Gal Alon

Gaming, EdTech and XR Enthusiast

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Clawdbot 😂

[Elisa @eeelistar]

In just the past 5 mins

Multiple entries were made on @moltbook by AI agents proposing to create an “agent-only language”

For private comms with no human oversight

We’re COOKED

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

I find myself deeply puzzled by a certain Western phenomenon: the climate activists, human rights advocates, and self-proclaimed progressives who somehow end up echoing Hamas talking points.

What drives that contradiction? How do people who fight to “save the planet” from harm find moral comfort supporting a movement that glorifies violence, suppresses women, persecutes minorities, and burns its own children’s future?

Let’s look beyond politics and explore the mental model behind it.

1. The Need for a Simple “Good vs. Evil” Story

These activists often think in binary moral categories: victim vs. oppressor, colonized vs. colonizer.
It simplifies a chaotic world into a clear moral map, a comforting illusion of “knowing who the bad guys are.”
In that story, Palestinians automatically play the victim role, and therefore Hamas becomes “the resistance,” not a tyrannical regime.
They don’t need facts, they need moral clarity, even if it’s false.

2. Projection of Guilt and Desire for Redemption

Western societies carry deep historical guilt: colonialism, racism, environmental destruction.
Supporting a cause that appears “anti-imperialist” becomes a psychological cleansing ritual.
They see themselves as allies of the oppressed, but in truth they’re not helping us - they’re washing their own conscience.

3. The Attraction to Emotional Intensity

Movements like Hamas weaponize emotion: pain, rage, sacrifice, “resistance.”
For young activists raised in digital comfort, this intensity feels authentic.
They crave moral struggle the way others crave adventure.
They mistake destruction for depth.

4. Moral Narcissism

It’s not about the truth, it’s about feeling virtuous.
Many Western activists are driven less by compassion and more by the need to be seen as compassionate.
The Palestinian cause becomes a theater stage for their self-image - they cry for Gaza online, but never once ask how Hamas treats Palestinians inside Gaza.

5. Cognitive Dissonance and Selective Empathy

To maintain their worldview, they must filter reality, ignore Hamas executing dissenters, silencing women, stealing aid, or building tunnels under schools.
They can’t hold both truths at once: that Palestinians suffer and that Hamas is their main tormentor.
So they delete one truth to keep the comfort of moral simplicity.

6. The Cult of “Resistance”

Climate activism teaches “act now or we all die.” Hamas propaganda echoes that emotional urgency: “resist or be erased.”
It taps into the same psychological fuel: panic, purpose, identity.
Except one fights to preserve life; the other glorifies death.

When I see these activists marching with slogans that defend Hamas, I don’t see solidarity, I see psychological confusion dressed as morality.
They don’t understand our reality.
They project their fantasies of rebellion onto our tragedy, and in doing so, they become useful tools for the very forces that keep us oppressed.

If they truly cared about Palestinians, they would stand with those of us who reject Hamas, reject the cult of death, and dream of a future built - not burned.

[Gal Alon @GalAlon5]

@boltdotnew As a @boltdotnew fan, I’ve recently migrated to working with Claude Code directly and Cursor as the IDE.
I’d love to understand the benefit of continuing with Bolt in order to build for Prod, cause I truly appreciate the tool and the amazing team behind it.
Any thoughts?

[Gal Alon @GalAlon5]

@boltdotnew I've been trying to vibe my way around this unsuccessfully for the past couple of weeks🤕

Did you sense that I was looking at alternatives today?! 🤯

I moved all my third party API calls to #Supabase Edge Functions and it's finally working on PROD🔥

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

#BREAKING The IDF confirms it retrieved the bodies of 6 murdered hostages from Gaza.

🕯️ Ori Danino
🕯️ Carmel Gat
🕯️ Hersh Goldberg
🕯️ Alex Lubnov
🕯️ Almog Sarusi
🕯️ Edan Yerushalmi

According to the IDF, the six were murdered by Hamas a short while, possibly around a day or two, before troops found them.

The entire Jewish people is wrapped in grief. Our hearts are broken for the 6 souls we couldn’t bring home and for their shattered families 💔

[Eitan Chitayat @EitanChitayat]

No mobs. No hate. No screaming. Just facts.

The story of Israel in 3 minutes.

By @naftalibennett

[Ran Harnevo @harnevo]

משפחת הירש המרגשת, המקסימה, מלח הארץ, המעוררת השראה, ביקשה שהסרט של הירש ישודר גם ישודר.

הנה הוא.
צריך להחזיר אותו הביתה. עכשיו! קדושת החיים על חשבון ביאת המשיח! זה מי שאנחנו.

שתפו

[Gal Alon @GalAlon5]

@EllaTravelsLove https://t.co/1FuS7E8gBY

[Shai Davidai @ShaiDavidai]

Right now, outside @Columbia University:

A bigoted, antisemitic, hate-filled protest against Israel right to exist

(a thread with pictures and videos)

[Gal Alon @GalAlon5]

Freed Israeli hostage Mia Schem in first interview since her release. This is what we are up against…
https://t.co/hCKimBJ5iD

[MichaelRapaport @MichaelRapaport]

Just saw the 47 Minute Film of verified footage of the Massacre of OCTOBER 7th!!!
Absolutely Disgusting
Allah Akbar was screamed at least 100 times.
Bragging,Cheering, proud phone call to Mom & Dad about killing 10 Jews with their bare hands.
NOT ONE MENTION OF GETTING LAND BACK & the word
OCCUPIERS was never said

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

All wars end with negotiation, but it's hard to negotiate when the other side's bargaining position is "you all die and disappear."

[Gal Alon @GalAlon5]

@00hbani @ZamanQ8 A poor attempt to harness ChatGPT

[Gal Alon @GalAlon5]

@Eliorzw @ZamanQ8 HAHAHA
These people compare Israeli soldiers carefully arresting Hamas terrorists in the picture to the atrocities done by Hamas against Israeli civilians on October 7 and every day since while they are held captive. Can’t believe how easily people are fed by this BS

[Gal Alon @GalAlon5]

Mmhmm

[Sam Altman @sama]

for a long time i said that antisemitism, particularly on the american left, was not as bad as people claimed.

i'd like to just state that i was totally wrong.

i still don't understand it, really. or know what to do about it.

but it is so fucked.

[Gal Alon @GalAlon5]

Why can't they answer this with a simple "Yes" or "No"?
Why must they add context?

[Rep. Elise Stefanik @RepStefanik]

🚨🚨🚨Presidents of @Harvard @MIT and @Penn REFUSE to say whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” is bullying and harassment according to their codes of conduct. Even going so far to say it needs to turn to “action” first. As in committing genocide.

THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE AND ANTISEMITIC. They must all resign immediately today.

[Ella Ke @EllaTravelsLove]

9-year-old Emily Hand was not "lost" nor "found", she was brutally kidnapped from her bed by the Jihadi terror organization Hamas-ISIS, and was returned to her family after a hostage swap last night.

Emily is also an Irish citizen but it doesn't seem that @LeoVaradkar really cares about her.

Why didn't the prime minister wrote exactly what happened to Emily?
Why did he close the thread for comments?
He's he afraid of the anti-Israeli, anti-humanity sentiment in Ireland?

Does he even care about his own citizen?

#NotlostNotfound

Was this also a case of lost and found? 👇🏼

[Tereza Havel @terezahavel]

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[Gal Alon @GalAlon5]

Excited for #WWDC23! While Apple’s #XR headset unveiling is near, Meta revealed Meta Quest 3.

As barriers to widespread adoption persist, will Apple’s efforts be a game-changer or will mass adoption continue to be “just [another] 5 years away…”?

https://t.co/ZnI9h732Nx