Ze'ev Klapow

Software developer @HubSpotDev, previously built robots @willowgarage

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

Are Jews now supposed to be fine with weekly public calls for their annihilation " from the river to the sea"? Because they are not.

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

I still find it so crazy how the same students who needed “safe spaces” on college campuses because words hurt their feelings are the ones calling for death to all Jews

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

I was profoundly moved to meet with survivors of the October 7th massacre and families of Hamas’ hostages. 

Together, we began to post photos of the hostages outside my office to stress the urgent need to bring them all home.

My office is posting every last one.

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

The Jews were offered an opportunity to HIDE IN THE ATTIC?

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

A reporter just asked President Biden about the death toll in Gaza, citing Hamas statistics, inviting him to criticize Israel.

Biden: “I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using.”

THANK YOU.

[Frank J. Fleming @IMAO_]

So Israel was reestablished in the 1940s because a bunch of people tried to murder the Jews and it expanded its territory in a war soon after where a bunch of countries tried to murder the Jews but Israel keeps having trouble with Gaza as a bunch of people there keep trying to murder the Jews. I think I found the root problem.

[Yascha Mounk @Yascha_Mounk]

"Mama?"

"Yes?"

"I don't feel so good."

"I know. It's over soon."

"I need water."

"You can drink soon."

"Mama?"

"What is it, my beauty?"

"Do you think they also killed other people in the kibbutz?"

[Ben Simon @benjaminsimon97]

“Israel is unwilling to give the people in Gaza and the West Bank more than an inch of freedom to live.”

Lots of people are retweeting this as an example of “great analysis.” In reality, it’s peppered with false moral equivalencies and half truths (if not outright falsehoods).

I want to address the most important and pernicious falsehood here, the one pasted above.

Israel *is* willing to give the people in Gaza and the West Bank “more than inch of freedom to live.” In fact, Israel has given a lot more than that in the past.

With respect to Gaza, Israel forcibly withdrew every single man, woman, and child—all 8,000 of them living there—from their homes in Gaza in 2005. The “disengagement,” as it was called, opened a deep, painful rift in Israeli society. Soldiers sobbed as they dragged their brothers and sisters out of homes. Every synagogue, school, factory, army base in Gaza was abandoned. Not a soldier remained.

All of this was carried out by a *right wing Israeli government* in the name of peace and Palestinian self determination.

Gazans were free—free enough to elect, not more than a year later (2006), Hamas, an organization with an official charter calling for the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jews. It was only *after* Hamas rose to power and started launching rockets at Israel that Israel imposed a permanent blockade of the strip, to stop the weapons influx.

Again, note the order of causality here. Israel unilaterally disengages in 2005. Hamas takes power (after a democratic election) in 2006-2007. Terror attacks start. Israel responds with a permanent naval blockade and air strikes and, every half decade or so, a ground invasion in response to an uptick in rocket attacks to destroy weapons caches and terror strongholds.

As for the West Bank, Israel has initiated peace processes various times since the 1947 UN partition plan was accepted by Israel but rejected by the Arab countries (who promptly invaded from all sides). All of these times—1993, 2000, 2008, 2019, and more—Israel has offered “land for peace” only to be met by firm rejectionism from elected Palestinian leaders, followed by government-sponsored terror attacks and rockets soon after.

The exception that proves the rule: after the Six Day War in 1967, Israel conquered the whole Sinai peninsula from Egypt. In 1979, the Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin—the father of the Israeli Right, and Bibi Netanyahu’s political hero—signed a peace treaty with Egypt: land (the Sinai) for peace. That treaty was *accepted* by Egypt and there’s been peace for the past 40+ years.

Not so with the Palestinians.

Instead, Hamas remains by all accounts *the most popular political party* not just in Gaza but also in the West Bank (which doesn’t have democratic elections these days). The original post would have you believe otherwise (“The Palestinian people do not have a government or leaders who legitimately represent their interests”). But time and again, anonymous polling has shown Hamas to be the most popular political group among Palestinians. If the PA in the West Bank allowed free elections, all analysts predict that Hamas would win in a landslide.

Does that mean there are zero Palestinians who want peace, or even just normal lives? No. But there is broad mainstream support for Hamas not just among Palestinians, but across the Arab world and, as we’ve seen in recent days, across even elite American college campuses.

Even—in some cases, especially—after the barbaric rape, beheading, and butchering of a thousand Israeli civilians this past weekend.

Stop with the moral equivalencies.

[David Baddiel @Baddiel]

The endless justifications of atrocity on here would elsewhere be called: victim-blaming. But Jews, because of the deeply embedded association of this one minority with power, cannot be victims. They must always be held in some way responsible for their own misfortune.

[SomervillePolice @SomervillePD]

PSA: Attention residents of Wards 2 and 3. There have been multiple incidents of an unknown male breaking into homes between 12 AM and 6 AM by entering through unlocked first-floor windows. Residents are urged to lock all windows (and doors) overnight, particularly... (1/3)

[Turner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak]

Battle Bots is the best sport, change my mind

[Ariel Elias @Ariel_Comedy]

I've never been Kanye's target audience, but now I get to be Kanye's audience's target.

[Bess Kalb @bessbell]

Wow hope this widely available information about the Nazi origins of @adidas doesn’t go viral and cause a massive international boycott in light of their recent silence in the face of violent antisemitism by their partner Kanye West.

[Anna Merlan @annamerlan]

Exclusive: we obtained unaired footage from Tucker Carlson's interview with Ye, in which the artist makes numerous inflammatory comments about Jews and describes a bizarre claim that "fake children" were planted in his home to manipulate his own kids. https://t.co/CMn0sGfK58

[Bess Kalb @bessbell]

Hi! The global Jewish population has still not rebounded from the Holocaust. There were 16.6 million Jews in 1939, then 6 million of us were annihilated in a genocide that happened when "It's A Wonderful Life" came out in movie theaters, and now there are 14.8 million of us.

[Yair Rosenberg @Yair_Rosenberg]

Kanye posted his second tweet before the first was taken down, perfectly demonstrating how "the Jews control everything" is a preemptive antisemitic defense against consequences for expressing antisemitism.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@SpaceX 🇺🇸🇺🇸 American Broomstick 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Vera Bergengruen @VeraMBergen]

I can’t wrap my mind around the existence of this clip.