PAPR Princess, MD

ER doc, baker, hiker, ukulele player. Happiness is found in chaos. Views, and dog, are my own.

[PAPR Princess, MD @effenephrine]

Part of containing #COVID19 is ensuring ALL countries have access to vaccines. As long as there are communities where the virus circulates unchecked, there will be more mutations that reduce vaccine efficacy. This won't be over here until it's over everywhere.
#ThisIsOurShot

[PAPR Princess, MD @effenephrine]

Well X, it's been swell, but I'm heading for bluer skies. If you follow me here, follow me there @effenephrinemd. PAPR Princess out! ✌️

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

I called it a pogrom, the people carrying it out called it a "Jew hunt", so maybe all of the people telling me we cannot call it a pogrom would like to explain what the difference between a "pogrom" and a "Jew hunt" is???

https://t.co/AQr9W6JmQp

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

🚨 Breaking: Yesterday at 7pm local time Israel 🇮🇱 shared concrete intelligence about the impending attack in Amsterdam with the Dutch 🇳🇱 Police and security agencies.

They did nothing about it.

Source: Israel Ministry of Diaspora 👇

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Melhem Asad, an Arab Maccabi Tel Aviv fan, helped save Jewish lives last night during the search-and-rescue in Amsterdam.

For several hours, he spoke loudly in Arabic with groups of Israelis who were hiding to mislead assailants into thinking they were not Jewish so they would be left alone.

Melhem saved countless Jewish lives last night.

In the darkest times, moments like these reveal glimmers of hope, partnership, and peace.

@YosephHaddad

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

As we remember the 86th Anniversary of Kristallnacht, we in America must summon the moral courage to stand up, speak out, and act against antisemitism with fierce urgency of now.

If antisemitism is allowed to fester freely, aided by the silence and cowardice of a complacent center, the nightmare of pogroms and Kristallnachts in America will become not a question of ‘if’ but a question of ‘when.’ Amsterdam should be an awakening for America.

[Ofra Haza Stan Account @anaraintuitive]

@RitchieTorres AntiZionist Neo-Nazism is a hate movement, not functionally different from Nazism. It follows familiar patterns of classical Jew hate we’ve been seeing for millennia

[Alex גדעון בן װעלװל @JewishWonk]

A pro-Israel Jewish Democrat won a statewide race in Michigan.

Simplistic narratives about Harris being too pro-Israel, being pushed by leftists all over this site, will conveniently overlook this race.

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

the delusion that the voters who flipped from Biden to Trump did so because Democrats were insufficiently left wing is so persistent and insane. Talk to a single voter please!!!!

[Not a Good Jewish Girl✡️ @estherzelda0514]

Jews voted blue so hard we beat out atheists. I'm ending this campaign the way I began it. Cringe lib wine moms, bright young women, Jews, and Black people are the only ones that don't have to look inward at ourselves after this. We need to protect each other.

[Real Life Mommy @reallifemommy3]

There’s no point in checking the results until the morning, I tell myself as I refresh the screen every 20 seconds

[Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון @dannydanon]

The UN, who was established in the wake of the Holocaust's horrors, has chosen to hang paintings on its walls that explicitly call for the destruction of the Jewish people and do not recognize the State of Israel. This is a disgrace, and I demand that the UN immediately remove this shameful exhibition. Watch >>

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

900,000 Jews were ethnically cleansed from their homes in the Middle East and North Africa during the twentieth century

Their only home is Israel - where are they going to go?

Israel exists. It exists like Greece exists or Turkey exists. Anti-Zionism is therefore genocidal

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Another blood libel. Hamas planted a bomb which exploded next to the hospital.

But why blame Hamas when you can blame Israel?

[Dalia Ziada - داليا زيادة @daliaziada]

Read the full story here:
https://t.co/xHzhkhpIP4

🗓️ Today marks one year since I left my homeland, #Egypt.

I had to escape last year to save my life from radical Islamists and leftist Egyptian politicians (radicals in their own way) who sought to punish me for speaking out against #Hamas terrorism and for supporting #Israel's fundamental right to exist and defend itself.

In that sense, this interview today means a lot to me.

Read the full story here:
https://t.co/xHzhkhpIP4

#مصر #إسرائيل #حماس #غزة #إيران

[Eliana Goldin @Eliana_Goldin]

Correction: There is no Jewish Studies Department @Columbia. Middle Eastern Studies at Columbia has a complete monopoly on their hiring, which explains why they continue to only hire professors who reinforce their own ideology.

Columbia’s infrastructure guarantees antisemitism

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

"20,000 children have been taken to Russia..." @Reuters Your reminder that Russia has forcibly taken over 20,000 children out of Ukraine, many given to Russian couples and will never know they are Ukrainian. For the ignorant, that is genocidal acts. https://t.co/E4D0nN7UR9

[liv @livlayne_]

As someone who is not Jewish, can I just say….

People like this are the reason I wear a Magen David.

It “puts you off” to see a Magen David? Seriously?

You know what “puts me off?” Seeing Hamas supporters wrapped in keffiyehs, waving swastikas, cheering for the death of Jewish people under the banner of the Palestinian flag.

So yeah, cope harder.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Last week, I had the privilege of meeting Congressman @RitchieTorres. I learned a lot of small things and one very big thing.

I expected to meet, well, a politician, a run-of-the-mill progressive who, for whatever reason, broke from the pack on Israel, who grasped the basic point that until Hamas is removed from Gaza, no peace is possible, no rebuilding, no end to the war, because Hamas won’t let there be.

I was wrong about him. And it was the most optimistic experience I’ve had in America in recent memory.

It began with Ritchie‘s insistence that we meet in the Bronx, in his district. I figured it was a convenience, and since he’s the congressman, I trekked up to the Bronx.

Half an half into our dinner I realized that the Bronx wasn’t the location, it was the point. His support for Jews, I discovered, isn’t about Israel but about the Bronx.

We met over dinner at a little Italian place nestled among a profusion of immigrant eateries on Arthur Street - Mexican, Albanian, Italian. He talked about the astonishing diversity of the district.

The Bronx has the highest concentration of small businesses owned by multiple generations of a single family in the country. He took me to one Jewish-owned store that had etched the Star of David into the concrete at the entrance. When in the 1930s, friends warned the owners not to broadcast their Jewishness out of fear of antisemitism, they responded by carving their Jewishness indelibly into the entryway. Their current congressman - the same family still owns the place - beams with pride at a brazenness he believes defines the borough.

I think of Jews as my people. He thinks of the entire dizzying array of cultures and religions and social classes that make up the district, including a Jewish community he knows intimately and the first Catholic Church I’d ever seen in New York that was actually bustling with worshippers, as his people.

As we talked, I came to understand why he thinks so much about the Jewish experience, why he fights the anti-Israel campaign so fiercely, far beyond what might be explained by his constituents or donors. He could do a quarter of what he does and still find the same grateful Jewish donors at every turn.

But for Ritchie, it’s bigger than the Jews. It’s about the future of progressivism, and thus of America. In his mind, his Jewish community embodies progressive values, and the illiberal turn in large parts of the progressive political world are a war on those values.

He has questions and criticisms of Israel, smart ones, ones I share, and he asked about them. But he sees in the wild hatred and rage against Israel a larger war on Western liberalism. The same activist who rails at Israel’s existence, he says, also thinks America is a standing crime and calls its great promise and ethic of liberty a lie. It’s the same activist who denies that America has made massive progress in race relations over the past century.

Progressives, he told me, have to get back to believing that progress is possible.

He learned to connect these dots from Dr. Martin Luther King, who steadfastly refused to go down the left’s anti-Zionist rabbithole, saw the Jews as great allies and viewed the hatred of them as a bellwether of decline. Ritchie is close to Dr. King’s 93-year-old speechwriter Clarence Jones. I’d met a man who knew his history and defended it with gusto.

He also knew the Bronx down to the minutiae of individual family histories. Our dinner was interrupted by a patron thanking him for something (I didn’t catch what). It was slow going leaving the restaurant because every waiter knew him and wanted to shake his hand (and then got stuck also shaking mine).

And he reads. He knew more Israeli-Palestinian history than most Jews or Palestinians. His one ask of me as we parted: book recommendations.

There is another kind of progressivism, alive and kicking in working-class and immigrant spaces, and starting to fight back. Ritchie is its vanguard.

[Adam Cailler @acailler]

For the last 18 months, someone has been reporting my Twitter to HR at work on a very regular basis purely because I'm pro-Israel (like 80% of Jews in the UK).

Considering this person is watching my Twitter, they should probably know that you can't shut Jews up anymore ☺️

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

On the 27th June, 1976, two “Palestinian” PLO terrorists and two German militants hijacked an Air France plane in Greece with 248 passengers and air crew. They forced the plane to land in Libya for refueling, and then to Entebbe, Uganda. The hijackers were greeted by the Ugandans and three more Palestinian hijackers joined them in Entebbe.

They separated the Israeli passengers from non Israelis, releasing the non Israelis who were flown to France. The Ugandan military was deployed to assist the hijackers and the Ugandan airforce was put on standby to prevent any foreign forces from any potential rescue missions.

On July 3rd, 1976, the Israeli government authorized a rescue mission. Yonatan Netanyahu (Benjamin Netanyahu’s older brother) was head of the elite commando unit sent to Uganda to rescue the 106 remaining hostages. Once there, they destroyed most of the Ugandan aircraft, took out all the hijackers, and killed almost 50 Ugandan soldiers who were helping the hijackers.

The Israelis were helped by the Kenyan government, and this led to the Ugandan president to order all Kenyans in Uganda to be slaughtered. Over 240 Kenyans were killed and several thousand fled.

Only one Israeli commando was killed in the operation… Yonatan Netanyahu. 4 hostages were also killed, one of which wasn’t killed during the operation, but rather by Ugandan soldiers who murdered her at the hospital where she was being treated.
This was one of the greatest rescue operations of all time.

And who were the most vocal critics that condemned the rescue operation??? None other than the United Nations led by Kurt Waldheim who himself was later found to have been a senior Nazi officer during World War Two.

Think about that for a moment. Innocent people were taken hostage by armed bloodthirsty Islamist terrorists and aided by an entire army of Muslim soldiers, and yet it was Israel that was criticized for daring to have the courage and morality of rescuing the innocent hostages who were the ones being condemned.

Fast forward 50 years, and absolutely nothing has changed. The Palestinians are still the ones killing and kidnapping. The Israelis are still the ones having to stand alone rescuing their people from the terrorists. And the United Nations are still the ones supporting and protecting the terrorists and condemning and vilifying Israel.

There is nothing new in 2024.
Remember that the next time the media tries to tell you that we’re the bad guys for fighting to save and protect our people