100% exactly the (easily pointed out) unsupported claims by Omer Bartov I wrote about after his NYT GenoLie piece. Well articulated and presented destruction of the academic shield for nonsense. https://t.co/YLd064irXO
To achieve that, he has relied on transferred prestige—an old and sorry phenomenon in modern intellectual history, whereby persons who have displayed achievements in one area claim that, for example, “as a historian” (and in this case a historian of the Holocaust), they have insight into ongoing events that’s unavailable to others.
Bartov does not provide a single footnote to support his claims, nor does he bother addressing the evidence and arguments that would challenge them.
The evidence for this claim is angry—and selectively quoted—statements about the inhumanity of the Hamas killers on October 7 made by Israeli leaders, but Bartov cannot offer any official statement by the prime minister or official government spokesman that it intends to “destroy the Palestinian people,” because there were no such statements. Israel declared war to defeat Hamas, a fact Bartov represses.
@stmgtthepious@HenMazzig stop vomiting ignorance,lies and hate. Israel never wanted a Greater State, they are fine with the beautiful country they have, all they want is to be left in peace after decades of being relentlessly attacked,unlike their terrorists enemies whose only goal is to destroy Israel.
3 generations of one Jewish family wiped out by Gazans terrorists purely for the sole reason that they were Jews.
Grandparents, Shiri’s parents Yossi and Margit burned alive in their own home.
Shiri and her baby boys, Ariel and Kfir strangled to death and their bodies mutilated.
Their coffins celebrated to Jubilant music in front of thousands of cheering Gazans.
This is what the intentions of a Holocaust look like.
That’s what Gazan terrorists wanted when they planned October 7th and that’s what many Gazans celebrated on October 7th.
They are the genocidal ones. Never forget
🇷🇸 Novak Djokovic just reminded everyone what real backbone looks like.
In his new Amazon documentary he explains why he never took the COVID vaccine: he was healthy, already had natural immunity, and wasn’t a threat to anyone.
“It’s my freedom to choose what goes into my body. That fundamental right was taken from a lot of people.”
He lost Grand Slams and tournaments because he refused to bend.
Politicians tried to make an example out of him. He paid the price and never folded.
24 Grand Slam titles. All-time weeks at No. 1. And still the guy who put principle above everything.
They couldn’t break him. That’s a real champion.
Source: CNN / Writer: Sol
My name is Shlomo Manzur, I'm 86, and I'm the oldest Jewish hostage that was held by Hamas after 10/7.
I died alone in the tunnels of Gaza.
I was starved, tortured and beaten before I was killed.
Lihie Gilhar on IG made this video to remember me.
Will you?
In the middle of a war meant to break Jewish life, Israelis continued creating Jewish life.
That is a civilizational instinct.
Build anyway.
Marry anyway.
Have children anyway.
Start the company anyway.
Plant the tree anyway.
The people trying to kill you do not get a veto over your future.
As a pilot, we’ve experienced similar circumstances in our profession.
Jason Arday‘s case is the obvious precipitant of the DEI solution.
Whereas before DEI, if a minority pilot sat down in the cockpit next to me, the fact that he she was a minority never once crossed my mind. I knew that he/she had passed the practical test standards and achieved wings based on merit and proficiency.
After tainted influences of hiring practices based on sexual orientation, sex, and race entered, the natural question became “is the person sitting next to me competent or are they sitting there because some HR person was meeting a quota?”
DEI literally creates discrimination by default, especially if you operate in a theater that requires competency.
🇺🇸 What if a future that only fixes problems still isn’t worth waking up for?
Elon fought back tears to say it out loud: life can’t only be solving one miserable thing after another. There have to be things that inspire you, things that make you glad to be part of humanity.
That’s why the push beyond Earth, not only to fix what’s broken, but to reach for something big enough to expand the scope of human consciousness.
Earth is the cradle, but we were never meant to stay in it forever.
That vision still hits hard.
Writer: Val