Current Events: Israel & Gaza

The ICJ is the UN's court for disputes between countries; it is hearing South Africa's genocide case against Israel, which is undecided. The ICC is a separate treaty court, not par...

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The IDF published an internal Qassam Brigades engineering-unit document, which it dates to April 2024, proposing to plant explosives around shelter centers for displaced Gazans and...

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The IDF published a list of 170 Palestinians killed in Gaza who were presented as journalists or media workers, saying 118 belonged to Hamas's military wing and 49 to Islamic Jihad...

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On September 30, 2026, the Omani co-pilot of FlyDubai Flight FZ1073 — carrying 174 passengers (predominantly Israeli) from Dubai to Tel Aviv — stabbed the captain and sent the plan...

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In a September 30, 2026 CNN interview, anchor Jim Sciutto pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Netanyahu...

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"What the Wounds Are Telling Us" by Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra was awarded the European Press Prize 2026. Coverage of the award often repeated the "deliberately targeted" con...

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A UN Commission of Inquiry report (A/HRC/62/22) documented 249 cases of executions and severe violence against Palestinians in Gaza between August 2024 and January 2026, found that...

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About a month after the indictment was withdrawn, the IDF said a pending command inquiry into the five Sde Teiman reservists "does not prevent them from continuing to serve." Army...

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Military Advocate General Itay Ofir cancelled the indictment against the five Sde Teiman reservists, citing footage that did not clearly show severe violence, a detainee who gave i...

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In January 2026, a Druze leader in Syria publicly credited Israeli airstrikes with halting what he described as a planned massacre of the Druze community by jihadist forces. The st...

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A widely shared post correctly said the Al-Ahli explosion was a Palestinian rocket that hit the parking lot, but understated the toll: US intelligence estimated 100–300 killed.

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Abdul El-Sayed, the 2026 Michigan Democratic Senate nominee, declined in a Daily Wire interview to support the US designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization....

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Gender dysphoria — the DSM-5 diagnosis for significant distress caused by incongruence between experienced gender and biological sex — is a real condition that causes real sufferin...

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Gender identity is the subjective, internal sense of being male, female, neither, or some other configuration. It cannot be measured, observed, or tested externally. Biological sex...

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Biological sex in sexually dimorphic species — including humans — is defined by gamete type: females produce large, immobile gametes (eggs); males produce small, mobile gametes (sp...

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Physical and documentary evidence — from the Merneptah Stele (1208 BCE) to Byzantine-era artifacts near the Temple Mount — establishes Jewish presence in the land of Israel across...

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Gaza-born activist Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib posted video of a building filled with baby formula and nutrition drinks, saying Hamas's Health Ministry hid it while children went hungry,...

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The Atlantic slave trade, which enslaved approximately 12 million Africans over roughly 400 years, is the subject of intense historical scrutiny, reparations debates, and global me...

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The Abdul Salam Yassin Company, which runs desalination plants supplying nearly half of Gaza, stopped operations in protest after Hamas detained a staff member without explanation;...

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A widely shared clip of former ICJ president Joan Donoghue explaining on BBC HARDtalk (April 2024) that the court did not decide the genocide claim against Israel was plausible.

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The "decolonize Palestine" framework treats Israel — a state with a 3,000-year Jewish presence in the land — as a colonial settler project. It ignores that the Arab-Islamic conques...

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Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, the IDF's chief military prosecutor, resigned after it emerged she had authorized leaking the Sde Teiman security-camera clip to Channel 12 in Aug...

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In exchange for the last 20 living Israeli hostages, the Israel Prison Service released 1,968 Palestinians: about 250 sentenced security prisoners, some serving life terms, and rou...

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An Irish activist participating in an aid flotilla attempt to reach Gaza was detained by Israeli forces after the vessel was seized in international waters in October 2025. The inc...

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The Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant published testimony from 17 international doctors and a nurse who worked in Gaza: 15 reported treating at least 114 children aged 15 and under wit...

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A joint investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call and The Guardian reported that a classified military intelligence database listed about 1,450 of ~6,000 Gaza detainees (held unde...

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By September 2025 — approximately 700 days into the conflict — UN agencies, satellite analysis, and independent researchers had documented the scale of destruction in Gaza: about 7...

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Videos leaked in 2025 showed Israeli soldiers abusing Palestinian detainees. Prime Minister Netanyahu called the leak of the Sde Teiman video perhaps the most severe public-relatio...

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Israeli forces struck the stairwell of Nasser Hospital in Gaza multiple times within a short period. The sequential strikes — striking the same location again as rescuers arrived —...

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A post by VividProwess on X, with video of pallets of food outdoors, claimed the UN refuses to bring aid into Gaza and Hamas steals what enters. Aid did pile up at the crossings, b...

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+972 Magazine, Local Call and The Guardian reported that a classified Israeli military intelligence database listed about 8,900 Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters killed as of May 20...

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The IDF released video, filmed July 25, 2025, of armed men looting a humanitarian aid truck in Gaza, saying they were Hamas operatives rather than the "security personnel" Hamas de...

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Israel's most prominent human rights organization (B'Tselem) and Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) issued formal declarations stating that Israel's actions in Gaza meet the...

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An internal BBC email on covering Gaza's food crisis, reported by The Spectator, told staff the volume of aid was "irrelevant" and that coverage should say "the system doesn't work...

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Dr. Mohammed Mustafa, a Perth-based emergency physician who volunteered in Gaza, gave testimony in July 2025 describing handing mothers the headless bodies of their children in bod...

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Multiple Western surgeons who volunteered in Gaza hospitals have given documented testimony describing the nature of wounds, the collapse of the healthcare system, and what they ch...

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Single-sex spaces — changing rooms, bathrooms, shelters, hospital wards — exist primarily to protect women from male violence and to preserve female privacy from male observation....

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Breaking the Silence, an Israeli organization that collects testimony from IDF veterans, has collected testimonies from more than 1,400 soldiers since 2000, covering the West Bank,...

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Israeli airstrikes on the Fahmi school in Gaza — being used as a civilian shelter — killed at least 31 people, most of them children. The attack drew international condemnation.

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Authentic video from May 2025 shows IDF soldiers detonating a Gaza building and joking that the resulting blue smoke makes it a "gender reveal party." The video drew international...

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UN agencies documented acute malnutrition affecting 15% of children in Gaza, with aid deliveries severely restricted. Surgeons testified to baby formula and nutritional supplements...

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Israeli forces have used a foul-smelling liquid known as "Skunk" — developed for crowd dispersal — to spray Palestinian homes in the West Bank. The tactic has been in use since 200...

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Palestinian Christians in Gaza and the West Bank have experienced documented incidents of violence, property damage to churches, and restrictions. The claim that Israel deliberatel...

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Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an American orthopedic surgeon who volunteered in Gaza, testified that eyewitnesses told him they watched an IDF bulldozer bury two screaming children alive. T...

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Throughout the Gaza conflict, IDF soldiers filmed themselves laughing during demolitions, looting civilian property, and in some cases alongside the aftermath of killings. Many suc...

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Dr. Gabor Maté, a Hungarian-born Jewish physician who survived the Nazi occupation of Budapest as a child, publicly compared what he called deliberate deprivation in Gaza to starva...

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During operations in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the West Bank, IDF soldiers were documented trashing apartments, spraying excrement and graffiti, and vandalizing civilian propert...

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Military prosecutors indicted five Force 100 reservists for causing serious injury and abuse under aggravated circumstances against a Palestinian detainee at Sde Teiman. The aggrav...

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Eli Sharabi, an Israeli entrepreneur, was taken hostage from Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023, while his wife Lianne and daughters Noiya and Yahel were murdered in the same attack...

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In a separate Sde Teiman case, a reservist guard convicted under a plea deal of beating bound and blindfolded detainees and filming their humiliation was sentenced by a military co...

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Romi Gonen, 24, was abducted from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023. She was released on January 19, 2025, in the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal, along with Emily...

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The claim that Islam is compatible with homosexuality — sometimes made to draw a contrast with perceived Western hostility toward Muslims — does not survive contact with Islamic pr...

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The claim that Islam treats women equally — or that Islamic law is compatible with gender equality — does not survive examination of the Quran, hadith, and classical Islamic jurisp...

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The continued existence of approximately 9,000 Jews in Iran is sometimes cited as evidence that Iran is not antisemitic — that Iranian Jews practice their faith openly and have cho...

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Both Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody and Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza experienced documented abuse. The conditions on both sides have been verified by UN bodies...

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Neturei Karta is a small ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect whose rabbis argue that the establishment of a Jewish state before the coming of the Messiah is a violation of Jewish law — and...

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A professor's argument in a widely circulated reel: killing children is immoral regardless of justification, and "Zionists" make excuses for it. The moral premise is correct and th...

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Ana Kasparian is a host of The Young Turks (TYT), a progressive online political commentary network. A reel posted by "The Facteye" featured Kasparian responding to what she framed...

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UN agencies documented more than 400 deaths at or near aid distribution points in Gaza. The incidents — where crowds gathering for food were killed — are among the most contested e...

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The International Criminal Court issued warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant in November 2024 — the first-ever warrants against a sitting leader of a Western-allied democracy. This p...

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Noa Marciano, a 19-year-old Israeli soldier, was abducted from her base on October 7, 2023. The IDF declared her dead on November 14, 2023, after Hamas released a video of her body...

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Detransitioners are people who underwent medical or social gender transition and subsequently reverted. They are not a hypothetical category: they are a growing, documented populat...

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Women's sports categories exist because male puberty confers substantial, measurable physical advantages over females in the attributes that determine athletic performance. Trans-i...

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Despite vocally championing the Palestinian cause, Arab states have consistently refused to accept Palestinian refugees as permanent residents, sealed borders, and in two cases exp...

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The word "Palestine" appears on ancient maps and in documents going back centuries — but a sovereign Arab state called Palestine has never existed. Under the Ottomans, there was no...

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In October 2024, the nonprofit Do No Harm released a searchable database identifying over 2,000 hospitals in the United States offering gender transition treatments to minors — inc...

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Documenting mass killings, genocides, forced conversions, and kidnappings happening simultaneously with — or dwarfing — the Gaza conflict, while the same protesters remain silent....

The argument that was used to defeat bathroom safety bills in the United States was: "Trans people just want to use the bathroom in peace. No woman has ever been assaulted by a tra...

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Supporters of Israel argue the ethnic cleansing accusation is contradicted by demographic data; critics point to the 1948 displacement of over 700,000 Palestinians and to current d...

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The Green Party of England and Wales has, at its October 2026 conference, passed a motion (1,022–813) stating that Zionism should be treated as a form of racism and calling for a s...

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Carmel Gat, a 40-year-old physiotherapist from Kibbutz Be'eri, was taken hostage on October 7, 2023. On September 1, 2024, the IDF recovered her body along with five other hostages...

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On August 10, 2024, an Israeli strike on the Al-Tabaeen school in eastern Gaza City — whose lower floor was used as a mosque — killed 80–100 people (Palestinian health authority fi...

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Military police arrested nine reservists (a tenth later) on suspicion of aggravated sodomy and abuse of a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman detention facility on July 5, 2024....

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Mainstream media and activist journalists have a documented technique for making conservative speakers appear to say things they did not say: selective quotation. A sentence fragme...

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The Gaza Health Ministry reported roughly 18,000–19,000 children killed in Gaza by mid-2025; its named list through May 7, 2026 shows children under 18 as 29.7% of 72,835 records (...

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For a decade, puberty blockers prescribed to gender-dysphoric children were described by clinicians and advocates as "fully reversible" — a pause button that gave children time to...

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The most powerful argument made for gender-affirming medical intervention in children is that gender-dysphoric youth who are not affirmed and medically transitioned face extreme su...

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In April 2019, video from a Muslim American Society (MAS) event in Philadelphia showed children performing and reciting lines that included violent language, including "We will cho...

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Sandie Peggie is a Scottish NHS nurse who was suspended from her job after raising a concern about being required to share a clinical changing room with a male-born colleague who i...

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Six-year-old Hind Rajab survived the killing of her relatives in a car in Gaza, called the Palestinian Red Crescent for help, and was killed along with the two paramedics dispatche...

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UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini acknowledges that 9 or more UNRWA staff members are alleged to have participated in the October 7 attack. He fires the implicated empl...

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A common argument against requiring biological sex verification in women's sports is that it would require invasive "genital checks." This is false. Sex chromosome testing — a chee...

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What terrorism is, who commits it, and what the global data actually shows about ideology and religion — with a documented table of major attacks.

A reference guide to propaganda techniques, cult psychology, and documented cases of mass false belief — for use in evaluating speakers and identifying manipulation tactics.

On December 8, 2023, an Israeli strike largely destroyed Gaza's Great Omari Mosque — one of the oldest mosques in the region, dating to the 7th century. Israeli officials stated th...

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After Israeli forces entered Al-Shifa Hospital on November 15, 2023, a BBC broadcast on November 17 carried the line "Israel Has Provided No Evidence That Al-Shifa Hospital Was a H...

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Israeli forces raided Al-Rantisi Children's Hospital on November 13, 2023, finding a Hamas command center in the basement, weapons including suicide vests and RPGs, and items the I...

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Noa Marciano was a 19-year-old IDF soldier stationed at Nahal Oz when Hamas broke through the fence on October 7, 2023. She was kidnapped alive and held in Gaza for approximately f...

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Hamas leaders have repeatedly stated in their own words — in Arabic, in interviews, and in published statements — that they intentionally place civilians in harm's way, that they w...

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Throughout the Gaza conflict, Israeli strikes on or near UN schools and UNRWA facilities were reported as attacks on civilian infrastructure. In numerous documented cases — includi...

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On October 17, 2023, an explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital parking lot in Gaza was immediately blamed on Israel by Hamas, then repeated in headlines by the New York Times, CNN,...

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International humanitarian law — the laws of armed conflict — establishes clear rules about what constitutes a war crime. Hamas has violated every major category: targeting civilia...

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Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other groups took 251 hostages on October 7, 2023 — the largest hostage-taking in Israeli history and one of the largest in modern history. Hos...

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Within hours of Hamas's massacre of 1,200 Israelis, celebrations broke out in Gaza City, Ramallah, and among Palestinian diaspora communities. Crowds distributed sweets. Children w...

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A pattern of deliberately staged footage — dead bodies that move, actors with fake injuries, recycled scenes presented as new events — has been documented by journalists, researche...

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Among the 251 hostages taken into Gaza on October 7 were infants and toddlers, including Kfir Bibas (9 months old when taken) — the youngest known hostage — and his brother Ariel (...

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Hamas and allied groups breach the Gaza–Israel security barrier in a pre-planned, multi-pronged assault, under written orders to "kill as many people as possible." About 1,200 peop...

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Investigators, first responders, survivors, and UN bodies document sexual violence committed during the October 7 attack — a UN mission found "reasonable grounds" to believe rape a...

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Hamas instructed fighters to film the October 7 attack and distributed footage. Body cam recordings, GoPro footage recovered from dead fighters, and footage uploaded to victims' ph...

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At the Supernova Sukkot Gathering near Kibbutz Re'im, Hamas gunmen kill more than 360 festivalgoers and abduct dozens more. It is the single largest site of massacre on October 7.

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Since October 7, 2023, synagogues, Jewish community centers, and Jewish cemeteries have been vandalized, firebombed, or attacked in multiple countries — including Australia, Canada...

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*Analysis (argument, not a rated fact-check):* The claim that October 7 and Palestinian terrorism are justified by historical oppression or dispossession requires believing that hi...

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Rape crisis centres and domestic violence refuges are single-sex spaces whose therapeutic function depends entirely on their being single-sex. The women they serve are overwhelming...

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Court records released in October 2021 revealed that an IDF Civil Administration officer was convicted in 2017 of raping a Palestinian woman who had come to him for a permit to wor...

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The UK Ministry of Justice publishes statistics on the criminal justice system that include data on transgender-identifying prisoners. Analysis of that data shows trans-identified...

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J.K. Rowling is among the most publicly accused "transphobes" in the English-speaking world. She has received thousands of documented threats, had her home address published by act...

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In 2018, researcher Lisa Littman published a peer-reviewed study describing a pattern she called Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD): adolescents — predominantly girls — who had sh...

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Investigative journalist Jennifer Bilek has documented a network of billionaire donors and corporate foundations funding the rapid institutional adoption of gender ideology across...

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The Palestinian Authority has operated a formal payment program since its establishment in the 1990s, providing monthly stipends to Palestinians killed, imprisoned, or wounded whil...

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The Palestinian Authority pays monthly stipends to the families of Palestinians killed, imprisoned, or wounded while committing attacks against Israelis. The payments are scaled to...

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Women's homeless shelters serve one of the most vulnerable populations in any city: women who are homeless, often because they have fled male violence, and who have no other housin...

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Qatar has hosted the Hamas political bureau in Doha since 2012, provided billions in financing to Gaza, and owns Al Jazeera, six of whose Gaza journalists Israel accused in 2024, c...

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Since taking control of Gaza in 2007, Hamas has systematically indoctrinated children into its military culture — through summer camps that train children to use weapons and simula...

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On February 21, 2006, Syrian-American psychiatrist Wafa Sultan appeared on Al-Jazeera and confronted host Ibrahim al-Khouli in an exchange that became one of the most widely viewed...

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The claim that Israel was responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks — or had advance knowledge of them — is one of the most durable antisemitic conspiracy theories of the mode...

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In multiple documented statements, former U.S. President Bill Clinton — who hosted the 1993 Oslo Accords signing and convened the 2000 Camp David Summit — said that the Palestinian...

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In 1950, the towns of Bethlehem, Beit Jala, and Beit Sahour — the Bethlehem governorate surrounding Christianity's holiest birthplace — were 86% Christian. The Christian share had...

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The 1988 Hamas Covenant — the organization's founding constitutional document — explicitly calls for the destruction of Israel, the killing of Jews, and the rejection of all negoti...

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Photographs from the 1950s and 1970s show Afghan university students, Iranian women on city streets, and Egyptian women in public — uncovered, educated, and free. The same countrie...

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Iran 1979 is the definitive case study of the Red-Green Alliance — the tactical coalition between leftist and Islamist movements against a common enemy. The Iranian left helped del...

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On May 15, 1974, three terrorists from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine seized the Netiv Meir elementary school in Ma'alot, Israel, holding 115 children hostage...

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The modern transgender movement was not founded by people with gender dysphoria in the clinical sense. Its primary founders were male cross-dressers who experienced sexual arousal...

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UNRWA — the UN agency created exclusively for Palestinian refugees — defines a "Palestinian refugee" as anyone descended from someone who was displaced in 1948, with no limit on ge...

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Orwell's 1984 is not a dystopian fantasy. It is an accurate description of how language, memory, and perception are weaponized to manufacture compliance with things that are not tr...

In May 1948, the Jordanian Arab Legion and local Arab forces captured the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The Legion took about 290 men aged 15–50 (plus some wounded)...

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Between 1948 and the early 1970s, approximately 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab and Muslim countries — Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Yemen, and...

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In August 1929, Arab mobs incited by Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini killed 133 Jews across Mandatory Palestine in a week of violence, including 67 in the Hebron Massacre. The Jew...

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The Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun) was founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna with an explicitly political-religious mission: to establish Islamic governance throu...

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