Wednesday, March 27, 2024 

Released hostage details how she was raped by Hamas members in Gaza

Amit Soussana, one of the people who'd been kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, told about her terrible experience:
Released hostage Amit Soussana, 40, described in an interview with the New York Times today (Tuesday) how she was sexually assaulted by her captor after she was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on October 7.

Soussana stated that she was beaten and kidnapped by ten men on October 7. She was then left chained by her ankle in a child's bedroom in Gaza until October 24, when the first assault occurred.

She described how her captor, Muhammad, held a gun to her head and assaulted her. The Times agreed not to publish the details of what happened.

Soussana was finally released on November 30 after 55 days in captivity, on the last day of the hostage deal.

The Times stated that her account is consistent with what she told doctors and social workers immediately following her release.
This article has more harrowing details, and you'll need a strong stomach for this too. What the jihadists did to those women they raped is obscene beyond belief, just as are the cases that occurred in Europe and elsewhere where Muslims raped and murdered "infidel" women. While it's amazing the NYT was willing to run a report like this, I still wonder why Soussana didn't give the interview to a source like the Washington Times, and even Newsmax. Why must it always be a left-wing source to give the interviews like these to? Let's not forget the NYT's employed a pseudo-journalist who took lenient positions on the same issues when dealing with the Religion of Peace.

While the Israeli president Isaac Herzog has praised Soussana for speaking out, the only Democrat willing to address the issue properly is Rep. John Fetterman from Pennsylvania:
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., jabbed his Democratic colleagues Wednesday for again failing to condemn the actions of Hamas terrorists.

The senator has been an outspoken advocate of Israel in its war with Hamas terrorists, a stance not shared by other more progressive Democrats. In October, he called out members of “The Squad” for blaming a Gaza hospital attack on Israel, describing the assertion as “truly disturbing.”

Taking to X, he doubled down on these criticisms while sharing a news headline reading “Israel hostage says she was sexually assaulted and tortured in Gaza.”

"Some members of Congress won't condemn this,” Sen. Fetterman said. “Some dismissed this as 'propaganda'. The UN won't even condemn Hamas. Hamas is not a group of 'militants' or engaging in 'insurgency'—just rapists and cowards hiding behind innocent civilians.”

Continuing, he noted “Israel absolutely has the right to pursue and dismantle Hamas to surrender or neutralization."
It's miraculous he's one of the very few Democrats willing to speak from the right side about this, and sad to think of how it's possible the party may seek to throw him out for taking such a courageous stand. Fetterman's done the right thing, and if needed, I would recommend he run as an independent candidate in the next state assembly election.

Since we're on the topic, over in Britain, airport authorities were accused of abusing 2 survivors of the bloodbath who'd come to the UK to speak to the local Jewish community:
A survivor of the horrific Hamas massacre at the Supernova music festival on October 7 told the Jerusalem Post on Tuesday that U.K. Border Force officers harassed and abused him and his brother, a fellow survivor, when they flew into the Manchester airport on Sunday.

Neria and Daniel Sharabi, 22 and 23 years old, respectively, were among the 3,000 young attendees at the open-air Supernova music festival in southern Israel on October 7 when Hamas attacked, turning the holiday event into a bloody massacre. One of the survivors compared the scene to a gruesome horror movie that went on for four hours.

The Sharabi brothers were credited with saving dozens of lives during the attack by scrounging weapons from a tank, heroically holding the Hamas death squad at bay, and administering emergency medical aid to the wounded.

Neria used his phone to record video evidence of the attack, while Daniel used his to obtain guidance from his former commander in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Several of their friends were abducted or killed during the assault. [...]

The Sherabis said the Border Forces officers at the Manchester airport grew hostile after they saw the Israeli passports that the brothers presented.

“Their faces immediately changed. I saw the antisemitism in their eyes, from the moment they started interrogating us,”
Neria told the Jerusalem Post on Monday.

Neria said the officers detained the brothers for two hours to “make sure that you are not going to do what you are doing in Gaza over here,” a reference to the Israeli self-defense operation against Hamas.

Daniel captured the angry response of the Border Force officers to accusations of anti-Semitism on video, including one of them growling, “Nobody has said that once, so knock the attitude off.”

“I’ve made the decision, and you’re coming in,” the officer said. “Let us do the checks that we need to do and keep quiet … We’re the bosses, not you.”


The Sharabi brothers said that after they were taken to detention, officers sternly interrogated them on the subject of their planned speech to the Jewish community and their service in the IDF. They were eventually released and able to give their speech, but Neria said they were made to feel unsafe throughout the encounter. He expressed reluctance to return to the United Kingdom, even if the mission of his non-profit requires it.
While the Jewish community in the UK filed a complaint, chances are entirely possible the Home Office won't investigate convincingly. The UK is really going into tailspin.

Update: in some interesting news in Jerusalem, hostage family members blocked the entrance to a UNRWA office near Ammunition Hill. They did the right thing to bring the protest to one of the places that bears responsibility for the tragedy.

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024 

Israeli delegation cancels trip to Washington DC over Biden government's refusal to veto UN call for ceasefire that doesn't demand release of hostages

Fraud-in-chief Joe Biden's staff at the UN refused to oppose a call for a ceasefire that didn't include a call for releasing Israeli hostages of Hamas. As a result, the Israeli government canceled a planned trip to the District of Columbia to discuss warring in Rafah:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday canceled a planned trip to Washington by his top aides to discuss plans for an offensive in the Gaza city of Rafah, taking the step after the United States refrained from using a veto to block a United Nations Security Council resolution, backed by Russia and China, that called for a ceasefire without conditioning it on the release of hostages.

In a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office, Israel said the US decision was harming the war effort against Hamas and undermining attempts to free hostages.

The statement called the decision “a clear retreat from the consistent US position in the Security Council since the beginning of the war,” and one that “gives Hamas hope that international pressure will allow them to get a ceasefire without releasing our hostages.”
What the USA did is disgraceful, but likely hasn't shocked everyone. Nor will it shock everyone that the goal of the Hamas is to end the war without releasing hostages:
Israel Hayom has reported that the Hamas terror group ultimately is aiming to force Israel to end the war without receiving anything - not even the hostages - in return. [...]

Israel Hayom reported that afterwards, senior Hamas terrorist Mohammad Nazzal, who is in Turkey, was less official and revealed the terror group's true hopes: "The Security Council resolution is an important step. It will isolate the State of Israel even more. The US' abstention from vetoing the resolution is a clear message from Washington to the Netanyahu government. Biden must atone for his support of the aggression in Gaza, and force Netanyahu to end the war."
This is what makes the USA delegation's refusal to back Israel all the more offensive, especially to the hostages. And it's going to make things much worse.

Update: Texas Republican Chip Roy condemned Biden's staff for the betrayal.

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Russia attacked by Islamic State

Russia's been appeasing Hamas in its own way, along with attacking Ukraine, and now, a terrorist attack occurred on Russian soil, proving that their siding with jihadists is not helping them. And making matters worse, they're trying to pin the blame on Ukraine:
Russia on Saturday said it had arrested 11 people — including four gunmen — over the attack on a Moscow concert hall claimed by the Islamic State, as the death toll rose to 115.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was yet to comment publicly on the attack and Moscow has not addressed the Islamic State’s claim of responsibility, even as some lawmakers pointed to a possible Ukraine connection.

Camouflaged gunmen opened fire at the packed Crocus City Hall in Moscow’s northern suburb of Krasnogorsk on Friday evening ahead of a concert by Soviet-era rock band Piknik in the deadliest attack in Russia for at least a decade.

Russia’s FSB security service said some of the perpetrators had fled towards the Russia-Ukraine border, adding that the assailants had “appropriate contacts” in the country.

It did not provide further details.

Some Russian lawmakers also pointed to Kyiv, without providing evidence.
Most likely, they wouldn't cite any verses in the Koran that led to this tragedy either. It should be noted that Russia employed Iranian-made drones to attack Ukraine, and even has considerable backing from Chechnya, based on their own jihadist beliefs. And Putin's just continued his downplay of the Religion of Peace's content with a speech that could've just as easily been written by George W. Bush:
Despite the hype about how tough and serious Putin is, his speeches about the Islamic terrorist attack in Moscow could have been written for George W. Bush.

The officially translated remarks after the attack made no mention of Islam, but a follow up one on measures being taken after the attacks do mention Islam in a way Bush and Obama would have been fine with.

“We know that the crime was committed by the hands of radical Islamists, whose ideology the Islamic world itself has been fighting for centuries,” Putin initially stated.

That’s not a bad translation. he said, “radikalnih Islamistov” or “radical Islamists”.

The “Islamic world”, according to Vlad, has been fighting these “radical Islamists” for centuries.

It gets more pathetic from there as Putin tries to suggest that America, Ukraine and whoever else was really behind the attacks because Muslims, especially Muslim terrorists, love Russia too much.

According to Putin, America is suspiciously trying to convince the world that “the bloody terrorist attack was carried out by followers of Islam, members of the ISIS organization banned in Russia.” [...]

Hasn’t Russia sided with Hamas? Why would Islamic terrorists attack Russia since it sides with Hamas? Sure there’s the whole Chechnya thing and a lot of history before that. Also the fact that Islamic Jihadists want to conquer the world. And Russia is in the world.
What Putin fails to recognize, in all his horrific appeasement, is that the Religion of Peace, in the long run, does not spare specific countries based on appeasement at all. Even before an evil deed is done in their favor, they're willing to attack, sooner or later. Now, that very appeasement's come back to haunt Russia, and it's all Putin's fault.

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Monday, March 25, 2024 

Senior IDF intel officer resigns over October 7 disaster

This news may be at least a week old now, but is still very crucial to consider, given what an atrocity of ignorance led to the horror several months ago:
A senior Israeli intelligence officer reportedly announced Tuesday his intention to resign over the failures that led to Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, marking the first time a high-ranking military official has declared he will leave his post over missteps in the lead-up to the brutal incursion.

The Kan public broadcaster on Wednesday quoted the head of the Military Intelligence Research Department, Brig. Gen. Amit Saar, as saying he will quit once the military wraps up its internal probes into its blunders, while also appearing to hint that other commanders should resign as well.

“I understand that as soon as the military investigation is finished, the ones who will rebuild everything in the Military Intelligence Directorate will be other commanders,” Saar reportedly said.

Kan said the remarks were made during a conference with Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, the head of the Intelligence Directorate, the commander of Unit 8200, and other intelligence officers.
This article, however, is one of at least a few from left-wing sources trying to obfuscate blame, and level it at Benjamin Netanyahu only for the sake of it:
According to a Haaretz report in November, Saar twice warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier in 2023 that domestic tensions over his government’s controversial judicial overhaul plans were encouraging Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas to potentially take military action against Israel.
No doubt, this creep in uniform is a leftist himself, and did it ever occur to such disgraces that if all they cared about was judicial reforms, then they clearly weren't worried about Islamic jihadism lurking in the backyard of Gaza? Such leftists have a lot of their own blame to shoulder, and can't be overlooked. And lest we forget, ultra-Orthodox ignoramuses also have to be held accountable for drawing attention away from the issue of Islamofascism with petty issues like how a woman dresses and whether she sings and dances.

Several weeks earlier, there was more news that another IDF officer resigned over his part in the fiasco, which involved a refusal to listen to a lady observer and threatening to prosecute her if she continued to discuss the subject. But resignation is not enough. The officer who shunned important info should be imprisoned for life for what he led to, and even receive hard labor. Something I'm sure a lot of the victims would agree with, and they should push to have the monster jailed for his crime of ignorance.

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Sunday, March 24, 2024 

Israeli photographer takes woke position on girls with guns

An Israeli fashion photographer is not doing many favors for women with the way she believes "sexualizing" women toting firearms is somehow wrong, and she even appears to be potentially influenced by Haredi customs:
Over the past five years, photographer Rotem Itzhari has been working on a series of photographs of Israeli female combat soldiers photographed in various locations across the country, in dresses and holding M-16 rifles. Recently, she posted several photos unseen before, creating a constant tension between the women's gaze and the war machines they hold. In the future, Itzhari hopes to exhibit them in an exhibition in Italy.

Over the years, photographers associated the female body with weapons, creating photos that objectify women, indicating the connection between the phallic weapons and the photographed women as seen with Israeli model Orin Julie. An exceptional example is a beautiful and provocative photo by Helmut Newton, who during one of his visits to Israel in the 1990s, photographed the young model Kim Iglinsky (one of the most successful Israelis in the world living in the United States), holding an M16 rifle and wearing a black bikini, against the background of the Dead Sea landscapes, with IDF insignias and dufflebags laid at her feet.

Itzhari (43) began working on the project about five years ago, when she lived in Bet Shemesh. She shared that she was recovering from heartbreak that shattered her heart into pieces and sought a new project at the time. "The best things come out of pain and difficulty," she said. Although she did not study photography in an orderly manner, over the past twenty years she has photographed documentary projects, such as photographing women from the Ultra-Orthodox society in Jerusalem or older women in the Dead Sea.
Ah, this is an important clue she's influenced in some ways by Haredi customs, in the ways of a bleeding-heart-liberal, which I sadly guess she is. Did she ever hear of that horrifying incident involving the Bnot Orot school in 2011? Because many women were hit very hard by the kind of absurd mentality Itzhari appears to be going by, and were practically murdered by Islamofascists on October 7, 2023 for even daring to dream of wearing the kind of outfits Iglinsky wore. Of course antisemitism was definitely a driving factor in the Hamas bloodbath, but misogyny is no less a culprit, and many women have paid a heavy price as a result. To say "objectification" is a problem - when here, Newton's photography presents a form of inspiration for women who like to wear swimming outfits along with the guns to add to the self-confidence concept - is a slap in the face to many women, Israeli or otherwise, who were harmed by Haredi extremists, and far worse, by Islam. If a civilized Arab woman were filmed in a bikini toting guns, would Itzhari make even a peep about that? Or are Israeli women somehow easy targets?
Her current project of female combat soldiers is more relevant than ever. Despite claims by politicians that women are not physically able to be combat soldiers, many of them have shown courage in the current war in Gaza. "Women can do anything. Not just in the army, in general," says Itzhari. "And you don't need these photos to know that. Not now and not before October 7. Maybe if they had listened to the female soldiers' warnings, the whole war could have been avoided."
Ahem. If women can do anything, they can wear bikinis too, without complaints that reek of left-wing feminist propaganda that, if memory serves, London mayor Sadiq Khan exploited for claiming that women would be "ashamed of their bodies" if the city continued to allow stuff like swimwear advertisements around. Yet it's just like Ynet to run something that's actually hurtful to women more than helpful.

I'm sorry Itzhari suffered heartbreak, but that doesn't excuse the decidedly insulting-to-the-intellect view she takes here. In fairness, some of the women photographed do wear say, shoulder-baring dresses, in example. But it's not enough to counteract the risk taken of making it sound as though filming women in bikinis, guns or not, is inherently wrong. Women should not have to told their bodies are inherently shameful, and to do so only causes horrible scars to society and injures women's civil rights while smacking tons of fashion designers and fashion-loving women in the face after all the trouble they went to for developing fancy dresses. I once heard a neighbor of mine say that a real rabbi doesn't enforce dress codes, and that's something Itzhari would do well to ponder.

This running the gauntlet of wokeism cannot be allowed to affect Israel in any way, mainly because it takes away vital attention from far more serious issues like the aforementioned Hamas massacre. It may be possible that the lady IDF observer who was shunned by senior staff was ignored because she was a woman, as some suspect, and that's obscene. But after all the terrible incidents where women were discriminated against over petty issues like how they dress, even by men who weren't Haredi, that's why to perpetuate this futile charade as Itzhari certainly came close to doing is only insulting intellects all the more, and it must cease.

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Friday, March 22, 2024 

Antisemitic caricature of Netanyahu published in Canadian paper

Canadian news sources demonstrate once again how the great white north is becoming a most unappealing place (via Jihad Watch):
A caricature of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the vampire in the movie Nosferatu was published by French-Canadian newspaper La Presse on Wednesday, resulting in accusations of antisemitism and a retraction by the Montreal outlet.

“Nosfenyahou, on the way to Rafah,” placed the face of Netanyahu on the body of the blood-sucking Count Orlok in one of the 1922 horror movie’s famous stills.

“Shame on La Presse for posting this vile caricature,”
said the Israeli embassy to Canada. “The antisemitism in Canada is off the chart.”
The paper may have apologized, but they could've avoided publishing the repulsive caricature in the first place if they wanted to. They've only prolonged a horrible situation that continues to be most insufferable.

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Thursday, March 21, 2024 

Neturei Karta disbelieves in Jewish birthright

One of the worst anti-Zionist movements in the traitorous parts of Haredi society was interviewed by The World, and their anti-Israeli bigotry is on full display, along with gender discrimination and slighting of dignity:
Rabbi Shimon Roth lives in Jerusalem’s Mea She’arim neighborhood — one of the city’s most religious neighborhoods.

The conservative atmosphere is visible. Men crowd the streets in a sea of black coats and hats, and Yiddish is commonly spoken. Signs are posted asking women to dress modestly.

“We are here in occupied Jerusalem, the original capital of Palestine,” Roth explained from across a dining room table that was covered with a white lace cloth and a sheet of clear plastic, common in observant homes.

Roth only agreed to be interviewed with a male translator present. And he refused to make direct eye contact, based on a belief that he shouldn’t look at women other than his wife.
Straight out of the gate, the cult leader in focus delegitimizes Israel with the name "palestine", to the point he declares the city he lives in "occupied", and even delegitimizes the lady reporter based on her gender. No doubt, she was ordered to dress modestly too, even if allowed to pay a visit to the Karta kreep's house to write up the interview. Such "customs" give "conservative" a bad name. There's also, of course, Muslim societies described as "conservative", and the MSM, in sharp contrast to how they treat western conservatives, often have no issue with the position when Muslims are the ones representing it.
Roth is a part of Neturei Karta, a Haredi sect that takes an anti-Zionist stance — meaning the group doesn’t believe in the concept of a Jewish state of Israel. Haredim (the plural of Haredi) are extremely religious and have a very strict commitment to Jewish law and custom.

Haredi translates to "trembling," as in “trembling before God.”

Not all Haredim are anti-Zionist, and even those who are rarely show it in the same way as Neturei Karta. The group is known for demonstrating against Israel and in support of Palestine. Its members can be seen at protests carrying signs that say things like, "Judaism condemns the state of Israel and its atrocities."

Roth explained that, for him, part of living in Israel as an anti-Zionist means not voting or running for office, not taking assistance from the government and openly supporting the return of all of Israel to Palestinians.

“The Zionists say that they act on our behalf. They took the name Israel, which is not theirs to have,” Roth said. “Our goal is to express [opposition] to the Zionists' crimes.”
Really? Then who does the name Israel belong to, anyway? Because fiends like him have lost their right to it, plain and simple, if this is how they're going to behave.
Zionism, the movement that advocates for a Jewish state, is almost always discussed in political terms. But it can also be fundamentally religious.

According to Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, a spokesman for Neturei Karta in the United States, “Judaism is a covenant with God to uphold God's Torah — to be subservient to God. Zionism is a transformation to nationalism.”

Weiss is famously known for having visited Iran to speak at a conference about the Holocaust alongside then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinijad and former KKK leader David Duke.

Weiss does not deny the Holocaust.

He said his grandparents and several aunts and uncles died in Auschwitz. The New York Times reported that he attended the conference to say that the Holocaust is being exploited to justify the Zionist state of Israel.
What he said was verbatim to what a lot of non-Jewish antisemites have said, including Hamas and PLO, whom the Karta kreeps have lent their backing to as well, even if only indirectly. Fortunately, there is opposition to them, with the Chabad missionary movement leading the way in panning the Karta kult:
But many Jews disagree, and find Neturei Karta’s efforts destructive.

“They don't just go to demonstrations — they deny [that] Jews have a right to self determination,” said Rabbi Yaacov Behrman. He’s a public relations liaison for Chabad, a Haredi group headquartered in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in New York, and said he was speaking in his personal capacity.

“They deny Jews have a right to self govern, which is basically antisemitism,” Behrman added.

“They align themselves with Holocaust deniers. They align themselves with those that advocate for the destruction of the Jewish people. Their ideology lacks any religious or moral legitimacy.”
And if the Karta kreeps haven't arranged direct meetings with Hamas yet, it's tragically possible they will, given the chance. To think, that such a repulsive cult even lives right here in the middle of the country, which seriously, they don't deserve to be living in at all, if this is how they're going to act. If any cult needs to be dispersed and their subjects reeducated, it would be Neturei Karta. And that will doubtless be very hard to do.

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024 

Muslims destroy archaeological site

Another sad casualty of the renewed jihad against Israel was an ancient site in Judea:
Dozens of Palestinians vandalized the archaeological site of Umm ar-Rihan, a historic site from the Second Temple period, located on state land in Area C of the West Bank. The Palestinians completely flattened the archaeological site and built a parking lot on top of it.

Personnel from Israel's Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria managed to identify the perpetrators, and they were arrested along with other accomplices. When the incident became known to Israeli authorities, the Civil Administration's Archaeology Unit acted while conducting a covert investigation to identify those responsible for the damages, after which they arrived at the main suspect's house and arrested him. Charges are expected to be filed against him in the coming days.

Umm ar-Rihan was an ancient Jewish settlement dating to the Hellenistic, Byzantine and Roman periods, which was one of the largest in the region. The heritage site is located in the northern West Bank, near the Katzir settlement. The site featured limestone buildings, a watchtower and a mausoleum - an elaborate burial structure.

In 1969, archaeologist Ze'ev Yevin conducted an emergency excavation at the site, and it was also surveyed in the Manasseh Hill Country Survey. Last week, ground surveyors from the Shomron Regional Council arrived at the site and discovered it had been turned into a parking lot. The destruction was documented in aerial photographs of the site, showing the suspects left no trace of the archaeological site that stood there a few weeks back.

"We can't allow the war to turn into an excuse to destroy Jewish heritage sites in the West Bank. An attempt to deliberately erase Jewish history was made here. This is a crime not only against Jewish history and people, but against all of humanity,"
said Yossi Dagan, head of the Shomron Regional Council.

"The remains of a Jewish settlement that stood undisturbed for 2,000 years are being destroyed and crushed right under our noses. This is a testament to Israel's weakness. I demand that all relevant authorities investigate the incident, restore the archaeological site to be paid for by the perpetrator, and allow the Shomron Regional Council to enforce, supervise and help restore and preserve heritage sites in its area. There is no other way today to protect heritage sites in the West Bank," he added.

"While the State of Israel is fighting for its existence, our enemies exploit this vacuum and act to erase our heritage," Adi Shargai, head of the Shomrim Netzach organization working to protect and develop heritage sites in the West Bank, said.

"This is a serious escalation that we haven't seen yet. An archaeological site has been completely destroyed and turned into a parking lot. The identity of the Palestinian perpetrators is known. Israel has a moral obligation to punish them to the fullest extent, including prison time and significant fines," he added.

"Since the start of the Gaza war, we have been seeing increasing attempts to destroy Jewish heritage sites throughout the West Bank, and it's our duty to continue to fight for our history even while fighting for our home," said Heritage Minister Amichai Ayalon.
This is a very tragic case. Why, it even decidedly makes me wonder if the Haredis who're part of the "Jerusalem Faction" really give a damn about their heritage, because, consider: if they wanted to, they could join security forces who could volunteer to take part in guarding ancient sites and even improving them. Instead, they block public transportation, all because they don't want to serve in the military. Such people can't possibly care about their own heritage, and if that's how they're going to behave, then they've practically disowned it.

It's to be hoped the destroyed site can be restored. But IMO, we should all consider those in Israeli society who refuse to do anything to defend these sites, their alleged piousness notwithstanding.

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More on the Oscar embarrassment caused by Jonathan Glazer

Here's some more news regarding the anti-Israeli atrocities on parade at this year's Academy Awards ceremony. For example, actress Mayim Bialik condemned the attendants for not wearing yellow ribbons in support of the hostages of Hamas:
Mayim Bialik took to Instagram on Friday to share her frustration with this year’s Oscar attendees for their absence of yellow ribbons advocating for the safe return of Israeli hostages that have been kidnapped by Hamas.

“Of course I have opinions about a lot of things that went down at the Oscars both on the red carpet and on the stage but here’s what I’m going to say: I sure wish every single human being at the Oscars would have worn a yellow ribbon to show support for Hamas immediately returning the hostages who have been held since they were seized from their homes on October 7- including American citizens,” Bialik wrote in the charged post. “The ceasefire offer on the table demands the return of captive women, elderly, and the injured. It has been rejected by Hamas.”

The Big Bang Theory star, who is Jewish, was sporting a yellow ribbon in the picture, and ended her caption with the hashtag “#BringThemHome.”
And about the red pins at least a few attendants wore, those are some of the most alarming symbols of evil possible to find:
In an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN on Tuesday, Moshe Levi, brother-in-law of Gaza hostage Omri Meran, said, “We cannot normalize hostage taking, we cannot normalize terrorist action as committed by Hamas on October 7,” while commenting on the ceasefire pins celebrities wore at the Oscars. Moshe Levi’s sister and Omri Meran have two daughters.

He continued, “Yesterday we saw the Oscars, we saw people wearing a pin that, for us Israelis, reminds us of the lynch in Ramallah in the Second Intifada. At the same time, I want them to wear this. If you support a ceasefire, you need to support the return of the hostages. If you support the humanitarian cause of the Palestinians, you need to support the humanitarian cause of the hostages…My call to the American public: Unite behind us.

If you unite behind the families of the hostages, I can promise you that we can start seeing an end to this. Narrow the focus, focus on the hostages and negotiating solely on that
. After that we have so many decades to finish this conflict and finally live in coexistence with our neighbors. But we will not be able to live with them in coexistence as long as hostages are still there and as long as radical elements like Hamas who are emboldened by people like those who were wearing those pins yesterday, are still in power in Gaza.”
The evil pins are explained here too:
But that symbol derives from an actual photo of a bloody hand:

Back in 2000, two Jewish IDF reservists mistakenly drove through Ramallah and were detained by Palestinian police — and then brutally murdered in their jail cell by a crowd of savage, blood-hungry thugs, one of whom showed his bloodied hand in a now-infamous photo.

That is, like so much of American “advocacy” for Palestinians, the pins are a wink-wink, nudge-nudge endorsement of violent terror against Jews.

It’s no coincidence that these stars are hard leftoids: Institutional antisemitism is now part of the American left’s core DNA.
What anybody who wore those repulsive pins did was depicable, and just compounds how insufferable Hollywood's become of recent. Sarah Tuttle-Singer discusses the issue too.

Thankfully, a whole community of over a thousand Jews signed a letter rejecting Glazer's offensive conduct:
More than 1,200 Jewish Hollywood creatives have now signed onto a statement rejecting the speech criticizing Israel by “The Zone of Interest” director Jonathan Glazer at this month’s Academy Awards.

The signatories include “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” writer Amy Sherman-Palladino, horror director Eli Roth and actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, as well as several show business figures — Debra Messing, Brett Gelman, Michael Rappaport and others — who have been prominent defenders of Israel during its war against Hamas. [...]

Now, a statement organized by United Jewish Writers, a coalition that formed shortly after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel as the Hollywood unions were divided over whether and how to issue statements condemning the attack and supporting Israel, aims to demonstrate the scope of dissent within Hollywood.

“We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of people, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination,” the statement says.
It's fortunate more people are speaking out, though Glazer so far hasn't responded. And who knows, maybe he never will. The man is clearly not suited to be part of the Israeli community, and he'd do well to just stop claiming he's "one of us" already. His film's reputation is likely to suffer now, for all we know, as some will be reluctant to see it.

And how come the Holocaust continues to be a topic of interest for films, but not modern day Islamic terrorism? The cowardice seen these days is staggering. It's practically what led to September 11, 2001 and the murder of nearly 3000 people.

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