In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce a South African-American(!) businessman and social media figure, Elon Musk (Elon Musk). He's best-known for being the wealthiest man in the world, running Tesla Inc., SpaceX & Twitter, and for parroting Kremlin's propaganda narratives. 1/24

Simchat Torah… 1980. NYT ad by my father. We have forgotten nothing.

Simple facts and reminders: - Abu Obaida is the leader of the terrorist Islamist Palestinian political and military organization Hamas. In short: He is a terrorist. - Lebanon is not and will not be part of this “ummah”. I hope someone burned his ugly photos in Beirut.

It shouldn’t divide us to affirm that lives matter equally and that we can mourn our kin and those who aren’t. It’s basis of humanity—not ifs, not buts.

The “organizing” in question.

I grew up with friends whose parents had to flee countries that normalized this kind of rhetoric. Y'all should not underestimate how real this gets for Jews. Our reality is a lot bigger than what you learn to think online.

Netanyahu’s denigration of the Palestinian Authority is what he has been doing for a decade - weakening the PA and strengthening Hamas (since it's a zero sum game). This is the same PA that is doing its best to prevent the West Bank from erupting. axios.com/2023/11/11/gaz…

Jews love toothpicks

“Decolonization”

A member of the Senate is claiming a member of the House has "alleged ties" to a group designated as terrorists by the American government. That's a pretty specific claim. What is Senator Blackburn's evidence?

Wajahat Ali It is addressed & condemned every day. Try different news sources.

I wrote this exact article on HAMAS’s battle strategy two weeks ago on Substack. Nice of the Wapo to try to keep up.

Alina Falahati was one of the victims of the Nova Festival massacre. Alina was literally buried outside the cemetery wall, because, like 30%+ of Russian-speaking Israelis, she wasn't considered "fully Jewish". She was in the process of full conversion but hasn't graduated yet.

I’m not against ultra-orthodox Jews although I do think they should qualify as a cult

Judaism is not historically universalist, though we have elements of universalism, the mourners of Zion are not a metaphor. One doesn’t need to be zionist to understanding that connection to the land and Jerusalem (Zion) is the basic underpinning of Jewish belief and peoplehood.

Since October 7, Vivian Silver’s family and friends believed she was held hostage by Hamas in Gaza. Today, 38 days later, her body was just identified, and it seems she was killed in her home in Kibbutz Beeri. She was a life-long peace activist. May her memory be a blessing.

Let’s remember that instead of working with peace activists, Hamas kidnapped or brutally murdered them to intentionally start a war