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AI Platform Preserves Stories Of Hamas Massacre Survivors

The Iron Lions website is using artificial intelligence to document the traumatic and heartbreaking testimonies of the October 7 survivors

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New Project Combats Israel Hate On Social Media, Post By Post

A new initiative is helping social media users identify and report posts about Israel that are harmful or contain false information.

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IDF issues satellite imagery showing Hamas command centers under Gaza hospital​

A satellite image issued by the IDF shows what the military says are Hamas command centers buried underneath Shifa Hospital in Gaza (IDF)
The IDF issues a graphic overlay of a satellite image of Shifa Hospital, showing what it says are Hamas command centers hidden underneath the hospital.

Israel: Hamas's main operations base is under Shifa Hospital in Gaza City - The Times of Israel

IDF says terror group has underground complexes beneath Strip's largest hospital, adds hundreds of terrorists flooded there after Oct. 7 massacres * Rocket hits Tel Aviv apartment

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Israel: Hamas's main operations base is under Shifa Hospital in Gaza City - The Times of Israel

IDF says terror group has underground complexes beneath Strip's largest hospital, adds hundreds of terrorists flooded there after Oct. 7 massacres * Rocket hits Tel Aviv apartment

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"Palestinian youth": A story in two photos​

Israeli media has been stretched thin so it is difficult to know details of any Israeli security activities in the West Bank.

But sometimes, the Arab media is enough to figure it out.

From Quds News Network:



A poor, innocent, smiling (balding, bearded) youth!

Ma'an shows a picture of him from his funeral:


Oh, a poor innocent youth who was a member of Hamas' Al Qassam Brigades!

"Palestinian youth": A story in two photos

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[ Why are non refugees being labeled refugees?
Why the refugees grandchildren can be called refugees, as it does not happen to any other actual people? ]

At the core of the tragedy unfolding in Gaza is a question: When Israel withdrew from the coastal Palestinian enclave in 2005, why did the romantic vision of it as a place that would function as a fit home for its citizens turn into the hellish reality of a failed state run by a terrorist organization? The easy and popular theories — a military blockade by Israel, a civil war between Palestinian political factions — miss a fundamental point. The roots of this generation of Hamas terrorism resides in ideas fomented in Gaza’s education system for decades.

While serving in Congress between 2001 and 2017, I studied what goes on in Palestinian schools. I reviewed their textbooks, met with educators and diplomats, and introduced legislation and amendments compelling the Department of State to monitor antisemitism in foreign classrooms. I saw firsthand that a generation of Palestinian children were being taught at an early age to reject living peacefully with Israel. They read about it in their schoolbooks and heard about it from their teachers. They were raised on a steady curriculum of violent rejectionism. My colleagues and I in Congress were unable to change that reality.

Now, as the world reels from the devastation of Hamas’ terrorism, understanding how Palestinian children are taught is essential to any discussion of the future in the region.

A startling 47% of the population in Gaza is under 18. A European human rights group recently reported that 91% of these children “suffer from some form of conflict-related trauma,” having grown up in impoverished, unsafe conditions and lived through multiple devastating rounds of warfare with Israel. This is a recipe for radicalization, supercharged by the fact that Hamas has sought to directly cultivate antisemitic attitudes in its education system.

The children of Gaza have three education options: Those classified as refugees attend schools run by the United Nations Reliefs and Works Agency. Most others attend schools run by Hamas, the de-facto governors of Gaza. And there are a handful of private schools.


A 2013 New York Times article said that Gaza schools run by Hamas and the U.N. both use the Palestinian Authority curriculum that is also taught throughout the West Bank, but that “Hamas has added programs, like a military training elective” and other teachings to “infuse the next generation with its militant ideology.”

This curriculum “includes references to the Jewish Torah and Talmud as ‘fabricated,’” the Times reported, and a description of Zionism as a racist movement whose goals include driving Arabs out of the entire area between the Nile in Africa and the Euphrates in Iraq, Syria and Turkey.”

This is a curriculum designed to indoctrinate and radicalize its students in support of Hamas’ terrorist aims.

Even the comparatively moderate Palestinian Authority textbooks are problematic. In 2020, the European Union’s Parliament adopted three resolutions condemning the authority “for continuing to teach hate and violence in its school textbooks,” following a study confirming incitement in the curriculum. To teach physics, a textbook showed students “a picture of Palestinians hitting Israeli soldiers with slingshots,” the study found, while another “promotes a conspiracy theory that Israel removed the original stones of ancient sites in Jerusalem and replaced them with ones bearing Zionist drawings and shapes.”

UNRWA schools in Gaza, too, are replete with antisemitism. A 2018 article in The Times of Israel cited examples including the lionization of Dalal al-Mughrabi, who led a 1978 attack on a bus in Tel Aviv that killed more than 30 people, as a “heroine and martyr of Palestine,” and the description of the victims of an attack in Psagot, a settlement in the occupied West Bank, as “a barbecue party.”


When I hear Israeli survivors of the massacre describe the sheer hate and absence of humanity in the eyes of their attackers, I’m unsurprised. Those eyes were forced open to a false, hate-filled view of Jews for years.

Now, the children of Gaza — who have grown up in poverty, lost family members due to the ongoing violence, and been taught to hate the Jewish people — will be tasked with rising from the ashes of a brutal war triggered by Hamas’ indiscriminate murder of innocent Israeli civilians. Hamas has failed all of Gaza, yet those who have suffered most are the children.

Israel, the United States and other regional partners must work to build a better future for these children. That means an education system that abolishes hate from its curriculum. That means a government that teaches children how to build, not blow up. That means free and fair elections.

That means an end to Hamas’ reign of terror, and schools that do not teach students to hate their neighbors.

The roots of Hamas' terror attack can be found in Gaza’s schools

A generation of children in Gaza have been taught to hate from antisemitic textbooks in schools run by Hamas.

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Israel didn't say this. The head of the Palestinian Authority said it. Arab and Muslim media ignored it; you shouldn't. "#Hamas leaders in Gaza and abroad said: “We don’t care if #Gaza is erased.”All they care about is that the Hamas movement continue to exist. They said: We don’t care what happens. “What is happening in Gaza is insignificant and does not affect us.” To this day, 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza are homeless, with no place to live. Yet the Hamas movement is alive and well. The Hamas movement was hiding under the domes [of mosques]. The Hamas leaders – and I say this for the first time – fled to the Sinai in ambulances, leaving their people behind.. Then they say: We put up resistance.#Israel #HamasTerrorists #HamasislSIS

WATCH: 'Hamas doesn't care if Gaza is erased,' says Palestinian Authority chief | World Israel News

Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas blasts Hamas, claiming the terrorist organization cares only for itself and is apathetic to the fate of Gazans.

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Watch: Israel Football Association Pays Tribute to Children Taken Hostage by Hamas - Algemeiner.com Israel Football Association Pays Tribute to Children Taken Hostage by Hamas in New Video

The Israel Football Association (IFA) shared a heart-wrenching video on social media on Thursday recognizing the children kidnapped by Hamas and forcibly taken back to the Gaza Strip after the terrorist organization's deadly rampage in Israel earlier this month, which also resulted in the death...

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US Sanctions Hamas Networks in Iran, Turkey - Algemeiner.com

The Biden administration on Friday announced new sanctions against Hamas financiers and funding networks in Iran and Turkey. "[The] individuals targeted today play a key role in operating companies in Hamas' investment portfolio in circumvention of the sanctions imposed by Treasury," the US...

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Last week, we began to document a new vile phenomenon of anti-Zionist student groups, namely Students for Justice in Palestine and their supporters, praising Hamas and saying the Israeli women, children, and men who were massacred on October 7 got what they deserved.

Following the Hamas massacre, Israeli artists Dede Bandaid and Nitzan Mintz started “Kidnapped” — a campaign to raise public awareness of the more than 220 known Israeli hostages taken into Gaza by Hamas.

Their call to action? To raise awareness by spreading and sharing posters with the names, photos, and details of hostages in public areas.

Like many pro-Israel groups on campus, Boston University Students for Israel (BUSI), a student group that participates in the CAMERA on Campus Coalition program, took part, posting flyers of the hostages on corkboards, lamp posts, and common areas of the university.

Soon after hanging the posters, BUSI found many of their posters crumpled in trash heaps.

On Friday, October 13th, members of BUSI spotted a group of students tearing down the posters, which included Noora Lahoud, an active member of Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine, and Anna Epstein, co-president of Politica, a self-identified global affairs club and publication run by Boston University students.

The confrontation was partially captured on video, posted on the CAMERA on Campus Twitter account here and here.

After witnessing Noor Lahoud tear down several posters, a member of BUSI began filming. She then continued to tear away at more posters on video. As Lahoud walked away, she claimed the posters were “spreading propaganda — fake news.” She flagrantly denied well-documented Hamas war crimes that included the kidnapping of more than 220 Israelis.

When a member of Boston University Students for Israel confronted Anna Epstein, she absurdly attempted to justify her actions equating tearing down the flyers by saying that any support for the Israeli victims was propaganda. She justified this by proudly stating that she was Jewish.

Being Jewish does not absolve someone from being antisemitic, as CAMERA has documented. There are Jewish groups like Jewish Voice for Peace and public figures like cartoonist Eli Valley that identify as Jewish, yet disseminate antisemitic tropes. One can be bigoted toward their own people group.

Of course, students can express their opinions, but tearing down posters, effectively silencing the speech of other students is a violation of the basic tenets of free speech. It is effectively hypocrisy; stating that their speech triumphs someone else’s.

Members of Students for Justice in Palestine at Boston University and their supporters are not satisfied with celebrating the mass murder, rape and kidnapping of Jews, and calling for the elimination of the State of Israel in public rallies.

Instead, they also insist on hiding the atrocities committed by Hamas, including the abhorrent detainment of hundreds of Israeli civilians, including women, children, and the elderly.

Let’s be clear: Jewish and pro-Israel advocates on and off campus must not relent in our efforts to give voice to the voiceless. We must continue to advocate for the innocent people brutally attacked and held hostage at the hands of Hamas. No one, especially terror apologists on campus, will keep us quiet.

The author is the Managing Director for CAMERA on Campus.

Being Jewish Does Not Absolve You From Praising Hamas, or Attacking Israeli Victims - Algemeiner.com

Last week, we began to document a new vile phenomenon of anti-Zionist student groups, namely Students for Justice in Palestine and their supporters, praising Hamas and saying the Israeli women, children, and men who were massacred on October 7 got what they deserved. Following the Hamas...

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[ The religion of peace. Mohammad is cheering from his grave ]

 

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OMG I can't believe I'm saying this, but....go John Kirby?

TV Globo’s @RKrahenbuhl: “So, besides saying that he doesn't have confidence in these numbers, the President went further to say that innocents will die and that this is the price of the war. You also said that.”Kirby: “I have indeed.”Krähenbühl: “Don't you think this is insensitive? There’s being very harsh criticism in about it. For example, the Council of American-Islamic Relations said it was deeply disturbed and call on the President to apologize. Would the President apologize?”

Kirby: “No.”

Krähenbühl: “And does he regret saying something like that?”

Kirby: “What’s harsh — what’s harsh is the way Hamas is using people as human shields. What’s harsh is taking a couple of hundred hostages and leaving families and anxious, waiting and worrying to figure out where their loved ones are. What's harsh, is dropping in on a music festival and slaughtering a bunch of young people just trying to enjoy an afternoon. I could go on and on. That's what's harsh. That is what's harsh and being honest about the fact that there have been civilian casualties and that there likely will be more is being honest, because that's what war is. It's brutal. It's ugly. It's messy. I've said that before. President also said that yesterday. Doesn't mean we have to like it. And it doesn't mean that we're dismissing anyone of those casualties each and every one is a tragedy in its own right...It would be helpful if Hamas would let [Gazans] leave....We know that there are thousands waiting to leave Gaza writ large and Hamas is preventing them from doing it. That is what is harsh.”

 

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