You’ve been told that Jews poured into the Land of Israel as colonial invaders.

That Zionism was foreign.

That Palestine was peacefully Arab—until the Jews arrived.

But the truth is more complicated.

Arabs came in huge numbers too. And here’s why that matters.

A thread 🧵 In 1882, roughly 24,000 Jews lived in the Land of Israel—then part of the Ottoman Empire.

By 1948, after waves of aliyah, that number reached 650,000.

These weren’t colonists.

They were exiles returning home.

What happened this week in Kashmir is a horror.

What happened on October 7 in Israel was a horror.

The world needs to start recognizing the pattern.

This isn’t about borders. It’s about terror. And the free world must stand with those who fight it.

A thread🧵 On April 22, terrorists linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba attacked Hindu civilians in Pahalgam, India.

26 civilians—children, women, elders—murdered for the crime of being Indian, of being Hindu.

A massacre, pure and simple.

You’ve heard the slogans:
Zionism is racism.
Zionism is colonialism.
Zionism is ethnic cleansing.

Now here’s what you haven’t heard:
Those are lies.

And the people who built Zionism said so—clearly.

A thread 🧵 Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people.

It was born from exile, persecution, and longing—and rooted in one goal: to return home and live in peace as neighbors.

Not to rule. Not to remove. But to rebuild.

Yosef Haim Brenner didn’t come to the Land of Israel as an idealist.

He came because there was nowhere else to live as a Jew.

He built a life surrounded by neighbors that hated him for it.

And in 1921, during the Jaffa Riots, he was butchered for it.

A thread🧵 Brenner was born in 1881 in the Russian Empire.

He saw pogroms, fled the army, and was nearly swallowed by exile.

He was an author and thinker, who practiced his craft in Hebrew.

And he came to Palestine not because it would be easy.

But because he knew: Exile would kill us.

Al Jazeera reports that Hamas has rejected a deal that would have ended the war, freed the hostages, and spared Gaza from further devastation—because it required them to disarm.

Let’s be very clear about what that means.

A 🧵 Hamas is not fighting for freedom. It’s fighting for the permanent ability to wage war.

This isn’t about a blockade. It’s not about borders. It’s not about “resistance.”
It’s about keeping their weapons, their terror tunnels, and their death cult intact.

Here’s a story you probably haven’t heard: the Circassians, a Muslim minority with a tragic past, stood with the Jewish people during Israel’s War of Independence in 1948.

Yes, with.

Let me explain. 🧵 The Circassians are indigenous to the North Caucasus. In the 19th century, they were brutally ethnically cleansed by the Russian Empire in what is widely recognized as a genocide.

Historians estimate up to 1.5 million were killed.

Survivors were expelled to the Ottoman Empire.

People often ask: How did society allow the Holocaust to happen?

It didn’t start with gas chambers. It started with words. With lies. With mobs. With silence.

A 🧵 It started with conspiracy theories.

With caricatures of Jews as powerful, dangerous, foreign.

With newspapers and professors and politicians who said: ‘The Jews are the problem.’

What if your government told you:
“You can leave—but only if you give up your citizenship, take just $140, carry one suitcase, and leave your entire life behind.”

It’s not a dystopian novel. It’s what happened to Iraq’s Jews 75 years ago today.

A thread 🧵 For over 2,500 years, Jews lived in what is now Iraq—since the Babylonian exile.
They built communities, studied Torah, wrote poetry, ran businesses.

They shaped Iraqi culture and were part of the fabric of Mesopotamia—until they weren’t.

Something is breaking in America.

A new Schoen Cooperman Research poll for the ICC shows 80% of Americans now see antisemitism as a serious problem.

Among Jewish students, that number is 93%.

We’ve been here before. But this time, something feels different. 🧵 For generations, America was a refuge. The place where Jews could be safe. Could belong. Could build.

Now? 75% of Jewish students say they have personally witnessed, experienced, or heard about antisemitic incidents on campus.

The ground is shifting.

This is the most dangerous moment for Jews since 1945. If you don’t feel that yet, it’s only a matter of time. And, if you think we have time, you’re wrong. If we don’t act now, we will look back on this moment with regret.

A thread on the urgency of this moment. 🧵 There is no time. No time for hesitation. No time for debate over whether the threat is real. No time for internal squabbles that distract from the only thing that matters: action.

American Jews *overwhelmingly* reject anti-Zionism. The numbers don’t lie: A new poll shows a massive Jewish communal consensus. The media’s "divided Jewry" narrative? A total myth. 🧵 🔹70% of American Jews say anti-Zionism is antisemitism.

🔹85% agree that Hamas seeks genocide against Jews and Israel.

🔹79% support the ADL, JNF, and Jewish Federations—proving that mainstream Jewish institutions still command trust.

Stop telling us the Holocaust was a “universal lesson.” It wasn’t about generic “intolerance” or “the dangers of hate.” It was about one thing: the systematic extermination of the Jewish people. And every time we universalize it, we erase that truth. 🧵 2/ The Holocaust is not a fable. It is not a parable about human cruelty. It was the deliberate, mechanized attempt to wipe out every last Jew in Europe.

I’ve spent much of my career in the Jewish institutional world. I’ve seen billions spent on fighting antisemitism. And yet, young voters are 5x more likely to have an unfavorable view of Jews than their grandparents.

We need to talk about why. 🧵

https://twitter.com/davidshor/status/1888287606942625864

2/ For decades, our communal institutions raised and spent enormous sums to “fight antisemitism.” Conferences. Reports. Interfaith dialogues. “Education.”

And yet, antisemitism is worse than ever.

🚨 Trump just signed an executive order aimed at fighting antisemitism in the US. It isn’t empty rhetoric—it has real implications, especially for campuses and immigration policy.

Let’s break it down. 🧵⬇️ 2/ The order directs federal agencies to use every available legal tool to prosecute and hold accountable those who engage in unlawful antisemitic harassment and violence. No more looking the other way on Jew-hatred.

Anti-Zionism is a rejection of modern equality. It cloaks itself in progressive rhetoric but calls for a return to a feudal order, where Jews were alien, to be tolerated but powerless.

Israel shattered that order—and anti-Zionism seeks to restore it.

Let me explain. 🧵 2/ For centuries, Jewish existence depended on the goodwill of rulers. “Protection” was a euphemism for conditional survival, always fragile, often humiliating, never equal. Jews were tolerated outsiders at best, killed and persecuted at worst.

“I feel I no longer belong in 🇨🇦 and may need to flee.”

A new survey from the Jewish Medical Association of Ontario reveals a devastating rise in antisemitism targeting Jewish doctors and healthcare workers. The data is shocking, and the consequences could be catastrophic.

🧵: 2/ Since October 7, antisemitism in healthcare settings has skyrocketed:

•29% of Jewish medical professionals report it in their communities.

•39% in hospitals.

•43% in academic settings.

Before October 7, only 1% reported severe antisemitism.

Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs issued a scathing report on Antisemitism in Canada—a report that is in many ways unprecedented and should be a source of shame for the Canadian government.

A thread 🧵 Top line:

👉 A 670% increase in antisemitism since 10/07

👉 Jews make up 1.4% of Canadians but are the target of 70% of hate crimes.

👉 19% of hate crimes in Toronto alone target Jews.

There’s little question that Qatari government dark money is fueling anti-Israel protests in Canadian streets.

The real question is just how much?

And will our government do anything to stop this malign foreign interference? In 2022, leaked documents from the Sheikh Eid Bin Mohammad Al Thani Charitable Foundation, also known as Eid Charity, a Qatari quasi-governmental charity controlled by the royal family shows contributions to Canadian organizations—some with links or suspected links to terrorism.

Often, after being called out for saying something antisemitic, the perpetrators will often ask “what’s the definition of antisemitism?”

Fair question.

It’s a good thing there’s been a lot of thought put into this.

A thread 🧵 In 2015, the committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance adopted the following working definition of antisemitism:

After years deeply engaged in progressive politics, especially within the Israel-Palestine discourse, I've made a tough decision to step down as board chair of JSpaceCanada. This wasn't easy, but necessary.

A thread🧵

https://twitter.com/jspacecanada/status/1754573181233631254

The response from the left to the October 7th massacre was a turning point for me. The lack of compassion and vitriol I witnessed forced me to question where I stand politically. It's been a painful realization, leading to my resignation from an organization I deeply care about.

In light of the very serious allegations of UNRWA staff participating in the terror attacks of October 7th, the organization has immediately fired a dozen staff members and is launching an investigation.

In response, government funders are suspending aid.

A 🧵 It all started here. With a firm denial of any wrongdoing by UNRWA. And the denial has continued for months. Until an about face yesterday.

https://twitter.com/unrwa/status/1730650140229201949