Tal Bar 🇮🇱🇺🇦

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

In Buddhism we understand that every action comes with a consequence. Due to my decision to stand up for my Jewish friends I am losing a few people from my life. Today I parted company with Tony Pontius who has run my record label BGP for a number of years. I wanted to release 'We Will Dance Again' but he was unequivocal and said 'I want nothing to do with this song' and I responded 'ok, we are done'.
When someone is gutless it really does not hurt to say goodbye. My faith in humanity will not diminish and the truth will always win.

I will release it!

[Abu Ali @Abualiexpress]

The Daily Mirror took Karim Muammer’s photos from Anadolu Agency, but left out an important detail from the original report – he suffers from Fanconi syndrome, a rare genetic condition that affects the kidneys, liver, and intestines, causing poor nutrient absorption.

[Jonathan Elkhoury- جوناثان الخوري @Jonathan_Elk]

As a Lebanese, this is one of the happiest days in Lebanon’s history.
As a Middle Easterner, this is one of the most transformative days for the Middle East.
As a human being who holds peace before my eyes, this is the most important day for our region.

Nasrallah and Hezbollah have terrorized the Lebanese people since the 1980s. He is responsible for the continuous downfall of Lebanon’s economy and sovereignty. He bears responsibility for countless assassinations of fine Lebanese men and women, solely for opposing his grip on our precious country.

Nasrallah is also responsible for the slaughter of thousands of Syrian children, women, and men, as well as for other atrocities across the Middle East.

Every Lebanese and every decent human being should feel joy at the downfall of one of the greatest evils of our time.

Now, we have a real chance to look forward, ensuring Hezbollah’s weapons are handed over to the Lebanese authorities, and sitting down with Israelis and the West for genuine negotiations on normalization and peace between our countries—Israel and Lebanon.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

BREAKING: Noa Argamani, whose kidnapping by Hamas on Oct7 horrified the world, has been rescued by the IDF, with 3 other hostages. All said to be in good health. Noa’s mother has terminal brain cancer, and wanted to live long enough to see her girl come home. So happy for her. 🙏

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

An incredible letter written by a non-Jewish Scottish professor to his students who voted to boycott Israel

It's a response from Dr. Denis MacEoin to the motion put forward by The Edinburgh Student's Association to boycott all things Israeli, in which they claim Israel is under an apartheid regime.

Denis is an expert in Middle Eastern affairs and was a senior editor of the Middle East Quarterly. Here's his letter to the students.

TO: The Committee Edinburgh University Student Association.

May I be permitted to say a few words to members of the EUSA? I am an Edinburgh graduate (MA 1975) who studied Persian, Arabic and Islamic History in Buccleuch Place under William Montgomery Watt and Laurence Elwell Sutton, two of Britain 's great Middle East experts in their day. I later went on to do a PhD at Cambridge and to teach Arabic and Islamic Studies at Newcastle University . Naturally, I am the author of several books and hundreds of articles in this field. I say all that to show that I am well informed in Middle Eastern affairs and that, for that reason, I am shocked and disheartened by the EUSA motion and vote.

I am shocked for a simple reason: there is not and has never been a system of apartheid in Israel .

That is not my opinion, that is fact that can be tested against reality by any Edinburgh student, should he or she choose to visit Israel to see for themselves. Let me spell this out, since I have the impression that those members of EUSA who voted for this motion are absolutely clueless in matters concerning Israel, and that they are, in all likelihood, the victims of extremely biased propaganda coming from the anti-Israel lobby.

Being anti-Israel is not in itself objectionable. But I'm not talking about ordinary criticism of Israel . I'm speaking of a hatred that
permits itself no boundaries in the lies and myths it pours out. Thus, Israel is repeatedly referred to as a "Nazi" state. In what sense is
this true, even as a metaphor? Where are the Israeli concentration camps? The einzatsgruppen? The SS? The Nuremberg Laws? The Final Solution? None of these things nor anything remotely resembling them exists in Israel , precisely because the Jews, more than anyone on earth, understand what Nazism stood for.

It is claimed that there has been an Israeli Holocaust in Gaza (or elsewhere). Where? When? No honest historian would treat that claim with anything but the contempt it deserves. But calling Jews Nazis and saying they have committed a Holocaust is as basic a way to subvert historical fact as anything I can think of.

Likewise apartheid. For apartheid to exist, there would have to be a situation that closely resembled how things were in South Africa under the apartheid regime. Unfortunately for those who believe this, a weekend in any part of Israel would be enough to show how ridiculous the claim is.

That a body of university students actually fell for this and voted on it is a sad comment on the state of modern education. The most obvious focus for apartheid would be the country's 20% Arab population. Under Israeli law, Arab Israelis have exactly the same rights as Jews or anyone else; Muslims have the same rights as Jews or Christians; Baha'is, severely persecuted in Iran, flourish in Israel, where they have their world center; Ahmadi Muslims, severely persecuted in Pakistan and elsewhere, are kept safe by Israel; the holy places of all religions are protected under a specific Israeli law. Arabs form 20% of the university population (an exact echo of their percentage in the general population).

In Iran , the Bahai's (the largest religious minority) are forbidden to study in any university or to run their own universities: why
aren't your members boycotting Iran ? Arabs in Israel can go anywhere they want, unlike blacks in apartheid South Africa . They use public transport, they eat in restaurants, they go to swimming pools, they use libraries, they go to cinemas alongside Jews - something no blacks were able to do in South Africa .

Israeli hospitals not only treat Jews and Arabs, they also treat Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank.

On the same wards, in the same operating theatres.

In Israel , women have the same rights as men: there is no gender apartheid.

Gay men and women face no restrictions, and Palestinian gays often escape into Israel, knowing they may be killed at home.

It seems bizarre to me that LGBT groups call for a boycott of Israel and say nothing about countries like Iran , where gay men are hanged or stoned to death. That illustrates a mindset that beggars belief.

Intelligent students thinking it's better to be silent about regimes that kill gay people, but good to condemn the only country in the
Middle East that rescues and protects gay people. Is that supposed to be a sick joke?

University is supposed to be about learning to use your brain, to think rationally, to examine evidence, to reach conclusions based on solid evidence, to compare sources, to weigh up one view against one or more others. If the best Edinburgh can now produce are students who have no idea how to do any of these things, then the future is bleak.

I do not object to well-documented criticism of Israel . I do object when supposedly intelligent people single the Jewish state out above states that are horrific in their treatment of their populations. We are going through the biggest upheaval in the Middle East since the 7th and 8th centuries, and it's clear that Arabs and Iranians are rebelling against terrifying regimes that fight back by killing their own citizens.

Israeli citizens, Jews and Arabs alike, do not rebel (though they are free to protest). Yet Edinburgh students mount no demonstrations and call for no boycotts against Libya , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia , Yemen , and Iran . They prefer to make false accusations against one of the world's freest countries, the only country in the Middle East that has taken in Darfur refugees, the only country in the Middle East that gives refuge to gay men and women, the only country in the Middle East that
protects the Bahai's.... Need I go on?

The imbalance is perceptible, and it sheds no credit on anyone who voted for this boycott. I ask you to show some common sense. Get information from the Israeli embassy. Ask for some speakers. Listen to more than one side.

Do not make your minds up until you have given a fair hearing to both parties. You have a duty to your students, and
that is to protect them from one-sided argument.

They are not at university to be propagandized. And they are certainly not there to be tricked into anti-Semitism by punishing one country among all the countries of the world, which happens to be the only Jewish state. If there had been a single Jewish state in the 1930's (which, sadly, there was not), don't you think Adolf Hitler would have decided to boycott it?

Your generation has a duty to ensure that the perennial racism of anti-Semitism never sets down roots among you. Today, however, there are clear signs that it has done so and is putting down more. You have a chance to avert a very great evil, simply by using reason and a sense of fair play. Please tell me that this makes sense. I have given you some of the evidence.

It's up to you to find out more.

Yours sincerely,

Denis MacEoin

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Protesters at NYU

Interviewer: Why are you protesting?

Protesters: I don’t know

[GeoConfirmed @GeoConfirmed]

GeoConfirmed ISR-PAL.

The spreading of misinformation through insinuations is also a well-known tactic. Questions are posed with insinuations in order to sow confusion because the answer is not known. In this case, the hidden insinuation is that it could be a military staged operation. It is NOT.

In this viral tweet with 750k views, 2500 RT's, ... the author asks 4 questions, we will answer them all based on geolocations: a fact.

The geolocation of the footage below is part of our huge GeoConfirmed 7 October Investigation:
Over 400 different captured 'incidents' have been analyzed, with the majority being geolocated and evaluated in terms of both space and time. There are still hundreds remaining to be processed. In the future we will share our investigation with our audience.

The author asks the following questions:

1) Where are these people fleeing from?
2) Why don't the cars match?
3) Why doesn't the landscape match?
4) Why are there no trees?

In short:

1) Hamas militants are shooting at them.
2) Because the drone video (Drone Vid) was recorded 600 meters further than the video of the fleeing civilians. (Vid 01)
3) Because (Vid 01) is recorded 600m away from the road. And even on google maps some very big fields are visible in the area.
4) Because (Vid 01) is taken in a big field.

Of course, in the following thread, we will provide a detailed explanation so that everyone can understand how we were able to answer the questions.

1/x

[Tal Bar 🇮🇱🇺🇦 @TalBar67268408]

@swarajban @twilio We also had multiple reports of issues with the twilio video API in the last 4 hours..

[Malcolm Nance @MalcolmNance]

EVERYONE READ THIS:
Here is where I break with @mehdirhasan.

WE in America did not allow
ANY of this to happen.

HAMAS chose to invade Israel.

HAMAS chose to slaughter over a thousand people through summary execution.

HAMAS built hundreds of km of tunnels, 10,000 hidden rocket sites in schools, mosques & hospitals.

HAMAS abandoned the people above ground to a war they planned YEARS for.

HAMAS chose to withdraw and fight in Gaza & make Gaza Stalingrad. They TOLD US THAT WAS THEIR MISSION.

HAMAS Terrorism & mass murder may get a pass from you, a former Islamic extremist, but not from me. I defended people from terrorists bc they are EVIL humans.

The crime here is on YOU who ignore HAMAS’s sole culpability in this war. No one had to die. Netanyahu did not make HAMAS invade.

HAMAS chose death for all involved. Jewish children and Gaza’s babies. They even told you they needed civilians to die. HAMAS said it on video.

HAMAS said they would do it again if given the chance.

So. Just. Fucking. Stop. Right. There.

Call on HAMAS to ceasefire. Call on HAMAS to surrender their hostages & disarm.

If you cannot then we know you in your heart you side with HAMAS & not to end the suffering of the Palestinian people.

I’ll wait.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Jackson Hinkle’s ex-girlfriend Anna Linnikova claims he hit her and subjected her to physical abuse.

[יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad @YosephHaddad]

@jacksonhinkle

[רחלי פרייפלד @FreifeldRacheli]

@jacksonhinkle

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

🧵1/17 I just listened to a live Twitter discussion in Arabic hosted by multiple Palestinian dissidents & activists, many from #Gaza, titled: "Gazan perspectives trample the opinions of Twitter Mujahideen." They tore into #Hamas & offered opinions on the war in Gaza. Key points:

[Dani Buller @askdani__real]

The video the will probably get me banned from Tiktok.

The NCRI conducted a research about Tiktok anomalies and the Chinese government.
Watch me summarize it in 3 minutes.

The full research:
https://t.co/oF7QYqWCK0

#tiktoxic

Edit: The updated number of active users is slightly different, so the general ratio between the two platforms is even lower than 2.2

[Dani Buller @askdani__real]

Take a look at a Palastinian classroom!

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

If you watch one thing today, watch this skit, which is obviously satire, but so spot on, you don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Spot. On!

[Dani Buller @askdani__real]

Innocent civilians?

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

Dear Arabs and Muslims,

I just back from Israel, and my life will never be the same.

I thought I was going to be met with pure racism, and then came to see that half of Israelis look just like me.

I thought I was going to be treated as a terrorist, but I was met with kindness and hospitality.

I thought I was going to experience apartheid, but I saw people from different backgrounds co-existing in peace together.

I thought I was going to see hatred against Muslims, but I met dozens of Muslims who love Israel and are proud of their country.

I thought I was going to meet angry Jews who hate all the goys and want to manipulate them, but I was met by a kind people who are struck by grief and terror.

Every street I visited in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv has a story of a terror attack. In every cafe I sat in, I was told ”A Jew was stabbed right here”, and ” A shooting happened on the other side of this street a few months ago.”

Throughout this trip, I have been ex-communicated by close-minded friends and family members. But you know what? It was worth it. Because I got to see Israel and experience the truth about the country that I was indoctrinated to hate for myself.

I wish that my friends and family members would also be able to visit Israel and see the beauty and hospitality of the country like I did. I was able to swiftly visit Israel because of my Swedish passport – I won’t deny my privileges.

But I also have the elusive privilege of humanizing both Israelis and Arabs. I had the greatest privilege of meeting, and seeing and talking to Israelis, whom I had learned to hate since I was a child.

I am so happy to have cleansed the hatred out of my soul. I wish that the Muslim and Arab communities could do the same.

Nothing good can ever come out of hatred, violence, and terrorism. And now, having been in Israel, I cannot stress enough how much it saddens me that my culture and my people have learned to hate this country and these people.

To all the Israelis who have opened their hearts and homes to me and showed me their beautiful country - thank you.

[Ella Ke @EllaTravelsLove]

הלו יהודים! להתעורר.
3 נשיאות של האוניברסיטאות מהמובילות בעולם (!) לא מוכנות להודות שקריאה לרצח עם של יהודים היא עבירה על הקוד האתי של האוניברסיטה!

אתם לא רואים לאן דברים כאלה יכולים להידרדר מכאן? נשיאת הרווארד במופע אימה ביזיוני של 5 דקות (שהעלתי בציוץ אחר).
מה קורה פה? זה הכל בגלל הכסף שקטר מזרימה לאוניברסיטאות? זה סתם כי הסכמנו להיות סמרטוטי רצפה גלותיים במשך שנים שבהן יהודים תורמים לאוניברסיטאות שמאפשרות פעילות אנטישמית בקמפוס שלהן?

כנסו לציוץ ושתפו! זה צריך להגיע לכמה שיותר אנשים.