Michael Berkowitz
@mbberkowitz
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Gee, this is tough. Can I have more time?
Alon Shvut
Joined March 2009
Californians - If you’re looking for a new bike - may I suggest contacting 🇮🇱 Elon at Sunday Cycles in Santa Monica…. He’s Israeli and the shop has amazing reviews, except for a few targeting his nationality… Everyone else can reach out and say hi and send him some 🙏💙.
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Wow. A must watch. People need to hear this. Former hostage Omer Shem Tov explains what Hamas told him their intentions are: “They never mentioned the land for me. They always told me it's about religion. They always told me that their goal is to- after they kill Jews in
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Genocide isn’t decided by surveys or polls but by facts and law. Many falsely claim there is a “consensus” that Gaza is genocide, yet 500 scholars, legal and other experts reject that claim—far more than the 100 IAGS members who voted “genocide. 1/
scholarsfortruthaboutgenocide.com
Learn about efforts to clarify the facts on genocide, antisemitism, and the Gaza conflict, emphasizing legal standards, historical context, and prevention strategies.
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Pick me. Pick me.
How dare AIPAC exploit our ancestors’ suffering by calling the conclusion that Israel committed genocide in Gaza a “blood libel.” A multitude of legal experts and genocide scholars—many of them Jewish or Israeli—have concluded it’s genocide. AIPAC’s atrocity denial is shameful.
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There was a war. Hamas attacked Israel, and Gaza paid dearly for it, and that's a tragedy, but that's war. Have you seen photos of Stalingrad Dresden Warsaw London Hiroshima Nagasaki Tokyo Hanoi Grozny Fallujah et al after their own wars? They looked the same or worse.
“It’s not a genocide”, but Gaza’s economy collapsed 83%. “It’s not a genocide”, but the night sky shows a place erased from the face of the earth. “It’s not a genocide”, but famine is rampant. This satellite image was within months of the onslaught. What does it look like now?
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The genius of reframing antisemitism as anti-Zionism is it doesn’t just Target Jews. It targets anyone that stands with Jews. When you cut people off from allies, you are fundamentally in the business of eliminating them from society.
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Hey, quick question. When I went to Israel, I sure met a lot of Arab Israelis. How can it be apartheid if Arabs are literally everywhere and represented at every level of Israeli society?
Apartheid isn’t libel. It’s the lived reality of Palestinians. If you want people to stop calling Israel an apartheid state, then work to end the apartheid system—not silence those who name it.
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Zionism is a settled issue. Israel exists. It has proven six times since 1948, it will utterly destroy people who attack it. And even if Israel somehow stopped existing 8 million Jews and 2.1 million Arabs would be Holocausted, ethically cleansed and sent into the diaspora.
@BriannaWu Zionism is playing a cynical game, It aligns itself with Judaism without actually BEING Judaism and when its ' foot soldiers ' are found committing crimes against humanity in Gaza, It is the Jewish people as a whole which bares the backlash. Zionism is devoid of morality.
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I have not. Which ones won’t murder me for being a famous trans woman? Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, Jordan and Egypt have all criminalized my existence to some extent.
@BriannaWu Have you been to other countries in the Middle East?
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The mother of Zohran Mamdani—Mira Nair—also signed onto this.
Over 200 celebrities are calling for the release of convicted terrorist Marwan Barghouti, who is serving multiple life sentences for orchestrating attacks that killed innocent Israelis and a Greek monk during the Second Intifada. The diverse range of celebrities who signed the
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@dylanotes I’m nearly 50, I don’t use TikTok. I listen to primary source evidence daily. I’m a conflict analyst who has studied the Middle East for the last 12 years and served in the Army for 16. I’m writing my PhD on the Gaza war. The evidence I’ve seen is that genocide claims are a hoax.
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My column on Witkoff in Moscow.
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Special Envoy Steve Witkoff thinks business can fix any foreign-policy crisis. Putin’s cronies think differently, writes Eli Lake.
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“Supporting an ally in a lawful war of self-defense is not a betrayal of our values. It is an expression of them.” @SpencerGuard, the world’s foremost expert in urban warfare, eviscerates this Biden staffer’s attempt to undermine & delegitimise Israel.
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When I was in Israel, I had a meeting with a senior member of their government. I got in a fairly heated debate with him if the future of the Democratic Party was going to be anti-Israel and pro-Islamist. It breaks my heart to say I think they were right. Islamoleftism is going
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Here’s the thing, @BriannaWu is right. It makes people uncomfortable because they like to appeal to authority of those who never actually demonstrate knowledge of what “genocide” actually is. None of those who have made the claim have established intent as required. Most have
First of all, I’m not an apologist - I proudly stand with Israel. Secondly, the false “genocide” claim is probably scary to people that don’t actually know who those “genocide scholars” are. These are groups committed to the destruction of Israel that have infiltrated academia
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Why can more Democrats see that these Free Palestine extremists don’t support our party. Their literal, stated goal is the destruction of America right after the destruction of Israel. Why are we dying on this hill? Why are we listening to any of these people? The people in
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First of all, I’m not an apologist - I proudly stand with Israel. Secondly, the false “genocide” claim is probably scary to people that don’t actually know who those “genocide scholars” are. These are groups committed to the destruction of Israel that have infiltrated academia
@BriannaWu You are an apologist for what a consensus of genocide scholars - including Israeli genocidal scholars - have concluded is a genocide. You have engaged in rampant anti-Palestinian dehumanisation. Framing that as "standing for Jewish dignity" is morally depraved. You are sick.
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I’m not a monster Owen, but I understand that standing for Jewish dignity seems monstrous to people like you. We don’t differ on compassion for the victims of war. It’s just that my assessment is that killing the terrorists is the quickest way to get to peace and yours is that
@BriannaWu Like most people, I wish I could return to the world that existed before I knew who you were. There is no evidence that you see Palestinians as human beings with lives of any worth. Like almost all monsters, you don't realise you're a monster. But you are a monster.
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