{"id":248985,"date":"2023-12-10T13:19:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T13:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=248985"},"modified":"2023-12-10T13:19:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T13:19:50","slug":"selling-humanity-short","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/selling-humanity-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling humanity short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/market\/stock-market-news\/hamas-likely-profited-from-israel-stock-markets-over-short-selling-ahead-of-october-terror-attacks-us-based-study-11701780276486.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US research<\/a> shows that 5 days before the Hamas attack on Israel, there was a very large increase in short-selling of Israeli company stock on the New York stock exchange, ie, people betting money that Israeli shares would drop significantly in value. Typically as a trader you would only short-sell a company if you happened to know in advance that something disastrous was about to happen to them.<\/p>\n<p>The trading of 227,820 shares in the Israel Exchange Traded Fund was orders of magnitude higher on 2 October than the usual 2,000 shares.<\/p>\n<p>So Hamas not only instigated a blood-soaked holocaust, it looks like they might have cleaned up on the stock market while they were at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-248985","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/248985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}