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Siamak Kordestani. Jewish Iranian American, born in Iran. @Elnetwork_EU . Before: @HouseForeign , @BradSherman , @AJCGlobal . RT/like can mean FYI not endorse.
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MUST WATCH: Bill Clinton on Israel & Hamas
"Hamas is really smart. When they decide to rocket Israel, they insinuate themselves in the hospitals, in the schools, in the highly populous areas."
“I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that…
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@NPR
I'm an Iranian-born refugee and naturalized American.
This is childishly woke, and doesn't help people of color.
The yellow emoji is the default option.
Please focus on real issues that affect Americans.
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WATCH: Imagine if
@EliseStefanik
's questioning of the university presidents was about other groups instead of "Jews." Someone did that using AI voice generation.
How much rage would there be?
Video by
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WOW!! Jonathan Greenblatt of ADL (
@JGreenblattADL
) takes down MSNBC's deep anti-Israel bias live on MSNBC.
He says what
@mehdirhasan
@AymanM
@AliVelshi
don't want you to hear: Barbarians gleefully committed rape and executions, and the American left needs to stop sanitizing it!
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🚨 Breaking: The City of Beverly Hills is projecting images of the Israeli hostages in Gaza across from the Vanity Fair Oscars party right now.
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🚨 In Beverly Hills, California, right now: a flag for every victim of the genocidal attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7.
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@m7mdkurd
You can't wipe out entire Jewish families and get away with it. This isn't 1939.
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Dear America,
In case you haven't heard, on Wed, Nov. 8, "anti-Israel" groups in Los Angeles will PROTEST A HOLOCAUST MUSEUM BECAUSE THE MUSEUM IS SHOWING RAW FOOTAGE TAKEN BY HAMAS OF HAMAS SLAUGHTERING JEWISH FAMILIES.
This is who we are dealing with.
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Since Houthi-controlled Yemen just declared war on Israel, now is a good time to remind the world that Yemen violently attacked its 50,000 strong Jewish community in 1947. They fled to Israel.
The handful that were still left in recent years were ethnically cleansed by the…
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@OzzyOsbourne
@kanyewest
Thank you Ozzy for standing up to the Jew-hater Kanye West.
Shabbat Shalom to the Prince of Darkness!!
🍷🤘🎸
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🚨 Good God. At the scene right before Jewish man Paul Kessler (now dead) was assaulted in Ventura County, California:
"Hitler should've smashed you!"
"You will burn in hell! Israel will burn in hell!"
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Can some please explain why these anti-Israel lunatics are yelling "Shame On You" at patients and staff at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City?
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Taking down posters of a Jewish hostage in front of the hostage's relative!
Lucia Mendoza, in this video, was a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion VP at her sorority.
Where does this hate and dehumanization come from?!
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@IlhanMN
"made to look bad"?
Here's one of the prominent student activists basically calling for the slaughter of American Jews October 7-style:
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I am Iranian, and I'm sick and tired of Western progressives implying that only Westerners are capable of colonialism, slavery and evil acts.
That type of thinking actively hurts non-Westerners seeking freedom under autocratic regimes.
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Some reports about pro-Palestinian students at Cal Poly Humboldt are understating the damage.
They TRASHED the university. It'll cost serious money to restore these buildings. Campus is closed until the fall.
Can the idiots supporting this explain why the university and its…
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My BUYcotting spree begins.
If it's Made in Israel, I'm buying it.
Cheers 🍷 🇮🇱
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Never forget that Hamas slaughtered Erick Peretz and his 16 year old daughter Ruth, that he loved so much, in Israel on Oct 7.
She had cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy. Who kills a teenager in a wheelchair? Evil.
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Every single neo-Nazi, Jew-hater, and antisemitic socialist on this app is about to have a total MELTDOWN.
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Erdogan is visiting the White House tomorrow.
Last time, his bodyguards savagely beat protesters including American citizens who were exercising 1st Amendment rights.
Turkey got away with this. Why? Where is the outrage and accountability? What happened to justice?
VIDEO:
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As an Iranian Jew, I'm disgusted by those on the left who weaponize the concept of "whiteness" against Ashkenazi Jews. They were mass murdered for not being "Aryan."
For the far right, Jews are not white enough. For the far left, Jews are too white. This is all antisemitism.
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Six Palestinian children killed by a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket isn't condemned by human rights groups because Jews weren't responsible and because the rocket was meant to kill Jews.
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@visegrad24
Here come the massive demonstrations in 3... 2... Actually nevermind. No Jews to blame, so no protests.
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🚨 Last night, 34 professors across California, led by UC Berkeley Professor Ron Hassner, slept in their offices to protest antisemitism on their campuses, including UCLA, Stanford, UC Irvine, UCSF, SFSU. Here are 15 of them getting ready for bed.
#FacultyVigil
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AARON BUSHNELL THOUGHT MURDERING ISRAELI CHILDREN AND MUSIC FESTIVAL ATTENDEES INCLUDING TOURISTS WAS JUSTIFIED.
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@801formal_llama
You're justifying screaming at windows with child cancer patients behind them, and you're telling *me* I need to do some soul searching?
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🚨 LOS ANGELES JEWS STAND WITH ISRAEL AT
@UCLA
🚨
We love America. So many diverse Jewish communities are here, especially my fellow Iranian Jews who experienced Islamist extremism first hand!
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I love everything about this.
"Every missile launched from Gaza and dropped on Kibbutz Kerem Shalom created a hole in the ground. Today the kindergarten children went out to plant trees in these 15 holes."
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WE WILL DANCE AGAIN
Dedicated to the Nova Music Festival survivors. At
@UCLA
.
Israel's enemies have awakened a nation of lions. You will never destroy the Jewish state.
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Dear progressives,
I am a Persian Jew. My community has 2,500 years of history in Iran.
Do not lecture me about fascism on the right if you're not also speaking out against anti-Jewish fascism throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds.
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⚡️ On
@RealTimers
with
@billmaher
, Iranian women's rights champion
@AlinejadMasih
says
@IlhanMN
and others have bullied her.
Watch her take down Ilhan Omar and Western hypocrites who claim to be "feminists."
#IranProtests2022
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🚨 Breaking: During the
#GRAMMYs
,
@RecordingAcad
President Harvey Mason Jr. honored the memory of the 364 Nova music festival attendees murdered during the genocidal attack by Hamas on October 7 in Israel. He also mentioned the hostages.
Thank you, Harvey 🙏
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HAPPENING NOW, huge protest at the Federal Building in Los Angeles.
Iranian Americans speak out against the brutal regime killing their relatives and friends:
"Down with the Islamic Republic!"
"Long Live Freedom!!"
"No More Hezbollah!"
#IranProtests
ِ
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When a Stanford student exposes a 23-year-old T.A. on campus for openly wanting to see Biden assassinated and supporting the mass murder of Jews, and then for many the villain in this situation is the author of the exposé...
Something is deeply wrong with the U.S. left.
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🚨 VIDEO OF PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS DEFACING U.S. MILITARY CEMETERY
85,000 American soldiers from 19th, 20th, and 21st century wars are buried at Los Angeles National Cemetery.
Reminder: the pro-Israel side loves America 🇺🇸
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Remember that Ilhan Omar voted "Present" on the historic Armenian Genocide Resolution vote, while her Jewish colleagues voted "Yes." Hypocrisy.
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Trending now: "American Jews"
I'll just say this:
Pennsylvania went red in 2016, and blue in 2020.
There are 440,000 Jews living in Pennsylvania.
Our vote, our voice, matters, and can help tip races one way or another.
🇺🇸✡️💪
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Wow...
Ilhan Omar to
@JakeTapper
on her Jewish colleagues who criticized her comments:
"they haven't been partners in justice... they haven't been, you know, equally engaging in seeking justice around the world."
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Jewish Members of Congress have been some of the most vocal on global human rights issues, including for example the Darfur genocide in Sudan.
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To antizionist "progressives":
Zionism gave my community freedom from the repressive, misogynist ayatollahs of Iran.
Iranian women, including the wife of
@PahlaviReza
, and Israeli women of Persian Jewish heritage, dancing without veils in Israel.
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@benandjerrys
Would you please stick to making ice cream instead of churning out bad foreign policy takes? Thanks.
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🚨🚨🚨 Hi
@Columbia
University,
Your School of Social Work
@ColumbiaSSW
is hosting a pro-Hamas, pro-terrorism event this week.
The flyer includes an AK-47, which is a call to violence (and ironically a peace dove).
Will you cancel this horrific antisemitic gathering?
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Wait. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has a
@washingtonpost
op-ed today opposing sanctions, calling them a failed part of foreign policy?
Does that mean she opposes boycott, divestment & SANCTIONS (BDS) against Israel? 🙏
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People in Southern California who are experiencing rain for the first time in God knows when right now:
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I'm seeing more and more Democrats (including even some progressives) on Twitter that are fed up and "done" with her pattern of antisemitic rhetoric.
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🚨🚨 BREAKING: reports are coming out that President Biden just told heads of the U.S. Jewish organizations that he's confirmed evidence – including pictures – of Israeli children beheaded by Hamas terrorists.
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On TikTok, after Dylan Troesken cries (because she saw Jews on a train just being Jews)...
She goes from "permanent ceasefire" ➡️ to wiping Israel off the face of the Earth ➡️ back to her feelings and emotions within seconds.
Something is deeply pathological here.
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SICK: this is Los Angeles National Cemetery, which has 85,000 American soldiers buried from 19th, 20th, and 21st century wars.
First, pro-Hamas people defaced it with "Free Gaza." Then they defaced it again with "Intifada" (incitement to violence).
Remember: the pro-Israel side…
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Josh Androsky (
@ShutUpAndrosky
), a Senior Advisor to Los Angeles City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez, made Holocaust jokes about
@AmySchumer
, that the Nazis named a concentration camp after her "Cowschwitz."
"They all (and Amy) smelled the same" – referring to the massive…
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Hi
@StateDeptSpox
@PressSec
@USEnvoyIran
,
I'm an Iranian-American and former aide to Democrats in Congress.
Many Iranian-Americans are perplexed and some are offended that the White House Nowruz greeting prominently mentions Palestinians and Gaza. Palestinians do not celebrate…
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🚨🚨 Tonight pro-Palestinian individuals were driving with megaphones around La Cienega & Beverly (a heavily Jewish area) in Los Angeles and threw objects at Jews at a restaurant table. Some threw things back.
The pro-Palestinian group came to the sidewalk to fight.
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@edleonklinger
Don't apologize for posting these things. The world must know what happened, and that includes your Jewish followers around the world.
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@afshineemrani
My alma mater. Ron Hassner was my professor at Berkeley twice. Once for an undergrad course, and once in a graduate seminar that allowed undergrad students. He's a fantastic guy!!
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🙌 I'm so proud of my fellow Jewish Iranian-Americans from Los Angeles, two women student leaders – Eden Yadegar of Columbia University and Yasmeen Ohebsion of Tulane. They testified today in
@EdWorkforceCmte
in Congress.
The topic: antisemitism on campus.
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🚨🚨 NEW video shows
@Columbia
's School of Social Work
@ColumbiaSSW
faculty helping pro-Hamas students to facilitate a pro-terrorism event with an AK-47 in the flyer that the school previously announced would be canceled.
Fyi
@JaredEMoskowitz
@EliseStefanik
…
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@IDF
Hi
@SenWarren
@ewarren
,
You recently blamed Israel for the hostages not being released. Israel just rescued two of them.
Stop demonizing Israel and let the IDF deal with Hamas!!
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Sick and tired of Americans who put a "black & brown people" lens on the Israeli-Arab conflict.
A majority of Jewish Israelis are Mizrahi Jews *expelled* by Arab nations. Ashkenazi Jews' grandparents were sent to gas chambers for being "racially inferior" in Nazi eyes.
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@JoaquinCastrotx
Congressman,
You're hiding behind anti-Netanyahu sentiment to push an anti-Israel agenda.
No leader of any country would tolerate a genocidal group like Hamas living in tunnels next door.
Shame on you!
Sincerely,
a refugee & former Democratic staff member in Congress
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@RealCandaceO
They're not even vaccinated against things like tetanus, whooping cough, poliovirus, and meningitis? Vaccines that saved *countless* lives long before the covid19 debate?
🤦🏻♂️
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Jews expelled from an event to make it judenrein – in Philadelphia, PA, United States.
This is antisemtism in 2021.
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The entire House minus three Members approved a bill today targeting Iranian leaders for their horrific attacks on women and dissidents.
Who voted No?
@CoriBush
@IlhanMN
@RepThomasMassie
Shameful!
They clearly side with the Islamic Republic over Iranian women's lives.
#MahsaAct
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Anyone upset (or happy, or neutral) about Ilhan Omar being removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee should read this thread by Iranian women's rights champion
@AlinejadMasih
:
MPORTANT THREAD ⬇️⬇️⬇️
1-Earlier this week, Rep Ilhan Omar shared a defamatory article about me on social media by a Koch-Brothers funded “think tank” co-founded by a known sympathizer of the Iranian regime.
Here's my response to
@IlhanMN
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@IzaTabaro
I'm proud of my college professor for writing that. I took two courses by him – one undergrad and one grad seminar. Ron E. Hassner is Chancellor's Professor of Political Science and Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Hi
@AOC
Your staffer Hussain Altamimi says Israel is "a racist European ethnostate."
That's wrong for many reasons, and it erases Mizrahi Jews like me.
A majority of Jewish Israelis are descendents of 850,000 Jews violently expelled from Arab countries.
Will you call him out?
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Hi
@AliVelshi
: I'm a Middle Eastern Jew.
Which one has the real apartheid: the State of Israel where Arab-Israelis live as equal citizens or the Arab world which expelled its Jews?
Also, do the Palestinians allow Jews to live among them?
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@FromPhDtoLife
Here's an Israeli flag for every victim of the genocidal attack by Hamas on Oct 7:
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🚨 Terrible news: the largest Persian Jewish synagogue in the L.A. area - possibly the largest in the world - Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills was vandalized badly last night.
Police are on site. It is closed for investigation. Prayer books and shawls were reportedly destroyed.
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@StopAntisemites
@RutgersU
Her resume on LinkedIn shows that she was a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Vice President at her Alpha Chi Omega at
@Rutgers
.
Why do they hate Jews so much?
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I'm a former Congressional staffer for Democrats. WHERE is the outrage against Hamas – for rejecting ceasefire deals – from our progressive Senators who've been criticizing and undermining Israel?!
@ChrisVanHollen
@BrianSchatz
@ewarren
@MartinHeinrich
Why aren't you publicly…
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@yashar
Did she ever read about that time her government killed thousands of Palestinians?
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@yashar
"perpetual state of fear of an existential threat that doesn’t exist” – has she read a history book about Jews?
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@KarenAttiah
What Hamas did to Jews on Oct 7 and vows to do again activates recent, unhealed trauma of my Mizrahi Jewish community: we are expected to either be 2nd class citizens under sharia law or to die, and many Western progressives stand with our oppressors.
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Israel haters had a really bad week:
1. Iron Dome funding passed 420 to 9 in the House.
2. The Los Angeles teachers union (UTLA) decided last night to indefinitely table a BDS resolution.
3. Several states including New Jersey are divesting from Unilever over B&J boycott.
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A reminder that Glenn Greenwald (
@ggreenwald
) justified the vandalism of a Jewish house of worship and has no regrets about it.
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"Albania is now the second Muslim-majority nation to adopt IHRA definition of antisemitism"
@elnetwork_eu
: “We commend the Albanian parliament for standing against hatred, antisemitism, and antizionism..."
More from
@bandlersbanter
@JewishJournal
:
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I am an Iranian Jew born in Iran.
Every day,
@ArielElyseGold
misrepresents my community to advance her toxic agenda.
She and her followers use their privilege to make false statements about us.
The truth is most Jews left because the Iranian regime is repressive and cruel.
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🚨 UPDATE: Some LA Jewish community leaders are trying to get more information about this disturbing video which is being shared on WhatsApp.
It appears to show an Orthodox Jew being chased by two cars from the pro-Palestinian caravan above.
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Video: EPIC Israeli mom rant
"If coronavirus doesn't kill us, distance learning will."
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🚨 I'm hearing and seeing reports that multiple Jewish (kosher) restaurants in the Pico Robertson area of Los Angeles were smashed and burglarized last night.
It is still Shabbat on the West Coast, and we won't know too much more until sundown when the community is back…
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What Hamas did to Jews on Oct 7 and vows to do again activates recent, unhealed trauma of my Mizrahi Jewish community: we are expected to either be 2nd class citizens under sharia law or to die, and many Western progressives stand with our oppressors.
What Israel and the US are doing in real time to Palestinians activate very recent, unhealed trauma around Western violence against Africans, Black Americans, Native Americans, Muslims, and pretty much the entire Global South.
But they don’t want us to talk about that.
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A senior L.A. City Hall staffer resigned for making Holocaust jokes about
@AmySchumer
– that the Nazis named a concentration camp after her "Cowschwitz."
The response of
@JewishCurrents
editor Noah Kulwin (
@nkulw
) is to engage in these disgusting jokes by calling me a "COWard."…
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Reportedly the drivers were yelling "F**k the Jews."
You can see the pro-Palestinian group attacking two people on the sidewalk In this video, and one of them fights back.
A victim is hospitalized.
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Did you know that Los Angeles has the largest Iranian Jewish community in the world and
@ArielElyseGold
refuses to hear why we fled Iran?
She'd rather "
@codepink
-wash" the misogynistic, repressive regime in Iran during her upcoming propaganda trip there.
Did you know Iran is home to the largest Jewish community in the Mid East outside of Israel?
Did you know that there are no attacks on Jewish buildings in Iran?
In less than 2 weeks I will visit Iran to learn more about the Jewish community of Iran and why we need
#PeaceWithIran
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This is what Jews are dealing with in America in 2022.
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I was born in Iran. We were refugees and fled to America in 1990.
I worked for a Democrat in Congress.
America and its history are not perfect, but I would *never* put the U.S. on the same moral level as the Taliban, and Israel on same moral level as Hamas.
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🚨 US Dept of Education announcement:
San Francisco Unified School District (
@SFUnified
) and Oakland Unified School District (
@OUSDNews
) are under federal investigation for antisemitism and potential violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
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@IlhanMN
Why didn't you delete this lie? 👇
Bombing a hospital is among the gravest of war crimes. The IDF reportedly blowing up one of the few places the injured and wounded can seek medical treatment and shelter during a war is horrific.
@POTUS
needs to push for an immediate ceasefire to end this slaughter.
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@KamilMPoet
@SenSanders
"Read the room"?! We shouldn't talk about victims of antisemitic terrorism because Hamas recently slaughtered 1,400 Jews including kids and the elderly?! No, YOU should read the room.
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Meet 84-year-old Shekoufeh “Chicki” Elghanian. In 1979, Iran's regime executed her uncle because he was Jewish.
Today, she cooks over 300 meals a day for
@IDF
soldiers in her apartment in Israel and prays for freedom for the people of Iran.
READ MORE:
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@PicturesFoIder
I was shocked to find out that Dr. Hannibal Lecter had only 16 minutes of sceentime in The Silence of the Lambs. I've seen this masterpiece film three times and was still surprised.
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