I have a question for Hollywood.
You wore the keffiyeh on the red carpet, signed boycott pledges, gave speeches at award shows and used your platforms to tell the rest of us what justice looks like.
Macklemore. Susan Sarandon. Mark Ruffalo. Javier Bardem. Emma Stone. Joaquin Phoenix. Olivia Colman. Tilda Swinton. Riz Ahmed. Andrew Garfield. Ayo Edebiri. Bella Hadid. Hannah Einbinder. Melissa Barrera. Cynthia Nixon.
Now the UN itself has documented what is happening in the camps in Gaza. Girls handed over for food. Rape victims pushed into marrying the man who attacked them. A father gave away his 14-year-old daughter for two bags of flour. Forced marriages more than doubled in a single quarter.
No Israeli soldier arranged those weddings. Fathers did. Uncles, brothers-in-law, clan elders and camp leaders did. And a Hamas regime lets it happen.
The same regime shot one of its own commanders, Mahmoud Ishtiwi, after holding him for a year. Hamas announced he had been executed for "moral turpitude," its term for homosexuality. Hamas documents later found in a tunnel in Gaza describe what happened and show that Hamas kept torturing members it believed were gay.
Every summer the same regime gathers tens of thousands of children and teenagers in camps. There they learn to take weapons apart and put them back together, and they practice kidnapping Israeli soldiers.
In earlier years they were trained to stab and stone police officers, while instructors celebrated the dead as martyrs. Much of the training takes place in schoolyards and classrooms, where children should be learning to read.
On Hamas's own TV channel, little kids in military uniforms are interviewed about the fight. A child in Gaza learns early that the greatest thing it can achieve is to die.
You march for women's rights and for gay people's right to live freely. You talk about every child's right to a childhood. In Gaza you stand shoulder to shoulder with the people crushing all of it.
As long as they fight Israel, you look the other way.
Can you really not see the double standard? Or are you just playing dumb to get attention at any cost?
You call Israel genocidal. No court has ruled that it is, and the death tolls behind the accusation come from Hamas's own health ministry. You cheer for "the resistance." But in Gaza the resistance has a name, and the name is Hamas. You just won't say it out loud.
Look at the leaders the Palestinians have been given. The Grand Mufti who sat down with Hitler. Arafat, who hijacked planes and funneled hundreds of millions into accounts he controlled. Abbas, elected for four years and still in power more than twenty years later.
And then Hamas, whose leaders lived in luxury in Qatar while sending their own people to die.
You defend a people and close your eyes to the tyrants who have kept it down for a hundred years.
Where are your posts now? Where is the speech from the stage?
Macklemore, you wrote an entire song for Gaza. Where is the verse about a 14-year-old girl sold for flour?
The girls of Gaza only mattered as long as they fit your story. The moment reality stopped fitting, you went quiet.
You were never fighting for them, only for yourselves and your own reputation. A reputation that will soon be put to shame. Because the truth always wins, and it takes down those who stayed silent when it mattered.
Now sit down and shut up.
I have a question for Hollywood.
You wore the keffiyeh on the red carpet, signed boycott pledges, gave speeches at award shows and used your platforms to tell the rest of us what justice looks like.
Macklemore. Susan Sarandon. Mark Ruffalo. Javier Bardem. Emma Stone. Joaquin Phoenix. Olivia Colman. Tilda Swinton. Riz Ahmed. Andrew Garfield. Ayo Edebiri. Bella Hadid. Hannah Einbinder. Melissa Barrera. Cynthia Nixon.
Now the UN itself has documented what is happening in the camps in Gaza. Girls handed over for food. Rape victims pushed into marrying the man who attacked them. A father gave away his 14-year-old daughter for two bags of flour. Forced marriages more than doubled in a single quarter.
No Israeli soldier arranged those weddings. Fathers did. Uncles, brothers-in-law, clan elders and camp leaders did. And a Hamas regime lets it happen.
The same regime shot one of its own commanders, Mahmoud Ishtiwi, after holding him for a year. Hamas announced he had been executed for "moral turpitude," its term for homosexuality. Hamas documents later found in a tunnel in Gaza describe what happened and show that Hamas kept torturing members it believed were gay.
Every summer the same regime gathers tens of thousands of children and teenagers in camps. There they learn to take weapons apart and put them back together, and they practice kidnapping Israeli soldiers.
In earlier years they were trained to stab and stone police officers, while instructors celebrated the dead as martyrs. Much of the training takes place in schoolyards and classrooms, where children should be learning to read.
On Hamas's own TV channel, little kids in military uniforms are interviewed about the fight. A child in Gaza learns early that the greatest thing it can achieve is to die.
You march for women's rights and for gay people's right to live freely. You talk about every child's right to a childhood. In Gaza you stand shoulder to shoulder with the people crushing all of it.
As long as they fight Israel, you look the other way.
Can you really not see the double standard? Or are you just playing dumb to get attention at any cost?
You call Israel genocidal. No court has ruled that it is, and the death tolls behind the accusation come from Hamas's own health ministry. You cheer for "the resistance." But in Gaza the resistance has a name, and the name is Hamas. You just won't say it out loud.
Look at the leaders the Palestinians have been given. The Grand Mufti who sat down with Hitler. Arafat, who hijacked planes and funneled hundreds of millions into accounts he controlled. Abbas, elected for four years and still in power more than twenty years later.
And then Hamas, whose leaders lived in luxury in Qatar while sending their own people to die.
You defend a people and close your eyes to the tyrants who have kept it down for a hundred years.
Where are your posts now? Where is the speech from the stage?
Macklemore, you wrote an entire song for Gaza. Where is the verse about a 14-year-old girl sold for flour?
The girls of Gaza only mattered as long as they fit your story. The moment reality stopped fitting, you went quiet.
You were never fighting for them, only for yourselves and your own reputation. A reputation that will soon be put to shame. Because the truth always wins, and it takes down those who stayed silent when it mattered.
Now sit down and shut up.
Ludwig von Mises was born 145 years ago today. Here’s what the Austrian economist had to say about socialism:
“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.”
Ludwig von Mises was born 145 years ago today. Here’s what the Austrian economist had to say about socialism:
“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.”
It is not all men. However I am the co-founder of https://t.co/VMHOsBm1kx where we advocate for women and children, victims of dysfunctional family courts, and spousal violence. We do this because the problem overwhelmingly is violence visited on women by men. This silence of the lambs is repulsive and unforgivable, and it is time that punishments fit these sexual crimes. Deterrence is more easily instituted, education directed at men not so, but both must occur.
Without question. Orwellian alchemy has turned us from a nation based on EQUAL opportunity to Equitable distribution. It is the road to national suicide.
“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
— Winston Churchill
I would like to congratulate Emily on her ranking. If she was not a woman I strongly believe she would have come in first. In all seriousness please see this as a reason to be more cautious. I bless you for being such a clear strong voice for truth and reason.
Emily Schrader, a popular TV news personality in Israel, the United States, and elsewhere, has also become well known in Iran for an entirely different reason. The Islamic Republic recently put Schrader as number two on its list of "hostile enemies." We sat down with Schrader to find out what she's doing to rise so high on that list.
"Well, I have to say, it's pretty exhausting. I'm not going to lie. I haven't gotten a lot of sleep since October 7th," she said.
FULL STORY: https://t.co/KGrTeOjhva
Emily Schrader, a popular TV news personality in Israel, the United States, and elsewhere, has also become well known in Iran for an entirely different reason. The Islamic Republic recently put Schrader as number two on its list of "hostile enemies." We sat down with Schrader to find out what she's doing to rise so high on that list.
"Well, I have to say, it's pretty exhausting. I'm not going to lie. I haven't gotten a lot of sleep since October 7th," she said.
FULL STORY: https://t.co/KGrTeOjhva
A brilliant exposition of Israel's ancient existence as the Jewish homeland, and clever refutation on multiple grounds of a typical Oxford Union resolution against legitimate Jewish interests. Shrader is a strong, well informed, and successful purveyor of truth.
No one understood this better than Ayn Rand. As a youngster I had the privilege of speaking with her briefly on several occasions, and she was mesmerizing. Words have exact meanings as well as varied cannotations, and the corruption of meanings is a tool consistently used by authoritarian collectivists to subvert individual liberties Orwell understood and exposed it, the DSA understands and is using it. Their was a time when Americans espoused equality, of opportunity, virtually overnigt progressives exchanged the word equity for equality. Equity to the left means equality of rewards, not opportunity. And the effect of this is pernicious and will lead us down to Hayek's "road to serfdom."
No one understood this better than Ayn Rand. As a youngster I had the privilege of speaking with her briefly on several occasions, and she was mesmerizing. Words have exact meanings as well as varied cannotations, and the corruption of meanings is a tool consistently used by authoritarian collectivists to subvert individual liberties Orwell understood and exposed it, the DSA understands and is using it. Their was a time when Americans espoused equality, of opportunity, virtually overnigt progressives exchanged the word equity for equality. Equity to the left means equality of rewards, not opportunity. And the effect of this is pernicious and will lead us down to Hayek's "road to serfdom."