Simon Qwerty

Ideas are my drug of choice. Allergic to crowds. Dedicated Zionist.

[Simon Qwerty @qwerty_simon]

I take it as a given that any assertion, perspective or opinion that we are not allowed to disagree with is too frail to withstand scrutiny and debate.

[Simon Qwerty @qwerty_simon]

@mattgurney Let's ask @LichTamara ...

[Mish @Mish_K_]

.@CarolineGlick drops an absolute truth bomb on the Danish ambassador. 11 years ago. Could have been yesterday. This is how it's done!!

[Simon Qwerty @qwerty_simon]

@alanfryermedia @havivrettiggur cited a study that shows about half of Canada’s Muslim population hold antisemitic views. There is also a substantial and growing antisemitism among non-Muslims in Canada.
If we are to get past inert language, let's describe the problem accurately.

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

The last global surge in antisemitism, eight decades ago, was only defeated when we fully declared war on it.

We need to declare war on it now, too. Defeat and destroy it by any means necessary.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Stop saying: "Antisemitic hate has no place in our community."

Start saying: "Antisemitic hate has tragically gained a large, persistent, and potential deadly place in our community - and we all need to do some deep introspection on how and why it happened."

[Simon Qwerty @qwerty_simon]

@kinsellawarren in *new* permanent residents.

[Kevin Vuong 🇨🇦 @KevinVuongxMP]

Bakeries not being shot at:
— Chinese bakeries
— French bakeries
— HK style bakeries
— Italian bakeries
— Portuguese bakeries

Bakeries being shot at:
— Jewish bakeries

This is not “suspected” hate. It IS hate and it’s humanity’s oldest & most insidious hatred: Jew hatred. https://t.co/MR4UDRRWqr

[Simon Qwerty @qwerty_simon]

@alanfryermedia @terrynewman Only non-toxic crayons too large to fit up nostrils.

[Simon Qwerty @qwerty_simon]

https://t.co/atGRGrm87c

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Quite the chutzpah for Turkey to open this kettle of fish.

If Turkey is now committed to "decolonization," does that mean they will give back the lands taken from the many ethnic and religious minorities who have been victims of Ottoman & Turkish imperialism?

Will the Armenians have their ancient lands restored to them, or receive reparations for the genocide inflicted on them in 1915?

The Kurds given the right of self-determination?

The ancient Greek regions returned?

Will the 1974 Turkish invasion and occupation of Northern Cyprus be reversed?

Will the descendants of Jewish families who fled Kemalist policies of forced assimilation be given compensation?

Will the Hagia Sophia be returned the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, from whom it was stolen?

Will there be a truth & reconciliation project recognizing the millions of slaves taken & trafficked by the Ottoman Empire, particularly the countless boys kidnapped from Balkan Christian families for forced military service?

Will compensation be given to Christians for the hundred of Churches and monasteries destroyed?

The possibilities for Turkish decolonization are endless.

[Rɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ Kᴇᴍᴘ ⋁ @COLRICHARDKEMP]

Wrong. Israel exceeded what any other army could do in Gaza in fighting capabilities. And if he’s talking about minimising harm to non-combatants, they also exceeded all other armies’ precautions. I witnessed it first hand; he did not and nor did any of his staff or advisers.

[Holly Doan @hollyanndoan]

Advisory Council on Rights, Equality & Inclusion assigned to combat #antisemitism had no comment on new @StatCan_eng figures showing Jews remain a leading target of hate crimes. “A Jewish Canadian is 22 times more likely to be the victim of a hate crime than any other Canadian.”
— @nshack @CIJAinfo
https://t.co/ifCC7sypJA @CdnHeritage

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

The forgotten Arab atrocities of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem: the history you never learned at school.

Tonight, Jews around the world will commemorate Tisha B'Av, the anniversary of the destruction of the First and Second Jewish Temples in Jerusalem.

For the Jews of antiquity, the conquests of Jerusalem were not only a political disaster, ending Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel. They were also humanitarian catastrophes on an apocalyptic scale. The Roman conquest of Jerusalem, for example, involved the sort of barbaric savagery that brings to mind the Shoah or the October 7 Massacre.

Some of the Jews fleeing Jerusalem swallowed gold coins before escaping, because there was no food in the besieged city, but plenty of gold. They hoped that as they hobbled out looking like Buchenwald inmates or Eli Sharabi on his last day in Gaza, they would have something to keep them alive outside. And then the Romans' Arab mercenaries devised a diabolical plan.

Josephus describes: "One deserter was caught picking gold coins out of his excreta... When the trick was discovered... the Arab unit and the Syrians cut open the refugees and ransacked their bellies... In a single night, nearly two thousand were ripped up."

The Arab atrocities during the Roman conquest of Jerusalem were so barbaric that Titus "was on the point of surrounding the perpetrators with his cavalry and shooting them down." But there were just too many of them, more perpetrators than victims.

The Arabs let the Romans take the fall for their barbaric atrocities. "The Arabs and Syrians... began by indulging their passions in an undisciplined fashion," Josephus recalls, "and ended by letting Romans take the blame for their bloodthirsty butchery and their hatred for the Jews."

The Arabs continued to disembowel the Jewish refugees from Jerusalem. They "looked around in case any Roman saw them, then ripped them up and pulled the filthy money out of their bowels." Most of their victims did not even have gold coins in their bellies. And the fear of getting disemboweled by Arab soldiers looking for gold was so intense, that many Jews who fled Jerusalem actually returned to the encircled city.

It's all in Josephus' Jewish War, Book V. But they didn't teach you this at school. The rest, however, is history.

[Simon Qwerty @qwerty_simon]

@VanIsleInvestor @FoodProfessor Private liquor stores on the Island carry America products.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Why don’t history books refer to Muslims as colonizers, oppressors, genociders, slave traders, and imperialists?

[Bob @RealBobmills]

A good explanation on the Canadian wildfires by someone who worked with them in the past.

[New York Post @nypost]

Gaza flotilla operated by Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood via shell companies: Israeli FM https://t.co/kNIhZJjCcf

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

1 in 5 college students now reads at the level of a ten-year-old.

Then college takes $150,000 to teach them systemic oppression from a 29-year-old adjunct who lives in a Kia.

This clown-show costs you over a trillion dollars.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Here's a cool map you won't find anywhere else.

U.S. statewide JULY high temperature records.

40 (80% of) U.S. states set their “all-time” statewide July high temperature records before 1955; 11 of those were set in 1936 alone. Five states set theirs in 1930.

California's record of 134°F in Death Valley remains the official statewide, U.S. national, and worldwide “all-time” record high temperature for all months, although its authenticity has been challenged.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

In the past week, Iran has attacked Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, the UAE, Iraq, and Jordan.

The UN hasn’t issued a single condemnation.

Weird.