Husband and father of 4. Lover of Israel. Founding Head of School @ Jewish Culture High School #disruptingeducation - Failed at many ventures, I keep trying..
The most predictable war, plausibly ever.
I’m so sick of Israel and those who pretend its actions are normal or even remotely justifiable.
This country has a bloodlust like no other.
Have an issue with this tweet? I literally do not care. Think defending Israel’s demonic actions is going to guarantee you a spot in heaven? Double your indulgences and sign your offspring up to die for Netanyahu.
Leave the rest of us the hell alone.
Highway Patrol vehicles pelted with rocks by pro-migrant rioters in Los Angeles.
Officers were forced to abandon vehicles on the highway, as violent rioters began throwing rocks.
https://t.co/nzbJRp1mhC
@Resist_05 October 7. That’s my response to your pathetic post.
Jews know how to fight back my friend. Days of viscous attacks by Islam Terrorists are over. Time to face the truth.
I’m seeing lots of similarities between antisemite @RealCandaceO and that vile antisemite @rogerwaters
Remember when Roger spoke to himself and calmed himself down. He has such hitler like hatred towards Jews it hurts him to talk about them.
Candace Owens DENIES Josef Mengele’s experiments on Jewish children during the Holocaust.
“I mean some of the stories by the way sound completely absurd.
The idea that they like cut a human up and sewed them back together…literally even if you are the most evil person in the world that’s a tremendous waste of time and supplies…that just sounds like bizarre propaganda.”
@JamaalBowmanNY Anyone who can ask for ceasefire without releasing innocent hostages is clearly one sided. Would like to see you say the same if your family was under ground. You sound silly.
My incredible chat with Egyptian scholar @Byoussef. Thank you Bassem for coming on the show and for your willingness to engage in a difficult conversation on the Israel-Palestine conflict. You raised some powerful and nuanced points. Shoukran ya helou.
It’s bad enough that ordinary hateful people are spreading false libels about Israeli soldiers but for a U.S. Senator to repeat those accusations is just despicable. Senator — this didn’t happen and you must apologize to the soldiers who literally risked their lives dealing with an angry mob who had been deprived aid by Hamas, not Israel!
I can prove to you in one word that the alleged “Pro-Palestinian” protests worldwide are:
At best, anti-Israel based on ignorance;
At worst, wildly antisemitic and/or hatefully anti-Israel; and
The one thing they are NOT is “pro-Palestinian.”
That word?
Yarmouk.
Yarmouk was, only ~12 years ago, the Syrian city with the world’s largest Palestinian community. At least ~160,000 Palestinians lived there.
Once Syrian dictator and butcher Bashar al-#Assad got his grimy hands on Yarmouk, it wasn’t long before journalists were calling the city “the worst place on earth.”
Why? Several reasons; and I’ll tell you those reasons along with the world’s reaction to them. Then, you decide what that means.
On Dec 16, 2012, the Syrian air force bombed Yarmouk killing at least “dozens” of civilians (the real number may never be known). The streets of #NewYork, #LosAngeles, #Chicago, #Toronto, #London, #Paris, #Rome, #Dublin, etc.? All quiet.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians fled Yarmouk & were displaced without anywhere to go & without knowing if/when they may ever return.
For the Palestinians who stayed in Yarmouk, they could not possibly have imagined the #dystopian hellscape that awaited them over the next six+ years.
First, Assad enforced a brutal and complete one-year-long #siege on Yarmouk. He then continued that siege, only with a few exceptions, for another 5-6 years after that.
Were the streets of the world filled with protestors?
No.
There was no electricity in Yarmouk for a year, and very little electrictiy for the next five years.
No protests.
There was no piped water whatsoever in Yarmouk for a year, and very little drinkable water for the next five years.
No protests.
There was no access to or very minimal access to any food for a year & very little food for the next five years.
No protests.
Medical supplies were next to zero, as Assad did not want to risk them ending up in the hands of opposition fighters hiding in Yarmouk - Palestinian civilians be damned.
Even worse - after the initial fleeing of tens of thousands, the remaining Palestinians of Yarmouk were not allowed to leave the city - Assad made them stay there.
So, in the largest Palestinian city in Syria, Palestinian civilians were indiscriminately slaughtered, tens of thousands fled, and then Assad laid total siege to the remaining tens of thousands of Palestinians during which men, women, children, the elderly, the infirm, & babies were all forced to stay in Yarmouk without electricity, without water, with minimal access to food, and with little to no access to any medication or first aid of any kind.
And there were no #protests.
The number of Palestinians who died of malnutrition and the number of Palestinian women & their babies who died in childbirth during the siege is unknown to this day.
There was no worldwide outcry.
There was no push for real numbers of the dead and the suffering.
There were no protests.
There was near total silence.
Much has been made about the humanitarian corridors & humanitarian aide that Israel has allowed to flow into Gaza despite Hamas terrorists using the corridors to escape, and despite well over 50% of that aide being stolen by Hamas.
Well, in Syria, Assad refused to provide a humanitarian corridor; and he refused to allow humanitarian relief into Yarmouk.
The streets of the world?
Silent.
One Palestinian woman in Yarmouk described the scene:
“You couldn’t buy bread. At the worst point a kilo of rice cost 12,000 Syrian pounds (£41), now it is 800 pounds (£2.75) compared to 100 Syrian pounds (34p) in central Damascus. It was 900 pounds (£3.10) for a kilo of tomatoes … we used to eat wild plants. We picked and cooked them. In every family there was hepatitis because of a lack of sugar. The water was dirty. People had fevers. Your joints and bones felt stiff. My middle daughter had brucellosis and there was no medication.”
Silence. Deafening silence.
So many Palestinians in Yarmouk were dying from malnutrition that Yarmouk’s largest #mosque gave a religious decree (fatwa) that permitted the consumption of dogs, cats, and donkeys.
Shocking silence.
In 2014, testing on a random sample of Palestinians in Yarmouk showed 40% had typhoid.
Silence.
All 28 of Yarmouk’s schools were shuttered.
Silence.
Even after the initial total siege ended, the water supply was not restored. The city’s water pipes were damaged in fighting in September 2014 - leading to ~four more years during which Yarmouk’s Palestinians had to drink untreated groundwater.
Where were the protestors?
During and after the complete siege, Assad began a campaign of particularly heavy indiscriminate bombing of Yarmouk that saw civilians, including children on playgrounds, blown up. How many? We can say “thousands,” but we will probably never know how many for sure.
The world? Silent.
A #UN official anonymously admitted about Yarmouk, “Conditions are far worse than #Gaza … Palestinians always had dignity, hope, resilience. Now after four years of war I see people giving up. They find it hard to accept there are no options.”
Even the virulently anti-Israel commentator, #Mehdi Hasan, who recently lost his job for being too viciously anti-Israel even for #MSNBC (!) admitted in April of 2015:
“Let’s be honest: how different, how vocal and passionate, would our reaction be if the people besieging Yarmouk were wearing the uniforms of the IDF?”
By that point in time, Yarmouk was widely called the city with the “worst humanitarian crisis” since World War II.
But the streets of the world were not filled with protestors. There was barely a peep.
Meanwhile, many of the long-suffering Palestinians of Yarmouk started obtaining desperately needed medical assistance from what many may consider an unlikely source: Israel.
Starting in June 2016, the #IDF launched “Operation Good Neighbor” to help civilians in #Syria.
At first, #Syrians who could make it across the border were transported to #Israeli hospitals, and later Israel opened a field hospital close to the border since so many civilians started seeking Israel’s help.
One Palestinian from Yarmouk feared enough for her son’s life to seek help from “enemy” #doctors in Israel. When her son was treated with care and humanity and nursed back to health, she told journalists, anonymously for her own safety back home, “I used to see Israel as an occupying power, but not anymore. My whole opinion of Israel has changed.”
In total, Israel treated at least between 5,000-10,000 wounded and often starving civilians who crossed the border from Syria.
Israel even started a donation drive & collected supplies like toys, crayons, games, & candies for suffering children; and Israel got those donations across the border quietly, along with government-donated dire necessities like food, fuel, clothing, & baby care.
How many stood up to praise Israel for its humanity?
Very, very few. And outside the #Jewish world, almost none.
The worst of the dire situation in Yarmouk went on for more than six years.
In April of 2018, Yarmouk was being bombed twice every 90 seconds. By the end of that month, Al Jazeera estimated at least 60% of Yarmouk had been completely destroyed & an unknown number of Palestinian families were trapped under the rubble.
By May of 2018, journalists simplified it: “Yarmouk is gone” (see photo below).
How many pro-Palestinian protests in how many cities do you recall in April and May of 2018?
How many protests do you recall for the entirety of those six years from 2012-2018?
Sadly, for those innocent #Palestinian civilians who lived under the yoke of #dictatorship - whether #Assad or Hamas - their outrageously inhumane plight was almost entirely ignored by a disinterested world.
Yet, how many streets of how many cities across the world were already filled with protestors during the first days and weeks after the Hamas #October7Massacre of more than 1,200 #Israelis?
The streets worldwide were filled even before Israel had begun its counter-offensive to rescue the more than 240 hostages taken by #Hamas and to bring Hamas #terrorists to justice and forever end Hamas’ ability to make war on Israel.
What more evidence could anyone need?
The worldwide protests are all about being anti-Israel and/or #antisemitic.
They certainly are not about saving any Palestinians.
Sadly, when the #Palestinians have needed the world to save them from other #Arabs, nobody marched.
Only when #Jews are involved - that’s when the venom, the hate, the motivation, and the organization to protest and intimidate comes out.
#Education #Israel #Palestine
To understand the Israel-Hamas war, you must understand that the hostages are worth more to Hamas if they’re alive, and actual Palestinian civilians are worth more to Hamas if they’re dead. And until you understand that, you actually don’t understand anything.
If anyone wanted to know what vile antisemitism and straight up fabrication and lunacy looks like, read this tweet from a clown who has 300k followers. Hatred towards #Jews and #Israel has no limits. This is directly out of the AlJazeera playbook. Reporting opposite of reality.
The attack on Rafah happening at 2am Gaza time while the US is watching the Superbowl is utterly horrific and devastating. Our hearts are with the Palestinian people now more than ever.
I feel bad for @johncusack the Washed up actor hasn’t been relevant since runaway jury. To show you what a true lowlife he is, on October 23rd 2023 he joined a pro Palestinian (pro terror) rally. Hates Jews. Literally will do anything to criticize Israel. Claims to hate war 😂
Spending close to 2 hours with the Chief Rabbi of #gushetzion Rav Rimon is absolutely life changing. The stories that he has from 10/7 are inspiring, and show who #amisrael and #medinatisrael really are. @Israel and the @IDF are gifts of Hashem. #ravrimon is a machine
@RationalSettler Would you allow your child to walk around with a swastika hoodie? A parent needs to give room to the child to develop and have their own opinions. That’s true. But a parent is meant to be there for confused children and guide them. We don’t need to harass her. But accountability.
Cowards. Face masks are now a thing again…it’s like the Hamas protests and pro-Hamas (Palestinian) gatherings. Show your face. Clearly her parents are awesome “bystanders” who don’t use their voice for what is right. Let this teenager see what other teens experienced on Oct. 7
Antisemitism is trendy.
The teenaged daughter of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck wore a sweatshirt that symbolically claims that all of the state of Israel is Palestine - that there is no room for Israelis in this land.
What is most upsetting, and most telling WHY she feels she can wear this sweatshirt.
What does she even know about Israel and Palestine? Has she ever been here? Has she researched and read and interviewed and listened?
She likely doesn't even understand how and why her sweatshirt is not only offensive but threatening to Jews around the world.
But that doesn’t seem to matter anymore.
Amazing.
Two Israeli startup founders were called up for reserves. During their service, they came up with this business.
The idea is simple: championing Israeli online shops by showcasing them to communities worldwide that fervently support Israel.
Here is the site: https://t.co/x64rMIcPph.
More than 500 Israeli online stores have joined their list in just 10 days, and the numbers continue to surge.
It's 100% free for Israeli shops to join - no commissions whatsoever. They are simply the bridge connecting Israeli businesses with supporters eager to fortify the Israeli economy.
Whether it’s some gifts, toys, jewelry, or ceramics, they have you covered.
Really beautiful initiative.