Nothing should distract us from the unprecedented humanitarian disaster taking place in Gaza right now.

Can you squeeze in a shout out for the hostages? 😢

The crux of the issue with you, Senator Sanders, is glaringly evident. Our nation is teetering on the brink of chaos—our universities engulfed in flames, antisemitism skyrocketing to unprecedented levels. Yet here you are, woefully misaligned in your priorities. As our homeland grapples with profound crises, it seems you’ve chosen to wrestle Benjamin Netanyahu while Israel is tirelessly trying to rescue the hostages and eradicate Hamas!

Never once have you condemned hamas for creating this disaster. It's always the 'joooos' fault.

#Netanyahu need to be deposed for the good of the Israeli people.

Unprecedented? There have been many, many wars throughout human history, many far more devastating than this one. Hamas can END the WAR they started so obscenely and viciously whenever they want. Why don't they? "Palestine" doesn't exist, nor has it ever existed as any nation state (unless you count the long extinct and non-semitic Philistines, no connection with Arabs whatsoever). I have already posted much of this rather long post elsewhere, often in response to antisemites trying to push anti-Israel false propaganda. However, with all those students protesting for a supposedly "free Palestine", from the river to the sea, most of them probably clueless as to what river and what sea and the fact that the only way of achieving this would be massive GENOCIDE of 9 million Israelis, I don't think it will hurt to put this post here in full as it now is (it's grown even longer over time). Anti-Israel protests are being orchestrated by hardcore supporters of theo-Nazi brainwashed Jew haters who don't want to stop just with destroying Israel, the one tiny 3500 year old homeland of the Jewish people, but with oppressing the whole world with a deeply backward, brutal, misogynistic sharia-ruled Islamic caliphate, where Muslim men will run everything and will have many more rights than anywhere else and can even use and abuse non-Muslim girls as sex slaves. In league, for now, with far left extremists who have their own desires for world oppression and domination. Too many well-meaning people are being hoodwinked by hateful anti-Israel and anti-Jewish lying propaganda, including the fake narrative of a "Palestine" which never actually existed as any kind of nation state (unless you count the long extinct non-semitic Philistines who became extinct 2500 years ago; no connection whatsoever with Arabs who only started calling themselves "Palestinian" from about 1950, whereas before that only Jews did). Whereas the reality is that most Israelis are good, kind and warm-hearted people who simply want to live in our own country in peace. The last thing we are is any kind of Nazi. That's what the genocidal torturers and murderers eg Hamas terrorists who keep trying to murder us are - theo-Nazis brainwashed from birth to hate Jews and to want to commit genocide against us. Truly evil. The real problem in this part of the world stems from antisemitic and anti-Israel indoctrination, not just from Arab TV and @UNWRA schools but ultimately from Islamic IDEOLOGY which outrageously posits that land once ruled by Muslims, as Israel was in the past, should remain Muslim and not be returned to its rightful Jewish owners. It is important to understand the long history of Israel and its indigenous Jewish people before deciding whether anywhere is actually "occupied", and if so, by whom. Arabs consider they are descended from Ishmael. Whether that is actually biologically the case or not, spiritually there is definitely a connection. Interestingly, in the Torah G-d calls Ishmael a "wild man". Unusually the word order here is adjective followed by the noun, which is not the way things normally work in Hebrew. Ishmael is called a "pere adam". We learn from the word order that wildness is an inherent part of Ishmael's nature rather than humanity, and indeed G-d tells us in the same verse, "He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.” Genesis 16v12. Unfortunately this prophecy has proved rather accurate. Eg the invasion and appalling atrocities deliberately desecrating one of the holiest and the most joyful day of the Jewish year, Simchat Torah, of torture, rape, mutilation and massacres of over 1200 people including many children and young people among the victims of Hamas terrorists, Gazan civilians and @UNWRA employees who then actually CELEBRATED these disgusting crimes against humanity was truly inhuman. For us as Jews and indeed for many people around the world this level of evil is essentially unfathomable. Our people are Jews because we are directly descended all the way back nearly 4000 years from Abraham, Isaac, his son through his wife Sarah who was the promised heir, and his son Jacob, through Jacob's 12 sons who became the progenitors of the 12 tribes. Our patriarchs and matriarchs (with the exception of Rachel at Beit Lechem) are all buried in the very first piece of Jewish real estate bought by Abraham at Machpelah in Hebron from Ephron the Hittite who owned it before (see Genesis chapter 23). Recent advances in DNA analysis have revealed that as human beings we are ALL mixtures of DNA from many past and long extinct populations, even extinct species of human ie Neanderthals for many of us. No people is the same genetically as even 100 years ago, let alone thousands, except perhaps a few very remote tribes. DNA by itself does not determine nationhood. And yes there were people living in our Jewish homeland before us. The Bible is clear about that. But as peoples eg Canaanites, Jebusites, the non-semitic Philistines - from whom the Romans took the name when they cruelly renamed Judea, land of the tribe of Judah from where Jews derive our name "Syria Palestina" etc. they became extinct in antiquity. Jews have been Israel's indigenous people ever since Israel was established and the previous inhabitants became extinct in antiquity through being killed, dying out or leaving, or being assimilated into the majority Jewish population, have lived in our homeland of Israel CONTINUOUSLY for 3500 years, despite massive persecution, murder, forced enslavement and exile of many but not all of us and various invasions by peoples who all oppressed us. Including the invasion by Arabs over 2000 years after the establishment of Israel who stole Jewish land. Have a look at the map at the end of the second video below showing what Israel looked like 3000 years ago under King David and King Solomon. Note it was called Israel. King David bought our holiest site, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, 3000 years ago and Jews have prayed towards it ever since. Then Israel was divided into the northern kingdom which kept the name of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah. Judah of course is where Jews get our name from, because many of us are descended from that Jewish tribe. Other Jews today are Levites, descended from the tribe of Levi who were responsible for the music performed in the Jewish Temples. A subgroup of Levites are Cohanim, who served as priests in the Temples and still have extra responsibilities and requirements today. And DNA shows the existence of a particular gene directly on the male side for nearly all Cohenim today. Whereas Arabs originated from Arabia and only invaded our homeland of Israel over 2000 years after it was established as the Jewish homeland. However, most "Palestinian" Arabs are actually descendants of recent immigrants here, many allowed in by the British after more Jews started returning home and made our homeland flourish once more, making it an attractive place for Arabs to come to live in too. And the real Palestinians, the non-semitic Philistines, became extinct around 2500 years ago when the last of them were carted off by the Babylonians. No connection with Arabs whatsoever. Note the small brown blob on part of Israel's coast in the map at the end of the second video below. That was Philistia. It was the Romans who cruelly renamed Judah or Judea which the name had become by then, but it was from the same tribe of Judah, "Syria Palestina" after the already long extinct Philistines. But "Palestine" simply became a generic term for this part of the Levant, and frankly never referred to a distinct people, culture, language or even specific piece of land (unless you count the Mandate of Palestine from 1918 to 1948 which included all of what later became Jordan). There were never any "Palestinians" (except for the extinct non-semitic Philistines) and the only people who called themselves "Palestinian" before about 1950 were Jews and never Arabs. Eg this is what the late Golda Meir recalled: "When in 1921 I came to Palestine – until the end of World War I a barren, sparsely inhabited Turkish province – we, the Jewish pioneers, were the avowed Palestinians. So we were named in the world. Arab nationalists, on the other hand, stridently rejected the designation. Arab spokesmen continued to insist that the land we had cherished for centuries was, like Lebanon, merely a fragment of Syria. On the grounds that it dismembered an ideal unitary Arab state, they fought before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry and at the United Nations. When the Arab historian Philip K. Hitti informed the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry that “there is no such thing as Palestine in history,” it was left to David Ben-Gurion to stress the central role of Palestine in Jewish, if not Arab, history. As late as May 1956, Ahmed Shukairy, subsequently head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, declared to the United Nations Security Council, “It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria.” In view of this, I believe I may be forgiven if I took Arab spokesmen at their word." You can read the whole article here: The Mandate of "Palestine" which existed under British rule from 1918 to 1948 and was ALL originally supposed to be for the reestablished Jewish homeland included all of what subsequently became Jordan, 78% of the whole Mandate, which was illegally lopped off by Britain in 1922. If anywhere is an Arab "Palestine", Jordan already is or certainly should be. @ForeignMinistry Arabs who remained in Israel in 1949 became full Israeli citizens with far better human rights than anywhere else in the Middle East. Those Arabs who left mostly did so either voluntarily or because they were told to do so by the five Arab armies which invaded Israel in 1948, seeking to commit GENOCIDE against Jews living here - and this was just three years after the Holocaust - expecting to return and to steal the homes and property of murdered Jews. Didn't work out that way. And there are consequences for losing an aggressive genocidal war and rightly so. Whereas there were even more Jewish than Arab refugees, many forcibly expelled from Arab lands where some communities had lived for millenia, the majority of whom were taken in by Israel. Effectively, a transfer of populations. And these refugees were Sephardic Jews, some of whose communities, eg in Iraq where many Jews were descended from the first exile of Jews to Babylonia some 2500 years ago, had lived there for over 2000 years. Most Israeli Jews were born in Israel, speak Hebrew as their mother tongue and have nowhere else to go even if they wanted to. So what anyone who supports "Palestine" really means is they want GENOCIDE against the INDIGENOUS Jewish people of Israel and the destruction of our 3500 year old homeland. Because there is no other way it could possibly ever happen. Frankly, if Arabs want a homeland, they should go back to Arabia where their ancestors came from and stop trying to steal Jewish land. See And Israel isn't just our homeland, it's holy to us. Not only is the Bible full of our history here and so is the ground beneath our feet, but there are many commandments of the Torah which can only be fulfilled in Israel. For instance, every seven years is a shmittah year, when my gardening activities and those of all other Jews in Israel are considerably curtailed. Observant Jewish farmers have to leave their fields uncultivated during shmittah, and the ordinances regarding this go back to the Torah. There is no requirement to do this outside Israel. There are differences between the observance of Jewish holidays in the number of days kept between Jews living in Israel and Jews still in the diaspora, which go back many, many centuries. Ultimately Israel is ours because G-d gave it to us and to no one else. The times when He allowed Muslims to rule it and to subjugate indigenous Jews and other non-Muslims living here as dhimmis is over. Read Ezekiel chapter 36 which was given to one of our many Jewish prophets, Ezekiel over 2500 years ago, but it is amazing to be seeing this ancient prophecy still unfolding before our eyes. G-d made an eternal covenant with the Jewish people which He will never break, and He promised Abraham that those who bless the Jewish people will be blessed but those who curse us will themselves be cursed (Genesis 12v3). History bears out the truth of this stark warning. Many different peoples have tried to destroy us, the Jewish people, over many centuries and all have failed and largely disappeared into the dustbin of history. For a deeper understanding of what the Jewish people are really all about, see this 20 minute video: So why do you think Jews have no right to live in our homeland in peace where Jews have actually lived for 3500 years CONTINUOUSLY, despite massive persecution, murder, forced enslavement and exile of many of us and various invasions by different peoples who have all oppressed us in our own homeland? The problem here is Islamic IDEOLOGY. And the truth is that Islam is a supremacist political belief system similar to Nazism with the added deeply dangerous theological impetus of the one sure way to get to heaven, with all those beautiful sexy virgins in an eternal orgy [although the Quranic passage concerned appears really to refer to white grapes], is supposedly to murder other human beings while committing suicide yourself. Just imagine if Islamic ideology taught respect, sensitivity and kindness to non-adherents instead, as all other major religions actually do, however badly some practitioners may have followed these precepts in the past. And this is the heart of the problem regarding Israel. Doesn't matter how much of our own homeland Jews may offer, ANY Jewish run land, however tiny, is unacceptable to Islamic ideology which posits that land once run by Muslims as Israel was should stay Muslim and refuses to accept the rights of its real owners to run it again. Hence the frankly outrageous attempts to justify GENOCIDE against Jews and other Israelis in the name of a supposed "Palestinian" nation state which never actually existed (unless you count the long extinct non-semitic Philistines, no connection whatsoever with modern Arabs). And the actual largely unacknowledged Islamic imperative to spread this ideology throughout the world and to oppress all non-Muslims under a deeply autocratic and barbaric sharia-run Islamic caliphate that would send the whole world effectively back to the dark ages. This is what you are actually supporting if you are against @Israel. #AmYisraelChai

Which Hamas created and can end when they surrender and release the hostages. Come on @SenSanders and finally stand up and demand Hamas to surrender!!

the only humanitarian disaster i see here is the way you aggress our eyes with your messy hair this is a crime against humanity

It’s a genocide, Bernie, and we all know it. Even you.

What happened to "genocide?" Oh right, that was debunked by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.