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Ever since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack and Israel’s counteroffensive, prominent climate activist groups such as Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, and Fridays for Future have led anti-Israel protests, attempting to align the Palestinian cause with the global climate cause. But this messaging is deeply flawed, and as a 24-year-old Jewish climate commentator, I fear it could seriously divide and impede the climate movement. My heart breaks for the thousands of innocent Gazans and Israelis who have been killed and the hundreds of Israeli hostages still in captivity. I believe both sides’ governments stoked tensions, failed their constituents, and need...

Freedom of speech is in danger in the United Kingdom. A year ago, we ran a post about a woman who was arrested after admitting she was praying silently across the street from an abortion clinic. No signs, no bullhorn, nothing. Praying silently. They arrested her again this October for the same crime. In the meantime, you have climate alarmists destroying artwork and gluing themselves to the street. A very concerned NBC News reports that "scores" of people in Britain have been arrested "for walking slowly down the street." For walking slowly down the street, scores of people have been...

FIRST ON FOX: A fledgling dark money climate group poured millions of dollars last year into disruptive activist protests that blocked busy highways and destroyed famous artwork in cities across the world, according to tax filings obtained by Fox News Digital. The Beverly Hills, California-based, Climate Emergency Fund (CEF) - which has been funded in large part by Hollywood actors and producers since it was founded in 2019 - raised $6.1 million in 2022, a 165% increase from the $2.3 million it raised in 2021, the tax filings showed. The sharp increase in funding led to CEF sending $5 million...

The UK government was warned Tuesday by the U.N. that handing out long jail sentences to climate protesters could stifle public displays of dissent. The Just Stop Oil protesters in question caused traffic gridlock after scaling the Dartford Crossing Bridge for almost 40 hours in October last year, as Breitbart News reported. They were later accused of having “blood on their hands” after two women died in car crashes after being diverted from the bridge after the anti-fossil fuel activists had shut it down. Eco-extremists in Britain have a history of blocking motorways, junctions, and city centre intersections. The BBC...

@JustStop_Oil ⛓️ ELLA WARD, 20, IMPRISONED FOR MARCHING 🚷 Yet another young person has been imprisoned after marching against new oil and gas licences. Ella faces a maximum sentence of a year in jail. ⚖️ Ella was arrested earlier in November and given an ankle tag, and chose to continue to march. They are likely to remain in prison until they appear in court on the 24th November, but could face a prison sentence of up to 12 months for the new crime of "interference with key national infrastructure".

Just Stop Oil protestors tried to prevent people boarding the Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland. A number of people were being taken on board the vessel at the Dorset port more than two months after it was evacuated following the discovery of Legionella bacteria in the water supply. As the eco-protesters tried to halt the progress of the bus, the driver refused to stop, making those sitting on the ground have to move out of the way very quickly.

"These undercover journalists in England (well, YouTube citizen journalists) decided it was time for normal people to take their sweet, sweet revenge."

Just Stop Oil's bizarre slow-march story took an unexpected twist this morning - as lookalike counter-protesters infiltrated their ranks and foiled one of their demonstrations. Opposing activists - known only as Just Stop P***ing Everyone Off - stopped them in London in a military-style operation. The shadowy group camouflaged themselves in JSO's traditional orange T-shirts to blend in with the do-gooders. And as the climate change clowns began disrupting the traffic in Elephant and Castle, their new nemeses struck. Creating a ring of human bodies, JSPEO circled them and kettled them out of the street and onto the pavement. .....

Environmental protest groups have been targeting art history's greatest treasures to raise awareness about climate change. Climate activists turned up the heat this year, decrying the global environmental crisis by targeting internationally renowned art museums’ greatest treasures—and leading many onlookers to wonder how their actions actually connect with the greater good. Just last week, protesters from Just Stop Oil glued themselves to Vermeer’s iconic Girl With a Pearl Earring in the latest of their ongoing art demonstrations, previously focused on the U.K. The same group blasted a Rolex store in London with orange paint less than 24 hours later. In...

Eco-fanatics caused outrage yesterday by kidnapping three lambs from a royal farm and attacking the Chelsea Flower Show. They were warned their stunts, which raised animal welfare fears and caused costly damage, would destroy any public sympathy they had. The incidents are the latest in a series that includes a paint attack on the World Snooker Championships and a bid to sabotage the Grand National (horse race). Parliament might now have to bring in stronger punishments, according to Tory veteran Peter Bone. The MP said: 'When a very, very tiny minority is ruining the lives of other people, action needs...

A Hollywood director helping to bankroll Just Stop Oil has been accused of hypocrisy over his lavish holiday home in Ireland – 5,000 miles from his Los Angeles base. Oscar winner Adam McKay, whose films include the Big Short and Don't Look Up, is one of a group of multi-millionaires behind the Climate Emergency Fund. The Beverly Hills-based fund raises cash from its mega rich supporters and distributes it to 'disruptive' activists, including handing almost £1million to help Just Stop Oil wreak havoc in the UK. Mr McKay is a director of the fund and has donated over £3.2million to...

Two Just Stop Oil protesters who scaled a bridge on the Dartford Crossing, forcing police to close it to traffic, have been sentenced to more than two and a half years each for causing a public nuisance. Morgan Trowland, 40, and Marcus Decker, 34, used ropes and other climbing equipment to scale the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, which links the M25 between Essex and Kent across the River Thames, in October last year. The police closed the bridge to traffic, causing gridlock. Trowland was sentenced to three years in prison, while Decker received two years and seven months. Spokespeople from...

Having read Bill Ponton’s very clear “reality check” on the UK’s Net Zero project, you are probably wondering, what are the counter-arguments advanced by the supporters of Net Zero? After all, the Net Zero thing appears to have near-unanimous support in the UK. There is no significant political party in that country that advocates policies dissenting from the Net Zero program, unless you count the UK Independence Party, which at the moment holds zero seats in a House of Commons of 650 members. The currently-governing Conservative Party is fully on board with the Net Zero program, with the partial exception...

@MetPoliceEvents ⚠️ Just Stop Oil activists are planning further disruptive activity from 28 Nov - 14 Dec ⚠️ We’re fully prepared. ✅ We will: • Arrive quickly. • Deal with the situation efficiently. • Remove/arrest activists as appropriate. • Return things to normal as soon as possible. Since October we’ve arrested 7️⃣5️⃣5️⃣ Just Stop Oil activists. 1️⃣8️⃣2️⃣ have already been charged. ⚖️ We will continue to work with the CPS and the courts to bring to justice those who cause unacceptable disruption or damage to London. 🕵🏼 We know this success is prompting a change in their tactics: • They...

Climate activists glued themselves to Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring at a Dutch museum on Thursday (Oct 27) in the latest stunt targeting famous artworks, but the painting was undamaged. Three men were arrested after the attack at The Hague's Mauritshuis museum on the 1665 masterpiece which has inspired a bestselling novel and a Hollywood film. The trio were Belgian, one 42-year-old and two 45-year-olds. "They remain in custody and are being questioned," The Hague police said. Social media images showed a man wearing a "Just Stop Oil" T-shirt gluing his head to the painting, while another glued...

Protesters from the climate crisis group Extinction Rebellion have brought disruption to Capitol Hill in Washington, superglueing themselves to doorways to block politicians and staff. Just after 6pm, six activists stood in doorways to a tunnel connecting the Cannon office building to the US Capitol in an attempt to prevent members of Congress attending an evening vote. A total of 17 activists were arrested and charged with crowding and obstructing, according to US Capitol police. Several were also charged with defacing public property. Demonstrators said their goal was to force a House and Senate concurrent resolution on the climate emergency...

A fire engine and ambulance were among the vehicles caught in a blockade by Just Stop Oil protesters in west London which the government has said is "unacceptable". Videos shared online showed the emergency vehicles on blue lights unable to get through the traffic after around 32 protesters blocked three roads in Knightsbridge and Brompton Road. The protesters stopped traffic from travelling in either direction, with some gluing themselves to the asphalt. One video showed a stationary fire engine in the middle of a junction near Knightsbridge Underground station, with protesters blocking both the road behind and in front of...

talian eco-zealots glue their hands to Botticelli's masterpiece Primavera at a Florence art gallery in the latest climate change stunt inspired by Just Stop Oil vandals. Three environmental activists attached themselves to the glass cover of the iconic renaissance painting in the Sala Botticelli of the Uffizi Gallery in Italy at 10:30am on Friday. The protest was carried out by an unnamed man and two women - from the climate activist group Ultima Generazione 'Last Generation' - who rolled out a banner in front of them that read: 'Last Generation No Gas No Coal'. The activists, who had paid for...

The female protestor who sparked fury today when she glued herself to priceless artwork in the National Gallery has been accused of being a jet-setting sailor who has racked up tens of thousands of air miles. Student Hannah Hunt, 23, is the co-founder of Just Stop Oil whose social media pages are adorned with exotic holiday pictures from locations including Bali, Australia and the Canary Islands. The aspiring psychologist has contributed to chaos across the country, after she was pictured glueing herself to roads, camping in the rafters of a major oil depot in Essex and today stuck pictures over...