Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy, 10/15

[SVPete]

Hamas Is Purging Gaza of Its Critics

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/10/14/hamas-is-purging-gaza-of-its-critics-n3807827

Well, that took about an hour.

As the Israelis withdrew from the Gaza war zone, Hamas terrorists needed somebody to shoot, so they decided to turn their fire on their fellow Palestinians.

Their bloodlust knows no bounds.
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Hamas was always happy to shoot a Gazan or 10 if they got out of line, but now that they can wander the streets without fear of an Israeli drone firing on them, Hamas has been rounding up their perceived enemies and executing them in the streets.

Hamas is taking out its perceived opponents/competitors, those who might supplant Hamas in governing/ruling Gaza.

[SVPete]

Stop Blacklisting Jews Now, or What??

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/10/15/hollywood-wonders-should-we-stop-blacklisting-jews-now-or-what-n3807837

What do you do when you demand a ceasefire -- and Donald Trump actually gets one? If you're a normal human being with a decent moral compass, you celebrate the freedom of 20 hostages, the pause in an armed conflict, and at least stop punishing one of the parties to the conflict.

Of course, if you demanded a ceasefire but really wanted something else, you have to recalculate your professed goals while still demanding capitulation. That's the position that 5,000 celebrities and other Hollywood elites face, now that the "ceasefire" failed to become "the destruction of Israel" and the death of the Joooos. The Hollywood Reporter checked in on the Tinseltown blacklist of Jewish filmmakers, and discovered that it will continue even with the ceasefire these blacklisters demanded:

Since its launch in September, the Film Workers for Palestine (FWP) campaign has attracted more than 5,000 signatories, including actors and directors such as Emma Stone, Olivia Colman, Yorgos Lanthimos, Mark Ruffalo, Tilda Swinton and Ayo Edebiri, who have pledged not to work with Israeli film institutions “implicated in genocide and apartheid.” Supporters say the boycott is a form of nonviolent protest and not discriminatory because it targets institutions, not individuals.

Like other cultural boycotts of Israel, the Film Workers for Palestine pledge and the proposed Eurovision ban are premised on the idea that certain Israeli institutions have been complicit in Israel’s military actions in Gaza. ...

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In other words, they don't want a ceasefire. They want Hamas to conquer Israel. Five thousand American celebrities rooted for the side that slaughtered 1200 Israelis in an unprovoked, planned massacre, pillage, and mass rape and torture, not to mention the kidnapping of 250 men, women, and children. And now they're blacklisting Jews over their politics, a remarkable action given the self-congratulatory storytelling Hollywood routinely indulges over the blacklists of the 1950s over communism.