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Now onto another week of living completely rent-free in your heads… Shavua Tov! 🇮🇱

Israel is crystal clear: every single Hamas terrorist who is still alive in Gaza will be hunted down until the end of their days. No one will survive.

Name a country other than Israel routinely asked to justify its very existence. I’ll wait.

The antizonist movement contains a clear and widening internal split. One faction insists its target is solely the political project of Zionism and the Israeli state, while the other increasingly treats Judaism itself as the deeper problem. Mainstream pro-Palestinian advocacy works hard to maintain the first framing, largely by elevating a small number of Jewish antizionists as proof that the movement is not anti-Jewish. That effort is under growing strain. The first camp emphasizes Jewish participants: organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow, along with religious antizionists like Neturei Karta and progressive Jews. Their presence is presented as evidence that opposition to Israel is a political or humanitarian position rather than hostility to Jews or Judaism. These groups remain a minority within American Jewish life. Surveys over the past decade have consistently shown that most American Jews retain significant affinity to Israel even when they criticize specific governments or policies. These organizations, while loud, do not represent the broader community The second camp rejects that distinction with claims that Judaism is “literally more racist and supremacist than Nazism,” that it has received a historical “pass,” and that practices such as matrilineal descent demonstrate inherent xenophobia and exceptionalism toward non-Jews. Similar arguments appear in online spaces that treat Jewish endogamy and concepts of peoplehood as forms of racial isolation rather than religious continuity. They argue that focusing only on Zionism is a distraction; the core issue is Judaism’s historic attitudes toward outsiders. Historical precedents show that hostility to Zionism has repeatedly coexisted with or served as a vehicle for hostility to Jews as such. In Mein Kampf, Hitler dismissed Zionism as a deception. He wrote that while Zionists claimed to seek a state in Palestine, “the Jews again slyly dupe the dumb Goyim. It doesn’t even enter their heads to build up a Jewish state in Palestine for the purpose of living there; all they want is a central organization for their international world swindle, endowed with its own sovereign rights and removed from the intervention of other states: a haven for convicted scoundrels and a university for budding crooks.” The Nazi regime never supported a sovereign Jewish state and framed Zionism as part of a global Jewish conspiracy while seeking Arab alliances against it. In the Soviet Union, the Yevsektsiya (Jewish sections of the Communist party) provides another case. They were charged with dismantling traditional Jewish life: closing synagogues and yeshivas, suppressing Hebrew and Zionism, and pushing assimilation into a Soviet identity. Their activities included raids on Jewish groups and campaigns against religious observance. Many of the section’s leaders were later purged. These are undeniable parallels between Soviet antisemitism and the use of Jewish antizionists today to legitimize broader campaigns against Jewish communal institutions or identity. Media coverage, particularly in outlets such as The New York Times, has for decades highlighted American Jewish distancing from Israel while generally avoiding explicit attacks on Judaism. Pieces appearing periodically since the 1960s and 1970s (and accelerating in recent years) have documented generational differences, with younger Jews showing lower rates of emotional attachment and greater criticism of Israeli policies. This approach tokenizes a minority viewpoint, understates the continuity of Jewish attachment for most of the community, and creates a narrative in which opposition to Israel can be presented as an internal Jewish debate rather than an external pressure that oftentimes spills into antisemitism. In historical and practical view, antizionism from either side functions as a vector of anti-Jewish violence we see today.

The Jewish return to the land of Israel sought co-existence and peace with other peoples living there. Palestinian return and nationalism have always expressed themselves in the form of ethnic cleansing of the native Jewish population. That is the difference. https://t.co/MRRPMP6enX https://t.co/vWKF5c6O7p

If Republicans banned pride flags, progressives would be up in arms. But when Hamtrack, Michigan does it, they’re completely silent. Weird.

Satmar rejects Zionism. Their buses still got swastikas. Antizionist Jews keep thinking the right politics buys them an exemption. The people with the spray paint never ask what you believe about Israel. They ask if you’re Jewish. What will it take for that to sink in? https://t.co/KXCHfYEKoy

Yes, I believe that Israel did October 7th Yes, I also believe Hamas are heroes for doing October 7th If you find this in any way contradictory you’re Jewish or something idk https://t.co/4Yp65LlKAi

No, Max. The issue I take is that the totality of the evidence must be assessed and none of the accusers have done that, so they cannot establish the only reasonable inference. Now, if you have a conclusion other than that of genocide for October 7 in which Hamas went door to door slaughtering innocent people because of their membership in a group defined as Jewish or Israeli, that would be extremely fascinating. We have evidence of them bragging about killing Jews, we have evidence of them saying they’d do it again until the Jews were all gone, we also have evidence of them telling hostages that they’d be back to kill the Jews. That’s direct evidence to support an inference of genocidal intent, plus the circumstantial evidence. We don’t have the same evidence for Israeli conduct in Gaza. In fact, we have the opposite with warnings, vaccinations, plummeting death rates, increase in field hospitals, and even asking for assistance for delivery mechanisms for aid. We also have evidence that much of the infrastructure destruction is tied to boobytrapping and tunnel networks which would find against being the only reasonable inference. Your inability to understand how this works and citing provisions that aren’t relevant doesn’t change the fact that you have no idea what you’re talking about or how this works. Being a keyboard warrior doesn’t qualify you to discuss the law. And no, I didn’t shift the goalpost, I used the same one for both instances.

Remember they tried to tell us Hamas would never go after diaspora Jews and they’re only a noble anti Israel resistance group and now we’ve seen over a dozen attempted Hamas plots to murder Jews globally since October 7 just as they themselves said they would do https://t.co/OkDbOXjg4P

Habibi is a brilliant account, run by an expert researcher who reports the truth about extremism in this country. It often exposes how the state tolerates and even helps the extremists. So no surprise that Byline Times has tried to smear Habibi and complain about the accountability it brings. Byline Times specialises in pointing at shadows. It reported that Jason Arday was driven to his death by the far right. It employs a 9/11 truther. And the author of the piece is Dan Evans, a convicted phone-hacking journalist. There is more. Byline Times is controlled by the same people as Byline Networks – recently awarded more than a quarter of million pounds by Angela Rayner to “fund the future of local news.” Please do follow Habibi and learn from its work.

Oh dear God shut the hell up https://t.co/8MV3KSSVWU

I’m content not to count Mamdani, Platner, or El-Sayed among my allies. But to each his own. https://t.co/xh5uUoPuj4

Me too. @BenMoser123 is discovering what every antizionist eventually discovers: you trade in your community for other abusive bigots, they naturally just treat you like they treat everyone, and you realize you aren’t special. https://t.co/MntyykIYtT

Wikipedia: “the free encyclopedia anyone can edit.” Unless you want to fix an anti-Israel line. Then you need 500 edits, a month-old account, and permission to even discuss it. A small clique of editors froze the Zionism article for a year, and the slander stayed in the lead. That’s not an encyclopedia. It’s a propaganda outlet with a donate button. https://t.co/WsXoFBmPg1

Before the divide between conspiracy media and political media collapsed, you could have someone like an Art Bell. Now, I don’t think it’s possible in this environment. https://t.co/uitOVT6rHf

The part that’s actually disturbing about the Byline Times piece is that people like Gary Lineker, Zack Polanski, Carole Cadwalladr etc actually believe what they are saying. They believe the Jews are evil. They believe Israel has the time to coordinate some organized campaign while fighting a multi-front war and being a country the size of Wales. Israel’s got her hands full and the rest of us are busy securing our children’s schools, ridding our students campuses of hatred and threats of violence and trying to stay in our jobs and industries without being purged over a real and very well funded boycott movement known as BDS. It is disturbing that you think WE are the bad guys. We have been smeared, often by you, had our lives turned completely upside down, our livelihoods compromised, our relationships broken apart, our projects taken from us, our names defamed. And we’ve dared to fight back. That’s what you hate the most. Not the antisemitism which you have zero problem with. The bit where Jews stand up to your hatred. Stunning work. Brave.

Why is it that every time the IDF strikes a target in a Gaza hospital, Palestinians and their supporters act as if we’ve forgotten where Mohammed Sinwar was eliminated?

“ we demand generational change from the establishment! We want a 67-year-old white gentile man for majority leader who has been in Congress 34 years instead of the Jew!” Do y’all hear yourselves?

You cannot commit genocide without the intent to commit genocide and no one, not a single person, not even the UN Commission of Inquiry, has established that Israel intends to destroy the Palestinian people in Gaza, in whole or in part, as such. The short answer is, actually: Americans are susceptible to propaganda and disinformation.