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Mijal Bitton

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Spiritual Leader of the @DowntownMinyan . Thinker. Scholar of Middle Eastern Jews & @rabbisacks scholar. Proud Mom, American, Jew.

Joined February 2015

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Mijal Bitton

7 months

Our message to NYU and our communities is clear: we are strong, we are not afraid, we are outraged by supporters of terror and we join with good people everywhere to fight back!

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elisha jacobs

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7 months

The incredible, bone-chilling speech by Dr. @mijalbitton during today's "Never Again Is Now" rally outside @nyuniversity 🇮🇱עם ישראל חי🇮🇱

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Mijal Bitton

7 months

“We stand here united and proud as Americans who are going to fight back against terror, who will fight back against antisemitism everywhere, in our streets and in our universities!” Grateful for the honor of addressing this historic show of support for Israel and America 🙏

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Columbia/Barnard Rabbi tells his Jewish students to go home -university can’t keep them safe. I can’t believe this is happening. — Dear Yavneh, What we are witnessing in and around campus is terrible and tragic. The events of the last few days, especially last night, have made

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

What a decent and good man. Thank God for leaders like @SenFettermanPA 🙏

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Senator John Fetterman

@SenFettermanPA

6 months

My team is tracking every hostage who's been released and we are taking their photos and moving them to the opposite side of our office. It's truly impotent and cowardly that Hamas has taken even babies as hostages. HAMAS MUST RELEASE ALL THE HOSTAGES NOW!

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

History amazes us with miracles we would not have dared imagine in the past.

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Jacob N. Kornbluh

6 months

Historic event in Germany. German chancellor Olaf Scholz just presided over the lighting of the giant Menorah — the largest in Europe — in front of Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate. #Hanukkah

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

Imagine receiving services from a Columbia-educated social worker who believes burning families, killing babies, and gang-raping women is a "counteroffensive" and "revolutionary violence [central] to anti-imperialism". Pro-Hamas posturing isn't uncommon in social work schools.

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Mijal Bitton

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I will never forget how so many argued for so long that @lsarsour wasn't an antisemite. Look at how she speaks of Jews here - look at how she speaks of our posters for babies missing and captured by Hamas. Her conspiracy theories- my gosh.

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David/Dovid Bashevkin

7 months

Strange how @lsarsour managed to make a speech telling people *not* to rip down signs sound even more anti-semitic? 🤷‍♂️

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Mijal Bitton

2 months

The number of Jews who have voted for Biden who now are thinking of abstaining - in my own circle - is really significant

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Ammi Hirsch

2 months

A non-partisan word to our elected #Democrats : Do not take American #Jews for granted. Be careful: The results of the upcoming elections do not only depend on Michigan.

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

Watch this - on the moral bankruptcy of Penn and its clear double standard for Jewish students

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Eitan Fischberger

6 months

"On October 7th, Israel was attacked. Since October 7th, American Jews have been under attack." Do yourselves a favor and watch this jaw-dropping speech. With students like this, the future of our people is bright.

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I have never felt the need for Zionism and the state of Israel as much as I do now - and I'm not alone. The rise of a virulent antizionist movement led by antisemites is the biggest booster zionism had since 1967.

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Mijal Bitton

4 months

Can’t explain how much collective joy I’m seeing in my Jewish networks!!! So much relief and desperate prayers that all the other hostages come home now!!

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The Times of Israel

4 months

IDF safely rescues 2 hostages from Rafah in special nighttime operation

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Mijal Bitton

7 months

Time and again I am filled with strength by Israeli Jews and Arab Israelis who see the humanity in each other and who will bring us a better future - their courage is so much greater than the keyboard 'warriors' who spread hatred and do nothing to bring peace on the ground.

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Amy Spitalnick

7 months

This photo from Vivian Silver’s memorial service. 💔

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

I had the honor of moderating a discussion abt the Abraham Accords with Rep. @RitchieTorres and Rep. @lawler4ny at the 92Y, organized by @AJCGlobal . Naively, I hadn’t expected the protesters who disrupted the event (see footage in Torres' tweet). A 🧵:

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Ritchie Torres

6 months

Tonight, I appeared at the 92nd Street Y to speak about Israeli-Arab peace through the Abraham Accords, only to be interrupted by raving lunatics. No amount of Astroturf Anti-Israel agitation is going to bully me into supporting a ceasefire that perpetuates the genocidal

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7 months

Humbled to share some words tomorrow at this historic rally. Gather with us to stand up as Americans and pray with our feet: in support of Israel, to release our hostages, and against antisemitism. Join us! #MarchForIsrael

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Mijal Bitton

7 months

“The decolonization narrative has dehumanized Israelis to the extent that otherwise rational people excuse, deny, or support barbarity.”

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S Sebag Montefiore

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7 months

The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous Inhumane Toxic and Historically False. And it rejects totally indeed makes impossible the two states of Israel & Palestine that is the only way this is important but do read whole article b4 you condemn it.

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Mijal Bitton

5 months

This Shabbat we will read verses that get to the beating heart of Jewish trauma, fear, and identity. A new pharaoh arose in Egypt who did not know Joseph. He is the first to call Jacob’s children a nation. He demonizes them, enslaves them, and murders their baby boys.

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Mijal Bitton

5 months

I am privileged to call Dr. Tal Becker a colleague and a friend. Not only is he brilliant -he is above all kind and decent. These court proceedings are perverse and I feel deep gratitude to the brilliant jurists like Tal who are showing up and fighting for truth and humanity.

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Yashar Ali 🐘

5 months

The State of Israel begins its defense at the International Court of Justice. South Africa v. Israel

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Mijal Bitton

5 months

Can't breathe. 94 days held by monsters, underground, with witnesses speaking of terrible sexual violence they've undergone. Can't imagine what their families are going through. Can't imagine what they are going through.

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

What a privilege and a gift to attend this magnificent spirit-affirming Hannukah celebration!! Thank you @POTUS for giving us a strength tonight to help us continue fighting for Jewish American joy, life, and love ❤️

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President Biden

6 months

Jewish Americans embody what the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said: “A people whose capacity for joy cannot be destroyed is itself indestructible.” Rallying with pride, unity, and even joy in the face of pain – just like the Hanukkah candles that defiantly burned miraculously.

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7 months

The Palestinian people deserve so much better leadership than a terror organization that did not build a single shelter for civilians even as it constructed an entire underground city for terror -

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Laura Ben-David 🇮🇱🎗️

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Egyptian journalist Abraham Eissa has a really good question for Hamas:

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Mijal Bitton

7 months

Thank you to my hometown newspaper, @NYDailyNews for running my op-ed: The true history of the Jews of the Middle East - where I expose the propaganda around the ‘decolonization’ argument that seeks to sanitize Hamas’s barbaric terrorism 1/4

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New York Daily News

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OPINION | The true history of the Jews of the Middle East Seeing this conflict as merely a question of colonialism is based on historical lies and allows for grotesque moral conclusions, writes @mijalbitton .

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Mijal Bitton

2 years

Over the weekend I learned yet AGAIN about Ashkenazi American Jewish day schools that have quotas for Sephardic students. What a shanda.

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Mijal Bitton

7 months

I thought my tears dried up today but then I watched this heartwrenching Broadway rendition of 'Bring Them Home'. May the One Above hear our desperate prayers and bring them all back 💔. #BringThemHomeNow

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Bring Them Home: A Broadway Prayer

Members of the Broadway community came together and recorded a song that they hope will bring attention to the hostages who were kidnapped on October 7, 2023...

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Mijal Bitton

1 month

For the overwhelming number of Jews in the world there’s a connection with Israel- at the very least, it’s where half of our people live. Our Judaism and our sense of Jewish peoplehood are inextricably intertwined.

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Mehdi Hasan

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Israel, a man-made nation-state, and Judaism, a great religion and ethnicity, are not the same thing. Some of us have spent years trying to make that clear to antisemites who conflate Israel with Judaism. You’re doing the antisemites’ work for them with this kind of rhetoric.

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Mijal Bitton

7 months

Is there better proof of hypocrisy? Silence when Pakistan displaces 1.7 million Afghan refugees and throws them into the Taliban's path while condemning Israel's war against Hamas. May Hashem have mercy upon all the innocents whose lives are being torn apart -

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Yashar Ali 🐘

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Please take a minute to watch this. Please. The Pakistani government and military are displacing 1.7 million people and sending most of them back into the tyranny of the Taliban. This is horrific.

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Mijal Bitton

7 months

My friend @TomerPersico explains how the rise of the new anti-Israel radical left is a new form of antisemitism in which Israel is singled out because it represents the West. This is about vilifying Israel to atone "for the West's old colonial sins".

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Tomer Persico

7 months

So what's the deal with the anti-Israel radical left?

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Mijal Bitton

5 months

My friend’s relative, Shlomo Mansour, a survivor of the Farhud, held captive by Hamas for 88 days. Every morning I wake up and wonder how this isn’t all one awful nightmare, that our people are still hostages of Hamas while the world continues to turn.

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Yonatan Gonen

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He survived the Farhud massacre in Iraq, now in the hands of Hamas terrorists This is Shlomo Mansur, 85 years old. Shlomo was born in Baghdad, Iraq, to a proud Iraqi Jewish family. He survived the Farhud, a terrible antisemitic massacre in 1941 that marked the end of Jewish

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Mijal Bitton

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Insane normalization of anti israel hatred. Never believed I would see this bigotry accepted

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Hen Mazzig

26 days

This is currently the situation outside of Eden Golan's hotel room. Because of her nationality, hundreds of people who hate her are screaming outside of her room. What happens if she goes outside? You hurt her so she quits? You kill her so she can't perform? If you are this

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Mijal Bitton

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Whats worse? Utter ignorance about 50%+ of Israeli Jews from Middle East and North Africa? Or cruelty of telling Jews whose families escaped Nazi Europe and found refuge in Israel to go back to Europe?

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Jake Sherman

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At GW.

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Mijal Bitton

5 months

@afalkhatib Grateful for you and your voice and compassion 🙏

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

Happy tears ❤️‍🩹

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Yashar Ali 🐘

6 months

NEW Video of Emily Hand reuniting with her father and Hila Rotem Shoshani reuniting with her uncle.

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After the event, someone asked me if I was afraid. I wasn't; I was furious. These protesters are bullies, aiming to intimidate and silence. It made me think about the regular harassment Jewish and pro-Israel college students face on campuses—how awful. 1/

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Mijal Bitton

2 years

Some argue that 'more security' threatens Jews of color. We believe this racialized binary is false, & could divide American Jews at a moment in which we must desperately unite. We can and must do both. @IsaiahRothstein & I in @JTAnews :

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Securing our synagogues and protecting Jews of color don't have to be at odds - Jewish Telegraphic...

Security professionals and volunteers must be equipped to decrease racial and ethnic bias.

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Mijal Bitton

1 month

Everyone should hear directly from a student leader of the Columbia encampment - good luck to the American far left with these future leaders…

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Daily Wire

1 month

Meet Khymani James, a student leader of Columbia University’s anti-Israel Gaza Solidarity Encampment who openly states that "Zionists don’t deserve to live" He made the comments during a meeting with the school that he live-streamed. We put together the highlights:

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

Didn’t have Argentina’s new president love for Israel, Torah and the Rebbe on my 2023 bingo card -

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Modern 🇮🇱 Talmud

6 months

The new president of Argentina talking about the Rebbe What weird timeline is this

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Mijal Bitton

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Ofc. My ancestors in Morocco and Syria had skin designed for Northern Europe. This cannot be ignorance -just a new form of history denial.

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John Aziz

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Insane racism

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Mijal Bitton

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I’ve been teaching across different campuses and the environment is simply shameful. Small groups of students manage to intimidate administrations and limit what’s brought up in public spaces: harassing Jews, Israelis and Zionists.

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JCRC Bay Area

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Last night at @UCBerkeley , Jewish students were threatened, assaulted, and prevented from attending a speech by a Jewish speaker on campus. Campus police shut down this private event when it became clear that they could not protect the students. Multiple students reported being

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6 months

Shaking with rage - his aunt reports how they forced him to watch the Oct 7 atrocities, they hit him, they threatened him with a gun whenever other children cried - Utter monstrosity. Not just the terrorists but all those who have given them legitimacy.

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Julia Ioffe

6 months

Hamas kept a 12 year old in solitary confinement.

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Mijal Bitton

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This is absurd. Also insulting - I thought minorities ‘lived experiences’ should be honored. Every Jew afraid today sees these protests as part of the story of October 7th -it’s not just campus protests. It’s justifying and glorifying murderers of Jews.

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Mehdi Hasan

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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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Mijal Bitton

7 months

Rabbi Sacks z'l was prescient when he highlighted a new mutation of antisemitism: when the language of human rights is used uniquely to demonize the one Jewish state. "Whenever you hear human rights invoked to deny Israel's right to exist, you are hearing the new antisemitism."

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Michael Powell

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7 months

Performative? One need not sanction Israel/Hamas War tactics to note absurdity of his claim: Syria: 150k civilians killed; Yemen: 150k killed; Afghanistan: 30k killed ; Ethiopia 150k; Congo: Many tens of thousands killed. defeat of ISIS at Mosul: At least 10k civilians killed

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

Gratitude for those who are back home. Grief for so many like Maayan and her beautiful girls whose fate is unknown. Fury at the demonstrations glorifying monsters and all who insist on a ceasefire that will leave Hamas in power. Out of the depth, God, we call out to You!

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Maayan Zin

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So glad to see that 13 hostages were released. What a relief for their families and closest ones. Dafna and Ela, I’m waiting for you.

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Mijal Bitton

3 months

Butler’s work is dangerous for so many, including women and Jews. What a Shanda.

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Joseph Hirsch

3 months

Judith Butler describing the October 7 massacre as armed resistance: “We can have different views about Hamas as a political party, we can have different views about armed resistance. But [...] the uprising of October 7th was an act of armed resistance.[...] This was an uprising”

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

Moral clarity - so grateful to all those who speak out against evil with no equivocations.

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Assita Kanko MEP

7 months

Today, I have a question. A pressing question. For some Western feminists. How can you remain silent, when women and girls are raped, tortured, their bodies carried around naked and spat on by bearded men shouting Allah Akbar? Then you can never call yourself a feminist again.

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Mijal Bitton

7 months

This is why calls for a ceasefire that do not include the eradication of Hamas are not just misguided - they are dangerous. Here - Hamas saying out loud what we all know: they will keep instigating terror and seek to destroy Israel.

@MEMRIReports

MEMRI

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Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat the October 7 Attack Time and Again Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims - Everything We Do Is Justified #Hamas #Gaza #Palestinians

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

What we all feared -now confirmed from US State Dept. Israeli women held by Hamas not released because Hamas’ horrors against them will make what we have heard pale in comparison. I’m shaking. These are the monsters who were happy to release videos beheading Jews.

@BarakRavid

Barak Ravid

6 months

BREAKING: State Department spokesman Mathew Miller says it seems that the reason Hamas refused to release all the women who it held hostage was because the terror group didn't want them to tell what they went through while in captivity in Gaza

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

Imagine if there was a loud pro-Palestinian movement post-Oct 7th that opposed Hamas terrorism and supported voices for coexistence and Palestinian self-determination and liberation. This could have moved the needle. The uselessness is maddening. 4/

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Mijal Bitton

7 months

I've never felt the pain and the love of peoplehood so strongly as in the last month. My article“That Pain You're Feeling is Peoplehood" can be found on @sapirjournal website:

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That Pain You’re Feeling Is Peoplehood | SAPIR Journal

What words of Torah can reflect our profound sorrow in this moment? Each of us will forever remember the moment when we first heard abou...

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

For what it's worth - I've spoken to some students in Columbia's social work school and this isn't just a small Twitter account - it's a loud student org that puts out pro-hamas events attended by many people.

@mijalbitton

Mijal Bitton

6 months

Imagine receiving services from a Columbia-educated social worker who believes burning families, killing babies, and gang-raping women is a "counteroffensive" and "revolutionary violence [central] to anti-imperialism". Pro-Hamas posturing isn't uncommon in social work schools.

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Mijal Bitton

5 months

Back from Israel where I felt intense dissonance: constantly transitioning from heartbreak to heart-mending strength and back. Our people are the most hurt and the strongest I’ve ever seen. I came to support and leave feeling supported. Can’t wait to come back 🙏❤️🇮🇱

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

Seems like students at Columbia Social Work can run pro-Hamas unauthorized events, effectively ignoring school protocol. Will the admin respond in a way that prevents this from happening again?

@ShaiDavidai

Shai Davidai

6 months

Students at @ColumbiaSSW about Hamas: "They showed us that with creativity, determination, and combined strength, the masses can accomplish great feats" Email @Columbia to demand action against this UNAUTHORIZED event that glorified terror officeofthepresident @columbia .edu

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

TLDR: UNWRA teacher and Gazan Doctor among those who held Israeli children captive. What a barbaric world we live in.

@HenMazzig

Hen Mazzig

6 months

This is insane! One of the released Israeli kidnapped kids, who was held for almost 50 days in the attic of a house, says he was held by an UNRWA teacher. This teacher is a father of 10 children, who locked the hostage in the attic, didn’t provided him with any food or his

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This is how our discourse around the hostages makes me feel. The fact that talking of our hostages is now part of our normal vocabulary. The way the world criticizes Israel's negotiation as if this makes sense: brutal terrorists stole people and are holding them kidnapped. The

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Robert Sterling

@RobertMSterling

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Israel having to negotiate for the release of its civilian hostages is among the most absurd and humiliating things I’ve ever seen in my life. These aren’t POWs being exchanged among warring nations after having been captured in battle. They’re KIDNAPPING VICTIMS, forcibly

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Mijal Bitton

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The Abraham Accords and the UAE leaders' continuous commitment to normalization and against antisemitism are among the most reaffirming and strengthening bright spots since Oct 7th.

@simonmontefiore

S Sebag Montefiore

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United Arab Emirates says it will teach Holocaust in schools

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Mijal Bitton

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Our new normal. 2nd kosher spot I heard of this morning that was vandalized - this + The Nuts Factory in the UES. This makes me so angry not only at the attackers but all those minimizing Jewish fear right now.

@IraStoll

Ira Stoll

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kosher restaurant Rothschild TLV on NYC's Upper East Side, this a.m., shattered glass window.

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Mijal Bitton

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My Jewish peoplehood is beautiful and ancient and ethical -it predates and will outlive all this hatred and lies. I’ll be seated with my family tonight singing of freedom and memory and the dignity of a people who never allowed others to tell its own story.

@beniandthejets

Benazir

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If the existence of your Jewish peoplehood relies on genocide, land grabs and ethnic cleansing, perhaps you need to re-evaluate it.

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Mijal Bitton

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This is silly. There is no problem with pro-Palestinian expressions. The problem is when the loudest "pro-Palestinian" voices are pro-Hamas. And yes: Pro-Hamas expressions are inherently antisemitic.

@shadihamid

Shadi Hamid

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If you believe the First Amendment doesn't apply to pro-Palestinian activists because you think that most expressions of pro-Palestine sentiment are inherently anti-semitic and therefore should be restricted, then just come out and say it. The pretense of "neutrality" is a pose.

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Mijal Bitton

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What strength. What courage. What unbelievable dignity. Read the message of Iris Haim, the mother of hostage Yotam who was tragically killed by Idf last week.

@TSchwarzbard

Tamar Schwarzbard 🇮🇱

6 months

There are no words to describe the strength of Iris Haim, the mother of Yotam who was held hostage by Hamas and was tragically killed by IDF soldiers in a horrific accident. Iris addressed the battalion involved in the tragic incident in which her son was killed: "Hello to

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Mijal Bitton

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Landed in Israel with my husband to mark 100 days since 10.7. Feels surreal- normalcy interwoven with deep sadness & pictures of hostages everywhere. Our hotel lobby is filled with evacuated kids who still can't go back home. My ❤️ and body are finally in the same place.

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So much bigotry accepted in polite spaces. Can you think of any other people that Irish players would refuse to shake hands with? Without knowing their opinions or stances? Hateful bigotry against Israelis.

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The Jerusalem Post

@Jerusalem_Post

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Ireland's women's national team in Eurobasket 2025 informed the Israeli national team that they would not stand in front of them during the introduction of players, according to the Israeli Basketball Association (IBA).

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Glaring illustration of how so many are loudly and openly supporting Hamas’ monstrosity or denying it ever happened. They won’t hurt Israel. They represent, however, toxic ideas and dangerous movements that put our own American experiment at risk. It’s up to us to fight them -

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Yashar Ali 🐘

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Last night the Oakland City Council voted on a resolution to call for a ceasefire. A city council member tried to insert language condemning Hamas. This was the reaction…

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Someone asked me if we could have dialogued. Of course not - these activists are addicted to protest. Their claims of Israel committing genocide is one that cannot be dialogued with. It is obscene and obviously designed to take the greatest crime of the 20th century and use it to

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Mijal Bitton

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Thank God 🙏

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Maayan Zin

6 months

My precious daughters were returned to me yesterday, a moment etched forever in my memory. Thank you for making it happen.

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Rape Should Never be Used as an Act of War. Thank you @sherylsandberg -

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Mijal Bitton

7 months

I miss my teacher, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Z'L, so so so much.

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The Rabbi Sacks Legacy

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"What would my father have said to us if he was here?" Watch the powerful reflections of Gila Sacks, Rabbi Sacks' youngest daughter, delivered during the Sacks Conversation at Carnegie Hall in New York on 31 October.

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Mijal Bitton

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The core of our strength is our spiritual resilience - what a people ❤️ Here is a group singing the famous Psalm 121 calling to God for protection as they shelter in a Tel Aviv mall after a rocket alert

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Avi Kaner ابراهيم אבי

6 months

“A song of ascents — I raise up my eyes to the heavens from where will my help come — my help will come from the L-rd now and forever.” - psalm 121, King David

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Mijal Bitton

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Daniel Pearl was murdered 22 years old today because he was a Jew. We will not forget you, Daniel. We will never stop fighting the evil of Jew-hatred.

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Aviva Klompas

4 months

22 years ago - on February 1, 2002 - American journalist Daniel Pearl was brutally murdered by a terror group in Pakistan. Weeks later, a videotape of his beheading was released. His final words on earth were "My father’s Jewish, my mother’s Jewish, I’m Jewish." There's an evil

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Mijal Bitton

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All we want is to hug this precious girl so much ❤️‍🩹 joy she’s out, grief for her life as an orphan, dread for those still in captivity and resolve that Idf must destroy the terrorist monsters and deny them the ability to ever again kidnap our babies

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Yashar Ali 🐘

6 months

Great news, four year old American Abigail Idan has been released! Both of Abigail’s parents were murdered by Hamas terrorists. Abigail is a dual citizen of the United States and Israel.

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Happy 8th night of light ❤️ Holding on to Rabbi Sacks’ call that we live faith as the belief in the power of possibility over that of probability 🙏

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Watch this amazing clip of Emilia Aloni back in kindergarten ❤️ Emilia was the child hostage whose smile wouldn’t leave my mind -I’m crying tears of gratitude to see her back and laughing. Thank you Hashem!!! Please, we beg you, may all our hostages come home 🙏

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

Grateful for @RabbiWolpe 's leadership, decency, courage, and integrity 🙏

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David Wolpe

6 months

1/3 Resigning, a Hanukkah Message: As of today I have resigned from the antisemitism advisory committee at Harvard. Without rehashing all of the obvious reasons that have been endlessly adumbrated online, and with great respect for the members of the committee, the short

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The protesters' main goal is to make life difficult for pro-Israel Americans. It's up to us, then, to fight multiple battles simultaneously - even as we know some will take decades in the wilderness: we must support the war against Hamas, fight for peace with Palestinians and

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Mijal Bitton

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I spent Shabbat with Yossi z'l + a week with his wife Hadas who helped lead the Sacks Scholars' gathering this past summer. Yossi was humble, kind, generous, sensitive, + idealistic.. The loss is unfathomable. May his memory be a blessing and may we experience no more sorrow.

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The Rabbi Sacks Legacy

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It is with deep sadness that we share in the pain of Hadas Hershkovitz on the passing of her husband, Sgt. Maj. (res.) Yossi Hershkovitz, who fell in battle in Gaza. May his memory be for a blessing.

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Mijal Bitton

7 months

This is awful - we Americans and New Yorkers are so much better than this. Islamophobia should not be tolerated in our beautiful city.

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Eva Wyner 🎗️

7 months

Despicable behavior.

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

The building of these tunnels are not only in service of crimes against Jews, but are themselves nothing less than crimes around the Palestinian people. Imagine if the material and human resources used to build these were focused on creating and sustaining Palestinian society!

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Jake Wallis Simons

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Terror tunnels revealed. Gobsmacking.

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Mijal Bitton

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This. The silence and denial of Oct 7's sexual violence is deafening. The #MeToo movement has lost all moral credibility - which is a shame for victims of sexual violence everywhere.

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Kat Rosenfield

6 months

struggling to understand how, in five short years, we went from "this reference to 'boofing' in Brett Kavanaugh's HS yearbook proves he is an unrepentant rapist" to "idk guys the half-naked corpse with grievous pelvic injuries could have been like that when Hamas got there"

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Mijal Bitton

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But ultimately, history doesn’t just “happen”. Our future will depend on whether we - powerful and ordinary alike - fight for good or are indifferent to unchecked evil. So here's to 2024 - may we, the people, make sure that America remains an exception 🙏

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Mijal Bitton

7 months

There's an American Moral Majority that is united in unequivocal condemnation of terror. We have to uplift this majority and counter the extreme apologists for terror.

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Sarah Isgur

7 months

Proving once again that twitter (and elite college campuses) are not real life.

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

Insane new normal.

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Steve McGuire

6 months

The scene at Hillcrest High School in Queens as a Jewish teacher hid in her locked office for hours while students demanded she be fired for attending a pro-Israel rally.

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

If you don't follow @faniaoz , you should. Prominent Israeli leftist who has emerged as a voice of nuance and clarity. If you want to understand the Israeli left - read her.

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Fania Oz-Salzberger 🇮🇱🟣⚖️ פניה עוז-זלצברגר

6 months

To my followers: you should know that, long ago, I was a soldier and then an officer in the IDF intelligence corps. For two years. I am proud of this. The Israeli army has made mistakes. Its current war in #Gaza against #Hamas caused many deaths of both terrorists and innocents.

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5 months

Important from my friend @MattiFriedman - how Hamas understood that many in the West would enable their terror against Jews. So many scoff at antisemitism as if it's disconnected data points instead of millions around the world who hate Jews - this is the wisdom of Hamas.

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Matti Friedman

5 months

The Wisdom of Hamas: Judging success and failure in this war means seeing the war that Hamas thinks it's fighting. My latest for @TheFP

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Mijal Bitton

20 days

I didn't know these beautiful children were murdered by being burnt alive - I've seen the picture of this family so many times.. what horrors... Hashem Yishmor

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Aviva Klompas

1 month

200 days ago, Hamas massacred this family in their home. They shot parents, Johnny and Tamar, and burned their three young children to death. Do not for one moment forget how this war began.

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Mijal Bitton

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This is why so many of us have multiple passports and have thought of escape routes for us and our children. This is key to understanding Jewish fear. It's not only about the potency of historical Jew hatred, but how it can rise so quickly after Jewish safety.

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Mijal Bitton

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This is why, for example, we should reject any analysis of Jewish ‘privilege’ in America that isn’t attuned to the ups and downs of Jewish safety in this country and around the world.

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Mijal Bitton

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This rapid change in safety - the fragility and disequilibrium of it all - is a hallmark of Jewish history. My own family carries the memory of being expelled from Spain after the dawn of a euphoric golden age for Jews in the Iberian peninsula.

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Mijal Bitton

2 months

My heart is in the East 💔 Am Israel chai ❤️🇮🇱

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Mijal Bitton

3 months

It hurts so much to think of the Bibas children. How is this normal?

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Aviva Klompas

3 months

The Hamas jihadi death cult is holding this baby hostage. It is an act of evil that can never be justified.

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Mijal Bitton

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Shas MK Moshe Arbel has emerged as a powerful voice calling for Jewish-Arab coexistence and working to fight extremist elements inside Israel that want to sow discord between Jewish Israelis and Arab Israelis right now. Amazing -he's from the Haredi/Sephardic Shas Knesset Party.

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Mickey Gitzin

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כבוד גדול לשר הפנים משה ארבל שבוחר בימים קשים אלה להיות נקודה של אור במציאות קשה וחשוכה. יהודים וערבים נועדו לחיות יחד בישראל, ואף אחד לא הולך לשום מקום.

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Mijal Bitton

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The verses in Exodus going back to Pharaoh also help explain why Jews around the world are so committed to Israel: we feel there is always a chance that the homes we know and love will betray themselves, have collective amnesia, and turn against its Jews.

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

Post-event, protesters bragged here on X about "shutting the whole event down." The truth is, we paused, the audience shouted them down (this happened a couple of times - they staggered the protest!), they were escorted out, and we continued for another 45 min. 6/

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

Yet, these protesters are 'useful' in seeking to systematically silence and stigmatize being pro-Israel in America, using tactics that remind me of the lessons from Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals." They want to make Israel a pariah state and its supporters abroad pariahs. 5/

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

הודו לה׳ כי טוב ❤️‍🩹 אנא ה׳ הושיעה נא 🙏

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Yashar Ali 🐘

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DAFNA AND ELA HAVE BEEN RELEASED!!!

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Mijal Bitton

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@yashar I've found it interesting to see how Jews from Iran around the world self-identify. In Israel the common term is 'parsi' and in the NY community from Mashad they identify as Persian as well. LA Tehrani Jewish community uses both Persian + Iranian, I think, depending on context.

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Mijal Bitton

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Someone else told me afterward she thinks of the protesters as "useless." On one hand, I agree; that extreme anti-Israel and pro-Hamas voices don't help Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank. They strengthen hardline positions everywhere. 3/

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Mijal Bitton

6 months

I appreciated the conversation with Reps. Torres and Lawler. They exemplify bipartisanship and friendship, essential in our civic American life. We need more of this. We need more dialogue. 9/

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Mijal Bitton

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I thought this was fake. I mean recognizing Palestine is one thing, recognizing it from the "River to the Sea" by a Spanish high ranking official is just insane.

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Hen Mazzig

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The Second Deputy PM of Spain called for a state of Palestine “from the river to the sea," completely erasing Israel and the millions of people who call it home. You can't recognize a Palestinian state and call for its territory to span “from the river to the sea” while claiming

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Mijal Bitton

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For long many of us believed in American Jewish exceptionalism - that America broke the mold of history, that here a new pharaoh would not rise up in hate. I'm still hopeful. I know most of my fellow citizens are good and decent even as the hatred against my people grows louder.

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Mijal Bitton

2 years

Too often I speak with Sephardic American leaders who face an Ashkenazi institutional ecosystem where they are told they are Mizrahi, a category that emerged in Israel post-1948. A clear case of when minorities' entrance to the mainstream is conditional on changing who they are.

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Mijal Bitton

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Heartbreakingly beautiful. Israeli courage and resilience ❤️

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Israel ישראל

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Heart stopping performance. We love you Eden. מלכה שלנו 🤞🇮🇱

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Mijal Bitton

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They can’t hurt your kids, @havivrettiggur but they can certainly hurt mine. This hurts both diaspora Jews and the Palestinian cause.

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Haviv Rettig Gur

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There are simply too many data points that have accrued at this point showing that these activists are literally pro-Hamas - and thus, yes, in favor of the mass-killing of Israeli civilians, which is Hamas’s fundamental impulse and strategy, which it has done repeatedly and vows

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Mijal Bitton

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The PA's "pay for slay" policy is one of the main reasons why many pro-peace and pro-2SS ppl don't think of them as partners for coexistence.

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Gil Hoffman

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The Palestinian Authority has started paying Gazan prisoners and families of those they see as martyrs, including terrorists who murdered on Oct 7, salaries of 2000 shekels a month, Ehud Yaari reported on @N12News tonight ( @MakorRishon reported it Friday)

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