Shawn

Matters of wisdom are beyond the grasp of a Stubborn Fool.

[New York Post @nypost]

More than 100 UNRWA staff helped Hamas carry out Oct. 7 attack: federal watchdog https://t.co/eKff6JlRLr

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

Must-See Speech: The brilliant, witty, and courageous French comedian and radio commentator @SophiaAram addresses the 2025 Annual UN Watch Gala Dinner upon receiving the organization’s 2025 Per Ahlmark Award. Geneva, June 12, 2025.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

If Israel didn’t have the Iron Dome, over a million civilians would have been killed in this war.

Iran doesn’t have an Iron Dome—yet the only ones being killed are IRGC officials.

That tells you everything.

[StandWithUs @StandWithUs]

🚨ISRAEL UNDER ATTACK:
Over 150 missiles were fired by the Iranian regime towards Israel since Friday evening (local time).

While Israel targets the Iranian regime’s military and nuclear program, the Iranian regime hits random Israeli homes and apartment buildings full of civilians.

This is the difference between a democracy fighting for its existence and a terrorist regime seeking death and destruction.

[Waleed Gadban @GadbanWaleed]

If you can’t see the difference by now, then there’s no point in explaining.

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

Hundreds of Pro-Palestine activists from 50 different countries, including Europe, Australia, UK, and the U.S. while on their pilgrimage to Gaza, their beliefs were put to test when they saw a side of the “paradox” they didn't expect. An Egyptian counter mob with one demand "get out". A Turkish parliament member, a pilgrim was seen bleeding after getting mobbed.

Egypt, (Most populated Arab country 100 million) is a main force behind Gaza blockade. But most of activists for Palestine are unaware of this fact.

They go on bleating “ceasefire now”, “Free Palestine”, “end the occupation”, “From the river to the sea”, “end the genocide”, “free Gaza”. But never said: “Open Rafah Boarder”!
Had they protested to pressure Egypt to open the border, the collateral damage or what they call “genocide” would have been significantly less. But their movement would have died without a powerful drive.

Hamas religiously sacrificed the population of Gaza under the UN watch yet, not one gathering to discuss removing the Egyptian blockade until the war between combatants is over, leaving hundreds of thousands of people mostly women and children trapped in what could be the most complicated battlefield in our modern history.

Anti Israel protests, human rights organizations, hypocrites, compromised politicians, hate groups, useful idiots, pro cause, feminists, communists, Islamists, LGBT, Hollywood, served Hamas a significant lifeline, lengthened the war and increased the pain of Gaza children but they failed to reach their goal, to make Israel surrender.

[The Free Press @TheFP]

Israeli journalist @HavivRettigGur: “Iran told Israelis publicly, ‘We’re coming to kill you.’

Opposition to this war… is done by people who think Israel is some kind of a moral cartoon—and not real people living in the real world and facing a real threat, facing real evil.”

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

This week has seen a major escalation in northern Israel with Hezbollah. And Tel Aviv received rockets for the first time in months.

Let’s do a recap - week May 26-June 1:

•12 rockets fired by Hamas from Rafah toward Tel Aviv and central Israel

•41 barrages of rockets and explosive drones fired by Hezbollah toward northern Israeli cities.

•6 explosive drones and 1 cruise missile launched by Iraq toward northern Israeli cities, including Eilat.

•3 barrages of rockets and drones fired by Hamas toward the Israeli-Gazan border.

That’s hundreds of projectiles fired at Israel in a week. This morning only, the North received more than 70 missiles in a few hours.

Both military and civilian sites were targeted over the weekend, with the city of Kiryat Shimona seeing both a supermarket and a military base being hit by missiles.

Since October 7, dozens of thousands rockets have been fired at Israel. Around 100,000 Israelis living in the North are still waiting to come home.

[Ottawa Citizen @OttawaCitizen]

McGill accuses pro-Palestinian protesters of harassment, intimidation https://t.co/cfx4Y2ysdP

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The world should be informed that Shani Louk’s body was found dumped in a tunnel in an UNRWA building in Gaza.

The UN must realize that UNRWA is beyond saving. It can’t be reformed, it must be disbanded.

[Leslie Roberts 🇨🇦 @MrLeslieRoberts]

@AHousefather Very disappointing. There are marches & protests weekly in our nation’s capital that require security.. @_MarkSutcliffe will you reconsider?

[CIJA @CIJAinfo]

Joint statement with @FederationCJA

HAPPENING NOW: An aggressive and physically intimidating mob is surrounding the Jewish community's central building in Cote-des-Neiges. The demonstrators are attempting to block access to the building and are harassing those trying to enter.

This is not about political views or a foreign conflict; it's an intentional intimidation of Jewish Montrealers.

The protests we've decried for weeks have escalated into a hate mob targeting Jewish institutions.

@SPVM are on-site. Arrests must be made. This cannot be tolerated on the streets of #Montreal. Calling for intifada, terrorism against civilians, is not peaceful protest.

The time for condemnations is over. Jews must be able to gather without the need for protection. We will never go anywhere again. Now we ask our leaders: what more needs to happen for you to grasp the gravity of the situation?

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

I can prove to you in one word that the alleged “Pro-Palestinian” protests worldwide are:

At best, anti-Israel based on ignorance;

At worst, wildly antisemitic and/or hatefully anti-Israel; and

The one thing they are NOT is “pro-Palestinian.”

That word?

Yarmouk.

Yarmouk was, only ~12 years ago, the Syrian city with the world’s largest Palestinian community. At least ~160,000 Palestinians lived there.

Once Syrian dictator and butcher Bashar al-#Assad got his grimy hands on Yarmouk, it wasn’t long before journalists were calling the city “the worst place on earth.”

Why? Several reasons; and I’ll tell you those reasons along with the world’s reaction to them. Then, you decide what that means.

On Dec 16, 2012, the Syrian air force bombed Yarmouk killing at least “dozens” of civilians (the real number may never be known). The streets of #NewYork, #LosAngeles, #Chicago, #Toronto, #London, #Paris, #Rome, #Dublin, etc.? All quiet.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians fled Yarmouk & were displaced without anywhere to go & without knowing if/when they may ever return.

For the Palestinians who stayed in Yarmouk, they could not possibly have imagined the #dystopian hellscape that awaited them over the next six+ years.

First, Assad enforced a brutal and complete one-year-long #siege on Yarmouk. He then continued that siege, only with a few exceptions, for another 5-6 years after that.

Were the streets of the world filled with protestors?

No.

There was no electricity in Yarmouk for a year, and very little electrictiy for the next five years.

No protests.

There was no piped water whatsoever in Yarmouk for a year, and very little drinkable water for the next five years.

No protests.

There was no access to or very minimal access to any food for a year & very little food for the next five years.

No protests.

Medical supplies were next to zero, as Assad did not want to risk them ending up in the hands of opposition fighters hiding in Yarmouk - Palestinian civilians be damned.

Even worse - after the initial fleeing of tens of thousands, the remaining Palestinians of Yarmouk were not allowed to leave the city - Assad made them stay there.

So, in the largest Palestinian city in Syria, Palestinian civilians were indiscriminately slaughtered, tens of thousands fled, and then Assad laid total siege to the remaining tens of thousands of Palestinians during which men, women, children, the elderly, the infirm, & babies were all forced to stay in Yarmouk without electricity, without water, with minimal access to food, and with little to no access to any medication or first aid of any kind.

And there were no #protests.

The number of Palestinians who died of malnutrition and the number of Palestinian women & their babies who died in childbirth during the siege is unknown to this day.

There was no worldwide outcry.

There was no push for real numbers of the dead and the suffering.

There were no protests.

There was near total silence.

Much has been made about the humanitarian corridors & humanitarian aide that Israel has allowed to flow into Gaza despite Hamas terrorists using the corridors to escape, and despite well over 50% of that aide being stolen by Hamas.

Well, in Syria, Assad refused to provide a humanitarian corridor; and he refused to allow humanitarian relief into Yarmouk.

The streets of the world?

Silent.

One Palestinian woman in Yarmouk described the scene:

“You couldn’t buy bread. At the worst point a kilo of rice cost 12,000 Syrian pounds (£41), now it is 800 pounds (£2.75) compared to 100 Syrian pounds (34p) in central Damascus. It was 900 pounds (£3.10) for a kilo of tomatoes … we used to eat wild plants. We picked and cooked them. In every family there was hepatitis because of a lack of sugar. The water was dirty. People had fevers. Your joints and bones felt stiff. My middle daughter had brucellosis and there was no medication.”

Silence. Deafening silence.

So many Palestinians in Yarmouk were dying from malnutrition that Yarmouk’s largest #mosque gave a religious decree (fatwa) that permitted the consumption of dogs, cats, and donkeys.

Shocking silence.

In 2014, testing on a random sample of Palestinians in Yarmouk showed 40% had typhoid.

Silence.

All 28 of Yarmouk’s schools were shuttered.

Silence.

Even after the initial total siege ended, the water supply was not restored. The city’s water pipes were damaged in fighting in September 2014 - leading to ~four more years during which Yarmouk’s Palestinians had to drink untreated groundwater.

Where were the protestors?

During and after the complete siege, Assad began a campaign of particularly heavy indiscriminate bombing of Yarmouk that saw civilians, including children on playgrounds, blown up. How many? We can say “thousands,” but we will probably never know how many for sure.

The world? Silent.

A #UN official anonymously admitted about Yarmouk, “Conditions are far worse than #Gaza … Palestinians always had dignity, hope, resilience. Now after four years of war I see people giving up. They find it hard to accept there are no options.”

Even the virulently anti-Israel commentator, #Mehdi Hasan, who recently lost his job for being too viciously anti-Israel even for #MSNBC (!) admitted in April of 2015:

“Let’s be honest: how different, how vocal and passionate, would our reaction be if the people besieging Yarmouk were wearing the uniforms of the IDF?”

By that point in time, Yarmouk was widely called the city with the “worst humanitarian crisis” since World War II.

But the streets of the world were not filled with protestors. There was barely a peep.

Meanwhile, many of the long-suffering Palestinians of Yarmouk started obtaining desperately needed medical assistance from what many may consider an unlikely source: Israel.

Starting in June 2016, the #IDF launched “Operation Good Neighbor” to help civilians in #Syria.

At first, #Syrians who could make it across the border were transported to #Israeli hospitals, and later Israel opened a field hospital close to the border since so many civilians started seeking Israel’s help.

One Palestinian from Yarmouk feared enough for her son’s life to seek help from “enemy” #doctors in Israel. When her son was treated with care and humanity and nursed back to health, she told journalists, anonymously for her own safety back home, “I used to see Israel as an occupying power, but not anymore. My whole opinion of Israel has changed.”

In total, Israel treated at least between 5,000-10,000 wounded and often starving civilians who crossed the border from Syria.

Israel even started a donation drive & collected supplies like toys, crayons, games, & candies for suffering children; and Israel got those donations across the border quietly, along with government-donated dire necessities like food, fuel, clothing, & baby care.

How many stood up to praise Israel for its humanity?

Very, very few. And outside the #Jewish world, almost none.

The worst of the dire situation in Yarmouk went on for more than six years.

In April of 2018, Yarmouk was being bombed twice every 90 seconds. By the end of that month, Al Jazeera estimated at least 60% of Yarmouk had been completely destroyed & an unknown number of Palestinian families were trapped under the rubble.

By May of 2018, journalists simplified it: “Yarmouk is gone” (see photo below).

How many pro-Palestinian protests in how many cities do you recall in April and May of 2018?

How many protests do you recall for the entirety of those six years from 2012-2018?

Sadly, for those innocent #Palestinian civilians who lived under the yoke of #dictatorship - whether #Assad or Hamas - their outrageously inhumane plight was almost entirely ignored by a disinterested world.

Yet, how many streets of how many cities across the world were already filled with protestors during the first days and weeks after the Hamas #October7Massacre of more than 1,200 #Israelis?

The streets worldwide were filled even before Israel had begun its counter-offensive to rescue the more than 240 hostages taken by #Hamas and to bring Hamas #terrorists to justice and forever end Hamas’ ability to make war on Israel.

What more evidence could anyone need?

The worldwide protests are all about being anti-Israel and/or #antisemitic.

They certainly are not about saving any Palestinians.

Sadly, when the #Palestinians have needed the world to save them from other #Arabs, nobody marched.

Only when #Jews are involved - that’s when the venom, the hate, the motivation, and the organization to protest and intimidate comes out.

#Education #Israel #Palestine

[David Collier @mishtal]

1. Hamas used hospitals but nobody saw anything.
2. Hamas used schools but nobody saw anything.
3. Approx 10% of UNRWA staff are tied to terror groups but nobody saw anything.

All the journalists & NGOs inside Gaza. Nobody saw anything.

We can believe nothing any of them say.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

The promise of #NeverAgain is not empty words that you can post and move on, it’s a commitment to the Jewish people that you would do all you can to prevent something like the Holocaust from happening again.

The Holocaust happened in living memory and yet it is still being challenged and reduced by some people. But it must not be. The Holocaust is not up for a debate. The antisemitism that has caused it is not up for a debate either.

We promise to remember.

We promise to never let it happen again.

[Maya Goldin @maya_goldin]

Quick reminder: Losing a war doesn't mean you're experiencing genocide. It just means you shouldn't have started the war in the first place

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

I Saw the Children Hamas Beheaded With My Own Eyes. "I examined the cadavers of the murdered and defiled; the corpses of the decapitated and immolated. I spoke with the victims of Hamas...witnesses to Hamas' express barbarity against women, children, girls, and infants, brutally violated in life, in utero and in death...Genocidal rape has no context." https://t.co/xA4y5LYKHQ

[Campaign Against Antisemitism @antisemitism]

“Dirty kyke”
“Jew food”
“Fucking Jew”

Is Roger Waters antisemitic?

Watch The Dark Side of Roger Waters now and decide for yourself.

Then add your voice at https://t.co/7F6c6M3nk1.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Here’s our story from Nov 17:

Israel investigates sexual violence committed by Hamas as part of October 7 horror https://t.co/iu31P4CbOG

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

Today is Jewish Refugees Day, when we remember the fate of 850,000 Jewish refugees forced out of Arab countries and Iran.

At the United Nations, UN Watch's @HillelNeuer asked Algeria, Egypt, Iraq and the others:

“Where are your Jews?”

We’re still waiting for an answer.