(((YoniRichler)))

@kerriclaireneil Cedar chips. Stack them in your folds.

this might be a dumb q but how can I make my clothes smell nice if I use unscented detergent and hang them to dry? :3

More than 100 Canadian Jewish institutions received a bomb threat this morning. Children's schools, hospitals, places of worship... ctvnews.ca/canada/multipl…

@JordanLabCity Jordan, what is GDP?

@JohnRiche PC Website identifies Communications Director as @NathanRyanNL for quite some time. I checked months ago when these boorish memes began appearing.

This is libellous. The tacit admission to the libel is both hilarious and embarrassing. The cherry on top is that they keep the original tweet up. Just next level clown show bullshit.

@dwancherry Very good news!

History has been made.

Lelagain. #nlpoli

I haven’t taught a course in a year due to parental leave. I haven’t taught 1050 in years. I never discuss middle eastern politics in my classes because I’m a chemistry prof. @MemorialU, @MUNFaculty, tell me again that there is no antisemitism and that Jews are safe.

@Tucker5law I was there. Maddening.

@JohnRiche @manna_bakery Superior sandwiches. Absolutely true.

I have been going to @manna_bakery for decades for those superior sandwiches, I don’t know how I never noticed the “Griffwich” until now.

@guyfromcalvert @BobbyPeater @davidrbrake Quite the opposite. Full of love, even for you, Kavanagh.

@BobbyPeater @jonathanrichler @davidrbrake not ignorant, just full of hate

Holy Heart HS Valedictorian applauds fellow women of color for persevering in a white man's world and calls for a permanent cease fire in Gaza. Loud cheers, no boos. St John's you're all right tonight...

@afalkhatib Thank you for this.

When I was in Germany, I traveled outside of Berlin to meet some Palestinian friends who were part of the diaspora community in the country. I hung out with several individuals from Gaza or who have family in the Strip and are part of a network of individuals and organizations that are pro-Palestine. I had extremely intense conversations with these folks, some of whom listened and agreed, some of whom strongly disagreed, some of whom were confused by what I was saying, some who agreed but didn’t see a path forward, and some who literally threatened to beat me up if I didn’t stop talking. Here's what I got out of those conversations: 1. Hamas’s resistance narrative is widely accepted and embraced by large segments of the Palestinian diaspora community, particularly those who are less integrated into the nations in which they live, especially if their environment is mainly made up of other Palestinians, aka echo chambers. 2. Intense emotions and feelings dominate the discourse and how people view the war, Israel, Hamas, the conflict, and any discussions of responsibility and a path forward. Trauma, sadness, anger, and feelings of sheer injustice control the way people see what’s happening, October 7, claims and counterclaims, and competing narratives. 3. Opposition to Hamas, and my views and sentiments were instantly associated with treachery, weakness, cowardice, and embracing “Zionist lies and propaganda.” Undeterred, I argued that not only is opposition to Hamas necessary, courageous, critical, and inseparable from opposition to Israeli occupation and injustices, but that we are in this mess partly due to our complicit silence and acquiescence to Hamas’s Islamist propaganda and destructive narratives that harmed the Palestinians more than any Zionist could ever dream of doing. 4. Misinformation about so many incidents and occurrences is rampant. This is particularly the case when it comes to boycotting things like Starbucks, Coke products, McDonald’s, and hundreds of other goods. The list of “forbidden” things is so huge and contains the most ridiculous of items, such as KitKat, hot sauce, and innocuous consumer products, all because they are perceived as directly supporting Israel, the war, or the IDF. When challenged about the accuracy of their information, almost no one wanted to hear about the futility of these boycotts and their nonexistent impact on the war and broader Israel and Palestine discourse. 5. Some were incredibly furious at me for challenging the “martyrdom” narrative, and one person threatened me with physical violence if I didn’t stop maligning martyrdom. Of course, I didn’t back down and proceeded to rationally challenge this idea of Gazans killed in the war after October 7 being martyrs with a ticket straight to heaven and that this is Islamist propaganda and brainwashing that’s getting us nowhere. I said that my family was killed for nothing and that most Gazans who lost their lives would have chosen life over being killed so that Hamas could maintain its corrupt and despicable rule over the coastal enclave. 6. A pro-resistance man surprisingly agreed with me when I told him that Hamas prevented civilians from evacuating Gaza’s north early in the war and didn’t want people to leave, a ruthless decision that caused unnecessary loss of life. This is something that many Western fools refuse to acknowledge: Hamas wanted Gazans to stay put so that they could be used as human shields by the group and frustrate the Israeli military’s operations by causing maximum civilian casualties. 7. Several agreed with me that Hamas is only interested in maintaining power, but in the absence of alternatives, they didn’t see anything wrong with this. When I kept saying that Hamas’s continued rule in Gaza means endless wars and more death & destruction, none seemed to have any meaningful responses beyond some mumbles and incoherent rants. 8. The military occupation of the West Bank and settlement expansion kept coming up over and over. Whenever I pushed on Hamas, taking responsibility, having to accept Israel’s existence & continued existence, embracing and rebranding peace, rejecting violence, what’s happening in the West Bank kept coming up. Folks didn’t see Gaza in isolation, but as part of a broader issue/conflict/problem that can’t be compartmentalized. “If Gaza were peaceful, stable, and developed,” argued one man, “the West Bank will still be occupied,” which, in his mind, necessitates Hamas’s “resistance.” 9. This is my own assessment and inference, but I truly strongly felt that support for Hamas was primarily driven by the lack of alternatives and the binary nature of everything related to the conflict: Fatah VS. Hamas; Israel VS. Palestine; Armed resistance VS. diplomacy and nonviolence; us VS. them; kill VS. be killed; Palestinian narrative VS. Jewish narrative. In other words, there was almost little to no ability to hold multiple truths, approach the issue with nuance and rational balance, and an entrenched belief that one truth must inherently be mutually exclusive and must by default cancel out the other. When engaged, however, some were willing to think differently. 10. There was clearly a high degree of conformity when people were together versus when I engaged individuals one-on-one. In other words, group settings made for largely unproductive and hostile discussions, while individual conversations were much more likely to be productive and change people’s minds and thinking. This is consistent with the universal trend that individuals are smart, groups are dumb; people are afraid to say what they really believe and think in front of others but are much more likely to speak their minds when anonymous, alone, or away from the “community’s ears and eyes” as one gentleman put it. In summary, my conversations were difficult and quite depressing in some regards. However, these same unpleasant and discouraging conversations actually gave me hope that with respectful, patient, persistent, rational, calm, evidence-based, and analytical/non-emotional engagements and outreach, meaningful seeds can be planted to change hearts and minds and begin the 1000-mile journey towards political transformation and the arduous effort to rebrand peace and coexistence as a necessary evolution to preserve the Palestinian people on their lands and forge a different path forward.

@nullobject5 @davidrbrake Thank you chip, my lifelong friend.

@BobbyPeater @davidrbrake ‘Still’?

@jonathanrichler @davidrbrake You still touting that rape lie. 🙄 It’s tiresome at this point Even Israel admits it never happened Straight up exchange ?

@davidrbrake ah, yes. Your hope will bring it all home. Thank you so much for your support - I can’t find any tweets elides this one but I’m sure it’s an error on my part.

@jonathanrichler I hope the hostages will be returned as part of a comprehensive settlement and that those on both sides who have been responsible for crimes of omission and commission in the war face appropriate judgment. There are plenty of Israelis who have had enough!

I’ve been privately responding to many privileged protesters lately, here at the end of the universe, to simply open a book, or look at a map. Here is a useful tool.

June 2024: @tdsb votes to eliminate the Jewish state from its curriculum and silence any discussion of the Jewish state. April 1933: Germany suspends "Jewish activity" in its schools. In yesterday walks tomorrow. Time to get involved, @fordnation and @ToddSmithPC. #onpoli

Nobody on the right side of history needs to cover their face.

Lol

@kerriclaireneil They quote a Zionist rabbi. For their petition against israel. He also said ( I mean, gosh rabbis say a lot): “every people has a right to its own territory, in which it can develop its own culture and strive for making a contribution to the world out of its own spirit.”

NL Parents Coalition: Demands Accountability from NL Schools & NLTA for Palestine Please sign! win.newmode.net/newfoundlandla…