Merav Amir

@reider I’ve also seen it before, probably trying to prevent NI from serving as the back door into Britain

Never seen this before: police checkpoint between gate and luggage collection for a domestic flight from Belfast into Gatwick. British passports were waved through. Foreign passports briefly questioned. A few folks held for further questioning.

@reider Reading the comments to her post is no less depressing, so many of them simply say she’s lying. People don’t seem to get how journalists work and what investigative reporting is

This is fine 🐶☕🔥

On Tuesday, for the eleventh time in recent years, antisemitic graffiti was scrawled across a road in the Louth-Meath area. The word "Jew." The word "rats." Stars of David. Another word that the media censored. Painted in broad strokes on the L5600 at Bigstown, two hundred metres from a school. The eleventh time. I want to sit with that number for a moment. Because at some point between the first time and the eleventh time, something happened that is worse than the graffiti itself: it became routine. A councillor makes a call. The council sends a crew. The graffiti is removed. And then, weeks or months later, someone drives out under cover of darkness and does it again. And we absorb it. We metabolise it. We move on. Councillor Paddy Meade, who has been almost entirely alone in raising the alarm on these incidents, put it plainly after the ninth occurrence: "Does anyone mind?" He noted that CCTV footage had previously been passed on to the Gardaí. He asked whether we should even bother investigating this anymore. The question wasn't rhetorical. It was exhausted. This is what Ireland has become. Not overnight, and not because of any single moment, but by slow accretion, by the steady compounding of things left unsaid, undone, unconfronted. Several weeks ago, the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland published its first ever Antisemitic Incident Report. It documented 143 incidents in just six months, affecting a tiny community of around 2,300 people. Verbal abuse. Vandalism. Threats. Exclusion and discrimination. People afraid to wear a Star of David to work. A young person in school receiving images of swastikas and told that "the classroom will turn into a modern-day gas chamber." A pub with a sign reading "All Zionists Are Barred." Thirty percent of the incidents were triggered simply by cues of Jewish identity, an accent, a symbol, a few words of Hebrew. And here is the detail that should haunt every person who cares about this country: Ireland has no official mechanism for recording antisemitic incidents. None. The JRCI had to build the reporting system and compile the statistics themselves. The same Irish state that has made the Palestinian cause a defining feature of its international identity has not troubled itself to count the ways an Irish minority group is being systematically harassed, threatened, and dehumanised at home. Holocaust Awareness Ireland called the graffiti a "bellwether of national sentiment." That phrase should chill us. The graffiti is not an aberration. It is a crude expression of something that has been permitted to take root in our culture more broadly. The comparison of Jews to vermin was, as HAI noted, a cornerstone of Goebbels' own propaganda apparatus, the rhetorical precondition for extermination. The German word for the murder of Jews and the German word for pest control were, by design, the same: vernichten. And now Jews are compared to rats on a country road in Meath, a few hundred metres from where children go to school, and the dominant national response is a procedural shrug. I keep returning to something Maurice Cohen, chair of the JRCI, said when asked whether the incidents were merely a response to events in Gaza: "Framing hostility against Irish Jews as an understandable consequence of events elsewhere is victim blaming." He's right. And the fact that the question was even posed (by a journalist, in the pages of the Irish Times) tells you everything about how deeply the rationalisation has embedded itself. There is always a reason. There is always a context. There is always some geopolitical frame that renders the suffering of Irish Jews comprehensible, and therefore tolerable, and therefore ignorable. Yoni Wieder, the Chief Rabbi of Ireland, put it with a gentleness that I find almost unbearable, saying that antisemitism in Ireland "surfaces often enough, and in ordinary enough settings, that it cannot be dismissed as rare or confined to the margins of society. This means that for many, Jewish belonging in Ireland feels more fragile than it should." "More fragile than it should." What a careful, aching phrase to describe the experience of looking at the country in which you live and wondering whether it still wants you. Nine percent of Irish adults believe the Holocaust is a myth. Another seventeen percent believe the number of deaths has been greatly exaggerated. Half of all Irish adults do not know that six million Jews were killed. This is not ignorance at the margins. This is a catastrophic failure of education, of memory, of conscience. And yet Ireland routinely presents itself to the world as a moral authority on questions of oppression and justice. We speak with great passion about colonialism, about solidarity, about the universality of human rights. We have built an entire diplomatic identity around the idea that Ireland, having suffered, understands the suffering of others. But suffering has not made us empathetic. It has made us selective. We have learned to see certain kinds of pain with clarity but to look through others as though they were not there. The eleventh time. Someone will scrub the road clean again. By today, the paint may already be gone. And then, in a few more weeks or months, it will happen again, for the twelfth time, and we will perform the same rituals of procedural condemnation and bureaucratic cleanup. But nothing will change, because the problem is not the paint. The problem is us. The problem is a country that has allowed antisemitism to become ambient and has decided, collectively and by default, that this is acceptable. That this is just how things are now. That this is us being on the "right side of history." Councillor Meade asked the right question. Does anyone mind? I mind. But I am starting to wonder whether that matters.

@LizHurra Do you think that would make them change course?

Qatar lobbied the US against going to war with Iran, and its media outlets used to air Iranian propaganda without question & exaggerated Iranian success in the 12 Day War. This is what they got in return.

@idanlandau @ForensicArchi ואין לך בעיה איתם? מעניין

@MeravAmir מכיר את האתר והניתוח הוא של @ForensicArchi

הבי-בי-סי ביצע בדיקה לווינית של תקיפות צה"ל בהפסקת האש והשווה אותן למיקום הקו הצהוב. שום פלא בתוצאות - צה"ל תקף בעשרות מקומות שחורגים *לתוך* השטח שמעבר לקו הצהוב, לפעמים במאות מטרים. כלומר: פלסטינים שחושבים שהם באזור בטוח - מהווים מטרות ירי. bbc.com/news/articles/…

@idanlandau עידן , רק תשים לב שמומלץ להסתמך על האתר הזה, הם מקור לא אמין

ניתוח לוויני מלמד שצה"ל יוצר בתוך הרצועה מכשול פיזי בדומה לקווי גבול אחרים: מחפורות לאורך הקו הצהוב או מערבית לו (עד חצי קילומטר פנימה באזור ג'באליה), הלכה למעשה ביתור של הטריטוריה. כל זה במקביל לליהוגים של קושנר "על שלב ב'". dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-yellow-…

@TheSharkLady עתידות: הרשימה תצוץ באופן פלאי לקראת הבחירות הבאות עם האשמות כנגד המועמד הדמוקרטי הבא, מי שזה לא יהיה

1. אחרי שנים של פמפומים, איומים, רמיזות, ערבובים והפניית אצבעות - רשימת הלקוחות של אפשטיין, פלוצלינג, התאדתה כלא היתה. היא בכלל לא היתה קיימת, אתם מבינים. אתם פשוט קצת מבולבלים. זוהי פאם בונדי, בפברואר השנה, אומרת שהרשימה נמצאת על שולחנה. ואתמול התבשרנו שאין בעצם רשימה בכלל.

@olgoldy @orenbarsky 7octparliamentarycommission.co.uk

@orenbarsky Oren, do you by any chance have a link to the Report? I’d like to read it.

@Tidiane84101146 @orenbarsky Le rapport de la Commission d'enquête internationale indépendante de l'ONU sur les territoires palestiniens occupés est-il suffisamment officiel pour vous ? reliefweb.int/attachments/8f…

@orenbarsky Ils ont recueillis les témoignages des militaires qui disaient avoir vu "de leurs yeux" les 40 bébés décapités aussi ? Rien, pas de preuves pour les viols dans le rapport OFFICIEL. T'es un gros mythomane x.com/Tidiane8410114…

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Torture’s Bureaucracy & the “Legitimacy Effect” By Hagar Kotef & @MeravAmir buff.ly/41bYbo7

@SturmTristan Congrats to you both

@RachelMoiselle G’mar Chatima Tovah and Shanah Tovah

G’mar Chatimah Tovah to all. Wishing everyone a meaningful and easy fast on this particularly solemn Yom Kippur. I have more significant things to atone for in life, but with respect to Twitter I ask forgiveness for not responding to direct messages! I will endeavour to do better in this regard going forward. I also ask forgiveness for any words I have penned on this app that were written without due thought, thus causing offence or hurt. I am not raised Jewish but am going to partake in this period of reflection. See you all on Sunday 🤍

@theholymugger @kodkod87 @TomHerring3 @DanaErlich Kiryat Bialik is no way near Ramat David, there are 30 km separating them

When we talk about double standards in Ireland when it comes to Israel, this is what we mean: Since October 8, Hezbollah has been indiscriminately targeting Israeli communities, a fact which was barely reported in Irish media. For months we have been calling it out, trying to avoid escalation & for months we asked the international community to pressure Hezbollah to stop. For months we have been alerting to the fact that these attacks are also a threat to Lebanese and UNIFIL troops. Over the weekend Israel took preemptive action & destroyed many missile launch pads directed at its civilian communities, yet reports & comments in Irish media frame the action as “Israeli aggression”. Some seem to be more worried about Hezbollah terrorists than the Israelis who are under daily fire.

💥Thousands in Tel Aviv (Tally Melamed)

אלפים מביאים את האור והתקווה באירוע שלום ענק בהיכל מנורה! אנחנו דורשים בטחון, שוויון, ושלום לכולםן 🕊️💡

גאה להשתתף יחד עם אלפי ישראלים וישראליות בארוע הענק בתל-אביב למען החזרת חטופים ושלום. יש תקווה, רק התחלנו. כבוד ל@maozinon המדהים, לנשים עושות שלום ולעשרות ארגונים שוחרי שלום ושינוי שהריצו את הארוע החשוב.

Thousands gather in Tel Aviv for the anti war, pro peace conference. It is expected to start with a the poem Revenge by Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali, read by an Israeli whose parents was murdered on 7.10 lithub.com/revenge-a-poem…

עכשיו בהיכל מנורה, מחנה השלום מתעורר וקורא בכל הכוח לעצור את המלחמה מיד

@HamzaAh1982 @drill_josh You think all nationalism is bad, I’m with you, but if it’s only Jewish nationalism that you oppose then you have a problem

We are here, thousands of Jews and Arabs, sharing a vision where both the Israelis and Palestinians have security, equality, and peace. We will turn this vision into reality ✊ Watch live here: youtube.com/live/nW8kFyft5…