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[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

African American visitor in Israel (@Chriscaresnone - The Babka King):

“I feel safer walking here in Tel Aviv than back home. People respect me, no one’s clutching their purse, a random guy even let us in his car. This ain’t happening in America.”

Real talk from someone seeing it with his own eyes. 🇮🇱

You’ll always be welcome in Israel, Chris

[liel leibovitz @liel]

As so many people, including so many who ought to know much better, are falling for the "Very Violent Settlers" storyline, here's a very brief clarification on what's actually happening on the ground. Palestinians are constantly and violently provoking and attacking their Jewish neighbors: an 18-year-old young man named Yehuda Sherman was killed just this morning when a Palestinian driver deliberately ran him over. Palestinians are also constantly seizing lands illegally, and on the rare occasion that Israel's highly sympathetic courts bother enforcing the law and demanding that they leave, they ignore the orders and grab away. Meanwhile, a battery of "human rights organizations," paid for by the same deep-pocketed NGOs paying for all the progressive chaos worldwide, are spinning out reports accusing Israel of unspeakable crimes, often marking Palestinian terrorists eliminated while murdering Jewish civilians as innocent victims of settler violence. And thanks to a Biden-administration appointed official, these reports are then copy-pasted, word for word, and presented as official American policy. When Palestinians go on murderous sprees, no one registers a complaint. When PA police officers blatantly violate the Oslo Accords, it's all good. But when a Jews respond to constant attacks and provocations by rising up and defending themselves, everyone, including a large swaths of American Jews, hurry to condemn them as dangerous lunatics. This kind of retardation doesn't work anymore: Jews have every right to defend themselves from murderous Palestinian violence everywhere, but especially in their ancestral homeland of Judea and Samaria.

[WikiBias @WikiBias]

Investigations have revealed that Iskandar323, the recently banned editor, who worked to rewrite Jewish history and whitewash the Iranian regime and Hamas, is an English journalist based in the United Arab Emirates.

Our eyes are wide open for all others. More to come.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

Will people get a bloody grip

British Jews fund 4 ambulances *for everyone* because they are lovely

Just like the 200 other lovely organisations that fund ambulances

Fund ambulances = good
Burn ambulances = evil

Get a bloody moral compass.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

What a moment of pride for Spain.

Its PM Pedro Sanchez is having his face emblazoned on Iranian missiles in gratitude for his support for the Iranian regime.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

An Al Jazeera reporter showed up in London’s famous Jewish neighborhood Golders Green after antisemitic vandals set 4 ambulances used by Jewish volunteers on fire.

The residents told her that Al Jazeera employees stormed Israel on October 7th 2023. She denied it.

Looks like she conveniently forgot about the Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail Abu Omar who stormed Kibbutz Nir Oz with Hamas terrorists on October 7.

He is a Hamas platoon commander in the East Khan Younis Battalion.

She also forgot about the Al Jazeera reporter Ismail al-Ghoul who turned out to also be a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba Force.

He participated in the invasion of southern Israel on October 7th and was killed in an Israeli strike in July 2024.

The Islamists from the Qatari state television channel have been embedded in Hamas for years.

[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

If the media ignores this story.

If Democrats sweep it under the rug and pretend it does not exist.

We will have proven everything critics say about mainstream media and the Democratic Party correct. That we are only interested in power and fake narratives.

[David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense @davereaboi]

Amazing. They can’t get the story they wanted, but this is close enough for CNN.

[Alicia Strohl Resnicoff @AliciaResnicoff]

Congressman, Gaza is a humanitarian tragedy that is a direct result of two things (1) Hamas refusing to accept the existence of Israel and using billions in international aid to build an military infrastructure underneath its civilian population instead of helping their citizens; and (2) US foreign policy incompetence in insisting on elections in Gaza after Israel withdrew in spite of Israel warning that this terrorist organization would be elected. The Israelis have a right to defend themselves from this terrorist controlled underground military even if doing so caused mass civilian casualties. The Jews were the victims of the largest genocide in recorded history. Their motto is never again and who can blame them?

There is so much disinformation leveled at Israel it’s hard to say how many, if any, of the casualties could have been avoided. It’s awful to see the immense suffering. And although there are those in the Israeli cabinet who have said hateful things about Palestinians, that in and of itself does not make this a genocide (something that Hamas wants to commit on Israelis).

Calling this a genocide is not helpful. Instead, please tell us your idea — of the Democrat’s idea — for a path forward for Gaza. Finding funds to rebuild is not the real challenge. Finding partners for peace who can lead rebuilt Gaza is. My understanding is that Hamas executed them.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Hamas is getting ready to use the reprieve from the ceasefire to commit atrocities against Gaza's clans, opposition, activists & has prepared lists for executions/torture. It's a mistake not to include the entry of an international stabilization force as the first step of a deal.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Thousands take to the streets of Paris to stand with Israel against Jihadists.

Unlike pro-Palestinian protests, it is completely peaceful and patriotic.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

Miss Israel Melanie Shiraz calls out “Miss Palestine” Nadeen Ayoub for falsely suggesting the Bibas children murdered by Palestinian terrorists… were Palestinian children killed by Israel.

[David Bernstein @ProfDBernstein]

I was just thinking about how a few years ago "mainstream" Jewish organizations were freaking out about some tiny school district somewhere in bumblefuck was pulling Anne Frank from its reading list, while entirely ignoring professors at leading universities teaching "anti-colonial" nonsense depicting Zionist Jews as white supremacist oppressors.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

Worth revisiting Bari Weiss’ resignation letter diagnosing the problems at the NYT and other major media orgs which led to her leaving and starting her own company focused on highlighting perspectives major media outlets were ignoring.

There is a reason why Americans simply don’t trust the press anymore. It has hurt the country tremendously. A lot of newsrooms now feel their job isn’t to inform their audiences about what is happening, but to tell them what to think about it. Even if that means leaving out information that contradicts the preferred narrative.

@bariweiss now has a chance to make a real difference in changing the current direction at a major news organization. A chance to create a trusted a resource where people know they will get the facts and can make up their own minds about what those facts mean. A mainstream news option where counter-narratives that offend activists aren’t just excluded because of ideological capture in the newsroom and contrary perspectives aren’t considered forbidden.

I hope she succeeds.

https://t.co/fu6BTACtHy

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

Dave Smith arguing against experts on the Joe Rogan Experience with Douglas Murray:

"But what's all the appeal to authority stuff? I mean, you have to be an expert or what exactly makes you an expert?"

Dave Smith arguing with Coleman Hughes when Hughes exposes some flaws in his argument:

“Look I highly recommend people read Mearsheimer’s book ‘The Israel Lobby’, the guy, this world renowned scholar wrote a book about the most controversial topic in the world”

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

The institutions were broken.

There were two ways forward: build new ones from scratch and compete, or takeover legacy ones.

@bariweiss did both.

The lesson here is that whenever legacy systems fail to serve the people, there are market opportunities. Still, you need the right person with the right traits to build.

From a humble newsletter in 2021, Bari built a thriving media company. Soon, she will oversee a media empire. In 4 years she built up $150 million in value because the media lost its way and so few dared to speak the truth publicly.

Here’s to more disruption!

Mazel Tov @bariweiss and @NellieBowles and @TheFP team!

[Oren Barsky @orenbarsky]

This footage is from the protests in central Barcelona.

And I’m genuinely trying to understand this.

Spain is one of the countries that has taken the harshest stance against Israel — constantly condemning it, imposing arms embargoes, and trying to push it out of every possible forum and competition.

Yet, these so-called pro-Palestinian activists are now out on the streets, destroying and looting city centers across Spain.

So how blind can Spanish citizens be?

How can they not put two and two together and realize that these protests have nothing to do with Palestine or Israel?

These protests are against them.

They are a warning sign — proof that Spain is nurturing a cancer within itself, one that seeks to take over under the guise of the Palestinian flag

[David Wurmser @Wurmserscribit]

Israel did rely on a UN force before the 1967 war.

They ran away the moment Nasser asked them to get out of the way so he can destroy Israel and slaughter the Jews there.

The UN’s flight was so immediate and frenzied that they even left their toothbrushes behind. U-Thant’s folly.

[Kiyah Willis @kiyahwillis]

A "2 state solution" is not a solution. We know what will happen:

1. The West calls for 2 states
2. Israel leaves "Palestine"
3. "Palestine" attacks Israel
4. Israel occupies "Palestine"
5. The West calls for 2 states
6. Repeat

There's no solution while jihadists are in power

[Neil Blair @NeilBlairTBP]

One page in today’s The Times - life for Jews in Britain 2025. Distressing and shameful - what is happening to our society?