The fact Israel got booed at the Olympic opening ceremony while Iran got hardly any reaction is quite telling…
Either people are uninformed, selectively outraged, or just prejudiced.
So let’s stop the games.
If you want this fight, @RepJamesComer, let’s have it—in public.
You love to talk about transparency. There’s nothing more transparent than a public hearing, cameras on.
We will be there.
New Jersey is an incredibly special place, but it never gets enough appreciation.
So, as the newest leader of our great state – for all its artists, battles, and innovations – I wanted to take a moment to say: You’re welcome, America.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated his life fighting for equity and justice. He taught us that even in the face of intimidation and discrimination, we must never stop working towards a better future – a lesson that feels especially relevant today.
Change has never been easy. It takes persistence and determination, and requires all of us to speak out and stand up for what we believe in. As we honor Dr. King today, let’s draw strength from his example, and do our part to build on his legacy.
Here's a list of synagogues that have been set on fire, or targeted with arson, since October 7:
- Oct 17: El Hamma, Tunisia
- Oct 18: Berlin, Germany
- Nov 8: Montreal, Canada
- Nov 18: Yerevan, Armenia
- Nov 19: Lakewood, USA
- Feb 28: Sfax, Tunisia
- April 5: Oldenburg, Germany
- April 10: Moscow, Russia
- May 1: Warsaw, Poland
- May 17: Rouen, France
- May 30: Vancouver, Canada
- July 11: Obninsk, Russia
- Aug 24: La Grande-Motte, France
- Dec 6: Melbourne, Australia
- Dec 18: Montreal, Canada
- Dec 30: Mykolaiv, Ukraine
- Jan 11: Sydney, Australia
- July 4: Melbourne, Australia
- Aug 13: Obninsk, Russia
- Nov 27: Chernivtsi, Ukraine
- Jan 10: Mississippi, USA
Every time a synagogue is set on fire, I have to update this list. And it never gets easier.
BREAKING: Beth Israel Synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi 🇺🇸, the city’s only synagogue, was set on fire during Shabbat.
Two Torah scrolls were destroyed. Five more were damaged.
And it’s impossible to ignore the history: this is the same synagogue that was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because its rabbi supported the Civil Rights Movement.
Different decade. Same hate.
It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run��� a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
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Matilda was murdered by Islamic terrorists while running to her father.
An Islamist looked through the scope of his rifle.
He aimed at Matilda.
He pulled the trigger.
Anyone who minimizes this is complicit.
Anyone who reframes this is complicit.
Anyone who adds a “but” after her name is complicit.
Islamists murdered Matilda.
Say it out loud.
Say her name.
Hold them accountable.
Islamists celebrate death.
It is how they worship.
By murdering Jews.
We do not forget.
We do not forgive.
Never forget Matilda.
Please help Geffen Bitton, the Sydney unsung hero “in the red T shirt” who ran to into the line of fire after Ahmed Al Ahmed to fight the terrorist, is in serous condition and needs needs our help. https://t.co/tEqgWfCcL4
Let us not forget him as his identity was only shared today.
Geffen who moved towards the Bondi gunman instead of fleeing remains fighting for his life after being shot.
Gefen Bitton, 30, referred to as the ‘man in a red T-shirt’ after he was seen in footage from Sunday’s attack near the footbridge running to help Ahmed Al Ahmed as he disarmed terrorist gunman Sajid Akram
Bitton, an Israeli who has been working in Australia for about three years as a garage door technician, was attending the Chanukah by the Sea event, his friend Tom Cohen told https://t.co/lAQXa0LT8y.
He had been looking forward to watching the ceremonial lighting of the menorah when the shooting began.
As gunfire rang out, another friend of Bitton’s stood up and ran, but seconds later realised the 30-year-old was not with him.
Moments later his sister in Israel then received a phone call from Bitton saying he had been shot.
She alerted his friends in Sydney, who began desperately searching for him, before eventually finding him at St Vincent’s Hospital, initially listed as an unidentified patient.
In the days that followed, friends recognised Bitton in footage that showed him attempting to help, but was shot by the terrorist Naveed Akram.
Friends believe Bitton’s decision to run back toward the bridge also explains why his phone and keys were later found closer to the gunman than where he had been sitting moments earlier.
Another friend, Cayli Barr, said Bitton’s decision was something “most of us couldn’t even imagine”.
“Gefen had escaped, he was safe, but when he saw the terrorist, he ran into the line of fire to help,” Barr wrote in a GoFundMe page set up to support Bitton.
“He made the decision to put himself at risk to save the lives of others.
“As Ahmad Al Ahmad heroically jumped on the terrorist, Gefen ran in alongside to confront the terrorist.
“There, he was shot, fell to the ground, and shot again.
“Now in the ICU, Gefen’s put his own life at risk with his selfless actions.”
“He ran into the face of danger like only a hero does, guided by the values on which he was educated and raised.”
Bitton’s father has since flown from overseas to Sydney to be by his son’s bedside, as friends and family keep vigil at the hospital.
Five days on, he remains in intensive care, unresponsive, and has undergone five surgeries, Cohen said.
He was shot in the lower abdomen near the hip, shattering his pelvic bone.
Bone fragments caused severe internal injuries, and doctors required three to four operations to stop the internal bleeding.
Cohen said it is unclear whether Bitton will regain full use of his leg, and that the road to recovery will be long.
“He’s like the most spiritual guy ever,” Cohen said, describing Bitton as “super brave and super unique”.
“He loves people and always turns words into action.
In the span of 24 hours, on the first day of Hanukkah, we’ve seen:
- 16 Jews murdered in an antisemitic mass shooting in Australia
- 2 students murdered at Brown University by a shooter targeting a professor who also teaches Jewish Studies
- A Jewish family home shot at in California
- A Hanukkah concert in Amsterdam violently disrupted by antisemitic pro-jihadists
They keep victimizing us — and then blaming us when we refuse to die.
Despite it all, we will light our first Hanukkah candles tonight — millions of us across the world — a symbol of our light which, despite every effort across centuries, refuses to go out.