Daniella Gilboa, who was held hostage by Hamas in Gaza for 477 days of hell, speaks for the first time about the horrors she went through in captivity and the strength that helped her survive.
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Shira Shohat was only 19 when rockets filled the sky and Hamas terrorists infiltrated the Nahal Oz outpost on the morning of October 7. For four days, she was considered missing until her family received the devastating news.
Her infectious laughter and bright blue eyes were unforgettable. A gentle, beautiful soul - her life was taken with unimaginable cruelty.
🇬🇧 Congratulations, Prime Minister Andy Burnham.
Before your first speech about a war that ended in the Middle East, some business at home to address:
• Nine months ago, on Yom Kippur, a terrorist attacked Jews at prayer in Manchester. Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz never came home from synagogue. You were the mayor. That city was yours to protect.
• This week, as incoming prime minister, you gave one of your first interviews to Gary Lineker, who left the BBC after sharing a post depicting the Jewish state with a rat. Jews have been drawn as rats before. Our grandparents can tell you what came next.
• When Lineker called Israel’s war a genocide, and challenged Israel’s right to exist, you said nothing. Every Jew in Britain heard that silence.
• A Jewish child on the Tube knows by age eight to zip a jacket over the school uniform. Every Jewish school in your country sits behind guards and gates. No other British children go to school like that.
• Families who have been British for two hundred years now ask, quietly, over Shabbat dinner, whether their grandchildren should grow up somewhere else. Nobody calls the question paranoid anymore.
None of this is beyond repair. Visit the synagogue in Manchester. Meet the families of Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz. Say plainly that what Lineker shared was a disgrace.
British Jews are not asking for much. They are asking whether the prime minister works for them, too.
19 July 1932 | A German Jewish girl, Inge Windecker, was born in Frankfurt am Main.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 23 January 1943. She did not survive.
Western leftists hear ‘Free Palestine’ and think national liberation.
Muslims hear ‘Free Palestine’ and think Jihad to destroy the Jews.
Same slogan. Two completely different goals.
As with people of any background, Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes reflect his own actions and should not be taken as representative of Judaism or of Jews generally. But for most, that’s the only Jewish name you know. While he was born to a Jewish family, he was not observant, obviously.
Try focusing on Jews who have made major contributions across science, medicine, technology, and culture. Here are some well-known examples:
Albert Einstein – Theory of relativity, foundational work in modern physics.
Jonas Salk – Developed the first successful polio vaccine.
Albert Sabin – Developed the oral polio vaccine.
Paul Ehrlich – Pioneer of immunology and chemotherapy; developed the first effective treatment for syphilis.
Selman Waksman – Discovered streptomycin, the first effective antibiotic against tuberculosis.
Rosalyn Yalow – Developed radioimmunoassay (RIA), transforming hormone and disease testing.
Gertrude B. Elion – Helped develop medicines for leukemia, organ transplantation, herpes, and HIV/AIDS.
Hedy Lamarr – Co-invented frequency-hopping spread spectrum, a key precursor to modern Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS.
Emil Berliner – Invented the flat disc gramophone record.
László Bíró – Invented the modern ballpoint pen.
In technology and computing:
Sergey Brin – Co-founded Google.
Andy Grove – Helped build Intel into the world’s leading semiconductor company.
Mark Zuckerberg – Co-founded Facebook (now Meta).
Other notable contributions:
Louis B. Mayer – Co-founded MGM and helped shape the modern Hollywood studio system.
Ralph Baer – Invented the first home video game console (“the father of video games”).
It’s also worth noting a broader statistic: although Jews make up only about 0.2% of the world’s population, they have received over 20% of Nobel Prizes across fields such as physics, chemistry, medicine, economics, and literature. That remarkable representation reflects contributions across many disciplines rather than a single area of achievement.
Because without them and their medical contributions, some of you would cease to exist.
Besides, what’s the old adage, “Let those without sin, cast the first stone”.
Imagine if everyone around you constantly said that France or Spain had no right to exist, that these were all ancestral territories of ancient Rome, while Italy declared that those countries rightfully belonged to it and should become part of it.
Such claims would probably seem absurd, as would the promotion of a narrative that the French and the Spanish have no right to self-determination or to states of their own.
Yet when it comes to Israel, it is considered perfectly normal to deny its right to exist in its ancestral homeland, a land to which Jews have never lost their connection. So what is this really about? Is it simply that modern Israel has not existed long enough for some people to come to terms with the fact, and that many still cling to the illusion that all the outrage they generate over it will somehow change anything?
Why should Jews be the exception, expected to live anywhere but in their own homeland? Is it because Palestinian propaganda appeals more strongly to people who, despite its entirely artificial origins—honestly, I could have written a more plausible story—are willing to support it as long as it leaves Jews without a home? At the same time, these same people do not want Jews in their own countries. For centuries, the Jewish people were persecuted throughout Europe, culminating in the Holocaust. That was the final straw. Everything was done to ensure that it could never happen again. Israel officially appeared on the world map.
One would think everyone should have calmed down. The Jews had left Europe and all the Arab countries where they had been so unwanted and rejected. But damn it, even that was not enough.
During the British Mandate, Jews living in the land of ancient Israel were called Palestinians. The Arabs living alongside them distanced themselves from that name and wanted nothing to do with it. But once the Jews accepted the UN decision to create two states, one Jewish and one Arab, declared independence, and began identifying themselves as Israelis, the term “Palestinians” suddenly became the most desirable identity for the Arabs who had rejected their own state. Moreover, it was precisely in 1969, when Cairo-born Yasser Arafat assumed leadership of the PLO, that “Palestinian identity” was transformed into a centralized political and propaganda project built around the struggle against Israel. The rest of this endless story is well known.
The fixation on the Jewish state and the obsession with reducing everything to a single “Palestinian” denominator are without equal.
There is one consolation: Israel grows stronger and more resilient with each passing day. It is a jewel of global research and innovation. It has given the world countless invaluable discoveries, all because it endured despite every adversity.
She texted her teacher and said she was having difficulty breathing. They burned her and her twin brother in their own home. They promised to return.
They burned, shot, blew up, decapitated, and kidnapped other infants and children. They choked to death a toddler and his infant brother in Gaza - in front of their mother - and killed her. They kidnapped their father, and when he was released, Hamas told him that he was returning to his wife and children. Instead, he learned that his 9 month old and 4 year old had been strangled to death - and that his wife, brother, dog and in-laws were also murdered by Palestinian terrorists on Oct 7.
Targeting children and civilians, even soldiers in their pajamas, innocent animals, the sick and elderly, Holocaust survivors who lost their siblings and parents to the hands of the Nazis … nothing is more cowardly, more callous.
Oct 7 was GENOCIDE. Don’t you DARE confuse it with Israel attacking Hamas after they slaughtered 1200 Israelis and kidnapped 240, who they refused to return while hiding them in the general community - in family homes with those who aided and abetted Hamas in their evil and indifference.
I ABHOR that innocents died, including children in Gaza. I wish this war had never happened, but it was one Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists started when they butchered, burned, brutally raped, kidnapped, and tortured Israelis - Jewish, Christian, Druze, and Muslim Israelis and foreign nationals, including fellow Americans!
TW: I heard Nova survivor May Hayat speak at @novaexhibition and the savagery she saw NEEDS to be told. She hid with Avi Dadon, stranger who rescued her from the site. Terrorists found them and two held Avi’s head back while one stabbed him in the neck. We CANNOT forget.
26 bullets were fired by Hamas terrorists at the door of Tamar and Johnny's safe room on October 7. As they lay dying, they continued to hold it shut to protect little Shahar, Arbel, and Omer. The terrorists then poured large amounts of flammable liquid and set the house on fire. They all burned to death.
I’ll never let the world forget how Palestinian terrorists from Gaza kidnapped this beautiful family, a mother and her two sons, and murdered them in a dark underground tunnel.
Shiri, Kfir, and Ariel Bibas.
I’ll never forget. I’ll never forgive.
"Why, when it's a Jewish woman, do you say it's propaganda? We are not politicians, we are survivors."
Ilana Gritzewsky should be able to recover and live her life now that she is free from Hamas captivity.
But how is she supposed to ignore the world erasing her trauma from the historical record?
I'm so in awe of the Hamas survivors who are refusing to be silenced. I just wish they didn't have to 💔
30 June 1923 | A Czech Jew, Jiří Steiner, was born in Prague.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 1 February 1943. He did not survive.
30 June 1928 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Elizke Hantala Szabo, was born.
In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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📖 Deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://t.co/UriR5fLdkB
This is the UN.
Look at the face of the UN special rapporteur who is meant to stand up for women but has refused, again and again, to speak up for Israeli women.
Look at her face when a former hostage challenges her.
C'était Gaza le 7 octobre.
Des Palestiniens embrassaient le sol de joie tandis que le Hamas paradait dans les rues avec les corps de Juifs morts.
Souvenez-vous-en la prochaine fois que vous verrez quelqu’un les présenter comme des victimes.
25 June 1943 | A transport of 1,018 Jews deported from Drancy in occupied France arrived at #Auschwitz.
After the selection, 383 men & 217 women were registered in the camp. 418 people were murdered in a gas chamber.
One of them was a 3-year-old Jacqueline Benguigui.
If we are heading towards another massive ethnic cleansing of Jews, then there’s something the world needs to know. After the Holocaust, people asked “how could this happen?” “Why did nobody say anything?” “How did you not see it coming?”
So let’s set the record straight.
We see it coming.
We feel it coming.
We know that the intent of the Islamic Regime is to commit a Holocaust, the likes of which the world has never seen.
We know they plan on finishing what Hitler and the Nazi Regime started.
We know that they want to kill Jews everywhere. They’ve said it. We’ve heard them. We believe it.
So if they are successful, as historians are looking back at how, let’s set the record straight.
Western governments. We see this coming. We tell our governments it’s coming. We ask them to pause immigration. We ask them to stop the hate and the threats and the incitement. We ask them to protect the Jews. They don’t. They increase immigration. They continue to fund the terrorists. They allow the Jew hatred to increase, unchallenged.
University administrations. We say shut down the encampments. Stop the protests. Make statements against antisemitism. Protect your Jewish students and faculty. They negotiate with the terrorists. They capitulate. They allow the encampments to exist. They rationalize them. They allow radicalization and Jew hatred on campus.
The "As-a-Jew". We say stop protesting against your own people. Stop being the token spokesperson the Islamic Regime is looking for. We tell them they’d be killed just as soon as the rest of us. They ignore us. They pretend it’s not about the Jews.
The woke left. They’ve bought into the propaganda. They believe they’re supporting the “oppressed”. They believe there’s a genocide. They’ve drank the Kool Aid. We say nothing to these people because they believe “all Zionists lie” and they’re not even open to actual fact or critical thinking.
The silent majority. We don’t know what they think, but we beg and plead with them to speak up, to speak out against terrorism. To stand up for Israel. They remain silent. Fear? Apathy? Laziness?Lack of awareness? We don’t know why.
So, if there’s another Holocaust, we want the world to know that we stood up. That we spoke up. That we tried everything to get your attention.
And the world ignored us.
Again.