Aaron Meeker

I don't really have a favorite wine - just favorite times I have had that wine.

[Rich Toronto @rich_toronto]

I am a Zionist. Many people out there don’t seem to understand what a Zionist is - and what it isn’t - so here you go.

I believe in the existence of a Jewish home land, Israel, in the land of Judea, where it currently is.

As a Zionist, I do not automatically agree with or support everything the country does, nor do I automatically agree with every government, every politician, every decision.

As a Zionist, I am free to criticize policies and governments of Israel, just the same as I am to criticize the Canadian government or the American government or any other government.

I can believe that the Israelis who spit on Christians should be charged, and I do.

I can believe that the violence in Judea and Samaria needs to be stopped, and I do.

I can believe that every single Israeli, regardless of religion, who commits rape, should be tried and should face the harshest punishments, and I do.

I can believe that every single war crime committed by an Israeli should be prosecuted, and I do.

I can believe that Israel should be held to the same standards of every other nation, and I do.

The only things I don’t do, because I’m a Zionist?

Call for the destruction of the only Jewish nation in the world.

Hold them to a far higher standard than everyone else, just because they’re Jewish.

Spread false propaganda about them, just because they’re Jewish.

Because even though you pretend that’s “antizionism”, it’s just masking your true motives.

Jew hatred.

[Aaron Meeker @whyknowinphilly]

@JohnKincade 12 - didn’t do 5,9,12,14,17 … yet

[Aaron Meeker @whyknowinphilly]

@Nickolgolf All set

[Aaron Meeker @whyknowinphilly]

@SarazenGene Love #2 and for 30 years of playing golf was my favorite second hole, until I made it to PV. That said, the Hanse restoration is 😘 at SHCC. (Maxwell is the central time zone’s Flynn, so great and doesn’t get the attention deserved)

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

This USMNT hype video has me ready to run through a brick wall ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup 😮‍💨🇺🇸

[Aaron Meeker @whyknowinphilly]

@Masterofwhine Stellenbosch (fat fingers!!!)

[Aaron Meeker @whyknowinphilly]

@Masterofwhine Stelkenbosch - loads of mesoclimates in that region and distinct soil profiles. Top wines are still a value and loads at $25-40 retail that outperform its prices anywhere.

[Christian Eedes @ChristianEedes]

Two of my favourite SA white wines. Certainly good for another two or three years but delicious now so why wait?

[Aaron Meeker @whyknowinphilly]

@McIlroyRory Why not limit the club? Smaller heads in woods and irons? Much like Major League Baseball with wood bats vs college with aluminum? Do this in conjunction with the ball for pros and have a separate set of equipment standards for amateurs or non-tourney golf?

[Michael S. Kim @Mike_kim714]

Southampton NY isn’t the easiest place to get to so I might as well get this started early!

Ticket giveaway for the US open!

Bonus points if you take a kid
(12 and under are free)

[Aaron Meeker @whyknowinphilly]

@Mike_kim714 Game for a trip out east with my two year old. Took him to the PGA Championship at Aronimink and he’s grinding on his game.

[Aaron Meeker @whyknowinphilly]

@kcmillerphl Yeah, use tax payer $$ to buy tickets at full price then sell them at a loss to citizens in order to make it look like you are this grand Robin Hood character. Just like he balanced the budget, but failed to disclose where the billions came from (state funds, not his wizardry)

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Call it “bullshit” all you want, but reality keeps proving the point. School funding has risen for decades while literacy, math scores, discipline, and educational outcomes decline.

The problem isn’t that schools “lack investment.” The problem is that public education increasingly functions like a protected bureaucracy with captive consumers, weak accountability, politicized incentives, and no serious competitive pressure to improve.

If simply pouring more tax money into a government system solved problems, public schools would already be world leading by every metric.

Instead, the more centralized and politicized education becomes, the more parents feel alienated from it and the worse the results get.

[Aaron Meeker @whyknowinphilly]

@CF1550 @fried_egg_golf 100% agree. The MLB requires wood bats - if they used aluminum the scores would be double-digits and pitchers would get killed on comebacks. There’s no reason amateur or even minor tours can’t allow current and advancing conforming technology while the PGA/DP is scaled back

[Aaron Meeker @whyknowinphilly]

@RepJackKimble @Ostrakon451 Shouldn’t have career politicians. Adequate should be good enough for a short window of public service - still making 3x average US salary with FAR greater benefits.

[Adam Fisher @AdamRFisher]

This is a devious rhetorical trick. Labeling someone a “Nakba survivor” is designed to evoke instant sympathy and a false sense of moral clarity, but it is little more than taxpayer-funded propaganda.

Consider the absurdity: roughly 99% of Palestinian Arabs alive in 1949 survived the war and its displacements. Calling the displaced a “survivor” stretches the word beyond recognition. It is a newly coined term, crafted in academia and activist circles long after the events.

Its real genius lies in creating false equivalence. It places ordinary Palestinian civilians who were displaced amid a war their own leaders launched on the same moral plane as Holocaust survivors (of whom only about one-third emerged alive).

It airbrushes away the ~6,000 Jews killed in 1948, elevates the ~12,000 Arab deaths, and erases the thousands of Jews forcibly expelled from the Old City of Jerusalem and other areas.

By anointing the displaced as sacred “survivors,” the term invites us to forget that the Nazi-aligned Palestinian leadership rejected the UN partition plan, chose war to prevent any Jewish state, and promised quick victory while urging Arabs to flee.

It glosses over Israel’s Declaration of Independence, which explicitly invited Arab inhabitants to “participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship.” And it conveniently overlooks the ~150,000 Arabs who stayed put, accepted Israeli citizenship, and whose descendants now form over 20% of Israel’s population.

This is international grievance politics pushed by the Mayor of New York City, who genuinely believes that Palestinians should be able to “return to their homes” – a nonsensical idea designed to justify perpetual victimhood and violence.

The move weaponizes real civilian hardship while inverting roles: turning a war of choice and rejectionism into an unprovoked “catastrophe” inflicted by the intended victims. It sustain grievance and does not nothing to advance peace.

[Aaron Meeker @whyknowinphilly]

@Kevin_Kinkead No
Yes
Yes

[Aaron Meeker @whyknowinphilly]

@wascaleywabbit Just say you hate Jews - Solomonov is one of the really great humans and chefs.

[Aaron Meeker @whyknowinphilly]

@stoolpresidente @sixers Bad Celtics team as the 2 seed?