evan rosenblum

Created, hosted TMZ Sports. Exec produced TMZ from the jump. Husband. Dad. Bourbon. Running. Disability advocate

[evan rosenblum @EvRosenblum]

Mocking a parent for advocating for her disabled child ... that's where we're at. Cool. I understand why comics want to be edgy, but why die on this hill to say the r-word when you know it hurts so many people and families?

https://t.co/lzgcm1l5om

[evan rosenblum @EvRosenblum]

@FoxNews Why doesn't anyone challenge him on the language he's using? The reporters acknowledge the language is offensive to people, and then he doubles down. So, push back on it, no? (Apologies if they did and I missed it)

[evan rosenblum @EvRosenblum]

@MaxNordau Right?!? Say this LOUDER

[evan rosenblum @EvRosenblum]

@JonahPlatt It makes me sick to my stomach

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

This policeman, Yigal Singer, saved 500 people from the music festival.

He quickly found an escape route.

Led a convoy of 100 (!) civilian cars for people to flee.

And then turned back to try to save more, where he was injured.

He’s crying.

“I could have saved more.”

[Moshe Emilio Lavi @MosheELavi]

6:29, 7 October 2023.

Never forget.

🕯🎗💔

[evan rosenblum @EvRosenblum]

@ElliotMalin This exchange is fascinating. Props to Dawn for pushing back with real, smart questions

[evan rosenblum @EvRosenblum]

@JonahDispatch well said. thank you for this

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

BREAKING: The Flydubai pilot who helped avert disaster yesterday is in good condition and recovering ❤️‍🩹

The Indian Embassy in the UAE announced the Flydubai pilot Smit Machchhar is in good health and recovering.

Stabbed and bleeding, the hero pilot managed to open the cockpit door, allowing passengers and crew to subdue the copilot who attacked him and land the plane.

Sending my best wishes and gratitude for Smit's heroism.

[evan rosenblum @EvRosenblum]

@kbodahjr @BSO Good lord. Why so angry? Do some yoga or something

[evan rosenblum @EvRosenblum]

@ActionCap5 Why? I love the interactions. Love the intensity from the fans and the players.

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

This video of the flight from Dubai plunging as the co-pilot appears to have tried to crash it is chilling. There were 174 passengers headed to Tel Aviv including 27 children. You can hear the kids scream. Thank goodness for the heroes on board.

[Yael Bar tur @yaelbt]

You don’t hate the BBC enough:

The “fight” was between an Omani pilot who stabbed his copilot and tried to hijack the plane, and the Indian pilot who didn’t agree to be hijacked or stabbed.

Oh, and the Israeli passengers subdued the terrorist and helped land the plane.

[evan rosenblum @EvRosenblum]

@BSO Hahahahah she knew

[evan rosenblum @EvRosenblum]

@JonahPlatt It’s completely insane

[evan rosenblum @EvRosenblum]

This is not, in fact, shocking

[Mediaite @Mediaite]

UK Gave Asylum to Hamas's Top Guard Who Then Plotted a Terrorist Attack Against Jews — Shocking Report Says https://t.co/5I1RmHwx68

[evan rosenblum @EvRosenblum]

@HenMazzig yep.

[evan rosenblum @EvRosenblum]

@MosheELavi @mehdirhasan THANK YOU, @MosheELavi

[Moshe Emilio Lavi @MosheELavi]

This is simply false. There was no documented “day one” offer by Hamas to release all the hostages “unconditionally.”

Contemporary reporting describes negotiations over exchanges: Israeli women and children for Palestinian terrorists, and later broader releases in return for pauses, additional terrorist prisoners and other concessions. Nothing was unconditional.

I say this as a hostage family member who served as an international envoy for the hostage families and was privy to some of the discourse behind closed doors with relevant stakeholders. Those conversations concerned negotiations, conditions, categories of hostages and concessions, not the simplistic narrative you now declare “well established and proven.”

Hamas did not even treat many civilian men as civilians. My brother-in-law, Omri Miran, was a civilian father kidnapped from his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, in front of his wife and two little girls. He was held for 738 days, physically tortured, deprived of food and water, and psychologically abused.

Hamas used Omri and other beautiful human beings as bargaining chips: women, children, the elderly, civilian men, soldiers, Israelis and foreigners. Taking civilians hostage is a war crime, and captured soldiers cannot lawfully be held as hostages to coerce concessions either.

There is plenty to criticise about the Israeli government’s conduct, including decisions made during negotiations, even if those were ultimately decisions for a democratically elected government to make. Hostage families have hardly been silent about them, and many of us still demand accountability and the establishment of a national commission of inquiry.

But none of that transfers responsibility from the perpetrators: Hamas and its accomplices, and the state actors that funded and sponsored their activities.

That is what makes your rhetoric so repulsive. You erase Hamas’s agency, recast conditional negotiations as an unconditional “offer to release them on day one,” and shift responsibility from the hostage-takers to the society they attacked.

Hamas kidnapped these people, categorised them according to their value, demanded concessions for them, abused them and held people like Omri for years.

Turning that into “Israel refused to save them because it wanted vengeance” is not an established fact. It is an inversion of perpetrator and victim that sanitises Hamas’s responsibility for one of its most grotesque crimes, a distortion you have pushed in bad faith since the war Hamas launched on October 7.