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Praj Kulkarni retweeted
It's very understandable, since Jews constantly do it, but OP is conflating Israel's national creation myth with the legal case for its legitimacy.
OP is correct. There is no right to return to where ones ancestors once lived. But Israel's legitimacy as a state does not rely on this fictitious right.
Rather Israel is a modern nation state that emerged when Britain abandoned its colony and whose declaration of independence was recognized by the UN.
Praj Kulkarni retweeted
None of them have an inherent right to statehood either.
The creation of Kosovo split the international community, including members of Western alliances.
There are 6000 nations or peoples and about 190 internationally recognized states. Which nations get to control their own state is largely an accident of history.
Praj Kulkarni retweeted
Sinwar and all his followers are dead forever—they chose death and were defeated—but the victors, the people of Israel live: “Am Yisrael Chai.” 🇮🇱
Shabbat Shalom from Tel Aviv.
Praj Kulkarni retweeted
Someone who provided a materially faster horse in 1905 would have made a ton of money for decades.
It's not 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 a bad business model to serve laggards.
Praj Kulkarni retweeted
Private land acquisition is a separate issue from collective rights like self-determination.
The latter does not require the former, and the former does not grant the latter.
Even if the Jewish community in Palestine had all been tenants, they still would have had the right to self-determination.
Also missing:
Any and all understanding of the history of Jewish land acquisition in the British Mandate for Palestine (ie which lands Jews acquired, and when and HOW they were acquired).
Any and all acknowledgment that Jewish land acquisition prior to 1948 occurred via (1) the legitimate legal purchase of privately owned land (primarily from wealthy absentee landowners), and (2) the legitimate legal receipt of uninhabited, uninhabitable swamp and desert wasteland that was not privately owned but belonged to the state, and was given by the state.
Any and all recognition of the conditions (internal civil warfare before the 1948 Israel declaration of statehood, and external Arab states initiating war afterwards) that led to “taking land off of” previous inhabitants.
Praj Kulkarni retweeted
Indian Jews making up most of their team.
I love it.
Praj Kulkarni retweeted
Iran has Trump on a string when it comes to energy prices so Trump is taking it out on Ukraine. It's not so much that it's immoral. It is, but being immoral is part of Trump's appeal. It's that it is pathetic, loser behavior as we all pay higher prices for his incompetence.
Praj Kulkarni retweeted
"Perhaps the survey’s single most telling result is the collapse of support for tariffs among blue-collar workers — the policy’s intended beneficiaries." 👀 agglomerations.eig.org/p/ame…
Praj Kulkarni retweeted
Historically, Jews are indigenous to the Levant but statements like this often end up backfiring because they imply that state legitimacy rests on some indigeneity test. It doesn't. Rather, Israel is legitimate because the Jewish community exercised its right to self-determination when Britain abandoned its colony.
If OP's theory of statehood were correct, the borders of virtually every country would need to be redrawn.
Praj Kulkarni retweeted
“It was Hamas that chose to kick off the violence, just as the Japanese did in 1941 with the attack on Pearl Harbor. Whether in fistfights between people or wars between states, whoever throws the first punch forfeits the right to throw the last.”nytimes.com/2026/10/09/opini… via @NYTOpinion
Praj Kulkarni retweeted
Thanks Trump.
Inflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed says cnb.cx/4hxR5nA
Praj Kulkarni retweeted
America has enjoyed the greatest free lunch in history: highly educated, highly skilled immigrants bringing their talent to its shores. Now it’s snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by turning away the truly best and brightest. These companies aren’t the visa abusers. The body shops exploiting the system are the ones that need to be shut down.
Vice President JD Vance announces the suspension of the PERM Program for Microsoft:
"Thanks to an ongoing investigation, we have decided to suspend the PERM program for Microsoft, which means they will no longer be able to take those H-1Bs and apply for permanent resident status within the United States of America. Now our message to Microsoft and to any other foreign or domestic corporation is quite simple. We obviously want you to thrive in the United States of America. We want people to invest in the United States of America, particularly the American technology sector. We’re the biggest boosters of your industry. We want you to continue to grow and to employ a lot of people, but we want you to employ American workers. And so our message to Microsoft is, you’re great American company, but you’ve got to hire great American workers. You cannot lay off American workers and then replace them with foreign indentured servants."
Praj Kulkarni retweeted
People who freaked out about a few white guys with tiki torches in Charlottesville — who couldn’t stop talking about that for nearly a decade — are totally fine with this hate-filled celebration of the slaughter of Jews.
Praj Kulkarni retweeted
The world demonizes Israel 365 days a year.
Perhaps, for just one day—October 7th—the critics of Israel could take a vacation from their hysterical hatred of the world’s only Jewish State and find it within themselves to express condolences for the thousands of Israelis murdered, maimed, mutilated, raped, and abducted at the hands of Hamas.
Praj Kulkarni retweeted
On the 3rd anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack, I wrote a piece for @TheFP to discuss that horrendous event, describing it as the most disastrous day in Palestinian history, dissecting the impact on Gazans, the region, the relationship with Israelis, the "pro-Palestine" movement, global implications & current grim realities, pleading for a Palestinian narrative shift to move forward.
thefp.com/p/the-most-disastr…
Praj Kulkarni retweeted
Blood libel.
This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.
Praj Kulkarni retweeted
"Anti-Zionism is the only contemporary political movement whose goal is to destroy a country."
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
Praj Kulkarni retweeted
Imagine every Eid, the Jewish community and dozens of Jewish organizations gathered outside mosques in countries that have nothing to do with the Palestinians.
Imagine Jews harassing Muslims on their way in to pray, cursing and spitting at them, sometimes beating them, calling them Nazis and baby killers.
Imagine Jewish students running bullying campaigns on campus, taking over buildings and quads, then banning Muslims from walking through them.
Imagine every Muslim who spoke at an event being asked by Jews for his "stance on Israel," and made to condemn the attempted genocide of Jews before anyone would let him finish.
Imagine Jews pushing Muslims out of political spaces and spending billions on a propaganda machine to convince the West that Muslims were disloyal fifth columnists who wanted to drag the country into war.
Every newspaper would call it bigotry, and they'd be right.
That has been Jewish life for the last three years. fromfrontline.com/p/dancing-…
Praj Kulkarni retweeted
This is untrue... The residency match rate for American medical graduates is near 98%, whereas for international medical graduates (IMGs) it's low 70% for American IMGs and mid 50% for non-American IMGs (foreign doctors).
The real problems worth highlighting are the following:
1. Americans need to go through college and an LCME accredited medical school to apply to residency. By then, most have accrued loans over $250,000 and some near $500,000 at a 6% interest rate
2. Over 50,000 American premed students try to get into med schools but 56% (and climbing) get rejected due to lack of available spots
3. Residency offers close to 42,000 training spots but we only graduate 23-28,000 doctors (MDs/DOs)
The cost of rejecting 56% of all American premed students is millions of dollars in accrued interest on students who are still 7-8 years away from making enough money and who still are likely to take hundreds of thousands of dollars in more debt.
Instead of amplifying tropes or targeting IMGs, what we need is not an AMA sponsored JAMA publication boasting about how we have 158 MD granting schools today, because we had 160 in 1910, over 100 years ago, but a serious conversation about how whether we should subsidize medical schools and facilitate accreditation.
Your kid needs 8 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to become a resident doctor.
High School → 4 years college → 4 years medical school → Residency
Meanwhile, someone from India, Pakistan, or Sudan can finish a 5-year program after high school, come to US on H-1B/J-1 visa, and take the same residency.
High School → 5 years medical school → Residency
Why is it easier for them to become US doctors, and so much harder for our kids?
Praj Kulkarni retweeted
This book was a lifetime in the making—and then it became something I never planned.
I spent years researching a science-apologetics book. It was my entire life. But when it came time to write, I just didn’t have the heart for it. Years of trials had left me feeling dry and weary. I didn’t want to argue about God. Instead, I wanted to sit with Him.
Every time I looked at incredible images of the heavens, I felt renewed. I felt close to Him. I thought about what the heavens were declaring about Him. So I asked a different question: What do the heavens actually tell us about His nature, His character, and His love?
I started off writing a simple devotional, but it turned into something more: equal parts Bible study, personal reflection, and astronomy lesson—with a little history stitched in—along with over 100 stunning images of God’s handiwork in the cosmos.
I love it, and I think you'll love it, too.
The Heavens Declare is out November 3 from Moody Publishers, with a foreword by Lee Strobel.
Pre-order my book if you want to explore God's universe with me.
amazon.com/Heavens-Declare-A…
