Jays Fan Jordan

Canadian-American surgeon living in Boston. Lecturer at Harvard Medical School. Lover of baseball (and my wife and kids), fan of the Blue Jays.

[Jays Fan Jordan @JaysFanJordan]

A big thank you to @RedSox for letting me throw out the ceremonial first pitch on Sunday vs. @yankees during #sundaynightbaseball!

@fenwaypark #redsox #yankees #rivalry #fenwaypark

[Jays Fan Jordan @JaysFanJordan]

@DrCaseyBabb I know some people out there that could help you mobilize a minyan. Can’t send a DM but mine are open if you still need people. May his memory be a blessing and my condolences to your family.

[Casey Babb @DrCaseyBabb]

In Toronto, a young Jewish girl named Esther has been missing for over a week. To make matters worse, people have been ripping down posters about her disappearance, just like they did with the hostage posters after 10/7—one of the more appalling things I've ever seen in my life.

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

A genocide is happening in Gaza, they tell us. Then scroll your feed:

Comma Cafee, just opened in Gaza City. Espresso machines, plated desserts, dim lighting.

Vanilla Café. Upscale, glass facade.

Nova Restaurant in Khan Younis: sleek wood interior, beachfront seating. Named, apparently without irony, after the music festival where 364 Israelis were slaughtered on October 7.

O2 Restaurant. pizza, ice cream, milkshakes, TikTok food porn.

Open-air markets in Gaza City with apples, avocados, oranges, bananas.

Supermarkets stocked for Ramadan with imported goods.

A "Gaza Coffee" brand selling 100% Arabica premium beans, taking online orders, with five-star reviews dated this year.

Even Al Jazeera's writer concedes the cafes "were built with expensive materials, carefully painted, furnished with tables, sofas, and elegant chairs, with glass facades and shining lights."

Now hold that next to actual genocide.

Rwanda, 1994. 800,000 Tutsi murdered in 100 days. ~8,000 per day. Hutu radio read names of neighbors to be hacked apart by morning. No one opened a café.

Cambodia, 1975–79. Khmer Rouge emptied Phnom Penh at gunpoint in 72 hours. Currency abolished. Markets abolished. Eyeglasses got you killed. Two million dead.

The Holocaust. Warsaw Ghetto: 92,000 dead of starvation and disease before the deportations even began. Auschwitz processed 6,000 people a day into smoke. There were no glass-facade espresso bars in Łódź in 1943.

Srebrenica, July 1995. 8,372 men and boys executed in days. No restaurants reopened. They were in mass graves.

Armenia, 1915. Death marches into the Syrian desert. No imported avocados.

The common thread of genocide is that the targeted population is not allowed to exist. Not in cafes, not in markets, not in their homes, not anywhere. The perpetrator's entire project is their absence.

Gaza in 2026, by every honest description, is something else: a brutal war zone, partially destroyed, with a population suffering real hardship and simultaneously a place where new businesses open, beachfront restaurants serve customers, and a post war economy is being written about in business pages. Both things are true.

That is what war looks like. Lebanon 2006. Mosul 2017. Mariupol 2022. Aleppo 2016. Civilians die and life adapts around the destruction.

It is not what genocide looks like.

So why the word?

Because "genocide" is the most powerful word in the post-WWII moral vocabulary. It triggers automatic legal obligations, suspends normal debate, and short-circuits proportionality analysis. Apply it successfully and your adversary loses the right to defend itself before the argument even begins. That is exactly why it is being deployed by a side that started a war on October 7, took hostages, embedded itself in hospitals and schools, and now needs the West to force a ceasefire it could not win on the battlefield.

It is asymmetric warfare with a thesaurus. The rockets failed. The tunnels failed. The word might not.

Coffee in Gaza doesn't prove there is no suffering. It proves there is no genocide. Those are not the same claim and the people conflating them are counting on you not to notice.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

He said “Jews” not “Zionists.” Hmmm

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

Marathons, surfing, and population growth.

The weirdest “genocide” in history.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: The suspect is being treated by Hatzola paramedics.

He just tried to cut the throats of two Jews people.

Remember last month when the internet said Hatzola only treats jews? Well they’re currently treating a man who attempted to stab jews.

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

Imagine being 18, on the brink of adulthood, living in North Carolina with your whole future ahead of you.

Then choosing to travel to Houston with the intent to “kill as many Jews as possible” at Congregation Beth Israel, the oldest synagogue in Texas.

This is Angelina Han Hicks.
She was charged today with felony conspiracy to commit murder & felony conspiracy to commit assault with a deadly weapon.

What inspired her to throw her entire life away?

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

I like this kid.

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

Reasonable people can debate Israel’s new law allowing judges to sentence terrorists to death. But we aren’t seeing reasonable debate.

The people who condemn Israel have nothing to say about the Palestinian Authority paying salaries to terrorists.

Nothing to say about Middle Eastern states that execute gay people or permit honor killings of women.

And nothing to say about Hamas gunning down anyone who dares speak out against them.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Countries with death penalty for gay people:
🇮🇷 Iran
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇾🇪 Yemen
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇲🇷 Mauritania
🇶🇦 Qatar
🇧🇳 Brunei

Countries with death penalty for terrorists:
🇮🇱 Israel
🇯🇵 Japan
🇺🇸 USA
🇸🇬 Singapore
🇹🇼 Taiwan
🇹🇭 Thailand

Guess which one European are outraged over.

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

It’s great that the death penalty is a concerning issue for so many people.

Can we talk about how the Palestinian Authority and a dozen other Muslim countries have the death penalty for being gay, atheist, apostate, or even just criticizing Islam?

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

Doctors Without Borders staff say the organization has violated its commitment to neutrality and impartiality, citing its “disproportionate obsession” with Israel.

Some employees have described Israel and Zionism as “fascism”, “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” and one leading figure in the charity has described the situation in Gaza as “white supremacist logic.”
https://t.co/DBianhIvxO

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: The Red Cross confirms the Palestinian toddler—previously claimed to be tortured by the IDF—was healthy when handed over. Any injuries occurred after his return or were pre-existing.

Another viral lie that has been debunked.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

RIP CURRENT RESCUE: A California swim coach is being hailed a hero after diving into dangerous waters to save a father and daughter caught in powerful rip currents.

The pair were struggling to stay afloat before the coach dove into the water without hesitation and brought them to shore, where other bystanders waited to lend a hand.

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

🚨 LEBANESE MP PRAISES IDF WARNINGS
Lebanese MP Camille Chamoun:
“I’ve never seen an army like Israel’s that sends evacuation notices to civilians before strikes. I commend it for its humanity.”

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

So not only has Iran brazenly lied about its ballistic missile range capacity, but this means it can probably hit the UK with them - and we have zero, I repeat ZERO, defence against these missiles. Very worrying.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Joe Kent: “There is zero evidence that Iran was trying to build a nuclear weapon, Netanyahu is warmongering.”

The Deputy Speaker of the Iranian Parliament: “We tried to develop nuclear weapons, but couldn't keep it secret.”

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Not a single word from Cenk Uygur, Ilhan Omar, or Mehdi Hasan.

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

Pakistan, which is closely aligned with the Iranian regime, strikes hospital in Afghanistan, killing 400. An absolute massacre!

World outrage? Zero. Could barely muster p17 on the newspaper here.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: "Gulf states press US to neutralise Iran for good," per Reuters