🚨 Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) torches the far-left DSA wing after their wins in NY:
In a new CNN interview, Shapiro dismisses the relevance of Zohran Mamdani and DSA-backed socialist victories in New York, calling them “individual districts in a whole other state” with “different looking congressional races.”
He calls out their performative politics, platitudes, and failure to deliver results for people struggling with cost of living, healthcare, and making ends meet. Shapiro says Democrats need candidates who actually deliver, not just make noise.
@KDansky@DSA_Watch Yep, he clearly cares enough about Jew hatred to cross the current Dem Party tide but like Fetterman he’s still willing to kick women and girls to the curb. I live in PA not sure if half a loaf is enough to win my vote.
Haunting and heartbreaking.
The last photo taken of the six hostages that were brutally executed with a bullet to the head in Rafah including American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin
They were starved and tortured in tunnels and then all shot by Palestinian terrorists.
Hersh, Carmel, Alex, Ori, Almog, Eden.
May your memories all be blessings.
There Never Was ‘Starvation’ in Gaza
by Hugh Fitzgerald
A UN commission has accused Israel of deliberately targeting and killing “Palestinian” children.
There never was “starvation” in Gaza. During only two months — July and August 2025— was there “food insecurity,” which is a different thing. It means just that — not knowing when, and how extensive, food deliveries would be made. No one has died of starvation in Gaza. Photographs of Gaza children supposedly suffering from starvation turned out to be of children suffering from wasting diseases, including muscular dystrophy. In some cases, photos of “starving Gaza children” turned out to be children from other conflicts. Since October 7, 2023, the Israelis have facilitated the entry of 1.3 million metric tons of food aid. But the UN Report claims that Israel is trying to starve the Gazans to death.
"The report claims that multiple sources of information were consulted, including thousands of open-source items and remote and in-person interviews and group discussions with victims and witnesses.However, it said that 'where the risk of re-traumatization was high, the Commission did not contact the family [of children] directly but relied on information already collected by independent national and international organizations as well as open-source published photographs and videos assessed as "credible" and used for the purposes of analysis and corroboration.'"
The commission nowhere names the sources it relied on. Why not? Was it afraid those sources would be immediately identified as virulently anti-Israel groups or individuals, such as the UN’s Special Rapporteur for Conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the antisemitic Francesca Albanese? And Hamas provided the numbers of casualties in Gaza, that always lumps both combatant and civilian deaths together. The Israelis have done their level best to disentangle those numbers, but the commission did not bother to listen to what the Israelis had to say.
Read more at the link in the next post.
Twenty-five years ago, Larry Sanger co-founded Wikipedia, arguably the most important encyclopedia in human history. This week, he was banned from the site. The story of how and why is an emblem of our time.
Read @lsanger in @TheFP:
https://t.co/qGgWPTPOGn
@MFigg1287@EmmaGoldmanNYC@NY1 So she could better appreciate the freedoms she enjoys here and would also enjoy in Israel. Where women are free to observe religious modesty or not. Most Muslim states repress other religions and all women.
An Islamic cleric declares:
“We must declare that Palestine is an Islamic land, and that Spain is also the land of Islam. Islamic armies must also conquer Rome. The decline of the West will give rise to Islam from its ashes.”
For a long time most Jewish organizations and Jewish leaders in the world treated these false claims against Israel and the Jewish people as absurd, and on their face, ridiculous.
And so we ignored the claims, and we let them sort of lie and fester for a long time. And one of the big criticisms that I've heard about my book, Israel on Trial, especially from Jewish organizations, is, "Well, we shouldn't give these these allegations the time of day. We should ignore them. We shouldn't put Israel on trial, we should put Hamas on trial."
All of that, I think, is fair. Hamas should be on trial. But the opposite is not necessarily true either. And I think the strategy we have taken over the last 20 or 30 years—of ignoring these claims—has proven to be a fatal mistake.
And the reason for that is whether in the law or in sports or in politics, when you ignore the other side's argument, you lose. That's just how it is. No matter how flagrantly absurd the argument is.
In the law, if the other side files a motion, it's an adversarial system, if you don't respond to it, the judge isn't going to delve deeply into the correctness of the motion. They've got 300 other motions to deal with. If there's an unobjected to motion, that motion is granted by what we call default.
The same thing happens in sports. If one football team arrives on the field and the other team doesn't show up, they win by forfeit.
And so in either case, not rebutting the arguments that you believe are frivolous has allowed these arguments really to spread like wildfire across our population, both in our young people and even now bleeding into people in their 30s, 40s, and 50s.
It's a very dangerous game we've been playing, and we were wrong to play it.
The point of my book is to be patient with these arguments, show people that we can engage these arguments, and that on the merits they are totally false and frivolous as a matter of fact and law.
@Medo198518 Wow! If you can’t find a picture more damning than this one, I truly believe the IDF is the most humane army in history. A couple of stressed out guys trying to relax a bit. No violence no harm to civilians in sight. No way to infer they are mocking those children.
@netanyahu Erdogan wants to resurrect The Ottoman Empire! Turkey actually committed #Genocide before Hitler! Turkey with its ugly history hasn’t got a moral right to criticize any other nation!
@insight_peak Any other governments or political movements killing babies these days? Why do you single out only Israel? Were any babies killed when 5 Arab nations invaded Israel the moment the UN created it? Were any babies killed when Pakistan was carved out of India? What abt Nigeria today?