BREAKING 🚨@itvnews platforms Iran propagandist who presents antisemitic programme Palestine Declassified.

Latifa Abouchakra only last week appeared to justify the murder of Israeli civilians who she calls "settlers" and labelled the attacks "the homecoming"

WATCH TO THE END pic.twitter.com/Nw3Gar3XDN

— Harry's Place (@hurryupharry) October 23, 2023

wait for the drop

There is a reason so many Jews cannot stop shaking right now. The concept of intergenerational trauma doesn't begin to describe the dark place into which this month's attack plunged Jewish communities around the world.

On Oct. 7, a Jewish holiday, Hamas terrorists went house to house in southern Israel murdering and abducting children and grandparents, pulling them from their beds, displaying victims' dead bodies online, in a massacre of at least 1,400 people. In at least one instance, terrorists were reported to have uploaded a video of the murder of one victim to her own social media account for her family to discover.

The feeling of deep dread that these atrocities stirred in Jews was horribly familiar. This is what Jewish history has all too often looked like: not civilians tragically killed in war but civilians publicly targeted, tortured and murdered, with the crimes put on public display. Accounts of past crowd-pleasing killings are folded into Jewish tradition; every Yom Kippur, we recount the public torture and execution of rabbis by their Roman oppressors in a packed second-century stadium. Those ancient stories are consistent with the experiences of the more immediate ancestors of nearly every Jew alive today.

I'm not even talking about the Holocaust, which several of last week's oldest escapees and victims also endured. (Far more Jews were killed on Oct. 7 than on Kristallnacht.) No, I'm thinking of the Farhud pogrom in 1941 Baghdad, a two-day rampage in which hundreds of Jews were r*ped, tortured and murdered. I'm thinking of the pogroms of 1918 to 1921 in Ukraine, in which an estimated 100,000 Jews were slaughtered in organized massacres, reminiscent of this month's attack.

I'm thinking of the lynching of Leo Frank in Georgia in 1915, after which the delighted crowd's snapshots of Frank's body were made into postcards mailed around the country and pieces of his clothing were sold as souvenirs. I'm thinking of how many of the earliest books off Europe's first printing presses were about the executions of Jews accused of blood libel and of a 10th-century massacre of thousands of Jews in the Spanish caliphate encouraged by a poem calling for Jewish blood and of the paintings and illuminated manuscripts showing Jews who were burned alive by the Spanish Inquisition and during the Black Death --- all crowd-pleasing events celebrated in popular media and art.

Even ancient Romans celebrated their destruction of Judea by issuing commemorative coins featuring a bound Jewish woman and inscribed with the words "Judaea capta." The humiliation and murder of Jews have always made a great meme.

Many American Jews, like Jews around the world, are descendants of those who survived. Our ancestors, in one way or another, were the ones who either made lucky decisions or barely made it out alive from Lodz and Kyiv and Aleppo and Tehran.

For diaspora Jews, the recent attacks were not distant overseas events. As was true in ancient times, the ties between global Jewish communities and Israel are concrete, specific, intimate and personal. My New Jersey Jewish Federation has institutional ties with the southern Israeli town of Ofakim and its surrounding communities, sharing annual home stays with a place whose death toll from the attacks already exceeds that of the notorious Kishinev pogrom of 1903, in which 49 Jews were murdered. Millions of American Jews, not to mention Jews in Britain, France, Australia and elsewhere, have friends and relatives in Israel. Even if Hamas hadn't made it clear that they see all Jews as targets, our connection is personal and all too real.

We spent days desperately scrolling to learn who among our acquaintances was dead, maimed or captive, connecting American hostages' families with State Department contacts, attending panic-stricken online briefings and pooling resources and supplies for victims --- all while fighting obtuse official statements from our own towns, schools, companies and universities that refused to mention the words "Israel" or "Jews" in referring to the largest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, lest some antisemite take offense at the existence of either.

We have tried to get our children off social media, shielding them from images of the violence. We've held mass fasts, recited psalms and sung ancient prayers for the rescue of captives. And as we gather by the thousands despite our many contradictory opinions and despite the extra security required for our gatherings even here, we have returned to the words of our ancestors that have carried us through thousands of years: Be strong and courageous. Choose life.

Many of us were physically carrying those words during the weekend of the attack, celebrating Simchat Torah, a joyous holiday when congregations dance with Torah scrolls, read the Torah's final words and then scroll back to the beginning to start the book again.

As a child, I found this baffling. Why read the same story over and over, when we already know what happens? As an adult, I know that while the story doesn't change, we do. What defines Jewish life is not history's litany of horror but the Jewish people's creative resilience in the face of it. In the wake of many catastrophes over millenniums, we have wrestled with God and one another, reinvented our traditions, revived our language, rebuilt our communities and found new meanings in our old stories of freedom and responsibility, each story animated by the improbable and unwavering belief that people can change.

Right now many of us feel trapped in this old, old story, doom-scrolling through images with terrible outcomes. But in our grief, I remind myself that each year as we finish the reading of the Torah, we immediately, at that very moment --- and at the moment of this newest, oldest horror --- scroll back to the story of creation and the invention of universal human dignity. We recall, once again, that every human is made in the divine image.

The story continues; we begin again.

Hamas just got another delivery of NATO weapons from Ukraine

Looks like Zelensky is desperate for some quick cash, Christmas is coming..

Ukraine is the most corrupt nation on earth!!!
pic.twitter.com/VrD2QFxDEL

— Gabe (@GabeZZOZZ) October 22, 2023

A veteran US state department official has quit over what he described as the Biden administration's "intellectual bankruptcy" in sending more weapons and ammunition to Israel, as Gaza health officials said Israeli bombing had killed more than 3,700 people.

Josh Paul, the director of congressional and public affairs for the state department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, said in a letter posted on LinkedIn that the government "rushing" to provide arms to Israel was "shortsighted, destructive, unjust, and contradictory to the very values that we publicly espouse".

In the letter, first reported by HuffPost, Paul said Hamas's attack on Israel was "a monstrosity of monstrosities".

"But I believe to the core of my soul that the response Israel is taking, and with it the American support both for that response and for the status quo of the occupation, will only lead to more and deeper suffering for both the Israeli and the Palestinian people," he wrote.

"This administration's response -- and much of Congress's as well -- is an impulsive reaction built on confirmation bias, political convenience, intellectual bankruptcy, and bureaucratic inertia."

On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that Joe Biden plans to ask Congress to approve $10bn in "mostly military assistance" for Israel.

Paul described the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs as "the US government entity most responsible for the transfer and provision of arms to partners and allies".

In his 11 years at the bureau, Paul said, he had "made more moral compromises than I can recall".

"I knew [the role] was not without its moral complexity and moral compromises, and I made myself a promise that I would stay for as long as I felt the harm I might do could be outweighed by the good I could do," he wrote.

"I am leaving today because I believe that in our current course with regards to the continued -- indeed, expanded and expedited -- provision of lethal arms to Israel, I have reached the end of that bargain."

Biden met Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, in Tel Aviv on Wednesday. Speaking afterwards, Biden said he had urged restraint from Israel, and said Netanyahu had committed to allowing desperately needed humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.

Gaza health officials say Israeli bombs have killed 3,785 people so far, and wounded more than 12,000. The area has been bombarded by Israeli airstrikes since Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on 7 October, killing more than 1,400 Israelis and taking at least 199 people hostage.

On Thursday, the international charity Action Against Hunger said the lack of access to water in Gaza was "a health crisis on the brink of explosion". The UN estimates there are fewer than three litres of water per person each day for the 2.3 million people living in Gaza, half of whom are children.

^@911roofer

There was a pro-peace, pro-Palestine demonstration in my city yesterday. Turns out even Poland is no longer safe from Sandshit.

Globohomo achieved completion, now every problem is a global problem and you have to have a strong opinion on it or you are enabling the Bad Guys™.

Link for Polishchads/Translationcels

(the protestors did half-heartedly condemn Hamas, so bombing them is now sadly immoral)

Also found this big brain comment with a positive like ratio (badly translated, but the original is badly written so ):

against all wars? and why not against Israel, which attacked Palestine?

It's amazing how much manipulation there is in the media. Russia is a criminal and Israel... shhhhhhhhh. The media creates who is guilty, who started it, who started the attack, but there is no reality. The states are supposedly defending Ukraine in this way, I wonder if they would defend it if it weren't for the fact that the world's largest corporations have bought land in Ukraine and are making billions of dollars in profits from it. lands of Ukraine

A counter protester drove his car into pro-Palestine protesters a couple hours ago and opened fire at young women and men demonstrators as they marched peacefully down the streets in Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/DWjea5nZyj

— Mnar Adley (@MnarMuh) October 23, 2023

!jidf !chuds !nonchuds

https://x.com/craving_demon/status/1715792655425400889

https://x.com/StopAntisemites/status/1716244474395779198

>Brooklyn (Williamsburg) - two individuals tear down posters of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas; the one in orange keeps calling the Jewish man filming a “dog” in Arabic and then tells him to “burn in heck”.

https://x.com/StopAntisemites/status/1716303558700646801

>UPDATE: the woman in orange has been identified as Sarah Daoud.

>Per an article in the @TheAdvocateMag - Sarah is "working to better their communities".

>We can't imagine calling a Jewish person a "dog" nor tearing down posters of missing Jewish babies "betters communities"!

https://web.archive.org/web/20231023043248/https://www.advocate.com/youth/2017/6/22/meet-point-foundations-class-2017

>All Pronouns

>Sarah is a queer, gender-fluid femme of color and the child of Muslim refugees. Working to better their communities through internal, interpersonal, and systems change has been vital to their resistance and existence. Sarah made the decision to pursue social work after reporting from refugee settlements abroad, where they intended to promote human rights through investigative journ*lism. Steadily, Sarah realized the limitation of a journ*list's work and felt called to a different kind of action. Since then, Sarah has dived into social work through several different avenues: performer in educational theater, abortion clinic escort, teaching artist in Chicago Public Schools, organizer with the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health, director of Take Back the Night at Northwestern University (where they also helped reform campus policy on sexual assault to be more inclusive of queer survivors). Of great importance to Sarah is the work they did as a resource advocate at the Broadway Youth Center from February 2015 to June 2017, where they supported queer and trans young people experiencing homelessness. While in school in Chicago, they will be interning at the Chicago Women's Health Center, a feminist health care collective that serves people of all genders at a sliding scale. After graduating with their master's in social work from the University of Chicago in 2018, Sarah hopes to start a program for LGBTQ youth of color that integrates mental health care, popular education, and creative learning to provide youth access to activism, emotional cowtools, and life skills to succeed despite inequitable conditions. In our increasingly harmful world, Sarah is dedicated to supporting queer and trans youth as they learn to love themselves, radically and unapologetically, and gain a healthier understanding of their resilience and power.

Unsurprisingly gossip foids take the sandnig side https://old.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/17e7t4k/caas_cohead_of_film_maha_dakhil_resigns_from

CAA's Co-Head Of Film Maha Dakhil Resigns From Board After Controversial Social Media Post

Maha Dakhil, who was Co-Head of Motion Pictures at CAA, has temporarily stepped away from day to day leadership and resigned from the agency's internal board after her controversial comments on Israel's response to the Hamas terror attacks.

Dakhil represents stars including Tom Cruise and Natalie Portman and the move comes after talks with the Bryan Lourd, Kevin Huvane and Richard Lovett-led agency.

She will, however, continue working with clients.

CAA just sent out an internal note with the changes.

It comes after she reposted an Instagram story earlier this week that said, “You're currently learning who supports genocide”.

Dakhil, who also represents the likes of Anne Hathaway, Reese Witherspoon and Olivia Wilde, subsequently apologized in a statement and admitted that she made a “mistake”.

“I made a mistake with a repost in my Instagram story, which used hurtful language. Like so many of us, I have been reeling with heartbreak. I pride myself on being on the side of humanity and peace. I'm so grateful to Jewish friends and colleagues who pointed out the implications and further educated me. I immediately took the repost down. I'm sorry for the pain I have caused,” she said in a statement.

There was some confusion yesterday as to whether that Dakhil represented Steven Spielberg, but Deadline has confirmed that despite being listed on Spielberg's IMDb Pro page, she does not work with the Schindler's List director.

The move comes as a group of showrunners and high-profile WGA members got together yesterday to discuss why the WGA has been silent on the issue.

Chaired by American Soul creator Jonathan Prince, the Zoom meeting was expected to feature the likes of Sacha Baron Cohen, Jerry Seinfeld, Mad Men creator Matt Weiner, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's Amy Sherman-Palladino.

The meeting comes almost a week after dozens of high-profile WGA members put out an open letter reprimanding guild leadership for “when terrorists invaded Israel to murder, r*pe, and kidnap Jews… the Guild stayed silent,” guild members are getting together to say something more.

"No, No, take it back. This is not a prisoner. this is for rape." Hamas posted its own videos boasting of the rape of Israeli girls. After the rape they were murdered. How low do you have to sink to defend these scum? pic.twitter.com/VOxjqaCpuU

— David P. Goldman (@davidpgoldman) October 22, 2023

This was filmed and released to the public on purpose. They wanted their audience to see this.

Where is that video of the Palestinian woman saying she stands by Hamas?

!jidf

!chuds !nonchuds

Edit: It seems to be a mistranslation. They're saying she's too young to be r*ped.

Nuke Palestine

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4268117-americans-overwhelmingly-support-israel-in-war-with-hamas-poll

Brooklyn (Williamsburg) - two individuals tear down posters of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas; the one in orange keeps calling the Jewish man filming a “dog” in Arabic and then tells him to “burn in hell”.

Recognize them? DM us! pic.twitter.com/c71gjoFDL0

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 23, 2023

At :11 seconds it looks like he's wearing brass knuckles.

• Fourth Degree Criminal Possession of a Weapon: NY PL 265.01(1) Non-Knife Offenses

!jidf

!nonchuds

!chuds

UPDATE: this woman has been identified as Dr. Zena Al-Adeeb, an endodontist.

Her employer has announced she has been fired effective October 21st. https://t.co/R1mjgUEOx1 pic.twitter.com/P8a3lioQHz

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 22, 2023

How the PLO defeated the Black September movement.

They toured refugee camps and Middle East capitals, found the most beautiful women, and married them off to the terrorists.

Political extremism is a low status male strategy, which is why this worked. https://t.co/xExzyy7pyX pic.twitter.com/tv90VAGvjv

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) October 22, 2023

Once they started to get laid they no longer wanted to be nihilistic buttholes. Weird how the possibility of happiness made them turn to hope instead of misery.

!jidf

!nonchuds you already know this. !chuds you should read this and learn

detained

Yesterday this man was filmed shouting racist abuse in Whitehall.

Tonight he is in custody having been arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred.

Thanks to those who shared our appeal for information. pic.twitter.com/HEH8Ie5CAU

— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) October 22, 2023

!jidf

@MURDERvan