I cannot help but post the entire speech Gal Gadot made today at the ADL's Never is Now conference. It's just too perfect.
What an honor to be on the same stage as her.
September 5, 1972
"They're all gone."
11 members of the Israeli Olympic Team are taken hostage by a Palestinian terror group, "Black September", at the Olympic Village in Munich, West Germany.
After a failed rescue attempt, first misreported as successful, all hostages are killed after a 21-hour standoff.
ABC's Jim McKay somberly delivers the news at 3:24am Munich local time the following morning.
To honor the request of the Goldberg-Polin family, I am posting the propaganda video of Hersh released by Hamas before his brutal murder:
They released the following statement:
"We are in the midst of the seven seven-day Jewish mourning period after burying our son Hersh (of blessed memory) on Monday. Earlier tonight, Hamas released a new video of him, taken while he was being held hostage in the tunnels underneath Gaza.
This must serve as an immediate wake-up call to the world to take action today to secure the release of the remaining 101 hostages before it is too late. No other family should go through what our family (and the families of the other recently executed hostages) have endured."
Open your eyes!!
- Israel: “UN workers took part in 10/7!”
The world: “Oh shut up already with that crap!”
The UN six months later: “Um, this is awkward. Yea, so about that…”
- Israel: “Stop lying about us and the made up casualty numbers in Gaza! We did not kill tens of thousands of innocent people!”
The world: “Oh shut up, you genocidal maniacs!”
The UN six months later: “Um, so yea, about that… Pardon us while we quietly reduce the number we previously reported…”
- Israel: “Hamas operates from within civilian infrastructure and uses human shields.”
The world: “Oh shut up already with those lies…”
The UN six months later: “So, there may have been some instances of Hamas using UNRWA schools to attack Israel.”
- Israel: “Hamas committed horrible crimes against humanity on 10/7 including violent sex crimes against innocent women and children.”
The world: “Yea, right. Show me evidence.”
The global press six months later: “So yea, there seems to be overwhelming evidence that Hamas did indeed commit those crimes.”
- Israel: Hamas steals foreign aid to build highly sophisticated terror tunnels instead of feeding the people of Gaza!”
The world: “Again with those tunnel conspiracies?”
The media six months later: “Ok, those are some serious tunnels!”
Israel doesn’t make stuff up. If Israel says it, nine and a half out of ten times, it’s 100% accurate. If Israel reports something that turns out to be anything but 100% accurate, it’ll be the first to admit and apologize.
When Israel says something, you can rest assured that it’s true.
Israel’s enemies, on the other hand. Want to know when they lie? When they open their mouths.
This tunnel to and from Egypt was discovered this week in Gaza.
“Egypt didn’t know.”
Yea, ok.
Also, I have a bridge to sell you if you’re in the market.
ON A NYC SUBWAY CAR: "Raise your hands if you're a Zionist. This is your chance to get out."
Change the word "Zionist" to "trans, "gay", "black"," or "Muslim," and see what happens.
It's open season on the Jews.
@NYCMayor@NYPDnews@NYPDPC
An incredible letter written by a non-Jewish Scottish professor to his students who voted to boycott Israel
It's a response from Dr. Denis MacEoin to the motion put forward by The Edinburgh Student's Association to boycott all things Israeli, in which they claim Israel is under an apartheid regime.
Denis is an expert in Middle Eastern affairs and was a senior editor of the Middle East Quarterly. Here's his letter to the students.
TO: The Committee Edinburgh University Student Association.
May I be permitted to say a few words to members of the EUSA? I am an Edinburgh graduate (MA 1975) who studied Persian, Arabic and Islamic History in Buccleuch Place under William Montgomery Watt and Laurence Elwell Sutton, two of Britain 's great Middle East experts in their day. I later went on to do a PhD at Cambridge and to teach Arabic and Islamic Studies at Newcastle University . Naturally, I am the author of several books and hundreds of articles in this field. I say all that to show that I am well informed in Middle Eastern affairs and that, for that reason, I am shocked and disheartened by the EUSA motion and vote.
I am shocked for a simple reason: there is not and has never been a system of apartheid in Israel .
That is not my opinion, that is fact that can be tested against reality by any Edinburgh student, should he or she choose to visit Israel to see for themselves. Let me spell this out, since I have the impression that those members of EUSA who voted for this motion are absolutely clueless in matters concerning Israel, and that they are, in all likelihood, the victims of extremely biased propaganda coming from the anti-Israel lobby.
Being anti-Israel is not in itself objectionable. But I'm not talking about ordinary criticism of Israel . I'm speaking of a hatred that
permits itself no boundaries in the lies and myths it pours out. Thus, Israel is repeatedly referred to as a "Nazi" state. In what sense is
this true, even as a metaphor? Where are the Israeli concentration camps? The einzatsgruppen? The SS? The Nuremberg Laws? The Final Solution? None of these things nor anything remotely resembling them exists in Israel , precisely because the Jews, more than anyone on earth, understand what Nazism stood for.
It is claimed that there has been an Israeli Holocaust in Gaza (or elsewhere). Where? When? No honest historian would treat that claim with anything but the contempt it deserves. But calling Jews Nazis and saying they have committed a Holocaust is as basic a way to subvert historical fact as anything I can think of.
Likewise apartheid. For apartheid to exist, there would have to be a situation that closely resembled how things were in South Africa under the apartheid regime. Unfortunately for those who believe this, a weekend in any part of Israel would be enough to show how ridiculous the claim is.
That a body of university students actually fell for this and voted on it is a sad comment on the state of modern education. The most obvious focus for apartheid would be the country's 20% Arab population. Under Israeli law, Arab Israelis have exactly the same rights as Jews or anyone else; Muslims have the same rights as Jews or Christians; Baha'is, severely persecuted in Iran, flourish in Israel, where they have their world center; Ahmadi Muslims, severely persecuted in Pakistan and elsewhere, are kept safe by Israel; the holy places of all religions are protected under a specific Israeli law. Arabs form 20% of the university population (an exact echo of their percentage in the general population).
In Iran , the Bahai's (the largest religious minority) are forbidden to study in any university or to run their own universities: why
aren't your members boycotting Iran ? Arabs in Israel can go anywhere they want, unlike blacks in apartheid South Africa . They use public transport, they eat in restaurants, they go to swimming pools, they use libraries, they go to cinemas alongside Jews - something no blacks were able to do in South Africa .
Israeli hospitals not only treat Jews and Arabs, they also treat Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank.
On the same wards, in the same operating theatres.
In Israel , women have the same rights as men: there is no gender apartheid.
Gay men and women face no restrictions, and Palestinian gays often escape into Israel, knowing they may be killed at home.
It seems bizarre to me that LGBT groups call for a boycott of Israel and say nothing about countries like Iran , where gay men are hanged or stoned to death. That illustrates a mindset that beggars belief.
Intelligent students thinking it's better to be silent about regimes that kill gay people, but good to condemn the only country in the
Middle East that rescues and protects gay people. Is that supposed to be a sick joke?
University is supposed to be about learning to use your brain, to think rationally, to examine evidence, to reach conclusions based on solid evidence, to compare sources, to weigh up one view against one or more others. If the best Edinburgh can now produce are students who have no idea how to do any of these things, then the future is bleak.
I do not object to well-documented criticism of Israel . I do object when supposedly intelligent people single the Jewish state out above states that are horrific in their treatment of their populations. We are going through the biggest upheaval in the Middle East since the 7th and 8th centuries, and it's clear that Arabs and Iranians are rebelling against terrifying regimes that fight back by killing their own citizens.
Israeli citizens, Jews and Arabs alike, do not rebel (though they are free to protest). Yet Edinburgh students mount no demonstrations and call for no boycotts against Libya , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia , Yemen , and Iran . They prefer to make false accusations against one of the world's freest countries, the only country in the Middle East that has taken in Darfur refugees, the only country in the Middle East that gives refuge to gay men and women, the only country in the Middle East that
protects the Bahai's.... Need I go on?
The imbalance is perceptible, and it sheds no credit on anyone who voted for this boycott. I ask you to show some common sense. Get information from the Israeli embassy. Ask for some speakers. Listen to more than one side.
Do not make your minds up until you have given a fair hearing to both parties. You have a duty to your students, and
that is to protect them from one-sided argument.
They are not at university to be propagandized. And they are certainly not there to be tricked into anti-Semitism by punishing one country among all the countries of the world, which happens to be the only Jewish state. If there had been a single Jewish state in the 1930's (which, sadly, there was not), don't you think Adolf Hitler would have decided to boycott it?
Your generation has a duty to ensure that the perennial racism of anti-Semitism never sets down roots among you. Today, however, there are clear signs that it has done so and is putting down more. You have a chance to avert a very great evil, simply by using reason and a sense of fair play. Please tell me that this makes sense. I have given you some of the evidence.
It's up to you to find out more.
Yours sincerely,
Denis MacEoin
This Mother’s Day, all I can think of is the countless mothers who are affected by the atrocities of October 7th, especially those who are not able to spend it with their families.
13 yo Ariel Zohar’s parents, sisters and grandfather were murdered on 10/7, found lying in a bed, hugging one another and riddled with bullets.
For Yom Hazikaron, Ariel’s relatives return for the first time to where the family was brutally massacred.
#StandWithIsrael
Many rushed to shame @DukeU for what happened today, at the Graduation ceremony - a bunch of pro-palestine students booed Jerry Seinfeld and left before his speech. I know from personal sources that Duke handled exemplary the whole anti-jewish ordeal. There were no encampments, even if outsiders came and tried- they got arrested immediately, along with one teacher who led them, per the University instant request. If there is one elite US University where Jewish students were not blocked, mocked, harassed or shout at, that would be Duke. Because the President, the faculty, the board members and the strong jewish community there made it very clear from the very beginning that they will not tolerate any form of hate, nor vandalism, antisemitism, foreign( terrorist) flags, masks or anything that led to disaster in so many American Universities. Also, the quality of the majority of students and teachers might have helped - they’ve never shouted “Intifada”, “genocide”, “death to America” or other nonsenses. Because they were well informed and well educated.
The famous @JerrySeinfeld managed to deliver a refreshing graduation speech, funny, meaningful, without politics and, most important, without a single interruption. The students who left in a very rude way, about 30 of them, did so not to free palestine, but because, on their graduation day, they could finally express their antisemitism, without consequences. They didn’t like to hear a Jewish speaking…
Too bad they are about to get some good jobs with a prestigious diploma …from Duke.
The good news - thousands attended the ceremony, listening with respect and joy, having fun. Jerry can have that effect on the smart people.
Hamas has released a video of hostage Hersh Goldberg Polin.
This is just another one of their attempts at psychological terrorism.
Don’t help Hamas by watching the video.
Instead share this photo of Hersh.
Let Hersh Go Now!
#LetThemGoNow