Ali Mermelstein

Time and good friends are two things that become more valuable the older you get.

[Documenting Israel @DocumentIsrael]

A beautiful moment as a plane full of ultra-Orthodox Jews broke out in song surrounding the family of Idan Alexander while en route to Israel, giving them support

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

#BREAKING During the transfer, Edan walked on his own, with just a little help from Red Cross staff (who are 19 fuck!ng months late to get to him).

[Kosher @koshercockney]

YES 🙌🏽

“Kanye West, if you got a problem, come see me bro

I am Jewish
I am very proud of it
I will fight for my people
I will not stand for Antisemitism
Or for any racism
Don’t bully anybody around me
Or I’m going to find you”

-UFC Fighter @NatanLevy

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

About time! The University of Michigan has suspended Students for Justice in Palestine’s local chapter for two years and cut their funding.

The mob is about to find out that hate doesn't pay. Buh-bye.

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

Germany's Ambassador in Israel ⬇️

[Jon Marks @JonMarksMedia]

It's snowing in New Orleans and local news found a resident from Pennsylvania to talk about the snow and of course he ended with a #GoBirds

[New Heights @newheightshow]

See if you can guess which Kelce brother is used to the KC weather

[Rebecca Winderman, MD | KidsGastroDoc @kidsgastrodoc]

I am losing followers by the minute.
Good.
Let me be clear, I am on Israel’s side.

[Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau]

The murder of six Israeli hostages by Hamas terrorists in Gaza is devastating and enraging. Canada stands with the victims’ families in your grief.

Hamas must release all hostages, lay down its arms, and have no future in the governance of Gaza. Leaders must reach a deal to bring the rest of the hostages home and end the violence.

[Gal G., Adv 🇮🇱 @ICK_GalG]

🧵1/ ״And as they torture it, it will multiply and it will break out.״

וְכַאֲשֶׁר יְעַנּוּ אֹתוֹ כֵּן יִרְבֶּה וְכֵן יִפְרֹץ

The Israeli Olympic delegation was forbidden to wear the symbol calling for the immediate release of the Israeli hostages from Gaza 🎗️- so they answered it in their training photo shoot

The more you try to silence us, deny what happened to us, attack us and defame us - the stronger we are. This beautiful nation does not break, it grows.

#Olympic2024 #OlympicGames #PARIS2024

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[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

Send Ryan Watson home @TCIPremier! Americans will boycott the island if you don’t and your economy depends on us vacationing there. Stop this before it spirals out of control.

[Shai Davidai @ShaiDavidai]

I want to send a public message to Mr. Cas Holloway, the COO of @Columbia University:

Cas, you're are really great guy. I know it. I saw it in your eyes today. This is why know that, deep-down, you know I'm right. You may not like my style, but I know you agree with almost everything that I have been saying. I just know it.

I am still trying to understand how you could stand just stand there, look me in the eyes, and not let me in to campus. How could you keep a straight face when you capitulated to the pro-Hamas mob yet refused entry to the most vocal voice for the Jewish and Israeli students, staff, and faculty at Columbia.

I think I know how.

You were just doing your job.

You were just doing your job when you denied a Jewish professor access to campus (by the way, all I wanted to do was to read the names of the 133 hostages, thanks for asking).

You were just doing your job when you sided with those that support Hamas.

You were just doing your job when you couldn't say for a full minute whether Hamas is a terrorist organization. (remember that meeting? It's all recorded. You were just doing your job).

Look, I get it. You're scared. You are worried about how the pro-Hamas extremists (and the brainwashed cult they've amassed) will react if you try to disperse them.

But that's exactly how terrorism works. It's an ideology that forces you to act in certain ways through explicit and implicit threats. Hamas doesn't need to bomb all the buses in Israel for me to still be scared of riding a bus in Tel Aviv.

It's the same at Columbia. At this point, the pro-Hamas mob at Columbia has broken basically every possible rule of the university (and possibly multiple State and Federal laws). The NYPD has stated that they are ready to act, if President Shafik lets them in. And you're the person who needs to make that call. That is damn scary.

But being scared is not an excuse for not doing the right thing.

Being scared is not an excuse for choosing the pro-Hamas mob and their violent chants over the Jewish professor who believes in co-existence.

The problem is that you are not alone. There are thousands of administrators like you all over U.S. campuses who are also scared. Like you, they want to stay out of it. Like you, they are just doing their jobs.

And there were millions of Germans like you in the 1930s. Good Germans, upstanding Germans, who were just doing their jobs.

Who do you think ran the universities of Berlin and Munich and Heidelberg and Frankfurt in the 1930s? Who helped the Hitler Youth check out books by Jewish authors to burn outside of campus?

Administrators. Just like you.

Cas, what I am trying to say is learn from history. Now is not the time to just "do your job". The entire nation is looking at you. You have the opportunity to show your kids, show your family, that when the time came, you stood up for what's right.

Do the right thing:

1. Disperse the illegal encampment
2. Expel the radical extremists who are brainwashing this pro-Hamas mob (and start enforcing the suspension of those leaders who are miraculously ack on campus)
3. Dismantle all of the students organizations in CUAD (the coalition behind all the antisemitism and calls for terrorism on campus) and suspend all their leaders.
4. Deal with your pro-Hamas faculty. Do something about them. Seriously.
5. Restore my right to be Jewish in public wherever I want to be.

I have every right to be on campus.

Don't bow to those who cheer on Hamas.

Don't just "do your job".

(btw - If they won't let you do this, quit. Show the world what you stand for. Be a hero. I know it's scary, but I promise - if you do the right thing, I will have your back. It's never personal for me. Never has been, never will be.)

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

Have people become so dumb and evil that they can’t tell the difference between Israel's accidental killing of 7 aid workers and a terror group that intentionally slaughters civilians?

[PhillyChitChat @HughE_Dillon]

The determined were out on the Schuylkill River this morning despite the snow, and it was beautiful.

[Michal Gspan @MichalGreenspan]

If your reaction to 2 hostages being rescued from Rafah is: “why did Israel go into Rafah? It’s a safe zone” INSTEAD of: “why the F was Hamas hiding hostages with terrorists in their OWN civilian safe zone?” Maybe you should check your bias.

[Jordyn @JordynTilchen]

May tonight’s successful rescue mission serve as a reminder to the Jewish people to block out the noise and do what needs to be done to free the hostages. The world is not going to like us. So what? They never have. Fuck them.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

We brought them home.

And we won’t rest till we bring them ALL home. #NoOneLeftBehind

[Tali Goldsheft @TaliGoldsheft]

The #Grammys are tonight.

Which musicians will acknowledge the fact that 100s of innocent Israelis at a music festival in Israel were massacred by Hamas on October 7 & many are still being held hostage?

🙌👏 @montanatucker who showed up like this tonight.
#BringThemHome

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @SanaELedene]

This is me shortly after arriving in the United States.
It was while my mind was still in the box that the Islamic Republic had placed me in.

This is me before I tried to learn beyond what I was fed before I saw the truth of the situation.

It's when I still believe the propaganda I have been fed since I was a child.
I wholeheartedly supported the Palestinian cause because I assumed it was a matter of human rights.

So you can see that I don't hate Palestinians.

I discovered that the "Free Palestine" movement was not concerned with human rights. If it was, they would see how Hamas has put Palestinians in danger and forced them into a war that has resulted in death and destruction rather than victory.

They would see the ugliness of what Hamas has done to Israelis and Palestinians alike. They would see how the Islamic Republic has started a fire that is destroying the world in 44 years.

I gained a better understanding of history. I learned more about what has been going on around the world and what has been done to the Middle East, as well as who is to blame for our misery, and Israel is not to blame.

Today, I continue to advocate for human rights, which include Jewish people all over the world.

[Ali Mermelstein @mermelbabe05]

So much hate. These people should be held accountable for this verbal abuse.

[Rabbi Shmuley @RabbiShmuley]

An "11-year-old" Muslim girl with her family walked over to me in Times Square and told me to kill myself because I’m a Jew. I am not making this up. You must watch this. They then had their small child kick me to humiliate me whole their daughter continued to say that I should kill myself. Identify who these people are. Also, other passersby yelled at me that she’s white, and I should kill myself as a Jew. All of this happened right in the middle of New York City the night before Christmas. Anti Semitism is becoming unbelievably dangerous and deadly in the United States and around the world. We must fight this disease. #nevergain