Bernie Werzberger

Jewish, American, Canadian , son of a holocaust survivor

[Ambassador Mike Huckabee @GovMikeHuckabee]

Excellent post that details the meticulous research by world’s leading scholar on urban warfare & genocide. @SpencerGuard provides facts, figures, & data to refute the “feelings” of the critics. Thanks John Spencer.

[Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו @netanyahu]

For those who want to understand what has happened since October 7, this is a worthy read.

Thank you, Victor Davis Hanson, for the moral clarity in your important article.

[Bernie Werzberger @Bwerz]

@FascistImperium Who doesn’t permit who to listen to his words , his book is widely available for everyone to read, that said , he was indeed a monster of historical disproportion, in practice , maybe not in your realms of theory

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

The most extreme expression of unrepentant antisemitism in American politics is Dan Bilzerian, who has drawn far less public opprobrium than he deserves.

Discarding the usual code words such as “Zionists,” Bilzerian scapegoats Jews by name, openly declaring: “It is not red against blue. It is us against Jew.”

When he is not trafficking in Holocaust denial, he releases AI-generated campaign videos suggesting that our view of Hitler—whom he whitewashes as an “Austrian painter”—should be “revisited.”

What distinguishes Dan Bilzerian from others who share his pathological preoccupation with the Jewish people and the Jewish state? His conspiratorial Jew-hatred is unfiltered by euphemism. He makes no attempt to hide it. He flaunts it. For he is proud of it.

The rest of us should be ashamed.

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

This brazen Nazi—who’s urging us to “revisit” the opinions of Hitler—revels in Jew hate & defends Sharia law.

This evil has no place in the Republican Party. Get back to the Democrats—go join Mamdani, El Sayed, Omar, AOC & all the other Communist Islamists.

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

Let’s set the record straight: the only ones who are making Lebanon “unlivable” are Hezbollah.

Hezbollah has embedded its terror under and within the homes of Lebanese civilians for years, claiming to protect them while serving the interests of the Iranian regime. They vowed to destroy Israel and conquer the Galilee, and repeatedly put both Israeli and Lebanese civilians in danger.

Despite all of this, @FT choose to put the
blame on Israel. Make it make sense.

[Bernie Werzberger @Bwerz]

@piersmorgan Idiot ? What is your argument here ?

[Max ✡︎𓂆🇮🇱🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 ⚣🤍 @lilbuddymax]

Mamdani celebrating a state created in 1947 which upholds religious supremacy, blasphemy laws, committed genocide of 3 million people, funds Islamic terrorist attacks, expelled 2.7 million Afghans since 2023, and has forced conversion marriages.

Everything he accuses Israel of.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

Mamdani refused to attend Israel’s independence day parade.

He said he will not support any state that privileges one religion over another.

In Israel, Jews and Muslims have equal rights.

Today, he attended Pakistan’s Independence day parade. A state that privileges one religion over another.

In Pakistan, Muslims and non-Muslims do not have equal rights.

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

Because the plan was never to bring down rent. The goal is to accelerate the discontent, blame free markets, and then centralize even more power.

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

Turkey has the audacity to criticize Israel. But what are the facts on the ground?

Thousands of Turkish soldiers. Dozens of military bases and outposts across Syria, Iraq and Cyprus.

While Erdogan’s military aggression knows no borders, and Turkey occupies 36% of Cyprus, 5% of Syria and 2,000 km² of Iraq.

Israel temporarily controls merely 0.1% of Syria - a buffer zone to protect its citizens from proven security threats.

[Ambassador Mike Huckabee @GovMikeHuckabee]

Civilian deaths are tragic. Deaths of civilians in Gaza due to Hamas refusal to release hostages, putting civilians in front of targets while cowardly hiding themselves in tunnels. But why isn't there outcry for estimated 60K Iranian civilians murdered by Iranian regime?

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Dearborn Heights Shiite scholar Mohammad Qazwini on Lindsey Graham:

"Allah slapped him and took his soul to hell. Graham told his friend President Trump that he had more plans to finish his job. Let's ask Allah to also take Graham's friend."

[Ambassador Mike Huckabee @GovMikeHuckabee]

For 3 yrs since Hamas butchered over 1200 ppl including at least 46 Americans the media has said @Israel has starved children. But UNICEF, no friend to Israel shows that focus should have been on the rest of the region where the real tragedy lives unnoticed.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

At this point if you still claim Israel is committing genocide in Gaza you are either stupid and ignorant or antisemitic.

The antisemitic version usually means applying a double standard on the definition of genocide and the laws of war just to delegitimize Israel’s existence or right to pursue legitimate goals in a war it did not start or/and dehumanize every IDF soldier as a monster.

I have tried to argue basic definitions. Genocide requires intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such, in whole or in part. The evidence does not show that intent toward the people in Gaza. What it shows is the opposite. Israel has taken extraordinary steps, often at real cost and risk, to prevent civilian harm while fighting an enemy that hides among them, uses hospitals and schools as bases, and treats its own people as props in an evil grand political strategy of martyrdom to eliminate all jews on the planet.

In the middle of the fighting Israel has let in huge amounts of food, hundreds of thousands of tons, sometimes more than the world food specialists said was needed. Water lines from Israel have stayed open, three of them supplying tens of thousands of cubic meters a day. They have coordinated repairs, kept desalination plants running by sending fuel and even electricity to key ones, and allowed generators so water systems, hospitals and bakeries can keep working. Medical supplies and equipment have poured in by the tens of thousands of tons. Field hospitals coordinated. Patients have been evacuated for treatment outside. When polio showed up for the first time in decades Israel halted fighting every day and worked with WHO and UNICEF on a mass vaccination campaigns. Over a million doses given. That is not how you try to wipe out a people.

Then look at the misinformation machine. Almost every big claim about Israel deliberately targeting journalists or medical staff or children falls apart, and a lot of the time it falls apart because of what Hamas itself admits, sometimes before anyone even finishes basic fact checking. The “journalists” killed for example. Plenty of the names on those lists later show up in Hamas or Islamic Jihad martyr posts as actual operatives or commanders. Dual roles are common in Gaza’s information space. Same with medical workers. People mourned as nurses or doctors get claimed later by the terror groups as fighters. Hospitals have been used as command centers and weapons storage over and over. Hamas officials have even said it out loud at times. Manuals found on how to use the hospitals as Hamas military sites.

The casualty numbers and the “they are targeting children” stories. The Hamas health ministry figures get treated like gospel, yet their own underlying data and later admissions undercut every trending statistic. Combatants get left out or reclassified. Claims of IDF snipers or drones hunting kids usually fail basic reality of sci-fi sniper drones that don’t exist or injury patterns coming out of the same hospitals.

These stories do not need years of investigation to collapse. Often Hamas’s own words or the available evidence do the job within days or weeks. But the first maximalist version is what spreads and sticks and then gets used to accuse the whole country of Israel and its army of genocidal intent.

It is not illegal or wrong to target and destroy your enemy in a war, especially one that started with a massacre, held hostages, and fights from inside the civilian population it claims to protect. Gaza is an awful war with awful conditions, conditions shaped heavily by Hamas’s tactics. That does not make it genocide. The aid that kept flowing, the vaccination campaigns, the water and power facilitation, and the way the propaganda claims kept falling apart all point the other direction. If you ignore all of that and still yell genocide the explanations left are ignorance or a double standard aimed only at Israel. But this entire stupid campaign every war in history is a genocide.

If you actually want to engage in the debate of "intent" or actions in Gaza, see earlier writings:

"I’m a War Scholar. There Is No Genocide in Gaza," https://t.co/G7Iy9Ki3g5

"Israel Is Not Committing Genocide: Exposing the Distortion of Law and Truth," with @Ostrov_A
https://t.co/0RWFtOUd8H

"Israel's Aid to Gaza Is Historically Unprecedented," https://t.co/QMLuWDGDDs

[Alyssa Rosenheck @AlyssaRosenheck]

A Statement Regarding the Cancellation of My Nashville Book Launch: On Sunday, July 26, Bell Bird Books communicated it no longer felt it could continue promoting either me or my upcoming Nashville book launch for White. Blonde. Jew.

Two days later on July 28th, the bookstore informed my literary agent that it was canceling my book launch. On July 29th, less than 24 hours after canceling the Aug. 20 event, Bell Bird Books provided statements to The Tennessean expressing support for the event, even though it had already canceled it. I was never contacted by the Tennessean for comment.

On Thursday, July 30, Bell Bird Books removed the event announcement from Instagram, deleting all public mention of my book launch without issuing any public statement that the event had been canceled. Rather than informing readers and ticket holders, Bell Bird Books deleted the post.

As a proud Jewish author who values free speech and who strongly believes in the power of words to change hearts and minds - and as someone who has always supported independent booksellers - I’m saddened and deeply disappointed at the state of affairs that led to my cancellation.

This entire episode raises important questions about whether our society truly values the First Amendment, freedom of speech, and the ability of authors to express controversial or unpopular views without being cancelled for them.

There is no crime in being proudly Jewish. There’s nothing wrong with condemning antisemitism and extremism. These topics shouldn’t be controversial - they should be openly and freely discussed. When bookstores cancel authors under pressure from activists, they are silencing speech and making a mockery of the First Amendment. Worse, they are rejecting the American tradition of giving writers the freedom to discuss and defend their opinions in the public square.

Jewish authors should have the freedom to participate in the marketplace of ideas without organized pressure campaigns seeking to silence us, and institutions and businesses should have the courage to stand up to public pressure.

My book, ‘White. Blonde. Jew.’ is a call to reject extremism, defend intellectual freedom, and reclaim the center at a time when intimidation is increasing and meaningful conversation is abandoned. My book delivers an important message for our increasingly divisive times.

No business that pretends to give a voice to all points of view should kowtow to the bigots who would silence an author because of her religion or her strongly held beliefs.

A new Nashville venue - and, if necessary, a new date - will be announced shortly. All ticket holders will receive refunds, and I look forward to gathering with those who lead with curiosity and who believe ideas should be met with discussion. I remain committed to this conversation, and it is far from over.

[daniela @daniela__127]

According to Mamdani, he:

decided not to appoint John Leventhal, a Jewish lawyer, to an advisory panel because he served on Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal team;

but he’s totally fine with Ramzi Kassem, a Muslim lawyer who defended Al Qaeda operatives, as his chief counsel.

[Bernie Werzberger @Bwerz]

@BernieSanders Senator, The Government is already spending $7.4 trillion and can’t figure out the healthcare for these 3 million low-income people, can you explain how another $10.5 billion is going to change that ?

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

The Islamic regime in Iran carried out a public execution by hanging today in Isfahan.

Amirhossein Safari, Abolfazl Sepahi and Alireza Sepahi were murdered by the regime for taking part in the massive street protests against the regime in January this year