Vicki Fishman

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 USAID Inspector General finds 101 additional UNRWA school teachers, principals & staffers are Hamas terrorists who participated in the October 7 terror attacks. U.S. may soon designate UNRWA as a foreign terrorist organization.
https://t.co/Vwj0yffkhH @AidOversight

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Darializa Avila Chevalier, a candidate for Congress in New York City 🇺🇸, has defended her participation in a pro-Hamas rally that took place on October 8, 2023, only one day after Hamas’ massacre.

Let’s be clear: any rally on October 8 was not pro-Palestine; it was pro-Hamas and their brutal actions against women, children, and innocent civilians. Darializa is defending participating in that.

[ADL @ADL]

The Nonprofit Security Grant Program is one of the most important tools for protecting the Jewish community and other vulnerable communities from violence and threats. We appreciate the House proposal to provide $315 million for NSGP, but demand continues to far exceed available funding, and the need for it has never been greater. As ADL's @_DanGranot put it: “Congress should fund NSGP at no less than $1 billion, reflecting the urgent needs of vulnerable communities across the country.”

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

.@Wikipedia has been transformed into a blunt instrument of propaganda in the deliberate effort to erase a nation and its history.

Read this thread before shouting at me that it ain't so.

[Eileen Filler-Corn @EFillerCorn]

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[Deborah E. Lipstadt @deborahlipstadt]

I’m Waiting for Human Rights NGOs to blast them…Feminist groups to castigate them….Teachers’ Unions and professional groups to condemn them…. I’ve settled in with a good long book as I wait,

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

This is inversion so callous it's hard to believe.

The Holocaust had a survival rate of about 30%. Millions of people disappeared from European cities and towns over several years. Everybody knew because it was happening all around them.

Gaza has a survival rate, despite the worst and most deadly and horrible periods of the war, of 97%.

All the dead Jews were noncombatants. A large percentage of the dead Gazans were combatants.

And the Jews of Europe, even as their millennia-old civilization was being systematically wiped out, wanted nothing from the societies that surrounded them except to be allowed to live in peace.

Gaza's leadership of religious fanatics, meanwhile, wants every last Israeli dead and gone, is willing to fight to the last Gazan to achieve that aim, has said so publicly and worked for decades to blow up every peace attempt -- and even now believes that Gaza's destruction would be a worthwhile sacrifice to lay on the altar of Israel's destruction, because their god told them so.

So Israelis can reasonably believe, given those features of the Gaza war that aren't true about any genocide ever, and were pretty much the opposite of what was happening in the Holocaust, that Gaza's suffering is a bad and painful war, but not remotely a genocide.

But the point of it all, of course, is not to analyze Gaza, but specifically to lump it together with the Holocaust -- to cast the Jews as the new Nazis.

The only reason this person would dare to make such an insanely ahistorical and immoral parallel is because this is the heart of the bigoted propaganda campaign in which he enthusiastically participates: The point of it all is to make the Jews into the Nazis.

A culture that obsessed about Jews being evil and was then shocked by the Holocaust into obsessing about dead Jews as the apotheosis of righteous victimhood is now obsessively engaged in knocking Jews off that moral pedestal they themselves put them on.

That's why they don't care one whit about Hamas massacres of Gazans, about genocidal wars in Syria or Yemen (even when they've funded and armed the sides), about flotilla activists currently held by the Libyans...literally nothing triggers a response except Jews.

They still, even after all these generations, no matter what else is happening in the world or in their own societies, can't stop thinking about Jews.

And as we Jews learned in the 1940s -- the actual, historical 1940s, not the weird fantasies conjured up by these bigots -- a whole society can be in the grip of a callous, destructive bigotry and still believe it is true and righteous.

[Deborah E. Lipstadt @deborahlipstadt]

Yup it seems to be true

[Eileen Filler-Corn @EFillerCorn]

A Nazi-associated tattoo should be disqualifying for anyone seeking public office.
So should comments suggesting that women bear responsibility for being sexually assaulted.
There cannot be one standard for our political opponents and another for our political allies.
Antisemitism is antisemitism. Misogyny is misogyny.
Racism is racism.
Character matters. Judgment matters. And voters deserve leaders whose values reflect the best of our country, not excuses for behavior that should never be tolerated.
And for Maine voters, it’s worth remembering that Governor Janet Mills remains on the ballot.

https://t.co/awWwG1gt1R

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

.@antonioguterres 758 sexual abuse cases in one year? You need to blacklist your own organization.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

The same Mayor Mamdani who says he won't join the Israel Parade because of the government, marched with a smile on his face at the Pakistan Independence Day parade.

Pakistan 🇵🇰
- Is a global transit point for human trafficking
- Sees 1000+ honor killings of women a year
- Has one of the highest rates of heroin addiction in the world
- Its army raped ~200,000-400,00 women and killed between 300,000 and 3 million people during a war with Bangladesh in 1971, in what is widely recognized as a genocide
- Multiple terror groups operate in the country and killed 100s in attacks in just the last year

None of those are reasons for individual Pakistanis to stop marching for their country; random citizens are not responsible for an entire country's failures.

But they are reasons why the Mayor's stance betrays a double standard.

Mayors are responsible for ALL of their city's residents, no matter what country they are from.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Today, June 1st, is the anniversary of the Farhud, a 2-day massacre of Baghdad’s Jewry that led to the eventual exodus of Jews from Iraq to Israel.

In 1941, Nazi ideology incited the Farhud, a massacre against the Jews of Baghdad. Hundreds of Iraqi Jews were murdered in this extension of the Holocaust

The Farhud and Kristallnacht are so similar: violent massacres against Jews incited by Nazi ideas that sparked the expulsion and mass murder of Jews from their countries. They really should be taught together.

My own grandmother, Hela, lived through the Farhud. She finds it difficult to speak about that time, but she has shared her story with me. She always prefers to speak about Iraq before the Farhud, the place she loved so dearly.

On the first day of the Farhud, my grandmother was at a cafe that I've come to know through her stories. On June 1st, 1941 she was there like always.

Suddenly, she heard screaming. She turned her head and saw a man screaming “Kill the Jews” in front of a woman with eight children. One was just a baby.

To my grandmother’s horror, he began shooting. One by one, he shot the little children as their mother screamed. He saved her for last.

The cafe owner grabbed my grandmother and hid her in the backroom until my great-grandfather came to fetch her. They went to a neighbor’s house, a kind Muslim family who were equally horrified by the frenzy of hate.

All night there was screaming and crying. Glass shattering. My grandmother could not sleep.

The next day, she watched in horror as a disabled Jewish teen was brutally raped. The man then broke a glass bottle that he used to continue violating her.

My grandmother did not speak for the rest of that day. She could only weep inconsolably.

My grandmother adored Iraq: the streets she grew up walking, the neighbors her family counted as friends. But she was not safe in Iraq after the Farhud, nor was any other Jew.

This is my history. It's also the history of most of the Jews living in Israel today. A majority of us are the descendants of Jews who were violently expelled from the Middle East and North Africa.

I will not “go back” to Poland, nor will I advocate for the destruction of Israel, the one place my grandmother felt safe after she had to witness such horrors.

[Deborah E. Lipstadt @deborahlipstadt]

If we were not long past Purim, i would say this is “Purim Torah,” something that is so upside down it makes no sense.

[StandWithUs @StandWithUs]

This deserves a rewatch: Bill Maher asks - What happened to Jews from Arab countries?

[Dan Senor @dansenor]

Please read this. It’s where we are now.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

Less than 24 hours after Hamas’ October 7 Massacre, the genocide placards were already printed.

The rest is commentary.

[Deborah E. Lipstadt @deborahlipstadt]

Note the post by Francesca Albanese, a woman UN Secretary
General Guitteres publicly described as a “horrible woman,” not once but twice. And @LekhtNaya described her antisemitism perfectly. @HillelNeuer

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Arbel Yehoud was sexually assaulted by terrorists almost every single day during her 482 days of captivity with Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Romi Gonen was raped by four different men on separate occasions during her captivity in Gaza, including a “nurse” who was supposed to care for her wounds.

Sasha Troufanov said that his PIJ captor repeatedly tried to force him to perform a sexual act on himself. He was filmed while showering.

Alon Ohel was sexually abused by his captor while showering.

Guy Gilboa Dalal said his Hamas captor sexually assaulted him after a shower, holding a gun to his head and a knife to his throat.

Amit Soussana was sexually assaulted by her captor while held hostage.

Dafna Elyakim, 15, said her captor touched her constantly and told her she would stay in Gaza to marry him and have his children.

Rom Braslavski revealed that PIJ terrorists sexually abused and humiliated him.

Aviva Siegel told the UN that she saw a young girl in captivity crying after her captor followed her into the bathroom and forced her to perform oral sex.

Ilana Gritzewsky woke up on October 7 in Gaza, half-naked, her breasts exposed and her pants pulled down, surrounded by seven terrorists.

Agam Goldstein-Almog testified that she witnessed another hostage being forced at gunpoint to touch, and be touched by her captor.

These are only the stories we know. Hundreds more will never be heard, because most of Hamas's rape victims were murdered. On October 7, countless bodies were found without underwear, with mutilated genitalia, or with broken pelvises.

Several Nova survivors also testified that they heard terrorists gang-raping women and men during the massacre.

How many more testimonies do you need to believe that Hamas and PIJ used rape as a weapon of war?

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

The Committee to Protect Journalists, the organization that Nicholas Kristof used as a major source for his "dog rape" story, has been caught silently removing the names of people from their list of journalists killed in Gaza.

Because those "journalists" turned out to be less interested in reporting the news and more interested in killing Jews.

Instead of acknowledging that they mistakenly put the names of terrorists on their journalist list, they silently deleted them instead.

Because acknowledging they made a mistake would be giving Israel a little bit of credit, and they'd rather do anything than that.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

“It’s terrible that people have this kind of criticism of Israel. If a situation like this happened to us in France, where hundreds or thousands of people were murdered and kidnapped, would we just say ‘okay, thanks and sorry?’ No. What happened with Hamas wasn’t your decision. You are the victim.”

Chef Bruno Verjus, the two-Michelin-starred chef behind Paris’s Table, ranked among the World’s Best Restaurants since 2023, and widely regarded as one of the most authoritative voices in contemporary French cuisine, has spoken out in defense of Israel.

“I’ve visited Israel several times. You’re amazing people, because you have something the rest of us need to learn: that life can be very short, so you have to enjoy every moment, and when you’re in Tel Aviv that’s exactly what you feel."