Jack Houston

PolySci Student at GMU. Good Governance activist. Opinions are my own. #RankedChoiceVoting #ProportionalRepresentation #OpenPrimaries

[Jack Houston @JackHoustonVA]

Had a great time discussing #RankedChoiceVoting today in Arlington with @FairVoteVA and @OperationVPI. We plan on holding more events like this in the future. Follow to stay updated and sign up for our contact list:

https://t.co/W7QEAQhcNj

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Israel and Ukraine are going through existential threats. We need to send aid to BOTH, and my Republican colleagues need to cut the crap.

This isn’t a game.

[Amir Barkol @BarkolAmir]

For over 30 years, the wonderful Vivian Silver chose to dedicate her life to peace in the middle east. Week after week, she volunteered to transport patients from the Gaza Strip to hospitals in Israel, she initiated work training programs for Palestinians, enabling them to provide for their families with dignity, and she founded various organizations working towards the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

When Hamas terrorists broke into her home on October 7th, she managed to text her friends that she was hiding behind the closet door. Last night, after more than a month, her body was finally identified. She was murdered.

Throughout her life, 74-year-old Vivian had extended her hand for peace with Palestinians. Ruthless Hamas terrorists grabbed that hand and took her life. If you believe in justice and compassion, don't turn away, share Vivian's story. #HamasisISIS

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

In my front office I have displayed the posters of the innocent Israelis kidnapped by Hamas.

They will stay up until every single person is safely returned home.

[Keith @nagy_minaj]

Your child is not fine. Your child has 10 different election results tabs open.

[Michal/Michele -מיכל✡️ 🟦 @MichalSabra]

Every single word. 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

[David Draiman 🟦🇺🇸🇮🇱✡️☮️ @davidmdraiman]

It’s amazing how long it took to prove to some people that Jewish babies were, in fact, slaughtered…

…and how quickly all those same people jumped to condemn the Israelis/Jews for a crime they didn’t commit (the bombing of a Gaza hospital),

We see you.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

It’s 2023 and people are still debating whether Hamas beheaded the 40 Israeli babies, or just peacefully slaughtered them.

[David Draiman 🟦🇺🇸🇮🇱✡️☮️ @davidmdraiman]

They decapitated infants.

Yes.

You read that right.

They raped women next to the dead bodies of their friends before they killed them.

Yes.

You read that right.

They kidnapped women, elderly, children.

And they filmed it all, to brag and show the world.

#HamasISIS

[Joe Vogel @JoeVogel_]

Israeli forces found 40 murdered babies and small children — some beheaded — in one of the communities that Hamas invaded.

They aren’t “freedom fighters” — they are terrorists.

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

The last 2 days, hundreds of Israeli women have been slaughtered in their homes. Kidnapped. Tortured.

They could be your mothers, daughters, sisters.

This is the depraved, savage, face of Hamas.

The world must see the monstrous evil Israel is fighting!

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

What to do when commenting on Hamas’ terrorist attack against Israel?

If your first draft mentions neither the victim nor the perpetrator, rewrite it.

If your first draft blames the victim, rewrite it.

If you first draft emphasizes “both sides” or empathizes with the perpetrator, rewrite it.

If your first draft refers to militants rather than terrorists, rewrite it.

[Josh Feldman ג'וש פלדמן @joshrfeldman]

At the pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney people are chanting "F**k the Jews".

Pure, unfiltered, hatred. This is the true face of the enemy.

@nswpolice #auspol

[Jack Houston @JackHoustonVA]

@umichvoter

[Common Cause @CommonCause]

Keep redistricting fair.
Keep redistricting non-political.
Keep power in the hands of the people.

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

DSA - the socialist party of AOC and Jamal Bowman - hosted a Palestinian propaganda rally today in NYC that led to the arrest of several pro Palestinian supporters who appeared to have turned violent.

These people support the rape, beheading, kidnapping and murders of Jews.

Share their faces everywhere!

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

Hamas raped Israeli girls next to the bodies of their dead friends and then executed the rape victims.

Don't turn away. The world has to know who Hamas is.

https://t.co/YSaInpAs0L

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

“Israeli girls have been raped at the area of the rave next to their friends bodies, dead bodies [by Hamas]” Several of these rape victims appear to have been later executed.

Eyewitnesses from the Nova music festival massacre:

https://t.co/2K8OHWQJjd

[Nuseir Yassin @nasdaily]

Personal Thoughts:
(not for everyone, feel free to skip)

For the longest time, I struggled with my identity.

A Palestinian kid born inside Israel. Like…wtf.

Many of my friends refuse to this day to say the word “Israel” and call themselves “Palestinian” only.

But since I was 12, that did not make sense to me.

So I decided to mix the two and become a “Palestinian-Israeli”

I thought this term reflected who I was.
Palestinian first. Israeli second.

But after recent events, I started to think.
And think.
And think.
And then my thoughts turned to anger.

I realized that if Israel were to be “invaded” like that again, we would not be safe. To a terrorist invading Israel, all citizens are targets.

900 Israelis died so far. More than 40 of them are Arabs. Killed by other Arabs. And even 2 Thai people died too.

And I do not want to live under a Palestinian government.

Which means I only have one home, even if I’m not Jewish:

Israel.

That’s where all my family lives. That’s where I grew up. That’s the country I want to see continue to exist so I can exist.

Palestine should exist too as an independent state. And I hope to see the country thrive and become less extreme and more prosperous. I love Palestine and have invested in Palestine.

But it’s not my home.

So from today forward,
I view myself as an “Israeli-Palestinian”.

Israeli first.
Palestinian second.

Sometimes it takes a shock like this to see so clearly.

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

Gone. They're all gone 💔

An entire family, Tamar, Yonatan, their 6 yr old daughters Shahar & Arbel, and their 4 yr old son Omer.

They were all slaughtered by Hamas terrorists who infiltrated Kibbutz Nir Oz. Just because they were Jews!

I don't have the words. Only tears ...