Big shout-out to @MIT_Baseball seniors, @zevmoore613 and @eitan_moore!
Yesterday, the twins from Jerusalem and @ILBaseball helped MIT to a big 14-4 NEWMAC Conference win with HRs in the same game for the first time in their college career, Zev's 15th and Eitan's 1st! 💪🏼🇮🇱⚾
Congrats to @zevmoore613 for making first team all conference after a HUGE season at MIT, where he hit .378/.481/.689 with 10hr and 17sb and 18k/18bb in 135 at bats
It's been such a treat to watch @zevmoore613 grow and thrive and represent Israel with pride, passion, and strong results everywhere he plays ball! Dedication is off the charts! 💪🏼🇮🇱⚾
Shoutout to @zevmoore613 on being named the MVP of the U23 European Championship Qualifier in Zurich! 👏
Zev slashed .500/.545/.722 and led the entire tournament in four hitting categories! 🇮🇱⚾️
Three up, three down!
Team Israel 🇮🇱 stays perfect with the victory over Poland 🇵🇱. @zevmoore613 fueled the offense with 4 hits, 2 RBI and 2 runs scored, Lyrr Fiesem crossed the plate 3 times and Dovid Solomon drove in 2 and pitched a perfect 7thinning. Starter @ivrimargolin struck out 9 in 4.2 innings to get the win! Tomorrow we wrap up group play against @KBBSF_FRBBS 🇧🇪.
We start the tournament on the right foot! Dandan Laderman gets on base 4 times, @zevmoore613 scores 3 and drives in 3 and Akiva Epstein and @IdoPeled4 spin 3 scoreless innings in relief! Tomorrow we face Lithuania 🇱🇹
The 2024 season got underway for @MIT_Baseball as the Engineers earned a 2-1 win over Rutgers-Newark! The MIT pitchers struck out 15 batters in the win. #RollTech
Recap and stats: https://t.co/V9HQNIe5Dw
Personal Thoughts:
(not for everyone, feel free to skip)
For the longest time, I struggled with my identity.
A Palestinian kid born inside Israel. Like…wtf.
Many of my friends refuse to this day to say the word “Israel” and call themselves “Palestinian” only.
But since I was 12, that did not make sense to me.
So I decided to mix the two and become a “Palestinian-Israeli”
I thought this term reflected who I was.
Palestinian first. Israeli second.
But after recent events, I started to think.
And think.
And think.
And then my thoughts turned to anger.
I realized that if Israel were to be “invaded” like that again, we would not be safe. To a terrorist invading Israel, all citizens are targets.
900 Israelis died so far. More than 40 of them are Arabs. Killed by other Arabs. And even 2 Thai people died too.
And I do not want to live under a Palestinian government.
Which means I only have one home, even if I’m not Jewish:
Israel.
That’s where all my family lives. That’s where I grew up. That’s the country I want to see continue to exist so I can exist.
Palestine should exist too as an independent state. And I hope to see the country thrive and become less extreme and more prosperous. I love Palestine and have invested in Palestine.
But it’s not my home.
So from today forward,
I view myself as an “Israeli-Palestinian”.
Israeli first.
Palestinian second.
Sometimes it takes a shock like this to see so clearly.
31--yes 31--Harvard organizations have declared that the murders, rapes, kidnappings, and other atrocities committed by Hamas against innocent people are in no way the fault of Hamas, but are rather entirely the fault of ... Israel. Something is deeply, deeply wrong in academia.
We are pleased to announce the #TeamIsrael roster for the 2023 European Baseball championships, which take place next week in the Czech Republic. 🇮🇱⚾️#eurobaseball2023
@itaispinoza struck out 10 in 6 innings and Uri Shani knocked in 2 runs to lead #TeamIsrael to victory in its first game of the U23 European Championship Qualifier. @zevmoore613 reached base 4 times and scored the go-ahead run and Zakai Avidor threw a perfect 7th to get the save.