RT @michaeldickson: The first victim of 9/11 was Danny Lewin. Born in Denver, raised in Jerusalem. Captain in Sayeret Matkal. Mathematician. Co-founder of Akamai - the company that still carries a huge share of the internet.

On the morning of September 11, 2001 he boarded American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles and sat in seat 9B.
Directly in front of him: Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz al-Omari.

Directly behind him: Satam al-Suqami.
When the hijackers rose and moved toward the cockpit, Lewin - 31 years old, elite IDF officer - stood up to stop them.

Al-Suqami slit his throat from behind.
Flight attendants Betty Ong and Amy Sweeney radioed that a passenger in 9B had been stabbed and appeared dead. The 9/11 Commission later concluded he was almost certainly the first person murdered that day.

Twenty-five minutes later Flight 11 hit the North Tower.

He left a wife and two young sons.
Israel is the only country outside the United States with a 9/11 memorial that lists every victim by name, built from Ground Zero steel. Danny Lewin’s name is on it.

May his memory be a blessing.
🇺🇸🇮🇱

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Mais de 5 mil líderes e figuras públicas das áreas de entretenimento, academia, política, literatura, religião e sociedade civil assinaram uma carta aberta rejeitando a acusação de “genocídio” contra Israel e alertando que essa narrativa tem alimentado o antissemitismo no mundo.

Entre os nomes do entretenimento estão Debra Messing, Mayim Bialik, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Patricia Heaton, Jerry O’Connell, Boy George, David Draiman, vocalista do Disturbed, John Ondrasik, do Five For Fighting, Sharon Osbourne, Amy Sherman-Palladino, criadora de Gilmore Girls e The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, e Matthew Weiner, criador de Mad Men.

A carta também reúne acadêmicos, historiadores e especialistas de peso, como Steven Pinker, professor de Harvard, Benny Morris, historiador da Universidade Ben-Gurion, Sir Niall Ferguson, historiador, Deborah Lipstadt, ex-enviada especial dos EUA para monitorar e combater o antissemitismo, Simon Sebag Montefiore, historiador e autor, e John Spencer, especialista em guerra urbana.

Segundo os signatários, há uma diferença fundamental entre guerra como tragédia e guerra como genocídio: a intenção. No conflito atual, afirmam eles, o lado que declarou intenção genocida foi o Hamas, grupo terrorista que controla a Faixa de Gaza.

Criticar governos e decisões militares é legítimo. Transformar Israel no símbolo máximo do mal, distorcendo o conceito de genocídio e usando essa acusação para isolar, atacar e intimidar judeus no mundo todo, não é justiça. É antissemitismo.

Via: Creative Community for Peace.

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As Jewish people around the world prepare to celebrate the New Year, the StandWithUs family wishes you a Happy Rosh Hashanah! Shana Tova U’Metuka 🍎🍯 https://t.co/fLueYbfoFk

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On the night before the 25th anniversary of September 11, the Twin Towers rose again over New York Harbor - this time, made of light.

2,977 drones took to the sky - one for every innocent life taken that day - and assembled into the outline of the towers at full scale. The tribute was shaped by the people who know its meaning most: family members, survivors, and first responders.

Twenty-five years. 2,977 lights. Every name remembered. Every family mourned.

We will never forget. 🇺🇸🕯️

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It's been 25 years since nearly 3,000 innocent men, women, and children were murdered on September 11th, 2001.
We remember and mourn the lives that were lost to this act of sheer hate. https://t.co/MYBS9U4Awp

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Nearly 3,000 men, women and children lost their lives on September 11th, 2001.
We remember their names. We mourn the lives that could have been. 🕯️ https://t.co/xfjie6Lv32

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Shana Tova from all of us at StandWithUs 🍯🍏

Wishing everyone blessings in the coming year! https://t.co/Z4zNwBQ6hw - Roz Rothstein

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Investigations follow Brandeis Center, ADL and StandWithUs complaints alleging young Jewish students faced antisemitic harassment, retaliation and hostile educational environments at a California public school and New York performing arts college. For more: https://t.co/wohceZVnSA

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31-year-old American-Israeli Danny Lewin was the first 9/11 victim. Using his Israeli Special Forces training, he tried to stop the terrorists on Flight 11 but was tragically killed. A true hero-he will never be forgotten. 🕯️ https://t.co/E3Z82SsU66

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25 years ago, nearly 3,000 innocent men, women, and children were brutally murdered on September 11, 2001. Today, we remember them, honor their memory, and stand united against the hatred that took their lives. https://t.co/voSrGvUoPO

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No episódio do "Levante" desta semana, Caio Blinder lembra que estava em Nova York, no escritório onde gravava o "Manhattan Conection", na Times Square, quando ocorreram os atentados ao World Trade Center, em 11 de setembro de 2001.

"Estávamos na lanchonete, no topo do prédio, e, às 8h30, sentimos um impacto muito grande", conta. "A cidade toda ficou num frenesi desgraçado."

O jornalista trabalhou por 12 horas ininterruptas e conta que, em pouco tempo, percebeu que testemunhava um fato histórico, com desdobramentos que não desapareceriam tão cedo.

"Eu e a civilização toda fomos atacados naquele dia pelos 19 terroristas que participaram das ações", disse Blinder.

Ele lembra, no entanto, que Nova York se reconstruiu e está mais vibrante do que nunca. "O terror perdeu."

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Hate on 9/11: Actual footage of some Palestinians celebrating the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the United States in 2001. This footage was shown on CNN, MSNBC and FOX News. Still today, there are voices in Palestinian society who repeatedly embrace and praise terrorism - and it's not exclusive to Palestinian communities. There are voices of extremism throughout the Middle East and the world who praise and celebrate terrorism against Western countries.
If we are ever to defeat the plague of terrorism, we must expose and speak out against not only hate, but the celebration of hate.

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🍯 Shana Tova from StandWithUs UK! From campus to Parliament, classroom to community - this was a year of real impact, even as antisemitism has risen and Israel has faced growing hostility. We didn't back down. Next year, we go further. Watch this space. https://t.co/hKcjM52KrP

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Jihadist terrorists don’t differentiate between nations. https://t.co/yej8qJiz77

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