Jane Brody

I am continually amazed by the rigid mindset and extreme confirmation bias displayed by those who are “educated’ by mainstream media. Cognitive dissonance looms large, and ego insists they double down on their beliefs rather than contemplate that they may, indeed, be mistaken.

Israel has more Muslims, than the entire Muslim world has Jews combined.

Prior to the Six Day War (1967). - Gaza was Egyptian. - West Bank was Jordanian. - Golan Heights was Syrian. Where were the Palestinians prior 1967?

@colwight @NickKristof An excellent article by federal judge, Roy Altman.

This is excellent. A comprehensive refutation of the @NickKristof “article”. thefp.com/p/the-new-york…

On This Day — May 18, 2014 A Palestinian professor, Dr. Mohammed Dajani, was forced to resign after weeks of vicious threats, smears, and campus incitement — all because he led 27 Palestinian students to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, guided by Jewish Holocaust survivors. They studied the systematic murder of six million Jews. In return, his own university caved: faculty called him a traitor and “normalizer,” students protested with signs branding him a collaborator, the staff union expelled him, and the administration quietly accepted his resignation rather than defend academic freedom. Just months later, in January 2015, Dajani’s car was torched in a sophisticated arson attack outside his home. Perpetrators had pre-placed chemicals in the engine days earlier specifically to make it explode while driving — an attempt so dangerous it nearly killed him on the road from the airport. The message was crystal clear: there is no place in Palestinian society for acknowledging Jewish suffering, learning real history, or building any bridge of understanding. Dajani had co-written a 2011 New York Times op-ed arguing that teaching Palestinians about the Holocaust would make peace more attainable — by rejecting false equivalences with the “Nakba” and fostering basic human empathy. He believed knowledge could humanize the other side. Palestinian society answered with pure fury. An article about the trip was pulled after online outrage. Dajani, a former Fatah fighter, was branded a traitor for doing the unthinkable: exposing young Palestinians to the truth. This is the core problem with Palestinian society: genuine efforts at reconciliation, Holocaust education, or simple historical honesty are treated as betrayal and treason. Bridges are not wanted. Dialogue is not wanted. Learning the “Other’s” pain is not wanted. They want Israel destroyed — period. That’s why every serious peace offer has been rejected, why “normalization” is a dirty word punishable by social death (or worse), and why even a respected university professor trying to tell the truth had to flee his own community. When your culture punishes the moderates who seek knowledge and coexistence while rewarding the rejectionists and jihadists, the results are predictable: endless conflict, generations raised on hate, and no path forward except through Israeli strength. Dajani tried. Palestinian society made sure it would never happen again.

Introduction I never wanted to write this piece. I resisted it with every intellectual instinct I possess, telling myself the spectacle was too beneath serious consideration to warrant the expenditure of a single syllable. Let the grift burn itself out in its own algorithmic fever, I thought. Let the clickbait whores chase their bag until the market for medieval pathology finally saturates and collapses under the sheer weight of its intellectual dishonesty. But I am fed up. I am so fucking fed up with the clickbait antisemitic business...this slick, highly monetized, and lethally effective siege of humanity’s oldest and most corrosive toxin...that the threshold of dignified silence has been obliterated. What was once a fringe pathology confined to basement manifestos has professionalized, scaled, and gone mainstream, warping otherwise intelligent minds into unwitting propagandists for regimes that have spent nearly half a century butchering American interests while the podcasters smirk about “the Jews dragging us into war.” This is not a topic I relish. This is the first time I have addressed it directly, and it will be the last. My god, the ridiculousness of it all...the shameless inversion of history, the envy-driven scapegoating dressed up as “pattern noticing,” the casual laundering of blood libel into subscription revenue...has finally compelled me to break cover. What follows is not written for clicks, clout, or catharsis. It is a single, unsparing, forensic diagnosis of the plague: ancient venom meets brand-new business model. Consider it Grey’s reluctant but necessary incision into the rot. After this, I return to worthier ground. The grift, however, will not disappear on its own. It must be named, eviscerated, and starved of the oxygen of unchallenged acceptance. open.substack.com/pub/lhgrey78/p…

Given Mayor Mamdani's contribution to the revisionist history that has replaced serious discussion of the Nakba - the catastrophe in which 700,000 Palestinian Arabs became refugees - here's a mini history lesson on how that catastrophe unfolded. A 🧵

So why does "indigenous vs. colonizer" almost always mean Europeans, and almost never Bantu, Turks, Arabs, Slavs, or Han Chinese? A few reasons, in descending order of how much they actually explain: 1. Recency and documentation. European expansion happened in the era of the printing press, photography, census records, and treaties. The Bantu expansion left no paperwork. The Arab conquests are 1,300 years old and mythologized as religious destiny rather than conquest. When the receipts exist, the case is easier to make, and Europeans left receipts. 2. The winners wrote the framework. Modern human-rights language, postcolonial theory, and the very category of "indigenous peoples" were built in Western universities after WWII, primarily to process European guilt over European empires. The tool was designed for one job. Asking it to evaluate the Arab conquest of Egypt or the Turkic conquest of Anatolia is like asking a tax form to diagnose a disease. It wasn't built for that. 3. Christendom is critique-able; other civilizations aren't. You can write a bestseller attacking Western Christian civilization from inside a Western university and win awards for it. Try writing the equivalent book about Arab-Islamic conquest from inside Cairo or Istanbul. The asymmetry isn't about history. It's about which societies tolerate self-criticism and which punish it. So the critical literature piles up on one side and barely exists on the other. 4. The Soviet inheritance. Cold War-era anti-colonial framing was deliberately shaped by Moscow to delegitimize the West while giving its own empire and its allies' conquests, a pass. That framework outlived the USSR and still structures a lot of academic and activist vocabulary today. 5. Race makes it legible. European colonizers usually looked different from the colonized. Turkic conquerors of Anatolia, Arab conquerors of the Levant, and Bantu expansionists in Africa generally didn't look dramatically different from the populations they absorbed. The visual contrast made European empire easier to narrate as racial, and once a story has a clean visual, it travels. 6. And finally, Jews. The framework's selective application reaches its most absurd point when a people indigenous to a specific land, with continuous presence, language, religion, and archaeological record tying them to it for three thousand years, get labeled "colonial settlers", while the actual seventh-century conquerors who Arabized the region get labeled "indigenous." At that point the framework isn't describing reality. It's laundering a conclusion. The label isn't tracking who got there first. It's tracking who it's currently fashionable to blame.

On This Day — May 18, 1967 18 days before the Six Day War, Arab leaders openly broadcast their planned extermination of Israel. Egypt’s official Voice of the Arabs declared: “The sole method we shall apply against Israel is total war, which will result in the extermination of Zionist existence." Two days later, with Syrian troops already massed on Israel’s border, Defense Minister Hafez al-Assad declared: “I, as a military man, believe that the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation.” Cairo Radio the next day: “This is our chance, Arabs, to deal Israel a mortal blow of annihilation, to blot out its entire presence in our holy land.” Extermination. Annihilation. Annihilation again. They said it loudly, proudly, and repeatedly on state radio — a little more than two weeks before the war. Not hidden plans. Not vague threats. Explicit genocidal intent, 22 years after the Holocaust. Yet to this day, people still blame Israel for starting the war. The truth: Israel faced imminent annihilation from a Soviet-backed Arab alliance that had mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops, closed the Straits of Tiran, and expelled UN peacekeepers. Under customary international law, a preemptive strike against an imminent existential threat is not only justified — it is legal. Israel struck first only against Egypt, the ringleader. It begged Jordan’s King Hussein to stay out of the fighting. Hussein ignored the plea, joined the war, and lost the "West Bank" and Old City of Jerusalem in the process. Israel didn’t want that war. It simply refused to die in it. While the world did nothing, Israel acted alone — and in six days destroyed the genocidal threat to its existence.

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I'm a middle eastern historian. My own family were made refugees. And this is my honest view of the Nakba (“catastrophe”) - the displacement of around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs during the 1947–49 war surrounding the creation of Israel. A thread. 🧵

Oh hell no. Let's get one thing straight right now. People aren't "mad" that the opinion article @nytimes by @NickKristof "contained many explosive claims." They're mad because such incendiary allegations were made - in an opinion article, no less - based on obviously speculative & untrustworthy sources. They're mad because some of the most outlandish allegations from the article involve conduct by canines that is clearly anatomically impossible. They're mad because of reports that NYT timed publication of this opinion article to divert attention from substantiated allegations of actual sexual abuse by Hamas terrorists on 10/7 that the paper could have elected to cover in depth instead. They're mad because one of the sources for these allegations has ALREADY recanted in a subsequent "news" interview. In light of all these points above, people are mad because @NYTimesPR continues to double down defending this garbage "deeply reported opinion column" rather than examining whether failure to comply with their OWN ethical journalism standards & practices led to publication of a deeply misleading opinion article with several serious allegations that have no factual merit. Now, it is true that I only completed all requirements for a master of journalism degree literally just yesterday. (‼️) Still, maybe I missed the block of instruction teaching us that it's a proper technique to rely primarily on anonymous sources & orgs with a demonstrated track record of misleading the public just to demonize @Israel as factual evidence of "many explosive claims" presented in an OPINION article that is published as though it is a polished piece of investigative journalism. And these are not merely benign allegations that will just fade into oblivion. I've already seen a video of Palestinian "liberation" terror supporters on London streets telling Jews to "get your dog to rape me, why don't ya" while claiming Jews "celebrate rape" (link in 1st reply) ... all because of this "Kristof column." I, for one, am absolutely disgusted at how routine it's become, especially in the wake of the 10/7 atrocities, for the world to enjoy the spectacle of expecting Jews to turn out their pockets just to prove their innocence. Enough. It's time for the fucking New York Times to turn out THEIR pockets for a change.

My speech from our protest yesterday outside of the antizionist New York Times demanding accountability for systemic antizionist libel and racism, following the Kristof “dog rape” column: We are here today not to accommodate, not to give permission, not to bow our heads. We are here to say no. We will not be erased from this society. We will not countenance a racist hate movement. We are done playing their games. We are done with their empty abstractions and endless debates. We have heard them. We have seen them. Desecrating our neighborhoods. Vandalizing our synagogues. Murdering our people. We have heard their endless vitriol and hatred. Antizionism is not a justice movement. Since it flooded the West after October 7, it has placed a veil of darkness and untruth over this society. We must name the problem. We must use our voice. I'm going to read you a list of names: Paul Kessler. Sarah Milgrim. Yaron Lischinsky. Karen Diamond. The Michigan car-ramming attack. The Manchester Yom Kippur attack. The Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre. The Golders Green stabbing. Who murdered them? Antizionists. Who justified it? Antizionists. Who calls every day for our genocide? Antizionists. Who mocks and erases our history and calls it scholarship? Antizionists. Who tries to deny us the right to speak back? Antizionists. Who purges us from society as if it were righteous? Antizionists. Who are we here to condemn and say no to? Antizionists.. What happened on October 7 was a genocide, and today they accuse Israel of genocide. And now these so-called "credible" institutions spread lurid tales of “dog rape,” animalizing us and dehumanizing us. Have they no shame? Shame on them. Shame on Nicholas Kristof. Shame on The New York Times. Shame on the United Nations. Shame on our universities. I am here to tell you: Our struggle is a just struggle. This is the real social justice movement. This is the real progressive movement. This is the movement that fights for life, for truth, and for goodness for all people—Israeli, Jewish, and Palestinian alike. It is the movement that has been hidden this entire time, obscured behind their mirror of inversion and propaganda. We will not stop demanding that the world reckon with this ideology, with this hate movement. We are an unbreakable people. And when we know who we are, nothing can stop the light—the light that shines and dispels the darkness, the light that comes forth from Zion. The denial ends today.

😂 This “Nakba Survivor” is literally a “European settler” In the late 19th century, Muslim Bosnians (including Inea’s grandparents), fled Bosnia to Ottoman Syria, after Austria-Hungary took control of Bosnia. They feared that now, the Christians will seek revenge after years of mistreatment. Inea’s father’s family lived in Tulkaram, but he himself lived in Jerusalem where Inea was born. In the 1930’s, Inea’s father had a Job in England, he returned to Mandatory Palestine after a few years, but in 1948 they decided to move back to England. They were not expelled, and no one forced them to move to England. As a matter of fact, Tulkaram, and the old city of Jerusalem remained under Jordanian Arab control. Not a single Zionist to bee seen there. So in summary, this is a European with no strong roots in the land of Israel, whose family made the decision to immigrate back to the continent of their grandparents instead of remaining under Arab control. (And the “visit Palestine” poster on her wall is a Zionist poster by Franz Kraus to encourage Zionist tourism to the holy land. It’s not even the original poster, but a replica of the poster, with an additional Hebrew description mentioning his name 🤦‍♂️)

An Arab man from Saudi Arabia in a message to Palestinians: "Who are you trying to fool? You have no land and no case. This land belongs to Israel for the people of Israel. You Palestinians are evil in any country you set foot on!" This must be shared every single week.

The ever-thoughtful @DouglasKMurray asks why The New York Times would make such outlandish and horrific claims about Israel ⬇️ “Normal people would note that the story does not pass (sorry to use the phrase) the most basic smell test. It is the sort of claim that someone would only make if they wanted to portray their enemies as absolute monsters, enemies of humanity: Untermensch. As it happens, if you scan the relevant literature you will find that there is absolutely no evidence that dogs can be trained to rape and penetrate human beings. There is not a case — not one — of a dog trainer successfully turning a canine into a rape-machine. …the New York Times story landed just a day before an anticipated report into Hamas’ use of sexual violence on October 7, 2023… if you know that a report is coming out into Hamas’ use of sexual violence then it is clearly very important to invent a claim even more appalling than the real-life crimes of Hamas.” nypost.com/2026/05/14/opi…

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We don’t talk about other, larger population displacements that took place around the same time of the Nakba (700K) with the same ferocity: • India/Pakistan (10-15 million) • Germans from East Europe (10-12 million) • Greece/Turkey (2 million) • Jews from Arab countries (800K) The main difference is that in none of those cases are activists pretending that they’re “ongoing” or treat descendants as perpetual refugees. The expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe is probably the closest analogue to the Palestinian displacement. Other than the fact that it was vastly larger, most historians agree that the Germans had it coming to them, having started WWII. Meanwhile, an industry of lies continues to make excuses for the Palestinians, painting them as perfect victims. The Nakba (“catastrophe”) is not a hoax because Palestinians weren’t displaced. They were, and it was tragic. The hoax is the mythology built around it, that the displacement was uniquely evil, uniquely permanent, and completely detached from violent Arab rejectionism. The real “catastrophe” in the Arab psyche was not merely displacement, but the humiliation of losing an ongoing war that many still today hope would end with the Jews driven out of the Middle East.

BREAKING: The ICC prosecutor has admitted that he has not found a shred of evidence suggesting a genocide in Gaza. Complete vindication.

Calling Israel a “settler-colonialist” state is not just factually and morally wrong — it’s a complete inversion of reality. Israel is arguably the most successful ANTI-colonial endeavour in history: a people returning to their ancestral homeland after 3,000 years of exile, conquest, and foreign domination by Romans, Arabs, Ottomans, Britons, and other assorted colonizers. quillette.com/2026/05/07/isr…