Judea Pearl
@yudapearl · Jewish & Israel-focused media — US/UK
Judea Pearl is a computer scientist and pioneer of causal inference who also writes on Jewish and Israeli affairs.
Colleagues inform me that, sadly, UCLA Law School @UCLA_Law is guilty of such practice: Weaponizing the painful days of 9/11 and 10/7 to promote hateful ideologies, see https://t.co/g8gxKb6LhA Having lost a son to such an ideology, I stand ashamed of my university and, especially, the five Centers within @UCLA_Law sponsoring this despicable symposium. @AkaLazarus @kylieoralobell @HenMazzig @RozRothstein @emilykschrader @Elex_Michaelson
On a second thought, Ed Miliband should first read the #BookofWhy. How else can we explain a seasoned diplomat like him not grasping that rushing to declare a two-state solution, without attending to the primary obstacle-- Palestinianism -- will only make this desirable solution less likely to happen, for it tells Palestinians: "try again, and again, more forcefully each try, for we will never ask you to reconcile to Israel's existence; we will act as though you are not infected with Zionophobia." @EinatWilf @GadSaad @AkaLazarus @MelanieLatest @HenMazzig
May this be my message for 9/11, combined with 10/7, to all who wish to weaponize these two painful days to promote their hateful ideologies.
Having listened to Ed Miliband’s speech yesterday, I'm convinced that had he read 'Coexistence,' he would understand that rushing into a two-state solution while ignoring its primary obstacle only makes that desirable solution less likely. Here is his speech: https://t.co/xp6gBm5jYE
"OZ" - the Israeli party I would vote for-- unites with the "Reservist Party". @EinatWilf https://t.co/CLLUPHQSOg
To free Palestine, you must firsr free Israel from the genocidal designs Palestinians have been nurturing for the past 79 years. @NadavPollak
Who is Salam Al-Marayati? On the day of the 9/11 attacks (September 11, 2001) while appearing on a Pacifica Radio program in Los Angeles, Al-Marayati said that attention should be turned toward groups that might benefit from the incident, stating (According to the @nytimes ): "If we're going to look at suspects, we should look to the groups that benefit the most from these kinds of incidents, and I think we should put the state of Israel on the suspect list because I think this diverts attention from what's happening in the Palestinian territories so that they can go on with their hat they can go on with their aggression and occupation and apartheid policies,” Today, this Zionophobic racist joins an "as-a-Jew" @DavidNMyersUCLA to preach to us about Islamophobia. @AkaLazarus @JFRGofficial @GadSaad @latimes @MPAC @MayorOfLA
In other words, what the flip side of Islamophobia is antisemitism. Wrong! The flip side of Islamophobia is Zionophobia -- the denial of the Jewish people right to self-determination -- a racist, genocidal ideology that both authors—Myers and Al-Marayati—have actively promoted over the past three decades. @AkaLazarus
When two anti-Israel activists join in dehumanizing Israel, it is not a Jewish-Muslim dialogue; it is an anti-Israel orgy. True dialogue aims at coexistence, and dehumanization negates it. https://t.co/2QuiUxuaGQ @latimes @DavidNMyersUCLA @MPAC @AkaLazarus @DavidSuissaJJ
Islam may well be a peaceful religion, but a critical litmus test for that peacefulness is coexistence—specifically, the readiness to accept Jewish self-determination in Israel. Thus far, the dominant intellectual movements across the Muslim world have failed this test. @AkaLazarus @AskAkbar @GadSaad @JGreenblattADL
We are all waiting now for Mayor Bass @MayorOfLA to condemn Zionophobia with the same passion and authority. @AkaLazarus @DavidSuissaJJ @JGreenblattADL @AJCCEO
Asking Abdul El-Sayed to accept the right of Israel to exist is asking him for the impossible; he can't concede that two billion Muslims are fundamentally wrong — I repeat: two billion Muslims. @AkaLazarus @GadSaad @Eve_Barlow @EylonALevy @EinatWilf
Please watch this video!!! @JDVance is not only the most dangerous man in America today, but seriously, if elected President, it may mean the end of Israel and the end of the Jewish people -- I don't believe we would ever get a fourth chance at national revival. @RJC @CUNY_Prof @Erin_Molan
Israel is the only country in which folk songs mention the word "peace" more frequently than "I love you".
Van Jones: El-Sayed wants Israel defendeless https://t.co/DKaNWbEL88 @VanJones68 is one of the few remaining CNN analysts who remember that there are women, children, and grandmothers in Israel, besieged for 78 years by an unending attempted genocide."
This day in Jewish History. September 1882, Leon Pinsker publishes a revolutionary pamphlet (in German) titled "Auto-Emancipation" in which he argues that Jews should not wait for others to hand them freedom, nor wait for the Massiah to redeem them from exile but, rather, take emancipation into their own hand, move to their historical homeland and establish their sovereignty by themselves. He signed "An urgent appeal to his brethren, by a Russian Jew" and quoted Hillel the Elder (Pirkei Avot 1:14): "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if not now, when?" That was 14 years before Herzl -- yet still relevant in 2026. ( "אִם אֵין אֲנִי לִי, מִי לִי? וּכְשֵׁאֲנִי לְעַצְמִי, מָה אֲנִי? וְאִם לֹא עַכְשָׁו, אֵימָתָי?")
Only at UCLA can a "history professor" write: "He (Mawdawi) is a remarkable and humane person who was arrested for the crime of being Palestinian", and assume that his readers/students would buy into such manufactured tragedy -- "arrested for the crime of being Palestinian". That's UCLA.
Warning: This video is promoted by the IDF, to show how fearless these Palestinian kids are of soldiers' response -- the best proof of past experience.
This day in history, September 1, 1967, the Arab League declares its famous: No, No, No. https://t.co/L8kEn6ciqP Israelis took an especially sober notice of the “no negotiation” phrase and interpreted it to mean: “Not even the size of a postage stamp. Your very presence in the Middle East is unacceptable and will remain so till the end of days.” It was this unfortunate phrase that gave a misguided ideological legitimacy to the settlement movement: “If we are destined to live by the sword till the end of days, we might as well do it from a position of strength.” [Coexistence, p. 21] @AkaLazarus @VanJones68 @havivrettiggur @EinatWilf @noatishby
We are more than "ethnicity" -- We are a people with historically-baked quest for a sovereignty and a homeland. The next step is for California to recognize Zionists as a national minority, and let anti-Zionist Jews define themselves a "religion" or "victims of circumstances".
Abdul El-Sayed’s insanity, CNN's Van Jones, the ongoing battle with Iran, and the fragility of the IRGC https://t.co/ivc3qptmfm
Law Students for Just-us in Palestine barred from tabling at Berkeley Law event https://t.co/h9FijLtAi2 I am glad, of course, that the hateful message of SJP will not be heard on Berkeley's campus, albeit for boring legal technicalities. Technicalities tend to obscure the racist character of this group, so only a few will learn what they advocate -— the dismantling of a people's homeland and all its genocidal implications. Fortunately, their spokespersons do a good job of unmasking their aims.
CAIR Action Backs Sen. Jon Ossoff as Antizionists Rally Behind Jewish Senator’s Rise https://t.co/hB9K0Qnvxs
Critical analyses of Omer Bartov's scholarship have appeared several times on this platform. Recent review of Bartov's new book "Israel: What Went Wrong", by Gerard Steinberg, is worth reading: https://t.co/34QyYfMb12 I would title it: " Omer Bartov: What Went Wrong". @GeraldNGOM
Given the spread of the current epidemic, it is expected that some professors will get infected by Zionophobia. What is not understood is why those infected continue to teach classes at UCLA, risking innocent students and compromising public health. @AkaLazarus @JFRGofficial @AbigailShrier @RabbiWolpe @Promise_Institute @uclafsph.