Rielle Capler

research, policy, advocacy, equity, harm reduction, access to health care. cannabis. psychedelics. MHA, PhD. Earthling. Opinions are my own. RTs ≠ endorsement

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

This is inversion so callous it's hard to believe.

The Holocaust had a survival rate of about 30%. Millions of people disappeared from European cities and towns over several years. Everybody knew because it was happening all around them.

Gaza has a survival rate, despite the worst and most deadly and horrible periods of the war, of 97%.

All the dead Jews were noncombatants. A large percentage of the dead Gazans were combatants.

And the Jews of Europe, even as their millennia-old civilization was being systematically wiped out, wanted nothing from the societies that surrounded them except to be allowed to live in peace.

Gaza's leadership of religious fanatics, meanwhile, wants every last Israeli dead and gone, is willing to fight to the last Gazan to achieve that aim, has said so publicly and worked for decades to blow up every peace attempt -- and even now believes that Gaza's destruction would be a worthwhile sacrifice to lay on the altar of Israel's destruction, because their god told them so.

So Israelis can reasonably believe, given those features of the Gaza war that aren't true about any genocide ever, and were pretty much the opposite of what was happening in the Holocaust, that Gaza's suffering is a bad and painful war, but not remotely a genocide.

But the point of it all, of course, is not to analyze Gaza, but specifically to lump it together with the Holocaust -- to cast the Jews as the new Nazis.

The only reason this person would dare to make such an insanely ahistorical and immoral parallel is because this is the heart of the bigoted propaganda campaign in which he enthusiastically participates: The point of it all is to make the Jews into the Nazis.

A culture that obsessed about Jews being evil and was then shocked by the Holocaust into obsessing about dead Jews as the apotheosis of righteous victimhood is now obsessively engaged in knocking Jews off that moral pedestal they themselves put them on.

That's why they don't care one whit about Hamas massacres of Gazans, about genocidal wars in Syria or Yemen (even when they've funded and armed the sides), about flotilla activists currently held by the Libyans...literally nothing triggers a response except Jews.

They still, even after all these generations, no matter what else is happening in the world or in their own societies, can't stop thinking about Jews.

And as we Jews learned in the 1940s -- the actual, historical 1940s, not the weird fantasies conjured up by these bigots -- a whole society can be in the grip of a callous, destructive bigotry and still believe it is true and righteous.

[Sarah Ettedgui @SarahEttedgui]

I have little to no interest in endless debates about what Zionism is.

Israel exists. There is no mechanism in international law to dismantle a state against the will of its population. If you want to discuss the conduct of states, international law already provides the framework for doing so. That conversation is called international law, not antizionism.

The people targeting Jews today have already decided what “Zionism” means to them. Nothing I say is going to change that.

Antizionists love to talk about conduct. So let’s stop talking about definitions and start looking at conduct.

A Jewish woman wearing a Magen David is denied entry to a bathhouse in Barcelona. Jewish students are singled out on campus and expected to answer for Israel. Jews walking to synagogue wearing a kippah are shouted at about Palestine. Jewish businesses are placed on “Zionist” boycott lists. Jewish therapists are scrutinized for alleged Zionist affiliations. Jewish restaurants are targeted because they are perceived to be Zionist. Jewish organizations, schools, synagogues, and community centres are treated as extensions of a foreign state.

Notice anything? A pattern maybe?

The target is not the Israeli government. The target is the Jew standing in front of you. At some point we need to stop asking what antizionists say they believe and start looking at what antizionism produces.

When Jews are expected to justify their relationship with Israel before being allowed to access opportunities, services, institutions, and social spaces that are open to everyone else, we are no longer talking about a “political disagreement”.

We are looking at a system of exclusion built on collective blame and a model of dehumanization.

That is how dehumanization works. Libels become conspiracies. Conspiracies become stigma. Stigma becomes harm. Harm takes the form of discrimination, exclusion, harassment, and, in its most extreme manifestation, physical violence.

Turn the mirror around.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

UNRWA should be funded based on the number of refugees it has resettled since 1949.

That number is 0.

[aleXsandro Palombo @PalomboArtist]

Hitler mural "Hate Never Dies" #Antisemitism

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

New Yorkers who came tonight to Gracie Mansion protesting Zohran Mamdani discovered that Mamdani has a buffer zone near his house.

Let that sink in: the mayor who used his veto power to prevent Jewish schools from having buffer zones against Nazis protesting at their doorstep, has a buffer zone against New Yorkers that are persisting him.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

🇮🇹🇵🇸 Dozens of keffiyeh-wearing Adolf Hitler murals have appeared along a pro-Palestinian demonstration route in Milan, Italy.

The murals were created by Italian contemporary artist @PalomboArtist as a deliberate critique against antisemitism, radicalization, and the normalization of hate.

His work depicts Adolf Hitler applauding while wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh and a red armband that explicitly reads "HATE".

The artist aleXsandro Palombo is also known as "anti-Banksy" for his anti-communist attitudes.

He creates highly provocative public works addressing civil rights and Holocaust memory; designed the mural to spark conversation and forcefully condemn political extremism and public radicalization.

Palombo's previous public murals in Milan, including depictions of Holocaust victims and survivors like Anne Frank and Liliana Segre, have frequently been targeted and defaced with antisemitic slogans, swastikas, or pro-Palestine and pro-Gaza messaging.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

“The strategy is brilliant in its simplicity: Paint Israel as the nexus of evil, then paint every Jew who doesn’t loudly renounce it as complicit. Force them to choose between their dignity and their safety.”
— @Ayaan https://t.co/oDYsnTWzBT

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

🚨 BREAKING: New report by UN Watch reveals UN “experts” accepted millions of dollars from China, Russia, and Qatar before attacking the U.S., Israel, and the West.

🧵 See the report’s most striking findings:

[Rielle Capler @RCapler]

@koshercockney @IsraelMFA @davidfanco12 But an Israeli minister taunted them with the national anthem and flags 😂

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

We demand an explanation from the Spanish government regarding its treatment of the flotilla anarchists

[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."

[Rielle Capler @RCapler]

@avilewis Those 11 Canadians and you are a disgrace to Canada

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

This is your regular reminder that Olivia Chow's unregistered, taxpayer-funded re-election campaign is led by people who founded a group that defends Iran's IRGC, which kills dissidents, gays and women. #topoli

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Full depravity of Hamas during October 7 revealed for the first time: New report details how terrorists performed almost unimaginable horrors upon Israeli families https://t.co/14KfEBq7jV

[Councilwoman Inna Vernikov @InnaVernikov]

This is an ALL GIRLS Jewish school in my district. I’m all for prayer and free speech, but why do a bunch of GROWN MEN need to do this right outside of a school full of little Jewish girls??? Is not this what MOSQUES are for? Is this intentional? Mayor Mamdani @NYCMayor any words of wisdom on why all of a sudden they’d feel compelled to do this?

[The Persian Jewess @persianjewess]

For nearly three years, Human Rights Attorney @CochavElkayam has dedicated her life to meticulously documenting and preserving evidence of Hamas’ systemic and deliberate use of rape and sexual violence as weapons of terror.

She spent countless hours reviewing, cross-referencing, and analyzing the horrific testimonies, images, and videos from that day.

Carrying the weight of bearing witness to an unimaginable evil, all to ensure the truth could never be erased.

So voiceless victims will have someone to speak for them.

And despite immersing herself in the darkest hours of human history, she has remained one of the kindest, gentlest, and purest hearted people I have ever met.

Thank you, Cochav, for all your sacrifice and work.

You are the best of us. A true light in the darkness. The world is infinitely better because of people like you.

[Yardena Schwartz @yardenas]

We should all be doing today what the New York Times didn't want us to do.

Let's all read the deeply-sourced, well-documented, evidence-based report on sexual violence that the Times chose not to publish, preferring instead to run an opinion article filled with dubious, easily debunked claims.

Today the Independent Civil Commision published the results of it two-year-investigation. Based on more than 400 interviews, 10,000 photos and 1,800 hours of visual evidence, the report presents horrific, never-before-seen details of Hamas's systemic use of sexual abuse. That abuse did not end on October 7, but continued for the hostages who were held in Gaza until early this year. Read the report here:
https://t.co/bGYAb1INfP

[Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll @skjask]

Im not an alarmist. I am a realist. Highly regarded news outlets reporting blood libels against Jews as "fact" is an alarm of the 1st order. There is not much further to go down this road. Your countries, your media, your universities, your thoughts- have all been colonized.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

“Jihad” means “struggle.” “Mein Kampf” also means “my struggle.”

Imagine falling for it twice.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Gazans strangled his 9 month old baby, 4 year old and his wife to death, then mutilated their bodies.

“They were murdered in cold blood. With bare hands. They used to tell me it didn't matter. That I would get a new wife, new kids. A better wife, better kids"

We love you Yarden