Shani Rotkovitz

Chances are you’ve got some strong, badass women in your life. You should probably reach out to them today. It’s probably been awhile since you recognized them. In the meantime, bringing a little recognition to strong, badass women in my own life. Shall we begin?

@TaniaSchell @LockerEllen @HenMazzig This is patently false and easily verifiable. Outcomes of a study of 12 countries in the region, Palestine wasn’t even considered in the top half. It ranks 10 out of 12. So on the topic of education, it appears you in fact are uneducated. americancaldwell.com/mena

@LockerEllen @HenMazzig Palestinians have always been one of the most educated people in the region. They have one of the highest number of PhD per capita. Your tweet is uneducated and racist.

ISRAELI FOOD! Palestinian-American food writer Reem Kassis talks as if Jews spent 2,000 years in the Middle East eating only gefilte fish and bagels, and then “stole” falafel, hummus, and every dish now called Israeli food. It’s nonsense, and it’s cultural purging. When people like her say Israeli cuisine doesn’t exist, I think of my grandmother in Baghdad, waking before sunrise to cook kubeh, amba, fried eggplant and the dishes she learned from her own mother, dishes she kept even as she fled a country that turned on its Jews. Those recipes survived because she survived. And now activists claim the very foods our grandmothers brought from lands that expelled and persecuted them are somehow “Arab dishes we appropriated.” That erases the 53 percent of Israeli Jews who came from the Middle East and North Africa. It’s racism and antisemitism wrapped in food politics. Kassis acknowledges that cuisines everywhere evolve through migration, empire, and exchange,  but somehow not when Israelis are involved. When Egyptians, Turks, Syrians, Armenians or Greeks share dishes, it’s cultural diffusion. When Jews do, it becomes “appropriation.” The Ottomans influenced everyone. Falafel likely developed in Egypt under British rule with Indian influence. Nothing in Middle Eastern cuisine ever belonged exclusively to one group. Yet her narrative depends on pretending Jews had no regional food history at all. Shakshuka, bourekas, sabich, kubeh and even bagels become “theirs.” Bagels! I’ll call it Israeli cuisine because that’s what it is, not because anyone owns food, but because no one gets to erase my grandmother’s kitchen or mine.

@Kosherqueen_ Mazal Tov!!! Not sure what your timeline is like, but Talia is awesome - theketubist.com/contact

@DanMac222 @VioPetra92703 @DrLoupis Less that he assumes it’s a sniper, more that the world assumes snipers are only in Israel. She doesn’t even push the question as to which party is sniping! We have clear documented evidence that Hamas has been offing Gazans throughout this war. Bad journalism. Worse propaganda.

A Jewish doctor who has been working in Gaza exposes how Israel is murdering Palestinian children deliberately.

@deenie216 @MMtazamaji @OliaOnX @MOMARIO_RYOSHI Yeah, except that’s not true, at all. The “issue” is a concern of mamzerut (potentially outing ppl as a child born out of wedlock, which has religious implications) — we’re actually pretty big on genetic testing. So you can stop telling that lie anytime. x.com/pinkaskineta/s…

@MMtazamaji @OliaOnX @MOMARIO_RYOSHI That’s why DNA ancestry tests are banned in Israel. They know exactly who the indigenous are. Those from other lands actually look ridiculous claiming Middle Eastern ancestry.

REMINDER: PALESTINE IS THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT NEVER EXISTED BEFORE ITS OCCUPATION.

I just signed a @UNWatch petition: Stop Pierre Krähenbühl's Appointment as Head of the Red Cross. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop…

Kfir Bibas is 11 months old today.

You are not special. (by Dr. Einat Wilf) The 20th century has been marked by a transition from empires to states. When lucky, those states were based on the self determination of a people who share a common history, language, ethnicity, background religion and connection to a territory. When unlucky those new states were artificially created by receding empires drawing boundaries, forcing different people to share one state, leading almost always to civil war, dictatorship, or both. This transition has been bloody. It involved two world wars and numerous regional and civil wars. In the bloody process of empires receding and new states emerging to replace them, tens of millions of people were displaced, fleeing across newly created borders, typically to new countries with an ethnic makeup similar to their own. This was true of Hindus and Muslim, Ukrainians, Poles and Germans, Bulgarians, Greeks and Turks and Arabs and Jews. This was not unique. What was unique is that one group only of refugees from that time and those wars were allowed to maintain themselves as endless refugees in anticipation of one day winning a war they had lost 7 decades ago. All other refugee groups, except the Palestinians, were presented with a clear message: “it’s tough, it’s tragic, MOVE ON”. There was a clear understanding that in the most fundamental sense there is no going back - not in place and not in time (thus, there was no such thing as “a right of return”). To seek to go back would mean endless war. And so the message was forward looking and future facing. Tens of millions of refugees and displaced persons, would build new lives in the new countries to which they fled. Admit defeat, move on, prosper. Failing to do so will only result in misery. The Arabs that didn't run away, became Arab-Israeli citizens with equal right as Jews, they kept their land, they prospered. They are today 20% of Israels population and some of them like it: x.com/MoranT555/stat…

Defiance. Rebellion. Confidence. Courage. I'm reminded of a paraphrased Ephraim Kishon quote: "Zionism did not eliminate antisemitism as it was intended, but it did give the Jew the power to tell the antisemite to fuck off and carry on with their day."

I’m confused. Do Palestinian supporters on campuses and in the streets want an “intifada” or a “ceasefire”? Because those are polar opposite things. …Unless you want a ceasefire so Hamas can rearm and continue their intifada?

Samantha Woll, President of a Detroit Synagogue, was stabbed to death outside her home today. May her memory be a blessing 🕯️

@miebeater @DebraK36 @DBashIdeas @AdamSandler Better question-why does the inclusion of the flag trigger you?

@anyalways @DebraK36 @DBashIdeas @AdamSandler Why do we need to place flags though? Who says they aren’t accepted?

Thank you @AdamSandler for making a movie where Jews are proud that they’re Jewish and giving so much visibility to yarmulkas. 🙌❤️🙌

@DebraK36 @DBashIdeas @AdamSandler Because we have a lot of teens that identify as trans and there is work to be done to have them feel like they are in fact, part of the Jewish community. And this isn’t just reform or conservative. We have a lot of YA/Adults within orthodoxy proud Jews! #Representationmatters

@DBashIdeas @AdamSandler Why the trans flag hanging in the middle school? The they/them bnei mitzvah. The "it's okay you're straight" scene. Why forcing this into a movie that could have been a perfect movie for teens. "I don't need your honey or your sting"

@jelenawoehr @ahaloed @roripn

I know I have some Rabbis following me—anyone with resources for Jewish burial for an elderly person who outlived their family? (Los Angeles)

@Samanth81277613 @TizzyEnt Glad we’re just reinforcing antisemitic tropes in the comments down here…

TRIGGER WARNING: They always assume I am Jewish as if that's an insult. Sending antisemitic propaganda films is a great way to get your account banned though

I am constantly amazed by the fact that our government does not require you to know anything, do anything, or learn anything in order to be able to pass laws.

@roripn Also me! Also me! Chag sameach 😘😘

49!!

This is the grandmother of one of my closest friends in the world. I grew up in a time where we had Holocaust survivors visit schools. Now, several decades removed, there are far fewer still here to tell their stories. Honoring Elza Metal today provides testimony. #NeverAgain

@taffyakner I believe Brian can tell you, pretty sure his small child went to go see it. Also it’s an excellent Film. Send the kid!

Is there any scenario in which a 12 yo can see COCAINE BEAR?

@roripn is one of my best friends in the entire world. She is brilliant. She is compassionate. She is considerate. She has always fought, and fought hard, for what is right. Even when it’s complicated or “controversial” and many others would give up. This is no different. ❤️❤️