Matthew J. Silberman

Jewish Advocate, Writer, Teacher

[Matthew J. Silberman @mjsilberman]

October 7th changed the world, and completely changed mine. I cannot rest until I know I did everything I could to inspire, educate, and empower our people, and make the world a better place for my daughter and future generations of Jews. Never Again is NOW.

[Matthew J. Silberman @mjsilberman]

@chuckdpete @CommunityNotes

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — June 4, 1918

Emir Faisal meets Chaim Weizmann — and expresses support for a national home for "our [Jewish] cousins by blood."

In the middle of World War I, the leader of the Arab Revolt, Emir Faisal (son of Sharif Hussein of Mecca), sat down with Chaim Weizmann, the rising head of the Zionist movement.

Faisal told Weizmann he saw “the necessity for cooperation between Jews and Arabs” and acknowledged “Jewish claims to territory in Palestine.”

He added that the country could absorb large-scale Jewish immigration and development without harming Arab peasants.

Faisal even stated:

“No true Arab can be suspicious or afraid of Jewish nationalism ... For you have all the knowledge of Europe, and are our cousins by blood.”

This meeting marked the beginning of what looked like a promising understanding between Arab leadership and the Zionist movement. Six months later, Faisal signed a formal agreement with Weizmann supporting the Balfour Declaration and large-scale Jewish immigration.

For a brief moment in 1918, Arab-Zionist cooperation seemed not only possible — but beneficial to both sides.

History took a different path.

But on this day, the door was open.

[Matthew J. Silberman @mjsilberman]

Another one of @TheDemocrats showing open Jew hatred in the form of racist antizionism. Sadly, she is not the only Jew hater who ran for governor of California.
As a former Democrat and Californian, this is unbelievable. Punch a nazi became Elect a nazi.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

The Gaza war was fought with proportionality, outstanding protection of civilian life, and was started by Hamas.

[Matthew J. Silberman @mjsilberman]

.@SenSchumer and @BernieSanders, the most powerful Jewish politicians in America, support a nazi.
My family survived the Holocaust. I never thought I’d see the day when free American Jews voluntarily support Nazis. Calling it a shanda doesn’t begin to do it justice. Oy gevault.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Chris Hayes: “How is it that your ex-girlfriend was texting people that you had a Nazi tattoo in August but you didn't know until October?”

Graham Platner: “They didn't tell me that.”

Who didn’t tell you that you had a literal Nazi tattoo? It’s your tattoo!

[Ayn Reagan @AynReagan]

Santa Monica police chief Darrick Jacob refused to file hate crime charges after a criminal attacked a Jewish couple with a bat. While screaming anti-Semitic slurs. And urging his dog to bite the Jews. Members of The Tribe would be wise to avoid Santa Monica while Jacob is chief.

[Adam Louis-Klein @adam_louis52328]

There is a light that shines forth when Jews are living in the Land of Israel. It emanates from their presence, from their very bodies. The task of diaspora Jews is to become a vessel—a kli—that can scoop it up and spread it forth. Not to allow it to fold in on itself, but to draw it out from its wellspring, from the source of life itself, and carry it into the world.

[Matthew J. Silberman @mjsilberman]

I was blocks away from the WTC on 9/11. I was picking the ash from the towers out of my hair, wading through Wall St brokers to get on one of the last trains out. I lived near Ground Zero for my freshman year.
I never thought I’d see an al Qaeda volunteer a step from congress…

[Decision Desk HQ @DecisionDeskHQ]

Decision Desk HQ projects Adam Hamawy wins the NJ US House 12 Democratic Primary

#DecisionMade: 9:20 PM EDT

[Matthew J. Silberman @mjsilberman]

@jvgraz @CommunityNotes

[Matthew J. Silberman @mjsilberman]

This says everything about how Canada treats its Jewish citizens.

[Masha Kleiner @mashakleiner]

Now that Carney included Omar Alghabra in the Council for combating antisemitism, it is time for a quick resume:

Omar Alghabra was born in Saudi Arabia to a Syrian family, immigrated to Canada in the 1980s, but brought his virulent antisemitism with him as luggage. Upon his arrival, he worked for CAF (Canadian Arab Federation) – a group so antisemitic that their federal funding was taken away by the court.

For nearly 20 years Alghabra has been almost consistently elected to the Canadian Parliament. He held various positions, such as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade Diversification.

At the same time, he often stated that Hamas and Hezbollah are not terrorist organizations and should be removed from the Canadian terrorist entities list. He tried to censor Canadian journalists, who call Hamas a terrorist organization. Alghabra publicly mourned Yasser Arafat.  In his Arabic interview he expressed disappointment that Canadian Muslims are insufficiently vocal in demanding Sharia law in Canada.

Alghabra called the Toronto officials to boycott Jewish charity events and opposed the collaboration between the Canadian police force and Israeli anti-terrorist units (obviously, if you don’t consider Hamas and Hezbollah – terrorists, no anti-terrorist work is required either).

Even following the October 7 massacre, even when directly questioned, Alghabra refused to condemn Hamas, but he uses every opportunity to label Israel “brutal and cruel.”

I wonder who the rest of the Council members are.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

This is inversion so callous it's hard to believe.

The Holocaust had a survival rate of about 30%. Millions of people disappeared from European cities and towns over several years. Everybody knew because it was happening all around them.

Gaza has a survival rate, despite the worst and most deadly and horrible periods of the war, of 97%.

All the dead Jews were noncombatants. A large percentage of the dead Gazans were combatants.

And the Jews of Europe, even as their millennia-old civilization was being systematically wiped out, wanted nothing from the societies that surrounded them except to be allowed to live in peace.

Gaza's leadership of religious fanatics, meanwhile, wants every last Israeli dead and gone, is willing to fight to the last Gazan to achieve that aim, has said so publicly and worked for decades to blow up every peace attempt -- and even now believes that Gaza's destruction would be a worthwhile sacrifice to lay on the altar of Israel's destruction, because their god told them so.

So Israelis can reasonably believe, given those features of the Gaza war that aren't true about any genocide ever, and were pretty much the opposite of what was happening in the Holocaust, that Gaza's suffering is a bad and painful war, but not remotely a genocide.

But the point of it all, of course, is not to analyze Gaza, but specifically to lump it together with the Holocaust -- to cast the Jews as the new Nazis.

The only reason this person would dare to make such an insanely ahistorical and immoral parallel is because this is the heart of the bigoted propaganda campaign in which he enthusiastically participates: The point of it all is to make the Jews into the Nazis.

A culture that obsessed about Jews being evil and was then shocked by the Holocaust into obsessing about dead Jews as the apotheosis of righteous victimhood is now obsessively engaged in knocking Jews off that moral pedestal they themselves put them on.

That's why they don't care one whit about Hamas massacres of Gazans, about genocidal wars in Syria or Yemen (even when they've funded and armed the sides), about flotilla activists currently held by the Libyans...literally nothing triggers a response except Jews.

They still, even after all these generations, no matter what else is happening in the world or in their own societies, can't stop thinking about Jews.

And as we Jews learned in the 1940s -- the actual, historical 1940s, not the weird fantasies conjured up by these bigots -- a whole society can be in the grip of a callous, destructive bigotry and still believe it is true and righteous.

[Jake Donnelly @RedWhiteBlueJew]

The silence from @piersmorgan about terrorists in press vests in Gaza is deafening.

You want to get angry that Israel is killing “journalists?”

Guess what?! They’re not.

They’re killing terrorists in press vests. Piers should be the LOUDEST critic, yet he’s conspicuously quiet

[Matthew J. Silberman @mjsilberman]

It’s astounding to me, as someone who was a Democrat for most of my life, how deep the party has sunken. They are now endorsing a nazi for the senate, and have elected a former Al-Qaeda volunteer, and ran someone who wanted to put Zionists in concentration camps.

[Jon Levine @LevineJonathan]

Democrats sending a former Al-Qaeda volunteer who was a defense witness for the terrorist mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to Congress

[Matthew J. Silberman @mjsilberman]

https://t.co/IJ5CHzKIAn

[Matthew J. Silberman @mjsilberman]

New @Substack article on the critical importance of teaching from my series “Education is the Foundation.”📚✏️

[Matthew J. Silberman @mjsilberman]

“You show me rates of antisemitism, I’ll show you the health of your culture.”

[Matthew J. Silberman @mjsilberman]

@bradlander Spreading false libels like that there was intentional starvation of Gaza by anyone but Hamas does not serve anyone except Hamas.

Dan Goldman marched alongside proud Jewish New Yorkers and Israelis. The vast majority of Jews worldwide support that and support Israel.

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

Here's a list of parades attended by Zohran Mamdani:

☘️ St. Patrick's Day Parade

🇵🇰 Pakistan Day Parade

🇨🇳 Lunar New Year Parade

🇵🇷 Puerto Rican Day Parade

🇩🇴 Dominican Day Parade

🇧🇩 Bangladesh Day Parade

🇮🇳 Sikh Day Parade

🌴 West Indian Day Parade

✊ African American Day Parade

🏳️‍🌈 Pride Parade

Here's a list of parades deliberately not attended by Zohran Mamdani:

🇮🇱 Israel Day Parade.

To be clear, I don't want him there.

But don't tell me that this man doesn't straight up hate Jews.

[Reuven Goldstein @curatorWH]

Emma Lazarus was born in New York City in 1849. Her family was of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish descent. Her poem,”The New Colossus” was inscribed on a bronze plaque, inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.The plight of Russian Jewish refugees she met influenced her writing.

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

Israel is the test case.

Strip away its history, rewrite the story, manufacture a cause, and suddenly terrorism is “resistance” and self-defense is “aggression.”

The same formula will be applied to Britain and to Western Europe.

The same voices that delegitimize Israel’s right to defend itself will one day delegitimize your right to defend your own people.

Erase the facts, invent a victimhood narrative, and brand the natives as oppressors.

That is the script. Today it’s Israel. Tomorrow it’s you.