David Gaertner

ELA Software Deployment Sales Leader for IBM Z mainframe software. Software engineer who works in Sales(!). My tweets & opinions are not IBM's.

[Trisha Posner @trishaposner]

Acclaimed Hungarian Jewish director László Nemes just dropped a truth bomb at Cannes: “There’s an orgy of antisemitism, an absolute, shameless orgy of antisemitism, overtaking the West.”

His 2015 masterpiece Son of Saul — a harrowing film about a Sonderkommando at Auschwitz — won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and the Cannes Grand Prix.

Today? He says it “wouldn’t even make the Oscar shortlist.” Because “of the politicization of cinemas, because anything that’s Jewish is now considered . . .nobody would touch it with a 10-foot pole.”

This is where we are. Jews are being erased from the stories of their own genocide while Hollywood and the cultural elite cheer. The entertainment industry’s antisemitic purge is real — and it’s accelerating.
We must call it out. Every single time. Thanks László Nemes for doing so at the risk of your own career.
#JewHatred #Antisemitism

[Jonah Platt @JonahPlatt]

Thank God for Bill Maher

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

When mail-in voting is limited or eliminated, then selected polling stations are closed or surrounded with "security checks", when poll workers are replaced by ICE "for security", when ballots are confiscated for "fraud", maybe you’ll take it seriously. Too late.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

We’re not all Americans! When a group of supposed “Americans” marches through the streets of New York and chants “we support Hezbollah here” and “we support Hamas here,” not to mention their overt, clear, and unequivocal support of the fascistic Islamic Republic of Iran’s regime, we’ve reached a point where it is critical, however uncomfortable and controversial, to make explicit declarations and take clear stances. Clueless Americans, including “paper Americans” who are Americans in name only and are mere extensions of their backwards and violent native homelands, insist that celebrating terrorists and Jihadis, are not actually American. Being an American entails much more than merely being a U.S. citizen; Americanism is a spirit, a way of life, an ethos, a willingness to reject what is harmful, unjust, regressive, backward, and despicable. You can disagree with U.S. and Israeli actions all you want, and I certainly do in numerous instances. However, such disagreements should never translate to overt support for terrorists like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Ayatollah’s regime.

Such disagreements should never justify ceaseless attacks on Jews, synagogues, and Israeli-Americans, while hiding behind the fake guise of “Islamophobia.” It is time that Americans begin the messy journey of cleaning house, recognizing the failure of endless immigration, boundaryless multiculturalism, and suicidal tolerance of the inherently intolerable. It is time to make access to freedom and Western privilege available to individuals who will actually enhance and bolster our societies, not to those who seek to destroy them from within. It’s time to reject Islamism, political correctness, fascism, and “Third-Worldism”, which is a disease that seeks to import the ills and disasters of developing nations, not their strengths and unique characteristics.

This does not at all mean endorsement of hate, violence, bigotry, racism, xenophobia, or anti-immigrant sentiments, for multiple things can be true at once. Immigrants are and have been the backbone of American ingenuity, especially those coming from rough backgrounds and struggling nations. Plus, many of the most toxic, horrendous ideas are promoted by natives, often white, far leftists, who have no real appreciation for their privilege, and endorse the most destructive ideas and proclamations using academia, journalism, or “social justice” activism.

[Eric Adams @ericadamsfornyc]

We were seconds away from a mass slaughter of Jewish children at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, today.

We got lucky.

Next time we might not.

Antisemitism is being normalized across America by extremists on the left and the right, while too many politicians are too weak, too cynical, or too complicit to speak up.

If the center won’t confront the radicals, the radicals will replace the center.

Enough is enough.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Women in Gaza are for sale! The Islamofascists in both Gaza and the West Bank are now cooperating to sell off some of Gaza’s most vulnerable and desperate widows among the rubble, in conditions that mimic the sexual slavery of ISIS. Supposed West Bank financiers are now sending money to Gaza to help sell off, marry off, without any choice or desire, Gaza’s widows who lost their husbands during the war following Hamas’s October 7th attack on Israel. There are pimps, female “matchmakers” who are little more than deliverers of women, financiers, in some cases, little to no family to say yes or no, and widows across the age spectrum, some of them teenagers. This is the sick, horrendous, evil behavior that Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Islamism, and the dark lords of Muslim Palestinian society are involved in and support. This is what so many in the West, including Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian-Americans, are refusing to speak out against by not opposing Hamas and Islamism. This is what university students on elite American campuses support with their despicable, hateful, misplaced, and ineffective “activism” that’s supposedly “pro-Palestine.”

Free Gaza’s women from sexual slavery! Free Gaza’s women from servitude! Free Gaza’s women from forced marriages! Free Gaza’s women from the Palestinian ISIS! Free Gaza’s women from the backward elements of social and religious regression!

[Rob Thomas @robdthomas]

https://t.co/6H0KO3JDA8

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Millions of aid dollars continue to be wasted every single day in the Gaza Strip, thanks to the criminality of Hamas and an entire syndicate of influencers and a new class of millionaires who steal vast sums of money and supplies. In this video, a massive amount of food, including raw and cooked chicken, along with cooked rice, are thrown in a garbage pile near a tent city, only to be discovered by displaced people who decry this crime and evil act. Either elements of Hamas threw this food away because they didn’t receive taxes or some of it, or those who received the funds to feed people stole most of the money and just took some photos pretending to prepare food for distribution to send to donors, but lack the will or infrastructure to distribute food.

Regardless, it is time to say once again that maximum caution should be exercised when sending donations to small efforts/groups and individuals claiming to feed people or provide for their needs. Some are indeed doing just that and working hard to deliver, while others are either profiting massively and becoming millionaires, working with Hamas to launder money, or diverting donations away from effective and capable organizations. Tragically, this video is a microcosm of the state of play in Gaza over the past two decades, especially under the fascistic control of Hamas’s terrorists, where billions of dollars have been wasted for absolutely nothing.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

I wish that President Trump would stop heaping praise upon Qatar & realize how devastating a role the gas Sheikhdom has played in the region, including in Gaza, where the Strip became a Hamas emirate thanks to billions of Qatari $ & turning Al Jazeera into the group's mouthpiece.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Remember Senator Rubio? I wonder whatever happened to that guy.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

The fact that the US is endorsing Orbán is truly a disgrace. It’s an attack on Europe

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Hamas has abducted 65-year-old Adel Asfour, father of my friend and anti-Hamas activist Mustafa Asfour, as a way of pressuring him into silence to stop/end his social media activism against the Islamist terror group, despite living in Belgium and being out of Gaza.

The terror group is doing the same with many families of Gazans who are abroad to inflict maximum cost upon those who even think of going after Hamas's fascistic rule, criticize its behavior, or demand better for the people of Gaza. This has been done dozens of times in the past few weeks alone, with the terror group massively escalating its attacks against the people of Gaza in a desperate bid to maintain its violent rule, despite nominally agreeing to turn power over to the US-endorsed technocratic committee for the administration of Gaza.

If you still support Hamas and proclaim to be "pro-Palestine, you are an evil, fascist, ignorant, irritated, antisemitic, vile, and pathetic bunch of noise. Shame on anyone who still endorses Gaza's ISIS regime, pretending it is somehow a form of "resistance."

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

PS: To those who like Rubio (I supported him in 2016) in contrast to Trump & Vance, or because he can speak diplomatically, he is still a tool of the Trump admin & is advancing its destructive, pro-Kremlin agenda. Don’t fall for good cop, bad cop. He’s endorsing a corrupt thug.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Just two Republican congressmen (TWO) can get their way on Ukraine funding, or tariffs, anything… by shutting down the floor of the house. Rare chance in history. Quit tweeting “concern” and start acting, NOW! Here’s how:

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

US Olympians represent the United States, not Trump. To conflate the leader with the nation and the flag is a common autocratic tactic. Criticizing the government is the most American thing, illustrated by the counter-example of dictatorships where it lands you in jail.

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

[Gabe Stutman @jnewsgabe]

Just talked to a 90 year old Holocaust survivor about municipal politics in Berkeley. During our conversation she, almost casually, told me how she was saved from Dachau at the age of 4 and hidden by a Dutch family during the Holocaust. 1/x

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Any university that allows a Students for Justice in Palestine to have an Oct. 7th celebration should be stripped of all federal funding.

[David Gaertner @davidg_tech]

@Grady_Booch Turbo Pascal on the 80286 was my first "professional" programming language in a small business two Cal friends and I started while undergrads. I was paid to write Pascal programs - how cool was that!

[David Collier @mishtal]

A few places in the MENA region that had large Jewish communities before the Arabs chased the Jews out or expelled them:

Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen

Most refugees fled to Israel.

The war is not a war against Israel. It is a war against Jews.