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In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Tunisia—the only Arab country to suffer direct German occupation—a drunken officer bragged at dinner about the Jewish woman he planned to seize from a forced brothel. He named her. Across the table sat Khaled Abdul-Wahab, a 31-year-old wealthy Muslim Tunisian who had studied art and architecture in New York, spoke fluent German, and was trusted by the Nazis. They invited him to their tables. He smiled, poured the wine, finished the meal… then raced through the night. He pounded on the door of the woman’s family at midnight. “Pack nothing. Come now.” He gathered 25 terrified Jews—mothers, fathers, children, cousins—and drove them nearly 20 miles to his family farm. For four agonizing months, he hid them in the olive press, stables, and storage sheds. He fed them as supplies ran desperately low. He kept crying babies silent. When German soldiers came to count Jews, the hidden families pinned on their yellow stars, stood motionless, then tore them off the moment the danger passed. One terrifying night, a drunk soldier stumbled upon them and threatened to kill everyone. An 11-year-old girl, hiding under a bed, watched in horror—until Khaled appeared like a guardian angel. He calmly disarmed the soldier and sent him away. No one on that farm died. In May 1943, the British liberated Tunisia. The 25 returned home alive. Khaled went back to his quiet life—painting, raising daughters, serving his country—and never spoke of it again. Not to his wife. Not to his children. He died in 1997 at 86. His secret died with him. A decade later, his daughter Faiza sat in a Paris café reading a newspaper. An American historian was describing a Tunisian Arab who had hidden 25 Jews. He named her father. She was 45 years old and hearing the story for the first time. “I rediscovered my father,” she said. Khaled was nominated to be the first Arab recognized as Righteous Among the Nations—Israel’s highest honor for those who saved Jews. The committee declined. Today, those 25 souls have hundreds of descendants living in Israel, France, America, and Tunisia. The little girl under the bed grew up, built a family in Paris. None of them would exist if Khaled had looked away that night. He had everything to lose. He acted anyway. Then he carried the silence for the rest of his life. The world almost forgot him twice. Now you know his name: Khaled Abdul-Wahab. A true hero. A Muslim who stood against evil when it mattered most. Colorized image of black and white photo poster by Israel the Jewish State.

In the ancient world, when a people lost their land, they vanished. But the Jews did not disappear. They carried an entire civilisation in collective memory: in text, ritual, law, family, and longing. Empires rose and fell trying to erase them. 1/2

My son is doing his dissertation next year on Jewish collective memory and it endured after destruction of the Temple. There’s something extraordinary about a civilisation surviving not through power or conquest, but through determination to remember who you are. 2/2

To defeat your enemy you absolutely must stoop to its tactics. The whole idea that you shouldn't is something your enemy came up with.

Watching the extended version of this clip reminds me that US didn’t ban “Hizb Ut Tahrir” while UK, Russia and others designated them

Throwback Thursday to this Gazan human shower who spits out the truth: "We are the ones who launched this war. We are the conquerors. Until the last drop of our blood. We keep sacrificing until all of us die. For the sake of Allah. We long for Allah!"

@realCarola2Hope He's just wrong...frigging read the founders...many were deists...FFS Also, ain't nothing wrong with Judeo-Christian...without one there isn't another.

🔥 WATCH 🔥 James Fishback: “We (The United States) are not a Judeo-Christian country. We are a Christian country.” The crowd erupts in loud applause.👏 👏

What we’ve learned from the radical left is: Ten Commandments in schools, BAD. Islamic pamphlets, GOOD. Ten Commandments, BAD. Free Qurans, GOOD. Ten Commandments, BAD. Sharia brochures, GOOD. A free Bible display is controversial, but free Qurans and Shariah literature are treated like ‘cultural enrichment.’ The hypocrisy is STAGGERING. Here’s how our schools should actually operate: Math, yes. Science, yes. History, yes. Reading, yes. Religious indoctrination and foreign legal systems that conflict with American constitutional values? Absolutely NOT. Sharia law has no place in the United States of America, and it certainly has no place being promoted inside American schools.

@s4ssaad @goddek @RepFine Never removed it, never had that up in my header...it was part of my post that he added later...

@goddek @DHATE2020 @RepFine You removed im jewish immediately 😆 🤣

I’m disgusted by the Muslim terror protest we just saw in New York City. We must: 1.  Deport every non-American involved — get them the hell out. 2.  Revoke citizenship for recent frauds and send them home. 3.  Stop this foreign invader invasion now. I will fight Muslim terror every day I’m in Congress.

@goddek @RepFine Nah

@RepFine Your people are the biggest terrorists on this planet. 90% of the global population agrees with my statement and disagrees with you. DEPORT!

Se cumple 50 años de esta fotografía. Jocelyne Khoueiry, con tan solo 20 años de edad, junto a otras seis mujeres, todas pertenecientes a la Falange Libanesa Cristiana, defendieron un edificio en la Plaza de los Mártires, Beirut, frente al asalto de 300 islamistas. Feminismo.

@LeaderJohnThune I FOUND IT! A video of Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) advocating for sweeping federal gun restrictions. Cassidy voted YES for national red flag law incentives. You can DEFEAT Senator Cassidy this Saturday in Louisiana: 🗓️ Sat., May 16th

@FmrRepMTG No genocide in Gaza, no matter how many times you say there was, there wasn't.

Our greatest ally did the same thing in Gaza, where it committed genocide.

REPORTER: “Has there been a single moment since 1967 when you thought that the Arabs are ready to talk?” GOLDA MEIR: “No. The world must realize that it’s not about a piece of land. They just refuse to believe that we have the right to exist at all." She was right all along.

The claim that “Arabs and Jews lived peacefully before Israel” is one of the most useful myths in modern politics. Not because there were never peaceful moments. Of course there were. There were friendships, business ties, shared cities, neighbourly decency, and even Arabs who saved Jews during massacres. But that is precisely what makes the myth so dishonest. Because “some people were decent” is not the same as “Jews were safe.” Before Israel, Jews (like Christians) in the land did not live as equal sovereign citizens. Under Islamic rule, Jews were historically dhimmis - tolerated, sometimes protected, but subordinate. Their safety depended less on rights than on rulers, local power, mood, extortion, clerical incitement and the willingness of others to restrain the mob. Israel Joseph Benjamin, the 19th-century Jewish traveller who visited Jewish communities across Asia and Africa, described the Jews of Palestine in devastating terms. He wrote of “deep misery and continual oppression”, saying they were “entirely destitute of every legal protection and every means of safety”, subject to arbitrary taxes, robbery, plunder and violence. In Hebron, he wrote, Jews had been murdered and plundered, women treated with “brutal cruelty”, and survivors left in misery. That was not "Zionist propaganda". That was a Jewish eyewitness writing decades before the State of Israel existed, and many of the people in the land were religious and were not Zionists. And then came the pogroms. Safed, 1834: during a revolt against Egyptian rule, the Jewish community was attacked for more than a month. Homes were looted. Jews were robbed, assaulted and left defenceless. Jerusalem, 1920: during the Nebi Musa riots, five Jews were killed and hundreds wounded. Amin al-Husseini and other Arab nationalist figures were associated with the anti-Zionist agitation around the festival; Husseini and Aref al-Aref were later sentenced in absentia for incitement after fleeing to Syria. Jaffa, 1921: riots that began in Jaffa turned into attacks on Jews, leaving 47 Jews dead and 146 wounded. The British Haycraft Commission identified Arab hostility to Jews as a fundamental cause. And then Hebron, 1929. Hebron is where the lie dies. The Jews of Hebron were not aggressive secular Zionist pioneers with rifles and flags. Many were old Yishuv Jews. Deeply religious. Non-Zionist or not politically Zionist in the modern sense. They had lived among Arabs for generations. They believed their neighbours and local Arab notables would protect them. When Haganah representatives offered to help defend or evacuate them before the violence, the leaders of the Hebron Jewish community refused, trusting the local Arab elite. That trust was repaid with slaughter. On August 24, 1929, Arab mobs attacked the Jewish community of Hebron. Between 67 and 69 Jews were murdered. Dozens more were wounded. Homes were looted. Synagogues were desecrated. Women, children, rabbis and yeshiva students were killed. Twenty-four of the murdered were students from the Hebron yeshiva; several were American or Canadian. Some victims were tortured or mutilated. British High Commissioner Sir John Chancellor wrote that “the horror of it is beyond words”. And yes, the comparison to October 7 is unavoidable. The pattern is chilling: rumours about Jews threatening Al-Aqsa; religious incitement; mobs attacking unarmed Jewish families; murder inside homes; cruelty against the defenceless; and a world eager afterwards to explain, contextualise or minimise the massacre. The 1929 riots were fuelled by claims that Jews were trying to seize Muslim holy sites; Hamas even named its October 7 massacre “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood”. There is one important detail we must include: some Arabs in Hebron did save Jews. Some Jews survived, because they were sheltered by Arab families. It proves individual courage existed. It also proves the larger point: Jewish life depended on whether a neighbour chose to hide you from the mob. But that is not safety, and not living together in peace. The Hebron massacre shattered something, especially for religious Jews who had believed that being pious, apolitical and locally rooted would protect them. Many still did not become ideological Zionists overnight. But the basic Zionist argument became harder to deny: if Jews cannot rely on empire, neighbours, clerics, kings or policemen to protect them, then Jews must be able to protect Jews. That is what Zionism means at its most basic level. Not supremacy. Not conquest. Not revenge. A Jewish state means Jews are no longer permanently dependent on the mercy of others. Then came the 1930s and 1940s, and the picture became darker. Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, became one of the most important Palestinian Arab leaders of the period. He met Hitler in Berlin on November 28, 1941. In the official record, he told Hitler that Arabs and Germany had the same enemies: “the English, the Jews and the Communists”. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum records that he worked as a Nazi propagandist, opposed Jewish immigration to Palestine, and helped spread Axis propaganda in the Arab world. He collaborated with the Nazis, campaigned against Jewish refugees reaching Palestine, and in 1944 broadcast: “Kill the Jews wherever you find them”, propaganda that spread throughout the Arab world, that never underwent the marshal plan and are now re-importing the same old ideas to Europe. At the very moment Jews were trying to flee Europe, Britain, betrayed the Jews and the mandate they received from the league of nations and slammed the door. The 1939 White Paper limited Jewish immigration to Palestine to 75,000 over five years and said that after that, further Jewish immigration would require Arab consent. In plain English: Jews fleeing Hitler needed the permission of those collaborating from Hitler to escape the persecution, while Arab immigration was unlimited. Jewish refugee ships were intercepted. The Struma, carrying nearly 800 Jewish refugees from Romania toward Palestine, was blocked from entering and later sank in the Black Sea in 1942, killing almost everyone aboard. The Exodus 1947, carrying more than 4,500 Holocaust survivors, was intercepted by the British and its passengers were forcibly returned to Europe, including Germany. So when people say Jews and Arabs lived peacefully before Israel, ask them: peacefully compared to what? Compared to Hebron? Compared to Safed? Compared to Jaffa? Compared to the Mufti collaborating with Hitler? Compared to British ships turning Jewish survivors back to Nazi extermination camps? Compared to centuries in which Jews survived not as equals, but as tolerated minorities whose fate could change the moment power changed hands? The Jewish lesson from history is memory. Spain expelled the Jews. Europe emancipated the Jews and then produced Auschwitz. The Arab world once had ancient Jewish communities from Baghdad to Cairo to Damascus, and most of them are gone. Today, Jews are again discovering that even in Europe, police protection, elite sympathy and liberal slogans are not the same as safety. That does not mean Jews cannot have allies. They can, and they do. It does not mean every Arab was an enemy. Many were not. It does not make every Israeli policy correct. But it does destroy the infantile fantasy that everything was peaceful until Zionism arrived. Zionism did not emerge because Jews were bored. It emerged because Jews studied history and noticed the pattern. When Jews had no power, they wrote petitions. When Jews had no army, they buried children. When Jews had no state, they begged empires to open gates - and the gates closed. The world keeps asking why Jews need Israel. The answer is brutally simple: Because every other arrangement was tried first and failed.

New: Sen. Rand Paul’s son drunkenly accosted and hurled anti-Semitic insults at Rep. Mike Lawler at a Capitol Hill bar on Tuesday night. His son told Lawler that if Rep Thomas Massie loses, it’s going to be because of “your people.” “My people?” Lawler asked Paul. “Yeah, you Jews,” Paul responded.  “Do you think I’m Jewish?” Lawler asked. “I’m not.” “Oh wow, I’m so sorry for calling you a Jew,” Paul said.  He then said that Jews were “anti-American” and how Lawler and his “Jewish supporters” served Israel more than America. notus.org/congress/willi…

@medpet480698 @ggreenwald No panic...they're always undone.

@DHATE2020 @ggreenwald Hasbara no longer working so there’s panic

LOL. All it took for many on the Right to declare that the "podcast era is over" and for them rush back to the loving arms of corporate media was have some leading podcasters start to question and criticize US financing of Israel, censorship for it, and Israeli behavior.

@Chesschick01 Such as?

Thomas Massie did more to take down pedophiles than the whole Republican Party. That is why they hate him.

“Free Palestine” is an Islamofascist movement.

@JeninYounesEsq @doctor_rahmeh @Villgecrazylady No, no we don't.

@doctor_rahmeh @Villgecrazylady Shocking you are being treated like a criminal for speaking out against the brutal crimes committed against your family. The world stands with you and against the repressive Zionist regime

Good news! My brilliant lawyer Maureen Donkor has informed me that our bail variation application has been accepted. I am no longer under house curfew. I do not have to sleep at home. I can travel. I am also allowed more than one social media account. All praise be to God.