Desperately seeking smart reads.

Manhattan, NY
Based in United States
Filter
Exclude
Time range
-
Minimum likes
Bella Center retweeted
To Abdul El-Sayed: You keep responding to people who butcher your name. But I want you to listen to the people who get butchered under the Sharia laws you support. My response to @AbdulElSayed on his criticism of efforts to ban Sharia law in the United States.
130
1,480
4,386
65,530
The oligarchs, the rapists, the pedophiles, the Nazis, the enemies of democracy, the enemies of humanity. So many packed into one horrifying image. If future generations ever ask what happened, how everything got destroyed and there’s nothing left for them, show them this photo.
344
2,241
5,703
93,668
Bella Center retweeted
To the #Ireland football team, so you're going to wear black armbands against #Israel on Sunday? I say good, wear them. Wear them, because you deserve to be marked out. Marked out in front of the world as the shameful immoral hypocrites you are. But you have forgotten something. The black armbands are incomplete. They are of course missing the #swastika. Don't worry, you still have time to sew them on. You can thank me later. After all, don't forget your team proudly played the Nazis in 1936 at Dalymount Park. You didn't consider protesting then. Your side even performed the Nazi salute in Germany in 1939 when everyone knew exactly what the Nazis stood for. Today you are their worthy heirs and you have not let your side down. Your moral standards have not changed one iota. Hitler would be proud of you. Your brains are truly in your feet, because they're certainly not in your heads. You claim to be protesting against Israel's actions in Gaza, but let's face it, what your entire side know about what's going on could fit on a postage stamp, because you are ignorant morons. Where were you on October 7th? Where were you when 1,200 innocent Israelis - including footballer Lior Asulin, murdered at the Nova festival, and footballer Yaron Zohar murdered fighting Hamas terrorist invaders - were slaughtered? I don't remember seeing any comparable gesture from your team for the Israelis massacred then. So, your protest is disgusting, performative and a national disgrace. You are cowards and you belong in the dustbin of history, like your team in 1936. Go to hell. #IRLISR #COYBIG (Image: German and Irish football teams, Bremen, 23 May 1939. Photographer unknown. Reproduced for criticism/commentary)
Community note
The photo captioned here as the German and Irish teams in Bremen 1939 actually shows the England team (light kits, left) saluting with Germany before their match in Berlin on 14 May 1938. alamy.com/stock-photo-th… irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/i… nitter.net/shaymurphyie/s
1,076
1,267
6,331
282,019
Bella Center retweeted
הייתי בהקרנת הבכורה של הסרט נז״א בארה״ב. השקה בלב מנהטן, בלינקולן סנטר, מול קהל אמריקאי בפסטיבל הסרטים של ניו יורק. רציתי לצפות בעצמי, ואני מרגישה שפוספסו כאן בדיונים כמה נקודות מהותיות, ושחלק מעמיתיי גם עשו הנחות ליובל אברהם. דיסקליימר: אני כותבת את זה מנקודת מבט של עיתונאית בארה״ב כבר מספר שנים, מכירה היטב את השיח הקיצוני בשמאל ובימין האמריקאי, ורואה גם מהעיניים האלה את הסרט, שמתוזמן בהשקה בארה״ב רגע לפני אירועי הזיכרון של 7 באוקטובר. כמו שחלק מעמיתיי כבר אמרו, ברמה העיתונאית גם אני ראיתי בעיות מקצועיות של תיאורי אווירה והערכות כלליות שהמרואיינים נותנים, ללא דרך אמיתית לאמת, לבחון או למסמך אותן. יובל אברהם הציג את עצמו על הבמה הערב כעיתונאי חוקר – כלומר הוא אמור לקבל על עצמו סטנדרטים עיתונאיים, אלא שהסרט במקרים רבים לא עומד בהם על המסך. כישראלית בקהל חשוב לציין גם שיש גם תקלות תרגום בכתוביות שהופכות אמירות של חיילים שהופכות אמירות של חיילים לקשות יותר. אבל אני רוצה לדבר על נקודה רחבה יותר שחומקת לה בתוך הדיון הפנים-ישראלי, ולדעתי יש לה השלכות מרחיקות לכת – וזה החיבור המטריד שהסרט עושה בין המלחמה בעזה, לבין עצם הלגיטימיות של קיומה של מדינת ישראל בכלל. באופן מהותי המסר של הסרט נוגע למשהו הרבה יותר גדול מהמלחמה הנוכחית – בעיניי הסרט מייצר נראטיב שקרי ומשוואות שגויות שמנתצות את לגיטימיות המפעל הציוני מראשיתו, מקעקעות את הישראלים באשר הם בהתבסס על סיפורים שרובם המוחלט לא זוכים לתאריך או מידע קונקרטי, וכוללים הרבה מאוד הערכות של מרואיינים שמדברים באופן לא ספציפי. הסרט פונה לפרוגרס השמאלני האנטישמי בשפה ובמונחים שלהם, וכך גם לימין הקיצוני. נז״א מציג עדויות קשות, יש ערך אמיתי בלחקור ולבקר, ורצוי שנדע לעשות את זה. אלא שבסרט הזה, במבחן התוצאה, ניתנת באופן מניפולטיבי במה ולגיטימציה לטיעונים נגד קיומה של מדינת ישראל וחיים ישראלים בארץ ישראל. הסרט מאשים דה-פקטו את הישראלים כולם, וכמעט את עצם קיומם במקום מושבם. יוצרי הסרט מסבירים שהמקרים שמתוארים נעשים בידי האליטה הישראלית: ״השמאלנים״ במודיעין הם אלה שנוהגים כך – מעין אמירה שהצופה הרגיל מבין ממנה: אם אפילו הם מדברים ככה על רצח עזתים ולקחו בכך חלק, אז רק תדמיינו מה אחרים אומרים ועושים. זה גם משתקף מהצילום על גגות תל אביב. ניסיון לקעקע את העיר היחידה שעוד איכשהו נתפסת מחוץ לגבולות ישראל כעיר ליברלית דמוקרטית. ישראלים בתל אביב (ומחוצה לה) נאבקו על קיומה של ישראל כדמוקרטיה, פיזית, במחאות, וספגו אלימות, כולל במחאות להפסקת אש בעזה. יובל אברהם מסמן בדרך לא מאוד עקלקלה את התל אביבים השמאלנים האלטיסטים כפעילים של ג׳נוסייד, רצח עם. כלומר, המסר הוא: אפילו האליטה, זו שהייתם חושבים שהיא ביקורתית ושיש לה עמוד שדרה מוסרי – אפילו הם – בהמוניהם – בני זונות רוצחים. ומכאן זה משליך כמובן על כל השאר. המסקנות של הצופים הן לא על אחריות היוצר, אבל העריכה מאוד ברורה ומכוונת למסקנה אחת. בעולם של דימויים ותמונות הסרט עושה עריכה מניפולטיבית להקמת העיר העברית הראשונה – ומייצר קו ישיר בין הקמת תל אביב ל׳ג׳נוסייד׳ כלשון הסרט. הסרט קופץ ומערבב בין תמונות של הקמת העיר תל אביב, תוך ניתוץ בתים ערבים באותם ימים, ואז, בקרוס, קאט ל: השטחת עזה, ׳ג׳נוסייד׳. החיבור הזה מוחק בתוכו כל דבר טוב וחיובי, ממאמצי שלום, ועד תרבות וקיום חברתי בישראל, באבחה אחת. כשרואים את הסצינה הזאת וקושרים אותה לקונטקסט של הסרט, דבר אחד ברור – הג׳נוסייד שאתם רואים שמתרחש בעזה – בדרך זו קמה ומתקיימת מדינת ישראל, באופן לא לגיטימי. כלומר, הסרט עושה שימוש בכלים קולנועיים אפקטיביים ובסיפורים שחולקים חיילי צה״ל, באופן שמקעקע את כל אירוע הקמת המדינה וקיומה כאירוע ג׳נוסיידי. המסקנה של הצופה היא: החטא הוא קדמון וכל העץ מורעל. אני מכירה היטב את התפיסה האנטישמית והאנטי ישראלית בקרב קיצונים בשמאל ובימין האמריקאי והבינלאומי. אני חיה בתוך האקלים הזה, אני מדברת עם האנשים האלה (שהולכים ומתרבים) יום יום. הקטע הזה בסרט הוא במקרה הטוב היתממות, ובמקרה הרע האשמה שכל כולה שיתוף פעולה והתכתבות עם הטענה לפיה אין מקום לישות ציונית בארץ ישראל, ומתחברת ישר לקריאות ששמעתי במו אוזניי בהפגנות שסיקרתי: ״מהנהר ועד הים״ ו-״לבנה אחר לבנה, חומה אחר חומה, ישראל תיפול״. יובל אברהם חוזר ואומר שהסרט הזה נועד לישראלים, אבל בפועל זה בדיוק הרגעים שהרגשתי שהישראלים היו גם תפאורה למען נראטיבים נוספים. הסרט חסר בקונטקסט. אין מספיק על 7 באוקטובר. אין קונטקסט על מי הם פעילי חמאס. ואני יכולה להרחיב עוד ועוד >>>
177
174
1,722
148,386
Incredibly, @FranceskAlbs really said this👇
Francesca Albanese : "Mais non, les nazis n'avaient rien contre les Juifs en particulier. Ils étaient juste contre les gens du Moyen Orient. La Shoah a aussi frappé les musulmans." Quand tu sais : - que Hitler, sans être fana des Arabes, admirait l’islam comme religion "martiale" et "pratique", - qu'il a conclu une entente avec le Grand Mufti de Jérusalem, antisémite hystérique; lequel a participé à la propagande radio en arabe (Radio Berlin), et aidé au recrutement de volontaires musulmans, notamment pour la division Waffen-SS Handschar - et que les Arabes, Turcs et et les Iraniens ont été exemptés de certaines lois raciales de Nuremberg... Quand tu sais aussi que le mot "musulman", dans les camps, désignait les détenus, juifs ou non, dont on savait qu'ils étaient déjà quasiment morts... Tu n'as même pas besoin d'être juif pour savoir... que Francesca Albanese n'est qu'une ordure sans aucune limite.
2
4
679
Bella Center retweeted
"The former bodyguard of Ismail Haniyeh, leader of Hamas, was given asylum and citizenship in the UK — then “plotted” huge foiled terror attack targeting Jews in Europe last year" thetimes.com/uk/crime/articl…
40
238
761
88,188
Bella Center retweeted
Make it make sense; why didn’t Cairo also speak to Doha and here them to tell the Hamas leadership not to go forward with an attack that would plunge the whole region into a huge war? Why didn’t western intelligence pick up on this warning? Cairo must have known that a big attack would create disaster in Gaza and potentially affect the Sinai. Why not make sure it didn’t happen?
Exclusive: Egypt’s top spy flew to Israel shortly before October 7 with a dire warning about Gaza, @vmsalama reports: theatln.tc/cSzmY0kw
15
20
108
10,380
Bella Center retweeted
If Macklemore really wants to show solidarity with Palestinians he should perform at this 22,000 capacity venue in the Palestinian city Rawabi, in the West Bank, which I’ve visited twice (this is my photo). It’s the biggest open air venue of its sort in the Middle East and hosts international acts. And since he’s such a big advocate for gay people he should definitely sing “Same Love”. He could even replicate his 2014 Grammy’s performance when a bunch of same sex couples got married.
Macklemore has announced the "Free Palestine" tour after he was dropped from Ed Sheeran's U.S. concerts for making speeches supporting Palestine. The tour includes three shows set for Dublin (Oct. 26), Paris (Oct. 29) and London (Oct. 30). All ticket sales and proceeds from the concerts will benefit organizations supporting Palestine. "If these last couple of weeks have shown us anything, it’s that something has shifted over the last three years,. There has been a collective awakening around Palestinian liberation, the power of billionaires that try to censor that call, and what we expect from artists right now," says Macklemore. "It’s 2026. Being apolitical during a genocide doesn’t work anymore. People are asking artists to show up, educate themselves and be in community. To use the stage for more than entertainment. To push back when the call for a Free Palestine is met with attempts to silence it... What happened to me is bigger than one artist or one stage. When the billionaire class can decide which voices are allowed on stage and which ones are too dangerous to hear, everyone should be paying attention." wp.me/pc8uak-1lHNwk
548
1,344
13,111
593,785
Bella Center retweeted
New Macklemore single just dropped. All proceeds to UNRWA to pay for the salaries of the October 7 murderers on their books and fund textbooks to indoctrinate the next generation to aspire to the same.
4
9
50
960
Bella Center retweeted
As I’ve noted before, I didn’t fully get this until Oct 7. When Jews are attacked, not only are they considered uniquely undeserving of sympathy, but it excites bloodlust and emboldens more hate and attacks. Why? Because if you think of yourself as not being racist as most people like to do - even more so if your identity revolves around being an “anti-racist” - then to deal with the cognitive dissonance of justifying or celebrating attacks on Jews, and be able to continue deluding yourself that you’re a righteous person lording it over those who are not, you have to convince yourself the Jews are not actually victims, that attacking them is a morally incumbent act and that they had it coming. And in order to believe that, you have to tell yourself the Jews are evil. The reasons change throughout history - they’re Christ-killers, well-poisoners, baby-killers, race-contaminators, communists, capitalists, settler-colonialists etc but whatever the haters tell themselves to feel good about attacking Jews and that this time they’re in the right side of history, makes them hate Jews more and spurs them on. That’s why John Minto said on Oct 7 the Hamas attacks were understandable and was organising an anti-Israel rally 2 days later. And that’s why I say I don’t know where and how all this ends. Because it seems to be this self-perpetuating ratcheting spiral.
There is a claim that keeps circulating, presented as sophisticated analysis: antisemitic violence is caused by Israel’s actions. If Israel behaved differently, Jewish communities around the world would somehow be safer. This argument is not analysis. It is a moral inversion. And it collapses the moment you apply it consistently. When China imprisons Uyghurs, does anyone warn Muslim communities in Paris to expect attacks? When Russia invaded Ukraine, did anyone tell Russian restaurants to brace for violence? No. Never. The causal chain between a government’s actions and violence against a diaspora is only ever constructed for Jews. Every other minority is extended the basic moral courtesy of being treated as individuals rather than proxies. Now look at what the data actually shows. The SPCJ, which tracks antisemitic incidents in France in coordination with the Interior Ministry, has documented a consistent and damning pattern: it is antisemitic violence that inspires more antisemitic violence, not Israeli policy. After Mohamed Merah murdered Jewish children at point-blank range at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse in 2012, antisemitic acts surged by 200%. There was no Gaza operation. No Israeli military action. The massacre of Jews in France produced more attacks on Jews in France. The same logic held after the Hypercacher attack in January 2015: antisemitic acts increased by nearly 300%. Massacres of Jews do not shock antisemites into restraint. They embolden them. They signal impunity. They normalize hatred. And everyone in a position of responsibility knows it. Which brings us to October 7. From the day of the Hamas attack, antisemitic acts in France increased by over 1,000%. A daily average of approximately 25 antisemitic acts was recorded in the 30 days that followed, reaching nearly 40 on some days. In the three months after the attack, the number of antisemitic acts equaled those recorded over the previous three years combined. And here is another detail that makes the “Israel causes antisemitism” argument impossible to sustain: the spike began on October 7 itself, the very day of the attack. Israel had not yet responded. Not a single soldier had entered Gaza. Interior Minister Darmanin sent an urgent message to prefects that same day asking them to immediately reinforce protection of Jewish community sites. Synagogues. Schools. Community centers. By October 10, 10,000 police officers had been deployed to protect 500 Jewish sites across the country. Before any Israeli response existed, the French government already knew that Jewish communities needed protecting. Not because of what Israel was about to do. Because of what had just been done to Jews. Antisemitic violence has one cause. Antisemitism.
61
158
634
47,103
Bella Center retweeted
#FreeIran. This courageous woman deserves western support. But all you hear is crickets from progressives on any Islam-based injustice or misogyny. They are not serious people.
The judiciary system in Iran has confirmed 74 lashes for Parastoo Ahmadi for the “crime” of singing. She sang without compulsory hijab. She hurt no one. She simply used her voice. Now she faces 74 lashes, a two-year travel ban, and a two-year ban from audiovisual activities. This should not be only an Iranian women’s issue. Every singer, every artist, every woman, every man who believes in basic human dignity should stand with Parastoo. Say her name. Share her story. Use your platform. 74 lashes for singing should outrage all of us. Parastoo said: “I am Parastoo, a girl who cannot stay silent and refuses to stop singing for the people she loves. This is my right, one I will never surrender. I sing for this land I adore, for the soil of my homeland. Here, in this sacred corner of our beloved Iran, listen to my voice in this imagined concert, and dream of a free and beautiful nation.”
1
19
63
1,158
Bella Center retweeted
The truth about the Palestinian “Nakba,” by the numbers: The popular picture of the Nakba is hundreds of thousands of innocent people driven far from their homeland, never to return. The actual 1948 numbers tell a more complicated story for both Palestinians and Jews. On the eve of the war, Mandatory Palestine had roughly 1.2–1.3 million Arabs and 600,000–650,000 Jews. After the fighting: • Approximately 150,000–160,000 Palestinians remained inside the 1949 armistice lines of the new State of Israel and later received Israeli citizenship (or residency that converted to citizenship). • Roughly 400,000–460,000 Arabs already living in the West Bank and about 80,000 already living in the Gaza Strip remained in their original homes. These areas lay outside the Israeli armistice lines and came under Jordanian and Egyptian control. • Roughly 270,000–280,000 who left what became Israel went to the West Bank. • Roughly 160,000–200,000 who left what became Israel went to the Gaza Strip. Most of those who left what became Israel therefore stayed inside historic Palestine. The farthest plausible relocation from a depopulated village in what became Israel to Gaza or the West Bank was only 120–140 miles. Those who left historic Palestine entirely (beyond Israel + West Bank + Gaza) numbered on the order of 250,000–300,000. Principal destinations were Lebanon (~100,000), Syria (~75,000–90,000), and Transjordan/East Bank (~70,000–100,000), plus smaller numbers in Egypt and Iraq. This is a local relocation - still within the surrounding Levant area, many of which, their ancestors came from. Jews were displaced too. Historians estimate 60,000–70,000 Jews became internally displaced within the territory that became Israel during the 1948 war (Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, Gush Etzion, and other isolated communities). A much larger Jewish displacement followed. Rising hostility, riots, asset seizures, and official policies after the war led 800,000–850,000 Jews to leave or be expelled from Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Syria, and elsewhere. The majority went to Israel, where they were granted citizenship and absorbed. Two refugee populations emerged from the same war. One remained registered as refugees for generations. The other was absorbed by the new state that received them. The distances, destinations, and outcomes were not the same as the simplified picture often presented. And the distorted narrative does more harm towards the cause of peace than good.
14
54
176
7,440
Unlike @AbdulElSayed, I’m an Arab who is actually from Israel. My family lived through the establishment of the state of Israel and what he calls the “Nakba.” The Holocaust was nothing like the events of the “Nakba” where my grandfather was told to flee by Arab leaders (not Jews) so the Arabs could “defeat the Jews.” He refused, and all the Arab residents who stayed were given citizenship. Those who fled, a large number by choice, were not permitted to return, as often happens in war. That is a catastrophe, a “nakba” of their own making. But there was no choice in the Holocaust, there was no citizenship for those who stayed. You are intentionally comparing a war and a genocide. They are not the same. Your vile attempt to co-opt the largest massacre of the Jewish people in history, the systematic murder of six million people simply because they were Jews, for your own dystopian pro-terror Muslim Brotherhood agenda is despicable. I see through you Abdul. You may be able to fool Western Americans with your garbage, but we know who you really are. یا کذاب ابن کذاب
Clash Report
384
3,088
9,845
254,205
Bella Center retweeted
Within decades the Holocaust will become just a moment in history and denial will most likely be above 50% of the worldwide population. It’s not going to get better but worse.
German town moves to ban new Holocaust memorial stones as conservatives join far-right AfD Heidenau councillors want future brass plaques honoring Holocaust victims kept out of town streets and moved to a cemetery; Jew... ynetnews.com/jewish-world/ar…
7
118
794
20,747
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
221
2,587
11,902
212,131
Bella Center retweeted
yes this is just a staggering lie
Aside from the almost comically outrageous ‘Jews were called Muslims in Nazi concentration camps’ comment, Francesca goes on a long tirade here about the etymology of the term ‘antisemitism’ that is factually incorrect from start to finish. Every word is wrong and that is a matter of linguistic fact, not opinion. A quick Google search proves that. This woman is a brazen liar and it’s a damning indictment on the UN that she remains in her position.
17
43
317
45,459
Bella Center retweeted
All these stories about warnings. How come US intel didn’t pick up on this or other intel? This needs to be a key question of any reporter looking into this How come it wasn’t shared or known by western intelligence Go and look Come and see
Major scoop from @vmsalama, via @theatlantic: Egypt's intelligence chief warned Israel that Gaza was about to blow, just weeks before the October 7th Hamas invasion: theatlantic.com/national-sec…
8
12
64
6,152