This Thanksgiving weekend, we are thankful that some of the hostages who were abducted by terrorists 50 days ago from Israel have been brought home. We hope for the freedom of all the hostages.

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A presenter from Al-Aqsa TV, affiliated with Hamas, attempted to showcase the destruction in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza through a video. The response from the people of Gaza was to curse Hamas and hold them responsible for the destruction that befell them. 

https://x.com/EhabH91/status/1728462671400362475?s=20 see also Israeli Expert: Gazans Are Saying to Hamas, "Look What You've Done to Us" - (VOA News) see also https://www.memri.org/reports/arab-journalists-al-jazeera-mouthpiece-terrorist-organizations

Palestinian, Arab officials urge Hamas to disarm before it is destroyed

https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-arab-officials-urge-hamas-to-disarm-before-it-is-destroyed-report/

Bahrain prince is only Arab ruler to condemn Hamas in public  (Allarab News)

Beijing calls for ‘urgent’ ceasefire on Gaza alongside Arab nations https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/20/china/china-arab-countries-beijing-israel-hamas-conflict-intl-hnk/index.html

Top EU Diplomat: Hamas Will Lose Gaza, Red Cross Must Get Access to Israeli Hostages . (Ha'aretz)

Le gouvernement allemand appelle les musulmans du pays à condamner les attaques du Hamas  The German government calls on the country's Muslims to condemn Hamas attacks.

https://www.lefigaro.fr/international/le-gouvernement-allemand-appelle-les-musulmans-du-pays-a-condamner-les-attaques-du-hamas-20231121

We Arab Israelis are holding a lot of pain https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/we-arab-israelis-are-holding-a-lot-of-pain/

IDF releases damning evidence of Hamas using ambulances to move around Gaza

 https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1pwadtqt

Outrageous PA libel: Israel itself committed the October 7 massacre to justify the attack on Gaza https://palwatch.org/page/34772

In new Oct. 7 clip, Hamas terrorist cheers civilian bodies, boasts he killed soldiers

https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-new-oct-7-clip-hamas-terrorist-cheers-civilian-bodies-boasts-he-killed-soldiers/

Palestinian Authority Denies Hamas Music Festival Massacre (Ynet News)

White House: Hamas Has "Genocidal Intentions"  (White House)

Setting the Record Straight About Hamas’ Use of Gaza’s Hospitals and Israel’s Efforts to Help Patients  https://www.ajc.org/news/setting-the-record-straight-about-hamas-use-of-gazas-hospitals-and-israels-efforts-to-help

Al-Shifa Hospital and the pathological distrust of Israel  https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/11/20/al-shifa-hospital-and-the-pathological-distrust-of-israel/

Two Palestinians were executed in Tulkarm (WestBank). They were hung, torn apart & thrown out with the trash. The NGOs are quiet. Activists too. Why? Because they were murdered by Palestinians. Graphic video https://x.com/RealSarahIdan/status/1728216960834634118?s=20 and https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-militants-west-bank-say-two-collaborators-executed-2023-11-25/

Russian Anti-Tank And Anti-Ship Missiles Sent To Syrian Government Reach Hizbullah's Arsenal  https://www.memri.org/reports/russian-anti-tank-and-anti-ship-missiles-sent-syrian-government-reach-hizbullahs-arsenal

BBC: Jeremy Bowen: “My reporting was wrong but I don’t regret a thing and I don’t feel bad at all” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/11/25/bbc-bowen-wrong-gaza-hospital-no-regrets/

See also https://david-collier.com/verifying-bbc-hamas-propaganda/

60 attacks have taken place against US forces in Iraq and Syria since October 7 

https://jstribune.com/spyer-irans-controlled-insurgency-against-the-us-in-syria-and-iraq/  56 American personnel have suffered injuries in these attacks so far, ranging from minor wounds to traumatic brain injuries. One contractor died of a heart attack in the course of one of the bombings.

The Red Cross’s Gaza Scandal 

https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/the-red-crosss-gaza-scandal/

UN Women takes 7 weeks to mention attacks on Israelis, Nov. 25 - UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, https://www.thedailybeast.com/un-ignores-systematic-rape-of-israeli-women-by-hamas

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A little bit of what's happening on Campus

UCLA Response to Antisemitism Hits a Sour Note - Since October 7th,  I have heard “Itbah El Yahud” (Slaughter the Jews) chanted by hundreds of people at UCLA. 

https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/365490/ucla-response-to-antisemitism-hits-a-sour-note/

UCLA Faculty against terror https://sites.google.com/view/uclafacultyagainstterror

photo from Dr. Eli David

White House Issues Strategy to Fight Antisemitism in the U.S.

On Thursday May 25th, the Biden Administration released a strategy to fight antisemitism in the United States. StopAntisemitism's official statement is below:

StopAntisemitism is extremely disturbed by several key aspects of the White House’s antisemitism strategy. Our country’s crisis of Jew-hatred needs to be addressed clearly, completely, and as a phenomenon unto itself, and the Biden Administration’s plan falls short on all counts.

Against the advice of major antisemitism advocacy organizations, the plan does not use the IHRA definition to delineate what counts as antisemitism, instead relegating it to a brief paragraph that also includes the inferior, competing Nexus definition. This flies in the face of the plan’s assertion that “If we cannot name, identify, and admit a problem, we cannot begin to solve it.”

Not using IHRA as a foundational guide creates a gaping hole; while the plan acknowledges that Jews have been targeted because of their connection to Israel, it fails to name anti-Zionism as a primary form of antisemitism.

The plan also does not allow antisemitism to stand alone, as it repeatedly mentions planned executive actions to fight “antisemitism, Islamophobia, and related forms of bias and discrimination.” Fighting Islamophobia and other bigotries is an excellent goal, but it does not belong in this particular antisemitism strategy."    

https://www.stopantisemitism.org/