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🇮🇱🇰🇷 A Jewish Hero of Korea: Tibor "Ted" Rubin, Holocaust Survivor, Korean War Veteran, Medal of Honor Recipient
He was still a boy when the Holocaust took everything from him. His mother and little sister were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. His father died in a camp. At fourteen, Tibor "Ted" Rubin was sent to Mauthausen, where every day he asked himself one question:
"When is it my turn?"
In 1945, American soldiers liberated the camp. "They picked us up and brought us back to life," he said. He made a promise that one day he would repay them.
He kept that promise in Korea.
In June 1950, Communist North Korea invaded the South. Ted went to war, first against the North Korean army, and later against the Chinese.
Near the Pusan Perimeter, he held a hill alone for 24 hours, racing from foxhole to foxhole and hurling grenades so the enemy would think an entire unit was dug in. Because he stayed, his battalion escaped.
At Unsan, deep inside North Korea, three men had already died manning the last machine gun. Ted took it. "Nobody wanted to do it, but somebody had to." He fired until the ammunition was gone. Wounded, he was captured by the Chinese and marched to a frozen camp the prisoners called "Death Valley." That winter, men died there by the dozens every day.
By then, his native Hungary had fallen to Soviet control. His captors offered to send him home. It was not mercy. They wanted to pull him away from his fellow Americans and parade him as a soldier who had turned his back on the free world. He refused. He would not betray the country that had freed him, and he would not abandon his dying friends.
For 30 months, the boy who survived Mauthausen kept other men alive. Night after night, knowing that capture meant death, he slipped past the guards to steal food. He made soup from grass. He cleaned wounds with melted snow. He sat up through the night with men too weak to lift their heads. As many as 40 of them came home because of him. One survivor put it simply: "I was skin and bones. He saved my life."
His comrades recommended him four times for the Medal of Honor, America's highest military award. Four times, nothing happened. They later testified that an antisemitic sergeant buried every recommendation. The same sergeant mocked Ted for being Jewish and kept sending him on the most dangerous missions, as if hoping he would never return. Decades later, the U.S. Congress ordered a review of Jewish and Hispanic veterans who had been passed over because of prejudice, and the truth finally came to light. In 2005, 55 years after he fought, Ted Rubin received the Medal of Honor at the White House. He said only this:
"The real heroes are the ones who didn't come home."
Ted died on December 5, 2015, in Garden Grove, California. He was 86. He rests at Mount Sinai Memorial Park in Los Angeles. In 2022, his family gave his Medal of Honor to the 1st Cavalry Division, the unit he fought with in Korea. It is displayed today at division headquarters at Fort Hood, Texas, still among the soldiers he loved.
Ted, you survived a darkness no child should ever know, and then you walked back into the fire for a country that was not your own. The freedom I live in today was built on what you gave. As a Korean, I bow my head to you in deep gratitude.
You never knew my name. And still, you fought and bled for people like me, for generations of Koreans not yet born.
And now, I know yours.
Tibor "Ted" Rubin.
While you were alive, I never knew what you had given for Korea. I never knew that so many of your comrades, many of them Jewish, never made it home, and gave their lives on our soil.
I wish I could thank you in person.
But I learned too late.
Now that I know, I cannot stay silent.
As you did for Korea, I will do everything I can so that your people, your descendants, can live in safety and in joy.
Antisemitism cruelly took the family of the man who helped save our nation.
It even tried to deny him the Medal of Honor he earned saving our people.
So, my fellow Koreans, what will we do?
Will we not work to drive antisemitism from the face of the earth for good?
We Koreans will repay this debt.
For the Jewish people and for their generations to come, we will stand against antisemitism with everything we have, and help tear it out by the roots.
Today we Koreans walk our streets in freedom. We will not rest until Jewish people everywhere in the world can do the same, walking their streets in safety and living without fear.
We will never forget.
May his memory be a blessing. 🙏🏻
🇮🇱🇰🇷Why I Named My Account “Koreans Stand with Israel”
Over the past week, several issues in South Korea have drawn attention around the world, and I’ve been incredibly grateful to see new followers from so many different countries discovering my account.
I’ve welcomed new friends from Europe, Asia, South America, and many other parts of the world, along with many more Korean followers.
To all of you, welcome. I’m truly glad you’re here!😊
Some of my new followers have asked me:
“Why did you name your account ‘Koreans Stand with Israel’?”
“Why would a Korean support Israel?”
Today, I want to share the story behind that name.
Earlier this year, I learned something about history that deeply shocked and moved me.
I discovered that Jewish servicemen fought for the freedom of South Korea during the Korean War.
The Korean War began in 1950 when North Korea invaded the South. The very existence of the Republic of Korea was at stake. Young men from countries around the world came to a distant land to defend freedom and democracy against communist aggression.
And among them were Jews.
More than 150,000 Jewish servicemen took part in the Korean War, and more than 1,500 gave their lives.
Many had already lived through the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. Some had lost their families. Some had lost everything.
And yet, they chose to risk their lives once again for the freedom of people they had never met.
Some came to Korea only a few years after enduring the horrors of the Holocaust.
They could have simply rebuilt their lives and lived in peace.
Instead, they crossed the world once again and risked their lives for people they had never met.
When I first learned this, I was genuinely stunned.
“Jews fought for South Korea?”
I was overwhelmed with gratitude.
And one thought stayed with me:
“They fought for me before I was even born.”
They never knew my name.
They never knew what kind of life I would one day live, what dreams I would have, or what kind of person I would become.
They never knew that I would grow up believing in God and worshipping Him freely.
They simply fought for the next generation of Koreans they would never know.
And I am one of those people.
If South Korea had failed to preserve its freedom back then, the ordinary life I have today might never have existed.
The freedom to walk down the street,
to enjoy a good meal,
to speak my mind freely on the internet,
and to worship God freely—
none of these things should ever be taken for granted.
Someone once risked their youth, their future, and their life to protect them.
After learning this history, the way I saw Israel and the Jewish people changed forever.
Then, earlier this year, I experienced something else that shocked me.
Earlier this year, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, who is influenced by the Chinese Communist Party, suddenly posted a message on X condemning Israel while quoting an Islamist extremist account known for spreading misinformation.
This did not seem like a coincidence to me. Islamist extremist groups and the Chinese Communist Party are connected behind the scenes and support one another when their interests align. It appeared to me that Lee Jae-myung had been influenced to help create a negative public narrative against Israel.
Koreans were deeply shocked.
“Why would our government suddenly attack Israel, one of South Korea’s longtime friends?”
Many Koreans began going directly to Israeli accounts to explain the Korean perspective and show their support.
I was one of them.
I left a comment on an Israeli account, explaining the situation from a Korean perspective and expressing my support.
That was when I received my first wave of antisemitic abuse.
People asked me:
“Why do you support Israel?”
I tried to explain the history between Korea and Israel, as well as the connections between North Korea and Palestinian militant groups and past terrorist attacks in South Korea.
But one of the responses I received was:
“I’ll kill you just like those civilians who were killed by terrorism carried out by North Korean and Palestinian militant groups.”
I was completely stunned.
But that experience led me to look more closely at Israeli accounts.
And what I saw shocked me all over again.
I saw ordinary Israelis sharing their daily lives,
beautiful scenes from Israel,
stories about their families and food,
and small pieces of good news from their country—
only to be met with waves of hatred and abuse.
I also began seeing videos and reports about antisemitic crimes and threats that Israeli accounts were sharing.
For the first time in my life, I was witnessing antisemitism with my own eyes.
Growing up in South Korea, I simply had very little opportunity to encounter this reality firsthand.
That was when I realized:
“There was a world I had known almost nothing about.”
And I began asking myself:
“What can I do?”
Recently, while I was praying, I felt a deep conviction in my heart that antisemitism had become dangerously severe and that Jewish people were facing a time of great danger.
I felt called to raise my voice in support of Israel.
There is one verse that has stayed in my heart:
“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.”
— Proverbs 17:17
I support Israel because Israel and the Jewish people stood with us first.
Israel itself was a newly established nation, only two years old, and was facing tremendous difficulties of its own.
Yet during the Korean War, Israel provided South Korea with material aid, including rice and medical supplies, worth approximately $96,600 at the time.
I believe this, too, is an important part of our history that deserves to be remembered.
Because Jewish servicemen fought as part of the U.S., British Commonwealth, and other Allied forces, their stories were not widely recognized as part of the history of Korea’s defense.
I myself only discovered this moving history earlier this year.
And even today, many Koreans still do not know about it.
If even Koreans themselves know so little about this history, how many people around the world know about it?
Probably very few.
That is why I want to tell this story.
Especially now, when so many hateful accusations are being directed at Jewish people:
“You are greedy.”
“You are a group conspiring to control the world.”
“You are harming the entire world.”
I do not want to answer hatred with more hatred.
I want to answer it with history.
I want people to know that Jewish men once risked their lives for the people of South Korea and the generations that would come after them—people whose names they did not even know—and for freedom and democracy around the world.
They did not know us.
But they fought for us.
And I believe that now, when their descendants are going through another difficult and frightening time, we should not turn our backs on them.
So I ask myself:
“What can I give back to them?”
And I believe the answer is this:
“Now it is our turn to take their hand.”
Because they were the ones who reached out and took South Korea’s hand first.
I believe one of the deepest values in Korean culture is the belief that we should never forget a kindness we have received—and that, someday, we should repay it.
We do not easily forget a debt of gratitude.
Even when many years pass, we remember.
And someday, we try to repay it.
That is why I am writing this.
To remember the kindness we received decades ago.
And if Jewish people are once again going through one of the darkest periods of their lives, I want to stand beside them.
When antisemitism rises, I will raise my voice.
When people forget this history, I will tell it again.
And I will tell this story to the world.
“We remember that you fought for South Korea.”
So I will not change the name of this account.
Some people ask me:
“You post so much about Korea. Wouldn’t it make more sense to change your account name to something related to Korean news?”
No.
I will not change it.
Until when?
Until antisemitism disappears from this world, and until the stories of the Jewish servicemen who fought for the freedom of South Korea are known around the world.
Until the world remembers the footsteps they took toward Korea and the hand they reached out to us.
I will keep telling this story.
Because they gave their lives for the next generation of Koreans like me—people they would never meet, people who had not even been born when they made that sacrifice.
They never knew my name.
But now I know their story.
And I want to remember them.
I want to say to them:
“You were the ones who reached out and took South Korea’s hand first.”
“We have not forgotten that kindness.”
“Now it is our turn to take yours.”
The debt we incurred 76 years ago—it is time to repay it.
“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.”
— Proverbs 17:17
We will remember.
And we will repay that debt of gratitude.
Koreans Stand with Israel. 🇰🇷🇮🇱
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📷 Photo Captions
1. On January 8, 1951, Captain Oscar M. Kupschutz, a Jewish chaplain with the U.S. Eighth Army, kneels in prayer at the grave of a fallen Jewish serviceman at the UN Cemetery in Daegu.
2. On August 10, 1952, Samuel Sobel, a Jewish chaplain from Hawaii serving with the U.S. Marine Corps 1st Division, blows the shofar during a Rosh Hashanah service held to celebrate the Jewish New Year during the Korean War.
3. On May 29, 1954, Jewish American servicemen attend a Shavuot service at the site known as the “Sinai of Korea.” Although the war had ended in 1953, Jewish servicemen remained in Korea as part of the post-armistice forces, helping maintain the peace.
4. The headstone of Corporal M. Ritterband, a 26-year-old Jewish British soldier who now rests at the UN Memorial Cemetery in Busan after giving his life for Korea in 1951.
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A recently arrived immigrant from Afghanistan has been charged after police found Islamic State beheading videos on his phone.
Mohammad Emad Uddin Ahmadzai, 31, was arrested at Melbourne Airport while trying to fly to Afghanistan.
AFP charged him with possessing violent extremist material and refusing to give police access to his devices.
A May raid on the home he shared with his brother seized phones and a tablet.
Forensic analysis later allegedly found graphic videos of beheadings, throat cuttings, a hostage shot in the head at close range, images of mass casualties, dead children and ISIS flags and logos.
He is the sixth Afghan man charged in Melbourne from the same group chat.
Magistrate Samantha Seoud denied bail, calling the alleged offending serious and the prosecution case “not weak”
Question for Albanese, why do you keep bringing people in from the biggest terrorist hotspots in the world, when history shows us the end result?
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We will all soon know what it feels like to be Jewish. In France, they already do.
It will be our just deserts for having abandoned the Jews, ignored their warnings, turned against them, and even marched alongside their oppressors.
For three years, you useful idiots have been parading Palestinian flags, sporting keffiyehs, screaming “From the River to the Sea”, and recognizing a fictitious Palestinian state as a reward for Hamas’s October 7 massacre (looking at you, @EmmanuelMacron). You have boycotted the only Jewish state in the world, vilified the Jewish people’s right to self-determination (aka “Zionism”), and spread the “Gaza genocide” blood libel.
Did you really think that if you fed the crocodile enough Jewish flesh, it would eventually be satiated? All you have done is embolden the monster and whet its appetite.
So you were worried about “colonization”? Look around. The only thing being colonized here are our own Western cities. The Palestinian flag has become a victory banner, proudly waved amid the ruins of looted and vandalized historic buildings—a symbol of hatred for our civilization and everything it stands for.
It never ends with the Jews.
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BREAKING: A Frenchman whose shop was destroyed confronts the mayor of Lyon.
“Are you proud? Look at all the damage you have caused! You should be ashamed. You must resign! It's a disgrace! You are a disgrace to France!”
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The French journalist Paul Amar:
“They came prepared. They had the addresses of the town halls.
They had addresses of Jewish shop owners.
In one street in Marseille, all the shops that belonged to Jews were set on fire.
Shops run by Muslims were not.”
Der französische Journalist Paul Amar:
»Sie kamen vorbereitet. Sie hatten die Adressen der Rathäuser. Sie hatten Adressen jüdischer Ladenbesitzer.
In einer Straße in Marseille wurden alle Geschäfte, die Juden gehörten, angezündet. Geschäfte, die von Muslimen geführt wurden, nicht.«
@visegrad24
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Right now in Oslo: personal belongings of Norwegian Jews murdered in the Holocaust are being auctioned.
This is the same Norwegian Nazi government that still refuses to list Hamas as a terrorist organization three years after October 7.
The same government whose Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide is advancing a bill that would jail Norwegians for up to three years for importing goods made by Jewish hands in Judea and Samaria, buying property there, or providing construction and real-estate services to those Jews.
Under Quisling, Norway arrested its Jews, stripped them of every belonging, and auctioned the silver, furniture and heirlooms through the Liquidation Board. Survivors recovered on average 42 percent of the values they reported.
Most personal property never came back. The successors of that regime now watch the remaining fragments of those lives go under the hammer again while they prepare prison sentences for anyone who buys from a living Jew in the ancestral homeland.
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Nigerian Christians are being slaughtered across the country by Islamic extremists.
Reverend Ezekiel Dachomo cries as he buries another 7.
There is REAL genocide of Christians across Africa happening at the hands of Islamists and the world is SILENT.
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WIVES CAN BE RAPED, BEATEN AND WILL GO TO HELL IF THEY DISOBEY
These are the appalling teachings attributed to Melbourne Islamic preacher Samir Mohtadi, also known as Abu Hamza
The same vile preacher who reportedly described Jews as “bloodsucking humans” & “scavengers”
His mosque was named in a UAE investigation into the Flydubai terrorist
HIS ORGANISATION RECEIVED OVER $600,000 IN TAXPAYER FUNDING
How can Labor justify funding organisations led by preachers promoting such vile hatred & misogyny ?
via @theheraldsun
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Australia built the tool, then left the Brotherhood off the list. In January, Canberra passed a law to list prohibited hate groups, with up to 15 years in prison for joining, funding, recruiting for or supporting one, and has used it twice, on Hizb ut Tahrir in March and a neo Nazi network in May, while 31 groups sit on its terrorist list and the Muslim Brotherhood is on NEITHER.
Last month in Sydney, British historian Lord Andrew Roberts called it "the world's largest jihadi organisation" and said the government "needs to ban the Muslim Brotherhood and its network of companies, charities, NGOs and media outlets". The law is ready, and every listing starts with advice from ASIO. So who is holding the pen?
BTW, the Muslim Brotherhood is banned in the UAE.
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I am writing this in a pain I cannot imagine.
My dear, beloved France which opened my eyes in 2010 and helped me live with a kind French Jewish family so that I might expel hate from my heart is now falling into the hands of those who wanted to globalize the intifada.
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A country that doesn’t exist is destroying the others. France was among the first to formally recognise a Palestinian state, betting that early mercy would buy quiet. Instead it got the familiar sequence — import the constituency, recognise the cause, watch the host country become unrecognisable.
The same streets filled with Palestinian flags — the black, white, green and red of the Abbasid, Umayyad, Fatimid and Hashemite traditions — while the French tricolor disappeared. You may have noticed that during these riots no mosque was reported damaged. CNews carried the claim, via journalist Paul Amar, that rioters arrived with addresses of Jewish shop owners and that on one Marseille street every Jewish-owned business was set alight while neighbouring Muslim-owned ones were left standing.
The pattern that is visible is simpler — French symbols, public buildings and Jewish-linked sites absorb the violence, the parallel institutions of the imported communities do not. This is not new. Palestinian leadership and the networks that fly its colours have a documented habit of turning on their hosts once the host is no longer useful — Jordan in Black September, Lebanon in the civil war, and several other Arab states that later expelled or contained the same factions.
Europe is now running the same experiment at larger scale. France is learning it in real time. So are Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and the rest. The flags are not metaphors for statehood. They are the colours of successive caliphates and, coincidentally, the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
ALT #Paris #Riots
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The strange death of Europe. You either stand for Western civilisation or you're complicit in its destruction. Get off the fucking fence.
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Queensland police gave a “move on” order to an elderly woman waving the Australian flag
The Aussie flag is classed as "far right", however if you wish to wave a Palestinian flag then that's totally acceptable. This is where we are at
Our leaders are traitors and cowards
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.@NobelPrize Well done for deciding on
December 10 in Oslo to give the Nobel Peace Prize to the lady who did so much to fuel Europe’s radical Islamists.
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BREAKING: Palestinians themselves just shattered the media narrative that Israeli ‘settlers’ randomly attacked innocent olive harvesters.
They’re so proud of their attack that they just released a video of them undertaking it.
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A mother was referred to Prevent and visited by police at home because of her visit to Israel and her interest in“Jewish issues”.
In yet another shocking case, Holly Passmore, a mother of two from County Durham, was visited at home last July by two plain-clothes police officers who wanted to know why she had recently travelled to Israel.
The officers told Ms Passmore, who cares for her severely autistic nine-year-old son, that it was a “safeguarding issue”.
A police intelligence report seen by The Telegraph reveals that the referral said she “over-identified with the conflict between Israel and Palestine” and was “supportive of Israel to the point that she has travelled to Israel”. It also described her as having “MH” — meaning mental health — issues and being “vulnerable to negative influence”.
Three days after the visit, Ms Passmore lodged a complaint. Two more officers, including a superintendent, then came to her home.
“They said that, clearly, I’m not a terrorist,” she recalled, explaining that they were keen to reassure her that police did not consider her a threat or an extremist.
“I thought that was strange at the time. You don’t usually end up with a superintendent on your couch.”
Ms Passmore’s concerns deepened when she discovered that her NHS records had been updated to describe her as a “vulnerable adult”, before later being changed to say she was no longer vulnerable.
It is now even more clear that Prevent is being weaponised by activists to silence people for their lawful and legitimate views.
These vexatious complaints also waste police time and resources.
Enough is enough.
Read more in @Telegraph 👇
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The Bataclan terrorist attack in 2015 was almost entirely covered up, with most details buried by legacy media.
So many people think it was simply a suicide bombing, or gunfire, which already would have been bad enough.
It was in fact a torture orgy, which involved:
• cutting off testicles and shoving them into the victims's mouths.
• stabbing pregnant women in their wombs and raping them.
• beheading people.
• gouging people's eyes out.
Social media didn't hold nearly as much power at the time, which is why MSM managed to twist the narrative completely. They made it look like a "normal" terrorist attack rather than the sadistic bloodbath it truly was.
This is why it's so important that we, the real media, chase the unfiltered truth and destroy legacy media's ability to brainwash us.
