Shin Bet stops foreign interference campaign ahead of elections

 (With thanks to Israel National News)

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced Thursday morning that numerous social media accounts identified as being used for foreign influence operations ahead of Israel's elections have been detected and removed in a joint operation with the State Prosecutor's Office Cyber Department and the Central Elections Committee.

The action against them was taken as part of efforts to prevent improper interference in Israel's electoral process.

As part of the joint operation, the three agencies worked to identify profiles that, according to their findings, were being used in attempts to influence the upcoming elections. Following their identification, measures were taken that resulted in the accounts being removed from social media platforms.

The Shin Bet emphasized that the operation was intended to protect the integrity of the elections and thwart attempts by foreign actors to influence Israel's democratic process.

The statement did not identify those responsible for the accounts, the countries from which the influence operations originated, the platforms on which the profiles operated, or the messages they disseminated.

The exact number of accounts removed was also not disclosed.

Efforts to counter foreign influence operations would continue the Shin Bet stressed.

Provocations Unlimited

 Once again, the media is having a field day in being able to blame Israel. Who is behind the constant provocations under the guise of the "olive harvest"? Why is there always a TV crew available for filming? Who are the overseas anarchists taking part? etc.,

Here we have yet another generously funded, carefully planned and well-organized campaign creating a false perception of a widespread phenomenon of violence by settlers in Judea and Samaria against Arab residents in the area.

Today, thanks to the proper actions of the IDF and the police, three provocation events were prevented in Judea and Samaria under the pretext of “olive harvest”:

1. The main event of the Palestinian Authority in the village of Deir Jarir – IDF forces thwarted the event, in which senior Palestinian Authority officials planned to participate, thanks to early intelligence on the organization.

2. Another event was prevented in Turmus Ayya near Ramallah – an event led by the anarchist Jonathan Pollak and dozens of Palestinians and journalists – and only two olive pickers.

3. An uncoordinated event, in an area that requires coordination near Beitar Illit, with dozens of participants including foreigners, among them a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Congress who wanted to make some headlines before the elections in the U.S. and ended up only partially satisfied. Dozens of participants were put on a bus back and the uncoordinated event was prevented.

Each of these events could have ended up as huge headlines in the mainstream media in Israel and abroad and caused cognitive damage to Israel.

Early intelligence for such events prevent terror attacks. The impact of “cognitive attacks” on Israel’s legitimacy in the world justifies allocating intelligence gathering resources to this issue.

Children's Education in Gaza

 

These books shown were seized from schools in Gaza during the war. 

The material raises a question every plan for Gaza’s future must 

confront: how do you undo years of indoctrination? Hamas has worked 

to embed its ideology far beyond its armed ranks, reaching children who should have been protected from it. That influence will survive the destruction of tunnels and the confiscation of weapons unless there is a sustained effort to 

challenge what children are taught. Gaza needs demilitarisation and deradicalisation. Rebuilding schools while leaving the teaching of hatred 

intact would help prepare the ground for another war. Palestinian children 

deserve the chance to grow up without being groomed to fight it.

Genocide - Really?

 

Durban Conference Shunned by 48 Countries

 The UN’s Durban Conference was set up in 2001 to advance the fight against racism, but it quickly turned into a platform for antisemitism and attacks on Israel.

The subsequent Goldstone report was relatively quickly dismissed by many as a distortion of the truth.

Following a diplomatic and advocacy campaign by the organisation  UN Watch, 48 countries chose not to take part in the UN’s 25th anniversary commemorative event. This is a significant achievement that shows how sustained advocacy can shape countries’ positions and reduce the legitimacy given to events promoting antisemitic and anti-Israel messages.

Credit: UN Watch LinkedIn

Pallywood preparations in Gaza

 Pallywood presentations to continue

Stealth Jihad of the West. Is Anyone Paying Attention ?

  

§  Stealth jihad is well advanced in the U.S., with the entire American left enabling and aiding the expansion of Muslim political power, without realizing or caring that they are supporting a radically intolerant and supremacist ideology.

§  We see in particular [in Europe] the increase of churches being bought and transformed into mosques. Muslims in general prefer this to building new buildings: the transformation of a church into a mosque is for them a visible manifestation of Islam's victory, superiority over Christianity, and coming hegemony.

§  Hundreds of years of jihad attacks weakened and ultimately destroyed the Roman Empire in Constantinople. The failure to get help from the West... played a large role in Constantinople's ultimate fall, as well as disunity among the leaders of the empire itself. Some were even short-sighted and self-serving enough to seek and obtain help from Muslim forces.

§  The U.S. faces a similar threat from short-sighted and self-serving leaders of our own. The Democrats are busy encouraging the growth of Muslim political power, while insisting on ignoring the political, supremacist, expansionist and violent aspects of Sharia. Few politicians are aware of the nature and magnitude of the threat, or are resolved to do anything about it. If this continues, we will eventually face our own May 29, 1453 -- the fall of Constantinople ....

§  [P]robably all religions are affected, even though there are some notable individuals who have not been afraid to speak out -- or prevented from doing so.

Robert Bruce Spencer is a Christian American scholar writing on topics including Islam, Orthodoxy, and the Byzantine Empire. The director of Jihad Watch, he is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He has led seminars on Islam and jihad for organizations like the FBI, the United States Central Command, and the U.S. intelligence community.