Howard Furman

@NYCMayor Stay in your lane . What happened to free buses

This merger is bad for New Yorkers three times over. Thousands of jobs at risk here in the city. Streaming bills going up as competition disappears. And two of America’s most powerful media companies under one roof, deciding what you watch and what you hear. Today, as Warner Bros. and Paramount shareholders vote, New York City is on record: this merger should be stopped.

Holocaust survivor, Tova Friedman, meets October 7th survivors, Omri Miran and Agam Berger at the March of the Living…pass me a box of Kleenex please 😭

If I were a Persian Muslim I’d be considered “brown and oppressed” but since I’m a Persian Jew I’m considered “white and privileged.” Never mind that my parents are refugees who fled Islamic persecution. Who lost everything and had to rebuild from scratch. Who came to this country with nothing more than a suitcase and a Farsi-English dictionary.

.@Keir_Starmer Prime Minister, your colleague's reply is misleading. I urge you to tell the full truth: 1. Your government did have a role: you joined the consensus decision to nominate the Islamic Republic of Iran to a UN committee that meets soon to address women's rights and terrorism prevention. 2. You failed to take any measures to defeat Iran, as the UK had done in 2010. 3. You failed to dissociate from consensus, as the U.S. did at that meeting — and as the UK had done in the past. 🧵

@DavidM_Friedman @SenWarren Thank you Sara . Fair question . Harwood sucks

Fewer hypocrites more obvious than @SenWarren

@CptAllenHistory @ShirTruth Demand restitution !

The Great Silence: 850,000 Jews Ethnically Cleansed from Arab & Muslim Lands While the world talks endlessly about Palestinian “refugees,” it has nearly erased one of the largest forced migrations of the 20th century - this is the story the media and academics almost never tell. At the moment of Israel’s birth in 1948, ancient Jewish communities existed across the Middle East and North Africa — some dating back more than 2,000 years, long before Islam arrived. Iraq: ~150,000 Jews Egypt: ~75,000–80,000 Yemen: ~55,000 Libya: ~38,000 Syria: ~30,000 Morocco: ~265,000 Algeria, Tunisia, and others: tens of thousands more In total, nearly one million Jews lived in these lands. Within years, the vast majority were gone — driven out by pogroms, discriminatory laws, arrests, property confiscation, and open violence. The collapse began even before Israel’s independence. In 1941, the Farhud pogrom in Baghdad saw Arabs murder more than 180 Jews and destroyed hundreds of Jewish home. After 1948, the pressure became unbearable: Jews were stripped of citizenship, jobs, and property in country after country. Synagogues were bombed, businesses boycotted, and ancient communities faced mass arrests and executions. Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Algeria, and Morocco all saw their Jewish populations virtually wiped out. By the 1970s these communities — some of the oldest in the world — had been reduced to a few hundred souls at most. Today the numbers are staggering in their smallness: Iraq: fewer than 5 Jews remain Egypt: fewer than 10 Syria: fewer than 10 Libya: none Yemen: virtually none Meanwhile, the financial cost was enormous. Jews fleeing Iran and the Arab world left behind an estimated $150 billion worth of property and assets (a conservative 2019 figure; some Israeli government analyses put the unadjusted total closer to $250 billion). Homes, businesses, synagogues, hospitals, schools — all confiscated by Arab governments. Not a single dollar has ever been repaid. Not one Arab state has offered compensation or even acknowledgment. Meanwhile, the UN has passed more than 115 resolutions specifically about Palestinian refugees. Not one UN resolution has ever mentioned the Jewish refugees from Arab lands. Israel absorbed ~586,000 of these refugees in the first few years — nearly doubling the young country’s population — with almost no international help. There was no UNRWA-style agency for them. No endless resolutions. No global outcry about a “right of return.” They were simply absorbed, rebuilt their lives, and became full members of Israeli society. The contrast is stark. The Palestinian refugee issue receives constant international attention and funding. The Jewish refugees from Arab lands — who suffered a genuine ethnic cleansing — have been almost entirely erased from the narrative. This was not a natural migration. It was the deliberate destruction of ancient Jewish communities that had lived in these lands for centuries before Islam even existed. Their stories deserve to be remembered.

@MbarkCherguia Should have gotten more time in jail and told to pay restitution

Pink-haired Just Stop Oil activist Phoebe Plummer has been sentenced to two years in prison for throwing soup on a $90 million Van Gogh painting. What’s your reaction to the sentence?

@SaraEisen @NYCMayor Citadel should cancel the project

As I said a week ago, risky strategy @NYCMayor In an internal email to Citadel NY employees, COO Gerald A. Beeson, says they may not move forward with the new Park Ave construction project now. “It is shameful that he [Mamdani] used Ken’s name as the example of those who supposedly aren’t carrying their fair share of the burdens associated with New York City’s often costly and wasteful spending. In doing so, the Mayor has once again manifested the ignorance and disdain of the elite political class towards those who have been consistently committed to building one of the greatest cities in the world.” “We are about to commence the redevelopment of 350 Park Avenue, creating 6,000 highly paid construction jobs and supporting the creation of more than 15,000 permanent jobs in mid-town New York. The project – if we move forward – will entail more than $6 billion dollars of spending.”

Bill Clinton: “I killed myself trying to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that would have given them all of Gaza and 97% of the West Bank. You name it. They turned it down.” The Palestinians never wanted peace. This must be shared every single day.

@EYakoby Karma is a bitch

Turkish Member of Parliament Hasan Bismet said: "Israel will suffer the wrath of Allah." He then immediately suffered a heart attack and died.

שורד השבי רום ברסלבסקי התראיין לפוקס ניוז וחשף שם לראשונה פרטים מזעזעים מהשבי שעבר בידי הג'יהאד האיסלאמי. הוא שיתף על הרעב הכבד- שהעביר ימים שלמים עם חצי פיתה, קצת גבינה ועגבניה רקובה, ובקבוק מים קטן. הוא הוחזק בבידוד מוחלט ובאפילה ללא אור יום במשך חודשים ארוכים. הוא מספר על מחבל ספציפי שנהנה להתעלל בו ולהשפיל אותו, למשל לירוק לו על האוכל המועט שהיה מקבל, לקשור אותו בלי סיבה, להרביץ לו בכל הזדמנות... עד שפעם אחת רום לא היה מוכן לספוג את זה יותר ופשוט השתמש בכל הכוח שנשאר בו כדי לתקוף את המחבל הזה בחזרה וככה הצליח לגבור עליו במשך 3-4 דקות עד שמחבל נוסף הגיע לשם והצליח להשתלט עליו. רום שלח את אותו מחבל מתעלל לבית חולים, אבל מה שקרה אחרי זה- זה מעגל אלימות אינסופי שרום עבר בעקבות כך, כולל עינויים קשים והתעללות מינית, עד היום יש על גופו צלקות. הם הפסיקו רק כשאיבד את הכרתו והיה על סף מוות קליני. וככה זה חזר על עצמו גם בהמשך, גיהנום של 738 ימים עד שקיבל את החופש שלו בחזרה... ויודעים מה? פשוט תשמעו את המסר של רום בסרטון המצורף- ככה הוא סיים את הראיון הזה וזה אומר הכל על כמה הבן אדם הזה מטורף וגיבור ואיזו רוח ישראלית בלתי מנוצחת יש בו. רום אח שלי חביב אלבי אני גאה לקרוא לך חבר. כמה טוב שאתה כאן איתנו, אתה ניצחת בענק! והמחבלים הארורים האלה או שנשלחו כבר לגיהנום או שהם בדרך לשם, ואתה כאן תמשיך להתחזק ולהשתקם, ותמשיך לנצח אותם בכל יום מחדש! עם ישראל אוהב אותך🇮🇱💙

I've never published this before, but as Israel celebrates its Independence Day, I'd like to share a story: Months into the war, one of my classmates at Harvard called the IDF genocidal pigs. Immediately after class, I texted my friend in the IDF that I wanted to sponsor a BBQ for an entire unit of the IDF serving in Lebanon that very same day. I showed this video to that same classmate the next day. Needless to say she blocked me on Instagram and we haven't spoken since 😂 Young people: stop being afraid of the woke mind virus lying to you. Be it Ukraine, Israel, or Taiwan, be proud to support our American allies fighting for freedom!

Hezbollah kiIIed 2 French soldiers this week, yet France under President Macron has still not designated or sanctioned the Hezbollah terror party. Now France plans to sanction Israel. The joke writes itself.

@JewishWarrior13 @MikeNew19512115 Apology not good enough

🚨 CNBC: You campaigned with Graham Platner...this is a guy with a chest tattoo of a Nazi symbol, wrote that people concerned about rape should take some responsibility for themselves, praised Hamas... Warren: "He has apologized."….

“A tragic optimist”. That’s how Rachel Goldberg-Polin describes herself. To the world, she’s the embodiment of strength and courage. We discussed her new book, When We See You Again. It’s a searingly painful love story that finds a home in your soul. Our conversation airs Monday.

@JohnJHarwood Actually sad what you’ve turned into

sad what Sara has turned into

It is time for Zionists to start apologizing more...like this. Good on Hillel at UCLA and Students supporting Israel for this statement and shame on the UCLA student government.

מינוי משובח.

Jewish people are the most targeted religious community in the United States, and anti-semitism is rising left, right and center. That's why today, I met community leaders from the @ADL from Temple Israel in Michigan and across the country. These leaders have survived violence and hate of the worst kind, up close and personal. And they were here to fight for more security funding through the non-profit security grant program. I was able to get Secretary Mullin to commit to investing more into this program earlier this year, but the job is not done. I appreciate these leaders making their voices heard, and working to protect Jewish communities from the threat of violence.