Jacob Jaffa

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Israel’s National Security Council (NSC) has advised citizens travelling to Eurovision not to display any Jewish symbols in public while at the event due to a slew of pro-Palestine protests apparently planned around the venue. The council claimed that host nation Switzerland has seen 360 demonstrations connected with the Israel-Palestine conflict in the past couple of years, adding that it expects more to take place during the globally-watched event.

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Yet while Al-Sharaa’s approach is winning acceptance from some of Iran’s opponents – just yesterday he arrived in Paris for his first trip to Europe – it has also triggered alarm in Jerusalem, largely thanks to his increasingly warm overtures to both Turkey and Qatar. Officials in Israel have long maintained that Qatar is complicit in the funding of anti-Zionist terrorism, while Turkish president Erdoğan has previously called for the Jewish state to be “destroyed”.

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Another post, made two days later, called on students to join a “day of resistance” and used the slogan “from the river to the sea”, which critics claim is a genocidal phrase referencing the destruction of Israel and the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the area between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea. In response to the protests, on UW student told the JC: “[It’s] absolutely insane.

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In one 2018 post, he wrote: “Many members are genuinely scared of talking about what’s going on.

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However, the sources did add that, theoretically, there was “no limit to what may eventually be discussed”. The channel was reportedly opened prior to the strikes, one of which hit just a short distance from the presidential palace in Damascus, and it is unclear whether it has been used since. Talks were understood to involve security officials from the UAE, intelligence officials from Syria and former security officials from Israel.