.@NYCMayor Mamdani must apologize. Referring to members of the Jewish community who advocate for causes they care about as “monsters” wielding “dark money” is shockingly offensive and unacceptable for a mayor who claims to represent all New Yorkers. This is not about political disagreement, it is about crossing a dangerous line by invoking dehumanizing and conspiratorial rhetoric with a long and troubling history in antisemitic tropes. We cannot allow fearmongering, conspiracy theories, or the demonization of Jews to become normalized in our public debate.
Iran is desperately seeking to drive a wedge between the US and Israel, and it is using its terrorist proxy, Hezbollah — which has murdered Americans, Israelis and Lebanese — as the tip of its spear. Hezbollah keeps attacking Israel, and Iran complains when Israel responds.
Israeli soldiers have paid with their lives over the past few days.
Iran is playing a cynical game and no one should fall for it.
In Auschwitz, my mother taught me three rules.
Not stories. Not prayers. Rules. The kind that kept you alive.
Rule one: Never make eye contact with a guard.
Rule two: Never show that you are sick.
Rule three: Never, ever, lose your bowl.
I was five years old. I memorized them the way other children memorize nursery rhymes.
The bowl was a small tin thing. Dented. Scratched. It held whatever thin soup they gave us once a day. If you lost your bowl, you had no bowl. If you had no bowl, you had no ration. If you had no ration, you understand.
I guarded that bowl with everything I had. I slept with it. I held it against my chest during roll call. I knew where it was every second of every day.
Then one morning, I fell into the latrine.
There is no delicate way to say this. The latrines in Auschwitz were wooden boards with holes cut into them over a pit. The holes were large. I was very small. I was in a hurry. I slipped.
I went in up to my neck.
The smell. The cold. The rats. I do not need to describe it. Your mind already knows.
My mother tried to pull me out. She could not. I was slippery and she had no strength. None of us had strength. We had not eaten properly in months. She called out. Other women came. Together they pulled me free. Someone found a hose. They sprayed me down in the cold air while I stood there shaking.
I did not cry. Rule number one in Auschwitz was the same rule everywhere, do not attract attention.
But I got sick. Very sick. The kind of sick that comes from rats and filth and cold water and a body that has nothing left to fight with.
And I remembered Rule Two, never show that you are sick.
I hid it from everyone. From the guards. From the other children. Even from my mother, because I knew if she knew, she would do something. And doing something in Auschwitz got you killed.
But someone saw. I do not know who. I do not know why they helped me instead of reporting me. I never knew.
They took me to a room, a makeshift hospital. I lay in a bed, a real bed, not a wooden bunk, for the first time since we had arrived.
I do not remember much of what happened next. The fever blurred everything. Days passed like smoke.
When I came out, I still had my bowl.
I had held it even in the latrine. Even in the fever. Even in the dark when I did not know where I was or what day it was.
My mother looked at me when I came back. She looked at the bowl. She did not say anything. She just nodded, the way she nodded when something had gone the way it needed to go.
People ask me what survival looks like.
I tell them, sometimes it looks like a five year old girl climbing out of a latrine in a death camp, covered in filth, shaking with cold, still holding her tin bowl.
Because she knew that the bowl was the difference between eating and not eating. Between living and not.
Because her mother had told her. And she had listened.
I am Tova Friedman. I fell into a latrine in Auschwitz at five years old.
I came out still holding my bowl.
Tova.
#NeverForget #Survival #DaughterOfAuschwitz #ShesStillHere #TheirNamesLiveOn
This is beyond despicable. A Democrat candidate is openly calling for a Jewish concentration camp in the United States of America in 2026.
Do any of their leaders care? Will any of them condemn this? Or are they content to let their entire party turn into a hotbed of antisemitism?
@RepJeffries@SenSchumer, ball’s in your court.
TX-35 Democratic candidate Maureen Galindo says she will convert ICE detention center in Karnes County into an internment camp for "American Zionists."
"It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists," she added.
Absolutely in awe of this clip of Ilhan Omar calling World War II “World War Eleven”
Truly quality learing. We’re learing like we’ve never leared before.
If your country has freedom of religion, but members of one religion need to pay millions on security just to safely gather, then your country does not have freedom of religion.
I have been thinking about this picture a lot.
When I was sitting in my apartment in NYC in 2001, watching the second tower get hit, frantically talking to my boss and calling my friends who worked there, if someone had told me that one day an ISIS-lover would be running this city, I would have laughed in their face.
And yet here we are. It makes me sick to my stomach.
BREAKING: Senator John Fetterman breaks with Democrats, backing the Trump Administration taking military action against the Iranian regime to protect protesters facing brutal repression.
Ilhan Omar called out for not attending Minnesota fraud hearing while sitting right across the hall for a “Black Caucus Lunch”
Our reporter, @alisonintheknow, questioned Chairman @RepJamesComer on growing reports that members of Congress may be personally benefiting from daycare and health care funds funneled through PACs - part of the widening Minnesota fraud scandal.
“Any member of Congress getting money unethically, I don’t care if they’re a Republican or Democrat - should be held accountable. That’s what the Ethics Committee is for,” Comer said.
When asked specifically about Rep. @Ilhan Omar, Comer confirmed she is “at the top of the suspect list.”
“She had the opportunity to come in here today. This is a hearing about Somali fraud. If there was something about Kentucky, I’d be there,” he said - while our reporter pointed out that @IlhanMN was just across the hall at the Black Caucus lunch.
Comer added that ethics complaints against Omar are forthcoming, and encouraged the press to ask her directly why she skipped the hearing.
Do you guys remember that time you mixed up your aunt for your dad’s dead cousin in order to milk “Islamophobia” pity votes while gaslighting the true victims of 9/11?
Yeah, me neither. 🤨