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Journalist. @HonestReporting investigative media manager. Former @Jerusalem_Post correspondent. October 7 War veteran. Opinions are my own.

Joined October 2018
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Four Philadelphia student and faculty groups backed the controversial November 8 boycott ride aimed at expelling targeted Jewish-owned businesses in the city, according to a Saturday solidarity statement. The groups were Penn Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, Philadelphia Students for Justice in Palestine Coalition, Temple Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, and Temple Law Students for Justice in Palestine (LSJP). Temple LSJP is a chartered organization at its university.
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Campus activism has crossed another line in Philadelphia. Four student and faculty groups, including groups at Penn and Temple, backed a boycott ride targeting Jewish-owned businesses over their alleged ties to Israel. The organizers demanded that “Zionist establishments must go,” and held their ride on the eve of Kristallnacht's anniversary. While the Jewish community rallied around the targeted businesses, university-affiliated activists chose intimidation over solidarity. honestreporting.com/philadel…
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Two co-conspirators were charged by the US DOJ on Tuesday for masterminding the wave of terrorist attacks against American, Jewish, Israeli, and Iranian dissident targets starting in March. They worked with co-defendant, Mohammad Al-Saadi, as part of the Iranian regime-backed Ashab Al-Yamin terrorist network. Allegations in the indictment: 1. RAF Fairford attack alleged to be Iranian plot, part of the Ashab Al-Yamin (HAYI) network 2. Al-Saadi passed on coded language about the plot will in US custody 3. Golders Green Stabbing incident alleged to be one of HAYI's, though CPS didn't level terrorism charges
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Today some Americans are saying Israel lost. Meanwhile America’s enemies say America lost.
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The person whose main comment about the American elections is Israel, blames Israel for all their problems, and claims that Israel is psyoping society but they broke free from the conditioning has definitely not been psyoped. It’s definitely everyone else.
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A Philadelphia boycott bicycle ride is targeting Jewish businesses in the hopes of intimidating them and ultimately expelling them. "Ride around Rittenhouse with us as we show these zio business owners that we see them for the disgusting humans they are."
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The organizing groups shared materials ahead of the ride explaining the reason for targeting the restaurants. Some were targeted for raising funds for October 7 Massacre victims.
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Many Republicans will not recognise how poor economic policy like tariffs, corruption, and bad domestic optics contributed to their loss. That would require introspection and accountability, so instead they will blame an external source, which will be foreign policy, in particular the Iran War. And so, by extension, they will blame Israel, and nothing will have been learned.
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Palestinian terrorists released in hostage ransom may be set to speak at a conference in Canada. "Liberated Palestinian Prisoners" is a term used in the past by the event's organizers to refer to released terrorists. And they're not the only people with terrorism ties speaking 🧵⬇️
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Samidoun was designated as a terrorist entity by both Canada and the US. Masar Badil was latter sanctioned as a sister group to Samidoun. Yet the founder of both, PFLP leader Khaled Barakat is set to attend. His wife, Samidoun leader Charlotte Kates, is also a panelist.
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I found the golden snitch.
אני גאה לספר שאני נכנסת לתפקיד הדוברת החדשה של שוברים שתיקה! לפני שלוש שנים ביטלתי את הפטור שלי והתגייסתי לצה״ל במלחמה. גדלתי בחברה החרדית, והתגייסתי כדי לקחת חלק במה שחשבתי אז שהוא הגנה על המדינה. לא דמיינתי שעם סיום השירות הצבאי שלי, במקום לטוס לטיול הגדול או להתחיל לימודים, אני אשבור שתיקה ובטח לא העליתי בדעתי שאבחר לקחת חלק משמעותי אפילו יותר בארגון ולהתחיל לעבוד בו. במערך דובר צה"ל נחשפתי לא רק למציאות בגדה המערבית ובעזה, אלא גם לאופן שבו צה״ל בוחר להציג אותה לציבור. ראיתי עד כמה גדולה השליטה של דובר צה"ל בעיצוב תמונת המציאות שלנו, ולמשחק הבעייתי שלו עם האמת כאילו הוא עוד גוף יח"צ ולא חס וחלילה גוף שמחוייב לציבור. מטרת העבודה של דו"ץ מול הציבור הישראלי הוגדרה לנו כחיזוק אמון הציבור בצה"ל. זכות הציבור לדעת הייתה משנית במקרה הטוב. מטרת העבודה מול הקהל הבינלאומי הוגדרה כחיזוק והרחבת הלגיטימציה לפעולות הצבא. גם כאן, המחיר היה האמת.  בשירות שלי שיחקתי עם הפרטים שיוצאים לתקשורת, ראיתי איך המילה מחבל מוצמדת גם לפלסטינים חפים מפשע ואיך ההודעה נתפרת בהתאם לקהל היעד והמטרה שהוצבה מולו.  אף פעם לא הייתי טובה בלשתוק מול עוולות ופה התבקשתי לעשות להן יח"צ. למדתי איך לנסח עשרות מתים בתקיפה אחת ולהוסיף על אוטומט שאנו מצרים על כל פגיעה בבלתי מעורבים. זו הייתה שגרת השירות שלי. אז אני לא שותקת. אם שירתתם במלחמה, אל תשתקו גם. ובכל מקרה - תעקבו :)
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When the food on base is bad.
אני גאה לספר שאני נכנסת לתפקיד הדוברת החדשה של שוברים שתיקה! לפני שלוש שנים ביטלתי את הפטור שלי והתגייסתי לצה״ל במלחמה. גדלתי בחברה החרדית, והתגייסתי כדי לקחת חלק במה שחשבתי אז שהוא הגנה על המדינה. לא דמיינתי שעם סיום השירות הצבאי שלי, במקום לטוס לטיול הגדול או להתחיל לימודים, אני אשבור שתיקה ובטח לא העליתי בדעתי שאבחר לקחת חלק משמעותי אפילו יותר בארגון ולהתחיל לעבוד בו. במערך דובר צה"ל נחשפתי לא רק למציאות בגדה המערבית ובעזה, אלא גם לאופן שבו צה״ל בוחר להציג אותה לציבור. ראיתי עד כמה גדולה השליטה של דובר צה"ל בעיצוב תמונת המציאות שלנו, ולמשחק הבעייתי שלו עם האמת כאילו הוא עוד גוף יח"צ ולא חס וחלילה גוף שמחוייב לציבור. מטרת העבודה של דו"ץ מול הציבור הישראלי הוגדרה לנו כחיזוק אמון הציבור בצה"ל. זכות הציבור לדעת הייתה משנית במקרה הטוב. מטרת העבודה מול הקהל הבינלאומי הוגדרה כחיזוק והרחבת הלגיטימציה לפעולות הצבא. גם כאן, המחיר היה האמת.  בשירות שלי שיחקתי עם הפרטים שיוצאים לתקשורת, ראיתי איך המילה מחבל מוצמדת גם לפלסטינים חפים מפשע ואיך ההודעה נתפרת בהתאם לקהל היעד והמטרה שהוצבה מולו.  אף פעם לא הייתי טובה בלשתוק מול עוולות ופה התבקשתי לעשות להן יח"צ. למדתי איך לנסח עשרות מתים בתקיפה אחת ולהוסיף על אוטומט שאנו מצרים על כל פגיעה בבלתי מעורבים. זו הייתה שגרת השירות שלי. אז אני לא שותקת. אם שירתתם במלחמה, אל תשתקו גם. ובכל מקרה - תעקבו :)
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Antisemitism can be understood as a gnostic religion. The Jews are a collective demiurgic force that control all world events at a level that is as supernatural as it is malicious, causing everything from train wrecks to rising egg prices. The religions of antisemites are often supplementary to the antisemitic worldview, with iconic figures serving as guides or cursory systems that explain why the antisemite is inherently special but suppressed. However the actual religion revolves around Jewry, with the gnostic antisemites focusing on achieving salvation and enlightenment through the revelation of the secret knowledge about the world's true order -- the machinations of the Jewish demiurge. The obsession and fascination with the arcane knowledge of the Jewish demiurge can be seen in posts about the recent Spanish train accident. Practitioners of antisemitism, as followers of religions often do with tragedies, attempt to reckon them through the lens of their traditions and theological system. All things, even train accidents, can be viewed beyond their material and earthly influences, and understood through the religion of anti-Jewish tradition. They call upon a series of religious texts such as Mein Kampf and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which have been reinterpreted or had ideas exegetically drawn form them prophets and scholars. These ideas continue as traditions, such as the blood libel, and are continued as a religious rite. Posts such as these are almost like prayers, with practitioners of antisemitism engaging in the meditations on Jewish power even if they don't necessarily believe the individual accusation themselves.
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Don’t Americans get tired of the same five podcast guests and the repeated whining attributing all your problems to Israel? Don’t you ever get the sense you’re being had, and it isn’t by the fantastical Jews who somehow control everything?
The mask comes off during Israeli elections. Jeffrey Sachs on the future of the world’s most bloodthirsty ethnostate.
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No matter who wins, the anti-Zionists and antisemites will not be placated. A hope has been fostered among liberal Diaspora Jews by the constant drum beating about Netanyahu that if he goes so will the wave of antisemitism and persecution of Zionists. Anti-Israel groups, politicians, and writers have already laid the groundwork for the new narratives. Any other politicians that rise to power will be just as bad as Netanyahu if not worse. The more honest state it more plainly: The issue is not who leads Israel, they hate Israel. There is no placating them other than through dissolution of the state and the expulsion of Israeli Jews.
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I just want this election to be over and for there not to be another round so that the text messages and robocalls will stop.
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Going to take a picture with every ballot so that I can say I was with the winning party.
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Why is everyone lining up all of a sudden? Very uncharacteristic behavior happening among Israelis today.
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Rules that are changed against Israel will be used against the US and the rest of the West. If you ever want to be able to fight and win, act now — allow the creation of a culture that handicaps you. Don’t wait until it is applied to you.
Michael Walzer published “Just and Unjust Wars,” an attempt to delineate the rights and wrongs of warfare in both its causes and its conduct, in 1977. In the nearly 50 years since, no other book on the subject has matched its influence. The precepts are not complicated: it is just to defend your country from an invasion and it is unjust to invade a country that has not attacked you—although Walzer does allow for exceptions, mostly for humanitarian causes. It is just to assume certain risks to avoid civilian casualties and it is unjust to bomb towns indiscriminately to compel an enemy to surrender. The justice of going to war—what philosophers call jus ad bellum—is separate from jus in bello, the justice of how a war is fought. The war in Gaza has made Walzer rethink one of the book’s fundamental principles. “The wall between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, which had sustained his theory for almost half a century, was no longer sturdy,” Jordi Graupera writes. As Walzer said to him, “There is a sense in which the carnage of Gaza, the ongoing carnage, simply made the war unjust.” Read about why a philosopher of war is now reconsidering his seminal work: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/T7…
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Oh, you need to disrupt and damage Western supply chains and military infrastructure for your cause? That’s seems very convenient for Western enemies, but I’m sure it’s nothing.
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“Our job in the struggle for Palestinian liberation is to do everything that we can to weaken our imperialist states.” Want to understand why the Palestinian flag is being waved across Europe as it burns? Watch this. A PYM Britain activist explains at this weekend’s National Student Conference for Palestine how Zionism, racism, capitalism, and imperialism are all one force. They are describing, in distorted terms, what they believe to be the West. “Our main enemy is at home.”
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Western students are baffled by the concept of liking your own nation and fighting to protect it.
Googled him, saw he was leading a centrist party, then saw it was labelled as "Liberal Zionist" and that his son was killed in Gaza. Israel continues to be fucked.
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“The same forces that manufacture consent for Palestinian prisoners being raped on camera with no repercussions for the perpetrators of violence reach men like those part of the Cornell 7 that they can engage in sexual violence with impunity.” SJP UCLA ties Cornell sexual assault allegations to IDF soldiers putting on lingerie that they found in Gaza as a joke, and claims such as those about dogs supposedly being trained specifically to rape Palestinians.
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