Rosa Borg

[Cochav Elkayam-Levy @CochavElkayam]

Hear from the incredible, courageous and most of all compassionate @CochavElkayam! @MarziehHamidi! @FawziaAminSido! @UNWatch

Please listen to the speech attached.

UN Watch’s official side event at the 62nd session of the UN Human Rights Council, “Women’s Rights Under Extremism and Conflict.”

In my speech I urged the international community not to turn a blind eye to the sexual violence committed against Israeli women:
“When we began this work, I believed our greatest challenge would be documenting the crimes. And in many ways, it was. The emotional burden of of confronting this evidence was immense.
There were moments when I wasn't sure we would be able to complete this work.
But as we were documenting the crimes, what I I did not anticipate was discovering how easily human suffering can become visible and invisible at the same time. I discovered that one of the greatest challenges of sexual violence in conflict is the human capacity to bear witness.
We were alone.
We faced, we encountered silence, hesitation and at times active and aggressive denial.
Certainly it motivated us to continue.
We wanted to ensure the world knows what happened. Very few in the world have agreed to look at these bodies. We felt that if we would not do this work, no one will ever see what happened to them.
Silenced No More report is not about the past. It it is about the future. It reveals some of the most dangerous developments in contemporary terrorism.
The truth is that Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist organizations demonstrated methods of brutality that others now are already studying, imitating, and refining. This is risking women worldwide.
It will not stay at the limits of October 7 or at the borders of Israel.
And I want to tell you that we cannot begin to address what we do not know happened. We cannot confront what we refuse to understand.
The findings of this report should not get be confined to the history of October 7th. They should inform the work of those addressing national security,
terrorism, hostage taking and atrocity prevention across the world. Speaking here at the UN today, I believe the responsibility can no longer rest with survivors or civil society alone. The evidence has been gathered. It is overwhelming. The crimes have been documented. The question is no longer whether this happened. The question is what is this institution and then the governments that comprise it choose to do with that knowledge.
The most painful lessons for me was watching institutions created to protect witness, sorry created
to protect victims struggle to recognize them. …. For many years, I've taught generations of student that human rights belong equally to every human being and that the international system exists to protect us, to protect the most vulnerable, to protect human dignity. … The mechanisms that should have responded first with the ability to listen to simply express solidarity and to recognize suffering failed when they were were needed the most.
I witnessed victims of unimaginable violence struggling to be believed. I watched the willingness to acknowledge suffering depend on the identity of victims and the politics surrounding them. Most concerning was watching Israeli and Jewish victims receive neither the protection nor solidarity the system was created to provide. We have found ourselves confronting a wave of hatred, denial, and dehumanizations that continues to spread worldwide.
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Lastly, .. I realized that there is one sentence I wish I could have included there. Please always always remember that there is as much good in this world as there is evil. This belief allowed me to carry on during these very difficult years. The cruelty is real, but so is human courage. So is love. So is humanity. So is the goodness in people. Hold on to that, especially now, because that is where human rights begin. Thank you."
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[Arnold Roth @arnoldroth]

Losing a child, no one needs to be told, is one of the things most humans are least capable of getting past. ‘Life-changing’ is an overused term; on this it fits.
My child wasn’t lost but wrested away, murdered in a massacre. The atrocity has a human face - the Jordanian savage who made it happen. She’s America's most wanted female fugitive though most Americans know nothing about her or why she’s still free, still a celebrity, still an icon of terror.
The 25th anniversary of the Sbarro bloodbath is on Aug 9, 2026.
If you can help my wife and me get interviewed in connection with that darkest of moments, have our op eds published, help us explain how US justice and my American child have been betrayed while the Hamas woman dances on her victims’ graves, you will be doing something of enduring importance. And have my sincere thanks.

[Alain Nahle | אלן נחלה 🇮🇱🇱🇧🕎 @nnahle]

Gertrude Elion was an American Jewish biochemist who could not get a doctorate because she was a woman.

She held 45 patents anyway. Among them:

✓ She first chemotherapy for childhood leukemia.
✓ The immunosuppressant that made organ transplants possible.
✓ The first effective antiviral drug. ✓ The foundation for AZT — the drug that turned HIV from a death sentence into a manageable illness.

She received the Nobel Prize in 1988.

She kept letters from patients in a file.

She said the letters meant more to her than the prize.

✡️

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

Bumble Bee standing on one bloom to feed on another! 😍😍🐝🌸

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

The Warsaw Ghetto, 1941.

The Germans systemically starved the Jews of the worst ghetto to death, allowing rations of only 184 calories a day for Jewish people.

To those with the audacity and heartlessness to compare this to Palestinians, throughout the Gaza War every single Palestinian and Gaza was supplied with more than 3000 calories a day.

Photo: @historyinpic9

[Daniel | דניאל 𓉱 @DanitheSett]

A quick reminder before this week's Torah portion, where B'ilam's curses turned into blessings: we have archaeological evidence that he was a known figure in other cultures of the area as well.
I love it when Torah and archaeology coalesce!

Have a blessed Shabbat Shalom 🕯🕯🇮🇱

[Reuven Goldstein @curatorWH]

Marc Chagall’s wall mosaic decorates the Knesset in Jerusalem. Created as a gift to Israel, it uses vivid color and biblical symbolism to present the menorah as a timeless emblem of Jewish faith and perseverance.

[Rosa Borg @Rosa__Borg]

I signed the petition: Remove Vanessa Frazier from the UN for supporting antisemitic content online. https://t.co/EGTn8K890P

[Howard Lovy @Howard_Lovy]

In Judith Magazine, where I'm nonfiction editor: Some families preserved their Jewish identity in whispers and half-hidden gestures, in the books they revered when they had little else. Klarina Priborkin found her grandparents’ faith recorded in the margins of a single novel—and carried it into her own life as a mother under fire. https://t.co/Rf6ny6VahP

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

BREAKING: Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy, founder and chair of the Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children, challenges the U.N. over its failure to stand with Israeli victims.

@CochavElkayam's powerful testimony on behalf of UN Watch:

Our Civil Commission’s report, Silenced No More, was recently presented to you.

Drawing on an extensive historical archive, we assembled the most comprehensive evidentiary record of the sexual crimes of October 7 and in captivity.

For two years, we immersed ourselves in testimonies of unimaginable violence.

We revealed 13 patterns of abuse — including rape, gang rape, sexual torture, and the deliberate mutilation of victims’ faces and genitalia.

Victims were filmed while being tortured.

Families were forced to see the suffering of their loved ones.

We had to coin a new legal term – kinocidal sexual violence – to describe the deliberate sexual torture of family members.

This terror was made for visibility. Women’s bodies became spectacles of war.

This was also a calculated strategy, repeated again and again.

The truth is that Hamas created a blueprint for others to follow, putting women at risk worldwide.

Finally, the question is no longer whether the crimes occurred. But what is the world do about it.

Speaking for so many Israeli women who care about women’s rights, we were heartbroken by your response.

Where is your compassion?

Will the UN rapporteurs who doubted or denied these crimes acknowledge the truth?

Israeli victims were not merely abandoned. They were singled out, dehumanized, delegitimized.

We are now left to face a world consumed by hatred, and with an international system that fuels it.

Will anything change?

We call upon you to recognize our findings. And let this be the beginning of change.

@theCC07

[Rosa Borg @Rosa__Borg]

@Fashiontweet Hiya

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

The cat paintings of Maud Lewis (1903-1970), Canadian folk artist #WomensArt
#CanadianArtistsWeek 🇨🇦

[Howard Lovy @Howard_Lovy]

My Jewish Publishing Wish List: The literary community has shut down Jewish voices. Here’s how we build something new. https://t.co/XxUH8h6aGV

[Arnold Roth @arnoldroth]

No committee of Congress, and that includes those dealing with the judiciary and with foreign relations, has ever looked into how Jordan violates its Clinton-era treaty to keep the @Sbarro bomber safe and out of the hands of US prosecutors.

Here’s something everyone, even non-Americans, can do. Sign the petition today: https://t.co/0mNc34IAhx

[Reuven Goldstein @curatorWH]

Bowling was transformed by John Moses Brunswick, a Swiss born Jewish immigrant who founded the Brunswick company in 1845. It modernized lanes, balls, and scoring as the sport grew nationwide.

[Deborah E. Lipstadt @deborahlipstadt]

If the UN felt compelled to say this, imagine how bad the situation must be…

[Rosa Borg @Rosa__Borg]

@ElishaWiesel We just mentioned him during UJA's morning Torah live-stream. In my prayers.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — June 10, 1977

Just three decades after the Holocaust — when the world closed its doors and left Jews to die on sinking ships and in sealed trains — the State of Israel rescued 66 Vietnamese refugees drifting helplessly in the South China Sea and made them citizens.

For the first time in nearly 2,000 years of exile and powerlessness, the Jewish people had sovereignty … and they chose to use it to save strangers.

In the middle of the vast ocean, a leaking wooden boat carried 66 terrified men, women, and children with no food, no water, and failing SOS signals ignored by ships from East Germany, Norway, Japan, and Panama. Death was closing in.

The Israeli cargo ship Yuvali, en route to Taiwan, spotted them. Captain Meir Tadmor radioed Haifa for instructions. Prime Minister Menachem Begin personally gave permission, and the Jewish crew took every soul aboard, fed them, clothed them, and diverted their voyage — sailing home to Israel.

When the ship arrived, Begin — whose parents and brother were murdered in the Holocaust — stood before the Knesset and declared with deep emotion:

“We Jews know what it is to be refugees. We know the agony of wandering the seas while the world looks away. For the first time in two millennia, we are no longer powerless wanderers. We are a sovereign nation — and therefore it is natural for us to give these people a haven in the Land of Israel.”

This first group of 66 was only the beginning. Between 1977 and 1979, tiny Israel — still absorbing its own Jewish refugees from Arab lands and the Soviet Union — welcomed more than 300 Vietnamese boat people in total, granting them full citizenship and a new life.

Many of these Vietnamese-Israelis went on to build beautiful, fully integrated lives in the Jewish state. Their children grew up speaking Hebrew, served in the IDF, started families with Israeli spouses, and thrived in professions ranging from business and policing to the restaurant industry — becoming a small but vibrant thread in the tapestry of Israeli society.

This was not politics.
This was the Jewish soul speaking.

After centuries of being the stranger, the outcast, the one no empire would shelter … the Jewish people were finally the ones with the power to open their gates. And they chose to remember.

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

If these baby snatchers are the people you stand with, you have a broken moral compass.

We will never forget what the people of Gaza did on October 7th.

[Dr. Köllmann (Praxis geöffnet) @CKoellmannZH]

„Im März war ich bei einer Filmpremiere in Berlin, wo die UN-Sonderberichterstatterin Francesca Albanese als Ehrengast geladen war. Ich habe mich noch nie in einem Raum aufgehalten, wo ich so viel Hass gespürt habe. Überall Kufiyas, schreckliche Parolen und blanker Hass gegen alles, was mit Israel zusammenhängt“

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