JPost Editorial: Holocaust Remembrance Day: Finding new ways to never forget
In recent years, several individuals and groups have developed unique means of ensuring that we do not forget those who have been lost.Ruthie Blum: Holocaust remembrance and inexcusable hyperbole
Memory in the Living Room (Zikaron Basalon) is a longstanding tradition in which individual Holocaust survivors address up to 50 people – some of whom have never met a Holocaust survivor – in private living rooms or community centers, telling their personal stories from the Holocaust.
The project has been around for several years, and while it continues to draw audiences across Israel and around the world, young people require other approaches.
Hasdei Naomi, an association that gives aid to Holocaust survivors, organized a hackathon that brought intelligence officer cadets and MKs together to develop special technologies that could help preserve Holocaust survivor Tovah Feder’s story. The cadets managed to turn Feder’s story into a WhatsApp conversation that is based on advanced artificial intelligence.
The goal, the organization said, was to develop an educational initiative that would “speak to the younger generation in its language.”
In another initiative, the Israel Police has, in recent years, begun adopting Holocaust survivors. Members of Jerusalem’s Border Police units sit down with survivors at least twice a month throughout the year, pushing toward ongoing communication and building connections.
The diplomatic corps has joined the effort as well. The German embassy in Tel Aviv, for instance, has launched a new photography exhibition titled “Humans of the Holocaust,” which takes a painful and artistic approach to Holocaust remembrance. It tells the extraordinary stories of 40 Holocaust survivors, as well as the second and third generations, engaging viewers with the human stories behind every photo and helping them imagine the millions of untold stories.
This Yom Hashoah, let us memorialize the past while creating frameworks to continue doing so in the future.
During his Holocaust Remembrance Day speech on Monday night at Yad Vashem, Israeli President Isaac Herzog admonished the public never to invoke the genocide of the Jews in any context other than the Shoah itself. This was a not-so-veiled reference to a practice that’s become frighteningly commonplace in the politically polarized country.
“The Nazi abomination is an unprecedented evil, unique by any measure,” he said. “We must remember, repeat and emphasize again and again: These, and only these, are Nazis. This, and only this, is the Holocaust. Even when we are in the midst of fierce disagreements on our destiny, calling, faith and values, we must be careful about and guard against making any comparison, any analogy, to the Holocaust and the Nazis.”
He went on to remind the citizens of Israel that the “Nazi monster” didn’t distinguish between one member of the tribe or another, regardless of their “views, beliefs or lifestyles.” Indeed, he stressed, such “nuances” were utterly meaningless to those who set out to annihilate every last Jew.
“For them,” he pointed out, “we were one people, scattered and separated among all the nations, with one sentence: death. And our victory over them, as well, which takes place every day, is a victory of one people.”
He concluded: “We are currently celebrating 75 years of Israeli independence—75 years of victory during which the Jewish and democratic State of Israel and its [proud] society are standing up and declaring to the Nazi monster and those who, even in this generation, are following in its path: ‘You cannot defeat us, because we are brothers and sisters; yes, siblings who know how to argue and dispute, but never hate one another, are never enemies.’ We are one people and we will remain one people, united not only by a painful history, but also by a shared destiny and a hopeful future.”
It was an appropriate message with just the right tone. As is the case with all such pleas, however, the people who most needed to hear and heed it either weren’t listening or didn’t think it applied to them. Indeed, within minutes, Herzog’s social-media feed was filled with nasty remarks from both sides of the spectrum.
PMW: Even the Nazi’s didn’t pay a reward for murdering Jews
Today, on Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel, the Jewish people around the world, and others mark the murder of 6,000,000 Jews by the Nazis. And still today, in 2023, there is an organization that rewards the murder of Jews and literally pays hundreds of millions of dollars every year in cash rewards, to people who participated in terror and murdered Jews, simply for being Jews. It is not the Nazis this time, but the PA.
Much has already been written about the Palestinian Authority’s terror-rewarding Pay-for-Slay policy, first exposed by Palestinian Media Watch in 2011, and it is doubtful whether there is an honest government in the world that could deny knowledge of its existence.
Nonetheless, ignoring the unequivocal fact that the PA uses substantial parts of its budget to reward terrorists for murdering Jews, European governments, the European Union, and others have continued to provide funding to the PA. In fact, the recently published “European Joint Strategy in support of Palestine” noted, that “Since 2008 the EU, EU Member States, Norway and Switzerland have disbursed around USD 1 billion annually in official development assistance to Palestine and the Palestinians.”
The PA is not oblivious to this reality. Rather, the PA rightly interprets the continued aid provided by the international community to the PA as nothing short of an endorsement of its heinous terror-rewarding policy. It is this feeling of empowerment that allows PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas – whose most important, if not only, legacy for the Palestinian people is the Pay-for-Slay policy – to brazenly and repeatedly declare that even if the PA is left with just one penny in its coffers, he will pay it first to the terrorists:
We never lost our #Hope, and we never will. pic.twitter.com/zw9ZkcIlkG
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) April 17, 2023
This is how they’ll shoot down Israel’s planes
Amid the latest wave of Palestinian Arab terrorist attacks, international condemnations of Israel and assorted other controversies, a significant recent development has received scant attention—the attempt by Palestinian Arab terrorists to shoot down an Israeli plane.Israel Is Committed to Maintaining the Status Quo on the Temple Mount
It happened on April 2, when an Israel Air Force cargo plane flew over the city of Jenin. Terrorists on the ground shot at the low-flying Hercules C-130J aircraft. Video posted on social-media networks was adorned with the boastful caption, “Soldiers firing on a Zionist army plane while it was flying over a Jenin refugee camp.”
In accordance with the Oslo Accords, Jenin has been under the complete control of the Palestinian Authority since 1995. Yes, the same Oslo accords that require the P.A. to use its American-trained and American-armed security forces to stamp out terrorist groups in P.A. areas. Yet somehow, armed terrorists were able to shoot at an Israeli plane over Jenin without being interrupted or arrested.
We don’t know why the plane was not hit by the terrorists’ gunfire. Maybe the terrorists had bad aim. Maybe their weapons were not sufficiently sophisticated. But we know for sure that if a “State of Palestine” is ever created, there will be many more such attacks, undoubtedly with catastrophic results.
Those who advocate creating a Palestinian state always speak in generalities and slogans. “Two-state solution” is their favorite mantra. What they never want to discuss is exactly where the borders of that state would be—and what the consequences for Israel would be.
The reason they don’t like to talk specifics is they know that when Israelis think about the specifics, they are reminded how dangerous such a state would be for Israel’s survival. The Jenin shooting incident illustrates that threat.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman al-Safadi stated that there would be no peace in the region if the Palestinian people did not receive their rights. He emphasized that Jordan would not give up and would not conduct any negotiations on its position as guardian of the holy places in Jerusalem.
Al-Jazeera reported that Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman al-Safadi refused three times to receive phone calls from Israeli officials during the crisis at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. He also rejected a request from Israel conveyed to him through an intermediary that the Jordanian Waqf on the Temple Mount would assist in evacuating Palestinians who barricaded themselves in the Al-Aqsa Mosque one night.
Senior Israeli officials accuse the Jordanian foreign minister of being a force behind the worsening relations between the Hashemite Kingdom and Israel and of displaying an anti-Israel stance, perhaps to promote himself to the position of prime minister in the future.
About 70 percent of Jordan’s population is of Palestinian origin, and every event on the Temple Mount provokes them and is exploited by Islamic elements to incite against Israel.
The Biden administration made a political effort in preparation for Ramadan and initiated two security meetings in Aqaba, Jordan, and Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, with the participation of representatives of the United States, Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Jordan, and Egypt to try and maintain calm during the month of Ramadan, but it failed in its mission.
The United States acted in the United Nations to block the passage of an anti-Israel statement by the Security Council on the situation on the Temple Mount. Political officials in Jerusalem accused the Waqf on the Temple Mount, which is subordinate to the Jordanian government, of failing in its duty and not cooperating with Israeli efforts to prevent the provocations and violence of Palestinian youth on the Temple Mount.
Senior political figures stress that Israel has no interest in worsening relations with Jordan, with whom it has a peace agreement. Prime Minister Netanyahu will work to calm tensions between the two countries after Ramadan.
The Biden administration is also pressuring the Hashemite royal house to moderate its public statements against Israel and return to calmer relations.
A senior political official emphasized that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s promise to King Abdullah of Jordan stands and that Israel will not harm the status quo on the Temple Mount.
After we flagged the error, @BBCWorld has fixed the photo caption.
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) April 18, 2023
Nothing however, will fix @BowenBBC’s longstanding bias and disdain towards Israel. https://t.co/nL4LdpiRQs
Symbolic that my interview about UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, coincides with #YomHaShoah. Albanese is relentless in her antisemitism, endorses violence against Jews & called Israelis ‘Nazis’.
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) April 18, 2023
Please sign this petition calling to #FireFrancesca: https://t.co/tx2YwCQMDc pic.twitter.com/McL7OljaUA
It is noteworthy that Al Mayadeen is a pro-Hezbollah affiliated propaganda outlet. So it is hardly surprising that Francesca Albanese would go on it!
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) April 18, 2023
All the more reason to sign than petition calling on UN to #FireFrancesca: https://t.co/r0TfIYiI8S https://t.co/MbekGjMslW
Marcus Mumford to play at controversial Israeli-Palestinian memorial concert
Marcus Mumford, the lead singer and guitarist of Mumford and Sons, will perform in a pre-recorded music video at a joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial service in Tel Aviv next week.Israeli forces arrest Islamic Jihad terrorists planning imminent bombing
Mumford has been involved with one of the event’s organizers, the Parents Circle-Families Forum, which brings together bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families, since 2014 when he met its Jewish cofounder, a mother whose son had been killed by a Palestinian sniper. He has visited Israel and the West Bank and performed in events promoting coexistence in Israel and the United States, including with his longtime friend, the Palestinian rapper Tamer Nafar.
The April 24 event, which marks the beginning of Israel’s Memorial Day, or Yom HaZikaron, has drawn backlash in Israel for commemorating Palestinian victims of the conflict alongside Israelis killed in war and terror attacks.
This year, as in previous years, Israel’s defense minister has declined to issue permits to allow Palestinians to cross from the West Bank into Israel to attend the event, citing “the complex security situation” in the West Bank.
The Israel Defense Forces’ undercover Duvdevan Unit on Tuesday arrested two wanted Islamic Jihad terrorists in Jenin who were planning an imminent bombing attack, the army said.
During the raid on the refugee camp in northern Samaria, there was an exchange of gunfire, with the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry reporting six wounded. No casualties were reported to Israeli troops, who exited the area after making the arrests.
Intense firing was reported during the raid and a significant quantity of smoke was seen. Helicopters and jets operated overhead.
According to Arab reports, security forces surrounded several houses in the camp and snipers were deployed to the roofs of houses.
#BREAKING: Israeli under cover forces raid #Jenin refugee camp.#جنين #Jenin pic.twitter.com/YJQFudQ1ez
— Wafa News Agency - English (@WAFANewsEnglish) April 18, 2023
The IDF, along w/ the Shin Bet, just thwarted a huge terror attack planned to be executed against civilians in the immediate frame
— Adam Albilya - ??? ??????? (@AdamAlbilya) April 18, 2023
Two wanted Islamic Jihad terrorists arrested in Jenin, 6 others were injured after trying to protect the terrorists & dangered the forces' lives >>> pic.twitter.com/eUJSHfXKIF
Israeli wounded in Gush Etzion terror attack
One Israeli was lightly wounded in a terrorist attack on Monday at the Gush Etzion Junction in Judea.Suspect in stabbing attack neutralized, man lightly wounded
Magen David Adom emergency medical service personnel treated a man in his 30s at the scene before evacuating him to Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem.
The Israel Defense Forces said that troops “neutralized” the terrorist.
Local media reported that the attacker was a female Palestinian.
Earlier this month, Lucy Dee, 48, and daughters Maia, 20, and Rina, 15, were killed in a Palestinian terrorist attack on the Route 57 highway near the Hamra Junction in the Jordan Valley.
Terrorists opened fire on the Dees’ passing vehicle, causing it to crash into the road’s shoulder. The terrorists then approached the car and riddled it with nearly two dozen bullets.
The IDF continues to search for the attackers.
?? BREAKING: The IDF reports a stabbing attack in the area of the Gush Etzion Junction. The terrorist was neutralized. Details to follow. pic.twitter.com/VDAQWUgL1M
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) April 17, 2023
Two men hurt in terror shooting in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah
Two Israeli men were shot and wounded in a terror attack in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood on Tuesday morning, police and medics said.2 Israelis moderately wounded in terrorist shooting attack in Jerusalem
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said its medics treated the two victims, aged 50 and 48, at the scene in moderate condition and took them to hospitals in the capital.
The Shaare Zedek and Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus medical centers said the pair were listed in stable condition.
Police said officers were at the scene, on Pierre Van Paassen Street, investigating the shooting and searching for the terrorist, who fled.
The weapon apparently used in the attack, a makeshift “Carlo” submachine gun, was found by officers nearby, police said.
According to police and medics, the victims were in a car when they came under fire.
2 Israelis were moderately wounded when their car was shot at by a terrorist who fled the scene. A manhunt is underway, as Israeli security forces are stretched across Jerusalem amid the morning's Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremonies.
#BREAKING: Video of today’s shooting terror attack in Jerusalem. The terrorist ran up to a car, shot & injured two civilians at point-blank range, and then fled on foot. https://t.co/WokNq0Zypi
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) April 18, 2023
The Israel Guys: 50,000 ISRAELI SETTLERS March For LIFE in the West Bank
Tens of thousands of Israelis joined the protestors across Israel this last weekend, but these protestors were there to voice their support for Judicial Reforms. In an event that hardly got any media coverage last week, 50,000 Israelis marched in Samaria to support life, and I actually agree with CNN for once!
As an Israeli I can’t tell you how powerful it is to see this kind of solidarity against terrorism from Iranian Crown prince @PahlaviReza and Yasmine! With such leadership Israel and Iran will be reunited in our centuries of friendship. pic.twitter.com/jJx12WRVy5
— Emily Schrader - ????? ?????? ????? ????? (@emilykschrader) April 18, 2023
Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich receives threatening letter in English
Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich received a threatening letter with Nazi symbols on Tuesday, his office said.El Al captain tells passengers: ‘Holocausts can happen in dictatorships’
The English-language letter accuses the Religious Zionism Party leader of “intending to destroy Israel.” Pictures taken of the letter by Smotrich’s office show a swastika along with the brief text.
It was received on the day that the country is observing Holocaust Remembrance Day, with somber events honoring the 6 million Jews murdered by the Germans and their collaborators during World War II.
An investigation into the incident was opened by the Magen Unit, which is entrusted with the security of ministers and deputy ministers. A police report is expected to be filed soon.
The letter comes a day after member of Knesset Boaz Bismuth from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party was heckled loudly while he was attempting to speak during an event at a Tel Aviv synagogue marking Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“I will not treat those who came here against me as enemies. We are brothers. We may not agree but we will not do to each other what has been done to us for many generations. It is legitimate that everyone has a different aspiration for Israel—but our fate is the same, certainly on an evening like this,” said Bismuth before having to cut his speech short for fear of violence
The captain of an El Al flight from Tel Aviv to New York on Tuesday was recorded telling passengers in an announcement that “things like Holocausts are potentially to be occurring in dictatorships, and we are fighting in Israel to remain a democratic country.”Terrorist is “role model for all the young people because he wanted… to meet Allah”
He made the remarks as Israelis were participating in annual Holocaust Remembrance Day activities, a temporary respite from the fierce debates taking place over the government’s judicial reform initiative and the direction of the country.
Israel’s national carrier immediately responded to the incident with a statement saying that “the company condemns political statements of any kind, by any of its employees as part of their work, and certainly not on its planes, which cannot be a platform for this type of activity.
“The company orders that it be avoided, especially on such a sensitive and significant day for the people of Israel.
“This exceptional case, which does not reflect the company’s people and values, will be thoroughly examined by the company’s senior officials. El Al is the airline that carries the Israeli flag on the tail of its planes, and as such reflects the entire Israeli mosaic.”
A senior official in Israel’s Transportation Ministry said that Minister Miri Regev was furious about the incident and spoke with El Al management about taking action.
Terrorist is “role model for all the young people because he wanted… to meet Allah as a sacrifice for the homeland”
Father of terrorist Wadi’ Al-Houh: “Wadi’ [Al-Houh] was a role model for all the young people, and thus he remains now as well, because he responded to the call and displayed determination that he wanted to meet Allah as a sacrifice for the homeland. All the young people are following his path, Allah willing, to meet Almighty Allah.”
[Official PA TV, The Martyrs’ Homes, April 2, 2023]
Wadi’ Al-Houh, Ali Antar, Hamdi Qayyim, Mash’al Baghdadi, Hamdi Sharaf – Palestinian terrorists and members of the independent terror cell “the Lion’s Den” who shot at Israeli soldiers raiding and destroying a headquarters and weapons and explosives laboratory of the cell in Nablus on Oct. 25, 2022. The soldiers returned fire in self-defense, killing the 5 terrorists. Al-Houh was a senior member of “the Lion’s Den.” During the raid PA Security Forces shot at the Israeli soldiers, who returned fire in self-defense and wounded several of them.
Fatah glorifies terrorist who led murder of 37, attack “shocked the Israeli security system”
Fatah-run Awdah TV narrator: “45 years since the Kamal Adwan operation (i.e., the Coastal Road massacre, 37 murdered, 12 of them children) carried out by Martyr Dalal Mughrabi and her comrades… After disembarking on the Jaffa coast (sic.), the squad succeeded in taking control of a bus… The goal of the operation was to take control of the Israeli Parliament building and to exchange the hostages for prisoners in the occupation’s prisons. The squad waged an epic confrontation, and Dalal waved the Palestinian flag and saluted it in a legendary scene. Dalal and 11 of her comrades died as Martyrs… In the operation, 37 Israelis were killed and hundreds (sic., more than 70) were wounded, and the results of the operation shocked the Israeli security system.”
[Website of the Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, March 21, 2023]
Video title on Awdah TV’s YouTube channel: “Self-sacrificing fighter Dalal Mughrabi who engraved the name of Palestine on the heart of the occupied land”
Dalal Mughrabi – female Palestinian terrorist who led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history, known as the Coastal Road massacre, in 1978, when she and other Fatah terrorists hijacked a bus on Israel's Coastal Highway, murdering 37 civilians, 12 of them children, and wounding over 70.
The terrorists did not disembark on the coast of Jaffa but on the coast north of Hadera.
The attack was planned by arch-terrorist Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir).
Grandfather of Tel Aviv’s Dolphinarium Discotheque Bomber Urges Palestinians to Wage Jihad: You Must Fight the Enemy Wherever They May Be; A Properly-Used Fruit Knife Can Take the Place of a Gun #Palestinians #terrorism pic.twitter.com/7kiE6GS0OI
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) April 18, 2023
Senior members of Hamas, including Ismail Haniyeh, Mousa Marzook, Khalil al-Hayya and Khaled Meshaal appear to have arrived in Saudi Arabia. pic.twitter.com/hE3NocISOx
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) April 18, 2023
When Hamas Fires Rockets from Lebanon, Iran Is Giving the Orders
On April 6, over 30 rockets were launched from southern Lebanon into Israel, injuring three and prompting a response by the IDF. While it seems most likely that Hamas carried out the barrage—the largest from Lebanon since the 2006 war—it could only have done so with the permission of Hizballah, the Iran-sponsored militia that controls the area. Oved Lobel argues that this attack is not an extension of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, but of the Iran-Israel one:
Once again, as it did in 2021, [Tehran’s] integrated network known as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) chose to piggyback on tensions and provocations in Jerusalem to launch salvoes of rockets at Israel from Lebanon, Gaza, and Syria. . . . This is far from the first time the Palestinian fronts of the IRGC’s “resistance axis” have fired rockets from Lebanon, hence Israel striking Palestinian bases there in 2013 and 2019. Rockets were also launched, likely by Palestinians, in 2009 from Lebanon.
Both Hamas and the Iranian regime consider the Palestinian terrorist group to be a constitutive element of the IRGC’s regional jihad to destroy Israel. . . . As if to underline the point, the rockets last week were launched while the Hamas politburo leader Ismail Haniyeh, leading a senior Hamas delegation, was meeting with Hizballah’s secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut to “coordinate positions and strengthen the resistance against the Israeli enemy.”
It is very important not to fall for the IRGC’s shell game. All of these ostensibly separate organizations, Palestinian or otherwise, are both materially and, in almost all cases—though not necessarily in the case of Hamas—ideologically beholden to Iran’s supreme leader and the IRGC.
#OTD in 1983, Hezbollah bombed the US Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people including 17 Americans and 32 Lebanese. Judge Royce Lambert of the US District Court in Washington DC determined senior Iranian officials approved and Iran financed the bombing. #Iran, again.
— Toby Dershowitz (@TobyDersh) April 18, 2023
Why Don't Americans Trust the Biden Administration on Iran?
An overwhelming majority of American people reportedly do not trust President Joe Biden on Iran's nuclear deal.Iran’s president threatens to ‘destroy Haifa and Tel Aviv’
"The Biden administration remains obsessed with reentering a nuclear deal with the Iranian regime." — Senator Ted Cruz, The Washington Free Beacon, February 3, 2023.
"[I]n a timely question in the McLaughlin & Associates survey, 63% of Americans believe that providing Iran a path to building the weapons is a bigger threat to the United States than Russia's invasion of Ukraine (at 21%)." — Washington Examiner, March 4, 2022.
One reason behind this mistrust is likely related to the notion that the Biden Administration has been caught so often misleading the Congress and the American public.
"We are deeply concerned about multiple provisions that reportedly may be contained in the final language of any agreement with the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism." — US House Representatives, mostly Democrats, to the Biden Administration, September 1, 2022.
The major problem is that any nuclear deal would most likely include the previous sunset clauses, which set a firm expiration date for restricting Iran's nuclear program, after which the country's leaders would be free to spin centrifuges and enrich uranium at any level they wished.
Finally, with all the inconsistencies, lies and concessions, it is no wonder why majority of Americans do not trust Biden on Iran. The US Congress and the American public have the right to be informed about this regime that has been killing Americans and taking hostages for almost four decades, not to mention how brutally it treats its own people, or uses its proxies in the Middle East to try to obliterate its perceived enemies. Is the Biden Administration actually about to let a regime such as this acquire nuclear weapons?
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday threatened to “destroy Haifa and Tel Aviv” in response to the “smallest action” taken by Israel against the regime in Tehran, the Iranian government’s semi-official Mehrs news agency reported.MEMRI: International Al-Quds Day Rally In Houston, Texas: We Will Resist Until This Zionist Cancer Is Uprooted From The Face Of The Earth – Death To Israel!
The remarks were made at a ceremony marking the Islamic Republic’s National Army Day, an event that annually falls on April 18, which this year coincides with Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The regime in Tehran routinely threatens Israel. In December of last year, Iran’s state-controlled IRIB TV2 aired a video threatening to “raze Tel Aviv” in response to an Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities.
Speaking at the state opening ceremony for Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day 2023 at Yad Vashem on Monday, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cautioned that past victories don’t guarantee future ones, citing the “relentless battle against those who seek to kill us.” He said Israel must not allow a nuclear Iran, and must fight its terrorist proxies.
The Israel Security Agency revealed on Monday that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force and its Lebanese terrorist proxy Hezbollah tried to recruit residents of Judea and Samaria to commit terrorist attacks.
Yusuf Mansour and Marsil Mansour were arrested in recent months. The investigation found that efforts to recruit them as part of a terror operation were made by Hezbollah and the pair agreed to smuggle weapons inside the Green Line and sell them while assisting criminal elements in Israel.
On April 14, 2023, the Syed Sarim YouTube channel posted a video of an International Al-Quds Day rally titled "West Bank Is the Shield of Al-Quds, Apartheid Wall Will Fall". At the rally, an unnamed Muslim "religious leader" said: "Unless and until we take every inch of Palestine back, we will not rest!... We will continue to resist until this Zionist cancer is uprooted from the face of the Earth." He chanted "Death to Zionism!" and a member of the crowed responded: "Death to Israel!" In addition, an unnamed activist recited a poem praising Palestinian terrorist Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi, who was killed during a gunfight with Israeli security forces in August 2022.
The rally had been advertised on the website and social media accounts of the Islamic Education Center of Houston, and one of the organizations sponsoring the rally was the Palestinian Youth Movement. No further information was provided about the speakers.
To view the clip of the International Al-Quds Day Rally in Houston click here or below:
Activist Reads Poem Praising Palestinian Terrorist Ibrahim Al-Nablusi As "The Lion Of Nablus"
Chant leader: "When people are occupied..."
Protesters: "When people are occupied..."
Chant leader: "Resistance is justified!"
Protesters: "Resistance is justified!"
Chant leader: "No to humiliation!"
Protesters: "No to humiliation!"
Woman: "For Al-Aqsa's dome that glistens, the West Bank has risen. The Zionist plague upon this vision, of a resistance with might and precision. One who paved this very conquest was Ibrahim [Al-Nablusi], the lion of Nablus. 'Don't let go of the rifle or our honor,' were his last words before he became a martyr."
"Death To Zionism! Death To Israel! No To Humiliation!"
Man: "We do not want two states, all we want is '48! There was no existence of this illegitimate [Israeli] entity!
International Al-Quds Day Rally in Houston, TX: We Will Resist Until This Zionist Cancer Is Uprooted from the Face of the Earth – Death to Israel! pic.twitter.com/FVtV8Nj33v
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) April 17, 2023
Would "Quds Day" be too much for trade unions? You know, a notorious celebration of racism and terrorism, run on behalf of the Iranian regime?
— habibi (@habibi_uk) April 17, 2023
Not for Hector Wesley, an NEC member at the PCS union.
"I say to the Palestinian people, as long as you fight, we'll be with you." pic.twitter.com/MdG38wEz4J
Massoud Shadjareh runs the self-styled "Islamic Human Rights Commission", in the service of the Iranian regime, terrorism, and hatred.
— habibi (@habibi_uk) April 18, 2023
Here he is at Quds Day in London on Sunday, dreaming of "the end" for Israel.
His hatred campaigns are funded by the IHRC's registered charity. pic.twitter.com/vfmQU3LAGR
Question : those that march funded by Iranian regime AlQuds are Antisemitic wishing to see Israelis destruction are really Neo Nazis
— Eye On Antisemitism (@AntisemitismEye) April 18, 2023
Yet, our @MayorofLondon calls anti #Ulez protestors extreme far right ?
Below ?? pic.twitter.com/dC7agGYFZf
Exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi Prays for Peace at Jerusalem’s Western Wall
At the initiative of Israel’s Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel, the son of the Iranian Shah, Reza Pahlavi, visited the Western Wall together with his wife. He wished the two countries, “to peace, to freedom, to security, respect of man, and to life together. I bless the people of Iran and Israel.”
In a tweet, he continued, “It is with profound awe that I visit the Western Wall of that Temple and pray for the day when the good people of Iran and Israel can renew our historic friendship.”
Pahlavi respected local traditions, standing in reflection for two minutes with all the people of Israel during the Holocaust Memorial Day siren, with hundreds of others praying at the Western Wall. And he read chapters of Psalms, led by a local rabbi, and together prayed for peace between the two nations.
The Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz met with Pahlavi, and the two discussed the significance of the day and the Western Wall to the Jewish people. The rabbi also spoke about the city of Jerusalem, which ensures freedom of religion for all.
During his historic visit to the Jewish state, Pahlavi also met with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, and attended a ceremony held at the National Holocaust Memorial and Museum, Yad Vashem, in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day. He stood alongside Netanyahu and Israel’s President Isaac Herzog, but did not deliver a speech.
The Crown Prince spoke with i24NEWS, saying that it was his “duty” to attend the event and honor the Holocaust victims. Pahlavi, in exile for 43 years, resides in the United States. He is a fierce opponent of the Iranian regime.
“My goal here is to tell the whole world that what we hear from the Iranian regime is not what the people of Iran believe…this regime does not represent the Iranian people.” - @PahlaviReza in Israel for an official visit ?? pic.twitter.com/pubjwveM5D
— Emily Schrader - ????? ?????? ????? ????? (@emilykschrader) April 17, 2023
While the mollahs poison schoolgirls, blind protesters, fire on mourners, rape political prisoners, sponsor terrorism and assassinate dissidents worldwide, Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi today gives hope of a future Iran that is free, democratic, tolerant and at peace with the world. https://t.co/Vvkhbk4sG0
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 18, 2023
Wow I never thought I’d see the day that the Crown Prince of Iran @PahlaviReza would be at the Yom HaShoah ceremony in Israel ???? listening to the Israeli national anthem. Incredible. #IranRevoIution #CyrusAccords
— Emily Schrader - ????? ?????? ????? ????? (@emilykschrader) April 17, 2023
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I don’t know what to be more happy about: Pahlavi visiting Israel or Trita Parsi’s meltdown on Twitter responding to it. ??
— Emily Schrader - ????? ?????? ????? ????? (@emilykschrader) April 18, 2023
Cry harder Trita. #NIACLobbies4Mullahs pic.twitter.com/K2jS5OiIcl
Islamic regime president Raisi aka the butcher of Tehran, this morning: "The slightest mistake [by Israel] against Iran will be met by the destruction of Haifa and Tel Aviv."#IranRevolution #IRGCterrorists pic.twitter.com/ax82Jzem8b
— Emily Schrader - ????? ?????? ????? ????? (@emilykschrader) April 18, 2023
In 1943, Iran rescued over 1,000 Jewish children from Poland, bringing them to Iran and then to the land of Israel ???? as refugees. 1.5 million other children perished. Today, the mullahs threaten a new Holocaust against the children of Israel. pic.twitter.com/90ZpcpkUjA
— Avi Kaner ??????? ??? (@AviKaner) April 18, 2023
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