Stephen

Songleader, Educator, Writer. On ur fav stream 🎶

[Stephen @BrickmanStephen]

Will trade racists for refugees

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

AOC visited Colombia and smiled with President Gustavo Petro in 2023.

When he tweeted “Heil Hiter” this week, she didn’t say a word.

Calling out antisemitism is meaningless if you only do it when it’s convenient.

[New York Post @nypost]

Four more UNRWA staff - including teachers - found to have kidnapped Israelis on Oct. 7, as feds weigh criminal charges https://t.co/i28EbfsaNc

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: The Cornell President just obliterated the extremist students who surrounded his car.

Rather than surrendering to them and apologizing, he directly called out their unlawful behavior.

This is what true leadership looks like.

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

You’re tired of hearing about antisemitism?

We’re exhausted from needing to talk about it.

[Lizzy Savetsky @LizzySavetsky]

The Jews have been in NYC since 10 years before it was NYC! The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy is a nonprofit dedicated to keeping Jewish history alive on the Lower East Side! Check out their amazing tours: @nycjewishtours

[Shai Davidai @ShaiDavidai]

"just antizionism"

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

In the past two weeks, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE have all expelled Iranian officials.

The UK has not.

Weird.

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

In England, Jews are nearly 10 times more likely than Muslims to be victims of religious hate crimes.

But crimes targeting Muslims are almost twice as likely to lead to prosecution.
https://t.co/Qi2UDWqSIa

[Stephen @BrickmanStephen]

If I start eating matzah now, can I count it as credit towards Passover?

[Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @JewsFightBack]

🚨 Students Supporting Israel at Catholic University wanted to hold an event on ending antisemitism.

The administration said fine.

Only if you also include
the other side.

The other side.

Of ending antisemitism.

SSI proposed:

“Ending Antisemitism in America.”

Submitted: January 19
Denied: February 25

The university’s Center for Student Engagement said the event required another speaker for a “balanced presentation” representing “both sides of this issue.”

Both sides?

Of whether Jew-hatred should be confronted?

Other student groups get to hold one-sided events without a problem.

But when pro-Israel students want to confront antisemitism, suddenly Jew-hatred becomes a viewpoint that needs representation.

Disgusting.

[Shai Davidai @ShaiDavidai]

Pissing off antisemites since 1983.

https://t.co/DntO8VNGIB

[Stephen @BrickmanStephen]

Banana peppers > Pepperoncini
There I said it.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

At the University at Buffalo 🇺🇸, an Israeli flag painted by Jewish students was defaced with red paint to make it look like blood.

What it actually is: a generation being taught that targeting Jews is acceptable, as long as you call it activism.

But when your activism centers on attacking Jewish expression, you’re just proving how comfortable you are targeting Jews.

[Peter Baum @baum_p]

“It’s Palestine! When was there ever such a thing as Israel?”

Thought you’d never ask 🥹 Let’s brush up on some actual history. Put the TikTok degrees aside for a minute and let’s dive in…

Yes, there was an ancient Kingdom of Israel. A real, documented, state in this land nearly 3,000 years ago.

Around 1000 BCE, the Israelite tribes united under King Saul, followed by King David, who made Jerusalem the capital.
After David came King Solomon, who built the First Temple in Jerusalem, the religious and political center of the Jewish people.

After Solomon’s death, the kingdom split into two:

👉 The Kingdom of Israel in the north
👉 The Kingdom of Judah in the south, centered on Jerusalem

These were not fairy tales.
They appear in multiple independent historical sources, not only in the Bible.

Archaeology confirms it:

👉 The Tel Dan Stele mentions the “House of David”
👉 The Mesha Stele describes wars with Israelite kings
👉 Assyrian records describe the conquest of the Kingdom of Israel in 722 BCE
👉 Babylonian records describe the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 586 BCE

Empires do not invent fake enemies in their royal archives.

After the Babylonian exile, Jews returned, rebuilt Jerusalem, and rebuilt the Temple.
Later came Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, but Jewish life in this land never disappeared.

Then came Rome.

After repeated Jewish revolts, the Romans destroyed Jerusalem, destroyed the Second Temple, killed and exiled much of the population (but not all of it), and renamed the province Syria Palaestina in an attempt to erase Jewish national identity.

Classic colonial punishment.

But the people did not vanish.

For nearly 2,000 years, Jews prayed facing Jerusalem, ended Passover with “Next year in Jerusalem,” and maintained continuous communities in Jerusalem, Safed, Tiberias, and Hebron.

So when modern Zionism began, Jews were not arriving in a foreign land.
They were returning to the center of their own ancient civilization.

You can debate politics.
You can debate borders.
You can debate policies.

But denying that there was ever a Kingdom of Israel in this land is not activism.
It is historical illiteracy.

🇮🇱 The Nation of Israel Lives

[Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @JewsFightBack]

🚨 LIBYA JUST FINISHED WHAT THEIR POGROMS STARTED 🚨

The ancient Jewish cemetery in Derna has been bulldozed into oblivion.
Flattened. Destroyed. Not one gravestone remains.

Over 2,000 years of Jewish presence erased in days.

In 1945, there were nearly 40,000 Jews in Libya.
A thriving community.
Synagogues, schools, cemeteries, entire neighborhoods.

Then came the pogroms.
🔴 1945: Over 140 Jews slaughtered in Tripoli
🔴 1948: More Jews murdered, homes torched, just for Israel existing
🔴 1949–51: Over 30,000 Jews expelled
🔴 1967: Anti-Jewish riots again
🔴 Gaddafi: Jewish property seized, synagogues shut, Jewishness criminalized

By 2003, the last Jew in Libya fled.

And now in 2026, they’ve bulldozed the last thing left... the graves.

They erased the living Jews.
Now they’re erasing the dead.

Sad.

[The Persian Jewess @persianjewess]

‼️Ms. Rachel’s relative, comedian Jeff Lawrence, drops a bombshell:

“Ms. Rachel is desperately hiding that her children and her husband are of Jewish descent. She does not want that out.

Her children’s great-great grandmother Rose was a hard working proud Jewish immigrant….this woman would slap Rachel in the face to think that her great-great grandchildren are being raised by a psychopath that indoctrinates children to hate Jews all over the world.”

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

“During the past three years, we found ourselves facing a hard and painful reality. Bit by bit, the place that was supposed to be a space for connection and joy became an arena of daily struggle.”

After 10 years of service, the owners of the popular Israeli restaurant Tantura in Lisbon, Portugal, shared via a Facebook post that they have been forced to permanently close due to the rise in unbearable antisemitism.

Since October 7, 2023, the restaurant has been the target of ruthless anti-Jewish campaigns.

Attacking a restaurant that only aims to serve its community and has no ties to the Israeli government is not protesting or brave. It is simply hateful and cowardly.

Photo: JPost

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

This moment speaks louder than slogans ever could.

The menorah is not power.
It is memory.
It is continuity.
It is a refusal to surrender the soul to darkness.

And so the real question is not what Jews bring to this world — history has answered that endlessly.
The real question is this:

What alternative do antisemites offer humanity, other than destruction and darkness?

#EndJewHatred #Hanukkah #torahwisdom

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

BREAKING: A new study shows that 60% of journalists killed during the Gaza war were Hamas men or affiliated with other terror groups.

The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center analyzed 266 Palestinians reported as journalists or media workers who died in the fighting and found that at least 157 had ties to terrorist organizations.

There is no free press in Gaza. Journalists either serve Hamas, or die for refusing.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

An Australian court ruled that setting fire to a synagogue with 20 worshippers inside wasn’t antisemitic, just “untreated schizophrenia”.

Jews are once again expected to believe that attacks on synagogues somehow have nothing to do with Jews.