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Gregg Rosenberg retweeted
This is such an interesting response to my explanation for Israeli legal tricks to avoid the religious designation of mamzerut that it's worth answering.
Not because the complaint matters. And yes, it's vaguely "anti-Jewish medieval polemic" style. But because the answer is interesting.
In Judaism, you see, the great God-given law, once actually given, is from that moment a human-shaped law.
It's a core principle of the tradition. Because if the law keeps needing to refer back to God for rulings, that's revelation. And if revelation continues, then the Torah isn't the thing itself, merely the opening shot.
Even prophecy, the dimmest, thinnest shadow of the thing, has stopped, the tradition affirms.
Thus Deuteronomy teaches: "Surely, this commandment that I enjoin upon you this day is not too baffling for you, nor is it beyond reach. It is not in the heavens, that you should say, 'Who among us can go up to the heavens and get it for us and impart it to us, that we may observe it?' Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, 'Who among us can cross to the other side of the sea and get it for us and impart it to us, that we may observe it?' No, the thing is very close to you, in your mouth and in your heart, to observe it."
No written law can encompass lived experience. So law speaks in categories, not just details. The application and adaptation are for humans.
And more fundamentally, we're supposed to bend the law toward mercy. That's a core precept of the whole system. It's in Ramban's interpretation of the very chapter of Deuteronomy quoted above.
God is infinite truth. But as God teaches in the Torah itself, infinite truth isn't always enough. In the here and now, in the narrow confines of our limited human experience, we need mercy too. That's why the Torah, while it commands that we obey the laws, includes among those laws, "be holy," "love your fellow like yourself," and other instructions that boil down to being merciful and good, not just sticklers for the law.
It's also in the examples of our fathers.
Abraham argues with God to spare Sodom, and he doesn't mince words: “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do justice?”
That's a hell of a thing to throw at God. Justice isn't just what wicked people deserve, justice is also generosity and mercy beyond what is deserved.
There are many other examples of arguing with God -- Jacob wrestling the angel, Moses routinely protesting the divine will. These are usually held up as examples of goodness.
In one famous debate about an oven in the Talmud (Bava Metzia 59b), one rabbi manages to summon a divine voice to affirm he's right. The opposing rabbi decrees, "it isn't in the heavens," and the rabbis rule by the that opposing rabbi. And God, the story tells, laughs in pride and says, "my children have defeated me."
The proud father who sees his children, obedient to the law and joyful in its service but nevertheless carving out their own path, knows He taught them well.
That's what Israeli courts do about mamzerut, and it's a practice enshrined in long-standing Jewish law.
We are to carve our own path through the law, erring on the side of mercy. That's the tradition.
(If you want more, if you want to see the Talmud literally mock these issues, point out that nobody cares about a mamzer's status if they have money or if their family has power, and then conclude that God irons out the imperfections in the end, go to Kiddushin 71.)
And it's worth mentioning: Christianity took this thread in Jewish religious culture and built a vast and beautiful religious universe out of it. This is the part of our tradition that Christians should have the least trouble understanding. When Jesus says, "I desire mercy, not sacrifice," he's quoting the prophet Hosea. In Christianity, this became the warp and woof of redemption itself.
Gregg Rosenberg retweeted
For years, we were told by people like @PeterBeinart that the intense focus on Israel was due to U.S. foreign aid, nothing to do with Jews or obsession with Israel, etc. Just the aid. Now that it's ending, the focus will be on Jordan, Egypt and Ethiopia. Right? Right?
Gregg Rosenberg retweeted
You have both misstated my post and reinvented history.
1. Jewish attachment to Eretz Israel didn’t begin with “political Zionism.” It began 3,800 years ago. It predates the Kingdoms of Israel and Jacob. It predates the First and Second Temples. It predates Islam’s creation and the invasion of the Arabs into JUDEA in the 7th Century.
2. “Political Zionism” was not unique to Europe. It had support movements among Middle Eastern, North African, and North American Jews.
3. On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181, recommending partition of the British Mandate into an independent Jewish state, an independent Arab state, an an internationally administered Jerusalem. The Jewish Agency accepted the partition plan. The Palestinian Arab leadership and Arab Higher Committee rejected it, as did the surrounding Arab states.
5. The Jews did not exile the Arabs when the modern state of Israel was established. Israel's Declaration of Independence, issued May 14, 1948, explicitly appealed to Arab inhabitants to stay:
"We appeal [...] to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship."
It also promised equal social and political rights regardless of religion, race or sex.
By the early 1950s, Palestinian Arabs who remained in Israel constituted a significant Arab minority within Israel. Today, there are 2.1 Israeli Arab citizens. They have 4 political parties, are leaders in the Knesset, serve (by choice) in the IDF (they cannot be conscripted). There are more Arab doctors in Israel than there are Jews in Arab countries in the MENA.
5. The Holocaust and the plight of displaced European Jews at the time that the modern state of Israel was established were not irrelevant, nor is the fact that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem recruited Muslims to help Hitler exterminate the Jews. They needed a safe haven, and the world had to a large extent helped create that reality by its complicity and/or silence.
6. It is also not irrelevant that of the 850,000 Jews forced into exile by Arabs from the MENA between 1948 and the early 1970’s, most fled to Israel. In other words…you forced them out, stole their homes, their livelihoods, their property, destroyed their communities, places of worship, told them to go back to Judea, from where, historically, they’d been exiled, and now complain that they are there and demand that they “go back to Europe,” from where 2/3 of European Jewry was exterminated and when most of them were from the Arab countries in the MENA from which you exiled them.
7. History is relevant. It’s not a deflection. You claim that the Nakba resulted from Jews forcing the Palestinians out in 1948. Even if that were an accurate description of what happened, you’d be supporting their return after close to a century, and such a return would displace all the Jews and take away their self determination and only safe haven - and after you kicked them out of their homes in the MENA.
You cannot credibly say on the one hand that Palestinians have maintained a tie to the land and should be allowed to return no matter how much time has passed, but that Jews who’ve maintained a nexus to the land for millennia should have to leave it.
8. You act as if the Jews just appeared in Israel in 1948, as if the only people there were Arabs. Had Muslim Arab armies not conquered Judea and the wider region from the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire in the 7th Century, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
9. There are 57 majority Muslim countries with less than 10,000 Jews. There is 1 Jewish nation with 2.1 million Arabs who enjoy greater rights than in any majority Muslim country.
You are either killing us or asking us to commit suicide.
We are done dying for your pleasure. Celebrate something else in the streets.
Gregg Rosenberg retweeted
Gaza's Ministry of Health recently released data demolishing the "famine" claim. Non-violent deaths in 2025 are nearly the same as pre-war with no apparent excess malnutrition deaths. This should be welcome news but is ignored as it would mean so many "experts" were so wrong.
Gregg Rosenberg retweeted
On this day—October 25, 1934
Harvard’s “Jewish problem” is nothing new.
This day, the university held a mock trial of Adolf Hitler. All testimony about Nazi persecution of Jews was ruled irrelevant, and a panel of Harvard professors acquitted him on two of four charges.
The very same Harvard warmly welcomed Hitler’s foreign press chief and personal associate, Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengl, only months earlier. The Harvard Crimson had argued he deserved “the marks of honor appropriate to his high position in the government of a friendly country.”
Harvard maintained ties with Nazified German universities, hosted Nazi officials and naval officers, and limited Jewish enrollment. Events in 2023 and 2024 proved the legacy endured, as Harvard became a national symbol of campus antisemitism after October 7.
Gregg Rosenberg retweeted
It’s almost as if the Palestinian Authority took all these clown governments for mugs 😢
Joint statement by 🇬🇧, 🇨🇦 , 🇦🇺 and 🇫🇷: "As longstanding supporters of Palestinian self-determination, we call on the Palestinian Authority to reconsider the decision to postpone elections and to take the necessary steps to hold legislative and presidential elections, without further delay."
gov.uk/government/news/joint…
Gregg Rosenberg retweeted
Please stop calling modern day Jews who spew antisemitism “Kapos.”
Kapos chose between death and obedience by betraying their own people.
The modern day antisemitic Jews choose between applause and a little discomfort.
Their betrayal of Israel’s 7 million Jews costs them nothing— it’s a lifestyle choice.
Gregg Rosenberg retweeted
For years, Israel's claims that Hamas operated among civilians were dismissed. Now Hamas' own publications identify fighters killed in homes, hospitals, schools and tents, journalists and medical workers. Hamas itself ironically debunked the fake genocide allegation. Article:
Gregg Rosenberg retweeted
What if a great deal more of this movement is cosplaying and appropriation than anyone will admit? More about the drifting identities of privileged white kids staring into the abyss of their algorithm-addled lives than about the actual wellbeing and future of Palestinians?
You've achieved your goal of great and widespread hatred of Israel. (Israel's own leadership gave you a hand in that; be sure to thank them.) You've written a fake history to sustain this hatred, in which the lived experience of millions is magically erased. You've reorganized your politics and moral identity around this hatred.
Now what? Now how do Palestinians find that better future? Your only theory of how to get there is that the Jews of the Eastern Hemisphere -- those story-less, inauthentic transients destined to evaporate in the face of your steel-eyed righteous rage -- are bullied into disarming and surrendering their self-determination.
And you have no explanation for what happens if that plan fails.
What if a movement whose core Arab and Muslim activists openly support Hamas's genocidal program and whose outer rings of allies consist to an alarming degree of Western identity-seekers...is not a movement that can actually advance that better future for Palestinians? They literally don't have a theory for how to get there. It really is about the hatred itself, about finding meaning in the righteous mob.
You can't support Hamas and claim to be supporting Palestinians. If you still don't see that, you're not actually seeing the real-world situation of Palestinians. You're blinded by the morality play running in your own head.
A white woman puts on a keffiyeh, makes horrific statements, and then claims to be Palestinian.
This woman has spoken to people and given detailed “testimonies” about her supposed family in Palestine and what they were allegedly experiencing there.
It turns out it was all fake. She is not Palestinian, and she has no family living in Palestine.
This adds another layer to Palestinian suffering: people who appropriate Palestinian identity and exploit our suffering to build themselves a platform.
Unfortunately, when I called this behavior out and argued that we should stop giving such people the privilege of speaking on behalf of Palestinians, I was attacked for it.
Again, stop giving these grifters a platform to speak for Palestinians, exploit our suffering, and use our cause for attention and personal gain.
Gregg Rosenberg retweeted
I warned Canada for decades. I had to incur huge personal and professional costs for fighting against the cancerous scourge of DIE in academia. See my Canadian Parliament testimony here: youtube.com/watch?v=BFY-lAfh…
Gregg Rosenberg retweeted
This is what making peace looks like.
In 1973, Golda Meir was prime minister when Anwar Sadat launched the Yom Kippur War against Israel.
Four years later, the two sat face-to-face in Jerusalem… and laughed.
She smiled: “You always called me an old lady.”
Then she softened: “As a grandmother to a grandfather,” and handed him a gift for his newborn granddaughter.
By then, Meir was out of office. Menachem Begin was prime minister and would later sign the treaty.
But this was the first time the woman who had led Israel through that war and the man who had launched it sat together as human beings.
Two leaders who had commanded armies against each other.
Decades of blood, rejection, and vows to destroy Israel.
And here they were, bonding over their grandchildren.
The peace that followed was far from perfect.
But there has been no further war between the two countries.
Enemies can choose: no more war.
History is not destiny.
Gregg Rosenberg retweeted
🧵The principal of UNRWA-run Al Shouka School in Gaza was a Hamas platoon commander in the Rafah Brigade. Emad Yousef Al-Samhouri began as a 3rd-grade teacher and later the school's principal. He is just one of the hundreds of UNRWA personnel identified as terrorists. 1/
Gregg Rosenberg retweeted
UNICEF just confirmed children in Gaza are better fed than the rest of the Middle East.
The “Gaza Famine” was always a hoax.
Gregg Rosenberg retweeted
Please remember:
When Islamic terrorists commit 48,000+ attacks in 70+ countries since 9/11 alone, not a single Muslim is to blame (including the terrorists themselves).
When Israel inadvertently kills innocent people whilst engaged in an existential war against maniacs, every single Jew is to blame including 3-year-olds in Australia and 90-year-olds in Lithuania.
Questions?
Gregg Rosenberg retweeted
Wow
🚨 Here is the truth from Ceuta, Spain:
60,000+ migrants from Morocco’s border stormed the small town and are now hiding in the mountains and city to reach mainland Europe.
Moroccan migrants said Moroccan authorities let them through their border and Spain literally opened their gates upon arrival. Many migrants thank PM Pedro Sánchez for opening the border... Ceuta is now effectively shut down due to looting concerns, and the military is losing power as migrants outnumber them and continue to escape into the mountains.
Now thousands of military age men are set to spread throughout Europe due to one country’s “failure.”
Gregg Rosenberg retweeted
Even the Supreme Muslim Council’s own 1925 guidebook said the Temple Mount’s identity with Solomon’s Temple was ‘beyond dispute.’
The attempted Jewish heritage erasure came later.
Happy 100th anniversary to the Supreme Moslem Council’s 1925 “A Brief Guide to al-Haram al-Sharif,” recognizing the Temple Mount as the site of the Jewish Temple. At p. 4, it says the Temple Mount’s “identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple is beyond dispute."
Until certain Arab leaders started strategically politicizing Jerusalem & the Temple Mount later in the 20th century, the site of the Jewish Temple had been an incontrovertible fact for millennia.
In fact, the first Muslims in Jerusalem called the city Madinat beit al-Maqdis (City of the Temple), and centuries of Islamic texts refer to Jerusalem as simply Beit al-Maqdis (Temple). If you’re familiar with the Jewish term for the Temple - Beit Hamikash - there is no question from where this term originates.
The Arab Muslim conquest first occupied Jerusalem in 638 CE. But it would be another 54 years before they built the Dome of the Rock on the Temple ruins (692 CE). The Al-Aqsa Mosque was built adjacent to the Dome and on top of those very same ruins 23 years later (715 CE).
At the time, both the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque were built to commemorate Islam’s triumph over the indigenous religion, as was Islam’s practice throughout its colonial conquests in Asia, North Africa, and parts of Europe.
For political reasons, Arab leaders in the 20th century began attaching greater Islamic religious significance to Jerusalem and to Al-Haram al-Sharif (the Temple Mount). Since then, its symbolic nature has risen in importance among many Sunni Muslims who have been repeatedly incited to attack Jews because of the oft-repeated lie that “Al-Aqsa is in danger.”
In truth, it has been widely accepted as absolute fact by Jews, Christians, and Muslims, century after century, that the Temple Mount is the site of Solomon's Temple, which was first built in the 10th century BCE. So of course, Muslim guidebooks acknowledged this fact all the way up until 1948.
But in 1948, when the modern State of Israel came into being, Jordan occupied East Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount. At that point, Jordan made the conscious political decision to erase the Jewish history of the Temple Mount from all Islamic guidebooks.
Gregg Rosenberg retweeted
Now that the real culprits of any shortages in Gaza have been admitted – Hamas – where is the international outcry?
Israel’s facilitation of Aid into Gaza has exceeded the needs of the population and surpassed the requirements of international law. Attempts internationally to blame Israel and whitewash Hamas do an outrageous disservice to Arab Palestinian civilians.
Gregg Rosenberg retweeted
"This means that almost all Western media outlets have unflinchingly disseminated Hamas propaganda to their tens of millions of viewers, while disregarding Israeli figures almost entirely. The world’s journalists have taken the word of jihadi butchers above the evidence-based testimony of a friendly democracy and shared this narrative with the world.
It is no exaggeration to say that this comprises one of the gravest failures of journalistic scepticism in modern times. The uncomfortable truth is that we have been living through the most intense age of propaganda since Soviet times, made only more appalling by the fact that it has been spread voluntarily within supposedly free societies."
spiked-online.com/2026/07/01… – at Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe, België
