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Hezbollah terrorists increasingly approach northern border, soldiers critique IDF response.
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According to soldiers, Hezbollah members have been seen approaching IDF forces while carrying hoes or performing tasks in the fields.
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By Amir Bohbot. December 12, 2025.
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[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-880154 JPost]
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No Mercy.
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Tzvi Yehezkeli Slams Gaza Flood Videos as Propaganda: "No Drop of Compassion for Staged Victimhood" | WATCH.
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Israeli analyst Tzvika Yehezkeli ignites controversy after dismissing Gaza flood videos as staged propaganda, accusing Hamas and Qatari-backed networks of pushing AI-generated victimhood clips, including a debunked “floating hand” video, as Storm Byron batters the region and intensifies an already polarized information war.
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JFeed Staff.
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Dec 12, 2025 05:17
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[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/gaza-flood-propaganda-videos JFeed]
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Fierce Airstrikes.
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Israeli Airstrikes Target Hezbollah Positions in Southern Lebanon | WATCH.
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Israel will not sit back and watch Hezbollah rebuild and re-arm itself. And if these airstrikes do not manage to contain Hezbollah, a ground operation will likely follow in early 2026.
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JFeed Staff.
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Dec 12, 2025 03:36
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[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/israel-hezbollah-airstrikes-lebanon JFeed]
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Nvidia’s unwavering support for kidnapped employee shows true workplace family.
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Noa Argamani tells on X how during the two years her boyfriend Avinatan Or was held captive, Nvidia went beyond being a workplace, offering extraordinary support, demonstrating what true mutual responsibility looks like.
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Israel National News.
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Published: Dec 12, 2025, 3:17 PM (GMT+2)
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419222 INN]
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UN General Assembly backs ICJ call for Israel to work with UNRWA.
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UNGA votes 139-12 to back ICJ’s call for Israel to allow Gaza aid via UN agencies, including UNRWA. Israel denounces UNRWA as complicit in terror, rejecting the resolution as “morally distorted.”
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Elad Benari, Canada
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Dec 12, 2025, 8:15 PM
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419223 INN]
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Israel hands mediators names, maps to locate Ran Gvili.
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Israel gives mediators names of Islamic Jihad terrorists and maps to locate Ran Gvili, stressing no progress in talks or deal will occur until his return.
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Israel National News.
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Published: Dec 12, 2025.
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419226 INN]
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'Go to the gas chamber': Rabbi and children targeted in antisemitic verbal attack on Melbourne tram.
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The accused woman hid her face ...
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By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 12, 2025
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"I was riding the tram home in St Kilda East, with my 8-year-old and 14-year-old daughter and this woman, with her Free Palestine kaffiyeh bag, tells us 'You should all go to the gas chambers!'"
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[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-880167 JPost]
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US forces seize Chinese cargo ship delivering military equipment to Iran - WSJ.
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The ship was boarded on the Indian Ocean a month ago, with military equipment being seized, officials revealed to the Wall Street Journal.
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By Jerusalem Post Staff. December 13, 2025.
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Nashville Jewish community center sues Goyim Defense League over alleged campaign of intimidation
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Travis Garland, a Tennessee man affiliated with the Goyim Defense League, allegedly disguised himself as an Orthodox Jewish man and infiltrated the Jewish center’s secured campus.
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(Neo-Nazi groups Blood Tribe and Goyim Defense League hold a rally on September 2, 2023 in Orlando, Florida).
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By Asaf Elia-Shalev/JTA
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December 13, 2025.
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[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-880201 JPost]
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Israel hands mediators list of PIJ terrorists with knowledge of Ran Gvili’s location - report
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In addition to the names of terrorists, Israel reportedly handed over a map with locations relevant to the search for Gvili’s remains.
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Posters of Ran Gvili, whose body is still being held captive by Hamas in Gaza, seen at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. December 02, 2025.
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Posters of Ran Gvili, whose body is still being held captive by Hamas in Gaza, seen at Hostage.
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Danielle Greyman-Kennard, December 13, 2025 00:45
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[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-880194 JPost]
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Scottish band Primal Scream draws backlash over backdrop of Israeli officials with swastika-eyes
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Primal Scream is also one of the most prominent acts to demand in recent months that its music not be available on the music platform Spotify to listeners in Israel.
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[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-880200 JPost]
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European Jewish Association initiates legal actions against Bob Vylan for 'death to the IDF' chants
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The demand cites the show Robinson-Foster performed on December 2 at the Ancienne Belgique, a concert hall in Brussels, and argues that the singer "attacked every Jew and Israeli."
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By Jerusalem Post Staff.
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December 13, 2025.
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The European Jewish Association (EJA) initiated legal proceedings on Thursday against Bob Vylan’s singer, whose real name is Pascal Robinson-Foster, after he chanted on repeated occasions “death to the IDF” during their performances across Europe.
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The demand cites the show Robinson-Foster performed on December 2 at the Ancienne Belgique, a concert hall in Brussels, where he repeated the chant alongside other phrases, such as “everyone hates the police.”
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[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-880202 JPost]
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Gaza hostage Eitan Mor electrocuted, starved in Hamas hands.
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The Jerusalem Post. December 13, 3025.
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Hamas official told Eitan Mor he would be released two weeks after abduction, ex-hostage recounts.
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Eitan Mor described how he was starved, beaten, and electrocuted during his captivity.
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Former hostage Eitan Mor said that he encountered Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the current leader of Hamas's military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, while in Gaza in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon published on Friday.
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Mor recalled the Hamas leader telling him in the early days of his captivity that he would be released within two weeks. However, he was released after two years in October 2025.
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[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-880198 JPost]
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Trump admin discusses possibility of terror-related sanctions on UNRWA
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the longtime U.N. agency as a “subsidiary of Hamas.”
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Mike Wagenheim
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(Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS)
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Trump administration officials are currently in talks to impose terror-related sanctions on the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which has long been accused of complicity with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and serving as cover for their terror activities, according to a Reuters report.
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(Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS)
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Trump administration officials are currently in talks to impose terror-related sanctions on the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which has long been accused of complicity with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and serving as cover for their terror activities, according to a Reuters report.
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House Ed committee requests information about continued hostility towards Jews at MIT.
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The committee previously sent the private university a letter addressing “a series of deeply troubling antisemitic incidents” in March 2024.
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(Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS)
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In a Dec. 12 letter sent to Sally Kornbluth, president of MIT, Walberg noted that while the committee had documented “a series of deeply troubling antisemitic incidents” at the private university in Cambridge, in March 2024, “this hostility appears to have continued throughout 2025.”
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[https://www.jns.org/house-ed-committee-requests-information-about-continued-hostility-towards-jews-at-mit/ JNS]
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Bipartisan Senate bill could lead to sanctions on Houthis in Yemen.
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“The severity of the Houthi menace is magnified by their human rights abuses, antisemitism and their continued theft of international humanitarian aid,” wrote Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.).
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Mike Wagenheim.
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(Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS)
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[https://www.jns.org/bipartisan-senate-bill-could-lead-to-sanctions-on-houthis-in-yemen/ JNS]
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As Republicans soften on Muslim Brotherhood, Dems say terror sanctions must move forward.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) told JNS that the United States is behind Qatar’s neighbors in branding the Brotherhood a terror entity, “and it’s clearly because of lobbying influence by different targets.”
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Mike Wagenheim
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Just weeks ago, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order triggering a review of chapters and offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood for potential terrorist designations. But critics and even some allies say the administration is too cozy with Qatar, a Muslim Brotherhood hub, for the sanctions to work.
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And now, Republicans in Congress may be letting Qatar off the hook as well.
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[https://www.jns.org/as-republicans-soften-on-muslim-brotherhood-dems-say-terror-sanctions-must-move-forward/ JNS]
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Tucker Carlson and the Qatar First Republicans are sabotaging Trump.
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Americans fawned over the emirate at the Doha Forum love fest for the home office of Islamist terror. They’re setting the president up for a fall as well as fueling antisemitism.
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Jonathan S. Tobin.
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(Dec. 12, 2025 / JNS)
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Placed in the broad context of history, the Doha Forum held earlier this month by the Emirate of Qatar doesn’t matter much. It’s neither the first nor the last time that a tyrannical regime bent on exporting a vicious ideology aimed at destroying Western civilization put on a show for the world. But the Qataris had good reason to think that they scored yet another public relations triumph last week as the world flocked to the Persian Gulf state to fawn upon them at an event whose theme was not ironically titled “Justice in Action: Beyond Promises to Action.”
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That a vicious authoritarian regime whose long record of human-rights abuses and financial support for Islamist terrorism would have the chutzpah to put on an event about achieving international justice could be dismissed as something of a bad joke. But like so much of what passes for public affairs discourse at shindigs such as these, the ability of the hosts to pretend to be legitimate actors in international diplomacy and even human-rights advocacy is no joke.
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The most troubling aspect wasn’t just this latest success for Qatar’s massive investment in an information operation designed to launder their reputation and bolster an invidious effort to undermine the defense of the West. It’s the way that their efforts may be tilting the scales toward appeasement of Islamists inside a Trump administration that is debating whether or not to sanction the Muslim Brotherhood.
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A massive influence operation
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The Doha Forum is but a small part of the Qatari regime’s efforts to convince Americans to view them as valued allies, rather than the primary engine of the Islamist threat to the United States and its allies. It spends billions to influence politicians and even congressional staffers, as well as buy university Middle East studies programs. It also fosters strategic investment designed to make friends who become indebted to them. That’s done both by bailing out people like President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and pouring money into schemes floated by those close to the president, like his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his son, Donald Trump Jr.
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[https://www.jns.org/tucker-carlson-and-the-qatar-first-republicans-are-sabotaging-trump/ JNS]
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Islamism’s strategic scarcity: hoarded baby formula exposes the economy of martyrdom.
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Opinion: A viral video from Gaza exposes Hamas stockpiling baby formula and aid as civilians starve, shattering Western illusions and indicting an ideology that weaponizes suffering for global sympathy.
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Amine Ayoub|12.13.25
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There is a specific kind of evil that the Western mind cannot process. It is the evil that looks at a hungry child and sees not a tragedy to be solved, but a weapon to be loaded.
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A video from Gaza has been tearing across the internet. It was not filmed by the IDF. It was filmed by a courageous local, a man tired of the lies. It shows a Hamas-controlled warehouse in the Khan Younis area. Inside, it is not a war zone. It is a supermarket. Floor-to-ceiling stacks of baby formula, mountains of white flour, crates of medicine.
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Outside those steel doors, Palestinian mothers are weeping for the cameras, begging for milk. Inside, the "Mujahideen" sit on a stockpile that could feed the entire southern strip for weeks.
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This image—the starving child outside and the hoarded milk inside—is the perfect summary of this war. It is also the ultimate indictment of the Islamist ideology that has held Gaza hostage for two decades.
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Why does the world struggle to understand this? Because we project our own morality onto our enemies.
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In London, Paris and New York, we assume that a government’s first priority is the survival of its people. When we see starvation, we assume it is a failure of logistics or the result of a blockade. We cannot conceive of a regime that wants its own population to starve.
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But Islamism is not a normal political movement. It is a revolutionary theology that fetishizes death.
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Hamas did not hoard that formula to sell it. They didn't even hoard it to feed their fighters. They hoarded it specifically to ensure that the images of starving babies would continue to flow.
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They know that a photo of a gaunt infant is their air force. They know it neutralizes the Israeli military. They know it brings the United Nations to its knees.
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The baby formula was locked away because a fed baby is useless to the jihad. A fed baby doesn't make the front page of the New York Times. A fed baby doesn't inspire protests at Columbia University. To Hamas, that milk was dangerous contraband—because it had the power to solve the very crisis they needed to perpetuate.
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The West’s complicity.
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The horror is not that Hamas does this. The horror is that the West helps them.
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International media widely reported on the starvation and blamed Israel.
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For a year, the "civilized world" has played the role of the useful idiot. They sent the trucks. They paid the bills. The UN coordinated the delivery. And then, when the goods vanished into the terror tunnels, they turned around and blamed the only democracy in the region for "not doing enough."
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A perverse ecosystem was built where the West funds the bait (the aid), Hamas sets the trap (the starvation) and Israel gets blamed for the catch.
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This video strips away the excuses. You cannot say "Israel is blocking aid" when the warehouse is full. You cannot say "logistics are difficult" when the shelves are organized with military precision.
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A war of truth.
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This is why the war against Hamas is not just a territorial dispute. It is a civilizational struggle.
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On one side, you have a society that builds Iron Domes to protect its children. On the other, you have an ideology that builds cages for its children to starve in, so they can blame the other side.
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The sheer cynicism of hoarding baby formula while your people cry out for food reveals the terminal cancer of political Islam. It views human beings—even its own—as disposable props in a divine theater.
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If this video does not wake up the West, nothing will.
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The hunger in Gaza is real. But the key to the pantry isn't held by an Israeli soldier. It is held by a masked terrorist who would rather watch his own people die than lose his propaganda war.
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The "Starvation Libel" is over. We found the milk. And we found the monsters who hid it.
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Amine Ayoub, a Middle East Forum fellow, is a policy analyst and writer based in Morocco.
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[https://www.ynetnews.com/opinions-analysis/article/rym142cmzg YNet]
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Dec. 11: Hamas Hid Baby Formula To Advance Child Starvation Propaganda Narrative.
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By Adam Lehrer. December 11, 2025
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The Big Story.
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After nearly a year of Israel being accused of “deliberately starving Gazan children,” new reports prove the crisis was, at least in large part, engineered by Hamas. According to Wednesday reports from the New York Post and others, the terror group hid massive stockpiles of baby formula and children’s nutritional shakes inside a Gaza warehouse, letting children starve to sabotage Israel’s credibility. Anti-Hamas Palestinian activist Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, who posted video evidence of the hoarded supplies to social media, said on X Tuesday that Hamas also intentionally withheld the aid to force the return of the United Nations’ distribution program and oust the U.S. and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
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The discovery of the hidden formula appears to vindicate the explanation of Gaza’s food shortages outlined by Erez Winter and Gadi Taub in their August Tablet article “Feeding the Enemy”:[Gazan] pockets with shortage are the
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[https://www.tabletmag.com/the-scroll/articles/dec-11-hamas-hid-baby-formula-child-starvation-propaganda-narrative TabletMag]
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Feeding the Enemy.
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By abandoning its original plan and bending to international pressure, Israel handed Hamas control of aid, of the narrative, and of the war
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By Erez Winner and Gadi Taub
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Footage released by the IDF on July 23, 2025 shows Hamas operatives gleefully displaying provisions in an underground tunnel
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Israel is not starving Gaza. Any claim to the contrary is mendacious propaganda. That said, Israel did create the situation that gave rise to the current avoidable crisis, which it has badly mishandled, to boot. It is not too late, however, to course-correct and resume focus on the mission of defeating Hamas.
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Here are the facts: Enough food enters Gaza. Pockets with shortage are the result of two things: the United Nations not relinquishing control to the American Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), and Hamas’ war strategy of increasing its own population’s suffering to put international pressure on Israel—confident in the press’ willful cooperation.
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Israel’s original plan at the end of the long second cease-fire in March would have denied Hamas the ability to execute this strategy. The plan was to break Hamas’ control over Gaza’s population by breaking its control of the aid entering the strip. The IDF was to divide Gaza into discrete areas, isolating each one while providing it with a humanitarian corridor to enable civilians to leave combat zones and move south to temporary accommodation in safe sanctuaries, which is what the IDF had already done before the second cease-fire (during which many evacuated Gazans returned). Meanwhile, the American GHF was to distribute food in these sanctuaries. It would do so in family packages, rather than through wholesale supply, which invites middlemen. More than 100 million such meals were distributed by GHF in the past two months.
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After the evacuations, any remaining person in the combat zones would be considered a combatant. A siege would be applied until all combatants surrendered and gave up the hostages they held. It’s important to note that a siege is a legal means of war sanctioned by international law and authorized by the U.S. Department of Defense Law of War Manual (2015), even when applied to a civilian population in certain cases. However, the IDF plan was to implement it only after civilians were safely evacuated.
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Implementing the original plan will surely result in opprobrium from a hypocritical international community, but at least it will succeed and end the war.
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But Israel did not execute this plan. Instead, it concentrated on the effort to reach a hostage deal while attempting to prove its morality to the world. Subjecting itself to standards far stricter than international law requires, the IDF opted for half measures and did not move the population to designated safe zones to supply them with food. Instead, fearing a humanitarian crisis, the IDF began sending aid to pockets where Hamas has been using the population and the hostages as human shields to create safe havens for itself. In so doing, Israel became the first country in the history of warfare to assume responsibility for feeding the enemy population. It thus relieved Hamas of responsibility instead of insisting that the group surrender and release the hostages. So far from scoring points for morality, Israel dug itself into a hole, and still it was blamed for the crisis that Hamas and the United Nations have manufactured.
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According to the United Nations’ data, almost 90 percent of aid trucks sent to Hamas-controlled areas are looted. Consequently, Hamas gets to control distribution and to sell food and other necessities at exorbitant prices. This allows it to continue feeding its men and their families and paying their salaries, which in turn perpetuates Hamas’ administrative grip on the population. For example, baby food enters the strip as free aid. It is then sold by private merchants for $70 per small package and $125 for larger ones. Hamas then takes its cut by collecting an exorbitant tax.
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At the same time, huge quantities of food are rotting in the sun in U.N. storage lots, because the United Nations would not relinquish its control over supplies to GHF. It has strong incentives to continue doing so: Many of the United Nations’ employees in Gaza are also Hamas members or are married to Hamas members. Moreover, if aid distribution is shifted away, the United Nations stands to lose funding, as major donors, including the United States, withhold funds or redirect them to alternative mechanisms.
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If Israel is to recover momentum and achieve its war aims—dismantling Hamas’ military and governing capabilities, returning the hostages, and ensuring Gaza does not pose a danger to Israel in the future—it must first gain control over the aid supply and ensure it flows only through GHF. This can be achieved, at a minimum, by expanding the GHF distribution mechanism to the full width of the strip, from Rafah up to the Netzarim Corridor, bringing aid directly to populations now receiving it from—or being deprived of it by—the United Nations and Hamas.
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But this is only a stopgap measure. In the long run, without evacuating the civilian population from combat zones and applying effective sieges to places where combatants are still able to hide, Israel will not fully achieve any of its aims. Implementing the original plan will surely result in opprobrium from a hypocritical international community, but at least it will succeed and end the war. In fact, the attempt to avoid criticism through half measures manages to achieve the worst of both worlds: It brings only an even worse cascade of international condemnation while prolonging the war. That could then lead to more needless suffering, potentially turning international pressure into a strategic danger. All this without accomplishing what Israel must accomplish if it is to survive: the utter and total destruction of the organization that perpetrated the horrors of Oct. 7 on the Jewish people.
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Brig. Gen. (res.) Erez Winner is the former head of operational planning in the IDF’s Southern Command.
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Gadi Taub is an author, historian, and op-ed columnist. He is co-host of Tablet’s Israel Update podcast.
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[https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/feeding-enemy-hamas-gaza  TabletMag])
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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib:
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Hamas's chief legal officer & "human rights lawyer," Ramy Abdu, who was literally sent to Europe by the terror organization to create a fake organization (EuroMed Monitor) to launder propaganda, received instructions from his Hamas handlers to lie & clean up the mess my post has caused them!
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[https://twitter.com/afalkhatib/status/1999676198520058004 on X]
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Executed Iranian nuclear scientist confessed to aiding Israel after torture, threats against mother.
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Vahid Razavi, a member of the Vadi family, told the dissident media site that Rouzbeh Vadi was detained a year and a half ago after a dispute at work.
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Jerusalem Post Staff, Reuters. December 13, 2025.
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[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-880226 JPost]
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Hamas terror group passes the buck.
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Hamas sources claim fallen Yasam officer Ran Gvili was buried in eastern Gaza but cannot be located due to the elimination of those involved.
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Orly Harari.
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Unusual ambush in Syria.
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US and Syrian soldiers injured after gunman opens fire near Palmyra, Syria; shooter eliminated.
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ELIMINATED: Ra’ad Sa’ad, Head of the Weapons Production Headquarters of Hamas’ Military Wing and One of the Architects of the Brutal October 7th Massacre.
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Sa’ad was one of the last remaining veteran senior militants in the Gaza Strip and a close associate of Marwan Issa, the deputy head of Hamas’ military wing. He held several senior positions and was a central figure within the organization’s military leadership.
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He was responsible for the deaths of many soldiers through explosive devices manufactured by Hamas’ weapons production units during the war.
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In recent months, Sa’ad played a leading role in Hamas’ military wing, including direct involvement in violating the ceasefire agreement. He also oversaw the continued production of weapons in the Gaza Strip during the ceasefire period.
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His elimination significantly degrades Hamas’ ability to reestablish its capabilities.
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[https://x.com/IDF/status/1999876225867579734 on X]
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IDF Eliminates Hamas #2 Raad Saad in Targeted Gaza City Airstrike | WATCHm
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The IDF confirms a precision drone strike in Gaza City killed Raad Saad, Hamas’s senior military commander and alleged second-in-command, in a targeted operation during the ongoing ceasefire. He had survived two assassination attempts.
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JFeed Staff. Dec 13, 2025.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed on Saturday that a precision drone airstrike in western Gaza City killed Raad Saad (also spelled Ra'ad Sa'ad or Raed Saad), a senior Hamas military commander widely regarded as the second-in-command of the group's armed wing, behind only Izz ad-Din al-Haddad.
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Netanyahu, Katz: Israel killed top Hamas official Sa'ad for rearming instead of demilitarizing
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Sa'ad was also one of the few remaining living Hamas officials directly involved in planning the October 7 invasion and slaughter of around 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians.
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Yonah Jeremy Bob. December 13, 2025.
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[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-880221 JPost]
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Disney+ Christmas Ad Sparks Controversy Over Pro-Palestinian Symbol | WATCH.
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Disney+ is facing a social-media firestorm after viewers spotted a watermelon symbol, widely linked to pro-Palestinian activism, in its 2025 Christmas ad, igniting accusations of hidden political messaging and reigniting the culture-war debate over wokeness in family entertainment.
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Gila Isaacson. Dec 13, 2025.
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Disney+ has faced backlash over its 2025 holiday advertisement, titled "A Lifetime of Stories," after viewers spotted a watermelon sticker on a teenage character's laptop. The watermelon, whose sliced colors (red, green, black, and white) match those of the Palestinian flag, has long been used as a symbol of Palestinian solidarity, dating back to the 1967 Six-Day War when Israel banned public displays of the flag in "occupied territories".
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[https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/disney-watermelon-controversy JFeed]
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Propaganda for children?: Controversy over Disney+ holiday ad.
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Entertainment giant Disney is accused of embedding covert pro-Palestinian messages in a Christmas commercial by showing a watermelon, which has become a symbol associated with support for Palestinians.
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Nissan Tzur. Dec 13, 2025, 11:38 PM (GMT+2)
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419249 INN]
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Two IDF Reservists Wounded in Southern Gaza.
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Dec 13, 2025
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Two reservist soldiers were lightly wounded earlier today when an explosive device detonated in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF said. According to the military, the explosion occurred while the troops were operating in the area as part of efforts to locate and dismantle terrorist infrastructure. The wounded soldiers received medical treatment, and their families have been notified. IDF forces continue operations in the sector.
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[https://www.jfeed.com/latest-news?highlight=35841 JFeed]
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IDF warns Lebanon of impending strike.
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Dec 13, 2025
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Earlier today, the IDF issued an evacuation warning in the Yanoch area of southern Lebanon ahead of a planned strike. Following the evacuation notice, the Lebanese Army contacted the mechanism to access the targeted site again and address the violation. The IDF decided to allow this, and as a result, the strike was postponed. The IDF continues to monitor the target closely and remains in communication with the mechanism. The IDF will not allow the Hezbollah terrorist organization to establish or rebuild its strength
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[https://www.jfeed.com/latest-news?highlight=35843 JFeed]
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ISIS terrorist who killed two US troops was member of Syrian security forces, local officials say
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A Syrian interior ministry spokesperson told Syrian television channel Al-Ikhbariya that the attacker did not have a leadership role in the security forces.
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By Reuters, Danielle Greyman-kennard.
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December 13, 2025.
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Two US Army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in an Islamic State attack on Saturday in Palmyra, Syria, where they were supporting counterterrorism operations, the Pentagon said.
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Three others were wounded, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the attacker was killed by partner forces.
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[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-880216 JPost]
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Trump on deadly ISIS ambush in Syria: We will retaliate.
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Trump vows “very serious” retaliation after two US troops and a civilian were killed in an ISIS ambush in Syria. CENTCOM confirmed the attacker was eliminated.
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Israel National News.
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Dec 14, 2025, 2:38 AM (GMT+2)
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419253 INN]
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Dr. Einat Wilf: 'We lied to ourselves about the Palestinians'.
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Wilf says her focus is to confront the “right of return” and UNRWA’s role in perpetuating conflict, arguing that state services should prioritize those who serve the state.
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By Sherry Makover-balikov
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December 13, 2025.
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Dr. Einat Wilf, a former Labor MK who says she underwent a political awakening, explains in a recent interview with Maariv why she views Mahmoud Abbas as an adversary and why she is forming a new party, Oz, to advance a program that ties peace to Arab and Palestinian acceptance of Zionism.
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Wilf says her focus is to confront the “right of return” and UNRWA’s role in perpetuating conflict, arguing that state services should prioritize those who serve the state.
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Wilf frames her platform around three points: peace based on Arab and Palestinian acceptance of Zionism, state services for those who serve the state, and a shift from a diasporic mindset to sovereign governance.
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‘After October 7, these issues are at the core’
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About a year ago, Wilf was invited to a filmed interview about Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinians. The former Labor MK and left-wing figure, who experienced a political awakening, tried to explain why she sees Mahmoud Abbas as an enemy.
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“I spoke about his commitment to the Palestinian ethos that believes in the right of return and fights against the existence of a Jewish state for the Jewish people,” she recalls. “It was a long interview, and when I finished, studio staff, from the lighting tech to the director, came up to me and said, this is what we want to vote for. Why is there no one in Israeli politics who represents your ideas?”
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Were you surprised?
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“No. After October 7, everywhere I went, I saw that the issues I have worked on for 20 years are now at the center. So I decided to bring them to the forefront, and at this stage, the only way to express them clearly, without diluting them with political considerations, is to establish a party and lead it.”
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That is quite an ambition.
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“For years, people asked me, who in Israel even shares your ideas? I always said, either it is five people who are my best friends, or it is 70% of the Israeli public. There is an old joke about a shoe company that wanted to know whether there is a market in Africa...”
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What is your story?
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“To advance peace based on Arab and Palestinian acceptance of Zionism, to ensure that state services reach those who serve the state, and to move from a diasporic mindset to sovereign conduct.”
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People dismissed these ideas until October 7
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Not everyone identified with these ideas. Until October 7 many saw them as marginal.
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“A few weeks before the massacre, I sat on a panel... a very senior left-wing journalist said to me, Einat, who cares about the Palestinians today, it is so passé.”
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“It was a closing remark, but it reflected a mindset. We had the Abraham Accords, and Hamas was supposedly deterred. Even Bennett said Palestinians are a splinter in the backside. I took my book The War of Return to security officials and ministers. I said our enemies, especially the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, still seek a reality where Jews have no state.”
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“We also dealt with the billions for Gaza... pouring money would not buy quiet because Gazans believe Gaza is a base to ‘liberate Palestine.’ We wrote that transferring billions to the Palestinians will not end well.”
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What did they answer you?
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“They said, give us a few weeks of quiet... why say no return, no UNRWA, no refugeehood. Once, in the Defense Ministry, we explained that someone who grows up believing he will take back his house in Israel will get up each morning and dig a tunnel to ‘liberate Palestine.’”
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“I said, listen to them. They say openly that they aim to destroy the Jewish state. The aide said, We need quiet until after the holidays... i left deeply shaken, seeing the addiction to quiet.”
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‘I was told I would ignite a third intifada’
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And before that?
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“As a Labor MK, I was called to a committee and accused of causing a third intifada because I dared touch the core Palestinian issue. I thought we were lying to ourselves.”
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Why because of you?
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“I tried to cut UNRWA funding. The Defense Ministry resisted. I agreed to expose that there are not really five million refugees, only tens of thousands, but without touching funding... The campaign succeeded. Congress required UNRWA to report actual numbers. Then the Defense Ministry told me, you will ignite a third intifada... It taught me that the lies are agreed upon.”
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What did you do with that realization? Did you stay silent?
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“No. I spoke and wrote in Israel and abroad... Then, on October 7, everyone understood. Editor Shmuel Rosner asked us to publish an updated book.”
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“We wrote Shiva be-Oktober in May, and last Saturday night Kan 11 aired a documentary based on the book. Most importantly, people now say we were right.”
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The UNRWA documentary and its reception
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The film UNRWA by Duki Dror, based on Wilf and Adi Schwartz’s book, shows how UNRWA maintains war by nurturing a violent ‘return’ and reinforcing generations of non-refugee ‘refugees.’ The film won a research prize at Haifa’s documentary festival and is available digitally.
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“After the Tel Aviv Cinematheque premiere, the director received many angry messages from friends," Wilf said.
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“They were angry that he presented a depressing work. But that is the point. After seeing the film, one cannot ignore how refugee and return ideas shape Palestinianism, or that a people next to us was formed around a destructive idea of negating Zionism. Beyond its educational role, the film confirms that my long engagement is central to Israel’s future and security.”
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From advocacy back to politics
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Since October 7 Wilf has become one of the most effective international voices for Israel, with lectures, podcasts, delegations and meetings filling her schedule. Beforehand, she was a Left-wing figure, a PhD and an MK, then crossed the aisle to focus on delegitimization as a strategic challenge.
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“I speak about what the conflict is, what we do and do not do, why anti-Zionism rises in the West, and what Israeli policy should be.” “Since October 7, people tell me they follow every lecture and read everything I write. Suddenly, my work is so relevant.”
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So you woke up one morning and started a party?
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“It is a process... Now it is not only telling the Israeli-Zionist story but knowing what to do for it. Because I worked on these issues, I knew what should be done in Gaza and could present a day-after policy. Through the party, I am testing whether my ideas can become policy.”
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You were already in politics. That chapter seemed closed.
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“True, but after October 7, I saw the gap between public and government, and that central issues are not addressed. If no one else advances them, I will, as a party leader.”
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Many new parties may split the bloc and lose votes.
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“Now is exactly the time for many parties and ideas. Close to the deadline will be the time for mergers to avoid lost votes. For now, I am checking if there is real demand for my ideas.”
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But you are not really doing politics. No consultants, polls, or HQ.
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“I do not use polls or consultants. Nothing replaces direct contact with the public... If there is no support, I will not run independently.”
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How does it feel to return?
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“I left not by choice after a Labor split. Today, it is jumping into the fire. I remind myself I do it because I believe in these ideas.”
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Where is your party on the map?
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“My ideas are not Left, Right, or Center... I will speak to those tired of politics and media wired around one person. Critics focused on the man, not processes.”
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But he [Netanyahu]  is the leader who drives the processes.
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“People did not say what should be done to drive processes. They said what was wrong and who was to blame.”
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Does The Democrats Party fit your ideas?
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“Everyone asked me to join. I told all that I must present my ideas to the public without diluting them. Joining a party silences you because the goal is to make the chair the prime minister. So I founded my own.”
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Where is the funding from?
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“Social media is free and is all the fuel. If ideas fit the moment, something good can happen. If not, money will not help. If they fit, donations come in by law.”
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Any lessons from your past?
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“Do not get excited by everything people say. Some bring ideas, others know the craft. It is rare to have both.”
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“I do not know how much political skill I have, but sometimes reality tears, and what worked no longer works. I am testing whether this is that moment.”
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Who is on your list, and how will it be set?
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“For now, there is no list. If momentum builds, I will submit a list mainly of women from the public sector who know how systems work. If a centrist Zionist government is formed, it will have months, maybe a year, to make dramatic changes. I need people who know budgets, laws, and systems.”
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Why ‘Oz’?
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“Because of the verse, ‘The Lord will give strength to His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace,’ strength and peace, and because it echoes Nir Oz and Nahal Oz. I also like the name. Short and clear.”
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The party’s core ideas
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Wilf’s party proposes answers to security, policy, and public issues. The first is to advance peace based on Arab and Palestinian acceptance of Zionism.
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“Leadership striving for peace, and understanding that peace and security are impossible while the Palestinian ideology that negates Zionism persists.”
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How can you strive for peace opposite an ideology that denies the Jewish people’s existence in its land?
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“The Palestinians are not ready for peace or any arrangement that includes a Jewish state. Still, Israel must say it strives for peace under conditions, not ‘no’ to every initiative. The Saudi crown prince said he would advance the Abraham Accords if a path to two states opens, and Israel said, ‘we do not agree.’”
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“If we were wiser, we would say, excellent. The path to peace is between two states, Jewish and Palestinian. For a hundred years, the Palestinians have said they are not ready for a neighboring Jewish state. The day they want to live beside us, not on our ruins, they will find we were never the problem.”
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“Return the ball to the crown prince. Ask him to help West Bank Arabs abandon the war. Tell the Palestinians, your war against Zionism is over. The Jews will have a state, and you can live beside them, not instead of them. That means you are not refugees and have no right of return, and in return, we will help with budgets and education.”
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Do Palestinians oppose two states for two peoples?
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“Yes. They say aloud that they want a state alongside Israel. Quietly, they talk about the right of return. Recently, the Palestinian beauty queen’s dress had a huge key. If you listen, they are clear. They meant an Arab state in Gaza and the West Bank, and another Arab state to replace Israel through return. They never compromised. They are consistent.”
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How do you bridge the desire for peace and the aspiration for two Palestinian states?
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“It will not happen tomorrow. It is a vision and a process. Jabotinsky’s Iron Wall must be upgraded. Enter their arena and say the truth: you do not really want a state, you do not want us here.”
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What is the practical meaning?
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“If we had acted correctly in Gaza, we would say the war does not end with disarming Hamas but when the ideology disintegrates and no one in Gaza is a refugee and nothing will be built or enter until everyone is removed from UNRWA’s refugee rolls.”
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“Unfortunately, we did not work with countries that fund UNRWA. We talked only about disarming Hamas, while its greatest weapons are ideology, refugeehood, right of return, and international legitimacy. We do nothing about that ideology, or worse, we fund it through UNRWA and Hamas.”
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If UNRWA ceases and Palestinians understand there is no right of return, will hostility disappear, and will we live in security?
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“We will get closer to security. Once Palestinians understand that ideology is dead and the Jews are here to stay, they can live alongside us, and a political arrangement will be possible.”
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Can an ideology be killed?
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“Yes. Ideologies die and are replaced. When people see their ideas have no market, they seek other worldviews. From ruin can come change, personally and collectively.”
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‘State services for state service’
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What stands behind the second idea?
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“Welfare rests on solidarity. We put Haredim and Arabs under the welfare umbrella without solidarity. Since October 7, solidarity means defending Israel. First, everyone is enlisted. Those who refuse lose benefits and services. No need for a culture war. If you will not defend Israel, we will not give rights.”
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Also for Arab citizens?
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“Israel did them no favor by exempting them. This is their state. They must defend it. Many security problems with Arab Israelis stem from putting them aside.”
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And moving from a diasporic mindset to sovereign conduct?
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“We behave as if still in the Diaspora. On the legal issue, both the government and the Supreme Court must return power to the Knesset, the sovereign.”
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What happens when the Knesset weakens compared to the government?
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“That is a problem. Strengthen oversight. Expand the Knesset. One committee per MK. Regular question hour. Increase the ability to summon ministers and officials.”
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Breaking with the Left
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Wilf began as part of the Peace Camp... believed that once Palestinians had a state, peace would come. All this changed when she encountered Jew-hatred and understood the link between Zionism and antisemitism. October 7 intensified this.
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“I wrote that in Palestinian eyes there is no difference between me and a hilltop youth. If I want a Jewish state and reject a right of return that ends it, they see me as seeking their harm. I even wrote that the Left needs a Palestinian defeat, because for them a Jewish state is a defeat.”
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Is there a Zionist Left today?
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“Labels hardened. The radical Left seeks one state and the end of Jewish sovereignty, represented by Hadash-Ta’al. Others think Israel is the refuser. There are a few. Some in Labor believe the PA is moderate. Also few.”
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Netanyahu says half the Knesset is Left.
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“Rhetoric. The real Left disappeared. Despite Israel’s attempts at arrangements, Palestinians made clear they do not want that. October 7 was the final nail in that belief.”
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‘Anti-Zionism in the West was built over years’
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How did anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian movements penetrate Western academia and politics?
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“The Soviets, Qatar, and Arab states have long worked in academia, NGOs, and UN bodies to legitimize anti-Zionism. Doctorates on Zionism as colonialism. Professorships for calling Israel apartheid. October 7 exposed what was built for years.”
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“It is a long process. We fell asleep. An Egyptian colleague said what happened in academia after October 7 was symbolic participation in a pogrom. Academia did not see Jews as victims because for it Zionism is the ultimate evil. I have heard for 15 years that a better world will come without Israel and Zionism. The Palestinians are heroes because they will erase the collective Jew.”
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What did you learn from public confrontations?
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“Sometimes I thought, there are billions. But with research and knowledg,e I am calm. Their ideology is clear. It is not about settlements or genocide in Gaza, but a belief that without Israel and Zionism the world will be better.”
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How can we deal with it?
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“We cannot be alone. We are small. We need allies. Anti-Zionism will not stop without enough Americans, Canadians, Britons, and French fighting it.”
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How do you recruit them? They are against us.
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“Every society that lets anti-Zionism take over is failing, and Jews leave it. The key message Jews must bring to the West is that anti-Zionism is not about Israel or the conflict. It attacks society as a whole.”
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[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-880225 JPost]
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Testimony from captivity: The terrorist and the propaganda.
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Eitan Mor, who returned from captivity in Gaza, reveals that a Hamas interrogator asked him for advice on how to draw more people to the Saturday night demonstrations at Hostages Square.
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Israel National News.
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Published: Dec 14, 2025, 1:15 AM (GMT+2)
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[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419252 INN]
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ME24 - Middle East 24 @MiddleEast_24:
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Palestinian activist Malak Fadda, who collected thousands of dollars from Gulf donors under the pretext of funding her brother’s medical treatment, has reportedly fled Gaza and was seen in Qatar’s capital, Doha...
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Dec 13, 2025.
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[https://twitter.com/MiddleEast_24/status/1999751658813763727 on X]
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ME24 - Middle East 24 @MiddleEast_24:
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Yemen: Arab Media Reveal Secret Houthi Strategy Using Hostages
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According to reports published today by Arab newspapers, a leaked internal document shows Yemen’s Houthi militia deliberately using local detainees and foreign hostages as political leverage to pressure the United Nations...
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Dec 13, 3025.
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[https://twitter.com/MiddleEast_24/status/1999870375031603623 on X]
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Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig:
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Let me get this straight… They’re cancelling Taylor Swift for treating Israelis as human?
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The hashtag #TaylorSwiftisaZionist is trending (as if that’s a bad thing… it’s not) after her new documentary included a lovely interview of 3 girls saying they met Israelis at her London concert, and because a CNN news clip that appeared came from a Tel Aviv corespondent.
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Now, Free Palestine is accusing her of “specifically planting Jewish ppl... in an effort to humanize baby [here comes the slur] killers & [here comes the pallyweid] genociders[sic].”
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And towards Jewish Swifties? Supposedly “progressive” activists are calling them “Zios” — a white supremacist slur for Jews, popularized by the KKK’s David Duke.
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The mere reminder that Jews and Israelis are human beings shouldn’t enrage someone this much in 2025.
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But for Free Palestine, if they can’t dehumanize us, their entire world view collapses. Acknowledging that Jews are here to stay, that we have a homeland, that we live normal lives, that we love artists like Taylor Swift too, and that we exist like anyone else would force them to confront their own bigotry.
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Taylor, HaYarkon Park in Tel Aviv holds some 100,000 fans if you want to make history next tour!
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Dec 13, 2025
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[https://x.com/HenMazzig/status/1999902635835404769 on X]
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In case you needed more proof that the pallyweid "genocide" lie machine is bigotry. See the latest (Dec 12, 2025) attacks on Taylor Swift and the Zio slur on anti Jewish fans. Not to mention that the one started this campaign "@Brooke_816" called (on 2 June 2025) the rapper Drake a 'zionist' because his mother is a Jew. She turned noble label 'zionist" into something "negative" and exposes her anti Jewish hatred.
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