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Make companies change competent. 4x Author, Keynote & TEDx Speaker. #Resilience Expert. Family doc, mom (4 boys!). Seen on @TODAYshow @GMA @TheDoctors She/her.

Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Joined March 2011
The planned bike ride boycott of Jewish-owned restaurants in and around Rittenhouse Square on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht is deeply unsettling. By explicitly targeting businesses because their owners are Jewish, the organizers are engaging in a form of discrimination that falls back on some of the oldest antisemitic tropes and tactics in history. This is not simply a protest directed at the policies of Israel, rather it singles out our fellow Pennsylvanians based on their Jewish identity, targeting them for policies they have nothing to do with and no ability to affect because of their faith. That is unconscionable in our Commonwealth which was founded on religious tolerance and unacceptable in a city that prides itself on brotherly love.
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A network of Hamas operatives posing as “journalists,” calling itself the “Palestinian Journalism Network,” is now inciting against a friend of mine from Gaza who is a peace activist. These are the same supposed “journalists” who are publicly mourned when killed in Gaza, only to later be exposed as Hamas or Islamic Jihad members and quietly removed from press‑casualty lists. They are accusing her of working with Mossad and Israeli intelligence and attacking her husband as part of supposed espionage networks run by Jews, Zionists, and Israelis. Their death blow or coup de grâce was to accuse her of associating with me, “the notorious collaborator,” as they put it. Their article reads: “As part of her suspicious activities, Rawaa al‑Khazendar maintains contact with figures known for their pro‑Israel stances, including the operative Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a US‑based Palestinian activist notorious for inciting against the resistance and promoting normalization.” Hilariously, I do not consider it an insult to oppose Hamas’s fascistic, ISIS‑like “resistance,” and I will never apologize for promoting tolerance, bridge‑building, peace, and normalization between Israelis, Jews, and Zionists on one side, and Gazans, Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims on the other. Eighty years of unbroken conflict have brought Palestinians nothing but devastation. A new beginning is long overdue. Several points are obvious. A portion of Gaza’s “journalists” are so obviously Hamas operatives or affiliates. Speaking out against Hamas carries immense personal cost. And Western observers, whether journalists, activists, politicians, academics, or humanitarians, consistently misread Arab and Palestinian societies. They rely on crude binaries when evaluating anyone who claims to be “resistance,” press, or NGO staff (think Doctors Without Borders). Acknowledging this does not erase the fact that Israel has killed legitimate journalists in Gaza, whether accidentally or deliberately. But ignoring the deep rot inside Hamas‑controlled professional sectors is naïve, harmful, and dangerous. Hamas will escalate its attacks on me now that I have dedicated a short book to exposing them. I guess that means let the war begin...
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Promising $300B to Iran for reconstruction is a non-starter. The Iranian regime is the world’s #1 exporter of terrorism. It killed over a 1000 Americans. Iran gets 0.
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What does America get for $3.8 billion in military aid to Israel? Short answer: economic, security, military, innovation, and strategic returns. Long answer: • Jobs: American jobs and manufacturing. • Industry: A stronger U.S. defense industrial base. • Intelligence: Information that helps prevent attacks against Americans and U.S. interests. • Technology: Combat-proven military technologies. • Laboratory: Access to one of the world's most active laboratories for modern warfare. • Lessons: Battlefield lessons without paying for them in American blood. • Innovation: A defense innovation ecosystem benefiting both countries. • Ally: A capable ally helping deter common adversaries and maintain regional stability. • Strategy: Greater freedom to focus on competition with China in the Indo-Pacific while preserving a favorable balance of power in the Middle East. Full answer: Read the article.
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An Advisory Council with Omar Alghabra? @MarkJCarney is trolling Canada's Jews.
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Passover Seder, Yemen 1950. Image credit: Paul Goldman.
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This evening I visited Golders Green to stand with the Jewish community. Enough words. We need action: proscribe the IRGC and the Muslim Brotherhood, ban the hate marches, stop two tier policing and bring an end to antisemitism in our institutions like university campuses, the NHS and the BBC.
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Joe Kent resigning and immediately pivoting to blaming Israel for everything is as predictable as it is unserious. Scapegoating Israel isn’t just a tired antisemitic trope – it’s anti-American. This is a guy with ties to white supremacists and has “PANZER” tattooed on his arm, referring to a Nazi tank infamously used in crimes against Jews. Kent's reduction of Iran to “Israel’s fault” isn’t leadership, it’s bigoted deflection.
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.
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Iran to U.N. Security Council: “The continued deprivation of women and girls in Afghanistan is a matter of serious concern.” Iran at home: Beats, blinds, jails, tortures and kills women who stand up for their rights or who are guilty of wearing “improper hijab.”
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Women in Gaza are for sale! The Islamofascists in both Gaza and the West Bank are now cooperating to sell off some of Gaza’s most vulnerable and desperate widows among the rubble, in conditions that mimic the sexual slavery of ISIS. Supposed West Bank financiers are now sending money to Gaza to help sell off, marry off, without any choice or desire, Gaza’s widows who lost their husbands during the war following Hamas’s October 7th attack on Israel. There are pimps, female “matchmakers” who are little more than deliverers of women, financiers, in some cases, little to no family to say yes or no, and widows across the age spectrum, some of them teenagers. This is the sick, horrendous, evil behavior that Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Islamism, and the dark lords of Muslim Palestinian society are involved in and support. This is what so many in the West, including Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian-Americans, are refusing to speak out against by not opposing Hamas and Islamism. This is what university students on elite American campuses support with their despicable, hateful, misplaced, and ineffective “activism” that’s supposedly “pro-Palestine.” Free Gaza’s women from sexual slavery! Free Gaza’s women from servitude! Free Gaza’s women from forced marriages! Free Gaza’s women from the Palestinian ISIS! Free Gaza’s women from the backward elements of social and religious regression!
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Commentary: Inside Tel Aviv’s “bomb-shelter raves,” where Israelis gather during missile alerts and dance to electronic music — a defiant act of survival. rollingstone.com/culture/cul…
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Mental Health Monday!🧠✨ Did you know that everyone experiences mental distress in their life? Join TrueSport Expert and board-certified family physician, Dr. Deborah Gilboa, as she explains what mental distress looks like. For FREE mental wellness resources, visit the link: na2.hubs.ly/H03X9X60 #YouthSports #MentalHealth #MentalDistress @AskDocG
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Not the Wikipedia page for "death to America" sugarcoating this horrible phrase "not a wish for literal death for American people themselves" Yeah right...
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Extraordinary admissions from the ex-CEO of Oxfam GB, Helima Begum. She tells @Channel4News that Oxfam: -Had a disproportionate focus on Gaza compared to other world crises; -Were pushing to use the term 'genocide' re: Gaza without checks -Struggled to be impartial & neutral Many had suspected this of course, but it's shocking to hear it said out loud. channel4.com/news/former-oxf…
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Of course, no one in Hamas ranking less than a major gets to write for @nytimes
Gaza ‘doctor’ who slammed Israel in NY Times op-eds is Hamas colonel, seen in military uniform: watchdog, IDF nypost.com/2026/01/31/world-…
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Sie wechseln nur das Outfit. Gaza = Hamas
Gaza ‘doctor’ who slammed Israel in NY Times op-eds is Hamas colonel, seen in military uniform: watchdog, IDF nypost.com/2026/01/31/world-…
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Here, board-certified family physician and TrueSport Expert, Deborah Gilboa, MD (@AskDocG), provides simple tips for athletes on how to best recover and rebound from any type of change. truesport.org/preparation-re…
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Palestinian Muslims want this video removed from the internet so please don’t stop sharing it until everyone sees it!!
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If you aren't aware of what's going on right now, let me break it down for you. Jews worldwide are being hunted down and killed. It's only day three of Hanukkah, and already we've seen: 1. Jews murdered by a jihadi father-son duo in Australia that seriously wounded many people, including my friend @Ostrov_A (thinking of you, brother). 2. Students at @BrownUniversity were murdered in a class being taught by Rachel Friedberg, a Jewish professor who leads the school's Judaic Studies program. 3. A Jewish professor of nuclear physics at M.I.T. was murdered in his home today. 4. Orthodox Jews in New York were violently assaulted on the subway. 5. Violent Palestinian protestors disrupted a peaceful Hanukkah celebration in Amsterdam. Dozens were arrested after police had to physically surround families celebrating the holiday to protect them. 6. A Jewish family in California had their home hit by gunfire because they had Hanukkah decorations up. One of the criminals shouted, "Free Palestine." 7. An Islamic terrorist attack has been foiled in Poland at a Christmas market. 8. An Islamic terrorist attack has been foiled in Germany at a Christmas market. 9. A Palestinian terrorist attack was foiled in California. 10. France has cancelled its NYE celebrations because of the terrorist threat level. 11. Canada's Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre has said that a terrorist attack in Canada is now "a realistic possibility." I've been studying terrorism for 20 years, and I've never seen things this bad. The West is under attack – full stop. The question now is, what the hell are we going to do about it?
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