Ricky Bendavid

[Ricky Bendavid @rbendavid]

Nearly three years after an alleged gang rape case made headlines in three countries, my deep dive into the Ayia Napa affair https://t.co/A2ijJbzKrT

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

He’s so incompetent, he can’t even make the point he’s trying to make. The U.S. relationship with the UK is closer than any other bilateral relationship and far beyond the U.S. relationship with Israel. It isn’t a partnership, it is a sacrosanct alliance in which almost all intelligence is shared (or was before Trump) and trust is implicit. It’s why chief of London Station is the coveted pre-retirement assignment for CIA officers. We spy on Israel and they spy on us. They are not in Five Eyes and won’t be. Vance just elevated Israel to a level they’ve never attained by way of trying to diminish them. He has no idea what he’s talking about.

[Terry Newman @terrynewman]

The chief of cardiac surgery at the Jewish General Hospital has tendered his resignation and plans to move to Atlanta in September, citing rising antisemitism in Montreal and worsening problems with the province’s health-care system. https://t.co/1wtSJBpVWT

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

She imagines we all live in a world without context beyond internet culture wars, where her Jewish neighbours don't exist and are not being targeted daily, a world in which the Holocaust never happened and hanging a Jew in effigy on the street was not a warm-up to lynching.

[Fania Oz-Salzberger 🇮🇱🕊️🟣 פניה עוז-זלצברגר @faniaoz]

The difference is achingly simple:
Erstwhile anti-Zionists thought that a state for the Jews is unnecessary.
Current anti-Zionists think that the State of Israel must be wiped off the map.
As for the Bundists, their mostly ‘hereness’ ended in the Nazi death camps.

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

What Al Jazeera omits is that this happened at a Jewish Community Centre and that the "pro-Palestine protester" is a rabid bigot named Farhood Moayed who posts about "hook-nosed demonic Jews" and who called for "death" to Germany, Taiwan, etc.

Antizionism is a hate movement.

[JD Flynn @jdflynn]

buddy, I was writing 10 page papers without having read the book.

[Matti Friedman @MattiFriedman]

Nothing is more important for Israel's future -- not victory over Hamas, Hezbollah, or Iran -- than replacing this catastrophic failure of a government.

[Adam Fisher @AdamRFisher]

This is a devious rhetorical trick. Labeling someone a “Nakba survivor” is designed to evoke instant sympathy and a false sense of moral clarity, but it is little more than taxpayer-funded propaganda.

Consider the absurdity: roughly 99% of Palestinian Arabs alive in 1949 survived the war and its displacements. Calling the displaced a “survivor” stretches the word beyond recognition. It is a newly coined term, crafted in academia and activist circles long after the events.

Its real genius lies in creating false equivalence. It places ordinary Palestinian civilians who were displaced amid a war their own leaders launched on the same moral plane as Holocaust survivors (of whom only about one-third emerged alive).

It airbrushes away the ~6,000 Jews killed in 1948, elevates the ~12,000 Arab deaths, and erases the thousands of Jews forcibly expelled from the Old City of Jerusalem and other areas.

By anointing the displaced as sacred “survivors,” the term invites us to forget that the Nazi-aligned Palestinian leadership rejected the UN partition plan, chose war to prevent any Jewish state, and promised quick victory while urging Arabs to flee.

It glosses over Israel’s Declaration of Independence, which explicitly invited Arab inhabitants to “participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship.” And it conveniently overlooks the ~150,000 Arabs who stayed put, accepted Israeli citizenship, and whose descendants now form over 20% of Israel’s population.

This is international grievance politics pushed by the Mayor of New York City, who genuinely believes that Palestinians should be able to “return to their homes” – a nonsensical idea designed to justify perpetual victimhood and violence.

The move weaponizes real civilian hardship while inverting roles: turning a war of choice and rejectionism into an unprovoked “catastrophe” inflicted by the intended victims. It sustain grievance and does not nothing to advance peace.

[Rep. Ritchie Torres @RepRitchie]

Abe Foxman led the ADL for nearly 30 years and never stopped fighting antisemitism and hate.

May his memory be a blessing and his legacy endure.

[Eli Kowaz - איליי קואז @elikowaz]

Ben Gvir ran on making Palestinian prisoners suffer. He implemented it.

A journalist held for a year, released without charge, never once questioned about the allegation used to justify his detention. He lost 130 pounds.

No one can argue this makes Israel safer. There’s no security rationale here, just a policy designed to punish.

[Luke Tress @luketress]

The New School rejects its student senate’s dismissal of Hillel — “Does not have the authority”

[CIJA @CIJAinfo]

Joint Statement by CIJA, @UJAFederation, and @FederationCJA: 

There is a coordinated campaign to erase Jewish life in Canada. And it is not only being waged through violence and intimidation.

For months, a veritable witch hunt across various channels has targeted all Jewish community institutions with the goal of erasing Jewish life in this country. Today, this campaign, orchestrated by radical anti-Jewish and anti-Israel groups, has crossed a new threshold by attacking our community's schools, with a clear and blatant intent to weaponize the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).

Fringe activists have filed malicious complaints targeting 11 of our schools across Canada, as well as members of our community. The goal is not transparency, but a blatant desire to paralyze and destroy Jewish community life in Canada. Targeting our schools means targeting our children, and that is unacceptable.

Let’s recall the facts: since October 7, Jewish schools have faced real threats—gunshots, incendiary devices, antisemitic graffiti, and harassment. Instead of protecting children, these malicious actors prefer to put a target on their backs, using them as pawns for their vile antisemitic propaganda, which ultimately attacks the very values of our country.

CIJA, supported by leading legal experts, is actively engaged with the government to counter this offensive. While there is no indication of elevated security threat, we will continue to work with Security Networks all across the country and authorities on security and safety. Targeting Jewish schools means targeting Canadian children, which is sickening and unacceptable. We trust that Canada Revenue Agency will reject this cynical attack on the integrity of schools that, every day, proudly teach Canadian values.

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

The Ottawa teenager who planned to murder as many Jews as possible (including my parents) has been found guilty.

This was no empty threat. He bought acetone, oxidizer, and 6000 ball bearings. https://t.co/zoBLeZD9Vk

[Apple TV @AppleTV]

A new thriller series from the producers of Homeland.

Coming May 8 to Apple TV.

#Unconditional

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

The guy arrested for firing 14 bullets into a Jewish-owned restaurant,

DURING PASSOVER,

has a name.

Mohamed Mahdi.

It’s in the Toronto Police news release.

CBC didn’t use it.

CTV didn’t use it.

Global didn’t use it.

Canadian Press didn’t use it.

Every major Canadian outlet quoted the police release.

Every one of them omitted the name that was IN the release.

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence 🙄

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

Reminder that @avilewis, leader of the Federal NDP, believes antisemitism is just a "narrative" forced by the "Israel lobby" and that Jews are "cartoonish narcissists," "perpetrators," "supremacists" and "crybullies" who "urgently" must be made uncomfortable.

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

"You should be able to criticize the government of Israel without being called antisemitic." I agree. Me and my liberal friends do it all the time. Maybe the rest of you are doing something different.

[JCCMontreal @jcc_montreal]

Vanier College’s decision to cancel its annual Holocaust memorial is a disgraceful act of capitulation.

Let’s speak plainly. When a Holocaust commemoration is deemed a “security risk,” that is not a reason to cancel the event, it is proof that something has gone deeply wrong. In Montreal. In Quebec. In Canada.

A ceremony to remember the murder of six million Jews should never require a risk assessment. The fact that it now does tells you everything you need to know about the state of our institutions and the failure to confront the hatred that has been allowed to grow.

Instead of addressing that reality, Vanier chose the easier path: cancel the event, silence the moment, and hope the problem disappears.

It won’t.

We also know that a Holocaust survivor was prepared to speak. Think about that. One of the last living witnesses to history was ready to share her testimony, and an institution of higher learning decided that it was safer to cancel her than to stand behind her. Cowardice.

If Vanier believes there are people on campus who pose a threat to a Holocaust memorial, then the question is not whether the event should go ahead. The question is why those individuals are there in the first place, and why they are being accommodated instead of confronted.

A society that treats Holocaust remembrance as dangerous needs to start asking hard questions about who it is admitting, what values it is tolerating, and why basic standards are no longer being enforced.

Cancelling this event sends a clear message: intimidation works, and Jewish history is negotiable.

That is unacceptable.

Vanier College must reverse this decision and proceed with the commemoration. Anything less confirms that the institution is unwilling to defend even the most basic acts of remembrance when it matters.

And if that is where we are as a city, then we are facing a far more serious problem than a single cancelled event.

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

I wrote a piece for @TheAtlantic about how Jews are being purged from public life. I call it the Polite Pogrom. https://t.co/L1wjORYDeG

[David Hollyoake @Holly_Da]

This is Nazi enthusiast Mathew Collings. Matthew dehumanizes Jews with his vile child-like drawings. Matthew is an abomination.