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This kind of rhetoric is deeply un-American and awful.
As an American Jew, I think literally 100% of my personal experiences (as friends, fraternity brothers, employees, business partners, etc.) with Muslims in America have been positive.
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Like every year, thousands of Palestinians visited the Temple Mount to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the first night of Ramadan. Throughout the month, 10,000 Palestinians from the West Bank will be granted access to attend Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa.
Israel continues to facilitate freedom of worship for all religions. There is no apartheid here.
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Did an Iranian Muslim aristocrat from Tehran save more Jews during the Holocaust than Oscar Schindler did?
The answer is yes.
Abdol Hossein Sardari served as Iran's ambassador to Paris 🇫🇷 who realized Iranian Jews in France will be murdered by the Nazis.
Sardari began issuing Iranian passports that do not say the religion of the holder first for Iranian Jews that were in Nazi occupied France, and then to any Jew he could help.
When his superiors in Tehran heard what he was doing they asked him to come back, but he refused.
He even used the Iranian embassy building to hide the belongings of Jews who went into hiding.
In 1979, Sardari's nephew Amir Abbas Hoveyda was executed by the new Islamic Republic of Iran regime, and all of his belongings in Iran were destroyed.
Sardari is assumed to have saved between 1500- 2000 Jews during the Holocaust.
May his memory be a blessing 🕯️
Today, we Jews owe it to Sardari to speak out on behalf of the persecuted people of Iran and help save whoever's we can from the claws of the Islamic Republic regime.
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Chris Cuomo to AOC: "You are killing your party... I hope you guys splinter off and become whatever you really are — 'cause you're not a capitalist and you're not a Democrat."
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It’s hard to believe this is the same woman & yet it is. The minimisation, erasure even, of the plight of the hostages has shocked like few things in my life. I would never have believed these people’s stories would matter to so few because antisemitism is such an effective tool.
Israeli hostage describes being sexually assaulted 'almost every single day' during 482 days in Gaza and how she tried to kill herself three times before she was freed - but not before one final terrifying ordeal trib.al/cW2iz0O
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If ever there were a story that spoke to the cruelty of the ICE sieges, it was
Ofelia Torres's desperate fight to free her dad from detention, even as she was fighting a losing battle with cancer. The heroic Chicago girl died Friday. She was 16.
There are these low bar virtue signaling opportunities that politicians (very pejoratively speaking) on the right are happy to do and it buys credibility with centrist minded people, and it’s so frustrating that the left seemingly lost it’s moral clarity for fear of…an identity?
Iranians own uncle, @LindseyGrahamSC showed up waving the Iranian flag 🇮🇷
Thank you dear Senator for being such a staunch supporter of the Iranian nation. We will never forget.
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Buttigieg: In a country that amended its constitution so you could not purchase a beer and then realized it was a bad idea and amended it back, surely we can have an amendment clarifying that a corporation is not a person and money is not speech.
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One of my former research assistants was killed by ICE in Minneapolis today😢
Alex was the kindest, sweetest human and a ICU nurse with a bright future ahead of him
May his soul rest in peace and this senseless carnage stop💔
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37 yr old ICU nurse Alex Pretti murdered by ICE in broad daylight with zero justification for deadly force. I mean ZERO. This feels like a watershed moment in American history that should enact change, but won't.
Very reminiscent of Sandy Hook when we all said "if that didn't get us to change, we never well!" Feels like another one of those. Because if you cannot admit this was wrong you're either an idiot or a liar, and I think you're a bad person and an unAmerican asshole. The hypocrisy from the same people who have been proudly screaming about the Ist and 2nd amendment for hundreds of years now trying to say protesting and carrying a legal firearm is reason enough to be murdered...what a joke. And the response from our leaders from Donald Trump to Tim Walz is all dangerous and pathetic. Were just a 3rd world country now where masked morons with no training and a gun can kill you for no reason other than "well we won't get in trouble for it tor" Out of all the dumb entities to blindly follow be of your political affiliation, supporting ICE is by far the most pathetic. ICE agents and their supporters the biggest trash in America maybe ever
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If you don't feel we deserve safety here in reality but that the Muslims and leftists do in my hypothetical, what you are arguing is that one set of rules applies to Jews and one set of rules applies to people you like.
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🚨 This debunks the entire Nakba narrative.
On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion stood up and read the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel.
Outside the hall, war was already underway.
Arab militias had been attacking Jewish communities for months, and five Arab armies were preparing to invade.
And in this part of the speech Ben-Gurion said to the Arabs:
“We appeal in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months, to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its institutions.”
It was said during the war itself.
What this means
•Arabs living in the territory were explicitly invited to stay
•They were promised full and equal citizenship
•Participation in the new state was offered from day one
The idea that Arabs were collectively expelled as a founding policy collapses when confronted with Israel’s founding document read aloud, on camera, at the moment of statehood.
History is complex.
But some claims simply don’t survive the primary source.
This clip is one of them.
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Some 60,000 Israelis are demonstrating in Tel Aviv at Hostage Square tonight to urge the government to accept a hostage-ceasefire deal.
Israelis are unified in our message: End the war. Bring the hostages home NOW. 🎗️
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It should be possible, indeed necessary, to hold two thoughts at once.
First, despite the pervasive amnesia about 10/7, the world should never forget that Hamas is the central cause of the war in Gaza and the untold suffering it has unleashed. The primary responsibility for the war lies with its cause: Hamas.
Second, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is morally unacceptable, and all parties, including the US and Israel, have a moral obligation to do their part in alleviating the hunger and hardship that have taken hold in Gaza. Hamas couldn’t care less if every Palestinian starved to death. But the free world must care. And more than care, we must act to prevent the crisis from deepening.
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Governor Tim Walz says when Democrats are back in power, people are "not going to expect us to tinker around the edge with the ACA; they're going to expect universal healthcare."
