Paul Thomas

@AviMayer Antisemitism disappeared after World War II. Israel, especially with the Gaza genocide, has given it a rebirth.

Yes, because Jews were famously beloved before 1948.

@SenAdamSchiff Stop this illegal war now.

The same Russian regime that we're giving hundreds of millions dollars a day in sanctions relief is again reportedly helping Iran find and kill even more American servicemembers. And while Vladimir Putin gets richer, you pay more at the pump.

@ashoswai @ProfSunnySingh Pathetic

Israel took 15 European ambassadors to show them the damages caused by Iranian missiles in Beit Shemesh area of Tel Aviv. Did these Ambassadors ask Israel why it started the war?

@marwanbishara @TheEconomist Maybe it’s the first?

Not sure how true, but @TheEconomist is the last pro Iran anti America journal; “If anything, time is on Iran’s side. America and Israel will gradually run out of useful targets to strike from the air, or run low on interceptor batteries to see off Iranian weapons. By contrast, Iran appears still to have plenty of drones. For as long as it restricts traffic in the strait, oil prices will climb and the damage to the world economy will grow.”

@MouinRabbani Don’t forget the Russian role.

It’s becoming intolerable. I will start blocking blood libel anti-Semites who continue claiming that Israel is in any way involved in the US-Iran war engineered by Qatar.

@arash_tehran Sumayl for one. Many others were absorbed. Let’s not play games here.

@ptmunich No it wasn’t

Why do people insist on “Israel’s right to exist”? Because this is the politics they oppose. Note that he also wants to dismantle a city that predates Israel by decades. It’s not about political change but massive demographic change

@Howard_Lovy This is BS.

I've been writing about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for 40 years, and not one time have the Palestinians expressed the least interest in a two-state solution.

@Commentary @SethAMandel Stop the genocide. Stop the illegal war. Antisemitism will disappear.

Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz puts himself in danger for calling out anti-Semitism. Where are all the other Democrats? Shouldn’t they have his back? @SethAMandel commentary.org/seth-mandel/am…

Given the horrific destruction that Israel’s extremist government has wrought on Gaza, Iran and Lebanon, the last thing in the world American taxpayers need to do right now is to provide 22,000 new bombs to the Netanyahu government. No more weapons to support an illegal war.

@academic_la @owenjonesjourno As Scott Ritter has been saying for ´mote than a week.

I talked to two Israeli sources on why Iranian launches continue to increase, despite US-Israeli claims that they have destroyed almost all of the launchers. Here is what they said: 1) The 90–95% drop in volume claimed by CENTCOM earlier in the month was probably a temporary lull as Iran repositioned its remaining launchers into hardened sites. Independent satellite analysis suggests that a significant portion of the "80% destruction" claimed by the IDF actually hit high-fidelity decoys. 2) Despite fewer launchers, the lethality per strike has increased. Iran's shift to cluster warheads has allowed a single missile to impact multiple locations simultaneously, compensating for the lower volume of launches 3) Iran has successfully set up mobile, underground units able to fire at steady rates. Iran used that quiet period to move their remaining ~100-120 heavy launchers into "Super-Hardened" facilities 4) Iran is utilizing its Zolfaqar and Dezful road-mobile launchers. These units move from hardened tunnels to pre-surveyed launch spots, fire, and return underground in under 10 minutes, often before coalition drones can re-task for a strike. 5) Because these launching units are decentralized, it is very hard for US and Israeli intelligence to get info on them. Israel and the United States do not have an answer to this problem. That is why they are trying escalation on energy sources instead. But that is backfiring.

@TheCradleMedia Thank you for your reporting. It is essential. Stay safe.

Iran SMASHES Haifa with Missiles, Hits US F-35, Targets Qatari Gas - What's Next? | Ep. 179 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Russia deploys tankers with fuel aid for Cuba in push to break US blockade ift.tt/nIjAH6s

@BillKristol The US has made a miscalculation of monumental significance. China was already winning, but now they have won. It’s time to get used to it.

Aaron Friedberg: “It’s hard for me to see how [the war] ends in a way that enhances our position in the world—and, in particular, enhances our position with relation our principal strategic challenge, namely China. And that’s what really worries me.” conversationswithbillkristol.org/conversation/a…

@RepRaskin @DianeRavitch Let’s end the illegal war against Iran and the genocide in Palestine. This would go a long way towards removing the root cause of antisemitism today.

My colleague & friend Jared Moskowitz was the target of an assassination plot by an armed & dangerous fanatical antisemite who was just sentenced to 25 years in prison. The convergence of antisemitic & racist hate with gun violence is a continuing threat to American democracy. rollcall.com/2026/03/19/bec…

This is from June 2025. The former Israeli Defense Minister tells CNN that the United States has an obligation to enter Israel's war with Iran...

@mattduss Cotton is a total idiot for a lot of reasons. But one thing is true— Iran has demonstrated that it is no third rate military power. It has already defeated the US and Israel, but they just don’t want to admit it to the public.

Comparing a third rate military power like Iran to Nazi Germany is just comically stupid, and Cotton knows it.

Israel sees the press markings as an invitation to murder. You don’t kill that many journalists by accident.

@simonmontefiore Paper tiger.

Saudi Official Warns Patience Is Limited as Iranian Attacks Barrage Kingdom nytimes.com/2026/03/19/wor…

@SenSchumer The Democrats must block this $200 billion. If they approve it, they will lose even more votes in the midterms. The voters have had it with illegal wars.

For $200 billion we could lower health care premiums for tens of millions of Americans. For $200 billion, we could educate a generation and unleash the immense potential of our students. For $200 billion, we could cut hunger in this country in half. For $200 billion, we could invest in jobs, in science, in manufacturing, and we could begin fixing our power grid.

@PhilGordonDC @nikhil_palsingh Those arguments are laughable. Plus, there can be no justification of this illegal war.

Supporters of the war in Iran have increasingly begun to acknowledge the high "costs of action" but to claim they are still lower than the "costs of inaction." Fair enough as a framework, and maybe even compelling if the result of the war was the permanent elimination of Iran's nuclear, missile, and drone programs or the installation of a new, less threatening, and more tolerant leadership. In the absence of achieving those goals, however, their case depends on arguing that degrading Iran's conventional military capabilities (a valid objective) is worth large numbers of civilian deaths and wounded, U.S. military casualties, soaring energy and food prices, mounting costs to U.S. taxpayers (now reflected in a potential supplemental funding request of $200bn), rising inflation and interest rates and recession risk, a financial and strategic windfall for Russia, the diversion of military assets from the Indo-Pacific and Europe, the risk of U.S. and allied missile-defense interceptor shortages, stress on U.S. force readiness, growing tensions within NATO and the transatlantic relationship, further erosion of U.S. "soft power," the collapse of trust in Washington, civil aviation and shipping disruptions, costs to Gulf economies and their reputations for stability, rising violence and instability in Lebanon and Iraq, the possibility of Iran sliding into enduring internal chaos, conflict, and violence, and whatever other unintended consequences may emerge down the road. That is a hard case to make that is getting harder every day.