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[bruh @HennyPesto]

@HunterBiden @PMastersMusic Good on you, Hunter. Hope your dad lives the best life possible. Your dad is an American Patriot.

[Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx]

Kevin González is only 18. He is suffering from stage 4 colon cancer and has days to live. He’s desperate to spend his last moments with his parents, but ICE detained his mom and dad after they tried to seek humanitarian asylum.

This is the total cruelty of Trump’s mass deportation machine. I'm asking for Kevin’s parents to be released immediately so that they can be with their son. https://t.co/iHU5ngZ5Bt

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

Marina posted this clip of herself on British television arguing that Israel is to blame for the rise in antisemitism. It's a familiar talking point and it comes up every time Jews are attacked, including the two Jewish men stabbed earlier this week in Golders Green. So let me ask her a few questions.

Let's start with what Marina is actually saying, because she's careful about how she says it. She's not defending antisemitism. She's claiming she doesn't want Jews to get stabbed, but "what do you expect will happen"?

Isn't that just a justification with a polite disclaimer attached? When you tell the world that violence against Jews is an inevitable consequence of Israeli behavior, are you reporting on reality or are you constructing it? Because when you hand someone a grievance and tell them their anger is understandable, what exactly do you think is going to happen?

And if this is really about Israeli policy producing an inevitable outcome, why aren't Russians being stabbed on the streets of London? Russia has committed a staggering amount of documented war crimes and is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths at a minimum. Where's the inevitable backlash against Russians?

The Chinese Communist Party runs an authoritarian repressive system with documented abuses on a massive scale. Where's the inevitable violence against Chinese people in London? The inevitability only ever seems to apply to Jews. So is it really about the behavior of governments, or is something else going on?

And if the violence is a rational response to Israeli policy, shouldn't it at least be directed at people who actually support that policy? Do you think the attackers stop and ask their victims where they stand on Israeli settlement policy before they act? Do they check whether the person wearing a kippah supports Netanyahu or opposes him? Because who tends to get targeted in these attacks? Religious Jews. Visibly Orthodox Jews. And which Jewish group tends to be among the most critical and ideologically opposed to the Israeli government? Ultra-Orthodox Jews. There are some Hasidic sects who oppose the political state of Israel entirely on religious grounds. Did the attacker in Golders Green know that? Did he care? So what exactly does Israeli government policy have to do with any of this? If this were really an inevitable political response to Israeli actions, wouldn't the attackers at least be going after the "right Jews"?

When you say Israel is responsible for antisemitism, which Israel do you mean? The State of Israel, meaning the Jewish people governing themselves in their ancestral homeland? Or are you talking about Netanyahu specifically? Because Netanyahu can barely hold a coalition together in his own Knesset. Do you really think he speaks for world Jewry?

When people like you get accused of fostering hatred toward Jews, don't you immediately point to Jews like Zack Polanski and say Jews aren't a monolith, they don't all support Israel, stop painting us as antisemitic? So then why, when you want to explain away attacks on Jews, do you turn around and treat every Jew as a unified pro-Israel bloc? Which is it? Either Jewish opinion on Israel is diverse and cannot be used to justify targeting Jews, or it isn't. You don't get to use that argument in both directions depending on what's convenient.

And before we even get to policy, is there any other country on earth where the debate isn't about government policy but about whether the country has a right to exist at all? Any other country where that question is treated as a serious and legitimate one? Because that conversation only ever comes up about Israel. So when people say they're just criticizing Israeli policy, are they being honest with themselves?

Consider Donald Trump. Arguably the most hated political figure in Europe, certainly in London. Does anyone accuse Londoners of being anti-American for despising him? Does anyone accuse Americans of being unpatriotic for disagreeing with his policies, just as nobody did with Biden? Why does opposition to a government become a justification for Jews, anywhere, to bear the consequences? Why does that logic exist nowhere else on earth? Why only Israel? Why only us?

Even if you accept, for the sake of argument, the premise you’re pushing, that Jews broadly support the worst accusations leveled at the Israeli government, since when does holding a political opinion about a conflict thousands of miles away justify being stabbed in the street? Reprehensible views exist among British citizens, as they do in any society. They do not get hunted down for it. Jews in England are openly anxious about their safety right now, and yet nobody expects them to retaliate by attacking random people who disagree with them. No one who spends their time demonizing Jews is looking over their shoulder, worried that the Jewish community will respond in kind.

What Marina and people like her are really doing is reversing cause and effect. Does Israel cause antisemitism? Or does antisemitism, ancient and adaptable, always finding a new justification, cause these attacks? And when every Jew stabbed in the diaspora is another rung on the ladder of Aliyah, when Jews watch the government response and the public response and find it abysmal, can you really blame them for drawing the obvious conclusion? That there is one country on earth where the government is constitutionally obligated to protect them? Is it really a mystery why that country keeps looking more appealing?

So what does England want to do? Does it want to keep doing what Marina is doing, blaming Israel, muddying the waters, treating Jewish safety as a geopolitical debate, while things get worse and worse until it isn't only Jews bearing the consequences? Or does it want to say clearly that it will not allow its citizens to be stabbed in the streets?

If England can't say that and mean it, then shouldn't it at least be honest with its Jewish community? Why keep them waiting in limbo for a protection that isn't coming? Why not just tell them the truth?

[dan linnaeus @DanLinnaeus]

Mehdi Hasan’s blatant menacing of the Jewish community after the Golders Green terror attack is shocking. In the wake of the stabbings, with fear thick in the air of British Jewish homes, he came on TV to anchor the message that so long as Jews support Israel, they will not be safe. He’s not a neutral party making a neutral observation here. He’s spent his entire career advocating against Israel. Letting someone like that instrumentalize the terror attack, leveraging the fear of the moment to drive a wedge in the community, and effectively coerce a split with Israel, is a morally bankrupt thing for the media to do.

It’s bringing on a hostile outsider to the community the day it is targeted by Iranian state-linked terrorism to say what’s safe for Jews to think and believe and what is not; to get on television and declare to Jews their acceptable identity and whom among them they can support. That’s a ghastly thing to do. The community didn’t get a day to recover. A young man of 34 and an older gentleman of 76 are still in hospital with stab wounds, and they have this man on sending that message. It’s just ghastly and wrong.

[goma @soigomaa]

so ur telling me trump, the sitting president of the usa, threatened the pope, the pope said, "check urself before you wreck yourself", and in retaliation trump ai imaged itself as Jesus...? And THEN Iran said, "Mr. pope and co. that's fucked up. not even we would do that bc Jesus is holy. sorry u have 2 deal with this".

this is the timeline i live in. THIS IS THE TIMELINE I LIVE IN?!

[Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll @skjask]

I am the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. My grandmother, Rifka, was married with four children when the Nazis murdered her husband. Alone with children to raise, her young son Avrumi, 12 years old, took her shift working so that she could prepare for Passover with her other children, sister and sister’s children.

When shouts of “Yudenrein!” “Jew round up” rang through the streets, Rifka took the children to the empty space below the floor boards to hide. As she was closing the hatch, Avrumi ran into the house. “Come! Come!,” she called frantically. “I can’t,” he said. “The Germans saw me, if I don't come out, they will know there is a hiding place. I just came to say goodbye.”

When the Nazis barged in, Rifka listened through the floorboards as her son told them he had run into the house in a random search for food. She would never see him again. Two more of her children as well as her sister, nieces and nephews were killed in subsequent round ups. Her brother had been killed earlier in the war.

Rifka was left with one son, Shlomo. 14 years old. They worked and hid in farms, in hay stacks and behind false doors. Exposed in the fields one day, they ran together, chased like animals by the Nazi’s. Shlomo told his mother, “If you don't let go of my hand, we will both die.” He let go.

Shlomo went one way, Rifka went the other. The Nazis shot him in the back. With no husband or children to live for, Rifka joined the Partisans in the woods. After the war, she lay sick in bed with no will to live. Shlomo, meanwhile, had survived the gunshot. After the war as he searched for family, he heard a woman singing a familiar song. “Where did you hear that song?” he asked her. She told him a woman who lay dying had been humming it. “Is she still alive? Please, bring me to her.”

And so Shlomo was reunited with his mother. In a displaced persons camp in Germany, Rifka married a man named Zalman whom she had met in the partisans. Zalman had lost his wife and three children to the Nazis but had one surviving son, Al. Together, Rifka and Zalman had two more children. Shep, born in the DP camp and Fayge (my mother) born in Bolivia where they moved after being sponsored by cousins.

Zalman fell ill and the family moved to NY for treatment. Unfortunately he died when my mother was 2.5 years old. Left alone with children to raise, Rifka bought a farm in NJ. Back then, being a single parent meant your children could be taken from you. She needed a husband fast.

A man named Berche, also a survivor, whose wife and two children were murdered, remarried after the war and had a daughter. His second wife, Dubye, died on the boat to America. A widower with a daughter to raise, he needed a wife to keep his daughter from a state run orphanage. Someone introduced Berche to Rifka and they married.

I was raised with their memories. Their tears and their fears. There was no Sabbath when my grandfather didn’t cry, no day my grandmother didn’t stare silently into a past I could not accompany her to. Each spoke 4- 5 languages. Each had rebuilt their lives over and over again...But despite their pain, they were full of love. Their pride in their families, their belief in goodness...I cannot imagine the depth of their loss and how much strength it took to simply continue breathing. Believing. Hoping. And loving.

I grew up with a family of half, whole and step siblings. A grandfather with whom I shared no blood but with whom I shared a heart. Cousins who drove me nuts but drove hours to see me. Aunts who were crazy and who I was crazy about. Uncles who slobbered me with kisses and showered me with love.

I grew up in a family that understood love and loss, the value of sacrifice and the vital importance of loyalty. I love them all for who they are and who they are to me. They are all part of the story and part of who I am.

#YomHashoa

[Jesse Arm @Jesse_Leg]

My God.

Look at how local press in Dearborn are framing this.

“The suspect died following reports of an active shooter at the synagogue, where police say a truck crashed into the building and shots were fired.”

Yes—because the armed suspect himself rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into the synagogue.

And isn’t it interesting how we’re constantly told that hating Jews and hating the Jewish state are two entirely separate, disconnected things—yet when a Lebanese immigrant from Dearborn attempts a mass-casualty terrorist attack at a Jewish preschool in West Bloomfield, the fact that his family was impacted by a conflict started by a terrorist organization against Israel on the other side of the globe suddenly becomes relevant context.

Depraved, toxic insanity. Terrorism that we imported into our own country. Pure poison for America.

[🥀_ Imposter_🥀 @Imposter_Edits]

If you can get beaten over your 1st amendment right, and murdered over your 2nd amendment right, you have no rights.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Watch this. An expert examination explaining all the ways the ICE agents behaved counter to training and guidelines by 1. being immediately escalatory and 2. By firing at a fleeing vehicle, which they are not allowed to do.

Anyone who listens to me knows I’m often very defensive on behalf of cops. They have hard and dangerous jobs. But a bunch of masked agents acting like unprofessional goons and a government telling lies right out of the gate about the incident, which are immediately disproven by the video footage, does not earn the same benefit of the doubt. At least not from me. This is insane behavior from the ICE agents.

And it is horrifying that so many people don’t hold members of American law enforcement to a higher standard than the behavior on display here.

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

These two images are the party affiliations of elected officials who were guests on Fox News vs. PBS. In some cases I included lawmakers who were interviewed by a Fox News correspondent too. No kidding this is what they look like. PBS was almost perfectly 50/50.

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

This shouldn’t be a philosophical debate. It’s a misunderstanding of how infectious disease works.

Vaccines aren’t perfect. The measles vaccine is 97% effective with two doses, not 100%, so some vaccinated people remain vulnerable. More importantly, some people can’t be vaccinated at all: infants under 12 months, immunocompromised patients, people with anaphylactic reactions to vaccine components. They depend on the rest of us not spreading a highly contagious virus to them.

Measles has an R0 of 12-18, meaning each infected person spreads it to 12-18 others in an unvaccinated population. The virus can linger in the air for two hours after an infected person leaves a room. At that level of contagion, you need 92-95% vaccine coverage to stop community transmission. When coverage drops, outbreaks happen, and the people who pay the price are often those who had no choice in the matter.

“My body, my choice” makes sense for decisions that affect only your body. Transmissible disease isn’t that. Your choice not to vaccinate can put a 6-month-old in the hospital or kill an immunocompromised kid who couldn’t get the shot.

The question isn’t “why does it matter if I take it.” The question is whether your comfort with risk should override someone else’s right not to get infected by you.

[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.

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

BREAKING: An unearthed video shows Former Defense Secretary Esper saying Trump wanted to shoot protesters. “Can’t you just shoot them?” This is why our military needs the reminder about unlawful orders.

Share this widely.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Attacks by radical Israelis in the West Bank hit an all-time high this October. It is all over the news in Israel and around the world. Those who care about peace and the wellbeing of Israel cannot ignore this.

There is zero place in society for violence against Jews, Arabs, Israelis, and Palestinians everywhere.

If you care about Israel, you need to care about ensuring this place is safe for ALL its residents.

If you care about Israel, call out these extremists who are anti-Zionists as they violate Israel’s founding principles of freedom and justice.

To create lasting peace, we must stand against those who obstruct it. It is the most patriotic act we can take.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Q: "You mentioned a $1,300 drug?"

Trump: "Ya, I was referring to Ozempic, or the fat loss drug."

Q: "Those are going to be $150 out of pocket?"

Trump: "They'll be much lower."

Dr. Oz, interjecting: "We have not negotiated those yet...Ozempic has not been negotiated yet."

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Most Republicans are good people. Most Democrats are good people.

The White House says outrageous things to make you hate your neighbor.

Your neighbor isn’t the problem. The White House is.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

In the village of Silwad, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian olive pickers, injuring two. When paramedics arrived to treat the wounded, settlers assaulted them too.

Palestinians need international intervention and protection — now.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: ICE secretly deported Luis Leon, an 82-year-old torture survivor and U.S. legal resident of nearly 40 years, after he walked into an immigration office to replace a lost green card.

Instead of processing the request, ICE handcuffed him, detained his wife for 10 hours, and later told the family; through a fake “lawyer,” that he was dead.

Turns out, ICE quietly transferred him through a Minnesota detention center and dumped him in Guatemala, a country he has zero ties to. There’s no deportation paperwork, no public record. His family only found him alive after relatives in Chile tracked him to a Guatemalan hospital.

Leon suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart issues. The DOJ is now under fire, but this is the Trump-era immigration machine still in motion—cruel, unaccountable, and lawless.

If they can disappear an elderly, law-abiding U.S. resident…

They can disappear anyone.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

An 82 year old man named Luis Leon came to the US in 1987.

He sought asylum from political persecution in Chile.

He’s been in the US ever since & was granted a green card.

He lost his wallet (and green card) in June & when he went to replace it he was disappeared by ICE 🧵

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

See how they tell on themselves