its own “Feministo” committed to “taking direct action for domestic violence services”. Until this month, the activists’ work has generally taken the form of media-savvy stunts: dyeing the water of Trafalgar Square’s fountains red, setting off rape alarms outside police stations, occupying the roofs of council buildings. Yet all paled in comparison to the demonstration it organised earlier this month: a call for Israel to put down its weapons that ultimately shut down London’s Liverpool Street Station.

 

Afterwards, the charity issued a 600-word statement, filled with references to “apartheid”, “genocide” and disproved reports that the IDF had bombed Gaza’s Al-Ahli hospital. There was no mention, however, of the 239 abducted Israelis, roughly 100 of whom are believed to be women, or the sexual assaults that took place on October 7. When journalist Hadley Freeman pointed out this wasn’t terribly feminist of them, the group responded by claiming reports of Hamas’s sex attacks amounted to “the Islamophobic and racist weaponisation of sexual violence”. Towards the end of their rambling statement, they concluded: “no people would ever accept being murdered, humiliated, dispossessed, racially targeted, oppressed, cleansed, exiled and colonised without resisting.”

 

Other feminist groups fell into a similar victim-blaming step. Southall Black Sisters, another charity committed to ending violence against women, did at least mourn the loss of life on both sides, but blamed it on “the Israeli government’s declaration of war on Gaza”. Elsewhere, Women for Women UK, which specialises in helping “women survivors of war” and calls itself a “non-partisan organisation”, has decided to raise money only for Palestinian women. Even Women’s Place UK, once viewed as an outlier for its brave campaigning for women-only spaces, decided to call for an “immediate ceasefire” without mentioning sexual violence.

 

In fact, the only VAWG charity in the UK to call out Hamas’s sexual violence was Jewish Women’s Aid. “Such acts have a permanent impact on survivors and damaging psychological effects on women, particularly women who are victim-survivors of sexual violence,” it said in a statement. “The public silence from many UK domestic/sexual abuse sector organisations further impacts the isolation and fear our clients are experiencing.”

 

For one British Jewish VAWG worker, who has been in the sector for 20 years, the silence of other organisations was to be expected: “I have seen this become a real thing in the last few years — where ideas are imported from America: that if you are white, you will always be the oppressor. If you are working for one of these charities, you are used to a victim/perpetrator narrative which is normally true in the domestic violence context, but not when it comes to geopolitics.”

 

She describes how, during mandatory training at the last charity she worked for, her team was told that Jews don’t experience racism. “Incredibly, they used the Second World War as an example of racism, but of anti-black racism because of how people from the West Indies were treated.”

 

For those whose daughters have been abducted by Hamas, the sense of betrayal is palpable. “It is unbelievable that groups like the Red Cross and UN Women are doing nothing to help our people,” Keren Sharf Shem, whose 21-year-old French-Israeli daughter Mia was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, tells me. “It is right that the people of Gaza are getting humanitarian aid, but we deserve the same… I know from a message Mia sent to a friend that she was shot in the leg. She also has a medical condition, and the hostage video showed her after surgery for an operation on her arm. That was weeks ago — I don’t know whether she is still alive. And there are other sick people there, as well as babies and a pregnant woman. Too many people seem to have forgotten them.”

 

To remedy this, Israeli feminists this week launched #MeToo_Unless_Ur_A_Jew, a campaign calling for the UN Women group to focus on the gender-based violence against Israeli women. “The UN Women is turning a blind eye to Hamas’s vicious war crimes by remaining silent,” they said.

 

In a similar vein, Claire Waxman, London’s first Victims’ Commissioner, wrote to Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, to ask why the organisation has stayed silent. In response, Waxman tells me, Alsalem claimed the evidence was “not solid” enough to warrant a statement. An incredulous Waxman points out that November 25 is the UN’s International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls: “How can we talk about eliminating violence against women and girls if we are tacitly saying it’s acceptable to rape Jewish ones?”

 

To counter this narrative, the Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children was also founded this week, and is currently collecting testimony about Hamas’s atrocities, ranging from victim reports and eyewitness accounts to footage released by Hamas itself. Many of those raped are dead or abducted; others are too traumatised to speak. But the story that has begun to emerge is unbearable in its horror — one of gang rape of women and children, of the dead bodies of women being hacked during or after sexual assault, and of genital mutilation.

 

Nachman Dyksztejna, a Ukrainian-Israeli, is one of those whose testimony bears witness to these horrors. A volunteer first responder with an organisation called Zaka, he was sent to several scenes of the massacre, including the site of Nova festival and several kibbutzim. To avoid repeating his trauma, Zaka recorded his statement alongside psychological support and sent me a written translation. Zaka also provided photographs that corroborate his descriptions. (The editors of this publication have also seen them.)

 

Dyksztejna’s testimony — reproduced in the next two paragraphs — is among the most harrowing I have read, and can be skipped if necessary:

“In Kibbutz Be’eri, I witnessed bodies of two women with their hands and legs tied to a bed. One of these bodies we found was sexually terrorised with a knife stuck in her vagina and all her internal organs removed. After brutally violating these women, Hamas detonated the house on them, so we found them beneath a pile of stones.

“The mini shelters scattered from the Nova party site to road 34, shelters that had been broken into, were filled with piles of women. Their clothing was torn on the upper part, but their bottoms were completely naked. Piles and piles of women, dead bodies, lying this way. When you took a closer look at their heads, you saw a single shot straight to the brain of each.”

In 1945, Dimbleby broke down several times while making his report about Belsen. “I passed through the barrier and found myself in the world of a nightmare,” he explained. But he knew he had to bear witness to the horror — just as Israelis today feel they have no choice but to report what they have seen. But when videos created by the perpetrators aren’t deemed “solid” evidence, is that enough? For so long the mantra for feminist organisations has been to “believe her”. Yet as the past month has revealed, it only goes so far — and becomes meaningless if you live in Israel.

Nicole Lampert is a freelance journalist who writes about arts and politics. nicolelampert

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Nov 22November2023 https://www.newsweek.com/silence-international-bodies-over-hamas-mass-rapes-betrayal-all-women-opinion-1845783
By Michal Herzog
First Lady of the State of Israel

 

Two days after the horrific Hamas attack of October 7, I met Rotem, a young mother of two small children from a Kibbutz on the Gaza border. I held my breath as she recounted how she ran with her children to hide while terrorists rampaged through their home, how they made it to the safe room and desperately held the door, praying the terrorists wouldn’t enter.

 

Her terror echoed accounts I’ve heard from abused women, except now the threat was not from a violent husband. And Rotem was not alone; she is one of thousands of Israeli women who simultaneously faced murder and rape by Hamas terrorists on that fateful day.

 

At the President of Israel’s Residence in Jerusalem, we are preparing for the day the United Nations General Assembly has designated the International Day for the Prevention of Violence against Women, which is observed every November 25. Every year, I host victims, civil-society leaders, activists, and scholars committed to women’s rights and safety on this day.

 

But this year will be different. Many things changed on October 7 when thousands of Hamas terrorists massacred Israeli families, burnt children and the elderly, and kidnapped hostages. This deeply impacted our visceral understanding of the cruelty of gender-based sexual violence—and our faith in the international organizations that claim to care about women.

 

It took me several days to grasp the monstrous nature and scale of violence suffered specifically by women on October 7. My first realization came when meeting volunteers of the Association of Rape Crisis Centers who discreetly told me of conversations with survivors. They heard testimonies that shocked them to the core.

Israel’s First Lady Michal Herzog on a visit to the Levinstein Rehabilitation Center, embraces Noam, who was injured in the the NOVA music festival attack on October 7. Bar Netzer

Israel’s First Lady Michal Herzog on a visit to the Levinstein Rehabilitation Center, embraces Noam, who was injured in the the NOVA music festival attack on October 7. Bar Netzer

At the Nova music festival, where more than 350 young people were slaughtered and dozens kidnapped, witnesses hiding in the bushes saw terrorists gang-rape, then murder and mutilate women. A Hamas video from a kibbutz shows terrorists torturing a pregnant woman and removing her fetus. Our forensic scientists have found bodies of women and girls raped with such violence that their pelvic bones were broken. Those of us unlucky enough to have seen video evidence broadcast by the terrorists themselves witnessed the body of a naked woman paraded through Gaza, and another, still alive, in bloodied pants held captive at gunpoint being pulled into a jeep by her hair. This evidence, along with the explicit recorded confessions of captured terrorists, makes abundantly clear that mass rape was a premeditated part of Hamas’s plan.

 

And this crime is ongoing: The 240 hostages held in Gaza include many women and girls, and only when they are released will we know what they have endured.

 

In the 1990s, international agencies and legal experts finally began to see violence against women as a particular category of war crime. Organizations like UN Women exist to protect women from such crimes, while Israeli experts and activists have been involved in these international efforts. Thus, our second shock: The inconceivable and unforgiveable silence of these organizations when faced with the rape and murder of Israeli women.

The parents and relatives of children kidnapped on October 7, along with families of hostages and their supporters take part in a demonstration outside the UNICEF headquarters to protest their silence to 40 children held hostage in Gaza on World’s Children Day on November 20, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Hamas and Israel leaders have both indicated progress is being made to release hostages taken after October 7. Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images

The parents and relatives of children kidnapped on October 7, along with families of hostages and their supporters take part in a demonstration outside the UNICEF headquarters to protest their silence to 40 children held hostage in Gaza on World’s Children Day on November 20, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Hamas and Israel leaders have both indicated progress is being made to release hostages taken after October 7. Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images

It is not that condemnations of gender-based violence by Hamas have been weak or insufficient – there have been none at all. Statement after statement by organizations like UN Women, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) have failed to condemn these crimes. They failed us, and all women, at this critical moment.

 

As a woman and a mother, my heart goes out to women and children in Gaza suffering the consequences of the war started by Hamas. I believe they deserve aid and support. But this does not mean the erasure of the atrocities committed by Palestinian terrorists on October 7. The silence of international human rights organizations, and the unwillingness to believe Israeli women in the face of overwhelming evidence has been devastating.

 

For the Israelis who have always been on the forefront of the fight for women’s rights worldwide, this was a moment of crushing disappointment. A disappointment shared with me by one of our most prominent women’s rights advocates, Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, a former CEDAW vice-chair.

Israel's First Lady, Michal Herzog Igal Slavin

Israel’s First Lady, Michal Herzog Igal Slavin

 

“I knew it would be difficult to get them to issue a reasonable statement,” she said of the UN committee in a Harvard Medical School video conference., “but never did I imagine that when faced with such undeniable atrocities – given the very purpose for which they have been established,– – that they would actually resort to not acknowledging it at all.”

 

Ignoring the “unprecedented, premeditated and extreme cruelty of the sexual violence committed by Hamas,” Prof. Halperin-Kaddari added, meant not only failing Israeli women but failing the entire international human rights system. “I still am a believer in this system. But this was a huge blow to this belief.”

I agree with every word.

To mark this year’s International Day for the Prevention of Violence against Women, Israeli women – Jews, Muslims, Christians, and Druze – will gather at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem. We will meet in the lingering shock of the violation of our rights, and with the profound sense that all of us who believe in those rights have been betrayed.

 

Yet we will persist in presenting the truth to the world and to every human rights organization. We owe it not only to our own victims, but to all women who will face these crimes in the future and must know that they are not alone.

Michal Herzog is First Lady of the State of Israel.

The views expressed in this article are the writer’s own.

 

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UN Women took 1,176 hours to respond


StopAntisemitism-tweet-25November2023-UN Women took 7Weeks to respond
7 weeks.
49 days.
1,176 hours.

That’s how long it took @UNWomen to issue a statement condemning the raping and sodomy of Jewish women.

StopAntisemitism-tweet-25November2023-
7 weeks.
49 days.
1,176 hours to denounce these horrors.

Why?
Because they’re Jews.

StopAntisemitism-tweet-25November2023-UN Women took 7 Weeks to respond

StopAntisemitism-tweet-25November2023-UN Women took 7 Weeks to respond

 


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This is a “Form Letter” sent to both Gaza and Israel. @UN_Women DO NOT CARE about women.

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After backlash over silence, UN Women tweets, then deletes, statement condemning Hamas attack in Israel

BY JACKIE HAJDENBERG 27NOVEMBER2023  https://www.jta.org/2023/11/27/israel/after-backlash-over-silence-un-women-tweets-then-deletes-statement-condemning-hamas-attack-in-israel

Israeli women protest outside UN Headquarters in Jerusalem, Nov. 27, 2023. (Flash90)

Israeli women protest outside UN Headquarters in Jerusalem, Nov. 27, 2023. (Flash90)

(JTA) — Nearly 50 days after Hamas’ attack on Israel left 1,200 dead, and after weeks of criticism over its silence about allegations of sexual violence during the attack, the  women’s rights group UN Women issued a statement condemning the terror group on Friday.

Then it deleted the post.

“We condemn the brutal attacks by Hamas on October 7 and continue to call for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages,” read the initial statement, posted on UN Women’s instagram page. It was soon replaced with a statement that dropped the condemnation of Hamas and only called for the release of the hostages.

 

Word spread quickly among Jewish women activists and Israelis, reigniting their contention that UN Women — an official arm of the United Nations focused on promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment — holds a double standard when it comes to gender-based violence against Israeli women. Some of the critics — including Sheryl Sandberg, a former top Meta executive — have lobbied openly on the topic. Many have used the hashtag “#MeToo_UNless_UR_A_Jew.”

 

Reached for comment, UN Women told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the Instagram post had been scheduled in advance and was deleted because the message in it no longer reflected where the organization wanted to put its main focus.

 

“In any social media team managing multiple campaigns and during a very busy time like the one we are now with 16 Days of Activism, mistakes can occur,” a representative for UN Women said in a statement sent to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

 

In particular, said the media specialist, the release of some hostages over the weekend as part of a temporary truce changed the organization’s priorities.

 

“UN Women social media team had pre-planned days in advance [of] this particular post, but then the news broke on the release of hostages and we really wanted to focus on that,” she said. “UN Women has condemned the attacks by Hamas and the deaths of Israeli civilians from the beginning as well as called for the release of hostages, and we will continue doing so until the conflict ends. We have also called for all allegations of gender-based violence to be rigorously investigated, prioritizing the rights, needs, and safety of those affected.”

 

In late October, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza but voted down a provision condemning the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks. On Monday, Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, held a session on crimes against humanity committed against women during the Oct. 7 massacre.

 

After an initial statement on Oct. 13 condemning the attacks on civilians in Israel, all of UN Women’s public comments about the war and its impact on women had centered only on Palestinians. Last week, Sima Bahous, the group’s executive director, called for an extension of the current temporary truce into a permanent ceasefire and for the release of all hostages.

 

The National Council for Jewish Women, which had previously criticized UN Women’s silence on sexual violence against Israeli women, said the group’s second statement last week was inadequate.

 

“The delayed issuance of a statement that fails to explicitly address the severity of Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel — such as the brutal murder of over 1,200 people in Israel, torture, and rape of women, as well as the targeting of civilians and families — is equally reprehensible,” the statement said. “Immediate and unequivocal acknowledgment of these atrocities is imperative, given the blatant violation of international law.”

 


JerusalemCats-tweet-26November2023-UN_Women-screenshot-2023-11-26
This is a “Form Letter” sent to both Gaza and Israel. @UN_Women DO NOT CARE about women.

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Sarah Douglas, the Deputy Chief of Peace and Security at UN Women and Palestinian politician Hanan Ashrawi

Sarah Douglas, the Deputy Chief of Peace and Security at UN Women and Palestinian politician Hanan Ashrawi

Exposed: UN Women Deputy Chief Endorsed 153 Tweets Attacking Israel & Zionism

18December2023 United Nations https://unwatch.org/exposed-un-women-deputy-chief-endorsed-153-tweets-attacking-israel-zionism/

 

A top official of UN Women addressed the United Nations by webcam from her home with a large “Palestine” poster and flag showing in the background, and since the October 7th Hamas massacre she has publicly endorsed 153 anti-Israel and anti-Zionist tweets, revealed a Swiss watchdog group today.

 

Sarah Douglas, the Deputy Chief of Peace and Security at UN Women, should be fired for her blatant and systematic violations of the the UN’s minimal requirements of neutrality and impartiality, said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, an independent non-governmental organization based in Geneva that released the following report documenting her partisan political activity.


Hillel Neuer-tweet-18December2023-Meet Sarah Douglas-UN Women
Meet Sarah Douglas, the Deputy Chief of Peace and Security at neutral UN Women. Last week she spoke to the UN from home next to a giant “Palestine” poster. Turns out she’s also endorsed 153 tweets since Oct. 7 accusing Israel of “genocide” & other sins: https://unwatch.org/exposed-un-women-deputy-chief-endorsed-153-tweets-attacking-israel-zionism/ 🧵

Hillel Neuer-tweet-18December2023-Meet Sarah Douglas-UN Women

Hillel Neuer-tweet-18December2023-Meet Sarah Douglas-UN Women

Sarah Douglas’ Political Activity Violates UN Impartiality

Sarah Douglas’ overt political activity, including her public endorsement of extreme statements by politicians and political organizations, as detailed below, amount to a material breach of her UN obligation to be neutral and impartial.  Article 101(3) of the UN Charter states that the “paramount consideration” in employing staff is “securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence and integrity.” The concept of integrity under the core values of the UN Staff Rules and Staff Regulations includes “impartiality.” Specifically, under Rule 1.2(f), UN staff are expressly prohibited from making “any kind of public pronouncement” that may adversely reflect on their independence and impartiality. While UN staff members may exercise the right to vote, they are prohibited from engaging in any political activity that reflects adversely upon “the independence and impartiality required by their status as international civil servants.”

Repeatedly Accused Israel of “Genocide”

Sarah Douglas liked a tweet by the Palestinian Feminist Collective accusing “the forces of empire” of helping Israel to commit “genocide” and “annihilate the Palestinian people.”

 

Similarly, Douglas has repeatedly liked tweets accusing America of funding and arming “the genocide of Palestinians” and “the genocide in Gaza.”

 

Likewise, she liked many tweets accusing Israel of “war crimes against the people of Gaza” and indiscriminate bombing of Gaza.

 

By contrast, the UN Women’s Deputy Chief of Peace and Security failed to like a single tweet condemning Hamas for its open calls for genocide, including its pledges to repeat the October 7th mass murder, torture and rape of Israelis.

Sarah Douglas liked 11December2023-Genocide-Gaza-JVP

Sarah Douglas liked 11December2023-Genocide-Gaza-JVP

 

Sarah Douglas liked 15December2023-JVP-US-funding-genocide

Sarah Douglas liked 15December2023-JVP-US-funding-genocide

 

Sarah Douglas liked 16October2023-JPal-Fem-Collective-genocide

Sarah Douglas liked 16October2023-JPal-Fem-Collective-genocide

 

Falsely Accused Israel of Bombing Hospital

Douglas liked the tweet by UN Women chief Sima Bahous which falsely implied that Israel attacked the Al Ahli Arab Hospital on October 17th and “strongly condemned” the strike that “killed and injured hundreds of civilians.” In fact, the rocket was from Islamic Jihad; it did not hit the hospital but the parking lot of the courtyard; and the actual casualties were a fraction of that amount. The tweet was never deleted and remains on Douglas’ feed of liked tweets.

 

Celebrated Shutdown of American Bridges and Highways, Takeover of Party Conventions

Sarah Douglas liked tweets that celebrate shutting down bridges and highways in eight American cities.

She liked a tweet by IfNotNow celebrating the takeover of the California Democratic Convention to protest “the mass murder of Palestinians.”

 

And she liked a tweet by “Jewish Voice for Peace Action” that celebrated their shutting down of the Democratic National Committee headquarters.

 

Palestine Poster

Speaking via webcam from her home, Sarah Douglas addressed a UN meeting last week next to a large “Palestine” poster with the colors of the Palestinian flag. This is in breach of the UN rule that speakers show only a neutral background.

Sarah Douglas addressed a UN meeting

Sarah Douglas addressed a UN meeting

 

Openly Endorsed “Squad” Politicians Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, AOC

Sarah Douglas likes numerous tweets of Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Bernie Sanders and other far-left politicians.

Douglas liked a tweet by Rashida Tlaib claiming that “Israel is starving Gaza.”

She liked a tweet by AOC calling to condition aid to Israel, and others about pressing the Biden administration for a ceasefire and preventing the “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians.

She liked a tweet by “IfNotNow” endorsing pressure on Senator Warren.

 

She liked a tweet by “Jewish Voice for Peace Action” which thanked 13 named Democratic members of Congress for opposing H. Res. 894, which condemnied the drastic rise of antisemitism in America. So a UN official is openly supporting and opposing specific votes in the US Congress and at the UN.

 

She also liked tweets by numerous other far-left and politicians who attack or criticize Israel, including Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush and Bernie Sanders.

 

Endorsed Code Pink and Other Radical Groups

Despite her obligation to be neutral in her public pronouncements, Sarah Douglas supports radical groups like Code Pink, liking their tweet that accused US Senators Graham and Rubio “and other AIPAC $$$ recipients” over the violence they’re backing against Palestinians, accusing them of “hate and lies.” She liked another Code Pink tweet that celebrated shutting down Chicago’s main highway to “free Palestine.”

 

Douglas repeatedly liked tweets by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), a Geneva-based group that was long accused of being a Soviet front organization, and whose officials went to Libya in 1992 to sing praises of the “Gaddafi Human Rights Prize.” Douglas liked a WILPF tweet accusing Israel of “apartheid policies” which is allegedly a “feminist demand.”

 

She also routinely liked tweets from additional NGOs and lobby groups that advocate what Hamas wants, including tweets by Democratic Socialists and Amnesty International.

 

Promoted Fringe Jewish Groups That Oppose Israel and Zionism

 

Douglas has a particular fondness for liking tweets by fringe Jewish individuals or groups that condemn Israel.

 

She liked numerous posts by “Jewish Voices for Peace,” including one tweet saying “We’re proud anti-Zionistsm,” with the image of a placard reading, “Zionism breaks every single Jewish value.”

 

She liked a tweet by IfNotNow promoting their “#JewsForCeasefire” campaign.

 

In violation of UN rules against overt partisan political activity, Sarah Douglas openly engaged in political campaigning by publicly liking numerous posts such as a tweet by “Jewish Voice for Peace Action” lobbying for the US government to change its policy and demand a ceasefire, which read:  “Keep writing, keep calling, keep pushing. Check our tracker… to see who in Congress is working to save lives.”

 

Liked an article by radical academic who invoked his Jewish identity to accuse Israel of “genocide” and “Jewish supremacy.”

 

Intervened On UN Votes, Rebuked Countries For Not Backing Anti-Israel Resolutions

 

UN employees do not comment on country votes in UN bodies. For example, when the UN Secretary-General is asked about the UN election of dictatorships to the Human Rights Council and women’s rights bodies, he systematically declines to comment.

 

By contrast, Douglas has repeatedly endorsed tweets rebuking member states for their UN votes that she opposes. She liked a tweet by the group Karama which criticized “states who claim to support women’s rights looking the other way on violence against Palestinian women.” Similarly, she  liked an AOC tweet slamming a US vote in the Security Council.

 

Notably, Sarah Douglas has never liked tweets criticizing country votes on any other matter.

 

Her “Hero” is Antisemitic Denier of Hamas Massacre

 

Sarah Douglas tweeted a photo of herself with former PLO official and spokeswoman, gushing that she was “So excited to meet one of my sheroes today: Dr Hanan Ashrawi!!”

 

In fact, Ashrawi is someone who has promoted antisemitic blood libels, falsely accusing Israel of throwing a Palestinian child into a well. Ashrawi founded an organization, Miftah, that claims Jews consume Christian blood, and which praises suicide bombers.

 

Speaking on Sky News, Ashrawi recently justified the Hamas massacre and mass rape of October 7th, saying, “This was a deliberate act of resisting an occupation army.”

 

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UN International Women's Day-Oct. 7 Rape Report-Israel_Hayom_EN

UN International Women’s Day-Oct. 7 Rape Report-Israel_Hayom_EN

After 150 days of being thwarted, condemned, lied to and investigated by UN, UN gives Oct 7 Rape Report


Israel Katz-tweet-6March2024-critical to hear your voice as international women leaders
Distinguished women leaders, Following the publication of the @UN report on sexual violence committed by the Hamas terror organization, it is critical to hear your voice as international women leaders, in order to put an end to the atrocities that Israeli women are going through in the captivity of the Hamas.

#BringThemHome 🎗️

@VP @HillaryClinton @GiorgiaMeloni @Statsmin @katrinjak @nmusar @ZuzanaCaputova @SerbianPM @kajakallas @Zourabichvili_S @XiomaraCastroZ @EvikaSilina @IngridaSimonyte @sandumaiamd @KristoBorjana @DameSandraMason @Sheikh_Hasinaa @presidenciaperu @SigridKaag @MinColonna @KensingtonRoyal @MichelleObama @ABaerbock @melaniejoly @Kamikawa_Yoko @HankeBruinsSlot @hadjalahbib @Odobes1Luminita @GabrielMariya @gabisommerfeld @DianaMondino @SenatorWong @elinavaltonen

Israel Katz-tweet-6March2024-critical to hear your voice as international women leaders

Israel Katz-tweet-6March2024-critical to hear your voice as international women leaders

 


United Nations-tweet-5March2024-7 Oct attack by Hamas
In context of 7 Oct attack by Hamas & others, UN special representative for @endrapeinwar finds reasonable grounds to believe sexual violence occurred in multiple locations.

She also finds sexual violence committed against hostages & may still be ongoing. https://www.un.org/sexualviolenceinconflict/press-release/israel-west-bank-mission/
Malkah Fleisher-tweet-5March2024-After 150 days of being thwarted, condemned, lied to
After 150 days of being thwarted, condemned, lied to and investigated by you:

WE DON’T WANT YOUR STUPID SUPPORT, GET AWAY FROM US, YOU’RE DISGUSTING.

🇮🇱 Am Yisrael Chai

Malkah Fleisher-tweet-5March2024-After 150 days of being thwarted, condemned, lied to and investigated by you

Malkah Fleisher-tweet-5March2024-After 150 days of being thwarted, condemned, lied to and investigated by you

 


Jessica S-tweet-5March2024-67 Different Men Raped her
You know it occurred in multiple locations the DAY IT HAPPENED they filmed themselves doing it and you have had the evidence all along ! Shame on you for taking months to recognize the atrocities that have had an are still happening.
#DefundTheUN

Jessica S-tweet-5March2024-67 Different Men Raped her

Jessica S-tweet-5March2024-67 Different Men Raped her

 

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Israel forbids doctors from speaking to the antisemitic UN Human Rights Council

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Israel forbids doctors from speaking to UN group investigating Oct. 7 atrocities

Officials say commission of inquiry formed by UN Human Rights Council in 2021 is led by three people with antisemitic and anti-Israel views

By Renee Ghert-Zand 16 January 2024, https://www.timesofisrael.com/government-forbids-doctors-from-speaking-to-un-group-investigating-oct-7-atrocities/

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Demonstrators gather outside the UN headquarters in New York City on December 4, 2023, to protest the international community’s perceived silence on sexual violence committed by Hamas terrorists against Israeli women during the October 7 massacre. (Carli Fogel)

Demonstrators gather outside the UN headquarters in New York City on December 4, 2023, to protest the international community’s perceived silence on sexual violence committed by Hamas terrorists against Israeli women during the October 7 massacre. (Carli Fogel)

JerusalemCats Comments:
The UN Human Rights Council Commission of inquiry to investigating Oct. 7 atrocities of Hamas on Israel is led by three people with antisemitic and anti-Israel views. Israel forbids doctors from speaking to the commission.
The UNHRC has a very long history of antisemitism

he U.N. Human Rights Council is made up of human rights violating thugs who are against Israel. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2020.

he U.N. Human Rights Council is made up of human rights violating thugs who are against Israel. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2020.

 

The U.N. Human Rights Council

The U.N. Human Rights Council

 


Hillel Neuer-tweet-20September2021-The U.N. Human Rights Council
The U.N. Human Rights Council—whose members include China, Cuba, Libya, Eritrea, Mauritania, Pakistan, Russia and Somalia (soon to be joined by Qatar, Malaysia & Kazakhstan)—is a key supporter of this week’s Durban 4 racism conference which has a tainted history of antisemitism.

 

Hillel Neuer-tweet-20September2021-The U.N. Human Rights Council

Hillel Neuer-tweet-20September2021-The U.N. Human Rights Council

 

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UN Secretary-General activating Article 99 of the UN Charter to put pressure on Israel


Ambassador Gilad Erdan-tweet-December 6, 2023-UN Secretary-General activating Article 99 of the UN Charter
Today, the Secretary-General has reached a new moral low. He writes that he is activating, for the first time, Article 99 of the UN Charter in relation to the Israel-Hamas war, an article that can only be invoked in a situation where international peace and security are threatened.

The Secretary-General decided to activate this rare clause only when it allows him to put pressure on Israel, which is fighting the Nazi Hamas terrorists. This is more proof of the Secretary-General’s moral distortion and his bias against Israel.

The Secretary-General’s call for a ceasefire is actually a call to keep Hamas’ reign of terror in Gaza. Instead of the Secretary-General explicitly pointing to Hamas’ responsibility for the situation and calling on the terrorist leaders to turn themselves in and return the hostages, thus ending the war, the Secretary-General chooses to continue playing into Hamas’ hands.

The distorted positions of the Secretary-General only prolong the fighting in Gaza, because they give hope to the Hamas terrorists that the war will be stopped and they will be able to survive. I again call on the Secretary-General to resign immediately – the UN needs a Secretary-General who supports the war on terror, not a Secretary-General who acts according to the script written by Hamas.

 

Ambassador Gilad Erdan-tweet-December 6, 2023-UN Secretary-General activating Article 99 of the UN Charter

Ambassador Gilad Erdan-tweet-December 6, 2023-UN Secretary-General activating Article 99 of the UN Charter

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Eli Cohen-tweet-6December2023-Guterres’ tenure is a danger to world peace
Guterres’ tenure is a danger to world peace.
His request to activate Article 99 and the call for a cease fire in Gaza constitutes support of the Hamas terrorist organization and an endorsement of the murder of the elderly, the abduction of babies and the rape of women.
Anyone who supports world peace must support the liberation of Gaza from Hamas

Eli Cohen-tweet-6December2023-Guterres’ tenure is a danger to world peace

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UN General Assembly rejects motion to condemn Hamas, calls for ceasefire

29October2023 https://unwatch.org/un-general-assembly-rejects-motion-to-condemn-hamas-calls-for-ceasefire/

 

The UN General Assembly adopted an Arab-drafted resolution today calling for a “humanitarian truce” in Gaza, after rejecting a Canadian amendment that would have condemned the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas and demanded immediate release of hostages taken by Hamas.

 

Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan called it “a day that will go down in infamy.”

The resolution was adopted by a vote of 120 to 14 with 45 abstentions.

Outrageously, the resolution failed to condemn Hamas for its October 7th massacre of 1400 Israelis, or for its abduction of more than 200 Israelis including children and babies, or even to mention the word Hamas.

 

The resolution also failed to recognize Israel’s right to defend itself and its citizens against terrorism.

The resolution calls for “immediate, full, sustained, safe and unhindered humanitarian access…to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid” but, as noted by the Czech Republic, doesn’t provide assurances that this will not be abused by Hamas and other terrorists.

 

The text also calls on Israel, “the occupying power,” to rescind its order to evacuate northern Gaza.

Prior to taking action on the resolution, an amendment led by Canada did not pass, as it failed to reach the required two-thirds majority. That amendment would have “unequivocally reject[ed] and condemn[ed] the terrorist attacks by Hamas that took place in Israel starting on 7 October 2023 and the taking of hostages.”

 


UN Watch-tweet-27October2023-LIST OF SHAME: These EU countries just joined Iran, Syria and Russia in voting for a resolution that fails to name Hamas or specifically call for release of hostages.
Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland,Norway

 

UN Watch-tweet-27October2023-LIST OF SHAME: These EU countries just joined Iran, Syria and Russia in voting for a resolution that fails to name Hamas or specifically call for release of hostages. Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Norway

UN Watch-tweet-27October2023-LIST OF SHAME: These EU countries just joined Iran, Syria and Russia in voting for a resolution that fails to name Hamas or specifically call for release of hostages.
Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Norway

 


UN Watch-tweet-28October2023-Proving Abba Eban’s timeless observation: “If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring the earth was flat and Israel had flattened it, it would pass by 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.” This UN text fails to condemn the Hamas massacre or to support Israel’s right to self-defence.
United Nations-tweet–27October2023-
120 in favor
14 against
45 abstentions

Countries adopt resolution calling for immediate & sustained humanitarian truce in the Middle East during an Emergency Special Session of https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/10/1142847

UN Watch-tweet-28October2023-Proving Abba Eban's timeless observation

UN Watch-tweet-28October2023-Proving Abba Eban’s timeless observation

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Hillel Neuer-tweet-28October2023-
BREAKING: 🇨🇿 Czech Defense Minister Jana Černochová has just called to leave the UN for cheering Hamas terrorists. “Exactly 3 weeks ago, Hamas murdered over 1400 Israelis, more victims for their population than the militant Islamist organization al-Qaeda murdered in the US on 9/11. And only 14 countries, including ours, have spoken out clearly and understandably against this unprecedented terrorist attack perpetrated by Hamas terrorists! I am ashamed of the UN. In my opinion, the Czech Republic has no place in an organization that cheers on terrorists and does not respect the fundamental right to self-defence. Let’s get out.”

Hillel Neuer-tweet-28October2023-Czech Defense Minister Jana Černochová has just called to leave the UN

Hillel Neuer-tweet-28October2023-Czech Defense Minister Jana Černochová has just called to leave the UN

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US to suspend funding of UN if Israel suspended from UN

22 USC 287 United States Participation in the United Nations if Israel is Illegally Expelled

Current U.S. law would be triggered if the PA proceeds with efforts to suspend Israel from the UN General Assembly under a federal statute that initially became law in 1983 requiring the U.S. to suspend our participation and begin to withhold certain funding:

President Reagan’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Jean Kirkpatrick, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post in 1989 summarizing the purpose of the 1983 federal statute [See Below:]

The United States Code is a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States. It is prepared by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the United States House of Representatives.

The United States Code is a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States. It is prepared by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the United States House of Representatives.

22 USC 287

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:22%20section:287%20edition:prelim)#:~:text=%22(b)%20If%20Israel%20is,any%20such%20organ%20or%20agency

22 USC 287: Representation in Organization Text contains those laws in effect on October 27, 2024

From Title 22-FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSECHAPTER 7-INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.SUBCHAPTER XVI-UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION

United States Participation in the United Nations if Israel is Illegally Expelled

Pub. L. 98–164, title I, §115, Nov. 22, 1983, 97 Stat. 1021 , as amended by Pub. L. 99–93, title I, §142, Aug. 16, 1985, 99 Stat. 424 ; Pub. L. 100–204, title VII, §704, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1389 , provided that:

“(a) The Congress finds that-

“(1) the United Nations was founded on the principle of universality;

“(2) the United Nations Charter stipulates that members may be suspended by the General Assembly only ‘upon the recommendation of the Security Council’; and

“(3) any move by the General Assembly that would illegally deny Israel its credentials in the Assembly would be a direct violation of these provisions of the Charter.

“(b) If Israel is illegally expelled, suspended, denied its credentials, or in any other manner denied its right to participate in any principal or subsidiary organ or in any specialized, technical, or other agency of the United Nations, the United States shall suspend its participation in any such organ or agency until the illegal action is reversed. The United States shall reduce its annual assessed contribution to the United Nations or such specialized agency by 8.34 percent for each month in which United States participation is suspended pursuant to this section. Nothing in this section may be construed to diminish or to affect United States participation in the United Nations Security Council or the Safeguards Program of the International Atomic Energy Agency.”

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Opinion | THE U.N. VOTE ON ISRAEL

 

Jeane Kirkpatrick
October 23, 1989 at 1:00 a.m. EDT https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1989/10/23/the-un-vote-on-israel/e91c0ce5-3daa-42c5-bf2b-24a3d808bfdc/

 

Last week’s annual vote on expelling Israel from the United Nations was especially interesting for three reasons. First, the Soviet Union’s decision to abstain rather than vote to expel was the most significant step yet taken by the Soviet government away from reflexive alignment with the radical Arab states. U.N. votes are known to all, and the vote to expel Israel (by rejecting its credentials) is a kind of litmus test of loyalty to the Arab bloc and the Islamic Conference. The Soviets’ closest allies in the Middle East — Libya and Syria — push hardest for Israel’s expulsion. Soviet defection on this vote raises a question about whether that country will continue to serve as the leader in the campaign to delegitimize Israel within international organizations. The Soviet Union has played that role ever since the campaign was launched in the mid-1960s. It has provided the ideology, resolutions, organizational support and votes needed in that campaign. It was the Soviet Union in 1975 that proposed the ”Zionism is racism” resolution, which struck at the moral foundations of the state of Israel. It was the Soviet Union that led the fight for parallel resolutions in other international organizations, including UNESCO and the International Telecommunications Union. For nearly 25 years, the Soviet Union has thrown its full weight behind efforts to brand Israel an international outlaw. Of course, Soviet support means not one vote or even three (since Belorussia and the Ukraine have separate, but not independent, votes in the U.N.). Soviet support has meant the vote of the Soviet bloc, including the Warsaw Pact countries of Eastern Europe and overseas states affiliated with the so-called socialist world system — Angola, Mozambique, Cuba, Nicaragua, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Yemen, Vietnam, Laos and so forth. Traditionally, when the Soviet Union switched its attitude and its votes, allies switched theirs. This year, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Poland joined the Soviet Union in abstaining. Hungary and Romania went all the way and voted in favor of Israel’s membership. Third World countries in the Soviet bloc — Nicaragua, Cuba, Afghanistan and Angola — stuck with the Arabs. Life in international organizations will be a good deal easier for Israel if the Soviet Unions abandons its leadership of the ”anti-Zionist” cause. It might even be realistic to think about securing repeal of the ”Zionism is racism” resolution. A second reason the vote is especially interesting is its relevance to the claims of various Arab states that they have ”moved” and now in some sense ”accept” the existence of Israel. Though none — let us be clear — has said plainly that it accepts Israel’s right to peace within secure borders (the central requirement of U.N. Resolution 242), several have said they are willing to accept whatever is acceptable to the Palestinians. It is not certain what that means, since different Palestinian leaders have expressed very different views and Yasser Arafat’s declarations have remained exceedingly ambiguous. Thus far, Egypt is the only Arab state that has been willing to sign a peace treaty with Israel. And Egypt was the only Arab state that did not vote to reject Israel’s membership in the U.N. General Assembly last week. The other Arab states’ votes to expel Israel are a direct blow to current efforts to reestablish a peace process based on the ”land-for-peace” formula. No one can reasonably expect that the tiny state of Israel should take further risks for peace when it is surrounded by neighbors unwilling to accept its right to peace within secure borders. Third, the vote is a reminder that consistency and effort in foreign affairs pay dividends — even in the United Nations. It has become easier and easier to protect Israel’s membership in U.N. agencies. It was not always so. The Arab bloc first moved to deny Israel participation in the General Assembly in 1982. Those of us working on the issue then knew the move was coming. In the spring of that year, a large majority had declared Israel ”not a peace-loving state,” and the only requirement for membership in the U.N. is precisely that a country be judged a ”peace-loving state.” Months of global lobbying in advance of the vote and a strong bipartisan effort in Congress yielded a narrow victory for Israel that year. The following year, Congress passed and President Reagan signed a law providing that in case Israel were denied participation in any U.N. agency, the United States would also withdraw its participation and would withhold any financial contributions. This law and persistent effort have simplified the task of protecting Israel’s membership in the U.N. Now the margins of victory are large. They look so easy that some journalists have called it a ”ritual victory.” Good. Maybe, eventually, Arab states will give up the effort to destroy Israel through U.N. votes. Where better should the ”peace process” begin than in an organization created for peace-making? 1989, Los Angeles Times Syndicate

 

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The 1975 “Zionism Is Racism” Resolution: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of a Libel

Dr. Yohanan Manor
May 2, 2010

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  • The singling out of Zionism as a supposed form of racism was a device invented by the Soviet Union to justify its refusal to condemn anti-Semitism during the negotiation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in the mid-1960s.
  • The failure of the Soviet-Arab strategy to expel Israel from the United Nations and replace it with Palestine led to the adoption in 1975 of UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 (XXX), which determined that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.”
  • For almost a decade, Israel and the Jewish people remained passive and did not attempt to challenge Resolution 3379. They greatly underestimated its impact and the damage it caused all over the world,  expecting unrealistically that it would fade away by dint of its sheer inanity.
  • The resolution’s revocation in 1991 was not an inevitable outcome of the end of the Cold War but was achieved mainly by convincing the United States to take the lead on the issue; the ostensible UN “automatic majority” was a manifestation of lack of leadership. Today, the efforts to undermine Israel’s legitimacy come mainly from an NGO network inspired and supported by Israel’s enemies, calling for a new counterstrategy.

 

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 (XXX) of 10 November 1975, defining Zionism as a form of racism, was revoked by the General Assembly sixteen years later on 16 December 1991.

 

The story of the rise and fall of this libel teaches a good deal about the role of anti-Semitism in international politics, its paralyzing effect on both the Jewish state and the Jewish people, and how such a libel was finally challenged successfully. Since the revocation of 3379, Israel’s international standing and legitimacy have steadily improved, increasing its ability to thwart ongoing attempts to negate its legitimacy.

 

How It Began

The idea of having Zionism condemned by the United Nations originated with the Soviet Union in the mid-1960s, before the Six Day War. It stemmed from the Soviet refusal to have anti-Semitism condemned by the UN. Since the Soviet Union could not openly voice such a position, it conditioned its acceptance of condemning anti-Semitism on a demand to condemn Zionism and Nazism. This occurred in 1964 and 1965 during the negotiation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination within the framework of the UN Commission on Human Rights.[1]

 

The Six Day War inflicted a severe blow on the Soviet Union’s weaponry and prestige, and it subsequently developed a more militant policy to regain and enlarge its influence in the Middle East. This policy was based on a near-total backing of the PLO. It was expected that this backing would bring both the “Arab street” and the Arab states to the Soviet Union’s side. This scheme went well and enabled the Soviet Union to gain strongholds in the Middle East, notably in Syria and Egypt, which were on the verge of becoming Soviet colonies.

 

The expulsion of the Soviet advisers from Egypt, the Israeli-Egyptian disengagement negotiations of November 1973, and the Israeli-Syrian disengagement agreement of May 1974 with the active involvement of the United States, apparently led to a Soviet-PLO plan to bring about Israel’s expulsion from the United Nations, with the PLO taking its place.[2]

On 22 November 1974, the PLO obtained UN observer status as a national liberation movement. In August 1975, the Organization of African Unity explicitly referred to depriving Israel of “its status as member.” At the General Assembly on 1 October 1975, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin called upon

 

the people of the United States of America…to rid their society from the Zionists in order that the true citizens of this nation may control their own destiny and exploit the natural resources of their country to their own benefit. I call for the expulsion of Israel from the United Nations and the extinction of Israel as a state so that the territorial integrity of Palestine may be ensured and upheld.[3]

 

In parallel, the Soviet Union and the PLO advanced an initiative to bring about a condemnation of Zionism. In December 1973, for the first time, Zionism was associated with racism in a General Assembly resolution on South Africa’s apartheid policy, condemning in particular “the unholy alliance between Portuguese colonialism, South African racism, Zionism and Israeli imperialism.”[4]

 

In July 1975, the Soviet Union and the PLO succeeded to have Zionism explicitly condemned at the UN International Women’s Year conference in Mexico City, which stressed in its final declaration that “Peace requires the elimination of colonialism, neocolonialism, foreign occupation, Zionism, apartheid and racial discrimination in all its forms.”[5] In August 1975, the Organization of African Unity in Kampala stated that “the racist regime in occupied Palestine and the racist regime in Zimbabwe and South Africa have a common imperialist origin…organically linked in their policy aimed at repression of the dignity and integrity of the human being”; while the Non-Aligned conference in Lima “severely condemned Zionism as a threat to world peace.”

 

Stern Western, above all American, opposition to Israel’s expulsion or suspension, notably an American warning that such a move would force the United States to reassess its UN membership,[6] thwarted this initiative – but also much increased the eagerness to advance a substitute for it, namely, the condemnation of Zionism as racism. This was formally achieved first within the framework of the Third Committee of the General Assembly on 16 October 1975, and then on 10 November 1975 by the GA plenary with Resolution 3379 (XXX), which “Determines that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.” The Soviet-Arab coalition won by 72-35 with two abstentions.

 

Although this result was far from resounding and fell short of the one hundred and more votes this coalition was used to obtaining at the General Assembly, it was followed by an explosion of joy. As Judge Hadassa Ben Ito, then a member of the Israeli delegation to this session, strikingly described this:

 

It was not only an excitement. The hatred was crawling on the floor. People embraced as if they had won the biggest victory of their lives…. We felt like pariahs. It is not only a sentimental reflection…. We should know that it was not just another resolution of the United Nations. Somebody like myself, who has never really felt personally attacked by, or maligned by an act of anti-Semitism, really felt it physically while sitting there.[7]

 

Two procedural attempts to postpone the debate and the vote on the draft resolution were rejected. In the Third Committee, a motion put forth by Sierra Leone was defeated by 68-45. In the plenary, a Belgian motion was rejected by 67-55, with fifteen abstentions and five absences.

 

It is likely that a resolute and coordinated effort by the United States, Canada, Australia, Western Europe, and Latin American and African countries could have mustered the additional votes necessary to secure a postponement (see Table 1). But this did not occur, probably, on the one hand, out of relief that the most ominous threat, Israel’s expulsion from the United Nations, had been foiled, and on the other, out of the inner conviction that this farfetched, aberrant, and shameful resolution from “Um-shmum” – a play on words coined by David Ben-Gurion to express the UN’s impotency -would actually have no palpable weight and the UN would do its best to forget it.

 

Table 1: Voting Patterns on Resolution 3379 by Blocs

UN Body

Third Committee

Third Committee

Assembly Plenum

Assembly Plenum

Motions and resolutions

Sierra Leone

postponement

motion

A/C.3/L.2159

Belgium

postponement motion

UNGA

3379(XXX)

Blocs

Y

N

An

As

Y

N

An

As

Y

N

An

As

Y

N

An

As

Western    21

19

1

1

2

19

21

1

19

1

Latin America 26

10

5

7

4

5

8

6

7

17

3

6

5

10

11

Eastern Europe   10

10

9

1

9

1

9

1

Other Communist

countries 5

5

5

5

5

Arab

League   20

20

20

20

20

Muslim Countries 6

5

1

5

1

6

6

African  38

13

16

4

5

17

2

14

5

13

18

3

4

20

5

12

1

Middle Eastern    5

4

1

4

1

4

1

4

1

Asians   11

3

2

5

1

3

6

2

4

2

5

2

1

8

Total    142

45

68

16

13

70

29

27

16

55

67

15

5

72

35

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Note: Y=Yes; N=No; An=Abstain; 4 As=Absent.

Source: Yohanan Manor, To Right a Wrong (New York: Shengold, 1996), 56.

The Jewish World’s Passive Posture

Except for the African American lawyer Eleanor Holmes-Norton’s statement[8] days after the resolution’s adoption that “an international committee of women had been set up to annul [it],” there was no other attempt, not even an Israeli or Jewish one, to act for its revocation. Instead, the Israeli and Jewish world viewed the resolution with disdain. For instance, soon after the adoption Rabbi Israel Miller, then chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, was told by the Israeli embassy to “ignore the whole issue, since it was nonsense.”[9] Israel expected that this nonsense would go away by itself and that disregard would achieve this result. This position, which was maintained for almost a decade, was itself sheer nonsense.

 

During 1976-1984 the “Zionism is racism” resolution was reiterated time and again, sometimes by even larger majorities (see Table 2). In 1980, at the United Nations’ Second World Conference on Women in Copenhagen, the notion of eliminating Zionism was for the first time included in an operative document, “The Program of Action for the Second Half of the UN Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace.” This meant that the administrative units of the UN secretary-general, notably the Office of Public Information, would have to include the defamation of Zionism in their activities.

Table 2: Resolutions on 3379 Adopted by International Bodies, 1976-1984

Year

International body

Venue

Direct/

Indirect

Yes

No

An

1976

UN Conference on Human Settlement

Vancouver

Indirect

89

15

10

 1978

UN World Conference to Combat Racism

Geneva

Indirect

67

18

18

1979

UNGA

“Inadmissibility of hegemonism”

New York

Direct

111

4

26

1979

Non-Aligned Movement

Havana

Direct

1980

UN World Conference on Women

Copenhagen

Direct

94

4

22

1980

International Youth and Student Movement for the UN

Geneva

Direct

34

3

1981

Non-Alignment Movement

New Delhi

Direct

1981

OAU, African Charter of Human Rights

Banjul

Direct

1982

UNGA on “Living conditions of the Palestinian people”

New York

Indirect

145

2

3

1982

UNESCO Conference on Cultural Policies

Mexico

Direct

45

29

75

1983

UN World Conference to Combat Racism

Geneva

Indirect

87

15

16

1983

UN-sponsored Conference on Palestine

Geneva

Indirect

1983

Non-Aligned Movement Summit

New Delhi

Direct

1984

International Parliamentary Union

Geneva

Direct

677

137

241

Source: Yohanan Manor, To Right a Wrong (New York: Shengold, 1996), 63.

 

After the resolution’s adoption, Zionism began to assume “mythical proportions in international discourse as a global cause of most world problems.” This trend was not confined to Arab-Muslim countries and the Third World; it also substantially penetrated Western circles, especially universities. For instance, in Britain in 1976 and 1977, eight student unions adopted “Zionism is racism” resolutions, openly flouting previously held policies not to deal with the Middle East.[10] Subsequently several student unions, such as those at the University of York and the University of Salford, decided to strike Jewish societies from their registers and to restrict their activities.

 

Some U.S. universities refused to invite lecturers recommended by Jewish organizations on the ground that most Jews were Zionists and, as Zionism was racism, Jews were racists. At the University of California at Riverside, Arab students prevented Jews from attending a program on racism on the ground that “Zionism is a form of racism.”[11]

 

The trend began to burgeon and win increasing academic sanction. In September 1983 at the Stony Brook campus of the State University of New York, Ernest Dube, a professor in the African Studies Department included Zionism in a course on “The Politics of Race” as one of the three forms of racism, the two other being apartheid and Nazism. One of the research subjects he proposed to his students was “Zionism is as much racism as Nazism,” and he defended this formulation by evoking Resolution 3379.

 

In Canada, a Jewish group asking to join Québec contre Racisme, an organization set up by Yvon Charbonneau, president of the teachers’ trade union of Quebec, was denied entry unless it renounced Zionism. In 1982, the general student organization of Ontario condemned Israel’s operation in Lebanonstressing that “The state of Israel is Zionism, Zionism is racism,” and decided not to admit Jewish student groups to its ranks. That same year the student federation at Ottawa University decided to prevent the Jewish students’ organization from meeting on the campus on the ground that Zionism was racism.[12]

 

During this period the vilification of Zionism turned into a permanent feature of international life. That Zionism was a metaphor for universal evil became part of “common knowledge,” accepted or at least not contradicted by almost the entire international body politic. This was not anticipated when Resolution 3379 was adopted, and it came not instead of but in addition to the consequences that were expected, placing Israel beyond the pale and giving anti-Semitism international sanction. During 1969-1972 there were four anti-Israeli resolutions per year at the United Nations. During 1973-1978 this number grew to sixteen per annum, and in 1982 it reached a peak of forty-four.[13]

 

The vilification of Zionism was not merely a second-best strategy to the one aiming to expel Israel from the United Nations altogether. In a sense it was even worse. Although Israel’s formal membership in the UN was indeed maintained, it was increasingly deprived of its basic rights as a member state. As explained by Jeane Kirkpatrick, the U.S. ambassador to the UN from 1981 to 1985, this involved “denying membership by denying participation,”[14] thereby instilling Israel’s illegitimacy by placing it in a state of growing irrelevancy

 

As noted by the Israeli academic Ehud Sprinzak, this meant Israel lost “the right to speak or debate in certain forums.” For him, labeling Zionism as racism was much more than an attack on particular policies of the Israeli government; it signified that “every war Israel has ever fought, including the War of Independence and the Six Day War, has been a racist war. Every military response to Arab terror has been a racist response. And of course every domestic law …is a racist one.”[15]

 

Nevertheless, official Israel did not regard the huge and mounting damage inflicted by “Zionism is racism” as sufficient reason to openly fight the resolution and act to overturn it. The Israeli Foreign Ministry often used two arguments to justify this inertia: that initiating action would be counterproductive since the “automatic majority” at the disposal of the Soviet Union and the Arab-Muslim states would result in reiterations; and that it was formally impossible to overturn a General Assembly resolution as there was no such precedent.

 

An Urgent Need to Act

By now, however, it was clear that reiteration by other international bodies had been an inevitable consequence from the start, and that the resolution constituted the global legal and political foundation for turning the Jewish state into an illegitimate one. Thus it came to be acknowledged, even by official Israel, that the resolution needed to be fought in itself directly, and not as merely another expression of anti-Semitism.

 

The question, at this point, was how? A central body was needed to direct this struggle. It took the form of the Steering Committee against the Zionism Is Racism Resolution, set up jointly by the World Zionist Organization and the Israeli Foreign Ministry. It was crucial to seek to overcome the so-called automatic UN majority, namely, by at least preventing reiterations and, more essentially, by undermining the validity and legitimacy of the resolution.

 

A first success was scored in neutralizing a Kuwaiti initiative seeking to obtain a reiteration of the resolution by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at its annual session in September 1984 in Geneva. This was achieved by mobilizing both Israeli parties and Jewish communities worldwide to use their links with the political parties of delegates to the IPU to defeat the Kuwaiti initiative.[16]

 

The real challenge, however, was to find ways to undermine the validity and legitimacy of the resolution and divest it of any moral value. This was achieved mainly through a long series of international, national, and regional conferences in Israel, the United States, Europe, and Latin America, an international petition to the United Nations signed by over a thousand worldwide personalities calling on it to “disavow the abusive Resolution 3379 and rededicate itself to its founding charter,” and by parliamentary resolutions in the same spirit.

 

The first of these was a “Sense of the Congress resolution” adopted by the U.S. Senate in July 1985. Senate Joint Resolution 98 “formally repudiates UNGA Resolution 3379 and calls upon the Parliaments of all countries which value freedom and democracy to do the same.”

 

This draft resolution also needed to be adopted by the House of Representatives, and was, several weeks later. It proved decisive in preventing the reiteration of 3379 at the Nairobi Conference closing the UN Decade for Women. Ambassador Alan Keyes, chief adviser to the U.S. delegation, included references to the Senate resolution in his statements and received clear instructions from Washington that Zionism was not to be included in any paragraph of the final document to be adopted by the conference; if this occurred the U.S. delegation was to leave.

 

All this demonstrated that fighting Resolution 3379 directly could prevent its reiteration and that its abrogation was not a mission impossible but, rather, an attainable goal, albeit still very difficult. Although the Israeli Foreign Ministry began to count the prospective votes in the General Assembly, there was still a very long way to go.

 

At the initiative of the local Zionist Federation, the Australian government was convinced to table before the Australian parliament a remarkable resolution proclaiming that 3379 was inconsistent with the United Nations’ goals and recommending that “the Government of Australia lend support to efforts to overturn Resolution 3379 (XXX) in the UN.” Moreover, the Australian government further involved itself by checking what would be the position of each of the Asian countries. The results, however, were extremely disappointing.

 

Only a few other parliamentary resolutions were passed. These were in Peru (1987), the European Parliament (1987), and Uruguay (1988). Their wording was far less committing then the Australian and American ones. Most of the democratic countries remained uninvolved.

How the Repeal Was Achieved

It would take another five years to overturn “Zionism is racism.” The repeal was finally achieved not only thanks to the end of the Cold War, but first and foremost because the United States took the lead in this endeavor. This active involvement resulted from unabated pressure on the administration by Congress and American Jewish organizations. The U.S. administration put this issue even higher on its agenda than it was on Israel’s.

 

In his address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on 14 May 1989, Secretary of State James Baker called on the Arab countries to take measures to advance the peace process, end the economic boycott of Israel, and “repudiate the odious line that ‘Zionism is racism.’”[17] He thereby put the onus on the Arab states to show that they were serious about the peace process, while linking the peace process to the repeal.

 

At Yeshiva University on International Human Rights Day on 11 December 1989, Vice-President Dan Quayle did not link the repeal to the peace process but rather to the renewal of the United Nations. Referring to a UN General Assembly resolution cosponsored by the United States and the Soviet Union and calling on all UN members to respect the principles set forth in the UN Charter, Quayle made a resounding statement:

 

I call on the Soviet Union and other nations to join us in cosponsoring a second resolution in the General Assembly. That resolution will affirm that Zionism is what Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko rightly called it back in 1948: the National Liberation Movement of the Jewish people. This resolution would state that Zionism is not and never has been a form of racism, and would have the Zionism-is-Racism declared null and void. And this resolution would promote, and not set back the prospects for peace by focusing on the real issues in dispute, not on Israel’s right to exist.[18]

 

The official Soviet reaction was extremely disappointing, as the regime still clung to its traditional anti-Zionist stance. What was more surprising was the lukewarm response from many Western democracies, which held that the repeal was impossible without a breakthrough in the Middle East peace process. For instance, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher reacted skeptically to Quayle’s appeal by arguing that the necessary majority would be secured only if the repeal offered some substantial quid pro quo to the Arab side.[19] Actually, the democracies did not even make such an attempt.

 

On 30 March 1990, a public hearing in the Senate chaired by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan adopted a joint resolution calling on UN member states to repeal the “Zionism is racism” resolution and requesting the U.S. president to report periodically on progress toward repeal. John Bolton, representing the State Department, gave an optimistic assessment of the prospects for an overturn.[20] Moynihan, however, was infuriated by Bolton’s apparent self-satisfaction and criticized the State Department for its lack of energy in fighting the resolution, saying he wanted to see more action.

 

Moynihan went on to say: “The West imposed no consequences of any kind on those nations that associated themselves with this filthy proposition of the Soviet Union. I want to see the US cut assistance to countries which supported the resolution. How many of them received and are still receiving US aid?” Bolton replied that of the seventy-two that had voted in favor of the resolution, a clear majority were at that point receiving U.S. aid, and probably still did. Moynihan then asked him: “Did we ever tell one country, just one country, that you are getting American money, and you are not getting it any more until you change your mind?” On the defensive, Bolton answered: “I don’t know that any country’s ever been told that, Senator, but if I could leave one message with the committee here today, it is that the Bush Administration is most serious about having this resolution repealed.”[21]

 

Joint Resolution 246 was not only adopted by the Senate and House but also officially endorsed by President George H. W. Bush. However, Bush still found it appropriate to add a paragraph on the United States’ “determination to pursue efforts toward a comprehensive, just and lasting Middle East peace. In our view this peace must be achieved on the basis of UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, and the principle of territories for peace. It must provide for Israel’s security and recognition and for Palestinian political rights….”[22] Several weeks after Bush’s endorsement of 246, the troika then heading the European Union made a commitment to act for the repeal of “Zionism is racism.”

 

In mid-August 1990, the projected General Assembly vote for a repeal stood at 60-60 with forty abstentions. In mid-September, it was decided to postpone the repeal initiative. The U.S. press claimed this was an American decision aimed at preserving Arab support for sanctions against Iraq. Yohanan Bein, then deputy director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, was in charge of the issue of repealing the resolution. He claimed the postponement was an Israeli decision based on evaluation of how much support could be obtained.[23]

 

During the summer of 1991, there were once again indications that some were seeking postponement. A first indication came from J. S. Wall, private secretary of UK prime minister John Major, then another from Gareth Evans, Australian minister of trade and foreign affairs; they were concerned that there was not yet a majority in favor of a repeal. But the biggest blow came from the United States, which feared that a motion to defer concocted by Egypt, arguing that the repeal should be delayed until a peace conference opened or the peace process was firmly on track, would easily pass in the General Assembly in September.

 

Although this inclination to postpone probably reflected genuine concern for the repeal’s success, it also manifested tensions between Israel and the United States over the desirable framework for a Middle East peace conference. In June 1991, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir expressed Israel’s reservations over UN participation in such a conference given the world body’s treatment of Israel over the years. Among many other one-sided UN positions, he mentioned Resolution 3379. Shamir never, though, cited the repeal of 3379 as a condition for accepting UN involvement in such a peace conference.

 

At the opening of the UN General Assembly in September 1991, Bush took an unprecedented step and raised the issue of the repeal plainly and directly, without linking it to any other issue. Pointing to the renewed role of the United Nations, which had put in place more peacekeeping missions in the previous thirty-six months than during its first forty-three years, he asserted

We should take seriously the Charter’s pledge to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors.

 

NGA resolution 3379, the so-called Zionism is racism resolution, mocks this pledge and the principles upon which the United Nations was founded. And I call now for its repeal.

 

Zionism is not a policy, it is the idea that led to the creation of a home for the Jewish people, to the State of Israel. And to equate Zionism with the intolerable sin of racism is to twist history and forget the terrible plight of the Jews in World War II, and indeed throughout history. To equate Zionism with racism, is to reject Israel itself, a member of good standing of the United Nations. This body cannot claim to seek peace and at the same time challenge Israel’s right to exist. By repealing this resolution unconditionally, the United Nations will enhance its credibility and serve the cause of peace.[24]

 

From then on there was a massive U.S. investment in the repeal endeavor.  Undoubtedly arm-twisting was used in the spirit of Moynihan’s exhortations. President Bush gave “unprecedented instructions to all his ambassadors [to warn] countries that failure to vote for revoking the resolution could affect their ties with the US.”[25] Finally, the draft resolution for a repeal was sponsored by eighty-six states and passed by 111-25 with thirteen abstentions.  

 

Unfortunately, the revocation of the “Zionism is racism” resolution was not exploited for political and diplomatic advantage by Israel and its supporters. Perhaps the sole, tardy exception was the initiating of a research on the overturn, which was to become this author’s book To Right a Wrong. It was donated to the libraries of more than 1,200 universities, mostly in the United States.

 

Israel’s Legitimacy Today

Since the overturn of Resolution 3379 more than eighteen years ago, two opposite trends have occurred. On the one hand, Israel’s legitimacy has been strengthened; on the other, there are ongoing attempts to undermine that legitimacy.

 

On the positive side, there has been an improvement of Israel’s international standing, notably at the United Nations where it has ceased to be a pariah state, regained full membership, and fully takes part in all activities at all levels and in all the specialized agencies. This represents a  complete departure from Jeane Kirkpatrick’s diagnosis of “denying membership by denying participation.”

 

Moreover, in 2005 the General Assembly unanimously supported the establishment of an annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the UN Holocaust Education Program was established. In January 2007, the United Nations adopted a resolution condemning any denial of the Holocaust, which it characterized as “tantamount to approval of genocide in all its forms.”

 

Progress regarding the condemnation of anti-Semitism was less clear-cut. Soon after the repeal of 3379, for the first time in the history of the United Nations, anti-Semitism was condemned in March 1994 by an official UN body. The fifty member states of the UN Human Rights Commission passed a resolution on “Measures to combat contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.” It referred explicitly to anti-Semitism both in its introduction and its operative paragraph, and it

requests the special rapporteur to examine according to this mandate incidents of contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, any form of discrimination against blacks, Arabs and Muslims, xenophobia, negrophobia, anti-Semitism and related intolerance as well as governmental measures to overcome them, and to report on these matters to the commission at the fifty-first session.[26]

 

In December 2003, a General Assembly draft resolution on anti-Semitism was withdrawn under the pressure of the Arab-Muslim bloc. This effectively canceled a deal whereby Israel would drop efforts to include anti-Semitism in a draft resolution on religious intolerance in exchange for Ireland’s commitment to introduce a new resolution specifically on anti-Semitism.  In “compensation,” on 21 June 2004 a seminar on anti-Semitism was held at the United Nations in New York. But again, in August that year, Arab states vehemently opposed the introduction of a draft resolution on anti-Semitism to be adopted by the General Assembly.

 

In addition to this persistent reluctance to openly condemn anti-Semitism, UN bodies have adopted a series of anti-Israeli positions. Examples include the advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that “the construction by Israel of a wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and its associated régime are contrary to international law”; the positions expressed by the two Durban conferences in 2001 and 2009; the large number of anti-Israeli resolutions adopted since 2006 by the UN Human Rights Council, which replaced the discredited UN Human Rights Commission; and the Goldstone report.

 

Regarding the advisory opinion of the ICJ, Israel could probably have obtained a more objective and balanced one if it had cooperated with the court and presented the position taken by Israel’s High Court of Justice on this issue.

 

At Durban I, much of the hatred against Jews and Israel was manifested in the six-day NGO forum that was attended by six thousand representatives of about two thousand NGOs; the attacks on Jews were no less virulent than those on globalization. As for the official conference, its final report expressed concern about “the plight of the Palestinian people under occupation,” recognized “the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and to the establishment of an independent State,” and recognized “the right to security for all the States in the region, including Israel.”

 

Although European countries and a few others blunted the more extreme anti-Israeli language introduced by Arab countries and Iran, in the end these European and other countries agreed to single out Israel albeit in more moderate and balanced terms. In addition, all states were called upon to counter anti-Semitism and the Durban I final report declared that “the Holocaust must never be forgotten.”

 

At Durban II, despite a statement by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, that “all disputed points such as reference to Israel, Zionism and Middle East had been deleted from the [conference’s final] declaration,”[27] nine countries decided to boycott the conference and twenty-three sent only low-level representatives. When Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the floor, most of the European delegations left the hall.

 

As for the UN Human Right Council, the twenty-seven resolutions it has adopted since 2006 have addressed four issues: human rights in Palestine (nineteen), human rights in Lebanon (three), human rights on the Golan Heights (three), and the council’s general mandate (two). In other words, they focused predominantly on the Arab-Israeli conflict and were always sponsored by the Arab-Muslim groups, which represent over 30 percent of UN members.

 

Thus, not surprisingly, Israel’s enemies, notably Arab and Muslim counties, are still using the United Nations to condemn Israel and undermine its legitimacy. This is, however, becoming more and more difficult for them and is actually largely confined to the sphere of the Human Rights Council.

 

Countering the Delegitimators

The bulk of the efforts to undermine Israel’s legitimacy do not come presently from the United Nations, but first and foremost from a coalition of NGOs that are functioning as the spearhead of an anti-Israeli network. This development was recently noted by the Reut Institute (Tel Aviv) in its report on the “Challenge of Delegitimization.”[28] It provides a preliminary analysis of this network’s components, differentiating between those genuinely criticizing Israel’s policies and the “delegitimators” who seek exclusively to ruin Israel’s legitimacy and bring an end to the Jewish state. Although the latter are presently using the Palestinian issue to achieve their aim, they are not dependent on it and even a settlement of the conflict would not put an end to their endeavor. The report contends that “It takes a network to fight a network” and indicates ways to create and operate such a complex.

 

The Reut Institute has rightly drawn attention to what seems today the most active factor in attacking Israel’s legitimacy. One of the lessons of Resolution 3379 should indeed be kept in mind: not to disregard what may be perceived as a less serious or even innocuous threat compared to a more serious one that had been foiled. In this case, the defeat of the attempt to expel Israel from the United Nations enabled “the planes to fly under the radar.” It is vital not to disregard and underestimate threats to one’s existence.

 

It is, however, not certain that Reut’s operative conclusion, “It takes a network to fight a network” is the supreme answer to the delegitimization endeavor. There is also still much room for exploiting successes in the United Nations and using them both to bolster Israel’s legitimacy and undermine that of the delegitimators.

 

In this spirit, Israel and the Jewish people should use all the existing means at their disposal, such as the repeal of 3379, the 1994 instructions to the special rapporteur on racism, and the 2005 establishment of the UN Holocaust Remembrance Day and Holocaust Education Program. Amazingly, the revocation of 3379 is seemingly not mentioned in Israeli textbooks whereas it is mentioned in Palestinian textbooks![29] The directive to the special rapporteur to review anti-Semitic deeds seems to have been utilized by Israel only for the first year. After that it seems that Israel did not provide him with adequate and reliable data on anti-Semitism.

 

By contrast, a British MP, Louise Ellman, provided a good example of how existing instruments can be used. On 28 January 2010, in the House of Commons, she took advantage of a session dedicated to Holocaust Remembrance Day to emphasize Hamas’s explicit aim of liberating all of Palestine and eliminating its Jews, quoting excerpts from a report on Hamas’s online magazine for children, Al-Fateh.[30]

 

In addition to exploiting successes, it is important to strive to bring about additional UN resolutions. These should include, among other things, the formal condemnation of anti-Semitism and the adoption of UN educational instruments to recognize and combat it.

 

All this is achievable despite the so-called automatic majority, which for too long has been a cheap pretext for inaction. As proved clearly by the voting results for the two 1975 attempts to postpone a debate and vote on Resolution 3379, even in those days the automatic majority was not so automatic, and it is even less so nowadays. Pertinent here is the 1985 observation by James Jonah, then assistant UN secretary-general, that the majority of the UN member states were moderate but tended to adopt extreme positions for lack of alternative leadership, whereas, with proper leadership, moderation could have taken the upper hand.[31] It is still not too late to promote, or assume, such proper leadership.

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Notes

[1] “Haseif leginui Haantishemiut Behatzaat Haamana Lebeur Kol Tsurot Haaflaia Hagizit” (The Paragraph to Condemn Anti-Semitism in the Draft Convention to Eradicate All Forms of Racial Discrimination), top-secret report by Meir Rosenne, New York, 25 October 1965, p. 1, CZA (Central Zionist Archives) S110/12. [Hebrew]
[2] Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan noted that the Soviet side had not yet been properly researched and recommended scholarly investigation “to discover and reveal the origins and the motivations of the lie.” See Daniel Patrick Moynihan, “Z=R, Plus 9,” address to the study day “Refuting the Zionism Is Racism Equation,” President’s Residence, Jerusalem, 11 November 1984, p. 3, CZA/S110/40.
[3] Plenary Meetings, Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirtieth Session.
[4] Resolution 3151 (XXVIII), Section G, 14 December 1973.
[5] Final Declaration of the “Conference on the Equality of Women and Their Contribution to Development and Peace,” Mexico City, 2 July 1975.
[6] S.J. (Senate Joint) Resolution  98, adopted on 18 July 1975.<
[7] Tape-recording of the study day “Refuting the Zionism Is Racism Equation,” President’s Residence, Jerusalem, 11 November 1984, CZA/S110/40.
[8] The statement was made at a press conference at the UN press club several days after the resolution was adopted. Eleanor Holmes Norton was then heading the Human Rights Committee of New York. She is presently the District of Columbia’s nonvoting representative to the U.S. Congress.
[9] Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Suzanne Weaver, A Dangerous Place (London: Secker & Warburg, 1979), p. 180.
[10] Ann Hubert and Peter Wallison, “Zionism, Racism, and Free Speech,” Commentary, October 1978, 72; “Anti-Zionism at British Universities,” Patterns of Prejudice, July-August 1977, pp. 1-3.
[11] Ruth Raeli, The Implications of Resolution 3379 on Zionism, World Zionist Organization, Information Department, Research Division, May 1986, p. 45, CZA/S110/48.
[12] Ibid., pp. 45-46.
[13] Michael Curtis, “The United Nations, Zionism and Racism,” Global Affairs, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 1986), p. 20.
[14] Jeane Kirkpatrick, address to the conference on “Z-R: An Assault on Human Rights,” cosponsored by the BBI, the WJC, and the WZO, Washington, 10 December 1984, CZA/S110/26.
[15] Ehud Sprinzak, “Anti-Zionism: From Delegitimization to Dehumanization,” Forum, 53 (1985), p. 5. In this article Sprinzak pointed to three major types of damage inflicted by Resolution 3379. The first was political: the harassment, isolation, and delegitimization of Israel. The second was cultural-symbolic: the introduction and activation of anti-Semitic stereotypes; the resolution had broken a taboo and provided a new justification for Jew-hatred. Third, there was psychopersonal damage: the tendency among Jews to feel unease over Zionism and Israel, fostering a restoration of the anxiety toward Zionism that Jews had felt before Israel’s establishment.
[16] The draft resolution tabled by Kuwait stressed that the Israeli military, legislative, and administrative measures designed to prevent Palestinians from implementing the right of return constituted “a crime against humanity” (paragraph 12). A memorandum attached to this draft resolution claimed that the “Jews were never planning to establish a national homeland for themselves…since its inception the Zionist movement was characterized by ethnic and racial discrimination based on the theory of the chosen people of God which is instilled in the mind of every Zionist.”
[17] Near East Report, 9 May 1989, 87. See: www.wrmea.com/backissues/0789/8907007.htm.
[18] US Information Agency (USIS), Wireless File, 11 December 1989
[19] JTA, 8 March 1990.
[20] US Information Service (USIS), Official Text, “Text of Senate Testimony by John Bolton,” Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, 2 April 1990.
[21] USIS, News Report, “Moynihan Links Aid Cutoff to Zionism Is Racism View,” Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, 2 April 1990. Moynihan added that he was awaiting the responses for a list of aid recipients and wondered whether these countries understood that their aid was in jeopardy: “We don’t like that resolution one damn bit…. Do they know that we don’t like it?” Bolton replied: “We are making it abundantly clear in our consultations in capitals.”
[22] The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, 29 June 1990.
[23] Jerusalem Post, 18 September 1990.
[24] President Bush’s address to the UN General Assembly, New York, 23 September 1991. See: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=20012.
[25] William Harrop, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, disclosed the existence of these unprecedented instructions.  Jerusalem Post, 29 July 1991.
[26] It was sponsored by Turkey with the support of Canada, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Russia, Sweden, and the UK. The reference in the introduction was adopted by thirty-four votes with seventeen abstentions, while the operative paragraph was adopted by fifty-one votes with two abstentions.
[27] Deutsche Welle, 17 April 2009.
[28] This report was submitted to the Israeli cabinet on 11 February 2010. See: http://reut-institute.org/en/Publication.aspx?PublicationId=3766.
[29] Modern and Contemporary History of Palestine, Grade 11, Part 2 (2008), 71; History of the Arabs and the World in the Twentieth Century, Grade 12 (2009), 120-121. [Arabic]
[30] A report issued in 2009 by IMPACT-SE, the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education. See: http://www.impact-se.org/.
[31] Yohanan Manor, The UN and Zionism According to James Jonah, 31 March 1985, CZA/S110/16. [Hebrew]

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Dr. Yohanan Manor

Dr. Yohanan Manor is a co-founder of IMPACT-SE and was the Board Chairman from 2005 to 2011. He is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) and received his Ph.D. at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques for his thesis on “Palestine in the Foreign Policy of Gamal Abd El Nasser.” He was a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Political Science Department (1970-1984) and coordinator of the campaign (1984-1991) that brought about the revocation of the UN General Assembly resolution equating Zionism with racism.

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Children Soldiers


Kosher Kockney-tweet-1December2023-Askar-UNRWA
A must watch, and a must share.
Mind-blowing.
Comment and let me know your thoughts.

Honestly, if there is one video you should watch today. This is the one.

UNRWA – Askar (2023) a short but extremely revealing video by David Bedein.

UNRWA have created a Palestinian terrorism education system. UNRWA school and “refugee camp” where they breed terror.

It’ll take 7 minutes 55 seconds of your time.
Grab a coffee (or a cigarette, you’ll probably need one)

This is proof that the UN must be completely dissolved and all it’s staff members fully investigated.

I am stunned.

Kosher Kockney-tweet-1December2023- Askar-UNRWA

Kosher Kockney-tweet-1December2023- Askar-UNRWA

Askar-UNRWA Cradle of Killers – Summer 2023

 


Kosher Kockney-tweet-4December2023-UNRWA’s Child Soldiers
UNRWA’s Child Soldiers .
A must watch and a must share.
Take 12 minutes to watch this.
Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

Hamas & Islamic Jihad Military Summer camp for UNRWA students.

How on earth can UNRWA be getting away with all this?

UNRWA schools send their students to a Hamas terrorism training camp:

“This summer, armed operatives (Hamas) signed up tens of thousands of UNRWA students ages 10 to 17”

“UNRWA youngsters learned to view the United States and Israel as the Devil”

Quotes from the children:

“Purify it of the Jews” – UNRWA school child talking about “Palestine”

“We’ll die as Martyrs” – UNRWA school child

“The Jews will not remain on this land, I say to the Jews: go back to where you came from. Get out of here before we annihilate you” – UNRWA school child

We need to pressure our governments and leaders to stop funding UNRWA immediately.

Film produced by the Bedein Center

Kosher Kockney-tweet-4December2023-UNRWA's Child Soldiers

Kosher Kockney-tweet-4December2023-UNRWA’s Child Soldiers

UNRWA’s Child Soldiers

 


Aviva Klompas-tweet-23November2023-Children Soldiers
When you read that children were killed in Gaza fighting Israel – remember that some of these “children” were handed guns and sent to fight while Hamas hid in their tunnels.

Aviva Klompas-tweet-23November2023-Children Soldiers

Aviva Klompas-tweet-23November2023-Children Soldiers

 

 

Children raised in a culture of Martyrdom and Death


Ali Adi-tweet-6July2024-Children raised in a culture of Martyrdom and Death
“Trying to attack armed police officers with knives? I bet they didn’t think that through, huh”.

No, they did.

That’s we were trying to tell the west for decades. The western minds refuse to comprehend this: DEATH is their objective. They want to die. They send children to die because it looks “tastier” in the media… “Look at those evil armed men, can’t they see it’s just two small kids?”

This concludes the whole Palestinian frame of work, including the latest war.

I see too many English comments laughing at how Gazans didn’t “think this through” or that they’re finding out the consequences of their actions (October 7th).

But it was all planned. The war is a desired outcome for the Palestinians. The deaths, the more is the merrier for them.

Their own death is their weapon. They think it’ll make Israel look like a merciless aggressor in the world’s eyes, but in reality, people remember who started the war and how.

I’ll leave you with a horrific thought: If someone WANTS his children to die, it’s logical to assume that he’ll not only do nothing to protect them, but also expose them intentionally to danger.

Don’t believe them when they cry for their losses on cameras.

Ali Adi-tweet-6July2024-Children raised in a culture of Martyrdom and Death

Ali Adi-tweet-6July2024-Children raised in a culture of Martyrdom and Death

 

 

 

UNRWA class field trip.


The Mossad: Satirical, Yet Awesome-tweet-16June2024-Learn to steal Cars at UNRWA
Today’s educational enrichment for Palestinian children comes from the town of Tulkaram. [EDD: PA Controlled Area]

Riding on top of a stolen Israeli car with plastic weapons and Islamic Jihad headbands.

These kids are going places.

The Mossad Satirical, Yet Awesome-tweet-16June2024-Learn to steal Cars at UNRWA

The Mossad Satirical, Yet Awesome-tweet-16June2024-Learn to steal Cars at UNRWA

 

 

 


Alon Lavi-tweet-12December2023-Gaza is a dangerous place for children from Hamas
Gaza is a dangerous place for children, any place controlled by a terror organization like Hamas=ISIS will be.
A call to @UNICEF and @unicefchief to stop Hamas and make Gaza a better place.

Alon Lavi-tweet-12December2023-Gaza is a dangerous place for children from Hamas

Alon Lavi-tweet-12December2023-Gaza is a dangerous place for children from Hamas

 

Kindergarten graduation ceremony in Gaza


Visegrád 24-tweet-27November2023-Kindergarten graduation ceremony in Gaza
Kindergarten graduation ceremony in Gaza.

To be allowed to start elementary school, it seems like Palestinian kids need to prove that they know how to fire off a couple of mortar rounds, take some hostages and storm a building.

Hamas must be vanquished for good

Visegrád 24-tweet-27November2023-Kindergarten graduation ceremony in Gaza

Visegrád 24-tweet-27November2023-Kindergarten graduation ceremony in Gaza

 


leekern-tweet-3December2023-THIS IS THE CAUSE OF THE CONFLICT
THIS IS THE CAUSE OF THE CONFLICT. Palestinian society conditions their children to become violent racist sociopaths. That’s how they created monsters who cut the heads off babies whilst yelling Allahu Akbar on October 7th. If you want peace: call this out

leekern-tweet-3December2023-THIS IS THE CAUSE OF THE CONFLICT

leekern-tweet-3December2023-THIS IS THE CAUSE OF THE CONFLICT

 

 

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From the 2014 Gaza War Operation Protective Edge: מִבְצָע צוּק אֵיתָן, Israel Deserves an Apology

New map confirms: the Shuja’iya neighborhood is a terrorist stronghold where Hamas uses residents as human shields. pic.twitter.com/NVTPEbydq4

New map confirms: the Shuja’iya neighborhood is a terrorist stronghold where Hamas uses residents as human shields. pic.twitter.com/NVTPEbydq4

Elder of Ziyon logo http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/

Elder of Ziyon logo http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/

We were ordered to close all חלון תריסים (Window Shutters) at night. Arab Snipers?

UNRWA incitement

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) employees are constantly on Facebook inciting the Arabs to kill Jews. Here is just one example. http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2015/10/unrwa-teacher-wants-her-kids-to-die-for.html#.VihIr6fhlTA 20October2015

UNRWA teacher Hiba Yassin's Facebook page:"The #intifada of Ramadan" (meaning July 2014. Yes, UNRWA teachers were calling for a new intifada last year too,)

UNRWA teacher Hiba Yassin’s Facebook page:”The #intifada of Ramadan” (meaning July 2014. Yes, UNRWA teachers were calling for a new intifada last year too,)

This is an ongoing battle with UNRWA and the UN on what they claim to do and the reality.

UNRWA suspends employees after UN Watch exposed incitement to anti-Semitic violence

22october2015 http://www.unwatch.org/unrwa-suspends-employees-after-un-watch-exposed-incitement-to-anti-semitic-violence/

‍‍י״ד מרחשון תשע״ו – 2015/10/26  Another disgusting incitement cartoon on @UNRWA teacher page

‍‍י״ה מרחשון תשע״ו – 2015/10/27  .@UNRWA uses Hamas human shield victim for fundraising and demonizing Israel

ט״ו מרחשון תשע״ו- 2015/10/28 .@UNRWA teacher posts “Stab the Jews” video

UNRWA teacher Najlaa Nojom lives in Bethlehem.
She recently shared this video, glorifying stabbing Jews, on her Facebook timeline.

‍‍ל׳ מרחשון תשע״ו – 2015/11/12 Elder gets results – and @UNRWA teachers are angry that they cannot post incitement and Jew-hatred

…It should be noted that some of the most influential leaders of the Palestinian resistance were teachers in UNRWA schools who were able to perform their work without any restrictions on political freedom, and they are active politically.

 


Dr. Einat Wilf-tweet-12March2024-UNRWA is all about serving Palestinians until Return
Just listen to Palestinians:
This sign at the entrance to a “refugee camp” near Bethlehem says it all (why on earth are Palestinians “refugees” under the Palestinian Authority?!?):
UNRWA is all about serving Palestinians until “Return”
(reminder that Oct 7 is what “return” is).

Dr. Einat Wilf-tweet-12March2024-UNRWA is all about serving Palestinians until Return

Dr. Einat Wilf-tweet-12March2024-UNRWA is all about serving Palestinians until Return

 

This sign at the entrance to a “refugee camp” near Bethlehem says it all (why on earth are Palestinians “refugees” under the Palestinian Authority?!?): UNRWA is all about serving Palestinians until “Return” (reminder that Oct 7 is what “return” is).

This sign at the entrance to a “refugee camp” near Bethlehem says it all (why on earth are Palestinians “refugees” under the Palestinian Authority?!?):
UNRWA is all about serving Palestinians until “Return”
(reminder that Oct 7 is what “return” is).

 

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UNRWA’S TERRORGRAM – HOW A TELEGRAM GROUP OF 3,000 UNRWA TEACHERS IN GAZA CELEBRATED THE OCTOBER 7TH HAMAS MASSACRE


Hillel Neuer-tweet-28January2024-UNRWA Telegram group
Just a few bad apples?

Here is our saved copy of the UNRWA Telegram group of 3,000 UNRWA teachers: https://groupchat.unwatch.org

There are 249,000 messages, replete with celebrations of Hamas terrorism: https://unwatch.org/unrwa-terrorgram/

There is not one case where an UNRWA teacher objected.

Hillel Neuer-tweet-28January2024-UNRWA Telegram group

Hillel Neuer-tweet-28January2024-UNRWA Telegram group

 

Click to download PDF file Click to Download the file UN Watch-UNRWA Terrorgram

 

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UN finds out that UNRWA staff ties to Hamas terrorism


Hillel Neuer-tweet-28January2024-UNRWA staff ties to Hamas terrorism
1/ UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said he was “horrified” to learn of UNRWA staff ties to Hamas terrorism.

That’s odd.

September 3, 2015: UN Watch Report: UNRWA Officials Operating 12 Separate Facebook Accounts Inciting Terrorism

https://unwatch.org/images-of-unrwa-incitement-to-antisemitism-violence/

Report: 12 UNRWA-linked Facebook Accounts Incite Terrorism Against Jews

Hillel Neuer-tweet-28January2024-UNRWA staff ties to Hamas terrorism

Hillel Neuer-tweet-28January2024-UNRWA staff ties to Hamas terrorism

 


Hillel Neuer-tweet-7February2024-Seven years ago we sent warnings to UNRWA
Seven years ago, we sent warnings to UNRWA estimating that thousands of their employees were implicated in terrorism.

They did nothing. Worse, UNRWA attacked us.

Last week it was revealed in the WSJ that in Gaza alone, 1,200 UNRWA staffers belong to Hamas or Islamic Jihad.
Hillel Neuer-tweet-7February2024-
Secretary-General Guterres was “horrified” to learn UNRWA staff participated in the Hamas massacre of October 7.

Yet in 2016, UNRWA’s top backer in Canada admitted: “Hamas dominates the UNRWA trade unions and its staff is replete with Hamas supporters.”

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/why-canada-should-restore-funding-for-palestinian-relief-agency/article28781261/

Hillel Neuer-tweet-7February2024-Seven years ago we sent warnings to UNRWA

Hillel Neuer-tweet-7February2024-Seven years ago we sent warnings to UNRWA

 

12,000 UNRWA employees in Gaza, 2,500 are official Hamas operatives


Dr. Eli David-tweet-21February2024-12000 UNRWA employees in Gaza 2500 are official Hamas operatives
🚨 Breaking: New evidence revealed by @kann_news shows that out of 12,000 @UNRWA 🇺🇳 employees in Gaza, 2,500 are official Hamas operatives, out of which 500 in “combat units” (i.e., terrorists whose job is to carry out terror attacks).

@antonioguterres, you there? Resign!

Dr. Eli David-tweet-21February2024-12,000 UNRWA employees in Gaza, 2,500 are official Hamas operatives

Dr. Eli David-tweet-21February2024-12,000 UNRWA employees in Gaza, 2,500 are official Hamas operatives

 


Visegrád 24-tweet-5February2024-unwra terrorist
UNRWA is over

Visegrád 24-tweet-5February2024-unwra terrorist

Visegrád 24-tweet-5February2024-unwra terrorist

 


Eretz Nehederet-tweet-30January2024-We are UNRWA
The @UNWRA trend
@UN @StandWithUs

Eretz Nehederet-tweet-30January2024-We are UNRWA

Eretz Nehederet-tweet-30January2024-We are UNRWA

We are UNRWA [Eretz Nehederet satire]

 


Aizenberg-tweet-20February2024-Israel seized ~$280 million of cash from Hamas safes in Khan Younes
Israel seized ~$280 million of cash from Hamas safes in Khan Younes. This equals 80% of UNRWA’s total annual budget for all activities in Gaza. Yet the lie that Gaza was impoverished continued for decades while Hamas funded tunnels, rockets, RPGs etc. Time for the scam to end.

Aizenberg-tweet-20February2024-Israel seized ~$280 million of cash from Hamas safes in Khan Younes.png

Aizenberg-tweet-20February2024-Israel seized ~$280 million of cash from Hamas safes in Khan Younes.png

 

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UNRWA mourns Hamas Head Yahya Sinwar

The bodyguard of Hamas Head, Yahya Sinwar, was an “UNRWA Teacher”


Dr. Eli David-tweet-17October2024-the bodyguard of Yahya Sinwar UNRWA Teacher
🚨 Breaking: Sinwar’s bodyguard was an “UNRWA 🇺🇳 Teacher”

Dr. Eli David-tweet-17October2024-the bodyguard of Yahya Sinwar-UNRWA Teacher

Dr. Eli David-tweet-17October2024-the bodyguard of Yahya Sinwar-UNRWA Teacher

 

 

All UNRWA accounts added a black stripe to their profile


Leslie Kajomovitz-tweet-17October2024-All UNRWA accounts added black stripe to their profile
UNRWA appears to be mourning the death of Yahya Sinwar. All UNRWA accounts added a black stripe to their profile.

FYI: @HillelNeuer @UNWatch @IsraelinUN @dannydanon @giladerdan1

Leslie Kajomovitz-tweet-17October2024-All UNRWA accounts added black stripe to their profile

Leslie Kajomovitz-tweet-17October2024-All UNRWA accounts added black stripe to their profile

 

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Jihad Watch

UN demands immunity for UNRWA employees complicit in Oct. 7 jihad massacre

22September2024 By https://jihadwatch.org/2024/09/un-demands-immunity-for-unrwa-employees-complicit-in-oct-7-jihad-massacre

 

If the UN were shocked, appalled, and horrified, as it should be, at the prospect of its employees taking part in the Oct. 7 jihad massacre, it would not be demanding immunity for them, but insisting that they be prosecuted. This demonstrates that the UN has no problem with having active and murderous jihadis among its ranks. The United States should withdraw from and defund the UN, and expel it from New York. Of course, that will not happen, as the Biden regime is also full of people who have no problem with UN employees massacring Jews.

 

“UN seeks immunity for UNRWA employees complicit in Oct. 7 massacre – Channel 12 report,” Jerusalem Post, September 22, 2024:

In an official document filed in a US court, the United Nations, with support from the US Department of Justice, has argued that UNRWA employees who were involved in the October 7 massacre are immune from legal action, Israeli broadcaster Channel 12 News reported on Saturday evening.

 

According to the document, UNRWA employees involved in the massacre are shielded from prosecution due to their immunity.

 

“Since the UN has not waived immunity in this instance, its subsidiary, UNRWA, continues to enjoy absolute immunity from prosecution, and the lawsuit should be dismissed,” the UN’s response stated.

 

The US Department of Justice echoed this position. “The plaintiff’s complaint does not present a legal basis for claiming that the United Nations waived its immunity. Therefore, because the UN has not waived immunity in this case, its subsidiary, UNRWA, retains full immunity, and the lawsuit against UNRWA should be dismissed due to lack of subject matter jurisdiction.”

 

Attorney Gaby Meron of the law firm MM-LAW filed the lawsuit accusing UNRWA of complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity and is preparing a formal response to the court, Channel 12 noted in their report.

 

Channel 12 noted that this decision creates a significant legal hurdle for the victims of the massacre and their families, who must demonstrate that the immunity protecting UNRWA employees should be revoked.

 

UNRWA employees have been accused of acts of murder, abduction, and the taking of hostages on October 7.

Based on previous reporting from The Jerusalem Post, Ditza Heiman, who was taken hostage during the October 7 Hamas attacks, was held captive by a UNRWA teacher for 53 days. She reported that her conditions were dire, with minimal food and no access to essential medication despite her health issues, including diabetes and thyroid problems. She described seeing the UNRWA logo on various items during her captivity, highlighting concerns about UNRWA’s involvement in supporting Hamas activities.

 

The controversy surrounding UNRWA’s role is further amplified by the legal battles faced by victims like Heiman and the family of Yonatan Samerano. UNRWA employees are reportedly immune from prosecution due to their UN affiliation, creating significant legal challenges for the victims seeking justice. This immunity has been widely criticized, especially given allegations that UNRWA has indirectly supported Hamas by employing individuals linked to the group and facilitating its operations.​…

 

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Trump administration strips UNRWA of legal immunity in court filing

The pronouncement could have major implications relating to a lawsuit filed by victims’ families of the Hamas-led massacre in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

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(April 25, 2025 / JNS) The U.S. Department of Justice told the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday that the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees has been stripped of its legal immunity.

 

The decision was taken as part of a case filed last year in which families of victims of the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, sued UNRWA for its ties to terrorism. Israel has said that at least 18 UNRWA staff members took part directly in the assault across the Gaza border into southern Israel.

 

The plaintiffs also allege long-term fraud and corruption in handling financial aid routed through UNRWA into the Gaza Strip—$1 billion of which critics say has fallen into the hands of Hamas and other terror groups.

 

“The complaint in this case alleges atrocious crimes committed by Hamas on Oct. 7, and its factual allegations, taken as true, detail how UNRWA played a significant role in those heinous offenses,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York wrote to the U.S. district judge Analisa Torres.

 

“Previously, the government expressed the view that certain immunities shielded UNRWA from having to answer those allegations in American courts,” per the filing. “The government has since re-evaluated that position and now concludes that UNRWA is not immune from this litigation. Nor are the bulk of other defendants.”

 

The claim by the U.S. attorney’s office added that UNRWA is not legally considered an affiliated organ of the United Nations since it was formed and continues to hold its mandate as a result of a resolution by the U.N. General Assembly. The U.S. Justice Department said the General Assembly may have lacked the authority to create the agency.

 

Former President Joe Biden’s administration held that the United Nations and UNRWA were immune from the lawsuit.

 

If found not to have immunity, UNRWA, its leaders and employees—and perhaps the United Nations at large—could be ordered to pay large compensation to victims and their families.

 

Stripping diplomatic immunity from UNRWA might also call into question the future of U.N. headquarters in New York and could impact the Knesset’s decision, effective this past January, to ban UNRWA from operating within Israeli territory.

 

The office of António Guterres, the U.N. secretary-general, told JNS that “we have seen the letter filed by the U.S. Department of Justice with the court. We will review it carefully.”

 

“The position of the United Nations is longstanding and clear. UNRWA is a subsidiary body of the General Assembly and, as such, is entitled to immunity from legal process under the 1946 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations,” the secretary-general’s office added. (An UNRWA spokesperson sent JNS the same statement.)

 

“This issue is before the federal district court in New York, and through our counsel, we will continue to set out the basis for our position before the court,” the secretary-general’s office told JNS. “We will consider whether any other action is appropriate with respect to the letter.”

 

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UNRWA is a Hamas front


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New testimonies from Israeli hostages Romi, Doron, and Emily reveal that Hamas hid them in UN shelters during their captivity, exploiting facilities meant to protect Palestinian civilians.

The question is: how much can UNRWA “not know” before ignorance turns into complicity?

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HonestReporting-tweet-22January2025-UNRWA-We had no idea

 

 


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Maybe you should have spoken out when Hamas started converting school buildings into military bases?

Because that made them legitimate military targets. You have never notified the IDF about armed terrorists violating the neutrality of your facilities.

You are a Hamas front.
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70% of @UNRWA schools have been hit in #Gaza since the war began – some are flattened, many severely damaged. The vast majority were sheltering displaced families.

This blatant disregard of international humanitarian law must stop. #ActForHumanity

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Hamas has infiltrated UNRWA so deeply that it is no longer possible to determine where UNRWA ends and where Hamas begins.


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Hamas has infiltrated UNRWA so deeply that it is no longer possible to determine where UNRWA ends and where Hamas begins.

More than 2,135 UNRWA workers are members of either Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), while one-fifth of UNRWA school administrators are Hamas members.

The problem with UNRWA-Gaza isn’t that of a few bad apples; it is a rotten and poisonous tree whose roots are Hamas.

The Colonna report ignores the severity of the problem, and offers cosmetic solutions that do not deal with the enormous scope of Hamas’ infiltration of UNRWA.

This is not what a genuine and thorough review looks like. This is what an effort to avoid the problem and not address it head on looks like.

Israel calls on the donor countries to refrain from transferring their taxpayers’ money to UNRWA-Gaza, as these funds will go to the Hamas terrorist organization, and that violates legislation in the donor countries themselves.

Israel calls on the donor countries to transfer their funds to other humanitarian organizations in Gaza.

UNRWA-Gaza is part of the problem and not part of the solution.
There are other solutions.
UNRWA can not be part of the solution in Gaza not now, and not in the future.

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Oren Marmorstein-tweet-22April2024-Hamas has infiltrated UNRWA so deeply that

 

 


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🚨 Breaking, during a briefing by @LTC_Shoshani – the IDF revealed incredibly incriminating evidence found in the UNRWA compound in Gaza – which Hamas was using as an operations HQ.

Weapons, drones, high explosives, and more.

Read >>>>

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It is necessary to investigate who these people working as the United Nations aid team are and what they serve. Is their purpose humanitarian aid or service to Hamas?
#UN

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ErsnGozde-tweet-22October2024-Terrorists use UN aid vehicles at UNRWA logistics Compound in Eastern Rafah, Gaza

 

 

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The tunnel system beneath UNRWA Headquarters in Gaza used by Hamas as their main intelligence server hub


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Official IDF Statement on the massive terror tunnel located underneath @UNRWA HQ in Gaza:

Acting on ISA intelligence, the forces discovered a tunnel shaft near an UNRWA school, leading to an underground terrorist tunnel beneath UNRWA’s main headquarters. The forces found electrical infrastructure inside the tunnel connected to UNRWA’s main HQ, suggesting it was supplying the tunnel with electricity—generated by the fuel provided through humanitarian aid. This 700-meter-long tunnel, 18 meters deep, contained multiple blast doors and various intelligence assets seized by the forces. Intelligence and documents found confirmed the offices’ use by Hamas terrorists. Large quantities of weapons, including rifles, ammunition, grenades and explosives, were uncovered hidden in the building’s offices.

📸: Footage showing the tunnel’s location, near a school.

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These Findings Were Found Within UNRWA Facilities [Hamas data-center under UNRWA HQ]

 


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Construction workers
Tilers
Electricians
Metalworkers
Plumbers
General contractors
Heavy digging machinery
Transportation workers
Truckers to bring in supplies and remove debris
Carpenters
Network engineers
Systems administrators
HVAC
Years of digging in and under crowded neighborhoods

Amazingly, no one in Gaza noticed!

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Elder of Ziyon-tweet-11February2024-Amazingly no one in Gaza noticed

 


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Imagine you find lots of cables in your server room, connected to the main power supply, and all go down beneath the floor to some unknown destination.

What do you do? Nothing, according to head of @UNRWA. You simply “didn’t know” anything about the tunnel underneath 🤡

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Dr. Eli David-tweet-11February2024-all cables go down beneath the floor to some unknown destination

 

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UNRWA staff linked to October 7th Massacre


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BREAKING: The “few bad apples” line pushed by the UN has just been obliterated. The Wall Street Journal front page is reporting that an estimated 1,200 Unrwa employees in Gaza are actual “operatives” of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and about half have close relatives who belong to the Islamist terrorist organizations, according to Israeli intelligence estimates shared with the U.S. government.

The report said 23% of Unrwa’s male employees—the agency has a total staff of 12,000 in Gaza—took active part in the Hamas organization’s military or political framework, a higher percentage than the average of 15% for adult males in Gaza.

The information in the Israeli intelligence reports is based on sensitive signals intelligence as well as cellphone tracking data, interrogations of captured Hamas gunmen and documents recovered from dead terrorists.

Nearly half of all Unrwa employees—an estimated 49%—also had close relatives with official ties to Hamas and other terrorist groups.

The Oct. 7 intelligence reports seen by the Wall Street Journal identified an Unrwa Arabic teacher who was also a Hamas terrorist commander and took part in a terrorist attack on Kibbutz Be’eri, where 97 people were murdered, and about 26 people were kidnapped and taken as hostages to Gaza.

Another Unrwa employee, described in the dossier as an Unrwa social worker, played a role in absconding with the body of a dead Israeli soldier, which was taken to Gaza, the reports said. He also coordinated trucks and munitions distributions for Hamas before being killed.

📍Full story by @cjkeller8 & @davidluhnow @WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/at-least-12-u-n-agency-employees-involved-in-oct-7-attacks-intelligence-reports-say-a7de8f36

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UNRWA to be declared by the State of Israel as a terrorist organization

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Approved in first reading: UNRWA to be declared by the State of Israel as a terrorist organization; all relations between UNRWA and the state to be severed

22July2024 https://main.knesset.gov.il/en/news/pressreleases/pages/press22724y.aspx

 

​In its sitting on Monday, the Knesset Plenum voted to approve in first reading the Bill for Cutting Off the State of Israel’s Relations with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and Declaring it a Terrorist Organization, 2024, sponsored by MK Yulia Malinovsky (Yisrael Beitenu) and a group of MKs. In the vote, 50 Members of Knesset supported the bill, versus 10 who opposed it, and the bill will be returned to the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee for deliberation.

 

It is proposed to declare the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) as a terrorist organization. It is further proposed that the State of Israel sever its relations with UNRWA, both directly and indirectly.

 

MK Malinovsky, the bill’s sponsor: “We have to perform a surgical [cut] here and end the event. We are on the UN’s blacklist in any case. All the excessive morality ended on October 7. UNRWA is a terrorist organization, and not only in Jerusalem. It is a fifth column within the State of Israel. And not just municipal property tax benefits—everything should be revoked from them. The fact that this hasn’t happened until now, for seven months—is a disgrace. What is happening today is a badge of honor for the Knesset and for the Members of Knesset. The fact that we succeeded in joining hands, coalition and opposition—that is a very important statement for the Government. We did a wonderful job together with all the partners to these bills.”

 

The explanatory notes to the bill state: “In the months after the outbreak of the Swords of Iron war, investigative reports were revealed regarding the involvement of the workers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip in the murderous terrorist offensive that began on October 7, 2023, such as participation in acts of murder and massacre, kidnapping Israeli citizens to the Gaza Strip and providing vehicles and equipment for the purpose of the offensive. Reports were also published regarding the membership of these workers in the Hamas and Islamic Jihad organizations.

 

“The above attests to the close relationship that exists between UNRWA and terrorist activity for all intents and purposes, in a manner that is no different from the activity of organizations that have been declared as terrorist organizations by law. Therefore, it is proposed to declare that UNRWA is a terrorist organization as defined in the Counter-Terrorism Law, 2016.”

 

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Israel outlaws UNWRA

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Israel severs ties with UNRWA as Knesset passes landmark bills

Measure comes after the UN agency employees were found to have been complicit in Hamas activity.

By  ILH Staff – Published on  10-28-2024 21:49 Last modified: 10-28-2024 21:56 https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/10/28/israel-severs-ties-with-unrwa-as-knesset-passes-landmark-bills/

 

The Knesset plenum voted Monday evening to approve two bills effectively ending Israel’s relationship with UNRWA, the UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees. The legislation passed its second and third readings, with two separate bills sponsored by multiple lawmakers prohibiting UNRWA from maintaining any representation, providing services, or conducting activities, either directly or indirectly, within Israel’s sovereign territory.

UNRWA workers who were exposed as terrorists on March 5, 2024 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

UNRWA workers who were exposed as terrorists on March 5, 2024 (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit)

 

Under the new law, all government representatives will be barred from maintaining contact with UNRWA. The Foreign and Interior ministries will be prohibited from issuing entry visas to UNRWA employees, and customs officials will be unable to process goods imported by the agency. The organization’s tax benefits will also be revoked.

 

The second bill stipulates that Israel will sever all ties with UNRWA, and authorities will cease cooperation with the agency. It will no longer be entitled to the diplomatic privileges it previously enjoyed as well. The legislation follows revelations that the UN body, meant to provide services to Palestinian refugees, employed staff who are suspected of involvement in the surprise attack on Israel, with some allegedly active in Hamas and Islamic Jihad organizations.

 

Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Yuli Edelstein said at the start of the plenary discussion, “During the committee’s deliberations on the law, we were shown video evidence of UNRWA personnel involved in transporting a body to the Gaza Strip, along with other evidence of their involvement in terrorism, including the fact that the commander of the massacre at the Reim shelter, where 16 Israelis were killed and four were kidnapped to Gaza, was a UNRWA operative.”

 

“Given this background, and having proved that UNRWA and its employees acted against Israel, the state must determine that UNRWA’s activities in its territory will cease,” he stated. “To be clear, Israel will provide all services it is obligated to provide to its citizens and residents in all areas where UNRWA operates, in coordination with the Jerusalem municipality. There is no place for enemies in the heart of the Jewish people’s capital.”

 

The Im Tirtzu right-wing watchdog, which led the public campaign to end UNRWA’s operations in Israel, issued the following statement: “This is a historic moment for Israel and an important moment for the Knesset. Since Israel’s establishment, UNRWA has functioned as an incubator of terror incitement instead of caring for Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza. Now the Knesset is finally correcting this distortion… After a year-long struggle, justice has finally prevailed, the people of Israel live!”

 

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UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem to be seized

The entire UNRWA area in Ma’alot Dafna, Jerusalem, is set to be expropriated and turned into 1,440 housing units.

By  Shirit Avitan Cohen – Published on  10-10-2024 17:20 Last modified: 10-10-2024 17:23 https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/10/10/unrwa-headquarters-in-jerusalem-to-be-seized/

 

The Israel Land Authority (ILA) is seizing the land of UNRWA’s headquarters in Jerusalem, in order to build 1,440 housing units.

 

As the extent of UNRWA and its employees’ collaboration in the massacre at Gaza border communities by Hamas and their role in providing assistance for murder, kidnapping, and more continues to be revealed, a significant step has been taken for the first time against the refugee agency.

 

UNRWA center in central Jerusalem. Photo: Arieh King

UNRWA center in central Jerusalem. Photo: Arieh King

 

According to information released to the public today, the entire UNRWA area in Ma’alot Dafna, Jerusalem, is slated to become a housing project with 1,440 units, and the project is in its preparatory stages. It should be noted that over the past year, families of kidnapped civilians and fallen IDF soldiers, alongside organizations such as “Im Tirtzu” and others, have protested in front of the UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem, demanding the closure of the agency’s office, which has operated in the city without interference.

 

Protest at the entrance to UNRWA offices in Jerusalem. Photo: Tzav 9 Movement

Protest at the entrance to UNRWA offices in Jerusalem. Photo: Tzav 9 Movement

 

Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA’s Commissioner-General, warned the UN Security Council yesterday (Wednesday) about the possible consequences of an Israeli bill that seeks to ban the agency’s activities in Israel: “Legislation to end our operations is ready for final adoption by the Israeli Knesset. It seeks to ban UNRWA’s presence and operations in the territory of Israel, revoking its privileges and immunities, in violation of international law. If the bills are adopted, the consequences will be severe.”

 

“Operationally, the entire humanitarian response in Gaza – which rests on UNRWA’s infrastructure – may disintegrate”, added Lazzarini.

 

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How UNRWA Grooms Terrorists

by Bassam Tawil
26December2023 https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20258/unwra-grooms-terrorists

  • By providing the residents of the Gaza Strip with various services, UNRWA exempted Hamas from its responsibilities as the governing body, such as creating a working economy that would pay for education and healthcare, and allowed it, instead, to invest resources in building tunnels and manufacturing weapons.
  • “They [UNRWA] teach us that the Al-Aqsa Mosque belongs to us [Muslims], that Palestine belongs to us,” said Atif Sharha, a student at an UNRWA school.
  • “Yes, they teach us that the Zionists are our enemy,” said Nur Taha, a third-year student from Kalandia. “We should carry out an [terror] operation against them [Zionists].”
  • “The Palestinian matriculation exams [at UNRWA] have become a finishing school in extremism. It is as if the Palestinian Authority is cramming as much hate into the tests as possible, to ensure the twelve previous years of indoctrination stay with them into adulthood.” — Marcus Sheff, CEO at the Institute for Cultural Peace and Tolerance in School Education, i24news.tv, July 23, 2023.
  • Despite years of considerable condemnation of the textbooks, newly produced editions, approved by UNRWA, are exponentially worse….
  • Whatever hopes that anyone may have held for the trustworthiness of UNRWA have long expired, and were arguably misplaced at the outset. UNRWA, in its current state, has proven itself irremediably defective, unworkable and yet another massive stain on the already scandalously stained UN.
  • It is high time for the international community and those who actually want a better future for the Palestinians to liquidate UNRWA and take actions that truly help the Palestinians move forward to a golden life.
A still shot from the documentary film "Camp Jihad," featuring a summer camp in Gaza sponsored and funded by UNRWA

A still shot from the documentary film “Camp Jihad,” featuring a summer camp in Gaza sponsored and funded by UNRWA

More than 50% of UNRWA’s annual budget of $1.6 billion is dedicated to funding Palestinian schools. These schools have been fostering war-mongering hatred against Israel, and against Jews in general, while predictably churning out their final product: terrorists and terrorist sympathizers. Pictured: A still shot from the documentary film “Camp Jihad,” featuring a summer camp in Gaza sponsored and funded by UNRWA. (Image source: Nahum Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research)

 

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was originally a small agency mandated to provide basic humanitarian relief for Palestinians, including a vote for renewal every three years. Seventy-three years and four generations later, and with more than 30,000 employees and an annual budget of more than $1 billion, it has astonishingly become one of the largest UN agencies.

 

In the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, UNRWA has, in fact, long been operating as the de facto government. By providing the residents of the Gaza Strip with various services, UNRWA exempted Hamas from its responsibilities as the governing body, such as creating a working economy that would pay for education and healthcare, and allowed it, instead, to invest resources in building tunnels and manufacturing weapons. If UNRWA were not there, Hamas would have been forced to fill the vacuum and, for example, build hospitals and schools and find solutions to economic hardship, including unemployment and poverty.

 

As senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk said, in explaining why no cement could be spared from terror tunnels to build bomb shelters for Gazan citizens:

“The tunnels were built to protect the fighters of Hamas from [Israeli] airstrikes. As you know, 75% of the residents of the Gaza Strip are refugees. It is the responsibility of the United Nations to protect the refugees.”

Hamas was effectively saying: We are responsible for what happens underground, while UNRWA is responsible for what happens above ground.

 

In addition to evolving into a monster-sized agency, UNRWA has also morphed into a very costly incubator for terror. UNRWA-run schools emphasize and promote the “right of return,” a euphemism for flooding Israel with millions of Palestinians and turning it into a Muslim-majority Islamist state backed by Iran.

 

More than 50% of UNRWA’s annual budget of $1.6 billion is dedicated to funding Palestinian schools. These schools have been fostering war-mongering hatred against Israel, and against Jews in general, from the youngest, most impressionable ages and onward throughout the school years, while predictably churning out their final product: terrorists and terrorist sympathizers.

 

“They [UNRWA] teach us that the Al-Aqsa Mosque belongs to us [Muslims], that Palestine belongs to us,” said Atif Sharha, a student at a UNRWA school in the Shuafat refugee camp, north of Jerusalem.

“I hate the Jews,” said Yousef, another student at a UNRWA school in Kalandia refugee camp, south of Ramallah.

“Yes, they teach us that the Zionists are our enemy,” said Nur Taha, a third student from Kalandia. “We should carry out an [terror] operation against them [Zionists].”

 

Marcus Sheff, Chief Executive Officer at The Institute for Cultural Peace and Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) studying these hate-policies, laments:

 

“The Palestinian matriculation exams have become a finishing school in extremism. It is as if the Palestinian Authority is cramming as much hate into the tests as possible, to ensure the twelve previous years of indoctrination stay with them into adulthood.”

 

UNRWA then re-inserts many of these hate-infused people right back into its institutions, perpetuating what the UN is keen on blaming Israel for: “the cycle of violence.”

 

UNRWA schools have been the focus of media scrutiny on many occasions. UNRWA’s textbooks, compiled by the Palestinian Authority, have been blasted for showy, hate-provoking and terror-inciting material such as “a grammar exercise that encourages Palestinians to ‘sacrifice their blood to liberate Jerusalem.'”

 

Palestinian textbooks produced by UNRWA contain “antisemitic, hateful, and violent passages,” according to IMPACT-se. Some of these passages in an Islamic education drill include labeling Jews as inherently treacherous. A poem included in the educational content glorifies the killing of Israelis, and portrays dying as martyrs by killing Israelis as a “hobby.”

 

In a grammar exercise, Jews, it is implied, are impure and supposedly defile the Al-Aqsa Mosque. (They do not. The Jews peacefully tour the exterior grounds, called The Temple Mount, a plateau on which the Al Aqsa mosque now sits. The site is the third-holiest in Islam, but in Judaism the holiest. The plateau is where two Jewish Temples once stood, mentioned in the Bible, before they were destroyed — the first by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BCE; the second by the Roman Empire in 70 CE).

 

Despite years of considerable condemnation of the textbooks, newly produced editions, approved by UNRWA, are exponentially worse.

“Terrorist activities against Israeli civilians are also part of the struggle against the Zionist occupation of Palestine. Thus, the new books exalt Palestinian terrorists who participated in such actions. Dalal al-Mughrabi, for example, who was killed in a terrorist attack she had led against a civilian bus… in which more than 30 men, women and children were murdered, is mentioned in four books, all studied in UNRWA schools at present. In all of them she is described as a heroine and martyr of Palestine.”

According to the textbooks used in UNRWA schools, Jews have no rights whatsoever or any legitimate status in Israel. A Jewish presence in the country is denied historically, geographically and religiously. No reference is made in the books to the history of the Jews throughout the region, either in Biblical or Roman times. Any connection is also denied of the Jews to their ancient capital, Jerusalem, which is presented as an Arab city since its establishment thousands of years ago. The Jews’ presence in Jerusalem today is bewilderingly presented in the books as an aggression against the city’s Arab character.

 

Beyond the textbooks, both UNRWA administrators and teachers have proudly displayed their approval of terrorism and hatred on countless occasions, including Hamas’s recent October 7 massacre, according to a report published by UN Watch, an independent non-governmental human rights organization, as well as IMPACT-se.

 

UNRWA math teacher Adnan Shteiwi, for instance, glorified Diaa Hamarsheh, the perpetrator of the March 2022 Bnei Brak shooting attack — in which he murdered four Israeli civilians and one policeman — as a “martyr” whose name should “forever remain in letters of fire, might, and magnificence.”

 

UNRWA’s Asma Middle School for Girls B encouraged schoolgirls to ” liberate the homeland by sacrificing ‘their Blood’ and pursuing jihad.”

 

Roni Krivoi, one of the Israeli hostages recently freed from Hamas captivity, reported that he had been kept prisoner in an attic for more than a month and a half, mostly starved and medically untreated. His jailer was an UNRWA teacher.

 

In Gaza — as with Ahmad Kahalot, Director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, who admitted that he was the equivalent of a brigadier general for Hamas and that 16 of the hospital’s staff were also “terror operatives for Hamas” — the mesh of Hamas and UNRWA is also illustrated in the high-profile case of Dr. Suhail al-Hindi.

 

Al-Hindi served as both the principal of an UNRWA elementary school and as the chairman of the UNRWA employee’s union in Gaza. In 2017, UNRWA suspended al-Hindi after it received information that he had just been elected to the Hamas political bureau. UNRWA announced that al-Hindi no longer worked for the agency, but did not say whether he had resigned or been fired. Al-Hindi first said he “resigned” from UNRWA, but later clarified that he was taking early retirement.

 

The case of al-Hindi and other UNRWA employees suspected of supporting terrorism makes the point that UNRWA is “the money,” while thug terror-groups such as Hamas are “the muscle.”

 

UNRWA tries to keep up public pretense that its hands are clean, and has taken a belligerently defensive stance against these and other accusations, as it publicly claims that it has a “zero-tolerance policy for hatred.”

 

The Israeli news site Ynet , however, wrote recently about a UN Watch report:

“In it, some 47 documented cases of school staff promoting antisemitic material are recorded, as school staff openly violates the official UNRWA policy…

“It was only two years ago that UNRWA apologized for similar instances, claiming they were done erroneously and will not occur in the future, but with this latest report, that promise rings hollow.”

One UNRWA employee portrayed Adolf Hitler in a favorable light: “Wake up Hitler, there are people left to burn.”

 

In addition, as is well-documented, UNRWA has allowed its school buildings to be used by Hamas as storehouses for rocket and other weapons, terror tunnels, and to shelter jihadi terrorists. Hamas and other terror organizations have bet on the media frenzy that would ensue if Israeli forces strike a UN institution (or hospital, mosque, or even a church) that is being used for military purposes. Hamas has been launching rockets at Israel from alongside UNRWA schools, and, when possible, shooting from inside the schools, thereby taking advantage of the sanctuary that a UN institution, especially a “protected space” such as a school, ought to offer under legitimate circumstances.

 

Last week saw the media explode in condemnation of the Israel Defense Forces for blowing up an UNRWA school, despite the disclosure that the school had been used as a weapons depot and terror tunnels were found in its area.

 

UNRWA kindergartens have been discovered with weapons hidden inside toys or even in UNRWA bags, and UN officials are charged with being complicit in holding hostages, despite protestations to the contrary. It seems that “zero tolerance” had devolved into “zero oversight.”

 

When rockets were discovered in UNRWA schools in the past, UNRWA would reassure everyone that they had been turned over to “local authorities.” Those authorities, of course, were Hamas, who most likely relocated them to another equally inappropriate location.

 

Occasionally, UNRWA officials will make a minor fuss or put on a shocked and affronted façade for donors or the media, but reportedly do nothing in the way of changing the practice. In the upper echelons of UNRWA management, there have been accusations of serious breaches of ethics in the forms of nepotism, bullying, mismanagement of funds — as well as lack of accountability.

 

This is no small matter, considering that in 2022, annual worldwide contributions to UNRWA alone — not including direct donations to Palestinian governing agencies such as Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, nor to the many NGOs and other Palestinian-specific aid agencies — from 68 donor nations, including the Holy See, was $1.1 billion.

 

Extensive reports released by UN Watch and IMPACT-se have highlighted the malignant influence of terror organizations such as Hamas, Fatah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad on UNRWA institutions that either feign ignorance or offer enthusiastic complicity. The repercussions of these revelations are becoming an embarrassment.

 

Switzerland’s Parliament recently voted to stop funding UNRWA ($21 million annually), labelled Hamas a terrorist organization and unanimously banned it. “Hamas’ brutal terrorist attacks against Israel necessitate a clear position from Switzerland,” they said.

 

In 2018, the Trump administration, calling UNRWA an “irredeemably flawed operation,” completely cut America’s $300 million annual donation. The aid was reinstated by President Joe Biden almost immediately after he took office.

 

Many have called the very inception of UNRWA into question, as the UN already has an agency specifically designated for refugees: the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

 

UNRWA remains a refugee organization distinctly apart from UNHCR based upon two premises: first, that the Palestinians will “return” to their homes in Israel by means of a the “right of return“; and second, that there will never be a resolution not to “return,” thereby making these refugees an eternal stick in the eye to Israel.

 

The first premise would effectively destroy Israel by imposing a demographic shift: flooding millions of Palestinians, demonstrably none too peace-oriented, into Israel.

 

The second premise would, and has been, effectively enslaving Palestinians as the crying faces that keep the international “pity-cash” flowing into the coffers of both Palestinian and UNRWA leadership.

 

Perhaps this may be at least one answer as to why, when UNRWA recently cried for more aid money for Palestinians, the organization was found to have an entire warehouse “filled to the brim” with food. When Gazans stormed the warehouse in October, they discovered copious amounts of rice, lentils, flour and oil.

 

Whatever hopes that anyone may have held for the trustworthiness of UNRWA have long expired, and were arguably misplaced at the outset. UNRWA, in its current state, has proven itself irremediably defective, unworkable and yet another massive stain on the already scandalously stained UN [such as here, here, here, here and here.] The agency has perpetuated the issue of the “refugees” by keeping them in camps while providing them with basic services, only.

 

Worse, UNRWA has deliberately created new generations of “refugees” by insisting that the descendants of refugees inherit the status of “refugee” – which on its face is nonsense. It is high time for the international community and those who actually want a better future for the Palestinians to liquidate UNRWA and take actions that truly help the Palestinians move forward to a golden life.

Bassam Tawil is a Muslim Arab based in the Middle East.

 

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UNRWA: Your child abuse must stop

Lilia Gaufberg, 5February 2024,   https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/unrwa-your-child-abuse-must-stop/

 

As a former elementary school teacher and a human being, my heart breaks for the children of Gaza.

 

Picture a 5-year-old eagerly skipping to school, still navigating the intricacies of being in the world. In those formative years, curiosity knows no bounds, and imagination has no limits. Having witnessed this as an educator and experienced it as a child myself, I understand the permeable line between a young mind and the world it inhabits — a realm where everything appears possible. Drawings created, songs learned, and playtime activities all lay the groundwork for shaping one’s future self. A simple art class might spark dreams of becoming a sculptor, while an inspirational gym teacher fosters aspirations of winning the World Cup. Papier-mâché volcanoes explode with baking soda and vinegar, and a chemist is born.

 

Now, imagine you are a child in Gaza. You attend a school run by a UN agency, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), one of whose primary goals is to keep you, a child, in a perpetual state of victimhood by indoctrinating you into believing that you are, and will always be, a refugee, and that there is no way to escape from this identity. At school, you are taught that there’s an evil force — the Jews — out to destroy you and your people. Your textbooks in all subjects, from writing to math, are embedded with calls to maim and murder these nefarious Jews, and you are taught that if you don’t wage jihad against them, your life is rendered meaningless. You learn that heroes are people who blow themselves up on buses or massacre young adults at a music festival, rather than visionaries who cure diseases or write groundbreaking books. Dreams are maliciously stolen, and a singular path is laid out by teachers, leaving malleable minds with no choice but to succumb to the incitement. Oh, and there’s a good chance your teachers are Hamas members, too.

 

This is what the children of Gaza learn, day in and day out.

 

An excerpt from a textbook used in UNRWA schools (Our Beautiful Language, Vol. 2, Grade 1, 2023, p. 53). Source: IMPACT-se

An excerpt from a textbook used in UNRWA schools (Our Beautiful Language, Vol. 2, Grade 1, 2023, p. 53). Source: IMPACT-se

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Evidence continues to mount of UNRWA staff’s involvement in the October 7th Hamas massacre, their assistance to Hamas in hiding Israeli hostages in Gaza, and the ties of thousands of UNRWA employees to terror groups. Dozens of countries around the world are freezing their aid to UNRWA in response, sparking outrage from some prominent voices, such as Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. When I think about those children in Gaza, I say that any country who has not ceased financing UNRWA is complicit in child abuse. Anyone expressing horror at cuts to UNRWA funding by exclaiming something along the lines of, ‘b-b-but the children of Gaza!’ is actually perpetuating the abuse of the children of Gaza.

 

There is a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. That is a fact, and it is heartbreaking. We should all be concerned about it, and it must be effectively addressed. Let us be clear, however: it is a Hamas-perpetrated, UNRWA-upheld humanitarian crisis. The UN has mechanisms in place to effectively deal with humanitarian disasters. It is perfectly capable of bringing trucks of supplies into areas that need them and providing support for at-risk communities around the globe. I saw one example of this myself when I worked with South Sudanese refugees in Uganda: the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, was there, day in and day out, to assist people in need. There are alternatives to UNRWA, even within the confines of the UN itself. Calling to keep UNRWA in place because there is ‘no other solution’ is naïve and lazy at best and malicious at worst.

 

I have yet to have children of my own, but when I imagine my younger sisters and me growing up in an UNRWA school system instead of the American public school system, I feel sick. As kids, my sisters and I were instilled with the value of living meaningful lives and repairing the world. Who would we have become if we had attended UNRWA schools? I shudder at this chilling possibility; we would not be ourselves. If the children of Gaza are to have a real chance to dream, to play, to create, to evolve, and to think for themselves, two things must happen: Hamas must be eliminated, and UNRWA must be disbanded.

 

I dream of a real future for the children of Gaza, a future in which they can dream, too.

 

About the Author
I am an artist, writer, and content creator employed by the international and non-partisan Israel education organization StandWithUs. I grew up in Boston, MA and lived in Israel from 2017 to 2023, during which time I served in the Israel Defense Forces’ COGAT unit as a lone soldier. I recently returned to the United States, and I currently reside in New York. All ideas expressed on this blog are reflective of my personal opinions, perspectives, and experiences.

 

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UNRWA: Raising the next generation of Terrorists


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Palestinian children talk about the education they get in @UNRWA 🇺🇳 schools.

It’s all about killing the Jews. “I want to stab them again and again”, “I want to become a suicide bomber”, etc.

Thanks @UN 🇺🇳 for raising the next generation of terrorists.

 

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UNRWA corruption vs. UNHCR


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Based on UN Watch’s litany of reports to @UNRWA and Israel’s presentation to @UN @antonioguterres ::

@UNLazzarini is totally corrupt.

He had to know exactly that hamas was stealing money, and diverting it from gazan citizens to equip and train a terrorist army.

He is actively aiding and abetting terrorism.

His diplomatic credentials must be stripped from him.

And he needs to be deported.

If he did not know, he is not fit enough to run a hotdog 🌭 cart.

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UNRWA vs. UNHCR

UNRWA vs. UNHCR

 

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The truth about UNRWA

 

By Ted Belman 25February2019  https://www.israpundit.org/trumps-war-against-unrwa-will-benefit-the-palestinian-refugees/

Not all refugees are the same.

The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), created in 1951, is dedicated to the resettlement of all refugees except the Palestinian refugees, who fall within the purview of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

 

According to UNCHR, a refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her home because of persecution, war or violence and who crosses an international border.

 

UNRWA, on the other hand, defines a Palestinian refugee as “persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict, and their descendants.”

 

Unlike UNHCR, UNRWA does not seek to resettle its refugees, but rather is dedicated to preserving their status as “refugees”. In addition, it includes their descendants which UNCHR doesn’t. Finally, they need not have been “forced to flee”.

 

In August 2017, Pres Trump challenged UNRWA by rejecting UNRWA’s estimate of over 5 million refugees suggesting that the number was more like 500,000. In effect he was saying that a new definition should be operative. If he was to exclude descendants, there would be less that 20,000 people still living who fled in 1948

 

On Aug 31, 2018, The State Department announced that the US would make no further contribution to UNRWA. Therefore the pressure will build to find an alternate solution.

 

In 1920, the British Government’s Interim Report on the Civil Administration of Palestine stated that there were hardly 700,000 people living in Palestine. By 1948, the population had risen to 1,900,000, of whom 68% were Arabs, and 32% were Jews (UNSCOP report, including Bedouin).

 

This population growth took place under the Palestine Mandate pursuant to which, Great Britain was responsible to “facilitate Jewish immigration” in line with the “establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”.

 

Rather than doing so, she hindered it, while at the same time, she encouraged Arab immigration. She went so far as to prevent Jewish immigration, even during the Holocaust, when it was desperately needed.

 

The end result was that the Jews in Israel in 1948, were millions fewer in number than would otherwise have been the case and the Arabs were far greater in number than they should have been.

 

This great injustice to the Jews must be born in mind when crafting the Deal of the Century.

The vast majority of the Arab inhabitants of Mandatory Palestine in 1948 were economic migrants who entered Palestine illegally right up until the War of Independence in 1948.

 

The vast majority of Arabs who fled Israel or remained West of the Jordan River were illegal migrants and their children.

Joan Peters, after considerable research, made this case in her opus, From Time Immemorial.

Daniel Pipes, in his 1984 review of her book, wrote “In the course of research on this subject, she came across a “seemingly casual” discrepancy between the standard definition of a refugee and the definition used for the Palestinian Arabs. In other cases, a refugee is someone forced to leave a permanent or habitual home.  In this case, however, it is someone who had lived in Palestine for just two years before the flight that began in 1948.”

 

Had the standard definition been used, there would have been few refugees to deal with. Furthermore, by rejecting the standard definition, the Arabs who didn’t flee, who are registered as refugees under UNRWA, now number 2 million west of the Jordan River and 1.3 million in Gaza.

 

In 1948, though living in Palestine, they considered their home of origin to be Syria, in the main, but including Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt.

 

Not only were their numbers greatly inflated due to this new definition, but the Arab League prevented their naturalization in the countries they fled to, including their true countries of origin. Furthermore, the Arabs living outside of Israel as defined by the 1949 ceasefire line, yet still within the Mandatory lands, were also prevented from being naturalized.  This applies to Jordan also where there are currently 2 million registered Palestinian “refugees”.

 

Pipes concludes his review by stating “Thus, the “Palestinian problem” lacks firm grounding. Many of those who now consider themselves Palestinian refugees were either immigrants themselves before 1948 or the children of immigrants. This historical fact reduces their claim to the land of Israel; it also reinforces the point that the real problem in the Middle East has little to do with Palestinian-Arab rights.”

 

It is now 34 years after Pipes wrote his review. Like it or not, these Palestinian Arabs have put down roots making it more problematic to dispossess them. But one thing must be kept in mind. The reason that they consider themselves to be refugees is because they all claim the right of return to Israel as currently delineated. The corollary to this is that they do not claim the right to stay where they are. They can’t have it both ways.

 

Since Israel will not permit them to return, whether to Israel as it now stands or to Israel when its eastern boundary is extended to the Jordan River, the best option open to them is to relocate them in Jordan. Because Jordan was part of Mandatory Palestine, to which they originally migrated, these people should be considered as internally displaced persons (IDP) who fled their residences but never crossed an international border.

 

King Abdullah is dead set against this but his days as king are numbered. When Mudar Zahran, the Secretary General of the Jordanian Opposition Coalition, becomes the leader of Jordan in the not too distant future, he will invite all these Palestinians to relocate in Jordan where they will be naturalized along with the 2 million “refugees” already there. In addition, over 75% of Jordan’s population of 9.7 million are Palestinian.

According to Zahran, they will be provided with housing, jobs and social security.

In my article International Law and the State of Israel, I discuss the issue of population transfer and its legitimacy.

 

“After WWII and the crushing defeat of Germany and its allies, the victors changed borders and moved populations. It was their right.

Der Spiegel reported;

“But the people fleeing the Red Army were unaware that the Allies had already agreed with the Polish government-in-exile to hand over large parts of eastern Germany to Poland and resettle the Germans who were living there.

 

“All those who didn’t manage to escape in time fell victim to the frenzied expulsions that were carried out until July 1945. The organized resettlement of Germans and ethnic Germans from Germany’s former eastern areas and the Sudetenland began in January 1946. In all, some 14 million Germans lost their homes.”

 

“These expulsions were often done in a brutal manner and were carried out as part of a broader program of nation-building pursued by the new communist government between 1945 and 1949. “The centre-piece of this programme was an attempt to achieve the ethnic homogenization of the state, to ensure as close a match as possible between its ethnic and political borders.”

 

At no time did the allies object to this “ethnic homogenization”.

The flight of the Arabs from the Palestine Mandate and Israel, whether voluntary or forced, must be viewed in this context. It happened at the same time. The hypocrisy of the West is glaring. In post war Europe, they insisted on the ethnic cleansing as the path to stabilization and peace whereas in the case of the “Palestinian refugees”, the UNGA passed Res 194 in Dec 11/48 even before the war was over in which they recommended that the “Refugees” should be permitted to return. Fortunately for Israel, a recommendation has no binding affect and can be ignored.

 

President Trump, in configuring his Deal of the Century, should embrace the idea of ethnic homogenization as fundamental to establishing peace and assist in the relocation of as many Arabs as possible to Jordan which will be considered the Palestinian State. There can be no objection to him doing so because of Zahran’s intention to provide them with housing, jobs and social security. Besides, no one is suggesting that they should be forcibly expelled. Instead they should be induced to relocate or emigrate of their own free will. It will be for their benefit.

 

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The UNRWA Constellation: Partnerships with UN Agencies and Terror-Linked NGOs

31January2024 https://www.ngo-monitor.org/reports/unrwa-constellation-partnerships-with-un-agencies-and-terror-linked-ngos/

 

Introduction

The mandate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), while highly controversial, is widely perceived as relating to humanitarian and educational objectives. UNRWA’s website lists “primary and vocational education, primary health care, relief and social services, infrastructure and camp improvement, microfinance and emergency response.”

 

However, beyond its core role in fueling the conflict for the past 74 years, as well as severe problems with terror links, antisemitism (discussed briefly below) and corruption, UNRWA also engages in extensive politicized anti-Israel “advocacy work in response to the needs of Palestine refugees affected by the Israeli occupation,” such as “in-person protection briefings to external partners including the donor and diplomatic community.” This activity often involves partnerships with international and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs), as well as other UN agencies.

 

In this regard, UNRWA is part of the UN-NGO network dedicated to campaigns to demonize and delegitimize Israel, in contrast to humanitarian principles and promoting peace. Post-October 7, this entire system must be reviewed and reconsidered.

 

Moreover, UNRWA’s failure to engage in due diligence and to safeguard its aid from diversion by Hamas, as well as its intense involvement in political advocacy, demand a comprehensive independent audit and reform process. If the UN is unable to take these steps, donors should pull their funding.

Background: Funding

The United States is the single largest donor to UNRWA, having pledged $344 million in 2022 (29% of all commitments). Major funders also include Germany ($202M), the EU ($114M), and Sweden ($61M).

UNWRA, as part of the UN system, does not consider Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) to be terror groups. As such, it does not hesitate to partner with these groups, which are proscribed by UNRWA’s main donors. Nor does it screen employees for ties to Hamas et al, which is particularly concerning as, according to UNRWA’s 2022 Annual Report, 99.77% of staff in Gaza and the West Bank – 15,589 out of 15,624 – were local Palestinians.

 

Hamas’ and other terror groups’ exploitation of UNRWA and its facilities is well documented:

  • A study published by IMPACT-se (November 2023) documents the Antisemitism, Encouragement of Martyrdom and Violent Jihad, Violence in Math and Science, and Erasure of Israel in textbooks used in UNRWA schools.
  • A joint study by IMPACT-se and UN Watch (March 2023) found “compelling evidence of UNRWA’s gross and systematic violations of neutrality and other UN rules in their hiring of teachers and in their use of curricula inside UNRWA schools that constitute incitement to hatred, antisemitism and terrorism.”
  • Hamas and other Gaza-based terror groups have repeatedly and systematically abused UNRWA school grounds for terror tunnels and ammunition caches.
  • As noted above, UN agencies, UNRWA included, do not acknowledge that Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and PFLP are terrorist groups. Hence, UNRWA claims to prevent aid diversion and cooperation with proscribed organizations are façades. (For instance, at an October 2023 press conference, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini stated, “All our vendors and partners are vetted against the sanctions list…. UNRWA does not and will not divert any humanitarian aid into the wrong hands.”
  • The PFLP has an official unionized body of UNRWA employees, The Democratic Assembly of UNRWA Workers.
  • In 2021, UNRWA’s Gaza Director was forced to flee and resign after he admitted in an interview that previous IDF strikes appeared to be “precise” and “sophisticated.”

Since October 7, these phenomena have been confirmed:

Advocacy through UN-OCHA “Clusters”

A primary channel for UNRWA’s cooperation with NGOs and other UN agencies is through the UN’s OCHA-oPt branch. The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the “humanitarian arm of the United Nations Secretariat,” is tasked with coordinating “the global emergency response…in humanitarian crises.” OCHA-oPt acknowledges that its involvement in intense political warfare against Israel – as documented by NGO Monitor – is “unique as compared to other OCHA country offices globally.” While other OCHA missions in conflict identify critical humanitarian interventions such as “saving lives” as the top priority, OCHA-oPt’s Strategic Objective 1 is “The rights of Palestinians living under occupation, including those living under the blockade and other restrictions, are protected, respected and promoted … while duty-bearers are increasingly held to account” (emphasis added).

 

OCHA-oPt activities are implemented through Clusters – “groups of humanitarian UN and non-UN organizations [i.e. NGOs] in each of the main sectors of humanitarian action.” These “clusters” focus on issues such as food security, health and nutrition, education, sanitation, and protection.

 

UNRWA is an implementing partner in all OCHA-oPt clusters (see UN document from 2021) and participates in their political advocacy. For instance, according to OCHA-oPt’s 2023 Humanitarian Response Plan, “In 2023 UNRWA will seek to address the acute needs of the Palestine refugees [in the West Bank]… [by] monitoring and documentation of protection incidents to advocate…including persuasion, mobilization and denunciation – targeting duty bearers as well as international and national interlocutors.” In other words, UNRWA will level accusations of “war crimes” and “violations of human rights,” and seek condemnations of Israel from international bodies and various governments.

Lawfare and partnerships with terror-linked NGOs

UNRWA activities under the heading of “Monitoring and documentation” and “targeting external actors and duty bearers” are central to the NGO-led “lawfare” campaign against Israel.

 

UNRWA partners with the main NGOs behind anti-Israel lawfare, Al-Haq, Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), and Al Mezan. For instance, UNRWA was listed as an implementing partner on their joint project titled “Advocacy, monitoring and documentation of HR and IHL violations and related trends (with focus on grave violations against children across the oPt; IHL violations in Gaza; and settler violence and excessive use of force in the West Bank).”

 

The three NGOs have ties to the PFLP terror group:

Al-Haq

  • On October 22, 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Defense declared Al-Haq a “terror organization” because it is part of “a network of organizations” that operates “on behalf of the ‘Popular Front’.”
  • Al-Haq’s General Director Shawan Jabarin has been linked to the PFLP.
  • On October 8, Al-Haq signed a joint statement describing the October 7 massacre as: “Palestinian armed groups engaged in an operation in response to escalating Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people.”
  • On October 12, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Aseel Al-Bajeh tweeted, “We don’t need to speak of our right to resist, for it is not a right, but a way of being & survival for Palestinians. We don’t demand our right to narrate. Our ability to narrate was never out of our hands & resistance doesn’t need the pre- approval of static int’l law codes. Its not ‘our duty to expose the bloody barbarism of zionism, their actions as a fascist state & a ruthless army are more than sufficient to undertake this task. We remain attached to our land & in our humanity, as Pal Arabs no need to prove our humanity to those who have lost it.”

Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)

  • PCHR has multiple links to the PFLP terror organization. For details, see NGO Monitor’s report “Palestinian Centre for Human Rights’ Ties to the PFLP Terror Group.”
  • Founderand director Raji Sourani served “a three-year sentence [1979-1982] imposed by an Israeli court which convicted him of membership in the illegal Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine…” He was also denied a US entry visa in 2012.
  • In February 2014, the PFLP organized a ceremonyin Gaza honoring Sourani. Rabah Muhana, a member of the PFLP Political Bureau, delivered a speech at the prize ceremony. During the ceremony Sourani stated that “I was in the ranks of the Popular Front, and there were comrades who taught us with their own hands. This organization has given us much more. We hope that the direction and the sense of belonging that were planted inside us will remain in our minds. We don’t apologize and don’t regret our past, we are proud that once we were members of this organization and we fought in its ranks” (emphasis added).

Al Mezan

  • A number of Al Mezan board members, officials, and employees appear to have direct affiliations with Hamas and the PFLP.
  • Additionally, Al Mezan officials and board members speak at PFLP events, and many have posted material on their social media accounts promoting terror groups or utilizing antisemitic imagery and rhetoric.
  • For details, see “Al Mezan Center for Human Rights’ Ties to the PFLP Terror Group.”

Two of the other implementing partners, Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP) and Addameer, also have established links to the PFLP. See NGO Monitor reports, “Defense for Children International – Palestine’s Ties to the PFLP Terror Group” and “Addameer’s Ties to the PFLP Terrorist Group,” for more details.1

Islamic Relief Worldwide

According to UNRWA, “Partnering with Islamic Relief’s chapter in the US has opened opportunities for UNRWA to engage with Islamic Relief chapters in the UK and France, and with the umbrella organization Islamic Relief Worldwide.”

Footnotes

  1. Another lawfare-related project, almost certainly involving both UNRWA and PFLP-linked NGOs, and also consisting of “monitoring and documenting,” is the UNICEF “Working Group” on “grave violations against children.” The UN agencies and NGOs in the working group use false charges of abuse of Palestinian children in the effort to trigger sanctions against Israel. A core goal is to have the IDF included on a list of child rights abusers, published annually by the UN Secretary-General as an annex to the report on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC). See NGO Monitor’s reports for more details.
    Reflecting a lack of transparency, perhaps in response to NGO Monitor research, UNICEF no longer publishes a list of its NGO and UN partners. As of September 2017, members of the UNICEF “Working Group” were: UNRWA, Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P), Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), Al Mezan, B’Tselem, Terre Des Homme – Suisse, Save the Children, War Child Holland, World Vision, OCHA, UNESCO, UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS), and WHO.

 

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Gaza resident tells IDF: Hamas has control of UNRWA in Gaza

Civilian in Gaza tells soldier Hamas has control over the humanitarian aid which is brought into the Gaza Strip.

Gary Willig / 26December2023 /  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/382584

 

A resident of the Gaza Strip told the IDF that the Hamas terrorist organization directly controls the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the New York Post reported.<

 

In a recording obtained by the Post, the man stated that “the situation is terrible because the humanitarian people, those responsible for the humanitarian aid, are thieves.”

 

He further stated that “Hamas has their hands on UNRWA administration workers, and it manages UNRWA” and that Hamas ensures its own operatives receive any aid first before it is distributed to the civilians of Gaza as intended.

 

The IDF stated that the conversation was recorded when an IDF officer was delivering warnings to civilians in Gaza where they should evacuate in order to escape the fighting between Israel and Hamas and where to go to receive humanitarian aid.

 

UNRWA has long been criticized for its cooperation with Hamas, antisemitic incitement, and employment of Hamas terrorists.

It has been revealed that a teacher employed by UNRWA held one of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas during the October 7 massacre in an attic for 50 days without proper food or medical care.

 

Yesterday (Monday), the IDF reported that dozens of explosive devices were found inside UNRWA bags during operational activity in the area of the “Al Rafaa” and “Zavaha” schools in Tuffah in the northern Gaza Strip. This is not the first time Hamas weapons and explosives have been found inside UNRWA bags.

 

Earlier this month, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that “UNRWA is part of the problem – not part of the solution. The organization educates to incitement to terror, and ignores Hamas’ cynical use of Gaza residents as human shields.”

 

Last week, Israeli President Isaac Herzog accused the United Nations of failing to facilitate the transfer of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, saying that three times as much aid could have entered the enclave if the UN had done its job properly.

 

“Unfortunately, due to the utter failure of the UN in its work with other partners in the region, they have been unable to bring in more than 125 trucks a day,” Herzog told French Senate President Gérard Larcher.

 

“Today it is possible to provide three times the amount of humanitarian aid to Gaza if the UN — instead of complaining all day — would do its job,” he said.

 

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US MADE EXPLOSIVES sold to the Egyptians FOUND IN UNRWA school in GAZA


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US MADE EXPLOSIVES FOUND IN GAZA

According to a report, the IDF found US-made M112 explosive charges in a #UNRWA school in Jabalia, #Gaza.

According to a report the US Intelligence confirm the batch numbers trace back to a US production sold to the Egyptians.

For 20 years #Egypt has been smuggling ammunition into Gaza through the tunnels.
Egypt claims they know nothing about it. Liars !

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UNRWA-Hamas isn’t stockpiling fuel


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What are they firing rockets with? Willpower?

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This is how it also works for countries and quality of life.
Heaven has strict immigration Laws Hell has open borders

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Wall Street Silver-tweet-3December2023-Heaven has strict immigration Laws Hell has open borders

 

Heaven has strict immigration Laws Hell has open borders

Heaven has strict immigration Laws Hell has open borders

 

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Gaza: As Defenses Collapse And Men Surrender, Hamas Reportedly Turning To Female Terrorists For Help

IDF uncovers sniper rifle and ammo stuffed inside teddy bear in Gaza school.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal, 9December2023 https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/12/gaza-as-defenses-collapse-and-men-surrender-hamas-reportedly-turning-to-female-terrorists-for-help/

 

Israeli ground forces encircle the terrorist bastion of Khan Younis

Israeli ground forces encircle the terrorist bastion of Khan Younis

With Israeli military tightening the noose around terrorist strongholds across Gaza, the Hamas leadership is pressing female terrorists into service, the Israeli media reports citing IDF sources.

 

As Israeli ground forces encircle the terrorist bastion of Khan Younis, where Hamas’s Gaza chief and the planner of the October 7 massacre Yahya Sinwar is believed to be hiding, the Islamic terror group is sending women jihadists into harms way.

 

“In the past 24 hours, the elite IDF 98th Brigade has encountered multiple terrorists in Khan Younis, including the first time in which female terrorists were used in battle,” the Israeli news website Ynet reported Friday evening. “The females are reportedly taking on roles as observers, closely monitoring the movements of the brigade’s forces, and, according to suspicions, may also be carrying explosive devices.”

 

The news comes as Hamas terror fighters are surrendering to the IDF in large numbers, instead of dying in jihad in the hope of ‘heavenly’ rewards.


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Mass surrender and arrest of #Hamas terrorists in southern #Gaza

Yishai Fleisher-tweet-7December2023-Mass surrender and arrest of #Hamas terrorists in southern Gaza

Yishai Fleisher-tweet-7December2023-Mass surrender and arrest of #Hamas terrorists in southern Gaza

 

Hamas terrorists continue to use Gaza civilians as human shields, firing at Israeli troops from well dug-in positions insides schools, hospitals and residential buildings. On Saturday, terrorists attacked IDF soldiers from a United Nations-run school.

 

“Israeli forces fought a string of battles with Hamas terrorists in northern Gaza on Saturday as they pressed ahead with the ground offensive, with troops being attacked in at least two instances from within schools, the military said,” the Times of Israel reported. “At least two of the clashes took place inside a mosque and schools, including one run by the United Nations.”

 


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This documentation proves how Hamas terrorists beat the residents of Gaza and forcibly take humanitarian aid from them!

This proves only who Hamas terrorists are and that the aid entering Gaza mostly ends up in the hands of Hamas!

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Yoseph Haddad-tweet-9December2023-Hamas terrorists beat Gazian and take humanitarian aid from them

 

IDF uncovers sniper rifle and ammo stuffed inside teddy bear in Gaza school

During the subsequent search inside the school, the IDF uncovered a weapons cache hidden inside a large teddy bear. “A teddy bear stuffed with sniper rifles and ammunition, along with various weaponry, was found in schools in Gaza,” the military disclosed Saturday.


Israel Defense Forces-tweet-9December2023-Hamas hid sniper rifles and ammunition inside a teddy bear
Israelis placed teddy bears to remind the world of the 137 hostages still held by terrorists in Gaza.

Hamas hid sniper rifles and ammunition inside a teddy bear.

Can you see the difference between the two?

Israel Defense Forces-tweet-9December2023-Hamas hid sniper rifles and ammunition inside a teddy bear

Israel Defense Forces-tweet-9December2023-Hamas hid sniper rifles and ammunition inside a teddy bear

 

The IDF reported the last bust inside a Gaza school:

During operational activity by the 551th Division yesterday, a large teddy bear was found containing sniper rifles and ammunition inside a school.

Additionally, in a nearby school, weaponry was found hidden in classrooms, some concealed in UNRWA bags.

The Hamas terrorist organization is using children’s games to conceal weapons, while deliberately putting the children of Gaza at risk. Throughout the war, weapons were found hidden in children’s items and play areas including in a girl’s backpack, under children’s beds, in schools, and in playgrounds.


Dr. Eli David-tweet-9December2023-Hamas terrorists firing from within an UNRWA School
🚨 Breaking: Footage of Hamas terrorists firing from within an @UNRWA
🇺🇳 school in Gaza 👇

Yesterday @antonioguterres said 130 UN staff have been killed in Gaza.
Now you know why and how…

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Dr. Eli David-tweet-9December2023-Hamas terrorists firing from within an UNRWA School

 

Defense minister Gallant: Hamas-rule beginning to ‘crumble’ in Gaza

The Israeli military struck further terrorist targets, including Hamas commanders, terror tunnels and weapons depots, spread across Gaza. “IDF operational activity in the Gaza Strip continues. IAF fighter jets struck terror targets and terrorists as ground troops continued combat in different locations,” the military revealed Saturday morning.

 

Amid recent IDF successes on the ground, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant assured that Hamas-rule is beginning to ‘crumble’ in Gaza.

The i24NEWS reported:

Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Friday he was seeing definite “signs indicating the terrorist regime of Hamas was beginning to break under the pressure of Israel’s military offensive.

“The results are very impressive,” he said. “I see signs showing Hamas is beginning to fall apart in Gaza. You all play a key role in this,” he said.

Report: Biden WH gives Israel ‘until the end of the year’ to wrap up Gaza op

Meanwhile, the Biden White House is reportedly ramping up to pressure on Israel to ‘wrap up’ the military operation against Hamas. According to the latest news reports, the Biden administration has given Israel little over three weeks to end its counter-terrorism operation in Gaza.

 

“Biden admin has given Israel ‘until the end of the year’ to wrap up Gaza operation,” the newspaper Israel Hayom reported Saturday. “Israeli officials cited as saying the deadline was relayed by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his visit to Israel last week.”

 

Hamas militants encounter Israeli troops in Gaza school

 

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Palestinians deserve to starve according to Hamas leader Musa Abu Marzouk


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Palestinians deserve to starve according to #Hamas leader Musa Abu Marzouk.

“The aid that comes to Gaza must be distributed to the resistance fighters, and what remains is done Distribute it to the people. The attempt of some citizens to seize aid, as happened today in Rafah, will be fought with all force, and the people must offer what is expensive and what is cheap for the sake of the resistance, not steal the food of the resistance.”

According to #Hamas if you are a hungry #Palestinian, you deserve to be shot.

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Tamer Masudin-tweet-25December2023-Palestinians deserve to starve according to Hamas

 

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Hamas stealing UNRWA humanitarian aid


Adam Albilya-tweet-13December2023-Hamas stealing UNRWA humanitarian aid
Well, nothing new to see here—just Hamas’ freedom rapists violently stealing the humanitarian aid from their civilian all over again.

Breaching the understanding they signed off to when they still acted like they’re just worried, caring, and need it for nothing but their people.

Adam Albilya-tweet-13December2023-Hamas stealing UNRWA humanitarian aid

Adam Albilya-tweet-13December2023-Hamas stealing UNRWA humanitarian aid

 

Hamas Steals Humanitarian Aid


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Hamas terrorists have hijacked yet another humanitarian aid convoy after it crossed over the Rafah border from Egypt.

Oli London-tweet-17December2023-Hamas Steals Humanitarian Aid

Oli London-tweet-17December2023-Hamas Steals Humanitarian Aid

 

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Video of UNRWA Camps Showing Children Calling for Jihad Attracts Renewed Attention

by Deborah Danan 9August2014 https://www.algemeiner.com/2014/08/09/video-of-unrwa-camps-showing-children-calling-for-jihad-attracts-renewed-attention/

Camp Jihad from המרכז לחקר מדיניות המזה”ת CFNEPR on Vimeo.

A video of summer camps run by UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, is making the rounds on pro-Israel social media networks again with footage that shows Palestinian children as young as 6 calling for “Jihad against the Jews.”

 

“The resistance in Gaza is not enough,” says one camper in UNRWA’s school in Balata. “We need to unite and fight together.”

 

The Lawfare Project, which promoted the video, that was produced by the Center for Near East Policy Research, headed by David Bedein, makes the claim that US and Europe-sponsored UNWRA is abusing children with brainwashing methods that include games aimed at teaching the values of war and the Arab “right of return” to Israeli cities. It portrays children writing names on kites of the Israeli cities that they will one day recapture as theirs.

 

Children are taught to chant mantras such as “Palestine is an Arab land from the river to the sea. We want Haifa, we want Natanya.” Camp counselors tell stories of how their grandparents lived in places like Jaffa and Jerusalem and the many cars, palaces, villas and ships they owned before the “wolf” came. “Isn’t it true that Jews are the wolf?” asks one counselor.

 

“I dream that I will return to Sheikh Munis [Tel Aviv],” says one child, roughly 10-years-old. “I hope Abu Mazen will achieve this goal and will not disappoint, he has built great hopes.”

 

Another adds, “The right of return is our holy right. If not me than my grandchildren [will return].”

The songs that are sung include inciteful lyrics which range from tamer verses like “I will not forget my promise to take back my land” and “collect stones, throw them at Israelis” to the more radical such as “we are the revolutionaries and we are filled with rage”, “when we die as martyrs we go to heaven” and “with God’s help we will wage war.”

 

Another child who appears to be about 7-years-old is asked who the Jews are. “They are a gang of infidels and Christians,” she says. “I will defeat them.”

 

An older teenager is filmed as saying, “Attacking stage by stage is not the answer. We need to attack all at once.” He continues by saying “There will never be peace between us and Israel.”

 

In one instance, an older child explains one of the differences between UNRWA schools and regular schools within the PA. “UNRWA schools teach us about the Naqba,” she says. “Government schools also but the course load is less than our schools. They teach us a lot about the right of return, how life was before 1948.”

 

The video explains how funding for UNRWA comes from 20 donor nations, with most of the money coming from the US, Canada, and Britain. UNRWA schools hold summer camps on their premises every year in Gaza, Jerusalem, Nablus and Jenin.

 

UNRWA services 5 million descendants of Palestinian refugees from 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

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Report: Teachers at UNRWA-run schools celebrated Hamas massacres

6November2023  https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-teachers-at-unrwa-run-schools-celebrated-hamas-massacres/

 

Teachers at schools run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees have celebrated Hamas’s October 7 massacre of Israeli civilians, according to a new report.

 

Click to download PDF file Click to download UNRWA-Education-Textbooks-and-Terror-Nov-2023

 

The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), says it found at least 14 cases of teachers at UNRWA schools who lauded Hamas’s atrocities and other attacks by the terror group.

 

It also notes that an UNRWA-run school posted to its official Facebook page an event celebrating Hamas and its “jihad warriors” at the school.

 

It says textbooks used at UNRWA schools celebrate Hamas as “heroes” of jihad.

 

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IDF reveals: Proof Gazan teachers worked for Hamas

In letters addressed to the head of the Gaza Education Directorate, the terror organization requests to make it easier for teachers to devote themselves to their work with the terror organization.

Israel National News 18January2024 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/383821

IDF Arabic Language Spokesman Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee on Thursday revealed documents that indicate that teachers in the Gaza Strip worked in the ranks of the Hamas military complex.

 

In letters, which were apparently addressed to the head of the Gaza Education Directorate, Dr. Mohammad Hamdan, Hamas asks the Education Directorate to make it easier for teachers to devote themselves to their work with the terror organization.

 

The official letters were located during IDF operational activity in the Gaza Strip.

 

In the first letter, Hamas asks the Gazan Education Directorate to relieve the teachers from their educational requirements so they can work full-time for the organization. In the second letter, Hamas demands that an easy schedule be made for the teachers due to their work in the military arm.

 

Other letters ask to exempt the teachers from adhering to the teaching schedule so they can train with the organization. The letter notes that the “schedule is not flexible.”

 

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IDF: Troops in Gaza finding caches of Hamas weapons in schools, mosques and homes

By EMANUEL FABIAN 13November2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-troops-in-gaza-finding-caches-of-hamas-weapons-in-schools-mosques-and-homes/

 

This handout photo released by the Israel Defense Forces on November 13, 2023, shows Israeli ground forces in the Gaza Strip amid the war against Hamas. (Israel Defense Forces)

This handout photo released by the Israel Defense Forces on November 13, 2023, shows Israeli ground forces in the Gaza Strip amid the war against Hamas. (Israel Defense Forces)

The Israel Defense Forces says ground troops continue to find Hamas weaponry and infrastructure during raids in the Gaza Strip, including inside schools, mosques, and the homes of terror operatives.

 

Troops of the 401st Brigade operating on the outskirts of the al-Shati camp located Hamas infrastructure in Al-Quds University, and a cache of explosives inside the Abu Bakr mosque, the IDF says.

 

It says that troops seized dozens of weapons, military equipment, and Hamas battle plans.

Troops of the 551st Reserve Brigade meanwhile raided the home of a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative in the Beit Hanoun area, and found a weapons cache, including some in a child’s bedroom.

 

In another raid in Beit Hanoun, troops found a tunnel shaft, intelligence materials, and weapons, the IDF adds.

 

idfonline-tweet-13November2023-401st brigade’s combat team

לוחמי צוות הקרב של חטיבה 401, ממשיכים בביצוע פשיטות בפאתי מחנה ‘שאטי’ תוך מיקוד בתשתיות טרור הממוקמות במוסדות שלטוניים מרכזיים בלב אוכלוסייה אזרחית ובהם- בתי ספר, אוניברסיטאות, מסגדים ובתי פעילים >>

Translated from Hebrew by
The fighters of the 401st brigade’s combat team continue to carry out raids on the outskirts of the ‘Shatti’ camp while targeting terrorist infrastructures located in central government institutions in the heart of a civilian population, including schools, universities, mosques and activist homes >>

 

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Explosives found in UNRWA bags, terrorists hiding in schools

Nahal Brigade troops battle Hamas, Islamic Jihad terrorists hiding in schools in northern Gaza, dozens of explosives found in UNRWA bags.

Israel National News / 25December2023 /https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/382526

After receiving information regarding Hamas terrorists hiding inside schools, IDF soldiers of the Nahal Brigade in the 162nd Division conducted operational activity in the area of the “Al Rafaa” and “Zavaha” schools in Tuffah in the northern Gaza Strip.

 

During the encounter with the terrorists and their elimination, the soldiers located dozens of explosive devices in UNRWA bags, Kalashnikovs and 15 explosive belts. In one of Hamas’ attempts to attack the soldiers, a terrorist fired an anti-tank missile at IDF soldiers. Immediately afterward, the terrorist was eliminated by a precise strike from a tank.

 

Many terrorists who hid inside the schools were identified as operatives of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad and were brought in for questioning. Some of the terrorists that were brought in for questioning took part in the October 7th massacre.

 

“This is further evidence of Hamas’ use of the civilian population and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip as human shields for its terrorist activity,” the IDF stated.

 

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The UN has officially become Hamas’ accomplice


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The UN has officially become Hamas’ accomplice‼️
Our soldiers have irrefutably exposed how UNRWA aid – aid that is meant to benefit Gazan civilians – is exploited by Hamas to conceal missiles and rockets used to murder Israeli civilians.
I showcased Hamas’ cynical use of the UN’s aid, at the UN and to UN officials. The UN’s indifference to terrorists exploiting UN resources makes the UN a direct accomplice in terror!
Watch and retweet to spread the truth>>

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Ambassador Gilad Erdan-tweet-2December2023-UN has officially become Hamas’ accomplice

 

 

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Israel in Clear Statement: “Every resident of Gaza who held hostages — is a terrorist marked for elimination”

First publication: Following the exposure of News 13 last night regarding a teacher at UNRA and a doctor who held hostages in their home – today it was reported that the IDF is threatening those kidnapping terrorists: “Every person who held any of the hostages is a deadly terrorist.”

The meaning of this is that the IDF will not separate between “active” Hamas terrorists and ” mostly peaceful civilians” who held the hostages like Jew slaves. Whether they thought they were only “guarding” them or held them in exchange for making money:

Around they fucked — find out THEY WILL. [EDD: Proper Translation: THEY FUCKED AROUND – THEY WILL FIND OUT]

UNRWA-tweet-1December2023-UNRWA
🛑 Spreading unsubstantiated claims about @UNRWA
must stop immediately.

Making serious allegations in the public domain, unsupported by any evidence or verifiable facts in support thereof may amount to misinformation.

FULL Statement ⬇️
https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/spreading-unsubstantiated-claims-about-unrwa-must-immediately-stop

Community-Notes-logo Readers added context

Claims against UNRWA have been documented for a long time.

The headmaster of an UNRWA school was a terrorist.
https://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSL05686115/

Film by David Bedein in Jenin, UNRWA policies and practices
https://vimeo.com/856467890

UNRWA teachers celebrated Oct 7 massacre
https://unwatch.org/report-u-n-teachers-celebrated-hamas-massacre/

UNRWA teacher holds hostage in attic
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/united-nations-gaza-teacher-israeli-hostage-attic

Adam Albilya-tweet-1December2023-UNRWA-FAFO

Adam Albilya-tweet-1December2023-UNRWA-FAFO

 


Hillel Neuer-tweet-2December2023-UNRWA’s tweet complaining
UNRWA’s tweet complaining about “unsubstantiated claims about UNRWA” just got Community Noted with lots of substantiated claims.

Hillel Neuer-tweet-2December2023-UNRWA's tweet complaining

Hillel Neuer-tweet-2December2023-UNRWA’s tweet complaining

 

 

UNRWA funding has fallen from $1.17 billion to just $254 million.


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UNRWA funding has fallen from $1.17 billion to just $254 million.

 

Visegrád 24-tweet-4February2024-UNRWA funding has fallen from $1.17 billion to just $254 million.

Visegrád 24-tweet-4February2024-UNRWA funding has fallen from $1.17 billion to just $254 million.

 

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UN staff and UNRWA School director among the Hamas Terrorists who surrendered today


miha schwartzenberg-tweet-7December2023-UN-UNRWA staff are Hamas Terrorists surrendered
🚨❗️
A @UN staff and a @UNRWA School director, among the #HamasTerrorists who surrendered today.
Don’t take my word for it, the info is from Palestinian accounts, who thought…it’s a good idea to tell us all:).
These terrorists are from Shejaiya Battalion, responsible for heavy attacks on Israel.

miha schwartzenbergs-tweet-7December2023-UN-UNRWA staff are Hamas Terrorists surrendered

miha schwartzenbergs-tweet-7December2023-UN-UNRWA staff are Hamas Terrorists surrendered

 

Palestinian source:


Ramy Abdu-tweet-7December2023-Among those taken today in Beit Lahia
Among those taken hostage today in Beit Lahia are:
-Khalil Hashem Al-Kahlot, 65,
– Rafiq Ahmad Al-Kahlot, 60,
– Muhammad Ismail Al-Kahlot, 57
– Darwish Gharbawy, @unrwa
School director, 48
– Ahmed Akram Lubad, 56, @UN
staff
In addition to the children
-Muhammad Hamza Al-Kahlot, 15 years old.
– Youssef Khaled Lubad, 15 years old
@EuroMedHR

Ramy Abdus-tweet-7December2023-Among those taken today in Beit Lahia

Ramy Abdus-tweet-7December2023-Among those taken today in Beit Lahia

 


Adam Albilya-tweet-10December2023-Terrorists are a bunch of cowards
Terrorists are no longer what they used to be…

Oh, wait, they actually are what they’ve always been: a bunch of cowards who are only brave against kids and elderly.

Their ongoing investigation reveals that the most commonly used excuse for surrender is cited as “loss of communication with the leadership.”

Adam Albilya-tweet-10December2023-Terrorists are a bunch of cowards

Adam Albilya-tweet-10December2023-Terrorists are a bunch of cowards

 

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From the 2014 Gaza War

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The Price of Hamas’ Underground Terror Network

26July2014 https://www.idf.il/en/articles/hamas/the-price-of-hamas-underground-terror-network/

Hamas could be investing in the people of Gaza. Instead it invests in terrorism.

Construction materials meant for Palestinians routinely enter Gaza from Israel. To be exact, 4,680 trucks carrying 181 thousand tons of gravel, iron, cement, wood and other supplies have passed through the Kerem Shalom crossing since the beginning of 2014.

Imagine what Hamas could build with these resources instead of tunnels. Hundreds of homes and civilian structures for the residents of Gaza go unbuilt while the underground terror network continues to expand.

The price of Hamas underground terror network

The price of Hamas underground terror network

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UN and Hamas: Partners in Crime

by Robert Williams
4December2023 https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20192/united-nations-hamas

 

  • To understand how the UN effectively runs the Hamas propaganda war, it is important to know that the UN, through its agency for Palestinian refugees, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), is effectively embedded with Hamas in the Gaza Strip…
  • “The UN has 13,000 employees in tiny Gaza. They know exactly what’s going on… They all knew Hamas’ terror infrastructure was in the hospital compound, where Israel wouldn’t attack. They lied to the world for 16 years. To paint Israel as evil.” — Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, November 16, 2023.
  • [T]he UN has sustained an incessant campaign, especially on social media, that accuses Israel of deliberately targeting schools, children, civilians, hospitals and healthcare workers. While those are protected from attack during war by international law, that protection does not apply to schools, hospitals and other civilian sites that are used for military purposes.
  • When Israel carried out an airstrike on an ambulance in northern Gaza, which was being used by Hamas terrorists, [UN Secretary-General António] Guterres expressed that he was “horrified” with Israel’s action, while ignoring Hamas’s war crimes. In practice, the UN and Hamas act as partners in crime.
  • Above all, the UN’s transparent complicity with Hamas should convince the US, finally, that much of the UN is a destructive organization that prolongs wars, and needs immediately to have its funding decimated, and be reduced in importance to the corrupt relic that it is, deserving no place in this century.

 

When a rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad exploded outside Gaza's Al-Ahli hospital, Hamas claimed within minutes that Israel had bombed the hospital and falsely asserted that hundreds of people had been killed there. The United Nations rushed to blame Israel, and UN Secretary-General António Guterres used his speech at the Belt and Road Summit in China to condemn Israel for the explosion. Pictured: The parking lot of Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza on October 18, 2023 after a rocket launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad landed there. (Photo by Shadi Al-Tabatibi/AFP via Getty Images)

When a rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad exploded outside Gaza’s Al-Ahli hospital, Hamas claimed within minutes that Israel had bombed the hospital and falsely asserted that hundreds of people had been killed there. The United Nations rushed to blame Israel, and UN Secretary-General António Guterres used his speech at the Belt and Road Summit in China to condemn Israel for the explosion. Pictured: The parking lot of Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza on October 18, 2023 after a rocket launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad landed there. (Photo by Shadi Al-Tabatibi/AFP via Getty Images)

 

Since October 7, when Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel and massacred at least 1,200 and kidnapped another 240 Israelis and people of other nationalities, the United Nations has been acting as the unofficial propaganda arm of the Iranian-backed Hamas terrorist organization.

 

The propaganda campaign’s main aim – besides smearing Israel – appears to be to build overwhelming international pressure on Israel to agree to an indefinite ceasefire , which will give Hamas the needed time to regroup and replenish to continue its terrorist activities and to avoid being eliminated by the Israeli Defense Forces.

 

To understand how the UN effectively runs the Hamas propaganda war, it is important to know that the UN, through its agency for Palestinian refugees, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), is effectively embedded with Hamas in the Gaza Strip: it can be difficult to make any meaningful distinction between the two organizations. On October 7, in fact, as the Hamas massacre of civilians in Israel unfolded, UNRWA employees in Gaza celebrated. UN Watch wrote in a report last month:

“As soon as news of the horrific slaughter broke, which was livestreamed on social media by some of the terrorists, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff immediately celebrated and justified it on Facebook… UNRWA has been a breeding ground for Palestinian terrorists from its early days… The perpetrators of the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre, in which 11 Israeli athletes were murdered… almost all were raised and educated in UNRWA schools… Likewise, Mohamed Deif, the commander of Hamas’s Al Qassem Brigades who masterminded the October 7th massacre, was also educated in an UNRWA school.”

According to Associated Press:

“From 2014-2020, U.N. agencies spent nearly $4.5 billion in Gaza, including $600 million in 2020 alone. More than 80% of that funding is channeled through the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, who make up three-fourths of Gaza’s population. Some 280,000 children in Gaza attend schools run by UNRWA, which also provides health services and food aid.”

The UN, through UNRWA in Gaza, likely knows everything that happens there, including the terrorist infrastructure of the underground Hamas tunnels and their use of hospitals and ambulances. Yet throughout this war, the UN has done nothing but feign “horror and shock” at Israel’s necessary measures against Hamas terrorists embedded within civilian society in Gaza. As the executive director of UN Watch, Hillel Neuer, pointed out:

“The UN has 13,000 employees in tiny Gaza. They know exactly what’s going on… They all knew Hamas’ terror infrastructure was in the hospital compound, where Israel wouldn’t attack. They lied to the world for 16 years. To paint Israel as evil.”

On October 24, UN Secretary-General António Guterres stooped to a new low when pushing a typical Hamas narrative of grievances. He said that the October 7 attacks “did not happen in a vacuum,” thereby seemingly justifying the terrorist attacks. Meanwhile, the UN has not bothered in the least to address in concrete and horrifying detail what happened during the October 7 massacre – the mass rapes, the horrific torture, the ruthless murders and the kidnappings.

 

This silence on what happened on October 7 is, sadly, in keeping with the UN’s demonization of Israel around the clock. The UN invokes international humanitarian law – which Hamas, not Israel, is breaking by building military installations in protected civilian spaces (which, when used for military purposes become unprotected) and using civilians as human shields. Meanwhile, the UN never calls for Hamas to stop using its civilians as human shields to protect its weapons and show dead babies to the television cameras – to imply that their deaths were Israel’s fault.

 

Why are Gazan civilians not allowed to take shelter from aerial bombardments in Hamas’s 300 km of underground tunnels? Why did the Israel Defense Forces have to protect the Gazans fleeing south for their lives — as Israel had cautioned them to — while Hamas tried at gunpoint to prevent them from leaving?

 

Everything that the UN says and does regarding to Israel’s military operations in Gaza turns Hamas’s war crimes on their head — to try to blame them on Israel. Meanwhile, the UN parrots as fact whatever outlandish claims Hamas produces, including Gazan casualty numbers, which oddly never include any mention of Hamas terrorists, but mostly women and children.

 

When Hamas claimed on October 17 that Israel had bombed Gaza’s Al-Ahli hospital, falsely asserting that hundreds of people had been killed, the UN rushed to blame Israel. Guterres used his speech at the Belt and Road Summit in China to condemn Israel for the explosion outside the hospital and to call for an immediate ceasefire, while Dennis Francis, president of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly announced that he was “shocked and horrified.”

 

On October 18, Israel published evidence showing that the strike on the hospital compound was a misfired rocket aimed at Israel and launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The UN said nothing. Instead, the UN has sustained an incessant campaign, especially on social media, that accuses Israel of deliberately targeting schools, children, civilians, hospitals and healthcare workers. While those are protected from attack during war by international law, that protection does not apply to schools, hospitals and other civilian sites that are used for military purposes.

 

Hamas’ unlawful military use of hospitals, schools and other civilian sites was first exposed years ago. Former US President Bill Clinton spoke about it in 2016. “When Hamas chooses to rocket Israel, it insinuates itself into hospitals and into schools,” he said.

 

NATO published a report in 2019, which bluntly stated:

“Hamas, an Islamist militant group and the de facto governing authority of the Gaza Strip, has been using human shields in conflicts with Israel since 2007. According to the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the war crime of using human shields encompasses “utilizing the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas, or military forces immune from military operations.” Hamas has launched rockets, positioned military-related infrastructure-hubs and routes, and engaged the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) from, or in proximity to, residential and commercial areas.

“The strategic logic of human shields has two components. It is based on an awareness of Israel’s desire to minimise collateral damage, and of Western public opinion’s sensitivity towards civilian casualties. If the IDF uses lethal force and causes an increase in civilian casualties, Hamas can utilise that as a lawfare tool: it can accuse Israel of committing war crimes, which could result in the imposition of a wide array of sanctions. Alternatively, if the IDF limits its use of military force in Gaza to avoid collateral damage, Hamas will be less susceptible to Israeli attacks, and thereby able to protect its assets while continuing to fight.”

When Israel carried out an airstrike on an ambulance in northern Gaza, which was being used by Hamas terrorists, Guterres expressed that he was “horrified” with Israel’s action, while ignoring Hamas’s war crimes. In practice, the UN and Hamas act as partners in crime.

 

A Hamas terrorist who participated in the October 7 mass-murder of Israelis and was captured, said during a recent interrogation intercepted by Israel:

“Al-Qassam [the Hamas military wing] has its own ambulances, some of which are located on the military base. The appearance of the ambulances is similar to the civilian ambulances so that they will not arouse suspicion or be bombed by Israel.”

Another captured Hamas terrorist said:

“During combat, the ambulances are used, among other things, to evacuate fighters, commanders and operatives. They also transport food, cargo and weapons in them because that is the safest way to transport them.”

Yet another captured terrorist said that ambulances were useful to transport “important people” such as Hamas commanders because “the Jews don’t attack ambulances.”

 

When Israel published evidence of the Hamas military command center beneath Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, World Health Organization Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who covered up the transmissibility of the COVID-19 pandemic for China and is accused of trying to cover up three cholera epidemics in Ethiopia, immediately castigated Israel.

 

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths, wrote:

“I’m appalled by reports of military raids in Al Shifa hospital in #Gaza. The protection of newborns, patients, medical staff and all civilians must override all other concerns. Hospitals are not battlegrounds.”

While these high-ranking UN officials disingenuously feign ignorance and expect the public to believe that they knew nothing about the Hamas base in Al-Shifa Hospital, foreign doctors and journalists have apparently been aware of it for years.

 

An unnamed British doctor, who worked at Al-Shifa hospital three years ago, recently said in a television interview:

“The main point was, when I was first asked to work there [at Al-Shifa], I was told there was a part of the hospital I was not to go near, and if I did, I’d be in danger of being shot… implicit was that it was being used for non-medical purposes… I stayed away, but I saw a few dodgy looking non-medical characters going in and out all the time. It was a ward leading to a basement.”

A journalist from Italy related that in 2009, upon arriving in Al-Shifa Hospital to interview wounded members of Fatah, he came almost face to face with the Hamas command and control center beneath the hospital:

“Shifa is a very large compound. I got lost inside it, and at some point I ended up on an underground floor, and I found myself in front of two armed Hamas men in military attire, who told me to get out. I got the impression they were guarding a security door that gave access to their underground infrastructure. Several Palestinian sources I spoke with later on confirmed that Hamas’s command and control center was located under Shifa Hospital and that [Hamas leader] Ismail Haniyeh had been hiding there throughout the duration of Operation Cast Lead.”

It is also likely that the UN, with its 13,000 employees in Gaza, knew, as did the nurses and doctors at Al-Shifa Hospital, that Israeli hostages were being held at Al-Shifa. Israel recently revealed that Hamas terrorists brought hostages there in broad daylight on October 7, with healthcare staff even holding doors open for the terrorists.

 

The UN’s pretend show of “shock and horror” that Israel is eliminating its Hamas partner in Gaza is too transparent for anyone to take seriously, although the international mainstream media certainly does, parroting whatever Hamas and the UN allege as facts.

 

Above all, the UN’s transparent complicity with Hamas should convince the US, finally, that much of the UN is a destructive organization that prolongs wars, and needs immediately to have its funding decimated, and be reduced in importance to the corrupt relic that it is, deserving no place in this century.

Robert Williams is a researcher based in the United States.

 

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THIRD Rocket Arsenal Found At UN School In Gaza

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The United Nations Relief & Works Agency For Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced Tuesday that another rocket stockpile has been found at one of its schools in Gaza. This instance marks the third time since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge that a weapons arsenal has been found at an UNRWA school in Gaza.

Dan Williams-tweet-29July2014-UNRWA says rockets found on Tuesday

Dan Williams-tweet-29July2014-UNRWA says rockets found on Tuesday

UNRWA has yet to place blame on any individuals or organizations for placing the weapons stockpile within a children’s school. The UN body refused to do so on the past two previous occasions as well.

 

The UN body, after both previous findings, has handed the rockets it had found back into the possession of “the local police,” otherwise known as the terrorist group Hamas.

 

This week, UNRWA supplies and building materials had been found in Hamas’s tunnel infrastructure, which has been used to smuggle weapons and carry out attacks on the State of Israel.

 

The UN agency has a well-documented history of using their US taxpayer-funded facilities to promote anti-Israel and anti-Semitic propaganda. It has in the past been accused of aiding and abetting radical Islamists in Gaza and elsewhere.

UNRWA was created in 1949 to provide relief and public works programs for displaced Arab refugees that had formerly inhabited the British mandate of Palestine. UNRWA is currently the largest agency-subdivision of the entire UN, employing over 30,000 staff. UNRWA has objectively failed in its primary goal of finding homes for those it has deemed “refugees”. From 1949 to present day, refugees recognized by UNRWA has grown from 750,000 to 5,000,000 people.

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,h1>How Hamas assembles and fires rockets near Gaza homes

NDTV exclusive – how Hamas assembles and fires rockets

Published on 05August2014
Minutes before the 72-hour ceasefire began, this rocket was fired from deep within a civilian zone.
Watch more videos: http://www.ndtv.com/video?yt

They waited until they left Gaza to air the report.

This report is being aired on NDTV and published on ndtv.com after our team left the Gaza strip – Hamas has not taken very kindly to any reporting of its rockets being fired. But just as we reported the devastating consequences of Israel’s offensive on Gaza’s civilians, it is equally important to report on how Hamas places those very civilians at risk by firing rockets deep from the heart of civilian zones.
A France 24 TV journalist – who famously ducked for cover during a live interview when a Hamas rocket was fired right next to him – has also gone on the record to report how the rocket which caught him off guard was launched in a crowded civilian area and right in front of a UN building.

Exclusive: Hamas rocket launch pad revealed near Gaza homes

Published on 05August2014
FRANCE 24 has exclusive footage of a Hamas rocket launching pad that appears to prove the militant group has been firing from areas heavily populated with civilians.
Comment:

The occurrence proves Israel’s contention that Hamas fires rockets from among civilians, using them as human shields and manipulating any civilian casualties that are thus incurred, in order to make Israel look bad.

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United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)

How the UN and the international community (including the US) keep Hamas going

08August2014 http://israelmatzav.blogspot.co.il/2014/08/how-un-and-international-community.html

UNRWA - United Nations Rocket Warehousing Agency

UNRWA – United Nations Rocket Warehousing Agency
Claudia Rossett has a devastating expose on how the United Nations and international community keep Hamas going.

Officially, Unrwa is a strictly humanitarian agency, providing Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and the West Bank, as well as Gaza, with “assistance and protection” in the form of schools, hospitals, construction, loans, jobs and other help. By the agency’s own account, in its 2014-15 budget “the core services UNRWA provides are comparable in nature and scope to those provided by a local or national government.”

 

But Gaza under Hamas is a place with only two basic industries: aid and terrorism. These are much entwined, and not solely because Hamas controls Unrwa’s staff unions in Gaza, where in 2012 a Hamas-affiliated slate swept 25 of 27 seats. In effect the U.N. group subsidizes Hamas. Among U.N. agencies in the Middle East, Unrwa is the largest employer, with a regular budget for 2014 of $731 million, and a total budget that, with emergency appeals, tops $1 billion.

 

The agency has roughly 30,000 staff on its payroll, almost all Palestinian. Some 12,500 work in Gaza, home to 1.2 million Unrwa-registered refugees, who account for about two-thirds of Gaza’s population. The U.N. agency’s welfare programs relieve Hamas of many of the costs of servicing the enclave it controls as its launchpad for terror.

 

With the agency handling household chores, Hamas—especially since its bloody takeover of Gaza in 2007, ousting the Palestinian Authority’s Fatah—has found the time and resources to amass rocket arsenals (Unrwa last month reported finding rockets stashed in three of its vacant schools), to bombard Israel (sometimes in close proximity to Unrwa premises), and to build miles of concrete-reinforced tunnels extending into Israel for terrorist attacks. Israel, in its counteroffensive, has been accused by the U.N. of deadly strikes on Unrwa schools serving as shelters.

 

How did it come to this? Created by the U.N. General Assembly in 1949, Unrwa began operations in 1950 as an emergency jobs and aid program for Palestinian refugees. It was supposed to be temporary but has been repeatedly renewed. The agency has now carried on for 64 years, vastly expanding its budget, programs and refugee rolls.

 

Unrwa is unusual among U.N. agencies in ways that render it especially unaccountable, even by U.N. standards. All other refugees world-wide fall under the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Only the Palestinians have their own dedicated U.N. refugee agency, offering special access to the perquisites of the U.N. logo, stage and fundraising.

 

Almost all other U.N. agencies report to an executive board, allowing at least some chance of functional oversight. Unrwa reports directly to the entire 193-member General Assembly, where responsibility is broadly dispersed and easily avoided. According to a paper in 2010 by the agency’s own chief of legal affairs, Lance Bartholomeusz, Unrwa enjoys the added flexibility of having no clearly defined mission: “its mandate is not conveniently stated in one place and must be derived from all other relevant resolutions and requests.”

 

Thus unencumbered, Unrwa has ensured its own survival by transforming itself into the patron of Palestinian grievance, conferring refugee status down the generations, an unusual practice. The agency’s website reports that since 1950 its roster of registered refugees has grown from an original 750,000 to 5.3 million—a sevenfold increase, all eligible for the Unrwa dole. For the Palestinians, this has been ruinous, fostering within an otherwise enterprising culture a crippling sense of entitlement and dependency.

The United States is UNRWA’s largest donor. And rather than reevaluate, some Americans have a vested interest in keeping it that way.

In 2011 the agency opened an office in Washington run by two former U.S. government insiders: Matthew Reynolds, previously the State Department’s assistant secretary for legislative affairs, and Chris McGrath, previously a media-events director for Sen. Harry Reid. The job descriptions include representing the U.N. agency’s interests to the State Department and monitoring Congress on a daily basis to yield an “advocacy strategy dedicated to optimizing Unrwa’s relations with Congress.”

 

Thus U.S. tax dollars fund Unrwa officials now lobbying in Washington to obtain yet more money for an agency entwined with the rocket-launching, tunnel-digging rulers of Gaza. Mr. Reynolds, reached by phone this week, said he doesn’t answer questions from the media. Christopher Gunness, the agency spokesman, did not respond to repeated queries.

What could go wrong?

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Israel Foreign Ministry-tweet-9November2023-Hamas doesn’t care about Gaza’s civilians
Hamas doesn’t care about Gaza’s civilians.

While Israel is doing everything possible to prevent civilian casualties, Hamas is INTENTIONALLY putting innocent Palestinians in harm’s way.

Watch:

#PleaseGoSouth

 

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Israel Foreign Ministry-tweet-9November2023-Hamas doesn’t care about Gaza’s civilians

Israel Hayom 385_eng South Gaza UNRWA Camp 11-30-2023

Israel Hayom 385_eng South Gaza UNRWA Camp 11-30-2023

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You vowed ‘Never Again’

15/10/2023 – ל׳ בתשרי ה׳תשפ״ד – ל׳ בתשרי ה׳תשפ״ד – 10:42

1945 Jews could not defend themselves (Top image: Jews in Nazi Concentration Camp behind Barbed wire Fence) Today they can, because of Israel (Bottom Image: Women in the Israel Defense Force)

1945 Jews could not defend themselves (Top image: Jews in Nazi Concentration Camp behind Barbed wire Fence) Today they can, because of Israel (Bottom Image: Women in the Israel Defense Force)

Jews, Do you think that the Goyim will protect you?

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It’s time to come home! Nefesh B’Nefesh: Live the Dream 1-866-4-ALIYAH

From the Passover Haggadah:

According to the instructions of Rabbi Isaac Luria, the wine cup is now raised and the Matzot are covered.

This is what has stood by our fathers and us! For not just one alone has risen against us to destroy us, but in every generation they rise against us to destroy us; and the Holy One, blessed be He, saves us from their hand!

Arab Palestinian attacks on Jews since 1517

Arab Palestinian attacks on Jews since 1517

Each of the soldiers in the bottom pic is the grandson of a man in the top pic. @GameOnJD@ScotsFyre @PolitiBunny pic.twitter.com/hooJ57HZaT

— יוסף חיים לוין (@Rabbi224) May 2, 2019

יוסף חיים לוין @Rabbi224 Tweet-03May2019 Each of the soldiers in the bottom pic is the grandson of a man in the top pic. @GameOnJD @ScotsFyre @PolitiBunny

יוסף חיים לוין @Rabbi224 Tweet-03May2019 Each of the soldiers in the bottom pic is the grandson of a man in the top pic. @GameOnJD @ScotsFyre @PolitiBunny

Stephen Uzzell-tweet-15September2022-The Israeli soldiers in the bottom photo are the granddaughters of the four women at the front of the line at the Nazi concentration camp.

Stephen Uzzell-tweet-15September2022-The Israeli soldiers in the bottom photo are the granddaughters of the four women at the front of the line at the Nazi concentration camp.

“The coming into being of a Jewish state in Palestine is an event in world history to be viewed in the perspective, not of a generation or a century, but in the perspective of a thousand, two thousand, or even three thousand years.” (Winston Churchill)

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It won’t happen here.


Hillel Fuld-tweet-12August2024-It won’t happen here
“It won’t happen here. You’re being an alarmist. This time is different. This isn’t <Insert any country that persecuted the Jews.>. You really need to stop trying to scare people.”

That’s what my grandmother would have said in Germany if someone had told her to get out now!

Hillel Fuld-tweet-12August2024-It won’t happen here

Hillel Fuld-tweet-12August2024-It won’t happen here

 

It won’t happen here.

It won’t happen here.

 

 

USA This is it. No one is coming to help us.


Elon Musk-tweet-31October2024-This is it-No one is coming to help us
This is it
Rothmus-tweet-31October2024-No one is coming to help us
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

Elon Musk-tweet-31October2024-This is it-No one is coming to help us

Elon Musk-tweet-31October2024-This is it-No one is coming to help us

 

This is the USA sign-No one is coming to help us

This is the USA sign-No one is coming to help us

 

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We are here to fight


Uri Israel-tweet-30October2024-We are here to fight
For centuries, they slaughtered us without remorse or consequence, tore down our home, took our land, ravaged our people, stole our children, and tried forcing their beliefs down our throats. No one stood in their way, and they walked away untouched every time.

But those days are over—they can’t break us physically anymore

We have our land back and are more than capable of defending ourselves now, so they’re trying their hardest to break our spirit instead. They twist the story, spit lies, and spew their twisted propaganda, hoping to poison minds.

It may fool some, but plenty have seen right through their pathetic games.

We’re here to fight, because #neveragain means we’ll be damned if we ever let them strip us of our land, our pride, and our future again.

#AmYisraelChai

Uri Israel-tweet-30October2024-We are here to fight

Uri Israel-tweet-30October2024-We are here to fight

 

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You vowed ‘Never Again’

Mike LaChance
@MikeLaChance33
Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) explains the meaning of #NeverAgain #Israel

 

Mike LaChance-tweet-11October2023-Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) explains the meaning of Never Again

Mike LaChance-tweet-11October2023-Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) explains the meaning of Never Again

 

 


Living Lchaim-tweet-5November2023-Never again is now.

Yehuda Dov Galpert is a 96 year old Holocaust survivor who, after losing all his siblings in the war and witnessing his father’s death just weeks before liberation, resettled in New York and build a family with children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

He has a message for the soldiers fighting for our nation in Eretz Yisroel that he would like to be publicized.

Never again is now.

Living Lchaim-tweet-5November2023-Never again is now

Living Lchaim-tweet-5November2023-Never again is now

 

 


Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-9November2023-the survivors of the Holocaust statement
“Never have we, the survivors of the Holocaust felt the need to make a collective statement … until now.”

Incredibly powerful front page of the @australian!

On the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht and in the wake of the Oct 7 Hamas massacre, over 100 Holocaust survivors write joint letter.

“Never did we think that we would witness a re-enactment of the senseless and virulent hatred of Jews that we faced in Europe. The actions of Hamas are so familiar, so barbaric, yet instead of condemning this, the response across the globe is a shameful spike in antisemitism.

Our memories and our experiences in ghettos, concentration camps and in hiding – seeing our families and communities vanish – compel us to raise our voices and implore humanity to reject hatred, bigotry and violence.

We cannot allow history to repeat itself.

We ask you to stand with us.”

Read full letter here: https://origin.go.theaustralian.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Holocaust-letter.pdf
Click to download PDF file Click to download PDF file Holocaust-letter

Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-9November2023-the survivors of the Holocaust statement

Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-9November2023-the survivors of the Holocaust statement

 


Sia Kordestani-tweet-20November2023-Ivanhorod 1942-Kibbutz Alumim 2023
Left: Nazi executing a Jewish woman with her child in Ivanhorod, 1942.

Right: CCTV screenshot of Hamas Nazi executing a young Jewish woman cowering, pleading for her life, in Kibbutz Alumim, 2023. Video below.

Never Again Means Destroy Hamas.

Sia Kordestani-tweet-20November2023-Ivanhorod 1942-Kibbutz Alumim 2023

Sia Kordestani-tweet-20November2023-Ivanhorod 1942-Kibbutz Alumim 2023

 


Im Tirtzu-tweet-24April2024-All Jews please make Aliyah asap
All Jews please make Aliyah asap 💔💔💔

Im Tirtzu-tweet-24April2024-All Jews please make Aliyah asap

Im Tirtzu-tweet-24April2024-All Jews please make Aliyah asap

 

 

This is not Berlin 1939, it’s Columbus, Ohio, USA, November 2024.


AP-tweet-17November2024-This is not Berlin 1939 it’s Columbus Ohio USA November 2024
This is not Berlin 1939, it’s Columbus, Ohio, USA, Nov. 2024.

AP-tweet-17November2024-This is not Berlin 1939, it's Columbus Ohio USA November 2024

AP-tweet-17November2024-This is not Berlin 1939, it’s Columbus Ohio USA November 2024

 

 

 

Behind free Palestine rallies is Iran


Emily Schrader-tweet-4February2024-behind free Palestine rallies is Iran
Just in case you’re wondering who and what is behind these pro-terror “free Palestine” rallies, here is a tip.

These were handed out in London today.

Emily Schrader-tweet-4February2024-behind free Palestine rallies is Iran

Emily Schrader-tweet-4February2024-behind free Palestine rallies is Iran

 


Elad Simchayoff-tweet-14October2023-Germany, 2023: You vowed “Never Again”
Germany. 2023.
You vowed “Never Again”, and yet houses of Jews are being marked.
I’ve spoken to the person who took the photo yesterday in Berlin. it’s authentic and police is involved. There are other such incidents as well.

Elad Simchayoff-tweet-14October2023-Germany, 2023: You vowed "Never Again"

Elad Simchayoff-tweet-14October2023-Germany, 2023: You vowed “Never Again”

 

Yoni Freedhoff, MD-tweet-26October2023-We all knew it was bad

Yoni Freedhoff, MD-tweet-26October2023-We all knew it was bad

 

it’s 1948


Caroline Glick-tweet-5May2024-Biden told Hamas he will guarantee Israeli capitulation
Biden told Hamas he will guarantee Israeli capitulation. He has reportedly stopped weapons shipments to Israel to force us to surrender.
It’s the Eve of Yom HaShoah.
What percentage of the American public signed on to Biden’s decision to support and facilitate another Holocaust?
JerusalemCat-tweet-it’s 1948
Time to really turn to Hashem, start like it’s 1948 and build our Army and Industry trusting no one but Hashem. That means EVERYTHING is built locally. Next tell the Students in the West, We are proud of your bravery. Come Home NOW to Israel. For Your People, For Yourself.

Caroline Glick-tweet-5May2024-Biden told Hamas he will guarantee Israeli capitulation

Caroline Glick-tweet-5May2024-Biden told Hamas he will guarantee Israeli capitulation

 

Jewish man: my family and I do not feel safe as Jews in San Francisco


StopAntisemitism-tweet-11January2024-Jewish man-my family and I do not feel safe as Jews in San Francisco
Jewish man: my family and I do not feel safe as Jews in San Francisco

Audience members behind him: making pig noises

Are we in Germany 1939 all over again?

StopAntisemitism-tweet-11January2024-Jewish man-my family and I do not feel safe as Jews in San Francisco

StopAntisemitism-tweet-11January2024-Jewish man-my family and I do not feel safe as Jews in San Francisco

 

Campaign Against Antisemitism-tweet-12October2023-We understand that two Jewish schools in London — Torah Vodaas Primary School in Edgware and Ateres Beis Yaakov Primary School in Colindale — have closed until Monday owing to fears surrounding antisemitism.

Campaign Against Antisemitism-tweet-12October2023-We understand that two Jewish schools in London — Torah Vodaas Primary School in Edgware and Ateres Beis Yaakov Primary School in Colindale — have closed until Monday owing to fears surrounding antisemitism.

 


Canary Mission-tweet-1January2024-Google search trends offer a window to society
If Google search trends offer a window to society, this is BAD. Since Oct. 7, there was an 1800% increase in Google searches for “kill Jews.” The terms “intifada revolution,” “From the river to the sea” and “Glory to our martyrs” jumped over 10,000%. https://www.mideastjournal.org/post/antisemitic-google-searches

Canary Mission-tweet-1January2024-Google search trends offer a window to society

Canary Mission-tweet-1January2024-Google search trends offer a window to society

 

The Mossad Satirical, Yet Awesome-tweet-20October2023-Official Palestinian Authority document released today to all Palestinian mosques. In it contains a line calling on all Muslims to kill the Jews.

The Mossad Satirical, Yet Awesome-tweet-20October2023-Official Palestinian Authority document released today to all Palestinian mosques. In it contains a line calling on all Muslims to kill the Jews.

The Mossad Satirical, Yet Awesome-tweet-20October2023-Official Palestinian Authority document released today to all Palestinian mosques. In it contains a line calling on all Muslims to kill the Jews.

 


Elder of Ziyon-tweet-9October2023-difference between Nazis and Palestinians
Of course there is a difference between Nazis and Palestinians.

Nazis murdered Jewish women and children as one kills rats – something necessary to do but distasteful. They dehumanized them so people could exterminate them without guilt. It was an assembly line of murder and disposal of bodies.

For Palestinians, murdering Jews and celebrating those murders is their highest aspiration. Slaughtering babies is a source of honor and joy. Raping Jewish women is a badge of honor They will write songs and poems and make films celebrating the massacres in coming years. The vast majority of Palestinians are proud, not disgusted, by the orgy of violence on Saturday.

And if Palestinians had the means to kill 7 million Israeli Jews instead of 1000, they would eagerly do it. And they wouldn’t even try to hide it from the world as the Germans did.

Elder of Ziyon-tweet-9October2023-difference between Nazis and Palestinians

Elder of Ziyon-tweet-9October2023-difference between Nazis and Palestinians

 

“Never Again” is now!


Dr. Eli David-tweet-30November2023-Never Again is now
Two released Israeli children hostages were “marked” by Hamas, so that if they flee, they would be identified. This was done by intentionally burning their legs to leave marks.

“Never Again” is now!

Dr. Eli David-tweet-30November2023-Never Again is now

Dr. Eli David-tweet-30November2023-Never Again is now

 

"Never Again" is now!

“Never Again” is now!

 

Israel Defense Forces-tweet18October2023-The BBC claims to be impartial and independent… But we were unable to verify those claims

Israel Defense Forces-tweet18October2023-The BBC claims to be impartial and independent… But we were unable to verify those claims

 

Garbage For Your Body - Garbage For Your Mind MSM is the mouthpiece of leftist elite. - Nothing but garbage

Garbage For Your Body – Garbage For Your Mind MSM is the mouthpiece of leftist elite. – Nothing but garbage

 

Reuters-tweet-18October2023-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cited a marked rise in antisemitism in Canada

Reuters-tweet-18October2023-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cited a marked rise in antisemitism in Canada

 

Caroline Glick-tweet-20October2023-New York is under jihadist occupation. Columbia is jihadist. NYU is jihadist. And Jewish women on the NYC subway get beat up because they are Jewish.

Caroline Glick-tweet-20October2023-New York is under jihadist occupation.
Columbia is jihadist. NYU is jihadist. And Jewish women on the NYC subway get beat up because they are Jewish.

 

Dumisani Washington-tweet-14October2023-Imagine being a Jewish man or woman living outside of Israel

Dumisani Washington-tweet-14October2023-Imagine being a Jewish man or woman living outside of Israel

 

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Brooke Goldstein-tweet-25October2023-
I’m wondering if all the so-called progressive “Jewish” organizations and reform rabbis are still asking you to post Black Lives Matter and support all the social Justice woke causes now that it’s undeniable they are pro-Hamas. If you’re a member of a reform congregation or a donor to one of those progressive “Jewish” groups time to ask for an accounting. How did they enable these antisemites? By marching lockstep behind them. By abandoning Jewish pride for Jewish appeasement.
Igor Kaplun-tweet-26October2023-
You bet they are. @ADL , for example, recently posted to condemn white supremacy. Is that the most pressing problem right now?!

Brooke Goldstein-tweet-25October2023-abandoning Jewish pride for Jewish appeasements

Brooke Goldstein-tweet-25October2023-abandoning Jewish pride for Jewish appeasements


Campaign Against Antisemitism-tweet-14October2023-If the authorities will not act to uphold the law, we will

• Celebration of the Hamas terrorist atrocity
• Genocidal “From the river” chants
• War cries to Jews that “the army of Mohammed is returning”

Where were the hundreds of @metpoliceuk
deployed along the march?

If the authorities will not act to uphold the law, we will.

 

Campaign Against Antisemitism-tweet-14October2023-Celebration of the Hamas terrorist atrocity

Campaign Against Antisemitism-tweet-14October2023-Celebration of the Hamas terrorist atrocity

 

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תהילים פרק קמ Psalms 140 Protection from Hamas.

פרק קמ

א לַמְנַצֵּ֗חַ מִזְמ֥וֹר לְדָוִֽד:
ב חַלְּצֵ֣נִי יְ֭הוָה מֵאָדָ֣ם רָ֑ע מֵאִ֖ישׁ חֲמָסִ֣ים תִּנְצְרֵֽנִי:
ג אֲשֶׁ֤ר חָשְׁב֣וּ רָע֣וֹת בְּלֵ֑ב כָּל-י֝֗וֹם יָג֥וּרוּ מִלְחָמֽוֹת:
ד שָֽׁנֲנ֣וּ לְשׁוֹנָם֮ כְּֽמוֹ-נָ֫חָ֥שׁ חֲמַ֥ת עַכְשׁ֑וּב תַּ֖חַת שְׂפָתֵ֣ימוֹ סֶֽלָה:
ה שָׁמְרֵ֤נִי יְהוָ֨ה | מִ֘ידֵ֤י רָשָׁ֗ע מֵאִ֣ישׁ חֲמָסִ֣ים תִּנְצְרֵ֑נִי אֲשֶׁ֥ר חָ֝שְׁב֗וּ לִדְח֥וֹת פְּעָמָֽי:
ו טָֽמְנֽוּ-גֵאִ֨ים | פַּ֡ח לִ֗י וַחֲבָלִ֗ים פָּ֣רְשׂוּ רֶ֭שֶׁת לְיַד-מַעְגָּ֑ל מֹקְשִׁ֖ים שָֽׁתוּ-לִ֣י סֶֽלָה:
ז אָמַ֣רְתִּי לַ֭יהוָה אֵ֣לִי אָ֑תָּה הַאֲזִ֥ינָה יְ֝הוָ֗ה ק֣וֹל תַּחֲנוּנָֽי:
ח (יְהוִֹ֣ה)  אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֲ֭דֹנָי עֹ֣ז יְשׁוּעָתִ֑י סַכֹּ֥תָה לְ֝רֹאשִׁ֗י בְּי֣וֹם נָֽשֶׁק:
ט אַל-תִּתֵּ֣ן יְ֭הוָה מַאֲוַיֵּ֣י רָשָׁ֑ע זְמָמ֥וֹ אַל-תָּ֝פֵ֗ק יָר֥וּמוּ סֶֽלָה:
י רֹ֥אשׁ מְסִבָּ֑י עֲמַ֖ל שְׂפָתֵ֣ימוֹ (יכסומו)  יְכַסֵּֽמוֹ:
יא (ימיטו)  יִמּ֥וֹטוּ עֲלֵיהֶ֗ם גֶּֽחָ֫לִ֥ים בָּאֵ֥שׁ יַפִּלֵ֑ם בְּ֝מַהֲמֹר֗וֹת בַּֽל-יָקֽוּמוּ:
יב אִ֥ישׁ לָשׁוֹן֮ בַּל-יִכּ֪וֹן בָּ֫אָ֥רֶץ אִישׁ-חָמָ֥ס רָ֑ע יְ֝צוּדֶ֗נּוּ לְמַדְחֵפֹֽת:
יג (ידעת)  יָדַ֗עְתִּי כִּֽי-יַעֲשֶׂ֣ה יְ֭הוָה דִּ֣ין עָנִ֑י מִ֝שְׁפַּ֗ט אֶבְיֹנִֽים:
יד אַ֣ךְ צַ֭דִּיקִים יוֹד֣וּ לִשְׁמֶ֑ךָ יֵשְׁב֥וּ יְ֝שָׁרִ֗ים אֶת-פָּנֶֽיךָ:

1For the conductor, a song of David. אלַֽמְנַצֵּ֗חַ מִזְמ֥וֹר לְדָוִֽד:
2Rescue me, O Lord, from an evil man from a man of robbery You shall guard me. בחַלְּצֵ֣נִי יְ֖הֹוָה מֵֽאָדָ֣ם רָ֑ע מֵאִ֖ישׁ חֲמָסִ֣ים תִּנְצְרֵֽנִי:
3Who plotted evil things in their heart; every day they gather to wage war. גאֲשֶׁ֚ר חָֽשְׁב֣וּ רָע֣וֹת בְּלֵ֑ב כָּל־י֜֗וֹם יָג֥וּרוּ מִלְחָמֽוֹת:
4They whetted their tongue like a serpent; the venom of a spider is under their lips forever. דשָֽׁנְנ֣וּ לְשׁוֹנָם֘ כְּמ֪וֹ נָ֫חָ֥שׁ חֲמַ֥ת עַכְשׁ֑וּב תַּ֖חַת שְׂפָתֵ֣ימוֹ סֶֽלָה:
5Guard me, O Lord, from the hands of a wicked man; from a man of robbery You shall watch me, who plotted to cause my steps to slip. השָׁמְרֵ֚נִי יְהֹוָ֨ה | מִ֘ידֵ֚י רָשָׁ֗ע מֵאִ֣ישׁ חֲמָסִ֣ים תִּנְצְרֵ֑נִי אֲשֶׁ֥ר חָֽ֜שְׁב֗וּ לִדְח֥וֹת פְּעָמָֽי:
6Haughty men have concealed a snare for me, and [with] ropes they spread a net beside [my] path; they laid traps for me constantly. וטָֽמְנוּ־גֵאִ֨ים | פַּ֡ח לִ֗י וַֽחֲבָ֫לִ֥ים פָּ֣רְשׂוּ רֶ֖שֶׁת לְיַ֣ד מַעְגָּ֑ל מֹֽקְשִׁ֖ים שָֽׁתוּ־לִ֣י סֶֽלָה:
7I said to the Lord, “You are my God.” Hearken, O Lord, to the voice of my supplications. זאָמַ֣רְתִּי לַֽיהֹוָה אֵ֣לִי אָ֑תָּה הַֽאֲזִ֥ינָה יְ֜הֹוָ֗ה ק֣וֹל תַּֽחֲנוּנָֽי:
8God, O Lord, the might of my salvation; You shall protect my head on the day of battle. חיֱהֹוִ֣ה אֲ֖דֹנָי עֹ֣ז יְשֽׁוּעָתִ֑י סַכּ֥וֹתָה לְ֜רֹאשִׁ֗י בְּי֣וֹם נָֽשֶׁק:
9O Lord, do not grant the desires of the wicked; do not let his thoughts succeed, for they are constantly haughty. טאַל־תִּתֵּ֣ן יְ֖הֹוָה מַֽאֲוַיֵּ֣י רָשָׁ֑ע זְמָמ֥וֹ אַל־תָּ֜פֵ֗ק יָר֥וּמוּ סֶֽלָה:
10The numbers of those who surround me, may the lies of their lips cover them. ירֹ֥אשׁ מְסִבָּ֑י עֲמַ֖ל שְׂפָתֵ֣ימוֹ יְכַסֵּֽימוֹ (כתיב יְכַסֵּֽומוֹ) :
11Let fiery coals descend on them; He will cast them into fire, in wars, so that they will not rise. יאיִמּ֥וֹטוּ (כתיב יִמֹּ֥יטוּ) עֲלֵיהֶ֗ם גֶּֽחָ֫לִ֥ים בָּאֵ֥שׁ יַפִּלֵ֑ם בְּ֜מַֽהֲמֹר֗וֹת בַּל־יָקֽוּמוּ:
12A slanderer will not be established on earth; a man of violence, the evil will trap him with thrust upon thrust. יבאִ֥ישׁ לָשׁוֹן֘ בַּל־יִכּ֪וֹן בָּ֫אָ֥רֶץ אִישׁ־חָמָ֥ס רָ֑ע יְ֜צוּדֶ֗נּוּ לְמַדְחֵפֹֽת:
13I know that the Lord will perform the judgment of a poor man, the cause of the needy. יגיָדַ֗עְתִּי (כתיב יָדַ֗עְתִּ) כִּי־יַֽעֲשֶׂ֣ה יְ֖הֹוָה דִּ֣ין עָנִ֑י מִ֜שְׁפַּ֗ט אֶבְיֹנִֽים:
14But the righteous will thank Your name; the upright will sit before You. ידאַ֣ךְ צַ֖דִּיקִים יוֹד֣וּ לִשְׁמֶ֑ךָ יֵֽשְׁב֥וּ יְ֜שָׁרִ֗ים אֶת־פָּנֶֽיךָ:

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Jews in chul – we need your prayers

5November2023 https://www.thinkforyourselfpublishing.com/jews-in-chul-we-need-your-prayers/

 

I literally just got sent this from two people at once, at exactly the same time.

The Deputy Commander of the Givati Brigade (main combat unit in the Gaza area), literally crying, begged to convey to us, the chareidi tzibbur, that we’re not awake enough to the war situation in Gaza and that the fighting is very difficult and dangerous.

 

The terrible situation is that soldiers are being killed each and every night.

He emphasized that the main fighting at night starts from 11PM and continues until the morning, but the hardest hours are 2-5AM.

He brings his soldiers further and further inward to fight, but he doesn’t feel like he has enough support from the יראים ושלמים staying up at night to daven and say Tehillim for the soldiers.

 

He requested that the chareidim take responsibility for organizing minyanim to say Tehillim, especially during those hours.

– *all the chevre to do is to co-ordinate prayer opportunities in Israel & around the world and in all our yeshivas.

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NYC is 6 hours behind Eretz Yisrael.

The times of the hardest fighting in Israel are happening between 5-11 pm New York time.

Please, if you are reading this and you can do ANYTHING, however small, to get a bunch of people together in your network to start saying tehillim for the soldiers fighting in Gaza through the night, please do that right now.

 

As soon as you finish reading this – use the horrible tech for a good purpose, for once.

Just cut and paste the message from the Deputy Commander of the Givati Brigade, and get some tehillim organised for these times in your networks.

Get the shuls involved.

The schools involved.

And of course, say some yourself.

BH, we are seeing open miracles here that it’s not 1,000 dead soldiers a day, like our enemies are hoping for.

But even one more dead soldier is too much.

It’s a whole world.

And it’s a world that our tehillim – you and me, and our friends, neighbours and families – can protect.

So yalla!

And may we just hear good news.

 

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State Department Issues Rare Worldwide Caution Travel Alert

“Pro-Palestine” rallies have infested the West.

Posted by Mary Chastain, 19October2023 https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/10/state-department-issues-rare-worldwide-caution-travel-alert/

[EDD: More information]

SEE: What the Department of State Can and Can’t Do in a Crisis

Pro-Palestine London Rally

Pro-Palestine London Rally

The State Department has issued a worldwide caution travel alert.

The caution states: “Due to increased tensions in various locations around the world, the potential for terrorist attacks, demonstrations or violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests, the Department of State advises U.S. citizens overseas to exercise increased caution.”

 

Worldwide Caution

Due to increased tensions in various locations around the world, the potential for terrorist attacks, demonstrations or violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests, the Department of State advises U.S. citizens overseas to exercise increased caution.  U.S. citizens should:

OSINTdefender-tweet-19October2023-The U.S. State Department was released an Extremely Rare “Worldwide Travel Alert” stating that American Citizens should Exercise Increased Caution around the World due to Increasing Tensions in various Countries.

OSINTdefender-tweet-19October2023-The U.S. State Department was released an Extremely Rare “Worldwide Travel Alert” stating that American Citizens should Exercise Increased Caution around the World due to Increasing Tensions in various Countries.

 

The timing comes as we witness massive anti-Jew protests in the West, with Israeli and U.S. embassies accosted in Lebanon and Jordan.

The State Department already issued a “Do Not Travel” alert to Lebanon:

Do Not travel to Lebanon due to the unpredictable security situation related to rocket, missile, and artillery exchanges between Israel and Hizballah or other armed militant factions. Reconsider travel to Lebanon due to terrorism, civil unrest, armed conflict, crime, kidnapping, and Embassy Beirut’s limited capacity to provide support to U.S. citizens.

Citizens should not travel to Gaza. The department asked citizens to reconsider travel to Israel and the West Bank.

I say anti-Jew because the hate we see on display goes beyond Israel’s borders. None of the rallies are pro-Palestine or anti-Israel as advertised. The protests always have people yelling about murdering Jews or phrases calling for the extermination of Jews, like “from the river to the sea.”

 

Andy Ngô-tweet-15October2023-Wait, wait, oh Jews. The army of Muhammed is coming back

Andy Ngô-tweet-15October2023-Wait, wait, oh Jews. The army of Muhammed is coming back

 

 

 

Drew Pavlou-tweet-15October2023- Melbourne Palestine rally anti-Semitic chants

Drew Pavlou-tweet-15October2023- Melbourne Palestine rally anti-Semitic chants

 

 

 

Schtev-tweet-15October2023-a call for genocide of the Jews

Schtev-tweet-15October2023-a call for genocide of the Jews

 

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Israel raises travel alert for Western Europe, other regions

Great Britain, France, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, and Russia are among the countries where the travel warning was raised to level 2.

Israel's National Security Council raised its travel warning for countries around the world on Dec. 4, 2023. Credit: NSC.

Israel’s National Security Council raised its travel warning for countries around the world on Dec. 4, 2023. Credit: NSC.

https://www.jns.org/israel-raises-travel-alert-for-western-europe-other-regions/(December 4, 2023 / JNS) Israel’s National Security Council on Monday raised its travel alert levels for Western Europe, South America, Australia and Russia.

 

The update comes amid increased terror threats against Israelis traveling abroad nearly two months into Israel’s war with Hamas, dubbed “Operation Swords of Iron,” which was launched after the bloody massacre of Oct. 7. The last NSC security update was on Nov. 3.

 

“Since the beginning of the war, increased efforts have been detected on the part of Iran and its proxies, as well as on the part of Hamas and elements of global jihad, to attack Israeli and Jewish targets around the world,” according to the NSC statement.

 

The statement also highlighted “a continuous and significant increase in incitement, attempted attacks and widespread manifestations of anti-Semitism in many countries.”

 

Great Britain, France, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Australia and Russia are among the countries where the travel warning was raised to level 2, recommending increased precautions. Several countries in Africa (including South Africa and Eritrea) and countries in Central Asia (including Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan) have been elevated to level 3, recommending reconsidering non-essential travel.

 

The NSC generally recommends that Israelis reconsider the necessity of traveling at this time and if the public does go abroad to make informed decisions based on the recommended precautions.

 

Travelers are encouraged to postpone trips to countries with warnings, with an emphasis on Arab and Middle Eastern countries, the North Caucasus, countries surrounding Iran and a number of Muslim countries in Asia.

 

The NSC also recommends travelers check whether any anti-Israel protests are planned at their destinations, even in countries without travel warnings, and to stay away from these demonstrations.

 

Israelis should maintain vigilance while abroad and pay attention to their surroundings, the NSC emphasized. Citizens of Israel should also avoid the outward display of Jewish and Israeli symbols and large gatherings of Jewish and Israeli officials.

 

Finally, the NSC recommends that travelers make sure to learn the phone numbers of local emergency services and of the local Israeli diplomatic representation if there are any.

 

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Most Israelis are now planning their travels around whether they’re likely to suffer antisemitic abuse


Eylon Levy-tweet-6August2025-Most Israelis are now planning their travels around whether they’re likely to suffer antisemitic abuse
How bad is antisemitism around the world? 75% of Israeli Jews who are planning to travel abroad are now making plans around the likelihood of antisemitic abuse. Even 43% of Israeli Arabs are concerned about reports of harassment of Israelis overseas.
Eylon Levy-tweet-6August2025
You might plan your next holiday around the weather, flight prices, or hotel availability.

Most Israelis are now planning their travels around whether they’re likely to suffer antisemitic abuse, per new @IDIisrael poll.

Eylon Levy-tweet-6August2025-Most Israelis are now planning their travels around whether they're likely to suffer antisemitic abuse

Eylon Levy-tweet-6August2025-Most Israelis are now planning their travels around whether they’re likely to suffer antisemitic abuse

 

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Assosication of Americans and Canadians in Israel The AACI Max & Gianna Glassman Family Center8 HaRav Kook Street Jerusalem Tel: 02-566-1181 Fax: 02-5661186 email: info@aaci.org.il

Assosication of Americans and Canadians in Israel The AACI Max & Gianna Glassman Family Center
8 HaRav Kook Street
Jerusalem
Tel: 02-566-1181 Fax: 02-5661186
email: info@aaci.org.il

Change in Travel Rules to Israel

Visitors to Israel from visa-exempt countries are required to obtain an ETA-IL(Electronic Travel Authorization)

Israel @ War – May 30, 2024 – 22 Iyar 5784 newsletter

 

The rules for travel to Israel have changed. Starting from August 2024, visitors from visa-exempt countries are required to obtain an ETA-IL(Electronic Travel Authorization) to enter the state of Israel. An approved ETA-IL, indicates that you are allowed to travel to Israel and stay for up to 90 days per visit. All travelers to Israel must have a valid visa or ETA-IL approval before they start their journey. If you are eligible, obtaining an ETA-IL is a simpler and faster process. Learn more: https://israel-entry.piba.gov.il/ Note: Israeli citizens or holders of an Israeli identity number do not need to apply for an ETA-IL.

 

Please be aware: The period during which Israelis may exit and enter Israel with their valid foreign passport, has been extended by PIBA until 31.12.2024

https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/passport_zr_new

Unit: אגף בכיר דוברות, תקשורת והסברה
Publish Date 22.03.2022 Updated date 21.12.2023

The period during which Israelis may exit and enter Israel with their valid foreign passport, has been extended by PIBA until 31December2024

The period during which Israelis may exit and enter Israel with their valid foreign passport, has been extended by PIBA until 31December2024

 

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South Africa to Arrest Israeli Soldiers Holding Dual Citizenship


Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-13March-2024-South Africa to Arrest Israeli Soldiers Holding Dual Citizenship
There is seemingly no end to #SouthAfrica’s downfall into irrelevance and Jew-hatred.

‘When You Come Home, We’re Going to Arrest You’ |
South Africa to Arrest Israeli Soldiers Holding Dual Citizenship, Foreign Minister Says

IDF soldiers holding dual Israeli-South African citizenship will be subject to immediate arrest, the country’s foreign minister said. The Israeli army is preparing for other that may follow suit

Jonathan Lis and Yaniv Kubovich
13March2024 1:42 pm IST https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-13/ty-article/.premium/south-africa-to-arrest-israeli-soldiers-holding-dual-citizenship-foreign-minister-says/0000018e-36e3-d0ac-a1cf-3ef7f8650000

South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor announced this week that IDF soldiers holding South African citizenship would be arrested upon entering the country.

Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-13March-2024-South Africa to Arrest Israeli Soldiers Holding Dual Citizenship

Arsen Ostrovsky-tweet-13March-2024-South Africa to Arrest Israeli Soldiers Holding Dual Citizenship

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Jews, Get a Gun


Uri Pilichowski-tweet-30October2023-
Jews, Get a Gun

The Jews of Germany never thought Germans would kill them.
The Jews of The Tree of Life Synagogue never thought an American would kill them
The Jews of the South never thought the Palestinians of Gaza would break through the fence and kill them.

They were all wrong.

Antisemites, whether they are Arabs, white supremacist, or any other hater, they are coming to kill the Jews. They might not be able to kill all of us but they’re going to kill some of us. 1,400 of us were just killed because they were Jews.

Whether you live in Israel, America, Europe or some small city in Russia you’ve never heard of before, they’re coming to kill you, me, all of us. Those with the means to protect themselves will hopefully survive the next attack, those without the means to protect themselves have little chance of being spared.

Many people that had a gun in their homes in the South were able to protect themselves when Palestinian terrorists came to their town and house. Those without a gun had little chance.

Guns are muktzeh on Shabbat. I’ve carried a gun for the past five years on Shabbat, both within the Eruv and outside of it. In the back of my mind I doubted whether I was doing the right thing by carrying my gun on Shabbat. After the “Simchat Torah Massacre” I am no longer in doubt.

Ask yourself this question, if antisemites came into your home and you have a gun, you can save yourself and your family, if you don’t have a gun your last thoughts will be regretting not having bought a gun for whatever excuse you’re telling yourself now for not buying a gun.

Don’t be irresponsible. Buy a gun, take lessons and be ready for when the Jew haters come for you.

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The latest trend for “Girls Night” among my #Jewish mom friends is heading to the gun range to learn how to fire a Glock for self defense.

I’ve spent my whole life believing my kids would be safer WITHOUT a gun in our home.

But ever since protesters spilled into my neighborhood justifying RAPING TEENAGERS as a form of resistance and glorifying BURNING BABIES IN OVENS, my whole world view has shifted.

#NeverAgainIsNow
#BelieveIsraeliWomen
#BringThemHomeNow

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The Persian Jewess-tweet-21January2024-The latest trend for Girls Night-The Gun Range

 


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Nothing infuriates them more than this.

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Only in Israel. 💙

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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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Does the Z in Gen Z stand for ‘zombies’?

The cruelty of the 18-24 demographic against Jews, and Gazans too, is the ultimate failure of free thought and it will destroy society

 

Molly Livingstone 21December2023,
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Do you ever think that the Z in Gen Z stands for zombies? ‘Cause I kind of do. Or at least the ones who are pro-Hamas on college campuses, protesting Jewish-owned stores in malls or parading through the streets calling for genocide.

 

They come together in large groups. All of them are followers. They also don’t moan as much as they scream. However, like a zombie who has been dead and brought back to go after the living world, these Gen Zombies march to the same beat.

 

After a quick visit to the US and watching them do their thing, styled in their khaffiyas, masked with actual masks, it was clear that they were not only hiding their faces, but the truth. And boy, are these kids angry. I believe the therapy term is “projection.” And for those of us on the outside, it is quite clear that they are projecting the concept of oppression based on social media propaganda and assumptions.

 

If we think of the zombies like AI, without the I part, then we can see the basic algorithm to their angry madness. There is an oppressor and an oppressed. In America, that was clear for the Black Lives Matter campaign. The copy-paste takes a Western issue in American culture and inflicts it on a Middle Eastern conflict far away from home and definitely far away from reality.

 

In their version, the Palestinians are the oppressed and the Jews are the oppressor. And it is that simple. They literally see black and white. Which makes it all the more ironic, since that is somehow making this a race issue, and in fact being racists. Anyone who lives in Israel or understands Jewish culture is aware that Jews come in all colors and backgrounds, many kicked out of Arab countries over the last hundreds of years, and Arabs are not all dark-skinned.

 

The protesters claim a lot of crazy stuff. As I mentioned earlier, they are all followers, so they speak the same messages, one tweet at a time. In my brief encounter I heard the chant:

 

“Jews are doing genocide…from the river to the sea…,” you know the rest of that statement. Again we hear the zombies’ hypocritical anger. When I saw one of them holding a sign with “Free Palestine,” I made the silly mistake of engaging. In a calm voice, I said, “Yes, free Palestine…free them from Hamas.” My cute quip was quickly met with a barking-like noise from the zombie. Like one of those little lap dogs, which you always know to stay far away from….those dogs are nuts.

 

Before this war, I was convinced that climate change was humanity’s biggest mistake and would ultimately lead to our demise. Post-October 7th, it is the Gen Zombies who have taken over as #1 in that department. Their cruelty towards Jews and, frankly, to Gazans, is the destruction of society and the ultimate failure of free thought. They have gone from ridding the world of labels, to ridding the world of Jews. They prefer to decimate the world of the only democracy in the Middle East, so that a terrorist organization can run a dictatorship in Palestine.

 

We said never again.
The zombies say never, say never.

We celebrate life.
The zombies haven’t lived it.

We see the conflict as complicated and stale.
The zombies see it as a commercial between cat videos.

We mourn our dead.
The zombies are already dead.

 

My words are harsh. Controversial. But they expose the truth that we keep looking for. As Israelis, we are dumbfounded by this generation’s choice to justify raping women, murdering innocent children and kidnapping elderly. I want to go back to when zombies only existed in myths and movies. When the next generation focused on non-binary issues and saving the trees. Where their free thought provoked change, rather than repeating history.

 

While we bury another fallen soldier, we continue to fight for our freedom, for democracy, for our lives. It breaks us; we will need a ton of therapy, but we are not zombies. We are not the walking dead. While our fallen return to the earth, they become the seeds of change, growing a nation of compassionate strong leaders. The zombies will follow each other to the ends of the earth, before they can end us.

 

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Larry David once said, ‘I’m not an inventor. I’m an improver. I improve things that are broken.’ Whether it’s improvisation, comedy sketch, or stand up, Molly Livingstone is improving life in Israel one chuckle at a time, with an honest and hilarious view of the Holy Land.

 

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Why is anyone surprised that a Jew hater is being promoted in the NYC Dept of Education?

Promoting antisemitic Public School Supervisors has been going on for years. Op-ed.

Cindy Grosz /  25December2023  / https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/382544

 

Why is anyone surprised that a Jew hater employed by the New York City Department of Education was not only retained, but is heading to a new job with more responsibility and better benefits.

 

Last week, Hillcrest High School principal Scott Milczewski, leader in the school where a violent riot broke out attacking a Jewish teacher for attending a pro-Israel rally, announced that he is leaving the Jamaica school for a new job in the city Department of Education bureaucracy.

 

“It is with mixed emotions that I inform you that I have been offered, and accepted, the position of Director of Teacher Development and Evaluation within the Division of Teaching and Learning,” he wrote in a letter circulated among students, staff and parents.

 

Milczewski is just the latest in the line of “questionable” administrators that were able to overcome public calls for discipline and termination.

 

In 2016, I introduced the public to Rushell White, then principal of MS (middle school) 226. Not only did she attack a Jewish teacher, David Possner in a mural displayed on school property, she offended the Hindu community of students as well. Multiple staff members at that time reported to the New York City Department of Education complaints of her “Jew hate” that were well documented and reported by the Parent Advocates organization.

 

The former teacher’s union chapter leader Zev Angelou of MS 226 was subpoenaed to testify at the 3020-a ( a teacher termination hearing paid for by the Department of Education) of another teacher bullied by White, Clairesa Clay, and his description of the principal included words such as “bully” “pathological liar.”

 

Today, years later, Rushell White is a Deputy Superintendent overseeing 28,000 students, over 6,000 teachers and staff members, 47 principals and about 56,000 families.

 

I reported that Queens public school teacher, Lawrence Brenner, was told in 2009 by a controversial principal that “you white teachers are ruining little black children,” and was consistently harassed until Brenner, Jewish, was terminated in a hearing based on questionable evidence submitted by the principal, Antonio K’Tori.

 

After the firing of Brenner and multiple complaints about PS 15, the school supervised by K’Tori, another teacher sued the NYCDOE and K’Tori for alleged sex harassment in 2014 and that teacher was awarded $500,000. K’Tori was the principal in charge of Simon Watts, the elementary school teacher who was convicted of sexually abusing five of his students and was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2013. Civil cases are ongoing by the students and one student, Neveah Thompson won $16 million dollars in 2021 in a civil suit judgment against the city.

 

But it was Brenner and not not K’Tori who was deemed incompetent to teach.

Why was K’Tori even employed in 2009? The Department of Education had removed K’tori from a Jamaica, Queens, NY school on September 10, 2004. He had been officially charged with a list of infractions including circumventing the school’s lottery system by accepting student applications, purchasing goods from unauthorized vendors and attempting to block special education classes. He was suspended without pay.

 

Brooklyn middle school principal, Principal Amanda Bueno told staffers in May, 2021, at MS 136 in Brooklyn, “If you have been watching the news in absolute horror, you are not alone.”

 

She urged teachers and administrators to demand government sanctions against Israel in an email on a school business address.Today, she is a head coach for the Department of Education, overseeing classroom instruction and model lessons.

 

I’m not surprised and you shouldn’t be either. You should be upset that your hard-earned tax dollars pay for this.

You should be angered by the failing test scores for years under the leadership of these people that the New York City Department of Education hires, maintains and supports with comfortable retirement packages and benefits. It should make you sick to realize this practice of education supervisors promoting antisemitism, racism and discrimination has been rewarded.

 

Don’t blame COVID. Don’t blame January 6th. Blame a system of biased evaluations for teacher and supervisor tenure, unions that are tied to politicians and a biased media.

 

For years, politicians representing the communities that these principals oversee schools in have had reading and math scores averaging 30 percent passing based on published reports.

The connection has to be exposed.

There are allegations of funds being stolen and indictments have been handed down.This is just the tip of the iceberg and not limited to New York.

 

Donald Trump was right in 2016 when he said the Department of Education needs to be diminished and/or eliminated.

 

And the result? Today we see young men and women protesting about a land they seemed to know few, if any, facts about after about 20 years of indoctrination in schools that are educationally useless.

 

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Israeli Labor Party leader bemoans abandonment by global left

“I fail to see how shouting jihad and calling for a mass murder of Jews is pro-Palestinian,” said Merav Michaeli.

https://www.jns.org/israeli-labor-party-leader-bemoans-abandonment-by-global-left/

 

(November 14, 2023 / JNS) Merav Michaeli, the head of Israel’s opposition Labor Party, slammed the global political left in an article published on Tuesday for being “complicit” in Hamas’s crimes against humanity.

 

Speaking to Politico on the sidelines of the Party of European Socialists conference in Spain late last week, Michaeli said she thinks “something very bad is happening on the left.”

 

“It became very, very clear in this attack that people who consider themselves to be democratic, progressive, are supporting a totalitarian terror regime that oppresses women [and] the LGBTQ+ community,” she claimed.

 

“It’s important for me to emphasize to them that when you do not very strongly go against Hamas and what it does in Gaza, including to its own people, you are complicit,” continued the Labor leader.
“I fail to see how shouting jihad and calling for a mass murder of Jews is pro-Palestinian,” she said.

 

According to Michaeli, calling for a ceasefire now is “giving permission to Hamas to continue rearming itself, continue stealing food, water, medicine and fuel from its own people, and yes, rebasing itself.”

 

At last week’s meeting in Málaga, delegates from France, Ireland and Belgium called for a ceasefire in the fighting against the Gaza-based terror group.

 

Still, Michaeli reassured that the Jewish state still has some “very strong allies” on the center-left, adding that “the more you go to the left, the more there’s a big mix-up.”

 

Thunberg skews climate message

 

More than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed and thousands wounded in the Oct. 7 murderous attacks by Hamas operatives on southern Israel. In addition, terrorists took some 240 people hostage.

 

Earlier this week, a Dutchman confronted Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg at a left-wing protest in Amsterdam after she attempted to connect the climate movement with the Palestinians.

“I have come here for a climate demonstration, not a political view,” the man said before being escorted off the stage.

 

Thunberg, who was wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh worn by Hamas terrorists, subsequently led the crowd in a chant of “No climate justice on occupied land.”

 

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As Liberal Jews Feel abandoned by the Left

What’s next?

By ADAM MILSTEIN 10JANUARY2024 https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-781583

 

Liberal Jews - Abandoned by the left (photo credit: COURTESY ADAM MILSTEIN)

Liberal Jews – Abandoned by the left (photo credit: COURTESY ADAM MILSTEIN)

 

All Jews agree on one thing…that all Jews never agree. At any Jewish gathering around the world, you’ll hear heated debates on food, religion, culture, and everything in between. Politics are no different, but the debate is louder.

 

James Baker once said “F*** the Jews, they don’t vote for us.” While perhaps untrue, Baker’s sentiment reflected a historical American Jewish political truism – the Jewish community votes Democrat. Since the early 1990’s, a growing number of Jews have shifted rightward, but the majority of the Jewish-American community reside in the “liberal” camp.

 

After the October 7th terrorist attack, prior to Israel’s ground operation in Gaza, the true sentiment of the left towards Jews was exposed. Protests on college campuses, airports, freeways, bridges, outside synagogues, and Holocaust museums forced Jewish Americans to face a stark reality. Leftist and their Muslim allies were exposed not only as anti-Israel but as plainly anti-Jewish groups. Mobilizing under a guise of liberation (“From the River to the Sea”), and civil rights (“justice” in Palestine), one thing became increasingly clear – for a large coalition of leftists and Muslims in America, Jews have no right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland and deserve no safety anywhere.

Liberal Jews’ residence among American leftists is now in peril.

The Shock

Historically and for good reason, Jews have been fixated on the antisemitism from the far right as our greatest threat. This focus on antisemitism’s political affiliation left us vulnerable. We have virtually ignored the growing warning signs of antisemitism from the Islamo-leftist camp. After all, Jews were an integral part of the left. In the name of Tzedek (Justice), we’ve marched with every marginalized community throughout American history. Yet, on October 7th, 2023, we marched alone. As our women had blood dripping down their legs, women’s rights groups didn’t express any outrage. They stood silent. As our children were identified by their ashes, children’s rights organizations were nowhere to be found. And as our civilians were brutalized, all human, civil, and LGBTQ+ rights didn’t march, didn’t organize, and didn’t protest. On the contrary – they stood with the attackers.

 

In the wake of October 7th, American Jews were left speechless. The wakeup call has been loud. The Jewish political home, the American left, turns a blind eye to war crimes and to the sexual mutilation of women, children and men when the victims are Jews. It has become evidently clear that in leftist spaces, the American Jew is dehumanized as a mere “oppressor”, an “Occupier”, a “Colonialist”, “White privileged”, and “Apartheid” supporter. Compassion for the deep trauma Jews sustained was nowhere to be found.

 

One must wonder, if killing Jews and raping women in Israel is ‘just’ and legitimate under the guise of a victim using ‘resistance by any means necessary’, what prevents our enemies from committing the same crimes in America? And where can liberal Jews find a political home?

The Evolution

Jewish-Americans, motivated by our people’s values, traditions and history, gravitated to the political left in America. With an emphasis on Tikkun Olam, American Jews embraced a critical role in social justice movements throughout history. Our commitment to ‘repair the world’ found common cause with social movements on the left, solidifying the Jewish liberal alignment.

 

We memorialize female ancestors like Deborah, who personified courage as the “woman of torches”. And we lionize Esther who taught of female strength and resilience and Ruth who embodied integrity and diligence. Guided by these matriarchs, Jews across the nation fought for women’s rights and Jewish women like Betty Friedan and Bella Abzug led the feminist movement.

 

Our scripture mandates us to advocate for the marginalized – “what is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor” (Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 31a). Embedded in Jewish tradition is the notion that all man is “created in the image of God” (Genesis 1:27). Just as Abraham didn’t turn anyone from his tent, Jews fought for the rights of Black Americans. Jews helped establish the NAACP in 1909. And in 1965, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel embodied the Jewish community’s collective support for civil rights as he marched alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma.

 

In 1967, Rabbis joined Cesar Chavez and urged Kosher communities to only support union grapes as the non-union grapes were forbidden as Oshek. The Jewish community continued its activism throughout the 2020 marches for Black lives and then again in 2021 to stop Asian hate.

 

Jewish Americans have served as indispensable allies, leaders, and activists on issues of human dignity, civil rights, and progress throughout American history. This allyship with the left was presumed to be reciprocal. October 7th changed everything.

The Reality Check

In recent years, Critical Race Theory (CRT), Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement carved out large pieces within the left’s agenda. Many liberal Jews have supported these developments believing that they’re the next phase of a long tradition of liberal activism. They were mistaken, no allyship with CRT, DEI, and BLM will protect them. Jews who tirelessly fight for acceptance and admittance in the intersectionality coalition will remain disappointed. We are not welcome.

 

Enamored with the seemingly laudable goals of DEI: to promote the representation, participation, and fair treatment of historically marginalized groups, liberal Jews ignored DEI promoters, and CRT advocates, as they advanced a radical agenda to fundamentally undermine American values. For years they have been promoting equality of outcome over equality of opportunity, collective identity (race, gender, etc.) over individual character, censorship of opposing viewpoints over freedom of speech, and a “victimhood Olympics” culture that crudely bifurcates society into oppressors and oppressed.

 

Liberal Jews failed to recognize how CRT and DEI initiatives, and intersectional theory would be weaponized against them. And today, we see how Jewish students are maliciously portrayed as wanton oppressors and colonialist abettors. American universities who fully adopted these doctrines are now hotbeds of antisemitism due to embedded leftist orthodoxy.

The Next Steps

So, where do liberal Jews go from here?

The “October 8th Jew” as Bret Stephens coined it, recognizes their home as a centrist. The October 8th Jew knows that the extreme left, like the extreme right before it, is no political home. The October 8th Jew is united in the mission to fight enemies of America, who always come first for the Jews. “Never again” must be backed by action and Jewish unity.

 

First, no more blind voting for Democrats or Republican for the sake of historical precedent. All Jews, including liberal Jews, must adopt a litmus test for candidates and support only those determined to fight antisemitism and support the U.S.-Israel alliance.

 

Second, pull support from organizations and academic institutions that promote the erasure of Jewish suffering and tacitly endorse Jew-hatred.

 

And finally, unite and support American organizations that protect and promote equality and inclusion rather than division and an ideology that aims to destroy Jewish life and American values.

 

Adam Milstein is an Israeli-American “Venture Philanthropist.” He can be reached at adam@milsteinff.org, on Twitter @AdamMilstein, and on Facebook www.facebook.com/AdamMilsteinCP.

 

This op-ed is published in partnership with a coalition of organizations that fight antisemitism across the world. Read the previous article by Dan Diker.

 

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Make Never Again – Never Again

“Never again” happened again – a holocaust not in Europe but in Eretz Yisrael. How can that be?! What did we really mean by “never again”?

David Ben Horin Posted on 26November2023 https://breslev.com/4074472/

Make Never Again – Never Again by David Ben Horin

Make Never Again – Never Again by David Ben Horin

How can we make sure that the clarion call “Never again!” is permanent?

 

Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman said, “The Jews in Europe declared war on Hashem. Now, He has declared war on them. That’s why He’s sending His armies against them.”  (Parshat Noach, 5783 by Rabbi Avigdor Miller)  [Editor’s Note: Further examples of what prompted Hashem’s war can be found in Rabbi Miller’s book A Divine Madness.]

 

To guarantee that there won’t be another Kristallnacht, Auschwitz, or Gaza, we must swallow the hard truth:

Before each of these catastrophes, we were in open rebellion against God.

Holocaust #1

Throughout the 1930s, every European Jewish town had socialists, communists, and nationalists actively rebelling against the Rabbis. We asked to be Soviets. We asked to be Germans. We asked to be protected by the head of the Communist Party and the leader of Germany. They rebelled against the Torah. They told Hashem that they wanted nothing to do with Him.

 

So, on Kristallnacht, God gave us what we wanted.

 

Holocaust #2

For all of 5783, every motzei Shabbat, we gathered to tell our Father that He isn’t welcome on His Land. We did it with immorality, injustice, and violence. These are the three abominations that Hashem calls in the Torah “hamas” (המס). For an entire year we told God that we prefer Sodomite flags, locking up the religious, and beating up people for praying on Yom Kippur rather than loyalty to Him and His Torah.

 

We asked for “hamas”, and Hashem gave us Hamas.

 

All those demonstrations for “democracy” were nothing more than a cover for the real reason: They didn’t want the religious assuming power. The current government is the first one in the history of Israel to be 50% religious. So, for the first time in modern Israeli history, there were massive demonstrations against a democratically elected leadership.

 

In truth, the protests were against God and His Torah – our Torah. The preparations for these weekly rebellions were made during Shabbat. In essence, we told God that we preferred “hamas” to His holy day.

 

So, on Shabbat-Simchat Torah, He let us have it.

 

What’s the Message?

Our generation will have to live with the trauma of Oct 7. We will go about our lives fearing that it can happen again anywhere and anytime.

 

What our parent’s generation went through – the dread that another Holocaust might whisk them away to a horrible death – is what we are going through right now.

 

For 75 years, when we shouted, “Never Again!” the world said “Amen.”

 

Today, when we say, “Never Again!”, the world says something else.

 

Only Hashem can protect us. We have to embrace Him.

 

We didn’t in 1933.

 

We didn’t in 2023.

 

We must stop saying “Never Again!” to Hashem and His Torah! We must return to Hashem right now.   We must actively petition our government to return Torah to Israel. We must tell God that we want Him in our country. We must tell Hashem that we want our country to be forever His country.

God will destroy our enemy nations:

But My people did not heed My voice and Israel did not desire Me.

So, I let them follow their heart’s fantasies, I let them follow their own counsels.

If only My nation would heed Me, if Israel would walk in My ways. 

In an instant I would subdue their foes and against their tormentors turn My hand. (Psalm 81:12-15)

 

Hashem will never let anyone harm His people. He will never let a foreigner harass His nation – as long as we declare ourselves His nation by serving Him according to His law. This is how “never again” will truly be – never again.

 

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David Ben Horin lives in Afula with his family, millions of sunflowers, and Matilda, our local camel. David‘s Israeli startup, 300 Marketing Solutions, is a lean marketing agency for startups and small businesses that creates and promotes SEO-optimized ROI-driven to the right audience on LinkedIn to make your business the star of the show.

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Rising Antisemitism

Unbridled hatred for the Jewish people is being unleashed around the world. We say in the Nishmat prayer on Shabbat, “In all times of trouble and distress, we have no king, helper, supporter but You“. Only Hashem can protect His children.

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Rising Antisemitism by Kalever Rebbe

“Do not delay me, since the Lord has made my way prosper.” (Bereishit 24:56)

Antisemitism Unleashed

An unbridled hatred for the Jewish people is being unleashed around the world. Each of these haters can simply grab a knife or other weapon and attack a Jew. There are also masses of well-armed terrorists who want to destroy the Jewish people.

 

With the rising hatred and thirst for violence, it would be natural for there to have been many more attacks, chas v’shalom, against the Jews. Truthfully, there are many individuals who are constantly planning to attack us. They even make all the preparations. Hashem, however, foils their sinister plots and protects the Jews.

 

We are completely unaware of the countless times the Jewish people were in grave danger and Hashem saved us.

Foiled Plots

During the days of the Chozeh from Lublin, zt”l, there was one minister who passionately hated the Jews in his town, and he wanted to kill the local Rabbi.

 

The minister knew that the Rabbi woke up very early in the morning and that he would walk to shul in the dark. So, he devised a plan. One night, he asked his servant to dig a deep pit on the path that the rabbi would walk in the following morning, figuring that, in the darkness, the rabbi would not see the pit and would fall in, plummeting to the bottom.

 

However, Hashem intervened. That same night, a prestigious and wise guest visited the rabbi. They were engrossed in a deep Torah conversation as the hours ticked by. Finally, they retired for the evening far later than the rabbi was accustomed to. The following morning, the rabbi woke up a little later than usual and walked to shul while it was light. Seeing the pit, he simply walked around the dangerous obstacle.

 

When the minister learned the details about what had happened, he said: “Now I must praise the greatness of the Jews’ God! He is the Omnipresence that controls the events of this world. His Divine Providence protects His beloved children, the Jewish people. He saves them from dangers that they don’t even know about!”

 

When the Chozeh, zt”l, heard this story, he said: “The pasuk in Tehillim (117:1-2) says, ‘Praise the Lord, all gentiles, laud Him, all nations. For His kindness has overwhelmed us!’ Why do the non-Jews praise Hashem for the kindness that has “overwhelmed” the Jews, and not the Jews themselves? After hearing this story, I know the answer. When the pasuk describes this chessed, this kindness, it is referring to the Jews being saved from being harmed by the non-Jews. Only the non-Jews know how many of their wicked plots were foiled by Hashem and how many times Hashem has saved us, while those for whom these miracles occurred do not know that they happened.”

Hidden Miracles

During Nishmat – which we pray on Shabbat morning – we say: “in all times of trouble and distress, we have no king, helper, supporter but You“.

 

R’ Nosson Dovid from Shidlovtza, zt”l, explained that you need to divide this phrase into two ideas. First, we say that we understand that “in all times [there is] trouble and distress”, we are constantly at risk of being harmed at the hands of those who want to annihilate us, even when it isn’t publicized that we were living in “a time of trouble.” And therefore – we continue to say – we understand and acknowledge that “we have no king, helper, support but You”, because no other king can protect his people from the hidden dangers that surround them.

 

In fact, there is another more subtle miracle. Even when the non-Jewish governments and law enforcement officers uncover and, therefore, foil a terrorist attack, that is also a miracle; it goes against the natural order of the world. Those nations of the world don’t like the Jewish people. However, when they intervene on our behalf, saving the Jewish people from an attack, it is solely because Hashem inspires their hearts to help the Jews. As the pasuk says (Mishlei 21:1), “A king’s heart is like rivulets of water in the Lord’s hand; wherever He wishes, He turns it”.

On a Short Leash

R’ Yitzchak from Volozhin related that when he went to Nicholas, the Russian Czar, to lobby for the Jews, he noticed that in the palace there were large dogs that were natural predators. Whenever someone entered the chambers to meet with the Czar, the dogs would approach the visitor and gently lick their feet.

 

He asked one of the dog’s trainers, “How did you teach these animals to forgo their natural predatory behaviors?”

The caretaker explained that when the dog was chained to a leash, he felt that he was not free to do as he pleases. Therefore, the animal can control its natural tendencies. If the dog were unleashed, it would attack and devour the person.

 

The Gaon from Volozhin then explained, that the same can be said regarding how the Kingdom of Heaven oversees the Jewish people. The natural tendency of the world’s non-Jewish kings is to devour the Jewish people. The Jews are described as being a lamb surrounded by seventy wolves. When we see one of these nations acting benevolently towards the Jewish people and serving their interests, it is because those kings have been shackled and leashed by Hashem. If Hashem were to unleash them, they would immediately begin issuing harsh and evil decrees against the Jews.

Don’t be Afraid

This helps us understand the episode in Parshat Chayei Sarah that described the shidduch between Yitzchak and Rivkah:

Betuel was a king that ruled over an evil nation that despised Avraham Avinu. They wanted to kill his servant, Eliezer. Therefore, he poisoned Eliezer’s food. However, an angel came and switched the bowls of food. And, as the Midrash elaborates, Betuel ate the poisoned food instead and died. Eliezer was saved.

 

Immediately afterwards, her brother Lavan and her mother tried to postpone Rivkah’s journey to Avraham’s house. They feared that she would be harmed by the Jew-haters. However, Eliezer reassured them saying, “Do not delay me… ” Don’t worry about the Jew-haters, because you just witnessed that “the Lord has made my way prosper” – Hashem is the one who has made my journey successful. I naturally should not have been saved from that danger. I didn’t even know that there was a plot to poison me. Therefore, you don’t need to be worried about the Jew-haters, because Hashem will always protect His people.

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The Kalever Rebbe is the seventh Rebbe of the Kaalov Chasidic dynasty, begun by his ancestor who was born to his previously childless parents after receiving a blessing from the Baal Shem Tov zy”a, and later learned under the Maggid of Mezeritch zt”l. The Rebbe has been involved in outreach for more than 30 years and writes weekly emails on understanding current issues through the Torah. Sign up at www.kaalov.org. 

 

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Why do they hate Jews? Why does “equality and justice for all” and women’s rights and more apply to everyone – except Jews?

Rachel Avrahami | Posted on 22December2023 | https://breslev.com/4079704/

Why is There Antisemitism by Rachel Avrahami

Why is There Antisemitism by Rachel Avrahamiv

As I touched on in my previous article The Shocking Truth, the antisemitism that has reared its ugly head around the world in response to the current war in Gaza has reached previously unheard-of levels.

 

If you haven’t figured it out already, you can’t convince these people. They don’t want the truth; they don’t care about the truth!

 

Of course, there are some clueless people out there, but the stark reality of the genocide of Oct. 7 pushes people to choose sides. In fact, Rabbi Arush said that is one of the purposes of this war! Those that were not sure before where truth and good lies, and which side is evil, saw it plain and clear before their eyes. If at this point, they still don’t get it – they aren’t going to get it.

 

I’ve said since the beginning of the war that as we prove without a shadow of a doubt that Hamas broke international law a hundred different ways, the antisemites won’t care and won’t change their minds – their rationalizations will just get more and more ludicrous.

 

And that’s what we’ve indeed seen so far. Just when I think I’ve seen it all, I see a comment that Jews aren’t descendants from Abraham, or that Jews are an “invented race.” Or a recent post that Jesus was Palestinian which was made fun of by the official Israel feed… All those terror tunnels – 1,500 that the IDF has uncovered thus far – the IDF built those in 1982! Or the videos were faked! Oh, and the videos from Oct. 7 were faked too, just to justify the “Israeli colonizers” to go after another “Gaza genocide.”

 

For sure these outrageous claims by antisemites are classic psychopathic gaslighting. But this is still the sad reality – a good chunk of this world is living in total delusions against God, and His people.

 

The million-dollar question is: WHY?

 

Someone asked Rabbi Arush on a recent Q&A video why so many people aren’t changing their minds after seeing the videos of Oct. 7. He answered simply: “They are against God, who is Truth. They don’t want the truth. The problem is inside them, so no matter how much truth you show them, it won’t help, the lies will come right back to them.”

Jews represent God

 

That’s exactly it: Jews represent God. God is holy, and each and every Jew is holy!

 

We represent truth, and goodness. We are God’s nation, God’s people. We learn and teach the Torah, which is God’s Eternal wisdom and truth. Jewish law is God’s law!

 

And they don’t want that. The same liberalism that promotes equality, also promotes the freedom to do anything you want, so long as it doesn’t hurt someone else. But the reality of God negates that, because if there is a God who created you – then not only do you have a purpose in life, but you must now also follow His rules.

 

The reality is that the rules and regulations and laws of the Torah actually serve to reign in the lusts of the body and confusions of the mind. Torah laws give a human a fighting chance to reach up to Godliness, which is our purpose in life – instead of wallowing in muck. Without keeping Torah, a person isn’t free – they are a slave to their bodies, instead of the body serving the soul.

 

Of course, they don’t understand that – they want the freedom to commit every abomination and immoral act in the book, without consequences, without morality, without conscience. The very existence of even one single Jew in the world negates that, even if that Jew never says a word to anyone.

 

(PS The Kalever Rebbe also discusses this topic in his article The “Progressive” Culture? – I highly recommend you check it out!)

 

The Hidden Message

I would like to posit that there is an even deeper message behind this irrational refusal to care about facts, truth, and reality.

 

Rabbi Arush’s teachings are based on spiritual laws. Just like there are physical laws like gravity, so too, there are spiritual laws.

 

One of the laws that Hashem uses to run the world is called midda k’neged midda – measure for measure, tit-for-tat. For instance, someone who has mercy on others – Hashem has mercy on him – and the opposite, G-d forbid.

 

One aspect of this is that we can understand His messages because He does to us what we are doing to others, in order for us to understand our mistakes and repent.

 

Hence, if antisemites are stubbornly refusing to recognize the truth – then it must be that in some way, the Jewish people are also stubbornly refusing to recognize the truth! Both on a communal, and individual, level.

 

Just take a minute to contemplate that, with all of its ramifications.

And I challenge you to decide to do one thing differently because of it.

 

That being said, thank G-d! One of the miracles of the last couple months is that Jews now are starting to get it, starting to realize that if they hate us for being Jews–maybe we should go find out what being Jewish really is?

"If they haeis - maybe we should go find out what being Jewish really is?"

Because they want to kill us no matter what we wear, with or without a kippah, regardless of our political or religious opinions.

 

Update: If you still aren’t convinced of just how clear and present the danger is to Jews in America, journalist Ami Horowitz spoke to 35 random students on a left-leaning campus. 80% of them supported killing Jews around the world, specifically hitting soft targets like schools and synagogues. 50% were willing to put money towards the cause. Not one pushed back. Watch for yourself.

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Rachel Avrahami grew up in Los Angeles, CA, USA in a far-off valley where she was one of only a handful of Jews in a public high school of thousands. She found Hashem in the urban jungle of the university. Rachel was privileged to read one of the first copies of The Garden of Emuna in English, and the rest, as they say, is history. She made Aliyah and immediately began working at Breslev Israel.  
 
Rachel is now the Editor of Breslev Israel’s English website. She welcomes questions, comments, articles, and personal stories to her email: rachel.avrahami@breslev.co.il.

 

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Dear world: I don’t care

I don’t care if you’re out on the street, waving your flag and chanting your slogans. We won’t die silently the way you want us to

An Israeli soldier on patrol in the southern city of Sderot

An Israeli soldier on patrol in the southern city of Sderot

Avi Lewis   30October2023, 12:43 PM  https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/dear-world-i-dont-care/

 

I don’t care that you sympathize with Hamas.

I know you wouldn’t tolerate any of the things they did to us if they would’ve done it to you.

 

I don’t care that you’re outraged by Israel’s response to the massacre more than the massacre itself.

I know you would do everything to eliminate such pure evil if you experienced it yourself.

 

I don’t care that this doesn’t fit neatly into your carefully constructed narrative of ‘Israel as aggressor’ and ‘Palestinian as victim.’

 

The truth hurts sometimes, but hey, don’t let facts get in the way of your feelings.

 

I don’t care if you think we are at fault, that we had it coming, that Hamas’ actions’ didn’t occur in a vacuum (or to deny they ever happened).

 

If you feel that the poster of a kidnapped child hurts your cause, maybe yours is a lost cause.

 

I don’t care about your calls for a premature ceasefire, about your demand that we provide them with electricity, that we stop fighting for ‘humanitarian reasons.’

 

What of a humanitarian gesture to release our 230+ hostages – elderly, children, babies – snatched from their cribs?

 

I don’t care that you’ve rallied for Palestine as part of your march for LGBTQ rights, trans rights, workers rights, socialism, climate change, intersectionality, Black Lives Matter, fighting Islamaphobia and ‘all forms of racism.’

 

Your gullibility would be laughable if it wasn’t so hypocritical. None of those things exist under Hamas.

 

I don’t care that you ‘love Jewish people – just hate Israel’, that you have some friends that are Jewish, that maybe you’re ethnically Jewish yourself – and therefore you’re entitled to levy every libel in the playbook against us.

 

Words matter. They lead to actions. When a lie is repeated often enough it’s accepted as truth. You are laying the groundwork for more attacks against us.

 

I don’t care that you wave the flag of ‘human rights’, that you’ve become overnight experts in international law, that you shout fancy slogans you don’t understand such as proportionality, occupation and apartheid.

 

Your humanity is selective. In your mind, human rights don’t apply to us because we are undeserving. You didn’t speak up when our women and children were horribly assaulted.

 

I don’t care if you think we are colonialists, imperialists and settlers and that we should just go back to where we came from.

 

We are back to where we came from.

I don’t care if you believe in a one-state solution, a two-state solution, a federation, an internationalized Jerusalem or any other theory drawn up in your ivory tower.

 

We won’t readily hold out our necks and endanger our lives in order to satisfy your thought experiments and placate your conscience from afar.

 

I don’t care if you consider yourself anti-Zionist but not antisemitic.

We’ve seen enough Jews around the world attacked over the last 3 weeks under the guise of ‘anti-Zionism’.

 

I don’t care that you think we are too powerful, too technologically advanced, too sophisticated.

 

If we didn’t build ourselves up to this point we’d get eaten alive by Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Iran and Palestinian terrorism.

I don’t care that you blame us for 1948 refugees, for the fact that they have no state, for the keys that they wave in their fantasy of ‘right of return.’

 

Three weeks ago we got a glimpse of what that ‘return’ looks like and what it means for our children.

 

I don’t care if you think we aren’t real Jews, that Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism, that Jews are a religion and not a nationality and so we deserve no state.

 

Your denials have zero impact on the strength of our ideals and the self-affirmation of our identity.

 

I don’t care that you accuse us of flaunting the myriad UN resolutions, inquiries and statements.

 

They reflect more on the institutional decay of the UN than on us.

 

I don’t care about your media coverage, the lies, the equivocation, the acceptance of Hamas talking points and statistics.

 

Your echo chamber is just another weapon in their strategic arsenal.

 

I don’t care that you accused us of bombing the Al Ahli hospital.

It was only a matter of time before you found a symbol for Israel’s wickedness. The subsequent retractions were a fig leaf once the truth emerged that Islamic Jihad was responsible and that the hospital is still standing.

 

I don’t care that you see us as a criminal state, a terror state, usurpers, baby killers, Christ-killers, Khaybar Jews or any other depravity that exists in your mind.

 

Your libels lay the groundwork for our dehumanization. Rings a bell. We will fight it.

I don’t care that you’ve inverted the truth by accusing us of genocide.

 

If positions were reversed and Hamas held the power we do now, you’d see what a genocide looks like.

I don’t care that you’re angry, boiling and outraged.

 

I don’t care that you’re glued to your TV screens and Telegram channels.

I don’t care that you’re mad.

 

I don’t care if you’re out on the street, waving your flag and chanting your slogans.

We won’t die silently the way you want us to.

 

For the first time in 2,000 years we are organized, we are motivated and we will defend ourselves.

 

We fight for light over darkness,

 

Morality over evil.

 

Not that it matters to you – but we will stick to the rules and hold the high moral ground not because you expect it from us, but because they are a value for us.

 

We will do so ethically and thoughtfully, for we are the People of the Book.

 

Our power and strength are a necessity because the alternative for us is:

 

Be’eri, Kfar Aza, Pittsburgh, Toulouse, Farhud, Hebron, Birkenau, Belzec, Babi Yar, Kristalnacht, Kielce and Kishinev.

 

Do you think for a moment that we would return to that reality just to make you feel a little better?

 

You are deeply mistaken…

World,

For so, so long, I really, deeply cared.

I cared about fitting in;

I cared about what you think;

I cared about being a model citizen;

I cared about setting a personal example of how a tiny people in a tough neighborhood could still be a Light unto the Nations.

 

How the world’s oldest minority – now a majority here – could treat its own internal minorities par excellence amidst the complicated and messy reality of ethnic conflict;

 

How we could painfully dismember parts of our homeland and offer them on the platter of peace to Palestinians that want neither peace nor some parts (they want all of it);

 

How we could dazzle you with USB sticks, drip irrigation, operating system kernels, Nobel Prize winners, swallowable medical cameras, deep tech, quantum mechanics, generative AI and cures for disease.

 

But now I’m finally accepting that you don’t care.

You never did.

You don’t see and you don’t hear.

And because I cared about what you think so much, that so deeply hurts.

But you don’t have my best interests at heart.

You take issue with my base identity, with what I represent.

Don’t expect me to wait for your approval this time.

It doesn’t matter what I do, you’re not going to change.

It doesn’t matter how I act, because your issue is with who I am.

Now I’m going to block out your noise and do what it takes to win this war.

Today
Finally
I no longer care

About the Author
Avi was formerly a news writer at the Times of Israel. Originally from Australia, he served in the IDF and today works in Israel’s thriving Hi Tech sector in Tel Aviv. He lives near Modi’in with wife and 3 kids

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JerusalemCats Comments: So You think your safe outside of the Land of Israel?

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NYC On “High Alert” For “Lone Wolves” After Hamas Attack On Israel

by Tyler Durden, 11October2023 – https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nyc-high-alert-lone-wolves-after-hamas-attacked-israel

 

New York City was placed on “high alert” Tuesday by New York Mayor Eric Adams, who told law-abiding residents not to “underestimate” the threat from lone-wolf terrorists who have been radicalized by Hamas.

New York Mayor Eric Adams

New York Mayor Eric Adams

 

“We cannot let our guards down,” said Adams.

The announcement comes as Israel prepares to turn parts of the Gaza Strip into “rubble” following the terrorist attack.

New Yorkers should not “underestimate” the threat from lone-wolf style terrorists who have been radicalized by Hamas online, warned New York Mayor Eric Adams, as the horror of the Israel-Palestine conflict continues to send shockwaves around the world.

 

Speaking at a press conference, the Democrat may have warned the city to be on guard, saying: “Don’t underestimate lone wolves…people being radicalized online.”

 

He added that messaging social media sites – where Hamas has shared horrific footage of Saturday’s attack on Israel – can motivate people to carry out similar attacks.

 

Authorities in New York are paying “special attention” to communities of Hasidic Jews in the Big Apple while monitoring social media sites, he said. –Daily Express

Adams’ comments come days after Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel over the weekend, in which more than 1,800 people have been killed on both sides.

 

Making matters worse for NYC’s Jewish population, which, outside of Israel is the largest in the world, has been disastrous border policies pushed by Democrats which have allowed a steady stream of illegal migrants to enter the country – most of whom are unvetted.

 

Meanwhile, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.’s Democratic Socialists of America party led pro-Palestinian rallies in Times Square after the Hamas attack.

 

Democratic Socialists of America party led pro-Palestinian rallies in Times Square 8October2023 - Photo by Stuart Meissner

Democratic Socialists of America party led pro-Palestinian rallies in Times Square 8October2023 – Photo by Stuart Meissner

 

Perhaps the FBI will be forced to do its job instead of targeting enemies of the Democrat party?

FBI New York-tweet-10October2023

FBI New York-tweet-10October2023

 

UPDATE:

NYPD Calls for Level Three Mobilization Amidst Numerous Large Riots Between Pro-Hamas Rioters and Police


Richard Goldberg-tweet-26December2023-NYPD Calls for Level Three Mobilization Amidst Numerous Large Riots Between Pro-Hamas Rioters and Police
Pro-Hamas, not Pro-Palestine

Rioters, not Protesters

Large Riot, not Large Protest
R A W S A L E R T S -tweet-25December2023
🚨#BREAKING: NYPD Calls for Level Three Mobilization Amidst Numerous Fights Between Pro-Palestine Protesters and Police at a Large Protest

📌#Manhattan l #NewYork

Currently, the New York Police Department has requested a Level Three mobilization for a large protest that is taking place in Midtown Manhattan, where Pro-Palestine protesters are reportedly engaging in fights with the police. Numerous altercations have broken out between the two resulting in reported injuries to multiple officers. The extent of the injuries is currently unknown at this time. Police have also Reportedly made multiple arrests

Richard Goldberg-tweet-26December2023-NYPD Calls for Level Three Mobilization Amidst Numerous Large Riots Between Pro-Hamas Rioters and Police

Richard Goldberg-tweet-26December2023-NYPD Calls for Level Three Mobilization Amidst Numerous Large Riots Between Pro-Hamas Rioters and Police

 

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New York City supports Hamas terror

Ritchie Torres-tweet-15October2023-A NYC club known as The End is holding an “Intifada Fundraver,” glorifying the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

Ritchie Torres-tweet-15October2023-A NYC club known as The End is holding an “Intifada Fundraver,” glorifying the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

 


Rabbi S Litvin-tweet-11March2024-open call to murder Jewish babies
This is in New York City.

It’s an open call to murder Jewish babies.

We have seen this before.

Pro-Hamas = Pro-Holocaust

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Rabbi S Litvin-tweet-11March2024-open call to murder Jewish babies

 

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NYPD told Eli Wiesel’s Son to Hide Israeli flag at Protest

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Told to Hide Israeli flag at Protest, Eli Wiesel’s Son Complies

19December2023 | Ticker, Virtual Jerusalem |
https://virtualjerusalem.com/told-to-hide-israeli-flag-at-protest-eli-wiesels-son-complies/

Elisha Weisel had an Israeli flag draped around his back and Hamas Terrorist

Elisha Weisel had an Israeli flag draped around his back and Hamas Terrorist

Elisha Wiesel’s Stand Against Antisemitism: A Voice in Turbulent Times, Upholding Father’s Legacy in Tense New York City Confrontation

Elisha Wiesel, son of the late Elie Wiesel, a renowned Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, recently found himself in a tense situation during a protest in New York City. At this event, organized by Within Our Lifetime, Wiesel was advised by NYPD to remove his Israeli flag amidst a crowd of about 500 Hamas supporters, citing safety concerns. This incident has brought Wiesel’s activism and his stance against antisemitism into the spotlight.

 

Wiesel, continuing his father’s legacy, has become a significant voice advocating against antisemitism and for the state of Israel. Reflecting on the incident, Wiesel expressed his experience via Twitter: “500 Hamas supporters shouting slogans surrounded us. I put on an Israeli flag I carry with me. The cowards hid behind their masks. NYPD insisted I remove the flag as the situation was getting dangerous”​​​​.


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Video of the Penn Station incident. 500 Hamas supporters shouting slogans surrounded us. I put on an Israeli flag I carry with me. The cowards hid behind their masks. NYPD insisted I remove the flag as situation was getting dangerous.

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Elisha Wiesel-tweet-18December2023-Elisha Weisel and Hamas Terrorist

In his advocacy, Wiesel has often emphasized the importance of Israel as a safeguard against potential future atrocities against the Jewish people. He has said, “My father saw Israel as the only guarantee against a second Holocaust” and stressed that “hate is a stain that is hard to wash out”​​. His views echo the sentiments of his father, who was not only a witness to the horrors of the Holocaust but also a passionate supporter of Israel.

 

Wiesel’s public addresses have highlighted the continual threats posed by antisemitism and the need for vigilance. He has remarked on the historical and current situation in Gaza, stating, “When Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005, the hope truly was that with the help of the U.S., the European Union, and the U.N. and Russia, Gaza would become a thriving demilitarized country, powered by tourism, economically tied, to Israel, a new chance”​​.

 

Elisha Wiesel’s involvement in these recent events and his subsequent remarks are a testament to his commitment to combating antisemitism and supporting Israel. His actions and words resonate with the enduring legacy of his father and highlight the ongoing relevance of these issues in today’s world.

 

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Canadian Jews time to Pack your Bags and make Aliyah


Canary Mission-tweet-5March2024-Hamas supporters block Montreal’s Holocaust Museum
“Settlers, settlers, go back home!” “We’re going to kill all your kids!” Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters blocked the entrance to an event by IDF reservists at Montreal’s Holocaust Museum. In Nazi Germany, the Jews were also told to “go back home” (ironically, to Israel). https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-790305

Canary Mission-tweet-5March2024-Hamas supporters block Montreal’s Holocaust Museum

Canary Mission-tweet-5March2024-Hamas supporters block Montreal’s Holocaust Museum

 

 

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Hamas in Toronto


Ariella-tweet-5March2024-open call for violence against Jews in Toronto
Good morning Toronto!
Just another day with an open call for violence against Jews.

What is it that people think globalize the intifada means?
Ahuvah Berger-Burcat-tweet-6March2024-If you support this poster
If you post this, or support this poster – then don’t come crying when you fuck around and find out.
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Outside the courthouse on University Ave
JerusalemCats-tweet-7March2024-Israel will hunt down these Hamas supporters
Israel will spare no expense in hunting down these Hamas supporters that are putting up these Posters calling to kill the Jews. There are consequences for your actions. You will get to visit Yasser Arafat and Osama Bin Laden. Remember the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre aftermath.

Ariella-tweet-5March2024-open call for violence against Jews in Toronto

Ariella-tweet-5March2024-open call for violence against Jews in Toronto

Ahuvah Berger-Burcat-tweet-6March2024-If you support this poster

Ahuvah Berger-Burcat-tweet-6March2024-If you support this poster

 

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Being Jewish in 2024 – Canada


Oli London-tweet-15May2024-Israeli teenager visciously assaulted outside her school for being Jewish.
Israeli teenager visciously assaulted outside her school for being Jewish.

Shaked Tsurkan, an Israeli girl attending a high school in New Brunswick, Canada was assaulted from behind by an older Muslim student.

The assault came after the teenager was subjected to months of bullying for being Israeli.

The teenager was left with cuts, bruises and black eyes.

The assailant, who the victim identified as an older Muslim student, was suspended for a week from school for carrying out the attack.

Source: @TheCJN
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Being Jewish in 2024 (microcosm)

The Jewish girl gets assaulted from behind, the adult does nothing, the friend just watches, many film (media) for the likes and finally the adult yells at her for trying to defend herself.

Moy Miz-tweet-15May2024-Being Jewish in 2024-Canada

Moy Miz-tweet-15May2024-Being Jewish in 2024-Canada

 

 


dahlia kurtz-tweet-24April2024-Hamas running public daycare in Ontario
A Jewish mum just dropped off her toddler at a public daycare in Ontario.

The daycare supervisor was wearing a keffiyeh.

Imagine dropping your Jewish 3-year-old off at public school, and the person responsible for their care was wearing a Swastika.

That’s what just happened.

@Sflecce @brianlilley

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dahlia kurtz-tweet-24April2024-Hamas running public daycare in Ontario

 

 

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A GENERAL WARNING TO THE JEWISH PUBLIC and A Purim Lesson for Simchat Torah

1 Marcheshvan 5784 15October2023 http://palmtreeofdeborah.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-general-warning-to-jewish-public.html
Rosh Chodesh Bet

A GENERAL WARNING TO THE JEWISH PUBLIC

Every Christian and missionary organization is hoping to capitalize on the crisis situation in Israel in order to push their man-god idolatry onto Jews.  I wish I had the room here to name all the names and show you how much money they have already collected in “donations” to “help Israel.”  [One prominent group actually living in Shomron is trying to raise 29 million dollars].  But anyway we don’t want to give them the publicity.

 

They are talking amongst themselves about the great opportunity this presents to give gifts to Jews in the name of their man-god while they are feeling most vulnerable and hope they will think kindly toward that false religion as a result.

 

It is forbidden to accept these gifts, even in the name of pikuach nefesh.  The supplies on offer are also being provided by Jewish sources, so if you feel the need of them, you must go to a fellow Jew for those items and take nothing from the Christians.  It would be a chillul Hashem because they report back to their followers how the Jews do not take care of each other and how it is left to them to do it as an act of Christian kindness.

 

Their “love and kindness” is a poison.  It’s a sham and a spiritual crime deserving of the death penalty al pi halachah.  HKB”H can provide all your needs through acceptable avenues.  If He doesn’t provide it, you don’t need it.

 

A Purim Lesson for Simchat Torah

 

Since the murderous bloody massacre of our people on Shabbat-Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah, I’ve seen a particular phrase used over and over in shocked awe:  “They [Hamas] killed men and women as well as babies and old people.”

 

That echoed in my mind.

 

“…to destroy, kill, and cause to perish all the Jews, both young and old, little children and women, on one day….”  (Megillat Esther)

 

“…in every province, wherever the king’s orders and his edict reached, there was great mourning for the Jews, and fasting and weeping and lamenting; sackcloth and ashes were put on the most prominent.”  (Megillat Esther

 

“…the Jews be ready for that day, to avenge themselves upon their enemies.”  (Megillat Esther)

 

This is the Jewish response to this kind of threat.  Sadly, the warning has come too late for so many.

 

With hopes and prayers for better days and good news…

 

~ CHODESH TOV ~

 

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We are letting them do it to us again


Hillel Fuld-tweet-25April2024-We are letting them do it to us again
Dear European Jews in the 30s,

I owe you an apology. For the last 40 years, I’ve accused you of being blind, and quite frankly, stupid!

I’ve said it thousands of times.

“Why didn’t they get out? How did they not see the writing on the wall? Were they that comfortable and assimilated that they really believed it’d be ok? And even if they believed that, when Germany started legislating against Jews, how was THAT not enough of a sign to get out??”

For years, I thought you were weak. I thought you were led to the gas chambers like sheep to the slaughter.

For years, I thought that your mistakes could never be repeated again. I thought we, the Jewish nation, would surely see the writing on the wall.

I said Never Again and deep down, I thought it would never happen again, because WE, the Jewish people would never let it happen again.

“We are not as weak as they were”, I told myself.

And now I have to say, I’m sorry. I didn’t understand you until about a month or two ago when I realized that I was wrong about you.

More precisely, I was wrong about us.

It could happen again. The Jewish people WOULD let it happen again. We ARE letting it happen again.

Antisemites in the United States congress? Yep.

Pop stars declaring their love for Hitler? Uh huh

Banning Jews from entering educational institutions? Sadly that happened too.

Jews being assaulted and beaten in the streets? Yep, so that’s now a thing.

Mass antisemitic marches across America? We are there…

Jews women being raped and murdered just because they are a Jew? Can’t believe I’m saying this but yea, that too.

So, my European ancestors, and I’m talking to you, Grandma, I’m sorry. You weren’t weak and we aren’t strong.

We are letting them do it to us again and we are again not reading the writing on the wall.

I always believed that if I, we experienced what you experienced, we’d get the hell out immediately.

I was wrong. My brothers and sisters are continuing to be sitting ducks waiting for the next attack, the next vandalism of a synagogue, the next hate crime, the next blood thirsty antisemitic march, the next murder.

It’s 2024 and we haven’t learned the lesson that Germany was not our home. Poland was not our home. Austria was not our home.

Today, America is not our home. South Africa is not our home. The UK is not our home. Australia is not our home.

We only have one home and that is Israel. Is everything perfect in Israel? 100% not. But in Israel, your people protect you and if God forbid bad things happen, and they happen, (you don’t have to tell me, my brother was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist), your government, your army, your people will retaliate and ensure it never happens again.

No one is protecting you at Harvard. Or MIT. Or Columbia. You’re on your own there and this isn’t going to end well.

So, my European ancestors, I’m sorry I judged you. You weren’t weak. You weren’t blind. You weren’t dumb.

You were Jews who refused to internalize that other nations don’t behave like us and just because we’d never try to annihilate a nation doesn’t mean they won’t.

To my brothers and sisters in 2024, please, I beg of you, internalize the lesson of history. It’s happening right before your eyes. Don’t wait till it’s too late.

Leave. Get out. Come home.

We are waiting for you with open hours. You worry about us in Israel? I get it. That’s kind. But here, our fate is in our hands (And Hashem’s) and we know what we need to do.

No one there has your back. We have your back here.

So come home. Help us help you.

Allow us to welcome you at Ben Gurion Airport with chants of Am Yisrael Chai instead of staying there to hear chants of Globalize the Intifada and From the River to the Sea.

This is your home and we want you here with us. We need you here with us.

If you won’t come home for you, come home for us. We love you and want you here safe in our embrace.

Come home. It will be the best thing you ever did!

We are waiting. I am waiting! 🇮🇱🙏✡️

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TIME IS RUNNING OUT TO BOARD THE ARK!!!

7 Marcheshvan 5784  22 October 2023  http://palmtreeofdeborah.blogspot.com/2023/10/time-is-running-out-to-board-ark.html

It may already be too late!!!

This is a follow-up to The Flood of Hamas.  It alludes to The Flood of Violence (חָמָס) that accompanies The Flood of Antisemitism at the End of Days.  See, Heaven’s messages are everywhere!  HKB”H is screaming to His Children, “Choose life!!”

How can the Jews of the Diaspora not see this!??  Don’t be fooled by fear of what is happening in Eretz Yisrael.  It’s not what it seems.  (See the next post which should be ready later today, iy”H.)  If you are already here, this is NOT the time to leave!!!

 

  • “Yehudit: ‘…in America, antisemitism will rise to unimaginable heights.'”
  • “Rav Sheinberger: ‘The whole world will flood and Eretz Israel will be like Noah’s ark, floating on top.'”
  • Ovadia HaNavi (1:17):  “On Mount Zion there will be refuge….”
  • The Lubavitcher Rebbe (During the Gulf War):  “There is no safer place in the world today than Eretz Yisrael.  Heaven forbid that anyone living in Eretz Yisrael should think of leaving at this time.  On the contrary, whoever is planning to visit Eretz Yisrael should go without fear and should let others know of his trip as well, for this will raise the confidence of the Jewish people throughout the world.
  • SEE: Rav Yehuda Zev Leibowitz’s Third Prediction

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Thousands of protesters demanding eradication of Israel clash with NYPD

Thousands of protesters demanding eradication of Israel clash with NYPD

 

About 100,000 protesters join pro-Palestinian march through London

About 100,000 protesters join pro-Palestinian march through London

 

Protests across Canada oppose Israel's onslaught against Gaza

Protests across Canada oppose Israel’s onslaught against Gaza

 

Today it is “thousands,” tomorrow it will be millions and nothing will stop them.  Hashem yerachem!  

 

Do you think what happened here cannot happen there???

 

Do you think you could possibly be safer outside the Land G-d gave us???

[EDD: Examples]

Visegrád 24-tweet-23October2023-The Minneapolis City Council candidate Zach Metzger filmed this clip of himself and fellow anti-Israel protesters trying to chase down an elderly man trying to drive past their protest which was blocking a major street.

Visegrád 24-tweet-23October2023-The Minneapolis City Council candidate Zach Metzger filmed this clip of himself and fellow anti-Israel protesters trying to chase down an elderly man trying to drive past their protest which was blocking a major street.

 

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“Reproductive justice means free Palestine” Far-left protesters at the NYC Queers for Palestine direct action falsely link the long regional conflict to American social issues. Abortion is almost entirely banned in the Palestinian territories, even in cases of rape or incest. West Bank Palestinian women who seek the procedure will sometimes go to Israel. Photos courtesy of

@theinkbubble :
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Andy Ngô-tweet-24October2023-Reproductive justice means free Palestine

 

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Hamas to Nazi “I’ll Take it From Here” grabbing holocaust survivor

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9November2023-Tonight marks 85 years since Kristallnacht


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Tonight marks 85 years since Kristallnacht, the November Pogrom of 1938, in which more than 100 synagogues and 7500 Jewish businesses were vandalized in Germany.

This horrific event was the culmination of years of incitement and antisemitic rhetoric against Jews.

In the past couple of weeks we’ve seen Jewish communities around the world face horrific antisemitism.

Antisemitism starts with words but it doesn’t end there.

More often than not it kills.

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Israel-tweet-9November2023-Tonight marks 85 years since Kristallnacht

 

85 years since Kristallnacht

85 years since Kristallnacht

 

 


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NIE WIEDER ist JETZT!

Translated from Hebrew by

NEVER AGAIN is NOW!

Arye (ARO) Sharuz Shalicar-tweet-8November2023-NIE WIEDER ist JETZT!

Arye (ARO) Sharuz Shalicar-tweet-8November2023-NIE WIEDER ist JETZT!

 

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The Night of the Broken Glass

Nov 9-10, 1938: “The Night of Broken Glass”, which in German was called Kristallnacht, was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany and Austria on…
Yaakov Bar Nahman Posted on 10November2023 https://breslev.com/366273/

 

“The Night of the Broken Glass”, which in German was called Kristallnacht, was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany and Austria on 9 to 10 November 1938. Kristallnacht was triggered by the assassination in Paris of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a German-born Polish Jew. In a coordinated attack on Jewish people and their property, 91 Jews were murdered and 30,000 were arrested and placed in concentration camps. 267 synagogues were destroyed, and thousands of homes and businesses were ransacked. This was done by the Brown Shirt Hitler Youth, the Gestapo, the SA, and the SS. Kristallnacht also served as a pretext and as a means for the wholesale confiscation of firearms from German Jews in order to assure their being left defenseless.

 

This woke up some Jews to the unfolding dangers, but not enough. So very many chose to remain blind and stayed, waiting for the storm to go away. History was to recount what an immense mistake that choice was.

 

While the fledgling Nazi party was growing in size and power, the concept of what Jewish life is really about became  dried up, diluted, and all but lost. The Jewish community was crumbling. The Reform movement and the Enlightenment were taking their toll. Tens of thousands of Jews were losing all feeling of what being Jewish really is. Theirs was more like a drab, colorless, lifeless cardboard cutout rather than a living, vibrant spiritual life. It was devoid of anything that stimulates the heart and soul. When there is nothing to draw interest, nothing to love, nothing to respect; there is nothing to attract loyalty, there is no inner bond.   Even the most basic level of a Jewish soul desires spirituality. If “at home” their lives were devoid of spirituality, they would seek some semblance of spirituality elsewhere.

 

Together, this resulted in myriads of German Jews leaving Judaism. By the onset of WW 2, there were 10,000 Catholic and Protestant priests and pastors in Germany from Jewish families!

 

They sought the spirituality that had been stolen from them and replaced by the dried up version of Judaism they were  raised in.

 

Even among those who “remained Jewish”, many had adopted the attitude of, “Be a Jew at home and a human being outside”.

 

Is there any wonder that God let loose the Angel of Death with an ‘open license to kill wholesale’? This process and its horrific outcome was to become one of the most gruesome chapters in human history.

 

With the worsening socioeconomic situation in Germany, the increasing political radicalism, and the turning of Divine Providence against the Jews of Germany due to the vast number who abandoned Torah life and values, the stage was set for…

Holocaust.

Holocaust, the Greek word for sacrifice.

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With antisemitism surging, Diaspora synagogues are ‘afraid’ to mark Kristallnacht

As Holocaust survivors reflect on Oct. 7 and the ‘global pogrom’ during Israel’s war with Hamas, some Jewish communities avoid commemorating 85 years to the Night of Broken Glass

By Matt Lebovic 8November2023 https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-antisemitism-surging-diaspora-synagogues-are-afraid-to-mark-kristallnacht/

 

On the morning after Kristallnacht, or the "Night of Broken Glass," local residents watch as the synagogue in Ober-Ramstadt, Germany, is destroyed by fire in 1938. (CNS photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

On the morning after Kristallnacht, or the “Night of Broken Glass,” local residents watch as the synagogue in Ober-Ramstadt, Germany, is destroyed by fire in 1938. (CNS photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

 

NEW YORK — Jewish communities from South America to Europe are canceling plans to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s Kristallnacht pogrom Thursday night due to surging antisemitism following the Hamas massacres of October 7, The Times of Israel has learned.

 

That day, Hamas terrorists infiltrated southern Israel by land, air and sea in a shock assault and killed some 1,400 people, mostly civilians, amid acts of horrible cruelty. Over 240 people are now in captivity in Gaza, including dozens of children. In the wake of the invasion, Israel declared war and vowed to destroy Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, where mounting casualties from the Israeli offensive have shifted public attention away from the October 7 massacres.

 

Thousands of synagogues had planned to participate in an annual Israel-based Kristallnacht initiative called “Light from the Synagogue,” with congregations and Jewish organizations invited to keep their lights on all night to mark the German pogrom in which 99 Jews were murdered and 30,000 men sent to concentration camps.

 

“When we first started to plan how to adapt this beautiful project to Brazil, we were aiming for an interreligious effort,” said Hana Nusbaum, a Holocaust educator based in Sao Paulo.

 

“However, due to the rise of antisemitism worldwide, we don’t think the synagogues and other Jewish institutions would be comfortable with a physical demonstration of support that highlights their locations,” Nusbaum told The Times of Israel.

 

Kristallnacht commemoration organizers in Los Angeles and New York City told The Times of Israel about “bolstered” security for synagogue gatherings set for Thursday evening. However, unlike Brazil, there were no reports that Kristallnacht gatherings were canceled in the US so far.

 

Marking this year’s wartime commemoration, the iconic March of the Living program released testimonies of Holocaust survivors who reflected on antisemitism following the Hamas massacres of October 7.

 

“I never thought in my life that something as terrible as now would happen again,” said Tirza HaLivni, who survived Kristallnacht and later moved to Israel.

 

Kvutzat Yavneh’s synagogue during Kristallnacht commemoration ‘Light from the Synagogue’ (courtesy: Dalia Yohanan)

Kvutzat Yavneh’s synagogue during Kristallnacht commemoration ‘Light from the Synagogue’ (courtesy: Dalia Yohanan)

 

“On October 7, Hamas came and slaughtered children, young and old. I have to say honestly, all the lectures I give, and I give a lot, in Israel, in Germany and wherever I can, but I think back 85 years ago to how horrible it was, and here we are, experiencing it again,” said HaLivni.

 

Through March of the Living (MOTL), thousands of Israelis and Diaspora teens have toured Holocaust sites in Poland followed by visits to Israel. Many of the survivors solicited by MOTL this year were uncomfortable allowing the organization to use their full names, according to a MOTL press release.

 

“[They] feared for their own safety, were initially hesitant to speak out, [or] worried that revealing their identities could place them in immediate danger,” said the statement.

 

As for synagogues afraid to commemorate Kristallnacht this week, “Light from the Synagogue” organizer Dalia Yohanan said she was deeply upset by emails she received.

 

In Graz, Austria, onlookers watch a smoldering synagogue the morning after Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938 (public domain)

In Graz, Austria, onlookers watch a smoldering synagogue the morning after Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938 (public domain)

 

“I nearly cried when I read how many synagogues are afraid to share their locations,” Yohanan told The Times of Israel.

“We thought those days would never come back,” said Yohanan, who lives on Kibbutz Tirat Tzvi.

Although it appears there have not been Kristallnacht cancellations in the US, that is not the case in Europe. In Groningen, the Netherlands, for example, an annual “silent march” for Kristallnacht was canceled due to fears that Palestinian supporters would find it provocative.

 

“We don’t want the march to be viewed as a demonstration because it is not,” said Geert Volders, director of the city’s Stichting Folkingestraat Synagogue.

 

Historians regard “The Night of Broken Glass” on November 9-10, 1938, as a prelude to the Holocaust, as well as a “test run” for Hitler to gauge global reaction to his plans for Europe’s Jews.

‘Jews are not safe’

Outside the Jewish state, survivors are now reluctant to wear Jewish symbols, said Manya Wallenfels, a Polish-born survivor who lives in the US.

 

“I think twice before I wear my Star of David,” said Wallenfels. “It is a catastrophe what is happening today: not only Hamas but the antisemitism in the universities. Before, I went outside with a Magen David on my shirt, now I think twice about it,” said Wallenfels.

 

In Los Angeles, a Jewish man was attacked in public by a Palestinian activist and died several hours later. One California-based survivor interviewed by MOTL said “sleepless nights” became part of their lives again since October 7.

 

“The October 7 terror attack brought back so many memories of what I saw as a child,” said Maud Dahme, a survivor who lives in San Diego.

 

“When it all happened on October 7, I couldn’t believe it. I’ve had sleepless nights since and it just brought back so many memories. I don’t know how to cope,” said Dahme.

Jewish man murdered by Palestinian protestor

Jewish man
murdered by Palestinian protestor

A Jewish man falls to the ground after allegedly being struck with a megaphone by an anti-Israel protester in Los Angeles on November 5, 2023. (Screen capture/X)

Some survivors said the Hamas massacres shattered a relative sense of inner balance they toiled to achieve for decades.

“I am devastated to see how Jews are being attacked today. Jews are not safe,” said Nate Leipciger, a survivor who lives in Canada.

 

“I am very troubled by this and am struggling to retain my equilibrium,” said Leipciger, who was attacked on the street for being a Jew while growing up.

 

“My optimism is shattered. We must collectively feel the pain felt by parents whose child is abducted and threatened with death. Hamas’s barbarism is equal and almost exceeds what I experienced during the Shoah,” said Leipciger, most of whose family were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

“Hamas’s barbarism is equal and almost exceeds what I experienced during the Shoah

“It started with words and continued with actions. I am devastated to see how Jews are being attacked today. Jews are not safe. I saw where antisemitism can lead to and I am very concerned,” said Leipciger.

 

With hundreds of American synagogues set to go forward with Kristallnacht programs on Thursday, some have committed to keep their lights on all night, as per the Israel-based initiative.

 

For example, at Young Israel of Sharon, Massachusetts, a 90-minute “Light From the Synagogue” program will focus on “our light” having not been “extinguished” during the Holocaust or after the Hamas massacres.

 

According to Young Israel, many congregants in Sharon, located outside Boston, had not heard about the Kristallnacht event due to a strenuous news cycle. In gathering as many Jews as possible, the shul hopes to express “our continued presence and vibrancy,” said a flyer.

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Jewish doctors launch group to combat antisemitism in medicine: ‘It’s Nazi Germany all over again’

By Carl Campanile

Published May 19, 2024, 11:46 a.m. ET  https://nypost.com/2024/05/19/us-news/jewish-doctors-launch-group-to-combat-antisemitism-in-medicine-its-nazi-germany-all-over-again/

 

Jewish doctors alarmed by “rampant” antisemitism and even violence at health-care institutions in the US have launched their own national advocacy group to combat the hatred in medicine.

 

Thousands of medical professionals from across the country have joined the new American Jewish Medical Association to stand up for Jews, the group recently told The Post.

 

“It’s fundamentally scary for those of us who care about humanity. It’s Nazi Germany all over again,” said Manhattan plastic surgeon Yael Halaas, founder and president of the new group and a graduate of Columbia University and Cornell Medical School.

 

The hatred leveled against Jews after the Palestinian terror group Hamas’ Oct. 7 invasion of Israel hit home for Halaas, whose Jewish parents emigrated to the US from Cuba and Argentina.

 

Many members of her dad’s family were killed in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.

 

Medical schools particularly have become hostile environments for Jewish students, the organizers said.

Among the troubling incidents:

 

-George Washington University’s medical school hosted a faculty panel in December that declared the terrorists have a “right of resistance” against Israel.

 

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logo American Jewish Medical Association

-Some medical professionals have praised the Hamas Oct. 7 attack on Israel and denied the fact that victims in Israel were sexually assaulted.

 

— A sign that read, “Free Palestine from Nazi Zionist Schwein” — the German word meaning “pig” — appeared in front of the cancer center at the University of California at San Francisco’s medical school.

 

—  Anti-Israel protesters at rallies at Columbia University’s Medical School/Mailman School of Public Health have chanted “From the River to the Sea,” a phrase many interpret as calling for the elimination of Israel and celebrating suicide bombers who kill Israelis.

 

“The Jewish medical students are bullied into silence,” Halaas said. “They are being ostracized. It shouldn’t be controversial to say Israel is integral to Jewish identity.

 

“Anti-Zionism is antisemitism,” she said.

 

The term “zionism” refers to the right of the Jewish state to exist.

 

Orthopedist Cary Schwartzbach, a Queens native who practices in Fairfax, Va., and a son of Holocaust survivors and treasurer of the new group, said, “Oct. 7 was a wake-up call.

 

“It opened the gates for antisemitism,” the doctor said.

 

“There’s a sense of hostilities against Jews. Antisemitism has made a lot of hospital residency programs uncomfortable for Jewish students,” he said.

 

“We need a voice. We need to protect ourselves. We need to protect medical school students.”

 

Larisa Geskin, an oncologist and director of the Comprehensive Skin Cancer Center at Columbia University’s Medical Center who emigrated from Latvia in the former Soviet Union when she was 20, said she was stunned by the antisemitism she’s personally witnessed on campus.

 

“There is rampant antisemitism in the medical community,” the 56-year-old doctor said.

 

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Dr. Benjamin Harouni, a Jewish dentist, was fatally shot by a disgruntled former patient. GoFundMe.com

 

“This is so familiar to me. In the Soviet Union antisemitism was rampant. I never thought I’d hear the same rhetoric in the United States that I heard in the Soviet Union,” she said.

 

Given how Jews have been abused throughout history, the doctors said it’s horrifying to hear propaganda painting Israelis as white oppressors.

 

“Jews are also a minority. We need protection like other minorities,” Geskin said.

 

“We see history repeating itself. We feel we have to say something. They were chanting `From the River to the Sea’ in my backyard. This is what is happening in the medical community.”

 

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The Democratic Party as a whole is officially Anti Israel


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Fair to argue at this point that the Democratic Party as a whole is officially Anti Israel
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Today’s cover: Kamala Harris skipping Netanyahu’s speech to Congress to address sorority event instead

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Dov Hikind-tweet-24July2024-Democratic Party officially Anti Israel

 

 


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Correct me, if I am mistaken. It appears that neither Blinken, Biden, Harris, nor even the little weasel Jake Sullivan received Bibi and his delegation of Israeli former hostages and families of the hostages.

And, we’re now getting reports that pretty much everyone who matters at the Democratic party is boycotting Bibi’s speech?

Cool, cool. Just don’t blame us when we say this despicable, disgusting party is anti-Israel and anti-Jews. They’re literally refusing to receive an Israeli delegation with people who were taken hostage by Hamas.

Sinwar is absolutely delighted. Thank you, Democrats. You’ve made our enemies stronger.

To every single Jew in the US, this election is now a single-issue matter. Vote for Trump.
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I’m not sure how it’s been so inextricably memory holed, but upwards of 60 Democrats boycotted Bibi’s speech to Congress in 2015. This isn’t a ‘current events’ issue; it’s systemic.

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Khaled Hassan-tweet-24July2024-Democratic party is boycotting Bibi

 

 

At the Democratic National Convention 2016

Protester burn Israeli flag outside DNC, Byron Tau/ Wall Street Journal

Protester burn Israeli flag outside DNC, Byron Tau/ Wall Street Journal

Palestine sic flag at Democrat Convention, Social Media

Palestine sic flag at Democrat Convention, Social Media

Protesters burn Israeli flags outside the DNC and DNC delegates wave Palestine sic flags inside the DNC

The long-time Jewish worship of the Democratic Party is based on the false premise, that U. S. President F.D. Roosevelt was pro-Jewish and saved the world by defeating the Nazis. He is also credited with ending the Great Depression, and that is another untruth.

  • FDR was pushed into having the USA enter World War Two when American military was attacked and to save Britain and Europe. At no time was it a military, or diplomatic aim to stop the Nazi Holocaust of Jews.
  • It was the economic needs of the American military that drastically improved the American economy, thereby bringing on the economic recovery and end of the Great Depression.

 

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Caroline Glick tweet 9August2020 No room for Jews in the Democrat Party unless they’re “as a Jew” Jews

 

 

At the Democratic National Convention 2024


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Surprise surprise. Hamas terror boosters get to march and demonstrate at the #DNC in Chicago. But pro-Israel demonstrators have been denied permits to hold either a demonstration or a march, at least anywhere near the Democratic Convention.

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Caroline Glick-tweet-8August2024-Hamas at the DNC 2024-No Jews Allowed

 

Preparing for Chicago Democratic National Convention riots


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I don’t recall seeing boarded up buildings in Milwaukee at the RNC. This will be a “mostly peaceful DNC.”

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John Rich🇺🇸-tweet-17August2024-mostly peaceful DNC riots

 

 


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Preview of the DNC:

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Shelley G-tweet-18August2024-Preview of the DNC

 


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The menu on the main banquet of this week’s DNC: “Kosher-style Cooked Frog Legs”. For those who don’t understand, the Dems want an agreement at all costs this week; Israel is under massive US pressure to give into Hamas at the price of our future and security. Hashem help us! (Click on the image to see it better and feel free to share it).

 

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Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-18August2024-DNC2024-Kosher-style Cooked Frog Legs

 

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DNC2024-Kosher-style Cooked Frog Legs

 

 

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What would happen if the Democrats Won?

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EXPLOSIVE: Biden Advisor Caught on Camera: We’ll Make Israel Face Consequences in Second Term

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Biden Advisor Caught on Camera

Biden Advisor Caught on Camera

 

An explosive undercover sting video of a White House National Security Council advisor validates the deepest fears of Jews and other pro-Israel Americans: Joe Biden will throw the Jewish State under the bus in a second term – if he wins reelection.

 

The video purports to show Sterlin Waters, a policy advisor to the NSC saying that Biden cannot be as forcefully anti-Israel as he wants to be because of political considerations, specifically that he wants to win reelection.

 

“We can help you [Israel] in the way that we can, but you’re not going to continue to lie, and bomb, and kill all these kids without facing serious consequences. But that’s a second term decision,” Waters is seen and heard saying.

 

“If Biden won again he could be much more forthright about saying ‘no’ [to Israel],” he added.

 

Making things even more shocking, Waters works under the deputy national security adviser, who just so happens to an Orthodox Jewish woman – Chani “Anne” Neuberger. A Bais Yaakov graduate, Neuberger quickly rose through the government’s ranks to become the deputy national security advisor, with a specific focus on global and domestic cybersecurity issues.

 

EXPLOSIVE: Biden Advisor Caught on Camera: We’ll Make Israel Face Consequences in Second Term

 

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The Democratic Party is CHEATING


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@KYAgCommish might want to look into the voting machines in KY!

Lynzely-tweet-31October2024-KY voting machines can not vote for Trump

Lynzely-tweet-31October2024-KY voting machines can not vote for Trump

 

 

 

India counted 640 million votes in a single day, 18 days later California is still counting 15 million votes


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India counted 640 million votes in a single day.

California is still counting 15 million votes… 18 days later.

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DogeDesigner-tweet-24November2024-India counted 640 million votes in 1 day-California counting 15 million votes 18 daysv

 

 

 

India’s elections aren’t just big – they’re massive


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🇮🇳 India’s elections aren’t just big – they’re massive!!! With over 900 million eligible voters, it’s a remarkable display of democracy in action on a scale unlike anywhere else in the world! 🗳️

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Statistic Mania-tweet-24November2024-India’s elections aren’t just big-they’re massive

 

 

States Harris won vs. ID requirement


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Must be a coincidence 🙄

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Elon Musk-tweet-10November2024-States Harris Won vs. ID requirement

 

 

WHEN I DIE do not Let Me Vote Democrat


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Real 🤣

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Declaration of Memes-tweet-10November2024-WHEN I DIE do not Let Me Vote Democrat

 

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PRESIDENT TRUMP GAVE REPUBLICANS THEIR BIGGEST WIN IN 36 YEARS!


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🚨BREAKING: CBS NEWS JUST REPORTED PRESIDENT TRUMP GAVE REPUBLICANS THEIR BIGGEST WIN IN 36 YEARS!

“With a final tally of 312 electoral votes, Republicans scored their biggest White House win in 36 years.”

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Bo Loudon-tweet-10November2024-Trump won

 

 

 

The Jewish vote SHOWED UP in key battleground states for President Donald J. Trump


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From Arizona to Pennsylvania to Nevada, the Jewish vote SHOWED UP in key battleground states for President Donald J. Trump, helping to secure his historic victory as part of a winning coalition.

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RJC-tweet-7November2024-The Jewish vote SHOWED UP

 

 

Hashem alone crowns Kings, for the Monarchy is His.


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DeepState USA impeached Trump twice, arrested him 4 times, took him off the ballot and even tried to kiII him twice. But he won by a landslide. Only Hashem can do that. Mazaltov, 47th POTUS, Donald Trump. May Hashem be with you.

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Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-6November2024-Hashem alone crowns Kings for the Monarchy is His

 

Hashem alone crowns Kings, for the Monarchy is His

Hashem alone crowns Kings, for the Monarchy is His

 

 

Trump at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel


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Kamala had a tearful complaint to Doug at dinner:
“Why didn’t you take me to the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel???”

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Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-6November2024-Trump at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel

 

 

That’s what happens when you don’t allow them to cheat and steal an election.


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That’s what happens when you don’t allow them to cheat and steal an election.

Total votes in 2020 – 155,508,985
Total votes in 2024 – 140,306,875
Where did 15,202,110 million voters go?

2012 Obama 66M 2016 Clinton 63M 2020 Biden 81M? 15 Million? 2024 Kamala: 67M

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Truth Justice-tweet-7November2024-not allowed to cheat and steal an election

 

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Trump Completes Trifecta: Republicans Keep Control Of US House [wins Senate]

by Tyler Durden 13November2024 – https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-completes-trifecta-republicans-keep-control-us-house

 

Republicans will maintain control of the House of Representatives by the thinnest of margins, NBC News projected Wednesday, handing President-elect Donald Trump and his party all the levers of power in Washington.

 

Republicans will maintain control of the House of Representatives-2024

Republicans will maintain control of the House of Representatives-2024

cA Republican-controlled Congress will allow Trump to quickly fill out his Cabinet and other top administration roles and advance his agenda for at least the next two years.

Last week, Republicans flipped three Democratic Senate seats to win control of the upper chamber.

Republicans will control the Senate 2024

Republicans will control the Senate 2024

 

NBC News lays out how Republicans won the House…

 

Democrats had believed they were in a good position to win back the majority they lost just two years ago. They needed a net gain of only four seats to flip control of the House given that Republicans now hold 220 seats to the Democrats’ 212 – one of the smallest majorities in modern history.

 

But the two parties basically have fought to a draw in the House, preserving a status quo that favored Republicans.

 

In New York, Democrats were able to knock off a trio of vulnerable freshman GOP incumbents: Rep. Brandon Williams in the Syracuse region, Rep. Anthony D’Esposito on Long Island, and Rep. Marc Molinaro, whose district includes parts of the Hudson Valley and the Catskills. They were among the 18 GOP House districts that President Joe Biden carried in 2020.

 

Democratic challenger George Whitesides also ousted vulnerable GOP Rep. Mike Garcia in Southern California.

 

But Trump’s triumph – including wins in battlegrounds like Pennsylvania and Michigan where there were key House races – helped buoy GOP incumbents and new candidates in the places that mattered.

 

Two of the biggest GOP prizes came in the Keystone State.

 

Republicans unseated two vulnerable, veteran Democrats in neighboring districts in eastern Pennsylvania. GOP businessman Rob Bresnahan ousted six-term Rep. Matt Cartwright, a former member of leadership, in the 8th District, which Trump carried in 2020. In the neighboring 7th District based in Allentown, GOP state Rep. Ryan Mackenzie upset Democratic Rep. Susan Wild, the top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee.

 

Meanwhile, In the capital of Harrisburg, Democrats believed they had a good chance to knock off former Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry, a Trump ally who played a role in the effort to overturn the 2020 election. But the six-term incumbent beat back a strong challenge from former local TV anchor Janelle Stelson, who attacked Perry on everything from the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and abortion rights to his votes on veterans issues.

 

Republicans also captured a Michigan seat that had been held by Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin, who successfully ran for an open Senate seat.

 

And GOP challenger Gabe Evans narrowly defeated freshman Rep. Yadira Caraveo, D-Colo., by less than 1 percentage point in a heavily Hispanic district north of Denver.

 

There are still six uncalled races:

 

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6 uncalled races 2024

 

“It is a beautiful morning in Washington. It is a new day in America,” a celebratory Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said on the steps of the Capitol, flanked by his leadership team, as the House returned to Washington on Tuesday.

 

“The sun is shining, and that is a reflection about how we all feel.”

 

Trump wins Electoral Vote 2024

Trump wins Electoral Vote 2024

 

So Trump takes the trifecta: A Popular (and Electoral) Vote victory for The White House, taking back the Senate, and holding The House.

 

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Real Jews voted for Trump

In the last 5 days, the Harris White House has:

1. Called for an arms embargo against Israel
2. Leaked Israel’s classified plans to strike Iranian military sites
3. Agreed that Israel is committing genocide
4. Refused, AGAIN, to meet with Jewish students fighting antisemitism

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Jewish support for Democrats lowest since Reagan era: poll

By Jon Levine
Published Oct. 19, 2024, 9:13 a.m. ET  https://nypost.com/2024/10/19/us-news/jewish-support-for-democrats-lowest-since-reagan-era-poll/

 

Jewish support for the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee is on track to be the lowest since the Ronald Reagan era — while the number of those backing Donald Trump is on the rise, according to a new poll from the Manhattan Institute.

 

If the election were held today, Kamala Harris would win the support of just 67% of Jewish voters, while former President Trump would take 31% of Jewish votes, the survey found. More than four out of five described themselves as “enthusiastic” about their choice.

 

Though Jewish voters on the whole remain overwhelmingly supportive of Democrats, that support has dipped noticeably over the years.

 

In 1992, 80% of Jewish voters supported Bill Clinton over George Bush Sr., though things have been trending slowly downward since. In 2020, Biden won the support of 68% of Jewish voters, while Trump had 30%. In 2016 Hillary Clinton won 71% of Jewish voters and Trump got 24%.

 

The poll follows others which show Jewish support for Democrats is cracking — a trend which has accelerated since Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel by Hamas.

 

While Jews tended to favor Democrats on most issues, there was strong partisan agreement on Israel, with 86% saying they supported the Jewish state — and 62% of Jews saying they were concerned about antisemitism in the Democratic party.

 

“Security, Israel, and antisemitism” are Harris’s weakest issue relative to former President Donald Trump among Jewish voters, according to the poll.

 

Many are likely uncomfortable with the Democratic Party’s tolerance of voices that criticize Israel in extreme terms, such as labeling the country ‘genocidal,’” said Jesse Arm, Chief of Staff at the Manhattan Institute in an analysis of the findings.

 

“This is evidenced by the fact that Jews are almost universally supportive of Israel — a mere 5% of Jewish voters say they are not supporters of the Jewish state,” Arm added.

 

Harris’ remaining strength among Jews came from Reform and unaffiliated or nondenominational Jews who are historically more aligned to progressive causes than other Jews.

 

A third of Jews cited abortion as their biggest 2024 campaign issue in contrast to Americans at large who routinely cite the economy.

 

The poll was conducted between Oct. 5-9 and surveyed 658 Jewish voters across the United States.

 

Jews-In-Name-Only voted for Harris

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DC Rabbi’s Claim That ‘Sacred Texts’ Require Jews To Vote for Harris Ignites Fury Among Congregants

Adas Israel Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt (C-SPAN)

Adas Israel Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt (C-SPAN)

 

Alana Goodman
17August2024 https://freebeacon.com/elections/dc-rabbis-claim-that-sacred-texts-require-jews-to-vote-for-harris-ignites-fury-among-congregants/

 

An influential Washington, D.C., synagogue is facing backlash from furious congregants after its rabbi claimed Jews “need to elect Vice President Kamala Harris” in order to comply with “sacred texts.”

 

Adas Israel, whose membership has included Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan and the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is one of the oldest and largest synagogues in Washington, D.C. But members have become increasingly frustrated with the leadership’s “insulting” left-wing advocacy that has left congregants “dreading the upcoming high holidays,” the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

 

The controversy came to a head at a Jewish Democratic Council of America event earlier this month, when Adas Israel Co-Senior Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt cited Jewish scripture as a basis for why Jews must vote for Harris.

 

“I could tell you that we need to elect Vice President Kamala Harris because as Jews our sacred texts tell us we need to build a world where we feed the hungry, where we care for the sick, where we love the stranger, where we guard and nurture this planet,” said Holtzblatt on the JDCA Zoom call with Harris supporters. “Those are her values. That is what her policies seek to achieve.”

 

Holtzblatt, who officiated Ginsburg’s funeral and has appeared on The Forward’s “Forward 50” list, is a vocal supporter of Harris and led a Passover seder at the vice president’s home last spring. She did not respond to a request for comment regarding which Jewish texts support her assertion that Jews “need to elect” Harris.

 

Holtzblatt’s comments drew criticism from some Adas Israel congregants, who said the synagogue’s political bias has become “insufferable.”

 

“[T]o be lectured that as Jews we are compelled to vote a certain way is frankly insulting,” wrote a longtime congregant in an email to Adas Israel’s rabbinical leaders. Two other Adas Israel congregants independently shared the exchange with the Free Beacon.

 

“[T]ying ‘our sacred texts’ to a political candidate in this way is, at best, simplistic. And easily rebutted with myriad other examples from scripture,” wrote the members. “The reality is that Adas has become borderline insufferable for anyone who doesn’t share what is assumed by leadership to be the universal point of view. It’s politics all day everyday; politics always from the same direction—no balance.”

 

Members are also reportedly irked by Adas Israel’s decision to have Hamilton director Lin-Manuel Miranda, a non-Jewish Democratic activist, headline the synagogue’s Yom Kippur programming in October.

 

“[T]here are many more Adas members than you might realize, who are put off as well (some of whom are BCC’d here),” wrote the congregants. “I have spoken with a number who are dreading the upcoming high holidays, headlined bizarrely by father and son Miranda (hawking his book no less!).”

 

 

Surveys show that 95% of Jews who do not recognize the letter “Aleph” voted for Harris

SEE: A Portrait of Jewish Americans 2013 Israel is not America


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Target demographic.
Caption:Surveys show that 95% of Jews who do not recognize the letter “Aleph” voted for Harris

Elder of Ziyon-tweet-25November2024-jino demographic Caption: Surveys show that 95% of Jews who do not recognize the letter "Aleph" voted for Harris

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Caption: Surveys show that 95% of Jews who do not recognize the letter “Aleph” voted for Harris

 

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Joe Biden’s longtime antagonism and belligerence toward Israel

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Heads up, liberal Jews––Don’t be Jews with trembling knees

By Joan Swirsky
10October2024 https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/swirsky/241010

“Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”

Joe Biden, Menachem Begin

Joe Biden, Menachem Begin

Those words were spoken by Menachem Begin in June of 1982, directly to the Democrat senator from Delaware, Joe Biden, who had confronted the Israeli Prime Minister during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee testimony by threatening to cut off aid to Israel.

 

That’s right, only 32 years after the establishment of the tiny Jewish state, which was surrounded by 22 warmongering, Israel-loathing Arab states, and only 35 years after the Holocaust savagely murdered––tortured and gassed to death––six million Jewish men, women, children, and infants, Senator Biden was once again terrorizing the Jews of the world with his menacing ultimatum.

 

Not a fluke, not a misstatement, not an error in judgment, but vintage Joe Biden, whose longtime antagonism and belligerence toward Israel has been exhaustively documented by, among others, Shmuel Klatzkin (Biden’s Hostility to Israel––read the whole article) and Janet Levy in AmericanThinker.com (Is a Vote for Joe Biden in the Interest of American Jews?).

EXAMPLES ABOUND

Levy reports a number of the Obama-Biden regime’s consistent anti-Israel policies:

  • They interfered with the 2015 Israeli elections with the goal of defeating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
  • That year, the Obama-Biden State Department granted $350,000 to OneVoice, a radical anti-Israel organization that supports the terrorist group Hamas.
  • They also fully supported the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement to destroy Israel economically.
  • In 2016, Biden pressured Ukraine, an abstainer, to vote for UN Security Council measure 2334, which claimed that ancient and historic Jewish sites were “illegally occupied.”
  • They approved the same UN measure, which condemned Israelis building settlements––emboldening the Palestinian Authority to call for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Judea, Samaria, and the Jewish Quarter, reversing decades of U.S. vetoes against such moves.

Today, President Biden heartily endorses the Iran nuclear deal—which President Trump canceled––and has let Israel know that he adamantly opposes Israel attacking Iran’s nuclear sites. This is the same Iran whose stated mission for decades has been to eradicate “The Big Satan” (America) and to exterminate from the face of the earth “The Little Satan” (Israel).

 

And we all know how thunderously silent Mr. Biden was back when his violently racist fellow Democrats––Reps. Ihlan Omar (MN), Rashida Tlaib (MI), Ayanna Pressley (MA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)—and a long list of simpatico Jew-hating, Israel-loathing activists––spewed their undisguised anti-Semitic bile for all the world to hear.

The truth about Israeli occupation of Arab land

The truth about Israeli occupation of Arab land

“Biden said he could never be silent on anti-Semitism,” Levy writes, “but raised no objections, as vice-president, to more than 60 White House visits by Al Sharpton, who [had] incited anti-Jewish riots in New York City in the 1990s.

LESSONS OF HISTORY

I was a very little girl––younger than six––when I first asked my parents why they were running frantically to meeting after meeting every evening, opening their checkbooks, delivering impassioned speeches, wringing their hands, and shedding copious tears.

 

They told me what few American-Jewish parents ever told their children, so numb were they from disbelief and so eager to protect them from the ghastly truth, which was that adults and children just like them, just like us––six million of them––had been savagely murdered by Adolph Hitler and his “willing executioners” in Germany, Poland, all over Eastern Europe, and even in “civilized” countries like France, simply because they were Jewish.

 

Jews who managed to flee Europe and come to America before the Holocaust––like my own and my late husband Steve’s grandparents––and those who survived the killing camps and landed on our shores by sheer good fortune, thought they died and went to heaven on earth. For the first time in their lives––in fact, in Jewish history––they were free to breathe, to create, to pursue their dreams, to worship, and to raise their children without fear.

 

Yes, there were quotas in colleges and graduate schools, Holocaust denial, and today an upsurge in Jew hatred, but nothing stopped Jews from succeeding and excelling and contributing disproportionately to American society and to the world, just as the Jews in the state of Israel––only 76 years old––do today.

THE LEGACY OF PERSECUTION

But over 3,500 years of persecution exacts a heavy price. To understand, just think about the long-lasting toll the following events take:

  • A one-minute gunshot,
  • A two-hour bout of chemotherapy,
  • A three-week recovery from open-heart surgery,
  • A four-month lay-off,
  • An almost three-year pandemic lockdown
  • A five-year recession.

All of the above are life-changing, diminishing, often devastating, sometimes annihilating.

 

Yet Jews continued on, their survival instinct stronger than the most crushing circumstances of their long and besieged history of being haunted, hunted, and often destroyed in, among other cataclysmic events:

  • The Crusades.
  • The Inquisition.
  • The expulsion from Spain.
  • The Holocaust.
  • And always, the diaspora.
  • And now, October 7, 2023.

After the Holocaust, American Jews who followed politics––most did and still do today––were forced to ask themselves, and taught their children to ask: Is it good for the Jews? Meaning, will this or that candidate or statement or policy or law lead to another Holocaust?

 

After all, the Jews of Europe in the 1930s and ‘40s enjoyed tremendous success––in business, academia, the arts and sciences, society in general. Unlike the United States today, every college and university did not feature violent anti-Jewish protests or professors who taught anti-Jewish propaganda. Until the rise of Hitler, there were no elected officials––as there are in the U.S. today––spewing Jew hatred, not only with no disapproval from the powers-that-be, but with total impunity.

 

Now, American Jews have to ask themselves: Is the presidential candidacy of Biden’s choice for VP, Kamala Harris, good for the Jews?

 

Writer Kenin M. Spivak, among dozens who affirm his thinking, cites numerous damning reasons why Harris is a terrible––and dangerous—choice, among them that she “has remained largely silent about the outbreak of anti-Semitism. She selected far-left advisors who oppose Israel’s Gaza operations, and she boycotted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress.”

 

Not to omit that she was “open to” an arms embargo against Israel and, as Robert Spencer, a middle east expert, predicts: “If Kamala is elected president, the American gravy train to Tehran will likely continue running, enabling the mullahs to continue their jihad against Israel…”

 

But nothing covers the true horrors of a Harris presidency more comprehensively than this opus, whose author wishes to remain anonymous.

 

“Biden-Harris-Walz are and will be a disaster for Israel and for American Jews,” he writes. “As a lifelong Democrat it hurts me even more to admit that, this time around, given the prominence of the currently major issue for me, I believe I have to vote for the Orange Man.”

 

In short, a vote for Kalamity Harris and the truly regressive, Obama-clone platform she’s running on––including high taxes, a weakened military, an anti-fracking return-to-energy-dependence, open borders, confiscation of your guns, and a viciously contentious relationship with Israel––would be terrible for America and disastrous for the Jewish state.

 

If you’re a liberal American Jew determined to pull the lever or mail a write-in ballot for Kamala Harris—don’t!

 

Don’t be a Jew with trembling knees. Your very survival and that of your family are at stake!

 

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.

© 2024 Joan Swirsky – All Rights Reserved

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Jewish Assimilation in America

JerusalemCats Comments: Doug Emhoff is Kamala Harris’ “Jewish” husband


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Doug Emhoff and family pose in front of their Christmas Tree.

Not a Menorah in sight. 🧐

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The Persian Jewess-tweet-29November2024-Jewish Assimilation in America

 

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Fear and Brisket for Jews at the DNC

Peloni: The fact that any American Jew would submit to such requirements as meeting in secret to demonstrate their affiliation with an organization, whose brute squads are the cause for them to have to hide in the first place, demonstrates a serious pathology of the mind. This example of Stockholm Syndrome is very sad, very troubling, and yet, very revealing. I hope that the majority of American Jews take the fact of this matter to heart, and realize that the Democratic party, which they seem to believe defines them, has no interest in providing them with safety, liberty, nor equality, all of which are the basis for which govt is intended to exist, and for ALL Americans.

Jewish delegates at the DNC have to meet in hiding.

Daniel Greenfield | August 23, 2024 https://www.israpundit.org/63720619-2/

 

“As the highest-ranking Jewish official in American history, I want my grandkids and all grandkids to never, never face discrimination because of who they are,” Senator Schumer concluded his speech. “But Donald Trump. This is a guy who peddles antisemitic stereotypes.”

 

Meanwhile Jewish Democrats were literally hiding out at the DNC.

Most Jewish events at the DNC were held at undisclosed locations with organizers having to approve attendees and only then provide them with the secret location shortly beforehand.

 

Agudath Israel, a traditional religious and not particularly Zionist group, whose members wear black suits and hats, held an open event to discuss the antisemitism faced by Orthodox Jews, only to have masked activists show up and scream that they were going to destroy Israel. No one at the DNC condemned those responsible or held them accountable for their actions. Imagine the reaction if black or Asian attendees were systemically harassed in this way.

 

“After 50 years fighting antisemitism in America, I could not have imagined a time -Jews would have to meet in secret locations in Chicago at DNC,” former ADL leader Abe Foxman tweeted.

 

Outside the DNC convention, men in Hamas bandanas flashed victory signs, waved Hamas flags, burned American and Israeli flags, and declared their support for the mass murder of Jews on Oct 7. Inside the DNC convention, President Joe Biden deviated from his prepared teleprompter remarks to declare that, “those protesters out in the street, they have a point.”

 

When the president says that those who want to kill and harass Jews have a point, is it any wonder that they operate with political impunity and support from the top echelons of the party.

 

While Schumer was attacking former President Trump, UCLA was appealing a decision by Judge Mark Scarsi, a Trump appointee, who had stepped in after the Democrat administration of UCLA and the Democrat members of the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors had sided with Hamas supporters who had kept Jewish students from being able to attend classes.

 

“In the year 2024, in the United States of America, in the State of California, in the City of Los Angeles, Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith. This fact is so unimaginable and so abhorrent to our constitutional guarantee of religious freedom,” Scarsi stated.

 

It’s unimaginable, abhorrent and wholly accepted by much of Schumer’s base.

 

If Schumer’s grandchildren from his daughter’s lesbian non-Jewish girlfriend decide they’re Jewish and need to be protected against discrimination, it won’t be his party protecting them.

 

While Jewish attendees were being hunted at the DNC, Doug Emhoff took to the floor to appeal to Jewish voters by once again recalling memories of his last Jewish experience attending his grandmother’s seder in the seventies, eating brisket and sitting on plastic slipcover cushions.

 

Emhoff assured attendees that Kamala goes to synagogue and he goes to church with her (with doubtless equal sincerity) and that she has “fought against antisemitism and all forms of hate.” He made no mention of the Hamas supporters calling for the murder of Jews outside, the Jewish DNC delegates hiding inside or a nation of six million Jews fighting for survival.

 

A nation his wife had repeatedly targeted with ugly rhetoric for trying to stop the terrorists.

 

Shut up and eat your damned brisket, was the message. Liberal Jews kvelling over Kamala’s brisket did not ask which church Emhoff attends and which temple Kamala visits. Kamala’s  pastor is Amos Brown III who took her hand and urged her to do something to stop Israel. According to a Washington Post report, the radical black nationalist clergyman told her that the struggle of the ‘Palestinians’ is “our struggle as people of color who have been oppressed.”

 

Emhoff doesn’t belong to any particular temple or synagogue, but appears to be associated with IKAR headed by Sharon Brous: a member of the councils of anti-Israel groups like J Street, and the New Israel Fund. Brous has a long history of supporting antisemites, attacking Jews for opposing Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Rep. Ilhan Omar, claiming that Jews “have spent years in hive mentality, pouncing on indications of anti-Semitism among Israel’s critics” and accused the Jewish State of a “52-year military occupation of millions of Palestinian people”.

 

Kamala’s church and Emhoff’s temple are radical leftist enterprises which both hate Israel.

 

Vice President Kamala is just the latest in a long line of politicians who send out ‘Court Jews’ to assure the Jewish community that they relate to their cultural values while denying their rights. Kamala conveniently married hers and then sent him out to convince the Jewish community of her fidelity to their most sacred value, not Torah, Judaism or Israel, but a pound of brisket.

 

And if Kamala can cook a brisket, who really needs a country, safety, self-respect or the ability to attend events at the DNC without being harassed by masked supporters of killing Jews?

 

Not a single Jewish Democrat stood up to Biden for suggesting that the mobs of Hamas supporters calling for the murder of Jews had “a point”. Nor did they criticize Kamala for her repeated defenses of terrorist protesters. Even the staged moment when DNC delegates called for bringing Jewish hostages home during a speech by the Polin family in imitation of a similar scene at the RNC convention did not change the fact of what was going on behind the cameras.

 

Rather than committing to an Israeli victory, the Biden administration has spent months pressuring Israel to stop fighting and give in to Hamas demands. Kamala had privately met with Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud who had told a pro-Hamas rally that Dearborn was “the city of resistance”. Gov. Tim Walz was never forced to apologize for his anti-Israel views, Gov Josh Shapiro however was compelled to retract his pro-Israel positions for Kamala’s VP search.

 

But apparently she cooks almost as good a brisket as the one Emhoff remembers his deceased grandmother making in the days before he abandoned her religion, tradition and values.

 

When even Jewish delegates at the DNC have to meet in secret, what once appeared to be a subtle choice between nuances of foreign policy in the Middle East has become as graphic as the mobs calling for the murder of Jews inside and outside the convention.

 

In an echo of Esau, Jews at the DNC had a choice between brisket and their birthright.

 

 

 

 

Elon Musk: Democratic Party is rapidly become openly antisemitic


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People who have been lifelong Democrats refuse to accept the clear reality that the Democratic Party is rapidly become openly antisemitic.

This trend is accelerating, not slowing down.

Knock, knock. Hello, Captain Obvious here!

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How is this part of the Dem party? Are Dem leaders denouncing?

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I will never back down in speaking truth to power.

The apartheid government of Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. Palestinians will not be erased. Solidarity with all those outside of these walls in the streets protesting and exercising their right to dissent.

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Democrats Worried Choosing Jewish Vice President May Cost Them The All-Important “Death To America” Vote


Batya Ungar-Sargon-tweet-6August2024-dark day for American Jews
The @TheBabylonBee got it right: VP Harris has chosen Tim Walz as her running mate. It’s a dark day for American Jews. There was only one reason to have passed over Josh Shapiro: The Democrats would rather lose with antisemitic progressives than win with moderate normies.
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Democrats Worried Choosing Jewish Vice President May Cost Them The All-Important “Death To America” Vote

Batya Ungar-Sargon-tweet-6August2024-dark day for American Jews

Batya Ungar-Sargon-tweet-6August2024-dark day for American Jews

 

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Democrats Worried Choosing Jewish Vice President May Cost Them The All-Important “Death To America” Vote

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Hamas protests in Washington DC

Hamas protests in Washington DC

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After hearing Josh Shapiro might be Kamala Harris’s pick for Vice President, Democrats worry his name on the ticket might cost them the all-important “Death To America” vote.

 

“I think Josh is very qualified to be Harris’s VP pick,” Chuck Schumer told the press over the weekend. “I do worry he might discourage those wishing to obliterate the U.S. and wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. We really need those votes.”

 

The Harris team announced it is nearing a decision on who will join the current Vice President on the national ticket. Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro is rumored to be at the top of the list, but some worry his Jewish heritage and past as an IDF soldier might cost the dems votes from those wishing to make the streets run red with the blood of Jews if it’s the last thing they ever do.

 

“We really need those 15,000 votes from Dearborn, Michigan who want America to be eternally consumed by the fires of holy jihad,” Schumer said. “We’d hate to lose out on their support just because we have a guy on the ticket who probably thinks Jews should exist. It’s a real conundrum.”

 

At publishing time, Kamala announced she was also considering just choosing one of the 9/11 convicts currently staying at GITMO, a move sure to appease America’s more rabid antisemites.

Kamala passed on the Jew to get herself a terror-adjacent VP


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Kamala passed on the Jew to get herself a terror-adjacent VP

Marina Medvin-tweet-11August2024-Kamala passed on the Jew

Marina Medvin-tweet-11August2024-Kamala passed on the Jew

 

 

Kamala Harris’ father was a Marxist professor


Ian Miles Cheong-tweet-24July2024-Kamala Harris’ father was a Marxist professor
Kamala Harris’ father was a Marxist professor. Let that sink in.

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State Department Stands By Adviser Who Spoke at Pro-Hezbollah Rally Where Jews Were Told To ‘Go Back to Poland’

Dearborn mayor Abdullah Hammoud spoke at rally that broke out in ‘Death to Israel’ chants

 

Dearborn mayor Abudullah Hammoud (X)

Dearborn mayor Abudullah Hammoud (X)

 

Chuck Ross
15October2024 https://freebeacon.com/biden-harris-administration/state-department-stands-by-adviser-who-spoke-at-pro-hezbollah-rally-where-jews-were-told-to-go-back-to-poland/

 

The State Department is standing by an adviser to the federal agency who spoke at an anti-Israel rally that saw chants of “Death to Israel,” praise for slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and calls for Jews to be returned “back to Poland.”

 

Dearborn, Mich., mayor Abdullah Hammoud (D.), a member of the State Department’s Assembly of Local Leaders, spoke on Sept. 25 at a “Stand with Lebanon” rally in Dearborn to decry U.S. support for Israel against Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon. Hammoud, who has emerged as a leading critic of Israel following October 7, touted his support for the anti-Israel divestment movement, and said, “We cannot condone any president that uplifts any administration that bombs every school decimating children to smithereens.”

 

Elected Dearborn mayor in 2021, Hammoud was introduced as the “greatest mayor in the United States” by Arab-American activist Osama Siblani. Siblani, whom the Harris campaign has met with to gain the support of Michigan’s Muslim voters, hailed Hezbollah’s Nasrallah during his speech as a “hero” and said of Israelis: “We will take you back to Poland.”

 

Chants of “death to Israel” broke out during Siblani’s remarks, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute. Siblani responded, “Believe me, they will take care of the job,” an apparent reference to Hezbollah’s planned attack on Israel. Two days after the rally, Israeli forces assassinated Nasrallah in Beirut. Hammoud embraced Siblani as he took the stage, but did not address Siblani’s praise for Nasrallah or the “death to Israel” chants.

 

That could be of concern because of Hammoud’s involvement in a State Department panel that provides a venue for local officials “to share their views or concerns with foreign policy topics directly with the Department.” The agency does not appear to be taking any disciplinary action towards Hammoud.

 

“Mayor Hammoud is a member of the State Department’s Assembly of Local Leaders (ALL), as are 20 other local and state officials from around the country,” a State Department spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon. “The Department of State has been consistently clear about the United States’ unwavering support to Israel’s security and our rejection of anti-Semitic rhetoric wherever it occurs. We defer to Mayor Hammoud and the City of Dearborn to speak to specifics around the event in question.”

 

The State Department appointed Hammoud to the post on Oct. 18, ignoring the Democrat’s history of anti-Israel sentiments and his criticism of the Biden administration’s support for Israel. Hammoud called Hamas’s attack on Israel “inevitable” because of Israel’s “decades of illegal military occupation and imprisonment of Gaza.” A day before his appointment to the State Department panel, Hammoud pushed Hamas’s false propaganda that Israel—”emboldened by a green light from the Biden administration”—killed hundreds of Palestinians in the bombing of Al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza.

 

Hammoud has been embraced by some national media outlets over his public criticism of the administration’s alliance with Israel. The New York Times published an essay from Hammoud in February in which he proclaimed his city “feels betrayed” by the U.S. government’s support for what he called “genocide in Gaza.”

 

Dearborn, the largest Muslim-majority city in the country, has emerged as a hotbed of anti-Israel sentiment in the wake of Oct. 7, leading one Wall Street Journal contributor to dub the city “America’s jihad capital.” In April, rallygoers at an event outside Dearborn city hall openly chanted “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.”

 

Hammoud’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

 

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‘Harris is bad for Jews’: Satmar hasidim to support Trump’s candidacy

Leaders of Satmar hasidic sect announce decision to vote for Donald Trump, due to concerns Kamala Harris poses a risk for Jews.

Israel National News / 28October2024, 12:34 PM (GMT+2) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/398215

 

Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe

Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe

 

Grand Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum’s Satmar hasidic sect in New York has announced that it will officially support former US President Donald Trump’s candidacy for US president.

 

The decision follows a set of discussions by the Satmar leadership, due to concerns that US Vice President Kamala Harris may pose a threat to the “Jewish people” if she is elected president.

 

The support means tens of thousands of additional votes for Trump, in a neck-to-neck race.

 

Satmar will also provide free transportation to voting booths for early voting.

 

The second sect of Satmar hasidim who follow Grand Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, has not yet issued an official announcement, but it is expected that they, too, will support Trump.

 

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JerusalemCats Comments: You vowed ‘Never Again!’ Yet history is repeating itself. It’s time to leave.

It won’t happen here.

It won’t happen here.

Peloni: There is no equitable basis for American Jews to support Kamala. Recall that just as Israel’s attackers are being financed and protected by Washington, Kamala’s elitist-controlled Washington, so too are the promulgators of antisemitic assaults on American Jews all across the US. And yet, the age old adage of the American Jews being more tightly tied to the Democratic party than to their own right arm remains in effect, even if it is less so today than ever before. While the lack of clarity in making such a choice raises many questions, it spells out a clear divide between American and Israeli Jews which Shaw describes quite well.American Jews, take heed! Israelis, right and left, overwhelmingly think Trump is the better president when it comes to Israel’s needs.

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The US Election and the US-Israel Jewish Divide

Barry Shaw
30October2024, 2:01 PM https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-us-election-and-the-us-israel-jewish-divide/

 

The assessment of the Jewish vote ahead of the US elections is disturbing.

 

According to polls, the vast majority of American Jews will be voting for Harris, which, according to an Israeli majority, would be very bad for Israel.

 

The Manhattan Institute has Harris leading Trump 67% to 31%.

 

The Jewish Democratic Council of America October poll has a 71% to 26% outcome in favor of Harris.

 

The voting preference of Orthodox Jews show a polar opposite result.

 

The Manhattan Institute saw Harris up 53 points among Reform Jews and Trump up 18 points among Orthodox Jews.

 

For an Israel that is overwhelmingly rooting for a Trump victory, it is deeply disturbing to discover that the majority of Americans Jews are voting against the best interests of the Jewish state in 2024 even though the majority of these voters say they support Israel 86% to 5% with 9% unsure.

 

The divide between American Jews over what is best for Israel, and it needs to be guided by Israel.

 

After all, we are the ones in the firing line. We are the ones doing the fighting to protect our loved ones and defend our country.

 

And here we come to the most troubling polls.

 

The one big opinion divide between US Jewish voters and Israelis is the poll that shows an 18% US Jewish majority say that Harris would manage Israel’s war better than Trump.

 

In Israel, opinion is radically different.

 

In an Israeli Channel 12 poll, 66% prefer Trump to only 17% for Harris, with 17% undecided.

 

Among Netanyahu voters 93% prefer Trump to Harris’s 1%.

 

The divide between Israeli and American Jews over what’s best for Israel is shockingly stark just days before the US election.

 

About the Author
Barry Shaw is the Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies. He is also the author of ‘Fighting Hamas, BDS and Anti-Semitism,’ ‘1917. From Palestine to the Land of Israel, ‘BDS for IDIOTS,’ and his latest work ‘A Tale of Love and Destiny,’ the dramatic life of a Jewish heroine.

 

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What could a President Harris mean for Israel and American Jews?


Lizzy Savetsky-tweet-22July2024-President Harris mean for Israel and American Jews
What could a President Harris mean for Israel and American Jews? I am not here to tell anyone who to vote for or support. I am simply here to present some facts. As always, our future lies in G-d’s hands only.

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Lizzy Savetsky-tweet-22July2024-President Harris mean for Israel and American Jews

 

 

 

a promiscuously immoral snake


Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-26September2024-promiscuously immoral snake
What a circus the non-emuna world is. A crooked senile fox and an promiscuously immoral snake want to give the wounded wolves time to regroup and recover from what the lamb (who can morph into a lion) did to them. Bibi, don’t repeat the Gaza mistake – say no to a ceasefire!

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Rabbi Lazer Brody-tweet-26September2024-promiscuously immoral snake

 

 

Kamala Harris does not care about murdered Israeli children


Nioh Berg-tweet-29July2024-Don’t Care
It’s been over 2 days and Kamala Harris still hasn’t condemned Hezbollah’s bombing of Israeli children.

Jewish Americans should ask themselves why this is.

Nioh Berg-tweet-29July2024-Don't Care

Nioh Berg-tweet-29July2024-Don’t Care

 

 

Kamala Harris won’t preside over Netanyahu’s speech to Congress


David M Friedman-tweet-23July2024-Harris won’t preside over Netanyahu’s speech to Congress
The Vice President is supposed to preside over joint sessions of Congress. @KamalaHarris refusal to do so when the Prime Minister of Israel makes his first public address in the United States since Hamas invaded Israel on October 7, tells you everything you need to know about where she stands on Israel.

All the far left Jewish groups trying to justify this incredible insult are convincing no one.

Harris won’t preside over Netanyahu’s speech to Congress https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/22/kamala-harris-bibi-netanyahu-speech-congress/

JerusalemCats-tweet-23July2024-She took an oath of office
@KamalaHarris is an official of the US Government. She took an oath of office. She is required to preform her duties. It does not matter if the person is Stalin or Satan, she is required to show up.

David M Friedman-tweet-23July2024-Harris won’t preside over Netanyahu’s speech to Congress

David M Friedman-tweet-23July2024-Harris won’t preside over Netanyahu’s speech to Congress

 

 

Kamala Harris no friend of Israel


David M Friedman-tweet-26July2024-Kamala Harris no friend of Israel
Well here you have it. @KamalaHarris offers her take on the war in Gaza. NO CONDEMNATION OF HAMAS! Just some platitudes about complexities, nuances, human suffering , peace and security. And a plea for a “two-state solution.”

Madame Vice President, there was a Palestinian state in Gaza – not a single Jew or Jewish soldier was there when this war began. In 2005 Israel evacuated all its soldiers and citizens from Gaza, handing full control of the territory to the Palestinians in the hope of peace. And the Palestinians in Gaza then elected Hamas.

Hamas received billions of dollars in international aid — aid that the Trump administration cut off but you and Joe Biden restored! It used those funds to build terror tunnels and shoot rockets at Israeli civilians. And on October 7, 2023, it committed the most barbaric and despicable acts of violence against Jews since the Holocaust.

I noted not a word from you in your speech regretting that your administration funded Hamas terror (directly, and through sanctions relief on Iran).

Your push for a Palestinian state at this time is tone-deaf and a betrayal of the Jewish lives lost and still missing from this heinous assault. It also conflicts with the recent vote of the Israeli Knesset which overwhelmingly rejected a Palestinian state.

You are no friend of Israel and you have exhibited a shocking lack of command of the relevant facts. Your insensitivity to Jewish suffering and failure to attribute good and evil where they belong, means you will never help to bring peace to this troubled region.

All those in the region who seek peace – Israelis, Arabs, Jews. Muslims and Christians – now know after hearing this speech that you are NOT the one to achieve it.
MSNBC-tweet-25July2024-Harris speaks after meeting with Israeli PM Netanyahu
BREAKING: VP Harris speaks after meeting with Israeli PM Netanyahu

Harris calling for an immediate cease-fire deal to free the hostages.

The VP saying she “will not be silent” about the suffering in Gaza, the “devastating” loss of life and the “dire” humanitarian crisis.

David M Friedman-tweet-26July2024-Kamala Harris no friend of Israel

David M Friedman-tweet-26July2024-Kamala Harris no friend of Israel

 

 

Israel has about six months to become militarily self-sufficient


William A. Jacobson-tweet-25July2024-Israel has about six months
Israel has about six months to become militarily self-sufficient, because if she wins she’s going to cut them off and weaponize the Security Council – she’s really hard core, don’t kid yourselves

William A. Jacobson-tweet-25July2024-Israel has about six months

William A. Jacobson-tweet-25July2024-Israel has about six months

 

 

Kamala Harris election Propaganda


Jacob Helberg-tweet-23July2024-Kamala Harris election Propaganda
Over the next few weeks, you’re going to see a lot of propaganda about how great Kamala is for Israel. They’ll say you shouldn’t believe what you see and hear about her record.

You’re going to hear she just doesn’t like Bibi personally and it has nothing to do with how she feels about Israel, the country. In fact, her disdain for, and opposition to, Bibi is for Israel’s own good.

You’re going to hear she has a Jewish husband. Isn’t that great?

Her entire tenure as VP makes one thing abundantly clear:

She would not only be the most antagonistic US President towards Israel in US history, but she would also completely unravel the US-Israel alliance in everything but name. All she’ll do that all the while *saying* how much she loves Israel.

My heart breaks when I think of what Holocaust survivors went through to have a homeland.

Don’t fall for the spin. Trust your own eyes and ears.

Occam’s Razor.

Jake Wurzak-tweet-23July2024-If that were true
If that were true and she just didn’t like Bibi then she would have meet the hostage families on the tarmac.

Additionally, what have they done to get the American citizens out? There are still 8.

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Jacob Helberg-tweet-23July2024-Kamala Harris election Propaganda

 


Mr Reagan-tweet-26July2024-Kamala Harris Campaign Ad PARODY
Kamala Harris Campaign Ad PARODY
[EDD: From YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVspeqNnoWM]
Thanks to Elon Musk for the tweet!
Kamala Harris just posted her first 2024 presidential campaign ad.
It’s clean and professional. It’s very well done.
So, of course, I had to produce a parody.

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Kamala Harris Supports President Biden’s 44.6% Capital Gains and a 25% tax on unrealized gains Tax Proposal

 

 

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Kamala Harris Supports President Biden’s 44.6% Capital Gains Tax Proposal

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20August2024 https://watcher.guru/news/kamala-harris-supports-president-bidens-44-6-capital-gains-tax-proposal

 

Vice President Kamala Harris has declared her support for President Joe Biden’s 44.6% capital gains tax proposal. The proposal would be the highest in history. It also includes a 25% tax on unrealized gains for high-net-worth individuals (more than $100 million in wealth).

 


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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Kamala Harris backs President Biden’s 44.6% capital gains tax proposal, the highest in history.

The proposal also includes a 25% tax on unrealized gains for high-net-worth individuals.

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Watcher.Guru-tweet-20August2024-Kamala Harris backs President Biden’s capital gains tax proposal

 

They will lower the threshold


kenny 1297-tweet-22August2024-They will lower the threshold
They will lower the threshold, i am from a previously 3rd country in asia. There was a time when only business owner and the wealthy paid tax. Then before u know it everyone making slightly above minimum wage pays it too, the politicians bullshit their way into getting it pass.

kenny 1297-tweet-22August2024-They will lower the threshold

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Harris’ campaign shared support for the tax proposal as the 2024 Democratic National Convention is underway. Harris spoke Monday at the event in Chicago along with President Biden. The democratic nominee has also proposed tax cuts beyond Biden’s budget. These include an exemption for tipped workers, a $6,000 tax credit for parents of newborns, and an expanded child tax credit that the Biden budget doesn’t extend beyond 2025.

 

Vice President Harris also proposed bumping the corporate tax rate to 28%, her campaign said Monday. The current corporate tax rate is 21%. This is down from 35% after Donald Trump signed the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which will expire after 2025.

 

Also Read: Cryptocurrency: Top 2 Bullish Sentiment Coins To Buy Right Now

 

James Singer, a spokesperson for the Harris campaign, said in a statement of Harris’s proposal that “unlike Donald Trump, whose extreme Project 2025 agenda would drive up the deficit, increase taxes on the middle class by $3,900, and send our economy spiraling into recession – her plan is a fiscally responsible way to put money back in the pockets of working people and ensure billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.”

 

It is expected that passing these tax proposals will be extremely difficult if Kamala Harris is elected President. The current state of Congress, even if controlled by Democrats, will be very divided on the proposal.

 

 


Brian Beers-tweet-21August2024-Unrealized capital gains 101
Unrealized capital gains 101:

You bought 100 shares of Zoom stock in Jan 2020 for $75 per share

Ends year at $350 per share but you didn’t sell giving you an unrealized gain $27.5k

Under Kamala’s plan you owe $6,875 in taxes (25% of $27.5k)

But you didn’t sell so you don’t have the cash. you pay taxes out of savings

You continue to hold until August 2024. Finally sell for $60 per share

You LOST $1,500 on the stock PLUS you paid the taxes on the $27.5k of “gains” you never actually received since they evaporated

The initial tax proposal is only targeting $100M+ but that’s just the start. It opens the gates to lower the threshold whenever they choose

Before you know it every person who owns a stock is paying this tax

People stop buying stocks. Companies have less capital to invest into new products and develop technology

Economy tanks. Jobs lost

What a joyful future

Brian Beers-tweet-21August2024-Unrealized capital gains 101

Brian Beers-tweet-21August2024-Unrealized capital gains 101

 

 

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Kamala Harris Prostitute Background


C-Reason🇺🇸-tweet-1August2024-Kamala Harris Prostitute
Huuummm … 🤔 … So, the Democrats are covering this up just like they did Obama’s drug use and gay lifestyle.

Is anyone surprised?

You better repost this before X suspends me for this.

Kamala Harris Prostitute

Kamala Harris Prostitute

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JD Vance vs. Kamala Harris Background


TheEXECUTlONER-tweet-26July2024-JD Vance vs Kamala Harris Background
I’ll take JD any day over clueless Kamala Harris

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This is Kamala Harris’ step-daughter.


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This is Kamala Harris’ step-daughter…

such a happy-looking, approachable, friendly child!

Looks like Crooks!😳

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Kamala hired Jewish anti-Israel, pro-Iran official liaison to the Jewish community


Caroline Glick-tweet-19August2024-Harris’s Jewish community liaison
More on Harris’s Jewish community liaison Ilan Goldenberg’s legion ties to Iran’s Washington lobby.
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🚨BREAKING: HARRIS SELECTS FAR-LEFT PRO-KHAMENEI AGENT AS JEWISH OUTREACH DIRECTOR🚨

Ilan Goldenberg has a history of working with NIAC and other lobbies who advocate for the interests of the Islamic Republic. The Jewish community is the LAST thing he is concerned about.
Jacob N. Kornbluh-tweet-12August2024-New American Security
Harris campaign tapped Ilan Goldenberg, a Harris aide, as the campaign’s Jewish outreach director.

Goldenberg was previously director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security and part of John Kerry’s peace team in 2014

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Harris campaign taps Israeli-born former peace negotiator Ilan Goldenberg as liaison to Jewish community

By Ron Kampeas 12August2024 12:19 pm  https://www.jta.org/2024/08/12/politics/harris-campaign-taps-israeli-born-former-peace-negotiator-ilan-goldenberg-as-liaison-to-jewish-community

 

Ilan Goldenberg, pictured in 2019. (Screenshot)

Ilan Goldenberg, pictured in 2019. (Screenshot)

 

Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign has named Ilan Goldenberg, an Israeli-born former peace negotiator, as its liaison to the Jewish community, sources say.

 

Three people with close ties to the organized Jewish community and the Harris campaign confirmed the pick to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The campaign did not return a request for comment.

 

Goldenberg, who has served as Vice President Kamala Harris’ adviser on Middle East issues, has previously been an acerbic critic of both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian leadership. He formed close ties with the organized Jewish community during the failed 2013-2014 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, when he was a lead on the Obama administration’s negotiating team.

 

The pick comes as Harris refines her approach to discussing Israel on the campaign trail at a time when the Israel-Hamas war elevates the issue’s prominence. While Harris has expressed unwavering support for Israel, she has also been more critical than Biden of its military campaign in Gaza.

 

The Jewish liaison is the campaign’s representative to Jewish communities, answering questions about the candidate’s policies on Israel and other issues of Jewish concern and otherwise taking the lead in making the campaign’s case to Jewish voters, including by organizing events in Jewish communities.

 

Goldenberg, 46, was born in Jerusalem and grew up in New Jersey, where he attended Jewish day school and belonged with his family to a Conservative synagogue. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University and is fluent in Hebrew and Arabic. He’s spent decades working on Middle East affairs, both in government roles and at think tanks.

 

He renounced his Israeli citizenship to work in the U.S. government and worked on the Iran file at the Pentagon in President Barack Obama’s first term before switching to the peace process at the State Department in Obama’s second term. In 2020, before returning to government under the Biden administration, he advised Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign.

 

After the failed talks in 2014, which were followed closely by a war in Gaza, Goldenberg authored a 22-page analysis indicting fundamental distrust between Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas, then as now the Palestinian Authority president, as the chief cause of the collapse. “These guys can never do it together,” he told JTA at the time. “That’s for sure.”

 

After his time on the negotiating team, Goldenberg worked at the Center for a New American Security and was an advisor at the Israel Policy Forum, both of which support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. He was highly critical of the Trump administration’s Israel policy and, in 2018 and 2019, wrote essays urging more of a focus on diplomacy in Gaza to prevent an escalation of violence there. He also wrote an essay in 2019 imagining how a war with Iran would play out.

 

In a 2018 Haaretz essay titled “Will Israel Be Forced to Invade and Reoccupy Gaza?” Goldenberg wrote that the cycle of conflicts between Hamas and Israel could explode if regional players did not take steps to dial down tensions.

 

“With every crisis, the humanitarian situation in Gaza worsens. There will come a moment when basic order collapses altogether, or Israel is forced to invade and retake Gaza,” he wrote. “The only way to avoid this terrible outcome in the long-term is a sustainable political arrangement that should include both a long-term ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that includes major economic opening of Gaza combined with a Palestinian reconciliation deal between Fatah and Hamas that slowly brings the Palestinian Authority back into Gaza.”

 

Goldenberg also wrote an essay in 2019 about donating a kidney to his father.

 

 


Caroline Glick-tweet-13August2024-Kamala hired Jewish anti-Israel pro-Iran official
Kamala hired a Jewish anti-Israel, pro-Iran official to serve as her liaison to the Jewish community.
She hired a Muslim pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, anti-pro-Israel Jews official to serve as her liaison to to the Muslim and Arab communities.

Caroline Glick-tweet-13August2024-Kamala hired Jewish anti-Israel pro-Iran official

Caroline Glick-tweet-13August2024-Kamala hired Jewish anti-Israel pro-Iran official

 

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Kamala’s Counsel Defended Hamas Supporters Harassing Jewish Students

Meet one of Kamala’s top lawyers: an Afghan immigrant who protected terrorists.

August 9, 2024 by

 

Nasrina Bargzie

Nasrina Bargzie

 

After 9/11, Nasrina Bargzie, an Afghan Muslim immigrant, was interviewed by law enforcement over troubling comments on the War on Terror reported by her friends.

 

Today she’s the Deputy Counsel to Vice President Kamala Harris.

 

After coming to America from a wealthy family in Kandahar, later a stronghold of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, Nasrina Bargzie was raised in Concord, CA, one of the state’s hubs for Afghan migrants, and quickly got involved in anti-American and pro-terrorist activism.

 

In 2001, while attending college, she was interrogated by the FBI about comments she had made to her friends. It’s unknown what she said, but it was enough to scare her friends, in one of the most liberal parts of the country, to apparently report her to law enforcement.

 

Next year, she wrongly received a law school scholarship intended for women who had suffered persecution under the Taliban even though she had left long before they came to power.

 

“I would like to do something that would affect Afghanistan,” Nasrina told a local paper.

 

Berkeley Law School was a hub of anti-American and anti-Israel activities and by the time she graduated, Nasrina was prepared to embark on her career of attacking both countries.

 

She became a legal fellow at the ACLU and joined its lawfare machine to dismantle our national security defenses against Islamic terrorism. In 2008, she posted about “wearing orange”at the Today Show in solidarity with the Al Qaeda, Taliban and other terrorists being held at Gitmo.

 

Nasrina also complained that “murder charges” had yet to be filed against the heroic Marines who bravely fought for their lives against terrorists in the streets of Haditha during the Iraq War.

 

In 2011 she joined the Asian Law Caucus and went to war against Jewish students facing antisemitic harassment. In 2010, Jessica Felber, a Jewish student, had been assaulted by a leader of the Students for Justice in Palestine campus hate group, and filed suit against UC Berkeley for tolerating an atmosphere of hate by activists linked to terrorist organizations. .

 

Nasrina Bargzie accused Jewish students and organizations of “organized legal bullying” for suing universities. She ridiculed the idea that calling for the destruction of Israel was “threatening” and co-signed a petition claiming that the lawsuit by Jewish students was “threatening” the speech of Berkeley Students for Justice in Palestine and the Berkeley Muslim Students Association.

 

Jewish students, she argued, were the “aggressors” and rejected the idea that there was anything “anti-semitic” about the campus hate groups and their ties to Islamic terrorism.

 

Nasrina Bargzie was so desperate that she presented a request to the UN Human Rights Commission, a group often stocked with Islamic terrorist states, to intervene and stop the Department of Education from investigating “allegations of anti-Semitism on several campuses”.

 

The appeal to the UN was made on behalf of her Asian Law Caucus, CAIR, a group with a long history of supporting Hamas and other Islamic terrorist groups, the National Lawyers Guild, a group with a Communist origin which has been complicit in antisemitic violence, and American Muslims for Palestine which has been sued over accusations of its ties to Hamas.

 

Hatem Bazian, the co-founder of Students for Justice in Palestine and the godfather of campus antisemitism, would later thank Nasrina and others, for “being constantly engaged in everything related to Palestine”. Alongside her was Zahra Billoo, the local head of CAIR, with whom Nasrina Bargzie had co-signed the letter, who would defend Hezbollah and Hamas.

 

Nasrina would work together with Biloo and CAIR, whose leader praised the Oct 7 attacks, on their next major project. While Nasrina had claimed that the antisemitic harassment of Jews on campuses was just “freedom of expression”, when ads against Islamic terrorism were taken out on San Francisco buses, Nasrina and CAIR rallied to fight against freedom of expression.

 

After the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) took out ads addressing the roots of Islamic terror, Nasrina Bargzie claimed that “the ads are offensive and terrible” and admitted that “people just started calling and texting me… ‘What are we gonna do about this?’”

 

CAIR and Bargzie convinced local Democrats, including DA George Gascon, to condemn the ads which called for support for Israel and spoke out against Islamic terrorism.

 

Fresh from that victory, Bargzie and CAIR worked to protect Muslims accused of terrorism by restricting the police department’s relationship with the FBI. It was then that Bargzie revealed that she had been interrogated by the FBI and “was asked by the agent about her family history and background.” Information about those questions and history has not been forthcoming.

 

Members of the Bargzie family have told different stories about why they came to America, after traveling from Afghanistan to Pakistan. According to a Glamour magazine profile of Kamala’s staffers, “my father and uncle were prisoners of war who disappeared.”, and she told the San Diego Union Tribune that he was “executed.” However according to her younger sister Humah, also an activist and a lawyer,  “He said ‘I’ll see you tomorrow’ when he left the house, but he never came back.” His disappearance, she told another magazine, “for the most part, remains a mystery.” Did Nasrina lie about what happened to her father? And did her family?

 

What happened to Abdul-Khaliq Bargzie, a wealthy landowner from Kandahar, remains a mystery, but he may have been aligned with the Jihadist Islamist Mujahideen. Whatever the truth may be, Nasrina blamed the Communists rather than Islamists for his disappearance, and this may have strongly affected her activism for Islamist terrorists and terrorist supporters.

 

Despite having grown up in America, Nasrina Bargzie maintained close ties with her homeland, serving as president of the Afghan-American Bar Association, along with other Afghan groups, donating money back to her country and writing of her love for the ‘Pashto’ language.

 

By 2019,  she was described as representing “seventeen different Afghan human rights organizations.” Despite that, or perhaps because of it, she joined the Biden-Harris team, vetting incoming hires. And then she entered an administration already full of staffers with foreign allegiances, ties to foreign governments and even terrorist sympathizers.

 

In 2021, Nasrina became Kamala’s Deputy Counsel and then in 2022, as many members of the vice presidential team fled, she rose to the position of Deputy Counsel. She’s been named one of the “fabulous four”: the four employees most loyal to Kamala who stayed on. And as a corollary, she’s one of the four whom Kamala favors and is the most likely to promote.

 

Nasrina came out of some of the same legal and political circles as Kamala Harris. She worked for the ACLU at the same time as Kamala’s sister Maya held a prominent role at the local ACLU. Maya also worked closely with CAIR and played a key role in Kamala’s presidential campaign.

 

No one in the FBI seems to have asked about Nasrina Bargzie’s original comments or the family history that troubled the government at the time. Nor has there been any mention of her work with pro-terror groups such as CAIR or her appearance on a panel with MPAC’s Salam Al Marayati who has defended Islamic terrorists. But the implications of a woman who has spent much of her career undermining our national security, attacking Jews and defending terrorist sympathizers is troubling for Americans, for Jews, Christians and for all people of goodwill.

 

Nasrina Bargzie resents America despite everything it has done for her. After benefiting from the Refugee Resettlement program, she blamed America for having created the refugees. In a Kamala Harris administration, she would be equipped to continue degrading our counterterrorism efforts, making life easier for Islamic terrorists and harder for Americans.

 

Occupying a prominent position in a Kamala administration, one of her top lawyers would be able to continue her campaign against American Jews and for the Hamas supporters attacking them.

 

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Antisemitic incidents surged globally since Oct. 7 but most aren’t reported. Here’s why

Up to 79% of antisemitic harassment is never divulged, according to experts who weigh in on ‘obstacles’ that deter Jewish victims – especially youth – from speaking out

By Matt Lebovic 21 November 2023, https://www.timesofisrael.com/antisemitic-incidents-surged-globally-since-oct-7-but-most-arent-reported-heres-why/

Illstrative: A hand-drawn swastika is seen on the front of Union Station near the Capitol in Washington, January 28, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Illstrative: A hand-drawn swastika is seen on the front of Union Station near the Capitol in Washington, January 28, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

NEW YORK — John Michael Graves, 25, was walking out of his Moishe House residence in Seattle when he spotted half a dozen antisemitic flyers “plastered” onto poles near the unmarked building’s gate.

 

“I ripped them down. It’s not clear how they even knew it was a Moishe House,” said Graves, referring to a cooperative group home for Jewish young adults. The flyers read “F–k You Israel” with crossed-out Jewish stars and were affixed onto street poles during the afternoon of October 24.

 

“It really hit me in the gut,” Graves told The Times of Israel. But he and his fellow residents did not report the incident to the Moishe House movement, which says it reaches 70,000 Jews in 27 countries, including six locations in Israel.

 

“We were scared and — it sounds ironic now — because this is going in a newspaper and more attention is being drawn to ourselves — I didn’t want to make it a bigger deal than it was,” said Graves. He is one of four residents in his Moishe House, which are generally populated by a mix of young professionals and grad students.

 

“We are programmed to think it’s just some flyer, not an active death threat,” said Graves, who added that Moishe House has been an “incredible” resource for himself and other residents regarding the Israel-Hamas war.

 

“When I saw the posters, I felt my hand grabbing at my Jewish star necklace,” said Madison Holt, 23, another resident of Moishe House in Seattle.

John Michael Graves. (Courtesy)

John Michael Graves. (Courtesy)

“I couldn’t decide if I wanted to hide my necklace or not. I have always felt safe living here, but this definitely was a wake-up call for how things have changed since October 7,” Holt told The Times of Israel.

 

Since the unprecedented Hamas massacres of 1,200 people in Israel last month and the taking of some 240 hostages, the Moishe House movement has provided new resources to its “community builders” around the world, including access to emotional support services, said Graves.

 

Now, six weeks after the eruption of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7, world opinion has shifted away from recognizing and mourning these atrocities.

 

The reluctance of Graves and Holt to report this incident of antisemitism is part of a widespread phenomenon, experts told The Times of Israel. Nearly four in five Jews who experience antisemitic harassment do not report it to law enforcement or media, according to American Jewish Committee statistics.

 

Moishe House resident Madison Holt. (Courtesy)

Moishe House resident Madison Holt. (Courtesy)

“Varying degrees of trauma” are behind the lack of reporting, Anti-Defamation League (ADL) spokesperson Jake Hyman told The Times of Israel.

 

“Some people may report right away, while others may want to pretend it never happened, which would be understandable,” said Hyman.

 

An important development for universities, said Hyman, is the new “Campus Antisemitism Legal Line” (CALL) for any student, family, faculty, or staff member to “report incidents of antisemitic discrimination, intimidation, harassment, vandalism, or violence that may necessitate legal action,” said Hyman.

 

Intake reports will be handled by lawyers working pro bono to represent victims “who choose to move forward with specific cases,” said Hyman.

 

“CALL will also provide referrals to social services, mental health counseling services, and other relevant support services in their area,” said the ADL spokesperson.

Not in my name

Experts told The Times of Israel that many high school pupils and college students are afraid to document harassment because it’s “nearly impossible to report anonymously if one wants an investigation with actual results and repercussions,” said Yael Lerman, executive director of the Saidoff Legal Department at StandWithUs, a pro-Israel educational organization. (This reporter works for StandWithUs as the director of its Holocaust Education Center.)

 

“Students who file discrimination or bias complaints under their name nearly inevitably become targets for ongoing harassment or social media by individuals, by anti-Israel student groups, and even in-person,” Lerman told The Times of Israel.

Several copies of this flyer were posted onto poles adjacent to a Moishe House building in Seattle, Washington, October 24, 2023. (John Michael Graves)

Several copies of this flyer were posted onto poles adjacent to a Moishe House building in Seattle, Washington, October 24, 2023. (John Michael Graves)

The non-reporting of antisemitism extends beyond student bodies, said Lerman.

“Many Jewish professionals on campus are not reporting antisemitic incidents because they are scared by what they see,” said Lerman, an attorney who leads a StandWithUs-cultivated network of lawyers willing to defend victims of antisemitism on campus, for free.

 

“They delete evidence and hope that by not dealing with it, it will go away. The idea of holding antisemites accountable through the criminal justice system instead of remaining scared hasn’t taken hold yet in a broad enough way,” said Lerman.

 

With social media and evolving technologies, students and staff alike are “afraid of being doxed and targeted for more harassment by being willing to come forward as witnessing antisemitic attacks,” Lerman said.

Feelings of shame

The Israeli American Council (IAC) pointed to “shame” as one reason why so many American Jews do not report on antisemitism.

 

“We know this because when we do receive reports [of antisemitic incidents], many times students and parents will indicate that they have experienced several other incidents before deciding to report,” said Karen Bar-On, the IAC’s vice president of activism.

 

“Also, when we discuss the topic with community members or provide antisemitism training to educators and students through our school or community events, they will bring up cases they have experienced while admitting they have not reported them,” Bar-On told The Times of Israel.

 

Founded in 2007, the IAC represents more than 800,000 Israelis and their families living in the US. Bar-On echoed attorney Lerman in asking Jews to reconsider the importance of reporting antisemitic harassment, as opposed to brushing it off.

 

“First and foremost, we need to let people know how to report and constantly remind them what resources are at their service,” said Bar-On. “More importantly, community members must understand the importance of reporting and standing up to each and every incident they experience, no matter how ‘minor’ they may feel it is,” she said.

Abraham Foxman, national director emeritus for the Anti-Defamation League, speaks at the Israeli American Council’s eighth annual summit in Austin, Texas, on January 20, 2023. (David Finkel photography)

Abraham Foxman, national director emeritus for the Anti-Defamation League, speaks at the Israeli American Council’s eighth annual summit in Austin, Texas, on January 20, 2023. (David Finkel photography)

According to data collected by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) in 2021, 79% of American Jews “targeted by antisemitic remarks did not report these incidents,” said Aaron Bregman, AJC’s director of high school affairs.

 

“Many high school students who face antisemitism, discrimination, or bias choose not to report these incidents, fearing social retaliation and potential isolation,” said Bregman.

 

Another factor involved in underreporting is that students “may not be certain whether they have experienced discrimination and may underestimate the severity of the issue,” said Bregman, adding, “Some students may also struggle to recognize and define antisemitic actions, hindering their ability to report accurately.”

 

Bregman told The Times of Israel that “uncertainty” around discrimination “often stems from a perception that [Jewish students’] experiences do not compare to the discrimination faced by their peers,” he said.

 

Several experts pointed to “microaggressions” as key to understanding the underreporting phenomenon. One long-time student services director at Ivy League universities said that far too many professors “challenge observant Jewish students about missing class during Jewish holidays,” she told The Times of Israel.

 

Additionally, students may assume they have documented an incident when, procedurally, they haven’t.

“Students think they have reported something when they comment on it in an institutional survey, but that reporting doesn’t get shared with the systems that track or even do anything about antisemitism on campus,” said the former Hillel professional, who asked to remain anonymous due to her position in academia.

Disbelief that anything will be done

Across the Atlantic, in Britain, a “large proportion” of antisemitic incidents in public schools and university campuses are never reported, said Dave Rich of the Community Service Trust, which has recorded and responded to antisemitism since 1984.

 

“The most likely reasons for not reporting are that they don’t feel anything will be done, or they don’t know how to report,” Rich told The Times of Israel.

Hamas supporters at a march in London, November 11, 2023. (Metropolitan Police)

Hamas supporters at a march in London, November 11, 2023. (Metropolitan Police)

Within Europe, the European Union has conducted research into antisemitism in 2012 and 2018. Findings demonstrated that “most antisemitic harassment was not reported to anyone,” said Rich.

 

“We don’t have specific data for non-reporting of campus or school-related antisemitism, but this gives some indication of what we might be looking at,” said Rich.

 

With private Catholic universities in the US now opening their doors to enroll harassed Jewish students, the public is still only seeing the “tip of the iceberg” regarding antisemitism, experts believe. Without a significant increase in victims reporting on incidents of harassment, discrimination against Jews may continue to fly mostly under the radar.

 

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Michael Oren: A War Against the Jews

Hatred of Israel cannot be distinguished from hatred of the Jewish people. Incontestably now, anti-Zionism is antisemitism.

By Michael Oren 26October2023  https://www.israpundit.org/michael-oren-a-war-against-the-jews/ Source: https://www.thefp.com/p/this-isnt-a-war-against-israel

 

“The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews. When the Jew will hide behind stones and trees, the stones and trees will say, ‘O Muslims, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’?” —The Hamas Charter

 

“The conventional war of conquest was to be waged parallel to, and was also to camouflage, the ideological war against the Jews.” —Lucy Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews 1933–1945

 

It wasn’t the rallies with “Keep the World Clean” posters and chants of “gas the Jews.” Nor was it the glorification of Hamas paragliders by the Chicago branch of Black Lives Matter or, in New York and London, the tearing down of posters with the faces of Israeli children held hostage by Hamas. Not even the off-the-charts uptick in antisemitic incidents in Germany (240 percent), the United States (nearly 400 percent), and London (1,353 percent) convinced me.

 

It was, rather, one of those realizations that so many generations of Jews before me have experienced. A realization that they, like me, surely tried to push out of their minds until the reality became unmistakeable.

This war is not simply between Hamas terrorists and Israelis. It is a war against the Jews.

The insight began with the international media’s coverage of the conflict. Again, it wasn’t the press’s insistence on calling mass murderers “militants” or citing Hamas and its “Health Ministry” as a reliable source. For close to fifty years—as a student activist, a diplomat, a soldier, a government and military spokesman, and above all, as a historian—I’ve grappled with the media’s bias against Israel. I’ve long known that the terrorists are “militants” solely because their victims are Jews, and only in a conflict with Israel are terrorists considered credible.

 

Instead, it was the media’s predictable switch from an Israel-empathetic to an Israel-demonizing narrative as the image of Palestinian suffering supplanted that of Israelis beheaded, dismembered, and burnt. It was the gnawing awareness that dead Jews buy us only so much sympathy.

 

In fact, there is probably a formula. Six million dead in the Holocaust procured us roughly 25 years of grace before the Europeans refused to refuel the U.S. planes bringing lifesaving munitions to Israel during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Fourteen hundred butchered Jews bought us a little less than two weeks’ worth of positive coverage.

 

Europeans, it’s long been said, never forgave the Jews for the Holocaust. Their guilt was collective and their antisemitism no longer socially acceptable. What a relief many of them felt when it became de rigueur to call Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians Nazi-like. Similarly, haters of Israelis can’t forgive them for being massacred by Hamas terrorists on October 7, and were relieved when, on October 17, they could go back to vilifying the “colonial apartheid state.”

 

October 17—that was the date of the al-Ahli Arab Hospital incident. Hamas claimed that an Israeli bomb hit the hospital and killed 500 civilians. Again, there was nothing new about Hamas blaming Israel for atrocities that never happened and counting as dead the many who didn’t die. What was unprecedented was the speed at which the world accepted this triple lie—not a hospital but its parking lot was struck by a Palestinian rocket, not an Israeli bomb, killing far fewer than 500. Nevertheless, reflexively, the world imputed evil to Israel.

 

Within hours of the al-Ahli bombing, both Israel and the United States revealed the truth behind it. Still, almost no one in the media apologized. A full week after the explosion, The New York Times was still bringing in “experts” to intimate Israel’s guilt. After all, the paper was subtly telling us, Israel is perfectly capable of bombing hospitals and, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, possibly bombed this one as well.

 

What was previously an inkling became, October 17, an epiphany. It marked the moment when I finally peered behind the headlines and recognized their ancient, vicious, core.

 

For many centuries, the term “innocent Jew” was an oxymoron. Jews were guilty by birth, by belief, and by ancestry. There is a religious tenet of Judaism, reenacted each year at Passover, that all Jews were present at the exodus from Egypt and when God gave the laws to Moses at Sinai. Twisting this is a Christian belief that all Jews were present at, and responsible for, the crucifixion. More than Pilate, more than Judas—a name not chosen randomly—the Jews were damned for deicide.

 

But killing God is only one of the sins for which Israelis—read: Jews—are being demonized in this war. Behind the reports of the deliberate Israeli bombing of Palestinian neighborhoods—reports that meticulously stress the number of children killed—lies the 144,000 children mythically massacred by the Judean King Herod.

 

Though understandably feeling vengeful toward Hamas and their allies in Gaza, the vast majority of Israelis do not want innocent Palestinians to die. Hamas, however, places its bunkers, rocket launchers, and headquarters in civilian areas. Though Israel warns these noncombatants to evacuate, Hamas tries to prevent their flight, sometimes at gunpoint. The goal is twofold: to kill as many Israelis as possible, and to kill Palestinians to win the sympathy of the world and so that Israel can be denounced internationally for war crimes.

 

Hamas’s strategy is clear. Yet much of the press prefers to ignore it. Instead, it repeatedly accuses Israel of seeking to inflict the maximum number of civilian deaths and especially of children. In the media’s rendering, Israel is the new Herod butchering Palestinian innocents.

 

Forgotten are the thousands of Gazans who followed Hamas terrorists through the ruptured fence into Israel where they joined in the mutilations and raping. Forgotten are the Gazans who beat and spat at a nineteen-year-old Israeli woman who was raped and paraded through their streets. Gone were Gazans who gave out candy and celebrated the slaughter of 1,400 civilians who were truly innocent.

 

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Anti-Jewish hate crimes hits a new record in California

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There were 289 reported hate crimes against Jews in California in 2023, a 52% increase from 2022, according to the hate crimes statistics released by the State of California earlier this month.

 

Anti-Jewish hate crimes accounted for over 73% of all anti-religious hate crime.
Since 2014, the numbers of hate crimes against Jews has increased dramatically and consistently. While anti-Muslim hate crimes increased in 2023, they have remained fairly steady over the years.

Hate Crimes against Jews-Muslims- California 2014-2023

Hate Crimes against Jews-Muslims- California 2014-2023

 

Anti-Jewish hate crimes account for nearly the entire increase in all anti-religious hate crimes between 2022 and 2023. In fact, the total number of all hate crimes in California decreased slightly in 2023, with the most drastic increases against Jews (+100) and LGBTQ+ (+70)

 

The dramatic increase in antisemitic hate crimes in 2023, which were already high out of proportion to the number of Jews in those areas beforehand, has been seen in most places that have released hate crime statistics so far.

 

And 2024 looks like it will be not just worse, but far worse. 

 

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Anti-Jewish hate crime is also soaring in Chicago

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Here is a chart from the Chicago Police Department showing hate crimes against Jews by year:

Hate Crimes against Jews-Chicago 2012-2024

Hate Crimes against Jews-Chicago 2012-2024

 

There were 6 hate crimes against Jews in 2020, 8 in 2021, 39 in 2022, 50 in 2023 and 55 in 2024.

 

But the year is only half over.

 

In 2023, there were a total of 81 hate crimes attacking religion, and 61%  of them were anti-Jewish. This year, there have been 62 hate crimes against religions so far, and 89% of those have been anti-Jewish.

 

By contrast, there have been 4 anti-Muslim hate crimes so far this year in Chicago.

 

There are roughly the same number of Jews and Muslims in Chicago (between 300,000 and 400,000.)

 

How long will it take for local and national leaders to understand that anti-Jewish bigotry is fundamentally different from all other types, and requires different methods to fight them?

 

The assassination attempt on Trump on Saturday shows that some people take demonization rhetoric seriously enough to kill on behalf of their twisted idas of morality. . If Trump is evil personified, then killing him makes as much sense as assassinating Hitler in 1938. But the same deranged hate rhetoric is being hurled against Jews every day – after all, the majority of Jews are accused of supporting genocide, the worst possible crime. It is not out of the question that a similarly deranged person with a gun will believe that shooting up a synagogue or a random Jew in the street is a righteous, necessary act for the good of mankind.

 

This has already happened many times to Jews in the US. Usually the shooters are either Muslim or far Right, but the Right feeds on the anti-Israel propaganda of the Left – the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer has graphics from The Guardian and quotes Haaretz.

 

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‘There is No Antisemitism Here,’ South African Justice Minister Claims, Despite 631 Percent Increase in Attacks on Jews

by Ben Cohen 31January2024 https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/01/31/there-is-no-antisemitism-here-south-african-justice-minister-claims-despite-631-percent-increase-in-attacks-on-jews/

SEE: South Africa takes Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ, UN) for the Gaza War

The claim of South Africa’s Justice Minister that there is no antisemitism targeting the country’s Jewish community drew a forthright response from Jewish leaders on Wednesday, who also accused the South African government of “creating an environment that emboldens antisemites.”

 

In an interview with the BBC’s “Hard Talk” program on Monday, Justice Minister Ronald Lamola flatly denied that antisemitism — which has soared in South Africa in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in southern Israel and the Israeli government’s military response — was a problem.

 

When presenter Stephen Sackur quoted South African Jewish leader Howard Sackstein saying that he was “staring at my suitcase contemplating whether it’s time to leave the only home I’ve ever known,” underlining as well his fear that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) government had been “captured by radical Islamists,” Lamola dismissed these concerns outright, going on to attack the “Zionist state.”

 

“It’s a very unfortunate statement not backed by any facts, it’s a figment of his own imagination,” Lamola said.

Lamola added that the case charging Israel with “genocide” brought to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by South Africa was “not against the Jews as a people, it’s against the Zionist State of Israel,” which was “maiming and killing the Palestinians as a group in Gaza,” he said.

 

The ICJ’s ruling last week essentially rejected South Africa’s argument, with no immediate order issued to Israel to halt the war, only the demand that assistance must be provided to improve humanitarian conditions and measures taken to prevent acts or incitement against the UN’s 1948 Genocide Convention.

 

When Sackur pointed out that there had been a precipitous rise in antisemitic attacks in South Africa since Oct. 7, Lamola fired back, “there’s no such…there is no antisemitism in South Africa against the Jewish people.”

 

A statement from the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) on Wednesday highlighted that between October and December of last year, in the weeks following the Hamas assault, 139 antisemitic incidents were recorded, compared with 19 in the same period of 2022 — an increase of 631 percent.

 

The statement pointed out that there had also been as “a sharp increase in physical attacks against Jewish persons or property, something which had occurred only rarely in previous years. There were six cases of physical assault, whereas the annual average had been only one in the preceding decade.”

 

Among the violent incidents recorded were two cases of assault outside a Johannesburg synagogue, an attack on a Johannesburg rabbi, and a Jewish community member being repeatedly struck over the head with a pole at a pro-Hamas rally in Cape Town. Vandalism included damage and desecration to Jewish cemeteries in Pretoria and Durban.

 

During the incident in Cape Town, the targeted individual was surrounded by dozens of violent protestors who bellowed “Viva Hamas” and “Murderers,” telling him “Hitler did not kill all of you guys, just so that we could all see exactly why he did it.”

 

South Africa’s Jewish community “has prided itself on the relatively low levels of antisemitism compared to other Jewish Diaspora communities,” the SAJBD remarked. “However our government has created an environment where antisemitism can flourish with Minister Lamola’s comments being an example. We call on Minister Lamola and the ANC Government to stop dismissing antisemitism and to stop creating an environment that emboldens antisemites.”

 

A report on South African antisemitism submitted by the SAJBD to the US State Department and shared with The Algemeiner described how South African Jews increasingly face opprobrium and hatred in their daily lives.

 

“A ‘naming and shaming’ process has been adopted, where people are encouraged to shun those characterized as ‘genocidal baby killers’ and the like,” the report noted.

 

In one of several hateful emails sent to members of the community, a Jewish doctor in Cape Town was virulently abused by a former patient who accused him of financial dishonesty.

 

“I don’t expect anything from a Jewish c*** like you; it’s true what they say about you Jews, it’s ******* huge noses ***** greedy,” the email ranted. It ended, “my sexy rat-eyed y*d, we are coming for you. Hail [sic] HITLER.”

 

Lamola’s denial of South Africa’s antisemitism problem followed his assertion last week that the ICJ case brought against Israel meant that Nelson Mandela, the late South African President who led the ANC in its struggle against apartheid, “will be smiling in his grave.”

 

ANC leaders have repeatedly invoked Mandela in a political campaign against Israel that has intensified over the last decade. However, Mandela was a supporter of the two-state solution, declaring in a 1993 address to the Jewish community, “As a movement we recognize the legitimacy of Palestinian nationalism just as we recognize the legitimacy of Zionism as a Jewish nationalism. We insist on the right of the state of Israel to exist within secure borders but with equal vigor support the Palestinian right to national self-determination.”

 

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Some of the People Defending Hamas Are Using the Same Argument the Nazis Tried After the Holocaust

“I am a historian (like Khalidi), interested in the origins of ideas and arguments. It turns out that Khalidi’s premier talking point has a very specific genesis.”

Posted by Mike LaChance 28October2023
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Martin Kramer notes that Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University is using the same justification that the Nazis used during the Nuremberg tribunals.

 

From his blog:

The Nazi case for Hamas

 

Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor at Columbia University, is no fool. He started out as a spokesperson for the PLO in Beirut in the 1970s, and he’s been at it ever since. A New Yorker by birth, he knows something about perceptions of the conflict in America. And he knows that terrorism has set back the Palestinian cause time and again. That’s why he’s spent much of his career trying to anesthetize America to terrorism, divert attention from it, or minimize it.

 

The horrific massacre of Israeli men, women, and children committed by Hamas on October 7 has made his mission much harder. “The current sentiment,” he told an Arab interviewer (in Arabic),

politically, popularly, and in the media, is overwhelmingly negative. This contrasts sharply with the past decade, which saw growing support for Palestinian political rights and strong opposition to Israeli policies…. They’re capitalizing on the deaths of Israeli civilians during the Al-Aqsa Storm operation…. Having lived in the U.S., particularly New York, for over half my life, I’ve never seen such an onslaught of lies and crude propaganda that are actually making an impact.

Khalidi recommends a number of talking points to his followers. He’s dropped some in reaction to new and awful evidence, but one remains constant. Here is how Khalidi has made it, on two separate occasions:

 

There are ways of making war, which advanced technological societies employ, which involve the killing of huge numbers of civilians, who are never somehow counted in the calculus. Oh, that’s collateral damage. Oh, we didn’t mean to do it. If a pilot does it from 1,000 feet, and kills fifty people, or some somebody with a gun comes in and murders fifty people, there is a difference, obviously, but in the last analysis, if this is a violation of the rules of war on the one hand, it’s a violation of the rules of war on the other hand… One kind of killing of civilians—only that kind—is called terrorism and another kind of systematic killing of civilians, with much higher death counts, is simply ignored.

Sound familiar? It should.

The ‘Dresden defense’

 

I am a historian (like Khalidi), interested in the origins of ideas and arguments. It turns out that Khalidi’s premier talking point has a very specific genesis.

 

It figured in the case for the defense in the Einsatzgruppen Trial, conducted by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal from late 1947 to the spring of 1948. The Einsatzgruppen were the paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany, which carried out mass murder by shooting in Nazi-occupied Europe. They destroyed well over a million Jews, and two million people all told. After the war, their surviving senior commanders were put on trial at Nuremberg, charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes.

 

The chief defendant, SS-Gruppenführer Otto Ohlendorf, had been commander of Einsatzgruppe D, which carried out mass murders in Moldova, southern Ukraine, and the Caucasus. An economist and father of five, he had supervised the killing of 90,000 Jews. Ohlendorf imagined that he had a moral conscience. The killers under his command, he told a U.S. Army prosecutor, were prohibited from using infants for target practice, or smashing their heads against trees.

 

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When Gaza has Money, Hamas has Rockets

By John F. Di Leo
October 18, 2023 https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/10/when_gaza_has_money_hamas_has_rockets.html

 

Whether you grew up watching reality law enforcement programs or fictional mafia movies, there’s one thing everyone knows: When a known hit man murders a stranger, the odds are at least ten to one that he was paid to do it. Find the person who paid him, and you’ve identified the real responsible party.

 

This doesn’t just go for individual crimes, either.  The same principle applies on the grand scale.

On Oct. 7, 2023, a horde of Islamofascist terrorists known as Hamas launched simultaneous, carefully coordinated attacks on Israel.

 

Hundreds of rockets were fired into civilian communities in Israel.  Crowds of terrorists charged across the border and attacked private residences, shooting up apartments and houses, raping and beating innocent individuals and families. Squads sought out the partygoers at a music festival, slaughtering the unarmed with abandon. Hamas killed or injured thousands that day – mostly unarmed, unsuspecting civilians.

 

Israel is responding, as Israel must.  But on the world stage, Israel doesn’t have the ability to go much further back, to deal with the sources, as we can in regular domestic law enforcement.

 

Israel can attack the nearby perpetrators, the bloodthirsty demons of Hamas who gave the orders and managed the attacks.  But Israel is limited in what it can do beyond the Holy Land.

 

They can study, publicize their findings, try to shame the guilty on the world stage, but their reach is limited.

In much the same way as that hit man we identified can be caught by local police, but we need the FBI to capture the mafiosi who hired him, Israel can root out the Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip, but Israel is limited in its ability to go after the global villains who fund and direct Hamas.

 

Someone is buying Hamas all these missiles.  Someone provides them with training and gear, intelligence and equipment, rifles and grenades.  And these people who ship them money and weaponry, fully intending that the recipients will use them against innocent Israeli civilians, are just as guilty as the homicidal maniacs pulling the trigger.

Who?

It’s not even a secret.

The group that has been chanting “Death to Israel” for decades, the group that has taught their children and their allies to shout “From the river to the sea,” confirming in no uncertain terms that their genocidal goal is to wipe the nation of Israel off the face of the earth, is a client state of Iran.

 

Israel disengaged from Gaza in 2005, and ever since local elections were held in 2006, the people of the Gaza Strip have chosen the terrorists of Hamas to rule them.

 

The Gaza Strip is located on a stretch of seashore on the Mediterranean. Has its government sought international investors to build a modern economy to support its people?  Have they taken advantage of their 24 miles of potentially beautiful coastline to build resorts, or have they attempted to build manufacturing centers to provide careers and prosperity for their two million residents?

 

Time and time again, when Israel and others have tried to support the building of plants, factories, and logistics centers in the Gaza Strip, Hamas terrorism has necessitated Israel closing the borders and revoking import/export privileges.  It’s impossible to have a manufacturing sector without public utilities, but Hamas sabotage has destroyed such facilities. It’s impossible to manufacture goods without raw materials, but Israel has had to close down maritime traffic to Gaza because Gaza’s suppliers keep filling “humanitarian aid” shipments full of armaments.

 

Whether from Egypt, Turkey, Iran or Lebanon, Israelis have learned the hard way that allowing goods into the Gaza Strip means endangering the innocent civilians of Israel.  So Israel has had to crack down, again and again.

 

The events of October 7 prove the case. Hamas is not allowed to maintain a military; they get billions of dollars in aid from their foreign allies, money that could and should be targeted to improving the lot of their people, the so-called “palestinians,” of whom nearly half are children and teenagers.  But despite this very real need for humanitarian support and economic development, Hamas puts its energy, its funding, and its rhetoric into its single-minded war cry: “Death to Israel.”

 

And where exactly does Gaza’s funding come from?

The governments of Iran and Qatar are major donors, plus a global network of expats who either identify with the Gazans (a mixture of arab ethnicities, but primarily Egyptian) or with Hamas’ very public goal of destroying Israel and emptying it of Jews.

 

The history books tell us that Hamas was originally an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian terrorist organization. Today, however, Hamas is usually considered more directly a client of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, itself the Lebanese branch of the Iranian council of mullahs – an oligarchy that has ruled Iran with a bloody iron fist for almost 45 years now.

 

So it is that when Hamas moves a muscle, one can safely assume that Iran is the one pulling the strings.

The issue of Hamas’ funding sources has attracted a bit more attention than usual, in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks.  Israel has announced that it’s blocking whatever sources it can find with proof of the money going to weaponry. They have blocked bank accounts at Barclays and huge cryptocurrency accounts that have long been a way for investors to move money in violation of sanctions, crypto being more easily hidden from view than real currency or investments.

 

But these are the obvious sources – terrorist supporting rogue states and fellow islamofascist extremists. The really big money in Gaza comes from sources that many would assume are peacemakers.

 

The United Nations, in fact, is arguably the biggest single funding source for Hamas, having directed well over five billion dollars in spending to the Gaza Strip in the past decade.  Such money isn’t provided without strings, of course, but money is fungible. If one source covers food and water, that frees up the money from other charities to be spent on rockets and rifles.

 

Perhaps most shocking to Americans is the amount of U.S. taxpayer dollars that are sent to Hamas. Outside of an attempt by the Trump administration to block U.S. taxes from going to Hamas from 2017 through 2020, the Obama and Biden regimes have diverted tens of millions, again and again, whenever they could find an excuse.  Never for arms, directly, of course; but money is fungible.

 

One of the first visual images confronted by an economics student is the idea of “expending resources on guns or butter.” The larger a percentage of your income you have to spend on butter, the less you can afford to spend on guns, and vice versa.

 

As long as the United States, the United Nations, and other allegedly peaceful countries provide funds to Gaza, and as long as Hamas continues to direct Gaza’s treasury, it’s as if we peaceful westerners ourselves were the ones buying Hamas the weapons.

 

People who’ve been paying attention will recall the midnight flights of billions of dollars in currency that the Obama regime illegally sent to Tehran, a vision refreshed by the Biden regime’s gift of releasing billions in foreign funds to Tehran a few short weeks ago.

 

When Iran has money, their client terror states have rockets.

The courageous and talented Israeli Defense Forces can work on ridding Gaza of its homicidal anti-semitic population, but what can we do, here, a world away?

 

Well, at the very least, we can stand up on election day, and fire the American politicians who keep paying these hit men with our money. The Democratic Party has been funding these vermin for far too long.

 

John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based international transportation professional and consultant.  A onetime Milwaukee County Republican Party chairman, he has been writing a regular column for Illinois Review since 2009.  His book on vote fraud (The Tales of Little Pavel) and his political satires on the current administration (Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes I and II).

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Israel’s Ballistic & Cruise Missiles


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Israel's Ballistic and Cruise Missiles

Israel’s Ballistic and Cruise Missiles

 


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This map is for the International Criminal Court in the Hague. They will love the sound of the Air Raid Siren.

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Prayer for the People of Israel During War

09/10/2023 – כ״ד בתשרי ה׳תשפ״ד – כ״ד בתשרי ה׳תשפ״ד – 04:54

Rishon Lezion HaRav Yitzchak Yosef

Rishon Lezion HaRav Yitzchak Yosef

Prayer for the People of Israel During War

The Rishon Lezion HaGaon Rav Yitzchak Yosef requests that we pray for am Yisrael during these extremely dangerous days of war.

Rishon Lezion HaRav Yitzchak Yosef Posted on 09October2023  https://breslev.com/4060580/

In light of the on-going war in Eretz Yisrael, the Rishon Letzion, Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, requests the following:

  1. Say the “Prayer for the Success of Am Yisrael” below upon the opening of the aron kodesh every day, immediately after the chazarat hashatz, before the half-kaddish
  2. Say Avinu Malkeinu
  3. Recite these chapters of Tehillim: 121, 130, and 142

Prayer for the Success of Am Yisrael

May it be Your will, Hashem our G-d and the G-d of our forefathers, that You be filled with mercy towards us and towards Your entire nation of Israel and save us from the hands of all our enemies and haters, and from the hand of all those who wish to harm us. Nullify their counsel and disrupt their designs, and may their hands create no enterprise, as it says, “Utzu eitzah – Plot and plan – and you will fail; confer, conspire – it will not come to be, because G-d is with us.” Hashem, foil the plans of nations and disrupt their designs, and may their swords go into their own hearts and may their bows break.

 

Please, Hashem, may You feel merciful towards us and towards all Your Jewish people. Rise from the throne of strict justice and sit on the throne of mercy, and go beyond the letter of the law, and annul all harsh and bad decrees on us, and make good decrees, salvations and consolations, for the sake of Your mercy, and tear up the evil decree on us and may our merits be read before You.

 

“Arise to help us and redeem us for the sake of Your loyalty.” (Psalm 34:22)

 

Please, Hashem, protect your servants, your flock, who are in captivity in Gaza, protect the army soldiers and the security forces, save them from snares. May no harm befall them, and may no sickness come to their homes, and save them from all kinds of mishaps and accidents that come into the world, and may all the sick people of Your nation receive a complete recovery, all the wounded, and hear our beseeching, for You hear the prayer of every mouth. Blessed [are You], Who hears prayers. May the words of my mouth and my heart’s reflections please You, Hashem, my Rock and redeemer.

 

May Hashem give might to His people; may Hashem bless His people with peace.  

Amen, Amen.

תפלה להצלחת עם ישראל

יהי רצון מלפניך ה’ אלקינו ואלהי אבותינו, שתתמלא ברחמים עלינו ועל כל עמך ישראל ותצילנו ותושיענו מיד כל אויבנו  ושונאינו, ומכף כל מבקשי רעתינו, הפר עצתם וקלקל מחשבותם, ולא תעשינה ידיהם תושיה, וכמו שנאמר עוצו עצה ותופר, דברו דבר ולא יקום, כי עמנו אל. ונאמר, ה’ הפר עצת גויים וקלקל מחשבותם, ויהי רצון שחרבם תבוא בלבם וקשתותם תשברנה

אנא ה’ יהמו נא רחמיך עלינו ועל כל עמך ישראל, עמוד נא מכסא הדין ושב על כסא רחמים, ותכנס לנו לפני ולפנים משורת הדין, ותבטל מעלינו כל גזרות קשות ורעות, ותגזור עלינו גזרות טובות, ישועות ונחמות, למען רחמיך, ותקרע רוע גזר דינינו ויקראו לפניך זכויותיו

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קומה עזרתה לנו ופדנו למען חסדך (תהילים 34:22)

אנא ה’ שמור והגן על עבדיך צאן מרעיתך, הנמצאים בשבייה בעזה, הגן על חיילי הצבא וכוחות הבטחון, הצילם מפח יקוש, לא תאונה אליהם רעה, ונגע לא יקרב באהליהם, ותצילם מכל מיני פורעניות ותאונות המתרגשות לבוא בעולם, ושלח נא רפואה שלימה לכל חולי עמך, לכל הפצועים, ושמע נא את קול תחינתינו, כי אתה שומע תפלת כל פה, ברוך שומע תפלה. יהיו לרצון אמרי פי והגיון לבי לפניך ה’ צורי וגואלי.

ה’ עוז לעמו יתן ה’ יברך את עמו בשלום, אמן ואמן

 

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Hebrew Prayer for Members of the Israel Defense Force

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Invoking God’s protection for the members of the Israel Defense Forces.
by Aish.com staffHe Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Forces, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our God, from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.May the Almighty cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighters from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.

May He lead our enemies under our soldiers’ sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is the Lord your God, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you.

Now let us respond: Amen.

Prayer for the State of Israel

Hebrew Prayer for the State of Israel

Hebrew Prayer for the State of Israel

This traditional version of the Prayer for the State of Israel was published by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in 1948.
Our Father who is in heaven, Protector and Redeemer of Israel, bless the State of Israel, the dawn of our deliverance. Shield it beneath the wings of Your love; spread over it Your canopy of peace; send Your light and Your truth to its leaders, officers, and counselors, and direct them with Your good counsel.
Strengthen the defenders of our Holy Land; grant them, our God, salvation and crown them with victory. Establish peace in the land, and everlasting joy for its inhabitants. Remember our brethren, the whole house of Israel, in all the lands of their dispersion. Speedily bring them to Zion, Your city, to Jerusalem Your dwelling-place, as it is written in the Torah of Your servant Moses:
“Even if you are dispersed in the uttermost parts of the world, from there the Lord your God will gather and fetch you. The Lord your God will bring you into the land which your ancestors possessed, and you shall possess it; and God will make you more prosperous and more numerous than your ancestors.”
Unite our hearts to love and revere Your name, and to observe all the precepts of Your Torah. Speedily send us Your righteous Messiah of the House of David, to redeem those waiting for Your salvation. Shine forth in Your glorious majesty over all the inhabitants of Your world. Let everything that breathes proclaim: “The Lord God of Israel is King; His majesty rules over all.” Amen. Selah.
This alternative version is adapted from the Kol Haneshama siddur, 1994.
Please God, bless the State of Israel. Protect it in the abundance of your love. Spread over it the shelter of your peace. Send forth your light and truth to those who lead and judge it, and to those who hold elective office. Establish in them, through your presence, wise counsel, that they might walk in the way of justice, freedom and integrity.
Strengthen the hands of those who guard our holy land. Let them inherit salvation and life. And give peace to the land, and perpetual joy to all its inhabitants. Appoint for a blessing all our kindred of the house of Israel in all the lands of their dispersion. Plant in their hearts a love to Zion. And for all our people everywhere, may God be with them, and may they have the opportunity to go up to the land. Cause your spirit’s influence to emanate upon the dwellers of our holy land.
Remove from their midst hatred and enmity, jealousy and wickedness. Plant in their hearts love and kinship, peace and friendship. And soon fulfill the vision of your profit, “Nation shall not lift up sword against nation. Let them learn no longer the ways of war.” And let us say, Amen.
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