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@CallieRealTalk @joekent16jan19 @grok Wow!

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@tparsi I'm willing to bet Iran loses a few billion dollars worth of infrastructure in the next 10 hours. I will also gander that certain parts of Tehran will be more like the Stone age without electricity very soon as well.

[ADL @ADL]

Yesterday, on the one-year anniversary of the antisemitic firebombing attack in Boulder, the local SJP chapter chose to share a lengthy social media post glorifying the attack, lauding the terrorist for his actions, and calling for his release.

While we and others around the country remembered and mourned Karen Diamond z''l, who died from her injuries, and honored the other victims who were badly burned, the local SJP chapter chose to condone the violent attack that claimed an innocent life and left others with devastating injuries.

The content of the post is beyond reprehensible. It is so detached from basic facts, human decency and reality that it would be difficult to take seriously if its message were not so dangerous.

This is unacceptable and simply horrific.

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@JLMelenchon Your aircraft carrier would be sunk so fast. Your heads would be spinning. The only thing you'd be able to say would be Sacre Bleu.

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@Aviation_Intel Looks like Splash to me.

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@mishtal David, an incredible and informative thread. As always. Thank you for your insight and courage.

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@BFrankzetta @HilzFuld You are correct. But some decisions take generations for their actions to take full effect. And reversal can take equally as long if not longer. Or if not never. It's not that you're wrong. But the will has to come from the people and it doesn't seem to be there right now.

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@NY1 Yes, they support rape of women and children. Which has been copiously documented. Yet they buy food from Russia which has killed over a million in the last 3 years. None of which means anything when you're actually an anti-semite and hiding behind the anti-israel veil.

[Prof. Jeffrey Lax @CUNY_Prof]

BREAKING: Last night the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, NY voted 67% to boycott Israeli goods (Bamba snacks, tahini, olive oil, peppers, persimmons etc.) — but refused to boycott:

• China (Uyghur genocide/Xinjiang forced labor + Tibet occupation)
• Russia (invasion & occupation of Ukraine)
• Turkey (Northern Cyprus occupation + Syria)

This Israel-only discrimination on national origin clearly and blatantly violates NY Exec Law §296(13).

Both I and S.A.F.E. Campus condemn this bigotry, racism, and antisemitism, and we have today filed a discrimination complaint with the New York State Division of Human Rights.

We will hold them accountable.
https://t.co/Wa8QQcW1tP

#BDSisIllegal #SafeCampus

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@visegrad24 Talk about the chickens coming to roost.

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

The media will give more coverage to 10 paid Keffiyehed protesters than they give to many hundreds of New Yorkers, Jews, Christians, and Muslims uniting to call out Zohran Mamdani's hate.

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@ObsoleteSony That still looks super cool!

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This is gaining serious traction and deserves commensurate coverage @nypost @ABC @nytimes @FoxNews @CNN

[Jayne Zirkle @JayneZirkle]

🚛Look for our truck in Midtown and on the Upper East Side inviting YOU to:

🚨 JOIN THE PROTEST AGAINST ZOHRAN MAMDANI!

📆 May 26
🕖 7:00 PM

📍Outside Gracie Mansion, at E 87TH ST and YORK AVE NEW YORK, NY 10028

[Sam E. Antar @SamAntar]

Zohran Mamdani didn’t find patriotism. He found a new office.

In 2022, Memorial Day was his excuse to attack “militarism,” “empire,” “state violence,” and police.

Now he wraps himself in the language of sacrifice because mayoral branding requires it.

The dead deserve honor. Not opportunistic rebranding by a politician who mocked the premise until it became useful.

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@EliAfriatISR That is a lost country.

[Adi @Adi13]

The Jewish hostage Evyatar David was forced to dig his own grave in Gaza.
Skin and bones. Starvation.
Broken.

Humiliated for terrorist propaganda.

Meanwhile, a privileged Western progressive is giving interviews to the media about how “traumatizing” it was to be briefly detained in Israel.

The moral collapse of the West is watching privileged narcissists compare themselves to real hostages tortured by terrorists.

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

A genocide is happening in Gaza, they tell us. Then scroll your feed:

Comma Cafee, just opened in Gaza City. Espresso machines, plated desserts, dim lighting.

Vanilla Café. Upscale, glass facade.

Nova Restaurant in Khan Younis: sleek wood interior, beachfront seating. Named, apparently without irony, after the music festival where 364 Israelis were slaughtered on October 7.

O2 Restaurant. pizza, ice cream, milkshakes, TikTok food porn.

Open-air markets in Gaza City with apples, avocados, oranges, bananas.

Supermarkets stocked for Ramadan with imported goods.

A "Gaza Coffee" brand selling 100% Arabica premium beans, taking online orders, with five-star reviews dated this year.

Even Al Jazeera's writer concedes the cafes "were built with expensive materials, carefully painted, furnished with tables, sofas, and elegant chairs, with glass facades and shining lights."

Now hold that next to actual genocide.

Rwanda, 1994. 800,000 Tutsi murdered in 100 days. ~8,000 per day. Hutu radio read names of neighbors to be hacked apart by morning. No one opened a café.

Cambodia, 1975–79. Khmer Rouge emptied Phnom Penh at gunpoint in 72 hours. Currency abolished. Markets abolished. Eyeglasses got you killed. Two million dead.

The Holocaust. Warsaw Ghetto: 92,000 dead of starvation and disease before the deportations even began. Auschwitz processed 6,000 people a day into smoke. There were no glass-facade espresso bars in Łódź in 1943.

Srebrenica, July 1995. 8,372 men and boys executed in days. No restaurants reopened. They were in mass graves.

Armenia, 1915. Death marches into the Syrian desert. No imported avocados.

The common thread of genocide is that the targeted population is not allowed to exist. Not in cafes, not in markets, not in their homes, not anywhere. The perpetrator's entire project is their absence.

Gaza in 2026, by every honest description, is something else: a brutal war zone, partially destroyed, with a population suffering real hardship and simultaneously a place where new businesses open, beachfront restaurants serve customers, and a post war economy is being written about in business pages. Both things are true.

That is what war looks like. Lebanon 2006. Mosul 2017. Mariupol 2022. Aleppo 2016. Civilians die and life adapts around the destruction.

It is not what genocide looks like.

So why the word?

Because "genocide" is the most powerful word in the post-WWII moral vocabulary. It triggers automatic legal obligations, suspends normal debate, and short-circuits proportionality analysis. Apply it successfully and your adversary loses the right to defend itself before the argument even begins. That is exactly why it is being deployed by a side that started a war on October 7, took hostages, embedded itself in hospitals and schools, and now needs the West to force a ceasefire it could not win on the battlefield.

It is asymmetric warfare with a thesaurus. The rockets failed. The tunnels failed. The word might not.

Coffee in Gaza doesn't prove there is no suffering. It proves there is no genocide. Those are not the same claim and the people conflating them are counting on you not to notice.

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I went to college in the mid-90s. We were 5 minutes from the biggest mall on Long Island, New York. Almost every day after class. We would go to all the different music stores, where you could grab a set of headphones off the wall and listen to all the new CDs. Because we have gone so streaming this experience no longer exists.

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@kurri_jari I saw all three at Roosevelt Field in 1997. Though I did have a single VHS cassette tape in the mid/late 80's that had the Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Ghostbusters. Top that one piece of wound up plastic...

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@thiagoavilabr When you lie harder you cry harder...