Rafael

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

So many people are calling me and saying I should pipe down and let it blow over and while they mean well I'm afraid it's not an option.
Doubling down works for Donald Trump and we share a birthday with Che Guevara, Alan Carr and Paul O'Grady.
What a supergroup that would be. Move over Steps.
What is most shocking is the amount of gay folk attacking me but I am smart enough to realise that what you are cannot disguise who you are. No gay person speaks for an entire community and if you support terrorism you can in the words of Divine 'Take your toolkit and go fuck a garage'.
When I say 'they want to kill every last one of us' I am also talking about us queers not just the Jewish community. When will you wake up?
Regardless of which side you take, I am disgusted by anyone who posts hatred against anyone but refuses to show their face.
If you have something powerful to say then you should have the guts to show the world who you are but most, if not all of you, are unwilling to show your faces and the only reason is self interest.

[AIPAC 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @AIPAC]

This morning, AIPAC was featured on the @nytimes podcast The Daily. The NYT did not ask us for comment or to verify any of the “facts.” As a result, listeners were subjected to several inaccuracies, omissions, and mischaracterizations about our work and our members. Below are just some of these false claims:

[Van Jones @VanJones68]

This weekend I shared a post voicing my concerns about the far left. The response has been overwhelming. Leaders in both parties called to tell me the same thing: this stuff has gone too far.

To be clear: I'm a progressive Democrat. My whole life, I've wanted to see a youth movement fight for affordability, for healthcare, for real opportunity. It’s time! The system has utterly failed the next generation. Young people deserve real change — and they are right to fight for a better future.

But the movement is being hijacked by too many people with insane, outlandish and nutty ideas that have nothing to do with affordability, climate solutions or health care.

For example: Mamdani picked a DSA candidate who wants to abolish the police, empty every prison, erase every border and discourage interracial dating. Okayyyy ... So clearly, Chevalier has no problem condemning things! UNLESS it’s a designated terrorist organization. Believe it or not: Chevalier has refused to denounce the terror group Hamas — four times. That’s INSANE — and progressives can’t be afraid to call nonsense like that out.

Supporting Hamas is NOT progressive. The idea of “no police, no prisons, no borders” — which would let pedophiles, human traffickers, terrorists, hate groups and crime syndicates run wild — is NOT progressive for vulnerable communities. Celebrating the murder of Israeli civilians is NOT progressive. These ideas are REGRESSIVE.

If we can't tell right from wrong, good from bad, smart from loony tunes — Team Blue will go down the same road that turned the Republican Party into a shell of itself.

We can’t let that happen to the Democratic Party.

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

Mamdani: “I think any state that privileges one religion over the other is one that I can’t tell you I support"

Cool. Here are all the countries @NYCMayor hates:

Christian Countries
🇦🇩 Andorra — Catholicism
🇦🇲 Armenia — Armenian Apostolic Church
🇨🇷 Costa Rica — Catholicism
🇩🇰 Denmark — Evangelical Lutheran Church
🇫🇮 Finland — Evangelical Lutheran Church
🇬🇪 Georgia — Georgian Orthodox Church
🇬🇷 Greece — Eastern Orthodox Church
🇭🇺 Hungary — Christianity
🇮🇸 Iceland — Evangelical Lutheran Church
🇱🇮 Liechtenstein — Catholicism
🇲🇹 Malta — Catholicism
🇲🇨 Monaco — Catholicism
🇳🇴 Norway — Evangelical Lutheran Church
🇸🇲 San Marino — Catholicism
🇸🇰 Slovakia — Catholic Church
🇬🇧 United Kingdom — Anglican Church (England); Presbyterian Church (Scotland)
🇿🇲 Zambia — Christianity

Islamic Countries
🇦🇫 Afghanistan — Islam
🇩🇿 Algeria — Islam
🇧🇩 Bangladesh — Islam
🇧🇭 Bahrain — Islam
🇧🇳 Brunei — Islam
🇰🇲 Comoros — Islam
🇩🇯 Djibouti — Islam
🇪🇬 Egypt — Islam
🇮🇷 Iran — Shia Islam
🇮🇶 Iraq — Islam
🇯🇴 Jordan — Islam
🇰🇼 Kuwait — Islam
🇱🇾 Libya — Islam
🇲🇾 Malaysia — Islam
🇲🇻 Maldives — Islam
🇴🇲 Oman — Islam
🇵🇰 Pakistan — Islam
🇵🇸 Palestinian Authority — Islam
🇶🇦 Qatar — Islam
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia — Islam
🇸🇴 Somalia — Islam
🇸🇩 Sudan — Islam
🇸🇾 Syria — Islam
🇹🇯 Tajikistan — Islam
🇹🇳 Tunisia — Islam
🇹🇷 Turkey — Islam receives extensive state support
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan — Islam
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates — Islam
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan — Islam
🇾🇪 Yemen — Islam

Buddhist Countries
🇧🇹 Bhutan — Buddhism
🇰🇭 Cambodia — Buddhism
🇱🇦 Laos — Buddhism
🇲🇲 Myanmar — Buddhism
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka — Buddhism
🇹🇭 Thailand — Buddhism

Jewish State
🇮🇱 Israel — Judaism

[Ahmed pak 🇵🇰 @Ahmedpak378456]

For 22 years, I was brainwashed to hate Israel. The society around me taught me that Jews were the problem with everything and that they were evil.

Then October 7th happened, and it completely changed my perspective on Israel. I saw videos of Hamas terrorists entering Israel, killing 1,200 civilians, and kidnapping 251 hostages. After that, I learned about Israel’s history and how it is the only Jewish country in the world. I discovered that the Jewish people have been fighting for 7 decades just to protect their culture and identity.

In late November 2023, I started using TikTok. I began making Jewish friends to discuss the conflict with them and to ask whether they consider themselves superior to others, as I had been told by the society here. To my surprise, all of them were kind and humble. Since then, I have become a Zionist and have continued advocating for the Jewish people across various social media platforms (Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok).

I use these platforms to advocate for the Jewish people, to debunk the lies they have been taught about Jews and Israel, and to show the world how Israel is on the front lines protecting civilization from the biggest threat of our time radical Islam.

Through my content, I explain the true history of the conflict, expose the propaganda that has poisoned minds for generations, and highlight the values that Israel stands for: democracy, freedom, and human rights. I also share stories of Jewish resilience and innovation that demonstrate how this tiny nation contributes so much to the world in science, medicine, technology, and security.

Most importantly, I urge people to think critically and question the one-sided narratives they grew up with. After being brainwashed for 22 years myself, I now feel it is my responsibility to speak the truth and stand against hatred and ignorance.

So this is my little story about how I became an Zionist, you are free to ask questions :)

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

The Bund rejected Zionism. The Bund were all killed by Nazis and communists. For the vast majority of the Jews of the Eastern Hemisphere, the only survival and freedom they could find -- after trying every other imaginable option -- was Zionism.

Zionism is big and diverse and complex and beautiful. Zionism is also the product of a vast, unspeakable tragedy.

The Bund *should* have been able to build an interesting and flourishing Jewish world all its own, in the "hereness" of Eastern Europe. And in a better world, the Bund would have. But this isn't that world.

In this world, the Nazi war on the millenia-old European Jewish civilization was successful, the Jews of Europe were wiped out -- and old ideas that once animated Nazis and Stalinists in their murder of Bundists have now returned into fashion on left and right and gone looking once more for the Jews.

Is there a word that describes a Jew so pitiably afraid of the current whirlwind of hatred that they choose to build a fake past to live in, just so they can pretend that Jews ever had an alternative to Zionism?

The Bund's story, like Molly Crabapple's ahistorical polemics, is merely one more data point demonstrating that Zionism's case is actually -- tragically, in fact -- impregnable. That it is a story of the transformation of catastrophic annihilation into triumphant freedom and survival.

[David Lange @Israellycool]

MUST WATCH: Antisemitic streamer @sneako comes across an Arab Christian living in Israel on OmeTV. Despite Sneako's efforts to demonize Jewish Israelis and shill for Iran, the Arab Christian won't have a bar of it
cc: @TuckerCarlson @RealCandaceO

[Michael Karlis @MichaelKarlis]

TX-35 Democratic candidate Maureen Galindo says she will convert ICE detention center in Karnes County into an internment camp for "American Zionists."

"It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists," she added.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Hahaha Israelis are GENIUS.

Israel jamming the radios of the Gaza Flotilla by playing “Oops I did it Again” by Britney Spears on repeat

The Greta wannabes are claiming it’s a “War Crime” and a breach of International Law 🤣

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

Fact: “The ratio of civilian to fighters killed in the Gaza War is better than most other comparable situations.” @GadSaad That precision of the statement is key. Civilian (noncombatant) fighter (combatant participating in the hostilities). Actually one of the lowest of urban warfare history against anything comparable. Lower than any comparable battle/war (very few even close to the situation but those like battles of Manila, Seoul, Mosul or Iraq/Korean War). Yes 1:1. Yes, Hamas (and other fighters participating in the war) had over 35,000 militants. @joerogan @joeroganhq I’m more than happy to discuss where the numbers come from, any comparable situation, why all the destruction in Gaza, what else could have been done, no genocide, and more based on a decade of research and now 7 (about to be 8) trips into Gaza to directly observe the IDF during their operations against Hamas.

[Zach Sage Fox @zachsagefox]

I led HUNDREDS of Jews in protest outside the @nytimes HQ today to shame them for REPEATEDLY spreading blood libels against the Jewish people and ONLY Jewish state. Enough is enough!

[Hamas Atrocities @HamasAtrocities]

A black woman learns about how the Gazans treat black people.
Wait for her reaction when she learns what Al-Abid means...

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Holy shit.

Iranian Rapper 021Kid releases Persian remix of Israeli song Harbu Darbu featuring Ness and Stilla who did the original.

FREE IRAN

Israel and the Iranian people will always stand together 🇮🇱 🇮🇷

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

You may not agree with me, but you will always know where you stand with me.

Today in Billericay, a heckler tried to shout me down as I spoke about the normalisation of hatred towards Jews. I did not back down, because it needs to be said. British Jews are being targeted and too many people are pretending this is the same experience of other minorities. This lady implied Muslims are being similarly targeted. This is simply not true.

Let's be honest about what is happening. Certain groups (in particular but not solely Islamic Extremists) are creating a climate of fear and intimidation that is normalising Jew hatred. I will never stand for that. Governments have spent too long hand-wringing, making excuses and hoping it would go away. It is time to call this what it is: a national emergency in our attitude, our urgency and our response.

I will always engage with people who disagree with me. That is politics. But there is a difference between argument and intimidation. Shouting does not make a bad case good. It's done to silence others. And it certainly does not change the truth.

The truth is that British Jews have been made to feel less safe in their own country. Our country. They are being singled out, threatened and harassed in ways that should shame everyone in public life. If we do not stand up now and stop this rise in antisemitism, then why bother saying "Never Again" at Holocaust Memorial Day? Because this is how it starts.

I am not prepared to play along with the pretence that this is normal, or manageable, or just another example of tension between groups. It really is not. It is targeted hatred and it is getting worse.

So my message is simple. Not here. Not in Britain. And not on our watch. We need to stop the hand-wringing and start doing the right thing. That means standing with British Jews openly, unapologetically and without fear.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

.@zarahsultana I assume this is a different Zarah Sultana MP to the one who was recently filmed clapping along to loudspeaker chants for intifada, on a street in Surrey.
https://t.co/J9nLlYtw59

[Adi @Adi13]

Before you boycott Israel, watch this video and get informed.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

20 people were invited to see a video that exposes Palestinian propaganda.

Every single one had the same response: “I feel like a moron.”

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Jesus was a Palestinian Muslim who waged jihad against the Jews…

[Casey Babb @DrCaseyBabb]

This is an extraordinary clip of the great @DouglasKMurray. Not only does Murray absolutely eviscerate this BBC host, but he raises a very important point that people need to speak about more openly: that when even a fraction of a community embraces extremism, you've got a serious problem on your hands.

Moreover, when that community is massive, that fraction has the potential to pose a very, very real and dangerous threat. Watch this clip. Then watch it again. Phenomenal stuff by one of the great intellectual giants of our time.

[Eli Lake @EliLake]

I’ve gotten a lot of negative feedback about this tweet from our community. I want you to know that I take our stakeholders seriously and I thank you for this opportunity to learn and to listen. So allow me to clarify: Israel is the Jewish homeland and it’s not going anywhere.