Hamas
September 10, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Hope is fading in Jerusalem that its strike at Hamas headquarters in Doha succeeded in taking out the terrorist leaders. The meeting on which the strike was predicated may have adjourned minutes before the headquarters building was struck. What a shame. Amit Segal writes: [T]here’s another dramatic aspect of the assassination attempt: even if it didn’t succeed, it dealt a major blow to Qatar’s regional status. For nearly two years,
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September 9, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The IDF announces that it has struck at Hamas’s leadership hanging out as a guest of the Qatar government at Doha’s best-five star hotels. The operation was conducted jointly with the Shin Bet (ISA). Precision-guided missiles were launched by IDF jets to hit a meeting of Hamas bigwigs in Doha. The results are not yet in, but with any luck Hamas’s leadership team was wiped out. Without luck, they know
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August 26, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Sometimes you have to wonder if the people who bring you the news follow the news. Over the weekend Jamie Kirchick capably deconstructed the claim that the IDF has killed “more than 200 journalists” in its war on Hamas in Gaza. Kirchick’s August 22 column — “Who Is a ‘Journalist’ in Gaza?” — appeared on the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, a corporate sister of Fox News. Yet
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August 21, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The work of investigative journalist David Collier was cited in passing in our post Starving for the truth” — his exposure of an egregious example of BBC propaganda for Hamas in “Another Gaza famine lie goes viral,” in which he followed up on “The truth behind the viral Gazan famine photo.” In his latest (August 21) column, by the way, Collier explores “The sanctification of Al Jazeera jihadists.” He does
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August 16, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Earlier this week I noted that the Toronto International Film Festival killed the scheduled showing of a documentary — The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue — on Hamas’s 10/7 atrocities. Now comes news via Jewish Insider that the film has itself been rescued. In a statement “to the TIFF community,” TIFF and the filmmakers indicate they have felt our pain — TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey more than the filmmakers,
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August 14, 2025 — Scott Johnson
With its cover story today, the New York Post draws attention to the Toronto International Film Festival’s cancelation of the premiere of a new documentary on Hamas’s October 7 massacre — “because organizers insist the filmmakers need the rights from the terrorist group to use their horrific footage of the massacre.” The Washington Free Beacon covers the story in Matthew Xiao’s “Toronto Film Festival Cancels October 7 Documentary, Citing a
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August 12, 2025 — Scott Johnson
There’s a certain he said/she said quality to the Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel story “IDF strike on Gaza City kills Al Jazeera reporter accused of being a Hamas cell leader.” I was therefore grateful for the clarity of Amit Segal’s It’s Noon In Israel newsletter story yesterday: * * * * * Anas Al-Sharif. (@abualiexpress/Telegram) The IDF killed yet another Hamas terrorist posing as a journalist in Gaza. And in
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August 7, 2025 — Scott Johnson
It was 80 years ago yesterday that we dropped the big one on Hiroshima. I pulled down my copy of Richard B. Frank’s Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire in honor of the day. What an excellent book. Given current events, this photo caption struck me: “Perhaps the most ominous feature of Okinawa was the integration of the civilian population into the defense: this led to the deaths
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August 4, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Sources inside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office say that Israel’s government intends to complete its occupation of Gaza: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reached a decision for the full occupation of the Gaza Strip, including operations in areas where hostages are held, a source in the Prime Minister’s Office told The Jerusalem Post on Monday. The Prime Minister’s Office conveyed the message to IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir:
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August 4, 2025 — Scott Johnson
It must be difficult for some to understand the inversions of reality that Hamas is pulling off with the help of its friends and allies in the Western world. It almost defies belief. The leaders of Great Britain, France, and Canada have all fallen into line for Hamas. Hamas is desperate to starve the people under its thumb for propaganda purposes and to control the distribution of food for the
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August 2, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The liberal press has been promoting for some time the idea that there is a famine in Gaza, and it is caused by Israel. The New York Times went so far as to perpetrate a hoax, publishing a picture of an emaciated child and falsely alleging that it was due to Israel-induced famine. In fact, the boy suffers from a debilitating disease, not starvation, and the Times conveniently left out
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July 31, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Eitan Fischberger is an Israeli journalist who is active on X. Today’s Wall Street Journal carries his corrective column “Gaza Starvation Photos Tell a Thousand Lies.” Subhead: “Hamas propaganda exploits seriously ill children, and Western media go along.” Fischberger writes: * * * * * Over the weekend, I embedded with the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza, where I saw the enormous quantities of humanitarian aid the United Nations has
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July 30, 2025 — Scott Johnson
David Collier analyzes one of the recent in-kind contributions of the international media to Hamas in “The image went viral: The truth did not.” In this case the contribution derives from photographic images of a deformed child allegedly starving in Gaza. Collier traces the photos to the Gaza-based photographer Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini, who uploaded them to his Instagram account on July 22. The New York Times hopped to it
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July 23, 2025 — Scott Johnson
If you take what you get in the New York Times at face value, you might be pardoned for succumbing to the impression that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. It seems a little late in the day for a newspaper to run a story with this headline, for example, as the Times did on Saturday: “Gaza Health Ministry Says Israeli Military Killed 32 Near Aid Site.” Or to run
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July 15, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Normandale College history professor emeritus Chuck Chalberg reviews Douglas Murray’s On Democracies and Death Cults for the Imaginative Conservative in “Israel and the Future of Civilization.” Professor Chalberg writes toward the end of his review: * * * * * Just what are “democracies” to do in the face of “death cults.” How do Westerners deal with fanatics who are “simply fanatics,” especially fanatics who are “worse anti-Semites than the
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July 5, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The AP strikes again in the June 2 story “31 Palestinians are killed heading to a Gaza aid site, witnesses say. Israel denies responsibility” by Mohammad Jahjou and Samy Magdy. The AP story cites both “health officials” and “witnesses.” According to the story, “Witnesses said Israeli forces fired toward the crowds just before dawn around a kilometer (about 1,100 yards) from an aid site run by an Israeli-backed foundation.” Neither
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July 3, 2025 — Scott Johnson
When the Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium reported that Columbia University acting president Claire Shipman had agitated to ditch the Jewish pro-Israel member of the Columbia board and add an Arab, Columbia issued a statement claiming that Shipman’s deep thoughts had been taken out of context: “These communications were provided to the Committee in the fall of 2024 and reflect communications from more than a year ago,” the school said.
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