Obama lobbied to keep Harvard President Gay "in drerd"

 

.A new report claims that former US President Barack Obama privately lobbied Harvard University on behalf of university president Claudine Gay following her controversial testimony to Congress regarding calls for genocide against Jews.

Penny Pritzker, who helms the university’s highest governing body, is a billionaire and former Obama administration Secretary of Commerce. She was appointed to Harvard's governance after donating $100M to the university and personally led the committee that brought Gay to her position as university president.

Jewish Insider reports that Obama, a Harvard graduate, had privately lobbied on Gay’s behalf as she faced pressure to resign in the wake of her disastrous appearance before the congressional hearing on antisemitism.

Obama, Pritzker, and Harvard have all refused to comment on the report.

Palestinians have right to kill Israeli soldiers ..... UN Special Reporter

 United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese claimed that Palestinian Arabs have a right to kill Israeli soldiers in an interview with podcast Makdisi Street, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

In the interview, Albanese said that when terrorist groups that "target civilian objects" commit war crimes, but "if they target military objects, they do not commit war crimes—they are in line with acts of resistance."

"The killing of soldiers, it's, I mean, frankly, it's a tragedy, but it's not a crime," Albanese said. "Instead, very often, when Palestinians manage to attack soldiers, they are portrayed as terrorists. And this is a misunderstanding that needs to be addressed."

She slammed "Western powers" and "Western media" for portraying attacks on Israelis as terrorism, and said that while the Hamas massacre of October 7 must be condemned, "an illegal act of the resistance doesn't delegitimize the resistance itself."

Albanese has been involved in numerous antisemitism scandals since being appointed to her position as Special Rapporteur, including engaging in the antisemitic trope about a nefarious "Jewish lobby." Since the massacre of over 1,200 people on October 7, she has condemned Israel for defending itself and gone as far as to claim that Israel has no right to defend itself.

Less than two months after the massacre, Albanese published a book blaming Israel for the current conflict in which she co-opted the title 'J'Accuse,' the phrase used to call out the antisemitism of the trial of Alfred Dreyfus in 1898,

She has even called a demand that Hamas release the hostages it captured on October 7, which include many civilians and even children and babies, "unacceptable."

While Albanese claimed that Palestinian Arabs have the right to attack Israeli soldiers as long as they do not attack civilians, attacks on Israeli civilians are frequent, and the goal of Hamas and other terrorist organizations is to kill all Jews, regardless of whether they are civilians or soldiers.

.Hostage Gadi Haggai’s gruesome death shows horror won’t stop until Hamas is destroyed

Gadi on right 

 It’s another horror at the hands of Hamas: Gadi Haggai, a 73-year-old American Israeli, has died while being held hostage by the terrorists, reports the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum, a group representing the families.

And it’s clear Hamas let the grandfather of seven die of grotesque wounds that it inflicted.

Before the terrorists dragged them both off to captivity during the Oct. 7 atrocities, his wife, Judi Weinstein, got out a call for help to another member of their kibbutz, saying she’d been shot in the arm and her husband in the head.

Their daughter, Iris Weinstein Haggai, says paramedics tried to send help, but a rocket took out the ambulance.

Hamas goons took the elderly, bleeding couple as hostages anyway.

And then, plainly, failed to get the helpless, dying man proper medical care.

No humanitarian releases (except for calculated propaganda purposes) from these fanatics.

He’s the first American hostage to die; his wife, 70, is believed to still be a hostage.

Since the terrorists’ leaders vow to mount more Oct. 7-style atrocities if they can, this nightmare is more proof that, while Jerusalem might accept another cease-fire if it frees more hostages, Israel must finish this war by destroying Hamas.

‘Gaslighting’ is the most Googled word in America — are you using it correctly?

 

Gaslighting has become one of the most popular words in the English language — if only most of us using it actually knew what the hell it meant.

According to a new study by Crossword Solver, the trendy term was the one Googled the most this year, typically in search of a definition. The news follows Merriam-Webster honoring it as 2022’s Word of The Year, after an 1,740% increase in search.

The esteemed dictionary lists gaslighting’s full definition as the “psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and typically leads to confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, uncertainty of one’s emotional or mental stability, and a dependency on the perpetrator.”

But that’s not how many people are using the word, experts warn — in modern times it has instead been weaponized as a way of shutting down discussion, in hopes of silencing those who disagree with you.

“Gaslighting is often used in an accusatory way when somebody may just be insistent on something, or somebody may be trying to influence you,” Dr. Robin Stern, co-founder of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and author of “The Gaslight Effect,” told Well and Good. “That’s not what gaslighting is.” 

According to Dr. Stern, gaslighting is “the act of undermining another person’s reality by denying facts, the environment around them, or their feelings,” specifically with the intent to cause confusion.

“The gaslighter intends to sow seeds of doubt in the person they are gaslighting, hoping to make them question their memory, their sanity, their perception, their reality,” she added.

The expert warns that misusing the word will make it more difficult for people who are being gaslit to understand when it’s happening — and will diminish people’s understanding of the severity of the abusive tactic.

Fully understood or no, the experts at Merriam-Webster noted the word’s addition to the country’s lexicon made perfect sense, given the social climate.

“In this age of misinformation — of ‘fake news,’ conspiracy theories, Twitter trolls, and deepfakes — gaslighting has emerged as a word for our time,” Merriam-Webster said in announcing the word last year.

Peter Sokolowski, the dictionary’s editor at large, said the word was looked up every day in 2022.

But it wasn’t left behind last year, the new study showed.

Drone Fired Directly from Iran Hits Israeli-Linked Tanker Off India’s Coast

 

A combat drone believed to have been fired directly from Iran struck the Merchant Vessel Chem Pluto, an Israeli-linked chemical/oil products tanker off the coast of India on Saturday, according to a report broadcast on Israel’s Channel 12 News.

The tanker is owned by Rio Brillante SA, based in Panama, and operated by Fleet Management Ltd., based in Wilton, Connecticut.

The Israeli connection is not clear.

The attack, which started a fire on the vessel, took place some 200 nautical miles southwest of Veraval, India, according to Reuters, quoting the British Ambrey maritime security firm. Some “structural damage was also reported and some water was taken onboard” the firm said.

“Merchant vessels are advised these types of attacks are typically targeted at Israel-affiliated shipping, but have in the past mistakenly hit previously Israel-affiliated vessels,” Ambrey said. “This event fell within Ambrey’s Iranian UAV heightened threat area.”

This is the first such known attack so far away from the Red Sea since the start of the war against Israel launched by Iranian-backed Hamas on October 7th.

The vessel was reportedly carrying crude oil from a port in Saudi Arabia, and was sailing towards Mangalore in southern India at the time of the attack. It was rescued by the Indian Coast Guard ship ICGS Vikram, which will escort the vessel, expected to reach Mumbai by Monday (Dec. 25).

The fire was extinguished but affected the functioning of the tanker, which was sailing under the flag of Liberia, according to The Economic Times.

All crew members, including about 20 people from India, were said to be safe, according to the report.

The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have been attacking Israeli-linked vessels — and others — sailing in the Red Sea since the start of the war on October 7th. At least seven major shipping firms have suspended Red Sea transit operations over the past several weeks due to the attacks.

Israel can destroy Hamas, but Biden’s handlers are getting in the way, the end result being Israeli boys getting killed

 

The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Israel is losing young soldiers in this war because, among other reasons, they are trying to follow the direction of the Biden administration.

Israel is in a fierce, costly war with Hamas in Gaza and Joe Biden is in the midst of a stealth-like campaign to win re-election to a second term, even though his administration is the closest thing to a lame duck presidency, with constantly falling poll numbers.

In the last few weeks, during what has been a politically important time for Biden, both Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin were in Israel trying to instruct the Israeli military on how to fight a war against the terrorists in a way that helps the Biden administration gain international prestige and future popularity at the polls.

Israel can destroy Hamas, but it seems that Joe Biden’s handlers are getting in the way, with the end result being that Israeli boys are getting killed.

SHOCK VIDEO: College Students offer Money Toward Killing Jews

 

 A video has been published showing real college students showing support — and offering money — for killing Jews. The chilling footage exposes the depth of Jew hatred among “ordinary” campus members.

The video, released by Jewish filmmaker Ami Horowitz, shows Horowitz approaching students on campus and asking if they want to donate “money for arms and weapons against the Jews”.

“We want to fund operations against soft targets, schools, hospitals, Jewish cafes,” he tells a group of students. At one point he says: “All we have is rockets and suicide bombers, that kind of thing.”

Multiple students, unaware they were being filmed, agreed to Horowitz’s requests.

“I would totally be down,” one student said.

“I like what you’re saying,” another student says

“I think their behavior and the actions are evil,” one student says.

The “social experiment” was conducted at San Francisco State University (SFSU).

“Not a single person I came across — not one — said, ‘This is insane. I need to call the authorities,’” Horowitz told the Jewish Journal, adding that “they had their reasons: Money, power, religion, all those things. They know exactly what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.”

Horowitz said that one of his cameramen — who is center-left and not Jewish — was dumbfounded, even asking Horowitz if the students who expressed support for killing Jews were paid actors. “He could not understand what he was seeing in real time,” Horowitz said.

According to the Journal, Horowitz is calling on the school to expel all students who expressed support for killing Jews, but he isn’t holding his breath.

He concluded the video by saying: “The rhetoric in demonizing Jews we have seen globally has led to this. Twenty-eight out of 35 people I engaged in conversation with expressed support for what I was doing. And 17 out of 35 — nearly 50% of the people I spoke with — offered me money to kill Jews.”

Residents Of Central Israeli Town Report Sounds Of Digging Under Their Homes

Most Israelis have been on edge since October 7th, with images of the horrific atrocities perpetrated by Hamas terrorists not far from anyone’s mind. Thousands of residents of southern and northern Israel were evacuated from their homes due to safety concerns. But are the residents of central Israel any safer? The residents of Kochav Yair-Tzur Yigal, who have been hearing the sounds of digging under their homes, don’t think so.

Kochav Yair-Tzur Yigal is a town of about 9,000 residents in central Israel which is very close to a number of Palestinian areas, including Qalqiliya, which is only about 300 meters away from the edge of the town, and Tulkarem.

Walla reported that in recent weeks, the residents of the town have reported that they have been hearing the sounds of digging near their homes, raising fear that Palestinians are digging tunnels into their town. The Green Line touches the eastern edge of the town and the separation fence – which in this area is a simple mesh fence – is only about 500 meters from the outermost houses.

A possibility, chas v’chalilah, of infiltration by a Palestinian mob from Qalqiliya and nearby villages that until October 6th, would have sounded extreme and far-fetched, is now real and terrifying.

The chairman of the local council, Yuval Arad, who published the article in Walla about the concerns of the residents, wrote that as an initial response, the local council set up several observation positions near the town that are manned by armed soldiers and volunteers 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Residents of Bat Hefer, near Netanya, not only report hearing digging underneath their homes but say that residents of Tulkarem fire at the yishuv on a daily basis. A resident of the yishuv told Radio 103FM on Thursday that residents find shells in their yards and wake up at night from explosions. He added that the residents don’t feel that security officials are providing an adequate response and are living in a constant state of fear.

“We need to understand that what our enemies did to us on October 7th is a model for what they plan to do,” he said ominously. “We are no less at risk. We can’t be caught by surprise. Once they cross the fence of Bat Hefer and nearby yishuvim, Kfar Saba, Ra’anana, Hadera, Netanya, and the entire line will come under fire, up to the sea.”

 

Wow! Red Cross Facilitating Palestinian Terror Payouts

 

Since Oct. 7, the International Red Cross has been helping imprisoned Palestinian terrorists receive controversial stipends from the Palestinian Authority, according to Israeli NGO Palestinian Media Watch.

According to PMW, incarcerated Palestinians fill out forms to receive the stipends, and the Red Cross delivers the paperwork to Ramallah.

“The role of the International Red Cross in this process is central,” explained PMW director Itamar Marcus. “The international health organization is involved in this because as they visit prisoners, they’re able to bring in forms. Israeli security is not looking at the forms or preventing the terrorist prisoner access to the forms they need to sign.”

The prisoners’ paperwork needs to be completed by the end of 2023 in order to receive stipends in 2024. Terrorists imprisoned before Oct. 7 are also sending renewal forms via the Red Cross to Ramallah, according to PMW.

A Fatah directive dated Dec. 4 and translated by PMW instructs Palestinians to “please produce a [Red] Cross document for those who have no sentence whose names appear below; a [Red] Cross document accompanied by a new administrative [detention] order for the administrative detainees; and a [Red] Cross document accompanied by a verdict for the sentenced prisoners.”

Lists of prisoners from Bethlehem and Hebron districts were circulated on social media to encourage prisoners and their families to claim the payouts. Other Palestinian organizations, such as the PLO’s Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, joined the publicity campaign.

Since Oct. 7, around 2,400 Palestinian terror suspects have been arrested throughout Judea and Samaria, of whom about half are associated with Hamas.

Moshe Feiglin leaves the Likud: Netanyahu brought a strategic disaster

 

Former MK Moshe Feiglin on Thursday sent a letter to the CEO of the Likud Party, in which he demanded an immediate termination of his Likud membership, in response to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant's announcement that the IDF may return the residents of Gaza to their homes.

In his letter, which is in essence a sharp condemnation of the path taken by Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, Feiglin details the dangerous implications of returning the residents of Gaza to their homes. He points out that the announcement of the Defense Minister, who also serves on behalf of the Likud, receives full backing from the Prime Minister.

Feiglin wrote, inter alia, "The significance is that the State of Israel has decided to transform the most just and shocking of Israel's wars into a terrible defeat, and also that the horrors of the Simchat Torah massacre have developed into one of the most lucrative crimes in history."