Academic copyeditor. Financial copyeditor. #Ballhockey enthusiast. #Raptors fan. https://xitter.cf/t.co/sdI1wF5XLS
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Michael Helfield🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Be sure to check your kid's Halloween candy this year, just found Socrates corrupting the youth in my child’s Snickers.
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Jews are indigenous to Israel.
Zionism is a successful land-back movement of an indigenous people.
Israel was decolonized in 1948 when Jews restored sovereignty over their ancestral homeland after 2,000 years of colonization and ethnic cleansing by foreign empires.
Michael Helfield🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Another violent attack on Jews. A gunman shoots up a synagogue in Belleville. Leaders express their shock and horror. Nothing changes. Canadian Jews deserve to feel safe and protected. Canada is failing them.
Michael Helfield🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
In a world that wants Jews to feel hated, I’m here to say:
I love you, Jews.
Loudly. Proudly. ❤️
Michael Helfield🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Since its publication in 2016, the En-Gedi scroll has been considered identical to the medieval Masoretic Text. My new paper suggests two new readings that challenge this conclusion, with implications for the stabilization of the proto-MT in the early centuries CE.
Michael Helfield🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
How bad are things in Montreal? A guy who set fire to an Israel flag in the Jewish neighbourhood of Hampstead defended himself in court wearing a t-shirt with what looks like a Hamas fighter on it. That's how bad it is.
montrealgazette.com/news/ham…
Michael Helfield🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
At my Oxford Union debate, I challenged one of the most misleading assumptions in the motion itself: “peace with Palestine.” In 1948, Israel was not fighting a Palestinian state. It was fighting surrounding Arab armies. There has never been an independent Arab Palestinian state in all of human history.
Michael Helfield🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
You know what they say, you haven’t made it until you’re on an East Central Illinois regional paper. My public speaking fees will be adjusted accordingly.
Michael Helfield🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Israel is not an “occupation” or a “colonial project.” It’s a country, just like any other country. It’s the home of millions of people who have no other home. Israelis are not foreign colonizers. They are just people trying to live normal lives without being bombed or butchered.
Michael Helfield🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
My family and I escaped execution in Lebanon because Islam wanted to kill us. My parents were kidnapped by Fatah and were severely mistreated. Our home in Beirut was stolen by Palestinian Muslims. My wife's family escaped Lebanon because Islam wanted to kill them. Her ancestors escaped the Armenian genocide because Islam wanted to kill them. My grandparents escaped Syria because Islam wanted to kill them. My brother-in-law's family escaped Alexandria (Egypt) because Islam wanted to kill them. My family and I are leaving Montreal because Islam wants to kill us (the number of threats that I've received forced me to take a two-year leave from my home university). I'm moving to @olemiss /@umdeclaration to defend American liberties and freedoms from ideological threats. @LibyaLiberty, a vile Islamist who despises Jews, is now "reporting" me to my new institution because I dare criticize Islam. Imagine the chutzpah. I will NEVER stop defending the West from the dangers that it faces. Long live the United States.
Michael Helfield🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Toronto ❤️❤️❤️ So many great memories with amazing people that i will cherish forever! Getting to represent an entire country was truly an honour that i never took for granted! Love you all!
Michael Helfield🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
At @EdinburghUni, I learned much about manuscripts from Larry Hurtado, Paul Foster, and Tim Lim. That experience has shaped my teaching/scholarship. For a book on the topic, try Working with Manuscripts. It overviews the why/how and gives practical advice for finding/using mss.
Michael Helfield🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
The Jews are indigenous to the Land of Israel.
This is not a political statement. It is an anthropological one.
Read the article I wrote for @HonestReporting to find out why, drawing on my latest book, The Jews: An Indigenous People.
honestreporting.com/jewish-i…
Michael Helfield🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
A new article traces how extreme weather and #ClimateChange shaped the 250-year history of the United States. It argues that, if we don't restore efforts to slash greenhouse gas emissions, continued warming could make for a grim 300th. #America250 sciencepolitics.org/2026/07/…
