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Jonathan Gilbert 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.
Jonathan Gilbert retweeted
Three years ago today, Hamas terrorists crossed into Israel from Gaza and brutally murdered more than 1,200 innocent souls, committing unspeakable acts of sexual violence and taking over 250 innocents hostage — including American citizens.
As we mark the third anniversary of October 7th, Lori and I are thinking of all those who lost loved ones on that horrific day, and we are praying for healing, comfort, and peace.
Jonathan Gilbert retweeted
Absolutely disgusting to hold this rally today.
If you’re in the Rittenhouse Square area this evening, be aware that a rally is scheduled for 6 p.m.
Let’s be clear: choosing the third anniversary of October 7 to celebrate the attack that killed roughly 1,200 people, including Americans, as a “Palestinian resistance operation” is deeply offensive.
You can advocate for Palestinians. You can criticize Israel. But glorifying the October 7 attack and the political violence carried out that day crosses a very different line.
Political violence should be condemned, not celebrated.
Jonathan Gilbert retweeted
לא רק היום, אלא כל יום בשלוש השנים האחרונות, ובמובנים רבים, כל יום הוא ה-7 באוקטובר. אך היום, במיוחד, עלינו לעצור ולזכור את 1200 יקירינו שאיבדנו ואת 251 שנגררו לשבי לא אנושי. עלינו להתאחד, להתאבל ולחדש את הבטחתנו, "לעולם לא עוד, 7 באוקטובר".
Jonathan Gilbert retweeted
Let's be clear: choosing the third anniversary of October 7 to glorify the barbaric murder of 1,200 people, including Americans, as 'resistance' is deeply offensive and morally bankrupt.
In America, we don't glorify terrorists as 'martyrs.' We condemn them. When you glorify political violence, you only invite more of it.
Jonathan Gilbert retweeted
Holding an anti-Israel rally on October 7 is like holding a pro-Nazi rally on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Jonathan Gilbert retweeted
Three years since October 7, 2023.
We remember the lives stolen by Palestinian Hamas. We honor the heroes. We carry the scars.
And still, we stand.
We rebuild. We live. We choose hope.
Am Yisrael Chai. 🇮🇱
#UNFORGO7TEN
Jonathan Gilbert retweeted
@UEFA has approved the Israel Football Association’s request for the national team to wear black armbands in tonight’s match against @IrelandFootball in memory of those murdered in the October 7 massacre.
May their memory be a blessing.
Jonathan Gilbert retweeted
85% of the American population is in favor of the Endangered Species Act.
Virtually no one is in favor of weakening it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration is quietly moving to strip a core protection for endangered species, according to an internal memo. nyti.ms/4y22dik
Jonathan Gilbert retweeted
Trump has declared war on wildlife: slaughter the buffalo, shoot wild horses from the air and now gray volves have been added to his insatiable urge to Kill, Kill, Kill.
"Con esta orden ejecutiva que he firmado, ahora ya podrás disparar contra los lobos grises mexicanos".
Trump firmó hoy una orden para disparar contra el lobo gris mexicano, una especie en crítico peligro de extinción, apenas quedan 317 vagando por Arizona y Nuevo México.
El lobo mexicano gris fue declarado extinto en su hábitat silvestre alrededor de 1980, después de que los humanos lo cazaran y lo envenenaran masivamente... solo quedaron unos pocos ejemplares, apenas 7 fueron rescatados en refugios antes de ser exterminados para siempre y así se consiguió reiniciar la reproducción de esta especie.
Ahora Trump quiere volver a exterminar a estos lobos que fueron salvados de milagro de la desaparición en los 80... es de locos lo de este criminal, todo lo que toca es para hacer daño.
Jonathan Gilbert retweeted
BREAKING NEWS FOR WOLVES.
Today, surrounded by ranchers and other livestock interests in the Oval Office, President Trump signed an executive order targeting federal protections for gray wolves, including the endangered and critically imperiled Mexican gray wolf.
The order directs the Secretary of the Interior to determine whether wolves meet the legal criteria for removal from the Endangered Species Act list. It does not delist them today, but it begins a process that could remove federal protections and allow expanded lethal management under state law.
During the signing, wolves were portrayed as threats to livestock and pets, as creature to be shot and destroyed. This factually incomplete, deeply one-sided, and ignorant framing did not acknowledge the documented scale of wolf predation relative to other causes of livestock mortality, nor the extreme rarity of wolf attacks on humans, nor the indispensable ecological role wolves play on the landscape we call home.
Wolves are a keystone species and apex predator, crucial to sustaining the health, function, and balance of our ecosystems.
Wolves must not be scapegoated to advance a political agenda.
Their future must be determined by sound science, the law, and the requirements for genuine recovery.
Truthfully, this is a dangerous moment for wolves, wild horses, and wildlife, and we must speak out.
Raise your voice. Contact your Members of Congress and tell them to defend federal Endangered Species Act protections for wolves.
Call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
We cannot lose the wolf.
#graywolves #greywolves #mexicanwolves #trumpdelisting #ESA #EndangeredSpeciesAct
Jonathan Gilbert retweeted
I'm going to be sick... mentioned here is the Mexican Grey wolf, of wish there are only a mere 300 remaining. Not that the few thousand Grey wolves are far removed. We worked so hard to bring them back from near extinction, this is awful
President Trump ordered the Interior Department to begin the process of removing endangered-species protections for gray wolves.
That would “open the door for brutal killing,” said Kitty Block, president and CEO of Humane World for Animals. wapo.st/4i9jS2x
Jonathan Gilbert retweeted
A total hit piece on @Israel and NYC’s Israeli restaurant scene. It’s shocking how far @NYMag has fallen.
@madelesq’s article is so one-sided that it barely resembles journalism. Israeli restaurants and their owners are portrayed through the narrowest possible lens, while “genocide” is repeated again and again without meaningful context.
Meanwhile, some important facts get little or no attention: Gaza’s population has grown substantially since 2005; recent UN data show significant improvements in food security and child nutrition; and Israel, working with international partners, helped facilitate vaccination campaigns that reached roughly 603,000 Gazan children with polio vaccine.
And let’s talk about the food: NYC’s Israeli restaurant scene is extraordinary and arguably second only to @TelAviv itself.
@NYMag should be celebrating the diversity, creativity and success of this scene, not turning it into a political hit job.
Words matter. Journalism matters. And when Jewish and Israeli people are repeatedly portrayed through such a one-sided lens, it has real-world consequences in a city already struggling with rising antisemitism.
Celebrate all Middle Eastern restaurants, celebrate our City’s unique diversity, but don’t make it an unsafe place for Jews and Israelis. Do better, @NYMag.
From Huda to Eyval to Diljan Bakery, the Middle Eastern restaurant scene in New York has never been bigger, better, or more politically fraught. grubstreet.com/article/middl…
Jonathan Gilbert retweeted
This is fundamental to the antizionist playbook. Separate Jews from Israel. Weaken the Jewish state — but more importantly — chip away at the Jewish story. Gaslight them into renouncing their homeland. Make Jews choose between their history and their future.
Beyond sickening.
Jonathan Gilbert retweeted
I have no doubt there will be many well-written social media posts condemning the antisemitic stabbings on the Upper West Side today, and I’m sure many people’s thoughts and prayers will be with the victims and their families.
But these statements ring hollow when so many in the city normalize antisemitism, including simply by associating American Jews with the actions of the Israeli government.
Enough is enough.
Jonathan Gilbert retweeted
Idi Amin slaughtered 300k+ people and Zohrans father wrote an entire book on how he wasn’t that bad
Jonathan Gilbert retweeted
Mayor Mamdani did not simply express a personal political opinion. He used the authority, symbolism, and credibility of the mayor’s office to issue what amounted to an official public address declaring that the democratically elected leader of the world’s only Jewish state is a ‘war criminal’ who is ‘not welcome in New York City.’ That is a profound misuse of the office entrusted to him by all New Yorkers.
After acknowledging that New York City has no independent legal authority to execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant, the mayor nevertheless chose to transform that legal reality into a televised political spectacle. Respect for the separation of powers and the legal limits of public office is a bedrock of American democracy; those limits should not be treated as an inconvenience to be exploited for political theater.
Perhaps most telling was what the mayor chose to leave out. His address made no mention of Hamas or the October 7 massacre of innocent civilians. Instead, he delivered a sweeping moral indictment of Israel while erasing the terrorist atrocities that ignited this war. Appeals to universal humanity and justice ring hollow when they exclude the victims whose suffering does not fit a preferred political narrative.
This is no longer simply about Prime Minister Netanyahu. It reflects a broader pattern in which Mayor Mamdani repeatedly singles out Israel while using the prestige of his office to legitimize rhetoric that further isolates the Jewish state and deepens division here at home. At a time when Jewish New Yorkers are experiencing alarming levels of antisemitism, harassment and intimidation, they deserve a mayor who refrains from fomenting hatred against the world’s only Jewish country while maintaining the fiction that this is not anti-Jewish.
Throughout his campaign, Mayor Mamdani repeatedly insisted that his responsibility as mayor would be to focus on New York City and the issues affecting New Yorkers. New Yorkers elected him to make their neighborhoods safer, combat hate and unite a diverse city, not to conduct foreign policy or transform City Hall into a stage for ideological declarations about world leaders.
New Yorkers elected a mayor, not a prosecutor of foreign leaders. Mayor Mamdani should spend less time trying to demonize only one leader and one country from City Hall and more time protecting the New Yorkers he was elected to serve.
#Mamdani #MayorMamdani #Israel
Jonathan Gilbert retweeted
82 years ago today — on D-Day — thousands of soldiers sacrificed their lives on the beaches of Normandy to protect the fundamental freedoms we’ve held dear for nearly 250 years.
May their courage, bravery, and sacrifice inspire us to do the same here at home.
Jonathan Gilbert retweeted
We JUST STARTED fixing the damage we did killing off all the wolves last time, how fucking braindead are these people?!
