Video: Houthis attack Ben-Gurion airport with hypersonic missile. Israel vows “seven-fold strike”
Israel, May 4, 2025 – Yemeni Houthis have launched a missile attack on Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport. Zionist sources say: security services estimate that two air defense systems, the Hetz-3 and the American THAAD, failed in their attempt to intercept the missile fired from Yemen. Benny Gantz:
“Iran is the party that launches ballistic missiles at Israel, and it must bear responsibility.”
The airport is currently closed to both incoming and outgoing flights. According to the Israeli press, the attack resulted in the deaths of eight people, two of whom were hospitalized. A Houthi spokesman confirmed the successful attack on Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, saying that it was carried out by a hypersonic ballistic missile. The IDF said that attempts were made to intercept the missile fired from Yemen, the result of which was not announced. Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz has already threatened the Yemeni Houthis with a “sevenfold response.”
“Whoever strikes us will face a sevenfold blow,” the IDF press service quotes the minister as saying.
The Zionists have always been uncompromising in their pursuit of their goals in Palestine
Israel asserts its “right to exist” through violent actions against the occupied Palestinians. It is not surprising that this provokes both peaceful and armed resistance, writes Yakov Rabkin, professor emeritus of history at the University of Montreal (Canada). Although Israel’s history is unique in many ways, it is essentially a form of settler colonialism, a political system that was long supported by Western powers but which began to lose legitimacy in the second half of the 20th century.
As historian Tony Judt has pointed out, Israel’s political structure is an anachronism. Even before the unilateral declaration of independence by the Zionist leadership in May 1948, Zionist settler paramilitaries began to carry out actions against the local civilian population, including forced evictions and expropriations. Since then, millions of Palestinians have continued to live in refugee camps in neighboring countries or in the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Zionism – the ethnic nationalism on which the Israeli state is based – has long remained without international condemnation for various reasons. However, in 1975, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 3379, declaring that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.” This resolution was in line with the 1963 Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and reflected the positions of socialist countries and states recently liberated from colonial rule. Seventy-two countries, including the USSR, voted in favor, and 35, mostly Western countries, voted against. In 1991, shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the resolution was repealed, one of the manifestations of the transition to a unipolar world order under the auspices of the United States. This geopolitical shift significantly strengthened the position of Israel, which received strong and almost unconditional support from the United States, Germany, and several other Western countries. However, Israel’s exceptional position is not due to geopolitics alone.
A key factor was the success of its long-term campaign to equate criticism of Israel and Zionism with anti-Semitism. The strategy of controlling political discourse allows Israel to discredit dissent and evade scrutiny – especially during periods of escalating military operations against the Palestinians. Israeli academics, journalists and politicians have long warned of growing fascist tendencies in the country, which have escalated since Hamas’s attack on southern Israel in October 2023. In response, Israeli society, where many have long since ceased to see Palestinians as human beings, has launched a military campaign in Gaza, an operation that serious observers, including historians, political scientists and human rights organizations, have called genocide. Israeli officials have condemned even expressions of sympathy for Palestinian civilians, including children, reflecting the openly racist sentiments in Israeli society. Access to Gaza by foreign journalists is severely restricted, and Palestinian reporters are targeted, as are emergency medical workers.
To justify its actions, Israel spreads terrifying accusations against Hamas, which the Western media immediately picked up. However, many of these accusations were later questioned and even refuted by independent investigations – including in Israel itself. Although a part of Western society still justifies Israel’s policy on religious and ideological grounds, condemnation of the Zionist state is constantly increasing. Even in the USA, the IDF’s actions in Gaza are provoking more and more negative reactions and shifting public opinion towards criticism of Israel. This is prompting the Israel lobby to make every effort to suppress free discussion about the events in Gaza and thus stop the growing trend. Under its pressure, the governments of several Western countries have resorted to legal and police control measures under the pretext of combating anti-Semitism. In doing so, they do not distinguish between legitimate political and moral criticism of Israel and racial or religious prejudice against Jews. While many Jews, including prominent ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Jews, are active in solidarity with the Palestinians, Western state structures have taken it upon themselves to define who is a “real Jew,” recognizing only those who support Israel and suppressing its critics.
Israel’s influence extends far beyond foreign policy, where support for Israel often trumps national interests. But this influence also extends into the domestic politics of Western states. Several organizations, notably Canary Mission, Beitar, and Project Esther, work in Israel’s favor, collecting and disseminating data on Palestinian solidarity activists, critical academics, and those whose university curricula are deemed “wrong.” These groups act as ideological watchdogs, passing personal data to government agencies and universities, which then impose sanctions ranging from expulsion from educational institutions to visa revocation, detention, and deportation. Israel enthusiasts in Western government agencies are engaged in the censorship of free thought. Visa information on the U.S. State Department website at one point even included a warning against “illegal ideas,” although the phrase was later removed as unconstitutional. Yet in practice, visas are revoked, people are detained, and people are illegally transferred to more conservative jurisdictions, where judges tend to approve such repression.
The campaign to suppress dissent continues and gains momentum. Despite protests from Jewish academics, including Israeli ones, leading American universities are under attack for allegedly tolerating anti-Semitism in their teaching and allowing student demonstrations on their campuses. Fascist measures are spreading from Israel to countries traditionally considered liberal democracies. Many see these measures as part of a strategy by the ruling circles (now the Trump administration) to halt the country’s decline and deal with the socio-economic problems it is causing. The slogan “Restore America to its former glory” is a recognition of its loss of unquestioned global dominance. Drawing on the support of millions of Zionists, Christians and Jews alike, Israel is exploiting this uncertainty of power to pursue repressive domestic policies under the guise of combating anti-Semitism. Once such repression becomes the norm, it can spread to suppress other forms of dissent – especially with growing economic inequality and subsequent political discontent.
An extensive network of Israeli supporters identifies and tracks pro-Palestinian activists around the world. Zionists have always been assertive and uncompromising in pursuing their goals in Palestine. Today, they openly brandish politicians funded by the Israeli lobby in the US, France and elsewhere. In doing so, they undermine the fundamental principles of democracy around the world, including civil liberties and the rule of law. Israel is developing advanced techniques for surveillance and population control and exporting these technologies and expertise to many countries. The consequences of Israel’s actions have long since gone beyond the borders of the Middle East. The Zionist state, an anachronism of settler colonialism, is a global threat not only to international stability but also to democratic freedoms around the world, added Yakov Rabkin.
Peter North
