The first week of camp will cover “the history of Palestinian resistance,” followed by weeks devoted to the “ongoing Nakba,” the different fronts of the movement, and media after October 7″

Posted on June 18, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Camp intifada? Anti-Israel encampment to host revolutionary summer camp at Canadian university
Michael Starr
June 14, 2024

An anti-Israel protest encampment at McGill University in Montreal is set to host a revolution summer camp for youth starting Monday, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights McGill has announced. Posted on Instagram with a promotional image of keffiyeh-garbed men reading while  armed with light machine guns and rifles, the summer camp doesn’t clarify the age of campers, but promises to “educate the youth of Montreal and redefine McGill’s ‘elite’ institutional legacy by transforming its space into one of revolutionary legacy.” “The daily schedule will include physical activity, Arabic language instruction, cultural crafts, political discussions, historical and revolutionary lessons,” said SPHR McGill, which organized the program in coordination with SPHR Concordia University. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST NYPD hunts for anti-Israel protester who told ‘Zionists’ to ID themselves on subway The NYPD is hunting for the anti-Israel protester who took over a New York subway car and demanded “Zionists” raise their hands — then said, “this is your chance to get out.” A wanted poster released Wednesday asks New Yorkers for help identifying the man so police can arrest him on a coercion charge. 

NEW YORK POST Outrage as Manhattan DA Bragg’s office drops nearly all cases from Columbia University’s anti-Israel protest Nearly all the protesters charged with storming and occupying Columbia University’s campus during heated anti-Israel demonstrations won’t face criminal charges, Manhattan prosecutors announced Thursday — drawing outrage from law enforcement and Jewish advocates.

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Regarding the ongoing ceasefire talks — during which Hamas has repeatedly refused to compromise on its maximalist demands — Sinwar recently told Hamas negotiators that “we have the Israelis right where we want them ”

Posted on June 17, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

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Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar Depicts Palestinian Casualties As ‘Necessary Sacrifices’
June 11, 2024

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who masterminded Hamas’s October 7 atrocities, portrayed the deaths of Palestinian civilians as a welcome sacrifice in his personal correspondence, The Wall Street Journal revealed on June 10. The Journal reviewed dozens of messages authored by Sinwar in which the terror leader hailed the carnage in Gaza. In one letter sent to Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh on April 11, Sinwar wrote that the Palestinian death toll would “infuse life into the veins of this nation, prompting it to rise to its glory and honor.” In another message to Hamas leaders in Qatar, Sinwar maintained that thousands of civilian casualties “are necessary sacrifices.” The messages also suggest that Sinwar is banking on the idea that further fighting will “work to his advantage,” the Journal reported. READ MORE

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Almontaser, who has posted on social media support for anti-Israel protests and unconditional calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, also appears to have close ties with Schools Chancellor David Banks

Posted on June 16, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
DOE hired ex-‘Intifada High’ principal’s group for staff workshops on Israel-Hamas war
Matthew Sedacca
June 15, 2024

The city Department of Education has inexplicably tapped a group headed by the notorious former “Intifada High” principal to lead school-staff workshops on handling the Israel-Hamas war in the classroom, infuriated teachers told The Post. Debbie Almontaser now pulls in hundreds of thousands of dollars in city contracts with her consulting firm Bridging Cultures Group, which on June 6 led professional development training sessions at at least 10 city public schools, teachers said. In a workshop titled “Facilitating Courageous Conversations,” a pair of Jewish and Muslim facilitators discussed lesson plans for how to teach and guide students on discussing the ongoing war, but Jewish teachers seethed that the training material was slanted against Israel. READ MORE

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Where are you Michelle Obama ? Former Facebook executive talks about the silence of the feminists in the wake of October 7

Posted on June 16, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

THE FREE PRESS
Sheryl Sandberg: ‘I Was Wrong About Antisemitism’
Bari Weiss
June 13, 2024

…As Sheryl watched the horrors of October 7 unfold, she was sure that everyone would rally against these unspeakable atrocities—particularly after the reports of sexual violence and rape committed by Hamas started coming in. When she saw that people did not, in fact, rise against it—and worse, when people began to deny that it even happened—she was stunned. Sheryl was particularly shocked that many of her would-be allies—prominent feminists and progressives in this country and around the world—stayed silent. This led her to make a documentary about the sexual violence of October 7 called Screams Before Silence…READ MORE

NEWSWEEK Barbra Streisand’s Israel-Hamas war hostages comment takes off online Barbra Streisand’s message about Israeli hostages held captive by Hamas in Gaza has deeply divided people. The Jewish singer spoke out as she shared a New York Times article from March about a former hostage who said she was sexually assaulted while in captivity…Responses to Streisand’s post were mixed. Some people accused her for not speaking up sooner in favor of Israel and its hostages, while others tried to discredit her claims.

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“Audiences are fed up with newspapers, Hollywood and Big Tech all singing from the same woke hymn sheet”

Posted on June 14, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

SPIKED
The media’s great awokening is alienating the masses
Joel Kotkin
June 17, 2024

When I was a cub reporter working at the Washington Post a half-century ago, being a journalist was first and foremost a craft. I once tried to slip my opinion into an article, but my editor wrote on the copy that ‘nobody gives a shit what you think’.It was harsh, but good training. Our primary job as journalists was not to indoctrinate but to inform. Even when writing an opinion piece, you would try backing up assertions with facts and leave room for the possibility that your point of view may not be the only permissible one. All this may seem quaint today, as the news media – television, print, magazines and online blogs – now serve increasingly as ideological provocateurs. READ MORE

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The JC can reveal previously unknown details of the daring mission following conversations with senior Israeli security sources

Posted on June 13, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH CHRONICLE
The inside story of Israel’s dramatic Gaza hostage rescue
Elon Perry
June 13, 2024

On 12 May, Israel received intelligence about the location of four hostages in the Nuseirat refugee camp area in the Gaza Strip. From that day on, every branch of Israeli intelligence was focused on the area 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to locate the exact location….At the beginning of June, this information was brought to the War Cabinet, and the Chief of Staff of the IDF and head of the Shin Bet were asked to present a rescue plan. The intelligence was kept top secret. Even the other forces in Gaza, including senior commanders, were not informed about it. As the War Cabinet discussed options, the preparations and training for the operation began. In order to finally verify the information and to prepare the ground for the operation, another team of undercover soldiers (including several women dressed in hijabs and long black dresses) was sent into the Nuseirat refugee camp. Pretending to be two Gazan families looking for a large house in Nuseirat, they arrived in two cheap-looking old cars loaded with domestic items characteristic of those families displaced in the Strip, such as mattresses and clothing identical to those of the locals. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Hamas operatives said to have standing orders to kill hostages if IDF approaches Hamas terrorist leaders have given standing orders to operatives who are holding hostages saying “that if they think Israeli forces are coming, the first thing they should do is shoot the captives,” according to Israeli officials quoted by The New York Times on Monday. Two days after the Israel Defense Forces’ rescue of four hostages from Nuseirat in central Gaza, the newspaper reported that if other hostages were killed on Saturday, as Hamas has claimed, “it might have been at the hand of the [terrorists], not because of an Israeli airstrike.” 

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The brilliant Douglas Murray: Confronting Islamic terror against Jews (and everyone else) in Europe

Posted on June 12, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

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Why was Al Jazeera “journalist” Abdallah Aljamal imprisoning Israeli captives in his home ?

Posted on June 12, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
IDF confirms journalist for Al-Jazeera, Palestine Chronicle held 3 of rescued captives
Erez Linn
June 10, 2024

The IDF and Shin Bet confirmed on Sunday that the hostages Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv, who were rescued Saturday from Nuseirat in the Gaza Strip, were the ones held in the house of an Al-Jazeera “journalist” Abdullah Al-Jamal. Despite what was initially believed, the fourth hostage recued on Saturday, Noa Argamani, was not held by Al-Jamal. He was killed along with several family members while trying to hold on to the hostages when the raid began. Jamal was a writer for the Palestine Chronicle and apparently continued contributing articles to that portal even while he was holding the hostages captives. “Journalist” Abdallah Aljamal was a Hamas terrorist holding Almog, Andrey and Shlomi hostage in his family’s home in Nuseirat. No press vest can make him innocent of the crimes he has committed. @AlJazeera what’s this terrorist doing on your website?” the IDF wrote on X. READ MORE

FRONT PAGE MAG Denouncing Israel for Rescuing its Hostages From the United Nations to anti-Israel media outlets, Israel is blamed for the loss of Palestinian civilian lives during the rescue operation. Israel’s critics claim that the deaths could have been avoided if the Jewish state had only stuck to negotiating with Hamas and made more concessions to secure the release of the hostages. However, it was Hamas’ decision to seize the hostages in the first place and then imprison them in residential buildings and in tunnels constructed under civilian neighborhoods…The terrorists acted with callous indifference to the lives of the Palestinian people residing in the civilian neighborhood from which the four hostages had to be rescued. Moreover, many Palestinian civilians themselves are not so innocent. As Robert Spencer noted in his June 11th Frontpage article, “it is clear that a good many of those ‘civilians’ played an active role in the holding of the hostages.” 

BABYLON BEE Gaza Health Ministry Confirms 8 Billion Dead In Israeli Hostage Rescue The Gaza Health Ministry announced that Israeli soldiers killed eight billion innocent women, children and puppies today during the rescue operation where four hostages were freed. “With the battle having ended twelve seconds ago, we can now confirm that exactly eight billion people are dead,” said Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ismail al-Thawabta. “They were all of course civilians, we’ve never seen such carnage, the hospital is overwhelmed, et cetera, you guys know the drill.”

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Hamas kidnappers “were trying not to leave [physical] marks … But they would still punish him this way or the other. Very often for trivial things.”

Posted on June 11, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Hostages were beaten, abused ‘almost every day,’ says doctor who treated rescuees
June 10, 2024

The doctor in charge of treating the hostages rescued from Gaza on Saturday tells CNN that the abductees were regularly beaten by their captors. “It was a harsh, harsh experience, with a lot of abuse, almost every day,” Dr. Itai Pessach of Sheba Medical Center says. “Every hour, both physical, mental and other types, and that is something that is beyond comprehension.” According to the American outlet, Pessach says the eight months the hostages spent under Hamas captivity “left a significant mark on their health,” despite them appearing outwardly to be in good shape. “They had no protein, so their muscles are extremely wasted, there is damage to some other systems because of that,” he says, adding that they said the supply of food and water varied, and that they were moved a few times and dealt with different guards. READ MORE

CNN Israeli hostage faced ‘punishments’ during eight months in Hamas captivity, family says A Russian citizen, Kozlov moved to Israel almost two years ago. He was working as a security guard at the Nova music festival on October 7 when he was kidnapped and taken into Gaza. In an interview with CNN, Kozlov’s family revealed some details of their son’s ordeal, including that he initially believed the Israeli forces who saved him had been sent to kill him. Kozlov’s father, Mikhail Kozlov, said his son was “very scared” because Hamas militants had for months falsely said that “Israel wanted to kill them all” claiming “they were a problem for Israel”. “He was told that Israel wants to kill him. He didn’t understand why the IDF came. He was afraid that the IDF came to kill him. It took him some time to realize that they came to rescue him.”

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Hungary’s government is despised by liberals. But Budapest is Israel’s only real ally in the European Union and, as long as Viktor Orbán remains in power, the Jews there are safe.

Posted on June 10, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Notes from the safest place in Europe for Jews
Jonathan S. Tobin
June 11, 2024

…Spend a week in that Eastern European country [Hungary], as I just did, and the one thing you can count on is that you won’t see its landmarks being the site of mass demonstrations of supporters of jihad and Hamas terror, as is the case elsewhere, including the United States. That is something that would be unimaginable right now in America, but the reason is that the Hungarian government has banned pro-Hamas demonstrations. They’ve deemed it an open expression of antisemitism and a threat to public order. Their rationale is to treat pro-Hamas activism as morally equivalent to open advocacy for Nazism, which in Hungary and most other places in Europe is illegal. As I discovered in conversations with both liberal and Orthodox Jews, as well as non-Jews, the Jewish community in Budapest feels safe in a way that is not the case in London, Paris or Berlin. When you visit Hungary, no one tells you not to wear kippahs or Jewish stars in public. READ MORE

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