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Think tank researcher and attorney. Opinions are my own.
Feb 27 21 tweets 7 min read
Why are there no Christians in Bethlehem? Hamas members constitute the majority in the municipal leadership • Christian women in the PA and Gaza also report threats to their lives from Muslims who oppose their presence in the area. Ines Elias writes 🧵 Image The film "Via Dolorosa" tells the story of Xians in the Holy Land was presented at UN headquarters in Geneva. Father Ibrahim Faltas said there that many Xians have lost faith and "fled from Christian areas in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Nazareth." Image
Feb 11, 2024 33 tweets 11 min read
Why are young wokies stanning Osama Bin Laden in 2024? Prof. Waller Newell called it 23 years ago, before the full advent of identity politics in an article titled "Postmodern Jihad: What Osama bin Laden learned from the Left." THREAD/ ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses0…
Image Al Qaeda ideology justifies its acts of terror owing as much to baleful trends in Western thought as it does to a perversion of Muslim beliefs. Osama's doctrine of terror is partly a Western export: intellectual brew that produced the ideology of 1960s 3rd World socialism. Image
Jan 11, 2024 9 tweets 3 min read
Why is South Africa coming for Israel? SA under the incompetent communist ANC is being driven into the ground by bad economic management, high crime, and no infrastructure development. They've also been coopted, who knows for what price by China and Iran, now in BRICS with them🧵 Image Since the advent of the ANC, as in many postcolonialist states, South Africa has failed under its own leaders. No doubt the socialist affectations of the ANC coupled with the corruption we come to expect from such parties, is to blame. Yet, colonialism is blamed. Some African/
Dec 4, 2023 9 tweets 2 min read
My husband's cousin 😔 I'm posting these threads here as a defiant response to the various neo-Nazi ISIS stans writing disgusting things. I am not hurt by your inhumanity.
Aug 9, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay to my Jewish brothers and sisters 1/ Image UN System i.d.s indigenous people as follows: Self- identification as indigenous peoples at the individual level and accepted by the community as their member. Image
Jul 11, 2023 24 tweets 6 min read
Israel's anti-legal reform protests are a form of internal, Soviet-inspired political warfare "decomposition" according to my friend and colleague historian Dr. Joel Fishman. Thread.🧵 Decomposition is being used by the left as a tactic of political warfare against the State of Israel, from within. Former PM Ehud Barak of Labour said in February that “historical experience has shown that when 3.5 percent of the population stubbornly persists in demonstrations
Apr 19, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
Hamas leader Fathi Hamad called for "killing Jews with five shekel knives." When a woman attempts to do so Hamas' Times of Gaza tweets: IDF shot a woman "on pretext of an alleged attack" as her knife lies near her. Alternating political warfare and terror is the regular pattern. Equally tragic are the motives of young female terrorists. Dr. Anat Berko, former MK, did research on this subject and wrote a book about it titled “The Smarter Bomb: Women and Children as Suicide Bombers.”
Apr 18, 2023 14 tweets 3 min read
Holocaust story-time: my mother's family perished in the Holocaust, 108 people that my grandparents recorded on a piece of paper sitting at the kitchen table one day. They were the sole survivors (thread)/
My grandma came from a town called Ruda Babicza just outside of Warsaw/ She told of a childhood as the middle daughter of seven kids, three older sisters and three younger brothers: picking berries in the forest, learning to sew from her parents, a tailor and a seamstress,
delivering clothing to people who had ordered them/
Feb 20, 2023 16 tweets 5 min read
In light of the shameful expulsion of the Israeli observer to the African Union, some history.🧵 Golda Meir with Gadna students from Africa. Israel taught young Africans agriculture, engineering and more in the 1960s and 70s. The President of Malagasay with Israeli president Levi Eshkol and his wife in his presidential palace