Bryna Lee

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[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

#Shalom

[Bryna Lee @brynalee]

Start counting the Omer tonight April 1 and if you have been wanting to know where I've been... - https://t.co/I158vpVd2A

[AP @Average_NY_Guy]

There’s something about Israel that makes people uncomfortable, and it’s not what they say it is.

They’ll point to politics, settlements, borders, and wars. But scratch beneath the outrage, and you’ll find something deeper. A discomfort not with what Israel does, but with what Israel is.

A nation this small should not be this strong. Period.

Israel has no oil. No special natural resources. A population barely the size of a mid-sized American city. They are surrounded by enemies. Hated in the United Nations. Targeted by terror. Condemned by celebrities. Boycotted, slandered, and attacked.

And still, they thrive like there’s no tomorrow.

In military. In medicine. In security. In technology. In agriculture. In intelligence. In morality. In sheer, unbreakable will.

They turn desert into farmland.
They make water from air.
They intercept rockets in mid-air.
They rescue hostages under the nose of the world’s worst regimes.
They survive wars that were supposed to wipe them out, and win.

The world watches this and can’t make sense of it.

So they do what people do when they witness strength they can’t understand.

They assume it must be cheating.

It must be American aid.
It must be foreign lobbying.
It must be oppression.
It must be theft.
It must be some dark trick that gave the Jews this kind of power.
It must be blackmail.

Because heaven forbid it’s something else.
Heaven forbid it’s real.
Heaven forbid it’s earned.
Or worse, destined.

The Jewish people were supposed to disappear a long, long time ago. That’s how the story of exiled, enslaved, hated minorities is supposed to end. But the Jews didn’t disappear. They actually came home, rebuilt their land, revived their language, and brought their dead back to life — in memory, in identity, and in strength.

That’s not normal.
It’s not political.
It’s biblical.

There’s no cheat code that explains how a group of people return to their homeland after 2,000 years.
There is no rational path from gas chambers to global influence.
And there is no historical precedent for surviving the Babylonians, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the pogroms, and the Holocaust, and still showing up to work on Monday in Tel Aviv.

Israel doesn’t make sense.
Unless you believe in something beyond the math.

This is what drives the world crazy. Because if Israel is real, if this improbable, ancient, hated nation is somehow still chosen, protected, and thriving, then maybe God isn’t a myth after all.

Maybe He’s still in the story.

Maybe history isn’t random.
Maybe evil doesn’t get the last word.
Maybe the Jews are not just a people… but a testimony.

That’s what they can’t stand.

Because once you admit that Israel’s survival isn’t just impressive, but divine, everything changes. Your moral compass has to reset. Your assumptions about history, power, and justice collapse. You realize you’re not watching the end of an empire. You’re witnessing the beginning of something eternal.

So they deny it.
They smear it.
And rage against it.

Because it’s easier to call a miracle “cheating” than to face the possibility that God keeps His promises.

And He’s keeping them still.

[Bryna Lee @brynalee]

Start counting the Omer on Sunday night April 13 & Skype is shutting down - https://t.co/xz6IIhjvqV

[Bryna Lee @brynalee]

Start counting the Omer on Sunday night April 13 & Skype is shutting down - https://t.co/xz6IIhjvqV

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Payton McNabb joins President Trump at the Joint Session of Congress after suffering a severe injury by a male competitor in women’s sports. She’s bravely fighting for fairness and safety for female athletes.

President Trump is clear: NO MEN IN WOMEN'S SPORTS.

[I Love America News @ILA_NewsX]

@WhiteHouse Science:

[President Donald J. Trump @POTUS]

"'Shalom Hamas' means Hello and Goodbye - You can choose. Release all of the Hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered, or it is OVER for you. Only sick and twisted people keep bodies, and you are sick and twisted! I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job, not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don’t do as I say. I have just met with your former Hostages whose lives you have destroyed. This is your last warning! For the leadership, now is the time to leave Gaza, while you still have a chance. Also, to the People of Gaza: A beautiful Future awaits, but not if you hold Hostages. If you do, you are DEAD! Make a SMART decision. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW, OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY LATER!"

–President Donald J. Trump

[President Donald J. Trump @POTUS]

"I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job, not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don’t do as I say... RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW, OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY LATER!" –President Donald J. Trump

[Bryna Lee @brynalee]

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[Bryna Lee @brynalee]

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[Bryna Lee @brynalee]

I just signed a @UNWatch petition: Replace UNRWA!

Enough is enough. It is time for @UNRWA to go.

Add your voice to the campaign to #ReplaceUNRWA: https://t.co/Qb1iZ5PcYl

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

I swear, I feel the world is playing the most elaborate prank in history.

I can just imagine the moment they reveal that it was all one sick prank.

“Haha, you really thought we, the enlightened west, would side with a murderous terror organization like Hamas? You’re so gullible!”

“Apartheid? Seriously, how’d you fall for that one? I mean, even for you! Israel was literally the opposite of apartheid. You guys gave your actual enemies, the very people who wanted your destruction, equal rights!”

“How did you fall for us telling you to send in fuel knowing Hamas uses it for rockets? You really are so gullible!”

“You seriously thought we meant it when we denied the massacre that Hamas recorded in HD? Did you think you were blind?”

“You really believed us when we said Israel was killing indiscriminately after everything you did to minimize deaths and had the numbers to back it up?” Hilarious.”

“You genuinely thought we didn’t see the difference between the IDF and Hamas?”

“Can’t believe you really thought we believed that that tiny spec of the map was just too much land for the Jews. Oh my goodness.”

“Seriously? You really believed us when we pressured you to end the war? How dumb did you think we were?”

“Queers for Palestine? 🤣”

“Listen guys, we really didn’t think you’d fall for it, but you sure did.”

“Anyway, yea, go obliterate Hamas and the people who voted for them. We were just kidding.”

But it’s not a prank, and it’s not funny. The world has lost its collective mind. The only thing that’s insane is that we are even listening to any of it and taking their insanity into account.

It’s not a prank, but it might as well be.

[Bryna Lee @brynalee]

Douglas Murray states it with simplicity. It is all about anti-semitism. Period. Full stop.

[Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin]

Watch this.

[Dani Dayan @AmbDaniDayan]

Even if now it is acknowledged that calls for genocide of Jews contravene college policies - this is an extremely low bar. Any form of antisemitism should be beyond the pale, not only support of mass massacre.

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

GET OUT!!!

I say this with tears in my eyes and trepidation in my heart.

I beg of you, my brothers and sisters outside of Israel, get out now!

I’m so sorry to write this and I understand that uprooting your life is anything but easy. I understand you have kids, parents, a life where you are, and saying “Get out” is easier said than done.

But please open your eyes.

The antisemitism has reached a new leve, a Germany, 1940s level. No, there is no holocaust but what happened before the concentration camps is absolutely happening now.

The presidents of some of America’s top educational institutions just testified before congress that calling for the genocide of Jews doesn’t violate their code of conduct unless it leads to action.

Let me translate that for you.

“It’s ok to call for the murder of the Jewish nation as a whole and we won’t say a word. But if you commit the genocide, if you kill Jews, like actually KILL Jews, then we’ll have to get involved.”

When the rhetoric was bad in Europe before the war, Jews didn’t leave because they genuinely didn’t think anything was going to happen; that it was just words.

Until it wasn’t. Until the Nuremberg laws. If you’re not familiar, “The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany on 15 September 1935.”

What was their excuse then? Actual laws against Jews? Why didn’t they leave?!

Because it’s not so easy to uproot your life and they were comfortable there.

Why did only 20% of Jews leave Egypt after the 10 plagues? Because it’s not so easy to uproot your life and they were comfortable there.

“My parents were born here in Egypt/Rome/Greece/Germany/America. My grandparents were born here in Egypt/Rome/Greece/Germany/America. This is my home. I am Egyptian/Roman/Greek/German/American.”

In hindsight, you see how crazy it was in Egypt. You see how crazy it was in Germany. Please, I beg of you, see how crazy it is in America to stay. And Europe? Europe has been done for a while. But now it’s America’s turn.

I fully recognize that many of you are going to come at me with one of two arguments:

- Jews are no safer in Israel.
- Stop being an alarmist. It won’t happen to me. You’re creating hysteria unnecessarily.

Jews are safer in Israel. Here we can defend ourselves.

Here we can, and are obliterating the enemy. Here, I sit in my house and I know that the IDF is guarding me with God’s help.

Please don’t ignore the direction of America as it pertains to Jews. It’s getting really bad, really fast.

It took years for Hitler’s rhetoric to turn into action. Here it took two months.

I also fully recognize that I am offending many American Jews reading this right now. “It’s easy for him to say this. He built his life in Israel. His family brought him to Israel. He didn’t have to sacrifice everything.”

I am sorry I am offending you. I really am. I mean that genuinely. I don’t want to offend you. I don’t want to, but I am willing to because I love you and want you to be safe.

Imagine a child being bullied horribly and his parents pulling him out of the school against his will to protect him from further bullying. That kid might be super angry at his parents for doing this and the parents are willing to live with that anger as long as their kid is safe.

I am not your parent. I have no authority over you. You don’t owe me anything.

But you are being badly bullied and you need to get the hell out of that school!

A statistic I heard from my dad and have quoted hundreds of times:

There has never been a 75 year period in the history of the Jewish people in which so few Jews have been killed. Read that again. Yes, I said “Few”.

It was always something.

Inquisition. Pogroms. Crusades. Holocaust.

Every life that’s lost in Israel to wars and terror is a whole world and a terrible tragedy for our nation. You don’t have to tell me that.

Nothing I am saying belittles that. But also, perspective is necessary. These have been the safest 75 years in our history. This country is protecting us. Hashem is protecting us. The IDF is protecting us.

I am aware and totally ok with you saying I’m an alarmist. I am also ok with you telling me to stop using the holocaust in my arguments. I understand and respect your opinion.

I was also always against comparing anything to the holocaust.

Until October 7th.

There are just too many similarities to stick my head in the sand.

There won’t be concentration camps in America, you are right (I hope, although in today’s insane world, who knows anymore?), but there will be systematic antisemitism, which will, and already has led to physical violence and even murder.

I won’t stop apologizing to you for writing this post. I am not writing this from a place of judgement. I am writing this from a place of concern from one sibling to another.

You are my brother/sister and guess what, if things were reversed and you were here and I was there, I know for a fact that you’d be writing this post to me and I’d be on your side also upset at you and offended by your post. I get it.

But please ask yourself what has to happen.

What has to happen for you to leave or at the very least, make a plan to leave?

What hasn’t happened already?

- Artists declaring their support for Hitler? ☑️

- NBA players proudly and openly supporting a rhetoric calling for the genocide of Jews? ☑️

- Full blown antisemitism in congress and an entire party not willing to denounce it? ☑️

- Rules in leading academic institutions that fully support antisemitism? ☑️

- Jews being verbally bullied in public spaces? ☑️

- Physical violence against Jews? ☑️

- The first murder of a Jew for being a Jew? ☑️

Is there anything, any event, that will get you to drive to the airport and get on a plane? If the answer is no, that no matter what happens, you won’t leave, then you can stop reading here. I mean it. This post is not for you.

To you, I say, I hope I’m wrong and I wish you success. Also, never forget that we all love you over here and you can always change your mind.

But if there is such an event. What is it? What has to happen?

Because based on history, our “It won’t happen to me” mentality transcends generations. We say it every time and then guess what happens. Those people who said it won’t happen to them? It happens to them.

We’ve had a good run in America, Europe (not so much, and around the world. We had liberty, equal rights, and freedom of religion. But those days are over.

This is a new era, an era that has been in the making for a while now, but has just entered the final faze before it reaches a point of no return. There are no more fazes between now and then.

Again, in Europe, it took years. Here it took months. Things are progressing very quickly. Please open your eyes.

Don’t just dismiss this post and throw your hands up in the air thinking that moving to Israel is simply impossible for you and your family.

Let me ask you this.

If someone put a gun to your head, an actual gun, a gun to your head and to the heads of your parents, children, and loved ones, and told you, you either get on a plane or they pull the trigger, would you still say it’s impossible or would you order a cab to bring you to the ELAL terminal?

This is a gun to your head. It’s not a physical gun yet so it’s harder to recognize but please don’t kid yourself, you have a gun to your head.

Every time I write a post like this or talk about this in a lecture, I get some pretty angry people in the comments. I am willing to risk that, if one, ONE of my millions of siblings reads this and reconsiders their safety outside of Israel.

If I wanted to, I could list the reasons not to move here too.

- My kids need to finish school.
- My parents are elderly. I can’t leave them.
- I can’t move to a war zone. It’s dangerous.
- I am more religious here than I will be in Israel. I worry about my kids abandoning Judaism.
- How will I get a job there?
- I don’t know Hebrew well enough to move there.

Should I go on? What did I miss?

All legitimate reasons. I mean it. And still, a gun to your head is a gun to your head.

I am reading this post over, and I truly hate the tone, because I do not believe anyone should move to Israel because of antisemitism. But speaking of guns and triggers, this should be a massive trigger, a catalyst, for you to come home.

In Israel, we are strong, we are united, we will win, we will come out of this stronger, and we will build.

How do you envision Jews getting out of the situation they are in in the diaspora now? Will it magically disappear? Will the educational institutions change their mind about this issue? Will the marches stop? Will the violence magically stop? How can this possibly end well?

But that’s not why you should come home.

You should come home because this is your home.

You should come home because living in Israel today is easier than it’s ever been.

You should come home because Israel is a beautiful country, one of the happiest countries in the world.

You should come home, because whatever lifestyle you lead, Jews are successful here because we are Jews, and not despite the fact that we are Jews, like in the rest of the world.

You should come here because this is a country that is making the world a better place. You should be a part of that.

You shouldn’t come home because you are running away from something but because you are running TO something and that something is your home, your home and your family.

Please try to put aside your instinctive defensiveness to this post. Try to take a step back and look at history.

Please come home. We are here with open arms waiting to welcome you.

Your concerns are all valid and legitimate. No one is saying otherwise. But those concerns would take the back seat if you had a gun to your head. They should take a back seat now.

This testimony given by the presidents of the leading universities in America in congress is truly a new level. Calling for the genocide of Jews is totally legit. How does that not frighten you?

It’s not even 10 am and I am totally devastated by that testimony. This is why I don’t watch any of the atrocities. I have such a low tolerance for tragedy ever since…

As sad as I am, a part of me is happy I watched it. We can’t ignore this any longer. We cannot afford to stick our heads in the sand anymore.

I am out of words here. Just please come home.

I am sorry I had to write this. I am sorry if it offended you. But I am also not sorry because if I didn’t use my platform for this, I’d never be able to forgive myself when…

Not if, when.

Come home. Your family is waiting.

Like I said, history keeps repeating itself. The script has already been written. Here is how it goes down time, and time again.

I am not a prophet, I just simply know how to read history books.

There is an empire, a very strong world leading empire. The Roman Empire. The Greek empire. The Soviet empire. The Nazi empire. The American empire.

It keeps getting stronger and stronger, until its strength goes to its head, and then morality starts going out the window.

Whether it’s an emperor putting people in a colosseum to fight till their death, a government legislating against an entire nationality, or a culture that confuses facts for feelings, whether it’s on gender, terrorism, or countless other things we have seen transpire in Western civilization of the 21st-century

As soon as that happens, the empire begins to fall, but not before they find a scapegoat to blame for their demise: The Jews.

The Jews then spend time trying to convince that empire that they are just like them. They assimilate and try to prove to the empire not only that they are just like them, but they can actually outdo them.

They are more Egyptian than the Egyptians, they are more Roman than the Romans, they are more Greek than the Greeks, and today, they are more liberal than the most liberal people in America.

But then, the empire has to remind the Jews that they are not just like them, and they do that with a tool called anti-Semitism.

Anti-Semitism begins to show its ugly face, the Jews refuse to see it, and keep yelling, “No, you don’t understand! We are just like you. We no longer have loyalty to our heritage. Forget Judaism! We are American. I’m telling you. We are just like you!”

The empire continues to fall, anti-Semitism continues to skyrocket, and then comes the worst of all, extermination of the Jews. Over and over and over again. Exile or genocide.

Now look at the American empire and tell me you don’t see the same script repeating itself!

I can’t believe how quickly this all happened. I really can’t. I watch that testimony and just can’t believe what I’m hearing.

It’s all happened. Come home. Now. Please!

What has to happen?

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Their cruelty knows no bounds. But they are terrorists, and I therefore have no expectations from them. The silence of the western world is infinitely more devastating.

What show did your child watch today?

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

Dear Arabs and Muslims,

I just back from Israel, and my life will never be the same.

I thought I was going to be met with pure racism, and then came to see that half of Israelis look just like me.

I thought I was going to be treated as a terrorist, but I was met with kindness and hospitality.

I thought I was going to experience apartheid, but I saw people from different backgrounds co-existing in peace together.

I thought I was going to see hatred against Muslims, but I met dozens of Muslims who love Israel and are proud of their country.

I thought I was going to meet angry Jews who hate all the goys and want to manipulate them, but I was met by a kind people who are struck by grief and terror.

Every street I visited in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv has a story of a terror attack. In every cafe I sat in, I was told ”A Jew was stabbed right here”, and ” A shooting happened on the other side of this street a few months ago.”

Throughout this trip, I have been ex-communicated by close-minded friends and family members. But you know what? It was worth it. Because I got to see Israel and experience the truth about the country that I was indoctrinated to hate for myself.

I wish that my friends and family members would also be able to visit Israel and see the beauty and hospitality of the country like I did. I was able to swiftly visit Israel because of my Swedish passport – I won’t deny my privileges.

But I also have the elusive privilege of humanizing both Israelis and Arabs. I had the greatest privilege of meeting, and seeing and talking to Israelis, whom I had learned to hate since I was a child.

I am so happy to have cleansed the hatred out of my soul. I wish that the Muslim and Arab communities could do the same.

Nothing good can ever come out of hatred, violence, and terrorism. And now, having been in Israel, I cannot stress enough how much it saddens me that my culture and my people have learned to hate this country and these people.

To all the Israelis who have opened their hearts and homes to me and showed me their beautiful country - thank you.