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[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[张平 @pingzhang632]

在以巴问题上，不带立场是不可能的事情。即使你以前不关心这个事情，你所受的教育，你接触的新闻，都会把立场传导给你。在以巴问题上假装客观公正，不仅做不到，也没有必要。

立场不重要，那么什么重要？重要的是，我们怎样获得事实？

如果你不能亲临其境，那么你获得事实的来源只有两个？一个是巴勒斯坦人，一个是以色列人。所谓主流媒体的消息，其实都是他们的巴勒斯坦外包记者的消息，也就是巴勒斯坦的消息。

那么两边的消息哪边的更可靠呢？当然是以色列 ！

为什么？因为以色列是有新闻自由的国家，如果政府或者媒体撒谎，不用外人，以色列自己的媒体就能扇他们的耳光，而且责任人要承担责任。以色列要是出了“加沙医院”这样的丑闻，不说别人，发言人、新闻办公室负责人就都干到头了。所以以色列说的话，可以预设为真相，除非被证伪。

相反，巴勒斯坦人，无论是西岸的还是加沙的，都没有新闻自由，都是暴力专制统治下的媒体，撒谎不用承担后果，不撒谎则会遭到残酷报复。所以巴勒斯坦人的话，可以预设为谎话，除非被证明是真的。

刚刚发生的“加沙医院”丑闻，是个很好的例子。另一个例子是我自己，我虽然号称是以色列的支持者，而且住在以色列，但你去看看我骂以色列政府骂得有多狠。即使是在战争期间我也可以毫无顾忌地骂以色列政府“无比昏庸”，而以色列媒体比我还骂得凶得多。你去找个加沙骂哈马斯的出来我看看？他要敢开一个类似我这样的社媒账号，用不了一个月，全家都得被活埋。

很多人不了解这一点，上了主流媒体的当，也就是上了巴勒斯坦人的当。这也没什么奇怪的，也没什么不好意思的。吸取教训就是。毕竟bbc、纽约时报这类大媒体在这个问题上丑态百出很多年了，你们这些小社媒犯一两次错误算得了什么？

[lidang 立党 （劝人卖房/学CS/买SP500/纳100/OpenAI/Anthrop第一人） @lidangzzz]

其实哈马斯就没想打赢以色列。哈马斯的唯一目的，就是保持恐怖主义，挑唆矛盾与仇恨。

先炸一炸以色列，让以色列人恨巴勒斯坦；

再躲在学校和医院里，让以色列人炸回来，拿平民当肉盾，让巴勒斯坦人仇恨以色列。

哈马斯必须精准制造矛盾，控制仇恨情绪，才能不断煽动年轻人加入，维持对加沙的统治。

这就是仇恨统治：

为某个群体画一个不切实际的目标，持续煽动这个群体的仇恨，精准控制仇恨情绪，不断人为制造矛盾，并且宣称为了这个目标，需要不惜一切代价去��结大家——最终把这个群体牢牢控制起来。

[tyler hogge @thogge]

This is the most impressive speech I have heard in many, many years. 4 minutes. Must watch. https://t.co/9TYlErxldy

[张平 @pingzhang632]

听说很多微信群因为我的观点而吵翻了天。对此我想说：谢谢大家关注，无论是支持我的还是反对我的，我都要谢谢你们。

我不在乎你们现在说什么，我也不想看。有关以巴冲突的历史和现状，我看了太多的书和资料，没有哪种观点是我没见过的，我不相信简中圈能拿出什么新鲜东西来。

但我很在乎你们是否��真���了我的文章，而不只是听人传说张平说了什么。也可能你看了我的文章，仍然想不通，仍然骂我。那也没关系，请继续读，时时想想我说的话，特别是那些让你们不舒服的话。我相信，只要你跟我一样，是一个有基本的良知和理性的普通人，大概率早晚你会想明白，早晚你会站到文明的一边来，站到历史正确的一方来。

当然我无法保证这一点。作为一位有社会担当的学者，我必须强迫自己成为一位乐观主义者，但我也同时深深理解邪恶的力量和顽固性。

无论如何，请继续帮助推广我的文章，无论是从什么立场，谢谢！

[Trey Yingst @TreyYingst]

Imagine the worst things possible that can be done to humans.

Hamas did all of that and more to Israeli civilians. Babies beheaded. People burned alive in their homes. Women raped and dragged through the streets.

Don’t look away.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The most dangerous lies we tell ourselves:

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

How to improve your mental health in 2023.

Use my 1-1-1 Method:

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