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UN-Backed Famine Watchdog Quietly Changed Standards, Easing Way To Declare Famine in Gaza

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​Center for Near East Policy Research
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The U.N.-affiliated watchdog group that recently declared a “worst-case scenario of famine” in Gaza quietly changed one of its key reporting metrics while doing so, making it easier to formally declare that there is a famine in the Hamas-controlled territory.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)—a network of Western governments, the United Nations, and nonprofit groups—determined in a July 29 report “the worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” claiming that “mounting evidence shows that widespread starvation, malnutrition, and disease are driving a rise in hunger-related deaths.” Media outlets like the New York Times, NPR, CNN, and ABC News relied on the IPC report to claim that Israeli policies have led to mass starvation, with the Times stating that “months of severe aid restrictions imposed by Israel on the territory” have caused a famine “across most of Gaza.”

Unlike previous IPC reports on the humanitarian situation in Gaza, the July report includes a metric—known as mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC)—the agency has not historically used when issuing a “famine classification,” its most dire determination. The report also includes a lowered threshold for the proportion of children who must be considered malnourished for the IPC to declare a famine, down to 15 percent from 30 percent. The 15 percent threshold had previously been used to indicate a famine was likely.

Aid workers traditionally conduct detailed weight and height measurements to determine whether a child is suffering from acute malnutrition. MUAC, by contrast, consists only of a child’s arm circumference, a measurement that can be done more quickly and is considered less precise. In its past Gaza reports, the IPC has said it would declare famine after finding that 30 percent of children in an area are suffering from acute malnutrition using their weight and height measurements. In the recent Gaza report, the IPC said it would declare famine if it found that 15 percent of children were suffering from acute malnutrition using their arm circumference measurement and if the agency found unspecified “evidence of rapidly worsening underlying drivers.”

The “pretty big shift” in standards, one veteran aid industry insider told the Washington Free Beacon, suggests the IPC is “lowering the bar, or trying to make it easier for the famine determination to be made.”

The IPC report revealed that shift through a small statement attached to an asterisk under a graphic titled, “When is Famine Classified?” It cited the MUAC metric, which is commonly collected in conflict settings but not meant to replace the more detailed measurements when determining famine.

Indeed, the IPC itself considers weight and height measurements as its primary indicator of malnutrition, according to a source familiar with the organization’s methodology. Its July report directs readers who want “further information on how the IPC classifies Famine” to a “Famine Fact Sheet” that makes no mention of MUAC. And its technical manual makes clear the organization can only issue an official “famine classification” once it establishes “reliable data” on acute malnutrition using weight and height measurements or one other metric that is not MUAC.

That did not stop the organization from using the metric to determine acute malnutrition levels in the Gazan cities of Deir al-Balah, Khan Younis, and Gaza City. A chart included in the notice shows less than 8 percent of children in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis suffer from acute malnutrition “based on MUAC.” That figure is 16.5 percent in Gaza City, just above the new 15-percent threshold but well below the 30-percent level the IPC traditionally uses.

The organization’s decision to change its practices and rely on a 15-percent MUAC metric for its most recent Gaza report caught some veteran aid workers by surprise.

“If this is what you are considering, it is an issue,” one veteran aid practitioner told the Free Beacon. “If you’re planning to make a famine declaration based off the 15-percent MUAC, we as practitioners would say that’s an issue.”

The aid worker pointed to previous “famine classifications” the IPC issued in Sudan and Somalia in 2024 and 2011, respectively. In Somalia and certain regions of Sudan, IPC used the 30-percent malnourishment threshold as shown through weight-and-height measurements to declare famine. It used arm circumference measurements to establish malnutrition in other parts of Sudan, but those measurements exceeded the 30-percent threshold, not the 15-percent one cited in the most recent Gaza report.

“In all of the famines that have been declared, they’ve been using the 30-percent global malnutrition measurement, most of which have been based on the weight-for-height metric—which, again, is much harder to collect, much more burdensome, and it’s 30 percent,” the source said. “So, this asterisk that’s been added for Gaza essentially says that they’re going to allow a 15-percent global malnutrition rate measured by MUAC.”

“I think many people would say it’s like lowering the bar or making it more possible, essentially, to declare whatever it is that they’re going to declare.”

In addition to the amended standards, the IPC’s July report states that “over 20,000 children have been admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition between April and mid-July, with more than 3,000 severely malnourished.” It also says Gazan hospitals “have reported a rapid increase in hunger-related deaths of children under five years of age, with at least 16 reported deaths since 17 July.”

Those statements, the report’s “references” section shows, are based on “internal documents” from sources that are “not publicly available,” making it impossible for outsiders to vet their credibility. Raw data the IPC assesses often comes from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry (GHM) and other terror-linked aid organizations. One of the primary humanitarian aid groups feeding data to the IPC, for example, is Ard el Insan, which works closely with the GHM and has faced allegations that it serves as a front for the terror group.

The IPC did not respond to a request for comment on its methodology and changes noted in the July Gaza alert.

Richard Goldberg, a former White House and National Security Council staffer in both Trump administrations who spent a decade performing humanitarian aid oversight on Capitol Hill, told the Free Beacon the IPC standards are another example of U.N. malfeasance.

“If you keep pulling the thread here, you start to understand this is one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated on the world,” said Goldberg, who now serves as a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank. “There is no famine in Gaza—the data thresholds don’t support that claim—and yet we have the United Nations changing the rules to fit the desired political outcome.”

This piece has been updated to include additional and clarifying information on the IPC’s famine classification process.

Transparent Duplicity

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Michael Kuttner
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Duplicitous deception is usually carried out in secret, undercover and with the intention of evading detection.

In direct contrast, the current campaign of duplicity and vilification against Israel is being stage-managed in a cynically transparent manner. Its aims and intentions are crystal clear except to those who are genetically programmed to believe every political pronouncement is true.

The most practised practitioners of peddling deceptive disinformation are, of course, politicians who have refined their ability to deceive and confuse to the highest possible level.

The leaders of the UK, France and Canada, together with other countries, have at least made their intentions perfectly clear. They declared their intention to recognise a fictitious “Palestine” regardless of any impediment that may loom. Their declarations about Hamas and a democratic state are merely recitations of rhetoric that they do not really believe.

They are totally transparent in their hypocrisy.

On the other hand, the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Australia are perfect examples of how duplicity and deception can be employed to try to hide real intentions.

There has never been any secret about Albanese and Wong’s aim of rewarding Islamic terror. It has been part and parcel of their agenda from day one. It is only the timing that was in doubt.

I predicted right after the results of the Australian elections were announced that, given the massive majority gained by the Labour Party, it would now be full speed ahead with implementing a long-awaited anti-Israel policy.

So it has transpired with a zealousness that can only be described as messianic and mind-boggling.

The hymns of praise arising from the expected quarters have resulted in demonstrations of hate and incitement never before witnessed in Australia’s history.

Even worse has been the blatant bluster and bluff emanating from the PM and Foreign Minister.

On the one hand, they made it plain that recognising “Palestine” was a matter of when, not if.

On the other hand ,they dodged, weaved and evaded every time they were challenged to detail exactly what criteria needed to be fulfilled in order for this seal of approval to be granted.

As painful as extracting teeth, it gradually became evident that recognising Palestine would require a series of demands to be met.

These included the unconditional release of all hostages, the defeat of Hamas, removing Hamas from any governance and democratic reforms of a Palestinian Authority that has not held any sort of free and fair elections in 20 years. In addition, vague noises about stopping pay for slay grants to terrorists and their families were made. Finally, a declaration that this new fake state would embrace tolerance, eliminate hate education and accept Israel as the nation state of the Jewish People would be expected.

Anyone with a brain in their head could see that these expectations were merely camouflage and designed to confuse and befuddle those naïve enough to believe such tripe.

At its basic level, it was clear that these supposed conditions for statehood were never going to be achieved. The only reason that the Australian Government kept repeating this mantra of lies was to placate critics and sow confusion.

It has now exploded into full view and exposed the fraud it was always going to be.

Following a love embrace between Abbas and Albanese, the full extent of this confidence trick is now clearly visible.

Like Neville Chamberlain before him, Albanese has fallen for the promises and guarantees of a serial fraudster. Worthless declarations of pledges that have no chance of ever being implemented have been accepted at face value. It has taken only one conversation with Abbas for Albanese to become convinced that previous conditional requirements no longer apply and can conveniently be swept under the carpet.

In a shameless somersault, the Australian Government has now determined that recognition of “Palestine” can proceed even if Hamas remains intact and none of the other demands are implemented.

This exposes the whole exercise as one of the biggest confidence tricks of the century. It reveals the true face of those who tried to conceal their real intentions from public scrutiny.

It also casts into serious doubt the sincerity and desire of the Australian Government to confront Jew hate in all its manifest evil.

Communal spokespersons from various groups have not helped.

While deploring the collapse of any moral backbone and bewailing the mistimed move, their fervent embrace of an eventual “Palestine” is completely at odds with reality. It gives legitimacy to the idea of statehood, which has been continually rejected by all Arab leaders ever since 1947.

Foreign Minister Wong outrageously claimed that Australia was the first country in 1947 to vote at the UN in favour of a Palestinian nation. This is a blatant distortion of historical facts. The plan voted on concerned the partition of British Mandated Palestine into a Jewish and ARAB state. The fake Palestinians that were invented after 1967 did not exist at the time. Wong conveniently and no doubt deliberately omitted to mention that all Arab representatives vehemently rejected the idea of an Arab state. They preferred the complete annihilation of Jewish sovereignty and proceeded to implement their plan as soon as Israel’s declaration of independence was proclaimed.

From that time onwards until the Arafat era, successive attempts at eliminating Israel and its citizens occurred. It was only after the Soviets convinced the PLO and other such groups that terrorism and diplomatic warfare were better options that the myth of Palestinian indigenous claims surfaced. Following the 1967 debacle, revisionist historical distortions became “holy writ”, and the brainwashing of the international community commenced.

If Penny Wong and Anthony Albanese were honest, they would have acknowledged these facts. Unfortunately, like all those who have succumbed to mass amnesia and moral degeneracy, truth is buried. Instead, an Orwellian commitment to “big brother” speak is the order of the day.

Given these realities, it is pitiful that communal representatives merely articulate mealy-mouthed criticism while at the same time stating their ultimate approval for the eventual creation of a terror entity in the heart of the Jewish homeland. Ignoring the legal status of the San Remo Agreement and its guarantees of Jewish settlement, while at the same time falling for the myth of “illegally occupied Palestinian territories”, gives a pass to revisionist history.

If anyone believes that supporting the establishment of “Palestine” will make Jew haters disappear, they are in for a huge disappointment. If anything, this mass appeasement of terror will galvanise and energise the mobs to further bouts of frenzy. The call “from the river to the sea” has become the national anthem of the Greens, the university students and graduates, academic elites, extreme left and legions of others. The very notion of resurrected Jewish sovereignty is anathema, which is why they will never rest until Israel and Jews are cleansed from the land.

These facts are so transparent.

Those ideologically warped, genetically programmed and politically poisoned will take the democracies’ surrender to jihadist terror as a green light to carry on until another final solution is implemented.

The current feeble responses to Judeophobia in Australia are an omen for future failures.

Mass marches across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, acts of vandalism and arson, combined with electoral demographics, all point to a fraught future.

Where Australia leads, New Zealand is sure to follow.

Albanese has visited NZ and cuddled up to its Prime Minister, who dutifully affirms that recognising “Palestine” is only a matter of when, not if. The fact that a hard-left political leader can convince a so-called conservative opposite number to fall into line and reward terror is not unexpected.

Political practicalities and transparent duplicity know no borders.

With apologies to the author of “Mary had a little lamb”, I offer my own poetic observations on this sordid situation.

Albanese has a little lamb

His face and head do glow

Everywhere that Albanese does stray

Luxon is sure to go

He follows him like a trusting sheep

Regurgitating dubious claims for all to hear

The lies and fables would make you weep

When the terror groups issue a resounding cheer

What makes the mobs love Albanese so

Frustrated democrats do cry

Why, Albanese, Wong and CO

Really love to appease, is the reply

This Is Why The Latest “Settler Violence” Story Is A Lie

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​Center for Near East Policy Research
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On July 28th, Awdah al-Hathaleen, a known terror activist was killed in self defense by local farmer Yinon Levi.  Hathaleen joined a crowd of other Arabs from the village of Um al Kher, an Arab village that was built illegally within the boundaries  of the Jewish community of Carmel in the southern Hebron Hills.

Of course if one reads the news on outlets like the Washington Post you will get a different story. The article begins there by saying: “Awdah al-Hathaleen devoted his life to defending his small Bedouin village from intensifying threats by Israeli settlers and officials.”

The gist of the article is that Awdah al-Hathaleen is a victim of an unprovoked attack. After all, according to the Washington Post the Arabs were merely taking pictures of an Israeli bulldozer after it crashed through their village. The post goes on to say that Hathaleen who is best known for contributing to the Oscar winning “documentary” No Other Land, which is more like a propaganda film to help develop an Arab narrative in relation to Judea and Samaria, was killed as he quietly sat in a playground in Um al Kher.

The facts are clear, the bulldozer was driving on a periphery road that belongs to Carmel and the arabs from Um al Kher came to block it –  meaning they had crossed into Carmel proper, which turned them into a mob with rocks and therefore a security threat.

Yinon Levi went down to the area when he saw rocks being thrown. Video evidence confirms that his car was pelted with rocks. More video evidence shows clearly that he was being surrounded by a mob of Arabs who had essentially penetrated the outer perimeter of Carmel.

After the gun shots Levi along with a number of Arabs were taken into custody.  Levi was later ordered to be released because a judge noted that the ballistics on Levi’s gun do not match the bullets that hit Awdah al-Hathaleen. The fact is, even if they had matched, according Israeli law, if one believes their life is under threat and in this case, the crowd would have overwhelmed Levi as they were already on the road within the boundaries of the Karmel, he had every right to fire shots –  especially since he asked them as seen in the videos to back off.

The Washington Post wants its readers to believe that Awdah al-Hathaleen was some sort of peace loving Arab who was murdered by a “Jewish terrorist,” in order to back up their false narrative concocted by handing Oscar awards to militant Arab nationalists who have perfected the art of propaganda.

How ‘Haaretz’ built a false campaign about Gaza ‘starvation’

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​Center for Near East Policy Research
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GAZA CITY, GAZA - JULY 21: Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, a 1.5-year-old child in Gaza City, Gaza, faces life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian situation worsens due to ongoing Israeli attacks and blockade, on July 21, 2025. Having dropped from 9 to 6 kilograms, he struggles to survive in a tent in Gaza City, where milk, food, and other basic necessities are lacking. Suzan Marouf, a clinical nutrition specialist at Patient Friend’s Hospital, confirmed that Mohammad’s condition worsened due to severe malnutrition caused by the ongoing Israeli siege. When his family brought him to the hospital a month ago, doctors diagnosed him with moderate malnutrition in addition to pre-existing congenital health issues, including brain complications and muscle atrophy. Marouf said they had been trying to stabilize Mohammad’s condition using the last remaining nutritional supplements. "The medical issues he had weren’t significantly affecting his weight," she noted. (Photo by Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The Israeli left-wing newspaper, Haaretz, continues to dedicate its pages to its claims of “mass starvation” in the Gaza Strip. Recently, a so-called “famine researcher” named Alex de Waal was recruited to bolster the claim. And indeed, with a somber expression and deep moral anguish, he was compelled to accuse Israel of the grave crime of mass starvation of more than two million Gazans.

Such a serious accusation, coming from an impartial and independent “expert,” indeed sounds like a real problem for Israel. However, even a quick and superficial examination of de Waal’s history of claims casts a heavy shadow over the credibility of his accusation, as he is a known Israel-hater and a serial accuser of Israel for “starving Gaza” throughout the war.

As early as Jan. 2024, just two months after the beginning of the IDF’s operation in the Gaza Strip, de Waal published his first warning about Israel’s horrific crime of starvation. He reiterated his warning in Feb. 2024. And repeated it in early March 2024.

It should be noted that in early March, a COGAT report was published, proving that the amount of food entering Gaza was 80% higher than the amount entering before the war, thus refuting de Waal’s claim. De Waal was not impressed and in April, 2024, he provided another warning. And another in June 2024.

During the same month, his claims were refuted by the Famine Review Committee (FRC), whose experts concluded that “the available evidence does not indicate that Famine is currently occurring.”

A month later, in July 2024, de Waal’s claims of famine in Gaza were debunked again, this time by a group of Israeli researchers.

De Waal decided to take a short time off, but in Jan. 2025 he reiterated the starvation accusation, this time in Haaretz. A month later, in Feb. 2025, de Waal published another report. And another in May 2025. And then came the latest warning in July 2025.

Was Gaza truly suffering from Israeli-caused starvation throughout the war? Clearly not. Numerous reports, including those from the United Nations itself, have refuted this allegation. So, what could be the reason for de Waal’s obsession with Israel? Could it be that he is simply an Israel hater?

A hint of his fundamentally hostile stance toward Israel was given by de Waal in June 2020, three years before the war. At that time, in an entirely different context regarding Israel’s activities in Africa, he accused Israel of apartheid, racism against Ethiopian immigrants, criminally blocking borders against millions of African infiltrators, cynically leveraging the Israeli lobby in Washington to support negative forces in Africa and even backing terrorism in Africa.

In other words, even without connection to the false claim of Israel “starving” the residents of the Gaza Strip, de Waal is an antisemitic, Israel hater. The question of why Haaretz specifically relies on him to substantiate its false accusation of Israel causing starvation leads us to the next issue: the images of the emaciated child, Muhammad al-Matouq.

In late July, a prominent front-page image in both Haaretz and The New York Times featured the child in his mother’s arms, serving as a stark visual symbol for the starvation claim. (The two newspapers have a distribution partnership in Israel.) Before him, an emaciated Gazan boy named Osama al-Rakab had been presented as a poster child for alleged famine in both international mainstream media and on social media networks.

It soon became clear the extent of Hamas’s infinite and ugly cynicism. Both sickly children—whose families admitted they suffer from genetic diseases, cerebral palsy, oxygen deficiency and cystic fibrosis, with their extreme thinness being a symptom of their hidden underlying conditions and who, just a month earlier, had been transferred by Israel for medical treatment in Italy—were unwillingly turned into symbols of Hamas’s false starvation campaign.

The conclusion is clear: the scarcity of authentic evidence for Israel’s alleged deliberate “starvation” of the residents of the Gaza Strip forces Haaretz to rely on dubious sources. For this reason, Haaretz takes care to present what it describes as Israel’s “war crimes” as “reports” received from “sources” and “authorities” in Gaza, meaning that they originated from Hamas terrorists and the Hamas authorities.

If there truly was “starvation,” the newspaper would have interviewed impartial experts and published images of healthy children suffering from malnutrition due to the IDF’s actions, rather than an Israel hater who has been claiming starvation for 20 consecutive months and emaciated children suffering from underlying medical conditions.

Haaretz is waging a campaign against Israel. There isn’t even a single ounce of real journalism in this propaganda campaign, nor are there any red lines.

It’s time for Israel to stop playing by the rules while its enemies play for keeps

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​Center for Near East Policy Research
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Ori Shifrin

As the war against Hamas in Gaza drags into its second year and international hostility toward the Jewish state continues to intensify, Israel must face an unavoidable truth: For decades, it has voluntarily limited its existential war against Palestinian attempts to wipe it out by self-imposed moral constraints. These constraints—designed to win favor with the global community and maintain a sense of ethical superiority—have not yielded strategic dividends. Instead, they have led to painful losses, squandered leverage and emboldened its enemies.

Israel must adopt a new strategic doctrine—one grounded in realism and not performance, in deterrence and not self-congratulation.

For decades, Israel has operated under a self-imposed doctrine of restraint. It has aimed to be “more moral” than its enemies—avoiding civilian casualties at the cost of its soldiers, releasing mass murderers in lopsided prisoner swaps, refraining from annexing land even when militarily victorious and granting privileges to terrorists in prison. The goal: to prove its ethical superiority to a world that never asked it to.

This military doctrine is entirely self-generated because Israelis want to prove that “we are not like them.” Being liked might have a necessary strategy to Jewish survival when it depended on non-Jewish largesse, but it is a bad strategy for an independent, self-respecting and increasingly self-reliant state.

Being morally superior has not brought peace. It has not earned goodwill. It has not prevented charges of war crimes. Instead, it has made Israel look weak, hesitant and unsure of its own legitimacy. Hatred of Israel has only increased.

Even worse, this moral posturing has not only been outward-facing. It has become a psychological affliction within Israel itself. Among many Israelis, there is a pervasive self-image of moral superiority—a compulsive need to believe that Israel occupies the high ground. This internal virtue-signaling, while comforting to the Israeli soul, is dangerously corrosive to national security.

Would any Israeli parent willingly sacrifice their child in order to spare a Palestinian civilian? The answer is self-evident. And yet, doing so is part of Israel’s military doctrine when soldiers are sent to clear buildings that could be better cleared by bombs or when terrorists are not hit because of the possibility of collateral “civilian” damage. War is not about moral symbolism; it is about victory.

Israel’s goal should not be to be seen as “good guys.” It should be seen as too expensive and painful to attack.

Killing terrorists is necessary, but it is not sufficient. The strategic elimination of enemy combatants has rarely deterred the next generation from taking up arms. In fact, martyrdom has often fueled the ranks of jihadist movements.

What does work? Humiliation and permanent loss.

Terrorists must be made to understand that their actions will not only fail but also result in personal disgrace and irreversible consequences for their communities.

Public humiliation upon capture and denial of burial rights designed to open the gates of heaven might do more to shatter recruitment than a thousand targeted strikes.

There must also be consequences for the communities that support terrorism. Attacks against Israeli civilians should result in the loss of territory. Not temporary checkpoints. Not administrative detentions. Permanent annexation. If a terrorist kills an Israeli, his entire village should be evacuated and absorbed into Israel. The residents must be expelled—not as a punishment but as a declaration of the principle that those who harbor terror lose land.

This approach is long overdue in Gaza. For years, Israelis have heard the threat, “One rocket from Gaza, and we’ll take it back.” But that threat was never enforced. Instead, Gaza became an autonomous Palestinian terror state, armed to the teeth with Iranian rockets, tunneling under Israeli homes and indoctrinating genocidal incitement in its youth. Israel has had the military capability to retake and resettle Gaza for years. It has simply not wanted to be “occupiers.”

That must change. Israel must reclaim Gaza—militarily, administratively and demographically. The idea that Israel owes water, electricity and food to an entity that seeks its destruction is both absurd and suicidal. Israel must annex what was once Jewish land and make clear that this territory will never again be used as a launchpad for terror. When you attack Israel, you lose land. Simple.

The same logic applies in Judea and Samaria. Areas A and B must be placed under strict construction oversight. Area C must be secured for Jewish development. All foreign-funded Arab construction projects designed to create facts on the ground should be halted. NGOs, including Jewish ones, that function as hostile actors mapping Jewish homes, lobbying international bodies and spreading libels must be shut down. These are not civil society groups; they are battlefield agents of the enemy.

Bien pensant Israelis will gag on this. Thousands of Israelis regularly demonstrate against the moral costs of “occupation” without admitting that the alternative is the destruction of Israel. These people are preening and performing for approval. They must grow up.

International backlash is also inevitable. But the backlash is already here. The International Criminal Court is already preparing arrest warrants for Israeli leaders. European countries and Canada, along with the United Nations, are already moving toward unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state. Western universities are already filled with chants of intifada. Israeli restraint has not worked.

Israel must get tough, not out of cruelty, but out of clarity. Not to match the barbarism of its enemies, but to defeat it.

The wars against Palestinian exterminationism and for public opinion will not be won with press conferences, interfaith dialogue and hasbara. They will be won when the enemies of Israel believe that the cost of attacking the Jewish state is too high to bear.

It is long past time for Israel to stop playing by the rules of the Marquis of Queensbury when its enemies are playing by those of the Marquis de Sade.

Joshua Katzen is the publisher of Jewish News Syndicate. The views expressed are his own and not of the organization.

A Muslim Teacher’s Journey to Understanding Israel and the Jewish People

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​Center for Near East Policy Research
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Growing up in Garissa, a predominantly Muslim region of Kenya, my earliest understanding of Jewish history came from Islamic sources—the Qur’an and Hadith. These texts, read through a traditional lens, often cast Jews in a negative light. Yet, over time, I began to study deeper and more broadly—historically, spiritually, and politically. What I discovered challenged many assumptions I had grown up with.

As a Muslim, I believe in the pursuit of truth and justice. And that journey has led me to a profound respect for the Jewish people, their resilience, and their rightful connection to the Land of Israel.

Forgotten History: Jews in Arabia

Many Muslims are unaware—or choose to forget—that long before Islam, Jewish communities flourished in the Arabian Peninsula. Hadith literature acknowledges Jewish tribes as farmers, craftsmen, and well-owners in Medina and its surroundings. These were not outsiders but indigenous Semitic peoples, like Arabs. Sadly, history also tells us that these communities were later massacred or expelled as Islamic rule expanded.

Yet, the relationship wasn’t always hostile. One telling example is the Day of Ashura. When the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) arrived in Medina, he found the Jews fasting. Upon asking why, they replied that it commemorated the day Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt. The Prophet responded by honoring the practice and even recommended Muslims observe the day as well—showing reverence for a shared prophetic history.

Questioning the Denial of Israel’s Right to Exist

Given this shared history, it is deeply troubling that so many Islamic nations today not only deny the Jewish people’s connection to their ancestral land, but actively work to delegitimize the State of Israel. Over 50 Muslim-majority countries either refuse diplomatic recognition, support hostile rhetoric, or in some cases, back armed resistance against Israel’s very existence.

What is Israel doing that so many of these nations are not? Is it defending itself too strongly? Or is its mere survival as a Jewish state seen as a provocation?

This leads me to an uncomfortable truth: the hatred toward Israel often stems less from solidarity with Palestinians and more from a deeper unwillingness to accept Jewish sovereignty in the Middle East.

Who Truly Failed the Palestinians?

I am not without empathy for the Palestinian people. But I believe their greatest betrayal did not come from Israel, but from the very Arab nations that claim to champion their cause.

When Israel declared independence in 1948, it accepted a two-state solution. But Arab countries launched a war to eliminate the Jewish state. When they lost, the displaced Arabs—who later became known as Palestinians—were refused integration by their fellow Arabs. They were confined to refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, denied citizenship and rights for generations, all so they could be used as symbols of grievance.

I believe peace will only come when we, in the Muslim world, are honest about history and stop demonizing Israel simply because it is Jewish.

Compare this to Palestinians who moved to the West—many have become citizens, elected officials, and respected members of society. The difference is clear: one path seeks peace and progress; the other clings to victimhood and vengeance.

A Call for Justice and Understanding

I do not write this to provoke, but to invite reflection. I remain a committed Muslim. But my faith teaches me to be just—even to those I disagree with. And justice demands that we acknowledge the truth: the Jewish people are indigenous to the Land of Israel. They are not colonial settlers. They are not foreign invaders. They are returning home.

I believe peace will only come when we, in the Muslim world, are honest about history and stop demonizing Israel simply because it is Jewish. That means standing up against hate, acknowledging Jewish suffering and rights, and seeking real dialogue—not perpetual war.

To my fellow Muslims: we can support Palestinian rights without denying Jewish ones. We can pursue justice without fueling hatred. And we can, God willing, be part of a future where our two peoples—descendants of Abraham—can live in mutual respect.

Israeli Troops find Hamas /PIJ missile launcher in British military cemetery in Gaza

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​Center for Near East Policy Research
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Please see article re Troops find missile launcher in British military cemetery in Gaza https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/412910

By checking the photograph in the article https://2.a7.org/files/pictures/781×439/1196160.jpg  it is without a shadow of doubt part of the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in Gaza Strip as depicted by the headstones.

The photo is an IDF one and it clearly shows Hamas or PIJ have deliberately desecrated the graves of the soldiers who fought in WWI.

See https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/71701/gaza-war-cemetery/

The headstones shown on the CWGC site are identical to those in the article web site mentioned at the top.

Why has there been no condemnation by HM Government or CWGC of this blatant desecration of sanctified ground

Federal Investigators Compile Evidence of Systematic Hamas Aid Theft, Undercutting Leaked USAID ‘Report’

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​Center for Near East Policy Research
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The chief oversight body responsible for tracking American foreign assistance is compiling evidence that Hamas systematically steals U.N. aid in Gaza, including by placing terrorist operatives into U.N. facilities, and conducting active investigations into the issue, undercutting a recently leaked U.S. Agency for International Development “report” that found no evidence of such theft.

The investigations center on occasions in which Hamas “commandeered U.N. aid trucks,” embedded terrorist operatives in “U.N. agencies or at U.N. facilities,” and ensured humanitarian goods were “directly delivered to Hamas officials,” senior U.S. officials and congressional staffers briefed on the issue told the Washington Free Beacon. The USAID inspector general’s office has obtained evidence of those practices and is investigating “credible allegations of Hamas interference, diversion, and theft of humanitarian aid in Gaza,” according to a memo on the inspector general’s “Gaza-related oversight work” that was transmitted to Congress and obtained by the Free Beacon.

Though the Trump administration dissolved USAID itself earlier this year, USAID’s inspector general’s office is an independent entity that Congress established in 1980 to provide oversight of U.S. foreign aid programs. That office remains in place as its investigators probe “diversion, fraud, product substitution, smuggling, and other misconduct compromising lifesaving humanitarian assistance intended for civilians in Gaza,” the memo states.

Those probes—and the evidence of widespread Hamas aid theft informing them—stand in stark contrast to an internal USAID “report” that was leaked to Reuters in late July. It found “no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group Hamas of U.S.-funded humanitarian supplies,” the outlet reported.

That report was not conducted by USAID’s inspector general but rather by career USAID staffers, who “completed” it in late June, days before the Trump administration formally shut down the agency. The staffers based their report on official information from U.N. agencies, senior U.S. officials familiar with it told the Free Beacon. The inspector general probes, by contrast, are based on information from a variety of sources that include “aid workers and other whistleblowers on the ground who may not feel comfortable reporting through their employers’ reporting chain due to fear of retaliation,” according to a source familiar with the office’s operations.

One former investigator in the inspector general’s office said he “directly observed” how Hamas manipulates aid channels in Gaza, including “multiple cases where aid was clearly not reaching its intended targets, and in many cases, being diverted to hostile actors.”

The inspector general has opened at least four active audits into USAID’s mismanagement in Gaza.

One probe centers on USAID’s inability to “vet, screen, and prevent terrorist organizations or individuals engaged in terrorist activity from working for USAID-funded implementing partners or receiving other forms of USAID-funded assistance,” according to the July 30 internal memo. A second is probing “whether USAID had processes in place for assessing, mitigating, and monitoring selected fraud risks in cash assistance awards to NGOs in the West Bank and Gaza.”

The inspector general’s office has additionally been working to prevent “UNRWA staff associated with Hamas from circulating to other U.S. government-funded aid organizations.” It found evidence “connecting three current or formal UNRWA employees to the October 7 terror attacks and affiliating 14 other current or former UNRWA employees with Hamas.” It was unable, however, to confirm that UNRWA fired those employees. Though the U.N. provided a report on the matter to the inspector general’s office, the report “redacted the names of subjects, rendering the report unusable,” the office said in an April investigative summary.

The inspector general is also reviewing additional evidence that Hamas launched mortars at aid delivery sites, fired grenades at aid workers, and opened gunfire on crowds of Gazan civilians seeking food, according to those briefed on the matter.

A spokesman for the inspector general’s office confirmed the investigations and told the Free Beacon it will “continue to partner with the Department of Justice to hold accountable organizations and individuals that divert—or fail to report the diversion of—taxpayer-funded humanitarian aid intended for those in need.” A senior State Department official, meanwhile, said the “available intelligence” uncovered through those probes confirms that a “significant portion” of U.N. aid in Gaza is “diverted, looted, stolen, or ‘self-distributed'” by Hamas.

“There is endless video evidence of Hamas looting, not to mention members of the aid-industrial complex who have admitted that looting exists by reporting it as ‘self-distribution,’ in a poor attempt at an aid corruption coverup,” the official said. “There has been widespread violence and chaos at U.N. aid sites and border crossings—which has received shockingly little mainstream media coverage because it does not fit the international aid complex narrative.”

A senior GOP congressional staffer responsible for tracking foreign assistance confirmed that offices on Capitol Hill have been briefed on the inspector general’s latest findings and are reviewing the initial evidence.

The State Department’s assessment is aligned with sources on the ground in Gaza who spoke to the Free Beacon in July, detailing first-hand accounts of Hamas hijacking U.N. aid trucks, stealing supplies, and reselling them on the black market. At least 12 percent of all U.N. employees in Gaza are members of Hamas or other terrorist organizations, according to Israeli intelligence. U.N. truck drivers often coordinate their shipments with Hamas in exchange for a cut of the aid, one Gazan researcher who has investigated the U.N. aid system for an international nonprofit group told the Free Beacon.

“The drivers of these trucks alert Hamas before they enter with aid,” said the researcher, Saed. “They hand over a portion to Hamas and also take some for themselves and their people.”

Hamas’s grip on aid distribution has prompted many Gazans to join or work with the terror outfit because “they need aid, they need employment,” added 35-year-old graphic designer Mohammad, who lived in several locations throughout Gaza during the war before relocating to Cairo.

“Hamas controls everything in Gaza,” he told the Free Beacon. “If you’re not Hamas, you can’t get anything.”

Weaponizing Starvation: Exposing Hamas’s Food Warfare

By
​Center for Near East Policy Research
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The Israeli Consulate’s ad campaign in New York City’s Times Square. (X/@IsraelinNewYork/Screenshot)

The New York Times’ July 30th admission of misreporting and correction of its July 25th front-page photograph of Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq – an 18-month-old Palestinian child disfigured and suffering from cerebral palsy and genetic disorders, misrepresented by The Times as a starvation victim – reflects more than an egregious journalistic failure.1 It serves as the latest example of years of coordinated information warfare against Israel, transforming humanitarian concerns into strategic weapons in the “eighth front” campaign to delegitimize, isolate, and subvert the one democratic, Jewish majority state.

Iran’s Hamas proxy operatives have used disinformation warfare to win world opinion, defame Israel globally, and subvert it from within. The current Hamas-led, Iran and Qatar-backed media crusade accusing Israel of premeditated, systematic starvation of Gaza has successfully hijacked Western hearts and minds, increasingly isolating Israel internationally. Simple fact-checking would reveal the United Nations’ failure to deliver massive amounts of humanitarian aid that Israel has facilitated. Data from the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) indicated that approximately 87% (1,753 out of 2,013) of aid trucks entering Gaza between May 19 and July 29 did not reach their intended destinations, with the aid being taken either “peacefully by hungry people or forcefully by armed actors.”2 This data reveals Hamas’s weaponization of starvation narratives by manipulation of imagery and legal frameworks to achieve strategic objectives that conventional warfare cannot accomplish.3

From Blockade to Blood Libel: The Strategic Evolution

Hamas’s deceptive methods were detectable in their June 2007 bloody takeover of Gaza, when Israel implemented defensive measures against a territory that came to be controlled by an internationally designated terrorist organization. Initially framed as “collective punishment” by human rights organizations, Israel’s security responses were rebranded by Hamas and PLO-affiliated organizations as preventing humanitarian aid, mirroring Russian information warfare tactics.

In 2012, Gisha, a far-left Israeli human rights organization advocating for Palestinians, misrepresented an Israeli government assessment that calculated the minimum caloric needs per person in Gaza to prevent malnutrition during Israel’s 2008 blockade. Gisha twisted Israel’s humanitarian intent, instead framing it as a deliberate Israeli starvation policy and collective punishment.4 Though its purpose was to ensure Palestinians’ humanitarian needs, the document only intensified accusations of genocidal intent, shaping global narratives.5 By 2024, International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan cited “starvation” as a method of warfare as the centerpiece charge against Israeli leadership – the first time in ICC history this accusation became central to prosecution, revealing its successful legal weaponization.6

Hamas’s Dual Strategy: Starving Hostages While Manufacturing Crisis

Hamas employs a dual strategy that mobilizes international opprobrium of Israel for allegedly blocking aid and causing a humanitarian crisis while simultaneously denying Hamas’s responsibility as the dominant power for Gaza’s dire humanitarian situation. Hamas deliberately starves Israeli hostages, maximizing pressure on hostage families to force Israel to quit Gaza by withdrawing from the territory and acceding to its draconian conditions for a cease-fire.

In short, Hamas fuels humanitarian crises in Gaza while redirecting international outrage against Israel. Recent Western media corrections have exposed systematic patterns of Hamas manipulation that extend far beyond editorial failures. The recent New York Times “starving child” photo typifies these techniques: imagery of suffering children, deliberate omission of pre-existing medical conditions, and framing that crops out healthy family members to support predetermined narratives. Multiple documented cases of manipulated images show children with cystic fibrosis, cerebral palsy, and cancer misrepresented as starvation victims, their conditions used to generate anti-Israel sentiment.7 Similarly, the BBC reported that “14,000 babies will die in 48 hours” based on an exaggeration by Tom Fletcher, a UN humanitarian chief, which was later revealed to reference potential yearly projections, not immediate deaths, once again demonstrating false urgency and a projection of bad intent on the part of Israel.8

The Reality Behind the Narrative

The contradiction between false claims and verifiable reality becomes stark when examining actual aid delivery data. According to COGAT, Israel’s coordinating civilian agency in the West Bank and Gaza, more than 90,000 trucks containing 1.8 million tons of supplies entered Gaza between October 2023 and June 2025 – sufficient to provide over 3,000 calories per person daily, exceeding international humanitarian standards of 2,100 calories.9 As noted, UN bodies have even acknowledged systematic aid manipulation that undermines humanitarian efforts, maintaining the starvation narrative.

In addition, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has reported Hamas placing bounties on American and Palestinian aid workers, resulting in 12 local staff deaths, revealing the systematic intimidation designed to ensure narrative control.10 Hamas doesn’t merely steal aid – it orchestrates humanitarian theater whereby Israel is vilified for crises that Hamas creates or exacerbates.

Trump Administration Rejects Political Warfare

U.S. President Donald Trump and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff have rejected Hamas’s political warfare campaign. After visiting Gaza distribution sites in July 2025, Witkoff asserted that “there is hardship and shortage, but no starvation” and that “once we refute this Hamas claim, we can continue negotiations to end the war and bring back all the hostages.”11 President Trump stated, “Hamas didn’t want to make a deal. I think they want to die, and it’s very, very bad.”12 Trump also defied international pressure to establish a Palestinian state in the Judean hills overlooking Ben Gurion Airport declaring that “you could make the case that … you’re rewarding Hamas if you do that, and I don’t think they should be rewarded.”13 This is a significant shift from the prevailing acceptance of Hamas’s narrative, challenging information warfare that has successfully isolated Israel diplomatically across Western capitals.

The Eighth Front: Information Warfare

Information warfare constitutes Israel’s “eighth front” – potentially more critical than traditional military theaters. Iranian intelligence services have developed sophisticated information warfare capabilities reaching over 100 million people globally during conflicts, applying Russian information warfare methods against Western democracies.14 In this version of hybrid warfare, “virality can trump veracity.” The strategic objective isn’t merely propaganda but systematic erosion of Israel’s capacity to defend itself by itself, which has constituted the bedrock of Israel’s defense and national security policy since 1967.

Hamas’s political warfare campaign has been effective. France, Great Britain, and Canada have all moved toward recognizing Palestinian statehood – a virtual platinum prize for Hamas’s Islamist terror, and a diplomatic offensive that disincentivizes Hamas from agreeing to any compromise deal with Israel that would return the hostages. It also legitimizes Hamas as the leader of the Palestinian street, replacing the Palestinian Authority. This international momentum is built on Hamas’s manufactured starvation narratives and perception warfare.

Israel Fires Back

Israel has begun to fire back. Israeli Ambassador to the United States Dr. Yechiel Leiter exposed Hamas’s strategies to influence a mainstream American audience, pushing back against claims that Israel is preventing aid distribution in Gaza, according to a recent CNN interview.15 Israeli Consul General in New York Ophir Akunis launched an electronic billboard campaign in Times Square, displaying images and video of emaciated Israeli hostages after 491 days in captivity with the message, “Stop the Fake news in Gaza. This is what real hunger looks like. This is what truth looks like. Israeli hostage Evyatar David, held in Hamas terror dungeons for some 670 days since the October 7th invasion, is being starved by a Nazi terrorist organization that dares, with the backing of parts of the media, to spread the blood libel that Israel is starving the people of Gaza.”16

Traditional Israeli public diplomacy – explaining (“hasbara”) to skeptical audiences – is inadequate against sophisticated perception warfare campaigns. The challenge requires what Israeli strategists call “toda’a” (perception, or consciousness) – a proactive narrative that also reveals Hamas’s strategic manipulations.

Recognizing Islamic Warfare Disguised as Western Humanitarianism

Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and their supporters’ weaponization of starvation against Israel, have proved an effective information warfare campaign that exploits humanitarian crises to advance jihadi strategic objectives. This plays well among Western audiences. From global condemnation of Israel’s 2007 counter-terror blockade to charges of genocide in 2005, systematic psychological operations have been used to delegitimize Israel’s right to defend itself.

Understanding this pattern enables a more effective response. The stakes extend beyond Israel: success in weaponizing humanitarian law against democratic states establishes precedents that threaten the Western alliance. Recognizing this crusade as a weapon of Islamic warfare is the first step toward developing effective countermeasures against Hamas and Islamic Jihad’s eight-front campaign to uproot Israel’s international legitimacy, while triggering Israeli domestic debate, division, and ultimately Israel’s implosion. That is why it’s essential to expose this global deception and disinformation crusade that has hijacked Western hearts and minds. This is a critical moment for moral and strategic clarity; Israel must now prosecute its own fact-based information war to delegitimize Hamas’s starvation of its own public, and its fake starvation libel of Israel. Instead, Israel and its U.S. ally must now declare the truth of Israel’s and the United States’ lead role in delivering humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-07-30/ty-article/.premium/nyt-clarifies-malnourished-gaza-child-has-pre-existing-medical-condition-still-starving/00000198-5ac1-d669-a99d-7ef77aa60000??

https://www.foxnews.com/world/israel-faces-blame-hunger-crisis-gaza-uns-own-data-shows-most-its-aid-looted??

Gaza: Evidence points to Israel’s continued use of starvation to inflict genocide against Palestinians  

https://gisha.org/en/red-lines-presentation-released-after-3-5-year-legal-battle/??

https://www.haaretz.com/2012-10-17/ty-article/how-israel-made-sure-gaza-didnt-starve/0000017f-e5a5-d804-ad7f-f5ff7e7b0000;
https://imemc.org/article/64537/??

Israel Under Fire – Anatomy of a UN Crime against Humanity

When Images Mislead: The Facts Behind 2 Viral Gaza Cases

https://honestreporting.com/14000-babies-will-die-how-the-un-invented-a-blood-libel-and-the-media-ran-with-it/??

https://www.jns.org/1-8-million-tons-of-supplies-delivered-to-gaza-since-war-began/??

https://www.foxnews.com/world/terror-gaza-hamas-offers-bounties-kill-us-local-aid-workers-group-says??

https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/us-envoy-witkoff-no-starvation-gaza-vi1u0i5e??

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/25/trump-hamas-00476977??

https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-hamas-gaza-news-07-29-25#:~:text=He%20echoed%20comments%20from%20Israel’s,camp%2C%20to%20be%20honest.%E2%80%9D??

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/technology/israel-hamas-information-war.html??

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/29/world/video/israeli-ambassador-gaza-starvation-digvid??

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/412763??

 

Antisemitism Permeates an Entire School District in Philadelphia

By
​Center for Near East Policy Research
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Just when antisemitic protests seem to be quieting down on university campuses, we now learn that antisemitism pervades the entire Philadelphia school district:

 

While American universities have faced unprecedented scrutiny (and DOJ ire) for antisemitism, the nation’s public schools are also gaining attention for anti-Jewish harassment.

A recent civil rights lawsuit against the Philadelphia School District reveals antisemitic rot that runs just as deep in one of the largest public-school systems in the country.

 

Unfortunately, setting a trial date was long delayed due to the district’s blatant disregard for the actions that were taking place. The same article linked above writes that Philadelphia educator Heather Mizrachi finally sued the district for their lack of response.

According to the filing, she was targeted by colleagues and ignored by school leadership after raising concerns about antisemitic displays and harassment following the horrific attacks.

 

The lawsuit says that for months on end, Mizrachi was subjected to social media posts from her co-workers calling for the destruction of the State of Israel and the Jewish people. They equated Jews and Israelis to white supremacists, referred to Israel as a ‘terrorist state,’ and cheered on the violent Hamas attacks, according to the filing.

Meanwhile, the district made little effort to mitigate the situation. Mizrachi’s complaints were ignored, discounted, or ridiculed. Nor can the school district claim that she’s one lone complainer, for others also reported a problem:

A group called the School District of Philadelphia Jewish Family Association made similar allegations in a complaint to the education department under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on shared ancestry.

After that complaint was filed, a group of pro-Palestinian teachers called Philly Educators for Palestine said that while any incidents of discrimination should be addressed, it’s not antisemitic to criticize Israel or advocate for Palestinians. The group said the complaint was an attempt to silence teachers and students and a distraction from “the carnage being inflicted upon Palestinians in Gaza by Israel.”

This response from the pro-Palestinian group is not atypical; these groups often make a tepid effort to criticize discrimination. Notably, the Civil Rights complaints don’t allege that anyone criticized Israel. They all allege that Jews were attacked because they are Jewish and Israel is the world’s only Jewish state. Also, as a matter of logic, to claim, after the barbarism of October 7, that it is perfectly acceptable to defend the Palestinians as virtuous, and to label Israel’s actions as barbarism, is beyond the pale.

What the antisemites in Philadelphia’s education system are doing is not random. They are well-organized. Teachers and administrators joined together to harass Jewish students and staff, while efforts to remedy the situation ranged from pathetic to non-existent:

 

The SDP itself has approved or sponsored a series of anti-Semitic events, including ‘walkouts’ that isolate Jewish students and disrupt their educational experience, as well as faculty lecture series and ‘Teach-Ins’ where ‘Zionists’ are called ‘exterminators.’ Parents have regularly reported a host of troubling incidents affecting their children to the administration, but the SDP has done nothing to address, much less curtail, the hostile environment that has plagued the school district since October 7. At most, misguided administrators have attempted to ‘resolve’ problems involving teachers by moving Jewish students into new classes, which serves only to normalize anti-Semitism throughout the SDP.

The system was so egregious that even the Biden administration felt compelled to step up, even if only in pro forma fashion. In December 2024, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights issued a complaint against the school district, which led to a voluntary resolution (i.e., no litigation):

A federal investigation has determined that the Philadelphia school district has not adequately addressed incidents of antisemitism and other examples of ‘harassment based on shared ancestry’ that occurred in and around schools recently.

In a resolution agreement with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights stemming from a complaint filed by some parents and Jewish organizations in May, the district agreed to publicly declare its intolerance of harassment and discrimination on its website, post a statement in every school, and review and revise its anti-harassment policies by Jan. 9.

The district must also send the revised policies to all school administrators, who must ‘distribute, convene, and discuss the revised policies and procedures with site-based staff.’ It must also train staff annually, and provide age-appropriate training and information on racial and ethnic discrimination to all students in grades 6-12.

The DOE complaint sounds pretty comprehensive, doesn’t it? The district, however, responded in the usual generic fashion, insisting that it cares about everyone and, of course, it wants all its students to be safe—a claim at odds with the complaints against it:

In response, officials issued a statement saying the district ‘strives to create welcoming and inclusive environments that allow our students to feel safe and heard. The District takes all complaints of bullying, harassment, and discrimination seriously, including allegations of Antisemitism and Islamophobia.’

The statement continues, ‘OCR has recognized areas where the District has shown its commitment to this important work and also identified areas needing additional attention and improvement. The voluntary resolution agreement outlines ways in which the District will continue to improve upon its processes.’

Despite the school district’s carefully scripted statement of its good intentions and proposed new direction, the feedback from the Office of Civil Rights tells a different story:

OCR has Title VI compliance concerns, however, that the District has not demonstrated its fulfillment of its Title VI obligations to evaluate whether a hostile environment existed based on the information about which it had notice and if so that it took steps reasonably designed to eliminate any such hostile environment and prevent its recurrence. For example, the District produced no information reflecting its evaluation of whether a hostile environment resulted for Jewish students when a teacher (Teacher 1) stood on stage at a school assembly, criticized a District choice – responsive to concerns raised with the District that that assembly’s planned content could create a hostile environment for Jewish students – not to hold an earlier scheduled assembly, and asked the student audience ‘was it really the quote-unquote antisemitism that made you uncomfortable or was it the truth?’

In other words, the voluntary resolution between OCR and the district was a complete waste of time. Teachers, students, and staff all realized that no one was serious about dealing with the problem. Despite the complaints following October 7, the perpetrators continued their behavior. Thus, the “voluntary resolution” by the district was just short of being a farce.

Ultimately, there were no consequences for antisemitic behavior within the district; no one was penalized or held accountable in any way that was documented. Judging by appearances, the district was complicit in these activities.

Fortunately, a federal judge is permitting the case to go to trial in December 2025.

Maybe there will finally be some consequences.

BR: Ismael Jimenez, the Director of the Social Studies Curriculum for the School District of Philadelphia and openly declares that he is waging “intellectual warfare” on behalf of the Global Jihad & promoting Jew hatred on his X account. He is one of the main SDP employees responsible for the toxic woke indoctrination using the Marxist ‘oppressed vs the oppressor’   playbook which is being taxpayer funded under the guise of education:

“…In a democracy, one party or side seldom gets all it wants. And if the system is correctly structured, as the founders strived to do with the American system of government, there are checks and balances. The legislature, the executive, and the judiciary check each other’s powers (and the legislature itself is divided into two chambers).

Not so in Marx’s “oppressor and oppressed” view. There you end up with a “revolutionary reconstitution,” which Marx himself promised would be ruthless. “This cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads,” he averred in the manifesto.

A few months later, Marx wrote, more ominously, “There is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.”

Blood will run—it’s a feature, not a bug, of Marxism.

What we are seeing right now is no longer economic Marxism, but cultural Marxism…”

https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/the-root-cause-the-insanity-college-campuses-older-you-may-think

Jimenez needs to be fired and removed immediately!

Ismael Jimenez
@Teacherishx
Intellectual Warfare
Joined March 2013
 

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BR: Canary Mission Profile of. Ishmael Jimenez -Director of the Social Studies Curriculum for the School District of Philadelphia since 2022

“When we look at [Hamas terror attacks on October 7th… this didn’t happen out of the blue, right? This is generations, right, of folks who have feel like their voices’ been denied.”
Excerpt:

Overview

Ismael Jimenez is a Philadelphia public school official who expressed support for Hamasterrorism, denied Hamas war crimes and spread hatred of Israel and America. He also glorified a domestic terrorist by placing a poster of her on his office door.

As of August 2024, Jimenez’s LinkedIn profile said he had been working as the director of social studies curriculum for the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) since August 2022. He also said that he had been an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) since January 2022.

Jimenez and the SDP were at the center of an anti-Semitism scandal in 2023 and 2024, which included the SDP offering an anti-Israel professional training course to teachers. The full controversy is detailed further below in the profile.

Ismael Jimenez is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

As of August 2024, Jimenez’s LinkedIn said he had graduated from Temple University (Temple) with a master’s degree in secondary education and teaching in 2009, and that he was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania…

Full posting here:

https://canarymission.org/individual/Ismael_Jimenez

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