I went to the White House Correspondents Dinner for one reason.
Too many journalists have done everything they can to dehumanize me for months, and I wanted to look them in the eye.
Today, a man ran through Golders Green, a Jewish neighborhood in London, stabbing Jews outside a synagogue in broad daylight.
The UK PM called it "utterly appalling."
Here's what's actually appalling:
For two years, Western streets have hosted marches calling for the elimination of Israel. Universities have celebrated it. Politicians have legitimized it. The media has normalized it.
You don't get to spend two years mainstreaming the idea that Jews and their state have no right to exist and then act shocked when someone takes the message literally.
Words have consequences. "From the river to the sea" isn't poetry. "Globalize the intifada" isn't a metaphor.
When you spend years telling the world that Jewish presence in the Middle East or in Golders Green is a problem to be solved, don't be surprised when someone shows up with a knife to solve it.
The ideology and the blade are the same weapon. One just has a longer handle.
I’m old enough to remember when the BBC wouldn’t report the number of Iranians slaughtered by the regime because they “couldn’t independently verify it”.
It's the third time WW3 has broken out in a year and as many smart people have predicted we're all going to die. Like the last two times. It's been a pleasure knowing you all and I hope to see you in the afterlife. Or just back here tomorrow reading the same panic slop.
@dorset_eye@ATHE1STP0WER@ZackPolanski "of any kind" is a load of bollox. It's seemingly never crossed your mind that some fascists may be brown and speak a different language. In that case I guess you'll just roll over and be submissive. The rest of us won't!
If you claim to support human rights yet can’t bring yourself to show solidarity with those fighting for their liberty in Iran, you’ve revealed yourself. You don’t give a damn about people being oppressed and brutalised so long as it’s being done by the enemies of your enemies.