The Grey Watcher 🇺🇸🇮🇱🎗️

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[Kosher @koshercockney]

Just.. stunning. A must watch.

One of the greatest Israel / Palestine arguments you will ever hear.

And by none of other than Charlie Kirk.

What an incredible loss to the world.

Rest in Peace Charlie 🪽
May his memory be a blessing 🕯️

[AP @Average_NY_Guy]

Islamic settlers in Europe, furious that Morocco lost the game, are chanting:

“All Jews are gay.”
“Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas.”

And people still think the solution is for Jews to “act differently” or for Israel to “show more restraint.”

You’re not winning these people over. They don’t hate Jews because of our behavior. They hate Jews because of their ideology. That’s the driving force.

They lose a game? Blame the Jews. The economy is bad? Blame the Jews. They have a bad day? Blame the Jews.

So when people spend all day lecturing Jews about things we have no control over, they aren’t reducing antisemitism. They’re making us weaker while giving these extremists a free pass.

[AP @Average_NY_Guy]

Muhammad is now the most popular baby name for boys for the third year in a row in Britain, yet some "Jewish defenders" on X are still wasting their time trying to convince the British that extreme Islamists are not just Israel's problem, but Britain's as well.

It's no different than a Jew in Kraków trying to convince his ethnic Polish neighbor in the 1930s: "Yes, I'm the Nazis' primary target, but don't get too excited. They're coming for your country too."

If the Pole doesn't care enough to protect his own country, you're wasting your time trying to convince him.

If you can't see what's right in front of you, I'm not going to waste my time trying to convince you.

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @__Injaneb96]

I’m not surprised in the slightest.
Most people don’t want to hear it, but Mamdani is a Twelver Shia who follows the line of the late Ayatollah Khamenei (and now his son, whose status is unclear).
He admires both Khamenei and Khomeini, they embody exactly what he aspires to be.

Shias tend to be far more ideological and tribal than Sunnis. Mamdani represents a toxic mix of all the worst elements: socialism, Shi’ism, third-worldist grievance politics, nepotism, and identity-based loyalty networks.
He consistently surrounds himself with people who share the same worldview.

[Noor Dahri - نور ڈاہری ‎ 🇬🇧 @dahrinoor2]

🇳🇴 The most disturbing news I read today was that Norway dropped the case against Bassam Hussein, a project management professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), who reportedly called the October 7 massacre “𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲.”

Professor Bassam Hussein, originally from Gaza and most probably sympathetic toward Hamas, allegedly celebrated the October 7 attacks while speaking at an event.

The university administration stated that he spoke outside the university in a personal capacity, so his remarks reflected his own views. However, police dropped the case, saying he had not committed a criminal offence.

Many academics in the UK and Europe who came from Gaza, studied in the West, and later became university lecturers or professors have, in my view, reshaped the history of the Middle East in Western institutions. By presenting Hamas as a resistance movement and representative of Palestinians, they have taught a one-sided version of history that has radicalised thousands of students.

These academics exploit weaknesses in Western legal systems, such as Norway's lack of a law prohibiting the glorification of terrorism. As a result, under Norwegian law, the professor did not commit a criminal offence, because celebrating a terrorist attack, an act that might fall under "glorification of terrorism" in the UK, can instead be treated as a personal view protected by the right to freedom of expression.

I personally know several UK-based academics originally from the Gaza Strip who argued with me a decade ago when I described Hamas as a terrorist group.

They maintained that Hamas was a legal, democratically elected representative of Palestinians in the occupied territories. Those individuals (Uni students at that time) are now university lecturers and professors in Middle East departments.

[Lior 🪬 @ChaiLife613]

I was digging around a site called Newspaper Finder (wow did I come across a mountain of info). But...I found a pamphlet from January 1946 called "Truth About Palestine." It was written by the Christian Council on Palestine, a group of nearly three thousand mostly Protestant clergy, with a number of Catholics too. Reinhold Niebuhr was the treasurer. Paul Tillich signed it. So did Norman Vincent Peale.

It's a direct, point-by-point rebuttal to three anti-Zionist church statements that had circulated the year before. Some of what's in it lines up almost exactly with arguments still being made today. Here's what stood out:

The Hussein-McMahon correspondence, the letters people cite to claim Britain "twice promised" Palestine to both Arabs and Jews, never mentions Palestine by name. McMahon himself said so on the record in 1922 and again in 1937.

Emir Feisal, who led the Arab delegation at the Paris Peace Conference, signed an agreement with Chaim Weizmann in 1919 recognizing the Balfour Declaration and agreeing to encourage large-scale Jewish immigration. He only backed away from it after the extremist wing of Arab nationalism gained ground.

Lloyd George, who was prime minister when the Balfour Declaration was issued, said flatly that the Cabinet always understood it to mean an eventual Jewish state, not just a cultural or spiritual center. Churchill said the same thing about his own 1922 White Paper.

The Arab population of Palestine doubled between the 1920s and 1945, going from about 600,000 to 1.2 million, largely because Jewish development lowered the death rate and raised wages. That's a strange result if the story is supposed to be Arab displacement.

Out of thousands of Arab families who claimed to have been made landless by Jewish land purchases, British investigators validated 664 total. Land reclamation by Jewish settlers added farmable acreage to the country, it didn't shrink it.

The Mufti of Jerusalem, the most powerful Arab political leader in Palestine at the time, fled the country and helped organize a pro-Nazi coup in Iraq. He later worked directly with Hitler. The church documents being rebutted don't mention this.

A 1945 poll by Elmo Roper found about 80 percent of American Jews supported a Jewish state. The idea that American Jewry was deeply split on Zionism was already a manufactured talking point by 1946.

The official Jewish Commonwealth proposal on the table at the time included full legal equality for non-Jews, universal suffrage, and local control of Muslim and Christian holy sites by their own communities. That's the opposite of the "theocratic, racial state" critics claimed it would be.

Worth reading as a primary source, whichever side of the current argument you're on. It shows how old these exact talking points are, and how they were being argued over inside the Christian church itself, not just between governments.

Archive link: https://t.co/klGUcbBaMs

We aren't witnessing a new debate. We’re watching a rerun of a script written decades ago, only updated for social media. When modern institutions claim to be "unbiased," they’re usually just digging up the same tired myths and convenient silences that were being dismantled before the state of Israel even existed. The fact that the same arguments survive eighty years later proves they aren't meant to shed light—they’re meant to lock us in the dark. - Melissa Steinberg Brodsky

Read it here: https://t.co/VmBDGsYFjv

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

Slavery in Mauritania must end. Why is the UN silent? Why is the media silent? Why are student activists silent?

We took the floor at the United Nations to speak out for Mauritanian slaves.

“The true measure of progress is whether those trapped in slavery are actually freed.”

[Robert Spencer @jihadwatchRS]

Why Is Trump Courting Erdogan?
by Hugh Fitzgerald

Donald Trump has often proclaimed his admiration for Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with whom he says he has “a very good relationship.” He hasn’t a bad word to say for Erdogan, whom he has called “a strong man,” a “hell of a leader,” a “great leader, a “good friend.” He has also called him an “extraordinary leader” and a “tough cookie.” You know — the kind of guy Trump likes, just because he is tough. It’s the same reason that explains his admiration for Vladimir Putin. Apparently Trump does not know or care that two years ago, Erdogan predicted that there might be a war “between the Crescent and the Cross,” and he left no doubt as to which side he would be on. And Erdogan has also floated the idea of creating a pan-Islamic military force strong enough to destroy the Jewish state, again hinting that Turkey would take the leading role.

It is madness to allow Erdogan to buy our top-of-the-line F-35 stealth fighter jet. The same reason Turkey was not allowed in 2019 to buy that plane was the fear that, with Turkey having bought the Russian S-400 air defense system, operating that Russian system alongside a Western stealth aircraft posed severe security risks; the Americans feared that the S-400 could collect and transmit sensitive F-35 data to Russia. For some reason, Trump no longer worries about that — perhaps he feels he can trust his “good friend,” that “extraordinary leader” President Erdogan. Fortunately, there is strong opposition in the Senate, from both Republicans and Democrats, and they are likely to stop that sale.

Why should oil from the Gulf be sent overland, through Turkey, to Europe? If Iran can shut the Strait of Hormuz, can’t Erdogan shut that trans-Turkish pipeline to make the West bend to its will by, for example, severing military ties with Israel? There is an alternative route for oil from the Persian Gulf — pipelines from the Gulf across Saudi Arabia, up through Jordan, and then to Israel’s port of Haifa, where the oil could then be loaded onto ships for Europe.

Read more at the link in the next post.

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

He’s not the mayor of New York City.
He’s the Mayor of Everything Islam, kinda like the Caliph from New York

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Egyptians are now editing the French ref’s Wikipedia page to claim he’s Jewish.

This type of retardation is killing the Middle East. This is why your countries are poor and backwards.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

Israel has a problem in America because a vicious eliminationist movement is waging a disinformation war to convince Americans that their “model ally” is pure evil.

That’s not going to change if we make massive territorial concessions. It will only fuel their appetite.

[Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון @dannydanon]

Today in the Security Council, I called for the release of all correspondence between Pramilla Patten, UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, and Secretary-General @antonioguterres.

Because it's clear the Secretary-General wanted Israel on his shameful blacklist.
Israel was accused of 13 alleged cases of sexual violence, while the same report documents thousands of cases in other countries.

The report was issued without an independent review of the evidence, and its authors twice refused to visit Israel and see the truth!
If you have nothing to hide, show us the emails! Show us the texts! The public deserves to know what happened.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

.@ClooneyFDN Ms. Clooney, you enabled rapist Karim Khan's scheme to indict Israeli leaders to try and bury his scandal and pressure his victim into dropping her complaint. If you are really a champion of justice for survivors of sexual violence, then why are you now silent?

[Robert Spencer @jihadwatchRS]

Iranians threaten to murder Trump, Ben Shapiro, Laura Loomer, Peter Thiel and others

The Islamic Republic of Iran is continuing to project an image of absolute impunity, as if it had emerged victorious from its war with the United States, and was now going to proceed, Nuremberg Trial-style, to punish those who said publicly that this war was necessary. If public figures in any other country had been targeted, there would be an international outcry. But because most of Iran’s targets are considered “right-wing,” the international left, including its media apparatus, has no problem with these murderous threats at all.

Read more at the link in the next post.

[Samuel Stern @RabbiSamStern]

@RepRoKhanna This is another lie beneath contempt. You should resign, you hate Jews and love rapists more than you love America.

[The Grey Watcher 🇺🇸🇮🇱🎗️ @CoilMagi]

@RepRoKhanna Did not take you long to become a complete and total 💩 bag; congrats, you must be proud

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

This is a lie. It’s all a lie.

They lied about Platner — they all knew he was scum and kinda knew he had more skeletons in his closet but hid it for as long as they could.

They lied about many other things too. And they will keep lying for as long as they get away with it.

These guys aren’t a rebellion against a corrupt elite. They’re the same corrupt elite cosplaying as rebels — mostly by organizing their politics against the Jews.

Sorry, the Zionists.

[jack frost @lemurtalk]

@EYakoby https://t.co/MxbsMir5ei

Still a POS newspaper that has lost its way for a long time.

[S. Rozenblatt, Ph.D. 🟦 @nyneuropsych]

@EYakoby Wouldn't have run it, but did. Wouldn't have voted for a rapist, but did. These people are full of contributions after they are caught. If you and i k ow better, how is it possible that onenof the most powerful media organizations didn't?

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: The highest-ranking news editor at the New York Times, executive editor Joe Kahn, is publicly distancing himself and the paper’s newsroom from Nicholas Kristof’s piece.