@HeyImPostinHere @waltermasterson I'm curious, what is your issue with the citation: Naor, Mordechai, ed. (1986). Gush Etzion from its Beginning to 1948. 7th of Idan Series (in Hebrew). Yad Ben Tzvi Publishers.
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Bossnash
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@B055nash @waltermasterson Lol, the citation for that claim that it was purchased is entirely bullshit.
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@B055nash @jessesingal Actually neither of two mentioned settlements is in the old Gush Etzion block, although Kfar Eldad is managed by the “Gush Etzion regional council”, so that’s at best a distraction.
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What is the best reporting on *exactly* what sort of real estate was being sold at that synagogue where the protests occurred and how much of it was in the West Bank?
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@jessesingal Idk of every property advertised at the event was in Gush Etzion. But at least one of the two being mentioned def is. Can you imagine the protestors giving half a horseshit about land stolen from massacred Jews?
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Bossnash@B055nash
@localrach @DavidM_Friedman Hey actually this land was legally purchased by Jews in the 1920s but they faced a series of massacres until they were ultimately ethnically cleanse by Jordan when it took control of the West Bank in '48. Does that change your attitude about it or no?
QME
“Free Palestine” terror garb must be banned from the streets. They are the new white-hooded demons terrorizing our communities.
Fox News@FoxNews
WATCH: A mob of anti-Israel protesters swarm the streets outside a historic Manhattan synagogue — clashing with police officers and waving Palestinian flags. The crowd led chants of “Israel should not exist” while also targeting the NYPD, comparing officers to the KKK. This latest protest comes as the NYPD searches for four people wanted in connection to an antisemitic graffiti spree in the city.
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@RetroCoast Actually schwartze means n**ger. Goyim means you're a r*t*rd
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Jews call non-jews "Goyim"
Goyim means "ni**ger"
Why are they allowed to use that term?
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@owenjonesjourno Judaism is just a religion but Islam is a race? Do I have that right? Trying to stay current on the pro-Palestine arguments but it's so tricky.
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This is what the editor of Jewish News wrote in October 2023.
"This is plain and simple historic Islamic bloodlust, passed down through the generations from birth."
This sums it all up.
These are the people accusing us of racism because we object to Palestinians being killed.
Richard Ferrer@richferrer
Dear @owenjonesjourno. As editor of Jewish News, I was appalled by the language my deputy used towards you. There is no excuse for the unnecessary use of a full stop before a coordinating conjunction. The sentence should, of course, have read: “I am Deputy Editor of Jewish News and I’m respectfully asking you to fuck right off.”
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@Sturgeons_Law Yet of the other area, x.com/i/status/20522…
Bossnash@B055nash
@localrach @DavidM_Friedman Hey actually this land was legally purchased by Jews in the 1920s but they faced a series of massacres until they were ultimately ethnically cleanse by Jordan when it took control of the West Bank in '48. Does that change your attitude about it or no?
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Karnei Shomron, one of the areas advertised at the event, is not in one of the consensus blocs that are widely thought would go to Israel in a two-state land swap. It's just an illegal settlement. It was also created by confiscating land from adjacent Palestinian villages.
Jesse Singal@jessesingal
4/More background on this particular area of the West Bank from a reader. I'm not familiar with the specifics here, but there are parts of the WB that have long been effectively penciled in for future land swaps back when a two-state solution was a remotely realistic possibility.
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@frankleehowe @localrach @DavidM_Friedman I can use chatGPT too.
(And even if it was from absentees, the goalpost-moving here is absurd.)
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Purchasing the land from absentee owners doesn’t change the human cost for the Arab tenant farmers and fellahin actually living and working the land. They weren’t consulted. They held no formal deeds under Ottoman or Mandate rules, but they had generational ties, homes, and livelihoods. When the new owners arrived to develop or settle, those families were displaced, sold out from under them by distant elites who never walked the same fields.
That’s not ancient history or abstract title law. It’s the same pattern every colonial era land transfer created, legal on parchment, corrosive in the lived experience of the people on the ground. It breeds resentment that no amount of “we bought it fair and square” can erase. You’re never beating the stereotypes.
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What makes you think it’s “stolen land” (it’s not)? Give me facts, not the emotional and fake narrative that you think garners votes.
Claire Valdez@claireforny
New Yorkers don't just have the right to protest the sale of stolen Palestinian land -- they have a responsibility to. NYPD should be protecting our first amendment rights, not blocking and pepper spraying us when we exercise them.
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Bossnash@B055nash
@localrach @DavidM_Friedman Hey actually this land was legally purchased by Jews in the 1920s but they faced a series of massacres until they were ultimately ethnically cleanse by Jordan when it took control of the West Bank in '48. Does that change your attitude about it or no?
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antizionists: I can excuse kidnapping, rape, and murder but I draw the line at Jews buying property outside the green line!!!
Noah Hurowitz@NoahHurowitz
I was there, and they were advertising illegal land sales. It’s not a smear if it’s true!
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Bossnash@B055nash
@localrach @DavidM_Friedman Hey actually this land was legally purchased by Jews in the 1920s but they faced a series of massacres until they were ultimately ethnically cleanse by Jordan when it took control of the West Bank in '48. Does that change your attitude about it or no?
QME
i was at this protest, which was against the illegal sale of israeli settlement land happening at a nearby synagogue.
i was harassed by zionist extremists like the one below. but i guess the only new yorkers you care about protecting are those buying second homes on stolen land
Speaker Julie Menin@SpeakerMenin
I’m deeply disturbed by the hateful rhetoric heard last night outside Park East Synagogue. Calls for the destruction of Israel and the glorification of Hezbollah are horrific, intimidating, and only fuel the flames of antisemitism. I’m grateful for the NYPD officers who worked under difficult circumstances to maintain public safety. I also saw some questions about safe access, the size of the perimeter, and the movement of press around the area. Whether you are a congregant entering a house of worship, a peaceful protestor, a journalist, or a passerby, the Council’s new law will help bring greater transparency to the considerations that the NYPD uses in situations like these.
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Bossnash@B055nash
@localrach @DavidM_Friedman Hey actually this land was legally purchased by Jews in the 1920s but they faced a series of massacres until they were ultimately ethnically cleanse by Jordan when it took control of the West Bank in '48. Does that change your attitude about it or no?
QME
Israel, with US tax dollars, has carried out a genocide in Gaza.
Today, Zionists attempt to sell stolen Palestinian land. We cannot allow this to happen in New York, or anywhere else.
Noah Hurowitz@NoahHurowitz
Update: I got into the Israel real estate event at Park East Synagogue. Inside I saw at least one table advertising properties in the West Bank, including Kfar Eldad and Karnei Shomron.
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Bossnash@B055nash
@localrach @DavidM_Friedman Hey actually this land was legally purchased by Jews in the 1920s but they faced a series of massacres until they were ultimately ethnically cleanse by Jordan when it took control of the West Bank in '48. Does that change your attitude about it or no?
QME
Selling stolen Palestinian land is illegal and immoral, wherever it happens. Menin’s buffer zone law has already empowered the NYPD to escalate repression against protesters. Our elected officials must end illegal land sales in NYC, protect the right to protest, and disband SRG.
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@adamjohnsonCHI I think I can agree to that, yes x.com/i/status/20522…
Bossnash@B055nash
@localrach @DavidM_Friedman Hey actually this land was legally purchased by Jews in the 1920s but they faced a series of massacres until they were ultimately ethnically cleanse by Jordan when it took control of the West Bank in '48. Does that change your attitude about it or no?
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Ok but we can agree selling stolen land as part of an explicit policy of ethnic cleansing is bad right? This is not a controversial description, it’s liberal zionist conventional wisdom, just so we have a baseline of reality because everyone keeps avoiding this central issue
Sydney Altfield@sydneyaltfield
The pre-school at Park East Synagogue was forced to close early because it could not ensure safe dismissal. When children can’t safely leave school, something is deeply wrong. This is unacceptable.
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Bossnash@B055nash
@localrach @DavidM_Friedman Hey actually this land was legally purchased by Jews in the 1920s but they faced a series of massacres until they were ultimately ethnically cleanse by Jordan when it took control of the West Bank in '48. Does that change your attitude about it or no?
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@DavidM_Friedman You provided no proof of the land not being stolen. Way to make yourself look like an emotional idiot
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@localrach @DavidM_Friedman Hey actually this land was legally purchased by Jews in the 1920s but they faced a series of massacres until they were ultimately ethnically cleanse by Jordan when it took control of the West Bank in '48. Does that change your attitude about it or no?
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Bossnash@B055nash
@localrach @DavidM_Friedman Hey actually this land was legally purchased by Jews in the 1920s but they faced a series of massacres until they were ultimately ethnically cleanse by Jordan when it took control of the West Bank in '48. Does that change your attitude about it or no?
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@jessesingal @claireforny As a pure hypothetical, imagine that a roving group of WASPs burst into your home and shot you in the face. They tore up the deed and then bulldozed everything you own.
Then they flew to London and held a land sale in an Anglican Church. Would protests there be appropriate?
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New Yorkers don't just have the right to protest the sale of stolen Palestinian land -- they have a responsibility to.
NYPD should be protecting our first amendment rights, not blocking and pepper spraying us when we exercise them.
Gerard@GerardDalbon
Cops started attacking pro-Palestine protesters who are marching around the block to evade police barricades that are blocking off several streets. People in the crowd were just pepper sprayed and shoved with metal barricades. Several cops were mad they pepper sprayed themselves.
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Bossnash@B055nash
@localrach @DavidM_Friedman Hey actually this land was legally purchased by Jews in the 1920s but they faced a series of massacres until they were ultimately ethnically cleanse by Jordan when it took control of the West Bank in '48. Does that change your attitude about it or no?
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Many of those defending this are saying “well look, they had a couple tables selling lands outside of the ‘67 borders’ so it was legitimate.”
I can guarantee you every single one of the people chanting the slogans of “intifada Revolution” and “River to the sea” aren’t looking at where the land sits on the green line. They’re openly stating that they view all of Israel as illegal and people want to gaslight us with “settlements are the issue.”
Jacob N. Kornbluh@jacobkornbluh
Outside event promoting Aliyah and real estate in Israel at Park East Synagogue: Protesters gathered on intersection of 68th and Lexington chanting “Intifada revolution, there is only one solution,” “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” and “We don't want a two state, we want 48.” Via my colleague @hannah_feuer
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Bossnash@B055nash
@localrach @DavidM_Friedman Hey actually this land was legally purchased by Jews in the 1920s but they faced a series of massacres until they were ultimately ethnically cleanse by Jordan when it took control of the West Bank in '48. Does that change your attitude about it or no?
QME
@NoahHurowitz Already in the registration form itself they offer property in Gush Etzion, which is also an illegal West Bank settlement.
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Update: I got into the Israel real estate event at Park East Synagogue.
Inside I saw at least one table advertising properties in the West Bank, including Kfar Eldad and Karnei Shomron.
Noah Hurowitz@NoahHurowitz
Mayor Mamdani condemned a land sale event about to take place at an Upper East Side synagogue today, with a spokesman saying the event could violate international law if there are sales of land in the Occupied Territories theintercept.com/2026/05/05/zoh…
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