Hen Mazzig

@henmazzig.bsky.social

Israeli. Author: The Wrong Kind of Jew. Son of Amazigh + Iraqi Jewish refugees. Founder The Tel Aviv Institute. Seen/Words: NY Times, LA Times, CNN, NBC, BBC, Sky & more.. 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇱🕊️

Emily Damari, who was held captive in Gaza for 471 days, is getting married today! Once terrified that her captors would find out she was a lesbian and kill her, she is now openly declaring her love for another woman, Danielle Amit. Love wins ❤️

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A massive mudslide has left at least 19 dead and hundreds missing in Tibet's Gyirong county, which borders Nepal. The footage is simply horrifying. My thoughts are with the victims of this horrible tragedy.

This level of blatant lying is honestly astounding. Israel didn't say it was going to shoot kids for flying kites; it said it was going to shoot down the incendiary kites that Hamas uses to set the land on fire because they'd rather see it burned to the ground than a Jew living on it.

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BREAKING: Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the highest-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, condemns Hasan Piker’s antisemitism, calling him out by name on CNN.

A guy made a video about “Israeli money” taking over Athens, and the evidence he provides his “comrades” are anti-Israel graffiti and a Jewish company doing business in Greece. Nice 👍

Physically attacking people because of their identities or opinions is wrong. Denying Jews’ connection to Israel, and murdering us for it, are both despicable acts of hate. Why do politicians platform Hasan Piker, who he says this hate is inevitable and blames it on Jews?

There’s nothing progressive about boycotting Jewish businesses. There’s nothing progressive about denying Jewish history. There’s nothing progressive about defacing synagogues. There’s nothing progressive about hatred against Jews.

My highlight from the New Yorker puff piece on Mahmoud Khalil is they edited out the name of what is clearly the Waze navigation app, presumably because it was invented in Israel.

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BREAKING: Heavy police presence and bomb squads present in Golders Green, London's Jewish neighborhood, following the discovery of two unmarked suitcases left unattended at a bus stop.

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When you're a passenger stuck at the airport, there isn't much that can lift your spirits. But when you’re a passenger waiting at Ben Gurion airport during a worker's strike, you might get to see a flash mob. There’s really nowhere like Israel 🇮🇱

...You implied that Israel was behind the massive influx of African migrants to Spain to punish the country for being anti-Israel? Do you actually think there is that wide a gap between you and Candace Owens?

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Is the cognitive dissonance in the room with us? Many Israelis constantly protest Netanyahu, while opposing actual terrorists who murder civilians and take them hostage. No contradiction there!

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The anti-Israel crowd have started calling their positions “moderate” (sometimes in identically worded messages). Wiping a country off the map is not a moderate position, but what do you expect? Israeli and Palestinian lives are all a rhetorical game to them anyway.

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“You tried to separate two souls, and you got a chuppah” Ziv Abud says she hopes Al Jazeera will broadcast her wedding to her love and former hostage Eliya Cohen. Hamas truly couldn’t destroy the Israeli spirit.

Am I the only one who finds it disturbing that Dan Bilzerian received nearly a fifth of the vote? I’m glad a proud Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi didn’t win this primary, but this is still pretty worrying.

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I genuinely can't tell anymore if Mehdi Hasan wants to fight Islamophobia or just use it to argue that antisemitism isn't a big deal. Fighting hatred against minorities isn't a zero sum game. It's important to address both on their own terms. Why is that so complicated?

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Kanye West is set to perform 2 concerts in Russia amid daily missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian civilians. I wonder if he will perform his hit song "Heil Hitler." Where are all those boycott people now?

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“We were playing in smaller arenas, but I was there for a deeper reason” Jewish and Israeli basketball star Amar'e Stoudemire spoke of his time living and playing in Israel during his induction to the basketball Hall of Fame 🏀🇮🇱 Mazel Tov to a true legend.

“SOS NYCHA HOLOCAUST BATTLE” Horrifically antisemitic, racist, and homophobic posters have cropped up around a proposed affordable housing redevelopment project in NYC. Antisemitism is becoming normalized and weaponized about totally unrelated issues.

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Seeing this reporter’s polite yet firm refusal to let an interviewee substitute the “genocide” fiction for fact makes me realize how lacking this basic level of journalistic integrity typically is. Why isn’t this the standard?

🇮🇱 Yotam wrapped himself in the flag—and his win at the Computer Science World Championship was revoked. A 17 y/o Israeli student won gold at the ICSO in Uzbekistan—then had his title revoked after wrapping himself in the Israeli flag on the podium. The ICSO has banned Israel since 2024.