Rachel Kohn

Not the shtetl mama you were expecting. Opinion Editor @eJPhil. Likes/RTs ≠ endorsement by my employer. Be kind, rewind. #MadeinDetroit

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

🚨 BREAKING: Harvard Just Released its Final Report on Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Bias.

It’s 300+ pages and pretty devastating to read.

I thought I knew what was going on at Harvard, but even I wasn't prepared for this.

Let's break down the most shocking parts🧵

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[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Al Amal Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, where some of my injured family members were treated from IDF bombardment last year, has shut down today after staff stopped working and locked the facility down. Want to know why? Because the medical personnel were protesting against Hamas members taking over the Surgery Ward/Division and hiding there to protect themselves, endangering the entire facility.

The staff made the courageous decision, despite the immense need for medical surgeries, to stop operating the hospital and protect the facility, their patients, and their lives, to send a clear signal to Hamas and other terrorists: You have no place in a hospital, and you’re not welcome here. This heroic action is yet another step that’s part of a growing trend of small but growing local resistance to Hamas’s fascism and terrorism, which Palestinians in Gaza hold responsible for their complete annihilation in a useless war meant to prolong the rule of an Iranian militia in the coastal enclave.

This has happened time and again in medical facilities across Gaza, something that is illegal and immoral. And while I don’t want Israeli bombardment and targeting of hospitals anywhere in Gaza, international humanitarian law clearly states that the misuse of a hospital/medical facility to gain a military advantage or to shield military objectives from attack removes the protection for hospitals under IHL. In other words, Hamas’s thuggery, criminality, and terrorism give the Israeli government the excuse to target medical establishments in Gaza, something that, in turn, worsens the suffering of the civilian population in the coastal enclave.

Remember this whenever you hear or see people chanting for the “resistance.” Remember this when you see headlines that absolve the terror group of any responsibility for the systematic destruction of Palestinian lives and hope under the pretense of “fighting the occupation.”

[Rachel Kohn @RachelKTweets]

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[Khaled Hassan @Khaledhzakariah]

Sometimes, people choose to make of what you say whatever suits their narrative. Let me clarify exactly what is happening here:

Gazans are protesting because they want:

- An end to the war in Gaza.
- Hamas leaves Gaza.

They are not:

- Calling for peace with Israel.
- Calling for the hostages to be released because, Gd forbid, they realised that the kidnapping of civilians is an act of barbaric terrorism.
- Condemning the killing of innocent Israelis.

Some (not all) Gazans are simply defeated and they now finally understand that this will end with nothing but suffering for them.

[Dalia Ziada - داليا زيادة @daliaziada]

Three messages from the Gazans to the world, and why the people will win this time:

1. "Hamas are terrorists."
2. "We want peace."
3. "We want to live a normal life."

It is not the first time the people of #Gaza protested against Hamas rule. Similar protests have happened many times before, but it has always been under-reported in the media and quickly suppressed by the brutally powerful Hamas and its regional backers.

However, this time is different. Why?

* Hamas is lonely and devasted.
* The biased Qatar-sponsored media has already lost its credibility and ability to manipulate the truth.
* The people of Gaza have broken the barriers of fear after they have been left with nothing to lose.

Let's amplify their voices.

#Gaza #Israel #Hamas #Protests #غزة #حماس #مظاهرات #احتجاجات #إسرائيل

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

Anti-Western leftists: "It's time for you to listen to Palestinians! "

Me, Ihab, Ahmed, Hamza, etc,: "I don't agree with Hamas, I want peace."

Anti-Western leftists: "Not THOSE Palestinians 😡"

Gazan Palestinians today: "Hamas is terrorist"

Anti-Western leftists: "😡😡😡"

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Today, I was on the campus of a major US university and gave remarks as part of a panel discussing Gaza, Hamas, the mass demonstrations against the terror group, pathways forward, and my hope and optimism for a better future ahead for Palestinians in the coastal enclave. While there was immense interest, enthusiasm, and intrigue in what I was saying by students and faculty, a group of white-appearing “pro-Palestine” students attended the talk. They asked questions and made physical gestures of mockery and disapproval that were incredibly infuriating.

“Why should we as Americans care about Hamas or spend any time talking about them?” said one of these students, who clearly had ignored the hour-long discussion and all my remarks and chose to focus on this angle of it. “I don’t know all the details about Hamas, I guess they suck, but we as Americans finance Israel and genocide and that’s all we should care about, not some random ‘terror’ organization.”

After hearing my ten-minute-long impassioned response and me demanding that clueless, non-Palestinians take a step back and not speak over actual Palestinians, they came up to me after the talk and asked how can I speak out against Hamas, knowing that what I say may be “used to justify” Israeli actions in Gaza, making me a supposed accomplice to the murder of my own people, including my family members. I explained that I couldn’t prevent people from manipulating my words to justify Israeli actions and even potential war crimes.

However, that shouldn’t stop me from exposing Hamas and its vile tyrannical rule over the people of Gaza and presenting divergent and desperately needed Palestinian views that reject Hamas/violence, hold multiple truths, and embrace radical pragmatism as a framework for a meaningful resolution of the conflict. Who are they or any Western “activists” to speak over actual Palestinians in Gaza experiencing the consequences of Hamas’s despicable actions, iron-grip, and terrorism that have set the Palestinian people back for no reason whatsoever?

Regardless of my response, in which I detailed the horrors that Hamas has unleashed upon the Palestinian people, moral consistency necessitates speaking out against the terror group irrespective of whether the US funds them or not.

This was yet another confirmation of the one-dimensional ethos that governs almost the entirety of the “pro-Palestine” movement and activism on college campuses. Opposition to a terror organization that has led to the annihilation of Gazans is somehow synonymous with providing justification and support for Israeli actions in the coastal enclave – this is the very definition of black and white, overly simplistic, reductionist, and harmful rhetoric, mindset, and thinking.

It is time for a rejuvenated pro-Palestine movement that cares about Palestinians even when non-Jews and non-Israelis harm them; it is time for a pro-Palestine movement that is steeped in a consistent application of moral and ethical values instead of selective outrage. It's time to redefine what it means to be truly pro-Palestine beyond simply being anti-Israel.

[Rachel Kohn @RachelKTweets]

@locdinwithzaza_ @HazelAppleyard_ Not enough men realize that this type of goofiness is the product of women who want to stay married but are at the end of their rope mentally and emotionally from living a partnered life without a full partner.

[Rachel Kohn @RachelKTweets]

For people with internet access, antisemites and anti-Zionists on Twitter don't seem to take full advantage of it.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

What language was Israel’s Declaration of Independence? 🤣

[Rachel Kohn @RachelKTweets]

This would require me to spend my nights working at the library, an impossibility without breaking and entering, but I do feel incredibly light on the rare occasion I head out into the world laptop-free.

[Rachel Kohn @RachelKTweets]

intriguing

[Rachel Kohn @RachelKTweets]

I mean, it is the pop-up, but kudos to whoever it was at @JNS_org who came up with an original way to acknowledge ubiquitous subscription prompt-related annoyance and inject some humor into it, even while inflicting a subscription prompt.

[Yael Bar tur @yaelbt]

I see this guy every Sunday at the NYC hostage rally. Today I finally asked him his story.

His name is Simon, and he was born in South Sudan. When he was 9 years old, he was kidnapped and spent 3 years as a slave. He’s been living in New York for many years now, and on Oct 7th he said he felt like it was 9/11 again. He comes every single Sunday for the last 17 months to show his support. “ I know that when you ignore evil, it wins. We have to say enough is enough”

Simon recently traveled to Israel with a group of south Sudanese, where they walked from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to show their support. He said he’s proud to be a friend of the Jewish community and of Israel. Thank you, Simon!

[Rachel Kohn @RachelKTweets]

@marycatedelvey normalize being a mammal

[Rachel Kohn @RachelKTweets]

@Briskerov omg the stress

[Rachel Kohn @RachelKTweets]

@adamm0rgan

[Rachel Kohn @RachelKTweets]

"Democrats cannot afford to become the party of language over outcomes, of ever more lawn signs and ever fewer working-class families."
https://t.co/lFYDhkQTMt

[Rachel Kohn @RachelKTweets]

This was my husband as a teenager in Louisiana, but make him a 6"3 beanpole and with a Ukrainian accent.

[Cigarette Nostalgia @CigsMake]

This is your random American in Appalachia

[Tamer Masudin @TMasudin]

As an Arab Israeli, I’ll say it clearly: Goldilocks is lying.

We Arabs can buy private land (7%) and lease state-owned land (80%)—just like Jews. That means Arabs have access to 87% of Israel’s land to buy, sell, or lease.

JNF land (13%) is mostly agricultural land, forests, and parks, and can be leased to both Jews and non-Jews through the Israel Land Authority (ILA), or swapped for equal access.

Now I’m supposed to tell my parents that the land they worked hard to get is "illegal" because some TikTok blogger says so? Genius 🤣🤣

[Columbia Jewish & Israeli Students ✡️🇮🇱 @CUJewsIsraelis]

THREAD: There’s a lot of misinformation running around about Grant Miner, president of @Columbia’s graduate student union, and the reason for his expulsion. @UAW and other orgs have been trying to turn this into a labor or free speech issue. It’s not. Let’s clear things up. 🧵