A mass psychotic epidemic of pavlovian responses targeting Israel and its supporters is currently raging worldwide.

Like its close relative, Trump derangement syndrome, one has only to mention the words Israel, Zionist or Jew, in order for convulsive condemnations to be spewed forth with venomous vitriol.

In many cases, the responses are unhinged and clearly indicate latent prejudices bubbling to the surface.

There’s no cure for this malicious malady because the rot has become incestuous, infecting large swathes of humanity. True facts and logical arguments are of no avail. Appealing to a sense of logic is a lost cause because, like all such derangement syndromes, cures no longer work.

One can only expose and shine a strong light on this pathological phenomenon in the hope that those still resistant to irrational thoughts might be able to wage a counterattack against the disease.

Take the Australian Government’s revoking of a visa for Hillel Fuld as one of the latest examples of this deranged mindset.

This Israeli influencer and advocate had been booked to visit Australia and speak at fundraising events for the national ambulance service, Magen David Adom. His visa had been approved in advance and all seemed in order. Prior to his scheduled departure, some Islamic and anti-Israel groups in Australia got wind that he was arriving. They complained to the immigration authorities that this individual was an “Islamophobic” threat and likely to cause serious problems.

Quicker than you can say “kangaroo court” the Federal Cabinet Minister in charge of immigration cancelled his visa and declared him a “threat to the health, safety and good order” of Australians.

What is his alleged crime?

Obviously, being a Jewish Israeli who articulates uncomfortable truths about jihadist death cults must be one of his original sins.

The fact that his late brother was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist at a shopping centre not far from where we live obviously never resonated with the politician who rushed to ban him.

His opposition to the creation of “Palestine” in the heartland of Israel must be another black mark against him. The fact that this intended fake country would be a terror-supporting entity in our midst is irrelevant to many Israel haters and ignoramuses of history.

That was the same reason that the current Australian Government banned the visit of former Israeli Justice Minister, Ayelet Shaked at the end of 2024. Her crime for articulating uncomfortable facts was a perceived “threat to social cohesion”.

Presumably, the poisonous rhetoric articulated against Jews and Israel by Australian-based Islamic preachers poses no such threat. This must be so because there have been no consequences.

Could the fact that the Minister’s electorate has a large number of voters who identify as Muslims and whose anti-Israel views are no secret, have anything to do with his decision?

I predicted that post election the “chickens would come home to roost” and so it is transpiring. Who would have thought a few years ago that Jewish Israelis would be barred from entering Australia because they had the temerity to point out some basic home truths?

Interestingly, I searched in vain for a comprehensive report of this sordid affair on the website of the Sydney Morning Herald. I could find no mention of this scandalous situation. It may be that something was buried in an obscure part of the site but, if so, it certainly was well hidden.

What I did discover, however, was a headline which read “My grandmother fled the Holocaust. Now it is time for Jews to abandon Israel.” Revealed for all to see is the murky agenda of many in the media. What lies behind this obsessive urge to dig up disaffected self loathers in order to smear Israel?

It is a classic case of an Israel derangement syndrome on steroids infecting the Australian body politic of what was once a safe haven for Jews.

In contrast, SKY Australia has given the subject of Fuld’s banning extensive publicity.

A perfect example of how deranged news and views now dominate the media was recently revealed.

I happened to come across a YouTube presentation which asserted in all seriousness that “the Zionists did not make the desert bloom. The Palestinians did.” Anyone viewing this work of fiction would immediately be brainwashed into believing that the “colonial Jewish occupiers” took over a land which was a verdant paradise. Instead of barren land and swamps, the so-called “indigenous” Palestinians had cultivated the land since the time of the Canaanites. It was apparently the colonial Jewish settlers who falsified history in order to justify their illegal occupation.

That is how lies are sanitised and false revisionist fables multiply, all eagerly embraced by the growing legions of Zionist haters.

SKY NEWS UK provided a gem of tendentious reporting. Its headline proclaimed, “British surgeon maintains that the only people she has ever seen in Gaza with weapons are the IDF.”  There you have it in one sentence. There are presumably no armed terrorists in Gaza. The only people armed are the IDF which “proves” that Israel is engaged in “genocidal” activities.

Welcome to the deranged purveyors of deliberately deceitful news.

Another example of unhinged behaviour could easily be entitled “a life on the ocean waves.”

Starring Greta Thunberg in a leading role, this maritime farce to Gaza was always going to be a media publicity stunt designed with only one aim in mind.

It was never about sending any sort of meaningful aid to the allegedly starving people of Gaza. With less than a truckload of actual aid on board whatever would have been left after a period at sea was hardly likely to have helped more than a handful.

The sole objective right from the start was to create a hoped-for international incident whereby Israel could be pilloried and condemned. What better visuals might there be than the sight of the IDF storming the vessel, causing countless casualties and even better, sinking the boat?

One could almost hear the “humanitarian” crew salivating at the thought of a major media spectacle in the making. The closer they came to the Israeli coast the more frantic and frenetic were their social media performances. It was as though they were daring the Israelis to attack and thereby fulfil their hoped-for expectations.

The international media naturally played along with this pathetic performance. As complicit partners in this comedy of errors they reported each and every act. No doubt, prospective headlines and photos of Israeli “brutal force” to come whetted their appetites for what promised to be front-page news.

After such a build-up, imagine the devastating let-down when Israeli naval personnel calmly boarded and handed out bottles of water and sandwiches. Photos of Greta accepting this food must have been a massive blow to the over-inflated egos of the intrepid crew.

What do you do when your main props and predicted violence fail to materialise?

The fallback position was soon revealed.

Throwing mobile phones and other electronic equipment overboard was swiftly followed by accusations of “kidnapping” and “violations of international law.”  The media, sadly deprived of a spectacle, resorted to the usual misrepresentations and fudged facts.

The Israeli Government assembled the motley mob and screened for their edification a documentary on the atrocities committed by their Gaza terrorist friends on 7 October 2023, in a futile attempt to impart some actual reality. Refusing to be confused by any sort of facts, the intrepid protesters preferred neither to view nor to listen.

This is par for the course and exposes the real agenda of all those pillorying Israel.

Greta has now been flown back into the welcoming arms of all her European and Scandinavian groupies. Those who refused to be expelled voluntarily from Israel are detained and deported later.

It’s a pity that these hypocrites were not made to “walk the plank” and forced to spend the rest of their days in the welcoming embrace of Hamas. Incarcerated in the underground tunnels of Gaza and experiencing jihadist hospitality would have been a fitting conclusion to their juvenile expedition.

At least Israel has declared them “persona non Greta.”

The pathogen of anti-Israel derangement is now rampaging unchecked through the foreign ministries of so-called “friendly” nations.

Stand by for further developments.

A terror-affiliated businessman is reportedly behind the boat that was stopped by IDF last night carrying Swedish ‘activist’ Greta Thunberg and others towards Gaza.

Zahar Birawi is a founding member of the ‘Freedom Flotilla’, the organization which sent the yacht, named ‘Madleen’ towards Gaza, claiming to be on a humanitarian mission.

Birawi is a Palestinian based in Britain and was previously the chairman of Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), of which the armed wing is a proscribed terror group.

In addition to being chairman of MAB, Birawi was a board trustee for Education Aid for Palestinians (EAP), whose members are identified with Hamas, and involved in transferring funds to Hamas.

He was also involved in sending convoys and ships to the Gaza Strip, including involvement in the organization of the Mavi Marmara flotilla at the end of May 2010, which was found to contain weapons.

According to Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, since October 7, he has been promoting initiatives to send “aid ships” to Gaza Strip as part of his role as chief of the International Committee to Break the Siege on Gaza (ICBSG).

Regarding the financing of the boat, Dr. Hayim Iserovich, Deputy Director and Head of Research at the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center told TPS-IL: “We don’t have proof on papers, but since he is the head of the committee and a leader of Freedom Flotilla Coalition, he played a significant role in funding and organising it.”

Thunberg, 22, and several others, including Irish Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham, 64, boarded a small ‘pleasure’ boat which left the shore of Italy last Sunday.

Last night, IDF forces intercepted the vessel before it reached Gaza, and took the crew to Israel, who will each soon be deported back to their respective countries, including Brazil, Germany, France and Turkey.

Many on board are known to publicly support Hamas and Hezbollah on social media.

The interception came days after Defense Minister Israel Katz issued an order for the IDF to take ‘any measures necessary’.

Katz stated at the time: “The State of Israel will not allow anyone to violate the naval blockade on Gaza — whose primary purpose is to prevent the transfer of weapons to Hamas, a murderous terrorist organization that holds our hostages and commits war crimes.

“I have instructed the IDF to act to ensure that the ‘Madleen’ flotilla does not reach Gaza.

To the antisemitic Greta and her Hamas propaganda-spreading friends — I say clearly; you would be wise to turn back, because you will not reach Gaza.

“Israel will act against any attempt to break the blockade or aid terrorist organizations — by sea, by air, and on land.”

The Foreign Ministry dismissed the Madleen as a publicity stunt, referring to the boat as a “selfie yacht” organized to “stage a media provocation.”

Experts yesterday called for harsher measures to act as a deterrent to self-styled ‘activists’.

IDF spokesman Effie Defrin delivered a statement on Sunday from an underground facility discovered beneath the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza.

Speaking from the site, Defrin condemned the use of civilian infrastructure by Hamas, accusing the group of turning humanitarian facilities into operational terror centers. “I am standing in the underground facility beneath the European Hospital in Khan Yunis. This is where European aid funds ended up – not in medical care, but in the construction of terror tunnels and infrastructure,” he said, displaying a large pile of cash located in the tunnel

“Hamas has once again made cynical use of a civilian hospital, using it not to save lives, but to facilitate death and murder. This is one of the places from which the October 7 attacks were orchestrated.”

Defrin confirmed that senior Hamas leaders had used the facility, including Mohamed Sinwar, brother of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, and Shabana, commander of the Rafah Brigade. “This is the room where Sinwar and Shabana were staying when they were targeted by IDF strikes about a month ago. We can now confirm with certainty that Mohamed Sinwar was here and was killed in the strike,” he stated. “We will continue to hunt down every last member of Hamas until we achieve the objectives of this war.”

He was joined by soldiers from the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit and the Golani Brigade, who participated in the operation to seize the compound. “We discovered large sums of money here, not for civilian use, but to fund terrorism. Along with the cash, we found a significant stockpile of weapons,” he added.

Defrin concluded by reiterating the IDF’s commitment to dismantling Hamas’s infrastructure and leadership: “This underground complex exemplifies how Hamas exploits humanitarian resources to wage war. Our mission will not end until that threat is fully neutralized.”

A new report published by Israel’s Regavim Movement NGO on Sunday has found that some 90% of incidents of “violence” attributed to Judea and Samaria Jews in recent years by the United Nations were fabricated.

Regavim’s 128-page research report in English, titled “False Flags and Real Agendas,” scrutinized a database maintained by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which claims to have documented thousands of alleged incidents of Israeli “settler violence” against Palestinian Arabs from January 2016 through April 2023.

An analysis of the 6,285 incidents documented by the U.N. showed that some 90% of the alleged acts in Judea and Samaria did not take place in the disputed territory but in eastern Jerusalem, or were entirely peaceful, such as visits by Israeli Jews to the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, as well as legal activities such as civilian hikes or infrastructure work.

Filtered for verified incidents of physical violence by Israeli Jews against Palestinians, the list shrinks to just 833 cases over a period of seven and a half years, averaging fewer than 10 incidents per month, according to Regavim.

In addition, the Regavim report found that many of these confirmed cases were also misclassified or involved anti-Israel provocations orchestrated by Palestinian and foreign left-wing activist groups.

Examination of the reports also revealed that “in many of them, it is not settler violence of one kind or another, but rather the opposite: these are terror attacks by Arabs against settlers that ended with the injury or elimination of the attacker,” according to the research document.

Regavim said that the term “settler violence” has been used by global bodies, media outlets and left-wing activists to draw a false moral equivalence between Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria and Palestinian terrorism.

“For years, we have been told about a ‘serious phenomenon’ of settler violence, but we have never been shown the data that proves that it exists,” Meir Deutsch, Regavim’s director-general, said in a statement.

“After years in which there was no pushback whatsoever against this false narrative, Regavim is presenting the facts, and they must be seen, heard and internalized in Israel and around the world,” Deutsch stated.

The Israel Defense Forces recorded 663 instances of violence by Jews against Palestinians in Judea and Samaria last year, a 34% decrease compared to 2023, when 1,005 incidents were recorded by the IDF.

Meanwhile, Jerusalem recorded thousands of Palestinian terrorist attacks against Jews in 2024, including many in Judea and Samaria.

Palestinian terrorists targeted Israeli Jews in Judea and Samaria at least 6,343 times last year, according to figures published by the Rescuers Without Borders (Hatzalah Judea and Samaria) NGO on Feb. 17.

Twenty-seven Israelis were murdered in Judea and Samaria in 2024, and more than 300 others were wounded, the group said in its annual report.

The “settler violence” campaign, which claims that violence against Arabs by Jewish “settlers” spiked post-Oct. 7, 2023, is based on fraudulent numbers, according to a report published on Sunday.

The campaign’s goal, according to the report, is to defame not merely the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria, but the Israeli army and by extension the entire State of Israel.

The 125-page report, “False Flags and Real Agendas,” produced by Israeli NGO Regavim, describes the “settler violence” smear as a “modern-day blood libel.”

The report dissects the narrative and the numbers behind the slander, which went into overdrive following the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack. A flurry of news items appeared in the liberal mainstream press in the United States and elsewhere about escalating “settler violence” in Judea and Samaria.

These reports claimed that Jewish violence had increased in retaliation for the Hamas massacre. “The breadth and intensity of the violence has revived memories of the ‘nakba,’ or catastrophe, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced from their homes, never to return,” reported The Washington Post on Nov. 9, 2023.

In February 2024, the Biden administration, for the first time, sanctioned Israelis it claimed had engaged in violence against Arab civilians, citing “high levels of extremist settler violence, forced displacement of people and villages and property destruction.” It would sanction more Israelis in subsequent months, along with certain pro-Israel NGOs. (Regavim was threatened with sanctions though none were applied.)

The Biden White House justified its interference in another country’s internal affairs by claiming that Israel’s government had not done enough to “hold accountable extremist settlers who commit acts of violence,” in the words of then-State Department spokesman Matthew Miller.

While the Trump administration has cancelled the sanctions, other countries, such as France, have gone still further, calling for the recognition of a Palestinian state. One of their arguments is that the Palestinians require a state to protect them from violent “settlers.”

The campaign received a “shot of steroids” after the Oct. 7 attack because those promoting a Palestinian state felt the need to create moral equivalence between “Hamas and settlers,” Naomi Kahn, director of the International Division at Regavim, told JNS.

If Jewish residents just want to live in peace while the other side engages in mass murder, it’s much harder to justify kicking the former off their land. So it’s necessary to demonize the Jewish side, she explained.

However, the smear campaign goes beyond the issue of Judea and Samaria, she said, noting there’s a reason the radical groups behind the campaign repeatedly claim Israeli soldiers “accompany” the Jewish attackers.

“More than delegitimizing the Jewish presence there, it’s about delegitimizing the moral standing of the IDF. It’s portrayed as the army that allows this immorality to happen. By attacking the army of the Jewish state, you attack the entire Jewish state,” she said.

The problem for those looking to delegitimize Israel through the “settler violence” claim is that the data doesn’t support their narrative.

Regavim’s report notes that “a core part of this targeted defamation activity” is produced by groups with severe anti-Israel bias, such as B’Tselem and Yesh Din, which started collecting Arab testimonies of “settler violence” in 2005.

In 2008, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) followed suit and started publishing numbers based on reports and data from these left-wing groups. It is the “authoritative,” supposedly objective, source cited most in the media.

The United Nations pays the salaries of some of the groups that supply the numbers, according to Kahn. “They pay them to create the narrative, and then they take that narrative and say, ‘Here’s your proof.’ But they’ve paid them to create that proof. It’s very circular.”

None of OCHA’s sources can be considered impartial or independent, she noted. “The Palestinian Authority’s Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission is not an objective source. It’s like quoting the Hamas Health Ministry.”

For its report, Regavim obtained 10 years of detailed incident reports from OCHA. It found that the vast majority of incidents, 98%, didn’t involve Jewish civilians at all.

“We took out all of the incidents in which there were no civilians involved on the Israeli side, meaning these were clashes with the IDF. We were then left with only 2% of the original number,” said Kahn.

“We analyzed that 2% and we cross-referenced it by date and location with the police and Shabak [Israel Security Agency] reports. What we found was in an overwhelming majority of cases, it was self-defense by Jews, or it was undetermined—a two-way scuffle. So you can’t actually call that settler violence,” she said.

According to B’Tselem’s own data, in 2022 every Palestinian recorded as killed by Jewish civilians in Judea and Samaria was “in fact killed as a result of either an attack or attempted attack carried out by that individual or by another Palestinian,” Regavim’s report notes.

Other incidents classified as “settler violence” included Jewish hikers entering archaeological sites in Samaria (no clashes involved), car accidents, road paving by the Israeli government and in one particularly absurd case, “an Arab worker who was bitten by a dog in the settlement where he was employed.”

Although OCHA claims each incident is verified by two independent sources, Regavim learned this is not the case. “Almost none of them were. The ones that had two sources—it was actually the same source under two different names. They would use the Arabic name and the English name for the same Palestinian Authority ministry,” said Kahn.

While Regavim stressed that Jewish violence does exist, and should be punished when it occurs, the numbers it says are so small as to be negligible.

“If you’re an American living in a city with a population comparable to that of Area C [the Israeli-controlled part of Judea and Samaria], you’re more than 300 times more likely to be the victim of violent crime than you are if you’re an Arab living in Area C,” she said.

“Israeli police statistics for violent incidents nationwide place Judea and Samaria at the bottom end. It’s the least violent society in Israel. So to say that this is a problem, that settlers in Judea and Samaria are violent, is simply a lie,” she added.