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@CptAllenHistory Jews were pleading with Arabs to stay:

😂 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 🤦‍♂️)

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.

@ZoSoJade @Noahpinion Fair point

@RigelXii @Noahpinion Two of the last three Best Picture winners featured all white casts. So I’d say yeah moviemakers are free to do that

Ironically, there is at least one ancient Greek mythological figure who was explicitly black -- Andromeda -- and I've never seen her depicted as black in movies

Regarding the Kristof column. Let’s put aside the dog rape stuff and focus on one additional specific example of why it was such poor and indefensible journalism. There were two named victims of sexual assault by Israeli soldiers in Kristof’s column. One of them Issa Amro. He was detained and interrogated for 10 hours on 10/7. The only problem? He himself put out the below video about what happened to him that day. I will link to it in this week’s newsletter. In the video, he claims his hands were tied tightly, they cursed at him, and he was hit several times. But at no point does he suggest anything even close to sexual assault. Two weeks later, he was interviewed by ABC news. Again, no mention of sexual assault. He would later be interviewed by the Washington Post and would claim he was threatened with sexual assault (but not that it occurred). This person repeatedly talked about the events that day and never once claimed sexual assault except when it became convenient to fit Kristof’s narrative to provide evidence of a systemic problem. And no, it’s not a coincidence that this activist has done a ton of media. Did Kristof know that there was a contemporaneous account from one of the two named alleged victims that does not claim sexual assault? Did the NYT editors know the person being cited changed their story? Was Amro even asked why his story changed? None of this seemed to matter.

@bendreyfuss People should be free to make whatever art they want to: if that includes reimagining Helen of Troy as a Black African woman that’s fine by me. The question is are moviemakers in Hollywood today really free to make big blockbusters *without* doing that kind of reimagining?

There are a lot of stupid tweets like this. The fact that Pocahontas was a Native American interacting with European colonialists is central to the story. If you make her white, the story doesn’t make sense. Helen of Troy’s race is not a central part of the story.

BREAKING from @Jerusalem_Post: A Palestinian man from Gaza has formally demanded that the International Criminal Court investigate 14 Hamas leaders for crimes committed against Palestinians. The man lost his wife, children, and other family members during the war in Gaza. He argues that if Hamas had not committed war crimes against Palestinians, particularly the crime of using civilians as human shields, his family and countless other Gazans would still be alive. War crimes and crimes against humanity listed in the submission include using civilians as human shields, attacking civilians, causing great suffering, destruction of property, excessive incidental death, injury, or damage, conscripting children, murder, extermination, torture, persecution, and more. The Hamas leaders named in the submission are Izz al-Din al-Haddad, Khaled Mashaal, Mahmoud al-Zahar, Mohammed Odeh, Muhannad Rajab, Khalil al-Hayya, Mousa Abu Marzook, Ghazi Hamad, Izzat al-Rishq, Fathi Hamad, Nizar Awadallah, Husam Badran, Zaher Jabarin, and Basem Naim. For decades, innocent Palestinians have paid the price for Hamas's genocidal war against Israel. They deserve justice. The submission was filed on behalf of the Gazan man by American attorneys @ElliotMalin and Eli Rosenbaum and French attorney @sarah_scialom.

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.

Many people attribute the explosion of anti-Israel sentiment, and the corresponding rise in antisemitism, to a spontaneous grassroots movement. 🧵But the evidence suggests something far more deliberate. .@kinsellawarren analysis pulls back the curtain on just how coordinated this effort has been.

The ICC prosecutor, Karim Khan, who has had his fair share of controversies, including being accused of sexual harassment, admits he was unable to file charges against the Israeli leadership for the crime of genocide because there is NO EVIDENCE.

Eyal Waldman hired 20 engineers in Gaza, donated $360K to a Gaza hospital, and spent years building partnerships toward between Israeli and Palestinians. Pro-Palestinian protesters screamed “murderer” at him in Venice this week. His daughter was killed at Nova on October 7.

I'm often asked: “What makes pediatric gender doctors do what they do?" Good question. Here are 9 overlooked factors, to add to the obvious one: ideological agreement with the “gender-affirming” outlook. These are unsystematic observations, so take with a grain of salt. 🧵

People don't know the Arabs were the aggressors in 1948 & sought to exterminate the Jews? “50 million Arabs declared a holy war against 600,000 Jews.” Egypt's Minister of War: “This will not be a war with the Jews, it will be a parade. Within 2 weeks, we will be in Tel Aviv.”

If one assumes that incarceration rates reflect rates of felony perpetration, then we are presented with the extraordinary fact that black males raised in the upper-middle class have about the same chance of committing serious crime as white males raised in the working-class. At every level of parental income, blacks are much more likely to commit crime than whites. The "socioeconomic factors" explanation for black crime favored by the left is grossly insufficient in explaining the disproportionalities in perpetration/incarceration that we observe.

There's a clay tablet with the founding charter of a 12-partner company on it. Twelve merchants pooled 33 pounds of gold to start the firm. The contract has the partner names, the starting capital, the profit split, and the penalty for cashing out early. The tablet is nearly 4,000 years old. It was found at a site called Kanesh, in central Turkey. Archaeologists have dug up 23,500 of these clay records there, most of them business documents: receipts, loan contracts, shipping orders, lawsuits. The houses they were stored in eventually burned. The fire baked the clay solid and preserved every record. The merchants came from Assur, in modern-day Iraq. They loaded donkeys with tin and cloth and walked them 1,000 kilometers across mountain passes to Kanesh, roughly the distance from New York to Atlanta. Each donkey carried about 180 pounds and the trip took two to three months. They came home with silver and gold. The company ran for twelve years under a merchant named Amur Ishtar. A third of the profits went back to the investors. Pull your share out early and the firm gave you four kilos of silver per kilo of gold, half the normal rate. Locked-up money was meant to stay locked up. That one company was just a tiny piece. The tablets show a complete economy with partners suing each other in commercial court, husbands writing home about prices, and wives writing back complaining the husband had been gone too long. A woman named Ahatum quietly lent silver to four different men over nine years. People bought up other people's loan documents and used them as collateral for new loans, the same thing Wall Street does today with mortgage-backed securities. One merchant got caught smuggling tin in his underwear to dodge a 10% import tax. In 2019, four economists from Harvard, Sciences Po, Chicago, and Virginia ran the tablet numbers through a gravity model, the math economists use today to predict how much two countries will trade based on size and distance. The Bronze Age numbers matched modern trade numbers almost exactly. Trade fell off with distance at nearly the same rate it does between countries today. The paper ran in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. There was no economic theory yet. The idea didn't even have a name. The word "capitalism" wouldn't be coined for another 3,800 years, and Adam Smith was 3,700 years away from writing a sentence about markets. Just a guy named Pushu-ken writing a clay tablet to his business partner about a shipment of cloth, and a woman in Assur recording who owed her how much silver. Capitalism was already there, doing its full job, almost four thousand years before anyone wrote down a theory of how it worked.

As a genocide scholar, help me out. Can you point to a single other "genocide" in history where: a) The target population grew larger every year, b) The target population refused to surrender, c) The genocidal party provided mass humanitarian aid d) The genocidal party warned the population to move e) The target population of this genocide immediately held victory parades? f) The genocidal party had the ability to wipe out the entire target party from the air without a single military casualty but chose not to do so? g) The genocide abruptly stopped with a ceasefire agreement. h) Hundreds of medical students from the target population trained and graduated during the genocide. Any one example will do. Just one. I'll wait.

@hell_line0 She didn't vote to take away anyone's voting rights. Black people are still 100% able to vote. She just ruled you can't draw a district that crosses almost an entire state with race being the driving factor behind why that unnatural district was created. It's that simple.

Some insane Palestinian lies off the top of my head: - IDF soldiers are sniping children - 14,000 babies will starve in 48 hours - IDF is training dogs to rape prisoners - "Look at how much weight this guy lost" (he had cancer) - "Look at this image of a dead Gazan!" (It's a photograph from Yemen/Syria/Sudan from 10 years ago) - Israel is placing aid on a table on top of a fake floor and then when the Gazans go to collect the aid they fall into a hole and are buried alive - 680,000 innocent Ghazzans have died - The Bibas children were killed in an Israeli airstrike - "Look at this Israeli settler hitting an innocent Palestinian with his car!" (it's a Palestinian Arab driver) - "Look at this image of a settler stealing someone's house and then dancing in the window" (It's a video of an Albanian guy in Albania) - More AI photos than you can possibly imagine - Every single post from Jvnior's account Palestine always lies.

Want to talk about political violence? Karen Diamond was murdered in Boulder Colorado by a pro-Palestinian man who screamed "free Palestine" while burning her alive with a Molotov cocktail. Most Americans don't even know this happened.