Joe Roberts
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Mng Dir Defense & Foreign Affairs @WinstonWilmont . For the People, For Democracy, For Human Rights. Columnist. Husband. Dad. Jew. עם ישראל חי 🇨🇦🇺🇸
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This photo wasn’t taken in Khan Younis—it was snapped in Chicago today.
They’re literally cosplaying terrorist on the streets of American cities now.
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Serious question for the ‘Ceasefire Now’ crowd.
If all parties agreed to a ceasefire, and Hamas were to break it, what would the appropriate response be?
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The Babylonians failed to destroy us.
The Seleucids failed to destroy us.
The Romans failed to destroy us.
The Crusaders failed to destroy us.
The Almohads failed to destroy us.
The Ottomans failed to destroy us.
The Tsarists failed to destroy us.
The Nazis failed to…
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People on Twitter ask me “Are you a Zionist?” like it’s a gotcha question.
Just to clear this up.
I am unabashedly and proudly a Zionist.
I am raising Zionist children.
I belong to a community of Zionists.
You’ll never shame us for believing in our emancipation.
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When this is all over, how do we go back to living with all these people who have made their antisemitism abundantly clear?
It’s not normal. None of this is normal.
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The Jordanians never offered Palestinians a state.
Neither did the Egyptians.
Or the Ottomans.
It was the Jews, and only the Jews, who have ever made that offer.
In all this noise, that irony gets lost.
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Before October 7th I truly believed that antisemitism on the left was not a serious problem—that it was a fringe viewpoint that was overblown for political purposes.
I so badly wanted to believe that those purportedly fighting for justice couldn’t be antisemites.
I was wrong.
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Hamid Abu Arar, a Gazan hid with his baby in a closet on October 7th after his wife was murdered by Hamas terrorists.
He risked his own life to save 45 IDF soldiers who were about to be ambushed by terrorists lying in wait.
Today, he became an Israeli.
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🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨
Use of 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' is now a prosecutable offense in Austria.
Austrian officials have stated the slogan is 'incitement to or endorsement of terrorist acts'.
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New shawarma spot just dropped in Amman.
This sickness is deep.
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🇨🇦 is about twice as old as 🇮🇱.
5% of Canadians are indigenous.
73.2% of Israelis are indigenous.
<10% of Israelis have a second passport.
11.2% of Canadians do.
For all the extremists in Canada yelling that Israeli Jews should “go back to Europe”…
Tell me, why don’t you?
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🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨
Iceland announces it has joined the global consensus freezing funding to UNRWA.
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This war will end.
When it does, your Jewish neighbors will still be here.
We won’t forget what you’ve said. We can’t.
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This isn’t a busy intersection.
There isn’t lots of traffic.
It isn’t a public space filled with people.
It’s a residential street, in a heavily Jewish neighbourhood, in Windsor, Ontario.
It’s no longer possible to ignore the hatred that motivates these protests.
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Global rise in antisemitic incidents since October 7th:
🇫🇷 France - 1000%
🇨🇦 Canada - 800%
🇦🇺 Australia - 738%
🇺🇸 United States - 337%
🇩🇪 Germany - 320%
Antisemitism has truly reached pandemic proportions.
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Let’s play a game.
Who said it?
Hamas or Hitler?
Let’s gooooo!
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When I say that antisemitism is rising, I am bombarded with antisemitic comments.
When I say that we want all the hostages to be released, I am bombarded with antisemitic comments.
When I say that Hamas is a terrorist organization that committed an atrocity on 10/7, I am…
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My prediction is there’s about 2-3 weeks left in the combat phase of this war.
Hamas militants are surrendering en masse, their morale is breaking down, and the IDF is just far better trained, equipped, and supported.
It’s all very reminiscent of the collapse of Saddam’s forces…
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My Jewish family spent the evening at a Christmas Eve get together with people we love and I’ve known my whole life.
At some point, apropos of nothing, someone told an antisemitic joke.
Nothing to do with Israel or the war, just racist tropes about the ways Jews look—right in…
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I'm sorry, I just cannot reconcile the fact that we live in an age where western college kids are working overtime to rehabilitate brutal fundamentalist terrorist organizations. It just makes no sense.
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🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: “We do not support the premise of the question raised by South Africa"
Canada now joins the United States, UK, and Germany, who have all spoken out in opposition to South Africa’s case brought against Israel at the ICJ.
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We live in a small town in a rural part of Ontario.
The closest synagogue is 45 minutes away by car.
We didn’t know a single other Jew here before 10/7–we really thought our little family was all alone.
It made that day feel incredibly isolating.
But something clicked after…
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“Israel wouldn’t exist without US support”
The nascent Jewish state defeated the armies of 🇪🇬, 🇯🇴, 🇮🇶, 🇸🇾, 🇱🇧, 🇸🇦, 🇾🇪 in 1948 all while under an American arms embargo.
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We were walking our dog in small town Canada today and came across another couple with a dog.
The woman was wearing a Magen David necklace.
My wife innocently asked “are you Jewish?”
The woman quickly covered it with her hand, not saying anything.
And my wife added, “because…
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Hanukkah celebrations have been cancelled by municipalities across North America.
In Maine.
In Virginia.
In New Brunswick.
Antisemitism was always lurking right under the surface, now it’s in our faces.
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I stand with Israel.
I stand with Ukraine.
I stand with Taiwan.
I stand with Kurdistan.
Because I stand FOR liberty, democracy, and self-determination.
This isn’t hard.
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Hamas indiscriminately fired rockets toward civilians in Tel Aviv and central Israel today.
Each one is a war crime.
That’s 13 visible, documented, war crimes in this short video alone.
I’m guessing we’ll hear demands from protesters that this stop immediately, right?
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Her daughter was raped and kidnapped by Hamas terrorists.
This is how she’s treated in New York.
It’s despicable. It’s un-American. It’s evil.
What is happening to us?
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Was wearing this coat while pumping gas.
A guy pulled up behind me to wait for the pump.
He rolled his window down… “Hey you!”
I was a little worried.
I looked at him.
“I love that jacket!” he shouted, “We stand with 🇮🇱!”
This hateful echochamber isn’t the real world🇮🇱💪
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I receive DMs from Gazans saying how sorry they are for the horrors of October 7th and that Hamas has destroyed their lives.
Meanwhile, alt-leftists in the west deny 10/7 atrocities and prattle on about ‘righteous resistance’.
I hate to break it to you—you’re the bad guys.
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The world largest displacement is happening in real time in 🇸🇩.
4.3 million are internally displaced due to genocide.
1.1 million are refugees.
The world is silent.
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I have a wide range of tolerance on viewpoints on 🇮🇱-🇵🇸 but I have a new personal rule
I unfollow anyone who:
- Shares denial/justification of 10/7 atrocities
- Voices support for Hamas
- Engages in demonization of Jews/antisemitism
That’s over 600 people in the last 5 weeks
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🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨
Foreign Minister of France Stephane Séjourné rejects South Africa’s case against 🇮🇱 at the ICJ.
“Accusing the Jewish state of genocide crosses a moral threshold. The notion of genocide cannot be exploited for political ends,” he said in a speech to parliament.
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You wouldn’t know from social media but Gaza borders two countries—Israel and Egypt.
Egypt occupied Gaza from 48-67.
Egypt maintains the same border protocols on Gaza as Israel.
Egypt has received $80 billion in US aid.
Where are the anti-Egypt protests?
Ah, no Jews. Got it.
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🚨🚨HAPPENING NOW🚨🚨
Anti-Israel protestors target the World Trade Center in NYC—the site of the deadliest terror attack on US soil.
This is shameful.
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Justin Trudeau didn’t visit 🇮🇱 after the terror of 10/7.
He didn’t attend a single funeral of Canadians murdered by Hamas that day.
He’s barely, if ever, mentioned their names.
Now, he’s resuming funding to UNWRA—an organization complicit in their murders.
We deserve better.
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The responses to this are next level insane.
Israeli kids grow up under constant threat of rockets and terrorism.
90% of kids in Sderot have PTSD.
These are facts.
Instead of demonizing her for talking about it, why don’t you demand it stop?
This is a children’s book that was written because the author was trying to explain what’s going on in Israel to his five-year-old daughter and he couldn’t find a resource with which to do it so he wrote one himself. Under the Rockets' Glow: Shira's Journey to Courage by Roman…
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Earlier today, Gazans were throwing rocks at Hamas militants as they stole humanitarian aid designated for civilians.
Now, Israeli media is reporting that Gazan civilians in Khan Younis are actively resisting Hamas—this could be the beginning of the end.
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Forget Disneyworld, this corridor is the most magical place on earth.
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Is it now against international law for Jews to win a war?
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There is a completely false narrative among the anti-Israel crowd that the IDF is taking unbearable losses, that there are so many dead and wounded it can’t function, and that it’s collapse is imminent.
These fabrications are then written into ‘articles’ on propaganda sites and…
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The UN Security Council voted for a ceasefire and unconditional release of the hostages in Gaza today.
Hours later Hamas fired a barrage of rockets into Israel.
Tonight, they’ve rejected a ceasefire and hostage release.
Does the world’s outrage only apply to Israel?
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The notion that the entirety of the free world is responsible for giving billions of dollars to UNRWA in perpetuity (and regardless of their conduct) is a very bizarre form of entitlement that I’ve never seen before.
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What kind of headline is this
@CTVNews
?
She did not go missing and die — Vivian Silver was murdered by Hamas on October 7th.
This is outrageous.
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“Make sure they hear you, they’re in the windows”.
Anti-Israel protestors target NYC Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and pediatric hospital, calling it ‘complicit in genocide’.
The toxicity of this movement is indistinguishable from the radical right.
Shameful.
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It takes a lot to make me cry. This did it.
A powerful Super Bowl ad from
@StandUp2JewHate
that captures the experience of 1 in 4 American Jews.
In a world of hatred, be a Mr. Coney.
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The partition of 🇮🇳 created 20mil refugees.
The 🇷🇺 invasion of 🇺🇦 created 9.1mil refugees.
The 🇸🇾 Civil War created 6.7mil refugees.
The 🇮🇱 war for Independence created 360,000 refugees.
Only one of these groups has its own UN Agency.
Why don’t we all play by the same rules?
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Adi Vital-Kaploun, a Canadian, was murdered by Hamas terrorists on 10/7.
She was killed in her home, in front of her 4 month old baby and four year old son.
Today, Trudeau made the decision to resume funding to UNRWA—an organization that is complicit in her death.
Shameful.
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I don’t know if you have heard about this, but a terrorist organization has been holding 134 innocent people hostage for over 4 months.
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Anti-Zionists claim a one state Palestine would protect its Jewish minority.
Like Lebanon protects Maronites?
Or maybe like Syria protects Assyrians, Christians, Armenians, Copts, or Kurds?
Perhaps like how Iraq protects Assyrians, Kurds, and Yazidis?
After every country in…
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🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨
Gazans protest this morning outside Deir al-Balah Hospital demanding Hamas to release the Israeli hostages and end the war.
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It’s not all Jews, just usurers
It’s not all Jews, just rootless cosmopolitans
It’s not all Jews, just Communists
It’s not all Jews, just capitalists
It’s not all Jews, just globalists
It’s not all Jews, just Zionists
We’ve seen it all before—different labels, same hatred.
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Zionism is a Jewish movement—but it isn’t exclusionary.
Zionists can be right wing or socialist.
Religious or secular.
Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.
There’s only one requirement.
The belief that Jewish people have the right of self-determination in our homeland.
That’s it.
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The Holocaust didn't just begin one day with the rounding up of Jews.
It started with the demonization of Jews.
The driving out of Jews from public life.
The erasure of the Jewish experience.
Its origins truly don't look that different than what is happening today.
Wake up.
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In the 6 months following October 7th, anti-Israel protestors went from “we don’t support Hamas, just Palestinians” to “We are Hamas!”.
They may have dropped the pretense but this is always what they were.
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It’s wild how many people refuse to believe anything Israel says, but accept the word of a terrorist organization as gospel.
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Eylon Levy is from an Iraqi-Jewish family.
But of course, that’s all erased by these people and replaced with ‘whiteness’ to fit all Jews neatly into their western racial binary.
The erasure of our culture, our history, and our future is their true goal.
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Remember when we were told this was a lie.
That it wasn’t possible.
That Israel was targeting hospitals punitively.
From the UN, from UNRWA, From Doctors Without Borders—all gaslighting us.
Now here’s the truth in one headline.
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Let’s be clear.
The proto-pogrom at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto last night was not protest—it was intimidation.
It was illegal.
It was immoral.
It was indecent.
It has no place in Canada or anywhere else.
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Hamas claims to have killed over 5,000 IDF soldiers in Gaza.
It’s a lie. Hamas propaganda in overdrive.
What’s the truth?
The IDF reports 170 soldiers lost and 8,000 Hamas militants eliminated.
Hamas can lie all they want—they are losing this war. Badly.
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You can’t be pro-Intifada and pro-peace.
I’m sorry, it just doesn’t work that way.
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Bombshell comments from Vice-Admiral Bob Auchterlonie, commander of the Canadian Joint Operations Command.
“I'm not sure everybody understands that the security and defence situation globally has deteriorated significantly".
"I'm very happy Canadians feel safe and secure. I…
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“Hamas treated them well”
Never forget the people who tried to gaslight us like this. Never.
🔴 Report: Israeli doctors say many out of 30 released hostages, aged 12-48, were raped in
#Gaza
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Jews are a tiny people.
We number only 16,000,000 globally.
That's only 0.2% of human beings.
We cannot fight antisemitism alone, there are simply not enough of us.
We need people of moral character to join us in this fight—and we need them now.
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“Antisemitism is an early warning system. It is a sign the the society itself is breaking down, that it is dying”
@bariweiss
spitting truth.
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Zionism is the liberation movement of the Jewish people, who lived under millennia of oppression and exile—a resoundingly progressive idea.
So how did we lose the support of many in the progressive left?
A not insignificant factor is a miscalculation on our part.
A 🧵
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We're not religious, but I've said the Shema twice a day everyday since October 7th.
We've begun bringing in Shabbat as a family.
And now we're doing Havdalah blessings too.
We'll never let them erase us.
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@Mivasair
You are foul. You know very well that your Hamas friends murdered her.
I never thought I’d see a chillul hashem from a rabbi yimakh shemo v'zikhro.
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If a Jewish person says “that thing you just said is antisemitic” and you dismiss it by saying “I think you’re confusing anti-Zionism for antisemitism”, the thing you said is still antisemitic and you are probably also a bad person.
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You can try to rebrand terrorism as ‘resistance’ all you want, it’s still just terrorism.
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If terrorists stormed into my neighborhood—killing 1 in 4 of my neighbors and taking my neighbor’s baby and grandmother hostage—I hope my government would respond as decisively and responsibly as Israel has.
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If you think Israelis want war, you really don’t know the first thing about Israelis.
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A lot of people seem to have forgotten that Israelis are human beings who deserve the same empathy and understanding as everybody else.
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It’s official. The Liberals have made their choice.
They’ve chosen political expediency and short term domestic political favour over the morally righteous position of standing resolutely with our ally facing an existential threat.
This is shameful.
It’s a shameful day to be…
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Lots of pro-Hamas western leftists are big mad over the freeing of two hostages by the IDF in Rafah.
Just hours before they were claiming this was a ‘genocidal’ attack.
They were wrong.
It’s disturbing that they so badly want it to be genocide when the IDF so clearly doesn’t.
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Mass rape is not resistance.
Murdering children is not resistance.
Kidnapping babies is not resistance.
Wanton violence toward civilians is not resistance.
It’s terrorism. Full stop.
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I've experienced more antisemitism in the last three months than I have in the entirety of my 38 years of life before that—and it's not even close.
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This is a canary in the coal mine.
It isn’t hyperbole.
It’s isn’t ‘Pearl clutching’.
Jews are being actively discriminated against by numbers we didn’t imagine were possible.
This antisemitism is a societal malignancy.
A 🧵
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There are 15.7 MILLION Jews in the world.
The idea that such a tiny minority could silence billions of people is gaslighting of the highest order.
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“Ceasefire Now” or ‘Destroy Israel Now’, which is it? Can’t be both.
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She served 3 decades ago btw.
This isn’t about justice, it’s about driving Jews out of public life.
Canadian Leah Goldstein, who made history as the first woman to win a grueling 3,000-mile bike race across the United States, was removed from a Women’s Day event over her past IDF service.
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Holy sh*t
Protesting at the Holocaust Museum crosses every line of human decency.
Why don’t they just put out a “🚨Urgent Call To Action🚨” for a pogrom they’re organizing at this point?
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I never thought I’d see the day where progressives were the ones drawing swastikas and harassing Jews, but here we are.
L.A. - disturbing video footage captures Mark Nakagawa, President of the United Methodist Church, taking a marker and drawing a swastika on a Jewish woman's package of soda.
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I am now and will forever be a proud Zionist.
No one will ever shame, berate, threaten, or intimidate my pride in the Jewish people out of me. Period.
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My 3 year old is in a transition to school program for autistic children and he is most definitely the only Jewish kid there.
He was talking about Purim at school last week and during pickup, the very non-Jewish educators asked me what it was.
When I came for drop off on…
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🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨
Bezhani Sarvar has been charged in yesterday’s terror attack at Edmonton City Hall.
Among the reasons he gave in a video recorded just before he entered the building was to ‘rise against’ leaders ‘responsible for genocide in Gaza’.
The global intifada is here.
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I’m not sure if y’all are aware of this but Israelis are human beings too.
They are worthy of compassion, empathy, and dignity like everyone else.
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According to a new report on rising antisemitism, Canada has seen a staggering 800% increase in antisemitic incidents since October 7th.
It’s no wonder Canadian Jews don’t feel safe. We aren’t.
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Anti-Israel activists may be extremely loud, but across North America, they are a small minority.
Poll after poll shows clear support for our Israeli allies in its war against Hamas.
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We’ve come full circle.
The anti-Zionists are literally making the case for the Zionist project.
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Praising the Houthis with “Yemen, Yemen make us proud” is pretty telling for people who spend half their time trying to convince the rest of us that they definitely don’t support terrorist organizations.
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If your instinct is to accept every accusation against Israel at face value—no matter how outlandish or depraved—you have internalized antisemitic bias, whether you want to admit that or not.
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“We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement…We will wish the Jews a hearty welcome home…We are working together for a reformed and revised Near East, and our two movements complement one another.”
- Iraqi King Faisal, 1919
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🇮🇱’s Aliyah and Integration Ministry reports applications for Aliyah (immigration to Israel) are up:
300% from 🇫🇷
100% from 🇺🇸
150% from 🇨🇦
40% from 🇬🇧
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