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Director of Special Projects, SDUSA. Opinions are my own. Exploring strange new temperaments...

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@CaptainRanz
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1 year
@AviMayer No one should listen to a call for help from a defender of apartheid.
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@GoldsteinBrooke Hey Brooke, did you know there were black lawyers in apartheid South Africa? One of them was named Nelson Mandela.
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@mistermaster381 @MiddleEastEye The IDF talk like Nazis, that is why.
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@mstrofdsastrs @Eugheughlauhhh "If Clinton would have won, the Supreme Court wouldn’t be majority right wing." Really? Vice President Tim Kaine would like to have a word with you.
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@AviMayer What - no mention of rapes or beheadings all of a sudden?
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@drill_josh Slowly, but surely, you will know what it's like to be a Palestinian.
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@HellsBellsNJ @rafaelshimunov Yes, and it was Hamas who was the second gunman at Dealey plaza on November 22, 1963 the day JFK was shot.
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@BMarchetich Wherever they say "first responders", read "Zaka".
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@GoldsteinBrooke All this coming from someone who says Palestinians don't exist.
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@CarlaRK3 @babadookspinoza Possibly because they voted for Meretz, an opposition party.
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@Matador_X6 @JamesEFoster And he was a member of Hamas!!
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@MovieMinuteMike @Jeopardy It was a brilliant episode of Celebrity Jeopardy, and I'm rooting for Wil to go all the way! Or as we Sheldons like to say, "WHEATON!!!!!!"
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@ClayCampaigne @aaronjmate The NYT pushed the WMD myth during the Iraq War, so why not this as well.
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@EinatWilf You distort, as usual. The uprising's leadership was half-Zionist. Anielewicz and Tzukerman represented Hashomer Hatzair and Habonim; the other half were the Bund (Marek Edelman) and the Communists.
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@MZANSIISRAEL @YosephHaddad (1/2) Contrary to hasbara, Mandela called out Israel as a terrorist state: "“If one has to refer to any of the parties as a terrorist state, one might refer to the Israeli government, because they are the people who are slaughtering defenseless and innocent Arabs in the occupied
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@SaraHirschhorn1 Israel commits the crime of apartheid daily, so yeah, the world is paying attention.
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@AlvaroSilva1906 Did anyone consult with the Jews to see what they wanted? Dd they want such a state? Or do concepts like self-determination not apply to them?
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@rafaelshimunov Actually, Israel broke the ceasefire in question the day before, when it withdrew many of its troops from the Gaza border and transferred them to the West Bank to assist the settlers in the pogrom against the Palestinians in Huwara.
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@haaretzcom So when is Haaretz going to apologize to Max Blumenthal?
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@jh_swanson Ditto with the Nakba and the Palestinians!
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@CarlaRK3 @babadookspinoza The hostages were taken from kibbutzim near Gaza. They tend to vote for Meretz.
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@sbstryker Before tonight's Emmy ceremony, millions of viewers were not aware that Quinta is also the creator and writer of Abbott Elementary as well as its star.
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@TylerCalkins8 @mstrofdsastrs @Eugheughlauhhh Yes. After all, once she chose an anti-abortion man to be her running mate, why stop there?
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@ostrom_richard @ProudSocialist If the Azov Battalion is such a small part, why did President Zelensky take two of its members with him to a video chat with the Greek parliament, asking for more weapons?
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@AmorphousSponge @rafaelshimunov Which Jews? Not me. Only Jews who support Israeli apartheid feel uncomfortable by this flag.
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@jessiegender Boimler should sing those lyrics on Lower Decks and Mariner can laugh at him.
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@Ilhan As a supporter of yours, I'm curious why did you suddenly turn around and support military aid to Ukraine after pointing out that such aid tends to fall into the hands of neo-Nazis like the Azov Battalion?
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@anunsafespace @MairavZ What experience do you have that compares to hers?
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1 year
@kohbas_spear @muhammadshehad2 Why? Because you say so?
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@747Retired @davidsheen You mean the Israeli Jewish rapists of Deir Yassin and Tantura are fed up? As if the Palestinians who had had to endure Israeli apartheid since 1948 aren't even MORE fed up!!
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@WhimsyWithStyle @KenRoth Shall we apply that to the families of Jewish terrorists as well?
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@JakeThirteenth @_Bunchberry @yashar But she was asked to. And others DID shoot. Yasmin porat of Kibbutz Beeri witnessed the willful annihilation of 12 of her fellow Jews by the IDF.
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@HenMazzig When has Hen Mazzig ever defended Palestinians who defended themselves against an assault by either settlers or the IDF?
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@_TheBubble_ @writergeekrhw "No stories with Vulcans"? Hah! I must have imagined T'Pol (2001-2005). In TNG, Sarek and Spock both showed up.
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@StvenGoldstein If you support apartheid, you can't be progressive on anything.
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@HeidiBachram @antisemitism I've seen this documentary. It's all accusations by others who are upset with Waters. There are no public statements by Waters in the documentary that could be construed as anti-Semitic by anti-apartheid Jews.
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@JeriLRyan Hopefully, there will be room in your union-strong heart for the Palestinian people as well,
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@OurielOhayon @zei_squirrel The synagogue is named after Theodore Herzl, the founder of political Zionism.
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@JamesLawicki @DoctorLongscarf Roddenberry addressed the crowd at the 1973 NYC Star Trek convention and spoke to that (I was there). Public perception wasn't the roadblock; corporate honchos were.
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@TheTrekCentral No way the Borg can handle this:
Tweet media one
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@RossBarkan Mondaire's best bet is to make a deal with Yuh-Line: endorse her now in exchange for her support in 2024 for a run at Ritchie Torres.
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@haaretzcom Only one baby Mila Cohen was killed, from a bullet. Israeli or Hamas, it is not clear.
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@jessiegender Having Prime Lorca show up -alive - as the season-ending cliffhanger for SNW would be gloriously insane.
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@BenLorber8 I don't mean to quibble, but there are more of us than 15 million. That is a lowball estimate issued by panicky rightwingers in our community who undercount Jews of color, like Sergio della Pergola.
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@WhimsyWithStyle @KenRoth These days, it appears to be more of a redundancy, apartheid schmuck.
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@vildechayeh @Ha_Matar Not only that, but it blindly supports Israel's allegations about the rape atrocities.
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@DavidsumnerFilm @cvb654 @bothpartiessuc4 @vildechayeh You can not say that the blockade exists and at the same time argue that Israel no longer occupies Gaza. It's a contradiction. Israel in 2005 just withdrew to the perimeter of Gaza while never surrendering an inch of air or sea space.
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@HenMazzig Supporters of apartheid don't get to make suggestions to their victims about what slogans they should use.
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@aahrealbonsters Dave called out the idea of Jewish control as 'delusional' during his monologue.
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@shlumpsters @BlackRedGuard1 So the source is Tablet? Are you kidding me? That far-right mag lost their credibility years ago when they falsely accused Julia Salazar of being a fake Jew.
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@EliasANewman It was also her support for BDS which got her banned. Same reason for Ilhan Omar.
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@stuart6329 @melissaeweiss @somesayparsley Hey dumbass, Israel was committing a pogrom against Palestinians in the West Bank village of Huwara on October 6. That violated the ceasefire it had with Hamas.
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@KLCKNote @Ha_Matar Bibi said he would keep on going even if Hamas surrenders.
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@DluLevine @MariamBarghouti Israeli settlers in the Occupied Territories are no innocent civilians. They are armed, racist thugs who cheered the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
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@keller_lind @CanadianFSWC @CIJAinfo Zelensky knows. He's a fan of Stepan Bandera.
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@songsofyoni @abesilbe @PeterBeinart So the movement supports apartheid for the Palestinians, and Beinart is out of touch with that. Got it!
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@Ostrov_A Solidarity? After this?
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@jacobkornbluh @BradSherman Palestinians must have had a good laugh.
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@WolfEnt Would have been nice if this had been in the main episode - to have given Muncy's departure some real sweetness and depth.
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@RozRothstein Why would those who suffer under apartheid want peace with that apartheid state? It seems that according to you, peace means accepting apartheid.
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@StopAntisemites Just remember that Ukraine's Jewish president is cheering him as well and is a fan of Stepan Bandera.
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@marina0swald This makes you wonder if her critical role in forming the anti-porn feminist movement, which led to a split in the women's movement, was not an extension of the divide-and-conquer tactics she picked up from her CIA days.
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@realbassemeid @AOC Bassem, how is B'Tselem trying to promote anti-Semitism?
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@JerichoXVI @AvivaKlompas Beheaded babies? Really? What were their names?
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@HeidiBachram It was cancelled not because it's anti-Semitic but because it cuts through the crap as to why Corbyn's character was assassinated.
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@MatthewStadlen @septicstepic Apartheid has existed in the American Deep South as "Jim Crow", in Rhodesia as "white minority rule", in Myanmar today and in Israel since 1948 as 'hafrada', as well as in its classic form in South Africa. None of these are carbon copies of the other.
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@AviMayer But YOUR kinds of Zionists justify apartheid, Avi, That's the problem. They do stuff like lynching other Jews who help Palestinian farmers:
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@elderofziyon The fact that you consider Ali Abunimah 'subhuman' is your Bezalel Smotrich moment.
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@MairavZ Maybe the best option Hamas has to beat Israel is to sit on its hands and do nothing?
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@dmarsden20004 @TheTrekCentral You needed to have some explanation for the Supervisors - this was their second appearance in Trek, after all. The scene was a neat way to resolve a number of plot threads dangling not only from ST: Picard but from TNG and TOS in one fell swoop.
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@AvivaKlompas Since you lie so often, Aviva, why should we believe you now? Remember what happened to the boy who cried wolf...
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@BenLorber8 @ThatRedNJB Any statement needs to remind the audience that 1) Hamas was spawned by the Shamir government in the late 1980s to be a weapon against Arafat who then was close to recognizing Israel, and 2) Bibi was talking about needing to get Hamas money in 2019 to keep it at odds with the PA.
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@GoldsteinBrooke Rice Pride correctly ended its partnership with Houston Hillel because Hillel excludes pro-Palestinian groups as partners in various events. As the Vice-President of Queens College Hillel in 1981, we never did that sort of thing.
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@yddatg @McKelvieTO Multiple human rights organizations have CONFIRMED that Israel is an apartheid state/regime - Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B'Tselem, Adalah, among others.
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@OurielOhayon @zei_squirrel Herzl Ner Tamid, to be exact. Nothing dumb about that.
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@StarTrekOnPPlus I hate to be a nitpicker, but is there going to be some explanation offered as to how Starfleet already knows about the Gorn when TOS established "Arena" as the first Gorn encounter?
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@mattwilstein No, Matt, Dave did not repeat those stereotypes, he mocked them, and brilliantly so.
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@OurielOhayon @zei_squirrel Oh, sure, just because you say so, apartheid schmuck.
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@MatthewStadlen @septicstepic Not 'commmonly understood', just understood by YOU. The international definition of apartheid was established in 1998 in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and Israeli society fits in with that. See here:
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@michaeldickson Israeli apartheid targets Palestinians. Palestinian resistance targets Israel. One of these things is not like the other.
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@Project2Program @SaraHirschhorn1 It's a reflection of the growing Nazification of Israeli apartheid, as retired Israeli general Amiram Levin stated a few days ago.
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@ArielleLAngel This jerk talks about how "Ukrainians saved the Jews" just within days after awarding the "Hero of Ukraine" honor to Denis Prokopenko, commander of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion:
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@SLeeManning1952 @GarySpedding "Whatever. That was 80 years ago." Such a laid-back casual attitude toward a critical Israeli deception. But if someone were to say "Whatever. That was 94 years ago." about the Hebron Massacre, you'd be yelping like someone shoved a hot poker up where the sun don't shine.
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@Estarkmiller @JimOwles @yuhline @danielsgoldman @NYWFP The fact that a Carlina endorser is coming around to backing Yuh-Line against Goldman is encouraging.
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@JAsayuel @anniea_916 @ArielleLAngel You did say it, though. Freudian slip!
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@kohbas_spear @muhammadshehad2 Your reponses told me everything any decent person needs to know about you.
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@barrygenem @poisonisanart Prior Borg Queens were not fun. They were, at best, OK. Serviceable. But Wersching's funny. She wants to go SHOPPING with Agnes, for pete's sake!!
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@seattlejohn @LisaJoy9 @DavidCornDC No, it's not on them. You need to get a candidate nominated that does not inspire such protest votes. You were warned this would happen, but you didn't listen.
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@Mivasair Unlike the other human rights abusers, only Israel does so in my name, as a Jew. That's why it's worse.
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@paulrubens @JoeVogel_ "She wants Israel to dissolve itself & change its name to Palestine." Please document this.
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@grundrza @JoshuaParkhurst Shlomo Avineri's recent book Karl Marx is a good rebuttal to the Marx-as-anti-Semite thesis. In the first section of On the Jewish Question, Marx argued in favor of civil rights for German Jews, whereas Bauer was against.
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@SLeeManning1952 @GarySpedding As a condition for being admitted into the UN in 1949, Israel agreed to the Palestinian Right of Return (Res. 194) in May 1949. Once admitted into the General Assembly, Israel reneged on its agreement.
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@_TheBubble_ @writergeekrhw ST:TOS used contemporary human beings for its stories in "Assignment: Earth" and "Tomorrow Is Yesterday."
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@TheScorch1701 An example of Emmy insanity: in the Best Supporting Actor for Drama category, 4 nods go to Succession. 4!! Would the world have ended if 'just' 3 had gone to Succession and that other nod had gone to Todd Stashwick?
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@Buckeye_ricky @tksshawa @nytimes The documentary refutes Benny Morris - who is angry that Ben Gurion did not expel all the Palestinians - and affirms Ilan Pappe. More importantly, it supports Palestinian historians, who have always told the truth.
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