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Africa Horn
Incident involving Islamist militia leader in Eastern Sudan
[SUDANTRIBUNE] On Friday, a road accident involving a four-wheel drive vehicle carrying al-Misbah Abu Zaid, commander of the Islamist al-Baraa Bin Malik battalion, occurred on the Khashm El-Girba — Kassala road in eastern Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
. The accident resulted in two fatalities and several injuries.

According to the police press office, a tyre explosion caused the vehicle to overturn in the al-Shawak area. Among the injured was al-Misbah Abu Zaid, who was taken to Kassala Hospital for treatment along with eight others. He later appeared at the funeral of one of the dear departed.

The al-Baraa Bin Malik battalion is an Islamist fighting force allied with the Sudanese army.
Posted by: Fred || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [32 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan

#1  The Muslim Brotherhood rears its ugly head:
Arab Wall, Arab Assessments, 21 Nov ، 2023
"There is increasing speculation regarding the extent of the organizational affiliation between the Muslim Brotherhood and the “Al-Baraa bin Malik” battalion. This battalion is actively engaged in combat alongside the Sudanese army against the Rapid Support Forces. This speculation arises primarily due to indications suggesting potential links between the two entities. These encompass both the historical origins of the battalion’s establishment and the association of some of its leaders with Islamist symbols. The participation of the battalion in the initial confrontations in Sudan is significant due to its official affiliation with the reserve forces of the Ministry of Defense. This affiliation implies that there was an approval, albeit unannounced, for their involvement. ... The Brotherhood has played a multifaceted role in the armed confrontations between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces. From the initial days of the confrontations in April, the Brotherhood has aligned itself with the army and extended support through political and media channels
Posted by: Huputle+Cherelet4131 || 05/18/2024 8:17 Comments || Top||


RSF control cripples harvest in Sudan's Al-Jazirah Scheme
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Farmers in Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
’s vast al-Jazirah Scheme reported a near-total failure of the cotton and wheat harvests due to the ongoing conflict and control of the area by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The exception lies in the Managil and 24 Qarshi areas, still under army control in western al-Jazirah. Here, harvests proceeded as usual.

Alaa El Din al-Bilawi, a farmer in South al-Jazirah, explained that the cotton harvest failed because ginning factories, crucial for processing cotton, are closed. This leaves the crop vulnerable to damage in the fields.

Cotton and wheat are critical crops for both export and domestic consumption in Sudan. The failure of these harvests is a significant blow to the nation’s economy and food security.

The situation is particularly dire in the south, where 55,000 acres were planted with cotton before the RSF took control of al-Jazirah last December. Since then, the RSF has expanded its influence heavily, reaching the borders of neighbouring Sennar State.

Posted by: Fred || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [28 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Drone strikes target Kosti port, shelling resumes in El Fasher
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Unidentified drones attacked the Kosti, White Nile State river transport port. Simultaneously, fierce festivities continued between the Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
ese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State.

Local sources reported at least two drones targeted the Kosti port, located approximately 270 kilometres south of Khartoum. Eyewitnesses described hearing explosions and seeing thick smoke rise from the site. One police officer was injured in the incident.

Neither local authorities in White Nile State nor the warring parties have provided any official statements regarding the drone attack. However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
this incident marks a continuation of a trend observed over the past month and a half, where cities under army control have been targeted by unidentified drones. Notably, similar attacks have occurred in Atbara, Gedaref, Shendi, Merowe, and Dongola.

Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the congregants were being herded into the paddy wagon...
in El Fasher, artillery shelling resumed on Friday, with the RSF heavily bombarding southern neighbourhoods. Intermittent festivities also erupted between the army, allied armed struggle movements, and the RSF east of the city.

The ongoing fighting in El Fasher has tragically resulted in the deaths of over 50 civilians in the past week. Grave concerns are rising for the hundreds of thousands of displaced people who sought refuge in the city, fleeing violence elsewhere in the Darfur region.

Posted by: Fred || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Britain
UK jails asylum seeker for random murder in ‘revenge’ for Israeli response to Oct. 7
[IsraelTimes] Judge says Moroccan national killed 70-year-old man in ‘a terrorist act’ meant ‘to frighten the people of Britain and undermine the freedoms they enjoy’

A Moroccan asylum seeker on Friday was sentenced to life in prison for randomly stabbing a British man to death in revenge for Israel’s military response to the October 7 onslaught.

Ahmed Alid, 45, murdered victim Terence Carney, 70, in the streets of the northeastern English town of Hartlepool, eight days after Hamas terrorists attacked Israel last October.

Judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb told Alid he had “attacked and murdered… in a terrorist act,” and said he would spend a minimum of 44 years behind bars.

She said he had “hoped to frighten the people of Britain and undermine the freedoms they enjoy” in actions “intended as revenge” for Israel’s response to the Hamas attack, in which terrorists killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 252 hostages into Gaza.

“You intended it as revenge for the actions of a foreign country, Israel, and to intimidate and influence the British government in its international relations.”

Minutes before killing Carney, Alid had also attempted to murder his housemate, Christian convert Javed Nouri, by breaking into his bedroom and hacking at him while he slept.

Alid shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is greatest”) during the attack at the government-approved asylum seekers’ accommodation before fleeing into the street, still armed with a knife.

That attack on Nouri had been “an attempt to punish him for converting to Christianity,” the judge said, adding that he had shown “no genuine remorse or pity” for his victims.

Alid admitted to police that Carney was “innocent” but justified killing him by saying Britain had created the “Zionist entity” of Israel and should make them leave, adding: “They killed children and I killed an old man.”

He had denied murder, attempted murder and assaulting two police officers.

He was unanimously found guilty of all four charges by a jury at Teesside Crown Court in Middlesbrough last month.

In a victim impact statement, the victim’s wife Patricia Carney said she could no longer go into town because it was “too painful” to be near the spot where her husband was murdered.

Nouri said the attack had destroyed his sense of safety.

“I would expect to be arrested and killed in my home country for converting to Christianity but I did not expect to be attacked in my sleep here,” his statement said. “How is it possible for someone to destroy someone’s life because of his religion?”
In the days following the October 7 attack by Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
, Morocco-born Ahmed Alid, 45, became increasingly agitated, 'laughing and praising God' as the news of each atrocity was reported.

Eight days after Hamas attacked Israel, he launched a ferocious knife attack on Javed Nouri, a housemate in a four bed asylum hostel, who he hated because he had converted to Christianity.

After Mr Nouri fought off his attacker, Alid grabbed a kitchen knife with a 20 inch blade and ran into the streets in the early hours of the morning where he encountered Terrence Carney, 70, and, shouting Alluha Akbar, stabbed him six times causing fatal injuries.

Alid, from Fez, Morocco, came to the UK to seek asylum after drifting around Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
for more than a decade, finding a home in Hartlepool, Durham.

He could offer no explanation as to why he was claiming asylum, other than security services were 'harassing ' him at the shop he ran in the popular tourist city.

His housemate, Iranian asylum seeker Javed Nouri, reported Alid to police and Home Office housing managers on October 9 and 13 - revealing how he would sit in the kitchen with a knife and give him 'bad looks' following his conversion to Christianity. Mr Nouri was told no further action would be taken as Alid had not committed an offence.

Mr Nouri also described seeing Alid laughing at coverage of the October 7 attacks but was told by police there was nothing they could do unless he was carrying the knife around the house or using it to threaten people.

Two days after sharing his concerns, Nouri was woken at 5am to find Alid breaking into his bedroom brandishing two kitchen knives. The attacker stabbed him in the chest and face before he and another housemate were able to fight him off.

In a police interview following his arrest, Alid attacked two female officers, yelling 'Paleostine' and 'Allahuakbar' [god is great] as he grabbed one of them and wrestled her to the ground, causing his solicitor to dial 999.

Asked if he intended to kill more people, Alid said: 'I swear by Allah if I had a machine gun and I had more weapons that they would be in thousands.

'I was going to contact someone to get me a machine gun and I would have done more and then that person told me to carry on with the knife.'

He told the officers if it had not been for the wounds to his hands from the knife, he would have continued the killing.

The court heard Alid, a former pastry chef, had travelled from Morocco to Spain in 2007.

He spent just days or weeks in some countries, but stayed for years in Germany - where he was briefly incarcerated
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
for entering the country without a passport or visa - but never achieved his aim of opening a shop. The terrorist tried to marry a German woman but had lost his passport in Greece, he told the court, so the marriage could not go through.

He claimed asylum and spent the next three years living in a hotel in Hull and then state-funded accommodation in a terraced house in Hartlepool, waiting for his claim to be processed. While his asylum status was still being processed he was permitted to work four hours a week, but that did not lead to him getting a job and he was often seen jogging around Hartlepool to keep fit.

The devout Moslem, who prayed five times a day and attended communal prayer at a mosque, clashed with his housemates over religion.


Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2024 2024-05-18 04:15 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
A man dies in a shootout with security forces in Karachay-Cherkessia
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] Security forces in Karachay-Cherkessia
…somewhere in the North Caucasus…
killed an alleged member of a terrorist organization who offered armed resistance during arrest, the FSB reported.

A man who offered armed resistance during arrest was killed in Karachay-Cherkessia, a representative of the FSB public relations center said.

“The preparation of a terrorist act on the territory of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic was stopped. As a result of the activities carried out in the village of Adil-Khalk, Nogai district of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, a member of an international terrorist organization banned in Russia, a citizen of the Russian Federation, born in 1998, was identified at a safe residence address, planning to commit an armed attack on employees republican law enforcement agencies,” TASS quotes him as saying.

There are no casualties among the security forces, the FSB representative noted. At the site of the clash, a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a large number of cartridges, an improvised explosive device, components for making explosives, as well as “communications containing correspondence with coordinators of terrorist activities located abroad discussing planned crimes” were found, the publication says.

Posted by: badanov || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [42 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Keep kissing "Palestinian" ass, Ivan!
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 05/18/2024 2:08 Comments || Top||

#2  .....as well as “communications containing correspondence with coordinators of terrorist activities located abroad discussing planned crimes” were found, the publication says.

Seems a bit more than slightly counterintuitive, the releasing of enemy "plans."

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/18/2024 4:01 Comments || Top||


Europe
Israeli tourist in Belgium brutally attacked for peeling off anti-Israeli sticker
[IsraelTimes] In police complaint, Amnon Ohana, 64, says his jaw was broken when he was attacked by 10 men in front of his daughter at a Bruges train station as conductor, passersby looked on

An Israeli tourist was brutally attacked by several men in front of his daughter at a train station in the Belgian city of Bruges on Friday, after he was seen removing an anti-Israel sticker.

The victim, Amnon Ohana, 64, and his daughter Shira, 29, told police in a complaint that his jaw was fractured when about 10 aggressors confronted him after he peeled the sticker from a wall at the train station.

In a video of the incident filmed by his daughter, two men can be seen shouting at the Israelis from an elevated position, before one of them, a man in his twenties, descends a flight of stairs in pursuit of them as a train conductor and passersby look on.

This altercation followed an earlier beating, which Ohana and his daughter escaped by running downstairs, the father said in the complaint.

Downstairs, the assailant was filmed punching the Israeli man in the ribcage and pushing him to the floor, where he continues to assault him as the daughter films and screams for him to stop.

"I have you on video, fuck off," the victim’s daughter can be heard yelling in the video.

Ohana’s discharge letter from Oostende hospital confirmed that he had a fractured jaw and multiple contusions across his body.

The Israeli embassy in Belgium filed a complaint on the incident, according to Hebrew media reports, demanding that the suspect be arrested and prosecuted. The Walla news site added that Israeli Ambassador to Belgium Idit Rosenzweig-Abu in Brussels was in contact with Ohana and his daughter.

Rabbi Mencahem Margolin, director of the European Jewish Association, warned in a statement that the assault was part of an escalation of antisemitic violence that, unless curbed, may likely lead to loss of life.

"It is no longer just verbal violence or spitting but real physical attacks that can end in disaster," Margolin said, calling on police to arrest the suspects, charge them with an antisemitic hate crime and punish them to the full extent of the law.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2024 2024-05-18 03:28 || Comments || Link || [105 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Most Israelis don't really understand antisemitism.
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 05/18/2024 5:40 Comments || Top||

#2  This was spread worldwide by the Muslim Brotherhood, sunnis.

Not iran

But the Us doesn’t want to acknowledge this because Saudi backs the petro-dollar

The Saudis (sunni) are fighting the shi’ites (iran) in yemen

We are being sucked into their religious civil war. The saudis have great influence on US foreign policy.

hamas are just muslim brotherhood which is why the leadership are in qatar
Posted by: Anon1 || 05/18/2024 6:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Sorry for double post, not quite sure how that happened.

Big hello to Trailing Wife
Posted by: Anon1 || 05/18/2024 6:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Worth repeating.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/18/2024 9:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Ref #2 and #3: We are being sucked into their religious civil war. The saudis have great influence on US foreign policy.

"Sucked into their Religions war."

Ha! Replace "sucked" with (driven with zeal and great enthusiasm).
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/18/2024 9:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Hi, Anon1! Duplicate deleted. Probably a double click or stray gamma rays in the ether. These things happen from time to time — which is why Fred gifted us with the ability to delete.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2024 10:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Good morning, TW.

From last night's post. Yes, I got you. I meant more in a generic, collective sense. Most here are about personal choices and taking responsibility for those choices and less Big Gov't/Nanny State involvement.

Post from last night.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/18/2024 10:25 Comments || Top||


Shooting reported next to Israeli Embassy in Stockholm
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli Embassy in Stockholm has been sealed off after a shooting early this morning, according to local media reports.

Police press officer Per Fahlström tells newspaper Expressen that a police patrol heard loud bangs, suspected to be from a firearm. The area was cordoned off shortly after 2 a.m., and at 6:30 a.m. the police wrote that their investigations indicated there was a shooting in the area.

Police are posted at the Israeli Embassy, where they are searching for traces of gunfire. Fahlström does not comment on whether the embassy was the target of the suspected shooting.

A preliminary investigation into serious weapons crime has been launched. Fahlström has told media that several people have been detained, without elaborating further.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry says the incident is being probed by Swedish authorities and there are no further details available.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2024 2024-05-18 01:12 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
CUNY college scraps Hillel Memorial Day event over anti-Israel protest, security fears
[IsraelTimes] Brooklyn’s Kingsborough Community College cancels gathering after request for more security; Baruch College nixes Independence Day event after Hillel refuses alternative locations

A branch of the City University of New York canceled an event organized by Jewish campus group Hillel this week marking Israel’s Memorial Day, citing an anti-Israel protest and security concerns.

The cancellation at Brooklyn’s Kingsborough Community College came following years of outspoken pro-Paleostinian advocacy across the CUNY system that has ramped up since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
war, along with longstanding allegations by Jewish groups that its administrators do not do enough to protect Jewish students. And they occurred shortly before a group of pro-Paleostinian activists staged an hours-long occupation of a CUNY building in Manhattan, even as the wave of pro-Paleostinian encampments at other schools is dying down.

"We felt saddened and dismayed that the college canceled our Yom Hazikaron event instead of providing security to protect us from threats," Kingsborough Hillel’s faculty adviser, Susan Aranoff, a business professor, told the New York Jewish Week, using the Hebrew name for Israel’s Memorial Day. "The college must protect freedom of expression for all."

The Hillel at Baruch College, another branch of CUNY, also said its event for Israel’s Independence Day had been canceled. The school told the New York Jewish Week it had offered alternative locations for that event, but Hillel declined to accept them. Queens College’s Hillel, meanwhile, did host Memorial and Independence Day events without incident.

A CUNY spokesperson said the university system is "committed to ensuring that every student and faculty or staff member is safe from violence, intimidation and harassment."

"We also reaffirm that everyone in our community has a constitutional right to free speech. CUNY is working with campus leaders to ensure all our community members are protected during school events," the spokesperson said.

Kingsborough Hillel, which serves about 30 to 40 students at the college in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, had planned a Zoom event with a former Israeli soldier and cybersecurity expert. The students attending the event were set to gather in-person on campus, where they planned to hold a memorial service and light a candle.

Ahead of the event, anti-Israel protest groups issued a call to rally next to the campus on Oriental Boulevard, circulating a graphic that said, "Students and workers say no to rehabilitating the image of war criminals."

Kingsborough’s Hillel asked the administration for upgraded security due to the protest. Instead, the administration opted to cancel the event hours before it was supposed to start, the college’s Hillel told the New York Jewish Week.

A Kingsborough spokesperson confirmed the event had been canceled due to protests "out of an abundance of caution to ensure safety and appropriate access to campus for our students, faculty, and staff."

A number of faculty asked the administration to reverse the decision to no avail, Hillel said. Jeff Lax, a Kingsborough business professor and outspoken advocate for Zionist students, said he requested a meeting and waited outside the office of University President Suri Duitch for 20 minutes while she was inside, but said she did not come out to speak with him.

The pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel protest still took place, drawing around 30 people who waved Paleostinian flags and, according to a video by Lax, chanted, "Resistance® is justified when people are occupied."

The protesters declared "victory" after the event.

"The shameful event allowing a former high-ranking IOF soldier on campus, hosted by Kingsborough Community College and Hillel, has been SHUT DOWN!" a student pro-Paleostinian group posted on social media, using a derisive abbreviation for Israel’s military that stands for Israel Occupation Force. "Power to CUNY students and workers! Free Paleostine!"

The next day, on Tuesday, Kingsborough Hillel was scheduled to hold an Israeli Independence Day event on an outdoor terrace on campus, but the college ordered organizers to move the event indoors. A photo from the scene showed nine security guards stationed outside the door.

Meanwhile,
...back at the bunker, his Excellency called the chief of staff and complained that the artillery was keeping him awake...
at Baruch, the campus Hillel said on Instagram last week that the college had ordered the club’s Yom Ha’atzmaut, or Independence Day, event on May 2 "canceled" due to security concerns.

Baruch College told the New York Jewish Week that Hillel had been offered other locations for the event.

"The safety of our students remains our top priority," the college said in a statement. "Regarding the Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration, Hillel was offered two alternative spaces on campus. They declined the opportunity to hold the event in these alternative locations, choosing to cancel instead."

Baruch Hillel did not respond to a request for comment, but posted on Instagram that the school is "sending a strong message to Jewish students that they cannot adequately protect Jewish students, while the protestors spew hateful and intimidating language in our public spaces without any repercussions."

The post added, "Baruch College is silencing the voice of the Jewish students and their ability to celebrate their Jewish identity proudly and openly."

In the same Instagram post, the Hillel also uploaded video showing protesters chanting, "Baruch Hillel you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide."

Across the city, Queens College’s Hillel held a Memorial Day event on campus on Tuesday and an "Israelfest" event on Wednesday to celebrate Israel’s Independence Day.

The college’s Hillel director, Jenna Citron Schwab, said no protesters were visible — a shift from earlier in the academic year, when the school was rocked by anti-Israel protests, and an interfaith meeting between Moslem and Jewish students was marred by inflammatory rhetoric and shouting. In March, vandals scrawled graffiti on campus including swastikas and threats to Jews. Schwab said the atmosphere has since improved.

"Every campus has its challenges," she said. "Right now, we’re working closely with the administration to tackle the challenges that we’re seeing."

Separately, on Tuesday night, anti-Israel protesters took over the CUNY Graduate Center, in the first protest of its kind at the Manhattan university. According to video distributed by protest groups on the Telegram messaging app, the protesters occupied the center’s lobby, chanting the slogan, "Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest," which has become popular at student pro-Paleostinian protests.

The demonstrators pasted signs onto an adjacent library, renaming it the "Al Aqsa University Library" after the Moslem holy site adjacent to the Western Wall and atop the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site. The mosque has been a flashpoint for conflict and is the namesake of Hamas’ title for its Oct. 7 invasion of Israel, which it dubbed the "Al Aqsa Flood."

Minutes after the CUNY demonstrators announced their rally at the Graduate Center, the protest group Within Our Lifetime, which endorsed the October 7 attack, sent out a statement urging its followers to "Flood CUNY for Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
At 10:20 p.m., the Graduate Center’s interim president, Josh Brumberg, sent out an email to the campus community stating that he had emailed CUNY Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez about the protest, according to a copy of the email shared with the New York Jewish Week.

Brumberg said protesters’ demands included a meeting with Rodríguez, amnesty for other CUNY protesters, divestment from companies "complicit in the imperialist-zionist genocide," and cutting all ties with Israeli academic institutions.

Brumberg also said he had agreed to not discipline any of the demonstrators. Two weeks ago, more than 100 people were arrested when the NYPD cleared out an encampment at the City College of New York, another CUNY branch.

The protest at the Graduate Center dissolved that night, according to a statement from the school.

"After several hours of discussion, an amicable resolution was reached and the demonstrators left peacefully," the statement said. "The Graduate Center is committed to ensuring first amendment rights and freedom of expression while maintaining University policies to safeguard students’ right to an education and protect our community from harassment, discrimination, and vandalism."
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2024 2024-05-18 00:24 || Comments || Link || [43 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Anti-Israel protesters put fake corpses at University of Michigan official’s home
[IsraelTimes] Board member Sarah Hubbard says some 30 people demonstrated at her home, pitched tents; another board member says masked activist left list of demands at his home

Pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel protesters wearing masks pitched tents and placed fake bloody corpses outside the home of a University of Michigan board member Wednesday, raising tension with the school.

Sarah Hubbard, chair of the university’s governing board, said the 6 a.m. demonstration at her home in Okemos involved 30 people.

"They approached my home and taped a letter to my front door and proceeded to erect the tents. A variety of other things were left in the front yard," Hubbard told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. "They started chanting with their bullhorn and pounding on a drum in my otherwise quiet neighborhood."

Video on social media appeared to show the crowd chanting that Hubbard is "funding genocide."

She and her husband stayed inside. Okemos is 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the Ann Arbor campus.

The protesters left 30 to 45 minutes later when Meridian Township police arrived, Hubbard said. No arrests were made. Three tents and fake corpses wrapped in red-stained sheets were left behind.

Jordan Acker, another member of the Board of Regents, said someone with a face covering left a list of demands at his home at 4:40 a.m.

Protesters at the Ann Arbor campus have an encampment on the Diag, a prominent public space.

The group is demanding that the university’s endowment stop investing in companies with ties to Israel. But the university insists it has no direct investments and only less than $15 million placed with funds that might include companies in Israel. That’s less than 0.1% of the total endowment.

"There’s nothing to talk about. That issue is settled," Hubbard said.

In social media posts, a coalition calling for divestment acknowledged the protest and said it would "remain relentless in the struggle for a free Paleostine."

"Please stop complaining on Twitter and come to the encampment to actually negotiate," the group said, referring to Hubbard.

The university said the protest at her home was not free speech. "The tactics used today represent a significant and dangerous escalation," spokesperson Kim Broekhuizen said.

School officials have not disclosed any plans to break up the encampment on campus, which was created in April.

"We would prefer that they would leave on their own," Hubbard said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [38 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1 
I can see why a many news sources now avoid the term "Students".

Given a quick look at the Campus & City arrest record data & NEWS video coverage. What we generally know and/or is reported:
* about 6+ out of 10 protesters are NOT Students, and/or not locals.
* many even travel hours to reach the protest location.
* they present a consistent/progressively demanding uniform message.
* they have professionally/commercially made signage and banners.
* there are always 100's of suddenly available new matching PLO type facial coverings colors to be worn.
* plus, the presentation and agenda seen here in the US and across Europe is too uniform to be anything other than scripted by a central authority.

Which all now, given the presented evidence, begs the real question:

Whom, is funding these too well Mega $$$$$$$ funded & cloned protests?
Is it IRAN, Palestine, Hamas, China, Russia and/or the Democrat Party that has a strong Anti-Jewish element. An element moving (D) more towards National Socialism practices?

Or.
Is it us, the US Taxpayer, since O'Biden Regime has provided 100's of Millions of Taxpayers $$$$$$$ to the same donor sources over the last 3+ years?
Posted by: Nero Bucket4425 || 05/18/2024 7:05 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli soldier moderately hurt in West Bank stabbing; assailant caught
[IsraelTimes] Three Islamic Jihad gunmen killed overnight during IDF operation in Tulkarem; troops raid offices allegedly used to fund terror.

An Israeli soldier was stabbed near the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar and suffered moderate injuries, the military and medics said Thursday.

The Israel Defense Forces said the noncommissioned officer was stabbed at Yitzhar Junction, near Huwara, while in his vehicle. The stabber then expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.

The military said it launched a manhunt for the Paleostinian assailant and was blocking roads in the area. Three hours later, the suspected attacker was caught in the Paleostinian town of Awarta, not far from where the attack took place, the IDF said.

The maimed man was able to reach a nearby military position after being attacked. There, he told soldiers that he had slowed down and opened the window of his vehicle because he saw a Paleostinian gesturing to him with his hand, the Kan public broadcaster reported.

Medics took the soldier to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, which said that after receiving initial medical treatment he was now regarded as lightly maimed.

Huwara has been a hotbed of violence in recent years with several deadly terror attacks in and around the Paleostinian town, which have been met with Dire Revenge attacks from bad boy settlers who have repeatedly rampaged through it.

It was the second stabbing incident of the day after early in the morning a man tried to stab Border Police officers in East Jerusalem. Officers opened fire on the man, killing him before he could cause any injuries.

There was deadly violence in other areas of the West Bank, with three Paleostinian button men killed overnight in festivities with troops during a crackdown on terror funding in the territory, according to Paleostinian Authority officials and the IDF. The military said the raids targeted offices allegedly involved in funneling money for terror purposes in Tulkarem, Nablus, Qalqilya, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Tubas, and other locations. Cash, documents, and "technological equipment" were seized amid the raids, the IDF said.

In Tulkarem and Qalqiliya, troops came under attack — though none of them were hurt — and returned fire, according to the army.

Border Police troops also opened fire and killed three Paleostinian button men who were planting bombs in Tulkarem, the military said. The Paleostinian Authority’s health ministry identified those killed as Ayman Ahmad Mubarak, 26, Husam Imad Daabas, 22, and Mohammed Yusif Nasrallah, 27.

The Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group later claimed the three as members of its armed wing.

Several others were maimed by IDF fire in Tulkarem, the PA ministry said.

On Wednesday, Paleostinian officials said Israeli troops killed a man as festivities broke out after a West Bank march commemorating the Paleostinian "Nakba," or catastrophe, of Israel’s creation in 1948. The Israeli army did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Since October 7, troops have arrested some 4,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,700 affiliated with Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
. According to the PA’s health ministry, more than 490 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2024 2024-05-18 00:07 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Islamic Jihad


Israel defence minister announces deployment of additional troops in Rafah
[GEO.TV] Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said that more troops would "enter Rafah" as military operations intensify in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
’s far-southern city, in remarks issued by his office Thursday.

The operation "will continue as additional forces will enter" the Rafah area, Gallant said, claiming that "several tunnels in the area have been destroyed by our troops... this activity will intensify".

"Hundreds of targets have already been struck, and our forces are manoeuvring in the area," he said according to a statement released by his office after he visited Rafah the previous day.

Israeli forces took control earlier in May of the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing with Egypt, in a push launched in defiance of US warnings that around 1.4 million civilians sheltering there could be caught in the crossfire.

The United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
agency for Paleostinian refugees, UNRWA, has said "600,000 people have fled Rafah since military operations intensified" in Rafah.
Posted by: Fred || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [25 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Rafah hospital braces for casualty influx as Israel readies Gaza push
[GEO.TV] The Kuwaiti Speciality Hospital is one of the few places in Rafah the maimed or dying can turn for care, but that role may come under unbearable pressure if Israel launches a full-scale advance into the southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
city, doctors there say.

Israeli forces are bearing down on Rafah as part of their drive to eradicate Paleostinian group Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
, despite warnings this could result in mass casualties in an area where displaced civilians have found shelter.

Staff at the Speciality Hospital say they fear such an assault would produce a crush of new patients that would overwhelm exhausted doctors, who already complain of shortages of medicine and proper equipment.

"We have been here from the start of the war until now, and I do hope they will not target us, they will not threaten us," said doctor Jamal al-Hams.

"I do hope the whole medical team will continue to present its services to the injured people, to the critically ill patients, to the people who have chronic diseases," he added.
Posted by: Fred || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [87 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Just how many hospitals did Gaza have anyway?
It seems there's an awful lot of hospitals for such a small area.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 05/18/2024 1:18 Comments || Top||

#2  ^They're Globalists favored children - nothing is too good for them!
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 05/18/2024 1:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Nothing is too good, and of course nothing is what they will shortly end up with.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2024 2:04 Comments || Top||

#4  ^They will always have Paris Brussels.
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 05/18/2024 2:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Indeed. Things ae getting ever more interesting in Brussels. I’m awfully glad Mr. Wife’s career never took us back there — one year back in the 1990s, when all we had to worry about was [mostly refugee] children being kidnapped for the illicit film industry under the quiet aegis of the Department of the Interior, was quite enough.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2024 2:12 Comments || Top||

#6  I said it before, and I'll say it again: EU is a cancer on the body of Humanity. Most of the staff you (American Rantburgers) complain about is NOT indigenous to USA but was imported from EU.
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 05/18/2024 2:23 Comments || Top||

#7  ^That by the way why I cheer for Russia. Despite their will they fight against Globalism for their survival just as they were forced (despite their will) to fight Nazism in 1941.
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 05/18/2024 2:26 Comments || Top||

#8  /\ Two competing tribes, both cancerous. 'Go with the evil you know' may certainly apply here.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/18/2024 3:03 Comments || Top||


Gaza war death toll mounts to 35,303
[GEO.TV] At least 35,303 Palestinians have been killed and 79,261 have been wounded in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since October 7, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Friday.
Not according to the other branch of the UN, which insists Hamas’s numbers are over by a good 10,000. So really a scant 25,000, of which 15,000 are jihadis, per Israel.
Posted by: Fred || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [54 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  1200x100 = 120000
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 05/18/2024 2:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Every Arab Muslim in Gaza and West Bank should be resettled in Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Saudi

Those countries were among the original arab muslim belligerents who declared war on Israel on its founding and are therefore responsible for the displaced ancestors of the arab muslims who now claim to be “palestinians”

Resettle them all and be done with it.
There can be no peace or any two-state solution, only removal.

Israel is stupid for not immediately hitting both areas with carpet bombing on October 8 and forced relocations of survivors on October 9.

Stupid for trying to get back the hostages. Should have sadly accepted their deaths and just gone hard to make sure Gaza and West Bank were cleared of Islam once and for all.

Israel should have known that a drawn-out conflict would only give the Muslim Brotherhood propaganda weapons more powerful than theirs.

I fear they lost their country by refusing to go hard early.

Israel may well cease to exist.
Posted by: Anon1 || 05/18/2024 7:03 Comments || Top||


IDF recovers bodies of hostages Itzhak Gelerenter, Amit Buskila, Shani Louk, all slain on Oct. 7
[IsraelTimes] IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari in a press statement says the military has recovered the bodies of three hostages from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.

He names them as Itzhak Gelerenter, Amit Buskila, and Shani Louk.

Hagari says the bodies were recovered in an overnight operation carried out by the military and Shin Bet.

The three were at the Supernova music festival near Re’im on the morning of October 7, where they then fled to the Mefalsim area.

Hagari says they were killed there by Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
terrorists, and their bodies were then kidnapped to Gaza.
Townhall adds a fact I’ve not seen elsewhere:
The Israeli Defense Forces recovered the bodies of three Israeli hostages murdered by Hamas from the terrorists' tunnels in Rafah overnight, according to an announcement shared Friday.


Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [52 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  In the past Hamas did brisk trade in bodies of murdered Israelis.
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 05/18/2024 2:27 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah retaliates to Najjarieh strikes with rocket barrage
[An Nahar] Hezbollah targeted Friday a logistic military base in the occupied Golan heights with 50 Katyusha rockets, in response to al-Najjariyeh strikes.

The group said in a statement it has attacked the Tznobar base in response to the killing of two civilians in a strike on al-Najjarieh, near the coastal city of Sidon.

Hezbollah later targeted al-Raheb post in northern Israel in support of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
and artillery positions in al-Zaoura in response to Israeli artillery shelling on the border town of Houla.

The Israeli air strikes on al-Najjariyeh killed one Hezbollah fighter and two Syrian children.

Hezbollah earlier on Friday launched "attack drones" on a command center in Ga'aton, in response to an Israeli strike on a car in Qana on Thursday that killed two Hezbollah members.

Earlier this week Hezbollah said it had targeted an Israeli base near Tiberias, about 30 kilometres from the Lebanese border -- one of the group's deepest attacks into Israeli territory since festivities began on October 8.

The cross-border fighting has killed at least 418 people in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, mostly gunnies but also including 82 civilians, according to an AFP tally.

Israel says 14 soldiers and 10 civilians have been killed on its side of the border.


Posted by: Fred || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Israel strikes on Lebanon killing three
[GEO.TV] Israeli air strikes on Friday hit an area of southern Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
far from the border, Lebanese official media said, with a source close to Hezbollah reporting three dead including two Syrian nationals.

Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said "Israeli strikes targeted Najjariyeh and Addousiyeh", two adjacent villages about 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the Israeli border just south of the coastal city of Sidon.

The NNA reported "victims" without elaborating.

A source close to Hezbollah told AFP that three people were killed in Najjariyeh -- two Syrians and a Lebanese man.

Hezbollah said the attack was carried out with an "attack drone carrying two S5 rockets", which are normally launched from jets.
Posted by: Fred || 05/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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