Beryl Lerman

Interest world politics esp M.E .Women's rights .Abhor religious fundamentalism .See arts as mainstay of civil society.Do not agree with everyone I follow.

[Beryl Lerman @LermanBeryl]

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[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

The San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain opened with a giant banner saying “Destroy Israel”. Not surprising from a place where all Jews were forcibly converted, expelled or killed. History repeats itself.

[Beryl Lerman @LermanBeryl]

Great post

[Sarah Ettedgui @SarahEttedgui]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but as a Moroccan Jew, I am not closer to being Arab than my Ashkenazi Jewish brethren.
My family’s diaspora passed through North Africa. That does not make us Arab Jews.

Jews in Arab and Muslim countries were not treated as Arabs. They were treated as Jews with a different community, different legal status, and different rules. This included the jizya tax under Islamic law.

Moroccan Jews have a deep and particular connection to Morocco. Many also hold a deep loyalty to the Moroccan Crown. Yet that connection exists not because we were Arabs. It exists because Morocco, at its best, gathered its citizens under the banner of Moroccan nationality.

When the King famously said during the Vichy period that there were no Jews or Muslims, only Moroccans, that was precisely the point. Nationality served to protect a people who were otherwise seen as distinct.

Being a Jew from Morocco does not make me Arab any more than being a Jew from Poland makes an Ashkenazi Jew Polish in the ethnic sense.

We are Jews from different diasporas but the same people.

[Antonino Monteleone @a_monteleone]

Anche queste immagini non ve le faranno vedere.

Ci troviamo a Gaza. Nel video sono evidenti dei miliziani che impugnano il fucile. Nessuno è in divisa. Provate a immaginare di essere un soldato dell'IDF: ogni persona incrociata può essere, potenzialmente, un'unità armata di Hamas. Immaginate di ritrovarvi davanti un ragazzino con il tritolo in mano. È un dramma. Ma lo è da entrambi i lati.

Il diritto internazionale obbliga i gruppi armati a rispettare i vincoli che derivano dalla Convenzione di Ginevra e dai protocolli aggiuntivi. Non è un optional. Hamas combatte senza uniformi e arma i civili con il solo obiettivo di trasformarli in scudi e, quando muoiono, in oggetto di propaganda.

Hamas viola costantemente il diritto umanitario. E il mondo dei “giusti”, quello sempre pronto a scomodare i tribunali internazionali quando conviene, tace.

[Beryl Lerman @LermanBeryl]

Time for UK to consider this seriously

[Azat @AzatAlsalim]

Austria’s integration minister:

“The Hijab on children is not a simple religious symbol, nor is it a harmless piece of clothes; it is a sign of oppression, and we are fighting against it.”

[Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem @IndigenousCFI]

The Indigenous voice in support of Israel is rising and will not be silent!

“Native American, Māori, and Apache leaders are pushing back against the "settler colonialist" label, calling Israel the most successful land-back story in modern history.

Indigenous people around the world, those who have experienced colonialism and outside settlement firsthand, routinely describe Israel as an inspiring example of an indigenous people returning to their homeland.’

https://t.co/FCwleFHUz8

[Beryl Lerman @LermanBeryl]

At the request of the Venezuelan government, the Israeli aid delegation will also take part in the development of a national plan for the reconstruction of areas destroyed by the earthquake

[Trisha Posner @trishaposner]

A new report documents what Jewish staff inside MSF (Doctors Without Borders) have been saying for years — and it is damning.

Insiders describe an organizational culture where Israel is called a "Nazi state," where a Jewish employee was told "Israel doesn't have a right to exist," and where staff were instructed not to speak out for Israeli victims because it would "victimise the perpetrators."

A former Secretary-General says MSF has become "an accomplice of Hamas." A board consultant says Jewish staff concerns about antisemitism were "dismissed."

This isn't a few bad actors. It's a pattern — at the top and on the ground.
Read it 👇

https://t.co/15xtOaCJmo

[Beryl Lerman @LermanBeryl]

@TimeToBeFree18 @JulietMosesNZ https://t.co/pG0LYg8gum

[Ahmed pak 🇵🇰 @Ahmedpak378456]

On June 4th 1967, I was a Jordanian. On June 5th 1967, I became a Palestinian.

The teaching of the destruction of Israel was a definite part of the curriculum.

We were Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem.

Then, all of a sudden, we were Palestinians.

We removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag.

When I finally realised the lies and myths I was taught, I felt it was my duty as a righteous person to speak out.

Walid Shoebat
Former Muslim and PLO Terrorist​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.

[Chaskel Bennett @ChaskelBennett]

Israel sent search-and-rescue teams to Venezuela. That's a documented fact.
The @nytimes reported on the international response while omitting Israel's rescue mission. Other major media outlets did the same. That's not a typo. It's not a factual dispute. It's an editorial choice. When the facts don't fit the narrative, the facts disappear.
That's why nobody trusts todays activist media especially when they report on Israel.

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

Mamdani makes a huge deal out of Muslim Eid el-Fitr, an even bigger deal of Shia Muslim Ashoura, but on America’s July 4th, he doesn’t celebrate because of “complexities in the country’s past and present?”
And this brand of “patriotism” now defines the Democratic Party?!

[Ohio Rob @TheOhioRob]

@mehdirhasan Tell us more about conquest, Mehdi. From an expert.

https://t.co/Bn24JdkFrr

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Why is there an underground terror tunnel under a hospital in Gaza?

This is the European Hospital in Gaza, where the IDF found a massive underground terror tunnel belonging to Hamas.

Show me one place on Earth besides Gaza that has terror tunnels under hospitals.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: The National Review just published an in-depth report exposing how the Washington Post completely rejected any journalistic standards when it came to the Israel-Hamas war.

All of these outlets will ultimately get exposed.

[Judith Ornstein #Forced Out Labour antisemitism @JudithOrnstein]

Brass necked cheek doesn’t come near this allegation. We were at the border shortly after October 7 and met a broken elderly survivor. All his life he had been a believer in peace and coexistence, had waited at the border to take Gazans to hospital in Israel and saw Gazans as his friends.
He recognised some of those ‘friends’ amongst the people who took advantage of the massacre, and the breach in the fence near his kibbutz. They surged after the murderers, rapists, torturers and kidnappers in order to loot and vandalise kibbutz homes. They defiled newly murdered Israeli bodies. They were crazed with hate.
He told us that all his beliefs were destroyed on October 7.
And these are the people Israel is accused of not employing?
The relentless gaslighting of Jews is deliberate and criminal.
I expect you’ve read a similar description before but hearing it at first hand compels me to bear witness.
We must however find ways to celebrate being Jewish because if we don’t then the haters win. Life and simchot must go on despite the horrors of the human condition, and specifically, the Jewish human condition.
Shabbat shalom and give blessings that after all these years we’re still here.

[Beryl Lerman @LermanBeryl]

@just414230 @JulietMosesNZ Bot

[Beryl Lerman @LermanBeryl]

@TimeToBeFree18 @JulietMosesNZ Read and learn more - you know nothing

[Juliet Moses @JulietMosesNZ]

How interesting.
The UK has recognised Palestine as a state, yet calls the Palestinians who live there refugees. You can’t be Palestinian refugees if you live in the state of Palestine. Did they think no one would remember?
This is the kind of predicament you end up in when you engage in performative politics, not principled politics.
And that’s before even getting to the problem of donating to a rotten organisation intertwined with Hamas that deliberately perpetuates the conflict.

[Nazi Hunters @HuntersOfNazis]

All you need to know about the claim that the IDF deliberately targets civilians is that not even Hamas buys this bullshit.

In fact, they KNOW it’s nonsense.

The entire reason Hamas fights in civilian clothes is because blurring the line between terrorists and civilians gives them a battlefield advantage. That only works precisely because the IDF distinguishes between the two.

Otherwise, civilian shield tactics would be utterly pointless—so the very fact that Hamas exploits them exposes their lie.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Terrorists bereaving terrorists! Most of Hamas’s senior Politburo leadership surfaced in Tehran for the state funeral of the Islamic Republic’s slain Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; a spectacle of extremists paying homage to extremists. Among them was Basem Naim, the same vile terror leader who recently incited against me and dispatched his online operatives, including individuals within the Gaza government and even Al Jazeera Arabic, to attack, threaten, and smear me as “suspicious” for advocating the relocation of Palestinian civilians across the “Yellow Line.”

Why are the leaders of an internationally designated terrorist organization responsible for killing and kidnapping dozens of Americans on October 7, and for decades of brutality against Palestinians and Israelis alike, still flying around the world with impunity? I do not accept the notion that the United States or Israel are somehow incapable of apprehending them. The far more plausible explanation is that a cynical geopolitical calculation is being made.

This is all the more indefensible given that Israeli hostages are home, and Hamas is openly violating the October 2025 ceasefire terms it signed, including disarmament and the relinquishment of power in Gaza. Enough is enough. Hamas must be dismantled on every front: political, military, financial, and social. The era of indulging one of the world’s most notorious terror organizations, masquerading as a nationalist “resistance,” has to end.