Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and the group of international activists traveling with her on a boat to the Gaza Strip will be shown footage of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led terrorist attack after Israeli forces intercepted their vessel, Israel’s Defense Minster Israel Katz said on Monday.

Katz also called Thunberg an antisemite in a post on X and described all those aboard the ship as supporters of Hamas, the internationally designated terrorist organization that has ruled Gaza for nearly two decades and initiated the current war raging in the Middle East after massacring 1,200 people, wounding thousands more, and taking 251 hostages during its invasion of southern Israel.

The Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists also perpetrated widespread sexual violence, including torture and mass gang-rape, against Israelis during their onslaught.

“I instructed the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] to show the flotilla passengers the video of the horrors of the October 7 massacre when they arrive at the port of Ashdod,” Katz wrote. “It is appropriate that the antisemitic Greta and her fellow Hamas supporters see exactly who the Hamas terrorist organization they came to support and for whom they work is, what atrocities they committed against women, the elderly, and children, and against whom Israel is fighting to defend itself.”

“The IDF will continue its war against the Hamas murderers with all its moral righteousness until they are subdued, all the hostages are released, and the security of the State of Israel is ensured,” Katz added.

Israeli forces boarded and seized the Madleen, operated by the pro-Palestinian Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FCC), during the early hours of Monday morning after Thunberg, 22, and the others on board tried to break the naval blockade of Gaza. Katz said on Sunday he instructed Israeli forces to stop the Madleen flotilla from reaching Gaza “and to take whatever measures are necessary to that end.”

“Israel will act against any attempt to break the blockade or assist terrorist organizations – at sea, in the air, and on land,” he added.

Israel imposed a naval blockade on Gaza in 2007, after Hamas seized control of the coastal enclave, in an effort to stop the Palestinian terrorist organization from obtaining weapons. The blockade has remained in place throughout the Israel-Hamas war that started 20 months ago, but in March, Israel also sealed off Gaza by land to further cut off Hamas from obtaining aid. Israel has let into Gaza some food to be distributed to civilians over the past two weeks.

The group of activists aboard the Madleen said they hoped to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza and raise international awareness about the humanitarian crisis there. Israel dismissed their efforts, described them as merely a stunt.

“While Greta and others attempted to stage a media provocation whose sole purpose was to gain publicity — and which included less than a single truckload of aid — more than 1,200 aid trucks have entered Gaza from Israel within the past two weeks, and in addition, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has distributed close to 11 million meals directly to civilians in Gaza,” said Israel’s Foreign Ministry. “There are ways to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip — they do not involve Instagram selfies.”

Israel released a video showing Israeli naval forces handing out water and sandwiches to those aboard the FCC after seizing the vessel. Among those on board was Rima Hassan, a French member of the European parliament. The Jewish community in France lambasted Hassan last year for arguing that French-Palestinians must be able to join the “Palestinian armed resistance” if their French-Israeli counterparts are allowed to serve in the IDF.

“The ‘selfie yacht’ is safely making its way to the shores of Israel … The passengers are safe,” read a post on Israel’s official account on X. The post also noted that the “tiny amount” of humanitarian aid aboard the vessel, that wasn’t consumed by the activists on board, will be transferred to Gaza “through real humanitarian channels.”

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Baruch Hashem, this is the only pro-Israel argument that works:

There is a Creator
Who made the universe,
And gave a slice of it to the Children of Israel,
As an everlasting inheritance.

This is how every Jew should begin their conversations about Israel, because this is how Judaism’s most sacred text begins her magnum opus. (And check out the very first Rashi commentary on the very first verse of the very first chapter of the Five Books of Moses).

Indeed, it is specifically the Torah that records the name “Zion” 154 times, “Jerusalem” 669 times, and “Israel” 2,319 times. And it does so not with a pandering, insecure Zionism of recent man-made construction — but with an unstoppable, proud 4,000-year-old territorial right of an eternal people, gifted with an eternal land, by an Eternal G-d.

And yet our enemies — terrorists and terrorist sanitizers around the globe — all have the same criminal solution to the Jewish problem. To use politics, economics, and downright violence to steal an indigenous land from her indigenous people, Israel from the Children of Israel.

But there exists no one — not a single man nor a group of people — who has the right to trade, barter, occupy, or negotiate away a homeland that is the birthright of every single Jew — no matter who, no matter where, no matter when.

Paper mandates are worth less than the paper they were written on.

Ceasefires enable the fires of terrorism to never cease.

And dangerous idiots on college campuses, in the hallowed halls of government, and in anti-Jewish hate mobs everywhere refuse to answer one simple question: Where does the name “Jew” come from?

Once again, the answer comes from the Torah. From the “Kingdom of Judea” — the tribe of King David — the geographical origin point of all the Jews you know today.

As desperately as the propaganda pundits try to poison your brain, we are not “West Bankers” from the “West Bank.” We are Judeans from Judea and Samaria. Our indigenous right to our homeland is embedded in our very name itself. And no matter what lies the media tries to force down your brain, it’s impossible for us to “occupy” our own land.

It is the only land of the Jewish people.

Always has. Always will be.

And whoever gives up an inch of it is robbing the Jewish Nation.

And yet, since the destruction of our Holy Temple in Jerusalem over 2,000 years ago by the Roman Occupation of Israel, their subsequent iterations have raped, pillaged, murdered, pogromed, crusaded, inquisitioned, holocausted, and tried to wipe us off the face of the earth and make us forget our Judean identity.

But they have gloriously failed.

As Mark Twain declared in 1899, “The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?”

The secret is simple.

It is the Torah.

The Torah is the secret to our immortality.

As the Talmud states, we are like fish in water. And no matter what the clever foxes of time whisper to us through their shiny teeth, our only way to survive is to stay in the “waters of Torah.” This is what Rabbi Akiva told Pappus Ben Judah in the time of the Roman Occupation of Israel. This is what our people’s leaders have told us throughout all the hard times since then. And this is what the Lubavitcher Rebbe has told us in our own time.

Torah isn’t just how we survive.

It’s how we thrive.

Why is this?

Because the Torah is not some history book or even a collection of religious rituals. It is a sacred book of Divine lessons, the ultimate frame-changer for all humanity. And it is exactly what we need more of right now.

So pick up a Torah book,  download a Torah podcast, join a Torah class or simply call your rabbi.

The chapters of history don’t lie. We are the indigenous natives of Israel and we must always be proud of that immutable, immortal truth.

This is why the Shulchan Aruch opens her magnum opus of Jewish law with the teaching of the Talmudic scholar Yehudah ben Teima, who said, “Be as bold as a leopard … to do the will of your Father in Heaven.” The very first step of our legal system, of the pathway to justice and spiritual development, is the simple fact that it is only the proud Jew who studies Torah and cherishes her Mitzvot who passes on an unbreakable and undeniable Jewish identity to our children’s children’s children — and ensures we stand strong against all oppression and persecution, as demanded by our Torah.

Levi Y. Welton is a rabbi, stand-up comedian, and Lubavitcher Chossid. He can be reached at rabbiwelton@gmail.com

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It was a tragically straightforward story: Eight people were injured on Sunday, June 1, when a man yelled “Free Palestine” and threw fire bombs into a crowd of Jews in Boulder, Colorado, where they called for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza.

Media headlines, however, did not mention Jews, nor the antisemitic slogan. They did not even call it an act of terrorism, although this is how the FBI labeled it.

For many media outlets, Jews being set on fire was merely an attack like any other. And this is precisely the narrative that enables the very antisemitism they failed to report on.

 Jews were firebombed in Boulder because they dared to rally for Israeli hostages.
But here’s how the media covered it. pic.twitter.com/XA2Vzm9za9

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) June 3, 2025

The BBC‘s headline, for example, is about “the attack in Colorado” — too vague to know who attacked whom and why:

The AP’s headline took an extra step, acknowledging the existence of “suspect” and “victims” — as in any attack — but failing to identify them:

The headlines from NPR and Newsweek were equally bad, saying that random “people” were burned with no mention of their identity or the perpetrator’s antisemitic motive:

 

 

And an editor at CBS News thought it was more important to mention the full name of the Boulder Pearl Street Mall in the headline, rather than the identity of the victims:

Some of the worst headlines came from ABC News and ABC Australia, which questioned the entire event by using scare quotes around words like “terror” and “flamethrower”:

 

The AP went further, actively shilling for the attacker, Mohammed Soliman, who “appeared to have second thoughts” and threw only two out of 18 Molotov Cocktails:

“Mohamed Sabry Soliman had 18 Molotov cocktails but threw just two,” reports @AP.

That’s what AP believes is having “second thoughts.”

Please forgive the Jewish community if it doesn’t feel grateful or sympathetic towards the perpetrator like AP seems to. pic.twitter.com/f07zvOpSm7

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) June 3, 2025

There is no excuse for such bad journalism. This isn’t Gaza, where Hamas controls the narrative. And the perpetrator himself declared he wanted to “end Zionists!”

The appropriate headline should have been simple: “Pro-Palestinian attacks Jews supporting Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado,” or “Eight Jews burned after pro-Palestinian attacker targets solidarity march with Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado.”

So why were media outlets unable to accurately report it?

The only answer, other than incompetence, is complicity: Hiding the fact that Jews were deliberately set on fire legitimizes their targeting.

Because it’s antisemitic to cover for antisemites.

The author is a contributor to HonestReporting, a Jerusalem-based media watchdog with a focus on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias — where a version of this article first appeared.

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