Engineer, educator, entrepreneur. Cares more about how people treat people than what they claim is their ideology.
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pam berkeley retweeted
“If you don’t confess, if you don’t sign this paper, we’ll rape your sister in front of you.”
In January 2026, 21-year-old twin sisters Taraneh and Romina Rahimi were dragged from their beds by the IRGC following anti-regime protests in Iran.
They have been abused, tortured, denied medical treatment and threatened with rape and sexual abuse.
Taraneh’s injuries are reportedly so severe she cannot walk.
In August, following a sham trial where they were denied legal representation, the girls were convicted of “waging war against God.”.
Taraneh was sentenced to DEATH.
Romina was sentenced to 25 YEARS in prison.
For protesting against a brutal Islamist dictatorship that denies women their most basic human rights.
This is the Islamic Republic’s justice system.
pam berkeley retweeted
Islamist terrorists carried out a horrific massacre against Jordan’s Christian community today in Karak, south of Amman. The three attackers opened fire during a funeral at St. George Orthodox Church, killing seven people and wounding dozens in an atrocity that sent shockwaves through Christian communities across the Middle East. King Abdullah II vowed to confront those seeking to destabilize Jordan and threaten its centuries-old Christian presence. Jordanians from across the political spectrum have rallied behind his commitment to combating ISIS-inspired Islamist terrorism. Public outrage intensified after CCTV footage of the attack circulated online, revealing the cold-blooded targeting of defenseless civilians gathered to mourn a loved one.
What is particularly revealing is that some of the same people condemning today’s massacre of Jordanian Christians celebrated or excused Hamas’s equally brutal murder of Israeli civilians on October 7. It is remarkable how readily some affirm the sanctity of innocent civilian life in one context and correctly denounce its killing as terrorism, yet deny that same humanity in another and rebrand the murder of civilians as “resistance.”
pam berkeley retweeted
There's a large Vietnamese community in France 🇫🇷. Vietnam was a French colony that was ruled more directly and for longer than Algeria in many respects.
Vietnamese kids top the French education rankings, have some of the lowest unemployment of any immigrant group, and somehow managed not to set Paris on fire.
Weird how some use “colonial trauma” as a reason to succeed and others treat it as a reason to riot
American-Egyptian activist Eman Mabrouk celebrates the riots in France: ''I think burn it all down, stop sucking European Master's dicks, liberation isn't going to be pretty, it's going to cost blood, it's going to cost lives.''
Really cool how this third world bio-weapon somehow gets a piece of paper calling her American even as she agitates for race war against white people. 70,000 Instagram likes!
Also really fucking cool that so-called ''Australian'' citizen Dr. Mo Mustafa - widely known as the "Beast from the Middle East'' - collaborated with her on this Instagram reel. He calls himself an Australian for the benefits of the passport while endorsing videos like this which call for explicit race war against Europeans.
Western immigration policy has been a catastrophe for decades, how the fuck did these people get passports when they hate us this much.
pam berkeley retweeted
She made it! She couldn’t get a visa to Spain, but this warrior is now with us in Poland.
She survived an acid attack in Afghanistan. I invited her to join me and the brave Iranian women who were blinded by the Islamic Republic.
We will stand together on stage to send a clear message:
If the Taliban and the Islamic Republic are united in their war against women, then the women of Afghanistan and Iran are united in our fight for freedom.
pam berkeley retweeted
Why are the New York Times, CNN, and BBC working overtime to make sure not a single Palestinian flag makes it into their photo coverage of the French protests?
pam berkeley retweeted
Queridos amigos sionistas no judíos:
Quiero compartir con ustedes algo muy personal. Tengo ganas de llorar de emoción.
Esta semana, todos los días vi a personas decir: «No soy judío, soy sionista». Y para nosotros, los judíos e israelíes, fue una de las semanas más hermosas que recuerdo.
Estoy acostumbrado a leer mensajes de odio, a ver cómo nos acusan de cosas que no hicimos y cómo hay personas que incluso se alegran de los crímenes que se cometen contra nosotros.
Por eso, ver tanto amor, tanta solidaridad y tanta gente dispuesta a decir públicamente que es sionista, sin ser judía, me emocionó profundamente.
Quizás para algunos sea solo una publicación en las redes sociales, pero para nosotros significa muchísimo. Nos recuerda que no estamos solos, que hay personas que ven la verdad, que defienden nuestra existencia y que no tienen miedo de estar de nuestro lado.
De corazón, quiero agradecerles personalmente. No tienen idea de lo que significa para mí, como judío e israelí, recibir tanto cariño en medio de tanto odio.
Gracias por estar ahí. Gracias por ser sionistas. Gracias por estar del lado de Israel y del pueblo judío. ❤️🇮🇱
Con todo mi cariño y agradecimiento,
Isaac
pam berkeley retweeted
My entire timeline is full of people who are not Jewish and not from Israel but proudly announcing that they are Zionists and that they stand with the Jewish people and the State of Israel. I can’t explain in words how heartwarming it is to see this. God bless all of you. 🇮🇱❤️🙏
pam berkeley retweeted
They only show you how cats are treated in 'Palestine', because if you learn how they treat dogs even the most brainwashed supporter will recoil with hatred.
pam berkeley retweeted
From our protest of Massachusetts' Framingham prison today. Over 30 people came to protest against men in women's prisons - and you see the half dozen men (and one woman) at the back?
Those are prison guards! They showed up to support us! Amazing! They've had it with this mess, too.
We at New England Solidarity thank those guards for their bravery, and we also thank our special guest speaker, the amazing @KnownHeretic, Amy Sousa! She and all of our other wonderful speakers did an incredible job.
And thank you to the other organizations that came out to stand with us against men in women's prisons: @DIAGdemocrats @WDI_USA @WomensLibFront @DetransJustice and Massachusetts Women for Sex-Based Rights. You are all awesome!
pam berkeley retweeted
To those who claimed that no woman in Iran has ever been flogged for refusing to wear the hijab: LOOK AT HER BACK.
This woman is one of the brave members of my #WhiteWednesdays campaign against compulsory hijab.
She sent me this photo of her scarred back after being punished with 74 lashes for the “crime” of showing her hair.
Holding a Woman, Life, Freedom slogan, she refused to be silenced. Here is her testimony:
“The morality police arrested me for resisting their van. My ‘crime’ was unveiling. After months of court hearings, I was sentenced to 74 lashes. The cleric overseeing the punishment stood there to ensure it was carried out.
I won’t give up my fight against this brutal regime, but we are fed up with living as prisoners in our own homeland.”
Seventy-four lashes. For showing her hair. In the 21st century.
This is barbarism. And you tell me, how is this different from ISIS?
pam berkeley retweeted
Yes it was not so much the atrocity as the reaction to the atrocity that made me finally realise the left as I understood it no longer existed, if it ever existed in the first place.
Three years ago, on 7 October, my worldview changed—not so much because of the atrocities committed by Hamas (what else would you expect from a genocidal terrorist group?), but because of the shocking response to those atrocities from many of my “progressive” friends: from apologetics and denial to outright jubilation.
That day, I was jolted out of my complacency and woke up to the poisonous ideology that had quietly taken hold across large swathes of the Left and academia.
My forthcoming book, The Betrayal of the Enlightenment (@PitchstoneBooks), reconstructs how self-proclaimed progressives, of all people, could have arrived at this point.
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Over 75 senior retired 🇺🇸U.S. generals, admirals, and military lawyers have signed a new open letter rejecting claims that Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
The signatories include those who have commanded U.S. armed forces in combat, applying the laws of armed conflict.
Their conclusion: based on the facts and applicable legal standard, the conduct of Israel’s war against Hamas does not constitute genocide.
As the letter states, “Civilian deaths occurring during combat, however tragic, are insufficient, by themselves, to support a finding of genocidal intent.”
The standards used to judge military conduct matter precisely because war is tragic and imperfect.
“The precedent established today regarding Israel will shape the conditions under which American forces fight tomorrow. Protecting civilians and preserving the ability of our nation to defend itself requires us to defend the truth when the laws of war are being distorted to make false charges of genocide.”
This is not an argument for minimizing the suffering of civilians. It is an argument for applying the law faithfully and maintaining the distinctions that matter: between the tragic consequences of war, violations of the laws of armed conflict, and the specific crime of genocide.
Read the full open letter here: jinsa.org/open-letter-from-m…
pam berkeley retweeted
Mayor Mamdani devoted only 49 words of a 211-word statement to commemorate the worst single day attack on Jews since the Holocaust, in a city that is home to the largest Jewish population outside Israel. He avoided any real description of what happened on October 7, including mass murder, burnings, beheadings, executions, and sadism toward Jews, Arabs, and foreign workers, including women, children, teenagers, and the elderly. He refused to call Hamas a terrorist organization or acknowledge that none of this would have happened had the group honored the ceasefire it unilaterally broke. There was no assignment of agency or responsibility to any Palestinian actor.
Yet he used the remaining 162 words to describe in detail what happened in Gaza after the attack. He showed full capacity to recognize Palestinian suffering, which is real and must be acknowledged, but his statement was tone deaf, inconsiderate, and antagonizing to millions who deserve their trauma recognized on its own terms. He has spoken endlessly about his anti-Israel views and will continue to do so, but this was the one day in which he could have offered unconditional compassion to the victims and survivors of October 7 and their loved ones, many of whom have deep roots in New York.
This type of statement ignores basic logical principles like cause and effect, choices and consequences, actions and reactions, priorities and implications, further infantilizing the Palestinians and ignoring the failures of Hamas and Palestinian leadership that have harmed their own people. It hardens attitudes toward Gazans and reduces empathy for the vast and unspeakable suffering in the coastal enclave, rather than increasing it.
@NYCMayor: sometimes less is better. You should have stayed with your first 49 words, especially as unhinged “pro-Palestine activists” are celebrating October 7 today across the country. Stand up to your base, Mr. Mamdani. You have already won and do not need to appease radicals at the expense of Jewish New Yorkers. And please stop pretending that this is about helping Palestinians or caring for Gazans.
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⚠️WARNING: GRAPHIC AND UPSETTING FOOTAGE ⚠️
Agam Goldstein-Almog was 17. She says it at the start of the film, because the age is the point.
On the morning of October 7 her family was in the safe room at Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Her father, Nadav, and her sister, Yam, were murdered there. She was taken with her mother, Chen, and her brothers, Gal, 11, and Tal, 9, and driven into Gaza in her mother’s car.
She describes the trip. Civilians in Gaza banging on the windows. She told her mother they were going to rape her. The men in the car talked about marrying her off. She asked only that the four of them be kept together. They were. A schoolteacher who was also Hamas held them, after a tunnel, in an apartment, dressed as civilians so the street would not see Israelis. Fifty-one days.
Released on November 26, 2023, moved from car to car through a crowd she thought was going to lynch them, and home to a house with two of them missing.
That is the footage the argument always omits. This isn’t a leaflet. And it isn’t a border dispute. She was a 17-year-old taken from the room where her father and sister had just been killed, with two little boys, into a home in Gaza, by people the marches across London, Paris and New York still call resistance.
She’s the one narrating it. The film doesn’t need a caption.
pam berkeley retweeted
I agree with this take with the caveat that it did used to happen in societies where the incentives were so fucked up that women claimed rape to avoid a much worse fate. But these days, in America, there's really no serious consequences for women having sex. It's not like she'll be unmarriageable forever or fired from her job for being a harlot.
People do things because there's an incentive structure for it. Some women lie about rape, sure, but it's not because they had consensual sex anymore. It's typically a mental illness or scam or attention seeking sort of thing, and most of the time, they don't need to have ever met or had sex with the guy to make the allegation.
There's an argument that perhaps something doesn't meet the legal definition of rape, sure. The elements of the offense or criminal mental state isn't there. That's not a false accusation though.
I just don't see what the incentive is for an average woman in America to have consensual sex with some guys and then cry rape because she "regretted" it. It's one of those misogynist myths that just doesn't hang together when you think logically about it.
pam berkeley retweeted
The notion that women promoted hookup culture is a brazenly ahistorical rewrite of the 20th century
Women did not want sexual liberation
Secular men did
Going all the way back to FDR, it was actually men who wanted the welfare state, and women who opposed it
The women's reasoning? It would incentivize men to abandon their families
But secular men decided they were just being emotional, so we got the welfare state
If you look at Gallup polling data from the 1960s-1970s, men were actually 2-3x as likely to support birth control, premarital sex, open marriages, and pornography than women were
In fact, women on both sides of the aisle opposed porn up until the early 2000s
70% of the attendees to Woodstock 1969 were men
Even radical feminists on the left like Julie Bindel and Andrea Dworkin opposed porn. Gloria Steinem was in the minority opinion
And what did the wise, chivalrous men leading society say about that?
They called them sex-negative, accused them of shaming male sexuality, and even to this day, if you take a gander at this post, you'll see yours truly being repeatedly told by secular men that the only reason I don't think women should be dressing like street walkers in public is because I'm fat and jealous: xitter.cf/Balderdash543/status/2…
To this day, men still love sexual liberation
Look at the way the "conservatives" drool over Sydney Sweeney
Men never stopped like sexual liberation
They're just mad it got extended to Lizzo
They didn't care when it was Brooke Shields taking a photoshoot for Playboy at age 10, because little Brooke was a hottie
Sexual liberation is awesome as long as she's a hottie
And if a woman says being a hottie doesn't give you the right to display your ass crack to the public, it means I'm just fat and jealous and that I secretly want to display my ass crack to the public
Oh but they'll speak out on Only Fans!
Nevermind Playboy, Hustler, PornHub, Aylo - those are fine
Why is that?
OF came out in 2016, the porn industry has been thriving for over 70 years, yet men didn't realize porn was bad until OF
Isn't that weird?
Well, it's actually not if you understand what makes OF distinctly different from traditional porn
Traditional porn exploits the women
Sleazy producers, manipulative cameramen, the prevalence of blackmail, Linda Lovelace getting the shit kicked out of her by her husband to film Deep Throat
That was fine
But what's not fine is when you flip the genders on the exploitation dynamic
The reason secular men zero in on OF is because OF flips the script
It's the women exploiting the men
See, secular men didn't start opposing porn until they realized it might actually be bad for them
When porn destroys a marriage, it's because the nagging wife isn't putting out enough
When porn destroys a young woman's life, it's because she was an idiot
When porn destroys a man's life, however - we must address this immediately because he's a victim
The religious men, on the other hand, who didn't need labcoats to tell them porn was evil were laughed at sexually repressed, being nagged by their wives, etc.
Oh, and who started that whole narrative?
Nagging wife, sexless husband, she's gonna take all your shit and leave you broke?
Who was writing those sitcoms?
Who spent decades glorifying single men as rich and drowning in pussy, and making fun of married men?
Who was tuning into Howard Stern chuckling at rape jokes about mass shooting victims?
That mass shooting victim was a hottie, though! It was funny!
You're just mad because you wish you were a mass shooting victim with a radio host making jokes about raping you while your parents are still grieving. If only you weren't so fat!
So why are secular men angry about sexual liberation now?
They tell us all the time:
Hypergamy
But here's the thing, guys - women didn't want hypergamy
Men did
They're just mad it only benefitted a small percentage of them
So to make this tweet historically accurate, what it should say is:
"Men spend 70 years calling women who warn them about the dangers of sexual liberation fat and jealous and then cry when the consequences of said sexual liberation come to roost"
pam berkeley retweeted
Had this man not found the courage to fight back after being repeatedly attacked with an axe capable of cutting through metal—while bleeding profusely—and had the presence mind to trigger the hijack/emergency code, initiate the emergency response and open the cockpit door to allow passengers to assist him, the aircraft’s subsequent dive could have had catastrophic consequences.
Had that aircraft not been recovered, the geopolitical consequences for the Middle East could have been profound and potentially irreversible.
Sometimes history turns on the courage, resilience and presence of mind of one person.
Yes. One Indian man.
