Israel Police Block Jerusalem Fundraiser for Gaza, Claiming It Could 'Serve Hamas'

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Jerusalem police canceled the fundraiser, citing Israel's anti-terror law, saying it could fund Hamas. The event was organized by the Jewish-Arab group Standing Together. The complaint about the planned event was filed by a right-wing activist

By Nir Hasson and Josh Breiner
Aug 29, 2025

The Israel Police ordered the cancellation of a fundraising event for civilians in Gaza that was planned to be held on Friday in Jerusalem.

According to the order to cancel the event, issued by the commander of Jerusalem District Police on the grounds of the Israeli anti-terrorism law, the event would feature activity whose "goals, purpose, and results may serve and/or fund the Hamas terror group."

The fundraiser was organized by the Standing Together movement, a Jewish-Arab coexistence organization that was among the first of the Israeli groups to organize protests for a cease-fire in Gaza. Over the last several months, Standing Together has been active in the effort to deliver aid and food, donated by Israeli citizens, to Palestinians in Gaza.

On Thursday evening, the organizers of the fundraiser were summoned to a police station in Jerusalem, where they were told that an order had been issued that would ban the event, following a complaint issued by right-wing activist Shai Glick, CEO of the organization Btsalmo.

Source : Haaretz
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I don’t think Israel is doing itself any favors dispassionately.
There was a time when Israel had elite forces which could pull off these daring rescues as they did in Entebbe.

Instead of grinding the Palestine people into the dust and horrifying people far beyond those with entrenched views on this conflict, Israel should have tried rescuing the hostages as they did in the past.

Clearly technology is making people stupider in every part of the world. A lot of really good science comes out of Israel but now also crap like NSO group and BlackCube (this creepy little company Harvey Weinstein used to stalk complainants).

Again mercenary defense contracting etc seems to be replacing more honest nationalism.

There needs to be a global ban on defense contracting and mercenary war profiteering, especially with second rate ai and junk tech with few safeguards disseminated to some of the dimmest people (typically male) everywhere.