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Swords of Iron: sources IIIIII (view source)
Revision as of 22:24, July 1, 2025
, 22:24, July 1, 2025→Further reading
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Islamist antisemitism goes beyond. Israeli-Palestinian conflict, CEG report argues.
The central argument of the near-100 page report is that it is futile to rationalize (or attempt to rationalize) Islamist antisemitism as a response to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
By Mathilda Heller.
June 30, 2025.
“There is persuasive evidence of a connection between extremism in the Muslim world and antisemitism,” found a Monday report by the UK-based Counter Extremism Group.
The central argument of the nearly 100-page report is that it is futile to rationalize (or attempt to rationalize) Islamist antisemitism as a response to the Israeli-Palestinian
[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-859525 JPost]
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Federal task force finds Harvard guilty of anti-Jewish bias in violation of civil-rights law.
“Failure to institute adequate changes immediately,” the federal body said, will “continue to affect Harvard’s relationship with the federal government.”
Vita Fellig.
(June 30, 2025 / JNS)
The Trump administration told Harvard University on Monday that it finished its investigation under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and found the Cambridge, Mass., Ivy League school violated civil rights law in its mistreatment of Jewish and Israeli students on campus.
[https://www.jns.org/federal-task-force-finds-harvard-guilty-of-anti-jewish-bias-in-violation-of-civil-rights-law/ JNS]
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Haaretz Claim That IDF Was Ordered to Fire on Unarmed Gazans Refuted by Translation Discrepancies, Contradictions, and Eyewitness Accounts.
The Algemeiner. June 30, 2025.
By Debbie Weiss.
A recent Haaretz exposé accusing the Israeli military of ordering troops to fire at unarmed civilians near food aid sites in Gaza relied on mistranslation, selective quotes, factual omissions, and contradictions to construct a narrative of unprovoked Israeli violence, according to independent observers interviewed by The Algemeiner.
Debunking the claim of indiscriminate fire by the IDF, the experts instead described widespread fear of Hamas, not the Israeli military.
The Haaretz report quickly gained traction in international media. Titled “’It’s a Killing Field’: IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid,” it was cited by outlets such as NPR, CNN, and Reuters.
British military analyst Andrew Fox criticized the article for its framing and language. One of the discrepancies he pointed to was the shift in the English version of the story from soldiers firing “towards” civilians, as stated in the Hebrew original, to “at” them. The original Hebrew subheader also specified that soldiers were told to fire “towards” crowds “to distance them” from the aid sites, suggesting the shooting took place as a means of crowd control.
“It’s a matter of intent,” Fox told The Algemeiner. The phrase “‘at civilians’ means they are trying to kill them. It’s misleading because they’re firing warnings to avoid harm rather than shooting to cause harm.”
“Warning shots are something all armies do — we did in Afghanistan — but when you pull the trigger there’s always a risk of harm, and that’s not great,” explained Fox, a think tank researcher and former British Army officer. “Still, there’s a huge difference between that and deliberately targeting civilians.”
Colonel Richard Kemp, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, said that “shooting towards,” as in the original Hebrew, was “quite reasonable as a means to exercise crowd control in a war zone.”
“It is highly unlikely the IDF would be ordered to shoot at unarmed civilians unless they directly endangered them,” Kemp told The Algemeiner, citing Israel’s interest in the success of US-backed humanitarian relief efforts in Gaza. “The IDF rigidly follows laws of war. It makes no sense for the IDF to want to damage aid efforts. They cooperate with and facilitate [the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation] and want it to succeed. The ones who want it to fail are Hamas because it deprives them of control and funds. If anyone has been doing this shooting, it would be Hamas. They have the motive; the IDF do not.”
There were other discrepancies in the original headline and its translation. Whereas the Hebrew version reads “Soldiers testify: IDF deliberately shoots towards Gazans near aid collection points,” the English version not only omitted any reference to mediating testimony or attribution, but also framed the event as an empirical fact: “IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid.” Further, the phrase “waiting for humanitarian aid” may carry specific legal implications under international law, suggesting heightened vulnerability, whereas the Hebrew version referred more vaguely to crowds “near aid collection points.”
The subheader — which claimed soldiers were ordered to fire at unarmed civilians “even when no threat was present” — conflicted with the body of the text, which acknowledged that Israeli soldiers were wounded near the aid distribution zones. One sentence, appearing for the first time in the 21st paragraph, stood out: “There were also fatalities and injuries among IDF soldiers in these incidents.” The piece offered no explanation for how such casualties could occur if, as the article claims, no one else present was armed.
Elsewhere in the article, a soldier is quoted describing the IDF creating a “killing field,” supposedly involving heavy machine guns, mortars, and grenade launchers. But if such weapons were used with lethal intent, as Fox pointed out in a Substack post, the casualty rate would be far higher than the one to five reported per day. “That’s not a massacre,” he wrote, going on to quip that the only massacre to take place was one of “journalistic standards by Haaretz.”
“Could some soldiers accidentally miss and hit someone?” Fox wrote. “Yes. That is tragic and warrants investigation. However, the article itself acknowledges that the IDF is already examining those incidents. To jump from that to ‘deliberate killing fields’ is not responsible reporting. It is narrative laundering.”
The lack of video footage of the alleged mass shootings near GHF sites raises questions, given the large volume of media typically produced from Gaza, according to Fox, who noted that Hamas has repeatedly circulated images and clips for propaganda purposes.
“Every Gazan has a mobile phone, and numerous videos of other events have been released,” he wrote. “Why is there a total absence of any credible footage of these supposed IDF combined arms assaults on queuing civilians?”
Kemp, who visited two of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s distribution sites in the days following the report’s publication, described hearing distant gunfire but reported that the aid operation proceeded mostly without disruption.
“None of the Gazans there showed any concerns [about the IDF] whatsoever,” he said. Many of the civilians identified Hamas, not the IDF, as the main threat to the aid effort — a dynamic not acknowledged in the Haaretz report — telling Kemp they could not return home for fear of being recognized and targeted by Hamas.
“I must have spoken to at least 50 Gazans at each site,” he said. “Many told me they feared Hamas and Hamas threatened them if they used the sites.”
Kemp added that the atmosphere was chaotic but manageable, with GHF workers — most of them local Gazans — interfacing directly with the crowds. He described people smiling, holding up food packages, and expressing gratitude for the aid.
“The overwhelming impression was how grateful they were to be getting free aid for once, as opposed to buying aid looted by Hamas and sold at a premium,” he told The Algemeiner.
Many Gazans at the GHF sites who spoke to Kemp voiced hatred for Hamas and praised the US-backed aid effort, with some chanting “kill Hamas” while others said “I love America” or expressed admiration for President Donald Trump. The alignment between Hamas and UN criticism of the food program was “shocking,” Kemp added, particularly given the visible gratitude expressed by many recipients.
“They associate this aid program with the US,” he said. “They seem to like it, whereas Hamas and the UN seem to be its greatest enemies.”
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/06/30/haaretz-claim-that-idf-was-ordered-to-fire-on-unarmed-gazans-refuted-by-translation-discrepancies-contradictions-and-eyewitness-accounts/ Algemeiner]
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IDF dismantles Hamas terror tunnel under school.
The underground structure, which stretched for some 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) and was around 20 meters deep, was also used by Hamas "for military purposes," the IDF said.
Akiva Van Koningsveld.
(July 1, 2025 / JNS)
Israel Defense Forces soldiers operating in southern Gaza uncovered a Hamas hideout beneath a school building in the Khan Yunis area, the military said on Monday. The concealed space reportedly served as sleeping quarters for Palestinian terrorists.
[https://www.jns.org/idf-dismantles-hamas-terror-tunnel-under-school/ JNS]
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‘Beloved member of Boulder community’: Firebombing victim Karen Diamond dies
“This horrific act is part of a broader and deeply troubling rise in antisemitic violence across the United States,” the Federation stated.
(June 30, 2025 / JNS)
Multiple Jewish organizations offered condolences after Karen Diamond, 82, a victim of the antisemitic firebombing in Boulder, Colo., on June 1, died from her injuries.
[https://www.jns.org/beloved-member-of-boulder-community-firebombing-victim-karen-diamond-dies/ JNS]
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Netanyahu confirms meeting with Trump in DC next week.
The invitation from Trump "followed the great victory we achieved in 'Operation Rising Lion'" against Iran, said the Israeli premier.
JNS Staff.
(July 1, 2025 / JNS)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Tuesday that he will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump and other senior officials in Washington next week.
[https://www.jns.org/netanyahu-confirms-meeting-with-trump-in-dc-next-week/ JNS]
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They shoot people deliberately': Gazans testify that Hamas intentionally targets aid sites.
The testimonies reveal that Hamas seeks to disrupt the distribution of food packages at the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution sites.
By Jerusalem Post Staff.
July 1, 2025.
Gazans present at humanitarian aid distribution sites testified that Hamas carries out acts of terror, propaganda, and psychological manipulation against civilians at aid sites, COGAT (Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories) said on Tuesday.
The audio recordings released by COGAT reveal that Hamas seeks to disrupt the distribution of food packages at the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution sites.
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-859614 JPost]
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When words become weapons
Schizo Piers Morgan Calls Out Jew Hatred | WATCH.
In a fiery exchange on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Israeli activist Hen Mazzig and journalist Taylor Lorenz spar over the power of inflammatory slogans, free speech, and the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Gila Isaacson.
Jul 1, 2025 14:45
Israeli activist and writer Hen Mazzig confronted journalist Taylor Lorenz in a tense exchange on this week’s episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored, sparking debate over the use and impact of incendiary slogans in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Hen was discussing Bob Vylan's calling "Death to the IDF' at the recent Glastonbury Festival. He said, "We don't want anyone to call for the death of anyone." Taylor said that chanting for death should be contextualized, and that calling to the death of a 'genocidal' military entity is acceptable.
Even Piers was disgusted (which takes a lot these days).
Taylor answered, "When people say Death to America, they don't mean Death to America ..., They mean death to American imperialism".
Piers answered, "I don't think you even believe the words you are saying."
[https://www.jfeed.com/antisemitism/piers-morgan-hen-mazzig-taylor-lorenz-debate JFeed]
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Iran waging ‘shadow war’ inside UK through influence operations – Telegraph
Jul 1, 2025.
Iran is conducting a “shadow war” inside the United Kingdom that extends beyond sanctions violations and includes propaganda, financial networks, and digital disinformation campaigns aimed at dividing society, The Telegraph reported on Monday.
The article said that while the UK Treasury is investigating nine suspected violations of sanctions in 2024, “these sanctions violations are of course concerning, but only constitute a small part of Iran’s clandestine political influence and illicit finance operations in Britain.” The campaign, it said, reflects a longer-standing effort by Tehran to undermine the United Kingdom in response to decades of hostility between the two governments.
[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202507014750 IranIntl]
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Germany summons Iranian ambassador over alleged espionage plot.
Jul 1, 2025.
Germany said on Tuesday it has summoned Iran’s ambassador after it arrested a Danish citizen suspected of spying for Iran and tasked with identifying Jewish targets in Berlin for possible attacks.
[https://www.iranintl.com/en/202507016486 IranIntl]
Suspected Iranian Spy Arrested in Denmark for Gathering Intel on Jewish Targets in Germany.
July 1, 2025.
[https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/2420211/suspected-iranian-spy-arrested-in-denmark-for-gathering-intel-on-jewish-targets-in-germany.html YWN]
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Bill Maher: “Israel is the Jews’ homeland, Jews have always lived there" | WATCH.
In an era of fierce ideological battles over the Middle East, Bill Maher’s provocative remarks spotlight the persistent clash between history and an invented Palestinian narrative.
Gila Isaacson.
Jul 1, 2025 18:38
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/bill-maher-defends-israel-jewish-homeland JFeed]
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Captivity survivor: "Can't sleep for the last few days" | Gaza? "Hell incarnate".
Ohad Ben Ami, who returned from captivity after 491 days, participated in a discussion today in the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. During the meeting, Ben Ami described his days of captivity and called for the release of all the hostages (News).
Daniel Herz.
Shabbat Square | Jul 1, '25.
[https://www.kikar.co.il/israel-news/sypyxz Kikar]
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Following success against Iran: Amb. Huckabee gives thanks at the Western Wall.
US Ambassador Mike Huckabee visits Western Wall ahead of Independence Day, offers prayers for Israel and President Trump, and receives letter of gratitude from site’s rabbi.
Israel National News.
Published: Jul 1, 2025, 12:34 PM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/410949 INN]
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==Further reading==
==Further reading==