Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz said in a radio interview on Thursday that anti-Israel protesters are “speaking out for all the right reasons” and that more pressure should be applied to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a Palestinian state.
The Michigan NPR station WCMU asked the governor of Minnesota how a Harris-Walz administration would break from the Biden administration handling the Israel-Hamas war.
U.S. authorities say a Canadian resident has been arrested in Quebec over an alleged Islamic State terror plot to kill Jewish people in New York.
The U.S. Department of Justice says Pakistani national Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, also known as Shahzeb Jadoon, was arrested on Wednesday in relation to the attack it says was to take place around Oct. 7, the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel last year.
The carnage of October 7, 2023 in southern Israel was wrought by an unprovoked attack by the Jew-hating, jihad terror organization Hamas, in conjunction with local Gazan Muslims. Some 1,200 Israelis were murdered, the victims being overwhelmingly non-combatant children, women, men, and the elderly. Atrocities committed against these primarily non-combatant Israelis included, mutilation, torture, beheadings, and mass rape, followed by burning, helpfully documented by the jihadists’ own videos and oral testimony (of captured jihadists), surveillance camera videos, surviving eyewitness testimony of the victims, and forensic pathology evidence.
Earlier this summer, my son and I biked over to fashionable east Hackney where it’s normal to pay £4.20 for a coffee and £3 for a croissant and everybody complains about the cost of living. The croissants, by the way, must come from the Dusty Knuckle bakery. I don’t know if it’s the same in other parts of London, but here in the north-east we have our standards.
We’d biked a fair distance, so we found a café that sold Dusty Knuckle croissants and settled in. My son read his book while I eavesdropped on the conversation between three interesting-looking youngish people at the next table. Interesting because they all looked so very typical it was almost surprising. Like going to Australia and right away coming face to face with a koala in a eucalyptus tree.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has condemned Israel for initiating a large-scale military operation in the northern West Bank, near Jordan, but it has purposely chosen to overlook the reason behind the Israeli security’s operation. Israel’s counterterrorism operation, called Summer Camps, targets numerous Iran-backed armed terrorist groups, including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), that have been operating freely in PA-controlled territories in the past few years.
As the new school year gets underway, a report released Thursday by Canary Mission, an organization that documents antisemitic and anti-Israel activity on North American campuses, paints a grim picture of how University of Toronto administrators sat back as their campus was overrun by terrorist supporters and outside agitators. In particular, the report lists dozens of U of T faculty, the very people responsible for educating future generations, who aided and abetted last spring’s illegal anti-Israel encampment.
Britain could widen the arms sales embargo on Israel if more alleged breaches of international humanitarian law come to light.
Export licences are reviewed every six weeks and ministers could act again should further evidence of potential war crimes emerge, a government source said.
“No-one’s patting themselves on the back and declaring an end to the matter,” the source said.
The US has charged Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and several other prominent figures in the Palestinian group in connection with its deadly attack in Israel on 7 October last year.
The justice department said it was indicting six Hamas members with seven charges, including the murder of dozens of US citizens, conspiracy to finance terrorism and use of weapons of mass destruction.
The criminal complaint covers decades of alleged attacks by Hamas, as well as last October’s unprecedented assault.
It is the first step by US law enforcement to hold accountable the ringleaders of that attack, but has been seen by analysts as partly symbolic, not least because some of those named in the indictment are already dead.
Bus service to help Jewish Londoners feel safe
The mayor of London has launched a trial bus route in north London to help Jewish Londoners feel “safe when they travel”.
The 310 bus runs every 20 minutes between Stamford Hill in Hackney and Golders Green in Barnet.
It was launched in response to longstanding requests from the Jewish community for a service connecting the neighbourhoods, the mayor’s office said.
h/t Patti Jo
Think there are real consequences associated with kidnapping and murdering U.S. citizens? Think again.
Perhaps the most affecting moment of the Democratic Party’s nominating convention was the speech given by the parents of Hamas hostage and U.S. citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
The 23-year-old captive’s parents showed all the anguish and anxiety that would befall anyone in their unendurable position. With wavering voices, they recounted Hersh’s story. An attendee of the Nova music festival, he was featured in one of the grizzly videos Hamas terrorists took of their demonic works, being dragged off into Gaza after part of his left arm had been blown off by a hand grenade — a wound he suffered while attempting to save his friends from a similar fate. As television cameras at the DNC wheeled around to the audience, attendees could be seen brushing away tears. Democrats felt every ounce of their pain. Together with Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg, the attendees resolved to “bring them home.”
I have never had the sense that the Biden admin wished to acknowledge that American citizens were among the hostages as if to do so would mean commitment by default to the Israeli side.
Even as he pleaded for a deal to be done, Jonathan Dekel-Chen was under no illusions. To get his son released from the clutches of Hamas meant negotiating with the devil.
“We’re dealing with Satan,” Dekel-Chen told CBS news on Sunday as he talked about his son Sagui, a father of three girls, who is being held in Gaza.
The aim of the execution of six Israeli hostages by the Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas was to shock the Israeli public and incite it to rebel against the Israeli government. The goal of the executions, which reportedly took place in a tunnel in the Gaza Strip last week, was also to convey to the Biden administration the need to increase pressure on Israel to accede to most of Hamas’s demands in exchange for the release of the captives the terrorist group is holding in the Gaza Strip.
Israel is braced to receive a non-negotiable Gaza hostage deal on the table from mediating countries Qatar, Egypt and the United States.
“I think that what will happen in the end” is that “there will be a kind of take it or leave” deal which US President Joe Biden would put forward “together with the Egyptians and the Qataris,” Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Yuli Edelstein told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday morning.
“Then we will have to take a decision” because “it won’t be negotiable again,” he said.
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The UK has suspended some arms sales to Israel, saying there is a “clear risk” the equipment could be used to commit serious violations of international law.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the UK will be suspending 30 out of 350 arms export licences to Israel.
The affected equipment includes parts for fighter jets, helicopters and drones.
Mr Lammy said the UK continued to support Israel’s right to defend itself, and this did not amount to an arms embargo.
