Cotton Headed Ninny Muggins

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

🚨 14 year old Esther “Esti” has been missing from Toronto for over a week.

Her family asked Global News to re-share this clip from last year because they hope someone recognizes her face, her voice, or remembers an interaction that didn’t seem important at the time.

Watching it is honestly devastating. She comes across as bright, warm, articulate, and genuinely sweet. Her parents describe her as extremely intelligent, deeply caring, and trusting. Esti is on the autism spectrum and her family is terrified that someone may have taken advantage of that.

She was last seen late Friday night on May 15 near Earl Bales Park in North York. Police later released security footage appearing to show her in a restaurant shortly after midnight. Toronto Police launched a Level 1 search, the highest level search operation available, involving multiple specialized units.

She’s 5’2 with brown hair and was last seen wearing a turquoise sweater with writing on the front and grey sweatpants. Police say she was not wearing shoes.

If you are in the Toronto area, please look at her face carefully and share this as widely as possible.

Let's find Esti!

[Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @JewsFightBack]

🚨TORONTO: STOP SCROLLING.

A 14-year-old Jewish girl is missing.

Her name is Esther. Her family and friends call her Esti.

She has been missing since Friday night, May 15.

She was last seen after midnight near Bathurst and Hotspur.

She had no shoes.

If you know anything, even something that feels small, call it in now.

Do not wait.

Do not assume someone else called.

Toronto Police: 647-355-4148
Shomrim Toronto: 647-557-6735

Someone knows something. Make sure they see this.

[Cotton Headed Ninny Muggins @2_NCQR]

@SamaHoole @BradfemlyWalsh Rewilding marginal land often beats grazing for biodiversity and carbon storage. Modern cattle aren’t ecological equivalents to wild herds. Methane is natural, but an excess is harmful. Monocultures mainly feed livestock, not vegans. Vegans aren’t the problem, false premises are.

[Hamza @HowidyHamza]

As Hamas begins again executing Palestinians in Gaza for protesting — nine killed, others kidnapped and disappeared — the Western pro-Palestine movement remains deafeningly silent. You chant "Free Palestine" while ignoring Palestinians who demand freedom from a regime that tortures and kills them. You cry out against bombs, but say nothing about bullets fired into the heads of unarmed protesters by Hamas. This is not solidarity — it’s moral bankruptcy. If you can't condemn the fascists ruling us, then you're not standing with us — you're standing on top of us, speaking over our dead.

If you truly stand with Gaza, then act like it. Protest not only for the end of war, but for the end of tyranny. Raise your voice for the Gazans being executed, kidnapped, tortured, and silenced by Hamas. And if you mean what you say about liberation, then demand what Gaza needs most: Hamas’s surrender and disarmament. Your silence helps them kill. Your voice can help stop it.

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

I've started to realize that Anne Frank and her family wouldn't have been safe around a lot of people I know and loved and once respected.

That's not something you get over.

[David Draiman 🟦🇺🇸🇮🇱✡️☮️ @davidmdraiman]

Chag sameach

#Purim2025

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Why is it...

When Black people say something is racist, you listen.
When LGBTQ+ people say something is homophobic, you listen.
When Muslims say something is Islamaphobic, you listen.

But when Jews say something is antisemitic, you gaslight us, speak over us, and ignore us.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

These people didn’t call to release the hostages, including a 9 months old baby, even once since the war started.

But now they’re in the streets pretending to care about freedom.

[Nuseir Yassin @nasdaily]

"the soft bigotry of low expectations"
is the one line summary of the world.

The west has zero expectations from non-white non-western nations. So when Arabs kill other Arabs, that's okay. We didn't expect much to begin with, they say.

the soft bigotry of low expectations.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Some are strangely against murderous Jihadi gangs in Syria but are totally fine & actually support Jihadi thugs in Gaza. Apparently, all Jihadis have to do is call themselves a resistance group & make Israel their enemy, even if they end up killing & destroying their own people.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

RARE MOMENT OF TRUTH AT UNITED NATIONS: When U.N. high commissioner Volker Turk joined the Islamic Regime in Iran, Qatar and North Korea in telling terrible lies about Israel, and parroting Hamas propaganda, we invited courageous Yemeni journalist @JustLuai to tell the truth.

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

If this past year proved anything, it’s that the world has learned nothing. Jewish children were stolen from their beds, dragged into underground tunnels, held hostage by sadistic terrorists for months, and tortured. And what did the world do?

They lit up buildings in orange to memorialize the ones who never came home.

That was it. No military intervention. No economic pressure. No consequences. Just a pathetic, symbolic gesture when it was far too late. While babies sat in Hamas dungeons, European leaders held vigils. While terrorists broadcasted videos of captives begging for their lives, UN officials were busy condemning Israel. While families marked birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays with empty chairs, the world moved on.

Not only were there no economic consequences, but the world continued to funnel billions into the very place where Jewish children were being held in dungeons. They knew full well that the money and aid would be taken by Hamas, as it has been for the past 20 years. They sent cash to the kidnappers while pretending to care about the victims.

No emergency summits. No global manhunt for the kidnappers. No "coalition of the willing" to dismantle Hamas. When a single European or American is taken hostage, their governments send in special forces, shut down trade, and make demands. But when it was Jewish children? The only demand was for Israel to “de-escalate” and sign yet another ceasefire deal with genocidal psychopaths running a terror state on their border.

And let’s talk about those hostages. Because the world barely did. Protesters marched, not for the victims, but for the terrorists. Celebrities, activists, and journalists couldn’t even say the word “terrorist.” Universities erupted in rage but not at the rapes, the murders, or the kidnappings, but at the idea that Israel might fight back. I have yet to see a single sign at a "pro-Palestine" demonstration condemning Hamas for what they did to the Bibas children.

The UN had the audacity to “urge all parties to respect international law,” as if there were any moral equivalence between Jews begging for their children and Hamas butchers holding them at gunpoint.

The world made a choice. They saw Jewish blood spilled in the streets and shrugged. They watched Hamas parade hostages like trophies and still couldn't bring themselves to take a side. The same governments that rush to condemn Israel for existing, the same organizations that pretend to care about human rights, the same media outlets that manufacture outrage at every Israeli airstrike, every single one of them failed. Not by accident. By design.

To be clear, I’m not advocating for military intervention by the United States or any other country. Although, let’s be honest, why is the idea of using American military might to rescue innocent babies from terrorists such a controversial thought? But that’s not the point. There was plenty that could have been done short of direct military action, and none of it was. And more importantly, Israel isn’t asking anyone to defend them. All they ask is to be left alone, not to be singled out for abuse at the psychotic levels we are witnessing today. You don’t have to help Israel, but don’t you dare claim that the world will protect the Jewish people. We know that is an utter lie.

This is why Israel exists. This is why Israel must exist. Because the world hasn’t changed. Because they will grieve, or at least pretend to, for dead Jews but never lift a finger to protect living ones. Because they treat Jewish suffering as an inevitable tragedy while treating Jewish self-defense as a war crime.

Never again was never about them. Never again isn’t an international agreement. It isn’t a speech at the UN. It isn’t a hashtag. It is an army, a country, a people who refuse to be slaughtered. For over 2,000 years, the world has made it very clear. When Jews are in danger, they will do nothing. Israel will do everything. And that is exactly how it should be.

[Matti Friedman @MattiFriedman]

Many other media organizations are sitting quietly right now and praying no one examines how they operate in Gaza.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

The humiliating failure & decline of "pro-Palestine" activism: For over a year, I warned time and again about the dangers of the neo “pro-Palestine” movement, which, in the aftermath of October 7, has devolved in alarmingly extreme and detrimental ways. I was hounded even by friends and allies, who kept asking why I “felt it was my job to demonize the pro-Palestine movement.” It was shocking how so many journalists, activists, academics, advocates, and observers didn’t see the obvious, the five-alarm fire that was threatening the very future of Palestinian advocacy in the diaspora. The rot and decay within this so-called movement was unlike anything I had ever seen before – and I used to be involved in it ten years ago.

After 10/7, the “movement” refused to acknowledge the criminality of hostage-taking & killing innocent Israeli civilians, condemn Hamas’s actions including against Gazans, call for the terror group to step down, or engage in pragmatic activism and targeted demands for specific outcomes that actually help Palestinians. Now, the “activists” are tone-deaf to the disaster that Gazans face after Hamas’s shameful and embarrassing display of barbarism with the Bibas & Lifshitz bodies’ return fiasco, doubling and tripling down on their fascism, evil rhetoric, lack of basic intelligence, and demonstratively ineffective speech and language that further demonize Palestinians.

I said that student activism was worthless and futile, calls for supporting the “resistance” amounted to endorsing terrorism, real antisemitism was actually growing out of control, and the interests of Palestinians were being harmed. I pleaded with the so-called “allies” of Palestine to correct the horrendous digressions of their partners but was regularly told, “Oh, we can’t tell Palestinians how to resist.” There was plenty of space for authentic pro-Palestine activism, but that required a focus on a radically different outcome that doesn’t entail Hamas, sloganeering, hatred, ignorance, stupidity, or letting ill-informed young people destroy an entire movement. Accepting Israel’s right to safety, embracing the concept of two nations, rejecting violence, and calling for Palestinian rights, while displaying a capacity for empathy, accountability, and agency would have won over vital new partners for peace and justice, especially in Israel.

Rashid Khalidi, Rashida Tlaib, CAIR, Mehdi Hasan, Marc Lamont Hill, and a whole host of intellectuals and journalists sat back and let the movement be taken over by fascists, imbeciles, far-left and far-right personalities, Islamists, and a cocktail of losers who have no business speaking about Palestine, especially the Intifadists and Hamasniks – and don’t you dare tell me these groups are just the minority in the Western diaspora-based movement, for they are an absolutely massive element of what remains of the “pro-Palestine movement.”

Well, congratulations, for Palestine is in ruins, Gaza’s destroyed, none of you have said a word about Hamas, and this movement will forever be looked at as the pinnacle of embarrassment, failure, and wasted opportunities – all while the people of Gaza suffer horrendously, especially for what’s coming next.

And for the record, and to be crystal clear, I want nothing more than to see a rejuvenated, successful, effective, prosperous pro-Palestine movement that can actually do something and leverage Western privilege to be a helping hand for the Palestinian people in the land. But for now, it’s time to get back to the drawing board and start from scratch.

[Maral Salmassi @MaralSalmassi]

A few questions for the Free Palestine Orcs.

[Freethinking Jewess 🍌📟🤘🏻 @freejewess]

The same people who protested against the killers of George Floyd are now protesting in favor of the killers of the Bibas children.

[Eve Barlow @Eve_Barlow]

The Western world feels guilty about everything it ever did except the infinite times that it’s tried to rid the world of the Jewish people.

[Eitan Chitayat @EitanChitayat]

Friend.

We—the Jewish People—every single Jew around the world—are each in immense pain.

IMMENSE.

You don’t need to understand every deep reason. No one expects you to. But it comes down to this:

On October 7, Hamas slaughtered over 1,200 of us. They kidnapped 250 of our people—men, women, children, babies, Holocaust survivors. They raped, tortured, and burned people alive. Our families.

And then, in a sense—we were blamed for it.

Because no matter what happens, no matter what we suffer, it’s somehow always our fault. The Jewish People.

We get massacred? Our fault.
We defend ourselves? Our fault.
We fight for the return of our hostages? Our fault.

The world has swallowed a tidal wave of lies and Jihadi propaganda. And it has crushed people we each know, in our social and work environments, into silence.

We are not being alarmist when we say the world is silent.

It is silent.

Here, in this space—where people could simply say, “We are with you. We stand against Jihadi terrorists who openly declare their intent to annihilate you. We stand with you, our Jewish brothers and sisters…”

Instead—silence.

Ssh.

So now we sit with two kinds of pain.

The unbearable pain of what we have already lost in lives and injuries, trauma and literally fighting demons on a daily basis.

And the pain of abandonment in our time of need from people we didn’t expect to abandon us.

The pain of retreating from a world made up of individuals we know… a world that has not shown much of an interest in our well-being when we need it most—as individuals.

So. There. I said it.

We are each in immense pain.

And I thought you should know.

Shabbat Shalom.

Eitan

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

I am thinking of the Shoah, today.

I think of Yarden Bibas, who, after 16 months in captivity, received the bodies of his children in a grotesque ceremony. Who believed he had also received the body of his wife, only to learn another nameless woman, her own body desecrated by such deceit, lay in Shiri’s place. I think of Shiri’s sister, who says she exists largely alone, in a bubble, these days. She lost her parents—Shiri’s parents—on October 7th. Now Dana, Shiri’s sister, has learned she lost her sister and her two nephews shortly thereafter. Her nephews were killed by hand, their bodies desecrated after death. Shiri’s body is, again, still lost, perhaps never to be found. One twitter user likened Yarden Bibas to Otto Frank. Otto, father of Anne and Margot, lost his wife and both daughters in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, respectively, after spending more than a decade protecting them from the Nazis.

I also think of Eli Sharabi, who was also recently released by Hamas in another macabre ceremony, where he and other male hostages were forced to give speeches by Hamas in a clearly advanced state of starvation. One could not look at these men and not think of concentration camp victims; including many who, after liberation in 1945, were so starved they could not be re-fed in time. The gruesome truth is this: So many—thousands—were liberated, but continued to starve.

Yet, somehow, Mr. Sharabi’s physical state was not the most devastating aspect of his release; Mr. Sharabi believed his wife and two daughters were still living. Hamas had told him so. He did not know, until he was taken away by the IDF, that his daughters and wife had been murdered on 10/7; Their bodies were found holding each other.

I am a gentile, so I cannot claim to speak for Jews, either those who live in the diaspora or those who are Israeli. I can speak for myself, from my gentile perspective, and say: This wiping out of whole families is more than a gruesome echo of history. It is a scream. To speak to a second or third-generation descendent of the Shoah’s horrors is to hear a story just like this: entire families erased from the earth. “My grandfather had four brothers; Only my grandfather survived.”

To learn of the Shoah is to learn of the relentlessness of it. Families hunted down across the European continent. All in a project to erase the world of Jews. I think of the Shoah today when I think of the Bibas family; of the Sharabi family. I think of how relentless the genocide of European Jews was, so relentless that it also spread to Middle Eastern countries, leading both European Jews and Mizrahi Jews to eventually find shelter in Israel.

I have nothing political to say in this statement. I only seek to bring attention, to global gentiles in particular, to these gruesome screams of history in our present. I wish to say, to the Jewish community, globally, and to Israeli Jews, in particular, that I will remember these souls. That, though I could never feel the trauma myself, in any true sense, I do feel its existence in the world. It reverberates everywhere. I am so sorry. And I pray in my secular soul that the memories of all of those lost will be a blessing. I promise you that I will remember them.

Also, to gentiles now, I suggest listening to Leonard Cohen’s song, “Dance me to the End of Love.” It has been ringing in my mind since I read the testimony of Shiri Bibas’s sister, in which she said “In one day, I lost my entire immediate family.”

Cohen, who was Jewish, sang of a “Burning violin,” a reference to the fact that Nazi Germany often enlisted people to play music as they marched Jews to death in the gas chambers. Here, too, the pomp & circumstance of historical atrocities brutally breaks through into the present, as hostages, and even the bodies of hostage babies, are ceremonially, even proudly, paraded by Hamas before their release into Israeli hands. The Cohen line that rings in my mind more than any other, though, is this one: “Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn.” Though every thread is torn. A reference to the connections between individuals of decimated communities, of families annihilated. The meaning of genocide.

I also think of all the Israelis I have met over the past 18 months. Of their often almost familial support for one another. I think of Rachel Goldberg, who has fought for hostage families, even after her own son was murdered in a Hamas tunnel. How she has not given up on saving the lives of others. I think, again, of Cohen’s words: “Raise a tent of shelter now.” I think of all that the Israeli people have achieved and will continue to achieve. I think of the torn threads, I do, but I also think of the new threads, the strengthened threads, & the threads that have yet to be born. I think of your continued survival.

Am Israel Chai.

https://t.co/b3ZXM5QuR9

[Rachel Moiselle @RachelMoiselle]

A baby and a toddler executed in cold blood.

Their mother still held hostage despite promises of being returned home with them. Her fate unknown.

Their grieving father, finally released from captivity, enduring a torture no human should have to bear.

This is what you celebrated. This is what you justified. This is what you marched for. Own it.