Melanie Pogach, MD

Sleep medicine & critical care doc. Med ed. Passionate about chronic respiratory failure & women’s health. mom & wife. Tweets reflect my own views.🇮🇱💪🇮🇱🎗️

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

It appears that Secretary Rubio backed the Israeli strikes on Iran — recalling his own statement "that a country that does not respond when it is attacked is a foolish country."

Israel wasn't a foolish country yesterday.

[StandWithUs @StandWithUs]

https://t.co/wcc8l4VV8f

The New Antisemitism Doesn’t Deny Jewish Suffering, It Weaponizes It

Once a society begins treating Jewish fear and/or pain as inherently dishonest, Jewish trauma as inherently political, or Jewish victimhood as uniquely undeserving of empathy, it creates a moral exception around Jews. For the full article by Oz Laniado, Executive Director of StandWithUs for the Southwest:

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

All these children were kidnapped or murdered by Palestinians on October 7th.

Not in a war zone. Not in the vicinity of war. In their homes and cribs.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

Iran must not become the new Gaza. 

Israel can't let itself get dragged into "rounds" of ballistic missile attacks every few months, like 20 years of rocket attacks from Hamas in Gaza.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Yechiel Leiter, Israel Ambassador to U.S.:

"Iran fired 11 ballistic missiles at Israel today. Each one of those missiles can level an entire neighborhood and kill hundreds. No self-respecting country in the world would tolerate such an attack, and neither will Israel.

Israel is now targeting Iranian surface-to-surface missile launch sites, as well as infrastructure facilities unrelated to the energy sector.

The people of Lebanon have rejected Iran’s proxy, Hizballah, and have told Iran to get out of their country.

If Hizballah fires at Israel, its command centers in the Dahiya will be hit hard.

This has nothing to do with Iran.

Everyone has had enough of this maniacal Iranian regime."

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

UPDATE: Israel and the United States have reportedly conveyed a message to Iran: there will be no further strikes if Iran refrains from launching additional attacks.

Iran has now officially announced a halt to its missile launches.

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

Meet Kaylynn Dang.

She refuses to deliver a family's @DoorDash order because their home displayed an Israeli flag.

Discriminating against customers based on their nationality is unacceptable @t_xu.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

It’s truly crazy how Iran attacks Israel out of nowhere, and influencers use it to attack Israel.

It’s almost as though they are all coordinating and getting talking points.

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

New Haven, CT: a man approached three Orthodox Jewish men standing at the corner of Crown and Temple Streets, shouted, “Get out of my city,” “Go back to where you belong,” and “baby killers,” before slapping the kippah off one of the men’s heads in an apparent antisemitic act of harassment and intimidation.

Recognize this monster? DM us.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

“I’m dedicating this victory to the heroic soldiers of the IDF and to all the ‘Free Palestine…’ people, go fuck yourselves.”

Israeli wrestler Shimon Smotritsky won tonight in the U.S. in a fight and defeated a fighter who refused to shake his hand in front of a booing crowd.

WIN!!! 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

[Educators for Israel (JewTLA) @JewTLA]

Last night, at an official UTLA House of Representatives meeting, 160 credentialed teachers — the people who teach your children — spent thirty minutes denouncing me by name, declared that Zionism is racism, and then voted to expel me. I never said a single word the entire meeting.

For two hours I sat silently as an observer, which is my right as a union member in good standing. Then someone noticed I was there. What followed was half an hour of teachers explaining how terrible I am, how Zionism is racism, and how I had personally tried to get them fired — stories I don’t recognize and that anyone who knows how schools work would find laughable.

Then they voted out the only Orthodox Jew in the room.

No charges. No process. No hearing. Just organized hostility, a vote, and a gavel.

I’ve been doing antisemitism accountability work in K-12 education for years. I file complaints. I document. I publish. I name names. Apparently my silent presence on a Zoom call is a five-alarm emergency.

I want to be clear about what happened: a union used official meeting time to conduct a public denunciation of a Jewish advocate, then expelled her for the crime of showing up and saying nothing.

I’ve been kicked out of better places.

But I’ve never been more certain the work is landing.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — June 4, 1967

Israel stood completely alone — betrayed by its allies and facing annihilation.

France — Israel’s main arms supplier — imposed a total weapons embargo on Israel at the direct order of President Charles de Gaulle.

Already, every major Western power, including the United States, had Israel under a weapons embargo.

The Israeli Cabinet met in emergency session as massive Arab armies gathered on its borders. Egypt alone had nearly 100,000 troops and 1,000 tanks in Sinai, with Jordan, Syria, and Iraq adding more forces. Arab leaders were openly calling for Israel’s destruction.

A cable from U.S. President Lyndon Johnson made the situation brutally clear:

“Israel will not be alone unless it decides to go it alone.”

Israel got the message.

With no strategic depth, vastly outnumbered, and abandoned by its supposed friends, the Cabinet voted 12–2 to launch a preemptive strike on the largest Arab military, Egypt (which had already committed an act of war by closing the Straits of Tiran). The war would begin the next morning.

The mood across Israel was somber and resolute. Parks were dug up for mass graves. Schools became bomb shelters. Teenagers filled sandbags. The entire nation understood it faced an existential threat — a potential second Holocaust.

Yet on June 5, Israel acted.

This was the moment a small, isolated nation chose survival over waiting for the mercy of others.

Never forget how alone Israel truly was on the eve of the Six Day War.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Hezbollah began firing rockets isn’t an escalation.

But Israel responding is escalating the conflict.

You cannot hate the New York Times enough.

[David G. Greenfield @NYCGreenfield]

It’s simple.

Anyone who attended an anti-Israel rally on October 8th, while Jewish blood was being scraped off the ground in Israel, is an antisemite.

@DarializaforNY is unfit for any office.

[יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad @YosephHaddad]

אתמול נבחרת ישראל הגיעה למשחק אימון באלבניה. המשחק התחיל בזה שהקהל המקומי שרק בוז צורם בהמנון.
איך זה המשיך? ניצחון ישראלי משער של אוסקר גלוך שמיד אחרי השער רץ להשתיק את אותו קהל אנטי ישראלי...
מוזמנים להמשיך לשרוק בוז באירוויזיון, במגרשים- איפה שתרצו. אנחנו נדאג להשתיק אתכם!
אל אל ישראל🇮🇱🤫

[Yisrael official 🕎 @YisraelOfficial]

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[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

🚨 HUMAN REMAINS FOUND IN KFAR AZA, NEARLY 3 YEARS AFTER OCTOBER 7

Nearly three years after the October 7 massacre, human remains were found in Kibbutz Kfar Aza and sent for forensic testing.

Authorities are checking whether they belong to the late Nirel Zini, a Givati officer murdered in the attack alongside his partner, Niv Raviv.

His last message to his family:
“They’re here. I’m putting down the phone. Pray.”

Almost three years later, some Israeli families are still waiting for answers.

Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil.

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Yep. So this happened. Every day, it escalates more and more.

What a vile despicable woman she is.

[Yossi Farro @FarroYossi]

Jewish Billionaire investor Bill Ackman, whose net worth is estimated at over $9 billion, has donated more than $930 million to charity, reflecting the longstanding Jewish tradition of giving away 10% of one’s wealth.

Through the Pershing Square Foundation, Ackman has funded research in Alzheimer’s, cancer, neuroscience, education, and other major global challenges.

Forbes recently recognized Ackman as one of the world’s leading philanthropists, naming him to its inaugural “Iconoclast 50” list for reshaping philanthropy through bold and unconventional giving.

We should all learn from Bill & @NeriOxman

[Leo Terrell @LeoTerrellDOJ]

Imagine bringing your Jewish child to the hospital only to see the staff wearing a symbol of Jew-hate!

Unacceptable!

@CedarsSinai @realDonaldTrump