Nicholas Freedman

AIs that can't understand sarcasm are discriminatory towards Jews

@MarkJCarney You're publicly carrying water for this ridiculous, transparent cosplay? Furthering the lies? Riding on the publicity? The exact opposite of leadership. Canada deserves so much better.

Today, I spoke with the President Herzog of Israel. I reiterated that the appalling treatment of civilians aboard the Gaza-bound flotilla was unacceptable, and that respect for human dignity must be upheld everywhere, at all times. I underlined the imperative of de-escalation in the Middle East, and the importance of a genuine resumption of dialogue among all parties. Progress toward peace and stability in the region must remain the clear, shared objective.

This is first-rate 🍉expertise right here. An unrelated fact that Stephen won't understand the significance of: Latakia is closer to Dublin than Los Angeles is to NYC.

@TheGreeneBJ How sad for you that Hussein didn't murder a bunch of people you don't like and then die.

Nothing like an NPR story about a traumatized Palestinian who learned to love Israelis in a business entrepreneurship incubator bootcamp to make me want to light myself on fire

@CarymaRules These Radio Rwanda fans are psyched.

WATCH: A pair of demonstrators point and laugh as a passenger in a wheelchair wearing a kippa emerges from the airport arrivals doors. Meanwhile, the surrounding crowd chants, “The people united will never be defeated! Zionism is terrorism! Free Palestine!” 📸 May 24, 2026 #Toronto #ProtestMania

Il a fallu 3 ans d’enquête à Israël pour qu’enfin, une commission civile convainque quelques journalistes de l’ampleur des viols du Hamas. Il a fallu 15 secondes d’interview pour que la flottille convainque la presse. Cette différence porte un nom : l’antisémitisme.

@simonmontefiore Crabapple et al are promoting an ideology historically proven to end with dead Jews, and then critically fail to mention that part. Rather than assuming these literate people are stupid, I'm going to assume they are not, and therefore desire the likely outcome of their advocacy.

The Bund is fascinating but this review like Bund itself is a triumph of wish over reality. Bundists who werent killed by Hitler were shot by Stalin inc Alter Erlich Feffer Markish Bergelson many in the Night of Murdered Poets 1952. A dangerous world. Yet oddly the review just says: ‘Bund ceased operating in 1949.’

Spoiler: The book ends with all the Bundists dying in the Holocaust

While physical tunnels were dug under every place in Gaza, metaphorical tunnels were dug under the most hallowed institutions of the west - UN, so called human rights NGO's, top universities, media - and the assaults on Jewish life were launched from both on that same dark day.

@RepOfSomaliland lol

Arab League condemnations don’t influence our decisions. Our first embassy will be in Jerusalem.

@estherzelda0514 Reporting on Sheikh Jarrah--not just the disconnect from reality but the endless repetition of the lie by sources I had trusted--was part of my awakening as well.

Somebody asked me why I stopped listening to the Pod Save universe, and turned me from almost a daily listener to one of their biggest critics. I think you should know, Jon. Perhaps you are too far gone to care, but your team should know. Because I cannot be the only person who stopped listening because of your team's obsession with condemning Israel. In May 2021, I was listening to Pod Save the World. Prior to that time, Israel was only mentioned sometimes. I did not always agree with the analysis, but nothing that was said ever really bothered me or made me rethink my listening habits. I was driving a lot for work during that time. I liked keeping up with foreign affairs. I loved the podcast because the format was informative on topics that most other outlets did not cover. There were two events in Israel at the time that Tommy was covering: the bombing campaign in Gaza and an eviction in East Jerusalem. He condemned both in extremely strong terms, with loaded language, accusing Israel of promoting apartheid, ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from East Jerusalem, and targeting the freedom of the press in Gaza. Tommy was not often that vehement, and my curiosity followed. What he was alleging sounded serious, but it did not quite fit with the pattern of behavior I knew of Israel, from talking to Israelis. So I thought, well, perhaps I should look into this. Perhaps the Israeli administration has taken a really dark turn. What I found is that Tommy lied, he repeated antisemitic tropes against Israel, and he never corrected himself. The AP Bureau in Al-Jalaa Tower that was bombed in Gaza was alleged to have Hamas operatives in the building. The AP said that they knew nothing about it. Perhaps, but they also said they had never worked with Hamas. Now that, I found, was 100% a lie. I found accounts of AP journalists, specifically, dating back ten or more years openly confessing to sharing space with Hamas there or elsewhere, running stories by Hamas, knowing that they would lose access to Gaza if they did not print what Hamas wanted them to. Why would Tommy say that Israel had no evidence, and was just animated by the desire to attack the freedom of the press, if so many journalists believed that it was plausible or probable that the AP knew Hamas was in the building? But one error, even that bad, was not the real turning point. No, it was the complete inversion of the truth of what was occurring in Sheikh Jarrah concerning the evictions there. Tommy accused Israel of being an apartheid state with the goal of ethnically cleansing Palestinians from East Jerusalem by allowing a Jew to evicting a Palestinian family from their home. But I knew, from my own time in Israel, that that area is predominately Arab. If they were doing ethnic cleansing, they were doing a very bad job. So I decided to look into it. What I found was so shocking that I never took anything any of you said as the truth again. The Palestinian family had STOLEN that house in 1948 when Jordan ethnically cleansed all Jews from Jerusalem, just as Germans stole Jewish homes during the Holocaust. The Jews had deeds to the house dating back to 1875. They even proposed having the Palestinians pay them rent, even though they had no right to be there. On the urging of all of Palestinian society, they refused to pay any rent, or acknowledge Jewish title to the home in any way. Legal proceedings dragged on for years, and eventually, correctly, the Palestinians lost and were evicted. All of which could have been prevented if they paid rent for the house they opportunistically stole from ethnically cleansed Jews. But no, they refused, and instead, inverted reality and accused Jews of ethnically cleansing them. And Tommy just uncritically repeated it. I was appalled at the lack of integrity with your programming. Once I saw it, I could not unsee it. I began fact checking more and more of your coverage in all of your pods, and I found so many errors, so many mistakes, half-truths, and misrepresentations. I was ashamed of myself for listening to you for years. How many times had I been duped simply because I lacked experience in the subject matter? Would I ever have discovered it if Tommy had not made the mistake of speaking about something I actually did have some knowledge of, if I was not tipped off by the strange claim that Israel was ethnically cleansing East Jerusalem? Your obsession with Israel has only gotten worse since then. But I will say that I have your podcasts to thank for creating in me a strong sense of shame for taking anyone's news coverage as the gospel truth. I no longer do that. So thank you, Jon, for allowing Tommy to be so pigheadedly antisemitic on air. I have learned so much about Israel, myself, and American progressives as a result. I thought you should know.

@RachelMoiselle @JacobALinker You might consider reading his 2010 "barbed wire fence" piece, also published under NYT opinion. Ten minutes with the article and Google Maps will establish the discrepancy between reality and what he describes. He never deserved your trust.

I honestly just can’t believe they are standing by that aspect of the piece and drawing all the other testimonies into complete disrepute. They could have retracted the dog penetration claim citing lack of both medical literature precedence and corroboration while standing by the rest of it. My opinion of/trust in both Nick and the NYT has crashed to the floor.

As a simple matter of fact, the specific assertion highlighted is wilfully misleading. Niklas very cleverly says the medical literature ‘documents rectal injuries’. Note that he does not say ‘documents dog rape’. That is because there is no such occurrence in the literature, it is completely without precedent in this regard. As @AviBittMD wrote (full comment linked below): ‘No cases of canine rape have ever been confirmed in the medical literature, and the very few cases of rectal injuries that are described are documented as being initiated by sexual/curious zoophilia on the part of the human, not an assault on an unwitting human on the part of the dog. Moreover those very same medical journals specifically state what you are claiming as “never been described, nor is such a such a thing likely”.’ There were credible testimonies in the Kristof piece. However, the Sagan standard was obviously - obviously - required on claims of dog rape and it was not provided in the piece. I am honestly dumbfounded that Nick and the New York Times have gambled their credibility as a journalist and paper respectively by insisting on publishing and standing behind the dog penetration aspects of the piece. Worse, they are now wilfully misrepresenting the medical literature on the subject. This is a total collapse of journalistic and editorial standards that, aside from anything else, has left the credible testimonies - ones that deserve to see the light of day - in the dust.

@brhodes Blaming a hostile amorphous "them" is exactly the opposite thing from meeting the moment.

Meanwhile, there are people ready to remake the Democratic Party to actually meet the moment.

@DrewPavlou Agree about the dumb. But she was never trying to reach Gaza. Her destination was always the spotlight.

Unbelievably dumb article. She keeps trying to reach Hamas controlled territory and each time she gets turned back and deported from Israel. Unhinged

@SooperMexican deal

@ShockedNick You report me to the UN for war crimes and I will report you, just to save time.

I just had this lunch, it was delicious. I guess I'm eating like a child and worse than a prisoner, poor me. Now I'll go check on my stock market account, my various real estate holdings, and my retirement account. God bless America!

@ComradeSnake 100%

Okay I’ve sene enough home cooking discourse to determine it’s a moral issue. They just lack any shred of moral character.

@SooperMexican Although we usually go with grape nuts. Yet another rights violation!

@SooperMexican In our home we commonly enjoy that particular healthy and delicious breakfast/crime against humanity.

@fortrain47 Hey I'm the one eating child-lunches while you're living it big driving yourself to the chinese, so maybe you're the one doing the poor shaming.

@ShockedNick What ouch? You like to shame poor people.

Few things better encapsulate disconnected zoomerism than insisting that eating sandwiches for lunch is some kind of rights violation. I fear for the future.

@fortrain47 NOT a zoomer? Well ouch then for this.

@ShockedNick I’m not a zoomer and I’m using your own words 😊