stephen smith @sbs888

@ohfarfoxache @RitaPanahi Too bad they can't deport people based on their arrogance and smugness. You'd be the first to be tossed back to Gujarat.

So many people are thanking Ahmad Al Ahmed. The HERO at the Bondi Beach shooting who risked his life — and got shot — to take down one of the tеrrorists. Ahmad is Muslim. Like many Muslims who fight in Israel FOR Israel. Ahmad can never be thanked enough.

@JRkarm @JeremyUnplugged @BillAckman @gofundme You're the very reason there should be no social media.

@funnywhyhow @JeremyUnplugged @BillAckman @gofundme You self-immolate with your (weak) attempt at sympathy.

@AnaKasparian That’s quite an allegation - children tortured by Israelis. What’s your tangible evidence and source. Can you show or cite that?

@EasternVoices This is heartbreaking. Where is the outrage from Greta and her supporters? Other so-called environmentalists? The hypocrisy is staggering.

@1979Cutlass @charliekirk11 Who are those enemies you and what real benefits are you referring to?

@RaychFeldman Disgusting. Why don’t you name the person?

@normanrbrink @JakeWilkns @BarakRavid Post what you want but Israel is doing the world an enormous favor - not just itself.

"[From 2008] @AP, like all of its sister organizations, collaborates with Hamas censorship." @MattiFriedman, AP correspondent (2006–2011)

“Islamists would never rape women Oct. 7th.” A group of Islamist men: x.com/Mr_Scott_Chegg…

This graffiti says "Columbia will burn 4 the martyrs." Looks like they've stopped pretending it's peaceful 'free speech.' @Columbia

Watch this entitled brat vandalize the @Columbia library - without a single thought or care for the wage-earning custodians who will inevitably be called in to clean up this appalling damage.

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“The Torah speaks in human tongue,” the Sages of the Talmud tell us again and again. The Torah, they explain, isn’t speaking to God but to us. And so it employs metaphor and simile and narrative structure. It does not think it is history or science, it does not pretend to be a literal truth. It literally tells the story of the creation of man *twice*, in Genesis 1 and 2, each time differently and with a different purpose. Even its more straightforward narratives - think Noah’s flood - are that special sort of story that grows with you; it is one tale when you’re five, another when you’re 25 and another still when you’re 65. The Torah is, by its own sense of itself, not a chronicle of the actual measure and development of life and history, but a window into their meaning and purpose. The portion of the Torah we will read this Sabbath, called simply, “Names,” is excruciating and beautiful, the beginning of the story of the redemption from slavery through Moses’s great awakening and slow shouldering of responsibility for his people. And it starts, like so many great beginnings in the Torah, with a list of names. These are the names of the family of Israel that went down into Egypt, one of the long lineage narratives of Biblical literature. Why start such a grand and pivotal story with a list of names? Because names are vital to the Torah’s sense of the world. They are the superpower by which mankind rules the world, by which we discover it. Adam became master of his world when he named it. It is how we know ourselves and our surroundings and the context and meaning of things. The Torah seems to know that we do not live in the objective world science tries to measure. That world is out there, perhaps, but we do not live in it. We live in a simulation of that world running inside our heads. Naming a thing brings it out of nameless objectivity into meaningful existence, into the lived reality of the simulation. We name our people and our tribes and our loved ones and ourselves, and thus we know who we are. And from this naming, the Torah shows us, freedom is born. Shemot begins the tale that will lead Moses to stand before the genocidal tyrant and demand in God’s name, “Let my people go that they may serve me!” The tyrant refuses, of course, and thus begins his long, bitter downfall. “Let my people go that they may serve me,” God tells Pharaoh through Moses. Freedom, God says, is service. Freedom isn’t achieved merely with the lifting of the yoke of another’s control. Freedom is attained only when independence gives way to devotion. In this Sabbath’s reading, then, we have most of the components of the Torah’s understanding of the human: Know who you are, and thus who you are responsible for and answerable to. Or as our Sages put it in the Mishnah (Ethics of the Fathers 3), “Know where you come from, where you are going, and before whom you are slated to give an accounting.” Thirty-three names now burn in the collective hearts of the Jewish people, our brothers and sisters locked in Pharaoh’s dungeons who stand on the precipice of their liberation, a negotiated liberation with tyrants who have already catalyzed their eventual downfall. I will be praying for them this Shabbat, and for dozens more of our brethren trapped in that darkness. And I will do so by naming them, by bringing them into my inner world, making them real and substantive so that I can offer my abject apology, at least until such time as I can do so to their faces. Freedom begins with a name. Name them, make them part of your world, so that when they emerge from their dim dungeons, the world that will receive them will be all the larger, so that they will know and feel, if not now then soon, that they are truly and forever redeemed. Romi Gonen, 23 Emily Damari, 27 Arbel Yehud, 29 Doron Steinbrecher, 31 Ariel Bibas, 5 Kfir Bibas, 2 Shiri Silberman Bibas, 33 Liri Albag, 19 Karina Ariev, 20 Agam Berger, 21 Danielle Gilboa, 20 Naama Levy, 20 Ohad Ben-Ami, 58 Gadi Moshe Moses, 80 Keith Siegel, 65 Ofer Calderon, 54 Eli Sharabi, 52 Itzik Elgarat, 70 Shlomo Mansour, 86 Ohad Yahalomi, 50 Oded Lifshitz, 84 Tsahi Idan, 50 Hisham al-Sayed, 36 Yarden Bibas, 35 Sagui Dekel-Chen, 36 Yair Horn, 46 Omer Wenkert, 23 Sasha Trufanov, 28 Eliya Cohen, 27 Or Levy, 34 Avera Mengistu, 38 Tal Shoham, 39 Omer Shem-Tov, 22 Shabbat shalom.

96-year-old World War II veteran Pete DuPré plays the national anthem on his harmonica. The crowd goes absolutely silent. This is America 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@StillShakinIt @HenMazzig So you are justifying and legitimizing October 7th? Everything look black and white for you from your judgmental armchair?

@shim10001 @BillAckman I get it but there is a long list of non-Ivy schools that are equally as good. And if you indeed are an IDF veteran, this idea should resonate reflexively.

@YounessOuaali Do you know who the background of this wicked woman promulgations??! Absolute joke of outlandish lies and gaslighting to fecklessly attempt to counter the rampage against the Maccabi fans.

The gaslighting is quite incredible. The only thing to be done is to present the facts. The Truth. To recognize that for literally thousands of years Jews have been on the end of pogroms, and to add insult to injury, blamed for them. Facts: ❎ Ajax fans warned four days before the game that the Europa League match would be politicized. They warned pro-Hamas supporters to stay away. This is a key point: Ajax fans did not take part in the violence. ❎ Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were welcomed to Amsterdam with masses of graffiti saying: "Kick Israel out of UEFA" & "Genocide supporters are not welcome here". ❎ The day of the match in Amsterdam was relatively peaceful. Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv fans danced and sang together. Ajax are known as the "Super Juden" - they are a club with strong historical Jewish links. Yes, Maccabi fans took down Palestinian flags and sang inflammatory songs in Amsterdam. This does not justify a pogrom. ❎ This was not a traditional football hooligan fight. Which is part of the poor framing by so much of the mainstream media. This was Israelis/Jews being targeted after the game, away from the Johan Cruyff Arena, by mostly Muslim immigrants who had planned a pogrom. Not a single Ajax fan was part of the perpetrators. All the videos prove this. ❎ Pro-Palestine mobs in Amsterdam organized themselves via WhatsApp to hunt Jews in Amsterdam. After the Europa League game. ❎ Officials in Holland & Amsterdam have understood that the issue is not with "football hooligans" but those elements in their society attacking Jews and Israelis simply for existing. The Dutch king said Jewish people must feel safe in the Netherlands, after violent attacks against Israeli football fans in the centre of Amsterdam. Willem-Alexander said "our history has taught us how intimidation goes from bad to worse." Willem-Alexander also said: "We failed the Jewish community of the Netherlands during World War II, and we failed again." ❎ This came at the end of a particularly brutal week for Jews and Israelis watching football in Europe's top competitions. On Tuesday night, PSG fans held up a banner which literally called for the end of the state of Israel. On Thursday night, Galatasaray held up some more shameful banners accusing Israel of "genocide". UEFA, despite having rules against political statements, have confirmed they will do nothing. The picture of a Hamas-supporting Jew hunter in Amsterdam on Thursday night sums it up better than any of the words above.

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