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The antidote to "The Message": Ta-Nehisi Coates spent 10 days in Israel, and thought that was enough to write a book about the most contested land on earth. My book, which came out the same day as his, is the result of 10 years of reporting from that land for dozens of publications, including @nytimes @nybooks @time @nbcnews & @economist. To anyone looking for the context and history Coates conveniently left out of his book, it's all here: a.co/d/eR4are0. Here's a sampling of that context (thread):

Imagine if a Jewish man shouting "God is great" tried to kill a Muslim man walking to his mosque in Chicago, then proceeded to shoot first responders. It would probably be front page, headline news. The fact that this attack by a Muslim man against a visibly Jewish man walking to synagogue is not considered newsworthy by so many news organizations tells us so much about the sad state of the news industry, and its complicity in the rise of anti-Jewish hate crimes. When anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are uttered in the same breath by politicians who know there is no comparison in the data, that is also fueling this dangerous pattern. nbcchicago.com/news/local/ma…

The media’s bias against and misunderstanding of Israel in one photo: Ramat Gan is in Israel, @NYMag.

One day, when Hollywood wakes up from its silence, a film will be made about October 7, and a generation will have to explain to their children why they stood on the side of the villains in this horror movie. Those who tore down the posters of these little boys’ faces should live in shame.

How do anti-Zionist Jews celebrate Chanukah, a holiday that commemorates the Jews of Judea, who rebelled against an enemy who wished to erase the Jewish identity of the land of the Israelites? How do they reconcile celebrating Chanukah while aligning themselves with people who deny the history of Judaism and its inextricable connection to the land of Israel?

Serious question for anti-Zionist Jews: When you recite the Shema, do you remove the word Israel? What about the thrice-daily prayer for the return to Zion? What do you make of Chanukah, Passover, and every other holiday that revolves around our connection to the land of Israel?

I have never shared this story, but after reading this piece by @marcrod97 in @jewishinsider, I think it's time to make this public. On October 7, 2024, I walked into my first (and last) appointment with a new OBGYN at @NuvanceHealth in Rhinebeck, NY. A 🧵... jewishinsider.com/2024/12/he…

I don’t normally post whole pages of my book, but ever since @POTUS was seen with Khalidi’s “Hundred Years’ War on Palestine,” I’ve been inundated by readers telling me that Biden should read my book, which could have been called The Hundred Years War on Jews in Palestine. 🧵

The letter from these literary icons is a testament to how far the literary world has fallen. Gone are the days of historical facts and intellectual curiosity. In are the empty slogans, misinformation, and ahistorical readings of reality that have replaced the values of truth. This letter is filled with so much disinformation it's hard to know where to begin. 🧵 theguardian.com/books/2024/o…

Can you imagine, if after 9/11, the @PulitzerPrizes awarded a man who justified the attack on the twin towers, denied that Americans were murdered that day, and labeled as “propaganda” news organizations that covered victims’ plight? This is where we are in 2025.

It seems illuminating that the American left has become far less supportive of Ukraine, as Zelensky leans into his Jewish heritage and the left leans into its anti-Jewish heritage. PS: Anyone who comments that it’s not about Jews but Zionism will be outing themselves as an antisemite. The vast majority of Jews the world over are Zionists. Many do not support many Israeli policies, including myself. Yet we do support the existence of the world’s only Jewish state, which anti-Zionists do not. Happy last night of Chanukah everyone! Let our light burn strong, glowing away the darkness 🕎

Raise your hand if you’re a Fetterman Democrat 🙌🏼

This is bonkers @CBSNews. Calling Kibbutz Kfar Aza a settlement is akin to calling Tel Aviv a settlement. Perhaps this reporter thinks all of Israel is a settlement?

I have called @NuvanceHealth several times to file a complaint against Barri J. Malek. Each time I had to leave a voicemail. None of my calls have been returned. I also spoke with someone at Northern Dutchess Hospital, where my appointment took place. A young woman listened to my story, took my details, and said someone would be in touch. No one was. The end.

The last century has been defined by this violent rejection of peace with the Jewish people in their ancient homeland, which began in 1929. Palestinian leaders have turned down every two state solution since then. When I began writing Ghosts of a Holy War in 2019, I never imagined that anything like the massacre of 1929 could happen again. The fact that it did, and that it is being justified by people like Coates and so many others, shows us that the true history of this conflict has been ignored for far too long -- to the detriment of so many innocent Israeli and Palestinian lives. Discover more in Ghosts of a Holy War: a.co/d/dXbzsvT

Ghosts of a Holy War tells the story of the 1929 massacre in Hebron that set the stage for the Arab-Israeli conflict, and its aftershocks, which continue to reverberate today. That massacre, perpetrated by thousands of Muslim men against their peaceful Jewish neighbors, occurred two decades before the State of Israel was born. In 1929, there was no Israeli army. No Israeli occupation. Jews were a minority in British Mandate Palestine - 20% of a population of less than 1 million people.

The massacre of 1929 was hauntingly similar to Oct. 7. Women and girls were raped before they were killed. People were burned alive. Infants were slaughtered in their mother's arms. Rabbis were castrated. Children watched as their parents were butchered by people they thought were their friends. The victims were not Zionists. They were pious Jews living a quiet existence centered around the Torah. The victims in Southern Israel on 10/7 were not settlers. Many were peace activists and left-wing Israelis.

After refusing the first two state solution in 1937, the Grand Mufti fled Palestine, allying himself and his cause with Adolf Hitler. Throughout WWII, he lived in a Nazi-financed estate in Berlin, leading the Arab branch of Joseph Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda. He recruited tens of thousands of Muslim fighters for the Nazi regime. He urged European leaders to send their Jewish populations to concentration camps, rather than allowing them to flee to Palestine.

Her immediate response to my statement? "Oh yes, the genocide in Gaza is horrible," she said, shaking her head. As if the hostages were not worth her sympathy. As if this war had not been launched by Hamas's slaughter of innocents and violent abduction of men, women and children who remain in captivity, suffering the most horrific abuses imaginable. Her words were a punch in the gut.

The forces that drove Arabs in Hebron to murder their Jewish neighbors and their children were nearly identical to the forces behind 10/7. Ghosts of a Holy War traces those forces from 1929 through today, covering the lasting impact of the man who incited those riots, and set the formula for every corrupt Palestinian leader since. The British-appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was the father of the Palestinian nationalist movement. He waged a campaign of disinformation and religious passion against Palestine's Jewish minority to rally support behind him, and distract from his own corruption. The Jews, he claimed, were planning to destroy Al-Aqsa. His campaign worked: the 1929 riots were in defense of Al-Aqsa and Islam against the Jews of Palestine. Husseini became one of the most powerful leaders in the Muslim world.

Jewish hostages were not worthy of Barri's compassion. Nor was her own patient, who she is obligated to care for. Not only did she betray the Hippocratic oath in her treatment of me. She also ended up writing the wrong script for a procedure I had to come in for after this first and last visit, leading me to wait for nearly an hour while a lab technician tried to get a corrected script, to no avail.

After WWII, Husseini fled prosecution for Nazi war crimes, settling in Cairo, where he began to train his cousin, Yasser Arafat, who would become his closest disciple. When the UN voted to partition Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state, Palestine could have gained independence for the first time in history. Instead, the mufti and every other Arab member of the UN rejected the solution, declaring Jihad against the unborn Jewish state. They imagined the war would be easy. "We will take Tel Aviv in 2 weeks" said one Egyptian military leader. By the time Israel shockingly won that war, 700,000 Palestinians had either fled or been expelled due to the fighting. Palestinians who fled to the countries that had waged that failed war against Israel - including Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan - were denied citizenship in those countries. They still are.

I’m honored to announce my new role as Executive Editor of Ark Media, home of what is objectively the best podcast around: Call Me Back with @dansenor. Case in point: Dan’s latest episode, with @Nadav_Eyal & Amos Harel: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

My appointment just so happened to be on the 1-year anniversary of October 7, 2023, the deadliest and most traumatic day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. As I did most days since that tragic day, I was wearing my hostage dog tag necklace which reads "Bring them home"

After briefly introducing herself, Barri J. Malek, the CNM I was scheduled to see that day, asked me what my necklace was about. Caught off guard that this was her first question for me, I told her it was for the hostages in Gaza. I was clearly very emotional. Yet instead of displaying the kind of compassion or sensitivity I expected from a healthcare worker, particularly a Certified Nurse-Midwife, her response was so jarring it left me feeling sick and speechless for hours.

Israel may have saved Greta’s life by diverting her publicity stunt away from Gaza. The last time a European activist arrived on a flotilla to Gaza, he was later kidnapped by Jihadists. Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian citizen working with the Palestinian International Solidarity Movement, was abducted and executed in 2011 by members of Tawhid al-Jihad (The Armies of Monotheism and Jihad in Palestine). In 2007, Scottish journalist Alan Johnston was kidnapped by members of another group, the Army of Islam, and held for 4 months. Meanwhile, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are threatening the lives of Gazans who try to assist in aid distribution through the GHF, and news organizations continue to blindly broadcast Hamas propaganda. Nothing new under the sun.

This profile of Hasan Piker⁩ is terrifying. Almost as terrifying as the glowing ⁦@nytimes⁩ profile that whitewashed Piker’s vile antisemitism. Grateful to ⁦@TheFP⁩ for pursuing the kind of journalism ⁦we used to expect from others. thefp.com/p/the-handsome-fac…

Ghosts of a Holy War tells the story of the 1929 Arab riots in Palestine, which were fueled not by dispossession or oppression, but by the same incitement and disinformation we see from Muslim leaders today. My book traces this century-old violent rejection of peace from its roots in the 1920’s to the nightmare Israelis and Palestinians are living through today.

An open letter to the @PulitzerPrizes from journalists, authors and other creatives who are deeply disturbed by the decision to award the most esteemed literary prize to a man who has denied, justified, and downplayed barbaric acts of terrorism: jwi.org/pulitzer-letter

I'll start with this one: “75 years of displacement, ethnic cleansing and apartheid." This is not about the West Bank or Gaza. They are referring to the creation of the only Jewish state in the world, whose establishment in 1948 followed the 1947 UN vote to partition British Mandate Palestine into two states: one Jewish, one Arab. Jews in Palestine embraced that plan. Arab leaders in Palestine rejected it, declared Jihad, and established the Army of the Holy War to eradicate the Jews of Palestine. The day the British evacuated Palestine when the mandate ended, Israel declared independence. Palestine could have been an independent state for the first time in its history, had Arab leaders embraced the UN's plan. Instead, five Arab armies invaded Israel the day it was born. No one expected Israel to win that war. This was not ethnic cleaning. It was war cause by the rejection of peace, and the rejection of Jewish sovereignty on one tiny sliver of land. The massive displacement that war caused for Palestinians was the direct result of a failed war waged by Muslim leaders. Their political heirs have continued to wage wars to eradicate Israel - in 1967, 1973...through 10/7 and today.

May every single remaining hostage mother know the joy Yael Alexander is feeling in this moment:

It should surprise no one that followers of a movement that has repeatedly and unabashedly defended one of the worst terrorist attacks in history as justified “resistance,” a movement that has dehumanized Zionists (most Jews) as inherently evil, are now acting on the violent slogans they have been shouting since October 7, 2023. When politicians, news organizations and universities treat praise for Hamas, or chants of “By Any Means Necessary” and “Globalize the Intifada” as free speech, the deadly results should be no surprise. What should shock us all is that the “Free Palestine” movement is still depicted by so many news organizations as peaceful, or anti-war, while its proponents openly support Hamas and the massacre that launched this devastating war, while ignoring Hamas’s sadistic use of the Palestinian people as human shields. Innocent Jews being killed in the name of “Free Palestine” is what happens when respected news organizations report Hamas propaganda as fact, fail to challenge the lie that this war is a genocide, and continue to depict this antisemitic, Jihadist movement for what it is. When leading universities employ professors who encourage this violent ideology, the logical, devastating result is what we saw in DC and Boulder, and what we will likely, sadly, see repeated in other American cities. It should not need to be said that professors who support Jihadists should not be educating young Americans. Yet this is what has been happening for years at many elite college campuses. Just one example of far too many: Joseph Massad, who praised Hamas’s massacre in a vile screed he published on October 8, 2023, is still teaching at my alma mater, @Columbia, including a course on Zionism. If you haven’t yet, I encourage you all to read that piece, which I’ve linked to below. Universities and news organizations aren’t the only places where terrorist propaganda is now rampant. Until just weeks ago, @Twitch was still platforming Hassan Piker, despite his many tirades encouraging violence - even murder - of Zionists. So long as hate speech is treated as free speech, the U.S. will continue to feel like a dangerous place for Jews. After all, the majority of us are Zionists - that doesn’t mean we support the Israeli government. Many of us do not. What we support is the existence and necessity of the world’s only Jewish State - a state that the Free Palestine movement is openly dedicated to destroying. To anyone who still doesn’t get it, let this be heard loud and clear. Most American Jews are Zionists, and we do not deserve to die for being so.

To argue that there has been apartheid in Israel for 75 year is a gross display of willful ignorance, and an insult to those who suffered actual apartheid. Arab citizens of Israel represent 20% of Israel's population, and have the same rights as Jewish citizens. Contrary to another literary "icon," Israelis do not have different license plates depending on their ethnicity. Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel have the same license plates. Arab-Israelis vote in Israeli elections, serve in Israeli parliament and supreme court, and in any other profession they wish to enter. Palestinians who live under the Palestinian Authority are not citizens of Israel and thus do not have the same rights Israelis do. The Arab citizens of Israel are the descendents of those who remained in Israel during and after the war of 1947-1949. We hear little outrage regarding the millions of Palestinians who are living in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and elsewhere without citizenship or equal rights. They are there because their ancestors fled the war the leaders of those very countries declared back in 1947-48. Unlike the Arab citizens of Israel, the Palestinians living in these Muslim countries do not have equal rights to purchase property, access free education and healthcare, and cannot enter any profession they wish.

Every piece of this thread is more shocking than the last

The reality of life in the West Bank and Gaza is absolutely depressing and unsustainable. Most Israelis agree, and have wanted peace with their Arab neighbors for decades. Yet again, much like in 1947, the Palestinian Authority rejected Israel's offer of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, both in 2000 and 2008. When Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza, the PA failed to disarm Hamas, which led a brutal takeover of the strip, resulting in both Isreal and Egypt blocking off their borders to protect their citizens from the terrorist organization next door. So long as this violent rejection of peace disguised as valiant resistance continues, the very injustices these writers claim to oppose will continue. And they will be part of the reason why it continues.

The @pulitzercenter & @PulitzerPrizes lost all credibility when they decided to award the most coveted literary award to @MosabAbuToha. Had he dehumanized any other people, he would never have been considered. Another one bites the dust.

The man whose propaganda campaign led to the riots of 1929 was the British-appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al-Husseini. After Husseini fled Palestine in 1937, he allied himself and his cause with the Nazi regime, living in a Nazi-financed estate in Berlin throughout WWII. Husseini, the father of Palestinian nationalism, led the Arab branch of Joseph Goebells’ Ministry of Propaganda, and was wanted for Nazi war crimes.

The psychosis in which “peace” activists glorify the massacre that launched this horrific war, and continue to defend those who perpetrated it, is one of the most perplexing aspects of this upside down world. Thank you @HenMazzig for calling out @MassiveAttackUK for their moral bankruptcy.

What is racist about saying that Israel is surrounded by states and proxy groups that wish to see the world’s only Jewish state annihilated? Is it not racism that drives their opposition to Jewish self-determination?

To those who have falsely described the war in Gaza as a genocide: Hamas and many Palestinians are now declaring victory. In what world do victims of a genocide declare victory? They don’t. You have all been horribly played.

Husseini and every other Arab leader - including Rashid Khalidi’s uncle, Hussein Khalidi, violently opposed the UN decision. I’m posting these pages here in the hope that after reading Khalidi’s deeply flawed book, Biden (or at least people in his policy circles) will read my very even handed look at the actual roots of this century old holy war.

While these endless wars have failed to annihilate Israel, they have made life ever more hopeless for Palestinian civilians - the same people supporters of "resistance" claim to defend. A century of violent resistance to the Jewish state has only led to more suffering, and pushed peace further into the distance. The failure of these writers to even mention Hamas is telling. Hamas was established with the stated purpose of creating an Islamic state in Palestine. When it created its armed wing, its stated purpose was to derail the Oslo peace negotiations.

This is one of those episodes that you really, truly, should drop everything to listen to.

How is this question sowing conflict? I am legitimately interest in the answer to these questions. The relationship to Eretz Yisrael is of course relevant to the negation of the right of the Jewish state to exist, because that negation rests on the idea that the Jewish people are not indigenous to the Land of Israel. Among many Palestians, the very idea that there ever was a land of Israel is dimissed as Zionist propaganda. The elevation of anti-Zionist Jews as representatives of the Jewish community by people who have no interest in Jewish security makes these questions quite salient at a time like this.

“Reasonable people can disagree about what to do in an intractable conflict, but the denying of what should be uncontroversial facts makes it impossible to have hope.” This piece by @TerryGlavin in @TheFP is the definition of a must read.

It is also, sadly, not surprising that the suspect worked in healthcare. The medical field has become one of the most disturbing hotbeds of anti-semitism.

After WWII, Husseini took refuge in Cairo and Beirut, but continued to lead the Arab nationalist movement in Palestine in its battle against the country’s Jewish minority. When Britain decided to end its mandate and turn Palestine’s fate to the international community, the UN voted to partition Palestine into an independent Arab State and a Jewish state. Palestine could have been independent for the first time in its history.

So why didn’t you say that when you were asked the question on @NewsHour?

This is not a trick question. I am sincerely interested in hearing from an anti-Zionist Jew who does celebrate Jewish holidays like Chanukah and Passover and surely knows the stories that are honored by those holidays. I also think many of them do know the Shema prayer. Very curious how they rationalize their notion that Israel should not exist with their ancestors' undeniable connection to the land of Israel.

Next week marks 95 years since the 1929 Hebron massacre, a pivotal but often overlooked event that set the stage for the world’s most intractable conflict. My new book, Ghosts of a Holy War, tells the epic story of how this tragedy unfolded, and the aftershocks that continue to reverberate today.

This is massive. For the first time since 1948 - when Palestinians fled to Syria as a result of the war in which Syria and 4 other Muslim states invaded the newly born Jewish state - Palestinians living in Syria will finally have some of the rights that come from being residents, no longer forced into being permanent refugees. I hope they gain a path to citizenship, and that other Arab nations that have denied these rights to the very people they claim to support, follow suit.

“Kfir became a symbol because he is the answer to every relevant question about this conflict. His case is the war boiled down to its essence.” Every word, @SethAMandel.

“The transformation of truth-telling institutions into ideological megaphones has had a high price for citizens in liberal societies and for the institutions themselves, as we’re now seeing at places like Harvard and NPR” - ⁦@MattiFriedman⁩ thefp.com/p/matti-friedman-i…

I had no idea. Haven't seen this reported anywhere. Again, in an alternate universe in which Jews committed attacks like this, this news would be everywhere.

This made me laugh out loud. Thank you

So many enlightening nuggets in this interview that contradict the media narrative of the war in Gaza. Coming from a man who was intimately involved in the ceasefire negotiations, and who served in the administrations of Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden, it's worth listening when @brett_mcgurk tells @dansenor that not only is Hamas responsible for the suffering in Gaza and the failure to reach a ceasefire, but the reason this war is still raging is because the international community has failed to hold Hamas accountable for any of it.

Thank you @simonmontefiore for reading and recommending Ghosts of a Holy War! Such an honor to have this endorsement from one of the greatest historians and writers of our time.

How many times do the “free speech” “anti-war” defenders of these terror supporters need to see a “Glory to our Martyrs” poster and praise for the perpetrators of 10/7 before they finally recognize that these protests are in fact pro-war?

Update: Nuvance called me today to apologize. They have opened a formal investigation into my complaint. The process should take between 7-30 days, and I will surely keep you all posted. Thank you for the tremendous outpouring of support and advice 🙏

Protesters in cities across America were accusing Israel of “genocide” on October 8, 2023. Academics and activists were using that term long before Oct. 7, despite the fact that the Palestinian population has grown more than five-fold since 1948. This once-meaningful word has sadly lost all meaning.

WOW. That is horrible, Bryce. Thankfully this was the only direct personal experience of antisemitism I’ve faced since 10/7. The next closest thing was a “F**K ISRAEL” sign posted on the face of the reform synagogue where our 4-year-old daughter was attending Hebrew School at the time. Her teacher, who lived next door to the synagogue, is the uncle of the Bibas hostages. His sister and her husband were both murdered on 10/7.

The sheer laziness and contempt for the rules of journalism by so many news organizations throughout this war has been truly shocking. Have they learned nothing? So many of these claims have been debunked almost immediately after they are made, when the facts emerge. Yet still, organizations like @democracynow continue to report baseless claims as fact. Remember that claim just 2 weeks ago that 14,000 babies would soon die? Now it’s 60,000. Remember how even the data from Gaza’s own health ministry (run by Hamas) showed that the majority of the casualties in Gaza have been military-aged men, not women and children, as Hamas originally claimed? Not only have so many once-respected news organizations failed to report that fact. They also refuse to explain that nearly half the dead in Gaza have been combatants. It’s hard to blame people living faraway from this conflict for believing the lies of Hamas when the news organizations they look to for clarity are parroting Hamas propaganda.

I’m not sure what’s worse to be honest. Barri Malek’s response to my pain, or the failure of @NuvanceHealth to give me the decency of returning my calls. I shared my story on several voicemails to hospital administrators, who apparently thought this nurse’s behavior was just fine.

Netanyahu has made it impossible to end Hamas rule in Gaza by refusing to allow a viable alternative to Hamas to take over. While far from perfect, the Palestinian Authority is the only practical alternative to Hamas, and as its chief rival, would represent a defeat of Hamas’s goal of remaining in power. The IDF has worked successfully with the PA for years to counter Hamas terror operatives in the West Bank. Leading Israeli defense officials have warned for more than a year now: Without an alternative authority in Gaza, the only options are continued Hamas rule or Israeli military rule - the latter of which is opposed by the IDF. This single sentence by @natansachs sums up why 22 months later, Hamas remains in power and this failed war rages on: “The two main obstacles remain the same: Hamas’s reluctance to give up control, no matter what the cost to the Gaza Strip, and Netanyahu’s reluctance to threaten his coalition in any way.” nytimes.com/2025/08/09/world…

This excerpt from my book, 'Ghosts of a Holy War,' details a pivotal yet long-overlooked moment in Israel’s pre-state history, when deadly Arab riots culminated in one of the worst pogroms ever perpetrated outside of Europe. The 1929 massacre in Hebron set in motion the forces that continue to fuel this conflict today. timesofisrael.com/western-wa…

It's referring to the people of Israel - the nation of Israel. There was no concept of a "state" for anyone or any place at that time.

The silence from VA democrats and mainstream press since police found guns, bullets and signs reading "Death to Jews" & "Death to America" at the home of @GeorgeMasonU SJP leaders is deafening. Condemning domestic terrorism shouldn't be a partisan issue. jewishinsider.com/2024/12/go…

Romi Gonen went to a music festival. Her friends were slaughtered and she was violently abducted to Gaza. Instead of demanding her release without conditions, the world urged her country to give into Hamas’s demands. And now, as she is finally set free, Hamas got what it wanted: the release of its terrorists from prison. All because the world failed Romi and every other hostage. As happy as I am to see Romi return to her family today, I am so sad that this is the world we live in.

It was not the Jews of Palestine that kicked out the Arabs of Palestine - it was a war, declared and waged by Arab leaders and states with no regard for their own people’s lives. Those Palestinians would not have fled their lands or been expelled by the fighting if their leaders had embraced the two state solution of 1947, which the Jewish leaders did. Sounds like you would learn a lot from reading my book.

Precisely

Tomorrow night in Tel Aviv with the inimitable @EinatWilf! RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/the-origins…

I'm guessing you have no idea that under Muslim rule Jews were forbidden from entering their holiest sites, including the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the site of the ancient temples, and the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, where the forefathers and mothers of the Jewish people are believed to be buried. Under Israeli rule, Muslims have access to both sites. Jews are still forbidden from praying on the Temple Mount, which is now occupied by Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Still pinching myself as I share these early reviews of my first book from some of the writers I most admire. Thank you @YKleinHalevi, @MattiFriedman, @OrenKessler & @martinfletchnbc for your humbling praise of "Ghosts of a Holy War," out 10/1. Order here: a.co/d/0dtSxVj6

Thank you. I should and I will.

How the most respected, most credible arbiters of truth have become the most effective purveyors of misinformation and disinformation. Wish us all luck.

Please explain how Zionism is anti Judaism.

You think Zionists don’t follow the Torah? Where did you get that idea?

You’re absolutely right.

Absolutely. I also wonder if they omit that line, or what kind of moral confusion it causes them

Thank you 🙏 I’ve had too many horrendous experiences with male gynecologists, which is why I always request women when I need to see someone new. Sadly being a woman didn’t help this woman.

If there truly is a leftist "deep state" in Israel, it's doing quite a pitiful job. Israel hasn't had a left-wing leader in 25 years. For 20 of those years, Netanyahu has been prime minister.

The fact that a member of parliament is recycling figures even Hamas recognizes as false proves my point. 50k innocent Palestinians were not brutally killed. At least half the casualties in Gaza were combatants who launches this war and then outspokenly sacrificed noncombatant “martyrs” for their cause. Even Gazans can admit this. Why can’t you?

You were amazing, Jotam. Keep it up 🙏👏

Looks like she is: findcare.nuvancehealth.org/p…

My latest for CJR, on the women who catalyzed #MeToo, and have been punished by the news industry for speaking out. None of the women who sued Fox for sexual harassment or assault have found new jobs in TV news.

Nice to see the @nytimes calling ISIS a terrorist group. You know who else has waged terrorist attacks like car rammings and suicide bombings, killing thousands of civilians since the early 1990’s? Hamas (whose name means the Islamic Resistance Movement). Why won’t the @nytimes call Hamas a terrorist group?

This is shocking and absurd on so many levels. Aside from NY and San Francisco, Tel Aviv is probably the best place to be LGBTQ. Israel is hands down the safest place to be gay in the Middle East. The fact that @ILGAWORLD is siding with a society where being gay is a death sentence is absolutely mind boggling. This says so much about where we are as a society in 2024.

Sounds like you would love my book, Ghosts of a Holy War, @aziz0nomics - let me know where I can send you a signed copy

We go to Chabad in Rhinebeck all the time! I spoke there on 10/7/24, for the one year memorial event, the same night of this incident at the hospital, which is literally across the street from Chabad.

Thank you Vivian. I’m glad I finally shared this, and hope it helps others.

One of many inconvenient truths about October 7: Shiri Bibas and her baby boys were kidnapped by Gazan civilians. Shiri’s husband, Yarden, was beaten and dragged to Gaza by Gazan civilians. Those who comment to the effect of “oh, so that justifies killing Gazan civilians?” is beyond repair.

I think you’re right. But you have to ignore so much of what Palestinians themselves say and think about Jews and Israel to hold that belief.

If Zionism = "white-supremacist ideology" how do you explain that 1/2 of Israelis are brown Jews who fled Arab countries? #DykeMarch 🤔

When every child in this @BBC film has ties to Hamas, and a member of the production team celebrated Oct. 7, it is entirely valid to call this documentary a Hamas propaganda film. Thank you @mishtal for doing the due diligence we no longer expect from the @BBC.

You are very confused. The two state solution was presented after Rabin’s assassination. First in 2000, when it was rejected by the Palestinians, who responded with 5 years of suicide bombings, many of them by Hamas. Israel made an even more generous offer in 2008, which was again rejected - with no alternative presented to counter it.

Last night I spoke at the University of Oregon about my book and the haunting parallels between October 7 and the 1929 Hebron massacre. My event almost didn’t happen because the local SJP chapter tried to shut it down with vile mischaracterizations of me and my work. Clearly, revealing the truths history holds is a threat to their narrative. Thanks to the amazing UO chief of police and courageous faculty members, I’m happy to report that the event was peaceful, every seat was filled, and we sold out of books 🙂 Thank you UO for showing how it’s done!

The women who catalyzed the #MeToo movement by going public about harassment at Fox have been blacklisted by the news industry. Some are still searching for jobs. My latest for @CJR cjr.org/business_of_news/met…

Trump’s Gaza proposal has been dismissed as unprecedented and impossible. This fascinating episode of Call Me Back with @dansenor and historian @aroberts_andrew demonstrates that history begs to differ. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

Indeed. And the institutions that are meant to protect us are too often doing the very opposite.