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[Dr. Sheila Nazarian @sheilanazarian]

I want to ask the students screaming “Death to America”, do you have any idea what happens when American values die?

Because I do.

My family fled Iran, a country where freedom died. You don’t know what you have until it’s gone.

You think America is oppressive because you have never experienced real oppression.

You think silence is violence because you’ve never been silenced.

You think words are dangerous because you have never watched a government drag someone away for speaking them.

You think capitalism is evil because you have never stood in a bread line.

You think borders are immoral because you have never had to flee across one.

You think revolution is romantic because you have never had a revolution take everything from you.

I have.

And that’s why I refuse to be quiet.

[Realign For Palestine @rfpalestine]

“To us the word “resistance” means that we want to become artists to tell our stories,” says Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib.

He highlights a much-needed pivotal shift in defining resistance - reclaiming it as artistry of state building, rather than letting it be defined entirely by opposition to Israel.

The true ethos of resistance lies in perseverance and development, not in jihadi suicidal nihilism. Reclaiming this constructive vision is vital if Gaza is to move away from destructive ideologies and build a sustainable future.

[The Free Press @TheFP]

In a recent essay, Sam Harris explains why engaging with critics who single out Israel as the world’s foremost villain while ignoring the realities of its jihadist enemies is a futile exercise. As Jonathan Swift observed, “You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.”

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

This deserves massive attention. Wake up!

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

Muslims didn’t originally call Jerusalem “Al-Quds.”

For centuries they called it Bayt al-Maqdis (بيت المقدس) — a direct Arabic translation of the Hebrew Beit HaMikdash (“House of the Sanctuary / Jewish Temple”).

The 10th-century Muslim geographer al-Maqdisi (literally “the one from Bayt al-Maqdis”) used it as the city’s name. Early Islamic sources even called the Dome of the Rock itself Bayt al-Maqdis.

This 1,000-year-old Arabic inscription from Nuba (near Hebron) proves it beyond doubt:

“This territory ... is an endowment to the Rock of Bayt al-Maqdis and the al-Aqsa Mosque, as it was dedicated by the Commander of the Faithful, Umar ibn al-Khattab”

They built their shrine on the ruins of the Jewish Temple — and openly named it after the Jewish Temple.

Modern Temple Mount denial isn’t history.
It’s blatant political erasure.

Sorry not sorry that Jewish indigeneity became so inconvenient for your narrative.

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

San Antonio residents - meet Maureen Galindo, a Democratic Congressional candidate in your district.

Maureen pledges to send American Zionists to internment camp. She also states a Jewish cabal controls Hollywood, the media & local politicians.

Her runoff election is May 26th.

[Realign For Palestine @rfpalestine]

This man calling in from Gaza, anonymous for his own safety, details a harrowing account of life in Gaza under the iron fist of Hamas’s brutal authoritarianism:

“If you express any point of view that contradicts with their thinking, the easiest thing that they can do is beat you hard to break your legs.”

The caller himself was kidnapped and tortured simply for stumbling across a rare anti-Hamas protest while talking to a friend on the phone. Hamas security forces thought he was filming.

But the abuse and humiliation doesn’t stop there.

After having to flee his home to seek safety in the south, Hamas fighters occupied his empty house without permission - resulting in its complete destruction from Israeli bombardment.

“The problem is that Hamas nowadays still have AK-47s,” explains the caller. “What do you need more than an AK-47 to crack down on people, scare me and scare many other people, and to coerce people into listening to Hamas?”

This is the reality of living in a terrorist-police state.

[Canary Mission @canarymission]

“Are all Jews parasites, or is it just the bad ones?”

“We should clean out the synagogues… of certain kinds of behavior… certain flags, certain prayers.”

Premier “As a Jew…”s Matt Lieb and Daniel Maté invite fellow Jew-hater Susan Abulhawa to their podcast to reiterate the notion that Jews are “parasites,” all while demonizing Holocaust museums, quoting Yahya Sinwar, and comparing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to Hamas tunnels.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

SCOOP: CAIR-CA leader Zahra Billoo advises her followers that they can express hatred against Jews in private, but should not write "I hate all Zionists" on their social media profiles, in order to be "strategic."

Gavin Newsom gave her group $40 million.

[Realign For Palestine @rfpalestine]

There was a period when a Palestinian state could have been declared: before 1967, when Gaza was under Egyptian control and the West Bank under Jordanian rule.
There was no Israeli occupation of those territories and no settlements. East Jerusalem was not under Israeli control.
But no Palestinian state emerged.
Later, after 1973, another opening appeared. Egypt pivoted from war to peace. Israel showed it was willing to trade land for recognition.
Again, no Palestinian state.
Why is that?

[Commentary - Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

“I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

Today, a man ran through Golders Green, a Jewish neighborhood in London, stabbing Jews outside a synagogue in broad daylight.

The UK PM called it "utterly appalling."

Here's what's actually appalling:

For two years, Western streets have hosted marches calling for the elimination of Israel. Universities have celebrated it. Politicians have legitimized it. The media has normalized it.

You don't get to spend two years mainstreaming the idea that Jews and their state have no right to exist and then act shocked when someone takes the message literally.

Words have consequences. "From the river to the sea" isn't poetry. "Globalize the intifada" isn't a metaphor.

When you spend years telling the world that Jewish presence in the Middle East or in Golders Green is a problem to be solved, don't be surprised when someone shows up with a knife to solve it.

The ideology and the blade are the same weapon. One just has a longer handle.

[Adam Milstein @AdamMilstein]

Absolutely appalling clip of Hasan Piker attempting to justify Hamas actions on October 7th including rape to a student at Cambridge. No one should be platforming this terrorist cheerleader. He’s a symbol of everything wrong with society today

[Fox News @FoxNews]

Sen. John Fetterman tells FOX News he is prepared to stand alone within his party in support of Israel.

Fetterman says Israel has done no wrong in its joint military efforts with the United States against Iran and more recently, Lebanon: “I mean, Israel's done what was necessary."

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

A person who recently participated in talks with Hamas returned somewhat confused. He discovered that the terrorist organization, which has been at the center of global attention for the past two years and sparked a regional war with international repercussions, is led by a mediocre, panicked and inarticulate bunch. All the way home, he wondered whether Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif were of a higher caliber but were eliminated, or if this is merely a collection of local murderers that Israel, through its failures and blindness, turned into a terrifying and sophisticated monster.

The war in Iran seemingly saved Hamas, temporarily. The deadline set for dismantling the organization has passed, 600 trucks loaded with goods enter Gaza every day, and the organization’s terrorists still rule the roost in western Gaza.

Hamas leaders, however, do not think so. In talks in Cairo, terror is evident on their faces. Qatar has abandoned them to their fate, out of fear of Trump and anger over the backing the organization’s leaders gave to Iran while being hosted in Doha’s luxury hotels. With Iran, the situation is even worse. Hamas has repeatedly pleaded with Tehran to be included in the ceasefire agreement, but unlike Hezbollah, the Iranians do not even bother to reply with a negative answer.

Hamas complains in the talks that Israel violated the agreement, yet pays no price for it; quite the opposite. The organization is beginning to internalize that no one will let them off the hook regarding demilitarization, and that even the most basic weapons must be handed over rather than kept for self-defense. The negotiators have identified a change in their strategy, aimed at stalling for time. Perhaps somehow the world will take an interest in them again. In the meantime, even the planned flotilla to Gaza is suffering from sparse registration. Greta’s attention has drifted elsewhere.

Is there a chance Hamas will collapse under the pressure and hand over the tunnel maps and tens of thousands of Kalashnikovs? Here lies a difference between Israel and the U.S. In Jerusalem, they do not believe Hamas will offer more than a symbolic handover, which they will also condition on a deep IDF withdrawal. In the United States, they are much more optimistic. They believe that Turkey and Qatar are operating with different interests than Hamas, and without them, the organization will collapse under pressure. The plan is to demilitarize area after area in Gaza, clear the tunnels, hand over the weapons, and bring in a local police force (so far, a quarter of a million locals have registered). Even if Hamas does not hand over its last weapons, Washington believes its men and armaments will be restricted to a very limited area that will be much easier to conquer.

The great achievement of the war is the dismantling of the Axis of Resistance into its separate components. Hezbollah is alone in Lebanon, Hamas is alone in Gaza, the Houthis are alone in Yemen, and most importantly: the ayatollahs are almost alone in Tehran.

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[Canary Mission @canarymission]

A man who called Judaism “terrible” is now running for U.S. Congress. Dan Bilzerian has spent years spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories to millions of followers. He claimed Jews were behind 9/11 and JFK’s assassination, and asked his audience who causes the world’s problems, adding the option to select “16 million Jews.”

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

“It's now time to hold the U.N. accountable and make sure that Francesca Albanese is fired along with some other Special Rapporteurs. They're poisoning the U.N.'s brand.”
🇺🇸@AmbUNReform @jeff_bartos