[5][6] On 11 December, The Brussels Times reported the Belgium's Foreigners' Office had instructed municipalities to strip the citizenship of Belgian children with Palestinian parents, though a spokesperson for the Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration denied this action was related to the ongoing war.
[21][22] Following this, more than 1,000 authors and publishers – including Colm Tóibín, Hisham Matar, Kamila Shamsie and William Dalrymple, as well as Nobel prize winners Abdulrazak Gurnah, Annie Ernaux and Olga Tokarczuk – signed an open letter criticizing this decision, saying that the Book Fair had “a responsibility to be creating spaces for Palestinian writers to share their thoughts, feelings, reflections on literature through these terrible, cruel times, not shutting them down”.
[23][24] On 13 November 2023, an Afrofuturism exhibition by curator Anaïs Duplan was suspended by Museum Folkwang after they expressed support for Palestine and "personally tak[ing] sides with the BDS campaign" on Instagram.
[25][26] The next day, Indian poet Ranjit Hoskote resigned from his position at the curator-finding committee of Documenta, after the exhibition publicly criticized him for signing a BDS India letter in 2019, calling it "explicitly anti-Semitic".
[28] Over the following two days, the entire committee resigned, citing the social climate created by the Israel–Hamas war in an open letter, and Documenta's "unchallenged media and public discrediting" of Hoskote in particular.
Gessen condemned the atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October, but was also critical of the Israeli bombings of the Gaza Strip, which they considered to be highly destructive and comparable to an Eastern European ghetto "being liquidated" by the Nazis.
[32] Following this, the Heinrich Böll Foundation announced that they were withdrawing their support for Gessen winning the Hannah Arendt Prize, rejecting the comparison of Gaza to a Jewish ghetto as "unacceptable".
[35] On 10 April 2024, a job offer to Nancy Fraser, a Jewish American philosopher, to give lectures at the University of Cologne was rescinded after it was discovered that she had signed the letter "Philosophy for Palestine".
[37] A Palestine Congress conference, scheduled on the weekend of 13–14 April 2024 at Berlín and organized by various Palestinian support groups along with the Germany Branch of European Jews for a Just Peace was prohibited.
[41] Reproaching him for defending positions that are too critical of the Israeli government, former German deputy Volker Beck refused to discuss with the historian and the Urania center canceled the event at short notice.
[57] Additional Palestinian students are reportedly facing suspensions after receiving emails accusing them of "supporting terrorism" due to posts condemning the continued attacks of the Israeli military on Gazan citizens.
[59] Many of those imprisoned alleged that they were tortured or otherwise mistreated while detained in military prison facilities, while the International Committee of the Red Cross stated they were repeatedly denied access to arrestees, who Israeli officials had classified as "enemy non-combatants".
On November 3, Israel reportedly deported 3,200 Palestinian workers into the Gaza Strip, with the UN Human Rights Office expressing their concern over the status of the deportees and indicated they were being sent into an incredible dangerous situation.
Ness (Nessya Levi [he]) and Stilla (Dor Soroker [he]) stated that they wrote the song to raise the Israeli people's morale, deciding it was "time to replace the sadness with anger".
A warden is recorded stating "They have no mattresses...They have nothing…we control them 100% — their food, their shackling, their sleep…[we] show them we are the masters of the house" Footage documented at least one area in where prisoners sleep with one room only having bare metal bunkbeds and a hole in the floor for a toilet.
At least six Palestinian communities have been fully abandoned due to the violence according to the West Bank Protection Consortium, which was founded by the European Union, and eight people have been killed and sixty-four injured.
Settlers have also purposefully burned down ancestral olive trees, covered agricultural land with cement, attacked harvesters and built rock barriers to prevent people from returning to villages and fired upon them with live ammunition if they tried.
[81][82] Widely circulated video and images at around 7 December 2023, showed dozens of Palestinian men in Northern Gaza blindfolded, stripped partially naked, and kneeling on the ground, guarded by Israeli soldiers.
[87] However, CNN reported that at least some of the men are civilians with no known affiliation with any armed group,[84] with IDF spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, appearing to confirm this by stating: "We arrest everyone" for interrogation.
Other videos have shown IDF troops since the start of the conflict, purposefully destroying businesses while laughing, setting goods on fire while still in a vehicle, and going through private Gazan citizens' belongings.
Wise reportedly rammed her vehicle into the other car, which was being driven by a Tunisian woman and screamed at her that she "should be raped and dragged in the street in front of her kids" due to displaying the flag.
[97] That same day, a Jewish-American man in Farmington Hills, Michigan was arrested and charged with making a threat of terrorism after he posted on social media that he wanted to "go to Dearborn & hunt Palestinians".
Salzman's comments were condemned by the Council on American Islamic Relations in Florida (CAIR-Florida) who stated that they were a "chilling call for genocide" and had come about through "decades of dehumanization of the Palestinian people by advocates of Israeli apartheid.
"[100] On 7 November at Edmonds Playground on DeKalb Avenue, a woman identified as 48-year-old Hadasa Bozakkaravani allegedly hurled hot coffee and anti-Islamic statements, calling him a terrorist, at 40-year-old Ashish Prashar who took his 18-month-old son to play.
[102][103] On 12 November, Kenneth Ballenegger, co-founder of San Francisco-based investment company Oyster Ventures, said on X (formerly Twitter) that Israel must treat Gaza "like China handles Xinjiang", and advocated for a "Full surveillance state.
[104] Two videos depicting Stuart Seldowitz emerged showing him harassing a halal cart vendor in the Upper East Side, asking a series of racist and Islamophobic questions, including "Did you rape your daughter like Muhammad did?
[107] About the same day United Talent Agency dropped actress Susan Sarandon as a client after she spoke out at a pro-Palestine rally, where she encouraged others to speak out in support of Palestine and said, "There are a lot of people afraid of being Jewish at this time, and [who] are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country, so often subjected to violence.
"[113][114] On 4 February 2024, a 36-year-old man, named as Bert James Baker, was arrested after stabbing a 23-year-old Palestinian-American who was leaving a pro-Palestine protest he had attended with three friends at the Texas State Capitol in Austin.
Girdusky told Hasan "Well, I hope your beeper doesn't go off" during a live discussion in an apparent reference to the Israeli targeting of Hezbollah fighters in Lenanon with exploding pagers.
[133] In early December, ABC News reported incidents of Arab and Muslim Australians being doxed, receiving death threats, and dismissed from their jobs for expressing pro-Palestinian viewpoints or attending pro-Palestine rallies.