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Alan F Jr retweeted
Replying to @GBNEWS
@metpoliceuk this person (@KirbyODonnell22) needs to be investigated by Prevent, @TerrorismPolice and/or Gov.uk/ACT . They’re using an armed terrorist as their profile pic, and their pinned first post finds a clever way to display a swastika while they argue that Jewish British School Children should persecuted because of events in the other half of the globe over which they have zero influence. They represent a danger to the public.
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Alan F Jr retweeted
Replying to @GBNEWS
@KirbyODonnell22 <<—this pathetic FAKE Irishman is evil and stupid. They use an Arab Muslim with a gun as their profile pic, self-identifying as a terrorist. They find an excuse to prominently display a Swastika as their pinned first post, self-identifying as a Nazi. And after arguing that British Jewish School Children should be persecuted for what’s going on in a foreign country, I disagreed with him and he blocked me. The account does appear to be UK based, but it’s definitely an Islamic Extremist or the kind of person that will burn down London the same way his compatriots are currently burning down Paris. This person needs to be investigated and deported.
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Alan F Jr retweeted
Replying to @Nadav_Eyal
This feels a lot more like electioneering than serious analysis. Leaders prepare for all contingencies. Political activists run around screaming “the sky is falling” if you don’t vote the way I’m telling you to.
1/ Benjamin Netanyahu got the last set of polls last night. They argue Likud and his block are eroding fast. Then, came his remarks on Israel's economy. These are among the most extraordinary he has made in a long political career. Whatever their intent, they carry real weight for the Israeli economy – before Tuesday's election, and regardless of who forms the next government. In an interview with journalist Roy Katz, aired Friday, the prime minister said American military aid to Israel is coming to an end. "It's over. It's only a question of time," he said. Israelis should get used to no longer receiving tens of billions of dollars in U.S. defense assistance, he added, "because America has changed." That alone is remarkable. There is a growing recognition in Israel that U.S. military aid in its current form will have to change, and might end, as bipartisan support for Israel erodes in Washington. Netanyahu himself has spoken before about wanting to wean Israel off the aid. But there is a distance between that recognition and a sitting prime minister effectively announcing the end of one of the pillars of the U.S.–Israel strategic relationship. The current Memorandum of Understanding – $38 billion over ten years – runs through September 2028. It is embedded in a web of interests that includes the American defense industry, and Israel's diplomats in Washington work hard to sustain it. Israel's friends in Congress, operating in an increasingly difficult political environment, are still fighting to preserve the special relationship. When the prime minister himself says "it's over," that is a hard message for Israel's defense establishment, and for those in Washington still trying to help. And that was only the opening. "There could be sanctions, including banking sanctions," Netanyahu said. Israel, he explained, must prepare an economy capable of bypassing them. This is a different order of magnitude entirely. Some background is needed. In the world of international sanctions, comprehensive banking sanctions against a country are among the most powerful tools available to major powers. They are not import restrictions, consumer boycotts, or even arms embargoes. Broad financial sanctions go after an economy's circulatory system. Israel's banks depend on the global financial system: correspondent banks, clearing, credit lines, the ability to move money across borders. Without access to banks abroad, the Israeli economy stops functioning. And such sanctions don't hit only the banks. They hit everyone who banks with them – companies, exporters, importers, investors, employers. When foreign banks become nervous about a country's financial institutions, they tend to cut ties well beyond what the law strictly requires. In other words, a sweeping financial sanctions regime would push Israel toward the category of Iran or Russia. It would be worse. Iran and Russia sit on vast oil and gas reserves. Even under sanctions, they keep selling – mainly in Asia and parts of the Global South. Israel's economy is not built on commodities. Its strength comes from integration into the global economy: human capital, technology, research, advanced services. According to the Israel Innovation Authority, Israeli high-tech exported roughly $85 billion in goods and services in 2025 – 58 percent of all Israeli exports – and accounted for about half of the economy's growth. It is the engine of the economy, and it depends on foreign markets, foreign capital, and the free movement of money. Netanyahu did not say who might impose banking sanctions. A prime minister raising this possibility, in the same breath as forecasting the end of U.S. aid, should prompt immediate questions. Is he referring to European sanctions? American ones? above all: how did Israel get to the point where this is being discussed at all? There was more - and much worse.
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Alan F Jr retweeted
As usual, you’re so right! I said the same thing but less artfully and concise. It’s a tough time for all Zionists, even non-Israelis as I’ve had to disagree with many I also respect who are under the delusion that replacing Israel’s secret to success will increase its public approval. It will only make Israel weaker, more fractious and less resilient to global pressure.
Re Israeli election: far too many people—including many who should know better, like Jews and supporters of Israel—still wrongly believe soft power (ie, public sentiment/approval) is more important than hard power (deterrence). It’s not, and it’s living in that fantasy world that will get Jews killed. Hard to imagine someone believing the world will suddenly love Jews—or that you no longer get uncomfortable looks when you go to Zabar’s—if Netanyahu is gone, but there’s plenty of ridiculousness around. But let’s say, for a moment, that it’s true. Nobody but Netanyahu would’ve been able to navigate the post-Oct 7 Middle East and restore the deterrence that it had lost that day. I know that Israelis vote for all kinds of reasons, from Haredi draft to the economy, etc. And voting for restored deterrence is a comparative abstraction—so I’m not sure how it’s going to go. But imo that’s the most important issue, and the guy to vote for is obviously Bibi. I know people’s mileage may vary, but forgetting about the strategic genius of Netanyahu would be a massive mistake. That’s my 2 cents.
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Alan F Jr retweeted
Israel will not gain any international popularity regardless of what happens at the polls because the professed Netanyahu haters really just hate Israel and don’t even care or know that he was long known as a Gaza dove.
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I love that one of America’s biggest Black artists is campaigning for him in Michigan!
🚨AWESOME! NICKI MINAJ to President Trump: "If you run again? I will support you again!" 😅 "I will continue to support you — FOREVER AND EVER." 🔥 Nicki just CRUSHED it on-stage with Trump in Michigan. Who knew that she'd be out in a MIDTERM YEAR pushing for Republicans. That's the Trump Effect 👏🏻
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Alan F Jr retweeted
Replying to @BillAckman
I can’t help but agree with Bill Ackman, even though many people I respect and adore are disagreeing with him. Bibi is not the problem, and anyone who says so is lying or a fool, but Ben-Gvir and Smotrich are a serious liability and hopefully the Center Left won’t boycott Bibi and drive Bibi into their arms. What the Jewish people need and Israelis want is a national unity government under Bibi’s leadership. Eisenkot, Winter, Bennett and Lieberman MUST do the right thing and agree to form a government with Bibi as a transition to the next generation. I promise you Bibi is not pleading guilty to any crimes he didn’t commit or retiring before he gets a full NOT GUILTY verdict on the merits! Bibi is needed for the remainder of Trump’s term in office. The plans are in motion but they collapse without Bibi. nitter.siddz.com/billackman/status/2114…
I said I wasn’t going to weigh in on who should be prime minister of Israel as that is a decision for Israeli citizens. I did, however, want to share one point of view from the perspective of someone who has an understanding of how Israel is perceived in America. Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich have caused Israel enormous reputational damage with their statements and actions which are presented in the global media as representing the voice and will of all Israelis. As such, a government formed without Ben-Gvir and Smotrich will send a message to the rest of the world that Israel is turning a new page. This will allow Israel to rebuild lost credibility, increase the opportunity for an expansion of the Abraham Accords, and enjoy a better relationship with Democrats and Republicans and Americans at large.
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Alan F Jr retweeted
Even if Israel formed a government of Mother Teresas, as long as Israel defends itself, the Islamo-left alliance and the woke Reich will find a reason to attack it. The only way for Israel to rebuild its reputation would be to bow down to slaughter, and even then, the Jew-haters would say the Jews are reaping what they sow.
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Alan F Jr retweeted
Bill, you're one of the few people I genuinely admire and respect. But I must say that I wholeheartedly disagree with you on this. It makes little difference who Israelis elect. The overwhelming majority of Muslims in the Arab world and beyond are not going to abandon their hostility towards Israel and antisemitism simply because its government changes. As I've said before, when I was a Muslim antisemite, my hatred wasn't driven by any particular Israeli politician. It made no difference to me whether Israel was governed by the most peace-loving, left-wing politician or by someone on the right whom I, and the world, considered anti-Arab. The hostility was there regardless. Ben Gvir and Smotrich are simply convenient excuses for people who want to justify their anti-Israel hatred. Look at the political leadership in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Arab world. Look at their blatant antisemitism. Why does their conduct so rarely lead people to suggest that Muslims as a whole are antisemitic, while the actions and rhetoric of Ben Gvir and Smotrich are routinely used to portray Israel as a nation of extremists?
I said I wasn’t going to weigh in on who should be prime minister of Israel as that is a decision for Israeli citizens. I did, however, want to share one point of view from the perspective of someone who has an understanding of how Israel is perceived in America. Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich have caused Israel enormous reputational damage with their statements and actions which are presented in the global media as representing the voice and will of all Israelis. As such, a government formed without Ben-Gvir and Smotrich will send a message to the rest of the world that Israel is turning a new page. This will allow Israel to rebuild lost credibility, increase the opportunity for an expansion of the Abraham Accords, and enjoy a better relationship with Democrats and Republicans and Americans at large.
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Alan F Jr retweeted
Let me introduce you to a fellow named Max Naumann. In 1934, Naumann, a German Jew, urged fellow Jews to support Adolf Hitler. He defended the Nazi regime even as it persecuted Jews, and actually petitioned Hitler for the right of Jews to fly the German flag. In 1935, the Gestapo dissolved his organization and threw him in prison, where he attempted suicide. He died of cancer in 1939, before the Holocaust, but not before discovering how little his loyalty to the Nazis was worth. I'm not comparing Abdul El-Sayed to Hitler. I'm questioning the idea that a Jewish endorsement is, by itself, evidence of what's best for Jewish safety. From the Hellenizing Jewish elites of ancient Jerusalem to Jewish supporters of Iran's Islamic Revolution, we have examples throughout our history of Jews aligning themselves with political movements that ultimately turned against them. Their motivations differed, as did the consequences. But there's a lesson in Max Naumann's story that's worth remembering. Being Jewish has never made anyone immune to being catastrophically wrong about what's good for Jews. @PatinkinMandy @GadSaad
Help get @abdulelsayed elected to the senate! Jewish safety depends on a real multiracial democracy—and Abdul is the one fighting to protect it. Get involved and help at abdulforsenate.com/vote go.abdulforsenate.com We know how much it matters to live in a country where our rights are protected, where the law applies equally to everyone, and where the majority can’t just decide that some people don’t deserve the same freedoms. The safety and freedom we’ve found in America didn’t happen by accident. They exist because of democracy. And protecting democracy means protecting Jewish safety, too. We know what happens when those protections start to break down. When courts are weakened, elections are undermined, and people lose equal protection under the law, minorities are often the first to pay the price. Jews have seen this throughout our history. It’s one of the reasons so many of our families sought refuge in democratic countries. That’s why I find it so alarming to see what’s happening right now. When masked government agents are taking people off the streets and citizens are being shot in public, we should all be worried about where things are headed. As Jews, we know that when a government starts targeting certain groups of people, no one should assume they’re safe from what comes next. Mike Rogers has chosen to align himself with a movement that is willing to attack our democracy. He stood with Trump and refused to accept the results of the 2020 election. And now we’re seeing what happens when a political movement treats the rights and dignity of certain people as disposable. For Jews, these things should set off alarm bells. Jewish safety is tied to the health of our democracy. We can’t protect one without protecting the other. And in this Senate race, Abdul is the candidate who understands that and is willing to fight for it. #abdulelsayed #democracy #jewish #midterms
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Alan F Jr retweeted
עם ישראל היקר !!! דונאלד טראמפ הצהיר שהוא תומך בביבי והבטיח שרק ביחד עם ביבי הוא יתקוף את איראן. המתמטיקה פשוטה, אם ביבי חלילה לא יבחר, לאיראן יהיה את הזמן להמשיך ולפתח את פצצת האטום, כי הנושא ירד מהכותרות ויצא מהתוכניות של ארה״ב לתקוף את איראן ביחד עם צה״ל . אל תשלו את עצמכם, האידיאולוגיה של האייתולות באיראן היתה והינה באופן חד משמעי, להשמיד את ישראל וזה יהיה פשוט אסון טרגדיה וקטסטרופה בלתי הפיכים לעם ישראל . לכן, אל תהיו אדישים לגורל של עם ישראל וארץ ישראל ואל תהיו אדישים לגורל ילדינו ונכדינו ותגיעו לקלפיות להצביע לביבי, כי הפתק שתחזיקו ביד ותכניסו לקלפי יקבע את הגורל של כולנו ויתן את הכוח לביבי להמשיך ולהציל את עם ישראל בע״ה🙏🇮🇱 המון אהבה ואמונה🙏❤️ #ביבי #נתניהו #ביבי_מלך #עםישראלחי #ישראל #בחירות2026 #הצביעו_לביבי #טראמפ #איראן #Bibi #Netanyahu #Trump #Israel #AmYisraelChai #VoteBibi #Iran #IsraelSecurity #TrumpNetanyahu
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So true. Hostility towards Israel will not decrease one iota under a liberal PM. It’s not about Bibi, it’s hatred of Jews & Israel that Bibi has fought more effectively than any other leader. Israel was a weak and poor country in 1996; now it’s going to be the second highest GDP Per Capita among larger states in two years. Israel is the regional state that will allow the US to “pivot away from the ME to Asia” as every President has wanted to do, leaving alliance with Israel as the Arab World’s only protection from Islamic Extremism, Iran, Turkey and other imperialist powers with designs on the Arab Middle East.
Opinion: Iran fears only Netanyahu, not Eisenkot, Bennett, Lieberman, or Golan. If you care about Israel, vote Tuesday to keep it that way. ✍️ @theurigeller jpost.com/opinion/article-91…
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The Best, at HIS Best:
Billy Joel performing "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" live from Long Island, 1982.
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Alan F Jr retweeted
We cut more than 30 minutes from the first cut of White Guilt. We lost many great scenes and moments. Here's one, where my father, Shelby Steele, debates @CornelWest on @BET in the early 1990s. He had his finger on the truth back then, and the corruption has only gotten worse.
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Alan F Jr retweeted
'Children playing games would tell her, 'If you lose, you're a Jew!'' 'There were teachers telling her she should support Palestine' Journalist Hilary Freeman reveals she had to take her daughter out of primary school over antisemitic abuse
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Alan F Jr retweeted
There are basically two ways of running any country or political system: One is socialist communism—all power to the state. The state does the planning and the people have to conform to the plan. The people are the pawns of the state. They have no human rights other than those granted to them by the state. To me, with my religious background, that was totally and utterly wrong. It denied the human spirit. The system which I believe in finds its most eloquent expression in the American Declaration of Independence: The state is there to serve the liberties of the people, their own spirit, and to develop their own talents and abilities. And so that the strong does not intimidate the weak, freedom is made to work by a rule of law. It is your duty to use your talents and abilities. It is your duty to accept responsibility because you accept freedom. You need private property for that; the property does not belong to the state. You have your own land, your own shares, you have savings, you have thrift. Out of that, it is your bounden duty to give to those less fortunate than yourselves.
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Alan F Jr retweeted
Una mujer afgana fue violada por el marido de su prima. Como él estaba casado, la metieron presa por “adulterio”. Pario en la cárcel y, para cuidar la vida de su hija, terminó casándose con el violador. Así funciona el “honor” donde se aplica la Sharia.
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Alan F Jr retweeted
🚨 HOLY CRAP! President Trump just exposed MI Senate candidate Abdul El Sayed in front of America, and HE BROUGHT RECEIPTS: - Father-in-law: lead a FRONT GROUP for the Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist organization banned in eight Muslim countries because it's "so sinister and severe" - Sister-in-law: placed on the terror watch list 🤯 - Abdul: signed a letter urging the Muslim Brotherhood to "purge the journalists and the police" He also hammered Abdul's record of pushing to defund the police, the same week FBI agents broke up an ISIS-inspired assassination plot against a sitting congressman in Texas! MICHIGAN HAS 9 DAYS TO STOP THIS INSANITY. Abdul going to the Senate is a national security risk. Michigan Mike is the way to go.
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This is the Hamas member whose job it was to eat all of the aid to keep it from the sick children:
This is exactly what famine looks like—but in reverse.
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Alan F Jr retweeted
My post about Hitler and the far right got millions of views. Clearly, it hit a nerve. So today I'm going to show you, step by step, why the notion of "far right" as it's used in France makes almost no sense. And why the people who wield it are usually the last ones who should be lecturing anyone. Let's start with the only question that matters: what makes a political system work or fail? To a very large extent, it's the economy. A country that produces wealth, that lets its citizens create, trade and build, stays standing. A country that destroys that collapses, no matter how beautiful its slogans are. And in economics, there are really only two worldviews. The first is collectivism. The idea that the State knows better than you. That it must plan production, set prices, run companies, decide what you earn, what you buy, and eventually what you think. The individual is just a cog serving a grand collective project: the class, the nation, the race, the people. The second is freedom. Capitalism, property, individual liberty, individual responsibility. The idea that millions of people creating value for one another produce infinitely more prosperity than an office of planners, however brilliant they may be. Now look at the list of the great totalitarian regimes of the 20th century. Stalin: total planning, forced collectivization, millions dead. Mao: the Great Leap Forward and the deadliest famine in human history. Pol Pot: money abolished, cities emptied, nearly a quarter of Cambodia's population exterminated. Mussolini, the man who coined the word fascism: "Everything within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State." And Hitler, leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, whose program proclaimed "the common good before individual good." He subjected the entire German economy to State plans: the Four-Year Plan, frozen prices and wages, unions dissolved into a single state labor front, industrialists producing whatever the regime decided. Their flags were different. Their designated enemies were different. But the machinery was the same: the individual doesn't exist, only the collective matters, and the State decides everything. Why does it always end in totalitarianism? Because collectivism doesn't work. And when a system doesn't work, it has only two options: admit failure or force people. They always choose force. Ludwig von Mises proved it as early as 1920: without free prices, without a market, a planner simply cannot know what to produce, how much, or at what cost. He is flying blind. A planned economy isn't a less efficient version of the market. It's an impossibility. Friedrich Hayek drew the political conclusion in 1944 in The Road to Serfdom, a book he dedicated "to the socialists of all parties." One chapter is titled "The Socialist Roots of Naziism." Another, "Why the Worst Get on Top." For Hayek, controlling the economy isn't controlling one sector among others. It is "the control of the means for all our ends." Whoever controls your bread controls your life. Then your speech. Then your thoughts. Milton Friedman put it his own way: a society that puts equality before freedom ends up with neither. So we know exactly what works. It's not an opinion. It's a century of real-world experiments. Listen to the Austrian school, Mises and Hayek, with Friedman from Chicago alongside them: economic freedom, limited government, individual responsibility. And this is where we get to the great accusatory inversion. Part of the left-wing press spends its time screaming fascism. Why? Because the fascism fantasy is the best way to never talk about the track record of their own ideas. Deep down, they know: if their collectivist program were applied all the way, it wouldn't work, because a collective economy cannot work. And an economy that doesn't work always ends up having to coerce, surveil and ban. In other words, it becomes exactly what they claim to be fighting. The real heirs of totalitarian logic are not the ones being pointed at. So who gets called "far right" in 2026? People who want safe cities. People who want to keep their culture. People who just want to live a peaceful life, raise their kids, and not have to board up their shop every weekend. People who want the law to apply to everyone. If that's the far right, then the word no longer means anything. And maybe that was the point.
It's been months that I keep saying Hitler was far left. Every time, thousands of clowns show up in my replies to give me history lessons. So I made a video to answer all these low IQ takes at once. Topic closed. Next.
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