@Jamaicasrabbi People don't appreciate the sacrifice of Shluchim when they're travelling the world worrying about where they'll get a good Shabbos meal.
A story about how a sage behaves:
When I was in rabbinical school, I asked the Talmud scholar David Weiss Halivni — teaching at Columbia as the first named professor of Talmud in the country — whether I might sit in on his PhD seminar. “If you can keep up,” he said.
For the next year, however much I struggled, I had one of the great learning experiences of my life.
Several years later, after we had not spoken for some time, I heard he was moving to Israel. While in New York, I stopped by his office unannounced. As always, he was standing at a lectern, writing. He looked up and recognized me immediately — his memory was nearly eidetic.
“Why haven’t you been in touch?” he asked.
I was startled that he would even care. “Well, Professor,” I said, “I assumed you were busy.”
“I am,” he replied, “but this is part of the busyness.”
He then kept me there for nearly an hour, asking about my life with complete attention.
I learned a great deal in his seminar. But I learned even more in that single hour.
To the Nakba glorifiers:
The Nakba was the result of the Arab rejection of the UN Partition Plan & decision to launch war to annihilate the State of Israel.
You can't start war, openly vow to “throw the Jews into the sea,” and then pretend being the victim of the conflict you started.
The real forgotten victims are the 850,000 Jewish refugees expelled from Arab countries at the same time.
😂 This “Nakba Survivor” is literally a “European settler”
In the late 19th century, Muslim Bosnians (including Inea’s grandparents), fled Bosnia to Ottoman Syria, after Austria-Hungary took control of Bosnia.
They feared that now, the Christians will seek revenge after years of mistreatment.
Inea’s father’s family lived in Tulkaram, but he himself lived in Jerusalem where Inea was born.
In the 1930’s, Inea’s father had a Job in England, he returned to Mandatory Palestine after a few years, but in 1948 they decided to move back to England.
They were not expelled, and no one forced them to move to England. As a matter of fact, Tulkaram, and the old city of Jerusalem remained under Jordanian Arab control. Not a single Zionist to bee seen there.
So in summary, this is a European with no strong roots in the land of Israel, whose family made the decision to immigrate back to the continent of their grandparents instead of remaining under Arab control.
(And the “visit Palestine” poster on her wall is a Zionist poster by Franz Kraus to encourage Zionist tourism to the holy land. It’s not even the original poster, but a replica of the poster, with an additional Hebrew description mentioning his name 🤦♂️)
This is a devious rhetorical trick. Labeling someone a “Nakba survivor” is designed to evoke instant sympathy and a false sense of moral clarity, but it is little more than taxpayer-funded propaganda.
Consider the absurdity: roughly 99% of Palestinian Arabs alive in 1949 survived the war and its displacements. Calling the displaced a “survivor” stretches the word beyond recognition. It is a newly coined term, crafted in academia and activist circles long after the events.
Its real genius lies in creating false equivalence. It places ordinary Palestinian civilians who were displaced amid a war their own leaders launched on the same moral plane as Holocaust survivors (of whom only about one-third emerged alive).
It airbrushes away the ~6,000 Jews killed in 1948, elevates the ~12,000 Arab deaths, and erases the thousands of Jews forcibly expelled from the Old City of Jerusalem and other areas.
By anointing the displaced as sacred “survivors,” the term invites us to forget that the Nazi-aligned Palestinian leadership rejected the UN partition plan, chose war to prevent any Jewish state, and promised quick victory while urging Arabs to flee.
It glosses over Israel’s Declaration of Independence, which explicitly invited Arab inhabitants to “participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship.” And it conveniently overlooks the ~150,000 Arabs who stayed put, accepted Israeli citizenship, and whose descendants now form over 20% of Israel’s population.
This is international grievance politics pushed by the Mayor of New York City, who genuinely believes that Palestinians should be able to “return to their homes” – a nonsensical idea designed to justify perpetual victimhood and violence.
The move weaponizes real civilian hardship while inverting roles: turning a war of choice and rejectionism into an unprovoked “catastrophe” inflicted by the intended victims. It sustain grievance and does not nothing to advance peace.
@antisemitism@instagram@tiktok_us Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We do not condone racism, discrimination or antisemitism in any form. We have ended our relationship with him, effective immediately.
@doctor_rahmeh Sorry to ruin your narrative but https://t.co/XAflOFAZmK this cyclist wasn't Jewish. One of many examples. I'm a volunteer. We are dispatched to treat people of all religions and none, never once have I asked someone's religion while on a call.
@jakeshieldsajj Hey Jake, I'm a Hatzola volunteer first responder. In all the calls I've taken, I've never asked the patient's religion. We treat all patients, regardless of their religion or background. Nice attempt at trolling though.
I used to volunteer for St John Ambulance, a charity with its own fleet of vehicles providing volunteer first aid services across the country.
It traces its origins back to an 11th-century hospital established in Jerusalem to care for sick and injured pilgrims.
If their fleet had been attacked I do not think we would have the same number of people asking about the premise of the organisation rather than condemning the action itself.