"Like their masters in Tehran, Hamas is a genocidal, totalitarian death cult. And against such an existential threat, Israel's natural right to self-defense can only mean, as the European Parliament demanded last week, the "elimination" of Hamas."
"I want to particularly thank
An Arab/Bedouin Israeli on the apartheid lie:
"If not for Israel I would probably be illiterate, penniless, herding sheep.
But I have an electrical engineering degree, I have a masters from Stanford University, and I have my rights to live my life the way I wanted to live it."
“Guterres is unsuitable for his office,"
says the chairwoman the German Parliament's Defense Committee.
"The fight for a new world order is in full swing in the worst possible sense. Instead of doing his job, UN Secretary General
@antonioguterres
makes the case for
Some 500 police officers raid the Islamic Center of Hamburg and 54 connected locations across Germany.
The Tehran-led Islamist center is suspected of "acting against the constitutional order" and of supporting Hezbollah terrorists.
I'm glad Germany is now acting with resolve.
This is London. Similar scenes in Paris, Berlin etc.
Across Europe, our underpaid police officers have now to pay for decades of political failure.
The failure to acknowledge & confront Islamism, antisemtism, and anti-Western values among some of our Muslim communities.
What does it mean for the UK if the London police tell British veterans they can waive the British flag only behind barricades?
Protester: “When they march down with hundreds of Palestinian flags you won’t say a word.”
Officer: “There’s way more of them than there are of us.”
New Al Jazeera Comedy Skit Mocks October 7th Massacre
The skit is from the show "Al-Shabaka," which airs on the new streaming platform, Al Jazeera 360. This is the most disgusting thing I've ever seen.
That Israel has been supplying an enemy terror state with electricity, should tell you all you need to know about Israel's humanity.
That Hamas has misused funds for terror instead of local energy supply and that you cover for their crimes, tells us all we need to know about you.
The fact that Israel can cut off the electricity supply to Gaza should tell you all you need to now about Israel’s crushing control over the lives of the people in Gaza.
#FreePalestine
@BillAckman
As
@RabbiWolpe
said, the resignation of these presidents alone won't do it. We all must keep up the current level of pressure for years to fight the toxic ideas that divide society into hierarchies of oppressor and oppressed, fueling eternal societal strife & antisemitism.
1/9 Given the possibility of another major
#Gaza
war, I put together a quick reporter's guide for how to properly cover the
#Israeli
-
#Palestinian
conflict. I hope this will be useful not just for rookies but also old hands, who may need a refresher course.
Overwhelming US support for Israel in Harvard-Harris Poll of registered voters:
- 82% back Israel over Hamas.
- 68% say Israel tries to avoid civilian casualties
- 67% back a ceasefire only AFTER Hamas is removed & all hostages are freed
- 78% back Hamas removal from Gaza
Isn't it bizarre,
@metpoliceuk
, that you have to protect rabbis, other members of the Jewish community as well as "sensitive premises," i.e. synagogues, from so-called pro-Palestinian protestors?
What do you call people again who target Jews? I feel there is a word for it.
Precautions have also been taken to ensure the presence of protesters does not unnecessarily disrupt other sensitive premises, including synagogues, either near the form up point or along the route.
For example, a restriction was imposed on the start time of the march, delaying
My op-ed in
@WSJopinion
: Americans are committing mass character suicide. If the US convinces itself that it’s inherently racist, it can’t continue to believe that it has any right to lead the free world. It will set itself up for eternal racial strife.
Israel's Channel 2 reports that when
@netanyahu
received British, French and German Intelligence officials to brief them on the
#Iran
#nuclear
archive and the Mossad team entered to update them, the Europeans rose from their seats and started applauding; the German saluted.
"F*ck You, F*ck You, seriously, F*ck You hard, you w*nk*ers!"
Some may find the reaction of the
@radiofm4
@ORF
hosts to those in the audience booing Israel a little tame. But hey, it's a public broadcaster so they had to play it 'safe'...
Thank you
@janboehm
and Olli Schulz!
"Foreign policy is often the difficult choice between morality and interests. No such dilemma exists in the case of Iran."
My
@NewsweekOpinion
op-ed with
@AnnaAsimakopoul
on why 220 lawmakers urge the EU to designate the IRGC as the terrorists they are.
@metpoliceuk
@DouglasKMurray
Clearly, you now so perfectly "understand the effect of policing on their communities" that you stopped policing them altogether.
Instead, you arrest kidney patients for complaining about Hamas and Palestinian flags while telling British vets not to waive the British flag.
The EU's tepid response to the
#IranProtests
is neither a robust defense of Western values nor is it in Europe's interest. The regime isn't only a menace to its own people but also to its neighbors. My take in
@Newsweek
Check out the three "independent" research institutes
@antonioguterres
chose to assess the "neutrality" of
@UNRWA
:
The very first item on the homepage of the Norwegian Chr. Michelsen Institute is headlined:
"How South Africa rescued humanity (and International Law) at the
So anti-Zionism supposedly isn't the same as anti-Semitism. Would we also accept such sophistry as: "I don't think Ireland has a right to exist, but I'm not anti-Irish"? Read my take in
@WSJopinion
Back in Israel for another fact-finding mission with EU MPs.
As we walked by the photos of the abducted, the young airport officer assisting us pointed to a poster of a pretty woman in her early 20s:
"This is my best friend," she calmly stated.
I didn't know what to say.
There is a second slander: The
@nytimes
uncritically accepts Antifa's absurd self-image as "antifascists," an insult to real antifascist heroes. Antifa black-shirts are themselves totalitarian thugs who just defame anyone they disagree with as Nazis to silence and attack them.
I strongly disagree with some of Andy Ngo's work. But to suggest "he has a history of battling with anti-fascist groups" is slander.
Ngo criticizes Antifa. Antifa members assaulted him.
It's astonishing that this
@nytimes
report erases that difference.
Taught to hate Israel:
29% of UK students think Oct. 7 was an "understandable act of resistance." It's 38% among students of top universities.
Western academia is leading the calls for the mass-murder of Jews. It wasn't much different in Nazi Germany.
"If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that. And I would expect Israelis to do the same thing."
President-elect Barack Obama, speaking in Sderot, Israel, 2008
If you want to understand why 30 years after Oslo and 16 years after Israel's complete withdrawal from Gaza there still isn't peace, this here is a good starting point:
As these Al Jazeera broadcasts show, Hamas men are clearly dressed as civilians while fighting, which is a war crime.
The Hamas Health Ministry will count them all of course as civilians when they get killed and Western media will dutifully report those numbers.
Berlin wanted to bring 200 Palestinians working for German NGOs in Gaza to Germany. But German intelligence services deem half of them as too extreme and antisemitic to be allowed entry.
Palestinian radicalization is the main obstacle to peace.
To falsely accuse the Jewish state of deliberately starving Palestinians is reminiscent of a medieval blood libel.
By making such outrageous claims,
@JosepBorrellF
not only defames Israel but also, even if unintended, fans the flames of antisemitism amid an explosion of
Gaza is facing famine. According to
@theIPCinfo
, 100% of people are acutely food insecure; in the North, 70% are facing famine. Hunger can’t be used as a weapon of war.
W/
@JanezLenarcic
, we urge Israel to allow free, unimpeded, safe humanitarian access.
This is how the
@nytimes
"reports" about antisemitic attacks by "pro-Palestinian" mobs five minutes from their offices.
Why anyone would trust their "reporting" about antisemitic terror by Palestinian Islamists 5,700 miles away is beyond me.
Cancel your subscription.
Irish UNIFIL troops, who for years did nothing to enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1701, and simply watched as Hezbollah rearmed and prepared Oct. 7-style massacres against Israel, suddenly found a purpose in life: Serving as human shields for Hezbollah. Say it ain't so.
.
@POTUS
says "world is watching," but where is Europe?
#Iranprotests
in 3rd day, spread to Tehran, regime starts cracking down, but utter silence so far from
#EU
. What can possibly explain this hesitation to back peaceful Iranians who want to throw off this theocracy?
Shura Military Base, Israel's main center for identifying the mutilated and burned bodies of the October 7 Hamas massacres.
Please listen to Colonel Olivier. The world must know.
"They found the body of a baby. He was actually burned, I believe, alive in an oven."
Our
9/9 There are other techniques but if you use this template incessantly and hysterically with wall-to-wall coverage, people will eventually draw the right conclusions about the
#Jewish
state.
/END
OTD in 1948, the Soviets murdered Captain Witold Pilecki. This Polish hero infiltrated Auschwitz to liberate the German death camp, giving the Allies the first report about the Holocaust.
May his memory be a blessing and forever guide Polish-Israeli and Catholic-Jewish relations.
My 10-point reporter's guide in
@New_Europe
for covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Rule No. 1: Don't report the facts but simply update an old morality play with a 2,000-year tradition:
“The Jew as a uniquely wicked being.”
Gaza Media Rules
.
@DasErste
:
1 Der jüdische Staat benimmt sich beim Holocaust Gedenktag daneben.
2 Nur der Bundespräsident, der noch 2019 dem antisemitischen iranischen Regime zum 40sten gratulierte, zeigte Würde.
3 Kann nicht soviel fressen, wie ich kotzen möchte.
300+ mostly European lawmakers urge EU to end the discrimination against Israel at the
@UN
.
Launched by the
@AJCGlobal
-led Transatlantic Friends of Israel, TFI Chair
@lukasmandl
and I write in
@NewsweekOpinion
how the anti-Israel bias also hurts the UN.
MEP
@lukasmandl
and yours truly in
@Newsweek
on our unprecedented Transatlantic Declaration: 236 MPs urge the EU to ban
#Hezbollah
.
An 🇪🇺 that stands for democracy, human rights and the rules-based international order can't be a safe haven for terrorists.
I listened to the podcast so you don't have to.
These two are far more likely allies than one may think--united by shared obsessions:
Jews (although Griffin insists that not all Jews are the "spawn of Satan")
@DouglasKMurray
(whom Hussain calls "half a human") and LGBTQ.
Wow, die Berichterstattung ist ja fast so gut wie über Israel. Die jüdische Gemeinde Stockholm bittet seid Jahren vergeblich um Polizeischutz. Diesen gab es kurz am Gemeindehaus. Als die Polizisten sich beschwerten, dass der Einsatz zu gefährlich sei, wurden sie wieder abgezogen.
Die Synagoge von Stockholm heute morgen. Der Kamerawagen ist neu. Ansonsten liegt das Gotteshaus frei zugänglich mitten im Zentrum der schwedischen Hauptstadt. Polizisten sieht man hier in aller Regel nicht. Schön, dass jüdisches Leben in Europa auch so noch möglich ist...
.
@nytimes
says one editor decided on this Nazi cartoon. That's an astonishing degree of dysfunctionality if true.
Be that as it may, the entire management debated for 3 long days before finally saying the word "sorry" + calling this clearly antisemitc. Sorry, NYT, you own this!
The West makes the exact same mistake with Russia's ally Iran. Just as it didn't listen to Poland/Baltics--who know Russia best--it doesn't listen to Israel/Gulf "flank states"-- who know Iran best.
The consequences will be as devastating as predictable.
2/9 Reverse chronology and causality. It's crucial to lead with the
#Israeli
response and burry somewhere deep in the text the barrage of unprovoked
#Palestinian
rockets that preceded the response. Under no circumstances must the headline reflect the true course of events.
@DRBoguslaw
Look, the story I have on Amy is way too hot even for Signal. It goes all the way to the top.
If you want your Pulitzer for investigative journalism, meet me tomorrow, midday in Gaza city. Wave a big rainbow flag so I can recognize you.
Don't worry, Hamas is a very progressive
I am thankful for Europe's strong support for Israel in these dark hours.
But we must now move from words to action:
1. Designate Iran's IRGC as the terrorist they are. They arm Hamas as well as Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.
2. Snap back UN sanctions against Iran.
@BarakRavid
@Podolyak_M
@naftalibennett
You based your story on one unnamed official, which no responsible journalist would ever do. And now that the Ukrainian government denies it on the record, you basically accuse them of lying rather than running a correction? Unreal.
.
@nytimes
covers-up Jordanian war crimes to smear Israel. Claims Jordan preserved Old City when in fact it expelled all Jews, destroyed Jewish quarter + all 35 synagogues, desecrated 1000s of ancient Jewish graves, and turned Western Wall area into slum.
@IhabHassane
That's because they don't feel solidarity for your cause. Just hatred for Israel.
They don't care about Palestinians. They just "care" a lot about Jews.
Over nine minutes of Gaza footage filmed by Palestinians before the war. Do you think the international media gave you an accurate picture of life in Gaza before October 7?
Do you think the same media give you the full picture now?
You've heard about antisemitic conspiracy theories that see behind every world calamity the secret hand of a Jewish/Zionist cabal. You probably haven't heard how certain British media play a role in fueling this hatred...
7/9 Try to use intransitive verbs or the passive voice for
#Palestinians
and the active voice for
#Israelis
. E.g., "violence broke out at the Gaza border" and "rockets were fired at Israel," but "Israel strikes targets in Gaza." You don't want to assign agency to Palestinians.
.
@Harvard
rediscovers free speech just when its morally deranged students justify the slaughter of Jews.
To not "inflame" the situation, Harvard won't even criticize the Nazi apologists. Of course few things could have been more combustible than neutrality in the face of evil.
New message from Harvard President Claudine Gay:
“Our university embraces a commitment to free expression. That commitment extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous. We do not punish or sanction people for expressing such views.”
8/9 Avoid providing context, such as that
#Israel
left
#Gaza
in 2005, that
#Hamas
violently took over from
#Fatah
, that the UN's Palmer Report found Israel's blockade legal, that even under fire Israel provides for Gazans etc. It just confuses readers and viewers.
"I am Youssef Ziadna, I am a proud Arab-Israeli citizen."
Youssef is also a national hero, known throughout Israel for risking his life to rescue some 30 young Jewish Israelis from Hamas.
On October 7, the Bedouin bus driver drove a group of Israelis to the Nova outdoor musical
The valley of the shadow of death. Kfar Aza, five km from Gaza. One of the many Israeli communities decimated by the Hamas death squads.
After murdering the civilians in their homes, the terrorists barricaded themselves in the houses of the dead when the IDF arrived. Fierce
3/9 Accept unchallenged the
#Palestinian
casualty figures provided by the
#Hamas
-run
#Gaza
Health Ministry. This applies both to the total numbers and those alleged to be civilians. Ignore or shroud in doubt
#Israeli
estimates, even if later confirmed by Hamas.
Or, once Jews had to convert to Christianity to enter mainstream society, now they have to convert to anti-Zionism to be accepted. Whatever is central to Jewish identity in any given epoch becomes the focal point of attack. Anti-Semitism is a mutating, adaptive virus of hatred.
5/9 In this context it is key to ignore or at least play down a) evidence of
#Hamas
using its own civilians as human shields and b) unprecedented
#Israeli
efforts to avoid civilian casualties, which go far beyond the standards of Western armies.
Disgusting. As the world is watching in horror how the Iranian regime is murdering its own people-a regime that has helped butcher hundreds of thousands in Syria-the head of a so-called human rights organization plays spin doctor for the Ayatollah.
Reuters reports that Iran's supreme leader approved the attack on the Saudi oil installation so long as no civilians were hit. If true, that's far better than the Saudi crown prince's attacks in Yemen which routinely kill civilians.
Dear
@jack
, there are apparently verified Twitter users who call for the kidnapping of
@AlinejadMasih
and other Iranian dissidents. If this doesn't violate your community guidelines, they really aren't worth the code they are written with.
@MaajidNawaz
Important THREAD⬇️
1-Imagine, you wake up one day to find out that there're posters, a Twitter storm, & threats by officials of Islamic Republic of Iran calling for your kidnapping. How would you feel? I’ll show how this regime uses assassination& hostage diplomacy to silence us
6/9 A special note to photo journalists and TV crews: Please set aside any ethical standards normally guiding your war reporting. Your editors will expect a good number of pornographic close-ups of
#Palestinian
casualties. You don't want to disappoint them.
4/9 It's never too early to start throwing around the word "disproportional" in relation to
#Israel
's response or to start treating each alleged
#Palestinian
casualty as possible evidence of Israeli war crimes.
Unreal. The EU claims "no legal basis" to list
#IRGCterorrists
while UK's
@TomTugendhat
states that:
-Iran tried to kill/kidnap 15 people in UK, forcing opposition reporters to flee UK
-Iran plots terror against Jewish/Israeli targets in UK
-France, Germany, US face same threats
The Belgian embassy in Israel can't bring itself to do the right thing and simply condemn the brutal, hateful attack of an Israeli Jew in Belgium without contextualizing this assault as unhelpful for the Palestinian cause.
Seriously? And if this violence somehow did help the
The 🇧🇪 Embassy of Belgium is horrified by the brutal attack on Israeli tourist Amnon Ohana. Such violence cannot be tolerated in a democratic country. It represents a breach of the rule of law and needs to be punished. Fueling this violence does not help the Palestine people.
"Iran is a terror regime. This is why we as Europeans have to ask ourselves what contribution we can make, indeed also on the side of America, to stop this terror regime."
@ManfredWeber
, head of the
@EPPGroup
, says it as it is!
Not even a community student paper ought to get away with such a Stürmer-sized "error of judgment"-particularly not if it has a history of anti-Israeli coverage. When Palestinian terror is routinely whitewashed and Jesus turned into a Palestinian, the problem is structural.
Israel must not defend itself when civilians can get hurt and it must not ask civilians to leave. In other words, Israel must not defend itself.
It's a special international law that some Europeans developed just for the Jewish state within the lifetime of the Holocaust.
It would be good to hear EU institutions say with the same clarity as they have condemned Hamas’ terrorism that Israel’s demand that 1.2m civilians in N. Gaza relocate south, absent of any guarantees of safety or return, amounts to a war crime of forcible transfer
@vonderleyen
What a disgusting blood libel. To falsely accuse the victims of the Holocaust of committing genocide when they are in reality fighting a just war against real genocidaires is the height of perfidy.
But how the demonization of Israel was then instrumentalized to haunt a young
"We condemn the human rights violations by the state of Israel. Israel is destroying press freedom. This is why we are shortly interrupting this broadcast."
Second union action at Flemish public TV broadcaster
@VRT
, during the
@Eurovision
finale.
Full 🇧🇪 support.
#CeaseFireNOW
You can claim to be serious about Israel's security and fighting antisemitism or you can accommodate Hezbollah within your own society. But can't do both.
It took 3 long days + 1000s of complaints for you to manage an apology for a Nazi cartoon. Given your anti-Israel history + other anti-Semitic incidents-such as that list of Jewish lawmakers-we need an independent investigation into your entire coverage of Jewish issues + Israel.
1/6 What a disgraceful distortion. The issue isn't that they are Arab but anti-Zionist MKs, some even back terror. Tibi himself praised "martyrs." The fact that he studied at Hebrew U and that so many Arab doctors lead in their field is testament to Israel's strive for equality.
Israeli Jews who don't want Arab citizens to have a seat at the table in an Israeli government are all too happy to let Arab doctors and nurses treat them. Here Dr. Ahmad Tibi says, no matter, we'll treat them too.
Our story, now with comments enabled:
False & insidious claims that our schools teach hatred + that we have let the people of
#Gaza
down come from those who want
@UNRWA
to fail.
They only fuel a toxic & deeply polarized environment .
What does it say about the EU's understanding of the Middle East when their summit conclusions on the region fail to even mention, let alone condemn Iran and Hezbollah for setting the region on fire?
Not a word about Iran's critical support for its proxies Hamas, Hezbollah, the
This is a momentous turning point:
The EP calls for the snapback of all UN sanctions unless Iran abides by an ultimatum to comply with the nuclear deal. It also wants the IRGC finally listed.
It's high time the EU pushes back against this terror regime.
🔴BREAKING NEWS: For the first time, the European Parliament calls for the snapback of all UN sanctions against Iran. This is a dramatic policy change!
The EP also reiterates its call to:
▪️ List the IRGC as terrorists
▪️ Disarm Hezbollah & list it in its entirety as terrorists
"Terrorist, terrorist, Hezbollah is terrorist," people chant in Beirut. The Google translation must be faulty as I have been repeatedly reassured by countless European diplomats that Hezbollah is key for Lebanon's stability.
@eeas
@EmmanuelMacron
@francediplo_EN
@JosepBorrellF
I can see how naive but decent people may confuse Palestinian plight with innocence and Israeli power with culpability.
But if you pinkwash a regime of war criminals who hang gays, stone women, and seek Israel's destruction, you are part of a very different category of people.
The
@CODEPINK
peace delegation has arrive in Iran
For our first activity we will visit a synagogue in Tehran 🕍✡️. I believe it is the home of an ancient Torah scroll. Baruch HaShem
#PeaceWithIran
Just yesterday in Tehran, the EU's Enrique Mora (arrow) was posing for a photo with the late Ismail Haniyeh (circle), head of the EU designated Hamas, for the inauguration of the president of the genocidal, antisemitic Iranian regime.
Any other EU diplomats on the photo?
Incredible scenes of courage as ordinary Iranians take on the IRGC/Basij terrorist scum.
The EU got Russia awfully wrong. Let's get Iran finally right. Desginate the IRGC as the terrorists they are. Snap back sanctions. Help to bring down this awful regime.
#IranProtests2022
Didn't Finland want to join NATO because it realized that after Russia's aggression against 🇺🇦, neutrality isn't an option anymore?
And yet Foreign Min
@Haavisto
powwows with Iran, Russia's key arms supplier, a terror state that brutalizes its own people and seeks nuclear arms.
“It’s good to see you again,” says Finland Foreign Minister
@Haavisto
just now, as he meets and smiles with murderous mollahs’ mouthpiece
@Amirabdolahian
, next to the U.N. Human Rights Council.
@MarinSanna
, we urged the free world:
#WalkoutIRI
The conflict explained in one story. There is no Palestinian state because Palestinians can't accept a win-win deal with Israel. It has to be zero sum, even if they lose-as they will continue to do unless this tragic mindeset changes.
1/13 As a former opinion page writer, I tip my hat to the
@nytimes
@nytopinion
for this strong, self-examining editorial. It didn't though answer all the questions while raising new ones. I hope the editors will consider this thread as they move forward.
Europe's failed Iran policy is putting at risk the safety of its Jewish community as well as the entire Middle East.
As the regime in Iran continues to plan the murder of European Jews-documented in Sweden, Germany, Cyprus, Greece, and the UK-Europe stubbornly refuses to
Lithuania's parliament unanimously designates Iran's IRGC as the terrorists they are.
Once again, the small Baltic nation leads Europe in moral and strategic clarity. Thank you!
The EU and UK must finally follow suit.