Young anti-Israel students tell a journalist exactly why they are protesting

It’s all clear now… pic.twitter.com/vAO7BgizjT

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 24, 2024

20%-40% of American Jews are Hebrew proficient. American Jews (groups of them) can always reach out to people to spellcheck.

Pesach platter is a basic symbol, not advanced Hebrew. Vowels are wrong. Consonants are not flipped, but wrong direction.

By hand.

This was not Jews. pic.twitter.com/ES6WHxuevi

— Daniel 🎗️ (@Danielxrk) April 27, 2024

Just when coverage of Israel in much of the broadcast media couldn't seem any more spiteful and misleading -- the slippage into the mainstream of slurs like "genocide" and "famine", for instance, neither of which are remotely accurate descriptions for what is going on in Gaza -- a story breaks that destroys all my remaining confidence that such outlets will cover the war impartially.

It was reported last week that a "mass grave" had been discovered in Khan Younis. Few were willing to blame the Israelis directly, but the coverage -- and the response from some politicians -- heavily implied that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) must have been responsible. I listened and read with a now-familiar torpor; vaguely interested in whether anyone would question the story's assumptions, while knowing that they wouldn't.

The globally parroted suggestion that the IDF had tied Gazans' hands behind their back before shooting them and dumping them in these graves (there is a deliberate resonance here: the SS often shot Jews in Eastern Europe into graves they'd forced them to dig) immediately struck me and most other sane Israel-watchers as almost certainly untrue. Israel, unlike Hamas, does not conduct warfare with freewheeling sadism; instances of any such foul play are investigated and punished, for which there are plenty of examples.

Of course, I could be wrong in this case, but I highly doubt it -- especially given that geo-imaging now shows that the "mass graves" are actually on a site in hospital grounds in which Palestinians had previously buried dead bodies.

But there is a tendency to always assume the worst of the IDF. There is an ancient anti-Semitic trope of Jews drinking the blood of the innocents. A version of this trope appears to have structured many people's views of Israel's war in Gaza since the Hamas attack of October 7 -- and indeed long before, at least since the turn of the millennium when the Second Intifada broke out, receiving similar encouragement to that enjoyed by Hamas now.

The urge to portray the IDF as an immoral army is very strong indeed; almost a religion in itself. But it's wrong. In fact, the IDF has a strong claim to being the most moral army in the world.

I once interviewed Asa Kasher, the philosopher and linguist who wrote the IDF's code of ethics, in his humble flat in a Tel Aviv suburb. I was amazed at the sobriety and rigour with which he had approached his task. This very unglamorous philosophy professor had put immense thought into the life-and-death implications of his work.

The code sets out four "fundamental values", number three of which is "human dignity". This states explicitly that "every individual is of inherent value, regardless of their ethnicity, religion, nationality, gender or status". Soldiers are instructed to "maintain their humanity during combat". Elsewhere, under "discipline", it reads that "the soldier will ensure they are only giving out legal orders, and do not follow illegal orders".

This code of ethics used to be handed out in paper format to all conscripts and is now disseminated in basic training. And it's hardly surprising that the IDF seeks to inculcate such values in its troops. Israel is a democratic, free country, and many non-Jewish Israeli citizens serve in its armed forces. It also knows that it will face more scrutiny than perhaps any other army in the world.

And it's not just theoretical: the IDF's morality is seen in its actions. It is currently trying to dismantle probably the most extensive, cunning terrorist infrastructure ever known, one that is highly likely to have been built with the help of hundreds of millions of Western taxpayer money, UN and other "aid" funds. Hamas operates via an outstandingly well-constructed tunnel network bigger than the whole London Underground.

Israel uses a great deal of precision technology to limit the bloodshed. But it's difficult. There are booby traps and mines above, below, and fire all around. Hamas's whole strategy revolves around using civilian shields and as many brutal tricks as possible, such as those that have resulted in IDF soldiers firing on their own and on aid workers.

And still journ*lists and Twitter armies lap up the idea that Israel is going after "women and children", refusing to acknowledge how and why they end up stuck in the cross-hairs.

Despite this near-impossible battlefield, the IDF seems to have managed to keep its ratio of civilians to combatants killed lower than almost any other army ever has. The world eats up Hamas figures for the numbers who have been killed, naturally refusing to distinguish between Hamas fighters and civilians.

But according to one analysis earlier this year, even if we accept the terror group's statistics, for every Hamas combatant eliminated, approximately 1.5 civilians have been tragically killed. Given that the UN says that civilians usually make up a shocking 90 per cent of casualties in war (a 1:9 ratio), this is impressive.

Unlike most, Israel drops leaflets and sends texts to people before any attacks so they can evacuate; in this war, it has sacrificed some of its objectives in order to limit civilian deaths.

No army gets this right all the time, but the IDF operates in a manner light years away from that of all the terror groups and militias that hate Israel, currently being cheered on college campuses.

It is the ultimate taboo but it is true: the IDF is the most moral army in the world, and its enemies not only know this, but also trade on it.

Jewish UCLA student maintains his composure in confrontation with hysterical professor.

West coast Jews are just so much cooler than the ones we’ve been seeing in New York. The Mediterranean climate appears to be good for them. Just like in Israel. pic.twitter.com/eHGfQNKEjR

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) April 26, 2024

Look at how much she seethes and screams at site of the Israeli flag

Bad Jew

A very bad Jew

Oh vey the goyem have betrayed us yet again!

If some one offers to take you to a free palistine rally BEWARE, they do NOT mean free of charge!!! 8 minutes of trying to haggle them into paying me to take Palestine (because all of the horrible maintenance charges) I realized they actually want to free those mean goys around us.

It's Nazi Germany out there. Stay safe Jews!

Massive Israeli airstrike against Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza Strip pic.twitter.com/ZCFNGLPyfs

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 21, 2024

Shabbat Shalom from JVP Columbia and the rest of the Liberated Zone! pic.twitter.com/gs8VJ7TXC9

— BC/CU Jewish Voice for Peace (@JVPColumbia) April 20, 2024

How come all the people who scream about how Jewish they are at pro-palestine protests all seem to be so incredibly unjewish?

Palestinian reports on Friday said that IDF forces killed "Abu Shujaiya," the leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's local battalion in the West Bank refugee camp of Nur Shams, during an operation of the IDF and Border Police that began there yesterday.

Four IDF soldiers are said to have been wounded during the course of that operation, two in moderate condition and two lightly.

No bait is too obvious

Loyola University Law School - Grace Obi-Azuike appears to be caught yelling "Get the f*ck out of here all you ugly ass little Jewish people in this b*itch".

Shockingly, she was Loyola's Anti Racism Center Fellow for 2022-2023.

Grace Obi-Azuike graduates in a few weeks. pic.twitter.com/Bpaxo05gxg

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) April 17, 2024

!jidf what do you think will happen to her?

Crazy Footage from tonight showing what appears to be an Exo-Atmospheric Interception, an Interception which occurs Outside the Earth’s Atmosphere, of an Iranian Ballistic Missile over Israel; the Intercept was likely conducted by the Israeli “Arrow 3” Hypersonic Surface-to-Air… pic.twitter.com/yzjW7rtThK

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) April 14, 2024

U.S. President Biden and Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu are currently holding a Phone Call to discuss Response Options to tonight’s “Unprecedented Iranian Attack” against Israel.

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) April 14, 2024