My latest
@JewishJournal
cover story: With multiple lawsuits pending over allegations of workplace retaliation, and continued criticism that he’s too soft on crime, L.A. District Attorney George Gascón is facing his toughest challenge.
Around 300 UCLA faculty members have signed onto this letter urging the university to "make the strongest possible statements condemning the barbaric Hamas attacks" and denounce "pro-Palestinian rallies on campus in which the massacres by Hamas were celebrated, including explicit…
1) Palestine does not exist.
2) Hamas is listed as a terrorist organization by the State Department.
3) the 9/11 terrorists based their attack off of Yasser Arafat's methods
You really are the dumbest of the Cuomos.
The Gaza riots were spurred by Hamas, funded by Iran, encouraged by the Palestinian Authority. Israel dropped leaflets warning rioters to stay away from the fence. Yet the media blames Israel, the latest double standards that Jews have been subjected to.
Yesterday
@noatishby
came to UC Berkeley to talk to students in the main plaza in front of a sign saying “Anti-Zionism is antisemitism.” Here’s what happened…
UCLA guest lecturer says that Jews who support Israel are white supremacists, driving a Jewish student to tears in the class. The lecturer responded by belittling her.
One student kept telling Tishby that Zionism is inherently anti-Palestinian. When she told him that Palestinians have the same rights as Jews in Israel and have more rights than they would in Arab countries, the student calls her the “dumbest motherfucker” he had ever talked to.
Medicare is expected to run out of money by 2030. Social Security is expected to run out of money a few years after that. CBO/GAO call the current debt trajectory unsustainable. So what do Republicans do? Spend like a bunch of drunken Marxists!
We're doomed.
Lindsey Kohn, a teacher at a North Hollywood middle school, has announced that she’s resigning from the UTLA teachers’ union over the pending vote on a pro-BDS motion. She says, “I feel unsafe as a Jew now in this UTLA.”
You are a disgusting human being. It is never ok to harass someone when they’re with they’re family.
It’s also anti-Semitic to say that US soldiers are being used as “human meat shields” for Israel.
I'm glad that the Biden campaign condemned Linda Sarsour, but the fact remains that she shouldn't have been at the DNC at all and Dem Party officials keep punting when asked why she was there.
This is such a dishonest thread about
@benshapiro
. You put words in his mouth and completely misrepresented his views, you're clearly a hack disguised as a reporter.
An Ontario protest against annexation on Saturday featured high schoolers chanting "Jews are our dogs!" in Arabic. This is incredibly disturbing that people at that age have such hate in their hearts
Calling it a "trip to Palestine" is in and of itself enough to discredit this entire thread since a) Palestine has never existed as a sovereign nation and b) she's calling Israel "Palestine," which shows she wants Israel destroyed.
Let’s be clear: the goal of our trip was to witness firsthand what is happening on the ground in Palestine and hear from stakeholders —our job as Members of Congress.
But since we were unable to fulfill our role as legislators, I am sharing what we would have seen. (THREAD)
Damning report from
@nypost
about how leftist professors at CUNY attempted to exclude an Orthodox Jewish prof from a Progressive Faculty Caucus meeting by scheduling the meeting during Shabbat
@JewishJournal
Israel seems to have discovered that two medications to treat Gaucher's Disease, a genetic disorder, could be effective against the coronavirus. Thank you Israel!
Another student said that he didn’t think Israel isn’t living up to its responsibilities to be worthy of billions in US aid. Tishby asks if Israel has a right to exist and the student says yes. Tishby then tells him this means he’s a Zionist
Three students kept chanting “Viva via Palestina!” When Tishby asked if they wanted to discuss their differences, they refused as long as cameras were on. Tishby offered to turn the cameras off for a dialogue, but they just kept chanting
87 Jewish and pro-Israel orgs urge Department of Education to bar federal funding to university programs with faculty members engaging in academic boycotts of Israel following the Middle East Studies Association's endorsement of BDS. Via
@AMCHAInitiative
Jeffrey Lax, an Orthodox Jewish prof at CUNY Kingsborough Community College, is resigning from the CUNY professors union after they passed an anti-Israel resolution last week.
You do realize Birkenau was part of Auschwitz right? Not only are you making an inappropriate comparison you don’t have your basic facts right. Delete your account
A Hasidic Jewish couple and their 1-year-old baby were attacked by a man with a knife in NY yesterday. Where is the outrage? Why is there little media coverage of this?
@JewishJournal
Trump's plan is totally and utterly bankrupt and reveals the shameful way that our government has catered to the Israeli right — at the cost of Palestinian freedom — for our entire lives. All people of conscience must publicly reject Trump's plan for permanent occupation.
Berkeley Law Faculty––including the dean––have released a statement spearheaded by
@TheAENetwork
supporting Jewish law students after several student groups passed bylaws against inviting Zionist speakers to campus.
.
@RashidaTlaib
is spreading the new anti-Israel blood libel that Israel is excluding Palestinians from COVID vaccinations. This is a lie – the PA has refused Israel's help and is getting vaccines from Russia by the end of the week
@JewishJournal
.
@AOC
proposed an amendment to the NDAA that would block a weapons sale to Israel "over the bombing of Palestinian civilians, media centers."
@StopAntisemites
@IsraelWarRoom
noted that AOC omitted Hamas rockets, use of human shields
@JewishJournal
I have obtained a letter that
@BDSmovement
sent to
@BDSBoston
telling them to take down the Mapping Project from their social media or else "remove the BDS acronym from your name." "The association of the BDS name with such groups and activities hurts our entire movement."
Palestinian Authority Gov has given Palestinian businesses a week to take down all Hebrew signs. As
@HillelNeuer
and
@EVKontorovich
have noted, this is actual apartheid going on in the PA. In Israel, there are signs in both Hebrew and Arabic
My writeup on
@nytimes
stealth-editing the line that AOC changed her vote b/c of "influential lobbyists and rabbis," with various quotes and reax:
@JewishJournal
I reached out to
@cooperunion
for comment on Jewish students being locked inside the school library while pro-Palestinian protesters were banging on the doors. The college’s response:
AOC is coming across as a normal person and she has figured out a way to get through to young would-be voters on the left while getting conservatives to elevate her every word. We’ve teased her about her intelligence from the beginning but now been outsmarted. Respect.
I had the honor of interviewing Susannah Levin, who quit
@benandjerrys
after working with them for 21 years over their statement on Israel. Read it here:
@JewishJournal
Unilever announced today that they are restructuring their company, which includes putting Ben & Jerry's under a separate ice cream division and cutting 1,500 jobs.
Since the Ben & Jerry's boycott, Unilever has posted $26 billion in losses, per
@JNS_org
.
They hired Fusion GPS to do oppo research on *all* GOP candidates, not just Trump, but they did not hire Steele, that was only the Clinton campaign. For you not to report that is very disingenuous and illustrative of why CNN's ratings are tanking.
BREAKING: CNN spokesperson tells the
@JewishJournal
that they have accepted the resignation of photo editor Mohammed Elshamy over his 2011 anti-Semitic tweets
UCLA student says her "family fled antisemitism during the revolution in Iran" and "it was supposed to be different here but unfortunately, as a senior whose college experience consisted of constantly combating antisemitism, it does not feel different."
Fun fact: this lecturer, an SFSU professor, was the keynote speaker at this year's SJP conference. And this lecture was mandatory for an anthropology class.
50 USC faculty members, which includes Nobel laureates, have sent a letter to the university asking them to condemn the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies for endorsing an anti-Israel statement.