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@Awesome_Jew_ By the way, here’s Grok’s take on the burden of Jewish “chosenness”, or being the “chosen ones”. x.com/i/grok/share/0…

Nothing shocked me more than this paragraph: “This turn away from books (‘paywalled dead trees,’ as the tech bros call them) is becoming educational policy. In 2022, the US National Council of Teachers of English released a clear position statement on media literacy: ‘The time has come to decenter book reading and essay-writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education.’ Students, too, seem glad to be rid of books. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans between fifteen and nineteen read for personal interest for an average of eight minutes per day; no age group reads less. This at a time when teens are spending a median of almost four and a half hours daily on their smartphones. The typical teen spends more time on their phone each day than they spend reading over an entire month.”

“Book Banning in Canada Is Quiet, Systemic, and More Effective than Ever” | by Ira Wells | via @TheWalrus #Canada #Censorship #BookBanning #BookBurning #BanningBooks #BurningBooks #USA #ALA #CLA #Maus #antiLGBT thewalrus.ca/book-banning/

Korean submarine docks in B.C. for joint military exercise as Canada nears historic procurement decision theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

My speech at the UN Human Rights Council about their recent report on Israel on behalf of the @UNWatch : I ask the UN, the Arab League, and everyone who had waving the Palestinian flag since October 7:   Where is the flag of Yemen?   In my country, half a million people have died in the last 10 years. The biggest famine and humanitarian crisis in modern history. Why does no one care when half a million Yemenis die?   What about Sudan? In less than two years, more than 150,000 people have been killed. Where is the Sudanese flag? What about Syria? Half a million people were killed. Where is the Syrian flag?   High Commissioner, why is it that when Arabs kill millions of Arabs, no one bats an eye? Where is the outrage? Where are the protests? High Commissioner, may I ask why your report mentions Israel 188 times — yet fails to mention the Islamic Republic in Iran even once? How can you speak about the conflict while ignoring the party who armed, trained, and funded the terror proxies — Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis — who have been bombing Israel thousands of times?   Why don’t you mention that the Houthis in Yemen have spent millions of dollars firing missiles at Israel, instead of feeding my starving people?   And why is Qatar sitting here as a member of the Human Rights Council when they host the Hamas terror leaders in luxury hotels? ——— Their response? Silence.

Hey @NYCMayor are you not ashamed that your wife is a terrorist sympathiser? That she uses anti-Black and homophobic slurs? That she hates white people and blames them for terrorist organizations? She is not “a private person.” She is your wife, the mayor of New York City.

Update: We now have ANOTHER of Ramy Abdu's relatives who was part of Hamas. The EuroMed chief, based in Turkey, already admitted his brother-in-law was Muhammad Daoud al-Jammasi — the senior Hamas political commander who simultaneously served as a high-ranking UNRWA official for 16 years. Just yesterday, I posted about how Ramy's biological brother is wanted by Italian authorities in a massive Hamas financing scandal. Now I've identified a Facebook post from October 2025 in which Ramy eulogizes his nephew — Nour al-Din Muhammad Daoud al-Jammasi — who served as a Hamas military engineer. Nour abandoned his studies at a European university on October 8, 2023 (the day AFTER the massacre) to return to Gaza and join the fighting on behalf of Hamas. Ramy describes him heroically leading a raid on IDF positions at the Netzarim corridor before being killed (womp womp). And this is the man whose "human rights" organization the NYT thinks is trustworthy

BOMBSHELL: EuroMed chief Ramy Abdu's brother is wanted by Italian authorities for his role in a massive Hamas fundraising operation. The best part? Ramy himself is named in the court filing for some highly suspect reasons, as I'm about to show you. Let's dive in, shall we? 🧵

No, I cannot believe I have to write this. “Second time.” You cannot be voluntarily kidnapped, and definitely not twice. And being sent away a few hours after doesn’t meet the definition either. Kfir Bibas was kidnapped. Hersh Goldberg-Polin was kidnapped. You bought a ticket. They did not get to come back alive and write an op-ed.

"The slogan 'Globalize the intifada' proposes a new mode of operations. Rather than wage a difficult & dangerous war against the highly armed Jews of Israel, the slogan urges anti-Zionists to target a more vulnerable population: the Jews of the diaspora." theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/…

When the U.S. forced Canadian company Sherritt International to divest from Cuba it was to hand it to a Trump crony. I told Bloomberg that this was an instance of the Donroe Doctrine: overriding our sovereignty to dominate energy & mining in the hemisphere bit.ly/43lUD4a

My piece in @TheAtlantic on the real-world consequences of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish defamation. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/…

For centuries, Jews have been accused of preparing their Passover food with Christian blood. “Dismissing all of this as ancient history would be comforting,” @Yair_Rosenberg wrote in Time-Travel Thursdays in 2024. “But it’s not.” theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

From @WSJopinion: No policy can reach wokeism’s core: the binary of oppressor and oppressed that supplies adherents with moral fervor—directed these days at MAGA and Israel with religious intensity, writes @continetti on.wsj.com/4wJ5hj3

The “Israel has a right to exist” argument has always bothered me because it accepts a weak premise. Nations do not have some abstract, inherent, metaphysical “right to exist.” Not Israel, America, France, Pakistan, you name the country. States exist because they establish sovereignty, build institutions, control their territory, defend their borders, gain recognition, and survive. That is the realist and only true, logical argument. When someone says “Israel has no right to exist,” the strongest response is not to beg them to recognize Israel’s “right.” This is weak and defensive. That already puts Israel on trial in a way no other country is. The stronger response is to say simply: Israel DOES exist. It achieved sovereignty, built a state, and defended itself through repeated wars. It has borders, institutions, a military, a legal system, international recognition, and a people who are not going anywhere. There is definitely a double standard, though. People do not demand France, Pakistan, Jordan, Turkey, or Egypt justify their “right to exist.” That standard is almost always applied uniquely to Israel, and yes, a lot of the time it is rooted in antisemitism or anti-Jewish hostility. That is exactly why Israel’s defenders should stop making the weakest version of the argument. Israel does not need to defend its existence as if its sovereignty depends on the moral permission of people who hate it. Israel’s case is much stronger than that. Israel DOES exist because the Jewish people returned to political sovereignty in their historic homeland, built functioning institutions, accepted partition, declared independence, survived invasion, defended itself, absorbed refugees, developed a modern state, and maintained that sovereignty for over 75 years. Stop playing into the emotional arguments and get real.

The NYT just published a lengthy response to "our questions" about Kristof's column. Think they owned up to their mistakes? Quite the opposite. Here are just SOME of the ways this response by Kristof and @katiekings is disgusting. And yes, they double down on the dog rape🧵

In light of recent disclosures about Havana Syndrome and the U.S. acquiring a pulse microwave weapon from Russian brokers, it's amazing Rubio fails mention how Cuba hosted GRU officers who attacked CIA personnel in 2016-2017. Senator Rubio was one of the biggest advocates for AHI victims; he also endorsed @InsiderEng's 2023 investigation with @60Minutes showing how Unit 29155 was involved in this kinetic campaign against Americans. theins.press/en/politics/27…

“A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide” | by Dell Cameron | via @WIRED “One line tucked into a federal highway bill would strip funds from cities and states unless they kill their automated plate tracking programs — effectively banning the tech for all but toll collection.” #UnitedStates #Congress @RepScottPerry #JesúsGarcía #AutomatedLicensePlateReaders #ALPR #HouseTransportationAndInfrastructureCommittee #HTIC #surveillance #tracking #warrantless wired.com/story/a-bipart…

A quick stop in Europe before returning to Israel gave me a moment to reflect. On my flight to Canada, I read Douglas Murray’s response to Nicholas Kristof and the now-infamous allegation that Israelis train dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners. I laughed, because Murray’s sarcasm was probably the only appropriate response to a claim so obscene, delusional, and humiliating for both the author and the publisher. But I was not shocked that The New York Times gave such a story mainstream legitimacy. Modern antisemitic libels rarely arrive openly anymore. They are repackaged as activism, humanitarianism, or “anti-Zionism,” then amplified by institutions that are supposed to safeguard truth. And honestly, in a New York where Zohran Mamdani can seriously emerge as a major political figure, the circulation of such madness no longer feels surreal. Instead of merely pointing out that experts considered the allegation biologically impossible, it is worth asking a larger question: what kind of society reaches a point where millions are prepared to believe the unbelievable? Antisemitism is indeed becoming normalized, but it is only one symptom of something much deeper: the normalization of madness itself. How did we reach a point where children are taught, sometimes even in schools, that their gender is entirely detached from biology and subject only to feeling? Where cross-dressing in public is celebrated as avant-garde while anyone defending social norms is mocked as backward? How did the family, the nucleus of every functioning civilization, become something many intellectuals openly ridicule? How did we reach a point where religion, whether divinely inspired or socially constructed, became viewed primarily as a source of oppression and evil, causing millions to abandon not only faith itself but also the moral frameworks attached to it, including the Ten Commandments, perhaps the most influential social pact ever created to regulate human behavior? And more tragically still, how did we reach a point where the very people who carried that moral tradition into the world, the Jews, are increasingly portrayed as the embodiment of evil itself? This did not happen overnight. It happened through decades of cultural conditioning, ideological indoctrination, moral relativism, and the steady erosion of the ability to distinguish right from wrong, truth from falsehood, good from evil. And in such a world, the wolf becomes the lamb. The United Nations can appoint Iran or Turkey to human rights bodies. Bashar al-Assad can receive protection in Russia after overseeing the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Syrians. World leaders can still roll out red carpets for Iranian officials while the regime hangs dissidents, beats women in the streets, and fuels regional chaos across the Middle East. Even the Pope can honor the Iranian ambassador while the Islamic Republic continues to execute its own people and export instability throughout the region. Self-proclaimed feminists can enthusiastically cheer movements and regimes that systematically abuse women, imprison them, beat them, force them into submission, and sometimes even kill them, as long as those same regimes happen to oppose Israel. Homosexual activists can wave the flags of Hamas, Hezbollah, or the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, movements that would execute them without hesitation. And eventually, in a civilization that has lost its moral compass entirely, a man can identify as a woman, a woman can identify as a cat, and a dog can rape a Palestinian. #Israel #nyt #TenCommandments #shavuot

‘This isn’t Law and Order’: Toronto driver beats 2007 traffic ticket following judge’s ‘sarcastic’ remarks cp24.com/local/toronto/…

Barney Frank, the first out gay member of Congress, dies at 86 thepinknews.com/2026/05/21/bar…