Though it is extremely difficult to know that there are those who have spent their life trying to deny the Holocaust ever happened (and some at pretty high levels of academia), it is encouraging to also know that we can fight those lies by teaching our children. When my oldest son is old enough, he will know that he took a picture with Holocaust survivor Irving Roth. He will know what the Shoah was, and most importantly, he will know we are never too far from it. Never again for us as gentile allies is an active thing.

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Israel’s Iron Dome protects both is really is in Palestinians.

Why?

It protects Israelis pretty obviously by intercepting rockets but are heading for Israeli towns. It protects Palestinians because if one of those rockets were to land in even a somewhat populated Israeli area, The IDF would have to respond, and not in the extraordinarily delicate way they have been (leaflets, texts, sending troops into Gaza to lead Gazans to safety...)

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@bellahadid Bella Hadid, an American model, says there are 7.2 million Palestinian refugees.

That is only true because the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has a definition of refugees that is different to every other refugee group on the planet. So according to UNRWA, even though Bella was born in America, she’s considered a Palestinian refugee. Same with DJ Khaled. Same with any other person of Palestinian descent on their father’s side.

@NPR participates in the disinformation campaign against Israel.
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My wife has a beautiful story of when she was in college right after the system of apartheid in South Africa fell, but racial tensions were still high. I won’t tell it. I’ll let her do that, but in a nutshell, she was a leader who had white Afrikaner men as her subordinates. Because of her efforts to meet them where they were, they went from not even sitting near her to being some of her closest friends still today.

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Farrakhan can’t both be “an extremely influential figure in the black community,” and “not that impactful because he doesn’t hold any political office.”

Pick one.

And let me help you. It’s the former.

I totally understand why people look to him... But telling Jews to “leave the man alone and fix your racism” is not only wrong, it’s incredibly arrogant. HE is the one who STAYS having the Jews’ name in his mouth. That’s the ONLY reason why many Jews even know him in the first place.

He needs to leave them alone.

Marc Lamont Hill, in response to an incredible article by my friend @HenMazzig, said that the whole notion of 'Mizrahi' Jews is fake and made up to separate from Palestinians.
There are many things disturbing about what Marc said. Mizrahi is not a made up term to evade Palestinian identity, and it is extremely disrespectful and wrong of him to even suggest that; especially since Jews of Iraq, for instance, have inhabited Iraq centuries before there was such a people called Palestinians.