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Apr 19 6 tweets 2 min read
I guess we’re about to witness sizeable crowds of non-Iranian Americans demonstrate in favor of Khameini’s evil dictatorship…

This country’s entire education system needs to be razed to the ground & rebuilt in a way where this won’t happen again, or there won’t be a country. It’s perfectly fine to be reflexively antiwar, that’s not what I’m decrying.

What I’m decrying is the reflexively embracing the enemies of America, Israel and the West as inherently good due to the fact that they are our enemies.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.
Apr 18 10 tweets 3 min read
I am glad I’ve opened twitter this morning and saw what the current discourse is:

The oppression of Sefaradim in the US by Ashkenazim.

Finally, I can vent my horrible pain and discuss my daily oppressions; a thread. Just now, I woke up and tried to get a decent cup of coffee. Not a single place actually prepares Turkish coffee! Not a single bakery offers fejouela, you can’t find any decent baklava, and what they called burekas is an abomination.

You start your day and it’s ruined already.
Mar 11 11 tweets 3 min read
People who are not part of the Haredi community don’t understand how it’s basically impossible for an outsider to credibly pretend to be one of us.

A short thread on why it’s so easy to spot fakers First of all, there is no united Haredi community. It really is a constellation of groups that are loosely connected.

Chabad is nothing like Satmar which is nothing like Ponovich which is nothing like the Mir which is nothing like Slobodka which is nothing like Lakewood, etc.
Mar 10 25 tweets 17 min read
The epitome of "As a Jew;" or how antisemites weaponize Jewish identity to spread antisemitism.

An exemplary thread. Image "Chana Sarah" here has quite a story. Born in an Orthodox family, spoke Yiddish growing up, went to a Chabad School, and a Holocaust museum tour guide


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Feb 14 4 tweets 1 min read
Whenever I make a post about Jews being victims of antisemitism and it takes off, the same phenomenon happens with Jew haters:

Half are saying it’s justified & half are saying it’s not happening.

What’s fascinating is just how angry both of those groups are at the idea it is. I never see that in any other posts that have to do with any other groups or ethnicities being hated. No virulent denial that it’s happening

Some people might be downplaying it or say the OP is making a bigger deal out of it than it deserves, but no “It’s not happening at all”
Feb 13 5 tweets 1 min read
Jews kicked out of theaters. Jewish hospitals picketed. Jewish businesses vandalized. Jews insulted & assaulted for being visibly Jewish.

I'm not surprised that this is happening.

I'm surprised at how quickly it was normalized and deemed unworthy of mention in the public square In a sense, I shouldn't be.

I spent years on this platform discussing how Orthodox Jews were by far the biggest victimized group in America per capita, which was completely ignored as our schools and way of life was under attack from the likes of the New York Times & NY State.
Jan 26 4 tweets 2 min read
Before you feel any pity for these people, remember that on October 7 they were celebrating in the streets and praising the murder of our civilians.

Many of them in fact crossed into Israel and participated in the kidnappings, murders and pillaging.



Image There are many videos such as these. Look at their jubilation at the news that toddlers had been massacred, the elderly beaten to death, women assaulted and murdered, the mutilations, and all of the other horrors Hamas inflicted on the victims of 10/7

Jan 14 11 tweets 4 min read
There is 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 you don’t know about the Chabad tunnels.

The conspiracy goes far deeper than you could imagine.

This weekend, I went over to 770 Eastern Parkway and made a discovery that will 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲!

Read this thread at your own peril. After the nefarious conspiracy was blown wide open thanks to the ever-vigilant and brilliant accounts on X like Morgan Ariel and the like, I decided to take a stroll myself to see what exactly had been going on there.

What I found was so shocking I don’t know where to start.
Dec 24, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
The reason why academics & journalists are silent or dismissing the issue of plagiarism in Higher Ed is because investigating it would quickly reveal just how many people are engaging in the same practices and how the Ivory Tower of Academia is really just copper painted over. Contrast this with Torah study, the truest and purest form of intellectual pursuit: it is not beholden to anyone.

Any person can plumb its depths and their genius will be recognized… if they are a genius. If not, they will be mercilessly cast aside, no matter their background.
Dec 3, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
This is what happens when you invent history.

Arabs from Judea & Samaria are horrified to find out that instead of proving the lies they’ve been told, DNA shows exactly who they are: the descendants of economic migrants who came between 1890-1930 from Syria, Egypt & Lebanon. Almost no Arab living in the land today can claim to be a descendant of the original Arab colonizers from the 630s. Those who can are mostly Xians.

The few Arabs who lived in Erets Yisrael before 1880s are almost all migrants who came from Egypt and Syria post-Saladin takeover.
Nov 22, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Feels like it would be relevant to mention that the handful of streets Arabs are allowed not allowed to walk on represent probably less than 1% of all the streets of Chevron, and they were created specifically as a corridor to protect the Jewish inhabitants from being lynched. Chevron is one of the four holy cities of Judaism & the oldest inhabited city in the land, unbroken for over 3,000 years until the 1929 where Jews had to flee.

So the fact that the Arab colonizers managed to make a Jewish city judenrhein for less than 40 years makes it theirs?
Nov 15, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Reality: Biggest Jewish rally in American History

NYT Front Page: [cropped photo showing barely anyone] “Thousands gather in DC; read more in the back

Also, did you know Israel is assaulting a hospital?! Preventing treatment of Gazan children with cancer?!”

The NYT hates Jews. Image And their perfidy is not just with what they choose to cover and how; it’s just as much with what they choose *not* to cover, and the way they cover what they do cover.

No articles about the kidnapped Israelis who can’t get cancer treatment (or their regular ones), for example.
Oct 18, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
Take a deep breath. Relax.

The greatest Empires throughout history have come at the Jewish people and tried to wipe us out. They've all gone extinct while we are stronger today than at any time since the Second Temple.

A black flag or a tweet is nothing to be anxious about. G-d made us a promise, He swore an oath, and He has kept his word. If it was not for His providence, we would have been extinct a long time ago.

We are a single lamb surrounded by 70 wolves, but we have a Shepherd who keeps them at bay. It won't be any different today.
Oct 17, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
It's becoming increasingly clear that the main message to learn from the Simchat Torah Pogrom is to stop looking at the government, any government, to protect us. It's up to us as a community to get the means to protect ourselves so we'll be safe & sound.

With Heaven's help. The settlements that were spared, and those that fought off the attacks, were those that already understood this message and made sure they weren't defenseless.

We have to emulate their message, at Home and in the Diaspora.

Know your neighbors, and learn to protect yourselves.
Oct 13, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
Antisemitic clowns can’t keep themselves from showing the world what vile and dishonest people they are.

A short exemplary thread First let’s take a step back and see the full context:

Having been accused of being an ignorant antisemite, he decided to “educate” himself by buying the equivalent of “The Complete Dummy’s Guide to Judaism.”

That is, of course, if he even bought it (I’m quite sure he didn’t) Image
Oct 10, 2023 5 tweets 1 min read
Here’s something each & everyone of you need to realize & internalize:

All of those people in the media, on social media, at your work, school or neighborhood, those who declare their support for Hamas and their “resistance”…

They don’t just support it abroad, but at home too. This is a mask off moment, and you need to realize we are a sheep surrounded by seventy wolves.

The people who support this are no different than those who passively (or actively) supported the Holocaust.

They are like those who knew full well what happened and were ok with it.
Aug 22, 2023 18 tweets 5 min read
A short thread exposing @TorahJudaism for the imposter account that it is. I first came across this account right after it posted, and started to pretend to be Jewish and posting videos representing the Haredi position on Judaism, Israel and Zionism. He went under the name “@RabbiAmramBlau”

I could immediately tell he was lying about who he was:
Aug 6, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
So, everyone cared about Jamie Fox’s insta & noticed the 14/88 from RFK Jr’s tweet but somehow we’re supposed to ignore AOC’s “109” in a public statement accusing Jews of subverting American politics through “dark money” & of racism by specifically targeting minority candidates? Just the fact that she says AIPAC are international bourgeoisie attacking the working class through its defenders it is a very specific antisemitic trope, on top of the identity politics of “Jews are white & benefit from the oppression of real minorities” & should be condemned.
Jul 25, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
Such a shame that it won’t pass, because it would solve most of Israel’s issues as far as Haredim and the economy goes.

Have them go through 3 years of bootcamp-like learning, after which they are able to legally get a job. The number of people lifers in kollel will plummet. You can even create a system with yeshivot that have dorms & are as demanding as the army as far as schedule goes. Tests, etc, to show that they’re not slacking off. Make it practical so most get semicha.

Then they’ll turn around and be like American Haredim where most work.
Jul 18, 2023 11 tweets 3 min read
Since "Talmud" is trending, here's something most of those involved in this have no idea about:

When people say it takes 7 1/2 years to complete it if you learn for an hour and a half to two hours every single day without break, they are only talk about a third of a page. Really, you will only be covering the Pink (Mishnah), Yellow (Gemara) and Rashi (Blue), especially if it's your first time. The hardest part of the Gemara, that people take years to master, is the green part and not covered in that cycle

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Feb 27, 2023 11 tweets 3 min read
People are blaming the residents of Judea and Samaria for reacting to the murders of Israelis by rioting.

People are blaming the Israeli government for failing to curtail the killings and failing to curtail the riots.

Here’s who’s really to blame:

The Palestinian Authority. If they enforced their own laws,guns wouldn’t be proliferating to the point where it’s so easy to buy a weapon and murder Israeli civilians.

If they enforced the law, they would arrest the murderers.

If they enforced the law, they wouldn’t allow terrorist groups to multiply.