Different footage of the same incident. She handled it amazingly well. Kept walking forward bravely, even when that group of harpies tried to block her way. (Also she’s reportedly a Turkish–Israeli dual citizen.)

For perspective, Turkey used to be a popular vacation spot for Israelis. Visited Istanbul with my Israeli wife, met other Israelis there, no Turks were unfriendly. (A waiter tried to shortchange us, but I assume that was customary for tourists.) Totally different back then.

Lies don’t go away. If you remember, this one was immediately debunked: it was actually an errant PIJ rocket that landed in the area next to the hospital. I noticed even professional philosophers believed lies, even after it became clear they were false. Thinking of one philosopher in particular who was active on X and whose hatred of Israel apparently outweighed his concern for the truth in this case, though he did eventually admit Israel wasn’t at fault when the evidence became undeniable. (He has an Israeli name so I assume there’s some background there.)

Hanania’s absolutely right but remember it’s been like this for a long time. When Hanania was writing as “Richard Hoste” for alt-right publications it was the same: the alt-right was dumber than the libs and the neocons. Unfortunately, the dumber people were mostly right.

The official Israel account is basically a tourism commercial aimed at Jewish–American senior citizens

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) Tiny Furniture (2010) Silk Stockings (1957)

They’re still doing that “three perfect movies” thing and I’ll just say no one’s listed any of the Warner Bros. cartoons. To me those are the most obvious choice. Of all the live-action choices I’ve seen, the only one I really agree with is The Third Man.

I see lots of posts from those Midwest accounts on here showing Iowa cornfields or casseroles or whatever but THIS will always be the Midwest to me

I expect hatred of Indians to increase. Right now Jews are the fashionable target of hatred, but fashions go out of style and people will get bored and want a new group to hate. Indians seem like a natural choice because of their high status and increasing numbers.

You’re doing great on the social media front, Israel. Once someone explains your post in like ten times as many words as the original, people finally understand it. Keep up the great PR work.

OK I read the article and my earlier reply still stands: there is no double standard between Israel and the US on immigration. Paul Gottfried is interesting, but he’s above all a polemicist. Everything he writes is making a case against his enemies. That explains his silly dichotomy of either “ethnostate” or “boundless immigration” here. An earlier sentence here is more defensible, simply because it’s highly abstract: “If I wish to support national identity for Jews, then it should follow for reasons of moral consistency that I would affirm national solidarity as a value for other nations, provided they’re not trying to destroy my country.” National identity is such an abstract category that this is almost certain to be true for some types of national identity and false for others. The fight is over the concrete realization of the abstract value called national identity. That quotation is especially interesting coming from Gottfried, because elsewhere he’s very critical of “values talk”. (He usually cites a Carl Schmitt essay on the the tyranny of values.) Or maybe it’s my own misunderstanding for drawing such a connection. (Personal remark: Paul Gottfried [along with Peter Brimelow] is probably more responsible than anyone for my paleocon-ish views, which I’ve held for the last quarter century. Every criticism I offer is backgrounded by my respect for him.)