#Kidnapped Israelis

[eretzyisrael]

but i thought the palestinians living in gaza don't support hamas?

Melissa Chapman

[girlactionfigure]

gideon_soldiers and

melissaschapman

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

By 

Jon Levine and Matthew Sedacca

A Broadway theater producer is the latest New Yorker to be caught on film brazenly tearing down fliers of civilians in Israel kidnapped by Hamas terrorists, The Post has learned. 

In a video shared online by neighborhood blog I Love the Upper West Side, James L. Simon, who co-produced the 2022 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” is seen at West 62nd Street and Broadway using scissors to remove a poster featuring one of the roughly 200 hostages taken by Hamas during its Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel.

The stone-faced Simon then crumpled up the flier, which had been taped to a traffic sensor box in the heavily Jewish neighborhood, before chucking it into a garbage can and silently walking off, the footage showed. 

“You’re going to a dark and devious place if you’ve come to a place where you’re ripping posters off the wall of Israeli hostages, of innocent people held captive by terrorists,” former Broadway producer Adam Epstein, who hosts the podcast Dirty Moderate, told The Post.

Simon, who has also produced Broadway revivals of “Pippin” and “Bells Are Ringing,” told The Post he took down the fliers for the purpose of keeping the city’s streets clean, not for antisemitic reasons, and apologized for offending anyone.

“I’m a strong supporter of free speech and encourage people to express their opinions, but all I’m asking is to do it legally,” he said, citing city Sanitation Department rules.

Videos of New Yorkers ripping down similar kidnap posters around the city have surfaced, putting on blast a New York University student, teens on the Upper East Side, and Brooklyn husband-wife couple. 

[chaiaurchaandni]

Alessandra Sanguinetti, "Portrait of Modern Palestinian Childhood," 2004.

[mariluphoto]

[lifeisnowx]

I am so glad that Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Shlomi Ziv and Andrei Kozlov were rescued. They were freed from Hamas captivity after 246 days after they were brutally kidnapped at the Nova music festival on October 7th. I hope they are coping well with their captivity and recover from this . Way to go, Israel. 🇮🇱❤️

[viktorrotkiv]

funny how tumblr users are all about nuance and "both these facts are true at the same time" until it comes to the israeli palestinian conflict

[secular-jew]

The concept of the moderate Muslim.

[trekwiz]

I scrolled past the dumbest post of the day.

The civilian hostages taken by Israel are being tortured to the point of needing amputations, in addition to just plain degrading conditions and sexual assault. Including children. *Silence*

The civilian hostages Hamas took in retaliation had to. Hmm. Do dishes. Apparently this is slavery.

I dunno. Maybe Hamas should start treating their "administrative detention" prisoners the same way Israel does. If you're going to be painted a monster regardless of what you do, why bother holding a higher standard than your oppressor?

[news4dzhozhar]

[adhdsocialist]

I know we're well past this at this point but the actual issue with a lot of the coverage both activists and like regular news organizations have on the Palestinian Genocide is that people keep misconstruing it as a Jews vs Muslims War.

[girlactionfigure]

Freed hostages translated, from left to right:

Ditza Heiman, 84

Tamar (Tami) Metzger, 78

Mia Leimberg, 17

Gabriela Leimberg, 59 (Mia's mother)

Klara Marman, 62

Noralin Babadila Agojo, 60

Ada Sagi, 75

Ofelia Roitman, 77

Rimon Kirsht Buchshtav, 36

Meirav Tal, 54

Many of these women still have husbands held captive in Gaza.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Dion J. Pierre

London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) on Friday responded to allegations that officers threatened to arrest members of a British nonprofit for “breach of peace” if they continued to display billboards showing pictures of Israeli children who are believed to have been taken hostage during Hamas’ invasion of Israel on Oct. 7.

Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), a nonprofit that tracks antisemitic hate crimes, made the complaints against the police. According to the Jewish Chronicle, the nonprofit had organized a convoy driving through London displaying images of the Israeli children in order to draw attention to the Palestinian terror group Hamas’ atrocities.

However, the convoy was stopped on Wednesday by anti-Israel protesters who began heckling and intimidating them. When police officers came, they asked the CAA convoy to shut off its billboards and leave the area.

“The officers told our drivers to turn off their billboard and stop showing the faces of children kidnapped by a proscribed terrorist organization, apparently because their sympathizers on British streets might attack us for showing them,” CAA executive director Gideon Falter said in a video posted to the organization’s X/Twitter page after the encounter. “Before we set out, we had worried that these billboards might attract attention from Hamas sympathizers. We never imagined that it would be the police who would stop us from showing the faces of children kidnapped by a terrorist group banned by the UK government.”

MPS shared with The Algemeiner a statement explaining the officers’ actions, insisting that it was not their intent to squelch a lawful demonstration.

“Officers were keen to avoid the billboard vans becoming a point of tension or conflict,” MPS said. “We took similar actions on Saturday where we prevented pro-Palestinian demonstrators from reaching the area around the Israeli embassy given their doing so would likely have led to an escalation in tension and a possible risk to public safety.”

MPS also vowed to review the matter and determine “what we might do differently should a similar situation arise again.”

CAA has said it may take legal action.

[bijoumikhawal]

got reminded of the "saying Arabs conquered and colonized North Africa is Zionist because obviously no one saying that coulx possibly draw a distinction between North African Arabs and Palestinian Arabs, and even drawing a distinction between Arabs and Imazighen is colonizer shit" school of thought

[mariluphoto]

"As Israel is freeing Palestinians hostages, it is also arresting children in the West Bank. Please don't get distracted that a few people have been released today. They are making up for the loss by kidnapping more."

(via. rosypirani)

[agentfascinateur]

Israeli soldiers kidnapping Palestinian children

#where is little Doha?

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#war crimes

#ICC arrest like Putin