Mijal Bitton

Spiritual Leader of the @DowntownMinyan. Thinker. Scholar of Middle Eastern Jews & @rabbisacks scholar. Proud Mom, American, Jew.

[Mijal Bitton @mijalbitton]

Our message to NYU and our communities is clear: we are strong, we are not afraid, we are outraged by supporters of terror and we join with good people everywhere to fight back!

[elisha jacobs @elisha__jacobs]

The incredible, bone-chilling speech by Dr. @mijalbitton during today's "Never Again Is Now" rally outside @nyuniversity 🇮🇱עם ישראל חי🇮🇱

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Mayor Mamdani devoted only 49 words of a 211-word statement to commemorate the worst single day attack on Jews since the Holocaust, in a city that is home to the largest Jewish population outside Israel. He avoided any real description of what happened on October 7, including mass murder, burnings, beheadings, executions, and sadism toward Jews, Arabs, and foreign workers, including women, children, teenagers, and the elderly. He refused to call Hamas a terrorist organization or acknowledge that none of this would have happened had the group honored the ceasefire it unilaterally broke. There was no assignment of agency or responsibility to any Palestinian actor.

Yet he used the remaining 162 words to describe in detail what happened in Gaza after the attack. He showed full capacity to recognize Palestinian suffering, which is real and must be acknowledged, but his statement was tone deaf, inconsiderate, and antagonizing to millions who deserve their trauma recognized on its own terms. He has spoken endlessly about his anti-Israel views and will continue to do so, but this was the one day in which he could have offered unconditional compassion to the victims and survivors of October 7 and their loved ones, many of whom have deep roots in New York.

This type of statement ignores basic logical principles like cause and effect, choices and consequences, actions and reactions, priorities and implications, further infantilizing the Palestinians and ignoring the failures of Hamas and Palestinian leadership that have harmed their own people. It hardens attitudes toward Gazans and reduces empathy for the vast and unspeakable suffering in the coastal enclave, rather than increasing it.

@NYCMayor: sometimes less is better. You should have stayed with your first 49 words, especially as unhinged “pro-Palestine activists” are celebrating October 7 today across the country. Stand up to your base, Mr. Mamdani. You have already won and do not need to appease radicals at the expense of Jewish New Yorkers. And please stop pretending that this is about helping Palestinians or caring for Gazans.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Three years ago on October 7, the world changed for Jews across the world when we saw a massacre in Israel carried out by terrorists. On October 8, the world changed for me. Just a day after those horrific attacks we saw just how many people still hold abhorrent views and turn a blind eye to Islamist extremism.

Three years on, the Conservative Party must be clear: We stand with British Jews. We will confront antisemitism and we have the moral clarity to know who our allies are - and Israel is one of them.

[Nadhim Zahawi @nadhimzahawi]

Ed, you’re the Foreign Secretary. Words matter. This was a terror attack. The brave Indian pilot and Israeli passengers helped avert catastrophe. Why is it so difficult to name and condemn Islamist terrorism? Britain needs clarity and leadership.

[Victoria Freeman @v_j_freeman]

This is shameful. It’s so shameful it looks purposeful. This is the regime which openly slaughtered tens of thousands of innocent civilians for *protesting* & continues to put them to death daily. Teenagers sent to the gallows. Ed Miliband is a disgrace.

[Mijal Bitton @mijalbitton]

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[Mijal Bitton @mijalbitton]

Looking for last-minute Rosh Hashanah reading?

@18_forty just published The Dance of Teshuva, a beautiful collection by R. David Ebner, z”l.

I’m featuring it on my Substack, with a moving introduction by Daniel Bonner, one of his longtime students.

Links below 👇

[Mijal Bitton @mijalbitton]

https://t.co/UwXSgIACvu
@DBashIdeas

[Mijal Bitton @mijalbitton]

@pamallyn hey! not sure what to make of this. I think many of us would be glad for her to clarify her comments because of the tension between them and her previous stance..

[Roy K. Altman @RoyKAltman]

Alice Nderitu. Most people don't know that name.

I talk about her all the time. Why is she important? She was one of the world's preeminent experts on genocide.

She's a Kenyan woman, not a Jew, not married to a Jew, obviously not Israeli.

She rose in the ranks of international communities around the world because of her tremendous expertise in this field.

And she she reached the pinnacle of this field. She became the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Crime of Genocide and the Prevention of Genocide.

She became the world's preeminent and most prominent source on whether genocides were happening around the world and how to prevent them.

And she was adamant and clear that there was no genocide in Gaza, that it was the furthest thing from a genocide, that Israel spent tremendous amounts of money and effort and had an entire organization of its government devoted to preserving and protecting the lives of uninvolved Palestinian citizens.

And then what did Alice Nderitu get for telling the truth at the United Nations?

She was fired. Her contract was not renewed, and someone who would toe the party line was placed there in her stead.

And it's the fact that no one even knows her name that shows you what it looks like to lose an information war in the West.

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

The Jew tax.

[eJewishPhilanthropy @eJPhil]

EXCLUSIVE | Before the pilot cohort of the Maimonides Jewish Leadership Institute has even completed its first year, efforts are already underway to expand the nascent fellowship program.

For starters, @mijalbitton is coming on board as dean.

https://t.co/icAf3blbXp

[David Frum @davidfrum]

In his notorious speech in Des Moines in September 1941, Charles Lindbergh warned American Jews that if they kept objecting to the persecution of Jews overseas, their fellow-Americans would persecute Jews here at home. https://t.co/CbCLAfBwmm

[Yonit Levi @LeviYonit]

Please watch this remarkable interview

[American Jewish Committee @AJCGlobal]

Is the Middle East finally ready to accept Israel?

AJC’s Chief Policy and Political Affairs Officer Jason Isaacson joins @MijalBitton and Noam L. Weissman on the Wondering Jews podcast to explore that question and what it means for the future of the region.

Drawing on decades of diplomacy across the Middle East, Jason discusses the Abraham Accords, the prospects for widening the circle of Arab-Israeli peace, and tools to confront rising hostility toward Jews.

He also shares what gives him hope.

Listen now: https://t.co/dBNvPntoQX

[Jon Levine @LevineJonathan]

NEW from me

More than a dozen donors to the openly neo-Nazi campaign of Dan Bilzerian have also given tens of thousands of dollars to Abdul El-Sayed

https://t.co/cagZTVpnBj

[Olivia Reingold @Olivia_Reingold]

You would think that data showing remarkably low levels of child malnutrition in Gaza would be front page news.

Nope. Perhaps because the data is causing experts to ask: should a famine even have been declared in Gaza in the first place?

[Dan Senor @dansenor]

How will current issues or past discrimination against Mizrahi Israelis influence this election? @mijalbitton joins Call Me Back to examine. Listen here: https://t.co/bHGNWSgFwy

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Wow. Gaza’s bravest man denounces Hamas

[Jonah Platt @JonahPlatt]

What’s likely? That all your totally normal liberal Jewish friends suddenly “love genocide” or that Israel’s Islamist neighbors bent on its annihilation used propaganda to paint Jews as uniquely evil, literally the exact playbook every Jew-hating society has used for millennia?

[AG @AGHamilton29]

Last 5 polls in the WI race averaged Hong + 21%. Crowley just won.

Last 5 polls in the MI race averaged El-Sayed +14%. He won by 1%.

Betting markets and coverage made both races seem like a done deal for the DSA candidates before Election Day bc of it.

That’s a real problem.