kibihofmann

Hot shot programmer.
'Kibi, he's just dis guy, you know?'

[Richard Ferrer @richferrer]

Haifa has Israel's largest Arab Christian community and more than 20,000 Arab Muslim residents. It is the world centre of the Baháʼí faith and home to @TechnionLive, a world-leading university where 30% of students are young Arabs being trained to become the next generation of scientists and engineers. Its graduates invented the USB flash drive, the PillCam and modern drip irrigation.

Haifa is precisely the tolerant, multicultural success story the fanatically obtuse @TheGreenParty claims to celebrate. Haifa ticks every progressive box. The only problem is it's in Israel. @hackneycouncil @zoegarbettgreen

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

#Shalom

[kibihofmann @kibihofmann]

Looks like a bloke

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

A wonderful example of Islamic irony

[kibihofmann @kibihofmann]

Shocking stuff 😏

[Kosher Chutzpah @KosherChutzpah]

🚨 BREAKING: RO KHANNA HUMILIATED & DETAINED AT ISRAEL'S BEN GURION AIRPORT

While trying to reach his departure gate, Israeli authorities treated U.S. Congressman Ro Khanna like a suspected terrorist.

Even before checking his luggage, he was subjected to a barrage of dehumanizing questions. They looked him in the eye and asked him outright if he was carrying a weapon — as if a sitting American congressman posed a threat.

He was then ordered to a security checkpoint. Standing in that endless line, Khanna felt what Palestinians endure daily: no freedom of movement, stripped of dignity under constant suspicion. The line snaked on, as if the entire airport was filled with threats.

They demanded his passport and boarding pass with open distrust. Next, they forced him to send his carry-on through the X-ray machine, treating it like it might contain a bomb. He had to remove his laptop for separate screening. When they spotted a simple bottle of water, they used it as an excuse to single him out further.

Officers then invaded his privacy, rummaging through his personal belongings. They confiscated the water, labeling it a "security threat." Once again, Israel revealed its pattern of brutality — denying even water, just as they do to the people of Gaza.

Then came the metal detector. A U.S. Congressman, forced to remove his shoes like a common criminal, walking barefoot through the scanner with arms raised in complete humiliation while strangers watched. The deliberate degradation was shocking.

Even as he finally approached the plane, authorities stopped him one last time, demanding his boarding pass again — as if they still couldn't believe he had the right to board.

This is how Israel treats an elected American official — a chilling glimpse into the daily oppression and dehumanization they inflict on Palestinians.

[Michael Eisenberg @mikeeisenberg]

מילים כדרבנות. תפיצו

[kibihofmann @kibihofmann]

@benwaxman Maybe I have FIFA derangement syndrome, but FIFA has been incredibly awful for ages. Being influenced by Trump is just the latest of a long stting of enormities. Only more infuriating since FIFA makes such a fuss against local FAs being influenced by politics

[kibihofmann @kibihofmann]

@MrBeast 1000000

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@hostile63 @EylonALevy It would be so cool if you asked a question which people could actually read and understand. But you do you.

[kibihofmann @kibihofmann]

@DalrympleWill Trying to figure out what worries you about this. Other holy sites in Israel are managed in a way which gives access to all faiths. Only the site of the ancient Jewish temple has an authority over it which prevents free access to Jews and Christians.

[kibihofmann @kibihofmann]

@AegisSailor @LeahRebeccaUK @BBCNews Noted: Roger Pierson is pro-homicide 😁

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

There's a lot to say, of course, about how much this sort of thing -- safe, comfortable Westerners appointing themselves arbiters of which nations are allowed to exist -- has taken over the politics of the Western left.

Or about what Israelis see that they don't -- for example, why Israeli Jews who hail from the Arab world are more right-wing and hawkish than the ones thrust upon the land artificially by European empires (or whatever).

Or about how no other Jews in any meaningful numbers actually managed to survive the 20th century outside the Anglophone world -- and when most Jews were actually fleeing to Israel, the Anglophone world was closed to them. The great exception, of course, is Soviet Jews, who were trapped in place and had their culture violently and brutally erased from them, and then fled almost entirely when the Iron Curtain fell.

Or, come to think of it, about how the Jewish claim to the land isn't about some dusty old lineage, but to a great extent from every generation's own contemporary story; from nearly every chapter of the Jewish Bible and prayerbook read and studied in every synagogue on Earth for two millennia; from how every synagogue for two millennia prayed toward Jerusalem; from the medieval rabbis who at the end of their lives boarded a boat to the land of Israel so they can be buried there; from how no Muslim or Christian ever doubted that Jewish attachment until they needed to pretend to forget it in order to fight Jewish immigration.

There's even a lot to say about the fundamental fakery of Western romantic discourse on indigeneity -- about how Jews were told to "go to Palestine" by Polish and Iraqi nationalists who rejected them for not being indigenous enough to Poland or Iraq, and to "go to Poland" by Palestinian activists because they're not indigenous enough to be in the land of Israel. (No one told them to go back to Iraq, of course, though they were a quarter of Baghdad's population in 1930. The brownness of half of Israeli Jews upsets the comfortable assumptions of the Western indigeneity industry, so it's ignored.)

It turns out it's possible, according to the self-appointed indigeneity auditors of the Western left, for there to exist a people that's not indigenous anywhere, and so undeserving, even in the midst of the brutal genocide of millions, of any other place to escape to. (Does Caitlin know that the Jews who fled to Israel had literally nowhere else to go? If not, her crime is ignorance. If yes, her crime is a denial of history so that history can be repeated. I hope it's ignorance.)

There's a lot to say about her final point, that it wouldn't actually be dangerous for the Jews to become a Middle Eastern minority once more; about how minorities generally have fared in the Middle East over the past century, and whether it really is crazy for Israelis, especially those hailing from the Arab world, to suspect that a future as a Middle Eastern minority would be a dark and bloody one; and about how it is the likes of Hamas, not some right-wing Israeli rabble-rouser, that keeps telling Israelis this is the case.

But what would be the point?

What would be the point of saying all that to someone who has adopted the demolition of another nation as the engine of her moral world. Such a person isn't going to sit with any of the actual history or dilemmas of this land and ask herself whether there might be some gargantuan lacunae in her understanding.

Instead, let me offer a small and practical response in place of the great and grandiose dives into the depths of the Israeli soul.

I think, dear Caitlin, that for all the reasons above and a few more besides, we Israelis will keep our self-determination, this safety we have found in a world that for all its endless self-righteousness never actually saves anyone. And I think, too, that those activists, like you, who condition Palestinian self-determination on us losing our own only pushes off the day of that blessed and necessary independence.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

The problem with answering, Owen, is that it's long.

Because you aren't a little wrong, but spectacularly wrong in kind of evil ways.

But you told me not to evade. So let's do it.

1. “No protests in British history have been bigger than opposition to the American and British slaughter of Arabs in Iraq, so what now?”

Let's let the twitterati judge.

February 15, 2003, London. Police estimate of 750,000 participants in anti-Iraq War protest. Organizers claim as many as 2 million.

The biggest one-off protest ever held in London.

But here's what I said: "The slaughter of Arabs has never triggered anything remotely similar in scale and regularity and consistency in the history of British marches."

Because there were literally *millions* who marched over Gaza, cumulatively, week in and week out, across the entirety of the UK. And many millions more throughout the West. It was everywhere. ACLED recorded 48,000–51,000 protests from October 2023 through 2025 over Gaza, across 130 countries.

A third of the city of Amsterdam marched. Hundreds of thousands in Toronto and New York. A million in Pakistan, a million in Algiers, hundreds of thousands in Rabat and Jakarta. Countries that have no connection whatsoever to Israel, aren’t allies of Israel and don’t arm Israel saw the identical phenomenon.

And still your best analysis is “you’re a WESTERN ALLY?” Just as an analyst, you really think that encompasses the phenomenon?

And even that’s not the truly remarkable part. The remarkable part was the repetitiveness itself, the regularity, the duration and stamina of weekly protests for months and then years. There’s never been anything like it, not for any war, not in the history of Britain. Not even close.

That’s a simple fact. Denying that fact is therefore a bad strategy on your part. A better strategy would be to try to explain it.

Maybe it’s not nefarious antisemitism – or at least not *just* an obsession with Jews embedded deep in progressive and Muslim-world politics and identity. Maybe it’s because people could see the victims on their TikTok feeds, something they’d never seen at that scale from any previous war.

Maybe. I suppose we’ll know in the next war if this is a profound shift in consciousness inaugurated by changes in how we consume information – which would be a beautiful discovery, because it would mean it isn't a surge in antisemitism, and it would also mean that it will be harder to fight wars in future, because everyone everywhere will see the pain of war up close. That would be a beautiful and redemptive outcome, a huge silver lining flowing from the catastrophic tragedy of Gaza.

Or maybe none of that will happen, the only images that will ever flood anyone's feed will be of Jewish criminality, and it really is in the end just a new version of the old civilization-organizing bigotry it was of old, once again, like it always does, masquerading as righteousness.

2. “No British columnist has written more about the Saudi war on Yemen.”

Holy shit, Owen, it isn’t about you. What a strange and irrelevant claim.

Coverage and exposure for Gaza was and remains orders of magnitude – multiple orders of magnitude – larger than it ever was for Yemen or Sudan or Syria or all other conflicts underway everywhere put together in the last three years. It’s vastly greater than Yemen ever got in the darkest moments of that conflict. Even when tens of thousands of children were dying of hunger.

Not three-fold or five-fold, not even 100-fold. We're talking 1000-fold and more.

3. “There has not been a Western facilitated war on the very right of Yemenis to exist as a people going back GENERATIONS”

You think you're helping the cause of Gaza here, but you're just minimizing the evils of the Yemen war.

There has not, in fact, ever been a Yemeni campaign to erase Saudi Arabia. You notice?

Nor a pan-Arab and Iranian campaign that launched multiple annihilationist wars and built vast and sophisticated terrorist movements to destroy the entire Saudi people – which might have led the Saudis to take seriously a Houthi commitment to annihilate them.

I voted repeatedly for a Palestinian state. My own politics didn’t destroy those attempts. It was the annihilationists on the other side that did that.

Up till now you’re just hedging and wriggling and telling half-truths. Here you get kinda evil. And ironically, over the very thing you think gives you moral weight: Yemen’s suffering.

4. “the thousands slaughtered by Saudi bombs over many years in a Yemeni civil war with multiple armed actors is a) a hideous crime b) not even approaching the number of Palestinians slaughtered either in absolute or proportionate numbers, and certainly not in the time scale of Gaza. About 9,000 Yemeni civilians were killed Saudi air strikes in the space of 7 years."

Jesus Christ, Owen. The famine. The fucking man-made famine, Owen.

Once again, it isn’t about you. You know there are 377,000 dead from that war and you cherry-pick the sliver of statistics that will downplay that into nothingness just to win an argument on twitter.

Tell me again how much you cared about Yemen.

Just the deaths from military action were over 150,000. And the blockade wasn’t carried out with Western military hardware? It was, dear Owen.

“Do you agree that’s a terrible crime?”

Yes, you man-child. One of the greatest ever committed.

“(Let’s see if you even do or if you supported the Saudi war - spit it out!)”

I’m a big fan of bombing the shit of out the totalitarian, slavery-legalizing Houthis. But the famine, holy shit, man. The famine should have shaken the foundations of the world. It never did.

Because Jews weren’t involved.

Ball's in your court, buddy.

[kibihofmann @kibihofmann]

@DamCou What? Is 'poncey' not a word anymore?

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

European leaders helping to negotiate ceasefire in Iran

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

Just a hunch, but perhaps the Church might acknowledge that Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Christians have always been totally free to practise their faith; might stop regurgitating its own patented blood libels about Jewish “atrocities” committed by others; and might state that since Jesus was a Jew from Judea, it’s a malicious lie to claim that the indigenous Jews are now in “illegal occupation” of their own historic homeland.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

You all think this is funny. This isn’t funny. The entire edifice is rotten and failing. The new UN standard for calling a war “genocide” - at least if Jews are involved; they’re not claiming this in Sudan or Ukraine or Yemen - is “knowing not all deaths will be combatants and doing the war anyway.”

By that definition, every war is a genocide. Every. Single. War.

But it’ll still work. The actual argument is irrelevant. No one, no journalist and no scholar and no politician, will bother with the staggering incoherence of this report, with the collapse of international law into pathological stupidity.

The point is the libel. And all the institutions will play their role.

This is that how the world works now.

At least, again, when Jews are involved.

[Higgy @higgyboson]

Actually Zarah if it was the other way round the Jewish film crew would have been physically assaulted, spat at and chased down the road fearing for their lives with the sound of "Death to all Jews" ringing in their ears.

This video shows the difference between people vocalising their disapproval of something in comparison to the instinctive and immediate violence that would have been dished out by your lot in similar circumstances.

I hope this helps.

[kibihofmann @kibihofmann]

@zarahussain999 Just a stray thought, but if you don't want people yelling at you in the street have you tried *not* being a raging antisemite for a minute? I think I saw on TikTok that it might work