Food for thought ...
When I say that a huge proportion of the Israeli Arab electorate wants integration -- and that the Arab surge in the last election was partly driven by the fact that their political parties finally caught up with that desire and campaigned explicitly on it -- I got hounded by skeptics, including well-meaning people, who said I'm projecting my own hopes onto the Arab community.
I'm not. An Arab politician who talks about integration and participation in Israeli public life does better, consistently over two decades now, than the old class of politicians who posture and pontificate about pan-Arabism or Palestinian nationalism or Islamism.
This poll looks a bit optimistic to me. From a lot of different data points over the years, including election returns and past polling, I think it's lower than this. Probably a quarter to a third of Israeli Arabs reliably, rather than half or more. And of course the news cycle can move that figure up or down by 10 points.
But nevertheless, right here and now, on the cusp of potentially participating in an Israeli ruling coalition, a plurality of Arab voters don't mind calling Hamas terrorists and a majority are happy to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
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Over the weekend, I traveled to Berlin with a delegation of constituents to commemorate the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-organized pogrom that saw the widespread destruction of Jewish businesses and synagogues, foreshadowing the horrors of the Holocaust.
I never imagined returning to America to discover that, during the same week as Kristallnacht’s anniversary, extremists had organized a boycott of Jewish businesses, declaring, “These Zionist establishments must go.”
We are unlearning the lessons of history at great peril not only to our Jewish brothers and sisters but also to ourselves.
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Robert Hockett retweeted
Islamist networks linked to the Muslim Brotherhood are pursuing a legal strategy of building votes and candidates through mosques, charities, and advocacy groups, an analyst says.
He notes that several countries, including the U.S., have designated Brotherhood branches as .
The effort is reportedly focused on city halls, school boards, and other local bodies rather than national offices.
He notes that several countries, including the U.S., have designated Brotherhood branches as .
The effort is reportedly focused on city halls, school boards, and other local bodies rather than national offices.
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Robert Hockett retweeted
Egypt just made the Muslim Brotherhood's terrorist listing permanent. America has sanctioned its branches. Britain has it under "very close review." Europe passed a vote that binds no one. Somewhere in Brussels, a committee is waiting for the Brotherhood to fill in the form and .
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Robert Hockett retweeted
🚨The Muslim Brotherhood’s Hidden Strategy: Use Democracy To Destroy Democracy
Follow @ISGAP
@daliaziada discusses how the Muslim Brotherhood operates covertly by using proxy groups to carry out its agenda while remaining hidden from public scrutiny.
#isgap #muslimbrotherhood
Follow @ISGAP
@daliaziada discusses how the Muslim Brotherhood operates covertly by using proxy groups to carry out its agenda while remaining hidden from public scrutiny.
#isgap #muslimbrotherhood
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Robert Hockett retweeted
My latest: Election Jihad and the Muslim Brotherhood's ballot-box pivot
Extremist Islamist networks aren't trying to storm American institutions. They're getting elected to them.
link.aletihad.ae/JjuB
Extremist Islamist networks aren't trying to storm American institutions. They're getting elected to them.
link.aletihad.ae/JjuB
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It's hard for a bona fide left to be ok w/ 'Western' political life now bc it's degenerated into a choice between rightwingers and Weitlingers. The former are usually creeps and the latter are moronic swindlers. All one can do is thus fulminate w/ Marx or laugh w/ Kierkegaard.
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In den Schädeln der Linken ist kein
Gehirn, da ist Scheiße drin.
Gehirn, da ist Scheiße drin.
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Our situation in Britain is getting worse. The world's most expensive energy prices. Families choosing between eating and heating. The reality on the ground is heartbreaking.
The UK government IS STANDING BY. They have no interest in bringing an end to the intolerable suffering.
The UK government IS STANDING BY. They have no interest in bringing an end to the intolerable suffering.
The humanitarian situation in Gaza is getting worse. Heavy rain. Flooded tents. The reality on the ground is heartbreaking.
The UK government will not stand by. We will not rest until we bring an end to the intolerable suffering.
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Production and Consumption as 'drive' and as unity ...
THIS is how I fell in love with the Grundrisse as an undergraduate - and I'd bet that it helped both to hook and to inform D & G too!
THIS is how I fell in love with the Grundrisse as an undergraduate - and I'd bet that it helped both to hook and to inform D & G too!
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Robert Hockett retweeted
REVEALED: The scandal surrounding Gaza's failed winterization efforts lays bare a grim reality: Hamas obstructed attempts to protect Palestinian civilians before the devastating winter storms that flooded tens of thousands of tents.
Palestinian Authority employees inside Gaza essionals from the Ministries of Public Works and Relief Affairs were intimidated, summoned, and coerced by Hamas into signing pledges not to undertake humanitarian projects without the group's approval. According to their accounts, those who defied Hamas risked so-called "field justice," including beatings and worse.
Several officials, including Najla Hammad, Ihab Al-Bahtiti, Khaled Abu Safiya, Wiam Aboul-Nasr, Dr. Adnan Hamouda, and Ahmed Abu Zaiter, have publicly stated that efforts to build more durable fiberglass housing and improve conditions for displaced civilians were blocked.
Another example was a proposal that was put forward to demolish several heavily damaged towers which were at risk of collapse from rainwater after extensive bombardment. According to those involved, Hamas blocked the removal of the “Bank of Palestine Tower” in Gaza City's Rimal neighborhood, reportedly arguing that it would "collapse from the rain anyway." The terrorist group did not show any concern for the civilian lives that would be lost when the tower eventually collapses on its own, because it wants dead Palestinians and news of tragedy to keep Gaza in the news cycle and to gain global sympathy, hoping for more incoming resources and donations for the Strip’s humanitarian and reconstruction needs that it could siphon.
Additionally, Hamas has also been accused of obstructing construction projects intended to create safer communities for displaced Gazans in southern Gaza, prioritizing political control over humanitarian relief.
This is a reminder that Gaza's suffering is not only a consequence of war. It is also the result of a fascist and ruthless governing power that repeatedly places its own interests above the welfare of the people it claims to represent. The same terror group that helped bring catastrophe upon Gaza continues to obstruct efforts to mitigate its consequences.
As floodwaters sweep through displacement camps and families endure another winter in misery, the question is unavoidable: how many Palestinian lives could have been spared had Hamas allowed humanitarian, housing, and reconstruction efforts to proceed unimpeded?
Palestinian Authority employees inside Gaza essionals from the Ministries of Public Works and Relief Affairs were intimidated, summoned, and coerced by Hamas into signing pledges not to undertake humanitarian projects without the group's approval. According to their accounts, those who defied Hamas risked so-called "field justice," including beatings and worse.
Several officials, including Najla Hammad, Ihab Al-Bahtiti, Khaled Abu Safiya, Wiam Aboul-Nasr, Dr. Adnan Hamouda, and Ahmed Abu Zaiter, have publicly stated that efforts to build more durable fiberglass housing and improve conditions for displaced civilians were blocked.
Another example was a proposal that was put forward to demolish several heavily damaged towers which were at risk of collapse from rainwater after extensive bombardment. According to those involved, Hamas blocked the removal of the “Bank of Palestine Tower” in Gaza City's Rimal neighborhood, reportedly arguing that it would "collapse from the rain anyway." The terrorist group did not show any concern for the civilian lives that would be lost when the tower eventually collapses on its own, because it wants dead Palestinians and news of tragedy to keep Gaza in the news cycle and to gain global sympathy, hoping for more incoming resources and donations for the Strip’s humanitarian and reconstruction needs that it could siphon.
Additionally, Hamas has also been accused of obstructing construction projects intended to create safer communities for displaced Gazans in southern Gaza, prioritizing political control over humanitarian relief.
This is a reminder that Gaza's suffering is not only a consequence of war. It is also the result of a fascist and ruthless governing power that repeatedly places its own interests above the welfare of the people it claims to represent. The same terror group that helped bring catastrophe upon Gaza continues to obstruct efforts to mitigate its consequences.
As floodwaters sweep through displacement camps and families endure another winter in misery, the question is unavoidable: how many Palestinian lives could have been spared had Hamas allowed humanitarian, housing, and reconstruction efforts to proceed unimpeded?
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Robert Hockett retweeted
The Philadelphia, Pennsylvania protest by “pro-Palestine” activists targeting Jewish-owned businesses was a pointless hate rally that did nothing for Palestinians and did everything to inflame community tensions, held on the eve of “the Night of Broken Glass,” or Kristallnacht, versaries in modern Jewish history, when the Holocaust began. The notion that harassing Jewish delis, restaurants, or Israeli-themed establishments in Philadelphia meaningfully challenges Israeli government policy thousands of miles away is absurd. It is performative activism at its worst.
Imagine if these activists reached out to the Jewish community and said, ‘let’s do a joint fundraiser for the humanitarian needs in Gaza in a non-political fashion and find a worthwhile organization that will support Palestinian civilians.’ Imagine if these activists developed pragmatic, achievable, tangible, and attainable policy goals that they could have pushed for in the new Congress to improve the lives of Gazans and promote reasonable US policy that can move the needle in a meaningful way, instead of harassing Jewish businesses and random Jews in Philadelphia.
Also imagine if the supposedly non-antisemitic and non-hateful elements of the “pro-Palestine” movement intervened to say, ‘maybe let’s not do this, and maybe our efforts could be better focused elsewhere.’ Instead, this movement has disintegrated into decentralized and highly radicalized networks that feed off each other’s contagious toxicity, rhetorical drunkenness, intellectual incoherence, and persistent self-sabotage. This is why the “pro-Palestine industrial complex” is all about making declarative, self-aggrandizing points, almost never about actually making a difference for the benefit of the Palestinian people.
I have been warmly welcomed at these Jewish-owned establishments, including those of Michael Solomonov, even as I have made my strong critiques of the Israeli government’s actions and policies well-known. In the face of such hate and foolishness, I encourage all Philadelphians to support these restaurants.
Imagine if these activists reached out to the Jewish community and said, ‘let’s do a joint fundraiser for the humanitarian needs in Gaza in a non-political fashion and find a worthwhile organization that will support Palestinian civilians.’ Imagine if these activists developed pragmatic, achievable, tangible, and attainable policy goals that they could have pushed for in the new Congress to improve the lives of Gazans and promote reasonable US policy that can move the needle in a meaningful way, instead of harassing Jewish businesses and random Jews in Philadelphia.
Also imagine if the supposedly non-antisemitic and non-hateful elements of the “pro-Palestine” movement intervened to say, ‘maybe let’s not do this, and maybe our efforts could be better focused elsewhere.’ Instead, this movement has disintegrated into decentralized and highly radicalized networks that feed off each other’s contagious toxicity, rhetorical drunkenness, intellectual incoherence, and persistent self-sabotage. This is why the “pro-Palestine industrial complex” is all about making declarative, self-aggrandizing points, almost never about actually making a difference for the benefit of the Palestinian people.
I have been warmly welcomed at these Jewish-owned establishments, including those of Michael Solomonov, even as I have made my strong critiques of the Israeli government’s actions and policies well-known. In the face of such hate and foolishness, I encourage all Philadelphians to support these restaurants.
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Look at this deranged, gross British man in Thailand, ostensibly there as an ecologist and marine-life photographer, who decided to accuse me of prostitution (projection much while living in Thailand?), depravity, and worthlessness because I, an actual Palestinian from Gaza, Hamas terrorists. It is a perfect illustration of the pathologies that have become all too common within parts of the "pro-Palestine" industrial complex.
Somehow, criticizing a jihadist Islamist terror group that worsens suffering in Gaza is now treated as being anti-Palestinian or indifferent to Palestinian suffering. The Palestinian cause will never meaningfully advance the interests of Palestinians so long as Islamists, jihadists, Houthis, pedophiles, antisemites, fascists, communists, sectarians, grifters, apologists for extremism, fake journalists, and performative activists can gain influence, relevance, and moral credibility by exploiting the cause while attacking actual Palestinians.
Somehow, criticizing a jihadist Islamist terror group that worsens suffering in Gaza is now treated as being anti-Palestinian or indifferent to Palestinian suffering. The Palestinian cause will never meaningfully advance the interests of Palestinians so long as Islamists, jihadists, Houthis, pedophiles, antisemites, fascists, communists, sectarians, grifters, apologists for extremism, fake journalists, and performative activists can gain influence, relevance, and moral credibility by exploiting the cause while attacking actual Palestinians.
This is a prostitute for the Atlantic Council, in all its depravity.
A truly worthless man.
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Robert Hockett retweeted
Gaza was not a concentration camp before October 7th as the "pro Palestine" industrial complex will have you believe. Gaza was a five star City compared to many parts of the Arab and Muslim world, receiving billions that allowed it to develop & grow, even with Israel's blockade.
لم أر أشد نذالة ولا أحط أخلاقا ولا أقسى قلوبا ممن يلتمسون الأعذار لحماس، ثم يتبجحون بالقول: إن حال أهل غزة بعد الطوفان لا يختلف عن حالهم قبله!!
أي سقوط أخلاقي هذا!؟
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Still awaiting the Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and other NPR interviews. Till then, all thanks to Brother Ahmed (@afalkhatib). 🙏🏼
I received this testimony from a Muslim cleric in Gaza, a former imam who broke with Hamas and its jihadist Islamist ideology and is now displaced in Deir al-Balah. He describes how Hamas destroyed an entire generation during its 2-decade rule by radicalizing children from a mist camps and narratives that glorified violence, hatred, and fanaticism, the same worldview on display on October 7.
As I have noted repeatedly, a growing number of Gazans are drawing a direct line between two generations of indoctrination, the atrocities of October 7, and the devastation that followed in Gaza. These anti-Hamas voices reject the "resistance" narrative and recognize an obvious reality: rebuilding Gaza requires de-radicalization alongside de-militarization. Their ranks are growing. If acknowledged, supported, and nurtured, this movement could become one of the most consequential forces shaping Gaza's future.
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Yep. The word has been repurposed, so the 'authoritative' definition must be discretely reformulated behind the scenes.
Important commentary on the manufactured "genocide" allegation in Gaza and how its advocates are seeking to change in how the ICJ defines genocidal intent, an effective admission that there is no genocide. When you need to change the rules mid-trial, you know you have no case.
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