A little more than a year ago I wrote a piece noting how China views Iran as a regional foil, capable of using its proxies to attack the U.S. and its allies, and to distract if need be.
BREAKING: Reuters reports that Chinese officials have asked Iran to 'rein in attacks on ships in the Red Sea by the Houthis or risk harming business relations with Beijing'
Eleven months ago,
@washingtonpost
ran this column mocking Kushner’s efforts to achieve peace deals in the Middle East. Less than a month later, the administration has helped broker four agreements with four separate countries. Another Post piece that didn’t age well...
I was today years old when I learned that Ukraine seeks to conquer all of Russia and has been offered statehood only to reject it in favor of paying tax deductible salaries to suicide bombers and those who shoot babies in strollers
It might interest you to know that in 48 hrs
@washingtonpost
has published no less than four articles/commentaries attacking Republicans for
@RashidaTlaib
perversions of the history of Israel and the Holocaust. Not a single one noted Tlaib's comments were inaccurate. Not one.
Much has been made about how the Nazis used media and education to set the conditions for the genocide of Jewry. Take a look around. People are in the streets celebrating the greatest mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. Our media and schools have helped pave the way.
Here is one British policeman’s description of the pogrom in Hebron in 1929. “I went up a sort of tunnel passage and saw an Arab in the act of cutting off a child’s head with a sword.” This is nearly 20 yrs before Israel was created.
The world condemned Israel for seizing the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Feel free to reflect on that when you read missives by failed peace processors talking about Israel doing “eternal damage to its legacy” by destroying a terrorist group whose strategy is human sacrifice
An actual dictatorship Congresswoman would be a ruler in the 15th year of a single elected 4 year term. Someone who imprisons critics for Facebook posts. Someone whose government tortures its citizens. Someone like Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who u support.
My fiancé’s restaurant—which had planned on reopening as late as the beginning of May—closed permanently bc our county exec wouldn’t give an end date for the lockdown. A week later it was ok to protest. Many more have suffered far worse. I’m furious.
There is going to be a lot of anger over this for a long time. People made extraordinary sacrifices to fight Covid-19 only to then see the same people demanding those sacrifices insist that fight is no longer a priority weeks later.
Via
@crousselle
For more than 10 days in March Hamas brutally suppressed Palestinians in Gaza, shooting them in the street and detaining journalists.This self-proclaimed human rights activist who pretends to care for the Palestinian people didn’t say a word.Not 1. For 10 days.Not even a tweet.
When will the world stop dehumanizing our Palestinian people who just want to be free? Headlines like this & framing it in this way just feeds into the continued lack of responsibility on Israel who unjustly oppress & target Palestinian children and families.
#FreePalestine
Brief personal news: Got married today to my longtime girlfriend of nearly 9 years. Ceremony etc to come; our plans, like many others, changed but I couldn’t be happier
I see that the tweet from the former Malaysian PM’s tweet calling for mass murder is getting a lot of attention—mostly bc
@jack
allows this on
@twitter
But remember:
@washingtonpost
has praised the former PM, calling him a “venerable statesman”
Question for reporters covering
@IlhanMN
@RashidaTlaib
trip to "Palestine"--as their itinerary refers to all of Israel--have u noted that the organization sponsoring the trip, Miftah, has claimed that "Jews use the blood of Christians in Jewish passover"?
Israel has the only publicly thriving gay community in the Middle East. Also Im personally friends with interracial Israeli couples who are married. I understand that you’re being paid to be a propagandist, but you’re not particularly good.
This is disgusting hackery. CNN, Vox, Washington Post and others—including NYC officials & Mayor & the Speaker of the House—were all downplaying the virus when this man set off for his cruise. But instead of attacking those who misled—China/WHO—journos politicize this man’s death
Look: you’re either for or against beheading babies. There’s no middle ground. Worth noting too:Palestinian terrorists committed similar atrocities in massacres in the 1920s—long before Israel was a state or the term “West Bank” was even a thing. Wake up and take a side.
More than 600 rockets fired into Israel last night alone. All fired from a genocidal terrorist group. No other nation would tolerate that. Israel could flatten Gaza in an afternoon if it so chose. So spare me the false claims of "disproportionate use of force"
The robotic recitation of "Israel has a right to self-defense" no matter how disproportionate its use of force is just indefensible. Reasonable people can differ on policy, but at least find a way to talk about Palestinians like their lives matter. It's really not that hard.
Ashrawi has a long history of both lying and antisemitism. She founded the org, Miftah, that claims Jews consume Christian blood and which praises suicide bombers. A frequent media source, she used to date the late Peter Jennings.
Hanan Ashrawi, one of the PLO's senior officials, allegedly a scholar and supposedly a moderate - she keeps being given peace prizes, including by Sydney University and India - says the idea HAMAS beheaded children or raped women is "nonsense".
Hi Ben, the homes were illegally built next to a security barrier that had to be enacted because of Palestinian terrorist attacks which continue to be rewarded by PA leadership—something you did nothing to stop. That same leadership made it illegal to rent land to Jews.
A 2020 survey by Tel Aviv University found that “about a quarter (23%) of Israeli minorities define themselves as ‘Israeli’ and half (51%) self-identify as ‘Israeli Arab.’” Only 7% of Israel’s Arab citizens preferred to be called “Palestinian.” But WaPo goes w the latter
I'm in Jerusalem for a few weeks to help cover Israel's election. Here's my first piece, on the mood among Palestinian Israeli voters, who are divided over the merits of voting and whom to support. Their turnout could prove decisive.
Since Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza, there have been 3 wars w Hamas.Since Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon there has been one.Chances are near certain that there will be another in both arenas. In each instance, terror groups were emboldened by the withdrawals (1/2)
Eight Jews dead & ten wounded in a terror attack in Jerusalem today, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Plenty of politicians and world leaders will post comments about the Holocaust today.But if their government enables the PA’s “pay to slay” policy,their words are empty.
The people comparing taking out Qassem Soleimani to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand are illustrating that they neither understand the Middle East or WWI.
That’s what this is: the horrible consequences of endless war and failed US policy going back to the 1980s when we backed the Taliban against the Soviets. Innocent people suffer the horrors of war while political leaders and arms-dealing corporations sit back and make billions.
I’ve closely followed
@washingtonpost
coverage of the Middle East for a decade. Have authored numerous studies and op-eds on the topic and interacted with Post staff. I don’t say this lightly: Erick is 💯 correct.
The Washington Post, as an institution, is on the side of Hamas. The paper publishes Hamas's claims as truth and memory holes cartoons critical of Hamas.
A brief but angry thread:
Last year, reps
@IlhanMN
&
@RashidaTlaib
tried to go on a trip sponsored by an org, Miftah, that has claimed Jews consume Christian blood.
The legacy media largely declined to note that 2 members of Congress were associating w an antisemitic org.
Remember when all those
@nytimes
employees threatened to call in sick because the paper published a cartoon straight out of the pages of Der Sturmer? Me neither
If you think making prisoners strip from a terrorist group that has a history of suicide bombings is somehow how analogous to infiltrating a country and murdering hundreds in their homes, kidnapping them and butchering them while live streaming it you have to be dumb as fuck.
It’s really interesting* how many editors, editorial board members, and columnists
@washingtonpost
have ties to, or were once employed by, entities linked to Qatar, which shelters Hamas. From Brookings to Al Jazeera to the Qatar Foundation itself, it’s noticeable.
Palestinian law both prohibits—under penalty of death—so much as renting an apartment or selling land to Jews. Not a single Jew lives in the area ruled by the Palestinian Authority. Further, Palestinian law also calls for paying those who murder and maim Jews.
You don’t stand for Palestinian human rights. When Hamas was slaughtering protesting Palestinians in the street in March you were silent. When the PA imprisons journalists, refuses to hold elections and tortures its own people, you are silent. Not one word from you. Ever.
Comparing Palestinian human rights advocates to terrorist white nationalists is fundamentally a lie. Palestinians want equality, human dignity & to stop the imprisonment of children ⬇️.
White supremacy is calling for the *domination* of one race w/ the use of violence.
Today
@washingtonpost
ran this front page, above the fold, story on Israel’s counterterrorist raid in Jenin. Front page, numerous pictures, a thousand plus words *and not a single mention of the Palestinian Authority that is responsible for combatting terror in Jenin* Remarkable
Guy who supports—and defends— a congressional trip sponsored by an org that claims Jews consume Christian blood wants to be the arbitrator of what is and isn’t antisemitic. I don’t think so.
"We need to deal with this very dangerous idea that says being pro-Jewish means you have to be pro-Israeli or being pro-Israeli means you're automatically pro-Jewish & you're immunized from the charge of anti-Semitsm. Lots of anti-Semites support Israel & Netanyahu." -me on
@CNN
:
Go find all of the talking heads yesterday that claimed that Iran didn’t have a hand in yesterday’s atrocities. And don’t ever listen to a thing that they say, ever again.
Spokesperson of Izzuddin Al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obaidah:
“We thank the Islamic Republic of Iran who provided us with weapons, money and other equipment! He gave us missiles to destroy Zionist fortresses, and helped us with standard anti-tank missiles!”
In 627 Mohammad ordered the slaughter of 600-800 men from the Quraiza tribe. All prisoners, they were made to dig trenches before they were beheaded one by one. Their children and women were sold into slavery.
@IlhanMN
@RashidaTlaib
@washingtonpost
Per the itinerary, both lawmakers were also going to meet with an NGO, DCI-P, which has links to terrorist organizations. On what basis is it a good idea--either for Israel or the U.S.--to allow lawmakers to meet w a group that has ties to PFLP?
I am neither the first nor the last one to call it Apartheid. It is an unavoidable consequence of pursuing settler-colonialism under the pretense of security.
The moment occupation translates into conquest, it is no longer legal and constitutes an act of aggression.
Rabidly shouting “FINISH THEM!!!” isn’t a coherent solution to a complex problem. This is the real world, not a video game.
@NikkiHaley
has foreign policy “experience” & it shows.
Learn some history:
Sharpton literally provoked a pogrom in which a Jewish man, Yankel Rosenbaum, was stabbed to death.
He incited violence against Jews.
Only to get an
@MSNBC
show and have presidential candidates kiss his ring.
Imagine this scenario.
Rev. Al Sharpton holds a rally and tells his supporters to “take back” their country with “strength” and “combat.”
Then, five people die after Black Lives Matter activists storm the U.S. Capitol.
How would Fox News and congressional Republicans respond?
An important question. Did
@AP
have a bureau under ISIS rule? Of course not. Now ask yourself why Hamas is an exception. And why would a US-designated terrorist group allow Western media to operate there; under what conditions and with what expectations? You don’t have to guess.
Hey
@jack
@TwitterSupport
you should suspend this account—at a time of upheaval it’s dangerous to have a CCP apparatchik wantonly lie about the origins of the Coronavirus. This individual is spreading disinformation about the virus via your platform
This article is very much important to each and every one of us. Please read and retweet it. COVID-19: Further Evidence that the Virus Originated in the US.
Bernie is literally campaigning with a member of Congress who tried to go on a trip sponsored by an org,Miftah, that claims Jews consume Christian blood. And David, as a fellow Jew, let me tell you: “I am Jewish” is not in and of itself an argument.
Ashrawi founded an org, Miftah, that claims Jews consume Christian blood and which praises suicide bombers. She has a long history of lying dating back to when she served as a spokeswoman for the PLO, when it was still a designated terror group. But for Christiane she’s a source.
“It is just so horrific, so unbelievable, so unconscionable that every single Palestinian and… person with just an iota of humanity is shaken to their core.” Veteran Palestinian politician
@DrHananAshrawi
reacts to the strike at Jabalya refugee camp & the ongoing bombing of Gaza
The Washington Post might not have found the time to report the murder of an 18-year-old Israeli student last week. Or the terror attack today. Or that
@RashidaTlaib
&
@IlhanMN
trip was sponsored by an antisemitic NGO. But hey at least they did this.
In the last forty years alone, Israel withdrew from the Sinai, the majority of the West Bank, all of Gaza and Southern Lebanon. The latter three were for “land for peace.” Israel’s enemies got the land but Israel didn’t get the peace.
“One of the
@washingtonpost
reporters responsible for the March 22 story, Hajar Harb, celebrated Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre…Ms. Harb would go on to write dozens of Post reports *after* she cheered Hamas’ handiwork.” Is this par for the course
@SallyBuzbee
?
I’ve been writing about antisemitism being mainstreamed for years. Here’s a Hollywood actor and musician engaging in unrepentant and undeniable antisemitism. Will anyone protest? Will he face professional repercussions? Don’t count on it.
Surely other journalists will speak up about this. I look forward to
@washingtonpost
@nytimes
reports in standing with their colleagues and reporting this threat. Also look forward to statements by
@pressfreedom
In an unprecedented move, the
#Palestinian
ruling Fatah faction has published the names and photos of three
#Israeli
journalists, accusing them of “incitement” against the Palestinian Authority leadership.
Report by
@KhaledAbuToameh
“He’ll stop at noting to enrich himself and stay in power.” Oddly, you have no criticisms for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas who is in the 14th year of a 4 year term, is infamously corrupt and pays salaries to terrorists—salaries made fungible by US/EU tax dollars
Netanyahu is accused of accepting bribes, trading government favors, and manipulating a free press. Like his pal Donald Trump, he'll stop at nothing to enrich himself and stay in power. This blatant corruption has no place in any democracy—I'll fight it at home and abroad.
I’ll give $100 to anyone who can point me to
@SenSanders
statement criticizing Hamas when they were shooting down Palestinians protesting during the Hunger Revolution not even 2 yrs ago. Or when the PA was imprisoning/torturing Palestinian-Americans for selling land to Jews.
Hi Brad, Jews can’t even walk safely on New York streets. Seeing as how you’re a state official of New York, maybe focus on that. Also: you’ve publicly supported antisemites and anti-Israel activists. So drop the pretensions. Thanks.
Democrats like me who care about Israel, from President Biden on down, must hold the Netanyahu government to account.
We cannot continue to write a blank check to an increasingly authoritarian regime.
My op-ed in
@haaretzcom
today:
Efforts to achieve a two-state solution date back to the 1930s—ten years before Israel’s recreation—and the Peel Report. Each have been rejected, out of hand, by Palestinian leaders who consider all of Israel to be a “settlement.” Their media and textbooks say as much
30 years of diplomacy did not produce a two-state outcome. Instead it acted as a palliative, offering cover for actions (such as Israeli settlement growth) that foreclosed one. Recent polls show only a minority of Israelis and Palestinians continue to support it.
I see that some "journalists"
@HuffPost
and some folks at certain D.C. think tanks are up in arms over recent comments by the admin connecting Iran to Al-Qaeda, claiming that Shi'ite Iran wouldn't work w Sunni terror groups & the admin is making stuff up. So,here's a brief thread
In 2014, a France24 reporter dared to note that Hamas was firing rockets from a kindergarden. He dared to do so live, when his Hamas minders&fixers couldnt stop him. Hamas showed up to his hotel, seized him, and held him in the basement of their headquarters in Shifa Hospital.
You can easily tell this person's disregard for war reporting and free press that he put reporter in air quotes. First-hand reporting is crucial. Otherwise we would only be provided with Hamas propaganda and IDF spin.
Karen pretends to care about Palestinians but when Hamas was gunning down protesting Gazans during the Hunger Revolution four yrs ago, Karen didn’t say a word. & when
@PeaceComCenter
released a report in Jan 2023 detailing Hamas abuses and sent it to media, Karen was silent.
For many people, Cynthia McKinney seems insignificant—a now former member of US Congress who made a clownish run for the presidency. But I would submit to you that McKinney was actually a harbinger of the mainstreaming of antisemitism in the United States. That’s her significance
In thousands of words on the lack of a Palestinian state this clown car of an article by
@IgnatiusPost
entirely omits that Palestinian leaders have rejected numerous offers for a Palestinian state if it meant living in peace w Israel—more than 3 offers in last 2 decades.Pathetic
The Palestinian Authority praised the October 7th massacre by Hamas—the largest slaughter of Jewish civilians since the the Holocaust. The PA pays tax deductible salaries to those who murder and maim Jews. Pass.
Dena coauthored a book with a woman who recently said: “We will slaughter you and you will say that what Hitler did to you was a joke, we will drink your blood and eat your skulls. Come on, we’re waiting for you.”
A genocidal American thought this was an ok sign to put in her window in Manhattan’s Upper East Side neighborhood.
It’s appalling, until you realize it’s not too far off from what we’ve observed U.S. policy to be.
In just the last 48 hours, I’ve had friends whose local synagogues and chabads in Arizona, Utah and California were defaced. I need two hands to count them—and this is just among the people that I know, and my own personal circle is heavily weighted towards those who don’t attend
Every day, violence rages in Gaza makes more certain the increase in antisemitism on college campuses throughout the country.
Jewish college kids will have a far more complicated experience than their parents.
Worse, there’s no hope the war will end anytime soon.
Sending prayers and love to the Beth Israel community and synagogue family. No one should have to experience this, especially in a place of worship. I cannot imagine the horror folks are feeling.
Hoping for a peaceful resolution.
In 1920, while Arabs massacred Jews in Jerusalem during the Nebi Musa festival, ruling British authorities both prevented armed Jews from coming to the rescue of their besieged family & friends & refused to call it a pogrom. Much has changed--and, sadly, much hasn't.
Unsurprisingly, I completely disagree with this take. Israel has never won the “information war” and was even condemned for seizing Adolf Eichmann. Further, recent estimates are that the IDF has killed as much as 50% of Hamas operatives. Militarily, the war is going very well.
A month plus in, options for Israel and US are grim. Both have already lost information war and prospects for total victory over Hamas are tied to creating a new reality in Gaza and a political process to solve Israeli-Palestinian conflict requiring excruciatingly heavy lifts.
You’re a liar: “Cafferata discovered an Arab cutting off a child’s head with a sword...sixty-four Jews were hacked to death...women children and old men were stabbed.”-Hebron 90 yrs ago this month,more than 2 decades before Israel was recreated.
This type of hate never succeeds when the truth is on our side. Palestinians *are* dehumanized. Those who want to suppress the truth by trying to discredit me can
#bringit
. My sidy taught me of the days where everyone lived side by side in peace & that is what I will fight for.
Omar tried to go on a trip to Israel—labeled “Palestine”—that was sponsored by an organization that claims Jews consume Christian blood and that praises suicide bombers. That org, Miftah, was founded by a fmr PLO operative, who worked for the group when it was a designated FTO
Republicans have literally went on TV to say we are going to turn Gaza into a “parking lot."
Where is the condemnation for that??
Where is the condemnation of the 10,000+ Palestinians dying?
We will continue to stand for the dignity and humanity of ALL in the face of
Hi Tommy, they’ve been dropping warnings for twenty days in the form of leaflets and other messages. Hamas, funded by Iran (which received ample funds thanks to your efforts), has shot Gazans trying to flee and set up roadblocks. But you know this.
An "urgent message for the residents of Gaza" telling them to relocate from north to south, delivered in English after Israel cut off Gaza's telecommunications and internet networks. Just a completely cynical PR move for western audiences.
@IlhanMN
@RashidaTlaib
Instead you get reports by
@washingtonpost
& others which omit how the itinerary referred to Israel--and what that tells us, and which whitewash an org that has made numerous antisemitic statements.
Relatedly: where you live matters. Who your local electeds are matters. Who your DA is matters. Your ability to protect your loved ones and yourself matters. No one is coming to save you.
George Washington University asked DC police to help clear a policy-violating encampment on their private property. But "city officials in the police chief’s and mayor’s office told police to stand down and said that it would look bad publicly for police to disrupt a 'small
Kibbutz Be’eri survivor gives horrific account of
#HamasISIS
executing a 3 mo baby in front of its mother.
“I didn’t know how to comfort [the mother]…I couldn’t even put my [tied up] arms around her…I just put my head on her shoulder and I was crying with her.”
#HamasISIS
Here’s a sitting member of Congress using a modern day blood libel. Whoever fails to condemn this—and condemn her—is complicit in antisemitism. From newspapers to members of Congress. Flat. Out.
NO ONE says that a majority of people killed in Gaza were children. Not the UN, not Hamas, not any NGO.
But liar
@RashidaTlaib
does!
Only
@rashida
lies so brazenly. She cannot be believed about anything.
h/t
@kweansmom
@IlhanMN
@RashidaTlaib
And now today we learn that the head of Miftah retweeted a blood libel, inaccurately alleging that Israel kidnapped a Palestinian child, and
@RashidaTlaib
retweeted it.
A member of Congress is trafficking in antisemitism of the most medieval type
Arab terrorists were beheading Jewish babies in the 1920s. This was back when its leaders considered themselves to be part of Southern Syria—not “Palestinians.” Curious you mention the 36 Intifada without noting Amin al Husseini, Hitler’s Mufti. Details:
My latest.
There has been a feverish attempt to deny that the conflict between Israel and Palestine has anything to do with European colonialism.
So I went into British archival history and brought back some receipts
A designated terrorist with American blood on his hands, who helped perpetrate the largest slaughter of Jewish civilians since the Holocaust. Tommy doesn’t understand deterrence, only appeasement.
Druker is a member of IfNotNow, a group whose viewpoints can hardly be considered mainstream in the Jewish community and whose members have held Kaddish for terrorists. This is however a strategy of tokenism. I’m sure you’ll note this.
Ilhan tried to go on a trip to Israel—all of which was labeled as “Palestine”—that was sponsored by an org that claims Jews consume Christian blood and praises suicide bombers
The rise in antisemitic attacks at home and abroad is appalling.
We must be clear and unequivocal: antisemitism is unacceptable and has no place in any movement.
Fighting bigotry of any kind means fighting bigotry of every kind.
I’m infamously a cynic, but never in my life did I think that I’d see fellow Americans offer apologetics for—indeed actively defend, for partisan purposes—the abandonment of their fellow citizens to Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Worse is yet to come. Much worse than I can imagine.
@SethAMandel
Implicit in it all: Jews are not entitled to self-defense as other nations are. And implicit in that: Jews are not entitled to self-determination.