Nancy Ludmerer

Retired lawyer and author of fiction and flash fiction in Best Small Fictions 2016, Kenyon Review, North American Review, Vestal Review, KYSO Flash, Litro, etc.

[Sander Sassen @SanderSassen]

Dit is Rebecca Baruch.

Nederlandse Rebecca keerde als reservist direct na 7 oktober terug om te vechten tegen de terreur van Hamas. Haar laatste wens, orgaandonor worden, is inmiddels in vervulling gegaan.

Rust zacht, prachtige vrouw.

#rebeccabaruch #nederland #israel

[Aro Korol @arokorol]

It Was Supposed to Be History

I'm a Polish filmmaker living in London.

I wasn't raised to care about antisemitism. Quite the opposite.

Like many Poles of my generation, I grew up with a version of history that focused heavily on Polish suffering during the Second World War. I visited Auschwitz as a teenager, yet somehow left without truly understanding the scale of what had happened to Europe's Jews.

That changed when I was 19 and worked on Schindler's List.

For the first time, I was confronted with parts of history that had been missing from my education. Later, living in Paris and spending time in New York, I met Jewish people whose understanding of Poland, Europe and history was very different from my own. Some conversations were uncomfortable. A few were life-changing.

The more I learned, the more I realised that antisemitism didn't disappear after the Holocaust. It adapted.

Today it often arrives dressed as political activism, conspiracy theories, selective outrage, historical revisionism, or simply a double standard applied to the world's only Jewish state.

I am not Jewish. I have no family connection to Israel.

What I do have is a deep distrust of propaganda, mob thinking, and people who demand that history be simplified into slogans.

My work on antisemitism began with a simple realisation: if I could be misled about history, so could millions of others.

That is why I make films, conduct interviews, and challenge narratives.

Not because I have all the answers.

Because I spent too many years believing things that weren't true.

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

"That was Dr. Haim Katzman. He was at his home in Kibbutz Holit when the terrorists infiltrated the community on the morning of October 7.

When the terrorists broke into the apartment, Haim hid inside a closet together with his young neighbor, who had come to him seeking shelter. In a rare act of courage and compassion, Haim wrapped his body around her to protect her. The terrorists fired into the closet. Haim was killed instantly, but because of his act of heroism, his neighbor survived.

Haim, 32, was a brilliant intellectual, a thoughtful academic researcher, and a talented DJ who loved alternative music and knew how to bring joy to people. He was a man of peace who always sought dialogue and compromise, a gentle soul who devoted his time to agriculture, community life, and the simple, beautiful life of a kibbutz on the border."

May his memory be a blessing.

We will never forget.

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

Yes, Hamas did kidnap Yahel Shoham in Gaza on October 7th.

No, the Red Cross did not visit her in captivity.

No, the Free Palestine crowd did not have any problems with this moral crime against humanity.

[Sruli Fruchter @SruliFruchter]

Was just accosted on the subway for being Jewish.

"Are there any Jews on this train? Where are the k*kes at?"

He spots me in kippah and tzizit: "Got something to say Jew? Can't spare a dollar? This is all the k*ke Jews"

Everyone's silent. I rush off. "Sorry," one woman says.

[Trisha Posner @trishaposner]

Acclaimed Hungarian Jewish director László Nemes just dropped a truth bomb at Cannes: “There’s an orgy of antisemitism, an absolute, shameless orgy of antisemitism, overtaking the West.”

His 2015 masterpiece Son of Saul — a harrowing film about a Sonderkommando at Auschwitz — won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and the Cannes Grand Prix.

Today? He says it “wouldn’t even make the Oscar shortlist.” Because “of the politicization of cinemas, because anything that’s Jewish is now considered . . .nobody would touch it with a 10-foot pole.”

This is where we are. Jews are being erased from the stories of their own genocide while Hollywood and the cultural elite cheer. The entertainment industry’s antisemitic purge is real — and it’s accelerating.
We must call it out. Every single time. Thanks László Nemes for doing so at the risk of your own career.
#JewHatred #Antisemitism

[Cal 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @CalMEurofan]

I also want to shout out Linda Lampenius 🇫🇮 for this wonderful moment with Noam after the results.

It’s shouldn’t be that hard to treat Israelis and Jews like human beings but it’s becoming increasingly rare nowadays so it’s really nice to see this!

[CFoI @CFoI]

"This is not robust debate, it is modern antisemitism"

Our Parliamentary Chair in the Lords @EricPickles calls out the way in which the term Zionist is being used in ways that "enable the collective targeting of Jews while maintaining a veneer of legitimacy"

Watch here 👇

[Michael Pope @OyVeyPope]

I never wanted to become political online.

I’m a British, Irish and Israeli Jew. I married a Christian woman, built a life in Wales, and just wanted to quietly raise my family.

But watching antisemitism become normalised, Jewish children targeted, memorials needing police protection and extremists openly intimidating Jews in British streets has changed something in me.

Too many decent people stayed silent while hatred was rebranded as “activism”.

I won’t anymore.

[Natasha Pein @NatashaHPein]

Thank you, Natan Sharansky @natan_sharansky, for reminding the world of a truth too many still refuse to confront:

Antizionism masks its Jew-hatred under the language of political criticism.

Those who seek the elimination of the world’s only Jewish state are not driven by peace or justice. A movement dedicated to eliminating Israel will always place Jews everywhere at risk because hatred of Jewish self-determination does not stop at borders.

Today’s antizionist libels are against Israel — “colonizer,” “apartheid,” “genocide” — are not honest criticism. They are modern forms of demonization and delegitimization used to justify hatred against the Jewish people and their right to exist as a people and a nation.

Thank you, Natan Sharansky, for helping generations recognize and confront Jew-hatred for what it is.

Sign the Global Declaration that Antizionism is Jew-hatred: https://t.co/AzXw2Nq36l

@SAntizionism

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

“It’s terrible that people have this kind of criticism of Israel. If a situation like this happened to us in France, where hundreds or thousands of people were murdered and kidnapped, would we just say ‘okay, thanks and sorry?’ No. What happened with Hamas wasn’t your decision. You are the victim.”

Chef Bruno Verjus, the two-Michelin-starred chef behind Paris’s Table, ranked among the World’s Best Restaurants since 2023, and widely regarded as one of the most authoritative voices in contemporary French cuisine, has spoken out in defense of Israel.

“I’ve visited Israel several times. You’re amazing people, because you have something the rest of us need to learn: that life can be very short, so you have to enjoy every moment, and when you’re in Tel Aviv that’s exactly what you feel."

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

There have been a lot of moments where the propaganda machine has been exposed over the past year or two, but this one was HUGE, and so under reported.

An @AP staffer publicly admitted that “journalists” from AP either worked directly for Hamas, were Hamas, or only reported what Hamas dictated to them, especially casualty statistics and narratives.

And then people wonder why so many young people have been brainwashed in the west?

This should have never stopped being front page news. X should never be suppressing this. Ever.

[Terence Tendayi @Zim4Israel]

Really sad how his life was cut short by a Hezbollah terrorist firing from inside a church in southern Lebanon......yes a church..... where's the outrage???

[Henshi @HenshiG]

Yosef Wiener, a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor, passed away from a broken heart.

The sole survivor of his family, who were murdered by the Nazis, he rebuilt his life in Israel. He married Aviva, raised two children — Ofer and Nurit — and proudly watched his family tree grow with ten grandchildren.

On October 7, 2023, evil struck again.

His beloved grandson Yahav was murdered while protecting his wife Shili and their one-month-old daughter Shiya. His beloved granddaughter Hadar and her husband Itay were killed while shielding their ten-month-old twins, Roy and Guy.

In his final words, Yosef wrote:

“I was saved from the fire of the Nazi beasts… I built a family tree firmly planted in the soil of the homeland.
But on 10/7, the horror returned. Once again I am exhausted, in despair, drowning. And I have no more ground to hold on to.”

May his memory be a blessing.

[שלמה פולק @shlomopolak580]

הלוחם הגיבור אייל מימרן נפל בעזה לפני שנתיים.
אייל הגיבור היה אמור לחגוג היום יום הולדת.
שתפו לזכרו של אייל מימרן גיבור ישראל!!

[Ô.Mercedes @DolceVenezia74]

#Eurovision 2026

🇦🇱Albanie, petit pays musulman dans les Balkans.
La délégation à l'Eurovision a dit:
"J'aimerais qu'Israël gagne et mette un doigt dans l'oeil de tous les antisémites.
Les antisémites, nous ne sommes pas avec vous".

Cette délégation n'a pas oublié son lien avec les juifs:
L'Albanie est le seul pays d'Europe qui a eu plus de juifs après la Shoah qu'avant.
Parce que l'Albanie a caché et sauvé des juifs, sous le nez des nazis.

Depuis le 7 octobre, nous savons qui sont nos vrais frères, bien plus nombreux que les boycotteurs🇵🇸

MERCI l'Albanie!🇦🇱🇮🇱

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

Everyone wants to talk about the Palestinian Nakba but no one wants to talk about the Yemeni Nakba.

Or the Egyptian Nakba.
Or the Syrian Nakba.
Or the Iraqi Nakba.

Or all the other Nakbas that forced almost 1,000,000 Mizrahi Jews out of the Middle East due to persecution, hatred, antisemitism, and genocides.

[Nancy Ludmerer @NLudmerer]

@shlomopolak580 Sending love and support as you remember your hero and ours.

[Bassem Eid @realbassemeid]

BREAKING from @Jerusalem_Post: A Palestinian man from Gaza has formally demanded that the International Criminal Court investigate 14 Hamas leaders for crimes committed against Palestinians.

The man lost his wife, children, and other family members during the war in Gaza. He argues that if Hamas had not committed war crimes against Palestinians, particularly the crime of using civilians as human shields, his family and countless other Gazans would still be alive.

War crimes and crimes against humanity listed in the submission include using civilians as human shields, attacking civilians, causing great suffering, destruction of property, excessive incidental death, injury, or damage, conscripting children, murder, extermination, torture, persecution, and more.

The Hamas leaders named in the submission are Izz al-Din al-Haddad, Khaled Mashaal, Mahmoud al-Zahar, Mohammed Odeh, Muhannad Rajab, Khalil al-Hayya, Mousa Abu Marzook, Ghazi Hamad, Izzat al-Rishq, Fathi Hamad, Nizar Awadallah, Husam Badran, Zaher Jabarin, and Basem Naim.

For decades, innocent Palestinians have paid the price for Hamas's genocidal war against Israel. They deserve justice.

The submission was filed on behalf of the Gazan man by American attorneys @ElliotMalin and Eli Rosenbaum and French attorney @sarah_scialom.

[Nancy Ludmerer @NLudmerer]

@Natalia_yael4 A. YES