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[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

Two years after Israelis were hunted through the streets of Amsterdam, the Dutch answer is to ban the victims, not the attackers.

Alkmaar’s exclusion of Hapoel Be’er Sheva fans rewards those who threaten and incite violence and runs counter to the very spirit of sport.

This exclusion of Israelis comes amid a wave of antisemitic attacks in the Netherlands, fuelled by anti-Israel incitement from Dutch politicians and public figures.

Banning Israeli fans from attending the match, like boycotting Eurovision, is yet another stain on the Netherlands, as the country increasingly becomes one of the world’s leading hotspots for antisemitism.

[Ambassador Amir Weissbrod @AmirwWeissbrod]

An excellent meeting today of @IdoWolf1 Head of Israel’s Council of Oncology and Head of Oncology in Ichilov Hospital with Prime Minister @AndrejBabis and his Health Advisor Prof. Jiří Votruba, Head of Brno’s Masaryk Oncological Institute Prof Marek Svoboda, @MarekSvob , and MuDr. Hana Študentová from Olomouc Hospital Oncology Department.

We discussed increasing collaboration between @Israel and the Czech Republic 🇨🇿 on prevention , detection and treatment of Cancer including : rapid diagnosis, use of AI in cancer treatment , improving Breath Cancer prevention programs and other topics.

We will continue to enhance the cooperation between both countries on this important issue.

Thank you @AndrejBabis and health team for the fruitful meeting !

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On this day—October 12, 2000

The Ramallah lynching.

Two Israeli reservists took a wrong turn. Yossi Avrahami, a 38-year-old toy salesman, and Vadim Nurzhitz, a 33-year-old truck driver, were heading to their unit near Beit El in a civilian Ford Escort. They took a wrong turn and ended up in Palestinian Authority-controlled Ramallah.

PA police stopped them, but instead of turning them around, the officers took them to the police station in el-Bireh. Rumors spread that Israelis were being held there, and more than 1,000 Palestinians descended on the station and began calling for their execution.

They stormed the station, found the two Israelis and began beating, stabbing, and mutilating them. Aziz Salha later described entering the room: “We were in a craze to see blood … I saw an Israeli soldier sprawled on the floor … a knife lodged in his back … I removed the knife and stabbed him … I put my hand over his mouth … to strangle him.”

He then walked to the window, hands and shirt soaked in blood, and waved at the baying crowd below. An Italian television crew captured it, and broadcast the images to the world. One of the bodies was thrown from that same window, and the mob immediately started stomping on and beating him. The other man was shot and set on fire. Once they were unrecognizable as humans, the crowd dragged their bodies through the streets to Al-Manara Square for an impromptu celebration.

British photographer Mark Seager arrived in time to see a body being hauled by the feet, lower half on fire, head “a pulp, like a red jelly.” He reached for his camera, but the mob stormed him with punches. They smashed his equipment and shouted, “no picture.” He later wrote: “It was the most horrible thing that I have ever seen and I have reported from Congo, Kosovo, many bad places … There was such hatred … It was murder of the most barbaric kind. When I think about it, I see that man’s head, all smashed. I know that I’ll have nightmares for the rest of my life.”

A Palestinian police officer, Raed Sheikh, later admitted he took an iron pipe into the room and struck one of the still-living Israelis across the body and head. “The soldier began making a grunting noise.”

This was not “resistance.” It was a deliberate, ecstatic, public slaughter of two Israeli men who had taken a wrong turn, carried out in broad daylight by a Palestinian mob.

The image of Salha’s bloody hands became a defining photograph. Salha was later arrested, convicted of murder, sentenced to life, released in the 2011 Gilad Shalit deal, and finally killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza in 2024.

Decades later, Hollywood celebrities and other professional virtue-signalers put on red hand pins. They call it a “ceasefire” symbol. To anyone who lived through October 2000 or who otherwise knows anything about the history of the conflict, those pins are not ambiguous. They are a stylized recreation of the exact gesture a murderer used to show a cheering crowd the blood of the Jews he had just helped butcher. The useful idiots who wear them either do not know, or they do know and have decided the image is aesthetic. Either way, it is a disgrace.

[Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער @gidonsaar]

I was pleased to meet today in Tirana with Prime Minister of Albania @ediramaal.

Prime Minister Rama has led Albania continuously for 13 years, and in my opinion, is one of the most prominent and valued leaders in the world today.

He is a clear and courageous voice on the international stage. He is also a steadfast friend of Israel, who has stood by our side in challenging times. We greatly appreciate his commitment to Israel's security and his resolute stand against antisemitism and terror.

This was an in depth conversation about advancing relations between our countries, as well as about the situation in the Middle East and the Western Balkans.

Thank you, Edi, for your true friendship and for Albania's deep friendship with Israel! 🇮🇱🇦🇱

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

Another day, another BBC Arabic scandal.

Layla Bashar al-Kloub called terrorists “martyrs” and presented terrorists as journalists in BBC reporting.

Years of scandals. Years of excuses.

This is not journalism. It is an institutional failure.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

A BBC Arabic reporter who wrongly described terrorists killed in Gaza as “journalists” has a history of glorifying the murder of Jewish people, The Telegraph can disclose.

Layla Bashar al-Kloub has described Israel’s Jewish population as “terrorists” and asked Allah to “strengthen” a Palestinian TV presenter who had been labelled a Holocaust denier.

🔗: https://t.co/9i5ozJAC6G

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

Listen to Agam.
On October 7, Palestinian Hamas terrorists murdered her father and sister in her home. Then, at just 17, they dragged her into Gaza with her mother and two little brothers.
Gazan civilians surrounded and threatened them. A Palestinian schoolteacher held them hostage in his house. They were locked up in a mosque and in a school. A Palestinian crowd tried to lynch them as they were finally coming home.
Listen to what she survived.
#UNFORGO7TEN

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

⚠️WARNING: GRAPHIC AND UPSETTING FOOTAGE ⚠️

Agam Goldstein-Almog was 17. She says it at the start of the film, because the age is the point.

On the morning of October 7 her family was in the safe room at Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Her father, Nadav, and her sister, Yam, were murdered there. She was taken with her mother, Chen, and her brothers, Gal, 11, and Tal, 9, and driven into Gaza in her mother’s car.

She describes the trip. Civilians in Gaza banging on the windows. She told her mother they were going to rape her. The men in the car talked about marrying her off. She asked only that the four of them be kept together. They were. A schoolteacher who was also Hamas held them, after a tunnel, in an apartment, dressed as civilians so the street would not see Israelis. Fifty-one days.

Released on November 26, 2023, moved from car to car through a crowd she thought was going to lynch them, and home to a house with two of them missing.

That is the footage the argument always omits. This isn’t a leaflet. And it isn’t a border dispute. She was a 17-year-old taken from the room where her father and sister had just been killed, with two little boys, into a home in Gaza, by people the marches across London, Paris and New York still call resistance.

She’s the one narrating it. The film doesn’t need a caption.

[Aviva Raz Shechter🇮🇱 @AvivaRShechter]

To the members of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee: You became actors in the Theatre of the ABSURD!
Shame on You!

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

Dvir Karp was murdered by Palestinian Hamas terrorists in front of his children on October 7.

His final moments were spent protecting them.

A father until the very end. 🕯️

#UNFORGO7TEN

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

Dear Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶
Happy Independence Day!

Sincerely,
Israel 🇮🇱

@T_Obiang
@MCooperacion

[Ferit Hoxha🇦🇱 @HoxhaFer]

It was a particular pleasure to welcome to Albania and meet with my counterpart, Israeli Foreign Minister, Gideon Sa’ar @gidonsaar 🇦🇱🇮🇱

This year marks the 35th anniversary of Albania–Israel diplomatic relations, built on a profound and genuine friendship between our peoples, shared democratic values and mutual respect.

The unique and inspiring story of #Albanians who, at great personal risk, opened their homes and hearts and welcomed, sheltered, protected, and saved Jews during the Holocaust, guided by the enduring values of Besa and an unwavering commitment to human dignity, stands as a cornerstone of the deep friendship and partnership that unite Albania and Israel today.

Today, we reaffirmed our shared commitment, strong political will, and growing determination to further deepen our partnership. In this spirit, we signed the Albania-Israel Agreement on General Cooperation, an important milestone that opens new avenues for collaboration and elevates our bilateral relations to a new level.

The Agreement provides a comprehensive framework for enhanced cooperation across a wide range of fields, including security, technology and innovation, trade and investment, agriculture, culture and education, reflecting the breadth of our common interests and the significant potential of our partnership. It stands not only a testament to the strength of our relationship today, but also an investment in a future of closer cooperation, greater prosperity, and stronger ties between our two nations.

We also exchanged views on the #WesternBalkans, developments in the Middle East, and key global security issues, reaffirming our shared commitment to stability, dialogue, and international cooperation.

I reaffirmed Albania’s unwavering support for Israel’s security and our shared determination to combat terrorism, extremism, and antisemitism wherever they arise. At the same time, I underscored Albania’s firm commitment to peace, dialogue, and international cooperation as indispensable pillars of regional and global security.

Albania has been and will remain, a strong supporter of all efforts directed toward a comprehensive, just, and lasting peace in the Middle East. It is in this spirit that Albania joined the Board of Peace and has decided to to contribute concretly to international efforts, including through participation in the International Stabilization Force in Gaza.

The vitality of Albania-Israel relations is perhaps best demonstrated by the more than 100,000 Israeli visitors who chose Albania last year. Beyond being an impressive statistic, this is a powerful expression of the trust, friendship, and ever-deepening partnership that unite our two nations.

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Ishte një kënaqësi e veçantë të mirëprisja në Shqipëri dhe të takohesha me homologun tim, Ministrin e Jashtëm Izraelit, Gideon Sa’ar @gidonsaar 🇦🇱🇮🇱

Ky vit shënon 35-vjetorin e marrëdhënieve diplomatike Shqipëri-Izrael, të ndërtuara mbi një miqësi të thellë dhe të sinqertë midis popujve tanë, vlera të përbashkëta demokratike dhe respekt të ndërsjellë.

Historia unike dhe frymëzuese e shqiptarëve të cilët, me rrezik të madh personal, hapën shtëpitë dhe zemrat e tyre dhe mirëpritën, strehuan, mbrojtën dhe shpëtuan hebrenjtë gjatë Holokaustit, të udhëhequr nga vlerat e qëndrueshme të Besës dhe një angazhim i palëkundur ndaj dinjitetit njerëzor, qëndron si një gur themeli i miqësisë dhe partneritetit të thellë që bashkon #Shqipërinë dhe #Izraelin sot.

Sot, ne riafirmuam angazhimin tonë të përbashkët, vullnetin e fortë politik dhe vendosmërinë në rritje për të thelluar më tej partneritetin tonë. Në këtë frymë, ne nënshkruam Marrëveshjen Shqipëri-Izrael për Bashkëpunim të Përgjithshëm, një moment i rëndësishëm që hap rrugë të reja për bashkëpunim dhe i ngre marrëdhëniet tona dypalëshe në një nivel të ri.

Marrëveshja ofron një kornizë gjithëpërfshirëse për bashkëpunim të zgjeruar në një gamë të gjerë fushash, duke përfshirë sigurinë, teknologjinë dhe inovacionin, tregtinë dhe investimet, bujqësinë, kulturën dhe arsimin, duke reflektuar gjerësinë e interesave tona të përbashkëta dhe potencialin e rëndësishëm të partneritetit tonë. Ajo nuk është vetëm një dëshmi e forcës së marrëdhënies sonë sot, por edhe një investim në një të ardhme me bashkëpunim më të ngushtë, prosperitet më të madh dhe lidhje më të forta midis dy kombeve tona.

Gjithashtu shkëmbyem pikëpamje mbi #BallkaninPerëndimor, zhvillimet në Lindjen e Mesme dhe çështjet kryesore të sigurisë globale, duke riafirmuar angazhimin tonë të përbashkët për stabilitet, dialog dhe bashkëpunim ndërkombëtar.

Riafirmova mbështetjen e palëkundur të Shqipërisë për sigurinë e Izraelit dhe vendosmërinë tonë të përbashkët për të luftuar #terrorizmin, ekstremizmin dhe #antisemitizmin kudo që ato lindin. Në të njëjtën kohë, nënvizova angazhimin e fortë të Shqipërisë për paqen, dialogun dhe bashkëpunimin ndërkombëtar si shtylla të domosdoshme të sigurisë rajonale dhe globale.

Shqipëria ka qenë dhe do të mbetet një mbështetëse e fortë e të gjitha përpjekjeve të drejtuara drejt një paqeje gjithëpërfshirëse, të drejtë dhe të qëndrueshme në Lindjen e Mesme. Është në këtë frymë që Shqipëria iu bashkua Bordit të Paqes dhe ka vendosur të kontribuojë në mënyrë konkrete në përpjekjet ndërkombëtare, përfshirë me pjesëmarrjen në Forcën Ndërkombëtare të Stabilizimit në Gaza.

Gjallëria e marrëdhënieve mes Shqipërisë dhe Izraelit dëshmohet ndoshta më së miri nga më shumë se 100,000 vizitorët izraelitë që zgjodhën Shqipërinë vitin e kaluar. Përtej faktit se bëhet fjalë për një statistikë mbresëlënëse, kjo është një shprehje e fuqishme e besimit, miqësisë dhe partneritetit gjithnjë e më të thellë që bashkojnë dy kombet tona.

[Ron Dermer - רון דרמר @AmbDermer]

There are more Gazans alive today than there were before the October 7th attack. It’s a fakeocide, not a genocide.

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

As we commemorate the victims of the Hamas October 7 massacre, others celebrate the slaughter and call for intifada and jihad to spread worldwide.

A Fox News investigation exposes the coordinated anti-Israel campaign behind global protests.

Prewritten accusations. Coordinated slogans. Orchestrated disruptions. A calculated effort to hijack headlines, dominate the narrative and demonize Israel.

The hatred is loud. The coordination is documented.

https://t.co/fDVlicjpSe

[Carlos Abadi @NewSamawal]

A few years ago, antisemitism could cost you your job. Today, it earns you a Nobel Prize.

[Prime Minister of Israel @IsraeliPM]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

I condemn in the strongest possible terms the horrific terrorist attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which claimed the lives of 12 innocent people and injured hundreds more.

On behalf of the people of Israel, I extend our deepest condolences to the families of those murdered and our wishes for a full recovery to the injured.

Terrorism targets innocent people and seeks to spread fear and instability. It must be confronted with resolve.

Israel looks forward to a strong Middle East—one that stands united against threats, protects its people, and builds a future of security, cooperation, and prosperity for all the peoples of our region.

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

Act surprised: Mahmoud Abbas has canceled Palestinian elections yet again.

Elected in 2005 for a four-year term, he remains in power more than two decades later.

The excuses change. The president doesn't.

And somehow, the international community keeps buying it.

[Bernard-Henri Lévy @BHL]

À dire, répéter, marteler. Même si ça me coûte probablement très cher.

[Walid Abu Haya 🇮🇱 @WalidAbuHaya1]

Navi Pillay wasn’t awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for promoting peace or international law. She was awarded it because she is obsessively anti-Israel.
I know this firsthand. When she served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, I was part of Israel’s delegation in Geneva and responsible for liaison with her office and the Human Rights Council (2008-2013). Her obsessive bias against Israel was already clear then.
The official citation praised her “efforts to promote peace and international law.” But the Nobel Committee chair admitted that her leadership of the UN Commission of Inquiry, which declared Israel guilty of genocide in Gaza, was “an important part of the reasoning” for the award.
This is the same Navi Pillay who, before heading that inquiry, had already signed a manifesto calling to “Sanction Apartheid Israel,” written to President Biden demanding Israel be punished, and built a record of extreme bias against the Jewish state. When she learned she won, she immediately highlighted “the delivery of the report on Gaza, naming what’s happening there as genocide.”

This wasn’t about the rule of law. It was a political reward for obsessively targeting Israel.

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

When the world's jihadist terrorist organizations celebrate a Nobel Peace Prize, the award becomes a grotesque mockery of peace.

Hamas. Hezbollah. The Iranian regime's IRGC.

Let that sink in.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Islamic terrorist groups and their apologists celebrate Nobel for Pillay:
🔴 IRGC: https://t.co/TG1HsdjeEf
🔴 Hamas: https://t.co/D3C10NAmPU
🔴 Hezbollah: https://t.co/MpWmsIQEbc
🔴 Mehdi Hasan: https://t.co/woN8gRRJ17
🔴 Trita Parsi: https://t.co/icLmnQw8cd

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

A Nobel Prize for hating Israel: The last thing the award to Navi Pillay will do is promote the cause of peace.
https://t.co/wps66RaYOg

[Tammy Rahamimoff-Honig @RahamimoffTamar]

Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. Now their suffering is being weaponized to demonize the one Jewish state at pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Stockholm.

This is Holocaust distortion. This is a desecration of the victims’ memory. This is wrong on so many levels.