Rachel אילנה

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[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Being Jewish in Europe this summer means not telling colleagues you’re spending your holidays in Israel.

It means hiding your kippa under a hat.

It means whispering on the subway when asking who’s coming to Rosh Hashanah dinner.

It means leaving synagogue quickly after Shabbat because lingering outside is dangerous.

It means seeing how people change once they hear your Jewish name.

It means being afraid to send your children to a Jewish school because it might be a target. And afraid to send them to a public school because of how other kids might treat them.

It means dreading the return to university, where Jewish students are bullied, harassed, and sidelined.

It means watching Jewish friends and family grow sadder and more hopeless each day about a future in France, Belgium, or the UK.

Being Jewish this summer means living through an unprecedented wave of antisemitism, and watching the world stay silent.

[Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin]

Israeli girls figured out how to properly respond to antisemitic bullying. Brava, Noa.

[Montana Tucker @montanatucker]

Dear actors/musicians/filmmakers/people of the Hollywood community who may not know what the ‘red hand pin’ you wore or plan to wear represents-

It is NOT a symbol of peace. It is the visual representation of a gruesome murder of 2 Israelis who mistakenly walked into the West Bank. The crowd ripped their bodies apart and carried them through the streets in celebration, just like they carried the bodies of the Bibas’ through the celebrating crowd. The moment of their victory was the bloody hands jubilantly shown to the Palestinian mob. That is what that pin is referencing. It is the emblem of Jewish bloodshed and aligns you with those who murdered babies with their bare hands.

Would you proudly wear the emblem of a lynching? Would you parade the symbol of people who strangled babies with their bare hands? Because that is what the red hand represents.

To those who wore it without knowing—now you know. To those who knew and wore it anyway-we see you and we will NOT be silent.

#noredhands

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

If you didn’t stand with Liri, Daniella, Naama, and Karina, you are not a feminist.

If you didn't support their mothers, you are not a feminist.

If you were silent about these women for the past 15 months, you are NOT a feminist.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

To all the countless feminist organizations who have stayed silent: You did absolutely nothing to free these women.

You should be embarrassed and ashamed.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Gal Gadot, a tireless and brave advocate for Israel and the hostages, was banned from wearing a pin for the release of the hostages as she hosted the Golden Globes 🎗️

Since when is advocating for the release of innocent men, women, and children held hostage by terrorists…”political”?

I would argue that staying silent on an issue like that is a lot more political than speaking up @GoldenGlobes

[Mish @Mish_K_]

I will never be able to watch this too many times ⁦@xaviaer⁩

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

While the U.S. was Black Friday shopping, American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander was being filmed by his captors.

As people lamented that their fridge couldn’t hold all their Thanksgiving leftovers, Edan sat malnourished in a dark terror tunnel.

His family has had an empty chair at their table for 421 days now.

It's time for Americans to start demanding that Eden come home.

[Ben Kentish @BenKentish]

The attack on Israeli citizens in Amsterdam was pre-planned on Telegram well in advance, according to reports in Dutch media. All the usual suspects trying desperately to minimise it, justify it or reframe it as something else are just showing their true colours.

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

You’re sick of hearing about antisemitism?

We’re pretty sick of living it.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

1. Pro-Palestinian groups coordinated the Amsterdam pogrom via Telegram well in advance.

2. Mossad identified a potential threat on social media and warned the Dutch authorities.

3. However, the Israeli warning had no effect. The Dutch police were not informed of the potential attack, nor were the Israeli fans.

4. Israelis were hunted down, beaten, run over, and assaulted by violent, large mobs.

5. They sought refuge wherever they could, but very few offered help. Testimonies reveal that some hotels refused to shelter distressed Israelis, and some taxis turned them away.

6. Israel was forced to send planes to urgently evacuate the attacked Israeli fans.

7. Jews around the world are deeply shocked by this modern-day pogrom—and rightfully so.

8. The media downplays the events, describing it as a mere “clash” between Israeli and pro-Palestinian fans, only to alter their narrative once they saw the extent of violence against Israelis.

9. The anti-Israel crowd spreads this distorted media version, insisting that Israeli fans either lied, exaggerated, or somehow deserved the unprovoked violence.

10. Once again, Jews feel isolated, fearful, and enraged.

[FactsForPeace @Facts_For_Peace]

Arab Muslim Zionist Educates College Students on Israel and The War! @JustLuai
#factsforpeace

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Steven Spielberg’s greatest legacy isn’t the films he’s directed—it’s donating all of the money he made from Schindler’s List to the Shoah Foundation so they could record the testimony of Shoah/Holocaust witnesses and survivors.

Over 55,000 testimonies have been recorded on video from survivors and witnesses who live in 65 countries and speak 43 languages.

[Carlos Abadi @NewSamawal]

If you plan to attend a celebratory event for October 7, you’re the worst kind of person.

[Ed Leon Klinger @edleonklinger]

Extraordinary video. The final texts sent by victims on October 7th. Please take 90 seconds to watch it - and remember them.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Countries that banned public support for Hamas:

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇦🇪 UAE
🇯🇴 Jordan
🇴🇲 Oman
🇰🇼 Kuwait
🇧🇭 Bahrain

Places pro-Hamas protests occur daily:

🇺🇸 USA
🇬🇧 UK
🇪🇺 EU

Could it be the Middle East understands the reality of living under terrorist regimes, unlike the West?

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Hamas just admitted that 80% of the people killed by Israel in Gaza were Hamas terrorists and their families.

If Hamas says it’s 80%, you can be sure it’s closer to 90%, which, as I and the rest of Israel have been saying from the beginning, means this war has perhaps the lowest ratio of combatant to civilian casualty in any war ever. Yes, ever.

They’ve been yelling genocide basically from the first second that Hamas invaded and attacked Israel. From the very first second, Israel has denied that there’s anything even remotely resembling a genocide in Gaza.

Of course, the world didn’t listen to Israel and chose to go around quoting the “Gaza Health Ministry”, a fancy way of saying “Hamas”.

Here’s a rule of thumb for ya. If you’re hearing conflicting reports with one side being a savage terrorist organization that murders, rapes, beheads, and burns men, women, children, and entire families alive, and on the other side, you have a democratic country that does everything it can, more than any other army ever, to minimize civilian deaths, I’d suggest you listen to the latter, and not the former.

Amazing that this even needs to be said, but here we are.

So as we remember that dark day and what Hamas did, please remember that Israel has gone to unparalleled lengths to ensure the safety of innocents, even in enemy territory, and even when those innocents are not so innocent.

Genocide my tuchus.

When this war ends and the real numbers are released, mark my words, you’ll see that the ratio is even lower, making this war the most successful war in history as far as collateral damage.

So now that you know the truth, what are you going to do about it?

If you’re one of the people who has been yelling genocide for a year, have some integrity now that you know it’s all been a lie, and let your friends and followers know that there is no genocide and Hamas has been playing the international community from day one.

It turns out that murderers, rapists, and pedophiles also know how to lie pretty well.

Shocker.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

In Nova fields, the poppies grow. #October7

[Avi Schwartz @MyNameIsAviJ]

Absolutely wild how Israel surgically attacks Hezbollah's forces with pagers and walkie-talkies and people called that an "indiscriminate attack", while those same people are incredibly silent when Iran sends ~450 ballistic missiles throughout the entirety of Israel.