David Lepeska
@dlepeska
Award-winning journo, bestselling author, accomplished editor & editorial advisor. Words in NYT, Newlines, Guardian, FP; Stay tuned
Stunned & humbled to wake up & find my book at #1 @amazon in multiple categories (Political Freedom, South Asia) & top 10 in others. So incredibly grateful for all the love and support. amazon.com/dp/939548120X/ Thanks & huge congrats to @kashmirobserver @VPBooks @FirstForays 🙏
Yes, so stop whining about it and refuse
Why on earth am I tipping 20% for pick-up orders? I drove there, picked up my food, and had zero table service! Yet I'm guilted into leaving a tip because the payment screen shames me into it. Isn't this setup just absolutely ridiculous?
The pro-Israel movement, everybody
Israel is intentionally starving children. This is Ahmed, an 11 year old boy who is practically skin and bones because there is NO FOOD!
Classic projection
If the pro-Palestinian movement is so moral, ask yourself why they always lie.
We were so much older then.
In essence, "decolonizing your bookshelf" is about actively resisting and casting aside the colonialist ideas of narrative, storytelling, and literature that have pervaded the American psyche for so long, says @itsjuanlove. trib.al/VKxyuRp
Totally false. Trump's most important promise was that he would "immediately bring prices down, on Day One." He has not done that. It was a ridiculous promise, but voters believed him, and he has not delivered.
President Trump has delivered everything he told his supporters he’d do in his first six months. So, why are his poll numbers so low, especially with Independents? One word: messaging. youtube.com/watch?v=-SVtoq…
I wasn't aware that Muslim immigrant communities had cordoned off other religions/ethnicities, built massive walls, instituted ubiquitous checkpoints and, after being horribly attacked, razed the cordoned areas, killing 1000s and leaving millions homeless.
Jews living in the Middle East is “occupation” but Muslims taking over entire European towns is “multiculturalism”. Got it.
Oh, I see, the accusation (not hyperbolic "blood libel") that Israel has for the past 20 months been committing an array of war crimes & atrocities, including mass starvation, was all based on this recent photo. Since the photo's problematic we can forget all those crimes.
The picture that launched the global blood libel that Israel was starving Gazan children to death now stands revealed by the wonderful David Collier @mishtal as a fraud perpetrated by the western media, including @BBC, @nytimes and @guardian. The starvation lie is the latest in…
It’s all the fault of the starving, no doubt
Gaza is emotionally blackmailing the world. At any moment, Hamas can end the war. This isn’t complicated.
Yep, and same shift for IDF. Gee, what could this mean? 🤔
2009: UN says Hamas stole aid. 2023: UN says Hamas stole aid. Reuters and NYT, 2025: "Hamas doesn't steal aid"
I was overcome yesterday. The vileness pouring out of Israeli society shut my mouth for 24 hours. It was an immediate reaction, not anger or sadness. I couldn't speak. I broke out in hives for the first time since I was diagnosed. I think I tried to reject reality. I'm back.…
Destroy Palestinians’ paradise and you always have a scapegoat
Give Jews a desert and they will turn it paradise, give Palestinians a paradise and they will turn it into ruins.
The best mirror you’ll find.
I don’t believe the Gaza Ministry of Health’s figures. But look, even if a fraction of their stats are true, Hamas killed a lot of Gazans.
Would also unmistakably inform Israel of its errors.
Recognition of a Palestinian state would be the biggest prize for terrorism and distances us from peace. My full op-ed in the @Telegraph below 👇🏼 telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/2…
How many billions in annual aid does the US provide Turkey and its military?
Why don’t any of the “End the Occupation” anti-Israel lunatics ever speak about Turkey’s occupation of Cyprus?
Truly immersing himself in the country to understand it better.
Trump's billionaire ambassador to Italy refuses to live in the sumptuous official US residence in Rome and instead stays on his 250-foot super yacht moored 60 miles from the capital and helicopters to work, per Italian media reports. @mattiaferraresi airmail.news/issues/2025-7-…
So that makes it OK for the top Jewish lobbying group to charge Bernie with this horrific offense for seeking to save lives? Makes no sense. The two are unrelated. Every Ashkenaz lost people in the Holocaust AND we should endeavor to save children's lives in Gaza.
Every Ashkenaz Jew lost people in the Holocaust, you historically illiterate and utterly factitious limo driver
Yes, that's the question that must be asked here. Why an unhealthy child, when 10s of 1000s of healthy Gazan children are similarly starving & waifish?
Why is the New York Times using a photo of Mohammed al-Mutawaaq, a child with a muscular disorder, as the face of famine in Gaza?
What Israel whispers to itself each night:
Is there any reason as to why Hamas won’t simply release the hostages?