Marcelo Fallas

[Marcelo Fallas @Satch_MF]

@ACOM_es @gbentasgal

[Irish Jewish Voice @Irishchutzpah]

A perfect letter published in Irish Times today:

Ireland, Israel and boycotts
Sir,
– I am disturbed by the furore about Ireland’s forthcoming Uefa Nations League fixtures
against Israel on September 27th and October 4th. Anti-Israel sentiment seems to me uniquely
obsessive in this country, amplified in media and public discourse to a greater extent than
elsewhere outside Israel’s traditional enemies.
Particularly disturbing is the inconsistency of outrage. Last week 28,981 people attended
Ireland v Qatar at the Aviva Stadium. Qatar shelters and finances the leaders of the Hamas
terrorist group, which waged a sickening attack on Israel, and the worst pogrom on Jews since
the Holocaust, on October 7th, 2023 .
In 2021 the Guardian newspaper concluded that more than 6,500 migrant workers from India,
Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka had died in Qatar on construction sites for the
2022 soccer World Cup. Yet there was no protest against Qatar in the Aviva.
Nor are there signs of opposition to the Ireland cricket team’s planned five one-day
internationals against Afghanistan in August, despite the appalling human rights violations of
the ruling Taliban. Women and girls are being systematically erased from public life, education
and healthcare in Afghanistan.
We saw no protests outside the Iranian Embassy in January and February when, according to
international media, about 30,000 civilians were murdered in just three days after protests
against the brutal regime.
Iran sponsors Hizbullah, whose terrorists murdered Pte Seán Rooney in Lebanon in 2022. Iran
and Hizbullah propped up the Al-Assad regime in Syria during the civil war of 2011 to 2024 in
which nearly 600,000 civilians are estimated to have been killed.
I was shocked to see the new Iranian Ambassador being welcomed by President Catherine
Connolly at Áras an Uachtaráin last month.
The civilian death toll in Gaza is a tragedy, and informed criticism of Israel is valid, yet I have
heard few voices criticising Hamas for using innocent Gazans as human shields, refusing them
shelter in their underground tunnels, and operating militarily in schools and hospitals.
What message is Ireland sending to the wider world? That we shrug off the brutalities of
Hamas, Hizbullah, Qatar and Iran while obsessing about Israel, the world’s only Jewish state
and home to half the world’s remaining 16 million Jews, who make up just 0.2 per cent of the
global population?
The continued focus on the forthcoming matches, not least in the Dáil which surely has more
urgent issues to grapple with, feels unbalanced and frankly somewhat unhinged.
Irish people can claim all we might that anti-Semitism and Israelophobia are not the significant
problems I believe them to be in our country, but we should not be surprised if much of the rest
of the world begs to differ.
– Yours, etc,
DR PETER BOYLAN,Ranelagh,

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 USAID Inspector General finds 101 additional UNRWA school teachers, principals & staffers are Hamas terrorists who participated in the October 7 terror attacks. U.S. may soon designate UNRWA as a foreign terrorist organization.
https://t.co/Vwj0yffkhH @AidOversight

[Marcelo Fallas @Satch_MF]

@academic_la

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

BREAKING: New video shows armed Hamas terrorists STEALING humanitarian aid trucks from the people of Gaza.

Then the world blames Israel for “famine.”

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Flashback:
Mahmoud Habbash, the adviser to the Palestinian president, has revealed that Hamas deliberately kills women and children in Gaza in order to damage Israel’s image. They use them as human shields and then sacrifice their bodies as propaganda tools.

This is not a secret. This is official Palestinian Authority admission.
Time and time again, Hamas starts futile wars against Israel, using women and children in Gaza as human shields to cause their deliberate deaths.

Once the bodies pile up, Hamas and its supporters parade the corpses in front of cameras to accuse Israel of “genocide.”

The Western media, hungry for dramatic images and hostile to Israel, happily plays along with this grotesque propaganda.

[Marcelo Fallas @Satch_MF]

@haivri ✋

[Ceci Denot @gordameir]

Cuando activistas pro palestina son detenidos legítimamente por Israel y deportados sanos y salvos en dos días, Vanina habla de “secuestrados”, de “criminales de guerra” y exige “denuncia internacional” pero cuando otros activistas pro palestina son detenidos sin motivo en Libia y están aislados, incomunicados y maltratados y hay total incertidumbre sobre su situación ahí habla de “detenidos” y no hace ninguna alusión al gobierno ni las fuerzas de seguridad libias, sino más bien le reclama a la Cancillería argentina. Se nota mucho @vaninabiasi

[Marcelo Fallas @Satch_MF]

@antonioguterres @UNIFIL_ Hezbollah
Hezbollah
Hezbollah
Hezbollah
Te ayudo a escribirlo porque parece que tú no puedes.

[Trisha Posner @trishaposner]

It took a non-Jewish political commentator @HughHewitt to drop a truth bomb this morning about the Democratic Party and antisemitism.

“The Democratic Party is deeply infected with anti-Semitism — not anti-Israel sentiment, not anti-Zionism — antisemitism. And it’s like a sepsis….It’s either going to kill the Democratic Party or it’s going to kill the United States.”

25 years after 9/11, the Muslim Brotherhood influence and radical jihadist sympathizers are being mainstreamed in the Democratic Party.

This is no longer a warning. It’s a diagnosis.

#Antisemitism #JewHatred

[Eli Afriat 🇮🇱 @EliAfriatISR]

In high school in Israel, you have the option to study third language - French or Arabic.

All my friends wanted to go to France after the army, so they studied French.

I am the only one that studied Arabic. Now I'm the only one who can go to France.

-Yohay Sponder.

[The British Patriot @TheBritLad]

🚨BREAKING: The “taking the knee” trend has exploded across Britain.

Thousands are kneeling for Henry Nowak specifically to the track:

Michael Jackson “They Don’t Really Care About Us.”

The left are in a complete meltdown.

[Catalina @catalinaperezdo]

Al concepto de salir con banderas de Palestina defender los derechos de las mujeres sigo sin entenderlo

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

Shabana Mahmood has CONDEMNED the Henry Nowak protests in Southampton, saying those responsible will be arrested.

Meanwhile, here she is on a pro-Palestine protest which turned violent and forced a supermarket to close.

She has since deleted this video. Please don't RT it.

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

Congratulations to Zimbabwe on being elected for a two-year term on the U.N. Security Council.

Zimbabwe's credentials:
🇿🇼 Torture
🇿🇼 Child labor
🇿🇼 Tainted elections
🇿🇼 Jails critics and journalists
🇿🇼 Authoritarian rule over decades

[Marcelo Fallas @Satch_MF]

@rtvenoticias Hezbollah
Hezbollah
Hezbollah
Hezbollah
Ya que ustedes no lo pueden escribir se los dejo escrito acá.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

So the flotilla activists were rightly and justly held by Israel, though for just half a day, then released and deported. And the world went into complete meltdown. Outrage went to delirious levels.

Now the same flotilla activists have been detained and imprisoned in Libya for the past 10 days, and that prison term has been extended significantly.

And the reaction from the world?

Total silence. Not a peep.

Weird huh? 🤔

[Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון @dannydanon]

כך נראה טרור בלחיצת כפתור:
כטב״ם הטרור של חיזבאללה, לא מיוצר במעבדה סודית. מדובר בנשק קטלני שכל אחד יכול לקנות ברשת.

מאז חודש מרץ, חיזבאללה שיגר לעבר ישראל כ-9,000 רקטות ומאות כטב״מים.

אתמול במועצת הביטחון שאלתי, אם כטב״מים היו עפים בשמי פריז, האם צרפת הייתה נמנעת מלהגיב? האם גם אז הייתם מכנסים דיון ״חירום״ ודורשים ממנה להפקיר את אזרחיה?

שתיקה רועמת בחדר.

ישראל לא תבקש רשות להגן על עצמה.

[Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 @ezralevant]

On the right is Firas Al-Najim, a terrorist supporter who regularly pickets outside Jewish synagogues, schools and seniors homes.

He’s an Iranian agent in Canada.

On the left is Omar Alghabra, appointed to Mark Carney’s new combatting antisemitism committee.

[facts about @destinationXIX]

One of the biggest problems in discussions about Israel is that most people have never heard of the Cairo Geniza.

And yet it may be one of the most devastating pieces of evidence against many of the myths surrounding the conflict.

The Cairo Geniza was a storage room in a synagogue in Egypt where Jews deposited old documents for nearly a thousand years. When scholars finally examined its contents, they discovered roughly 300,000 manuscript fragments dating from the 9th to the 19th centuries.

Not religious texts - Real life:
Letters.
Contracts.
Tax receipts.
Court cases.
Business records.
Marriage agreements.
Personal correspondence.

In other words, not propaganda.
Not nationalist history.
Not modern politics.
The actual paperwork of ordinary people living a thousand years ago.

And what does it show?
First, it destroys the claim that Jews are foreign colonists with no historical connection to the land.

The Geniza contains countless references to Jewish communities in Jerusalem, Hebron, Tiberias, Safed, Ramle, Acre, and other towns throughout the Land of Israel.

Before the twentieth century.
Before Herzl.
Before Zionism.

Centuries before any of those things existed.

The documents show Jewish pilgrims traveling to Jerusalem, donations being sent to Jewish communities there, rabbis corresponding with scholars in the land, and families moving between Egypt and the Land of Israel.

The connection never disappeared.
It never had to be "invented."

Second, it shows that Jewish identity remained tied to the land even after centuries of exile.

The Jews of Cairo, Baghdad, Yemen, Morocco, and Spain did not view Jerusalem as some distant historical curiosity.

They viewed it as the center of their civilization.

A place they prayed toward.
A place they supported financially.
A place many hoped to return to.
Long before modern nationalism was invented.

Third, it destroys the fantasy that Jews and Muslims lived in some utopian age of perfect coexistence before Zionism arrived and ruined everything.

The Geniza records periods of cooperation and prosperity.
But it also records jizya taxes, discrimination, legal inequality, extortion, restrictions, persecution, and the vulnerability of Jewish communities living as dhimmis under Islamic rule.
The reality of a subordinate minority.

Forth, the Geniza also challenges another popular myth: that Hebrew was a "dead language" resurrected out of nowhere by Zionists.

The Geniza contains countless Hebrew documents - letters, contracts, legal rulings, religious texts, poetry, and correspondence between communities separated by thousands of miles.

For centuries, Jews used Hebrew as a common civilizational language connecting communities from Morocco to Iraq and from Yemen to Jerusalem.

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda did not resurrect a dead language. He transformed an ancient, continuously used literary and religious language into a modern spoken one.

The Cairo Geniza proves that Hebrew never disappeared. It evolved, adapted, and survived long before modern Zionism emerged.

Fifth, it reminds us how sparsely populated and underdeveloped much of the region was before modern times.

The Land of Israel was not some densely populated "Palestinian" nation-state waiting to emerge. It was part of a larger Ottoman and earlier Islamic world, with small communities of Muslims, Christians, Jews, Druze, Bedouins, and others living across the region, that was vastly abandoned.

Perhaps most importantly, the Geniza reveals something that infuriates modern anti-Zionists:

The Jews never left history.
The Jewish people did not disappear from the land.
They did not forget Jerusalem.
They did not suddenly arrive from Europe one day and invent a connection.

The connection is documented continuously across centuries by the people who actually lived it.

It proves that the story told by activists - that European Jews arrived in a foreign land with no roots there - is historically indefensible.

The Cairo Geniza is thousands of voices speaking across a millennium.

And together they tell a story that modern ideologues desperately wish did not exist:
The Jewish connection to the Land of Israel was not created by Zionism.
Zionism was created because that connection never died.