IDK if most people get how much alignment & connection there is between the Nazis who broke into the Capitol yesterday, and elected officials & political figures in the
@GOP
.
The Nazis are out of the Capitol. Their enablers & allies still hold political & government power.
I do not understand how anyone can watch thousands of people suddenly lose their jobs in the middle of a pandemic and still believe that health insurance should be tied to employment.
Protestors are currently trapped on the Manhattan Bridge. NYPD will not let them off on either end.
We have seen how violent the police are willing to be with protestors, without provocation. All eyes on this bridge.
Just a reminder that Aziz Ansari's career is fine. Mike Tyson's career is fine. Sean Penn's career is fine. Woody Allen's career is fine. Kobe Bryant's career is fine. Stop talking about how women are "ruining these men's careers." We've seen very few careers actually ruined.
.
@MeghanMcCain
how dare you suggest that
@IlhanMN
is in some way responsible for the murder of our people when the Poway shooter’s manifesto showed his penchant for violent Islamophobia and antisemitism alike. We know who is killing us. How dare you.
I don’t just co-sign this. Progressive Jews have BEEN saying this since Miller first stepped on the scene. Stephen Miller’s own uncle has said this.
@ilhan
is stating basic fact.
19-yr-old Josh Williams is currently in prison serving out his 8-yr sentence for his role as a youth leader during the Ferguson Uprising. I love how much the nation is rallying behind the Parkland teens. I wish the nation had and would also rally behind youth like Josh.
#FreeJosh
Tessa Thompson should not have had to apologize for speaking out and speaking the truth. Lena Dunham doesn't deserve credit for work she didn't do, and she certainly hasn't earned anything close to this apology from a Black woman who actually did the work.
How many Nazis have to name that Ben Shapiro was among those who inspired then before Ben starts facing facts? I get that it’s hard to hear that Nazis were inspired by you but as an islamophobic western chauvanist once said, facts don’t care about your feelings.
I’m not going to share that appalling Ben Shapiro video.
What I will say is this: the combination of an empathy deficit and sheer idiocy should neither be rewarded with power or attention. He’s trolling on purpose and he’s using women and survivors to do it
Democratic leadership was so quick to censure
@IlhanMN
in the name of combating antisemitism, but they’re silent in the face of Islamophobic and racist attacks and death threats against her.
It’s shameful.
Here is a picture of Trump 2020 campaign staffer, former Fox News Host, and
@DonaldJTrumpJr
’s girlfriend,
@kimguilfoyle
with Jovi Val, who has graduated from Proud Boy to literal Nazi.
.
@womensmarch
just took the Capitol. Women, survivors, and allies walked straight past the police, climbed over barricades, and sat down on the Capitol steps.
It was hard not do feel depleted this morning. But I don’t anymore. This was inspiring. We’re ready for this.
If you want to be an ally to Jews in this moment, start by educating yourself about antisemitism. Here’s a thread of resources to get you started.
Please read them. Believe us when we say we saw this coming because the extremists have always put us high at the top of their list.
When southern white women accused Black men of assault, they knew those men would be lynched.
When white women call the cops on Black people just living their lives, we should know the people we’re reporting might be killed. We are complicit.
#ConfrontWhiteWomanhood
A young black father was listening to music in his own garage.
A white woman called the cops because the music was "too loud."
Cops showed up and killed him.
The jury awarded the family $4.
Yes, $4.
White House appointee & former
@RepMattGaetz
staffer Darren Beattie is a white supremacist. While Nazis were storming the Capitol, Darren was telling Black people to “take a knee to MAGA” and “learn their proper place in society.”
Every time someone positions Jewish safety and Palestinian freedom as in conflict with each other, we’re all made less safe. That goes for people dismissing the real antisemitism we’re seeing, and it sure as hell goes for the press secretary for the US President saying this.
The White House just compared “anti-Israel protesters” — the phrase used by the Fox News reporter in his question — to the white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville.
If only
@MeghanMcCain
would use her concern for the safety of Jews to take on white Christian antisemitism instead of weaponizing us and our deaths against a progressive Muslim politician.
Any news network choosing to put
@MeghanMcCain
on air to talk about antisemitism in the U.S. is slapping the American Jewish community in the face. We can speak for our damn selves.
Over and over we see people simply pretending Leftist Jews do not exist because we’re an inconvenience to their narrative. The past 6 months have made it undeniable: American Jews are not united on Israel/Palestine — we’re on both sides of every protest. Report that.
This is not “protecting Judaism under civil rights law.” This is using Jews and Judaism as a shield to go after Palestinians and anti-authoritarian professors and student activists. We’re
#NotYourShield
,
@realDonaldTrump
.
While
@GOPLeader
directs islamophobic attacks at
@RashidaTlaib
&
@IlhanMN
in the name of “defending” Jews, never forget that he tweeted out antisemitic conspiracy theories about George Soros after Soros was targeted in an attempted bombing.
#NotInOurName
"A good Christian boy."
How did the false claim that O'Shae Sibley's killer was Muslim get reported & repeated so widely? Think about who benefitted from trying to reframe the murder of O'Shae as a manifestation of specifically '*Muslim* homophobia.'
I think now is a good time for non-Jews on the left to stop making jokes about waiting for their Soros checks and instead to acknowledge the Soros conspiracy as antisemitism and commit to advocating against it.
Protestors have been let off the bridge! It’s important we all know this happened and hold the NYPD and
@NYCMayor
accountable for it. It’s also important we make sure people hear the updates so no one, especially loved ones of those protesting, is left panicking.
For reference: this is Jovi Val, on the left posing in front of a swastika and giving the Nazi salute, and on the right in his proud boys hat with
@kimguilfoyle
, Trump 2020 campaign staffer and
@DonaldJTrumpJr
’s girlfriend.
Neo-Nazi Jovi Val is supporting the Proud Boys at their Trump Tower rally today.
The Proud Boys claim Jovi left after speaking at Unite the Right 2, but if that's the case, why is he still wearing their hat?
Philosemitism doesn’t help Jews.
Attacking Muslims doesn’t help Jews.
Pretending it’s not the right-wing killing us doesn’t help Jews.
Pretending anything short of murder isn’t worth speaking out against doesn’t help Jews.
Obscuring different threats facing us doesn’t help Jews.
The gross statement that eugenics could “work” also ignores the fact that as soon as you talk about identifying “superior” or “desirable” traits, you ARE applying an ideology of some sort. But men like Dawkins think they’ve transcended ideology and only operate in facts 🙄
It’s one thing to deplore eugenics on ideological, political, moral grounds. It’s quite another to conclude that it wouldn’t work in practice. Of course it would. It works for cows, horses, pigs, dogs & roses. Why on earth wouldn’t it work for humans? Facts ignore ideology.
This
@ColumbusPolice
officer said he high-fived an armed Proud Boy harassing & families at a canceled Drag Queen Story Hour because he "complimented him on his mustache" & "to build relationships," in case you're still wondering who cops sympathize with.
Just so we are all clear: the reason that Bari Weiss gives Gina Carano the benefit of the doubt while having never extended that to
@lsarsour
@IlhanMN
@marclamonthill
and so many others comes down to anti-Black racism, anti-Palestinian racism, and Islamophobia.
That’s it.
The scare tactic about accusations "recklessly" "ruining careers" indicates that the unlikely outcome of a ruined career is of greater concern than the prevalence of sexual assault. But you know, thanks for making your priorities clear.
Gotta say, I think we should all feel pretty concerned a about
@NYCMayor
stating he doesn't believe in the separation of church & state, advocating for prayer in schools, and stating that he walks with and answers to God. He isn't just saying kooky things...he's pro-theocracy.
Looks like the NYPD just gave a bunch of zoomers & influencers firsthand knowledge of just how brutal policing is, how easily they’ll violate people’s rights, and why they need to be defunded.
I’m an American Jew who believes in the promise of democracy and that Jewish safety is found through solidarity. I believe kids don’t belong in cages, my body is my choice, that trans women are women, that Black lives matter, and that no one is illegal.
#AmIDisloyal
?
The parking lot.
The front doors.
The street.
We’ve blocked every entrance to ICE headquarters in DC because
#JewsAgainstICE
won’t stay silent while immigrants are targeted, rounded up, and put in camps.
#NeverAgainIsNow
This entire thread is a must-read. None of these right-wingers care about Jews. They care about using us as a cudgel against progressive leaders of color.
And that is incredibly dangerous.
No political party is free of antisemitism, just like no political party or movement is free of misogyny/racism/homophobia.
But we all have to be able to admit, without hesitation, that only one political party is quite literally inciting white nationalists to kill us.
This entire piece is sickening, but this quote is worth pulling out because of what it makes clear: to Kurtzer, Israeli lives are precious, Palestinian lives are not. Harm to Israelis in the future is more dire than the ongoing ethnic cleansing of 2 million Palestinians. Sick.
I promise you that the people calling for a world without policing and prisons have thought so much more about what that entails and looks like than the people arguing otherwise have
What a perfect demonstration of the unholy alliance Jewish establishment orgs that prioritize support for Israel above all else have made with outright antisemites. Antisemitism is completely fine, as long as it's from someone silencing any dissenting voices about Israel.
.
@Andy_Levin
on msnbc just now: interfaith leaders including at least one imam are on the ground in Colleyville to provide support and deescalation however they can.
Grateful for the reminder that Jews aren’t alone as we pray for everyone’s safety. Fear & hate won’t divide us.
This is essentially what the Nazis in Charlottesville said when they chanted “Jews will not replace us.”
White nationalist fears of a shrinking white population always includes a conspiracy theory about a shadowy puppeteer pulling the strings. And they almost always mean Jews.
Not only is this a bald-faced lie; it’s also especially galling when you consider that the groups that organized this anti-war protest also organized to help elect Democrats in 2020 in order to stave off fascism. And this is how they’re repaid.
For people asking: so far it seems like folks are relatively okay. It should surprise absolutely none of us that this happened.
If this is what they’re willing to do to a predominantly white group of people in public, imagine what they’re willing to do to the POC trapped inside.
@amornetwork
@CosechaMovement
@FangCollective
@Fuerza_Laboral
BREAKING: Here is HD video of an ICE guard driving his truck into us as we sat peacefully blocking the Wyatt Detention Center.
We’re putting our bodies on the line because we see the camps and the roundups. We’ve learned from our ancestors: NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE.
@Liz_Cheney
Your incessant attempts to weaponize Jews is antisemitic,
@Liz_Cheney
. Your party’s embrace of Nazis like
@SebGorka
and
@SteveKingIA
is antisemitic. Your decision to speak for us an dehumanize us into rhetorical devices, not people, is antisemitic.
YOU are the problem.
Here’s
@KLoeffler
with Chester Doles, a former KKK leader. He nearly beat a Black man to death in 1993. He marched in Charlottesville in 2017. He leads a white supremacist group, and has also been photographed with
@mtgreenee
, who refused to denounce him:
Hitler became chancellor via political appointment. The Nazi party was a political party. The Nazis arrested and murdered political prisoners. The decision to target Jews was a political one.
The. Holocaust. Was. Political.
So much is happening so fast. It’s very easy to get swept up in mis- and outdated info.
People are risking their lives marching for their lives. It’s scary for them & their loved ones. Record & share what’s happening. Check times, dates. Blur faces. Keep calm, keep people safe.
This is the “liberal” who
@AOC
@JamaalBowmanNY
& the Squad were criticized for not attending his speech to congress. Critics claimed they didn’t ‘get it,’ that he was an opponent of Netanyahu & therefore they should embrace him? They get it better than most. They have for a while
Here’s “liberal” Israeli President Herzog writing a dedication on an Israeli missile that will be fired into Gaza — where 70% of casualties are women and children.
On Oct 13, he suggested civilians are legitimate targets: “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible.”
To folks claiming that naming Joe Biden‘s creepy behavior is somehow “handing” the election to Trump—you know Biden isn’t the candidate, right? He hasn’t even officially declared yet. A lot of other people, including highly qualified women, have.
Reminder that today’s “
@IlhanMN
vs Jews” story (a narrative we are all too eager to believe) was sparked by
@GOPLeader
— who employed blatant antisemitism in his 2018 re-election campaign — using Jews as a cudgel to go after two Muslim Congresswomen.
White nationalism in action.
While Jews were shot for being Jewish by an armed white man this weekend,
@realDonaldTrump
— who has emboldened white nationalists and incited white nationalist violence — spoke at the
@NRA
convention to advocate for more guns for more white men.
He is to blame.
Thoughts and prayers to all of those affected by the shooting at the Synagogue in Poway, California. God bless you all. Suspect apprehended. Law enforcement did outstanding job. Thank you!
I gasped several times while watching this video. The cruelty of these
@ICEgov
agents is horrifying. There’s no reforming this. This is the agency’s entire purpose.
THIS is why we say
#NeverAgainIsNow
. THIS is why we need to
#ShutDownICE
.
‘Jewish power’ in the contemporary U.S. comes from Jewish proximity to whiteness / the fact that most Jews are white and Jews in general are thought of as white.
But it gets *noticed* because of our Jewishness — the thing that makes us distinct, different, marginalized.
“pro-life” legislation isn’t about life just like rape isn’t about sex.
At their core, they’re both about power over and control of someone else’s body.
1/ I’m sure antisemitic things have been said by people in/near the encampment. There will always be those who try to inject their own hateful message into a public action—and they get disproportionately amplified as representative by ppl who oppose & want to smear the movement.
Unlike
@realDonaldTrump
,
@IlhanMN
is actually qualified for the job and position she holds. It’s outrageous that this president who has fomented so much antisemitism himself would dare to escalate his islamophobic attacks in Jews’ names.
Jewish progressives: We MUST speak out.
This is just such a complete and utter lie from someone who has done more than most Republican members of congress to mainstream the neo-Nazis who swarmed the Capitol today. Remember: Gaetz met and praised Enrique Tarrio, who was arrested in DC Monday carrying high-capacity mags.
Holy shit. Matt Gaetz just said, "some of the people who breached the Capitol today were not Trump supporters, they were masquerading as Trump supporters and in fact were members of the violent terrorist group antifa."
.
@SenatorCollins
and her fellow rape apologists have sent the message that white boys and men can do whatever they want to our bodies — assault us, rape us, abuse us — and that they can lie lie lie about it, and not a damn thing will happen to them. They’ll be rewarded for it.
Eric Adams & Kathy Hochul love NYC so much that they’re cutting funding from NYC’s public university, CUNY.
Eric Adams loves NYC so much that he’s also inflicting reckless budget cuts on NYC’s libraries & public schools & pretty much every city agency that isn’t the NYPD or DOC.
The city’s comeback from the COVID-19 pandemic now has a slogan: “We Love NYC.”
A new campaign launched by Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul earlier today aims to promote the arts, culture and business of the city.
That image of
#GeorgeFloyd
is horrifying. What makes it even more horrifying is how familiar it is.
We've seen it so many times before. And the cops in those images with their knees and hands and arms around Black men's necks—choking the life out of them—always get away with it.
I'm sorry, Chadwick, you are an intentionally inflammatory racist, and an embarrassment to LGBTQ+ folks who know that these struggles aren't disparate, but deeply connected & shared. Please make like a confederate statue & get off your pedestal & go away.
Signed,
Queer People
I think part of why so many lawmakers take
@IlhanMN
’s criticism of “western” countries as a personal affront is tied to the fact that she was a refugee. They think her takeaway from that trauma should be gratitude—to them, to the ‘West’—not the takeaway that all war is horrific.
This is the most-watched “news” network in the US & this is the kind of Islamophobic vitriol that gets fed to people every night by white nationalists like Tucker who hate that a Muslim woman refugee has a positon of power, wants to redistribute wealth, & won’t cower before him.
Tucker Carlson: Rep. Ilhan Omar "passionately hates the country," "can a single human being actually be as loathsome as Ilhan Omar is? It's hard to believe. She's like a parody of repulsiveness"
The president is tweeting “wanted” pics of people accused of tearing down racist statues. All while making it clear he thinks such actions are treasonous/anti-American/merit extreme punishment.
He’s going to get people killed. I cannot overstate how scared I am for these folks.
Yeah...this turned out to be some Chabad guys overzealously offering a Jewish woman some Shabbat candles. So she called the cops on them. Spreading this needlessly fuels fear and suspicion among Jews, about other Jews.
Great job fighting antisemitism, guys!
#RazanAlNajjar
was a 21-year-old volunteer paramedic. The IDF shot + killed her for tending to wounded Palestinians on the Gaza border.
This is the cost of the occupation. This is the cost of a hyper-nationalist militarized vision of Jewish safety. It's not worth it. Nothing is.
It’s been 7 years since the first Muslim ban. 22 years since the rise of post-9/11 Islamophobia. Absolutely disgusting to see how quick people in power are to demonize Muslim women, throw them to the wolves, join in the pile-on.
Not in my name, hell no.
He didn't commit a crime but he did violate her and pressure her beyond what she consented to. That's assault.
No, it's not the same as what Weinstein did but it's still wrong, still a violation and still needs to be called out. Thread continues here:
I'm not asking for men like Aziz Ansari to get fired. I'm not asking for their lives or careers to be over. I'm asking for a little accountability of the harm they've caused. That's it. And yet I've never really seen any man do that.
It’s by no means surprising that Darren Beattie would praise Nazis taking over the U.S. Capitol — he praised Nazis marching in Berlin this past summer:
Hard to get more obvious about your support for white supremacy than calling a march supported by neo-Nazis "beautiful."
Again, Darren Beattie works for
@mattgaetz
, a member of Congress.
We have literally trapped DHS officers on the street outside the employee parking garage. We’re chanting “there are no excuses for human rights abuses.”
#ShutDownICE
#NeverAgainAction
Non-Jews: An important thing to know right now is that Jews are feeling v anxious that Jared Kushner will be the primary scapegoat. We know he deserves to go down—we want him to be stripped of power & held accountable. What's scary is what will come next.
I’m tired of our movements not taking antisemitism seriously. It’s not okay. It is taking a toll on me and on all Jewish people on the left. We are tired and heartbroken.
I’m not okay with how quick we are to discard Black women, who our movements have abused for so long.
Trump has been spewing the same antisemitic garbage for years. He did it during his campaign. He’s done it throughout his presidency. The question is: why has it gotten so little attention at a time when the GOP is openly trying to smear Democrats as the party of antisemitism?
Trump, speaking to the Israeli American Council: "You're not nice people at all, but you have to vote for me. You have no choice. You're not going to vote for Pocahontas, I can tell you that. You're not going to vote for the wealth tax!"
Every single journalist who asked Democratic members of Congress to comment on Ilhan should be asking every single person in
@GOP
leadership — and every single GOP member of Congress — to respond to the president’s statement that 80% of American Jews are disloyal.
This is point-blank, unavoidably, intentionally antisemitic.
The degree to which the antisemitism coming from this
@WhiteHouse
has been ignored, minimized, smoothed over, and denied is appalling. We need more people — Jews and non-Jews alike — speaking out against this.
This ICE employee, who called a
@CosechaMovement
member a “little bitch,” wanted me to know that his grandchildren are Jewish.
Invoking your Jewish grandchildren to excuse your work terrorizing other people’s grandchildren is sickening.
#ShutDownICE
#JewsAgainstICE