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[Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin]

This is amazing.

[Dani Buller @askdani__real]

Meet @HostageAid and their peculiar way of deciding who is a hostage:

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Pro-Palestinian holds a sign calling for “socialist Intifada”. When asked what that means, he says:

“I just got this at the stand over there. I don’t actually know the definition of the word Intifada.”

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[יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad @YosephHaddad]

Warning - difficult testimony to watch⚠️⚠️⚠️

Shocking evidence of the rape and sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas terrorists on October 7th… The world has no option but to stand by Israel, and Israel has no choice but to destroy Hamas!

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The presidents of @Harvard, @MIT, and @Penn were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism:

Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?

The answers they gave reflect the profound moral bankruptcy of Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth.

Representative @EliseStefanik was so shocked with the answers that she asked each of them the same question over and over again, and they gave the same answers over and over again.

In short, they said:

It ‘depends on the context’ and ‘whether the speech turns into conduct,’ that is, actually killing Jews.

This could be the most extraordinary testimony ever elicited in the Congress, certainly on the topic of genocide, which to remind us all is:

“the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group”

The presidents’ answers reflect the profound educational, moral and ethical failures that pervade certain of our elite educational institutions due in large part to their failed leadership.

Don’t take my word for it.

You must watch the following three minutes. By the end, you will be where I am.

They must all resign in disgrace.

If a CEO of one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour.

Why has antisemitism exploded on campus and around the world?

Because of leaders like Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth who believe genocide depends on the context.

To think that these are the leaders of Ivy League institutions that are charged with the responsibility to educate our best and brightest.

On the bright side, our congressional leaders deserve accolades for showing tremendous leadership and moral clarity in their statements, by the questions they asked, and the respectfulness with which they conducted the hearing.

It was a masterclass of how our government and democracy should operate.

If you have time, please watch the entire hearing. Throughout the hearing, the three behaved like hostile witnesses, exhibiting a profound disdain for the Congress with their smiles and smirks, and their outright refusal to answer basic questions with a yes or no answer.

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

They could be protesting Hamas. They could be protesting Hamas' systematic rape of Israeli women and girls or demanding the remaining hostages be immediately released.

Instead, they targeted a Jewish restaurant. It's pathetic and rank antisemitism.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

Hamas says it doesn’t know how many hostages are still alive and “the number is not important”.

Israelis value life. Hamas worships death. https://t.co/1CCecWFj47

[Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 @JerryDunleavy]

I was recently among those who was shown the roughly 45 minutes of raw footage of the October 7th terrorist massacre committed by Hamas. This will be a long thread, but I believe worth reading.

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

Durham College - Sahar Shehadeh, a student in the advanced biotechnology program, gives a shoutout to Hamas and wants October 7th to happen “again and again and again and again.”

These horrifying antisemites must be held accountable for their disturbing promotion of terrorism.

[Bianna Golodryga @biannagolodryga]

Important story from @jaketapper on the horrific sexual violence committed by Hamas against Israeli women on Oct 7th, and the lack of global outrage. “Why would the international community and @UNWomenWatch be silent about these crimes? They seem to be vocal about so much else.”

[Dov Ben-Shimon @DovBenShimon]

Warning: extremely difficult text to read below.

Last night I surrendered my phone and signed a waiver. And then I sat with a small group and an Israeli military attaché and we watched the 45 minute compilation of Hamas videos from October 7th.

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[Aviv @AvivvSofferr]

@Cel2828 @AvivaKlompas Their family members are taking care of them. They are temporarily living in a settlement 40 min from Jerusalem. My boyfriend is from there, so I’ve seen the babies a few times in the past month. Fortunately, they look healthy and relatively okay considering the circumstances

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

That’s what mates are for!

A Palestinian pro-Hamas rally was meant to be held in Auckland, New Zealand today.

Then a group of #Maoris came and led a Haka in support of Israel.

The Palestinian-Hamas cowards quickly cancelled their rally.

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[Aviv @AvivvSofferr]

@engshadybadr @edward_worlu @HilzFuld No heavy weapons?? I think you forgot about the disgusting terrorist group that murdered & tortured thousands of Israelis, is holding 240+ innocent civilians captive, and is sending hundreds of missiles towards Israel DAILY. Please educate yourself and have your values checked.

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

Viewer discretion advised: some of you may have seen clips and images of the horrific war crimes committed by Hamas on October 7th.

A new website archives all of this footage.

We know it’s difficult to watch, but it is even more heart wrenching for the victims and the families of these heinous crimes.

Please RT this and help us make sure that the world knows what happened.

https://t.co/MFcndWl8pE

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Spot on. Perfectly stated.

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

Not a word condemning Islamic Jihad for causing the hospital explosion in Gaza and killing hundreds of Palestinian civilians.

Not a word from the UN.

Not a word from Israel’s usual critics, who rushed to judgement with a blood libel.

Not a word from Hamas (no surprises).

The sudden silence is deafening.

If you think the death of Palestinians is cause for outrage only when Israel is the accused, then you are not pro-Palestinian. You are simply anti-Israel. There is a difference.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

What have I learned over the past year? I need you all to pay attention for a second.

I spent a lot of my life fighting tooth & nail for causes that I believed in. After the Iran revolution, I realized not only how lonely it is to be on this side of the fight (“besides the mountains, we have no friends”) but how heavily and inaccurately the western world had politicized our cause. It wasn’t even about us, it was about their generated beliefs about us, funneled through the prism of their left or right politics. The people who claimed to care revealed a prioritization of their political ideology over our lives.

During this time, I began connecting with many different people on all sides of the social and political spectrum. I came out of my echo chamber of liberal politics and began to realize for the first time that I, too, had been duped. As I blindly championed victims and demonized villains, I realized I, too, had not afforded myself a well-rounded perspective on the causes I was stubbornly clinging to.

I could not blame myself for this. The reality is that like most of us, I was projecting. I was projecting my innocence, victimization, and suffering onto people I had subconsciously identified as victims, and I had projected my anger, indignation, and resentment onto those I identified as aggressors. It wasn’t a reflection of them, it was a reflection of something inside me that I had not (and still haven’t) healed.

When my eyes jolted open through the Iran revolution, I began to move from black and white to color and nuance. Suddenly the world could no longer be so neatly divided into good and bad, but perspectives that were all propelling us in a single direction.

But what were these perspectives coming from? For the people actually experiencing the event, that’s easy, it’s a personal perspective. No one can really touch that. But for outsides, for us who sit on the internet blindly going back and forth about things that never really touch us or our sphere of influence, it is insidious political propaganda cloaking itself in truth and righteousness.

When I open any social media apps today, I see people blindly driving one-sided narratives and demanding others see the “propaganda on the other side.” The reality is that those demanding others become aware of it are often projecting a subconscious knowing that they’ve been afflicted by it. We all have.

So all of this is to give you all, as somebody who has ostensibly (& hopefully) escaped the politicization of humanity, a litmus test on whether propaganda is consuming you:

- do you see the suffering of one one group of innocent people & believe it is justified?

- do you secretly believe an entire race or population of people may be evil?

- do you find it difficult to hold two things as true at the same time, thus feel the urge to discount one for the benefit of the other?

- do you subconsciously believe that the murder of one group of people is necessary for the advancement of another?

- do you minimize or deny tragedies of one people because you believe they distract from the suffering of another?

- are you able to witness or acknowledge the suffering and killing of innocent children and mentally respond with, “yes, but…”?

If so, propaganda may be corroding your humanity.

Please understand this is not normal. Social studies have shown time and again that the dehumanization of any people is the precursor to genocide, and you’re all so busy proving that it’s your “side” that has been dehumanized that you don’t see how you’re dehumanizing the other side to prove it. You are becoming the monsters you’re fighting.

Will you do yourself, the world, & the terrified child inside you a favor and just think about it, for a second?

The future; posterity depends on prying your eyes open with the last ounce of humanity screaming to break through the angry ideology you have cloaked yourself in.

With all you have left in you, please find a way to be human again.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

I have to say something right now because I won’t be able to live with myself if I don’t. For years, I spoke up for the people of Palestine and their right to self-determination and to live in peace. For years, nobody cared. For years, Iranians have spoken up against their terrorism and brutality at the hands of the IRGC. For years, nobody cared. For years I had felt we shared the same unnerving struggle, which is the world’s indifference to the loss of our lives. Over the past week, however, I’ve seen something that I’m ashamed to say I had never seen before and I can’t believe what it took for me to see it. When Jews are murdered, the world is not just indifferent. Instead, the world rejoices. It celebrates. This is a type of depravity no people should ever have to endure, especially given the barbaric history of persecution since time immemorial. To the Jewish community, you are my brothers and sisters. I am so sorry that I let you down. I am so sorry that you screamed about it for years and I didn’t hear you. I am so sorry I didn’t stand up with you. I am so sorry I pretended not to see the flagrant and hateful anti-semitism. But my eyes are open and I see you now. I hear you. I’m with you, and I promise to never let you down again.