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Anti-Israel Group to Host Webinar With Hamas Official Who Vowed to Carry Out Oct. 7 Massacre ‘Again and Again’
Hamas official Ghazi Hamad speaking on LBC TV, Oct. 24, 2023. Photo: Screenshot
A prominent anti-Israel group is hosting a webinar next month for a Hamas official who pledged that the Palestinian terrorist organization will repeat its Oct. 7 massacre of Israelis “again and again” to bring about the Jewish state’s “annihilation.”
Samidoun, which identifies itself as a “Palestinian prisoner solidarity network,” announced on social media this week that it will hold a “live interview and discussion” with Ghazi Hamad on July 29. Hamad is a member of Hamas’ political bureau and a spokesman for the Iran-backed terrorist organization.
Join the @MasarBadil on Saturday, July 29, 2024 for Palestine Media Series #6, a live interview and discussion with Dr. Ghazi Hamad. Register here: https://t.co/8lyE5nnsiP pic.twitter.com/EncKs72tXT
— Samidoun Network (@SamidounPP) June 25, 2024
The event is part of a “series of Palestine Media discussions that highlight often-silenced voices of the Palestinian, Arab, and regional resistance,” according to Masar Badil, a movement closely affiliated with Samidoun.
Samidoun is a radical anti-Israel advocacy organization that has taken part in pro-Hamas protests across the West, including in the United States, Canada, and countries in Europe, according to its Instagram pages.
Germany banned Samidoun, whose demonstrations in Berlin have featured cries of “Death to the Jews,” in the days following the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7.
Samidoun is also widely viewed as a front group for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a widely designated terrorist organization. One of Samidoun’s leaders, Khaled Barakat, has also had leadership roles in the PFLP.
Despite such associations, Barakat also took part in the campus group Columbia University Apartheid Divest’s “Palestinian Resistance 101” forum in March, sparking backlash and worry among both Jewish and Israeli professors and students.
Hamad, who Samidoun is set to host next month, recently gained notoriety for saying Hamas will continue to commit terrorist attacks similar to the one carried out on Oct. 7 many times over. He told Lebanon’s LBC TV in an Arabic language interview on Oct. 24 that Israel “must be finished.”
“We must teach Israel a lesson, and we will do this again and again,” Hamad said. “[The Oct. 7 massacre] is just the first time and there will be a second, a third, a fourth … the occupation must come to an end.”
Asked if by ending “the occupation” he meant the “annihilation” of Israel, Hamad replied, “Yes, of course.”
“The existence of Israel is what causes all that pain, blood, and tears,” he said. “It is Israel, not us. We are the victims of the occupation. Period. Therefore, nobody should blame us for the things we do. On Oct. 7 … everything we do is justified.”
Hamad added, in English to emphasize the point, “It is justified.”
Hamad’s comments were first translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
On Oct. 7, Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists from Gaza invades southern Israel, where they murdered 1,200 people and abducted about 250 others as hostages. Investigations from international agencies and news outlets found the terrorists weaponized sexual violence against women during the attack as well.
Samidoun previously described Oct. 7 as an act of “heroic Palestinian resistance.”
During his interview, Hamad explained that it was not problematic that many Palestinians would inevitably die in subsequent conflicts if Hamas continued to carry out such attacks.
“Will we have to pay a price?” he asked. “Yes, and we are ready to pay it. We are called a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs.”
Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat the October 7 Attack Time and Again Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims – Everything We Do Is Justified #Hamas #Gaza #Palestinians pic.twitter.com/kXu3U0BtAP
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) November 1, 2023
White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby called the comments “chilling.”
“Believe terrorists when they tell you who they are,” former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said of Hamad’s statements. “This is why there should be no ceasefire until Hamas is destroyed.”
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Treasure Trove: How a Polish-Jewish artist told Canadians about the horrors of Nazi Germany and produced beautiful illustrations
Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was a Polish-Jewish artist whose work reflected the historic times he lived: the two world wars, the rise of totalitarianism in Europe and the birth of the State of Israel. In 1940, with the support of the British government and the Polish government-in-exile, he visited Canada to popularize the struggle against Nazism. […]
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Biden hits Fundraising Trail in Show of Strength after Dismal Debate Performance
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S., June 28, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
President Joe Biden embarks on a series of fundraising events across two states on Saturday as he works to stamp out a crisis of confidence in his re-election campaign following a feeble debate performance that dismayed his fellow Democrats.
Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will visit the upscale New York beach enclave known as the Hamptons for a campaign fundraiser hosted by hedge-fund billionaire Barry Rosentein. Later in the day, he will travel to New Jersey for a fundraiser hosted by wealthy New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, a Democrat.
Fellow hedge-fund founder Eric Mindich and his Tony Award-winning producer wife Stacey, celebrity couple Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, and actor Michael J. Fox are all listed as members of the host committee at the New York event, according to an invitation seen by Reuters.
Biden told a rally in North Carolina on Friday he intended to defeat Republican rival Donald Trump in the November presidential election, giving no sign he would heed calls from Democrats who want him to drop out of the race.
Biden‘s verbal stumbles and occasionally meandering responses during Thursday night’s debate heightened voter concerns that the 81-year-old might not be fit to serve another four-year term.
The Biden campaign on Saturday boasted it had raised more than $27 million between debate day through Friday evening, but questions remain about whether the debate performance will hurt fundraising, at least in the short term.
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Arab League Rescinds the Classification of Hezbollah as a Terrorist Group
Mourners carry a coffin during the funeral of Wissam Tawil, a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces who according to Lebanese security sources was killed during an Israeli strike on south Lebanon, in Khirbet Selm, Lebanon, Jan. 9, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Aziz Taher
i24 News – The Arab League no longer defines Hezbollah as a proscribed terrorist group, an official said on Saturday.
Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based Shiite militia and a proxy of the Islamic regime in Iran, boasts the world’s largest rocket arsenal of any non-state actor. It is animated by the antisemitic ideology of jihad and is committed to the destruction of Israel.
“In earlier Arab League decisions, Hezbollah was designated as a terrorist organization, and this designation was reflected in the resolutions,” Hossam Zaki, the assistant secretary-general of the Arab League, was quoted in Arab media as saying.
“The League’s member states concurred that the labeling of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization should no longer be employed,” Zaki said, adding that the regional body “does not maintain terrorist lists and does not actively seek to designate entities in such a manner.”
Hezbollah has unleashed numerous rockets, mortars and drones on northern Israel in the past eight months starting on October 8, a day after the Jewish state suffered the worst antisemitic massacre since the Holocaust at the hands of the Palestinian jihadists of Hamas.
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