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I spoke to a woman who had decided to keep Shabbat a year before October 7. Keeping the Jewish Sabbath holy is a rarity in a non religious kibbutz. 

Every Friday without fail, she would leave with her kids and go to stay with friends or family who would keep Shabbat, then return straight after. On that horrific weekend, she had made the decision not to leave as Shabbat coincided with the festival of Simchat Torah and she didnt want to impose on her friends on such a sacred high holy day. 

Her home was the only house untouched on the entire kibbutz.

Nothing broken. Not burned. Not even entered. Why? The IDF had found a map on one of the bodies of a dead terrorist detailing who lived at each house..  how many kids they had.. what weapons they kept.. if they had pets… and her particular house had a red cross through it and it became clear that the biggest betrayal of the kibbutz community had come from the Palestinian CIVILIANS. The maps were drawn by the Palestinian CIVILIANS who worked there. The Palestinian CIVILIANS who were treated as friends and neighbours for decades. These Palestinian CIVILIANS had known what would happen to the men, the women, the elderly, the disabled, the toddlers and babies and yet had willingly drawn the layout of each home to help them in their ghastly deeds.

Her home had a red cross because they presumed that as she usually spent every shabbat away from the kibbutz, she wouldn’t be there, so the cross informed the jihadist monsters to not waste their time there. That there would be no one home to rape, kill or kidnap. 

Thank G-d a million times she and her family survived.

All these assholes who riot and harass people in the name of climate change, Palestine, social justice, or whatever else is fashionable right now aren’t doing it out of love for humanity. They’re doing it out of hate for humanity.

This is what everyone must understand: radical movements today are driven by misanthropy, narcissism and nihilism.

They’re not so desperate to help other people that they are driven to reluctant violence. This is a mere excuse, and a feeble one at that.

The fodder of these movements are miserable losers who feel that humanity hasn’t given them all the toys they deserve. For them, there is no joy in civilization. The leaders are power-hungry cynics who wish to command these armies of morons to gain power.

They’re using these issues, which they don’t understand and barely care about, as an excuse to harass people, to bully people, to destroy beautiful things which they cannot possess. 

Notice how no matter what their goal is, somehow it always include vandalism and the destruction of art and statues. 

They are people who hate humanity.

The suffering they cause is not a byproduct of their noble goals. Causing suffering is their goal. They are pure bullies.

Let’s import the entire third world to the West, let’s make sure people in Europe die from heat because they don’t have air conditioning, let’s make sure universities don’t teach because there is a war 10,000 kilometers away, let’s burn the country to defend criminals who abuse the innocent, let’s convince people to become extinct and be replaced by bronze age barbarians… that is not justice. That is not compassion. That is not virtue.

It’s not even virtue signaling.

It is their way to take revenge upon humanity, to make everyone else as miserable as they are.

So don’t forget: these people are not misguided, they are not desperate, they are not noble.

They are evil.

URI KURLIANCHIK

Because as the story of the shooting of Jews in Montreal is still unfolding, I found myself turning to Elie Wiesel. Wiesel understood something many people prefer not to see: hatred does not begin with violence. It begins with words. With ideas. With the slow acceptance that one group of people is uniquely guilty, uniquely evil, uniquely undeserving of empathy. Reading these words, I am struck not by how old they are, but by how current they feel. We have watched Jews attacked in Washington. We have watched my Jewish community m@ssacred in Bondi. Now Montreal. My question is not why. The rhetoric that Israel—and therefore, too often, Jews—are uniquely evil has become increasingly acceptable in many circles. My question is: where does it lead? Wiesel spent his life warning us that the distance between words of hate and acts of violence is shorter than we wish to believe. This quote comes from his lecture on The Last Testament of Paltiel Kossover. Listen to his voice. He knew the worst of humankind, and he understood that “Never Again” was never a promise. It was a responsibility.

The silence is deafening. 

And decades of DNA research confirm what history, archaeology, language, religion, and memory already told us.

The entire anti-Zionist framework rests on one central lie: that Jews are “white European colonizers” who stole someone else’s land.

Without this lie, the framework collapses.

So let’s collapse it.

*The Cohen Gene - A 3,000-Year-Old Receipt*

In 1997, geneticists studying Jewish men who identify as Cohanim - the hereditary priestly class - found a distinctive Y-chromosome pattern shared across widely separated Jewish communities.

Cohanim from Europe. Cohanim from North Africa. Cohanim from the Middle East.

Communities separated for centuries, living under different empires, speaking different languages, often with little or no contact - yet preserving the same priestly tradition and related paternal markers pointing back to ancient Middle Eastern ancestry.

Later studies refined this into what became known as the Cohen Modal Haplotype and related J1/J2 paternal lineages.

You do not get that from random converts in Poland.

You do not get that from “white Europeans” inventing a fake past.

You get that from continuity.

A people in exile.

A family that refused to disappear.

*Every Jewish Community on Earth Clusters Together*

In 2010, Dr. Behar and colleagues published a major genome-wide study in Nature: “The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people”.

They compared Jewish diaspora communities against non-Jewish populations from across the world.

The result was exactly what Jewish history predicts: Jews from Iraq cluster with Jews from Europe. Jews from North Africa cluster with Jews from the Middle East. Jewish populations across the diaspora are genetically closer to one another than to the non-Jewish populations among whom they lived.

Ashkenazi Jews are not simply “Polish”.

Mizrahi Jews are not simply “Iraqi".

Sephardi Jews are not simply “Spanish”.

Yemenite Jews are not simply “Yemeni”.

They are Jews.

A distinct people, dispersed across the world, but still genetically connected to one another and to the Middle East.

Ashkenazi Jews, in particular, consistently show Middle Eastern ancestry mixed with later European admixture - exactly what you would expect from an ancient Levantine people that spent centuries in Europe while remaining largely endogamous.

Jews are from Judea.

It is in the name.

It always was.

*The Disease Profile - A Fingerprint That Cannot Be Forged*

If Ashkenazi Jews were simply Europeans, they would look genetically like the European populations around them.

They do not.

Ashkenazi Jews carry certain inherited diseases at rates radically different from surrounding European populations: Tay-Sachs, Gaucher disease, Canavan disease, familial dysautonomia, Niemann-Pick, and others.

That is not what happens when a population simply blends into Europe.

It is what happens when a small exiled people survives for centuries while marrying mostly within itself.

Geneticists have estimated that the Ashkenazi population passed through an extreme founder event - a very small ancestral population that later expanded dramatically.

Not hundreds of thousands of random Europeans.

A small, endogamous Jewish population.

A tribe.

A nation in exile that refused to dissolve.

*“But Ashkenazi Jews Look White!”*

Skin color is not ancestry.

Appearance is not origin.

A small number of genes influence pigmentation. Those traits can shift over generations through climate, geography, and selection. They are the paint job, not the engine.

Ashkenazi Jews spent centuries in Europe. Many became lighter-skinned.

That did not make them European in origin.

The same way the Romani did not stop having South Asian origins because they lived in Europe.

The same way Armenians did not become French because some lived in France.

The same way Jews did not stop being Middle Eastern because they survived in Europe.

*The Khazar Lie*

The claim that Ashkenazi Jews are “really Khazar converts” has been used for decades to sever Jews from Judea.

It is politically useful.

It is not serious science.

In 2013, Behar and colleagues published a direct response: “No Evidence from Genome-Wide Data of a Khazar Origin for the Ashkenazi Jews”.

The title says almost everything.

The Khazar theory survives online because it gives antisemites what they need: a way to say the Jews are fake, Jewish history is fake, and the Jewish connection to Israel is fake.

But the genome-wide data does not say that.

*Now Let’s Talk About Palestinian DNA*

The claim is usually framed like this:

“Palestinians are the indigenous people. Jews are foreign”.

But the DNA tells a much more complicated story - and a much less convenient one.

Serious studies do not show a pure, unchanged Palestinian people existing in the land from antiquity until today.

They too show what history shows: a mixed regional population shaped by conquest, migration, Arabization, conversion, intermarriage, Egyptian and North African input, Arabian tribal input, and broader Levantine ancestry.

That is the history of the region.

The Levant has always been a crossroads. Empires passed through it. Armies settled in it. Tribes migrated into it. Populations converted, mixed, changed language, changed religion, and changed identity.

*Arabs Are From Arabia. It Is in the Name.*

The Arab conquest of the Levant began in the 7th century.

Before that, the population of the region was not “Palestinian Arab”. It included Jews, Samaritans, Aramaic-speaking peoples, Greek-speaking Christians, local pagans, and others.

After the Arab conquest came Arabization.

Local populations gradually adopted Arabic language, Arab identity, and Islam. Some intermarried with Arabian tribes and conquerors. Some converted. Some changed identity over time.

Palestinian Y-chromosome studies (Nebel et al. 2000, 2001) show 30-40% haplogroup J1 - with specific sub-clades (J1-L858) directly linked to Arabian tribal expansion after the 7th century. That's not "ancient Levantine." That's Arabia. Literally.

Jews are from Judea. The "Palestinian" Arabs are from Arabia.

*“Levantine DNA” Does Not Mean “From Israel”*

This is the sleight of hand almost nobody notices.

When geneticists say Palestinians have “Levantine ancestry,” activists translate that into: “'Palestinians' are indigenous to 'Palestine'".

But that is not what “Levantine” means.

The Levant is a broad region. It includes modern Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, parts of Turkey, and surrounding areas.

Having Levantine ancestry does not automatically mean your ancestors came specifically from Jerusalem, Hebron, Jericho, the Galilee, or Judea.

*Palestinians Are Not One Unchanged Ancient People - They Are a Crossroads Population*

Palestinian genetics reflects the history of the land itself: layers of conquest, migration, settlement, conversion, and intermarriage.

Different Palestinian communities show different patterns.

Bedouin populations often show stronger Arabian affinities.

Gaza has historical Egyptian, North African, and sub-Saharan African input.

Northern populations may show stronger links to Syrian and Lebanese populations.

Coastal populations reflect broader Mediterranean history.

That is not what a single pure, unchanged indigenous population looks like.

It is what a crossroads population looks like.

It is history.

And it destroys the simplistic propaganda line that Jews are foreign Europeans while Palestinians are the sole native people of the land.

*“Palestinians Are the Real Jews” - The Most Cynical Lie*

Some activists now claim that Palestinians are actually the descendants of ancient Israelites who never left.

This argument collapses on contact.

The Samaritans make the point clear. They are a tiny surviving Israelite-related community that preserved continuous identity, practice, and connection to the land for thousands of years.

They are not interchangeable with modern Palestinian Arabs.

*The Bottom Line*

For 2,000 years, the world told Jews they did not belong in Europe.

“Go back where you came from.”

So they did.

And now the same world says they do not belong there either.

But they do - because Jews are from Judea.

The DNA says what history says.

What archaeology says.

What language says.

What Jewish prayer says.

What Jewish memory says.

What the name itself says.

A Middle Eastern people with an ancient, continuous, documented connection to the Land of Israel.

The DNA confirms what history already showed.

- Special thanks to Dr. @lhilitte who contributed this scientific review.

But history tells a different, uncomfortable story.

The land was not simply “naturally barren”. It had been ruined by centuries of war, imperial neglect, taxation, depopulation, and ... deliberate military policy.

After the Crusaders were finally driven out of the coast in 1291, the Muslim Mamluks faced a strategic problem: how do you prevent European armies from returning by sea?

Their answer was simple and brutal:

Destroy the coastal infrastructure.

Ports were razed. Harbors were ruined. Coastal fortifications were dismantled. The defensive line was moved inland. The purpose was not development, trade, agriculture, or prosperity. It was to make the coast unusable to a returning enemy.

That may have made military sense in the 13th century.

But it helped turn one of the most important coastal corridors in the world into a neglected frontier.

Then came four centuries of Ottoman rule. A few towns prospered at moments, and some local leaders built trade networks. But the broader pattern was underdevelopment, heavy taxation, insecurity, poor land administration, and rural poverty. By the 19th century, much of the country was not a flourishing national homeland waiting peacefully to be “stolen”. It was an imperial backwater.

This is the world Mark Twain encountered in 1867 when he described Palestine as “desolate and unlovely”, and that James Finn described as "underpopulated" and "abandoned" in 1864.

Those lines can be mocked today, but Twain and Finn were not describing Tel Aviv, Rishon LeZion, Petah Tikva, Degania, or the modern Jewish agricultural revival. Those did not yet exist.

They were describing the result of centuries of decay under the Muslim rulers who controlled the land before Zionism became a major political force.

The Jews did not arrive in the 1880s and “steal” a thriving Palestinian state.

There was no sovereign Palestinian state.

There was no Palestinian government.

There was no Palestinian army, currency, parliament, border system, or independent national infrastructure.

What existed was a neglected province of collapsing Muslim empires - first Mamluk, then Ottoman - where Jews returned, bought land at premium prices, drained swamps, built towns, revived agriculture, created institutions, and eventually built a state.

The irony is staggering.

The historical narrative that blames Jews for “colonizing” the land often ignores the Muslim empires that actually ruled it, taxed it, neglected it, militarized it, and physically destroyed its infrastructure. The same narrative that is told by Arab Muslims, which it's majority immigrated to the land *after* the Jews made it livable again.

The Jews did not "steal" a thriving land. 

The Jews came back to a wounded land - and made it live again.

@destinationXIX

How did countries like Austria, Poland, and France collapse so fast? These were established nations with armies, governments, borders, and millions of people. France alone was considered one of the strongest military powers in Europe.

Traditionally, we are taught that Hitler’s army was simply this unstoppable military machine that steamrolled Europe because it was overwhelmingly powerful. And yes, Germany was militarily strong. But that explanation alone has always felt incomplete, because historically even very strong armies usually do not conquer enormous amounts of territory that quickly unless something inside the targeted societies is already collapsing first.

Austria disappeared almost overnight. Poland fell within weeks. France collapsed in six weeks. History usually does not work that way unless large parts of the population no longer truly believe the fight is about their own survival.

The uncomfortable and dark reality is that many people did not initially think Hitler was coming for them.

Austria is probably the clearest example. The Anschluss was welcomed by huge parts of the population. German troops entered to cheering crowds, flowers, and celebrations. Many Austrians convinced themselves that joining Nazi Germany would mostly affect the Jews while improving life, or at least preserving it, for everyone else.

That mentality existed across Europe in different forms.

The illusion behind Hitler’s message was essentially: you can still be French, Polish, or Austrian. Live your life. Raise your children. The real problem is your Jewish neighbor.

And for millions of people, that was enough to weaken the will to resist.

A society only fights with total determination when people believe defeat means the destruction of their nation, identity, and future. But many Europeans convinced themselves the Jews were the primary target, so they accepted things they never would have accepted otherwise.

Some collaborated. Some stayed silent. Some rationalized. Some simply looked away.

The tragedy is that they were wrong anyway.

Austria lost its independence. France was humiliated and occupied. Poland was devastated. Cities were destroyed, sovereignty disappeared, millions died, and entire societies were dragged into catastrophe.

People often think evil can be managed as long as it is directed at somebody else first.

History shows otherwise.

This is why I’m done trying to convince Americans or Europeans about the dangers of extreme Islamism. In many mosques and Islamist circles, hatred toward America, Christianity, Western civilization, and Jews is preached openly and repeatedly. Yet many people in the West still process it the same way many Europeans processed antisemitism in the 1930s: “Yes, maybe they hate the Jews, but that doesn’t mean they are coming for us.”

That psychological separation is exactly the point.

As long as people believe somebody else is the primary target, they convince themselves they can safely ignore the ideology itself. They assume the hostility will remain contained to Jews, Israel, or some distant “other.”

But ideologies built around civilizational hatred do not stay neatly limited to one target forever.

And the end result, increasingly visible already across parts of Europe, is collapsing social trust, collapsing law and order, ethnic fragmentation, parallel societies, radicalization, and the steady erosion of the very national identities people assumed were untouchable.

At some point, societies make their own choices.

And eventually they live with the consequences of those choices.

You reap what you sow.

We went to the Nova exhibition today. On the one hand I am listening to the video testimony of ZAKA talking about decapitated heads in bags and women violated in unspeakable ways and on the other hand I see the complete indifference to any of this from much of the rest of the world. Indifference at best, or denial or at worst, saying that what happened was 'resistance'. Today this completely blew my mind - again.

The Nova exhibition was profoundly affecting in so many ways despite already having been immersed in nothing but this for nearly three years. There were many tearful people there. We also heard live testimony from Ariel, the brother of Anita Lisman who was killed with her boyfriend Segev Shushan, at Nova. 

May their memories be a blessing.Watching all of these atrocities again was heartbreaking and I'm glad that the organisers put it all together so incredibly well.

It was in fact the first room of the exhibition which I'll never also forget. It was a film of the Nova rave. People were dancing to trance having the time of their lives. They were my tribe, I've been going to these parties for maybe 25 years. The feeling of dancing to the beats, everyone loving everyone else, being as high as a kite and everything being just perfect. And then a sunrise where everything sparkles and looks beautiful and love and music is all around. There's no feeling like it and then I tried to imagine the horror and the terror descending, people not really understanding what's going on, being terrified whilst still trying to protect each other. I'd only ever seen those party clips on my laptop screen but being there, immersed in those scenes and knowing what was coming for those beautiful people was painful beyond words.

And the worst thing is that most of the people I've danced with for years have turned their backs on us and that's something I'll never forgive or ever forget.

Everyone needs to see and to understand what happened on 7th October and subsequently.  Israel needs to do whatever is needed to make sure that this never happens again, with or without the approval of the rest of the world.

Never forget Never forgive.

A huge chunk of the internet is liars lying to liars. 

Probably the most extreme example of this was the proliferation of insane posts claiming Bibi was killed by an Iranian missile and that all his subsequent public appearances were AI fakes. Even Joe Rogan, the #1 podcaster in the world, jumped on the bandwagon. 

Not a single one of these people admitted their “mistake” nor was there any significant discourse following this epidemic of lies. The reputation or credibility of everyone who took part in spreading this absurdity wasn’t harmed in any way. 

How is this possible?

I’m convinced 99% of the people who posted, shared, and argued about it didn’t believe it themselves. This is why there were no consequences for anyone. It was a huge joke and everyone was in on it. However, if you admit it’s a joke, it stops being funny. 

Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and the rest of the Dugin class operate by the same rules. They’re knowingly lying to people who know they’re being lied to… and like it.

The people sharing AI videos of Tel Aviv being destroyed that make made-for-TV action flicks look realistic, or of Palestinian babies shivering in a snowstorm in Gaza in May, know full well these videos are fake. However, they pretend to believe because it amuses them, just like it amuses a bunch of bullies to mock a kid because chanting that he never showers or that his mom likes to fuck dogs. The fact it’s so patently false makes it even more humiliating for their victim and thus more entertaining for the bullies.

They are the fake believers. They pretend to believe simply to hurt someone.

Psychologically, there is nothing surprising about it. When you hate someone, everything they do annoys you. The way they talk, the way they walk, the way they breathe. Even the most innocent things feel odious and deliberate to you. You’re wiling to repeat anything as long as it presents the person in bad light. After all, it’s not your job to run fact-checks for your enemy, right?

It’s the same with Jew-haters and Jews. 

They don’t hate Jews because they believe their own idiotic theories, they profess these idiotic theories because they hate Jews. The hate isn’t the result of the “facts” but the “facts” is the result of the hate.

Of course, they will never confess it, just like a bully would never say, “I know your mom isn’t a lesbian and that you shower every day, I’m just saying these things to hurt you.” 

This is why the lie about Bibi was so successful. 

Because it was so ridiculous and obviously fake, because the bad faith of those spreading it was so obvious. This was never a debate. This was bullying.

This is nothing new. 

Already in 1944, the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre wrote:

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

These fake believers are the main reason why increasingly absurd lies are sipping into the mainstream. I don’t for one second believe Nicholas Kristof believed the nonsense he wrote for the NYT about Jews training dogs to rape Palestinians. He simply saw a bunch of bullies having fun and decided to join.

Creatures like him are aided by a phenomenon called “The spiral of silence.”

The spiral of silence theory states that an individual’s perception of the distribution of public opinion influences that individual’s willingness to express their own opinions. That is, the fake believers hope that by being loud and aggressive, people will believe (or at least pretend to believe) their lies for fear of the mob because challenging the lies would put someone outside of the mainstream and move them from the camp of the bullies to the camp of the victims.

Silence, indeed, like a cancer grows.

As an aside, another tool often employed by false believers is the Gish Gallop. 

The “Gish Gallop” is a bad faith debate technique where one overwhelms an opponent by presenting a rapid, continuous stream of weak, misleading, or false arguments. This forces the opponent to spend all their time refuting the barrage, creating the false impression that the galloper is “winning” the argument.

The reason it’s effective is Brandolini’s law, which states:

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

Each point raised by the Gish Galloper takes considerably longer to refute than to assert. There is a fairly simple technique to counter it: find a single error and use it to attacks the opponent’s credibility. 

It doesn’t matter if he made 20 claims. If one of them is wrong, you can assert all of them are wrong and now it’s his job to defend his claims. The important thing is not let him change the subject by introducing new bullshit. Stick to that one error and eventually he will have to relent.

So, what do we do about fake believers?

Many people say, “don’t engage them, starve them for attention.” 

These people are morons.

They are the same people who tell you to ignore bullies because they will get bored. The goal of their advice isn’t to help you, but to make your suffering less noisy so they’d be able to go about their business in peace.

Fuck these people. They are the cancer of silence.

However, engaging in honest debate with fake believers is a poor strategy as well due to Brandolini’s law. It takes seconds to come up with a lie, but it takes minutes to debunk it. And of course, you will never debunk it to the satisfaction of someone who argues in bad faith.

This doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t debunk these lies. However, we should do it at our own pace, not whenever the enemy commands us. Just like in war, it’s important to control the pace.

What we should do is challenge the claims of the fake believers in witty and amusing ways that will show people the fake believers are being resisted and that they are pathetic, petty bullies.

Expose them, mock them, ridicule them. 

Turn them into a laughing stock.

Here, I must repeat my motto for all online activity: 

You don’t argue for the other guy, you argue for the audience.

Don’t get sucked into long back-and-forth threads. No one is going to read them and you’re certainly not going to change the mind of a rabid bigot who doesn’t for one second believes what he pretends to believe. You might as well argue with a pigeon.

Drop a witty reply and move on. The best answer to a mob is not “speaking truth to power” because power doesn’t care about truth. It’s another mob. This is how you stop the downward spiral of silence.

The most important thing is don’t let them go unchallenged. Don’t let them become the consensus. Don’t let them control the space to the point timid people will join the mob simply out of self-defense. 

Silence always favors the majority and we’re always a minority.

Always attack the fake believers. Don’t debate them. Don’t be nice. Be acerbic and amusing. Strike quickly and move on.

And remember: your goal isn’t to change the mind of the fake believer. You goal is to challenge them so we don’t enter a spiral of silence. Your goal is to make sure there lies never go unchallenged in the eyes of the public.

Don’t try to engage in academic debate with evil garbage. Instead, bully the bullies.

It was never about Palestine, it was always about Jew hatred

so i decided to sit down and think about how this war that russia started to destroy Ukraine affected me besides the obvious things like suffering from air strikes daily or being force to relocate abroad. so here's the list

- my home town of Kherson was occupied and is now under constant bombings and citizens are suffering from the human safari that russians do for fun and love of suffering - the theater where i performed and visited as a child - was hiе by a bomb - the maternity hospital where i was born was hit by a bomb - a relative of mine was killed by rocket strike - my uncle's family had to escape their village because russians were coming for them since he was a former military and all military people and their families were primary targets for russians to interrogate, torture and kill - my godmother's and another uncle's family had to do the same for the same reason - both of those villages are still occupied to this day - multiple houses in my neighborhood including my own house one way or another were damaged by shelling or explosions