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Am Yisrael Chai!!

[Mark Goldfeder @MarkGoldfeder]

Eight Democratic lawmakers sent the @USGAO after charities for the offense of helping Jews in Israel. So we asked them to explain why they targeted these groups, and why they preferred that we never learned their names.
@EVKontorovich and I in @WSJ:
https://t.co/qqkQ60GBMn

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

@UNRWA UNRWA has forged an unholy alliance with Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist groups, giving them sway over the policies and practices of a UN body with 30,000 employees and a $1.5 billion annual budget—financed by Western taxpayers.
🔗 https://t.co/39bbQpruFe

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

https://t.co/3R57oPjiy8
This is the template for the Muslim Brotherhood’s long-term strategy for civilisational jihad against Western society, turning educational institutions into a weapon of war by shaping, producing and normalising ideological positions that fit the agenda of conquering the West for Islam.

It’s scant wonder, therefore, that the West has fallen victim to a psychotic madness about Israel’s fictitious perfidies — a malevolent narrative of demonisation that is in turn a Trojan horse for suicidal anti-Western loathing and contempt among the elites. Millions of people are being manipulated on a staggering scale.

[Henshi @HenshiG]

A German soldier stopped at the front of the line and stared. He knew that face.

It was Janusz Korczak — the beloved Polish-Jewish doctor and writer whose books he had grown up reading.

The soldier quietly offered him a way out: “Step aside. Disappear. Live.”

Korczak shook his head. He took the hands of the two smallest children beside him… and kept walking toward the train.

There had been many such offers. He refused them all.

Born Henryk Goldszmit, Korczak was a renowned pediatrician, author of children’s books, and radio voice beloved across Poland.

He could have lived a comfortable life. Instead, in 1912 he founded Dom Sierot — an extraordinary orphanage in Warsaw where children ran their own parliament, court, and newspaper.

His one sacred rule: A child is not someone who will matter one day. A child matters now.

He lived among them for thirty years as their father.

When the Nazis sealed the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940, Korczak moved the orphanage inside. Friends begged him to escape — he looked Polish, he was famous, he could pass. He refused. “I will not leave my children.”

Inside the starving ghetto, he begged for food, carried heavy sacks on his failing back, and tracked every child’s heartbreaking weight loss by candlelight. He was starving too.

On August 5, 1942, the soldiers came. Korczak calmly told the 192 children they were going to the countryside for fresh air.

He had them dress in their best clothes. Each carried a small bag with a favorite book or doll.

Then the old doctor led them out — 192 children walking in calm rows behind him, holding his hands, the smallest in his arms. No crying. No panic. Just quiet dignity as they marched three miles through the ghetto to the Umschlagplatz.

At the platform, the final offer came.

Once more, Korczak refused. He climbed into the cattle car with his children and staff.

They were murdered upon arrival at Treblinka.

He could not save their lives. He knew it. So he saved the only thing left: their dignity and their sense of not being alone.

In the darkest place on earth, Janusz Korczak gave those children the one thing the Nazis could not take — a hand to hold until the very end.

Today at Treblinka, among 17,000 stones, one bears the name: Janusz Korczak and the Children.
He had none of his own. He died with 192 of them.

May their memory be a blessing.

[Dumisani Washington @DumisaniTemsgen]

Dr. King warned that if the Arab population in the region remained in poverty, the Israelis would be the scapegoats (1968).

He was correct.

Bayard Rustin warned that if the international community (UN) didn't take terrorism against Israelis seriously, we would soon have global terrorism (1975).

He was correct.

Former Black Panther turned Zionist, Eldridge Cleaver, warned that once the Arab states began using oil money as a weapon, the US would eventually betray Israel (1975).

He was correct.

Black pro-Israel voices have always been prophetic. And, similar to the Biblical prophets, most didn't listen to them.

Not much has changed.

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

The journalism rule I live by
For four decades, across thirteen books and articles for the NY Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and other legacy outlets, I never got to publish anything of consequence alleging wrongdoing without two independent, credible sources. On the most sensitive material, a lawyer also cleared it before it ran.

That discipline is not an editor's whim. It is the only thing that separates journalism from advocacy.

Nicholas Kristof's May 11 Times column, alleging Israel used dogs and carrots to rape Palestinian prisoners, was published without that discipline. It leaned on anonymous and Hamas-affiliated sourcing. It ran in Opinion, not News. The reaction was immediate and severe: Israel's foreign ministry branded it a blood libel, Prime Minister Netanyahu threatened legal action, and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations formally condemned it. At the time, the Times stood behind it and moved on.

Now, more than a year later, we finally have the internal answer everyone in the business has been waiting for. Executive editor Joe Kahn, in a podcast interview with Peter Kafka, said plainly of the column: "It wasn't edited by the newsroom." Pressed on whether the news division would have run it, Kahn first offered "we probably wouldn't have," then corrected himself to something firmer: "No, we wouldn't have done that exact piece."

Read that again. The most senior news editor at the New York Times is telling the public that his own newsroom's standards would have kept the piece off the page. That is an admission that the sourcing and verification process opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury described in May — "a rigorous vetting process," fact-checked, reviewed by standards and legal, with "no errors" found — did not meet the bar the news side actually applies to comparable claims.

Two senior Times editors, a year apart, describing the same piece in irreconcilable terms. One says it was properly vetted. The other says his newsroom wouldn't have touched it. Both cannot be right, and nobody at the paper has explained the gap.

That is the real story here. Not the politics of Israel and Gaza, which will be argued forever. The story is a fundamental journalism failure — a serious accusation published without the sourcing threshold that any accusation of that gravity requires — and now, finally, confirmed from inside the building.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

I know everyone’s freaking out about Graham Platner, but isn’t it kind of a big media story that the New York Times editor is publicly dunking on the the fact-review process of the paper’s opinion section?

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

NYTimes: ICC file finds prosecutor guilty of sexual harassment. Karim Khan pressured junior subordinate into sex. UN: “He would grab and paw at her breasts, try to access her pelvic area, suck on her neck.” His later denials were “devoid of credibility.”
https://t.co/c6dpa0xRig

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Reminder: In May 2024, as ICC prosecutor Karim Khan faced charges of sexually abusing his subordinate, he got Amal Clooney, Helena Kennedy, Adrian Fulford, Theodor Meron, Danny Friedman and Elizabeth Wilmshurst to sign an op-ed supporting his ICC indictment of Israeli leaders. Now that he's been suspended—with shameful details of his sexual abuse revealed today in the New York Times— these individuals should demand his resignation. In another joint op-ed in the Financial Times.

[Kirralie Smith @KirralieS]

I have been ordered to pay $95,000 in "damages" to two men in women's sport because I apparently hurt their feelings. It is potentially going to be doubled because I didn't pay in 30 days. So that is $190,000 in total to reward two men in women's sport. I am appealing in the NSW Supreme Court, so for now, there is a stay on the orders.

@salltweets has been ordered to pay a man $20,000 for not allowing him on her female only app. His hurt feelings claim is hoping to be challenged in the High Court. Sall is still waiting to see if leave will be granted for the appeal.

Jasmine Sussex could have to pay up to $95,000 to a man with hurt feelings who falsely claimed he could breastfeed a tiny baby. Her case is still to be heard by a Queensland tribunal.

None of these numbers include the court costs which run into millions.

Others have lost jobs, been censored, gaslit or threatened if they speak the truth or object to the lie that men can be women.

Men who wish they were women not only want to dominate our sports, spaces and services, they are also trying to make money as they go. It appears quite lucrative if they succeed.

Stand with us. Men are not women and we should never be penalized for stating the facts - especially in court where evidence and facts are meant to be paramount.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

I actually understand why Democrat leaders didn't take our stories seriously when the Times reported them in June but are taking them seriously now.

It was by design.

The line most shared from the piece was the claim that the Times “could not corroborate” my story despite talking to two of my friends.

I gave them the contact information for five friends.

They called the two who I clarified would not know about the abuse but would be able to affirm our relationship timeline, events, etc.

They simply did not call the other three.

I also gave them the names of all my former roommates who remembered him stalking our row house (which was about 5 houses down from his) and waiting for me to return. I gave them screenshots of messages between these roommates and I discussing it.

I gave them the names of other men I dated who might have remembered him following us around the hill and showing up on my stoop after we walked home from dates to confront us. I gave them emails to my landlord urgently ending my lease and moving to an apartment across town and diary entries talking about it - all time marked.

I told them that during pre-marital counseling I had spoken to my ex-fiance about the abuse because I had to explain to him why I reacted with such terror any time he lost his temper. They said oh NO we don't need to bother HIM (or my priest). Besides, I had written about it in my diary in detail, they reassured.

As the weeks dragged on I stopped trying to give them evidence because the amount I had already given them seemed to overwhelm them and I thought it meant they clearly had more than enough to verify my every claim.

My friends might not have known the details of the abuse, but they affirmed that yes, I had told them that he was abusive—long before he ran for Senate.

Besides, they assured, my part in their reporting would be small. I thought my details would only serve to affirm Jenny and the other anonymous woman.

Jenny and I - having never met or spoken - both shared with these reporters terrifyingly similar details of intimate partner violence, coercive control, and cycles of abuse/love bombing. The third unnamed woman in the story did as well.

But tell me again how they “could not corroborate.”

[Siraj Hashmi @SirajAHashmi]

"I was okay with Graham Platner getting a Nazi Totenkopf tattoo, being physically abusive as a boyfriend, his racist & misogynistic comments on Reddit, sexting minors on Kik, wishing death on a fellow soldier, cranking hog in a porta-potty, lying about his reason for enlisting in the military for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, leaving the military to work for Blackwater, and being a communist, but SEXUAL ASSAULT is where I DRAW THE LINE."

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

L: The Hamas commander in Lebanon whom Philippe Lazzarini put in charge of UNRWA schools.

R: The Hamas colonel whom Philippe Lazzarini now defends.

Philippe Lazzarini made UNRWA an arm of Hamas. It's time to indict him for complicity with war crimes and crimes against humanity.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

.@NYCMayor Mamdani’s appointed advisory commission is recommending an 18.2% raise for himself and other elected officials purportedly because of inflation, yet his self-appointed Rent Guidelines Board — which is supposed to consider inflation in setting rents— froze rents for two years.

A question for the mayor:

How is this fair or appropriate?

[Shai Davidai @ShaiDavidai]

"An ideology that teaches students to see Israel as inherently illegitimate will eventually teach them to see America the same way. An ideology that insists Israel’s founding sins can never be redeemed will soon insist the same about America’s. An ideology that denies one democracy’s right to exist rarely stops at one democracy. American Intellectual Antisemitism does not end with Jews. It begins there."

https://t.co/HSKnW7MCfg

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

While some were mourning Khamenei, the UAE was busy celebrating America's 250th Independence Day in New York.Those queuing in Iran were nowhere to be seen. In this region, the UAE has proven itself to be the strong, brave, and reliable ally.
Now you know who the real friend is.

[Han Shawnity 🇺🇸 @HanShawnity]

It's crazy to think that just 80 years after we literally nuked their cities, Japan is one of our closest friends and is commemorating our Independence Day with a fireworks show, while Palestinians are still mad that their great great grandparents had to move a few miles after losing a war they started and now need to murder as many people as possible for the rest of time.

[King David @Aaron710David]

❤️ At the end of the 1990s, there was a notorious thief and con man in Israel named Moti Ashkenazi. He operated mainly on the beaches of Tel Aviv, was a heroin addict, and had a long criminal record. Yet today, almost everyone in Israel knows him — and many see him as a hero. All because of one story.

It happened on June 20, 1997. The repeat offender Ashkenazi had just been arrested again but violated the conditions of his house arrest and went to the Jerusalem Beach in Tel Aviv. It was the last day of school before summer vacation, and countless school classes were spending the day at the beach. Backpacks, bags, and valuables were scattered everywhere — a true paradise for a professional thief.

Moti did not hesitate for long and chose a promising-looking bag. Like a professional, he sat down next to it, casually opened it, and began feeling around inside. He found a towel and sunglasses — but no wallet. When he reached deeper inside, he froze: the bag was full of nails.

He looked around. Nearby, tourists were sunbathing, while children and adults played in the water. Moti opened the bag further and discovered a box with a hose and a timer mechanism. He immediately understood what he was dealing with. He grabbed the bag and ran as fast as he could toward Geula Street, where an abandoned building stood at the time. If police had stopped him on the way, he would have had a hard time explaining why he was running through the city with a bomb. But he wasn’t thinking about that at the moment.

He left the bomb bag in the crumbling building and ran to the nearest public telephone. There, he called the police:

“I found a bomb! Send bomb disposal units immediately! This is Moti Ashkenazi!”

The officers checked his name in the database, told him to stop using drugs, threatened him with real prison for violating his house arrest — and hung up.

Ashkenazi returned to the building and began dragging garbage containers onto the road in an attempt to block Geula Street, shouting loudly while doing so. At that point, the police had to respond. They arrested the disruptive man but, as a precaution, decided to check the abandoned building anyway.

The officers immediately came back out and called the bomb squad. The bag contained five kilograms of explosives. It was later determined that it had been placed at the beach by the same terrorist who had carried out the attack at the “Apropo” café in Tel Aviv three months earlier.

After this incident, all charges against Moti Ashkenazi were dropped, and all legal proceedings were closed. He was sent to a free rehabilitation program, where he successfully treated his drug addiction.

Today, Ashkenazi is over fifty years old, has five children, and holds a steady job. He lives in Tel Aviv and works as a beach inspector. No beach thief escapes the watchful eye of the former professional — and since that day, he treats abandoned bags on the beach with special caution.❤️👏🙏

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

🔴ELIMINATED: Muhammad Na’im Jandiya, the Head of Military Security in Hamas’ Shuja'iyya Battalion.

During the October 7 Massacre, Jandiya served as the commander of a Nukhba terrorist cell that infiltrated Kibbutz Nahal Oz and took part in the abduction of the late Captain Daniel Perez.

Throughout the war, Jandiya was responsible for holding Yotam Chaim, Samer Al-Talalka, and Alon Shamriz in Hamas captivity in an underground tunnel in the Shuja’iyya Battalion.

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

The real reason they’re losing their minds isn’t the movie.

It’s this one scene:

The vigilante doesn’t just kill the rapist, he executes the entire family. Father, mother, brother, sister. All of them.

Why?

Because when their son raped a girl, the father said “He’s still young,” and the whole family chose to protect the rapist instead of the victim.

This scene is a direct message to every Muslim who spent the last three years denying, justifying, or celebrating the rapes committed by Hamas on October 7th.

You didn’t just stay silent, many of you celebrated the rape of Jewish women as “resistance.”

You mocked the victims.

You defended the rapists.

You ridiculed their suffering.

You did exactly what that family did.

Now you’re crying “Why should we be punished too?”

Because you chose to stand with the monsters.
Deep down, you know this.

That’s why this scene terrifies you. If your conscience was truly clean, you would have laughed at this low-quality movie.

The fact that you’re raging proves the movie just showed you your own reflection.