Today I was among the journalists who have attended a private screening of the raw footage of October 7th and I want to express to you what I saw since it’s not been made public. It’s been a very heavy day. A decision was made that Jews are less than human, and treated that way in words and deeds..I now know that’s exactly the message Hamas sent on purpose — at scale. I wasn’t aware of that before. I saw bodies were burned but I did not understand or appreciate how intentional the effort was - they did it methodically, you hear it in the voices, the commands the ease, the excitement of finding and mutilating victims.
I learned from someone with first person knowledge of the @Harvard president search that the committee would not consider a candidate who did not meet the DEI office’s criteria.
The same was likely true for other elite universities doing searches at the same time, creating an even more limited universe of DEI-eligible presidential candidates.
Shrinking the pool of candidates based on required race, gender, and/or sexual orientation criteria is not the right approach to identifying the best leaders for our most prestigious universities.
And it is also not good for those awarded the office of president who find themselves in a role that they would likely not have obtained were it not for a fat finger on the scale.
I have been called brave for my tweets over the last few weeks. The same could be said for those called out Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare.
I don’t think it will be long before we look back on the last few years of free speech suppression and the repeated career-ending accusations of racist for those who questioned the DEI movement.
We are all shortly going to realize that the DEI era is the McCarthy era Part II.
History rhymes, but it does not repeat.
This is not a hostage swap.
There is nothing similar about
kidnapping babies from their cradles and releasing prisoners that tried to MURDER people.
#HamasisISIS#Bringthemback#BringThemHomeNow
There were two similar size populations of Palestinian Arabs whose fate diverged sharply after 1948. Those who remained in Israel (now known as Arab-Israelis or Palestinian-Israelis) and those who fled Israel in ’48 to the Gaza Strip (still treated as “refugees”).🧵
If anti-Israel activists had any intellectual honesty they would own it and say:
Hamas raped women - but I still want those rapists to be leaders of a country
Hamas tortured babies - but I still want those baby torturers to be leaders of a country
Hamas kill gays - but I still want those gay killers to be leaders of a country
Hamas are against freedom of speech - but I still want those opponents of freedom of speech to be leaders of a country
Hamas are antisemites - but I still want those antisemites to be leaders of a country
Hamas are Islamic fundamentalists who want the world to be subjugated under an extreme muslim dictatorship - but I still want those totalitarian muslim extremists to be leaders of a country
Antisemitism is bad
Jihad is bad
Kidnapping children is bad
Raping women is bad
Osama bin Laden was bad
Hitler was bad
Hamas is bad
None of this should be controversial but apparently it needs to be said:
10/7 terrorists and all of their supporters and apologists are bad
Lost?
"Now been found and returned". Emily was taken by the monstrous Hamas, kidnapped. Her stepmother was murdered, and her friends were slaughtered. This tweet is insane. It's worse than a lie.
Is the PM of Ireland afraid of the Pro-Hamas crowd in his country?
Disgraceful.
Hi there @SusanSarandon, this is my mom, my dad and me on the rail trail in Morgantown, West by God Virginia. Let me tell you what it means to be Muslim in America.
First, your backstory: At an anti-Israel protest in NYC, you just said, "There are a lot of people that are afraid, that are afraid of being Jewish at this time, and are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country.”
Let me give you “a taste” of what it “feels like” to be a Muslim in America:
✅🇺🇸 My dad didn’t have to become a second-class indentured servant to one of the many tyrants of Muslim countries that use immigrants from India, like my family, as essential slaves. In 1975, after getting his PhD at Rutgers, he was about to go to Libya — a Muslim country — led by a Muslim, Moammar Qhadafi, to work like a servant with a PhD for a wealthy dictator…but then the phone rang one day and I picked it up…
✅🇺🇸 It was West Virginia University calling, and my dad got a job as an assistant professor of nutrition. He got rejected first for tenure but being Muslim in America meant he got a right like everybody got — his right to appeal and guess what? He won and he became a full professor. That’s what it means to be Muslim in America. You get your full rights, like @DrZuhdiJasser has wished for his family in the Muslim nation of Syria, where a Muslim dictator destroys the lives of Muslims.
✅🇺🇸 My mom? Being Muslim in America meant she got to live FREE with the wind in her hair, like @AlinejadMasih fights for women in the Muslim nation of Iran to be able to enjoy.
✅🇺🇸 And what did living free mean for my mom as a Muslim in America? It meant in 1981 she got to start a business on High Street in downtown Morgantown, called Ain’s International. That is something that @miss9afi wished women could have had the right to do in the Muslim nation of Saudi Arabia. But guess what? That entrepreneurship and financial independence is denied Muslim women in so many Muslim countries.
✅🇺🇸 That summer my mom started her business, I got on a plane at Pittsburgh airport for Tahlequah, Oklahama, and I went away from home at 16 for a National Science Foundation camp — without a male chaperone, a right denied Muslim women and girls in Saudi for so long.
✅🇺🇸 In another “taste” of being Muslim in America? My family got a pathway to citizenship. You think the Muslim dictatorship of Qatar allows a pathway to citizenship for Muslim slaves, servants or Palestinian Muslims? Hell no. The Muslim Al-Thani family just buys citizenship for Muslim soccer stars from countries in Africa to steal World Cup wins. But otherwise it treats non-Qatari Muslims like slaves. America? My family waited, took the test, studied the constitution and we are citizens — hallelujah!
✅🇺🇸 I’m going to fast forward because this is just a “taste” of what it means to be Muslim in America. In 2002, I fled Pakistan with a souvenir that could have gotten me imprisoned or killed: a baby growing inside of me, a wedding ring not upon my hand. Sharia law makes sex out of marriage a crime in Muslim countries like Pakistan. My body? The mullah’s tyranny. And even dare to be atheist like @YasMohammedxx? It’s also a crime punishable by death — in Muslim countries but not in America!
✅🇺🇸 Where do you think I came to give birth to my baby in safety and security, without shame? West by God Virginia in the United States of America — where we enjoy equal rights as Muslim AmeriCANs, not AmeriCANTs.
This is a “taste” of life for a Muslim family in America. Please don’t minimize the experience of Jewish Americans by sanitizing the hell that it is for Muslims living in Muslim countries and vilifying America for the life — and freedoms — she offers Muslims like my family. Go, live like a Muslim woman in a Muslim country.
You will come back to America and kiss the land beneath your feet. 🇺🇸
I zoomed in on this detail - this is unmistakably a guy being dragged against his will into Shifa Hospital by a man with a cleaver and others with guns.
This is not Holby City.
Hamas being evil seems obvious to dumb me but I'm curious to see how the clever people explain this
Hamas leadership has a higher net worth than @taylorswift13 & @Oprah COMBINED.
Let that sink in.
While every day Gazans are impoverished, lacking basic needs, #Hamas leadership continues to line their own pockets.