Nahum Gershon

.@NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani posted a Nakba Day video centered on Inea Bushnaq, an alleged “Nakba survivor.” But her family’s actual story undercuts the narrative his video is trying to tell. Bushnaq’s grandparents were Muslim Bosnians who moved from Europe to Ottoman Syria in the late 1800s. Her family later lived in Tulkarem, which came under Jordanian control after 1948, not Israeli control. Her father then chose to return to England. The video also features the famous “Visit Palestine” poster, which was designed in 1936 by Austrian-Jewish refugee Franz Kraus in Tel Aviv to promote travel to the Holy Land and support Zionist return. The issue isn’t Mamdani commemorating Palestinian displacement. It’s that he uses selective history to erase key context: the Arab war against Israel in 1948, the Arabs who stayed and became Israeli citizens, and the Jews displaced from Arab countries after Israel’s founding. The result is a distorted narrative that casts Israel as the ultimate villain and Palestinians as the ultimate victims, creating a climate where violence against Jews is justified. h/t @OrenKessler

Poweful words by Lord @EricPickles, speaking in the House of Lords: "The term Zionist is often used in ways that enable the collective targeting of Jews while maintaining a veneer of legitimacy. This is not robust debate, it is modern antisemitism". [Video via @CFoI]

Elon Musk: “I’m a huge admirer of the innovation coming out of Israel. It is objectively true that Israel punches far above its weight. I think probably number one honestly in the world.”

I come from an Arab Christian family that has lived in the Holy Land for centuries. Today, I have the honor of representing Israel to the Christian world. This is my message to Christians everywhere.

I hereby declare this video by @billmaher: The Best Gift for Israel's 78th birthday. @AsraNomani @AkaLazarus @JFrgatUCLA @MissDiagnosis

Can you name a Jewish professor who talks about Muslims the way they are talked about?

This day in Israel history, May 12, 1948, US warns Israel not to declare a state. Moshe Shertok (later Sharett, 1st FM of Israel) meets with U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall, just two days before the expiration of the British Mandate. Marshal warned Shertok that if the Jews declared independence and were subsequently attacked by five Arab armies, they should not count on the United States for military aid if they found themselves on the brink of defeat. Marshall urged Shertok to accept a ceasefire and a delay in the declaration of independence to avoid a full-scale war. Shertok’s Response: The Jewish people had waited 2,000 years for this moment and could not delay. Shertok flew back to Tel Aviv immediately after this meeting. His report on the American position was a critical piece of the internal debate within the People's Administration (Minhelet HaAm) on May 12–13, which ultimately led to the vote to proceed with the declaration of the State on May 14.

Debunking Anti-Israel Allegations: Evidence, Context, and Campus Impact adl.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

This day in Israel's history. April 18, 1955, Albert Einstein passes away in Princeton N.J. israeled.org/albert-einstei… Tonight, as as smiling Zionists gather to sing Havdalah, let's remember one of the first Zionists to smile and to lend his prominence to the calling of history.

Jewish Faculty at UCLA say "Enough is Enough". holtzmanvogel.com/news-insights/…

Antizionism has nothing to do with "what Israel is doing". Antizionism, or my preferred term Zionophobia, is not a critique of behavior, but a rejection of being. As to Israel's behavior, my dear Zionophobes, give us a day of normalcy and we will show you what a good behavior looks like. @ezraklein @admcrlsn @adam_louis52328 @LekhtNaya @AndrewPessin @UserrrNamezzz @AkaLazarus

I'm excited to announce that my book of selected writings, Coexistence and Other Fighting Words, has been published, and is now available on Amazon a.co/d/0GkPkwr or my publisher's website, Political Animal Press. For a taste of it's content, see bayes.cs.ucla.edu/DPF/Table-of-C… but please start with "Why I Wrote This Book" ucla.in/3A9BirT.

US and Iran end ceasefire talks without agreement and blaming each other apnews.com/article/iran-u…

For introductory material on the difference between statistical and causal thinking I usually recommend the @Bookofwhy bayes.cs.ucla.edu/WHY/ or PRIMER bayes.cs.ucla.edu/PRIMER/ I wish I could recommend primers by other authors -- if anyone knows of any, I'd amplify.

My home town, Bnei Brak, is bombed, building crumbling, but going on living.

I would change "racist antizionist" to Zionophobic". Why? To highlight its irrational basis.

Robin Williams at his best. Bless him!

Bewildered? Confused? Possible? UCLA Taps Director of Harvard Center Accused of Anti-Semitism As Next Public Health Dean freebeacon.com/campus/ucla-ta… @AkaLazarus @JFrgatUCLA

The Telegraph has uncovered messages amongst the UK's Green Party activists that show disturbing and disgusting antisemitic behavior. The group chat, labeled "Greens for Palestine" shared conspiracies that the antisemitc attack on Jewish ambulances was a "false flag," called Jews "an abomination to this planet," and bemoaned that they've been "scared into using the word Zionists" instead of Jews, which is what they really mean. Now who could have seen this coming, except for every Jew ever?

Slightly punchier: "Israel is the only country in the world whose right to exist depends on how she responds when that right comes under attack".