Israel committing “horrific crimes” against starving civilians in Gaza

The Israeli military is committing “horrific crimes” against civilians in Gaza, a human rights group said on Sunday.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor called for an “urgent international investigation” into field executions, torture and threats of rape against Palestinians by Israeli ground forces in Gaza.

Palestinians arrested in their homes and later released told the Geneva-based group that they were stripped naked and attacked with “machine guns, electric cables and cold water.”

A 16-year-old boy told the Euro-Med Monitor that Israeli forces stormed his family’s home in Shujaiya, near Gaza City, after they were besieged for a week without food or water.

“He stated that over the past few days, Israeli forces killed everyone in his neighborhood who tried to leave their home, including [his] brother,” the rights group said.

The boy’s family were “gathered naked and handcuffed before being violently assaulted and beaten,” Euro-Med Monitor added. The teen “still does not know what happened to his mother and sisters, who were captured and kidnapped by the Israeli army.”

Euro-Med Monitor says that it has collected testimonies from people who witnessed field executions of unarmed civilians by Israeli troops in Gaza City.

A pregnant woman who was sheltering at a hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, told the group that an “Israeli soldier pointed his gun at her head and threatened to kill her even though she had told him she was five months pregnant.”

“The soldier ordered her to take off her clothes and threatened to rape her,” the Euro-Med Monitor added.

Israeli military’s significant losses

More than 18,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed in Israeli attacks since 7 October, 300 of them in the last 24 hours alone, health ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qedra said on Sunday. The majority of those killed are women and children.

The Israel military is meanwhile suffering significant losses at the hands of the Palestinian resistance.

This includes a failed attempt to rescue an Israeli captive that reportedly resulted in the man’s death, with the armed wing of Hamas publishing a video showing his body, and the serious injury of two soldiers.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-committing-horrific-crimes-against-starving-civilians-gaza

Israel Seeking Permanent Expulsion of Gaza’s Population to Egypt

Israel’s armed forces, officially the Israeli Defence Forces, are reportedly seeking to engineer the mass expulsion of the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip into the Sinai Peninsula of neighbouring Egypt, according to the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini. Israel has prevented the population of northern Gaza from returning to their homes after responding to attacks by militias based in the territory with mass bombardment and an invasion invasion in October, and has moved to target civilians further south on a significant scale creating a serious humanitarian crisis and tens of thousands of casualties. Cutting off water and electricity from the Gaza’s population of 2.3 million people, combined with mass targeting of housing and infrastructure, are expected to lead to a further surge in death rates for civilians leaving growing parts of the territory unliveable. Lazzarini warned of Israeli designs for “forcibly displacing Gazans out of the Gaza Strip… the developments we are witnessing point to attempts to move Palestinians into Egypt, regardless of whether they stay there or are resettled elsewhere.”

With Israeli attacks over the past two months having driven more than 1.8 million Gazans from their homes, which represents the largest forced displacement of Palestinians in over 75 years, Lazzarini stressed that Israeli attacks on UN facilities in southern Gaza have contributed to civilian deaths and ensured that nowhere is safe from potential attacks. “The sad reality is that Gazans are not safe anywhere: not at home, not in a hospital, not under the UN flag, not in the north, middle, or south,” he stated. The Israeli Defence Forces have notably attacked areas of southern Gaza which the Israeli government specifically instructed civilians to flee to. As a result of attacks, the bulk of the surviving population were holed up in a “tiny area” of southern Gaza near the Egyptian border. “Judging by policy and humanitarian discussions underway, it is hard to believe that the Palestinians of Gaza who are displaced today will be allowed – or even willing – to return to their destroyed homes anytime soon,” he added. While Israeli forces have on multiple occasions targeted civilians fleeing south, it is expected that the north and middle of the territory will remain depopulated and under Israeli control indefinitely. Lazzarini’s allegations have been supported by statements from Israeli officials, a notable example being Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich who said the “voluntary migration” of Palestinians out of Gaza was the “right humanitarian solution.” A policy document compiled by the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence and leaked in late October called for the depopulation of Gaza and the forced displacement of its population into Egypt, indicating that this remained a key policy objective.

https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/israel-relocation-gazans-egypt-cleansing

COURT UNSEALS EXPLOSIVE FTC ALLEGATIONS AGAINST LOCATION DATA BROKER

A Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) complaint against data broker Kochava unsealed and published in early November reveals shocking new information about the company’s handling of extremely sensitive personal information pertaining to hundreds of millions of people in the United States. Among the explosive revelations: according to the FTC, Kochava maintains a dossier on virtually every living American adult.

The complaint is the latest government filing in litigation the FTC initiated against the Idaho-based data broker in August 2022, alleging that the company violated the FTC Act because it engaged in unfair or deceptive acts or practices surrounding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information. Since then, Kochava filed and won a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. While the court agreed that the FTC’s theories of consumer injury were legally plausible, it held that the factual allegations in the original complaint were insufficient. But instead of dismissing the case entirely, the court gave the federal agency 30 days to file an amended complaint. The FTC filed its amended complaint in June 2023, providing more details about the company’s operations and resulting privacy harms.

Among other disturbing revelations, the complaint describes in detail how the FTC obtained a free sample of cellphone location data from Kochava, and how FTC analysts were able to use that information to track someone who visited an abortion clinic back to their home.

The FTC case against Kochava focuses on the following key aspects of the company’s operations and the harm they cause to consumers:

Surveillance and tracking of people seeking health care: In a significant part of the amended complaint, the FTC reveals that location data sold by Kochava can be used to identify consumers who have visited abortion clinics​​. In one instance, Kochava’s data traced the same mobile device to a reproductive health clinic and then to a single-family residence.

Location data collection, use, and sale: The FTC’s allegations against Kochava center on the company’s acquisition, use, and sale of “precise geolocation information.” Kochava does not interact directly with individual consumers but acquires consumers’ precise geolocation data from other companies, such as app developers. This geolocation data, which can pinpoint a consumer’s location to less than 10 meters, includes data that tracks consumers’ movements for at least the past year and is updated regularly. The FTC emphasizes that Kochava’s location data allows any purchaser to track people visiting sensitive locations associated with medical care, reproductive health, religious worship, mental health, shelters for at-risk populations, and addiction recovery​​. Indeed, the FTC itself obtained a sample of Kochava’s location data and used it to do just that.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/85566/court-unseals-explosive-ftc-allegations-against-location-data.html

Israel Supporters Would Defend Literally Any Israeli Atrocity

Israel supporters are like, “No no you don’t understand, the side that’s killing babies and incinerating families and assassinating journalists and starving civilians and bombing cultural heritage sites and carpet bombing entire neighborhoods and driving an indigenous people off their land are the GOOD guys.”

There is literally nothing Israel could do that its supporters wouldn’t defend. Try to fill in the blank in “Israel could _ and people would defend it” with something that wouldn’t be true. Most of the insanely evil things you could put in that space are already actually being done. Genocide? They’re already doing that. Murdering babies? They’re already doing that. Killing thousands of children? Already doing that. Deliberately targeting and assassinating journalists, artists and scholars? Already doing that.

Israel supporters will defend any evil — literally any evil — as long as it is being perpetrated by their favorite regime. There are zero constraints of any kind, because Israel supporters are completely uninterested in morality. If they were, they wouldn’t be supporting one of the most immoral governments on this planet even after all it has done in the last two months.

Part of the problem is the widespread consensus that October 7 means Israel is justified in doing literally anything in response, no matter how heinous. Israel could exterminate the entire population of Gaza and its supporters would still be saying “WHAT ABOUT OCTOBER 7??”

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-supporters-would-defend-literally

Israel's 43-minute Hamas atrocity video exposed

From private screenings to media manipulations and outright lies, the Israeli military is pulling out all the stops in its propaganda blitz to justify a total war on Gaza

Under scrutiny now is the much-ballyhooed 43-minute video compilation of 7 October events that the Israeli army has screened exclusively for select journalists and dignitaries. The footage allegedly shows the “worst atrocities” committed that day - acts that Israel says are too brutal for viewing by the general public.

When first presented to 100 international media representatives on 23 October, Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari drew parallels between Hamas and ISIS. He stated Hamas had:

“Decided to commit this crime against humanity … to rape, to kill indiscriminately, to behead people. And yes … also babies. And they did this with complete understanding of what they were doing and what will happen afterward in Gaza as a consequence.”

But now prominent Guardian journalist Owen Jones, who watched the footage at a private screening, has emerged to say that not only does the video fall short of those claims, but it is being deliberately used to justify Israel's horrific assault on Gaza's civilians.

Horrific scenes

The fact that Jones is one of the few journalists questioning Israel's video narrative speaks volumes about how carefully the Israeli army has screened its invitation list and limited invites to a trusted coterie of VIPs.

Like many others, Owen's Guardian colleague Rory Carroll, who wrote about the footage after its first screening at a military base in Tel Aviv, dutifully recited the Israeli narrative without questioning its purpose. Although it is unclear whether Carroll himself viewed the video, he lists some truly horrific scenes that “left some reporters in tears,” and “included the killing of children and decapitation of some victims.”

Carroll's only hint at a possible motivation behind the Israeli army's video is in his penultimate paragraph: “The screening took place amid renewed appeals to Israel to halt its bombing of Gaza, which killed at least 400 Palestinians in the past 24 hours,” while adding that Israeli bombing had killed more than 5,000 Palestinians including 2,055 children, since 7 October.

But when fellow Guardian journalist Owen Jones was finally granted access to the video a month later, he found plenty of inconsistencies in the Israeli military's assertions.

Jones acknowledged the horrific nature of many scenes in the video, such as a Hamas fighter using a grenade to kill a father and injure his two young sons, and another brutally beheading a Thai farm worker with a garden tool. However, Israel's most high-profile claims were conspicuously absent. Jones explains that,

“We were told of large-scale beheading, including of 40 babies … [But] we don’t see children being killed … If there was torture, no evidence is given … If there was rape and sexual violence committed, we don’t see this on the footage either.”

Similarly, Jones' Guardian colleague had written that the footage showed Hamas attackers entering a house and killing a young girl, perhaps 7 years old, whom they found hiding under a table. But Jones confirmed that no such footage of a young girl being killed existed in the video of the screening he attended.

Jones also states that the video included an audio recording of a Hamas fighter who calls his mother from the phone of one of his Israeli victims, bragging to her of having killed “ten Jews.”

However, Jones notes that the Israeli military has previously released audio recordings “whose veracity has been challenged by experts” to bolster its propaganda since 7 October. For example, Israel has conveniently produced dubious audio recordings helpful in covering up its bombing of hospitals and ambulances.

Defending Israel’s massacres

By showing the footage only to select journalists viewed as sympathetic to Israel, rather than releasing it publicly for broader scrutiny, the Israeli military appears to be seeking to to justify its own war crimes in Gaza.

Jones stated that he and the other journalists were “told at the beginning of the screening, the point of this exercise was to encourage us to use our platforms to defend Israel’s onslaught on Gaza.”

https://new.thecradle.co/articles/israels-43-minute-hamas-atrocity-video-exposed

Washington Post: Eliminate The First Amendment to 'Fight Antisemitism'

America must scrap the First Amendment to protect the feelings of pampered Jewish Ivy League college students, so says University of Pennsylvania law professor Claire Finkelstein in the Washington Post.

From The Washington Post, "To fight antisemitism on campuses, we must restrict speech":

Claire O. Finkelstein is Algernon Biddle professor of law and professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the school's Open Expression Committee and chair of the law school's committee on academic freedom. The views expressed here are the author's own.

The testimony of three university presidents before a House committee last week provoked outrage after they suggested that calls on their campuses for Jewish genocide might not have violated their schools' free speech policies. One of them, Liz Magill, was forced to step down on Saturday as president of the University of Pennsylvania, where I am a faculty member.

But their statements shouldn't have come as a surprise. Congress could have assembled two dozen university presidents and likely would have received the same answer from each of them.

This is because the value of free speech has been elevated to a near-sacred level on university campuses. As a result, universities have had to tolerate hate speech even hate speech calling for violence against ethnic or religious minorities. With the dramatic rise in antisemitism, we are discovering that this is a mistake: Antisemitism and other forms of hate – cannot be fought on university campuses without restricting poisonous speech that targets Jews and other minorities.

Actionable calls for violence and death threats are now, and have always been, illegal. This is purely about censoring criticism of Israel and Jews, whom she evidently views as beyond critique.

University presidents are resisting this conclusion. Rather than confront the conflict between the commitment to free speech and the commitment to eliminating the hostile environment facing Jewish students on campus, many simply affirm their commitment to both or buy time by setting up task forces to study the problem. Some have attempted to split the difference by saying they are institutionally committed to free speech but personally offended by antisemitism. Others have said the answer to hate speech is education and more speech.

Countering speech with more speech might just mean adding to the hateful rhetoric on campus and would not solve the problem. And university presidents can set up all the task forces, study groups and educational modules they like, but what kind of educational effort could possibly bring together warring groups that are busy calling for one another's violent demise?

Two and a half centuries of free speech needs to end because Jews and Muslims can't iron out their differences and get along together in America?

In a video message released the day after her testimony, Magill issued an apology in which she suggested that her statements, while legally correct, were insensitive because she was "not focused on" the fact that a call for genocide is "a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate." While many remained deeply troubled by the insensitivity of her comments, I am most concerned about the legal and policy conclusions Magill endorsed: that speech calling for Jewish genocide does not violate campus policies at the University of Pennsylvania. This is profoundly wrong.

Finkelstein needs to lie and claim pro-Palestine students were calling for "genocide" to make her point.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64170

Max Igan – THE MATRIX IS COLLAPSING

https://www.bitchute.com/video/w9EKKkoau5GO

COVID 19 was the flu rebranded. "I'm going to tell you that the design of the so-called vaccines was intentionally to harm people." – Michael Yeadon, PhD

All of our social institutions were complicit in perpetrating this hoax. With the exception of a few brave doctors, the medical profession was the worst offender. Then the government, the MSM, justice and law enforcement, the schools and churches. Everyone fell into line. Everyone followed the money, not the science. And the money is controlled by the Rothschild banking cartel who want you dead.