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After the Green Party's "Zionism is Racism" vote, the Leader of Haringey Council, which is controlled by the Greens, wrote to various Synagogues in the borough to "reassure" them.
I want to show you Highgate Synagogue's reply. I believe it is worth reading in its entirety.
Synagogue rejects Green council leader’s attempt to ‘reassure’ them after “Zionism is Racism” vote
jewishnews.co.uk/synagogue-r…
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This must see video of the did and didn't do's of the war!
DON'T miss it!!
Probably the MOST incredible and well-made video I’ve seen in a long time. Wow. Wow. Wow🔥
It takes the slander they throw at us every day and runs it until the slander breaks. The people who actually filled the trains never dropped a warning, never opened a corridor, never paused a war to keep someone else’s children alive.
The @IDF who the haters keep dressing in that uniform does the entire list they just invented for a ghost.
You simply MUST watch this.
Credit: @stephenpowell33
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There are several main thrusts to the genocide libel.
- One is Amnesty calling it a genocide even though they admit they have changed the definition of genocide to accuse Israel of it.
- One is an ‘independent UN report’ by three UN workers with a history of anti Israel activism which hasn’t been adopted by the UN.
- One is the ‘genocide scholars’ even though anyone (you don’t even have to be a scholar) can join the genocide scholars organisation and only 28 per cent of the 500 members voted in what was seen as a political hijacking.
- And finally you have South Africa and others bringing a genocide case at the ICJ. Nations behind this such as Ireland have pushed for the definition of genocide to be changed. The court has said it will allow the case to be heard even though Palestine isn’t a country and it’s being brought by a third party leading to confusion that this is a ‘plausible case’ for genocide rather than the more complicated idea that South Africa can plausibly bring this case.
In plain terms: Palestinians have a plausible legal right, under the Convention, to be protected from genocide, and South Africa has a plausible right to bring the case. That is all the word “plausible” referred to.
The Court did not find that it was plausible Israel was committing genocide.
In contrast you have facts.
If Israel intended to commit genocide of the Palestinian people (and intent is the key word in the genocide definition) it would not have fed them, given them polio vaccinations, moved them to humanitarian zones when it tried to fight Hamas etc and there would be many, many, many more dead.
That’s why you have these 6000 experts and genocide scholars saying it not a genocide.
The genocide libel against Israel was started in the 1960s by the Soviets to attack America and Israel. It was pushed though the USSR via the UN and now trips off the tongue of antisemites everywhere who don’t understand that genocide is different to war. Antisemites and ignorants who basically want to call a people who were victims of an actual genocide, genociders to appease their guilt, steal Jewish victimhood, dismantle the case for Israel and label Jews the new Nazis.
I am happy to join 6,000 prominent scholars, legal experts to sign a letter rejecting Gaza genocide charge. jpost.com/israel-news/articl…
include historian Niall Ferguson, Israeli historian Benny Morris, Holocaust historian and former US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt, Tel Aviv University professor emerita and former Yad Vashem chief historian Dina Porat, historian and author Simon Sebag Montefiore, UCLA professor Judea Pearl, and Brandeis University professor emeritus Jonathan Sarna.
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This is simply false. There was no documented “day one” offer by Hamas to release all the hostages “unconditionally.”
Contemporary reporting describes negotiations over exchanges: Israeli women and children for Palestinian terrorists, and later broader releases in return for pauses, additional terrorist prisoners and other concessions. Nothing was unconditional.
I say this as a hostage family member who served as an international envoy for the hostage families and was privy to some of the discourse behind closed doors with relevant stakeholders. Those conversations concerned negotiations, conditions, categories of hostages and concessions, not the simplistic narrative you now declare “well established and proven.”
Hamas did not even treat many civilian men as civilians. My brother-in-law, Omri Miran, was a civilian father kidnapped from his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, in front of his wife and two little girls. He was held for 738 days, physically tortured, deprived of food and water, and psychologically abused.
Hamas used Omri and other beautiful human beings as bargaining chips: women, children, the elderly, civilian men, soldiers, Israelis and foreigners. Taking civilians hostage is a war crime, and captured soldiers cannot lawfully be held as hostages to coerce concessions either.
There is plenty to criticise about the Israeli government’s conduct, including decisions made during negotiations, even if those were ultimately decisions for a democratically elected government to make. Hostage families have hardly been silent about them, and many of us still demand accountability and the establishment of a national commission of inquiry.
But none of that transfers responsibility from the perpetrators: Hamas and its accomplices, and the state actors that funded and sponsored their activities.
That is what makes your rhetoric so repulsive. You erase Hamas’s agency, recast conditional negotiations as an unconditional “offer to release them on day one,” and shift responsibility from the hostage-takers to the society they attacked.
Hamas kidnapped these people, categorised them according to their value, demanded concessions for them, abused them and held people like Omri for years.
Turning that into “Israel refused to save them because it wanted vengeance” is not an established fact. It is an inversion of perpetrator and victim that sanitises Hamas’s responsibility for one of its most grotesque crimes, a distortion you have pushed in bad faith since the war Hamas launched on October 7.
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Before becoming a Labour MP, John Healey farted about, studying social science at university, working in journalism, disability rights campaigning, and as a campaigns director for the Trade Unions Congress. In what way is he even remotely qualified to be Chancellor of the Exchequer? Zero credentials, zero experience, zero legitimacy.
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One of the best videos of @ACTBrigitte answering questions from pro-Palestinian activists.
She doesn’t back down. She doesn’t play politics. She answers with facts, history, and conviction.
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Remember the peaceful majority were irrelevant.
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NAZA, Hebrew military shorthand for "collateral damage," is a documentary about AI-assisted targeting and the civilian-casualty thresholds calculated before Israeli strikes in Gaza.
Yuval Abraham, co-director of NAZA, did an interview on Israeli TV with veteran investigative journalist Raviv Drucker.
The interview was a disaster for Abraham.
0:00 He got a 25-minute ovation before anyone could scrutinize the film's claims
0:27 Confronted with his use of anonymous sources and missing evidence, Abraham deflects
2:10 Drucker explains to Abraham that journalists don't report things that they can't verify
2:57 Abraham admits that he did not verify all of the cases behind the film's claims of mass civilian deaths
4:01 Abraham acknowledges Hamas uses human shields—but his film does not investigate the issue in depth.
5:06 Did the film distort “I enjoyed the work”?
5:55 Drucker notes that a central claim—Israel bombed buildings with no terrorist targets—is “simply not true”
7:07 Drucker notes that Abraham minimized October 7 and the hostages; Abraham tells him to "Make your own film"
8:01 Did the anonymous sources ever see the finished film?
8:15 Asked whether any source wanted to retract, Abraham refuses to answer
8:57 Abraham admits that he did not compare Israel's conduct with other armies, then attacks Drucker for asking
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אחד מסיפורי התעמולה הכי מוכרים של הפלסטינים הוא הסיפור של הינד רג'אב- כביכול ילדה עזתית בת 6 שנהרגה עם משפחתה מאש צה"ל במלחמה. אין הוכחה לכך שזה קרה מאש צה"ל, תחקיר צה"ל הראה שכוחות צה"ל לא היו כלל בטווח הירי בזמן הזה ובכל מקרה צה"ל עושה הכל כדי להימנע מפגיעה באזרחים ולעולם לא פוגע בהם במכוון.
אבל כל זה לא מעניין את התעמולה הפלסטינית שמהדהדת את הסיפור בעולם, ואפילו מציגה לראווה ברחבי אירופה את הרכב בו הינד הייתה בזמן שזה קרה. רק שיש בעיה אחת- בכל מקום מוצג רכב אחר... אבל לא אכפת לאף אחד, העיקר להאשים את ישראל ברצח עם נכון?
לעומת התעמולה הפלסטינית, לנו בישראל יש מציאות אמיתית וכואבת עם עובדות שניתן להציג- מאות כלי רכב שרופים ופגועים בהם נרצחו ונשרפו חיים מאות ישראלים תמימים כולל ילדים קטנים, באופן מכוון ושיטתי במהלך יום אחד בשבעה באוקטובר.
האמת חזקה יותר מכל תעמולה שקרית שמהדהדים בעולם!
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One of the biggest propaganda victories in modern history was convincing millions of people that Palestine was basically a frozen civilization: an ancient Arab population sitting in the same villages for a thousand years until, one day, foreign Jews suddenly showed up from Europe.
It’s an astonishingly dishonest version of history.
Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. Its population was never frozen in time. People, including Jews, Arabs, and others, migrated throughout the region, settled, moved, intermarried, and crossed boundaries that were nothing like today’s national borders. Arabs came into Palestine from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and elsewhere, just as people moved out of Palestine and throughout the wider region.
Yes, Arabs lived in Palestine before modern Zionism. So did Jews. And yes, much of the later Arab population boom came from natural increase.
But somehow Palestinian ancestry gets treated as if it comes with a 1,000-year certificate of authenticity, while a Jew whose people originated in that exact land is automatically branded a “foreign settler.”
And the irony is incredible: an Arab can immigrate to America or Europe and immediately call himself American, British, French, or German. Yet a Jew can return to the land where the Jewish people originated, where Jewish civilization was born, and where Jews have maintained a continuous presence for thousands of years, buy land, build a house, and somehow he is still the “foreign settler.”
It’s a political mythology built around one ridiculous rule:
Every Arab is presumed indigenous, no matter where he immigrates to.
Every Jew is presumed foreign.
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Hi @jonstewart no, no there is not a genocide in Gaza. No those that define genocide have not decided it to be. No court or tribunal. No Israel is not trying to kill a group slowly. I've been to Gaza 7 times since October 7. Interviewed every Israeli leader in their chain of command. Observed the IDF in operations in Gaza. Their intent and actions is the opposite of trying to destroy in whole or part a group. @JohnFetterman is right. I am more than happy to talk this with you from any angle that you might have. Thank you for what you've done for American veterans and their families. But on this one, not correct. xitter.cf/SpencerGuard/status/19…
🇮🇱🇵🇸 Jon Stewart called Gaza a genocide.
Fetterman disagrees, saying the Jewish community already lived through a real genocide.
Stewart pointed to the reported deaths: roughly 1,200 Palestinians killed since the ceasefire.
But Fetterman didn’t hesitate:
“Yeah. That’s necessary. It’s entirely appropriate to eliminate [Hamas].”
It's the clearest statement yet of where he stands.
Writer: Val
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At this point if you still claim Israel is committing genocide in Gaza you are either stupid and ignorant or antisemitic.
The antisemitic version usually means applying a double standard on the definition of genocide and the laws of war just to delegitimize Israel’s existence or right to pursue legitimate goals in a war it did not start or/and dehumanize every IDF soldier as a monster.
I have tried to argue basic definitions. Genocide requires intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such, in whole or in part. The evidence does not show that intent toward the people in Gaza. What it shows is the opposite. Israel has taken extraordinary steps, often at real cost and risk, to prevent civilian harm while fighting an enemy that hides among them, uses hospitals and schools as bases, and treats its own people as props in an evil grand political strategy of martyrdom to eliminate all jews on the planet.
In the middle of the fighting Israel has let in huge amounts of food, hundreds of thousands of tons, sometimes more than the world food specialists said was needed. Water lines from Israel have stayed open, three of them supplying tens of thousands of cubic meters a day. They have coordinated repairs, kept desalination plants running by sending fuel and even electricity to key ones, and allowed generators so water systems, hospitals and bakeries can keep working. Medical supplies and equipment have poured in by the tens of thousands of tons. Field hospitals coordinated. Patients have been evacuated for treatment outside. When polio showed up for the first time in decades Israel halted fighting every day and worked with WHO and UNICEF on a mass vaccination campaigns. Over a million doses given. That is not how you try to wipe out a people.
Then look at the misinformation machine. Almost every big claim about Israel deliberately targeting journalists or medical staff or children falls apart, and a lot of the time it falls apart because of what Hamas itself admits, sometimes before anyone even finishes basic fact checking. The “journalists” killed for example. Plenty of the names on those lists later show up in Hamas or Islamic Jihad martyr posts as actual operatives or commanders. Dual roles are common in Gaza’s information space. Same with medical workers. People mourned as nurses or doctors get claimed later by the terror groups as fighters. Hospitals have been used as command centers and weapons storage over and over. Hamas officials have even said it out loud at times. Manuals found on how to use the hospitals as Hamas military sites.
The casualty numbers and the “they are targeting children” stories. The Hamas health ministry figures get treated like gospel, yet their own underlying data and later admissions undercut every trending statistic. Combatants get left out or reclassified. Claims of IDF snipers or drones hunting kids usually fail basic reality of sci-fi sniper drones that don’t exist or injury patterns coming out of the same hospitals.
These stories do not need years of investigation to collapse. Often Hamas’s own words or the available evidence do the job within days or weeks. But the first maximalist version is what spreads and sticks and then gets used to accuse the whole country of Israel and its army of genocidal intent.
It is not illegal or wrong to target and destroy your enemy in a war, especially one that started with a massacre, held hostages, and fights from inside the civilian population it claims to protect. Gaza is an awful war with awful conditions, conditions shaped heavily by Hamas’s tactics. That does not make it genocide. The aid that kept flowing, the vaccination campaigns, the water and power facilitation, and the way the propaganda claims kept falling apart all point the other direction. If you ignore all of that and still yell genocide the explanations left are ignorance or a double standard aimed only at Israel. But this entire stupid campaign every war in history is a genocide.
If you actually want to engage in the debate of "intent" or actions in Gaza, see earlier writings:
"I’m a War Scholar. There Is No Genocide in Gaza," xitter.cf/SpencerGuard/status/19…
"Israel Is Not Committing Genocide: Exposing the Distortion of Law and Truth," with @Ostrov_A
xitter.cf/SpencerGuard/status/19…
"Israel's Aid to Gaza Is Historically Unprecedented," xitter.cf/SpencerGuard/status/19…
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Destroying buildings is not genocide. Warning people that you’re going to destroy their buildings before you do, is definitely not genocide. Stopping the war when we got our hostages back shows it never was genocide. Targeting and taking out people who murdered, raped and abducted our fellow citizens is justice, not “ongoing” genocide. The famine that never happened is not genocide. Taking quotes out of context does not prove genocide. And for all of you who continue to lie about this and treat it like it’s just a simple fact like the color of the sky? You are justifying the harming and killing of Israelis and Jews. You’ve chosen the wrong side.