Todd Berman

Lover of Israel, Torah, and Knowledge

[Kosher Chutzpah @KosherChutzpah]

A father listened to his daughter's murder over the phone. Hamas made her call him while they killed her. For fun. That's not a military operation.

THAT'S WHO YOU'RE DEFENDING.
THAT'S HAMAS.

[Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر @emilykschrader]

Lebanese professor Hicham Bou Nassif: ‘There Is No Israeli Conspiracy against Lebanon, the “Greater Israel” Plan Does Not Exist. We Are Paying the Price for Arafat, Assad, and Iran Using Our Territory’

Hicham teaches at Claremont McKenna College

[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

Hamás: “Repetiremos la masacre del 7 de octubre una y otra vez, un millón de veces si es necesario, hasta que pongamos fin a la ocupación”.

Periodista: “¿Ocupación de Gaza?”

Hamás: “no, todo Israel”.

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

The Islamic Regime in Iran has launched four waves of ballistic missiles at Israel tonight

Many in the West are so thoroughly brainwashed that they’ve reversed cause and effect

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Tens of thousands march in Toronto, Canada, in a solidarity march for Israel. 🇨🇦❤️🇮🇱

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

After three years of a vicious disinformation war, Hamas is slowly—in dribs and drabs—admitting the truth.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Radical Israeli settlers raided the Palestinian village of Huwara over a stolen goat. One of them, wearing IDF uniforms, beating random Palestinians with clubs. Nine wounded.

This is terrorism. Nobody should hesitate to condemn this.

We need to hold our own to the standards we set for our nation.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

This is inversion so callous it's hard to believe.

The Holocaust had a survival rate of about 30%. Millions of people disappeared from European cities and towns over several years. Everybody knew because it was happening all around them.

Gaza has a survival rate, despite the worst and most deadly and horrible periods of the war, of 97%.

All the dead Jews were noncombatants. A large percentage of the dead Gazans were combatants.

And the Jews of Europe, even as their millennia-old civilization was being systematically wiped out, wanted nothing from the societies that surrounded them except to be allowed to live in peace.

Gaza's leadership of religious fanatics, meanwhile, wants every last Israeli dead and gone, is willing to fight to the last Gazan to achieve that aim, has said so publicly and worked for decades to blow up every peace attempt -- and even now believes that Gaza's destruction would be a worthwhile sacrifice to lay on the altar of Israel's destruction, because their god told them so.

So Israelis can reasonably believe, given those features of the Gaza war that aren't true about any genocide ever, and were pretty much the opposite of what was happening in the Holocaust, that Gaza's suffering is a bad and painful war, but not remotely a genocide.

But the point of it all, of course, is not to analyze Gaza, but specifically to lump it together with the Holocaust -- to cast the Jews as the new Nazis.

The only reason this person would dare to make such an insanely ahistorical and immoral parallel is because this is the heart of the bigoted propaganda campaign in which he enthusiastically participates: The point of it all is to make the Jews into the Nazis.

A culture that obsessed about Jews being evil and was then shocked by the Holocaust into obsessing about dead Jews as the apotheosis of righteous victimhood is now obsessively engaged in knocking Jews off that moral pedestal they themselves put them on.

That's why they don't care one whit about Hamas massacres of Gazans, about genocidal wars in Syria or Yemen (even when they've funded and armed the sides), about flotilla activists currently held by the Libyans...literally nothing triggers a response except Jews.

They still, even after all these generations, no matter what else is happening in the world or in their own societies, can't stop thinking about Jews.

And as we Jews learned in the 1940s -- the actual, historical 1940s, not the weird fantasies conjured up by these bigots -- a whole society can be in the grip of a callous, destructive bigotry and still believe it is true and righteous.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Over 90% of the 11 million Muslims killed between 1950 and 2007 were killed by fellow Muslims. Of all conflict deaths in that period, Arab-Israeli fighting accounts for just 0.06%.

The Arab world has used Palestinian suffering as a political weapon for 75 years while treating actual Palestinians with contempt, expulsion and massacre whenever they became inconvenient. That is the story nobody tells.

Whether it’s Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, or Syria.

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

Ten Flotilla land convoy members were detained by Libyan militias TEN DAYS AGO and just had their imprisonment extended by the repressive regime there. I haven’t seen a global outcry or obsessive coverage by media. I wonder why.

[Todd Berman @todddberman]

@Palestine001_ These were obviously preplanned propaganda statements.

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

Mainstream media refuses to grapple with one of the most consequential revelations of the Gaza war: Hamas & PIJ openly admitting dozens of operatives posed as journalists. It undermines countless claims the IDF targeted civilians and exposes how fake reporting from Gaza was.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

If Israel had the ability to save every baby in Gaza, it would.

If Gazans had the ability to kill every baby in Israel, they would.

That is the difference.

[Aɴᴛ @AntSpeaks]

I find it fascinating how consistently the Gaza flotilla activists and others making similar claims display one common trait when they return... They appear to be completely fine..

You don’t see the hollow, sunken faces of people who have endured genuine, soul crushing trauma. You don’t see the deadened eyes or the visible erosion of someone’s will to live and faith in humanity. Anyone who has spent time around true victims of extreme violence or sexual assault immediately recognises the difference.

Instead, these activists typically emerge at airports smiling, waving to cameras, hugging supporters, and cheerfully posing with that stupid flag they carry everywhere. The energy is always celebratory.

Contrast that with the Israeli hostages released by Hamas. Many emerged gaunt, malnourished, and emotionally shattered. Some could barely muster a smile even in freedom. Or the women subjected to sexual violence during the October 7 massacre. Their spirits visibly broken, their eyes stripped of light, many unwilling to speak publicly. Some later even took their own lives, unable to live with what had been done to them.

As others have already noted in the replies to the quoted post, NOT A SINGLE Global Sumud Flotilla activist has publicly confirmed requesting or undergoing a dedicated rape kit or forensic sexual assault examination after their release.

And that simply speaks volumes...

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

.@antonioguterres 758 sexual abuse cases in one year? You need to blacklist your own organization.

[David Litman @dmlitman]

IDF has ~170,000 active duty personnel.
U.N. has ~131,000 staff.

On an annual basis, that's about 1 assault for every 16,452 IDF soldiers, while at the U.N. it's 1 assault for every 173 staff.

That is, using the U.N.'s own data, it is about 20x more rapey than the IDF.

[Let The Truth Ring Out @SayNoToTerror7]

Question: Which of these are genocides?

3% = Percent of populace of Gaza killed in the war

2.5% = Percent of populace of US killed in the civil war

4% = Percent of populace of Europe killed in WW2

33% = Percent of Muslim men in Srebrenica killed in 12 days

50-75% = Percent of Armenians in Turkey killed by the Young Turks

67% = Percent of European Jews killed by the Nazis

Do you get it now or do you need to call a friend for help?

[Todd Berman @todddberman]

@pagnamvibes BOT

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

BREAKING: Author of U.N. report placing Israel on sexual violence blacklist admits she has not personally viewed any evidence. “I made it clear to Israel I would not visit any detention facility, even if offered. It's not the responsibility of my office to do any verification.”

[Todd Berman @todddberman]

@jennessie7 @academic_la We're a democracy elections in September