Ben Ross

[Jacob L @JacobL1994_]

@IhabHassane Because they declared a war of extermination against their Jewish neighbors and lost

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

This is an argument that has been repeated often for many years, and here's the thing:

Everyone on all sides of the conflict knows deep down that this is 100% true.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

The Gaza war was fought with proportionality, outstanding protection of civilian life, and was started by Hamas.

[Peter Savodnik @petersavodnik]

The thing that should trouble Jewish progressives the most is it's exceedingly difficult to find non-Jewish "progressives" who talk like this about antisemitism. There are a few obvious outliers, but for the most part, there's no sense of moral urgency, no outrage. There's a great deal of "concern" and "dialogue," and it tends to get watered down by lots of blathering about "hate" and "inclusivity," but it's all talk, and it feels poll tested, corporate, inauthentic.

[Ben Ross @BenjaminSRoss]

Every officer in this video belongs in jail for the rest of their lives.

[Suella Braverman @SuellaBraverman]

This body cam footage is extremely shocking.

You can hear Henry Nowak’s pleas about being unable to breathe.

And you can hear how the police dismissed them and failed to take action to try to save his life.

This is not just about knife crime. This is about police failure, poor police training and anti- white racism.

Who is going to be held accountable for this scandal?

[Suella Braverman @SuellaBraverman]

This body cam footage is extremely shocking.

You can hear Henry Nowak’s pleas about being unable to breathe.

And you can hear how the police dismissed them and failed to take action to try to save his life.

This is not just about knife crime. This is about police failure, poor police training and anti- white racism.

Who is going to be held accountable for this scandal?

[Aristonkle @ParanoidPol]

I actually disagree because it was a very valid experiment that pushed the boundaries of what would happen given the current status quo if the Israelis acted in a way that gave the Palestinians what they wanted.

The outcome was the worst one possible with all the infrastructure being destroyed that could have been used for societal development, Hamas taking over, and the total invalidation of the Israeli Left’s core principle of land for peace.

There’s a meaningful lesson there. The status quo can’t birth the desired outcome under ideal conditions, and unless there’s a radical change with the Palestinian political echelon (and by extension Palestinian society) the land for peace model doesn’t work.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING: Johnny Garcia defeats far-left antisemite Maureen Galindo in the TX-35 Democratic runoff

[Ben Ross @BenjaminSRoss]

@AaronLCannon Million Dollar Salary Bands 👀

[Shai Davidai @ShaiDavidai]

Dear Mahmoud,

I know you’ve only lived in a democracy for a few years.

I know you’re not used to democracy in Syria, where you were born, or in Algeria, where you fled before coming here.

I know you’re not used to democracy under Hamas—the terrorist organization you openly supported on @Columbia’s campus—nor under the Palestinian Authority, which hasn’t held a presidential election in over two decades.

So let me be clear about how democracy works.

It doesn’t care about your feelings.
It doesn’t care about your lies.
It doesn’t care about your ideology.

All democracy cares about the process.

Welcome to America.

Here, you don’t get your way by shouting, violently taking over buildings, or glorifying the murder of innocent civilians.

Here, you don’t get your way by playing the victim.

Here, you don't get your way by breaking the rules.

Next time, try learning how this place works before calling for its destruction.

Democratically yours,

Shai

[doomer @uncledoomer]

a boomer is anyone born before me. a zoomer is anyone born after me. i stand alone, the one true millenial chungus

[Tweet is the Work 🌷 @NoblestCalling]

When the kids are playing in the street we put out orange cones to encourage cars to watch and slow down. Today a car with "save gaza kids" written on the back window blew through the neighborhood and ran over one of the cones. Never seen a better real world example of this.

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”

— Charles Dickens

[Ryan Moulton @moultano]

If you work for Sunrise, and feel you are morally unable to prioritize climate change over Gaza, fine, understandable. You should quit and get a different job doing that then.

[Tali Goldsheft @TaliGoldsheft]

Amazing letter by @Cornell President rejecting the resolution. Should be read by all:

Dear Zora,

Thank you for conveying SA Resolution 61: Calling for the Termination of Cornell University’s Partnership with the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology While Preserving Cornell Tech. I reject this resolution, which fundamentally conflicts with Cornell’s principles of academic collaboration and our core commitment to academic freedom.
Cornell Tech is not a political entity. It is an academic partnership, created through shared investment by Cornell University, the Technion, and the City of New York for the benefit of the city and the state, according to a negotiated set of conditions that govern its development and the terms of its 99-year ground lease on Roosevelt Island. As one of Cornell University’s many international partnerships and collaborations, Cornell Tech deepens, enriches, and strengthens the ability of our students, faculty, and staff to pursue knowledge and advance the university’s academic mission. The Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, the core international partnership upon which Cornell Tech is based, is an extraordinarily valuable collaboration focusing on education and research in health tech, media tech, and urban tech, and supporting the development of new startup companies.

Severing our relationship with the Technion—or with any entity affiliated with governments, institutions, or enterprises with which some of our community members disagree—as a statement of political protest, would not only hinder our research, teaching, and public engagement; it would imperil our academic principles.

Our university, like all of our peer institutions, regularly faces pressure—from across the political spectrum, from within and beyond our own community—to make academic decisions according to political priorities. The phenomenon is not a new one: universities have grappled with such pressures from governments and societies for as long as the institution of the university has existed. When we yield to these pressures and proscribe specific collaborations or collaborators on grounds other than merit, we compromise our principles of academic freedom, undermine our own institutional excellence, and damage public trust in our work.  
Moreover, this resolution inaccurately asserts that “the continued operation of Cornell Tech as a Cornell University campus does not require an ongoing partnership with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.” Cornell Tech, while part of Cornell, is a joint effort of the university, the Technion, and the City of New York. It is no more possible for Cornell to unilaterally terminate that effort and claim full control of the campus than it would be for the Technion or the City of New York to do the same.

Finally, I am deeply troubled by the selective manner in which this resolution singles out the Technion, alone of Cornell’s many international partners, for censure. Cornell currently maintains 159 active agreements with institutions in 59 nations and regions; all of these institutions have some government affiliation, and many conduct research with military and security applications. Cornell itself has military research contracts, conducts research with potential military applications, and has relationships with companies whose products are used in military contexts. Cornell also has relationships with institutions in countries whose governments have been accused of human rights violations—as our own has been. 
None of these publicly available facts are mentioned in the resolution; only our partnership with an Israeli institution is targeted for erasure. The political bias evident in this selective approach is deeply disturbing, and the resolution is incompatible with both the Student Assembly’s purpose and Cornell University’s core values. I reject it fully and forcefully.

Sincerely,

Michael Kotlikoff
President and Professor of Molecular Physiology
Cornell University

[Ben Ross @BenjaminSRoss]

Wrong. If the fate of his family across the world is relevant than this is relevant too. Either both or neither, but you don’t get just one.

[Ben Ross @BenjaminSRoss]

This argument is false from essentially every angle. As an American I have the right to vocally support any democracy in the world, and should my house of worship be targeted by violence in response, be wholly without blame.

Absurd to think otherwise.

[Ben Lorber @BenLorber8]

The other bad dialectic, by the way, is between ultra-Left apologists who hold ‘the Jews’ wholly guilty for these attacks, and Zionist apologists who proclaim absolute innocence. Both shades of moralism are shoddy substitutes for political analysis

[Majid 🦁☀️🇮🇪🇮🇱 @majid_hatamian]

If a mosque were touched, Europe would be paralyzed by "Islamophobia" marches 24/7.

​But when a Jewish school in Amsterdam is bombed or a synagogue in Rotterdam is set on fire, the "vocal" Muslim community and their Leftist pets are suddenly silent.

The ​"diversity is our strength" cult and their suicidal sympathy has produced nothing but a one-way street of medieval hatred, trading the soul of Europe for a caliphate and calling it "progress."
#SuicidalSympathy ​#EuropeFallen #AmYisraelChai #DoubleStandard #StandWithIsrael

[Ben Ross @BenjaminSRoss]

@MoElleithee Mo, curious what you believe Jefferson’s response to a neighbor that was routinely trying to annihilate his children within their place of worship would be?

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Yeah, I'm done.

I'm done being tolerant.

I've seen enough man... these people clearly hate us.

They hate our country, they hate our families, they hate our society, they steal our tax dollars, they don't learn our language, they attack us...

Why are we putting up with this?!