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[Boaz Arad 博雅 @aradboaz]

הפאקפארייד הוא הגרסה הברלינאית האלטרנטיבית למצעד האהבה: מסיבת רחוב הרבה פחות נוצצת, עם משאיות שמפגיזות טקנו אגרסיבי במיוחד, שמושכת אליה פאנקיסטים, אנרכיסטים ועוד. וזה מה שהיה למארגנים שלה להגיד בתגובה לתהייה של אחד המשתתפים מדוע אין דגלי פלסטין במצעד

[John Sailer @JohnDSailer]

Cambridge disciplines guy with Wrong Views. He leaves for a University in Belgium.

Wrong Views Guy shows that Cambridge hired a Plagiarist. Turns out, Plagiarist also lied about much of sensational life story.

Plagiarist had been a Milestone Achiever: the youngest black man ever in his role.

Cambridge doubles down, but then investigate Plagiarist. Plagiarist resigns, then commits suicide.

University in Belgium President then disciplines Wrong Views Guy.

University in Belgium President is a Milestone Achiever: the first transgender cabinet minister in Europe.

President used fabricated quotes in inaugural speech.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Academic Integrity: University of Ghent rector Petra De Sutter suspended an academic for exposing a Cambridge fabulist after she honored a U.N. fabulist who said “380,000 children under five were killed in Gaza” — which is more children under five than actually lived there.

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

“Free Palestine.”

I grew up on those words.

In Lebanon, most people around me wanted a free Palestine for a very practical reason — to send the Palestinian refugees back. The civil war that tore my country apart was ignited in no small part by the Palestinian armed factions who turned Lebanon into their launching pad. “Free Palestine” meant: free us from them.

In Damascus, where my father’s family lived, the sentiment was different but equally self-serving. Palestine must be returned to the Arabs, its righteous owners. No one asked follow-up questions. No one was expected to.

Palestine was central to Islam, most Arabs are Muslim, therefore supporting the Palestinian cause was reflexive. A non-brainer in the most literal sense — no brain engaged at all.

Nobody stopped to point out that Palestine is not an Arabic word. Nobody found it strange that Jerusalem, the supposedly third holiest city in Islam, is not mentioned once in the Quran. Not once. Nor is Palestine. The entire theological and political architecture of this cause rests on a foundation that their own scripture doesn’t bother to acknowledge.

What was actually happening was indoctrination. A systematic, generational rejection of Jewish sovereignty — and frankly, of any minority sovereignty. Jews, Christians, Druze, Kurds, Assyrians, Yazidis — the Arab world has been remarkably consistent in how it treats people who are different. We just don’t talk about that.

Instead, in the West, we talk about Palestine.

In the West, a civilization that has elevated human rights to its highest moral currency, the Palestinian cause has become the one exception to every rule. In the queue of human suffering, Palestinians cut the line every time. Homosexuals executed in Gaza and hanged from cranes in Iran? Palestine first. Women imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for campaigning for the right to drive — a right they were denied until 2018 — girls sold into marriage in Afghanistan, women erased from public life entirely under the Taliban? After Palestine. Political dissidents ground into dust in Syrian and Egyptian prisons, journalists disappeared in Libya, children starving in Yemen while their rulers wage proxy wars, entire populations hollowed out by hunger in Sudan? All of it waits. Christians ethnically cleansed from Iraq and Syria, the Arab world methodically emptied of every Jewish community it once held — a demographic erasure carried out across a century with surgical patience and near-total Western silence?

Palestine is still first.

So let’s end where we started. Free Palestine. Which Palestine, exactly? The Roman invention? The British administrative line? The British Mandate covered the entire territory of what is today Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan. In 1921, 78% of that mandate was handed to the Hashemite family — a dynasty imported from Hijaz in present-day Saudi Arabia — and became the Kingdom of Jordan, which it remains to this day. A foreign royal family, on the majority of historic Palestine, ruling it as a monarchy. Nobody protests that. No flags, no chants, no encampments. The remaining 22% was designated for the Jews, became Israel, and is the only part that any pro-Palestinian activist has ever had a problem with.

So when you say Free Palestine, you mean that 22%. You mean the Jews.

And free it from whom? From a people with a three-thousand-year-old documented presence in that land, to restore the glory of a name coined by Roman colonizers, a name lifted from the Torah, a name that has no roots in Arabic, no mention in the Quran, and no history as a sovereign state?

You are not chanting for liberation. You are chanting for colonialism — the Roman kind, repackaged for social media.

Free Palestine is not a cause. It is a colonial term, coined by invaders, recycled by the indoctrinated. The least you can do is have the intelligence to understand it and the decency to reflect on your position.

📍#Israel

[Adi @Adi13]

Still wondering why the West has become obsessed with Palestine? Watch this powerful clip from @daliaziada speaking in Washington D.C. recently.

H/T isgapinternational

[Maarten Boudry @mboudry]

I received this heartbreaking message from a Jewish professor at @UAntwerpen, who is leaving both the city and the university after four decades. I can hardly express how deeply this saddens and enrages me—especially in light of last week’s craven and disgraceful charade surrounding the honorary doctorate of @FranceskAlbs.

"After fifty years living in Antwerp and forty years at the University of Antwerp as student, assistant and professor, I’m leaving. I no longer feel at home in the city and feel completely estranged from my university that has become a hotbed of radicalism and has completely lost its sense of academic values of critical thinking, discussion and genuine diversity of viewpoints. I fear that the student generation that – with the support of the university authorities - has now become indoctrinated and brainwashed to a point of no return. My son who was born and raised in Antwerp and who wears a kippa,  has been called a child murderer on the street by a Flemish person and was told to “get out of here”. At the university the students are shouting that Jews should get out of Palestine. He and his family are leaving too. It just became a bad place for Jews."

This is on you, rectors. You have made universities into hostile places for Jews (unless they ritually denounce zionism and Israel). They will abandon you and take all their learning, knowledge and wisdom with them.

And don't worry, @UGent, you have scarcely any Jewish professors left to begin with. The great Jewish linguist and classicist Julien Klener has long since retired. When I met him recently, he told me how relieved he is not to have to endure this ideological madness anymore.

[🏳️‍⚧️🌸Aukari💙💛 @AukariBunn]

This is what all sane people stand for

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Well said

[Samantha Ettus @samanthaettus]

At the heart of two winning teams at this year's Winter Olympics is one exceptional Jewish athlete who became a Jewish mom, Ellen Weinberg-Hughes. Hughes raised three first round NHL draft picks and coached the women's team to gold just days ago. 🇺🇸

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[Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin]

Listen to Emirati commentator AQ Almenhali honestly discuss the motivations behind today’s Islamic attack on Jews in Australia

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

https://t.co/nljO7A08XP

[Dr. Dad, PhD 🔄🔼◀️🔽▶️ @GarrettPetersen]

Then once you've done that, those judges need to rule on deportation cases, overturning decades of case law to return to the narrow interpretation of article 3.

Only then can you deport convicted terrorists to their home countries.

So, uh, good luck.

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[Avery Daye @AveryDaye]

Denmark tracked 321 Palestinian men granted asylum in 1992.
63% were convicted of a crime
22% received a prison sentence
55% were on welfare by 2019

They had ~999 children
34% convicted
13% got prison sentences
37% received benefits in 2019

Total cost to taxpayers (1992–2025):
~$246–319 million — or ~$800,000 per man