Steven Shalowitz

Mandarin Speaking Adventure Traveler, Photographer and Host of The One Way Ticket Show Podcast & IsraelCast Podcast.

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

Fifty years ago today, Air France Captain Michel Bacos showed the world what true moral courage looks like.

When Flight 139 was hijacked by Palestinian and German terrorists and flown to Entebbe, the non-Jewish passengers were eventually released. Bacos and his crew were also offered their freedom.

However, Bacos, who also served in the French army under DeGaulle, refused to leave his Jewish passengers. All his crew also refused, without exception.

Instead, they chose to remain alongside the 94 Jewish hostages, fully aware of the danger they faced. As Bacos later said, abandoning his passengers was simply "unimaginable."

Days later, they were freed in the legendary Israeli rescue mission, Operation Entebbe, led by Yoni Netanyahu, who would die in the battle.

For his extraordinary courage, Bacos was honoured by both France and Israel. Yet his greatest legacy was not the medals he received, but the example he set: that decency, duty and humanity must never yield to terror or antisemitism.

Michel Bacos was a true hero. May his life, his courage and his memory forever be a blessing and an inspiration.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

The constant, uncomfortable shifting, the tight-lipped, disgusted look on her face, could the U.N. Rapporteur on Violence against Women look like she wants the survivor sitting in front of her to shut up any more?

Is this how someone whose entire job is to advocate for women against violence should be acting when faced with a woman who suffered verifiable violence?

Should a plea from a victim for an apology be met with hateful silence?

The UN should be ashamed, but I have a sinking feeling they're proud instead.

[Vasiliki @Vasilik30141926]

@Reuters Hey @Reuters, is the “journalist” who wrote this bullshit article the same kind of “journalist” as this? 👇🤔

Asking for a friend.

https://t.co/R4B4cgobJ5

[James J. Marlow @James_J_Marlow]

@Reuters The UN report is totally based on one vile woman, brought in by the UN to demonise Israel and its people due to her historical hatred for the country.

This is the woman 👇 who won’t even allow the Israeli Ambassador to the UN respond to this disgusting report.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

This is the “Al Jazeera cameraman” Israel killed over the weekend.

Maybe he just didn’t tell his employer he had a side hustle as a Hamas sniper?

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: More video exposes that the rally which congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier attended on October 8th, one day after the massacre, had nonstop speakers openly praising Hamas.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

She silenced all the pro-Palestinian useful idiots in less than a minute.

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

Whenever a Palestine state was proposed by the international community, in 1937, 1947, 2000 and 2008, Israel accepted it. On every occasion, the Palestinian Arbs rejected it and instead waged a war of extermination and murderous terrorism against Israel and the Jews.

Do some elementary homework before exposing your own ignorance and malice by accusing others of lying for telling the truth.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Tell me: where are the headlines?

The ink on the deal wasn’t even dry before the Islamic Republic showed its true face. Its first move? Sentencing singer Parastoo Ahmadi to 74 lashes for singing without hijab.
Yes, In 21st-century singing is forbidden for women in Iran.

[dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ @DahliaKurtz]

FIFA security tells a Jew to remove his Israeli flag — for his safety.

Whilst allowing the fake Palestinian flag holders to keep theirs — and threaten him.

"I’m just following orders.”

Yes. Where have we heard that before? https://t.co/7EGQgRToyE

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

An Arab man from Saudi Arabia in a message to Palestinians:

"Who are you trying to fool? You have no land and no case. This land belongs to Israel for the people of Israel. You Palestinians are evil in any country you set foot on!"

This must be shared every single week.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

In less than 150 seconds, Benjamin Netanyahu explains how radical Islam is not only after Jews and Israel, but also after Christians and America.

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[Steven Shalowitz @stevenshalowitz]

I am pleased to welcome @RawaneOsmane, the Syrian-Lebanese activist, writer, and content creator based in Germany, as my latest guest on The One Way Ticket Show podcast @towtshow.

In the interview (a clip of which is here), Rawan highlights how growing up in Lebanon she was taught to hate Israel and Jews. A chance encounter with a Jewish shopkeeper in Strasbourg, France changed her entrenched mindset and put Rawan on a course of self-discovery that led the once Hezbollah fan to become, as she describes it, a recovered Antisemite and Arab Zionist. Today, Rawan is converting to Judaism and will be making Aliyah (moving to Israel, making it her home).

In our conversation, Rawan, who is a research and diplomacy fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, also discusses the Abraham Accords, Hezbollah, the future of Lebanon, breaking down barriers, and more.

As for Rawan's one way ticket destination of choice? It's to 50 years into the future to see what the world will look like.

I hope you tune into Rawan as she offers a unique take on a part of the world that is so misunderstood.

You can view the interview on our YouTube Channel https://t.co/Dtr0pvTt5V, or hear it on the show's website https://t.co/F0ZqJt0zNG, or wherever you get your podcasts.

#israel #lebanon #hezbollah #middleast #HistoryMatters

[Jewish National Fund-USA @JNFUSA]

Who's writing the narrative and who's ignoring the facts? Melissa Brodsky, @ALionessWrites, joins host @stevenshalowitz for a powerful conversation on history, propaganda, antisemitism, and the fight for truth.

Tune in here: https://t.co/SkpQ3zEANj

#IsraelCast #PoweredbyJNF

[New York Post @nypost]

Mamdani under fire for silence on harrowing antisemitic NYC subway attack: 'No leadership' https://t.co/RKvQizJUSn

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

On his @MakingSenseHQ podcast, Sam Harris explains that the “famine in Gaza” narrative was a hoax.

Famine has a specific definition. Under the IPC framework, it requires extreme food insecurity, widespread child malnutrition, and at least two non-trauma deaths per 10,000 people every day.

In Gaza, that mortality threshold would equal roughly 420 starvation deaths daily. Yet the Palestinian Authority's own statistics reported 66 total starvation deaths by July 2025.

A study of COGAT aid deliveries also found that food entering Gaza frequently exceeded the humanitarian minimum of 2,100 calories per person per day.

Gaza never met the famine threshold, so the standard was lowered in order to fabricate one.

[Steven Shalowitz @stevenshalowitz]

.@ShannonBream always appreciate your anchoring and glad to see you on @SpecialReport tonite. One correction, though. The Chinese President's surname is pronounced "She" as in "Him/Her/He/She".

[Jewish National Fund-USA @JNFUSA]

Listen to the newest episode of IsraelCast where @stevenshalowitz sits down with @sarrisinger for a deeply moving conversation about survival, trauma, and turning pain into purpose.

🔗 https://t.co/lUUBmcYdu0

#IsraelCast #PoweredbyJNF

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

“Free Palestine.”

I grew up on those words.

In Lebanon, most people around me wanted a free Palestine for a very practical reason — to send the Palestinian refugees back. The civil war that tore my country apart was ignited in no small part by the Palestinian armed factions who turned Lebanon into their launching pad. “Free Palestine” meant: free us from them.

In Damascus, where my father’s family lived, the sentiment was different but equally self-serving. Palestine must be returned to the Arabs, its righteous owners. No one asked follow-up questions. No one was expected to.

Palestine was central to Islam, most Arabs are Muslim, therefore supporting the Palestinian cause was reflexive. A non-brainer in the most literal sense — no brain engaged at all.

Nobody stopped to point out that Palestine is not an Arabic word. Nobody found it strange that Jerusalem, the supposedly third holiest city in Islam, is not mentioned once in the Quran. Not once. Nor is Palestine. The entire theological and political architecture of this cause rests on a foundation that their own scripture doesn’t bother to acknowledge.

What was actually happening was indoctrination. A systematic, generational rejection of Jewish sovereignty — and frankly, of any minority sovereignty. Jews, Christians, Druze, Kurds, Assyrians, Yazidis — the Arab world has been remarkably consistent in how it treats people who are different. We just don’t talk about that.

Instead, in the West, we talk about Palestine.

In the West, a civilization that has elevated human rights to its highest moral currency, the Palestinian cause has become the one exception to every rule. In the queue of human suffering, Palestinians cut the line every time. Homosexuals executed in Gaza and hanged from cranes in Iran? Palestine first. Women imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for campaigning for the right to drive — a right they were denied until 2018 — girls sold into marriage in Afghanistan, women erased from public life entirely under the Taliban? After Palestine. Political dissidents ground into dust in Syrian and Egyptian prisons, journalists disappeared in Libya, children starving in Yemen while their rulers wage proxy wars, entire populations hollowed out by hunger in Sudan? All of it waits. Christians ethnically cleansed from Iraq and Syria, the Arab world methodically emptied of every Jewish community it once held — a demographic erasure carried out across a century with surgical patience and near-total Western silence?

Palestine is still first.

So let’s end where we started. Free Palestine. Which Palestine, exactly? The Roman invention? The British administrative line? The British Mandate covered the entire territory of what is today Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan. In 1921, 78% of that mandate was handed to the Hashemite family — a dynasty imported from Hijaz in present-day Saudi Arabia — and became the Kingdom of Jordan, which it remains to this day. A foreign royal family, on the majority of historic Palestine, ruling it as a monarchy. Nobody protests that. No flags, no chants, no encampments. The remaining 22% was designated for the Jews, became Israel, and is the only part that any pro-Palestinian activist has ever had a problem with.

So when you say Free Palestine, you mean that 22%. You mean the Jews.

And free it from whom? From a people with a three-thousand-year-old documented presence in that land, to restore the glory of a name coined by Roman colonizers, a name lifted from the Torah, a name that has no roots in Arabic, no mention in the Quran, and no history as a sovereign state?

You are not chanting for liberation. You are chanting for colonialism — the Roman kind, repackaged for social media.

Free Palestine is not a cause. It is a colonial term, coined by invaders, recycled by the indoctrinated. The least you can do is have the intelligence to understand it and the decency to reflect on your position.

📍#Israel

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

🚨 BREAKING: New report by UN Watch reveals UN “experts” accepted millions of dollars from China, Russia, and Qatar before attacking the U.S., Israel, and the West.

🧵 See the report’s most striking findings: