Das ist Batya Holin, eine israelische Agrarwissenschaftlerin, die in einem Kibbuz nahe dem Gazastreifen lebt.
Sie liebt die Fotografie. Sie nahm Kontakt zu einem jungen Fotografen im Gazastreifen auf, der scheinbar ihre Leidenschaft für Frieden, Koexistenz und Fotografie teilte.
Er schickte ihr Bilder aus dem Leben in Gaza, während sie ihm Aufnahmen vom Alltag auf der israelischen Seite des Grenzzauns sandte.
Er sprach von seiner Liebe zum Frieden und zum Zusammenleben und schrieb ihr:
„Ich hoffe, dass dieses Projekt das gegenseitige Verständnis, die Lebensqualität und die Sicherheit auf beiden Seiten des Grenzzauns verbessern wird.“
Ihre gemeinsamen Fotografien wurden in Israel und weltweit veröffentlicht und galten als Symbol für Frieden, Hoffnung und friedliches Zusammenleben. Sie standen beinahe täglich miteinander in Kontakt.
Am 7. Oktober hörte Batya, wie Hamas-Terroristen in ihren Kibbuz eindrangen. Sie versteckte sich in ihrem Schutzraum. Plötzlich erhielt sie einen Anruf von ihrem Freund aus Gaza.
Er wollte wissen, wo sie sich befand und ob die israelische Armee bereits vor Ort sei.
In diesem Moment begriff sie, dass der Mann, mit dem sie jahrelang gesprochen hatte und der ihr von Frieden und Koexistenz erzählt hatte, offenbar mit der Hamas zusammenarbeitete, um sie und ihre Familie ermorden zu lassen.
Batya legte sofort auf.
Später sah sie Fotos des angeblich friedliebenden Fotografen aus Gaza, der verletzt worden war, nachdem er sich am Massaker vom 7. Oktober beteiligt hatte.
Mahmoud wurde später als einer der rund 300 Männer aus Gaza identifiziert, die in den Kibbuz Kfar Aza eindrangen und sich am schlimmsten Massaker an Juden seit dem Holocaust beteiligten.
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Credit @GadSaad@RabbiPoupko
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🔖 ⬇️ Und jetzt stellt euch vor, ihr erlebt eines Tages genau das.
Was, wenn der Freund, der heute öffentlich die Kinder in Gaza beklagt, Israel für alles verantwortlich macht und euch moralisch belehrt, morgen wissen will, wo ihr seid? Nicht, um euch zu helfen. Sondern um euch und eure Familie aufzuspüren und zu töten.
Wie würdet ihr euch fühlen, wenn ihr begreift, dass euer Vertrauen euch beinahe das Leben gekostet hätte?
In Ireland, a Push to Boycott Israeli Pharmaceutical Company Teva
by Hugh Fitzgerald
Teva Pharmaceuticals is the Israeli company that is the largest producer of money-saving generics in the world. Now some people in Ireland want its products to be boycotted. If successful, and Teva is no longer a supplier, that will cost the people of Ireland close to $400 million a year.
Read more at the link in the next post.
When History Stops Being a Warning
The larger ramifications of the rapid advance of Democratic Socialism in the United States.
by Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff
The blue wave that swept across America this week has left me deeply uncomfortable. Not because the Democrats won. That’s democracy. People go to the polls, cast their votes, and sometimes the result is one we don’t particularly like. I can live with that, even when I profoundly disagree with the political direction the voters have chosen.
What I find much harder to live with is the enthusiasm surrounding the victories, the almost gleeful celebration of political developments that remind me of things I have seen before. At least five members of the Democratic Socialists of America, an organization with a caucus that openly calls itself Marxist-Leninist, are on their way to Congress, and when she won her primary in June, one of them, Claire Valdez of New York, said: “We have declared that this movement is durable.” I believe her. And I cannot help wondering whether those celebrating have any idea why people like me find this so troubling.
I spent four formative years in America during the Reagan era, when communism was not some distant historical curiosity. We learned about it in school. We watched the news from Moscow and Eastern Europe. We knew about the Berlin Wall, about people risking their lives to escape communist countries, and about the fundamental difference between a society in which the individual was free and one in which the state determined the limits of that freedom.
In November 1988, I stood in East Berlin. I had crossed from West Berlin into a world that could hardly have been more different, and what I saw confirmed everything I had learned. I still vividly remember bustling West Berlin, the Kurfürstendamm with its sparkling lights in the dark November nights, and then, on the other side of Checkpoint Charlie, the drabness, the grayness and the palpable despair of a destroyed society. I decided then and there that I did not want to live in a society governed by socialism. Not now, not ever. I have never forgotten that experience.
Nor have I forgotten Iran.
I was there during the Iranian Revolution of 1979, as a child of seven. I watched a country undergo an ideological transformation, and only years later did I learn how it had come about, with leftists and Khomeini’s followers united in their opposition to the Shah. Their common enemy brought them together, but it did not mean they shared the same vision for Iran’s future. By 1983 the Communist Tudeh party was banned and its leaders were in prison, and in 1988 — the same year I stood in East Berlin — thousands of political prisoners were executed, leftists among them.
These experiences shaped my political convictions long before I had ever heard of Friedrich A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, or Murray Rothbard. When I eventually encountered their writings, I found an understanding of individual liberty that made perfect sense to me. Hayek, in particular, understood liberty as freedom from arbitrary coercion, with government constrained by the rule of law rather than empowered to direct people’s lives according to some grand political vision. Having witnessed what happens when those constraints disappear and the individual becomes subordinate to an ideology, his arguments resonated with me immediately.
That is why I find the current enthusiasm so difficult to understand.
America has been home to generations of people who fled communism, religious persecution, and authoritarian governments. They came because America represented something different. It offered the possibility of living without the state or a religious authority dictating every aspect of their lives. And yet I now watch Americans celebrating political ideas and alliances without asking the questions whose answers history has already taught us.
I am not suggesting that every Democrat is a communist, or that every Democratic victory is a step toward totalitarianism. That would be far too simplistic. What concerns me is the growing acceptance of socialist ideas, the attraction of communism among some on the left, and the willingness to overlook fundamental ideological differences in pursuit of political power.
Perhaps what troubles me most is the apparent absence of historical memory. We seem increasingly willing to judge political movements by what they promise rather than by what comparable movements have done when given power.
And that brings me to the question I cannot shake.
What happens when people no longer recognize the warning signs? What happens when they celebrate political developments without considering where those developments might lead? And what happens when they finally recognize the danger, only to discover that reversing course has become extraordinarily difficult?
I am not angry that Americans voted differently from how I would have liked. What I feel is apprehension about what lies ahead, rooted in experiences I cannot simply set aside.
Having seen East Berlin and lived through the Iranian Revolution, I know how profoundly political systems can change and how easily freedoms once taken for granted can disappear.
For much of my life, America represented the place to which people could flee when freedom disappeared elsewhere.
But what happens if America itself ceases to be that place?
Where will people go then?
Kitty Werthmann, an Austrian emigrant, answered that question years ago, and I have been quoting her ever since: “After America, there is no place to go!”
Brahim Aouissaoui, the Tunisian illegal migrant convicted of murdering three people in the 2020 Islamist terrorist attack at Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice, France, has appealed his life sentence.
On October 29, 2020, Aouissaoui entered the basilica armed with a knife and murdered three worshippers and church workers.
His victims were:
• Nadine Vincent, 60, who was nearly decapitated.
• Simone Barreto Silva, 44, a Franco-Brazilian mother who was stabbed 24 times and died after escaping the church.
• Vincent Loquès, 55, the church sacristan and father of two daughters, whose throat was slit.
Born in Tunisia in 1999, Aouissaoui entered Europe illegally by boat, arriving on the Italian island of Lampedusa on September 20, 2020.
Despite receiving an order to leave Italy, he traveled through the country and reached Nice on October 27, just two days before the massacre.
During his trial in Paris in February 2025, he admitted committing the murders but declared:
"I am not a terrorist, I am a Muslim."
He justified the killings as revenge for Muslims killed by the West, arguing that revenge was a right.
When questioned about decapitating a woman, he described beheading as a symbolic act intended to frighten people.
On February 26, 2025, a special criminal court in Paris sentenced him to life imprisonment with an irreducible minimum term, France's harshest criminal punishment.
Judges cited his extreme dangerousness, lack of remorse, and continued risk of committing further violence.
Six years after the massacre, his conviction is now being challenged on appeal.
A Pakistani boy once told the Muslim Women's Network that his community "shares" girls:
“My mate called me and said ‘Bro I have a surprise for you, come over to this house.’ When I got there 15 of them were sitting in the living room. My mate told me to go upstairs for my surprise.
"When I went into the bedroom, another friend was doing this girl. The lads went up one by one and took turns and while they were waiting they were calling their mates, cousins and uncles to come over and join in and showing off.
"Others turned up too including two older men who were taxi drivers, who went straight upstairs. One older man said I am going to call my son over so he can practice on her and later his 15-year-old son arrived in his uniform.
"Everyone took turns and it took 6 hours. I did get concerned and said, ‘the girl is going to get broke, who will marry her?” The girl is not paid but she gets looked after, she is given food and the boys make sure she gets home safely if it gets late.
"There are set days Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays but some of my friends don’t like doing stuff like that on a Friday because it is Juma (holy day) and they go mosque.”
Pimping a girl out to your cousins and children is the norm in Pakistani communities in Britain.
You do not understand these people. We cannot share a country with them. They all have to go.
I am aware of tolerance but not sure they are! From a group of people with a belief system who... Hate dogs, hate gays, hate Jews, hate Christians, hate people who drink alcohol, hate anyone who eats pork, hates your pub, hates music, in some cases hate each other, they hate you and hate me but we bow down to this nonsense? This is suicidal empathy!
A view of the bus destroyed by a bomb in the London bombings, July 7, 2005. Photo taken July 8, 2005. Four explosions killed 52 people and injured nearly 800 others, orchestrated by four British Muslims.
Three terrorists separately detonated three homemade bombs in quick succession aboard London Underground trains in Inner London. Later, a fourth terrorist detonated another bomb on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. The train bombings occurred on the Circle Line near Aldgate and at Edgware Road and on the Piccadilly Line near Russell Square.
Apart from the bombers, 52 people from 18 countries were killed and nearly 800 were injured in the attacks. It was the UK's deadliest terrorist incident since the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 near Lockerbie and the UK's first Islamist suicide attack.
The explosions were caused by improvised explosive devices made from concentrated hydrogen peroxide and pepper, packed into backpacks. The bombings were followed two weeks later by a series of attempted attacks that failed to cause injury or damage.
The 52 victims were of diverse backgrounds. All were UK residents, including exchange students. The majority lived in or near London. Their ages ranged from 20 to 60 years old, with an average age of 34.
Thirty-two victims were British born, while one victim each came from Afghanistan, France, Ghana, Grenada, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mauritius, New Zealand, Nigeria, Romania, Sri Lanka and Turkey. Three victims were Polish nationals, while one victim was a Vietnamese-born Australian and one held dual American-Vietnamese citizenship.
Seven of the victims were killed in the tunnel between Liverpool Street and Aldgate stations, six in the tunnel between Paddington and Edgware Road stations, 26 in the tunnel between King's Cross and Russell Square stations and a further 13 on the bus at Tavistock Square.
The four suicide bombers were later identified as:
Shehzad Tanweer, aged 22. He lived in Beeston, Leeds, occasionally working in his parents' fish and chip shop on Lodge Lane. He detonated his bomb first, on the number 204 train. Eight people, including Tanweer, were killed by the explosion.
Mohammad Sidique Khan, aged 30. The ringleader of the four bombers, he also lived in Beeston, Leeds, with his wife and young child. He worked as a learning mentor at a primary school. Khan was the second to detonate a bomb, on the number 216 train, killing seven people, including himself.
Germaine Lindsay, aged 19. He lived in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, with his pregnant wife Samantha and young son. His was the third bomb to be detonated, on the number 311 train. The blast killed 27 people, including him.
Hasib Hussain, aged 18. He lived in Leeds with his brother and sister-in-law. Hussain detonated his bomb last, on a bus. Fourteen people, including him, died in the explosion in Tavistock Square.
Tanweer, Khan and Hussain were British-born sons of Pakistani immigrants, and Lindsay was a convert born in Jamaica.
Charles Clarke, Home Secretary when the attacks occurred, described the bombers as "cleanskins", a term describing them as previously unknown to authorities. On the day of the attacks, all four had travelled to Luton, Bedfordshire, by car.
Lindsay arrived at Luton railway station just after 5:00 a.m., while the other three left Leeds around 4:00 a.m. and arrived at the train carpark at approximately 6.50 a.m.; all four entered the station at 7:15 a.m. and boarded a Thameslink train which left for London at 7:25 a.m. (the initial official account wrongly gave this departure time as 7:40 a.m.) They were filmed on CCTV arriving at King's Cross station just before 8:25 a.m. and were seen hugging soon afterwards before heading towards the Tube.
Two of the bombers made videotapes describing their reasons for becoming what they called "soldiers". In a videotape broadcast by Al Jazeera on 1 September 2005, Mohammad Sidique Khan described his motivation. The tape had been edited and mentioned al-Qaeda members Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, describing them as "today's heroes". Khan's tape said:
I and thousands like me are forsaking everything for what we believe. Our drive and motivation doesn't come from tangible commodities that this world has to offer. Our religion is Islam, obedience to the one true God and following the footsteps of the final prophet messenger. Your democratically-elected governments continuously perpetuate atrocities against my people all over the world. And your support of them makes you directly responsible, just as I am directly responsible for protecting and avenging my Muslim brothers and sisters. Until we feel security you will be our targets and until you stop the bombing, gassing, imprisonment and torture of my people, we will not stop this fight. We are at war and I am a soldier. Now you too will taste the reality of this situation.
The tape continued:
...I myself, I myself, I make dua (pray) to Allah ... to raise me amongst those whom I love like the prophets, the messengers, the martyrs and today's heroes like our beloved Sheikh Osama bin Laden, Dr Ayman al-Zawahri and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and all the other brothers and sisters that are fighting in the ... of this cause.
On 6 July 2006, a videotaped statement by Shehzad Tanweer was broadcast by Al-Jazeera. In the video, which may have been edited to include remarks by al-Zawahiri, Tanweer said:
Your government has openly supported the genocide of over 150,000 innocent Muslims in Falluja... You have offered financial and military support to the U.S. and Israel, in the massacre of our children in Palestine. You are directly responsible for the problems in Palestine, Afghanistan, and Iraq to this day. You have openly declared war on Islam, and are the forerunners in the crusade against the Muslims. ... What you have witnessed now is only the beginning of a string of attacks that will continue and become stronger until you pull your forces out of Afghanistan and Iraq. And until you stop your financial and military support to America and Israel.
Tanweer argued that the non-Muslims of Britain deserve such attacks because they voted for a government which "continues to oppress our mothers, children, brothers and sisters in Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq and Chechnya".
A Gazan woman cries on camera over the tough situation, then—unaware the camera is still rolling—bursts into laughter and trades high-fives with her laughing family over fooling the world.
American Journalist SHATTERS the Biggest Myth About Islam
Islam is not merely a personal faith, but a comprehensive political and legal system that explicitly rejects core principles of Western liberal democracy.
While Western audiences are repeatedly told “Islam is a religion of peace,” classical Islamic law includes punishments for apostasy, blasphemy, homosexuality, and adultery—punishments that remain enforced in multiple Muslim-majority countries today.
These are not extremist distortions. They are mainstream interpretations upheld by state-backed religious authorities in places like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, and Qatar.
The media’s refusal to acknowledge this reality has allowed a false narrative to flourish—one that equates any examination of Islamic doctrine with racism, despite Islam being an ideology followed by people of many races.
The term Islamophobia has become a rhetorical weapon, not a descriptor. Its purpose is to shut down debate about Islamic ideas.
No other belief system enjoys this level of insulation. Christianity, capitalism, socialism, feminism, and even atheism are all subject to harsh criticism in mainstream media. Islam, however, is treated as uniquely fragile—so fragile that facts themselves are labeled “hate.”
This double standard has serious consequences. When journalists self-censor, the public is deprived of informed discussion. When politicians refuse to acknowledge doctrinal realities, policy failures follow—particularly on issues of integration, free speech, and women’s rights.
Women’s Rights: The Uncomfortable Reality
One of the most striking points raised was the status of women under traditional Islamic law. In many Islamic legal systems, a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man. Inheritance laws favor male relatives. A husband may divorce his wife unilaterally, while women face significant legal hurdles.
Again, these are not fringe interpretations. They are codified law in numerous countries and justified explicitly through religious texts.
Western activists often blame “culture” or “colonialism” for these practices, but Islamic jurisprudence itself is the source. Pretending otherwise does not help Muslim women—it silences them.
Criticism Is Not Hatred
Criticizing Islam is not the same as attacking Muslims.
WARNING ⚠️
Christians beheaded by Islamic extremists in Nigeria.
There is a genocide of Christians happening across Africa and the media IS FUCKING SILENT
I couldn’t make this up if I tried.
Only in a deeply confused world can two billion Muslims be portrayed as an oppressed minority while 16 million Jews are painted as the aggressors.
Only in a deeply confused world can a Jewish state smaller than New Jersey, surrounded by dozens of Muslim-majority countries, be labeled a colonial power.
Only in a deeply confused world can Jews be told they don’t belong in the countries where they live, only to be called colonizers in the land from which they originated.
Only in a deeply confused world can Jews be accused of controlling the world while simultaneously being told they have no right to control their own destiny.
Only in a deeply confused world can the Jewish people’s desire for national self-determination be condemned by people who champion that very right for everyone else.
Only in a deeply confused world can a growing population be labeled the victim of genocide.
Only in a deeply confused world can an army that warns civilians of impending attacks be accused of indiscriminate killing.
Only in a deeply confused world can a country that has facilitated the delivery of massive quantities of humanitarian aid be accused of deliberately starving the civilians receiving that aid.
Only in a deeply confused world can a Jewish state where all three major religions enjoy legal protections for freedom of worship, and where roughly two million Arabs hold citizenship, be branded an apartheid state.
Only in a deeply confused world can people who claim to champion liberal values openly support a religion that violently persecutes people for exercising those very freedoms.
Only in a deeply confused world can people who champion LGBTQ rights march in support of people who throw LGBTQ individuals off rooftops.
Only in a deeply confused world can people who claim to defend women’s rights excuse or dismiss sexual violence committed against Jewish women.
Only in a deeply confused world can the deliberate kidnapping of children and elderly civilians be described as resistance rather than terrorism.
Only in a deeply confused world can people demand a ceasefire while refusing to demand the disarmament of the terrorist organization that started the war.
Only in a deeply confused world can people deny atrocities that the perpetrators themselves filmed and broadcast for the world to witness.
Only in a deeply confused world can one of history’s most thoroughly documented genocides, the Holocaust, be denied while its survivors still walk among us.
Only in a deeply confused world can attacking a synagogue thousands of miles from Israel be justified as resistance against Israeli government policy.
Only in a deeply confused world can Jewish students be harassed, threatened, and intimidated on university campuses by people who claim to stand against hatred and discrimination.
Only in a deeply confused world can countries welcome millions of migrants, witness serious failures of integration and rising extremism at the hands of those migrants, and still refuse to acknowledge the problem for fear of appearing intolerant.
Only in a deeply confused world can millions chant about a river and a sea they couldn’t identify on a map.
Only in a deeply confused world can acknowledging the dominant role of Islamist extremism in global terrorism be dismissed as racism.
Only in a deeply confused world can millions chant slogans calling for the elimination of Israel while claiming to stand for peace and coexistence.
Only in a deeply confused world can people demand accountability from a democracy while making excuses for a terrorist organization openly committed to its destruction.
Only in a deeply confused world can people condemn Israel for defending its borders while celebrating those who openly call for its destruction.
Only in a deeply confused world can the suffering of civilians become a global obsession when Israel is involved while atrocities elsewhere receive a fraction of the attention.
Only in a deeply confused world can people demonize an entire nation while benefiting every day from technologies developed by its people.
Only in a deeply confused world can the world’s oldest hatred be repackaged as a modern social justice movement and celebrated as progress.
Only in a deeply confused world can tens of thousands of terrorist attacks be accompanied by the chant of Allahu Akbar while the world pretends there is no pattern and it’s all just random attacks.
Only in a deeply confused world can millions stand in solidarity with a state that never existed.
Only in a deeply confused world can millions of people believe Palestine exists without the ability to say when it was established, where its borders are, who the prime minister was, what the currency is, or any other identifying factor that literally every country in the world has.
Only in a deeply confused world can so many people believe that all the Palestinians want is a state when literally every single leader of theirs has said that what they want is dead Jews.
Only in a deeply confused world can people claim that Jews have no history in a land where archaeological evidence has proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that Jews lived thousands of years ago.
Only in a deeply confused world can the United Nations pass more resolutions condemning Israel than all other countries combined.
Only in a deeply confused world can nearly a million Jews expelled from Arab and Muslim countries after 1948 be largely forgotten, while Palestinian refugees remain permanently politicized.
Perhaps the world isn’t just confused.
Perhaps it has lost its moral compass.
Just because so many people have lost their minds doesn’t mean you have to fall into their trap.
You were given a brain. Use it.
🚨 PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC SCHOLARS CALL FOR JIHAD TO CONQUER PARIS
From the MEMRI TV archives: Palestinian Islamic scholars preached that Muslim armies would crush Paris, dismantle its civilization, and establish an Islamic Caliphate.
They presented three choices for non-Muslims: convert to Islam, pay the “jizya” poll tax, or face death.
The speakers also claimes French citizens were converting to Islam every hour.
“They killed my mother for being too old to be a sex slave. They killed all my brothers for refusing to convert to Islam. I was raped and tortured every day for 6 months. That’s what life is like for non-Muslims in the Middle East.”
Where is UN Women?
This is Gaza today.
Thousands of “innocent” Gazans are at the funeral of a Hamas terrorist, many of them armed and calling for revenge.
Those are the people that the world calls the victims.
Victor Davis Hanson with the uncomfortable truth 🔥
“They ethnically cleansed almost a million Jews from Arab countries between 1948–1973.
No one talks about that.
But only the Palestinians still claim ‘refugee’ status 78 years later.
When Poland was recreated, 12 million Germans walked back to Germany. Two million died.
You don’t see Germans today waving keys to apartments in Danzig screaming ‘I’m a refugee.’
Cypriots lost 40% of their land to Turkey.
Jews from Damascus, Cairo, Baghdad, the Gulf — kicked out, property stolen.
None of them still play the eternal refugee card.
Israel left Gaza in 2005 with hundreds of millions in greenhouses and infrastructure.
What did they do? Looted it.
Took $40–50 billion in aid… and built rockets and 500 miles of tunnels instead of a real state.
We’re supposed to feel sorry for people who chose this path?”
History is not a buffet. You don’t get to pick only the victimhood that serves you. 🇮🇱