Aaron Kidd

Love history & politics. Pro-Israel. Conservative.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

16 February 1936 | A French Jew, Adolphe Furmanski, was born in Paris.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 23 September 1942 in a transport of 1000 Jews deported from Pithiviers. He was among 641 people selected by SS doctors to be killed in a gas chamber.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

16 February 1911 | A Pole, Franciszek Pulit, was born in Długołęka. A farmer.

In #Auschwitz from 5 April 1941.
No. 11504
He perished in the camp on 28 July 1941.

[Aaron Kidd @AaronBKidd]

@xan_desanctis Local history.

[Kareem Rifai 🌐 @KareemRifai]

Iran just attempted to attack the UAE's embassy in Ethiopia, Hezbollah just assassinated a prominent critic in Lebanon, and an almost certainly Iran-aligned militia just fired rockets at US service members in Iraq.

But sure, Rouhani and Zarif are "moderates."

[Aaron Kidd @AaronBKidd]

The snow is packed and frozen over, so the back door doesn't open now.

[Yascha Mounk @Yascha_Mounk]

Since a lot of people here like European-style hate speech laws, a little tale from Germany.

A disgusting anti-Semitic flier makes the rounds. A member of the Jewish community shares it in dismay on Twitter. So does the mayor of Cologne.

Both are prosecuted for hate speech.

[Seth Frantzman @sfrantzman]

International law is interesting when it comes to who "owns" what territory. Take the Golan for instance.
Ottomans run it for hundreds of years: Fine
French Mandate run it for 18 years: Fine
Independent Syria runs it for 21 years: Fine.
Israel runs it for 54 years: Not fine.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

Enrica Mieli was deported to #Auschwitz together with her mother Grazia ( 📷 b. 1896) and her brother Cesare (b. 1919). They did not survive.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

15 February 1924 | An Italian Jewish woman, Enrica Mieli, was born in Rome.

In October 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

Hezbollah decided we’re the perfect ones... to terrorize.

If you need a last-minute Valentine’s Day card, here’s a groundbreaking greeting on behalf of Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of Hezbollah:

[Seth Frantzman @sfrantzman]

I was 21 when the US launched its “war on terror,” at the time I thought it was reasonable and critiques of calling groups “terrorist” didn’t convince. Later I realized through the lens of Ankara’s use of the term “terrorist” against everyone the regime dislikes, how bad this is

[Michael Dickson @michaeldickson]

#Covid Vaccinations update:

90% of Israelis over 60
73% of Israelis age 40-60
50.4% of Israelis age 16-40

are now #Covid19 vaccinated.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

14 February 1944 | In the #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau a Roma boy Zdenek Daniel was born. He was assigned number Z-9276. He did not survive.

[Kyle Orton @KyleWOrton]

Rediscovered an old story where we don't have the ending: Marta Rita Velazquez, a #Cuban spy, a talent spotter at Johns Hopkins SAIS and then a senior State Dept./USAID official, was indicted in 2014 but is in #Sweden, which doesn't extradite for espionage ... she's still there.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

14 February 1894 | A Polish woman, Anna Nędza, was born in Mszana Dolna.

In #Auschwitz from 29 January 1943.
No. 32357
She perished in the camp on 27 April 1943.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

13 February 1923 | A Czech Jewish woman, Eva Engelmannová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 October 1944. She did not survive.

[Aaron Kidd @AaronBKidd]

The Bush valentine is the best one, and I would gladly give it to someone.

[Daniel Di Martino @DanielDiMartino]

You are welcome

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

'I Would Have Spoken Up About The Holocaust,' Says Man Who Is Silent On China's Concentration Camps https://t.co/ANRrIXdzW2

[AG @AGHamilton29]

Thing is that Democrats were never interested in impeachment. They were interested in acquittal via Republicans so they can use it against them later. That's how the trial and the articles were set up. And Republicans are desperate to move on & avoid getting Trump base too upset.

[Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank]

He takes this as vindication that he did nothing wrong, & given another chance, he'd do it all again.