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[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Abdul El-Seyed deleted this post.

It would be a shame if it went viral.

[Mike Rogers @MikeRogersForMI]

Are you sure you want to talk about daddies?

[David Wolpe @RabbiWolpe]

"At the rate of 0.5 percent, Gaza has one of the lowest rates of acute child malnutrition in the region" https://t.co/VL3Fcmu2mY

[DSA Watch @DSA_Watch]

Hasan Piker: "Go back to Auschwitz"

[Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar]

Detroit News: "A companion objective of AIPAC is to ensure antisemitism doesn't gain a significant foothold in this country. Helping deny a national platform to a man who stands on the stage with confirmed antisemites is essential to that work.

No one would object if the NAACP spent whatever it took to defeat a racist in a Senate contest. Why is it so objectionable that AIPAC is going all out to block a candidate whose views are an abomination to Jews?"
https://t.co/BQvcZLROS7

[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:

[Shabbos Kestenbaum @ShabbosK]

I am shocked that Hillel International has just filed an Amicus Curiae in SUPPORT of Harvard University against the Trump Administration.

Rather than take responsibility for their failure to respond to the explosion of antisemitism on American campuses post October 7th, Hillel has instead decided to support the perpetrators.

I encourage Jewish donors to pull their funding and support organizations that positively impact the Jewish future such as Chabad, local Jewish day schools, and summer camp.

I have never said this before to be respectful, but it's clear Hillel does not want to reform, so:

1. Staff at Hillel repeatedly discouraged me from filing litigation to begin with

2. Staff at Hillel told undergraduates to remove Israeli flags so as not to appear political

3. Staff at Hillel repeatedly told me and others students not to publicly criticize Claudine Gay

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

The forgotten Arab atrocities of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem: the history you never learned at school.

Tonight, Jews around the world will commemorate Tisha B'Av, the anniversary of the destruction of the First and Second Jewish Temples in Jerusalem.

For the Jews of antiquity, the conquests of Jerusalem were not only a political disaster, ending Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel. They were also humanitarian catastrophes on an apocalyptic scale. The Roman conquest of Jerusalem, for example, involved the sort of barbaric savagery that brings to mind the Shoah or the October 7 Massacre.

Some of the Jews fleeing Jerusalem swallowed gold coins before escaping, because there was no food in the besieged city, but plenty of gold. They hoped that as they hobbled out looking like Buchenwald inmates or Eli Sharabi on his last day in Gaza, they would have something to keep them alive outside. And then the Romans' Arab mercenaries devised a diabolical plan.

Josephus describes: "One deserter was caught picking gold coins out of his excreta... When the trick was discovered... the Arab unit and the Syrians cut open the refugees and ransacked their bellies... In a single night, nearly two thousand were ripped up."

The Arab atrocities during the Roman conquest of Jerusalem were so barbaric that Titus "was on the point of surrounding the perpetrators with his cavalry and shooting them down." But there were just too many of them, more perpetrators than victims.

The Arabs let the Romans take the fall for their barbaric atrocities. "The Arabs and Syrians... began by indulging their passions in an undisciplined fashion," Josephus recalls, "and ended by letting Romans take the blame for their bloodthirsty butchery and their hatred for the Jews."

The Arabs continued to disembowel the Jewish refugees from Jerusalem. They "looked around in case any Roman saw them, then ripped them up and pulled the filthy money out of their bowels." Most of their victims did not even have gold coins in their bellies. And the fear of getting disemboweled by Arab soldiers looking for gold was so intense, that many Jews who fled Jerusalem actually returned to the encircled city.

It's all in Josephus' Jewish War, Book V. But they didn't teach you this at school. The rest, however, is history.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Stanton’s leftist primary opponent in Arizona was supported by Our Revolution, Track AIPAC, Progressive Democrats of America, and Cenk Uygur. The race was called for Stanton in 10 minutes.

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

The younger generations will soon realize the anti-Israel stuff was an op just like BLM and COVID. When that occurs, there will be a massive Gen Z pro-Israel reaction.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Iranian TV on Lindsey Graham:

I congratulate the Iranian people on the death U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, who has been sent to hell.

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

In 1995, an American president needed two Hebrew words to bury an Israeli prime minister. In 2026, Israel needs the same two for a Baptist son of a South Carolina pool hall:

Shalom, chaver.

Israel has lost its greatest friend on Capitol Hill, Senator Lindsey Graham.

That isn’t an exaggeration; it’s the consensus of the Israeli opposition and coalition, who rose in unison this morning to eulogize the beloved senator.

Born and raised in his beloved South Carolina, Graham grew up living in a cramped room behind his parents’ combined pool hall, bar and liquor store. Later becoming a lawyer and enlisting in the U.S. military, he entered Congress in 1995, becoming the first Republican to represent South Carolina’s 3rd District since Reconstruction. In 2003, he moved up to the Senate, where he and John McCain became a trio with Joe Lieberman—dubbed the “Three Amigos” by Gen. David Petraeus on one of their endless trips to Iraq and Afghanistan. Hawks, travelers and crossers of aisles for wars worth fighting. Especially Israel’s.

Sander Gerber, his partner on the Taylor Force Act, once quipped that the senator was “more pro-Israel than AIPAC,” while Christians United for Israel counted him among Israel’s most stalwart allies in Congress. His evangelical base—a pillar of both South Carolina politics and American Zionism—wasn’t a constituency he courted so much as one he belonged to.

Addressing AIPAC’s annual dinner on March 22, 2010, he told the room the evening was about “our best friend in the world, the State of Israel”—and had every member of Congress present stand while he pledged that Congress had Israel’s back and would not let it down. In the same speech, he declared Jerusalem the undivided capital of Israel and the eternal home of the Jewish faith, said it was sometimes better to go to war than to allow a second Holocaust to develop, and closed with “never again.”

He more than lived up to the commitment. From Obama’s JCPOA—which he fought—to Donald Trump’s short-lived rapprochement with Tehran this past month, through the Taylor Force Act, the anti-BDS legislation, the embassy move and the Golan recognition he personally championed, Graham operated on a single axiom, the one the Hebrew press identified this morning as his signature line: Israel’s security is America’s security. He applied it without exception. In 2013, he threatened to sink Chuck Hagel’s nomination as the most anti-Israel defense secretary in American history; in December 2014, standing in Jerusalem beside Netanyahu, he promised on Iran sanctions that “the Congress will follow your lead”—a sentence no other American senator would say to a foreign leader, and Graham said it on camera.

Just 15 days after the October 7 massacre, Graham was in Tel Aviv leading a bipartisan delegation—noting that “10 percent of the United States Senate is in Israel.” Destroying Hamas, he made clear, was nonnegotiable, and he had stark words for Tehran: “We’re here today to tell Iran, we’re watching you”—if the war grew, it was coming to their backyard: “There won’t be two fronts, there will be three.” He told the room exactly why it had happened, insisting no one would ever convince him the massacre was about anything but stopping reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Israel—the very normalization project he had spent the preceding months building.

He wasn’t shy about Biden’s flip-flopping either. When the administration threatened to withhold weapons over Rafah, Graham hauled Lloyd Austin before the Armed Services Committee and asked whether he’d have supported Hiroshima and Nagasaki—then demanded to know how Washington could dictate terms to a country whose neighbors want to kill all the Jews. He called Biden’s approach “ass-backwards.” When the ICC prosecutor moved on Israeli leaders, his warning was five words of pure Graham: “If they do this to Israel, we’re next.”

When Israel launched Operation Rising Lion on June 13, 2025, his reaction was five words: “Game on. Pray for Israel.” The tweet drew fury from all directions—including from Meghan McCain, his late best friend’s daughter, who informed him it was not a game—but it was, in its way, the most honest sentence of the war: the fight he had demanded since at least 2010 had finally arrived, and he was not going to pretend otherwise. By August, he was telling South Carolina Republicans that if America pulls the plug on Israel, God will pull the plug on us. By 2026, per The Wall Street Journal, he was shuttling to Jerusalem to coach Netanyahu on making the case for war to Trump.

In January, no sooner had he disembarked than he posted: “I just landed in Israel, the one and only Jewish State, and America’s strongest ally and friend since its founding.” He returned once more in February 2026—Netanyahu, Defense Minister Katz, the General Staff—the final visit of several dozen across the decades. In March, amid the MAGA backlash over the Iran war, he gave the line that now reads as a valediction: “I will be with Israel until our dying day.”

Far too soon, that day arrived. It found him the same as always: back from an ally’s capital, stalwartly defending a country’s right to freedom and safety, and scheduled for Sunday television to explain why.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

I am very critical of settler violence and think Israel needs to do far more to punish it. But that’s not what this is about.

So what appears to have happened here was an intentional political stunt by someone who has built his entire career on stunts.

@RoKhanna had his Palestinian guides take him into a restricted area that is closed off to civilians without requesting access or coordinating with anyone.

Local security (which Khanna intentionally misrepresents as random settlers) then stopped them. IDF arrived and spent time evaluating the situation. Then Israeli police showed up, determined what had happened, and let them go on their way.

No one was hurt or attacked. No one was threatened. Khanna knew going to a restricted area would get a response and he got exactly what he wanted.

I will note that if a random group goes onto a military restricted area in the U.S., they would also be detained and questioned.

Israel is to blame for letting Khanna plan out this stunt, but that’s exactly what it was. And it was predictably coordinated with the press as he had a NYT photographer with him and waited until they released a story days later to even post about it.

Khanna wants to run for president on this nonsense because he has nothing to offer Americans.

[Brent Scher @BrentScher]

Ok, we’re on the Argentina wagon

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Rep. Haley Stevens just eviscerated Abdul El-Sayed who is being propped up by Republican SuperPACs because he’ll help Republicans win the seat. If we want to flip the Senate, Haley Stevens is the candidate to do it.

[Michelle Tandler @michelletandler]

So let me get this straight --

Last month the New York Times put "Israeli trained rape dogs" on their front page -- with zero evidence...

... But played down/hid the rape allegations of someone running for US SENATE..?!

[AIPAC 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @AIPAC]

Perhaps the Nazi tattoo should have been enough of a warning sign.