Dan Burmawi:

“I told you, there is no opposing both Israel and Islam at the same time. It doesn’t work. This is a binary civilizational conflict, and if you are not actively siding with Israel, then you are empowering Islamic expansion in the West.

First you need to understand why Jews seek influence in America versus why Muslims seek influence in America.

Jewish influence is defensive.

Jewish influence in America is not about taking over, imposing Jewish law, or replacing the system. It’s about making sure Israel stays strong enough to survive in a region where every neighbor has tried to annihilate it.

Yes, there are Jewish billionaires funding leftist garbage in America, but those people aren’t pushing for Israel or even for Jewish hegemony. They’re pushing the same globalist nonsense as other elites.

Don’t confuse George Soros with Israel. Soros doesn’t care about Israel’s survival. He doesn’t even care about America’s. Jewish leftists and Jewish Zionists are not the same thing.

Muslim influence is offensive.

In Europe and America, Muslim activism is about replacing the system that built the West with Islamic governance. When Muslims gain influence, they don’t argue for defense, they argue for offense.

For Islam, Israel represents the West that those "neutrals" claim to want to preserve.

When you attack Israel, you’re not attacking some random Middle Eastern state. You’re attacking the symbol of the West that Islam has been trying to destroy for 80 years.

The civilizational war today has collapsed into a single choice. Whether you like it or not, you either stand with Israel or you stand with Islam. There is no middle ground.

Neutrality doesn’t exist, because Islam doesn’t allow neutrality.

Its worldview divides the world into two camps: Dar al-Islam (the House of Islam) and Dar al-harb (the House of War), and Israel, as an extention of the West, is considered Dar al-harb.

Stand against Israel, and you are supporting the rebranding of Islamic jihad, the same jihad that is plotting to bring down the West, just as it has sought to destroy Israel for 80 years, and just as it overran Christian territories in the Middle East and North Africa.

Standing against Israel weakens the only state in the Middle East that shares the West’s basic values of sovereignty, democracy, and human rights.

Weakening Israel automatically empowers Islam.

Whether they realize it or not, the far right’s “neutral” position becomes functionally pro-Islam.

You can’t oppose both because the battlefield has already been drawn: support Israel, or watch Islam advance.”

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Izabella Tabarovsky:

“I’m asked this a lot in my lectures: Why did the Soviets invest so many resources in propagating antizionism globally? Did they really hate Jews that much?

The answer is that they invested in antizionism because it worked for them, both geopolitically and domestically.

To be sure, there were many individuals in the Soviet antizionist apparatus who were driven by personal antisemitism. The Zionologists — individuals tasked with formulating the key tenets of the ideology — are the prime example.

But at the state level, the demonization of Israel served much bigger, strategic purposes.

It strengthened the Soviet-Arab alliance. It helped mobilize groups and states around the world against the US and the West, pulling them into the Soviet anti-Western orbit, including at the UN.

At home, it functioned as a warning to other minorities: don’t organize around your own national interests, and definitely forget about any emigration demands.

For the Soviets, antizionism was a tool — and a highly effective one at that. That’s why they kept using it, even when internal discussions acknowledged that their antizionist language was echoing the Protocols and Nazi propaganda.

This is useful to understand because antizionism is still a political tool today.

We talk a lot about antizionist hate, and there is no question that much of it is driven by that.

But there are also political entrepreneurs who use antizionism to get ahead: to gain social media followers, raise money, advance socially and professionally, or pursue political goals.

States do the same: witness South Africa filing its case against Israel at the ICJ or China deploying antizionist propaganda online.

When incentives align, antizionism gets used. And right now, antizionism is rewarded. It’s a crucial aspect of its growing popularity, and it’s really important that we understand it as we develop strategies to combat it.”

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And option three: degrade Iran, Hezbollah’s sugar daddy until it withers.

Eylon Levy:

“Israel has reached two important strategic conclusions, and anyone who wants to engage seriously with the Lebanon crisis needs to engage with this reality.

1) Only Lebanon can disarm Hezbollah.

UNIFIL has been worse than useless, allowing Hezbollah to rearm in plain sight of its peacekeepers. The IDF can’t send its men to dismantle such a large militia.

That leaves Lebanon, which has proven unable and unwilling to dismantle Iran’s proxy army on its soil—or to stop it launching armed attacks on Israeli civilians. In the 26 years since Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon, the Lebanese state let Hezbollah fester.

It didn’t dismantle it after Resolution 1701 in 2006, allowing Hezbollah to build an invasion force and join Hamas’ war on October 8, 2023. It didn’t do it after Israel decapitated Hezbollah and signed the Nov. 2024 ceasefire.

But ultimately, only Lebanon can do it, and it will require a confrontation it is desperate to avoid.

Israel must therefore do two things: a) give the Lebanese state no choice, make it both urgent and necessary to pick a fight with Hezbollah, b) soften up the target.

By seizing a deep buffer zone, Israel is creating leverage to force Lebanon to stop armed attacks on Israeli families from its soil. Want your land back? No problem, if we have guarantees it won’t be used to wage jihad against. Want back the land you won’t control anyway because Hezbollah will take over? Forget about it.

World leaders need to confront the reasons the Lebanese state has allowed Hezbollah to fire rockets and drones at Israeli families, and work with Israel to pressure Beirut to do something it is desperate to avoid.

Lebanon can have its land back when it wants to create a peaceful border.

2) Israelis in the north cannot live in peace as long as Hezbollah is in southern Lebanon. There is therefore a zero-sum game. Either northern Israel is evacuated, or southern Lebanon will be. You forced us into this. So we’re not evacuating our people. You’re evacuating yours. We’re not shutting down our economy, you shut down yours. As it is, Israelis on the border have only 30 seconds to seek shelter… because the IDF has pushed deep enough into Lebanon to give warning time.

Israel must therefore maintain a sterile buffer zone because the alternative is to turn OUR TERRITORY into a sterile buffer zone, and we will not reward Hezbollah aggression.

It’s nasty. I wish this could have been avoided. I dream of a day we have peace with Lebanon and can hop to Beirut for the weekend. None of that will happen while Hezbollah remains standing.

Lebanon must dismantle it, and nobody should make excuses for its failure.”

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We pump the bloated egos of false prophets like Candace & Tucker, but take a good, long look at what unabashed strength and valor look like and just think what we could become if we would focus us on it instead.

He says “I’m glad I have the “zchut - זכות״ to take care of her”. It’s translated inaccurately here as “right”.
But, it should say “privilege” or “honour”.

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“Ceasefire”

Right, whatever.

I’m rushing to do errands before the missile start this way again ( they sure haven’t stopped in the north - nor are we stopping for Hezbollah)

Hoping your Pesach was redemptive.
🌳

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Hamas captivity survivor Eliya Cohen shares a deeply emotional message as he prepares to undergo surgery for the injuries he sustained during the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre. His words reflect both the pain he has endured and the extraordinary strength it takes to keep moving forward. We are wishing him a full, speedy, and continued recovery.

Excellent analysis:

“At its most intense, the atmosphere can take on something almost bacchanalian, a shared escalation of feeling in which emotional intensity itself begins to function as evidence of moral truth. The more one feels, the more one is seen as right. Affective display itself becomes virtue.”

Andrew Abrahams

https://open.substack.com/pub/andrewabrahams/p/the-erotics-of-hatred?r=254zoz&utm_medium=ios

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Izabella Tabarovsky:

“Note the classic trope of Jewish power in this monologue: ‘Israel is in the driver’s seat, and we — Britain, Europe, the United States — are powerless to determine our own fate.
Consider how ridiculous this idea is on its face. He is saying that the most powerful states and groups of states in the world are powerless vis-a-vis a state the size of New Jersey.

This is the essence of conspiratorial thinking and what makes it so damaging to democracies. If you believe that your fate is determined by a tiny state thousands of miles away, you undermine your fellow citizens’ trust in democracy and democratic institutions. You diminish their sense of agency. You divert attention from the real problems facing each society, redirecting it toward a fantasy version of Israel/Zionists/Jews. Why even bother to vote then?

This is precisely the function this kind of scapegoating has served in authoritarian and failing Middle Eastern regimes. It’s precisely the function it’s served in the dysfunctional Brezhnev-era USSR.

The conspiratorial discourse that places Zionists/Israel/Jews at the heart of the world’s problems is now everywhere. It crosses political divides, with people across the aisle nodding their heads to what amounts to the old Nazi slogan: “Zionists/Israel/Jews are our misfortune.”

To say that this is dangerous is to say nothing. At some point, these commentators need to check their thirst for clicks, followers, and monetization and recognize that they are participating in the destruction of their own societies.

Not Israel, not Zionists, not Jews: they themselves are tearing their democracies apart with their own hands.

Which, of course, is precisely the goal of the regimes pushing this propaganda to these useful idiots in the West.”

https://x.com/izatabaro/status/2042963179852951682?s=12

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Far left meets far right in the horseshoe theory turning the corner before your very eyes.

What is on display is not only the shared rabid hatred of Jews, it is the incontrovertible evidence of paid piper platforms with very specific talking points they are told to make.

Remember that montage from Covid "It’s a danger to our democracy."

Well, here you are.


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Buckley Carlson has been booted from his position as Vance’s deputy press secretary.

I guess JD couldn’t continue to double down and keep him now that Trump is finally booing his Dad on the regular.

Wonder who will employ him next.


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As deeply appalling as it has been to watch the world‘s rapid descent into Jew hating madness, Jews carry the recognition of precisely this nature of persecution in our bones.
How shocking and terrifying it must be to the upright and righteous gentile to watch with what ease the world can be set a flame, and with no one but themselves to call it so.

Andrew Fox:
“Silence is permission. When Jewish schools need guards, when students hide Stars of David, when families wonder whether it is safe to walk to synagogue, and when mobs chant slogans that make Jews feel hunted in the cities they call home, when Jewish ambulances and places of worship are being firebombed, the moral test is not complicated. Stand with Jews, or admit that your principles are worth piss in the wind.

The absence of solidarity is a stain. The refusal to name antisemitism because it wears a fashionable political mask is a stain. The cowardice of institutions, politicians, universities and cultural figures who can identify every hatred except this one is a stain.

What the shuddering fuck are we doing, Britain? Why are we not angrier? Why are we not forming human shields around our Jewish community? Our grandparents fought a global war so that this could never happen again. It is literally happening again, and we are standing by and doing absolutely fucking nothing.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/mrandrewfox/p/the-oldest-hatred-is-back-and-i-am?r=254zoz&utm_medium=ios

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Andrew Fox:
“It has been lonely, saying again and again that I have seen it. Lonely not because I wanted company in horror, but because so few people had seen the evidence, and because the world kept demanding instant certainty from those of us still trying to understand what had happened. In the storm of disinformation after 7 October, it often felt as though truth moved too slowly for our age. Falsehood had momentum, and denial had armies, but evidence had to be handled with care, and that takes time.
For months, when I wrote about what I had seen, I could only tag the few senior generals who had sat with me in the same room, seeing the same evidence, and who knew I was not exaggerating. They knew I was not being theatrical. They knew I was not confusing propaganda with evidence. There was a strange isolation in that, because the public conversation was moving at a pace that left almost no room for the burden of witness. People wanted conclusions before they had seen the facts. They wanted moral simplicity before they had faced the record. They wanted alternative facts to fit their biases, not conclusions based on facts.
Since 7 October, I have researched and written about the entire seven-front war. It has consumed my professional life. I have written papers, followed the military and political evolution of the conflict, and have just finished a book on it. I have written both positive and negative critiques of Israel’s conduct. Of course, I am a Zionist in the sense that I believe in the necessity of Israel’s existence, but I have not approached this war in my academic work as a slogan or a partisan reflex. I have tried, as much as possible, to understand it with discipline, seriousness and proportion. (X doesn’t count. That’s part bar brawl, part therapy.)
Yet in this context, all of that work feels almost secondary and insignificant. The most meaningful thing I have done since 7 October has not been analysis, or commentary, or strategy, or prediction, or critique. It has been to bear witness to the horrors committed that day and to relay them when denial tried to bury them. Back in 2024, with a visiting group of senior military officers, I was shown part of the sexual crime evidence discussed in the Civil Commission report released today; evidence far beyond the infamous 47-minute reel. It remains the most horrific thing I have ever seen in my life, which to this day causes my voice to hoarsen and the hair to stand up on my arms when I talk about it.
There are things that permanently alter your sense of what human beings can do to one another. There are images and details that do not fade, because they are not merely violent; they are desecrations. They are crimes against the body, against the dead, against the living, and against the idea that humanity has limits. Nothing Israel has done in Gaza comes anywhere near the horrors of 7 October. The war in Gaza and the atrocities of that day do not merit being treated as comparable entries in the same ledger. No comparison survives contact with the evidence.
I believe Hamas and its supporters understand this, which is why the rapes are what they are most desperate to deny. Every time I have written about what I have seen, the response has differed from the usual abuse. The bots arrive in far greater numbers. The replies are filled with smears, mockery, deflection and outright denial. The purpose is not persuasion. It is intimidation. It is to make bearing witness so exhausting, so poisonous, and so socially costly that people stop doing it.
From today, the evidence is out there for the whole world to read, not just for those of us unfortunate enough to see it. People can look away, and many will. People can deny, and many already have. Still, those of us who saw it know what we saw, and we know why it has to be said plainly. When Yoav Gallant said Israel was fighting human animals in Hamas, I understood exactly what he meant. I will not pretend otherwise to spare those who cannot face what was done.
You may read it for yourself, here. Silenced No More.”

“I urge you to bear witness, too, if you can bear it.”

“The Commission’s findings are grounded in an unprecedented body of reviewed documentation:
Over 10,000 photographs and video segments 
More than 1,800 hours of visual material 
430+ testimonies and interviews with survivors, witnesses, released hostages, experts, and family members 
Victims from 52 nationalities, in addition to Israeli victims.

The investigation identified 13 recurring forms of sexual and gender-based violence across multiple sites. These include:

Rape and gang rape
Sexual torture and mutilation 
Forced nudity 
Executions linked to sexual violence 
Postmortem sexual abuse 
Sexual assaults carried out in the presence of family members.” 


https://www.civilc.org/silenced-no-more

https://open.substack.com/pub/mrandrewfox/p/the-things-i-cannot-unsee?r=254zoz&utm_medium=ios

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Today we weep.

Our dear friend Chava has lost her son in Lebanon.
We are devastated.
May G-d comfort Chava, her family and Am Israel of the wounds that will never heal.

Blessed is the True Judge.

Chava, we weep an ocean of tears with you.

Staff Sergeant Negev Dagan, 20 years old, from Dekel, a fighter in the 12th Battalion of the Golani Brigade, fell in battle in southern Lebanon.

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