Aviad BY

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

@AOC The staggering naïvety and incompetence demonstrated in this post is what pushed me from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party

[Zach Sage Fox @zachsagefox]

Free Palestine? I went to see ‘Palestine’… and almost didn’t make it out alive.

After asking questions on the streets of Ramallah for less than an hour, a group of Palestinian men threatened to kill us if we didn’t delete our footage. This is what we were able to recover…

Welcome to the WILD WEST BANK.

If you want the world to know the TRUTH about what Israelis are dealing with every day, please repost and share this with EVERYONE you know.

#israel #palestine #gaza #westbank

[Aviad BY @aviadby]

@frenkelor ברוכים הבאים!

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

For the past 8 months, Noa, Almog, Andrey and Shlomi were held as hostages after the Nova Music Festival attack.

Today, they are free and rejoining their families.

This is a triumph that also remains unfinished until every last hostage is brought back home.

[Aviad BY @aviadby]

@JnnyG Beautifully phrased and unequivocally moral statement Jonny. Thank you. 🇮🇱

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

In this video, @travelingclatt claps back to Macklemore’s song referring to Israelis as “white colonizers.” When are we going to retire this? Never mind that statistically, the majority of Israelis are Mizrakhim (Middle Eastern Jews who were forced back to their ancestral homeland as refugees after being ethnically cleansed from every corner of the globe and to escape the subjugation of Islamism that has continued through Oct. 7), but “colonization” by definition is when a “home” or “host” country sends a colony to invade a foreign land.

Everyone has accepted by now that Jews lived on the land before the various conquests and colonizations that brought in transient populations, satisfying the definition of indigenous. It’s therefore not possible to colonize land that you are indigenous to. Perhaps there is a different term for this division of land between two people, but colonization isn’t it.

Second, and importantly, there was no colonizing home/host country that sent a “colony” to invade. People on the ground who legally owned the land in pre-existing Jewish neighborhoods are the ones who established it as a state in 1948. A country of refugees built with sweat and muscle.

This is exactly the same thing that was happening all across the ME/WA region at the same time at the collapse of the Caliphate. Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Bahrain, Iraq etc were all established through western mandates at the time. Each of them divided land and created borders based on their national/cultural/ethnic identities that had once co-inhabited the same (colonized) lands, and indeed, fought for wider borders before trading maximalism for sovereignty and accepting compromise. Are they all white colonizers, too?

I know, I know, everyone is angry that the land also absorbed the Ashkenazi Jews who managed to escape the Holocaust that gassed 6 million of them in the single largest genocide in all of history, because if it were you, you would’ve all jumped off of the boat and took your own life to spare being called a “white colonizer” by the children of white colonizers in the future, right?

If you’re angry at violent governments that identify as religious states, there’s tons of Christian and Muslim states to rail against, including one that literally refers to itself as the “Islamic” Republic (in fact, several do).

And yet, I see no protests despite the daily slaughters and decades of Islamist imperialism that “anti-imperialists” conveniently ignore.

I know it’s hard to believe, but you can legitimately be pro-Israel and pro-Palestine at the same time. You can hold two truths at once. You can believe in co-existence. You can protest the current Israeli government, politicians, extremist officials, occupied territories, settlers, war policies etc and still not call for the end of the only Jewish state in the world. It’s hard to believe that such a movement is not inherently antisemitic, as Macklemore’s lyrics would imply.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

I can’t believe I have to explain what’s happening here, but here goes. Elite students of Ivy League schools have glamorized oppression so much that they have now reached role play status to satisfy their fantasies. Here, the students have appropriated the suffering of Gazans and are cosplaying as living through humanitarian crisis. In their American make-believe story where Ivy League infrastructure sets the scene, the students play Gazans and the school administration plays Israel.

Israel (the school) is blocking their “basic humanitarian aid” in this play, and if they don’t receive it soon, they will “die of thirst and starvation” (appropriating exact experiences of Gazans). They also destroy upper class buildings and claim them as “liberated” while the students repeat chants in zombie-like chorus, playing the roll of “freedom fighters” destroying Israeli infrastructure and claiming them freed. If I’m alive in a world where people don’t see the levels of perversion in this, I give up.

You don’t see this in lower tier schools from kids of lower socio-economic standing because they aren’t plagued with the guilt of privilege that they’re seeking to launder through Middle East role plays of feigned suffering. This is as first world dystopia as it gets.

Meanwhile, these Ivy League students who can have much more than a glass of water and as much food as their stomachs can take are commanding the attention of the media and the entire American audience, while actual Gazans who need humanitarian aid are ignored. I still have to pinch myself that people don’t see this.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

A crowd of Texans grabs a Pro-Palestinian activist attempting to disrupt
a speech by Texas Governor Greg Abbot.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Everything tonight that happens to the Houthis in Yemen is a Justified Response to their Terror on Commercial Shipping in the Red Sea, nothing more nothing less.

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

I've upset some people, who follow me for space/tech/science, by supporting Israel in the current conflict with Hamas.

What did you expect though? Do you think that the society that builds this sort of thing and lives there is going to be a violent, bigoted theocracy like Hamas-run Gaza or a forward thinking liberal democracy like Israel? Which would you prefer it to be?

Can you really be a futurist and sympathise with the side whose morality is stuck in the 7th century? To build a bright future the kinds of societies capable of building any kind of future at all need to win out.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

New details show a pattern of rape and mutilation against Israeli women by Hamas in the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks, a New York Times investigation found. https://t.co/5mfaskvESC

[The New York Times @nytimes]

New details show a pattern of rape and mutilation against Israeli women by Hamas in the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks, a New York Times investigation found. https://t.co/FrChcRLvYC

[أميرة ح | Amira H @baytifirasik]

This shows the danger of scholars straying from their area of expertise.

If only Taleb knew some basics.

Here's one for him:

'Jews' in Hebrew: yehudim
'Judeans' in Hebrew: yehudim
'Judahites' in Hebrew: yehudim

The distinctions are constructs of non-Jewish western historians

[Aviad BY @aviadby]

@nntaleb @baytifirasek @screenstarr Take a chill pill Nassim. You can come back to play with us adults when you’ve relaxed.

[Shai Davidai @ShaiDavidai]

Many people are wondering about what’s happening on U.S. campuses.

While I can’t speak about all other college campuses, I can definitely give you an insider’s view about @Columbia University.

(this thread may be a bit long, but trust me: it's worth it)

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“I was helpless … They did not want to protect me. They wanted to guard their trophy.”

Yarden Roman-Gat was captured by Hamas – dragged in her pajamas into a car and driven into Gaza where crowds were celebrating. https://t.co/6xxJsRDLAj

[Face The Nation @FaceTheNation]

Yarden Roman-Gat, one of the Israelis taken hostage by Hamas during the Oct. 7 attacks and held for nearly two months, shares her experience: "You're hopeless. You have no protection. You cannot object to anything, it could cost you your life."

Hear more on tonight's @60Minutes

[MichaelRapaport @MichaelRapaport]

Just walked out of the 47 minutes of footage from 10/7
Absolutely Disgusting
Allah Akbar was screamed at least 100 times.
Bragging,Cheering, proud phone call to Mom & Dad about killing 10 Jews with their bare hands.

NOT ONE MENTION OF GETTING LAND BACK &
Occupiers was never said

[Christopher C. Cuomo @ChrisCuomo]

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.