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[Trisha Posner @trishaposner]

🚨 In a Madrid public school, 10-year-old children were dressed as Hamas terrorists — military gear, balaclavas, toy rifles — performing a pro-Palestinian play glorifying “resistance.”

Spain’s Ministry of Education is now investigating whether the school violated the “political neutrality” required of public schools.

Say what?

Spain needs an investigation to determine that something has gone deeply wrong when a public school turns 10-year-olds into props in a Middle East conflict they can barely understand?

Spain should be asking not whether this crossed a line, but how the line disappeared altogether.
#antisemitism

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

The Gaza war was fought with proportionality, outstanding protection of civilian life, and was started by Hamas.

[Ella Ke @EllaTravelsLove]

This is Egypt’s border with Gaza. Did you even know it existed?

Did you know Egypt has refused to open its border and has kept Gaza under blockade since 2007?

So why didn’t Gaza attack Egypt on Oct 7th, but only targeted Israel?

Hint: Jihad. Always aimed at "infidels" (non Muslims).

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

This is inversion so callous it's hard to believe.

The Holocaust had a survival rate of about 30%. Millions of people disappeared from European cities and towns over several years. Everybody knew because it was happening all around them.

Gaza has a survival rate, despite the worst and most deadly and horrible periods of the war, of 97%.

All the dead Jews were noncombatants. A large percentage of the dead Gazans were combatants.

And the Jews of Europe, even as their millennia-old civilization was being systematically wiped out, wanted nothing from the societies that surrounded them except to be allowed to live in peace.

Gaza's leadership of religious fanatics, meanwhile, wants every last Israeli dead and gone, is willing to fight to the last Gazan to achieve that aim, has said so publicly and worked for decades to blow up every peace attempt -- and even now believes that Gaza's destruction would be a worthwhile sacrifice to lay on the altar of Israel's destruction, because their god told them so.

So Israelis can reasonably believe, given those features of the Gaza war that aren't true about any genocide ever, and were pretty much the opposite of what was happening in the Holocaust, that Gaza's suffering is a bad and painful war, but not remotely a genocide.

But the point of it all, of course, is not to analyze Gaza, but specifically to lump it together with the Holocaust -- to cast the Jews as the new Nazis.

The only reason this person would dare to make such an insanely ahistorical and immoral parallel is because this is the heart of the bigoted propaganda campaign in which he enthusiastically participates: The point of it all is to make the Jews into the Nazis.

A culture that obsessed about Jews being evil and was then shocked by the Holocaust into obsessing about dead Jews as the apotheosis of righteous victimhood is now obsessively engaged in knocking Jews off that moral pedestal they themselves put them on.

That's why they don't care one whit about Hamas massacres of Gazans, about genocidal wars in Syria or Yemen (even when they've funded and armed the sides), about flotilla activists currently held by the Libyans...literally nothing triggers a response except Jews.

They still, even after all these generations, no matter what else is happening in the world or in their own societies, can't stop thinking about Jews.

And as we Jews learned in the 1940s -- the actual, historical 1940s, not the weird fantasies conjured up by these bigots -- a whole society can be in the grip of a callous, destructive bigotry and still believe it is true and righteous.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

BREAKING: Hezbollah has killed a United Nations soldier in Lebanon by launching two rockets at them.

The world should be outraged. Instead, we will hear either attempts to blame Israel, or total silence.

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

*WHEN A FLY FALLS INTO A CUP OF COFFEE . . .*

*The Italian –* throws the cup, breaks it, and walks away in a fit of rage.

*The German –* carefully washes the cup, sterilizes it and makes a new cup of coffee.

*The Frenchman –* takes out the fly, and drinks the coffee.

*The Chinese –* eats the fly and throws away the coffee.

*The Russian –* Drinks the coffee with the fly, since it was extra with no charge.

*The Israeli –* sells the coffee to the Frenchman, sells the fly to the Chinese, sells the cup to the Italian, drinks a cup of tea, and uses the extra money to invent a device that prevents flies from falling into coffee.

*The Palestinian –* blames the Israeli for the fly falling into his coffee, protests the act of aggression to the UN, takes a loan from the European Union to buy a new cup of coffee, uses the money to purchase explosives and then blows up the coffee house where the Italian, the Frenchman, the Chinese, the German and the Russian are all trying to explain to the Israeli that he should give away his cup of coffee to the Palestinian so there will be peace.

[Shurat HaDin - שורת הדין @ShuratHaDin]

What if the people investigating Israel were being funded by the exact same regimes that benefit from condemning it?

A new report by UN Watch examined 13 UN Special Rapporteurs and alleges patterns of ideological bias, conflicts of interest, and foreign funding linked to China, Russia, and Qatar.

One of the most striking examples involves UN envoy Alena Douhan, whose office reportedly received $1.3 million from China, Russia, and Qatar. After visiting Iran, she publicly condemned Western sanctions on the regime as illegal.

This raises serious questions about the transparency and credibility of international bodies like the UN that routinely pass judgment on Israel.

For years, Israel has faced scrutiny from institutions that claim neutrality while repeatedly applying double standards against the Jewish state. The world has a right to know whether politics and foreign influence are shaping the very reports used to condemn Israel on the global stage.

The question is simple: can institutions funded by authoritarian regimes be trusted to judge democratic nations fairly?

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#UnitedNations #IsraelBias #HumanRights

[Acción y Comunicación sobre Oriente Medio - ACOM @ACOM_es]

Lo que veis en esta imagen es antisemitismo en estado puro.

Un crimen.

Dos mujeres humilladas y expulsadas por llevar una Estrella de David.

Esto no es una opinión política.

Es un delito gravísimo.

ACOM no va a parar hasta que haya condena.

[Don't Look Away @ExposingHamas]

Yesterday we marked the day of the Dolphinarium club bombing, one of the most brutal suicide bombings in Hamas’s history.

The attack murdered 21 and wounded 120 more. Many of them teenagers.

On the night of June 1, 2001, a Hamas suicide bomber arrived at the entrance to the Dolphinarium club on Tel Aviv’s beachfront. The club was crowded that night, with many young people waiting outside to enter.

At 11:27 p.m., the terrorist detonated an explosive device while standing among the crowd. The bomb contained high explosives and metal fragments designed to cause mass casualties.

The attack murdered 21 people and wounded 120 others. Seventeen of the victims were killed immediately, while four later died from their wounds.

The bombing was carried out during the Second Intifada and became one of the deadliest suicide attacks of that period. Hamas was later identified as responsible for the attack.

The Dolphinarium bombing remains one of the clearest symbols of the deliberate targeting of Israeli civilians during that wave of terrorism the Palestinians caused, after refusing peace.

[Shukri Hamk 🇦🇺 @Yazidisto]

Asia is a young Yazidi woman who was kidnapped by ISIS at just sixteen.
For ten years she endured repeated rape, multiple sales as a slave, torture, and being forced to wear a burqa.
She was finally rescued from Turkey and joyfully reunited with her surviving relatives from the Yazidi Genocide.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

In less than 150 seconds, this video completely exposes the entire "Free Palestine" Nazi movement.

This must go viral.

[Diana Liefveld @dac12]

Op deze dag — 1 juni 1950

Terwijl de as van zes miljoen vermoorde Joden nog steeds over Europa neerdwarrelde, ontving een van de belangrijkste architecten van de Holocaust een gloednieuw paspoort van het Internationale Comité van het Rode Kruis.

Onder de valse naam Ricardo Klement kreeg Adolf Eichmann — de man die de deportatietreinen naar Auschwitz, Treblinka en andere vernietigingskampen organiseerde — een ticket naar de vrijheid.

Hij vluchtte naar Argentinië, leefde een teruggetrokken bestaan, werkte in een metaalfabriek en later voor een bedrijf dat de gunst genoot van de nazi-sympathiserende president Juan Perón. Zijn familie voegde zich in 1952 bij hem. Jarenlang leefde hij openlijk en zonder berouw, terwijl de wereld verderging.

Dit was onderdeel van de beruchte "rattenlijnen". Het Rode Kruis, elementen binnen het Vaticaan en anderen hielpen duizenden nazi-oorlogsmisdadigers – Franz Stangl (Commandant van Treblinka), Josef Mengele ("Engel des Doods"), Klaus Barbie ("Slager van Lyon") en vele anderen – aan de vervolging te ontkomen door naar Zuid-Amerika te vluchten.

Eichmann werd uiteindelijk in 1960 door de Mossad gevangengenomen, in Israël berecht en op 1 juni 1962 geëxecuteerd – precies 12 jaar nadat dat Rode Kruis-paspoort was afgegeven.

De les is duidelijk: toen Joden werden opgejaagd en vermoord, liet een groot deel van de "beschaafde" wereld hen in de steek – en hielp vervolgens hun moordenaars te ontsnappen.

Daarom moet Israël altijd blijven bestaan. Joden leerden dat wanneer het moorden begint, "humanitairen" de moordenaars nieuwe paspoorten zullen geven in plaats van hen te stoppen.

Israël is de enige garantie dat er, wanneer Joden worden opgejaagd, een plek voor hen zal zijn – en een plek die terug zal jagen.
Via @CptAllenHistory

[Pink4IRAN @pink4iran]

🥀🪽Fatemeh Abbasi was sheltering protesters and closing the door of her home on January 9 in Isfahan.

Islamic Republic forces shot her in the neck.

The bullet left her paralyzed.

After two months of pain and suffering, Fatemeh died on March 12.

She tried to protect people seeking safety.

The regime followed them to her doorstep.
#فاطمه_عباسی

[Iris @streetwize]

🛑A Hotel in Germany to Israelis: "Jews are not allowed to stay at our hotel”

Israelis who tried to book a room at a hotel in Bavaria , Germany through
Booking. Com were shocked to receive a blatant anti-Semitic message. Following a complaint they filed, the hotel was removed from the platform, and German authorities have begun investigating
An .

The matter has now been forwarded to the Bavarian authorities for review.
The hotel, "Zum Hirschen," is located near the town of Lam on the border between Bavaria and the Czech Republic. The Israelis, who tried to make a reservation through the Booking website, received an email stating that their request had been rejected because they were Jewish. Following the notification, the Israelis filed a complaint with Booking and also contacted the Israeli Consulate General in Munich. The hotel giant removed the hotel from its booking platform, and it is now impossible to make reservations for the place through it. The issue has been forwarded to the Commissioner for Combating Anti-Semitism at the Bavarian Ministry of Justice, who is expected to continue investigating the case and determine whether there is grounds for taking legal action. At this stage, it is not yet clear whether the affair may lead to legal proceedings.
@itamareichner
@ynet

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

A must-read from The Free Press:

Last week, the British Museum postponed a lecture on the histories of ancient Israel and Judea.

The ostensible reason for the postponement was the discovery that some 25 of those who had signed up for the lecture intended to disrupt the event…We don’t close our banks just because some people might rob them. The solution to rule violators is to punish and deter them, not encourage them with victory.

But the museum’s problems with Jewish history began long before that event. When Altman visited the museum a few years ago, he found artifacts attesting to Jewish indigeneity in Israel displayed without mention of the Jewish connection to the land, some labeled with anachronistic references to Palestine. Read Altman’s deep dive into how one of the world’s great museums is subordinating free inquiry and historical truth to political pressure.
https://t.co/gsKoFfrAmv

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

Don't have the attention span to read @guardian's misleading reporting on Israel?
Don't worry, you can still be misled through its cartoons.

⚠️Israel is fighting Hamas and Hezbollah.
Yet, the flags of these terror organizations are absent. Instead, the cartoon makes it seem that Israel is targeting the average Palestinian or Lebanese civilian.

⚠️The cartoon makes Israel out to be the aggressor. But guess who started these conflicts? It wasn't Israel.

⚠️What is missing from this illustration? The Hamas and Hezbollah infrastructure that is the true target of the Israeli strikes.

Just because it's in cartoon form, that doesn't give The Guardian the right to spread a false narrative.

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

Who are the “UN rights experts” constantly cited by the media?

UN Watch's major new report reveals that they are anti-Western ideologues receiving millions in funding from China, Qatar, Russia, and radical groups.

Watch this video and read the full report, link below 👇

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

Half a million Arabs slaughtered by an Arab regime, so why did the Arab world do nothing?

For 13 years, the Assad regime waged war on its own people. The numbers are staggering: over 500,000 dead, more than 230,000 of them civilians. And 87% of those civilians, 201,260 men, women, and children, were killed by Assad's forces and his Iranian-backed militias. Among the dead: more than 30,000 children.

But the numbers don't capture the horror. Here's what was actually done.

The slaughterhouse. At Saydnaya prison north of Damascus, known to Syrians as "the human slaughterhouse," detainees were beaten with metal pipes and cables, crammed into car tires to be whipped, suspended by their wrists until their joints dislocated, and hanged in mass executions. When rebels finally broke the gates open in December 2024, they found execution ropes still hanging and survivors who had been buried in the system for years.

The Caesar photos. A military forensic photographer who defected smuggled out roughly 55,000 images taken between 2011 and 2013. They show emaciated corpses starved to death, bodies covered in burns and lesions, people strangled and electrocuted. Some had their eyes gouged out. One photo shows hundreds of bodies piled in a shed. Most victims were men aged 20 to 40, but children were among them too.

Rape as a weapon. UN investigators found that the regime and its militias systematically used sexual violence against women, girls, men, and boys, overwhelmingly inside detention centers and at checkpoints, on orders that came from high up the chain of command. In at least 20 detention facilities across the country, male officers raped women and girls during interrogations. Men and boys were raped in at least 15 facilities. The "I lost my dignity" report drew on 454 survivor interviews. Among the documented cases: the rape of a nine-year-old girl, and a pregnant woman raped so brutally she miscarried. Torture of detainees included electric shocks to the genitals, mutilation, and the insertion of metal rods and other objects into the bodies of women, girls, and men.

The gas attacks. In the early hours of August 21, 2013, Assad fired sarin-filled rockets into the Damascus suburb of Ghouta while families slept. More than 1,400 people died, at least 426 of them children. Videos showed rows of small bodies, untouched except for the foam on their lips. Four years later, in Khan Shaykhun, his air force did it again: sarin from the sky, dozens of children convulsing and foaming in the streets. The U.S. estimates Assad used chemical weapons on his own people at least 50 times.

The barrel bombs. Helicopters dropped more than 81,000 crude barrels packed with explosives and shrapnel onto residential neighborhoods, marketplaces, and bakeries, killing over 11,000 civilians, including nearly 1,800 children.

Whole cities reduced to rubble. Seven million driven from their homes inside Syria. Six million more scattered abroad as refugees.

And where was the Arab world?

The Arab League suspended Syria in 2011, issued some statements, and then moved on. By 2023, they welcomed Assad back with handshakes, summits, and photo ops, while families were still searching mass graves for their disappeared. The same governments that can convene emergency sessions within hours for other causes could not sustain a single serious effort for half a million dead Arabs killed by an Arab dictator.

No coalition. No intervention. No accountability. Just silence, then a warm embrace for the man who gassed children.

500,000 dead. Remember who looked away.

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

The Secret Plan to Install Ahmadinejad as Iran’s Leader, And Why It Collapsed

A senior Israeli intelligence figure has now confirmed what was hidden during the recent war: Israel and the United States went into the conflict with a concrete plan to overthrow the Iranian regime and install former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the transitional leader.

Maj. Gen. (res.) Tamir Hayman, who headed Military Intelligence during Operation Roaring Lion, spoke openly on PBS’s Firing Line about the multi-stage operation that was supposed to follow the initial strikes.

Ahmadinejad had been consulted in advance and was initially willing to play the role. The plan even included a targeted Israeli strike on his home in Tehran on the very first day of the war, February 28 designed to free him from house arrest so he could publicly emerge as the new face of power.

But the real centerpiece of the entire sequence was something far more ambitious: a Kurdish military invasion into northwestern Iran. The goal was to ignite rebellions among Iran’s oppressed ethnic minorities, pin down large numbers of IRGC and Basij forces, create internal chaos, and open the door for regime collapse from within.

The plan never got that far. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan saw any Kurdish advance as a direct threat to Turkey’s stability and interests. He personally convinced President Trump to cancel the Kurdish invasion. Once that opening move was removed, the whole sequence fell apart.

Ahmadinejad himself was injured in the Israeli strike meant to liberate him. He survived, went underground, and quickly distanced himself from any further cooperation. He is alive today. What was intended as a clean “jailbreak” became a near-death experience that ended his involvement.

I personally met with Iranian Kurdish leaders in Erbil during the first two weeks of the war, under IRGC fire on the Iraqi-Iranian border. I saw the real potential on the ground, the networks, the motivation, and the strategic value of using internal pressure from Iran’s minorities. Kurdish forces were willing and ready to move.

Trump had the chance to change the equation decisively. When Erdoğan pushed back, he blinked. That was the moment the operation lost its strategic backbone. Israel had no plans to strike Iran early this year.

Trump, emboldened by his success in Venezuela, wanted another quick win. When faced with real challenges, he abandoned the main pillar of the plan.

The regime survived because the Kurdish card, the only serious internal lever available was removed before it could be played.

President Trump turned a potential historic opportunity into a strategic defeat through impatience and poor war management. He is now desperately seeking an exit to save face, while the Iranian regime remains intact and more dangerous.

This is not theory. This is what actually happened.

[Yossi BenYakar @YossiBenYakar]

The children of Kibbutz Be'eri who were murdered on October 7, 2023:

Mila Cohen, she was only 9 months old!
Alon Even
Yahel Sharabi
Yanai Emergency
Carmel Bachar
Liel Hetzroni
Lior Tarshansky
Noya Sharabi
Ido Even
Tahel Bira

May their memories forever be a blessing