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[יאיר לפיד - Yair Lapid @yairlapid]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said: “I have never seen killing and destruction like Gaza in all my years as Secretary-General.”

According to even the most critical reports, Guterres, 70,000 people were killed in the war in Gaza, a large proportion of them Hamas terrorists.

During your years as Secretary-General: more than 600,000 people were massacred or starved to death in Ethiopia.

377,000 died in Yemen — that figure appears in reports issued by your own organization.

150,000 were killed in Sudan and 12 million were displaced.

Hundreds of thousands have been buried in Ukraine.

You didn’t see it? They died before your eyes. You simply looked the other way, because the Jews couldn’t be blamed.

[Trevor Hughes @TrevorH53038397]

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"The choice is simple: do we wish to jettison the language of Shakespeare, Milton and Churchill and replace it with the crude formulations of some primitive sub-culture? Do we wish to eschew those behavioural standards practised and refined over many centuries and employ instead the rough and tumble of a bar room brawl?"

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

For penning her mea culpa, Hannah-Jones has received a good deal of praise. Well, you can count me out of all that. Her actions were morally indefensible and analytically ignorant, and her supposed metamorphosis remains invisible to the naked eye. https://t.co/fPNw5sQRqD

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

In a free country, you are entitled to believe you are a woman with a penis. But not to take it into a female changing room, nor to cheat your way into a female athletic competition, nor in any way to impose your private delusion on the rest of us.
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[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

The Boston Globe has just published a shockingly sober article about the nonexistent genocide supposedly targeting the transgender community.

In it, they cite a report I coauthored showing that the murder rate is actually lower for trans-identifying people than the general population. Our report was responding to the HRC's annual reports pushing the narrative that there is an ongoing "Epidemic of Violence" against the transgender community.

The reporter says he "offered the Human Rights Campaign's key researcher, the transgender woman Charleigh Flohr, or anyone else with the organization an opportunity to rebut the Manhattan Institute finding, but they didn't reply to me."

That's unsurprising because the HRC is engaging in fundraising propaganda. They don't care about the truth, only promoting the narrative.

Our report presenting the actual data is irrefutable. That's why they have nothing to say in response.

You can read our report summary in @CityJournal here:
🔗https://t.co/59VQbpDJYV

Or explore our comprehensive report here:
🔗https://t.co/riV2m6zZ60

Read the Boston Globe article here:
🔗https://t.co/rSGgRfe2kj

[Amir Tsarfati @beholdisrael]

Victor Davis Hanson is not Jewish. He is a renowned American classicist, military historian, author, and senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution - making his fact-based defense of Israel all the more significant.

In one of his recent interviews, Hanson gave a fascinating analysis of four accusations repeatedly made against Israel - apartheid, settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.

His conclusion was clear: These slogans collapse when confronted with historical facts.

Apartheid?

Approximately two million Arab citizens live in Israel with the right to vote, serve in parliament, study at universities, practice their religion, and participate throughout Israeli society.

Meanwhile, many of the countries accusing Israel of apartheid officially privilege Islam and severely restrict religious conversion, minority communities, and basic freedoms.

Settler colonialism?

The Jewish connection to the land of Israel is supported by nearly 4,000 years of historical, archaeological, linguistic, and biblical evidence.

The Jewish people did not arrive in their ancestral homeland as foreign colonizers. They returned to the land from which foreign empires had repeatedly expelled them.

Meanwhile, Arab armies conquered enormous portions of the Middle East and North Africa. The Ottoman conquest transformed Hagia Sophia - once the greatest church in Christendom - into a mosque. Yet those historical conquests are rarely described as settler colonialism.

Ethnic cleansing?

Where were the demonstrations when Turkey expelled Greeks from northern Cyprus and moved Turkish settlers into the occupied territory?

Where was the outrage when Azerbaijan drove more than 100,000 Armenians from their ancestral homes in Nagorno-Karabakh?

Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani were remarkably quiet.

Genocide?

When Israel was established, approximately 170,000 Arabs remained within the country. Today, around two million Arab citizens live in Israel, and the Arab share of its population has increased rather than disappeared.

Genocidal regimes do not cause the population they supposedly seek to eliminate to grow dramatically in both number and proportion.

As Hanson explained, many of those accusing Israel are projecting the sins of their own nations, movements, and histories onto one tiny, democratic Jewish state.

Why is Israel judged by a standard applied to no other nation?

The answer is becoming painfully clear - because Israel is predominantly Jewish.

Accusations may travel quickly, but historical facts still matter.

[Emma Camp @emmma_camp_]

So, about those city-owned grocery stores . . .

I'm back in @WSJFreeEx, explaining why NYC's city-owned grocery stores won't succeed.

[Curious Observer! 🇩🇰🇳🇿🇮🇱 @Michaelseffort]

@TarquinVas Your angst is coming through your tweet Tarquin, we’re all here to support you

[Paul Litterick @fundypost]

'Higher education is a bundle of unrelated things held together by custom, history, and accident. The college bundle was always a tenuous one. It has little reason to remain together, even as the institutions inside it are too entrenched to separate.'
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[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Every glib, arrogant, virtue-signalling celebrity who’s broadcast the lie that kids will kill themselves if not allowed to transition deserves to have this read aloud to them non-stop through a megaphone for a year.

[Curious Observer! 🇩🇰🇳🇿🇮🇱 @Michaelseffort]

@IndiaRi50419411 @AlboMP @tim_cook I can’t believe she gets a phone. Can’t you make her use a landline that’s monitored?

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

The Palestinians are not angry because Jews prayed. They are angry because the camera refused to lie about whose mountain it is.

Last night, @itamarbengvir and tens of thousands of Jews filled the Western Wall plaza for Selichot, the same stone retaining wall that held up the Temple compound more than a thousand years before Muhammad was born and more than a thousand years before anyone poured the first foundations of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

That wall is not a polite neighbor of the mosque. It is what is left of the Jewish Temple Mount. The plaza is not “too close.” It is the foot of the site.

That is the line that never appears in the Telegram and Twitter meltdowns. They will tell you the scandal is that Jews dared to gather in the thousands near Al-Aqsa. They will not tell you that Jewish prayer at that mountain predates the mosque, predates Islam, and predates the entire political story they built on top of it.

The history did not start in 1967, and it did not start in 638. It started with a Temple 3000 years ago. Everything else arrived later and then demanded exclusive title.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

The UN can find its voice the moment a Jewish army fires back. It loses that voice the moment Arabs bury Arabs.

That is not an accident of scheduling. It is the operating system. Volker Türk can open a session by saying nothing justifies how Israel has fought in Gaza, and the room will nod as if that sentence were the whole of international law.

Then a Yemeni named Luai Ahmed @JustLuai gets ninety seconds and asks where Yemen’s flag is, after half a million of his people died in ten years in a famine the Council treated as weather. He asks where Sudan’s flag is after more than a hundred and fifty thousand killed in less than two years. He asks where Syria’s flag is after another half million. He asks why nobody protests when Arabs kill millions of Arabs.

Those deaths did not lack cameras. They lacked a Jew to blame.

The same report that names Israel one hundred and eighty-eight times cannot find room to name Iran even once, even though Iran armed, trained, and paid Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis who spent their treasure firing at Israel instead of feeding Yemen.

Qatar sits on the Human Rights Council while it puts Hamas’s leaders in luxury hotels.

That is not a footnote. That is the institution telling you which corpses it is willing to count.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

I’m tired.

I’m tired of the lies.
I’m tired of the hypocrisy.
I’m tired of the double standards.
I’m tired of the virtue signaling.
I’m tired of the both-siding.
I’m tired of the false moral equivalence pushed out.

I’m tired of the fact that the main protagonists supporting and cheerleading for the destruction of my country, the small and only Jewish state on the planet, are themselves currently the biggest colonizers in human history, and countries who still occupy and colonize land far from their own countries, yet feel they have some kind of right to dictate to us if and how we can defend our one and only home that we have lived on, continuously, for 3500+ years.

Britain still claims and rules over 14 overseas territories. Anguilla, Bermuda, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos), British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Saint Helena / Ascension / Tristan da Cunha, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia on Cyprus, and Turks and Caicos.

France still holds a much larger overseas map, and it does not call most of it colonies. Five places are full overseas departments, meaning they are legally France. Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Réunion, and Mayotte. Then come the collectivities and special territories of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Wallis and Futuna, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, and Clipperton. New Caledonia and French Polynesia are still on the UN decolonization list. The combined population of overseas France is about 2.9 million.

Spain still holds the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, and plazas de soberaní.

Then we have Islam and the Arabs. They started as a small cult in Saudi Arabia. Today they rule over almost the entire Middle East and North Africa. And yet they still want our one single tiny home because what they have isn’t enough.

All the violence and terror and destruction and wars against us may be instigated and fought by Muslims from the region, but make no mistake, they are funded, supported and protected by Britain, France, and Spain.

It is no coincidence that Socialism was born in the same Europe that spent centuries planting flags on other people’s land. Socialism did not fall out of the sky in some oppressed colony. The word itself shows up in Britain in the late 1820s among Robert Owen’s followers, and in France a few years later around Saint-Simon, Fourier, and Pierre Leroux.

And today we see the Democratic Socialists of America working to tear down the United States and western civilization using that same ideology as the one tearing apart Britain, France and Spain and so many other western countries. And it is no coincidence that we find Muslim Mayors in NYC and other American and western cities who are also socialists. Several Palestinian groups were socialist/communist/Marxist.

The Red-Green alliance is stronger than ever, and it is in full jihad mode against the west. The west in turn is just sitting back and watching doing nothing to stop it. That is a choice for the west to make. But Israel will never stop fighting to defend itself and its people, and we will NEVER apologize for doing so. We don’t owe anybody an explanation. We don’t need to justify our existence. Jews were around long before all of them. Thousands of years before.

In this war, they have the numbers. We’re a small nation. A small religion. But we’re the original people of our land, the indigenous people, and we are the original religion. Both Christians and Muslims pray to our prophets. Jewish prophets. They weren’t Christian. They weren’t Muslim. They were Jewish. And that’s why they want to eradicate us. Because that history started with us long before they were even an idea. We are the ONLY ones that never used force to convert people.

I’m just so tired of the lies and revisionism

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Meet Hilary Cremin: the Cambridge Professor of Education (yes, the one who appointed Jason Arday) who wants to abolish all secondary schools because they're "fascist", among other mad ideas, says Dr Nicholas Tate. https://t.co/ifNqKGIW0s

[spiked @spikedonline]

That photo of the Archbishop of Canterbury giving an award to a hardline Muslim cleric is chilling. The cleric, who once praised bin Laden, grins as his cloaked wife looks on. Why is the CofE fawning over such regressive ideologues?, asks Brendan O’Neill
https://t.co/XxJ7Tya603

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

This is Sophia Salma Khalifa. Muslim. Arab. Israeli. That is why the clip matters more than another map of 2005.

She is not describing the withdrawal as a slogan. She lived in the country that did it. Israel left Gaza with no Jew left alive or buried there. Even the graves went. The greenhouses were handed over.

The hope inside Israel, she says, was that Gaza would become the Singapore of the Middle East. What arrived instead was Hamas taking the economic chance off the table, winning an election a few months later, and then killing the people who would not submit.

When the West says “occupation” as if 2005 never happened, play an Arab Muslim Israeli who was fifteen when the experiment started. She does not need Pappé’s method. She was there for the test case. Gaza was given the keys. Hamas chose the fire.

[NZ Media World - by Brynn Neilson @1nzmw]

The true history of New Zealand Education

Dame Elizabeth Rata is frequently vilified by the Left and Maori activists because she refuses to succumb to their ideology and instead discusses history based on verifiable historic records.

Rata's new weekly podcast on the History of New Zealand Education will likely become the seminal resource for students and educators wanting to understand New Zealand's Education development and history.

In this introduction, Rata asks:
- Why did New Zealand have one of the best education systems in the world from the 19th century to the 1970s?
- Why was that remarkable legacy deliberately dismantled? What can be done to restore quality education?

More information about Rata: https://t.co/xvLQhLsYLn

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[Chris Cadence @ChrisCadence]

So what part of this helps the movement and isn’t confirming too many that the movement has a lot of anti semitism in it? Let me know.

[Charles Murray @charlesmurray]

This an exceptionally thoughtful piece on the Clancy verdict.

A curious footnote is that the author is one of the top poker players in the world.