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By: Aish.com

Safety first, except when it comes to the Jews.

It’s not a great time to be a president of an Ivy League university. But don’t feel too bad enjoying the slow-mo downfall of these ivory tower bastions because it’s even worse to be a Jew at one of these campuses.

The presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT stumbled over their legalese and lost sight of the big picture that it’s indeed harassment to call for genocide of the Jews.

To her credit, Liz Magill, the president of Penn, resigned, and there is intense pressure for the other two to do the same.

Drawing the line between free speech and harassment is, in fact, tricky. But what is crystal clear is the hypocrisy and maddening double standard that is on full display.

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These boys are the real deal.

By: Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman – The Jerusalem Post; jpost.com

Fifteen American Christian cowboys with their wide-brimmed hats, denim shirts, tight Wrangler jeans, leather belts with large buckles, and well-worn boots have come to Israel to protect the Jewish residents of the biblical heartland – Judea and Samaria.

“We want to live for Israel; that is our goal,” said 24-year-old Yosef Strain from Montanna [sic], his voice carrying a subtle twang.

The young men, mostly in their early 20s, hail from across the South: Tenessee [sic], Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, and Montana. They join other faith-driven volunteers in Israel through Hayovel. For 20 years, this organization has been bringing several hundred Christians to Israel each year to help harvest the grapes of the biblical heartland. These Evangelical Christians are usually focused on restoring Christian-Jewish relations and confirming Israel’s right to their ancestral homeland.

However, after the October 7 Hamas massacre, “we understood the morbid reality that we are facing a serious enemy and the world does not recognize it,” explained Hayovel Director of Operations Joshua Waller. “If we did not say yes [to helping Judea and Samaria], no one was.”

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https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-772559

By: Renee Ghert-Zand and TOI Staff; timesofisrael.com

Several freed hostages discharged from hospital Monday, including 9-year-old Emily Hand; medical center chief says released captives ‘have a long way to go’ to full mental recovery

Videos and photos shared Monday show the emotional reunions with family members of the hostages released from Gaza on Sunday evening after 51 days in captivity, as doctors say that most are in good shape and have already gone home or will soon do so.

Elma Avraham, 84, remains in critical condition at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, after she was brought straight there in a helicopter Sunday night. Maya Regev, 21, was also taken there to undergo surgery. Regev was shot in the leg before being kidnapped from the Supernova music festival.

Prof. Itai Pessach, director of the Lily Safra Children’s Hospital at Sheba Medical Center, said Monday afternoon that the overall physical health of the latest group of freed hostages treated at the center is good.

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/photos-videos-show-emotional-hostage-reunions-as-doctors-say-most-in-good-health/

By: Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Iran, Russia, China and terrorist organizations are flooding social media with anti-Israel content.

About half of the population receives their news from social media at least some of the time. With the current fighting between Hamas and Israel, posts about the war are in overdrive, being viewed billions and billions of times. We’re drowning in memes, posts, TikToks, videos and hashtags.

Overlooked in this social media frenzy is a sobering fact: much of the content related to Israel, Hamas and Gaza is posted by shadowy government agencies in Iran, Russia, and China, and terrorist organizations like Hamas and militant groups in Iraq as well. Each time you consume social media content you’re opening yourself up to being manipulated by hostile states and actors.

Iranian Social Media Campaigns

A principal sponsor of Hamas, Iran has been championing the terrorist organization online. Iranian accounts “have been spreading particularly harmful content that includes glorification of war crimes and violence against Israeli civilians and encouraging further attacks on Israel” since the October 7 Hamas terror attacks that sparked the current war. That’s the conclusion of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based think tank that tracks misinformation and extremism online.

By: Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz – Israel365 News; israel365news.com

All the people at the gate and the elders answered, “We are. May Hashem make the woman who is coming into your house like Rachel and Leah, both of whom built up the House of Yisrael! Prosper in Efrat and perpetuate your name in Beit Lechem! – RUTH 4:11 (THE ISRAEL BIBLE)

he Bethlehem municipality announced that there will be no Christmas celebrations next month.

“Bethlehem Municipality crews announced the dismantling of Christmas decorations installed several years ago in the city’s neighborhoods and removing all festive appearances in honor of the martyrs and in solidarity with our people in Gaza,” the municipality wrote on Facebook.

A city spokesperson also acknowledged the campaign to remove Christmas decorations in a statement to the Telegraph.

“The reason is the general situation in Palestine; people are not really into any celebration, they are sad, angry and upset; our people in Gaza are being massacred and killed in cold blood,” the spokesman said, according to the outlet.

They added, “Therefore, it is not appropriate at all to have such festivities while there is a massacre happening in Gaza and attacks in the West Bank.”

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https://www.israel365news.com/379232/the-pa-cancels-christmas-in-bethlehem-to-show-solidarity-with-hamas/

“Hamas’s goal is not to run Gaza and to bring it water and electricity and such” but to “completely overthrow the situation.”

By: Joshua Marks – Israel Today; israeltoday.co.il

Hamas has no interest in governing Gaza but wants a never-ending war with Israel, members of the terrorist group told The New York Times in a feature piece published on Wednesday.

According to the Hamas leaders, that was one of the primary goals of their Oct. 7 invasion of the northwestern Negev, in which thousands of armed terrorists massacred 1,400 people, mostly civilians, wounded over 5,000 others and took back to Gaza more than 200 hostages.

“I hope that the state of war with Israel will become permanent on all the borders, and that the Arab world will stand with us,” Taher el-Nounou, a Hamas media adviser, told the US-based newspaper.

Khalil al-Hayya, a member of the terrorist group’s politburo in Qatar, said they planned the Oct. 7 assault to “change the entire equation and not just have a clash,” adding that “we succeeded in putting the Palestinian issue back on the table, and now no one in the region is experiencing calm.”

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Palestinians broke each one. Former AP reporter says the media enables them.

By: Don Surber – donsurber.substack.com

Hamas-shielding AP inadvertently drew attention to the history of Israel’s ceasefires with Palestinians — pauses in a 76-year war. Palestinians use ceasefires to reload before breaking the truce by attacking Israel again. Israel reloads as well as it plans counterattacks.

AP has sided with the Palestinians for as long as I can remember. For over a decade, its bureau in Gaza City provided cover for Hamas — the latest name for Palestine’s terrorist army. Hamas governs Gaza. The continuing war against Israel has brought Shi’as (who back Hezbollah) together with Sunnis (Hamas) to fight a common enemy — Jews.

In 2021, Israel finally unveiled the ruse, called AP, gave them an hour to pack up and leave, and then destroyed the building. The warning sadly allowed Hamas terrorists to escape as well.

On May 21, 2021, the New York Post reported, “The Associated Press is taking heat for claiming it had no idea Hamas militants operated at the news agency’s Gaza headquarters destroyed by an Israeli airstrike — as US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Monday he has seen no evidence presented by Israel of the group’s presence in the building.”

Blinken’s words reminded me of Curly saying, “Moe, Larry, I can’t see.” Asked why, he replied, “I got my eyes closed.”

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https://donsurber.substack.com/p/israels-15-ceasefires?utm_campaign=email-post&r=ch0jx&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

AFP Fact Check via Yahoo News; factcheck.aft.com

An image of a man carrying children through rubble has been shared tens of thousands of times on social media in posts linking it to the bombing of Gaza amid a war triggered by a deadly Hamas attack on Israel. But experts say the image shows signs of artificial intelligence and it was not published by news organizations with photographers in the region.

“Today’s best photo 27-October -2023,” says the text of a Facebook post shared 82,000 times. It includes an image that appears to show a man helping five children away from the scene of a destroyed building.

The image circulated widely on social media, as early as October 21 in an Instagram post using the hashtags “Gaza_under_attack” and “Free Palestine.” It was also amplified by the official X — formerly Twitter — account of the Chinese embassy in France.

“This image will symbolize the West for decades to come. They will not forgive and will not forget and those children (if they survive) will grow up angry, very angry,” an X post, on October 27 says.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/image-palestinian-carrying-children-rubble-162659625.html

Hamas’s slaughter of Israelis, a people who are saddled with trauma from the Holocaust, “opened the gates of hell on the Palestinian people.”

By: Sam Halpern – The Jerusalem Post; jpost.com

Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of a Hamas founder, slammed the terrorist organization and its Western supporters on English broadcaster Piers Morgan’s “Uncensored” talk show on Thursday.

Also known as the “Green Prince,” Yousef appeared after a slew of other Palestinian guests who had been invited to give their perspectives on the Israel-Hamas war.

Hamas’s slaughter of Israelis, a people saddled with trauma from the Holocaust, “opened the gates of hell on the Palestinian people,” demonstrating the willingness of Hamas to sacrifice Palestinian children and civilians, Yousef said.

“This is my message as an ex-Hamas member, as a son of one of Hamas’s founders: enough of this. If we don’t stop them now, the next war is going to be deadlier.”

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https://www.jpost.com/international/article-770520