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Jonathan Alter retweeted
"Hope built this place...and hope still lives here."
This is a beautiful, impactful message and video from @JamesTalarico.
He is playing against the hateful tenor of our times, and betting on Texans to reject an onslaught of hundreds of millions of dollars in negative ads, paid for by @ElonMusk, @MAGA Inc. and others on behalf of Ken Paxton.
Jonathan Alter retweeted
Friend @jonathanalter states it perfectly and succinctly..not that the antisemites, antizionists and those with Israel Derangement Syndrome will read and reflect
Jonathan Alter retweeted
This Einstein meme is false but will never die because many sharing it are uninterested in the complicated historical facts but rather in selectively suborning history to serve contemporary political purposes. But for those interested in the facts: theatlantic.com/politics/202…
Jonathan Alter retweeted
I don't know anything about Rep. Long, but he is a great American.
Jonathan Alter retweeted
Look what Zionists have done to these Gazan kids.
Actually, they're Yemeni kids starving because Saudi Arabia and Iran-backed Houthis blocked aid to feed them. Over 85k under 5 have died.
You don't hear about it because Muslim lives only matter when the US or Israel takes them.
Jonathan Alter retweeted
The "Babel" restaurant has reopened in Gaza in recent days.
What is surprising is not the luxury and abundance, as usual, but rather what an Arabic TG channel named Al-Minkhal wrote about it.
I am copying his words:
"I swear, if I were the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I would take these videos and show them to the whole world. Anyone who says there's a famine in Gaza, or that Israel is failing to provide sufficient humanitarian aid, or that Israel isn't allowing enough trucks to enter, is lying."
Jonathan Alter retweeted
Some numbers tell a dispositive story.
1939: 40 million Arabs in the world.
2026: 450 million Arabs in the world
1939: 17 million Jews in the world.
2026: 16 million Jews in the world
1939: 4 sovereign Arab states
2026: 22 sovereign Arab states
1939: 0 sovereign Jewish states.
2026: 1 sovereign Jewish state
Tell me again what the argument is about.
Jonathan Alter retweeted
Here’s what the media doesn’t tell you about the caricature of Israel you have in your mind.
In less than two hours, over 7 million Jewish Israelis will mark Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Some will go to synagogue. Some will go to the beach. Nobody will drive unless they have to. Many will not eat or drink for 25 hours, religious or not.
Then you have over 2 million Arab Israelis who will go on with their lives as usual. Many will not drive in mixed cities out of respect for their Jewish neighbors. Nobody will drive in Jewish neighborhoods. And the hospitals will only be filled with Arab doctors and nurses to let their Jewish colleagues observe the day at home. (The opposite happens on Ramadan.)
Not long ago I went out to run a few last-minute errands before the holiday begins. Every Arab I interacted with – at the dry cleaners, in the supermarket, in the elevator – wished me an easy fast.
Every one.
It happens every holiday. Any holiday. Their holidays and ours.
This is the real Israel. A country filled with Jews and Arabs that get along better than anywhere else on this planet, that nobody shows you because it’s simply not newsworthy.
It’s everyday life.
To all those who observe – have an easy fast.
גמר חתימה טובה
Jonathan Alter retweeted
You can see the Hamas terrorist hesitate at the end of the video before he shoots the young woman.
This is the evil of October 7th.
This is the evil Israel is fighting.
Jonathan Alter retweeted
96% of Jews in Poland were murdered by the Nazis. That is genocide.
3% of Gaza’s population, mostly male combatants, died in the war they started. That is not genocide.
Jonathan Alter retweeted
Ed Sheeran got on stage and spoke about the many injustices currently taking place around the world.
He brought attention to the genocides in Sudan, Myanmar, Ethiopia, and Nigeria;
He pleaded for an end to Russia / Ukraine war which has resulted in over 2 million dead;
Speaking with passion, he brought attention to the mass killings in Congo;
He spoke with conviction about gender apartheid in Afghanistan;
He rallied for people to pay attention to what’s happening in Syria and Yemen, countries where tens of millions are trapped in poverty;
He shone a light on the ongoing wars in Burkina Faso and Mali;
Finally, he begged that help be sent to Haiti, currently facing a deep security and humanitarian crisis, a country where armed gangs controll most of the capital and large parts of the country, and complete lawlessness runs rampant; it is located just 700 miles from the U.S.
Just kidding…
He didn’t talk about any of these conflicts.
Ed Sheeran only mentioned Israel,
He painted a picture that Israel is mistreating innocent Palestinians.
Then he started to cry.
Jonathan Alter retweeted
Wonderful class on critical thinking….
This is utterly brilliant. A student accuses @jk_rowling of being transphobic. This teacher skilfully dissects the claim and challenges it by asking questions.
He teaches not what to think, but how to think critically.
Watch until the end.
You see the epiphany in real-time.
Jonathan Alter retweeted
Worth watching: "It is not a genocide; it is a counterattack in a war."
This should be pushed far and wide. Watched in every college class in the U.S. Thank you @billmaher The moral confusion is gross. "It is not a genocide, it is a counterattack in a war...Gaza equals genocide is a lie, an easily provable lie (as I have argued from first hand observations in Gaza). The fact that so many democrats go along with it is to me the party's worse moment since they undid reconstruction after the civil war...words have meaning...genocide, kill or try to kill an entire people, you can't just change the definition of genocide to mean counterattack in a war where people including civilians die, that's every war..."
Jonathan Alter retweeted
Well, this is not a surprise: A peer-reviewed study from the Yale School of Management of 1,559 @nytimes articles found that its Gaza war coverage emphasized Palestinian suffering while downplaying Israeli losses and Hamas’ role in prolonging the conflict. timesofisrael.com/liveblog_e…
