NOT THIS POST: The Washington Post has apologized (in full cringe mode) over the cartoon below, which the paper published Wednesday.

But the apology is the mistake, not the publication.

In it, artist Michael Ramirez makes a powerful point about what’s really going on in Gaza: Hamas is using the Palestinian people as human shields while blaming Israel for the result.

Indeed, the terrorists savor every innocent killed as Israel moves to eliminate the terrorist group that slaughtered roughly 1,400 of its citizens, along with mass rapes and the kidnapping of 200-plus hostages it still holds — and is also using as human shields.

Opinion editor David Shipley says the cartoon “was seen by many readers as racist” — though the drawing is simply, and plainly, a caricature of an actual Hamas spokesman who celebrated the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks across southern Israel.

The paper has pulled the ’toon off its website and is “also publishing a selection of responses to the caricature,” Shipley writes.

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The South Texas office of US Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R-Texas) was vandalized this week by pro-Hamas sympathizers angry over her solidarity with Israel, the Republican congresswoman said Thursday. 

De La Cruz has expressed support for Israel amid its military response to the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas terrorists that killed 1,400 Israelis in communities near the Gaza Strip.

Many pro-Palestinian supporters have criticized Israel for its bombardment of Gaza, which has resulted in thousands of deaths. 

“On October 7th, Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists murdered over 1,000 innocent civilians, including many Americans, in the single largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust,” De La Cruz said in a statement. “These savages burned babies in ovens, decapitated toddlers in front of their families, tortured parents before their children, and continue to hold hundreds of hostages.”

De La Cruz released images on X showing her office in the border city of McAllen vandalized with spray paint. On a window read the message: “Israel kills Jews too.” Another on the ground said: “You can’t escape your crimes Monica.”

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised House lawmakers on Thursday for censuring Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) over her calls for the eradication of the Jewish state. 

The resolution to censure the Michigan Democrat, which was passed on Tuesday, called out Tlaib’s “false narratives” around the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel and her Nov. 3 video post on X, which included the phrase “From the river to the sea.”

“‘From the river to the sea’ means there's no Israel,” Netanyahu explained during an interview with Fox News “Special Report” host Bret Baier.  

The Israeli prime minister denounced Tlaib’s comments, calling them “absurd.” 

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The NYPD is searching for four baby-faced vandals accused of spray painting antisemitic graffiti, including multiple swastikas, on the rooftops of four Upper East Side buildings last month.

The four boys defaced the buildings near East 85th Street and 3rd Avenue around 5:20 p.m. on October 9 — just two days after Hamas terrorists launched a deadly surprise attack on Israel, cops said.

Among the offensive scrawlings was the word “Hamas” in addition to several swastikas, according to police.

The group fled eastbound on East 85th Street. No injuries were reported.

The incident is being investigated by the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force, police said.

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Jewish billionaire and philanthropist Henry Swieca quit the Columbia University board of directors over what he called the Ivy League school’s “moral cowardice” for allowing a “blatantly anti-Jewish” sentiment to thrive on campus.

“To my deep regret the reputation and integrity of Columbia University, and by extension Columbia Business School, have been significantly compromised by a moral cowardice that appears beyond repair,” Swieca said in a resignation letter made public this week, Fox News reported.

“This is abhorrent,” he wrote in the scathing letter. “Any other minority group on campus would never have to face anything close to this level of intimidation and hatred of Jewish and pro-Israel students experience.”

Swieca added, “To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”

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A group of 100 pro-Palestine activists protested in the lobby of the New York Times building in criticism of the newspaper's coverage of the war in Israel.

The protesters accuse the news organization of a "pro-Israel" slant in its reporting and "complicity in the ongoing genocide of Gaza."

Outside the NYT building, protesters hold up a mocked up newspaper demanding a ceasefire and listing the names of Palestinians killed during Israel’s military offensive pic.twitter.com/tHokO89mea

— johnknefel (@johnknefel) November 9, 2023

Videos show the protesters listing the names of Palestinian journalists and Palestinian civilians who have been killed during the war.

The protesters appear to have not listed the names of any Israeli journalists nor civilians killed by Hamas terrorism.

Protesters also held up mock editions of the New York Times that called for a ceasefire as the headline and lists the names of Palestinians who have been killed during Israel's bombardment.

Disturbing videos have emerged of pro-Palestinian students violently mobbing a Jewish student group attempting to raise awareness for the 239 hostages currently held by Hamas at Canada's Concordia University, Montreal CTV News reports.

A student, 22, was arrested after assaulting a security guard attempting to break up the fray and three were injured in the melee.

A mob Pro-Palestinian students, some wearing kaffiyas, can be seen swarming the pro-Israel student group, ripping down posters of hostages, shoving students, and screaming profanities.

A man can be seen screaming "go back to Poland sharmouta [whore]" at a Jewish student, according to the X account Documenting Antisemitism.

The group alleges the man is a University of Montreal Professor Yanise Arab.

Eitan Kovac a student at the university, said the pro-Israel student group was mobbed almost immediately after setting up shop, calling the mayhem "a flagrant excuse to target Jews."

Sarah Shamy, who is not a university student, but was present at the event, claimed the pro-Israel group had provoked the pro-Palestinian students.

A whopping 70% of American Jews report feeling less safe since Hamas' October 7 terrorist attacks as antisemitism surges across US colleges and cities, according to a new poll by the Jewish Federations of North America.

Jews say they "very much worry about their personal safety" in numbers twice as high as the general public, the poll found.

Seventy-two percent of Jews reported feeling that antisemitism in their own communities has been rising.

One-third of Jews said they'd experienced violence or hate against Jewish people in their own communities.

Jews were more likely to describe the situation in their communities as "tense" and "uncomfortable" than in other years.

The Palestinian Authority would be willing to govern Gaza after Hamas is defeated as part of a two-state solution, a top Palestinian official informed the Biden administration, according to the New York Times.

PLO Secretary General Hussein al-Sheikh said the US would have to enforce a deal that included an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank.

Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian terrorist group, claims it may release two Israeli hostages, the Jerusalem Post reports.

The hostages were identified as 77-year-old Hanna Katzir and 12 -year-old Yagil Yaakov, who were both taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz. 

The terrorist group released a video taken of the captives under duress.

IDF spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari called the videos "psychological warfare."

Two Jewish elementary schools in Montreal were shot at, Haaretz reports.

Bullet holes were discovered in the entrances to Azrieli Talmud Torah and Yeshiva Gedola schools early Thursday.

Antisemitic attacks in Canada have been on the rise since Hamas' October 7 terrorist attack in Israel.

Israel has agreed to put in place a daily four-hour humanitarian pause in its assault in northern Gaza so as to allow Palestinians to flee, the White House said Thursday.

President Biden said Thursday that he called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to establish the daily pauses during a phone chat earlier this week.

Israel committed to the plan and will announce the safe windows for evacuations starting Thursday and at least three hours in advance, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters.

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