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Maytal Kowalski

6 months

For me to give up my Zionist identity is for me to capitulate to a supposed "progressive" left that foists upon me a litmus test, and to a messianic right, that sees in this identity a denial of Palestinian rights, equity, and justice.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

1 month

Say what you will, it's a bit funny that pro-Israel hasbara is suddenly against illegal settlements.

Israel War Room

@IsraelWarRoom

1 month

#BREAKING : Stunning video from @Harvard where a pro-Hamas mob has infiltrated the Harvard campus and started setting up another pro-terrorist encampment.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

4 months

Stateless, oppressed minority is controlling the world - we're doing European Antisemitism of the 30s, but for Palestinians now apparently.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

3 months

ADL

@ADL

3 months

Israel is not hijacking Judaism or the Holocaust by defending itself against genocidal terrorists. Glazer’s comments at the #Oscars are both factually incorrect & morally reprehensible. They minimize the Shoah & excuse terrorism of the most heinous kind.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

3 months

I heard directly from survivors of Oct 7 from the kibbutzim who were utterly crushed, traumatized, felt so betrayed, because they had been told that the Gazans they had come to trust had participated in the ultimate betrayal. Now we learn it wasn't true.

ToI ALERTS

@TOIAlerts

3 months

Live update: Shin Bet finds that Gazans working in Israel before Oct. 7 did not provide intel to Hamas – report

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

1 month

@ProfDBernstein Yes this tweet is about you, you didn't have to hammer it home like this, we all know.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

6 months

No, it upsets me, as an Israeli Zionist. Because even if they are all Hamas fighters, which they are not, we should not torture, humiliate, or abuse anyone. My family and I didn't sacrifice for the land of Israel that I love so that it could enact its revenge fantasies.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

5 months

When lefty Jews say they're "moving to the centre/right" because of Antisemitism on the left, I don't actually think they're shifting their entire value system. What I hear is Jews frantically searching for a space that offers them compassion & empathy, & that honours their pain.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

3 months

The swift backlash against Schumer, an ardent Zionist, and supporter of Israel, shows exactly what I, and so many said following the Glazer speech: No matter who you are, there is simply no criticism of Israel you can express that is considered acceptable to the Hasbaraists.

Aviva Klompas

@AvivaKlompas

3 months

How many speeches has Senator Schumer given about replacing the tyrants that rule Iran? How about the need for elections in Russia? Or in Saudi Arabia? …so, just Israel then?

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

4 months

When we say "the occupation corrupts" this is what we mean. When you begin to dehumanize "the other" ultimately, everyone becomes "the other" - even your neighbours or teachers. In dehumanizing others, we lose our own humanity.

B.M.

@ireallyhateyou

4 months

Israeli teacher posted on social media, expressing sympathy with Gazans. School fired him and made a police complaint. He was jailed for a few days & media depicted him as Hamas supporter. After charges were dropped, court ordered to take him back to work. This was his welcome:

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

7 months

Since we're all talking about the DC rally:

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

4 months

Typing "Judea" without a moment of hesitation, the confidence of mediocre men is a sight to behold.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

5 months

A large part of why Palestinian stories are kept from Jews - in Israel and the diaspora, is that everything will change if we are allowed to see that they love like us, and laugh like us, and want peace like us. End the war, share stories instead.

♡ kiran ♡

@kiranverse

8 months

thinking about bourdain’s episode in palestine today. CNN almost didn’t air it but he fought like hell to keep the episode and share their stories since mainstream media so rarely gave the opportunity to empathize with the every day of palestinians.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

3 months

Hasbara has always been cringe, but the sharp pivot it's taken into full QAnon-style conspiracy over the past couple days should very much concern and worry us.

Eylon Levy

@EylonALevy

3 months

I don’t know if this is what the Hollywood stars wanted to echo with their bloody hand pins, but this is the association it has for Israelis, and if you’re not familiar with perhaps the most iconic image of the Second Intifada, maybe don’t broadcast your ignorance.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

3 months

The chutzpah of Jews living in Israel getting on this app and going "Palestinians should just get over wanting to live in their homeland" is something else. Can we, as Zionists who yearned to return home for thousands of years, AT THE VERY LEAST have some empathy?

Dr. Einat Wilf

@EinatWilf

3 months

זה הבסיס הסביר היחידי לישראל לפעול מול עזה: הצפון בשליטה ישראלית מלאה, ששוהים בו אך ורק פלסטינים שעומדים בשני תנאים: 1) הם נמחקו מרשומות אונר״א כפליטים 2) הם מצהירים בקולם למצלמה שהם אינם פליטים מפלסטין, אין להם ״זכות שיבה״, והם מבקשים לחיות לצד המדינה היהודית ולא במקומה. (ואם

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

6 months

It is true that "intifada" means simply "shaking off" in Arabic, it's also true that it evokes memories of suicide bombings for Israelis. Just like "Zionism" means Jewish self-determination but evokes memories of the Nakba for Palestinians. How do we hold these multiple truths?

Samer Alatout

@sameralatout

6 months

What the heck do people think the word “intifada” means? Are they insane? This crazy and purposeful misleading has to stop. Weaponizing yet another term that has nothing to do with genocide. Can they damn ask us, Arabic speaking people, to explain it to them?

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

3 months

I understand why it's happening, but there is something unsettling about the "gotcha" rhetoric toward the pro-Israel side instead of solidarity and demand of accountability for these Palestinian women. Believe Israeli women. Believe Palestinian women. Don't use them as props.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

1 month

This is the exact issue with the vast majority of even those who do believe in a two-state solution - the idea that Palestinians somehow need to "prove themselves" to be granted a state. Palestinians deserve statehood - full-stop.

יאיר לפיד - Yair Lapid

@yairlapid

1 month

כל מה שהעולם מבקש מאתנו הוא שנגיד שאם הפלשתינים יוכיחו לנו שהם שלווים כמו השווייצרים, שוחרי שלום כמו ההולנדים ורגועים כמו האוסטרלים, נהיה מוכנים לשקול להיפרד מהם. מדובר בתהליך שייקח שנים, וחובת ההוכחה תהיה עליהם. >

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

5 months

The irony here is so thick, the self-awareness so lacking. It'd be laughable if it wasn't so damn dangerous

CIJA

@CIJAinfo

5 months

This is a deeply troubling message to see #Canada 's Special Representative for Combatting Islamophobia choose to amplify — one featuring antisemitic tropes of Jewish power & denying the lived experience of Jews, who, according to many including the Prime Minister, are facing

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

5 months

Wild how some Western pro-Palestine folks will tell Jews that talking about rising Antisemitism is "a distraction" from the horrors in Gaza while spending days obsessing over a teenager's sticker.

Pop Base

@PopBase

5 months

Noah Schnapp’s ‘Stranger Things’ co-star Brett Gelman says Noah didn’t need to apologize for his comments on Israel and Palestine: “I saw nothing wrong. He held up a sticker saying ‘Zionism is sexy’… zionism is the believe that Israel should exist, and that’s sexy to me too.”

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

5 months

If you're an American Jewish person signed up for birthright, GO. Ask difficult questions every day, and have challenging conversations with your fellow travellers. Stay after the trip and do tours with @ExtendPrograms @BtSIsrael @rabbis4HR

Yonah Lieberman 🔥

@YonahLieberman

5 months

If you’re an American Jewish young person signed up for a Birthright trip this winter, do not go. You’ll spend ten days being spoon fed propaganda while — just a few miles away — millions of Palestinians are starving and worried about if they will survive Israel’s next bombing.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

5 months

It is, at this point, inexcusable that the organizers of pro-Palestine rallies have not put together & executed a strategy to denounce antisemitism & remove it from the movement. Protest, even deeply uncomfortable protest, is legitimate & necessary. This, however, is a disaster.

Luc Bernard

@LucBernard

5 months

Very wild to see that in the middle of a brawl in NYC people are yelling “Jew, Jew” at the police. Unless I misheard and it’s something else?

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

5 months

Biden's calculation was that support for Israel, even at great expense to opinion of him at home, would make Netanyahu more likely to acquiesce to US demands. What he forgot to take into account was that Netanyahu is a fucking narcissistic psychopath.

Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין

@MairavZ

5 months

Netanyahu said today he is actively working to ethnic transfer of Palestinians out of Gaza in a Likud meeting today. The problem, he said, is which countries will take them.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

6 months

The Diaspora Jewish Left, already a small group, is splintering. Half moving to the right, as antisemitism by their supposed allies catches them by surprise, and half to the left, as they grow increasingly frustrated with Israel's actions. (1/2)

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

5 months

We can't claim it's just "a few bad apples" when it's "our" side. Calling out extremism wherever we find it, taking it seriously no matter who it comes from and pushing back against it with all our might is the only way forward. Enough of these excuses.

Eli Kowaz - איליי קואז

@elikowaz

5 months

Smotrich & Ben Gvir represent the fringe of Israeli society. They are both extremists. Anyone trying to present their comments as the view of most Israelis or even as the policy of the wartime cabinet either has a hidden agenda or does not get Israeli society/politics.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

3 months

Hello, I am progressive. Here is my anti-immigrant rant. Again, I am progressive as I'm sure you can tell.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

6 months

Abandoned by the Israeli government, the international left, and diaspora hasbaraists, anti-occupation Israelis continue to fight for a just and equitable political solution to the conflict. Anyone who wants a different paradigm in the region would do well to support them.

Free Jerusalem

@FreeJerusalem1

6 months

מברכות על הפסקת האש, החזרת השבויים הבייצה ועל הסיוע ההומניטרי לתושבות הרצועה. המלחמה הוכיחה שניהול הסכסוך והדחקה של הפלסטינים ושל האפרטהייד מסדר היום היא הדרך הבטוחה לשמור על מעגל הדמים. פתרון מדיני עכשיו.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

27 days

It makes sense why pro-Israel hasbara in the Diaspora is focusing on campus protests - allowing the protests to dominate the narrative, hides the fact that Israelis are: -Calling for an end to the war -Blaming Netanyahu for inability to reach hostage deal -Against invading Rafah

Etan Nechin

@Etanetan23

27 days

Tel Aviv protest tonight: -End the war - Hostage release -No to Rafah invasion. - The government must fall.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

3 months

The Hasbaraists invested money and resources into a "believe women" campaign, outraged (rightfully) at the humiliation and abuse of Israeli women at the hands of Hamas, but have no words of condemnation for the constant humiliation of Palestinian women by the IDF.

Alon-Lee Green - ألون-لي جرين - אלון-לי גרין 🟣

@AlonLeeGreen

3 months

התופעה הזו, לא רק שהיא חייבת להיפסק אלא שהיא גם מייצגת את הסכנות שהמלחמה הזו מציבה לנו כחברה. יש אנשים שלא יראו מה הבעיה כאן, אבל חייבים להבין שחברה שסובלת השפלה ודיכוי של נשים מעם אחר, לא תהיה חברה טובה לנשים שבה. לא חמאס ולא הפלסטינים אחראים לאיזו חברה נהיה. רק אנחנו נחליט.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

5 months

When Israeli lawmakers say they want to resettle Gaza, believe them. When Hamas say they will repeat Oct 7 again and again, believe them. This is not ending, not for real, not forever, until these people are no longer in control.

Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין

@MairavZ

5 months

Israeli far-right lawmaker calls for settlements across all northern Gaza

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

3 years

@joshgondelman Where Do I Know This Actor From (10 minute version) (Mom's Version) would also be a banger

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

2 months

If you want Palestinians to instead see diplomacy, negotiations, and politics as advancing their national aspirations, you have to engage in diplomacy, negotiations, and politics.

Eylon Levy

@EylonALevy

2 months

Palestinians must not be allowed to look back at the October 7 Massacre and think, "Gee, burning this whole family alive really advanced our national cause." Because then they will do it again. And that is what you are encouraging them to do.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

1 month

If you don't want campus protests to distract from the horror in Gaza, I'd suggest not doing anti-immigrant, America First chants at Jews.

David lederer

@Davidlederer6

1 month

Jewish students get harassed trying to leave @Columbia ’s campus tonight. You can hear someone yell “Yehudim Yehudim”- “Jews Jews.” They curse and yell “go back to Poland.” Antisemitism has become the new normal here.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

26 days

It's official, we hate them more than we love our own children. And to those children, who languish in pain, in fear, in solitude, so close yet so far from us, how do we ever say we're sorry?

Sky News

@SkyNews

26 days

BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected ceasefire proposals because he says Hamas's call for a withdrawal of all troops from Gaza and an end to the war is unacceptable ⬇️ Read more

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

5 months

Yes, I oppose BDS, what a gotcha.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

4 months

I seem to recall hearing this statement is genocidal and should be banned??

Disclose.tv

@disclosetv

4 months

NOW - Netanyahu: "In the future, the state of Israel has to control the entire area from the river to the sea."

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

6 months

I think if you don't want to be called a colonizer, you shouldn't do this.

Jacob N. Kornbluh

@jacobkornbluh

6 months

A Chabad House in Gaza!! (Established by IDF soldiers who are students of the Chabad Yeshiva Chazon Eliyahu in TLV).

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

5 months

Calling for a ceasefire is not Antisemitic and calling for return of the hostages is not anti-Palestinian, all of these calls are simply desperate pleas for us to hold onto our humanity and we somehow keep failing.

lala

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and none of this matters when you can see that yellow ribbon she’s wearing

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

4 months

The ICJ took basically the Biden admin's position and both sides are claiming victory, I love this app.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

5 months

Every single person, especially those directly affected by the conflict, who chooses to hold empathy for "the other", to cling to their humanity in an inhumane and unjust world, is someone who will lead us to peace.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

6 months

The strongest narrative that keeps Hasbara successful is that all non-Jews hate us, we are all alone, and we must protect ourselves at all costs. If you feel Hasbara is problematic, do your best not to prove all its talking points.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

2 months

Peace through diplomacy and a two state solution.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

2 months

Hey remember when a movie director said the occupation was bad and we collectively freaked out for a month because he "weaponized the memory of the Holocaust"?

Hillel Fuld

@HilzFuld

2 months

Shocked by my new tee? Good. Never again means never again! Earlier this week I posted a photo of Billy Joel wearing the Jude star in concert and soon got a message from my friend Alisa Chessler saying she had something for me. We have returned to our indigenous homeland to

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

3 months

Why even bring this up? Because I care about all women, everywhere. Because it is not only Palestinian women who will be humiliated by IDF soldiers, but young Israeli women serving with them. Because misogyny is systemic, and we can only root it out if we fight it everywhere.

Analisa Balares

@analisabalares

3 months

@MaytalKowalski Israelis are having a hard enough time trying to get the world to believe or care that Hamas did the worst evil & degradation possible to Israeli women - I’m not sure anyone of them is paying attention to IDF soldiers posing with women’s underwear. Why even bring this up?

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Maytal Kowalski

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29 days

It's super weird how some Jews will complain about Antisemitism by saying "if this was said to any other minority group..." And then turn around and say it to another minority group.

Mayor Jeremy Levi

@jerlevi

30 days

Given the recent behavior of the pro-Palestinian group, Canada should reconsider its immigration plan for Gazans. Their values seem incompatible with ours, and I have no desire to welcome more hatred into our country.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

3 months

Hasbara: how do we engage young Jews? Why aren't more Jews choosing to connect and engage with Israel? Also Hasbara:

Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر

@emilykschrader

3 months

Jonathan Glazer is a trash human being.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

23 days

When Macklemore faced backlash for this, he claimed he didn't realize it was a Jewish stereotype. So now, when he confidently makes claims of what is and isn't Antisemitism, it shouldn't be surprising that said claims cannot be taken seriously.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

5 months

But why do Jews have to leave the left? Why do we have to react to the discourse rather than create our own? We can be and build a strong left and these goofs can resituate themselves where they belong, the fascist right.

James Harris

@JamesHarrisNow

5 months

In a few years there are going to be earnest thinkpieces on 'Why are American Jews leaving the left?' Just remember this kind of thing

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Maytal Kowalski

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3 months

Glazer's speech challenges us: For Jews, to face the occupation & its corruption of our ancestral land in which half of our mishpocha live. For non-Jews, to challenge their dehumanization & minimization of the trauma of Israeli Jews on/post 10/7. May we reflect, may we heal.

Film Updates

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3 months

Jonathan Glazer’s acceptance speech for Best International Film for ‘THE ZONE OF INTEREST’ at the #Oscars

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

4 months

Roughly the same amount of people attended @omdimbeyachad convention as attended the "resettle Gaza" conference. There are two narratives building power - one of supremacy, displacement, and bigotry, one of hope, peace, and shared society. Choose your narrative.

עומדים ביחד نقف معًا Standing Together🟣

@omdimbeyachad

4 months

This is HOPE. On a cold, rainy morning, over 1000 Jews and Palestinians came together for Standing Together’s National Convention. We’ll vote for our national leadership and discuss the path forward - toward freedom, justice, safety and equality for all in Israel/Palestine.

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5 months

What Zionism should do: - acknowledge what Zionism means to Palestinians - learn about and reconcile where Zionism has caused damage - be in service, today, of social justice and equity - not concede Zionism to extremist factions of religious Zionism

Laura E. Adkins

@Laura_E_Adkins

5 months

What Zionist means: Believes Jews have the right to self-determination and a state in their ancestral homeland. What Zionist does not mean: • anti-Palestinian • anti-Palestinian state alongside Israel • pro-war in Gaza • Jewish Glad we could clear that up.

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Maytal Kowalski

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Absolutely wild how many fellow Zionists are arguing with me on this. Y'all, Zionism is literally us not "getting over" our connection to our homeland. I'm sorry that realizing this makes you confused about how to accept the same for Palestinians. But you must.

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Maytal Kowalski

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17 days

Remember, all our struggles are interconnected, until a xenophobic, racist, anti-vaxxer puts a Palestinian flag on a guitar, then we can look the other way.

atomly

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🇵🇸 wow, very rare clapton w!

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Maytal Kowalski

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2 months

We pay attention when it's foreign aid workers, because we know we can't just accuse them of being Hamas. But we should then recognize what that says about the utter dehumanization of Gazan civilians, and how eagerly so many are willing to participate in such dehumanization.

Jeremy Konyndyk

@JeremyKonyndyk

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These were targeted hits on clearly marked humanitarian vehicles whose movement had been cleared with the IDF. Clearly forbidden under international law. A total violation of IDF's legal obligation to distinguish non-mil objects and protect aid workers.

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3 months

Ah yes, what we all take away from Holocaust education: "they should've stayed silent."

The Guardian

@guardian

3 months

Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech condemned by Son of Saul director: ‘He should have stayed silent’

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Maytal Kowalski

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1 month

A two-state solution is how you guarantee it.

Eylon Levy

@EylonALevy

1 month

How can you guarantee that what Hamas did in Kfar Aza, Palestinian terrorists won't do in Kfar Saba? How can you guarantee decades of rocket fire from Gaza won't recur from the West Bank? Until you answer that, most Israelis will think talk of a "two-state solution" is insane.

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Maytal Kowalski

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This is such a morbidly fascinating lesson in comms -- realizing that "bring them home" is increasingly used as a call to the Israeli government to make a deal, they've taken any responsibility off of themselves with a rebrand to "let them go."

Luc Bernard

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15 days

No longer #bringthemhomenow There is no longer any interest in a hostage deal publicly.

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@MaytalKowalski

3 months

On twitter, I revealed to my followers the living room of Itamar Ben-Gvir, currently Israel's minister of national security, in which hung a picture of Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish terrorist who murdered 29 Palestinians in Hebron.

יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog

@Isaac_Herzog

3 months

On the stage of the Munich Security Conference, I revealed to the viewers around the world, the antisemitic book written by Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahar, one of the founders of Hamas, which praised the Holocaust, a copy of which was found in a house in the Gaza Strip by IDF soldiers.

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@MaytalKowalski

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Us: "we are not Jews with trembling knees!" "If we need to go at it alone, we'll go at it alone, and we'll win!" Also us: *sees one (1) keffiyeh*

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@MaytalKowalski

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Take the deal. "But it's not what was first..." Take the deal. "But it's different than..." TAKE THE DEAL. "But what about..." TAKE. THE. FUCKING. DEAL.

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@MaytalKowalski

5 months

@gc_seattle Conflating Jews in the Diaspora with Israel's prime minister and rejecting outright a premise that challenges you -- thank you for proving the point of this tweet.

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@MaytalKowalski

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At some point Hasbara made a strategic decision to stop trying to convert "normie", agnostic on Israel folks to supporters, and instead just began making already-bought-in folks even more bought in, and this is the result.

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@MaytalKowalski

4 months

This goes to my long-standing claim that BDS isn't dangerous or a threat. It's a wholly ineffective, unaware, maximalist movement that somehow manages to achieve the opposite of its goals at every turn.

Talia Ringer 🟣 🎗️

@TaliaRinger

4 months

This is kind of a wild thing to boycott; this is the primary movement within Israel pushing for a ceasefire right now. The moderate language is not about whitewashing Israel to outsiders, but rather about appealing to Israelis and growing the movement

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@MaytalKowalski

5 months

I do truly believe that this is all done very deliberately. Post actual accounts of Antisemitism half the time, and then the most ridiculous shit you can think of half the time. The purpose, therefore, is not to call out Antisemitism, but to purposefully confuse and conflate.

StopAntisemitism

@StopAntisemites

5 months

Beverly Hills - Jennifer Garner's 18 year old daughter was spotted today donning a sweatshirt featuring a watermelon, a fruit repurposed to represent the challenges of the Palestinian people. The symbol erases the entire country of Israel.

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After Rabin's assassination, I continued to fight for peace. During the second intifada, I continued to fight for peace. I won't stop fighting, even when it's difficult - especially when it's difficult. Honoured to continue to do so now as the Interim Chair of @JSpaceCanada .

JSpaceCanada 🇮🇱🇵🇸

@JSpaceCanada

4 months

🚨 STATEMENT: JSpaceCanada Announces Leadership Change Amidst Challenging Times for the Jewish Community 🚨

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

2 months

Ben Gvir wants chaos at the temple mount. Hamas wants chaos at the temple mount. It's not Jews vs Palestinians, it's the people vs. their maniacal leaders. We deserve better.

Ihab Hassan

@IhabHassane

2 months

The Islamic Waqf Department in Jerusalem: 125,000 worshipers performed the third Friday prayer of Ramadan at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Hamas repeatedly urged worshippers and residents of Jerusalem and the West Bank to participate in protests, particularly on Fridays during

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@MaytalKowalski

2 months

Still like Palestinians deserve sovereignty, self-determination, dignity, and human rights, just like Jews. Thanks for the check in though.

Malkah Fleisher 🕎

@MalkahFleisher

2 months

Jews who supported a Two-State Solution prior to October 7th - how do you feel today? 1. Like an idiot - I'm sorry for the horrible direction I helped push this country towards, and I am now fighting to correct it and preserve the Land of Israel for the Jewish state. 2. Like a

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@MaytalKowalski

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Won't share the video, but: Bring them home now. Whatever the deal, whatever the cost. These are human beings not political pawns. A state built for refuge owes its people at the very least that.

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@MaytalKowalski

3 months

My dislike of Bibi is actually rooted in his extreme and constant betrayal of the Israeli people, from inciting the assassination of Rabin, to refusing to take any responsibility for the worst civil and military disasters in the history of the state.

Elisheva Ysabella Hazan

@ysabellahazan

3 months

America is trying so hard to install a puppet government in Israel. No matter how much one dislikes Bibi, it’s rooted in a love of democracy and/or political disagreement. This not so subtle coup by the U.S won’t succeed, Israelis are not stupid. We didn’t rise from the ashes

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@MaytalKowalski

14 days

We got over it? My dude, some of us are actively and violently taking over land rightfully belonging to others because of biblical connections.

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@MaytalKowalski

2 months

If he had said "free the hostages" first, someone would claim that because he called for a ceasefire next, it's equating Israel with Hamas. There's no way to win with the "everything is Antisemitic/anti-Israel" folks, and they make it harder to point out actual Antisemitism.

נריה קראוס Neria Kraus

@NeriaKraus

2 months

בוקר טוב, למי שלא ברור כמה מצבה של ישראל רע בעולם כרגע - זה מונולוג הפתיחה של SNL. השחקן ראמי יוסף. כולם מדברים על זה כאן הלילה. ככה ישראל מוצגת כרגע בעולם. לזה אנשים מוחאים כפיים. החטופים שלנו במקום האחרון. שחיקת הערך הכי מהירה בהיסטוריה, בגלל התנהלות קלוקלת, בגלל הרס אקטיבי

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@MaytalKowalski

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One of the reasons Hasbara is so broken and ineffective is because Yoseph watched this back and went "yes, I definitely came out the winner in this scenario, I in no way look like a raging lunatic, largely ignored by peaceful protestors" then uploaded it for the world to see.

יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad

@YosephHaddad

16 days

הגעתי להגיד למפגינים האנטי ישראלים באוניברסיטת תל אביב את מה שאני חושב עליהם!🇮🇱

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

4 months

It should be lost on no one that there are literally US sanctions on Israeli settlers, a ceasefire agreement being aggressively pushed, and "pro-Palestine" Westerners are still whining about Starbucks and Standing Together.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

4 months

It is impossible to overstate the level of damage, potentially irreversible, Netanyahu and his cronies are careening toward, and baffling to see how many "pro-Israel" people and institutions seem not to care.

Haaretz.com

@haaretzcom

4 months

LIVE UPDATES: Egypt is threatening to suspend its peace treaty with Israel if troops are sent into the densely populated Gaza border town of Rafah

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

2 months

GET THEM THE FUCK OUT. את כולם, ע כ ש י ו.

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@MaytalKowalski

4 months

Two Israeli hostages being freed is incredible. The relief the family, the nation must feel is beyond words. The amount of death and destruction in Gaza is painful, the sadness they must feel is beyond words. Using the heaviness of this moment for cheap gotchas is sickening.

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@MaytalKowalski

6 months

A strategic campaign that takes longer but targets Hamas while protecting civilians. A negotiated pause to release hostages. Political leadership that speaks of negotiations and a Palestinian state for security. Strengthening the PA. Ending the settlement project. You're welcome.

Aviva Klompas

@AvivaKlompas

6 months

What exactly is the proportionate response to a terror group with genocidal intentions?

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

2 months

The narrative that Jews who care about Palestinian human rights and equity for all are simply "pandering" for approval, says far more about the accuser than the accused.

Eylon Levy

@EylonALevy

2 months

@BenzionSanders @MaytalKowalski You pander to the mob in the hope of finding safety in its arms, but it will come for you too… welcome to the dark side 💙

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@MaytalKowalski

3 months

I suggest a mental health break then. How about this - one year for every hostage you've neglected.

The Jerusalem Post

@Jerusalem_Post

3 months

'He's in a bad place': Expert says Netanyahu 'emotionally shattered' by war

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@MaytalKowalski

2 months

If you've got security concerns, hire security. If you've got safety concerns, create a plan in advance. This is an abhorrent position that requires not a mealy-mouthed apology, but an abrupt about-face and recognition of harms caused. בושה.

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@MaytalKowalski

3 months

Because successive Israeli governments have said with their full chest that there will never be a Palestinian state, and have implemented policies to prevent it.

John Aziz

@aziz0nomics

3 months

The fact is that Jordan and Egypt have accepted peace with Israel, borders were established, there are no Israeli troops occupying them, and these peace agreements have held up until the present day. Why can't Palestine do the same???

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

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Simply begging non-Jews to stop making us compete against our own past suffering and trauma. It is erev passover. Allow us at the very least our chag to honour our pain, the pain we feel for others. Our fear, the fear we feel for others. And to search for a glimmer of hope.

Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan

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To put the Columbia protests story in context, in 2018 and 2019 far-right shooters massacred 12 Jews in 2 separate synagogues in America. I don’t remember this level of hysteria from our political or media elites, or ex-Meta execs saying they were fleeing to Israel to be safe.

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@MaytalKowalski

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@herringschmaltz Allowing racism to fester in our community isn't "trashing each other" it's holding each other to our own Jewish values and commitments. Calls to be silent in the name of unity are calls to be complicit with hate.

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@MaytalKowalski

5 months

Hasbara has to reckon with the last 15+ years of Israeli politicians saying with their whole chest that they don't want the Palestinians to have a state. Come up with a new line, make a new excuse, or stop doing hasbara because this is just silly.

Blake Flayton

@blakeflayton

5 months

If every Arab nation did this the war would end in five minutes and the Palestinians could have a state.

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@MaytalKowalski

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As someone with my own issues with orgs like Hillel, I'll say this- If pro-Palestine, or any other groups, wish to see a change to Jewish life on campus or elsewhere, their best bet STILL is working with a broad coalition of Jews, including Zionists, to build it.

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@MaytalKowalski

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I am a citizen of two countries with complex histories and struggling presents. A hero of one of my countries was killed by another one of my countries while doing a thing both those countries purport to embody - helping those in need. My heart breaks.

Evan Dyer

@EvanDyerCBC

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Jacob Flickinger, the US-Canadian citizen killed by the IDF while delivering food aid in Gaza, was a retired master corporal who served 11 years in the Canadian Army including a tour in Afghanistan. He was dad and sole provider to a one-year-old baby boy.

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@MaytalKowalski

3 months

Cool, what's the plan then, dude?

Quds News Network

@QudsNen

3 months

BREAKING| Israel's Foreign Minister, Eli Cohen: If the price of reaching peace agreements is a Palestinian state, then I give up the peace agreements. There will be no Palestinian state, point.

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@MaytalKowalski

4 months

Has the Starbucks conspiracy expanded now to the point that these people believe all the baristas have personal stakes in the Netanyahu government and prolonging the war?

Sami Gold

@souljagoytellem

4 months

YOU ALL SHOULDVE SEEN THEIR FACES 🤣🤣💯💯

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@MaytalKowalski

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The irony here is that, it is STILL because of Israel that she feels closer to her Judaism. Anti-Zionists largely have not succeeded in divorcing Judaism from Israel, but simply, approach the relationship differently.

#StopCopCity

@ChuckModi1

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Pls hear her beautiful Jewish experience at GWU protest that brought her “closer to my Judaism” w/Shabbat services, interfaith dialogue AND belated bat mitzvah by a rabbi. You won’t hear such myth-busting truths on corporate media for a reason. #FreePalestine #HandsOffRafah

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@MaytalKowalski

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How we react is with anger at one another. What lies underneath this, and what both groups have in common is sadness and loneliness. What happens if we don't move past this is a complete abandonment of one of the most crucial pillars of our community. (2/2)

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@MaytalKowalski

4 months

I would argue that calling for an end to the war through a commitment to two-state negotiations for a lasting peace is actually far more powerful than "ceasefire" which implies a temporary commitment.

Asad أسد 🗽🍎

@AsadFromNYC

4 months

This letter by J-Street neither uses the word “ceasefire” nor “Palestinian” and cites a former Israeli general to furnish its case. As with most liberal US Jewish Israel advocacy orgs, Palestinians are not equal players but side characters in their political imagination.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

3 months

We're about to find out that these weren't made by a pro-Palestinian org, much like the "we ❤️ Hamas" stickers at UBC, right?

Aviva Klompas

@AvivaKlompas

3 months

Seen in NYC. The pro-Hamas mob has put r*pe back on the table.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

3 months

Correct.

ToI ALERTS

@TOIAlerts

3 months

Live update: Smotrich: US sanctions aim at eliminating settler movement and establishing Palestinian state

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

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This is part of the reason I choose to strongly identify as a Zionist. For many, even shedding the Zionist label would still have me tagged disparagingly as one bc I refuse to dehumanize Israelis. So I may as well hold it tightly, proudly, & reclaim it for what it means to me.

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@MaytalKowalski

2 months

The UN wants Israel to accept a ceasefire so that hostages are released, aid can get to innocent Gazans, and a humanitarian crisis can be curbed. At this point, Hasbara is cutting off its nose to spite its face. Too bad the face in this case is Israeli hostages.

Aviva Klompas

@AvivaKlompas

2 months

The UN wants Israel to accept a ceasefire out of respect for Ramadan. Remind me: did Hamas respect the Jewish holiday of Sukkot when it launched an attack and murdered more Jews than any day since the Holocaust?

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@MaytalKowalski

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It's hard to believe Israeli leadership when they say military action is needed to free the hostages when the military action seems a lot more concerned with revenge videos for tiktok than said hostages.

Khalil Sayegh

@KhalilJeries

24 days

Video of an Israeli tank on the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

2 months

There is no sweeter karma than that of the person who sells out their values and morals for a grift having it backfire.

Yashar Ali 🐘

@yashar

2 months

Multiple Israeli news organizations are reporting that Israeli government spokesman @EylonALevy has been suspended after angering UK officials with his response to @aliciakearns tweet. This comes after reports that Sara Netanyahu was working to oust Levy after she learned that

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

2 months

I only hope that one day we Israelis love our own children more than we hate the Palestinians.

Occidental Israeli

@occisraeli

2 months

@MaytalKowalski So wrongheaded. The hostages' families are understandably driven by emotions. Agreeing to the kind of deal they are ok with will endanger so many more and embolden Hamas further. The fact that people don't see this is a basic failure of educational systems.

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

3 months

Sounds like a guy super intent on negotiating a two-state solution.

Barak Ravid

@BarakRavid

3 months

Israeli PM Netanyahu held a meeting today with ministers Smotrich, Gallant & Dermer about pushing forward with plans for thousands of new housing units in the Israeli settlements in the West Bank, an Israeli official confirms. The plans are likely to be approved within days

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Maytal Kowalski

@MaytalKowalski

3 months

Being a Jew on a list but that list being "Nazis" is a real mind-fuck.

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