Gabe Halimi

[Gabe Halimi @gabehalimi]

@JonnyNemo @sydney_sweeney 😂

[Gabe Halimi @gabehalimi]

@mikeeisenberg So beautifully said Michael

[Gabe Halimi @gabehalimi]

@msuster I’ll take it ! (But I’m bias)

[Zvika Klein צביקה קליין @ZvikaKlein]

I can’t look away from Bari Weiss's story at CBS.

It's the drama. The memos. The anonymous staff statements. The internal rebellions that always claim they are defending journalism while quietly defending comfort. The whole thing is a perfect snapshot of what American media became in the last decade.

But I’m following it for a more serious reason. Bari Weiss represents a path that almost no journalist takes.

She did not just complain about a broken newsroom culture. She published her critique, walked away from the most prestigious platform in the industry, and built a competing institution. Then she returned to a legacy newsroom, not as a guest, not as a columnist, not as a hired pen, but with authority.

That is rare. That is the difference between talking about change and making it.
I have managed journalists for years. I know how much talent gets wasted on self-censorship. I know how many good reporters learn to anticipate the internal backlash and adjust their writing before the editors even touch it.

Weiss built an audience precisely because she wrote as if adults still exist.

The Jewish element is central. Weiss refused the defensive crouch. She spoke about antisemitism in ways that most never did; without the usual disclaimers. She treated Jewish safety as a story that belongs on the front page, not in a local news outlet or tiny corner of the internet.

David Ellison belongs in this story too. Owners decide whether courage is rewarded or punished. Owners decide whether leadership has cover when the internal outrage machine starts up. Ellison backing Weiss, and backing support for Israel after October 7, signals something that Jews and Israelis understand intuitively: Not only is it important to create news differently - It’s also okay to look at the Middle East through the prism of Western societies; and at Israel as homeland of the Jewish people - and the only democracy in the region.

Here’s my honest takeaway: Weiss is doing more for Jews and Israel than most of us, and she is doing it with creative thinking that turns backlash into leverage and chaos into direction.

That is leadership. 🇺🇸 ✡️🇮🇱

My @Jerusalem_Post column: https://t.co/BtGmhOvnT1

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

RIP Charlie Kirk. It doesn’t matter what your opinion is of Charlie or his politics if you don’t view this as one of the darkest days in American history than you are part of the problem.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Not a single Arab nation is trying to save Iran or Gaza.

Even the Arab world wants the Islamic regime and its proxies to vanish from the face of the earth, quietly cheering on Israel from behind the scenes.

[Ambassador Mike Huckabee @GovMikeHuckabee]

So grateful to serve ⁦@POTUS⁩ who posted what I sent to him on Truth Social. https://t.co/AcGCI7ovCO

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

I’m not a Jew and I just left a bomb shelter.

These antisemitic propagandists are disgusting.

[Gabe Halimi @gabehalimi]

@EYakoby Had to stop following @martyrmade .. too much nonsense

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

"One of the many things that have died in the past 20 months is the idea of the West as a coherent force that can act in its own interests. A few quiet generations in the free world have produced leaders who don’t seem to grasp what extraordinarily brutal and ugly things had to be done to make them free, or what must be done to stay that way. This realization is dispiriting, but it does give us some clarity. Netanyahu understands this, and on this point—unlike so many others—the vast majority of Israel’s citizens agree. This is why, at least for now, Israelis are hunkering down with a rare unity as missiles streak down at us from the sky. This war is unavoidable, and no one will wage it but us."

Read @MattiFriedman in @TheFP:

https://t.co/vujpyvNZXU

[Gabe Halimi @gabehalimi]

@RitchieTorres @IsraelWarRoom We love you Ritchie!

[Gabe Halimi @gabehalimi]

@bariweiss This article nailed it. We’re devastated.

[Gabe Halimi @gabehalimi]

@NellieBowles @TheFP So proud of you both @NellieBowles @bariweiss ! Keep kicking butt

[Elad Simchayoff @Elad_Si]

This is a truly remarkable piece by @WSJ
A poll of 250 American students showed vast majority support the “from the river to the sea” chant.
53% couldn’t name the river & sea. Some said Caribbean (?!)
More than 10% thought Arafat was Israel’s first president (?!)
More than 25% didn’t hear about the Oslo accords.
After learning a handful of basic facts about the region, more than 67% said they now reject the chant.

[Gabe Halimi @gabehalimi]

@JamieSiminoff Looking good!

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

1. Jay Sures, a University of California Regent — which is the governing board for the entire University of California system — has responded to a letter from the UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council.

The Ethnic Studies Council’s letter condemned the University of California’s statements that referred to the Hamas massacre on October 7 as “terrorism.”

The letter, endorsed by 300 UC faculty members, specifically urged the UC leadership to “retract its characterization of terrorism.”

This is Jay Sures’ response, presented on UC Regents letterhead.

(The next tweet in the thread will contain the UC Ethnic Studies council letter to which he is responding, as well as the original UC statement that the Ethnic Studies Council objected to.)

[Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley]

You can’t fight antisemitism if you can’t define it. Joe Biden and the Left refuse to call anti-Zionism antisemitism.

As president I will change the official federal definition of antisemitism to include denying Israel’s right to exist, and I will pull schools’ tax exemption status if they do not combat antisemitism in all of its forms – in accordance with federal law.

College campuses are allowed to have free speech, but they are not free to spread hate that supports terrorism. Federal law requires schools to combat antisemitism. We will give this law teeth and we will enforce it.

The United States of America will not use taxpayer dollars to fund antisemitism. Period.

The Oct. 7 massacre and the ensuing weeks have proven what many of us have long known: There is no difference between anti-Zionism and antisemitism.

In order to combat antisemitism, we have to define it, and that starts at the top.

[Martyr Made @martyrmade]

In the 1960s, the radical left and black militants engaged in terrorism and mass violence for several years. During that period, a disproportionate amount of money and leadership on the left came from Jews and Jewish organizations. Then the Panthers took the movement by storm and imposed a Third World, anti-imperialist focus on the left, which turned hard against Israel after the Six Day War in ‘67. The Panthers’ anti-Zionism bled over into plain anti-Semitism, and many disillusioned Jews began to back away from the movement. Then, in ‘69, black militants in NYC picked a fight w/the mostly Jewish NYC teachers’ union, and the virulent antisemitism that had been just beneath the surface burst out into the open. The Jewish Defense League was actually formed in the aftermath of the conflict, to protect and retaliate on behalf of Jews who were being harassed and attacked by black militants.

The loss of Jewish support was the end of the ‘60s radical left as a serious movement, and the long march on the institutions began. Now that it’s had a half decade to regroup, it’s back on the streets causing mayhem. As before, Jewish organizers and groups played a disproportionate leadership role w/BLM, campus radicals, and other militant groups, and as before, the movement has turned against Israel and Jews more generally. If the rest of the cycle repeats, turning against the Jews will mark the beginning of the end of this round of left wing madness…

Hopefully we all learn a more lasting lesson this time.

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

Worth watching.

[Hananya Naftali @HananyaNaftali]

Jewish leader of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue in Detroit, Samantha Woll, was stabbed to death outside her home.

This is a hate crime. Jews fear for their lives as Antisemitic violence has risen since the October 7th massacre of Israelis.