My husband left his wallet in a taxi right before Shabbat. The company didn't answer (already closed for Shabbat). Jerusalemites are renowned for their generosity & honesty, so am not the least bit surprised that the driver safeguarded it. Thank you Mohammed.
#Jerusalem
If Jesus - who was Jewish - was a Palestinian and lived in Bethlehem 2000 years ago, then you're saying Jews are indigenous to what is today called Palestine and Jews have a right to live in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Israel. Glad you cleared this up.
Folks reported my tweet that Jesus was a Palestinian. ๐คฃ twitter was obviously like this doesnโt violate our standards. Itโs also true. Jesus was born in Bethlehem which is in Palestine. Move on.
@yashar
Jewish philanthropy at its best. Founded by Yeshiva University in 1958, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine is the affiliated medical school of Yeshiva University.
I generally reject jabs at "mainstream media," but I've got to admit that I pitched the story to a mainstream outlet last night Israeli time and haven't heard a word. The outlet doesn't have a single piece on the escalation. I did try.
I challenge the
#mainstreammedia
to talk about what is going on in Israel right now.
I challenge them to talk about the nonstop sirens for almost an hour and over 100 rockets fired so far towards Israel.
@CNN
@cnnbrk
@cnni
@BBCWorld
In Bethlehem today the taxi driver heading to Manger Street told me there are 7 million Israeli Jews and a billion Muslims surrounding them. "Inshallah, all Jews will move to Israel and then we Muslims will murder every one of them." Fun times.
#journalism
The reason the
@UNRWA
Gaza director is taking a โlong leave of absenceโ after calling Israeli air strikes precise is the same reason it's impossible to report 100% accurately from Gaza if you're a Gaza-based journalist. You risk losing access, arrest or worse.
#Gaza
#journalists
Wapo: A group of Palestinian men prevented a hearse from backing up to the hospital door, saying they were intent on carrying Shireen Akleh's body on their shoulders. Aklehโs brother beseeched them: โFor Godโs sake, let us put her in the car and finish the day,โ he said.
Today, Israelis are expressing angst over the big jump in electricity and gasoline prices, as well as the ever-increasing price of food. They're also dealing with COVID in the house. Not many care about Amnesty International's latest missive, and none have heard of The View
The International Red Cross claims that
#Hamas
is refusing to allow it to visit Israeli hostages still in Gaza. The Red Cross could use its leverage - starting with threatening to leave Gaza - unless it has full access to the hostages. Caving to terrorists is a bad precedent.
@malonebarry
As a journalist in a war zone, I find all forms of violence reprehensible. At the same time, I know that a significant number of those 123 journalists were also armed gunmen and proud members of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other US-defined terrorist groups. One imprisoned hostages.
Today the Dept of Ed's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) said it has opened a formal investigation into a complaint alleging Jewish students at Brooklyn College have been subjected to severe and persistent anti-Semitic harassment from both professors and peers.
Since neither the Pope nor Morocco's king live in
#Jerusalem
(and I do), I can say that it is open to all faiths. Stroll through the Old City and you will see Muslims in hijabs, Jews with kippot, priests, nuns, ministers. Come see for yourself
#ReligiousFreedom
Israel is Lebanon's southern neighbor, but there are no diplomatic relations. If Lebanon would accept Israel's assistance, Israel could quickly mobilize food, medicine, temporary shelters, even blood.
#BeirutBlast
#Beirut
#Lebanonexplosion
You do know the Spanish Inquisition, the Pale of Settlement, the Holocaust and the Arab massacre of Hebron's Jews - just to name a few of the highlights - all occurred BEFORE there was a State of Israel?
#Antisemitism
Those who are rightly concerned about the physical and emotional well-being of U.S. journalists should also care about the ongoing trauma and danger faced by many brave journalists, like Nabil Hasan al-Qaety, outside the U.S.
#journalism
#journalists
#journalismmatters
*This* made my day. Yrs ago, when I worked as a copy editor at Cosmo & Seventeen, the fashion dept wouldn't dream of featuring models with disabilities (or a pimple). Today Melissa Blake is ROCKING this great outfit by
@ZapposAdaptive
4
@RunwayOfDreams1
I still canโt believe I got to model in New York Fashion Week and wear this awesome outfit from
@ZapposAdaptive
!! Thank you to
@RunwayOfDreams1
for showing us that disability inclusion is the ultimate fashion statement and forever on trend...
#NYFW
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Regardless of what you think about Netanyahu's decision to bar the lawmakers, one look at their itinerary reveals they had no intention of trying to get to know Israelis or Israel. It's an "Israel as occupier" trip. No more, no less.
MoC are frequently asked to visit Israel to โsee things for ourselves.โ
But Netanyahu choosing to ban the only 2 Muslim women in Congress from entering tells the US that only *some* Americans are welcome to Israel, not all.
Trump is exporting his bigotry &making matters worse.
Many Palestinians are falsely claiming that Rena and Maya were IDF soldiers. The older sister, who was religious, was doing National Service, which is like a domestic Peace Corps. This was an attack against civilians riding in a car. The truth matters.
#IsraelUnderAttack
These are the two victims of Fridayโs terrorist attack, sisters Rena and Maya Dee from Efrat, aged 20 and 15.
Their mother is in critical condition.
May their memory be a blessing.
Hamas, which begged Israel for a ceasefire, is calling on Palestinians to participate in a Day of Rage - violent clashes. How is that not a violation of the ceasefire?
That's it. The limit.
@lsarsour
's claims that Am Jews are disloyal citizens b/c they support a Jewish homeland is the very same disloyalty bullshit vomited by neoNazis, white supremacists & Final Solution Nazis. Linda Sarsour is endangering Jewish lives.
#ANTISEMITIC
#Antisemitism
.
@lsarsour
you are the only one masquerading as a progressive by exploiting social justice spaces to spread anti-Semitism. For centuries anti-Semites have accused Jews of dual loyalty.
It shouldn't take the New York Times stamp of approval to convince the world of Hamas' indescribable atrocities toward Israeli women and girls. But here we are. Read it and share it everywhere.
#NYTimes
#HamasRapists
#HamasTerrorists
@herbertnyt
@herbertnyt
Looking forward to the upcoming Times' photo essay showing the faces of the hundreds of Israeli children Hamas, Islamic Jihad, other terror groups have murdered over the decades.
@lsarsour
I dare you to look the families of the Miami tower victims in the eye and tell them that the Israeli search and rescue teams shouldn't have come.
More than 100,000 women were raped in Ethiopiaโs Ethiopiaโs northern Tigray region during the civil war.
And many of them have faced rejection from their communities and families.
Wounded father of 17-yr-old Israeli girl murdered last week: โWe donโt have the privilege of descending too much into despair. We have a tiny 1-year-old girl...another 3-year-old & 5-year-old & 9-year-old & 10-year-old & a 12-year-old & a grandson. These children give us life."
Today is the anniversary of the Cafe Hillel bombing in our neighborhood. A Palestinian suicide terrorist murdered 7 people, including an American Israeli bride and her father, trauma specialist Dr. Applebaum, the night before her wedding, and injured 50.
It's been years since I cared about New York Fashion Week, but I'll be tuning in this year to see Melissa Blake and other fabulous models take part in
@RunwayOfDreams1
, which promotes inclusion in the fashion industry. Can't wait.
@melissablake
#DisabilityVisibility
#fashion
Iโm so excited to announce that Iโll be rolling down the virtual runway on September 14th for New York Fashion Week!! Thanks to
@RunwayOfDreams1
, which works to promote inclusion in the fashion industry, I canโt wait for yโall to see the cool clothes from
@ZapposAdaptive
!! ๐๐โฟ๏ธ
During a long career as a journalist in Israel/Palestine I have written about countless numbers of victims. Today, the eve of Israel memorial day for soldiers and terror victims, I remember our friend Genya Berman, mother of 5, blown up on a Jerusalem bus.
Something most people don't realize: A significant number of the 250+ rockets and mortars Hamas has launched at Israel actually crashed in Gaza. How many Gazans have been injured or killed by "friendly fire" is an open question.
#Gaza
#IsraelUnderFire
#GazaUnderAttack
#Israel
You can despise Netanyahu. A lot of Israelis do. But get your facts straight. Israel has no deportation plan, no Muslim ban. 1/5 of Israelis are Muslim Palestinians. The wall Trump wants to emulate is on the border between Israel and Egypt.
Be clear: Donald Trumpโs wall +
#muslimban
+
#deportation
plan are all lines out of the
#Netanyahu
book of oppression. Trump has referenced this himself. We ought pay attention & not allow folks to label us + try to black list us in to silence.
#JusticeDelegation
(more 2 come)
Wow. Just wow. The Israeli government has been working for nearly 40 years to bring Baumel's remains home. This is a reminder that Hamas is still withholding the remains of IDF soldiers as well as live Israeli prisoners.
It's amazing how Zechariah Baumel has been MIA for 37 years, but he's a name that so many Israelis and Jews around the world know and have been praying for regularly ever since. ืื ืืขืื ืืฉืจืื. May the rest of the captives and missing soldiers be brought back soon.
All terror attacks are tragic, but some hit closer to home than others. Ari Fuld, who was murdered this morning, was a pillar in the Anglo (English-speaking) community in Israel. Just about everyone I know is in shock.
@HilzFuld
Here is Ari with his wife and four children.
Baruch Dayan HaEmet. May his family receive the comfort that only the God of Israel can provide. And may their (and our) memories of Ari always be for a blessing.
Today at the supermarket a young Jewish woman (she wore a star) struggled to pack her groceries. It was clear she'd had a stroke. The shopper behind her (Arab) helped her pack and bought her a strong bag so she could take her groceries home.
#Jerusalem
#Israel
This is my Jerusalem, the Jerusalem no one knows about unless they live here. Sometimes there's turmoil and tension, but most of the time we just live our lives.
Today at the supermarket a young Jewish woman (she wore a star) struggled to pack her groceries. It was clear she'd had a stroke. The shopper behind her (Arab) helped her pack and bought her a strong bag so she could take her groceries home.
#Jerusalem
#Israel
@Malka_Simkovich
It's shocking, though not surprising, that she said this. The book Neighbors by Jan Gross explains just how complicit many Poles were in the extermination of the Jews.
@britnidlc
I knew the Jewish holidays must be the reason even before I read your second paragraph. At least in NY kids (all kids) get off for Yom Kippur and I think the first day of Rosh Hashana.
Very true.
#Jordan
destroyed all synagogues, defiled the ancient
#Jewish
Mt of Olives cemetery when it occupied East Jerusalem from 1948-1967. It also expelled every Jew living in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem and then claimed no Jews ever lived there.
"Red line for Jordan:
@KingAbdullahII
vows to keep protecting Jerusalem's holy sites"
@AP
's report counts on reader ignorance of
#Jordan
's army sacking the Old City during the years they occupied it, expelling its Jews, demolishing its Jewish history
Just learned that Ahava Emunah Lange has died. I didn't know her personally but followed her remarkable 6-year battle (I use the word deliberately) against ovarian cancer. My heart goes out to her husband David Lange
@Israellycool
and all who loved her.
@GuernicaMag
@joannachen1
The fact that you retracted this thoughtful essay is censorship reminiscent of McCarthyism and the burning of books banned by conservatives. Shameful.
There is nothing new about antisemitism in the Islamic world. If it was new, many, perhaps most of the 800,000 Jews who called the Arab world home would have continued to live there. Instead, they were forced out or thrown out.
Israelis are noting that Erekat's hospitalization in an Israeli hospital violates the Palestinian government's recently stepped up boycott of Israel and Israeli hospitals. I'm curious why Erekat is an exception.
Following his contraction of COVID-19, and due to the chronic health problems he faces in the respiratory system, Dr. Erekat's condition now requires medical attention in a hospital. He is currently being transferred to a hospital in Tel Aviv.
Just after 2 Palestinian terrorists murdered 6 people in Tel Aviv and as Iran was firing 180 deadly ballistic missiles at Israel's towns, cities and farms, a 2024 MacArthur fellow accuses *Israel* of "indiscriminate terror attacks" vs. genocidal Hezbollah.
Hard to believe but I am a 2024
@macfound
Fellow! I am accepting the MacArthur Fellowship amidst the genocide happening in Gaza and indiscriminate terroristic attacks in Lebanon by the state of Israel on the 76th year of their occupation of Palestine
Spotted this today in a Palestinian refugee camp. While many of the products being sold were from the West Bank & beyond, many were made in Israel.
#BDS
is a political tool. In reality Palestinians love - and eat - Israeli junk food.
#bdsfail
I moved to Israel several years after reading Exodus by Leon Uris because I wanted to marry Ari Ben Canaan (the book's sabra hero portrayed by Paul Newman). His name turned out to be Sid and he's originally from Philly, but that book was the impetus.
@karshanandrea
@rezaaslan
The same reason that people who were sexually harassed, abused, raped sometimes take years to come forward. Because no one wanted to listen. How can she prove these allegations? She was put in a room.
For
@washingtonpost
, I wrote about why this election is so critical for disabled people: โIn 2020, your vote has very real consequences for disabled people such as me. When you support Trump and this administrationโs policies, youโre condoning ableism.โ โฟ๏ธ
In Australia - Australia! - a 5-yr-old boy breaks down & tells his mother: โMummy, you shouldnโt love me. Iโm a worthless, Jewish rodent. Iโm vermin.'โ In school's bathroom, classmates called him "Jewish vermin, dirty Jew, Jewish cockroach."
@CBSNews
You forgot that Israel was responding to Hamas rockets, which fell very close to Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Why isn't the headline "Hamas breaks ceasefire?"
โWeโre sorry that the stuff Dad said hurt you, I mean, we thought he was awesome and itโs so weird to us that he thought Hitler had the right idea, because his values were overall greatโ isnโt the nuanced reckoning you think it is, yโall.
@surlybassey
For me, the only thing more annoying is when a man feels entitled to take someone else's seat because he refuses to sit next to a woman on religious grounds.
This man has cheated death, first on the way to Auschwitz and again yesterday, by arriving a bit late to synagogue.
Asked what his mother, Rachel Samet, would have said about the massacre he survived on Saturday, Samet said: โIt just never ends.โ
โSamet was born in Hungary. He turned eight years old at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. He spent five and a half years in an orphanage in Israel. He has been a member of Tree of Life Congregation for fifty-five years.โ
Naturei Karta is an ultra-Orthodox fringe sect that rejects the authority of the State of Israel because it wasn't created by the Messiah. Some would like Israel destroyed. No responsible lawmaker would welcome them.
The complaint was submitted on behalf of Jewish students in the Mental Health Counseling masterโs program at Brooklyn College. It was prepared by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.
A friend pointed out this anti-Israel headline:
It SAYS: "UN Chief 'disturbed' by Israel car sex act video."
It should read: UN Chief 'disturbed' UN employee filmed having sex in UN car (in Tel Aviv).
Please just defund the
@BBCWorld
already.
@CAMERAorgUK
@CAMERAorg
I've confirmed that this photo is authentic. Photographer Shai Kendler told me that he accompanied Rabbi Arik Ascherman and others to a private Palestinian-owned olive grove in Tsurif when about Jewish boys/teens approached them from the hills above. Settlers spoke with...
@chrisfrench_
"You people don't even rent to us," she screams. He replies, I don't even own a house." Nothing like tarring an entire community for the behavior of some of its members.
It's pre-Passover (imagine having to feed a family Christmas dinner for a week and multiply by 10) and the supermarket is PACKED. While on line a mother lets everyone know it's her daughter's birthday and 500 shoppers sing Happy Birthday to her. Only in Israel.
๐ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY VIRAL TWEET ๐
Canโt believe my viral tweet turned two years old today! The most unexpected moment and Iโd like to thank the trolls...
Because of you, I blossomed instead of withered, took up space instead of hid. Iโm still standing...and rolling! ๐ธโค๏ธโจ
Anyone who has followed Hamas for the past 3 decades isn't surprised that it just bombed Keren Shalom while negotiations to end the war are happening. During the intifadas, Hamas sent out suicide bombers every time it looked like peace was near. Hamas thrives on war, not peace.
Some personal news: Due to the coronavirus downturn, I've been laid off 1) by the NY Jewish Week and 2) the company where I've been a content editor (3/4 time). Please keep me in mind for writing, editing assignments. Portfolio:
#WritingCommunity
How the author can ask what Jesus must have looked like and then call him a Palestinian and ignore that Jesus was Jewish is beyond me.
@nytimes
#Antisemitism
Chatted with
@CNN
about the TikTok prank: โWhat you're doing is violating every person with a disability.โ
Honored to be included with
@littlelizziev
, who deserves all the credit for spearheading the fight against the prank. Her words are powerful... โฟ๏ธโฟ๏ธ
It's no wonder an Orthodox Jew was stabbed on his way to prayers this morning: The U.S. Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism is too busy defending Israeli settlements to actually combat anti-Semitism.
Unpopular opinion: I don't care how valid a protester's concerns (Ethiopians, disabled, other). Blocking multiple roads and highways endangers lives. Ambulances cannot get through. Not everyone packs enough insulin or anti-convulsion meds for a 3-hour wait in traffic.
In her confirmation opening statement, Amy Coney Barrett talked about her childrenโs talents โ except the youngest son, who โhas Down syndrome and is the unanimous favorite.โ
What about his talents? His attributes? Disabled people deserve to be seen for their own merits...
Waves of concern in Israel after โRabbi" Michael Elkohen (aka Michael Elk/Michael Tzadok) was outed as a deceitful Christian missionary. News raises concerns that the countless weddings/circumcisions he performed and Torahs/mezuzahs he created are invalid, unkosher.
#Jewish
Actually, many if not most Polish Jewish survivors went back home to look for relatives. Poles murdered some of them and threatened the rest. The Poles had stolen their homes, land, businesses. Poland has never compensated Jews for this property.
The headline should have also mentioned that it's the Jewish holiday of Tisha B'av, which commemorates the destruction of the Jewish temples. The Temple Mt is the holiest site in Judaism. Today Al Aqsa sits where Temples stood.
BREAKING: Clashes erupt between Muslim worshippers and Israeli police at a major Jerusalem holy site during prayers marking the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha.
Here's the video that goes with what I posted yesterday. This mother tells all the shoppers, Jews & Arabs, at the
#supermarket
(endlessly waiting in line pre-Passover) that it's her teenage daughter's birthday. So they.... This is so
#Israeli
.
#Israel
@sjabulhawa
"Intifada" is a call for the murder of Jews, as was the case during the 1st and 2nd intifadas. "Solution" is a word that triggers trauma due to the Nazi's Final Solution.
A question: If it's unacceptable for the Syrian government to destroy crops, is it also unacceptable when Palestinians in Gaza set Israeli crops on fire?
โA war against the only source of food in Syriaโs north.โ
The White Helmets are accusing the Syrian gov't of deliberately setting fire to field crops in Idlib and Hama.
@sesmith
This is wrong on so many levels. First and foremost accessibility, but it screams "unsafe" in the event of an emergency. If people have to flee quickly, such as during a terror attack, they'll have to run into the street to flee. Just seeing this makes me anxious.
@InesAbdelrazek
Had the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world not rejected the UN vote for a Jewish state and an Arab state, both Israelis and Palestinians would be celebrating 74 years of statehood this week.
Dear J Street: Move to Israel, pay taxes, vote, and spend three years in the IDF and a month every year in reserve duty. Then, perhaps your fellow Israelis will be interested in what you have to say.