A photographer whose work is routinely picked up by international agencies reportedly stages photographs of hunger in Gaza, emphasizing women and children and avoiding showing Palestinians receiving food, German Bild says.
Today it was revealed that this TIME photo from Gaza was completely staged — a total fake.
But they published it anyway.
Because when it comes to Gaza, basic journalistic standards no longer apply. pic.twitter.com/OdBVpWPtiY
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) August 5, 2025
A heiress from the German industrial dynasty that profited from producing Zyklon B, the gas used in Nazi death camps, will participate in the next pro-Palestinian flotilla to Gaza, activist groups announced last week.
Marlene Engelhorn explained in an Instagram post, “I decided to join the flotilla because I wanted to support the effort to end this genocide.”
OTTAWA — Less than a week after organizers of Montreal’s pride parade barred Jewish groups from participating, officials have made an about-face.
On Tuesday, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) announced that Jews would be permitted once again to participate in the annual celebration on Sunday, one day after the chair of the board of Fierte Montreal tendered his resignation
There were always two fronts to the war in Gaza. The first and obvious was the ground war: the mission to destroy Hamas and retrieve the hostages kidnapped on Oct. 7. The IDF has simultaneously carried out operations to decapitate Israel’s other enemies: an enormously sophisticated pager attack in Lebanon where devices carried by Hezbollah’s top brass were suddenly detonated, and a 12-day attack on Iran that took out the regime’s top military officials, its nuclear scientists, and, with assistance from the U.S., its nuclear infrastructure.
Netanyahu takes the heat while winning the war. Later he’s replaced by a more palatable pol. Seems a good plan.
In the winter of 1975, I went to work on a kibbutz.
I was 17 years old. The work in the fish ponds was not glamorous: I stood for hours in a large, stinky pool of muddy water hauling spiny St. Peter’s fish out into a tank for export. But the trip was an ideological inspiration. Here was Jewish community. Here were whole neighbourhoods celebrating my holidays. The communal kibbutz lifestyle united in the building of something new, something hopeful.
The author writes of counting the vertebrae of starving Gazan children.
That would be the ill children Hamas has exploited to advance their agenda among the willfully gullible of the west.
No doubt children suffer but I have grave doubts about the alleged food shortages that come from a people who celebrate rape, murder and the ‘martyrdom’ of their own children.
Why did Mark Carney choose this moment to recognize Palestine as a state?
The announcement by Prime Minister Mark Carney Wednesday to recognize Palestine as a state took many Canadians by surprise. Up until recently, Canada and other western states seemed committed to the view that the recognition of Palestine would come at the end of a lengthy peace negotiation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Two states for two peoples has been a central pillar of Canadian and other western countries’ Middle East policies for decades. Indeed, that is precisely what was envisioned at the time the United Nations voted Israel into existence in 1947. Unfortunately, Israel’s Arab neighbours rejected partition, attacked Israel and the rest is some very complicated, bloody history.
Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad on Saturday hailed Canadian, British, and French plans to recognize a Palestinian state as “the fruits of October 7,” crediting Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel with growing Western support for such a state.
“Why are all the countries recognizing a Palestinian state today?” Hamad, a senior member of the Hamas politburo, asked during a Saturday interview on Al Jazeera, according to a translation by the Times of Israel. “Before October 7, did any country dare recognize a Palestinian state?”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to propose fully reoccupying the Gaza Strip when he meets his security cabinet, Israeli media say.
“The die has been cast. We’re going for the full conquest of the Gaza Strip – and defeating Hamas,” local journalists quote a senior official saying.
Responding to reports that the army chief and other military leaders oppose the plan, the unnamed official said: “If that doesn’t work for the chief of staff, he should resign.”
B.C.’s premier and public safety minister are condemning the vandalism of Canada’s oldest surviving synagogue and pledging to support police and the community while an investigation is underway.
The Victoria Police Department was called to the Congregation Emanu-el Synagogue on Saturday around 8 p.m.
This is we are told a “progressive” synagogue.
Don’t believe the crocodile when he promises to eat you last.
Former U.S. vice-president Hubert Humphrey once observed that “foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.” This deceptively simple phrase captures a profound truth: a country’s stance on international affairs is almost never just about abstract ideals or global ethics. It reflects, and often redirects, domestic pressures, political calculations and the ideological currents coursing through national life. Canada’s proposed recognition of Palestinian statehood is a prime example — a foreign policy move with far-reaching consequences for our national and international security.
Carney is cool with that.
Canada’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state will likely change little in the world, as our country has refused to play a constructive role in the region for many years, but it confirms for Canadian Jews that their government is not really for them.
Since the October 7 attack on Israel, Canada has witnessed an explosion of hate targeting the Jewish community. Jews in Canada have had their businesses targeted, synagogues and schools have been shot at and firebombed, neighbourhoods have been harassed and Ottawa’s National Holocaust Monument has been defaced.
It was a clear message to the Muslim World that Carney is on Team Muhammad.
A cornucopia of aid supplies, mostly food, has accumulated in recent months on the Gazan side of the crossings to the Gaza Strip and is still waiting to be collected by international aid organizations, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) — a unit within Israel’s defense ministry — said on July 25, 2025, in the wake of claims that Jerusalem is preventing food from entering the Strip.
COGAT released extensive footage showing the hundreds of trucks on the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom Crossing, with rows of boxes of supplies stacked on pallets.
Today, let’s examine the record of the man Prime Minister Mark Carney is pinning his hopes on to deliver an independent Palestinian state living in peace beside a secure Israel.
His choice is Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, as he explained in a prime ministerial “Readout” of their conversation on July 30.
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s statement that Canada intends to recognize a Palestinian state is a mishmash of good intentions, western naivete and wilful blindness.
The statement pays lip service to Israeli security concerns, saying that the Palestinian Authority (PA) must undergo fundamental reforms, that Hamas can have no role in Palestinian governance and that a Palestinian state must be demilitarized. Unfortunately, none of these conditions is grounded in reality.
Hamas says it will not disarm unless an independent Palestinian state is established with Jerusalem as its capital.
The statement, which reasserts a long-held demand by the group, seemingly came in response to a declaration by the Arab League last week that called for Hamas to lay down its weapons and release all remaining hostages. On Tuesday, the 22 member nations called for Hamas to relinquish control of Gaza and hand it over to the Palestinian Authority, which rules the West Bank.
I assume Carney agrees.
