Molly Tissenbaum
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Molly Tissenbaum
@baumer37
athlete, book geek, music lover, writer. brain & mental health advocate. women's sports, data, & insights. Harvard 2017. Michigan 2026.
Присоединился Haziran 2011
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For a limited time, we're taking down the paywall on Introduction to Gazology, which is now free to read.
thefp.com/p/introduction…
The Free Press@TheFP
Introduction to Gazology @MattiFriedman has identified a new genre of books that is refashioning the ruins of Gaza into a metaphor of Jewish evil. These are the books that have transformed the discourse in the last two years.
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There’s a new type of book out there, one that tries to make everything in the world about Gaza and Israel, introducing a new dark political parable with a familiar villain—Jews.
In a new essay for The Free Press, @MattiFriedman explores what ‘Gazology’ says about the West today.
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Israel is back in control of southern Lebanon 26 years after it left in 2000, just as Israel is back in control of the Gaza Strip 21 years after it left it in 2005. This control, military occupation, or whatever you want to call it, is the direct result of irresponsible and criminal decisions made by Hezbollah and Hamas terrorists who failed to leverage newly acquired freedom and territories in pursuit of nation-building, sustainable futures, and peace. “Resistance” was not only a slogan, but it became an industrial complex, with money, narratives, propaganda, foreign interference, and terror infrastructure.
Even if you believe in resistance, that should have stopped in Lebanon after 2000, and it should have stopped in Gaza after 2005 – the whole point of resistance is to no longer live under a direct military occupation. What kind of pathetic, ill-conceived, unintelligent, and moronic resistance invites the occupation back into one’s country decades later, causing complete and utter devastation? This is further proof that Hezbollah and Hamas, while made up of and endorsed by many in Lebanon and Palestine, were never truly organic to their respective societies and only existed as tools for foreign agendas, masters, and enablers.

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An absolutely fabulous article from a non-Jewish Canadian teacher. Well worth the 6 minute read. Here are a few highlights:
“I’m not Jewish, but if I was, I think the first lesson I would teach my children is that life isn’t fair. How else can a Jewish parent explain to their children the injustice and discrimination they will be forced to face as they grow up?…”
“Why do we hear the claim that Israel has no right to exist? Why is the only country on earth whose majority population just happens to be Jewish the only one being referred to as an illegitimate state?…”
“Why do people call Israel an apartheid state? How can you be an apartheid state when all your citizens have equal voting rights, freedom of movement, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of the press? How does that resemble the apartheid of South Africa?…”
“If I were Jewish, I would wonder why so many people choose to ignore history. Not all history, just Jewish history. No one questions the Cambodian genocide, the Darfur genocide, or the Rwanda genocide. Yet, the largest and most historically documented genocide to ever take place is often up for debate as to whether it happened or not. Why is Holocaust denial even a thing? There is only one reason and that is because it happened to Jews…”
“If I was Jewish, perhaps this is what I would tell my child. Jews have been the designated scapegoat of civilization for two thousand years. Every era finds its own justification: religion, race, nationalism, now geopolitics. The packaging changes but the target doesn't. Antisemitism isn't a reaction to what Jews do. It's a pattern so deeply embedded in human history that most people who carry it don't even recognize it in themselves…”
“But here is what that history also shows: Every empire that tried to erase them is gone. The Egyptians who enslaved them, the Romans who exiled them, the regimes that built industries around their destruction. All of them are footnotes, but the Jews are still here…”
“If I were a Jewish parent, I would tell my children that you belong to something remarkable, a tradition of wisdom and values that has outlasted every force that tried to extinguish it…”
aish.com/if-i-was-jewis…“
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My Bubby is one of these survivors. Still singing, walking, teaching, living at 90 years young. What a privilege to share this experience with her. Am Yisrael Chai.

Hananya Naftali@HananyaNaftali
Holocaust Survivors sing 'Am Yisrael Chai' (The nation of Israel lives) in Auschwitz. We won. Hitler lost. ✡️
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Mark Carney is seizing a costly Liberal majority that voters denied him, and doing so through backroom deals.
In January, MP Gladu said that floor crossers should face voters in a byelection to give voters the final say. I could not agree more.
She should do so. The people in her community voted for our Conservative vision of a Canada that is affordable, safe, and strong at home, not for the costly Liberal government she has now joined.
She should honour her word and let voters decide.
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Happy Birthday, @thehazelmae! 🎂🐐
After years of interviewing the team, we flipped the script and gave the @BlueJays a chance to ask Hazel a question 🎤
Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=xWedCW…

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They didn’t just rewrite the Haggadah. They erased Jews from it.
Jewish Voice for Peace’s 2026 “Passover” text barely mentions Egypt or the Israelites… but mentions Palestinians on nearly every page.
The Jewish story of liberation from slavery? Replaced with Jewish guilt, casting Jews as oppressors before they were even free.
Rituals, prayers, and symbols are hijacked for a different cause. Even the atrocities of October 7 get dismissed or denied.
This is what happens when anti-Zionist ideology devours history and tradition.
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Ernie Clement on the @BlueJays’ World Series run: “We came one game, one run, one pitch, one swing, all of these crazy tiny margins, away from winning the World Series. I don’t think we fell short as much as it just wasn’t our time…. We almost were champions. And that’s always gonna hurt.
In the end, though, and hopefully this doesn’t sound too corny, I think the stuff we have to be proud of from last season just completely dwarfs the stuff to feel hurt about. And the more time that passes, the more I understand that we still got to do something special: We got to take the game of baseball pretty much as far as you can take it. We got to go for as long as possible, until as late as possible, at the highest level possible. We got to play until there was no more baseball out there to be played.
And as heartbreaking as it was, I’m still grateful for all of that.
I’m also excited for us to try again this season. I know my career won’t last forever … but I know the little kid in me would be proud of how I’m smiling and having fun out there, the same way I did all those years ago in the backyard. I hope that comes through — the joy this game brings me every day. Baseball is my favorite thing in the world, man. And I’m so honored I get to play it with the Jays and in Toronto.” playerstribu.ne/Ernie

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Hey guys, it’s Ernie. Before the season starts, I had some thoughts for @BlueJays fans I wanted to share. Thanks for reading theplayerstribune.com/ernie-clement-…
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