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Secretary of State Rubio: Radical Islam Hates America
on December 03, 2025
(U.S. State Department) U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Fox News' Sean Hannity on Tuesday: "All radical Islamic movements in the world identify the West writ large but the United States in particular as the greatest evil on the Earth. And every chance they have - the notion that somehow radical Islam would be comfortable with simply controlling some province in Iraq or Syria is just not borne out by history. Radical Islam has shown that their desire is not simply to occupy one part of the world and be happy with their own little caliphate; they want to expand. It's revolutionary in its nature. It seeks to expand and control more territories and more people."
"Radical Islam has designs, openly, on the West - on the United States, on Europe....And they are prepared to conduct acts of terrorism - in the case of Iran, nation-state actions, assassinations, murders, you name it. Whatever it takes for them to gain their influence and ultimately their domination of different cultures and societies."
"That's a clear and imminent threat to the world and to the broader West, but especially to the United States....They hate Israel. But they also hate America, and they hate anywhere in the world that we have influence; they seek to attack it, including here in the homeland. If you look at the attacks that have happened here domestically, the overwhelming majority of them have been inspired by radical Islamic viewpoints."
Jewish Leaders Call for Removal of UN Official Who Denied Oct. 7 Rapes
on December 03, 2025
(JTA) Grace Gilson -
Over 300 Jewish leaders, including women's rights advocates and rabbis, urged UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday to remove Reem Alsalem, the UN rapporteur on violence against women and girls, for denying that rape occurred during Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. The group cited two UN reports from March 2024 and July 2025 that concluded that there was "reasonable grounds" to believe that sexual violence had taken place during the attacks "in multiple locations, including rape and gang rape."
"It's outrageous that deniers such as Reem Alsalem are aiding and abetting the sexual violence by claiming it never happened. These apologists should be ashamed of themselves," said Amy Elman, a professor at Kalamazoo College who helped organize the petition. Rafael Medoff, the director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, said, "If a UN official made such a remark concerning rape victims from any other ethnic or religious group, there would be an international uproar."
Pro-Palestinian Protesters at Los Angeles Synagogue Turn Violent
on December 03, 2025
(Los Angeles Jewish Journal) Ayala Or-El -
15 protesters, their faces masked by keffiyehs, chanted, "baby killers" and "Zionist pigs" on Wednesday in front of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, the oldest synagogue in Los Angeles, founded in 1862. "We are protesting in front of a site that holds genocide supporters," said a masked woman.
Inside the temple that morning there was a lecture for the Korean community. During the lecture, two females in the audience suddenly stood up and began yelling. "They screamed anti-Israel phrases at the top of their lungs," recalled Eliana Jolkovsky. "We said there are children downstairs at the nursery and this is a place of worship, but they didn't care....The Koreans in the group were even more shaken up than we were and said to us, 'So this is what you experience?'," said Jolkovsky.
Security escorted the protesters out, but not before one of them smashed a glass vase inside the synagogue. Police arrested two people. The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles said, "Our Community Security Initiative (CSI) was present and...is working with our local law enforcement partners to make sure those who caused the incident will be held accountable and our houses of worship continue to remain safe and protected."
Germany Deploys Israeli Arrow 3 Missile Defense System
on December 03, 2025
(Defense News) Linus Holler -
Germany's first long-range missile shield entered service on Wednesday, Tagesspiegel reported. The government in 2023 decided to buy three batteries of the Israeli-American Arrow 3 system following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Berlin's subsequent rearmament. Every battery contains four launchers, each loaded with six fire-ready missiles.
The contract is worth $4 billion. The activation marks the first deployment of Arrow 3 outside of Israel. Arrow 3's missiles intercept incoming ballistic missiles during their travel time through space. Israel's Arrow 3 has intercepted missiles launched from Yemen and Iran.
Four Soldiers Wounded in Gaza Firefight
on December 03, 2025
(Jerusalem Post) Amir Bohbot -
Four Israeli soldiers were wounded on Wednesday by a rocket-propelled grenade fired by Palestinians in Rafah in southern Gaza in a "serious violation of the ceasefire agreement," the IDF said. The terrorists emerged from an alley, fired at the troops, and attached an explosive device to a vehicle before being killed. Later in the day, the IDF struck targets across southern Gaza in "a response to the ceasefire violation."
In a separate incident, the IDF located and destroyed five loaded rocket launchers during operations in northern Gaza.
Body of Thai National Returned from Gaza
on December 03, 2025
(Ha'aretz) Bar Peleg -
Israel has identified the body of Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak, 42, who was abducted from the orchards of Kibbutz Be'eri in the Oct. 7 attack. Rinthalak's body was held by Islamic Jihad before it was returned on Wednesday. The body of Israeli Ran Gvili is still in Gaza.
Staff Sgt. Ran Gvili, the Last Hostage in Gaza
on December 03, 2025
(Israel Hayom) The body of Staff Sgt. Ran Gvili is now the last still held in Gaza. When the Oct. 7 massacre began, Gvili, 24, left his home and headed out to fight, even though he had broken his shoulder 10 days earlier and was waiting for surgery, but he could still hold a handgun. During a battle near Alumim, he rescued about 100 people who had fled the Nova music festival and killed 14 Hamas terrorists before he was abducted.
Netanyahu: Agreement with Syrians Possible with "a Good Spirit and Understanding"
on December 03, 2025
(Prime Minister's Office) Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said Tuesday: "After October 7th, we are determined to defend our communities on our borders, including the northern border, and to prevent the entrenchment of terrorists and hostile actions against us, to protect our Druze allies, and to ensure that the State of Israel is safe from ground attack and other attacks from the border areas."
"What we expect Syria to do, of course, is to establish a demilitarized buffer zone from Damascus to the buffer zone area, including, of course, the approaches to Mount Hermon and the summit of Mount Hermon. We hold these territories to ensure the security of the citizens of Israel, and that is what obligates us. In a good spirit and understanding of these principles, it is also possible to reach an agreement with the Syrians, but we will stand by our principles in any case."
Israel "Heading toward Escalation" Against Hizbullah in Lebanon
on December 03, 2025
(Ynet News) Lior Ben Ari -
During a meeting in Jerusalem, Israel's Military Intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. Shlomi Binder presented U.S. deputy special presidential envoy to the Middle East Morgan Ortagus with intelligence showing Hizbullah's growing strength and the inability of the Lebanese Army to confront the terrorist group, noting that many Lebanese soldiers are Shia. Israeli officials told the U.S. envoy that Hizbullah is smuggling large numbers of short-range rockets across the Syrian border. Hizbullah activists remain deployed inside villages along the border.
A senior Israeli official was explicit: "We do not see Hizbullah giving up its weapons under any agreement, so there is no point in continuing with this agreement. We are heading toward escalation, and we will decide when, according to our interests."
IDF: Hizbullah Killed Lebanese Figures Who Pointed to Its Connection with the 2020 Beirut Port Blast
on December 03, 2025
(Jerusalem Post) James Genn -
Hizbullah assassinated four Lebanese figures out of fear that they would expose links between the terror group and the 2020 Beirut Port explosion, IDF Arabic Spokesperson Col. Avichay Adraee said Tuesday. The four were customs department officers and journalists who pointed to Hizbullah's connection with the explosion.
UN General Assembly Calls on Israel to Withdraw from Golan Heights
on December 03, 2025
(Jerusalem Post) The UN General Assembly approved a resolution on Tuesday calling on Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights, in a 123-7 vote with 41 abstentions. The U.S. and Israel voted against the resolution. Countries abstaining included Argentina, Australia, Canada, Czechia, Greece, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Korea, and the UK.
Israel's Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon responded: "The UN General Assembly once again proves how disconnected it is from reality. Instead of addressing the crimes of the Iranian axis and the dangerous activities of militias in Syria, it demands that Israel withdraw from the Golan Heights - a vital defense line that protects our citizens. Israel will not return to the 1967 lines and will not abandon the Golan. Not now, not ever."
Israel to Open Rafah Crossing for Gazans Exiting to Egypt
on December 03, 2025
(Ynet News) Yoav Zitun -
Israel will open the Rafah crossing for Gazans to exit into Egypt in the coming days "in accordance with the ceasefire agreement," the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories announced Wednesday. The move had been previously blocked because of delays in the return of the bodies of hostages held in Gaza.
"The departure of residents through the Rafah crossing will be possible in coordination with Egypt, after security approval by Israel and under the supervision of the EU delegation." The daily quota of departures will be determined with Egypt in the coming days. Entry of residents from Egypt into Gaza will not be permitted at this stage.
Video: If You Want to Encourage Normalization and Peace, You Need to Remove the Enemies of Peace
on December 03, 2025
(JNS TV) Dr. Dan Diker and Khaled Abu Toameh -
Abu Toameh: Almost every night, Al Jazeera, the Qatari-owned TV network which is an official mouthpiece of Hamas, broadcasts programs in Arabic glorifying the Hamas fighters who are trapped in the tunnels of Rafah in southern Gaza, calling them heroes and praising them for not surrendering, praising them for remaining steadfast inside the tunnels without food, presenting them as a model for sacrifice and for martyrdom to the younger people inside Gaza.
It's seen among many of them as a sign that Hamas fighters are willing to fight to the last person. They don't want to give Israel the victory image. This is very important to them. It's all about perception. The last thing Hamas needs is Hamas terrorists walking out of these tunnels in their underwear and with their hands raised. Hamas knows that once you have images like that, you've handed Israel the image of victory that it wants, and you've actually destroyed Hamas's reputation or image, not only among Palestinians, but in the entire Arab and Muslim world.
No one is talking about normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia anymore. What happened to normalization between Israel and Indonesia? There's no talk about it because Hamas and the Islamic Jihad and other Islamist groups are standing on their feet. If you want to encourage or promote normalization and peace, you need to get rid of or destroy and remove the enemies of peace. It's a very simple equation. That's how it works.
Hamas's slogan is jihad until victory or martyrdom. Victory means I destroy you. And if I don't destroy you, then I'd rather die than surrender. This is what is driving these Islamist groups, not only Hamas. It's jihad, jihad, jihad. People don't understand this ideology, this mindset. People tend to underestimate it or judge it through Western eyes and this is a big mistake. You need to listen very carefully to what these jihadis are saying. They are saying, "I will continue to fight until I destroy you, and if I don't destroy you, I will become a martyr." There's no third option.
The World Will Not Help Israel with Hamas
on December 03, 2025
(Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security) Prof. Efraim Inbar -
Hamas is tightening its grip on the half of Gaza that it controls and rebuilding its military infrastructure. It is difficult to imagine Hamas voluntarily disarming or relinquishing control. Israel must be prepared to "do the dirty work" for the civilized world and finish off what remains of Hamas's evil in Gaza. This is not a boxing match that can be won on points. Israel must win by a knockout.
Israel cannot claim victory while Hamas remains in Gaza. Israel must therefore seek American backing to resume fighting in order to implement the Trump plan. Repeated military defeats have not altered the Palestinians' fundamental opposition to the existence of the Jewish state. There is no "day after" if Hamas remains as an armed presence in Gaza.
Every regime that has a peace agreement with Israel - Egypt, Jordan, the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco - despises Hamas. All of these states, as well as Saudi Arabia, view the Muslim Brotherhood and its financial patron Qatar as a threat to their regimes and a destabilizing force in the region.
The writer served as head of JISS (2017-2025).
Only Israel Can Finish Off Hamas
on December 03, 2025
(Jerusalem Post) Ohad Tal -
The second stage of President Trump's plan for Gaza includes dismantling Hamas. An external force would be tasked with taking away Hamas's weapons, destroying what remains of the vast tunnel network, and eliminating any other terror infrastructure. However, the feasibility of any regional or international actor prepared to confront Hamas on Israel's behalf is close to none.
International institutions are even less capable, as Israel has learned from "peacekeeping forces" on its borders with Lebanon and Syria. The Palestinian Authority refuses to denounce Hamas, glorifies and funds terrorism, educates children to hate Jews, and lacks both legitimacy and operational capacity. It cannot impose governance in parts of Judea and Samaria under its nominal control; it certainly cannot assert authority in Gaza after years of Hamas domination.
Israel does not enjoy the burden of fighting in Gaza. However, the reality is that it is the only force capable of removing Hamas's remaining military capabilities. The alternative is allowing the terror group to recover and pose a renewed threat to Israeli communities. We simply cannot ignore these threats. Israel must finish the mission, out of necessity. The responsibility lies with us alone.
The writer is a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
The Mothers from Kfar Aza
on December 03, 2025
(Jerusalem Post) Paushali Lass -
Kibbutz Kfar Aza was a peaceful haven where families raised their children and believed in coexistence with their neighbors in Gaza. On Oct. 7, everything changed. Amit, a mother of three, spent 35 hours trapped in her home while terrorists used the house next door as their headquarters. Her children were 7, 5, and one year and eight months old. She told us about her husband hearing someone crying for help outside and saying: "I have to go." When we asked why Hamas never entered their home, her answer was: a miracle. It was completely random.
Maya said that during the attack, she and her husband shielded their baby while hearing terrorists murder neighbors outside. Her thoughts were constantly with her extended family, all of whom lived on the kibbutz. Some survived. Some did not. Her sister and brother-in-law were murdered, leaving their 10-month-old twins orphaned. Maya said, "As long as Hamas and the ideology of killing Jews exist so close, it is not over. We are not safe."
Olga told us her daughters were at a sleepover in another house in the kibbutz. She knew terrorists took over that house. She sat trapped in darkness for hours, listening to gunfire and screams. She and her children survived. Ellay, her husband, and their baby were set on fire by Hamas. They managed to escape, with fourth-degree burns.
These women, who once believed in coexistence, told us it was not only Hamas that committed the horrors; civilians from Gaza participated in the murder, rape, burning and stealing.
Israeli Communities Rebuild on the Gaza Border
on December 03, 2025
(Jerusalem Post) Seth J. Frantzman -
The Gaza border area is being rebuilt in this post-Oct. 7 era. The kibbutzim are welcoming back members who were forced to evacuate during the war. New monuments and memorials to the lives lost dot the roadsides.
The Black Arrow memorial and historical site, which overlooks Jabalya and northern Gaza, pays tribute to military operations in Gaza during the 1950s. What were once Gaza houses across the border are now ruins. A long panorama image at the site indicates where Beit Hanun, Beit Lahiya, Jabalya, and Shejaia can be seen in the distance. These names all ring out from the war. The multi-story buildings of Beit Hanun are all gone today.
Israel's New Preemptive Doctrine Collides with Trump's Vision for Syria
on December 03, 2025
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon -
Where Washington sees Syrian President Ahmed al-Shaara as a leader to cultivate, Israel sees a security vacuum in southern Syria. The region today is a tangle of actors, many of them hostile to Israel: remnants of Hamas's Syrian branch, elements of the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood, scattered jihadist networks, clan-based militias, and Iranian-aligned groups moving weapons toward Lebanon. Turkey has also expanded its influence in the region, backing Sunni factions.
Israel learned the hard way on Oct. 7, 2023, what happens when it does not take immediate action to handle threats building up on its borders. The resulting trauma has hardened Israel's instincts on every front. Deterrence is no longer considered sufficient. Preemption is the new default mode.
In Syria, this doctrine has led to a set of quiet but consistent operations - similar to those routinely conducted in Judea and Samaria - to capture terrorist suspects and prevent terrorist infrastructure from taking root near Israel's communities on the Golan Heights. Israel cannot afford to take a hands-off approach to what is happening in southern Syria so close to its border.
The differences regarding the proper policy toward Syria between Israel and the U.S. cannot be wished away. Washington wants Israel to slow down - to give diplomacy a chance and avoid steps that could undermine a leader the White House is courting. Israel wants Washington to understand that a stable Syria is today more aspiration than reality, and that security cannot be outsourced to a government still struggling to enforce its authority or to international mechanisms that rarely function.
Israel supports diplomatic engagement with Syria and understands the administration's goals. But until the new Syrian government can reliably ensure that jihadist factions, Iranian proxies, and Hamas-linked networks cannot operate along the frontier, Israel will continue to act preemptively - to prevent having the border become a launchpad for the next Oct. 7 massacre.
Massive Trove of Photos Depicts Syria's Killing Machine
on December 03, 2025
(Washington Post) Kareem Fahim -
A massive trove containing 70,000 images taken by Syrian military police photographers who recorded deaths between 2015 and 2024 includes 10,212 people who died in detention or after they were transferred from detention to military hospitals. The trove is larger than an earlier cache of images known as the Caesar Files that was made public in 2014 and showed in grisly detail the torture and killing that occurred in Assad's detention network.
The new trove was obtained by German public broadcaster NDR and shared in October with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and partner organizations, including the Washington Post. The new photographs were leaked by a colonel who headed the evidence preservation unit of the military police in Damascus.
The photographs demonstrate the Syrian state's industrial-scale arrest, torture and killing of opponents, and the obsessive documentation of horrors by a regime that apparently felt it had little to fear.
In Iran, a "Victory" that Looks Like Defeat
on December 03, 2025
(Times of Israel) Sogand Fakheri -
Iran's leaders are celebrating the so-called "victory" of the Twelve-Day War, an episode Tehran now markets as a historic humiliation of both the U.S. and Israel. But the country cheering its triumph is also in the midst of a profound domestic deterioration. Inflation is officially nearing 50%, and essential food items have soared over 60%. This is the reality beneath the victory parade: roaring claims of triumph abroad, and an increasingly desperate struggle at home. No regime can rely on performances forever.
The writer is a commentator on Iranian affairs and analyst at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA).
I Want a Democratic Party that Believes Jewish Lives Matter
on December 03, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) Jennifer Bayer Michaels -
I was an intern in the Clinton White House. I went on to work in senior positions for the campaigns of Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy, and for President Joe Biden's Super PAC. I helped elect Democrats up and down the ballot, staunchly defending them in public and in private. I attended almost every Democratic National Convention, as a professional and as part of a community of friends who were my political family. In 2020 I proudly served as a delegate for Joe Biden.
For decades I championed women's rights, reproductive choice, civil rights and equality. As a Jew, I was especially drawn to the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr., for whom Zionism - the Jewish longing for self-determination - was inseparable from the universal struggle for human rights. That was the Democratic Party I believed in.
Then came Oct. 7, 2023, and the massacre of Israelis and Jewish Americans. It forced me to confront the reality that members of my own party responded not with grief or solidarity with the victims but with protests that framed the attack as "resistance." It horrified me. There was no denying that under the banner of a "big tent," Democratic leaders were making room to shelter and legitimize extremism. Voices once on the margin suddenly dominated the narrative.
Then came the breaking point. The term "genocide" - reserved for the worst crimes in human history, like the Holocaust - was weaponized as a political slogan and hurled at Israel and Jews with ease. It was suddenly applied to a nation defending itself after an actual genocidal terrorist organization slaughtered families in their beds and hunted down and killed teenagers at a music festival.
Genocide is a ruse, a malicious inversion of reality. Yet few Democrats pushed back. Many embraced it. In November, 20 Democratic lawmakers introduced a measure in the House accusing Israel of genocide. The North Carolina Democratic Party and the Young Democrats of America adopted official positions accusing Israel of genocide. What we're seeing among Democrats is a broad, networked, antisemitic movement with cultural power and political influence.
The Democratic Party has allowed and lately encouraged the normalization of rhetoric that dehumanizes Jews and distorts history. It has become acceptable to be an antisemite who hates Israel. I cannot be affiliated with a party that espouses that message. Democratic leaders must speak clearly: Terrorism is terrorism, Jewish lives matter, moral consistency matters. Only after my community's safety is secure, and the party recognizes it not as a favor but as a fundamental principle, will I consider coming home.
Teaching Terrorism in American Classrooms
on December 03, 2025
(City Journal) Nicole Neily -
Should American K-12 students be taught, without informing their parents, to sympathize with terrorists? That's exactly what's happening in schools across the country, thanks to instructional materials supplied by the nonprofit Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA). Its Teach Palestine lesson plans reach up to 160,000 American teachers. The curriculum whitewashes Hamas terrorism and promotes anti-American narratives.
MECA's director of Gaza programming once served as deputy director of the Union of Healthcare Worker Committees (UHWC), recognized by USAID in 1993 as a smokescreen for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. According to tax filings, MECA has sent donations to PFLP-affiliated unions and groups known for openly glorifying terrorism.
Israeli Lives Don't Count: What the Celebrity Crusade for Barghouti Says about Our "Elites"
on December 03, 2025
(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Stephen Pollard -
Imagine there was a prisoner serving time in a British prison over five counts of murder relating to his involvement in three separate terrorist attacks in England. In one attack, a monk was killed. In another a petrol station was targeted. And in the third, three people were murdered in a seafood restaurant. These were specific and clear convictions over which the court carefully deliberated. In his sentencing remarks, the judge said the terrorist was "responsible for providing the field units with money and arms."
Then imagine that after he had served 23 years of his sentence, a group of cultural icons and celebrities signed an open letter demanding his release. The signatories included writers, actors, and musicians. I doubt any of them would ever work again if, for example, they had signed a letter demanding the release of the Manchester Arena bombers, Salman and Hashem Abedi. The very idea is mad.
The only difference is that Marwan Barghouti, the terrorist in question, was convicted of those exact murders detailed above in an Israeli court. And the victims were all Israelis. All the signatories are, of course, entitled to their opinion. And we are equally entitled to point out the grotesque warped morality of their demand that because Barghouti's victims were Israeli, he should be treated as some sort of saint rather than as a cold-bloodied murderer.
Israel Adopting Messaging Reforms
on December 03, 2025
(Jerusalem Post) Idan Kweller -
Israel is working to reshape its international messaging, amid growing concern over the country's deteriorating image among younger audiences in America. The government established a rapid-response team to monitor online activity, identify negative trends in real time, and deliver counter-messaging.
A central "facts site" has been launched to provide background, legal context, and historical information, serving as a foundation for a broader network of digital platforms targeting specific audiences, including university students, evangelical Christians, Latino communities, liberals, African Americans, and Jewish Americans. The initiative is to expand over the coming year, incorporating multiple languages, shorter digital content, and first-person testimonies.
UK Funding for Hamas-Linked Groups
on December 03, 2025
(Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs) Prof. Gerald Steinberg and Anne Herzberg -
Since 2007, Hamas has amassed power and resources in no small part by diverting international aid and developing an unprecedented terror infrastructure. Billions of dollars in Western taxpayer funding were funneled into Gaza ostensibly for humanitarian projects via 13 UN agencies and dozens of NGOs.
Internal British and Hamas documents reveal multiple ways in which London was aware of Hamas involvement in its aid pipeline, and in some instances even cooperated with that organization. In May 2025, NGO Monitor published a detailed report, using information and documents obtained through Freedom of Information proceedings, which demonstrated that UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) officials were fully aware of Hamas involvement in certain Gaza cash assistance programs they funded. As of mid-2025, UK and UN databases revealed that this support was still ongoing.
These programs were implemented through UNICEF in coordination with Gaza's Hamas-controlled Ministry of Social Development, which was responsible for providing the lists of aid beneficiaries for cash assistance. Hamas was able to determine just who would receive British taxpayer funds, and NGOs linked to other terrorist groups (such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) would be among those recipients.
In addition, the evidence indicates that Hamas skims exorbitant sums from cash transfers in Gaza. According to Eyal Ofer, an expert on Gaza's economy, "People are getting aid via banking apps, but to turn that into real currency, they must go through brokers. They withdraw funds from these digital wallets and charge outrageous fees - anywhere between 20% and 40%. This is one of the ways Hamas is making a profit."
The events of Oct. 7 and the regional war it precipitated were made possible in large part due to the diversion of billions of dollars in aid by Hamas and its pressure campaign on UN agencies, international NGOs, and foreign diplomats to facilitate the terror organization's activity and control.
The detailed record discussed here demonstrates complicity, if not close cooperation, between the UK FCDO, officials of the NGOs that receive millions in taxpayer funds, and Hamas. It also shows how the humanitarian aid industry knowingly operates outside of and in contradiction to the legal conditions and requirements established by the British Parliament. In November 2021, London fully proscribed Hamas as a terror organization. Funding or supporting it is a crime.
The glaring absence of oversight and due diligence in British funding enabled the potential transfer of millions of pounds to Hamas terror infrastructure and personnel under the guise of humanitarian aid. When presented with concrete evidence, British government officials have thus far chosen to deflect and deny rather than reform the way in which aid pipelines operate, to ensure they help Gazans, not Hamas.
Prof. Gerald Steinberg is the president of NGO Monitor, where Anne Herzberg is the legal advisor.
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