Gabriel Ben-Zion גבריאל אברמוביץ׳ 🪬
@Brahmski
Senior Research Fellow @UofHaifa ☕️ Visiting Researcher @TelAvivUni 🍕Director, Telos Israel Initiative @TheTPPInstitute 🍭
Pot calling the kettle Black Sabbath
The most cringe thing about metal is that it’s a bunch of relatively nice guys trying to act evil and scary but otherwise it’s the last great musical genre invented by white men
We get it. He was awesome.
Ozzy Osbourne was a supporter of Zionism. He broke the boycott by performing in Israel and, during a time when thousands of children in Gaza were being killed, he called on other artists to do the same. Never forget that.
If you need something to do this morning: pick up your copy of Leo Strauss's book Natural Right and History, look at the biblical quotations that begin the book, and then search for them in the digitized transcripts of the Leo Strauss Center archives to understand them better.
"I'm not an antisemite," however: he does support revolutionary violence, including Hamas's 10/7 atrocities, to expel the Israeli colonial settlers from the land, by any means necessary. So he's "merely" pro-genocide. Which is much worse than routine antisemitism.
Just say it already: "Israel was right" No need for he-said-she-said anymore. I explain:
Why are people still surprised when Hamas supporters like Mahmoud Khalil refuse to condemn Hamas?
Mahmoud Khalil Repeatedly Refuses to Condemn Hamas on CNN mediaite.com/media/tv/mahmo…
Did you ever wonder how international law can be law if there's no legislature?
BREAKING: In a landmark climate decision, the UN's top court says a "clean, healthy and sustainable environment" is a human right. apnews.com/article/un-cou…
Watching the “centrist press” reflexively wrong-foot here, for fear that they’ll get chudlice. This happens to everyone who tries to pose as a nuanced independent thinker, but is actually just milking a niche. When the niche needs a strawman or a lie, they have to serve. Sad
Barack Obama never claimed that US voting systems were tampered with by Russian hackers in the 2016 election. In fact, he said the complete opposite. At a press conference on December 16, 2016, Obama said: "My principal goal leading up to the election was making sure that the…
Sitting down in @TheFP newsroom with a man who might possibly, perhaps, maybe, we’ll see, could be running for president. He seems pretty chill about it. @RahmEmanuel tomorrow on @thehonestlypod.
The weirdest Dem claim--because it is so easily disproven--is that somehow Dems only gerrymander in response to Republicans gerrymandering.
.@SenatorSlotkin on Republican redistricting: "If they're going to go nuclear in Texas, I'm going to go nuclear in other places. ... If they're proposing to rig the game, we're going to get in that game and fight." #AxiosLive
Mid-decade partisan redistricting is corrosive of republican government.
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Subscribe to The Reason Interview at YT and get auto notifications when new eps go live! Today's is with @davidclowery, founder of Camper Van Beethoven and @TheBandCracker, @Spotify litigant, and lecturer at @universityofga. youtube.com/@TheReasonInte…
Hussein is a fascinating and original thinker on the Middle East. You’ll learn something every time you read him.
Very grateful to all my new followers and subscribers.
"The old liberal defense of Israel was contingent on the West believing in itself. The moment that belief faltered, Zionism lost its most powerful rhetorical shield." Link to full article below
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Take your lunch break with @HavivRettigGur! Our new Middle East analyst is hosting his first Q&A livestream today at 12:30 p.m. ET. Haviv will take questions from FP readers about ongoing public sentiment in Israel amid war, intifadas, political upheaval, and broken hopes. Join…
Deport him before he kills someone’s and I’m completely serious.
Anti-Israel protester Mahmoud Khalil repeatedly refuses to condemn Hamas in tense CNN interview: ‘It’s disingenuous to ask’ trib.al/Dwz4n4t
Never has any author been so vindicated in her thesis as Dara Horn.
I just want Israel to tolerate rocket attacks like car crashes. We tolerate them to get to work on time; Israel must tolerate them to retain their humanity.
What if it turns out the IDF is telling the truth?
IDF says there are no signs of starvation in Gaza based on all intelligence assessments. The military accuses Hamxs of spreading fake images, including AI-generated content and photos of starving children from Yemen, to manipulate global perception.
Yes, Hasan Piker has outed himself as a simple antisemite, but ignore that for a moment. There's something much more interesting happening here: The "proposal," as though new and groundbreaking, that Israeli Jews will one day get up and flee if they're just terrorized and…
Hasan Piker is the most insidious Antisemite influencer Here, he says Israelis should "go back to Brooklyn" and calls them "inbred" All pushed/promoted by @Amazon's streaming service! Check link in replies for a interactive investigation into his chat over a 12 month period⬇️
Hamas fighters laughing, eating and living large in the tunnels as Gazans above them go hungry. Liberals around the world laud these thugs as heroes🤷🏻♀️. The only way to end Gazan suffering is to destroy Hamas. There is nothing you can do to help Gaza, that Hamas will not undo.