Antisemites corrupt everyone. Salma Hamamy, pres of the main pro-Palestinian group at @UMich posted on social-media “Until my last breath I will utter death to every single individual who supports the Zionist state. Death and worse.” So how is such a student treated?🧵1/4 She's among @UMich most honored students.

~Recipient of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Award for students “who best exemplify the leadership and extraordinary vision" of MLK. No joke.

~ @umichdaily_ endorsed her for student council president.
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🧵in depth analysis of Gaza tunnels by chair of urban war studies at West Point. Summary:

• Hamas does not have military sites separate from civilian sites
• scope of tunnels far greater than was known
• Hamas strategy is political not military

mwi.westpoint.edu/gazas-undergro… Hamas has built a tunnel network to gain not just a military advantage, but a political advantage. Hamas weaved its vast tunnel networks into the society on the surface. Destroying the tunnels is virtually impossible without adversely impacting the population living in Gaza.

Israel journalist @Roi_Yanovsky just published an amazing piece in Hebrew about what Gaza is REALLY like, based on his personal observations there. Here is an English translation that you NEED to read🧵

100 reserve days officially ended yesterday. Some initial insights: 1. Gaza is seen as a backward area, the "most densely populated in the world" which has been under Israeli "siege" for years. There is no bigger lie than this. Gaza is a modern, beautiful, developed city, with large modern houses, wide boulevards, public spaces, a promenade

I found an email dated 2/2/22, that I sent to my daughter when she was visiting a concentration camp site in Poland. Sadly, after the 10/7 Massacre, every word rings true. 🧵 "The world we live in has barely changed. There are still MILLIONS of people in the world who want to kill us. Given the opportunity they’d kill you, your friends, your brothers and sister, me, mommy. Today. Right now. The only thing that stops them is the will of Gd and the IDF.

Today is the 5th/6th of the Hebrew month of Av. #OTD 82 years ago, the Jews of my family’s ancestral shtetl of Vileyka were liquidated by the Nazis - the entire Jewish population was murdered. Here is their story: Multiple branches of my family came from 3 neighboring shtetls in what is now Belarus. The most prominent was Vileyka. We trace our family there back to 1766. Thanks to persecution and pogroms by the Russians, my immediate ancestors all fled to America 1890-1917. But not all.

The return of Jewish sovereignty to Jerusalem is one of the most unlikely events in the history of the human experience. But it happened 56 yrs ago this week. It’s hard to explain just how momentous an event this is - but I’m going to try. 🧵 In June 1967 Jewish sovereignty was returned to Jerusalem for the first time since the 2nd Jewish Commonwealth was conquered by Rome in 70 CE. During 2,000 yrs of exile Jews wrote countless psalms, poems, and songs about Jerusalem, from King David to Judah Halevi to Matisyahu.

#OnThisDay in 1972, Palestinian terrorists mutilated and murdered 11 Israeli athletes during the Olympics in Munich, Germany. The involvement of the German government and current Palestinian leadership needs to be known and shared. THREAD Future Palestinian President Yasir Arafat approved the operation and current President Mahmoud Abbas financed it. German neo-Nazi groups assisted. In 2019, Abbas dedicated a new university building in honor of the mastermind of the operation, Khalil Al-Wazir Abu Jihad.

Analyzing the current wave of terror attacks in Israel - it’s all about Iran.
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jpost.com/breaking-news/… Most of the recent terror attacks have been by Palestinians associated with ISIS or other Muslim religious extremists. People easily manipulated and paid to martyr themselves. So who’s doing the manipulating and paying?

Jews worldwide are under attack as anti-Israel protests become mini-pogroms, with synagogues vandalized and Jews assaulted. This happens whenever Israel is being targeted - Jews everywhere become a target, too. If anti-Zionism is NOT antisemitism, why is this? THREAD A few examples from around the world. First, Britain.
A rabbi in London was beaten following a protest at which the mob shouted "Fuck the Jews, Rape their Daughters!"
metro.co.uk/2021/05/16/con…

Gotta love @RepRitchie, a progressive voice who stands by Israel! Young, Progressive, Democrat, Puerto Rican, Gay, and an unwavering supporter of Israel.
A THREAD that will inspire you!
bariweiss.substack.com/p/can-you-be-a… "Not only is Israel under siege from rocket fire, but the truth itself is under siege. There’s been an ongoing propaganda war and the narrative that is dominating is one that attempts to normalize Hamas and delegitimize Israel."

The catalyst for the current violence is not really about Israelis and Palestinians. It's a Civil War by Proxy between Hamas and the PA, replacing the cancelled election. Each side competes for 'legitimacy' by demonstrating who can organize more violence against Israelis.
THREAD Palestinian Pres. Abbas is in the 16th yr of a 4yr term. He called elections for April and his main campaign strategy was to incite small scale violence against Jews, a way of proving he is as committed to 'resistance' as his arch political opponents, the terror group Hamas.

This a disturbing story that needs to be remembered and told. #OnThisDay 10 yrs ago, 2 cousins, Amjad Mahmad Awad (18) & Hakim Mazen Awad (17) murdered an entire Jewish family in their beds. The Palestinian Authority has paid them over $200k to date as a reward. THREAD They stabbed to death a mother Ruth (35), father Udi (36), 2 young boys Yoav (11) & Elad (4) and decapitated a baby girl, Hadas (3 months).

The Fogel Family Massacre was so horrific even Palestinian Authority Pres. Mahmoud Abbas and PM Salam Fayyad condemned the attack.

Some post-#Chanukah history - The Menorah, Rome, and Jerusalem.
THREAD The Arch of Titus in Rome was erected in 82 CE to celebrate Roman Emperor Titus' victory over the Jews in Judea, including the siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE. The captive Jews are shown carrying sacred Temple vessels, including the golden menorah, away from Jerusalem to Rome.

Yes, Al-Qaeda was responsible for 9/11. But Al-Qaeda did not act alone. US Federal Courts have repeatedly held that IRAN and its proxy HEZBOLLAH were directly and materially responsible for the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. Here is the rest of the story.

THREAD #NeverForget The 9/11 Commission report stated “there is strong evidence" implicating Iran and Hezbollah, requiring "further investigation by the US government.” Based on that, in 2004 hundreds of 9/11 families brought the case "Havlish et al v. Bin-Laden, Iran, et al" to Federal court.

There is a 21st century Holocaust happening in China right now, and once again the world is completely indifferent. But YOU don't have to be. #BoycottChina

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foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/15/uig… 1M+ Uighur people, an ethnic/religious minority, are held in concentration forced labor camps, tortured, raped, murdered. Survivors report electrocution, beatings, unknown injections, & mental torture meant to break them psychologically as well as physically. #BoycottChina

Twitter is full of racists/fools denying Jews' connection to Israel, perhaps because the return of Jews to Israel is so far-fetched, it's hard to grasp.

The astonishing nature of the Jewish return has a modern parallel, the exile of the Tibetans by the Chinese.
THREAD Tibet was a small, ancient nation sitting at the confluence of two much larger rival cultures, with religious national leadership and temple worship at the focal point of its culture. It was conquered by an expansive empire, in this case Communist China, in 1959.

The term “Talmudic Jew” is used by antisemites across Twitter to mean “evil conspiring Jew” or sometimes “fake Jew” bent on controlling the world. The truth is exactly the opposite. The Talmud is a book by an oppressed minority about how to live when you have no control. THREAD The Talmud was written by Jews living under colonial rule in the Land of Israel and as refugees in what is now Iraq, driven from their homeland in Israel by European colonial imperialists. It’s a book by a minority people struggling to survive under majority oppression.

On this date in 1941, the Jews of Iraq were targeted by the Nazi-sympathizing Iraqi government for a vicious and deadly pogrom, called The Farhud. Hundreds of Jews were killed, thousands were injured, and Jewish life in Iraq was never the same.
THREAD Within a decade Iraqi Jews lost most citizenship rights. Nearly all 120,000 Iraqi Jews fled or were expelled, their property and possessions confiscated. Thus ended a Jewish community that had been in Iraq for 2,600 years, predating the Arab-Muslim invasion by a millennia.

@AviKaner Jews lived in what is now Iraq since the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple by the Babylonians in 586 BCE, 1,000 years before the Arab/Muslim invasion. Before WWII, Baghdad was 33% Jewish, the NYC of its day. THREAD @AviKaner Across the Arab world Jews were leaders in the arts, cinema, literature, business. That’s all gone. The Jews of Libya, Algeria, Syria, Egypt. Gone.
In 1945 more than 850,000 Jews lived in the Arab world. Today, there are less than 5,000.

The desecration of Jewish graves that occurs in both America and Europe has been ongoing in Jerusalem for decades. It began under the Jordanians and continues under the Palestinian Authority.
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jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-pa… The Mount of Olives is the oldest continuously used Jewish cemetery in the world, going back 3,000 years. During Jordanian rule (1948-1967), the Jordanian army used the ancient tombstones for military camps and latrines.

This is what most people don’t understand:
BDS is not a threat to Israel. BDS IS A THREAT TO DIASPORA JEWS.

Everywhere BDS gains legitimacy, isolation of Jews and delegitimization of Jewish institutions follows.
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https://twitter.com/yair_rosenberg/status/1196132256101867522

Toronto Student Union votes to support BDS. Later it votes to OPPOSE kosher food on campus. Why? Because the group lobbying for kosher food - Hillel - is ‘pro-Israel.”
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