The history of the conflict in 5 tweets. The Jews said "yes" to every state they were ever offered. The Palestinians said "no" to every state they were offered because the Jews still would still have a state. The result is that Israel exists, and Palestine does not.

10 reasons the Kurds are more deserving of a state than the Palestinians. - Kurds are the largest stateless minority group in the Middle East with 40M people and a national identity going back centuries, unlike the Palestinians. - Kurds have a distinct language and ethnicity, unlike the Palestinians. - Kurds are tolerant, inclusive and religiously diverse, unlike the Palestinians. - Kurds were promised a state of their own by the British in 1920, when “Palestinian” still meant Jew. - Kurds actually experienced genocide during the late 1980s with chemical weapons, unlike the Palestinians. - Kurds have a history of successful self government without attacking their neighbors, unlike the Palestinians. - Kurds don’t deny the existence of other Middle Eastern states or people, unlike most Palestinians. - Kurds have been the vanguard fighting against Islamic State, Al Qaeda and others, unlike the Palestinians who have embraced and supported Islamic militancy. - Kurds fought to protect other ethnic and religious minorities like the Yazidis, Jews, Assyrians and Chaldeans, unlike the Palestinians who oppress non Muslim minorities. - The Kurdish national slogan “Jîn, Jîyan, Azadî” (Women, Life, Freedom) is more universal and acceptable than the uncompromising Palestinian slogan “From the River to the Sea.” None of this means Palestinians shouldn’t eventually have a state of their own that can’t threaten its neighbors and minorities, but the Kurds are far more deserving.

"Posters of kidnapped children is propaganda." "Screenings of Hamas snuff films taken from their own GoPros is propaganda." "Translations of Hamas leaders calling for genocide and rape is propaganda." "Discoveries of rocket launchers in mosques and schools is propaganda." "Revelations of tunnel entrances next to the hospital is propaganda." "UNRWA teachers glorifying Hamas on social media propaganda." "Photos of wealthy Hamas leaders living a quiet life in Qatar is propaganda." "Videos of Palestinian civilians moving through a safe corridor is propaganda." "Reports of failed Hamas rockets falling on Gaza civilians is propaganda." "Vandalism of Jewish businesses and institutions in the West is propaganda." "Saying that Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 is propaganda." "Israeli work visas for 20k laborers from Gaza is propaganda." "The existence of a sealed Egyptian border with Gaza is propaganda." "Sick children from Gaza receiving treatment in Israeli hospitals is propaganda." "Individual rights for Israeli Arabs and LGTBQ in Israel is propaganda." "Israeli minorities proudly serving in the IDF is propaganda." "Israeli Arabs in parliament and on the supreme court is propaganda." "900K Jewish refugees from Arab aand Muslim lands since 1948 is propaganda." "Palestinian rejection of a state in 1947, 1948, 1967 and 2000 is propaganda." "That Israel didn’t execute Yahya Sinwar after being convicted of murder and instead gave him lifesaving cancer surgery is propaganda." When dogma overcomes reason and slogans invalidate evidence, you have surrendered your intelligence and freedom to the propaganda of a fanatic mob.

“They didn’t say death to Jews, they said death to the enemies of the cross.” Strasbourg, 1348 “They didn’t say death to Jews, they said death to the poisoners of the wells.” Basel, 1349 “They didn’t say death to Jews, they said death to the New Christians.” Spain, 1492 “They didn’t say death to Jews, they said death to the Marranos who mock our faith.” Lisbon, 1506 “They didn’t say death to Jews, they said death to the money-changers bleeding the people.” Frankfurt, 1614 “They didn’t say death to Jews, they said death to the traitors within.” Odessa, 1881 “They didn’t say death to Jews, they said death to the capitalist pigs.” Berlin, 1919 “They didn’t say death to Jews, they said death to the rootless cosmopolitans.” Moscow, 1952 “They didn’t say death to Jews, they said cleanse the party of Zionist elements.” Warsaw, 1968 “They didn’t say death to Jews, they said death to the Zionist regime.” Tehran, 1979 "They didn't say death to the Jews, they said Khayber Khayber, ya Yahud." London, 2023 "They didn't say death to the Jews, they said death to the Zionist occupiers." London, 2024 Euphemisms and collective guilt for perceived crimes are hallmarks of antisemitic rhetoric throughout history.

Oct 7 was the single deadliest day in the history of the conflict. The Japanese don’t mark Pearl Harbor as a holiday. The Germans don’t celebrate the day they invaded Poland. Only the Palestinians turn a day of mass murder, abduction & self-destruction into a day of honor.

To all those before Oct 7 who said Israel was exaggerating its security concerns, fuck you. To all those who said Israel was occupying Gaza before Oct 7, fuck you. To all those who said Israel could easily afford to send Iron Dome batteries to Ukraine, fuck you. To the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly that still haven’t condemned the October 7 invasion and atrocities, fuck you. To UNWRA that educated and employed terrorists, fuck you. To the women's rights organizations who dismissed claims of rape against Israeli women, fuck you. To the international aid agencies and "human rights" organizations who haven’t helped the hostages, fuck you. To the thousands of individuals who tore down and defaced pictures of hostages, fuck you. To the World Health Organization who said there are no terrorists, weapons or tunnel shafts in hospitals, fuck you. To the media that includes 17,000 dead Hamas terrorists in the Gaza fatality count, fuck you. To all those who ignored daily missile, drone and mortar attacks from Lebanon until last month, fuck you. To all those who said Israel shouldn't rescue hostages if it risks civilian lives, fuck you. To Qatar, which funds Hamas and American universities and spreads terrorist propaganda, fuck you. To all those who advocate diplomacy with the Islamic Republic of Iran that calls for our eradication, fuck you. To all the universities who have made life intolerable for Jewish students, fuck you. To the intellectuals, academics and artists who betrayed their Jewish colleagues, fuck you. To the international lawyers who think civilian deaths is evidence of a war crime, fuck you. To the protestors who have revived every antisemitic trope under the guise of anti-Zionism, fuck you. To the Kremlin and the Chinese sponsored trolls who sow discord and fan the flames of antisemitism, fuck you. The those Jewish voices that call for Israel's destruction "asajew", fuck you. To those now celebrating the deadliest day in our nation’s history, FUCK YOU!

That TikTok protestor wasn't wrong. Greece🇬🇷 and Israel🇮🇱 have much more in common than their blue-and-white flags. Both were born of a European intellectual awakening, strong diaspora, bloody territorial battles, and mass displacement. But no one questions Greece’s legitimacy.🧵

Last night was a major victory for Israel on multiple levels. 1. Its air defense and technology executed flawlessly, repelling the largest missile and drone assault in history. Unprecedented coordination between defense systems and allied militaries completely nullified the attack. 2. We saw surprisingly tight coordination with Jordan and Saudi Arabia, with Israeli and U.S. aircraft entering their airspace to eliminate suicide drones. Arab pilots also downed drones heading for Israel. The regional Arab-Israeli alliance against Iran was strengthened, courtesy of Iran. 3. Since $5.2B of the military aid package now stuck in Congress is for air defense systems and interceptors, the package will soon pass. Politicians opposing the aid have been exposed as obtuse or vindictive. Everyone knows who they are. 4. Iran, which funds and arms Hamas and Hezbollah, has been unmasked as the region’s pariah state, and risks tightened international sanctions. It can no longer hide behind its proxies that surround Israel. When Israel decides to send Iran a message, its missile and drones will glide through Iran’s primitive air defense. Iran set the new standard, not Israel. 5. It was Israel defending the skies over the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem as Iran shows the world what “indiscriminate” and “disproportionate” attacks actually look like. 6. The attack also revealed the hypocrisy of the campus ceasefire crowds who cheered on the attack in the hope someone would kill Israelis, even if they’re Arab Israelis. 7. Despite social media claims, there was absolutely no panic in Israel. The lines for gasoline were in Tehran. Parties and protests took place as scheduled throughout the country, because confidence in our military and its people remain high. Am Yisrael Chai VeChazak!

Denounce Zionism all you want. Without it, the Jews would share Armenia's tragic fate. In 1914, both nations stood on the same precipice before their twin cataclysms. The starkly different outcomes owes everything to the very movement the world still condemns. A comparative🧵:

Just a @washingtonpost reporter aiding Iranian targeting efforts under the innocuous banner of "OSINT."

There should be front page photos of Evyatar David's emaciated body in all international newspapers, but of course they aren't! Why aren't international aid groups demanding humanitarian aid be delivered to our starving hostages?

College students that protested during the Vietnam War weren’t protesting in support of the Viet Cong or communism. That’s why they didn’t unfurl Viet Cong flags, dress like peasant guerrillas or call for the eradication of South Vietnam. They were protesting the military draft and the undeclared war that was killing their contemporaries who weren’t in college (58K Americans killed). This is a time when the peace sign defined the generation. They sometimes chanted “Freedom for Vietnam” which meant something different for each person much like “Free Palestine” today. But they did not shout an equivalent of “we don’t want no two state solution,” glorify the Ho Chi Minh trail and encourage Soviet military support. And they certainly didn’t cheer on the Viet Cong with “Resistance is Justified” as American hostages languished in enemy dungeons without proof of life. The intersection with the civil rights movement back then was powerful because black Americans were being drafted at a higher rate and represented a disproportionate amount of the casualties at a time when discrimination and racism was rampant both at home and in the military. The supposed intersection today between Palestine/Hamas and LGTBQ rights/ feminism (or climate) is not only imaginary, but grotesque. Hamas perpetuated sexual violence on a staggering scale against Israeli women, doesn’t allow Palestinian women to own property and executes homosexuals. It would be one thing if today’s student protestors demanded a two-state solution and an end to settlement building in the West Bank, or for a ceasefire and the release of hostages that would end the war. But that would be too reasonable and would not allow other intersectional grievances to erupt in the orgy of protest we now see on campus.

Weeks after Israel’s independence, the Arab Legion seized Jerusalem’s Old City, expelled 2,000 Jews, and razed 35 synagogues thereby ending a Jewish presence that had endured since the Crusades. “Al-Quds was purged of Jews, and for the first time in a thousand years none remained,” boasted Legion commander Abdullah el-Tell. This image of a terrified Jewish girl escaping Jerusalem appeared in Life Magazine.

First they came for Uyghurs And I did not speak out Because I didn't see anything on social media. Then they came for the Ukrainians And I did not speak out, Because they’re white. Then they came for the Iranian women without a hijab And I did not speak out Because I'm not Islamophobic. Then they came for the Israeli women and children And I did not speak out Because they're racist colonizers. Then they came for our encampment… And I screamed bloody murder through my face mask, protested with a keffiyeh, chanted for revolution, vandalized property, took over a building, burned American flags, cancelled graduation and helped re-elect Trump.

17 IDF soldiers were killed and dozens wounded in Gaza this weekend because Israel refuses to bomb indiscriminately and "hide behind technology." These brave warriors battled against Hamas cowards who dress as civilians and hide in tunnels built with international aid money.

We’ve been busy!

Live in a country that will fight for your freedom the way Israel fights for the freedom of its citizens.

All of Gaza cheered when they were brutally kidnapped and paraded on the streets. All of Israel now cheers and weeps following their rescue and return to freedom. Humanity isn’t hard to identify.

Here is a serious proposal to end the conflict in Gaza: • Israel will withdraw all military presence from the Strip and hand authority to the Palestinian Authority. • Israel will retain control over airspace and maritime access. • The PA will assumes full governance and security. • Egypt will manage the Rafah crossing with the PA, blocks weapons smuggling. • The EU will provide economic aid and posts monitors at Rafah. • The US will provide financial support, diplomatic guarantees, and pressure for Palestinian reform. • Major donor states, the Arab League, & international institutions will pledge billions for reconstruction and infrastructure. It sounds promising. In fact, it was already done. In 2005, Israel withdrew. The PA took control. Egyptian security took Rafah. EU monitors deployed. The Gulf pledged billions. Washington pledged $2 billion. And then… Hamas exploited PA weakness, seized Gaza, and filled it with rockets and dug an underground tunnel system. The EU monitors vanished. The Gulf pledges evaporated. The promise of peace and calm collapsed into the nightmare we live with now. This war must end now, and Israel cannot rule over Gaza again, but you would forgive Israelis for expressing doubt that this time will be any different.

“My message to the Zionist Jews: We are going to take our land back, we love death for Allah’s sake the same way you love life. We shall burn you as Hitler did, but this time we won’t have a single one of you left.” BBC Arabic is funded by British tax payers.

No arrest warrants for anyone from either side in any of these wars.

True, but we get to choose how to respond.

Not many people know this, but the ancient Jewish communities of the Middle East survived for centuries on smuggled bagels and bootleg brisket, steadfastly rejecting local delicacies like falafel, hummus, kubbeh, and tahini. Only when the State of Israel was formed did Jews suddenly develop a taste for local cuisine and an ability to cook it for their families.

This antisemitic wave is far from over. People think antisemitism comes from ignorance of the masses. But history’s worst antisemitic campaigns were driven by educated elites who exploited it to satisfy envy and eliminate rivals. We’re in the midst of an anti-Zionist purge. 🧵

🧵1/ Haaretz has a serious problem. Online antisemitic influencers are smitten with the Haaretz English Edition that produces a steady stream of pithy headlines and radical opinion pieces that confirm their seething hatred of Jews and Israel.

Fixed it.

“This city was built by… Jews escaping the Holocaust” - AOC Between 1933-1945 (Nazi rule) the U.S. accepted less than 30k Jews. Even Shanghai accepted 20k. The truth is that no country wanted Jewish refugees which is why 90% of Jews today are Zionists.

Hamas: We know precisely how many Palestinians have been killed…42,652.34 Also Hamas: We simply don’t know how many of the 101 hostages are still alive.

Israel gave citizenship to every Jewish refugee from the Islamic, African and communist worlds. Arab states (ex Jordan) didn't give Palestinians citizenship. The result is that great-grandchildren of Palestinian refugees are still "refugees", but not those of Jewish refugees.

Again, I am not directing this at Spain because I think it is uniquely evil. I am showing how easy it is to denigrate an entire nation and people with short, shallow posts like people do every day to Israel (well before the response to Oct 7).

2) Half of Catalonia’s 7.7 million people support independence. Spain says that any unilateral move towards independence is illegal, and has imprisoned Catalonian leaders and temporarily suspended the autonomy guaranteed by Spain’s constitution. "Visca Catalunya lliure!"

1) Spain has colonial possessions in North Africa. That’s right. Ceuta and Melilla are two Spanish cities in what should be Morocco. They took them after the Reconquista, when Spain pushed out the Muslims and Jews from Hispania. They should be given back to Morocco immediately.

Fun Fact: There are more Muslim citizens in Israel (1.8M) than there are Muslim citizens in Kuwait (1.5M), UAE (1M), Bahrain (700K) or Qatar (333K).🤔

Israel allied itself with Western democratic, free societies. Palestinians chose to ally with the closed, authoritarian societies like the Soviet Union and Iran. The result is that Israel is a thriving, multi-cultural society, while Palestine is intolerant, poor and repressed.

Israel invests in defense & protects its citizens, while Palestine invests in victimhood & caters to world opinion. The result is that although Israelis were victims on Oct 7, they refuse to stay victims, while Palestinians were perpetrators on Oct 7 yet insist they are victims.

For the avoidance of doubt, I think Spain is a wonderful country with a rich history (although I disagree with their foreign policy). While each of these points is factual, they belie a more complicated truth that defines every modern country, like Israel. Ireland is next.

Israel respects individual rights and protects its critics. Palestine does not allow for divergent views or opposition. The result is that Israel is a boisterous society with its flaws exposed from within, while in Palestine the opposition is silenced and the crimes hidden.

Saying "Israel needs better PR" is like saying the Jewish people need better PR. No one says the latter, because it’s absurd to think two millennia of obsessive, shape-shifting hatred can be massaged with slick messaging. Yes, some states have “great PR.” Qatar buys their good PR: paying off journalists and influencers, plastering ads across foreign networks, bribing FIFA, and running one of the world’s largest media organizations. China prevents their bad PR: it censors the internet, arrests critics, intimidates reporters and manipulates the TikTok algorithm do eliminate China criticism, while amplifying Western sins (especially American and Israeli ones). France and Britain pretend their state-owned broadcasters are neutral, but France 24, TV5Monde, and the BBC World Service are lineal descendants of their empires, built to beam Paris and London’s worldview to former colonial subjects. They may criticize their governments, but never in ways that delegitimize the nation itself. And they wouldn’t platform IRA justifications as equal to Downing Street. And that’s not all. The smaller players such as Turkey’s TRT World, Russia’s RT, and Saudi Arabia’s Al Arabiya each reach hundreds of millions across dozens of countries. What small, ancient minority population do you think they’re focused on? Israel doesn’t buy journalists, it doesn’t muzzle the internet, doesn’t sponsor sports team, and it doesn’t own even a small global broadcast arm. Instead it hosts more foreign correspondents than any almost any other. They are not here to write about archaeology or technology, nor to enjoy the cuisine and culture. They are here as hall monitors of the Jewish state, recording every misstep to show their readers back home that the Jews should no longer be pitied. Put the world’s biggest magnifying glass over any society, stir in enemy states eager to stoke strife, add foreign state-owned media without enough material for their 24/7 news channels and you get a vicious cycle of “negative PR.” Add in the hundreds of millions around the world who think they understand Israel because they watch Al Jazeera or the BBC, hand them anonymous social media accounts, and you could see how one might describe this as an “uphill battle” for a nation of 10M. Thus Israel’s gay rights and pride parades are dismissed as “pinkwashing.” Its tech ingenuity is branded as surveillance and international crime. Its award-winning cuisine is derided as appropriation. Israel's respect for religion and tradition is recast as apartheid. Its culture of national service is condemned as militarism. It’s defense against terror and rocket fire is libeled as “genocide.” And its citizens speaking up in defense of their state are reduced to “hasbara propagandists.” No diverse democracy could withstand that scrutiny, let alone one whose people have long been accused of the worst crimes imaginable (deicide to slavery and from apartheid to genocide) . And no serious country would orient its entire policy or national defense to appease hostile foreign audiences. If you applied the same magnifying glass to the U.S., you’d see a nation of metal detectors in schools, prisons overflowing with minorities, bankruptcies from medical bills, a standard of living that hinges on illegal immigration, sports franchises doubling as universities, and a society obese, over medicated and suffering some form of addiction(real or imaginary). Does that sum up America? That is how selective reporting works. Israel doesn’t have a PR problem. The world has an Israel problem.

5) Each year during Holy Week, Spaniards in Leon make a cocktail from wine & lemon called matar Judíos (“kill the Jews”). Revelers say it’s not antisemitic because there are no more Jews in Leon. Until recently there was a town called Castrillo Motajudios (Fort Kill the Jews)!

6) A common Spanish surname is Matamoros, which means “Moor Slayer.” It is taken from Santiago Matamoros (aka Saint James the Moor-slayer), who according to legend massacred 60K Muslims. What a shameful name!

Israeli hostage, Evyatar David, is starving in Gaza but niether the UN nor the @nytimes cares.

Refugees are a result of both war & treaties, but only in one case have refugee descendants embraced violence to reclaim their great-grandparents’ homes. Below are 10 forgotten instances of catastrophic mass depopulation, where refugees chose a peaceful path despite the pain.

It’s day 29 of this war and @paulg still hasn’t mentioned that 1400 Israelis were murdered and 240 taken hostage on October 7. Not only does he manipulate the numbers to stoke anger, but he relies on data from Hamas.

3) Spain is as a supposedly secular democracy, but 21% of its publicly funded educational institutions are run by the Catholic Church. Spain has an agreement that grants the Church benefits not available to the three other groups: Muslims, Protestants and Jews.

4) Spain is racist. Its Romani population is discriminated against with a majority living below the poverty line. Spain is ignorant of how offensive blackface is, and has been condemned by the UN for the practice of racial profiling by its police forces.

Harmful truths sting in ways lies cannot. Israel knows how its detractors use this tactic, and now its Ireland’s turn to hear the truth told with deliberate, foul intent. This mean-spirited thread should upset everyone from self-righteous progressives to puritanical priests.

Spain waited 532 years for this opportunity

This not history but rather “problematic” modern Spain that reflects its violent, fascist, genocidal, imperialist past. Spanish history is far worse than anything Israel has ever done.

These graphs show unequivocally that the slaughter and kidnapping of Israelis on October 7 instantly made Europeans MORE negative about Israel. There was no initial sympathy for Israel except in Germany.

Bonus: Israel started secular and has growing religious and messianic segments. Palestine started secular but embraced radical Islam. The result is that Israel maintains isolated, provocative settlements, while Palestine adopted martyrdom, antisemitism, and intransigence.

Like so many closeted Israel haters @paulg sees conspiracies and schemes where there are none. This blog supposes stealthy coordination between Israeli high tech and government simply because a reserve duty soldier gave an update on the war prior to a talk of mine. I have never coordinated a tweet with anyone and never will. There is nothing wrong with being sympathetic to the plight of Palestinian civilians, but I will continue calling out factual errors, omissions, double standards, false equivalence and manipulative data. And Paul Graham will continue blocking anyone who upsets him.

On each 9/11 anniversary since 2020, Mamdani took to X with the same repulsive message of moral equivalence between the American victims of 9/11 and those killed fighting American soldiers hunting Al Qaeda.

8) Spain’s minorities are not represented in politics. Only 1% of Spanish parliament members are ethnic minorities, despite ethnic minorities representing 10% of the Spanish population. This is among the lowest number in all Europe, revealing deep structural racism.

“Israel must be wiped off the face of the Earth” says this Tehran billboard in Farsi and Hebrew. Iran and Israel don’t have a border dispute, don’t compete over natural resources or trade, and don’t support rival sides in a civil war. It’s not even an “ideological rivalry” as some mistakenly assert. It’s a conflict resulting from the singular theological belief of Iranian clerics that Israel’s existence is an affront to god and must be destroyed. There is no “diplomatic solution” to a “theological problem.” Until the global community understands this, Iran will continue to be a highly destabilizing force in the world.

People don’t realize that Jews have always been close to the Kurds going back to time of Saladin and his court doctor, Moses Ben Maimon, aka Maimonides. Saladin treated the Jews far better than the Crusaders, who massacred them. There are 200k Kurdish Jews in Israel, including former Israeli generals like Yochai Mordechai and for IDF chief of staff Shaul Mofaz. Israel has long supported the Kurds with military aid and field hospitals, and advised the peshmerga merga rebels including the father of the former President of Kurdistan. Israel formally recognized their independence plans in 2016.

“One of the ways anti-Zionists tend to give themselves away as something darker is that the only human-rights abuses they seem to notice are Israel’s; the only state among dozens of religious states whose legitimacy they challenge is Israel; the only group whose suffering they are prepared to turn into their personal crusade is that of the Palestinians.” nytimes.com/2025/10/21/opini…

For 30 minutes on Oct 3, 2015 an AC-130 gunship from the U.S. Airforce pummeled what it thought was a building that had been seized by Taliban fighters in the city of Kunduz. It was actually a hospital run by Medecins san Frontiers (Doctors without Borders) and there were no Taliban fighters there. The hospital was on a military “no strike” list, and the air crew had observed the trauma center and personnel for 68 minutes prior to firing the 211 rounds. Despite phone calls from within the hospital to halt the airstrike, the attack killed 42 people, including 14 staff and 24 patients. According to MSF, “patients burned in their beds, medical staff were decapitated and lost limbs.” The UN condemned it and enemies of the US were quick to label it a “war crime.” The subsequent U.S. military investigation found that “human errors, fatigue, process and equipment failures were at fault.” In a statement the U.S. Central Command said "These factors contributed to the 'fog of war,' which is the uncertainty often encountered during combat operations.” It was negligence, but unintentional and therefore not a war crime. 16 servicemen were disciplined but none were court-martialed. War is hell. Mistakes and tragedy is part of the reason war is hell. The responsible thing to do it to investigate, learn from the tragedy, make changes to protocol, discipline and/or punish those responsible, and apologize/compensate. That is what the militaries and governments of the free world do. The deaths of seven aid workers for World Central Kitchen is a horrible tragedy likely resulting from negligence and human error. It was conducted at night with an intent to kill, because the IDF was convinced it had Hamas fighters in its sight. Israel and the US are not unique in making mistakes during war, but they are unique in admitting error, accepting responsibility and investigating so that it won't happen again.

7) Because Spain is still a monarchy with a royal bloodline, it is a crime to slander or insult the “crown.” Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have criticized the lack of free expression. Protestors who burn the image of the King are sentenced to prison.

נודע לי ממקור ראשון, שאחת מחברות הטכנולוגיה הרב-לאומיות הגדולות בעולם החליטה להימנע מכל פיתוח חדש של הקניין הרוחני (IP) המתקדם ביותר שלה במשרדים בישראל. אינני יכול להפריז בחשיבות הרגע הזה.

They attacked before Israel was a state. They attacked after Israel declared a state. They attacked before Israel controlled the West Bank and Gaza. They attacked after Israel withdrew from West Bank cities. They attacked after Israel withdrew from Gaza. They attacked on October 7. They don't attack because they want a state. They attack because they don't want Israel as a state. They could have had state. They will only have a state when they stop the attacks.

Mamdani’s sentence below is a small masterpiece of sophistry: a polished, deceptive fragment that takes four times as many words to unravel. 
To counter it, one must first reject the false claim that Israel has a hierarchical legal system based on race or religion. It does not. 
Then explain that every democratic nation-state has legal peculiarities and cultural idiosyncrasies that do not invalidate its democracy or its legitimacy as a country. 
Next, identify which specific law supposedly disqualifies Israel’s existence—usually “the right of return,” a law that literally saved millions of Jewish lives. 
After that, point to a dozen democratic countries that grant citizenship based on blood or ancestry (though few people seem eager to move there). 
Then note that Israel’s primary function as a Jewish state is to serve as a refuge for Jews. 
And finally, expose Mamdani’s real argument: that Israel can only exist if it ceases to be Jewish, granting citizenship to millions of Palestinians abroad and dissolving itself as a haven for Jews. 
In short, his elegant sentence masks a call for the erasure of Israel’s right to exist in the only form that fulfills its purpose. His win will trigger many to make use of Israel’s Right of Return.

Why are people so focused on Mamdani’s views on Israel? Because Mamdani’s views on Israel are unambiguously conspiratorial. “The NY State assembly is a bastion of Zionist thought.” “…when the boot of theNYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF.”

The @nytimes implies Israel has attacked Iran with ballistic missiles. Iran has launched a total of 300 ballistic missiles at Israel so far, while Israel has launched exactly ZERO.

Haaretz Hebrew: “shoot deliberately in the direction of unarmed Palestinians to drive them away or disperse them”. Haaretz English: “shoot deliberately at unarmed Palestinians...” Antisemitic influencer: “ordered to KILL unarmed Palestinians.” This is sophistry, not semantics.

9) Fascist Spain lasted a remarkable 36 years. Since it has only been a democracy for 45 years plenty of fascist vestiges remain including street names, monuments and the criminal Spanish Legion military unit. They can’t denounce the King, but they can glorify General Franco.

10) The Mosque of Cordoba was converted into a Catholic cathedral and is designated exclusively for Christian worship. Muslim worshippers are stopped by guards. The original mosque is only 100 years older than Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, which is exclusively for Muslims.

We are witnessing the real time birth of a conspiracy theory surrounding the Oct 7 Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israelis. This post by a pro-Assad, Russian propagandist has 26M views and a repost:like ratio of nearly 1:1. It follows the contours of the “big lie” propaganda technique where people are repeatedly exposed to the most outrageous lie imaginable (e.g. the Israelis massacred themselves) so that even mild skeptics begin to believe there must be some truth to warrant making such a ridiculous claim. The Oct 7th “conspiracy” has several core arguments: 1. Most of the dead were as a result of “Israeli tanks and attack helicopters killing Israelis.” They cite destroyed vehicles, “testimony” of Israeli hostages, and “leaked” IDF helicopter footage of attacks on terrorist as proof (Hamas had RPGs and anti-tank weapons, and GPS coordinates quickly disprove the leak theory). 2. Most killed by Hamas were soldiers or off duty soldiers (they don't note the unarmed female cadets, medics or police). 3. There is “zero evidence” of rape, torture and beheadings (any evidence shared is immediately dismissed as propaganda). The Oct 7 massacre was live-streamed to the world from a hundred different angles and the resulting evidence overwhelming. It was indiscriminate and sadistic in ways that might invite disbelief, but Hamas filmed it themselves for the world to celebrate, not deny. The only conclusion is no amount amount of evidence will ever satisfy those people who gravitate towards any argument that reinforces their view that the Jews are to blame for their problems. One doesn’t negotiate with terrorists and one doesn’t reason with their apologists. They must be shunned and shamed wherever they go.

There's an on-going attempt to invert history, framing Oct 7 as a Palestinian tragedy, not the Israeli one everyone saw with their own eyes. This is consistent with how Palestinians mark May 15, 1948—the day Israel was invaded by 5 Arab armies—as the 'Naqba.' Defeat can be tragic even for those who start wars, but historical inversion is a harmful coping mechanism that only ensures further defeat and tragedy. Never forget, and never forget how it started.

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And “Lebensraum” was just about more living space for Germans.

In 1900, Vienna was 11% Jewish. Mayor Karl Lueger rose to power by stoking resentment against the Jewish bourgeoisie. Accused of antisemitism, he shrugged: “I decide who is a Jew.”   In 2025, NYC is 12% Jewish. The leading mayoral candidate denies antisemitism while channeling rage at “white supremacists,” Zionists,” landlords, and “occupiers.”   He will decide who is a racist.

Posts like these from @RitchieTorres actually deliver results. Note the changed headline.

Embracing a cause larger than oneself can be electrifying for a 19-year-old who until recently was a typical self-absorbed, resentful teenager. The passion and conviction with which students support a cause like Palestine largely reflects their life inexperience, which is why they are so easily taken in by radical demagogues who sanction violence and illiberalism in the name of peace and justice. Universities function as the protective cocoon in which naïve youth are meant to transform into enlightened adults. It is in these secluded environments that a country’s intellectual elites are tasked with instilling their acquired wisdom in the minds of a new generation. Occasionally, however, the reliable transmission of liberal ideas from one generation to the next is corrupted. History shows that when there is ideological creep into academia and the wider intelligentsia, students can unwittingly become ideological foot soldiers in a broader societal conflict. It is during times like these, that the principles of university liberalism are revealed to have been inverted. Passions overcome reason, inquiry yields to censorship, intolerance squashes diverse opinion, and group cohesion take precedence over the individual. Instead of extinguishing the inferno by appealing to universal, liberal values, the intellectual elites (faculty) betray their principles and enflame an already volatile situation hoping it will trigger the revolution for which they’ve long yearned. It’s not that the causes that rouse students to march don’t carry some moral weight, but that they are so easily manipulated. As the anti-Israel protests devolve into demonstrations against “the ruling class” and “white supremacism” it’s a sign there is something much deeper at play. Palestine is a legitimate cause for students to support but shouldn’t be more disturbing to American students than the end of Roe v Wade or the opioid epidemic, and not more shocking than Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, China’s suppression of the Uyghurs or Iran’s violent repression of women who dare show their hair. Palestine is unique because it unites old-school Marxists, immigrant jihadists, frustrated academics and progressive anti-racist warriors in an unholy alliance due to perceived common enemies: Western capitalism, liberalism, America, Israel and of course the Jews. And Palestine is relevant now because gruesome, online images from a horrific war quench a universal human thirst for simplified narratives and unified theories that work well on impressionable youth. Just as youth can form the rank and file of the military, university youth can just as easily form the rank and file of revolutionary activity. The educators tasked with enlightening have become illiberal demagogues and Palestine is the ideal vector to rally and recruit. The danger is not that students retain these radical views as they get older and assume positions of influence and power, but that they upset the political scales now by inadvertently helping a rival illiberal leader come to power. If Donald Trump wins in November it will be because the independent swing voters that ultimately determine US presidential elections were so thoroughly repulsed by student protests, their intellectual leaders and all they represent. That will be a revolution.

He was airlifted by the IDF to an Israeli hospital for treatment and could only be released now. And you call yourself a journalist? You're a provocateur. timesofisrael.com/liveblog_e…

This is a stalemate. Hamas will never overcome the fighting asymmetry; Israel will never overcome the moral one. Hamas is militarily weak but morally unburdened. It will sacrifice endless Palestinian lives to stay in power. Israel is militarily dominant but morally constrained. In a competition over cruelty to Palestinians, Hamas will win. Israel used humanitarian aid as leverage in hostage negotiations. It was a calculated risk. Harsh, but constrained given the unprecedented volume of aid delivered to the enemy. Hamas, in turn, did what it does best: transformed Palestinian suffering into strategic currency in order to harden its negotiating position. The world holds Israel to a higher standard than Hamas because Israel holds itself to one. That’s the moral asymmetry that has defined this war since October 7. And here’s the paradox: the closer Israel gets to what this government calls “total victory,” the higher the moral cost it must be willing to pay. But even this right-wing coalition has its red lines, which is why victory remains elusive. Sadly, the asymmetry of this war now extends to the front page. Images of emaciated Israeli hostages below ground have been replaced with photos of malnourished, disabled Palestinian children above ground.

From a historical perspective the Gaza War will be pivotal not because of its intensity, but because the global response to the war revived the extremist claim that all of Israel is “illegitimate” and “occupied.” Once a position only held by terrorists and disheveled ideologues, protestors and influencers now rant about “75 years of occupation” and chant “From the River to the Sea.” For the first time in a long time, these protests and polls are giving the Palestinians a false sense they are making progress when they couldn’t be further from their goal. Unlike other refugee populations that were absorbed and resettled, the Palestinians were encouraged early on to embrace futile and counterproductive positions like the elimination of Israel and the “right of return.” If these maximalist positions become mainstream again, it will condemn the Palestinian people to another 75 years of statelessness. A “return to 1948” is a cruel and seductive mirage for a destitute people who are conferred with a perpetual refugee status generation after generation. It inspires them to take pride in intransigence, to find solace in defeat, and to insist their patience will outlast that of the Jews. As a result, for 75 years the Palestinians have shown that they “learn nothing and forget nothing,” ensuring that the only thing they learn from their mistakes, are how to make new ones. It is doubtful whether they would persist with such a failed strategy were their global supporters not such eager accomplices in this self-destruction. The Palestinian people have become a national Sisyphus forced by their “allies” to roll a boulder up a hill for eternity. The aspiration for a Palestinian state is both legitimate and feasible provided it is based on building a future not rooted in a mythical past. However, this will take time because it requires internalizing several sweeping developments that have transformed the conflict 75 years on. This includes the permanent existence of Israel, the expulsion of Jews from Islamic lands, and the 2M Palestinian Israelis who don't want any part in the "struggle." The Jews too once had a fanciful aspiration of an independent state, but they abandoned a maximalist strategy and made the best of the opportunity they had. Zionism transformed miserable and defeated Jewish refugees into proud and industrious Israelis, unrecognizable to their ancestors a generation or two before. Importantly, the Jews were encouraged by their global supporters to build, and so it must be with those who support the aspirations of the Palestinians.

The most influential conservative think tank in America has come out in support of Tucker Carlson who interviewed neo Nazi Nick Fuentes last week, during which the two exchanged views on the disloyalty of American Jews. This was latest in a series of interviews by the Qatar-backed influencer designed to mainstream antisemitism on the American right.

Why isn't Mamdani offended when he’s called a communist? And why is he smiling when asked? Because the West remains ignorant of the colossal crimes of communism —still treating it as a rival economic philosophy, rather than an insidious ideology like fascism & jihadism.🧵

Paul thinks the US should pay more attention to world opinion when it votes at the UN on topics related to Israel. He isn’t bothered that the UN hasn't condemned the atrocities of Oct 7 or called for the release of the hostages. He doesn’t see anything unusual that the UN condemned Israel 14 times in 2023, that it only once condemned Russia, Iran and North Korea, or that it never condemned Turkey, Yemen or Venezuela. The resolution vote below wasn't even about Gaza, but the image of the polarized votes better supported his underlying argument. In the vote he intended to reference, the US was actually joined by 31 others that rejected it or abstained including the UK, Germany, Argentina, Holland, Uruguay and Ukraine. He also fails to note that Israel consistently votes with the US as it did in November, when the UN voted 187 to 2 to condemn the US embargo on Cuba. More outrageous, but consistent, Paul believes "the most powerful lobby in America" is not oil, defense, tobacco, tech or pharma, but that vocal, disloyal minority that believes a strong Israel is in America’s best interest.

A woman dumb enough to type the words “dogs trained to rape.”

I have a great love for Ireland and a profound respect for the Irish people, which made this a painful thread to write. I recognize there are also many Irish who disagree with their country's anti-Israel politics and sympathetic to Israel. Thank you. Go raibh míle maith agat!

You are providing partial truths with the intent to mislead and malign, knowing your followers will not investigate further. 1. There are obvious security reasons for not letting West Bank or Gazan Palestinians obtain citizenship. We are still in a virtual state of war and this law was passed after a Hamas member (Shadi Tubasi), who married an Israeli, murdered 16 Israelis. This contentious law will change once there is peace. There are still 12,700 West Bank Palestinian who have residency permits to live in the country. East Jerusalem Palestinians can and do obtain Israeli citizenship. Don't ask whether Israelis (or Jews) can become citizens of Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Eqypt, Iraq, etc. They can't. 2. Like most Middle Eastern countries, marriage is controlled by each religion, which makes inter-marriage a legal challenge. Same issue in Egypt or any other Middle Eastern state, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia or Malaysia. However, Israel recognizes all marriages done outside of the country, which is why there are many notable examples of mixed marriage couple. Israel is unique in the Middle East in this regard. In Israel, we also recognize same sex marriage, which is something you will be executed for in the rest of the Middle East. 3. The "nationality" on identity cards is similarly a Middle Eastern standard and in the case of Israel dates back to the British Mandate. Palestinian back then meant both Jewish and Arab, so having a Palestinian nationality made no sense. It's not against Palestinian Arabs. There are 132 different nationalities in Israel. This isn't a big issue. 4. This is correct. Absentee laws were also applied to the property of Jews who fled Arab lands across the Middle East, to Turks who fled Greece, to Muslims who left India for Pakistan, and so forth. This is not unique following wars and exchanges of populations. 5. Bedouin, like all nomadic people (Travelers) pose a unique problem for countries. Israel has created dozens of Bedouin towns and given them all the same services as Jews and Muslims. 6. Israeli Arabs can buy/lease land like everyone else. There has been litigated in the Supreme Court and made clear. 7. Not sure what a right to self-determination means considering Arab-Israelis do not seek their own state. Do Quebecois, Catalonians and Lombardians have the right to self-determination?

If even @JohnCleese, the self-described old-fashioned liberal who rails against censorship and media bias, can repost an antisemitic account sharing a 2023 video of an illegal groundwater well being filled in, no one is immune. Illegal wells that access underground aquifers is a serious problem across the Middle East and Israel is hardly alone in enforcing it. In Iran, it's the military drilling the illegal wells that have depleted their aquifers.

“It’s dehumanizing propaganda to call Hamas terrorists who admittedly butchered and tortured children, kidnapped and burned babies.. also rapists without pictures.”

That is a pure fabrication worthy of Nazi eugenics. There is no such study. All studies confirm that Ashkenzai Jews are closer have more genetically in common with ancient Levantine peoples than they do with Poles, Lithuanians or Russians.

“The young would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently.” Aristotle in Rhetoric, Book 2, Chapter 12.

Oct 7 was a military invasion launched from a demilitarized Palestinian proto-state... ...exactly the kind of entity the UK and France are now threatening to impose on Israel if it doesn't comply with their demands for "peace." Few outside of Israel want to acknowledge it, but Gaza was the most sovereign Palestinian territory in history. The massive Oct 7 invasion wasn't the result of the Egyptian-Israeli blockade, but happened in spite of it . For years, Israel’s concerns about Palestinian statehood were dismissed as paranoia or ideology. After October 7, those concerns are firmly grounded in history and written in blood. So when foreign governments threaten Israel with recognition of a Palestinian state, they are not pressuring it toward peace. They are enabling the next security disaster, closer to Israel’s population centers. Until the trauma of that day fades, no Israeli government will risk creating another sovereign Palestinian entity. Especially not one perched in the hills above Tel Aviv.

Six times the Palestinians rejected a state 1. In 1947 the Palestinians rejected the UN Partition Plan that would have created two states, and instead promised "bloodshed." Palestinians today will say it was an unfair split, but they didn’t agree to any split.

How convenient for you and Hamas that those women were murdered or are now in captivity. You parrot a compelling right wing argument that claims violence against women in exaggerated.

They said there was no rape, because it's against Islam. We shared confessions from captured terrorists describing how they raped. They said they need video testimony from witnesses. We shared testimony from eyewitnesses and first responders. They said they need documented proof. We shared visual evidence of half-naked bodies with bound hands and mutilated genitals. They said they need forensic evidence. We shared forensic evidence corroborated by the UN. They said they need testimony from the victims. Freed hostages courageously came forward and testified to being raped and sexually assaulted. Now they say there is still no evidence, the confessions were coerced, the testimonies were contrived, and there couldn’t have been rape because the "resistance" doesn’t rape.

3. Nazi Neutral. 50K brave Irishmen defied WWII neutrality to fight the Nazis, only to be blacklisted by their govt under a “starvation order.” They were never recognized, but there’s a fine statue in Dublin for an IRA leader who collaborated with the Nazis.

The Genocide Libel was born in 2001, not 2023. This is the story of a 22-year campaign by NGOs to criminalize Israel's self-defense, turning human rights tools into lawfare again democracies and their citizens. 🧵

I was asked to talk last month about "how I speak up" on behalf of my country, and this is what I said. My talk centered on the fact that there are two wars being waged simultaneously: the real war and the information war. In this conflict, both vectors are forms of “asymmetric warfare.” Hamas came equipped with GoPros on Oct 7 for the same reason white supremacist “shooters” did it in Buffalo and Christchurch. They knew they likely wouldn’t survive, but wanted to memorialize the violence in a way that instilled and inspired terror long after they were gone. In the case of Hamas, they had an additional reason because they knew an "information war" would erupt in parallel once Israel responded to the live-streamed massacre of 1200 of its citizens and the kidnapping of 240 more. As a result, Oct 7 was the opening salvo of both the real and information wars. In understanding the information war I posed three arguments: 1) Israel doesn’t care much about perception in the West because it is too focused on delivering a clear message of deterrence to Iran, Hezbollah and other enemies. If it has to choose between addressing the hearts of American college kids or the fears of the Ayatollahs, it will choose the latter every time. 2) The better Israel does at winning the real war, the harder it is to win the information war. This likely applies to any warfare in the modern age, where there are cameras on hand to witness the carnage that inevitably results from war. It also stems from the fact that Israeli success in the real war means Hamas can’t inflict more atrocities on the Israeli side. Needless to say, Israel foremost needs to win the real war. 3) Democracies should not focus on trying to "control the narrative", but instead should focus on clearly communicating the facts and intentions, including any mistakes. This is essential for maintaining credibility with its citizens and with its allies in all matters. Private citizens and organizations are free to propose and advocate for whatever they want, including opposing the war or criticizing its goals. An asymmetric information war is not only difficult for a democracy to win, but likely impossible to win. The terrorists have no credibility to lose, which allows them to lie and manipulate to suit their goals. There is no fact checking by civil society organizations or independent media, and no treaties or international conventions to uphold. Speed and outrage are the only criteria when engaged in an information war, which is why Hamas can say within minutes of an explosion precisely how many people died with gory pictures ready for distribution. They don’t need permission from parents to share photos of their dead children and exploit the freedom of the west while denying it to their own people. It may be tempting to emulate these awful tactics, but advocates for Israel must focus on truth and reason, while eschewing hyperbole and emotion. My recommendation is to ignore the haters and ideologues, and instead focus on educating others with facts, nuance and explanations. People don’t change their minds easily, but they do modulate their behavior when they realize they don’t know nearly enough to have a strong opinion. "Ridicule and Criticism" only work when Israel haters make statements that reveal inconsistencies (#metoo, but not this time), incomprehension, or moral failings. I criticized several high profile personalities because they kept attacking Israel’s response without ever mentioning or condemning the unprecedented massacre that triggered it. That is a moral failing, and I will call it out every time. Only conspiracy theorists would spin any of this as a "coordinated" effort to suppress pro-Palestinian voices. I have no problem saying that the death of Palestinian civilians is sad, tragic, and awful. But this is not a war Israel started, and Israelis will never countenance a terrorist state on its border (nor would any country). It’s easy to be a righteous pacifist across the ocean when you have no skin in this game. But in the midst of the largest hostage crisis ever, when missiles are falling on our towns, and when our family and friends are on the frontline risking their lives daily, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Israelis will take the time to advocate for their country even if that means attracting more attention from the haters. nitter.app/AdamRFisher/status/173…

I agree that the Palestinians at the time were treated like pawns by the neighboring Arab states. But Haj Amin al-Husseini was pretty clear about his refusal to accept partition.

As you can see, every country has its shameful past and contentious present. Selective history and headlines tell a biased narrative. Ireland is uniquely fixated on Israel, demonstrating great ignorance of our history and marked insensitivity to our trauma since Oct 7.

NYC doesn’t “fund Israel” and Israel is not to blame for New Yorkers' "needs" not being met. Pathetic antisemite. Populist ideologues like Mamdani have always needed scapegoats for their city’s problems. History never treats them kindly.

4. Terror Ties. Ireland’s largest political party, Sinn Fein, was the political arm of the IRA terrorist group. Until 1998, Sinn Fein was similar to Hezbollah’s political wing today. Sinn Fein allied with the PLO, now aligns with Hamas, and celebrated Oct 7.