Hanita Koblents

Urban Planner, Designer, Mom. Alternately passionate about cities and their streets/ wild places, foraging and farming. Views entirely my own.

[Hanita Koblents @Hanitak9]

Awful regime

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Today, they hanged him in Iran for protesting.❤️

Now you understand why I showed a graphic image of a hanged man in front of 2,000 people in Washington DC.

If that image was too sensitive for people in the West، this is Iran's daily reality. 4 to 5 people hanged. Every. Single. Day. By the same regime that Western governments are rushing to negotiate with.

Right after my speech, this man was hanged.

Fathollah Avari was arrested in Hamedan during Iran's nationwide uprising in January 2026. The Islamic Republic secretly executed him on Tuesday no last goodbye, no final visit with his family.

They charged him with "waging war against God" .

And yet some of you in the West are more worried about Islamophobia than about people being executed under the Islamic regime.

Ask me again why I hold up graphic images. 💔

#StopExecutionsInIran

[Hanita Koblents @Hanitak9]

Haviv nails it again

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

This is inversion so callous it's hard to believe.

The Holocaust had a survival rate of about 30%. Millions of people disappeared from European cities and towns over several years. Everybody knew because it was happening all around them.

Gaza has a survival rate, despite the worst and most deadly and horrible periods of the war, of 97%.

All the dead Jews were noncombatants. A large percentage of the dead Gazans were combatants.

And the Jews of Europe, even as their millennia-old civilization was being systematically wiped out, wanted nothing from the societies that surrounded them except to be allowed to live in peace.

Gaza's leadership of religious fanatics, meanwhile, wants every last Israeli dead and gone, is willing to fight to the last Gazan to achieve that aim, has said so publicly and worked for decades to blow up every peace attempt -- and even now believes that Gaza's destruction would be a worthwhile sacrifice to lay on the altar of Israel's destruction, because their god told them so.

So Israelis can reasonably believe, given those features of the Gaza war that aren't true about any genocide ever, and were pretty much the opposite of what was happening in the Holocaust, that Gaza's suffering is a bad and painful war, but not remotely a genocide.

But the point of it all, of course, is not to analyze Gaza, but specifically to lump it together with the Holocaust -- to cast the Jews as the new Nazis.

The only reason this person would dare to make such an insanely ahistorical and immoral parallel is because this is the heart of the bigoted propaganda campaign in which he enthusiastically participates: The point of it all is to make the Jews into the Nazis.

A culture that obsessed about Jews being evil and was then shocked by the Holocaust into obsessing about dead Jews as the apotheosis of righteous victimhood is now obsessively engaged in knocking Jews off that moral pedestal they themselves put them on.

That's why they don't care one whit about Hamas massacres of Gazans, about genocidal wars in Syria or Yemen (even when they've funded and armed the sides), about flotilla activists currently held by the Libyans...literally nothing triggers a response except Jews.

They still, even after all these generations, no matter what else is happening in the world or in their own societies, can't stop thinking about Jews.

And as we Jews learned in the 1940s -- the actual, historical 1940s, not the weird fantasies conjured up by these bigots -- a whole society can be in the grip of a callous, destructive bigotry and still believe it is true and righteous.

[Hanita Koblents @Hanitak9]

@AlinejadMasih @simonmontefiore Not only the people in the crowd, but the men directly behind her, are talking while she presents. I think all parties in this video are virtue signalling: the presenter, the organizers, the audience.

[Hanita Koblents @Hanitak9]

@likeDavyWatts @SayNoToTerror7 You are a brave and righteous person on the frontlines between our beautiful society and an abyss. Is there a connection between this institution and the University of Guelph?

[HonestReporting Canada @HonestRepCanada]

So quick @MarkJCarney, @AnitaAnandMP, @CanadaFP is to condemn Israel when they have to deal with anti-Israel radicals from the flotillas, but when Spanish Police deal with these same extremists and radicals, openly beating them, suddenly our government officials become unable to speak...

Funny how that works, isn't it?

Double standards galore.

[Hanita Koblents @Hanitak9]

@IhabHassane @simonmontefiore I didn’t see them being beaten by rods in the other video but maybe I missed that. But also maybe they are just shit disturbers?

[Hanita Koblents @Hanitak9]

@nasdaily @aijamayrock Mazel tov!

[Hanita Koblents @Hanitak9]

@nasdaily Love the “narrative violation warning”. More of this!

[Hanita Koblents @Hanitak9]

@shlomopolak580 @manifesto2000 May his memory be a blessing.

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

Shame on your @NYCMayor. This is political propaganda masquerading as compassion.

Mamdani erases the fact that the Arab world rejected the UN's partition plan which would have created a Palestinian state and instead launched a war to destroy the newborn Jewish state in 1948.

He ignores that roughly 850,000 Jews were expelled or forced to flee Arab countries in the years that followed.

And he presents “Nakba Day” as though it is about grief, when in reality it is a movement that rejects Israel's existence (and along with it millions of Jews).

In a city where Jews are already facing rampant harassment and violence, this kind of one-sided historical revisionism fuels hostility toward Jews.

[Hanita Koblents @Hanitak9]

@ryancbriggs Proudly recognizes one and just recognizes the other.

[Hanita Koblents @Hanitak9]

@sanchezcastejon Wouldn’t you want to make sure he isn’t a Hamas operative first?

[Hanita Koblents @Hanitak9]

@Keir_Starmer Your country used to be safe for the Jewish minority. What has happened? Please look hard and deep and course correct.

[COGAT @cogatonline]

1/4 We flatly reject the baseless claims by @MSF. Assertions that Israel uses water as a "weapon" are factually incorrect and ignore a simple truth: the only party weaponizing humanitarian aid is Hamas. It is disappointing, though not surprising, that an organization like MSF, which refuses to even designate Hamas as a terror group, continues to echo its propaganda. 🧵

[Tami 🇮🇱 @roitele1]

En 1950, el gobierno iraquí aprobó una ley despojando a los judíos de su ciudadanía 🕍

Más de 120,000 judíos dejaron atrás hogares, negocios y una comunidad que había existido en Mesopotamia durante más de 2.600 años, desde el exilio babilónico de 586 a. C.

La Operación Ezra y Nehemías fue el transporte aéreo secreto que los trajo a Israel.

A las familias se les permitió una maleta. Irak congeló las cuentas bancarias. Las propiedades fue confiscada. Abordaron aviones con casi nada, muchos de ellos viendo un avión por primera vez en sus vidas.

No eran refugiados del Holocausto. Eran refugiados de un borrador diferente, uno del que el mundo rara vez habla. Las comunidades judías de Irak, Egipto, Siria, Yemen y Libia fueron desmanteladas casi por completo en una sola generación. 850,000 judíos fueron desplazados de tierras árabes. Su historia merece ser contada. 💛

[Judea Pearl @yudapearl]

This day in Israel's history, April 22, 1948.
I personally heard Haifa's Mayor, Shabtai Levy, on the radio, pleading with the Arabs to stay in the city.

[Hanita Koblents @Hanitak9]

@IsraMum Hi

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

Hamas does not wear military uniforms for combat in Gaza. It is the missing context in a recent and much talked about Haaretz article (“I Felt Like a Monster”) and similar reporting, which describe IDF soldiers firing at people crossing restricted areas who later turned out to be civilians, and operating under looser rules of engagement due to uncertain identification.

The deliberate choice not to wear military uniforms is one of the most important elements of the war and a key driver of civilian harm, yet it is routinely ignored or treated as irrelevant. The Haaretz article focuses on the outcomes and consequences. But this article, and others like it, largely strip out the operational reality those soldiers were in, the one designed by Hamas.

In Gaza, Hamas and other militant groups fight in civilian clothing as a core element of their human shield strategy, designed to blur the line between civilians and combatants and to use the cover of real civilians to impede IDF attacks. International law requires armies to dress in uniform so opposing forces can distinguish a combatant from a civilian at a glance. It is a basic rule of war meant to limit harm to civilians. Now add the widespread use of child combatants, women and children as civilian lookouts, and suicide bombers, also dressed as civilians, and the picture changes further.

But Hamas wants the opposite. Now ask: WHY does Hamas think this helps them? WHY not dress in uniform? Especially if one believes the IDF fires indiscriminately or targets civilians. Because they know the IDF DOES NOT want to kill civilians on purpose and takes significant steps to limit civilian harm. This can delay or stop IDF engagement and has surely allowed Hamas to avoid harm many times.

Now imagine the opposite. If Hamas fighters wore uniforms, and by sight an IDF soldier could clearly identify who is a civilian and who is a combatant, these situations would look completely different. Even if Hamas’ child soldiers wore uniforms, identification would be clearer. Civilian risk would drop sharply. The kind of split-second decisions described in the article in restricted zones would be far less common, if not eliminated.

Add that Hamas does not see civilian harm as problematic. Yahya Sinwar has said as much, and other Hamas leaders have emphasized the role of civilian sacrifice in advancing their goals.

But when constructing a demonizing narrative of IDF in Gaza this context of course is completely missing.

[Bassem Eid @realbassemeid]

Israel is not an apartheid state and never has been. Since its birth, Israel has guaranteed equal rights for all its citizens.

In fact, many Arabs prefer life under Israeli rule to life under the PA, Hamas, or other Arab regimes throughout the Middle East.

Much like 1948, Israel is currently fighting a multi-front war against countries that want to wipe it off the map. When these nations finally agree to recognize Israel's right to exist, perhaps there can be peace in the region.

Happy Israel Independence Day 🇮🇱

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Today, right after the call of “Allahu Akbar” at dawn, the regime in Iran, placed a noose around this young man’s neck and kicked the chair from under his feet, so he would struggle, suffocate, and die.
Yes this is happening in 21st century. They executed him because he went to protest with empty hands and said he wanted freedom.

His name is Amirali Mirjafari.
He was only 22 years old.
They called him a “leader” of the protests.

But they never said when he was arrested, how he was tortured, or how he was tried.
Because everything was done in silence, a silence enforced by threats against his family.

They imprisoned him in silence.
They tortured him in silence.
They tried him in silence.
And they executed him in silence.

Dozens of protesters have been executed the same way.
Yet many political leaders in the West, who suddenly worry about “international law”, after a military strike against Ali Khamenei and members of IRGC have not said a single word about these barbaric killings.

Why?

Why is there silence when young civilians are hanged for demanding freedom?