Jacob Ben-David Linker 🪬🕎✡️🕎🪬
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Yiddishe kop, neshama, un mensch. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. Rooted Cosmopolitan. American, and proudly so.
Joined January 2017
Pakistan attacking its neighbor and then being mad about its neighbor cutting off essential resources in response is a move straight out of the Palestinian playbook, yes.
India absolutely pulled the water treaty - knowing that Pakistan is one of the most water scarce countries in the world- because it saw the lack of response and consequences for Israel starving Palestinians. We are living in a completely different world order where the facade.
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Baghdad was a 25% Jewish city in 1900. A version of the Talmud (Babylonian) is from Iraq.20% of World Jewry lived in Iraq in Roman times.A North Iraqi Queen became Jewish, and two Jewish brothers set up a principality near Baghdad .Jews had been in Iraq 2000 years before Islam.
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Killing an Olympic team and cutting one guy's testacles off on live international television in order to instill terror and draw attention to oneself is a pretty cut-and-dry case of terrorism.
Nearly 1,000 sign petition demanding Brooklyn’s Alamo Drafthouse stop showing the film “Sept 5” about the 1972 Munich massacre because it’s “Zionist propaganda” and characters refer to Black September attackers as “terrorists”
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Ultimately, what is unique about the Nakba is not 1948 but 1949. The Israelis offered to accept back ~300,000 people conditioned on peace agreements with the Arab States. The US was willing to invest millions to build homes for 200,000 people in the Jordan Valley. And for.
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Before this, a Jewish girl was knocked out, other Jews were beaten up and barred from parts the campus, one Jew was stalked and tased, and a Jew was unlawfully detained by a mob for an hour. It was wrong for Jews to escalate, but don't gaslight us about peaceful protestors.
“Clashes” didn’t break out. Violence didn’t “erupt.” Pro Israel protesters at UCLA violently assaulted peaceful anti-war protesters while cops watched.
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WW2 Japan was run by a death cult that was willing to sacrifice massive numbers of people rather than surrender in a war they’d clearly lost because of a twisted sense of honor and destiny. So yes, Hamas’s regime in Gaza is a lot like Japan 80 years ago.
"In Gaza, children in blood are being held. It's like in Japan 80 years ago”-Toshiyuki Mimaki. Co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, 2024 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
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Congratulations to Judge Julia Sebutinde, the next President of the ICJ. The Judge who has consistently taken Israel’s arguments seriously will now be President of the ICJ.
Lebanese media report ICJ President Nawaf Salam has obtained the 65 votes needed from parliament members to designate him as Lebanon’s next Prime Minister. Once consultations officially conclude, President Joseph Aoun needs to formally appoint him to form the next government.
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So we know that before 10/7 . (1) Israel was okay with Gaza building a port.(2) Israel was gonna agree to offshore gas drilling for Gaza as a joint PA-Hamas thing.(3) Israel was gonna massively boost the number of work permits for Gaza.(4) Israel was gonna renovate the Rafah.
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This is the former Middle East Director for Human Rights Watch's response to Tucker Carlson bringing on a Holocaust Denier.
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According to sources in Rome, Prevost views Israel as “a moral project within history”—a phrase that startled the Latin desk at the Secretariat of State. He has called Netanyahu “a necessary man in dangerous times,” which, in Vaticanese, borders on radical candor. There will be.
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Israeli Channel 12 got screenshots of Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine’s groupchat in October 7th. The little bastards were hoping Hamas reached Tel Aviv.
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An interesting thing about the Nakba is that it mainly affected communities that popped up at the same time as Zionist migration.
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Hey, what caused the 2006 Lebanon War?. Oh right, Hezbollah invaded Israel.
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It's kind of insane that upwards of 250,000 Jews got killed murdered in a three-year period (1918 to 1920) and we don't really talk about it. The 1985 Whitaker Report of the United Nations put the range between 100,000 and 250,000 and lists it as a genocide. Part of it's why
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It seems to me the protesters showed up at Chabad HQ because Ben Gvir was there, but protesters' chants, symbolism, and rhetoric was hardly Ben Gvir specific. Chanting "we don't want Zionists in our city" in Haredi Crown Heights isn't wise. 1/3.
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Somebody is trying to erase the Druze Massacres page from Wikipedia.
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The "40 beheaded babies" claim was really "40 dead children." . Broken-telephone-like stuff happening in the midst of a crisis is really normal dude. People were panicked in the midst of a bloody massacre. It's not lying to say the reality wasn't far off and wasn't much better.
This is such a pathetic, dishonest game. I can’t believe anyone sincerely falls for it. Make a blatantly false claim and then when someone corrects it with the truth, you accuse them of doing PR for Hamas.
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I think people really don't get how into the Druze Jewish Israelis are. In the (Jewish) Israeli psyche, Israel is de facto a Druze-and-Jewish State. Israel had a Druze President briefly. The extremist Smotrich is building a DRUZE settlement in the WB/JS. There's substantial.
🚨The IDF carries out a “warning operation”, striking an armed group preparing to attack Druze in Syria’s Sahnaya. “Israel will not allow harm to the Druze community in Syria out of a deep commitment to our Israeli Druze brothers” says PM Netanyahu and Def Min Katz.
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It was an American Jewish Committee event. The shooter had no way of knowing the victims were Israeli. He just knew they were Jews interested in middle eastern issues.
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There was a Wikipedia page on Muslim Migrations to Ottoman Palestine which for some reason was deleted on December 28th. Asserted reason was that it was "taken straight from Zionist propaganda." .
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The man circled is Nasser. Nasser expelled 700,000 Jews, Greeks, Italians, Armenians, Maltese, & Christian Syrians, Lebanese, and Palestinians. He destroyed Egyptian parliamentarianism in favor of military rule. Third worldism is fascism with fancy words.
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Have you considered that the reason Palestinian Nationalism is associated with terrorism is because of stuff like killing the Israeli Olympic Team live on International Television?.
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With all due respect, can we not repeat the error of the crazy pro-Palestine people who constantly reach for the top of the shelf when describing things. Please be measured in your language when describing the antisemitism in the campus protests. Avoid hyperbole please. The.
For the record, dear liberal “friends”. A modern Kristallnacht is happening before your very eyes and you’re talking about anything else. Taylor Swift. The weather. Your selfies. It’s deranged. Stand with your Jewish friends now or never.
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Antizionists will look at you with a straight face and tell you this person is indigenous to the Middle East and a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad.
Zionists will look at you with a straight face and tell you this person is indigenous to the Middle East
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An Israeli joked that Raisi was killed by a Mossad Agent named Eli Copter, and Iranians appear to not realize this was a joke and are spreading the idea as if it is a fact.
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Uh…. (1) 1917-1920 Pogroms [a UN recognized genocide that killed upwards of 250,000 Jews].(2) Khmelnytsky Pogroms [upwards of 50,000 dead].(3) Spanish Inquisition .(4) Bar Koch’ba Revolt [500,000 killed].(5) Great Revolt (1m+ killed; Temple Destroyed).(6) Babylonian Captivity
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Starmer's wife is Jewish, he observes Shabbos with her, his two kids are being raised Jewish, and he has in-laws in Israel. Neat.
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Not a single Lebanese flag to be seen in this picture….
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@ampallicious Israel donated the equivalent of $2.8 million. Arab states pledged almost $600,000. The United States pledged with $25 million. Schechtman, Joseph B. (1963). The Refugees in the World. New York: Barnes. pp. 219–222.
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This is obtuse and not what Clinton said at all. Clinton is saying “ffs, this would have been resolved 25 years ago if not for him walking away, and these kids don’t get how stupid Palestinian leadership has been.”. Arafat didn’t have to accept camp David, but he didn’t have to.
Arafat said no to a bad deal, so everything that is happening now is ok? . What about every time Israel said no? . What about the time Biden arrived in Israel to the announcement of new settlements? . To blame decades of faulty U.S. policy on well-meaning students is pathetic.
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@TMasudin It's weird to think that until 1989, there was an open border between Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank for 20 hours a day (5AM to 1AM).
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@HotSpotHotSpot Hamas literally put 11,000 Afro-Palestinians in a ghetto called Al-Abeed ("the slaves").
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This reminds me of how Gandhi said Jews should have just let Hitler kill them because it would arouse the consciousnesses of the rest of the world.
I'm just concerned that Israel has squandered the world's goodwill by not dying.
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@vali_nasr “European ethno-nationalist”. Most of the Israeli Jewish population is non-Ashkenazi, Ashkenazim themselves are of middle eastern ancestry, the country is a quarter not Jewish, has had a Druze Acting President, an Islamist governing party, and arab Supreme Court justices for.
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I didn't want to involve myself in the Coates debate when it was fresh because everybody was really mad. But I had a couple of thoughts. (1) The treatment of of Palestinians in Area C is really indefensible. I don't think anybody pro-Israel has really ever addressed this on the.
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Shaiel went from an unthinking defender of Israel no matter what to an unthinking attacker of anybody who questions or has reservations or concerns about anti Israel people in any way. The only consistent feature is that he’s unthinking.
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No, that was the Irish.
This is crazy. What is going on?. Did we send condolences to Germany when Hitler died?.
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It looks like Mosul after ISIS was cleared out you dolt.
I suppose this is what precision targeting from the most moral army looks like
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So they have rice and pasta, which are what people generally consider staple foods?.
NOW in Gaza: People are grinding rice and pasta to make flour—because there’s no wheat flour left. We are on the brink of watching people die from hunger.
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Eventually the hope is the pressure will force Israel to stop. Israel gets no hostages back. Hamas reasserts control, and spends ensuing month scanning social media and torturing gazans to identify informants to Israel and public dissenters. Hamas will kill thousands. Then,.
🚨 Breaking: Mexico has joined the growing number of countries officially supporting South Africa in its ICJ case against Israel.
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A UN official on radio 4 at 1 PM was specifically asked to explain the 14,000 figure and refused to do so. The spokesperson then said 14,000 pregnant women were food insecure. So the 14,000 babies figure IS A BOLD FACED LIE!!!!!.
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Shaiel makes a bold and provocative claim about his access to highly sensitize and important documents. Surely he would be willing to substantiate these claims, rather than be the political equivalent of the schoolboy who claims his uncle works at Nintendo. Right?
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Dude in the mid-18th century Palestinians banned Jews in Jerusalem from buying food. The Jews of Jerusalem and Hebron survived in considerable part because Jews elsewhere in the world sent those small pious communities money.
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@ProfDBernstein @Cornell Could a breach of contract claim be brought against the university based on the consistent refusal to enforce its own rules?.
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@MouinRabbani @cancelkultur If the Mizrahim are Arab, then te Mizrahim, Bedouin, Druze, and Palestinians combined result in Israel being a majority Arab country. It stands to reason that Israel ought to have been invited to the Arab League decades ago. And yet, there has been no such interest.
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@jessesingal They pre-approved his speech and he went off script. He doesn't have a right to use an NYU event for his personal advocacy.
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LMAO. Nasser expelled 700,000+ people, killed parliamentarianism in Egypt, gassed the Yemenis, stole Gaza from the UN to keep as a military fief, forced Lebanon to cede 1/4 of its territory to the PLO, and started a war that led to Israeli control of Sinai, Gaza, WB, & Golan. He.
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In sum today: .(1) Hamas had a dead body handoff celebratory festival, with thousands of attendees .(2) The coffins were locked and the keys provided by Hamas didn’t work .(3) Israel opens the coffins, and they’re stuffed with Hamas propaganda .(4) Israel tests the bodies,.
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There are some prominent pro-peace Palestinian figures who I think do more than meet us Zionists (Jews) halfway on here. But they're still Palestinian! Not Zionist! Fundamentally, they don't agree with our view of history and what's playing out 100%. That's inevitable!. All we.
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@HusseinAboubak It’s jarring how the whole Arab world largely erased the collective memory of the Jews in their countries.
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Here's a picture of Raqqa after we drove out ISIS. Looks pretty similar.
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@MouinRabbani @SKmacro @cancelkultur You either fail to recognize the nature of Jewish identity, or understand but do not care. There's a gross hypocrisy in that the Palestinian struggle is one of lack of recognition of identity, but you refuse to reciprocate a much desired recognition of identity.
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John Adams was really into the idea of an army of 100,000 Jews conquering Eretz Yisrael and making it Judea again.
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I thought long and hard about sharing this. It's really hard to share this. Israel has cycled hundreds of thousands of troops through Gaza throughout the war, and it looks like there are dozens of scary bad apples among them. I don't think you can define a whole war by the.
The @nytimes published a piece in which dozens of foreign medical volunteers who went into Gaza recounted seeing and treating children who were deliberately shot in the head and neck by Israeli soldiers (you can tell from the x-ray they're 5.56 rounds used by the IDF). These
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You cheered when Sisi closed the gates of Gaza to Gazans fleeing what you call a genocide, and then set up a GoFundMe so you could bribe Egyptians into letting your own family leave.
You thought you were going to genocide them into liking you?.
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Dude he lies from the very first couple of pages while discussing Herzl’s diary. Khalidi is a PLO mouthpiece and always has been.
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To be frank, most decolonial politics is just blood and soil ultranationalist stuff with fancier words.
This lady’s account is hilarious. She’s a Somali ultranationalist but she dresses up her right wing Somali ultranationalist ideology with lefty decolonial language. Here she is furious that I mentioned an ongoing genocide in Ethiopia because she interprets this as an insult.
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To be fair the Anglos and Afrikaaners arrived in the Cape before other South African groups did (except, of course, for the Khoisan peoples). The Boer trek north also occurred in a demographic vacuum resulting from Shaka Zulu killing between 1 and 2 milllion people. Meanwhile,.
No white person is indigenous to Africa - white South Africans like myself and like Kallie Kriel of Afriforum all came to Africa from other parts of the world. Africa belongs to Africans.
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Managing director of AJ+ Dima Khatib. calls Judge Julia Sebutinde of Uganda an “Oreo” (meaning black on the outside, white on the inside). That’s pretty darned racist.
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Reading a history of the Eastern Galilee from about 1500 onwards boils down to “Jews came back, but then a plague/earthquake/Arab-assault happened and they left/died, but then more Jews tried to come back, but then….” on repeat for like 400 years.
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It turns out that if you drive out the Jews in 1948 and kill ~600 Jews in the Old City, you don't have Jews in the Jewish Quarter. Who knew?. The Jordanians and Palestinians destroyed almost every synagogue in the old city and used Jewish headstones to make latrine floors.
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During the Lebanese Civil War, some Maronites got accused of being Zionists so much that they donned Jewish Stars on their uniforms as a “screw you” to their accusers. This Gazan anti-Hamas protester has the same energy. He wants peace and is fed up.
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Antizionists are saying Gad Saad is Jesus
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@HusseinAboubak If somebody being antisemitic was a reason to write them off entirely, I'd have very few historic figures I could appreciate.
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The heck are you talking about? . AIPAC raised $1.6 million for George Latimer from 1,800 donors. That's an average of $888.88 per donor. AIPAC organizes large numbers of people to make individual contributions to candidates. It's not a millionaires-and-billionaires plot.
The problem with AIPAC isn't that it's 'foreign' (it is not, it's as American as apple pie), it's that it involves millionaires and billionaires pouring their money into electoral politics in a way that's not allowed in most democracies and shouldn't be allowed in the US either.
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Look, it’s @MustafaBarghou1 being an idiot trying to get more Jews and Palestinians killed. Also, notice how in Arabic he says Jews and not Zionists.
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The adult who is recording this should be the one to carry the water you rage-baiting grifter.
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I'm reminded of how Edward Said condoned PLO violence against Palestinians by saying that a right to resist occupation included a right to punish "collaborators." . The consequence of this has been to poison Palestinian politics for decades.
It's official: most "pro-Palestine activists" only care about Palestinian lives if Israel kills them; if you show an abundance of visual, clear evidence of Hamas's atrocities against Palestinians, you'll be called a "Zionist collaborator" and asked how much "you're getting paid.".
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They found that Hamas was storing huge amounts of food, INCLUDING MEAT, in the European Hospital where Sinwar and co. were hidden. The gist seems to be that the Israelis are correct that enough food went into Gaza during truce to last until now, but Hamas stole a bunch of it.
President Trump is correct. No medical or humanitarian aid has entered Gaza for 75 days. An entirely man-made crisis.
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@EinatWilf “Side note: Antisemitism in Nazi Germany, Antizionism in the Soviet World and Eastern Europe were always highly useful in clearing coveted academic positions of Jews).”. …yeah a lot of the DEI stuff for years targeting “white” and “Zionist” professors has been this.
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@shadihamid Shoddy Shadi, stop projecting and strawmanning. If the pro-Israel students were a bunch of Kahanists dehumanizing people, harassing people, and interfering with ordinary campus life while wantonly violating school rules - heck yeah we'd say call in the cops.
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@SethAMandel We threw a dude in a prison that screams eighth amendment violation because of a tattoo of a crown with mom below it.
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So the Irish President showed up to a Holocaust event after the country's Jews asked him not to, used it as a platform to bash Israel, and then a quiet nondisruptive protester who simply turned her back on the Irish President got dragged out of the room?. Did I get that right?.
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Hey look, @4noura is sharing fake news. This is a fake poll. Shouldn't a law school instructor be better able to sift out garbage?
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This is false, and I don’t get why that’s hard to admit. A Jewish girl got knocked out. Jews were physically barred from parts of campus. A Jew was unlawfully detained for an hour by protestors. Some Jews then (wrongly) escalated. But why must you insult our intelligence?.
These were peaceful protests until thugs, claiming to represent pro-Israel sentiment, attacked the pro-Palestinian protests. This is on UCLA and their failure of basic safety precautions. I am solely focused now, then, on these students not getting hurt.
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If this is Spain’s official position, a lot of Gazans are entitled to go to Spain under Spanish refugee law. Make Andalusia Arab again!.#Deconquista.
After Spain's Prime Minister said, "We will not trade with a country that commits genocide," Spain's ambassador to Israel was summoned for a reprimand at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem tomorrow. @AmichaiStein1 .
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Today I learned that Norman Finkelstein believes Russia had the right to invade Ukraine.
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Shaiel accepted kudos from this dude’s wife.
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1-Start a race war.2-Have your society burned to the ground because of it. 3-Play the victim after starting it.4-Refuse to admit you created your own problems even 100 years later.5-Have propagandists get jobs at Columbia University.6-Talk about the justness of your "cause"
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I assume he has a very self-selected cohort of Israeli friends, as I've been in a groupchat with Shaiel in which he hated on Sephardim, Mizrahim, and Chabadniks.
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May his memory be a blessing. A fellow American.
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The BBC said the Israeli performer got a "mixed response", but she ended up coming second (and first in the public vote). It seems that the responses were on the whole very positive. The BBC's contempt for Israelis is quite intense, and it manifests in stupid and petty ways.
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@WoLf_PaK_MeMbA @robbysoave thank you for your sentiments. As a Jewish person trying hard to snap (and who has definitely snapped a lot the past few days), it's comforting to see we're not alone in seeing how tone deaf people can be about this.
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What? The PLO has never recognized Israel's Status as a 'Jewish State' and Mahmoud Abbas has been quite stubborn about this. If you read PA/PLO Statements, you will never find any example of saying "two states for two peoples." . Oddly, Arafat said it in speeches, but only in.
Arabs have accepted Israel’s right to exist. It is up to Israel to define what it wants to be. Israel currently defines itself as Jewish and the following Arab countries have recognised it as such: Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Mauritania, the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco.
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Omar complains that calling Arafat an antisemite is nazi-like. Meanwhile here's a picture of an UNRWA School in Arafat-controlled parts of Lebanon with a picture of Arafat above a swastika.
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The US went from "Lebanon War bad" to "Hezbollah getting wrecked is a huge opportunity." . This is basically what happened in 1967. The US tried super duper hard for a diplomatic resolution, and the Israelis were very very patient. Meanwhile the IDF was very confident in 1967.
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Saving Bosnian Muslims .Saving Albanian Muslims .Saving Kuwaiti Muslims.Protecting Somali Muslims. The US spent the 90s engaging in wars to protect Muslim populations.
What kills me about this is 9/11 happened when the most recent American intervention was…saving Bosnian Muslims from the Serbs. The “target on our back” exists no matter what we do. The paradox of hegemony/power is you lose it the more you believe you need buy in.
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Who the heck flexes surviving a genocide?. This is incredibly unserious.
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Does Alonso actually read what he shares? . Because he shared an article which (1) was about soldiers' misconduct during the first Intifada forty years ago that (2) resulted in the IDF disciplining the bad actors in order to argue that Israel is genocidal today.
How are we even discussing whether this is genocide? Not only is it genocide, it’s up there with the big ones in terms of systematic cruelty. Report after report showing that when they said Palestinians were human animals who should get the Amalekite treatment, they meant it.
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