lurkinguser23452

Bruh

[David Collier @mishtal]

The truth is this - none of the @thegreenparty members voting "Zionism is racism" can even define Zionism.

Which means all they did is demonise Jewish people based on lies and ignorance.

They even convinced themselves they are the good guys

We have been here before.

[lurkinguser23452 @strimplers]

@IDF @Aizenberg55 , @mishtal , and @MiddleEastBuka have websites with evidence for each operative that are detailed and easy to understand. This website has martyr posters at best, and a claim. This will be easily dismissed by bad actors. Ffs fire the morons running your PR

[Elliot Kaufman @ElliotKaufman6]

"All the major settlement blocs and the E1 zone were deemed non-issues for a Palestinian State by Abbas."
https://t.co/UhYdsnYVCK

[lurkinguser23452 @strimplers]

@realajedelman Relative of yours?

So sorry

[lurkinguser23452 @strimplers]

@CBSNews Al Manar is, openly, literally owned and operated by Hezbollah. And Hezbollah operates out of civilian infrastructure and wears no identifying uniforms. Important context to include, CBS.

[Adam Louis-Klein @adam_louis52328]

The Darfur genocide of 2003 was, in some ways, the "real Gaza." A broad coalition of humanitarian activists raised the alarm. There was intense pressure to recognize the atrocities as genocide. The U.S. government investigated the evidence and concluded that it was indeed a genocide, while the United Nations denied it. Ultimately, however, almost nothing was done to stop it. An Arab-Muslim supremacist regime was carrying out a genuine genocide against Black African communities.

In Gaza, the drama repeated itself, but the facts were inverted. A broad coalition of activists again raised the alarm and demanded that Israel be accused of genocide. The United States refused to endorse the accusation, while now the United Nations asserted it. Massive international pressure was mobilized to stop the war. This time, however, the alleged perpetrator was a Western democracy fighting an Islamist movement who themselves had committed genocide.

What is striking is that genuine humanitarian concern in Darfur failed to produce meaningful intervention, while pseudo-humanitarian concern in Gaza produced extraordinary international intervention. In the one case, a real genocide generated recognition without intervention, in the other, an imaginary genocide generated intervention that itself preserved a genocidal regime in power.

[Shany Mor שני מור شني مور @ShMMor]

On the consequences of the moral credit system created by the western negative canon:

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I’ve just seen a post from yet another man who thinks my position has shifted since I wrote my 2020 essay about gender identity ideology and the consequent clash of rights https://t.co/pasxBD1Hzl

For the avoidance of doubt, I stand by every word I wrote then. For instance: ‘woman isn’t a costume.’ If it surprises you that I say men don’t become women by wearing make up and dresses, you didn’t understand the essay. I’ve been crystal clear all along that I believe people are free to live and present themselves as the opposite sex if that’s what feels comfortable and authentic TO THEM. This appears to have been interpreted (most often, tellingly, by men) as ‘and it naturally follows that I, as a woman, will validate a man’s belief that he is now, to all intents and purposes, the same sex as me, and I will use only the speech he deems appropriate and will be very careful to protect his sensitive ego, no matter the cost to myself in pretending to believe a falsehood, or the loss of my own rights due to this pretence.’

Dress as you like within normal bounds of situational decency, wear lipstick, sequins and a beard if you want, call yourself whatever you like, have sex with any consenting adult you please: I wish you health, happiness and safety. What you don’t get is the power to compel my speech and belief.

When I call a man a man, I am speaking verifiable truth. It is essential to be able to accurately name sex when discussing fair sport, facilities and services for women and girls and the right of gay people not to be demonised for their same-sex attraction. In years to come, a lot of useful idiots are going to awake to the fact that they’ve been complicit in enormous harm done to women, girls, gay people who stood against the insanity, and some extremely vulnerable young people. I don’t doubt we’ll hear a lot of, ‘I thought I was just being kind.’ Such individuals, especially those in positions of power, should be asked why they never had anything to say about the loud, public, widespread unkindness directed against those who refused to adopt their fashionable, elitist beliefs, eg, the detransitioners being bullied and vilified by former ‘allies’, the whistleblowers who tried to stop an unregulated experiment on troubled children, the women who lost their careers and livelihoods by standing up for all women’s rights.

Some people appear to believe it a worse crime for a woman to call a man a man than for trans activists to call loudly and publicly for the assault and assassination of all women who refuse to bend the knee. I have never wished violence or any other kind of harm on a trans-identified person, but, like many other people who’ve defended women’s and girls’ rights over the past few years, I have received thousands of threats of death, rape and torture. The wilful blindness of those who bleat ‘both sides’ will rightly be judged harshly in times to come.

TL;DR Trans women aren’t women, and if that hurts your feelings, be grateful you live in a society where you are just as free to espouse gender ideology as I am to speak the truth. As Orwell said: ‘Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.’

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

1000 days ago, people emerged from physical tunnels dug in Gaza and from metaphorical tunnels dug beneath the most hallowed institutions of the West: top universities, the UN and so-called human rights organizations, to mount a global, ongoing assault on Jewish life everywhere.

[shevereshtus @shevereshtus]

All I have to say about the internet is

“Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.”

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

For those who haven't been following -- and nobody's been following because nobody cares, least of all the journalists' NGOs -- Hamas and Islamic Jihad have been steadily releasing death notifications for one "journalist" after another, listing them invariably as fighters and commanders in the organizations' ranks.

It's dozens now. Maybe more.

But the "Israel targets journalists" meme is forever. The facts will never penetrate the thick fog of ideological confirmation bias that has overtaken the NGO and activism world and its journalistic arms in the mainstream media.

Literally no one cares about whether journalists were actually hunted down by Israel, as it was depicted by @pressfreedom and others, or whether Hamas used fake "journalist" claims to protect combatant commanders, counting on a global NGO and media ecosystem it knew was looking to confirm its biases.

No one will examine these falsehoods or report on them in a visible way because no one cares about the wellbeing of the real journalists, who are desperately endangered when combatant commanders are labeled "journalists" -- and even the world's major journalist advocacy groups decide to play along.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

A lot of subscribers have asked what I made of the Nick Kristof oped.

So much has already been said. What more is there to say?

My first thought was everyone else's. Horrifying. Testimonies of pain and torture. We know that the Israeli Prisons Service is notoriously incompetent. There have been cases of Hamas prisoners abusing each other, and even famous cases of them abusing female Israeli guards. We know, too, that all prison systems struggle with the problem: New York prisons face 2,000 claims against them. So abuse of prisoners isn't merely possible, it's guaranteed. October 7 and the ensuing war sent thousands of detainees into the prisons. And in the early months, drafted into the system undertrained reservist guards. Guards who had seen Hamas's videos gleefully documenting their crimes.

I expected, therefore, a hard-hitting story of real abuse, something Israeli leaders must take notice of.

And then I came across the first obvious lie. And then the second. And then an odd claim -- maybe possible, but how exactly? -- and then another just like it. And a famed Hamas propagandist laundered as a reliable source. And then another.

Why, if there is no doubt that abuse occurred -- and there is no doubt -- was there so much obvious propaganda in Kristof's oped?

I won't pretend the lies weren't a relief. They were. It's agony to read about Israeli criminality, and the lies let me cast doubt on the whole narrative. There's an obvious propaganda campaign at work here.

But as claim followed claim, it became hard not to wonder: Despite the propaganda, what part is nevertheless true? How bad has it gotten?

So here's what we know, or at least what I think I know.

This is a campaign that seeks our destruction. Kristof quotes people who celebrated October 7 and want Israel destroyed, and will lie to achieve that goal. We know how the lies in this story made their way into it, where they came from and what purpose they serve.

Even so, I'm not willing to conclude there's no truth at all in there, just because there are lies.

Dogs did not rape anyone. The people who invented that particular inanity claimed it without evidence, knowing that no one, certainly not self-appointed moral arbiters like Nick Kristof, would ever bother checking the provenance of the claim.

Because they never, ever do. Because why would they?

So the claim spreads through the millions-strong activist network without investigation, exciting and mobilizing -- not because anyone understands how it might be possible but for the sheer thrill of it.

And it's cited by Kristof as a reliable report.

A recent report by a Norwegian NGO, also referenced, claimed "systemic sexual violence" in the West Bank by citing just 16 cases across three years in a geographic region containing as many as three million Palestinians and over half a million Israelis. And some of the examples scarcely cleared the bar for harassment.

But the NGO in question knew for a fact that no journalist would look too deeply into any of it. And indeed, no journalist did.

Because they never, ever do. Because why would they?

Friends, a paper trail is being created. Just like they created a paper trail on mass starvation in Gaza -- mass starvation first claimed in early 2024, and then claimed again and again by NGOs, the UN, everybody. Some were nuanced warnings of a "possibility," some declared it had arrived. The headlines from both were largely the same. And then, in thundering silence, the mass starvation claim just faded away, never having materialized -- while billions of ordinary people around the world who don't follow too closely remain convinced that countless Gazans died of starvation.

So they moved on. A Lancet letter claiming hundreds of thousands of deaths spread like wildfire, mostly because (a) nobody actually read or understood what it claimed and (b) nobody cared enough to check if it was remotely plausible. Then, just in case anyone forgot Lancet, came the claim by UN rapporteurs of the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children -- 380,000 infants under five allegedly died, more than the entire population of infants in Gaza. Stupid, right? But it was repeated again and again by activists and protestors.

No one checks, no costs are exacted for the never-ending barrage of fakery. Because why would they?

A wild religious frenzy has taken hold. Hatred of Israel is now definitional to the left, and to parts of the right. Greta Thunberg has forgotten all about climate change. An enemy of humanity has been identified just in time to unleash all the pent-up religious rage that this troubled secular age won't allow against anyone else.

And by complete and utter coincidence, that enemy you're suddenly allowed to hate is vaguely associated with the Jews.

Yes, alas, it really is that simple.

But also, dear friends -- bear with me -- it isn't.

All the above is true. They're fucking liars and bigots. They marched in their millions, again and again and again, for weeks and months and years -- marches completely unprecedented in their size, regularity and duration in all the history of the West, in all the history of war, larger by orders of magnitude than all other marches for all other conflicts and wars and suffering combined, even those caused by their own governments. And no serious person pretends that anything similar could ever have coalesced or will ever coalesce again unless Israel is involved.

"But we fund you," shouts the American activist to explain this mind-numbing selectivity. Then why did one-third of the city of Amsterdam march? Or millions of Spaniards, Brazilians and Indonesians? It was unprecedented and it was everywhere.

And Kristof has joined the new religion. Not by being concerned about abuse, but by not caring one whit whether he's trafficking in truths or lies. Only the Jews will ask to distinguish between the two. He just needs to throw it all on the page, and his membership in the glorious crusade is assured.

Alas, the Jews are correct about the nature of this moment. Some things are so big and fundamental, so assumed and widespread, that they become hard to see. Fish don't notice the water. Activists who can only ever march against Jews are convinced they are merely righteous people enraged by war, without ever pausing to wonder why the only war that ever enraged them or ever made its way to their phones was one particular war, and not larger and deadlier wars also conducted with Western weapons and money.

And so the Jew is made fearful once more. Throughout Christendom and Islam, he is being returned to his proper place in the social hierarchies of old, complete with anxious conversos and ideological purity tests.

And yet, still, despite it all, their lies aren't the end of the story. Their lies are a separate story. A campaign of lies that constitutes a return to the mean for the Jewish condition in the West. A campaign meant to justify brutality against us, not to end war or suffering.

And despite all of it, dear Jews, there really is abuse.

It's nowhere near as much as the psychotic claims of these fantasists. Not by orders of magnitude. If it was, they wouldn't need to lie so much.

But it's there nonetheless. Many dozens of cases at least, probably in the low hundreds by now, most of them without any sexual aspect, but still wanton violence. Exact numbers are hard to come by, but the army gave a few estimates to the courts a couple of times over the past three years. There have been many indictments filed against soldiers, serious ones. I know something about a handful of those cases. I know that the problem is real.

It's there, it's real, and it doesn't seem to be stopping. And if it isn't stopped with an iron will and uncompromising hand, it will continue to fester and grow.

And it must be said: neither Ben Gvir nor Netanyahu are interested in fixing it. Nobody at the top cares about the rights of prisoners.

Let me be clear: For the first time in my life, I support a death penalty. No one who crossed over the border to massacre and kidnap on October 7 should be left alive; they came to kidnap children precisely because they sought the release of mass murderers kept alive in our prisons. Hamas, as always, in its totalizing brutality, forces the choice: If their murderers live, our children may die. I choose our children. And those who came for our children cannot be deterred, reformed or deradicalized. They murder their own to clear a path to murdering ours. And so I believe they must die. We must try, convict and destroy them.

And even I, radicalized in this narrow, specific way, say we cannot collapse into torture or abuse. That's not justice. It isn't even vengeance. It is participation in Hamas's way of war.

Nor do our leaders seem to care about the simple breakdown of discipline that these abuses represent, the kind of breakdown we saw again and again with the incidents of looting in Gaza and in the early cases of prisoner abuse that came to light.

No, dogs aren't being trained to systematically rape prisoners, you nattering halfwits. And no, Hamas propaganda operatives are not reliable sources on the question of Israeli crimes. The vast, vast majority of soldiers are honorable men who walked into fire so our families may live. The whole world may turn on them; I will stand with them, grateful for their sacrifice. And Kristof, a willing purveyor of propaganda happily feigning that he can't see the water and thrilling to a moral crusade engineered by would-be genocidaires he pretends not to understand -- is no messenger of moral reckoning.

But friends, so fucking what. Let the narcissistic guttersnipes strut their moral emotions before the world, let the UN publish endless reports that don't hold up to basic scrutiny, let the NGOs dream their rabid, sick dreams that no journalist ever fact-checks -- yes, they're lying. But so fucking what.

We still, for ourselves -- because fuck them -- must see that it isn't all fake. The problem is real. It's far smaller than they claim, but real nonetheless. And when discipline and morality break down, it can only get worse. We either crack down now or we watch it fester and grow.

And our own Ben Gvirs are stubbornly refusing to fix what is actually broken, the real thing in the real world.

And so we are caught in a strange sort of vise, the same vise we find ourselves in with the genocide lie: A vast propaganda machine that seeks to destroy us -- countless activists too high on their own self-regard to see the irony of raging against a "genocide" while calling for the erasure of a people -- all while our own incompetent, venal, self-absorbed political class insist in their mindless chatter on confirming every claim of our enemies for sheer, bald egomania.

I'm sick of it all. I know you're all sick of it too.

And that, in a nutshell, is what I think about this.

Just because they're lying, just because a vast perfidious campaign has overwhelmed global elites in a bid to clear the way for our removal, just because they're still, after two millennia, building their visions of redemption on The Evil Jew -- doesn't mean there isn't also, separately, a problem on the ground.

So what do we do now?

Simple. We see it, we acknowledge it's happening, we bring our rage to our inept leaders until they bend to our will and act to stop the breakdown...

And we soldier on.

We soldier on because the enemy really is coming to murder us. Because Hamas must still go if Gaza is ever to rise to a new day. Because Hezbollah will yet destroy Lebanon on the altar of destroying us. Because the ayatollahs built their whole damn religion on the extermination of our children.

We fix the broken things within us as if the pogromists and their simpering Kristofs don't exist. We owe no answers to the propagandists who seek to clear a path to our deaths. But we do owe answers to ourselves.

Let the screaming mob rage and churn like so much sea-foam. Despite that raging mob, despite the enemy who still seeks our destruction, and yes, despite feckless incompetents like Ben Gvir, our minister of prisons, who claim to lead us -- we remain the strongest, freest Jews who ever lived, more capable and committed than our self-destructive enemies ever imagined. And the task is still before us, yet to be completed, the sacred duty given to our generation to ensure our children don't have to face the genocidaires who now surround us. We do not waver, we do not stumble. We soldier on.

Because fuck them all.

[shevereshtus @shevereshtus]

I too remember when the well-fed, well-armed, well-trained fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto executed a massive breakout in order to inflict as many horrific civilian deaths and take as many hostages as possible in an attempt to ultimately destroy Germany as half the world cheered.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Suggesting a positive political endgame for Palestinians isn't hard to do. I've done it. Many others have too.

And these endgame suggestions would be fantastic tools in the hands of anyone looking to impose specific demands on Israel, or on Abbas or Hamas, or to offer a better future for Palestinians of the sort that might peel some away from Hamas.

Palestinians have shown repeatedly that they have the tools to shape Israeli politics. But they are told by ideologues foreign and domestic that they must never use these powers, because doing so would commit the unforgivable sin of actually engaging and acknowledging the dastardly Jews.

Sorry, Israelis.

So no one is ever interested in endgames. The suggestions always land with a thud. The activists dismiss them out of hand as distractions from the main task. Because the main task, the purpose of the whole rabid, unprecedented campaign, unseen in scale, duration or intensity in any conflict or country or even atrocity in generations, is not to find any solution for Palestinians. The purpose is to project all Western criminality and self-abnegation and all the anxieties of this moment of social disarray onto the familiar old scapegoat and then, as in the days of old, destroy that scapegoat. It's a civilization-spanning purification ritual couched, like all such rituals in the history of Christendom and the West, as a call to righteousness and truth.

And the bulk of the costs of all this blind hatred masquerading as righteousness isn't paid by Israelis or Jews, though they are paying steep costs that will only grow steeper, because this hatred is never satisfied. No, they're paid by Palestinians. They, not we, are trapped in this obsessive radicalization against Israel. They, not we, are herded by comfortable foreigners living out anti-imperialist noble-savage fantasies into ever more rounds of zero-sum war.

There *are* political endgames, and they're worth fighting for. But they require a pro-Palestinian campaign that's more than just an updated version of the anti-Jewish purges of old.

[lurkinguser23452 @strimplers]

@NormalDemocrats @afalkhatib Do you realize who you're responding to? Ahmed is the loudest and most principled Palestinian critic of Hamas. He's just commenting on the latest Dem polls. Ahmed is an ally.

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

I just want everyone to understand that America has not been trying. We bully our smart kids. We spend 1000 times more on special education than gifted and talented programs. We eliminated honors classes in the name of equality. We even came up with a replacement for phonics so stupid that half our kids can’t read. Then we take the smartest kids that survive this system, and we racially and sexually discriminate against them for entry into college. Then we do that again when they apply for their first job. And again for every job after that. Then we undercut them in favor of foreign labor that’ll do worse work for cheaper. Most kids see this and just say “fuck it” and focus on sports, or trying to be an influencer, or just give up on trying altogether. Meanwhile in places like China every kid spends 16 hours a day studying trig tables or gets the belt. Yet America is still number one. In everything. There is so much latent potential in the American people. We have tried before. We crossed a continent and carved this country out of clay. We recrossed the oceans and conquered the world by accident as a favor to our friends. One day (hopefully soon), we are going to start trying again. America will wake up. Don’t be on the wrong side when it does.

[lurkinguser23452 @strimplers]

@adam_louis52328 Thank you for naming and dissecting literally every phenomena of this bigotry called antizionism. The "antizionist laugh react" is something I have encountered again and again and never before had a name for. Naming and identifying is the first step to countering.

[Adam Louis-Klein @adam_louis52328]

One striking phenomenon I have observed online is what might be called the “antizionist laugh react.” Time and again, antizionist users compulsively hit the laugh emoji on every comment made by someone perceived to be Jewish or “Zionist,” regardless of tone or content. It is not a response to argument, but to presence—a reflexive, derisive gesture directed at the mere fact of Jewish speech.

I had never encountered this kind of behavior in any other political discourse. It reveals not only a breakdown in the norms of rational debate, but a deeper, disordered affective structure—a kind of hysterical response to the visibility of the Jew who speaks. The laugh react becomes a social signal of exclusion, a way to collectively mark Jewish speech as absurd, illegitimate, or laughable by default, and it reflects how antizionist today often uses irony and displaced allusion to enact a persistent logic of contempt for Jews.

The “antizionist laugh react” is just the most extreme and affectively transparent form of a broader pattern among antzionist activists: the need not to engage Jewish speech, but to preemptively disengage from it. Rather than encounter arguments or respond to evidence, the strategy is to render speech itself inadmissible—as with the deployment of shock-labels like “genocide” and “apartheid,” which are meant not to describe but to shame, silence, and foreclose. These terms function as rhetorical weapons designed to preempt discussion and morally disqualify the speaker.

What legitimates this move is an ecosystem of selectively credentialed authority: NGOs like Amnesty International, academic activists, and a self-reinforcing media class that elevates certain “expert” voices while increasingly marginalizing or excluding Jews—especially those who speak from within a position of peoplehood, sovereignty, or identification with Israel. In this context, the laugh react is not just mockery; it is a ritualized performance of refusal, a way to mark Jewish presence as inherently illegitimate before a word is even heard.

In this discursive environment, basic facts no longer have a voice. The most elementary contradictions are ignored or inverted, producing a landscape where absurdities thrive unchecked. That Israel has been accused of “genocide” for decades—while the Palestinian population has consistently grown—is never treated as disqualifying the charge. That Jews, an indigenous Middle Eastern people with continuous ties to the land of Israel, are routinely labeled “settler-colonialists” by activists importing North American racial frameworks, goes unchallenged. Even Hamas’s own explicit statements—proudly declaring the use of civilians as human shields, calling non-combatants “martyrs” while deploying combatants in civilian garb—are bracketed or denied. Gazans who oppose Hamas’s authoritarian rule, or who speak of its destructive military strategies, are rendered invisible by the very activists who claim to advocate for their liberation.

In this ecosystem, truth is not falsified so much as structurally inadmissible: the function of language is not to describe reality, but to delegitimize Jewish presence.

[Adam Louis-Klein @adam_louis52328]

It is sometimes claimed in antizionist discourse that Jewish indigeneity can “expire”—that a sufficiently long period of diaspora is enough to erase a people’s claim to the land from which they were exiled. This notion carries deeply problematic implications: it effectively sanctifies the right of conquest over Indigenous peoples, allowing their historical ties to be nullified by force, violence, or the mere passage of time. Even setting aside these moral concerns, the model is conceptually flawed, and it appears to be invoked almost exclusively in the case of denying Jewish indigeneity. The Jewish return from diaspora is not unique—Armenians also constituted a diaspora nation, similar to Jews, who returned to their homeland and re-established their national sovereignty (Kirschbaum).

At bottom, the idea of an “expiry date” betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of indigeneity.  Indigeneity is not a status that lapses with time—it is a structure of meaning, transmitted across generations. As long as those patterns of memory, identity, and relation to land are being lived and passed on, indigeneity remains intact. It only “expires” when the people themselves are extinguished. And that is precisely what antizionism appears to desire: to see Jewish indigeneity “expire”—not through any natural process, but through the extinction of Jewish collective identity, whether by genocidal violence or forced assimilation. Thus, antizionism becomes the very form of colonialism it claims to oppose.