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Eli Blumenthal retweeted
Incredible piece from former Hamas hostage Omer Shem Tov in the @WSJopinion this morning.
One of his Hamas captors told him that the IDF had called his mother to warn her of an impending airstrike.
We're living in a backwards world.
🔗👇
Eli Blumenthal retweeted
A violent agitator disrupted Shabbat services at Central Synagogue, assaulting a congregant and a security guard. Just as troubling as the violence itself is the political climate that emboldens it.
American politics has become so obsessively antagonistic toward “Zionists” that even a synagogue is seen as fair game for disruption and desecration. No Jewish space is considered sacred enough to be left untouched.
Antisemitism has risen to historic highs in America’s most Jewish city, with more hate crimes against Jews than against all other communities combined.
Instead of cooling tensions, both the far left and the far right keep pouring gasoline on the fires of hate, fear, and blame.
Eli Blumenthal retweeted
A violent extremist stabbed a Jewish New Yorker and an Asian New Yorker while shouting “Allahu Akbar.”
The attacks serve as a bloody reminder that we are living in an age of heightened hatred and antisemitism, with hate crimes against the Jewish community reaching levels rarely seen before.
Instead of combating antisemitism, American politics has become increasingly consumed by an unrelenting campaign of demonization directed at the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Enough is enough.
Eli Blumenthal retweeted
Mayor Mamdani was elected to run New York City—not to turn City Hall into a platform for his ideological campaign against Israel. Yet he repeatedly spends his time and resources obsessively focusing on an issue over which he has no legal authority, instead of on the issues that impact the daily lives of New Yorkers.
We are tired of the Mayor employing rhetoric that repeatedly ignores reality and incorrectly places one-sided blame for the current conflict on Israel. It is telling that, at the same time, the Mayor remains silent about the world's worst human rights violators. His own senior staff reached out with an olive branch to Iranian regime officials.
In the city with the largest Jewish population outside of Israel, his words carry consequences. They deepen divisions, legitimize the unique demonization of Israel that has resulted in real violence against the Jewish community, and leave many Jewish New Yorkers feeling increasingly isolated in their own city.
Mayor Mamdani, we again implore you to stop putting a target on the back of the Jewish community.
Eli Blumenthal retweeted
Mayor Mamdani did not simply express a personal political opinion. He used the authority, symbolism, and credibility of the mayor’s office to issue what amounted to an official public address declaring that the democratically elected leader of the world’s only Jewish state is a ‘war criminal’ who is ‘not welcome in New York City.’ That is a profound misuse of the office entrusted to him by all New Yorkers.
After acknowledging that New York City has no independent legal authority to execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant, the mayor nevertheless chose to transform that legal reality into a televised political spectacle. Respect for the separation of powers and the legal limits of public office is a bedrock of American democracy; those limits should not be treated as an inconvenience to be exploited for political theater.
Perhaps most telling was what the mayor chose to leave out. His address made no mention of Hamas or the October 7 massacre of innocent civilians. Instead, he delivered a sweeping moral indictment of Israel while erasing the terrorist atrocities that ignited this war. Appeals to universal humanity and justice ring hollow when they exclude the victims whose suffering does not fit a preferred political narrative.
This is no longer simply about Prime Minister Netanyahu. It reflects a broader pattern in which Mayor Mamdani repeatedly singles out Israel while using the prestige of his office to legitimize rhetoric that further isolates the Jewish state and deepens division here at home. At a time when Jewish New Yorkers are experiencing alarming levels of antisemitism, harassment and intimidation, they deserve a mayor who refrains from fomenting hatred against the world’s only Jewish country while maintaining the fiction that this is not anti-Jewish.
Throughout his campaign, Mayor Mamdani repeatedly insisted that his responsibility as mayor would be to focus on New York City and the issues affecting New Yorkers. New Yorkers elected him to make their neighborhoods safer, combat hate and unite a diverse city, not to conduct foreign policy or transform City Hall into a stage for ideological declarations about world leaders.
New Yorkers elected a mayor, not a prosecutor of foreign leaders. Mayor Mamdani should spend less time trying to demonize only one leader and one country from City Hall and more time protecting the New Yorkers he was elected to serve.
#Mamdani #MayorMamdani #Israel
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Eli Blumenthal retweeted
Yes. @JoeSquawk: “Anti-zionism gives the left an out to be antisemitic in my view”
Eli Blumenthal retweeted
I’m Jewish. I have family history that makes what’s happening in NYC right now impossible to ignore. This past week, mobs targeted synagogues in Brooklyn. A child was attacked. This is not politics, this is hatred, in plain sight, and too many people are scrolling past it. I made this video because silence has a cost. History has proven that. “Never Again” is not a slogan. It’s a responsibility. And that responsibility is yours too, whether you’re Jewish or not. Watch this. Share it. Say something. #neveragain
Eli Blumenthal retweeted
People say the left and the right can’t agree on anything these days. But there is this one thing:
Amazon has had its share of issues with the NBA this year but I do love that they have a triple multiview option for tonight’s games.
Eli Blumenthal retweeted
Or Levy, who was held hostage by Hamas, says a mantra shared by another hostage, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, helped him and others survive. cbsn.ws/4sJIhxc
Eli Blumenthal retweeted
Today, we let many of our customers down and for that, we are truly sorry. They expect more from us.
We are working non-stop and making progress. Our teams will continue to work through the night until service is restored for all impacted customers.
We will make this right - for any customer affected, we will provide account credits and share updates soon.
Eli Blumenthal retweeted
again, check the replies
most are vile jew hatred
embarrassing and disgusting for this platform
who are these people? is this coordinated?
dont say bots — these are real people typing these messages
Eli Blumenthal retweeted
The United States strongly condemns the terrorist attack in Australia targeting a Jewish celebration.
Antisemitism has no place in this world. Our prayers are with the victims of this horrific attack, the Jewish community, and the people of Australia.
Eli Blumenthal retweeted
The unarmed civilian hero who stopped the terrorist at the Chanukah party in Sydney and seized his rifle is Ahmed El Ahmad.
Ahmed, 43, a father of two and a fruit shop owner, risked his life to save others. He was shot during the attack and is scheduled for surgery tonight.
Without his courage, the number of casualties would have been far higher.
We wish him a full and speedy recovery ❤️🩹
Eli Blumenthal retweeted
Incredible footage out of Australia, confirmed by NEWS AU, of a brave bystander neutralizing one of the terrorists in the Bondi Beach attack which took place during a Hanukkah gathering.
Australian authorities say multiple people have been killed.
At least two suspects are in custody.
Eli Blumenthal retweeted
Aggressive agitators were protesting Park East Side synagogue, chanting the word “Intifada.” The Second Intifada refers to a campaign of terror that left more than a thousand Israeli civilians and children dead. The deliberate invocation of “Intifada”—especially in a post–October 7 world—is an unmistakable incitement to violence against Jews.
Critiquing the policies of a government is one thing. Targeting a Jewish institution simply for being Jewish is something else entirely. The targeting of a synagogue is not criticism; it’s extremism. It’s not demonstration; it’s discrimination.