Robert Silverman
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Editor-in-Chief Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, lecturer Shalem College, co-founder Inter Jewish Muslim Alliance, former US diplomat, husband, dad, proud Zionist.
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@m7mdkurd
Hold on, just yesterday you posted this speech of yours, which ends "we should normalize massacres" very clearly. You didn't offer any correction. Now, after you have be reported to the London police for hate speech - NOW you say you misspoke. So why not take down the speech
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@SaulStaniforth
Absurd. Hizbullah launched attacks against Israel which responded. I suppose you think American responses to Pearl Harbor were likewise disproportionate?
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@shadihamid
Voting polls this far out are meaningless but you no doubt know this. All this antiBiden messaging is meant to influence current foreign policy, not give accurate readings on voting plans one year from now.
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@juliaioffe
Well I disagree. Jews need allies and if this is one way our allies choose to show their support for Israel and Jews, I am happy with it. Also, they are not appropriating anything - they remain Christian. (And by the way, the mezuzah is strictly religious, not cultural - it is
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@yashar
We are talking about one percent of the American population per Pew Research so YES, Yashar, it's pretty fringe.
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@ianbremmer
Demonstrates your lack of understanding of Israel's deterrence and defense doctrines - are you giving your political risk clients any refunds?
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@DavidM_Friedman
Dept of Education announced they are investigating 51 universities, colleges and school districts for antisemitism:
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@GerAmbTLV
@FranceskAlbs
Hold on - you aren't a spokesperson for the German government - you are its representative in Israel. Let's wait for an authorized person in Berlin to do that.
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@SocialistMMA
Oh come on, you have probably never been to the Middle East and seen the broad range of ethnic groups represented there. Shame on you for exporting American ideas of what is in your view "indigenous" to other places.
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@ShibleyTelhami
@ishaantharoor
Certainly a generation of State Dept employees feel that way but not in the general American public, according to Pew Research and other polling. But don't let facts get in the way.
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Anti-Zionism isn't a form of antisemitism? Really? Then why are people holding threatening signs outside of synagogues in the US and Canada? October 7 was a clarifying moment for all of us.
“Synagogues complicit in Palestinian ethnic cleansing” sign in front of a synagogue in Thornhill, Canada
There is a straight line from here to justifying attacks on this synagogue now
📸: Mila Gurfinkel
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@WajahatAli
Do you think it would help if the students weren't (a) chanting terrorists' slogans (b) praising terrorists (c) excluding Jewish students from going into college buildings and campus areas (d) not waving terrorists' flags? Stop pretending the students are somehow being
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@TheJusticeDept
Shouldn't you have done this after October 7's murder of dozens of Americans?
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@joshrogin
@GWUniversity
@GWtweets
You out yourself as very biased by saying "personally I think there is lots of evidence of Israeli war crimes" - credible people, credible governments don't agree with you. No one needs to know more - you are reflexively biased on this issue.
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@vanessahlarson
@washingtonpost
I will do you one better: I will stop reading the Post period. In recent years, you became an "activist" newspaper where the news is filtered through the progressive politics of the journalists you hire. And the editors? For instance the "exchange of captives" headline
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@yashar
Given him the Space Command and tell him to lead by example - to Infinity and Beyond!
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@sarahleah1
"Non-existent" calls for genocide? What does "from the river to the sea" mean for the Jewish state? It means it is destroyed. We saw the practical implication of this ideology on Oct. 7. Shame on you for this propaganda.
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@yashar
Sorry - but why should ANYONE care what Linda Ronstadt or Taylor Swift or U-2 or other entertainers think about public policy?
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@NickKristof
And your insinuations about Israel committing war crimes - let's require you to apologize, if (as many of us suspect) there is no truth to your insinuations.
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@JustLuai
Also - their soldiers wear matching plaid skirts and dance a jig while chewing a narcotic leaf.
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@tparsi
Anti-war demonstrators? You mean the masked fellows holding Hezbollah and Hamas flags, chanting (with soul and with blood we will redeem you Palestine)? What a joke.
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@marwanbishara
Wrong on both counts - no Israeli calls for killing all Gazans; as for destroying Israel - you might want to check out Hamas's program which is quite popular among Palestinians.
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@DovWaxman
In short: "As a Jew, I worry about my place in an American academia full of Jew haters. I draw an equivalence between those who want to destroy the only liberal democracy in the Middle East and that state's supporters. Look, i have to make a living."
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@ShibleyTelhami
Shibley - you guessed the right answer - the Druze leadership have been lobbying hard consistently and especially recently to revoke the 2018 law. It shows what is possible in a democracy, doesn't it?
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@tparsi
Guess what Trita - it's a tiny group of pro-Hamas supporters who are certainly not the next elite of anywhere.
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All six American Nobel Prize winners in 2016 were immigrants to the US.
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@jconricus
@BBC
@IDF
Yes, and the US should have warned Pakistan before the Bin Laden raid. Oops, that's different - the attackers weren't Jews.
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Adnan's Story by
@rabiasquared
highlighted in Washington Post's 50 best works of nonfiction, well deserved
@serial
and Rabia!
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@RepJayapal
Didn't realize that you were a military expert, where did you gain your insight into fighting insurgencies in urban areas?
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@havivrettiggur
Haviv, they are part of a long tradition that includes Jacob Frank and his followers who verified to Christians the blood libel that Jews murder little Christian boys to make matzohs. JVP is a pathology long present among a small segment of Jews, not a political movement.
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@yashar
Right, it's the allies. Still a very small group to be honest even if one exaggerates and says all progressives are with Hamas. Pew Research again - maybe 7 percent of Americans identify as Progressive. However: if you want to count allies, Jews have most Evangelicals (25
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@AdeleScalia
They don't like seeing Hamas supporters forced to strip (to check for suicide vests). It undercuts the powerful image of Hamas, so they hate it.
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@RabbiWolpe
small correction: it's not a Caananite inscription (I know Wikipedia says so but it's wrong). Its language is Aramaic (not Caananite) and archaelogists attribute the stele to King Hazael of Aram-Damascus. it's a victory stele commemorating his victory over the Israelites.
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Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine posted the picture below on their Instagram account. When outrage resulted, they wrote: “We apologize for the hurt that these images have caused and do not condone them in any way." What? The intention in promoting this kind
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@nytdavidbrooks
No. He showed fiscal responsibility and a policy interest in limited government. As a former conservative, you should understand that.
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@AkbarSAhmed
Oh please. There is one - and only one - honorable thing to do for someone who feels this much at odds with the administration he or she serves - RESIGN.
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@jvplive
Genocide? Look up the definition of the word. That is outrageous slander of the Jewish people.
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@sfrantzman
Also -
@tomfriedman
is engaging in magical thinking. There is NO Arab peacekeeping force going into Gaza. if he thinks there are Arab forces willing to fire on Hamas terrorists in Gaza, I have some shares in a bridge to sell him.
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@GovernorShapiro
Arrests, prosecutions - that is what PA requires of you and your team. Not words.
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@RepRashida
Shame on you for throwing around the term "genocide" without defining the elements of it. The Democratic administration of Presideent Biden has publicly declared there is no genocide.
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@SenSchumer
"As a Jew" you should refrain from seeking to undermine the Jewish state's democracy by crass and narcissistic statements.
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@RepRashida
This is really sickening - Palestinians need to live in peace in their own state in the West bank and Gaza alongside the state of Israel. You are preaching a vain effort to destroy the Jewish state, by preaching the "nakba" of 1948. That is immoral and bad policy.
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@BillAckman
@Harvard
Removing the president shld be the start, not the end, of this inquiry. Eliminating DEI statements in job applications for faculty positions would be a good next step. This requirement goes to the heart of the ideological conformity at Harvard.
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@louiseadler
"Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis." You have engaged in antisemitism, as defined by one of its examples above in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance adopted by over 40 countries and first adopted in the US by the Obama
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Mohammed El Kurd in London: "We must normalize massacres as the status quo." That my friends is hate speech.
"We must de-Zionised because Zionism is a death cult, Zionism is indefensible!"
Palestinian writer Mohammed El Kurd's passionate speech attacking Zionism at today's London demo for Gaza.
@m7mdkurd
#CEASEFIRE_NOW
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@yashar
So just trust you? Numbers be damned? Let's recall also your intent here seems to be to magnify the pro-Hamas Muslim and Arab voter impact so we have to discount for that.
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@yashar
From deep inside the bubble, the New Yorker has a cloudy vision of the outside world.
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@almaforarizona
Agree. But why did the Biden administration wait 11 months to indict Hamas leaders? After all they were leading a group that murdered dozens of Americans 11 months ago? Have you been pressing the Dem administration to force Qatar to extradite these terrorist murderers?
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@dylanotes
Dylan, which polls of Jews back your claim? The published ones show American Jews over 80% united behind Israel after this war. Also please try to understand the OUTRAGE. He uses the moment of his award for a Holocaust film (based on the murder of millions of Jews) to
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@shadihamid
That is certainly the pro-Hamas talking point. But in fact it's a biased look at Michigan's primary results. A strong majority of American voters, including in Michigan support Biden's pro-Israel policies; were those policies to change the protest vote against Biden would be
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@EFischberger
@nytimes
Actually the key one is: did the NYT pay him (a Hamas operative) to write this. Funding is material support.
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@WajahatAli
Waj, it's not all "guilt by association" - people celebrating the beheading of civilians inside Israel are guilty, period. SJP has endorsements from Hamas. Hamas is a terrorist organization. Supporting a terrorist organization has consequences my friend. It's not the same as
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@alifarhat79
@BillAckman
Bill, the market will always be there for you. This is your time to make a difference for our country. Please keep up the pressure on the immoral bureaucrats running down our institutions of higher education.
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@yashar
False equivalence between a terrorist group and a democratically elected government in a liberal society.
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@LahavHarkov
They should be arrested for using the watermelon symbol, a trigger invoking racist anti-African tropes. Let's call the FBI. 😀
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@SherryTalksBack
So you joined the small community of Marxist Jewish antisemites, following in the footsteps of Karl himself.
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@VividProwess
Note the subsidiary and submissive role of women in these events. They pray behind the men; in mixed settings, they let the men do the talking. Welcome to the new America.
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@gershonbaskin
I can't believe you drank that much coolaid Gershon! So you think a ceasefire will stop violence directed at Jews during Ramadhan? Read your history.
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@WajahatAli
I guess what you are saying Waj - Thank God we have learned not to allow supremacists of any sort (Islamist, White) to take over campuses and intimidate minorities. Yes, good point. Let's also ensure students who engaged in such hate speech are expelled from the universities, a
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@SenFettermanPA
THank you. Of course you are right Senator - the purveyor of "from river to sea" speech is quite clear what will happen to the Jews who live there.
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@mishtal
There is a disingenuous appeal to religion here. Allahu akbar is recited in the daily prayers and in the call to prayer. BUT it is also used in other contexts, including as a battle cry and that is the objectionable context cited by others.
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@DBashIdeas
Don't count on it. The lack of Jewish education among younger American Jews is an indictment of my generation of boomers, who cared much more about their own assimilation than in the culture and religion of their parents and grandparents.
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@ncsullivan
@NorthwesternU
Oh, I bet you certainly DON"T support the students' right to peacefully protest on behalf of White supremacy do you? How about peacefully protesting for misogny?
Nor do I. But then why do you support calls for the elimination of Israel, which implies the genocide of the Jewish
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@JosepBorrellF
Those European diplomats dealing with the PA can and should move to Ramallah where the PA is based.
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@sfmcguire79
I certainly can't recommend Harvard grads for anything - other than perhaps Hamas information bureau.
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@DovWaxman
I would completely agree IF Palestinians, while mourning their loss in this war and consequent displacement, were not also revanchist, seeking to undo the results of that war. Also - let's recall that wherever the Arabs won in that war they dispossessed Jews.
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@AlanRMacLeod
@BBCWorld
Because the pagers were in the hands of an internationally designated terrorist group, Hizbullah, that launched cross-border attacks on Israel starting on Oct. 8 last year.
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@stephenwertheim
Come on, Biden is restating and affirming a core tenet of Zionism. The vast majority of American Jews are Zionists; there is NO implication here that American Jews rely on a foreign government or have dual loyalties - that is your own phobia speaking.
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@Shibitthedon
@DavidM_Friedman
What? You must be kidding. Do you know how difficult it is to get a gun permit in Israel. Outside of serving military, Israelis who carry guns go through a rigorous set of tests and checks.
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@LTCPeterLerner
@ianbremmer
@gzeromedia
Peter,
@ianbremmer
is a businessman running a "political risk consultancy" and has clients like Qatar. He is pursuing his clients' interests - he isn't a serious analyst. Ignore.
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@faniaoz
Oh please, you know well that accidents happen in wartime , and you should know that this was NOT a murderous act. Shame on you for suggesting that possibility.
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@Wagnerian
@m7mdkurd
If he misspoke, then why post the speech without a correction? it's not a minor matter. Why not clarify that even now on his post of the speech? As others have noticed his speech also calls to deZionize the world.
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@gershonbaskin
There you go again, blaming Jews for acts of violence committed against them. Hamas is murdering and Hamas could agree to Israel's terms.
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@yashar
@CapehartJ
he also says US never should have gone into Ukraine to go after bin Laden.
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@KhalilJeries
Return to pre-1948 British Mandatory Palestine? or the Palestine designated by the 1947 UN Parition Plan which the Palestinian National Council rejected? Or the 2000 Clinton parameters which would have created a Palestinian state which the PLO rejected. Return to where
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@omarsuleiman504
There are no settlers in Gaza - the people of Gaza are ruled by terrorists and you know they are responsible for starting this war; Hamas hides behind civilians.
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Why is it legal for a mob to harass customers of a kosher delivery and shout antisemitic slogans?
Breaking: The pro-Palestinian crowd is currently harassing Jews outside of a kosher restaurant in NYC.
It appears their new strategy is to directly target Jews at restaurants, synagogues, and Hillels. We cannot normalize this behavior.
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@DaliaHatuqa
Hamas has plenty of cells in the West Bank and Lebanon, as well as controlling Gaza. .
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@Hamza_a96
Wrong. Zionism is the movement for Jewish self-determination, nothing fascistic about it. You are simply a bigot.
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@powerHouseBooks
And what do you think of the bookstore with your name that bans Jews? Any thoughts here?
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Latest in
@jstribune
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Israeli writer
@GadiTaub1
, in conversation with the JST’s Robert Silverman, describes the evolution in his thinking from supporter of a two-state solution to an opponent.
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Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council comes to Washington to defend immigration and fight hate crimes.
#MuslimJewish
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@LHSummers
@federalreserve
@BloombergTV
@DavidWestin
Yes you do. It's an election year and lower rates may help the incumbent. The Fed is certainly aware of political ramifications of its decisions.
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