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"The folly of mistaking a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself as an oracle, is inborn in us" Paul Valery

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"They need someone to ask them how they come to hold a position that says, essentially, “Jews are lovely people, but you can’t let them run their own affairs or they turn into Nazis and Afrikaners.” "
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I'm a Zionist and I'm not sorry.
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@fair_lana @mish_aderr Polish people weren't Polish?
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@Palestine001_ "You are only supporting Israel solely for the reason that they look like you — light hair, light eyes — we all know that the only people who successfully get to cry victim are people who look like that" Who is the Israeli in this picture and who is the Palestinian?
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@RBB605 @medeabenjamin Code Pink is going to tell Cubans they're "misinformed"?
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@nbjewbolshevik "Modern hebrew is a coloniser language and must be abolished." Wow, I thought Hebrew school was boring but I didn't hate it that much.
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…… Today's post from Just Jews provides a good view of the lady who was been holding up this sign in the "Jewish Block" at Palestine demonstrations. This looks like Miranda Pinch. Who is a Christian.
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@NeverADemocRat @guardian Thanks for demonstrating what a lack of Holocaust education leads to.
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@Twitter why has @GnasherJew been suspended? @GnasherJew has never violated Twitter policies!
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May Ye "Being Jewish means I have blood on my hands"
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Let's all apply for a job at Harvard and when we're turned down we can say "it's a conspiracy" and get a cartoonist who won second place in Iran's Holocaust cartoon context to back us 🙄😡
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@elderofziyon "We had to attack Jews because of the occupation!" But Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 and Areas A & B of the West Bank are also self governing. "We had to attack Jews because of the blockade!" But Egypt also blockades Gaza.
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Just watched Jews Don't Count. Wonderful programme, but what Miriam Margolyes said was offensive and I'm glad David Baddiel challenged her. If she wants to change Israel why doesn't she move there, become a citizen and vote?
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@MarlowNYC Noah Trevor on Israel: “I have no idea of what I‘m talking about”
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@Pandamoanimum Run DMC wins. Millipede power! 😉
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@agelender Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005.
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@jwaonline "and since the introduction of Zionism, there have always been Jews who were opposed to it." Many Jews wanted to stay in Babylon and Egypt.
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@Claire_V0ltaire I'm proud to be Ashkenazi. Ashkenazi Jews get no respect. People smear us as "white" "not really Jewish". Ashkenazi Jews have contributed to cultures all over the world. Ashkenazi Jews were the founders of Israel.
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@cjwerleman I lived in Poland- some of my father's cousins were deported to the Warsaw Ghetto and then Auschwitz. Gaza is also blockaded by Egypt but you don't mention that.
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Would Deane have tweeted about Hitler if she realised the picture is from Yarmouk in Syria?
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@JVoiceLabour "the largest concentration camp on earth" with luxury resorts, luxury restaurants, malls, swimming pools, vacation chalets, BMW dealerships, party caterers and fashion designers featured in Vogue #theGazayoudontsee
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@hurryupharry Saying the quiet part out loud: "Make the world Judenrein"
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@Ring_Sheryl "tribe (n.) mid-13c., "one of the twelve divisions of the ancient Hebrews," from Old French tribu or directly from Latin tribus "one of the three political/ethnic divisions of the original Roman state"
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@m7mdkurd Jordan and Egypt occupied Gaza East Jerusalem and the West Bank in 1948
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@DavidHirsh Well said. I am appalled by the number of people who have said nothing to condemn Hamas' horrific attacks but are accusing Israel of "war crimes" for trying to protect their citizens. I don't see anyone proposing that their country's forces should help stop Hamas.
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The people who parody the Guardian couldn't come up with a better headline than this one 🙄
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@Mediaite If I were AOC I would have attended the ball wearing something from Primark or a dress that's eco friendly. Now that's radical.
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@jobellerina @jeremycorbyn Mr Corbyn, my grandfather's family perished in the Holocaust. I lived in Germany for two years and Poland for two years: I saw the effects of anti Semitism and fascism. Will you and Labour stand united with all Jewish people, including the Jewish people who support Israel?
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@KreaseChan "apartheid"
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@israel_advocacy Astounding how none of the people who yell "baby killers" talk about Hamas forcing children to serve in violent conflict
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@alexbkane If there's one thing that really embarrasses me as an American it's other Americans sitting in their comfy chairs in the US cheering on violence and killing in a country where they don't live, don't know much about and don't know what it's actually like to live there.
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@HenMazzig #JewishPriviledge is my grandfather losing his entire family in the Ukraine in the Holocaust and having to go to the Kennedy family to get my great Uncle, the only survivor, out of a DP Camp after the War.
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Anyone tweeting "JK Rowling is a Holocaust denier" is being influenced by a person who cheered on the Oct 7 attacks and accused the Jewish community of promoting "rape culture" because the Jewish Chronicle reviewed a book by Woody Allen.
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@FranceskAlbs "An unlawful act of an unlawful occupation makes the occupation more unlawful" Strange how the PLO Charter recognised Egypt's occupation of Gaza and Jordan's annexation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
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@israel_advocacy I'm so sorry this happened. Hope you're okay.
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Kippur means "atonement" as in "Yom Kippur" not kippa as in yarmulke you fake Jews.
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@TotoAutomotive @Timcast And you think that after visiting a Holocaust museum? How is the murder of 11 million people in any way like trying to keep a pandemic from spreading?
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@SethDillon "There are two questions every comedian must ask himself when writing a joke: 1. Is it funny to bigots but not to people who aren't bigots? 2. Do I want to sound like a bigot?"
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@HenMazzig #JewishPrivilege is my grandfather being refused entry to the US because of the 1924 Immigration Act which put a cap on Jewish immigration, having to live in Cuba & posing as a Cuban to enter the US illegally so he could join his family.
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@GaryLineker @simon_schama Marching and calling for a ceasefire while screaming "From the River to the Sea" and "socialist intifada" and not saying anything about innocent children killed by Hamas (both Israeli and Palestinian children) is not the definition of a march for peace.
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@nowthisnews I'm trying to work out the logic that many people like this insist the centers at the US borders are concentration camps but also insist Anne Frank didn't die in/from a concentration camp.
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Owen Jones is doing so much damage to the "Pro Palestinian" movement in the UK by opening his mouth and not hiding his bias and ignorance.
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@elderofziyon "We had to attack Jews because of the occupation!" You mean Egypt and Jordan's occupation of Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank from 1948-1967?
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@blakeflayton Actually this reminds me of the cartoon that said, "You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever". But it reminds me in a bad way.
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@soulkhan I suggest you try the Kippah challenge.
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I nearly had a heart attack seeing "Death to all the Jews" is trending. Relieved to see it's calling out a woman who screamed it. Anyone who criticised calling the Palestine march a hate march, look at the signs from yesterday
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"discarded Zionism" did she drop off Zionism at the charity shop in her street?
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@danaelkurd Many Israeli families can trace back their family in the land of Israel/Palestine hundreds of years. The Jewish community of Hebron dates back to the 7th century. Many Jews can trace back their ancestry for thousands. No one gets to police our heritage.
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@AyoCaesar Ash, I thought you were supposed to know current events and history. You don't know that Hamas has been firing rockets at Israel from densely populated civilian areas for years? And many of their rockets misfired and blew up in Gaza killing Palestinians?
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Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 and made it self governing. Gaza is governed by Hamas. Areas A & B of the West Bank are self governing, governed by the PA. Before you condemn Israel watch the news and read some history- I suggest you look up the Oslo Agreements.
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@nxvmarxist "if your family suffered under communism they were probably fascists, landlords or had a monopoly on something and fully deserved it" Tell that to the people who founded Solidarity in Poland and the people who tried to escape East Germany.
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@threat3x People killed in Pittsburgh & Poway by white supremacists and white nationalists for being Jewish aren't "white"
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@miakhalifa My wine is older than your "apartheid state" of confusion.
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@JachnunEmpire She looks really pale to me. My Ashkenazi grandfather was born in the Ukraine and he was brown. My mother was brown. My uncle was brown.
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@jeremycorbyn Any chance you can say something for the people killed while praying in a synagogue by your friends in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine? Or the people killed by Black September whose graves you honoured?
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@AhmadHelmy0 @guardian Bringing up Palestine on a thread about the Holocaust:
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i’m glad to see #MeTooUnlessUrAJew trending. Jews shouldn’t have to remind people in 2023 that we’re human too.
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@timeshighered UK universities that have not called for the hostages to be freed by Hamas in the Israel-Gaza war must explain how that is consistent with their foundational "democratic values"
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@RashidaTlaib "The focus needs to be on promoting solidarity between Palestinians & Israelis who are joining together in struggle to end an apartheid system." Yes, Hamas' apartheid system.
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I've seen horrifically callous and hateful tweets this week blaming Lucy Dee and her daughters Rina and Maia for their own murders, claiming that because of where they lived they brought it on themselves. They're abominable and they reveal many "anti Zionists" don't want peace
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Jews don't pray in train stations. Why didn't they go to a synagogue to pray?
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@elderofziyon Stating the obvious here- it's also because they hate Jews.
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@ArielElyseGold @MortonAKlein7 "We know where the danger is coming from and we will work together to end White Nationalism" Part of the danger is coming from people drawing a veil over hatred that doesn't fit their ideology.
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@AyoCaesar Ash, how is calling for the elimination of an entire country about "equal rights and freedoms"? You want human rights for Palestinians? #freePalestinefromHamas #freePalestinefromthePA
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@jayrayner1 How has your life as a restaurant critic for the Guardian been made so very much harder by Israel trying to free the hostages and stop Hamas?
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@KreaseChan Do you realise you're demonstrating to everyone you know absolutely nothing about Israel? The Palestinian Joint List Party and the Arab Raam Party are part of the Knesset. Thanks for outing yourself as an ignoramus and a bigot.
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@PeterBeinart Why can't Palestinians in the West Bank vote? Because the PA hasn't held presidential or parliamentary elections for 16 years. Abbas is in his 16th year of his 4 year term as President. That's oppression.
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@RivkahBrown My cousin is also Jewish and his name is Deacon. What's your point?
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@sjabulhawa "Imagine there's no Israel imagine there's no Jews no one but Palestinians and no possessions too Imagine only people acting just like me Ah oh you might say I'm a bigot but I'm postcolonial I'll allow blacks and Indigenous if they agree to be menial."
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@sumayaawad I was a little kid when the massacre happened in Munich. I remember Entebbe and the Achille Lauro hijacking.
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@ArielElyseGold The synagogue shooting in Miami (in my old neighborhood) happened only last week and you're taking the opportunity to link the El Paso shooter with Israel? And say Israel is an inspiration for white supremacists? We don't know anything yet about the shooter other than he's 21.
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@DrHananAshrawi I'm perplexed as from 1948-1967 Gaza was illegally occupied by Egypt and East Jerusalem and the West Bank were illegally occupied and annexed by Jordan; the 1964 PLO Charter recognised these illegal occupations and annexation. They didn't demand the freedom of the Palestinians
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@dianabuttu Israelis have the right to defend themselves and their land. There is no right to defend terrorism.
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@PeoplesMomentum @tania_shew I thought this video was okay until the question "What can we do about it"? Nothing said about anti Semitism afterwards. The Left can fix it by ceasing to use anti Semitic tropes, by giving more platforms to the Jewish community and by listening to them, as Corbyn hasn't done.
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@abierkhatib So this was your source. Where in the picture is there any indication of the students' support for Israel which you say they have? Where in the article is there any indication of the students' support for Israel which you say they have?
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@RashidaTlaib Definition of Chutzpah:
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We all are standing against all forms of hate + bigotry. When it comes to standing up for Palestinian rights & human dignity, our intentions are questioned even though we probably are some of the biggest fighters against antisemitism. This is an attempt to police and silence us.
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@BDSmovement Any comment on actual daily violence against Palestinians by Hamas and the PA?
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@BenjaminNorton The UK played a minor role in WWII?!! I'm an American and I realise that Churchill and the UK fought on alone and saved the free world before Pearl Harbour when the US entered the War.
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Dear @PrivateEyeNews I would like to ask about this letter printed in your current issue. Israel is a democracy where the Palestinian Joint List Party is the third largest party in the Knesset and the Arab Raam Party was instrumental in the forming of the coalition government
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@JVoiceLabour What a way for Naomi to spend her first week in the NEC.
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@mshafeeq773 @blakeflayton I don't understand why some people are obsessed with individual olive trees "on Palestinian land" being cut down but say nothing about Hamas destroying thousands of acres of the environment
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@sesteban89 @medeabenjamin and "they can’t exploit poor Cubans" like Code Pink was trying to do before they started filming the video?
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@AchmatX @isaacdecastrog "white settler colonial power"
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@amnesty Anyone who wants to write snarky comments on this tweet about "Pinkwashing" or "Apartheid" can fuck off. All citizens of Israel have equal rights whatever their orientation, gender, religion or ethnicity. Hamas and the PA persecute & kill LGBTQ.
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@jwaonline "I came to Judaism as an adult both spiritually and politically" She knew nothing about Judaism before she was an adult?
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@SussexFriends This afternoon before we went out to Lidl I caught part of the BBC live coverage and I heard one lady in Parliament say happy Christmas to everyone and Happy Hannukah. I really appreciated the acknowledgement of the Jewish community - this is just stunning. Grateful to the PM.
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@AJwshResistance @jaketapper If Not Now was founded by Christians. Many of their "As a Jews" probably aren't Jewish either.
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@SusanSarandon The truth is there was no independent country called Palestine before 1948. Or between 1948-1967. Palestine was ruled by the Ottoman Empire before WWI, and under the British Mandate afterwards. The first time Palestinians had any control of land was in the 1990s- under Israel.
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According to Betty McCollum the rights of Palestinians include trespassing and stealing. 🙄😡
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@jameschough2017 @medeabenjamin I'm from Miami. I remember the stories of Cubans fleeing to Miami on rubber rafts and rickety boats. They risked their lives to reach freedom in the US. Fuck you.
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@___MsSpencer @medeabenjamin What propaganda? They're Cubans. Many of them probably have family still in Cuba.
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Tell Hamas to stop stealing aid
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