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[The Times of Israel @TimesofIsrael]

US anti-Zionist groups keep backing activists who are incarcerated for violence https://t.co/I5jSF4PZaN

[Cooper Lawrence @CooperLawrence]

“Runaway brides” should be called “near Mrs.”

Thank you, this is why I have a PhD

[Ímpeto Sardônico @sardonicimp]

@Maks_NAFO_FELLA Slava Ukraini

[Ed Whelan @EdWhelanEPPC]

In a two-way race in 2024, Donald Trump got 26.5% of the vote in City of Los Angeles. In a three-way race in 2026, Spencer Pratt has 26.7% of the vote. I'm not sure what the mystery is that demands a conspiratorial explanation.

[Ímpeto Sardônico @sardonicimp]

@OrkishAmerican @saintjavelin We’re sorry for your loss, Ivan, but it was probably Uncle Vova himself who ordered his whacking

[Ímpeto Sardônico @sardonicimp]

@WarMonitor3 Rest in pieces

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Today, women in Afghanistan are being shot in the streets simply for anting an education, wanting a job. Wanting to work and wanting to walk outside without a man's permission.

Taliban security forces killed one person and several wounded. Dozens arrested including women and girls.

It started last Friday, when Taliban imams announced from mosque loudspeakers that women were forbidden from leaving their homes without full hijab, including face cover.

Morality police flooded Herat's streets, markets, and shopping centers, batons in hand, arresting women for their clothing.

Just one day after some men in the West rolled out the red carpet for the Taliban, normalizing them, legitimizing them, shaking their hands, you can see how savagely women being shot and beaten up in the streets.

[Ímpeto Sardônico @sardonicimp]

Ao que não leva a larica por uma criancinha

[Metrópoles @Metropoles]

➡️ Pit Bull sobe em telhado, quebra telhas, invade casas e assusta moradores em Alagoas

Segundo as denúncias, há cerca de duas semanas o animal circula sem supervisão pelas vias públicas, sobe em telhados e invade residências vizinhas.

[Ímpeto Sardônico @sardonicimp]

@Metropoles Tudo isso é desespero para mastigar criança?

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Some World Cup players and team staff are being questioned or barred from entering the U.S., angering fans and heightening concerns about how immigration enforcement will be carried out during one of the world’s most international sporting events. https://t.co/mdRM2mXIWo

[Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz]

Can moscow keep them both please

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

58 years ago, Sirhan Sirhan introduced America to Palestinian culture (He murdered Robert F. Kennedy)

June 6, 1968

Never forget the gifts that Palestine has given America.

[Ímpeto Sardônico @sardonicimp]

@vladimir_vladar @khodorkovsky_en If they’re so corrupt why don’t you just pay them off, Ivan?

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

“They’ve lost their fear.” A spy who inspired “The Americans” uses “Putin’s Davos” to suggest blowing up LNG tankers bound for Europe.

(🧵Here’s what else he said)

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

True

[Ímpeto Sardônico @sardonicimp]

@atrupar This guy is a lawyer and his notion of evidence is “trust me, bro”?

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@BSDetector89 @RawaneOsmane Ok, Adolf Esq, international law expert

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@Tubaralho2 @AndreaTweets9 @RawaneOsmane You didn’t answer the question. It seems you don’t really care about children being killed, as long as those children are Israeli.

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

I grew up in a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Israel was not a country in my education. It was a crime. A wound kept open on purpose. Every funeral, every slogan, every sermon pointed in the same direction: there, across the border, is the source of your suffering. Believe it. Repeat it. Pass it on.

I believed it. I repeated it. For years.

Then I moved to France. And I met Jews.

Not the abstraction. Not the enemy. People. Neighbors. Colleagues. And the collision between what I had been taught and what I was seeing in front of me was so violent — so intellectually embarrassing — that I had no honest choice but to start over. To read. To ask. To dismantle, brick by brick, everything I had been given as truth.

What I found on the other side of that dismantling was not just the absence of hatred. It was something I had not expected: admiration.

Let me be precise about what I am defending and what I am not.

I am not defending every Israeli policy. I am not defending any government unconditionally. I am not asking anyone to check their critical faculties at the door.

I am defending what Israel is. What it represents. What it has built, against every conceivable pressure, in a region that has largely failed its own people.

Israel is a democracy in a neighborhood of autocracies. It is a state governed by law in a region where law is routinely weaponized against citizens. It is a country where Arabs sit in parliament, where women lead, where dissent is not a death sentence. It is imperfect — as every democracy is — but it is genuinely, structurally different from everything surrounding it.

That difference is not incidental. It is the point.

The so-called Palestinian cause, as it is prosecuted today, is not a national liberation movement. I say this not to dismiss Palestinian suffering; suffering is real, and real people pay its price. I say it because the infrastructure of the “cause” — its funders, its ideologues, its loudest champions — has never been interested in Palestinian statehood. It has been interested in Jewish elimination.

Look at who built the movement’s international architecture. Look at the 1997 Tehran OIC summit, where the language of “apartheid” was first systematically attached to Israel, not by Palestinians, but by the Iranian regime, for export. Look at Durban. Look at who profits when the conflict continues and who loses when it resolves. The answer is never the Palestinian family in Gaza. The answer is always the regime, the militia, the ideological infrastructure that needs the wound open.

The Palestinian cause, as it functions on the world stage today, is a tool of an anti-western civilizational project. Its goal is not a state alongside Israel. Its goal is a world without Israel, and, by extension, a world where the values Israel represents are defeated. Liberal democracy. Jewish self-determination. The idea that a small people can survive, build, and insist on their own dignity against the will of those who would erase them.

When western progressives march under that banner, they are not marching for freedom. They are marching for the annihilation of the only thing in the Middle East that resembles what they claim to value.

I came to Judaism slowly, the way you come to something true, not in a rush, but in accumulation.

It was not the politics that moved me first. It was the texts. The insistence, running through thousands of years of Jewish thought, that the human being is created in the image of G-d, and that this is not a metaphor but an obligation. An obligation to see the other. To argue. To question. To hold power accountable, including your own.

I had grown up in a culture where the highest virtue was submission. To the leader, the militia, the narrative. Judaism confronted me with the opposite proposition…

Read the rest of the essay on my Facebook page.

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@yarotrof @JohnCleese Rest in pieces