Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, was assassinated in Tehran yesterday, during a visit for the inauguration of Iran’s new president. This morning, I sat down with
@ronenbergman
and
@Nadav_Eyal
to record a special episode on this major development. Listen here:
I don’t think the world forgot. Most never even acknowledged in the first place — even for an instant — what had just occurred. It seemed like within hours of Oct 7, many around the world were outraged that Jews would object to being slaughtered, raped and taken hostage.
Wait...the
@nytimes
featured ANOTHER Netanyahu cartoon? This one AFTER the Thursday cartoon depicting Netanyahu as a dog? Am I reading this right? Is the Times obsessed with Israel’s prime minister?
Terrible news.
(I don’t think most Americans appreciate how many children of Israeli political leaders and military commanders are serving on front lines during wartime…very unique to Israel.)
Mayor Eric Adams of New York City insisted schools would remain open despite surging Omicron cases in the city. He said remote learning has been too damaging, especially to children in low-income neighborhoods and homeless students.
Breaking: Saudi Arabia to allow UAE-Israel flights (such as Dubai-Tel Aviv) to overfly Saudi airspace
With Saudi airspace access, flights between Dubai/Abu Dhabi – Tel Aviv could begin as soon as this year, in what is considered an unprecedented development for the region ✈️
It’s NOT protocol for the President to attend an address before a Joint Session of Congress, but it IS protocol for the Vice-President. Harris not rearranging her schedule to be there today is a choice. She has known the date for the Israeli Prime Minister’s address for months
Watch: White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner shares a "behind the scenes" video on board the El Al aircraft, the first commercial flight to fly from Israel to the UAE.
It’s unbearable to watch. But, still, watch it and circulate it. Because the world needs to see who has invaded their country. The glee Hamas is taking in tormenting Israeli children — and teaching their own children to enjoy tormenting Israeli children — is beyond words.
Palestinian terrorists recording a video with a kidnapped Israeli boy they are holding hostage in Gaza, letting young local Palestinian kids abuse him.
To keep the conflicting going, they wan't spread the hatred to the next generation.
"Never forget the 7th of October. That will happen not one more time, not five more times, not 10...100…1000…10,000...The 7th of October is going to be every day for you."
Protestors screamed this at two Jewish
@Columbia
students right outside campus gates tonight.
Do people still find this shocking? Or is it just becoming kinda normal? Like, ‘yeah, it’s Wednesday…another Jewish business getting vandalized. Any other news?’
Tortured them first…raped them…mutilated and burned them. This was even worse than what we have come to define as terrorism. This invasion was conducted by a death cult.
Evidence is emerging that Hamas not only massacred Israeli civilians in the kibbutzim—it tortured them before their deaths.
Recovery teams say of the 280 bodies in Kfar Aza and Be’eri, 80% had been tortured.
This is why we will destroy Hamas.
Vaccination Nation: Is our Post Corona future unfolding now in Israel?
@YonatanAdiri
brings us up to date and looks ahead at what’s coming our way. Give a listen:
Some members of Congress won't condemn this. Some dismissed this as 'propaganda'. The UN won't even condemn Hamas.
Hamas is not a group of 'militants' or engaging in 'insurgency'—just rapists and cowards hiding behind innocent civilians.
.
@Columbia
keeps digging its grave deeper.
@KhymaniJames
’s famous rant in which he said that “Zionists don’t deserve to live” was apart of a disciplinary hearing led by the Columbia University’s administration in January—four months ago!
So the administration knew this person
However late it may be, this statement from the White House is strong for a number of reasons, not the least of which is it’s the 1st of its kind that hasn’t condemned antisemitism *AND ALL OTHER FORMS OF HATE * (1/2)
NEWS
The White House has issued a statement on the situation at Columbia University:
“While every American has the right to peaceful protest, calls for violence and physical intimidation targeting Jewish students and the Jewish community are blatantly Antisemitic,
One of the most chilling memories I have from Oct 7 is a video of a Hamas terrorist holding two babies, one in each arm.
Only today we know that moments before that picture was being taken, he murdered their mother in front of their eyes.
This is Adi Kaplon, know her name.
It’s so utterly infuriating and depressing that it’s left to Jewish Members of Congress to ask (beg?) the White House to add Hamas’s rape of Jews to the White House fact sheet on conflict-related sexual violence.
🚨Jewish Democrats, Reps. Adam Schiff and Dan Goldman, sent letter to Biden to “express our deepest concern” about the omission of Hamas’ rape in the recently released WH fact sheet about conflict-related sexual violence.
Letter ⬇️
So there’s now a pro-Houthi-bombing-of-commercial-ships movement. This is all utterly insane. Antisemitism is not only crazy but it makes people who dip their toe in it even crazier.
Looks like you can stroll through the Upper East Side these days and see the windows smashed in at one Jewish storefront after another. Welcome to New York City…85 years after Kristallnacht.
In addition to Rothschild TLV and The Nuts Factory, a third Jewish owned business on the UES, Level 78 barber shop, was also broken into last night.
Photos the Israeli owner sent me show a mezuzah on the smashed front door.
“destroyed and erased from history” — this kind of rhetoric gets louder and louder…it gets more and more prevalent…it gets more and more normalized. WITH NO CONSEQUENCE. Could you imagine activists talking about any other country or people this way and it being greeted with a
“When we finally deal that final blow to destroy Israel. When the state of Israel is finally destroyed and erased from history, that will be the single most important blow we can give to destroying capitalism.”
-Manolo De Los Santos speaking at The People’s Forum in NYC.
.
@AOC
last year: “It was an honor to share such a lovely and wide-reaching conversation with you,
@jeremycorbyn
! Also honored to share a great hope in the peace, prosperity, + justice that everyday people can create when we uplift one another across class, race, + identity...."
I condemn any potential police action on Columbia University's campus. As an educator who personally experienced the over policing of our schools, this is personal to me. We must resist right-wing demagoguery and stop suppressing peaceful protest if we are to keep students safe.
Hamas: “we will repeat the October 7 massacre time and again, 1M times if we need to, until we end the occupation.“
Journalist: “occupation of Gaza?”
Hamas: “no, all of Israel.”
I have been hearing versions of this all over the Jewish community. Turning point: UNSC vote delinking hostage release from ceasefire + Schumer speech + Biden statement on WCK casualties + almost daily jabs at Israel by VP Harris. Pogroms at colleges have taken this sentiment in
I cannot tell you how confounded I have been over how many people I love + respect have committed to fund + vote Trump on this issue.
I would have lost it on them Oct 6. I cant believe I am saying this just as I cant believe what I have seen happening in our cities—I get it.
Here is John Lewis: “As long as one Jew is denied the right to be Jewish in the Soviet Union, we all are Jews in the Soviet Union." A different time.....
The EU expresses its sincere condolences for the death of President Raisi and Foreign Minister Abdollahian, as well as other members of their delegation and crew in a helicopter accident. Our thoughts go to the families.
These are 38 Israeli children uprooted from their lives, abducted and held by Hamas for more than a month. There are 240 hostages all in all. No one knows what condition they are in. Enough.
#bringthemhome
#ReleaseTheHostagesNow
Can you imagine the convos inside
@washingtonpost
that led to decision to imply that the indisputable fact of Hamas sexual assault on 10/07 was actually on shaky ground?
New graphic footage from Oct 7th of Yarden Bibas, the father of 9-month-old red-head baby Kfir and 4-year-old Ariel, and husband to Shiri, who were all abducted from their beds in kibbutz Nir Oz.
Notice something odd about the gang of Hamas terrorists who are dragging him away
British writer & commentator
@DouglasKMurray
has been on the ground in Israel for weeks, covering the war as a reporter and analyst. In our convo, he debunks 5 lies about Israel.
This is chilling on its own. But then to think where this trend is going — the slippery-slope…the setting of precedents — between canceled events for Jewish performers & the “agreement” reached between
@NorthwesternU
& the pro-Hamas activists. We’re in new world. (Or, actually,
#BREAKING
Madison bows to bullies.
@MichaelRapaport
’s sold out comedy shows in Madison, Wisconsin have been cancelled following threats from the pro-terror mob.
The mob is screaming about the right to free speech, and here they are trying to silence a comedian just because he
Hamas is not a political resistance movement. Israelis live a few miles from these rape mobs. No obvious answers for what Israel does on its Gaza border after the war. This is not a resistance seeking an accommodation next to the Jewish State.
Nice gesture: The Old City walls in Jerusalem will be lit in the colors of the flags of UAE and Bahrain tonight in honor of the
#UAEIsrael
peace deal signing
Absolute chaos at Union Station after US Park Police moved in to prevent anti-Israel protesters from taking down a U.S. flag. Arrests have been made. Park Police withdrew after securing the US flag, the mob chased them.
I’m now constantly hearing this (yes, albeit anecdotally, but it’s a lot and it’s consistent) from people who loathe Trump. I peg the change to: Schumer speech + UNSC abstention + Biden statement on WCK casualties + almost daily jabs by VP Harris at Israel.
Huge selection bias and massively anecdotal, but I know vastly more people who can’t stand Trump who are thinking about voting for him because Biden has been too anti-Israel than too pro. Not saying it’s representative of a major trend, but it does run counter to all the CW in
MUST WATCH: Bill Clinton on Israel & Hamas
"Hamas is really smart. When they decide to rocket Israel, they insinuate themselves in the hospitals, in the schools, in the highly populous areas."
“I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that
On this Father’s Day, we honor all the heroes of Israel who are far from their families today, defending us, and all of those who sacrificed their lives to save others.
I have a special thought for Arnon Zamora, a father of two, who died rescuing other people’s children in a
Mohammed Deif can be said to have been responsible for Hamas’ transformation from a ragtag militia to the equivalent of a light infantry army of a sovereign state. As of Saturday, he is most likely dead, due to an extraordinary Israeli intelligence and military operation. Today I
The Greta boomlet was always silly & vapid, even when it was just about climate. But now it’s triply…quadruply so. That she was the toast of the town at Davos and other elite convenings was an embarrassment.
Yesterday, Greta Thunberg shared the stage with Sara Rachdan. My quick Instagram research shows: Rachdan celebrates Hamas' attacks against Israeli civilians, admires terrorists and trivializes the Holocaust. Apparently, non of that is a problem for Greta. THREAD
As the leader of the free world, America cannot claim that its commitment to Israel is “iron-clad” and then proceed to withhold aid from Israel.
The mixed messaging makes a mockery of our credibility as an ally. No one will take our word seriously.
Right. And Suleimani was an architect of the recent Iranian attacks on oil tankers, on Saudi oil plants, on the US embassy in Baghdad + on US military forces.
I'm seeing a lot of people calling the strike on Suleimani an "assassination." Some are even bringing up Reagan's EO 12333, prohibiting assassinations.
Killing an enemy commander, in a war zone, with a military strike conducted under the law of war is not an "assassination."
This insanity is happening at America’s top-tier elite educational institutions. When hiring at the most competitive private sector firms and admitting students at the most competitive post-undergrad programs (the best law schools, b-schools, med-schools, PhD programs, etc), an
Another video from the unauthorized protest at
@Columbia
today:
"Yemen, Yemen makes us proud, turn another ship around"
They are chanting in support of the Houthis, a terror organization whose flag literally says "Death to America".
Let that sink in.
Please. Stop what you are doing (I know it’s Thanksgiving and you may be otherwise distracted but this is a must watch). Look at the moronic — if not deliberate gas-lit — questions that Israeli Government & IDF officials have to respond to. THIS IS NOT A PARODY.
This kind of madness is taking place at campuses all over the country. And to think, American Jewish parents invest enormous energy and resources to help their kids achieve acceptances to these places. What are we doing?!?
This is
@UCLA
where students are screaming "intifada, intifada” - a call to murder Israelis and Jews.
Imagine just for a moment what it’s like to a Jewish student on this campus.
“Death is a blessing” — I saw this
@clarissaward
interview last night on
@CNN
& can’t get it out of my head. I saw it just after hearing from a friend whose grandmother — a Holocaust survivor — knew a kid during the war whose father had the entire family take cyanide rather than
"They just said, we found Emily. She's dead. I went, 'Yes!' and smiled, because that is the best news of the possibilities I knew. She was either dead or in Gaza. And if you know anything about what they do to people in Gaza, that is worse than death."
Emily was 8.
~
@CNN
Commander Arnon Zamora, who was severely injured during the hostage rescue mission today, died of his wounds.
Arnon will be remembered as a hero to the people of Israel.
May his memory forever be a blessing.
Is the first part of Biden’s answer here what he actually (correctly) believes — that Hamas wants a ceasefire so it can rebuild, consolidate power again in Gaza, & live to attack Israel again?
Is the second part of Biden’s answer (after the long awkward pause) an attempt to
Biden makes the blunder of answering whether and why Hamas would want a ceasefire.
He then notices his terrible blunder in saying the truth, and goes off on a tangent.
“The attack also revealed the hypocrisy of the campus ceasefire crowds who cheered on the attack in the hope someone would kill Israelis, even if they’re Arab Israelis.”
Last night was a major victory for Israel on multiple levels.
1. Its air defense and technology executed flawlessly, repelling the largest missile and drone assault in history. Unprecedented coordination between defense systems and allied militaries completely nullified the
Rafah is a ticking bomb
Hamas and the worldwide "Free Palestine Movement" are in desperate need of sacrificing thousands of Gaza civilians for their mutual cause.
In a disgusting partnership, Hamas uses civilians as human shields then the Pro Palestine fanatics exploit the
As New York City experiences a power outage affecting more than 40,000 people, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he's not yet decided whether to return from Iowa
A 28-page ‘Day-After’ document is circulating among Israel military leaders and war strategy decision-makers within the government. This plan has not been released publicly, but I have read it. I spoke with Prof. Netta Barak-Corren, one of the document’s authors, to go over their
The details can sometimes disrupt the implementation of an antisemitic policy. But where there’s a will there’s a way — the Maldives Govt will figure it out.
Two weeks after the Maldives 🇲🇻 announced they will ban Israeli nationals from entering the Islamic country the legal advisor to the government announced that there are difficulties with passing the legislation; namely the face that 2 million Israeli Arabs hold Israeli
This infrastructure proposal plus a new family leave entitlement are reminders that — on fiscal conservatism — the GOP is unrecognizable: not what conservatives stood for and ran on in 2010, 2012 & 2014. This new direction is fiscally unsustainable.
“We’re thrilled to endorse Kamala Harris. She has what it takes to defeat Trump and defend our democracy. We know she’ll be a fighter for our community, values and priorities in the Oval Office,” said J Street's
@JeremyBenAmi
.
Our full statement 👇
Looking for a response to Hamas supporters on U.S. campuses? Come volunteer at one of the Hamas-ravaged farms or kibbutzim in Southern Israel. These communities need your help and working with them will give you indescribable hope.
If you hold hostages in a family home, in the middle of a busy civilian area, with armed men launching RPGs among the civilians to keep said hostages, civilians will inevitably get hurt.
The hostages should have never been there to begin with.
The warmth, the side-by-side flags, the offer of a KJU visit to White House and on and on. Can’t imagine what we’d be saying about Obama or Clinton administrations if things played out this way during their terms....
We mauled Obama, rightly, for saying he’d meet with dictators without preconditions. There had better be results here beyond a round of golf at Mar-a-Lago.
Doron…a quiet & giant hero. May his memory be a blessing.
The image of children being separated from parents…right out of the Nazi playbook. (Yet it’s Israel that’s been hauled to The Hague to face the charge of genocide.)
This is a story about an angel. This is the story of a man whose heart was bigger than his body. This is a story about Doron. He worked at a food stand at the Nova Music Festival. Doron was hardworking man, always smiling, quiet and pleasant. Doron went through hell, he saw the
It’s appalling the U.S. allowed passage of a resolution that fails to condemn Hamas.
The UN has always been unwilling to condemn this group of terrorists, cowards and rapists.
We must stand with Israel and stop pandering to the political fringe or Hamas apologists.
Interesting that I’m hearing SAME THING from folks involved w/each of Trump + Biden campaigns re: trends in each of their internal data: suburban support for protests down, suburban concern abt violence up + tricky w/in Dem base for Biden to speak out forcefully against violence
🚨 How could Harvard not have responded to this inquiry?!? “‘This is Definitely Plagiarism': Harvard University President Claudine Gay Copied Entire Paragraphs From Others’ Academic Work and Claimed Them as Her Own”,
@FreeBeacon
Finally is right. Largely because
@biannagolodryga
and
@sherylsandberg
& others pressed. At first,
@UN_Women
gave Bianna a word salad for an answer, which was revealing. Without the scrutiny and heat, the UN would have been content with that initial (embarrassing) response.
We stand with Israel. The board of directors of Palantir will be gathering in Tel Aviv next week for its first meeting of the new year. Our work in the region has never been more vital. And it will continue.
Michael Rapaport
@MichaelRapaport
has some thoughts about those who decide to criticize Israel - ‘as a Jew’. The full episode from our live conversation at the Comedy Cellar is now available to listen. Listen here:
Why isn’t
@UNICEF
running campaigns demanding the release of the Bibas children?
Their mission is to stand up for all children, but somehow Israeli children don’t count.
I just donated to this “Thank NYPD” campaign—an important way for the local Jewish community to say thank you to New York’s Finest for having our backs this year. First $100,000 in donations will be matched. Support
@nycpolicefdtn
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