Joel M. Petlin
@Joelmpetlin
Superintendent of the Kiryas Joel School District & contributor to @newsweekopinion @MonseyMevaser @LoHud @jdforward @recordonline. Opinions &R/T's are all mine
Only on Twitter can we watch a man worth $200 billion negotiate with a man worth $500 million about saving $12 a month.

The CNN anchor gave Mahmoud Khalil 3 separate chances in the interview to condemn Hamas - a federally designated terrorist organization. He won't, because he justifies murdering, raping & kidnapping civilians. Khalil's deportation can't come soon enough.
How come every time someone becomes irrelevant they have to cry about Jews?
Jewish Supremacy?
He refuses to condemn Hamas terrorists because he supports them. His own group calls for the “eradication of western civilization.” He is a foreign national & non-US citizen. He’s participated in lawless mob actions. Send him home. We don’t have to tolerate this.
Mahmoud Khalil refuses to condemn Hamas because he IS a terrorist sympathizer not because DHS ‘painted’ him as one. He ‘branded’ himself as antisemite through his own hateful behavior and rhetoric. It is a privilege to be granted a visa or green card to live and study in the…
But…he’s Jewish, is not an argument. From my conversation w/ @ChrisCuomo
BREAKING: On a Zoom call tonight, Mahmoud Khalil revealed that his meetings with multiple Democrat lawmakers confirmed what he sees as a shift in his favor. According to Khalil, “Palestine is becoming mainstream,” and members of Congress are now “awakened” to what their…
Here's a pattern: Most Jews don't support candidates who won't condemn terrorists. Next time, try nominating people who aren't Antisemites.
Are we noticing a pattern anytime a Muslim wins a vote in this country?
Mahmoud Khalil can’t even bring himself to condemn Hamas. So why are so many Democrats in Washington falling over themselves to support him?
Bernie Sanders has yet to meet with a single rescued American hostage from Hamas. Yet he has plenty of time for Syrian national Mahmoud "eradicate western civilization" Khalil. I publicly denounce what my party has become, and am ashamed for supporting this man twice. If the…
It's outrageous that Mahmoud Khalil - a non citizen who was the voice of a campus group calling for the destruction of Western civilization - is wandering the halls on Capitol Hill. It's even more offensive that he was welcomed inside the offices of members of the US Congress.
This is what the downfall of the United States looks like. Mahmoud Khalil is a Syrian national who came to this country on a student visa to study at the once prestigious Columbia University. He repaid our kindness by: 1. Leading an organization calling for the "eradication of…
Mahmoud Khalil refuses to condemn Hamas because he IS a terrorist sympathizer not because DHS ‘painted’ him as one. He ‘branded’ himself as antisemite through his own hateful behavior and rhetoric. It is a privilege to be granted a visa or green card to live and study in the…
Breaking: I just discovered that former U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett registered this month as a foreign agent for Qatar. Per the new FARA filings, he’s being paid $30k per month for 7 months to, and I quote, “publicize the fact that Qatari higher education efforts do…
The number of @nytimes articles linking Israel to genocide were 9X higher than the peak for Rwanda, where 800,000 people were slaughtered in 100 days. In an interview with @thefp, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee describes antisemitism as a virus that evolves to scapegoat…
It's interesting that Shaiel deleted his first version, which correctly compared Hamas with Amalek - the eternal enemy of the Jewish people who attacked the defenseless Israelites in the desert. His terrorist-loving friends were likely insulted by the accurate comparison to 10/7
Makes sense. Plenty of genocide in the Torah.
When you have to suspend your own chatbot for misbehavior, right after its Antisemitic tirade, there's something very wrong with your AI programming.

Ezra Klein’s latest is the most elegantly packaged betrayal of the Jewish people I’ve read in years. Beneath all the hand-wringing and pseudo-intellectual anguish is a breathtakingly cynical message: antisemitism might be our fault after all. Not explicitly, of course—Klein is…
As bad as it is when Jewish celebrities are silent when their Israeli brothers and sisters are suffering, what Mandy Patinkin said in his NY Times video rant was far worse. @mikejg's Substack is the perfect response to him & others who attack Israel during this war for survival.
open.substack.com/pub/mikegranof…
The @IsraelMFA led by @gidonsaar Foreign Min says it perfectly--when Hamas thinks you do good work, you are doing evil. How embarrassing for a nation to side w/ a terror group like Hamas & blame a nation whose civilians were massacred for fighting to get hostages released.
If Hamas embraces you - you are in the wrong place. Hamas’s praise for the statement by the group of countries is the best proof of the mistake they made – part of them out of good intentions and part of them out of an obsession against Israel. We are at a very sensitive moment…
Incredible. Every Shabbos, @netanyahu and his family put away their phones, have family time, eat the Shabbos meal and discuss the Torah. Things like this inspire me.
Not only did Ezra Klein fail to engage with the fastest growing segment of the Jewish community, but he primarily focused on the voices of anti-Zionists to write a one-sided piece on American Jews and Israel. Frankly, I've learned to expect nothing more from the biased NY Times.
I think @ezraklein should engage more seriously with Orthodox Jewish communities before writing articles like this.
On the 20th anniversary of the end of Israeli control of Gaza, Hamas is celebrating by refusing ceasefire deals, hoarding food & humanitarian aid, and still torturing 50 hostages. It could've been like Singapore instead of a terrorist training camp. Happy anniversary, Gaza.
Today marks 20 years since Israel’s disengagement from Gaza, when the State of Israel forcibly removed thousands of Jews from their homes and handed the entire Gaza Strip over to the Palestinians. In return, Israel received thousands of rockets over the years - and, eventually,…