Shimon Sorkin שמעון סורקין

Founding Engineer @Promethee_io

[Bree A Dail @breeadail]

This speech…the speech of speeches at the UN.

Long. Overdue.

[Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו @netanyahu]

ליברמן, ידעתי שאתה בשמאל מאז שהקמת ממשלה עם מנסור עבאס. אני יודע שאתה בשמאל כי תקים ממשלה עם איזנקוט, יאיר גולן, בנט והמפלגות הערביות. אבל לא האמנתי שאתה תציע היום שצבא ירדן ישלוט בשטחי ארץ ישראל. חזור בך מייד!

[Prime Minister of Israel @IsraeliPM]

The Prime Minister's Office:

The grotesque absurdity of Emmanuel Macron's statement is staggering.
On Sunday, the eve of Yom Kippur, just two days ago, Netanel Shukrun—a FRENCH CITIZEN and father of six—was murdered in his car by a Hamas terrorist in Judea and Samaria. With his final breath, he told his son to run.

Hamas terrorists carry out attacks against Jews almost every day. They have murdered countless Israeli civilians in Judea and Samaria.

Ignorance is NO EXCUSE for erasing their blood.

[Jeremy Musighi @immutbl]

Every news story follows a predictable decay function- it peaks, then is soon forgotten. That is, every story except one: Israel. I analyzed 14.7 million news articles in 65 languages, cable news airtime, and social media data from X. The results were staggering. 🧵

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

“The film “NAZA” has not yet been released in full. However, based on what can be seen in the promotional material, it presents a series of serious and false allegations regarding the IDF and its personnel. The claims presented in the promotional material are inaccurate, some of which are portrayed in a distorted and misleading manner, disconnected from the reality on the ground.

I want to emphasize: the IDF is a military guided by values, operating in accordance with international law and binding professional standards and principles. This is how we have operated over the past three years, and this is how we will continue to operate, even under the most complex combat conditions.

To enable a substantive, professional, and fact-based discussion, rather than one based on misleading portrayals, I invite the filmmakers to allow IDF representatives to view the film in full so that we can address each of the allegations it raises on its merits.

The public discussion surrounding this film should be based on facts—not misleading portrayals or false accusations.

Since October 7th, the IDF has worked relentlessly to defend the State of Israel and its civilians. Together with the IDF’s commanders, I stand firmly behind our soldiers, commanders, and personnel, and unequivocally reject the baseless accusations directed against them. Those who have made sacrifices and have defended our country, and continue to do so, deserve our full support and protection in return.”

-IDF Spox. BG Effie Defrin

[N. @Nlacombe_]

every great founder was once a gamer

[Ted S @ClearReason]

Nearly 2 million Muslims live in Israel.

Fewer than 10,000 Jews remain in the entire Arab world, down from roughly 850,000 at its peak.

Yet Israel is the country accused of apartheid.

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

“If you stay in Israel you’re a settler, if you don’t stay you’re a colonizer”

Olympic-level mental gymnastics by these people to avoid saying they just hate Jews.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

This photo is so often shared without the context that puts it all into perspective. What happened to them?

Maryam Rafiei (right) was executed by the regime in 1988. Sahar Mohammadi (left) was exiled to Sweden.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Every person living in a western nation needs to listen to every word of this

Katherine Berbalsingh went to the University of Oxford and is Headmaster at Michaela Community School in London, UK

She PERFECTLY explains the mass indoctrination into the narrative of oppressor and oppressed, and of hating White People

I will write only some of this out because it’s very important, however you should listen to it so you can hear the passion:

“The culture shift comes from what children learn at school and online. Ask any young person what history they learned at school, and they’ll tell you, Hitler. Ask them what else? Slavery. Ask them what else? American civil rights.

In fact, what little they know of history will be all about Black and brown people fighting for equality against the white man, women fighting men for the vote, gay and trans people fighting for various rights. Our young people have been taught that history is simply one long story about various groups struggling under the oppressive dead white man.

— History is taught through an oppressor lens. The triangular slave trade, white men held the power. What about Britain ending the slave trade? More than a quick mention, if at all? Mm, no.

What of the Arab slave trade that lasted 3 times as long as the triangular slave trade? Mm, no.

Okay, so GCSE history in Britain is often taught as migration through time, so the idea that Britain has always been a land of immigrants is embedded in our children’s heads. Most schools would prefer to concentrate learning about the tiny number of Black people who existed in Tudor England over a thorough analysis of England’s break from Rome.

— Not to mention weeks on King Mansa Musa of Mali because he was a Black Muslim. His bearing on British institutions, laws, and faith is nonexistent. And the fact that he is said to have been the richest man in history, thanks in part to his massive slave-owning society, is a detail somehow that teachers rarely ever teach.

But it isn’t just our schools. It’s our general culture too. Take your kids to a museum or an art gallery in any Western country, and you’ll find the same narrative.

As an example, when learning about aviation in London’s Science Museum and the extraordinary feat that is man making massive machines move in the sky, a write-up on the wall explains that women and Black people were historically barred from aviation schools and the military. Similarly, James Watt, the man who invented the steam engine and is considered the founder of the Industrial Revolution, has a write-up on the wall explaining that his early career involved slave trafficking, with a bonus analysis of the whole of Britain’s complicity in the slave trade.

They flatten the entire human story and all of its complexities into the narrative of oppressor and oppressed, leaving young people unable to see the world in any other terms.”

We have to end the mass indoctrination

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

Why don't podcasters and their guests ever talk about the tens of billions of dollars Qatar and Saudi Arabia are spending in our country to influence our politics and policies, our businesses and sports, brainwash our kids, and buy podcasters and their ilk?

[Zvika Klein צביקה קליין @ZvikaKlein]

Eight months ago, I sat alone with Lindsey Graham in a small room in Las Vegas.

I expected the Senate's biggest hawk to tell me annexation was coming.

What he said instead stunned me. And now that he's gone, I can't stop thinking about it.

Graham died on Shabbat, two days after his 71st birthday. Jewish tradition teaches that Joseph, Moses, and King David died on Shabbat. A man whose entire foreign policy came out of the Book of Genesis left this world on the day Genesis calls blessed and holy.

In that room, he gave me all the time I wanted. He argued like a man having fun. But he looked worried, and he looked tired.

Then he said it: "If you want to marginalize the Jewish state, go down that road. It will do more damage to Israel's future than any bomb Iran could ever build."

And: "To be pro-Israel, you need to be honest with Israel."

The most pro-Israel senator in America, at the most pro-Israel Republican gathering in America, warning Israel against itself. Days earlier, a very senior Israeli official on the Right had told me the exact same thing, privately.

His secret was never AIPAC. It was a South Carolina pew: "God blesses those who bless Israel, and that's my foreign policy."

Here's what should terrify every Jew reading this:

McCain is gone. Now Graham. The Christians who built America's alliance with Israel, senator by senator, pastor by pastor, are leaving the stage. Graham himself told me what's replacing them: the podcast Right. The basement Right. The people who think Jews get America into trouble.

The pro-Israel America we take for granted is not infrastructure. It is people.

And the people are dying.

I keep coming back to the worry on his face that Friday. I understand it now.

Some of it was for us.

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Full column:

[Shimon Sorkin שמעון סורקין @ShimonSorkin]

@ForeignAffairs @ilangoldenberg We have 22 Arab states; none of them are democracies that respect human rights. So, no thanks, we don't need a 23rd Islamist authoritarian regime that oppresses its own people. The free world doesn't want it.

[Jerusalem News Syndicate @JNS_org]

"They say the settlements are illegal. We’re saying it’s not true. I don't think there is another nation on this planet that has better documented proof for its right to its land."

[Shimon Sorkin שמעון סורקין @ShimonSorkin]

“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. [...] We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.”

― Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies

[RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa]

The Holy Bible is banned in 52 out of 57 Islamic countries. Why can't we do the same with the Quran in Europe and America? You cannot be tolerant with the intolerant.

[Shimon Sorkin שמעון סורקין @ShimonSorkin]

@chesscomsupport @chesscom Thank you!

[Shimon Sorkin שמעון סורקין @ShimonSorkin]

.@chesscom, could you already start taking action against the fierce antisemitism on your platform?

[Kasparov Chess @Kasparov_Chess]

It is with great sadness that the Kasparov Chess Foundation mourns the passing of GM Daniel Naroditsky, one of the brightest stars to emerge from our programs.
Danya’s talent, creativity, and love for chess inspired everyone who knew him, from students to fellow competitors.

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

The Palestinian myth is collapsing. Gaza's destruction post-October 7 proves their choice of violence over peace only breeds ruin. Hamas and Palestinians are one, trapped in an Arab culture of rejectionism and indoctrination that cannot coexist with Israel's democratic values. Yitzhak Rabin, Israel's former Prime Minister, embodied true peacemaking. In the 1990s, through the Oslo Accords, he allowed the Palestinian Authority's creation in good faith, aiming to build bridges with Palestinians for lasting peace. For this, he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader. But while Rabin gave his life-assassinated for his peace efforts-Arafat betrayed that vision, doubling down on terrorism and sacrificing his people for power and status. Oslo's promise crumbled into bloodshed because of this betrayal. Israel learned the hard way: coexistence with such a destructive mentality is impossible. Gaza's path now is relocation-compensation to integrate into societies like Egypt, Syria, or Jordan, where their values fit. West Bank Palestinians must choose: abandon their false identity and violence, or face Gaza's fate. The so-called Palestinian cause, built on lies and aggression, cannot stand against universal justice. History demands separation. Wake up, or be left behind.

[Yael Bar tur @yaelbt]

At this rate there’s gonna be nobody left to teach classes in the fall semester at Columbia