Anja Gielen

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist

[Esther Voet @Esther_Voet]

Volg het Vragenuurtje over #Ye #Kanye. De conclusie is eigenlijk: de Joodse gemeenschap is te netjes, zal bij protesten de zaak niet slopen, dus is er geen gevaar voor de openbare orde. Je zou bijna denken dat Joden maar een knokploeg of een soort XR moeten oprichten en kak moeten trappen. De staatssecretaris @StasJenV zegt dat er geen wettelijke mogelijkheden zijn hem te weren. Ze garandeert dat het OM zodra er strafrechtelijke feiten worden geconstateerd, zal ingrijpen. We hebben daar ervaring mee en weten: dat gaat niet gebeuren.
@djhvandijk @ANanninga @UlysseEllian @mirjambikker @tijsvandenbrink @henkvermeer @MonaKeijzer en @MahjoubMat stelden vragen

[Janneke Nieuwstad @Jannekestad]

Deze video is al vaak gedeeld, haar woorden zijn helaas nog steeds relevant.

[CIDI @CIDI_nieuws]

Ondertussen in Utrecht: een foto van feestvierende Palestijnen tijdens de pogrom van 7 oktober 2023. Een moordpartij betiteld als 'resistance', met daarbij de mededeling 'smash zionism'. Het kan allemaal.

[Anja Gielen @Jabaay]

@lientje1967 Veel sterkte!

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

Breaking: The @IDF now report that they have eliminated 2,500 Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon during Operation "Roaring Lion" (since February 28, 2026).

This is a vital statistic to understand the current situation. Recently, the Lebanese Ministry of Health claimed 3,300 deaths since the beginning of the operation, making headlines in major news outlets across the world.

Assuming this statistic is accurate, it would mean the wide majority of deaths in Lebanon during this operation have been Hezbollah terrorists.

This isn't just a statistic - it is a clear sign that the way the reality in Lebanon is being presented does not reflect reality. The IDF is operating with immense precision, and the truth needs to be put out.

The IDF assessments to count terrorists eliminated, i.e. BDA, uses a wide range of intelligence capabilities, including aerial surveillance, human intelligence, cellular conversations conducted by terrorists and other technological means in order to estimate the number of eliminated terrorists at any given point in time. It's also important to understand in war, there's no such thing as 100% accurate intelligence and that's why the use of a wide range of information sources, provided by different units in the IDF (IDI, Northern Command, and others), is so important.

With Lebanese and IDF (which most media source don’t include) reported numbers, the picture is a lot different than the inversions of reality we continue to see pushed in media and by international institutions. The IDF target terrorists while taking many effective measures to mitigate harm to civilians. That’s what the numbers show.

[Ronny Naftaniel @RonnyNaftaniel]

Met grote meerderheid nam de Tweede Kamer onlangs een motie aan om rapper #KanyeWest (#Ye) te weren. Engeland, Italië, Polen en Zwitserland weren hem, maar onze minister vd Brink ziet geen probleem. Ye heeft de song ‘Heil Hitler’ uitgebracht en verspreidde 2 jaar lang intensief nazi-propaganda. Toen Ye wereldwijd zijn omzet zag kelderen, bood hij excuus aan.
Het kabinet moet zich diep schamen dat het deze hypocriete anti-semiet als enig Europees land ruim baan geeft. Toon ook je verontwaardiging #NLsaysNOtoYE.

[Anja Gielen @Jabaay]

@TheodorHolman Triest 😞

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

UNRWA: “Hey, it's only a few bad apples...”
USA: We are investigating 1500 of your staffers.
UNRWA: “Hey, it's only 1500 bad apples...”

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

"Day after day, the emphasis falls overwhelmingly on Israeli operations, Israeli warnings, Israeli escalation, and Israeli airstrikes. Hezbollah’s attacks often appeared deep in the article, stripped of scale and frequency, if they appeared at all." https://t.co/XKqGdUaXCr

Across much of the Western media landscape, the impression left for readers is that Israel drives the violence while Hezbollah simply exists somewhere in the background of the story that it actually starts.

That distortion now shapes public understanding far beyond the battlefield itself. Israel is often discussed as though it exists outside the standards applied to every other sovereign nation. For months, rockets strike civilian communities while armed drones target patrols, border positions, and towns across northern Israel. Tens of thousands of Israelis remain displaced from their homes. Yet once Israel responds militarily, much of the international focus shifts almost immediately away from the side initiating the attacks and toward the country attempting to stop them.

[CIDI @CIDI_nieuws]

De rust is nog allerminst wedergekeerd in het Midden-Oosten. Na provocaties door terreurgroepen- en regimes hebben de VS en Israel wederom moeten ingrijpen. Israel moest zich vooral bezighouden met Hezbollah in Libanon, de VS bestookten doelen in Iran 👇🏻

https://t.co/HWjXEoB5ym

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

It is a curious aspect that so many countries keep wanting for the Palestinians the one thing they have never wanted for themselves – a state – at least not one that shares a border with the sovereign state of the Jewish people.

One might wonder why so many refuse to give Palestinians the respect of taking them as their word. To the Palestinians’ credit, they have been consistent in both word and deed for more than a century, rejecting every proposal to have one more Arab state on the lands of the defunct Ottoman Empire, if that additional Arab state must share a border with the one sovereign state of the Jewish people.

The British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin offered the clearest diagnosis of the Palestinian Arab priorities in February 1947, when none of the current excuses – settlement, occupaion, Netanyahu - existed. "For the Jews," he observed, "the essential point of principle is the creation of a sovereign Jewish state. For the Arabs, the essential point of principle is to resist to the last the establishment of Jewish sovereignty in any part of Palestine."

And so, at every junction, whether 1937, 1947, 1967, 2000, 2008 (and many more), when the Palestine Arabs were given the choice to enjoy sovereignty in an Arab state of their own, but at the price of finally coming to terms with the existence of a Jewish state next door, they have consistently chosen to forgo one more Arab state, in order to violently keep trying to prevent, and then undo a Jewish one, of any size, and in any borders.

Worse, when such proposals were not pursued, most recently in 2000 and 2008, there were no Palestinian voices bemoaning the lost opportunity. Moreover, when Palestinians did enjoy control of territory, those areas served to launch brutal attacks on Israelis in Israeli territory – the murderous Second Intifada from Area A in the West Bank and the October 7th Massacre from the Gaza Strip.

Bevin’s words remain accurate and prophetic nearly eight decades later.

Nowhere is this clearer than in the so-called refugee issue. Unlike any other refugee population, who were essentially told to move one and accept the new borders and sovereignties established in the wake of crumbling empires, the Arab refugees of the 1948 war, waged for the declared purpose of preventing a Jewish state, were indulged in hijacking an organization, UNRWA, to create an ever increasing group of people who claim to be “refugees” and who refuse to be settled until they achieve their goal of no Jewish state.

Today, UNRWA falsely counts over six million such “refugees,” while Palestinian leaders themselves speak of eight to nine million. Their demand is that all of them - children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of the original refugees - possess an individual "right of return" to settle inside Israel. With eight million Jews and two million Arab citizens, the exercise of this settlement project would turn Jews into a minority in an Arab state, when Arab states have an abismal track record of treating their Jewish minorities, ethnically cleansing nearly a million Jews, as soon as they dared imagined themselves equals.

It therefore turns out that when Palestinian leaders claim to want two states, they mean two Arab states from the River to the Sea – an Arab state with no Jews in the West Bank and Gaza, and another Arab state to replace Israel through this mechanism of “refugee return”.

Unfortunately, the only State of Palestine that Palestinians have enthusiastically embraced is one that could be best described as Schroedinger’s Palestine. Is Palestine a State for the purpose of assuming responsibility for having invaded Israel to commit a horrific massacre? Is Palestine a State for acknowledging that the millions who already live in that Palestine are not and cannot be “Palestine Refugees” into the fifth generation? Is Palestine a State for the purpose of ending the fiction that millions of Palestinians have a right to settle not in that State, but in another state – Israel - of which they were never citizens, the so called “Right of Return”? Is Palestine a state for the purpose of surrendering and ending the war? No, for all these adult purposes, Palestine is not a state. The cat is dead.

But is Palestine a state for the purpose of harassing Israel in international bodies (the entire ICC case was based on this notion)? Why yes, then Palestine is very much a state. The cat is alive.

Over the many years that @adischwartz and I worked to highlight the determinative aspect of perpetual refugeehood and “return” to the construction of Palestinian Identity around the cause of undoing the Jewish state, we discovered that most foreign policy official who claim to want to do good, really just want to feel good, because – as is true in so many fields - doing good requires often to do things that do not at all feel good.

For example, contrary to the ahistorical notion that decades of peace in Europe were the outcome of negotiations and diplomacy, this was made possible by the ruthlessness of allied leaders who made sure that WWII, unlike WWI will not end with a wishy-washy armistice, but with the defeated powers and their collaborators very much knowing that they were defeated and paying a heavy price for their ideologies of destruction in land in displacement, occupied and re-educated so that they could become pillars of world peace they are today.

The peace that Europe has enjoyed for decades is what we want for our region, and that requires that the ideology of Palestinianism - that singular obssesion and organization of an entire people, not around achieving self-determination in part of the land, but about preventing Jewish sovereignty in any of it, not around building for the Palestine Arabs, but destroying what the Palestine Jews have built, will finally be defeated.

No-one wants to do the dirty work of finally telling the Palestinians that they have lost their century long war to prevent and undo the one Jewish state, that they have to accept that they can live next to a Jewish state, rather than on its ruins. No-one wants to cut through the obfuscation of recognizing a Palestinian state by making it clear that no-one in that state is a “Palestine refugee” and there is no such thing as a right to settle inside Israel, against its sovereign will, in the name of “return”, but that, and only that, even if it doesn’t feel good, would finally do good and might even bring peace, a century too late.

[CIDI @CIDI_nieuws]

Danielle Braun schreef in de @volkskrant een opinieartikel. Het ging daarin onder meer over de definitie van antisemitisme. Maar net zoals velen gaat ook zij weer de mist in door te stellen dat alle kritiek op Israel daaronder zou vallen.
https://t.co/yK2vqQdKV3

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

False. The ICJ did NOT state there was a genocide occurring in its January 2024 summary order. The professor's quote of the ICJ is false. The ICJ did not say there was a “plausible genocide,” they said no such thing.

What the Court said was that it was plausible that Palestinians in Gaza have the right to be protected from acts of genocide. The Court did not rule on whether Israel intended to commit genocide, acted to commit genocide, or whether genocide was occurring in Gaza.

[CIDI @CIDI_nieuws]

Een zeer eenzijdig stuk van het NRC, waarin het op het allerlaatste moment probeert om de betrouwbaarheid van de deskundige in de zaak tegen de vermeende Hamas-fondsenwerver Amin Abou Rashed in twijfel te trekken, op een manier die misleidend voelt:
https://t.co/5UChbOcoMk

[Anja Gielen @Jabaay]

@jigalkrant Ik heb ze al, anders zou ik ze direct allemaal bestellen. Het zijn mijn favoriete kookboeken. Dus advies aan iedereen: bestellen!

[Jigal Krant @jigalkrant]

Dit boosaardige broddelwerkje in Trouw was voor mij de druppel. In een uitgebreid interview met EW Magazine ga ik in op de beschuldigingen van culturele toe-eigening, diefstal en culinaire genocide (!) – en waarom die volkomen uit de lucht gegrepen zijn:
https://t.co/ibFARM14M5

[Maaike van Charante @Repelsteeltje21]

Iedereen die serieus het nieuws volgt, weet dat Palestina activisten🤥 alles bij elkaar liegen.
Maar te veel media gaan mee in de hippe anti-Israël trend🤢 en lenen zich voor sappige, sensationele anti-Israël verhalen, zoals over de #GazaFlotilla
1/22🧵

[CIDI @CIDI_nieuws]

Een Palestijnse rechtbank heeft onlangs geoordeeld dat de Palestijnse Autoriteit door moet gaan met het betalen van salarissen aan terroristen. Ook terroristen in de gevangenis, en hun families, krijgen rijkelijk betaald.
https://t.co/BwV3vc6VxS

[Strijder124 @Strijder124]

Keyvan Shahbazi geeft Rick Nieman een lesje in vijheid van meningsuiting: "We weten dat Lenny Kuhr het leven onmogelijk is gemaakt in Nederland de afgelopen 2 jaar. Ze is gecanceld en ze is enorm geïntimideerd."

"Gisteren heeft Sylvain Ephimenco zijn laatste column ingeleverd bij dagblad Trouw, na 33 jaar. Daarvoor is Theodor Holman hetzelfde overkomen bij Het Parool. Ik heb zelf vergelijkbare ervaringen met de Volkskrant, waardoor ik mijn columns stop heb gezet."

"Ik ben het niet met je eens als je zegt dat alles gezegd kan worden. Mensen wordt geleerd om binnen die onzichtbare grenzen te spreken. Dat is het begin van het verlies van onze vrijheden."

"Dat moralisme is een zwaard wat in Nederland boven elke discussie hangt. En heel veel mensen krijgen het gevoel doordat ze denken dat ze moreel gelijk hebben, dat ze zich van alles en nog wat kunnen permitteren."

[Ronny Naftaniel @RonnyNaftaniel]

Eerst @TheodorHolman weg bij het Parool, nu #SylvainEphimenco bij Trouw. Een inktzwarte dag voor de pluriformiteit vd media. Een verlies aan kwaliteit en originaliteit. Beide oud verzetskranten zijn hun ziel kwijt. Rebellie heeft plaats gemaakt voor platte risicoloze tunnelvisies