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[Ron Shapiro @rdshapiro]

I revisit this thread regularly

[Ari Lamm @AriLamm]

Time for another one: Why read the Bible in Hebrew?

Today's example is from the story of Samuel's childhood. Let's take a look at the word "na'ar" (נער).

A thread (for non-Hebrew readers too!) 🧵 1

[Brian Cohen @brcohen]

From a 1,100 person Shabbat dinner on the school’s basketball courts to an Ishay Ribo concert, Jewish joy is thriving at @Columbia That's the positive story about Jewish life at Columbia that doesn't get told enough.
Despite two years of growth and progress, challenges still exist on campus. But I spoke to @JNS_org about how Columbia students are celebrating their Judaism. https://t.co/CkQZSHOlZv

[Ron Shapiro @rdshapiro]

Or of Iranian "grown men" hanging women in public for not wearing headscarves

[Ron Shapiro @rdshapiro]

You could attack the ludicrous nature of comments like this antisemite's

But you can also instead remind them of the cowardice of Hamas "grown men" running behind tunnels and holding their children close instead of fighting the war they started.

[Ron Shapiro @rdshapiro]

Agent Skills also make for great docs for Humans.

Yesterday I discovered a newly added skill (generated with Antigravity of course) in our codebase which increased my manual workflow 10x.

Agents may be all the rage, but good docs are forever.

[Ron Shapiro @rdshapiro]

Roughly 1800 tokens/day/person on earth. Impressive but it's just getting started.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

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We’re really well positioned and excited going into 2026. Much more to come!

[Ron Shapiro @rdshapiro]

@GergelyOrosz @digits @jeffseibert

[Ron Shapiro @rdshapiro]

@davidfine Wow such nostalgia

[Ron Shapiro @rdshapiro]

(((No thank you)))

[Eric Adams @ericadamsfornyc]

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[Eliana Goldin @Eliana_Goldin]

AOC literally went to the Columbia encampments — where they openly supported Hamas and harassed Jewish students such as myself — and thanked them.

Don’t buy her BS

https://t.co/bg5uz1Yp8t

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

The intifada revolution is consuming itself

[Ron Shapiro @rdshapiro]

@liadagmon קורה לי וזה נורא מעצבן

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Can I only speak next to a ‘Hamasnik’ or an anti-Israel voice? Recently, my team and I communicated with the Middle Eastern Studies department of one of the top, most prestigious schools in the United States, and indeed, the world, to discuss an opportunity for me to come and speak to students about my work, Gaza, Realign For Palestine, Hamas, and hopes for a better future. The professor and head of the department were upfront in how terrified they were about the prospect of receiving backlash; they were highly concerned with how I was “perceived” by average “pro-Palestine” students and communities, and said they could face immense backlash for having me on their campus.

Despite the individual's personal appreciation for my voice and perspective, they described the terror and fear they live under, thanks to the incitement, insanity, borderline violent activism, and pro-terror sentiments that some students and faculty express. The only way, they said, to have their Ivy League university allow me to speak was to do so next to a “mainstream,” “average,” and “acceptable” Palestinian and “pro-Palestine” voice.

Enraged, I asked how has academia declined so much that an independent pro-Palestine, pro-peace, anti-Hamas, anti-violence, anti-military occupation voice such as mine from Gaza is somehow viewed as “controversial” while literal Hamas enthusiasts and anti-America, anti-West, pro-terror students and faculty are somehow considered the “mainstream” of Palestinian communities and societies in the United States? How could it be that a university that helped pioneer technologies, nuclear physics, applied sciences, and modern-day advancements is held hostage by radical, pro-October 7, pro-extremist views?

I further inquired directly to this professor how they rationalize intentionally helping to platform such destructive views, which they knew were directly harmful to them, the discourse on Israel and Palestine, and against creating solutions for the future. How could such intelligent people, with skin in the game, be willing to contort themselves to the mob politics? How could someone with this stature continue to consent to participating in the platforming of violent rhetoric and divisive narrative over, or even instead of, perspectives like mine offering pragmatism, engagement, and solutions?

The sad truth is that mob politics, aggressive ‘activism’, and dogmatic professors define today’s universities. This is the state of academia today; this is what Ivy Leagues are producing: hordes of students who are bullies, unable to think critically or clearly, and a student life that caters to the most offensive and anti-freedom, anti-intellectual notions of the modern era.

I should not and will not be forced to speak alongside other “pro-Palestine” voices, who openly are the antithesis of the values and principles of non-violence, pragmatism, and centering Gazan voices and experiences. I will oppose every attempt to make my appearance somehow ‘more acceptable’ to elite universities in the West by tainting my pro-peace message or acquiescing to self-righteous teens and misinformed faculty. It's a shame that taxpayer dollars continue to fund the indoctrination of the next generation of supposed “leaders” who are going to limit academic freedoms and progress through censorship and their mob-like behavior.

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

2025 was good, 2026 will be great :)

[Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער @gidonsaar]

Words you will not find in the PM statement:
Jews. Antisemitism. Terror.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

During the worst of the days of the hunger crisis in Gaza in the past six months, Hamas deliberately hid literal tons of infant formula and nutritional shakes for children by storing them in clandestine warehouses belonging to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

The goal, as I said then, was to worsen the hunger crisis and initiate a disaster as part of the terror group’s famine narrative in a desperate effort to stop Israel’s onslaught against Gaza and force the return of the UN’s aid distribution mechanism, and away from the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Now, activists in the Strip are documenting the waste and deliberate disposal of tons of infant formula, nutritional children’s shake, and children’s powdered milk, which Hamas had hoarded away, given the saturation of the coastal enclave with humanitarian aid after the ceasefire two months ago.

When countless other Palestinian activists and I from Gaza said this back in July, August, and September, we were villainized, attacked, threatened, and made into pariahs by the “pro-Palestine” industrial complex and activist mafias, even though for Gazans, the evidence was so clearly apparent before our eyes. What those in the West continue to fail to understand is that there is no being pro-Palestine without also having a serious vigilance against Hamas’s continued manipulation of international public opinion to hide behind the Strip's civilian population's suffering, something that the terrorist organization’s own actions have led to and created.

Never allow yourself to be a useful idiot in Hamas’s propaganda. You can have compassion for the real suffering of the Palestinian civilians of Gaza, and demand Israeli action to facilitate aid entry into the coastal enclave, while still holding Hamas accountable for its part in causing a hunger and starvation crisis in the first place.

[Nuseir Yassin @nasdaily]

@PeterBeinart lol. Tel Aviv University, i'll take his spot and speak to your students. I'll be in Israel Dec 10-12th. Thanks.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

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[Ron Shapiro @rdshapiro]

@EylonALevy שים לב לתמונת banner שלהם...

[Ron Shapiro @rdshapiro]

@striver_79 Gerrit? 🙈🙈