Karen Schwartz

Freelance journalist. Won 7 Lowell Thomas Awards for @WaPoTravel, @AP & @NYTimesTravel. Also awards for environmental writing. Msg w/tips. Opinions are mine.

[Karen Schwartz @WanderWomanIsMe]

@HilzFuld Why does the dispatcher say “unfortunately” he cannot
be accommodated?

[Karen Schwartz @WanderWomanIsMe]

@itsmichalll David’s story can be found on the website of the charity that his friends started in his honor. https://t.co/WEPY0uHETr

[Karen Schwartz @WanderWomanIsMe]

That Natasha Frost is still employed by the @nytimes is proof of a double standard at the paper. Apparently egregious ethics violations that would be illegal in some countries are OK with the Times when it’s Jews who are in put in peril. @amyvirshup

[Elisha Wiesel @ElishaWiesel]

My mother came to the US in the early 50s, after having been a refugee across Europe who narrowly avoided the Nazi death camps. She was a passionate Zionist, and upon seeing the racism that existed in the Jim Crow era, she quickly became a card-carrying NAACP member and began regularly attending civil rights protests.

Our family is betrayed beyond words that the NAACP is asking the United States government to end its military of support for Israel. The Jewish people are fighting for our lives against an enemy that has raped, butchered and murdered our family members, and has announced it's intention to do so again and again.

Shame, shame, shame on you @NAACP.

[Karen Schwartz @WanderWomanIsMe]

More than 130 hostages, including Americans, are held today by Hamas, another radical terror group bent killing Jews. #BringThemHomeNow

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

22 years ago - on February 1, 2002 - American journalist Daniel Pearl was brutally murdered by a terror group in Pakistan. Weeks later, a videotape of his beheading was released.

His final words on earth were "My father’s Jewish, my mother’s Jewish, I’m Jewish."

There's an evil in our world that preys on Jews. We remember you, Daniel. We carry your memory and refuse to cower or hide. We are proudly Jewish and fighting for the right of Jews to be free and safe.

May Daniel's memory forever be a blessing.

[Karen Schwartz @WanderWomanIsMe]

#BringThemHomeNow

[Elad Simchayoff @Elad_Si]

This completely broke my heart.
Family members of the Israeli hostages assembled close to the border with Gaza and - using powerful loudspeakers - called out to their loved ones.
#BringThemHomeNow 🎗️

[Karen Schwartz @WanderWomanIsMe]

@nytimes @nytimesworld - In ur lengthy story on the CIA helping Israel locate Hamas, u don't think it's worth mentioning Hamas holds 8 U.S. citizens hostage? (2 others have been released & 30+ murdered Oct. 7 )It's been 100 days & u've forgotten them already? #BringThemHomeNow

[Boaz Arad 博雅 @aradboaz]

Berlin, 2024: the memorial to the Children's Transports during the Nazi era has been vandalized over NYE - and now looks like this

Photo: Oren Samouha (IG @orensam)

[Karen Schwartz @WanderWomanIsMe]

I hope every person who has pulled down a poster for a kidnapped hostage reads this & sees it when they close their eyes at night.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

BREAKING: Israeli police released testimony from a girl who survived the October 7th massacre: “I saw the Palestinians bending her down, raping her and simply passing her on to the next. She was alive when they raped her. She was on her feet and bleeding from her back. He pulled her hair. He shot her in the head while raping her, didn't even lift his pants. They cut her breast and played with it.” “They just carried around someone's head as if showing strength, walked with it like a bag.”

[Karen Schwartz @WanderWomanIsMe]

@AP - your math needs some work: 1,400 dead and over 4,800 injured is not “hundreds” and “scores.” Minimizing the atrocity doesn’t bring back the dead or kidnapped.

[Karen Schwartz @WanderWomanIsMe]

https://t.co/WhmU5Esb5l

[Karen Schwartz @WanderWomanIsMe]

⁦@AP⁩ - your story neglected to mention that Israel has said it will restore power, water & fuel when the 220 kidnapped children, holocaust survivors, foreign nationals, siblings, and others are released by Hamas. https://t.co/xH2kCnXSG3

[Karen Schwartz @WanderWomanIsMe]

@AWiderBridge You’ve seen this from Columbia’s Lesbian Club?

[Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی @arash_tehran]

It's an ugly fucking world we live in.

Do you really believe this is because these folks care for Palestinian lives? This was the best use of their time to help the Palestinian cause?

[Karen Schwartz @WanderWomanIsMe]

and the fiery explosion at the hospital is consistent with a failed rocket falling well short of its target with unspent fuel.” CONSISTENT WITH A FAILED ROCKET. So why lead with a cherry-picked video. Neither Israel nor US suggested they analyzed based on a single video.

[Karen Schwartz @WanderWomanIsMe]

⁦@AP⁩ u quote Islamic Jihad supporting Hamas that it was Israel that hit the hospital, but u omit that the US President and US intelligence agree it was a Jihad rocket. U ignore Biden in favor or an Iranian-funded terror group?? Accuracy matters. https://t.co/3q7g5rhhIX

[Karen Schwartz @WanderWomanIsMe]

@AP has an entire story on why Jordan (& Egypt) won't allow in Palestinians. It puts the entire blame on Israel w/out mentioning the 1970 civil war between the Jordanians & the Palestinians. Perpetuating hate doesn't look good. History matters. Reporting matters. AP can do better

[Washington Post Travel @WaPoTravel]

Americans flee Israel on complicated charter flights and a cruise ship https://t.co/V52KqdMoFX

[Adin - عدین - עדין @AdinHaykin1]

Missing Israelis