Robert Kraft, Gillette Stadium Boot Macklemore From Ed Sheeran Tour Over ‘Free Palestine’ Rant

Anti Semite Pro-Terrorist Scumcrumpet Macklemore

There was a time when attending a concert involved listening to music. You bought a ticket, found your seat, endured the opening act and waited for the person you had actually paid to see. You probably had no idea what the performer's political leanings were.

This increasingly quaint arrangement appears to have become unacceptable to the blatant anti-Semite who calls himself Macklemore.

The creep has discovered that there are, in fact, limits to the amount of political activism an audience may be expected to consume along with its entertainment. He is learning this after being removed from Ed Sheeran’s U.S. stadium tour following a series of political speeches and performances attacking Israel and U.S. immigration policy.

The controversy began at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on Sept. 4 and 5, where Macklemore opened for Sheeran, whose judgment is on par with a sand worm. Rather than confining himself to warming up the crowd, Macklemore used the enormous platform to deliver a political message about ICE and Israel. He wore the Nazi equivalent of a swastika known as a keffiyeh. He displayed footage of destruction in Gaza, performed "Hind’s Hall" and led the audience in "Free Palestine" chants.

The distinction between a concert and a political rally became rather difficult to locate.

Macklemore has apparently concluded that the opportunity to address thousands of people about the Middle East is simply too valuable to pass up. The difficulty is that the people providing the stage are under no obligation to agree with him, or even to permit their property to become an extension of his political campaign.

That became particularly clear when Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots and the Kraft Group, barred Macklemore from performing at Gillette Stadium. Sheeran is scheduled to play there Sept. 25 and 26. 

Kraft has a particular reason for taking the issue seriously. He founded the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism in 2019 and has spent years campaigning against anti-Jewish hatred. He also appears to believe that criticizing the Israeli government and vilifying Jews are not interchangeable concepts, a distinction that has become surprisingly controversial in some cultural circles. 

Robert Kraft

So let's not pretend that anti-Zionism is different from anti-Semitism; the are interchangeable terms.

Kraft cited Macklemore's recent conduct as well as what he described as a "broader history of anti-Semitic rhetoric and imagery."

"Gillette Stadium has a longstanding commitment to providing a welcoming environment for all guests and ensuring that events held at our venue do not provide a platform for hate speech," Kraft shared in a statement made to ESPN.

"Based on Macklemore's recent actions, material shared from the stage during Ed Sheeran's shows in New Jersey, and a broader history of anti-Semitic rhetoric and imagery that we believe has been deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community, we determined that his participation in the September 25th and 26th shows would not be permitted."

This is not entirely an unprecedented position.

In May 2014, Macklemore performed in Seattle wearing a bushy black beard, dark wig and large prosthetic nose, an obvious anti-Semitic trope. Civil rights groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, condemned the appearance as resembling historical anti-Jewish caricatures often seen in WWII Nazi posters. 

Macklemore subsequently claimed the costume was a random coincidence, obviously thinking people are morons.

That episode has inevitably returned to the discussion surrounding "Hind’s Hall," particularly because Macklemore's current political performances have been almost entirely concerned with condemning Israel.

There is, of course, a legitimate argument to be made about Palestinian civilians. There is also legitimate room for fierce criticism of the Israeli government. But any serious discussion of the present conflict has to account for the fact that Hamas launched the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, murdering civilians and taking hostages, thereby setting in motion the war that followed. 

Macklemore's critics argue that this part of the story receives considerably less attention in his performances.

FAFO Macklemore.

Kraft made precisely that point while insisting that sympathy for Palestinians and opposition to Hamas are not mutually exclusive positions.

"This decision is not about diminishing the suffering of innocent Palestinians or denying anyone the right to advocate on their behalf," Kraft stated. "But that advocacy should not come at the expense of the Jewish community or obscure the responsibility of Hamas, a designated terrorist organization whose horrific actions have caused immeasurable suffering."

This is not an especially radical proposition. It is, in fact, the sort of proposition that ought to be possible to state without causing a cultural emergency.

Kraft went further.

"I would welcome the opportunity to sit down with Macklemore and discuss the facts, because ultimately our goal is the same: peace for all people, an end to suffering, and an end to all hate," Kraft said.

Macklemore, for his part, responded on social media by blaming venue operators and Kraft for his removal while acknowledging that Sheeran had been put in a difficult position. He rejected Kraft's characterization of his remarks as hate speech and maintained that losing his place on the tour was a price he was prepared to pay.

Perhaps it is.

But there is another price that artists occasionally have to consider. If a performer uses somebody else's stadium, somebody else's tour and somebody else's audience as the setting for an extended political intervention, the people who own the stadium and organize the tour may eventually decide that they have had enough. 

That is not censorship. It is the rather ordinary exercise of deciding who gets to use your property. They have that right.

Eight of the remaining ten U.S. dates on Sheeran's tour were scheduled for NFL stadiums. The tour promoter, Messina Touring Group, confirmed that Macklemore had been removed from all remaining U.S. dates after multiple venue operators refused to allow him to appear.

There is something revealing about the entire episode. Macklemore believed that his political convictions entitled him to use a commercial entertainment platform to broadcast them. The venue operators apparently believed that they were entitled to say no.

The second position remains surprisingly popular among people who own stadiums, and is likely supported by people who own private property, as the law says they do.

Macklemore may regard the loss of the tour as the cost of speaking his mind. That is his prerogative. But the ability to speak does not create an obligation on everyone else to provide you with a microphone, a stadium and thousands of captive listeners.

Even rock stars, it seems, occasionally encounter the boundaries of someone else's property.

Oh, and let's not forget how much Ed Sheeran sucks too.

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Curtis Sliwa Tells 9/11 Families to Stop Being ‘Sore Losers’ Over Mamdani

Happy faces

Apparently, the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks now comes with a new rule: You are allowed to remember the nearly 3,000 Americans murdered by Islamist terrorists, but apparently not to complain about the Islamist mayor attending the ceremony.

Former mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa told relatives of 9/11 victims Thursday to “stop being sore losers” after some families launched a petition urging New York City Mayor, comrade Zohran Mamdani, to stay away from this year’s Ground Zero commemoration.

“He’s the mayor. Stop being sore losers!” Sliwa told reporters Thursday. “You knew this is Zohran Mamdani. He was never a fake, phony, fraudulent, fugazi like a lot of politicians. He told you who he was.”

That is certainly one way to put it. 

Some relatives of the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have backed a petition asking Mamdani not to attend the ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the attacks, which killed 2,977 people.

Giovanni Galante, whose 29-year-old wife, Grace Catherine Galante, was killed on 9/11 and who helped organize the petition, accused Mamdani of failing to “meaningfully acknowledge the horror” of the attacks and associating with people who have minimized them. 

[In fact, on the day of the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, Mamdani's wife, Rama Sawaf Duwaji, like a post from The Slow Factory account that included images from the assault. It showed a bulldozer breaching the Gaza-Israel barrier and terrorists on a captured IDF vehicle. An overlaid text of the image said: "Resisting apartheid since 1948," and "Systemic change for collective liberation." The next day, she like posts from The People's Forum (associated with Times Square protests involving Democratic Socialists of America and their buddies.) These promoted standing with "Palestinian resistance," along with the "from the river to the sea" slogan. In February 2024, after a NY Times investigation into sexual violence during the attack, Duwaji liked a post referring to reports of Hamas rapes as a "mass rape" hoax that was "fabricated" by The Times. Mamdani never condemned his wife's words.]

Cheri Sparacio, whose husband, Thomas, was also killed on 9/11, pointed to Mamdani’s association with left-wing scum-streamer Hasan Piker, who said in 2019 that “America deserved 9/11” before having to later apologize.

Mamdani has said he plans to attend the September 11 ceremony anyway, his way of doxing them.

Sliwa, who ran against Mamdani and former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo as the Republican candidate in last year’s mayoral election, said families have every right to dislike the mayor, but apparently the mayoral chair now comes with a complimentary halo.

Sliwa called the petition effort ridiculous. Sliwa is wrong.

“Once he got elected, you should have known he was going to be there at 9/11,” Sliwa said. “Now, if you choose to turn your back on him, I don’t want to ever tell family members what they should be doing on this holiday, not holiday, but this solemn occasion, that’s your choice.

“But I believe you respect the office,” he continued. “He’s the mayor. He’s representing the city.”

Why? Why must we 'respect the office' if the person in office is a socialist-Islamist who apparently plans to ruin the city's economy with his communist ideas? Maybe respecting the office means going after the person who is degrading the office. 

Sliwa also revisited an embarrassing moment from the closing days of the 2025 mayoral campaign involving Cuomo and radio host Sid Rosenberg.

Rosenberg joked with Cuomo, who was running as an independent, that Mamdani would cheer for the terrorists if another September 11 attack occurred while he was mayor. Cuomo chuckled before replying, “That’s another problem.”

Sliwa said the remark hurt Cuomo at precisely the moment when his campaign had begun gaining momentum.

“He was gaining traction, and then he made that stupid remark and then didn’t handle it well,” Sliwa said. “And then Zohran exploited the hell out of it, as he should.”

“That was Islamophobic,” Sliwa added.

So, in the strange political universe of New York City, the 9/11 anniversary has somehow become a referendum on Islamophobia, mayoral etiquette and whether grieving families are sufficiently respectful of the office.

Meanwhile, the families who actually lost loved ones on September 11 apparently get to choose between keeping quiet and being labeled “sore losers.”

What a country. What a crazy take by a guy who's lost my respect.

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El-Sayed campaign backed by over $100,000 from dozens of members of group with alleged terror ties

The "Taqiyya Grin"

The political fundraising rule used to be simple. Candidates would promise to keep special interests out of politics, then quietly cash checks from the usual suspects. Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed appears determined to modernize the tradition by proving that "special interests" is apparently just another term that depends on who's writing the check. [H/T Fox News Digital.]

According to a Fox News Digital review, El-Sayed's campaign has collected more than $115,000 from at least 41 individuals who either work for, formerly worked for, or held leadership positions with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, better known as CAIR. That's one way to build a coalition. Another is to skip the middleman and rent a conference room at headquarters.

The irony is particularly rich because El-Sayed has made getting "money out of politics" one of the signature themes of his campaign. Apparently, the money was willing to leave politics, but politics kept inviting it back for coffee and a little bit o' jihad.

Among the contributors were some of CAIR's biggest names, including national Board Chair Manal Fakhoury, national Board Treasurer Eyas Abdeen, national Vice Chair Emad Sabbah, and CAIR-Michigan board member Jukaku Tayeb, who also happens to be El-Sayed's father-in-law. Family gatherings must feature unusually productive finance committee meetings.

Tayeb has reportedly been one of the largest financial backers of the super PAC supporting El-Sayed's campaign. He is also part of the founding committee of the Islamic Society of North America, a group that has been linked to Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood funding, according to previous reporting by the Washington Free Beacon.

Another donor attracting attention is CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, [aka Nihad Adickwad] listed in Federal Election Commission records under the name Nehad Hammad. The dickwad sparked widespread criticism after saying he was "happy" to see Hamas break out of Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023, while arguing Israel "does not have the right to self-defense" as an occupying power. In Washington, that apparently qualifies as a controversial statement. On some college campuses, it qualifies as tenure material.

The support for El-Sayed stretched far beyond Michigan. Fox News Digital identified contributions from CAIR officials representing chapters in California, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Washington, Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio, and several other states, suggesting that El-Sayed's fundraising operation has become something of a national reunion tour.

Other contributors include CAIR-California Governance Board Treasurer Rubina Alvi, Governance Board Chair Asaad Traina, CAIR-Michigan board member Muzammil Ahmed, who contributed $11,600, Governance Board members Atef Ibrahim and Dina Ezzeddine, along with former National Board Chair Roula Allouch.

"Taqiyya Grin"

El-Sayed's relationship with CAIR extends beyond campaign donations. In 2022, he appeared at a CAIR event and was paid for a speaking engagement, where he criticized Oklahoma's ban on Sharia law and compared it to the Trail of Tears, according to the Washington Free Beacon. Nothing says "local Senate campaign" quite like re-litigating Oklahoma's legal code through historical analogies.

CAIR has faced scrutiny for years over allegations regarding ties to Hamas. In 2007, federal prosecutors identified the organization as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case, the largest terrorism financing prosecution in American history.

CAIR was never charged with a crime and has consistently denied the allegations, challenging its designation in the case. Still, the organization has been formally designated or labeled a terrorist organization by Florida and Texas, while the United Arab Emirates designated CAIR a terrorist organization in 2014, a move widely understood to reflect the UAE's assessment that CAIR has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Responding to Fox News Digital, CAIR rejected allegations that it has ties to terrorism. The organization pointed to its "Dispelling Rumors About CAIR" webpage, memoranda stating it has "repeatedly condemned anti-Semitism throughout our 30 years of existence," and statements saying it has condemned attacks by Hamas and other designated terrorist organizations "for decades."

CAIR also highlighted a 2009 declaration stating, "We unequivocally condemn all acts of terrorism, whether carried out by al-Qa’ida, the Real IRA, FARC, Hamas, ETA, or any other group designated by the U.S. Department of State as a ‘Foreign Terrorist Organization."

The organization further cited a National Board statement condemning antisemitism and the Oct. 7 attacks, along with a 2023 editorial in which National Executive Director Nihad Awad said he agreed with CAIR's condemnation of attacks on civilians.

Meanwhile, El-Sayed has continued to draw criticism from Republicans and pro-Israel advocates over various Middle East-related controversies, including campaigning alongside far-left streamer Hasan Piker, his response to an attack targeting a Detroit synagogue, and declining to comment on the death of Iran's supreme leader because, he said, some constituents in Dearborn were mourning. Piker is the nephew of Cenk Uygur, the guy who yells garbage about Israel and founded Young Turks.

Despite the controversy, El-Sayed defeated Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens in Tuesday's Senate primary, surprising many political observers with a much stronger showing than expected. He now heads into a November showdown against Republican Mike Rogers.

Michigan voters will ultimately decide whether this fundraising strategy represents principled coalition building or merely another case of campaign ethics discovering that campaign slogans come with plenty of fine print.

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Israel's Political Class Flirts With Civilian Control Becoming Political Control

Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot (Channel 12 screenshot)

There are moments in the life of a democracy when the greatest danger does not come from an external enemy, but from the temptation of those in power to bend the state's institutions to their own political ambitions. Israel, a nation whose security depends on an independent and professional military, has once again found itself confronting that uncomfortable reality.

The latest controversy erupted after Defense Minister Israel Katz announced during a live television appearance that he was replacing IDF Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, despite lacking the legal authority to make such a decision. Whether one supports or opposes the current government, the episode raises a far more consequential question than the fate of a single general. It asks whether political theater is beginning to eclipse the rule of law in matters of national defense.

Opposition leader and former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot wasted little time condemning the move.


"The spectacle that took place on [Channel 14] was an unprecedented lowpoint in relations between the political and military echelons, an improper and unlawful act," Eisenkot wrote on X. "The State of Israel is no one's private property, and the IDF is not a tool to be used in primaries by politicians who've lost their way."

His criticism lands at an especially delicate political moment. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party is preparing for August 17 primaries, where more than 100,000 party members will determine the party's Knesset slate ahead of Israel's October 27 general election. Katz is widely viewed as seeking a higher position on that list, making any appearance of politicizing military leadership especially damaging.

Eisenkot did not stop there. He argued that the government "is not fit to safeguard the security of the state," adding that "very soon, the people of Israel will have worthy and responsible leadership, with Israel's welfare and security as its sole concern."

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was equally unsparing, accusing the government of turning against the very institution charged with defending the nation.


"After dismantling the IDF from the outside and paving the way for mass draft evasion, the October 7 government has now decided to dismantle the IDF from within and guarantee complete chaos," Bennett wrote. "Tonight, I say to every citizen of Israel, and to all IDF soldiers and commanders, both active-duty and reservists: Hold on tight, the reinforcements are on their way. Soon, we will replace them, and together we will set things right."

Israel's security has always rested on a delicate constitutional understanding. Civilian leaders rightly command the military, but they do so through established legal authority and institutional restraint, not televised declarations or campaign calculations. Democracies survive because governments change while institutions endure.

Whether this latest dispute proves to be an isolated political misjudgment or a symptom of something more corrosive remains to be seen. But history offers a consistent lesson: once military appointments become instruments of partisan advantage, public confidence in both government and the armed forces begins to erode. That is a price Israel, surrounded by enemies and dependent upon the professionalism of the IDF, can scarcely afford to pay.

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Senior Qatari Diplomat Warns of Gaza's Descent into Eternal Limbo: 'No War, No Peace'

One might have thought that after the horrific savagery of October 7, 2023, and the ensuing catastrophe in Gaza, the world would have learned to approach Qatari pronouncements with a healthy dose of scepticism. Qatar, after all, is not merely a bystander in this tragedy but a principal enabler of the very Hamas terror machine that ignited it, hosting its leaders in luxury while pretending to play the impartial peacemaker. Yet here we are, in the autumn of 2025, with Majed al-Ansari, adviser to Qatar's prime minister and spokesperson for the foreign ministry, issuing fresh warnings in The Guardian about the Strip's potential slide into a “no war, no peace” purgatory. As if the Qatari capital's five-star accommodations for jihadists hadn't already prolonged the agony.

"We don’t want to reach a situation of no war, no peace," al-Ansari cautioned, his words dripping with the earnestness of a diplomat whose government has bankrolled the very impasse he decries. The scenario he sketches is grimly plausible: Israeli troops lingering in Gaza, not out of imperial whim but necessity, because no sane soul, least of all the international community, with its track record of feckless interventions from Somalia to Afghanistan, would volunteer to plant a peacekeeping flag in a hellscape riddled with Hamas tunnels and booby-traps.

"There is a need for the international community to go in, assess the damage, start thinking about reconstruction, working on reconstruction, and to formally keep the peace," al-Ansari elaborated. "This is what will significantly shift the whole process from war to the day after.” Ah, yes, the "day after," that mythical horizon perpetually receding like a mirage in the Negev. 

One can almost hear the echoes of past follies: the Oslo Accords' grand promises, the Dayton Agreement's hollow vows, all crumbling under the weight of Palestinian rejectionism and Arab-state indifference. Qatar, ever the optimist (or opportunist), pins its hopes on a UN Security Council resolution to "mandate an administration and an international force in Gaza, that we would be able to stabilize the situation."

"In principle, a lot of the countries in the region and beyond have agreed to be part of this," he continued, "but in practice that needs a very concrete mandate for the force." In principle: where all the world's virtue-signaling converges, a cocktail party of platitudes. In practice: the yawning chasm where good intentions meet the rubble-strewn reality of Gaza, where "stabilization" means dodging RPGs and unearthing IEDs. It's a reminder that the UN's grand designs have a habit of evaporating when the first suicide vest goes off.

Al-Ansari didn't shy from the hostage horrors either, those Israeli families still chained to the barbarism of October 7. "There are a lot of challenges before we are able to dispense with stage one [of the deal]," he admitted. "Including the difficulty of excavating the remains of those [hostages] who were killed and ascertaining their identities, and the violations that result in the death of Palestinians every day at the hands of IDF soldiers." Here, in a single breath, the Qatari worldview crystalizes: the murderers' handiwork lamented, but swiftly pivoted to Israel's defensive operations as "violations." One searches in vain for mention of Hamas's deliberate use of civilians as human shields, or the rivers of blood from their unprovoked assault. But then, symmetry is not a virtue in Doha's diplomacy.

Lest we forget Qatar's own brushes with the conflict's sharper edges, al-Ansari revisited the IDF's audacious strike on September 9 against Hamas kingpins luxuriating on Qatari soil. "It was designed to push us out, not only out of these [Gaza] talks, but to push us out as an internationally trusted mediator," he claimed. "We were working on more than 10 mediations on the day of the attack." Trusted mediator? From the nation that has funneled billions to Hamas's coffers while lecturing the West on human rights? The irony is thicker than the fog of war itself. "This was not an attack we could brush off and continue doing the work that we were doing," al-Ansari insisted, revealing that Washington had to issue ironclad assurances against further incursions on Qatari turf before the talks could limp back to life. One wonders: if Doha's salons are so sacrosanct for "peace," why not extradite the Hamas butchers who plot from them? Or is the real "no war, no peace" the endless charade Qatar orchestrates, prolonging suffering while burnishing its image as the Middle East's indispensable broker?

In the end, al-Ansari's warnings serve less as prophecy than as a plea: spare us the consequences of the monsters we've harboured. Gaza's fate hangs not on UN resolutions or Qatari bromides, but on Israel's resolve to dismantle the terror infrastructure that birthed this nightmare. Anything less, and the Strip risks not limbo, but an eternal graveyard of squandered chances.

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UK-funded report shows how Hamas weaponized rape

Let's talk about the bloody barbarism unleashed on October 7th, 2023, when Gazan terrorists descended upon Israel with a savagery that defies the boundaries of human decency. 

A new report, funded in part by the British government and set to be released on Tuesday by the Dinah Project, lays bare the grotesque reality of that day, a reality that some, in their moral cowardice, have sought to pretend didn't exist or obscured it. This isn't just about recounting the atrocities; it is a searing indictment of a calculated campaign of sexual violence, wielded as a weapon of war with a horrific, gleeful premeditation that chills the soul.

The Dinah Project, driven by Israeli jurists and anti-rape activists, has compiled what will stand as the first comprehensive, widely accessible chronicle of the sexual horrors inflicted during the Gaza invasion. Its purpose, as stated, is “to counter denial, misinformation and global silence,” a silence that, shamefully, has too often emanated from those quarters of the international community that pride themselves on their humanitarian credentials. 

The report draws upon a harrowing array of testimonies: from 15 former Israeli hostages, one of whom, attorney Amit Soussana, has previously spoken of her ordeal; from a survivor of the Nova music festival who narrowly escaped rape; from 17 other witnesses to the invasion; from therapists tending to the shattered survivors; and from 27 first responders who bore witness to the aftermath of this depravity.

The findings are as unambiguous as they are appalling. 

“Hamas used sexual violence as a tactical weapon of war,” the report declares, and the evidence is irrefutable. “Clear patterns emerged in how the sexual violence was perpetrated,” it continues, detailing a litany of horrors: “victims found partially or fully naked with their hands tied, often to trees or poles; evidence of gang rapes followed by execution; and genital mutilation.” 

These acts were not confined to a single site but were documented across multiple locations: Nova music festival, the IDF’s Nahal Oz base, Route 232, and the kibbutzim of Rei’m, Nir Oz, and Kfar Aza. Nor did the torment end with the initial assault; hostages endured “sexual violence continued in captivity, with many returnees reporting forced nudity, physical and verbal sexual harassment, sexual assaults and threats of forced marriage.”

What emerges from these accounts is not merely the brutality of the acts but their deliberate, systematic nature. Sharon Zagagi-Pinhas, a key figure behind the project, observes with grim precision: “Women found dead, naked and mutilated, with gunshots in their genitalia, and tied to trees. The fact that the same things happened in three to six locations can’t be coincidence but proof this was premeditated.” 

The repetition of rape followed by execution, enacted “dozens” of times, and the grotesque spectacle of terrorists attempting to rape lifeless bodies, “many of the witnesses we spoke to talk of the victims being shot and them still trying to rape a dead body,” Zagagi-Pinhas notes, reveal a depravity that is not spontaneous but orchestrated.

This is not war; this is something much darker, something that seeks not only to destroy but to degrade, to strip away every vestige of humanity. And yet, the global response has been marked by a curious reticence. 

The United Nations, that self-appointed shabby arbiter of moral rectitude, issued a report in March 2024, led by Under-Secretary-General Pramilla Patten, which, while thorough in its review of images, videos, and interviews, lacked the testimony of most hostages, many of whom were still languishing in Gaza’s dungeons at the time. The Dinah Project fills this void, amplifying voices that have been silenced or ignored.

Let's be totally clear: to deny or downplay these atrocities is to collude in their perpetuation. The “global silence” the Dinah Project seeks to shatter is not merely an absence of words but an absence of courage, a refusal to confront evil in its most naked form. 

Those who equivocate, who parse the suffering of the victims to avoid offending the sensibilities of the perpetrators’ apologists, are complicit in a moral failure of historic proportions. The evidence is here, in the voices of the survivors, in the accounts of the first responders, in the meticulous documentation of premeditated horror. To turn away is to betray not only the victims but the very principles of civilization itself.

And yet we know that in spite of the horrible videos Gazans and Hamassholes took on October 7, 2023, they will deny their barbarism and thus challenge your sanity.

But in spite of it all, Am Yisrael Chai!

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Abbas cheers Oct. 7 massacre as precursor of pro-Palestinian summit

The Palestinian Authority’s chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, has once again revealed the moral rot at the heart of his organization, praising the barbaric October 7 Hamas attack as a triumph of “strategic impact.” 

In an interview published last Sunday by the PA’s official daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, and brought to light by the vigilant work of Palestinian Media Watch, Abbas crowed that the attack “shook the foundations of the Israeli entity… revealed its glaring failure.” This is not the language of a statesman seeking peace, but of a Jew-hating propagandist reveling in carnage.

Abbas’s words, originally spoken months ago but now conveniently repackaged in a series of articles teasing a forthcoming hagiography of his life, betray a chilling indifference to the human cost of Hamas’s savagery. “On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a sudden attack... killed 1,200 Israelis, abducted 250 others, and took them as hostages,” he said, before gloating that it “exposed the [false] claims that... it has an invincible army” and laid bare “the glaring failure of this entity’s components, especially the army and the various security forces.” 

For Abbas, the slaughter of innocents and the kidnapping of families are mere footnotes in a narrative of Palestinian triumph. Israel’s failure “to discover what Hamas was planning and to block the attack and prevent heavy losses” is, in his warped estimation, a feather in the cap of the Palestinian cause. Abbas is what is known as a garbage individual.

His sole critique of the attack is not its moral depravity, but its fallout for Gaza’s residents. “As important as the goals that Hamas attempted to achieve through this attack may have been, they are not comparable to the damages and heavy losses that the Gaza Strip residents... have suffered,” Abbas lamented. 

Even here, his concern is not for the victims of Hamas’s terror but for the political and material costs to his own constituency. This is not remorse; it is calculation.

Adding fuel to this fire, Abbas’s senior adviser, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, recently declared the October 7 atrocities “legitimate resistance” in a March interview, repeating five times that “resistance is legitimate” and insisting that “what happened on October 7 is a legitimate thing.” Such rhetoric does not merely flirt with justifying terrorism; it embraces it with open arms. 

And since when is killing babies resistance?

This grotesque posturing comes as France and Saudi Arabia prepare to host a United Nations event on June 17 to push for international recognition of Palestinian statehood, a move Israeli officials rightly decry as a “prize for Hamas’s terrorism.” The timing of Abbas’s remarks, dripping with smug satisfaction, could not be more revealing. They expose the yawning chasm between the PA’s carefully curated image for Western audiences and the unfiltered venom it spews in Arabic to its own people.

Palestinian Media Watch, which unearthed this interview, argues that Abbas’s words confirm the PA’s unwavering support for terrorism, casting serious doubt on its fitness for statehood. Itamar Marcus, PMW’s founder, put it bluntly: “The interview shows that the PA unabashedly remains a terror-supporting entity.” 

Marcus goes further, urging Israel and the United States to block PA leaders from attending the UN event until Abbas retracts his and his adviser’s grotesque defense of October 7. “Israel must prevent Mahmoud Abbas or any PA leader from leaving for the UN,” he insists, while calling on the U.S. to deny visas to PA officials. He also demands that Israel inform France and Saudi Arabia, the event’s cosponsors, of “exactly what the PA stands for.”

Marcus’s warning is stark: “Mahmoud Abbas has reminded us once again that if the PA were to become a state, it would be a terror state.” This is not hyperbole; it is a sobering truth. The West, in its eagerness to advance a two-state solution, turns a blind eye to the PA’s glorification of violence, seduced by the fiction of a partner for peace. 

Abbas’s own words betray him. To celebrate the murder of 1,200 Israelis and the abduction of 250 more as a strategic victory is not the mark of a leader, but of a fanatic. The civilized world should take note and act accordingly.

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We knew Hamas would re-arm during ceasefire: US intel warns of the threat they now pose

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A joint report from American intelligence agencies cautions that Hamas continues to endanger Israel, keeping a terrorist force of thousands equipped with a large stockpile of weapons.

Experts from U.S. intelligence agencies have warned that Hamas remains a danger to Israel, suggesting that the group probably used the ceasefire with Israel in the Gaza Strip to restock its weapons and strengthen its military power.  

Anyone with a functioning cortex was aware this would probably happen.

On Tuesday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released its yearly threat report, compiled from evaluations across the United States Intelligence Community, which includes over 1,000 different government agencies and organizations.

In its 2025 report, the U.S. Intelligence Community stated that, despite the heavy losses Hamas has faced since October 7, 2023, and the weakening of its military abilities during its conflict with Israel, the Iran-sponsored jihadist terror group still holds significant resources and continues to pose a threat to Israel.

“Even in degraded form, Hamas continues to pose a threat to Israeli security,” the report stated.

The report’s authors also noted that Hamas likely took advantage of the January 19th ceasefire – which officially ended on March 2 but remained in place until last Tuesday – to rebuild some of its military strength, including rearming.

“The group retains thousands of fighters and much of its underground infrastructure, and probably has used the ceasefire to reinforce and resupply its military and munitions stock so that it can fight again.”

Although Hamas’s capacity to launch a major attack has been greatly reduced, the report indicated that the group can sustain “low-level” operations against Israel within Gaza for an extended period, allowing it to maintain its status as the primary Palestinian authority in the coastal region.

“Hamas is capable of resuming a low-level guerrilla resistance and of remaining the dominant political action in Gaza for the foreseeable future. Low expectations on all sides that a ceasefire will endure and the absence of a credible post-fighting political and reconstruction plan, portend years of instability.”

U.S. intelligence experts observed that support for Hamas has decreased in Gaza during the ongoing war but pointed out that “its popularity remains high among West Bank Palestinians.”

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Al Jazeera "reporter" on Hamas payroll eliminated by IAF airstrike

The world knew him as a reporter in the Middle East war between Hamas and Israel, but Hamas files identified him as a sniper in the terror group's Beit Hanoun Battalion.

Al Jazeera 'reporter' Hossam Shabat, who was also a Hamas sniper, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, the Qatari network reported on Monday. There has been no official statement from Israel about this Hamasshole, as is their practice.

So here we are, once again, peering into the grim abyss of Gaza, where the lines between journalism and jihad blur with a disturbing ease. Reports trickling out of that benighted strip tell us that Mohammed Mansour, a scribe for Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Falstin Al-Yom channel, met his end in an airstrike. One wonders if the distinction even matters in a place so steeped in blood and duplicity.

Consider the case of Shabat, a name that surfaced in October alongside five other Al Jazeera so called reporters—Anas Al-Sharif, Ala’ Salama, Ashraf al Sarraj, Ismail Abu Amr, and Talal al-Arrouqi—all unmasked as card-carrying members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. 

How do we know this? 

Because Israeli troops, rummaging through the detritus of Gaza, stumbled upon captured personnel tables, terrorist training rosters, phone books, and salary documents—paper trails of scumbaggery. Shabat, it turns out, wasn’t just scribbling notes; he was a sniper in Hamas’s Beit Hanoun Battalion, a detail that lends a certain clarity to his byline.

The rot goes deeper. 

Other files pried from Gaza’s clutches reveal Al Jazeera’s cozy arrangement with Hamas—taking cues on how to spin specific incidents, even setting up a secure hotline so the terror outfit could whisper directly into the network’s ear during emergencies. This isn’t journalism; it’s a megaphone for murderers. 

Israel, quite sensibly, moved to slam the door shut on Al Jazeera’s operations in May—revoking press credentials, seizing transmitters, blocking websites. The ban isn’t eternal, mind you, just a 90-day renewable purge, a flicker of pragmatism in a world gone mad.

The push to muzzle Al Jazeera gained steam back in February when Mohamed Washah, another of their intrepid 'reporters,' was exposed as a Hamas commander. His laptop, fished out of northern Gaza by Israeli soldiers, revealed his starring role in the group’s anti-armor missile systems—a sideline, presumably, to his day job filing dispatches. 

Then, in August, the IDF released files confirming that Al Jazeera’s Ismail al-Ghoul—lovely name, that fits him so well—was a Hamas engineer in the Gaza City Brigade, his credentials etched in a 2021 dossier alongside thousands of other terrorists. The evidence piles up like bodies.

By October, Al Jazeera was openly accused of imperiling Israeli soldiers, broadcasting details of troop assemblies with a savage, deliberate recklessness. The Cabinet, roused at last, green-lit emergency regulations to shutter the network’s operations in Israel. The Tel Aviv District Court, in a rare moment of lucidity, nodded its assent in July, declaring the Qatari outlet’s broadcasts “a real violation of state security.” 

No kidding, Sherlock.

And all this traces back to that dark dawn of October 7, when Hamas unleashed hell on Israeli communities near the Gaza border—1,200 souls slaughtered, 251 Israelis and foreigners dragged off as hostages. Of the 59 still unaccounted for, 36 are presumed dead, their fates a grim footnote to this macabre saga.

The numbers numb, but the reality sears. Al Jazeera, with its pious pretensions, stands complicit—not merely reporting the war, but waging it by proxy. As the poet Auden once wrote, “Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.” 

In Gaza, it seems, it also files copy for the evening news.

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Trump wants ceasefire canceled if Hamassholes don't release hostages by Saturday [Shabbat], "Let all hell break out"

President Donald Trump made it clear that if Hamas fails to release all hostages by high noon on Saturday, he will call for the ceasefire to end and "let all hell break out." It's his FAFO stance that has worked so well thus far with all foreign entities for one reason or another.

The President made this comment while signing yet more executive orders Monday evening in the Oval Office.

When he was asked if he believed the ceasefire deal should be canceled, he said that is "Israel’s decision."

"If all the Gaza hostages aren't returned by Saturday at 12 p.m., I would say cancel the ceasefire," Trump said in the Oval Office. "Let all hell break out; Israel can override it."

Trump stressed that Hamas needs to release "all of them—not in drips and drabs."

"Saturday at 12pm and after that, I would say, all hell is going to break out," Trump said. 

Meanwhile former alleged President Biden is confused along the beach.

A Hamasshole mouth spoke on Monday saying that Hamas will delay the next planned release of hostages in the Gaza Strip after accusing Israel of violating the ceasefire agreement.

Yeah sure. These scumbags blame Israel for the October 7 attack, then denied it happened, then bragged to their parents about the Jews they slaughtered, then made themselves out to be the victims and now we're supposed to believe it was Israel who broke the ceasefire. 

"Over the past three weeks, the resistance leadership has monitored the enemy's violations and failure to fulfill its obligations under the agreement; including the delay in allowing the return of the displaced to the northern Gaza Strip, targeting them with direct shelling and gunfire in various areas across Gaza, and denying relief supplies of all kinds to enter as agreed, while the resistance has implemented all its obligations," Abu Obeida, the spokesperson for Hamas’ military wing, said.

"Therefore, the release of the Zionist prisoners next Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025, will be postponed until further notice, and until the occupation commits to and provides compensation for the entitlements of the past weeks retroactively," he said. "We reaffirm our commitment to the terms of the agreement, as long as the occupation remains committed to them."

No, the real reason for the delay, most likely, is due to Hamas' disorganization. It's more likely they don't actually know where all the hostages are located. Gosh, you'd think Hamas was being run by the Democratic Party.

Israel and Hamas are in the midst of a six-week ceasefire, during which Hamas has committed to releasing 33 hostages captured in its Oct. 7, 2023 attack in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, which is an obscene comparison rate. But the Hamassholes know that Jews actually care about the lives of all people and the dignity of the dead, while the terrorists don't seem to care about the lives of Arab children, even their own.

Next week's swap calls for only three Israeli hostages to be released in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian scumcrumpets currently in prison, some sentenced to life due to their violent crimes.

"Hamas’ announcement to stop the release of Israeli hostages is a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement and the hostage release deal," Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Monday. "I have instructed the [Israeli Defense Forces] IDF to maintain the highest level of readiness for any possible scenario in Gaza and to fortify the defense of Israeli communities. We will not allow a return to the reality of Oct. 7."

It's time to end them, once and for all.

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Bodies of 2 Israeli hostages taken on Oct. 7 found by IDF in Gaza

Hamas needs to be destroyed. They have no humanity and live via the guidance of a book written in the age of Classical Antiquity. Since taking more than 250 Israeli hostages on October 7, 2023, it comes as no surprise that many, if not most of them have been murdered by Hamas while in captivity.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have found the bodies of hostages Youssef and Hamza Ziyadne during operations in the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz's announcement on Wednesday evening.

In a statement, Katz said, "I express my deep condolences to the Ziyadne family upon the discovery of the bodies of Youssef and Hamza, who were kidnapped by Hamas murderers on Oct. 7 and were rescued in a heroic operation by our heroic soldiers. We continue to do everything to fulfill our supreme moral obligation—the return of all the hostages, living and dead, to Israeli soil."

The IDF and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) confirmed that Youssef's remains were discovered in a tunnel in the Rafah part of southern Gaza. While they didn't immediately confirm Hamza's death, they noted that findings in the tunnel "raised 'serious concerns' for his life."

Ali Ziyadne, Youssef's brother, shared his grief with Ynet news, stating, "Our hearts ache. We wanted them to return to our family alive, but unfortunately they returned dead. Aisha and her brother Bilal were waiting to embrace them. This is a difficult and shocking disaster."

Youssef, aged 53, and his son Hamza, 22, along with Bilal, 18, and Aisha, 17, were kidnapped from Kibbutz Holit by Hamas on October 7, 2023. Bilal and Aisha were later released during a ceasefire in November 2023 after spending 55 days in captivity.

On the same day of the attack, 25 residents from Rahat, the largest Muslim Bedouin city in Israel's Negev desert, went to work at Kibbutz Holit and Kibbutz Sufa but did not return. They were among the 1,200 people killed, with thousands injured, and over 250 taken hostage into Gaza, including six Bedouins.

Currently, according to Israeli estimates, 98 hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza, with 94 of them kidnapped during the October 7 attacks. Out of the 251 hostages taken that day, 157 have been either returned or rescued. Hamas is believed to hold 36 bodies, 34 from October 7, and 2 from 2014, IDF soldiers Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul.

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CNN lied to terror victims: now apologizes

More than a month after Christiane Amanpour, a so called journalist from the Compromised News Network, wrongly claimed that Lucy Dee and her two daughters were killed "in a shoot-out," she finally apologized for suggesting that the women were armed during their murder.

“On April 10, I referred to the murders of an Israeli family: Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee, the wife and daughters of Rabbi Leo Dee. I misspoke [aka lied] and said they were killed in a ‘shoot-out’ instead of a shooting,” Amanpour explained in her on-air apology on May 22.

“I have written to Rabbi Leo Dee to apologize and make sure that he knows that we apologize for any further pain that may have caused him.”

However, Amanpour's apology did not mention that the women were victims of a terror attack, nor did it identify or discuss the attackers or their motives.

Last month, the pro-Israel group HonestReporting shared a video clip on Twitter of Amanpour talking about the incident on TV. Lucy Dee and her daughters Maia and Rina were brutally shot at close range in their car by terrorists in an attack that had no provocation. But this is what terrorists do--like the Oct. 7 attack last year when Hamas and other cowards came into Israel and mercilessly killed, tortured, raped and burned to death over 1,200 unarmed Jewish men, women, children and babies. 

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When Amanpour described the attack, she claimed that the mother and daughters were “killed in a shoot-out,” implying that the British-Israeli women were armed and defending themselves in an exchange of fire with the terrorists. Even if that was the case, which it was not, remember who instigated the slaughter of the innocent family.

“A shoot-out is two sides firing at each other,” HonestReporting posted as a caption to the clip. “A mother and her two daughters were shot at close range by Palestinian terrorists.”

Addressing Amanpour, they wrote that “you owe a grieving family an apology.”

Rabbi Leo Dee, the widower and father of the victims, was outraged by Amanpour’s characterization of the murders.

“This is the perfect example of ‘terror journalism’ where you have a moral equivalence between the terrorist and victim,” Dee said in a media statement.

“This type of journalism perpetuates the conflict in the Middle East. The real cycle of violence is a comment like this followed by a terrorist atrocity and then more of the same.”

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Daughter of hostage to Biden: "Why didn't you threaten like Trump?"

The daughter of two murdered hostages, livid over the incompetence and/or indifference of the Biden administration, slams him and other world leaders for not demanding Hamas release the hostages "or else." She pointed to President-elect Donald Trump's recent post on X threatening the Hamassholes if they don't release their hostages and said it serves as an example for the international community.

Weinstein Haggai’s parents, Gadi and Judi, held dual Israel and American citizenship. The couple were brutally murdered in their Kibbutz Nir Oz home during the October 7th cowardly terror slaughter, and their bodies were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip.

“Our situation would have been a lot different. We would have saved many lives — not only Israelis, not only hostages, but also Palestinians — if only world leaders took a stand for the unconditional release of all these hostages,” she told the Times of Israel.

She stated that her critique "definitely" extends to Biden, noting that although she was grateful for his initial support for Israel after the massacres, she felt his demands for Hamas to release the hostages lacked sufficient force.

"The demand for them to be released 'or else,' is what I'm looking for," said Weinstein Haggai.

She argued that the reluctance of Biden and other global leaders to impose significant repercussions on Hamas for holding hostages has prolonged the conflict and devastation in the region.

"When these Hamas terrorists... see that world leaders don't pressure them... it sends a message to them that they can execute six beautiful young people and there are no consequences, that they can release these propaganda videos and nobody's going to do anything," Weinstein Haggai continued.

She concluded by saying it's "never too late" for world leaders to take on Trump's approach towards Hamas.

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