W Bank: Israeli forces carry out extrajudicial executions of surrendered Palestinians – Not a Ceasefire Day 49

The IDF has killed over 370 Hezbollah fighters since the November 27, 2024,  ceasefire with Lebanon, the IDF reported Thursday, and has been reduced to about 20% of its prewar capacity.

It has carried out these targeted killings as part of about 1,200 diverse operations and attacks designed to prevent Hezbollah from redeploying its forces to southern Lebanon and from restoring its prewar arsenal of more than 150,000 rockets, the IDF said.

*NOTE: Israel has attacked Lebanon almost every day since the ceasefire was reached on 27 November 2024. It claims it has been legitimately ‘enforcing’ the agreement, despite the ceasefire clearly prohibiting Israeli airstrikes, committing over 10,000 air and ground violations since the deal was reached, and killing over 300 – reportedly about 127 of them civilians.

It is a stretch to call this a ceasefire.

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WJC chief on antisemitism*: ‘We’re up against a trillion dollars of propaganda**’

Sylvan Adams, president of the World Jewish Congress Israel and Middle East region and one of Israel’s most prominent philanthropists, believes that anti-Israel sentiment in the West is fueled by huge sums of money and coordinated efforts to smear Israel’s name.

“Somebody was buying those tents [students used in campus protest against genocide]. Somebody had organized this… They have operatives everywhere.

“Tucker Carlson, when he was fired from Fox, he wasn’t always this virulently anti-Israel and antisemitic… He needed a job. To me, I look at Tucker Carlson as a paid operative…”this very, very vocal and noisy, organized and paid-for minority is doing us real harm.”

“We are up against a trillion dollars of propaganda and conspiracy against us worldwide,” Adams said, which includes “infiltrating western university campuses, paying opinion leaders like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, as well as on the left.”

Adams expressed confidence that Israel can succeed if it makes hasbara a priority: “We’re the startup nation. When we have priorities, we win at everything that we do.”

*NOTE: Thanks to a yearslong program of indoctrination by pro-Israel organizations, the word “antisemitism” has taken on a new, distorted meaning that can include nearly all criticism of Israel – in other words, disapproval of the self-proclaimed “Jewish State” may be incorrectly labeled antisemitic. 

**Sylvan Adams joins countless other Israel supporters in ignoring Israel’s embrace of the abhorrent policies of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and a live-streamed genocide. People do not need to be “paid operatives” to speak out against human rights abuses; pro-Israel billionaires and leaders who believe controlling the narrative and affixing the “antisemite” label to advocates of Palestinian rights, are misdirecting their effort. When Israel ends the genocide, dismantles its apartheid, and adopts equal rights for all – when it ends its 77-year war against Palestinian existence – then it might expect to enjoy support again.

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