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‘Traitor’: Anti-Zionist protesters rage at Mamdani at Oct. 7 coexistence event timesofisrael.com/traitor-an… via @timesofisrael
Jay Moskowitz retweeted
The word genocide is back on a loop. Macklemore is dropped from a tour, AOC calls the cancellation a cover-up of “the genocide in Gaza,” and Greta Thunberg says artists who stay silent in the face of “genocide” will not be forgotten.
Before the word does any more work it has not earned, read what it actually requires.
I have unlocked the paywall on Genocide for Dummies — the 6,000-word primer I wrote as a lawyer and reporter. It walks through the legal definition and the four modern cases in which a competent court has actually found genocide, and explains why Gaza does not meet the legal standard.
It is time to stop using it as inflammatory political rhetoric.
🔗 justthefacts.media/p/genocid…
It's live on Just the Facts: Genocide for Dummies.
A plain-language primer on what the word actually requires under international law, what the recognized cases look like, and why the evidence from Gaza falls short of that standard.
I did not write it as an advocate. I have no brief to defend and no side to win. I wrote it as a primer — the kind of thing you should read before you enter this argument, so that when you do, you know what the word requires and what a competent court would apply.
At the end, I lay out the evidence that would change my mind. Not a rhetorical gesture. A falsifiable standard, in writing, under my name:
Show me an order or a plan to destroy Palestinians as such. Show me a pattern of conduct from which destruction is the only reasonable inference — one that survives contact with the alternative explanation, a brutal war against an enemy embedded in a civilian population. Show me a competent tribunal that has weighed adversarial evidence, with a defense in the room, and returned that verdict.
Bring me those and I will write the correction myself.
Paywall free link in the first reply. Read it before you call Gaza a genocide.
Jay Moskowitz retweeted
It's live on Just the Facts: Genocide for Dummies.
A plain-language primer on what the word actually requires under international law, what the recognized cases look like, and why the evidence from Gaza falls short of that standard.
I did not write it as an advocate. I have no brief to defend and no side to win. I wrote it as a primer — the kind of thing you should read before you enter this argument, so that when you do, you know what the word requires and what a competent court would apply.
At the end, I lay out the evidence that would change my mind. Not a rhetorical gesture. A falsifiable standard, in writing, under my name:
Show me an order or a plan to destroy Palestinians as such. Show me a pattern of conduct from which destruction is the only reasonable inference — one that survives contact with the alternative explanation, a brutal war against an enemy embedded in a civilian population. Show me a competent tribunal that has weighed adversarial evidence, with a defense in the room, and returned that verdict.
Bring me those and I will write the correction myself.
Paywall free link in the first reply. Read it before you call Gaza a genocide.
Someone I've known for twenty years lives a couple of blocks away. He is not a partisan, he does not post about the Middle East, and he is not the sort of person who chants anything.
Out of the blue, he asked me: "Do you think there's a genocide in Gaza?"
No, I told him. By every metric that matters — legal, historical, statistical — there is not.
He looked at me the way you look at someone who has just told you the earth is flat. Netanyahu wants to eliminate the Palestinian people, he said. Everybody knows that.
Not a study. Not a court ruling. Not a casualty figure. Just a thing everybody knows.
I have spent forty years as a reporter learning that "everybody knows" is where investigations begin, not where they end.
Tomorrow on Just the Facts: Genocide for Dummies: a plain-language piece on what the word actually means under international law, how Gaza compares on every relevant metric, and why even the strongest case for the genocide charge still doesn't clear the bar the word requires.
By the way, I know the title will bother some readers, and I address that directly in the piece. My argument is not that the subject is trivial — it is that the word is being used by people who cannot define it, at a threshold they have never examined, with a confidence that bears no relationship to the evidence.
I don’t know, is it just me? Or does anyone else feel like we’ve hung the ‘Mission Accomplished ’ banner over @SecScottBessent ’s office a bit prematurely?
Jay Moskowitz retweeted
Pro-Palestine 2.0 (Part 1): Is anti‑Zionism a useful framework for activism and advocacy, or has it become a symbolic posture that no longer advances Palestinian interests?
Anti‑Zionism has become a reflexive pillar of contemporary pro‑Palestine activism across campuses, media, politics, and online spaces, where the Israel and Palestine discourse is more polarized and performative than ever. It is now treated as a moral credential of a sort; a litmus test for being “authentically” pro‑Palestine, and is invoked as a catch‑all explanation for Palestinian suffering. Yet few activists engage Zionism as a real, varied political and religious tradition, rather than a caricature, or consider what it actually means to different Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian communities.
The harder question is whether anti‑Zionism, as currently practiced and promoted, produces anything concrete for Palestinians: changes in policies, realities on the ground, global public opinion, or the bleak trajectory of their national cause. Increasingly, anti-Zionism functions less as a strategy and more as a symbolic posture; one that often drifts into new forms of antisemitism, entrenches maximalist narratives, and fuels endless ideological trench warfare with no path to resolution. The result is a framework that is outdated, strategically empty, and ultimately incapable of improving Palestinian realities or advancing a serious political project.
Congrats to all my hemp friends for the 30 day reprieve of the hemp ban. The hard work is ahead. Not to be a Debbie Downer, but just like last November the ban was passed because congress wanted to get the hell out of Washington, last night it worked in our favor. If nothing else we’ve learned from this torturous process, it’s really really hard to get a bill passed.
The battle cry should be ‘say no to gas Station weed, say yes to responsible regulated beverages’. It has the added advantage of actually being true. The irony is that for the most part, we agree with Senator Budd. We want to keep intoxicating hemp drinks away from children and insure safety and quality. LFG
Jay Moskowitz retweeted
The Great Gaza Scam; Just Listen to Hamas: What you’re seeing in this video is the plain truth, even though it’s coming from slain Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh. I was directly involved in one of the efforts he’s indirectly referring to. This is a confession from a jihadist organization responsible for immense harm, acknowledging that Gaza’s blockade & conditions were not because Israel was hell‑bent on blocking development. Israel became the lazy, convenient explanation & excuse for people unwilling to look beneath the surface and understand what actually happened in Gaza over the last twenty years.
Here, the head of Hamas admits there were real offers on the table: an airport, a seaport, new industries, major cash infusions – opportunities dating back to 2014. Former Israeli officials like Shaul Mofaz floated plans to raise tens of billions for Gaza’s development, and large parts of Israel’s security establishment were open to letting Gaza grow and prosper. Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Western governments were prepared to invest serious money, far beyond just humanitarian aid.
In 2015, I launched a multi‑year effort to build an internationally run, Israeli‑approved airport in al‑Mawasi, southern Gaza Strip. The proposal drew intrigue from senior Israeli officials, including Herzi Halevi and Avigdor Lieberman. In 2017, through intermediaries, I even appealed directly to Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s former chief and architect of October 7, urging him to consider the airport proposal and think strategically about Gaza’s future.
So, what was the price that Israel and the world wanted in exchange for all of this?
As Haniyeh states in this video, the price was Gaza’s disarmament and demilitarization so that it wouldn’t be dragged into endless, self‑destructive wars. Hamas was offered a dignified off‑ramp: integrating its employees and former fighters into civilian police, receiving salaries, and shifting toward nation‑building instead of terrorism. That offer was real, with a political pathway for the group.
After October 7, and Gaza’s vast destruction, tens of thousands killed, and $ billions wasted, Hamas is forcibly entertaining disarmament and demilitarization. This video exposes the “resistance” cheerleaders who celebrated October 7 and the Westerners who insist Gaza could never have developed because of Israel. Listen to Hamas; whether you support them or think they are useful idiots, Gaza’s development was blocked because the terror Islamist group turned the territory into a fortress of violence, tunnels, rockets, smuggling, and radicalization. And no, Gaza and the West Bank are not comparable cases. Gaza had a genuine chance to become the crown jewel of the Palestinian people, a truly compelling model of prosperity and self‑rule.
The pathway forward requires introspection, accountability, responsibility, and Palestinian agency.
Jay Moskowitz retweeted
Hamas has launched an industrial‑scale campaign of terror, intimidation, interrogation, and blackmail against thousands of Gazans it suspects of planning to join tomorrow’s June 26 demonstrations against its violent, authoritarian rule. Hospitals across Gaza have been turned into makeshift police stations, interrogation sites, and torture centers. Clan elders are being coerced into issuing statements. Hamas operatives are stealing phones and posting fabricated messages to sabotage the protests. Families are being threatened, people placed under house arrest, and Hamas’s al‑Qassam brigades (the same forces responsible for October 7) have been fully mobilized to reinforce police and intelligence units with explicit shoot‑to‑kill orders.
Meanwhile, the mainstream press is largely absent, apparently because Israel is not involved – so no Jews, no news. And the Western “pro‑Palestine” industry is either celebrating the electoral victories of pro‑Hamas, hard‑left candidates or actively smearing Gaza’s protesters as collaborators undermining the “resistance.” As for the UN, NGOs, and major human‑rights organizations: silence. Not a word for Palestinians risking their lives to say they are done with Hamas’s terror and rule.
This is what the abandonment of Palestinians in Gaza looks like. Shame on all who stay silent in the face of jihadi, ISIS‑like violence against the very people they claim to champion.
Today marks my last day at Bimble, the company my wife Janet Silverstein and I founded eight years ago.
When we started, I was a bond trader with zero CPG experience and no shortage of people telling me I was crazy.
But we built something real. We started as a CBD drink in a glass bottle, and we never stopped evolving. We reformulated, we redesigned, we listened to our customers and got better. We were among the first hemp beverage companies to post third-party lab results on our website — not because anyone made us, but because we believed transparency wasn't optional. When the rest of the industry caught up, we'd already moved on to the next thing.
We sourced raw honey from beekeepers I trust personally — honey that's fragrant, unprocessed, and never derived from sugar water. We insisted on premium marketing because we believed the cannabis beverage space deserved better than what it was getting. And above all, we made a drink that actually tasted good.
I did everything. Finance, operations, production oversight, marketing, sales — and yes, I even learned how to drive a forklift. The experience was both energizing and deeply rewarding. There is nothing quite like seeing something you built from nothing sitting on a store shelf.
A year ago, a new group came in and I had high hopes we'd continue the trajectory Janet and I had been on. Unfortunately, that wasn't meant to be. Finding the right partners is one of the hardest things in business. I found the right one 43 years ago when I found Janet — but lightning doesn't always strike twice.
I'm proud of what we built. I'm grateful to every customer who took a chance on a little honey-sweetened drink with a funny name. And I'm looking forward to my next adventure.
Champion! With an exclamation point. 2 of the last 3 years. Time to hang em up? #fantasy @DrakeFantasy
Questions after week 11 of the league where they play for pay
Why do I ever leave Tet on my bench?
Why have I kept RJ Harvey and Pearsall on my bench all season
Why does someone my age still play fantasy football?
To all the $MSOS trolls who’ve been attacking the ‘Hempsters’ and celebrating the ban: great work! Your stocks are back in the shitter, and you’ve taken a giant step backwards for normalizing the plant, and hurt consumers. Nicely done.