Brett Cohen

Dad. Investor. Proud American and proud Zionist.

[Rep Josh Gottheimer @RepJoshG]

Let’s be honest, this was a publicity stunt. Channels exist to protect elected officials, and Khanna intentionally entered a restricted, unstable area without coordinating to provoke a response.

What’s appalling is that Ro ignored requests to meet 10/7 survivors and hostages, or to visit sites of the 10/7 terrorist attacks. Instead, riding the anti-Zionist wave, he used the trip as a presidential campaign cameo.

https://t.co/RkhjjuftUq

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

@davidmarcus I had the same meeting with him. A total and complete fake.

[MichaelRapaport @MichaelRapaport]

You’re a con artist.
You didn’t meet with hostages, families of the victims who didn’t survive, the Druze community nothing.
You didn’t meet with American Hostages who survived.
You went to Israel to make a short film for personal gain.
You make me sick you rotten dog

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

JUST IN: Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy has scrubbed his X account of all mentions of Graham Platner in hopes no one will remember he was a diehard early supporter.

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

Erdogan has destroyed his main opposition party and jailed many of its leaders, as he has jailed and disappeared outspoken opponents for years.  He threatens other NATO countries, works closely with Putin, who provides him with S-400 SAM advanced-mobile missile systems, occupies Cyprus, threatens Greece, threatens Israel, is allied with Iran and Qatar, backs the slaughter of Christians in Syria and Kurds anywhere, funded Hamas and gave safe harbor to several of its leaders, and supports Hezbollah.  And his ambition to to re-establish something akin to the Ottoman Empire.  AND WE ARE SELLING THIS THUG OUR ADVANCED F-35 JETS FIGHTERS AND JET ENGINES!    There's no excuse for this.

[Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley]

Iran will never follow through on any MOU.
Iran will never agree to a deal.
Iran will never give up its nuclear ambitions.
Iran will never voluntarily give up control of the Strait.
Iran will never stop supporting terrorists proxies.
Iran will never be a normal country under this regime.

[Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו @netanyahu]

כפי שהנחיתי - צה״ל תקף בעוצמה 150 מטרות של חיזבאללה בלבנון וחיסל עשרות מחבלים.

[Newt Gingrich @newtgingrich]

Why is Israel getting blamed for trying to protect its citizens from hezbollah attacks? Iran funds and arms hezbollah, encourages them to kill israelis in israel and then blames israel for defending its own citizens. We should be focusing our anger on the iranian dictatorship not on a democracy fighting to protect its citizens

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

Bro this might be the greatest thing I have ever seen in my life

[Brett Cohen @BrettCohen15]

@Osint613 Chag sameach!

[David Lange @Israellycool]

The Israeli reality show Race for a Million (the Israeli version of Amazing Race) has provided an extraordinary moment.
A contestant named Omri, who lost his left leg in the war, encountered a task for the first time that he was unable to perform due to his condition. Another team, who had already completed the task and could have gone forward and guaranteed advancing to the next stage, decided to help. The male member of the team replaced Omri and performed the task again with Omri's teammate Itay.
THIS is Israel and these are Israelis as I know them. אין כמו ישראל

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Francesca Albanese appeared today at the United Nations Human Rights Council to present her annual report. I was the first NGO to take the floor:

“Ms. Albanese, in your report on torture, why is there not one single mention of Hamas’ horrific torture of Israeli hostages?

You’ve said: ‘It’s not in my mandate.’ But on March 4th, you signed a UN statement condemning US and Israeli strikes in Iran.

Are you mandated to speak on events a thousand miles away from your focus area, and not to say one word on the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7th, and for two years after in their Gaza tunnels?

And when you choose to speak on Iran, why is it only to defend the regime—after you refused to say a single word for the thousands of protesters they massacred?

One year ago, the Council President announced that he spoke to you about your conduct, and that you acknowledged his considerations.

However, on September 15, you said ‘380,000 children under five’ were killed in Gaza. Are you aware, this is more than the entire population of children under five in Gaza?

On October 22, you reposted this statement: ‘Israel is the incarnation of evil.’ Yes or no, is this still your position?

On January 6, you reposted this: ‘Israel is pure evil in a way the world has never seen before.’ Yes or no, is this still your position?

Canada and Germany condemned you for antisemitism and Holocaust inversion.

The French Prime Minister has called for your resignation.

The UK has called for an investigation.

Italy, Netherlands, Argentina and others condemned your conduct.

When so many democracies speak with one voice, the problem is not them—it’s you.”

Albanese did not respond.

[Brett Cohen @BrettCohen15]

@PeterBeinart You have reached me Peter, and helped to strengthen my Zionism.

[Brett Cohen @BrettCohen15]

@sentdefender Amazing work Israel! This is the footing the civilised world needs to be on.

[Brett Cohen @BrettCohen15]

"When the Lord restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers."

[Brett Cohen @BrettCohen15]

This is completely false. 1. 85%of the world’s Jews (those who are not Orthodox) don’t interact with the Talmud at all. 2. The Talmud is — in a modern book— about 48,000 pages of arguments, conversations, debates, positions that are important, positions that are irrelevant, positions that are accepted and rejected. 99.999% of the Talmud has nothing whatsoever to do with Christianity. It’s not a big concern or even a small concern of the Talmud. Ive studied the Talmud for almost 20 years (im about 1/3 through it). Never seen a reference to Jesus. I see online some people throw out one or two nasty lines from the Talmud about Jesus. Not central to the Talmud at all. Not Jewish law. Some random guy venting 1800 years ago that’s no part of our lived tradition.
Maybe he who is without sin should cast the first stone? Like, wildly anti-Jewish themes (passion plays, Good Friday prayers, “adversos Judaeos” traditions, Martin Luther “on the Jews”). You have have to go very far to find stuff hostile to Christianity in Jewish tradition.

[Brett Cohen @BrettCohen15]

I’m a Jew and I have no expertise about Jesus. Can’t speak for him. But my guess is that Jesus’ criticism of his contemporary Jews was broader than “Talmudic law”. By the time of Jesus, there was a long tradition of Jewish prophets chastising their co-religionists for falling short of where they should be. Think: Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc. I guess I think of Jesus as being within that prophetic framework of seeing people falling short of the ideal. I don’t think Isaiah — many centuries before Jesus— was calling out talmudic Judaism, or even Judaism, per se. He was calling out people not fulfilling how Judaism should be lived. Be well.

[Brett Cohen @BrettCohen15]

No. The real reason is that the Palestinians can’t stand to have one square mile of the Middle East controlled by Jews. And have spent the last 120 years saying they want every square inch of it. And rejecting overtures for peace, and getting their asses kicked by a smaller, smarter, more disciplined, harder working, adversary who didn’t really want to fight them.

[Brett Cohen @BrettCohen15]

I’m calling a fake 3 sentence quip that you got off the internet that’s 80 years old a liar? Were you in Synagogue today? I was. And yesterday. Know how much Talmud we studied? Zero. Because — while the Talmud is brilliant, fantastic, important, ambitious, — it is not the backbone of Judaism. The Torah is. We had Yom Kippur last week. You know about it, right? The rules and theology? You’ve surely seen it celebrated? From the Bible. Then starting monday sundown we have… what do we have? Ahh. Sukkot. You know the Bible right? So the stuff we’re doing comes straight out of the…Bible. What did we read today at synagogue? The parsha. Since you’re an expert on Judaism, you know what the parsha is, right? A bright 7 year old knows the parsha. You know what that comes from right? How our religious services are centered on the weekly reading out of the Torah. And our holidays. And our calendars. You know nothing. I like debating about a thing I know about with someone wholly ignorant.