Here we go again! 🇮🇱
An 8-month-old baby in Israel has become the first patient in the world to receive experimental gene therapy delivered directly into the brain to treat a severe genetic disorder.
The groundbreaking procedure at Clalit–Schneider Children’s Medical Center brought together Jewish and Arab Israeli doctors, researchers, and biotech teams in a rare medical first 🩺
Read more: https://t.co/e41ZpkX2IK
Francesca Albanese has been sanctioned for doing her job and demanding an end to the Genocide in Palestine. The EU has failed to protect her, the UN has failed to protect her.
In this video message .@FranceskAlbs updates us on the current state of affairs regarding the US imposed sanctions on her and the ongoing legal battle in the US to have them removed.
Please watch and share Francesca´s update on the Court Case and continue raising awareness about our petition to pressure the EU to do its job!
Reuters: Two-thirds of ICC bureau found prosecutor Karim Khan guilty of “serious misconduct” and “serious breach of duty” by sexually assaulting his employee.
14 voted against Khan: Switzerland, Japan, Belgium, Chile, Cyprus, Ecuador, Finland, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Slovenia, South Korea, Brazil, New Zealand
4 voted for Khan: South Africa, Senegal, Kenya, Sierra Leone
3 abtained: Uganda, Bosnia, Bolivia
https://t.co/ZrfIyPT9gY
Hidden beneath the Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon lies a vast Hezbollah underground terror complex.
Built with Iranian support. Operating in violation of Lebanon's sovereignty. Designed to threaten Israeli civilians.
The footage speaks for itself.
Benjamin Netanyahu: "Radical Islamic terrorists want to conquer the Middle East, kill all the Christians and Jews, and then proceed to Europe and from there to America. Israel stands in their way of doing it."
He is 100% correct.
I am not a Jew. But as a professor of international law & retired military lawyer who studies how distorted legal rhetoric is used to justify hate & violence directed against Jews, you are 💯 mistaken to believe your safety "as Jewish New Yorkers" is "inextricably intertwined with Palestinians."
I am not progressive, either. But based on your comments in this clip & my background with the study mentioned above, I do have a few tips you should consider exploring if you are genuinely concerned with your safety as a Jewish New Yorker.
Spoiler alert: these tips have absolutely nothing to do with Palestinians - at least, not directly.
1. Stop blaming @Israel for what you refer to as "the utter destruction of Gaza."
First of all, #Gaza isn't "utterly destroyed" to begin with. There are absolutely areas that are currently uninhabitable due to the conflict. But it's not all of Gaza. This perception has been carefully curated by influencers showing isolated clips of select destroyed areas while giving the false impression that this visualization represents the entire Strip.
It doesn't. If you think otherwise, do yourself a favor & find/follow accounts like @GAZAWOOD1 that present clips of videos that are posted from people living inside Gaza right now.
If you believe Gaza is utterly destroyed, educate yourself. You are being played, and only you can stop it.
Second, learn at least something about international law. Like this.
You criticize your opponent @RepDanGoldman for supporting "unconditional aid to Israel" (Ilana Glazer's words) "even despite Israel's utter destruction of Gaza" (your words).
Here, you are actually supporting strategic objectives of literal terrorists whose only goal is the utter destruction of Israel. #Hamas committed the atrocities of 10/7 to provoke a large-scale armed conflict in order to derail normalization between 🇮🇱 & select Arab countries.
Their best shot at getting away with it was for sympathetic partisans throughout the West - such as yourself & Ilana Glazer - to convince Israel's traditional closest partners & allies to restrict military aid & pressure Israel into implementing a ceasefire as early as possible. Doing so would ensure Hamas could survive to continue in a governance role in Gaza after the conflict.
And the way to convince Iran's useful idiots, such as yourself, to pressure Western governments to restrict military aid is to manipulate the language of international law to make it seem that these countries are failing to comply with their own legal obligations or even "complicit" in systemic "war crimes" by failing to condition or restrict aid.
It's a hoax, and it always has been. Determining whether a war crime has been committed requires evidence of the knowledge & intent of personnel responsible for each attack at the time. If you don't believe me, study this highlighted excerpt of the Rome Statute (pic 1).
Yes, neither 🇮🇱 nor 🇺🇸 have ratified this multilateral treaty. But the main war crimes provisions in Article 8, as well as the mental element/mistake of fact provisions of Articles 30 & 32, are consistent with our military doctrine. And guess what evidence you need, pursuant to this doctrinal source, to determine a war crime has been committed.
That's right! If a war crime involves "intentionally directing an attack against" civilian persons or property, and "intent" means "awareness that a circumstance exists," and the "circumstance" is the civilian (not taking direct part in hostilities) character of the person/object attacked, then we require evidence demonstrating personnel responsible for each attack were aware of the civilian character of the target at the time & they attacked it anyway.
Any guesses what you can't determine just from looking at "utter destruction" in a battlespace? Right again! Knowledge & intent of personnel responsible for each attack at the time that led to that utter destruction.
Maybe - just maybe - a transnational terrorist organization committed one of the most horrific atrocities in living memory then deliberately hid & fought among its own civilian population in the ensuing large-scale armed conflict it decided to provoke. And maybe they hid IEDs in every structure they could so that @IDF troops clearing the area successfully capturing it would still continue to perish. And maybe that is cumulatively the reason for the "utter destruction of Gaza."
News flash: that is exactly the cause of most of the destruction in Gaza. And because that's the case, there is no obligation to condition military aid to Israel. No clear risk of systemic war crimes being committed with arms supplied to Israel (🇺🇸 hasn't ratified the Arms Trade Treaty, but we have a similar process for determining whether to provide military aid nonetheless) means no requirement to condition aid.
The reason the language of international law is routinely distorted in this manner, btw, is to convert a policy argument into what appears to be a legal one. A "should" to a "must."
But if you believe 🇺🇸 is failing to abide by its international law obligations by providing military aid to 🇮🇱, once again you are being played. Stop.
2. Stop perpetuating the "genocide" blood libel.
As you criticize Dan Goldman for supporting "unconditional aid to Israel," along with the "utter destruction" nonsense you also say he does so, "Even despite Israel's utter destruction of Gaza, which I consider a genocide" (emphasis added).
There are a lot of people nowadays who believe Israel is responsible for genocide in Gaza. But all of you who do simply demonstrate you don't understand what "genocide" actually is.
See, if we start with the doctrinal definition from the Genocide Convention, we see that this crime of crimes is committed by engaging in enumerated acts (not pictured) "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such" (pic 2, especially red highlight).
Guess what doesn't qualify as a "national, ethnical, racial, or religious group". Right! Terrorist groups like Hamas.
And take a wild guess which group IDF ops in Gaza intend to destroy. If you said "Palestinians," you are, once again, just another of Iran's useful idiots. If you said "Hamas," give yourself a pat on the back.
The stated intent, from the very beginning of Swords of Iron all the way until today, has been to: 1) eliminate the enduring security threat posed by Hamas; and 2) repatriate all hostages. If you're not sure about that, I invite you to review these excerpts from public remarks provided by @IsraeliPM@netanyahu in October 2023 (pic 3) & October 2025 (pic 4). Slightly different wording, same intent.
Yes, I've heard the argument too many times to count now that most major "human rights" orgs & a number of "genocide scholars" & a UN commission of inquiry & even a handful of countries have all determined Israel is responsible for genocide. But they ALL use the same flawed methodology, and so their conclusions are also irreparably flawed.
That is, they ALL begin with a few specimens of political rhetoric from various Israeli officials, most of which are misrepresented or taken out of context to begin with, to establish the requisite "intent." Then they take an equally selective collection of "evidence" - much of which is from untrustworthy or unreliable sources anyway - to establish the enumerated acts to go along with the purportedly genocidal intent.
It is, once again, a hoax. Not a single one starts with the actual stated intent (eg pics 3 & 4 attached here) then takes a balanced, unbiased approach to assessing whether actions actually observed in the battlespace are consistent with the intent to destroy Hamas or, instead, to destroy Palestinians in whole or in part as such.
If you do that - if you understand the correct methodology & you apply it rigorously - there is only one conclusion: Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza, nor has it ever.
It doesn't matter what "you consider" it. You are being played, because you are ignorant. Stop, by educating yourself.
3. Stop blaming "Trump and Netanyahu for setting the Middle East on fire."
Do you know who actually set the Middle East on Fire? Terrorists like Nasrallah, Deif, Sinwar, and the Ayatollah Khamenei, along with the militaries & proxies armed groups they led. And they did so on 10/7, once again, simply to derail normalization.
In doing so, these literal terrorists demonstrated that the status quo of appeasement & diplomacy in pursuit of peace in the Middle East & a two-state solution was no longer tenable. Tbh that approach wasn't tenable for quite a while - but 10/7 proved that to be the case.
And now Trump & Netanyahu are the two world leaders with both the intestinal fortitude & the resources to establish a new status quo. That's what Swords of Iron & Rising Lion & Midnight Hammer & Roaring Lion & Epic Fury have been all about - achieving a new status quo after the aforementioned literal terrorists actually (literally) set the Middle East on fire.
The only way to successfully achieve a new, acceptable status quo is through force of arms - not arms embargoes. If you believe otherwise, you are being played. Stop it. Open your eyes & educate yourself.
Okay, those are three suggestions for specific actions you can take to help improve your safety as New York Jews. The same goes for Jews really throughout the West.
Because here's the thing. Your safety as Jews in the West has absolutely nothing to do with Palestinians. It has everything to do with countering the false narratives - primarily involving misrepresentations of international law - that are being used to justify hate & attacks against Jews.
It doesn't matter how much you try distance yourself from Israel, or zionism, or Bibi, or Trump. That won't stop some crazed lunatic from pulling a gun on you or siccing his dog on you or driving his car into your synagogue or throwing bricks at your head or any other number of seemingly random & horrific attacks against Jews we've seen escalate in the West since 10/7.
G-d forbid any of these or other acts of violence ever happens to you or someone you love. But if it does, recent experience suggests the perpetrator - and his supporters afterward - will accuse you of supporting genocide & war crimes just for being Jewish.
Because Jews are being regarded as proxies for Israel, and Israel is being regarded as a proxy for zionism, and Hamas doctrine justifies the "struggle" against the "Zionist entity" known as the State of Israel.
I've heard the term "self-hating Jew" be directed toward folks like yourself. Oftentimes you're referred to by the term "As-a-Jew." @GadSaad would probably diagnose you with suicidal empathy.
Regardless of whether any of those descriptions apply, as someone who specializes in international law I can definitively affirm you are both ignorant & naive.
If you're concerned about your safety as a Jew, stop perpetuating the lies & distortions that are - unfortunately - putting you most at risk. Stop blaming Israel & @AIPAC & conservatives like Netanyahu & Trump for ... well, everything in the Middle East & at home in New York.
Learn how to push back, with precision, against the false narratives that are being used to justify hate & violence directed against the Jewish population. This is the most effective direction you can take if you are genuinely concerned about your safety as a Jew.
The London School of Economics Students’ Union has closed disciplinary proceedings against its Israel Society after receiving external legal advice confirming that the conduct in question was protected by freedom of speech laws. Read more: https://t.co/mWYcZeCJwe
Interesting!
A man from Gaza who lost his wife and children in the war, made a formal submission to the International Criminal Court demanding 14 Hamas leaders be investigated for crimes against the Palestinian people.
The submission includes the following crimes:
- utilizing the presence of civilians as human shields
- attacking civilians
- intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects
- willfully causing great suffering
- destruction and appropriation of property
- excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- attacking protected objects
- committing outrages upon personal dignity
- using, conscripting, or enlisting children
- execution without due process
The man is represented by Eli Rosenbaum, a former senior US Justice Department war crimes prosecutor, French attorney Sarah Scialom, and American attorney Elliot Malin.
If the submission is accepted, this will be the first time Hamas members are charged with crimes committed against their own civilians.
Israel is on every country's doorstep. "They hate us for no reason?" Why can't a smart, educated, brilliant professional work? Because she supports Palestine? Why do Israel's supporters not want a world where their beliefs live alongside other people's different beliefs? Why can't some support other people? They have no idea what people sacrificed to get where they are. What their life story is. Only their trauma, history and worldview matters? Why can't this pediatrician work in HER country, not Israel?
"They hate us for no reason!" We hate your tyranny and bullying.
Dr Ellen Kriesels (@EllenKriesels) has just been arrested by the london met police on behalf of the 'israeli' jewish lobby for two X posts.
Ellen is a senior consultant paediatrician with an unblemished record. The lobby began hunting her in September because of her sign at a Palestine national demonstration.
They doxxed her and smeared her in the press.
3000+ zionist jews and pro-'israelis' complained to her hospital (that she had worked in for 15 years)
She was suspended from the Whittington Hospital within 4 days.
They (UKLFI and CAA) reported her to the medical board (GMC) and then to the tribunal (MPTS) where she had her licence suspended for 9 months.
And now they've had her arrested.
Her crimes:
- Opposing the Holocaust in Gaza
- Naming and criticising jewish supremacy.
Britain is doing this to our NHS doctors for 'israel'.
Britain is occupied.
Despising the positive influence of Jewery and Israel in culture,arts,science,finance and tech is decidedly coming from drooling deadly https://t.co/j5wNLPRTcm has a legal name in law the world over, antisemitism.
It is bullying at a global scale. This "you are obsessed with Israel...it's a small population " is so disingenuous. It is because at every corner of the globe, Israel's supporters BRING Israel to domestic affairs, academic spaces, sports, arts, media, business, health - every sector. Qualified, award winning professionals should not earn a living, get visas, graduate, in countries OUTSIDE Israel, because they criticized Israel. They are hounded and organizations are pressured to cancel them. That is a fact. It happens everywhere. And it is not antisemitic to say so. We must not tolerate it. We must speak up.
Gracias, Presidente, por este reconocimiento, por defender una Europa que pertenezca a sus pueblos, en el respeto del derecho internacional, no por encima ni en contra de él, y por la solidaridad, linfa vital de la familia humana.
Palestina libre, y nosotros con ella.
As I was reminded this week, it doesn’t matter how much you condemn antisemitism, if you oppose this, oppose ethnic cleansing and genocide, supporters of Israel will still call you antisemitic.
As I was reminded this week, it doesn’t matter how much you condemn antisemitism, if you oppose this, oppose ethnic cleansing and genocide, supporters of Israel will still call you antisemitic.
Remember when Vogue Magazine profiled mass murderer Bashar Assad's wife as “glamorous, young, and very chic—the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies”?
They're at it again—now with a glossy profile polishing rabid antisemite and Hamas terrorism supporter Francesca Albanese.
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, revealed that he was subjected to intense pressure from officials in the United States and Britain before he submitted a request to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials. The requested warrants were for war crimes, including starvation as a method of warfare and intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population, as well as crimes against humanity including murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.
Khan explained that the pressure included contacts, warnings, and political criticism aimed at influencing his decision and preventing him from proceeding with legal actions related to war crimes and crimes against humanity connected to the war on Gaza.
.@BritishVogue and the glamorization of antisemitism. Let’s talk about what they chose not to tell you.
Albanese is the UN Special Rapporteur who claimed America is “subjugated by the Jewish lobby,” told the BBC “the Israeli lobby is clearly inside your veins,” and- the day after the Charlie Hebdo massacre - shared an Iranian state media article claiming the CIA and Mossad carried it out.
She is the official who, when Macron called October 7 “the largest antisemitic massacre of our century,” replied that the victims were not killed because of their Judaism but “in response to Israel’s oppression” - earning her the distinction of being the first UN rapporteur in history condemned for antisemitism by both France and Germany simultaneously.
She is the official who told a press conference that 380,000 children under five had been killed in Gaza - a figure that exceeds the entire population of children under five in Gaza, according to Palestinian Authority census data.
She is the official who, at an Al Jazeera Forum in Doha where Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal and Iran’s foreign minister were also speaking, delivered remarks that the French Foreign Minister subsequently condemned in parliament, saying she “targets not the Israeli government, whose policies can be criticized, but Israel as a people and as a nation.” He added that she “presents herself as a UN independent expert, yet she is neither an expert nor independent - she is a political activist who stirs up hate speech.”
She has been condemned by France, Germany, Canada, and the United States. She is the first UN expert in history condemned by all four of those governments.
Vogue gave her a shoot. No mention of any of this. The same editorial erasure happened at the Guardian, which ran a fawning profile portraying her as a “rock star” and never once asked why so many governments of such different political persuasions have sought to have her removed.
This is what the glamorization of antisemitism looks like in 2026. It arrives in a fashion magazine, dressed in the language of human rights, with a photographer and a stylist.