Elie Mischel

Elie Mischel is the Editor of HaMizrachi Magazine and Director of Education at Israel365

[liel leibovitz @liel]

So about the Knicks...

It's hard not to feel happy for this team. Great group of guys, and very well-deserving. And it's hard not to feel happy for fans who've waited more than half a century for this feeling.

But:

What you're seeing below isn't an aberration, just a gaggle of thugs. It's very much the energy in NYC these days, a third world hellhole governed by a terrorist sympathizer grievance peddler who spent his entire career cheering on violent mobs and calling it "social justice."

It's a city where it's totally normal for a Jewish woman to get violently attacked on the Subway just for being Jewish--it happened just the other week.

It's a city where it's totally normal for crowds to march with the Hamas and Hezbollah flags, and where the mayor's own wife repeatedly celebrated October 7th.

It's a city where every single public official running for office is running on promises to further curb the federal government's powers to arrest and deport violent illegal migrants.

So when you're seeing these thugs trash a school bus, or set things on fire, or attack cops, it's not the exception. It's the rule, because these are the norms of the third world.

And New York City these days is very much the third world.

So I know the Knicks are everyone's teams. And if I squint my eyes just so, I can somehow ignore the fact that this victory also rewards the single worst owner in professional sports, and somehow obscures the fact that it was spectacularly poor management, plastered over with billions of dollars, that made the Knicks wither for five decades to begin with.

But when I see images like this one, and think about Mamdani and Brad Lander and all the other America-hating, chaos-championing twits about to march in Thursday's parade and mark this championship as their victory, I get very depressed.

So Mazal Tov to Brunson, OG and the rest of the actual champs. But so sorry, NYC: you're still a needle-infested playground where wealthy recreational Marxists encourage the poor to believe that only violence brings catharsis and justice, and then excuse the mayhem that follows by blaming it on someone else. Just like they do everywhere else in the third world.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Bill Maher just went so hard against Islam, it left his guests in stunned silence.

It all started when Maher recalled how people overused the term “Islamophobia” after 9/11.

He says that moment was the “beginning” of a “wokeness” that forbade you to say this out loud:

“There is such a thing as Western civilization. Remember after 9/11, if you said ‘clash of civilizations’? It was the beginning of sort of that wokeness where, ‘Oh, don’t say that. That’s Islamophobia.’”

“No, it was a clash of civilizations. The civilizations are very different, and OURS IS BETTER!”

[Guests stare at each other in silence].

Maher continued: “And if you’re not clapping, spend a week in a Muslim capital, you wouldn’t last.”

[Rafi Eis @Rafi_Eis]

The Lie of Settler Violence

The IDF just released its 2025 data for Judea and Samaria. To see the truth, read past the headline.
https://t.co/L72r60Eh0t

The headline says settler violence rose 27 percent. Here is what the headline buries.

The comparison is rigged. They measure 2024 against 2025, so 682 cases become 867. Measure against 2023 instead and you get a sharp decline, from 1,045 down to 867. The baseline was chosen to produce the scariest number. That is not data. That is a press release.

The entire "movement" is 300 people. The army's own breakdown:

a) 39 so dangerous the army barred them from the territory.
b) About 30 more it calls "hardcore fanatics."
c) About 230 it calls "extremists."

That is the whole universe. Three hundred people out of roughly half a million Israelis in Judea and Samaria. The "violent settler" is not a movement. This is a fraction of a fraction.

The army already has the power, and it is not the bottleneck. It barred 39 of these men. Why has it not barred more?

The article admits the courts routinely refuse to enforce those orders, and that prosecutions are rare and convictions rarer still. Why are fewer being prosecuted?

Israeli prosecutors are still chasing the bribery charge against Netanyahu after the judges themselves told them it has little chance of holding up. (https://t.co/6ozBqYIr1G). They continue because they favor the left. So why are they not prosecuting these 300 "violent settlers?"

Just to be clear, Ben Gvir does not have authority over the army or the judiciary, so he can't be blamed. Prosecutors are under the purview of Israel's Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and can't stand the right.

The 39 or 70 or 300 people who are causing damage should be prosecuted, but the reality is that the evidence does not stand up. So the 27% increase is accusations that are recorded, not actual cases that are proven. If you know someone who has had a toxic relationship with a neighbor or ex-spouse, you know how easily these can be fabricated.

"Violent settlers" works exactly the way "racist cops" worked in America. It is a PR operation with two moving parts.

First, a handful of real offenders is inflated into a category that smears an entire population. Seventy men become half a million.

Second, unrelated cases are folded in to make the pattern look bigger than it is. Remember Michael Brown. "Hands up, don't shoot" ran on every front page. Then the Justice Department (under President Obama) investigated and found it never happened. Brown did not have his hands up. The forensics backed the officer. He was cleared. By then the riots had come and the lie had stuck. The correction never traveled as far as the smear.

That is the machine. Invent a category, feed it with real cases and false ones alike, and let the label do the work.

Israel has a "violent settler" problem about as much as America had a "racist cop" epidemic. It has a few criminals and a great many people eager to use them.

So ask the real question. If attacks have fallen since 2023, why is this all we hear about? Why not in June 2023?

Two reasons. First, there is an election coming, and the point is to sour centrists on the right. Second, for most Israelis the two-state solution died on October 7. The one thing still holding back wider settlement, and even annexation, is the myth of settler violence. Keep Israel frozen at the status quo, and the same deep-pocketed, dark-money operatives can push two states again in a few years. Watch for it the moment Abbas is replaced.

[Jesse Arm @Jesse_Leg]

Part of the reason many Jewish Democrats aren't especially concerned about the antisemitism festering within their party's ranks is that they hold a similarly hostile view of both traditional Judaism and the Jewish state. A lot of these folks will not even have children or grandchildren who are themselves Jewish. For many of these voters, progressive universalism is simply more important than most of what particularist Judaism offers.

In the more faith- and nationalism-friendly Republican Party, by contrast, to the extent an antisemitism problem is beginning to rear its head, the antibodies for fighting it are much stronger. Nick Fuentes has no defenders among members of Congress. Candace Owens is persona non grata among GOP leaders. Tucker Carlson has been directly and repeatedly condemned by the president.

While Democrats hit the campaign trail with Hasan Piker, Republicans near-uniformly disavow right-coded antisemites.

[GB @OnlyGB]

@manniefabian Stop calling the Shomron the West Bank.

You know damned well that it hasn't been the West Bank since 1967 and you're not that old.

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

Trump in his first statement after Iranian attacks on Israel: I say to Iran – you’ve fired enough, that’s enough. Now come back to the negotiating table.

It seems like another U.S. President has answered Iranian aggression with "don't."

[Rafi Eis @Rafi_Eis]

Jews are a nation. It's right there in Genesis 12:2
ואעשך לגוי גדול
"I will make of you a great nation"

[Elie Mischel @emischel]

@DanRosenthalNYC Are you actually comparing Israel’s finance minister to a jihadist supporter? God help us.

[liel leibovitz @liel]

So here's @SenSchumer standing next to the leaders of the American Jewish community at the Israel Day Parade. The same Chuck Schumer that advised Columbia's board to ignore its anti-Semitism. The same Chuck Schumer that openly called for the toppling of Israel's democratically elected government. The same Chuck Schumer who has done absolutely nothing to stop his party from descending into orgiastic Jew-hatred. Chuck Schumer, the Palestinian. That's the guy our communal leaders sought to have at their parade, and applaud as he ejaculated his pablum about being a Shomer, or guardian. If you want to know why American Jews have the absolute worst leadership and keep making the community less safe, prosperous, and influential, just look at this picture.

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

The Nice Attack = Muslim
The Paris Attacks = Muslims
The Shoe Bomber = Muslim
The Orlando attack = Muslim
The Beltway Snipers = Muslims
The Fort Hood Shooter = Muslim
The Underwear Bomber = Muslim
The Westminster Attack = Muslim
The 2005 Bali Bombings = Muslims
The murder of Lee Rigby = Muslims
The U.S.S. Cole Bombers = Muslims
The London Bridge Attack = Muslims
The Madrid Train Bombers = Muslims
The Charlie Hebdo Attacks = Muslims
The San Bernardino Attacks = Muslims
The Surabaya bombings = Muslims
The Minnesota Mall stabbings = Muslim
The 7/7 bombers = Muslims
The Moscow Theatre Attackers = Muslims
The Boston Marathon Bombers = Muslims
The Ankara Airport Attack = Muslims
The Manchester Arena bombing = Muslim
The Pan-Am #103 Bombers = Muslims
The Iranian Embassy Takeover = Muslims
The Air France Hijackers = Muslims
The 2002 Bali Nightclub = Muslims
The Batta Meena Attacks = Muslims
The Beirut Embassy bombers = Muslims
The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack = Muslims
The Yazidi Massacre of 2014 = Muslims
The Beheading of French priest = Muslims
The Buenos Aires bombers = Muslims
The Israeli Olympic Team = Muslims
The Kenyan U.S Embassy = Muslims
The Khobar Towers Bombers = Muslims
The Beirut Marine bombers = Muslims
The Besian School Attackers = Muslims
The First WTC bombers = Muslims
The Beheading of Daniel Pearl = Muslims
The Achille Lauro Hijackers = Muslims
The Bombay Attackers = Muslims
The 9/11 hijackers = Muslims

But… But… There are 200 “settlers” in the “West bank” who are the problem. Let’s sanction them!

It’s the Jews who make up 0.25% of the population who are the problem.

Radical Islam? Shut up. You’re an Islamaphobe.

Unbelievable.

The west is cooked and doesn’t have much longer before it falls to Islam.

You can’t solve a problem without recognizing it and not only is the west refusing to see Islamists for what they are. Anyone who DOES see it is labeled a racist.

[David Keyes @DavidMKeyes]

🚨🚨 Iran deal NEARLY finalized. Last sticking points are Iran's insistence on destroying West, killing all infidels and imposing Islam on the world. Fingers crossed!

[Josh Hammer @josh_hammer]

An American ally is a country that, when it acts in its own national interest, happens to advance the American national interest too.

In short, that’s the “America first” case for the U.S.-Israel alliance.

Thanks for having me, @RabbiPW @Israel365News https://t.co/sYO1iPxEy2

[Elie Mischel @emischel]

@MarkJCarney Go to hell

[AP @Average_NY_Guy]

Saudi Arabia expecting Israel to give up sovereignty over half the country in exchange for “normalization” can go fly a kite.

If adding Saudi Arabia and Qatar to the Abraham Accords requires Israel to cut itself into pieces and make concessions that endanger its own existence, then maybe Israel should stop chasing these deals altogether.

Israel survived 77 years without Riyadh’s approval. It will survive without it for another 77.

Woof. The audacity of demanding concessions from Israel as if Israel owes them something in the first place is mind-blowing.

[Karys Rhea @RheaKarys]

"45% of all medical licenses in Israel in 2023 were granted to doctors of Arab origin, up from 18% in 2010—an increase of nearly 250%. This stands in contrast to the fact that the Arab sector makes up approximately 20% of Israel's population." @oshyellman1
https://t.co/aYTgvu9Fuf

[Councilwoman Inna Vernikov @InnaVernikov]

This is an ALL GIRLS Jewish school in my district. I’m all for prayer and free speech, but why do a bunch of GROWN MEN need to do this right outside of a school full of little Jewish girls??? Is not this what MOSQUES are for? Is this intentional? Mayor Mamdani @NYCMayor any words of wisdom on why all of a sudden they’d feel compelled to do this?

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher just dedicated the end of his show to throwing his own party under the bus for defending every minority group except Jews.

“There is a frothing anxiousness for the literal extermination of this one group. And Democrats, where are you?”

“If any other minority group was being talked about this way, you’d break out the Kente cloth and have 10 benefit concerts.”

“But because you see that so many of your brainwashed-by-TikTok constituents now have an unfavorable view of Israel, you indulge them when you should be correcting them.”

“All the people likely running for president now on the Democratic side want it known they don’t take money from AIPAC, the Israeli lobby… You take money from crypto and factory farmers and big tech, from Diddy and Weinstein and Epstein, but AIPAC is too far?”

“Let me just say this to all who ask me, ‘Why are you harder on the Democrats than you used to be?’ Until you fix this whole issue, stop asking me.”

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

Don’t invade Israel to take hostages as sex slaves again.

[Ellie Cohanim @EllieCohanim]

Any Jewish New Yorker who attends Mamdani’s event is a traitor against his/her fellow Jews.

[Elie Mischel @emischel]

@OnlyGB I work with amazing Christians and deeply appreciate them. At the same time, I say to proselytizers who target Jews - after 1900 years of persecuting us and laying the groundwork for the Holocaust, you have a moral obligation to leave us the hell alone.