Never forget TWA Flight 841.
Palestine bombed a plane, slaughtering 88 innocent human souls, including 37 Americans.
In case you were wondering: No, the PLO did not apologize or pay reparations for slaughtering Americans.
Palestinian culture.
Hiram Bingham IV had a Yale degree, a Harvard law degree, and a prestigious family name.
He threw it all away to save 2,500 Jews.
June 1940. Marseille, France. With Paris fallen and the Vichy regime signing an armistice with Hitler, Article 19 sealed the fate of countless refugees: “surrender on demand” all those named by the Germans — Jews, anti-Nazis, artists, writers.
Tens of thousands flooded Marseille, the last escape port. They lined up at the U.S. consulate, desperate for visas.
Most diplomats followed State Department orders to delay, reject, and slow-walk applications under antisemitic pressure from Breckinridge Long. Many never got a second chance.
Hiram Bingham IV, 36-year-old Vice Consul, refused to comply.
Son of a governor, father of five, he signed visas as fast as he could — to Jews, Communists, socialists, artists, anyone the Gestapo hunted.
He accepted forged papers, typed affidavits, and kept going even after his boss threatened him and Washington demanded he stop.
Working with Varian Fry, he helped save Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, and countless ordinary Jewish families, orphaned children, and elderly refugees.
When needed, he hid people in his own villa and smuggled them to safety. He even paid from his own pocket.
In just ten months, Bingham issued 2,500 visas — an underground railroad run by an American diplomat.
The State Department punished him: demoted to Lisbon, then Buenos Aires.
He continued exposing Nazis in South America anyway.
Passed over for promotion, he resigned in 1946 at 42, with eleven children to support. He returned to a small Connecticut farm, worked odd jobs, and never spoke of Marseille — not to his wife, not to his children.
For 42 years, his heroism remained hidden.
He died in 1988 at 84, forgotten by the world. No major obituary. No recognition.
Then, in 1991, his son found a hidden bundle behind a chimney: documents, cables, and lists of the lives he saved. The family was stunned.
The papers went to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Survivors and their descendants came forward.
In 2002, Secretary of State Colin Powell posthumously honored him with the Constructive Dissent Award.
In 2006, the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp in his name.
Hiram Bingham IV had every reason to follow orders. Instead, he broke them — knowing it would cost his career, his security, everything. While others obeyed and advanced, he chose what was right.
Today, tens of thousands of people owe their lives to one man’s signature.
A quiet hero who saved 2,500 souls and asked for nothing in return.
Niederländische Polizeibeamte weisen die Bevölkerung höflich darauf hin, dass Proteste gegen die Umwandlung einer ehemaligen Schule in Apeldoorn in ein Asylzentrum für 240 männliche illegale Migranten nicht erlaubt sind 🚫
For years, we've been told Hamas is "resistance."
A new UN report documents something different: hundreds of documented cases of brutal torture and executions of Palestinians, including children, by Hamas itself.
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Anti-Zionists created an antisemitic conspiracy theory to explain why over 120,000 Jews left Iraq.
They blamed it on the Zionists.
We only have to look at what is happening in the UK to know this is a lie.
Proof Iraq chased its Jews away - my latest:
https://t.co/Ee5u4WGAze
I grew up in a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Israel was not a country in my education. It was a crime. A wound kept open on purpose. Every funeral, every slogan, every sermon pointed in the same direction: there, across the border, is the source of your suffering. Believe it. Repeat it. Pass it on.
I believed it. I repeated it. For years.
Then I moved to France. And I met Jews.
Not the abstraction. Not the enemy. People. Neighbors. Colleagues. And the collision between what I had been taught and what I was seeing in front of me was so violent — so intellectually embarrassing — that I had no honest choice but to start over. To read. To ask. To dismantle, brick by brick, everything I had been given as truth.
What I found on the other side of that dismantling was not just the absence of hatred. It was something I had not expected: admiration.
Let me be precise about what I am defending and what I am not.
I am not defending every Israeli policy. I am not defending any government unconditionally. I am not asking anyone to check their critical faculties at the door.
I am defending what Israel is. What it represents. What it has built, against every conceivable pressure, in a region that has largely failed its own people.
Israel is a democracy in a neighborhood of autocracies. It is a state governed by law in a region where law is routinely weaponized against citizens. It is a country where Arabs sit in parliament, where women lead, where dissent is not a death sentence. It is imperfect — as every democracy is — but it is genuinely, structurally different from everything surrounding it.
That difference is not incidental. It is the point.
The so-called Palestinian cause, as it is prosecuted today, is not a national liberation movement. I say this not to dismiss Palestinian suffering; suffering is real, and real people pay its price. I say it because the infrastructure of the “cause” — its funders, its ideologues, its loudest champions — has never been interested in Palestinian statehood. It has been interested in Jewish elimination.
Look at who built the movement’s international architecture. Look at the 1997 Tehran OIC summit, where the language of “apartheid” was first systematically attached to Israel, not by Palestinians, but by the Iranian regime, for export. Look at Durban. Look at who profits when the conflict continues and who loses when it resolves. The answer is never the Palestinian family in Gaza. The answer is always the regime, the militia, the ideological infrastructure that needs the wound open.
The Palestinian cause, as it functions on the world stage today, is a tool of an anti-western civilizational project. Its goal is not a state alongside Israel. Its goal is a world without Israel, and, by extension, a world where the values Israel represents are defeated. Liberal democracy. Jewish self-determination. The idea that a small people can survive, build, and insist on their own dignity against the will of those who would erase them.
When western progressives march under that banner, they are not marching for freedom. They are marching for the annihilation of the only thing in the Middle East that resembles what they claim to value.
I came to Judaism slowly, the way you come to something true, not in a rush, but in accumulation.
It was not the politics that moved me first. It was the texts. The insistence, running through thousands of years of Jewish thought, that the human being is created in the image of G-d, and that this is not a metaphor but an obligation. An obligation to see the other. To argue. To question. To hold power accountable, including your own.
I had grown up in a culture where the highest virtue was submission. To the leader, the militia, the narrative. Judaism confronted me with the opposite proposition…
Read the rest of the essay on my Facebook page.
For those of you who don’t speak Italian, I’m going to translate just some of the headlines that I’ve read in the last 48 hours from the country that I live in, Italy:
Avezzano: Sexual violence against a 16 year old, judge releases the Egyptian attacker and says “no precautionary needs were identified”
Bressanone: Tunisian migrant stabs a 20 year old to steal his bike
Bussolengo: Shooting, 30 year old injured, 17 year old Egyptian migrant arrested
Milan: Attempted murder, kidnapping, and sexual violence against an Austrian man, three Egyptians arrested
Milan, again: Gang rape of an Erasmus student, manhunt for the aggressors
Milan, once again: Polish model beaten and nearly gang raped by a group of migrants in the street, saved by an Italian man.
Udine: Foreign minor with covered face robs a supermarket while holding a gun
Terni: Two Tunisians arrested for assaulting a man and steal his money and bike
Viareggio: Violent robberies, three North Africans arrested
A 50 year old Albanian man defending an elderly man mocked by North Africans, was hit with a stone and left in a coma.
…….I won’t get into the politics of this. All I will say is that we absolutely do not have and cannot live this way any more.
This is not the Italy we haven known and loved for years. Something has to change. Now.
@supressedvoic if Israel kills children, then it must be said that Islam rapes, degrades, pillages society and Gd. now about the x-rays of those children so called killed by Israel. they were killed by bullets shot in the air during celebrations, by the Muslims.