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The Media Ignores Palestinian Resistance — to Hamas
Pro-Hamas Columbia University students march in front of pro-Israel demonstrators on Oct. 7, 2024, the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel. Photo: Roy De La Cruz via Reuters Connect
Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told an interviewer with Al-Arabiya recently that, even given the destruction to Gaza and impact on Palestinians civilians over the past 13 months, he has no regrets over his group’s decision to launch their barbaric massacre of men, women, and children in Israel on Oct. 7th.
While he naturally has no moral qualms with the mass murder, torture, rape and mutilation of Jews, he also has no second thoughts about the attack, even knowing what he knows now about the price paid by Palestinians in the territory since then.
Hamad — typical of fanatical terrorist sociopaths — has no remorse.
Of course, the idea that Hamas leaders should engage in self-reflection, or be held morally accountable, for their decision to launch the deadliest and most sadistic antisemitic assault since the Holocaust, a massacre which also resulted in untold Palestinian misery, is never considered by the UK outlet, The Guardian.
A case in point is an article at the outlet (“Palestinian artists plan Gaza Biennale as ‘act of resistance and survival,’“ Nov. 25) by their international correspondent Julian Borger and the Gaza-based Malak A Tantesh.
Here are the relevant paragraphs:
Palestinian artists in Gaza plan to stage a “biennale” exhibition as an act of defiance against Israel’s military onslaught and to focus attention on the plight of the territory’s 2.3 million people under more than 13 months of bombardment.
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About 50 artists from Gaza will exhibit their work within the besieged coastal strip, and are looking for art galleries to host exhibitions overseas.
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The idea is intended as an artistic proof of life in the face of an attempt to strip Gaza’s Palestinians of their humanity. [emphasis added]
Whether these artists have the desire to use their artistic talents to express “defiance” to the authoritarian regime in the territory is not mentioned — and, in fact, the word “Hamas” isn’t used once in the article.
Why is that? There are at least two major reasons.
First, while readers are told that “a quarter of the exhibiting artists managed to cross into Egypt earlier in the war,“ it’s no doubt extremely risky for the Gaza-based artists to criticise Hamas. Palestinians creating art mocking or vilifying Hamas, or calling for the group to release the hostages and surrender, would be a true act of bravery and defiance.
Second, the European audiences they’re hoping to partner with would likely have little interest in hosting an exhibit by Gaza artists focusing on the crimes of Hamas.
Such crimes against Palestinians include their hoarding of food and their use of civilians as human shields — as well as, in the years prior to the war, the diversion of untold millions in humanitarian aid to pay for hundreds of miles of terror tunnels and other military assets, and their torture of Palestinians detainees, including gay people and those resisting Hamas rule.
Still frame from a video documenting Hamas’ torture of Palestinian detainees – a recent story which wasn’t covered by the Guardian.
Relatedly, outlets like The Guardian almost certainly wouldn’t devote any coverage to an art exhibit featuring Palestinian artists resisting Hamas.
So, when we argue that the Guardian’s coverage since Oct. 7th has been effectively pro-Hamas, we’re not merely referring to their obsessive vilification of Israel, and imputation of the worst possible motives to the state. We’re also referring to the outlet’s complete erasure of the motivations, decisions, and actions of the Islamist terror group — a denial of agency that leaves their readers blind to the grave impact of their fanaticism on Palestinian civilians.
Adam Levick serves as co-editor of CAMERA UK — an affiliate of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), where a version of this article first appeared.
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Israel Says Missile Launched by Yemen’s Houthis ‘Most Likely’ Intercepted
Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi addresses followers via a video link at the al-Shaab Mosque, formerly al-Saleh Mosque, in Sanaa, Yemen, Feb. 6, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
The Israeli army said on Saturday that a missile fired from Yemen towards Israeli territory had been “most likely successfully intercepted,” while Yemen’s Houthi forces claimed responsibility for the launch.
Israel has threatened Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement – which has been attacking Israel in what it says is solidarity with Gaza – with a naval and air blockade if its attacks on Israel persist.
The Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the group was responsible for Saturday’s attack, adding that it fired a missile towards the southern Israeli city of Beersheba.
Since the start of Israel’s war in Gaza in October 2023, the Houthis, who control most of Yemen, have been firing at Israel and at shipping in the Red Sea, disrupting global trade.
Most of the dozens of missiles and drones they have launched have been intercepted or fallen short. Israel has carried out a series of retaliatory strikes.
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Iran Holds Funeral for Commanders and Scientists Killed in War with Israel
People attend the funeral procession of Iranian military commanders, nuclear scientists and others killed in Israeli strikes, in Tehran, Iran, June 28, 2025. Photo: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
Large crowds of mourners dressed in black lined streets in Iran’s capital Tehran as the country held a funeral on Saturday for top military commanders, nuclear scientists and some of the civilians killed during this month’s aerial war with Israel.
At least 16 scientists and 10 senior commanders were among those mourned at the funeral, according to state media, including armed forces chief Major General Mohammad Bagheri, Revolutionary Guards commander General Hossein Salami, and Guards Aerospace Force chief General Amir Ali Hajizadeh.
Their coffins were driven into Tehran’s Azadi Square adorned with their photos and national flags, as crowds waved flags and some reached out to touch the caskets and throw rose petals onto them. State-run Press TV showed an image of ballistic missiles on display.
Mass prayers were later held in the square.
State TV said the funeral, dubbed the “procession of the Martyrs of Power,” was held for a total of 60 people killed in the war, including four women and four children.
In attendance were President Masoud Pezeshkian and other senior figures including Ali Shamkhani, who was seriously wounded during the conflict and is an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as Khamenei’s son Mojtaba.
“Today, Iranians, through heroic resistance against two regimes armed with nuclear weapons, protected their honor and dignity, and look to the future prouder, more dignified, and more resolute than ever,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, who also attended the funeral, said in a Telegram post.
There was no immediate statement from Khamenei, who has not appeared publicly since the conflict began. In past funerals, he led prayers over the coffins of senior commanders ahead of public ceremonies broadcast on state television.
Israel launched the air war on June 13, attacking Iranian nuclear facilities and killing top military commanders as well as civilians in the worst blow to the Islamic Republic since the 1980s war with Iraq.
Iran retaliated with barrages of missiles on Israeli military sites, infrastructure and cities. The United States entered the war on June 22 with strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
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Israel, the only Middle Eastern country widely believed to have nuclear weapons, said it aimed to prevent Tehran from developing its own nuclear weapons.
Iran denies having a nuclear weapons program. The U.N. nuclear watchdog has said it has “no credible indication” of an active, coordinated weapons program in Iran.
Bagheri, Salami and Hajizadeh were killed on June 13, the first day of the war. Bagheri was being buried at the Behesht Zahra cemetery outside Tehran mid-afternoon on Saturday. Salami and Hajizadeh were due to be buried on Sunday.
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would consider bombing Iran again, while Khamenei, who has appeared in two pre-recorded video messages since the start of the war, has said Iran would respond to any future US attack by striking US military bases in the Middle East.
A senior Israeli military official said on Friday that Israel had delivered a “major blow” to Iran’s nuclear project. On Saturday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said in a statement that Israel and the US “failed to achieve their stated objectives” in the war.
According to Iranian health ministry figures, 610 people were killed on the Iranian side in the war before a ceasefire went into effect on Tuesday. More than 4,700 were injured.
Activist news agency HRANA put the number of killed at 974, including 387 civilians.
Israel’s health ministry said 28 were killed in Israel and 3,238 injured.
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Pro-Palestinian Rapper Leads ‘Death to the IDF’ Chant at English Music festival
Revellers dance as Avril Lavigne performs on the Other Stage during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, in Pilton, Somerset, Britain, June 30, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
i24 News – Chants of “death to the IDF” were heard during the English Glastonbury music festival on Saturday ahead of the appearance of the pro-Palestinian Irish rappers Kneecap.
One half of punk duo based Bob Vylan (who both use aliases to protect their privacy) shouted out during a section of their show “Death to the IDF” – the Israeli military. Videos posted on X (formerly Twitter) show the crowd responding to and repeating the cheer.
This comes after officials had petitioned the music festival to drop the band. The rap duo also expressed support for the following act, Kneecap, who the BCC refused to show live after one of its members, Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh – better known by stage name Mo Chara – was charged with a terror offense.
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