Micha Danzig

#EndJewHatred

[Micha Danzig @DanzigMD]

Thanks for the de facto concession,

Tony. Israel didn't “kick out” its Arabs. As you admit, 2 million of their descendants voted yesterday.

Here's the difference you keep missing.

When Israel removed Arabs in 1948, it was on the battlefield, in a war 5 Arab armies started to destroy it, driven by military necessity.

Where there was no fighting, Arabs stayed. Nazareth surrendered and stayed Arab. Abu Ghosh stayed. Villages across the Galilee stayed.

More than 150,000 Arabs remained and became citizens with the vote.

To ethnically cleanse Jews, the Arab world needed no war and no necessity.

Jordan emptied every Jew from every inch it captured, including the Old City.

Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Algeria, Tunisia, Yemen and Morocco drove out 850,000 Jews who had fired no shots and threatened no one.

Their only offense was being Jewish.

Israel acted out of wartime necessity and kept everyone it could.

Its enemies acted out of hatred and kept no one.

But let’s be clear, you don't really care about democracy. If you did, you'd notice Israel's enemies have neither democracy nor Jews.

[Micha Danzig @DanzigMD]

Today Israel votes for the 26th Knesset. Our neighbors have spent a century going from sultan to king to colonel to dynasty & tyrannical theocracy.

Here, power changes hands at the ballot box, built mainly by the descendants of Jews who never lived under democracy anywhere. The only real democracy in the Middle East. A miracle hiding in plain sight. 🇮🇱🗳️

[Seth Mandel @SethAMandel]

For my latest, I quoted El-Sayed's exact statements that match the 'grocery' ad that everyone agrees is anti-Semitic. Just to be clear that you cannot find one acceptable and the other beyond the pale: https://t.co/cwXWaLxKUx

[Micha Danzig @DanzigMD]

Tony - 2 million Arab citizens voted in Israel today, with Arab parties on the ballot and a Muslim justice on the Supreme Court.

Meanwhile 850,000 Jews were expelled from Arab countries “for being the wrong religion,” and those countries have no Jews left to vote - even in their fake elections.

Like all Israel-haters, you've got the history exactly backwards.

[Micha Danzig @DanzigMD]

Cenk Uygur says CNN branded two-thirds of America antisemites.

Nobody on that panel said anything of the kind. Nobody said opposing aid to Israel makes you a bigot. They said an ad blaming the Jewish state for the price of eggs is antisemitic, and they were right.

The ad belongs to Uygur. Rebellion PAC, which he backs, dusted off a spot from his failed 2024 presidential run and stuck an El-Sayed tag on the end. A couple puts groceries back because their money is “going to Israel.” No mention of inflation or energy prices or supply chains.

Just the old reflex that when bread costs too much, somebody Jewish must be behind it.

He calls the CNN panelists “news actors.” The only paid actors in this story are the two his PAC put in that grocery aisle.

The ad also suggests Americans are paying for Israel's universal healthcare while going without their own. El-Sayed said the same thing at a rally in April. It's gross & false.

Israel has had a form of universal healthcare funded by Israelis through Israeli taxes since almost its founding. American aid to Israel is military financing, which can only buy military equipment, and most of it has to be spent in American factories. Not a single U.S. dollar pays for an Israeli patient's care.

Then there's the money.

Washington spent $47.3 billion on foreign aid last fiscal year, and $3.3 billion went to Israel. America also keeps roughly 750 bases in about 80 countries, at an estimated $55 billion a year, closer to $80 billion with the personnel.

Well over $100 billion a year goes overseas, almost none of it to the Jewish state.

U.S. troops have been stationed in Germany, Japan and South Korea for generations.

Ukraine has led the aid list four years running. Uygur has never run an ad blaming Berlin or Seoul or Kyiv for what Michiganders pay for eggs.

Only one country shows up on his grocery receipt.

The people who condemned this ad weren't AIPAC operatives.

Van Jones, who served in the Obama White House, called it dangerous. Haley Stevens, who lost the primary to El-Sayed and endorsed him anyway, called it fearmongering. David French and Joe Walsh piled on.

Even El-Sayed's own campaign put out a statement saying the ad had nothing to do with it.

As for the “two-thirds,” suppose every one of them agreed with him. A majority opinion doesn't make a claim true. Slavery was legal for most of this country's first century, upheld by the Supreme Court and by the voters who elected the men who wrote those laws.

In 1939, Gallup found most Americans opposed letting in 10,000 refugee children, most of them Jewish.

Majorities have been badly wrong before, and often about Jews.

Uygur has also written that it isn't antisemitic to say “Israel controls Congress,” and he recently claimed 94% of Congress works for Israel.

That's the actual view hiding behind his "two-thirds of the country."

Nobody is silencing Cenk Uygur. He owns the network he's complaining on. What stung is that this time the pushback came from his own side.

Cenk used centuries old smeared antisemitic tropes to sell a candidate, and even the antisemitic dog whistling candidate wants no part of it.

[Steve Guest @SteveGuest]

Watch Democrat Van Jones on CNN blast the ad for Abdul El-Sayed that echos El-Sayed's words that argues that Americans have to set grocery money "aside for killing Palestinians" because of U.S. aid to Israel.

Jones: "This is an example of anti-Jewish hate, and it should be taken down immediately. And denounce, and by the way, Abdul should denounce this ad immediately."

@ScottJenningsKY adds: "It's economic incoherence wrapped up in anti-Semitism. So it's sort of par for the course. I mean, El-Sayed himself in this campaign has argued we can't have good education in this country because we fund the Iron Dome, which is completely wrong, nuts, economic incoherence. By the way, eggs, like $2.70 a carton, bananas, 40 or 50 cents a pound. It's economic incoherence. It's a lie, but it's all done in service to anti-Semitism. And at the same time, El-Sayed's campaign running ads featuring comments from Tucker Carlson. What is a Jewish Democrat in Michigan supposed to think right now? Why would El-Sayed have to answer these questions? It's a mystery."

[Micha Danzig @DanzigMD]

Ana Kasparian Asked for a “Substantive Argument.”

@Amy_Siskind is a Jewish Democrat who, despite her party’s rapid move towards DSA antisemitism, apparently still wants @AbdulElSayed to be a US Senator.

She watched the new ad from @CenkUygur's Rebellion PAC, which tells voters the only Jewish state is why their eggs and bananas cost more and why they don't have universal health care, and said what any Jew that understands our history could see: it's disgusting, blatant antisemitism.

The response from @AnaKasparian was “make a substantive argument or shut up,” plus the claim that Washington is “picking our pockets to fight Israel's wars and everyone knows it.”

That's how Ana always answers Jews who raise antisemitism.

If a Black woman called an ad racist, or a Muslim called a cartoon Islamophobic, then Ana would likely listen. A Jew says it and she tells her to “shut up.” Not a moment spent wondering how an ad blaming the Jewish state for your grocery bill might land with Jews. When a Jew from your own party calls your partner's ad blatantly antisemitic and your reflex is “shut up,” you're too far down the well to see daylight.

“Everyone knows it” is what people say when they don't have the facts or the figures. So here they are.

The groceries. Eggs averaged $2.27 a dozen in September, down 64 percent from the $6.23 peak in March 2025. Bird flu killed the flocks, the flocks came back, prices fell.

Bananas are cheaper than a year ago and up one penny since May. Americans spend more than $5 trillion a year on health care. Cancel every dollar of military aid to Israel and you'd cover less than seven hours of it.

Cenk tried to run this con in 2023 too, with a couple putting eggs back so they could save $7 for “killing Palestinians.” Same groceries, same villain, the oldest antisemitic cartoon there is: the Jew with his hand in your grocery bag.

The “robbery.” $3.8 billion a year, about 1/20th of 1% of a $7 trillion federal budget. Around $11 per American, spent on American weapons from American factories. Israel is ending it anyway: Netanyahu wants it gone within a decade, and talks to replace the MOU opened June 5. Egypt has taken $1.3 billion a year in aid for decades. TYT never blames Cairo for bananas.

Some of what America gets:

•In 2017 Israel exposed the ISIS plot to hide bombs in laptop batteries on airliners. In 2018 it stopped a plan to blow up an Etihad jet out of Sydney.
•Copaxone for MS came out of the Weizmann Institute, Azilect for Parkinson's from the Technion, Exelon for Alzheimer's from Hebrew University.
•The Israeli bandage, carried by American soldiers, cops and EMTs, has kept people from bleeding to death.
•An Israeli company built the biggest desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere, in Carlsbad, California. Israeli drip irrigation feeds drought-stricken farms worldwide.
•When the Surfside condo collapsed in 2021, Israeli rescuers flew in to dig through the rubble beside American crews.
•Israel's 2021 vaccine rollout gave the world its first real-world proof the COVID shot worked.
•Mobileye's crash-avoidance tech, invented in Jerusalem, is in millions of American cars.

Not one American soldier required. Name another $3.8 billion line item that buys all that and so much more.

None of this is new. Lindbergh blamed the Jews for dragging America to war in 1941.

Apparently inspired by David Duke - Uygur said this February that 94% of Congress “works for Israel.” Later that month, channeling her favorite neo-Nazi, Ana posted “the goyim are waking the f**k up.”

Ana demanded a substantive argument and answered a Jew with a trite slogan. Military aid to Israel will end because Israel has asked for it to end. The antisemitic libels, like falsely blaming the one Jewish state for U.S. egg prices or implying that Americans don’t have healthcare because of Israel likely won't end, because it's what gets @cenkuygur and @AnaKasparian clicks and views.

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

Make a substantive argument or shut up.

The government is picking our pockets to fight Israel’s wars and everyone knows it. If you’re able to repudiate this, then go ahead. Otherwise the emotional manipulation and smears roll off our backs. The robbery needs to end.

[Micha Danzig @DanzigMD]

You want a substantive argument, Ana? Fine.

•Start with your partner's disgusting ad. @cenkuygur Rebellion PAC is telling Michigan voters that Israel is why their eggs cost more, why their bananas cost more, and why they don't have universal health care.

Egg prices went through the roof because avian flu killed off tens of millions of laying hens. Americans spend close to $5 trillion a year on health care, and aid to Israel is less than a tenth of one percent of that. Nobody in Michigan is skipping a doctor's visit because of an Iron Dome battery. Strip away the production values and what's left is the oldest antisemitic cartoon there is: the Jew with his hand in your grocery bag.

•Cenk has run this bit before. His 2023 presidential “campaign” ad had a couple at the supermarket putting eggs back on the shelf so they could save their tax money for “killing Palestinians.” Three years later, same groceries, same villain, same bogus claim.

•The actual number. The current MOU commits $38 billion over ten years through September 2028. That's $3.8 billion a year, about one-twentieth of one percent of a roughly $7 trillion federal budget. Around $11 per American. Some robbery.

•And, the money stays home. The aid pays for weapons and services from AMERICAN companies, and the current deal ended the carve-out that once let Israel spend about a quarter of it on Israeli arms. Every dollar Ana says is being stolen ends up as a paycheck in an American factory.

•Israel is the one walking away from it. Netanyahu said in January he wanted the financial component gone within a decade. Formal talks to replace the MOU opened June 5. Kasparian is screaming about a check the recipient is already tearing up.

•Israel fights its own wars. Its 2026 defense budget is roughly $49 billion, and the American share is heading below 10%. No American has ever been drafted to fight for Israel. Israelis bury their own sons.

•Ask why Egypt gets a pass. Cairo has taken $1.3 billion a year in military aid for decades. TYT has never run an ad blaming Egypt for the price of bananas. Or blaming the other countries getting over $55 billion annually from the USA in direct aid or the hundreds of billions in benefit they receive through US troops and bases stationed in their country. Only one country gets accused of theft, and it just happens to be the Jewish one.

•We've heard this speech before. Lindbergh in 1941 told Americans the Jews were dragging them into war. Buchanan in 1990 blamed Israel's “amen corner.” Uygur in February 2026 announced that “94% of Congress works for Israel.” He's also insisted it isn't antisemitic to say Israel controls Congress. Though claims of “Jewish control” is older than Henry Ford or Hitler. Different decade, same script.

•Ana already told us what she thinks. In February doing her best neo-Nazi impersonation, she posted “The goyim are waking the f**k up,” then said fourteen hours later that she didn't regret it and wouldn't apologize. Her pinned follow-up called Israel “evil” and “genocidal” and said it had somehow “destroyed our country.”Blaming the collective Jew for ‘destroying a country’ has a long and ugly past.

•Look who's calling it out. Amy Siskind is a Democratic activist worried this ad will cost her party the seat, and she called it disgusting, blatant antisemitism. Ana's answer to her was "shut up."

Bottom line - “everyone knows it” is what people say when they have no evidence. @AnaKasparian demands a substantive argument and offers a slogan. All as her partner Cenk asks Michiganders to blame the one Jewish state for their grocery bill and lack of universal health care. The military aid is winding down because Israel asked for it to. The libel will outlive it, because it's what keeps the grifters’ audience paying for their antisemitic garbage.

[Micha Danzig @DanzigMD]

Israel-obsessed @cenkuygur & his “Rebellion PAC” made an ad telling Michigan families they can't afford eggs, bananas or a doctor because of aid to Israel, and that Israel “buys” politicians like Mike Rogers.

Uygur claims anyone who calls that propaganda - antisemitic - is “in a cult.” And to “state the obvious” @mehdirhasan has stepped in to defend this disgusting ad.

Former U.S. ambassador to Israel @DanielBShapiro stated the obvious: you can oppose aid to Israel without pretending Israel is responsible for Americans' grocery bills. Hasan's reply was to insist that it is.

As with every claim Hasan or Uygur make about Israel, this doesn’t stand up to historical or factual scrutiny.

A dozen eggs cost $6.23 in March 2025, a year before the Iran war. In September they cost $2.27. Bananas averaged 64.7 cents a pound last year and 65.6 cents last month. That's a penny. Hasan is defending an ad that blames the Jewish state for a penny more on bananas and for eggs that got cheaper.

And despite Mehdi’s misdirection the ad never argued that “the Iran war raised gas prices.”

It argued that Americans go without food and health care because of aid to Israel, and that Israel buys American senators.

Hasan is defending an ad Uygur didn't make, because the one Uygur did make is truly vile and can't credibly be defended.

Then Hasan goes further: “there would obviously be no Iran war without Israel.”

Iran has been at war with America for over 47 years. It held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. Its proxy Hezbollah killed 241 U.S. servicemen in Beirut. The Pentagon attributes more than 600 American troop deaths in Iraq to Iran. Iran doesn't need Israel to be America's enemy. Its leaders have chanted “Death to America” and called the USA the “Great Satan” routinely without reference to Israel.

Of course, @SecRubio didn't “admit” what Hasan claims either. He said the timing was shaped by Israel's plans, then said plainly: “this had to happen anyway, the president made a decision.”

The claim that Jews push America into wars it wouldn't otherwise fight is very old. Charles Lindbergh made it in Des Moines in 1941. It has been the antisemitic right's favorite line for decades, and now the far left routinely repeats it too.

Hasan and Uygur are entitled to oppose the Iran war and aid to Israel. But when one argues that Israel empties your shopping cart and is why you don’t have free health care, and the other says American presidents fight Iran only because Israel makes them, they're reviving the same accusations Lindbergh and his cohorts made. From the same ugly place.

Shapiro stated the obvious. Hasan proved his point, and Uygur paid to put this ugliness on television.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Just to state the obvious, the Iran war raised gas and diesel prices, & grocery prices, including banana prices, & it's not antisemitic to point that fact out or that there would obviously be no Iran war without Israel's involvement, & campaign for it (as even Rubio admitted).

[Micha Danzig @DanzigMD]

@KosherChutzpah @mehdirhasan And bananas are 1 cent more “expensive” than they were before the latest war with Iran.

[Micha Danzig @DanzigMD]

Mehdi, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel says Israel isn't to blame for Americans' grocery bills, and your answer is to claim it is.

Check your own numbers. A dozen eggs cost $6.23 in March 2025, a year before the Iran war. In September they cost $2.27. Bananas averaged 64.7 cents a pound last year and 65.6 cents last month. That's a penny. You're defending an ad that blames the Jewish state for a penny on bananas and for eggs that got cheaper.

The ad didn't say “the Iran war raised gas prices” anyway. It argued that Americans can't afford food or a doctor because of aid to Israel, and that Israel “buys” politicians like Mike Rogers. You're now defending a different ad, because the real one can't be defended.

Then you go further: “there would obviously be no Iran war without Israel.”

Iran has been at war with America for 47 years. It held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. Its proxy Hezbollah killed 241 U.S. servicemen in Beirut. The Pentagon attributes over 600 American troop deaths in Iraq to Iran. Iran doesn't need Israel to be America's enemy. Its leaders chants “Death to America” without any help.

Rubio didn't “admit” what you claim either. He said the timing was shaped by Israel's plans, then said plainly: “this had to happen anyway, the president made a decision.”

The claim that Jews push America into wars America wouldn't otherwise fight is very old. Charles Lindbergh made it in Des Moines in 1941. It has been the antisemitic right's favorite line ever since, and now the far left repeats it too.

You're entitled to oppose the Iran war. But when you ridiculously claim American presidents only fight Iran because Israel makes them, you're reviving that same accusation.

@DanielBShapiro stated the obvious. You answered it by proving his point.

[Micha Danzig @DanzigMD]

Nice try @cenkuygur - but no one is claiming Americans have to fund Israel or be called antisemites. That's the straw man you need, because you can't defend the ad you actually made.

Your ad tells Michigan families they can't afford eggs, bananas or a doctor because of the Jewish state.
The idea that Americans go without health care because of Israel has been repeated for years by both the far left and the neo-Nazi right. It's crazy, and simple arithmetic shows it.

Americans spent $5.3 trillion on health care in 2024. Israel's aid is $3.8 billion a year. American health care spends that much in about six hours.

If the aid ended tomorrow, not one American would gain a single day of coverage. And none of the military aid could have gone to Israeli health care. Nearly all of it must be spent with American defense manufacturers, and Israelis pay for their own health system through their own health tax, on top of income tax.

Then there's the double standard. The United States gives away tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid every year, and Israel's share was about 7% of it last year. America also keeps roughly 55,000 troops in Japan, 28,500 in South Korea and about 35,000 in Germany, paying billions to defend wealthy democracies that have universal health care of their own.

Yet, nobody makes ads saying Tokyo, Seoul or Berlin stole your doctor. Only one country gets blamed for what's in or not in your shopping cart.

Israel also gives back more to the USA than almost any ally. Its intelligence has stopped terror plots aimed at Americans. The Israeli-invented emergency bandage became standard issue in the U.S. military and has saved American soldiers' lives. This alliance is worth far more than $3.8 billion a year to America.

So the question isn't why your critics call the ad antisemitic. The question is why, out of every dollar America spends abroad, you chose to blame Americans' grocery bills and doctor bills on the only Jewish state.

Meanwhile, you’re raising money to run it more often so it will “drive the radical Zionists crazy,” when Jews across the political spectrum recognize the antisemitic lineage of your propaganda.

The sick thing here is the ad, and you made it.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

If you think this ad is antisemitic, you’re in a cult and don’t know it. You think Israel is owed all the money it wants from US and if Americans don’t hand it over - without complaint - they’re antisemites. That’s insane, but you don’t realize it because you’ve lost your mind.

[Micha Danzig @DanzigMD]

Cenk, nobody is claiming Americans have to fund Israel or be called antisemites. That's the straw man you need, because you can't defend the ad you actually made.
Your ad tells Michigan families they can't afford eggs, bananas or a doctor because of the Jewish state.

The idea that Americans go without health care because of Israel has been repeated for years by both the far left and the neo-Nazi right. It's crazy, and simple arithmetic shows it.

Americans spent $5.3 trillion on health care in 2024. Military aid to Israel is $3.8 billion a year. American health care spends that much in about six hours.

If the aid ended tomorrow, not one American would gain a single day of coverage. And none of the military aid could have gone to Israeli health care. Nearly all of it must be spent with American defense manufacturers, and Israelis pay for their own health system through their own health tax, on top of a near 50% income tax.

Then there's the double standard. The United States gives away tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid every year, and Israel's share was about 7% of it last year. America also keeps roughly 55,000 troops in Japan, 28,500 in South Korea and about 35,000 in Germany, paying billions to defend wealthy democracies that have universal health care of their own.

Nobody makes ads saying Tokyo, Seoul or Berlin stole your doctor. Only one country gets blamed for what's in your shopping cart.

Israel also gives back more to the USA than almost any ally. Its intelligence has stopped terror plots aimed at Americans. The Israeli-invented emergency bandage became standard issue in the U.S. military and has saved American soldiers' lives. That alliance is worth far more than $3.8 billion a year.

So the question isn't why your critics call the ad antisemitic. The question is why, out of every dollar America spends abroad, you chose to blame Americans' grocery bills and doctor bills on the only Jewish state.

You're also raising money to run it more often so it will “drive the radical Zionists crazy,” when Jews across the political spectrum recognize the antisemitic lineage of your propaganda.

The sick thing here is the ad, and you made it.

[Micha Danzig @DanzigMD]

Watch "NAZA: The Real Story," made in under two weeks by IDF veterans with their own money: https://t.co/bL5JLTsK3p

And, my column with the details about who chose where the targets in Gaza would be in the @Jerusalem_Post 👇

https://t.co/ZQKde8Rkk9

[Micha Danzig @DanzigMD]

*Venice recently gave a prize to the Guardian's NAZA.*
It asks how Israel decided whether to strike. It never asks who chose where the targets would be.
Here's the answer, from "NAZA: The Real Story."

Beside a UNRWA-funded playground flying a Hamas flag, sacks of UN-stamped rice and flour were stacked into a fighting position. Next door, a kindergarten held weapons and a tunnel shaft. Two gunmen came out of that shaft with an RPG and wounded five IDF soldiers.
Israel was accused of starving Gaza. The food was there. Hamas used it for cover.

Sinwar's command center sat under the ER of the European Hospital in Khan Yunis. Six hostages were executed in a tunnel whose shaft opened into a child's bedroom painted with Snow White and Mickey Mouse.

Collateral damage requires collateral. Hamas put it there by design. @guardian filmed the result and called it an Israeli crime.

Venice gave Leni Riefenstahl's "Olympia" its top prize in 1938. History doesn't always repeat @la_Biennale - but it often rhymes.

[Micha Danzig @DanzigMD]

*New York Elected a Mayor. It Got a Foreign Minister.*

Jews were the targets of 245 of the 463 confirmed hate crimes in New York City in the first nine months of this year, 53% in a city where they make up about 10% of the population.

Zohran Mamdani, who is supposed to be doing something about that, spent Wednesday afternoon tweeting about Brad Lander's photo op in the West Bank.

"Harvesting olives is not illegal," the mayor wrote. "The occupation is."

The second sentence would surprise anyone who has read the Geneva Conventions, which regulate military occupation rather than outlaw it.

The ICJ's 2024 opinion his fellow travelers in the far-left and green alliance like to cite is advisory and binds no one, and the security rules around Beitar Illit are there because the PLO signed off on them at Oslo.

Mamdani then moved on to the genocide-libel, accusing Israel of "killing more than 74,000 people over the last few years alone."

“Genocide” is the attempt to destroy a people. Israel has gone about it in a peculiar way, calling and texting Gazan civilians before strikes, dropping leaflets telling them where to go to avoid the fighting and opening corridors so they could get there.

In September 2024, with the war still on, Israel agreed to pauses in the fighting so the WHO could vaccinate 640,000 Gazan children against polio. Israel enabled about 1.8 million tons of food to go into Gaza during the first eight months of the ceasefire, around three times what the World Food Programme said was needed, and a UNICEF-coordinated survey this July put acute malnutrition at or below where it was before the war that Hamas started on Oct. 7.

Has there ever been a “genocide” that came with a vaccination drive?

Hamas, meanwhile, spent years and $billions digging more than 500 kilometers of tunnels beneath Gaza's homes, schools and hospitals, and never let a single Gazan civilian shelter in them.

When an interviewer asked Mousa Abu Marzouk about this a few weeks after October 7, he said the tunnels “are meant to protect us [Hamas] from the airplanes” and that looking after civilians was the UN's job.

When Israel told Gazans to evacuate in October 2023, Hamas told them to stay where they were. The fighters went underground and the families stayed on top, and it's Israel that stands accused.

That 74,000 figure that the NYC foreign minister uses comes from Hamas’s health ministry, which makes no distinction between a Hamas terrorist and a toddler.

Israel puts the number of Hamas & PIJ terrorists among the dead at roughly 25,000, every one of whom the mayor has now folded into his “genocide.”

On one night in March 1945, American bombers killed somewhere between 80,000 and 100,000 people in Tokyo, and nobody at City Hall calls that genocide. The Japanese, of course, weren't fighting Jews.

This war did begin with a genocidal attack.

On October 7, Hamas murdered 1,200 people in under 8 hours, took 251 hostages into Gaza, filmed much of it, and afterward promised to do it “again and again” until Israel was wiped out.

Mamdani's post ends with a list of things that must end: the detention, the occupation, the genocide. Hamas isn't on it.

Jews were once accused of murdering Christian children for their blood. Today they're accused of “genocide.” It's the same libel, and it travels faster now.

The mayor also didn't mention that Lander recited a Quran verse in May at the Al-Khoei Islamic Center in Queens, whose sheikh told the New York Sun in 2006 that the Holocaust was exaggerated.

Mamdani has been there at least three times since January 2025. He clearly has opinions about “genocide,” just not consistent ones.

He wants the New Yorkers detained near Bethlehem “released immediately.” The Jewish New Yorkers being assaulted in his own city would settle for a mayor who cared about them half as much.

[Micha Danzig @DanzigMD]

*Brad Lander Flew 6,000 Miles to Pick Olives and Couldn't Find the Village.*

Brad Lander says he was detained "near Nehalim." Nehalim is a moshav next to Petah Tikva. He was in Nahalin, outside Bethlehem. Close enough, I suppose, for a man who wants a vote on US foreign policy.

His staff was told in advance by Israeli officials in the US that the harvest required coordination with the authorities.

He skipped it, marched into a closed area near Beitar Illit with about 80 activists, got put on a bus, and took a moody selfie in a Knicks cap. Afterward he told NPR he had no obligation to coordinate. Try that line at a police tape in Brooklyn and see how far it gets you.

Then came the faux legal analysis. "The occupation is a crime under international law."

Name the statute, Brad. No treaty makes "occupation" a crime. The Geneva Conventions regulate it. The ICJ opinion his friends keep waving is advisory and binds nobody.

And the security rules around Beitar Illit exist because Arafat's PLO signed them at Oslo in 1995.

He also skipped the history. The history is inconvenient.

Those hills are Gush Etzion. Jews bought and farmed that land before the British-created Kingdom of Jordan even existed as an independent state, let alone seized it in 1948.

In January 1948, thirty-five young men trying to reach the besieged bloc were slaughtered in those hills. That May, Arab forces overran Kfar Etzion and murdered defenders who had already surrendered. None of that made it into Brad's post or likely his prayers.

But Brad does know some prayers. In May, at a Queens mosque whose spiritual leader once told the New York Sun the Holocaust was exaggerated, he recited a Quran verse in Arabic, libeled Israel as "genocidal," and sat down while the imam prayed for the Mahdi to kill the infidels with his sword. Brad thought he was building a coalition. The imam thought he was an infidel.

Lander is right about one thing. Picking olives isn't a crime. Neither is filming a campaign ad, which is what this was.

[Micha Danzig @DanzigMD]

Spot on Joe.

Israel is actually one of America's best allies:

•Al Haig called it the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that can't be sunk. No US crew. No US casualties.
•Israel fights its own wars with its own kids.
•Israeli intel exposed the 2017 ISIS plot to bomb US airliners with laptops.
•Israel took out Saddam's reactor in 1981 and Assad's in 2007. Picture 1991 against a nuclear Iraq.
•Iron Dome, David's Sling and Arrow are built with US firms. US Abrams tanks run Israel's Trophy system.
•Most US military aid gets spent here, in the USA with American jobs.

•Israeli tech helps to feed and irrigate America. Drip irrigation, invented in Israel, waters crops across California's drought-hit Central Valley, which grows much of the fruit and vegetables Americans eat. In San Diego County, the Carlsbad desalination plant, the largest in the Western Hemisphere, was built with Israel's IDE Technologies and supplies about a tenth of the county's water. Then add the Intel chips, the cybersecurity and the medical devices designed in Israel.

El-Sayed crazily characterizes Iran or Israel as equivalents with respect to America. Iran's record:

•52 US diplomats held hostage for 444 days
•241 servicemen murdered in the Beirut Marine barracks, 1983
•17 Americans killed in the Beirut embassy bombing
•19 airmen killed at Khobar Towers, 1996
•At least 600 US troops killed by Iran-backed militias in Iraq, per the Pentagon
•3 soldiers killed at Tower 22 in 2024
•Plots to assassinate Trump, Bolton and the Saudi ambassador on US soil
•At least 14 US soldiers killed this year by Iranian drones and missiles in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Jordan

El-Sayed admitted one of the two is the one attacking us. He still couldn't choose.

As it has been doing to its own people, Iran has been killing Americans since 1979. If you can't tell that fascist regime from Israel, then you have no business in the US Senate.

[Micha Danzig @DanzigMD]

My full piece in @JewishJournal 👇
https://t.co/ILUQfDBx2b

Share it with anyone still citing @BarackObama as an authority on the Arab-Israeli conflict.

[Micha Danzig @DanzigMD]

Obama went to Belfast to lecture Israel about peace.

Belfast is the one city on earth that learned, in blood, that a peace deal means nothing while terrorists keep their guns.

The 1998 Good Friday Agreement stalled for years because the IRA, responsible for nearly half the ~3,600 deaths of the Troubles, refused to disarm. Peace took hold only after monitors confirmed in 2005 that its weapons were gone.

Hamas has vowed to repeat October 7 "again and again." It won't give up a single rifle.

The Irish analogy runs the other way. Jews are to the land of Israel what the Irish are to Ireland. The IRA wanted its conquerors gone. Hamas wants Jews gone from Judea.

Queen's gave @BarackObama the degree. Belfast offered him the lesson.

He failed it. See 👇