Adam Schlifke, MD, MBA

Anesthesiologist @ Stanford, Entrepreneur, Investor, & Advisor in Digital Health

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

.@TuckerCarlson has reached a level of absurdity that is going to get someone killed. He needs to stop this now. Someone who knows him well needs to intervene or he will have blood on his hands.

[Adam Schlifke, MD, MBA @schlif]

@chamath Love it. You might be interested in what I’m working on: https://t.co/FSNPHUQuE2

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The media should not just correct the story, but apologize.

When was the last time the media apologized for the harm they have caused?

[Adam Schlifke, MD, MBA @schlif]

I have a lot of respect for @BillAckman but I can’t support his fervent support of the republican party and Trump. Does he support the Big Beautiful Bill? I sincerely hope not!

[Adam Schlifke, MD, MBA @schlif]

Couldn’t agree more! We live in scary times. It’s hard to be a proud Jew.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

This guy @ZohranKMamdani is bad. Watch him and listen to his words.

[Adam Schlifke, MD, MBA @schlif]

@missmayim I’ve posted on your official Facebook page and I was told to contact you. My colleagues at Stanford do dream research which is right up your alley. If you want to chat, just DM me here or on Facebook. Thanks.

[AP @Average_NY_Guy]

There’s something about Israel that makes people uncomfortable, and it’s not what they say it is.

They’ll point to politics, settlements, borders, and wars. But scratch beneath the outrage, and you’ll find something deeper. A discomfort not with what Israel does, but with what Israel is.

A nation this small should not be this strong. Period.

Israel has no oil. No special natural resources. A population barely the size of a mid-sized American city. They are surrounded by enemies. Hated in the United Nations. Targeted by terror. Condemned by celebrities. Boycotted, slandered, and attacked.

And still, they thrive like there’s no tomorrow.

In military. In medicine. In security. In technology. In agriculture. In intelligence. In morality. In sheer, unbreakable will.

They turn desert into farmland.
They make water from air.
They intercept rockets in mid-air.
They rescue hostages under the nose of the world’s worst regimes.
They survive wars that were supposed to wipe them out, and win.

The world watches this and can’t make sense of it.

So they do what people do when they witness strength they can’t understand.

They assume it must be cheating.

It must be American aid.
It must be foreign lobbying.
It must be oppression.
It must be theft.
It must be some dark trick that gave the Jews this kind of power.
It must be blackmail.

Because heaven forbid it’s something else.
Heaven forbid it’s real.
Heaven forbid it’s earned.
Or worse, destined.

The Jewish people were supposed to disappear a long, long time ago. That’s how the story of exiled, enslaved, hated minorities is supposed to end. But the Jews didn’t disappear. They actually came home, rebuilt their land, revived their language, and brought their dead back to life — in memory, in identity, and in strength.

That’s not normal.
It’s not political.
It’s biblical.

There’s no cheat code that explains how a group of people return to their homeland after 2,000 years.
There is no rational path from gas chambers to global influence.
And there is no historical precedent for surviving the Babylonians, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the pogroms, and the Holocaust, and still showing up to work on Monday in Tel Aviv.

Israel doesn’t make sense.
Unless you believe in something beyond the math.

This is what drives the world crazy. Because if Israel is real, if this improbable, ancient, hated nation is somehow still chosen, protected, and thriving, then maybe God isn’t a myth after all.

Maybe He’s still in the story.

Maybe history isn’t random.
Maybe evil doesn’t get the last word.
Maybe the Jews are not just a people… but a testimony.

That’s what they can’t stand.

Because once you admit that Israel’s survival isn’t just impressive, but divine, everything changes. Your moral compass has to reset. Your assumptions about history, power, and justice collapse. You realize you’re not watching the end of an empire. You’re witnessing the beginning of something eternal.

So they deny it.
They smear it.
And rage against it.

Because it’s easier to call a miracle “cheating” than to face the possibility that God keeps His promises.

And He’s keeping them still.

[Adam Schlifke, MD, MBA @schlif]

@BillAckman I can’t say enough in your advocacy for Israel. As a Jew, a Zionist, and a father…and as a grandson of Holocaust survivors…we would not be where we are today in America without thought leaders like you standing up for what’s right and morally clear.

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

Here's what haunts me about the Boulder, CO attack: If this had been the other way around—if a white man had firebombed a mosque while screaming ethnic slurs—this country would be on fire right now. We’d have task forces, blue ribbon panels, hashtags, every anchor on every channel would wear black ties and solemn tones.

But a Jewish woman in her 80s, who survived the Holocaust, gets burned alive by a radicalized immigrant?  The media yawns and the “anti-racism” advocates scroll by in silence.

[Adam Schlifke, MD, MBA @schlif]

I rented a car for 3 days and ended up with a flat tire! @turo towed for me but the car ended up being damaged and I’m being held responsible. How is this possible? #vacation #fail #never rent from @turo. I’ve been a car renter for nearly 30 years without a single issue!

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

An incredible letter written by a non-Jewish Scottish professor to his students who voted to boycott Israel

It's a response from Dr. Denis MacEoin to the motion put forward by The Edinburgh Student's Association to boycott all things Israeli, in which they claim Israel is under an apartheid regime.

Denis is an expert in Middle Eastern affairs and was a senior editor of the Middle East Quarterly. Here's his letter to the students.

TO: The Committee Edinburgh University Student Association.

May I be permitted to say a few words to members of the EUSA? I am an Edinburgh graduate (MA 1975) who studied Persian, Arabic and Islamic History in Buccleuch Place under William Montgomery Watt and Laurence Elwell Sutton, two of Britain 's great Middle East experts in their day. I later went on to do a PhD at Cambridge and to teach Arabic and Islamic Studies at Newcastle University . Naturally, I am the author of several books and hundreds of articles in this field. I say all that to show that I am well informed in Middle Eastern affairs and that, for that reason, I am shocked and disheartened by the EUSA motion and vote.

I am shocked for a simple reason: there is not and has never been a system of apartheid in Israel .

That is not my opinion, that is fact that can be tested against reality by any Edinburgh student, should he or she choose to visit Israel to see for themselves. Let me spell this out, since I have the impression that those members of EUSA who voted for this motion are absolutely clueless in matters concerning Israel, and that they are, in all likelihood, the victims of extremely biased propaganda coming from the anti-Israel lobby.

Being anti-Israel is not in itself objectionable. But I'm not talking about ordinary criticism of Israel . I'm speaking of a hatred that
permits itself no boundaries in the lies and myths it pours out. Thus, Israel is repeatedly referred to as a "Nazi" state. In what sense is
this true, even as a metaphor? Where are the Israeli concentration camps? The einzatsgruppen? The SS? The Nuremberg Laws? The Final Solution? None of these things nor anything remotely resembling them exists in Israel , precisely because the Jews, more than anyone on earth, understand what Nazism stood for.

It is claimed that there has been an Israeli Holocaust in Gaza (or elsewhere). Where? When? No honest historian would treat that claim with anything but the contempt it deserves. But calling Jews Nazis and saying they have committed a Holocaust is as basic a way to subvert historical fact as anything I can think of.

Likewise apartheid. For apartheid to exist, there would have to be a situation that closely resembled how things were in South Africa under the apartheid regime. Unfortunately for those who believe this, a weekend in any part of Israel would be enough to show how ridiculous the claim is.

That a body of university students actually fell for this and voted on it is a sad comment on the state of modern education. The most obvious focus for apartheid would be the country's 20% Arab population. Under Israeli law, Arab Israelis have exactly the same rights as Jews or anyone else; Muslims have the same rights as Jews or Christians; Baha'is, severely persecuted in Iran, flourish in Israel, where they have their world center; Ahmadi Muslims, severely persecuted in Pakistan and elsewhere, are kept safe by Israel; the holy places of all religions are protected under a specific Israeli law. Arabs form 20% of the university population (an exact echo of their percentage in the general population).

In Iran , the Bahai's (the largest religious minority) are forbidden to study in any university or to run their own universities: why
aren't your members boycotting Iran ? Arabs in Israel can go anywhere they want, unlike blacks in apartheid South Africa . They use public transport, they eat in restaurants, they go to swimming pools, they use libraries, they go to cinemas alongside Jews - something no blacks were able to do in South Africa .

Israeli hospitals not only treat Jews and Arabs, they also treat Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank.

On the same wards, in the same operating theatres.

In Israel , women have the same rights as men: there is no gender apartheid.

Gay men and women face no restrictions, and Palestinian gays often escape into Israel, knowing they may be killed at home.

It seems bizarre to me that LGBT groups call for a boycott of Israel and say nothing about countries like Iran , where gay men are hanged or stoned to death. That illustrates a mindset that beggars belief.

Intelligent students thinking it's better to be silent about regimes that kill gay people, but good to condemn the only country in the
Middle East that rescues and protects gay people. Is that supposed to be a sick joke?

University is supposed to be about learning to use your brain, to think rationally, to examine evidence, to reach conclusions based on solid evidence, to compare sources, to weigh up one view against one or more others. If the best Edinburgh can now produce are students who have no idea how to do any of these things, then the future is bleak.

I do not object to well-documented criticism of Israel . I do object when supposedly intelligent people single the Jewish state out above states that are horrific in their treatment of their populations. We are going through the biggest upheaval in the Middle East since the 7th and 8th centuries, and it's clear that Arabs and Iranians are rebelling against terrifying regimes that fight back by killing their own citizens.

Israeli citizens, Jews and Arabs alike, do not rebel (though they are free to protest). Yet Edinburgh students mount no demonstrations and call for no boycotts against Libya , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia , Yemen , and Iran . They prefer to make false accusations against one of the world's freest countries, the only country in the Middle East that has taken in Darfur refugees, the only country in the Middle East that gives refuge to gay men and women, the only country in the Middle East that
protects the Bahai's.... Need I go on?

The imbalance is perceptible, and it sheds no credit on anyone who voted for this boycott. I ask you to show some common sense. Get information from the Israeli embassy. Ask for some speakers. Listen to more than one side.

Do not make your minds up until you have given a fair hearing to both parties. You have a duty to your students, and
that is to protect them from one-sided argument.

They are not at university to be propagandized. And they are certainly not there to be tricked into anti-Semitism by punishing one country among all the countries of the world, which happens to be the only Jewish state. If there had been a single Jewish state in the 1930's (which, sadly, there was not), don't you think Adolf Hitler would have decided to boycott it?

Your generation has a duty to ensure that the perennial racism of anti-Semitism never sets down roots among you. Today, however, there are clear signs that it has done so and is putting down more. You have a chance to avert a very great evil, simply by using reason and a sense of fair play. Please tell me that this makes sense. I have given you some of the evidence.

It's up to you to find out more.

Yours sincerely,

Denis MacEoin

[Shai Davidai @ShaiDavidai]

I know we live in a world where our attention span averages 1.5–2 minutes. Yet, the complexities of our time require that we really engage with certain thoughts and ideas. If you can, please take 15 minutes to watch this video. We need to all be there for the next generation.

@StandWithUs

https://t.co/AyidsEPU51

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

This is very well done

[Mike Pence @Mike_Pence]

Deeply Moving Remarks by @DouglasKMurray. Should be replayed on every college campus in America. 🇺🇸🇮🇱

[Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin]

This remains one of the absolute best speeches about Israel that I have ever seen delivered — ever.

“How dare you,” By Noa Tishby

[Dr. Phil @DrPhil]

A Dr. Phil EXCLUSIVE: A one hour interview with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, unedited, commercial-free from Israel, at perhaps the most critical time in the conflict.

#Netanyahu #Israel #Hamas #Palestine #DrPhil #MeritStreetMedia #Primetime

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Yes, YES! God, YES!

If you watch one thing about this war, ONE THING, let it be this!!!

[Shai Davidai @ShaiDavidai]

Hundreds of Jewish students at @Columbia just published one of the most incredible student letters I have ever read.

It's not only magnificently written, but it also clearly articulates their experiences on campus for the past six months.

Their letter tells the story of what's it like being a Jewish student right now better than any professor like myself could ever do.

Please take 4-5 minutes to read their letter.

Give Jewish students a voice.

https://t.co/nsWNScaoZS

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Often times the best way to get perspective is to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.

I just watched Screams Before Silence, a doc with before untold rape victim, witness, and investigator testimony from October 7th.

The @Columbia, @Harvard, @MIT and other student protestors should be able to relate to the victims as the women interviewed are the same age and probably have shared similar life experiences, like the Nova music festival, up until October 7th.

If you are going to call for a global intifada and/or describe the events of Oct. 7th as ‘resistance,’ you owe it to yourself (and to the victims) to understand what you are talking about.

To the protestors:

While you a camping out, take 54 minutes to listen to the victims and then pretend it happened to you, your sister or your closest friend.

Now consider that 130 or more hostages are still being held, are suffering untold horrors, and among them remain 14 or so women.

What if happened to you?

Screams Before Silence:

https://t.co/TuVab6Rfrq

[Luke J Schumacher @LukeJSchumacher]

The “pro-peace” party at Stanford is wearing Hamas headbands.

Stop gaslighting - stop telling us these protests are about peace & justice.