Jane Kohuth

#Kidlit author #EhlersDanlosSyndrome haver #Jewisheducator Lover of picture books and all things literary. Rep'd by Teresa Kietlinski, Bookmark Literary

[Jane Kohuth @janekohuth]

#kidlit #picturebooks

[Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @JewsFightBack]

“Daddy was visibly Jewish.”

That is what Albert Itzkowitz’s daughter said through tears.

Albert was 75.

He owned a kosher bakery in Queens.

He served as a rabbi at a nursing home.

He volunteered as an EMT.

He was a grandfather.

On May 18, he went to Kissena Park, where he used to spend quiet time on his lunch break.

He brought a chair and a crossword puzzle.

He was found shot in the neck and back.

Murdered.

Now his children are asking anyone who saw something to come forward.

More than a month later, there is still no arrest.

There is now a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

Somebody knows something.

Say his name.

Albert Itzkowitz.

Do not let his family demand justice alone.

[Nuseir Yassin @nasdaily]

I went to an Israeli hospital.

I wanted to make this video for the last 7 years. This is what I grew up seeing. Now, you can see it too. Thank you @Hadassah for giving me access!

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

.@Wikipedia is literally erasing Jewish history and identity, systematically and maliciously. Everyone in the organization knows this is happening -- so none of it is an oversight or an accident.

Wikipedia is a major source on which LLMs are trained. College students are more likely to read the Wikipedia article than the textbook. This is how public knowledge is shaped.

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

Here are just some of the outlets that have NOT reported on CPJ admitting it counted terrorists as journalists for almost 3 years, despite recieving the press release four days ago:

1. New York Times
2. CNN
3. Reuters
4. Associated Press
5. Washington Post
6. BBC
7. The Guardian
8. Al Jazeera
9. Drop Site News
10. Zeteo
11. ABC News
12. NBC News
13. Newsweek
14. MSNBC
15. NPR
16. PBS
17. Politico
18. Axios
19. USA Today
20. The Hill

[Lior 🪬 @ChaiLife613]

King David Was a Redhead. So Don’t Tell Me Redheaded Jews Aren’t Middle Eastern.

I get this comment all the time.

“How could redheaded Jews be native to this land? They are not dark skinned”

This comment ignores both history and geography.

The Land of Israel has always been at the crossroads of Africa, Asia, and Europe. Every empire passed through it. Every empire mixed with its people. Egyptians, Hittites, Philistines (remember 👉 archaeology confirms that the biblical Philistines had Aegean, Greek-associated origins. They were not the same people as today’s Arab Palestinians), Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and Arabs all left their genetic fingerprints on the region.

The idea that the Middle East was always uniformly dark-skinned is simply false. The region has always been ethnically and genetically diverse because of thousands of years of migration, trade, conquest, and intermarriage. That is why modern populations are not genetically identical to the ancient peoples who lived there.

And yes, the Bible itself describes redheads among the ancient Israelites.

King David is explicitly described as admoni (reddish or ruddy).

So is Esav, Jacob’s brother.

Red hair existed in the ancient Middle East, just as it can still be found today in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Armenia, Iran, and Morocco.

Skin tone is not a marker of “real” Middle Eastern identity. Genetics, ancestry, history, and cultural continuity are.

The bottom line: You don’t need to fit someone’s TikTok stereotype to be indigenous to the Middle East. Claiming that Jews can’t be native to Israel because some have lighter features is nothing more than racism.

🇮🇱 The Nation of Israel Lives

[Hamas Atrocities @HamasAtrocities]

Hamas gives a 14 year old boy an AK47
When he gets killed after sniping soldiers and they return fire, the world will say "the army killed a child"

We never violated any law.
The only war crime was committed by Hamas by handing that child a weapon.
Yet the world will condemn us!

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

The Yevsektsiya were Jews. They blamed Zionists and traditional Jews for alienating Soviet society. They believed that if Jews abandoned religion, nationalism, and every trait the regime found objectionable, Communism would reward them with acceptance.

They helped shut down synagogues, persecuted Hebrew teachers, and denounced fellow Jews as enemies of progress. When they were no longer useful, the Soviet state disbanded the Yevsektsiya. Many of its members were executed during Stalin's purges. Others disappeared into labor camps. Their loyalty bought them nothing.

The Antizionist League of Iraq was made up of Jews as well. Its members insisted that Zionism was the source of hostility toward Iraqi Jews. They argued that if Jews publicly rejected the idea of a Jewish state, suspicion and hatred would disappear. They were wrong. The League itself was dissolved and its leaders imprisoned. The Farhud left hundreds of Jews dead, Jewish homes and businesses were looted and destroyed, and over the following years an ancient community was driven into exile. Nobody stopped to ask whether their victims were Zionists before burning their homes or stabbing them in the streets.

A century ago, Baghdad had one of the largest Jewish communities in the world. Jews made up roughly a quarter of the city's population. Today there are fewer than ten Jews left in all of Iraq. Trying to prove that you are one of the "good Jews" has never altered the outcome.

German Jews were among the most assimilated Jews in the world. They were educated, patriotic, and deeply proud of being German. Many of them fought proudly in WWI. They often looked down on poorer Jews arriving from Eastern Europe. Some convinced themselves that antisemitism was directed only at those less refined than themselves. Even the Association of German National Jews sought accommodation with the Nazi movement and declared its opposition to Zionism. The Nazis outlawed the organization anyway. Its members were deported and murdered alongside the rest of European Jewry.

Today there are fewer Jews in all of Europe than there are Arab citizens of Israel. So much for Europe lecturing Israel about tolerance.

Once a society begins stigmatizing Jews, or even just one category of Jews, the writing is already on the wall. Assimilation has never provided lasting protection. Appeasement has never provided lasting protection. Explaining ourselves politely and hoping to be accepted as the "good ones" has never provided lasting protection.

We are living through a dangerous moment. The United States, and perhaps Argentina, remain among the few places where Jews are not broadly stigmatized. But even that cannot be taken for granted. A 2023 Harvard-Harris poll found that two thirds of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 agreed that "Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors." Those young people will shape the future of public opinion.

We have no choice but to speak plainly about antizionism.

Because if antizionism were merely opposition to Netanyahu, it would not predate Netanyahu. If it were merely opposition to Israeli policy, it would not predate Israel. Long before 1948, Jews were being massacred for refusing to accept their place as a tolerated minority.

The uncomfortable truth is that antizionism did not emerge in response to Jewish power. It emerged in response to the idea that Jews should possess power at all.

Kind explanations did not save the Jews of Baghdad. Compliance did not save the Jews of Germany. Revolutionary zeal did not save the Jews of the Soviet Union.

Clarity matters. Memory matters. And the refusal to lie about what we are facing matters most of all.

[Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @JewsFightBack]

🚨 Darializa Avila Chevalier went to a Hamas victory rally the day after October 7.

While hundreds of hostages were in Gaza and Israel was still identifying the murdered.

She says she went because she “knew” Israel would overreact.

Yesterday New York Democrats nominated her for Congress.

Disgusting.

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

I don't really believe that Mamdani deserves the benefit of the doubt on antisemitism anymore, but, for the sake of argument, let's give it to him. Let's say he is naïve. This rhetoric is dangerous. It objectively sounds like it could be from the early 1930s. He needs to stop.

The phrase "AIPAC" is, linguistically, politically, and socially being used as a substitute for "International Jewish Power." You don't have to defend or like the organization to acknowledge this linguistic use.

The idea that Jews are involved in a shadowy effort to turn other members of society (gentiles) against one another is present in the Protocols of Zion.

Protocol No. 3 describes a deliberate strategy of using "the hands of the left and the right"--liberal and conservative forces--as instruments to be played against each other, with Jewish power holding the strings of both.

In Mein Kampf, Hitler claims that Jews infiltrate labor movements and capitalist institutions simultaneously, specifically to keep workers and owners at each other's throats. Hitler argues that the the unity of the German people is the one thing Jews are seeking to prevent.

Joseph Goebbels--Hitler's Minister of Propaganda--repeatedly employed the trope of Jews turning other members of society against one another.

Here Mamdani--knowingly or not--is employing a template: [shadowy they] keep [the people] divided so [the people] never unite against [them].

This is dangerous rhetoric, whether he means it or not. If he truly is naïve, I suggest he take the concerns of Jews more seriously. Personally, it's hard for me to believe he is naïve. He is a very smart, educated man. I think he does know what he's doing.

We'll see if he keeps doing it.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

A haunting, forgotten chapter of WWII:

In 1940, Canada imprisoned 2,300+ Jewish refugees — many of them teenagers and scholars fleeing Hitler — in internment camps alongside actual Nazis.

This is the uniform they were forced to wear.

Look at that red circle. It turned every prisoner into a walking bullseye.

They were shipped across the Atlantic in filthy holds (while Nazi POWs rode comfortably upstairs), then locked in places like Camp N in Sherbrooke, Quebec. One water tap for 900 men. Sadistic guards. Letters from home ripped up in front of them. A prisoner who panicked and ran for the fence was shot dead.

These weren’t enemy aliens. They were Jewish boys and men who had escaped the Nazis — only to be treated as threats by the countries they hoped would save them.

Many later became Nobel laureates, orchestra directors, and leading scientists.

A dark reminder of how even “safe” nations closed their hearts — and how resilient the Jewish people had to become.

[Roz Rothstein @RozRothstein]

A federal civil rights investigation into the American Psychological Association (APA) has been launched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights. The investigation was opened after the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law filed a complaint alleging antisemitic discrimination within the organization.

“The Brandeis Center urges HHS to review the APA’s conduct as a recipient of federal funding, citing evidence that the organization promoted discriminatory and anti-Semitic practices, including “Decolonial Therapy,” a treatment model increasingly used to frame Zionism as a mental illness and encourage patients to reject it; anti-Israel and anti-Semitic messaging disseminated through official channels; anti-Semitic continuing education and conference programming; and the marginalization of Jewish and Israeli psychologists.”

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

🧵The head of Gaza's Nursing Association and a nurse based at Kamal Adwan Hospital, Mohammed Al-Kafarna, was a platoon commander! —confirmed in a new Hamas martyr video. He's shown firing rockets and in tunnels. Absolute confirmation hospitals were strategic bases for Hamas. 1/

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

An eighth-grade Jewish student was strangled by another student while being called a ‘stupid k***,’ according to a civil rights complaint.

A new lawsuit brought forth by the ADL alleges that the student was brutally bullied for his Jewishness as the school in Colorado did nothing.

Police investigated and slapped the bully with a juvenile court referral for third-degree assault. The school, on the other hand, suggested that the Jewish student being bullied simply change study periods so as not to be in the same room as the bully, and leave class a few minutes early so he doesn't get beaten in the hallways.

Because being strangled by a cord as he was called slurs wasn't the only bullying he had to endure. Plenty of students harassed him, physically assaulted him, and even created "Jew tag" to play during gym. They made Nazi salutes and told the boy that "Hitler should have killed all the Jews when he had the chance."

The boy who strangled him didn't even get suspended for a full week. A boy spat on him and only got a day of suspension.

There is no reforming this. The school staff needs to face consequences for ignoring a boy being brutalized every day just because he's a Jew.

[Jane Kohuth @janekohuth]

@MegKeene @HoffmanJess The children's literature world likes to tell itself how inclusive it is.

[Jane Kohuth @janekohuth]

@MegKeene @HoffmanJess As a Jewish kidlit writer I am very interested in this. I have suspicions, but I want to know what we're really up against.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

.@Bascobert As the head of Reuters, can you reply to these serious allegations that your Gaza reporter Nidal Al-Mughrabi reported civilians were killed when in fact they were Hamas terrorists, and constantly cited “medics” and other locals as trustworthy, when they were not?

[Raph Israël @raphlesioniste2]

🔴 Liban 🇱🇧 | Une journaliste condamnée à 15 ans de prison pour avoir parlé à une journaliste israélienne

Oui, vous avez bien lu.

La journaliste libanaise Maria Maalouf vient d’être condamnée à 15 ans de prison par contumace.

Son crime ?

Avoir accordé une interview à la chaîne israélienne Kan News en 2021 et avoir déclaré que Hassan Nasrallah et l’Iran avaient pris le Liban en otage et l’avaient ramené à l’âge de pierre.

Maria Maalouf affirme n’avoir jamais été contactée par la justice avant le verdict. Elle a découvert sa condamnation dans les médias.

Quelques jours plus tôt, deux autres Libanais vivant à l’étranger ont reçu exactement la même peine pour « collaboration avec Israël ».

Pendant ce temps, des membres du Hezbollah condamnés pour contrebande d’armes ont écopé de peines dérisoires.

Et où sont aujourd’hui les grands défenseurs de la liberté de la presse ?

Où sont les gouvernements occidentaux qui publient régulièrement des communiqués lorsqu’ils estiment qu’Israël porte atteinte à la liberté d’expression ou à la liberté de la presse ?

Où sont les condamnations de l’ONU, de Bruxelles ou des ONG internationales ?

Une journaliste est condamnée à 15 ans de prison pour avoir répondu aux questions d’un journaliste israélien.

Le silence est assourdissant.

Au Liban, parler à un journaliste israélien peut donc coûter plus cher que faire passer des armes pour le Hezbollah.

Voilà à quoi ressemble un État pris en otage.
#Liban #Hezbollah #Israël #LibertéDeLaPresse #MariaMaalouf

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

You know, I would be willing to listen to an argument that "Epstein class" is simply referring to Epstein's relationship with other opulently wealthy people that believed their wealth precluded them from the law and that him being Jewish has nothing to do with it.

But I'm not willing to listen to that argument from someone who got a massive Nazi tattoo on his chest.

[Jane Kohuth @janekohuth]

Today in "Antisemitism is Systemic" at the highest levels.

[Alex Gandler @AlexGandler]

A UN Special Rapporteur says there was a "concerted effort" inside the UN to prevent allegations from October 7 being formally recorded and that colleagues were bullied into not signing a letter documenting the atrocities.

When the world's leading human rights institution cannot honestly document the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, it has a credibility problem.

By @janeprinsley of the @JewishChron

https://t.co/l0X2Kq16Mx

[𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕥 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟 @ElliotMalin]

Yes, @mehdirhasan, we should ignore them. Each one failed to apply the legal standards as required.

Amnesty: “However, its [ICJ] rulings on inferring intent can be read extremely narrowly, in a manner that would potentially preclude a state from having genocidal intent alongside one or more additional motives or goals in relation to the conduct of its military operations. As outlined below, Amnesty International considers this an overly cramped interpretation of international jurisprudence and one that would effectively preclude a finding of genocide in the context of an armed conflict.”

B’tselem: “This report relies on a broader analytical framework…”

The UN Commission of Inquiry did not assess reasonable alternative explanations. The only mention of Hamas’ tunnel infrastructure was to discount the tunnel under the European hospital that Mohammed Sinwar was killed in (and where he directed acts harmful to the “enemy” [e.g. Israel]).

The International Association of Genocide Scholars (of which I’m a dues paying member) did not assess reasonable alternative explanations and discount them (which would defeat the only reasonable inference test).

Human Rights Watch did not actually assess genocide, it said that they concluded acts of genocide without any assessment.

And important to note: Amos Goldberg and Omer Bartov are historians who are not qualified to assess the legal elements of the crime of genocide. Citing to them is a logical fallacy of an appeal to authority that makes zero sense.

Not a single accuser assesses the requirements of the Geneva Conventions, particularly GCIV 19 & 28, and API 51(7). Without understanding the implications of these articles one cannot conclude that the only reasonable inference is genocide.

If each accuser refuses to apply the jurisprudence as it stands today to make their conclusion, the problem is that they have a predetermined conclusion, and that they are fitting an analysis to that conclusion. This is fundamentally flawed.

So, yes, we should ignore all of them.

If you must rely on a confirmation bias with fundamentally flawed analyses that are devoid of the legal analysis that is required today, without being honest about the shift in the jurisprudence that they all require, the problem here is you.

I can state that Israel hasn’t committed genocide under the jurisprudence because I can measure alternative reasonable explanations for Israel’s conduct. None of your citations attempted to do this required analysis.

Genocide is not what you want it to be to convict the Jewish state who had its people taken hostage and Hamas, PIJ, and even Palestinian civilians going door to door slaughtering innocent people because of their membership in either the Israeli or Jewish groups.

The more we do this the more we excuse Hamas for its crimes (including genocide), hostage taking, sexual violence, etc. that it committed against the Israeli people, but also its crimes it has committed against the Palestinian people that purposefully inflicted higher incidental harm to them (human shielding, diversion, torture, persecution, murder, etc.).

Mehdi so badly wants Israel to be guilty of the crime Hamas committed that he will excuse Hamas from culpability for its crimes against Palestinians that would fundamentally negate genocidal intent for Israel (as confirmed by a UN report this last week, by the way).

Mehdi is an evil person, as are all those who portend to care about Palestinians while ignoring Hamas just so they can blame Israel.