Dr. Petra Marquardt-Bigman Profile picture
Make no mistake: The punditocracy that gets Israel wrong also gets a lot of other things wrong...
Aug 22, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
This is a truly revealing story that tells you all you need to know about Palestinian society (and kudos to the NYT for reporting on it anyway) +
nytimes.com/2020/08/22/wor… So an 11-year-old schoolboy from Gaza posted a video of himself expertly rapping the lyrics of one of his favorite artists, and he got "more than a million views and praise from famous rappers around the world." BUT +
nytimes.com/2020/08/22/wor…
Jul 21, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
Peter Beinart quote-tweeting bona fide antisemite Mira Bar Hillel saying "We're all antisemites" is truly priceless -- so I've archived it here
(via @The_Bear_Jew18)
archive.is/X8uwz Here's a glimpse of Mira Bar Hillel's greatest hits
camera-uk.org/2014/09/04/top…
Jul 14, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
'I just got a Pulitzer for rewriting history and I'm the real victim here'
Imagine any of NHJ's colleagues made a remark that she was 'writing about the Blacks again.' Heads would be rolling at the NYT. NHJ doesn't even seem to realize that as a Jew, Bari Weiss is also a member of a minority group -- indeed a minority group that is targeted by murderous hatred even in the US, and that has long been the most targeted group for religious hate crimes in the US.
Jul 14, 2020 9 tweets 4 min read
"a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else."
@bariweiss
bariweiss.com/resignation-le… "I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative."
bariweiss.com/resignation-le…
Jul 13, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
I'm the first to say that Ali Abunimah has no lower limit -- but I'll admit I was stunned to see him openly siding with China, dismissing the merciless persecution of Muslims just to express his hate for the US.
I've archived this abomination here: archive.is/QV6vo For context, see e.g. this thread by @MaajidNawaz on the gruesome treatment of China's Muslims
Jul 9, 2020 16 tweets 7 min read
Before Peter Beinart argued for the end of the world's only Jewish state in the NYT, there were other sort of distinguished thinkers and moral philosophers doing the same: like the late Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi fantasizing about "Isratine"... algemeiner.com/2020/07/09/the… Now that Peter Beinart has come to the same conclusion as Qaddafi, NYT editor Max Strasser expressed the hope that even if such views might at first seem “controversial,” they will “before too long … be mainstream opinion among American Jewish liberals.”
algemeiner.com/2020/07/09/the…
Jul 3, 2020 7 tweets 4 min read
Why @KingAbdullahII's Jordan shields Sbarro massacre mastermind Ahlam Tamimi from extradition to the US -- my latest @Algemeiner
algemeiner.com/2020/07/03/why… Ever since Ahlam Tamimi has been released in the deal to free Hamas hostage Gilad Shalit, she's been treated as a celebrity in Jordan, where killing Jews gets you lots of admiration
algemeiner.com/2020/07/03/why…
Jun 24, 2020 10 tweets 4 min read
Well, that definitely looks like suicide by IDF. I’m sorry for the tragedy that befell the Erakat family — but it’s truly obscene that Noura Erakat insists that the video doesn’t show a deliberate ramming attack.
Jun 3, 2020 6 tweets 3 min read
Twitter's God joins the antisemites who erase the fact that Jesus was a Jew by using the designation "Palestinian" that was first used by Imperial Rome some 100 years AFTER the death of Jesus in an effort to erase Jewish history And as Twitter's God @TheTweetOfGod should know: "When the Romans executed Jesus, they mocked him as “King of the Jews”"-- NOT "King of the Palestinians"...
(I wrote about the antisemitic efforts to pretend that Jesus wasn't Jewish e.g. here:
elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-hy… )
May 30, 2020 9 tweets 7 min read
Hypocrisy: former @amnesty "advocacy director" attacks the oldest US Jewish organization fighting antisemitism @ADL @JGreenblattADL by promoting a Nazi-style "blame the Jews for whatever you dislike" trope
Truly disgusting
(h/t @ayidindixieland) + Indeed, @SunjeevBery is so obsessed with the world's only Jewish state that he even dug out a screenshot of a 8 year old @AJCGlobal tweet +
May 21, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
"As long as he has led the Palestinian national movement, Mr. Abbas has opposed violence and espoused negotiations with Israel." @halbfinger @nytimes
nytimes.com/2020/05/20/wor…
Abbas: "we bless every drop of blood that has been spilled for Jerusalem"
That was at the beginning of the so-called Stabbing Intifada 2015/16
May 3, 2020 6 tweets 4 min read
This is a rather revealing article: it shows that it comes naturally to the NYT to whitewash Arab-Muslim antisemitism as "just anti-Zionism".
nytimes.com/2020/05/02/wor… While the title makes clear that the controversial Ramadan shows feature Jewish characters, the "critics" who denounce featuring Jewish characters as “normalization” with Israel are treated as entirely legitimate and their bigotry is studiously ignored.
nytimes.com/2020/05/02/wor…
Apr 28, 2020 6 tweets 3 min read
"This is not the story of reconciliation and grassroots peacemaking as framed by the Israeli organizers.
The real story is that it hijacked Israel's solemn day for remembering fallen soldiers and victims of terror attacks by saying that the day is also about Palestinians." Absolute #MustRead @elderofziyon - who does a GREAT job explaining why this is just an appalling propaganda exercise
elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/04/joint-…
Apr 11, 2020 14 tweets 9 min read
Well, this is interesting: according to the NYT, a Gaza freelance journalist named Hind Khoudary called on Hamas to go after the guy who had organized a Zoom chat with Israelis -- and as it happens, Khoudary claims to work for @amnesty ...
nytimes.com/2020/04/10/wor… So @amnesty -- is it true that this Hamas collaborator works for you?
cc @halbfinger
Mar 31, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
NYT hires another Israel hater Maybe my screenshot was a bit ambiguous, because you have to click it to see the full size -- so just to clarify, it's not Malley but Thrall who apparently got hired by NYT mag. But of course, they both work for a group (Crisis Group) that's very hostile to Israel.
Mar 10, 2020 5 tweets 4 min read
This is honestly hard to believe. But it's a real tweet from @RVilkomerson. And the "game" of listing and ranking bad Jews according to which one is worse is a "game" that the Nazis would have found "cathartic" too. Here's the absolutely vile thread . As you can see, the tweets didn't garner so many RTs &"Likes", but the polls were very popular among those who enjoy ranking Jews according to which one is worse.
Mar 3, 2020 5 tweets 6 min read
Meet @BernieSanders surrogate Amer Zahr, who thinks one Jewish state in the world is one too many.
My latest @elderofziyon
elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-hy… @BernieSanders @elderofziyon And because @BernieSanders surrogate Amer Zahr wants to get rid of the world's only Jewish state, he's only too happy to serenade someone like convicted supermarket bomber (&US immigration fraudster) Rasmea Odeh
elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-hy…
Feb 25, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
It's an article from 2014 -- but what an obscenity it is...
But it also shows how lavishly the Palestinians reward their heroes who kill Jews. + "Mr. Salah was flush with more than $100,000 saved from the Palestinian Authority’s monthly payments to prisoners’ families"--which he got because "he killed Israel Tenenbaum, 72, a Holocaust survivor...hitting him on the side of the head with a metal rod"
nytimes.com/2014/03/30/wor…
Feb 16, 2020 4 tweets 3 min read
A Palestinian-born anti-Israel activist & NYU prof Amin Husain "recently deleted most of his social media posts" -- seems he doesn't want to be held responsible for the thuggery he encourages...
jpost.com/Diaspora/Antis… Yep, he definitely sounds deranged. How does such a guy get to teach at a US university?
Feb 13, 2020 4 tweets 4 min read
Well, @jdforward took him on as a new columnist -- probably the first Hamas associate writing regularly for them... archive.is/kMa8T @jdforward So congrats to @jdforward re. their new columnist, who has some very influential Jew-hating friends.
You don't get to take photos like these without having some solid connections in these circles; note also the familiarity Shehada shows by putting his hand on Haniyeh's shoulder
Feb 11, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
How pathetic of Olmert to participate in this -- after all, his far-reaching peace proposals were dismissed by Abbas
jns.org/erekat-olmert-… Well, back in 2008, even Olmert told Abbas that he wouldn't get an offer like this anymore. Abbas still was proud to say no back then -- and now trying to turn back the clock is pretty pathetic.