Michael Weinberg

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Michael Weinberg

Michael Weinberg

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Ken Owens
Ken Owens@rm2owens·
@MeLive007 Most Muslims are very peaceful. It's the radicals who went off track that put Islam to shame, even going against the Quran.
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MiddleEast Live@MeLive007·
Do you consider Islam a religion of peace? 🤔 A. YES B. NO
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Vivid.🇮🇱
Vivid.🇮🇱@VividProwess·
🇺🇸 🇮🇱 American actress Debra Messing, while visiting Israel: "I don't want to go. I don't want to leave. The people here are the most extraordinary people I've ever met in my entire life. We will pray for the success of the IDF. Israel will win."
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Write Brain TV
Write Brain TV@WriteBrainTV·
@VividProwess “Actress” is a bit of a stretch. That’s like calling Israel a “country.”
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Rawan Osman روان عثمان
“Free Palestine.” I grew up on those words. In Lebanon, most people around me wanted a free Palestine for a very practical reason — to send the Palestinian refugees back. The civil war that tore my country apart was ignited in no small part by the Palestinian armed factions who turned Lebanon into their launching pad. “Free Palestine” meant: free us from them. In Damascus, where my father’s family lived, the sentiment was different but equally self-serving. Palestine must be returned to the Arabs, its righteous owners. No one asked follow-up questions. No one was expected to. Palestine was central to Islam, most Arabs are Muslim, therefore supporting the Palestinian cause was reflexive. A non-brainer in the most literal sense — no brain engaged at all. Nobody stopped to point out that Palestine is not an Arabic word. Nobody found it strange that Jerusalem, the supposedly third holiest city in Islam, is not mentioned once in the Quran. Not once. Nor is Palestine. The entire theological and political architecture of this cause rests on a foundation that their own scripture doesn’t bother to acknowledge. What was actually happening was indoctrination. A systematic, generational rejection of Jewish sovereignty — and frankly, of any minority sovereignty. Jews, Christians, Druze, Kurds, Assyrians, Yazidis — the Arab world has been remarkably consistent in how it treats people who are different. We just don’t talk about that. Instead, in the West, we talk about Palestine. In the West, a civilization that has elevated human rights to its highest moral currency, the Palestinian cause has become the one exception to every rule. In the queue of human suffering, Palestinians cut the line every time. Homosexuals executed in Gaza and hanged from cranes in Iran? Palestine first. Women imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for campaigning for the right to drive — a right they were denied until 2018 — girls sold into marriage in Afghanistan, women erased from public life entirely under the Taliban? After Palestine. Political dissidents ground into dust in Syrian and Egyptian prisons, journalists disappeared in Libya, children starving in Yemen while their rulers wage proxy wars, entire populations hollowed out by hunger in Sudan? All of it waits. Christians ethnically cleansed from Iraq and Syria, the Arab world methodically emptied of every Jewish community it once held — a demographic erasure carried out across a century with surgical patience and near-total Western silence? Palestine is still first. So let’s end where we started. Free Palestine. Which Palestine, exactly? The Roman invention? The British administrative line? The British Mandate covered the entire territory of what is today Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan. In 1921, 78% of that mandate was handed to the Hashemite family — a dynasty imported from Hijaz in present-day Saudi Arabia — and became the Kingdom of Jordan, which it remains to this day. A foreign royal family, on the majority of historic Palestine, ruling it as a monarchy. Nobody protests that. No flags, no chants, no encampments. The remaining 22% was designated for the Jews, became Israel, and is the only part that any pro-Palestinian activist has ever had a problem with. So when you say Free Palestine, you mean that 22%. You mean the Jews. And free it from whom? From a people with a three-thousand-year-old documented presence in that land, to restore the glory of a name coined by Roman colonizers, a name lifted from the Torah, a name that has no roots in Arabic, no mention in the Quran, and no history as a sovereign state? You are not chanting for liberation. You are chanting for colonialism — the Roman kind, repackaged for social media. Free Palestine is not a cause. It is a colonial term, coined by invaders, recycled by the indoctrinated. The least you can do is have the intelligence to understand it and the decency to reflect on your position. 📍#Israel
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Palestine Culture
Palestine Culture@PalestineCultu1·
What country is this? One word answer.!!!
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Imtiaz Mahmood
Imtiaz Mahmood@ImtiazMadmood·
Rape victims are often accused of adultery under Sharia law if they report being raped by married Muslim men. Here is a shocking example: A 13-year-old girl in Somalia was raped by a married Muslim man. Instead of punishing the rapist, an Islamic Sharia court sentenced the little girl to death. The Muslim rapist accused her of “seducing” him by appearing in public, and the court agreed — convicting her of adultery. Hundreds of Muslim men gathered to stone her to death as an offering to Allah. They laughed, cheered and shouted “Allahu Akbar” as she screamed in agony until her last breath. Not one man stepped forward to save the 13-year-old rape victim. Everyone in the village heard her cries for help before the execution. Instead of intervening, they tied her hands behind her back and chained her feet. The local imam directed the men to dig a hole and bury her up to her waist so she could not move or dodge the stones aimed at her head. For hours before and during the stoning she begged for mercy, looking toward her neighbors, her father, and every Muslim man taking part. Until her final breath she cried out, but no one rescued her. Of the hundreds of men present, none showed compassion. The participants gladly joined this Islamic act of worship, ignoring her pleas and rejoicing with “Allahu Akbar” while brutally killing her. This is not an isolated barbaric act. This is Sharia law in practice — where the victim is punished and the rapist protected if he is married. Not all cultures are equal. Some protect the innocent. Islam punishes the raped girl and calls it justice. The West keeps importing this ideology while pretending it is compatible with our values. It is not.
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Michael Weinberg
Michael Weinberg@weinberg1968·
Bullshit most of that 90% were living in Jordan you lying Nazi and most of the rest had only just arrived due to the open borders which the British colonists recruited Arabs from Egypt, Syria, Iraq Saudi and many other surrounding countries, at the same time that they were refusing to let Jews enter from Europe where they where escaping a real genocide, not a bullshit made up one like the Fuckastoinians and media fabricated. In 1920 there where very few Arabs in Israel , and Jerusalem was Always majority Jewish despite the multiple massacres of the Jewish community year after year. Learn your history and stop your lies Adolf
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Ben Berman
Ben Berman@benbfly·
@RawaneOsmane i agree with most of your sentiment, but you should get the history right. The remaining 22% was not designated "for the Jews". It was designated to be a homeland for the Jews without prejudicing against the roughly 90% of inhabitants at that time that were non-Jews.
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Michael Weinberg
Michael Weinberg@weinberg1968·
@PhilipProudfoot Just for antisemitic Nazi pigs like you who support the mass murder of Iranian, Syrian sudanis, Christian All over Africa, and especially Jews, we all know you celebrate every time a Jewish child is raped..
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Philip Proudfoot
Philip Proudfoot@PhilipProudfoot·
People can easily argue that Palestine is irrelevant to Britain (they’re wrong, on multiple levels, of course ) but Palestine is the moral test of the world It is the centre of everything. How you react, who you defend, and who you abandon is the supreme litmus test of humanity.
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Jan Bröer
Jan Bröer@BroeerJ·
On that note. I just listened to @TheEconomist's The World in Brief podcast from May 15, 2026, the "Palestinians mourn the Nakba" segment. Disturbing narrative event. The whole thing provided the impression (at least for me) that Israel had randomly attacked its neighbors, conquered their land, and displaced the Arabs out of nowhere. No context, no history -- just a straight narration of Palestinian suffering -- and their search for a new Fatah leader to achieve "liberation" from Israeli conquest. You could literally say that you can hear the Qatari Investment Authority through The Economist, as its influence has been growing steadily since 2010.
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Captain Allen
Captain Allen@CptAllenHistory·
@BartonBella1 You got it, @BartonBella1. The Arab Higher Executive didn’t just “suggest” flight — they actively ordered it and branded anyone who stayed as a “renegade.” Then they spent the next almost 8 decades blaming Jews for the consequences of their own decisions.
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BartonBella
BartonBella@BartonBella1·
@CptAllenHistory They left because they thought they could sell their land to Jews and then get it back when the Arab states defeated the Jews...
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Captain Allen
Captain Allen@CptAllenHistory·
The word “Nakba” (catastrophe) wasn’t invented by Palestinians to describe Jewish “ethnic cleansing.” It was coined in 1948 by a Syrian Arab historian, Constantin Zureiq, in his book The Meaning of the Disaster. He used it to describe the humiliating failure of the Arab world — their leaders’ arrogance, their lies to their own people, their military incompetence, and their refusal to accept a Jewish state. Zureiq wrote that the Arabs had “imaginary victories” and put their public “to sleep” with boasts — until the real disaster hit: they couldn’t wipe out the Jews. The original Nakba wasn’t about refugees. That a rebrand from several decades later. It was about the Arab leaders’ catastrophic decision to launch a war of extermination ... and lose. They’ve spent 77 years rebranding their own failure as Jewish guilt. That’s the only real "Nakba" they can’t forgive.
Captain Allen@CptAllenHistory

Why are there Palestinian refugees? In the months before the British abandoned its mandate & Israel declared independence, civil war raged as Arab factions tried to prevent the Jewish state from being born. Of course, had the Arabs agreed to the UN's partition plan, they would have had yet another state & there would have been no war in 1948. But their goal was not another Arab state; it was to ensure there would be no Jewish state. Meanwhile, 5 #Arab armies amassed on the borders & waited for the British to leave so they could push the Jews into the #Mediterranean Sea. As Secretary-General of the Arab League Azzam Pasha put it on the day of the Arab #invasion: "This will be a war of extermination & momentous massacre, which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades." Or as the then war #criminal & fugitive #Nazi Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini put it during the invasion: "Murder the #Jews. Murder them all!" But before the invasion began, & starting as early as Dec 1947, Arab officers began ordering Arab residents of specific villages to flee. Their reasoning? Arab citizens not involved in active fighting could only: (1) "treacherously" abide the creation of a the Jewish state &/or even become citizens of same; or (2) be in the way of Arab #military deployments & potentially get caught in the crossfire. And so, for example, on this day (March 8) in 1948, the Arab Higher Committee ordered all Arab women, children & elderly to leave Jerusalem. The order continued, "Any opposition to this order ... is an obstacle to the holy war ... & will hamper the operations of the fighters in these districts.” In fact, the Arab Higher Committee ordered the evacuation of dozens of Arab villages between April & July of 1948 (see photo of Arab citizens fleeing below). Meanwhile, on April 19, 1948, Jewish forces secured Tiberias, which had a population of ~6,000 #Arabs - all of whom chose to leave. In fact, they left under British military supervision. The Jewish Community Council immediately issued a statement regarding Tiberias' Arabs: "We did not dispossess them; they themselves chose this course ... Let no citizen touch their property." At around this same time, in early & mid-April of 1948, an Arab faction led by Fawzi al-Qawukji was attacking Haifa & attempting to take the city. Then, rumors spread among Haifa's Arab community that Arab air forces were about to bomb the city & ~25,000 of Haifa's Arabs fled. As U.S. Consul-General in Haifa Aubrey Lippincott noted on April 22, 1948: "local mufti-dominated Arab leaders ... [urged] all Arabs to leave the city, & large numbers did so." On April 23, 1948, however, #Jewish forces fought back the Arab attack & retook Haifa. Three days later, on April 26, 1948, a British police report from Haifa noted: "[E]very effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab populace to stay and carry on with their normal lives, to get their shops and businesses open and to be assured that their lives and interests will be safe." What were some of those "efforts?" Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, sent future Prime Minister Golda Meir to Haifa with the direct instructions to "persuade the Arabs to stay." Ms. Meir was unsuccessful, however, as Haifa's Arabs told her they feared that if they stayed, they would be branded "#traitors." And so, another ~25,000 of Haifa's Arabs fled. Stop me if you've heard this one before, but despite facts on the ground, Arab leaders at the #UN began demanding the end to a fake "#massacre." Specifically, #Syria's UN Ambassador Faris al-Kouri, said the Jewish victory at Haifa was a "massacre" that provided "evidence that the '#Zionist program' is to annihilate Arabs within the Jewish state if partition is effected." The #British were still on the ground, however, & the British Ambassador to the UN, Sir Alexander Cadogan, told the UN the very next day both that the fighting in Haifa had only begun as a result of "continuous attacks by Arabs against Jews" & that the "reports of massacres & deportations [were] erroneous." Meanwhile, after Israel declared its independence & was invaded by five Arab armies, the newly established #IDF issued an Order on July 6, 1948, making it clear that non-combatant Arab civilians were not to be harassed or expelled, nor their villages touched. But the Arabs were being given a very different message. #Iraqi #PrimeMinister Nuri Said announced: "We will smash the country with our guns & obliterate every place the Jews seek shelter in. The Arabs should conduct their wives & children to safe areas until the fighting has died down." This used to be known. In fact, Arab leaders for years after the war had no qualms about repeating it. For example, Syrian Prime Minister Haled al Azm later wrote: "Since 1948, we have been demanding the return of the #refugees to their homes. But we ourselves are the ones who encouraged them to leave. Only a few months separated our call to them to leave & our appeal to the UN to resolve on their return." Similarly, #Jordan's King Abdullah wrote: "The tragedy of the #Palestinians was that most of their leaders had paralyzed them with false & unsubstantiated promises that they were not alone; that 80 million Arabs & 400 million #Muslims would instantly & miraculously come to their rescue." Similarly, Edward Atiyah, Secretary of the Arab League Office in #London wrote: "This wholesale #exodus was due partly to the belief of the Arabs, encouraged by the boastings of an unrealistic #Arabic press & the irresponsible utterances of some of the Arab leaders that it could be only a matter of weeks before the Jews were defeated by the armies of the Arab States & the #Palestinian Arabs enabled to re­enter & retake possession of their country.” Even as the war still raged on Aug 16, 1948, the Arab #Greek Orthodox Catholic Bishop of the Galilee told #Beirut newspaper Sada al-Janub: “The refugees were confident their absence would not last long, & that they would return within a week or two ... Their leaders had promised them that the Arab Armies would crush the ’Zionist gangs’ very quickly & that there was no need for panic or fear of a long exile.” A few months later, on Feb 19, 1949, the Jordanian newspaper Filastin confirmed: "The Arab States encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies." Even many of the Palestinian Arab refugees themselves admitted their reasons for leaving. For example, on June 8, 1951, Habib Issa admitted to #NewYork Lebanese newspaper Al Hoda: "Azzam Pasha assured the Arab peoples that the #occupation of Palestine & #TelAviv would be ... simple ... He pointed out that they were already on the frontiers & that all the millions the Jews had spent on land & economic development would be easy booty, for it would be a simple matter to throw Jews into the Mediterranean ... Arabs of Palestine [were told] to leave their land, homes & property & to stay temporarily in neighboring fraternal states, lest the guns of the invading Arab armies mow them down.” Similarly, Asmaa Jabir Balasimah recalled being told by Arab leaders to "evacuate the village & return after the battle is over," & that she & others in her village left all their possessions behind "based on the assumption that we would return after a few hours." Again, however (& most importantly), had the Arabs agreed to Partition or even agreed to negotiate different borders with Zionist leaders who begged Azzam Pasha to make any counteroffer instead of invading with #genocidal intent, there would never have been a single Palestinian #refugee. #Education #Israel #Palestine

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Pierre Rehov
Pierre Rehov@rehoov·
The New York Times and Israel: Anatomy of a Long Decline On Monday, May 11, 2026, The New York Times published in its opinion pages a column by Nicholas Kristof, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, titled “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians.” The piece asserts that sexual violence against Palestinians is part of Israel’s “security apparatus.” It draws on fourteen testimonies. It describes, among other allegations, rapes committed with batons, metal rods, carrots. And then, buried in a paragraph, comes the sentence that pushed the article from contestable reportage into obscene fable: Kristof, citing “reports,” writes of dogs trained by Israeli forces to rape Palestinian prisoners. Kristof himself concedes, in his own text, that “there is no evidence that Israeli leaders order rapes.” He adds that when it is suggested to him that Palestinian witnesses might fabricate accusations to smear Israel, this strikes him as “far-fetched.” Here, then, is the evidentiary standard of a piece published by America’s most prestigious daily: no physical evidence, no forensic expertise, no independent corroboration, and an explicit presumption of truth granted to testimonies whose sources include, as NGO Monitor has documented, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, whose founder Ramy Abdu has been photographed repeatedly alongside senior Hamas officials, including Ismail Haniyeh in 2011 and Osama Hamdan in 2013. Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on its official account, called the article “one of the worst blood libels ever to appear in the modern press.” Deborah Lipstadt, former U.S. special envoy for combating antisemitism—a Holocaust historian, not a barroom pundit—asked the Times publicly: “Have they no sense of decency and journalistic responsibility?” “Blood libel,” that old medieval antisemitic fantasy according to which Jews used the blood of Christian children for their rituals, is not a term Israeli diplomacy uses lightly. It is reached for when a narrative crosses the line separating political criticism, however fierce, from dehumanization. Dogs trained to rape humans—can a man of sound mind publish such a thing in the opinion section of a paper of record? The answer is yes. And the editor can, the very next day, defend the article on X by arguing that it is “backed by independent studies,” when those “independent studies” are, for the most part, reports issued by an NGO whose ties to Hamas have been publicly documented for more than a decade. The timing of publication, on its own, is worth pausing over. On Tuesday, May 12—the day after the Kristof column—came Silenced No More, a nearly 300-page report by the Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes Against Women and Children. The document draws on more than 430 interviews and testimonies, the review of more than 10,000 photographs and videos, to establish the systematic nature of sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023, and against hostages held in Gaza. Twenty-four hours before that report was released, The New York Times published a column placing on the same plane, in the same paragraph, the documented rapes of October 7 and the “rape dogs” drawn from the reports of a Hamas-linked NGO. Professor Gerald Steinberg, founder of NGO Monitor, asked the question publicly on X: what are the odds the timing was coincidence? He answered himself: “I’d say zero.” One may judge the accusation excessive. One may also ask, more modestly, what editorial sequence leads a newspaper to publish that text, on that day. A Pattern, Not an Accident The Kristof episode is not isolated. The Times’s record of errors, corrections, and apologies on Israeli and Jewish subjects has thickened at an accelerating rate in recent years, to the point that it traces not a string of accidents but a trajectory. Let us run through the markers. September 2000. A wire photo distributed by the AP and reprinted by the Times shows a bloodied young man on his knees, and an Israeli policeman with a baton in hand. The caption identifies the young man as “a Palestinian victim of the new intifada.” His name, in fact, is Tuvia Grossman. He is an American Jewish student from Chicago, and he has just been beaten by a Palestinian mob. The Israeli officer was protecting him. Grossman’s father wrote to the paper immediately. It took several corrections, spaced out over time, before the caption was set right. April 2019. The international edition publishes a cartoon in which Benjamin Netanyahu appears as a guide dog, a Star of David hanging from his collar, leading a blind Donald Trump wearing a kippah. The paper will speak of an “error of judgment,” then issue a fuller apology, take internal disciplinary action, and eventually eliminate political cartoons from its international edition altogether. No one at the Times has explained how such a cartoon was approved in the first place. The iconographic codes it deployed—the Jew pulling the strings of power, the animalization—belong to a register every serious journalist is supposed to recognize at a glance. October 17, 2023. A few days after October 7, the Times publishes—as a mobile alert, in a banner headline, across social channels—the claim that a Gaza hospital, al-Ahli, has been hit by an Israeli airstrike with hundreds killed. The source is Hamas. Within hours, U.S. intelligence, then French military intelligence, then a Human Rights Watch investigation, then open-source analysis converge on a different conclusion: this was, in all likelihood, a failed Palestinian rocket launch. The Times eventually publishes an editor’s note, reproduced in full by Nieman Lab, acknowledging that its initial coverage “relied too heavily on claims by Hamas” and “left readers with an incorrect impression” of what was known and how credible the account was. The correction comes after the false information has already traveled the world, fueled protests, triggered the cancellation of a regional diplomatic summit. In modern journalism, the first headline is almost always the final headline. The Times knows this. It published anyway. December 22, 2023. A Times headline: “Gaza Deaths Surpass Any Arab Loss in Wars in Past 40 Years.” False. Trivially false. Anyone with a passing knowledge of recent Middle Eastern history—the Iran-Iraq war, the Syrian civil war, Iraq, Yemen—knows that Arab casualties over the past four decades run into the hundreds of thousands. A correction was published on December 28: it should have read “the heaviest loss on the Arab side in any war with Israel in 40 years.” The correction came too late to undo what the headline had already done: produce the impression that Israel’s war in Gaza was, by itself, more lethal than anything the region had seen since 1983. That is false, and the falsehood is precisely what was useful. July 2025. Front-page photograph, maximum emotional mobilization: a skeletal Gaza child in his mother’s arms. The image becomes the global emblem of famine in Gaza. It will go on to win a Pulitzer Prize. A few weeks later, the child’s doctors and medical records make clear that he suffered from pre-existing congenital conditions, omitted from the original presentation. The Times ultimately appends a note. But the image had already done its work. And the Pulitzer remained. Stack these cases now: Grossman, the 2019 cartoon, al-Ahli, the December 2023 headline, the July 2025 child, and now the rape dogs of May 2026. Six cases, more than twenty-five years, but with a clear acceleration since 2023. Every time, the same pattern: a spectacular first-instance claim, unfavorable to Israel, thinly sourced or stripped of context; a quieter correction later, after the damage is done. This is what common-law lawyers call a pattern of practice. It is no longer a series of errors. It is a method. The Precedent: Sulzberger and the Universalizing of Genocide This method has a history. And that history is unsettling, because it traces back to the moment when, more than any other, the American paper of record should have been equal to the task. Under the leadership of Arthur Hays Sulzberger, owner of the Times during the Second World War, the paper made choices on the persecution of Europe’s Jews that today rest on an overwhelming scholarly consensus. The work of the historian Laurel Leff, in particular her book Buried by The Times, has established that the paper did not, strictly speaking, argue for the exclusion of Jewish refugees from the United States. It did something subtler, and in some respects graver: it systematically de-Judaized the persecution. Its editorials spoke of the “refugee problem” as a “test of civilization,” as “a problem of mankind,” and went so far in July 1939 as to insist it was “neither a Jewish problem nor a Gentile problem.” But it was precisely a Jewish problem. Jews were being persecuted as Jews. Refusing to say so stripped the argument for rescue of its own moral force. The intellectual mechanism is exactly the one we find today, mirrored: where in 1939 the goal was to dissolve Jewish specificity into the “problem of mankind,” the goal now is to inflate Palestinian suffering until it becomes the deadliest event of the modern Middle East, or to draw it close, by way of the baton and the dog, to the horror of October 7. In both cases, one does not exactly lie. One distorts the frame. And in a paper whose every word sets precedent for millions of readers, that is infinitely more effective than a frontal lie. Honesty requires acknowledging—and the historical record acknowledges—that the Times of 1939–1945 also published editorials sympathetic to the refugees of the St. Louis, and in March 1943 called for revision of the “chilly formalism” of American immigration law. Not everything was dark. But Sulzberger, himself a Jew, had one fixation: never to appear “a Jewish paper.” Out of that fixation came an editorial policy that, in practice, contributed to burying news of the extermination on inside pages, diluting its specific character, depriving the case for rescue of the urgency without which no policy is possible. There is a direct line between that refusal to write “Jews are being killed because they are Jews” and the intellectual ease with which, today, one publishes a column placing in the same sentence October 7 and a canine fantasy. The Warning from Bari Weiss In July 2020, Bari Weiss—the opinion journalist recruited by the Times precisely to broaden its range of voices after the paper’s predictive collapse in 2016—resigned with an open letter. That letter is today an essential document for understanding what is happening inside the 8th Avenue building. Weiss describes a paper that has become “a performance space,” where stories are chosen and told “to satisfy the narrowest of audiences” rather than to allow a curious public to draw its own conclusions. She writes, in so many words, that she had learned to “brush off comments about how I’m writing about the Jews again.” She describes internal Slack channels where, under the gaze of masthead editors, colleagues posted axe emojis next to her name. She describes an implicit norm by which Twitter—not the editor in chief—has become the paper’s true editor. Reread that letter in the light of Kristof, of the December 2023 headline, of the July 2025 photograph, and one understands better how such texts make it through the editorial process. They make it through because the newsroom no longer has, internally, any friction mechanism. The voices that might have asked, in a meeting, the awkward question—“Is this source really independent?”; “Is it biologically possible to train a dog to do this?”; “Does this headline say what we actually want it to say?”—those voices have left, or have learned to keep silent. What the Times No Longer Is One must conclude with measure, because measure is the only effective weapon against a newspaper that has lost the use of it. The New York Times still has excellent journalists. Its economic, scientific, and cultural reporting remains, often, of the first rank. This is not a militant pamphlet. What it is, is more disquieting: an institution that, on certain subjects—Israel chief among them, but not Israel alone—has lost the ability to distinguish itself from activism. It no longer knows, or no longer wishes, to tell the difference between a testimony and a piece of evidence, between an NGO source and a political actor, between legitimate emotion and a framing that distorts. And when a paper of this stature renounces that distinction, the social cost is not small. Demonstrations gather around headlines that will be corrected three days later. New York synagogues find themselves surrounded by crowds quoting, sometimes verbatim, sentences that appeared in its pages. The Times is not an antisemitic newspaper. To say otherwise would be easy and would be false. What it has become is a newspaper for which the idea that Jews, and the state they have built, might have their own legitimate account of their own history is now, at best, a hypothesis treated with permanent suspicion. That suspicion, accumulating article after article, headline after headline, caption after caption, ends up producing something that looks a great deal like bias. And bias in a newspaper that styles itself as objective is not a respectable opinion. It is a breach of contract with its readers. On Monday last, that contract was torn in two by a text in which someone dared write, in the columns of the paper Adolph Ochs founded with the promise that it would welcome “all shades of opinion,” that dogs were being trained to rape prisoners. At this point only one question remains. How many more such episodes will it take before the word “of record,” attached to The New York Times, becomes, simply, a joke?
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Hamas Atrocities
Hamas Atrocities@HamasAtrocities·
"Israel is just the beginning. After we free palestine we will DECOLONIZE the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand" This was stated by Mohammed Khatib, European coordinator of Samidoun, an organization accused of links to the PFLP (which in turn is close to several Flotilla members, such as Thiago Ávila and Saif Abu Keshek), a group classified as terrorist by the European Union and the United States. In the video, Khatib openly speaks of "decolonizing" the US, Canada, Australia, and Europe, calling the West a system that must be dismantled "by any means." He even calls for the normalization of Hamas and states that "people should arm the Palestinians." This is the ideological vision of those who finance and organize the Pro-Pal movements: they aim to destroy the West. And the useful idiots are beating their drum. Full text: "The United States of America is the biggest colony in the world. Israel is just a small example of Canada, Australia, New Zealand. If Palestine soon is liberated and the Palestinian people manage to get their rights, in a free Palestine from the river to the sea, we should be engaged in the liberation of the United States, of Canada, of Australia, where the indigenous people and the black people and the migrants who built this country. and this, colonies, this system of white supremacy and racism must be abolished and dismantled by all means and shouldn't be accepted, and it will not be accepted. And this is a big proof what we see today in the... even in the United States, even in Europe. That's why there is a decolonization process. The movement for Palestine is big in Belgium. I do believe this is not only because of sympathy and empathy. This is because there is political and social movement in Belgium are working actively in every sector, climate sector, youth sector, students movement, artists movement to decolonize Belgium, to decolonize the state we live in and to defeat the far right wing governments that they are supporting Israel. So our liberation and their liberation here and there is very much connected as much as our enemy is connected. We know today Israel, the Zionist entity, will not exist or survive for one day without the support from the US and the EU. And this support is logistical. on a military level and a political level. I think we should do the same to the Palestinians. Why we don't talk with the Palestinian resistance? We should work with the state of Israel, but we should legitimize and normalize with the Palestinian resistance, as they are the official and only representative of the Palestinian people. While we are struggling against stop arming Israel, if we don't manage to do that, people should arm the Palestinians."
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