#Sbarro Bombing

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thepersianjewess

Side Note: The US Federal Government has the death penalty. If deported, the families of the 16 k*lled and 130 wounded by this terr*rist will finally receive justice for this horrific attack after waiting 24 long years.

[eretzyisrael]

Jordan has reportedly informed the Hamas terror group that it plans to deport a woman convicted of planning a 2001 suicide bombing that killed 16 people at a Jerusalem pizza parlor, in a move that could bring a long-delayed measure of justice to families of victims.

Ahlam Tamimi was convicted in an Israeli court of orchestrating the grisly August 9, 2001, attack that killed 16 people in a crowded Sbarro’s eatery in central Jerusalem, but was released in the 2011 deal for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit and quickly found safe harbor in Jordan.

In 2017, the US Justice Department announced it was seeking her extradition, a step that had been urged by the family of Israeli-American victim Malki Roth but which was rebuffed by Amman.

According to Qatari news outlet Al-Araby al-Jadeed, Jordanian intelligence authorities informed Hamas on Sunday that Tamimi would be extradited to the United States unless a third country willing to take her in could be found.

There was no confirmation of the report from any official source.

The report emerged just as the White House announced it would host Jordan’s King Abdullah II for talks with US President Donald Trump on February 11. Amman is thought to be seeking ways to remain in good standing with Trump despite, like Egypt, declining to fall in with his proposal to relocate Gazans there.

Tamimi, a Hamas activist who chose the target for the bombing and guided the bomber there, was sentenced in Israel in 2003 to 16 life sentences for the attack, which also injured 130 people.

Among the dead were Roth, an Australia-born 15-year-old who also held US citizenship, and Shoshana Yehudit Greenbaum, an American tourist who was expecting her first child.

[rotzaprachim]

I wonder if another unsung aspect of some of the campus rhetoric is many of the protest chanters weren’t born or were babies during the second i ntifada and have no memories of it being on the News

[matan4il]

I just saw with my 2 fucking eyes ST calling Bassem Tamimi a peace activist, the guy who made his child go confront IDF soldiers for clout aand thinks stone throwing - which kills people, including friendly fire between Palestinians - is so cool

Nonnie, I am... You know that thing where you just smile wide, because reality is too much to deal with, and you just have to detach from it for a minute? That's me right now.

I mean, one of the things I've noted over the years is that often, the worst takes from Standing Together's leaders are posted on their personal social media accounts rather than the official ones, which makes it a bit harder to explain why the notion of the movement is great, while what they do in practice is awful and anti-Israeli. So when I got your ask I was wondering on which private account they posted that, but no. They posted it on an official ST account. There is not enough 'face palm' in the world for this.

Bassem Tamimi was arrested in October due to suspicion that he was aiding terrorist activity against Israel. If you ask me, he should have been arrested for child abuse as well, the way he's used his kids, pushing them repeatedly at soldiers to gain clout among the anti-Israel crowd, and praising them when they got arrested for violent terrorist activity. He has also generally encouraged rock throwing terrorist attacks.

The ST post claims that Bassem advocates for non-violent resistance, which is an absolute lie. He supports rock throwing at Israelis, which IS a violent act (funny how for the anti-Israel crowd, Israeli words are violence, but Palestinians throwing rocks at Israelis, which has killed more than once, isn't. For some reason, I have never seen any of the people claiming that rock throwing is a form of non-violent resistance volunteering to be its physical targets, I wonder why. Anyway, reminder that when it comes to non-Israelis, people have no issue calling deaths caused by rock throwing "murder," even when executed by teenagers, or calling out the terrorizing quality of such crimes).

Not to mention that Bassem's own daughter, Ahed Tamimi (who is mentioned in the same ST post as having been arrested by Israel "multiple times", and who the family has actually sent countless times to confront soldiers in order to film her "bravery" when really, that's child abuse) was arrested twice, the first time for physically assaulting a soldier. The second time was after the Hamas massacre, when Ahed posted on social media, promising that Palestinians will slaughter Jews, and that "you will say what Hitler did to you is a joke" in comparison, that Palestinians will drink the blood of Jews and eat their skulls. Yeah, SO non-violent!

Let's also not forget that Bassem's niece, Ahlam Tamimi, was a terrorist who helped carry out the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing in 2001, a massacre of 16 people (since the Palestinians insist on counting unborn children when pregnant women get killed in the conflict, I think it's only fair Israelis do the same), leaving another person in a vegetative state for over 20 years. Ahlam's interviews from Israeli prison and after she was freed in a hostage deal are some of the most chilling I've ever seen, and this woman is a "journalist" and an icon for the anti-Israel mob, living in and broadcasting from Jordan, allowing her to help poison the minds of the next generation.

Nothing about the arrests of either Bassem (or Ahed or Ahlam) was arbitrary, unlike the claim in that ST post.

I'm just... beyond sickened. Anyway, this will also go under my Standing Together tag for easy reference, if you ever need it.

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

[greco-roman-jewess]

Ok so I’m still working on that massive Breadtube antisemitism project but while I was doing that I found this exchange among all those screenshots.

The interesting thing that caught my eye about this particular screenshot is that if you look at the first and third comments you get something they never give- a clear explanation of what they think Palestinian terror groups should be able to do and still be moral. This is (working from this screenshot) the definition of “justified resistance”

1. Does not target children

2. Occurs outside of the “internationally recognized borders of Israel” which is sort of vague so for my purposes im defining that as excluding a areas of the “West Bank” and Gaza but including all of Jerusalem (that part is mostly because it means lest headache for me (finding out which part of Jerusalem they mean in the probably dozens of times my list just says Jerusalem sounds exhausting and impossible) and think it’s fair game because multiple countries recognize unified Jerusalem as belonging to Israel)

So now I am going to prove that by their own definition what Palestinians have done over the past 25 years is not “justified resistance”

This is a (probably) incomplete list of children (defined as one minute old to age 17)

[see bottom for collection details methodology and conclusions (still forthcoming)]

Pink denotes attacks outside of “international Israel” Purple denotes a victim from outside “international Israel” when the attack occurred within “international Israel” orange indicates a victim not from Israel and blue denotes attacks outside of Israel(there’s only one on this list)

********January 17th 2001*********

Ofir Rahum, 16, (2001) (of Ashkelon) traveled to Jerusalem to meet a young woman with whom he had conducted a relationship over the Internet. She then drove him toward Ramallah. At a prearranged location, another vehicle drove up and three Palestinian gunmen inside shot Rahum more than 15 times

Shalhevet Pass, (age 10 months) (2001) (Hebron) was killed by sniper fire at the entrance to the Avraham Avinu neighborhood

Eliran Rosenberg-Zayat, (15) (of Givat) Shmuel and Naftali Lanzkorn, (13) (of Petah Tikva) (2001) (Kfar Saba) were killed in a suicide bombing at a gas station

Yossi Ish-Ran, (14), and Kobi Mandell, (14), (both of Tekoa) (Jerusalem) (2001) were found stoned to death in a cave

Marina Berkovizki, (17), (of Tel Aviv),

Anya Kazachkov, (16), (of Holon),

Katherine Kastaniyada-Talkir, (15), (of Ramat Gan),

Aleksei Lupalu, (16) (of the Ukraine),

Mariana Medvedenko, (16) (of Tel Aviv),

Irina Nepomneschi, (16,) (of Bat Yam),

Yulia Nelimov, (16,) (of Tel Aviv),

Raisa Nimrovsky, (15 ) (of Netanya),

Liana Sakiyan, 16, of Tel Aviv),

Maria Tagilchev, (14,) (of Netanya),

Yael-Yulia Sklianik, (15) (of Holon),

Yevgenia Dorfman, (15) (of Bat Yam)

(2001) (Tel Aviv) killed when a suicide bomber blew himself outside a disco

Yehuda Shoham, (aged 5 months), (of Shilo) (2001) died of injuries incurred in a fatal stoning on June 5.

Michal Raziel, (16), (of Jerusalem),

Malka Roth, (15), (of Jerusalem),

Ra'aya Schijveschuurder, (14), (of Neria),

Avraham Yitzhak Schijveschuurder, (4), (of Neria),

Hemda Schijveschuurder, (2) (of Neria),

Tamara Shimashvili, (8), (of Jerusalem), Yocheved Shoshan, (10), (of Jerusalem)

(2001) (Jerusalem) killed in the suicide bombing at the Sbarro pizzeria

Aliza Malka, (17) (Kibbutz Merav) (2001) killed in a drive by near the kibbutz

Shoshana Ben Ishai, (16), (of Betar Illit),

Menashe (Meni) Regev, (14), (of Jerusalem) (2001) (Jerusalem) were killed when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with a sub-machine gun

Assaf Avitan, (15), (of Jerusalem),

Israel Ya'akov Danino, (17), (of Jerusalem),

Golan Turgeman, (15), (of Jerusalem),

Adam Weinstein, (14), (of Givon Hahadasha)

Ido Cohen, (17), (of Jerusalem) (2001) (Jerusalem) when explosive devices were detonated by two suicide bombers on Ben Yehuda Street the pedestrian mall in the center of Jerusalem.

Yair Amar, 13, (of Emmanuel),

Avraham Nahman Nitzani, 17, (of Betar Illit)

(2001) (Emmanuel in Samaria) killed when three terrorists attacked a No. 189 Dan bus and several passenger cars with a roadside bomb, anti-tank grenades, and light arms fire

Yael Ohana, (11), and her mother were murdered in their home when an armed terrorist infiltrated Moshav Hamra, halfway between Jericho and Beit She'an (2002)

Nehemia Amar, (15),

Keren Shatsky, (15),

Rachel Thaler, (16), (all of Ginot Shomron)

(2002) (Karnei Shomron in Samaria) Killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a pizzeria

Avraham Eliahu Nehmad, (7), Shiraz (7) and Liran (3), (of Rishon Lezion)

Shaul Nehmad (15), (of Rishon Lezion)

Lidor Ilan (12) and his sister Oriah (18 months), (of Rishon Lezion),

Ya'akov Avraham Eliyahu(7 months) (of Jerusalem)

(2002) (Jerusalem)

Killed when a terrorist detonated the bomb next to a group of women waiting with their baby carriages for their husbands to leave the nearby synagogue

Avia Malka, (9 months), (of South Africa)

(2002) (Netanya) killed when two Palestinians opened fire and threw grenades at cars and pedestrians

Atara Livne, (15), (of Kibbutz Hanita)

(2002) killed when two terrorists opened fire from an ambush on Israeli vehicles traveling between Shlomi and Kibbutz Metzuba

Rachel Levy, (17), (of Jerusalem)

(2002) (Jerusalem) was killed when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in

Gal Koren, (15), (of Haifa)

Orly Ofir, (16), (of Haifa)

Adi Shiran, (17), (of Haifa)

(2002) (Haifa) killed by suicide bombing

Elmar Dezhabrielov, (16)

(2002) (Rishon Lezion) killed by suicide bombing

Sinai Keinan, (aged 14 months),

(2002) (Petah Tikva) suicide bombing

Netanel Riachi, (17), (of Kochav Ya'akov)

Gilad Stiglitz, (14), (of Yakir)

Avraham Siton, (17), (of Shilo)

(2002) (Itamar) were killed when a Palestinian gunman infiltrated the community and opened fire on the teenagers playing basketball,

Hadar Hershkowitz, (14)

(2002) (Herzliya) was killed when a Palestinian suicide bomber set off a pipe bomb at a shwarma restaurant.

Shani Avi-Zedek, (15), (of Jerusalem)

Galila Bugala, (11), (of Jerusalem)

(2002) were killed in a suicide bombing at the Patt junction in Egged bus no. 32A traveling from Gilo to the center of Jerusalem. The bus, which was completely destroyed, was carrying many students on their way to school.

Neria Shabo, (16), Zvika, (12), and Avishai, (5) along with their mother

(2002) (Itamar) were murdered when a terrorist entered their home

Yonatan Gamliel, (16)

Sarah Tiferet Shilon, (8 months)

(2002) killed in a terrorist attack on Dan bus No. 189 traveling from Bnei Brak to Emmanuel in Samaria

Shuv'el Zion Dikstein, (9), (of Psagot),

(2002) killed in a shooting attack south of Hebron

Matan Ohayon, (5), and Noam, (4)

(2002) (Kibbutz Metzer) were killed when a terrorist infiltrated the kibbutz

Hodaya Asraf, (13), (of Jerusalem)

Ilan Perlman, (8), (of Jerusalem)

Michael Sharshevsky, (16), (of Jerusalem)

(2002) (Jerusalem) by a suicide bomber on a No. 20 Egged bus on Mexico Street in the Kiryat Menahem neighborhood of Jerusalem

Gavriel Hoter, 17, (of Alonei Habashan)

(2002) (Otniel) killed while working in the yeshiva kitchen, serving the Shabbat meal to some 100 students in the adjacent dining room

Smadar Firstater, (16), (of Haifa),

Kamar Abu Hamed, (12), (of Daliat al-Carmel),

Daniel Haroush, (16), (of Safed),

Tom Hershko, (15), (of Haifa)

Elizabeth Katzman, (17), (of Haifa),

Tal Kehrmann, (17), (of Haifa),

Abigail Litle, (14), (of Haifa),

Yuval Mendellevich, (13), (of Haifa),

Asaf Zur (Zollinger), (17), (of Haifa)

(2003) killed in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus #37 on Moriah Blvd. in the Carmel section of Haifa, en route to Haifa University.

Moran Menachem, (17), (of Jerusalem)

(2003) was found near Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital in Jerusalem, brutally beaten and stabbed to death.

Haviv Dadon, (16), (of Shlomi),

(2003) was struck in the chest and killed by shrapnel from an anti-aircraft shell fired by Hizbullah terrorists in Lebanon

Avraham Bar-Or, (12), (of Jerusalem), Binyamin Bergman, (15), (of Jerusalem)

Elisheva Meshulami, (16), (of Bnei Brak),

Tehilla Nathanson, (3), (of Zichron Ya'acov), Issachar Reinitz, (9), (of Netanya),

Shmuel Taubenfeld, (3 months), (of New Square, New York)

Shmuel Zargari, (11 months), (of Jerusalem)

(2003) were killed when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself on a No. 2 Egged bus in Jerusalem's Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood.

Tomer Almog, (9), (of Haifa)

Assaf Staier, (11), (of Haifa),

Liran Zer-Aviv, (4),and Noya, (1), (of Kibbutz Yagur)

(2003) (Haifa) killed in a suicide bombing carried out by a female terrorist from Jenin

Hila Hatuel, (11), Hadar, (9), Roni, (7), and Merav, (2) (of Katif in the Gaza Strip)

(2004) were killed two Palestinian terrorists fired on an Israeli car at the entrance to the Gaza Strip settlement bloc of Gush Katif

Yuval Abebeh, (4),

Dorit (Masarat) Benisian, (2),

(2004) (Sderot), were killed by a Kassam rocket fired from Gaza while playing in the street

Gilad Niv, (11), and Lior, (3), (of Rakefet)

Khalil Zeitounya, (10), (of Jaffa)

(2004) (Taba Hilton) were killed in terror bombings at a Sinai holiday frequented by Israelis

Ayala-Haya (Ella) Abukasis, (17), (of Sderot)

(2004)  was mortally wounded when a Qassam rocket landed near her and shrapnel penetrated her cerebellum, leaving her brain dead. She was struck while protecting her younger brother, who was lightly wounded.

*****second intifada ends*******

Avihai Levy, (17), (of Beit Hagai),

Aviad Mansour, (16), (of Otniel)

(2005) were killed in a drive-by terrorist shooting at a hitchhiking stop about 200 meters from the entrance to Beit Hagai, south of Hebron. 

Rachel Ben Abu, (16), (of Tel Aviv)

Nofar Horowitz, (16), (of Tel Aviv)

(2005) (Netanya) were killed when a suicide bomber detonated himself outside Hasharon Mall

Oz Ben-Meir, (15), (of Maon)

(2005) was killed when Palestinians opened fire at the Gush Etzion junction south of Jerusalem

Shaked Lasker, (16), (of Kedumim)

(2006) was killed when a suicide bomber hitchhiker disguised as a yeshiva student detonated his explosive device in a private vehicle near the entrance to Kedumim

Daniel Wultz, (16), (of Weston, Florida)

(2006) (Tel Aviv) was killed by suicide bombing during the Passover holiday at the Rosh Ha'ir shawarma restaurant

Segev Peniel Avihail, (15), (of Neve Daniel),

Neria Cohen, (15), (of Jerusalem),

Yonatan Yitzhak Eldar, (16), (of Shilo)

Yohai Lifshitz, (17), (of Jerusalem);

Avraham David Moses, (16), (of Efrat)

(2008) (Jerusalem) were killed when a terrorist armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle infiltrated the yeshiva and opened fire in the library

Yoav Fogel, (11), Elad, (4), and (3-month-old) Hadas

(2011) (Itamar) were stabbed to death by terrorists in their home

Daniel Viflic, (16), of Bet Shemesh,

(2011) died of mortal wounds suffered when an anti-tank missile was fired at a school bus in the Negev near Kibbutz Sa'ad

Yonatan Palmer, (1), (of Kiryat Arba), and his father

(2011) were killed when their car overturned on Route 60 near Hebron

Gilad Sha'er, (16), (of Talmon)

Naftali Frenkel, (16), (of Nof Ayalon)

(2014) were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in the area of Gush Etzion, while trying to hitch a ride home. Their bodies were discovered after an extensive search on June 30.

Daniel Tregerman, (4), (of Kibbutz Nahal Oz),

(2014) was killed when a mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip exploded outside the family’s home.

Shalom Aharon Badani, )17), (of Jerusalem)

(2014) (Jerusalem) succumbed to injuries sustained when a Palestinian terrorist used his car to deliberately drive into a crowd of Israelis near a light-rail train station

Hallel Yaffa Ariel (13) (of Kiriat Arba),

(2016)was murdered in her bed

*****last five years******

Rina Shnerb (17)

(2019) (Lod) was murdered when terrorists detonated an IED device near a popular tourist and recreation site

Ido Abigail (5)

(2021) (Sderot) killed by Palestinian rocket and mortar fire 

Nadin Awad (16)

(2021) (Lod) killed in the rocket barrage from Gaza 

Aryeh Shtsupak, (16),

(2022) (Jerusalem) killed in one of two almost simultaneous explosions at bus stops at separate entrances to Jerusalem

Asher Natan, (14)

(2023) (Jerusalem)

outside a synagogue near his home.

Yaakov Yisrael Paley, (6)

Asher Menahem Paley, (8)

(2023) (Jerusalem) car-ramming attack in the northern Jerusalem

Nachman Shmuel Mordoff, (17)

Elisha Antman, (17),

(2023) gas station attack near Ramallah

Oriya Hartom, 16,

(2024) (Ramallah) gas station shooting

Benjamin Achimeir, 14, (of the West Bank outpost Malachei HaShalom)

(2024) killed while herding sheep near the outpost

Majdal Shams rocket attack child victims (not listed in pink because they are Arabs and therefore not “settlers”) (2024)

Fajr Laith Abu Saleh, 16,

Ameer Rabeea Abu Salehl, 16,

Hazem Akram Abu Saleh, 15

John Wadeea Ibrahim, 13,

Iseel Nasha'at Ayoub, 12

Finis Adham Safadi, 11

Yazan Nayeif Abu Saleh, 12,

Alma Ayman Fakhr al-Din, 11

Naji Taher al-Halabi, 11

Milad Muadad al-Sha'ar, 10

Nathem Fakher Saeb, 16

Jafara Ibrahim, 11,

All data from

https://www.gov.il/en/pages/victims-of-palestinian-violence-and-

Only edits to data made for brevity and standardization (ie. standard order for name age year and location, excluding names of adult victims from list for multiple causality attacks, removal of information not necessary to convey information things like name of terrorist or name of pizza restaurant. Date information beyond year was also excluded)

October 7 2023 is intentionally excluded I will discuss it but it was not part of the list I drew my data from and therefore is not part of the final project.

I am focusing on child victims because that was one of the two parameters set out in the original screenshot. Note that this means this list is not at accurate representation of the full scope of terror and its consequences in Israel over the past 25 years. The list focuses exclusively on mortalities under the age of 18 this does not mean that I think children’s lives are worth more than adults, this does not mean I dismiss the trauma of non- fatal casualties of terror and my exclusion of late term pregnancies (there were several times it was mentioned that a woman was between 8-9 months pregnant) I understand that for the families of those pregnant victims they lost two family members not just one but for consistentency I counted all pregnancies mentioned (there were also mentions of women being 4-5 months pregnant) as part of the mother’s body and therefore a single adult victim.

Conclusions:

Under the assumption that violence against Jews can be justified as resistance if it is only directed at adults who reside outside of the 1967 ceasefire lines one cannot possibly claim that armed Palestinian groups have carried out “justifiable violence”.

In the past 24 years from the beginning of the Second Intifada at least 140 children have been killed by Palestinian “resistance fighters.”

This children were all killed in one of the at least 61 separate incidents of terrorism involving child fatalities, of these events 38 were listed being within *internationally recognized borders* 22 in *West Bank, Gaza or Sameria* and 1 at a vacation hotel in Egypt.

Many of the incidents would have involved direct enough contact with the victim to assess that they were a minor and not a threat such as stabbings, stoning and kidnappings. In several of the other incidents spaces likely to have minors present were intentionally targeted such as yeshivas, buses and pizzerias. It must also be noted that the other incidents involved imprecise methods likely to cause maximal damage deployed in areas occupied by civilians.

As I already presented of the 61 attacks I documented nearly two thirds took place within Israel’s internationally recognized boarders. 5 of those incidents involved child victims who were listed as “of” a town, city or settlement outside of the 1967 ceasefire lines and all were killed in situations where it would not have been possible to ascertain this fact before they were killed.

4 attacks also included a child fatally listed as “of” a foreign country (Ukraine, South Africa and the USA)

I want to make it clear that to my knowledge none of these attacks (except the Majdal Shams rocket attack but we all know that if they had hit Jewish children playing soccer they wouldn’t have apologized) have ever been called to be accidents, mistakes or misfires or apologized for by the groups or individuals who perpetrated them.

According to the scope of violence morality we can gather from the screenshot at the top of this post the Palestinian has historically been and continues to immoral. By antizionists own definition of moral violence.

Now I am going to address 7/10. The phrase “justifiable resistance” is often used as justification for the horrible violence of that day. Now from the previously described characteristics of “justifiable violence” by their own definition 7/10 was not “justifiable violence.” There is no official tally of minor victims but estimates place the number somewhere around 40 children were killed during the 7/10/23 attacks nearly all of them in their homes and several more (this number was also hard to find because all search engines suck now) somewhere around 30 Israelis age 17 and under were taken hostage. Two very young children Ariel (5) and Kifr (2) are still in captivity and at time of writing their fate is unknown. Most of these children were murdered in their homes many were killed in such a way that the perpetrators could have easily assessed that they were children. Every single one of the 7/10 attacks happened inside Israel’s internationally recognized boarders. By their own standards 7/10 could not have been justified resistance.

Thank you for reading tell me what you think!

[nicklloydnow]

“Ta-Nehisi Coates’s fundamental problem is that he is a narcissist. Other people interest him only insofar as they reflect his own thoughts and feelings. That is what makes him such a bad reporter, a shortcoming he freely admits to. “Part of me would have done anything to go home,” he writes in his new book The Message, about his 10-day trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories in the summer of 2023. “The part that always grouses about the rigors of reporting, the awkwardness of asking strangers intimate questions, the discipline of listening intently.” Readers, if listening to other people is a chore, then journalism might not be the career for you.

It could also be that Coates hates reporting because he is bad at it. Every reporter knows the a-ha moment of living through the anecdote that will make the perfect lead or kicker. No such perfect anecdotes have ever happened to Coates or, if they did, he was oblivious to them. His previous book, Between the World and Me, was an indictment of America as a racist hellscape, yet the worst act of racism he recounted from his own life—not something he read about in a newspaper or a history book—was a white lady on an escalator who shouted at his dawdling son, who was blocking her way, “Come on!”

(…)

The conclusion he comes to is that the Jewish state is the equivalent of the Jim Crow South. “I don’t think I ever, in my life, felt the glare of racism burn stranger and more intense than in Israel,” he writes. “‘Jim Crow’ was the first thing that came to mind, if only because ‘Jim Crow’ is a phrase that connotes an injustice, a sorting of human beings, the awarding and stripping of the rights of a population. Certainly, that was some part of what I saw in Hebron, in Jerusalem, in Lydd.”

If his luck had been different, and he were less self-involved, Coates could have come up with a better checkpoint anecdote than the lame one he offers. Something like the incident in November 2009 when a Palestinian music teacher on his way to teach a lesson was held at the Beit Iba checkpoint and forced to take out his violin and play it while Israeli soldiers laughed. There you have something more than inconvenience, a vivid and poetic illustration of the dehumanization ordinary Palestinians often face. There, too, you have a rebuttal: The 2001 Sbarro pizza shop bombing in Jerusalem, which killed 16 Israelis including a pregnant woman, was committed by a Palestinian who hid his bomb in a guitar case.

These are the kinds of complexities Coates has no time for. Since he first publicly embraced the Palestinian cause, his liberal friends have been telling him that the issue is complex. “Horseshit,” he told the New York magazine interviewer. Palestine is no more complicated than slavery or segregation. “It’s complicated,” he said, “when you want to take something from somebody.” When the interviewer asked him about Hamas’s attack of Oct. 7, 2023, Coates compared it to Nat Turner’s slave rebellion: “I would’ve been one of those people that would’ve been like, ‘I’m not cool with this.’ But Nat Turner happens in a context.”

The real reason Israel bothers Coates so much is something he waits until the very end of the book to confess:

Israel felt like an alternative history, one where all our [Marcus] Garvey dreams were made manifest. There, ‘Up Ye Mighty Race’ was the creed. There, ‘Redemption Song’ is the national anthem. There, the red, black, and green billowed over schools, embassies, and the columns of great armies. There, Martin Delaney is a hero and February 21 is a day of mourning. That was the dream—the mythic Africa . . . What I saw in the City of David was so familiar to me—the search for self in an epic, mythic past filled with kings.

There you have it. The problem with Israel is that it shames him. How can it be that the Jews carved their Israel out of the desert, and yet no place in Africa, least of all Liberia, remotely resembles Wakanda?

Earlier in the book, Coates talks about his 2014 Atlantic article “The Case for Reparations,” which cemented his status as America’s most prominent public intellectual. “In the months before the article was published, I felt that I had at last discovered the answer to the haunting question of why my people so reliably settled at the bottom of nearly every socioeconomic indicator,” he writes. “The answer was simple: The persistence of our want was matched exactly to the persistence of our plunder. I was blessed with a gift, and the gift was not simply the knowledge that ‘they’ were lying (about us, about this country, and about themselves), but the proof.”

What he loved most about that article, in other words, was the feeling of finally being able to blame all the problems of black America on other people. Israel took that away from him. All the excuses for why his father’s black paradise remained a fantasy applied equally to the Jews, but they overcame the hostility of the world to succeed where Garvey & Co. failed. That, and not any resemblance to Jim Crow, is the reason Coates hates Israel so bitterly.

(…)

For a while, it looked as though a similar divorce might happen again in our day. Many liberals were genuinely shocked by the support for Palestine on college campuses in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack. It caused many to rethink their support for “wokeness” and its crude division of the world into oppressors and oppressed, evil whites and blameless people of color. Wealthy liberals like Bill Ackman defected. Suspicions of anti-Semitism among Black Lives Matter activists, which The New York Times had covered as far back as 2018, gained new credence as campus protesters chanted “From the River to the Sea” and some embraced paraglider iconography. The tensions threatened to bring about a split in the left as far-reaching as that of the 1970s.

There is little reason to expect a replay of history, however. The demographics have changed too much. In 1970, the American electorate and Harvard’s undergraduate student body were both close to 90 percent white. Today. the situation is very different. Last year, people of color made up a majority of children under 18 and a majority of every Ivy League freshman class, except at Dartmouth. At the same time, Jewish enrollment at Harvard is lower than it was during the bad old days of quotas in the 1920s. Demographics don’t perfectly predict political opinions, on this issue or any other, but defectors from the left may be surprised to discover that wokeness, the ideology of valorizing all people of color, has quite enough inertia to carry on without their help.

The future we face is encapsulated in an anecdote that occurred when Coates stopped pontificating to himself and listened to other people for a change. Avner, who leads a group of former Israeli Defense Force soldiers who now favor a more liberal policy toward the Palestinians, is showing Coates around the West Bank with their driver Guy. Coates asks these two Israelis what they would do differently if they were in charge. Avner says he favors self-determination for both peoples. “The question is, can there be a way to have the right to self-determination for Israelis and to Palestinians? I think the answer is yes, there has to be. I mean, there’s no other way.”

Guy doesn’t have time for Avner’s waffle. “I see the establishment of Israel as a sin. I don’t think it should have happened,” he says. “It’s something I can’t live with. And I think in order to have some kind of sustainable, reasonable life here, there should be a real change.”

Coates was instrumental in bringing American elites from having Avner’s view to Guy’s, in respect of their own country. Before, America was flawed but redeemable; now, it was sinful from Day One, founded on slavery and plunder. This line sounded good to many American liberals when its implications weren’t entirely clear. It is much easier to see what abolishing the occupier state means in the context of Israel. The idea shocks many Americans. Whether the future belongs to the liberalism of yesterday or the wokeness of tomorrow will depend on their ability to apply the lessons of that shock to their own case.”

“And here is where I largely agree with him: The problem Israel faces isn’t morally complicated at all. It might have been on October 6, 2023. But after October 7, things got simple.

The terrorist organizations Coates whitewashes or ignores openly and proudly insist that they want Israel destroyed. I’m not even referring to those insipid chants of “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” one hears from Western apologists for terrorism. I mean that their leaders and founding documents plainly state that their goal is to eradicate Jews and their country.

Hamas and Hezbollah have never been subtle or ambiguous: They want Israel gone and the Jews living there dead or exiled. The Houthis’ official slogan is “God Is the greatest, death to America, death to Israel, a curse upon the Jews, victory to Islam.” Coates could find this out by spending five minutes on Wikipedia.

When someone clearly expresses an intent to murder you and your family, a lot of complexity melts away.

And when they back up their words with actions, things get simpler still. A year ago, Hamas launched a brutal attack in which they murdered men, women, and children; raped women; and kidnapped hundreds. This wasn’t the rhetorical cosplay we’ve seen on American college campuses. This was a deliberate and wanton slaughter of civilians. And in the wake of the attacks, Hamas’ leaders vowed to repeat them again and again.

Except for the issue of retrieving their hostages and adhering to the laws of war rejected entirely by Hamas, Israel’s options were decidedly uncomplicated. And that’s why Coates’ cartoonish understanding of Israel and the Palestinians is so pernicious.

(…)

If you tell the Israelis that compromise is pointless because their country should not exist or be able to defend itself, they will simply ignore you, and rightly so. And if you tell Americans they must choose between terrorist organizations that proudly rape and murder civilians and a democratic ally that doesn’t promise death to America, the odds are good that they’re going to pick the latter.

If Palestinians had eschewed violence in favor of peaceful resistance and moral suasion, they probably would have had a viable state long ago. But Palestinian leaders and Arab governments rejected that approach for decades. Indeed, the Oct. 7 attack was intended to prevent such an approach. The normalization of relations between Israel and Arab governments was a major motivation for it.

Coates and his defenders insist that they want “moral clarity” on the conflict. I believe moral clarity is on Israel’s side. It’s a democracy whose Muslim and Arab citizens have rights that they wouldn’t enjoy in most Arab and Muslim countries. Israel tries to protect civilians and is called genocidal. Hamas calls for genocide, and they are called victims.

I could go on, but even if you reject such facts as irrelevant, Hamas has forced Israelis to either defend themselves or die. Such a choice makes everything clear and simple very quickly. Israel’s flaws vanish before that existential test. That’s why complexity is the only hope the Palestinians have.

“Supporting Ukraine and Israel is morally right and advances America’s strategic interests. Siding with Russia against Ukraine or with Hamas against Israel, by design or negligence, is un-American. Ukraine and Israel are faced with life-or-death threats to their populations and to their democracies. But their struggles are also a test for our democracy, which has served as a beacon of hope and stalwart supporter of these kinds of fights for freedom and democracy throughout the world for generations.

(…)

Hamas and Russia are first and foremost enemies of Israel and Ukraine, but not exclusively. They will continue to unleash terror around the world until they are stopped. It is essential that the U.S. provide Israel and Ukraine everything they need to fight and win: anti-missile defenses, ammunition, access to intelligence, humanitarian assistance, training and more. The aid both countries are requesting, combined, is a minuscule percentage of the U.S. budget — defense or domestic. But that aid could mean the difference between victory and defeat for Israel and Ukraine and for the future of democracy across the globe. Israel and Ukraine are not asking one single American soldier to risk their life. All they want is for us to give them the tools so that they can do the job.

This is an inflection point for democracy and freedom. We have seen with our own eyes, in real time, the barbarism of both Hamas and Russia. The torture and slaughter of civilians — women, children and elderly, unarmed and begging — and the capture of hostages to serve as human shields are acts not of war but of terror. We cannot stand idly by, bearing witness without providing help. That’s not the American way.

For their sake, for our sake, for the world’s sake, we must fully support Israel and Ukraine in their struggle, in our collective struggle, against the darkest forces of human nature.”

“Asked about antisemitism in Ukraine today, Korniychuk links his index finger to his thumb to indicate zero.

After all, other than Israel, Ukraine is the only country in the world that simultaneously had a Jewish president and a Jewish prime minister. Volodymyr Groysman served as prime minister from 2016 to August 2019. For the latter part of that period, Volodymyr Zelensky was already president, having come into office in May 2019, and it was common knowledge that both Volodymyrs were of Jewish parentage

(…)

How many Ukrainians live in Israel? As registration is not compulsory, Korniychuk cannot give an exact figure. Although 15,000 are registered, he estimates that there are approximately half a million Russian-speaking Ukrainians who have made their homes in Israel, plus a large number of Israelis who are entitled to Ukrainian passports.

Of the Ukrainians in Israel, 2,500 including dual nationals, left during the first two weeks of the war. During the first two weeks of the war in Ukraine, some 1,400 people lost their lives, says Korniychuk, underscoring that this is approximately equal to the number of people killed by Hamas during the massacre.

Korniychuk notes that Israel was essentially founded by Ukrainian Jews, who though they came to reestablish a Jewish homeland, nonetheless carried Ukraine in their hearts.

(…)

Inasmuch as the hostage situation and the war in Gaza continue to occupy the attention of the international media, Korniychuk sees this waning soon in the same way that interest in the war in Ukraine has waned.

The longer that the war goes on, he says, the greater the need to keep up awareness.”

[tamlindain]

When you call for intifada, and your audience includes people with any kind of ties to Israel, the immediate connection that we make is to The First Intifada and The Second Intifada. It did not help the Palestinian people in any meaningful way to blow up buses and supermarkets. It did not overthrow the Israeli government, it did not get rid of settlements, it just killed civilians. Like. Look at the Sbarro bombing. A suicide bombing in a pizzeria killed 16 people, including 7 children and a pregnant woman. Who did that help? What did that accomplish? Intifada refers to a specific thing to us. These are specific events that happened and that we remember. If you don't want us to think about suicide bombers outside of a bar mitzvah celebration, you should consider calling it something else.

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Posted @withregram • @therealzvi Watch till the end.

Posted @withregram • @blackandjewishunity I’ll never forget the first time I watched this clip a few years back. If you ever have trouble grasping what type of sick twisted minds are at work here:

meet Palestinian terrorist Ahlam Tamimi who could not hide her smile upon hearing that she murdered 8 Jewish children (15 people total). She ordered the Sbarro pizza suicide bomb attack in Jerusalem on August 2001.

These are our neighbors. These are our prospective “peace partners”. This is a mindset people in the West are too privileged or sheltered to comprehend. How tf are you supposed to make peace with this?

[rebuke-me]

“I mean, that’s why I like doing sports. It gets me out of the house.” Jake said, and Jeremy felt a little bit like throwing up. “Like, travel baseball-” 

“You have to be good at playing sports to play sports.” He said, cutting the other boy off. “And I’m not. And- and even if I did get on, for whatever reason, you still have to pay for your uniforms.” 

Jake looked over at him, and Jeremy stared at his knees, which were bouncing again. “They’re, like, fifteen bucks. It’s not bad.” 

“Some of us work because we need the money to live, Dillinger.” Jeremy gestured at the parking lot. “Your house is probably still standing somewhere. Mine’s a pizza place. Because some of us can’t even afford to keep a house, much less pay money to play a sport we’re bad at.” He realized his voice had risen, and he was gripping his book tightly on his lap. “I just- never mind. Sorry. I- I shouldn’t have said anything.” 

Jake didn’t speak for a moment, before he nodded. “Yeah. I… didn’t really consider that before now.” He said, slowly. “I didn’t mean to, y’know. Do that to you. I just figured…” 

“What, that since I’m Jewish I’m rich?” Jeremy couldn’t help the horrible bitterness that crept into his voice. He’d dealt with enough assumptions from people around him about his Judaism. Enough hatred. “Because that’s stupid, even for you, Dillinger.” 

“I’m not stupid.” Jake crushed a leaf in his hands, scattering it on the ground in front of him. “I didn’t even think of it that way.” 

They sat in silence for a while, before Jake cleared his throat. 

“Do people really… think that about you? Just ‘cause you’re Jewish?” 

Jeremy stared at the rotating neon sign over the gravesite of his house, the place he’d grown up in, that was gone now. He wondered if they’d filled in their basement with concrete. If they’d burned the wood to the ground. And maybe, somewhere, he wished he’d been there to see it fall. 

“Someone wrote that I should’ve been gassed on my locker last year.” He finally said. “The day before my bar mitzvah. Stuck one of those, like, gross stink bomb things in my gym bag and everything. I couldn’t get the smell out of my clothes for weeks.” 

Jake was looking at him with the kind of look his dad gave him when he mentioned how bad school was for him. Pity and horror and disappointment all at once. He knew he was. 

“Whatever. It- it doesn’t matter. They’re definitely all fucking old or dead now anyways.” Jeremy bit his cheek. “Maybe in 2023, everyone decided that Jewish people just get to live their lives and no one cares. Or maybe we’re all just still stuck in the same cycle of everyone thinking that our religion means we own everything and everyone.” He kicked a stone. 

“I- I didn’t know that happened to you. That’s… really terrible, Jeremy.” Jake’s voice was so pitying. “When we get back, if anyone else does that shit to you, I’ll hit them with my bat.” 

Jeremy couldn’t help but laugh a little bit at the image of Jake Dillinger knocking heads of anti-Semitic assholes with his baseball bat. “Thanks. I… appreciate that.” 

Jake got to his feet, brushing crushed up leaves from his jeans. Older Rich hadn’t had jeans that fit Jake, but he’d gotten his washed and Jeremy could barely see the blood residue on them. “C’mon. I don’t even wanna look at how much more expensive the Sbarro’s pizza is. We should head back before they start looking for us.” 

Jeremy looked one last time at the place where he’d grown up, before he got up, trying for a smile. “Back to the camp with us, Master Frodo.” He said. 

Jake furrowed his brows at him. “What?”

“Never mind.” Jeremy couldn’t help but laugh at Jake’s confusion. He held up his book. “Lord of the Rings. Maybe I’ll read you a bedtime story when we’re back at Rich’s.”

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[groovysanta]

Suicide bombing at Sbarro? I mean I know their pizza is bad but come on.

[fanofsports]

Jerusalem Sbarro pizza bombing victim dies after 22 years in coma

The Sbarro restaurant, at a busy intersection in the centre of west Jerusalem, was packed with customers when Tamimi and Masri, both Hamas members, entered on 9 August. Tamimi, who chose the target, left before Masri blew himself up. In addition to those killed, about 130 people were injured. #Jerusalem #Sbarro #pizza #bombing #victim #dies #years #coma

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Jerusalem Sbarro pizza bombing victim dies after 22 years in coma

The Sbarro restaurant, at a busy intersection in the centre of west Jerusalem, was packed with customers when Tamimi and Masri, both Hamas members, entered on 9 August. Tamimi, who chose the target, left before Masri blew himself up. In addition to those killed, about 130 people were injured.

[eretzyisrael]

We track Jordan's Arabic-language media closer than many outside observers. Still, we missed the exchange below until it was highlighted in an Arabic-language Twitter post [here]. Now we're catching up.

The tweet itself is dated October 6, 2020, a few days after Jordan forcibly expelled Nizar Tamimi to another country (evidently Qatar) with very little advance notice. We'll get to him in a moment. 

The tweet refers to a scene that played out in what appears to be a conference room of the Foreign Ministry of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in Amman, the capital. A 50 second long video (here) captures the interaction. Here's the brief dialogue in Arabic-to-English translation arranged by us:

Unidentified Jordanian journalist: “Regarding the freed detainee Ahlam Tamimi, there are American pressures on Jordan...” Ayman H. Safadi, Foreign Minister of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan: Once more, sir, we are a country which respects the law. Jordanian law does not allow handing over a Jordanian citizen to a third country unless there are agreements. There is no agreement between Jordan and the US to hand over Ahlam Tamimi. Consequently there is no legal basis for handing her over as we adhere to the law in this case. There were requests from several parties in America to hand her over since there is a pending lawsuit against her. We say, because we act according to law, the law does not permit us to hand her over and consequently we shall not hand her over.”

Read More: Here

[separatist-apologist]

The ranking acotar seem fun. The acotar char rank as they wait at the airport

17. Cassian- Not on time. Forgot his passport at home, has to go get it. Argues with gate agent for 20 whole minutes despite a line fifty people deep. Misses his flight, has to drive.

16. Feyre-Traveling with a baby is hard. Trying to drag two suitcases, a car seat + a stroller up the the check desk. Isn't her fault that the baby is cranky and didn't realize too many grown adults have no problem with people taking their shoes off on a plane will suddenly lose their shit over the mere sight of a baby. Gets into a loud yelling match with another passenger seated beside her and baby, has to be moved.

15. Jurian- makes a "joke" about a bomb in TSA line. Already has a shifty look about him. Spends 5 hours being interrogated before placed on no fly list. Drives with Cassian.

14. Tarquin- doing his best but airports stress him out. Why does he have to take his shoes off, again? Forgot to wear socks with flip flops, now forced to wait barefoot on terrible airport floor. Full bottle of sunscreen confiscated for his trouble.

13. Amren- Will not declare how much jewels she is bringing back. No one stops her, but it is definitely going to come back to haunt her later. Complains about giggling baby from four seats back despite headphones she has been wearing whole flight.

12. Tamlin- Nearly misses flight while standing in line for coffee. Legs too long for seat, neighbor immediately puts their head on his shoulder so he can't move for 6 hours. Says nothing until he "accidentally" spills sprite in their lap.

11. Rhysand- flirting with gate agents/stewardesses. Everyone is suddenly "darling". Drunk in airport bar despite it being 8 am. Somehow no one finds this creepy. Naps on Feyre's shoulder entire flight, doesn't notice Nyx coloring on his face.

10. Elain- Way too many checked bags. Twice as much underwear per outfit ratio, "just in case". Tries to bring seeds into country despite all the signs telling her not to and is fined.

9. Vassa- LOUD. Carrying on phone conversation using speaker. Refuses to use headphones while watching tiktoks at full blast.

8. Mor- FILMING tiktoks INSIDE airport. Doing her little dancey dances on the moving sidewalks while not letting other people pass. Has stuffed carrying on plus backpack + purse, starts an angry fight with gate agent when they try and check bag

7. Helion- MANSPREADING. Why is this man taking up a whole row of chairs? Hogging charging station, books spread everywhere. Has middle seat despite ass that won't quit, making seat make very uncomfortable.

6. Lucien- Parks himself in front of sbarro in airport foodcourt and immediately begins doing whatever laptop people at airports do. So engrossed in spreadsheets he has to SPRINT to his flight not to miss it. Forced to check bag when he's last to board, pays for the inflight wifi like a sucker

5. Emerie- one immaculately packed bag. Documents all in hand. Unruffled, unbothered, dressed like a runway model despite 5am flight. Upgraded seat so she does not have to sit with the masses.

4. Gwyn- Nervous and won't stop talking about it. Keeps gesturing for people beside her to take out headphones so she can talk. Doesn't realize airport is not the place to make a friend.

3. Eris- SEDATED. First class ticket with its own boarding area. Hiding in lounge so he does not have to participate in group conversation. Takes sleeping pill before plane ever takes off, wakes just in time for landing. Can barely remember how he got there.

2. Nesta- Been carefully planning for months. Comfy shoes, eye mask, good book with backup just in case. Pre-downloaded movies/shows if she gets bored, snacks in her carry on. Unruffled, resting bitch face immaculate.

Azriel- One back pack and a set of head phones. Beanie, sweatpants, and a t-shirt. Checked in 24 hours before, gets to airport 3 hours early to avoid long security line. First person on plane, bought a window seat. No one realizes he even made it on until they land and find him waiting at baggage carousel.