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Alexandra Maratchi Legrain retweeted
My open letter to @ChappellRoan:
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Our new paper unpacks the cognitive dimension of housework - mental load - as a unique driver of gender disparity, relationship discord, and depression, stress, and burnout in women. We quantified mental load using @eve_rodsky's #fairplay system to tease out planning vs execution
New paper🚨! "Cognitive household labor: Gender disparities and consequences for maternal mental health and wellbeing" in @AWMH_Journal. Thanks @darbysaxbe, @YWaizman, @eve_rodsky, @hellosunshine, and #FairPlay for making this possible! rdcu.be/dMsd4 [1/6]
Alexandra Maratchi Legrain retweeted
Manifestations massives ce soir à Tel Aviv et partout en Israël contre le gouvernement. La RÉSISTANCE et le COURAGE
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Très exactement…
Quitte à demander un cessez-le-feu, ce que tout le monde espère, pourquoi ne pas demander aussi la libération de tous les otages détenus par le Hamas ?
#Cesar2024 #CesarDeLIndignationSelective @franceinter
Alexandra Maratchi Legrain retweeted
Esta es una de las fotografías más duras que he restaurado y coloreado, y a su vez quizá, una de las más necesarias.
Estos dos hombres le están mostrando a sus liberadores cómo era su trabajo como parte del Sonderkommando. Pero, ¿Qué era el Sonderkommando?
Hilo:
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Lack of common sense. Belgian development minister Caroline Gennez wants to continue funding Hamas through UNRWA. She is so blinded by electoral considerations that she has lost all critical faculties. 7 countries have already suspended funding by UNRWA including Italy, Finland and the Netherlands. The least Belgium can do is stop immediately with funding and urge the entire European Union, which it currently holds the presidency, to suspend funding to UNRWA as well pending a thorough investigation.
Besides the Belgian presidency is supposed to be neutral because it chairs the EU for the coming six months. The EU should have a common position. Given the seriousness of the accusations, it should at least be possible to suspend the funding. After all, we are talking about European peoples’ money. How can we have so little respect for taxpayers' money and for our European values?
Taxpayers' money must be respected. Don't waste it and especially don't use it to fund terrorism. Is that too much to ask?
Alexandra Maratchi Legrain retweeted
The French rabbi Delphine Horvilleur is one of the most prominent and interesting European voices today.
‘It Always Comes Back’: A Liberal Jew on Oct. 7 and the ‘Plasticity’ of Anti-Semitism
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Alexandra Maratchi Legrain retweeted
Together with women around the world, we say no to rape. Remember. The body of Shani Louk on the lorry, with these horrible Hamas men spitting on her and shouting Allahu Akbar, is the most horrible thing. As a woman, as a mother, as a human being and a politician, I felt a deep disgust when I heard the silence of so many powerful people after these October 7 crimes.
The crime of these girls in Hamas eyes? Existing. Being Jewish, going to a festival. Shani Louk was young, she wanted to enjoy her life. Instead her life ended in the hands of Hamas. She was thrown onto this lorry, and we saw Hamas men dragging her half-naked with this lorry around and spitting on her, shouting “Allah Akbar”. For me, this image is worth more than 1,000 investigations, this image is stronger than 1,000 words, this image says it all. She and all others were someone’s daughters. How could the world let them down?
Anyone who isn’t outraged and doesn’t stand up to what we’ve seen, frankly I don’t know whether that person deserves to be called a feminist or a humanist, but it’s a betrayal. It’s a betrayal of the cause of women and it’s a betrayal of all Jews, it’s a betrayal of humanity.
For all the women and girls I joined forces with other women around the world to call for justice. This is our message.
For the hostages to return home. For justice. Stop rape. Bring the rapists to justice. #UnitedWeStand
Alexandra Maratchi Legrain retweeted
The presidents of @Harvard, @MIT, and @Penn were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism:
Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?
The answers they gave reflect the profound moral bankruptcy of Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth.
Representative @EliseStefanik was so shocked with the answers that she asked each of them the same question over and over again, and they gave the same answers over and over again.
In short, they said:
It ‘depends on the context’ and ‘whether the speech turns into conduct,’ that is, actually killing Jews.
This could be the most extraordinary testimony ever elicited in the Congress, certainly on the topic of genocide, which to remind us all is:
“the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group”
The presidents’ answers reflect the profound educational, moral and ethical failures that pervade certain of our elite educational institutions due in large part to their failed leadership.
Don’t take my word for it.
You must watch the following three minutes. By the end, you will be where I am.
They must all resign in disgrace.
If a CEO of one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour.
Why has antisemitism exploded on campus and around the world?
Because of leaders like Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth who believe genocide depends on the context.
To think that these are the leaders of Ivy League institutions that are charged with the responsibility to educate our best and brightest.
On the bright side, our congressional leaders deserve accolades for showing tremendous leadership and moral clarity in their statements, by the questions they asked, and the respectfulness with which they conducted the hearing.
It was a masterclass of how our government and democracy should operate.
If you have time, please watch the entire hearing. Throughout the hearing, the three behaved like hostile witnesses, exhibiting a profound disdain for the Congress with their smiles and smirks, and their outright refusal to answer basic questions with a yes or no answer.
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Je m'aperçois seulement maintenant que nous étions aujourd'hui, 29 novembre, le jour anniversaire du Plan de partage de la Palestine (1947). Et je ne peux pas m'empêcher de me demander ce qui se serait passé si les États arabes avaient accepté. Vertigineuse uchronie.
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Wow! I completely forgot about it.
The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine (Resolution 181), which proposed the creation of separate Jewish and Arab states in Mandatory Palestine, was a significant step towards the peaceful resolution of long-standing disputes in the region. Jewish leaders, in a demonstration of their commitment to peaceful coexistence, accepted the plan, seeing it as a legitimate pathway to establishing a Jewish state and exercising their right to self-determination.
In contrast, the plan was met with strong opposition from Arab leaders and states. They rejected the notion of dividing Palestine and were particularly against the establishment of a Jewish state, believing the plan to be biased against the Arab majority in Palestine. This rejection was not merely a diplomatic stance but escalated to violent confrontations, severely undermining the prospects of a peaceful resolution as envisioned by the UN.
The situation further deteriorated with the declaration of the State of Israel in May 1948. The ensuing 1948 Arab-Israeli War, initiated by the neighboring Arab states, was a direct challenge to the existence of the newly established State of Israel. Israel, fighting a defensive war, managed to survive despite the odds, leading to significant territorial changes from those proposed in the Partition Plan. This conflict marked the beginning of the ongoing and complex Israeli-Palestinian conflict, rooted in the refusal of the Arab nations to accept the United Nations' plan for peaceful coexistence in the region
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After tweeting this, many Moroccan friends brought to my attention the inaccurate representation of Morocco's map. My intention was to highlight the disappearance of Jewish communities across the Middle East during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Within that period, almost 1,000,000 Jews were forcibly expelled from Arab countries, with many seeking refuge in the newly established Jewish State. For centuries, Jewish communities thrived throughout the Middle East, such as in Iraq, where an ancient community flourished for over 2,000 years, yet tragically, today, there are almost no Jews in Iraq.
Remarkably, Morocco stands out as an exception with a substantial Jewish community that endures to this day. It's an exemplar of peaceful coexistence, where Jews have cohabited with Muslims for centuries, unlike in other Arab countries where they faced expulsion, confiscation of property, and oppression, compelling them to flee.
I cherish the friendships I have with many wonderful Moroccans and appreciate the positive relations between our countries. – at Madrid, Spain
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tens of millions were fed algorithmically promoted disinformation about this strike
but this headline is far less outrage inducing, and won’t anywhere near the same traction (just like this post of mine)
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After Hamas’ "appreciation”, both Belgian and Spanish prime ministers continue maintaining their positions.
Totally inappropriate. When Hamas is happy with you, something is deeply wrong with your position.
Israel is in deep grieving for the moment. But instead of showing compassion and respect, these two prime ministers spit on the country’s face on its own soil at the moment when hostages were supposed to be released and now continue defending their disgusting attitude.
Where are the diplomatic and human decency ? Where is the commitment to build a Europe that at least supports itself against terrorism and radical Islam? Some act as if you can just move on after such atrocities. A pogrom with rapes and kidnapping were committed. Not in a history movie but in reality in peoples lives. Intentionally.
Do these politicians think the families whose children were snatched from their beds, in order to kidnap them and take them away to Gaza, can move on? Some children don’t event know yet that at least one of their parents was intentional murdered on that day.
This is so inappropriate that I don’t know what to say anymore. As politicians we must have the courage to be the voice of those who have no voice.
That is our basic responsibility.
Alexandra Maratchi Legrain retweeted
A little history for those wanting to 'restore Palestine'.
1. Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state.
2. Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state.
4. Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid Arab-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state.
5. Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state.
6. Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state.
7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
8. Before the Byzantine Empire, there were the Sassanids, not a Palestinian state.
9. Before the Sassanid Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
10. Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
11. Before the Roman Empire, there was the Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state.
12. Before the Hasmonean state, there was the Seleucid, not a Palestinian state.
13. Before the Seleucid empire, there was the empire of Alexander the Great, not a Palestinian state.
14. Before the empire of Alexander the Great, there was the Persian empire, not a Palestinian state.
15. Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
16. Before the Babylonian Empire, there were the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, not a Palestinian state.
17. Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
18. Before the kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
19. Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state.
(The Kingdom of David - historic map for those wondering how the region looked over 2000 years ago, and how deep the roots of the Jewish people run in these lands)
Alexandra Maratchi Legrain retweeted
#Israël
C’est l’article le plus difficile que j’ai eu à écrire depuis que je couvre cette guerre. Les maux d’Esther ne sont qu’un 1er témoignage des viols comme arme de guerre du 7 octobre. Combien d’autres encore ?
A lire et à suivre dans @Le_Parisien leparisien.fr/international/…
Alexandra Maratchi Legrain retweeted
Every time I write anything remotely critical of Islam or Islamic culture, I get bombarded by angry mobs who threaten to kill me.
We need to understand that Hamas is not a tiny terrorist sect that hides underground in Gaza.
It is a terrorist ideology that permeates every corner of the world. It's in Gaza, London, Stockholm, New York, Sydney, Amsterdam, Dublin, Doha, Kashmir, Sana’a, etc.
Political Islam is a lethal poison that needs to be understood and eradicated.
Alexandra Maratchi Legrain retweeted
No, @nytimes, Israa Jaabees wasn't "accused of attempted murder." She was convicted. Because her car didn't passively explode, she detonated a gas canister meant to be part of a suicide bombing.
You also forgot to mention that Addameer, whom you cite as a "prisoners’ rights organization," is affiliated with the PFLP terror org.
Stop trying to diminish the crime of a convicted terrorist.
nytimes.com/live/2023/11/25/…
