Ross Levatter

@joshxhowie @kieran_andrieu It is easy to refute. Ask ChatGPT, “in the 19th century, what were the inhabitants of the current state of Israel called?” ChatGPT answers: Geographically, the area was often called “Palestine”. People might be described as “of Palestine.”

@kieran_andrieu Should be easy to refute then. Give all these a go as well.

Fun fact. Palestinians weren’t called Palestinians until 1968. Bonus fun fact. Before that, Palestinians meant Jews.

@MaxNordau You reveal yourself as an ethical barbarian. I pity so many of my fellow Jews, who cannot see what is obvious to the rest of the world. You call yourself a “genocide expert“, yet you are in opposition to the large majority of actual genocide experts when it comes to Israel.

There is no rule that says that you are forbidden from defeating an enemy that has inferior technology. You are under no obligation to roll over and die just because genocidal savages (Gazans) lack the means to do what they are trying to do.

@Educatedgypsee @Use_Yandex According to Grok, it’s prematurity.

@Melaniebelizi @Use_Yandex

“What Israel is doing in Gaza is the symbol of evil for this generation” - Bruce Robbins, Jewish-American Professor

@BinsaeedRashid And I misreading? The post indicates that Iran has indicated in advance how they would RESPOND to an American attack on their POWER GRID, the destruction of which would obviously harm millions of Iranian civilians. So they’re saying “You hurt our civilians, we’ll hurt yours.”

IRAN JUST PUBLISHED THE EXACT LIST OF TARGETS THEY WILL STRIKE IF TRUMP BOMBS THEIR POWER GRID Not vague threats. Not "we will retaliate." NAMED FACILITIES. SPECIFIC ADDRESSES. Country by country. 🇸🇦 Ras Al-Khair Desalination → LARGEST in the world → millions lose water 🇸🇦 Shuqaiq Power Plant → southern Saudi grid GONE 🇶🇦 Al Kharsaah Power Plant → Qatar grid hit 🇶🇦 Ras Laffan C Power + Water → Qatar's lifeline GONE 🇦🇪 Taweelah Desalination → one of Gulf's biggest → UAE water supply hit 🇦🇪 Barakah Power Plant → UAE's NUCLEAR plant → strike = fallout risk 🇧🇭 Al Dur Power + Water → Bahrain's PRIMARY water source → 60% dependent 🇰🇼 North Zour Power Plant → Kuwait's largest → 90% desalination dependent 🇯🇴 Aqaba Thermal → Jordan's south grid 🇯🇴 Samra Power Plant → 40% of Jordan's total electricity 💀 12 named facilities 💀 6 countries 💀 ZERO military bases on the list 💀 100% civilian infrastructure — water and power Every target on this list keeps people alive. Not soldiers. CIVILIANS. Trump's 48-hour ultimatum is still ticking. These are the targets at HOUR 48.

@mikekarnat @DA_Stockman Were you one of the spies? I heard several of the embassy employees were actually spies. Books on the CIA indicate this is commonplace.

In 1984 the U.S. State Department declared Iran as the leading state sponsor of terrorism. This murderous tyrannical regime has inflicted a terrible toll on others including its own people. The list below details some of the crimes inflicted on us. One not listed is the first takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Feb 14, 1979. For four months the Revolutionary Guard and Fedayeen occupied the Embassy compound humiliating the staff and looting it. I remember it well. I was there.

THREE EASY PIECES, REDUX. The 47-Year War Between Iran and the Washington War Party started in 1979 when about 400 religious students in Tehran took the US Embassy hostage in retaliation for Jimmy Carter's offering sanctuary to the overthrown Shah. Their demands were reasonable and could have easily been complied with, but the war-mongers on the banks of the Potomac said nope: 1) return the Shah to face justice in Iran for his 26-years rein of larceny and tyranny against the people of Iran; 2) return about $40 billion of Iranian off-shore wealth that had been frozen by Washington; 3) make an apology for the 1953 CIA coup which overthrew Iran's democracy. Reasonable. Easy Peazy. Now, after 47 years of unnecessary conflict, death and destruction on both sides, the new Ayatollah has also made three reasonable, Easy Peazy demands on Washington: 1) get all US military bases and military capacity out of the middle east; 2) lift Washington's brutal economic warfare and sanctions against Iran; 3) pay reparations for Washington wanton destruction of Iran during the last three weeks. As we said, reasonable. Easy Peazy. And totally compatible with a true America First national security policy. Unfortunately, even Jimmy Carter---a rational man of goodwill---blew the chance. Obviously, the chance that the current Oval Office blowhard will do the right thing is somewhere between slim and none: Sayyed Khamenei outlined three concrete demands, each with a defined timeline: a rapid U.S. military withdrawal from the Middle East, a full rollback of sanctions within 60 days, and long-term financial compensation for economic damages.

@GoodVibePolitik @dr4liberty FYI

A friend in Cuba just notified me that every single patient in that hospital that was on ventilators died tonight. I don’t have words.

@RLangford18 @cafreiman To be a non-libertarian you do not need to think. All that you have to do is obey.

@cafreiman To be a libertarian you do not need to think. All that you have to do is chant “liberté”

You don’t need to be a libertarian to think that the state shouldn’t restrict speech to deter sports betting.

@cafreiman But it helps.

@GeorgeSelgin Well, if MAGA means dressing like that, I’m out!

Xenophobia and astounding ignorance going hand-in-hand, as always.

@MaxNordau So all of those first world doctors and surgeons – from the US, Canada, UK, etc. – who said they daily saw the bodies of children killed by IDF snipers with head shots… They were all lying?! Who would’ve thought?

Once again for emphasis: The "most documented genocide of all time" has zero video evidence of IDF soldiers ever shooting a single child. Because it never happened. It's entirely Mandela effect.

@SachaRoytman Dropping bombs on civilian neighborhoods is a war crime? Have you informed the IDF?

Shocking footage from this evening of a ballistic missile striking the city of Dimona in southern Israel. Home to 40,000 residents, a direct hit on a civilian neighborhood is a war crime! I’m furious that world leaders still refuse to stand up and call out Iran. When Israel defends itself, every UN body goes crazy — cheered on by hypocritical Western nations.

@wil_da_beast630 Reports from B’Tselem, UN experts, PCHR, CPJ, BBC, Al Jazeera document widespread and systematic sexual violence — including rape, anal penetration, genital beatings, forced nudity, threats of rape, & dog assaults— against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. Include those?

No. No. We are NOT doing "Why do middle class Jews keep threatening Hamas with sexual violence?" I looked at this. There have been nine or whatever gross incidents. But Hamas did 7 October and is the majority party in these villages. Think "epidemic of white-on-Black crime in USA...why?!!!"

@EarthFirstVoter @pewresearch Significantly lower than it was 30 years ago.

@pewresearch 40% on homosexuality is devastating.

What do Americans consider immoral? Dive deeper into our U.S. morality report: pewresearch.org/religion/2026/…

@GadSaad I wonder if the Iranian leaders make the distinction between American civil institutions like universities and the American government. You know, that fundamental American distinction.

Imagine screaming "Death to America" for 47 years and then when no one hopefully notices, send your children to be educated by the Great Satan.

@wangtangkiki @ZaidJilani Free bacon is, of course, antisemitic. 😉

@ZaidJilani Free Beacon = free bacon ?

What a 29-year-old Benjamin Netanyhu had to say about Arabs and Yemeni Jews. Anyone at free bacon raises this they’ll lose their jobs.

@manda_lani @arnondeg That’s not the point. The point is it can be exacerbated or ameliorated. Conducting a genocide and killing tens of thousands of children tends to exacerbate it.

@LevatterRoss @arnondeg Antisemitism is a matter of thousands of years. Long before Zionism.

No. Zionism is not politically responsible for antisemitism any more than American nationalism is responsible for harm or bigotry experienced by civilian Americans from people who oppose the policies of the US government. Zionism is a national movement, nations do crappy things.

@tabletmag @HarvardJews @Harvard My goodness! Soon there will be no Jews left in Jewish law firms!!

A new @HarvardJews report finds Jewish enrollment at @Harvard is now 7%, roughly half what it was a decade ago and down from about 25% in the late 20th century. The trend isn’t confined to the Ivies, or even to academia. Across publishing, media, and cultural institutions, Jews are quietly disappearing from spaces they once helped build. For Tablet, Jacob Savage wrote about this systemic decline, unfolding quietly across America.

@bryan_caplan I wonder who was the last US president with a similar résumé?

"Larijani published books on Immanuel Kant, Saul Kripke, and David Lewis." !!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Larij…

@pjaicomo @GeorgetownLaw @LELDF @GtownFedSoc @IJ @FedSoc Great discussion. Thanks for all your efforts, Patrick.

@GeorgetownLaw @LELDF @GtownFedSoc @IJ @FedSoc Here's a link for tomorrow's debate: "Should the Court abandon qualified immunity?" You can watch live at 5:45 ET. youtube.com/live/1NVeBwrwc…

Should the Court abandon qualified immunity? Yes! I’ll explain why on Wednesday (3/18) at @GeorgetownLaw when I debate Jason Johnson of @LELDF. The event is part of @GtownFedSoc’s Daniel. Webster debate series. It will be streamed and is open to the public. Come on out!

@cafreiman Could you list other nation-states, today and/or in the past, that are not legitimate? I'm trying to determine your criteria.

There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of the Iran war, but respect for the Iranian regime’s “sovereignty” isn’t one of them. There is no plausible standard according to which that state is legitimate.