Founder of The Frusk and YTri Triathlon club, member of Jewish heavy metal one-man band TuKus MishPukuS, and still master of the lebanese half-turn heel kick.
24 years ago, the Palestinian propaganda machine invented one of its most notorious fake massacres — and (shockingly, I know) the world believed it instantly.
In the spring of 2002, suicide bombings had become almost daily events inside Israel. They reached their horrifying peak with the Passover Massacre on March 27, when a terrorist walked into the Park Hotel dining room in Netanya and murdered 29 people — many of them elderly Holocaust survivors.
Israel had had enough. On March 29, the IDF launched Operation Defensive Shield to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure in Palestinian cities that had become safe havens for Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
Nowhere was that infrastructure more entrenched than in Jenin — the self-proclaimed “suiciders’ capital.”
During the operation, the Palestinian "brand-Israel-as-war-criminals" routine immediately went into overdrive.
They screamed the IDF had conducted a “massacre” in Jenin - more than 500 Palestinians slaughtered in cold blood, they said.
The international media and the UN swallowed it whole. Headlines screamed about “Jenin: the new Srebrenica.” Demands for war crimes investigations poured in.
Then the truth slowly dribbled out.
The actual Palestinian death toll? Around 52, the vast majority of whom were armed terrorists. Oh, and roughly the same number of Israeli soldiers died clearing the camp house-by-house — because Israel deliberately chose the riskier ground-troop route to spare civilian lives instead of leveling the place from the air.
The “massacre” was a lie. A deliberate, coordinated lie.
This is the standard playbook in the anti-Israel propaganda war: invent a shocking atrocity, flood the media with it, let the world condemn Israel in real time … and by the time the facts prove it was fake, nobody cares anymore.
We saw the exact same pattern again in October 2023 at Gaza’s Al-Ahli Hospital.
Palestinian officials and their allies screamed that Israel had bombed a hospital and murdered 500 civilians (same false number claimed in Jenin 21 years earlier). World leaders rushed to condemn Israel. The libel raced around the globe.
Then the evidence emerged: it was a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket. No Israeli strike was involved, and the death toll was far lower. But by then, the damage was done.
Large parts of the international community love to tell and share the story of Jews as bloodthirsty killers. They buy it hook, line, and sinker - every ... single ... time.
I try to push the historically verifiable facts into the open, one post at a time; but I know, by sheer numbers, that I can never "win" this battle. The anti-Israel propaganda machine is too loud, too well-funded, and too massive.
But I can chip away at it, little by little, every day. Because the truth still matters. Even when the world would rather believe the lie.
My Demand for Arab League Members on Israeli Independence Day 🇮🇱
I, the Kuwaiti 🇰🇼, Jasem Aljuraid, address a bold demand directly to the members of the Arab League on the day of Israeli Independence.
I say it fearlessly and without hesitation: Enough with the inherited hatred and historical lies!
I demand the establishment of a living and open Jewish Quarter in every Arab League member state, especially the Gulf countries and all Arabic-speaking nations. I demand the full right of return for Jewish communities to the regions where they lived for centuries among us, with complete recognition of their memories and history. I demand the fair and transparent opening of the compensation file for the properties and livelihoods that were confiscated from the Jewish families who once lived among us.
This is not weakness or mere normalization — it is a sincere demand for historical justice. This is a decisive rejection of the ideological hatred we inherited from our fathers and grandfathers, and a true resetting of accumulated historical problems to zero.
On this Independence Day, let us turn remembrance into a genuine historic opportunity: Let us open a new covenant built on truth, reconciliation, and peaceful coexistence, instead of continuing the cycle of hatred and ruin.
The ball is now in the court of the Arab League and its members. Do you dare to take a bold step toward justice?
Jasem Aljuraid
Canada, April 21, 2026
@brjimc@JakeTurx It is literally called Dome of the Rock, rock being the foundation stone of the Jewish Temple. Al Aqsa comes from Bet HaMiqdas - the Jewish Temple.
So what better tribute than rebuilding the Beit Hamikdash in its rightful place.
@Kavanuchi_tm@danielkay39@IhabHassane Selective history...you forgot to mention all your wonderful Arab neighbors deciding to purge Israel of all Jews for the sake of their brotherly Arab love, and then losing.
@believer2255@koshercockney You also don't know much history, Spanish Jews returned in the 15th Century, European Jews started returning in the 17th Century. The largest Zionist immigration from Eastern Europe was in the 1920s. They all came without arms and conquest like you imagine.
@believer2255@koshercockney So by your logic if the English had colonised Rhodesia for 5 or 7 centuries all the people living there that identify as Rhodesians should be considered truly ethnic to the land and the people that return as original tribal inhabitants are the real colonizers.
In New Zealand, native Māoris protest against Islamic immigration and destroy the jihadist flag while performing the traditional Haka.
“New Zealand is Christian. Muslims are not welcome here!”
What we have here is not an apology, but a masterclass in moral posturing draped in the language of self-recrimination. Your regret over speaking at Tel Aviv University isn't a genuine mea culpa; it is a confession of ideological surrender to the most pernicious and ahistorical currents of our time.
To be clear: the "serious mistake" was not the speaking engagement, but the fleeting moment of intellectual courage that led you to engage directly with the society you so freely condemn. You admit that you "really wanted to speak to Israelis," a fundamentally decent impulse that you then proceed to flagellate yourself for, as if crossing a picket line of your own conscience. Your desire for dialogue was overridden, as you say, by "solidarity with Palestinians." In truth, it was overridden by a dogmatic adherence to the BDS movement, a campaign not aimed at ending an occupation, but at delegitimizing the very existence of a Jewish state.
You speak of hoping to explain to Israelis why you believe "Israel has committed genocide in Gaza." This is not a term to be tossed around as a casual provocation; it is the nuclear option of moral accusation, a grotesque trivialization of the very concept of genocide, which entails a specific intent to destroy a people. To wield this word against a nation defending itself from a terrorist organization that embedded its war machine within a civilian population is not a argument; it is a blood libel. Your subsequent coupling of this with the charge of "Jewish supremacy" reveals the true, hardened core of your worldview—one that recasts Jewish self-determination in its ancestral homeland as a form of racial privilege.
You lament not listening to your "Palestinian friends and interlocutors" enough, framing this as a failure. But true failure lies in listening to only one side of a tragic and complex conflict. The BDS guidelines you so remorsefully violated are not based on "human rights and international law"; they are a strategic tool for isolation, designed to prevent exactly the kind of direct engagement that might, however slightly, humanize the other side and complicate a simplistic narrative of oppressor and oppressed.
The greatest irony is your belief that you were going to Tel Aviv to "change minds." You have instead demonstrated the exact opposite: that your own mind is closed, captive to an ideology that values performative solidarity over the messy, difficult, and essential work of direct discourse. This wasn't a failure of judgment. It was a failure of principle, and your apology is an intellectual surrender that you mistake for a moral victory.
Peter Beinart’s latest apology reads less like a reflection from a public intellectual and more like the confession of someone trapped in a sadistic relationship. He’s not apologizing for the things any reasonable person might question: his reckless, evidence-free accusations of genocide; his flattening of seven million Israelis into a single malignant category; his immunity to Israeli suffering. No, he’s sorry for speaking at Tel Aviv University without first securing permission from the ideological authority to which he’s now thoroughly captured. The language: “solidarity,” “collective struggle,” “international pressure,” is the vocabulary of a person who has outsourced his moral compass. Morality, in this context, is not something discerned but something contingent on obedience.
And then there’s the career he has built atop this posture. Beinart has become a kind of idealized mascot for a certain segment of the anti-Israel world: Here’s a guy who wears a kippah and denounces Israel. Perfect. Book him on the podcast. Give him the op-ed slot. Invite him to panels, conferences, salons. Celebrate him precisely because he confirms their fantasies of the self-indicting Jew. The reward structure is obvious: condemn your own people loudly enough, and the invitations and checks will follow.
When you feed a wolf, he soon learns exactly where to find his next meal. Pete’s got the meat.
How many countries can Muslims and Arabs be indigenous to? The truth may shock you.
Put aside the fear of social backlash for a moment—here’s what plain common sense tells us:
It is beyond belief that two days after the anti-Semitic violence in Melbourne, the public was yet again forced to make way for the anti-Israel protestors in the CBD yesterday. Trams diverted from Swanston Street, all the rest. Let's remember this protest movement started on October 8, emboldened by the massacre of Jews that had taken place the day before. Yes, I know, many of those marching are good people who just want an end to the deaths of innocents. (Even if their outrage about dying innocents is very selective: because, to be fair, the media doesn't give a shit about dead kids in Yemen or Sudan either.)
But the core of the anti-Israel movement is not pro peace, it's pro war. So I'm not altogether unhappy about the "death to the IDF" chant or the "glory to the martyrs" schtick because at least their supremacist agenda is there for all to see.
And look, if they want to continue wasting their Sundays on trying to destroy the Jewish state from this comfortable distance -- you know what, fine. Freedom of speech, the great marketplace of ideas and so on. I have no objection to them marching up and down and doing their death chanting in some park in Coburg or wherever.
But why are they owed the keys to the city? To the forecourt of the State Library? Who decided to greenlight their annexation of public space? That's not freedom of speech; it's the ritual assertion of power and the awarding of special privileges to one group at the expense of the whole, of weekend shoppers, of businesses and so on. Of Jews who would rather avoid the incantation that Palestine will be Arab "from the river to the sea."
Listen to the way the protest organisers speak; their sense of entitlement. For instance, ahead of the Never Again is Now protest against anti-Semitism on the steps of Parliament last May one of the protest leaders -- Hash Tayeh-- announced on social media: "The Zionists have decided to have a pro genocide rally at our usual ending point of Parliament steps.. We will be at Parliament, holding our ground”. Sorry, it's THEIR ground?? Who gave it to them?
The State Government has indicated, among other redundant and far-too-late measures, that it will require organisations to sign a "social cohesion pledge" before receiving taxpayer funding. Meaning it hasn't been fussed about such a thing until now. Meaning until now it has happily handed out taxpayer funds to Islamists and anti-Semites.
The weekly protests in Melbourne's CBD must end. All the thugs who descended on Miznon must be charged. We need to know when, if at all, we might see arrests for the Adass firembombing.
You know what I also think? It's time to dismantle the fortresses around synagogues and Jewish schools and Jewish communal buildings. Time to dissolve the Jewish community's security group. Time to hand back security funding to the government. But this will put the Jewish community at grave risk, you say. Wake up: it's at grave risk now and assuming too great a burden for its own safety. It is time that risk becomes 100 percent the authorities' problem. Which other minority must pray and learn within fortified compounds?
As things currently stand the Jewish community has little reason for confidence in the State Government or in Victoria Police. (I'm being generous in that phrasing). As for the ideologically-biased Home Affairs Ministers deciding to show his face 20 months later.. well, that's enough for today.
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