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Aug 4

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🧵 THREAD on @UN_HRC Commission Miloon Kothari’s ‘apology’ for saying “the Jewish Lobby” controls social media + questioning #Israel’s membership to the UN:

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“This non-apology is entirely meaningless and predictable.”

“It is also telling it came after almost 20 countries condemned him and a staggering 10 days after he made the initial remarks. Does it really take someone that long to recognize that saying “the Jewish Lobby” controls the media is abhorrent, racist and antisemitic?”

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“At end of day, this @UN_HRC is still rooted to the core in Jew hatred and bias. It should be disbanded immediately and permanently, relegated to the dustbin of UN’s shameful antisemitic history.”

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Mar 20

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🧵 My speech to @UN_HRC #HRC49 debate on 'Children in Armed Conflict', calling on @UNICEF & int'l community to stop abhorrent use of #ChildSoldiers by #Palestinian terror groups in Gaza.

With thanks to colleagues at @NGOmonitor, for allotting @The_ILF their time slot to present.

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@UN_HRC @UNICEF @NGOmonitor @The_ILF The late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, one of the great thought leaders of our time, once said “Tomorrow’s world is born in what we teach our children today.”

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Indeed, he was so right, especially as we look at the lives of children being ravaged in Ukraine now, as well as the Middle East, a region wrought with conflict & war for decades.

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Dec 10, 2020

@yadvashem

In honour of #Chanukah, this is a THREAD with some of the most powerful Chanukah images (c/- @yadvashem) from 'Before, During and After the Holocaust'.

Starting with this, perhaps most powerful one: Kiel, Germany (1932)

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@yadvashem Lodz, Poland, 1943, in the Ghetto.

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@yadvashem Berlin, Germany, 1930s, a lit Hanukkah candelabrum on

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Arsen Ostrovsky

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Nov 17, 2020

Have you heard the incredible story about Joseph and Rebecca Bau, who survived Auschwitz, were immortalized in Schindler's List film, moved to Israel and then made the most indelible contribution to the Jewish state and the Jewish people?

This is their story.

A THREAD ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

1. Joseph and Rebecca, both originally from Poland met in Plaszow death camp near Krakow, where they fell in love and were secretly married – an act for which if found out, would incur certain execution.

2. Joseph had actually dressed as a woman to sneak into the camp, in order to have a makeshift wedding. Their wedding was immortalized in the iconic film ‘Schindler’s List’.

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Nov 9, 2020

#OnThisDay (1938), we mark 82 years since #Kristallnacht, when Nazis (and their enablers) across Germany & Austria razed synagogues, smashed windows and murdered almost 100 Jews in a violent pogrom - known as ’Night of Broken Glass'.

My #THREAD with some thoughts & lessons:

1. Kristallnacht, was a murderous example of the capacity of humans to escalate from harassment, indifference, demonization and singling out of Jews - to violence.

First by words and through dehumanization, and then through the Nazi infrastructure of death.

2. In the weeks that followed #Kristallnacht, approximately 30,000 Jews were transported to concentration camps — a sorrow foreshadowing of the further evil that would soon ensue.

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Dec 16, 2019

@gidonsaar

A few thoughts on @gidonsaar, but first PM Netanyahu:

1) I have great respect for PM Netanyahu and believe he has made an indelible contribution to Israel’s security, our diplomatic achievements & economic strength. I also believe he has been unfairly treated by the media.

2. But at some point, every leader must recognize that the party (and country for that matter), are bigger than they are.

Whereas for many years it was BiBi who brought the Likud to power, it is now also BiBi who is the one holding them (and the Right) from power.

3. Yes, PM Netanyahu is also entitled to full presumption of innocence, but at same time, cannot devote his full attention to his duties as Prime Minister, while also fighting these very grave charges.

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