On This Day — June 9, 1953
Just 5 years after Israel’s independence, as the young state was still absorbing hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors & Jewish refugees from Arab countries, a brutal wave of terrorist infiltrations was already underway.
On this night, fedayeen terrorists (armed infiltrators from Jordanian-controlled territory) carried out coordinated attacks inside Israel.
In Lod, terrorists threw hand grenades and sprayed gunfire in all directions, murdering a resident in cold blood.
On the same night, another group attacked a house in Hadera.
These terror attacks on Israeli civilians were common even in the early 1950s. In fact, there were thousands of such infiltrations — shootings, stabbings, grenade attacks on homes, and ambushes on roads — targeting civilians across the country. Many came from bases in Jordan and Egypt.
This violence did not begin in 1967, or after any “occupation.”
It began the moment Israel declared independence — and even well before that.
The Jewish people, rebuilding after the Holocaust, were forced to fight for their right to live in their ancestral homeland from day one.
The more things change … the more they stay the same.
On This Day — June 9, 1941
The German Luftwaffe launched a major raid on Mandatory Palestine with 20 aircraft striking Haifa; and it was the Jews who were firing back at the Nazis.
Local Jewish volunteers who had only recently joined the Palestine Light Anti-Aircraft Battery fired their Breda guns at Nazi planes flying over the Land of Israel. The Jews were firing these guns for the first time ever, but scored hits on three German planes.
The forgotten Axis bombing campaign (1940–1942):
- Italy began bombing Mandatory Palestine in July 1940 (from bases in the Dodecanese Islands).
- The deadliest raid came on September 9, 1940, when Italian bombers hit civilian areas in Tel Aviv, killing 137 people (mostly Jews) in broad daylight.
- Vichy French aircraft even joined in, bombing targets in Mandatory Palestine.
The Axis hoped the raids would spark Arab revolts against the British and weaken the Yishuv. But they galvanized thousands of Jews to volunteer for the British Army, gaining critical military experience that would prove vital in 1948.
While London was enduring the Blitz, the Jews of Haifa and Tel Aviv were also under Axis bombs — a largely forgotten chapter of the war.
The Jewish defense of the Land of Israel had already begun years before the State of Israel’s independence.
Palestinians in Gaza are protesting against Hamas on June 26th.
I offer my full support to these souls who just want a normal life, and to live in peace, instead of being forced to live under a jihadist terror state.
The U.N. is now attempting to redefine antisemitism out of existence.
Through its most famous appointed expert, the U.N. is erasing the term's meaning as hatred of Jews.
U.N. member states—UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Australia—must condemn this disgraceful distortion.
.@BenCarrollMP you don’t get to lecture Victorians about standards in the public square
Your Govt spent years allowing the public square to be polluted by terrorist symbols, antisemitic abuse & calls for violence against Jews
The standard you accept is the standard you accept
Had your Govt enforced the law instead of making excuses, Victoria wouldn’t be grappling with a culture where antisemitism, racism & misogyny are increasingly normalised
I am a Zionist. Many people out there don’t seem to understand what a Zionist is - and what it isn’t - so here you go.
I believe in the existence of a Jewish home land, Israel, in the land of Judea, where it currently is.
As a Zionist, I do not automatically agree with or support everything the country does, nor do I automatically agree with every government, every politician, every decision.
As a Zionist, I am free to criticize policies and governments of Israel, just the same as I am to criticize the Canadian government or the American government or any other government.
I can believe that the Israelis who spit on Christians should be charged, and I do.
I can believe that the violence in Judea and Samaria needs to be stopped, and I do.
I can believe that every single Israeli, regardless of religion, who commits rape, should be tried and should face the harshest punishments, and I do.
I can believe that every single war crime committed by an Israeli should be prosecuted, and I do.
I can believe that Israel should be held to the same standards of every other nation, and I do.
The only things I don’t do, because I’m a Zionist?
Call for the destruction of the only Jewish nation in the world.
Hold them to a far higher standard than everyone else, just because they’re Jewish.
Spread false propaganda about them, just because they’re Jewish.
Because even though you pretend that’s “antizionism”, it’s just masking your true motives.
Jew hatred.
It’s not a case of a few Hamas terrorists moonlighting as journalists.
This was a systematic STRATEGY of passing off terrorists as members of the press.
And the press went along with it uncritically.
Meet the U.N.'s “independent human rights experts”: radical ideologues, fruitcakes, and nutcases. Funded by China, Russia, and Qatar. I couldn't make this up if I wanted to.
Israel just published a detailed dossier on UN bias in Gaza. Most people won't read it. Here's what's in it:
🔹 OCHA undercounted aid trucks entering Gaza by nearly 10,000 vs. Israel's own records
🔹 UNRWA staff participated in Oct. 7 — the UN called it "a few bad apples" and opened no serious investigation
🔹 The IPC famine report relied on an undisclosed dataset with measurements that exceeded anything in medical literature
🔹 UN Women ignored Israeli victims entirely
🔹 The Secretary-General blacklisted the IDF while staying silent on Hamas
This isn't Israel crying bias. It's a documented, agency-by-agency breakdown.
Read it yourself: https://t.co/QFnaukXbat
Watch how the cycle works:
1. An allegation is made.
2. Journalists report the allegation.
3. NGOs cite the reporting.
4. The UN cites the NGOs.
5. A strongly worded report is issued.
6. Everyone cites the UN report.
By the end, an unverified claim has been transformed into an accepted "fact" through repetition rather than evidence.
In 1948–49, amid violent anti-Jewish riots in Yemen, Israel launched one of history’s greatest rescues: Operation Magic Carpet.
Yemen’s 45,000 Jews faced annihilation after centuries of brutal persecution under Muslim rule — including the infamous Mawza Exile (1679), the Orphans’ Decree (forced conversion of Jewish children), pogroms, expulsions, and dhimmi humiliation.
Israeli planes airlifted nearly the entire ancient community — 49,000 people — to safety. Most had never seen an airplane before. Planes packed with 500–600 passengers flew them “on the wings of eagles.”Golda Meir greeted many on arrival.
Today, Yemenite Jews and their descendants thrive as doctors, soldiers, artists, rabbis, and leaders in Israel.
From 1,400 years of persecution to full equality in their ancestral homeland — in a single generation.
Israel exists and will continue to exist and no Jewish community will ever be trapped and marked for expulsion, forced conversion, or death again.
Inside a Queens, NYC high school, students are plastering propaganda comparing Israel to Nazis.
According to the IHRA definition, these comparisons are unequivocally antisemitic.
How did open Jew-hatred become acceptable classroom activism for teenagers?
https://t.co/flOI1gfbyC
The Palestinian cause rests on the doctrine that ancient Israel and Judah didn’t exist and that the Palestinians were the indigenous inhabitants of the land. But it was only the Jews for whom the land was ever their national kingdom, centuries before Islam was even created.
In other words, Collins was due to draw attention to historical evidence —proved by physical artefacts housed in the museum — that is held to be unsayable because it exposes the entire Palestine cause as a scam.