Lisa @ PANSLife

WRITER of MG/YA fiction & PANS/Lyme nonfiction, Teacher, Blogger @ NYPAT legislation, MS Ed, MBA, avid 🚴‍♂️, sometimes Singer 🎶 🐕📚

[יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad @YosephHaddad]

Adidas decided to pay tribute to the shoes that were first launched at the Munich Olympics in 1972... the same Olympic games during which 11 Israeli athletes were murdered by Palestinian terrorists in a massacre- and who was hired to model these shoes?!
Bella Hadid, the person supporting Hamas terrorists who committed a massacre in Israel just 9 months ago... simply unbelievable, a hypocritical and disgusting campaign!

[Shai Davidai @ShaiDavidai]

I want to send a public message to Mr. Cas Holloway, the COO of @Columbia University:

Cas, you're are really great guy. I know it. I saw it in your eyes today. This is why know that, deep-down, you know I'm right. You may not like my style, but I know you agree with almost everything that I have been saying. I just know it.

I am still trying to understand how you could stand just stand there, look me in the eyes, and not let me in to campus. How could you keep a straight face when you capitulated to the pro-Hamas mob yet refused entry to the most vocal voice for the Jewish and Israeli students, staff, and faculty at Columbia.

I think I know how.

You were just doing your job.

You were just doing your job when you denied a Jewish professor access to campus (by the way, all I wanted to do was to read the names of the 133 hostages, thanks for asking).

You were just doing your job when you sided with those that support Hamas.

You were just doing your job when you couldn't say for a full minute whether Hamas is a terrorist organization. (remember that meeting? It's all recorded. You were just doing your job).

Look, I get it. You're scared. You are worried about how the pro-Hamas extremists (and the brainwashed cult they've amassed) will react if you try to disperse them.

But that's exactly how terrorism works. It's an ideology that forces you to act in certain ways through explicit and implicit threats. Hamas doesn't need to bomb all the buses in Israel for me to still be scared of riding a bus in Tel Aviv.

It's the same at Columbia. At this point, the pro-Hamas mob at Columbia has broken basically every possible rule of the university (and possibly multiple State and Federal laws). The NYPD has stated that they are ready to act, if President Shafik lets them in. And you're the person who needs to make that call. That is damn scary.

But being scared is not an excuse for not doing the right thing.

Being scared is not an excuse for choosing the pro-Hamas mob and their violent chants over the Jewish professor who believes in co-existence.

The problem is that you are not alone. There are thousands of administrators like you all over U.S. campuses who are also scared. Like you, they want to stay out of it. Like you, they are just doing their jobs.

And there were millions of Germans like you in the 1930s. Good Germans, upstanding Germans, who were just doing their jobs.

Who do you think ran the universities of Berlin and Munich and Heidelberg and Frankfurt in the 1930s? Who helped the Hitler Youth check out books by Jewish authors to burn outside of campus?

Administrators. Just like you.

Cas, what I am trying to say is learn from history. Now is not the time to just "do your job". The entire nation is looking at you. You have the opportunity to show your kids, show your family, that when the time came, you stood up for what's right.

Do the right thing:

1. Disperse the illegal encampment
2. Expel the radical extremists who are brainwashing this pro-Hamas mob (and start enforcing the suspension of those leaders who are miraculously ack on campus)
3. Dismantle all of the students organizations in CUAD (the coalition behind all the antisemitism and calls for terrorism on campus) and suspend all their leaders.
4. Deal with your pro-Hamas faculty. Do something about them. Seriously.
5. Restore my right to be Jewish in public wherever I want to be.

I have every right to be on campus.

Don't bow to those who cheer on Hamas.

Don't just "do your job".

(btw - If they won't let you do this, quit. Show the world what you stand for. Be a hero. I know it's scary, but I promise - if you do the right thing, I will have your back. It's never personal for me. Never has been, never will be.)

[Caroline Glick @CarolineGlick]

The attack in Russia is a terrible tragedy. But we need to understand the context. And the most important thing is to reach a ceasefire and provide humanitarian aid to the innocent families of the gunmen.

[The Persian Jewess @persianjewess]

I have yet to see a Middle Eastern #AsAJew. That's not a coincidence.

Many "western" Jews have spent generations living in the comfort of tolerant democratic societies.

Their experience of persecution no more than an anecdotal story told about their Bubbe.

Their connection with their Jewish identity no more than the act of eating a bagel with lox and shmear.

What do the Chuck Schumers and the Jonathan Glazers of the world really know about living in continuous fear because they are #Jewish?

Nothing.

Because a fear so suffocating that it imbeds every moment of your existence cannot be described in mere words. Our minds, quite literally, are incapable of comprehending such a trauma.

All my relatives have Arab/Farsi names, and secret Jewish names. Are those words sufficient to help you taste the bitter helplessness of my relatives who had to hide their Jewish identity?

My friend's great-aunts, from Kermanshah, were kidnapped from their homes and forced into marriages with mullahs, never to be seen again. Does that sentence make you feel the same shaking rage that her grandmother experiences to this day?

My parents were forced to abandon their lives, their homes, their belongings, pack a few precious possessions into a suitcase, and flee Iran after the Islamic Revolution.

Is that enough for you to experience my parent's heartbreak as they left everything and everyone they loved behind because of radical jihadist terrorists?

The answer is No.

But the 1.2 Million Jews who were ethnically cleansed from the Middle East since the 1940's don't need to rely on inadequate anecdotal tales.

We know, FIRST HAND, what it means to be persecuted for being Jewish.

We know, what it means to have to flee your country, with nowhere to go except Israel.

And most important of all, we know that it was solely because of the existence of #Israel that we were finally able to flee the persecution of MENA countries and seek better lives.

We don't need to "hijack the Holocaust" to justify the existence of Israel. Our own lived experiences are MORE THAN SUFFICIENT to justify the existence of Israel.

And we know, without question, that the Jewish State is all that stands between a life as persecuted Dhimmis and a life as Free Jews.

So go ahead and tokenize the Jonathan Glazers of the world who pretend that Jewish persecution began and ended with the Holocaust.

Go ahead and pretend that Mizrahi Jews and the centuries of discrimination, forced conversions, rape, murder and ethnic cleansing don't exist.

Keep acting like this is about land and not about the rampant Jew-Hate that has existed in MENA countries since the dawn of Islam.

This #ZionistJew will scream loud enough for the WHOLE WORLD to hear me.

🔥I STAND WITH ISRAEL🔥

Now and forever. 💙🇮🇱💙

#AmYisraelChai
#StandWithIsrael
#AntizionismIsAntisemitism
#BringThemHomeNow

[Shai Davidai @ShaiDavidai]

No other way to say this: A kosher restaurant was targeted for for being Jewish.

This is happening in the zip-code with one of the highest concentration of Jews in the U.S.

We will not let them replay the 1930s in Germany.

This time we're fighting back.

[Shai Davidai @ShaiDavidai]

For months, I've been speaking out against @Columbia's refusal to deal with pro-terror students organizations on campus.

I thought I've seen it all.

I was wrong.

(a short thread)

[Shai Davidai @ShaiDavidai]

📢📢 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT📢📢

@Columbia has opened an investigation into my advocacy for the Jewish and Israeli students, faculty, and staff at the university.

This is a clear act of retaliation and an attempt to silence me.

If you want to know more, read my statement below

[The Persian Jewess @persianjewess]

I have an idea for a college course called: “How Not To Be A Terrorist Supporting Dipshit.”

SYLLABUS:

Part 1: Islamic Jihadists Hate You Too

Part 2: Queers, Tall Buildings and Gravity

Part 3: Burkas, Child Brides, Jihadi Janes and Feminism

Part 4: Rape is NEVER Justified, You Piece of Shit.

Part 5: From The River to the Sea, TikTok is Not A College Degree (@OrMashPotatoes 😉)

Part 6: Context: Even If It Rhymes, You’re Still Calling For Genocide

Interested parties comment below.

#BringThemHomeNow
#BelieveIsraeliWomen
#AntizionismIsAntisemitism

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

2022: Ayatollah joins UN Women's Rights Commission
2023: Ayatollah chairs UN Human Rights Council forum
2024: Ayatollah chairs UN Conference on Disarmament

Why, @antonioguterres?

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

Wow. Germany has released a powerful statement denouncing the show trial of Israel at the International Court of Justice and saying it will intervene as a third party.

"We know that different countries rate Israel's operation in the Gaza Strip differently. However, Germany firmly and expressly rejects the accusation of genocide now made before the International Court of Justice against Israel."

[Christopher C. Cuomo @ChrisCuomo]

Today I was among the journalists who have attended a private screening of the raw footage of October 7th and I want to express to you what I saw since it’s not been made public. It’s been a very heavy day. A decision was made that Jews are less than human, and treated that way in words and deeds..I now know that’s exactly the message Hamas sent on purpose — at scale. I wasn’t aware of that before. I saw bodies were burned but I did not understand or appreciate how intentional the effort was - they did it methodically, you hear it in the voices, the commands the ease, the excitement of finding and mutilating victims.

[Tracy-Ann Oberman MBE @TracyAnnO]

No not Germany 1930’s but London 2023. @SadiqKhan @RishiSunak @metpoliceuk this is happening on YOUR watch. Londoners are you happy about this ?

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Prayers for the three college students of Palestinian descent, Hisham, Kinnan, and Tahseen, who were shot in Vermont while walking to dinner. They are graduates of the Ramallah Friends School, a Quaker school in the West Bank, which my dad attended as a child. The school’s fundamental principles include treating all humans as children of God, searching and living for God in all we do, and resolving all conflicts through nonviolence. Wishing the students and their families a full recovery and justice before the law.

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

There has been more public agitation for the benefit of Hamas rather than against it.

We live in a morally inverted universe.

[Yoni Freedhoff @YoniFreedhoff]

I don't think non-Jews realize how much and how permanently the global response since October 7th has changed us.

[Michael W @Michael_Wgd]

Our baby Kfir was not released

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

Lessons to be learned after the elimination of #Hamas terrorists in #Gaza:
1. In a war against #Israel, you emerge as the loser.
2. The Middle East should unite against radicalism and Iranian proxies.
3. Normalization stands strong.

4. The EU and the USA need to reconsider countering anti-Semitism.

5. Jews are an integral part of the region's past, present, and future.

6. A Palestinian state can only be achieved through dialogue, not war.

7. Protests and boycotts against the truth fail today and tomorrow.
#HamasisISIS #HamasTerrorists

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

Will Palestine ever have a Gandhi? Or a Martin Luther King? Or a Nelson Mandela?

Why do we keep getting stuck with terrorists and grifters who use Palestinians as an easy source of income??

Can't we do better? Can't we make peace and lift Palestinians out of poverty?

[Lisa @ PANSLife @PANSlife]

@RitchieTorres Thank you. At a time when many are afraid to side with the Jews against terrorism, you show bravery.

[Lisa @ PANSLife @PANSlife]

@richardursomd Heck no