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Halifax2TheMax

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Yea, sure, Israel wants peace. And ongoing Israeli practice since 1967. But I thought the West Bank didn’t attack Israel on 10/07? 

Israeli Army to Demolish 180 Homes in West Bank Palestinian Refugee Camps

The Israeli cabinet updated its war goals in January to include the West Bank, meaning that extensive Israeli forces entered the refugee camps, the air force stepped up aerial attacks in the region, and thousands of residents were evicted from their homes

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-03-21/ty-article/.premium/israeli-army-to-demolish-at-least-180-homes-in-west-bank-palestinian-refugee-camps/00000195-b8c7-d093-afd7-becff0e70000

Continuing the amt theme and bias.

Hmmmm, from YOUR article (did you read behind the paywall or just trying to create mayhem?)


” Besides the operations inside the camps, defense establishment officials say they believe Israel can reach an understanding with Palestinian security forces and hand over responsibility for managing Tulkarm to them.

The army has maintained security cooperation with Palestinian Authority forces throughout the operation. According to reports, in many cases, when Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists fled areas that the army had entered, Palestinian forces arrested them. PA officials do not rule out the possibility of building police stations in these camps to increase supervision

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it ain’t perfect, it ain’t even good, but the left news bias posting news here is something else

“Believe” does not equal “did.”  I don’t trust a word the Israeli government spews.

”According to reports.” What reports? Whose “reports?” Israeli military reports?

You’d like us to believe that there is vast cooperation between the sides? Seems the Israeli’s have found a lap dog. You know, proxy forces.

Now, explain the demolition of 180 Palestinian homes in the West Bank.

My comment highlighted the fact they were trying to work with the PA to increase safety, from your article, facts completely omitted from your post. So, nope didn’t even read your own article. Failure to respond left a strong impression.

I responded directly to your quote of the article I posted. Failure to answer any questions posed to you leaves a stronger impression.

Seeing how you aren’t interested in an honest back and forth discussion, I will no longer reply directly to your posts. Enjoy the authoritarianism.

Lerxst1992

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Lerxst1992 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Yea, sure, Israel wants peace. And ongoing Israeli practice since 1967. But I thought the West Bank didn’t attack Israel on 10/07? 

Israeli Army to Demolish 180 Homes in West Bank Palestinian Refugee Camps

The Israeli cabinet updated its war goals in January to include the West Bank, meaning that extensive Israeli forces entered the refugee camps, the air force stepped up aerial attacks in the region, and thousands of residents were evicted from their homes

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-03-21/ty-article/.premium/israeli-army-to-demolish-at-least-180-homes-in-west-bank-palestinian-refugee-camps/00000195-b8c7-d093-afd7-becff0e70000

Continuing the amt theme and bias.

Hmmmm, from YOUR article (did you read behind the paywall or just trying to create mayhem?)


” Besides the operations inside the camps, defense establishment officials say they believe Israel can reach an understanding with Palestinian security forces and hand over responsibility for managing Tulkarm to them.

The army has maintained security cooperation with Palestinian Authority forces throughout the operation. According to reports, in many cases, when Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists fled areas that the army had entered, Palestinian forces arrested them. PA officials do not rule out the possibility of building police stations in these camps to increase supervision

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it ain’t perfect, it ain’t even good, but the left news bias posting news here is something else

“Believe” does not equal “did.”  I don’t trust a word the Israeli government spews.

”According to reports.” What reports? Whose “reports?” Israeli military reports?

You’d like us to believe that there is vast cooperation between the sides? Seems the Israeli’s have found a lap dog. You know, proxy forces.

Now, explain the demolition of 180 Palestinian homes in the West Bank.

My comment highlighted the fact they were trying to work with the PA to increase safety, from your article, facts completely omitted from your post. So, nope didn’t even read your own article. Failure to respond left a strong impression.

I responded directly to your quote of the article I posted. Failure to answer any questions posed to you leaves a stronger impression.

Seeing how you aren’t interested in an honest back and forth discussion, I will no longer reply directly to your posts. Enjoy the authoritarianism.

Post how you see fit. As is often the case recently , I am not even pointing out a political opinion, but only one sided reporting with key facts omitted, and in this case, facts behind a paywall that were the opposite of your comments intent and not included in the post. 

If I happen to encounter more one sided media reporting or commenting not in alignment with its supporting link, I will continue to exercise my first amendment rights to point out the side of the story that gets silenced on AMT, as should all posters here.

Halifax2TheMax

I look forward to the dismissal of this reporting and the subsequent claims of ties to Hamas. “Peace wanting.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/middleeast/ballal-oscar-palestinian-beaten-israeli-settlers-intl-latam/index.html

mickeyrat

Halifax2TheMax

About that “breakthrough” peace initiative that wasn’t perfect or great but better, the cooperation between the PA and IDF in the West Bank that was being trumpeted as see, this is what the Palestinians need to be doing, it’s been going on for years in a focused and deliberate way as a means to weaken Abbas, drive a wedge between the PA and Hamas, and fuck over Palestinians living in the West Bank, all in the interests of Israeli settlement expansion, a current, declared goal of the Bibi apartheid regime. But we’re supposed to believe it’ll bring peace.

That’s what the behind the paywall article didn’t explain all the while quoting unnamed sources as it trumpeted the “cooperation.” And I’m the disingenuous one.

HughFreakingDillon

Halifax2TheMax

Wow. Look at who Israel is cozying up to now. I’m sure this will have fine results. Hatred is running really deep in the Israeli government. “Too extreme to serve in the Israeli military.” Oughta be a hint.

Israel embraces France’s far-right, turning a blind eye to its Nazi past

ParisCNN — 

A generation ago, it would have been unthinkable: the leader of France’s far-right party – an organization infamously founded by Nazis – invited to speak at an Israeli antisemitism conference.

But on Thursday, Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s National Rally party, will take to the stage in Jerusalem – a victory both symbolic and political for the far-right lawmaker as Israel seeks new friends around the world.

It’s a stunning reversal of political norms. Far-right leaders across Europe, desperate for mainstream acceptance, are seeking common cause with Israel in demonizing Muslims sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose party has long seen itself as a natural ally of right-wing movements around the world, is giving his stamp of approval to a movement historically shunned by Jews.

It is all the more surprising because antisemitism remains a core ideology of most ring-wing extremists – who have been behind some of the most deadly attacks on Jews in the West in recent years.

Unlikely bedfellows

In France, the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023 may have been the touchpaper for the public melding of far-right and Israeli positions, but it’s been an evolution decades in the making.

National Rally was a 2018 rebranding of the National Front, which was founded in 1972 by Jean-Marie Le Pen together with wartime Nazi collaborators and veterans of France’s colonial disasters in Algeria and then-Indochina. The youthful Bardella, a loyal disciple of Le Pen’s daughter, Marine, has helped rehabilitate and detoxify the movement’s image as he seeks to invigorate a new generation of far-right voters.

French Jews – the largest such community in Europe – have not been immune to his charms, especially as he shifts his movement’s ideological crosshairs away from Jews to Muslim and migrant populations.

Many have “become receptive to the far-right’s rhetoric,” Rabbi Emile Ackermann of Paris told CNN. Members of his congregation have been attacked or, out of fear, stopped wearing Jewish headdress or removed Jewish symbols – like the mezuzah that graces doors – from their houses, he said.

The Representative Council of Jewish Institutions (CRIF) in France, in partnership with the Ministry of Interior, recorded 1,570 antisemitic acts in the country in 2024 – more than triple the number logged in 2022.

Parties like National Rally, he said, “are perceived as the only ones able to defend Jews” – against what far-right parties have billed as the “Islamist” threat, Ackermann said.

After years of the country’s worst terror attacks, the French far right has “surfed the security wave in France,” Vincent Martigny, professor of political science at the University of Cote d’Azur, told CNN. A secondary motive was to seduce the (small Jewish electorate, he added.

Indeed, Bardella canceled a speech at the US Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February after former Trump adviser Steve Bannon made what some likened to a Nazi salute. Bannon deniedthe accusation.

On Monday, Bardella told France’s BFMTV that he was “not seeking to instrumentalize” antisemitism for political gain, hitting back at comments from the CRIF chief Yonathan Arfi, who had said that the country’s Jewish bodies had always had a “distrust” of the French far right.

In the mind of the far right, “supporting Israel and fighting against terrorism, it’s fighting against Islamism,” Martigny said.

Political chameleon

The growing acceptability of the European far right coincides with a rightward shift in Israel.

Netanyahu now governs alongside Itamar Ben Gvir, a minister who was once considered too extreme even to serve in the Israeli military, and who carries a conviction for supporting a terror organization.

The decision to invite someone like Bardella to speak in Jerusalem has “been coming for a while,” said Daniel Shek, a retired career Israeli diplomat who served as ambassador to France from 2006 to 2010.

Amichai Chikli, Israel’s minister for diaspora affairs, who organized the conference, “has been promoting this idea that extreme right parties across Europe and beyond are a natural allies of Israel,” Shek said. “And therefore all their history, their ideological roots, becomes insignificant as long as they support the Israeli government and hate Muslims.”

Indeed, Shek said, “in the eyes of the current government the only antisemites are Muslims and the extreme left.”

The Anti-Defamation League, which tracks a soaring number of white supremacist incidents, says that geographic location is a far more important indicator of antisemitic views than religion.

The decision to invite Bardella and others from far-right parties was controversial enough that Israeli President Isaac Herzog decided not to host the opening night of the antisemitism conference, his spokesperson confirmed to CNN.

Netanyahu, who often presents himself as the defender of Jews all around the world, has declared that he will “never allow the atrocities of history to recur – we will never capitulate to antisemitism or terrorism.”

Shek’s views are not universal among former Israeli diplomats. Avi Pazner, who also served as ambassador to France, in the 1990s, said the National Rally had “evolved.”

“I know exactly the evil man that Jean Marie Le Pen was – the notorious antisemite. But I can also see now that his party has completely changed,” Pazner told CNN. “In our tradition, when somebody expresses remorse, and it is true remorse, you should embrace him and not push him away.”

When Shek headed European affairs at Israel’s foreign ministry, he said, he was constantly batting away attempts by Marine Le Pen – Jean Marie’s daughter and Bardella’s predecessor – to come to Israel.

“It was a constant issue,” he said.

In the end, he said, the Israeli government should listen to the majority of French Jews, who despite their desire for law and order, are skeptical of the far-right.

“My view was always we take our lead from the local Jewish communities,” he said. “It’s simply a stab in the back to go around them.”

Whatever Bardella’s views, Shek said, the prospect of the party once led by Jean Marie Le Pen attending a conference in Jerusalem is too much to bear. “He is not a private person. He represents a party and a movement that has very deep roots in antisemitism and Holocaust denial.”

Spurned invites

The increasing embrace of Bardella and his party among the French Jewish community is by no means universal.

In France’s famously secular state, pollsters are not permitted to ask for a respondent’s religion, so it is impossible to know the exact percentage of French Jews who support the far right.

Bardella’s presence at the Israeli conference prompted a wave of other speakers to pull out of the event, including French-Jewish philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy and CEO of the US-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Jonathan Greenblatt.

“I find it hard to feel protected by a party whose leader still does not know whether (National Rally founder, the late) Jean-Marie Le Pen was antisemitic or not, and whose presidential candidate (Marine Le Pen) lumps the kippa and the Islamic veil together in the same category of opprobrium,” Henri-Levy wrote in an open letter to the Israeli president after he cancelled his planned speech at the conference.

“In light of some of the recently announced participants at the Israeli government’s antisemitism conference, Jonathan decided that he would no longer be attending the event,” an ADL spokesperson told CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/europe/israel-embraces-france-far-right-intl/index.html

mickeyrat

yay democracy?

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-violence-settlers-oscar-hamdan-ballal-beb96478a55f42a7058a60ac5be7bd05

mickeyrat

chapter 4 ...  the rest sets up whats told in  4 via personal journey

Listen to The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates on Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/B0D1DXK73X?source_code=ASSORAP0511160007

mickeyrat

Israel has greatly weakened Hamas, decapitated Hizbullah in Lebanon and worked to shatter Iran’s influence in the Middle East.

But the Israeli government has drawn two worrying conclusions from this success https://econ.st/3FEQobF

mickeyrat

soooo killing Palestinians with nothing to do woth Hamas by Israel ok, but killing Palestinians by Hamas not ok.

btw

Do you equate all Palestinians with Hamas?

yes or no.

previous statements leave a strong impression.

Lerxst1992

Calls for violence against Americans by foreigners on American soil, who come here lying to the govt to get college visas then organizing to confuse our children to support jihadist violence.

”I thought the entire globe would be in mourning. Not only was it silent, there was jubilation.”

Ms Messing is in on it. But she gets no voice due to her likely religion.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kyB_WXg2-E

Halifax2TheMax

Nice democracy.

Palestinian teenager dies in Israeli jail after being held six months without charge

Family of Walid Ahmad, 17, say his health had deteriorated and Palestinian officials say he was denied medical care

A 17-year-old boy from the West Bank who was held without charge for six months in an Israeli prison died after he collapsed in unclear circumstances, Palestinian officials have said.

According to his family, Walid Ahmad was “a healthy high schooler” at the time of his arrest last September for allegedly throwing stones at Israeli soldiers.

The family believes Walid contracted amoebic dysentery from the poor conditions in the prison, an infection that causes diarrhoea, vomiting and dizziness – and can be fatal if left untreated.

“He was a lively teen who enjoyed playing soccer before he was taken from his home,” his father, Khalid Ahmad, told the Associated Press. Ahmad said he noticed during Walid’s four court appearances – conducted over video link – that his son appeared to be in poor health.

“His body was weakened due to malnutrition in the prisons in general,” Ahmad said. He said Walid had told him at one point he was suffering from scabies, a contagious skin rash caused by mites. “Don’t worry about me,” his father recalls him saying.

Walid’s lawyer, Firas al-Jabrini, said Israeli authorities had denied his requests to visit his client in prison. He told AP three prisoners held alongside Walid said he had dysentery and that it was widespread among young Palestinians at the facility.

Thaer Shriteh, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority’s detainee commission, told AP that Walid had collapsed and hit his head on a metal rod, losing consciousness. “The prison administration did not respond to the prisoners’ requests for urgent care to save his life,” he said, citing witnesses who spoke to the commission.

The Israeli prison service said in a statement that an investigation was under way: “A 17-year-old security detainee from Megiddo prison, from the West Bank area, passed away yesterday in the prison, with his medical condition being under privacy protection,” it said. “An investigation is still ongoing.”

More than 14,000 Palestinians have been detained by the Israeli army in the West Bank since the Hamas attack in Israel in October 2023, according to Palestinian figures. Most are held in administrative detention, which allows for the pre-emptive arrest of individuals based on undisclosed evidence.

Israel says those detained are suspected of either militancy or aggression towards soldiers.

Rights groups have documented widespread abuse in Israeli detention facilities but prison authorities deny any systemic abuse and say they investigate accusations of wrongdoing by staff. The Israeli ministry overseeing prisons acknowledges conditions inside detention facilities have been reduced to the minimum level allowed under Israeli law.

Walid is the 63rd Palestinian prisoner from the West Bank or Gaza to die in Israeli custody since the start of the war and the first Palestinian teenager to die in Israeli detention, according to the Palestinian Authority.

Oneg Ben Dror of the Jaffa-based NGO Physicians for Human Rights Israel called for an independent investigation into the death of Palestinians in Israeli prisons and military camps. “We urge the international community to hold Israel accountable for these deaths,” he said.

Palestinians have long alleged that imprisonment is a key element of Israel’s 57-year occupation: estimates suggest up to 40% of Palestinian men have been arrested at least once.

Lerxst1992

How secret recordings show chilling rise of anti-semitism after horrific October 7 massacre was 30 years in the making

How anti-Semitism has spread across UK university campuses with disturbing links to radical Islamist agendas

• Nicole Lampert

 

THE door rattled as the pro-Palestinian group, some of them masked and wearing their black and white keffiyeh scarves, tried to get in. 

Outside they whispered: “He’s in there, we need to get him to open up.” 

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Behind the locked door, Miles, a Jewish student at King’s College London, thought only one thing: “If they get inside, they will hurt me.” 

He texted the university’s security who were meant to be keeping him safe. 

A few minutes earlier he had been hosting an event with Faezeh Alavi, an Iranian critic of the mullahs who rule her country, in an event called From Conflict To Connection: Israelis And Iranians In Dialogue. 

Although Faezeh is a Muslim who wears a hijab, the mere fact that she dared to be talking to pro-Israelis was enough for the rampant mob of around 15 to start screaming “Shame” at her and chanting “Free Palestine” 20 minutes into the talk. 

The university’s security ushered Faezeh and moderator Miles — he asked that his full name is not used — out of the room and the talk ended. 

When Miles went into a separate room to pick up his things, he was followed by the hostile crowd with only a locked door separating them. 

The attack on his discussion was just one of several incidents in British universities within the past few weeks. 

This week, students at Manchester University began the “occupation” of a campus building with the support of some academics. 

Campus wars 

Wearing T-shirts saying “Globalise the Intifada” — the Palestinian uprising against Israel — they handed out keffiyeh scarves while a motion by the university’s Student Union insisted that the actions of Hamas were justified and that Israel was breaking international law by fighting back. 

Last week, academics at the London School of Economics hosted a talk on how Hamas, a proscribed terrorist group, is “widely misunderstood”. 

Riot cops charge pro-Palestine protesters at University of Texas as Greg Abbott vows to ‘continue until crowd disperses’

When pro-Israel activists protested outside, eggs were thrown at them. 

Anti-Semitism dressed as an intense hatred of Israel has become rife across society since the Hamas massacre of Israelis on October 7, 2023. Now a new film, October 8, looks at some of the reasons why. 

And it is truly chilling. It tells the story of how a radicalised group of Islamic extremists, egged on by hostile states, have for decades infiltrated social justice movements worldwide to spread not only the delegitimisation of Israel but also hatred of the West. 

The experts I spoke to think America is a dozen years behind the UK. It’s been much more extreme in the UK for a long time.

Wendy Sachs, October 8 director, producer

While the documentary focuses on the American experience, particularly the violence of its campus wars, the issue very much affects the UK too, says its director and producer Wendy Sachs. 

In fact, she believes, in many ways things are even worse here. 

She said: “The experts I spoke to think America is a dozen years behind the UK. It’s been much more extreme in the UK for a long time.” 

While the far right has historically been more of a problem for Jews in America, Wendy says she saw this left-wing/Islamist mesh “bubbling up” after the 2016 US presidential election, such as when Jewish lesbians were barred from a “dyke march” for wanting to brandish placards of the Star of David and the leadership of the anti-Trump Women’s Movement were accused of anti- Semitism. 

“In the UK, this has been going on for longer and there was the big problem with Labour anti-Semitism, but I think in both countries we now see what is going on,” she said of the protests, which mirror each other but which actually started first on UK campuses before being taken up in America last spring. 

HughFreakingDillon

There's a rise in extremism on all fronts. This is not news. 

Halifax2TheMax

So, while a certain posters embraces the authoritarianism occurring in the US and bemoans the lack of redress for the great injustice of DEI initiatives, this what the “only democracy in the Middle East is doing, in real time, on our watch. And I’m the one spreading disinformation? Notice the source of the reporting and who is saying what. It’s not a Murdick tabloid rag. Oh, and I suppose the author should now be deported? As a “Hamas terrorist?”

Israel executes unarmed Red Crescent paramedics with the west’s blessing

American and European leaders are the authors of this latest atrocity by their Israeli colleagues in Gaza

The Guardian reports that Israeli troops “killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one”. “One by one” is another way of saying one person after another, which is another way of saying premeditated murder. Fifteen times over.

Dr Bashar Murad, the director of health programs at the Palestine Red Crescent, told reporters that one of the men who was executed by the Israelis was on the phone with colleagues. The victim had been injured and was requesting help.

“A few minutes later, during the call, we heard the sound of Israeli soldiers arriving at the location, speaking in Hebrew. The conversation was about gathering the team, with statements like: ‘Gather them at the wall and bring some restraints to tie them.’ This indicated that a large number of the medical staff were still alive.”

The Israeli army, for its part, claimed that the area was “an active combat zone”. Soldiers fired on the ambulances because they were “advancing suspiciously toward IDF troops without headlights or emergency signals”.

No one believes the army’s lies at this point. They serve a purpose; like all shoddy propaganda or misinformation, they work to obscure what is heartrendingly clear: the destruction of all Palestinian life is a matter of policy for Israel’s army. The genocide is a policy matter in that country.

Isaac Herzog, Israel’s president, explained his country’s logic early on: “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved. It is absolutely not true.”

For those who support its actions – most of the Israeli public, if polls are to be believed – the army misinformation is a signal that the leadership regards the executions as a non-issue. Carry on – Eurovision is just around the corner.

News of the executions come after an anonymous Israeli soldier wrote a column in the Israeli paper Haaretz entitled, “In Gaza, Almost Every IDF Platoon Keeps a Human Shield, a Sub-army of Palestinian Slaves.”

In it, he describes how widespread the practice of utilizing human shields is in the Israeli army:

“Today, almost every platoon keeps a [human shield] and no infantry force enters a house before a [human shield] clears it. This means there are four [human shields] in a company, twelve in a battalion, and at least 36 in a brigade. We operate a sub-army of slaves.”

I was born in Tal al-Sultan, where the Israeli troops executed the paramedics. I know how far the neighborhood is from the beach, and what the offshore wind feels like in the spring. I remember what the Philadelphi route – the barrier between Gaza and Egypt – looked like the last time the Israelis occupied it. Now, Tal al-Sultan is hell on earth, which is what an Israeli military leader promised to make it at the start of the genocide, 18 months ago.

When I first learned that Israeli men had zip-tied the paramedics before executing them, I thought of their terror – how I would feel in their place. I imagined them in constraints and lined up, facing the unbridled malice of their executioners. Did they think of their wives and children – the pain of being separated from them forever? Did they still their hearts – or find peace in their final moments?

Ashraf Abu Labda, Raed Al-Sharif, Mohammed Bahloul, Mohammed Hilieh, Mustafa Khafaja, Saleh Muammar, Rifaat Radwan and Ezzedine Shaat, and their colleagues whose names I haven’t been able to find were heroes. They spent their last hours on earth on a mission to render aid, to save people. Instead, we learn that they were in a race to the grave. And for what?

The murderers’ state of mind is hinted at by the aftermath of the crime. The Israeli soldiers dug a mass grave to hide their victims’ bodies. They crushed an ambulance under a bulldozer and attempted to bury that too. I wondered briefly if their crimes would haunt them, before I realized it didn’t matter.

The Israeli men who executed 15 unarmed paramedics got away with it. Whether the Israelis enjoyed themselves as they murdered their victims, or whether they will blitz their brains with drugs to forget doesn’t matter. Just as with the men who executed Hind Rajab, a five-year-old child, individually, they will have got away with it because their society offers them safe haven. All of Europe and the US is their playground.

Nor will global leaders intervene to end the mass murder which has been punctuated by this latest obscenity. Some of them – such as Emmanuel Macron, who called for a ceasefire, might appear to want to end the slaughter. After all, dead babies in incubators and paramedics in a mass grave are unpleasant garlands to wear. But 18 months in, they are too deeply implicated. Who can forget Ursula von der Leyen’s embrace of Netanyahu? Or Keir Starmer’s affirmation of Israel’s “right” to starve Palestinians in Gaza?

Today, those who are tasked with upholding international law have been co-opted by the Israeli leadership, whether they like it or not. The logic of gangland drug dealers and criminals – new members commit crimes to join, and are locked in – prevails.

So far from being complicit, US and European leaders are the authors of this latest atrocity by their Israeli colleagues in Gaza.

As for the rest of us, we can take note, and we can remember. There will be no Nuremberg for the Palestinians, but we can honor the memory of all those who fought to live. And who were exterminated for having lived at all.

Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian American writer and recipient of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/02/israel-red-crescent-paramedics-europe-us

Lerxst1992

A great way to avoid those atrocities is to not do this during a cease fire 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwRnN8stUc8

Halifax2TheMax

The ceasefire where Israel refused to negotiate? That one?

Halifax2TheMax

Oh looky here, Israeli thugs stirring up conflict on US college campuses. Guess they should be snatched off the streets and deported, eh? US residents giving material aid to terrorists. Nice.

Pro-Israel Group That Attacked UPenn Was Funded by Family of Penn Trustee

When Canary Mission, the pro-Israel “blacklist” group, turned its sights on the University of Pennsylvania, it didn’t just perform its usual work of compiling dossiers on students, professors, and campus organizations.

Instead, Penn merited greater attention: Canary Mission produced a highly produced report — one of several dozen “campaigns” the blacklist group has put together since the October 7, 2023, attacks against Israel.

“UPenn’s problem with campus antisemitism gained international attention following the brutal Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023,” Canary Mission, which purports to expose anti-American, anti-Israel, and antisemitic bias, wrote on its page about Penn. “UPenn, along with a number of other prominent Ivy League schools, has been a bastion of SUPPORT for Hamas.”

Canary Mission, whose profiles are reportedly being used by U.S. immigration authorities to target pro-Palestine activists, urges its readers to action on Penn by listing the email and phone number for the school’s interim president, J. Larry Jameson. The page goes on to lay out a vast anti-Israel conspiracy.

Unbeknownst to most of the University of Pennsylvania community, however, the call was coming from inside the house.

A foundation tied to the spouse of a Penn trustee is among a small group of publicly known donors to the secretive Canary Mission. 

According to a tax document, the Israel-based Canary Mission received $100,000 in 2023 from the Natan and Lidia Peisach Family Foundation, whose treasurer is Jaime Peisach, the husband of Penn trustee Cheryl Peisach. (Cheryl Peisach, Jaime Peisach, and Penn did not respond to requests for comment.)

F or some members of the Penn community, the Peisach family’s support for Canary Mission — whose online dossiers alleging antisemitism, often compiled with thin evidence, have been criticized as cyberbullying — raises questions about their commitment to the school’s well-being and academic freedom.

“It’s profoundly inappropriate for a trustee’s spouse to engage in that sort of activity,” said Anne Norton, a political science professor at Penn.

“I’d ask if someone is doing harm to the university fundraising, to the work of the faculty, to the students — for such a person to do this,” Norton said, “is reprehensible.”

The Peisach family, whose patriarch Natan made a fortune from textile and cut flowers companies, are funders of a bevy of right-wing pro-Israel causes and have donated prodigiously to Penn. According to tax filings, the family foundation has given more than a million dollars in the last five years to the university.

Canary Gathers Dirt

Canary Mission’s main work is a roster of thousands of dossiers on what it considers to be antisemitic and anti-Israel activists, whether in academia, entertainment, or any other field. The site publishes its targets’ photos, names, and affiliations alongside what it purports to be their antisemitic statements. 

Effectively a “blacklist” of Palestine solidarity activists, the Canary Mission’s dossiers are now reportedly being used to target immigrants and travelers to the U.S. caught up in President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration. 

While the far-right pro-Israel group Betar has said it passed names of noncitizen pro-Palestine activists to the Trump administration, Canary Mission has said only that it lists its dossiers online.

The site has long been accused of cyberbullying — giving a road map for pro-Israel online mobs to dox and harass supporters of Palestinian rights. Last year, Reuters reported that students and a scholar targeted by Canary Mission subsequently received online messages calling for their expulsion, deportation, rapes, and killings.

Even before the October 7 attacks took pro-Israel doxing to new heights, the group was drawing sharp criticisms from academia.

“Canary Mission is an extremist website that declares that its purpose is to document ‘people and groups that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews,’” Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of University of California, Berkeley School of Law, wrote in a June 2023 open letter. “I condemn this targeting of particular students because of their speech with the goal of harming their employment opportunities.”

C anary Mission’s dossiers frequently cover low-level activists based on thin material — much of which, critics allege, conflates criticisms of Israel with antisemitism. Many of the activists named by the Canary Mission have done little more than make innocuous pro-Palestinian social media posts or attended protests, only to be attacked as antisemites in Canary posts that quickly become the most prominent Google search result for their names.

Those targeted by Canary Mission have few means of recourse. According to Reuters, lawyers told one student targeted by the group that, because Canary Mission is not registered in the U.S., there was little hope for a lawsuit against the group. Canary Mission itself maintains an “Ex-Canary” page for formerly listed people who it says have renounced antisemitism, though the site offers no transparency on how to become delisted.

“Due to a fear of harassment, Ex-Canaries’ identities may be removed,” the page says. “For inquiries about becoming an Ex-Canary, please visit the Contact Us page.”

The contact page reads only “Down for maintenance.”

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Anti-semitic protests did not lead to that Tufts University student being detained. Just stop with the lies, propaganda and misinformation being propagated by Hillel and the Canary Mission. I'll take a legal brief, filed under penalty of perjury, by Tufts University over Murdick reporting, lies, propaganda, doxxing and, misinformation spread by certain posters.

Dear Tufts community, Please see below a declaration by Tufts University in support of a motion filed today by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in Öztürk v. Hyde in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. Best regards, Sunil Kumar President DECLARATION OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY Tufts University (an entity legally known as “The Trustees of Tufts College” and henceforth referred to as “Tufts University”, the “University” or “Tufts”), declares as follows: 1. On Tuesday, March 25, 2025, the University learned that Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts doctoral student from Turkey, was taken into custody by the Department of Homeland Security as she was leaving her off-campus apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts. The University understands that she was leaving her home that evening for an Iftar dinner hosted at the Tufts Interfaith Center where she would break her Ramadan fast for the day. 2. At around 6:30 p.m. that evening, the Tufts University Police Department received courtesy notification from the Somerville Police Department that an individual had been detained by federal authorities and that the person in custody might be a Tufts student. We confirmed through our records that the person in question was Rümeysa Öztürk. 3. At 7:32 p.m., Ms. Öztürk’s record in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) was updated to note that her visa was terminated. Prior to that, and at the time of her detention, Ms. Öztürk was in “good immigration standing” according to her record in SEVIS, and both Ms. Öztürk and Tufts had followed the governing regulations for students on visas. The University then received a notice, dated March 25, 2025 and received via email on March 26, 2025 at 10:31 a.m., stating that Rümeysa’s visa was cancelled because she was a “non-immigrant status violator” (citing 237 (a)(1)(C)(i) of the Immigration and Naturalization Act) and/or that the United States believed that her presence in the country would result in “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States” (citing 237 (a)(4)(C)(i)). 4. With her consent, the University can confirm that Ms. Öztürk is a third-year doctoral student in good academic and administrative standing. Her research focuses on how young adults can use social media in positive, prosocial ways and she is described by her faculty as a hard-working student dedicated to her studies and the Tufts community. The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention. The University has seen an outpouring of support for Ms. Öztürk over the last week from Tufts students, faculty and staff. These individuals have described Ms. Öztürk as a valued member of the community, dedicated to her academic pursuits and committed to her colleagues. 5. The University can confirm that Ms. Öztürk was one of several authors of an opinion piece in the student newspaper, The Tufts Daily, published on March 26, 2024, entitled: “Try again, President Kumar: Renewing Calls for Tufts to Adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions.” The University declares that this opinion piece was not in violation of any Tufts policies. Further, no complaints were filed with the University or, to our knowledge, outside of the University about this op-ed. The University maintains that the op-ed was consistent with speech permitted by the Declaration on Freedom of Expression adopted by our trustees on November 7, 2009. For the record, a search of The Tufts Daily will reveal op-eds on multiple sides of the issue with opinions that were shared just as strongly as the op-ed Ms. Öztürk co-authored. The University has no further information suggesting that she has acted in a manner that would constitute a violation of the University's understanding of the Immigration and Naturalization Act. 6. Our international students, faculty, and staff are vital to deliver on the education, teaching, research, and public service mission of Tufts University. The University sponsors 1,818 continuing international students on F-1 visas, alongside 569 alumni who are pursuing post-completion work authorization in the United States, 24 degree and non-degree students on J-1 visas. This is in addition to the broader community of students, faculty, and staff that hold various immigrant and non-immigrant statuses. 7. The free movement of our international community members is therefore essential to the functioning of the University and serving our mission. The University has heard from students, faculty and staff who are forgoing opportunities to speak at international conferences and avoiding or postponing international travel. In the worst cases, many report being fearful of leaving their homes, even to attend and teach classes on campus. 8. The University declares that many of these students will go on to make significant economic and intellectual contributions to the United States and in countries around the world. They will do so by working in or building new companies, through teaching and research in universities and other academic and healthcare institutions, and through public service in the United States and across the globe. The University is confident in its declaration because thousands of Tufts University alumni have received their education while on F-1 visas and have gone on to make a positive impact to the economic prosperity and intellectual success of the United States and in other countries. 9. The undersigned submits this declaration, on behalf of Tufts University, in support of Ms. Öztürk and asks that she receive the due process rights to which she is entitled. Based on everything we know and have shared here, the University seeks relief so that Ms. Öztürk is released without delay so that she can return to complete her studies and finish her degree at Tufts University. On behalf of the University, the undersigned declares under the penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on April 1, 2025, at Tufts University. SUNIL KUMAR PRESIDENT, TUFTS UNIVERSITY