Prof.of Physics, MIT; Weizmann Institute, Israel. Active in '70s in a Zionist group in Russia, arrested, sentenced to 2 years in Gulag. Time to be active again.
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Shimon Levit retweeted
Exactly right ⤵️. And notice what @AbdulElSayed never says about Egypt, where his family came from, whose constitution makes Islam the state religion and Sharia the principal source of law.
No “struggle” there. He struggles only with whether the one Jewish state has a right to exist.
“Palestine” as a proposed nation-state gets a unequivocal “yes” from
El Sayed.
Israel, which has been a nation in this same land multiple times before the modern era, gets a “yes, if.”
The “I love Judaism, just not Israel” line, which people like El-Sayed &@cenkuygur keep selling, isn’t new.
It’s Clermont-Tonnerre in 1789: “to the Jews as individuals, everything; as a nation, nothing.”
Europe would tolerate us as a “church,” never as a people. But we were never a “church.”
We are a people whose tribal faith carries the memory of a homeland in every prayer, every Seder, every wedding.
Cut out Zion and you don’t get a purer Judaism. You get one no Jewish generation before ours would recognize.
There are a few principled “antiZionists:” a tiny Haredi sect that believes sovereignty must wait for the Messiah, and anarchists who reject every nation-state.
El-Sayed, and all of the “antiZionists” like him, are neither.
They oppose exactly one nation-state, and it’s the Jewish one.
That isn’t a policy disagreement. It’s a double standard, and the double standard is the tell.
This is the paramount problem.
“We have to separate Judaism and the Jewish people from Israel”
If the former is true than so is the following:
“We have to separate Muslims and the Palestinian people from
Gaza and the West Bank”
Or
“We have to separate Muslim people from Islam and its teachings.
Israel is intertwined with Judaism. It’s not the same as Christianity and Islam. Israel is the central pillar of Judaism. You can never separate the two. One can not live without the other. Every prayer is connected to Israel. If you aren’t Jewish, you wouldn’t understand. And if you are Jewish and think it is not connected, you have probably never read the prayers or sat at the Seders.
Nobody will define our identity, but us. And us is the majority of Jews. Don’t tell US what Israel means to us. It isn’t just a country, it’s our heart.
Shimon Levit retweeted
.@antonioguterres You allowed this barking mad lunatic and her friends to bring the United Nations into disrepute, and this shall be marked in the history books as your legacy.
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"IDF finds hundreds of Hezbollah weapons in southern Lebanon, tunnel shaft in civilian home," @Jerusalem_Post
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Shimon Levit retweeted
🔴 WOW! Listen to what Ron Dermer is saying! Did he foresee the future?
For those who don’t know, Ron Dermer is Israel’s former ambassador to the United States (2013–2021), a former Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, and one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest confidants and strategic advisers. He is a man who knows American politics extremely well and understands how relations between Washington and Jerusalem work.
And here is what he says:📍
“Let’s be realistic. One day, the United States will elect a president who does not like Israel. It could happen in two years, six years, or ten years.”
But here is where it gets really interesting.
Dermer explains that Israel can still work with such a president.
Why?
Because one day, the CIA Director will walk into the Oval Office and say:
“Mr. President, I understand that you don’t like the Israelis. But if we cut off cooperation with Mossad, we will put the lives of many Americans at risk.”
And the person responsible for artificial intelligence will walk in and say:
“If we end our cooperation with Israel, we will effectively hand the future over to China.”
Then Dermer delivers perhaps his most powerful statement:
“I can deal with a president who is anti-Israel, because all I need to do is explain why cooperation with Israel serves America’s interests.
But do you know who I cannot deal with?
An anti-American president sitting in the Oval Office.”
Now think about that‼️
Dermer is not simply talking about a possible future American president. He is explaining why the relationship between Israel and the United States must be built not on personal political sympathies, but on shared strategic interests — security, intelligence, technology, and economics.
And perhaps this is where the explanation for Netanyahu’s strategy lies.
Why does he speak about Israel’s economic independence? Why does he seek to reduce dependence on American aid? Why does he believe Israel must be capable of securing its own future?
Because no one can guarantee who will be sitting in the White House a few years from now.
The less Israel depends on political changes in Washington, the stronger the alliance between the two countries can become.
📍Ron Dermer’s remarks are paraphrased for clarity. The commentary and conclusions reflect my personal interpretation.
Source:Ron Dermer Warns Jerusalem Must Prepare for US Leadership Shifts 3/11/26
Shimon Levit retweeted
Wednesday night in Tel Aviv, @BoyGeorge did the one thing almost nobody in his industry will do anymore. He showed up.
He came after the threats. After his posters were defaced. After old peers in the music business called him a fascist for refusing to join the boycott.
He sold out Menora Arena anyway, and added a second show dedicated to the survivors of the Nova massacre.
He didn’t just perform for us. He talked to us. About our trauma. About the hatred Jews now face in London, Paris, New York and on college campuses throughout the west.
About why he stands with us when it costs him.
Then he sang “We Will Dance Again.” He also asked everyone who had lost someone who went to war to raise their hands. He sang about everyone who had “lost someone who only went out to dance” to raise their hands.
All around us arms went up.
In this country, almost no one is untouched by one of those two.
I have been to a lot of concerts. I have never felt anything like that.
Here is the hard truth. Boy George is a tiny minority.
Once again in Jewish history, the easy path is to swim with the tide: repeat the blood libel of the moment, which means ridiculously demonizing the one Jewish state as the most evil nation on earth, and collect the applause.
Most of the people doing it have never lifted a finger to improve a single Palestinian Arab life. What they want is the one Jewish state gone, from any piece of our indigenous homeland.
Lending your name to that hate movement costs nothing. Refusing, costs you bookings, your “social” acceptability, and your peace.
The ones who refused have always been few. Émile Zola wrote “J’Accuse” in 1898, defended Alfred Dreyfus against an entire nation, was convicted of libel and fled to England.
Raoul Wallenberg saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews in 1944 and vanished into Soviet custody.
Frank Sinatra made “The House I Live In” in 1945, a short film against antisemitism, and kept standing with the Jewish people for the rest of his life.
We remember every one of their names. We will remember Boy George’s too.
And we will remember the names of everyone who chose to the tide and ride with the wave of 21st century antisemitism.
#boygeorge #antisemitism #JewHatred #StandWithIsrael
Shimon Levit retweeted
Dalia Ziada is brilliant
If you are struggling to understand what is happening in American politics right now, watch this:
"Palestinization" is a concept that I developed two years ago to explain the framework that most electoral candidates, especially Islamist-aligned ones, use to align voter bases in the United States.
We saw this so evidently in the campaign messaging of the current elections.
Shimon Levit retweeted
🧵THREAD ABOUT PALESTINIAN INTERNAL VIOLENCE IN GAZA MOH DEATH TOLL
In this thread I will post several examples where those who have been killed by internal violence inside Gaza, like Hamas executions and gang violence, all appears on the official death toll. This is a huge problem when this list of names, with personal IDs, name, birth date and age at death, is described by Gaza MoH as "Statistics of the Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip 2023-2026", and should officially not include names of internal violence and should only include victims from this ongoing conflict since 7 October 2023.
But it does include many names that should not be there, thousands or maybe even tens of thousands, and here I will provide proof of some of them. The names are checked against the May 2026 dataset, that includes 72,835 violent death up to that point in time, uploaded on this site:
data.techforpalestine.org/li…
🇮🇱 ANOTHER REASON TO BE PROUD OF ISRAEL!
Israeli Professor Ilana Gozes of Tel Aviv University has been ranked #2 in the world in molecular brain research, according to ScholarGPS!
A small country making a massive impact on the world. This is Israel!
Shimon Levit retweeted
Les pionniers juifs, dès la fin du XIXᵉ siècle, ont acheté des terres légalement, souvent marécageuses, désertiques et abandonnées, qu’ils ont réussi à faire revivre.
Des écrivains comme Mark Twain, visitant la région en 1867, décrivent une terre vide, désertique, misérable, où l’on ne croise presque personne. Mark Twain visite la région lors de son voyage en Orient qu'il raconte dans "Le Voyage des Innocents". Il décrit un territoire en grande partie sous-peuplé, rural, pauvre et négligé sous l'administration ottomane, marqué par des villes en déclin, comme Jérusalem ou Nazareth, et des campagnes particulièrement clairsemées.
La région, à l'époque, fait partie intégrante de l'Empire ottoman et est généralement désignée sous le nom de Sud de la Syrie dans l'administration ottomane.
Ce sont les Juifs, dans leur propre patrie historique, qui l’ont rendue féconde. Ils ont asséché, planté, construit, cultivé. Ils ont créé des emplois, attiré de la vie, de l’espoir, et… de la main-d’œuvre. Les registres britanniques l’attestent : l’immigration arabe vers la Palestine a explosé en parallèle de l’essor sioniste. Des familles sont venues d’Égypte, de Syrie, du Liban, de Transjordanie , attirées par les perspectives de travail et la prospérité naissante.
Ce n’est donc pas l’arrivée des juifs qui a chassé les Arabes, mais l’arrivée des Juifs qui a fait venir les Arabes. Le mensonge selon lequel la terre d’Israël appartenait aux Palestiniens, et que les Juifs auraient volée est devenu le socle de toute la propagande antisémite moderne et que l'Europe a eu la faiblesse d'accréditer.
Merci à @PNerval pour son partage particulièrement intéressant.
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A group of well-known Gazan journalists and influencers, who report daily on severe famine and occasionally appear on Al Jazeera, are seen partying and wasting food at Gaza's 'Cafe Soul Mate'.
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Saudis are providing a more responsible analysis of Israel’s war against Hamas than many members of Congress.
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STUDY: Gaza's Population Grew Last Year - Faster Than Most - and Famine Never Arrived, Hamas's Own Figures Show, Debunking Claims That Most Deaths are Women and Children -- Figures 'absolutely rule out' much-hyped UN claim that major famine occurred freebeacon.com/israel/gazas-…
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MUST WATCH: @JustLuai stuns the United Nations by unveiling the rampant racism and Jew-hatred that he grew up with in Yemen — and how his visit to Israel after October 7th and witnessing life there changed his worldview. “Everything I was taught about Israel was a lie.”
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A 14-year-old Palestinian boy was paid 100 shekels by Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades to wear a suicide belt and blow himself up next to Jewish women and children.
He was caught by IDF forces just before he could detonate it.
Shimon Levit retweeted
On this day—November 2, 1945
Arab mobs in British-occupied Tripoli and Benghazi massacred 130+ Jews in three days of barbaric violence. Synagogues were burned, homes were looted, and entire families were wiped out. The British intervened slowly and inadequately.
Violence against Jews spread across the Arab world. Two years later, on November 24, 1947, the head of the Egyptian delegation to the UN warned the establishment of a Jewish state would threaten “the lives of millions of Jews in Muslim countries” and “create in these countries an antisemitism even more difficult to uproot than the antisemitism the Allies tried to eradicate in Germany.”
That prophecy was fulfilled almost immediately. After the November 29 UN partition vote, Jewish communities in Aden (80+ killed), Bahrain, Syria, and Egypt came under attack. In Mandate Palestine, Jews were attacked within hours. The targets were Jewish civilians, including bus ambushes, market massacres, ambushed convoys, and bodies were often mutilated. The war cry was “Itbah al-Yahud”—slaughter the Jews.
The Secretary-General of the Arab League declared against the Jews, “a war of extermination and a momentous massacre that will be remembered like the Mongol massacres and the Crusades.”
The ancient Jewish communities in what had become the Arab world were from there systematically attacked and ethnically cleansed.
Shimon Levit retweeted
Douglas Murray:
“Israel is the only country in the world that’s never allowed to win a war. That’s why, by the way, you have the situation in the Gaza.
You have all the international idiots telling the Israelis they have to withdraw, and then what happens? You give the Palestinians a statelet and they give you Hamas and war.
Anyone who thinks the West Bank is going to be a Palestinian state is now living with the fairies. And it’s not because of the Israelis. It’s because the Palestinian authority hasn’t wished to create a state for decades. It never did. It’s only ever been interested in creating a state from “the river to the sea” as they always say. It’s never been interested in a two state solution.
The Palestinian authority under two leaders now has repeatedly turned down every Israeli peace offer of peace. They were offered 99% of what they wanted just 15 years ago, they turned it down again as did Yasser Arafat at Oslo. They don’t want a two state solution. They want a one state solution, and that a Jewish cleared Palestinian state.”
- Douglas Murray
Shimon Levit retweeted
This is the beautiful Sophia Salma Khalifa. She is an Arab, a Muslim, and an Israeli. And she will show you why the accusations of apartheid in Israel are simply lies.
Everything the haters have ever told you about Israel is a lie. There was no Nakba. There is no occupation. There is no apartheid. Jews, Christians and Muslims live in peace in the land today. They never did in 1948.
Because in 1948, the Muslim Arabs didn’t want Israel or Jews to even exist. That’s why the Arabs rejected every single proposal and waged a genocidal war of annihilation against the Jews.
If you haven’t seen this, you should.
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Shaimaa Rabah is a newly elected councilwoman in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, and a member of Fatah, who was part of a limited set of local municipal elections inside Gaza back in April. After Al Jazeera aired a documentary featuring exclusive footage from Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades about the life of slain military leader Mohammed al-Deif, Shaimaa Rabah shared a Facebook post condemning what she viewed as the glorification of Hamas, which she blamed for Gaza’s devastation. She described the program as “a rich meal of animal feed for the Muslim Brotherhood” and criticized Al Jazeera’s efforts to portray Hamas as heroic despite the destruction and suffering that followed its rule and the 10/7 terror attack.
In response, Hamas and its supporters pressured members of Shaimaa Rabah’s clan with a wave of threats and harassment to compel her to delete the post and issue a public apology, which she did. Even that has not satisfied her critics, who are now demanding her resignation from the Deir al-Balah municipal council, arguing that her status as the council’s first elected woman does not entitle her to disparage the memory of those they regard as “martyrs.”
This episode is a reminder to those who believe elections can produce meaningful political change while Hamas retains effective control over Gaza. Democracy is not the foundation of a free society but the product of one. It depends on the prior existence of independent civil institutions, a free press, freedom of expression, and mechanisms for holding power accountable.
I have shared this concern with Dahlan-affiliated Fatah reformists, EU officials, Arab ministers, and others who advocate elections as a solution to the Palestinian Authority’s legitimacy crisis and the search for an alternative to Hamas. In today’s Gaza, any non-Hamas voice can be rapidly silenced, making meaningful reform, let alone a challenge to the entrenched “resistance” narrative, nearly impossible.
Before any credible democratic process can take place, Hamas’s system of control must be dismantled. Until then, the most realistic path forward is a transitional administration focused on restoring basic services and rebuilding a truly free civil society while removing the coercive structures Hamas and its patrons have spent decades creating.
Shimon Levit retweeted
How can the BBC teach about Adolf Hitler with no meaningful reference to the Holocaust?
In its biography of Adolf Hitler, BBC Bitesize – an educational resource for GCSE students – apparently fails to mention key events which led to the Holocaust, including any reference to the “Final Solution”, a plan devised by the Nazis to orchestrate the mass murder of European Jews. It also makes no reference to Kristallnacht, a coordinated, state-led pogrom where Jewish homes, businesses, schools, and synagogues were looted and burned resulting in over 30,000 Jewish men being arrested and sent to concentration camps.
This pathetic attempt at educating students is so alarmingly vacant of key historical references that it almost reads as a whitewash of the Nazi dictator’s brutality.
At a time when antisemitism in schools is at a record high, how can we expect the situation to improve if our resources even on Holocaust education – let alone contemporary antisemitism – are so woefully inadequate.
Combatting antisemitism starts with education, and the BBC must urgently revise this resource.
gbnews.com/news/bbc-bitesize…
