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[Ayn Reagan @AynReagan]

Graham's death is a loss for the Jewish People because he forcefully confronted anti-Semites at home and abroad. Cruz does. Cotton. Stefanik. Righteous Gentiles who are steadfast in opposing the malevolence of anti-Semitism. They are very much appreciated.
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[House Republicans @HouseGOP]

In a split second, he shielded his daughter and wife with his body, saving their lives at the cost of his own.

His last act was love.
And love like that never dies.

Remembering Corey Comperatore
Butler, PA — July 13, 2024

[Ahmed Ibrahim @ahm_ibrahima]

Somaliland lost one of its best friends Sen. Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC his involvement with Somaliland centred on his role in the US congress for a deeper look into the geopolitical significance of the HoAfrica and the international recognition of Somaliland.

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

Lindsey Graham reportedly told President Trump he was feeling unwell but declined medical attention, joking, “I can’t die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out and do Israeli-Saudi normalization.” According to Axios, Graham died a short time later.

VIA: @BNONews

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

President Donald J. Trump on the passing of Senator Lindsey Graham:

[Ambassador Mike Huckabee @GovMikeHuckabee]

Very sad to hear my longtime friend @LindseyGrahamSC has passed away suddenly. We just spoke a few days ago. I had no idea would be the last time. Care for your friends while you can!

[🇺🇸🇮🇱🇦🇷 Rick Smol ריקסמול🇮🇱🇺🇸🇦🇷🎗️ @RickSmol]

There is no one to say Kaddish for Lindsey Graham. He had no wife. He had no children. He dedicated his entire life, mostly for us. We are his children.

Lindsey loved the Jews more than the Jews loved themselves. He traveled the world, from country to country, and fought like a lion for the State of Israel. He wasn't even Jewish himself. He simply believed with all his heart, with all his might, that it was the right thing to do.

Now, we the Jewish people must say Kaddish for him. Kaddish for the greatest Righteous Among the Nations of our time. Perhaps even Kaddish for many of his battles on behalf of the Jews. I wish successors would rise for him. But for now, the situation in the American Congress is not encouraging, to our regret.

We will always remember you, Lindsey. Rest in peace on your bed. We all love you.
The Jewish people.

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

In 1995, an American president needed two Hebrew words to bury an Israeli prime minister. In 2026, Israel needs the same two for a Baptist son of a South Carolina pool hall:

Shalom, chaver.

Israel has lost its greatest friend on Capitol Hill, Senator Lindsey Graham.

That isn’t an exaggeration; it’s the consensus of the Israeli opposition and coalition, who rose in unison this morning to eulogize the beloved senator.

Born and raised in his beloved South Carolina, Graham grew up living in a cramped room behind his parents’ combined pool hall, bar and liquor store. Later becoming a lawyer and enlisting in the U.S. military, he entered Congress in 1995, becoming the first Republican to represent South Carolina’s 3rd District since Reconstruction. In 2003, he moved up to the Senate, where he and John McCain became a trio with Joe Lieberman—dubbed the “Three Amigos” by Gen. David Petraeus on one of their endless trips to Iraq and Afghanistan. Hawks, travelers and crossers of aisles for wars worth fighting. Especially Israel’s.

Sander Gerber, his partner on the Taylor Force Act, once quipped that the senator was “more pro-Israel than AIPAC,” while Christians United for Israel counted him among Israel’s most stalwart allies in Congress. His evangelical base—a pillar of both South Carolina politics and American Zionism—wasn’t a constituency he courted so much as one he belonged to.

Addressing AIPAC’s annual dinner on March 22, 2010, he told the room the evening was about “our best friend in the world, the State of Israel”—and had every member of Congress present stand while he pledged that Congress had Israel’s back and would not let it down. In the same speech, he declared Jerusalem the undivided capital of Israel and the eternal home of the Jewish faith, said it was sometimes better to go to war than to allow a second Holocaust to develop, and closed with “never again.”

He more than lived up to the commitment. From Obama’s JCPOA—which he fought—to Donald Trump’s short-lived rapprochement with Tehran this past month, through the Taylor Force Act, the anti-BDS legislation, the embassy move and the Golan recognition he personally championed, Graham operated on a single axiom, the one the Hebrew press identified this morning as his signature line: Israel’s security is America’s security. He applied it without exception. In 2013, he threatened to sink Chuck Hagel’s nomination as the most anti-Israel defense secretary in American history; in December 2014, standing in Jerusalem beside Netanyahu, he promised on Iran sanctions that “the Congress will follow your lead”—a sentence no other American senator would say to a foreign leader, and Graham said it on camera.

Just 15 days after the October 7 massacre, Graham was in Tel Aviv leading a bipartisan delegation—noting that “10 percent of the United States Senate is in Israel.” Destroying Hamas, he made clear, was nonnegotiable, and he had stark words for Tehran: “We’re here today to tell Iran, we’re watching you”—if the war grew, it was coming to their backyard: “There won’t be two fronts, there will be three.” He told the room exactly why it had happened, insisting no one would ever convince him the massacre was about anything but stopping reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Israel—the very normalization project he had spent the preceding months building.

He wasn’t shy about Biden’s flip-flopping either. When the administration threatened to withhold weapons over Rafah, Graham hauled Lloyd Austin before the Armed Services Committee and asked whether he’d have supported Hiroshima and Nagasaki—then demanded to know how Washington could dictate terms to a country whose neighbors want to kill all the Jews. He called Biden’s approach “ass-backwards.” When the ICC prosecutor moved on Israeli leaders, his warning was five words of pure Graham: “If they do this to Israel, we’re next.”

When Israel launched Operation Rising Lion on June 13, 2025, his reaction was five words: “Game on. Pray for Israel.” The tweet drew fury from all directions—including from Meghan McCain, his late best friend’s daughter, who informed him it was not a game—but it was, in its way, the most honest sentence of the war: the fight he had demanded since at least 2010 had finally arrived, and he was not going to pretend otherwise. By August, he was telling South Carolina Republicans that if America pulls the plug on Israel, God will pull the plug on us. By 2026, per The Wall Street Journal, he was shuttling to Jerusalem to coach Netanyahu on making the case for war to Trump.

In January, no sooner had he disembarked than he posted: “I just landed in Israel, the one and only Jewish State, and America’s strongest ally and friend since its founding.” He returned once more in February 2026—Netanyahu, Defense Minister Katz, the General Staff—the final visit of several dozen across the decades. In March, amid the MAGA backlash over the Iran war, he gave the line that now reads as a valediction: “I will be with Israel until our dying day.”

Far too soon, that day arrived. It found him the same as always: back from an ally’s capital, stalwartly defending a country’s right to freedom and safety, and scheduled for Sunday television to explain why.

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

At least they used a good photo of me.

Judge me by my enemies.

[Daniel Bordman @DanielBordmanOG]

Senator Lindsay Graham has decided to chase Khamenei into the afterlife so that he can kill him again.

Rest in peace patriot

[איתמר בן גביר @itamarbengvir]

Today, Israel has lost one of its greatest friends.

Senator Lindsey Graham stood with Israel not because it was easy, but because he believed it was right. His unwavering support, courage, and moral clarity earned him the admiration of millions of Israelis.

The State of Israel will always remember his friendship, his unwavering support, and his steadfast commitment to Israel’s security.

Heartfelt condolences to his family and to the American people.

May his memory be a blessing.
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[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

Statement from the Office of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina).

[How I Mine for Fish? @HowIMineFish]

This is the one that haunts me. The 95.5 guy will likely blaze his own path and do something outside of a structure. The guy who pushed up 4 points between midterm and final looks like the biggest loser in the world at the midterm but is actually above average.

This is the death of society. The median citizen looted, buried, and shamed, because THEY DIDN'T LIE, while everything rots from the head as incompetent liars fill the upper ranks.

Society dies with Mister 59.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

George Washington ordered the Declaration of Independence read aloud to the Continental Army as they prepared for battle on this day in 1776.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

The situation is so much more desperate than you probably realize.

University professors are saying they're now unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. Their students are simply incapable of reading more than a few pages.

Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures.

There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them.

If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything. This is civilizational.

Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings:

Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them.

Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history. We must continue to form new minds in this same model if we're going to keep it.

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

The Pennsylvania Evening Post becomes the first newspaper to publish the text of the Declaration of Indepenence.

[Mike Lawler @lawler4ny]

Happy Heavenly Birthday to Yorktown’s Sheridan Gorman.

At just 18 years old, Sheridan Gorman had her entire life ahead of her - dreams to pursue, milestones to reach, and so much more to experience. That future was tragically taken from her far too soon, leaving behind not only a grieving family but an entire community heartbroken by her loss.

No family should ever have to endure this kind of pain. As her loved ones have said, this was a failure of the system. Her life was taken by someone who should never have been released into our country.

Sheridan should still be here today. She should be living her life, surrounded by those who love her. Instead, she was taken far too soon, and she will never be forgotten.

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Hang this photo in the Smithsonian.

[Casey Babb @DrCaseyBabb]

In Canada, Jews are now being publicly identified — their names and faces seen on posters in the country’s busiest city. If this was being done to any other minority group, it would be an international story. Things here are worse than you can imagine.

[Chris DeRose | Housing, History, Hotels @chrisderose]

John Adams was invited to speak at the 50th Fourth of July celebration in Quincy. He was too old, too weak, to appear in person, and in fact would die that day. George Whitney went to his house, determined to leave with some remarks that he could share with the crowd. What did he want to say?

“Independence forever.”

Whitney, hoping to leave with something more, asked if he had anything to add? “Not a word.”