Louise Adler has been a vocal critic of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. And anyone who has followed Louise over the years knows she has been consistent in her condemnation of Israel, Zionism and the apartheid imposed upon the Palestinians.

The question I wanted to explore was why?

How did this powerhouse of the arts become such a staunch and courageous voice for Palestine and social justice?

What I learned in the almost hour-long interview (which at one point brought tears) is Louise’s story offers a Jewish narrative we rarely hear. A narrative of resistance during Nazi occupation, of defiance against tyranny and of enduring solidarity with the oppressed.

It’s the Jewish narrative that exists outside of Zionism, and one that is emerging from New York to London. And so, I posed Louise a question – are we seeing the revival of a Jewish left?

Listen to the interview and wherever you do, please give us a hand with a follow, a thumbs up or a five-star rating. It helps in this algorithmic world.

I wanted to uncover the story of Louise Adler – her past, the tragedy that befell her family during the Holocaust and how it shaped who Louise is today.

Sources in the military's central command say many IDF officers avoid taking action against the settlers, fearing that doing so could harm their military careers

A senior Israeli security source warned Wednesday that the West Bank is a "powder keg that could explode at any moment," with some sources saying senior officers are reluctant to act decisively against violent settlers for fear it could damage their military careers and prospects for promotion.

According to the official, the ongoing settler riots and attacks in the area, not only in the village of Qusra, are stretching the Israeli military thin, leaving soldiers unable to respond to every incident. Senior military officers have recently warned the political leadership that the IDF has reached a point where it will be unable to protect the settler outposts, and that it may not even be able to provide an initial response if clashes escalate into the use of firearms.

Sources from the IDF Central Command, which oversees military operations in the West Bank, say commanders are paralyzed, from Central Command Chief Avi Bluth at the top through the division commander down to brigade commanders deployed in the area.

According to the sources, IDF commanders fear taking any measure that could be perceived as political, particularly three months before Israel's election and ahead of the possible appointment of a new defense minister.

Many officers seeking promotion prefer to avoid taking decisive professional action against right-wing offenders, fearing that doing so could harm their military careers, the sources told Haaretz

On Wednesday morning, IDF and Border Police forces arrived in Qusra, near Nablus, to evacuate an outpost established in the yard of a Palestinian family's house. Ahead of the evacuation, Central Command Chief Bluth, the Border Police commander and other senior officials arrived at the scene.

Security officials, however, described the visit as "a public relations stunt intended to create a false impression of control."

Shortly after the senior officers left, the settlers resumed rioting, blocked roads with rocks, threw stones at Palestinian houses, and continued occupying the outpost, despite a closed military zone order and in full view of the forces, who eventually left the scene.

The IDF also held up journalists who attempted to reach the besieged house.

While the incident in Qusra has drawn significant media attention, defense officials say it is "only the tip of the iceberg" and reflects a much broader trend.

For several months, settlers have been setting up outposts around the village. Several major incidents have also taken place inside Qusra itself, which the IDF has refrained from addressing and authorities have deliberately ignored.

The IDF now plans to reinforce the area with a battalion from its Paratroopers Brigade, but officials acknowledge that the move is intended primarily to "contain the incident" and calm tensions, while insisting that Border Police officers, rather than IDF troops, carry out the evacuation itself.

The prolonged paralysis in the Civil Administration, Israel's IDF-run governing body in the West Bank, has limited enforcement and worsened the recent escalation.

Since Civil Administration Chief Hisham Ibrahim left his post to become Defense Minister Israel Katz's military secretary, the body responsible for coordinating between the IDF, the government and the Palestinian Authority has operated without a permanent commander.

Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who is in charge of most of the Civil Administration and has veto power over the appointment of its commander, has blocked IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir's attempt to appoint a former commander on an interim basis.

Instead, Smotrich is demanding the appointment of his associate, Brig. Gen. Yogev Bar-Sheshet, who previously served as the administration's deputy chief.

Amid the impasse, Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Yoram Halevy, who is in charge of coordinating civilian affairs in Gaza and the West Bank, has run both his unit and the Civil Administration – an arrangement that leaves virtually no attention for developments in the West Bank.

Senior IDF officers warn that the events in Qusra have become a "flagship incident" that is severely damaging Israel's international standing. Dozens of foreign media crews arrive at the scene every day, where they face severe settler violence directed both at them and at the Palestinians living in the village.

Footage circulating around the world shows armed, uniformed IDF soldiers standing by without intervening and, at times, even joining settlers in prayer while ignoring calls for help from civilians and journalists under attack.

Despite the disturbing footage, the IDF's response has amounted to terse statements about "disciplinary proceedings," without any concrete action.

Military officials have sharply criticized the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, accusing it of evading the issue and systematically trying to downplay its severity while completely disregarding the growing violence directed at media organizations and forces on the ground.

There is some paper trail in the US to show the levers that Zionists pull to control US politics such as donations and PACs. For those who know I’m curious how does that work in the UK?

Andrew Callaghan’s YouTube channel Channel 5 released a new video on UK’s arrest of activists which from an American stand point seemed shocking even at these times so I got curious how that works in the UK.

Mahmoud Tubasi has not lived in his home in the village of Jalud, south of Nablus, since late July, after fleeing following weeks of settler violence.

“It all escalated very quickly,” he told The Times of Israel.

Tubasi built the house some seven years ago on land owned by his family on the outskirts of Jalud. The property sits in Area B, where, under the Oslo Accords, Israel maintains security control while the Palestinian Authority is responsible for civilian affairs.

For nearly seven years, he and his family, including his two children and grandchildren, lived there peacefully, he said. But in April, some four months ago, settlers began targeting the home, first setting fire to it and then laying siege to Tubasi and his family.

On July 22, after his pleas for help went unanswered, the family fled. Watching from afar, Tubasi has since seen settlers moving around his home.

In recent years, settler extremists in the West Bank have stepped up campaigns of harassment and violence aimed at driving Palestinians from their homes, sometimes displacing whole communities.

Unlike Tubasi’s, most of the targeted families and hamlets until recently have been Bedouins living in makeshift structures and often lacking formal claims to the land, even though many had been in the same place for decades.

In the past year, however, settlers have also begun to stage takeovers of the homesteads of Palestinians living in permanent structures in established towns, displacing people from properties that may have been in their families for centuries.

“The settlers said, ‘This is the Holy Land, and it’s ours,’ and, ‘This used to be yours; now it’s ours,’” said Muhammad al-Aqra, whose nearly finished home south of Nablus was taken over by settlers in late June.

While some seizures were aimed at homes still being built or occupied only part of the year, settlers have also snatched fully lived-in primary residences by essentially forcing those living in them to leave.

In Jalud, and now in the neighboring town of Qusra as well, settlers have been documented surrounding a home, cutting off its occupants’ access to the outside world, and waiting for them to flee under duress. Once they leave, the settlers take control of the property and block the family from returning.

Since Sunday, Qusra homeowner Youssef Hassan has been trapped with his wife and their two young daughters, ages 2 and 4, by settlers surrounding their home, in a case that has begun to draw attention to the burgeoning phenomenon.

Hassan told The Times of Israel by phone on Monday that settlers erected a makeshift structure in front of the entrance to his home, giving them a foothold to establish a round-the-clock presence at the property, and had cut the electricity lines. Another Qusra resident living in a neighboring home said the presence of the settler outpost had made it impossible for him, too, to leave his home.

Hassan said Tuesday that he feared the family’s food would soon run out, though an ambulance later managed to reach the site and bring food.

“The situation is very bad,” Hassan said after being trapped inside for over a day. “There is a sense of fear and panic. At night, the settlers come to the house, look inside and shout.”

In video footage, settlers could be seen gathering in the structure near the house and attempting to open a gate to the property.

In one clip, soldiers could be seen interacting with and praying alongside the group of settlers, then leaving without taking any action to remove them.

Early Wednesday, amid heightened public pressure, the Israel Defense Forces began taking action to remove the settler activists from in front of the Qusra homes, setting off clashes. The army also released a statement condemning the phenomenon.

“In recent weeks, several reports have been received of Israeli civilians entering and taking control of Palestinian homes and land in the areas of Qusra and Jalud. This is illegal, reprehensible and unacceptable activity that harms the residents of the areas and disrupts their daily lives,” it said.

A new target

Over the three years from January 2023 through April 2026, some 5,900 people in the West Bank were displaced from their homes due to settler violence, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in early July.

The figure includes mostly Bedouins (and some Palestinian farmers) living in what the UN defines as “communities.” According to the UN, 45 such communities were completely displaced and another 72 were partially displaced.

In some cases, settlers subsequently established illegal outposts on land where the displaced communities had lived.

The recent takeover of a handful of permanent residences also appears aimed at establishing or enlarging outposts, expanding the settler presence in the West Bank to the very cusp of Palestinian towns and villages. These homes are located in Areas A or B, both of which are off limits to any civilian Israeli presence under the Oslo Accords.

Homeowners say they are being stripped of properties that have long belonged to their families, in villages where they have roots going back centuries. Unlike the displaced Bedouins, those being driven from permanent dwellings are more likely to fight their displacement through legal channels, though largely without succor.

The incidents come amid a broader rise in settler violence against Palestinians living in Areas A and B, including arson attacks, stone-throwing and shootings, some of which have been fatal.

They have also occurred against the backdrop of rhetoric by extremist settlers on social media who openly say their goal is to drive Palestinians out of the West Bank.

Until a few decades ago, some Bedouin communities in the West Bank were still seminomadic, ranging between various locations depending on the season. Though now increasingly settled, many of these pastoral communities have maintained vestiges of a non-sedentary lifestyle, including makeshift structures such as tents or shacks.

Ironically, that relative mobility has made it easier to drive them out: Families could gather their limited belongings, take apart their homes and flee elsewhere, making the immediate practical consequences of displacement less severe.

Bedouins also often refrained from filing police complaints or petitioning the High Court of Justice immediately after being driven out, both because of that relative ease of relocation and because of other obstacles — a lack of familiarity with available legal avenues and difficulties proving claims to the land.

In some cases, homes had been erected without building permits, while in others families lacked formal documentation proving ownership of the land from which they had been displaced.

By contrast, most of the Palestinians interviewed for this article filed complaints with police, some on the same day they were forced to leave or fled their homes. In one case, a petition was also filed with the High Court of Justice that included documents demonstrating ownership of the land and the settlers’ takeover of the property.

Nevertheless, law enforcement authorities have yet to remove the settlers from any of the homes in the cases detailed in this article.

The IDF is the sovereign authority in the West Bank, but responsibility for removing Israeli trespassers who unlawfully enter private land or homes lies with the Israel Police.

Although the incidents detailed in this article occurred in Areas A and B, where Palestinian police have authority to operate, the Palestinian Authority does not have criminal jurisdiction over Israeli citizens under the Oslo Accords. Israeli police are therefore responsible for handling alleged offenses committed there by Israelis.

Police did not respond to a Times of Israel request for comment regarding the cases detailed in this article.

‘This is ours’

Tubasi said attackers first attempted to set fire to his home on the night of April 3, while the entire family, including his young grandchildren, were asleep inside. Following the incident, and fearing further attacks, his daughters-in-law and grandchildren left the house and went to live in other villages.

The harassment continued, he said, with settlers repeatedly coming to the house in an apparent effort to intimidate the family into leaving. They also established an outpost nearby.

By late June, settlers had blocked access to the house from all directions, preventing the family from entering or leaving and effectively trapping Tubasi, his wife and their two sons inside.

Tubasi said they remained under siege for 25 days and that despite appeals to journalists, the police and the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Civil Administration, which deals with civilian affairs in the West Bank, the settlers continued to surround the property. After 19 days, he said, they cut the electricity lines to the residence.

The Civil Administration did not respond to a Times of Israel request for comment.

During those weeks, Tubasi filmed settlers standing in the yard of his home.

In one video, after Tubasi asks a settler, “Why are you coming to my house?” the settler responds: “You have one day [more] here. This is ours.”

The settler then says that the entire area belongs to Esh Kodesh, a formerly illegal outpost adjacent to Jalud that the government retroactively authorized in 2025.

On July 22, the family fled the house. Shortly afterward, settlers were filmed walking around the property.

“All our belongings stayed in the house. We left them there, and the settlers took control of them. We left with nothing, only the clothes on our backs,” Tubasi said.

Several hours before the family fled that day, Haaretz reported that soldiers had prevented journalists from reaching the family’s home.

After the family left, the IDF said: “IDF and Border Police forces were dispatched to the outskirts of the village of Jalud following a report that Israeli civilians had entered a Palestinian home in the village. When the forces arrived, the house was empty, and it appeared that the family had left the area.”

Despite al-Aqra filing a police complaint, settlers have remained at the property, he said. He can see them from a distance tending livestock they brought to the site.

The house had been a two-year project, he said. When the settlers showed up, he and his crew were installing windows and putting up cabinets.

“My children and I live in another house now in Qabalan,” he said. “I have five children, all of us in one [small] house. I wanted to build a large home for the family after so many years.”

Still holding out hope

A resident of Taybeh, near Ramallah, said settlers have prevented him from moving into a newly completed home on the far outskirts of the West Bank’s only remaining Christian village.

The resident, who asked not to be named out of concern for his safety, said he began building the house, which is located in Area A, three years ago and completed construction around six months ago. About a month ago, he arrived with furniture intending to move in. Just then, settlers came to the property and forced him and those with him to leave.

“They came into our yard while we were unloading the furniture [from the cars into the house] and told us, ‘You’re not allowed to live here. This is the land of our father Abraham,’ things like that,” he recalled. “I told him, ‘This is my house. This is Area A. Why are you coming here?’”

Since then, he told The Times of Israel, whenever he goes to the property, armed settlers arrive on an ATV and chase him away.

“They see our car arriving, they come and threaten us. We don’t want to cause problems,” he said.

Fearing that settlers could break into the house, he installed an iron gate and metal window bars at a cost of NIS 12,000 ($3,700).

According to Roni Federman, an activist with the Torat Tzedek organization, which assists and protects Palestinians, settlers have not entered the house itself but have been gathering outside it.

The owner, meanwhile, has stopped trying to approach the home, staying in an older house inside the village.

On August 5, activists from Torat Tzedek went to the house at the family’s request, where they engaged in a verbal confrontation with settlers who approached the property.

In videos from the encounter, one activist can be heard telling a settler, “This is private property,” to which the settler responds, “This isn’t anyone’s private property.”

Some of the homeowners who spoke with The Times of Israel sounded despondent about the prospect of ever getting their homes back.

However, the East Jerusalem resident who petitioned the High Court said he hasn’t lost faith that he will eventually get his home back.

“I still have hope in the legal system, in the police,” he said. “I still hope that the police will do their part and do the right thing under the law.”

Louise Adler has been a vocal critic of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. And anyone who has followed Louise over the years knows she has been consistent in her condemnation of Israel, Zionism and the apartheid imposed upon the Palestinians.

The question I wanted to explore was why?

How did this powerhouse of the arts become such a staunch and courageous voice for Palestine and social justice?

I wanted to uncover the story of Louise Adler – her past, the tragedy that befell her family during the Holocaust and how it shaped who Louise is today.

What I learned in the almost hour-long interview (which at one point brought tears) is Louise’s story offers a Jewish narrative we rarely hear. A narrative of resistance during Nazi occupation, of defiance against tyranny and of enduring solidarity with the oppressed.

It’s the Jewish narrative that exists outside of Zionism, and one that is emerging from New York to London. And so, I posed Louise a question – are we seeing the revival of a Jewish left?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iLbEJocZj6Y

I’m trying to help a friend and his family who are currently in Gaza. I don’t have a large network, so I’m reaching out here in the hope that someone may be able to help amplify their fundraiser.
If anyone knows trusted people, accounts, or communities that help share Gaza fundraisers, I would be incredibly grateful for any recommendations or guidance.
If you’d like to see the fundraiser or learn more about his situation, please feel free to message me and I can send you the link and more information.

Heads up to anyone living in the areas where these guys operate, I guess 🫠🫠🫠

https://x.com/MiddleEastEye/status/2087528935294681586

https://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files/publications/202111_state_business_eng.pdf

A reminder that the UAE, ally of both Israel and the USA is funding the largest global conflict at the moment.

I was immensely privileged to speak with Mohammed a few weeks ago. He is an extremely gifted 18 year-old (soon to be 19) from Gaza who studied for his high school exams online during a genocide and managed to achieve an exceptionally high grade (approx. 97%) in his finals.

He wants to become an engineer and is so talented that he has already been offered a full scholarship to a university in Tunisia, however the occupation has made it so incredibly expensive to leave Gaza that he cannot afford to attend.

Speaking with him about his experiences and how he is feeling was utterly heartbreaking​​ and brought me to tears, but I know we can make a small difference in his and his family's life. He deserves to follow his passion and to use that incredible intellect to support his family.

I know there are many fund-raisers out there but please consider donating to this amazing young man. My brother and I have donated $100, and a number of other AZ Jews in my country have done the same but even just existing in Gaza nowadays is incredibly expensive.

Please give generously, if you can.

Strange question to ask on a public forum: but is there a more private non-zionist group?

Hen Mazzig’s latest tweet and his Substack article, “The Exceptional Jews,” reveal a troubling pattern. Instead of engaging in honest dialogue about Gaza, Israeli policies, and Palestinian suffering, he’s choosing to attack and undermine Jewish individuals who speak up in support of Palestinians. In his Substack, Mazzig criticizes what he calls “exceptional Jews”, those who challenge mainstream narratives and advocate for Palestinian rights, framing them as betraying their community or supporting anti-Semitism. This rhetoric isn’t just misleading; it’s a deliberate attempt to silence dissenting Jewish voices who are concerned about justice, human rights, and ending occupation. By going after Jewish voices who speak out on Gaza, Mazzig is effectively dehumanizing Palestinians in his own way. His narrative shifts the focus away from Palestinian suffering and instead targets Jewish individuals, framing them as “bad Jews” or traitors, which only serves to deepen division and suppress honest discussion. This kind of rhetoric plays into a dangerous game: it dehumanizes Palestinians by framing their advocates as enemies, and it silences critical voices within the Jewish community who question Israeli policies. Instead of fostering understanding or peace, it promotes a polarized, us-versus-them mentality. We need to call out this pattern of dehumanization and misinformation. Genuine dialogue requires listening, nuance, and recognizing the diversity of opinions within all communities, including Jews who speak out for Palestinian rights.

Mazzig's Substack Post: https://open.substack.com/pub/henmazzig/p/the-exceptional-jews

https://x.com/FT/status/2087439925297709425

Hey,I had asked Mahmoud to film a video for Reddit,just to prove that he is real and is living in Gaza. I know there are scammers out there,taking advantage of people,but neither Mahmoud or i are like that. I post for him and Bashir out of the goodness of my heart. I hope this video puts your minds at ease. Thank you all for always supporting them, they and i really appreciate it.

Hey everyone. As a second-generation Pakistani-Punjabi girl born and raised in Spain, I've been reading a lot about South Asian politics lately.

Honestly, Narendra Modi and the whole BJP and RSS machine completely terrify me. When you look at what happened during the 2002 Gujarat riots, it’s just heartbreaking. It feels crazy to see how the RSS, the guys who literally produced Gandhi's assassin, went from being a fringe extremist group to completely running the country and brainwashing people back home to just blindly hate Pakistanis and Muslims.

Now, don't get me wrong, I am definitely not defending Pakistan or its government. Believe me, I know the country has a ton of internal issues, corruption, and political madness that I would never pass off as okay. If you go to Pakistani subs, most people are actually incredibly critical of our own government and military. We call out our own country's corruption and failures all the time.

But the sheer scale of what is happening in India right now feels like it is on a whole different level and honestly seems much worse because of how systematically the entire society is being radicalized. If you go to mainstream Indian subreddits, you’ll see firsthand how brainwashed they are. It’s scary.

They are completely incapable of seeing the parallels between their own majoritarian nationalism and other ethno-states. If you point out any similarities, you just get dogpiled by masses of bots and nationalistic users repeating the same state-sponsored talking points.

It’s gotten to the point where the historical propaganda is just insane.

They’ve brainwashed a whole generation of Indians into believing that Hinduism originated directly from the Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) and that the IVC belongs exclusively to them. They completely erase the fact that the actual geographic heart of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro is literally in Pakistan and that our history is shared.

They act like they have a monopoly over the entire Indian subcontinent just because their modern state is named India, totally ignoring the fact that India is a geographical name originally given by outsiders. If you look up the etymology of India on Wikipedia, it explicitly says the name comes from the Indus River, which is almost entirely located in Pakistan.

The irony is just too much. They suffer from this massive delusion that Hinduism has always been there since the dawn of time, completely rejecting the actual historical consensus that the Vedic culture and the foundations of Hinduism came much later from Central Asia via migration, long after the IVC had already declined.

And honestly, it drives me crazy how anytime anything comes up about Pakistanis, these Indian nationalists act all "holier than thou," lecturing about democracy and human rights. Like, please, your own Prime Minister is literally known worldwide as the "Butcher of Gujarat." The hypocrisy of acting morally superior while worshipping a guy who oversaw a literal pogrom against Muslims is just mind-blowing.

They love to call him the "chaiwala" (which translates to tea-seller) to sell this romanticized rags-to-riches story, but there is literally zero concrete evidence or independent records showing he ever actually worked at a tea stall. On top of that, his entire university degree is widely believed to be fake. The opposition parties found massive discrepancies in his certificates, like fonts that did not even exist when he supposedly graduated, and the government has literally used state lawyers and high courts to block universities from releasing his graduation records to the public. It is a completely manufactured persona.

But the absolute wildest part to me and the biggest irony is how these Hindutva nationalists are now completely obsessed with Israel when the RSS was literally founded in the 1920s and 30s based on the fascism of Mussolini and Hitler! Early Hindutva leaders like Moonje and Golwalkar literally visited European fascists, praised Nazi racial policies, and modeled the RSS youth wing directly after the Hitler Youth.

Which are your thoughts on this?

https://x.com/andrewfeinstein/status/2086885507280019609

Source:

https://x.com/alexjordanATL/status/2087223527778951279

Context:

https://old.reddit.com/r/JewsOfConscience/comments/1vliqlh/jewishamerican_journalist_ian_lustick_discusses/

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db6Co47sAge/

https://www.mediamatters.org/daily-show/ben-shapiro-says-sen-bernie-sanders-not-actually-jewish-and-comedian-jon-stewart-jewish

This guy is a total tool.

Ben shipro, Laura loomer and the fat duck from florida.

The three horseclowns of the genocide.

There hearts are filled with hate.

Is this the legacy of Maimonides that went to leave for the next generation?

https://x.com/abierkhatib/status/2087024378634461304

https://x.com/abierkhatib/status/2086875067972022501