Jacqueline Diamond

My office staff got very excited when my latest talking-cat paranormal mystery arrived in hardcover. It was hard to get them to keep still for a photograph.

Ireland is an antisemitic nation that seeks to boycott Jewish goods. And no - it is not about human rights. China one of the world's worst abusers of human rights is one of Ireland's largest trading partners - with no move to boycott them. So Ireland is antisemitic. Pass it on

How sad that a once-great institution like Harvard keeps bringing shame on itself.

@AlanBreenAuthor I meant Bohemian Rhapsody, not Hungarian. Sigh.

@JacqueDiamond Oh 😳. definitely worth a look. Thank you 😊

Need a film recommendation for me and my dad tonight. Nothing too sad, nothing too arty, and absolutely nothing where I need to Google the ending afterwards. We're old school – beginning, middle, and end 😂

El periodista estadounidense Leland Vittert contó en una entrevista una historia que cambió completamente su visión sobre el conflicto israelí-palestino. Antes de trabajar en Jerusalén, él, como muchos otros, creía en una “imagen simple”, donde todo podía explicarse en categorías de blanco y negro. Pero la realidad con la que se encontró resultó ser mucho más aterradora y compleja. Se trataba de Wafa al-Biss, una joven de Gaza que sufrió graves quemaduras en un accidente por la explosión de una cocina de gas mientras preparaba comida. Fue llevada a un hospital israelí, donde los médicos la trataron durante años, le realizaron operaciones y prácticamente le salvaron la vida. Durante años recibió una atención que en Gaza simplemente no podía obtener. Después de eso, Wafa regresó a su hogar. Le otorgaron un permiso especial que le permitía cruzar la frontera para recibir tratamiento; en aquella época, esos permisos eran muy raros. Parecía que esta historia debía convertirse en un ejemplo de bondad humana y salvación. Pero ocurrió lo contrario. La reclutaron. A la joven a la que le salvaron la vida la prepararon como atacante suicida. Militantes de las “Brigadas de los Mártires de Al-Aqsa”, brazo armado vinculado a Fatah, le dieron tres objetivos: un autobús, un café y el mismo hospital donde había sido tratada. Y de esas tres opciones, ella misma eligió el hospital, el lugar donde alguna vez le habían salvado la vida. En un puesto de control descubrieron el explosivo que llevaba. Intentó activarlo, pero la bomba no funcionó. Fue arrestada. Fue condenada a prisión y más tarde liberada en el intercambio de prisioneros entre Israel y Hamás por el soldado Gilad Shalit. E incluso después de eso, los israelíes volvieron a tratar sus quemaduras, ayudaron en su rehabilitación y le dieron educación. Más tarde, tras el intercambio de Shalit, regresó a Gaza. Cuando el periodista se reunió con ella años después, le mostró el video de aquel intento de atentado y le preguntó qué sentía al verlo. La respuesta fue estremecedora: “Casi probé el paraíso”. Cuando le preguntó si lo volvería a hacer, respondió sin dudar: “Sí. En cualquier momento. Ese es mi propósito”. Fue en ese momento cuando él comprendió realmente con qué está lidiando Israel. Con una realidad en la que incluso una vida salvada no siempre genera gratitud. Con una realidad donde la humanidad y el terrorismo pueden existir lado a lado. Y con una realidad imposible de entender si se observa desde Occidente. -Diana Kleimerman-

@AlanBreenAuthor Just realized you're in Glasgow so U.S. recommendations may not apply.

@AlanBreenAuthor I haven't seen any movies in the theaters recently. If you want streaming recs, I enjoyed Hungarian Rhapsody on Netflix (the biopic of Freddie Mercury won a lot of Oscars, deservedly). Also reasonably good is Ghost War, the new Jack Ryan movie on Prime.

A quick stop in Europe before returning to Israel gave me a moment to reflect. On my flight to Canada, I read Douglas Murray’s response to Nicholas Kristof and the now-infamous allegation that Israelis train dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners. I laughed, because Murray’s sarcasm was probably the only appropriate response to a claim so obscene, delusional, and humiliating for both the author and the publisher. But I was not shocked that The New York Times gave such a story mainstream legitimacy. Modern antisemitic libels rarely arrive openly anymore. They are repackaged as activism, humanitarianism, or “anti-Zionism,” then amplified by institutions that are supposed to safeguard truth. And honestly, in a New York where Zohran Mamdani can seriously emerge as a major political figure, the circulation of such madness no longer feels surreal. Instead of merely pointing out that experts considered the allegation biologically impossible, it is worth asking a larger question: what kind of society reaches a point where millions are prepared to believe the unbelievable? Antisemitism is indeed becoming normalized, but it is only one symptom of something much deeper: the normalization of madness itself. How did we reach a point where children are taught, sometimes even in schools, that their gender is entirely detached from biology and subject only to feeling? Where cross-dressing in public is celebrated as avant-garde while anyone defending social norms is mocked as backward? How did the family, the nucleus of every functioning civilization, become something many intellectuals openly ridicule? How did we reach a point where religion, whether divinely inspired or socially constructed, became viewed primarily as a source of oppression and evil, causing millions to abandon not only faith itself but also the moral frameworks attached to it, including the Ten Commandments, perhaps the most influential social pact ever created to regulate human behavior? And more tragically still, how did we reach a point where the very people who carried that moral tradition into the world, the Jews, are increasingly portrayed as the embodiment of evil itself? This did not happen overnight. It happened through decades of cultural conditioning, ideological indoctrination, moral relativism, and the steady erosion of the ability to distinguish right from wrong, truth from falsehood, good from evil. And in such a world, the wolf becomes the lamb. The United Nations can appoint Iran or Turkey to human rights bodies. Bashar al-Assad can receive protection in Russia after overseeing the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Syrians. World leaders can still roll out red carpets for Iranian officials while the regime hangs dissidents, beats women in the streets, and fuels regional chaos across the Middle East. Even the Pope can honor the Iranian ambassador while the Islamic Republic continues to execute its own people and export instability throughout the region. Self-proclaimed feminists can enthusiastically cheer movements and regimes that systematically abuse women, imprison them, beat them, force them into submission, and sometimes even kill them, as long as those same regimes happen to oppose Israel. Homosexual activists can wave the flags of Hamas, Hezbollah, or the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, movements that would execute them without hesitation. And eventually, in a civilization that has lost its moral compass entirely, a man can identify as a woman, a woman can identify as a cat, and a dog can rape a Palestinian. #Israel #nyt #TenCommandments #shavuot

The most telling part of the genocide debate is that the ICJ & the ICC have never accused Israel of committing genocide. That hasn't mattered to the many people who continue to claim they have. Last month, in an interview that has received conveniently little attention, the ICC prosecutor even told @mehdirhasan that charges of genocide were not brought against Israel due to a lack of evidence. You can watch that interview here: zeteo.com/p/karim-khan-u…

@ChrisBas82 I'm an early bird. Must be genetic; my father was, too. I'm up by 4:30 or I feel like I've slept the day away. However, I take an after-lunch nap.

Hey there, fellow writers! With regards to writing, are you a night owl or an early bird and why's that? Personally, I'm an early bird. I wake up around 4am to start my daily routine (ala The 5am Club by Robin Sharma) and then I write until 07:30am and then off to work.

A Seattle judge said we couldn't show the faces of the 33 Antifa & anti-Israel radicals who caused over $1 million in damage to the brand new engineering building at UW in May. So here are their faces & names: Tayler Hart Max Rulff Zachary Wallaced-Wells Jade Wu, Jessica Schutz Luisa Ortega Subdiaz Ginger Newberry Kimaya Mahajan Gina Liu Lea Keating Akira Junyaprusert Anna Hattle Julia Fraczek Cade Jackson Jonas Piper Ty Park Lucy Zern Tasbeet Iman Ricardo Colon-Galvez Roberta Collison Ella Tunduwani Zainab Chattha Riley Centerwall Catherine Brown Brett Anton Claire Berger Yasmin Ahmed Yafate Yared Geneveve Konijisky Finn Brown Bailey Keen Lucas Nichols-Mcauslan and Sam Sueoka. It was all a matter of public record long before the judge made the ruling. KOMO News made this handy collage. Please share

Please re-post... share... Enough of AOC.

@PatriciaHeaton Unfortunately, this is apparently AI generated and doesn't exist. Too bad!

More of this please

@JewishNewsUK There's no such thing as Palestinians. There are Arab supremacist jihadist settler colonists who refused to share the ancient country of Judea with its native people and have been trying to slaughter them all since 1948.

Pro-Palestine campaigner launches bid to become Unite trade union chief jewishnews.co.uk/pro-palestine-…

Gaza truth. No famine. No starvation. No genocide. United Nations lied. International courts lied. Faux human rights organizations lied. Media lied. commentary.org/seth-mandel/cl…

Pride Month is coming. So here is your annual reminder that the only country in the Middle East where you can actually be proud is Israel. Not hashtag proud. Actually proud. Proud in public. Protected by law. Free to live openly. That should matter to anyone who claims to care about liberal values. So when “progressives” cheer for movements that criminalize gay people, silence women, and punish dissent, the question is simple: Progressing toward what? Am Yisrael Chai.

One of the biggest historical scams people successfully pulled off was convincing the world that Arabs only started massacring Jews in the Land of Israel because of “occupation” and modern Israel. The 1929 Hebron Massacre alone completely destroys that narrative. On August 24, 1929, Arab mobs in Hebron slaughtered one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world. There was no Israel. No IDF. No checkpoints. No “occupation.” No settlements. Just Jews. Hebron’s Jewish community had existed for centuries. Many were deeply religious families with roots going back generations, long before political Zionism even existed. But after weeks of incitement and false rumors surrounding Jewish access to holy sites in Jerusalem, Arab mobs stormed Jewish homes and began butchering civilians. Jews were stabbed, beaten, mutilated, and hacked to death with axes. Families were murdered inside their homes. Synagogues were ransacked. Children and elderly Jews were not spared. 67 Jews were murdered. Some survivors were only saved because a handful of neighbors hid Jewish families in their homes while the mobs searched the streets outside. The massacre was so horrific that the surviving Jews were evacuated by the British, effectively ending a Jewish community in Hebron that had existed for hundreds of years. And this is the part people desperately try to avoid: This happened in 1929. Before “occupation.” Before “settlements.” Before “the Nakba.” Before modern Israel existed. People can argue and complain all day about modern politics, borders, settlements, or governments. But the claim that anti-Jewish violence in the Land of Israel only began because of modern Israel falls apart the moment you look at what happened in Hebron in 1929.

What Jews have done for civilization is enormous. There is but 1 Jew for every 500 people in the world, yet they have won 22% of Nobel prizes (1 out of every 5), with extraordinary medical & scientific research. Those who blindly hate #Jews need to open their eyes. #History

@baum_p They forgot to mention all the dogs that Israel trained to vote in the Eurovision contest!

Breaking news Spain and Ireland to call a special meeting of the United Nations General Assembly censuring Israel for performing so well ( they came second ) in the Eurovision Song Contest . Seconded by North Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran , the Spanish and Irish motion believes that Israel had Mossad Agents comprising the majority of the national jury voters in all the 25 competing countries and used radar and laser technology not only to create below average performances of the other contestants but also to persuade home voters globally to direct their votes to the Israeli performer . The motion is expected to pass by 118 votes to 43 with 27 abstentions

We won’t sit back while Jewish Americans are getting attacked in our own country and wait for the next tragedy. We introduced the No Amnesty for Hamas Sympathizers Act, cutting off all immigration benefits and legal protections for individuals from Palestinian-controlled areas or those holding Palestinian Authority travel documents. This should never happen in America. This bill slams the door shut and keeps terrorist sympathizers and antisemitic extremists out.

This real-time 1948 article from The Economist completely destroys the modern “Nakba” narrative that was invented decades later as political propaganda. Straight from British eyewitnesses in Haifa, October 2, 1948: “Jewish authorities urged all Arabs to remain in Haifa and guaranteed them protection and security ... However, of the 62,000 Arabs who formerly lived in Haifa, not more than 5,000 or 6,000 remained. The most potent factor was the announcements made over the air by the Arab Higher Executive, urging the Arabs to quit ... those who remained and accepted Jewish protection would be regarded as renegades.” They didn’t flee because of “Zionist ethnic cleansing.” They fled because Arab leaders ordered them to get out of the way so their armies could “drive the Jews into the sea.” Then they lost the war they started — and spent the next 77 years rewriting history to blame the Jews. The “Nakba” you were taught? Pure revisionist fiction.