catastrophe: an ongoing list of sources, news outlets, and links
Hamas on the Terrorist List: https://www.dni.gov/nctc/ftos/hamas_fto.html
You Are the Last Line of Defense https://www.thefp.com/p/you-are-the-last-line-of-defense
We all were lied to: Gaza was a modern, developed city before October 7th: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-785234
Knesset bill criminalizing denial of the October 7 massacre https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/politics/1707324142-knesset-advances-bill-criminalizing-denial-of-october-7-massacre
How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbers
BRET STEPHENS: Settler Colonialism: A Guide for the Sincere https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/opinion/settler-colonialism.html
How can anyone who supports Israel call for a two-state solution now: blogs.timesofisrael.com/israel-supporters-lack-empathy-for-israelis
(Current Israeli ‘settlements’ in blue.)
Ex-ambassador says there is no pro-Israel US candidate https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-793456
Natan Sharansky on all of it… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55538oPYXig
Sharansky: Oslo sowed the seeds for the October 7 massacre https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-791906
Silence
Inside Our Collective Trauma: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/inside-our-collective-trauma/
When people tell you who they are, believe them. -Bari Weiss: thefp.com/p/this-is-what-decolonization-looks-like
Why Are All of You Silent?: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/why-are-you-silent-israel-hamas-gaza-jews
False Partners
Our False Partners – Natan Sharansky: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/our-false-partners
How Palestine Hijacked the U.S. Civil Rights Movement: https://www.thefp.com/p/this-is-what-decolonization-looks-like
I Saw the Children Hamas Beheaded With My Own Eyes. Shame on Queen Rania https://www.newsweek.com/i-saw-children-hamas-beheaded-my-own-eyes-shame-queen-rania-opinion-1855472
Hostages
Those we are Missing: https://www.timesofisrael.com/spotlight-topic/those-we-are-missing/?
Peace Activists Are Among the Israelis Missing and Killed: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/world/middleeast/peace-activists-killed-israel.html
How Posters of Kidnapped Israelis Ignited a Firestorm on American Sidewalks: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/nyregion/israel-gaza-kidnapped-poster-fight.html
Fifth of hostages in Hamas captivity could be Dead: https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/1707232607-one-fifth-of-hostages-in-captivity-are-actually-dead-nyt-reports
Rachel Goldberg speaking about her son Hersh at the National Library:
More than half of Hamas’ hostages have foreign nationality https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/more-than-half-hamas-hostages-have-foreign-nationality-israel-2023-10-25/
Hamas Took More Than 200 Hostages From Israel. https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-hostages-israel-gaza-41432124
Mia Schem, former Hostage released after 50 days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y02xPRX6vCE
60 minutes – Israeli hostage Yarden Roman-Gat shares details of her captivity in Gaza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixynqr-88gE
Israeli Hostage Says She Was Sexually Assaulted and Tortured in Gaza https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/world/middleeast/hamas-hostage-sexual-assault.html
UN special envoy on sexual violence hears Gaza hostages’ testimony: https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-784636
Women
Feminists are Consenting to Rape Culture: tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/feminists-are-consenting-to-hamas-rape-culture
The New Rape Denialism https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/opinion/hamas-sexual-violence-israel.html
New report details extent of Hamas sexual assaults on Oct. 7 https://forward.com/fast-forward/584946/arcci-report-details-extent-of-hamas-sexual-assaults-on-oct-7/
Israeli Rape-Crisis Group Report Finds ‘Systematic’ Sexual Violence on and After Oct. 7 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-sexual-violence-report.html
UN envoy in Israel: ‘World can’t understand magnitude’ of Oct. 7: https://www.jns.org/un-envoy-in-israel-world-cant-understand-magnitude-of-oct-7/
UN envoy arrives in Israel to investigate Hamas sexual violence: https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/1706527559-un-envoy-for-sexual-violence-arrives-in-israel
UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict arrives in Israel: https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/un-special-representative-on-sexual-violence-in-conflict-arrives-in-israel-29-jan-2024
U.N. to Study Reports of Sexual Violence in Israel During Oct. 7 Attack: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-sexual-violence-un.html
Israel criticizes UN for ambiguous stance on October 7 assault cases: https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/1701080115-israel-criticizes-un-for-ambiguous-stance-on-october-7-assault-cases
After 8 weeks, UN Women condemns Hamas’s sexual violence on Oct.7: https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/1701510545-8-weeks-after-the-attack-un-women-condemns-hamas-s-sexual-violence-on-oct-7
The Precedent of October 7th in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Systemic Gender and Sexual-Based Violence: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/precedent-october-7th-israeli-palestinian-conflict-systemic-gender-and-sexual-based
Hamas terrorists forced families to watch loved ones get raped at gunpoint https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-787994
Israel readies for possibility of pregnancies in female hostages raped by Hamas: https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-782096
Israel submits report to UN on Hamas’s mass weaponization of rape https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-report-submitted-to-un-on-hamass-mass-scale-weaponization-of-rape/
‘Right now someone is being raped in a tunnel’: Knesset hears of Hamas sex crimes: https://www.timesofisrael.com/right-now-someone-is-being-raped-in-a-tunnel-knesset-hears-of-hamas-sex-crimes/
Hamas beating women in Gaza https://www.instagram.com/p/C3Vrk1GoCQb/
Why are so many feminists supporting abusive men? https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-are-so-many-feminists-supporting-abusive-men/
This International Women’s Day, it’s time to finally believe Israeli women https://forward.com/opinion/590360/international-womens-day-israeli-women-oct-7/
On University/College Campuses
The Roots of Campus Hatred: https://www.thefp.com/p/the-roots-of-campus-hatred
How to Really Fix American Higher Education: https://www.thefp.com/p/bari-weiss-how-to-fix-higher-education
The Treason of the Intellectuals: https://www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferguson-treason-intellectuals-third-reich
End DEI: It’s not about diversity, equity, or inclusion. It is about arrogating power to a movement that threatens not just Jews—but America itself: https://www.thefp.com/p/end-dei-woke-capture
The Ivy League Flunks Out: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/opinion/antisemitism-university-presidents.html
The ‘Peaceful’ Movement to Destroy Israel: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/in-thrall-to-bad-ideas
SJP Unmasked – Inside the Pro-Palestinian Group Protesting Across College Campuses https://jcpa.org/pdf/sjp_unmasked_2023.pdf
Students for Justice in Palestine, which was founded at Berkeley, has fueled activism, and, critics say, intimidation and antisemitism: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/us/students-justice-palestine-campus-protests.html
United States House Committee on Ways and Means Committee on Campus Free Speech. (November 14th, 2023 Jonathan Schanzer’s testimony Senior Vice President for Research at FDD Foundation for the Defense of Democracies): https://www.c-span.org/video/?531884-1/campus-free-speech-israel-hamas-war
CSpan – University Presidents and Elise Stephanik “it depends on the context”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdb5XfPA1dw
U.S. Colleges Teaching Hate: American Miseducation (Documentary): https://www.thefp.com/p/watch-american-miseducation-free-press-doc
What Yale Has in Common With Hamas: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/yale-qatar-ivy-league
Is Campus Rage Fueled by Middle Eastern Money?: https://www.thefp.com/p/campus-rage-middle-eastern-roots-qatar
If Berkeley Wants to Protect Free Speech It Will Expel Its Rioters https://www.thefp.com/p/expel-berkeley-rioters
Berkeley Is a Safe Space for Hate: thuggish intimidation of Jewish students and teachers is the new normal as leftist brownshirts topple once-heralded free speech bastion https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/berkeley-safe-space-for-hate
Twilight of the Wonks: The 100-year reign of impeccably credentialed but utterly mediocre meme processors is coming to an endhttps://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/twilight-wonks-walter-russell-mead
Tunnels and Missiles
Rocket & Mortar Attacks Against Israel by Date (2001 – Present) https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/palestinian-rocket-and-mortar-attacks-against-israel
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/feb/10/gaza-tunnels-israel
ISRAEL GAZA BORDER, ISRAEL – AUGUST 04: Israeli soldier seen inside a tunnel built underground by Hamas militants leading from the Gaza Strip into Southern Israel. https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/364074/who-gave-hamas-the-cement-for-tunnels/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/gaza-tunnels (need access to read)
UNWRA and other Absurdities
More than 30 of UNRWA’s employees actively participated in October 7 https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-787361
Directly beneath UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters, IDF uncovers top secret Hamas data center, Subterranean facility for terror group’s intelligence needs, beneath UN complex in upscale Rimal neighborhood, discovered after interrogations of Palestinian prisoners https://www.timesofisrael.com/directly-beneath-unrwas-gaza-headquarters-idf-uncovers-top-secret-hamas-data-center/
Dr. Einat Wilf articulates clearly, with solid facts and easily explains to the world that UNRWA, as it is structured today, cannot continue to exist https://www.instagram.com/p/C4D7X5aogrN/
AID
14,000 trucks of aid have entered Gaza since Oct. 7 https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/1708718863-14-000-trucks-of-aid-have-entered-gaza-since-oct-7
Israel Sidesteps UNRWA to Deliver Gaza Aid Via WFP https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/02/23/israel-sidesteps-unrwa-to-deliver-gaza-aid-via-wfp/
History/MAPS
Maps pre-1948 https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/maps-of-pre-1948-palestine
https://honestreporting.com/united-nations-partition-plan/ map after the war of independence the 1949 Armistice Lines
From War to War https://www.economist.com/special-report/1998/04/23/from-war-to-war
Lord Roberts of Belgravia, British military historian, addressing the UK Parliament on February 8, 2024: “My Lords, even if we were to take as accurate Hamas’s statistics and the 27,500 figure—there is no reason why we should; we do not do that with Putin or ISIS—if one subtracts the number of Gazans who have been killed by the quarter or so of the Islamic Jihad and Hamas rockets that fall short, one is left with a less than 2:1 ratio of civilians to Hamas terrorists killed, of whom there have been more than 9,000 so far. My lord, war is hell; and every individual civilian death is a tragedy. But speaking as a military historian—less than 2:1 is an astonishingly low ratio for modern urban warfare where the terrorists routinely use civilians as human shields. It is a testament to the professionalism, ethics, and values of the Israel Defense Forces.” https://twitter.com/AppgIsrael/status/1755645773612494980/video/1
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevy sent a battle sheet to the commanders, emphasizing to them the values required in combat: “We behave like human beings and preserve, unlike our enemies, the human image. We must be careful not to use force where it is not necessary, to distinguish between a terrorist and not, not to take anything that is not ours – a souvenir or a weapon item, and not to film revenge videos. We are not on a killing spree, revenge or genocide. We have come to defeat and defeat a cruel enemy, worthy of a bitter loss.” (credited as being recorded by Yoav Zeitoun …sent to me by an Israeli friend)
IRAN, etc
Why “Imposter Scholars” Will Never Believe the Voices of Middle Eastern Natives. https://iraniansondeathrow.wordpress.com/2022/11/16/western-incredulity-over-iran-why-imposter-scholars-will-never-believe-the-voices-of-middle-eastern-natives/
Violence Against Women: A Never-Ending Story in Iran https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/violence-against-women-never-ending-story-iran
The Fallen for Freedom https://women.ncr-iran.org/category/the-fallen-for-freedom/
Disturbing Footage Emerges Of ‘Taliban’ Stoning In Afghanistan https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-taliban-stoning-woman-adultery/27341045.html
Iran’s doomsday clock for Israel’s end halts amid power cuts https://www.timesofisrael.com/irans-doomsday-clock-for-israels-end-halts-amid-power-cuts/
GD and Judaism
Where was God on October 7? A different perspective https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/where-was-god-on-october-7-a-different-perspective/?
Must a Jew Believe in God? https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/must-a-jew-believe-in-god/
The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s View on Zionism 1947 https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/livingtorah/player_cdo/aid/498520/jewish/The-Lubavitcher-Rebbes-View-on-Zionism.htm
Navigating Israel’s War When One Spouse Is Jewish, and One Is Not. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/us/israel-war-marriage.html
I Produced an Oscar-Winning Holocaust Film. Here Is Why Jonathan Glazer’s Speech Was So Offensive https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/richard-trank-why-jonathan-glazers-oscar-speech-was-so-offensive-1235851872
Laurie Stone on Freud, Nazis, Jews, and Women https://open.substack.com/pub/lauriestone/p/hitler-freud-and-the-feminine-principle, https://lauriestone.substack.com/p/vienna-nazis-jews-and-women-part
Beauty
Shahar Dekel https://www.instagram.com/shahar_dekel/
Adi Kessar ‘Anatomy’ https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poems/poem/103-29664_Anatomy
Agi Mishol ‘Safe Room’ https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/11/poem-agi-mishol-safe-room/675962/
From the Edges of a Broken World https://web.archive.org/web/20240305095742/https://www.guernicamag.com/from-the-edges-of-a-broken-world
A minor miracle of the ‘iron sword’ (the name of this current war with Gaza) found in the Judean desert. https://www.timesofisrael.com/swords-found-in-judean-desert-caves-ranked-as-most-exciting-archaeology-story-of-2023/
Humor
God and Jewish Humor https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/god-humor
An Open Letter to the Organizers of the Next Holocaust https://shalomauslander.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-the-organizers
The Press (currently ‘trusted’ list)
https://www.timesofisrael.com the Times of Israel
https://www.haaretz.com Haaretz English edition
https://www.jpost.com Jerusalem Post
https://www.tabletmag.com/collections/hamas-israel Tablet Magazine
https://www.thefp.com The Free Press
https://forward.com The Forward
Other reliable sources on Israel
https://www.instagram.com/hillelneuer/ Hillel Neuer
https://www.instagram.com/noatishby/ Noa Tishby
https://www.instagram.com/einatwilf/ Einat Wilf
https://www.youtube.com/user/EylonLevy Eylon Levy
https://www.wilf.org/English/ Einat Wilf
https://www.instagram.com/therealdebramessing/ Debra Messing
https://www.instagram.com/mandanadayani/ Mandana Mayani
https://www.instagram.com/elicalebon/ Elica LeBon
https://www.instagram.com/yosephhaddad/ Yoseph Haddad
https://www.instagram.com/realbassemeid/ Bassem Eid
https://www.instagram.com/ritchietorresny15/ Rep Ritchie Torres
https://www.instagram.com/mosab_hassanyousef/ Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of Hamas, was raised by the man behind the terror group. He then became an Israeli spy: https://www.thefp.com/p/douglas-murray-son-of-hamas-mosab-hassan-yousef
Egyptian activist tells ‘Post’ she condemns Hamas and October 7 massacre https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-791379
https://www.haaretz.com/ty-WRITER/0000017f-da24-d249-ab7f-fbe4caac0000 Gideon Levy
some reasons for distrusting the press
Al Jazeera journalist is also a Hamas commander, IDF says https://www.timesofisrael.com/al-jazeera-journalist-is-also-a-hamas-commander-idf-says/
NYT journalist accused of infiltrating into Israel on Oct. 7 wins award https://www.jpost.com/international/article-788378
AP sued for allegedly buying photos from Hamas agents involved in October 7 https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-788469
AP photographer co-wins for photo of terrorists taking Shani Louk’s corpse into Gaza https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-794100
Support
Petition: End the Silence https://hadassahinternational.org/end-the-silence/
Brothers and Sisters for Israel https://www.brothersandsistersforisrael.org/
Combat Antisemitism Movement https://combatantisemitism.org
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Things Worth Remembering: C.S. Lewis on Keeping Calm in Chaos https://www.thefp.com/p/things-worth-remembering-cs-lewis
Despite the war in Gaza Israel ranks 5th in global happiness in 2024 https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2024/happiness-of-the-younger-the-older-and-those-in-between/#ranking-of-happiness-2021-2023
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