Jonah Mandel

רגב לישראלים התקועים בחו"ל: אתם נמצאים בחו"ל, תהנו 🥰

This idiocy will never die. Yes, "antisemitic" is rooted in the word "Semite," which is an ethnolinguistic label that includes Jews and Arabs, but "antisemitic" was coined in the 1870s to describe hating only Jews as a racial group, and it caught on. That's how language works. 🤷‍♂️

There is no Semitic race or ethnicity. There are Semitic languages that include Aramaic, Amharic, Arabic and Hebrew. Antisemitism is racial profiling and persecution of Jews in Europe in the nineteenth century, and globally thereafter. Jew hatred, antisemitism, doesn't include hatred of Arabs. When Arabs hate Jews, they are antisemitic, even if their mother tongue is semitic. Please understand this and put to rest that "We Arabs are Semites and therefore can't be antisemitic." Yes we can be! Antisemitism is the hatred of Jews for being Jews. Disagreeing with Judaism or policies of the Israeli government is ok. Disagreeing with the existence of the internationally recognized state of Israel is antisemitism. Blaming Jews for imagined conspiracies, such as Jews control the US government, or all world governments, or global finance or banks, or media, or Hollywood are all untrue and known antisemitic tropes. The Jews are not a secret cult that controls governments, finance or media, and don't run the world and conspire against non-Jews. Jews are like everybody else, they come in all sizes and shapes, agree and disagree on everything. They share a culture, common past experience, and most importantly, the suffering of unfair bias and hatred against them. So please, stop trying to discredit antisemitism. It is real. The Jews lost six million in the Holocaust. On a per capita basis, that might be the biggest loss of any group throughout history. The Holocaust is the biggest dark spot on human history. Recognize it, and tell your Jewish friends that you understand the anxiety that they have inherited from their ancestors, as well as the anxiety that they suffer today because of similar Jew hatred. And no, Islamophobia is not equal to antisemitism. There are over 1 billion Muslims globally and less than 20 million Jews. A muslim never feels like a minority even if living on the moon. Jews always do, unless they are in Israel. We cannot realize peace until everyone feels safe. As long as the antisemitism injustice continues, there will be no peace, not because the Jews will be forced to defend themselves, but because all of us non-Jews continue to peddle the same hatred and pass it on to generations after us.

מתוך ראיון של השר עמיחי אליהו הבוקר לישראל כהן ולי בקול ברמה: ״לנאצים לא היינו מכניסים סיוע הומניטרי. אין דבר כזה בלתי מעורבים בעזה״. שאלה: אז מה? צריכים להטיל פצצת אטום על כל עזה? השר אליהו: ״זאת אחת האפשרויות״ שאלה: אבל יש בעזה יש יותר מ-240 חטופים ישראלים? השר אליהו: ״מתפלל ומקווה לשובם אבל יש גם מחירים במלחמה״

זה מצויין להסברה!

very interesting and rare remark from Israel's national security advisor amid reports of Qatar's involvement in a deal to release hostages held by Hamas in Gaza

קפצתי היום לבית כנסת להניח תפילין, למען אחדות עם ישראל והעם היהודי אמן!

אומר זאת כך, אף אחד לא מצייץ מיוזמתו מחמאות לקטר, שהיא כאמור הזרוע המדינית האמיתית של חמאס, אם הוא לא חייב לצייץ מחמאות לקטר. כנראה שאין הרבה ברירות פה. זה סוג הדרישות שהקטרים מתעקשים עליהן, גם במקרים של שחרור בני ערובה אמריקנים ופעולות תיווך אחרות: תודות והכרה פומבית מכאן עד השמים. שירשם. בקיצור הלוואי עלינו רבע מהתחכום שלהם.

I’m pleased to say that Qatar is becoming an essential party and stakeholder in the facilitation of humanitarian solutions. Qatar’s diplomatic efforts are crucial at this time.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the Turkish House in New York. During the meeting, international and regional issues, political and economic relations between the two countries as well as the latest developments regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were discussed. President Erdoğan also stated at the meeting that Türkiye can collaborate with Israel in the fields of energy, technology, innovation, artificial intelligence and cyber security, and that they should strive together for a world where peace prevails. Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar, AK Party Spokesperson Ömer Çelik, Director of National Intelligence Organization İbrahim Kalın, Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun and Chief Advisor on Foreign Policy and Security to the President Akif Çağatay Kılıç were also present at the meeting.

I’m pleased to say that Qatar is becoming an essential party and stakeholder in the facilitation of humanitarian solutions. Qatar’s diplomatic efforts are crucial at this time.