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“Light it up like a Christmas tree.” U.S. prosecutors say that was an Iran-backed operative directing an attack on a London synagogue over a video call. The indictment unsealed November 10 also describes a Manhattan synagogue bomb plot and a planned attack on a British airbase housing American troops. One defendant allegedly helped coordinate the airbase plot from a New York jail. Standing with Israel against the Iranian regime is a matter of Western self-defense. How many shared targets does it take to recognize a shared enemy? justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/thr…
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Any honest look at the history of negotiations between Israel, the Palestinians, and it's Arab neighbors shows without question that Israel has always been willing to live side by side in peace with Arabs and make serious concessions to do so. I discuss this at length in my book: amazon.com/dp/B0FP492HW7?lv=…
Israel handed Egypt more than 23,000 sq miles of land for a peace treaty. Israel today is about 10,000 sq miles. But sure, Israel is "expansionist." This day (Nov 11) in 1977, Menachem Begin invited Anwar Sadat to Jerusalem. He accepted and addressed the Knesset. After real negotiations, Israel gave up the entire Sinai (oil fields, settlements, strategic depth, literally everything). An Arab state willing to sign a peace treaty with Israel got territory larger than Israel itself. Almost all others brought only decades of rejection, terrorism, and chants of "from the river to the sea." The "Greater Israel" narrative is just nonsense inversion. The side that keeps demanding more land, more "right of return," and the elimination of Jewish sovereignty is not the one that already gave up a peninsula more than twice its size.
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A Jewish woman signs up to host an evening of poetry. Suddenly, she’s expected to answer for Israel. The word “safeguarding” is doing some ugly work here. A Jewish poet becomes the supposed danger, and excluding her becomes an act of virtue. Why should a Jewish woman have to pass a political loyalty test to read Dorothy Parker?
Shocking! And extremely worrying. An Edinburgh book shop has cancelled an event featuring American Scottish Jewish poet Tracey S. Rosenberg allegedly because she refused to renounce Zionism. The Dead Poets’ Slam was scheduled for 2 December 2026, a light-hearted poetry competition in which performers would impersonate deceased poets and recite their work. Ms Rosenberg was due to host the evening in the character of Dorothy Parker. The bookshop Typewronger advertised on Eventbrite, tickets were booked and performers had begun signing up. However, on 19 October, the bookshop contacted Ms Rosenberg claiming it had received complaints about “potential safeguarding issues”. These included allegations that she had performed “various Zionist/racist poems” at other Edinburgh open mic events and accused other poets of antisemitism for using the phrase “Free Palestine”. In its email to Ms Rosenberg, Typewronger stated that it did not want to create the impression that it supported Israel and declared: “Free Palestine is very much the opinion of those who work here.” The bookshop then asked Ms Rosenberg to clarify her own position. When she requested a telephone conversation, Typewronger insisted on communicating by email, stating: “I hope our position is unambiguous, please let me know yours.” Ms Rosenberg replied that she was unsure what was expected of her. Typewronger refused to engage further with Ms Rosenberg, instead choosing to cancel the event less that two hours after first raising the allegations. Ms Rosenberg identified three poems on subjects relating to Israel and her Jewish identity that she performed at spoken word events. These related to the 7 October terrorist attacks, antisemitism in Britain and anti-Israel protests. None of them was racist. Her case has been taken up by @UKLFI which argues that Zionism, understood as belief in the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in their homeland, is capable of protection as a philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010. The Act also protects Jewish ethnicity and religion. ers are not required to declare their political views on Israel or other unrelated issues as a condition of participation. Ms Rosenberg commented: “I’m sad that an independent bookshop I’ve admired and supported for years chose to discriminate against me based on unfounded rumors.’ A UKLFI spokesperson said: “It is alarming that a Jewish poet’s event could be cancelled simply because someone complained that her poetry was ‘Zionist’. She was apparently expected to demonstrate agreement with the bookshop’s political position on Israel, even though her event had nothing to do with the conflict. “People are entitled to disagree about Israel, but they are not entitled to exclude others from public events because of their Jewish identity or protected beliefs. We believe this cancellation crossed the line into unlawful discrimination.”
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Some Israeli soldiers are being called back just months after finishing mandatory service. Meanwhile, United Torah Judaism’s price for joining the next government includes draft exemptions for yeshiva students. Eisenkot said today he won’t abandon service for all. Hold him to it. Hold Netanyahu to the same standard. The same families cannot keep supplying the soldiers while politicians bargain over who gets to stay home. Which should a Zionist party be more willing to compromise on: who gets to be prime minister, or who has to defend the country? Sources: The Jerusalem Post reported the recalls November 8. UTJ’s demands and Eisenkot’s pledge were reported November 10; no exemption agreement has been finalized in these reports.
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As many of correctly pointed out, the conflict did not start in 1948 and not with any 'Nakbha'. It started long before with Arab resistance and violence to Jews living in the land.
On this day-Nov 10, 1937 Eleven years before Israel's independence, five young Jews planting trees just west of Jerusalem were gunned down at close range by Arab terrorists. This was just one of many such episodes of mass murder of Jews during the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt. The next year, the boys were memorialized as Kibbutz Ma'ale HaHamisha ("Ascent of the Five") was established. Given the sustained Arab violence against Jews before any "occupation," "nakba," "settlements," or even a State of Israel, you should stop and think what this conflict is really about.
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This perfectly reflects the reason why the two-state solution has never worked when offered in it's various forms. There was never a legitimate desire of the Palestinians to have their own state. The desire has always been to expel or eradicate the Jews. Coexistence has never been on the table.
Pro-Pals have called for a boycott of a Jewish/Arab music ensemble performing in London tonight. These monsters don't want peace or Jewish/Arab co-existence in the ME, they want what Hamas wants, ie, the total destruction of Israel's 7.2 million Jews. jewishnews.co.uk/pro-palesti…
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If we can strong arm Ra'am into recognition of Hamas as a terrorist group in order to cooperate then why can't we find ways to cooperate with Zionist parties whose constituents and whose platforms have the same desires and objectives?!
Still don’t understand how, after October 7th, recognition of Hamas as a terror group is being used as a bargaining chip.
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In other words, Israel will be forced to accept what is unacceptable.
Netanyahu on Iran: In the very near future, we will face international pressure to accept a nuclear Iran.
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There's a reason the Republican Jewish Coalition called Abdul El-Sayed “the most antisemitic U.S. Senate candidate in America."
“Who they’re surrounded by.” Former FBI agent Lara Burns told Dan Senor that was one way U.S. Muslim Brotherhood leaders said they recognized one another. They do not declare it or have some sort of membership. Discussing Abdul El-Sayed, she named the group whose backing concerned her: the Council on American-Islamic Relations. In 2020, El-Sayed asked donors to support two CAIR chapters. In 2026, CAIR Action endorsed him for Senate. El-Sayed disavows the Brotherhood. Follow the strings to see who took the stage for him, who raised money for him and whom he hired. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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This is the example the Zionist parties need to look to. A better future starts with dialogue.
This is Israel; new MKs @ElishaMadan (Likud) and Shira Shapira (Yashar). Shira lost her hero son Aner H"YD and Elisha was seriously wounded in Gaza and lost his legs and many friends. Two reluctant heroes who rose above their personal challenges to fight for a better Israel. This dialogue and willingness to listen to the other is what Israel and we all need. #AmEchadB'levEchad
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CAIR is one of the most nefarious and backhanded organizations in the United States. xitter.twitterapi.xyz/inside_IL_intel/status…
Florida's new law for designating domestic terrorist organizations should be a model for other states. The law took effect and CAIR-Florida has already shut down. In an early ruling, Judge Winsor denied CAIR most of the relief it requested. courtlistener.com/docket/749…
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Israel’s military attaché is getting a permanent office in Rabat. Israel’s Defense Ministry announced the plan today after its director met with Morocco’s military leadership. The two armies already train together, and Israeli firms are helping Morocco build its own defense industry. The real test of the Abraham Accords was always going to come during a war. Would an Arab government still want an Israeli officer in its capital when it was politically easier to send him home? Three years after October 7, Morocco is giving him a permanent address.
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On November 10, 1975, Israel’s ambassador Chaim Herzog tore up the UN resolution that branded Zionism a form of racism. It took the General Assembly 16 years to do what Herzog did in seconds, and annul the resolution which compared Zionism to racism. Today, exactly 51 years later, his son Isaac greeted children waving Israeli flags at the opening of Israel’s newly elected parliament in Jerusalem. One day those kids will get to vote on who governs them. For most of Jewish history, that was a promise Jewish parents in our own homeland couldn’t make. That’s what Chaim Herzog was defending.
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So much for being an anti-colonialist...
Did you know Medina, the city Mohammed conquered and established the first sovereign Muslim community, got its name from a Hebrew word meaning, "the city?" Medina (think State of Israel - "Medinat Yisrael") had a large Jewish population that had built its wells, fortresses, and date plantations centuries before Mohammed's arrival. Mohammed had hoped the Jews there would accept his new faith. When they refused, the answer was a combination of mass murder, expulsion, and looting. Centuries-old Jewish communities in Arabia were wiped from existence. After Mohammed, the Covenant of Omar was established, which reduced Jews to dhimmi status everywhere Muslims conquered: to name a few, special taxes were levied, restricted dress enforced, and yellow patches or belt were used to mark Jews subordinate. The yellow badge marking Jews began in the Islamic world, centuries before the Nazis. The idea of "coexistence" of Jews under Islamic rule was entirely predicated on the Jew knowing his or her place as subordinate to Muslims.
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The flooding you see is not just in Gaza. When it rains in Gaza it rains in Israel...
There are now a huge amount of videos showing rain in the Gaza Strip. Well guess what? There is a also rain and some flooding inside of Israel 🇮🇱 It’s what sometimes happens in November, December and January.
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Absolutely heartbreaking...
These are the witnesses who share with you what they found when they arrived at the sites hit by the Gazans on October 7. Listen to her words carefully. She is telling you exactly who and what the Arabs are. And she is a leftist peacenik who helped d Palestinians daily and gave them work in Israel. She helped their sick. October 7 wasn’t the first time. Or the tenth time. They did the exact same thing in Hebron as far back as 1929. Exactly the same thing. They did exactly the same thing in Safed as far back as Safed in 1834. Before Modern Israel. Before the Balfour Declaration. Before Herzl. They did exactly the same thing in Lebanon. They did exactly the same thing in Jordan. In Syria. In fact everywhere they go. Rape. Torture. Beheadings. Burning people alive. Men. Women. Children. “They cut the heads off and took them away”. They beheaded people and took their heads back to Gaza as trophies.
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There are a lot of murky ties between El-Sayed, his family, his supporters, and the Muslim Brotherhood. Whether he disavows them or not, we know that if he were a supporter of this group that he would likely deny it to further the Brotherhood's path of conquest in the West. The Holyland Foundation trial told us as much.
In November 2012, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood leader, issued a decree putting his decisions beyond judicial review. Egypt’s Al-Ahram published a letter backing him. Signer No. 33 was Abdul El-Sayed, now Michigan’s senator-elect. The signers feared officials loyal to Egypt’s former dictator and wanted Morsi’s powers to expire with a new constitution. But they also urged him to “purge the media and the police.” El-Sayed backed giving that power to a president the courts couldn’t check. gate.ahram.org.eg/News/27664…
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MUST WATCH: This alleged idea that Jews lived in a 'golden age' of Jewish life under Islam is a false narrative. All the respect to @jonsac for bringing this to light.
For a thousand years Jews lived under Islamic rule. Professor Paul B. Fenton has spent his career reading what the documents from those centuries actually say.
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Wear it proudly my friend!
Watch this Jewish convert thank people for directing Jew-hatred at him. “I worked hard for the privilege of being the recipient of a little bit of baseless hatred.” Stay strong! Video credit @hasidic_1
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Jews around the world don’t answer for Israel’s cabinet. But we face Jerusalem in prayer, and we’ve done so for thousands of years. Listen to how El-Sayed blurs that distinction when he says “Israel and its actions.”
El-Sayed calls for safety for Palestinian and Israeli children. Then there’s this line: “We have to separate between Judaism and the Jewish people and Israel and its actions.” No Jew, whether in Detroit or Paris, owes anyone a defense of an Israeli cabinet decision. But the land of Israel is inseparable from Judaism. Jews face Jerusalem in prayer. At Passover, they still say, “Next year in Jerusalem.” No government created that bond. It goes back thousands of years. xitter.twitterapi.xyz/AbdulElSayed/status/21…
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