Dan Del - דן דל

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[SK Tedeschi @skedeschi]

People act like the UN is a council of philosopher-kings delivering sacred moral truth. Its actually a club of 198 governments, full of dictatorships, brutal monarchies, military juntas and kleptocratic lunatics with no morality whatsoever. 74% of the world's pop are not free.

[Daniel Friedman @DanJFriedman]

In just the past two weeks, the pro-Palestine movement tried to burn down my neighborhood synagogue and organized a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Philadelphia on the eve of Kristalnacht.

So please, spare me the “anti Zionism isn’t antisemitism” nonsense. Yes, it is.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Things that are not a genocide: 40-50k civilian collateral casualties in a just war.

Things that are a genocide: a death camp where a million Jews were gassed and incinerated.

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

Kneecap made a special appearance at the Macklemore concert in Dublin tonight. “F**k Zionism” and “F**k Israel” rang out. The violent rejection of Jewish self-determination performed to thousands. How is this different to a Nazi rally.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Thank you, Poland for giving visa to these beautiful woman.
Look at these two faces. One was burned with acid for fighting the Taliban. One was blinded for shouting freedom in Tehran. Now look again. These are the faces the regimes feared most.

Fahimeh is from Afghanistan. Her husband threw acid on her face because of her activities against against the Taliban and told her: now I have taken your eyes and your face, people will be scared of you, so I dare you to go out and talk to people.

I invited them to come on stage with because I want to dedicate my award to these real activists.

She met Kosar, an Iranian woman who was blinded by the Islamic Republic during the Woman life Freedom uprising.

Thank you Poland for giving us visas.

I am taking these two women to Auschwitz before they go on stage.

They will stand on stage in Poland, the face her husband wanted to hide speaking to thousands. I do not see victims. I see heroes. They are not fighting for themselves. They are fighting to protect democracy everywhere from the most dangerous cancer, which is called Islamism.

Meanwhile, women sit on death row in Iran right now, waiting for the gallows. Women are being erased from every classroom, every job, every public street under the Taliban. And the whole world is quiet. Where are the women's marches? Where is the outrage?

This is why I call on universities across Europe and America: open your doors to these heroes. Invite them. Let the new generation of the West hear the truth from women who paid the price of freedom with their eyes and their faces. Books cannot teach what they have lived.

[Zineb Riboua @zriboua]

Cette romantisation obsessionnelle de la criminalité m’écœure. Cette manie de trouver à chaque crime une excuse sociologique, comme si la misère conférait au criminel une quelconque noblesse, relève d’une véritable complaisance morale. C’est vraiment un fléau universel.

[Martin Varsavsky @martinvars]

Ayer Francia vivió uno de sus días más violentos en décadas. Unas 550.000 personas salieron a la calle contra el alto coste de la vida, la policía detuvo a más de 1.200, hubo 150 agentes heridos y el ayuntamiento de Limoges, con más de 140 años de historia, quedó casi destruido por el fuego. La explicación que más se escucha es la de siempre: la culpa es de la «austeridad» y del «neoliberalismo».

Luis Garicano publicó esta semana los números que desmontan ese cuento. En Francia viven del Estado 30 millones de adultos, entre pensionistas, empleados públicos y perceptores de ayudas, frente a 21 millones que trabajan en el sector privado. El gasto público es el 57% del PIB y el país no cierra un presupuesto equilibrado desde 1974. ¿Dónde está la austeridad?

España va por el mismo camino. Según Garicano, desde 2024 cobran del Estado 18,2 millones de personas, más que los 17,9 millones que trabajan en el sector privado, y la EPA ya cuenta más empleados públicos que autónomos. Gastamos el 45% del PIB y el último superávit fue en 2007.

Me explico. Cuando más de la mitad de los votantes vive del Estado, ningún político se atreve a tocar el gasto, porque recortarlo es perder elecciones. Se paga con deuda y con impuestos al que produce, cada vez produce menos gente y la vida se encarece para todos. En las calles de Francia se pide más Estado para curar lo que causó el exceso de Estado.

Argentina eligió el camino contrario. Milei recortó el gasto primario un 27% en términos reales en su primer año y cerró 2024 con el primer superávit financiero en más de una década. Llevo toda la vida creando empresas en España y en Estados Unidos, y sé que cada empleo privado paga una parte del sueldo de alguien que cobra del Estado. Cuando los que cobran superan a los que pagan, la cuenta no sale.

Ningún Estado puede mantener a más gente de la que lo mantiene a él.

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

"nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize but lost to U.S. presidential candidate Al Gore"

[Tanya Narbut🇮🇱🇺🇦 @NarbutTanya]

До 2007 года мало кто слышал об Ирене Сендлер. Тогда несколько девуше��, готовя доклад ко Дню Победы, нашли ее фамилию в одном из архивов. Каково же было их удивление, когда они обнаружили ее среди живых!
Оказалось, что во времена Второй мировой войны она спасла из варшавского гетто 2 500 детей. В то время Ирена была членом польской подпольной организации — Совет помощи евреям (Zegota). Когда в гетто перестали пускать всех, кто не был евреем, Ирена получила для себя и своей сообщницы пропуска от варшавского департамента эпидемиологического контроля.
Так женщины могли спокойно проходить на территорию гетто и помогать людям, котор��е там проживали. Нередко с собой они приносили еду и медикаменты. Но самое главное, что они вывозили оттуда детей.
Для этого использовались различные методы: детей перевозили в мусорных пакетах, перебрасывали через забор, выводили через канализацию. Младенцев Ирена прятала в свою сумку для инструментов, а детей постарше под брезент в грузовике.
Она всегда возила с собой собаку, которую надрессировала лаять на немецких охранников. Это помогало заглушить плач или шум детей.
Иногда Сендлер подкупала охранников, что помогало ей в ее нелегкой работе. Интер��сно, что женщина записывала имена всех спасенных детей, надеясь потом помочь им воссоединиться со своими семьями.
Такие бумажки Ирена закапывала в банках в саду. В итоге там были обнаружены имена 2 500 детей.
В 1943 году нацисты арестовали Сендлер. Но она не выдала никакой информации, несмотря на то, что ей сломали руки и ноги.
Тогда ее приказали расстрелять, но здесь женщине помогла организация Zegota, представители которой подкупили охранника. Последний внес имя Сендлер в список расстрелянных. До конца войны она жила под чужим именем.
Женщина умерла в 2008 году в возрасте 98 лет. Ее кандидатуру выдвигали на получение Нобелевской премии мира, но она проиграла кандидату в президенты США Альберту Гору. При этом женщина была кавалером нескольких польских орденов, а также получила почетное звание Праведник народов мира.
Великий человек. Светлая память.

[Aziz Antoun @azizantoun]

6 years ago I left Lebanon for a normal life with my family in Amsterdam. Today, the terrorist party that destroyed my country and drove me out is glorified on Dam Square.
How is this acceptable in the Netherlands? The suicidal empathy of the European Left makes me sick!

[Ella Ke @EllaTravelsLove]

For some reason, human rights organizations that are usually very vocal about Gaza, along with all the self-righteous moral crusaders, have nothing to say about the fact that private-sector traders in Gaza have announced the suspension of coordination for the entry of goods into the Gaza Strip until further notice.

Their decision comes in response to Hamas’s coercive taxation scheme and escalating threats against merchants who refuse to comply with its demands.

These Gazans are putting their lives at risk, and yet nobody seems to care. That is, until Israel fights Hamas, which uses these very civilians as human shields. Then, all of a sudden, the self-proclaimed defenders of human rights wake up and find their voices.

Funny how that works.

Credit for the report: @arik3000

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

I checked this and my version, on the highest available depth, gave the same answer. https://t.co/8n11AnQM0f I am cancelling my subscription. @sama @OpenAI @gdb

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Today, they hanged him. The Islamic Republic executed Ali-Sina Mostafavi, an Iranian mountaineer.

Let’s be brutally honest. The Islamic Republic will not stop hanging people because we tweet, share hashtags, or beg for mercy.

We Iranians wake up every day knowing that another family may receive a phone call announcing that their loved one has been executed.

How many more bodies must hang before world leaders understand that condemnation without consequences is not a policy?

The United Nations has documented serious human rights violations, forced confessions, and grossly unfair trials in Iran. This is not a lack of information. It is a lack of political will.

Stop treating executions as a routine human rights concern. Treat them as an international emergency.

We, the people of Iran, are exhausted from burying our loved ones while the world issues statements.

We are not asking you to save us with your sympathy. We are demanding that you stop granting impunity to those who kill us.

[Jonah Platt @JonahPlatt]

October 7th absolutely shattered and traumatized the entire Jewish world.

But the world’s response to October 7th has been even worse — shattering not just our hearts, but our understanding of this world and our place in it.

It was the cataclysmic event of our lifetimes. For Jews, there was life before October 7th and life after it.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Mamdani's wife Rama Duwaji praised Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour in a resurfaced video.

Sliman called the Diary of Anne Frank a hoax and liked comments praising Hitler on social media.

Duwaji drew Sliman's portrait, calling him an inspiration.

Reporting: Washington Free Beacon

[Tamar Ish Shalom תמר @tamarishshalom]

Quite astonishingly, I don’t think this story received enough attention. We’ve reached a point where a delegation of about 100 Jewish preschool educators, many of them American Jews from across the US, were subjected to a political purity test simply to attend a professional education program in Italy. Reggio Children, an institution internationally celebrated for its approach to early childhood education, demanded that they distance themselves from Israeli policies. 1/4 >>>

[Trisha Posner @trishaposner]

When I lived in New York, I knew talented students who had graduated from Parsons School of Design. Some of them were Jewish. That was years before October 7.

Sophie Shabot was a Jewish student there on the day of the massacre. Her classmates knew she was Jewish and Israeli. By October 8 she was a target.

Her desk was vandalized. She was chased, pushed, shoved, spat on, and blocked from buildings. When she begged to be let into the sewing studio, they taunted her: “Do the children in Gaza have sewing studios?” She was called a “Zio bitch,” a “genocidal maniac,” a “baby killer,” then followed down the street. She was trapped at a Jewish event while protesters rattled the door and demanded the students hand over the speaker — the “terrorist.”

She asked repeatedly for the school to intervene and help. They didn’t even call the police.

Two days ago, on the third anniversary of October 7, she sued. The Department of Education has accused The New School, Parsons’ parent, of violating Title VI.
The school I once knew is gone, lost in a frenzy of post-October 7 Jew-hatred.

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

"Prestige Paralyzes Judgement". Appeal to authority and prestige is one of the major elements of successful mass manipulation (along with endless repetition and simple messages). The more organizations that enjoy authority and prestige launder libels, the more they can spread.

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

My contempt for these useful idiots knows no bounds.

[Simone Rodan-Benzaquen @srodan]

Navi Pillay has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. At this stage, I am not even surprised anymore. Disgusted, but not surprised.

Apparently, accuse Israel of the worst for decades and it will bring you glory.

Before the tributes overwhelm the facts, a few reminders - documented over the years by @UNWatch:

• Durban, 2009. Pillay championed the Durban Review Conference and criticized countries that boycotted it over concerns about antisemitism. She described opposition as a “highly organized campaign of disinformation.”

• BDS, 2017–2020. She publicly supported the BDS movement, expressing hope that it would spread like the campaign against South African apartheid. In 2020, she signed an appeal entitled “Sanction Apartheid Israel!” calling for sanctions and an end to military cooperation.

• Durban again, 2021. She accused Jews and Israel of having “ganged up together” to distort what happened at the 2001 conference.

• The “Jewish lobby,” 2022. Her fellow commissioner Miloon Kothari invoked a “Jewish lobby” in discussing control of social media and questioned Israel’s UN membership. Pillay defended him, saying his comments “seem to have deliberately been taken out of context.” Even the Human Rights Council’s president rejected her defense, warning that the remarks stigmatized Jewish people.

• Genocide, 2025. And then, of course, the commission she chaired concluded that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza.

Moral rot has taken hold of institutions we used to cherish. But if you think only Israel and Jews will pay the price, think again.

The very institutions you claim to protect are being stripped of their credibility. And those who want to see them disappear have every reason to celebrate.