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@JustinBonomo Moron alert !!!! 🚨

Why do I care so much about Palestine? As a Jewish teenager, I struggled to understand how the world could let The Holocaust happen. I learned about the lies and propaganda Germans were fed about Jews. I learned about the immense dehumanization of my people. I learned about the 10 stages of genocide. I learned how ordinary Germans became complicit in the most heinous crimes imaginable. Many of us believed that events that unfathomably evil could never happen again. And yet the whole world is watching it play out again right before our eyes through strikingly similar steps. If you ever wondered what you would have done in Nazi Germany - it’s whatever you’re doing right now. Ilan Pappé has long referred to it as an incremental genocide. For 100 years Israel has ethnically cleansed Palestine, completely subjugated its people, consistently slaughtered them both in times of peace and in times of war, illegally occupied and stolen their lands, and upheld a crippling blockade that has prevented them from having any chance of economic autonomy or even clean drinking water. 14 months ago it transitioned into a full fledged genocide. Just look at the photos of the rubble. That is the complete destruction of Gaza. If you think there’s anything targeted about that, I have a bridge to sell you. “But Hamas…” - Listen, this has been going on since long before Hamas existed. 76 years of ethnic cleansing. If you don’t know what The Nakba is, please look it up. Israel and the US have consistently fought against Palestinian self determination for 50+ years. The international courts have long upheld that Israel’s occupation is illegal, and that Palestinian resistance therefore is legally and morally justified. Yes it’s personal and I’m emotionally invested in this. It’s The Holocaust all over again. Except this time it’s happening by my people instead of to them. My tax dollars are being used, by politicians I voted for, in the name of my family’s religion, to mass slaughter innocent people who have never known freedom or peace in their entire lives. Israel has bombed every hospital in Gaza. Netanyahu has a warrant out for his arrest for crimes against humanity. The Hague / ICJ / ICC and the UN have been very clear that Israel is and has always been the aggressor - illegally occupying Palestine since 1967. Israel is *breaking records* for doctors, journalists, and even UN workers killed. And so much more. If you support the above, you’re on the wrong side of humanity and you really need to question your beliefs. Like I was taught as a Jewish teenager - Never Again Means Never Again For Anyone. Don’t just take my word for it. Look up what the ICJ / ICC / UN have said. Every human rights org agrees Israel is committing crimes against humanity, from Amnesty International’s staggering 297 page report, to Human Rights Watch’s 179 page report. Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF, World Central Kitchen, and countless other humanitarian orgs have made similar statements. Even the Pope has condemned Israel for the endless terrorism its committing. Just imagine siding against The Hague, Doctors Without Borders, and the Pope - the mental gymnastics one must go through to get to that point. The simple truth is that the vast majority of the world supports Palestinian liberation, but the US is too powerful to stop. I belive the only way out of this is for the international community to band together and take a stand in the name of international law. The near future looks bleak, but I’m optimistic about the long term. The veil has been lifted. The truth is out there for all to see. It’s only a matter of time before Netanyahu and the other war criminals receive the justice they deserve. I believe that one day in my lifetime we will see a liberated Palestine. “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” Free Palestine 🇵🇸

@JustinBonomo Lol the shit ppl believe

The IDF tortured a toddler for hours to coerce his father. They used cigarettes and nails. On a toddler. We should all have a strong, visceral reaction to the cruelty, but I want to focus on the complicity. Don’t get me wrong, the cruelty absolutely infuriates me. I alternate between seething rage and immense sadness when I read about these atrocities. But the complicity reveals something much deeper. It shows that by and large, Israeli society does not see widespread torture of Palestinians as a problem. The toddler was held at a busy IDF checkpoint. Witnesses say multiple soldiers were involved, and that he was held for 10 hours. How many soldiers had the chance to say, “Maybe we shouldn’t put out our cigarettes on an 18-month-old baby”? We could lower the bar to the ground and ask: why didn’t anyone say, “There are too many people watching for us to torture this baby. The whole world will see the cigarette burns. Let’s at least be discreet.” As someone who has read thousands of these reports and testimonies, I can tell you why not - these sick IDF terrorists believe this behavior is acceptable. Let’s talk about 17-year-old Walid Ahmad from my last post. He was starved and beaten for 6 months inside Megiddo Prison in northern Israel until he collapsed, hit his head, and died. Megiddo is a large, high-security prison that has held as many as 2,000 detainees - most of them held without charge or trial. A prison of that size has hundreds of employees. That means that over 6 months, hundreds of Israelis watched 17-year-old Walid be starved and beaten until he collapsed and died. The “post-mortem examination indicates Walid suffered from extreme body muscle and fat wasting, evidenced by a sunken abdomen.” In other words, his starvation would have been obvious to anyone who saw him. Yet the starvation of this child, who had never been convicted or even charged with a crime, continued without impediment. For 6 months. I wish I could tell you this was an isolated incident. But it isn’t. Public allegations of torture and severe abuse of Palestinians in Israeli custody go back at least 59 years, to the beginning of Israel’s modern occupation of Palestine. For example, Amnesty International released a 71-page memorandum on torture in Israeli prisons back in 1979. It referenced reports from the London Sunday Times, the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights, a United Nations Special Committee, the U.S. State Department, the Swiss League of Human Rights, the International League of Human Rights, the International Association of Catholic Jurists, the National Lawyers Guild, the Christian Science Monitor, the Guardian, Pax Romana, and the Washington Post. This clearly shows that Israel’s 60 years of prolific torture isn’t just speculation or propaganda. It was repeatedly and extensively reported on by a wide array of trustworthy news sources and human rights organizations across the entire world. I’ll provide links to my sources in a reply. In 2024, B’tselem wrote a 117-page report titled Welcome to Hell. It opens with a quote from the prison where Walid was held: “We were taken to Megiddo. When we got off the bus, a soldier said to us: ‘Welcome to hell.’” If you’re not familiar with B’tselem, it’s a Jerusalem-based human rights nonprofit organization founded in 1989 by Israeli lawyers, doctors, and academics. The report features a seemingly never-ending collection of testimonials detailing the torture these prisoners faced. “Their testimonies uncover a systemic, institutional policy focused on the continual abuse and torture of all Palestinian prisoners. This includes frequent acts of severe, arbitrary violence; sexual assault; humiliation and degradation; deliberate starvation; forced unhygienic conditions; sleep deprivation; prohibition on, and punitive measures for, religious worship; confiscation of all communal and personal belongings; and denial of adequate medical treatment. These descriptions appear time and again in the testimonies, in horrifying detail and with chilling similarities.” I want to differentiate between two types of Israeli prisons. Megiddo, where Walid was starved to death, is part of the Israeli Prison Service. Others, like Sde Teiman (the most notorious of all of Israel’s torture factories), are run by the military. This distinction matters, because it shows that Israeli torture is not confined to a single type of facility. It’s not a unique anomaly. The torture persists as standard practice in both military detention sites and civilian prisons. Maintaining a system like this requires enormous complicity. At a minimum, thousands of Israelis across multiple distinct systems have directly enacted this torture. Many more have witnessed it and done nothing. Occasionally someone tries to speak out, but those cases are rare and often come with consequences. For example, the lawyer who leaked the video of 10 IDF soldiers gang-raping a detainee was smeared, arrested, and forced to resign. Politicians and demonstrators teamed up to riot in the streets on behalf of the IDF rapists. All charges against the rapists were eventually dropped. The complicity is the key to understanding the big picture. The widespread torture doesn’t come from just a few bad apples. The torture has been actively propagated in this form on a massive level by Israeli society for at least 59 years. The torture isn’t a bug. It’s a feature.

@SahilBloom Sounds horrible

Actual Saturday in the life of this mid-30s guy in the suburbs: 4:30am - wake up 5am - 12 mile run 6:30am - lift 8am - cook breakfast for family 9-5pm - activities w/ family 5pm - cook dinner for family 6pm - sauna 6:30pm - movie w/ family 8pm - sleep Wouldn’t change a thing.

@brysondech Define big events

This one feels extra good! It was a grind of a week, but the game’s moving in the right direction. Excited for the big events coming up. Let’s keep it rolling! Much love

@JonRothstein No Boyd is criminal

All-Big Ten First-Team, per release. Yaxel Lendeborg, Michigan Pryce Sandfort, Nebraska Keaton Wagler, Illinois Bennett Stirtz, Iowa Jeremy Fears, Michigan State Braden Smith, Purdue

@RealCandaceO Wtf

You murdered 3,000 Americans on 9/11. For starters.

@RepSwalwell Idiot alert 🚨

Stick to sports. You’re at least half-right there. Your whiny-ass ain’t going to an Iran battlefield anytime soon. It’ll be poor kids from where I grew up. Life must be pretty comfy in your suite. Stick to judging your favorite pizzas. The adults will sort out the wars.

@cenkuygur You are a dumbass.

I criticized Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei a thousand times. He was oppressing his own people and preventing democracy. But there’s one thing you can’t take away from him, he died on his own two feet, instead of kneeling to Israel. That took courage. He didn’t bow.

@ABC Isn’t it Saturday ?

The toll from a strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, has risen to 57 students dead and 60 others injured, according to Iran's semiofficial Tasnim News Agency, which cited the local governor. Follow live updates: abcnews.link/9iPXPAh

@NYCMayor How are you in office ?

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.  Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace. I am focused on making sure that every New Yorker is safe. I have been in contact with our Police Commissioner and emergency management officials. We are taking proactive steps, including increasing coordination across agencies and enhancing patrols of sensitive locations out of an abundance of caution. Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

@jacksonhinklle Lol moron

WE STAND WITH IRAN!

@KyleKulinski @AnaKasparian Or maybe he’s just a sane human being. You’ve seem to lost your mind since high school. You and @AnaKasparian are a match made in heaven. I feel bad for you.

John Fetterman is a pick me ass bitch

@AnaKasparian @SonnyUrsus @ChangingFlow @safi2bal You are the dumbest human being in existence and a mockery to humankind

@SonnyUrsus @ChangingFlow @safi2bal Hey, bitch, the goyim are waking the fuck up. Deal with it.

tucker, like 80% of the country, doesn’t want to go war with Iran on Israel’s behalf i like that less pointless war is good👍

@NBA_NewYork What a joke

Spike at All Star in the Knicks bucket and the Black History Month hoodie

@Cirehook @BrothaB_20 @TheFieldOf68 So just don’t play defense. Cool.

YOU MAKE THE CALL 🫵 John Blackwell is whistled for a CRUCIAL blocking foul that gave Indiana the win from the FT line 👀 Was it the right call? 🤔

@bigten suspend the crew in this wisco / IU game. Mockery of the sport. Should be ashamed.

Might be the worst reffed game I’ve seen in my life

@BarstoolBigCat These Wisconsin/Indiana refs need to be investigated. Please make a call.

@AdamSchefter @SethWickersham @DVNJr @NFL there’s still time to fix this

Bill Belichick, the 8-time Super Bowl-winning HC, is not a first-ballot Hall of Famer, per @SethWickersham and @DVNJr. Belichick fell short of the 40 out of 50 votes needed for induction to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. espn.com/nfl/story/_/id…

@Mike_kim714 Come back strong Michael. Fantasy team needs you. I’m sure that’s high on your priority list.

I’ve been dealing with a back strain these last few weeks and I was hoping for it to improve but it hasn’t. I’m taking a week off to get healthy for this next stretch. Really disappointing to miss my hometown event. I’ll be back next yr