Sam Harris: "Of course, the boundary between Anti-Semitism and generic moral stupidity is a little hard to discern—and I’m not sure that it is always important to find it. I’m not sure it matters why a person can’t distinguish between collateral damage in a necessary war and conscious acts of genocidal sadism that are celebrated as a religious sacrament by a death cult. Our streets have been filled with people, literally tripping over themselves in their eagerness to demonstrate that they cannot distinguish between those who intentionally kill babies, and those who inadvertently kill them, having taken great pains to avoid killing them, while defending themselves against the very people who have just intentionally tortured and killed innocent men, women, and yes… babies…
If you have landed, proudly and sanctimoniously, on the wrong side of this asymmetry—this vast gulf between savagery and civilization—while marching through the quad of an Ivy League institution wearing yoga pants, I’m not sure it matters that your moral confusion is due to the fact that you just happen to hate Jews. Whether you’re an anti-Semite or just an apologist for atrocity is probably immaterial. The crucial point is that you are dangerously confused about the moral norms and political sympathies that make life in this world worth living."
I had the honor of delivering the annual MLK sermon at Central Synagogue.
My speech touches on a range of topics and themes: October 7th, Jim Crow, Leo Frank, MLK, Elie Wiesel, silence, indifference, moral clarity, nonviolence, Israel, Am Yisrael Chai, Hatikvah, and hope.
Belgian economic journal L’Echo published a story about several NGOs with links to radical Islamic movements including Hamas. In the heart of the country that houses the European institutions. Guess who funds them to label any criticism as Islamophobia and continue digging the EU's grave. We need to be more vigilant. These radical people hide nothing of their intentions. Why does the naivety persist?
Belgium is endangering Europe by failing to control and protect its own territory. Europe endangers itself by embracing the hand that strangles it.
.@daliaziada is Director of a Middle East think tank and author of a book on Islamists. Listen to her explain to you the core of this Israel vs Hamas war and how it is about something much bigger than a land claim-and how you, in the west, are involved.https://t.co/cBi3GmOMAb
They killed a student. A student is somebody who sees a future for oneself. Most of these terrorists did not return to Gaza after the attack. They came to kill and be rewarded with death. This is the evil too many in the world refuse to see or are excusing. Also, is this the killing of the colonizer that so many faux revolutionaries in the West speak of?
Today I was among the journalists who have attended a private screening of the raw footage of October 7th and I want to express to you what I saw since it’s not been made public. It’s been a very heavy day. A decision was made that Jews are less than human, and treated that way in words and deeds..I now know that’s exactly the message Hamas sent on purpose — at scale. I wasn’t aware of that before. I saw bodies were burned but I did not understand or appreciate how intentional the effort was - they did it methodically, you hear it in the voices, the commands the ease, the excitement of finding and mutilating victims.
While I understand the desire to have the presidents of @harvard, @MIT, and @Penn resign/be fired as a result of their outrage testimony, in a sense this is a small and insignificant outcome. The parasitic ideas that led to their grotesque testimony have been festering in academia for decades, and have fully choked the larger culture. Getting rid of one administrator will simply result in another equally cowardly and lobotomized leader taking over. There is a long conveyor belt of such academic administrators. The battle can only be won on the ideological and epistemological battlefields. In the same way that Lysenkoism or blood letting are rejected ideas, the same must occur with all of the idea pathogens that define Woke Progressive Ideology.
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The people of Spain have now been protesting against Socialism for 34 days in a row.
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You don’t get it.
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the grandkids of the real refugees.
My cousins in Lebanon are not even allowed to work in certain jobs.
And my friends in Gaza and the West Bank continue to be victims of incitement in their own schools.
And it’s all your fault.
Shut UNRWA down.
Today is Jewish Refugees Day. We remember 850,000 Jews forced out of Arab states and Iran in the 20th century. Communities 2,500 years old were destroyed.
At the United Nations, I asked Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, and the others: “Where are your Jews?”
Still waiting for an answer.
Hamas killed the 91yr old founder of kibbutz Kissufim, attached her body to a rope & dragged it around behind a motorbike. They “diced” up the body of her 80yr old neighbour with a spade. Details like this are why Israel is united in resolve https://t.co/SuXi8eE7VT