On the first night of Passover, Jewish families around the world read the Haggadah, which tells the story of our people's Exodus from Egypt and the beginning of our history as a free people. The conclusion that emerges is that we will always have to fight for our freedom each day and in each generation.

When I attended my first seder in Moscow 50 years ago, everyone gathered was a product of the Soviet regime. We all began as assimilated Jews, disconnected from and ignorant of our heritage. Yet soon we began to study Hebrew and Jewish traditions in secret. Many of us had KGB "tails," agents assigned to monitor and report our activities to the authorities. We didn't know that the end of our story would be as spectacular as the Exodus itself and helped bring down the Iron Curtain, allowing millions of Jews to return home to Israel.

This year when we gathered to read about those who aspired to kill us, we thought about Hamas. We recalled the hostages, who have spent more than six months in captivity, enduring horrors that civilized minds refuse to imagine. We recalled American universities, where professors and students have celebrated the terrorists' Oct. 7 massacre.

Yet reviewing our millennia-long journey strengthened our determination and optimism. If we stand strong in defending our rights as free people in our land, our persecutors will be carried away by the floods of history, as Pharaoh's army and the Soviet empire were before it.

My point here is not that these kids don’t know anything—although that’s true. My point is that teenagers following the crowd for a chance to touch the hem of an upperclassman’s garment ought not to make policy. The vapidity of this trend was well expressed by a young actress explaining why she’ll continue to advocate “for Palestine” despite people warning her that the you-know-whos in Hollywood won’t like it: “I went campaigning door-to-door for marriage equality in Ireland, I went on marches for abortion rights. I’ve always cared about causes and social justice… To me it always becomes about supporting all innocent people, which sounds oversimplified, but I think you’ve got to look at situations and just think, ‘Are we supporting innocent people no matter where they’re from, who they are?’ That’s my drive.”

Lincolnesque, truly. But she actually nails an important part of this: Hating-on-Israel is today’s campaigning-for-abortion-access-in-Ireland. Who knows what tomorrow’s cause will be for our heroes?

Do you know what tomorrow’s cause will be for Israelis? Same as it was today: defending their existence and trying to get their hostages back. And I’m pretty sure it’ll be the day after tomorrow’s cause too.

Similarly, for the protest leaders who shout about wanting to kill Zionists, their goals don’t change day to day. Nor do the goals of the Nazi-like murderers in whose honor these protests are organized. But the numbers of these protests, which are supposed to show some measure of righteousness, are ballooned by two categories: people who want to kill Jews and people who treat political causes like a car radio, flipping from station to station in search of the popular songs of the day. (I realize many of them may not know what a radio is.)

Israel doesn’t get to wake up with a hangover, sleep till two in the afternoon and find a different party the next night. This is real life. If Hamas isn’t defeated, Israelis will continue living next to the skeletal framework of an underground tunnel system that exists to hold future Israelis hostage. And above that tunnel system will be the people who intend to take those hostages.

We should stop excusing the people who plead ignorance as they follow murder-minded grad students. And under no circumstances should policy be made with them in mind, or because enough of them are standing elbow-to-elbow a hundred yards from their dorm. The people who live in the real world can’t afford it.

The vast majority of contemporary Westerners protesting against Israel today are selective racists. "Racist" in that skin color does count for them (big time!). "Selective" because they ignore the number of victims.

Sudan is undergoing a humanitarian crisis of monumental proportions, starting a year ago. Airstrikes have hit civilian centers on an ongoing basis. In many regions, hospitals and health services hardly function. Thousands of civilians have been killed, including massacres that are clear war crimes. The UN reports that 3,000,000 Sudanese children are malnourished. World Food Program trucks have been blocked, hijacked, attacked, and looted. Yet not a peep is heard from Westerners.

In Myanmar, an estimated 50,000 have been killed since the military coup in 2021, and over two million displaced. Most of this is due to the military junta's blanket use of air strikes and shelling of mostly civilian targets. Here, too, one would be hard pressed to find any protests.

Since 2000, the Ethiopian conflict has led to 350,000 civilian fatalities. According to the UN, close to 30,000,000 people now require emergency food aid. Have you seen any protests at Harvard or Columbia regarding such mind-boggling suffering?

When one realizes the disparity between the number of Gazan fatalities (a bit over 30,000 if the Hamas-based numbers can be believed - not to mention that at least 10,000 of these are terrorists) and the humongous numbers around the globe, it becomes clear that selective racism is certainly a factor in singling out Israel when the devastation and humanitarian crises are far worse elsewhere. Israelis are racist? The protesters should look in the mirror. Their avoidance of the greatest political-human tragedies in the world today constitutes the real racism.

It’s not a coincidence that Hamas released three hostage videos—that of Hersh Goldberg-Polin on Wednesday, and those of Omri Miran and Keith Siegal on Saturday—precisely when IDF troops are amassing in preparation for the Rafah ground invasion. Pressuring the government, which keeps softening its stance, to cave to an increasingly intransigent Hamas is not merely counter-productive, however. It’s far worse than that, as the Shalit deal proved.

Passages from what I wrote 15 years ago about the role of the press in an identical crusade are worth repeating here.

“[T]he Shalit frenzy that has characterized the local coverage of the captured soldier of late … reached fever pitch this week, during the lead-up to a potentially massive prisoner swap to bring the boy home to his mother and father. The position of the press—with few exceptions—has been that Gilad should be brought back, ‘at any cost.’

“According to this mantra, no soldier will be willing to go to battle from now on, knowing that if he gets captured, the government is liable to leave him in the hands of the enemy. … Coupled with constant coverage of the tent pitched by Aviva and Noam Shalit across from the prime minister’s residence, the media’s campaign has been so comprehensive that all other voices are virtually drowned out. And when some do manage to make a dent, they are not silenced, but rather amplified as right-wing fanatical or—worse—unfeeling.

“This puts any pundit or politician who disagrees on the defensive. Even those who try to point out that Hamas is also watching Israeli broadcasts, which only serve to strengthen its sense that it need not soften its bargaining position even one iota, have to preface their statements by assuring everybody that, of course, they, too, want to see Gilad home as soon as possible.

“Even those who attempt to suggest that releasing hundreds of the worst terrorists who are sure to strike again, both by slaughtering innocent Israelis and by kidnapping additional ones for future trades, are forced first to reiterate that they also would be acting as the Shalit family has been if it were their own child in captivity.

“The purpose of this kind of emotional blackmail and manipulation on the part of the media is to award them a monopoly on goodness. … [T]hey behave as though they have cornered the market on wanting to rescue Shalit—while the rest of us would prefer war and embrace heartlessness.

“This is as preposterous as it is dangerous—the former because everybody in this country wants both peace and Shalit’s safe return, and the latter because it leads to confusion about who the real culprit is. When Prime Minister Ehud Olmert receives more criticism from the Hebrew press about Shalit’s predicament than Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, it’s time for it to undergo some serious scrutiny and sorely needed soul-searching.”

This time around, I hope not to cower when confronted by an irate reader.

Saudi Arabia watching Israel-Hamas war closely
Saudi Arabia may not publicly want Israel in Rafah, but Riyadh has been watching the war closely since October 7. It has likely wondered why it took Israel seven months to defeat Hamas and why Hamas has apparently returned to most of Gaza. Saudi Arabia likely preferred Hamas to be defeated faster. It can’t understand why Israel is waging the war the way it is, letting Hamas move from place to place and survive. The potential operation in Rafah is only controversial now because it has taken six months. If Israel had moved into Rafah in October, right after October 7, there would have been no controversy.

The reality is that for Israel and Saudi Arabia to have ties that work in the long run, Hamas must be defeated, and Rafah must be taken to eradicate the Hamas tunnels there. In short, the only way to get to Riyadh for a peace deal is through Rafah, not without Rafah. This is because normalization is paved through stability in the region. Hamas is a destabilizing force backed by Iran and other countries that want to sow chaos, war, and extremism. So long as Hamas is left in control of Gaza, there will be endless wars, and it will be used by Iran and others every time they want to harm normalization.

Countries can’t sacrifice their citizens and abandon security just for peace deals. No other country would see that as a logical trade-off. For instance, the US would not accept a situation where narco-terrorist cartels, such as strengthened versions of the Zetas or Sinaloa cartels, control the border. In exchange, the US has to let them massacre US citizens in order to have better ties with Brazil. No one would propose such a nonsensical logic of allowing terror groups to control the border in exchange for better ties with regional powers. The same goes for Russia and Europe. European countries learned they couldn’t appease Russia in order to get better ties and meanwhile abandon Ukraine and let Russia destabilize the border between Europe and Russia.

Israel’s leaders historically learned never to sacrifice the security of the people of Israel in order to get deals. Every time they did make this mistake, it had disastrous consequences. Today, Israel is being lured into accepting Hamaas returning to Gaza and allowing Hezbollah, Iran, and others to attack Israel with impunity. The region is watching, and the region thinks Israel may not be up to the task of defeating terrorism and that Israel is weaker than it appeared. This is a dangerous time for Israel. If Israel caves and lets terrorists run Gaza again, it is only a matter of time before more massacres.

On the eve of Yom Hashoah, it is worth remembering the mission of the state. We are here to protect people, not allow more October 7, more massacres like in the Shoah. Countries in the region respect strength, and they want to see Israel emerge stronger after this war, not accept defeat at the hands of Hamas and Hezbollah. The road to Riyadh is through Rafah, not in spite of it. To bring peace to the region and end Iran’s destabilizing behavior, Hamas must be destroyed, not coddled.

Professor Moshe Sharon (86), one of the most senior Middle East scholars in Israel, is convinced that the majority of Israelis have no real idea as to the profound depth of the hatred of Jews and Israel that is ingrained in Islam. These are the roots that gave birth to the vicious, barbaric massacre carried out by Hamas on October 7. "For years now, we have been busy telling ourselves stories that we have wanted to believe," says Sharon. "Some of this stems from ignorance and a lack of familiarity with the most basic issues in Islam, and we really insist on not looking the reality of the situation squarely in the eye."

Prof. Sharon, a retired IDF colonel, is a globally renowned researcher of Shia Islam and the history of Islam in the Land of Israel and the middle ages. He was a special consultant on Arab affairs to the late Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, and also served as an advisor to former Minister of Defense, Moshe Arens and to Binyamin Ben Eliezer, during his stint as the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, and he worked with two Chiefs of the General Staff – Rafael Eitan (Raful) and Moshe Levi. He is currently proposing to the policymakers in Israel that they should erase two words from their lexicon – "Peace" and "Now"– if they seek to guarantee the security of the citizens of Israel and to create a tolerable state of affairs for them. The Moshe Sharon with whom I met has a unique, double perspective – both as a lifelong member of the academic world and a studious researcher, as the man who headed the Department of Islamic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a student of the great Bernard Lewis, and as an individual whose academic works span a diverse spectrum of periods and streams in the history of Islam, but also as a man of action, who has been present at a number of decisive decision-making junctures throughout the 1970's and 1980's.

The interview we held with him, among others, gave rise to a surprising and perhaps less orthodox insight into the Iranian issue, as well as an unusual, and some might even say disturbing, look at the small minority of Israeli Arabs who choose to serve in the IDF. But before we delve into all that, the obvious starting point for the long conversation with him is the open wound left by the events of October 7.

Q: At this current time, there are many people asking themselves if the images of October 7 do indeed reflect the true face of Islam, and what is the basic attitude of Islam towards Judaism, Zionism and the State of Israel?

Sharon: "Let's begin with the fact that from the outset, Islam has abhorred the Jews. The Jews' decision to reject the teachings of Muhammad was sufficient to categorize them as the 'enemies of Islam', and this animosity of Islam towards the Jews is a continuing sentiment stretching across time from that period until the 'end of days'. That is the basis of it all. Our 'end of days' is 'The wolf shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard lie down with the kid.' Islam's end of days is a process whose appearance will be triggered by a future occurrence. According to the hadith, the body of sayings or traditions attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, the end of days will not arrive until the Muslims kill all the Jews, apart from those who choose to hide behind trees and stones. As such, the hadith continues by recommending that perhaps the Muslims should make the effort of looking behind the trees and the stones, as there might be Jews hiding there, so that they don't miss out on finding any of them.

"As the Jews are 'the People of the Book', then until the end of days, in other words until the bitter end that awaits them, the Jews may live under the rule of Islam provided that they pay the jizya, the poll tax imposed on non-Muslims in the Islamic world, and also provided that they are humiliated."

We now have clear proof of the adage that a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth can put its boots on.

It comes in the form of an Associated Press report that carried this headline: “Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established.”

What a scoop!

It was so sensational that news outlets across America and the world ran with it, including CNN, ABC News and even the Times of Israel.

And why not, it was a breakthrough offer that could bring peace at last, right?

Wrong.

It was a public relations ploy disguised as an olive branch.

The way other organizations swallowed it hook, line and sinker illustrates how Hamas skillfully plays western news organizations and gullible journalists.

The incident also demonstrates how far the AP has fallen from its days as a boring but trustworthy news organization.

In a race to rack up clicks, it has featured the article on top of its online “world” section since Wednesday despite the fact that it’s a dead letter.

The story, based on an interview with a Hamas leader in Turkey by an AP freelancer, was misleading and woefully incomplete.

And it came loaded with the AP’s usual bias against Israel.

It called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government “hard line” for rejecting a Palestinian state.

Meanwhile, Hamas was called a “militant group” and its terrorists described as members of its “military wing.”

To its credit, the Times of Israel saw through the ploy.

In addition to adding other details that undercut the way the AP portrayed the offering as a concession, it reported that the same Hamas official who spoke to the AP, Khalil al-Hayy, delivered a different message to a London-based Arabic paper.

There he said that, regardless of any deal with Israel, the Palestinians would retain their “historic right to all Palestinian lands.”

In other words, Hamas claims all the land “from the river to the sea” and remains deadly serious about wiping Israel off the map.

Watch as Mosab Hassan Yousef absolutely shuts down Marc Lamont Hill in a debate. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 27, 2024

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— Etana Hecht 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 (@etanadeeIL) April 28, 2024

The United Nations has always been an extremely challenging arena for Israeli representatives. During the six months of the war, with pro-Hamas protesters flooding the streets outside and supporters of the terrorists aiding them inside the building, the difficulty was immense. Yet, it seems that the past ten days have been particularly intense.

They began last Thursday with an attempt to gain recognition for a Palestinian state at the Security Council. At the start of this week, as we celebrated the Passover Seder, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres once again downplayed the horrific sexual crimes committed by Hamas on the day of the invasion and which it continues to commit against the abductees. On the same day, an "independent commission of inquiry" into UNRWA's involvement with Hamas essentially whitewashed the organization.

As if that weren't enough, the situation in the United States, particularly in New York City – the host city of the UN – is far from promising regarding Israel. On one hand, the administration and Congress approved a massive aid package and repeatedly vetoed measures in the Security Council. On the other hand, pro-Hamas vandalism on campuses is reaching new heights, and the same Democratic administration echoes the allegations of "starvation in Gaza" and considers imposing sanctions on IDF soldiers.

Amidst all this and more, between Security Council meetings and UN debates, with the holiday in the middle, I spoke with Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan. We spoke twice, with midnight at his end and early morning at ours. Erdan, a former Diplomatic-Security Cabinet member and now four years an ambassador in the toughest arena for Israeli representatives, is considered a serious public figure who goes into detail. At the beginning of his tenure, he simultaneously served as ambassador to the US and the UN, and since then, he has been Israel's most prominent figure in the American media. Today, by virtue of his role at the UN, he is in daily contact with the American UN ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, but much of what transpires between them and their delegations will be revealed only when the archives are opened.

These days, Erdan is writing a book about the lessons he learned from four tumultuous years of battles at an organization meant to bring peace to the world. His main conclusion is that after the war, Israel will need to redefine the rules of engagement with the UN, and do so using all the tools at its disposal, including potentially closing its offices and revoking permits for its personnel.

The diplomatic role has removed him from the political arena, where he has been active for decades. One can assume that if he does not return to the position of ambassador to Washington, he will resume his activities in the Likud, and there is every reason to believe that with the background and experience he has accumulated, he will eventually run for the leadership of the party and the premiership in the post-Netanyahu era. The rules, of course, currently prohibit him from discussing his future. What is certain, for now, is that there are far more pressing matters at hand.

Right at the start of his tenure in 2020, Erdan had to contend with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ("Call me Antonio," he told Erdan in their first conversation) evading any praise for the Abraham Accords. Instead of expressing joy at the outbreak of peace, the secretary-general voiced concern about the potential harm to the Palestinians as a result of the agreements. This was their first quarrel. There have been many more since then.

At the start of the Gaza war in 2023, against the backdrop of Guterres' support for Hamas and his disregard for the crimes it committed against humanity, Erdan called for his dismissal. Even though he is a combative ambassador, the situation at the UN has hardly improved from Israel's perspective.

Slippage into coverage of Israel of slurs like "genocide" and "famine" in much of the mainstream broadcast media are not remotely accurate descriptions for what is going on in Gaza. Israel, unlike Hamas, does not conduct warfare with freewheeling sadism.

There is a tendency to always assume the worst of the IDF. A version of the ancient anti-Semitic trope of Jews drinking the blood of the innocents appears to have structured many people's views of Israel's war in Gaza and, indeed, long before. The urge to portray the IDF as an immoral army is almost a religion in itself. But it's wrong. In fact, the IDF has a strong claim to being the most moral army in the world.

The IDF's morality is seen in its actions. It is currently trying to dismantle probably the most extensive, cunning terrorist infrastructure ever known, one that is highly likely to have been built with the help of hundreds of millions of Western taxpayer money, UN and other "aid" funds. Israel uses a great deal of precision technology to limit the bloodshed. But it's difficult. Hamas' whole strategy revolves around using civilian shields. Yet, journalists and Twitter armies lap up the idea that Israel is going after "women and children."

Despite this near-impossible battlefield, the IDF seems to have managed to keep its ratio of civilians to combatants killed lower than almost any other army ever has. In this war, Israel has sacrificed some of its objectives in order to limit civilian deaths. The IDF operates in a manner light years away from that of all the terror groups and militias that hate Israel, currently being cheered on college campuses.

The International Criminal Court could not act against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top IDF brass without overt or tactic support from the United States, an Israeli diplomatic source told The Jerusalem Post.

“Where is [US President Joe] Biden? Why is he quiet while Israel will potentially be thrown under the bus?” the source said.

The source spoke out as the Prime Minister's office is worried that the ICC will soon issue arrest warrants against Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi.

In light of this growing concern, Netanyahu posted on X Friday that, "Under my leadership, Israel will never accept any attempt by the ICC to undermine its inherent right of self-defense.”

“The threat to seize the soldiers and officials of the Middle East’s only democracy and the world’s only Jewish state is outrageous. We will not bow to it,” he stated.

“Israel will continue to wage to victory our just war against genocidal terrorists and we will never stop defending ourselves,” Netanyahu stressed.

“While the ICC will not affect Israel’s actions, it would set a dangerous precedent that threatens the soldiers and officials of all democracies fighting savage terrorism and wanton aggression,” Netanyahu explained.

Our politics diverge on many issues, but intersect on this.

This is a just war against Hamas—terrorists who designed and instigated the 10/7 massacre.

The ICC shreds what credibility it has if it prosecutes Israel but ignores Hamas. https://t.co/HS6bjEd4uq

— Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) April 28, 2024

The question on many minds today is simple yet profound: Where is President Joe Biden as Israel faces potential legal peril at the hands of the International Criminal Court (ICC)?

The ICC, established to prosecute individuals for war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity, operates under the Rome Statute. Notably, Israel and the US are not members of the ICC, each for distinct reasons. The US has long been wary of ceding its sovereignty to an international body with broad prosecutorial powers. At the same time, Israel has avoided joining due to ongoing conflicts in the West Bank and Gaza, where the ICC claims jurisdiction.

A recent article in The Jerusalem Post highlighted that the ICC might be poised to issue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi. This possibility has alarmed Israeli officials, prompting Netanyahu to declare that Israel would never accept any ICC attempt to undermine its inherent right to self-defense.

Despite these concerns, President Biden's administration has remained relatively quiet, leading to the question: why isn't Biden defending Israel against the ICC's potential overreach? While US House Speaker Mike Johnson has called on the ICC to "stand down on this immediately," Biden's reluctance to intervene has raised eyebrows.

The US has historically been a strong ally of Israel, sharing a common understanding of the threats posed by terrorist organizations like Hamas. However, Biden's administration has taken a more cautious approach to the ICC, rescinding former President Donald Trump's order to sanction the ICC if it indicted Israeli leaders. This shift in policy could be seen as contributing to the ICC's emboldened stance against Israel.

Moreover, a Wall Street Journal editorial urged the US and the UK to intervene, noting that ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan's candidacy was championed by Britain and supported by the US. It suggested that Biden's administration risks setting a dangerous precedent for prosecuting democracies defending themselves against terrorism if it continues its current course.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is threatening to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes in Gaza. Is Biden enabling this move? What is the real goal of the ruling and what can Israel do to fight back?

"The ICC's arrest warrants will brand every Israeli citizen, soldier, and official as a war criminal."

Supporting Hamas is not a 'hallmark of democracy'. Illegally setting up tents on campuses and hiding behind a keffiyeh or face mask while throwing things at police in support of terrorists is not a 'hallmark of democracy'.. I cannot take it anymore. 😑 | HT @RickSmolpic.twitter.com/jajwY7Pq2I

— Ron M. (@Jewtastic) April 27, 2024

More than six months into the war in Gaza, Palestinians are growing more critical of Hamas, which some blame for the conflict that has destroyed the territory - and their lives. In interviews with more than a dozen residents of Gaza, people said they resent Hamas for the attacks in Israel and - war-weary and desperate to fulfill their basic needs - just want to see peace as soon as possible.

Palestinians want leaders "who won't drag people into a war like this," said Salma El-Qadomi, 33. "Seventeen years of destruction and wars are enough." A mother of three, 29, who did not want to be identified for fear of retaliation, said, "We can't live like this anymore....We want the war to stop, whatever it takes." Fedaa Zayed, 35, said, "In reality, we are in full retreat, the domestic front is destroyed."

In a poll conducted in March, a majority of Palestinians said Hamas' decision to carry out the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people was "correct." But researchers at the Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research said "support for the offensive does not mean support for Hamas." Instead, the results show 3/4 of Palestinians believe the attack refocused global attention on the conflict. At the same time, there was an increase in the percentage of Palestinians in Gaza who think Hamas will win the war and stay in power.

The UN, UNWRA, WHO, numerous NGOs, senior British and American politicians and all the British mainstream news networks, including their flagship programmes, have all been consistently misleading people about the number of deaths in Gaza. But in the last month a series of articles in various publications have started to question this consensus. It is not clear why it has taken so long for this fightback, but what is clear is that the tide is turning.

One of the first major articles questioning the anti-Israel consensus was by Abrahm Wyner, an American mathematical statistician, and Professor of Statistics and Data Science at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Published in the American magazine Tablet on 7 March, his piece was called, “How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers”.

As Professor Wyner points out, “The main source for the data [about civilian deaths in Gaza] has been the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry, which now claims more than 30,000 dead, the majority of which it says are children and women.” He begins by showing how influential the data from the Palestinian Health Authority has been. He quotes leading American politicians who have unquestioningly used these figures: “Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the number was ‘over 25,000’…” Wyner writes. “President Biden himself had earlier cited this figure, asserting that ‘too many, too many of the over 27,000 Palestinians killed in this conflict have been innocent civilians and children, including thousands of children.’ The White House also explained that the President ‘was referring to publicly available data about the total number of casualties.’”

But, Wyner argues, “Here’s the problem with this data: The numbers are not real. That much is obvious to anyone who understands how naturally occurring numbers work. The casualties are not overwhelmingly women and children, and the majority may be Hamas fighters.”

There are a number of things that are odd about the figures from the Palestinian Health Authority, he writes. First, the graph of total deaths has been increasing since October “with almost metronomical linearity.” There have been no irregularities or inconsistencies in the figures (see the graph below, taken from Wyner’s article):

Or, as Wyner puts it, “The graph reveals an extremely regular increase in casualties over the period. … This regularity is almost surely not real. One would expect quite a bit of variation day to day. In fact, the daily reported casualty count over this period averages 270, plus or minus about 15%. This is strikingly little variation. There should be days with twice the average or more and others with half or less.”

Secondly, Wyner writes, “we should see variation in the number of child casualties that tracks the variation in the number of women. This is because the daily variation in death counts is caused by the variation in the number of strikes on residential buildings and tunnels which should result in considerable variability in the totals but less variation in the percentage of deaths across groups. This is a basic statistical fact about chance variability.” “Consequently,” he continues, “on the days with many women casualties there should be large numbers of children casualties, and on the days when just a few women are reported to have been killed, just a few children should be reported.” In other words, “The daily number of children reported to have been killed is totally unrelated [my emphasis] to the number of women reported.”

“We seek to help alleviate the suffering of the civilians in Gaza that has resulted from the war that Hamas started on October 7, when it massacred and kidnapped Israelis.”

🔴Watch IDF Spokesperson RAdm. Daniel Hagari discuss the IDF’s ongoing efforts to increase aid going into… pic.twitter.com/ggJMwU5dVb

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 28, 2024

Despite these immediate military challenges, the Iranian challenge remains a central concern. Iran's pursuit of nuclear capabilities continues, but it looks like the Cabinet, underestimating the danger, prefers focusing instead on ending the first conflicts in Gaza and the North. Assuming Iran shares an interest in avoiding escalation.

The fourth challenge is mainly political, with President Biden's administration pushing for broader American-Saudi arrangement ahead of the November elections, either with or without Israel ( a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia).

Senior figures in Israel view normalization as critical despite the heavy concessions involved, including those related to Rafah, Saudi nuclear ambitions, and even the Palestinian issue, whose importance in Saudi Arabia has increased following the war.

Some Israeli leaders even persist with the mistaken belief that a defense pact with the US would be beneficial to Israel, despite the current conflict showing totally otherwise. The benefits of a defense pact can be obtained without the significant costs and limitations it might impose on Israel.

Israel must now focus on completing its mission in Gaza (Rafah, Philadelphi Corridor, and the return of hostages), pursue a temporary solution in the North to allow residents to return home safely, and ensure Iran doesn't use the conflict as a distraction to advance its nuclear program.

Normalization with Saudi Arabia is important and crucial but shouldn't come at the cost of significant concessions, particularly not those relating to Gaza, Saudi nuclear capabilities, or agreements or declarations toward a Palestinian state.

An Israeli soldier was lightly wounded in a rocket barrage fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon at the Galilee on Saturday night.

The soldier was brought to Ziv Medical Center in Safed in good condition after being wounded by shrapnel. He was treated overnight and released on Sunday morning.

Twenty-six rockets were fired at the Meron/Bar Yochai area of the northeastern Galilee, with no damage or other injuries reported. Israel’s aerial defense array intercepted some projectiles and others struck open areas.

Sirens sounded in Moshav Safsufa (also known as Kfar Hoshen), the Merom HaGalil region, Or HaGanuz, Meron and Bar Yochai. Air-raid sirens also sounded in northern Israel on Sunday morning.

The Iranian terrorist proxy in Lebanon, which has carried out near-daily attacks against northern Israeli communities since joining the war in support of Hamas on Oct. 8, said that the attack targeted Meron and nearby communities, and not the air traffic control base located there, which Hezbollah has previously targeted.

IAF fighter jets overnight struck Hezbollah terrorist targets in the area of Maroun El Ras in Southern Lebanon, according to the IDF, apparently in response to the attack. The strikes included several sites of terrorist infrastructure and a “military” compound, the military said, adding that Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure was hit in the Tayr Harfa area and a Hezbollah “military” structure was attacked in the Yarine area.

As the story of the mass graves continues to develop, media organizations have covered this story with varying levels of nuance and accuracy.

Predictably, Al Jazeera’s coverage was most in line with Hamas’s propaganda, uncritically parroting statements by the Civil Defense in Gaza as well as international leaders responding to the reports released by Hamas.

Only one paragraph is granted to the IDF’s denial that it had dug mass graves, and at no point is it stated as fact that these mass graves had been dug prior to the Israeli operation at Nasser Hospital.

In their reports, both Reuters and CNN provided fairly nuanced coverage, giving ample space to the IDF’s statements refuting the allegations against it and admitting that some of the charges put forward by the Palestinians could not be substantiated.

However, in its coverage of the mass graves, the Associated Press provided a far less objective report, only including the IDF’s rebuttal seven paragraphs in, ignoring the fact that the reports on the mass graves were being released by a Hamas-affiliated body, and using the term “could not be independently verified” for Israel’s allegations but not those put forward by the Civil Defense or international bodies.

Thus, despite the unsubstantiated and biased information being released by the Civil Defense, AP treated it as fact while calling into question Israel’s response to these baseless allegations.

In its report on the mass graves, The Times presented the allegations of bodies with bound hands as established fact by quoting UN officials, despite the fact that these officials were basing themselves on Hamas reports and there was no physical evidence to corroborate these claims.

We are committed to increasing the amount of humanitarian aid transferred daily into Gaza. The IDF is working closely with our partners at @Israel_MOD, @cogatonline and @CENTCOM, we are preparing to receive a temporary floating pier and to organize the space for receiving… pic.twitter.com/qt8aAWJXLI

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 27, 2024

The USNS Benavidez has also arrived. “US military vessels to include the USNS Benavidez have begun to construct the initial stages of the temporary pier and causeway at sea,” said Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder at a briefing Thursday. pic.twitter.com/8dqRL697nj

— Seth Frantzman (@sfrantzman) April 28, 2024

April 25: "The IDF, through the coordination of COGAT, has approved collaborative efforts for the new Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS) initiative led by the United States Central Command (CENTCOM). The initiative will create an enhanced ship to shore distribution system to…

— Seth Frantzman (@sfrantzman) April 28, 2024

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) warns the UK, other countries, against deploying troops in the Gaza Strip: "They will be dealt with as an occupying force and will become legitimate targets of the resistance."

— Khaled Abu Toameh (@KhaledAbuToameh) April 28, 2024

Remember that Gaza "Freedom Flotilla” that was going to sail to Israel on the 26th April?

It got cancelled as Guinea-Bissau🇬🇼 refused to let it use ships under their flag.

We looked at the organisers and participants and we found that they don’t seem to be motivated by…

— GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) April 28, 2024

Amanda Crawford, actor/director, BDS activist pic.twitter.com/OABJDRqilT

— GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) April 28, 2024

Sarah Wilkinson, "pro-Palestine" activist, and notorious Holocaust denier. pic.twitter.com/LQmwvR5tJq

— GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) April 28, 2024

Robert Martin, "peace activist." Hamas supporter. pic.twitter.com/IsCcd0nrHE

— GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) April 28, 2024

US President Joe Biden will give an election-year roast on Saturday night at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner against the backdrop of protests against his support for Israel's war against Hamas.

Demonstrators holding banners chanted about journalist deaths in Gaza outside the Washington Hilton, the site of the annual gathering.

Hundreds of protesters encouraged journalists to boycott the event and shouted down administration officials as they entered. Biden's reaction to the protests

Biden avoided the large protests at the front of the hotel by arriving through a back entrance, where he was greeted by smaller groups of protesters calling for a ceasefire.

At the century-old event, often referred to as Washington's "nerd prom," hundreds of journalists, politicians and celebrities rub elbows in a massive hotel banquet hall. It often features friendly jabs from the president in a closing speech that takes aim at reporters and other guests in the audience. This year it will be hosted by Saturday Night Live's Colin Jost.

Grassroots movement CODEPINK marched to the venue from a nearby park, arguing that "the United States media perpetuates anti-Palestinian narratives and ignores Israeli war crimes," it wrote on its website.

A growing movement against the war in Gaza has dogged Biden this year, including at a $250-per-ticket March fundraiser at New York's Radio City Music Hall, which was disrupted by protesters.

Part blood libel, part low-budget middle school theater production https://t.co/MsWGPsHJC6

— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) April 28, 2024

New details about Jim Biden’s foreign fundraising efforts are spilling out in a Kentucky bankruptcy court, where recent testimony indicates that President Joe Biden’s brother partnered with Qatari government officials in his quest to find money for U.S. health care ventures.

The sworn testimony by fund manager Michael Lewitt, a former business partner of Jim Biden’s, attests that two companies that facilitated the efforts were part-owned by “members of the Qatari government.”

One company named in the testimony partnered directly with Jim Biden in the multi-year fundraising efforts.

The second company provided financial backing for a series of loans that a hospital chain paid Jim Biden to arrange, according to documents and testimony Lewitt submitted in the course of the federal bankruptcy proceedings.

If substantiated, the alleged arrangements would constitute some of the closest known financial links between a relative of President Joe Biden and a foreign government.

The alleged arrangements stem from an effort by Jim Biden to raise money from Qatari sources for ventures in the U.S. beginning in the months after his older brother left the vice presidency. At the time, the tiny, gas-rich nation faced a financial blockade from its neighbors and was spending lavishly to shore up its political standing in the West.

So, this is going on right now. It’s nearly 11 pm. Pro-Hamas protestors have been screaming and cursing for 2 hours. Banging cowbells & blowing whistles.

When a neighbor who has small kids asked an officer to do something, the protesters screamed that she was a “f***ing bi***!” pic.twitter.com/mknLNyKRuX

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 27, 2024

No need for the Palestinian movement to hide their true intentions when the woke world celebrates their true intentions publicly.

Sadly much of what we see coming from Palestinian chants is of violence without any words of peace or co-existence as has been the strategy of this… pic.twitter.com/33nNwMPbN2

— Gabby Klein (@GabbyKlein1) April 28, 2024

Thank you, @HowidyHamza:

"If they truly want justice and freedom for Palestinians.... they should chant for Hamas to surrender and release the remaining hostages....

And they should chant for peace and coexistence instead of annihilating the people of Israel" pic.twitter.com/HA3Y281Bfh

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) April 28, 2024

The head of the Anti-Defamation League on Saturday called on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to apologize after she accused some Jewish students of being “pro-genocide” in a statement on antisemitism.

“It is patently false and a blood libel to suggest that ANY Jewish students are ‘pro-genocide,'” ADL CEO and National Director Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted, charging Omar with putting students’ lives at risk.

“It is gaslighting to impute that Jewish people are somehow at fault for being harassed and menaced with signs and slogans literally calling for their own extermination,” wrote Greenblatt.

“It is abhorrent that a sitting member of Congress would slander an entire group of young people in such a cold, calculated manner,” he said.

In an interview with a local Fox News television station following a visit to the unauthorized anti-Israel protest encampment at Colombia University in Manhattan on Friday, Omar had said, “It is really unfortunate that people don’t care about the fact that all Jewish kids should be kept safe.”

“We should not have to tolerate antisemitism or bigotry for all Jewish students whether they are pro-genocide or anti-genocide,” she said.

Watch this clip. It features @IlhanMN walking through @Columbia proclaiming that "Jewish students... should not have to tolerate antisemitism... whether they’re pro-genocide or anti-genocide."

It is patently false and a blood libel to suggest that ANY Jewish students are… pic.twitter.com/XbP5J4VspE

— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) April 28, 2024

Lol at Ilhan Omar being the only member of the Democratic caucus to recognise the Armenian Genocide. Turns out she took some funding from a guy related to Erdogan pic.twitter.com/utaADFt8mJ

— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🇨🇾 (@DrewPavlou) April 28, 2024

US presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein was arrested Saturday at a pro-Palestinian protest at Washington University (WashU) in St. Louis, Stein's X account said, sharing a video of her arrest.

Stein is shown at the protest being taken away by police. According to a report in The Telegraph, the demonstration was meant to protest the university's ties with Boeing, which has sold military equipment to Israel, and to call for the boycott of Israeli academia.

"We're going to stand here in line with the students who are standing up for democracy, standing up for human rights, standing up to end genocide," she said in a video shared prior to her arrest.

Also arrested were Stein's campaign manager, Jason Call, and deputy campaign manager, Kelly Merril-Cayer.

Stein's X account also claimed that she and others had attempted to de-escalate the situation with police before they began arresting protesters at the scene. Video footage showed what Stein's X account claims was police use of force against her and others.

Stein refused to leave from an illegal encampment at Washington University in St. Louis. pic.twitter.com/GVQgMesVYW

— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) April 28, 2024

The Campaign Against Antisemitism has received two assurances, one from the Metropolitan Police Service and the other from the organisers of the marches. The police say that these marches are policed in a way that is safe for Jews, while the organisers say that Jews would be warmly welcomed in their midst.

Given that these marches are always organised during Shabbat, there has been precious little proof of this, until the incident involving me on April 13.

As has become well-known, I was told by different police officers that since I was quite “openly Jewish” I must leave or face arrest. Marchers, meanwhile, saw that I was Jewish and shouted abuse at me.

When the police officers said that they were trying to protect me, they were probably being honest. And when they told me it was my Jewishness that was the problem, their honesty gave the lie to Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley’s claims that Jews are safe in central London.

In other words, Jews are in danger and need protection around these marches, and the threat is so bad and the police protection is so inadequate that Jews passing by have to be told to leave.

That is reinforced by the fact that two weeks on, the Met is still not investigating any of the abuse captured on film. It is further reinforced by the shambolic handling of the entire matter, which has seen the Met apologise and then apologise again for its apologies.

There are those who say that the incident was my fault, that I provoked it. Their supposed proof is my choice of route, that I had security with me and that the incident was filmed.

As to my choice of route, my critics say the police sergeant who called me “openly Jewish” wanted simply to escort me on my way. In truth, he was proposing to escort me right through a large confrontation happening further up the road between marchers and counter-protesters, which was also not the direction I wanted to go in. Instead, a police inspector offered to escort me across the road in the direction I was going, and I instantly accepted.

Secondly, I receive no shortage of threats from the far-right, far-left and Islamist extremists that Campaign Against Antisemitism takes action against. It does not take a genius to work out why I have security with me when out in public.

Finally, as for the filming, I did not have a film crew with me. But I was right next to a march and people were filming the march, including a news crew. When the police pulled me aside, people – including some of those who were walking with me – started filming on their phones. I imagine that happens often when police talk to people.

None of this changes what happened.

The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), a charity in the United Kingdom, announced on Friday that they were forced to cancel their Saturday Walk Together march after threats caused concerns for participant safety.

The march would have seen large numbers of observant Jews walk for hours on Shabbat to demonstrate against antisemitism and the repeated scenes of pro-Hamas rhetoric during the weekly pro-Palestinian marches.

CAA director and CEO Gideon Falter made headlines last week, when a Metropolitan Police officer threatened to arrest him for being “openly Jewish” near a pro-Palestinian march. The policeman claimed that Falter’s presence may antagonize the protesters.

The charity has repeatedly claimed that London had become a no-go zone for British Jewry and the above incident instigated new accusations that the police employ double standards.

Now, adding to the accusation that the Met employ double standards against Jews, CAA claimed that the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign was granted access to an area to protest which police had denied Jewish demonstrators months ago.

The camapin claims that police told them there was no way that Hyde Park could be accessed during the peaceful March Against Antisemitism, but the PSC would be allowed to demonstrate there tomorrow.

“Yet again, it seems that there is a double standard. For the hours that this march drags on, central London will be snarled up yet again. Police have told us that they intend to handle the march no differently from the passive way that they have become accustomed to over the course of more than six months,” CAA said in a release. “…We have become all too used to seeing antisemitic chants and placards at these marches, glorification of terrorism, and even violence, including attacks on police which have hospitalised officers. Our volunteers and members of the public have exposed, week after week, how widely extremist views are held among participants on these marches.”

London police on Saturday hid a Holocaust memorial from view and stood guard to protect the monument in the city’s Hyde Park from anti-Israel vandals.

Built in 1983 as the U.K.’s first public memorial to the Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide, the two granite boulders featuring English and Hebrew inscriptions were covered with a blue tarp by Metropolitan Police officers. They then guarded the site as thousands of demonstrators descended on central London for a march in support of Hamas.

Noemi Ebenstein, an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor, told the Daily Mail that the decision to cover the memorial was a disgrace.

“It is shameful. Seeing this, it feels like they are winning,” Ebenstein said. “Those who are Jew-haters, those who are Holocaust deniers, they are winning because we are afraid of them. I just wish the Western world would stand up to these people, instead of running away, covering up monuments and being apologetic.”

The British tabloid ran the story on its front page, writing that “the police are so frightened by the anti-Semitic crowd, that they even hide the memory of the Holocaust. A shameful insult to the six million people.”

Stephen Pollard, editor-in-chief of the Jewish Chronicle newspaper, demanded that the police take tougher action.

“What is the line that needs to be crossed for people to think it’s not OK for these hate marches to continue?” he asked. “It shows the depravity of so much of what’s happening in London at the moment that they think it’s important that they cover up a Holocaust memorial.”

British political and diplomatic leaders also weighed in on the incident, with the U.K.’s special envoy for post-Holocaust issues, Tory peer Rt. Hon. Lord Pickles, asking, “Have we become so cowed and fearful in this country that instead of expecting pro-Palestinian protesters to obey the law, we hide away the memorial to save it from vandalism?”

The Metropolitan Police called the Daily Mail headline “inaccurate.”

“The decision to cover the memorial was taken by park authorities, not the police,” the police statement read. “As the paper’s own article makes clear, it is a precaution Royal Parks have taken for a number of different events.”

https://t.co/nr60fhE3SM

— Kosher🎗🧡 (@KosherCockney) April 28, 2024

In yet another culturally insensitive move, the police commissioner responsible for enforcing Jewish no-go zones, attempted to repair the damage by trying to meet with the Jewish community on the Sabbath!

This is akin to arranging to meet Christians on Christmas Day. https://t.co/6YjBq8w819

— Israel Advocacy Movement (@israel_advocacy) April 28, 2024

An extremist at the Gaza rally in London stole a banner from a counter protester that displayed, “Hamas is terrorist.” Though pro-Palestine organizers sometimes deny supporting terrorism, they will become infuriated if criticisms are leveled at Hamas. pic.twitter.com/b81pfkOmba

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 27, 2024

The ‘anti war’ campaigner wearing a T-shirt demanding more war.
Make it make sense… https://t.co/ydYGWqOxLr

— Nicole Lampert (@nicolelampert) April 27, 2024

The Palestinian cause has become manufactured attention seeking narcissistic gaslighting. pic.twitter.com/gxFnD5Z37c

— Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) April 27, 2024

If you have heard the term "Livingstone Formulation" but don't quite understand what it means, now might be the time to set aside 20 minutes to read the original paper:https://t.co/bzesT4KQxOhttps://t.co/OK4vDdg3Hnpic.twitter.com/HiKFypZTH4

— David Hirsh (@DavidHirsh) April 28, 2024

This is Charlotte Kates a director & International Coordinator at Samidoun, a PFLP (terrorist) affiliated organisation.

Kates has been banned from Germany for celebrating October 7 massacre. https://t.co/6XQMogtsMD

— GnasherJew®גנאשר (@GnasherJew) April 28, 2024

Here, eyeing up the "common enemy" of Muslims, she hails Iran for "leading the axis of resistance". A shout out to Hezbollah follows.

The Houthis get special praise - "you are our pride" - for "castrating the Israelis from their economic strength". 2/4 pic.twitter.com/Of5VFTz0W7

— habibi (@habibi_uk) April 28, 2024

This is the kind of abuse she is talking about. The police just looked on.

Poor Ealing. 4/4 pic.twitter.com/ptQijK2RIZ

— habibi (@habibi_uk) April 28, 2024

Another lovely London scene yesterday.

Imagine not only behaving like this but being so proud of it that you post it on social media.

Her sign accuses Israel of committing a "Holocaust".

London has become a carnival of deranged haters. pic.twitter.com/KC3rdLaHj7

— habibi (@habibi_uk) April 28, 2024

Near riot in Melbourne with a man assaulted by anti-Israel supporters for no clear reason. He appears to be drunk and asked why they were protesting so they accused him of being a Zionist
Note presence of Burgertory CEO Hash Tayeh pic.twitter.com/OieDzi3TOH

— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🇨🇾 (@DrewPavlou) April 28, 2024

Anti-Israel protesters at the Fashion Institute of Technology don't seem to know what's going on

Ezra spoke with a group of pro-Hamas supporters who stormed into the lobby of the Fashion Institute of Technology and set up a camp similar to the one at Columbia. The group is… pic.twitter.com/GcfZHAxaNi

— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) April 28, 2024

Supporter of Montreal's anti-Israel encampment says he can't condemn Hamas or it's Oct 7th terror attack that killed 1100 Israelis and several hundred hostages.https://t.co/MK7PbgngsOpic.twitter.com/8fgW0y8c2F

— Alexandra Lavoie (@ThevoiceAlexa) April 28, 2024

‼️Thousands of Radical Islamists take to the streets of Hamburg, Germany demanding the establishment of an Islamic Caliphate.

The group is led by Joe Adade Boateng, also known as “Raheem Boateng,” from the radical group “Muslim Interaktiv.”#TheWestIsNext#StandWithIsraelpic.twitter.com/GkJUwzo2S0

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 27, 2024

Some of the signs say "pro-Palestine", "ceasefire now" and "end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza". But these benign statements hide a far more malignant agenda, the end of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, the end of America as the world's leading power and the end of democracy and the free market economy. Even if there were a unilateral ceasefire, accompanied by massive humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza, many of these protests would continue, because Gaza is merely an excuse for a much wider agenda: to destroy Israel and destroy America.

One never sees a sign calling for a two-state solution or for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. These are not the goals. What is demanded is the end of any Jewish presence in the Middle East. "Death to America," similarly, means the end of America's influence and Western values.

Many of the signs call for "revolution." These are not directed against Israel, but rather against America, American Jews and all other Western democracies.

As in the 1960s, many of these students are being groomed to be the terrorists of the future -- in the manner of Kathy Boudin and Bernardine Dohrn back then – and, in the United States, a fifth column, the aim of which is taking down America.

That these useful idiots are young does not make them less dangerous. Young students were instrumental in bringing to power tyrants such as Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Pol Pot and Mao.

Where are the armed guards escorting Jewish students to class, as there were escorting the threatened Black youths to integrated school in the 1960s in the South?

Universities are failing not only their Jewish students but all their students by refusing to educate them about what behavior is acceptable and what is not.

After Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, antagonism toward Jewish students on college campuses escalated. It worsened further after Iran, Hamas' state sponsor, fired ballistic missiles at Israel on April 13.

After hundreds of demonstrators set up encampments at universities, the White House issued a statement on Sunday condemning the violence and intimidation as "blatantly antisemitic, unconscionable, and dangerous." It's also illegal. Unauthorized protests violate school policy, while trespassing, blocking traffic, engaging in disorderly conduct, causing a disturbance and refusing police orders to disperse are all crimes.

In 1957, white mobs in Little Rock, Ark., in defiance of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision, were preventing black students from safely attending school. President Dwight Eisenhower decided to do something about it. "Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts," he said. Then Eisenhower sent in the 101st Airborne Division.

The particulars then and now may differ, but the same principle is at stake. The federal government was obligated to come to the aid of an ethnic minority group being threatened by mob violence. Jews in 2024 deserve no less protection than blacks in 1957.

What is happening at Columbia University is a disgrace. That it is happening in New York, home to more Jews than any other city in the world, and at a supposed institution of higher learning, makes it incomprehensible.

I understand the right to free speech, but much of what is going on at Columbia isn't speech at all. Threats, terror tactics and menacing conduct don't warrant protection.

Many of the protesters aren't pro-Palestinian. They are pro-Hamas and brazenly support a terrorist organization.

The protesters are entitled to their opinions. They aren't entitled to threaten, harass and menace. That isn't protected speech; it's criminal conduct.

Jews are at risk on campus and are told not to come to class. Meantime, supporters of jihad take over university property. Seriously?

Regardless of one's views on Gaza, reasonable people need to open their eyes and understand this isn't about the Middle East; it is about America and our democracy.

It is time for education about the history of Jews, antisemitism, Israel and the origins of the Palestinian conflict.

It is time for New Yorkers to support our Jewish brothers and sisters and to demand that Columbia and others reject antisemitism and discrimination against Jews.

Nearly a century ago, Columbia students staged mass protests against the university’s friendly relations with Nazi Germany.

Today, Columbia students are protesting in support of Hamas terrorists who mimic the Nazis.

How did this strange role reversal come about?

In December 1933, Columbia president Nicholas Murray Butler invited the Nazi German ambassador to the United States, Hans Luther, to speak on campus.

Students staged a huge protest rally against Luther.

Some years ago, I interviewed one of those protesters.

Nancy Wechsler — later a distinguished Manhattan attorney — told me: “Hitler had been in power for almost a year already — enough was known about his totalitarian and anti-Semitic policies that his representative should not have been welcomed on campus.”

It was at the anti-Luther demonstration that Nancy met her future husband, James Wechsler, editor of the student newspaper, the Columbia Daily Spector.

He would later serve as editor of the New York Post.

President Butler shrugged off the protests.

Ambassador Luther represented “the government of a friendly people” and therefore was “entitled to be received . . . with the greatest courtesy and respect,” he insisted.

Butler claimed the protests were themselves a form of “persecution.”

Columbia continued to pursue friendly relations with Nazi Germany, as Stephen Norwood recounted in his study, “The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower.”

The university participated in student exchanges with Nazi Germany — even after a Nazi official boasted his country’s students were being sent abroad to serve as “political soldiers of the Reich.”

The Nazi cheers of Sieg Heil didn’t start out in Munich, but in Massachusetts.

The Nazi chant was borrowed from Harvard football cheers and imported to Germany by Ernst “Putzy” Hanfstaengl, a Harvard man in good standing who befriended Hitler and helped build a more respectable brand for the National Socialists.

“Putzy” was one of a number of Ivy League elites who were enchanted by the Third Reich.

Socialism forcefully implemented by great men, whether it was FDR, Mussolini, Stalin or Hitler, was the great obsession of America elites of the era who were convinced that it was the only answer to the chaos of capitalism and the hurly burly of democracy and technology.

Columbia University, whose Hamas occupation fills the front pages of every newspaper in the country while driving Jewish students off campus, has changed little in some ways. A hundred years ago, Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler was laboring to keep Jewish students out while celebrating Mussolini’s fascism. Butler’s admiration for fascism was common among university presidents, leaders of society and even in the FDR administration.

Not just remastered football cheers, but eugenics, another obsession of Ivy League elites, made its way over to Germany where it was implemented in a far deadlier fashion, not only against Jews, but against German disabled and others deemed to be “life unworthy of life” in keeping with the ideology whose adherents included Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.

Peeling back the layers of the dominant ideologies that Ivy Leaguers hold today leads to National Socialist or Communist ideologies. The Ivy League elites who were environmentalists, socialists, globalists and population control advocates a century ago were strongly influenced by these totalitarian ideologies that called for tyranny and mass murder.

They weren’t liberals then and they’re not liberals now.

A U.N. official said on Thursday that “the rise in hate speech on all sides” of the ongoing pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas campus protests in the United States is “troubling.”

“One after the another, the Ivy League heads of colleges and universities, their heads are rolling, they’ve been chopped off,” said Irene Khan, who serves as the U.N. special rapporteur for freedom of expression and opinion.

“Legitimate speech must be protected,” Khan told a U.N. news agency, “but, unfortunately, there is a hysteria that is taking hold in the United States.”

The presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania resigned under pressure following a Dec. 5 congressional hearing on campus antisemitism during which they, along with the president of MIT, were unable to say whether calls for the genocide of Jews violated their institutions’ code of conduct.

This, said Khan, “Clearly polarizes even further the political climate on this issue between ‘them’ and ‘us.’”

It was unclear from the comments who “them” and “us” referred to.

Pro-Hamas and pro-Palestinian protests over the last several weeks have largely comprised unauthorized “encampments” that have taken over university grounds, restricting freedom of movement for those university communities and hampering the institutions’ ability to operate.

While there is ample evidence of blatant antisemitism being expressed at these protests, JNS could find no reported examples, of any Jewish or pro-Israel protesters expressing Islamophobic or genocidal calls either on or off campus.

A group of Christian nationalists at a counter-rally outside Columbia University on Thursday reportedly heckled those inside with chants of “Go back to Gaza.”

Khan claimed in her interview that in many of the protests, there is a “confusion” between what constitutes hate speech or incitement to violence and what is “basically a different view of the situation in Israel” and the Palestinian-controlled territories.

The “harassing and intimidating comments and actions” by some protesters violate the school’s open expression guidelines as well as state and federal law, Mr Jameson said.

The vandalism of a statue with antisemitic graffiti was “especially reprehensible and will be investigated as a hate crime,” he added. Student organisers insist that anti-Semitic comments do not reflect the view of their “movement”, which they say is “decentralised” and peaceful. Their main demand is that their institutions divest from companies that support Israel, and increase financial transparency to make investments easier to scrutinise.

“You can’t blame it on the pro-Palestine protesters,” said Jonathan Ben-Menachen, a spokesman for the Columbia protesters.

“I want to stress very strongly, there are people from so many different identity groups that are a part of this movement.

“I can’t control random anti-Semites rolling up to the Columbia grounds.”

However, there is rising concern in the Jewish community that the protests have also shifted the tone of public discourse on Israel enough that non-students can now sow hatred with impunity.

Sacha Roytman, CEO of the Combat Antisemitism Movement, a global advocacy group, said the student protests had “acted as a vanguard” for anti-Semitism in wider society.

“When non-students are allowed to join and Jewish students are blocked from attending classes, these encampments have created spaces where antisemitism is not only tolerated but actively encouraged,” he said.

“This welcoming atmosphere for anti-Semitic individuals, regardless of their student status, undermines the safety of Jewish students on campus.”

Both the US and UK governments have expressed concern about a rise in anti-Semitic incidents from both students and those encouraged by them.

Columbia sends out email to its alumni list linking to Board chair/president statement that the NYPD won't be called back to campus even as anti-Israel protesters continue to flout university rules.
Striking they want this message to get through as widely as possible. pic.twitter.com/hf0GkN1qgm

— KC Johnson (@kcjohnson9) April 27, 2024

My friend standing PEACEFULLY with an Israeli flag @GWtweets across the street from students advocating for the eradication of Israel is told that she must leave while the encampment and protests have continued for 4 days. So yeah: let’s talk about free speech and freedom of… pic.twitter.com/efyk1GxzNm

— Sabrina Soffer (@sabrinasoff) April 28, 2024

Watch: @virginiafoxx on @FoxNews@JonScottFNC blast @Columbia's response to the antisemitic protests.

"It is unacceptable that Jewish students feel unsafe." -Chair Virginia Foxx pic.twitter.com/3Xqu08SguC

— House Committee on Education & the Workforce (@EdWorkforceCmte) April 27, 2024

As @amjadt25 and I say: “Condemnations of the protests and expressions of solidarity with Jewish students are certainly welcome, and in fact necessary, but in the absence of urgent action, are hollow and meaningless.”

Read below for our action plan, summarized here: https://t.co/PmQ6v20u9gpic.twitter.com/Ziw7Zrfzb1

— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) April 28, 2024

Moqtada al-Sadr, a leader of a political movement in Iraq, is no stranger to protests. He has led many of them in Iraq over the last two decades. Now he is focused on US campus politics.

According to several reports the Iraqi leader, who is both a populist political figure and a religious leader, has called for the US to “halt to the crackdown on voices advocating for peace and freedom.” He said “the voice of American universities demanding an end to Zionist terrorism is our voice."

Sadr is only one of many people in the Middle East now focused on the protests sweeping US campuses. The fact that the protests are focused on the war in Gaza has led to an additional level of interest in the region. This is important because it gives many people a way to project their views of the region onto discussions of US politics.

Basically what that means is that they see the protests in the US and wonder if this means that in the future that US will be more pro-Palestinian. The fact that many of the protests are occurring on the campuses of academic institutions that are generally connected with producing the next generation of US leaders, especially diplomats for instance, means that countries in the region may see in the protests a broader shift in US policy in the future.

Regional calculations and miscalculations
This is important because this can lead to calculations and miscalculations in the region. When Hamas launched October 7 it likely did so after having watched the world’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and also after consultations with countries that host and back Hamas.

Hamas understood that the region and the world was changing. A new world order was emerging and the “rules” that applies in the past no longer apply.

That is why Hamas was able to massacre 1,000 people, more Jews since any massacre since the Holocaust, and today Hamas is backed by Russia, China, Qatar, Turkey, Iran and other countries. Hamas is received as if it is a state in meetings with Turkey’s leadership. Turkey is a NATO ally.

Hitler reacts to IDF moving ahead with Rafah preparations.

Brilliantly done @K_AminThaabet! pic.twitter.com/8cRsy5bN6L

— Yehuda Teitelbaum (@chalavyishmael) April 26, 2024

Dov has pandered to these anti-Zionist groups for years, & now they came for the program he runs.

He’s learned that no matter how much he disavows Israel, unless he is for Israel’s actual destruction, he will never be accepted by them. They just keep taking more lbs of flesh. https://t.co/GXNoaxhYp8

— Ari Ingel (@OGAride) April 28, 2024

After seeing everything on the news, I decided to go and see for myself what is happening at UCLA. I went in with the intention of having honest conversations to try and truly understand each others pain and suffering . However, no one would speak to me . The only thing they… pic.twitter.com/MuTlu2Ie5Z

— Montana Tucker (@montanatucker) April 28, 2024

Lani Dawn, a Jewish Native American woman, posted that she was attacked by anti-Israel protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on Thursday night after holding a sign reading, "Hamas supporters are not welcome on native land."

"Last night I was violently assaulted by @UCLA 'pro-Palestine' students," wrote Dawn on Instagram, posting a video showing the protesters attacking her and other pro-Israel protesters.

"I was quickly surrounded by a mob @UCLA students and EVEN @ucla faculty as a form of intimidation. Where I continued to maintain my peaceful presence & protest. The violence on American campuses is UNACCEPTABLE. The lack of police intervention is UNACCEPTABLE. NON-indigenous people TARGETING and ATTACKING an Indigenous woman while you claim to be supporting an 'indigenous liberation movement' is UNACCEPTABLE," wrote Dawn.

UCLA sits on land that once belonged to the Tongva tribe, according to UCLA's website. The Tongva tribe was almost entirely forcibly relocated by Spanish colonists in the 18th and 19th centuries. From 1846 to 1873, an estimated 80% of Native Americans in California were killed in acts of violence or due to extreme conditions. 'Don't get it twisted...You are on indigenous land!'

Dawn added that during the protest, she spoke with another Native American man, Sal Yazhi Lozano, who was demonstrating alongside pro-Palestinian protesters.

"Shortly after I was attacked, we noticed each other and reached across the human barrier of 'Free Palestine' protesters to introduce ourselves with respect and simply honor each other's presence, wrote Dawn. "Instantly, 'Free Palestine' protestors started telling us we were not allowed to speak to each other! They even told us we need to leave the premises if we weren't going to obey the rules."

"READ THAT AGAIN. Several non-indigenous 'Free Palestine' protestors told two NATIVE AMERICAN people that we were NOT ALLOWED on the premises of their ILLEGAL encampment if we aren't going to obey THEIR rules. And they call themselves an 'indigenous liberation movement'?" added Dawn.

Lozano spoke about the incident as well on Instagram, posting that "Two Indigenous people supporting two different cultures today set an example while everyone else dared to say we couldn't speak to each other nor shake hands because she was on the Jewish side and not on Palestinians side with us. That triggered us, and this indigenous woman spoke up and stood her ground on indigenous land. She was even beaten by Palestinian men."

Lani Dawn who is a Native American activist was attacked at @UCLA for holding a sign condemning Hamas and a shirt that says ‘Rape is no resistance’

The police has done nothing to stop it. pic.twitter.com/Tdiakb7LZH

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) April 26, 2024

Anti-Israel protesters at Harvard University raised Palestinian flags on campus Saturday in a spot typically reserved for the American flag.

Harvard protesters hoisted three Palestinian flags over the Harvard Yard encampment, where students have been sleeping in tents since Wednesday. The flags were raised on poles attached to University Hall–where Harvard usually flies the American flag or flags of the countries of visiting foreign dignitaries.

Approximately one hour after three keffiyeh-clad individuals raised the flags, the Ivy League university's staff removed them despite jeering from protesters who were chanting "Shame!" and "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." According to Harvard University spokesman Jonathan L. Swain, raising flags is "a violation of University policy and the individuals involved will be subjected to disciplinary action."

The American flag was not flying on Saturday because university procedures dictate that "the American flag is raised in front of University Hall each Monday through Friday at 7 a.m. and lowered at 4 p.m., for proper storage."

The move came just an hour after the school’s Dean of Students, Tom Dunne, sent out an email warning that those who continue to participate in the unauthorized encampment would face disciplinary action. However, Dunne gave no deadline for students to disperse.

"Let me be clear: Maintaining and participating in this extensive encampment of tents in Harvard Yard constitutes an ongoing violation of University rules by interfering with the normal activities and operations of our campus and disrupting the work of fellow students and other Harvard community members," said the email.

"Those participating in the ongoing encampment and associated activities will face disciplinary consequences as outlined in existing policies. Repeated or sustained violations will be subjected to increased sanctions."

Harvard Jews respectfully asked the administration for an Israeli flag to be flown after October 7 and the request was rejected. As context, Ukraine flag flew for months after the Russian invasion. https://t.co/0aFWNMsbB8

— Ira Stoll (@IraStoll) April 28, 2024

Five years ago, NYU’s president had to issue a statement in response to comments Thrasher, then a doctoral student, made at the school’s convocation praising BDS and calling Israel an apartheid state. @MedillSchool would go on to hire him: https://t.co/5W4ERzWZVUhttps://t.co/ZCXgDtkrxEpic.twitter.com/MIbz6due8L

— Melissa Weiss (@melissaeweiss) April 28, 2024

- Attacks Israel
- Attacks America
- Attacks police
- Tells his journalism students “our work is not about objectivity” https://t.co/sMmvEp37t1

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) April 28, 2024

We ate watermelon on Shabbat and I thought to myself how nice it is to be around people who are not terminally online. https://t.co/omT5dn5gVh

— Lahav Harkov 🎗️ (@LahavHarkov) April 28, 2024

Writing right-to-left is a Zionist narrative. Real diasporist Jews write in a decolonial left-to-right to emphasize that their Judaism has nothing to do with the Zionist entity’s language. Liberate the Hebrew language from the oppression of Zionormativity! https://t.co/pWe1bJ85eq

— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) April 28, 2024

Holy sh** they spelled phosphorous in English wrong too 😂 https://t.co/HiuQUQ7bW9

— Kassy Akiva (@KassyDillon) April 28, 2024

This is a Harvard employee making a website dedicated to harass a Jewish student who is currently suing the school for antisemitism.

I’ve asked @Harvard to comment on this man for months with no response. https://t.co/9yDNW85d55

— Kassy Akiva (@KassyDillon) April 28, 2024

UPENN Professor exposed for reposting a tweet praising Hamas on October 7th for the mass slaughter of Israeli civilians.

Professor Huda Fakhreddine, an Associate Professor of Arabic Liferature shared a tweet saying that the ‘resistance’ was ‘legal.’

H/T @EYakobypic.twitter.com/xGXg7Icnnp

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 28, 2024

⁉️"The students are the teachers and they are the conscience of the country, they're the moral compass."

Professor Barbara Wein, from the Department of Peace, Human Rights, and Intercultural Relations at @Americanunivers has been joining student protests everyday to show her… pic.twitter.com/SxA9UvVELw

— Etana Hecht 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 (@etanadeeIL) April 28, 2024

This Columbia student also explains she’s protesting because of her Instagram feed on Oct. 8 and “based on what I know about the way people regard the lives of black and brown people.” pic.twitter.com/NS0htUfMPQ

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) April 28, 2024

1) This is meaningless. They have 0 enforcement. The pro-terrorism professor they banned has been on campus almost every day (including this morning). So have countless others who aren’t supposed to be there.

2) They keep issuing statement about how certain behavior is… https://t.co/9XjOzxAe8T

— AG (@AGHamilton29) April 28, 2024

This person is now officially being investigated by the police. Updates soon.

— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) April 28, 2024

The sign reads: “Allahu Akbar, Death to America, Death to Israel, Cursed be the Jews, Victory to Islam.”

If that’s what you mean by “Justice,” then no, you can’t have it. pic.twitter.com/Wl6vBewE7F

— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) April 28, 2024

They wear masks, sign letters anonymously, chase away cameras, and beg for amnesty so no one ever knows they did it. https://t.co/h81yI1MfTGpic.twitter.com/1MX4nNEIRI

— Noam Blum (@neontaster) April 28, 2024

Some reports about pro-Palestinian students at Cal Poly Humboldt are understating the damage.

They TRASHED the university. It'll cost serious money to restore these buildings. Campus is closed until the fall.

Can the idiots supporting this explain why the university and its… pic.twitter.com/SQtm7Yo3ot

— Sia Kordestani (@SiaKordestani) April 28, 2024

Catering Service Area at the @Columbia encampments.

Free catered food, free air mattresses, free board games, free hygiene products and free…Matzah. 🧐🤨

Who is paying for all this?

(screenshots in 🧵below)#AntizionismIsAntisemitism

🎥 @jessicaschwalb7pic.twitter.com/OoeBnx06mQ

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 28, 2024

Free $90 anti-capitalism Board Games, because “Death to America”… pic.twitter.com/mIF9h0AeLj

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 28, 2024

Free Matzah because they only want to murder “Zionists” not the 95% of Jews who support Zionism…🙄🤨 pic.twitter.com/ZhsKHAYvHs

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 28, 2024

How many $500 North Face Tents do you see at the Columbia Encampment? 🧐

Still think this is a grassroots movement?

Think again. #AmericaUnderAttack

📸 @jessicaschwalb7pic.twitter.com/r6Cx4yWj4n

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 27, 2024

one of our comrades have a severe allergy to being murdered by terrorists. so ant!sem!tes decided to cheer for Hamas and Hezbollah. this person can go into shock.

This should be an automatic arrest for attempted murder & I’m not fucking kidding

Also, defund the police. https://t.co/xlKgASBwGPpic.twitter.com/47E1wePwUC

— Lahav Harkov 🎗️ (@LahavHarkov) April 28, 2024

Unfortunately for these guys, they didn't take @JohnCleese's self defense class! pic.twitter.com/1CVc2GJ54s

— The Mossad: Satirical, Yet Awesome (@TheMossadIL) April 28, 2024

Arizona State — Far-left extremists are furious that students helped dismantle and throw away their encampment and trash. The woman recording is particularly furious the students doing it are white, like she is. pic.twitter.com/Oe2D7X3hfS

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 27, 2024

The front lines of the communist soy creatures at Washington University has completely collapsed 😂 pic.twitter.com/eTLisRKWmu

— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) April 28, 2024

Protesters encircled police at the @UofIllinois. These extremists will keep escalating, and soon enough, will start targeting officers with actual weapons. Something needs to be done before it's too late pic.twitter.com/X0kT6LSkIq

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) April 28, 2024

#NOW Reports of mass arrests at IU Bloomington Gaza Solidarity Encampment during RAID by Policepic.twitter.com/TOdKweX70g

— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) April 27, 2024

Scene: UCLA

Time: 04:30

Hero: ⁦@TheFlagGuy_⁩ pic.twitter.com/0PaQKjK22h

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) April 27, 2024

I had too much fun making this. pic.twitter.com/DLBOjo9JAe

— Yehuda Teitelbaum (@chalavyishmael) April 26, 2024

WATCH

It’s honestly difficult to differentiate between satire and reality these days.@Eretz_Nehederet called this Columbia Hxmas uprising five months ago. pic.twitter.com/4nrcKyuGOm

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) April 25, 2024

In an April 19 broadcast of All in a Day, a CBC radio show based in Ottawa, host Alan Neal spoke with Rehab Nazzal, a Palestinian-Canadian photographer who has been accused of glorifying Palestinian terrorism with her work.

The 13 minute-long segment entitled: “Driving in Palestine: A decade-long trip across the occupied West Bank,” featured a discussion between Neal and Nazzal about the latter’s photography exhibit being held at SAW, an art gallery in Ottawa which receives municipal, provincial and federal funding.

During the interview, Neal sounded more like a wide-eyed fan, asking fawning questions of his guest, not once pushing back against her absurd allegations.

The conversation centred around one of Nazzal’s exhibits featuring photographs of Israeli checkpoints in Judea & Samaria (described as the “West Bank” by the media), with Nazzal referring to them as a “settler colonial project” that has little military aim, saying “it is not really surveillance,” but primarily about intimidation of Palestinians.

At no time did Neal ever challenge his guest about the security needs surrounding Israel’s checkpoints, namely to prevent violent Palestinian terrorists from entering Israel, despite Nazzal on two occasions referring to more security measures being implemented “since October,” with no mention of Hamas’ October 7 massacres which precipitated the need for additional safety measures.

During the segment, Nazzal falsely referred to “roads for Jewish-only colonists in the West Bank,” a demonstrable lie which ignores that Israeli roads are accessible to all Israelis, Jews and Arabs alike, regardless of religion.

Rather than providing any factual context for listeners about Israel’s security precautions in Judea & Samaria to prevent Palestinian terrorism, not once did Neal utter the words “terrorism,” “Hamas,” or any related term, instead giving undeserved credibility to his guest, including Neal referring to a “particularly horrific checkpoint.”

Nazzal is not a newcomer to disseminating anti-Israel propaganda.

In 2014, she became the source of controversy when an exhibit of hers was held at Ottawa’s city hall, which featured photographic portraits of so-called “assassinated Palestinian figures…lost artists, writers and leaders,” but which also included portraits of “members of armed Palestinian groups implicated in deadly atrocities against civilians,” according to a Macleans article at the time.

Among the portraits in Nazzal’s exhibit was Dalal Mughrabi, who participated in the 1978 Coastal Road massacre in Israel, where Palestinian terrorists murdered 38 Israeli civilians, including 10 children, making it the deadliest mass killing in Israel until October 7, 2023.

In his latest report from the Middle East published on April 21 in The Globe and Mail entitled: “In northern Gaza, Palestinians say hunger spares no one as cost of basics soars,” International Correspondent Nathan Vanderklippe, reported on the alleged “famine” in the northern Gaza Strip, while failing to acknowledge key and essential details of central importance to the story.

Vanderklippe depicted a catastrophic image of food shortages in Gaza, writing that “nine in 10 of the world’s hungriest people – those categorized as being in a catastrophic situation – are in Gaza.”

This statement is patently false. There are more food trucks entering Gaza on a daily basis today than were entering the territory before October 7, when Hamas launched its massacres against Israel, and news media outlets were not gullibly repeating claims of famine there.

As a result of the huge influx of aid entering Gaza, images from many parts of the area show markets full of fruits, vegetables and other items. In one remarkable video, a vendor attempted to sell a can of food for 1 shekel (40 cents CAD), with passersby clearly disinterested, belying depictions of a “famine.”

In another video, filmed April 16 in the southern Gaza region of Rafah, an angry vendor smacked a video camera away when it is shown documenting the overflowing stalls at an open-air market.

Despite depicting Gaza as representing the overwhelming majority of starving people in the world, a recent report by Clingendael, a Dutch think tank, pointed out that the Sub-Saharan country of Sudan was facing, “according to the most likely scenario,” a famine so widespread that “seven million people will face catastrophic levels of hunger by June 2024,” making it “the world’s largest hunger crisis in decades.”

For perspective, that subset of Sudan represents more than three times the entire population of the Gaza Strip, meaning that the reference of 90 percent of famine-facing people being in Gaza is simply fanciful and utterly without merit.

Additionally, studies purporting to project an impending famine in Gaza have simultaneously acknowledged that “there is no data available on nutrition” to come to a conclusion, yet have created their apocalyptic forecasting anyway.

On April 18, Anusha Siddiqui penned an opinion column for The Humber News, a student-produced newspaper at Humber College entitled: “Project Nimbus poses ethical questions,” ostensibly outlining the saga of the 28 Google employees who were fired in mid-April for cause, after staging a sit-in in the company’s offices, and, according to Google, “[taking] over office spaces, [defacing] our property, and physically [impeding] the work of other Googlers.”

Siddiqui argued that the project these employees were protesting – that is, “Project Nimbus” – raises “ethical questions.” She cited a 2021 anonymous letter published by The Guardian newspaper, in which supposed Google and Amazon employees expressed concern that their companies have offered artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-based computing services to the Israeli government, and the Israeli military, for defence purposes. Siddiqui argued that this could “subject Palestinians to increased surveillance and illegal data collection” and that we must ask “where we draw a line between state security measures and the potential for human rights abuse.”

Of course, Siddiqui didn’t explain how she imagines this contract would actually lead to Palestinians being unduly targeted. Nor did she (or, ostensibly, these 28 Google employees, along with whomever penned the 2021 letter) seem to have any trouble with the fact that the contract signed by Israel is substantially similar to one signed by the US State Department, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and numerous state and local police departments. Do they all believe that the US government is incapable of using AI and cloud services for unethical or questionable purposes, or that they are incapable of privacy or other abuses? Or is their ire focused exclusively on Israel?

Google also does business with the Government of El Salvador, one of the world’s worst governmental human rights abusers. There’s no need to imagine what they might use AI surveillance software for. Since March 2022, 78,000 people have been detained by the government there, and at least 235 have died in state custody. One wonders why these human rights defenders are not staging sit-ins in response to that contract?

Siddiqui went on to say that the “threat of potential misuse of the technology to further Israel’s expansionist agenda into Palestine” must be considered. That might be true if such an ‘agenda’ were to exist. Assuming that Siddiqui must mean Gaza, since ‘Palestine’ isn’t a recognized territory, it is worth noting that Israel pulled every single one of its citizens out of Gaza in 2005, taking with them every Jewish man, woman and child, in an effort to instill a lasting peace. It’s difficult to imagine a less ‘expansionist’ maneuver than that.

The same week @sherylsandberg released a documentary detailing evidence+testimonies of Hamas’s sexual abuse, SkyNews ignores it completely & instead frame convicted criminals as human rights activists, unjustly abused in Israeli prisons.@SkyNews how stupid do you think we are? pic.twitter.com/YgvIgoVKwx

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) April 28, 2024

That's the "journalist" @mehdirhasan chose to quote https://t.co/EbM2KHidN4pic.twitter.com/2czREexBBv

— Adin - עדין (@AdinHaykin1) April 27, 2024

🟥🟥INCITEMENT & ANTISEMITISM on AMAZONhttps://t.co/ohe8G8CZDl
"Free Palestine Arabic Jerusalem" on @JeffBezos's AMAZON UK is selling merchandise promoting the red downward triangle symbol used by UK proscribed terrorist organization Hamas al-Qassam brigades to target & murder… pic.twitter.com/h3hjYIqBWC

— Shaun Murray (@BestWebEnglish) April 27, 2024

A newly-released Netflix documentary series on the Biblical story of Moses has given a platform to an Egyptian scholar who referred to the Biblical Promised Land as “Palestine” and expressed happiness during Hamas’ October 7 massacre in southern Israel, HonestReporting revealed this week.

Testament: The Story of Moses is currently riding high in the Netflix Top 10 in numerous countries, including Israel and others in the Middle East.

But the exposure of one of its interviewees — Dr. Monica Hanna from Egypt’s College of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage — casts a shadow over an otherwise enjoyable and informative documentary drama released just in time for Passover.

In the show, which depicts the saga of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt, Hanna shoehorns “Palestine” into the narrative, although it did not exist at the time.

Referring to the Pharaoh at the time, Hanna says that “when he comes to power, he leads several campaigns to the area of Syria Palestine. He conquers areas even as far as Beirut in Lebanon.”

In fact, the Biblical term for the Promised Land during this period was “Canaan,” as mentioned by the series’ narrator himself.

Palestine, or officially “Provincia Syria Palaestina,” was a name invented by the Romans in 135 CE as a replacement for “Judea,” in an effort to eliminate all expressions of Jewry in the region following the defeat of Bar Kohba in the Jewish rebellion against the Roman Empire.

The period of the Pharaoh in the Exodus story is believed to have been some 1,300 years before that. Put simply, the term “Palestine” did not exist at that time.

As David Levine writes: “The not-so-subtle use of the words ‘Syria’ and ‘Palestine’ is misleading and historically incorrect. She seems to be implying that ‘Palestine,’ and therefore, ‘Palestinians’ date back to at least this ancient period. As an Egyptologist and expert in cultural heritage, she should know better.”

Istanbul’s Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a rival of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, calls Hamas a terror group and says Turkey is “deeply saddened” by the October 7 massacre, in an interview with CNN.

“Any organized structure that carries out terrorist acts and kills people en masse is considered a terrorist organization by us,” he says.

Imamoglu adds that similar crimes are happening to Palestinians and calls on Israel to end its war against Hamas.

Imamoglu’s victory in the March municipal election marked the worst defeat for Erdogan and his AK Party (AKP) in their more than two decades in power, and could signal a change in the country’s divided political landscape.

The Turkish government under Erdogan openly supports Hamas, denounces Israel for its offensive in the Gaza Strip and has called for an immediate ceasefire.

Last year, the Turkish leader likened the tactics of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to those of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and called Israel a “terrorist state” because of its offensive against Hamas in Gaza.

Sec.-Gen. of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit: The Jews Have No Conscience Left – It Was Burned in the Holocaust; Israel Does Not Have the Right to Self-Defense Just Like the Nazis Did Not Have It in WWII #Egypt#Antisemitism@arableague_gs@lassecgenpic.twitter.com/7o5g2aSvZT

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) April 28, 2024

Hamas’s Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades Spokesman Abu Ubaida: We Salute the Heroes in the West Bank and the Jordanian Masses and Call Upon Them to Escalate Their Activity and Resistance #Hamas#Jordanpic.twitter.com/RLGXz1ttQy

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) April 28, 2024

Spoiler:
He was not arrested for "human rights activism"
He was arrested for organizing riots in which Israeli civilians were wounded https://t.co/plQeweT7Bypic.twitter.com/iaXvYResFJ

— Adin - עדין (@AdinHaykin1) April 28, 2024

A private Egyptian company, alleged to have strong links in the past to the state, has made a lucrative business out of ushering several hundred Gazans across the border into Egypt each day.

Hala Consulting and Tourism charges adults upwards of $5,000 to flee, with those under 16 paying $2,500.

Analysis by the Sunday Times of the daily lists to enter Egypt suggests that the company may have made at least $88 million since the beginning of March from evacuating more than 20,000 people.

At the start of April, the number of names on these lists increased from 295 to 475 daily, boosting the average daily revenue from a minimum of $1.25 million to $2 million.

A Gazan journalist in North Gaza Strip collects money from foreign donors in order to buy free food aid to distribute to the needy.
Why is the free food aid not being distributed for free?#TheGazaYouDontSeehttps://t.co/hOluXCe7mkpic.twitter.com/uuEbJpDunS

— Imshin (@imshin) April 28, 2024

El-Omda Restaurant, Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip - not just shawarma! You can order whole grilled chickens as well!
Wartime food in Gaza. #TheGazaYouDontSeehttps://t.co/r69AgcaUjShttps://t.co/bCAkuqDvoJpic.twitter.com/1bOX6bZ9LY

— Imshin (@imshin) April 28, 2024

The famous Palmera Restaurant in Gaza City, North Gaza Strip, has reopened in wartime in a more modest form - selling shawarma wraps in the street.
How the mighty have fallen.#TheGazaYouDontSeehttps://t.co/EUhBaGR0ojhttps://t.co/hB0VDddeK8pic.twitter.com/soPJm5hsD1

— Imshin (@imshin) April 28, 2024

By backing, arming and training Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, Iran launched a proxy war against Israel, leveraging the conflict in part to divert attention from its nuclear ambitions.

The calculated move not only serves Iran's immediate interests in destabilizing its adversaries – the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain and most of all the United States, which it would like to see out of the region, so Iran could presumably have the Middle East all to itself. The diversion of the Gaza war also aligns with its goal of eradicating Israel.

These barbaric perversions [by Hamas on October 7, 2023] underscore Iran's leaders' comfort, if not pleasure, in employing any means at hand to achieve their objectives. They most likely do not look at their devastation abroad as triggering instability, but, on the contrary, as a means to attaining its hegemony, after which there will be peace -- for themselves, at least.

From Iran's perspective, acquiring nuclear weapons is the easiest way to significantly complete its takeover of the region and "export the revolution": "We shall export the revolution to the whole world. Until they cry, 'there is no god but God [Allah]' resounds over the whole world, there will be struggle."

Unfortunately, the plan poses an existential threat not just to regional stability, but to global security. Iran has been moving into Latin America, possibly to target the "Great Satan," the United States.

Udi Levy, former head of the Mossad's financial division, spent decades researching the money flows that allow the survival of terrorist groups and regimes with animosity toward Israel - chiefly Hamas, Hizbullah and Iran. He said in an interview that Israel should harness the coalition that came together to repel the recent direct attack on Israel by Tehran in order to halt the global money flows that constitute the lifeline of the Islamic Republic and that allow it to bypass U.S. and international sanctions.

"These are exactly the players that we need if we want to achieve a strategic result against Iran - not just to punish it, but to change the situation in the Middle East by applying economic warfare." They should actively cooperate "to dismantle the network that Iran has built to finance terror around the Middle East....The Iranians built an unbelievable infrastructure to circumvent sanctions and be able to move money around the world to continue to finance all the terrorist infrastructure in all the Middle East - and their nuclear project."

Sanctions against Iran have largely been ineffective because they remained on the declarative level but were often not implemented, he said. "Wikiran has revealed the whole infrastructure - how [Iranians] are moving the money from the central bank to the money changers in Iran, and from there to cover companies in China, Hong Kong and elsewhere. They open bank accounts in China and then move the money from there, especially to the Emirates."

"We have the bank account numbers, the names of the companies, the names of the people, we have everything. And this is all happening with the full cooperation of the banking system in Western countries, even in the United States. Money has been transferred and used freely, without any disturbance."

"Now, we have the opportunity to do something together. Israel's partners need to freeze the assets, confiscate them, and close the companies....The Iranians have no alternative infrastructure. It would take them years to rebuild it. It would be a disaster for them."

UPDATE: Jazmin Asbun has been terminated by@JohnHartRE after her horrid antisemitic commentary was exposed. https://t.co/dbtSPERN1V

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) April 28, 2024

Well known Christian speaker at speakers corner exposed a Hamas supporter @CConcern@Campaign4Tpic.twitter.com/BBJ8dUtEPO

— Eye On Antisemitism (@AntisemitismEye) April 28, 2024

The America my dad grew up in
Now he’s being told he’s a privileged white European 🤷🏻‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/fdCB6FRXfG

— Av Michal (@avygal) April 28, 2024

Unchecked antisemitism at U.S. universities mandates a response. #Palantir launched an initiative on December 7 for students who feared for their safety or were concerned about antisemitism on campus, welcoming them to join Palantir as University Fellows across the company.… pic.twitter.com/AeyoiSOI5c

— Palantir (@PalantirTech) April 28, 2024

Jerry Seinfeld recalls his visit to Israel, discussing how he feels close to the struggle of being Jewish, and reflects on experiencing a missile attack in Tel Aviv.

NOVA PARTY SURVIVOR WINS GOLD IN PARIS
Israeli Yarin Shriki won the gold medal at the prestigious JuJisu Grand Prix in Paris.
Yaron survived the Hamas Massacre at the Nova music festival on October 7.
His best friend, Yochai Ben Zechariah,
Continued… pic.twitter.com/f1MajYqvSJ

— Dov Lipman (@DovLipman) April 28, 2024

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken is barnstorming the Middle East to develop plans for a ceasefire and for postwar reconstruction in Gaza. American national interests demand that the U.S. resist Iran's drive to disrupt what is left of the post-Cold War order in the Middle East. Failure to stabilize the region could lead in the short term to inflationary gasoline price spikes, and in the longer term could seriously weaken Washington's position in the contest with the revisionist powers seeking to overturn the American order worldwide.

Many of Hamas' most passionate campus supporters believe that the organization wants to establish a secular Palestinian state. They also believe that Israeli Jews are European immigrants displacing an indigenous population - white settlers who should go home to Poland. They think that Israel survives only because America supports it and that an American president who "gets serious" with Israel can make it do almost anything he wants.

They see Hamas as part of a global coalition of "progressive" movements advancing causes such as climate change, democracy and LGBTQ rights against global capitalism. But the wisest heads in the world all working together couldn't craft a feasible diplomatic strategy based on such an incoherent and unrealistic view of the world.

Now that the soil of both Iran and Israel is no longer sacred and immune from attack, the mystique of the Iranian nuclear threat has dissipated.

It should be harder for the theocracy to shake down Western governments for hostage bribes, sanctions relief and Iran-deal giveaways on the implied threat of Iran successfully nuking the Jewish state.

The new reality is that Iran has goaded an Israel that has numerous nuclear weapons and dozens of nuclear-tipped missiles in hardened silos and on submarines.

Tehran has zero ability to stop any of these missiles or sophisticated fifth-generation Israeli aircraft armed with nuclear bombs and missiles.

Iran must now fear that if it launched two or three nuclear missiles, there would be overwhelming odds that they would either fail at launch, go awry in the air, implode inside Iran, be taken down over Arab territory by Israel’s allies or be knocked down by the tripartite Israel anti-missile defense system.

Add it all up, and the Iranian attack on Israel seems a historic blunder.

It showed the world the impotence of an Iranian aerial assault at the very time it threatens to go nuclear.

It revealed that an incompetent Iran may be as much a threat to itself as to its enemies.

It opened up a new chapter in which its own soil, thanks to its attack on Israel, is no longer off limits to any Western power.

Its failure to stop a much smaller Israel response, coupled with the overwhelming success of Israel and its allies in stopping a much larger Iranian attack, reminds the Iranian autocracy that its shrill rhetoric is designed to mask its impotence and to hide its own vulnerabilities from its enemies.

And the long-suffering Iranian people?

The truth will come out that its own theocracy hit the Israeli homeland with negligible results and earned a successful, though merely demonstrative, Israeli response in return.

As I write, students in universities across the U.S. are occupying their campuses in protest at what they consider to be Israel’s genocide against the Gazan people. Unlike the Met Police who freeze at the prospect of arresting pro-Palestine demonstrators guilty of breaching the peace, the American police have no such hang ups and are arresting protestors in large numbers for their illegal encampments. So far, around 120 students have been arrested at Columbia University alone.

What makes these illegal occupations particularly contemptible is the antisemitism of some of those taking part. Jewish students and university staff have been harassed with taunts of “Go back to Poland” and “October 7th is about to be every day for you”.

These barbs are not only revolting, they also display the monumental moral stupidity of those conducting this harassment. How can a person demonstrate against what they think is a genocide in Gaza whilst calling for the genocide of Jews? But what did we expect – irrationality is integral to extremism.

But there is also the empirical question of whether Israel’s actions in Gaza actually are a genocide. It is time to listen to an expert rather than students who mentally and emotionally are still in nappies. Enter John Spencer, the Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute (MWI) at West Point and a former infantry soldier of 25 years’ service.

In an article for Newsweek, Spencer, who studies and advises the American military on the kind of warfare in which Israel is currently engaged, namely urban warfare, argues that no other nation in history has shown as much concern to protect civilians as the Israeli Defence Force has done in Gaza. If the IDF were carrying out a genocide, civilians would be targeted too, but they are not. Yet still the international community does not acknowledge Israel’s concern for non-combatants and continues to scold it for failing to protect them. So exemplary has the IDF been in minimising civilian casualties, it is Spencer’s opinion that the U.S. ought to learn the IDF’s methods.

What is more remarkable according to Spencer is that Israel’s concern for Gazan civilians defies military orthodoxy regarding offensives. According to the theory and praxis of manoeuvre warfare, the attacker must smash an enemy morally and physically with surprise, overwhelming force and speed, and destroy political and military centres. Warning civilians to evacuate is forbidden as enemy forces would learn of the coming attack.

Khan, who became the ICC Prosecutor in 2021, is undoubtedly keenly aware of the ICC’s deeply damaged reputation as a court owing more to international power politics than to the rule of law, and which was all but wrecked by his two incompetent and deeply partisan predecessors in the post.

While the current investigation into possible abuses in Gaza and the disputed “West Bank” territories of Judea and Samaria dates back to 2014 and has been marked by a number of malign moves against Israel, Khan will be acutely concerned to repair the ICC’s reputation as an impartial and fair court of law.

Among other considerations, that means abiding by court’s own fundamental rule of complementarity. As an informal expert paper published by the ICC put it:
The statute recognises that states have the first responsibility and right to prosecute international crimes. The ICC may only exercise jurisdiction where national legal systems fail to do so, including where they purport to act but in reality are unwilling or unable to genuinely carry out proceedings. under which it has to give a state time to investigate itself any claims that have been made against it.

In practice, this means that before the ICC can make any move against Israel, the Jewish state must be given the chance to investigate any charges laid against it. Since the war in Gaza is still under way, that is clearly not yet possible.

In addition, Khan has pledged to deliver impartial justice. In a statement he made at the end of October, when he spoke emotionally about his horror and repugnance at the crimes committed against innocent Israelis on October 7 and also about the suffering of the “innocent Palestinians” in Gaza, he said he would investigate possible crimes committed “on the territory of Palestine by any party”.

So if these reports of imminent arrest warrants against the Israelis are fundamentally untrue, what is the explanation for them? It’s possible that other agendas are in play, aiming to whip up a storm to service self-serving or partisan interests of one kind or another.

In relation to that, Caspit’s story contains one further intriguing nugget. Having reported that Khan’s teams have been working to collect evidence about the kidnap into Gaza of the Israeli hostages, Caspit writes:
However, in the meantime, a second ICC team has been operating as well, a separate team that decided that a balance had to be maintained and that the “other side”— in other words, Israel — also had to be dealt with.

Israel reportedly pressed the panic button having obtained “sensitive information” about the ICC’s deliberations. Might this have been obtained by listening in to the ICC “second team” investigators’ conversations? Might these “second team” investigators themselves have been malignly disposed towards Israel?

But whatever the investigators might be saying, the person who decides whether or not to act against Israel is no-one but Khan himself. Is it likely that such a man would act in such a way?

On the other hand, is it likely that the Israelis can be so ignorant of the way the ICC actually works?

Maybe these alarmist reports are indeed well-founded. Maybe Karim Khan is about to finally destroy what’s left of the ICC’s reputation. Maybe this really is the apotheosis of the current infernal global drive to destroy Israel through a lethal pincer movement of military entrapment and a legal sucker punch.

If so, it would mark a new and even more terrifying low in this crisis point for the Jewish people and for civilisation.

The International Criminal Court's (ICC) reported intention to issue warrants for the arrest of Israel's senior governmental and security personnel shows that the international judicial body has been simply hijacked, politicized, abused and, to all intents and purposes, ruined.

From the very establishment of the court, Arab and Palestinian leaders have eyed the ICC as a potential target for their struggle to undermine the legitimacy of Israel, in addition to the various UN bodies that they have already politicized and ruined.

Despite the clear and basic requirement that only sovereign states may be party to the 1998 Rome Treaty which defines the aims and purposes of the ICC, the UN Secretary General accepted the Palestinian request to be recognized as a "state party" to the ICC. Thus, a non-existing, terror-oriented state was granted full party status in the ICC, although its sole purpose was not to advance the cause of international justice but to undermine the legitimacy of Israel.

Accompanied by some accommodating and politically-oriented prosecutors, the Palestinians have succeeded in manipulating the ICC into possibly issuing arrest warrants against Israel's leadership, while the brutal Palestinian Hamas perpetrators of the largest and cruelest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust apparently go scot-free and enjoy apparent immunity.

People like myself who were heavily involved in negotiating, drafting and creating the ICC and who are intimately familiar with its original aims and purposes cannot but shudder in fear at the unbelievable abuse of that Statute and of the noble aims and intentions of its founding fathers.

The Israeli media is flush with reports of imminent International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants for Israel's political and military leaders. If President Biden and British Prime Minister Sunak don't act, they risk finding Americans and Britons next under the gun.

The Israeli high command has prosecuted a limited war in self-defense against a genocidal terrorist group. Israel has a civilian-to-combatant casualty ratio that compares favorably with other urban conflicts. Israel takes extraordinary measures to spare civilians, and it has disciplined and relieved officers for wrongdoing.

The ICC prosecutor is supposed to investigate before indicting a world leader, not the other way around. An indictment now would be highly irregular and revealing of bias or great-power pressure. The ICC is supposed to complement national legal systems, intervening only when they are unable to investigate. Is that really the issue with Israel's Supreme Court - famous for its judicial activism and antigovernment tilt?

There's a reason the U.S. isn't a party to the ICC and Congress has long authorized a President "to use all means necessary and appropriate" to resist ICC arrests of Americans and U.S. allies.

You have to hear this to believe this. pic.twitter.com/msPDwc3H7t

— Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) April 30, 2024

'What this would entail would be the most unprecedented and unconscionable misuse of the law, that would effectively upend the entire international legal framework'@Ostrov_A breaks down what it would mean if the @CIJ_ICJ issued arrest warrants for Israeli top officials pic.twitter.com/wtlJ6HdGzf

— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) April 30, 2024

“There is no question”, says @KenRoth, Chief Counsel for Hamas. https://t.co/1Z0j8RHC4B

— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) April 30, 2024

While protesters at Columbia University and Yale celebrate Hamas and its "resistance" (a euphemism for violence and terrorism), Arabs have been ridiculing the "pro-Palestinian" demonstrators on American college campuses.

For these Arabs, including some Palestinians, there is nothing "pro-Palestinian" about supporting Iran-backed Hamas.

While there were some relatively small protests at a few universities in Jordan and Egypt, they did not come close to the wave of antisemitism sweeping U.S. campuses.

Those who are chanting "we are all Hamas" are not helping the Palestinians of Gaza even slightly. They are being used by the terrorist group Hamas in its genocidal war against Israel and Jews.

These students and faculty members are actually saying that they approve of the atrocities committed by Hamas over the past three decades, including suicide bombings, stabbings, and firing of thousands of rockets and mortars into Israeli cities.

Loay Al-Shareef from the UAE wrote on social media: "Dear White Americans and Gen Zs who support or tolerate Hamas supporters on U.S. campuses, a gentle reminder from a credible Arab Muslim voice from the Middle East."

"You are supporting a terror group with the same Islamist/ Muslim Brotherhood pathological creed that brought down the twin towers in Manhattan in 2001."

"You would not survive a day in Gaza under Hamas, which demands that 'infidels' live with dignity only if they are subordinate to Islamists."

There are two flourishing industries in Gaza – terrorism and journalism. One is all about killing Jews, the goal of the other is to deceive the world about it. The Al-Dahdouh family provides a perfect example of how they exist in a symbiotic relationship.

Wael Al-Dahdouh is a face of the current conflict in Gaza. He is the head of Al Jazeera’s Gaza office. Western media have consistently presented him as an innocent and tragic hero – and have even defended his family against Israeli accusations. Our media has let us down again. The truth is that the Al-Dahdouh clan is Islamic Jihad royalty. Wael spent seven years in an Israeli jail. His cousins have led the Islamic Jihad military apparatus. His own brother was targeted by Israel. Another cousin carried out a terror attack in Tel Aviv. His family even took part inside Israel in the Oct 7 massacre. In all I found that over twenty of Wael’s clan have been buried with honours by Islamic Jihad.

It is worth remembering that Islamic Jihad is a more extreme terrorist group than Hamas.

Taking us all for fools
On October 25, the IDF struck a house at the Nuseirat camp that belonged to some members of the Al-Dahdouh clan. The journalist Wael Al Dahdouh lost his wife, a child, and several other family members in the attack.

Wael Al-Dahdouh is the head of the Al Jazeera office in Gaza. His tearful reporting following the incident went viral and he swiftly became one of the faces of the conflict. On December 15, Wael Al-Dahdouh was apparently injured in the incident in which Al Jazeera journalist Samer Abu Daqqa was killed. Then on January 7, another of his sons, Hamza Al-Dahdouh (also apparently an Al Jazeera ‘journalist’) died after Israel targeted the car in which he was travelling.

A few days later the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken got on his knees during a visit to Qatar to speak of the ‘unimaginable loss‘ that Al-Dahdouh had suffered.

Wael Al-Dahdouh now has 4.6 million followers on Instagram. If you have not seen his face – you have not been following news of the conflict.

Setting the scene
Wael’s own father ‘Haj Hamdan Al-Dahdouh’ died in 2012, but several of his uncles are still alive. Most people in the west do not understand Palestinian Arab society at all. Each clan has status, a leader, affiliations, and enemies. The Al-Dahdouh clan is large and powerful, and both Wael and his son Hamza married inside the clan. The head of the Al-Dahdouh clan is ‘Abu Shaaban Al-Dhadouh’.

We can see some of these connections from a FB post Wael’s son Hamza put out in August last year. While giving thanks to the safe return of one of those uncles, Hamza references others. We see names such as ‘Jaber’, ‘and ‘Ali’. He gives additional honour to the head of the clan – the ‘chosen’ – Abu Shaaban.

We know a family house was hit by Israel in October. And we know his own son was targeted by Israel in January.

Israel produced Islamic Jihad documentation showing he was an active member of the terrorist group.

But this is just part of the story. pic.twitter.com/xPYn6RIING

— David Collier (@mishtal) April 30, 2024

Wael Al-Dahdouh could not attend his cousin's funeral. Wael was in an Israeli jail, serving a 15 year sentence (was released after 7).

Wael was caught 'throwing Molotov cocktails at Israeli army patrols’. He apparently admitted he was part of an active Islamic Jihad cell.

— David Collier (@mishtal) April 30, 2024

Have you noticed that young women all across America are demonstrating for Hamas, Iran, and Palestine? Why would such privileged and educated women, the heirs to the #MeToo movement and to Second and Third Wave Western feminisms, cheer for male rapists and male killers, arguably the most blood-thirsty and sadistic misogynists this side of Ghenghis Khan? Why side with Islamist barbarians who have jailed, tortured, and executed their own women over a slipped Islamic veil, and who would forcibly convert their Western female admirers to Islam, veil them as well, and coerce them into polygamous marriages?

Do these educated daughters of affluence understand that were they to express any views deemed dissident in Gaza, Teheran, or Kabul or, were they to announce that they were “queer” or gay, (which is how some of these activists identify themselves), that they would be instantly honor killed?

In the months since 10/7, in addition to the odious, faux-feminist silence about the gang-rapes of both women and men, the torture of babies and whole families, the kidnapping of civilians — a terrifying tsunami of hatred towards Israel, America, and Jews has exploded into non-stop jihadi-style, belligerent mobs, whose goal is to disrupt civil society and gain both attention and followers for their reprehensible views. The news of Hamas’s pogrom on steroids, unleashed their Jew hatred, and whetted the mob’s appetite for more of same.

Post Iran’s most recent attack on Israel, in the past few days in New York City, where I live, such activists camped out on the lawn at Columbia University “for Gaza,” “for Hamas,” endangering Jewish students, daring to be arrested. For the first time, Columbia’s President actually had them arrested. Although they were all quickly released, many returned later that same night, with celebrities in tow, to re-constitute their encampment. (READ MORE from Phyllis Chesler: Opera House Bigotry)

Those who were detained, included the daughter of Democratic Congresswoman and “Squad” member, Ilhan Omar; a young female intern for New York State Attorney General Letitia James; a third young woman who is about to intern for Democratic Senator Dick Durbin; and two daughters of corporate titans. Three of the five are Columbia students.

Are they stupid? Has their indoctrination into politically correct narratives utterly blinded them to reality? Do they wish to die? How are we meant to understand this?

Well, some women are famously known to propose marriage to convicted male serial killers, who primarily kill women. One woman actually married the jailed monster, Ted Bundy, got herself impregnated by him, and gave birth to a daughter.

Maybe this is a familiar form of female ambition, that Beauty can tame the Beast — an even darker version of “Fifty Shades of Gray,” in which girls are attracted to Bad Boys who will, fairy-tale style, ultimately love and marry them.

On the other hand, and rather paradoxically, the body language of these BLM/Antifa-style female activists is often rather male-like. Most of the female demonstrators are loud, aggressive, angry, arrogant, and young; they shout, bang drums, blow whistles, wear face masks, keffiyehs, sneakers, or combat boots. While Arab Muslim girls in hijab do participate, the majority seem to be bareheaded Caucasian students, and self-identifying lesbian, queer, and transgender activists.

The Jews and queers among them are not “self-hating” Jews or persecuted queers. Rather, they are privileged political opportunists posturing as victim-pariahs who feel that they are “occupied” by Western patriarchy, just as Palestine has allegedly been occupied by Israel. They are more obsessed with the rights of a country that has never existed than with the rights of their Muslim “sisters.”

Hamas invaded Israel 6 months ago, proudly filming themselves brutally murdering, raping, and mutilating hundreds of Israelis.

Over the last 6 months, many have already begun denying these atrocities.@SSLIsrael let people see the truth for themselves.

🎥: Menachem Kashanian pic.twitter.com/OLIAffiS1B

— Embassy of Israel to the USA (@IsraelinUSA) April 29, 2024

Several Jewish people said the attacks steeled their identity and spurred them into public shows of solidarity. Yoav Davis pivoted the “Jews of NY” Instagram feed that he started in 2017 from a focus on fun restaurants and celebrities to remembrances of hostages and videos of some of the rhetoric at pro-Palestinian rallies.

“I don’t think there’s a Jew in the world who could continue business as usual,” said Davis.

Omer Lubaton Granot, 33, came to New York from Israel in 2022 and studies public policy at Columbia. He has organized rallies to keep attention on hostages, including a Sunday gathering in Central Park that draws hundreds of people—often including Sheinson—each week.

“New York is like a second Israel for a lot of people,” said Granot. Now he has stopped speaking Hebrew on the street.

There are also Jewish New Yorkers who have joined demonstrations calling for cease-fires, as well as Jewish students who are part of the Columbia encampment. On Tuesday last week, ralliers filled Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza for a protest organized in part by the group Jewish Voice for Peace. Attendees chanted “Let Gaza live,” and projected messages on the wall of a nearby library, including, “Stop arming Israel.” Two hundred people were arrested, the NYPD said.

Some politically progressive Jews said in conversations with other activists they find themselves holding a line between arguing for peace while also pushing back on antisemitic or pro-Hamas rhetoric.

“Many people in and out of the Jewish community are being told, ‘You have to pick a side,’ ” said Amy Spitalnick, chief executive of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, an advocacy group. “The reality is the vast majority of American Jews, and certainly New Yorkers, can hold the complexity of this.”

At a family Passover Seder last week, Arthur Schwartz, a progressive who lives in Manhattan and hosts a weekly radio show on WBAI-FM, said there was an addition at the portion of the meal where participants spill a drop of wine on their plates for each of the 10 plagues inflicted on Egypt before the Israelites escaped.

The leader of the dinner then called for 10 drops of wine to commemorate communities in southern Israel attacked on Oct. 7, and then 10 drops for towns and cities in Gaza that have been destroyed.

“It was very controversial around the table,” Schwartz said. He spilled all the drops, but in the last round, some of his relatives just sat and stared.

Yair Lapid, leader of the Israeli opposition, unloads on NYT reporter for wanting him to play the victim game. “I’m done being a victim since June 1945.”

This gets at the diseased heart of our politics.

Jews are not going to beg for your moral approval to defend themselves. pic.twitter.com/iibopJ7pgD

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) April 28, 2024

White House National Security Spokesperson John Kirby:

"There's not going to be an independent Palestinian state with Hamas in control of Gaza. Can't happen.

If they really cared about the Palestinian people, if they really cared about an independent state, they'd lay down… pic.twitter.com/HfC2cZ9m4U

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) April 29, 2024

Before 10/7, when the West spoke of (barely credible) “security guarantees” it meant against rockets, maybe… not 10/7 style terrorist raids along a much longer border than Gaza. This is a new threat, a new understanding of what Palestinian terrorists are capable of.

— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) April 29, 2024

Americans favor Israel in its war against Hamas by a margin of four-to-one and nearly three-quarters support a military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

Four out of five voters (80%) back the Jewish state in its nearly seven-month-old war against the Islamic terrorist group, with the highest levels of support concentrated among older age groups, according to a Harvard CAPS/Harris survey released Monday.

Meanwhile, 72% of voters say they back an Israel Defense Forces military operation in Rafah to “finish the war,” with 28% saying Israel should “back off now and allow Hamas to continue running Gaza.”

The poll was released as college students and faculty have erupted in protests supporting Hamas and denigrating Israel and Jews on campuses across the country, erecting encampments at many prominent universities including Columbia and NYU.

President Biden, 81, has taken flack from his progressive base for his handling of the conflict.

He has also pressured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against going into Rafah without a plan to protect civilians from harm.

On Sunday, the two leaders had a phone call, and Biden “reiterated his clear position” on Rafah, according to a readout from the White House.

However, two-thirds of voters in the Harris poll said Israel was already trying to avoid civilian casualties in the densely populated Palestinian enclave.

Respondents also gave Biden low marks for his handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict, with just 39% saying they approved of his response.

While Americans were overwhelmingly supportive of Israel, the Harvard CAPS-Harris poll flagged a deep schism by age.

➡️ 67% of Americans think Israel is trying to avoid civilian casualties pic.twitter.com/PUgFipK8e4

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) April 29, 2024

➡️ 71% of Americans think the crisis in Gaza is created mostly by Hamas pic.twitter.com/eEHS0Gjtf9

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) April 29, 2024

Most Americans are looking at the mob scenes on campuses with disgust.

Findings from the new Harvard CAPS Harris poll 🧵

64% of Americans don't think private higher-education institutions are doing enough to prevent antisemitism and hatred of Jews on university campuses. pic.twitter.com/EsdQqaQe8R

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) April 30, 2024

Most Americans are looking at the mob scenes on campuses with disgust.

Findings from the new Harvard CAPS Harris poll 🧵

64% of Americans don't think private higher-education institutions are doing enough to prevent antisemitism and hatred of Jews on university campuses. pic.twitter.com/EsdQqaQe8R

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) April 30, 2024

There, Mr. Secretary-General — fixed that for you. https://t.co/RhmQg7vDBBpic.twitter.com/ciy2cFcGbq

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 30, 2024

Meet Suhail al-Hindi, Hamas Politburo member with Yahya Sinwar. For years he headed UNRWA's staff union in Gaza—and a boys school. All 8,000 UNRWA teachers rallied for him in 2011. Hamas has subverted all of UNRWA in Gaza. These are the true leaders of UNRWA—not Mr. Lazzarini. pic.twitter.com/yd0aUNPMrp

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 30, 2024

3/ Here is Suhail al-Hindi and his cronies at UNRWA HQ. Right below was the Hamas terror tunnel with computer servers connected with electric cables directly to UNRWA's grid. Lazzarini: “UNRWA did not know what is under its headquarters in Gaza.” https://t.co/rC8mgGafQnpic.twitter.com/B3pmvVlD1b

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 30, 2024

2/ Here's the Hamas propaganda video posted by the Red Cross Head of Office: https://t.co/LjoihiltMX

We ask you, @ICRCPresident Mirjana Spoljaric: When will you fire him? Why were all your ICRC colleagues who saw this silent? Why is 🇺🇸@RedCross giving you $670 million per year? pic.twitter.com/PLggvehPrV

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 30, 2024

Wow, this took incredible strength!

Watch as Israeli Border Police officer is stabbed by a Turkish terrorist in Jerusalem, but then is able to fend him off with his colleague & discharge his pistol, eliminating the terrorist.pic.twitter.com/bkVRiMqV9L

— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) April 30, 2024

We are heartbroken to report on the deaths of 2 additional #IDF soldiers: Master Sgt. (res.) Kalkidan Meharim (37) and Master Sgt. (res.) Ido Aviv (28) were killed in #Gaza during this current operation against #Hamas terrorists. May the memories of these brave IDF soldiers… pic.twitter.com/VmNhCGhVXy

— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) April 29, 2024

2/ Palestinian fighters conducted three indirect fire attacks from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel on April 28. pic.twitter.com/hmXsfv1KoZ

— Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) April 28, 2024

4/ Lebanon: Lebanese Hezbollah has conducted at least four attacks from southern Lebanon into northern Israel since our last data cutoff on April 27.

Full update w/ @criticalthreats: https://t.co/VzXFw4hAj5pic.twitter.com/3ntextvtwv

— Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) April 28, 2024

Those claiming Hamas fatalities are accurate love to cite this Lancet piece. Premise is that UNRWA deaths and total Gaza deaths were consistent per 1,000, see chart below from Lancet. At the time of analysis there were 11,078 overall Gaza deaths and 101 UNRWA deaths or 110:1 2/ pic.twitter.com/R349bkKU09

— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) April 29, 2024

In fact, Hamas admitted it only has data for 21,323 “identified fatalities” (data set linked), not too far from what the UNRWA deaths would show according to the Lancet piece, or 19,800. Let’s see how many people continue to cite this Lancet article. https://t.co/BaGWPOlOkA
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— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) April 29, 2024

Junk "research" by @bellingcat Entire evidence is that IDF soldiers in social media posts did not offer enough explanation why certain buildings demolished. Bellingcat has literally no other evidence to back claims of unjust demolitions. No military experts consulted of course. https://t.co/N1WGqQn9vl

— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) April 29, 2024

@dwagner00 Hallo, you can read it here: https://t.co/md8BMsfnPW See you soon. 🤖

— Thread Reader Unroll Helper (@UnrollHelper) April 29, 2024

What’s the real story here? @BBCNews claiming @IDF handed over 100 Palestinian bodies that were then buried in a mass grave in Gaza? Presumably they were Hamas but @bbc doesn’t say why IDF handed them over or who they are. Or is any of this true at all? Who trusts @bbc anymore? pic.twitter.com/o0GTP8UmV8

— Richard Millett (@RichMillett) April 29, 2024

This increase in aid is a result of increased effort, among them: opening the Ashdod Port; a new crossing into Northern Gaza; increasing amount of aid from Jordan through Israel - KS.
We facilitated the opening of bakeries in the north and south of Gaza, together with @WFP.
2/8

— COGAT (@cogatonline) April 29, 2024

Palestinian kids throwing rocks at Egyptian bus driver bringing humanitarian aid into Gaza through the border crossing at Rafah pic.twitter.com/m31X4sVccL

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 30, 2024

Christiane, your talking over Amit doesn't change the fact the he's right and you (along with the "experts" whose claim you quote) are wrong.https://t.co/6IG31CzsWi

The amount of aid, in particular food, that is coming in the last few weeks into Gaza is not only higher than the…

— Mark Zlochin - מארק זלוצ'ין༝ (@MarkZlochin) April 29, 2024

Hosted by Abe Greenwald, Christine Rosen, John Podhoretz & Matthew Continetti
Dan Senor, co-author of The Genius of Israel, reports on his recent trip there and how torn the Israeli people are between the fate of the hostages and the country’s final push against Hamas in Rafah. And how the protests in the United States are only emboldening Hamas.

After over 200 days, Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin saw proof of life of their son Hersh Goldberg-Polin for the first time, who was severely wounded in the October 7th massacre and taken hostage by Hamas.

Just last Wednesday, a video surfaced — which was produced by Hamas — of Hersh speaking to camera. In short, in the video, Hersh describes the he was taken hostage, he criticizes the Israeli Government, and he expresses love for his parents, Jon and Rachel and his two sisters. He addresses his severe wound from October 7th, in which his left hand — his dominant hand — was blown off.

When I was in Israel,I visited with Rachel and Jon and we recorded a conversation for this podcast about the video, as well as what else they had learned from it, especially about Hersh’s severe wound — he continues to be medically fragile. Jon and Rachel discussed why they decided to approve media release and coverage of the video. Rachel and Jon also reacted to the shocking protests on US campuses — they are both from the US, as is Hersh, and they reflected on what they regarded as some encouraging news about a statement on the hostages, which was signed by 18 countries. They also addressed the possibility of Israeli elections in the midst of this ongoing hostage crisis and war.

Follow “Bring Hersh Home” on Instagram: bring.hersh.home

Hersh Goldberg Polin video: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hostage-hersh-goldberg-polins-family-approves-publication-of-hamas-propaganda-video/

Column by William McGurn of the WSJ: “Hamas’s American Hostages” — https://tinyurl.com/ymraw2yv

Since 10/07, no faculty member at Columbia University (or any university for that matter) has been more outspoken about the shocking and staggering rise in antisemitism than Shai Davidai. He brings his first-hand accounts to our conversation today.

Shai is Assistant Professor in the Management Division of Columbia Business School. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 2015. Prior to joining Columbia Business School, Shai spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University and 3 years as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research.

Since Columbia students established the most recent pro-Hamas encampment on the Columbia campus days ago, Israeli-born and raised Shai Davidai has been barred from campus.

Having just now arrived in Israel, Shai joins us in Tel Aviv today to describe what exactly has been happening since 10/07, the early signs of antisemitism he identified at Columbia well before 10/07, and the common misunderstandings and misinterpretations of the rhetoric and incitement being used by a number of Columbia student organizations and faculty.

Michael Powell has been covering New York City life and politics for decades, as a long-time reporter for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and now the Atlantic. He recently was on Columbia’s campus to try to better understand the encampment movement that has taken over the campus. He joins us to report what he saw and learned.

Article discussed in this episode: The Unreality of Columbia’s ‘Liberated Zone’ — https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/columbia-university-protests-palestine/678159/

If you could ask a question to an IDF soldier that just returned from Gaza, what would you ask? #FactsForPeace

🎥: @jonahplattpic.twitter.com/J9JiqjuXN0

— FactsForPeace (@Facts_For_Peace) April 29, 2024

Piers Morgan Uncensored's latest debate focuses on Israel's intention to invade Rafah, the southern Gazan city where more than a million people have sought refuge on the rest of the strip.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the US is the only country in the world that can stop Israel from attacking Rafah. And President Biden has told Israel to go no further. But can he really do anything to stop it? And should there be consequences if Israel presses on with an invasion its most important ally does not support?

Piers Morgan is joined by Egyptian podcaster Rahma Zein and Israel defector and son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, Mosab Hassan Yousef.

00:00 - Piers’ monologue
01:55 - What is happening now in Gaza?
04:00 - Mosab: Israel needs to go hard on Rafah to finish Hamas
07:15 - “October 7th was a genocide”
10:15 - “The cycle of violence must stop”
12:00 - “My relationship with my father was excellent”
14:00 - “You are just creating chaos and borrowing a victim narrative”
14.:25 - University campus protests
17:07 - How should Israel have responded to October 7th?
19:15 - ‘Hamas broadcast what they were doing to the world’
20:45 - Piers: ‘This war started on October 7th’
23:00 - Expansion of Israeli settlements
26:10 - Mosab: Palestinians are playing ‘the victim card’
28:50 - Who should be in charge of the Palestinians?
31:25 - “These are not numbers, these are people with stories”
32:45 - “Their game is for power and money”
35:20 - Piers: “It may be Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza”
36:30 - “Is it normal to have children being kidnapped?”

I'm posting my chat with son of Hamas founder @MosabHasanYOSEF directly on @X. Please watch and share. pic.twitter.com/bze8sGFlE2

— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) April 29, 2024

In fact, the ONLY support for his Israel handling is coming from Dems, Liberals and some Moderates and Independents. Conservatives almost uniformly disapprove. pic.twitter.com/fjbU9R50xs

— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) April 29, 2024

Both Blinken and Kirby have now defended the legitimacy of these takeovers (they are not protests - they are occupations of private property) which are happening illegally on campuses.

Takeovers that feature non-student radical activists, support Hamas and terrorism, prominently… https://t.co/sYSgtQHn0L

— Ron M. (@Jewtastic) April 28, 2024

Fun fact about this psycho:

Less than a week after the 10/7 mass murder, she was condemning and smearing Israel for responding https://t.co/p3sASGzJN9pic.twitter.com/yQRwba1cOZ

— Sunny (@sunnyright) April 29, 2024

The ICC is on the verge of throwing in with genocidal terrorists and against a democracy responding to acts of terror. They want Israel to accept suicidal terms for a ceasefire that will not work. It would be the end of the ICC's credibility. The absolute minimum response from… https://t.co/AhBiJWQXCx

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 29, 2024

The ICC’s abuse of power must be met with strong consequences from both Congress and the President.

— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) April 28, 2024

Those calling for “resistance” in a post-October 7th context are pro-war and pro-terror.

The media should stop lionizing them as “anti-war protestors.”

— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) April 29, 2024

I am a lifelong champion of Israel and the Jewish people - some of the most oppressed in the world.
The only thing to protest is Hamas and make no mistake these are normal protestors they are Hamas sympathizers.
I will not be silenced by these cowards. pic.twitter.com/2rgapfIIsk

— Caitlyn Jenner (@Caitlyn_Jenner) April 29, 2024

“It's a great American value to protest, but I don't believe living in a pup tent for Hamas is really helpful,” @JohnFetterman, D-Pa., told NewsNation's Chris Stirewalt on #TheHillSunday as he addressed the increase of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses. pic.twitter.com/elhIQepmm5

— NewsNation (@NewsNation) April 28, 2024

UN: unwilling to condemn Hamas who killed, raped, mutilated and tortured more than 1,000 Israeli babies, children, women, and elderly.

Also UN: pic.twitter.com/oycoIaBV7h

— Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) April 30, 2024

An important clarification; pic.twitter.com/CxmyXDEI2d

— Hamza🇵🇸 (@HowidyHamza) April 29, 2024

I ask @billmaher about campus protests?

"Someone has to do a page one re-write on elite education in this country because it completely went off course!"

"If you have students who are siding with terrorists...after they committed a massacre?!"

More on @TheIssueIsShowpic.twitter.com/JCZc5MqbB6

— Elex Michaelson (@Elex_Michaelson) April 30, 2024

Watch how Alan Dershowitz exposes "Jewish" Voice for Peace as neither Jewish nor for peace.

In reality, it is a fake, foreign-funded, subversive communist activist group. pic.twitter.com/PAr0CNou6D

— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) April 30, 2024

The fact that we have pro-Hamas pro-terror Islamist mobs running rampant on our streets and on our campuses has nothing to do with Israel. Israel is just a decoy. The problem we are facing is so subversive, it’s so deep that we need to take a good look at what’s going on. On the… pic.twitter.com/C3uryG1RM1

— Brooke Goldstein (@GoldsteinBrooke) April 29, 2024

American students have been radicalized for the past ten years, at least, on American college campuses, they now seek to destroy America from within. The question is, why have we turned a blind eye to the ongoing brainwashing? And why is it that everyone who has been calling this… pic.twitter.com/Z8kZkPZkGp

— Brooke Goldstein (@GoldsteinBrooke) April 29, 2024

The students at Columbia who have unlawfully trespassed, are violating school policy, violating the law, engaging in violence, and yet they are being arrested by the NYPD but are then immediately released, no bail. So where are the consequences? Where is the deterrence? Pressure… pic.twitter.com/2JgdbnGmTY

— Brooke Goldstein (@GoldsteinBrooke) April 29, 2024

Thank you.

Ilhan Omar’s Dem primary opponent—> https://t.co/tmW3xprSF3

— AG (@AGHamilton29) April 28, 2024

An absolute banger of a start to the week for Wash Post.

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 29, 2024

As I told @AC360 last night -- a small fringe should not be ruining things for everyone else. It's time college administrators stop making concessions to people calling for the death of Zionists & start enforcing consequences for those who violate campus policies. #NotOnMyCampuspic.twitter.com/KYfTlOAiJD

— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) April 30, 2024

.@BarackObama Your friend has shown up to cheer on Hamas. https://t.co/dnOKoSPbIY

— Sunny (@sunnyright) April 30, 2024

Mearsheimer is wrong. Soviets employed terror bombing in Helsinki and Budapest during WW2. They committed air raids on multiple Axis cities after Barbarossa began. Never mind the extensive atrocities the Red Army committed on civilians. https://t.co/wLxjY1edp4

— Oleksa Drachewych (@ODrachewych) April 30, 2024

Hamas Terrorist Explains Complex, Nuanced Goals In Palestine Conflict pic.twitter.com/kbweKmNgIo

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 29, 2024

1996. Columbia students held memorials for their classmate, killed in the intifada.

2024. Columbia students hung a banner calling for more senseless violence.

Haven’t we suffered enough? pic.twitter.com/hzoL3JxLbj

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) April 30, 2024

BREAKING.🚨

All charges have been *DROPPED* against Pro-Hamas rioters who took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University on Monday night.

Columbia U. refused to let NYPD in despite protesters allegedly committing unlawful detention, vandalism & assault.pic.twitter.com/kwgFxWtmv6

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) April 30, 2024

JUST IN: Columbia student short-circuits when reporter corners her after she demanded that the university feed protesters who seized Hamilton Hall.

Student: The school is obligated to bring us food.

Reporter: But you guys put yourself in that position?

Student: Nobody is… pic.twitter.com/1qimmoQc8O

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 30, 2024

So the press conference jihadist is a PhD student named Johannah King-Slutzky (really) and this is what she's working on. Dying. Absolutely dying. Beyond parody. @TheBabylonBee couldn't top this if they tried. https://t.co/xMhbmez881pic.twitter.com/2mI5orclZx

— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) April 30, 2024

#Breaking the House Committee on Education has given notice to @Yale, @UCLA and @UMich to appear before the committee on May 23 to answer questions on their handing of “these outrages.” https://t.co/aadKQuZmqY

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) April 30, 2024

The world is watching as the leadership of our so-called elite colleges and universities continue to fail to condemn antisemitism and protect Jewish students on campus.

Just look at the abject failure of Columbia’s president to enforce their own code of conduct that they gave… pic.twitter.com/u0wAnWSxnD

— Rep. Elise Stefanik (@RepStefanik) April 30, 2024

Here’s a translation of @TomerPersico’s very thoughtful post about the current talking points on university campus’ right now:

4 different levels of ignorance:

"They are not terrorists, they are freedom fighters and they are heroes of a new world...Yemen is leading the… https://t.co/2x15LQPsIR

— Lt. Col. (R) Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) April 30, 2024

“Protest Consultant” pic.twitter.com/5CwwBVanw3

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 30, 2024

Proud of my son for holding the door as long as he did, and of his friend whom the mob peeled off. Infuriated at #NYPD and @Columbia campus security who ignored his calls about vandalism and assault. https://t.co/fFbfASTG0f

— N.D. Wilson (@ndwilsonmutters) April 30, 2024

#NOW Glass doors into Hamilton Hall inside Columbia were smashed up, protesters stormed in occupying the building, barricading doors with metal gates, blocking entrances with wooden tables and chairs, and zip-tying doors shut.pic.twitter.com/dXxErABRWL

— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) April 30, 2024

#BREAKING Columbia University Protesters have stormed and overtaken Hamilton Hall on the University grounds.

According to BWOG, a member of facilities stated that he is being taken hostage inside Hamilton Hall.pic.twitter.com/K9hlYxOKDy

— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) April 30, 2024

#NOW Hamilton Hall is officially OCCUPIED after protesters and students STORM into Columbia University Building, breaking windows and barricading inside.

Additional lawn has now also been occupied by "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" pic.twitter.com/vMJcAivl7S

— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) April 30, 2024

#NOW Inside #ColumbiaUniversity"INTIFADA" Banner hanging down the building and a pile of Broken Furniture outside of Columbia University's Hamilton Hall that has been stormed and occupied by protesters at "Gaza Solidarity Encampment".

Desk@freedomnews.tv to license pic.twitter.com/pIiUua23t8

— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) April 30, 2024

NEW: Columbia protester tells Fox News reporter to get out of her face after he asks multiple questions including why they held three janitors hostage.

Reporter: “Do you feel like it was right to hold 3 of the janitor workers hostage inside of the building?”

Protester: “I think… pic.twitter.com/ACzZqFIMN4

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 30, 2024

Just Mohamed Abdou casually swiping his access card walking in unimpeded like anyone who "will never teach at Columbia again". Right @EliseStefanik?

From @MarinaMedvinpic.twitter.com/VFT97bG0WB

— The Mossad: Satirical, Yet Awesome (@TheMossadIL) April 30, 2024

Anti-Israel protesters have arrived at Columbia.

“Brick by brick. Wall by wall. Israel will fall.” pic.twitter.com/47McUk4WyH

— Jessica Costescu (@JessicaCostescu) April 29, 2024

Anti-Israel protesters have arrived at Columbia.

“Brick by brick. Wall by wall. Israel will fall.” pic.twitter.com/47McUk4WyH

— Jessica Costescu (@JessicaCostescu) April 29, 2024

“We will not be moved unless by force” pic.twitter.com/NIRigTPZlE

— Jessica Costescu (@JessicaCostescu) April 29, 2024

They thought their little encampments and masks would scare us.

They thought their chants and hate rallies would scare us.

They thought their centuries-old Jew Hate and blood libel would scare us.

🔥DO WE LOOK SCARED TO YOU?!🔥#AmYisraelChaipic.twitter.com/IW1FpKcVvv

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 30, 2024

Must see interview with Noa Fay, a Jewish student at @Columbia👇
pic.twitter.com/3cJAxDBr43

— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) April 30, 2024

An anonymous group has funded and constructed a giant screen with loudspeakers outside the @UCLA Pro-Hamas Encampments showing footage of the October 7 Massacre on loop.

Bravo to these geniuses. #StandWithIsraelpic.twitter.com/t6bl12gvxl

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 29, 2024

In case you were wondering if the @UCLA screens are still playing through the night…

They’re not only playing, the VOLUME IS ON FULL BLAST.

Sleep tight, Antisemites.#StandWithIsraelpic.twitter.com/QPCXIHglc4

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 30, 2024

🔥 Strong voices rise at UCLA! JFrg and Faculty Leaders delivered powerful speeches in today's peaceful Jewish counter-demo. Their words resonate far beyond campus. 📣 A must-experience moment for everyone who believes in meaningful change. 🕊 #UCLAPeaceDemo#JFrgSpeaks… pic.twitter.com/GHO521pQrb

— Jewish Faculty at UCLA🇮🇱🇺🇸🎗️ (@JFrgatUCLA) April 28, 2024

"We're not going anywhere. This whole thing is a huge scare tactic."

It's easy to go with the crowd.

These strong American Jewish students are standing against anti-Semitic intimidation on campus, standing-up for American values, & standing-up for what is right. pic.twitter.com/LQqqxoeRw6

— Congressman Byron Donalds (@RepDonaldsPress) April 29, 2024

Am Yisrael dances together in solidarity outside of Pro-Hamas Encampments at @UCLA.

Our love for life will outlast their hate. #AmYisraeChaipic.twitter.com/mOgvmnYidQ

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 28, 2024

His professional name is Lion of Zion. Suits him perfectly. 😍 https://t.co/zDElmR5CsN

— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) April 29, 2024

The Flag Guy goes to Columbia.

This is excellent work.@TheFlagGuy_pic.twitter.com/7lEORM4SsX

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 29, 2024

Hate on #UCLA campus when you wear a Magen David pic.twitter.com/iALYJ5YeJr

— Richard Millett (@RichMillett) April 29, 2024

UCLA administrators are dangerously incompetent. They basically told police not to intervene today. Then they did not get enough security knowing there would be large anti-Israel and pro-Israel protests.

Unsurprisingly, the anti-Israel protestors then tried to rush the area of… pic.twitter.com/fOrOMbXZOY

— AG (@AGHamilton29) April 28, 2024

‼️BREAKING

Jewish students at @Columbia file a class action lawsuit against the university for failing to provide a safe learning environment.

This will likely be the first of many to come.#AntizionismIsAntisemitismpic.twitter.com/CJ8cwsOQcT

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 30, 2024

“Are you a zionist ?”
“Of course I am”.
“So, u can’t enter.”
“I’m not allowed to enter the library,while paying tuition here?”
Just another Jewish student facing the disgusting antisemitism from the masked clowns “intellectuals”at UCLA.
Bonus - Allahu Akbar in the background. pic.twitter.com/KvlbTuVkkl

— miha schwartzenberg (@mihaschw) April 30, 2024

A Jewish student at @UCLA was prevented from accessing the library and attending class by a Pro-Hamas mob.

When his parent called UCPD, she was told UCLA ADMIN had PROHIBITED campus police from helping Jewish students who were being harassed. #AntizionismIsAntisemitismpic.twitter.com/lFjIv1vgVX

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 30, 2024

Jewish UCLA student stands up to masked mob after they repeatedly blocked his entry to the campus over the last week because he is Jewish.

Proudly holding an Israeli flag he says:

“We all know the reason you have masks it’s because you don’t want us to identify you.” pic.twitter.com/S64VMMDRjz

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 29, 2024

Palestinian protesters are assaulting normal Columbia college students.

The lawsuits against Columbia will be a sight to behold. pic.twitter.com/yRJyYU2ozY

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) April 30, 2024

Why are they there if they won’t do anything when a crime is taking place in front of their eyes?

Is this the general attitude toward fighting crime in California? pic.twitter.com/cnlG54BRHM

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 29, 2024

💰 WANTED: $1,000 CASH BOUNTY💰

ℹ️ For Information Leading to Her Arrest

⚠️ Jewish Man Violently Attacked and Tased at UCLA

📌 The assault took place near the anti-Israel encampment, in an unprovoked attack witnessed by onlookers.

👉 FOLLOW @ShirionOrg to join the pursuit of… pic.twitter.com/9URWuE8SFH

— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) April 30, 2024

https://t.co/0l6B94e2fl

— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) April 28, 2024

President Shafik of Columbia University has, in my opinion, started a chain reaction of what is very close to becoming a Civil War across America.

Her and all involved should be charged with Insurrection and Treason. pic.twitter.com/2MTIWyZ3fW

— Kosher🎗🧡 (@KosherCockney) April 28, 2024

American universities have become strongholds of Islamic terrorism

Martyrs refers to muslims who die waging jihad - whether that means being a suicide bomber blowing up kids in cafes or cutting someone’s head off and subsequently being shot by police

The red triangle is a Hamas… pic.twitter.com/JV70YYKR4u

— leekern (@leekern13) April 30, 2024

This is at Columbia.

They first chant that Abbas, President of the PA, is a spy & they will step on his head (bc of his comments acknowledging Israel’s right to exist) & then chant Palestine should only be Arab.

Don’t let anyone gaslight you about the nature of these protests. https://t.co/bTbujBB5ly

— AG (@AGHamilton29) April 29, 2024

https://t.co/Cw7ngKEO2wpic.twitter.com/aXqK7ASt4i

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) April 28, 2024

Oh would you look at that, she’s part of the left wing 501c3 complex, super weird and super surprising! https://t.co/U3J9lBNqJApic.twitter.com/LWkJNmB1hK

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) April 28, 2024

This is vile @mcgillu.

➡️ This implies that more Israelis need to be murdered for it to be a 'fair fight.'
➡️ It implies that Hamas's strategy of waging war while hiding behind civilians is virtuous.
➡️ It implies that the weaker party (a terrorist organization) is the morally… https://t.co/VHEJG17WzD

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) April 29, 2024

WATCH: These @UTAustin students SLAM the pro-Hamas protests at the University of Texas Austin:

— “This is against Western values.”

— “They are trying to scare Jews off campus. I’m trying to do my final, and in the background, I hear they are chanting for the death of Israel,… pic.twitter.com/rfTN7RlZ6j

— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) April 29, 2024

The man on the left has been identified as Nathaniel Brown.

Check out his wedding registry - for a self proclaimed socialist, Nathaniel sure does enjoy the finer things in life like organic Turkish towels that go for $119.https://t.co/hJlkmJ0uOehttps://t.co/vqtvazl7EWpic.twitter.com/c8fslBlJb7

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) April 29, 2024

Simmons University (Boston) - an Arab students teaches “Palestine will be all Arab” to a group of fellow pupils.

The radical, antisemitic indoctrination continues. pic.twitter.com/wryTMMhDpH

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) April 29, 2024

FINALLY - Harvard has fired rabid antisemite Gustavo Espada after months of him targeting Jewish students with his bigotry.

Espada showed up near campus waiving a toy machete around this past weekend.

Good riddance. https://t.co/T0loCSnKinpic.twitter.com/LmQ7OXnAZs

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) April 29, 2024

More here: https://t.co/oJoOChyOsT

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) April 30, 2024

In November of last year, he spoke with Charlotte Kates of Samidoun and Nerdeen Kiswani of Within Our Lifetime at a DSA event. Kates and Kiswani were both speakers at the Resistance 101 event at Columbia University which led to the suspension of multiple students for its…

— Stu (@thestustustudio) April 29, 2024

About a month after October 7th, he was upset that the Israeli Defense Force wouldn't just fight Hamas in a battle field and that the IDF were cowards. It wasn't him explaining geopolitics dispassionately as an expert. He was being a propagandist.

A lot of what he says here…

— Stu (@thestustustudio) April 29, 2024

Added context for those who are just learning about children being used as shields at the Virginia Tech Gaza Solidarity Encampment https://t.co/8BehJrEppm

— Stu (@thestustustudio) April 29, 2024

pic.twitter.com/6xd3U8gugB

— Angela Van Der Pluym (@anjewla90) April 29, 2024

"WE RUN THIS FUCKING UNIVERSITY" - Speaker at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment general assembly pic.twitter.com/zi2IGL2qtc

— Jessica Schwalb (@jessicaschwalb7) April 28, 2024

Man waving American flag attacked by Palestinian protesters on the City University of New York campus.

They just simply hate America.pic.twitter.com/komgRJBgna

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) April 30, 2024

The sign holder was much older than a student, and probably came for the prospect of a receptive audience.

To use a term thrown around a lot in progressive circles, these anti-Israel encampments are a clear “dog whistle” for full-blown Jew haters to come out of the woodwork.

— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) April 29, 2024

Pro Hamas encampments: “we’re pro Hamas.”

Jews: “They’re pro Hamas.”

Leftists: “How dare you 🤤 that doesn’t fit muh agenda.”

And she claims to be a “national security” analyst on top of that. Frightful. pic.twitter.com/Hz0vPfYDTk

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) April 29, 2024

How deep does the rot run @penn? Extremely deep. Here is Professor of English, Jennifer Ponce de Leon's twitter on Oct. 7th. pic.twitter.com/racWz62oFi

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 29, 2024

I am a student @penn. I will be exposing the moral corruption of our professors.

Huda Fakhreddine, Professor @penn, justifying the Oct. 7th massacre. pic.twitter.com/D9A1WfRuQE

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 28, 2024

Why would an organization calling itself “Jewish Voice for Peace” share a slogan calling to curse the Jews and for “death to America.”

Do you really hate Israel so much that you’re willing to overlook everything else? Or are you just ok with antisemitism? pic.twitter.com/JFz87uRvNd

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) April 28, 2024

Pro-Hamas "protester" at @PennState says:

"Jewish women are way too ugly to be raped," referring to Hamas' systematic sexual violence on Oct 7.

This is America in 2024.pic.twitter.com/DNC28x8Zgr

— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) April 30, 2024

No one is forcing them to post this stuff. When people tell you who they are, believe them.

Maybe the problem is their explicit support for terrorism and antisemitism, not that other people noticed it? https://t.co/a3aIO7kZ2c

— AG (@AGHamilton29) April 28, 2024

Aidan Parisi would do well in Gaza pic.twitter.com/fDtpdMO1lC

— Marisha1060 🇺🇲🇮🇱 (@marisha1060) April 30, 2024

First of all, this quote is by Palestinian writer and terrorist Basil al-Araj, the head of a PFLP cell who was killed in a gun battle in the West Bank in 2017.

So that already tells you everything you need to know. As for the quote itself, it calls to "forget about the ethics… pic.twitter.com/rUQIFTGqXH

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) April 28, 2024

Another key point in the recommended narrative is that every Israeli is a legitimate target because they're "all settlers" pic.twitter.com/kbCw5aZ32z

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) April 28, 2024

And here's the whole thing. I won't include the download link, but you can find it on their Telegram channel pic.twitter.com/uuOjZHLtK5

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) April 28, 2024

The protests involve small numbers of people and are taking place at some of the most privileged and "bubble-ish" places in the entire world. It's cool to be interested in them - I'm interested in them! ' - but this is the opposite of a mass populist movement. https://t.co/DYebbXB7o2

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 29, 2024

Spotted at @Stanford - Hamas militants.#AntizionismIsAntisemitismpic.twitter.com/Hn5q1ivjSU

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 28, 2024

Sad: College Student So Caught Up Harassing Jews He Forgot About Term Paper On Inclusion https://t.co/HOfQ1ZyFxWpic.twitter.com/Lr78lGGPLr

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 28, 2024

This guy is a legend 🤣🤣💯💯 pic.twitter.com/qyq9fq1nkO

— Parmis💙💖🇮🇱 (@ParmisLJavan) April 29, 2024

3:00 am at @UCLA.

😂😭😂#StandUpToJewishHate

🎥 menachemk on IG pic.twitter.com/bpslHfxl5L

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 29, 2024

The communist leader of the anti-Semitic protests on the ⁦@uarizona⁩ campus, Rolande Baker, won’t say who is paying for the protests. Soros? pic.twitter.com/MbtyONqKB9

— Garret Lewis (@GarretLewis) April 30, 2024

Madison Wisconsin at Comedy On State
5/2
Turtle Lake,Wisconsin at St.Croix Casino
5/3
Cincinnati at The Funny Bone
5/17 & 5/18
Batavia,IL at the Comedy Vault
6/6-6/8

Cue the Tom Petty Music🥊🥊

— MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) April 29, 2024

When Jackie says there were "only 750" civilians killed, she is implying that Hamas' attack on Israel, which killed hundreds of people who were technically soldiers, was legally justified.

She also calls Hamas an "army" and blames Jews for antisemitism.

— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) April 29, 2024

Meanwhile, this is pinned to her profile page: pic.twitter.com/8isQQ2xlAS

— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) April 29, 2024

Failing to contain his rage, the notorious antisemite Tony Greenstein has a go at a woman at the hate march in London last Saturday. pic.twitter.com/ylpUKp2ezl

— habibi (@habibi_uk) April 29, 2024

#OnThisDay 1987: the desecration of the same Holocaust memorial. The antisemitic vandals left a calling card name-checking Jim Allen and Ken Loach’s play, Perdition. https://t.co/DDA3FCE3HJpic.twitter.com/J68WjIRWT1

— James Vaughan (@EquusontheBuses) April 28, 2024

🚨#BREAKING: Palestinian protest leader Mohammad Sharab, who's on bail for allegedly kidnapping and torturing his victim, was not happy to see a Jewish journalist on the streets of Melbourne today

Subscribe at https://t.co/LUukKKteWt for the full video pic.twitter.com/g9bHR0LAqC

— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) April 29, 2024

Palestinian protest leader Mohammad Sharab, who's on bail for allegedly kidnapping and torturing his victim, was not happy to see a Jewish journalist on the streets of Melbourne.

🚨 WOW.

Police in France are not messing around with the Anti-Israel hate movement. This is at Sorbonne, the university in Paris.

Very satisfying to watch 👏🏼

Met Police this is how you do it.pic.twitter.com/3dReHhZWz8

— Kosher🎗🧡 (@KosherCockney) April 29, 2024

Had to check out Columbia University for myself and I am not impressed. Free Palestine From H8mas is the right message and I applaud any and all willing to speak out against these rudderless protesters. If you hate Jews, you will lose. pic.twitter.com/Q39NP7veLr

— MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) April 30, 2024

Attendees at a rally protesting "violence against women" were flying the flag of a society run by people who quite literally rape and murder women. pic.twitter.com/mllvd784Kg

— Daniel (@VoteLewko) April 28, 2024

Palestinian man records a video from Auschwitz-Birkenau with a message for Israelis:

“You will leave our lands and return back here, to the death camps. This is where you belong”

He then goes on to praise Hamas members pic.twitter.com/eLDS2ZiYcD

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 29, 2024

"Abuse Muslim employees of Costa to Free Palestine!"

This abuse of businesses has been going on for months now. The creeps should be arrested on sight. They won't stop until they are stopped. pic.twitter.com/7Q8PptIBv6

— habibi (@habibi_uk) April 30, 2024

This is Melbourne summed up in 20 seconds #springst#auspolpic.twitter.com/FdPMziswh7

— Dr Rafiki OAM (@Ausiecountryboy) April 29, 2024

When Shana Louk’s body, was paraded in Gaza to the thrill of Palestinians who laughed & danced with joy- a trophy of the October 7 massacre - silence from Labor who rely on the Muslim vote in Australia.I support ⁦@elonmusk⁩ not the @eSafetyOffice⁩. ⁦@OneNationAus⁩ pic.twitter.com/akHRAAnSZz

— Jennifer Game (@JenniferGame6) April 27, 2024

Sponsored October 7 denialism. pic.twitter.com/Bd3ue24Bp4

— Noam Blum (@neontaster) April 29, 2024

Sunny Hostin is a liar.

She claims that the protests are "anti-war" even though many of the protesters are openly engage in "intifada" chants which is a call for violence against Israel and its supporters. Some of the protesters have carried the flags of designated Foreign… https://t.co/r19HhK0zzy

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) April 29, 2024

This isn’t the first time @_NatashaDevon has used her platform on @LBC to spread anti-Israel hate.https://t.co/1NYlNB1kCf

Denying Hamas’ Oct. 7 atrocities on live radio or anywhere else is abhorrent and completely unacceptable. https://t.co/ll2X7BCuMI

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) April 28, 2024

Even if this were a genuine and sincere apology from @_NatashaDevon, it’s hard to square that with the donation of her @LBC fee to an organization that actively campaigns against the internationally recognized IHRA definition of antisemitism. https://t.co/eDHM7Rdukx

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) April 30, 2024

Wait… a @nytimes columnist correctly said a student described being stabbed in the eye with a flag.

But the paper corrected the accurate attribution because… a video seemingly recorded by the student didn't show wood-on-pupil (and couldn't as she wasn't filming her own eye)? https://t.co/5VnrDc7Ouj

— Gilead Ini (@GileadIni) April 29, 2024

Happy to share the following update- thank you @elonmusk and team @X
“We found the space in question and removed it. This was hosted yesterday with 317 listeners. The host and the primary speaker in the video are both violent speech ban evaders- we’ve suspended and are digging… https://t.co/2F5CMk0c6U

— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) April 28, 2024

👍 https://t.co/qzy2Qvf8zKpic.twitter.com/crXq16MnYK

— Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) April 29, 2024

Leftwing bureaucrats teaming up with the leftwing press is the essence of democracy, or something else. https://t.co/qyECqlOiTa

— Mike (@Doranimated) April 29, 2024

Earlier today, Palestinian students from Birzeit University in Ramallah chased Germany's ambassador away and attacked his vehicle as he fled.

This should be a huge diplomatic scandal, but because it's Palestinians, there will be zero consequences pic.twitter.com/Dl0DhEF0Xp

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) April 30, 2024

🚨𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚:

Palestinian mob attempt to LYNCH German Diplomat in the West Bank.

German Representative to Palestine Oliver Owcza has been surrounded with hundreds swarming his armored vehicle attempting to lynch him.

🎥 @NoyHildapic.twitter.com/W0AaHtVesV

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 30, 2024

Al-Jazeera airs footage of a seemingly new IED developed by Hamas. The footage is obviously produced and sent to Al-Jazeera by Hamas with the aim of promoting the group's operations in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/fMDAV8qfDc

— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) April 29, 2024

Plenty of free food aid for sale today in North Gaza. And cheap - a can of peas for 1.5 shekels ($0.40).
Good thing US taxpayers are spending $320 million on a port no one needs - and that Gazans are regarding with hostility - endangering 1000 US troops.#TheGazaYouDontSee… pic.twitter.com/PwneJshp6A

— Imshin (@imshin) April 29, 2024

Protesters have impressed the leader of one of the biggest human rights violators in the world, the Islamic Republic of Iran. Or so he posted on this platform which he banned in his country.

I wonder if these supposed ‘human right activists’ on campuses know what would happen to… pic.twitter.com/YDjS6max43

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) April 28, 2024

Khamenei and Co. tweeting supportive comments to U.S. university students is PEAK hypocrisy.

This regime has assaulted, terrorized, and KILLED Iranian university students for peaceful protest over the last few decades.

Don’t fall for the bait and switch. pic.twitter.com/1ap88boQAP

— Nazanin Nour (@NazaninNour) April 29, 2024

🚨#AttemptedKidnap#HateCrime#Antisemitism

👥 Jewish male threatened by 4 males who demanded he gets into the boot of their car!

🕵️‍♂️@Shomrim& @MetPoliceUK are appealing for info or sightings of a black VW T Cross EA24 VXF involved with the attempted Kidnap on Moundfield Road… pic.twitter.com/QguhkLPSRM

— Shomrim (Stamford Hill) (@Shomrim) April 28, 2024

Read this article written in April of 1984https://t.co/RsXbIQWajS

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) April 29, 2024

Today is a day I remember a good friend killed in a brutal suicide attack.

On this day April 30th 2003 Mike's Place pub in Tel Aviv was the target of suicide bombers.

It was my local pub at the time. Three people were killed - including Dominique Hass a friend of mine.

The… pic.twitter.com/7sgrssY943

— David Collier (@mishtal) April 30, 2024

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An initial investigation by the Israel Defense Forces into the deaths of two reservists in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday found that the pair were killed by so-called friendly fire.

Master Sgt. (res.) Ido Aviv, 28, of the Yiftah Brigade’s 9232nd Battalion, and Master Sgt. (res.) Kalkidan Meharim, 37, of the Carmeli Brigade’s 223rd Battalion, were hit by shelling from a tank that had opened fire outside of its designated boundaries, according to the probe that was released Tuesday.

The investigation found that the incident began as an IDF tank was hit by a roadside bomb near the Turkish Hospital in central Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor. Shortly after the blast, mortars and anti-tank missiles were launched by Hamas operatives toward troops in the corridor area.

Amid an exchange of fire with the Hamas operatives, a tank of the Yiftah Brigade left an encampment and shelled a building in the area.

The building had been outside of the tank force’s designated boundaries, according to the probe, meaning the soldiers were not supposed to open fire toward that area.

Several troops, including the two reservists, were in the building when it was hit. Aviv and Meharim were declared dead, and two soldiers were wounded, including one seriously, according to the IDF.

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Like all good social-justice warriors of a certain age, Reich harkens back to the romantic 1960s, recalling the campus protests against segregationist governors George Wallace and Ross Barnett, and against the Vietnam War. Reich writes: ‘If Columbia or any other university now roiled by student protests were doing what it should be doing, it would be a hotbed of debate about the war. Disagreement would be welcome; demonstrations accepted; argument invited; differences examined.’ Ah, those halcyon days of campus kumbaya.

Maybe Reich hasn’t noticed, but today’s protesters have no desire to debate or examine differences. This is not about two-state solutions or how to arrive there. Read the placards or listen to the chants and you will see that this is all about a world without Israel and eradicating the Jews. As Brendan O’Neill pointed out recently on spiked: ‘Their longing for Israel’s erasure was made clear… “We don’t want no two states / We want ’48!” That is, 1948, a time when the modern state of Israel didn’t yet exist.’ I challenge Reich – or indeed anyone – to find one poster in all those photographs of the Columbia protests calling for peace, negotiations or an acknowledgment of Israel’s right to exist. Just one.

Much of what Reich writes is fantastical. ‘The atrocities committed by both sides’, he writes, ‘illustrate the capacities of human beings for inhumanity and show the vile consequences of hate. For these reasons, it presents an opportunity for students to re-examine their preconceptions and learn from one another.’ Yes, perhaps a morning teach-in on the campus green, where everyone can share their thoughts on anti-Semitism. After lunch, calls for the extermination of the Jews.

To be fair to Reich, he is merely a conspicuous representative of America’s elite academic class. There are plenty out there who are as clueless as he is. Some are active participants in the hate. Others are fellow travellers in the Palestine cause who do nothing to speak against the anti-Semitism in their movement. For decades, they have been marinating in the social-justice language of the left: whiteness, colonialism, systemic racism and so on. And now, they are so thoroughly immersed in so-called progressive ideology that they are oblivious to their surroundings. Like the honchos at National Public Radio, who deny their woke bias even when their employees point out obvious examples, these leftists and liberals have become disconnected from the reality around them.

Protesters at Columbia have been chanting: ‘Remember 7 October? That will happen not one more time, not five more times… but 10,000 more times.’ Yet still Reich claims that this does not express anti-Semitism. You couldn’t find a better illustration of George Orwell’s observation on the ignorance of intellectuals: ‘One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.’

As the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) points out, civil disobedience is not the same as expressing an opinion or engaging in peaceful protest. The whole point of it is to break the rules. Indeed, it ‘derives expressive power from the willingness of participants to accept the consequences of breaking the rules’. That these students and junior academics are shocked to be handcuffed for breaking the law reveals a profound sense of entitlement among young ‘radicals’.

We shouldn’t be surprised. FIRE president Greg Lukianoff has pointed to two dispiriting, parallel trends in American universities: a willingness to curtail free speech, all while giving a green light to violent, intolerant protests. At the University of California, Berkeley, where students rioted in 2017 because that tiresome weirdo Milo Yiannopoulous was speaking, the university ‘showed cowardice in its unwillingness to punish the rioters’, writes Lukianoff and Angel Eduardo in a recent op-ed. We saw a similarly rank capitulation at Evergreen State that same year, where marauding students were effectively allowed to chase professors Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying off of campus. Since then, ‘shutdowns and shout-downs have become commonplace’, they write.

Some critics of campus cancel culture have been caught off guard by the pro-Hamas protests. Almost a decade ago, they observe, we were all gawping at the ‘Yale Snowflakes’, those absurd Ivy Leaguers who went into open, teary-eyed revolt because academic Erika Christakis sent them an email saying they should chill out about offensive Halloween costumes. How did babyish offence-taking give way to open support for anti-Semitic terrorists?

But it all makes a perverse kind of sense. Students taught that freedom of speech is a form of violence have begun to see violence as a form of free speech. Young radicals reared on a crude, conspiratorial racial identity politics have begun to apply it to geopolitics, with predictably anti-Semitic results. A new generation of elite youth, overprotected and indulged in equal measure, have come to think they can do no wrong.

So let’s retire the Sixties comparisons. In 1964, when Mario Savio – civil-rights activist and student leader of the Free Speech Movement – was leading a campaign of civil disobedience, aimed at liberating Berkeley students from censorship, his cause was just and he was happy to suffer the consequences of his methods. ‘There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious’, he famously said, ‘you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels… you’ve got to make it stop!’. Meal plans did not get a mention.

At the same time, let’s not pretend that today’s revolting students just appeared, fully formed, from the womb. They are the products of an academic and upper-class culture that has kindled their prejudices and inflamed their intolerance. They aren’t revolutionaries. They’re bigoted brats. And they’ve been pandered to for far too long.

A New York rabbi is reiterating his call for his music not to be sung by anti-Israel demonstrators, after students at Yale University used his song during protests there.

Rabbi Menachem Creditor said he was “distraught” to learn that “Olam Chesed Yibaneh,” a song he wrote after 9/11 that has become a mainstay of progressive Jewish activists, was sung at the conclusion of a seder held by the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace on Yale’s campus. Yale is one of dozens of schools where anti-Israel protest encampments have sprung up in recent weeks.

“Let me be clear: I vehemently object to the song being used in any context that is against Israel or the Jewish people,” Creditor said in a statement. “Those who are using the song in these protests are misappropriating its message of love and support for Israel. I cannot accept its use by the protesters, whose beliefs could not be further from my own.”

Creditor, the rabbi in residence at UJA-Federation of New York, first called for his song not to be sung at pro-Palestinian protests in November, a month after the start of Israel’s war with the Hamas terror group in Gaza, which began after thousands of invading terrorists slaughtered some 1,200 people in southern Israel on October 7, and seized 253 hostages, most of them civilians.

At the time, a member of the anti-Zionist group IfNotNow said the group would stop including “Olam Chesed Yibaneh” and a song written by another Jewish musician who objected to its use in national actions calling for a ceasefire, though a national spokesperson declined to answer questions about the songs’ use.

This is the skit SNL does not have the guts to write. Lo and behold we have an emergency shituation on our hands.

Can we PLEASE get an airdrop at Columbia university? We need 900 Acai Bowls, 1,300 Impossible Burgers on gluten free bread with sugar free vegan ketchup and 3,000 bottles of pH 9.0 electrolyte water. This is urgent @ UNRWA.

Please behold in this must-watch public address, the brightest minds of America’s Ivy League chosen elite:

Major props to the journalist who clarified the goings-on: “It seems like you’re sort of saying - we wanna be revolutionary, now would you please bring us some food and water.” They called it '“humanitarian aid” and they’ve demanded it. They need humanitarian aid! The students at Columbia must be provided with basic amenities for the resistance! The intifada will be catered! I present to you the sharpest thinkers of a generation. UNRWA, please help! WFP, where are you when the First World needs you?! Daddy Sinwar has ghosted these poor little slaves. Why is Daddy Haniyeh in Qatar in a luxury hotel and all they have are these REI tents? We must divert the food aid trucks from Gaza! These kids are starving!

The name of the student in the video is Johannah King-Slutzky. She writes for Vice and Gawker (didn’t Gawker die years ago?!) through a “Marxian lens” and she has deleted her online accounts since this morning’s address, such has been the devastating impact of publicly embarrassing herself in this fashion, I assume.

While cosplaying a nothing revolution, these students have hogged the media entirely for weeks, not in aid of the Palestinians but as the Palestinians. Aren’t there drama or theatre companies at Ivy League schools? Couldn’t they have made a play about the situation in Gaza? Like The Sound Of Music with the Hadids as the modern Von Trapp family who don’t sing but walk runways? I just gave you guys that idea for free in seconds flat. You can think of more. Why? Why did this generation of American kids resort to camping out on American lawns pretending that they were at one with the Arabs they’ve never met? They were chanting Arabic tonight as the NYPD showed up to finally arrest them. They are posting on Instagram in Arabic. How many Jews do they have to block from campus before they get their 72 virgins? Inshallah. (Oh wait one second, they are the virgins. My bad.)

Please! We must set up a safe space for the self-detained encampment students who have self-sieged (I think that’s a brand new word). They are very traumatized after hours waiting for a granola bar. They don’t have any coconut water in there. Couldn’t they have occupied the dining hall? They didn’t really think this one through, hey? These children are trapped in an open air prison in their own minds. They can leave any time. Uber is a push of a button away. It’s as fictional as the open air prison in Gaza, and yet they must keep the idea of it alive. Could it be that Hamas has given these kids Stockholm Syndrome without ever stepping a foot near them? To quote Gwen Stefani: this shit is bananas. But please don’t send bananas. Some of them have allergies, apparently. Do not commit a microaggression upon them by innocently sending foods that could cause Anaphylaxis. These are very, very sensitive humans. Probably best not to send nuts, either. But send aid. They cannot leave to the nearby RiteAid. They are chained to justice!

Meanwhile, as these camps run riot all across America, the Palestinians have never been less visible. Well done for raising awareness, guys! You’re all over the news, and nothing about Gaza, or the impending invasion of Rafah, or the 130+ remaining hostages is. Instead it's all about you. It was always all about you. You ripped the posters of Israeli hostages down because you had victim FOMO and now you've made yourselves hostages in your own campus grounds. What’s next? Are you going to be singing “Rape Me” by Nirvana non-ironically at whoever you select to be the leaders of your little coup? Rape, me! Rape me, my friend!

Why don’t you just leave campus, go to a Trader’s Joe’s and buy a sandwich and some tampons. For crying out loud. If you can’t be bothered leaving, there’s an application on your phone called Uber Eats. You can Postmates from Erewhon direct to your tent if you pin your location accurately enough. Do you not know that there's tap water in the bathroom sink? That’s a serious question. I assume nothing now about Gen Z’s knowledge base. The lack of resourcefulness and survival skills is deeply disappointing. Weren’t these infants raised on The Hunger Games? Did they learn nothing. This is the worst attempt at Lord Of The Flies, ever. They need humanitarian aid, they say! It’s stunning. I doubt that they would last six hours at Glastonbury. URGENT: please airdrop some brains to Ivy League campuses.

Johannah King-Slutzky, Columbia U. biography:
My dissertation is on fantasies of limitless energy in the transatlantic Romantic imagination from 1760-1860. My goal is to write a prehistory of metabolic rift, Marx’s term for the disruption of energy circuits caused by… pic.twitter.com/iNEUUjRgUk

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 1, 2024

Look at how "smart" those Hamas terrorists disguising as Columbia students are: trying to fit a too big pizza box into a too small crate ! Real smart, huh . Maybe it's time to review the failing admission process! How did idiots like that make it in "elite" institutions? pic.twitter.com/lTJSyNsCxX

— TeslaBoomerPapa (@TeslaBoomerPapa) April 30, 2024

Hosted by Abe Greenwald, Christine Rosen, John Podhoretz & Matthew Continetti
The Columbia encampment is shut down and the students who occupied a campus building are charged with burglary. A mile north of Columbia, cops are attacked by protestors, who are promptly zip-tied and thrown into an NYPD bus. Order is being restored, but for how long?

This is an excellent point which anyone calling for a 2 state solution with security guarantees for Israel should consider ⬇️

Jewish people can never depend on others for their security. It has never worked. That was the whole point of the establishment of the State of Israel! https://t.co/6UwRvSWzuv

— Lance Forman (@LanceForman) April 30, 2024

Less than a year on from throwing Lawford-Smith to the trans activists, Melbourne capitulated again to a censor-happy mob. After the cancellation of Shima’s lecture, UniMelbForPalestine, posted a celebratory Instagram message: ‘Yet another win for justice and accountability by Melbourne University’s community against this corrupt Zionist management.’

The university’s cowardice has clearly only emboldened those seeking to silence debate and to hector their perceived opponents. So, after successfully cancelling an academic because he was Israeli, pro-Palestine student activists have reportedly taken to brazenly interfering in day-to-day classes. The Herald Sun reports that activists are now turning up in classrooms and taking photos of students after asking for a show of hands to indicate who agrees with their anti-Israel views. Jewish students are said to have been very distressed by the activists’ tactics. Many are said to be fearful of attending lectures at the university.

Melbourne’s response to this behaviour suggests an institution that has become scared of its own shadow. After issuing a perfunctory criticism of the activists for photographing students, the dean of the arts faculty proceeded to warn lecturers to ‘think carefully’ about how they express their views on the Israel-Hamas conflict.

After Melbourne’s failure to stand up to trans activists, it is now failing to stand up to anti-Israel activists. And so an Israeli professor has been silenced and Jewish students have been intimidated with impunity.

The broader media and political silence that has greeted this eruption of anti-Israel sentiment at Australia’s second-oldest university is unconscionable. Now might be the time for the Australian Human Rights Commission to start justifying its $40million budget and address not only the lack of free speech, but also the intimidation of Jewish students. As the proudly Jewish Liberal MP, Julian Leeser, recently pointed out, the AHRC has been mute over the outbreak of anti-Semitism in Australia after 7 October.

Of course, Melbourne University is far from the only educational institution in the West gripped by anti-Israel protests. But it does provide a lesson in the dangers of appeasing the intolerant. Caving to demands for censorship only ever emboldens and empowers the censors.

.@Sydney_Uni academic @fahad_s_ali calls on the free world to

“invade the United States of America”

No, I am not making this up

But I am not surprised, given @fahad_s_ali told a crowd in Sydney after Oct 7 massacre “I'm not going to shed tears”#auspol@australian@DrewPavlouhttps://t.co/PGieFnifpipic.twitter.com/vMWxHWclfr

— Menachem Vorchheimer (@MenachemV) May 1, 2024

The leaders of the anti-Israel protest camp at Australian National University just explicitly endorsed Hamas on ABC Radio.

Beatrice Tucker: “Hamas deserves our unconditional support … I will not condemn what Hamas did on October 7.”

Jewish anti-Zionist student Luke Harrison:… pic.twitter.com/9dBfya3jPj

— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🇨🇾 (@DrewPavlou) May 1, 2024

Convicted kidnapper & President of Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, Nasser Mashni, seen ⁦@Sydney_Uni⁩ seemingly encouraging racist & antisemitic protestors lay siege to Sydney University

Little wonder Australia’s social cohesion is broken

⁦@2GB873⁩ @australianpic.twitter.com/zYloxzNAFF

— Menachem Vorchheimer (@MenachemV) May 1, 2024

Following the dramatic escalation of the anti-Israel campus protests – including the arrest of dozens of demonstrators by the New York Police Department who had barricaded inside Columbia University's Hamilton Hall – public officials and journalists praised the much-anticipated move.

"We are finished for the night. To all of the NYPD tonight, simply put, great job! Strength and Honor to all of you" John Chell NYPD Chief of Patrol said on X, praising the successful encampment evacuation. Protesters have condemned the tactics as efforts to stifle free speech in support of Palestinian rights, to which Congressman Ritchie Torres responded, "No one has a First Amendment right to erect illegal encampments, blockade entrances, vandalize property, break windows and doors, block students from accessing campus, hold people hostage, and harass and intimidate "Zionists" (i.e. most Jews)." Torres' comment comes hours after barricading students demanded humanitarian aid from the university's officials, to which former Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Avi Meir responded with "Lol" on X.

A spokesperson for the Ivy League institution stated that Columbia requested police assistance after "the building had been occupied, vandalized, and blockaded."

The university defended the decision in a statement, saying "we were left with no choice" once protesters violated "the rules and the law." It emphasized the call to NYPD was "in response to the actions of the protesters, not the cause they are championing."

The Hamilton Hall takeover represented a major escalation as demonstrations criticizing Israel's military offensive in Gaza have spread across US college campuses in recent weeks. At Columbia, a tent encampment protesting the conflict had been established on campus grounds nearly two weeks prior.

I never thought in America I would have Jewish people thanking me for arguing that they have a right to exist. pic.twitter.com/2QpToDVyr8

— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) May 1, 2024

A few words about the protests/encampments at Columbia:

Back in December 2018, when I was a junior, a white student named Julian Von Abele was filmed going on an ethno-centric rant about how much he loved white people. He said things like: “White people are the best thing that…

— Coleman Hughes (@coldxman) April 30, 2024

Israeli author and activist Noa Tishby has blasted college students for “rehashing age-old anti-Semitic tropes” by “picking on the smallest minority in the world”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has commented on pro-Palestine protests on university campuses in the United States, saying, ‘We’ve seen in history that anti-Semitic attacks were always preceded by vilification and slander.’

A Jewish professor at Columbia University in the United States was barred from entering the campus.

The university has cancelled in-person classes due to rising tensions over pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

“These kids on college campuses, they think they’re speaking truth to power, they think they’re taking down the patriarchy, they think they’re the best thing in the world … yet they’re rehashing age-old anti-Semitic tropes and picking on the smallest minority in the world,” Ms Tishby told Sky News Australia.

“It’s a little ironic that they’re even doing that without understanding what it is that they’re doing and not understanding that they really are the useful idiots in the West that are promoting an ideology that is out to get them.”

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer says the rising anti-Semitism in the United States is “so many corners of bad”.

Mr Spicer’s remarks come as pro-Palestine protests continue to rage across the country.

“I think, culturally, it’s very bad, the idea that this many Americans have trained their eye on the Jewish people,” Mr Spicer told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.

“I go to so many corners of how bad this is – society wise, for the future of America, for our institutions of learning, for our first Amendment and what we’re permitting.

“It conjures up so many various thoughts that are all equally not good for America.”

AJA calls out antisemitism at the University of Sydney - Daily Telegraph

AJA CEO Robert Gregory slammed the antisemitic hate rally at the University of Sydney.

"The scenes at the University of Sydney were ugly and the brainwashing of children reminds me of the Hitler Youth.… pic.twitter.com/obsDm28A0G

— Australian Jewish Association (@AustralianJA) April 30, 2024

Explosive documents reveal the University of Sydney views chants of intifada as “perfectly acceptable” and are not hate-speech, according to Sky News host Sharri Markson.

It follows complaints about on-campus protests where students chanted the word “intifada”.

The document from the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s Student Affairs unit reads: “The University acknowledges the use of the word ‘intifada’ is viewed by some as having an inherent link to violence or terrorist acts, and at times violence or terrorism has been a feature of events that were characterised as intifadas occurring across the Middle East.

“However, the University does not accept that every use of the word can reasonably be interpreted in this way, and in the context of current pro-Palestine protests, use of the word is more appropriately viewed as an expression of a political stance in connection with pro-Palestinian activism as opposed to being a statement in support of terrorist acts.”

Sky News host Sharri Markson said the statement showcased the university at its “woke finest” as she accused it of “cowing down” to racism and terrorism.

“You should all hang your heads in shame,” she said.

“Trying to find excuses for chants of intifada. Trying to find excuses for calls for terrorism. This is unacceptable.

“You’re showing us the absolute worst bureaucratic lunacy to try and twist this word into one that’s non-offensive and perfectly acceptable.

“Muscle up, fix this antisemitism that’s exploding at the University of Sydney, or resign and go home.”

Shadow Education Minister Sarah Henderson has expressed her shock at the University of Sydney’s acceptance of ‘intifada’ chants and has questioned the Education Minister’s lack of intervention.

Explosive documents reveal the University of Sydney views the chants as “perfectly acceptable” and acknowledge they are linked to violent and terrorist acts.

“This is appalling,” Ms Henderson told Sky News.

“Whoever has given this advice needs to go from the university.

“What the hell is the Minister for Education doing? Why has he not intervened?

“Why is he not demanding that these protests be shut down?”

There is “sickness” and “savagery” following a rise in support for Hamas coming over Australian universities, threatening everyone who believes in Western civilisation, Sky News host Andrew Bolt says.

The Sky News host highlighted two students who appeared on Canberra ABC radio to defend their "encampment” at ANU.

“I ask (Beatrice) Tucker. I ask (Luke) Harrison: how is rape ever justified? And murdering, deliberately murdering teenagers at a music concert, as Hamas did that day, October 7" Mr Bolt said.

"I've seen and filmed their faces, the photographs of the dead at the place they were murdered and you can't condemn that either? Unconditional support instead for the killers? Good God.

"What is the climate now that even support for Hamas is freely expressed on the ABC?"

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) took aim on Tuesday at recent antisemitic incidents at Columbia University, calling on college administrators to “bring order to their Manhattan campus” following tensions on campus that escalated into violence more than a week after students set up an anti-Israel encampment on the Morningside Heights campus.

Speaking on the Senate floor, McConnell urged Columbia’s leadership to follow the lead of Princeton University and the University of Florida, where school administrators have not allowed their respective encampments to remain active. McConnell also excoriated the student protesters, comparing their behavior on Columbia’s campus to the “brand of aggressive lawlessness” shown by “the student Nazis of Weimar Germany.”

“Education never has anything to do with it; it’s about dangerous, radical politics. But just as the roots of this hate are not a mystery, neither is the way forward for college administrators. It’s time for the leaders of America’s most elite universities to take serious action,” McConnell said. “It’s not enough for administrators to lament campus disorder. Strongly worded statements don’t mean anything if they’re not backed by action.”

McConnell noted that “elite universities aren’t in the news for a decline in academic rigor” or because “another generation of students has decided to test the limits of the First Amendment with grotesque hate.”

“No, they’re in the news because weakness and inaction from campus leaders has allowed universities to become cauldrons of criminal chaos,” McConnell said.

McConnell also used his speech to target the criticism he and other Republicans have received for opposing Adeel Mangi’s nomination to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Mangi, a Pakistani American litigator, has faced universal GOP opposition and tepid Democratic support for his nomination. Both Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) say they’ll vote against Mangi’s confirmation due to his lack of bipartisan support and ties to controversial groups, though he has the backing of a wide swath of the Jewish community, including the Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee and National Council of Jewish Women..

Jack Dorsey has thrown his support behind the anti-Israel protesters who occupied a building at Columbia University.

The Twitter co-founder posted and shared several messages on X that were critical of law enforcement’s response to the protesters — scores of whom were arrested after they were evicted from the building by force.

Dorsey, who stepped down as CEO of the company then known as Twitter in 2021, approved of a post by left-leaning podcaster Kyle Kulinsky who compared the Columbia protesters to demonstrators who rallied against the Iraq and Vietnam wars — all of whom were “smeared and hated in the moment.”

“Today anybody with a functioning brain realizes they were 100% correct and the conventional wisdom was dead wrong,” Kulinsky wrote, adding that “the fact that people don’t see this is exactly what’s happening now is astonishing.”

Dorsey, who has more than 6.4 million followers on the social media platform that he co-founded and has since been rebranded X, commented on the post, writing: “Yes.”

The tech mogul also commented on a video that was posted to X showing the heavy machinery deployed by the NYPD to evict the protesters.

“The level of military equipment local police have is kinda alarming,” wrote X user Luke Rudkowski, who was commenting on a vehicle that was used to transport NYPD personnel to the protest site at Columbia University.

“This has been all over the country for over a decade,” Dorsey wrote in response to the video.

Another post by Dorsey on Tuesday expressed agreement with a comment from X user Alex Miller, who wrote: “It will never cease to amaze me how much people love state power when its on their side.”

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) could be the latest Democratic lawmaker to face a censure resolution in the House after Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) announced plans to condemn the hard-left lawmaker over her comments on pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses.

Bacon is set to introduce the resolution as early as Wednesday, although it remains unclear when the Nebraska Republican will seek to force a vote on the measure. The text has not yet been finalized for the resolution, although it’s likely to include Omar’s latest comments as well as past statements regarding Israel, according to a source familiar.

Omar has previously faced censure threats, with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) filing a similar resolution over statements related to Somalia. However, that resolution never made it to the floor for a vote.

The latest censure resolution comes in direct response to comments Omar made last week suggesting that some Jewish students at Columbia University were “pro-genocide.”

“I think it is really unfortunate that people don’t care about the fact that all Jewish kids should be kept safe,” Omar said. “We should not have to tolerate antisemitism or bigotry for all Jewish students, whether they’re pro-genocide or anti-genocide.”

That statement, Bacon argued, amounted to antisemitic speech.

“Folks can protest Israel, but don’t blame Jewish American students for Israel,” Bacon told Axios. “That is by definition antisemitism.”

The censure effort also comes nearly six months ago after fellow “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was censured over pro-Palestinian comments and use of the phrase “from the river to the sea,” referring to the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River that includes Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. That phrase has prompted widespread backlash from several lawmakers, who pointed to the slogan’s adoption by the Hamas terrorist group to advocate the destruction of Israel

United States Rep. Ilhan Omar, in a Tuesday X post, critiqued Senator Marsha Blackburn’s stance that students encouraging or committing acts of terror on behalf of Hamas should be put on both a terrorism watchlist and the US’s No Fly List.

Blackburn posted on X that “any student who has promoted terrorism or engaged in terrorist acts should be immediately added to the terrorist watchlist and placed on the TSA No Fly List.”

In response to the post, Omar wrote, “A sitting senator labels Americans protesting against a foreign country accused of carrying out a genocide funded with our tax dollars as terrorists and puts a target on their back to be attacked. This is insanely dangerous and somehow no one will condemn it.”

Hamas is a registered terrorist organization in the United States.

A precursory look at Blackburn’s past X posts showed that the senator regularly criticized the violence at pro-Palestinian protests and the hostile rhetoric expressed during such events but also that none of her posts labeled all pro-Palestinian protesters as terrorists.

Further, Blackburn had expressed similar remarks in the past to those that she had made about the watchlist. For instance, she called to “deport foreign students on visas who support Hamas and call for death to America.”

Protestors at @UWMadison chanting “Heil Hitler” at Jewish students aren’t protesting war. They’re calling for genocide.

Free speech ≠ hate speech. https://t.co/1aoZfmECjJ

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 1, 2024

WATCH: I drove by the illegal Palestinian city occupying both sides of the street next to Tony Blinken’s house

It looks like it’s both still there—and growing

No one is doing anything about it

cc @GovernorVA@JasonMiyaresVAhttps://t.co/hROjQr4moWhttps://t.co/mrnfODS40cpic.twitter.com/isxtv5Ep2d

— Matthew Foldi (@MatthewFoldi) May 1, 2024

Yet again this bad-faith talking point?

Mein Kampf "literally means" my struggle. Is that supposed to mean something? https://t.co/UzyBSu2lxt

— Gilead Ini (@GileadIni) April 30, 2024

Do you wonder what Zogby will say when someone acts on this incitement, these calls for "intifada," and murders a bunch of kids in a kosher pizzeria?

I got you covered. The day after hundreds and hundreds of Jews were mowed down in an orgy of violence, mutilation and rape: https://t.co/5PvYl7iQ0spic.twitter.com/K9TxiOTEuN

— Gilead Ini (@GileadIni) May 1, 2024

What’s happening to the @Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment is outrageous. I was scheduled to host @DrJillStein tomorrow 😡😡😡 see my 3 attached emails pic.twitter.com/7Ta1k0PkD4

— Rabbi Linda Goldstein (🇵🇸🍉I/P Commentary) (@realrabbilinda) May 1, 2024

Indigenous people support indigenous people pic.twitter.com/wsMoKiEKsx

— Im Tirtzu (@IMTIzionism) May 1, 2024

In a revealing video conversation, veteran Canadian journalist Brian Lilley and seasoned political strategist Warren Kinsella discuss the intricate web of funding and orchestrated campaigns targeting journalists who critique the financing of global anti-Israel protests. The dialogue uncovers the sophisticated nature of these protests, labeling them as “Astroturf”—a term used to describe artificial grassroots movements. This suggests that these protests are not the spontaneous uprisings they appear to be but rather well-organized, state-backed events.

Kinsella explains that numerous protestors and organizers receive substantial compensation, reportedly as much as $20,000 monthly, for participating in these events. The funding, according to Lilley and Kinsella, is traced back to Iran and Qatar, among others, revealing a complex network aimed at influencing public opinion against Israel and Jewish communities worldwide.

The conversation also sheds light on the tactics used by supporters of these protests, including a deluge of coordinated emails aimed at discrediting journalists like Kinsella and Toronto Sun editor Adrian Batra. These emails, often sharing identical subject lines and content, are classic indicators of an Astroturf campaign designed to simulate widespread support while masking the true orchestrators.

Moreover, the journalists delve into the mechanics of these protests. They highlight the use of professional-grade marketing techniques—slick graphics, focus-tested messaging—that suggest the involvement of skilled professionals rather than grassroots activists. This level of coordination and funding implies a significant organizational backbone, potentially linked to state actors and established advocacy groups.

The discussion also touches on specific groups like Samidoun, which is associated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terrorist organization in several countries. The group’s activities, including protests featuring inflammatory symbols and rhetoric, raise questions about the legality and propriety of their operations within countries like Canada, where they are not officially banned.

Actress Susan Sarandon was confronted by social media user Keren Picker in a video shared four days ago, where she denied Hamas’s October 7 atrocities and defended the terror group’s decision to reject multiple ceasefire agreements.

“As the singer and songwriter of the song ‘Ceasefire Now,’ do you know Hamas rejected every ceasefire agreement since October 7?” Picker asked Sarandon.

In response to Picker’s question, Sarandon answered “Do you know why?”

“Why?” Picker prompted.

“Because they’re terrible deals,” Sarandon finally answered. “Palestine is not Hamas.”

The deals Hamas rejected included the March rejected ceasefire agreement, which would have seen 400 Palestinian security prisoners and terrorists in exchange for 40 hostages kidnapped on October 7 and a 6-week ceasefire. The hostages released under the agreement would have also fallen under humanitarian categories: women, children under 19, elderly over 50, and the sick, an anonymous official told Reuters.

Hamas has insisted that a hostage release would come at the cost of a complete and permanent ceasefire, despite officials from the terror group promising to repeat October 7 – a mass terror attack in which more than 1200 people were killed and a further 253 kidnapped.

“We know that all of those myths about babies in ovens and the rapes…” Sarandon continued while Picker interrupted and insisted “It’s not a myth. You’re denying, you’re denying the terror actions made on October 7th to so many innocent civilians.”

It is unclear what source Sarandon used as Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten found that there was substantial evidence to conclude that victims, as well as hostages and survivors of October 7, were sexually abused and raped. Additionally, the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel interviewed surviving victims and witnesses and concluded that terrorists forced families to watch their loved ones being sexually assaulted at gunpoint. Released hostages have also testified that Hamas sexually abused the women and men held captive.

The anti-Israel protests on major US campuses are spiraling out of control and the authorities must put a lid on them now before it is too late.

On the Manhattan campus of Columbia University, where protesters established a pro-Palestinian tent encampment almost two weeks ago, dozens of students occupied Hamilton Hall – one of the buildings occupied during the 1968 student protests against the Vietnam War – smashing windows with hammers and unfurling an “Intifada” banner. Hours earlier, the university announced it was suspending students who refused to leave the encampment before a 2 p.m. Monday deadline.

Universities have struggled to contain the protests at campuses across the United States for more than a week, claiming that they seek to balance free speech rights while limiting disruptions to studies.

In reality, however, legitimate protests calling for a halt to the war in Gaza have morphed into “Free Palestine” hate fests against Israel’s existence. The measures taken by university administrators, including the suspension of protesters, seem to fan the flames further. Model for handling protests

The University of Texas at Austin, however, proved that a tough approach can work. Its handling of the protests should be a model for others. On Friday, it placed its Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) chapter on interim suspension, citing its involvement in the anti-Israel protest that caused chaos on campus.

The group organized a demonstration last Wednesday where more than 500 students walked out of class, ostensibly to demand that UT-Austin divest from manufacturers supplying Israel with weapons used in Gaza. This was immediately met with a forceful police response as scores of riot police deployed to the campus. They cleared the protest and made more than 55 arrests.

In a post on Instagram, the PSC claimed that its suspension was “an attack on free speech to distract from and enable Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people” and slammed UT Austin President Jay Hartzell and Republican Governor Greg Abbott for authorizing the action against the protest.

Rep. Susie Lee (D-Nev.), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, issued a statement on Tuesday about the “sharp increase in antisemitism on college campuses nationwide.”

“I respect the right to assemble and free speech. Denying students access to areas of campus because they are Jewish is discrimination,” the congresswoman said. “Intimidating and harassing Jewish students, breaking into academic buildings and spewing hate speech is not legitimate discourse. There is no place for this vile behavior in America.”

“I would remind college and university administrators that violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act could result in a loss of federal funding,” she added.

Harvard University’s student newspaper published research providing a snapshot of views held by professors at the Ivy League school on the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip after Oct. 7.

The annual Faculty of Arts and Sciences survey by The Harvard Crimson—open from April 3-17 to more than 1,400 faculty members—received 508 responses, 310 completed in full. The stated goal of the poll, which varies the topic from year to year, is to provide a broad understanding of faculty experiences and to compare conditions with peer institutions.

The results showed that 59.4% of respondents either “somewhat” or “strongly” disagreed with the claim of systemic antisemitism at the college in Cambridge, Mass. Those who “somewhat” or “strongly” agreed measured 25.2%.

Those who believe that Israel has engaged in genocide against the Palestinians numbered 28% while those regarding Israel’s response as merely “excessive” numbered 47.9%. Those who support Israel’s efforts to eradicate Hamas from Gaza numbered 14.2%, with 1.4% claiming that the Jewish state has not gone far enough.

The survey also showed significant numbers supporting Israelis or Palestinians while rejecting their leaders. Those advocating for Palestinians but not for Hamas reached 72%, while those rejecting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration reached 67%. Those who support both Israel and Netanyahu numbered 2.9% while Hamas-supporting Palestinian voices only added up to 2.6%.

The group behind pro-Palestine student protests at Columbia received 'over $3 million a year'– and is linked to organizations accused of funding terrorist organization Hamas, a new think tank has revealed.

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a campus group with more than 250 chapters across the country, is one of the main organizers of a protest that brought the Manhattan university to a standstill.

The new report by the think tank Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), reveals the group got millions from several charities with alleged links to Hamas.

The 73-page report, exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com, also pointed out explicit pro-Hamas statements, chants and placards by protesters, and asserted that the demonstration has crossed the line from criticism of the Israeli government to bald-faced antisemitism.

The report also called for a law enforcement and government investigation into SJP.

'It's being presented as a peace movement, that there's Jews involved, that it's not anti-semitic. But when people chant 'globalize the intifada' it's very clear,' ISGAP executive director Dr. Charles Small told DailyMail.com.

'What Hamas represents, its ideology, is a commitment to dismantling Israel and exterminating Jews around the world.'

The student groups say they do not promote violence, are inclusive towards Jewish people, and are exercising a legal right to protest.

The ISGAP report asserts that SJP has become an effective and well-funded network for organizing protests around the country, but that its failure to register as a charity or formal organization left its funding sources and operations murky and unregulated.

Hints of financial backing could be seen at the Columbia 'Gaza Solidarity Encampment', including students erecting several identical high-end tents costing hundreds of dollars each, and handing out free Dunkin' Donuts coffee, $12.50 sandwiches from Pret-a-Manger and $10 rotisserie chickens to participants.

Small said his think tank, with 'a group of forensic accountants and experts in terror financing', have been working to follow the money funneled into protests.

What they found was a combined flow of more than $3 million a year going to campus chapters, coming from a constellation of charities, some of which have alleged links to Hamas.

The nonprofits funding SJP include the Westchester People's Action Coalition (WESPAC), Tides, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), its parent organization Americans for Justice in Palestine (AJP), and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).

The ISGAP report said SJP had the closest financial links with WESPAC, which acts as a 'financial sponsor' for the organization, routing tax-free donations through its accounts to SJP chapters.

More than 1,000 college students across the nation have been arrested during anti-Israel protests that have sprung up “tent cities” at some of America’s most prestigious universities.

The chaotic protests were spurred by the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” born at Columbia University, which saw more than 100 demonstrators arrested on April 18.

Since then, police have arrested demonstrators at more than 25 campuses nationwide, with several universities seeing more than 100 arrests.

Columbia University
Columbia’s Manhattan campus lawn has been occupied by protesters for about two weeks and saw NYPD officers called in to arrest 108 people during the initial attempt to clear out the encampment on April 18.

Finally, late on Tuesday, hundreds of pro-terror protesters were cuffed and hauled away from Columbia University — as one of the groups behind the violent anti-Israel demonstrations called for supporters to rally outside 1 Police Plaza where the perps were being processed.

Two-hundred thirty people were nabbed at the Ivy League campus after the NYPD stormed in to oust a destructive mob that had illegally taken over the Hamilton Hall academic building, police said.

New York University
A total of 120 people were nabbed at NYU on April 22, with 116 protesters receiving summonses for trespassing and four given desk appearance tickets for charges that included resisting arrest.

See our report: https://t.co/mTaFx02rf7

— NGO Monitor (@NGOmonitor) May 1, 2024

A New York City nonprofit that received more than $12 million from Goldman Sachs' charitable arm encouraged anti-Israel activists to re-create the violent protests of "the summer of 2020," just hours before rioters stormed and occupied a building on Columbia University’s campus.

More than 100 masked and keffiyeh-clad activists convened in the People’s Forum’s Manhattan office Monday evening to plan their next moves as anti-Israel protests reach a fever pitch across the country. The meeting, which was scheduled to start at 6:45 p.m., was delayed to give protesters from Columbia time to make it downtown.

Once the Columbia protesters arrived, People’s Forum executive director Manolo De Los Santos urged the group to "give Joe Biden a hot summer" and "make it untenable for the politics of usual to take place in this country." Los Santos praised Columbia students for "decid[ing] that resistance is more important than negotiations," and urged those assembled at the People’s Forum to "support our students so that the encampments can go for as long as they can."

Los Santos also ranted about the "Zionist" Columbia administrators who "want to be more like their masters in Israel."

The "Volunteer Meeting," which the Washington Free Beacon attended via Zoom, concluded at 9:30 p.m. following "break out sessions" that focused on organizing new methods of "resistance." A few hours later activists smashed the windows of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall and barricaded themselves inside.

No arrests were made. The People’s Forum did not respond to a request for comment over whether they were aware of any attendees who rioted at Columbia.

The People’s Forum, a registered charity that describes itself as "a movement incubator for working class and marginalized communities," has been a mainstay at anti-Israel protests since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on the Jewish state. A day after the attack, the People’s Forum organized a Times Square protest where attendees celebrated Hamas and waved posters with anti-Semitic slogans and imagery. One protestor waved a picture of a Nazi flag on his cellphone.

It is not clear who was or who was not a Columbia student at the People’s Forum meeting, although several had just returned from the campus. But Los Santos encouraged attendees to head back.

"The moment the call goes out, we have to go back out," he said. "We have to be the bodies willing to stand between the police and our students."

In case you were tempted to believe these campus protests were organic and just sprung up on their own…

Liberal political groups are funding everything from their matching tents to their matching talking points across the country. https://t.co/xlRuNN9NhV

— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) April 30, 2024

The Pro Palestinian protests have been going on for months, it is well known George Soros and other dark money groups are funding this, just like they all funded BLM/ANTIFA riots, and here we are once again, knowing who is behind it and still nothing is being down to hold them…

— OurVoicesWILLNOTBeSilenced (@cgosselinaikens) April 30, 2024

After an anti-Israel encampment was erected at Northwestern University last week, the school’s president on Monday reached an agreement with protestors to end the encampment — acceding to several of their demands in the process, which drew strong condemnation from many in the Chicago and national Jewish communities.

In a letter to university President Michael Schill, the Jewish United Fund — Chicago’s Jewish federation, which also oversees Northwestern Hillel — excoriated the administrator for embracing “those who flagrantly disrupted Northwestern academics and flouted those policies.”

“The overwhelming majority of your Jewish students, faculty, staff, and alumni feel betrayed. They trusted an institution you lead and considered it home. You have violated that trust,” the letter said. “You certainly heard and acted generously towards those with loud, at times hateful voices. The lack of any reassuring message to our community has also been heard loud and clear.”

The Anti-Defamation League, StandWithUs and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law joined together to call for Schill’s resignation after the agreement was announced.

“For days, protestors openly mocked and violated Northwestern’s codes of conduct and policies by erecting an encampment in which they fanned the flames of antisemitism and wreaked havoc on the entire university community,” the groups said in a statement. “Rather than hold them accountable – as he pledged he would – President Schill gave them a seat at the table and normalized their hatred against Jewish students.”

In a document deemed “Agreement on Deering Meadow,” Schill agreed to allow students to protest until the end of classes on June 1 so long as tents are removed, and to encourage employers not to rescind job offers for student protestors. The school will also allow students to weigh in on university investments — a major concession for students who have been demanding the university to divest from Israeli corporations.

A section titled “inclusivity” pledged extra funding to programs supporting Muslim students and Palestinian faculty, and to build a campus house for Muslim students. (A university spokesperson declined to say whether Northwestern will also offer funds for the campus Hillel house, an independent organization that funds its own operations.) The agreement earned the praise of the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. It mentioned Jewish students once, in a section committing to “additional support for Jewish and Muslim students.”

Brown University reached an agreement on Tuesday with students protesting the war in Gaza that would see them remove their encampment from school grounds in exchange for the institution considering divesting from Israel.

The move represents the first major concession from an elite American university amid relentless student protests that have paralyzed campuses across the country, divided public opinion and led to hundreds of arrests.

In a statement, Brown president Christina Paxson said students had agreed to end their protests and clear their camp by 5 p.m. local time Tuesday and “refrain from further actions that would violate Brown’s conduct code through the end of the academic year.”

In turn, “five students will be invited to meet with five members of the Corporation of Brown University in May to present their arguments to divest Brown’s endowment from ‘companies enabling and profiting from the genocide in Gaza.'”

The board will vote on the proposal in October.

Student protesters jumped for joy upon hearing the news of the deal and chanted “with love not fear, divestment is getting near” before beginning to remove their tents.

At half-past-midnight yesterday, I received a text from a Columbia undergraduate friend: “They are attempting to occupy Hamilton Hall.”

It goes without saying that things inside were hectic.

A couple students I know closely attempted to block the protesters from breaking into Hamilton, an audacious last stand that ended with them being shoved, grabbed, and later threatened anonymously.

Other friends dialed 911, troubled by ongoing vandalism and the very real possibility of an all-out brawl.

Outside, I saw your typical sign-waving, starry-eyed students, along with another darkly-clad cohort of protestors surveilling campus.

Their black balaclavas and combat boots made it clear they weren’t Columbians.

I first ran into a group of them fumbling with a chained campus gate.

Upon inquiring into their lock-shaking activities, I was met with a series of nasally-voiced expletives.

As un-intimidating as they sounded, I thought it would be a good idea to tell somebody.

This turned out to be a difficult task.

Since the beginning of the South Lawn “liberated zone,” Columbia has outsourced border control to third-party contractors like Allied Universal and Apex Security.

Though there are plenty of guards, most of them sit around on their phones, headphones plugged in.

As it turns out, if you report suspicious behavior to them, they’ll tell you to find someone else.

Thus I made my way around the school to a Columbia Public Safety booth, passing another balaclava-wearing band on Broadway.

Unfortunately, I was too late: online, videos were circulating of these outsiders climbing through the windows of John Jay Hall, a first-year dormitory.

Though Public Safety initially denied the break-in, students inside knew better and were panicking on social media.

The intruders reportedly fled after some time, but the university has refused to release a statement on the matter.

How assuring.

Well, now we see that it can be done.

It’s notable, however, that it took the takeover of an academic building by the pro-Hamas thugs—and not the declaration of Zionist-free zones or celebrations of violence against Jews—to get the administration to take action.

Why is that? https://t.co/VpBSb63CQO

— Avi Mayer אבי מאיר (@AviMayer) May 1, 2024

The wife of an ex-college professor convicted of terrorism-related charges was spotted hanging out at Columbia University’s encampment prior to the dramatic NYPD raid where cops busted 109 people Tuesday night.

Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday blamed “outside agitators” for the campus chaos, saying cops had identified individuals who weren’t Columbia students among the protesters.

While he refused to offer up names, Hizzoner told MSNBC during a media blitz that “one of the individual’s husband was arrested for and convicted for terrorism on a federal level.”

“One of them was married to someone that was arrested for terrorism,” he later reiterated during a follow-up interview on CBS.

Sami Al-Arian — who pleaded guilty in 2005 to fundraising and other support for the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad — had earlier boasted on social media that his wife, Nahla, was among those who joined anti-Israel protesters at the Ivy League campus last week.

Al-Arian, who was deported from the US in 2015 after serving time, shared a photo of his wife smiling and sitting alone among the tents.

Follow The Post’s live blog for the latest on Columbia University’s anti-Israel protest

Police later clarified Nahla Al-Arian was only on the Morningside Heights campus last week and was not among the pro-terror mob that broke into an academic building early Tuesday and occupied it for nearly 24 hours before cops were given the green light to storm in and make arrests.

While there was also no evidence of any wrongdoing on her part, the NYPD’s head of counterterrorism said Nahla’s on-campus presence wasn’t something she’d want for her own child.

Although the NYPD was finally allowed to do its job at Columbia University, it would be a mistake to believe the disgraceful episode is over.

After all, the pro-Hamas stooges, the complicit faculty and the quisling administrators are still jockeying for power.

With graduation still two weeks away, it’s too early to declare a winner.

Start with the radical students. They set up a camp in the middle of the famous quad and day-after-day chanted slogans that revealed an allegiance to terrorists.

They harassed Jewish students and their commitment to the elimination of Israel marks the resurgence of an ancient hatred in a city that has long been a safe haven for Jews.

What are the students reading in their fetid tents — “Mein Kampf”?

Meanwhile, their demands for ending the rebellion are not likely to change despite the scores of arrests Tuesday night.

Chief among them is that the Ivy League school end all investments in military suppliers and tech companies that do business with Israel’s government.

No more amnesty
Coming from a group called Apartheid Divest, the demand, along with the students’ celebrating terrorists who butcher babies and use rape as a weapon, proves beyond doubt the activists have contracted a serious case of antisemitism.

It also means they’re not very bright. No doubt most of them own Apple products, many of which include components manufactured in Israel.

Shhh — don’t tell them.

Reflecting their collective ignorance, one of the stooges said earlier Tuesday, “We will not stop until every single one of our demands are met, until every single inch of Palestine is free.” Free in this case means free of Jews.

He, or his parents, deserve a tuition refund because he has learned nothing of value and doesn’t realize how sick with hate he is.

But there’s another demand the rabble-rousers were making that now appears to be obsolete: amnesty.

NYPD cops stormed onto Columbia University’s campus on Tuesday night after finally being given the green light to oust a pro-terror mob that illegally took over an academic building – and to clear out an anti-Israel encampment that brought campus life to a halt.

Hundreds of officers swooped inside the gates of the Morningside Heights campus shortly after 9 p.m. — as other officers also descended on an “intifada’ encampment at the nearby City College of New York.

At Columbia, cops set their sights on historic Hamilton Hall, the building that was taken over by rogue rioters in a drastic escalation of the protests that have plagued the campus for weeks.

But when dozens of Emergency Service Unit officers approached the building, they were blocked from entering the front doors which had been barricaded by the unruly mob.

Several protesters appeared unbothered as they stood in the doorway with only a glass pane between them and the officers — as their comrades on the streets shouted “Pigs!”

The NYPD then brought in its Mobile Adjustable Ramp System vehicle and scores of riot-gear clad cops carrying zip-tie handcuffs entered Hamilton Hall through the second-floor window in a dramatic scene.

According to officials, cops used four distraction devices — described by Assistant Commissioner Carlos Nieves as a “very loud bang to distract people” — to infiltrate the academic building.

In total, about 100 protesters were cuffed and hauled away in the mass sweep, law enforcement sources told The Post.

Pro-Hamas mob tries to block NYPD from accessing @Columbia’s Hamilton Hall by sitting in the street. Police arrest them with zip ties and have them removed.

🎥 @jessicaschwalb7#AntizionismIsAntisemitismpic.twitter.com/X39USiXHoZ

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) May 1, 2024

#BREAKING MASS ARRESTS as NYPD pour hundreds of cops inside Columbia University, Raiding Encampment

Video by Olga Fe Desk@freedomnews.tv to license pic.twitter.com/YnS6v4V00p

— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) May 1, 2024

Columbia University protesters smashed windows, upended furniture and caused damage throughout Hamilton Hall during the occupation before police stormed the campus and arrested more than 100 protestors Tuesday night.

Around 40 protesters were arrested on the first floor of the building after police swooped just after 9pm ending the pro-Palestine encampment that stretched on for nearly two weeks and included students taking over the hall.

Pictures and video taken of the aftermath show the hall's trashed interior strewn with activists' belongings.

Columbia's President Minouche Shafik called in the NYPD in to 'restore order and safety' to the campus amid the escalating protests, which also included a massive encampment on the school's lawns.

The raid saw demonstrators arrested across the campus and at nearby City College New York, where similar protests unfolded.

Police stormed Hamilton Hall through an upstairs window after students used furniture to barricade the entrance.

Pictures show how chairs and desks have been turned upside down to become makeshift barriers. The cost of damage to the building is likely to total thousands of dollars.

The occupation followed weeks of unrest at Columbia, which began with the establishment of the encampment on April 17.

Protesters set up tents after Shafik was grilled before Congress about anti-Semitism on campus.

They repeatedly ignored calls to disband, with the demonstrations ramping up early Tuesday with the violent takeover of Hamilton Hall.

After two weeks of chaos, which saw classes moved online and facilities shuttered, Shafik finally called in the police who managed to clear out the campus in just two hours.

University administrators have now asked the police to maintain a presence until May 17, two days after graduation.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams claimed professional organizers were among the nearly 300 protesters arrested on city campuses Tuesday night, and those organizers were part of a global effort to “radicalize young people.”

Adams’ remarks on Wednesday come after the New York City Police Department arrested 117 people at Columbia University and 173 at the City College of New York, after both schools asked for assistance with ongoing anti-Israel protests.

During a press conference Wednesday, police and city officials did not clarify how many professional organizers were arrested. They said police were investigating each person arrested for connection to the schools, and it would take time to determine who was not affiliated.

“These external actors are obviously not students, and their presence on campus is a violation of Columbia’s clearly stated policy,” Adams said.

“This group … is an outside agitator with a history of escalating a situation and trying to create chaos. It is our belief they are now actively co-opting what should be a peaceful gathering. This is to serve their own agenda. They are not here to promote peace or unity or allow a peaceful display of one’s voice. They are here to create discord and divisiveness.”

The American flag was re-raised at City College of New York after anti-Israel protesters removed it and replaced it with a Palestinian flag at the Harlem Heights campus.

"An incredible scene and proud moment as we have assisted @CityCollegeNY in restoring order on campus, culminating in raising Old Glory once again on their campus flagpole," NYPD Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry wrote on X.

The Palestinian flag had been flying at CCNY since protesters raised it last week when they set up an encampment at the public institute.

Video from Wednesday morning captured members of the NYPD standing atop the base of the flagpole as they worked to remove the quad color flag, where they ripped it from the rope before tossing it to the ground.

The American flag was subsequently raised back up during an impromptu ceremony along with a speech from Daughtry.

#HAPPENINGNOW: An incredible scene and proud moment as we have assisted @CityCollegeNY in restoring order on campus, culminating in raising Old Glory once again on their campus flagpole. 🇺🇸@NYPDPC@NYPD1stDep@NYPDChiefOfDept@NYPDChiefPatrol@NYPDnewspic.twitter.com/XZWFmvXcUs

— NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry (@NYPDDaughtry) May 1, 2024

(Thread) Today was a sad yet empowering day at Chapel Hill. When I walked to class, I saw the Palestinian flag raised on our quad flag pole, and was immediately upset at the act that these “protestors” had made. I cannot say I am fully educated on the Israel/Palestine conflict pic.twitter.com/tZrZEOSu8a

— Guillermo Estrada (@estradguillermo) April 30, 2024

Over the past week, we've seen frat boys team up with police to dismantle a pro-Hamas encampment at @ASU, and put themselves in harm's way at @UNC to prevent anarchists from replacing an American flag with a Palestinian one.

Guys, I think it's time we bring frats back pic.twitter.com/Yn9PSTdo9b

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) May 1, 2024

America is already great

A John Noonan (@noonanjo??) started a gofundme for the frat stars who defended the US flag at UNChttps://t.co/PdVrQfjkObhttps://t.co/Au3qLTeg6kpic.twitter.com/Kq8ZQ1oPn5

— Matthew Foldi (@MatthewFoldi) May 1, 2024

Anti-Israel protesters violently clashed with police who arrived to clear out an “intifada” encampment at the City College of New York late Tuesday around the same time as officers were also finally called to end the takeover of nearby Columbia University.

The chaos broke out around 8 p.m. as protesters at the public university in Harlem tried to bust through a barricade blocking them from reaching the tent city that popped up Friday, video posted to social media shows.

Cops can be seen pushing the demonstrators back as they tried to maintain their position, video posted on social media shows.

One man and a cop exchanged hard shoves while some protesters hurled garbage at the officers.

Suddenly a swarm of cops moves in to make arrests, the clip shows.

As the protests moved out into the streets, one man was filmed bashing an NYPD officer in the head with a 5-gallon water jug with a sticker that read “Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.”

The man was promptly wrestled to the ground by several officers and taken into custody, video shows.

Later in the night, a sea of cops in riot gear flooded through the front gates of the college as a recorded message repeated: “This is the New York City Police Department. You have been warned as per City College to leave the campus. If you refuse to leave, you may be placed under arrest,” police video showed.

“As requested by the university, we are currently on campus to assist the university in dispersing those trespassing,” NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry wrote on X.

The officers then swarmed the lawn where protesters set up tents and began arresting individuals who had linked arms to form a human barrier around some of the tents.

Once the encampment was cleared out, police removed a Palestinian flag that had been raised by the protesters on the campus flagpole and replaced it with the American flag.

COURAGE is when you're a night-shift custodian, who protects students by taking on a masked intruder all by yourself - while cosplaying, tenured professors in matching safety vests sit outside, letting others implement the doctrine of destruction they teach.@Columbia University pic.twitter.com/bGPSeUhef9

— Columbia Jewish Alumni Assoc. (@CU_JewishAlumni) April 30, 2024

University of Wisconsin-Madison police confirmed a bunch of anti-Israel protesters chanted ‘Heil Hitler’ at Jewish students.

University of Wisconsin police confirm chants of "Heil Hitler" being directed to Jewish students @UWMadison. @uwchancellor's response should be carefully considered in light of Title VI obligations. pic.twitter.com/ZJOyK6sMfp

— Dan Lennington (@DanLennington) April 30, 2024

The tents remain at UW-Madison, too. UW-Milwaukee told students it’s against the law to camp on school grounds. Their demands:
- Disclose all financial assets and “divest accordingly,” including investments made by the UWM Foundation. The school said the foundation is a separate legal entity and that it cannot control its investments, which are in mutual funds. The foundation can’t divest from specific companies in those funds, it said.
- Cut ties with weapons manufacturers and commit to no future deals with organizations that “profits from or supports the occupation of Palestine.” The school said it does not have investments in weapons manufacturers.
- End study abroad trips to Israel and research partnerships with institutions in Israel. The school said it does not have any active study-abroad trips to Israel and that preventing faculty from engaging with Israeli institutions would infringe on academic freedom.
- Release a statement condemning the “ongoing genocide of Palestinians by the apartheid state of Israel.” The school repeated its call for the release of hostages and for a ceasefire.

"Columbia has completely shut down access to campus to try to starve the encampment."

It's even worse. Rumor has it prior to the closure there were 500 aid trucks entering Columbia to feed the students every day.

Now they don't even have airdrops. https://t.co/diaaKR748U

— Avi Bitterman, MD (@AviBittMD) April 30, 2024

BREAKING🚨: Using a drone I was able to get EXCLUSIVE UCLA Pro Palestine encampment footage. They are TRAINING protestors in hand to hand combat as LAPD expected to tear down the encampment as soon as tonight, and potential fights with police expected.

The school has deemed the… pic.twitter.com/SmLSX6cPjG

— Anthony Cabassa (@AnthonyCabassa_) May 1, 2024

We know UCLA told its police department not to do anything regarding the anti-Israel encampment on campus, even after a video showed a Jewish girl unconscious after anti-Israel protesters beat her.

A young Jewish woman was beaten unconscious by pro-Hamas students at the UCLA campus in California today.

Will mainstream media tell their viewers and readers about it? Or do we have to do all the work here on X?

Via @mihaschwpic.twitter.com/IMRCbLnS9U

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 30, 2024

Well, chaos erupted overnight between anti-Israel people and pro-Israel protesters, leaving people bruised, maced, and bloody…as hired security sat on the sidelines.

The LAPD barely did anything when they arrived, too.

Barrier Line Drawn
Pro-Israel students showed up because UCLA wasn’t going to do a darn thing to protect its Jewish students and the rest who did not participate in the anti-Israel encampment:
Counter-protesters calling for the release of Israeli hostages taken captive on Oct. 7 by Hamas have used screens and speakers to blast images and stories of survivors just feet away from the encampment.

“I think this is blatant antisemitism,” one young man, who was not identified, told KTLA. “This is crazy what’s going on, what they’re letting go on. They’re chanting to kill us. They’re chanting ‘from the river to the sea,’ which is just blatantly to kill us all. I wanted to see what’s going on and it’s scary.”

They started showing up at 11 PM.

This is the current scene at UCLA, small group of counter protestors at the barrier line of the Pro Palestine encampment.

They have been playing music, blasting sirens and playing the national anthem through the evening.

Security and barriers still up despite reports to the… pic.twitter.com/fElEl0ybPH

— Anthony Cabassa (@AnthonyCabassa_) May 1, 2024

🚨 Update: here is the video. Apparently she was limp then carried to the ER.

Thanks @SarahMKCohenhttps://t.co/Qn2UkEJcvLpic.twitter.com/VCVBjPSsLl

— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) May 1, 2024

🚨 UCLA NOW: Rioters Riot.

❌The President has failed.
❌California has failed.
❌UCLA has failed.
❌LAPD has failed.

✅ This is what failure looks like. pic.twitter.com/7MIXHm4b6B

— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) May 1, 2024

🚨 HAPPENING NOW: UCLA Violence

⚠️ Pali-Protestors Surrounding Jews.

ℹ️ This is beyond belief.

👉 Follow @ShirionOrgpic.twitter.com/RMNnopg8ge

— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) May 1, 2024

As @zach_kessel reported, they held him for almost an hour while campus security just looked on. https://t.co/fNEKxPZK6K

— AG (@AGHamilton29) May 1, 2024

Dude added resisting arrest (up to 1 year in jail) and assault on an officer (up to 15 years) with one swing of an empty water bottle against a riot helmet. Brilliant stuff. https://t.co/wIyjnZxD6S

— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) May 1, 2024

“How many bags of shekels are you paying the police?”

A man to Jews at the University of Texas at Austin yesterday. pic.twitter.com/WCBCu45LvJ

— Kassy Akiva (@KassyDillon) May 1, 2024

Karen thinks we don't have eyes and ears. The gaslighting is strong. She's the @washingtonpost's Global Editor AND an Adjunct Lecturer at Columbia, which should tell you everything you need to know about her coverage https://t.co/h3kATJiAJhpic.twitter.com/ORjACknT61

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) May 1, 2024

I was attacked at a publicly funded university @CUNY for having an American flag!!@benshapirohttps://t.co/cgzRn0ES3y

— Ami Horowitz (@AmiHorowitz) May 1, 2024

Yesterday shortly before the NYPD entered @Columbia’s main campus, students and faculty gathered at the university’s medical campus located further uptown in Manhattan.

Professor A Kayum Ahmed who serves as an Assistant Professor of Population and Family Health at Columbia’s… pic.twitter.com/Z3ykJVDZo6

— Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus (@CampusJewHate) May 1, 2024

Hey, guys. This is my Draft 1 of a report analyzing the Middle Eastern Studies department at @Columbia . The situation is not great.
Please share and DM for better quality + links to evidence.@ShaiDavidai@edenyadegar@EylonALevy@AviMayerpic.twitter.com/RoP82whoRu

— XX XX (@fafoxxxxx) May 1, 2024

HOST: "And you actually do not wear a mask on campus?"

STUDENT: "Absolutely not. I am proud of who I am. I want them to see my face."

This is another strong American Jewish student standing against anti-Semitic intimidation, standing-up for American values, & for what is right. pic.twitter.com/4zqFpygBrG

— Congressman Byron Donalds (@RepDonaldsPress) April 30, 2024

https://t.co/YR08y04UJN

— The Flag Guy (@TheFlagGuy_) May 1, 2024

Part 1 - Linda Sarsour is fulfilled by her job of radicalizing your child by calling you (a parent) and telling you it’s ok for your kid to protest (even though they are in danger of ruining their future, she will tell you they aren’t in Part 3). pic.twitter.com/ck8y8BSieF

— LAWYERGONEROGUE (@lawyergonerogue) April 30, 2024

An adult American female who has graduated medical school and maintains a prosperous career as a trauma surgeon thinks Hamas wants equal rights for all.

The naïveté is absolutely staggering. https://t.co/D9w4E373V8

— Alexandra F. Baldwin (@VerumVulnero1) April 30, 2024

Dueling groups of pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protesters clashed Wednesday at the University of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and using sticks to beat one another as days of tensions over the war in Gaza burst into outright violence.

The brawl took place hours after police burst into a building at Columbia University in New York City that had been taken over by pro-Palestinian protesters and broke up a demonstration that had paralyzed the school, as a wave of anti-Israel protests sent shockwaves through college campuses across the United States and elsewhere.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said about 300 people had been arrested and he blamed the protests on outside agitators, but without offering concrete evidence.

At UCLA, riot police wearing helmets and face shields formed lines and slowly separated the groups after several hours of scuffles between demonstrators. The move appeared to quell the violence.

The fighting took place after several days of rising friction between demonstrators protesting Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group and counter-protestors, who tried to pull down barricades and plywood built by pro-Palestinian activists to protect a protest encampment.

Video showed fireworks exploding over and in the encampment. People threw chairs and at one point a group piled on a person who lay on the ground, kicking and beating them with sticks until others pulled them out of the scrum.

UCLA 🚨: Pro Israel protestors have just rolled in a second loudspeaker. The Pro Israel side has tripled since the last video and tensions are very high between both sides. More security has been called to the barrier separating both sides. pic.twitter.com/RyDuPtwtfG

— Anthony Cabassa (@AnthonyCabassa_) May 1, 2024

UCLA 🚨: FIGHTS continue through the night. Dozens injured , multiple bleeding, still ZERO law enforcement present. Both sides drag their wounded and fresh protestors replace them on the front. Total Anarchy. pic.twitter.com/Fl6T35zJRc

— Anthony Cabassa (@AnthonyCabassa_) May 1, 2024

UCLA 🚨: this is the hired security that was earlier separating both factions, as you can see, they’re on the sidelines, watching, still on the clock but unable to do nothing as @UCLA has ordered them to stand down. Violence ensues. pic.twitter.com/U6EkIOEGv4

— Anthony Cabassa (@AnthonyCabassa_) May 1, 2024

Reason 6789674 not to send your kid to college.
pic.twitter.com/8Ey4hbWIRm

— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) May 1, 2024

Natives are blaring the national anthem & the pledge of allegiance while they face off with the encampment @UCLA🦅🦅🦅 pic.twitter.com/o0l4uGmaPe

— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) May 1, 2024

Spotted at UCLA

“JEWISH LIVES MATTER”

📷 @ParmisLJavanpic.twitter.com/8ctpFoeh3X

— Kosher🎗🧡 (@KosherCockney) April 30, 2024

BREAKING 🚨: LAPD RIOT POLICR ON SCENE, Pro Israel welcome them with “USA! USA! USA!” Chants. pic.twitter.com/GNsG3HwriV

— Anthony Cabassa (@AnthonyCabassa_) May 1, 2024

UCLA 🚨 3:20 am, LAPD has successfully cleared the area separating both factions. However, overhearing police, their orders are not to arrest anyone or clear the encampment, simply to separate both opposing protest groups. pic.twitter.com/i9NtEGdG5O

— Anthony Cabassa (@AnthonyCabassa_) May 1, 2024

They chanted “USA” and obscenities against communists almost the entire time rather than Pro-Israel sentiments.

— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) May 1, 2024

That’s right. Us Zionists are everywhere. Get used to it. https://t.co/9F7LmGJfRY

— LAWYERGONEROGUE (@lawyergonerogue) April 30, 2024

University Students and Professors in Iran Rally in Support of Campus Encampments in the West: Study Khamenei’s Message, Act to Annihilate Israel; Death to America! Death to the Jewish Oppressors! #Iran#campusProtests#ColumbiaUniversityProtestpic.twitter.com/p0Rz8vbH3j

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) April 30, 2024

Tehran University Professor Foad Izadi: We Like What We Are Seeing on U.S. College Campuses; These Are Our People, They Will Support Iran in Case of Confrontation with the U.S.; Iran Can Repeat in America What It Did in Lebanon #Iran#campusProtests@IzadiFoadpic.twitter.com/5Xkm26C8ye

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 1, 2024

This is from an anti-Israel compound at USC campus, and apparently it’s supposed to make some sort of sense pic.twitter.com/nhKsnKBum2

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) April 30, 2024

🎵 IF YOU’RE RACIST AND YOU KNOW IT CLAP YOUR HANDS… pic.twitter.com/khliHyWT2S

— leekern (@leekern13) April 30, 2024

UCLA Replaces Student IDs With New Fashionable Identifying Armbands https://t.co/2YPZTrmV8Zpic.twitter.com/3KKx4B2gm5

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 30, 2024

Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424.  Read all about it here!

Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein.

I watched Screams Before Silence* just before the final leg of the Passover holiday. I didn’t know whether I should. After all, I totally believe my recent cardiac arrest was due to the extended anguish of hearing about the atrocities of this war, and due also to thinking about what is still happening, right now, to our hostages. It has been unbearable for months, thinking these thoughts, and then chiding one’s self: ‘You think the thought is unbearable??’

Then you feel guilty for imagining that you suffer at all, for what is only in your mind, in light of what happened, is happening to them, still.

I reason with myself: ‘You shouldn’t watch—it’s almost candle-lighting time. Do you really want to go into the holiday with such darkness in your mind and heart?’

I knew the answer. That I shouldn’t watch Screams Before Silence right then, at that time. It would definitely be completely inappropriate to do so, as one is meant to be happy on a holiday. But I couldn’t help myself—I felt compelled to watch this documentary. It was a need, but also something to dread. I knew it would be bad, hard-to-watch bad.

There was time to watch all but maybe the final fourteen minutes of the documentary, so I reasoned some more: ‘I have an obligation to know, to bear witness, to internalize what happened—happens still. For me as a Jew. They are my people, a part of me.’

So I anyway watch what I can before the sun goes down. It is hard to watch and listen. I cry out, “Oh, God!” several times.

You can’t help it if you’re human.

Did watching Screams Before Silence color my yontif, my holiday? Of course it did. But I managed. By now these terrors, as well as expecting to hear of new terrors every day, are a part of life. Holiday happiness is, at any rate, for the time being, muted.  

From time to time, my mind flitted back to what Dr. Cochav Elyakam-Levy, Head of the Civil Commission on Oct. 7th Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children, had to say about the sexual violence of October 7:

This is a kind of pattern we’re seeing, that it’s not just sexual abuse, but it’s sexual abuse in its worst form. It’s like they wanted to inflict pain, in the cruelest manner possible. I think they have redefined evil and in ways that we will need to redefine international criminal law.

Then I would think back to somber recitation of the ZAKA volunteer, of how again and again, they saw the same thing. Hundreds of times. Perhaps more.

When you see one woman, then another and another, all with signs of abuse in the groin area, you understand that this wasn't a random thing. You can't reach that area unless you mean to. It's someone who has come to do different kinds of things to you.

If he doesn't have time, he'll just kill you. If he has a little time, he'll slit your throat. If he has more time, he'll cut off body parts. And if he has even more time, he'll also cause pain and defile, especially if it's a woman. He'll defile her body, not for pleasure but for humiliation. And that's what we saw.

 

ZAKA volunteer, screenshot from Screams Before Silence

After the holiday, and after I did my share of post-Passover tasks, I watched the last 14 minutes of Screams Before Silence. Then I thanked Sheryl Sandberg—on youtube, on X—we had all been waiting for this film, we needed this film, but she went and actually did it. She made the film.

We need this film to make the world understand. We need it to educate college protesters who don’t even know why they are protesting. After seeing Screams Before Silence, could these same young women continue to ally themselves with who yell, “We are Hamas!”?

🚨VIDEO: A REAL interview we had at NYU:

QUESTION: "Why are you protesting?"

PROTESTER #1: "I don't know. I'm pretty sure there's something about Israel [turns to other person] Why are we protesting?"

PROTESTER #2: "I wish I was more educated."

PROTESTER #1: "I'm not either."pic.twitter.com/8aB2ZoTCCk

— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) April 24, 2024

We needed the film for the people who say it didn’t happen. For the people who say there were no rapes.

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And yet, it doesn’t help. Films, photos, testimony, proof of all sorts. None of it matters. They want to believe—choose to believe—whatever fits the narrative they, the haters, prefer to, want to believe.

 

They feel Israel/Zionists/Jews deserve atrocities and genocide—they can justify it however they like. They can say we are white Europeans who should go back to Poland or Russia, even though so many of us in Israel in particular, are dark.

Erasing both history and archaeology, they say we stole land from people who were here before us. The truth inversion continues when the liars claim that Jews do to Arabs what Arabs do to Jews, only worse. They will show you a 15-year-old photo of a dead Syrian child and curse the “criminal” Zionist soldiers, implying that to love your country is a crime. If you’re a Jew.

And when you say, “They burned a baby in an oven,” they will smugly smile and say, “That was disproven.”

You can try saying, “It was NOT disproven. It happened,” but all they will do is laugh at you.

“Where’s the proof?” they will say, and you can do nothing, can show them no proof, because that would be wrong.

There are photos, I always tell them, but you can’t see them. And that’s out of respect for the victims. For goodness sake, what have they left if not for their privacy? Do they have to forever be imagined in the world’s collective mind as naked and defiled? Like Shani Louk?

They gave that photo an award. The world lapped it up like a cat with a bowl of cream. They love it when the Jew gets it. They don’t care how.

They don’t even care that they contradict themselves. There are no photos. Give the photo an award. Which of those two statements is true?? Of the widely shared photo of Shani Louk, the antisemites make excuses, because it suits their narrative. “One rape, pffft.” they will say. “That’s your proof of systematic mass rape? One rape?? One rape is nothing compared to what Zionist soldiers do to Palestinian women in Gaza every day.”

They know that’s a lie, a convenient lie. It’s so ridiculous it makes you shake your head in disbelief. It takes your breath away by its sheer, evil chutzpah. The lie serves their purpose. It allows them to look the other way when Arabs rape and deface Jewish women. They twist the truth back on you and tell you the opposite is true.

It’s not just a boldfaced lie about soldiers (who are moral, that you care about)—it’s an aggression. They are raising you one—raising the stakes as if in a game of poker, lying right in your face/computer screen that it is Israel who is the criminal, while Hamas terrorists and their sympathizers are sweet angels, having a “justifiable” moment of rage.

Now some of these people—these liars—are truly evil. Others, we must acknowledge, are merely stupid.

So we needed this movie, and we didn’t need it. Because the film purposely does not display the really graphic images. “Out of respect for the victims and their families,” reads the text at the end of the film, in plain white letters on a stark black background, “we chose not to show explicit images in this film.”

Instead we see Sheryl Sandberg reacting to such images as they are shown to her on the phone screens of ZAKA volunteers. We watch her face as she looks at each photo and hears the volunteers describe she is seeing, what happened to each woman, all that was done to her. If you’ve got a heart and a soul, you don’t need more than you are shown in Screams Before Silence to visualize what happened, and believe it to your core. It is awful. It is the truth.

The Jew-haters on the other hand, will not be persuaded. They will keep on saying, “Screenshot or it didn’t happen.”

Those are the haters. But what about the stupid, the sheep like students caught up in the spirit of the thing, which they confuse with a spirit of justice? Perhaps they have a chance, the stupid, could be educated, if they watch this documentary.

Because the documentary rings true. You know it’s true when the women say they fear rape more than death, and when a grown man, a man big and burly, says “No one can see those kinds of things,” and then breaks into sobs.

Sometimes I think that if I could, I would show the ugly-hearted, Jew-hating campus protesters October 7^th footage on a loop. Such footage, after all, abounds. The terrorists themselves used their go-pros to document their own horrors. This footage is not hard to find. So I was excited when I read just this morning that an anonymous someone had done just that.

Played October 7^th footage to protesters. In a loop. On a big, outdoor screen. 

An anonymous group has funded and constructed a giant screen with loudspeakers outside the @UCLA Pro-Hamas Encampments showing footage of the October 7 Massacre on loop.

Bravo to these geniuses. #StandWithIsraelpic.twitter.com/t6bl12gvxl

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 29, 2024

 Awesome!

Or is it? If the crowd prefers to jeer over allowing tragedy to move them, will it even matter—will it matter what you show them? No. They’ll invert the truth. Laugh at you. Say the footage is “heavily edited” or a photo is “obviously photoshopped”. Whatever lies they can throw at you, they will. That’s the game.

But we’re not playing. For us, it’s not a game. We have a duty to bear witness to the systematic torture of, and sexual violence against Jewish women by Hamas deviants, and so I remain grateful to Sheryl Sandberg. Screams Before Silence is a film that helps us to recognize Hamas for what it is, be firm in our resolve to eradicate this evil, once and for all, from our world. October 7^th was a concerted, premeditated attack against the Jewish people via its women.

As we watch and listen to protesters deny the obvious truth of Screams Before Silence, it will become easier and easier to see that they out themselves, and for us to distinguish between the humans and everyone else.

Humans will care. The evil will not. And should be eliminated from God’s green earth.

*Elder of Ziyon beat me to the punch with his excellent and concise take on the subject, Screams Before Silence, the documentary with select quotes from journalist Brett Stephens. 

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Although defections and resignations can come in waves, the extent of opposition to President Biden’s policy of favoring Israel over Hamas has yet to kindle much of an exodus from his administration. Mostly we’re subject to a lot of whining from people who continue to accept a paycheck from the man they claim is genociding Palestinians.

That tells you something about how many of the complainers actually believe the rhetoric they’re parroting. It also provides a clue as to the cynical motivations of the few who actually resign.

Josh Paul was the first to do so, back in December, to great media fanfare. Paul, a former Booz Allen Hamilton employee, was in charge of arms transfers. He could abide those weapons going to many governments around the world, but not Israel’s.

At the time, I detailed the distortions in Paul’s explanation for his resignation. These in part had to do with Paul’s refusal to read past the headline of a news story about a sudden lack of donkeys in Gaza. I had hoped that he would devote his newfound free time to reading the rest of the article on the donkeys, but it appears he had other plans. He has resurfaced at DAWN, a nongovernmental organization called Democracy for the Arab World Now. The director of DAWN is none other than Sarah Leah Whitson, the former Human Rights Watch official who was found to have been raising money from Arab governments by complaining about the need to battle pro-Israel (read: Jewish) money in U.S. politics.

Funded by the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund, among others, DAWN is a fierce advocate of boycotting Israel and of pressuring Israel’s fellow democracies to enforce an arms embargo against the Jewish state. It also opposed the Abraham Accords—that is, it is opposed to peace in the Middle East. Josh Paul will fit right in.

Then in March, there was Annelle Sheline, who worked for the State Department for a year before leaving. The State Department has a Dissent Channel through which employees can raise concerns about policy with protection from professional retribution, and Sheline utilized the channel. But she gave up after a year because her bosses wouldn’t change their policies to fit her ideological worldview.

In Sheline’s (very limited) defense, she was used to working for a employers who were more receptive to her anti-Israel activism. Sheline came to the State Department from the Quincy Institute, whose executive vice president is Trita Parsi, founder of the National Iranian American Council. NIAC is a major pro-Iran pressure group with influence in Democratic Party policymaking circles. Also at Quincy are such international-relations luminaries as John Mearsheimer, mostly infamous for his campaign against American Jews’ participation in the democratic process. This includes the book he co-authored with Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby and American Foreign Policy—a shoddy work of agitprop aimed at raising suspicions against Jewish political activists. Mearsheimer is also a proponent of the “good Jew/bad Jew” worldview, wherein non-Jews decide which Jews can be trusted and which cannot. Judging by Sheline’s hero worship of Aaron Bushnell, the Air Force service member who self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., she must have been quite comfortable at Quincy as well.

Two years ago, I published an analysis of a news article by The New York Times bureau chief in Jerusalem for bias, and he promptly complained to my editor. Today, I will tackle the Times’s opinion writer, Thomas Friedman, and his recent column, “Israel has a choice to make: Rafah or Riyadh,” for factual context and even-handedness.

In his latest column, he said the Biden team demands Israel make a choice: go into Rafah, where the last organized brigades of Hamas are, or choose the benefits of normalization with Saudi Arabia.

Friedman paints a binary picture: Israel accepts what the Biden administration wants – no Rafah operation – while creating a path for Palestinian statehood; otherwise, Israel becomes an international pariah with the acquiescence of America, with the US restricting arms shipments as punishment for its choice.

Friedman puts the onus on Israel to abandon its campaign to rid the area of the implacable Hamas army, not mentioning that the Biden administration asks, on the other hand, very little of the Palestinians.

The ultimatum is for Israel to create a “political horizon for a two-state solution with non-Hamas-led Palestinians.” It sounds reasonable to the uninformed, but Friedman doesn’t mention that Israel has offered a state five times over the last 75 years.

In 2008, the Israelis offered 100% of the West Bank and Gaza with land swaps and Jerusalem as their capital, supposedly everything the American negotiators believed the Palestinians wanted. Unfortunately, the current Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas never responded.

Those who push for a two-state solution at this time seem oblivious and insensitive to the fact that this would represent to everyone the greatest reward possible for the Hamas massacre, especially with hostages still in captivity and their sexual abuse being exposed. Calling for a reformed Palestinian Authority sounds nice but the fact is that free elections would almost certainly bring Hamas to power.

Friedman says Israel’s strategy is “revenge.” Israel’s strategy is to end the presence of terror organizations on its borders that strive tirelessly for the genocide of the Jewish people, with the backing of Iran.

There are no explicit agendas provided of what PA reform means, an essential point if you want them to take over the West Bank and Gaza. Should Israel be forced to begin a path to statehood without America demanding first that the hundreds of millions of dollars a year paid by the PA to convicted terrorists and their families end?

The PA has also said they would pay Hamas terrorists, excuse me, martyrs. There is an American law, the Taylor Force Act, which demands the withholding of US aid to the PA until they end these payments. Mr. Friedman, are you OK beginning your path to Palestinian independence with this hideous practice left in place?

As many of the Yale students I spoke with pointed out, Israelism is so one-sided and so certain of its own virtue and rightness that critique seems almost beside the point. Palestinian activists (Sami Awad, in particular) come across as deeply humane, and their characterizations of Israelis and the conflict are never challenged. An immigrant Jew, for instance, is described by Awad as a foreigner who “just moved here to join the army and play cowboys and Indians.” And the only Jewish settler who appears in the film is callous and unlikeable.

So certain are the filmmakers that the entire history of the conflict can be summed up as one in which the Israelis are simply and only the oppressors that we are informed, “In 1967, the State of Israel managed to complete its control of Palestine by taking over the territory of the West Bank and Gaza.” No mention is made of Egypt, Syria, or Jordan, or the circumstances of the Six-Day War. Similarly, the Second Intifada goes unnamed in the film except as “a battle for Jerusalem.”

In short, what is important to note about Israelism is not its historical distortions or polemical tricks but the myth it constructs of Eitan’s and Simone’s—but especially Simone’s—journey to enlightenment. What did Simone see that the American Jewish establishment—personified in the film as an elderly Foxman rambling on in his elegant glass office high above Manhattan—didn’t want her to see, and how did it change her?

Whether the film is conscious of it or not, the archetype here is Paul, who had been the Pharisee Saul until he had a vision on the road to Damascus, not too far from the one Simone had on the streets of Bethlehem. Paul’s vision transformed him from a self-described persecutor of Christians to Christianity’s first great evangelist. He went from being fierce, ignorant, and sad to happy, articulate, and liberated, as, the film shows us, has Zimmerman. Like Paul, Simone’s conversion moved her from a self-interested cloud of particularism to a vision of spiritual universalism—“There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female,” Paul tells the Galatians.

The appeal of Paul is understandable, especially for those of us who grew up in America. The Pauline tradition brings some of the best of Jewish universalism and offers a shortcut to the theological endgame, skipping over particularism and otherness. It is easier for diaspora liberal Jews today to imagine that the Jewish people can finally achieve our place in the world, and retain our moral character, by subordinating our nationalism rather than trying to compete for a place in a world of nations, and the occupation proves the point.

The Pauline trope helps explain two key dimensions of the film. Its insistence that young American Jews are lied to makes sense once one understands that the Jewish community has placed scales upon their eyes. And once the scales fall away and the truth is revealed—once one sees the horrifying truth that has been hidden—one must become an evangelist and bear the tragic burden of preaching the gospel, even at the cost of alienation from the community one seeks to transform.

To be clear, I am not suggesting, as some advocates of Israel unfortunately have, that Zimmerman and her allies are no longer Jews (or are now “Un-Jews”). Zimmerman and her allies believe that their critique of our community comes from their Jewishness—and they make no claims to be leaving. In fact, by the end of the film, the gauzy sequences of protests by IfNotNow (which Zimmerman cofounded) and others portray a different vision of Jewish particularism: the dissidents proudly wear tallitot and kippot; they sing Jewish songs. But identifying the Pauline trope that underlies the film helps us understand the story that its protagonists and creators want to tell about their journey from ignorance to enlightenment, from obscurantism to moral grandeur. This is not really a political story—one learns almost nothing about the history and politics of the conflict from this film—it is a story of personal spiritual transformation. Movie poster from the film Israelism. (Courtesy of Tikkun Olam.)

For the enlightened, everything that runs counter to their new narrative must be a lie. This naturally gives rise to conspiracy theories. How else can one explain how the plain truth has been hidden, except through the perfidy of deception? This assumption helps explain the surprising plot turn of the second half of Israelism. The film argues explicitly that the rise of Donald Trump, and therefore the emboldening of the white supremacist antisemitism, is the fault of the pro-Israel community in America. The rationale for this claim is offered by Simone at the film’s midpoint, when she concludes that the Jewish community believes that “the only way we Jews can be safe is if Palestinians are not safe.” Ultimately, the film argues, this belief has led the Jewish establishment to trade our safety in America for the safety of Jews in Israel, because President Trump could be counted on to support the Israeli government’s oppression of the Palestinians.

This argument blames the Jews for their own victimization and begins to make the film, in the words of a friend, “epistemically antisemitic.” Plenty of Jews blame other Jews today for the rise of antisemitism, so the argument here is not novel. The only irony here is that polarization in America has driven the rise of the antisemitism in America on both the right and the left, and the film is only too eager to help that trend along.

As a liberal Zionist, I aspire to be what Michael Walzer has famously called a “connected critic,” and I struggled watching Israelism and its translation of complexity into conspiracy. Entirely missing from the film was the majority of Jewish leaders and educators in America who know and teach about Palestinians and occupation, neither lying to their students nor concluding that Israel’s challenges require them to abandon their loyalties. Where, in Israelism’s world, are the majority of American Jews—and the majority of Israelis—who know the present is untenable but fear the alternatives? Or the parallel majority on the Palestinian side, who know that the path toward mutual safety and security lies in recognizing our inextricability? And what happens to us in this desperate attempt to generate mass appeal for the most populist and partisan version of our impossible story?

Im Tirtzu in a special event with Dr. Gadi Taub and Caroline Glick

Author Douglas Murray has warned the International Criminal Court over its “unwise” decision to go after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

It follows reports from Israeli media outlets The Hague may issue warrants for the arrests of the Prime Minister, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Herzi Halevi.

In a statement posted to X last week, Mr Netanyahu said Israel will “never accept any attempt by the ICC to undermine its inherent right of self-defence”.

“There are several things that are appalling about this,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

“One is that this is being done without any fresh investigation and with no new evidence or anything like that – it’s a political prosecution, attempted prosecution.

“The second thing is that this would be the first time that the ICC at The Hague would have come for a democratically elected leader, and I believe that is an extraordinary step.”

Egypt just proposed a crazy new ceasefire deal that is amazing for Hamas and to say the least, terrible for Israel. We’re going to get into all the details of this on today’s show along with something insane that the ICC is doing right now.

When President Biden erroneously states that Israel has been “indiscriminately bombing civilians,” when our UN delegation refuses to veto a resolution calling for a ceasefire without conditioning it on the release of the hostages, when various US officials call on Israel to “be more careful” not to kill civilians (as though they are not already being more careful than any other military force in history, including ours), it all sends a clear message — that Israel is the villain in the current conflict.

I’ve heard from some pro-Israel Democrats who excuse this rhetoric: so what if Biden has to criticize Israel to appease his left flank politically, they say, as long as he keeps sending arms and aid? And yes, the arms and aid are important. But so is the rhetoric. According to a recent Pew Research poll, only 36% of Americans currently favor sending military aid to Israel. Is this shockingly low number due to all the anti-Israel rhetoric? How long before the negative rhetoric drives public opinion to the point where the continuation of aid is politically untenable? The rhetoric moves the culture, and our culture is definitely moving against Israel, and against all Jews.

When Hitler came to power in 1933, he did not immediately begin sending Jews to concentration camps. It would be seven years until Auschwitz would open in 1940. A lot would happen in those seven years to lay the groundwork for Auschwitz, to prepare the culture with policies that demonized and dehumanized. In 1933, Jews were barred from the Civil Service and university positions. In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws denied Jews German citizenship. In 1936, Jewish doctors were barred from practicing medicine. 1938 brought Kristallnacht, the expulsion of all Jewish pupils from German schools, and the forced transfer of all Jewish retail businesses to Aryans. And through all of this, there were mass anti-Jewish protests at German universities that might feel eerily familiar in light of recent news. This is a well known story to those who have studied the history of the period.

I don’t mean to suggest that governmental laws of discrimination and persecution in Nazi Germany are the equivalent of antisemitic chants and harassment on American campuses, but our culture is moving in a very disturbing direction. The rabid vitriol of the “mostly peaceful” campus protests certainly seems like an escalation — as we hear of students calling for “a final solution,” the destruction of Tel Aviv, 10,000 more October 7ths, and so on. This escalation has not come about because the death and destruction in Gaza has recently escalated. Quite the contrary, the fighting has largely paused. I would guess that the warming weather and approaching end of the school year partly explains the students’ timing. But so do the cumulative effects of the messages permeating the culture.

So are we now seven years away from our own Auschwitz? I’m not nearly pessimistic enough to believe that’s where we are headed. But groundwork is being laid and the culture is being changed. The preconditions for the Holocaust included the German national humiliation of World War I and an economic collapse the likes of which none of us have ever known. What would happen in this country if we suffered a humiliating defeat to, say, China, coupled with a Weimar-level economic catastrophe? Would it be possible for a demagogue to rise in need of scapegoats? Would the groundwork that is being laid now in our culture, demonizing the Jews, come into play?

So what do we do? We push back against the negative messages going out in the culture. We refute Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar speech. We let President Biden know, as the Muslims in Michigan have done, that no, he cannot just count on our votes regardless of what he and his underlings say. We let our alma maters know, as Robert Kraft has done, that they no longer have our support or our money if they can’t protect their Jewish students. And we make sure that Israel thrives and remains secure, so that, just in case the worst should happen some day, we have a place to go this time.

On the morning of February 19, I had the displeasure of waking up to more than 100 messages from the University of East Anglia (UEA) Jewish Society detailing how the university’s campus had been completely vandalized, including on the main sign at the UK school’s entrance.

Throughout campus, students found spray painted antisemitic phrases such as “Zionism = Colonialism,” “Judaism opposes Zionism,” “End Apartheid,” and “Bank with Barclays finances genocide of Palestinians,” to share a few. This was done the night before a prospectus day, which was clearly a message to all potential UEA students and their families, warning of social alienation and potentially violence to anyone who disagreed.

Every single one of the “claims” listed above is completely false.

Zionism is a core belief of the overwhelming majority of Jews; it started out as an indigenous Land-Back movement, and had nothing to do with colonialism. There is no Israeli apartheid, as has been firmly documented.

When it comes to the current war, the IDF has gone out of its way to save as many innocent Gazans as possible while waging a war against a genocidal terror group. Furthermore, approximately 20% of the Israeli population is Arab and over 19% of the population are Muslim with full rights and safeties.

But aside from the graffiti’s brazenly dishonest antisemitism, the tokenizing of anti-Zionist Jews to legitimize these aggressive acts should be beyond the pale for a community that considers itself an “accepting” society. And yet, this is exactly what UEA’s Palestine Solidarity Society (Palsoc) thought was appropriate after the display of antisemitism was condemned by university leaders.

Thankfully, our school’s Vice Chancellor quickly condemned the vandalism as antisemitic and had it removed immediately (the least he could do, mind you). Unfortunately as of this writing, no consequences have been handed down to the perpetrators, who have still yet to be identified. This, coupled with Palsoc’s angry response to the Vice Chancellor that essentially doubled down on the graffiti’s antisemitism, shows that incidents like these will keep happening, leaving Jewish UEA students scared and vulnerable.

An attorney nominated by President Joe Biden to a lifetime appointment on the federal judiciary donated to at least two Democratic state political candidates who led groups linked to Hamas, the Washington Examiner has found.

Adeel Mangi, who faces an uphill battle to confirmation in the Senate due to lawmakers raising concerns over his ties to an anti-Israel think tank and other left-wing groups, contributed to the since-failed campaigns of Tahanie Aboushi, who ran in 2021 for Manhattan district attorney, and Zead Ramadan, a 2013 New York City Council hopeful. The donations have not been previously reported and are public in New York state campaign finance records.

Aboushi is a civil rights lawyer who received support on the campaign trail from anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour and who used to be president of the New York chapter of Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, a group scrutinized for partnerships with Hamas-affiliated entities. Meanwhile, Ramadan is on the board of New York’s chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which reportedly counted him as the president in 2013. CAIR was named by federal prosecutors as an “unindicted co-conspirator” of Hamas in a 2009 terrorism financing case involving the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, a defunct charity shuttered by the U.S. government for providing material support to Hamas.

News of the nominee’s donations to the ex-candidates, which amounted to $100 to Aboushi and $600 combined to Ramadan, comes after Republicans and a handful of Democrats said they won’t support Mangi based on some of his controversial affiliations. Following a Washington Examiner report, Mangi apologized in March to the Senate Judiciary Committee for failing to disclose his participation in an event with activists from an anti-Israel center at Rutgers Law School that Mangi donated to and helped advise. Mangi, who would be the first Muslim-American judge on a federal appeals court, is also on an advisory board for the Alliance of Families for Justice, which fights to end “mass incarceration” and has ties to police killers, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

Mangi did not return a request for comment. The White House has stood behind the nominee and referred to GOP criticism of Mangi’s role on the Rutgers group, which hosted a 2021 event featuring a convicted terrorist fundraiser, as “cruel and Islamophobic.”

“There’s more evidence building up every day of Mangi’s connections to terror apologists and pro-terror groups. It’s shocking to me that this administration continues to defend his nomination. There are lots of great Muslim-American lawyers who don’t have these ties to anti-cop and pro-terror groups,” said Carrie Severino, president of the Judicial Crisis Network. The conservative group has slammed the Rutgers think tank for appearing to blame Israel for the Oct. 7 Hamas-led terrorist attack last year on the Jewish state.

During his confirmation hearing, embattled Biden judicial nominee Adeel Mangi told senators that he left the board of an anti-Israel think tank because it was not sufficiently "productive."

But in his resignation email, Mangi said he was leaving the board because he had too many other commitments, praised the think tank’s "excellent work," and pledged his "ongoing financial support."

"I will really enjoy watching you continue to build the organization in the years ahead," Mangi wrote to Sahar Aziz, the director of the Rutgers Center for Race, Security and Rights, on June 15, 2023. "I don’t like to stay on any board for more than a couple of years or so as I think fresh blood and exposure to new areas is very important on all sides."

The letter is one of several emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, which cast doubt on Mangi’s statements about his involvement with the Rutgers Center. Mangi, the nominee for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, told senators that his role as an advisory board member was "limited to participating in four meetings" regarding the center’s "academic research."

But emails show Mangi did far more than that, helping Aziz recruit new members to the board, singing the group’s praises to colleagues, and bringing the Rutgers Center onto a diversity initiative spearheaded by his law firm.

The email could cause trouble for Mangi, who has downplayed his work with the Rutgers Center amid scrutiny over the group’s anti-Israel rhetoric. The center hosted Sami al-Arian, a financier of the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, at a 9/11 anniversary event in which speakers blamed "U.S. imperialism" for the terrorist attack. And Aziz, who founded the center in 2018, has said she was "in awe of the Palestinian struggle to resist" Israeli settlers.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Mangi’s emails show he "misled the committee" about his relationship with the Rutgers Center.

"At his nomination hearing, Mr. Mangi sought to downplay his role with the Center and his knowledge of its work. Now we know he misled the committee," Graham told the Free Beacon. "President Biden should immediately withdraw this nomination."

With so-called “independent” credentials such as this, it came as no surprise that the “Independent Review Group” delivered its report and verdict on April 22, claiming that the UN agency had “robust” neutrality mechanisms and that Israel hadn’t provided any evidence that agency staff were members of terrorist organizations.

Although the review did find that biased social-media posts and antisemitic content in some textbooks did “constitute a grave violation of neutrality,” and acknowledged that UNRWA must do more to ensure its employees are politically neutral, it also claimed a significant screening process already existed in order to “ensure compliance with the humanitarian principles.”

Israeli government spokesperson David Mencer disputed this, calling the report a “whitewash” that ignored the severity of the problem, because it did not deal with the enormous scope of Hamas’ infiltration of UNRWA, which is so deep that “it is no longer possible to determine where UNRWA ends, and Hamas begins.”

This lack of any significant critical findings was in contrast to the European Parliament, which, in early April, denounced and condemned UNRWA’s role in inciting violence and antisemitism in a series of resolutions stating that Palestinian school textbooks (created by the Palestinian Authority) were responsible for “hateful contents encouraging violence, spreading antisemitism and inciting hatred” against Jews and Israel.

This echoed a previous denouncement back in April 2021, when the Parliament adopted a resolution condemning UNRWA for the “hate speech and violence taught in Palestinian school textbooks.”

Yet despite this, the EU, along with most donor countries, except for the US, have now resumed funding to UNRWA.

UNRWA remains a serious problem, and by ignoring and whitewashing the evidence of its collusion with Hamas, future Palestinian generations will continue to be condemned to an education indoctrinated with hatred and violence rather than peaceful coexistence.

In her last report, @FranceskAlbs falsely claimed covering Hamas massacre of 1200, taking 240 hostage, mass sexual violence, and torture of thousands fell outside her mandate. But instead, thinks it includes whitewashing antisemitic pogroms on US campuses. #nothumanrightspic.twitter.com/uGRFlK7jwX

— Anne Herzberg (@AnneHerzberg14) May 1, 2024

Former Communications Advisor at @CAREfrance Muzna Shihabi was fired after NGO Monitor Senior Researcher @vincent_chebat brought her pro-terror social media posts to the attention of @_LICRA_.

The former NGO employee posted several tweets in support of the October 7th massacre. https://t.co/NI2OajaBBEpic.twitter.com/LhEogHX8zD

— NGO Monitor (@NGOmonitor) May 1, 2024

Yemeni-Houthi Minister of Information Dayfallah Al-Shami: We Chant ‘Curses Upon the Jews’ Because They Are Cunning Schemers; We Would Fight against the Zionists Directly in Gaza, But It’s Too Far Away #Yemen#Houthis#Antisemitismpic.twitter.com/s70bM3u5Qj

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) April 30, 2024

Dr. Majed Al-Ansari, Spokesman of the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Israel Had Complete Oversight Over Our Aid to Gaza; The Same People Who Accuse Us of Supporting Hamas Came to Doha to Ask that We Continue Sending Money to Gaza #Qatar#Israel#Palestinianspic.twitter.com/XaEP1RPQko

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) April 30, 2024

Former Mossad Director Yossi Cohen: We Worked with Qatar to Transfer Money to Hamas as Part of Our National Strategy to Facilitate Proper Civilian Life in Gaza – This Was a Mistake #Israel#Qatar#Hamaspic.twitter.com/2sKF3dm2x6

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) April 30, 2024

Ankara, which has outright supported Hamas in the terrorist group’s current war against Israel, has decided to join South Africa’s lawsuit at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced the move on Wednesday, saying in televised remarks that “our legal experts have been studying how to participate in the legal case against Israel at the ICJ.”

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan approved the plans, therefore Turkey “will legally support South Africa’s case against Israel at the ICJ, and file our application to the court soon,” Fidan said.

Pretoria in December brought its case accusing Jerusalem of genocide in its war against Hamas in Gaza to The Hague. The ICJ, the main judicial arm of the United Nations, rejected a request in January from South Africa to order Israel to halt the war.

In its provisional ruling, the court insisted that the Jewish state take all necessary means to prevent actions that could lead to genocide, and it dismissed South Africa’s demand that residents of the northern Gaza Strip be allowed to return to the area immediately.

A final decision from the court could take years. January’s ruling is binding according in international law but the court lacks an enforcement mechanism.

Erdoğan has shown extreme hostility to Israel since the Hamas-led massacre of Oct. 7 in which thousands of Israelis and foreign nationals were killed, wounded and kidnapped, with widespread atrocities documented.

Erdoğan in April hosted Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Istanbul, a move that was slammed by Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz, who said that the Turkish president should be “ashamed” of meeting with the terrorist.

The NATO member has also started a trade war with Jerusalem over the ongoing war to defeat Hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union and other governments.

Iranian TV Report about Gaza “Freedom Flotilla,” American Attorney Lamis Deek: The Age of Israeli Impunity Has Ended; We Will Make Sure Every Israeli Soldier, Settler, Head of State Pays for Every Crime Committed against Palestinians Since 1948 #turkey#hamas#palestinians… pic.twitter.com/ayflJVLUGf

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) April 30, 2024

Jordanian MPs Join the “Gaza Freedom Flotilla” in Turkey: We Have Written Our Wills and Are Here with the Intention of Waging Jihad, Becoming Martyrs; We Will Sacrifice Our Souls and Blood to Redeem Our People; We Will Break the Siege and Join Our Brothers in Gaza #Jordan#Turkey… pic.twitter.com/9NyZWcwHEH

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 1, 2024

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli leaders on Wednesday as part of his Middle East tour to Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, his seventh trip to the Jewish state since the current Hamas war broke out on Oct. 7.

Blinken met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, where they “discussed ongoing efforts to reach an immediate ceasefire in Gaza as part of a hostage deal and emphasized that it is Hamas that is standing in the way of a ceasefire,” according to an official statement from the U.S. State Department.

“Secretary Blinken reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to Israel’s security,” the statement continued. “He also discussed the need to avoid further expansion of the conflict and updated the prime minister on ongoing efforts to ensure a lasting, sustainable peace in the region.”

Without delving into details, the statement also read that Blinken “reiterated the United States’ clear position on Rafah.”

Netanyahu, according to reports in the Hebrew media, pushed back on America’s position, insisting that a Rafah operation will move forward, and that Israel will not agree to a “permanent ceasefire” before Hamas is destroyed in Gaza.

The Israel Defense Forces plans to establish a humanitarian safe zone in the central Gaza Strip as part of preparations for the evacuation of noncombatants from the southernmost city of Rafah.

The new safe zone will be located south of Wadi Gaza and north of the central camps—Nuseirat and Bureij—near the east-west Netzarim Corridor the IDF recently created to split the Strip into two parts, Army Radio reported on Wednesday.

Leaked footage of the Israeli Air Force’s actions on the morning of the October 7 Hamas terror onslaught aired on Tuesday evening, showing for the first time the decisions made by the IAF’s Unmanned Aircraft Squadron as it attempted to make sense of the chaos unfurling on the ground with no clear instructions.

The leaked drone footage was published as an exclusive item by Channel 12 and was not issued by the military.

The footage was taken above Route 232, a vital artery in southern Israel that became the scene of a massacre on October 7 as invading Hamas terrorists fired at vehicles attempting to reach, or flee, overrun Gaza border communities.

At around 7:30 a.m. on October 7, roughly an hour after the start of the unprecedented Hamas assault, the Air Force’s 200th Squadron, which operates the Heron 1 drone, was ordered to launch all usable UAVs to patrol the skies of southern Israel, Lt. Col. Yod, identified only by his Hebrew initial, recounted to Channel 12, adding that this included drones with malfunctions that should have been grounded.

The drone operators were instructed to direct their attention to the roads surrounding Kibbutz Mefalsim, where the white Toyota pickup trucks used by the invading Hamas terrorists were abandoned haphazardly next to burned cars of Israeli civilians, with the bodies of the vehicles’ murdered or wounded occupants strewn across the ground. Groups of armed men could be seen clustered around the vehicles, but whether they were terrorists or Israeli forces was initially unclear.

“We spoke to a security official on the phone who told us that the enemy was in the area of Kibbutz Mefalsim, but he didn’t know where they were or how many of them there were,” a drone operator referred to only as Lt. Col. Resh told Channel 12.

The only thing that the official was able to tell the drone operators with certainty was that Shin Bet operatives were also on the ground in the area, Resh added.

תיעוד בלעדי: כלי הטיס הראשונים שזיהו את מחבלי חמאס ב-7 באוקטוברhttps://t.co/8vseV6TmRp | @ndvoripic.twitter.com/M3aV7gkhMM

— החדשות - N12 (@N12News) April 30, 2024

Israel Defense Forces troops in the north are actively preparing for a more extensive on the Hezbollah terror organization in Southern Lebanon, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said on Wednesday.

“You are doing an excellent job of operational defense in the north, and we are preparing for an offensive in the north,” Halevi told troops on the border following an operational assessment with Northern Command head Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin and other high-ranking military officers.

Two Israeli Arabs were lightly wounded in the Upper Galilee on Tuesday night when a Hezbollah anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon scored a direct hit on their vehicle, the IDF announced earlier on Wednesday.

The two civilians, residents of Shibli–Umm al-Ghanam at the foot of Mount Tabor and Arraba in the Lower Galilee, were driving a poultry truck near the border town of Moshav Ramot Naftali when air raid sirens warned of an incoming projectile from Lebanon.

The victims were able to leave the truck and seek shelter before the missile hit the vehicle.

They were admitted to the emergency room at Ziv Medical Center in Safed with light shrapnel wounds to their heads. They were released following a medical examination.

In a statement cited by Lebanon’s Al-Ahkbar daily, Hezbollah claimed it targeted an “Israeli military vehicle at the Yiftah-Ramot Naftali triangle.”

Middle East defense expert Jonathan Conricus emphasizes the strategic importance of eradicating Hamas in Rafah. He outlines a comprehensive plan, estimating a three-month timeline for Israel to achieve this objective. Conricus underscores the necessity of addressing Hezbollah and Iran next, highlighting the interconnected nature of regional security challenges.

Hezbollah announces the elimination of a member in its ranks, who was eliminated while fulfilling the commandments of Jihad. (Not on the way to Jerusalem)

This brings the official death toll to 289.

Via @kaisos1987pic.twitter.com/7nifdU5iU4

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 1, 2024

Geneva allows IDF operations in Rafah even if: (1) civilians are present (2) millions of civilians are present (3) density of civilians is high (4) civilians are suffering (5) there is no apparent “safe place” to go. These are all fake concepts by NGOs not mentioned in Geneva /2 pic.twitter.com/Mt3O4rBR5v

— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) May 1, 2024

Israel is obligated to give warnings to civilians. Does Geneva mandate a “safe place” for evacuation? Assurances that civilians are protected from war? No, that’s invented by NGOs & UN, only a warning is mandated. Hamas does not gain immunity even if no guaranteed safe place. /4 pic.twitter.com/f77LwVhfJe

— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) May 1, 2024

Israel has made clear it intends to clear civilian from Rafah with food and shelter. NGOs claiming to care about civilians in Rafah should demand Hamas release hostages “immediately and unconditionally” as ICJ called for. But they want Hamas to survive, it's that simple. END

— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) May 1, 2024

The Biden administration is considering a plan to allow some Gaza residents to resettle in the United States, CBS News reported on Tuesday, citing internal federal government documents.

According to the documents, senior officials from various U.S. federal agencies have discussed options for bringing Gazans to the country who have immediate family members who are either American citizens or permanent residents.

One option under discussion is the United States Refugee Admissions Program, whose mission is “to offer resettlement opportunities to persons overseas who are of special humanitarian concern, while protecting national security and combating fraud,” according to the report. The USRAP would be implemented for Gazans who have fled to neighboring Egypt.

Another idea is to assist with getting Gazans with American relatives out of the coastal enclave and processing them as refugees. This would be done in coordination with Egypt, however, Cairo has steadfastly refused to allow large numbers of Gazans trying to escape the war into the country.

Those deemed eligible would receive all of the benefits available to resettled refugees, including housing assistance and a pathway to American citizenship.

The United States “has helped more than 1,800 American citizens and their families leave Gaza, many of whom have come to the United States. At President Biden’s direction, we have also helped, and will continue to help, some particularly vulnerable individuals, such as children with serious health problems and children who were receiving treatment for cancer, get out of harm’s way and receive care at nearby hospitals in the region,” a White House spokesperson said in a statement given to CBS News on Tuesday.

The United States “categorically rejects any actions leading to the forced relocation of Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank or the redrawing of the borders of Gaza. The best path forward is to achieve a sustainable cease-fire through a hostage deal that will stabilize the situation and pave the way to a two-state solution,” the statement continued.

The Biden Administration is considering bringing in Palestinians from Gaza as refugees into the US. But not a single Arab nation is welcoming their own brothers from Gaza. Why is that?

Let’s find out. pic.twitter.com/srdNjNb4N5

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) April 30, 2024

Israel reopened the sole crossing on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, allowing aid trucks to pass through the Erez checkpoint following US demands to do more to address the growing humanitarian crisis.

Reopening the Erez crossing has been one of the main pleas of international aid agencies for months to alleviate hunger in the northern part of the Strip.

The Israeli government opened the crossing point on the day of a visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and called for more humanitarian aid deliveries into the territory. Erez crossing closed since October 7

The Erez crossing, primarily used for foot traffic, had remained closed since it was destroyed during Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel.

Israel announced it would reopen Erez last month, a few days after the killing of World Central Kitchen workers.

Colonel Moshe Tetro, head of Israel's Coordination and Liaison Administration for Gaza, said he hoped the crossing would be open every day, and help reach a target of 500 aid trucks entering Gaza daily. That would be in line with pre-war supplies entering the enclave and far more than it has received during the last seven months.

"This is only one step of the measures that we took in the last few weeks," he told reporters.

The Erez Crossing has been opened for the entrance of humanitarian aid for the first time since October 7 when it was raided by Hamas terrorists.

In coordination with @cogatonline , 30 trucks of humanitarian aid including food and medical supplies for the northern part of Gaza… pic.twitter.com/zoNzhw3CgY

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) May 1, 2024

Jewish actress Amy Schumer discussed in a new interview the negative attention she’s received for speaking in support of the Jewish community and commenting on the Israel-Hamas war, as well as how discussions about the ongoing conflict are usually one-sided.

“The focus is so razor-sharp on Jewish people but not on Hamas. It’s very strange,” the Trainwreck star, 42, told Variety magazine, while talking about the war that began following Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in southern Israel.

“It’s gotten to this place where you can’t speak up for other Jews without people feeling like it’s a slight to the conditions in Gaza,” added the actress, who was bullied as a teenager for being Jewish. She also recommended that people read Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth by Noa Tishby to better understand the Jewish state or anything written by Jews because “Jewish people wrote everything down.”

Schumer was in New York in March filming her new movie Kinda Pregnant when a stranger shouted at her from the sidewalk: “F—k you, Amy Schumer! You’re a Zionist! You love genocide!” Meanwhile, during her interview with Variety in Brooklyn, a woman approached the actress’s table and told her: “Thank you for everything you’re doing for Israel. I follow you on social media. I used to live in Israel and … thank you. We support you.” Afterward, Schumer told the reporter from Variety, “That moment you just saw? Maybe 10 times a day that happens to me.”

The Life & Beth star, writer, director, and stand-up comedian has been vocal in her support for Israel since the Oct. 7 attacks — and has been criticized for doing so.

In November, she shared on X/Twitter a video of Martin Luther King Jr. denouncing antisemitism and stating that Israel has the right to exist. Bernice King, the activist’s daughter, responded to Schumer’s post by saying that although she and her father were against antisemitism, she was certain the civil rights leader “would call for Israel’s bombing of Palestinians to cease, for hostages to be released, and for us to work for true peace, which includes justice.”

Apple TV+ will delay the release of the third season of the Emmy Award-winning espionage thriller Tehran until the end of the war between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization controlling the Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported.

The premiere of the third season of Tehran was postponed following an agreement between Apple TV+ and Israel’s Kan, which co-produced the Apple Original series, according to Israel Hayom. The Israeli publication added that representatives from Kan are in talks with their counterparts at Apple TV+ to set a new release date for the third season.

Apple TV+ announced in February 2023 that it was renewing Tehran for a third season. Multi-Emmy Award nominee Hugh Laurie will join the ensemble cast and play Eric Peterson, a South African nuclear inspector. Sasson Gabai, Bahar Pars, and Phoenix Raei will also join the cast of season three.

The series stars actress Niv Sultan as Tamar Rabinyan, an Iranian-Israeli hacker-agent working for the Mossad who infiltrates Tehran under a false identity to help destroy Iran’s nuclear reactor in the first season. She goes rogue at the end of season two after one of her closest allies dies. In season three, Tamar “must find a way to reinvent herself and win back the Mossad’s support if she is to survive,” according to Apple TV+. Season three will include returning cast members Shaun Toub and Shila Ommi. The show’s second season, which premiered in May 2022, featured two-time Emmy Award winner and Academy Award nominee Glenn Close.

In yet another example of CBC allowing itself to become a platform for anti-Israel disinformation, a recent radio program featured extended coverage of a ‘mass grave’ in the Gaza Strip outside hospitals, with tacit hints that Israel was responsible.

On the April 26 segment of The Current with Matt Galloway, “Mass graves at Gaza hospitals,” guest host Mark Kelley began with an audio clip featuring a senior executive from the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), who was quoted as saying “we don’t have enough supplies in Gaza,” and neither guest nor host gave any details about the unprecedented number of food trucks entering Gaza, or about Hamas’ widespread theft of aid from its people.

The NRC is a vocal and unrepentant anti-Israel “humanitarian” organization whose staff have accused Israel of conducting a “war on children,” of attacking Gaza’s “civil servants” (omitting that they are members of Hamas), ignoring Hamas’ theft of aid, and more. Predictably, members of NRC have been interviewed on CBC multiple times in recent weeks.

Most of the interview was spent with Kelley interviewing Ravina Shamdasani, a spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Kelley asked Shamdasani about the grave, and what was known. She began by saying that “what we know” is that, prior to the discovery of the grave, the hospitals “were attacked by Israeli forces, adding that the hospitals were “providing medical care and they were also providing shelter to civilians” from elsewhere in Gaza.

Shamdasani told Kelley that “a lot of people were killed” at al-Shifa hospital and Nasser hospital, obscuring the reality that those who “were killed” were Hamas combatants.

With this key omission, Shamdasani tacitly implied that Israel attacked a civilian hospital complex, killing “a lot of people” who were simply seeking medical care or shelter, a gratuitous misdirection.

Early on the evening of Friday, April 26th the BBC News website published a short report credited to Tom Spender and titled “Ben-Gvir, Israeli far-right minister, in car accident”.

The version of that report currently available online is 185 words long and it opens by describing a car accident which had taken place a few hours earlier, continuing with portrayals of unrelated statements made by one of the people injured in the accident.

The report tells readers that:
“Israeli media said Mr Ben-Gvir had been returning from the scene of a stabbing in the city of Ramle, near Tel Aviv.

A 19-year-old woman was seriously injured in that incident, according [sic] emergency services. Central district police chief Avi Biton said a man who reportedly had mental health issues had attacked the woman and had then been shot and “neutralised” by a civilian.”

In other words, even though it was known at the time of publication that the police had stated that they were investigating the incident as a suspected terror attack, the BBC News website refrained from clarifying that point, chose to remove the reference to the attacker as a terrorist from its report and completely failed to mention the attacker’s attempt to stab an additional victim.

Earlier in the month, we posted about an April 16th Guardian op-ed by Alan J. Kupperman titled “Civilian deaths in Gaza rival those of Darfur – which the US called a ‘genocide'”.

We demonstrated that the premise, per the headline, was demonstrably untrue, that the op-ed was riddled with lies and distortions, and represented a form of Oct. 7 Massacre Inversion. Such inversions – the kind of which we’ve seen on display at the Guardian in various ways since the first days of the war – downplays the worst antisemitic atrocity since the Holocaust, and accuses the victims of being guilty of the very crimes committed by the perpetrators.

We complained to editors on multiple points, such as Kupperman’s false Gaza civilian casualty claim, when he wrote that “In January, a US official confirmed that more than 25,000 civilians have been killed” since the start of the war. However, that was based on a misstatement by the US Secretary of Defense, which was walked back almost immediately by a Defense Department spokesperson, who clarified that the 25,000 number was the total number of those killed in Gaza, both combatants and non-combatants.

Editors responded by amending the sentence include the extremely relevant caveat that not even Hamas has claimed that all those killed are civilians.
In January, a US official stated that “more than 25,000 civilians have been killed” (although in fact official figures from Gaza’s health ministry do not distinguish between civilian and non-civilian deaths).

We further objected in our complaint that the numbers employed to support the author’s premise simply don’t add up.

Why is @nytimes continuing to falsely claim the International Court of Justice ruled that there was a "plausible" risk of genocide in Gaza despite a recent clarification from the ICJ's former president that this is not the case?https://t.co/C53qe920KBhttps://t.co/EcLpGGFzRypic.twitter.com/4C4dKbeMcY

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 1, 2024

When a @SkyNews correspondent reduces the situation to this, it's easy to imagine why the coverage is so flawed.@AlexCrawfordSky, you are either naive or just maliciously biased. We'll go with the latter. https://t.co/sXdkjEwIVX

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 1, 2024

Imagine arguing so fiercely for Palestinian rights for being “ethnically cleansed” in 1948 but telling an Iraqi Jew that his family refugee story is just “a beef” I have with Iraq.

Imagine mixing up Iran and Iraq.

Imagine all this and still being a host of a show at @thehill. pic.twitter.com/h9Uxsh1VgN

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) May 1, 2024

I can’t believe a woman will deny the sexual abuse of another woman, only because she is Jewish. pic.twitter.com/2H8N9pnnLd

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) April 30, 2024

Sharing my “unpublished” Letter to Editor to The Daily Northwestern titled “Stop Biased Reporting and Providing a Platform for Terrorism” that was scheduled to run today. Late last night after 2 days of back and forth editing, I received a note that they declined to publish as… pic.twitter.com/2txSDTelZZ

— Rebecca (@RebeccaG180) April 30, 2024

It’s important to draw distinctions between the “true believers” and people who come to demonstrations simply because they’re genuinely upset about the bloodshed and suffering in Gaza, Mecher said. “Just because people show up at a demonstration, that doesn’t make them a threat.” And if sympathy for Palestinian terrorism was solely attributable to recent immigrants, the government would have more readily available policy choices. “Contrary to the wishes of some, you can’t deport people who were born here.”

In Canada, glorifying terrorism is perfectly legal, partly because of “free speech” concerns, but mostly because it was long understood to be unnecessary to criminalize such rare and socially repugnant speech.

Since October 7, however, glorifying terrorism has become positively fashionable. And under Canadian laws as they currently stand, there’s little Canadian politicians are prepared to do except Tweet about how appalled they are about such polemics, and about how Samidoun’s exhortations have “no place in Canada.”

After the “Long live October 7” slogan was chanted in Ottawa, Poilievre responded this way: “I condemn these pro-genocide, antisemitic chants.” Under Section 318(1) of the Criminal Code, anyone who advocates or promotes genocide is liable to imprisonment for five years.

Trudeau responded this way: “It is unconscionable to glorify the antisemitic violence and murder perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th. This rhetoric has no place in Canada. None.”

While glorifying terrorism isn’t against the law in Canada, it is against the law, under Section 83.05(1)b of the Criminal Code, to knowingly act on behalf of, at the direction of or in association with a listed terrorist group.

On the face of it, Samidoun would appear to be doing just that.

But this hasn’t mattered, either.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore’s recent interview on CNN is difficult to watch. Indeed, challenging is the best word to describe sitting through the thoroughly ill-informed Moore ramble on for 10 minutes while receiving little pushback.

Appearing on The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Moore was asked to comment on the anti-Israel campus protests that have swept across colleges in the United States following the Hamas massacre on October 7.

Moore suggests that such demonstrations are a hallmark of healthy “democracy and free speech,” and complains that protesters have been beaten and clubbed by police in response, even though no protesters are “committing any acts of violence.”

We must assume Moore was wearing a blindfold on the many occasions he claims he hung out on campus with the students because footage of threatening and violent behavior at different colleges has been widely shared on social media for weeks.

He goes on to suggest that most of the allegations of violence center around the signs some students are holding, which he says contain merely innocuous statements like “Free Palestine” and “From the River to the Sea…”

Again, we must assume Moore is suffering from both hearing and vision problems to have not heard chants like “Go back to Poland” or seen signs held aloft by his Gen-Z heroes that imply the world must be “cleaned” of Jews.

Moore proposes a moral panic is being whipped up on the little evidence, claiming the “one Hamas flag” that was flown on campus is not representative of protesters in general and “this is all a made-up thing.”

Of course, there is a wealth of photographic and video proof that the problem extends far beyond one rogue antisemite flying a Hamas flag. We and millions of others around the world have seen the Hezbollah flags and the students in Hamas headbands, and we have heard their chants calling for “Zionists” to be wiped off the face of the earth.

The only mild pushback that occurs in the whole segment is Collins’ pointing out that many Jewish students have reported feeling unsafe.

Naturally, Moore trots out a lie that serves to dismiss this fact, which is that the majority of Jewish students support demonstrations.

Michael Moore on @CNN: "98% of them [protesters] are not saying anything that's antisemitic because they don't believe in antisemitism, in part, because Palestinian people are Semites."

How to prove you know nothing about antisemitism while talking about antisemitism. 🤦‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/Ci8xOqmhxG

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) April 30, 2024

The Lewisham Islamic Centre in London hosted an American preacher last month who said during his sermon that Zionists “run the schools and hospitals” in the UK and questioned the extent of Hamas’ violence on October 7.

According to a video on the mosque’s YouTube channel, Muslim convert Tom Facchine told the Lewisham congregation on 19 April: “We are happy with being doctors and yet we work for the Zionists who run the hospital system. When are we going to run our own hospital systems? We’re happy with being the headmaster or headmistress of a school, and yet we work for the Zionist who runs the school system. Who’s going to step up and make the school system for the Muslims?”

Facchine, who is the Research Director of Islam and Society at Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research, was invited to speak at the mosque by head imam Shakeel Begg, who was found by a High Court judge in 2016 to be an “extremist preacher” for encouraging “religious violence”.

It was also found that his role as an imam put him in a position to “plant the seed of Islamic extremism in a young mind.”

Begg has remained in his position as head imam at Lewisham Islamic Centre, though not without controversy.

In March, Begg was named by Communities Minister Michael Gove during the government’s latest counter-extremism crackdown and cited as an example of the necessity for an “updated and more precise definition of extremism.”

Begg said in a statement on Lewisham Islamic Centre’s website that promoting violence was “erroneously attributed to me by a judge who clearly lacked a meaningful understanding of Islam.”

The Green Party has denied one of its candidates shared a video showing Hamas defending the October 7 massacres and calling Israel “a cancer that should be eradicated” – despite being shown a screenshot of the evidence.

The JC has also seen extremist social media posts by a number of other local Green candidates, raising troubling questions about the views circulating in the party as the country goes to the polls tomorrow.

Abdul Malik, who is standing in Bristol, appears to have shared an 18-minute video of a Hamas press conference in which a spokesman for the terror group described the October 7 massacre as a “supremely defensive act” that “targeted only Israeli military bases and compounds”, and said Israel was an “an animal state… a cancer that should be eradicated”.

After the video was raised by Lord Mann, the government’s adviser on antisemitism, a Green party spokesman apologised, saying Malik was “unwittingly tagged into an offensive post that he assures us he did not himself publish”.

However, the JC has obtained a screenshot of the post which shows the video being shared from what appears to be Malik’s own Facebook account.

Billy Bragg has left the Labour Party because of "all that 'Israel has the right to defend itself'", he says. Not because Israel has gone too far, or too many people have died, or there must be a better way - but just that Labour recognised Israel's *right* to defend itself… pic.twitter.com/gA3fb40XuL

— Dave Rich (@daverich1) April 29, 2024

Mousa Abu Marzouk of the Hamas Political Bureau said in an April 28, 2024 interview with Al-Alam TV [Iran] April 28, 2024 that most of Hamas's leadership are Jordanian citizens. He said that Jordan would be their "natural place" of residence, however, the U.S. interfered and "forced Qatar to host Hamas leaders." Abu Marzouk qualified that there is no talk of the Hamas leadership leaving Qatar at the moment.

Talk Of Hamas Leaders Leaving Qatar Is "Nonsense," But If They Were To Leave, They Would Go To Jordan – Most Hamas Leaders Are Jordanian Citizens

Mousa Abu Marzouk: "Most of Hamas's leaders are Jordanians. They have Jordanian passports. All this talk [about Hamas leaving Qatar] is nonsense. If Hamas's leaders would move [out of Qatar] – although nobody is talking about this – they would move to Jordan. That this where their people are. These are the passports they have. Most [Hamas leaders] are Jordanian citizens. So hundreds of people with Jordanian passports would move to Jordan.

Hamas Is Hosted By Qatar Due To U.S. Interference; Hamas's "Natural Place" Is Jordan

"The Jordanians are hospitable and honorable people, and they support the Palestinian resistance. Our ties with the Jordanian regime are good. We have no problem of finding where to live. The problem is the U.S. that interfered and forced Qatar to host Hamas leaders. If the U.S. stopped interfering, the entire Hamas leadership would be in its natural place, Jordan, the following day."

Hamas Senior Official Mousa Abu Marzouk: Most of Hamas’s Leaders Are Jordanian Citizens; If We Had to Leave Qatar, We Would Go to Jordan #Hamas#Qatar#Jordanpic.twitter.com/lhQKasdUP5

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 1, 2024

Palestinian Media Watch has reported extensively on the PA policy of convincing children to seek Martyrdom—death for Allah—while fighting Israel. We continue to see the results of this indoctrination as parents of terrorists report that their children had requested to die as martyrs, just as they had been taught.

Father of 16-year-old terrorist Khaled Al-Uruq: “[Khaled Al-Uruq] is not the first Martyr and not the last, praise Allah. He asked for [Martyrdom] and achieved it, praise Allah. He always told me: ‘I want to die as a Martyr.’ Praise Allah, [the conditions] were enabled and he achieved it.”

[Official PA TV, April 25, 2024]

On one hand, the PA, through its official television channel, seeks to portray Al-Uruq as a hero for confronting Israel. On the other hand, the PA, through its official daily, WAFA, also tries to advance the claim that the 16-year-old Al-Uruq was a victim by publishing an innocent-looking picture of him after he was shot and killed in Ramallah.

At the same time, another picture of Khaled Al-Uruq has been circulating online in which he is prominently featured holding a rifle with his finger on the trigger.

It is of note that according to WAFA, Khaled’s father—the same father who praised Allah for making his son a Martyr—is also an officer in the Palestinian intelligence services.

Beneath the media spotlight on Hamas lies a lesser-known but fiercely radical group: Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). PIJ has honed the brutal art of terror to imperil the notion of peace in the Middle East. From its foundation by Dr. Fathi Shaqaqi, a nerdy, poetry-loving, Gaza-born pediatrician with a penchant for revolutionary thought, to its reputation for pioneering suicide attacks, the PIJ’s tactics have fueled a generational war against compromise and coexistence.

Harboring a dualism of nationalism and radical Islamism, the last three decades have proven PIJ’s unyielding resolve to destroy Israel.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:44 PIJ origin story: Dr. Fathi Ibrahim Abdulaziz Shaqaqi
02:40 Combining nationalism with Islamism
04:13 PIJ terrorism in the 1980s
04:59 Connections to Hezbollah and Iran
05:21 Suicide attacks
06:25 Mossad assassination
07:31 PIJ vs Hamas
09:30 PIJ indoctrination methods
11:29 PIJ involvement on October 7
12:15 Growth and dangers of PIJ

Fmr. Palestinian Ambassador Osama Al-Ali Slams Hamas, Iran: Iran Incites Our Own People against Us; the Palestinian Authority Should Not Fear Al-Jazeera TV and Crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank #Hamas#Iran#Palestinians#PLOpic.twitter.com/s12I9GKolO

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 1, 2024

The founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, was sentenced to four months in prison on Tuesday for violating US money laundering laws and failing to comply with sanctions, including those against Iran.

The investigation revealed that Binance allowed more than 1.5 million virtual currency trades worth around $900 million, violating US sanctions. These included transactions involving Iran and designated terror groups such as Iran-backed Hamas, al-Qaeda and Islamic State.

Prosecutors said Binance employed a "Wild West" model that welcomed criminals, and did not report more than 100,000 suspicious transactions.

Families of victims of the Hamas terror attacks of October 7 and the families of hostages taken to Gaza, are suing Binance, along with Iran and Syria, for Binance's role in funding the terror group, among others between 2017 and 2023.

Once considered a leading figure in the cryptocurrency world, Changpeng Zhao's sentencing marks him as the second major cryptocurrency executive to face prison time after Sam Bankman-Fried for his role in the FTX scandal.

Presiding US District Judge Richard Jones in Seattle delivered a sentence that fell significantly below the three years requested by federal prosecutors, and well under the maximum of 1-1/2 years recommended by federal guidelines.

Binance was also found to have facilitated transactions involving the sale of child sexual abuse materials and processed substantial sums from ransomware attacks.

"The Australian gov't must expel Iran's ambassador. There shouldn't be an embassy of I. R. Iran in Australia at the moment," Robert Gregory, the CEO of Australian Jewish Association @AustralianJA, told @IranIntl's @alirezambb in reaction to the ambassador's "calls for destruction… pic.twitter.com/ZjPPiefFF8

— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) May 1, 2024

A North Carolina man, who threatened to “annihilate” those associated with a Charlotte Jewish organization, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and then three years of supervised release and 20 hours of community service over three months.

Jeffrey Scott Hobgood, 64, of Troy, N.C., pleaded guilty on Jan. 3 to “communicating threats in interstate commerce” when he threatened Jews on Oct. 11. He admitted to referring to “Israeli jews of David star” and saying he would “take every one of you out.”

He used an expletive to refer to “semite” people who “will be annihilated.” He also threatened the same Jewish group on Oct. 13, “again making a reference to the religion of the recipients,” per the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of North Carolina.

“In his plea agreement, Hobgood admitted that he selected the targets of his offense of conviction because of the actual and perceived religion of the victims,” it added.

“It is abhorrent to threaten someone with violence because of who they are or how they worship,” stated Robert DeWitt, the FBI Charlotte special agent in charge.

“The FBI worked tirelessly with prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District Of North Carolina to ensure Jeffrey Hobgood could not offer excuses for his hate-filled messages and would instead, serve time in federal prison,” DeWitt said.

According to reports, a bottle containing flammable liquids was thrown onto synagogue grounds in Warsaw on Wednesday during the night. Police said they had not yet established a motive for the attack.

"We were informed overnight about an incident involving a bottle containing a flammable liquid being thrown onto synagogue grounds," a police spokesperson said. Jewish response to the attack

Poland's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, told Reuters that nobody was hurt in the incident, which occurred around 1 am (2300 GMT on Tuesday.)

Schudrich said the incident had left marks on the building, and further details would be made available during a meeting with local, national, and church officials later on Wednesday.

Images on social media showed what appeared to be burn marks on an outer wall of the synagogue building, next to a window.

Israel's ambassador to Poland, Yacov Livne, said the synagogue was the only one in Warsaw to have survived World War Two and the Holocaust.

"Outrageous antisemitic attacks such as this cannot be tolerated today. The perpetrators must be found and punished," Livne wrote on X.

In his writings, Kitossa specifically highlights the work of Max Blumenthal, a left-wing journalist who has been accused of dabbling in conspiracy theories and downplaying Hamas atrocities on October 7, and Jonas E. Alexis, who contributes to the antisemitic website Veterans Today.

Zionism, Kitossa argues in the series conclusion, “thrives on — and encourages — the idea that the jew is an eternal victim of the ‘goyim,’ Zionists are happiest most when non-Zionist Jews encounter racio-religious discrimination.”

“Zionism is deeply contemptuous and hateful of Jews,” he elaborates in his most recent article. “This meant that before State formation, Zionists actively cheered on both discrimination against Jews in Germany and Austria and the death camps and squads in the occupied lands.”

The blog posts also cite several other controversial scholars. Kitossa cites approvingly from the PhD thesis of “Lebanese scholar Mahmoud Abbas,” not noting Abbas is the Palestinian president and not Lebanese. (Abbas’s thesis contends that Jews shared a portion of the blame for the Holocaust.)

Kitossa also cites Ilan Pappe, an Israeli historian whose work has been criticized by other historians for intellectual dishonesty, and Arthur Koestler, some of whose work has been discredited but still used by neo-Nazis and some in the Arab world to claim that Jews are not indigenous to the region.

Gil Troy, a McGill University history professor, reviewed Kitossa’s writings and underscores that while he would “bend over backward to defend free speech and academic freedom,” the series of articles “are unhinged, wildly inaccurate, sloppy, and offensive,” he told National Post by email.

“Some of the statements, especially the broad launching of gross, and quite familiar, anti-Semitic stereotypes, cross a line that would not be tolerated in speech characterizing any other group,” Troy wrote.

Troy was especially struck by Kitossa’s depiction of Jewish heritage trips — basically trips where Jews in foreign nations receive free trips to Israel to explore their roots. Kitossa called them “an act of positive eugenics,” and described them as “sex junkets for foreign Jews to Israel” funded by the government “and rich Jews.”

“This sentence is the most problematic because it — like all the Rothschild references — traffics in traditional anti-Jewish stereotypes of rich, manipulative Jews who are sexually deviant,” Troy explained. “You have to follow the footnote, and dig deep into the article cited, to see that these nefarious supposed ‘sex junkets for foreign Jews to Israel,’ are educational programs to build Jewish and Zionist identity, such as Birthright Israel.”

Troy said that Kitossa’s writings make “a mockery of the word ‘academic'” and questioned whether similar rhetoric against other minority groups would be tolerated by college administrators.

“This kind of ranting and bile is not a jailable offence in a democracy. But it certainly should trigger some serious conversations among administrators and leaders of Brock University,” he concluded.

The guy who wanted to enter a Jewish school and fired shots outside of the school, the guy who aimed his gun at police, the guy charged with attempted murder — is now out on bond. pic.twitter.com/Lz5a4qX6W0

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) May 1, 2024

A British police officer has been charged with a terrorism offense for allegedly publishing an image in support of Hamas, a group banned in Britain as a terrorist organization, police said on Wednesday.

Mohammed Adil, 26, from Bradford in northern England, was arrested last November and charged following an investigation by British counter-terrorism officers, Counter Terrorism Policing North East said in a statement.

The police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), said the inquiries had focused on messages shared on WhatsApp which had concluded the case should be referred to prosecutors.

“On Monday, PC Mohammed Adil, 26, was charged with two counts of publishing an image in support of a proscribed organization, specifically Hamas, contrary to section 13 of the Terrorism Act,” the IOPC statement said. “The offenses are alleged to have taken place in October and November 2023.”

If this was a white police officer who had been supporting neo-Nazi terrorists - we’d talk openly and frankly about the intersection of his whiteness and his racism

This is a muslim police officer supporting a muslim terror group that wants to exterminate all Jews for racist… https://t.co/tcAFxOu0oD

— leekern (@leekern13) May 1, 2024

Swastika graffiti on an Italian Restaurant in NYC.#AntizionismIsAntisemitismpic.twitter.com/zuHaPrLhGo

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 30, 2024

The opportunity we have awaited for so long finally presents itself: once and for all, when the British leave, we and our Arab brethren from all over will sweep the Jew into the sea and reassert Islamic dominance in this place. My brothers, I have the opportunity to get a glimpse, via time machine, of what the Levant will look like in seventy-six years, and the excitement of what I expect to witness and share with you in my reports makes me utterly giddy.

With our glorious victory in the present so imminent, I look forward to bringing you tidings, seven-plus decades hence, of restored Islamic glory, if not under the bygone Ottomans, then under the proud rule of, I don’t know, does it matter whether King Farouk of Egypt, King Abdullah of Hashemite Transjordan, or whichever Syrian potentate ends up spearheading the triumph? Perhaps our fractured Arab peoples will unite. A fellow can dream of a future long after the final triumph over the cursed Jews.

My cousin the mufti already made strides in that effort by allying with Hitler and advising him on how best to deal with those Jews. He and I both gave the Jews here a taste of what awaits them, with cousin Amin even sparking mass murder of Jews in faraway Baghdad! Those weak Jews will melt away before my irregulars of the Army of the Holy War and our allies from all over the region. Surely, in seventy-six years, we will have witnessed a restoration of serenity and rightful Islamic dominance with no more foreign imperialism controlling us here in Southern Syria.

The imperialism of the Hashemites, Egyptians, and Syrians does not count, obviously. They would NEVER simply try to seize the land of the British Mandate for themselves. I will show you, upon my return, that the history in the future will prove me right!

The tale of two partitions. Please read and compare the two. To see the size of the distortions in the Arab- Jewish partition case. pic.twitter.com/9VbefRQBSs

— Shimon Levit (@ShimonLevit) April 28, 2024

In November 1957 the American Jewish Committee received reports that Jews were no longer free to move about within Morocco. The Moroccan police had arrested 239 Jews trying to immigrate to Israel.26 Although Roosevelt had returned from Morocco with the impression that in a year or two “those who really want to go will gradually be allowed to go,” there was no sign that this was going to happen.27

Between 1957 and 1959, very few Jews emigrated from Morocco. In October 1959, Joseph Golan told Roosevelt that the situation of Jews in Morocco had become even more difficult. He shared a letter with her that he had written to Francois Mauriac, the French novelist and human rights activist, about the problem. Golan told Mauriac that at the time of independence the Moroccan leaders had assured the Jews that they would honor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But Moroccan leaders did not live up to their promise and Moroccan Jews were being “denied the fundamental liberties.” Most of the Jewish cultural and sports associations were not permitted to carry on their activities; the Jews of the mellahs (the Jewish ghetto) could not leave Morocco nor move within the country, and, in some cases, the Moroccan police had tortured Jews. “We do not know what to do in order to restore confidence and a normal climate among the 200,000 Jews in Morocco,” Golan said.28

Golan also told Roosevelt that postal communication between Morocco and Israel had recently been severed. This move conformed with the Arab League’s policy of boycotting Israel and reflected the degree to which Morocco had been “dragged deeper into the policies of Nasser and the Arab League,” he said. “This hostile act is causing great anxiety among the 110,000 Moroccan Jews [already living] in Israel,” most of whom had relatives in Morocco and were “already alarmed by reports of recent persecutions and arrests of Jews” in their native land. Blocking postal communication “cuts the only link between broken families for whom letters were virtually the only consolation for their separation from one another.”29 This development deeply disturbed Roosevelt. Once again, she wrote to Mohammed V, who now had the title of “King” and whom she had found sympathetic to his Jewish subjects:30

I have been asked to find out whether it would be possible for you to permit an exchange of letters between people who have gone to Israel and their families remaining in Morocco. It seems to be a very great hardship to allow no communication and if it could be permitted at certain stated intervals, I think it would be of great importance to these harassed and troubled people.31

Moroccan policy on postal communication with Israel did not change, however, probably because the pan-Arabists in the Moroccan government supported Nasser’s effort to isolate Israel. The situation of the Jews in Morocco remained precarious and Roosevelt’s Jewish friends continued to turn to her for help. In January 1961, after Golan reported to the WJC that Nasser’s visit to Morocco had provoked “anti-Jewish incidents under police auspices” that ran “into the hundreds,” Justine Polier asked Roosevelt to write once again to the king.32

She told the king that she had heard that there had been several incidents threatening the lives of Moroccan Jews and instilling fear in the Jewish population. She hoped that he would find it possible “to allow greater freedom of exit for the Jews, since this would seem the only way to ease the tensions.”33 It is not clear whether her appeal had any effect on Moroccan policy, but it probably encouraged the king and the crown prince, who would soon succeed him on the throne, to support a more flexible approach to Jewish emigration.

In the summer of 1961, the Moroccan government reached an agreement with emissaries of Israel that, over time, allowed most of the Jews remaining in Morocco to leave the country. Under the agreement, the Jews would officially be allowed to immigrate to the United States and Canada, but not to Israel. The process of organizing the immigration would be entrusted to the HIAS (the Hebrew International Aid Society), an American organization, not to the Jewish Agency. Under this arrangement, 80,000 Jews left Morocco between 1961 and 1966. Ships transported the immigrants from Casablanca to Marseilles or Naples; other ships and planes transported them to Israel. Between 1967 and 1971 another 25,000 left. By the early 1990s, only about 8,000 remained.34

Although Eleanor Roosevelt’s efforts on behalf of Moroccan Jews did not always produce the results she hoped for, they demonstrate her close working relationship with American Jewish leaders, her devotion to alleviating the plight of oppressed Jews, and her concern for the welfare of Israel as it struggled to grow in its early years. She wisely assessed the situation of Moroccan Jews in relation to the needs of all Moroccans and Morocco’s role in the struggle of the Arab nations with Israel. The diplomatic skills and stature she had attained as a stateswoman allowed her to lobby effectively upon her return to secure food aid for Morocco and to bring together Moroccan and American Jewish leaders to encourage their cooperation in preventing the impending famine that all Moroccans faced.

Leo Bretholz jumped to save his life. It was November 6, 1942, and the 21-year-old was crammed into a French cattle car bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. Knowing that certain death awaited, he and his friend Manfred Silberwasser decided to hurtle themselves through a window and off the moving train. Of the more than 1,000 Jews in that particular transport, only four, including Silberwasser and Bretholz, survived the Holocaust.

That breathtaking moment is captured in “Covering Their Tracks,” a newly released podcast that not only recounts Bretholz’s lifesaving leap, but also his decades-long fight to hold SNCF, the French national rail company, accountable for its wartime actions as the company chased multi-billion dollar contracts in the United States after the war. It’s a story of survival and responsibility, of complicity and justice. And, in the wake of surging global antisemitism, it’s a story of resilience.

“We obviously had no idea when we started that this podcast would be released during a time of such incredible upheaval and challenge for Jews around the world,” said Matthew Slutsky, who hosted and reported the podcast.

Following the October 7 massacre that saw thousands of Hamas-led terrorists butcher 1,200 people in southern Israel and abduct 253 more to the Gaza Strip, antisemitism has skyrocketed around the world, including in the United States. Already on the rise, it has been compounded by Israel’s ongoing military campaign to rescue the hostages and remove Hamas from power in the Strip, as anti-Israel activists target Jewish individuals and institutions of all types, especially university campuses.

“The circumstances are very different today, but this hatred of Jews and the underlying feeling that things are not okay persists, and we wanted to make sure to connect those dots,” Slutsky said.

During World War II, SNCF trains transported nearly 76,000 Jews to concentration camps, charging the Germans per head by the kilometer — sometimes with interest. Even after Paris was liberated, SNCF pursued payment on outstanding bills.

A Holocaust cattle car will be on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., from May 6 to 9, open to visitors for an immersive learning experience about World War II and the Holocaust, as well as the dangers of antisemitism, intolerance and racism. Elected and appointed officials are expected to be among the thousands of anticipated visitors.

Organized by the nonprofit Hate Ends Now, the traveling exhibit includes a 20-minute, 360-degree immersive presentation and a rare collection of original Holocaust artifacts. It is an exact replica of a World War II-era cattle car used to transport Jews and other targeted groups to concentration and death camps. The exhibit coincides with Holocaust Remembrance Day on May 6, which also marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

“Placing the Hate Ends Now cattle car in the capital of the free world during a time of alarming increase in antisemitism globally sends a powerful message, reminding us of what happens when hate is allowed to go unchecked,” said Todd Cohn, CEO of Hate Ends Now. “People of all ages have a visceral reaction when they step foot in the Cattle Car and when it seemingly comes to life with the voices, pictures and stories of this dark era.”

Trained docents are scheduled to greet visitors outside of the cattle car to provide critical context and frame the presentation. Accompanying the exhibit are 25 original artifacts from the Holocaust, which are rarely permitted outside of museum walls.

It also coincides with the one-year anniversary of the unveiling of the White House’s first-ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.

It’s a challenge to keep Israel’s cultural life thriving during the war, and one of the most important literary events of the year, the Jerusalem International Writers Festival, just announced that it will be held from May 27-30 at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, and that its diverse program will feature a well-known guest: the acclaimed American novelist, John Irving, the author of The World According to Garp, The Hotel New Hampshire and many other books.

Irving said in a statement released by the festival, “I first came to Israel in April 1981. I was pro-Israel then; I’m no less pro-Israeli now.

Simon Schama, the British historian and the author of such books as The Story of the Jews, will be another of the festival’s distinguished guests, and he said, “There are moments when that old Hillel injunction, ‘If not now, when?’ becomes inescapable. This is one of them. At a time when a depressing number of writers, mired in historical ignorance and misunderstanding, are turning their backs on Israel and seeking to divide Diaspora Jews from Israel it seems crucial to deny them that morally misplaced satisfaction with one’s personal presence. So while I have been to Israel many times, coming to the Jerusalem International Writers Festival will be for me, the most meaningful visit of all and I look forward to standing resolutely with Israel’s literary and cultural community.” Navigating the festival post-October 7

The festival, which is an event in which Israeli and international authors read from their works and engage in literary discussions and exchanges of ideas, will welcome Delphine Horvilleur, a rabbi and editor-in-chief of Tenou’a, a quarterly journal published by the Tenou’a association with the Liberal Jewish Movement of France, and German-Jewish novelist, Mirna Fink.

The organizers of the festival have struggled to find a way to address the massacre and the war, and the festival will open with a literary remembrance of October 7. The event will feature a discussion with and readings by several Israeli writers, among them Dror Mishani, Noa Yadlin and Eshkol Nevo. A number of relatives of artists killed in the war will discuss their works.

This year marks the beginning of a special project with the European Union for the promotion and distribution of contemporary European literature in Israel, and Varujan Vosganian, a Romanian writer; Christos Chomenidis, from Greece; and Anne Berest, from France will take part. Three Israeli writers currently based abroad will also attend the festival: Ron Leshem, Maya Arad, and Ruby Namdar.

April 19 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of the English Romantic poet Lord Byron, at the age of 36. Byron was an acclaimed celebrity in his day, hailed for his literary genius and scrutinized for his notorious personal life, which gave rise to endless fascination and speculation. He died of a fever in Missolonghi, Greece, where he had lent his name, person, and what remained of his fortune to the Greek struggle for independence from Ottoman rule. Byron by Thomas Phillips, 1813, Newstead Abbey. Wikimedia.

Byron may well be considered the secular saint of all Western enthusiasts for various foreign “liberation” struggles. He fit the description of such types offered by Tory statesman George Canning in 1821: “a steady patriot of the world alone, the friend of every country but his own.” Today, every American and European campus teems with would-be Byrons, though slogans have supplanted cantos in their repertoire.

Byron is identified above all with Greece and the philhellenes. But at various times he showed sympathy for Turks and Armenians, and seems to have been as promiscuous in his foreign attachments as he was in other aspects of his life.

He was also hugely popular with early Zionists, who imagined that had political Zionism gotten off to an earlier start, he might well have been its champion. Zionist poetry

The most famous exponent of this view was Nahum Sokolow, a Zionist thinker and diplomat, whose overlooked contribution to securing the Balfour Declaration I’ve assessed elsewhere. In Sokolow’s two-volume History of Zionism (1919), he devotes a section to Byron within his discussion of non-Jewish supporters of Jewish national redemption. Sokolow made the case for Byron as a proto-Zionist by quoting his Hebrew Melodies, a collection published in 1815. Byron wrote these poems at the behest of the Jewish composer and musician Isaac Nathan, who wanted to set (supposedly) ancient Jewish music to contemporary verse.

“Zionist poetry owes more to Byron than to any other Gentile poet,” wrote Sokolow.

Palestinians can walk down the street in 22 other Arab nations including the “Palestinian Mandate” State of Jordan with similar language, culture, and religion. They can walk down so many streets and smell their delicious food cooking, see familiar faces, and hear their cultural music. Why were so many Arabs against Israel’s very existence? Israel is just 0.4% of the land in the Middle East, and doesn’t take away anything from them, but adds to the culture and economy of the region. And why is so much of the world on their side? Why has empire after civilization after nation attacked Jerusalem, and after many Jews were expelled by the Romans, attacked Jews in virtually every other community we have lived? And when we want to leave our persecution and go back to our own tiny little home, why do they attack us there worst of all? Why is the world trying to deny us what every other culture enjoys? Why did the Roman Emperor rename the land “Syria-Palestina” after Israel’s long-gone enemies? And why did the world recently rename Biblical Judea and Samaria the “West Bank”? If they merely wanted another Arab state alongside Israel, they could have declared one when the “West Bank” was controlled by Jordan and Gaza was controlled by Egypt between 1948 and 1967.

I mean, I have an idea why. Over 3500 years ago Jews were amazing engineers and builders, so the Egyptians enslaved us, and had us build their cities. They probably had their excuses then too. From 3000 years ago in Jerusalem, we were a center of civilization. After bringing the world “thou shout not kill” and “thou shalt not steal”, empire after empire spent blood and treasure to take Jerusalem from the Jews, and tried to conquer it more than any other city in world history, over 20 conquests. For the next 2000 years after that, nation after nation we fled to grew to resent us. Why? Because, for example, our hand-washing rituals which date back to Leviticus – they got plagues, and did not understand why we didn’t, countless centuries before doctors invented microscopes and discovered bacteria. And, they hated us for it. A study by the National Institutes of Health suggests Jews may have a gene mutation which helped protect against plagues. Perhaps we knew that since Egypt, but is that our fault? We are overrepresented in Nobel Prize winners over 100-fold, and apparently that’s really disturbing to some too. Is the fact that we have a culture of learning our fault? Today, the world runs on an international legal system that focuses more on criticizing Israel than all other nations put together, and finds the idea unbearable that the Jews again can be right, and much of the rest of the world wrong. Today, not only Judaism, but Christianity, America, Europe, and Western Civilization and many others are under attack. After all, if Jews can have a tiny homeland free from conquest, so can every other unique and beautiful people and culture in the world. And that apparently doesn’t fit fell in some people’s plans.

What are we to do, besides survive, and be who we are? What can we do besides help the world to see the light and figure things out, the same way the world realized the Nazis were wrong, and the pogroms were wrong, and our enslavement in Egypt was wrong, and killing us in countless localities where we have lived was wrong. So that’s what we’re doing now. We’re trying to stay alive, while helping the world to realize that burning babies in their cribs is wrong, and kidnapping women and children and elderly is wrong, and wanting to deny us a home is wrong, and 9/11 was wrong, and conquering us and other peoples and cultures is wrong, and so on. Just imagine if such acts would become the world’s morality, and you understand what the Jewish people stand in the way of, even if we must stand alone. Those doing these things are wrong. And all those who side with them are wrong, whether they shout with ak-47s or speak artfully in the media or at the United Nations. Their combined goal is the same. No more Zionism. No more Israel. No more safe haven for Jews. And with that, no more Jews. And then you are next. And the closer they get to that goal, and the closer they get to war, the further any middle ground becomes. And the further a chance at reason becomes. And soon the only question left is, whose side are you on?

Visegrad24 presents an in-depth series covering the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. This comprehensive series features on-the-ground interviews, bringing firsthand insights from a diverse range of voices, including politicians, professors, journalists, experts and influencers.

Our guest today: Steve Walz

Steve is the International Media Spokesperson and Head of Global PR at the Sheba Medical Center.

Sheba is one of the 10 best hospitals in the world and the foremost hospital in Israel. Many of the soldiers wounded in Gaza as well as the released hostages are treated at Sheba.

00:00 - Introduction
02:28 - Setting healthcare policy for Israel
03:20 - Soldiers wounded in Gaza
05:24 - Treating freed hostages
07:51 - New tech on battlefield and hospitals
10:34 - Innovation at Sheba Medical Center
15:45 - Organ transplants
16:26 - Geopolitics of healthcare
21:14 - Giving medial treatment to Gazans
26:19 - Gazan doctors and Israeli hostages
28:38 - Healthcare and hatred
31:32 - Jewish infighting
33:54 - Antisemitism
36:43 - Israel, the West and future conflicts

They say it so well…🥹🥹#StandWithIsrael

🎥 @danielleyabpic.twitter.com/TSAPhpArLa

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 30, 2024

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The American DON’T

On October 7^th, Israel was invaded by Gaza. They raped, tortured, and burned our families alive.

In the north, Hezbollah (who is Iran, not Lebanon where they are based) began pummeling Israel with missiles. Israeli communities in the south near Gaza and the north near Hezbollah were evacuated. It was and still is too dangerous for them to live in their homes.

And then the Houthis from Yemen started shooting missiles at Israel. They are shooting from far but can reach Eilat where many of the evacuees are taking refuge.

And then Hamas in Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem rose up, and attacked individual Israelis. Attackers came from Jordan and even from Turkey. Attacking anyone they could get their hands on -soldiers, peace activists and even children in a school bus. They tortured Benjamin Achimeir the same way people in Be’eri were tortured.

And then America said DON’T.

Not to the enemies trying to wipe us off the map – they said it to Israel.

Don’t finish off Hamas. Feed them. Fuel them. Make them strong.
Don’t protect yourselves. Protect THEM.  
Don’t make it safe for Israelis to return to their homes.
Don’t stop the weapons being smuggled into Gaza.
Feed them the invaders. The rapists. Those who took the heads of your boys and put them in their ice cream coolers. Those who promised to attack you again and again and again until you no longer exist. Don’t!

Don’t attack Hezbollah.
Never mind that the north is evacuated.
Never mind your people are suffering. Never mind that you are not protecting them. Never mind that their businesses are ruined and they have no homes to go back to.
Don’t!

And then Iran attacked Israel directly.

And America smiled and said: “See, you managed not to die. You didn’t allow them to wipe you off the map. That’s good enough.”

And with a smile America said: “See, we’re helping you. Do what we say and maybe you will get some of your hostages back. You don’t need weapons to defend yourself. You don’t need to prove that you meant it when you said NEVER AGAIN. Do what we say, and everyone will all be happy.”

And what do they say?

Release murderers. Of course, they will murder again but that’s not the problem now, is it?

Let Hamas survive. They will stay in power. Of course, they will learn that taking hostages gets them whatever they want but you want the hostages they already have, don’t you?

Let Hamas join with the Palestinian Authority. They can run Gaza and the territory they already control in Judea and Samaria. Give them the power of a State. Never mind that they tried to destroy you when they had less power. Now, it’s time to give them more. After all they are the chosen leaders of the [so-called] Palestinians. Yeah, yeah, they both say they want to replace Israel with Palestine and they have maps in their homes and offices showing what they want: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” – of Jews. Yeah, yeah, on October 7^th we all saw how they intend to achieve that. Yeah, yeah, they promised to do October 7^th over and over until the job is done….
October 7^th, that will be a great date for their Independence Day! What a fabulous idea.

And America smiles and says: “We’re your friends. You should listen to us. We are helping you”

Somehow the threat of international criminal trials is being waved in the faces of our government and military leaders. And America says: “Oh. So sorry. We can’t do anything about that.”

Strange how the politicians and military leaders that encourage adhering to America’s “friendly” advice aren’t being threatened…

Strange how Israeli opposition politicians and internal agents of chaos and America are using the same terminology, stating the same goals, and equating our elected politicians with the terror mastermind of the October 7^th massacre.  

Strange how American “help” negotiating a hostage release deal is keeping Israel from putting any pressure on Hamas that would actually incentivize their release.

People wonder, if Israel cannot vanquish Hamas, the weakest of Israel’s enemies, how can Israel handle Hezbollah or Iran itself?

And there is the crux of the issue. Israel CAN vanquish Hamas. Israel can address attacks from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, Iraq, and Iran all at once.

We never imagined America would wage war against us. THAT is what we are up against.   

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More fundamentally still, the shocking scenes on campus are the outcome of the West’s willed educational collapse. The understanding of education as the transmission of a culture to the next generation was junked decades ago in favor of a propaganda narrative of Western oppression.

This opened the way for the colonization of curricula by anti-Western ideological causes. The admission of students selected on the basis of identity politics rather than intellectual ability further reduced education standards to positively infantile levels.

This was illustrated at Columbia by the keffiyeh-clad Johanna King-Slutzky, who spoke to the media on behalf of the encampment. Jaw-droppingly channeling Hamas’s strategy in Gaza, she stated that the university had an obligation to bring in food and water to the illegal encampment, demanding, “Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation? … This is like basic humanitarian aid.”

Her remarks attracted widespread incredulity and ridicule. But so should Columbia’s educational standards.

In her biography on the Columbia website, now deleted, King-Slutzky describes her dissertation as “a prehistory of metabolic rift, Marx’s term for the disruption of energy circuits caused by industrialization under capitalism … theories of the imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens in order to update and propose an alternative to historicist ideological critiques of the Romantic imagination.”

This gobbledygook is beyond parody. Alas, it’s all too typical of what now passes for higher education in America and Britain. The universities, the supposed crucibles of knowledge, intellectual challenge and open minds, are now in the business of propaganda, dumbing-down and the closing of the mind. They have become the principal vehicles for coercing cultural conformity to hatred of both Israel and the West.

In the appalling scenes on campus, a number of monstrous chickens are now coming home to roost.

Shafik and her board deserve little credit for her decision to act. She had tolerated an intolerable situation on the Manhattan campus for weeks. During that time, Jews on campus were subjected to an unprecedented atmosphere of intimidation and threats from students, faculty and others spouting lies about Israel committing a Palestinian “genocide” and who made no secret of their identification with the Hamas terrorists responsible for the largest mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. Rhetoric about not tolerating the existence of “Zionists” had become normative, as had advocacy for antisemitic BDS resolutions that seek to target Israelis and Jews for discrimination.

Buying quiet on campus
But as appalling as Shafik’s performance has been, it was far better than what happened at Northwestern University and Brown University. In both cases, the schools gave in to student demands and allowed them a say in whether these institutions would implement divestment from Israel in exchange for quiet on campus.

For those administrators, it seems like a good bargain; they probably thought that they bought peace rather cheaply. After all, implementing boycotts at these schools will be a long, drawn-out affair and may not ultimately lead to the discriminatory agenda the pro-Hamas students seek. Among other complications, the state laws of Illinois and Rhode Island rightly hold BDS to be a form of illegal discrimination.

Opponents of Israel, however, have reason to celebrate both the weakness of those school’s administrators and the willingness of mob leaders to take “yes” for an answer. Many of the protesters, outside agitators and their funders think that the ongoing spectacle of shutting down campuses and crowds at major institutions cheering on terrorists helps their cause. Some may even believe that outcomes in which the protests are ended by police action also turn them into martyrs or help make them appear sympathetic to liberals who view student demonstrations from the Vietnam era with nostalgia.

But the object of all the post-Oct. 7 protests is to mainstream the demonization of Israel and Zionism, and to essentially ostracize and silence Jewish students who refuse to bow to fashionable opinion on campuses and join the mobs. Schools that make these sorts of concessions only make that problem worse.

Authorities are not wrong to view the anti-Israel demonstrations as a challenge to the normal functioning of institutions of higher education as well as to public order. For example, Columbia’s very liberal regulations allow all sorts of protests but still require that, among other things, demonstrations be conducted in a manner that does not impinge on the rights of other students. Such rules cannot be flouted with impunity if the university is not going to be ruled by the whims of radical mobs assembled at the behest of any cause.

Nor should any university permit libraries to be commandeered by protesters, which occurred at Portland State University in Oregon. Or, in the case of the University of California, Los Angeles, its sprawling anti-Israel encampments made it difficult or impossible for students to access classes or parts of the school grounds.

At its heart, this nationwide struggle is not just a matter of preserving law and order on college campuses. It’s about a sinister movement whose aim is to single out Israel and Zionism—the national liberation movement of the Jewish people—for opprobrium, isolation and destruction. It is nothing less than a 21st-century variety of antisemitism rooted in woke ideology that grants a permission slip for Jew-hatred. If any other minority group—African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians—were being treated in the way that Jews are now being hounded on campuses, there would be no debate about the necessity of a zero-tolerance policy for such behavior. Those who have broken school rules or gone so far as to commit violence to further their hateful cause should be suspended and expelled, not coddled as misunderstood idealists. Universities that tolerate this behavior and allow hostile environments for Jews to be imposed by campus radicals should be stripped of federal funding for violating Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Statements from President Joe Biden that create false moral equivalencies to media coverage that legitimizes the protests or concessions from universities to the anti-Israel protesters, must all be seen as part of the same moral failure on the part of much of our political and educational establishments. Toleration of antisemitic mobs will only lead to more antisemitism.

For more than a week now, the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic protests convulsing university campuses have been the biggest news story in the country.

The protests, in many cases abetted by university faculty, have put a national spotlight on the illiberalism and intellectual rot at the heart of American "higher" education and the DEI regime that makes it hum.

We’re not in the business of offering political advice to President Joe Biden, but it is hard to miss his absence from the situation. The New York Times calls him a "bystander," and the president has forsaken the bully pulpit for strongly worded statements meted out through various spokesmen. "The president believes that forcibly taking over a building on campus is absolutely the wrong approach," the spokesman, John F. Kirby, told reporters hours before officers cleared the hall. "That is not an example of peaceful protest."

Good to know. The chaos engulfing the campuses is but a first foretaste of the bitter cup which will be proffered to Biden at the Democratic convention this summer, when the same protesters, with degrees from the same "elite" institutions bring their "peaceful" protest tactics to Chicago intent on wreaking havoc.

Biden wants to blend into the curtains. In a mirror image of his approach to the Israel-Hamas war, Biden aims to straddle the unbridgeable divide between the lawless and the law abiding, the intolerant and the tolerant, the virtuous and the contemptible. "I condemn the anti-Semitic protests," he said late last month. "I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians and their—how they’re being… ." He didn’t finish the sentence.

Biden is, of course, not taking a strong stand because the left wing of his own party, already inflamed by his mealy-mouthed support for Israel, is actively participating in these protests. Reps. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) dropped by to fist bump the Columbia campers. Biden can’t afford to alienate them further, and like Columbia’s president Minouche Shafik, will soon realize you can’t reason or negotiate with a mob.

The president’s choice is to act in the national interest and pay a political price or to continue to hide under his desk and be forced, like Shafik, to pay the same price later—with interest.

President Biden delivered unscheduled remarks on Thursday morning from the White House in his first public condemnation of the escalating protests sweeping college campuses across the country.

Biden inserted himself at a pivotal moment in the anti-war, pro-Palestinian movement that's now seen several nights of violent clashes between students and heavily armed law enforcement called in by university administrators to dismantle Gaza solidarity tent encampments.

On Wednesday, for the second night in a row, riot police in tactical gear stormed the encampment on UCLA's campus, where local reports estimated 300-500 people were gathered. More than 2,000 supporters were standing outside of the encampment when California Highway Patrol moved in to start arresting protestors who refused to disperse.

Photos captured the standoff between police with shields and batons across from students wearing hard hats and Keffiyehs.

Reporters pressed the White House to hear from Biden all week as this scene played out not only in California but in Texas, Georgia, and New York.

The White House has carefully choreographed its response to balance calling for the rule of law with supporting First Amendment rights. Balancing free speech with rule of law

"We've all seen the images, and they put to the test two fundamental American principles," Biden said on Thursday. "The first is the right to free speech and for people to peacefully assemble and make their voices heard. The second is the rule of law. Both must be upheld."

The US is not an "authoritarian nation," and peaceful protest is the best tradition for Americans to respond to consequential issues.

"But neither are we a lawless country. We're a civil society, and order must prevail," Biden said. "Throughout our history, we've often faced moments like this because we are a big, diverse, free-thinking, and freedom-loving nation."

Biden said this is a moment for clarity - not politics.

"So let me be clear: Violent protest is not protected. Peaceful protest is," Biden said.

He added vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, instilling fear in people, and shutting down campuses are against the law and not peaceful protest.

"Dissent is essential to democracy, but dissent must never lead to disorder or to denying the right of others so students can finish the semester and their college education," Biden said.

People have the right to protest but not the right to cause chaos, Biden said, adding that people have the right to get an education and walk across campus safely without fear of being attacked.

"Let's be clear about this as well: there should be no place on any campus, no place in America for antisemitism, or threats of violence against Jewish students," Biden said.

Biden said there is no place for hate speech or violence of any kind, whether it's antisemitism, Islamophobia, or discrimination against Arab Americans or Palestinian Americans.

"It's simply wrong," Biden said. "There's no place for racism in America. It's all wrong. It's un-American."

Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Thursday extended an urgent message of support to Jewish communities around the world in light of the dramatic surge in antisemitism and following the attacks and intimidation against Jewish students on American campuses.

“To our sisters and brothers, to our friends on campuses and in Jewish communities across the United States and all over the world, to those who stand by and defend the Jewish people and the State of Israel, to all people of goodwill—from Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Israel, I say to you: The people of Israel are with you.

“We hear you. We see the shameless hostility and threats. We feel the insult, the breach of faith and breach of friendship. We share the apprehension and concern,” began Herzog.

“We see prominent academic institutions, halls of history, culture and education contaminated by hatred and antisemitism fueled by arrogance and ignorance, and driven by moral failings and disinformation. We watch in horror as the atrocities of October 7 against Israel are celebrated and justified.

“We hear you. We recognize your heroic efforts. We are with you, and we are here for you,” continued the president.

“In the face of violence, harassment and intimidation, as masked cowards smash windows and barricade doors, as they assault the truth and manipulate history, together we stand strong. Together we will continue building a flourishing, life-affirming nation.

“As they chant for intifada and genocide, we will work, together, to free our hostages held by Hamas, and fight for civil liberties and our right to believe and belong, for the right to live proudly, peacefully and securely, as Jews, as Israelis—anywhere,” added Herzog.

Herzog noted that next week the Jewish people will mark Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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President of Israel in a message to Jews worldwide:

“In the face of this terrifying resurgence of antisemitism, do not fear. Stand proud. Stand strong for your freedom. Israel stands with you. Israel cares for you. We care for you. We are here for you.” pic.twitter.com/bTGQqqfmE1

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 2, 2024

Antisemitic riots break out across US college campuses while the Biden administration and some university leaders do nothing.

Israel-erasure studies have transformed scores of U.S. universities into hotbeds of Hamas Jihadi activism and support. The Oct. 7, 2023, massacre has crowned Hamas as the true Palestinian leadership in Gaza, Judea and Samaria, and across American campuses. One hundred Columbia University professors signed a petition of support for Hamas'"military actions."

The mainstreaming of Hamas rhetoric on campus began well before Oct. 7. For nearly two decades, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Marxist-Leninist terror group PFLP and their U.S. supporters have dominated Palestinian activism on North American campuses.

This has not been "pro-Palestine" activism: No mention of Palestinian statehood, no chants for two states for two peoples, and no demands to complete the peace process. Rather, today, calls for Jihad have characterized pro-Hamas campus messages, such as "gas the Jews,""rape is resistance," and "burn down Tel Aviv." Columbia protestors promised "10,000 more October 7th massacres."

For the past 30 years of the Oslo peace process, the "moderate," internationally legitimized Palestinian Authority (PA) and its leaders, Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, have amplified a narrative of jihad (holy war) against Jews, not merely Israel.

Furthermore, the PA's policy of paying incentive annuities for murdering Israelis has fashioned a generation of Palestinians ready to commit murder for money and sacrifice themselves as martyrs.

Many progressives deny that extremism characterizes the campus protests. But this view contains a significant amount of denial and wishful thinking over who is running these protests. The best way to understand the beliefs of protests is usually to read the published statements of the groups organizing them. That is especially true when the protests are well organized by an established network.

In this case, the protests have been organized by Students for Justice in Palestine. And their position is totally explicit: They believe in the total destruction of Israel as a state by any means, including violence. Not every protester shares this goal, of course. But it is the goal of the people directing the protests. That is why their slogans and chants call for elimination rather than coexistence.

Allies of the protesters have tried to blame the constant antisemitic harassment and atmosphere of menace emanating from their activities on a handful of outsiders. The Washington Post reported on "a Columbia student who has taken part in the pro-Palestinian protest encampments declaring that 'Zionists don't deserve to live.'" But this student didn't merely take part in protests, he was a leader of them, and he negotiated with the administration on their behalf.

At the University of Michigan, the leader of the main student anti-Israel group, who had been sympathetically profiled in the New York Times, wrote on social media, "Until my last breath I will utter death to every single individual who supports the Zionist state. Death and more. Death and worse." The most violent and unhinged statements are coming not from the periphery of the protests but from their leadership.

Israeli troops have long evacuated most of Gaza, humanitarian aid has been flowing in. At the same time, terrified hostages have been held captive for over 200 days by the terror group Hamas. If you're a college student looking for a noble cause, I can't think of a nobler one than "Let the Hostages Go!" Imagine the protesters directing their anger at Hamas, with banners and chants calling to "Liberate the Hostages, Don't Wait Another Day!"

It's not enough to have the "optics" of justice-seeking warriors unafraid to take on the police and get arrested. It's not enough to set up tents and play drums and wear keffiyehs and throw temper tantrums trying to convince the world there's no country worse than Israel. A cause needs a minimal level of credibility. Many of these Israel-hating groups lost their credibility right after Hamas murdered, mutilated, raped and burned alive 1200 Israelis on Oct. 7 - before any war started in Gaza. Instead of condemning the carnage, they defended it.

The campus protests have never been about a war or about helping Palestinians. The war was the ideal pretext for protesters to unleash rage against Jews and Israel and everything they hate about the West. These riots are anti-America as much as they are anti-Israel. Their actions have nothing to do with free speech. Intimidating and harassing students you don't like, and violating university codes of conduct, is not protected speech. It is an assault on the free speech of others.

These protests are about crushing Israel, not criticizing it. These are not cool revolutionaries. They are boring conformists. The hysterical rioters are blowhards pretending to be rebels and picking on the world's easiest target.

This is safe-spacism on behalf of people who want to violate the rules with impunity in the course of supporting a hideous terror group.

The threatening nature of those decisions and emails, though, can’t be underestimated according to the students.

They supposedly are “enabling a violent, repressive environment that puts Palestinian students, as well as all their Arab, Muslim, Jewish, and BIPOC peers, at risk through surveillance and policing.”

If only Columbia cared about the fate of its BIPOC students enough to issue fewer one-sided e-mails.

And who’s ultimately behind this potential repression?

Yes, the Zionist entity.

“We reject,” the students intone, “the violence of the Israel Defense Forces-trained, police-industrial complex that chokes our communities and disproportionately enacts brutality against people of color.”

The core of the case that Columbia is “complicit” in genocide relies on the old BDS agenda that demands that Israel be treated as an apartheid state and attributes moral responsibility for Israel’s supposed sins to any institution that doesn’t divest.

This campaign is based on a lie about the nature of Israeli society.

That aside, the idea that Columbia is responsible for the Gaza war because index funds it invests in might own shares in Israeli solar or high-tech firms is preposterous.

Of course, the larger point is that people who won’t condemn a terror group or the horrific pogrom it carried out on Oct. 7, who never demand that Hamas release its hostages, who single out for condemnation a democratic society beset by profoundly illiberal forces all around it, are presuming to lecture everyone else about “complicity.”

To the extent that they really are engaged in a great moral struggle, they’re on the wrong side.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act by a margin of 320-91 on Wednesday.

The bill, H.R.6090, would require the Department of Education to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism when considering whether Jews had been discriminated against under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

The legislation also discourages the use of other definitions, which may impair “enforcement efforts by adding multiple standards and may fail to identify many of the modern manifestations of antisemitism.”

Critics cited concerns that the measure would stifle free speech. Of the 91 who voted “nay,” 70 were Democrats and 21 were Republicans.

The U.S. Department of Education has used the IHRA definition of antisemitism in civil rights cases since 2018. The definition was given the force of law for executive agencies after former president Donald Trump issued an executive order applying the IHRA definition to Title VI cases in 2019.

Two of the House Republicans who voted against the measure on Wednesday said that they were opposed to it because the IHRA definition states that “claims of Jews killing Jesus” are “classic antisemitism.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said that she would vote against the bill because of the role of “the Jews” in the crucifixion.

“Antisemitism is wrong, but I will not be voting for the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023 (H.R. 6090) today that could convict Christians of antisemitism for believing the Gospel that says Jesus was handed over to Herod to be crucified by the Jews,” Greene wrote. “Read the bill text and contemporary examples of antisemitism like no. 9.”

The bill, which was sponsored by Reps. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Max Miller (R-Ohio) and Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), includes both the IHRA definition and its “contemporary examples.”

The ninth example that Greene highlighted describes one potential case of Jew-hatred as, “Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.”

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) similarly condemned the bill, claiming that the IHRA definition attacked the New Testament.

College Democrats of America, the Democratic Party’s official student organization, on Tuesday endorsed the "protests for peace" across U.S. college campuses amid violent, weeks-long anti-Israel demonstrations that have shut down Columbia University.

"This past week, we witnessed heroic actions on the part of students around the country to protest and sit in for an end to the war in Palestine and the release of the hostages," College Democrats said in a Tuesday statement, expressing "solidarity with protests for peace" that have sprung up on college campuses nationwide.

"We commend the bravery of students across the country who have been willing to endure arrests, suspensions, and threats of expulsion to stand up for the rights and dignity of the Palestinian people," the statement added.

The Democratic student organization also slammed university administrators’ response to the protests as "deserv[ing] the strongest condemnation" because "arresting, suspending, and evicting students without any due process is not only legally dubious but morally reprehensible."

The College Democrats’ statement came just hours after anti-Israel protesters at Columbia smashed the glass doors of a campus building and barricaded the entrance while chanting and waving flags that featured anti-Semitic slogans such as "Long live the intifada." Columbia president Minouche Shafik in response to the takeover said she is shutting down the campus indefinitely.

A coalition of nearly 20 Republican senators on Thursday introduced a measure blaming university leadership across the country for an explosion of anti-Semitic violence on campus that has endangered Jewish students and put the nation on edge.

The resolution, led by Sen. Tim Scott (R., S.C.), signals mounting congressional concern over a deluge of anti-Israel campus protests that the lawmakers say "have been a hotbed of blatantly anti-Semitic rhetoric and action," according to a copy of the measure obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The 19 senators blame university leadership for these increasingly violent protests and call on the Education Department to investigate any school that fails to protect its Jewish population. Many of the schools experiencing unrest receive millions of dollars in federal grants, with the lawmakers laying the groundwork to slash these funds if universities fail to stem the growing wave of violence.

"Anti-Semitism is rearing its ugly head at college campuses across our nation," Scott told the Free Beacon in a statement. "Jewish students are being targeted with violence and harassment, and the university presidents and administrators, who should be defending them, are caving to the radical mob and allowing chaos to spread."

"Every Jewish student has the right to attend class, study, and walk campus safely," the senator said. "The ‘adults’ who refuse to uphold that right must be held accountable."

The resolution—which could also draw support from moderate Democrats who have raised concerns about the devolving situation on America’s campuses—blames "administrators of institutions of higher education who have enabled ongoing anti-Semitism on their campuses."

This includes Columbia University, Harvard University, Princeton University, New York University, and Stanford University, among others, where pro-Hamas protests have become particularly problematic during the past week.

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have announced plans to increase federal scrutiny as a result of the aggressive antisemitic environment that has emerged at universities across the country since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attacks against Israel.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) spoke at a press conference on Tuesday alongside other top Republican leaders. He said that a “House-wide effort to crack down on antisemitism on college campuses” had begun and that “nearly every committee here has a role to play in these efforts to stop the madness that has ensued.”

Representatives intend to review federal funding at certain schools, their foreign student visa programs and the range of tax benefits received by academic institutions.

The Education and Workforce Committee, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), will help lead the efforts.

“No stone must go unturned while buildings are being defaced. Campus greens are being captured, or graduations are being ruined,” she said. “College is not a park for play-acting juveniles or a battleground for radical activists. Everyone affiliated with these universities will receive a healthy dose of reality. Actions have consequences.”

Johnson described antisemitism as “a virus” and that “because the administration and woke university presidents aren’t stepping in, we’re seeing it spread.”

He added that “the federal government plays a critical role in higher education, and we will use all the tools available to us to address this scourge.”

House Republicans on Tuesday called for the presidents of Yale University, the University of Michigan, and the University of California, Los Angeles, to testify in front of Congress amid anti-Israel protests across college campuses nationwide.

"The [House Education and Workforce Committee] has a clear message for mealy-mouthed, spineless college leaders: Congress will not tolerate your dereliction of your duty to your Jewish students," the committee’s chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.) said in a statement on Tuesday.

The Republican-led House committee will hold a hearing on May 23—titled "Calling for Accountability: Stopping Antisemitic College Chaos"—to hear testimony from Yale president Peter Salovey, University of Michigan president Santa Ono, and UCLA president Gene Block, according to the statement.

"No stone must go unturned while buildings are being defaced, campus greens are being captured, or graduations are being ruined," Foxx said of the anti-Israel demonstrations that have recently sprung up at many of America’s top universities, including Columbia University, Yale, Michigan, UCLA, and Harvard University.

"College is not a park for playacting juveniles or a battleground for radical activists," the North Carolina Republican added. "Everyone affiliated with these universities will receive a healthy dose of reality: Actions have consequences."

The administrators of three more universities have been asked to appear before congressional representatives to answer for the antisemitism manifesting at their institutions.

On Tuesday, the Committee on Education and the Workforce announced a hearing for May 23, titled “Calling for Accountability: Stopping Antisemitic College Chaos.”

It named as invitees Peter Salovey, the president of Yale University; Santa Ono, the president of the University of Michigan; and Gene Block, the chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

“The committee has a clear message for mealy-mouthed, spineless college leaders: Congress will not tolerate your dereliction of your duty to your Jewish students,” said the chair of the committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.). “No stone must go unturned while buildings are being defaced, campus greens are being captured or graduations are being ruined.”

On Monday, UCLA canceled classes following clashes between pro-Hamas and pro-Israel student activists. On April 22, Yale University police arrested 47 anti-Israel protesters. On March 26, the Anti-Defamation League wrote a letter to Ono following two antisemitic incidents at the school, which also has an anti-Israel encampment.

In a statement on Monday commenting on the ongoing, escalating campus protests, Foxx warned that administrators capitulating to student activists “contributes to the degradation of our civil society.”

She added that “the inmates are truly running the asylum.”

The Ugly
Brown University
Brown president Christina Paxson initially threatened students who violated school policy with probation. Then she agreed to hear a divestment proposal later this year.

"Provided that the encampment is peacefully brought to an end within the next few days and is not replaced with any other encampments or unauthorized protest activity (any protests violating University policies related to time, place or manner) this academic year," Paxson wrote in an April 29 letter to students, "the Corporation of Brown University will invite five students representing the current encampment activity and a small group of faculty members to speak with a similarly-sized group of Corporation members about their arguments for divestment."

Northwestern University
Northwestern University administrators, led by president Michael Schill, reached an agreement with students allowing them to remain on campus until June. As part of that agreement, Northwestern will offer faculty positions and scholarships to Palestinians and reestablish an investment advisory committee complete with representation from students pushing the school to divest from Israel.

"Earlier this morning, community members attempted to set up a tent encampment on Deering Meadow on the University’s Evanston campus, an act that is prohibited under University policies. University officials, including Northwestern Police and representatives from Student Affairs, are on site and have informed the group of the policies," school officials said in an April 25 statement. "They are working with the demonstrators to have the tents removed. Students who refuse to remove their tents will be subject to arrest and their tents will be removed by the University. Community members who do not adhere to University policies will face discipline."

"We have reached an agreement with a group of students and faculty who represent the majority of the protestors on Deering Meadow to bring the demonstration into compliance with University rules and policies," Schill announced four days later. "This agreement represents a sustainable and de-escalated path forward, and enhances the safety of all members of the Northwestern community while providing space for free expression that complies with University rules and policies."

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT president Sally Kornbluth did not issue a statement for almost a week after an encampment was established. On April 27, she said university police are deployed around the clock.

"We have heard the views of our protesting students. The grief and pain over the terrible loss of life and suffering in Gaza are palpable," she said in a recorded message. "Out of respect for the principles of free expression, we have not interfered with the encampment."

"But it is creating a potential magnet for disruptive outside protestors. It is commandeering space that was properly reserved by other members of our community. And keeping the encampment safe and secure for this set of students is diverting hundreds of staff hours, around the clock, away from other essential duties," Kornbluth said.

"We have a responsibility to the entire MIT community—and it is not possible to safely sustain this level of effort. We are open to further discussion about the means of ending the encampment. But this particular form of expression needs to end soon."

University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California has a system-wide policy to only call police when "absolutely necessary," university leaders reiterated amid ongoing encampments. No arrests have been made, even after protesters and counterprotesters fought each other overnight on May 1. The school canceled classes in response to the violence.

"We’ve taken several steps to help ensure people on campus know about the demonstration so they can avoid the area if they wish," vice chancellor Mary Osaka wrote on April 26. "This includes having student affairs representatives stationed near Royce quad to let Bruins and visitors know about the encampment, redirect them if desired and to serve as a resource for their needs."

"UCLA has a long history of peaceful protest, and we are heartbroken to report that today, some physical altercations broke out among demonstrators on Royce Quad. We have since instituted additional security measures and increased the numbers of our safety team members on site," Osaka said in a Monday statement.

Columbia University
Columbia president Minouche Shafik for days declined to bring police to campus to remove unsanctioned student protesters who plagued the school for nearly two weeks, saying that doing so "at this time would be counterproductive." After four missed deadlines to vacate the encampment and days of fruitless negotiations, cops swept through campus and arrested more than 100 protesters, some of whom stormed and occupied a university building.

Hosted by Dan Senor
There are two major decisions Israel is contending with right now: I) proceed with the military operation in Rafah; or II) pause the fighting, perhaps for an extended period of time, in service of a hostage deal. Of course a hostage deal would also most likely include the release of a large number of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons.

These decisions are coming to a head right now for Israel and for Hamas. All while Secretary of State Blinken is in the Middle East. All while Riyadh is working on some kind of defense pact with the U.S. and the possibility of normalization with Israel. And all against the backdrop of Hamas and Hezbollah issuing statements of solidarity with American college kids.

Hosted by Danielle Pletka & Marc Thiessen
Self-proclaimed “anti-Israel” and “anti-war” protests have gripped college campuses ever since Hamas’ brutal terrorist attack killed, injured, and took hostage thousands of Israeli civilians on October 7. However, in recent weeks, protesters have begun taking siege to universities across the country, setting up 77 “encampments” on quads, vandalizing property, barricading themselves in buildings, and physically and verbally assaulting Jewish students who dare to pass by them. The response from many college administrators and faculty has been timid, when not directly supportive of protesters that have turned violently antisemitic. Where does this antisemitism come from? And what can we do to stamp out the pervasive Jew-hatred plaguing our universities?

Adam Lehman is the President and CEO of Hillel International, the largest Jewish student organization in the world. Adam started his career at Skadden, Arps, and spent two decades as an executive and entrepreneur, including as a Senior Vice President at AOL. He was a Harry S. Truman Scholar at Dartmouth College and is a graduate of Harvard Law School.

Mosab Hasan Yosef tells Jordan Peterson he paid $20,000 from his own pocket to convince Marc Lamont Hill to debate him.

“[At] the debate he agreed with 90% of things I was saying…[he’s] this outrageous anti-Zionist anti-Israel Pro-Palestine and all of a sudden here [he] just… pic.twitter.com/pVs1z2gXDK

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) May 1, 2024

#Hamas can’t be trusted. We’ve seen what happened when they had the powers of government. The people of Gaza didn’t benefit, the huge international investments only excused Hamas from its governing responsibilities, and they abused the power to build the terrorist army that… https://t.co/VlVTTv3D00

— Lt. Col. (R) Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) May 1, 2024

Had a really interesting interview with @piersmorgan, about the war goals, IDF soldiers conduct, civilian casualties in #Gaza.
After the interview @mehdirhasan surprised me with a few take aways about me as an @IDF spokesperson (later on he also called me a liar, showing how… pic.twitter.com/Y090tBBrja

— Lt. Col. (R) Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) May 2, 2024

Again,
The Warsaw ghetto uprising killed 17 SS soldiers,
Not 1,000+ civilians. https://t.co/YfH27h5ux0

— Adin - עדין (@AdinHaykin1) May 2, 2024

Former U.S. President Donald Trump signaled that he would be opposed to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a wide-ranging interview with TIME magazine published this week.

“Most people thought it was going to be a two-state solution. I’m not sure a two-state solution anymore is gonna work,” the former president said.

“There was a time when I thought two states could work. Now I think two states is going to be very, very tough. I think it’s going to be much tougher to get. I also think you have fewer people that liked the idea. You had a lot of people that liked the idea four years ago. Today, you have far fewer people that like that idea,” he added.

Israeli Finance Minister Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, an ardent opponent of Palestinian statehood, tweeted in response to the interview, “I congratulate the former U.S. president and presidential candidate, a clear supporter of Israel, Donald Trump, for his clear words and his return from his support for the establishment of a Palestinian state.

“A Palestinian state would be a terrorist state that would endanger the existence of Israel and the international pressure to establish it is an injustice on a historical scale of the Western countries who are willing to endanger the only Jewish state due to internal political interests.”

He went on to state that, “I hope and pray that more leaders in the world will discover the courage and integrity shown by presidential candidate Trump to change their position, will withdraw from turning their backs on the State of Israel and will resolutely join hands with us in the fight we are leading in the name of the free world against radical Islam that threatens the peace of the entire world.”

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TRUMP NO LONGER WANTS A TWO STATE SOLUTION:

The Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, renounces his support for the two-state solution in an interview with Time magazine. Trump becomes the first candidate in the current century to withdraw backing for a… pic.twitter.com/MXxPHzjLP2

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 2, 2024

Trump slams Congress members for turning against Israel; says the antisemitism and hatred of Israel pervading the country have to be stopped.

He says Biden is not on the side of Israel. Trump says Israel has to be allowed to clear out Hamas and do the job. pic.twitter.com/IrzgMH8078

— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) May 2, 2024

Jewish students are facing calls for a “final solution” and threats to their safety.

But university leaders and President Biden refuse to do anything about these hate-filled little Gazas on campuses across America. pic.twitter.com/lT10tVzkyn

— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) May 1, 2024

Hamas and the ayatollahs in Iran are celebrating the little Gazas on college campuses, and why wouldn’t they? The protesters are espousing the same anti-American, anti-Semitic worldview as our enemies. pic.twitter.com/cE8xGUyxpg

— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) May 2, 2024

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) stated that if Columbia University President Minouche Shafik had threatened to expel or revoke the visas of students in the encampment on campus and fire members of the faculty who were in the encampment and followed through on these threats, “this situation could have been resolved decisively. But once there’s a crisis of confidence in the leader of the university, then chaos ensues.”

After Torres stated that students and professors who violate school policy or the law should face consequences, co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin asked, “But does that mean these professors need to be fired, the ones that are engaged in this?”

Torres answered, “I think what we need is decisive leadership. If the President had made it crystal clear that if you fail to vacate the encampment, you’re going to face expulsion or you’re going to face a revocation of your visa or you’re going to face firing, when you have a credible threat of accountability, and follow through on those threats, then this situation could have been resolved decisively. But once there’s a crisis of confidence in the leader of the university, then chaos ensues.”

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) stated that he fears “college campuses are indoctrinating the next generation of Americans with, not only hatred for Israel, but also hatred for their own country, and I’m not aware of a civilization in human history that has succeeded on the strength of self-loathing.”

Torres said, “Look, extremism is not an exclusively left-wing phenomenon. There’s extremism both on the far right and on the far left and we have an obligation to condemn extremism, no matter what form it takes and no matter what ideological direction from which it comes. So, I’ve been consistent in speaking out against both the far left and the far right.”

Co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin then asked, “Congressman Torres, what do you think about the professors at Columbia who are engaged in this activity, which may very well be different, you may put them in a different category than the students. Do you think they should go?”

Torres responded, “Look, if you have either a professor or a student who’s violating university policy or breaking the law, there should be accountability, there should be consequences, of course. And I’m concerned that our college campuses are indoctrinating the next generation of Americans with, not only hatred for Israel, but also hatred for their own country, and I’m not aware of a civilization in human history that has succeeded on the strength of self-loathing.”

Florida's progressive Democratic caucus this week called on the Florida Democratic Party to cancel Sen. John Fetterman’s (D., Pa.) keynote speech at its 2024 Leadership Blue gala over his support for Israel since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack.

"The [Florida Democratic Party] must heed the calls of its constituents and cancel Fetterman's keynote speech, demonstrating a commitment to amplifying the voices of the oppressed and pursuing a path toward peace and justice for all," the Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida wrote in a Wednesday letter to the state party.

The progressive Democrats said Fetterman was "once touted as a progressive champion" but "has betrayed the trust of his constituents by swiftly pivoting away from the platform he was elected on."

"His recent statements and actions, particularly regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, stand in stark contrast to the values of equality, justice, and peace that his supporters stand for," the letter added, condemning Fetterman’s "unwavering support for Israel's actions" and accusing him of "[aligning] with Republican donors and [adopting] inflammatory rhetoric."

"The FDP's decision to provide a platform for John Fetterman, despite his abandonment of progressive values and alignment with divisive rhetoric, is a direct affront to the principles of democracy and justice," the Wednesday letter read.

Fetterman has been a vocal supporter of Israel in its fight against Hamas terrorists since the Oct. 7 attack, which he described as "a wide-scale, premeditated, cowardly, terrorist campaign against Israeli civilians that also claimed the lives of American citizens."

"I unequivocally support any necessary military, intelligence, and humanitarian aid to Israel," Fetterman said in a statement following the Hamas attack. "The United States has a moral obligation to be in lockstep with our ally as they confront this threat. I also fully support Israel neutralizing the terrorists responsible for this barbarism."

So, um, Rep. Sara Jacobs, the wealthy Jewish congresswoman who voted against the anti-Semitism bill, is engaged to the grandson of a PLO terrorist who participated in the Munich Olympic massacre and was killed by the Israelis as retribution. So, um, she needs therapy?

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) May 2, 2024

By the way, isn't it weird we've heard nothing from Columbia alumnus Barack Obama on what's happening? I mean, we know he's fine palling around with anti-semites...

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) May 1, 2024

Peter, in all honesty, do you really believe that the mainstream of pro-Palestinian activism in the West doesn’t support hurting Israelis, doesn’t believe that killing civilians is a reasonable price to pay to achieve their goals?

This is a genuine question, because I really… https://t.co/4MtNzrz150

— Haviv Rettig Gur (@havivrettiggur) May 1, 2024

The fact that they are each Squad Member is agreeing with the Supreme Evil of the Islamic Regime should TERRIFY ALL OF YOU.#AmericaUnderAttack

📸 @stop_the_squadpic.twitter.com/cRFJmBEDvW

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) May 2, 2024

The tacit admission that what's happening at Columbia and UCLA makes his side look bad.

Because if what was happening there was helping, he wouldn't be complaining about the media coverage. https://t.co/jSvjqVxGox

— Sunny (@sunnyright) May 2, 2024

More proof that these fools aren't Jewish

You don't do a seder on the last night of Passover https://t.co/GEJTJL9TtU

— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) May 2, 2024

It’s hard to have any discourse right now because we live in different realities.

In my reality we have video of a Columbia mob that openly supports terrorism and war violently broke into a building, destroyed property, assaulted students and janitorial staff, illegally… pic.twitter.com/tblo5PpM7g

— AG (@AGHamilton29) May 2, 2024

NRCC gifts Squad Members "F*** HAMAS" shirts.

READ: https://t.co/fhAeZWvOle#NRCC#Congress#Hamas#viral#DC#politics#news#viral#funny#explorepagepic.twitter.com/AoiMSDyu31

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 1, 2024

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight,” Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) stated that Republicans are “trying to weaponize antisemitism” by bringing bills that divide Democrats on the subject, like the Antisemitism Awareness Act, up for a vote. And that if we wanted to fight antisemitism “we would bring a bipartisan bill and we would have a whole of government approach that involves educating people about what antisemitism is and what it isn’t and making sure that we are all speaking with one voice.”

Host Alex Wagner asked, “Do you have sort of a thesis as to why the scope was so large?”

Jayapal responded, “Yeah, Alex, I do, and that is that, unfortunately, I think Republicans are trying to weaponize antisemitism. They want to bring bills to the floor that actually divide Democrats, and what we really need to do, if we want to tackle antisemitism, which I believe every Democrat does want to do and many Republicans, then we would do a — we would bring a bipartisan bill and we would have a whole of government approach that involves educating people about what antisemitism is and what it isn’t and making sure that we are all speaking with one voice. I think it’s incredibly hurtful to the cause of eliminating antisemitism for Republicans to weaponize it and to be hypocrites about bringing forward something that is for pure political gain, not about fighting antisemitism. So, that’s why I think they brought this bill, because they knew that it would not get full Democratic support, because it doesn’t get full support from the Jewish community. It doesn’t get full support from people who have looked at this issue and said we have to be very careful about how we define this, and especially, by the way, this is being targeted and tied to educational funds that go to colleges. So, it has incredibly important ramifications.”

The bill passed the House 320-91 with 133 Democrats voting in favor of the bill along with 187 Republicans. The bill had 15 Democrats co-sponsoring it, along with 46 Republicans.

Jayapal wants her terrorist buddies in Hamas to survive so they can carry out another Oct 7 like they pledged to do https://t.co/nPRsjpxIXA

— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) May 2, 2024

"Killing Jews is different when WE do it" https://t.co/aYTxqTlDv1

— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) May 1, 2024

Filmmaker Ami Horowitz has slammed US President Joe Biden’s “terrible” response to the violent Columbia University protests.

“It’s incredible to watch his performance here,” Mr Horowitz told Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi.

“He has been terrible on this issue, he has not gotten involved.

“There has been talk about federalising the National Guard to get rid of these protestors , but they have done nothing on it and they have run rampant on these campuses.

“He has been an absolute zero on this issue.”

Filmmaker Ami Horowitz has called out Columbia University protestors’ “ridiculous” criticism the school was “blocking access to food and water,” while they overtook a historic campus building.

Students pleaded for ‘basic humanitarian aid’ to be delivered while they illegally took over Hamilton Hall, arguing it was the university’s responsibility to ensure they had access to food and water.

“What world are we living in?,” Mr Horowitz told Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi.

“Do they have an ounce of self-awareness?

“Do they really not understand they are a parody of themselves?

“This is ridiculous. Ridiculous, Rita.”

Sky News host Rowan Dean says we are in a “terrifying moment in Western history” right now with the widespread pro-Palestine protests at universities.

Clashes turned violent at the University of California and Columbia University after police stepped in to break up pro-Palestine protesters.

Fireworks were also reportedly thrown into a crowd of people as brawls took place at UCLA in Los Angeles.

Mr Dean told Sky News host Andrew Bolt that it is the first time the academic class of people has shown themselves to be “absolute cowards”.

“Absolutely devoid of any morality whatsoever," he said.

“Basically, as low down on the evolutionary scale as you could get.

“Everything that lifts us above the worst of the animal kingdom is being trashed by our universities.”

Sky News Host James Macpherson discussed the “anti-Israel activism” propagated by the ABC.

This follows the ABC airing a documentary featuring author and journalist Antony Loewenstein.

Mr Lowenstein is of Jewish descent but loudly supports a boycott against Israel.

“They drag out a fringe extremist Jew with anti-Israel views that echo their own and present him as the real Jew,” Mr Macpherson told Sky News host Andrew Bolt

“The anti-Semitism we‘ve seen in this country is the biggest and most disturbing story we've seen in a number of years.

“Yet it’s hardly being covered at all in any meaningful way by our national broadcaster.

“In fact, they’ve gone the other way.”

Rebel News reporter Avi Yemini says local media in Australia is “not interested” in what is happening on the streets of the country after being confronted by aggressive pro-Palestine protesters.

The reporter was verbally threatened on video by pro-Palestinian protesters in Melbourne's CBD.

One of the men in the video is known to police and is out on bail after being accused of involvement in a violent abduction and assault.

Mr Yemini told Sky News host Sharri Markson that his microphone was “immediately” struck.

“They were threatening to sexually assault my mother – to kill somebody at one point," he said.

“They threw glass bottles all in front of police.”

Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas has called for pro-Palestine protestors on university campuses to watch a documentary about Hamas, “on the off chance” students “don’t actually know” what they are protesting about.

“You would like to get the documentary, which is freely available,” he told Sky News Australia host Danica Di Giorgio.

“You would like to take that into the universities around the country and say, before you go out and protest, on the off chance you don’t actually know what it is you are protesting about, how about you just have a look at this documentary.

“Let that sink in and then see if you want to go and protest the way that you are carrying on at the moment.

“The sooner they get that in front of people, the better.”

Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power highlights a “dark underbelly” of anti-Semitism which has been exposed as pro-Palestine protests rage out of control.

Clashes turned violent at the University of California and Columbia University after police stepped in to break up pro-Palestine protesters.

Fireworks were also reportedly thrown into a crowd of people as brawls took place at UCLA in Los Angeles. Ms Power called for leaders to step up and call out the violent behaviour of protesters.

“Just watching the vision play out is horrifying, but for Jewish students who have worked and studied incredibly for the opportunity to learn and experience college life at these elite institutions – well, many of them are scared,” she said.

“Instead of creating memories with their friends in what should be some of the best years of their lives, they're terrified.

“Scared of studying in a place where their religion should be respected. A place which is meant to be their home.”

Australian Jewish Association’s Dr David Adler says the chanting of intifada at the University of Sydney “goes beyond political discussion”.

Mr Adler joined Sky News host Chris Kenny to discuss the rise in anti-Semitism on university campuses.

“Anyone with the remotest education would know intifada is a violent uprising,” Mr Adler said.

“It involves suicide bombings and killing civilians in mass stabbings.

“To be calling for that on the University of Sydney goes beyond political discussion.”

Shadow Education Minister Sarah Henderson has called for Macquarie University academic Randa Abdel-Fattah to be sacked and stripped of grant funding after she was seen '‘encouraging" children to chant anti-Israel slogans.

It comes as a video shows Ms Abdel-Fatah standing with children at Sydney University and clapping along as a young child leads a chant of “intifada, intifada”.

Ms Henderson said Ms Abdel-Fatah should be stripped of her Australian Research Council grant funding and removed from her position at Macquarie University.

“I’ve called for that grant, a very substantial amount of money $837,000, to be terminated - again, the Education Minister Jason Clare has refused to intervene which is absolutely pathetic, absolutely spinless,” Ms Henderson told Sky News host Chris Kenny.

“It is very clear that this academic has breached the responsible code of research which applies to every Australian Research Council grant.

“The indoctrination of children, encouraging them to make these threatening and violent chants is absolutely appalling.

“She needs to be sacked and the ARC grant needs to be cancelled.”

Of all the disturbing anti-Israel and antisemitic protests seen across university campuses, few were more jarring than watching young Australian school children chant “intifada, intifada” and “Israel is a terror state,” while their parents smiled and their peers cheered.

Macquarie University academic Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah and the group Families for Palestine organised the “special excursion” to the University of Sydney to support the “brave students” taking part in the pro-Palestine encampments on campus.

“How many of you have ever felt a little scared to stand up to a bully?” Abdel-Fattah gently asked the children, before offering them the megaphone “to lead chants of their choosing”.

A USYD spokesperson told The AJN that the gathering was “in no way an official University of Sydney event, and was led by a speaker who was not from the university”, but failed to condemn it as hate speech.

“We have always welcomed the public, including families and their children, onto our iconic campus but parents or carers are responsible for decisions relating to their children and all visitors must abide by the law and our campus access rule,” the spokesperson said.

An explosive document from the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s Student Affairs unit, uncovered by Sky News, revealed that USYD views the word ‘intifada’ as “an expression of a political stance in connection with pro-Palestinian activism as opposed to being a statement in support of terrorist acts”.

Suicide bombings by terrorists targeting and claiming the lives of hundreds of innocent Israelis were a feature of the Second Intifada.

Abdel-Fattah was granted the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in 2022, costing taxpayers over $800,000.

Shadow Education Minister Sarah Henderson, along with the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), have led calls for Abdel-Fattah’s research funding to be revoked.

“Australian taxpayers should not be providing $837,000 to an activist academic who has engaged in such appalling conduct,” Henderson said.

Several hundred Melbourne Jews came together to support Jewish students at Melbourne University on Thursday.

The rally, held at University Square, was several hundred yards from the pro-Palestinian encampment at the University.

There was a substantial Police presence but no sign of any trouble.

Organised by the Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS), both students and faculty spoke about what it’s like for Jews on campus nowadays.

Steven Prawer, a professor of physics at the University of Melbourne and co-chair of the Australian Academic Alliance Against Antisemitism, told the crowd he has experienced anxiety and embarrassment over the past six months.

He said he was deeply embarrassed at the way the university has folded so easily in the case of academics who were scheduled to visit for academic exchange.

“The mere threat of disruption was enough for the cancellation of visits from Israeli academics, who were invited here as honoured guests. It seems that my anxiety is also shared by my colleagues who are scared by the threats” he said.

A Criminology student, Sarah Schwatrz, said a lecturer verbally supported a pro-Palestinian campus activity in class, and feels her complaint was not treated properly.

“As Jewish students, we no longer feel safe attending the university – we want nothing more than the same consideration and sensitive sensitivity that is regularly afforded to other groups. To my fellow students I urge you all to speak up; if we remain silent, we are letting them win” she said.

There's an insurrection taking place in America, but it’s being disguised by the media who are playing right along with this mob’s attack on American universities and are refusing to shed light on its true goals! Is this the beginning of the long awaited for muslim lead attack on America? They hope for the destruction of not only Israel but also America!

More than 50 former Google employees who were fired in connection with protests against the company’s $1.2 billion contract with the government of Israel have filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), alleging unlawful retaliation.

The Verge reports that the complaint comes after a series of events that unfolded last month when Google terminated 28 employees for participating in sit-in protests at its offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, California. The protests were organized by the group No Tech For Apartheid to oppose Project Nimbus, a cloud computing contract between Google and the Israeli government.

According to the complaint, the fired workers are alleging that Google “retaliated against approximately 50 employees and interfered with their Section 7 rights by terminating and/or placing them on administrative leave in response to their protected concerted activity, namely, participation (or perceived participation) in a peaceful, non-disruptive protest that was directly and explicitly connected to their terms and conditions of work.”

So they’re chanting about a fictitious Israeli genocide, whilst displaying a huge banner of Stalin (who was a massive genocidal maniac).

Peak 2024. pic.twitter.com/P34OvwCGRu

— Dead Ferrets (@Deadferrets) May 1, 2024

This isn’t the first time Columbia University president Minouche Shafik has faced questions over how she will discipline an anti-Semitic mob on her campus, and her past performance has critics in Congress concerned that Columbia’s protesters will get off unscathed.

In 2021, with Shafik at the helm of the London School of Economics, the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom Tzipi Hotovely was swarmed by a mob of protesters after she was invited to speak at the prestigious university’s Debating Society.

Video from the November 9, 2021 incident shows police had to hold back a mob of Palestinian flag-waving protesters who attempted to swarm her car — protesters reportedly chanted the genocidal “From the River to the Sea” chant and waved the flags of U.S.-designated terror organization, Kata’ib Hezbollah.

Disturbing display of antisemitism:

Israeli Ambassador to the UK @TzipiHotovely was evacuated from an event at the London School of Economics last night on the anniversary of #Kristallnacht.

pic.twitter.com/V0gE8ZPsZM

— Julie Lenarz (@MsJulieLenarz) November 10, 2021

Though the university, similar to Columbia, called intimidation and threats of violence “completely unacceptable” and warned that “students identified as being involved in making such threats will face disciplinary action,” there’s no indication that any such action was taken. Neither the university nor Shafik, who had been president of the school since 2017, responded to requests for comment on the incident.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who has been one of Shafik’s harshest critics and has called on her to resign, said the incident gives her “zero confidence” that there will be consequences for the “pro-terrorist” students.

“Columbia University President Shafik’s history of allowing students who perpetrate antisemitic attacks to go unpunished gives me zero confidence that Shafik will follow through and hold Columbia students accountable for their role in the antisemitic, pro-terrorist mob that has seized control of the university,” Stefanik told The Daily Wire. “Shafik must be terminated immediately, and Columbia University must make public the names of every student suspended or expelled for taking part in this antisemitic mob.”

Parents:

The pro-Hamas mob may have been arrested and removed from campus, but professors like @ProfKFranke from @ColumbiaLaw will still be indoctrinating your kids starting next semester.

Although she has been egging on the students for months, she didn't even have the… https://t.co/Q0wrlySXnC

— Shai Davidai (@ShaiDavidai) May 2, 2024

A pro-Hamas activist who spoke at Columbia despite being banned in Germany for supporting terror is a communist from New Jersey who openly supports the October 7 massacre of Israelis.

Charlotte Kates, a major figure in the pro-Palestine movement in colleges for over two decades, has been a constant presence at anti-Israel encampment at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

The New Jersey native is the international coordinator of Samidoun Prisoners Solidarity Network, a group with ties to the PFLP that is listed in Israel as a terror group and banned in Germany as such.

Kates, a lawyer, was seen on Friday in Vancouver praising the terrorist attack by Hamas, which left 1,700 Israelis dead and sparked the war in Gaza, where 30,000 Palestinians have reportedly been killed.

'We say today, long live October 7!' Kates yelled outside the Vancouver Art Gallery, calling the attack a show of 'beautiful, brave and heroic resistance of the Palestinian people.'

'We stand with the Palestinian resistance and their heroic and brave action on October 7,' she said. 'Long live October 7.'

Kates went on defending terror groups, adding: 'It is long past time to delist Palestinian and Lebanese resistance organizations from Canada’s so-called list of terrorist entities.

'Hamas is not a terrorist organization. Islamic Jihad is not a terrorist organization. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is not a terrorist organization. Hezbollah is not a terrorist organization.'

She continued: 'These are resistance fighters. These are our heroes. These are those who are sacrificing so that we can live and speak and struggle and fight. These are the people whose blood is being shed to defend humanity and to defend the world.'

Her husband Khaled Barakat is an alleged senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which has been designated as a terrorist organization by the US government for its links to Hamas and Hezbollah.

The group is known for suicide bombings and airline hijackings and its military wing has boasted about having participated in the Hamas attack on Israel.

International Coordinator of Samidoun Charlotte Kates in Vancouver Rally: Long Live October 7; Hamas, PFLP, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hizbullah Are Not Terrorist Groups, They Are Heroes #terrorism#Hamas#Hizbullah#PFLPpic.twitter.com/WzNg4RZal6

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 2, 2024

Less than half of the pro-Hamas protesters arrested at New York University last week after refusing to vacate the campus were members of the academic institution, the university said on Wednesday.

Of the 133 protesters arrested on April 22 at Gould Plaza on campus, 65 were students, faculty or other employees of NYU, located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood on the west side of lower Manhattan. It is the largest private university in the United States by enrollment.

“I never thought that as president I would need to rely on the NYPD to secure the safety of our community,” President Linda G. Mills said in the statement.

Mills added that several buildings on campus had to be locked down that evening for security reasons.

At Columbia University in northern Manhattan’s Morningside Heights neighborhood, Hamas supporters who were not students or staff were involved in violent protests, according to the city’s mayor.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, speaking on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday, revealed that “outside agitators,” including one whose husband was convicted for terrorism, played a key role in the anti-Israel and antisemitic protests at Columbia.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said on Wednesday it was unclear how many of the 280 arrested at Columbia were outsiders.

"Stranger Things" actor Brett Gelman criticized university leaders for allowing anti-Israel protests and encampments to take over their college campuses, arguing that the demonstrators received special treatment.

The Jewish actor and comedian, best known for playing the character of Murray Bauman in the Netflix series, said he believed students' freedom of speech should be protected but hate speech and violence should not be tolerated.

"They should be expelled. That's it," he told TMZ on Tuesday.

"If this was against any other people, or they were blocking Black students or gay students or women from entering campus, this would be shut down. This would've been immediately shut down. As it should be," he continued.

Gelman has been outspoken in his defense of Israel and about the backlash and threats he's received for his views since the Oct. 7 terror attacks.

"The fact that Jewish pain is not being recognized by these people — it just shows their cards," he went on to say of anti-Israel protesters.

The actor also questioned why protesters were wearing masks and called out the professional agitators influencing these protests.

"I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but it seems very strangely coordinated, to a degree. So it's not just about passions about injustices. It's a coordinated movement that we've seen before," Gelman said.

"This is really just a repeat of the 1930s, not allowing Jewish students into universities in Germany," he continued.

A big part of the social contract for a modern society is an agreement that citizens will grant the state a monopoly on the use of legitimate violence in exchange for that state protecting its subjects, including from mobs within the state and other illegal behavior. The expectation is that the rules will be enforced fairly and equally, or the contract loses legitimacy.

The United States has a First Amendment that protects speech to a level that doesn’t exist in other countries, including speech that is openly supportive of terrorism and mass murder. In this regard, the groups organizing campus protests are putting on a fine civics lesson for everyday Americans exhibited by the main groups behind many of the current college protests we are witnessing. 

The problem arises however when the mobs taking over several campuses in predominantly blue areas go beyond awful speech and instead insist on tactics that clearly violate the rules everyone else is subject to, including taking over parts of schools, assaults, destroying property, harassment of other students and restricting movements based on ideological preferences. That’s exactly what we have witnessed at multiple schools nationwide — the worst examples coming from UCLA.

Over the last week at UCLA, the “protesters” have taken over several school areas, including the library entrance. They have openly imposed ideological tests on who they allow into those areas, even handing out wristbands to signal who has acceptable views and questioning students if they are “Zionists.” Beyond that, the mob has tried to enforce their takeover by force, on several occasions by cornering Jewish students and journalists whom they deemed as unacceptable in their area. There have also been several assaults. All of this is unacceptable, but far worse is that UCLA security and Los Angeles police have refused to do anything about it. You can see security forces standing by in many of the videos and refusing to intervene. This is a choice that security forces are openly saying is part of their instruction. By refusing to enforce their rules or protect students, UCLA and the local authorities are essentially sanctioning the mob behavior and thus betraying their end of the social contract. 

MUST WATCH FOOTAGE: This is UCLA's Provost, Darnell Hunt, trying to negotiate with the UCLA Encampment Activists.

They effectively lecture him and when he tries to briefly clarify something, they get mad at him, so he decides to leave. The Encampment Occupiers laugh at this… pic.twitter.com/fKJRcXHykQ

— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 2, 2024

The New York City Police Department released a video showing a professional "protest consultant" who was seen on other social media videos instructing a mob of anti-Israel agitators as they took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University overnight Monday.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams spoke about outside agitators during a press conference Tuesday evening.

"What should have been a peaceful protest, it has basically been co-opted by professional outside agitators. We were extremely cautious about releasing our intel information because our goal was to ensure the safety of the students, the faculty, and without destruction to property," Adams said. "We have sounded the alarm several times before about external actors who attempted to hijack this private protest."

Adams and members of his administration shared information about the outside actors who were creating "serious public safety issues" at the protests.

"These external actors are obviously not students, and their presence on campus is a violation of Columbia’s clearly stated policy," Adams said. "This group…is an outside agitator with a history of escalating a situation and trying to create chaos. It is our belief they are now actively co-opting what should be a peaceful gathering. This is to serve their own agenda. They are not here to promote peace or unity or allow a peaceful display of one's voice. They are here to create discord and divisiveness."

The mayor urged anyone involved to walk away "now."

During the press conference, police said some of the outside agitators have been known to the NYPD for years, adding that they have seen an escalation in tactics police believe are the result of guidance from outside agitators.

NYPD shared video of anti-Israel agitators breaking into a building at Columbia University through the windows overnight Monday. (NYPD)

For example, police are seeing barricades being made out of furniture, cameras being destroyed, de-arresting tactics, property destruction, and signs being used to fortify and create shields.

Police said even though the tactics really became exposed last night at Columbia University, they expect it will continue across universities in New York City and across the country.

In a video shown during the press event, 63-year-old Lisa Fithian is seen watching a group of protesters chant anti-Israel slogans.

"We’re trying to document them being a- -holes," Lisa Fithian said to the camera person. "You’re right. They are being a - -holes."

Has anyone heard if Lisa Fithian was arrested tonight.

Lisa is a professional protest consultant who teaches students how to riot and commit terrorism.

She is a charter member of Extinction Rebellion.pic.twitter.com/Humi6ug9KB

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 1, 2024

Pro-Hamas faculty of @Columbia made a short film on the Holocaust and antisemitism and posted it on their social media account. The video is littered with lies from start to finish.

The faculty of @Columbia is the problem. They routinely gaslight the Jews and make up false… pic.twitter.com/p07yVhNfzm

— Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus (@CampusJewHate) May 1, 2024

One of the spokespeople for the UCLA protesters explains their end goal is for “more than divestment.” She says, “Given that the University of California is founded on colonialism, it’s inherently a violent institution.” She argues the UC system is linked to both foreign wars and… pic.twitter.com/bFw0IX7oHp

— Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) May 2, 2024

Good luck to the future historians studying why a bunch of purple-haired non-binary atheists are bowing to Allah at UCLA.pic.twitter.com/lg7sRYdSMK

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 2, 2024

Watch how Marie Adele Grosso, a @Columbia student, responds when asked if she believes Israel has a right to exist.pic.twitter.com/Ax4IDOFGuo

— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) May 2, 2024

The Jew better dress differently lest he be branded a provocateur for...being a Jew.

Maybe he can lose the yarmulke and any symbols.

Maybe he should wear a yellow star to make him compliant...

Maybe Mr. Sachs, the Nazi sympathizer can go fuck himself.

Sideways. https://t.co/Wa3LSlfoxg

— Saul Montes-Bradley (@Debradelai) May 1, 2024

Funds for "encampments" are being routed through Venmo (mostly) and CashApp.

Protesters are advised to avoid mentioning "Palestine, Gaza, [and] related emojis in the payment" due to potential “censorship.” pic.twitter.com/s00S4LNwUd

— Patrick Webb (@RealPatrickWebb) May 1, 2024

As anti-Israel protests continue to plague college campuses across the country, Northwestern University has reached a deal with the protesters, sparking concern from many about the conditions.

On Monday, the Chicago school announced an agreement to curb protest activity in return for the reestablishment of an advisory committee on university investments and other commitments.

Some who are protesting the war in Gaza condemned the Northwestern agreement as a failure to stick to the original demands of student organizers, the Associated Press reported. Some supporters of Israel claimed the deal represented "cowardly" capitulation to protesters.

One of Northwestern's radical professors has ties to a history of terror.

Zayd Ayers Dohrn, is the son of a former radical terrorist group leader, Bernardine Rae Dohrn and Bill Ayers. The group they led for years perpetrated terrorist bombings in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere around the country.

According to Northwestern's staff directory, Zayd Ayers Dohrn is a writer, professor, and director of the MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University.

He is also creator and host of the original documentary podcast, "Mother Country Radicals," where he details being raised by parents who were leading one of the most notorious domestic radical terrorist groups in the U.S.

His mother, Bernardine Dohrn, is the former leader of the far-left militant organization, Weather Underground. She reportedly praised Charles Manson and even ended up on the FBI's most wanted list for several years.

"My parents never hid any of this from me. I knew, from when I was three or four, that we used fake names. I knew we moved around a lot, made calls from public phones, and paid for everything in cash. I knew somebody was chasing us, but didn’t know what "FBI" meant – why they, or it, wanted to catch us or what would happen if they did," Zayd previously told the Guardian.

Jewish students at Northwestern University met with members of Congress on Wednesday to recount how anti-Israel protests have turned into "shocking and scary" anti-Semitic hate-fests, with demonstrators defacing the Star of David and chanting that Jews should "go back to Germany."

"At the encampment, I was told to go back to Germany and get gassed," said a freshman civil engineering student named Mia, who traveled with the delegation of Northwestern students to Washington, D.C. "I overheard in my dorm people talking about the white Jewish power on campus, and what we have to do to address this Jewish power."

"To me [this is] really, really shocking and scary," she said. "It’s leaking everywhere on campus, not just the [protest encampments]."

Alumni and students' parents have accused Northwestern administrators of failing to combat anti-Semitism at the school, where anti-Israel protesters recently set up a protest encampment in violation of the campus’s anti-trespassing policies.

Northwestern president Michael Schill declined to arrest the students this week and instead agreed to numerous concessions—including hiring more Palestinian faculty members—to get the protesters to disband the illegal encampment.

The Department of Education is also investigating alleged anti-Jewish incidents at the school, where anti-Israel protesters have paraded the Hamas flag and professors have canceled classes to encourage students to attend the demonstrations against Israel.

The group of over a dozen Northwestern students met with numerous Republican and Democratic House members on Wednesday, including House Republican Conference chairwoman Elise Stefanik (N.Y.), Rep. Mike Lawler (R., N.Y.), Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D., N.J.), Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D., Fla.), and Rep. Ritchie Torres (D., N.Y.), ahead of the lower chamber’s vote on an anti-Semitism bill.

Stefanik said she was disturbed by the stories of "repeated anti-Semitic attacks and harassment" at the school.

"Instead of addressing these attacks and protecting their Jewish student body, Northwestern’s leadership has chosen to reward the violent pro-Hamas mob by submitting to their outrageous demands, emboldening others across the nation to follow suit," she said. "Congress will continue to hold these failed higher education institutions accountable."

All these schools should just start preparing the settlement funds. There’s going to be a lot of them. https://t.co/s5ezR1P0af

— AG (@AGHamilton29) May 2, 2024

Seven Jewish members of Northwestern University’s antisemitism advisory committee who stepped down from the body on Wednesday blasted university President Michael Schill for his failure to combat antisemitism while at the same time quickly acceding to the demands of anti-Israel protesters on campus.

Announced in November, the committee’s members were named in January. The body has not yet put forth any public recommendations, nor has Schill adopted any policies from the committee. The seven members who resigned criticized Schill for the agreement he reached on Monday with the anti-Israel protesters who had built an encampment on campus and for not consulting members of the antisemitism committee during the negotiations.

“It appears as though breaking the rules gets you somewhere, and trying to do things respectfully and by the books does not,” Lily Cohen, a Northwestern senior who stepped down from the President’s Advisory Committee on Preventing Antisemitism and Hate on Wednesday, told Jewish Insider. “I am hoping that this is really the last straw that President Schill needs to see in order to really do something. But I can’t say that I have a whole lot of confidence that he will, because it feels like it feels like if he wanted to do something, he’s been given plenty of opportunities to do it.”

The university is “disappointed” that some members of the committee chose to step down, Hilary Hurd Anyaso, Northwestern’s assistant vice president for communications, told JI in a statement. “Our commitment to protecting Jewish students, faculty and staff is unwavering. The University has no tolerance for antisemitic or anti-Muslim behavior.”

The home page of Northwestern’s main website still features a banner declaring “Combating Antisemitism,” with a link to the announcement of the task force members. But the committee members who resigned said university leaders never took its charge seriously.

“Students at Northwestern must be able to walk through campus without hearing hate-filled speech or experiencing harassment for their religious or political identities and commitments,” Northwestern Hillel Executive Director Michael Simon said in an email to the campus Jewish community announcing his resignation from the committee. “I accepted my appointment to the Committee last fall with the expectation that we would make a good-faith effort toward achieving these goals. Over time, it has become apparent that the Committee is not able to do so.”

NEW: Northwestern Hillel ED Michael Simon steps down from the school's antisemitism committee, along w/ its co-chair.

Simon hoped the committee would make a "good-faith effort" toward fighting hate & harassment.

"It has become apparent that the Committee is not able to do so." pic.twitter.com/QxraswrXhk

— Gabby Deutch (@GSDeutch) May 1, 2024

Look at these Nazi symbols and ISIS-level hate and propaganda at UCLA tonight. This is disgusting. pic.twitter.com/ZKkmmpfFoI

— Sam Yebri (@samyebri) May 2, 2024

🚨 Safiyya Ayloush, Daughter of CAIR Executive Hussam Ayloush, Assaults and Tases Jew

⚠️ Will @LAPDHQ take action?

In an exclusive investigation, the Shirion Collective and @JewHateDB has revealed Safiyya Ayloush's identity as the person caught on camera violently attacking a… https://t.co/8Cnx8eTycKpic.twitter.com/WZIEtyYuCc

— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) May 1, 2024

After carefully reviewing @thehoffather's video, dude with the Green Day hoody blocking the Jewish student at the University of Washington is none other than Gabriel Jones, a notorious far-left activist who assaulted me at a protest last year in Seattle. But when I defended… https://t.co/w80sVZrhHf

— Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) May 2, 2024

Today at @MIT, just steps from the Hillel building, a crowd of students cheers a man praising Ham@s, the PFLP, and the Muslim Brotherhood.

“You can’t support a people who are fighting back and fail to support those who are putting their lives on the line. So when they say all… pic.twitter.com/w6LQdA6LLv

— Talia Khan (@TaliaKhan_MIT) May 2, 2024

BREAKING: Protest outside of NYU includes a dance party remix of "No Justice. No Peace. Fuck these Racist Ass Police." pic.twitter.com/G9810vUYDo

— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 2, 2024

Another Rutgers student activist welcomes the crowd to "the Popular University of Gaza."

Does this mean our tax dollars no longer need to fund Rutgers? pic.twitter.com/8OAX2iyAXg

— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 1, 2024

The Stanford University teaching assistant who was caught on tape calling for President Joe Biden’s assassination and praising Hamas is now naming and shaming the students he says recorded his remarks and reported him to the administration.

Hamza El Boudali, who in January told Jewish students in his computer science section that they would be treated "very well" by a Hamas caliphate, on Wednesday posted a thread on X with the names and headshots of students who "illegally recorded and doxxed" him "in clear violation" of Stanford’s code of conduct. It is not clear which provision of the code he is referencing.

El Boudali also claimed that he "got an offer to TA" the same class, CS 109, again the following quarter, after his incendiary comments went viral and sparked complaints from Jewish students who said he wouldn’t be able to grade them fairly.

A university spokesperson, Dee Mostofi, distanced the school from that claim, telling the Washington Free Beacon that, at present, El Boudali is "not serving as a TA." She declined to say whether he had received an offer to be one after his comments surfaced. The professors for CS 109, Jerry Cain and Chris Piech, did not respond to requests for comments.

The Free Beacon asked El Boudali in an email for confirmation that the school had offered him a teaching role the next quarter. He responded by posting the email on X and lambasting the Free Beacon as a "Zionist trash newspaper," adding in an email that "I don’t talk to trash journalists."

Officials at Stanford University submitted a photo of someone on campus wearing a green headband worn by Hamas terrorist fighters to the FBI as the school struggles to reign in anti-Israel protesters camping overnight on school property.

Like at other universities across the country, anti-Israel students at Stanford have created an encampment in the White Plaza portion of the northern California college campus to protest Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip.

A photo of someone at the encampment wearing a green headband, a face covering and glasses eventually came to the attention of school administrators.

“We have received many expressions of concern about a photo circulating on social media of an individual on White Plaza who appeared to be wearing a green headband similar to those worn by members of Hamas,” the school said in a Wednesday statement. “We find this deeply disturbing, as Hamas is designated a terrorist organization by the United States government. We have not been able to identify the individual but have forwarded the photo to the FBI.”

A university spokesperson declined to comment on the matter to Fox News Digital.

Yesterday the Stanford Encampment hosted the Aswat Youth Ensemble. The children chanted "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free" for the encampment and sang songs with various levels of enthusiasm. pic.twitter.com/bI7VaGHkuw

— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 1, 2024

Vandalism, Graffiti and Hate Speech all over @UCLA.

None of this qualifies as “Free Speech.”#AntizionismIsAntisemitism

🎥 just.context/IG pic.twitter.com/V04C2rogf4

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) May 2, 2024

Wristbands are being used to identify anti-Israel students at @UCLA so that they are allowed to enter Royce Quad, Royce Hall, and Powell Library.

Some students are allowed in and out, others are kept out. This is ILLEGAL and UCLA is not just tolerating it but facilitating it. pic.twitter.com/CbdodKLK53

— Sia Kordestani (@SiaKordestani) April 30, 2024

⚠️ 'Somewhat peaceful' protest turns to violence as usual.

LAPD attacked & forced to retreat from inside the encampment as protesters rushed law enforcement tried to surround the police from both sides. https://t.co/h6PStLrs9xpic.twitter.com/SemM08XbzW

— Ron M. (@Jewtastic) May 2, 2024

⚠️ You can clearly see the walls of the encampment on this side are coming down, police are already on the 1st line of tents and one assumes will begin making mass arrests, there is nothing to stop the riot police now.

Will take time. There could be some clashes but this… pic.twitter.com/T0EgUL7tGS

— Ron M. (@Jewtastic) May 2, 2024

BREAKING UCLA 🚨 : CHP Riot Police begin trying to break through protestor barrier, fights ensue, multiple injured. pic.twitter.com/2hCSmihJZ9

— Anthony Cabassa (@AnthonyCabassa_) May 2, 2024

🚨 UCLA NOW: Police & Journalists Attacked by Cement and Urine-Filled Bottles

⚠️ WATCH: Fire extinguishers make breathing impossible amidst chaos

📰 Live from UCLA: The chaos mirrors a prison riot, with police working tirelessly to dismantle the encampment amidst intensifying… pic.twitter.com/MnZGhaKNyC

— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) May 2, 2024

UCLA🧵: Police unmask each protester arrested for the cameras before they’re loaded onto prison transport buses. pic.twitter.com/xBHa1ARuEu

— @amuse (@amuse) May 2, 2024

Just in: As police were shutting down the violent @UCLA encampment, they threw away a Palestine flag, angering the occupiers. pic.twitter.com/3TmbqmIsNR

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) May 2, 2024

Student groups in the encampment @UChicago hosted a “teach-in” today with Sami Al Arian, who was deported after his conviction for racketeering for Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Is this legal? pic.twitter.com/aEztogInDi

— (((anita))) (@anitainchicago) May 1, 2024

YOU HAVE TO SEE THE INSANE TRUTH

These pro-Palestine kids are just Nazis, fascists, bullies and stasi

They are the most un-American tyrants

They have more in common with North Korea

They’ve learned well from Hamas who are repressive dictators

They are creepy as hell pic.twitter.com/C2vHRVkjf2

— leekern (@leekern13) May 2, 2024

Pro-Palestinian protester Atah Othman was arrested while allegedly armed with a gun Tuesday on the University of South Florida campus.

FOX 13 reported that Othman was among nine others arrested, all ten of whom ranged in age from 20 to 39.

All of those arrested were charged with “unlawful assembly,” among other things. Charges beyond “unlawful assembly” included trespassing, “resisting an officer without violence,” and “aggravated assault with attempt to commit a felony with a weapon.”

Othman’s charges included “possession of a firearm on school property,” which is a felony.

The Tampa Bay Times noted that the ten persons arrested Tuesday were part of roughly 100 people who had gathered and whom police dispersed with tear gas near the MLK Plaza.

On Wednesday, a larger group of protesters–approximately 250-300 people–marched toward the Plaza then returned to their starting point without incident.

WTSP pointed out there was a reported bomb threat on the USF campus just before 11 p.m. “but it was resolved by 11:32 p.m.”

If you don't want to click through to the forum, which copied the DFP article back in 2006 pic.twitter.com/mCIbi6bBSv

— Sunny (@sunnyright) May 1, 2024

Pally-commies believe that destruction of property is “free speech” pic.twitter.com/ECrsrYyj7F

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) May 1, 2024

More flag footage https://t.co/HcTA6fVeltpic.twitter.com/xlcxSDxwaD

— JMMusings (@JMMusings) May 2, 2024

A student who defended the American flag at a North Carolina campus Tuesday from an anti-Israel mob, said the protesters would have had to yank the flag from him over his "dead body."

Anti-Israel protesters targeted the American flag on The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's quad — which had been flying at half-mast after four Charlotte officers were killed in the line of duty. At one point, they replaced it with a Palestinian flag – enraging students and inspiring members from the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity to take action.

"I don't understand how people can act like this," said Dan Stompel, a junior studying political science at the university. He was one of over a few dozen students who stood up to a mob of hundreds as they tried to desecrate the American flag. Stompel and his fellow classmates held the flag for over an hour until police were able to clear the protest and safely hoist it back on the flagpole. All the while, the students experienced profanity and middle fingers from protesters, along with bottles, rocks, and water being thrown at them.

"We're looking at every direction. If stuff was flying in, we would say, ‘Heads up.’ We would cover each other. We would look out for other people… And it did hurt our arms. It was like an ‘arm day’ [workout] for me that day. There was no gym happening that day afterwards. It was exhausting. It was beautiful moment," Stompel said in an interview with Fox News Digital Wednesday.

"It shows that, …based on the people there, nice, normal, strong boys protecting America's flag. There's nothing more patriotic, nothing more genuine, nothing more inspiring than that," he said.

At one point, the junior made a "joke" about how they would respond if the mob tried to stop them.

"I was like, ‘I’d die for this flag.' And everybody was like, ‘Yeah.’ If they got any closer that we're going to start throwing hands. We're not going anywhere, I don't care. They're going to have to tear me off this flag over my dead body," Stompel said.

A GoFundMe campaign has raised over $326,000 to throw a party for the group of fraternity brothers at the University of North Carolina who defended the American flag from anti-Israel protesters attempting to tear it down and raise a Palestinian flag in its place.

During the incident on Tuesday, footage of which swiftly went viral on social media, brothers of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity at UNC-Chapel Hill stepped in to ensure the US flag did not touch the ground when anti-Israel demonstrators hoisted a Palestinian flag up the flagpole on the main quad. The frat brothers then guarded the flag until UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts responded with law enforcement officers to return the American flag to its place.

(Thread) Today was a sad yet empowering day at Chapel Hill. When I walked to class, I saw the Palestinian flag raised on our quad flag pole, and was immediately upset at the act that these “protestors” had made. I cannot say I am fully educated on the Israel/Palestine conflict pic.twitter.com/tZrZEOSu8a

— Guillermo Estrada (@estradguillermo) April 30, 2024

UNC student Guillermo Estrada documented the incident on Twitter/X, writing in a post on Tuesday: “Today was a sad yet empowering day at Chapel Hill. When I walked to class, I saw the Palestinian flag raised on our quad flag pole, and was immediately upset at the act that these ‘protestors’ had made. I cannot say I am fully educated on the Israel/Palestine conflict, but it upset me that my country’s flag was disrespected in order to advocate for another.”

He added that when Chancellor Roberts came with police officers, “they were met with profanity, middle fingers, thrown bottles, rocks, and water,” Estrada said.

“When the flag was raised once again, the greek (sic) community began singing the National anthem. As the Chancellor left, the quad erupted into chaos as protestors began removing the flag once again, preparing to destroy it,” Estrada continued.

“My fraternity brother and others ran over to hold it up, in order for it not to touch the ground. People began throwing water bottles at us, rocks, sticks, calling us profane names. We stood for an hour defending the flag so many fight to protect.”

The young men are being hailed as heroes for their efforts, and after X user John Noonan saw the footage, he went about establishing the GoFundMe campaign titled "Pi Kappa Phi Men Defended their Flag. Throw 'em a Rager" as a reward for their heroism.

Holy shlit. $211,000+ raised for a couple of frat boys who defended Old Glory. pic.twitter.com/Wk2DL93Wn6

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 2, 2024

Put it in the Louvre pic.twitter.com/UFz1kTynqS

— Alec Sears (@alec_sears) May 1, 2024

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 by Daled Amos

Meet Columbia University President Minouche Shafik:

At the very least, Shafik did not seem to be quite as tongue-tied and did end up trying to defend antisemitism.

But she did not come across as being in control of the university.

Yet, by Tuesday she seemed to handle the demonstrations and encampments better than some other universities did.

For example, The New York Times optimistically reported: At Brown, a Rare Agreement Between Administrators and Protesters.

Some agreement!

“Although the encampment will end, organizing to ensure that the Brown administration fulfills our calls to act on divestment will continue until the corporation vote in October,” the Brown Divest Coalition said in a statement on Tuesday.

“This feels like a real moment of realizing our collective power,” said Rafi Ash, a sophomore at Brown who participated in the protests. “This is something that demonstrates that the mobilization of the student body can force the university to listen.”

Hat tip: Ian

Several agitators busted Tuesday night when police raided encampments at Columbia University and the City College of New York are seasoned anti-Israel protesters who don’t even attend the Big Apple schools.

Columbia has a long and proud tradition of protest and activism on many important issues such as the Vietnam War, civil rights, and the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. Today’s protesters are also fighting for an important cause, for the rights of Palestinians and against the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza. They have many supporters in our community and have a right to express their views and engage in peaceful protest.

Columbia University has no idea what is happening or what they are dealing with.

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Crucially, the Abraham Accords also ignored the Palestinians. After all, the Palestinians could never normalize relations without forfeiting their ability to project power and demand tribute. Like Sadat, Trump and his diplomats understood that peace could only be made by sidelining the Palestinians and whoever was sponsoring them, in this case Iran.

Naturally, the Abraham Accords were repugnant to the Obama faction. The normalization deals undid Obama’s balance of power project—i.e., strengthen U.S. adversaries at the expense of allies—and pushed the left’s longtime darlings, the Palestinians and the Islamic Republic to the margins. Accordingly, the Biden administration unfroze money to fill Iran’s war chest and undermined regional normalization under cover of expanding it to Saudi Arabia. Any direct talks between Israel and Saudi, the steward of Islam’s holy shrines, would, if only for the sake of protocol, have to involve the Palestinian cause. Thus, the Biden administration put the Palestinians at the center of the region again.

That’s how we got to Oct. 7. Contrary to the Biden administration’s talking points, the Iranians didn’t see Saudi-Israeli normalization talks as an existential threat; rather, they correctly saw it, and other Biden moves, as an invitation to disrupt and destabilize the regional order that Trump had rebuilt. Subsequently, in traditional regional fashion, the Iranians mobilized their Palestinian proxy.

And yet for many good-faith observers, it remains a mystery why Obama and then Biden sought to undo the U.S. order of the Middle East, an arrangement that has kept a volatile and strategically vital region relatively stable. Is it ego alone that requires Obama and his party must be proven right, and that Trump’s successes must be transformed into failures at America’s expense—and at the additional price of destroying the prospects of a relatively hopeful future for Middle Easterners?

The key fact is this: The regional order that Trump restored has long been part of the formula that ensures continued U.S. domestic peace and prosperity. To put it another way, the moves made by Obama and now Biden are not primarily about destabilizing the Middle East. Rather, they are designed to destabilize the United States.

The Biden team’s moves to shelter Hamas are best understood in the context of a revolutionary program of domestic initiatives that aim to reconstitute American society on a new basis, and which in turn require the outright rejection of the country’s history and culture, its existing social arrangements, and constitutional order. The current regime has weaponized the security state, labeled its opponents “domestic terrorists,” and waged a third-world-style campaign against the opposition candidate because it’s a revisionist faction. Its political and cultural manifesto is a program for remaking America, whether through social pressure, or censorship, or bureaucratic fiat, or threats of violence, or actual violence. Among other devices to transform America, the Biden administration has opened the border to at least 7 million illegal aliens (and counting), many from places in the Middle East where Hamas is revered, and for whom political violence means steady, well-paid work.

It’s not the traditional U.S.-led order in the Middle East that the revisionist faction, Obama’s faction, is most determined to dismantle but rather the existing order in the U.S. And it’s not Israel that it’s most keen to grind into dust, but America. For the party that Obama remade in his image to triumph at home, the Palestinians must win.

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is reportedly considering arrest warrants against Israeli leaders for alleged war crimes. This would be the first time the ICC has taken this step against a liberal Western democracy. Such charges would allow unaccountable bureaucrats in The Hague to put Israel's elected officials on trial for decisions they made to defend the Jewish state against Hamas.

The charges alone would harm Israel by serving as a diplomatic catalyst for sanctions and boycotts of the Jewish state. But the diplomatic damage depends on a mistaken view of the ICC's legitimacy. It isn't some grand "world court." The countries most likely to use military force have chosen not to join. Despite a $200 million annual budget, the ICC has convicted only six people of the mass-atrocity crimes it was created to adjudicate in 2002. Incumbent dictators such as Russia's Vladimir Putin have simply ignored ICC indictments.

The ICC can't deter dictators and warlords. The likeliest outcome of an ICC charge against Israel would be to make it harder for small democracies to defend themselves from aggressive neighbors. In 2020, the ICC prosecutor shelved an investigation into allegations of torture by U.S. troops in Afghanistan when President Trump imposed sanctions on her and a colleague. After the Biden administration lifted those sanctions in 2022, the ICC promptly reopened the investigation.

The Jewish people are used to lies being spread about them. Nearly a millennium ago, the first of many blood libels accusing the Jews of murdering gentile children to consume their blood emerged. This was joined by accusations that Jews committed ‘host desecration,’ the supposed mistreatment of Communion Bread, and the accusation that Jews poisoned wells causing the Black Death.

Each of these false accusations led to massacres of innocent Jews. Unfortunately, lies about Jewish evil did not end with the enlightenment, nor did their deadly consequences.

The false charges against Alfred Dreyfus in France in the 1890s, the publishing of the antisemitic forgery ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ by the government of Tzarist Russia in 1903, Henry Ford’s diatribes against the ‘international Jew’ in the Dearborn Independent, and of course, the originators of the ‘big lie,’ Adolph Hitler and his Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, whose lies dehumanized the Jewish people enough for the Holocaust to be committed.

As the world’s only Jewish nation, it is not surprising that Israel has frequently been the victim of many ‘big lies’ designed to foment hate and justify the murder of its citizens.

American readers will remember how in 2000, the Associated Press wrongly captioned a photograph of an American Jewish student, Tuvia Grossman, who had been beaten by Palestinian Arabs in Jerusalem as a Palestinian, leading readers of the New York Times and other newspapers to conclude that Israeli police had beaten an Arab man when the police had saved the American citizen.

This was nothing compared to the ‘big lie’ that was told two years later, when, after 30 people were murdered in a suicide bombing at a Passover Seder in Netanya, the IDF went into Jenin to put an end to the terrorism plaguing Israel’s streets. The Palestinian Authority and so-called human rights NGOs such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International accused the IDF of “war crimes” and a “massacre” of as many as 500 people. These claims were reported without question by British media such as The Guardian and the BBC, which worked to spread the ‘big lie’ of the non-existent massacre. In reality, about 55 Arabs were killed in the battle, most of whom were combatants, and 23 IDF soldiers were killed, in part because of the IDF’s efforts to prevent civilian casualties. But a ‘big lie’ turned an otherwise unremarkable military engagement into a crime that justified any actions taken against Israel, Israelis, and Jews.

The sheer abundance of lies about Jews throughout history makes it easy to draw comparisons to past instances where such lies led to Jews being murdered. It is common nowadays to look at the horrific scenes on American college campuses, the intimidation, threats, and assaults against Jewish students, the open calls for genocide against Jews, and the failure of college administrations to combat this hate, and say that we are now living in a repeat of 1938 Germany.

The current situation could also be considered reminiscent of France during the Dreyfus Affair. Indeed, one of the chief propagators of the ‘big lies’ against Israel deliberately invited such comparisons soon after the Hamas massacre of October 7.

In late November, less than two months after the worst massacre committed against the Jewish people since the Nazi Holocaust, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese published a book she titled 'J'Accuse: The 7 October Attacks, Hamas, Terrorism, Israel, Apartheid in Palestine and the War.’

‘J'Accuse,’ meaning “I accuse,” was the title of an open letter published by the journalist Émile Zola in the L’Aurore newspaper on January 13, 1898 in which he laid bare the facts of the conspiracy to frame Alfred Dreyfus for treason and to protect Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy, the man who had actually committed the crime for which Dreyfus was falsely accused.

In March, the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism, the oldest journalism school in the country, bestowed its “Team Picture Story of the Year” on the Associated Press for a collection of photos that gave a starring role to one of the wire service’s Gazan-based freelancers, Ali Mahmud. Kicking off the portfolio was the picture he took of the nearly naked body of Shani Louk, a young Israeli woman, face down in the bed of a truck. Her captors’ weapons are pointed skyward and off to the side—not in the direction of the photographer, who was close enough to catch the excited looks on their faces.

Sharing the award was Hatem Ali, another Gazan-based freelancer, whose touching image of a Palestinian boy with a bandaged head helped round out the 20 images in the AP’s entry. But other shots that Ali took earlier of the Oct. 7 atrocities, which were not part of the submission, raise serious ethical and legal issues starting with the abductions he witnessed of Yaffa Adar, an 85-year-old grandmother who rolled by in a golf cart, and Yarden Bibas, bleeding as he was led away to Gaza on a motorbike.

The feeds that the Associated Press and other leading media companies accepted from Mahmud, Ali, and other freelancers on Oct. 7 should have raised red flags from inception about how the photographers came to be there, whether their entry into Israel was lawful, and how they made their way through the carnage in close proximity to Hamas terrorists.

Apparently, holding out for impartial freelancers in a place like Gaza, where admiration of contentious figures like Hitler is widely expressed, may be too high a bar for the Western press to satisfy.

Yet, not once during the competition’s 86 minutes of deliberations, conducted over Zoom on Feb. 20, did any of the judges—Pinar Istek of the Chicago Tribune; Anita Baca of the Associated Press; David Guzman of The Dallas Morning News and Joe Cavaretta of the South Florida Sun Sentinel—express any ethical peep about the photos they were shown or curiosity about how Louk’s photo was obtained. No one asked whether the photographer wore a press vest that identifies wearers as members of the Fourth Estate, or how he came to have access to such brutal scenes without falling prey himself.

Baca recused herself from any discussion of the AP’s entry because she works there, (though she did not feel constrained by her recusal to refrain from criticizing other portfolios when they were reviewed). All three of the remaining panelists then voted unanimously to award first prize to the AP. Their appreciative assessment makes clear just how much the Louk photo clinched the deal.

That decision has generated much outrage, visible in the petition circulating on change.org demanding that the award be rescinded. It now has 162,000 signatures and hundreds of caustic comments leveled at the media.

Since then, administrators of the award have quietly removed the announcement they had on Instagram congratulating the AP for its win. “While we understand the reactions to the pictures,” they wrote in a statement they are releasing only to those who request it, “we also believe that photojournalism plays an important role in bringing attention to the harsh realities of war.”

“By that logic,’’ Petchenik countered, “the Hamas fighters who strapped GoPros on their heads to document what they did should win the Peabody, because they were gathering information to disseminate to the world, too. It’s no different.”

Shortly after PEN America published its annual Freedom to Write Index on Wednesday, The New York Times rushed out a story quoting the organization’s “director of writers at risk,” Karin Karlekar, who described the worsening threats against writers worldwide.

“Russia and Israel entered the list of the Top 10 biggest jailers, as Ms. Karlekar noted that countries with conflict or war crackdown on dissent,” The New York Times reported in the piece that also detailed how the Israel-Hamas war had “roiled PEN America itself” when it was forced to cancel its 2024 literary awards ceremony amid a boycott by prize nominees who insisted PEN America is overly sympathetic to the Jewish state.

While the NYT is happy to lump Israel alongside authoritarian regimes like Russia, it failed to name any of the writers whose allegedly unjust jailing has led to Israel’s ignominious inclusion on PEN America’s list. If these writers had been named, it would’ve immediately become clear to readers why Israel has no business being listed alongside countries like Russia, China, and Iran.

.@nytimes reports Israel has entered @PENamerica's top 10 list of countries with the most imprisoned writers, in the company of states including Iran, China, Saudi Arabia & Russia.

Let's take a look at some of those "dissenters" on the Israeli list. 🧵 https://t.co/zPbZ4Hhji4

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 2, 2024

Ahed Tamimi: "We will slaughter you & you will say that what Hitler did to you was a joke. We will drink your blood & eat your skull. Come on, we are waiting for you."@PENamerica, this is what your "author" was arrested for. Is this incitement a legitimate form of dissent? pic.twitter.com/g6oUExIUu7

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 2, 2024

Here's the full list of @PENamerica's "Writers at Risk" from Israel. ⬇️

Are they all simply innocent writers detained by Israel for dissenting views?

Or is PEN America's definition of a writer a bit too loose?https://t.co/mLB82MZL6E

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 2, 2024

Basim Khandaqji, a Palestinian security prisoner in Israel serving three life sentences for participating in the planning of a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv's Carmel Market that killed three Israelis in 2005, was awarded the International Prize for Arabic Fiction on Sunday.

The prize, which includes a $50,000 grant sponsored by the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism, is regarded as the most prestigious literary prize in the Arab world.

Awarding the prize to Khandaqji was widely lauded in the Arab world.

The Israel haters are also antisemitic, and Malmo is considered one of the world’s most antisemitic cities. Not only are residents siding with the genocidal aims of Hamas against Israel, they are blaming Jews as well.

“The antisemitic messages are everywhere now in Malmo, whether on posters or in the press,” Yair Elsner, a resident of the city, told Reuters this week. “The anti-Israel propaganda is highly visible on the streets; anti-Israeli stickers and decals are everywhere,” he said.

Aharon, another Jewish Malmo resident, said that the atmosphere in Malmo even before October 7 was anti-Israel due to its large Muslim Arab population.

“But after October 7, it only increased, and now there are protests and demonstrations everywhere, including demonstrations around places that sell Israeli products or are connected to Israelis,” he said.

What takes place in Malmo over the next few days will be a litmus test for the rest of Europe. If Israelis, and Jews, cannot walk safely down the streets of European cities, then what does the future hold?

“I want to make it clear that we are proud to be Jews in Malmo,” Jewish resident Yael Segas Wallstrom told Reuters.

“We will never hide who we are, and we will not be ashamed of our Judaism, even during challenging times like this. Of course, sometimes we think about leaving and making aliyah to Israel, but I think all Jews think about this. I was born here and have lived here for as long as I can remember. Right now, I don’t feel like there’s a threat to my life – or at least that’s what I want to believe.”

What's at stake
A lot is at stake in Malmo next week and more is riding than getting the high-score of douze points (12 points) from fans, or where the countries are ranked in the tally.

In a message on her Instagram account, Eden Golan wrote what most Israelis will be thinking of when they tune in to her performance: “This song represents us, all of us, including those who are home and aren’t – we are waiting for you.”

But in addition to representing Israel – and the hostages – Eden will be singing for all Jews who are bearing the brunt of the aggressive onslaught of fury directed at them by Hamas sympathizers around Europe, at Columbia University, and anywhere in the world where Jews are experiencing antisemitism.

This is no ordinary Eurovision contest. Lives are at stake.

Israel’s representative in the Eurovision Song Contest has been advised by Israel’s Shin Bet security service not to leave her hotel room other than for performances because of an expected wave of pro-Palestinian protests.

Eden Golan, 20, arrived in Malmo on Tuesday afternoon to begin rehearsing for her performance of the song Hurricane, the Times reported.

“I feel like the main message is that we are here, we are strong, we will show our voices, the warmth, the strength and the emotion that we have inside us,” Golan told JNS.

“There are truly so many people who support us, people who like the song, are there for us and love us. We are a huge family and we want to spread good, love and unity,” she added.

The Eurovision Song Contest comprises three live shows: two semi-finals and a grand final.

All songs must be original and no more than three minutes in length. Lead vocals must be performed live, and no more than six performers can take to the stage during any one performance.

In each show, after all songs have been performed, each country participating awards two sets of points (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12) to their favourite songs; one set is awarded by a jury of five music industry professionals and one is awarded by viewers.

The five countries in each semi-final with the most points advance to the grand final.

Last year, Israeli pop star Noa Kirel finished in third place in the Eurovision final in Liverpool, behind Sweden and Finland. She was aiming to become the fifth Israeli to win the song contest since the Jewish state first entered the annual event in 1973 and the first since Netta Barzilai and her song Toy won in 2018.

Past winners include Izhar Cohen and Alphabeta in 1978, with the song A-Ba-Ni-Bi, Milk and Honey in 1979 with Hallelujah and Dana International in 1998 with Diva.

The Israeli National Security Council raised its travel alert level on Thursday for Malmö, Sweden, ahead of next week’s Eurovision Song Contest that will be held there.

The NSC upgraded the travel warning for the city from level 2 (potential threat) to level 3 (moderate threat), recommending that Israelis planning to attend Eurovision reconsider the necessity of the trip.

“Malmo (which has a high concentration of Syrian, Lebanese, Iraqi and Iranian migrants) is known as a focus for anti-Israel protests,” the warning read. “It should be noted that on Oct. 7, anti-Israel elements were openly joyful over the massacre that Hamas perpetrated in Israel.”

Paired with the global jihadist threat, these developments raise “the tangible concern that terrorists will exploit the protest and the anti-Israel atmosphere to carry out an attack on Israelis,” the NSC said.

“While the Swedish authorities have increased security in Malmo, it should be noted that, unlike the Israeli delegation to the contest, Israeli visitors will not receive special security,” the council stressed.

For the first time, the Israel Defense Forces Home Front Command will issue guidelines to Israelis traveling to Sweden next week in the event of an emergency, the military announced on Thursday.

The Home Front Command will update its application for Israelis staying in Malmö with “instructions for behavior in an emergency situation outside the country’s borders,” the announcement said.

The Home Front Command app is normally only used in Israel, for rocket attacks and national emergencies, including earthquakes.

Earlier on Thursday, Eurovision organizers said that flags representing the Palestinian Liberation Organization and other anti-Israel political symbols would not be allowed at the live shows next week.

Ari Kalker fought in the Commando Brigade in northern Gaza until the end of January. Kalker made aliya from Queens after 11th grade, 20 years ago, and now runs a construction company in Jerusalem that specializes in high-end renovations. I asked him how much of a role revenge for Oct. 7 played in the devastation we saw in pictures from Gaza. He was very clear. "If it doesn't serve some greater purpose, revenge isn't a reason for us to do something. That's not who we are."

"Every building we searched had threats in them," including weapons and ammunition. If terrorists tried to reclaim an area by crawling out of a tunnel, "there should be no way that they can go back into a building and find the gun that they hid somewhere and then use it against us."

I wondered, how do Kalker and the 300,000-odd soldiers in the reserves, including women, leave the battlefield, go home to the kids, all while counting down the days until they are called back to war? They were sent home, but not immediately. They were first sent to an Army vacation village for two days. "We got a full night of sleep in a bed with a real shower with a real meal beforehand and breakfast waiting in the morning."

On the second day they were in "group therapy.""It was hilarious," he said. Their therapist was an army psychologist and former soldier who told them practical things like "you're not going to sleep properly for the first couple of weeks." He pointed out which symptoms would likely go away on their own. They learned that no one remembers everything, and no two people remember an event the same way.

"Over the course of the 90-plus days we were in Gaza, I can remember in detail like, two events," he says. "The rest is all a blur." Others talked about the day a missile hit the room next door to them and blew down a wall. "I don't remember that at all," Kalker said. Another soldier said, "Wow, Ari, how do you not remember? The missile hit the room next to you and the wall fell on top of you."

There was another event. They were in a building and someone started screaming, "get out, get out, get out!" They evacuated and "10 seconds later, the whole building just collapsed." Kalker said he asked, "Where was I when this happened?" A soldier said, "I was screaming into your ear, you were standing right next to me, and I pulled you out with me.""I don't remember that at all either," he said.

He makes sense of civilian life like this: "During our days, we're switching from father, to husband, to whatever your job is. But underneath all of the costumes, we're wearing our IDF uniforms." That's always there. "I walk around with a gun on all day, every day," he explained. "I have one on me right now. I have a responsibility in the world around me....I'm not going to really be back until this is all over....The fate and future of the entire nation of Israel is on your shoulders."

Is Joe Biden trying to lose the election?

That’s the best explanation for why his administration is actively considering letting refugees from Gaza into the United States.

The proposal is still preliminary and may be limited to Gazans with family already here.

But doing this at all is an astonishingly bad idea.

It’s bad policy, bad politics, and it’s Biden yet again trying to make law without asking Congress.

That’s quite a trifecta.

The cherry on top is that it’s unlikely to satisfy left-wingers and Muslim voters who think Biden isn’t doing enough to oppose Israel’s response to Hamas’ terror attack.

Start with the policy: Arab countries such as Egypt and Jordan want no part of more people from Gaza.

It’s no secret why, and it’s not just the economic cost of taking in penniless people from a place that’s had a sky-high unemployment rate for many years.

Gaza’s population is full of radicalized Islamists and antisemites.

Gazans have consistently caused trouble whenever they have been imported into other countries.

Gaza hasn’t had elections since voting for Hamas in 2006, and Hamas has ruled it by force since ejecting the Palestinian Authority in a bloody coup in 2007.

But nobody doubts that Hamas remains popular with many, if not most, Gazans.

Why bring Hamas supporters here?

Who thinks they won’t start acting on their beliefs when they get to America?

Has Biden looked at what’s going on right now?

Don’t we have enough radicals and antisemites already, causing havoc on college campuses and terrorizing American Jews?

The next thing you know, Biden will send these people to Ivy League schools, then forgive their college debt with our money.

No. The answer is no. There's a reason Egypt won't take them, Saudi won't take them, Jordan won't take them: the civilian population of Gaza supported Hamas by every available metric. Why would we possibly import them to the United States? Totally insane. https://t.co/AY4jkGduoL

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 1, 2024

Secretary of State Tony Blinken’s seventh trip to the region since the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, meant to bring about a temporary cease-fire in exchange for the release of hostages from Gaza, was punctuated by a signal of rejection by the Palestinian terrorist group.

As Blinken wrapped up his visit to Israel on Wednesday night, Lebanon-based Hamas official Osama Hamdan told Hezbollah TV channel Al Manar that the terror group’s “position on the current negotiating paper is negative.” However, Hamas said they will continue negotiating.

But Blinken’s time in Israel began with a declaration that he is “determined to get a cease-fire that brings the hostages home and to get it now,” as he said in his meeting with President Isaac Herzog, the first of a series of meetings he held with Israeli officials throughout the day.

In that meeting and others, Blinken emphasized that “the only reason that [deal] wouldn’t be achieved is because of Hamas.”

“There is a proposal on the table, and as we’ve said – no delays, no excuses. The time is now, and the time is long past due to bring the hostages home to their families,” he said.

A day earlier, President Joe Biden posted on X that “Hamas…is now the only obstacle to an immediate ceasefire and relief for civilians in Gaza.”

Still, the hostage deal is the subject of heated debate within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition, such that whether an agreement is reached or not, it could destabilize his government. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said he might resign from the coalition if Israel enters “a bad deal that will endanger the security of Israel’s citizens,” saying that “this is the legitimate opinion of millions of Israelis who care about the future of the state no less than you do.” National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called the hostage deal “reckless.” War cabinet observer Minister Gadi Eisenkot, however, accused the ministers of “blackmailing” the government and said he “will only be a partner in a government that makes decisions based on the national interests of the State of Israel and not political considerations.”

Israel’s Channel 12 quotes a source close to Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar as saying that he views the latest hostage exchange and ceasefire proposal as a trap.

“The proposal on the table to free the hostages is not an Egyptian proposal, but an Israeli one in an American disguise that contains several booby-trapped clauses,” the report quotes the unnamed source as saying.

The source tells Channel 12 that the Lebanese Hezbollah is pressuring Hamas to accept the deal, but Sinwar is reluctant as it does not guarantee an end to the war.

The Sinwar confidant also says that recent comments in favor of the deal from Hamas leaders in exile are meaningless as they do not speak for the terror group.

Lewis’ FIRST evidence that Israel does not properly lower civilian harm: IDF gave Gazans only 24 hrs to evacuate north. But Israel actually allowed Gazans 3 weeks to evacuate. The delayed ground entry by IDF is well documented. So already, the article grossly misrepresents. 2/ pic.twitter.com/AD6SrUnOYU

— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) May 2, 2024

Lewis presses issue claiming communications to evacuate may not have gone through as infrastructure was crippled; but offers no evidence. Videos show Gazan cell phones working. 500K Leaflets don't use comms. Lewis deliberately omits the key number: ~800K Gazans DID evacuate. 4/ pic.twitter.com/skFOfvJzCt

— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) May 2, 2024

In fact the US even admitted it adopted roof knocking from Israel to lower civilian harm! So to Lewis a technique invented by Israel to lower civilian harm, later adopted by the US is proof Israel does not seek to mitigate harm because not always effective. See the logic? 6/ pic.twitter.com/jWAFEBFri7

— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) May 2, 2024

Other omission: Lewis mentions only once that Hamas hides within civilians & tunnels. But omits it’s 500km of tunnels, 1000s of rockets at Israeli cities (so slightly different urgency vs US, minor detail I guess) & 40,000 fighters. Suddenly Lewis can’t compare numbers. END pic.twitter.com/Ms3sSqzV0M

— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) May 2, 2024

Three Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist operatives were arrested in the northern Samarian town of Ya’bad in January after they planned to carry out bombing attacks against Israeli soldiers, the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) announced on Thursday.

The trio “acted under the directives of the PIJ headquarters in Lebanon, to carry out significant attacks, using remote-detonated explosives against IDF troops in the area,” the Shin Bet said.

Two of the terrorists—Ahmed Abu Bakr, 29, and Ibrahim Abu Bakr, 29— are senior Islamic Jihad operatives who were in contact with the group’s headquarters in Lebanon. They received funding, largely in cryptocurrency, for the attacks.

Ibrahim recruited Ya’bad resident Ibadah Abu Bakr, 18, to build the bombs. In preparation for an attack, Ahmed and Ibraham carried out tests with remote-controlled bombs, according to the Shin Bet.

They were arrested as part of a joint operation of the agency and the Israel Defense Forces.

During the arrest, troops confiscated several primed explosive devices.

WATCH

Looks like armed men take control over the aid entering Gaza today. pic.twitter.com/4YZ4ZwIkz3

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 2, 2024

WILD FOOTAGE

Hamas, who are in control of the aid trucks, are seen using live fire against Palestinians.

Unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/6yCtT66IVO

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 2, 2024

The world’s media has not reported in intimate detail the story of the victims of that terrible day as they did after 9/11.

The American hostages still held captive by Hamas, if they haven’t been murdered, are rarely mentioned.

Few know their names.

Normal news judgment has not been applied.

A veil of silence has been deliberately pulled over October 7.

“It’s the newest form of Holocaust denial,” filmmaker and theatrical producer Ann McElhinney calls it.

She and her husband Phelim McAleer went to Israel less than a month after the massacre last year to interview survivors and produce a spellbinding play, called simply “October 7” which opens off-Broadway next week.

“This was a huge news story [ but] we noticed it wasn’t being told,” he says “Everyone had moved on to Gaza, the turning off of the electricity. No one wanted to focus on October 7 in Israel.”

“We are journalists first and foremost and we don’t like seeing stories suppressed . . . October 7 is a story of humanity, surviving, and fighting back against the forces of darkness. They are stories of resilience and stories that had to be told.”

The survivors of October 7 deserve to be heard.

“It’s telling their stories and giving them a voice which in today’s crazy world is a political act . . . The day changed them, we think it also changed Israel and we think you can’t talk about Gaza without first understanding what happened in Israel on October 7. That’s why we wrote this play.”

Whether it was a quiet blacklisting, cowardice or just a shortage of stages, the only theater they could find in New York is the most perfect theater they could hope for.

The Actors’ Temple Theater, in a synagogue on West 47th Street in Hell’s Kitchen, was founded in 1917, at a time when Jews were not readily accepted in society.

It became a sanctuary for Jewish entertainers, for Al Johnson, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Shelley Winters and non-Jewish friends like Ed Sullivan and Frank Sinatra.

Now it serves as a sanctuary for the truth.

The script is written verbatim using the survivors’ own words, a powerful technique which has become Phelim’s trademark.

Israeli victims of Hamas’s Oct. 7th terror spree are suing two anti-Israel campus groups, alleging they are partially liable for the attack due to their role "as collaborators and propagandists for Hamas."

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. district court Wednesday, seeks damages for nine American and Israeli victims of Hamas’s unprecedented terror assault. It targets two campus umbrella groups—American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP)—that are responsible for fomenting a tidal wave of anti-Semitic protests on college campuses across the country.

The suit marks the first time terror victims are taking aim at campus anti-Israel groups for their alleged role in bolstering Hamas propaganda on campus and driving a series of increasingly violent protests that have endangered Jewish college students across the country.

"Survivors of Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack, family members of those murdered by Hamas, civilians still under fire from Hamas’s ongoing terrorism, and persons displaced by Hamas’s ongoing terrorism have been, and continue to be, injured because AMP and NSJP knowingly provide continuous, systematic, and substantial assistance to Hamas and its affiliates’ acts of international terrorism," the lawsuit states.

In a joint statement, the terror victims and their families said the AMP and NSJP should be held legally liable for Hamas’s terror campaign and face expulsion from the United States.

"It is time that Hamas and all of its agents, like AMP and NSJP, be held responsible for their horrific actions," they said. "We want to go on record to expose these groups for the terrorists they are and make certain that they are stopped from operating in the United States and other countries they infiltrate."

Branches of SJP, which is overseen by AMP, have been responsible for a series of anti-Semitic protests on college campuses across the country, many of which have been punctuated by violence against Jewish students. Campus administrators at Columbia University, Harvard University, the University of California system, and many others have struggled in recent weeks to contain these protests, prompting Congress to launch anti-Semitism investigations.

BREAKING 🚨 🚨: Lawsuit filed on behalf of victims of the 10/7 Hamas terrorist attacks against the AJP Educational Foundation, Inc. a/k/a American Muslims for Palestine and National Students for Justice in Palestine.

This is big! https://t.co/ci2agSTzXL

— Lawrence Muscant (@LawrenceMuscant) May 1, 2024

Israelis all agree - they want peace. And there is only one way to get it. #FactsForPeacepic.twitter.com/UdbaAlFFv5

— FactsForPeace (@Facts_For_Peace) May 1, 2024

Thank you for taking the time. 🙏❤️ https://t.co/MYXZGnuQCm

— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) May 2, 2024

After the 10/7 massacre, I’ve kept pictures of every hostage displayed in my office.

Today, I met a hostage family and their loved one’s name is Sagi.

His picture is right here and will remain up until he's back home.

His family, like many, demand Hamas to#BringThemHomeNOWpic.twitter.com/UHG1DohS1K

— Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) May 1, 2024

An Israeli scholar at Stanford University said Wednesday evening that "America deserves Donald Trump," in response to the spread of extreme anti-Israel protests across universities in the United States.

Reflecting on his experiences over the past academic year at Stanford, Yotam Berger wrote on Facebook that "the 'progressive' movement does not believe in the existence of truth or facts anymore."

"They think it is wrong to use the term 'jihadist' against jihadists, because feelings are more important than facts (although primarily their own feelings)."

Berger wrote that he was initially dumbfounded by Trump's election victory in 2016, which he viewed as "inexplicable" at the time. However, after witnessing the "madness" of the extreme progressive ideology first-hand, especially its anti-Israel rhetoric, made him realize why some Americans voted for Trump.

"Trump is the reaction of certain Americans to the madness of the other side, a madness I was unaware of until it turned toward us.," Berger states. "If I had the right to vote, I would not choose Trump. But America deserves him."

[T]he Iran-backed Hamas terror group is again trying to dupe gullible Westerners, including the Biden administration and the European Union, into believing that it has accepted the "two-state solution."

The Hamas official would not have dared to utter similar nonsense to an Arab media outlet. He knows that here his lies are directed at English-speaking audiences, who tend to swallow whole the baloney spouted by Israel's enemies.

The Hamas official wants everyone to believe that his group is ready to stop killing Jews for a period of five years "or more" if it gets the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem. He just forgot to mention that there was an official truce between Israel and Hamas until October 7, when the terror group Hamas initiated the current war.

The Hamas official also forgot to mention that Hamas has repeatedly violated several truces and ceasefire agreements reached with Israel over the past 17 years. The truces and ceasefires were always used by Hamas to regroup and rearm in preparation for the next round of attacking Israel.

Hamas will never abandon its weapons or dismantle its armed group, especially after the establishment of a Palestinian state

The mere talk about a Palestinian state these days is regarded as a reward for Hamas's genocidal assault on Israel. It sends the message to Hamas that after you murdered so many Jews, the international community will reward you by giving you a state. It reaffirms that terrorism works. Where do we sign up?

The secret that the AP and the US administration do not want you to know is that Hamas does not actually want the Gaza Strip or the West Bank or east Jerusalem. Hamas wants to eliminate Israel and replace it with an Iran-backed Islamist terror state.

If Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are given a state next to Israel, they will absolutely continue to pursue their goal of killing Jews and obliterating Israel. Hamas official Ghazi Hamad has clearly said that the terror group will repeat the October 7 attack, time and again, until Israel is annihilated.

Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal has repeatedly clarified that his group's acceptance of a Palestinian state does not mean that it will abandon its goal of destroying Israel.

The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have drafted a set of agreements on security and technology-sharing which were intended to be linked to a broader Middle East settlement involving Israel and the Palestinians. However, in the absence of a ceasefire in Gaza and adamant resistance from the Israeli government to the creation of a Palestinian state - and its determination to launch an offensive on Rafah - the Saudis are pushing for a more modest plan B, which excludes the Israelis.

Under that option, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia would sign agreements on a bilateral defense pact, U.S. help in building a Saudi civil nuclear energy industry, and high-level sharing in the field of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. Under Riyadh's plan B proposal, the U.S.-Saudi deals would not be made dependent on agreement from Israel. However, it is far from clear whether the administration - let alone Congress - would accept such a plan.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Riyadh on Monday, "The work that Saudi Arabia and the United States have been doing together in terms of our own agreements, I think, is potentially very close to completion." A formal offer would be extended to Israel, exchanging Saudi normalization of relations for "irrevocable" moves towards the creation of a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank.

However, Kirsten Fontenrose, a former senior director for the Gulf in the U.S. National Security Council, said, "The Israeli government is currently placing higher value on blocking the formation of a Palestinian state than on normalizing with the Saudis. So the deal now being discussed is bilateral."

Israel had what was effectively normalization with Saudi via Bahrain agreement. Biden is trying to sell Israel what it already has. https://t.co/oxUy9DZ3xL

— Lee Smith (@LeeSmithDC) May 2, 2024

Hillel Neuer and David Harris discuss how the United Nations system, including the Human Rights Council and UNRWA, has regularly violated its own Charter in egregiously unfair treatment of Israel.

BREAKING: The International Red Cross has announced they are now investigating @icrc Head of Office Haythem Abid after we exposed his marching in anti-Israel rallies, sharing Hamas videos claiming hostages love them, and posting “F**ck neutral sh*t.” https://t.co/zq24s8Rcbf🧵⬇️ https://t.co/qho5Gn4bp7pic.twitter.com/oCup17kQLy

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 2, 2024