Did you know? One third of Baghdad was Jewish in the early 1900s.
👉Baghdad was once one of the greatest Jewish cities on Earth.
That surprises many people today.
By the early 20th century, roughly one third of the city’s population was Jewish. Around 80,000 to 100,000 Jews lived in Baghdad, making it home to one of the largest and oldest Jewish communities in the world.
👉How did the Jews get there?
👉The Jewish presence in Iraq began more than 2,600 years ago, after the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar conquered the Kingdom of Judah and exiled many Jews to Babylon in the 6th century BCE.
👉Rather than disappearing, the community flourished.
Babylon became one of the greatest centers of Jewish learning in history. The Babylonian Talmud, the foundational text of Rabbinic Judaism, was compiled there. Great academies at Sura and Pumbedita shaped Jewish law and tradition for centuries, influencing Jewish communities across the world.
👉For more than two millennia, Jews played a central role in the cultural, commercial, and intellectual life of Mesopotamia.
Then, within just a few years, almost all of it came to an end.
👉In the late 1930s and early 1940s, antisemitism intensified in Iraq, fueled by pro-Nazi ideology and the influence of the Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, who had fled the British Mandate after being sought by the British for his role in inciting violence.
👉The 1941 Farhud pogrom marked a turning point. It was followed by discriminatory laws, arrests, bombings, and growing persecution. In the early 1950s, nearly the entire Jewish community left Iraq, most during Operation Ezra and Nehemiah.
👉Today, one of the oldest continuous Jewish communities in history has all but disappeared from the land where it had lived for more than 26 centuries.
👉Image: Great Synagogue of Baghdad, Iraq. Unknown author. Public domain (via Wikimedia Commons). Colorized.
🇮🇱 The Nation of Israel Lives🇮🇱 (Author unknown) #historydisplayed #historyville
The Arab Muslim colonization of the Jewish homeland began with invasion.
In 636–638 CE, the armies of Caliph Umar conquered the Land of Israel.
Nearly 55 years later, in 691–692, they built the Dome of the Rock directly on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism for more than 1,700 years where two Jewish Temples had stood.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque followed around 715 CE.
Then came the systematic degradation of the indigenous Jews.
In 717 CE, crushing taxes drove many Jews off their ancestral land.
In 720 CE, Caliph Umar II banned Jews from worshipping on the Temple Mount entirely.
That ban lasted more than 1,200 years; and, in practice, the ban continues to this day under Muslim control of the site.
Jews were reduced to humiliated dhimmis (second-class “infidels” in their own homeland).
This was not coexistence.
It was Arab colonization followed by attempted Jewish erasure.
The Jews did not “colonize” the Land of Israel.
They are its indigenous people.
Some never left. Others returned in every generation whenever conditions allowed. Political Zionism in the late 19th century was the modern expression of that unbroken connection, culminating in the restoration of Jewish sovereignty.
History does not begin in the 7th century.
Jewish roots in the Land of Israel go back more than 3,000 years.
FACTS
The earliest mention of Israel doesn’t come from the Bible.
It comes out of Egypt.
Around 1208 BCE, Pharaoh Merneptah ordered a victory inscription carved after his campaign in Canaan. The monument, known as the Merneptah Stele, lists the peoples he claimed to have defeated.
One of them…Israel.
Not a city.
Not a region.
A people.
The inscription states that Israel was “laid waste, bare of seed.” In the hieroglyphs, Israel is marked with the symbol used for a population group. Not a place. That distinction is deliberate. It shows the Egyptians recognized Israel as a distinct people living in the land.
This wasn’t written by Israelites preserving their own story. It was written by an opposing power. The stele was discovered in 1896 in Thebes by archaeologist Flinders Petrie. It predates Rome, Christianity, and Islam by centuries.
Later records reinforce the same reality. The Tel Dan Stele from the 9th century BCE references the “House of David,” confirming an Israelite dynasty. Assyrian records from the 8th century BCE regularly mention the kingdoms of Israel and Judah as political entities. The Mesha Stele refers to both Israel and (YHWH) Adonai, the God of the Israelites.
Taken together, these sources establish something simple and unavoidable. Israel wasn’t created by modern politics. It wasn’t retrofitted into the land. It was already there, named and recognized more than three thousand years ago.
You can argue borders, governments, and policy all you want.
But denying Jewish peoplehood or presence in the land isn’t up for debate.
Because, you’re dealing with rock-solid proof.
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Dear president Trump. The way I see it you have two options when it comes to the Iran war:
1. Take down the Islamist regime and change the course of human history forever.
2. Keep fighting Iran half heartedly and be branded a loser for the rest of eternity.
Fateful choice.
Just think about this for a minute:
Iran is willing to throw away the generous agreement the US offered them, only for protecting Hezbollah, a recognized terror organization that operates in another country, Lebanon.
Why would a sovereign country like Iran be willing to die on the hill for preserving a foreign terror organization?
The answer lays in the wrong understanding we attribute to the relationship between Hezbollah and Iran. Hezbollah is not a separate org than Iran but an integral part of Iran’s radical Islamic Revolution agenda. Iran’s radical regime benefited for decades from this perceived positioning, that the Hezbollah is a separate and independent organization but the truth is that they are the long arm of such demonic regime, doing their bidding and whenever caught, not blame returns to Iran.
How comfortable mist it be. Command an army of mercenary terrorists who do whatever you want without any repercussions.
Now that explains why they are willing to die for this Indispensable asset.
That should also explain why any moral country should help Lebanon get rid of this cancer that had hijacked it and operates from its territory as if its theirs.
Just think about this for a minute:
Iran is willing to throw away the generous agreement the US offered them, only for protecting Hezbollah, a recognized terror organization that operates in another country, Lebanon.
Why would a sovereign country like Iran be willing to die on the hill for preserving a foreign terror organization?
The answer lays in the wrong understanding we attribute to the relationship between Hezbollah and Iran. Hezbollah is not a separate org than Iran but an integral part of Iran’s radical Islamic Revolution agenda. Iran’s radical regime benefited for decades from this perceived positioning, that the Hezbollah is a separate and independent organization but the truth is that they are the long arm of such demonic regime, doing their bidding and whenever caught, not blame returns to Iran.
How comfortable mist it be. Command an army of mercenary terrorists who do whatever you want without any repercussions.
Now that explains why they are willing to die for this Indispensable asset.
That should also explain why any moral country should help Lebanon get rid of this cancer that had hijacked it and operates from its territory as if its theirs.
Dr. Tawfik Hamid, one of the most respected Islam specialists in the Arab world, says it without hesitation:
Palestinians are Arab Muslims who believe killing Jews is an act of worship, human sacrifice offered to Allah.
No matter what Israel does, they will not stop.
According to his research, this conflict ends only when every Jew is dead or converts to Islam.
This is not a land dispute. This is ideology.
Watch the video.
American Jewish leadership has catastrophically failed. It was a failure mounting for decades toward a critical collapse.
And all they have now to divert attention to excuse their failure and maintain relevance is to turn on Israel as having failed in its PR, as if they had nothing to do with the failure. As if American societal sentiment toward Jews was the responsibility of Israel’s government to deliver to American Jews rather than vice versa.
But the years of assimilation, the rising progressive animosity and validating of antisemitism, the excusing and ignoring Muslim and Arab-generated Jew hatred, the reduction of Judaism, Jewish influence and Jewish advocacy to causes unrelated to Judaism if not even to those undermining it, the absence in campuses monitoring and fighting against the ideological takeover of academia, the reduction of Jewish identity to “ultimate victim” aspart of the reduction of modern American Jewish life and fervor to the Holocaust trauma and its universalization as part of the broader universalization of Jewish history rather than focusing its uniqueness, and the obsessing over a twisted rendition of Tikkun Olam as the gateway for ideological activism ….
Jewish leadership has failed, and blaming the Israeli government now to avoid accountability and still try to buy favor from Jew-haters won’t cut it any more.
Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) delivers an incredibly powerful speech about Iran.
Watch every second of this.
"Yesterday we saw the president of the United States and many others at Dover Air Force Base presiding over a ceremony that is very sacred to those of us who served, and that is a dignified return of remains from the war zone.
That process happens beginning in the war zone through Dover to the hometown of our fallen heroes. I participated in many of those ceremonies myself to include carrying friends of mine off the plane.
One of those is on this bracelet. He was cut in half by an Iranian EFP.
This regime that we are fighting does not care about our partisan politics. They don't care who you voted for, who you pray to, or where you live. They want to kill all of us. And they don't just say it, they actually do it, and they've been doing it for forty-seven years.
This is a war of choice. The Democrats are correct. It's a war of choice that was begun by a radical lunatic band of terrorists that took over a beautiful nation 47 years ago, took it over with brutality, force, and savagery. And the second they took it over, they didn't free their people, they didn't unleash the largest oil reserves in the world to build schools and bridges.
They took it over to murder their own people and to spread their disgusting ideology across the world, and that is exactly what they have been doing. They don't just say it and talk about it. You don't have to believe what they say. You can simply watch what they've done.
They have attacked families, women, children, innocent people. They don't just attack them and kill them, they rape them. They skin them alive on camera. They celebrate it. They honor those people who do disgusting things that we would put in jail for the rest of their lives in this country, and they do it for fun, and they pay them money to do it, and they're heroes to that nation.
They've done it to friends of mine. They've done it to families who've been in this chamber. And the fact that we sit here and listen to elected officials of this country defend these lunatics who want us all dead. They want all of you dead. They want all of us dead.
They don't want us to disappear with a snap of a finger. They want us to be raped, burned alive, and cut into pieces. Watch the video from October 7. That's what they want to happen from Maine to San Diego, from Seattle to Miami. They want this country turned into a burning husk of its former self, and you don't have to theorize that.
That's what they do. From the 1983 barracks bombing, where 280 Marines were vaporized in a morning, from USS Cole to the Achille Lauro, to every terrorist attack, from the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas. These are not humanitarian freedom organizations. They are death-dealing cults, and they want all of us to die brutal deaths.
William Buckley was abducted in 1985, an American military officer. He was skinned alive on camera by the Iranians. American prisoners of war who were captured. They were never called prisoners of war because they were captured by lunatic terrorists, so they were not subject to the Geneva Convention. They were captured and murdered, power drills through their brains. This is in Iraq. These are families that have dealt with this, and they've never gotten a single dime.
These families have never gotten restitution, and not a single president has ever stood up to them. Love Donald Trump or hate him, love his policies, hate ICE, love ICE, whatever. There's never been a single president who has stood up to Iran and hit back. For 47 years, our troops and our families have been absorbing attack after attack after attack all over the world.
And their radical ideology does not stop at the Persian Gulf. It doesn't stop at Tel Aviv. They want to do this everywhere. It's a global radical ideology, and we've been fighting it for half a century.
We didn't start this war. We did not, but we will finish it. And forever wars are not popular with anybody these days. Both sides of the love to attack our forever wars. And I can promise you, being someone overseas wearing the uniform, when you're fighting for your country, you don't care what party's in office, but you're fighting to defend your country, and you turn on the news and see your elected officials stabbing you in the back, telling you that you're failing, that you've failed every goal of the war, is what I just heard.
Last time I checked, we've wiped these bastards out. An occasional missile strike and boats in the straits, that's not military strength. Those are the flailings of a failing empire. Those are the flailings of a nation in collapse because they deserve it. So I encourage our colleagues on both sides of the aisle, whatever's politically convenient, whatever plays well on Twitter or Facebook, think about the people who are deployed right now, standing on that wall with a loaded weapon, who have volunteered to defend our country and our way of life.
Because they are there defending us in a just war, because we did not start a war with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. They started it with us 47 years ago, and their attacks have gone unanswered for half a century. It's time to fix this problem and make sure another generations of Americans does not have to fight this murderous, savage adversary."
When Jews lived as dhimmis under Islamic rule, Muslims had no issue acknowledging the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount.
That was taken as an obvious historical truth. For example, in 1925 the Supreme Muslim Council published a guidebook to the Haram al-Sharif. On page 4 it said:
“The site is one of the oldest in the world. Its sanctity dates from the earliest times. Its identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple is beyond dispute.”
That was the mainstream Muslim position for centuries. The Temple Mount was recognized as the location of the ancient Jewish Temple.
There was no denial, no attempt to erase Jewish history, because Jews were under Islamic domination, without sovereignty, and therefore posed no political threat.
But everything changed with the collapse of the Ottoman Caliphate and the introduction of nation-states under the British and the French.
Once the idea of Jewish sovereignty became possible, Jews ruling themselves on their ancestral land, the Muslim world could no longer tolerate the acknowledgment of Jewish history.
This is why the modern denial of Jewish history began, why the Palestinian identity was manufactured and why Muslims suddenly began denying the Jewish connection to the land.
¡Micrófono en el suelo! Elon Musk aplasta a la reportera que lo tacha de “extrema derecha” con una respuesta tan brutal que dejó el estudio en silencio: “En realidad… solo somos personas normales. Aquí están los principios: • Fronteras seguras • Ciudades seguras • Gasto sensato. ¿Cuáles de esos tres suenan ‘extrema derecha’? ¡Ninguno!”. Y le clava la estocada final: “Quiero reprenderte a ti y a todos los medios por esta caracterización absurda, falsa, engañosa y sin sentido de la extrema derecha. ¡Mantengan esta parte grabada!”.
Y no se detuvo ahí… “Literalmente podrías retroceder 10 o 15 años y estas políticas eran completamente normales. El truco más divertido es tomar un discurso de Obama o de Hillary, leérselo a alguien de la izquierda lunática y preguntarle: ‘¿Qué te parece este discurso de Trump?’. Y te responden: ‘¡Es la peor persona de la historia!’. Y tú les sueltas: ‘En realidad… era Obama. O Hillary!’”. Lo dejó sin palabras.
Iran attacked Kuwait’s desalination infrastructure for the second day in a row.
It provides 90% of the country’s drinking water.
Israel was not involved, so the UN has closed the investigation.
Tucker Carlson interviewed Roger Waters and it’s as bonkers as you’d expect. Here Waters suggests that Israel did 911 because “every single physicist in the world” agree that planes wouldn’t bring down the towers. Antisemitic madness.
Michael Phelps won 23 Olympic gold medals using a mental technique most athletes ignore:
"The biggest thing that really separated me through my career was my mental game. Everything that was in between my ears."
Michael explains how he used visualization:
"When I would visualize, I'd visualize every single thing getting up to a meet, probably a month or so in advance. What could happen. What I want to happen. And what I don't want to happen. Because when it happened, I was prepared for it."
He describes the goal:
"When I got to a swim meet, there's nothing I can control at that point except what I do. I can't control what anybody else does. So I want to know how the race could go, how I don't want the race to go, and in a perfect world, how the race should go. So I could get behind the block and not have to think about anything."
His coach Bob Bowman reveals how they trained this skill:
"When Michael was young, I gave his mom a book of progressive relaxation. Before he'd go to bed at night, she would read this progression of things: clench your fists, work through your whole body. He got so good she'd just open the book, say two things, and he'd be asleep."
Bowman explains why visualization works:
"The brain cannot distinguish between something that's vividly visualized and something that's real. By the time Michael steps up on the block at the Olympics, he's swum that race hundreds of times in his mind. All he has to do is shut everything down and it goes on autopilot."
Michael adds the key detail most miss:
"When I would visualize, it would be what you want it to be, what you don't want it to be, what it could be. So you're always ready for anything. If I have a suit rip, fine, I need another suit, put it on. Any small thing that could go wrong, I'm ready for."
Polish PM dropping truth bombs:
'How can 500 million Europeans ask 300 million Americans to protect them from 140 million Russians...?
But I’ll tell you something even more astonishing — there are 2 billion Muslims asking the world to protect them from 7 million Jews...!?'"
The numbers say it all.
The same crowd that can’t win a single war, builds tunnels instead of schools, and turns every territory they control into a dumpster fire is convinced the tiny Jewish state is an existential threat to them.
It’s not about land. It’s not about 'occupation.' It’s pure Jew-hatred on an industrial scale.
One side contributes to humanity. The other side contributes body counts and conspiracy theories.
Thanks for the reality check, Poland. 🇮🇱
Hamas is a genocidal cult: Recently uncovered documents from slain Hamas leader and October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar reveal the depth of his depravity and the extent to which he knowingly steered Gaza toward catastrophe. Handwritten notes drafted a year before the attack show Sinwar anticipated a ferocious Israeli counter‑offensive, even speculating, in his own words, about the possibility of an Israeli nuclear retaliation on Gaza. Despite uncertainty over whether Iran or Hezbollah would join the fight, he outlined a plan to deploy up to ten thousand fighters from Gaza to seize Israeli towns, expel civilians, hold hostages, and wage what he described as a life‑or‑death battle. These notes align with earlier documents from Sinwar’s archive detailing his intent to use extreme brutality to maximize terror, fear, and psychological trauma among Israelis.
The implications are stark. Hamas’s crimes against humanity were not only committed against Israelis but also against the Palestinian people. The fascist organization employed ISIS‑grade tactics, fully aware that the attack went far beyond any military objective and could provoke overwhelming Israeli retaliation. Sinwar’s delusions were matched only by his ignorance: Israel does not need nuclear weapons to inflict devastating harm on Gaza. Yet Hamas deliberately launched an intentionally genocidal assault, predicting, and banking on, an Israeli survival response that would devastate Gaza and then be weaponized for global sympathy. In doing so, Hamas sacrificed 2.3 million Palestinians for a propaganda strategy.
This alone should compel the immediate, unconditional, and unequivocal rejection of Hamas by anyone claiming to support Palestinian rights. It should erase any doubt that Islamist extremists pose an existential threat to Palestinian survival, freedom, and the possibility of building a society not dragged into wars its rulers knowingly design to be catastrophic. When you are the weaker party facing the most far‑right government in Israel’s history, your obligation is to safeguard your people, not gamble their lives on apocalyptic fantasies. Hamas’s failure to do so is a betrayal worthy of absolute condemnation. It forfeits any Hamas claim to political relevance and demands that those responsible for October 7 be treated as traitors and murderers of their own people.