More than 250 Jewish students at Columbia have signed this open letter.
If you have 5 minutes today, take the time to read it. Because the sentiments it expresses are what the overwhelming majority of Jewish people feel.
https://t.co/rNJx3bYawx
After October 7, Columbia Professor Mohamed Abdou declared: “Yes, I’m with Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.”
On April 17, Columbia University President Dr. Minouche Shafik told Congress that Professor Mohamed Abdou “will never work at Columbia again.”
It’s two weeks later and here is Abdou walking into a Columbia building.
As Israel warns Palestinians to leave Gaza City and head to the south, Hamas leader Haniyeh tells them not to go:
"Our people will not leave or migrate. We call on them not to fall for the enemy's lies."
Meanwhile it appears according to the latest reports and aerial imagery that southbound traffic in Gaza is piling up and at a standstill because road blocks have been set up to prevent Palestinians from traveling south.
Is this exactly what Hamas wants?
The arch commemorating the life and death of Emperor Titus (d. 81) has a relief showing his victories, including sacking Jerusalem, a decade earlier, and bringing back all the Palestinian kuffiyahs, zaatar, and falafel. Wait, what? Oh yeah, relief shows Titus’s spoils as a Jewish menorah, a fact engraved in stone 1942 years ago and that can still be seen in the Imperial Forum in Rome today.
@z_00pIz The Palestinian government has already had the conference and decided they will need to enslave Jews to keep the lights on when Palestine is free...
Let's talk about "Nakba Day"
First of all, the Palestinians consider the establishment of the State of Israel to be their “catastrophe”. But it should be remembered that the partition plan that paved the path for the establishment of the State of Israel also made a Palestinian state possible. But while Israel was quick to agree to this, the Arab leaders (Arabs and not Palestinians because they did not define themselves as Palestinians at the time) flatly refused and declared war against Israel. And in this war they lost, they were completely defeated.
They are the ones who brought the disaster on their people.
And as for those who left the country, a large number left on the orders of the Supreme Arab Committee and the Arab leaders who informed them that within a few days they would win the war and then they could return. There were also cases of expulsion, but smaller in numbers than those who fled, and there were also many who stayed and nothing adverse happened to them, for example my grandparents. Those who stayed and did not fight against Israel became citizens and later received full rights.
The Palestinians have tried to turn the "Nakba" into their Holocaust. This is holocaust revisionism and a serious historical distortion. There is not even a slight resemblance.
Yes, it should be said that at that time there were also terrible acts of violence on both sides — but absolutely not to the extent that the Palestinians are claiming. Some of the incidents they have claimed occurred did not even happen.
On the day that the Arab public in Israel and especially the Arab leaders in Israel will treat the events that happened in proportion, then we will be able to truly accept each other and create a dialogue that will bring about the mutual pain that should be acknowledged on each side.
The truth is the sole responsibility for the Nakba lies with the Arab leaders. And on a personal note, if the Arab leaders had accepted the partition plan, then my city of Nazareth would be a Palestinian city today.
When I see the situation in the Palestinian Authority and Gaza, I only say I’m relieved that today it is an Israeli city, and that I am an Israeli citizen living with human rights and equality under the law. There’s a long path ahead of us, but I’m proud to be a part of the solution loving, defending and improving my country 🇮🇱
@AngryLevantine But Mizrahi Jews don't identify as Arab.
Diaspora Jews tend to identify with a country, not with it's ethnicity. So when someone says they are a British Jew, they aren't saying they are ethnic English, Scottish or Welsh.
For 1953 years Jews have been tearing their clothes on seeing the ruined Temple in Jerusalem.
It's in the Talmud.
This dummy thinks the Talmud was written to claim a Palestinian tore a guy's t-shirt.
In 1267, Mamluk Muslims conquered the Jewish Cave of Patriarchs in Hebron, then banned Jews from our own ancestral pilgrimage site. Similar to how Jews today are banned by the Islamic WAQF from our Temple Mount while Palestinian radicals desecrate our holy site by inciting riots