Daniel Jonathan

Writer. Suffragent. Abolitionist. Zionist.

[Daniel Jonathan @TheWordShow]

This is hilarious. My favourite part of @CBC and @yuenpauwoo's pearl-clutching about Gaza is the notion it would be even REMOTELY acceptable for Hamas to stay in power, let alone to remain militarized. They can minimize that non-negotiable all they want, but they won't fool the rational among us; those who know what it means to have a weaponized death-cult at their doorstep.

[Daniel Jonathan @TheWordShow]

Kol hakavod, Israel. Wonderful to read this and praying for more survivors, sure as it will all be terribly inconvenient for the haters and propagandists, with their inevitable accusations of "aid-washing" or whatever other spiteful, BS-du-jour they'll concoct. 🇮🇱🇻🇪

[Raylan Givens @JewishWarrior13]

🚨 The President of Venezuela offered rare praise for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) rescue team: "I would like to announce that yesterday we received a highly professional and skilled team from Israel, who arrived as a result of a connection established through the Jewish community in Venezuela. I would like to thank Rabbi Cohen for all the arrangements that made it possible for us to establish contact with the Israeli government and to bring here, at this very moment, a team of experts who have begun implementing the protocol for initiating the process of restoring infrastructure and assessing the condition of the infrastructure. And most importantly, this is a team of experts who are capable of determining whether there are any living people in a particular location or whether there are spaces that need to be evacuated, even before any other process of infrastructure restoration can begin. I am grateful to them for this. They have already held meetings with the authorities in Venezuela. This is a team with a very high level of training and professionalism, and I hope that we can continue to make progress at this stage."

[Daniel Jonathan @TheWordShow]

@AudreyHepbourne @strombo @CMHR_News "hasbara"...check. "evil"...check, now just 3 more buzzwords to win Woke-Bot Bingo! 🤡

[Daniel Jonathan @TheWordShow]

I must say I had zero problem with what Mr. Michaelson said. In fact I applaud it, as it shines a light on our society's cynical and tacit approval of genteel bigotry; of the quietly understood social benefits to being seen as White-passing, i.e. not "too" Jewish / Black / Asian / Whatever. This is our world today, and it may be politically incorrect to say so, but we all know it's right on the money.

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

Exactly 50 years ago, when Palestinian terrorists captured Air France Flight 139 and released all the non-Jewish passengers, Captain Michel Bacos 🇫🇷 refused to leave before every single passenger is free.

After being freed Bacos asked Air France for a two week vacation.

He then asked that the first flight that he fly be back to Israel 🇮🇱

What a great man.

May his memory be a blessing 🕯️

[Matthew Feinberg @thewebbie]

Antizionism is different.

Antizionism does not say, “I oppose this Israeli government.” It says, “The Jewish state should not exist.”

That is not a policy position. That is a denial of Jewish peoplehood. It is the demand that Jews return to the old arrangement, where we live as tolerated guests under someone else’s mercy, waiting to see whether the neighbors are having a good century.

We tried that. The reviews were not great.

[Daniel Jonathan @TheWordShow]

Because the exhibit, in its repugnant omissions, promotes a blood libel that leads to real, physical danger for diaspora Jews; because it vilifies Israel - and Israel alone - for the high crime of defending itself in impossible circumstances; successive wars launched by belligerent, rejectionist, jihadist, annihilationist neighbours. And no mention of how Hamas actually 'set the table', guaranteeing the immiseration of their own population; transforming Gaza into a war machine with 500km's of tunnels directly under civilian infrastructure, and without a single civilian bomb shelter. Why is that?

[Daniel Jonathan @TheWordShow]

Well said!!

[Yoni Michanie @YoniMichanie]

This nonsense deserves to be addressed, because it's built less on history than on selective qualifiers designed to make every hard fact disappear.

Start with "occupation": after September 2005, there were zero Israeli soldiers, zero settlers, and zero civil administrators inside Gaza. Gazans elected their own legislature in January 2006, and Hamas ran the territory's internal affairs from 2007 onward. The border and airspace restrictions people point to came after rocket fire and weapons smuggling started, not before.
Calling that "occupation" in the everyday sense empties the word of meaning.

Then there's the polling dodge — sure, no poll literally says Palestinians want to "kill all Jews," but that's a strawman nobody serious is arguing. The real number, from PCPSR, the Ramallah-based Palestinian pollster, not an Israeli source, is that over 70% of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza supported Hamas's decision to carry out the October 7 attack, and the overwhelming majority didn't believe it involved atrocities against civilians. That support has persisted through 2025. Debunking a claim nobody made doesn't touch that.

On the greenhouses, the "it's all propaganda" line doesn't survive contact with the AP's own reporting from the ground in September 2005, which documented Palestinian looters stripping the donor-funded greenhouses of irrigation pumps, pipes, and plastic sheeting within days of the handoff. It was a real infrastructure gift, looted by the people it was given to, regardless of how much of it survived structurally.

And on "rejected statehood six times" being a myth.... Peel, UN Partition Plan, Camp David in 2000, Taba in 2001, and the Olmert offer in 2008 were real negotiations with real proposals from real Israeli prime ministers, and in each case, the response was walking away without a counteroffer.

You can debate how generous those offers actually were. You cannot claim they didn't happen.

It seems your approach to history is erasing inconvenient facts, but a foundation of lies won't ever lead to peace.

[Yoni Michanie @YoniMichanie]

This nonsense deserves to be addressed, because it's built less on history than on selective qualifiers designed to make every hard fact disappear.

Start with "occupation": after September 2005, there were zero Israeli soldiers, zero settlers, and zero civil administrators inside Gaza. Gazans elected their own legislature in January 2006, and Hamas ran the territory's internal affairs from 2007 onward. The border and airspace restrictions people point to came after rocket fire and weapons smuggling started, not before.
Calling that "occupation" in the everyday sense empties the word of meaning.

Then there's the polling dodge — sure, no poll literally says Palestinians want to "kill all Jews," but that's a strawman nobody serious is arguing. The real number, from PCPSR, the Ramallah-based Palestinian pollster, not an Israeli source, is that over 70% of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza supported Hamas's decision to carry out the October 7 attack, and the overwhelming majority didn't believe it involved atrocities against civilians. That support has persisted through 2025. Debunking a claim nobody made doesn't touch that.

On the greenhouses, the "it's all propaganda" line doesn't survive contact with the AP's own reporting from the ground in September 2005, which documented Palestinian looters stripping the donor-funded greenhouses of irrigation pumps, pipes, and plastic sheeting within days of the handoff. It was a real infrastructure gift, looted by the people it was given to, regardless of how much of it survived structurally.

And on "rejected statehood six times" being a myth.... Peel, UN Partition Plan, Camp David in 2000, Taba in 2001, and the Olmert offer in 2008 were real negotiations with real proposals from real Israeli prime ministers, and in each case, the response was walking away without a counteroffer.

You can debate how generous those offers actually were. You cannot claim they didn't happen.

It seems your approach to history is erasing inconvenient facts, but a foundation of lies won't ever lead to peace.

[Daniel Jonathan @TheWordShow]

Dear Canadian Museum for Human Rights:

As a worthy follow-up to your current "Nakba" exhibit, please consider my proposed new exhibit, working title: “The Lived Trauma Of Ivan Drago.”

As you will recall, Mr. Drago was a promising young Russian athlete, who, without any provocation, was massacred and robbed of his dignity by the evil Rocky Balboa.

I’ve done my due diligence (I spoke with Ivan and his family) and they assure me Mr. Drago’s version of those events from 40 years ago are, like, totally the whole story, and Canadians deserve to learn it. I shall await your response!

@CMHR_News
@MarcMillerVM
@avilewis

[Daniel Jonathan @TheWordShow]

Louder for the people in the back

[Board of Peace @BoardOfPeace]

UNRWA has no place in the new Gaza. We are turning the page on the complex of perpetual aid dependency & conflict. The people of Gaza deserve better.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

After weeks of backlash and the only Jewish board member resigning, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights has opened its exhibit on the Nakba 🇨🇦

I have zero problem with more people learning about Palestinians' history. It's important.

I just wish that these displays didn't distort the regional events, including the displacement of 800,000 people just like my grandmother, Hela, who became a refugee when Iraq turned on its Jewish community.

History can only lead to reconciliation when it is told honestly. Otherwise, it's just fueling an agenda.

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

Better for Israelis to be vilified while fighting on their feet than mourned after dying on their knees.

Secure defensible buffer zones. Cripple the enemy’s ability to wage war. Make FAFO the doctrine that restores deterrence. Look for diplomatic opportunities to secure military gains.

When new Israeli leaders emerge, key strategic relationships can be rebuilt. Dead civilian communities cannot.

[Bethany S. Mandel @bethanyshondark]

The definition of suicidal empathy. Hamas had such accurate maps and information about the neighboring kibbutzes because Palestinian workers drew them. And they used the information to perpetrate a massacre.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Get a load of Hamas’s fascistic religious clerics, Imams, and Jihadi criminals in Gaza’s mosques: a demonic preacher brought a Glock handgun to a mosque and gave a deranged sermon talking about “one bullet in the head and straight to hell,” to describe the virtue of killing infidels, and insisting that there is “no greater form of worship than to spill the blood of nonbelievers and infidels.” This is a tiny snapshot of the criminal machinery that has held Gaza hostage for nearly two decades: a religious SS‑style apparatus that has victimized Palestinians, hollowed out Islam, corroded social values, crushed dissent, eliminated opposition, and imposed a reign of terror that turned Gazans against one another. What this Hamas‑ISIS preacher doesn’t grasp is that his ideology now has millions of admirers in the West; on college campuses, across social media, in activist circles, and even among a handful of members of Congress.

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

Hero. Be like Michel Bacos. His memory is a blessing for all of us who know his story.

[Daniel Jonathan @TheWordShow]

@LaochDubholtach @MairavZ I love it. Crying “racism!” while you traffic in your own Orientalist bigotry of low expectations. You won’t even dignify your ‘team’ by taking them at their word when they tell us, ad infinitum, their Jihadist and eliminationist fever dream.

[Daniel Jonathan @TheWordShow]

Here's an answer:

If you asked most Israeli soldiers, they’d tell you they'd they'd prefer to stay home rather than maintain a presence in Lebanon, but the threat their enemy poses does not allow them to leave.

Conversely, if you asked most Hamas-supporting Gazans, they’d tell you they'd prefer to invade Israel, but the nature of their enemy does not allow them to enter. (Thank God for that)

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

If Israel can occupy Lebanon for as long as there are threats does that mean Palestinians - or other countries- can occupy Israeli territory as long as it is posing a threat to them?