Conservative Columnist Doubles Down on Shocking Call For Revenge Against ‘F****** Animals’ in Gaza
Conservative columnist and homeschooling advocate Bethany Mandel doubled down on her violent rhetoric against Palestinians after a shocking old tweet resurfaced this weekend.
Mandel said she found it “funny” that the tweet had found new life nine years later.
“I think it’s funny that I’m getting this tween thrown back at me today,” Mandel posted over the weekend. “It was sent in the heat of the moment after another brutal attack but I… had a point.”
The original tweet from June 30, 2014, read: “Not nuking the fucking animals is the only restraint I expect and that’s only because the cloud would hurt Israelis.”
Mandel then doubled-down Saturday, writing, “I’d say the tweet aged pretty fucking well tbh,” along with information about Hamas’ brutality from Oct. 7, including rape, torture, and slaughtering Israeli babies in their cribs.
She continued, “I’m sorry I just need to clarify something really quickly. I am not apologizing for the original tweet. Some people construed my first tweet in this thread as an apology, and I’m sorry you read it that way.”
Berny Belvedere, senior editor with The UnPopulist, called out Mandel’s language.
“I previously said feelings of rage—even incandescent rage—are understandable in light of what Hamas has done. But this is unapologetically genocidal. People need to vigorously guard against succumbing to sentiments like this,” he wrote.
Mandel’s original tweet referenced the 2014 Gaza War, which marked the last time Israel invaded the Gaza Strip. According to Voice of America, “Hamas abducted and murdered three Israeli teenagers in 2014. Two Israelis then kidnapped a Palestinian teenager and slaughtered him in retaliation. Mass demonstrations broke out on both sides.”
The United Nations reported that more than 1,462 Palestinian civilians were killed during the 50-day conflict, while 67 Israeli soldiers and five civilians perished.
Regarding the current conflict, Paul Scham, a scholar with the Middle East Institute, told VOA, “I think [Israel] has set a very difficult goal for itself. Israel is promising to destroy Hamas, its commanders and its operatives. How it will judge that nobody knows — or at least nobody outside the [Israeli] military.”
He added, “The fact is, Hamas will never be able — I assume — to do anything remotely like what it did [on October 7] again.”
