So much. Cultural. Enrichment.

Hen Mazzig
@HenMazzig

BREAKING: The Toronto International Film Festival has pulled an October 7 documentary over alleged "Hamas copyright" claims.

TIFF removed The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue, which tells the story of Noam Tibon, who saved his two granddaughters while surrounded by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival.

The festival claimed the film used Nir Oz massacre footage "owned" by Hamas and that the filmmakers lacked "legal clearance" to use images Hamas itself posted on October 7.

The real reason, however, may not have been legal risk at all, but rather a desire to avoid "Free Palestine" protests.

By granting Hamas legal legitimacy and silencing the truth of October 7, TIFF chose cowardice.

Despicable.

Tamari
@tammydiamonds

The Toronto International Film Festival @TIFF_NET is blocking a film about October 7 "The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue" because it includes footage Hamas filmed themselves, proudly livestreaming their own massacre.

The festival demanded the filmmakers get "legal clearance" from Hamas for that footage before it could be shown.

Yes, you read that right: footage of their own atrocities cant be shown unless the terrorists give permission.

This is how far gone the West is protecting the "IP rights" of mass murderers while silencing the truth of their crimes and their victims.

David Strom notes that even Canada still proclaims Hamas to be a terror organization, so Hamas' access to Canadian courts to vindicate its copyright on rape and murder would be limited.

So that's not the real reason. The real reason is that they're afraid of being blown up or machine-gunned, just as all the media refrained from posting cartoons of Mohammad after the Charlie Hebdo massacre. (And the often-forgotten Hyper Market massacre of Jews that took place at the same time.)

Is our culture enriching?

At Real Clear World, J.T. Young writes of the never-ending terrorism of Hamas.

Hamas' Terror Has Expanded

While it seems impossible for Hamas' terror to worsen, it has. Having unleashed a genocidal terrorist attack on Israel two years ago, and still holding Israeli hostages, Hamas is now doing the same to Gaza. For Hamas, death has gone from being its perverted means to being its only end. Yet grotesque as Hamas' terror has become, civilized nations are pushing to implicitly validate it.

On October 7, 2023, Hamas perpetrated an unquestionably genocidal attack on Israel, killing every Jew--man, woman, or child--it could; it committed atrocities; it took hostages; approaching two years later, it still holds those hostages.

Israel responded as would any nation whose citizens had been so attacked. In WWII, the Allies--such as Britain, France, and Canada--demanded nothing less than unconditional surrender and held trials for Axis war criminals. Israel is justified to demand nothing less from Hamas.

Over the almost two years, Hamas has not slackened its zeal for killing Israelis; only its means for doing so have been diminished. It still embeds its terrorists among civilians; it still fires rockets indiscriminately into civilian populations--both Israel's (intentionally, as it has long done) and Gaza's (presumably unintentionally); when it releases hostages, it only does so on terms heavily favorable to it; it steadfastly refuses to release all the hostages it holds.

For nearly two years, Hamas has shown an utter disregard for human life. Now, its terror has expanded to include the Gazan people on a mass scale. Not that Hamas has not already caused enough carnage in Gaza. Roughly 60,000 have died in the war that Hamas brought on Gaza; Hamas is also careful to never divulge how much of that number is due to its own rockets or embedding among the civilian populations. Hamas has deliberately killed and tortured Gazans who oppose its leadership.

Dramatically higher Gazan casualties now loom. Starvation's specter stretches over Gaza as Hamas is accused of stealing aid to the civilian population to resell on the black market.

Of course, Hamas could stop the threat of starvation at a moment's notice by simply releasing all remaining hostages and surrendering--something it could have done at any point over the last two years. That it would still refuse to do so, even with the threat of starvation looming in Gaza, is no surprise. Such disregard for human life has always been at the heart of Hamas' methods.

Dating back to the second intifada, during which Hamas emerged, suicide bombings were a prominent element, the most deadly being Hamas' 2002 killing of 30 Israelis in Netanya. Following Hamas taking control of Gaza's government, it systematically purged its opponents and constructed tunnels throughout the territory, including under schools and hospitals. Into these, Hamas sent its terrorists and then hostages, knowingly guaranteeing civilian casualties when Israel struck back.

Civilian deaths in Gaza was not a byproduct of Hamas' strategy of waging terrorist war on Israel; they were integral to it: a callous propaganda tool. Now starvation's threat takes Hamas' unconscionable strategy to another level of human destruction.

It is clear to anyone objectively viewing the current situation: Hamas bears full responsibility for the carnage since October 7, 2023, not only in Israel but in Gaza too. Hamas also bears full responsibility for that now looming over the people it cynically declares to be its primary concern.

And of course the "western" media is aiding Hamas in its lies. Late last month, the NYT posted a front-page photo, provided by Hamas, to prove that children are starving.

In fact, the child photographed has a rare genetic disease that causes his skeletal appearance. The "Western" media cropped his brother out of the photo -- because the brother, not having the same disease, is perfectly healthy, and showing him would expose the lie that this child is thin due to "starvation."

After having posted this propaganda picture on the top of page AI, it then issued a "correction" only on its barely-followed PR channel. The lie went out to the world, the retraction went out to 50,000 people.

Incredibly, while the "western" media in America continues to cover this up, even the left-wing German newspaper Das Bild has reported on Hamas's endless propaganda.

Voice From The East
@EasternVoices

WOW!
The biggest newspaper in Germany @BILD just exposed what other media outlets are trying to hide: The deliberate staging of Hamas propaganda by photographers in Gaza, that are later sold for tens of thousands of dollars to western media outlets to create a false narrative to demonise Israel and strengthen Hamas.

The article analyses the case of Anas Zayed Fteiha, a so-called "freelance journalist" who works for the Turkish state news agency Anadolu. On paper, he's a reporter, but in reality, he's an Islamic propagandist with a camera. That's obvious from his social media posts, where he proudly poses in combat gear and shares slogans like "Free Palestine" or even "F*** Israel." Neutrality? Not a chance.

The article shows that many of his photos deliver exactly what Hamas needs: suffering, rubble, crying children captured in perfect lighting. The kind of imagery that instantly sparks outrage against Israel in the West. But where are the photos that show the full picture? For example, the scenes where adult men collect food that's actually being distributed? Those images vanish into obscurity. Instead, the "emotional shockers" end up in outlets like stern, CNN, BBC, Deutschlandfunk--and even in BILD itself.

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Historian Gerhard Paul puts it plainly: in southern Gaza, Hamas controls 100% of visual output. In other words, any photographer who doesn't produce what the terrorists want is out of a job. That's why the suffering is always portrayed one-sidedly, it's designed to provoke sympathy in the West and stir anger at Israel.

Even historical parallels are drawn: back in 2002, Arafat staged himself in his "fortress" in Ramallah as a tragic hero by candlelight cameras on, spotlights off, pure emotion. Minutes later, he was back under bright lights. Same trick, different setting.

The disturbing part? Major news agencies and media outlets play along. They buy these images without questioning who's behind them. Reuters defends itself by saying, "Our photos meet standards of accuracy and independence", but it's clear that in a place where Hamas monitors every pixel, true independence is impossible.

And now the key question: Why don't we see revelations like this in other media? Why doesn't ARD produce a report on how tightly Hamas controls imagery coming out of Gaza? Why doesn't the BBC acknowledge that many of its sources are actually activists? The answer is simple: because this truth is uncomfortable. It would disrupt the cherished victim-aggressor narrative,where Israel is always the oppressor, and Palestinians are always the helpless victims.

The reality is this: Hamas is waging a double war: with rockets and with images. And in the second war, they've already won over half the world, because the media uncritically reproduces their perfectly staged visuals. Anyone who doesn't see that is blindly walking into a propaganda trap.

The new op is crying about Israel targeting a known Hamas operative, claiming that he's a "journalist," and therefore may belong to a terror organization and take part in terror operations with full immunity from consequences.

All "journalists" permitted in Gaza are Hamas. If they weren't, they'd ban them, or murder them.