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May 31 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
A response I just wrote brought to mind the fact that while the average useful idiot sees the war in Gaza as "Israel vs. the Palestinians," not only is the Hamas Islamist dictatorship not "the Palestinians," but Israel has been at war since Oct. 7 with the entire Shi'ite axis. 1/
Israel has faced attacks from Shi'ite militaries in Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and from Hamas terrorists in the West Bank. The Shi'ites have also had the implicit support of Turkey and especially Qatar, which uses Al-Jazeera as a propaganda outlet for Hamas. 2/
And Hamas itself on Oct 7 had a better staffed and better equipped standing military than most European countries have, despite being much poorer and having a smaller population. Purely objectively, it was Israel being attacked on six military fronts, plus 3/
a worldwide propaganda war. A six-front war against Israel is why Gazans are suffering, not because Israel is at war with "the Palestinians." Unfortunately for Gazans, Israel was much better prepared and equipped to deal with the other fronts, it's taking much longer to defeat Hamas. /end

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May 28
I don't recall a single progressive suggesting that the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter wasn't antisemitic because he was angry about HIAS and more general Jewish support for immigration. Yet somehow 1/
many of the same people are arguing that shooting up a Jewish event isn't antisemitic because the shooter was angry about Israel. And don't get me started on how the same people would never, ever, suggest that shooting up a Muslim event was anything but Islamaphobic 3/
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May 28
Contrary to some of the commentary I'm seeing, selective enforcement of civil laws, as the US government is doing re Harvard, isn't inherently unconstitutional. In fact, even selective enforcement of criminal laws isn't inherently unconstitutional. 1/
See WAYTE v. UNITED STATES, 470 U.S. 598 (1985), in which SCOTUS found that prosecuting people who wrote to the government and declared their intention not to register for the draft was not a violation of the First Amendment. 2/
If the government went after Harvard only because it didn't like Harvard, that might be a problem. But if it investigated Harvard because it thought Harvard had a particularly serious issue with antisemitism, and that it was therefore properly suspect regarding 3/
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May 25
The event at the Jewish Museum where two young people were murdered had to theme of getting aid in difficult circumstances to civilians, including how certain private aid groups have learned to get aid to Gazans without Hamas stealing it. 1/
I haven’t seen this reported elsewhere, but I heard this directly from an attendee who heard the presentation. A murderer flew to DC from Chicago specifically to target this event. 2/
It was a pretty obscure event, with only about 150 attendees, for foreign policy professionals, mostly Jews, overwhelmingly not Israeli, sponsored by a Jewish organization. 3/
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May 22
Among the most vile people on X are Americans who have since 10/7 reacted to any concerns about antisemitism, not short of murder, with "that's not nearly as bad as what Palestinians are going through." 1/
As if antisemitic violence against fellow Americans is somehow ok because someone somewhere else is suffering (putting aside who's to blame for that suffering)? But what makes it worse is that this is coming from self-styled progressives. 2/
You never hear them say in response to domestic hatred toward Muslims, "well that's nothing like what the South Sudanese are going through." Or about anti-Asian racism in the US "well that's nothing like what the Uigyurs are going through." 3/
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May 22
I just learned that my relative who was at the Capitol Jewish Museum last night was friends with one of the victims, Sarah Milgrim, and almost left with her and Yaron. So she easily could have been murdered.
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Don't give me any crap about how it's Israel's fault that Jews can't exist safely in Washington, DC. China is one of the worst human rights abusers in the world.

Chinese Americans, or even Chinese nationals here on student and other visas, aren't getting murdered on the street. 2/
The same goes for Iranians, Saudis, Russians, and people associated ethnically or religiously or even by citizenship with any of the worst countries in the world. 3/
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May 9
Here's something knew I heard from two different sources today, though I don't have a link to give you. The IDF's legal advisors are *blocking* the IDF from allowing Gazans to leave Gazan, on the theory that such migration would be "involuntary" so long as the war continues. 1/
So a Gazan can't leave unless (a) he has foreign citizenship; (b) there is a humanitarian emergency; or (c) a foreign government or NGO requests is with reasons acceptable to the lawyers. This is nuts. It's not just that it's contrary to Israel's own interests (though it is). 2/
It's completely contrary to the human rights and safety of Gazans who understandably want to flee a war zone. I don't know what legal interpretation the IDF lawyers are using, but they are using international humanitarian law to be completely inhumane to Gazans. 3/
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