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FORMER long-time AIPAC staffer. Views are MY views. Reposts NOT Endorsements! Follows and Reposts appreciated - Substack https://michaellewisonline.substack.com
Bret Stephens oped in the @nytimes "No, Israel Is Not Committing Genocide in Gaza" (Cue the slew of responses/denunciations/character assassination) nytimes.com/2025/07/22/opi… #BretStephens #Israel #Gaza
It's vividly-clear every day; that the core issue is not what Israel has done, is doing, or might do. It's that there are those out there, who loudly proclaim their refusal to accept the existence of the State of Israel and advocating its elimination.
Again slurring from @ggreenwald "Israel's loyalists in the US..."
Israel's loyalists in the US are trained to dismiss every source that disparages Israel: every media outlet, UN agency, humanitarian aid group: all lying anti-Semites. Here's a European doctor from the noble @MSF - if that's what you need - on what she's seen with her own eyes:
#SaveTheDate! September 19-20: The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Is holding its 31st Anniversary Banquet & National Policy Conference in Washington DC. (In the past, was just the banquet without the Conference) #CAIR @CAIRNational cair.com/press_releases…
The Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner @JAshEdwards has written to LBC about James O’Brien for ‘broadcasting an antisemitic trope’.
Remembering New Jewish Agenda (NJA): American "Progressive" Jewish groups....Before them came Breira and other Jewish groups on the left...After them came J Street and others on the left...#OnThisDay in 1984: @JTANews reporting #NewJewishAgenda
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan is clearly no Dick Whittington! "The UK must immediately recognize Palestinian statehood." Not sure why this is the business of @MayorOfLondon or in any-way promotes domestic tranquility or makes the Jews of London - or any others - any safer!
The UK must immediately recognise Palestinian statehood. There can be no two state solution if there is no viable state left to call Palestine.
From @AJCGlobal re the situation in Gaza
The serious humanitarian situation in Gaza must not be taken lightly, especially by those at the highest levels of government. Implying that starvation is a legitimate tactic is unacceptable. All those in need of humanitarian aid should receive it promptly and safely. Our…
Decade Flashback...#OnThisDay in 2015: @JTANews' @Kampeas reporting "AIPAC fly-in launches major push against Iran nuclear deal - The pro-Israel lobby is also backing a nonprofit running anti-deal ads that has raised nearly $30 million..." jta.org/2015/07/23/pol… @AIPAC #Iran
From @TimesOfIsrael's @davidhorovitz "How Israel made itself responsible for Gaza, and for all the death and destruction there ... timesofisrael.com/how-israel-mad…
Senior @AIPAC officials meeting today with @YairLapid #AIPAC
Opposition Leader @YairLapid met earlier today with the leadership of @AIPAC. Also joining Lapid in the meeting was Yesh Atid MK @ShellyTalMeron. 🇮🇱🇺🇸
Not satire...
Mahmoud Khalil is a kind, gentle soul who cares deeply about others' humanity, and his abduction, detention, and ongoing persecution by the Trump Admin is egregious. I am deeply relieved that he has been reunited with his wife and his infant son. Our meeting today was fortifying…
From @J_Insider's @JoshKraushaar "The myth of a divided Jewish America: What the data really shows - An April 2025 Pew Research Center survey found 72% of Jewish Americans held a favorable view towards Israel" jewishinsider.com/2025/07/u-s-je… #AmericanJews #AmericanJewsAndIsrael
Flashback 20 Years...#OnThisDay in 2005: Terror attack in Egypt kills 88 people in Sharm al-Sheikh news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_ea…
#OnThisDay in 1952: The July 23rd "Free Officers Movement" Coup in Egypt Led by Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser leading to King Farouk going into exile en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Egyp… #Egypt
The joint statement via @SavechildrenUK "As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, more than 100 NGOs make an urgent plea to allow in life-saving aid' savethechildren.net/news/mass-star… #Israel #Gaza
Israel's siege is starving the people of Gaza. We have joined more than 100 aid and rights groups to demand action - before there is no one left to save. Read the full statement here: bit.ly/3GPCpAE
From (the so called) Human Rights Watch (HRW) @HRW making clear its views re #Israel "UN: End Impunity for Israeli Crimes Against Palestinians - Demand Targeted Sanctions, Arms Embargo, Trade Measures at High-Level UN Conference." hrw.org/news/2025/07/2… #HRW
#OnThisDay in 1968: The first (and thus far at least), only successful hijacking of an El Al airliner. Palestinian terrorists seized the #ELAl planed from Rome to Tel-Aviv and flew it to Algeria - where the passengers were held for 39 days @NYTimes &en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Al_Fli…
Strange comment by @ggreenwald
Any person in any country in the world, anywhere on earth -- no matter how close to or far away from Israel -- should immediately lose their job (at least) if they criticize that sacred nation or speak ill of its wars and campaigns of ethnic cleansing: