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91 years ago, Rachel Posner took the photo on the left in Kiel, Germany. Last night, her grandson Yehudah lit the same menorah inside the presidential residence in Berlin. עם ישראל חי
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Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker is one of four people being held hostage inside Congregation Beth Israel. The father of two is the synagogue’s first full-time rabbi. His site bio says he “remains completely in love with Adena Cytron-Walker,” his wife.
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I learned tonight watching CNN’s new Stanley Tucci show that the Jews brought the first tomatoes to Italy in the 1500s so you’re all welcome.
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The IDF just wrapped a press briefing in which bodycam, CCTV and phone footage from the Oct. 7 attacks were shared.
For 43 minutes the sounds and video of gunshots and unedited murder were punctuated by gasps and sobs from grown adults.
I have never had an experience like that.
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“Were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world that is safe,” Biden says at the White House Hanukkah party as he reaffirms support for Israel against its war against Hamas.
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Seems one reason UNRWA spent months calling for a cease-fire was because it didn’t want the IDF to discover the command center under its headquarters.
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What is happening right now in Colleyville is most American Jews' biggest fear. It's why we have security locks on our synagogues. It's why police cars sit in our shul driveways every weekend. It's why people at my family's shul carry guns under their suit jackets on Shabbat.
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The morning after he and three others were held hostage for nearly 12 hours, Colleyville Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker makes a public statement.
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An Israeli was murdered this morning. People are literally handing out sweets in the streets to celebrate. If you’re wondering why there is no peace today, this is why. There can’t be peace when death is such a joyous occasion.
Palestinians in Gaza celebrating the Ariel attack.
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They’re literally displaying the Hezbollah flag on campus, Tommy.
It is dangerous and unacceptable to call American protestors and college students terrorists or "military proxies like Hezbollah"
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I mean, I’m no expert, but shouting “The 7th of October is going to be every day for you” seems pretty murderous.
EXCLUSIVE: Columbia Journalism School alumni descended into a heated row last week after a film director and producer who graduated from the school referred to some campus demonstrators as “murderous crackpots” and “pro-terror wack jobs.”
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For days users on this site said that Israeli hostages were giving their captors looks of love and admiration as they were being released.
Klonopin. They were given Klonopin.
@LahavHarkov
reports on the revelations from today's Knesset Health Committee
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Because our friends and loved ones are being raped in underground bunkers as I type this, you absolute monster of a human.
How is anyone still talking about October 7? What Israel has done since is many times worse than what happened on October 7 by any conceivable metric; the only way to feel otherwise is to believe Israeli lives are worth many times more than Palestinian lives. How is Israeli…
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Just so I understand this — one of the students who is accusing Israel of widespread murder…actually killed two senior citizens and got off with a $200 fine?
Columbia anti-Israel protest arrests include Letitia James intern, UPS exec’s daughter who killed elderly couple in crash as a teen
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Just landed in Israel. On my plane were young men whose units were called back, and families returning from vacation to a changed Israel. I’ve never before experienced a plane full of Israelis where you could practically hear a pin drop.
Everything is different now.
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I can't believe the U.N. made things up. Just can't believe it.
The United Nations Human Rights Office in the Occupied Territories said (
@OHCHR_Palestine
) in a December statement that it verified Israel killed journalist, founder, and director of Gaza Now, Mustafa Ayyash. However, Gaza Now stated today he was arrested in Austria.
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Been an Israeli for a day and a half and already I’ve had two different prime ministers.
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Her husband was deported to Turkey for his ties to Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
A retired teacher saw inspiration in Columbia's protests. Eric Adams called her an outside agitator
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I mean, imagine hating Israel so much that you’d go to JFK when *you don’t even have to.*
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President Joe Biden at last night's fundraiser in New York: "But we can't forget, Israel is in a position where its very existence as at stake... All those people. They weren't killed. They were massacred. They were massacred. And imagine if that had happened in the United…
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Tessa Veksler, the daughter of Soviet Jewish refugees who fled Russia, is the student body president at
@ucsantabarbara
. This was posted in the campus’ multicultural building, where her office is.
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An incoming college freshman, whose great-grandfather founded
@nyuniversity
’s music dept and was a professor there for many years, withdrew her acceptance to the university. There will be more like her until NYU shuts down rampant anti-Semitism on campus.
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They raped girls in their beds. They gouged out a man’s eye, sliced off his wife’s breast, cut off his son’s fingers and severed his daughter’s foot.
That’s not fighting back. Those are crimes against humanity.
.
@PeterBeinart
: “All human beings resist oppression. The US was not occupying Japan when Pearl Harbor happened. Israelis are occupying millions of people in the West Bank and Gaza… if you treat people that way, they are going to fight back”
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The ICRC has yet to visit a single hostage being held in Gaza. It’s been 12 weeks.
There clearly is an exception.
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Guy who (1) fabricated an anecdote about his Birthright experience to demonize Israelis (2) said Omar Suleiman, who called for a "third intifada," was "an ally to Jews" & (3) said "I would totally be friends with Hamas" deleted his entire pre-
@ewarren
Twitter history
Wonder why?
Personal news: I just finished my 1st week as Director for Progressive Partnerships with
@ewarren
. She’s gonna be an excellent president.
If you work in movements or progressive politics & want to chat, reach out!
Also, tell me where to find good szechuan in Boston.
#TeamWarren
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Thirty-six Jewish legislators between the House and Senate, but
@mehdirhasan
decided to bring on a member of Congress who is not Jewish and has been at the center of multiple antisemitism controversies.
“The former President knowingly, repeatedly invokes dual loyalty tropes that are harmful and dangerous. ... Anti-Semitism is on the rise and all of us have a responsibility to condemn it,"
@IlhanMN
says to
@MehdiRHasan
in reaction to Donald Trump's latest bigotry.
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UPenn president walks back her statement made at yesterday’s hearing on campus antisemitism that calls for genocide against Jews don’t violate the school’s policies. Harvard released a statement walking back similar comments earlier today. Silence from MIT.
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We just left Nir Oz, where nearly half of the 400-person kibbutz was killed or kidnapped. Hadas Calderon’s mother and niece were killed and her two children were kidnapped, along with their father. Today was her first time back. She sobbed as she spoke about her children.
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This is the first sunrise Fernando Marman and Luis Har are seeing as free men after being rescued in the early hours of this morning in an IDF operation in Rafah.
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Travel vloggers who went through video footage from last month and found a shot of Gabby Petito’s van enabled authorities to find her body.
Gabby was found a decade after the vloggers’ own son was killed in a car accident. Today would have been his 17th birthday.
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Something I’ve been thinking about since the video of Hersh Goldberg-Polin came out yesterday:
He doesn’t know that he’s a household name in this country and among Jews around the world — that one has only to say “Hersh” and it is understood who is being talked about. He has no…
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Twelve hours ago, I was making a last-minute run to am/pm for bottles of water.
Now, I’m having brunch in a lovely Kikar Dizengoff.
What a country.
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The Bibas family has not been confirmed killed in Hamas captivity.
Please, for the love of God, stop tweeting internet rumors based off of Hamas claims. These are real people and their loved ones are also real, and really hurting.
Anyone posting these rumors is behaving…
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More than five hundred elected federal legislators and you picked the one who has said Israel “hypnotized the world” to talk about antisemitism?
“The former President knowingly, repeatedly invokes dual loyalty tropes that are harmful and dangerous. ... Anti-Semitism is on the rise and all of us have a responsibility to condemn it,"
@IlhanMN
says to
@MehdiRHasan
in reaction to Donald Trump's latest bigotry.
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The worst kind of
#AsAJew
is the one who lives in Brooklyn, hasn't been to Israel since the war began, says their Judaism "was always a bit vague," yet thinks they know everything about the war here based on...covering the war in Bosnia more than three decades ago.
Another…
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Last night at synagogue in Tel Aviv, I felt something I hadn’t in a long time.
I felt safe. I didn’t have to go through metal detectors. Didn’t have to take mental stock of exits or wonder who had a pistol under their coat.
This is what it means to have a country of our own 🇮🇱
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The shooter’s motive is unknown until you click through and read the first sentence of the story.
Shots fired outside Jewish temple in Albany; shooter’s motive unknown
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This clip of
@missmayim
and
@iamgreenfield
explaining (and then demonstrating) to
@JKCorden
how the shofar works is the High Holiday content I didn’t know I needed.
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The same cartoonist who drew a canine Netanyahu leading a blind, Jewish President Trump for the NYT also drew this, a take on the famous photo from the Holocaust. Note that Nazis are depicted as Jews and Holocaust victims are wearing keffiyehs, classic Middle Eastern headdress.
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Simultaneously complaining that you don't have spox who can “string two words together” in English while suspending the spox who has most effectively communicated the government's position over the last five months is quite a choice.
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People really hate you on this site when you're Israeli, don't they?
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Lots of folks in my replies are quite upset about this. Perhaps they should be more upset that most Jewish institutions in America must have armed guards, mantraps and other heightened security measures.
“Were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world that is safe,” Biden says at the White House Hanukkah party as he reaffirms support for Israel against its war against Hamas.
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This clip of Whoopi Goldberg saying that the Holocaust was not about race is a great reminder that there have only been two Jewish co-hosts in the 25-year history of
@TheView
, and none since 2016.
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41-year-old Tal Chaimi was killed by Hamas on October 7 while fighting to protect his kibbutz. His body has been held in Gaza for seven months.
Today, his wife, Ella, gave birth to their fourth child, a boy.
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The “two Israelis” were six- and eight-year old brothers. The “Palestinian teenager who dreamt of being a chef” shot a teenager and his father.
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I can assure you that a Christmas tree is not at all about Hanukkah.
Ainsley Earhardt on the Fox Christmas tree: "It's a tree that unites us. It brings us together. It's about the Christmas spirit. It is about the holiday season. It's about Jesus. It's about Hanukkah. It is about everything that we stand for as a country."
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We now have two Squad members who have had to backtrack after their associations with speakers who praised the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks.
Can we please stop pretending that AIPAC is targeting members of color, and consider that maybe it’s targeting members who associate with…
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Yashar nails it: “It is hard to describe in a few sentences how tectonic of a shift October 7 led to.”
This is what the world does not understand. And it’s been at the core of nearly every conversation I have had over the last 2 months with friends, neighbors in Tel Aviv and…
The Israeli government is not going to be guided by a United Nations vote, no matter who vetoes or doesn’t veto.
In fact, a resolution that calls for a ceasefire that doesn’t get vetoed will just serve to validate how the Israeli government feels about the UN: that it is a…
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Honestly can’t believe I’m alive to see the day that there are cupcakes celebrating Biden in Tel Aviv.
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MORE: Gallant confirms that 1,468 UNRWA workers are known to be active members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
NEW: Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, citing intelligence, says that more than 30 UNRWA staffers participated in the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks. 185 UNRWA employees are known to be active in Hamas’ military branch.
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That speech was a missed opportunity for Biden to mention the rise in antisemitic attacks over the last two weeks.
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Degrees from Oxford and Cambridge, five years as a TV anchor, two years as a presidential advisor.
@mrjamesob
: “No background.”
If he can't be bothered to check
@EylonALevy
’s LinkedIn, it makes sense that he would parrot Hamas talking points without bothering to do a simple…
'All you've got to do is defend everything the Israeli government does, regardless of evidence, context & disputable claims.'
@mrjamesob
finds it 'extraordinary' that ex-British-Israeli spokesman Eylon Levy 'popped up on every radio station in the country' with no background.
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...women everywhere would like a word.
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Bizarre NYT headline considering every single one of the 1,000+ rockets fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad were intended to hit civilian homes.
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The only thing more disgusting than Chappelle’s antisemitism is the audience laughing along.
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It's not that Rep.
@IlhanMN
doesn't understand it. It's that she doesn't care.
This is so dispiriting. If you can't figure out how to criticize Israel without unleashing a torrent of epigenetic trauma in your own Jewish voters, you're making the problem you seek to solve worse. How does
@IlhanMN
still not understand this, after weeks of meetings with Jews?
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On a
@UJAfedNY
call,
@RepRitchie
Torres says that Israel is not only under attack from Gaza, but "the endless propaganda war that has taken on a new intensity, especially in the United States."
"What is under siege is the truth itself."
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Reuters vs. Reality:
Reuters report:
@UNRWA
says Israel is ending food convoys to northern Gaza
Israel points out that UNRWA hasn’t requested any food convoys in nearly two months, except for three requests in recent days coinciding with
@antonioguterres
’ visit to the region.
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“Iran won’t attack civilians.”
...the families of the 85 people killed in the AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires would like a word.
A friend flying into the US says he hasn’t seen so much security since 9/11. The US is terrified of how Iran will retaliate. Iran won’t attack civilians, that’s what al Qaeda does. But it shows this assassination did the opposite of making Americans safer and our leaders know it.
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In another home, Simcha describes walking through a kitchen where a birthday cake was on the table and family photos hung on the walls. In the family safe room, the remains of two children, their parents and a grandparent were found in a locked embrace.
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Wow. Vassar’s president speaks out against “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” chant, calling it antisemitic. After years working on campus, I truly never thought I’d see the day when Vassar stood with its Jewish students. That day has arrived.
President Elizabeth Bradley's latest statement regarding a protest during a discussion by a guest speaker last week.
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Last I checked, one of these groups was holding vigils for slain Gen Zers at a music festival and the other was cheering on the murderous rapists who killed them.
Leaders of Students Supporting Israel and Students for Justice in Palestine both feel unsafe on the campus of Columbia University, the site of ongoing heated protests over the Israel-Hamas war.
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I never miss a meal or a workout, which is why my body didn't flinch under the weight of the steel-plated protective gear I had to wear walking around the site of a modern-day pogrom in an active military zone.
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On TV just now, a secular news host, upon hearing the IDF rescued an Israeli hostage, asked a religious guest for his kippah so that he could say the Hebrew prayer for freeing the captives. (Yes, that’s a real thing.)
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Rabbi Goldstein of Chabad of Poway was on my flight from JFK to San Diego this morning. Thank you to
@delta
for this message that brought more than a few of us to tears as we landed.
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Good lord. The IDF's National Rescue Unit, which deployed to Surfside, Fla., to assist in rescue and recovery efforts, found 81 of the 98 victims of the Champlain Towers collapse.
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Sign of the times in Tel Aviv: a popular cafe changed its wifi password to BRINGTHEMHOME
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It’s truly disgusting that
@IfNotNowOrg
, which calls itself a Jewish group, would hold a demonstration and disruption outside of Shabbat services when fellow Jews are at prayer. IfNotNow is absolutely not representative of American Jewry and has no place in our very big tent.
Truly disheartening that Shabbat services and my talk @ the University of Texas were disrupted by Jewish protesters.
It just highlights the growing need and obligation to educate and speak truth!
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Nefesh B’Nefesh doesn’t cover in their materials for new immigrants how to tell people you’ve made aliyah. So…this will have to suffice. It’s good to be home 🇮🇱
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In the last 24 hours:
- A member of the Saudi royal family accused Iran of engineering the Israel-Hamas war to disrupt Israeli-Saudi normalization efforts
- Riyadh confirmed it participated in the multinational effort to protect Israel from Iran
Welcome to a new Middle East.
Saudi Arabia announced that it was part of the multinational coalition that assisted Israel in warding off Iran's barrage of drones and missiles.
Report by
@tovahlazaroff
Full story > >
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@Yair_Rosenberg
Lectern vs. podium. You stand behind a lectern. You stand on a podium. The root of podium is ‘pod.’ Foot. I mean, come on.
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I think I'm going to start calling my exes "X's" instead.
When I terminated John Kelly, which I couldn’t do fast enough, he knew full well that he was way over his head. Being Chief of Staff just wasn’t for him. He came in with a bang, went out with a whimper, but like so many X’s, he misses the action & just can’t keep his mouth shut,.
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Stop 👏 comparing 👏 things 👏 that 👏 aren’t 👏 the 👏 Holocaust 👏 to 👏 the 👏 Holocaust
Laura Ingraham compares Planned Parenthood to Nazi genocide: "Hitler, just like Planned Parenthood, practiced and defended mass extermination."
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“I am not Jewish” writes this woman who does not plan to celebrate Hanukkah.
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The Muslim Student Association at American University announced it is pulling out of an interfaith Seder due to the involvement of (and sponsorship by) AU Hillel, an organization that supports Jewish life on campus, following last weeks clashes in Jerusalem.
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To add: I spoke to a member of the Bibas family two hours ago. When and if there is news about Shiri, Yarden, Ariel and Kfir, I will report it.
The Bibas family has not been confirmed killed in Hamas captivity.
Please, for the love of God, stop tweeting internet rumors based off of Hamas claims. These are real people and their loved ones are also real, and really hurting.
Anyone posting these rumors is behaving…
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Yom Kippur in Israel is like nothing I've ever experienced. The airport will close down in the next couple hours. Stores and restaurants will close. The streets will be mostly devoid of cars. If you haven't experienced the holiday here, I urge you to at least once in your life.
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American citizens believed to be abducted by Hamas and currently in Gaza:
Carmela Dan, 80
Hersh Polin-Goldberg, 23
Sagui Dekel-Chen, 35
Adrienne Neta, 66
Itay Chen, 19
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Astonishing. The head of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital said that 16 of the hospital’s medical staff — including doctors and nurses — were members of Hamas.
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NEW: Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, citing intelligence, says that more than 30 UNRWA staffers participated in the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks. 185 UNRWA employees are known to be active in Hamas’ military branch.
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I'm trying to fathom how we live in a world in which I and other journalists need to watch footage of babies and the elderly being murdered because the world refuses to believe that a terrorist group that's killed 1,400 people and taken hundreds hostage is capable of such things.
We are witnessing a Holocaust denial-like phenomenon unfolding in real time.
So tomorrow, Israel will screen for foreign journalists the raw, unedited footage of Hamas’ atrocities in the October 7 Massacre, as captured by its death squads’ body cams.
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Really hard to ignore the lack of coverage by major media outlets of tonight's deadly terror attack in the heart of Tel Aviv.
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We stand by our reporting earlier this week that Ben & Jerry’s requires new employees to watch a series of videos on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One Ben & Jerry's employee who viewed the video also provided the below screenshot, which lists the four Israel-Palestine videos.
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When Jews were actually being genocided during the Holocaust, they ate vermin in the camps to avoid starvation.
Ahmed is unhappy that the French vanilla coffee he received isn’t up to Parisian cafe standards.
Palestinian activist Ahmed Kouta exposes the contents of US airdrops to the starving population of Gaza.
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My personal favorite Israeli street food is sabich, which was brought to Israel by Iraqi Jews who were fleeing persecution from Baghdad to Fallujah.
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Thinking about Michael Levin today. His name is known all over Israel, 15 years after his death in Lebanon. His photo hangs in Marzipan in the shuk in Jerusalem. His grave resembles a shrine to a young man who will forever be 22.
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Asking American Jews to account for geopolitical issues in Israel is textbook antisemitism.
@RollingStone
and
@ejdickson
should know better.
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I love this country because when my landlord comes by to fix something on a Friday, she brings me an entire loaf of whole wheat challah. Shabbat shalom.
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John Kirby briefing reporters this morning: "Israel has a right to defend itself. Maybe not everybody believes that, but they do."
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If you want to know why American Jews are scared, read the replies to this tweet.
I have reflected & wanted to apologize for posts during the recent Israel/Hamas fighting that suggested Israel is committing “genocide”. It’s not accurate, it’s inflammatory, disrespectful & is being used to justify antisemitism here & abroad. Now is the time to avoid hyperbole.
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