Emerald Eyes 🎗️

Calling out antisemitism 24/7. Views are my own. PhD English Lit. Proud Zionist Jew.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

I’ve written and researched the whole seven front war since 7th October. It has been my whole professional life. I’ve written many papers and have just finished my book. I have written both positive and negative critiques of the war.

All of that feels irrelevant in this context. The most meaningful thing I have done since 7th October is bear witness and relay the horrors done that day. I have seen part of the sexual crime evidence in this report (above and beyond the 47 minute reel) and it remains the most horrific thing I have seen in my life. Nothing Israel has done in Gaza comes remotely close to the horrors of 7th October. The Gaza war and 7th October don’t deserve to be in the same conversation when it comes to atrocity. No comparison.

The rapes are the thing Hamas and their supporters are most scared of being exposed to the world. Every time I have written about what I have seen, 5x the usual amount of bots descend upon my replies. Abuse and outright denial.

Now, the evidence I have seen, and more, is out there. When Yoav Gallant said Israel was fighting human animals in Hamas, he was absolutely correct.

Read it for yourself: https://t.co/IxWkDeLxMV

[Rachel Elovitz / רחל אלוביץ @AmIsraelChai_]

This is incredible difficult to watch. But if you are going to judge Israel, how their government responded to the Oct 7 massacre, you should see this footage, how these Palestinian terrorists chased this father and two of his sons, killed the father as he shielded his sons, and while you cant see it in this video, terrorists also killed the boys’ older brother.

The terrorists went house to house doing this. But you accuse Israel of genocide?

How would you have wanted your government to respond if this was your family?

[נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid]

As we approach three years since the October 7 massacre, there is footage the world must never forget.

These recordings are evidence of what happened that morning. They must continue to be seen and shared around the world.

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[Independent Press Gallery @IndependentPG]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Independent Press Gallery Condemns CBC for Pulling Jewish Journalist Off the Air

https://t.co/H07X4OAG2j

[Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر @emilykschrader]

The former bodyguard of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was given asylum and citizenship in the UK.

He then used his position to plot a huge terror attack targeting Jews in Europe, which was foiled.
https://t.co/8qUgjE5ZXp

[Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر @emilykschrader]

Six months after an explosive device detonated near a Liège synagogue and a car was torched in Antwerp's Jewish quarter, Belgium confirms the attacks were ordered by Tehran

It’s not about Israel folks.

https://t.co/Vq6ZJ3iZKt

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Two teenagers have been arrested in different US states over a plot to carry out a mass-casualty attack against Congregation Beth Israel, a synagogue in Houston, Texas.

Angelina Han Hicks, 18, of Lexington, North Carolina, and a 16-year-old boy from the Houston area were arrested and charged.

Hicks conspired with two people identified only by their first names, “Angel” and “Teegan,” to “kill as many Jews as possible” by driving a vehicle through a congregation at the synagogue.

[Mike Fegelman @MikeFegelman]

There is something almost surreal about watching @CBCNews devote extensive coverage to the attempted massacre of Jews at a Belleville synagogue.

Multiple written articles. Various video clips. Hourly updates. A feature on @CBCTheNational.

The story deserves every bit of that attention.

What makes the coverage so shocking is that CBC is now reporting on the consequences of an antisemitic climate that its own journalism has helped normalize.

.@CBC’s own headline reads:

“Synagogue shooting was deliberate hate attack.”

It must be profoundly uncomfortable for CBC to report that the gunman was specifically targeting Jews. That he had the means to carry out a mass-casualty attack. That he shouted, “You are going to die for the Jews.”

Because suddenly there is no room for euphemism.

No debate about whether Jews are imagining the threat.

No opportunity to sanitize hatred as activism, obscure its ideological character, or explain away the fear Jewish Canadians have been expressing for years.

The consequences are sitting there in plain sight.

CBC should be doing far more than covering this story. It should be asking itself some deeply uncomfortable questions about the role journalism plays in shaping the environment in which hatred becomes normalized.

For years, critics have challenged CBC over coverage that has too often stripped away context, softened extremist rhetoric, legitimized fringe anti-Zionist voices, and presented Jewish and Israeli experiences through a markedly different moral lens.

Those choices accumulate.

They influence which ideas audiences come to view as extreme and which gradually become acceptable. They help determine whose fears are taken seriously, whose suffering is humanized, and which forms of hatred receive endless qualifications before anyone is willing to call them what they are.

That does not make CBC responsible for the actions of this gunman.

It does mean CBC cannot credibly cover the explosion of antisemitism in Canada as though it were simply an observer of a phenomenon that appeared from nowhere.

Institutions that help shape public understanding also carry responsibility for examining what they have helped normalize.

And reflection cannot be the end of it.

There must be accountability. Practices should change. Standards should change. And where repeated failures can be traced to decision-makers, there should be consequences.

CBC is now devoting extraordinary resources to documenting the horror of what almost happened in Belleville.

It should devote some of that same energy to understanding how Canada reached the point where Jews require armed police protection to pray — and how its own journalism helped move us there.

https://t.co/MmgrK3o7Cz

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Another massive scandal has just dropped, with over 50 alleged terrorists claimed by BBC to be journalists.

This is actually insane.

[יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad @YosephHaddad]

Unlike @AbdulElSayed, I’m an Arab who is actually from Israel. My family lived through the establishment of the state of Israel and what he calls the “Nakba.” The Holocaust was nothing like the events of the “Nakba” where my grandfather was told to flee by Arab leaders (not Jews) so the Arabs could “defeat the Jews.” He refused, and all the Arab residents who stayed were given citizenship. Those who fled, a large number by choice, were not permitted to return, as often happens in war. That is a catastrophe, a “nakba” of their own making. But there was no choice in the Holocaust, there was no citizenship for those who stayed. You are intentionally comparing a war and a genocide. They are not the same.

Your vile attempt to co-opt the largest massacre of the Jewish people in history, the systematic murder of six million people simply because they were Jews, for your own dystopian pro-terror Muslim Brotherhood agenda is despicable. I see through you Abdul. You may be able to fool Western Americans with your garbage, but we know who you really are.

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[Mish @Mish_K_]

The official NAZA trailer is out.

It features a conversation with an unidentified IDF soldier that says there was approval for a strike that would have 500 deaths as collateral damage.

The thing is, if there was ever an IDF strike that resulted in 500 deaths, the media would have gone insane and we would have heard about it.

We heard nothing. Because it didn't happen.

[Ben 🇮🇱 @journo_ben]

The gas station worker who saved more than a dozen.

On October 7, 23-year-old Bedouin Muslim Masad Armilat was working at a gas station near Sderot when the Hamas attack began.

Instead of hiding, Masad ran outside.

He gathered terrified people fleeing the massacre, including wounded Israelis and Nova survivors, and rushed them into the station’s safe room. More than a dozen people crowded inside.

Masad locked the safe room to protect them, locked the store, and placed gas cylinders near the entrance. He then went outside to warn drivers away from the area, where terrorists were shooting at people.

At one point, a terrorist fired at Masad from close range but missed.

Later, eight Hamas terrorists arrived in a pickup truck and tried to break into the store. They eventually gave up and left.

Everyone hiding inside survived.

For his bravery, Masad received the Israel Police’s “Exemplary Citizen” award.

A 23-year-old Muslim Israeli risked his life to save complete strangers.

#October7Heroes

[Luc Bernard @LucBernard]

Nazism is spreading on Instagram at a rate not seen in our lifetimes.

Pro-Hitler and pro-Nazi videos are racking up hundreds of millions of views, and they're reaching audiences even in Germany and Austria, where this content is illegal.

Instagram's own terms of service ban this material. So we're making a public demand: enforce your rules and remove it, or admit that your platform has become one of the biggest engines for spreading Nazi propaganda in the world today.

@instagram @Meta

[HonestReporting Canada @HonestRepCanada]

Canada gave 217 million dollars to the Palestinians last year, without demanding any accountability.

➡️ Hamas has not surrendered or laid down its weapons.

➡️ The Palestinian Authority still rewards terrorists for their terror activities.

Does anyone know what 217 million dollars could do to help your average Canadian?

Why are we giving aid to the Palestinians when no meaningful change has occurred?

@junonewscom

https://t.co/XwhmN9cYbE

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

The most effective attack on Jews after the Holocaust was not denial. It was to accuse them of becoming the thing that murdered them.

Israel is drawn with a swastika on the star. Palestinians are costumed as the new Jews. “Never again” is aimed at Jews burying their dead from October 7. The word “genocide” is reserved for the army that sends texts, makes phone calls, knocks on roofs, drops leaflets, and opens corridors. After all that, the same army is blamed for the civilians Hamas would not let leave.

On campus, the slogan is that Zionism is Nazism. The people who chant it do not need the Holocaust to be false. They need it to be transferable.

[Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM]

It's amazing. Palestinians can make a video of two little girls kidnapped b Hamas, forced to say to the camera they were kidnapped by Hamas, while standing in front of a Hamas emblam, and still people will deny it happened.

[National Post @nationalpost]

Jewish students say they have come across 'Heil Hitler' salutes and antisemitic graffiti on Canadian university campuses.

“Students are avoiding certain professors, avoiding certain classrooms where they know there’s going to be an intense debate that they will feel alone in,” one student said https://t.co/FExl9oTxLu

[Solomon Friedman 🇮🇱💙✡️ @Rabbinical_]

To the loser schmuck who yelled “Fuck Jews” at me while driving past my synagogue: I got your license plate.

And yes, I’ll be getting your name, employer, and filing a police report.

We aren’t taking this crap lying down anymore.

[Laura✡️Marcus🇮🇱 @MissLauraMarcus]

As a Jewish person aged 70 I now feel for the first time in my life that I’m living in a country hostile to me. I’m living in the house of my enemy. With a government that cares very much about my enemies but not about Jews.
If a government will turn on a country’s smallest minority, it’ll turn on others too. It starts with The Jews. It never ends with us.
The government’s antipathy to Israel is about Jews. It gives money to a terrorist organisation - hamas - that wants to wipe out all Jews. Were it to succeed, who’s next?

[Rachel @rachelbsol18]

The truth about the Palestinian “Nakba,” by the numbers:

The popular picture of the Nakba is hundreds of thousands of innocent people driven far from their homeland, never to return. The actual 1948 numbers tell a more complicated story for both Palestinians and Jews.
On the eve of the war, Mandatory Palestine had roughly 1.2–1.3 million Arabs and 600,000–650,000 Jews.
After the fighting:
• Approximately 150,000–160,000 Palestinians remained inside the 1949 armistice lines of the new State of Israel and later received Israeli citizenship (or residency that converted to citizenship).
• Roughly 400,000–460,000 Arabs already living in the West Bank and about 80,000 already living in the Gaza Strip remained in their original homes. These areas lay outside the Israeli armistice lines and came under Jordanian and Egyptian control.
• Roughly 270,000–280,000 who left what became Israel went to the West Bank.
• Roughly 160,000–200,000 who left what became Israel went to the Gaza Strip.

Most of those who left what became Israel therefore stayed inside historic Palestine. The farthest plausible relocation from a depopulated village in what became Israel to Gaza or the West Bank was only 120–140 miles.

Those who left historic Palestine entirely (beyond Israel + West Bank + Gaza) numbered on the order of 250,000–300,000. Principal destinations were Lebanon (~100,000), Syria (~75,000–90,000), and Transjordan/East Bank (~70,000–100,000), plus smaller numbers in Egypt and Iraq. This is a local relocation - still within the surrounding Levant area, many of which, their ancestors came from.

Jews were displaced too. Historians estimate 60,000–70,000 Jews became internally displaced within the territory that became Israel during the 1948 war (Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, Gush Etzion, and other isolated communities).

A much larger Jewish displacement followed. Rising hostility, riots, asset seizures, and official policies after the war led 800,000–850,000 Jews to leave or be expelled from Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Syria, and elsewhere. The majority went to Israel, where they were granted citizenship and absorbed.

Two refugee populations emerged from the same war. One remained registered as refugees for generations. The other was absorbed by the new state that received them. The distances, destinations, and outcomes were not the same as the simplified picture often presented. And the distorted narrative does more harm towards the cause of peace than good.