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Medieval historian, apocalyptic thought, blog on lethal journalism & other follies of 21C intelligentsia. pronouns: thou, thee Book .

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@pockyandpoke 1) indigenous people, kicked out by roman imperialists, systemically (legally) subjected to apartheid law by islamic imperialists, comes back to settle land, not as conquerg imperialists, but as egalitarian manual laborers, workg a hard, impoverished land.
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Now here’s a thought
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"Hamas is perhaps the first regime in recorded history to fight a war designed to maximize casualties among their own population." And that only works for them if there is a host of outsiders, "progressives," who will agonize over and blame Israel for that suffering.
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Even if you have blue eyes and blond hair…
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On the history of disproportionate force:
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@mehdirhasan Mehdi, it's beyond yr level of understanding. You and those you support and defend are the ones making American Jews unsafe. You are the master of ridiculous offensive and dangerous statements. But I guess that's the whole point: combine hypocrisy, projection, and indignation.
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Of all the sickening developments of recent days, the ugliest was the sight of heartless young people, caught on video, tearing down posters highlighting the plight of kidnapped Israeli children, laughing as they did so, in London’s Leicester Square and across the country. Do
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terrorists shot at a car, then fired at close range, making sure the women were dead. CNN's Pleitgen: “a shooting incident where a car received a bullet shot, or gunshots, w the family in it... a mother & her 2 daughters were killed in that crash.”
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@mhdksafa you know who else died in gaza? the myth of Palestinian leaders wanting human rights and freedom for their people. the pathetic thing is they'd have more rights under Israeli "occupation" than under their current leadership (and future leadership, if you're any indicator).
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letter from my great nephew, tank commander in the US Army: The night before I read Franklin Foer’s article, a stranger tore my mezuzah off my doorframe. I was upset—but so was my non-Jewish roommate. In that, he was part of a broader American tradition: At the founding of our
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@IlhanMN i'm sorry. do you think someone wearing a confederate flag scarf cd walk thru a campus without getting criticized? do you think your partisans wdn't harrass someone with an israeli flag? why is it that the "pro-Palestinians" live in a universe all their own, in which their pain
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@mehdirhasan palestinians with their genocidal hatreds have made the adjective a pejorative to anyone with a moral compass, which apparently doesn't include a closet muslim supremacist as yourself.
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3 years
Military experts agree: Israel didn't break international law in Gaza, but Hamas did - and the media failed to report it... and failed to report the report.
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@mhdksafa Palestinians say this about Israel and Jews all the time and it’s crickets.
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@CornelWest how sad that yet another academic clown manages to play the victim-card while spewing his jew-hating newspeak. Princeton must be so proud.
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@HeerJeet and you don't?
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@Shanfaraa sounds like she's a good example of #IYI (Intelligent, even brilliant) Yet Idiot. She got caught up in one of the great scams of all time, and, led on by her credulous compassion, she was merciful to the cruel and ended up being cruel to the merciful.
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Isn’t that called apartheid?
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"Palestinians in Lebanon are barred from at least 39 professions including law and medicine, and aren't allowed to even buy property."
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5 years
Formal Israeli peace offers rejected by Palestinians: 1979 2000 2001 2008 3rd-party offers of peace accepted by Israel and rejected by Pns: 1947-48 2001 Negotiations rejected out of hand: 2012 2016 Pn peace offers: 0 For some reason Israel doesn't trust people who want it all.
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@amanpour @UNReliefChief so good of you to interview endlessly the humanitarian crisis mongers. if they cared about the people they claim to take care of they would have been warning about hamas for decades. instead, they play hamas' game and blame israel, perpetuating the victimization of the gazans.
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The world crucifies Israel on the cross of the moral demands it makes on the Jews. We who do the least wrong by far are the villains of your morality tales. This cannot bode well for you either.
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If the American camps are concentration camps then the following statement is also “true”: Arab states have kept Palestinian refugees in concentration camps for 71 years.
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@amfalastinchai only in your fantastic imagination is this "genocide." they provoked us into going after them, mad as they are with bloodlust and, unfortunately, we've killed civilians they hide behind.
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@DavidLBernstein my favorite among so many choice examples was the remark about $$$. how much money does Columbia get from the Middle East?
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Antizionism as an ideology is rooted in rage. It is predicated on one concept: the negation of another people, a concept as alien to modern discourse as white supremacy. It requires a willful denial of even a superficial history of Judaism & the vast history of the Jewish people.
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And in the meantime, we are flooded with articles telling us that Pallywood is a fake.
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Nail. Head. Bam.
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@shadihamid That’s what a vicious army that strikes then hides amongst its civilians produces
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normally it's the journalists who are stunned by the stupidity of govt spokespeople... not when it's #LethalJournalism
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After going over the Israeli evidence presented at noon on October 18, including pictures of the blast site (not the al Ahli hospital but the parking lot, not a huge crater but a small shallow one), CNN's Erin Burnett turns to her colleague Clarissa Ward in Ashkelon for her
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@mehdirhasan i'm sorry. why on earth should western democracies want to take in people who support genocidal religious fanatics who behave the way Hamas (and Gazan "civilians") behaved on 7/10? these are people who smear and dehumanize themselves with their demonization of their neighbors,
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@mehdirhasan a reminder that israelis original war of independence happened bc multiple muslim supremacist nations declared a war of extermination that they lost. a reminder that Nakba was originally used by arab critics to designate the catastrophe brought down on the heads of the refugees
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@just_whatever @X this resembles @mehdirhasan 's dishonest quotation of Ben Gurion. it's also very much like the techniques used in holocaust denial.
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@mehdirhasan it's truly sickening the way arab journalists use the western media to push their regressive agendas under the guise of "progressive" values (eg hamas freedom-fighting), and then kvetch indignantly when they get called out.
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@DSchwammenthal that's how cogwar works. infiltrate until you "way more" than your enemy. this began in 2000
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@DefundBBC @a_zionist so instead of the tweeter getting fired, the tweet is removed. BBC priorities.
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it's called #HumanitarianRacism and gives rise to the #HumanRightsComplex
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The truth is that there isn’t an “Israeli-Palestinian” conflict that exists in isolation. There’s an [triumphalist] Arab-Muslim war with Jews that’s about a century old... @MattiFriedman
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@mehdirhasan Anyone for a Palestinian state at this point is either pro Jihadi, or a total idiot. Which are you, Mehdi?
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@sarahleah1 you should have resigned long before her... (if you had any integrity).
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"The humanities and social sciences are undergoing a mission reversion—they’re returning to a pre-Enlightenment view of the purpose of higher education. Prior to the Enlightenment, universities were sites of religious instruction that trained clergy."
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As we mark the 76th anniversary of our globally humiliating failure to commit genocide and finish Hitler's job 3 years after his untimely death, we honor all the those leaders who have sacrificed the lives and well-being of those Arabs who fled our war-zone by cooping them up in
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As we mark the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, we honor all the lives lost since the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians began, and the Palestinians who were forced from their homes and violently displaced from their land.
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@briebriejoy maybe people believe your "Gaza Ministry of Health" supplied statistics as much as they believe what the same source said about #AlAhliHospital . #CasualtyInflation You want sympathy for the Palestinians, and yet you side with the very people who victimize the Palestinians.
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b4 israel took control in '67, Arab Muslims cdn't have cared less about temple mount. picture fr 1954.
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You don't have to be a Trump supporter to see The Dangers of Hillary Clinton
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@AlanRMacLeod for someone who doesn't know much about the region, you sure think you know something.
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a response to #JonathanGlazer using (some of) his own words (in bold). Right now we stand here as men who have swallowed whole the war propaganda of our people's enemies which tries to blame the "Occupation" for the dehumanizing, genocidal attitudes of a people who admire the
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Muslims kill Muslims? Progressives yawn. Israelis kill Muslims even in self defense? Hysteria. #HumanitarianRacism .
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Far more Muslims were killed in the North Yemen Civil War of 1962-70 - which no one even knows about - than in the entire 70 years of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Israel needs its weapons to protect its people. And Hamas needs its people to protect its weapons.
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@DVATW @JamieGlazov simple. #ProlepticDhimmitude : Thou shalt not criticize Muslims.
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@IDFSpokesperson what's the time of this conversation. how long after the actual explosion?
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@traveller_2020 this just shows how little you understand others, esp Jews.
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@TheTruth1967 another one incapable of distinguishing btw projection (Nazis) and observation (Israelis). the stand-in for Nazis in this story are Hamas and the rest of the pathetic, hate-mongering Palestinian leadership. #AnalogicDyslexia
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@cjwerleman you must be kidding. you are aware that if it's a prison, the wardens are Hamas. sure, the Warsaw ghetto looked just like this.
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integrity-guilt vs. honor-shame: prefer personal integrity and public shame to personal guilt and public honor. Winston Marshall Was 'Bloody Terrified' to Quit Mumford & Sons. He Tells Me Why., by @bariweiss
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@KenRoth As the saying goes… “everything before the “but” is blah blah. It’s not the Israeli govt’s conduct that gives rise to the antisemitic behavior, it’s the conduct of lethal journalists and their allies in the NGO “Human Rights” world, who depict it so vilely.
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@mishtal the abduction was shocking, the silence of the regular suspects, not so suprising.
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@ecomarxi in answer to your question: What do you want them to do? Just die in silence so you can go back to whatever useless shit you were doing in imagined ‘peace’—peace for you while Palestinians die? Palestinians only die when they "leaders" (read ruthless exploiters) choose war. they
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What the American police learn from Israelis is restraint; what the American journalists learn from the Palestinians is #FakeNews and #LethalJournalism . @marclamonthill
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"We are so used to this worldview & what it requires—apologize, grovel, erase, grovel some more—that we no longer notice. It is why we can count, on one hand—Dave Chappelle; J.K. Rowling—those who show spine." We Ignored Salman Rushdie's Warning @bariweiss
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@Franke_schrijft thank you for this breath of fresh air from the fetid swamp of cowardly, lethal journalism.
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As Passover Nears, Let's Not Forget Farrakhan's Shameful Stance on Slavery via @tabletmag
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Richard Sherman's latest Letter to the Editor: The violent Jew hating demonstrations that are occuring at Tulane do not emerge from a vacuum. Between 1986 and 2018 Muslim countries poured 6.5  billion dollars into the American university system to promote the foundational
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@HusseinAboubak don't think that's fair. we jews feel it's deeply unfair to ask us to care about the fate of palestinians who want to exterminate us. palestinians who want to live at peace with us? that's another story entirely.
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@dianabuttu you care about your people, don't start wars with people much stronger than you. but if you're obsessed genocidal maniacs, that's apparently too big an ask.
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@NoahPollak and another:
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Why wd Reuters accompany the piece on the 400% spike in antisemitism since 7/10 with just one picture, that of a white supremacist, presumably representative of those attacking Jews, when the majority of the attackers are either Muslims or their progressive supporters? US
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@Resist_05 there's never been a war in history where observers took their statistics from the very people who engineer the death of their own people to appeal to those outsiders. so let's just call it for what it really is: useful infidel idiocy.
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@mehdirhasan maybe that's why no one would let you anywhere near the position of moderator.
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@mehdirhasan @AymanM @MSNBC palestinians are the only minority on the planet whose religious leaders dehumanize their enemies and their fanatics enact abominations of savage hatred, whose leaders and people cheer them on, and about whom, if you want to make any criticisms, you can count of fake
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We may ask why genocidal ideologies so often use anti-Judaism as a tool to overturn the prohibition of killing? The stereotype of the Jew as anti-neighbor is the most deeply rooted image of the dehumanized human figure. Starting mass murders with Jews makes it easier to continue
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@mehdirhasan they did this bc they were black? or bc of how they behave. seems like the racist might be you.
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@LorraineAli the palestinians have given themselves a bad name. can you name any major palestinian figure (including their supporters in the west like BDS and SJP) who condemned what hamas did on october 7? because i can name many, allegedly moderates who either cheered or denied it. if
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@mehdirhasan @WSJ wait, are you saying the headline is not true? or if it's not nice and about muslims, it's islamophobia even if it's true?
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@faniaoz the joke runs: the diff btw swedes and norwegians is that one of them has good neighbors.
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ht: Neil Silberman
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Auschwitz was NOT an attack..It was a monstrous massacre of Jews. ("Students Walk-Out for Palestine Draws Hundreds to Sproul Plaza") Treblinka was NOT an attack..It was a monstrous  massacre of Jews. Babi Yar was NOT an attack..It was a monstrous  massacre of Jews. Bergen
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@espiers Even if it’s true?
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@ymedad @jjz1600 @elderofziyon The uncomfortable truth is that if any Arab country were subjected to the scrutiny and the definitions used by these NGOs not only wd they all register as apartheid, but israel wdnt even make the list.
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@RichardEvans36 definition of an intellectual: one who can change his mind when presented with good evidence. (from Dreyfus affair) congratulations.
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what's most about telling about the @nytimes cartoon is that it represents very much the views of a) @Ilhan Omar and b) the Poway shooter #TheAntiSemiticTrifecta
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an analysis of what may have been the single most heinous article the @nytimes ever splashed over its pages... at a time when this kind of lethal journalism was inspiring attacks on jews in their very city.
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Racism is a word that has lost its meaning but maintained its opprobrium
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@mormo_music not contradicts, enhances. most armies are over 3:1 civilian to combatant. IDF is actually closer to 1:1 in Gaza up till now. IDF was 1:3 (!) in Jenin 2002, which was reported by a pack of lethal journalists as "the Jenin Massacre [sic]."
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@dianabuttu then don't pick fights and hide behind your people.
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@YasMohammedxx it is truly astounding that the west has taken to fetishizing a religion that, by its own progressive standards is pretty unattractive, and that has attacked the west repeatedly and viciously. one might even suspect some masochistic pathology at work. certainly not self-respect.
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@Ilhan apparently not to palestinian "leaders." pass it on.
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talk about not quite getting the concept of decolonialization. the Maccabees are the first case ("in the history of the species" in Chaim Potok's phrase) of a revolutionary resistance to the world hegemons of the day, Greek imperialism. I't not just about Hamas, it's not just
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Pathetic apology: Who did the shooting, @amanpour ? “On April 10, I referred to the murders of an Israeli family: Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee, the wife and daughters of Rabbi Leo Dee. I misspoke & said they were killed in a ‘shootout’ instead of a shooting."
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@Comey maybe, just maybe, you shd have thought about that in 2016...
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@LeeRaldar @CSomerton Putin isn't trying to get the world to cry over his lost Russian civilians so that, outraged and compassionate, they intervene and stop the Ukrainians from defending themselves...
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