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"These are my awards, mother, from UNIFIL. The seal is for being the quietest when Hezbollah invited us to play hide-and-seek. Now if you’ll excuse me, they’re putting me in something called Hero Squad."

Thanks @mboudry! By popular demand, my essay "Introduction to Gazology" is now readable and un-paywalled once again at @thefp for a limited time...

@Dr_Benton_Quest @neuroticjewgay @kthalps @thestrokes Does anyone think he's saying Christians "get the benefits of white privileged people but talk like they are Black people during slavery"?

@neuroticjewgay @kthalps @thestrokes The vast majority of Zionists in America are Christians

He didn’t say Jews. He said American Zionists. Stop projecting.

It took Amnesty 11 years to find the time to care about Jews x.com/i/status/59052…

.@bartov_omer in his interview with David Remnick of the @NewYorker about his new book says this: "Look, what Hamas did, killing about 800 civilians, taking 251 hostages, was obviously a war crime and potentially a crime against humanity. I wanted to highlight this sentence and the word "potentially" because it's doing a lot of work here. The reason it's doing a lot of work is that Bartov is downplaying the crimes committed on October 7 by Hamas. It is beyond any shadow of a doubt that Hamas committed at the very least crimes against humanity. So much so that the ICC granted warrants for crimes against humanity of extermination for Hamas leaders. They were rejected for Israeli leaders, by the way. Beyond that, within the area of control that Hamas took on October 7, we saw a substantial reduction of life in the door-to-door slaughter of people who were targeted because of their membership in a religious, national, ethnical, or racial group (Jews/Israelis). That is by the very definition that Bartov later cites, genocide. Hamas committed genocide on October 7. Not just "a potential crime against humanity." But actual genocide. He later says: "The only definition that I find relevant in these cases exists. It's a definition that is in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which is a UN convention from 1948. It defines genocide as acts carried out with the intent of destroying a particular group. Could be a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, in whole or in part, as such. You have to show that there is an intent to destroy a group, as a group, and you have to show that this intent is being implemented." What is fascinating about this exchange is that Bartov does not demonstrate, nor has he ever demonstrated, that Israel has the intent to destroy Palestinians, as a group, and that the intent is being implemented. A sure fire way to assess this about his statements is that he never applies the legal tests (only reasonable inference test) for inferring intent. But what's also important here is that he never demonstrates that there is the "in part" requirement having been met. This demands a rigorous assessment that requires that the intent and acts be to destroy a substantial part of a group. We measure this by starting our analysis weighing the targeted portion against the whole and seeing if it threatens the groups very existence. Why this matters, in the 30 months since Hamas' October 7 attacks the death toll stands at 72,553. That's a lot of death, but you must weigh this against the whole, which was estimated at 2,230,000. That's 3.25% of the whole that has reportedly been killed. Now, the question is: Is that so substantial to threaten the existence of the whole within the area that Israel controlled? The answer here is no, it is not. The next question is if there are other possible reasonable explanations for Israeli conduct through the war, and weighing that together as a totality of the evidence. Because we know that Hamas diverted aid (see: GCIV 23), utilized human shielding in medical facilities (GCIV 19) and other civilian areas (GCIV 28), and because we know that Israel had a valid casus belli throughout the time that hostages were held (GCIV 34), it is likely that reasonable alternative explanations exist. Thus, it cannot be found to be genocide unless you change the jurisprudence of genocide law. Bartov never tells the readers or listeners this, and the New Yorker never asks him about it (likely they are unaware of it). This is an extremely dishonest proclamation and faulty assertion of law. As the great Eli Rosenbaum told me: "Bartov is not a lawyer!" So we should stop taking him seriously when assessing complex legal analyses that require more than what he, as a historian, is capable of doing. Historians are great, my cousin is a historian and have historian friends, but they are not qualified to assess law. And in any other area of law this would be impermissible.

@K_AminThaabet Is that from his upcoming interview with Ahed Tamimi?

John Favreau: “When you say you want to crush the skulls of the Zionists and drink their blood, you mean that metaphorically, right?”

Israel doesn’t need allies who “tolerate it” like we’re some 18th century colony of yours. The majority of Europe has been anything but supportive, as evidenced today by Italy, and repeatedly over the last 2.5 years. Europe benefits from the relationship just as much as Israel. We are no junior partner here as your countries increasingly turn to us to help you defend yourselves. In the context of that relationship Israel is free to criticize Europe at least as much as Europe criticizes Israel.

@dilanesper Paul Kessler apnews.com/article/man-ki…

whose skulls, specifically, were bashed at campus anti-israel protests?

Note that these international law advocates never criticize the terrorists for hiding rocket launchers under civilians

@Wilson__Valdez x.com/Claire_V0ltair…

Glenn has a lifelong history of associating with Neo-Nazis. His current friends are almost all people who are heavily involved in the modern neo-nazis movement. He is 1 step away from ((( ))) posting. Also, he's just criticizing Israel and it has nothing to do with antisemitism.

The irony in the Bund’s position is not just that its universalist aspirations were disproven by antisemitism and the mass murder of Jews. It is that the significant part of the Bund itself understood this. Its final real organized political act took place not in the diaspora it had championed, but in the State of Israel, where it contested the 1951 elections and received just over 1,000 votes. Isaac Deutscher 1954: “Israelis who have known me as an anti-Zionist of long standing were curious to hear what I was thinking about Zionism now. I have, of course, long since abandoned my anti-Zionism, which was based on a confidence in the European labour movement, or, more broadly, a confidence in European society and civilisation which that society and civilisation have not justified. If, instead of arguing against Zionism in the 1920s and 1930s, I had urged European Jews to go to Palestine, I might have helped to save some of the lives that were to be extinguished in Hitler’s gas chambers. For the remnants of European Jewry, the Jewish state has become an historic necessity. It is also a living reality.”

I can name a lot more than 5. Let's start with 23 easy ones: 1. Designating a combatant a journalist automatically immunizes that combatant from attack. 2. A territory is occupied even if there is no presence whatsoever after a hostile armed force by virtue of being blockaded.

@AngryLevantine Isn't this the blowback that Mehdi warns about? x.com/i/status/20281…

Are you fucking stupid or something? These younger Israelis saw their friends get fucking murdered by Arabs (many of them civilians) and then watched as the world celebrated. That is absolutely going to radicalize people. Actions have consequences. But you Muslims are so arrogant that the very idea of facing consequences for your behavior is alien to you.

@HenMazzig Where are the international community's calls for Iran and its proxies to observe a ceasefire during Easter?

World leaders condemned Israel when it closed holy sites in Jerusalem for safety measures after an Iranian missile struck the Old City last week, preventing a cardinal from praying. Today, on Easter, Christians in central Israel were targeted by Iranian missiles. Christians in the north by Hezbollah rockets. And Christians in the south by Houthi drones. Will world leaders, like Macron, speak up today? Or does no one care about Christians praying when Israel can’t be blamed?

I envy the Israeli left. Not their politics. Their freedom. They march through Tel Aviv calling their own country an apartheid state. They go on CNN and call the IDF war criminals. They write op-eds in Haaretz comparing Israel to the worst regimes in history. They join NGOs funded by hostile governments to produce reports designed to delegitimize the Jewish state. And then they go home. Sleep in their beds. Send their kids to school the next morning. No one threatens their family. No one disappears them in the night. No one drags them from their home. Zero consequences. Now imagine, just imagine, if Iranians had 1% of that freedom. If an Egyptian columnist could criticize Sisi the way Gideon Levy criticizes Netanyahu. If a Palestinian in Ramallah could call Abbas corrupt on live TV and walk home safely. If someone in Gaza could have held a sign saying "Hamas does not speak for me" without being executed. The Middle East would be unrecognizable. The great irony is that the people who enjoy more political freedom than virtually anyone else in the region use that freedom to paint Israel as a tyranny while the actual tyrannies they're silent about would imprison or kill them for doing the same. You're not brave. You're spoiled. You mistake comfort for conscience. You scream "genocide" into a microphone the state itself protects, then sleep soundly in a democracy you spend your days trying to destroy, while millions across this region would trade everything they have for five minutes of the freedom you use to spit on your own country.

I spent the first few seconds convinced he was giving the seated guy a haircut. I assumed that's Platner's latest stunt

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On Monday evening, four brave young IDF soldiers were killed in Lebanon. One of them was my beloved stepson, Gilad Harel. He was one of the greatest men I have ever known, brave, kind, and deeply loved. israellycool.com/2026/04/03/gil…

🚨🇮🇪🚨 ‘The four X accounts in the study all listed Belfast as their location and claimed to be students or university graduates, recent converts to Islam, sports or arts enthusiasts, and/or advocates for a united Ireland. Each account was created on X on the same date, 16 August 2024. Between that date and 4 February 2026, they collectively published a total of 5,405 posts. The accounts used common Irish names: Eoin O'Reilly, Conor Byrne, Fiona Doyle and Niamh McDonagh. Profile photos used generic images with faces obscured by a phone, likely generated using Al or stolen from other users online. The names used appear to be fabricated or impersonated identities; no evidence suggests these correspond to real individuals.’ isdglobal.org/digital-dispat…

Most leaders and politicians issued pro-forma Passover messages to the Jewish community, with bunch of generic cliches. But this, by British opposition leader @KemiBadenoch stands out for its raw honesty, moral clarity and heartfelt compassion. MUST READ! Thank you.

@DrewPavlou Isn't she in Beirut these days?

Bumping this

Can someone explain to me why this person was let into Ireland? He routinely defends or runs cover for Hamas, from denying the mass sexual violence on October 7th, to denying Hamas kidnapped the Bibas family and that Israel in fact was responsible for their deaths. Now that he is on Irish soil - he is threatening Irish women. He should be on the next flight back to Gaza, not here by virtue of the Irish taxpayer...