@MaxAbrahms You didnt play football in america as kids. You played it like kids play dodgeball. Imagine football like parents do hockey for their kids. That is the level
Shaq! Haaland has a very specific set of skills, max 2 touches before a goal but is masssively dominant and wtvr you do, he still dominates. Prime Shaq!
You missed out. Birthright is 80% having a good time discovering a country. 10% looking for a toilet urgently because you ate with the bedouins and couldnt handle it and maybeeee 10% israeli history etc. Which you could describe as some very light form of propaganda.
i refused to go on birthright because it was propaganda and i stopped attending a UC Berkeley club's meetings in 2014 after i learned their officers had been part of an AIPAC-funded summer program, but they hadn't disclosed up front that they were a front group.
i'm proud to be Israeli, but i've always been fiercely politically independent and sensitive to tribalism of any kind
Within the last 48 hours, we've seen:
1. A synagogue in Toronto vandalized
2. A synagogue in Montreal firebombed
3. Swastikas drawn on a Jewish family's driveway in Ottawa
4. Threats to attack Jews at the Walk with Israel event in Toronto today
This is our new normal.
In Toronto, a young Jewish girl named Esther has been missing for over a week. To make matters worse, people have been ripping down posters about her disappearance, just like they did with the hostage posters after 10/7—one of the more appalling things I've ever seen in my life.
“WE WILL BEHEAD JEWS ONE BY ONE”
I just watched Muslims surround @visegrad24 founder Stefan Tompson be surrounded in London while we were filming a documentary.
They threw up Nazi salutes and screamed obscenities
THEY JUMPED US. WE FOUGHT BACK
Walking on the sidewalk with my friend when a group of keffiyeh-covered jihadis wanted intifada. They kept advancing toward us. We backed up repeatedly trying to avoid escalation then several rushed us at once and chaos erupted.
No officers nearby. We were heavily outnumbered. Families and children were standing just feet away in the middle of a residential Jewish neighborhood. By this point the streets were blocked, sidewalks overwhelmed, and the situation completely out of control. Call it whatever you want from a distance. What we experienced on the ground was A POGROM, intifada, intimidation, disorder, and violence. #Brooklyn #youngisrael
@InnaVernikov@SpeakerMenin@VickieforNYC@TheLeoTerrell@RubinReport
If you want to know how to support British Jews today one of the simplest things is to just check in with us and ask if we’re ok. So few have & it’s one of the things that has upset me most.
⚠️ Instead of taking action to protect London’s Jewish community against rampant antisemitism and terror, London’s Mayor finds time for a playdate with Spain’s antisemitic Prime Minister to talk about Gaza.
Yet another appalling anti-Semitic attack:
Two men stabbed outside a synagogue in north London.
Man arrested following incident in Golders Green this morning.
Only the latest in a string of attacks in this predominantly Jewish neighbourhood. Terrible.
There are many people who have no idea what happened in Israel on October 7th 2023, I hope some of them will be open to finding out.
https://t.co/hZ12FbLnWt
The Orthodox man who was attacked in Slough has given his testimony to me.
It’s heartbreaking.
'I'm still trying to digest everything,' says the Jewish man, whose paternal family escaped Nazi Germany to find a safe home in the UK.
'While this guy was standing over me, I was berating myself and asking: "What were you thinking?".
'Only a couple of days before, I'd switched on my phone and seen there had been yet another attack on a synagogue. And I'd heard the ambulances blow up, seen the plumes of smoke. So they all felt very close.
‘But even though I knew it was not safe, I would think, "they are not going to come after you. No one is going to jail for attacking you. You are not important enough."
'We live in our cocoons where we try and pretend things are safe, we kid ourselves they are, when actually they are not.
'And then this happened. I was telling myself off for being irresponsible for going around as a visible Jew and thinking that I would be OK.'
Full story with @FWolfisz below 👇🏼
Iranian-linked terror groups are claiming responsibility for the firebombing of synagogues and Jewish charities in Britain.
@Keir_Starmer says those responsible will “feel the full force of the law”.
A 17-year-old has pleaded guilty to the Kenton synagogue attack, admitting his role in this wave of terror.
And yet a district judge has sent him home on bail, with a condition not to enter a synagogue.
That’s not the full force of the law.
And it will make little difference to someone who seems more intent on burning synagogues down than ever stepping inside one.
Nothing more infuriating than UK politicians & media acknowledging antisemitism when it suits them. I filmed this on October 8th 2023 outside the Israeli embassy in London - the celebration of murdered Jews on British streets. Silence isn’t neutrality - it’s complicity!!