Arie Hordijk

Gepensioneerd opleider van ggz-agogen, kritisch t.o. medische dominantie in ggz, veel geleerd van ervaringsdeskundigen.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

BREAKING: Hamas militias are threatening and pursuing Palestinian journalist Mohammad Mohanna over an interview he gave to a Palestinian TV channel that did not align with Hamas's narrative.

He is holding Hamas responsible for his life if anything happens to him.

Where are all those who claim to stand with Palestinian journalists? Where are the press freedom organizations? Where are the international media voices that insist every attack on a journalist must be condemned?

Palestinian journalists deserve protection whether they are threatened by Israel, Hamas, or anyone else.

DOWN WITH HAMAS.

[Arie Hordijk @aghordijk]

I think this Hizbullah official is candidate to be exterminated by Israel.

[MEMRI @MEMRIReports]

#ICYMI: Hizbullah Official Wafiq Safa: Our Doctrine Is to Prepare a Generation to Invade the Galilee; We Were Too Gentle with the Lebanese Government and Should Have Been More Violent; Our Drones Will Reach Tel Aviv

[Arie Hordijk @aghordijk]

@WahhabHassoo Ik schaam me voor de manier waarop Nederland met jou omgaat. En ik ben bang dat je procedure niet snel wordt afgerond. Hou vol, hou moed. Jou zal recht gedaan worden.

[Arie Hordijk @aghordijk]

@JanHenk010 Iew 😬

[The Spectator @spectator]

Once again, a United Nations body has accused Israel of the gravest crimes imaginable: this time, the deliberate murder of children. And once again, when you actually open the report, the evidence simply isn’t there.

The UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry has published a 94-page paper claiming Israel “deliberately targeted” Palestinian children during the war in the Gaza Strip – language implying war crimes and crimes against humanity. These are among the most serious charges in international law. So you would expect, at minimum, one clearly documented case: a soldier who identified a child as a child, and killed that child for no reason other than that they were a child. After 94 pages, the Commission cannot produce one.

✍️ Jonathan Sacerdoti

Article | https://t.co/kpMioPgBSj

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

ANNOUNCEMENT:

This Friday, people across Gaza will take to the streets in what is expected to be one of the largest anti-Hamas protests ever.

In response, Hamas militias have begun targeting activists — including women — threatening them and their families. They have also launched smear campaigns labeling activists as "traitors," creating fears that these accusations could later be used as a pretext to persecute, imprison, or even execute them.

This is a plea to pro-Palestine voices, human rights organizations, journalists, and everyone who genuinely cares about the Palestinian people:

Stand with the brave people of Gaza. Support their right to express their views, speak freely, and protest without fear of violence or retaliation.

We also call on human rights organizations, international observers, and the media to closely monitor these events, as concerns continue to grow over threats against protesters and Hamas militias' promises to crush those who participate in the demonstrations.

The people of Gaza deserve to have their voices heard.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

🚨IMPORTANT: First statement in English from the June 26 anti-Hamas revolution in Gaza: an appeal to international media, human rights organizations, and the international community.

[Arie Hordijk @aghordijk]

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? https://t.co/lwTr1FGRmP

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

This mentality offers a dark bargain:
As long as you remain a victim, you are rewarded with attention, moral superiority, entitlement, and the protection of the herd.

The moment you reject victimhood and choose to become responsible for your own life, you lose all those privileges. You must face uncertainty, personal accountability, and walk alone without the group.

Palestinianism is professional victimhood.

And Palestine is the trap.

[Arie Hordijk @aghordijk]

Wat een goed idee: een plafond instellen voor superrijken. https://t.co/0cCPNzEerp

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

This massive anti-Hamas protest took place in Gaza last year, with crowds chanting: "Hamas out, out!"

This month, on June 26, the people of Gaza have decided to take to the streets again. Hamas militias have already begun threatening protesters, calling them traitors and "Israeli proxies."

Stand with the people of Gaza, not with the militias that oppress them.

26 June 2026: The Gaza Revolution.

[Arie Hordijk @aghordijk]

'Ordinary Palestinians find themselves trapped between the structural violence and mass atrocities of Israeli forces and the predatory, fear-based rule of Hamas, [...] while also being violently repressed and controlled by the very faction that claims to govern them.'

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Here is the report in both English and Arabic (halfway through the page):

https://t.co/Yj7D3ZFCIB

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Here is the report in both English and Arabic (halfway through the page):

https://t.co/Yj7D3ZFCIB

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

At long last, the UN Human Rights Council has formally acknowledged that Hamas in Gaza carried out executions, torture, improperly used medical facilities for terror purposes, and engaged in violent abuses against women and children after October 7. The report captures only a fraction of what actually occurred, in part because documenting these crimes is extraordinarily difficult and because Gazans fear retaliation if they report anything to the UN or other investigators. The findings on Hamas were buried beneath a long section on Israeli settler abuses in the West Bank, but even so, this marks a significant shift for an international body that has long struggled to speak plainly about Hamas’s brutality in Gaza.

Most importantly, the report acknowledges but barely scratches the surface of how extensively Hamas has weaponized Gaza’s medical infrastructure, embedding fighters in hospitals, using patients as shields, and turning civilian facilities into operational hubs. The UN even notes that Doctors Without Borders evacuated non-essential staff from Nasser Hospital because Hamas was interfering with the hospital’s operations.

When I shared this information, including testimonies from Gazans who documented Hamas’s fascistic behavior inside hospitals, and photos of fighters emerging from Nasser Hospital after the ceasefire, the online “pro-Palestine” chorus had nothing to offer except accusations of Zionist collaboration, accusations of betrayal, and personal insults. This UN report is an indictment not only of Hamas, a violent extremist terror organization responsible for immense suffering, but also of every activist, journalist, and academic who chose to look away. It shows that Hamas’s crimes were so egregious, so undeniable, that even a slow, hesitant, and often ineffectual body like the UNHRC could no longer pretend not to see them.

Shame on anyone who still defends Hamas or ever believed its violence constituted “resistance” on behalf of the Palestinian people.

[Arie Hordijk @aghordijk]

Hear! Hear!
@RawaneOsmane exposes the real nature of the 'resistance' against Israel. It's not just a legitimate resistance against occupation. It's a (ideological islam inspired) hatred against Jews and Western civilisation.

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

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.

[Arie Hordijk @aghordijk]

Wat een advertentie! Welk verhaal zou hier achter zitten? En hoeveel pijn?
Misschien dat felen helpt om deze moeder weer in contact met haar kinderen te brengen.

[Arie Hordijk @aghordijk]

@SigridKaag

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Endless aid money for Gaza? In countless Washington conversations about Gaza’s reconstruction, one thing has become unmistakably clear: attitudes and institutional thinking have barely shifted since the horror of October 7 and the devastation that followed. Too many policymakers and aid veterans still frame Gaza’s future as a matter of restoring large aid flows — a technocratic problem of resource allocation — rather than confronting the deeper failure of the NGO, charity, aid, and development industries that entrenched Hamas’s rule for two decades and helped set the conditions for October 7.

It is astonishing that many of the same personalities who profited from “developing” Gaza now expect to return as architects of its recovery. At a recent think‑tank event, I met one such figure — someone who oversaw vast reconstruction contracts and whose negligence enabled Hamas to divert enormous quantities of materials into its tunnel network. This individual casually remarked that “aid should be restored to pre‑war levels, and that should be enough,” revealing a mindset concerned only with reviving their personal fiefdom, not rebuilding Gaza.

Under Hamas, every NGO operating in Gaza had to register first with the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and then with Hamas in Gaza. Hamas demanded board lists, funders, staff names, and full financial transparency — and assigned an internal security officer to monitor each organization. International NGOs complied with these requirements, even as those same NGOs refused similar requests from the Israeli military after the ceasefire. Compliance with Hamas became the price of doing business.

Meanwhile, the sheer volume of aid flowing into Gaza allowed Hamas to survive financial sanctions and maintain multiple revenue streams — from the PA, the UN, Qatar, Iran, local taxation, and the group’s own foreign donors. Add to this the sprawling ecosystem of international NGOs, and the outcome was predictable: no sustainable development, no equitable distribution of aid, no functioning institutions, and no pathway to peace.

Instead, aid became a welfare system that trapped Gazans while enriching an industrial complex of NGOs, consultants, Hamas operatives, and a compromised civil society incapable of resisting Hamas’s diversion of billions toward tunnels, weapons, and preparations for October 7 — all in violation of humanitarian neutrality.

Gaza’s reconstruction cannot rely on the same apparatuses, personnel, systems, or approaches that failed so catastrophically. Repeating them will simply allow Hamas to reconstitute itself and ensure that radicalization persists, while Gaza remains stuck without transformation, cultural renewal, economic revival, strategic reinvention, or a viable future in the region.

[Arie Hordijk @aghordijk]

@JanHenk010 😅

[Arie Hordijk @aghordijk]

@skedeschi @Heccles94 As a christian I abhor the use of the cross for political or patriotic ends, positioning your own ethnic group, excluding and intimidating others.
This is not what Jesus meant when he said that following him means 'bearing your cross'.

[Arie Hordijk @aghordijk]

@NYCMayor Why didn't the worshippers pray inside the mosque? Praying outside in large numbers is rather provocative for non muslims. Which doesn't justify the throwing of an egg of course.