Jessica Winterstein

[Laura✡️Marcus @MissLauraMarcus]

I think this is right? The Nazis began The Blitz? The Nazis directly attacked many British cities. Was The Battle of Britain wrong? Should we just have taken these blows and not retaliated against an enemy that wanted to destroy us? Cos that’s what people are demanding of Israel!

[John Lee @JohnEdwardLee]

Brave, concise and brilliant summation of the hypocrisy and delusion that has gripped this State when considering Israel

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

In what way is this not regime propaganda?

[Dave Rich @daverich1]

Barghouti was acquitted of most charges (but still convicted of some) which suggests he got a fair trial. And there's no proof Mandela ever said that. But why let facts get in the way when there's a convicted terrorist to support?

[Juliet Moses @JulietMosesNZ]

If you’ve not read Sam Harris’ substack yet, it’s really worth it. Here are the immediately preceding paragraphs to the one below:

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

Absolutely disgraceful that Dr Foran has been forced into this position by two bit thugs. If you don’t like hearing new ideas you may not agree with, perhaps University isn’t for you.

[Adam Ma'anit @adammaanit]

The irony of this video, is that the lyrics to Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival was penned by John Fogerty who condemned the Oct 7 massacre and the "barbaric acts of terrorism" committed by Hamas and asserted Israel's right to defend itself.

[Victoria Smith @glosswitch]

It's so profoundly entitled to take your place at a prestigious university - playing the game when it benefits you - then shout over people who've done years of research because you don't want others to hear their arguments

[Rachel Moiselle @RachelMoiselle]

A simply superb paragraph by Sam Harris.

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

The Muslim police association document was written by then-VP, Khaldoun Kabbani.

Here he is retweeting Bassem Youssef justifying the October 7th attack

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

Important article by @KasraAarabi about the absolute insanity of how the war with the Islamic republic of Iran is being framed by the Left.

‘Sir Keir Starmer may claim this is “not our war”, but that’s not how the IRGC sees it. The Guard has been at war with Britain for almost five decades, and in recent years it has intensified its campaign. Since 2022, not only have 20 major Iran-linked terror plots been foiled, but the regime has been targeting British parliamentarians and critical infrastructure.

The IRGC has also been exploiting weak oversight of Britain’s charity system to build a soft-power infrastructure operating through charities, mosques, and schools, which it has used to nurture Islamist radicalisation and anti-Semitism. These tactics, similar to those employed by ISIS and Al-Qaeda, have paid dividends for the IRGC. And things are only going to get worse.

Still, the prevailing Iran war narrative on the Left and much of the media would have you believe that Trump and the US are the pariah aggressors, and somehow represent greater threats to our security than the IRGC.’

Anti-Trump bias has blinded Britain to the real threat posed by Iran's military regime https://t.co/RwMpbr06jV

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

I thought we were past this in academia.

If you don’t agree with someone’s thesis, go, listen and challenge them. It’s part of what a university education is about.

Academics, including Michael, welcome dialogue. It’s part of our job.

[Maeve Halligan @MaeveHalligan]

When I talk about fear culture at our universities, this is what I mean. A few young minds that have closed themselves off to anything they disagree with are ruining it for the majority of us students who know that such exposure is the most important of all.

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

By putting this interview out with a known Islamic regime lobbyist (despite his protestations) - and thus with the full knowledge and blessing of the regime before it’s broadcast to the world - @Channel4News are trying to tell us “hey everyone, news from inside Iran: true, they don’t like the regime but they think the way forward - despite all the massacring, executions and everything they’ve endured - is to wait a few years until the current regime reforms”.

Which is like saying “you know that bloke who slaughtered his family and tens of thousands more? Before stopping him, how about waiting a bit to give him time to see the error of his ways?”

This is where the press are complicit. The vast majority of UK mainstream media outlets lean rabidly anti-Trump. To them that’s who the real enemy is, not the murderous, repressive regime like the Islamic Republic. Which is insane.

Wittingly or unwittingly they are now pushing an Islamic regime clearly stated aim to ride out the war, to wait and stall until Trump is no longer US president, knowing full well that the next one won’t have the courage to get rid of them once and for all. For the good of the planet. Which is utterly insane.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

They’re insane. They’re actually insane.

Antisemitism rots your brain.

[Sarah Ettedgui @SarahEttedgui]

“Dismantling Israel” is not a thing. It is not an international law mechanism.

There is no lawful process by which outsiders simply abolish a sovereign state against the will of its people and replace it with some imagined “state for all citizens.

Israel is a UN member state. It has sovereignty, territorial integrity, a population, institutions, borders to defend, and the right of self-defence like every other state.

So when people say “dismantle Israel,” they are usually hiding the operative question: by what means?

Because if the citizens of Israel do not consent to the abolition of their state, then “dismantling” it requires coercion. And in the real world, in that region, with Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Islamic Jihad, and a century of violence against Jewish sovereignty, coercion means war, displacement, domination, and worse.

South Africa was not abolished. Apartheid was abolished. Ending a racial hierarchy inside a state is not the same thing as dissolving the national self-determination of the Jewish people in the Middle East and pretending everyone will magically receive equal rights the next morning.

[Izabella Tabarovsky @IzaTabaro]

What I find riveting about this clip is not that Sarah Wilkinson doesn't see Israelis as human—it's a given for people whose entire worldview is built around a Manichean spiritual dichotomy in which Palestine/Gaza stands for good and Israel/Jews for evil.

What's genuinely worth noting here are the last few seconds of the clip, where she says that she glimpsed Gaza right before the cruel Israeli monsters so abruptly ended her quest.

It's that twinkle in her eye and the swelling music that reveal the real meaning of Gaza for her: Gaza as the Holy Grail, an object of longing, a source of redemption for her and for all humanity, the closest thing to a divine revelation she's ever been granted.

The sense we get from those last few seconds is that, simply by glimpsing Gaza, she reached a level of spiritual transcendence that she will cherish for the rest of her life. And it's the sweetness of that moment, of redemption so tantalizingly within one’s grasp, that is going to bring her back, for one doesn’t abandon the holy quest simply because agents of Satan stand in one's way. Indeed, the greater the obstacles to redemption, the more resolutely one must persevere.

@RachelMoiselle has written about Palestinianism as a replacement faith for post-Catholic Irish. @HusseinAboubakr has a tour de force of a piece out now on Palestine as a symbol whose meaning changes depending on which groups and causes attach themselves to it.

This clip is an illustration of what both of them are talking about. I hope there are people out there studying Palestinianism as a psycho-spiritual phenomenon. It has to be one of the most fascinating subjects of inquiry today.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

.@Wikipedia has been transformed into a blunt instrument of propaganda in the deliberate effort to erase a nation and its history.

Read this thread before shouting at me that it ain't so.

[Greg - Israelite in Exile (surviving the Galut) @anexiledjew]

We are truly living in completely upside-down times.
A BBC presenter criticises Hamas and gets fired.
Lineker calls Zionists rats and gets rehired, rewarded, and awarded again and again and again. https://t.co/9BNBrVaJdm

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

Philosopher Sam Harris on @havivrettiggur podcast on the ‘moral confusion that is deeply unsustainable’ on the obsession with race which has taken over the left.
He’s speaking about it in terms of the Israel/ Palestine conflict but it could just as well be applied to the culture war rows surrounding the police behaviour in the Henry Nowak case.