Ephraim Jacobson

[NYC DOT @NYC_DOT]

Five Saturdays of car-free streets in the books for 2026.

Summer Streets is our celebration of New York City's most valuable public space: our streets.

Thank you to everyone who came out this summer, and we look forward to seeing you on back on the streets next year!

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

BREAKING: The “few bad apples” line pushed by the UN has just been obliterated. The Wall Street Journal front page is reporting that an estimated 1,200 Unrwa employees in Gaza are actual “operatives” of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and about half have close relatives who belong to the Islamist terrorist organizations, according to Israeli intelligence estimates shared with the U.S. government.

The report said 23% of Unrwa’s male employees—the agency has a total staff of 12,000 in Gaza—took active part in the Hamas organization’s military or political framework, a higher percentage than the average of 15% for adult males in Gaza.

The information in the Israeli intelligence reports is based on sensitive signals intelligence as well as cellphone tracking data, interrogations of captured Hamas gunmen and documents recovered from dead terrorists.

Nearly half of all Unrwa employees—an estimated 49%—also had close relatives with official ties to Hamas and other terrorist groups.

The Oct. 7 intelligence reports seen by the Wall Street Journal identified an Unrwa Arabic teacher who was also a Hamas terrorist commander and took part in a terrorist attack on Kibbutz Be’eri, where 97 people were murdered, and about 26 people were kidnapped and taken as hostages to Gaza.

Another Unrwa employee, described in the dossier as an Unrwa social worker, played a role in absconding with the body of a dead Israeli soldier, which was taken to Gaza, the reports said. He also coordinated trucks and munitions distributions for Hamas before being killed.

📍Full story by @cjkeller8 & @davidluhnow @WSJ: https://t.co/O52PuArX0y

[Chris Cameron @ChrisCameronNYT]

A man who allegedly threatened to kill Vivek Ramaswamy and supporters at a campaign event scheduled this morning in New Hampshire was arrested on Saturday. Guns were seized at the man's residence, and the texts were recovered from his phone, the FBI says. https://t.co/OOOsnElt7g

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

When Harvard President's "Let me be clear" gets red-flagged by a Community Note because some of us are old enough to remember yesterday what she repeatedly refused to say. https://t.co/k6nPNhBXG8

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

UNRWA's tweet complaining about “unsubstantiated claims about UNRWA” just got Community Noted with lots of substantiated claims.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

Since the NYT version isn’t clear, the reason she is disfigured is that she blew up her car bomb early because she was confronted by an Israeli police officer (Moshe Chen, who was injured in the explosion and still has not fully recovered) before she could reach her target.

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

No, @nytimes, Israa Jaabees wasn't "accused of attempted murder." She was convicted. Because her car didn't passively explode, she detonated a gas canister meant to be part of a suicide bombing.

You also forgot to mention that Addameer, whom you cite as a "prisoners’ rights organization," is affiliated with the PFLP terror org.

Stop trying to diminish the crime of a convicted terrorist.
https://t.co/Uskq7lNDj0

[Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis @chiefrabbi]

Words matter.

A number of media organisations have editorial guidelines directing them not to use the term 'terrorist' in their reporting of the conflict between Israel and Hamas. 

These guidelines may be borne out of well-intentioned aspirations to appear accurate and impartial. But there is a point at which the failure to use the term 'terrorist', is itself a failure of accuracy and impartiality. 

The depth of the terror that Hamas has inflicted upon innocent people across Israel in recent days is not in doubt. The murder of babies where they sleep is not the act of a 'freedom fighter'. The performative desecration of dead bodies for the benefit of social media, the rape of women and the beheading of civilians in their homes, are not the acts of 'militants'.

The true motives of Hamas could not be clearer. It seeks the murder of Jews and the annihilation of the Jewish state. Their charter says as much. Hamas is no different to ISIS. Did decent, moral people seek to justify the actions of 9/11, 7/7 or the Manchester Arena bombing?

It should be painfully obvious that there is no moral equivalence between those whose motive is to deliberately target innocent civilians in cold blood, and those whose motive is to remove the threat of such murderers. The fact that this discussion is necessary at all is a clear sign that we are losing our moral compass and of the warped nature of the depths to which discourse on Israel has sunk. 

And so I call upon broadcasters to urgently change the way they describe Hamas. Further, I call upon all decent people to have the courage to call out this terror for what it is. We must all be unequivocal that the loss of any innocent life is a tragedy, and that the barbaric, murderous terrrorism of Hamas cannot be denied or obfuscated. It is a matter of deepest regret that some feel otherwise.

This is not 'resistance' or 'struggle'. It is terrorism. To purposefully avoid that word is to wilfully mislead.

[Ephraim Jacobson @EphraimJacobso2]

@FeldheimRejects @JokeOverMyHead I think people might need some peirush on this one