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@BriannaWu And when the money goes to the us weapons tech companies and creates jobs, those people spend that job income at restaurants, stores, coffee shops, taxes etc… so, yes, the money does go to regular people, indirectly.

I’ve never won any debate in my entire career as much as I won this one over America’s alliance with Israel. It’s frankly embarrassing for the pro Palestinian side how little they know about literally anything.

@RabbiPoupko About 10m each year goes from Israel to New Mexico…jewishvirtuallibrary.org/new-mexico-isr…

"I hope this will be the end of my Dad's political career" is not a sign of young people turning on Israel, it is a sign of moral and societal collapse. Using the power of social media to harm your parents is not about Israel.

@JonathanWiltsh7 @LeeHarris In Arabic, the phrase is “from the river to the sea Palestine will be Arab.” Plenty including hms are calling for genocide as their goal.

You're an idiot if you genuinely got that from this. But I don't think you do, your just happy to align with war criminals as it's convenient for your career. No one is saying Israel should not exist. What people are rightly against is Israel EXPANDING their territory in the name of Zionism, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives and millions being displaced. What is your response to Palestinians being slaughtered? Or Lebanese? Or Iranians? "Israel has a right to exist" is not an answer. Aside from this, the man who attacked 3 people yesterday has not been charged on terror or hate related charges. Your point there is void. I agree there definitely is a rise in antisemitic incidents but it directly correlates to rises in IDF action in Gaza, with a jump since October 7th. If our government, and complicit media (YOU), didn’t keep trying to convince people that calling out a state over blatant war crimes is antisemitic, this wouldn't be happening. Call enough people antisemitic, don't be surprised thats exactly what you get. That's basic psychology. Pathetic.

This is appalling. Jonathan Sacerdoti goes on Jeremy Vine to talk about the horrific terror attack in Golders Green and ends up having to justify Israel's existence. They can't just call out Jew hate. They have to imply it's because of Israel Disgusting and difficult to watch

@HeidiBachram And coco cola bottling plants are independently owned. They are not owned by the Coca Cola company. They but coke syrups etc…

Pro-Pals tell everyone to boycott Coca Cola because there’s a bottling plant in a disputed territory called Atarot. It’s more complicated than that of course. The plant is on the site of a moshav built in 1922 and named for the ancient Jewish town nearby. Atarot moshav was completely destroyed by the Jordanian army when they attacked Israel in 1948. Israel then captured the area in 1967 in the Six Day War and now Atarot industrial zone employs thousands of Palestinians. If the plant shuts down then they lose jobs. Not as simple as these British activists claim.

@web2scholar @adam_louis52328 Einstein supported Israel and its creation. He did want equality for all. And over 20% of all Israeli citizens and elected MKs are Arab. His views were more nuanced than your post suggests.

@adam_louis52328 Why do you think Einstein said it would be unfair and unjust to build a Jewish state where so many Muslims already live? Regardless of his being a Zionist.

Jews today are constructed as white colonizers in the same way they were once constructed as infiltrating Semites or Christ killers. The invariant is the same: the libeling of Jews. What changes are the accusations. To fight them, we must name the ones we are facing now. Stop the colonizer libel.

@StandWithUs Have you / they seen this?

StandWithUs and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights filed a major lawsuit against the state of California and its education department, exposing horrific antisemitic HARASSMENT AND violence in public schools where Jewish students were beaten unconscious to chants of "Heil Hitler," choked while being called antisemitic slurs, and told "let's catch the Jew" before being CHASED BY PEERS. The explosive lawsuit details how school administrators consistently punished the Jewish victims instead of the perpetrators, including a teacher who mocked the October 7, 2023, massacre with "Free Palestine" posters and Yiddish phrases, and another who displayed artwork showing a fist crushing a Star of David made of barbed wire. “Jews consistently are being targeted with hostility because of who they are, including in California and particularly in K-12 public schools. This lawsuit seeks to remedy that," said Roz Rothstein, CEO and co-founder of StandWithUs. The lawsuit demands immediate cancellation of antisemitic curriculum, mandatory training ABOUT ANTISEMITISM for staff, and financial sanctions against schools that fail to protect Jewish students.

@MTG_Arena Arena is saying my deck is invalid even though it was valid a moment ago before I added 4 basic lands... it does not say which cards are supposedly a problem. Help.

@HeidiBachram Stranger knocks n doors uninvited, “I don’t like being filmed…”

The door knocking is spreading now to more pro-Pal ‘campaigns’. Here’s PSC in Notting Hill going around getting ppl to support their nasty boycott of Israel. Jewish ppl challenged them and got called “f**king Zionists”. This can’t go on. It’s leading to confrontations. Stop this.

@EYakoby israelnationalnews.com/news/235179

Palestinian Activist Linda Sarsour: “I would be honored to die a martyr.” Sarsour is one of Zohran’s top advisors.

@theamyalbertson Well said.

Kanye West aside, rapper Vic Mensa has lost the plot.

@nyttypos @speechboy71 I also think it is important to differentiate between supporting the modern state of Israel's policies or government vs the right of Jews to live there and to have self-determination there.

@nyttypos @speechboy71 There are multiple zionisms. I think it does support some of them. There were many practical reasons for not forming one. But, the desire is inherent in Jewish practice, from daily prayers, to the conclusion of the Seder.

This is a legit insane sentence to appear in an NYT book review. The notion that Zionism being integral to Jewish identity is an idea pushed by the “mainstream Jewish establishment” is ahistorical nonsense. Poll after poll of American Jews shows that around 90% of us feel a connection to Israel and Zionism (in various forms) has been integral to Jewish identity for millennia. We don’t say Next Year in Brooklyn or Krakow at the end of the Passover Seder. We say Next Year in Jerusalem! The connection to the land of Israel is foundational to Jewish identity. nytimes.com/2026/04/06/boo…

@nyttypos @speechboy71 The connection to the land of Israel is integral to traditional Judaism, the root of grace after meals ("after you eat and are satisfied, thank Gd for the food and for the land [of Israel]), the 3x daily prayers... the Bible, Prophets...Many mizvot only applicable in Israel

@speechboy71 90% of us in polls would say we feel some connection to gefilte fish, but it is not nearly as integral to Jewish identity as circumcision

@OunkaOnX x.com/affinity292/st…

San Diego City Council passed a resolution defining criticism of Netanyahu, Israel, and Zionism as antisemitic San Diego adopt the IHRA definition-a definition that equates opposing settlements with hating Jews. They are weaponizing antisemitism to protect Genocide

@simon_schama @kamalahivefan @IzaTabaro I thought it was 30-40 for maternal line only and much higher for paternal line

@kamalahivefan @IzaTabaro not Slavic at all and a) Ashkenaz varies between 30 and 40 - which is still sibstantial and b) common, distinctive ancestry among all Jews

This is a beautiful post. It repeats, almost word for word, what Soviet propaganda said even as the USSR oppressed its Jews: there is no such thing as a Jewish people; Jews belong in the countries where they were born; Soviet Jews are part of the Soviet people and have nothing to do with Israel. So Susan here is parroting ideas developed and operationalized by the KGB during the Cold War (and that go back to early Stalin and other Bolsheviks). I also love how she reminds us that Jews lived in Yemen, Morocco, Egypt, and Iraq, as well as in France and Germany, and then tells Jews to go to Europe or to hell. What happened, Susan? If Jews are Yemeni, Moroccan, Iraqi, and Egyptian, why send them to Europe? And if Israeli Jews are Middle Eastern, then they’re not European colonizers after all, are they? Susan is right about one thing, though: Zionism is an expression of Jewish peoplehood. It’s why she and her friends hate it so much and fight it so vehemently. Undermine the idea of Jewish peoplehood, and you finally get the upper hand on the Jews. This is precisely why Jews need to double down on Zionism. By the way, did you know that Israel is one of the happiest countries on the planet? Am Yisrael Chai, Susan.

@NGOmonitor They’re still on X

A long-overdue step: 🇨🇦 has dissolved Samidoun, designated in Oct 2024 as a terrorist entity linked to the PFLP. For years, NGO Monitor has published detailed reports documenting Samidoun’s ties to the PFLP, lack of financial transparency, and activities in 🇨🇦. >>

@Mazelit_ My hand is raised

Hi Israeli and Jewish accounts: If you are following me and I haven’t followed you back yet, please raise your hand!

@Kohannahlala @yudapearl Tell me you haven’t read a Jewish prayer book or grace after meals without saying it…

@yudapearl Practicing Judaism does not require believe in Zionism. Being anti-Zionist is not antisemitic.

Dear influencers of the world, If you feel you have been wrongly accused of antisemitism, there is a simple and effective way to clarify your position. State publicly that you believe Israel has the right to peaceful coexistence with its neighbors—as an equally legitimate and indigenous nation. The rest will follow. Ms. Rachel, there is no need for tears—say it once, plainly, and watch the accusations vanish, never again to shadow your good name. @JonahPlatt @AkaLazarus @adam_louis52328 @LekhtNaya @JFrgatUCLA

@DrNeilStone Yes but that’s how he does it.

He literally wrote a book called "Win Every Argument"

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