Joshua Brumbach

Rabbi, academic, author, mountain biker, father, husband ... not necessarily in that order. | Ambassador and Rider for @TheESIgrips | RT≠Endorsments

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Two years ago, Hezbollah bombed and killed 12 Druze children in the Golan who were playing soccer. Today we invited one of the bereaved fathers to address the United Nations:

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Why hasn’t the New York Times written a single article about this?

They wrote nonstop about ‘journalists’ killed in Gaza, but not the correction.

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

For nearly three years, the Committee to Protect Journalists helped fuel one of the most damaging narratives of the war: that Israel was targeting journalists in Gaza.

Now, @pressfreedom has acknowledged that many of the “journalists” included in its casualty list were affiliated with terrorist organizations, something HonestReporting has been documenting and warning about for months.

As of June 23, 2026, 112 of the 207 journalists listed by CPJ as killed during the war had direct affiliations with terrorist organizations. While CPJ has removed some names, the vast majority remain on its list.

This wasn’t just a counting error. CPJ’s claims were cited again and again by international media outlets, turning a flawed casualty list into global headlines accusing Israel of murdering journalists.

The problem goes even deeper. CPJ board member Nika Soon-Shiong, publisher of Drop Site News, has now been removed from the board, while other CPJ board members have also made false accusations against Israel.

So the question is no longer just who got the numbers wrong. It’s whether the world’s leading press freedom organization allowed institutional bias to shape the story.

Tag every outlet that repeated CPJ’s claims and demand they issue corrections.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Governor Josh Shapiro’s house was burnt down.

Congressional candidate Scott Weiner was harassed until he left a Pride March.

Representative Jared Moskowitz received hateful voicemails threatening to kill all Jews.

Representative Dan Goldman was banned from a coffee shop and his office was vandalized.

Harassing and attacking Jewish lawmakers is an attempt to push Jews out of public life.

That is not criticism of Israel. It is the end of a free society.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

The Times of London calls out the bigotry and injustice of UN special rapporteur Reem Al-Salem.

[The Times of Israel @TimesofIsrael]

INTERVIEW: For eight decades, the experiences of women who resisted the Nazis at the death camp Treblinka were almost entirely erased from Holocaust memory.

But in a seminal book published earlier this month, historian Chad S.A. Gibbs demonstrates that female prisoners played a pivotal role in resistance at Treblinka, the German-built extermination center in occupied Poland where 925,000 Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.

In “Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance,” Gibbs zooms in on the “gendered geography” of Treblinka. He is especially interested in how groups of prisoners — including women — “carved out places of resistance” underneath the perpetrators’ noses.

Read more on The Times of Israel.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Right this moment, across the Gaza Strip, Hamas’s police, intelligence units, and al‑Qassam Brigade militias are fully deployed to crush the June 26 protests planned by civilians who want to voice their opposition to the group’s authoritarian, fascistic rule. In a new escalation, armed operatives from the Iranian‑funded Palestinian Islamic Jihad have joined Hamas, positioning fighters across Gaza to rapidly arrest, shoot, or disperse any gathering that could turn into a demonstration. Even more alarming, a national security source tells me that four days ago, communications were intercepted from Lebanon and the Islamic Republic of Iran advising Hamas on how to deter Gaza’s population and how to confront protesters with a “low visible footprint” once demonstrations begin.

Hamas has also unleashed hundreds of fake “journalists,” tribal figures, social‑media “influencers,” humanitarian “activists,” and other regime‑aligned voices to denounce the June 26 protests as “suspicious” and “Israeli-backed.” Given the scale of this state‑sanctioned terror apparatus, it would be surprising if large numbers of Gazans manage to demonstrate as originally envisioned. Yet a handful of activists with almost no resources have already rattled Hamas’s entire security infrastructure, and the broader “Axis of Resistance” so loudly celebrated by many in the Western “pro‑Palestine” movement. That alone exposes just how many supposed allies of the Palestinian people are, in truth, nowhere to be found when Gazans stand up to their actual oppressors.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The anti-Hamas protests erupted in Gaza City and Khan Yunis

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

To all Western media, including pro-Palestine outlets: right now, thousands of Palestinian civilians are taking part in massive anti-Hamas protests across the Gaza Strip.

Stand with them. Carry their voices. Don't abandon them.

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

This week, the world witnessed Reem Alsalem smirk at the heartbreaking testimony of Hamas sexual violence survivor Ilana Gritzewsky.

As a UN expert, she's repeatedly denied the Hamas atrocities against Israeli women.

🧵 UN Watch has documented it all:

[Jerusalem Institute of Justice @JIJ_Israel]

JIJ’s report KIDNAPPED: Hostage-Taking as a Form of Torture documents the evidence, the testimonies, and the international legal framework that give this crime its proper name.
Read and share the full report: https://t.co/AovALO2k6W

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

BREAKING: Organizers of the June 26 anti-Hamas uprising have announced more than 18 protest locations across the Gaza Strip, calling on Palestinians to gather peacefully and make their voices heard.

Meanwhile, Hamas militias are threatening activists and anyone planning to participate, vowing violent retaliation against those who take to the streets.

The world must watch closely. Human rights organizations, journalists, and the international community should monitor these demonstrations. The people of Gaza have the right to protest peacefully without fear of intimidation or violence.

DOWN WITH HAMAS!

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Hamas has launched an industrial‑scale campaign of terror, intimidation, interrogation, and blackmail against thousands of Gazans it suspects of planning to join tomorrow’s June 26 demonstrations against its violent, authoritarian rule. Hospitals across Gaza have been turned into makeshift police stations, interrogation sites, and torture centers. Clan elders are being coerced into issuing statements. Hamas operatives are stealing phones and posting fabricated messages to sabotage the protests. Families are being threatened, people placed under house arrest, and Hamas’s al‑Qassam brigades (the same forces responsible for October 7) have been fully mobilized to reinforce police and intelligence units with explicit shoot‑to‑kill orders.

Meanwhile, the mainstream press is largely absent, apparently because Israel is not involved – so no Jews, no news. And the Western “pro‑Palestine” industry is either celebrating the electoral victories of pro‑Hamas, hard‑left candidates or actively smearing Gaza’s protesters as collaborators undermining the “resistance.” As for the UN, NGOs, and major human‑rights organizations: silence. Not a word for Palestinians risking their lives to say they are done with Hamas’s terror and rule.

This is what the abandonment of Palestinians in Gaza looks like. Shame on all who stay silent in the face of jihadi, ISIS‑like violence against the very people they claim to champion.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

“Please look at me,” begs a survivor of the Hamas Rapist Regime.

But UN “expert” @UNSRVAW Reem Alsalem won’t give her that basic dignity.

There’s no humanity in the UN Human Rights Council.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

HORRIFIC: The Fatwa Committee of the Association of Muslim Scholars of Palestine has issued a statement declaring that participating in the June 26 anti-Hamas protests is forbidden, accusing protesters of betraying Islam, collaborating with Israel, and calling for them to be publicly denounced.

This is exactly how peaceful dissent is demonized: first by branding ordinary Palestinians as traitors and collaborators, then by creating a religious and political justification to execute and persecute them.

The people planning to protest are not foreign agents. They are Palestinians demanding the right to speak, to live with dignity, and to express their views without fear.

Threatening civilians for exercising their right to peaceful expression is unacceptable and disgusting.

[Joshua Brumbach @rebyosh]

Montreal shooting leaves Jewish resident and police officer dead, suspect neutralized https://t.co/209ti8ahU1

[Combat Antisemitism Movement @CombatASemitism]

🚨🇨🇦 BREAKING: Reports of a shooting attack in Montreal near a kosher supermarket in a Jewish neighborhood.

Initial reports indicate that police officers may have been shot. Details remain unclear at this stage.

We are closely monitoring the situation.

[Simchat Yisrael @SimchatYisrael]

Join us for our 40th Anniversary Celebration on July 11th! #SimchatYisrael #40Years

[Ron Cantor @RonSCantor]

Few verses in Paul’s letters get hijacked more often than Romans 9:6: “For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.”

Replacement theologians love this one. To them, it's the smoking gun — proof that Paul quietly redefined “Israel” to mean the Church. The Jewish people, they argue, forfeited their place; the “New Israel” is now anyone who believes in Yeshua, regardless of bloodline. Case closed.

The most sophisticated version of the argument comes from N.T. Wright, who has spent thousands of pages — most fully in Paul and the Faithfulness of God — insisting that Paul has “redefined” Israel “around the Messiah.” On Wright’s reading, the true Israel is now the Messianic family of Jew and Gentile together, while ethnic Israel, apart from faith, no longer carries the covenantal weight it once did. Wright resists the label “replacement theology,” and to his credit he is more careful than most. But the destination is functionally the same: Israel as a people, in any meaningful covenantal sense, has been absorbed.

It’s a clean argument. It’s also wrong.

Let me show you why — and to do that, we just need to do something that’s apparently radical in certain theological circles: read the chapter Paul actually wrote.
Start where Paul starts

You cannot understand Romans 9:6 without Romans 9:1-5. And what does Paul say there? He tells us he has “great sorrow and unceasing anguish” in his heart. For whom? For his “kinsmen according to the flesh” — Israel. He is so grieved over their unbelief that he says he could wish himself “accursed and cut off from Messiah” for their sake.

Then he lists what still belongs to them: “the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the worship, and the promises… the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, is the Messiah.”

Stop and think about that for a second. If Paul believed ethnic Israel had been replaced by the Church:

Why is he weeping?
Why the anguish?
Why list — in the present tense, “to them belong,” not belonged— covenants and promises that supposedly no longer belong to them?

You don't grieve over a people God has cast off. You grieve over a people God still loves.

WHAT 9:6 ACTUALLY SAYS!

Now we are ready for verse 6: “For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel, and not all are children because they are Abraham’s offspring.”

Paul is making a distinction within the Jewish people, not replacing them with someone else. He is saying what every Hebrew prophet said before him: physical descent from Abraham does not automatically make you faithful. Throughout the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible), God always preserved a believing remnant inside the larger nation — Elijah’s seven thousand who had not bowed to Baal, Isaiah’s faithful few. Paul is standing squarely in that prophetic tradition.

There is “Israel” — the entire physical nation descended from Jacob. And there is the believing remnant within Israel — Jews who trust the God of their fathers. Both are Israel. The remnant does not replace the rest; it lives inside the rest as a sign of God’s continued faithfulness to His covenant people. In fact, Romans 11 suggests that the faithful remnant intercedes for the unfaithful whole. (see Romans 11:5-6, 16).

Now notice what Paul does not say. He does not say, “And so the Gentiles are now the true Israel.” He does not even hint at it here. That reading has to be smuggled into the text from outside, which is why it was over 100 years before anyone began to preach such a thing.

PINEAPPLE

If I fly to Hawaii, eat a pineapple, and taste flavors I have never experienced in any pineapple anywhere else, I might turn to my wife and say, “I don't think I have ever had pineapple before!” Of course, I have had pineapple. Plenty of times. Nobody listening would accuse me of lying. They would hear the rhetoric. What I am actually saying is: yes, I have had pineapple, but the pineapple here is so much better that it is as if I have never tasted pineapple in my life.

That is exactly what Paul is doing in Romans 9:6. He is saying that the truest, deepest, most realized sense of belonging to Israel is having a living relationship with the God of Israel through Yeshua. It is a rhetorical move, not a redefinition. Paul is not erasing ethnic Israel; he is emphasizing what covenantal Israel looks like at its fullest.

The trouble is that we tend to flatten the Bible. Taking the biblical narrative literally is good. Treating every single word as literal — and refusing to make room for rhetoric, hyperbole, and literary devices — is not. Everyone uses these tools. Including Yeshua Himself. Do you really think He wants you to poke out your eye? To hate your father and mother? Of course not. That is hyperbole, not instruction. And it is exactly the kind of language Paul is reaching for in Romans 9:6.

ROMANS 11 SLAMS THE DOOR

If there were any lingering doubt, Paul shuts it down two chapters later: “I ask, then, has God rejected His people? By no means!” (Romans 11:1). And then he says it again, just to make sure no one missed it: “God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew” (11:2). This is two chapters after romans 9:6, so either Paul is contradicting himself or those who are using Romans 9:6 to demonize Israel do not understand Paul.

Then comes the olive tree. Gentile believers, Paul says, are wild branches grafted into a cultivated tree whose root is Jewish. The natural branches that were broken off can be — and will be — grafted back in. “And in this way all Israel will be saved” (11:26).

That is not replacement. That is not even within shouting distance of replacement. That is restoration.

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT TODAY?

This is exactly the point R. Kendall Soulen made so forcefully in The God of Israel and Christian Theology. Soulen showed that even Christian theologies that claim to honor Israel often quietly assume God’s covenant with the Jewish people was merely the prologue to a universal Church that would eventually render it obsolete. He gave that quiet assumption a name — “structural supersessionism” — and argued, rightly, that it cannot survive a serious reading of Paul. The election of Israel, for Soulen, is not a discarded first chapter. It is permanent, irrevocable, and the very framework within which the gospel itself unfolds.

Once you see that, the stakes of Romans 9:6 become obvious.

If Romans 9:6 means the Church has replaced Israel, then the modern State of Israel is a theological accident. The return of millions of Jews to the land, the rebirth of Hebrew as a living language, the regathering Ezekiel and Isaiah described in detail — all of it would be meaningless, or worse, a deception. Some replacement theologians have actually said exactly that. They interpret the promises of the restoration of Israel, spiritually, so the actual restoration of Israel was just a massive coincidence that God somehow didn’t notice happening.

To be clear: this is not about the theology itself being argued. Theologians have wrestled with Romans 9 for two thousand years. That is what theologians do, and there is nothing wrong with the academic debate. What changed after October 7 is that this verse stopped being a seminary discussion point and became a slogan in the mouths of people who do not study Paul, do not love the Bible, and do not care what Soulen or Wright or anyone else thinks. They are quoting Romans 9:6 — six words from a Jewish apostle weeping over his own people — as proof that God has finally rejected the Jews, and that whatever happens to them now is therefore justified. They are not making a theological argument. They are using a Bible verse, out of context, to baptize their antisemitism. And that is exactly why this is so important today.

But if Paul means what he says — that God still has a people, that the natural branches will be regrafted, that “all Israel will be saved” — then what we are watching unfold today is precisely what the prophets promised.

The Jewish people are returning.
The land is bearing fruit.
A growing remnant of Israel is recognizing Yeshua as Messiah.

The trajectory is unmistakable to anyone willing to see it.

Romans 9:6 is not the death certificate of the Jewish people. It is a quiet reminder that even in Israel’s deepest unbelief, God has always preserved a remnant — and through that remnant, He is keeping every single promise He ever made, not the least of which is Romans 11:26, “and in this way all Israel should be saved.”

He has not replaced Israel.

He is restoring her.

—Dr. Ron Cantor
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[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

The first anti-Hamas protest just kicked off TODAY in front of Nasser Hospital (Khan Younis) and Al-Shifa Hospital (Gaza City) — against Hamas selling spots on the medical travel list, profiting off the names of people desperate to leave for treatment instead of granting exit based on actual medical need.

Wounded Palestinians who joined today's protest are speaking out, criticizing journalists in Gaza for refusing to cover the demonstrations and ignoring their demands.