Yiddishe kop, neshama, un mensch. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. Rooted Cosmopolitan. American, and proudly so.

Joined January 2017
Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 retweeted
Why would the bond market be skeptical of Argentinan bonds for defaulting on its bonds once?
Replying to @gabriel_zucman
The key problem is this: Why would billionaires permanently leave California in response to a one-time tax owed if they lived there on January 1, 2026? It would only make sense for them to leave if the tax becomes annual. But if the tax becomes annual, it would also generate revenue annually — by virtue of, well, being annual.
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Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 retweeted
Democratic organizer fired after alleging Abdul El-Sayed is taking foreign money in Michigan Senate race: report trib.al/E2FaNz5
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Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 retweeted
This answer is incompatible with, and more honest than, what he said in his debate with Rogers.
🚨 JUST NOW: El-Sayed confirms Medicare for All would get rid of private insurance plans Abdul: “If the government is everybody’s insurer, it’s basically buying [healthcare] for everybody” Host: "So you remove the insurance companies and government is now the insurer?" Abdul: "Government becomes the insurer" Abdul goes on to say insurance companies will be allowed to offer "luxury products for a couple folks"
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Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 retweeted
Gabriel Zucman declares it methodologically fraudulent to assume any billionaires would leave California in response to a "one-time" retroactive 5% tax of their wealth. He cannot conceive that they may assume the tax would be repeated later. <facepalm> xitter.cf/gabriel_zucman/status/…
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Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 retweeted
It's kinda weird that the UN rapporteur on counterterrorism is objectively pro-terrorism.
Disgusting: U.N. rapporteur on counterterrorism Ben Saul condemns Israel for waging a “vengeful war” against Hamas: “Hamas invaded Israel for 48 hours, and then was repulsed. Israel was going to be fine...”
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Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 retweeted
How did UAE become the largest global provider of humanitarian aid to Gaza, according to UN data? Because of Lana Nussaibeh—a diplomat who knows everyone and works with them to GSD. She would be an inspired choice for this impossible job.
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Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 retweeted
The second largest trade union in France is calling for a general strike in November. We are broke and yields on French treasury bonds have been steadily rising for months, but they are demanding more spending across the board. I don't think we're going to make it to be honest.
BFM
@BFMTVOct 21
La CGT appelle à la grève générale le 5 novembre prochain
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Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 retweeted
𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢
@ColdBrief16h
I'm waiting for confirmed reports on the elimination of senior Houthi terrorist leaders and key figures in Abdul-Malik al-Houthi’s inner circle. If confirmed, this could be a major blow to the leadership of Iran’s terrorist proxy in Yemen!
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Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 retweeted
Disgusting: U.N. rapporteur on counterterrorism Ben Saul condemns Israel for waging a “vengeful war” against Hamas: “Hamas invaded Israel for 48 hours, and then was repulsed. Israel was going to be fine...”
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Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 retweeted
NEW YORK TIMES now confirming my reporting from weeks ago that El-Sayed signed a letter in support of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2012 (naturally not crediting the Free Beacon at all) El-Sayed also refused to comment on letter to them!) nytimes.com/2026/10/21/us/po…
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Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 retweeted
A guy literally shot the pope, very notably wasn't beheaded, was visited and forgiven by the same pope, and later became a Christian himself
So if two people were caught having illicit sex in a church people will just look, laugh and pass? 🤔
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Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 retweeted
Haviv Rettig Gur, whatever you think of him and his views, hosted me twice on his podcast to speak about Palestinian perspective and views, no matter how divergent and different mine are. He did not condition his hosting upon me appearing next to other Palestinians who disagree with me or agreed with him, or even other Israelis; he did not set this up as a debate, but as a conversation and a discussion that was elastic and allowed for mutual learning and engagement, not "gotchu" moments, even though we strongly disagreed on a variety of subjects. On the other hand, Mr. Mehdi Hasan would not entertain talking to me after he blocked me for two years on social media unless I debated another Palestinian who disagreed with me on his platform, "Zeteo News," with him as the moderator of said debate. He was not interested in a one-on-one conversation with me as he has done with several other guests of his. You make of that what you will but it is absolutely the case that Zionists can often be exponentially easier to engage and speak with than anti-Zionists and the oracles of the “pro-Palestine” industrial complex, particularly when it comes to embracing new and diverse Palestinian perspectives outside of the militantly-enforced orthodoxies, for the anti-Israel crowd is almost always interested in making a point, never actually making a difference.
Mehdi once wrote a book about how to win an argument even when you know you’re wrong. The trick is to be manipulative and dishonest. Mehdi has never to my knowledge talked seriously about the Israeli historical experience as he demands of me for Palestinians. And Mehdi is accusing me of ignoring Palestinians in an interview that, though it was meant to be focused on the Israeli experience, talked a lot about Palestinians. I’m starting to think Mehdi isn’t an entirely trustworthy guy.
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Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 retweeted
#BREAKING US embassy staff and families ordered to leave Saudi Arabia, with families of embassy staff in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain also ordered to leave, diplomatic source tells AFP
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Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 retweeted
דיווחים: פיצוצים בדרום איראן, סמוך למצר הורמוז
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Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 retweeted
Vance's earlier Haitian pet-eating lie and his current embrace of Vivek's weaponization of child abuse are providing a pretty ugly picture of the what the Vance 2028 presidential campaign is going to look like. Just venom, lies, and smears all the way down.
Acyn
@Acyn19h
Vance: The media and the Democrats in the state of Ohio are obsessed because Vivek Ramaswamy had the audacity to run a TV commercial which calls it out like it is and calls Amy Acton a liar.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The ad features Amy Acton's estranged mother disputing Acton's account of childhood homelessness, rape and abuse. Both 1978 Mahoning County court records and Acton's brother, Phillip Stearns, corroborate her account of living in a tent and abuse. wyso.org/2026-10-20/amy…
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Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 retweeted
Hey @grok did @the_andrey_x commit vandalism at a memorial site for an IDF soldier who fell while defending Kibbutz Be'eri from Hamas terrorists on October 7th?
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Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 retweeted
SCOOP: Amid riots in France, Shin Bet Director David Zini secretly landed in Paris for high-stakes security talks with French intelligence chiefs (DGSI & DGSE). ​On the agenda: Counter-terrorism and radical Islam. ​The meeting comes despite growing diplomatic tensions and French sanctions against Israel. More information about the meeting on @kann_news
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Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 retweeted
Mehdi once wrote a book about how to win an argument even when you know you’re wrong. The trick is to be manipulative and dishonest. Mehdi has never to my knowledge talked seriously about the Israeli historical experience as he demands of me for Palestinians. And Mehdi is accusing me of ignoring Palestinians in an interview that, though it was meant to be focused on the Israeli experience, talked a lot about Palestinians. I’m starting to think Mehdi isn’t an entirely trustworthy guy.
Mehdi Hasan
@mehdirhasanOct 21
Long answer, the word Palestinian is missing from it. But of course. The existence of the Palestinians is, and always has been, the single biggest problem for Zionism.
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Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 retweeted
Today: UN rapporteur Ben Saul presents report accusing America of crimes against humanity. unwatch.org/china-funded-un-… Yesterday: We revealed his close ties to Beijing. After Saul met his former student, Chinese UN rep Li Xiaomei, Beijing gave him $150,000. xitter.cf/profbensaul/status/211…
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Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 retweeted
El-Sayed is underperforming Benson by 5 in @maristpoll’s new likely-voter survey, with a +2 lead to her +6. His deficit is largest among non-white voters and women, while both run similarly among men and independents.
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