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Three years ago I told my non-Jewish friends they could sit this one out. I take it back. 3 years later, I’m afraid I have a different message for you.
I wrote an open letter about what being Jewish has felt like since October 7, and I need you to hear it from me.
No one asks Greeks to believe in Zeus before accepting that they descend from ancient Greece.
Jews, however, don’t get that courtesy.
In our first guest monologue, @rootsmetals explains the double standard, and why Greece’s diaspora-funded independence is never called colonialism.
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Lewis Hamilton, the Formula 1 driver and Kim Kardashian's boyfriend, visited the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing this week, shown around by the governor of North Sinai. He wrote that he saw walls stretching for miles, built to keep Gazans in, and in the post to his 44M followers he blamed Israel.
Except those walls are Egyptian. Egypt razed the homes of their own people near the border to make room for them, and reinforced them during the war so that Palestinians fleeing the fighting could not cross into Sinai.
He stood in the country that built the wall, next to the official who runs the province it sits in, and never thought to ask who put up the wall or why.
He's not wrong about aid and how Palestinians need it, but advocacy sort of loses its efficiency when you show that you are either entirely ignorant about the situation or lying to feed a narrative.
Oh and Shawn Mendes reposted it too. I guess fact-checking is for a bygone era.
It’s almost as if scapegoating Jews to score political points is a strategy demagogues have used for centuries with great success.
When they say "Israeli food doesn't exist," they really mean "Israel doesn't exist."
As a “Boycott Ride” targets his Philly restaurants today, @mike_solomonov on who invented hummus and whether Israel appropriated Palestinian food.
Today in Philly (my home away from home), hundreds lined up for falafel and burgers to show Jewish owners they’re not alone.
That’s how you answer anti-Jew hate: you show more pro-Jew love!
They’re riding again next Sunday... Well, the Eagles are on bye, so there will be plenty of hungry Philadelphians ready to rock out.
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The worst-performing Democrats in competitive Senate races were the candidates Bernie endorsed. (link in next tweet, no paywall)
“These Zionist establishments must go!”
Schlesinger’s is a Jewish deli in Philly owned by an American Jew. Activists still put it on a list of “Zionist establishments” that “must go,” with a bike rally on the eve of Kristallnacht.
They keep telling us “Zionist” doesn’t mean Jew. Then they make the list.
Israel’s Arab-led parties won 19 Knesset seats.
Today all of them backed Gadi Eisenkot to form the next government, giving him 67 endorsements to Netanyahu’s 46.
Arab voters and lawmakers are playing a big role in shaping Israeli society.
Remember these facts the next time someone tries to hit you with the apartheid libel. It’s simply not true.
If you want to understand the way people think and talk about Jews (it’s not good), check out the replies to this. Despite being less than 3% of the country, we are somehow always to blame for every bad thing that happens to it.
History doesn’t repeat itself, but Jews know the pattern: inequality rises, populism grows, someone gets blamed.
@Mosheh on the Israel-aid myth spreading this campaign season, and why his kids now grow up with synagogue security he never needed.
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Jewish Democrats are hopeful today that with U.S. funding to Israel ending and AIPAC politically diminished and no longer funding candidates, the hatred will stop.
Here in Canada we have no AIPAC equivalent, and our funding to Israel is insignificant.
The hatred is worse.
Full episode streaming NOW on Being Jewish with Jonah Platt: youtu.be/X1rKREwJZLY?si=cnqN…
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Jews have voted Democratic for generations. But a lot of us feel the party doesn’t want us back.
Joel Rubin's @JoelMartinRubin warning to his own party: you win elections by addition. If Democrats lose the Jewish vote, who replaces it?
Even though he didn’t make The Ad, El Sayed still told the anti-Jew conspiracy/control lie, repeatedly: “Israel controls the US. Israel makes your life less affordable.” Both lies.
When you use Israel as a boogeyman to foment hate and mistrust of Jews via the Jewish state, that is Jew hate in the form of antizionism. The Soviets “condemned antisemitism” all the time and still killed over a million “Zionists.”
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Over the past months, a single Wikipedia editor has been quietly shaping @AbdulElSayed's entry.
The editing has been intensive and highly directed. For example:
+ Hasan Piker controversy got cut down.
+ Syed's antisemitism problem – deleted.
+ Harris and Obama endorsements went in.
+ A line saying AIPAC’s brand is “toxic” included.
Is it an op?
Well, two weeks ago the same editor had this to say in an edit summary on the El-Sayed page:
“another half month of this shit.”
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A lifelong Democrat explains why he won’t back his party’s Senate nominee in Michigan.
@JoelMartinRubin on Abdul El-Sayed, Israel aid, and the Temple Israel attack. Michigan votes tomorrow.
What should a candidate have to show Jewish voters before earning their vote?
