Untamed Cynic. Former Cheesehead Mafioso. Subject of preening college theses. C***-blocking
@Scaramucci
. Child of Darkness, sometimes Light.
#paranoiac
As Elul begins, we are reminded of the essential Jewish teaching, the belief that set us apart from Humanity for 3000 years:
Our fate is in Hands of the Eternal Judge
& He will judge us not for our strength or politics but for our character & commitment to family + community
@thehill
I empathize. As a boy, being driven to the school, I watched as my mother had to go through DEHUMANIZING traffic lights -- even though she was a United States citizen and proud American!
It was scenes like this 130 years ago on the streets of Europe that convinced Herzl to turn to Zionism
I for one feel better about facing this resurgent Nazi wave with there being a Jewish State than Herzl must have without it
"Here we are, the anti-Zionists!" WATCH Nazi vibes on the streets of Madrid as students from the
@unicomplutense
University of Madrid march against Israel.
I realize many Israelis deeply hate Bibi for lots of reasons good and bad
But my brothers and sisters you have to realize how brilliant and effective his messaging is in limiting Biden’s ability to harm Israel & how no other Israeli could pull it off
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Israel 🇮🇱: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu tells Jon Karl that Israel is “working out a detailed plan” to evacuate Palestinian civilians from Rafah before a planned ground invasion.
@pegobry
@mhdksafa
The equivalency between nuns who volunteer for the habit, and Muslim women who are beaten to death if they take of the hijab is obviously bad faith
@thestustustudio
It’s amazing how antizionists drone on and on about how much they LOVE “Arab Jews” until a Jew of Syrian descent gets up to speak and then they cant march out fast enough
The National Museum of African American History & Culture wants to make you aware of certain signs of whiteness: Individualism, hard work, objectivity, the nuclear family, progress, respect for authority, delayed gratification, more. (via
@RpwWilliams
)
@benshapiro
Ben is wrong. The American Middle viscerally understands that unpaid internships are a mechanism the upper class uses to subvert meritocracy (bc only wealthy can afford unpaid internships & unpaid internship lead to paying jobs). This is not the side Conservatives should be on
There are a lot of Jews in Hollywood, in part, bc Jews had difficulty 100 yrs ago getting real jobs in mainstream industries, so many Jews went out west and created a new industry
There is a similar story to be told w/in legal & banking sectors…
It’s impossible to know how many people have died, and the 30k estimate is as good as any
But the Wharton guys study demonstrated conclusively that Hamas’ “women & children” numbers are completely faked
Anyone still quoting those is intentionally dissembling
It’s sooo weird how pro-Palestinian slogans and imagery are just about always plainly rooted in genocidal violence with just the barest fig leaf of plausible ambiguity that no akshually they totally convey only peaceful intentions
@Variety
@DIRECTV
Thank you Jonathan Glazer, Ramy Youssef, Mark Ruffalo, Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell, Ava DuVernay and everyone who used their platform to call for a
#ceasefire
in
#Gaza
during the
#oscars2024
@NewYorker
@sbg1
my god to look at the past week and conclude that it is *trump* that is permanent burn-it-down-mode.
when the maga silent majority goes into burn-it-down-mode you’ll be the first to know
#fakenews
@HalieSoifer
I have no words. Can’t even bring myself to say something snarky or nasty. This is just so sad. I’m embarrassed for my people and full of despair.
All I have to say is: when we politicize antisemitism we endanger our children.
Today, Trump appointed Richard Grenell to the Holocaust Memorial Council. As US Amb to Germany, Grenell sought to "empower" far-right parties & anti-establishment conservatives in Europe. Others have been unqualified, but he's emboldened actual neo-Nazis.
For what it’s worth I think Israel needs to call Biden’s bluff
Go into Rafah
Let him cut off arms shipments publicly to save Hamas and win the Dearborn independent vote
Trump will win the never trumper vote if Biden does that
To my Jewish Dem frenz:
this moment was a long time coming
you have been going through the stages of grief about that reality:
Denial, Anger, Bargaining
Please skip over "Depression": we stand beside you & will get thru this together
Its time for Acceptance & Determination
@CaitlinPacific
I’m old enough to remember when polyamory was just called cheating and everyone understood what’s what and looked the other way to get along
@yashar
What they really miss is: US support holds israel back
Few Israelis believe any lives of their children (now serving as soldiers) should be sacrificed to protect Palestinian civilians (who largely support Hamas)
American aid is leverage to force degree of Israeli moderation
@baexploitation
The first historically recorded pogrom was in Alexandria Egypt around 2000 yrs ago
In the Jewish tradition we commemorate earlier attempts at genocide by Persians and ancient Egyptians.
@shadihamid
When your whole worldview is clouded by your fidelity to your tribal & generational hatred of yahoods, I suppose the outlook of others, not lost in that cloud, may be surprising
@shadihamid
The apparent Arab American outrage at the extremely moderate/ middle of the road policy (support Israel’s effort to remove Hamas from power while ensuring aid and pauses for civilians & insisting on 2ss) is something to behold
This is an extremely critical point
There was mass immigration into the land during late ottoman & mandatory times. More of it was Arab than Jewish
But no one calls the Arab immigrants colonizers simply bc they were Muslim
While they call us colonizers wherever we go
Palis could have arrived from Bosnia during the Ottoman Empire and still be "indigenous," but if they're Jews who fled there at that time, they're "colonizers." But Jews are always "white colonizers," whether we are Yemenite or Ashkenazim who look like Jeff Goldblum. 1/2
Note: it wasn't "tragic inaction" and it wasn't the american public
it was an antisemitic president, for whom people have been making tired excuses now for almost a century, who went so far as to actively intervene to make it harder for jews to escape to OTHER (not US) countries
It was 80 years ago today—on the eve of Yom Kippur—that a group of over 400 Orthodox Rabbis marched on Washington, petitioning Congress and the President to take action as the horrifying reality of the Final Solution became apparent.
The “Rabbis March” symbolizes Washington's
The people of Gaza are looking into the abyss.
I urge the Security Council to spare no effort to push for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, for the protection of civilians & the urgent delivery of lifesaving aid.
@amyklobuchar
@TheFreedomFan
JFK wrote his book "profiles in courage" about people who RESISTED the mob. 70 years later, democrats want us to believe courage is FEEDING The mob
@DailyCaller
@marcorubio
It’s cute the way people like cuomo imagine themselves as speaking truth to power instead of being (what they are) the malign power that could benefit from hearing a little truth
Key point:
When Ashkenazi Jews call college Hamasniks “Nazis”, we are making an analogy:
They want to do to us what the Nazis did to our families
But for Persian Jews, these agitators are agents of PRECISELY the same regime that violently ethnically cleansed their families
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It’s very gross the way the totally not antisemitic manhattan DA chooses not to prosecute antisemites who abuse and harass Jews in the streets & places of business (among a long list of other crimes), but has a happy trigger finger when it comes to prosecuting Jews
@BriannaWu
What is your evidence that it is “the fringe”?
The fact that your mentions are “nothing but” suggests it may not be much of a fringe, and rather that those who want peace are the fringe
christopher hitchens worked really hard at alienating and being hated by literally everyone, he would've been in awe of the effortless, natural ease by which david brooks accomplishes the same feat.
@Wendy_Pearlman
As a normal human being, with a modicum of moral compass, decency and integrity, I’ll add:
You perhaps do have to slanderously accuse Jews of genocide (knowingly encouraging those who want to genocide Jews) to hold down a job as a professor of Middle East politics these days
Think about this for a second:
While we (ADL eg) was protesting trumps “Muslim ban” & promoting hijabi visibility & our ppl were running from interfaith dialogue group to interfaith dialogue group they were silently seething w vicious hostility towards us
THE WHOLE DAMN TIME
Sobering convos I'm having with many Muslim and Arab friends of my generation. 20 years ago, our elders felt betrayed and shocked. They did everything right and this country turned on them overnight and saw them as "terrorists."
My generation leveled up. First to become
@shadihamid
Leaving Hamas in power violates any acceptable moral calculus
The claim that israel is indifferent is a libel: it gave ample notice
As the choices appear to be the large scale killing of human shields or leaving Hamas in power, it’s you who are defending the indefensible
My father and former Harvard Hillel director, Bernie Steinberg, just wrote an op-ed on "the cynical weaponization of antisemitism by powerful forces who seek to intimidate and ultimately silence legitimate criticism of Israel"
Days after CAIR leader Zahra Billoo delivered an incitement speech against American Jews at an AMP convention and called Jews "enemies," Democrats
@RepCori
&
@RepAndreCarson
will speak at CAIR's virtual banquet and
@Ilhan
will accept an award.
Disgusting.
At this point there is no way to believe it was a mistake or misunderstanding by the FBI
They knew they were lying: Intentionally gaslighting the American Jewish community on the heels of an antisemitic terrorist attack
We deserve to know why
since BOSTON MASSACRE is trending it worth remembering that our 2nd POTUS, John Adams, built his reputation defending the British soldiers accused of it
Today he would be disbarred for doing so by the Salem Witchhunters who run our country.
American “antizionists” are now outing themselves unambiguously as the murderous bloodthirsty Nazis they’ve always been
How will mainstream American institutions respond?
It’s only a matter of time before they are putting up someone on msnbc to explain to us that free and fair and timely elections are literal white supremacy
hi martin!
just rt-ing this to remind you that a 29 year old yeshiva of far rockaway alum managed to accomplish more in a year than you have in a career. have a nice day!
If Avi Berkowitz is
@jdgreenblatt45
‘s replacement it’s a considerable downgrade in the position. He’s Kushner’s 29-year-old assistant. Nice guy but does not have the weight or experience of Trump’s former real estate lawyer.
But the envisioned scenario also draws comparisons to Hezbollah’s position in Lebanon, where the terror group is not formally part of the government, but holds massive influence over its decision-making and is the most powerful military force in the country. (13/18)
so i'm back from twitter jail for making a shakespeare joke
apparently
@jack
is of the view that western civilization is all just a dog whistle for white supremacy or some such
Until the speaker is elected:
➡️The house committees can't form.
➡️Members can not be sworn in to start the new session.
➡️The rest of the business is stalled out.
➡️America loses.
Sin/war et al appear to have been proven correct in their assessment that the intl community is so deeply antisemitic that the best way to convince them that they deserves a state to run is simply to mass murder and rape Jews at an unprecedented scale
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this sentiment is 🤮
10/7 was not just a terrorist attack, it was a declaration of war akin to japan attacking peal harbor
what we are seeing now in Gaza must end, but it can only end w hamas' unconditional surrender
But what is really vile about hayes' argument is...
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.
@chrislhayes
: “There is no terrorist attack, no matter how horrific—and truly Oct. 7 was horrific—that can wash clean what we are seeing in Gaza and what we as Americans and our government are abetting. It must end. We must stop it.”
@MassarahMikati
@PhillyInquirer
She was fired for being antisemitic, reviewing her tweets makes clear she went beyond “pro-Palestine”
Theres a conversation to be had about whether ppl, in which sorts of jobs, should be fired for being racist or antisemitic
But antisemites don’t get to define antisemitism
Using the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is now being prosecuted in Germany as a criminal offense punishable by imprisonment of up to 3 years or a fine
@abierkhatib
@ShehabAgency
Yes. Definitely. It’s definitely disgusting that refugees from the 1979 Islamic revolution and it’s aftermath protest against that murderous regime.
one clear marker of the complete lack of concern for jewish lives in american politics is that 75 years later we are still arguing over truman's decision to bomb hiroshima & nagasaki but don't think twice about fdr's choice to leave the train tracks to auschwitz running
It’s important to understand why the left are doing this
It’s obv not to win support
It’s bc they are accelerationists who want to collapse society into violent rubble upon which they can build their utopia
They WANT some middle American to see this & shoot a random Muslim kid
@WajahatAli
flip side is ofc 20 yrs ago Jewish Americans thought Muslim Americans were reasonable — we could dialogue / coexistence was possible / we weren’t headed to a European style outcome — now we know — you are saying it out loud — they were seething w hatred against us the whole time
I’ve been thinking about the privilege embedded in this tweet
Jews are 15m ppl surrounded by billions who want to murder us all
Whatever our views of what israel is doing we cant blithely sidestep the question — the lives of our families depend on it
To Kristof it’s just words
I get this question regularly, and I acknowledge that Israel faced a difficult challenge: It was hard to target Hamas without risking civilians. But my answer is: what I would not do is kill 31,000 people in Vancouver, including 12,500 children, and starve the entire population.
The Washington Post is reporting a BOMBSHELL from the Biden admin. The US is offering Israel a deal as follows: in exchange for Israel ending the Rafah operation and not continuing further, the US will give Israel “specific and high quality” intelligence that will help the IDF
The issue here is not Israel
The issue here is every would be friend of the United States — if israel has concluded that reliance on US is self defeating, what conclusion will Saudi Arabia, India, Japan and Taiwan draw?
Israel is quietly ending reliance on US-made weapons in the wake of the Biden WH's pressure in the Gaza war.
The IDF is moving away from the M-4 to an Israeli version by mid-2025.
It's also creating a production line for 1-ton bombs for the IAF, currently supplied by the US. >
I appreciate the sentiment and it’s easy for me to say but this is wrong
Jews shouldn’t take off our Kippahs
We shouldn’t disappear
We cant win a war being fought on tik tok if we aren’t in the video
Columbia/Barnard Rabbi tells his Jewish students to go home -university can’t keep them safe. I can’t believe this is happening.
—
Dear Yavneh,
What we are witnessing in and around campus is terrible and tragic. The events of the last few days, especially last night, have made
mark down the people cheering the ICJ order to deport hundreds of thousands of jews from their generational homes in the west bank for when they become outraged when trump starts deporting people who have been in this country for three years
you want to complain about how pride parades sexualize children that’s fine by me
But let’s not pretend that’s where the problem started
This is the sort of entertainment we’ve been happily mass pushing on tweenage girls for decades
End this & drag story hour disappears
@RichardGrenell
For a generation, each and every US Ambassador - career dipomat or political appointee alike - enjoyed his post as a highly respected figure and trusted friend of Germany. Now someone dared put the interests of The American People first
#maga
(1/6) We have 234 pages of sworn affidavits under penalty of perjury alleging election irregularities from just ONE county in Michigan
ALLEGATIONS:
➡️ EYEWITNESS saw batch of ballots, 60% had SAME signature
➡️ EYEWITNESS saw ballot batch scanned 5 times
Fwiw I’m fine with this
The US absolutely should issue visa bans against extremists
Including — and perhaps starting with — the Nazis angrily chasing Jewish students around American college campuses
🚨BREAKING: Biden says the U.S. is prepared to impose sanctions on Israeli settlers who are involved in attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank.
🚨Why it matters: This is a big deal. It's the 1st time the U.S. is publicly considering individual sanctions against settlers
Back of napkin math:
There were about 150k Orthodox Jews at the israel rally in DC
There are about 750k Orthodox Jews in America
~20% of all Orthodox Jews in America were there 🔥 🔥 🔥
we are being told that 85+% of registered WI voters voted.
I thought it might be a fun game to read excerpts of Kagan's jeremiad dissent in the WI late voting case, but add "and yet 85+% of registered WI voters voted" to the end of every sentence.
For months, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar thought he had "the Israelis right where we want them," as he told
@WSJ
.
But the tide has turned — the walls are closing in on Hamas, and Saturday's Deif strike came at the perfect time. 🧵