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[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

The UN accused Israel of genocide, and one of the 3 commissioners behind that accusation just admitted, in front of a live audience, that they never independently verified one of the most explosive statistics in their own report.

Chris Sidoti insisted that his commission conducts independent investigations and doesn't simply rely on media reports.

Except paragraph 21 of their official genocide report claims that 83% of those killed in Gaza were civilians. The footnote cites The Guardian.

When asked whether the commission had actually verified that figure, Sidoti admitted:

“No, we didn't… we literally do not know.”

Now watch how this works.

The Guardian publishes a statistic. The UN cites The Guardian. TIME and other media orgs then repeat the statistic while reporting on the UN's genocide findings, giving readers the impression that they're looking at an independently established fact.

The media quotes the UN, the UN quotes the media, and somewhere along the way a newspaper's claim gets transformed into an authoritative finding of international investigators.

This is how information gets laundered. Each new citation adds another layer of credibility without necessarily adding a single piece of independent evidence.

But the commissioner himself admits they never verified the number.

We're talking about an official UN report accusing the Jewish state of the gravest crime in international law, circulated around the world as authoritative evidence, while one of its own authors acknowledges that they literally do not know whether a central statistic they published is accurate.

How many other claims in that report have been through the same process?

[Iona Italia, PhD 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @IonaItalia]

Courtesy of @JerryBarnett.

[Grok @grok]

A 14-year-old Israeli boy was killed and about 24 others (mostly students and teachers) injured on a northern Israel school trip on Oct 12 when an unexploded Hezbollah cluster munition detonated after being handled. Israeli military sources link it to prior Hezbollah fire. BBC has published no report on it.

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

Screenshots shared on X showed a decline in online mentions of phrases like "Free Palestine" and "genocide" after Russia's Yandex data centre was hit with Ukrainian drone strikes.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Let that sink in: Arabs have more rights in Israel than in any Arab country.
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[Senator Leo Housakos @SenatorHousakos]

Taking terrorists at their word while holding the only democracy in the ME to impossible standards. What could possibly go wrong?

The only acceptable response to this ongoing farce is to withdraw recognition of the Palestinian state.
https://t.co/AYAKK4lbtE

[Toronto Police @TorontoPolice]

News Release - Suspect Sought in Assault Investigation at a Demonstration, Yonge Street and Grosvenor Street area, Images Released
https://t.co/Zyfy9JDCuE

[J @Jblue76]

@mitch6669 Why did he attack?

[Jeff Cunningham @cunninghamjeff]

Who was first? Palestinians or Jews? The answer is not 'either or'.

In the Egyptian Museum in Cairo stands a slab of black granite carved around 1208 BCE. Its hieroglyphs celebrate the victories of the pharaoh Mernepta: “Israel is laid waste; his seed is not.”

The display makes no mention that more than three thousand years ago, an Egyptian king who knew nothing of the Hebrew Bible recorded that a people called Israel was living in Canaan.

The modern pro-Islamist claim that Jews are latecomers is historically false. Numerous ancient records refute it.

Around 840 BCE, King Mesha of Moab carved a stone boasting of his war against Israel and naming the Israelite king, Omri.

A ninth-century BCE inscription found at Tel Dan refers to the “House of David.”

In 701 BCE, the Assyrian king Sennacherib recorded his siege of “Hezekiah the Judean” in Jerusalem.

These records are written by people with every reason to ignore Israel, that confirm that an Israelite and Judean people lived in the hills of Canaan for centuries before Rome existed.

The second claim is that Palestinians are an ancient people of the region, even older than Israel. This also fails.

The word Palestine is truly old, but it never referred to the people who carry that name today. Herodotus used Palaistinē in the fifth century BCE, and it comes from the Philistines, a seafaring people who arrived on the southern coast around 1200 BCE.

A 2019 study of ancient DNA from Ashkelon, published in Science Advances, found that the Philistines brought European-related ancestry with them, and that within two centuries it had been absorbed into the local population.

The Philistines disappeared after Babylon destroyed their cities around 604 BCE. Rome revived their name in about 135 CE, after crushing the Bar Kokhba revolt, and renamed the province of Judea as Syria Palaestina.

The Arab armies came in the 630s CE, some 1,800 years after Merneptah’s scribe carved the word Israel. They brought new rulers, a language, and a religion, and over the centuries most of the population adopted all three. What we call the distinctly Palestinian national identity arrived much later.

The Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi, no friend of Zionism, dates its emergence in his book Palestinian Identity to the late Ottoman period and the early twentieth century.

Under the British Mandate, “Palestine” was attached to any group that lived in the region, including Christians, Muslims, and Jews, that the country’s leading English-language Jewish newspaper was called the Palestine Post.
It became the Jerusalem Post in 1950.

Modern genetic studies show that both Jews and Levantine Arabs, including Palestinians, carry substantial similar ancestry from ancient populations.

But historically, the Jewish people have an independently documented presence in that land going back more than three thousand years. Palestinians are, in large part, Arab descendants of the land’s long-term inhabitants, but their national identity is about a century old.

As to the claim of who lived in the land first, between Jews and Palestinians, the answer is not close.

Anyone who stands on a campus and calls the Jews of Israel foreign colonizers in their ancestral home is arguing with a granite slab in Cairo that names a Judean king in Jerusalem nearly 1,300 years before Muhammad was born.

Stones never lie.

[David Collier @mishtal]

In 1920 people from Ilford were telling Jews to go back to Palestine.

In 2026 people from Ilford gather in London to tell Jews to get out of Palestine.

Different century - same message: "You do not belong."

Antisemitism is what it is.

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

From a Toronto voter:

"I can't believe this is happening. At 8:15 am Saturday October 10, I witnessed this person taking down Bradford signs at the corner of Bathurst and Briarhill. I spoke to them and demanded they stop. They continued. I called the police, but it is low priority to them. The person hid in a park, changed their shirt and went back to an apartment building on the NW corner of Briar Hill and Bathurst. I cannot believe that this is going on. Photos attached." #topoli

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

If you ask the average Gazan if they want Israel flattened, they would without hesitation say yes.

If you ask the average Israeli whether they want Gaza flattened, they would immediately call you an extremist and walk away.

If you ask the average Arab living in Ramallah whether he thinks Jews should be able to walk around freely, he might actually physically assault you.

If you ask the average Israeli whether he thinks Arabs should be able to walk around freely, he would look at you confused and ask you why that’s even a question.

If you ask the average Arab in Jenin whether he wants all Jews dead, his response would be “obviously“.

If you ask the average Israeli whether he wants all Muslims dead, he would probably report you to the police.

If you ask 99% of Israeli society whether they want peace with their neighbors, they would not even understand the question because the answer is obviously yes.

If you ask the average Arab whether they want peace with Israel, again, they would probably physically assault you and call you a dirty Zionist.

If you ask the average religious Israeli what he wants for his children, he would tell you how he wants them to grow up and make the world a better place.

If you ask the average religious Muslim what he wants for his children, he would tell you that he wants him to die as a shahid, but not before killing as many Jews as possible.

If you ask the average Israeli how he thinks his country should be run, he would respond that he wants a liberal democracy with freedom for all.

If you ask the average Muslim how he thinks his country should be run, he would say Sharia law.

If you go to an average Israeli march or protest, you will see many people waving flags, singing songs, and embracing.

If you go to an average pro-Palestine march or protest, you will see violence, anti-Semitic chants, and a whole lot of hate.

If you hear a Christian saying “Praise the Lord“, you say “Amen”. If you hear a Jew saying “Baruch Hashem”, you smile. If you hear a Muslim saying “Allah Akbar”, you better run for your life.

If you ask a person who identifies as Palestinian to show you any history of his people, any archaeology, any inventions, any proof that Palestine ever existed, he would either call you names or actually assault you.

If you ask an Israeli to show you any history of his people, he will show you deep roots, endless contributions to the world, Nobel prizes, and breakthroughs in every area of life.

Tell me again who is the obstacle to peace.

Tell me again who is responsible for all the chaos in the West today.

Tell me again who is guilty of genocide and apartheid.

You’ve been duped.

Radical Islam is hands-down the most serious challenge to the continuity of Western civilization.

Wake up.

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

🔥 RARE MOMENT OF TRUTH AT UNITED NATIONS: As world leaders used the UN podium to condemn Israel, we invited courageous Yemeni journalist @JustLuai to tell the truth: “Our problem in the Middle East is neither Israel nor the Jews. It is the Islamist dictatorships.”

[Iris @streetwize]

Mia Schem was a Drake fan. She listened to his music, admired him and even received clothing from his brand. Then she heard him say: “Pray for Gaza.”

For Mia, those words landed very differently.

Mia was shot and kidnapped from the Nova festival on October 7 and dragged into Gaza, where she spent 55 days in Hamas captivity. She says the wife of the man holding her sometimes fed her only once every two or three days, while his children would taunt her with food and then refuse to give it to her.

“They treated me like an animal in a cage.”

Mia says she initially believed that perhaps the women and children around her would show some humanity. Instead, she says she saw hatred being taught from childhood: “They teach the children from the beginning to hate, to become terrorists and to glorify death.”

Her friend Elia Toledano was kidnapped from Nova as well. He never came home alive.

So when Mia heard Drake’s message, she says she was shocked. And she had something to say to celebrities who speak so confidently about a reality they have never lived: “People don’t understand anything. They follow what other people say, like sheep.”

“I was kidnapped from my country and taken to Gaza. I know how they treated me there.”

That is the part Drake and every celebrity turning Gaza into a slogan should hear.

Mia does not know Gaza from TikTok, hashtags or celebrity activism. She knows it because she was dragged there wounded, held hostage, starved and tormented.

Before preaching to the world about Gaza, listen to the woman who was actually taken there against her will.

Her testimony matters more than any celebrity slogan.

Credit : Ynet
Photo credit : Dana Kopel

[The Greasy Walrus of Monte Cristo @Beaf333]

When you go to the store and pay HST you are paying for this.

When you get your paycheck and taxes are deducted, you’re paying for this.

When you buy gas and pay excise tax, you’re paying for this.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

On Wednesday, I traveled to the Pnyx, a hillside overlooking the towering columns of the Acropolis in Athens.

There, I delivered a simple message: The West is at a crossroads. The decisions we make in the next decade will define the next century.
https://t.co/G91uSBHY6H

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

We believe that the West can awaken from its long slumber – and rekindle the fire that was first lit in ancient Greece millennia ago.

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

There is something oddly comforting about Secretary Rubio mounting a defense of Western Civilization on October 7th.

[Brad Bradford @BradMBradford]

Complete the sentence: Toronto is a city where…

[Vince Gaetano @VinceGaetano]

This 24 second video of a simple question during Tonight’s @UWGreaterTO debate could be the turning point of the Mayoral Election.

Hope to achieve the city’s potential versus a street festival.

I encourage you to get out of your homes and vote this week or Oct 26th.
#govote