Situational Update

• Per FDD, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah with attempting to assassinate him after a drone targeted his coastal home on October 19. Neither Netanyahu nor his wife were present at their home in the coastal town of Caesarea during the attack, and no casualties were reported. The drone was one of three launched from Lebanon as Israelis marked both the Jewish Sabbath and the holiday of Sukkot. Within hours, Netanyahu issued a video, apparently taped outdoors in Caesarea, in which he said: “Nothing will deter us. We will press ahead until victory…The agents of Iran who tried to assassinate me and my wife today made a bitter mistake.”
• The Jerusalem Post reports: Israeli planes dropped leaflets over southern Gaza on Saturday showing a picture of the dead Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar with the message that “Hamas will no longer rule Gaza,” echoing language used by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

• Israeli journalist Marc Schulman, who writes a wonderful daily blog that I highly recommend following, reports: Today, reports confirmed that the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system, which was deployed to Israel by the United States military, including over a hundred soldiers to operate it, has become fully operational.
• He also writes: A recent purported leak of Pentagon documents, detailing Israeli preparations for a potential strike on Iran, has raised concerns in both the United States and Israel. The documents, which were shared by a pro-Iran Telegram account, allegedly depict U.S. observations of actions taken by the Israeli Air Force on October 15-16 in readiness for a possible attack. Although news outlets have not verified the documents nor officially addressed by U.S. authorities, CNN has reported that an investigation into the leak of this highly sensitive information is underway. Both U.S. and Israeli officials have voiced their concerns, with a senior Israeli official taking the leak seriously and a U.S. official stating that, despite the concerns, it would not impact the contingency plans for a potential attack on Iran. The leaked files allegedly show visual intelligence from the US Department of Defense’s National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), including details of Israeli Air Force exercises involving air-launched ballistic missiles, fighter jets, UAVs, and refueling tankers.
  • Link to Axio’s Barak Ravid with details: The report, if accurate, would suggest very close and detailed surveillance by U.S. intelligence of Israel’s preparations for an attack on Iran, including the use of satellites to spy on operations carried out at Israeli Air Force bases.

The Numbers

Casualties

• 1,724 Israelis have been killed including 749 IDF soldiers since October 7th (+9 since Wednesday)

  

  • The commander of the IDF’s 401st “Iron Tracks” Brigade, Col. Ehsan Daxa, 41 was killed in combat in northern Gaza, the military announced on Sunday evening. According to the IDF, Daqsa, and two other officers got out of their tanks in Jabaliya and walked several meters to an observation point. The site had been booby-trapped with explosives, which killed Daqsa on the spot, seriously wounded the 52nd Battalion commander, and injured the other two officers who are listed in light and moderate condition. He is considered to be the highest-ranking officer to die in ground combat since the start of the war, the report added.
  • Five soldiers from the elite Golani reconnaissance unit had been killed in an ambush in Southern Lebanon

• Sergeant major (res.) Yishai (Netanel) Greenbaum, 38 succumbed to his wounds sustained in fighting earlier in Lebanon

  

• Staff Sgt. Ofir Berkovich, 20 and Sgt. Elishai Young, 19 were killed during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip

• 360 IDF soldiers during the ground operation in Gaza have been killed
• 79 Israelis (48 IDF soldiers) have been killed during the war in Northern Israel
  • Alexi Popov, 51, from Kiryat Haim, was killed when a rocket struck his car after he had pulled over to the roadside. Shrapnel from the blast struck the vehicle, killing him and injuring another passenger.
• Additional Information (according to the IDF):
  • 2,356 (+11 since Wednesday) IDF soldiers have been injured during ground combat in Gaza, including at least 452 (+3 since Wednesday) who have been severely injured.
  • 4,995 (+114 since Wednesday) IDF soldiers have been injured since the beginning of the war, including at least 745 (+19 since Wednesday) who have been severely injured.
• According to unverified figures from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry, 42,603 (+259 since Wednesday) people have been killed in Gaza, and 99,759 (+1,295 since Wednesday) have been injured during the war.
  • On October 7th, Ohad Hemo with Channel 12 Israel News – the country’s largest news network, a leading expert on Palestinian and Arab affairs, mentioned an estimate from Hamas: around 80% of those killed in Gaza are members of the organization and their families.”
    • The article goes on to say: “In an N12 article that came out this morning, Hemo also pointed out that since the elimination of key leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s top echelon has gone underground and fled Iran and Lebanon, with some relocating to Turkey and Qatar – with the hope that Israel will not strike them there.
  • We also encourage you to read this well documented piece from Tablet published in March: How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers
  • The Associated Press, an outlet with a demonstrated anti-Israel bias, conducted an analysis of alleged Gaza death tolls released by the Hamas-controlled “Gaza Health Ministry.” The analysis found that “9,940 of the dead – 29% of its April 30 total – were not listed in the data” and that “an additional 1,699 records in the ministry’s April data were incomplete and 22 were duplicates.”
• The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs publishes official details on every civilian and IDF casualty.

Hostages (no change from Wednesday)

• There are currently 97 hostages taken on 10/7 currently in captivity in Gaza
• 7 hostages are Americans: Meet the Seven American Hostages Still Held By Hamas
• On October 7^th, a total of 261 Israelis were taken hostage.
• During the ceasefire deal in November, 112 hostages were released.
• 146 hostages in total have been released or rescued
  • The bodies of 37 hostages have been recovered, including 3 mistakenly killed by the military as they tried to escape their captors.
• 8 hostages have been rescued by troops alive
• This leaves 101 hostages still theoretically in Gaza
  • 30-50 hostages are assumed to be dead and held in captivity
  • Thus, at most, 50-70 living hostages could still be in Gaza.
• Hamas is also holding 2 Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the bodies of 2 IDF soldiers who were killed in 2014.

Listen

[PODCAST] Call Me Back with Dan Senor: Biden-Harris ‘Jekyll-Hyde’ Israel Policy — with Rich Goldberg

• In recent days, the Biden-Harris administration has announced it would deploy the THAAD system to Israel — THAAD is an advanced missile defense system that can thwart short-, medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles, as well as the U.S. military personnel to operate it.
• To help us understand what is going on with U.S. policy, Rich Goldberg returns to the podcast. Rich is a senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. From 2019-2020, he served as a Director for Countering Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction for the White House National Security Council. He previously served as a national security staffer in the US Senate and US House. Rich is an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve with military experience on the Joint Staff and in Afghanistan.
• Link: Biden-Harris ‘Jekyll-Hyde’ Israel Policy

Watch

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Rocket Alerts

Yesterday, there were 185 red alerts, and a total of 1,683 in the past week

Source: Rocket Alerts in Israel

The North

Source: Swords of Iron: an Overview | INSS

I found this detailed map, from the Institute for the Study of War, to be quite informative as Israel continues its operations in the North.

What We Are Reading

[EXTENSIVE REPORT] Hamas Network in Europe Exposed by The European Leadership Network (ELNET)

• The findings are alarming. Despite Hamas being designated as a terrorist organization by both individual European governments and the EU, the reports reveal that Hamas-affiliated groups continue to operate with relative freedom across Europe. These organizations often circumvent legal frameworks by operating without official registration or by shutting down previously designated entities and transferring operations to newly formed groups.
• The reports also highlight a network of organizations that serve as vehicles for Hamas’s influence, including:
  • Palestinians in Europe Conference (EPC), which hosts annual events featuring Hamas-affiliated speakers.
  • European Palestinian Council for Political Relations (EUPAC), created by individuals linked to Hamas.
  • Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) in the UK, ABSPP in Italy, and VPNK in Germany.
• In addition to these organizations, several prominent Hamas-affiliated figures (mentioned above) have been at the forefront of establishing and leading this network, maintaining their influence despite efforts by authorities to curb Hamas’s reach in Europe.
• This exposé serves as a vital tool for policymakers, researchers and the public to better understand the scope of Hamas’s influence in Europe and to take decisive actions against these ongoing threats to European and global security.
• Link: Hamas Network in Europe Exposed – ELNET

Information War Overdrive: The death of Sinwar has seen a tsunami of false information by Andrew Fox

• In this post, I am going to discuss “the other war”: the information war.
• Think of the hostage rescue on 8th June, 2024. Before the last IDF rescue helicopter was wheels-up to carry the hostages home, the narrative was already racing around the world that the IDF had indiscriminately slaughtered hundreds of civilians as part of the rescue effort
• The key narratives are two-fold:
  • Sinwar died a hero fighting on the frontline;
  • Israel has just condemned the remaining hostages.
• There is an argument that the IDF should not have released these images and videos as it gives fuel to the fire of the “hero” narrative—I disagree. Sinwar’s death was always going to lead to his lionisation as a martyr, and at least having the videos shows the lie to the myth.
• The hostages narrative also makes no sense. There is credible and logical reporting that the 6 hostages murdered in the tunnels in August were Sinwar’s “bodyguard” hostages, who were executed as the IDF closed in. Their degraded physical condition was in danger of slowing down Sinwar’s party as they made their escape. There has been no indication since the November 2023 ceasefire that Hamas have ever been willing to make a deal on the hostages.
• We will see the strategic fallout from Sinwar’s death over the coming days and weeks. My guess is that it will go one of two ways: it will either make no difference at all, or we will see small movement on the Hamas side. Either way, my best guess right now is that it will not be decisive. One thing is guaranteed, however, and that is that we will see an uptick in Palestinian propaganda and resultant international condemnation of Israel.
• That is an easy prediction, as we are seeing it already. Increased IDF operational tempo in Gaza City, and specifically in the Jabalia refugee camp/terror nest has already caused that uptick. As ever, when the IDF increase operational tempo, the Palestinian side has no military response. They counterattack in the only way they can: online.
• My final, again fairly easy, prediction is that the social media storm will have little impact on IDF operations. Israel has made it very clear that they are fighting to the finish, world opinion be damned.
• Link: Information War Overdrive – Andrew Fox’s Substack

[HIGHLY RECCOMMEND] If Israel Is Alone, What Do We Do About It? by Bret Stephens in Commentary

• Bernard-Henri Lévy’s Israel Alone is an imperfect but important book. Its importance stems, first, from Lévy’s unabashed Zionism, which today is an act of moral and even physical courage, especially in Europe. It stems, also, from getting all of the important things about the war in Gaza right: that Hamas, in its bottomless cynicism, is responsible for every death, Israeli and Palestinian alike; that the behavior toward Israel by groups like Amnesty International and the Red Cross is a disgrace; that calls for cease-fire are “merely a disguised manner of inviting compromise and peace with assassins”; that anti-Zionism is the most effective method for today’s anti-Semites to express their hatred of Jews; that the core problem between Israel and the Palestinians is a 76-year Palestinian refusal to genuinely accept a Jewish state in any borders; that the “yes, but” arguments constantly made against Israel by its faux friends are the work of “professional excusers of evil.”
• Most of all, it stems from Lévy’s understanding of what October 7 fully laid bare: “a colony of germs that were already present in the sewers not only of Gaza, but of the world.”
• As with the invasion of Ukraine, the most significant outcome of October 7 is that it has consolidated a global alliance of despots—China, Russia, Turkey, Iran and its proxies, including Hamas—against the free world, even if the free world has mostly failed to appreciate that Israel’s fight is part of the global fight for freedom.
• Lévy observes the ways in which October 7 was immediately blamed on the victims and not on the perpetrators; how Israel’s war of self-defense was treated from the start as an act of aggression; how “genocide” became the preferred way to describe Israel’s war against a genocidal enemy.
• With those inversions came another: the inversion of reality. October 7 was the most documented pogrom in history, with the murderers filming themselves butchering their victims. Yet within weeks, their deeds were being obfuscated, trivialized, forgotten, or simply denied.
• All this leads Lévy to his central point: “The Jews,” he writes, “are more alone than they have ever been.”
• Until October 7, the idea that the Jewish state was a haven for Jews appeared to be empirically true, notwithstanding the terror, menace, and calumny of Israel’s enemies. But now, as Lévy writes, “the refuge has become a trap, and the place that was the symbol of ‘never again’ was where ‘again’ had come down like a bolt of lightning.” October 7, he adds, “marks the alignment, for the worse, of Israel with the diaspora.”
• In other words, Lévy is suggesting that what might have died on October 7 was the conviction that Zionism still provided the best answer to the Jews’ most pressing problem—the need to survive. Now Jews face the prospect that no place is safer, never mind safe. From Minneapolis to Marseilles to Metula, Jews are at risk, everywhere. And the solicitude that Gentiles feel for our plight seems to be diminishing, everywhere.
• How do we reconcile the broad optimism about pre-October 7 Israel with the post–October 7 pessimism typified by Lévy? And what was it that Israel was doing right before that dark day—so that it may do it again?
• None of this is to deny that things are worse for Israel, and Jews, almost anywhere one looks. But they are not unrelievedly bleak. We continue to have millions of friends and admirers, at home and abroad. Israel maintains an astonishing capacity to persevere through trials that would have broken weaker nations. Israel’s weaknesses were exposed on October 7, but more so were the weaknesses of its enemies, exemplified by the pager explosions in Lebanon and the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a Tehran safe house. Perhaps most important, an ancient Jewish instinct for danger, dormant too long, has been reawakened.
• Broadly speaking, American Jews, at least outside of the Orthodox world, opted not just for assimilation. Too often, they went for self-erasure.
• The consequences of this self-erasure bear directly on the return of anti-Semitism, which had been rising before October 7 and exploded after it. Dwindling numbers erode the political power Jews once enjoyed, not least vis-à-vis other minority groups. A diminished presence at elite universities (especially when so many of the Jews on these campuses, both students and faculty, veer left) shaped a campus culture that looked on Jewish concerns with growing indifference and hostility. The koshering of antipathy or hatred for Israel from “As a Jew” Jews (to borrow a term from Eli Lake’s essay in the March issue of COMMENTARY) paved the way for more vicious forms of anti-Jewish politics.
• If a single word captures this type of Jewish-American politics (in the broadest sense of politics), it’s ingratiation.
• In short, long before Israel was alone after October 7, 2023, it was alone after the outbreak of the second intifada.
• …the greatest danger will be to Israel’s reputation: to the belief, among enemies and allies alike, that the Jewish state knows how to pick itself up, that it can win wars against inferior enemies, that it doesn’t capitulate in the face of moral pressure, that it is the strong horse of the Middle East.
• The resurgence of anti-Semitism in the United States has begun to force a fundamental rethink of the way in which at least some American Jews contemplate their place in society: I call them “October 8 Jews”—those who woke up the day after the attack with a clear understanding of who our friends are not.
• So many institutions in American life that were once welcoming places for American Jews have turned bad: elite private schools; human-rights organizations; the literary world; social work; Mideast-studies departments; public-school curriculums—the list is long. In every one of these fields or institutions, October 8 Jews have a clear choice: Reject, reform, or reinvent them. What’s no longer possible is to pretend that what we have now is acceptable, or that indifference and inaction are viable options.
• Link: If Israel Is Alone, What Do We Do About It?

Sinwar’s Bloody Gambit Changed the Middle East—but Not as He Imagined by Yaroslav Trofimov in the WSJ

• Sinwar’s Oct. 7, 2023, plan has resulted in catastrophic devastation for Gaza and horrendous suffering by ordinary Palestinians who never asked for or assented to a war against a much stronger foe. Yet the crisis Sinwar precipitated also punctured the illusion, long nurtured by Netanyahu, that Palestinian aspirations to statehood could be ignored forever as Israel pursued normalization with other Arab nations.
• For now, Israel’s diplomatic relations with Arab states have survived the trials of the past year. Several flights a day continue plying Saudi Arabian skies as they connect Tel Aviv to Dubai, and Riyadh is still interested in a normalization deal with Israel—provided it comes with U.S. security guarantees and progress toward a Palestinian state. Israel’s cold peace with Jordan and Egypt is shaken but still stands, as do the more recent diplomatic agreements with Morocco and Bahrain.
• Still, images from Gaza and Lebanon—including the footage of Sinwar’s death in battle—have increased popular pressure on Arab governments to take a much tougher stand, particularly in Egypt, which is going through a major economic slowdown.
• Yet, while the Palestinian cause is front and center of global attention once again, it is definitely not on Sinwar’s terms, said Firas Maksad, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington. Sinwar’s plan was a cataclysmic conflict that would engulf the entire region, inflict a decisive military defeat on Israel and trigger the exodus of many, if not most, of Israel’s Jews. “Instead, we are back talking about a two-state solution, about reforming the Palestinian Authority, a vision that is the antithesis of Sinwar’s,” Maksad said. “Ultimately, his objective has backfired.”
• “A necessary condition for any kind of positive changes in the Middle East is the elimination of terrorist masterminds like Sinwar and Nasrallah,” said Mark Dubowitz, chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a think tank that supports Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan. “But it’s not sufficient. Unless there is a concerted effort to weaken, to undermine, and if history smiles on us, to bring down the Islamic Republic of Iran, then these terrorist organizations will regenerate because the Iranians will continue to finance, weaponize, train and coordinate these terror armies.”
• Link: Sinwar’s Bloody Gambit Changed the Middle East—but Not as He Imagined

The Hundred-Year Holy War by Eli Lake in The Free Press

• We all know the horrid tale. Waves of gunmen—some on paragliders, others on motorcycles—attacked families at kibbutzim and young people attending a music festival. The marauders filmed their murders on GoPro cameras. They burned families alive in their safe rooms, raped and mutilated their victims, and took hostages back to Gaza on golf carts.  Why did they do it?
• This is how Al Jazeera journalist Marc Lamont Hill ascribed the motivation: “Before October 7, the people of Gaza didn’t have one minute of self-determination.” Never mind that Israel pulled out of the territory in 2005. Hill calls this fact “a right-wing lie that we’ve got to dissect with the truth, which is that for a hundred years there’s been a settler colonial project.”
• For progressives, October 7 was a jailbreak from an open-air prison.
• But for the belligerents, it was Operation Al-Aqsa Flood: an act of jihad, or holy war.
• Because it reveals something very important about the Israel-Palestine conflict: that much of this is not about a country; it is about an ancient city. The world knows it as Jerusalem. The Palestinians call it Al-Quds. In the middle of this city is a large hill known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, or noble sanctuary. Here, there are two great mosques: Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa. This, Muslims believe, is where the prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven in a dream.
• And if you listen to Hamas, they’ll tell you that there is a plot by the Jews to destroy Al-Aqsa and build a third Jewish Temple where it now stands.

  That is a lie.

• But what has 100 years of jihad accomplished for the Palestinian people? They remain stateless, ruled by corrupt autocrats for whom there is no middle ground. Their liberation of Palestine demands the annihilation of Israel. They dream of demolishing a thriving democracy instead of building a state of their own.
• And this could continue for the next 100 years. Or, Palestinian leaders could stop making the grand mufti’s great mistake and accept a compromise. Because as it stands, the campaign to destroy the world’s only Jewish state has only extinguished the prospect of building a Palestinian one.
• Link: The Hundred-Year Holy War

U.N. Peacekeepers Are Hezbollah’s Best Friend by the WSJ Editorial Board

• The United Nations peacekeeping force known as Unifil had one job: Keep armed terrorists out of southern Lebanon, where they could shoot at Israel. It failed so abysmally that Israel has had to go to war to clear out the terrorists. So what does Unifil do now? It refuses to fight, refuses to move, and blames Israel for putting its non-peacekeepers at risk.
• Israeli troops entered Lebanon on Oct. 1 and requested several times that Unifil move north, out of harm’s way. But the peacekeepers won’t budge, though there’s no peace to keep.
• Unifil finally seems to have found its calling: Getting in Israel’s way. On Oct. 6 it complained that Israeli troops were near one of its positions, calling it “extremely dangerous” and “unacceptable.” On Oct. 11 it complained of explosions near an observation tower, injuring two peacekeepers.
• Yet Unifil has become the toast of the diplomatic circuit for provoking condemnations of Israel. France, Spain and Italy express “outrage” at the “unjustifiable” injuring of two Unifil troops. The European Union’s foreign policy chief condemns “a grave violation of international law.” Reuters writes of Israel’s “targeting of the U.N. peacekeeping mission.”
• Hezbollah couldn’t have scripted it better. And where was this diplomatic energy when Hezbollah dominated the area, and used it to force the depopulation of Israel’s north? It was missing in action, like Unifil. That’s why Unifil grandstands, and leaves its peacekeepers in harm’s way, while Israel fights and does their job for them.
• Link: U.N. Peacekeepers Are Hezbollah’s Best Friend

Antisemitism

[REPORT] Marching Toward Violence: The Domestic Anti-Israeli Protest Movement by Ryan Mauro, an Investigative Researcher with the Capital Research Center

• Over 150 groups involved in the disruptive anti-Israel protests on college campuses and elsewhere in the United States are “pro-terrorism.” The vast majority support Hamas and/or the October 7 terrorist attacks. The movement contains militant elements pushing it toward a wider, more severe campaign focused on property destruction and violence properly described as domestic terrorism.
• Its long-term goals are revolutionary. It demands the “dismantlement” of America’s “colonialist,” “imperialist,” or “capitalist” system, often calling for the U.S. to be abolished as a country.
• These revolutionary goals are held by the two different factions of anti-Israel extremist groups. The first faction combines Islamists, communists/Marxists, and anarchists. The second faction consists of groups with white supremacist/nationalist ideologies. They share Jew-hatred, anti-Americanism, and the goal of sparking a revolutionary uprising.

• The study reached 12 conclusions (some of which I have listed below):
  • The current anti-Israel protest movement on and off the college campuses is driven by over 150 pro-terrorism groups
  • The movement is increasingly militant and criminal, with significant elements pushing it to escalate into a wider domestic terrorism campaign aimed at forcibly “dismantling” the “infrastructure” of the U.S.-Israeli alliance.
  • Some major groups and coalitions in the movement, including “mainstream” civil society groups, directly encourage and assist criminal “direct actions” such as seizing and damaging buildings. They also provide guides on how to avoid being identified and prosecuted by law enforcement
  • The movement’s leaders have successfully branded it as only opposing “genocide” and supporting a ceasefire even though it was created almost entirely by supporters of anti-Israel terrorism who were inspired by the October 7 attacks and seek to assist Hamas and other terrorist groups
  • Media coverage suffers from a failure to accurately characterize the positions of the protesting groups and their leaders.
  • The majority of the protesting groups seek the destruction of Israel, which fits the international legal definition of “genocide”—the very atrocity they purport to be trying to stop.
• Link to Full Report: Marching-Toward-Violence

How Terrorist Cutouts Colonize the Campus by Seth Mandel in Commentary

• Every demonstration in New York matters for Gaza. Your work is so important to the resistance in Gaza, more than ever.” So said Khaled Barakat to his Columbia University audience in March, adding that his “friends and brothers in Hamas” were focused on figuring out how to “defeat Israel.”
• On Tuesday, Barakat and his organization, Samidoun, were belatedly designated as terrorist entities in the U.S. and Canada. Barakat, said the Treasury Department, is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s “leadership.” PFLP is a designated terrorist organization with a long history of political violence aimed at Israel and the West.
• Samidoun is a PFLP front and was already banned in Germany and Israel. America’s lateness to the game was baffling and was not without consequences.
• In other words, all the relevant information about Samidoun was known.
• Samidoun, then, is part of a much larger problem. These types of organizations, whether officially designated as terrorist entities or not, have the same aims and the same general practices and certainly the same worldview—and get cash from the same sources and through the same progressive dark-money-donor clearinghouses.
• There’s a whack-a-mole element to the pro-Palestinian cutouts in the West, and it enables groups like the PFLP to stay one step ahead of the very governments that have already banned them but can’t seem to stop them from raising money.
• For legal purposes, of course, the terrorism designation means everything. But from the standpoint of basic societal decency, the designation changes nothing. The progressive protest movement and America’s elite universities are full of well-funded extremist groups going on recruiting sprees.
• Among the other groups helping plan and train the future resistors of America were the national Students for Justice in Palestine, whose individual chapters have been among the most brazenly anti-Semitic and pro-violence participants in the tentifada.
• The triumph of terrorist front groups in recruiting and training and fund-raising is a success story to some and a cautionary tale to others. American institutions are increasingly treating it as the former.
• Link: How Terrorist Cutouts Colonize the Campus

Sources: JINSA, FDD, IDF, AIPAC, The Paul Singer Foundation, The Institute for National Security Studies, the Alma Research and Education Center, Yediot, Jerusalem Post, IDF Casualty Count, and the Times of Israel