Thou shall not talk shit on Philadelphia if thou aren't from Philadelphia. If bad stuff happens in Philadelphia, thou had it coming.- Book of Philadelphians 41:33
#Debates2020#BadThingsHappenInPhilly#shutupman
Painter has effectively pitched the Phillies out of being able to make a big time trade cause there is no team that is going to take him as the main piece of a package.
Bruh, @dunkindonuts I used my rewards points for a breakfast sandwich, took my points, and then didn't give me the discount. So paid full price and lost my rewards points 😭😭😭0/10 awful way to start my day
A Hezbollah account posted a video on TikTok after the IDF struck a civilian home in Lebanon. But in filming it he inadvertently captured something that Hezbollah has tried to hide from the western media and public…
Look closely at the still from the video. What do you see behind the man with the fire hydrant?
That’s right, it’s a rocket launcher.
Hezbollah deliberately place rockets and launchers in civilian homes. And it repeatedly gets exposed.
Freddie Andersen should bitch slap every one of the defensemen in that locker room at the intermission. Like that dude is just getting hung out to dry by his team #StanleyCupPlayoffs
Just watched 2 little kids ask the grounds crew at the @Phillies game how they lay the chalk for the foul line and they brought the kids onto the field to let them help. Core memory created. How can you not love baseball? #RingTheBell
There is a claim that keeps circulating, presented as sophisticated analysis: antisemitic violence is caused by Israel’s actions. If Israel behaved differently, Jewish communities around the world would somehow be safer. This argument is not analysis. It is a moral inversion. And it collapses the moment you apply it consistently.
When China imprisons Uyghurs, does anyone warn Muslim communities in Paris to expect attacks? When Russia invaded Ukraine, did anyone tell Russian restaurants to brace for violence? No. Never. The causal chain between a government’s actions and violence against a diaspora is only ever constructed for Jews. Every other minority is extended the basic moral courtesy of being treated as individuals rather than proxies.
Now look at what the data actually shows. The SPCJ, which tracks antisemitic incidents in France in coordination with the Interior Ministry, has documented a consistent and damning pattern: it is antisemitic violence that inspires more antisemitic violence, not Israeli policy. After Mohamed Merah murdered Jewish children at point-blank range at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse in 2012, antisemitic acts surged by 200%. There was no Gaza operation. No Israeli military action. The massacre of Jews in France produced more attacks on Jews in France.
The same logic held after the Hypercacher attack in January 2015: antisemitic acts increased by nearly 300%. Massacres of Jews do not shock antisemites into restraint. They embolden them. They signal impunity. They normalize hatred. And everyone in a position of responsibility knows it.
Which brings us to October 7. From the day of the Hamas attack, antisemitic acts in France increased by over 1,000%. A daily average of approximately 25 antisemitic acts was recorded in the 30 days that followed, reaching nearly 40 on some days. In the three months after the attack, the number of antisemitic acts equaled those recorded over the previous three years combined.
And here is another detail that makes the “Israel causes antisemitism” argument impossible to sustain: the spike began on October 7 itself, the very day of the attack. Israel had not yet responded. Not a single soldier had entered Gaza. Interior Minister Darmanin sent an urgent message to prefects that same day asking them to immediately reinforce protection of Jewish community sites. Synagogues. Schools. Community centers. By October 10, 10,000 police officers had been deployed to protect 500 Jewish sites across the country.
Before any Israeli response existed, the French government already knew that Jewish communities needed protecting. Not because of what Israel was about to do. Because of what had just been done to Jews.
Antisemitic violence has one cause. Antisemitism.