...Interior Minister Moshe Arbel said that border control officers at Ben Gurion Airport refused to let in the terrorist and demanded that an investigation be opened into the matter. Shin Bet agents overruled the decision and permitted him to enter Israel, according to reports in Israeli media.
...Medics and paramedics are providing medical treatment to two wounded 24-year-olds and a 59-year-old man in light condition
[BARNABASAID.ORG] Two Christian youths were killed by Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... on 12 January in an attack on a community in the Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria.
A woman was also injured as armed gang members burned to the ground a church, shops and homes in Bazir village, Barnabas Aid contacts confirmed.
Boko Haram began its latest attacks in the area with a raid on the village of Njiland on 2 January, and went on to assault Shikarkir community, razing a church and homes.
[IsraelTimes] Lawmaker questioned under caution after protesters allegedly breached conditions set by police aimed at keeping protest away from synagogue; Corbyn’s brother among those charged
Former leader of Britannia’s Labour party Jeremy Corbyn was questioned under caution by police on Sunday over his participation in an anti-Israel, pro-Paleostinian rally the previous day that developed into a clash with police.
Also questioned was former senior Labour party member John McDonnell, who, like Corbyn, is now an independent politician in the House of Commons.
Both men voluntarily agreed to be questioned, the BBC reported.
Officers charged nine people with public order offenses after dozens were arrested at the protest in the British capital, the London Metropolitan Police said Sunday.
More than 70 people were arrested at Saturday’s march after what police called a "coordinated effort to breach" protest conditions, including the perimeter of the rally which was meant to be static.
Among those charged was Corbyn’s brother Piers Corbyn.
The march, organized by the Paleostine Solidarity Campaign, had initially planned to gather around the corner from the Central Synagogue, an Orthodox congregation founded more than 150 years ago.
From there it was to march towards Whitehall, the British government district. Police refused to permit that plan and instead approved only a static demonstration at another location.
Instead of remaining in place at Portland Place, near the headquarters of the BBC, some demonstrators broke through a police line and marched to Trafalgar Square, the Met said in a post to social media platform X.
Corbyn, responding to the police statement, said it was "not an accurate description of events at all."
He claimed that, along with other speakers, he had coordinated with police to move to Trafalgar Square "to lay flowers in memory of children 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 a rusty 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... who had been killed."
"This was facilitated by the police. We did not force our way through," Corbyn wrote.
Protest organizers have denied an "organized" breach of conditions and accused officers of heavy-handedness in their policing of the demonstration.
So long as it was spontaneous, that makes it ok to break the rules they agreed to? A novel legal theory.
Of the 77 arrested, 25 have been released on bail while 48 remain in jug. Those charged are due to appear at London’s Westminster Magistrates Court "in the coming days," police said.
"Yesterday we saw a deliberate effort, including by protest organizers, to breach conditions," said police commander Adam Slonecki on Sunday.
"We will continue to work through CCTV footage, videos from social media and our body worn cameras so we can make further arrests and bring forward charges where we identify criminality."
Among those charged was Christopher Nineham, 62, the vice chair of the Stop the War Coalition (SWC),
…formed in London days after 9/11 by a coalition of Labour Party, socialist, and communist activists — another tentacle of the anarcho-communist syndicalist Black Bloc octopus — in an attempt to stop the American response, and then to stop the wider War on Terror, and then naturally self-defense by the Jewish state. It is arguably a militant arm of the Labour Party…
one of the organizers of the demonstration. Protest organizers accused the police of arresting Nineham “violent mostly peacefully and for no apparent reason" in a statement on X.
"At no stage was there an organized breach of the conditions imposed by the police," the organizers said, calling the arrests a "direct assault on freedom of assembly and democracy."
The Campaign Against Antisemitism said the rally and scuffles with police were "a dark day for London."
"Not only did we see the usual antisemitic bile and open support for Jew-hating terrorist organizations to which our nation’s capital has become accustomed, but snuffies repeatedly breached the modest restrictions imposed by the police on today’s protest," it said in a post to X.
It’s the left wing. Of coursethey hate Jews. Jeremy Corbyn was expelled from the Labour Party for being too blatant about it.
"For over a year we have called for these marches to be banned; we reiterated that call yesterday when it was clear that the police would not be able to control the situation," the watchdog said.
And for a year the London authorities coddled the marchers because they, too, hate Israel and Jews.
Leading up to the march, dozens of British politicians, including Jewish officials, wrote a letter to police protesting the route of the rally and saying frequent pro-Paleostinian marches on Saturdays interfered with Jewish religious practice.
Nine days ahead of the march, police issued a statement saying it would use its powers to "prevent the Paleostine Solidarity Campaign forming up in the vicinity of a synagogue ahead of its planned protest." The statement said the decision had been made prior to the politicians’ letter.
But the Paleostine Solidarity Campaign said in its own statement that it rejected the police order, and that it had agreed on the route with the police in November.
The group said the synagogue itself was not on the route of the march and pointed to "thousands" of Jewish participants in its rallies as a sign that they aren’t antisemitic. It said discussions with the police remain ongoing.
On Sunday a ceasefire that had been announced days earlier came into effect after 15 months of war that began when the Paleostinian terror group Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... led thousands of murderous Moslems in a devastating attack on Israel in which they killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
In January this year, Corbyn joined a South African delegation for hearings at the International Court of Justice, where the country accused Israel of committing genocide against Paleostinians in the war against Hamas in Gaza. The veteran left-winger, who led the main opposition Labour Party into the last election in 2019, but stepped down as leader after overseeing its worst results in decades, has been sitting as an independent MP since 2020.
The party suspended him after he refused to fully accept the findings of a rights watchdog’s probe into claims that antisemitism became rampant within Labour’s ranks under his leadership. The Equality and Human Rights Commission ruled the party broke equality law when Corbyn was in charge.
[IsraelTimes] A childcare center in Sydney was set alight early morning today and antisemitic graffiti was sprayed on the wall, authorities say, the latest in a spate of attacks in Australia targeting the Jewish community.
The childcare center, located near a Jewish school and synagogue in the city’s east, suffered extensive damage but there were no reports of injuries in the attack which occurred around 1 a.m. (1400 GMT, Monday), police say.
"Fuck the Jews," is written the wall next to the center.
It was the second antisemitic attack on property in four days in Sydney, and comes amid a spate of similar crimes targeting the Jewish community in Australia’s most-populous city.
New South Wales state Premier Chris Minns says the perpetrators would be caught and police have put more resources into investigating hate crimes, as public frustration grows over the lack of arrests following previous antisemitic attacks.
"The kind of people who would ... attack a fellow Australian whom they don’t know because of their race or religion, it is completely disgusting and these bastards will be rounded up by the police," Minns says during a media briefing.
What about all the other bastards? Australia has had a problem with her Lebanese for decades, not to mention the current crop of Israel-hating politicians, who haven’t cared a fig that Australian Jews were being harassed — since 10/7 in the name of Hamas.
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BREAKING: Terrorist firebombing attack on Jewish preschool in Sydney. The terrorists spray painted “FUCK THE JEWS” next to the burning building.
I thought they just wanted a ceasefire???
We need mass arrests and deportations for Islamist extremists inciting the violence pic.twitter.com/PeUQjNPQ1M
[IsraelTimes] Yohay Sponder’s Jan. 25 performance moved to new location, which will only be revealed to ticket holders on the day
An Israeli comedian’s show in Amsterdam has been moved to a new location after the owner of the original venue canceled the show due to antisemitic threats.
Yohay Sponder, a veteran of more than 12 years on Israel’s standup scene, had been scheduled to perform at the Boom reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... club in the Dutch capital on January 25 as part of the European tour for his English-language show, "Self-Loving Jew." But the club’s director Andrew Moskos informed Yohay’s wife and booking manager Kayla Sponder on Friday that the show would not be able to go on due to antisemitic threats.
Since October 7, 2023, many Jewish and Israeli performers have found their events canceled by venues concerned about violent mostly peaceful anti-Israel protesters, often at the last minute. Last month, a concert by American Hasidic singer Benny Friedman in London was canceled and moved due to similar threats.
Antisemitic incidents in Amsterdam have spiked since Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... attacked Israel on October 7, killing 1,200, taking 251 hostages and sparking the war 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 a rusty 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... . In November last year, coordinated attacks against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam sparked furious reactions around the world.
"About two weeks ago, I got a phone call from one of the club’s employees letting me know that someone had come into the club saying things like ’How dare you let that Jew perform here,'" recalled Kayla Sponder. "She was very nice about it, and we agreed that we would pay for extra security out of our pockets and work together to notify the police. They assured me that we were moving full speed ahead."
The next week, Boom Chicago informed Sponder about a protest being organized outside the club. Several anti-Israel groups had posted on Instagram calling for followers to harass Boom Chicago to cancel the show of the ’ultra-Zionist’ comedian. Nonetheless, the club confirmed that the show was still on.
"But then, on Friday morning, I got an email from the club’s owner," she said. "He said that, while he values freedom of expression, due to the current climate and security concerns, he had to cancel the show."
Sponder said Moskos apologized and offered to help her find a new venue in a "Jewish location." The show has since been relocated to a new spot. The name of the venue will only be revealed to ticket holders on the day of the show, she said.
Nevertheless, Sponder is disappointed. "He caved to the bullies," she said. A police spokesperson later told her that they were never informed about the show and had no intelligence about any security concerns, she added.
Boom Chicago did not respond to an inquiry from The Times of Israel as of Sunday evening. Moskos has confirmed the story in the Dutch press.
In addition to Amsterdam, Sponder plans to perform in London, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt and Gay Paree during January and February. A US tour is planned for May, Kayla Sponder said.
Last month, Sponder appeared on The Times of Israel’s What Matters Now podcast with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan, telling a story about a performance in the US in which a group of pro-Paleostine activists showed up. The result was not what he expected.
Half hour long interview can be listened to at the link. Scroll down to the bottom of the page.
[IsraelTimes] Men in 20s taken to hospital in critical and serious condition; they reportedly attacked an officer as others set fire to homes and cars in nearby Palestinian villages
Two Israeli men were apparently shot and badly injured by a police officer in the West Bank late Monday, medics said, during an alleged attack by settlers on two Paleostinian villages.
The incident came as Paleostinian media reported that settlers had attacked the villages of Jinsafut and al-Funduq, setting fire to homes and vehicles.
According to media reports, the two masked Israelis attacked a Border Police officer near a settler outpost close to the Paleostinian villages and pepper-sprayed him. The officer in response opened fire, wounding the pair. It was unclear why the men attacked the officer.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said the men in their 20s were listed in critical and serious condition after being shot near the settlement of Ramat Gilad. They were taken to Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba.
Police did not immediately comment on the reports.
The Israel Defense Forces said troops and Border Police officers were dispatched to the area to disperse the "violent mostly peaceful rioting." It later said that the rioting was dispersed by the forces.
The chief of the IDF’s Central Command, Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, the head of the West Bank division, Brig. Gen. Yaki Dolf, and head of the Civil Administration, Brig. Gen. Hisham Ibrahim, were set to hold an assessment in the area, the army added.
There were no reports of arrests in the attack on the Paleostinian villages.
A night earlier, Israeli assailants set homes and vehicles ablaze in three West Bank Paleostinian villages and pelted Paleostinian cars with rocks, apparently in violent mostly peaceful protest over the release of Paleostinian prisoners within the framework of the hostage-ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... 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 a rusty 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... The IDF said two suspects were detained in the Sunday night rioting.
Israeli authorities have been accused of turning a blind eye to claims of rampant settler violence, with many attributing the lack of response to the government’s far-right flank, including outgoing police minister Itamar Ben Gvir, a lawyer known for previously defending settlers accused of violent mostly peaceful attacks in court. There have been few arrests and even fewer convictions, according to observers.
On Friday, Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that all seven Jewish Israelis held on allegations of settler violence under administrative detention orders would be freed, tying it to the release of Paleostinian terror convicts as part of the hostage-ceasefire deal signed in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... last week.
[IsraelTimes] Earlier today, the IDF says it opened fire on Palestinian suspects who “posed a threat” to troops stationed in southern Gaza’s Rafah.
Israeli forces are still deployed inside the Gaza Strip, during the ceasefire with Hamas. The IDF has issued several warnings to Palestinians not to approach areas where troops are positioned.
According to the military, the suspects who approached troops in Rafah were shot and hit. “Further details are under review,” the IDF says.
Graphic footage circulating on social media today purports to show a Palestinian man coming under fire while trying to drag the body of a teenager who was also shot. It is unclear if the footage, reportedly from Rafah, is of the same incident reported by the IDF.
“The IDF is acting in accordance with the ceasefire agreement, and is maintaining a security zone in accordance with the agreement,” the military says.
[IsraelTimes] Sgt. First Class (res.) Eviatar Ben Yehuda, 31, killed in Palestinian town of Tamun during patrol; blast injures his battalion commander, 3 other soldiers
An Israeli reservist soldier was killed and four others were maimed, including a senior officer at death's door, when they were hit by a roadside kaboom in the West Bank overnight, the military announced on Monday morning.
The slain soldier was named by the Israel Defense Forces as Sgt. First Class (res.) Eviatar Ben Yehuda, 31, of the Ephraim Regional Brigade’s 8211th Reserve Battalion, from the southern town of Nitzan.
According to an initial IDF probe, the soldiers were in a David light armored vehicle part of a convoy during a patrol in the town of Tamun, in the northern West Bank, when a large bombexploded.
The explosion killed Ben Yehuda, who was the driver, and seriously maimed his battalion commander, a reservist officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel, who was sitting next to him.
Three other soldiers in the back of the vehicle were also hurt and were listed in light and moderate condition.
In the past year, two soldiers and a police officer have been killed by roadside kabooms in the West Bank.
Armed groups in the West Bank frequently plant improvised bombs under roads to attack Israeli forces carrying out arrest raids. The military regularly rips up roads with armored bulldozers as a precautionary measure before entering with lighter-armed vehicles.
Violence in the West Bank has mounted since October 7, 2023, when Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... assaulted southern Israel, sparking war 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 a rusty 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 unrest across the region. Since then, 46 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in Paleostinian terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank, including some carried out by Israeli citizens.
Another seven members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank. Much of the violence has been concentrated near Nablus, Jenin and other Paleostinian cities in the northern West Bank.
According to the Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry, more than 858 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed since October 7, 2023. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or bandidosgunnies carrying out attacks.
During the same period, troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas.
Additionally, settler violence against Paleostinians has soared since the Hamas massacre, with security forces accused of turning a blind eye to the attacks.
[IsraelTimes] Clashes have renewed between Palestinian Authority security forces and terror groups in the Jenin refugee camp less than two days after a truce had been reached that was supposed to bring an end to violence in the northern West Bank city after over a month, Palestinian media report.
The clashes come as the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal is being implemented. The Gaza agreement is likely a precursor to further tensions between Hamas — whose members in Jenin are affiliated to the armed groups in the northern West Bank — and the PA, as they jockey for post-war control over the Strip.
Last month, the PA launched an unprecedented counter-terror raid in Jenin to demonstrate it can regain control over increasingly lawless Palestinian areas of the West Bank and can do the same in December.
On Friday, the PA reached a truce with the so-called Jenin Battalion in which the leaders of the latter terror group handed over their weapons in exchange for immunity and allowed the PA to enter the refugee camp to restore order there.
PA forces have been operating in Jenin since the weekend, working to defuse bombs. Tonight, armed groups reopened fire against them, Palestinian media reports.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
