Father of sisters who tore down Israeli hostage posters while yelling ‘F–k Israel’ insists they are ‘good girls’

The father of two young women caught tearing down Israeli child hostage posters while yelling “F–k Israel” on the Upper West Side on Tuesday defended his daughters as “good girls” and insisted the ongoing conflict in Israel is “not about Jewish and Muslim.”

In an exclusive interview with The Post, Hasan Bakaret said he’s always done his best to teach his girls right from wrong.

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ROM backtracks after trying to alter Palestinian artists’ work over ‘heightened sensitivities’

Palestinian culture

The Royal Ontario Museum has reversed its decision to change a travelling art exhibit about Palestinian-Muslim funerary practices after protests that included an 18-hour sit-in by the women who created it.

The Toronto museum says it wanted to change the exhibit, Death: Life’s Greatest Mystery, because of “heightened sensitivities” over the Israel-Hamas war.

Two days before it was supposed to open, ROM officials told the four Palestinian American women behind the exhibit about certain changes they wanted to make, according to artists Sameerah Hosam Ahmad and Malak Kanan.

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Families of Israeli hostages reject a pause in war on Hamas

TEL AVIV — Some families of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip are opposed to a cease-fire or a humanitarian pause in the fighting, as was advocated by United States President Joe Biden.

And while U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a series of meetings with Israeli leaders in Tel Aviv on Friday — including the country’s full war cabinet — and pushed for a humanitarian pause nearly a month into Israel’s operations in Gaza, a number of relatives of hostages said there should be no letup or reduction in the intensity of Israel’s military campaign.

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Brace Yourself for When the IDF Reaches Al-Shifa Hospital

Depending on the media outlet, the Israeli Defense Forces today executed either a strike inside Gaza that landed “near” a convoy of ambulances or one that “hit” the medical convoy directly. Discerning consumers of news media are probably capable of detecting the editorial sympathies the discrepancy exposes. Nevertheless, the episode is a sign of things to come as IDF forces approach ever closer to Al-Shifa Hospital.

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Want a Ceasefire? Tell Hamas to Free All Hostages and Unconditionally Surrender.

Just as the Israel Defense Forces encircle the Hamas stronghold of Gaza City, calls for a “ceasefire” are accelerating.

For the first week or two after the Hamas Holocaust of Oct. 7, which saw the most Jews massacred in a single day since Hitler and hundreds more taken hostage into Gaza, calls for a ceasefire were mostly relegated to far-left, self-hating “Jewish” groups such as IfNotNow and so-called Jewish Voice for Peace, along with the fifth column, jihad-sympathizing congressmen who comprise the House “Hamas Caucus,” such as Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). In those halcyon days just a short while ago, even White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that Hamas Caucus calls for a ceasefire were “repugnant” and “disgraceful.”

How the times have changed.

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Weak Hezbollah speech shows who is really in charge

Hassan Nasrallah keen to please Iran paymasters as he keeps options open with ‘nothing to do with me’ speech

There have not been many occasions like it, fewer still for the speech of an unelected cleric and militia leader.

Almost the entire Middle East stopped to tune in to the pronouncement of Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah at 3pm on Friday.

Would he open a second front in the Israel-Hamas conflict, hurling the region into much wider conflagration, one that could in turn spark a new world war?

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`295 Helicopter Pilots Were Given Stand Down Order

In a recent interview, Jonathan Pollard explicitly confirmed the only plausible explanation for what happened on Simchas Torah: there was a stand down order while thousands of Jews in dozens of communities were brutally murdered, tortured, raped, mutilated, and dragged off to Gaza.

The vital clip is available here, and a link to the complete interview with Kofy Time TV is in the description.

As copious video evidence has shown, the savages conducted their rampage methodically and at great leisure, without concern that an overwhelming military response was likely to arrive any moment. They somehow knew they had time to sit down and eat, take smoking breaks, pose for videos, loot the dead, and torture many of their victims.

I know a bit about Pollard but have not followed him to any extent. I do not know anything about the author of the linked article Chananya Weissman and hope a reader can set us straight.

I am intrigued by their POV. Something has seemed off about the Israeli response.

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The Jews of my generation thought they would be exempt from history. They were wrong

I was born in Riga, Latvia, when it was still part of the Soviet Union. The forest behind the apartment complex where I lived with my parents was called Bikernieki forest. From a very young age, perhaps as early as 4, I knew that Nazis had shot Jews in that forest.

In a different part of Riga, my grandparents lived in a house also inhabited by a Latvian couple of their generation. During the Nazi occupation, the husband had served in the auxiliary police and killed Jews. When my grandparents and this man passed one another coming and going, they exchanged greetings.

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Joe Roberts: Why it feels safer to move my family to Israel than to stay in Canada

In the comforting safety of my own home, I sat down with my wife for our morning coffee recently. As our children played happily across the room, the atmosphere between us was sombre; the weight of the events of the past few weeks was palpable. Our conversation, though whispered, seemed to resound through the centuries, echoing the fears and uncertainties of countless Jewish families before us.

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NY family wants 2 women charged who ripped down Israeli hostage posters while saying ‘F–k Israel’

A New York family who confronted two potty-mouthed young women tearing down Israeli child hostage posters while screaming “F–k Israel” told The Post Thursday they’ve filed a police report and want the duo to face charges over the hateful encounter.

Marilyn Adler said she came face to face with the poster-rippers — who were featured on The Post’s Nov. 2 front page amid a slew of similar incidents — at Broadway and 79th Street on the Upper West Side while she was out with her two adult daughters Tuesday afternoon.

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Most Canadians worried about the Israel-Hamas war spreading, increasing hate incidents at home: Nanos survey

Hamas Support Rally Toronto

A large majority of Canadians say they are worried about the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas spreading to other countries in the Middle East and beyond, a new survey from Nanos Research shows.

Most of the people surveyed are largely concerned about a potential increase in hate crimes here.

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