Hamas
March 22, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The coverage of Israel’s efforts to defend itself against Hamas and its other genocidal enemies leaves something to be desired. The mainstream press continues to cite the work of the “Gaza Health Ministry” or “Gaza’s Palestinian health authorities” in reporting on Palestinian casualties, as in this March 20 Reuters story or this 2024 Wall Street Journal story. To borrow a phrase from Auden, all the reports agree. The word “terrorist”
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March 21, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Milan Kundera famously observed that “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” In the matter of the war on the Jewish people, the struggle of memory against lying would be more like it. The lies have proliferated rapidly in the wake of the Hamas massacres of October 7. “To combat such pernicious lies,” the editors of Mosaic note, “the All-Party UK-Israel Parliamentary Group, led
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March 19, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Andrew Roberts has presented a 318-page report to the British Parliament on Hamas’s extensive atrocities in Israel on October 7, 2023. The report was prepared under the auspices of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for UK-Israel. The report can be accessed and downloaded here. The report’s executive summary is posted here. In a column for the Spectator Roberts explains “Why we wrote the October 7 parliamentary report.” The Foundation for Defense
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March 7, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Maybe it was the outrage at Barnard or maybe it was already in the works: Trump administration yanks $400M in grants, contracts from Columbia University over antisemitism on campus. A federal antisemitism task force — convened by President Trump and including the Departments of Justice, Health and Human Services (HHS), and Education as well as the General Services Administration (GSA) — announced the barring of US taxpayers’ money from funding
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March 6, 2025 — Scott Johnson
President Trump met with eight freed hostages in the White House yesterday. In connection with the meeting he addressed Hamas with a certain verbal and moral clarity that had been lacking in the previous administration. “Shalom Hamas” got my attention: “‘Shalom Hamas’ means Hello and Goodbye – You can choose. Release all of the Hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you
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March 1, 2025 — Scott Johnson
This is the introduction to Barton Swaim’s profile of Senator John Fetterman in today’s Wall Street Journal: Walking into Sen. John Fetterman’s reception office in the Russell Senate Office Building, I first notice the walls. They are covered with 8½-by-11 images of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. Atop each is a red banner reading KIDNAPPED. On one wall are images of those who remain in captivity;
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February 25, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The same Harvard/Harris poll that I wrote about here also asked respondents their views about events in the Middle East. From the Harvard/Harris press release: Support for Israel over Hamas in the conflict remains high, with 77% of voters supporting Israel. I should hope so! But 23% of respondents say they support Hamas: That 23% must be, what? College students on “elite” campuses? There aren’t enough of them. Liberals under
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February 23, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The Associated Press is at best an obfuscatory source of what is presented to us as news. The AP’s obfuscations of course carry a political tilt. In the sentence below, for example, the AP refers to “Palestinian militants.” AP guidelines insist on the use of the bland and meaningless term “militant” to cover genocidal terrorists such as Hamas. BREAKING: A body released by Palestinian militants overnight was confirmed by the
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February 23, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The genocidal mania of Hamas and its supporters revels in murder and humiliation of the enemy. The ecstatic bloodlust is palpable. The impetus of degradation is manifest. Thus Hamas has staged the release of hostages under the current ceasefire with Israel in a manner that comports with the mania. They have turned each release into a celebratory production that degrades and humiliates hostages captives who have been starved and tortured
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February 22, 2025 — Scott Johnson
A day after they turned over the corpse of a random Gazan in lieu of Shiri Bibas, the savages of Hamas delivered the corpse of Mrs. Bibas to the Red Cross for delivery to Israeli authorities. A police convoy then brought the body to the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv. The family subsequently released this statement: “Tonight, our Shiri was returned home. After the identification process at the
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February 21, 2025 — Scott Johnson
We need someone of Freud’s intelligence to write a book on the psychopathology of Islamist terrorism. Rather than producing the fourth hostage corpse — right there we have a couple of symptoms — it turns out that Hamas substituted the corpse of a random non-hostage in lieu of that of Mrs. Bibas yesterday. At the moment Mrs. Bibas is unaccounted for. I infer that her kidnappers have murdered Mrs. Bibas,
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February 20, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Today we witness the delivery to Israel of the corpses of Shiri Bibas, her sons Ariel Bibas and Kfir Bibas, and Oded Lifshitz by the savages of Hamas. The savages took the occasion to celebrate the sendoff. They are proud of what they have done. The caskets of Oded Lifshitz, Shiri Bibas, Ariel Bibas (5), and Kfir Bibas (1) have been paraded across a stage with Hamas terrorists to cheering
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February 16, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Dan Senor got a long interview with former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for Senor’s Call Me Back podcast. It is the first of what promises to be a series with Gallant reviewing the regional war from his perspective in command of Israeli forces. This first episode runs 90 minutes and covers only the first four days of the war — “with an emphasis on one day that could have
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February 16, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The normalization of the genocidal mania of Hamas and other such groups in pockets of the United States has become apparent in the wake of the 10/7 massacres. CAMERA’s David Litman brought one striking case to light in the NR online story “Georgetown’s daughter of Hamas.” Unfortunately, it is behind NR’s online paywall. The Daily Mail picked it up in Rachel Bowman’s accessible story “Georgetown University graduate student revealed as
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February 10, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Scott noted earlier President Trump’s disgust with the condition of the captives that Hamas has most recently released. Now Trump has followed up by demanding that Hamas release the hostages–all of them–by noon on Saturday. High noon, one is tempted to say: President Trump warned the Hamas terror group Monday night to release all remaining hostages by noon Saturday, or he would allow Israel to cancel the ongoing cease-fire and
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February 10, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The Israeli press has reported on the treatment of their hostages by the Nazis of Hamas. The appalling emaciation of the hostages is easily explained. They were deliberately starved (Israel Hayom). The starvation was one element of the criminal mistreatment (Ynet News) to which they were subjected. Did President In Name Only Joe Biden ever express concern over the treatment of the hostages while forcing the Israelis to feed their
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February 5, 2025 — Scott Johnson
You may have heard that in his press conference with Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday evening, President Trump proposed has proposed that the United States take over the Gaza Strip after evacuating its troublesome residents to live better lives elsewhere. Roll Call has posted a transcript of the press conference here. I have posted the 40-minute White House video at the bottom. Trump’s vision is improbable and outlandish. Reacting on the
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