Stephen Michael Tow ✡ / z3k J. Evets 🕍
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Husband. Father. Proud Jew. Advocate. Organizer. Bureaumancer. Wordsmith. Instrumentalist. Doodler. Saboteur Academic. Pessoptimist. All views expressed my own.
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@coffeespoonie
If possible when you've recovered sufficiently, try to take the information in these tweets as documentation of the incident. Contact the police department who harassed & injured you. Tell them you want to file a complaint against the officers & a government claim for damages. 1/
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@dcpetterson
"Those who say ‘we’re a republic not a democracy’ commit a category mistake, they don’t understand semantics. IT’S Republic vs Monarchy & Democracy vs Dictatorship, NOT Democracy vs Republic. We can have both, a republic (form of govt.) with a democracy (form of representation)."
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@coffeespoonie
I'm so sorry this happened. Police are not trained in de-escalation or crisis management. They're considered soft-skills by most departments nationwide. You shouldn't have to do anything, but if you want to, then I recommend doing as much as you can to hold them accountable. 4/
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@coffeespoonie
You can & should contact your state rep & senator offices to have them also complain on your behalf. Typically the rep or senator has a website with info on their staff assigned to this kind of work. You may wish to complain to your state's AG office &/or local DA. 3/
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@coffeespoonie
You may/may not need to go in-person to the station, depending on the precinct, to get any reports the cops filed. Get statements from anyone who was there that will write one for you & make copies. If you get medical care for this, get copies of those records. 2/
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@coffeespoonie
Send me a DM if you have questions on Maine specific issues. Otherwise, I hope you feel better soon & can get back to enjoying your life before these assholes crashed it. 5/fin.
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@WillieMcNabb
@JasonIsbell
This is a weirdly specific number of feral hogs in a weirdly specific time frame that seems to have been constructed out of 3-5 seconds of pure hog shit.
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Biden lowered my student loan payments, lowered my prescription drug costs, gave me free COVID-19 tests & vaccines, & gave my community millions of dollars to keep the local businesses I depend on open.
What has Joe Biden done for you?
Absolutely nothing
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As a student of postcolonial anthropology & literature, I have to restrain my massive side-eye-rolls every time someone calls Israel a settler-colonial state.
Jews are indigenous to Israel. Zionism is movement for the self-determination of Jews in their ancestral homeland.
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Happy
#LovingDay
everyone! Without the bravery of so many that came before, it would still be illegal for my wife & I to be married & for our children to exist.
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@KaeleyT
@wbrooksga
Those are literally your words... From your own post.
Why did you rape a minor? Also, why are you staring at people's genitals in closed shower stalls?
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@NathanR_CC
@abhypocrisy
@doozclooz
@Tyler_The_Wise
Republicans have spent the last 40+ years destroying unions. If you vote for Republicans, then you oppose unions.
Also, the town of Montpelier was literally built by union labor & has been a liberal city for nearly 50 years.
Deal with it.
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The Holocaust was not a "teachable moment" for Jews. It was the worst genocide in modern history that has traumatized the Jewish people in more ways than we can express. Excluding Jews from our own stories of trauma & implying that we learned the wrong lesson is rank antisemitism
The lesson from the Holocaust is not to center Jewish fear at all times, it is the moral mandate to intervene against injustice & persecution even when the dominating narrative & power structure deems an entire community not human enough to deserve life & dignity
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No, sorry (not sorry), this is wrong. When you definitionally exclude antisemitic praxis from your analysis of leftist movements & reject Jewish history holistically, you get academics like this who engage in pseudo-intellectual apologetics for bigotry against Jews. 1/
I think one of the basic conceptual problems that some of the folks concerned about left-wing antisemitism have is that what appears to be a “singling out” of Israel (and therefore an expression of latent antisemitism) is actually just solidarity with Palestinians.
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I think most everyone is missing the point here: the military campaign in Gaza never needed to be genocide for it to be wrong. Too many people committed themselves to labels & slogans rather than actual conditions & outcomes. War is hell & Israel & Palestine are in it.
On the question of 'plausible genocide', the ICJ president clarifies: the court "didn't decide the claim of genocide was plausible"
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@briebriejoy
@YNB
@JoeBiden
@SymoneDSanders
I'm sorry you chose voter suppression & blaming your candidate's loss (for the same reasons as last time no less!) on anything except him.
I hope you make a better choice than Jill Stein in the general this time.
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This is your periodic reminder that Jews are refugees, Israeli Jews are indigenous + returnees, Zionism is the belief in self-determination for Jews in their ancestral homeland, & calling Israel a colonial state erases the history of Jewish people - as well as their humanity. 🖖
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@Leftist_Kiwi
This is a misleading map for an immoral thought. Here's a better illustration of reality & why we cannot just abandon people.
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"Our Jews"
Whew.
We could unpack this bigoted suitcase of antisemitism, racism, neo-imperialism, conspiracy theories, & ahistorical colonizer contents.
Or we could just chuck the damn thing into a dumpster fire where it belongs.
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@sparklyjew
But, low-key, that whole if you sin in your mind then it's like you sinned IRL, is bonkers.
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@techno_B_tshuva
@arielsobelle
@MicheleSabra
@NeverAgainActn
I also lost family in the Shoah. These concentration camps on the border are very American. They are also too similar to ones first used by the Nazis. Ariel honors her family history & I honor mine in protesting them. If that pains you, then I'm sorry. Caged kids > hurt feelings.
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@elderofziyon
Your framing of this kid is concerning. I don't think this type of dehumanization of children is appropriate, let alone realistic. It's an essentialist argument that relies on fear of what may happen rather than an understanding of what is happening.
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@agraybee
Eh, when he talked about juries, my area of expertise, I actually really liked it even more than his other segments.
As for this, I think the reporting is wrong. Debt relief improves wellness & get other finances together, etc.
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It's interesting how right before major Jewish holidays, lots of extremely online antizionists begin to groan about Israel. Hanukkah. Purim. Pesach. It's almost like they know, but still don't want to admit, how central Israel was & is to Jewish life for our people.
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@Mutant187
@NeuroRebel
You're thinking of a safe parking program, which a very few cities & organizations have begun testing.
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New rule: demand every antizionist explicitly define the Zionism they are anti & what actual outcome they support.
I'm just so tired of strawman versions of Zionism & bad faith subversions of social justice using the history of
#Passover
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Every time I remember this happened, I feel a blackout rage pass over my eyes for a moment. I hold progressives & leftists to a higher standard because we say we're better than this. So when they fail Jews, especially Jews that look like my kids, it hurts.
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@ArmandDoma
I can only speak to what's happening here in San Leandro, but the large investors buying homes here are renting them out at exorbitant prices with rock bottom upkeep. This is not helping our affordability issues.
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@MrStevenSteele
@JessicaLBurbank
Are you suggesting that White people are systemically denied access to basketballs?
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@moontwerk
If, instead of being in our 20s, we were in our now 30s, I think my wife wouldn't put up with the level of work I needed to do when we first met. One of the biggest traps I initially struggled with was seeing antiracism as an achievement rather than as a praxis.
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Broke: apples & honey
Woke: apples & nutella
Bespoke: nutella & a spoon
here's a food take: Apples and Honey is the most boring and anticlimactic of the Jewish traditions
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@RashidaTlaib
@ZahraBilloo
Did you just try to gaslight us with an all-lives matter about antisemitism..? C'mon Rep. Tlaib. We, the Jews, are tired but we're not *that* tired.
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I went on Birthright about 10 years ago. We openly talked about the conflict & its impacts on Jews, Muslims, Arabs, Israelis, & Palestinians. We saw the Gaza blockade. We saw the West Bank settlements & checkpoints. We saw the occupied Golan. We talked to peaceniks & hawks. 1/
I am so thankful for my friends who taught me about the occupation and the Nakba during the time I was planning to participate in Birthright about a decade ago. I was still in a Zionist orthodox community at that time. I was told Israel was safer for Black Jews than here.
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@mwarrenbrand
That being Jewish is more than a religion or an ethnicity alone. Even ethnoreligion is a poor translation explanation for Am Yisrael. We're a people, a civilization, a heritage inherited, & an extended family adopted.
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“I used to be a genocidal antisemite but then I went to college and I learned that if you use academic jargon, it’s just antizionism”.
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@hebrewnonsense
There are people who do, in fact, pretend to be Jewish online for clout & cred.
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@KaeleyT
@wbrooksga
Insults from someone like you might as well be a compliment. But the projection is truly *chef's kiss*... Maybe you shouldn't molest teenagers or stare at strangers in the showers, because you the real creeper here, gross monster. Justice always comes around.
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This is a unique problem among Western & White leftists, who ignore their own cultural traditions of holding us as scapegoats for their own failures. Jews then become the material victims of whatever issue the gentiles hate at the moment - capitalism, communism, etc. 2/
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@coffeespoonie
Sorry for delayed reply. I'm on newborn time. Retaliation is illegal & not likely. The real problem is bureaucracy that inhibits swift, accessible resolutions. Also yes, police have broad authority in practice, but later on there are checks/balances available for accountability.
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@Stpolishook
Yeah, Moontwerk's post demonizing Zionism by fetishizing Yiddish really brought out the bigots. Like, Hebrew remained a native & important language even in Yiddish culture. Also, it's so Ashkenormative, because it implicitly attacks Sephardim & Mizrahim who didn't speak it.
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@Phreakdawg69
@TheShittyDad
@DarkcerbShaun
@RightWingCope
With all that sucking, how could it be that bad?
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The bigotry of these speakers is an embarrassment to the Bay Area's history of social justice & progressive solidarity. I'm ashamed to see fellow organizers uplifting this virulent antisemitism instead of working towards collective peace & liberation for Palestinians & Israelis.
Last night the Oakland City Council voted on a resolution to call for a ceasefire.
A city council member tried to insert language condemning Hamas.
This was the reaction…
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@IbrahimAlAssil
I think you need to talk to some actual progressives & Millennials in real life, because this isn't what we actually think.
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I feel like this is a good time to reiterate this: if your Judaism asks you to erase the identity of other Jews' Judaism, then you need to reflect on who is actually asking for that. Because it is not Hashem.
@RutiRegan
's Torah is also most definitely Torah.
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@PRook1580
If being faithful means you have to be antisemitic, that sounds like something you should work on.
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@emrazz
A regular at an open-mic I hosted was verbally abusive & groped another woman there. He came to me for sympathy because he was worried her guy friends would jump him after the show. I listened, told him his behavior was disgusting, & literally threw his ass outside.
#NotCoolMan
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Lastly, it's important to note that if these leftist movements were actually pro-Palestine, they'd be organizing to support improving the material conditions of Palestinians. But they aren't - their strategies are attacking normies, particularly Jews outside Israel. 6/
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@SDrrizzy
@NeverGiveIn1776
@rabbisandra
1st of all, the rabbi's smicha & Jewishness aren't up for debate. 2nd of all, Democrats have condemned Farrakhan repeatedly. 3rd of all, your bigotry is a chillul hashem. I suggest you make teshuva.
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I guess this needs reposting.
Maybe she needs help with her teshuvah. Maybe our community needs to stop enabling her. Maybe people are exploiting this for their own personal drek. Maybe, for now, the best we can do is stand up for Jewish women of color & say this is not okay.
I was wrong & I am sorry.
Ariel Sobel created an offensive fake account to stage her own harassment. I apologize for all of the damage & pain I inflicted on our community, specifically Jewish women & Jews of Color over the past few days, while defending her. 1/
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@KaeleyT
But this letter doesn't prove your point. It's a confidential settlement negotiation, not a statement of fact. Indeed, you already admitted in your blog post the real reason for your termination characterized as a resignation. Why lie at all if you're so terrible at it?
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I was wrong & I am sorry.
Ariel Sobel created an offensive fake account to stage her own harassment. I apologize for all of the damage & pain I inflicted on our community, specifically Jewish women & Jews of Color over the past few days, while defending her. 1/
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Or, to be more pointed: Orthodox Jews saying other Jews aren't Jewish, other rabbis aren't rabbis, other sects are wrong, etc., isn't pluralism. It's prejudice wrapped in a halachic fig leaf. Your beliefs don't require saying these things. Indeed, they're decried as lashon hara.
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The ethnocentrism of Americans never ceases to surprise me, but it does when coming from my fellow Jews. It's incredibly disappointing & offensive to see parts of Jewish Twitter actually trying revisionist history that erases Mizrahi Jewish identity just to try & dunk on Zionism.
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@keyliebug
If you're converting, then you're mishpocha. Do your thing! For comparison, this is mine & yes I even wear it to the office.
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Today is my 7 year
#weddinganniversary
. March 30 2014. It almost rained that day, but cleared just the night before. We were married in the sanctuary of our synagogue
@oaklandsinai
by my Rabbi Mates-Muchin. This is my favorite picture of my wife & I on our wedding day
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Finally, a Jewish-based source to express my most fundamental praxis. I try to do the good thing because it is good. I try to do the true thing because it is true.
"The worshiper bc of love, engages in the study of Torah...& follows the paths of wisdom...neither for fear of evil nor to inherit the good; but he does the true thing bc it is true."
Maimonides Mishneh Torah Laws of Repentance 10:2
He does the true thing because it is true.
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I mean, antizionism disturbs me on a macro level, but when it starts subverting long-standing social justice praxis to further questionable political ends in one of my literal fields of study... Yeah it bothers me.
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The largest group of Zionists are Christians, but notice how nearly all of the purported solidarity statements are attacking Jews rather than the specific people allegedly harassing them. Very telling.
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@Onyema_Grace
1. Black Jews exist.
2. Jesus isn't important to Jews.
3. Stop listening to Kanye.
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@emrazz
When he came back the next week for the open-mic, I had the owner of the cafe it was held at ban him. If you are a guy in a position of any power, influence, or authority, even something as low-key as a D&D campaign - maintain a zero tolerance policy on misogyny and harassment.
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If the idea of Jewish self-determination makes you uncomfortable or upset, that is antisemitism. If the idea of Jews living communally, as Jews, far away from the oppression of gentiles makes you spout into paroxysmal bouts of outrage, that is antisemitism.
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Rather, this is something Jews have endured for millennia. The aesthetics may change, but antisemitism itself remains the same. It's important to reject any attempts to rationalize support for the massacre of Jews & call out the defenders of those advocating for our oppression.5/
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@EthanSchmidtFan
Wow, what a snowflake. Triggered by people who aren't Christian. Trying to groom kids into worshipping some guy named Jesus. Maybe he should stop leaving his safe space?
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@Shmarya
@KosherSoul
@GlassSpiider
The chutzpah it takes to tell a Black Jewish culinary historian & chef about their own food in their own book... Do you not even see the low-key racism & moyshe kapoyer?? Honestly, if you feel Jewish history is being "misrepresented" then write your own damn book & luzzem!
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@emrazz
@mat_ushh
@notsoundmind
@OscarFactsOnly
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"- Upton Sinclair.
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There is more to being Jewish than just Judaism, & it's an big red flag when gentiles show they don't understand the nuance of that when they talk ish about us.
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Hey
@NBCNewAmsterdam
where is the fucking
#MoreJoy
this season? Seriously, can we just let people be happy for at least ONE EPISODE!? What happened to
#Sharpwin
? How the fuck is Martin the problem? Can someone call CPS for Luna? This is some bullshit. I'm legit mad right now.
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This was especially clear on 10/8, before Israel began their offensive into Gaza. Leftist groups were pushing for the destruction of Israel + the exile of all Jews & Israelis living there.
Just as we don't say the anti-abortion movement is actually pro-life...7/
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Additionally, because of Western hegemony, this phenomenon is repackaged & exported to the Global South where sectarian, tribal, & ethnic conflicts can be painted over as liberatory or revolutionary using Western antisemitic ideology for regional antisemitic attacks. 3/
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This is a wildly insane take from a purported professor of theology. Antisemitism absolutely existed among Arabic & Islamic people long before modern political Zionism. Indeed, this fact isn't even remarkable because antisemitism was so common, often enshrined in law. 1/
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@YairWallach
I think
@simonmontefiore
had a great essay in dismantling & deconstructing the settler-colonial myth. I also think we can hold multiple narratives at once, including that of the Palestinian experience, without engaging in maximalism or flattening.
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@Lexaphus
@justinbfox
So your argument is "I believe Israel should exist, but I'm not a Zionist"?
Would it make sense to say, "I believe women should be treated equally, but I'm not a Feminist"?
This feels like semantics.
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So too we need to recognize that the majority of the ostensibly pro-Palestinian movement is implicitly &/or explicitly just anti-Israel. Failing to grasp this problem is why so many of my fellow leftist Jews stay confused about the virulent antisemitism within these movements. 8/
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Please listen to Jewish people, particularly the LGBTQIA+ Jews, telling you that your policy is antisemitic, your understanding of the Magen David is erroneous, & that you need to do better.
Thank you.
DC Dyke March would like to reaffirm our support of Jewish Dykes as well as respond to recent reports concerning our policy against Nationalist symbols. Please read Jewish Dyke March Organizers Rae and Yael’s words on the subject below:
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Read the quote from
@lsarsour
in this piece. Almost unbelievably pathetic, like a bitter petty Betty. She's not enjoying the fact that she (& her cofounders) crashed what could've been a sustained, intersectional, nationwide, social justice movement -
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I'm sorry to hear there are Jews who felt lied to or misled or even "indoctrinated" with "propaganda" but that just isn't the experience of most other Jews in my Millennial generation. We asked questions. We paid attention. We wrestled with hard truths. & we still struggle. 3/
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To my fellow Jews always showing up to hold our communities accountable for misogyny, racism, & Islamophobia - you're being real quiet about Daniel Sieradski's sexist & internalized antisemitic harassment. Not to mention Sarsour's opportunistic co-opt. Just know that I see you.
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@Chanalemusic
Hello, Korach. I think you should stop the sinat chinam. You're being a chillul hashem with this lashon hara.
My daughters are just as Jewish as Moses & all the Matriarchs. My wife is as wonderful as Zipporah. My family is a miracle. & your bigotry cannot change this.
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@Bad_bureaucrat
Wait, are they really equating Israel & Mussolini's Italy? Maybe they should check with their grandparents about that. Or, better yet, Jewish survivors & their families that were taken from there to the camps.
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So, we're all in agreement that she's just trolling for clicks at this point, right? I don't think she actually cares about any of this or any of us...
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~1834 CE, Jews in Jerusalem, Safed, & Hebron were massacred during the Peasant's Revolt. Their property was stolen, homes destroyed, synagogues & Torah's desecrated, communities raped & murdered by a horrific pogrom across the region. They never received justice.
#ZionistHistory
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This is your periodic reminder that Palestinians are refugees, Palestinian nationalism is the belief in self-determination for Palestinians in their ancestral homeland, Palestinians in Gaza + the WB are under military occupation, & saying Palestine doesn't exist is bigotry. ✊
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If only you took this same stance when your own work inspires violence & harassment, particularly against women.
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@coffeespoonie
Again, if you have specific questions, just DM me. But know that 1) you did nothing wrong. 2) Cops are allowed to lie to you, make you believe things if it gets an arrest/conviction. 3) Your reaction bus totally normal. 4) YOU DID NOTHING WRONG! ❤️
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@KaeleyT
@Kulesh0vEffect
@wbrooksga
Holy non sequitur, Batwoman! So you're saying you're allowed to rape a child because trans children exist? I think you may be the actual loony here.
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Does
@jewishwonk
still have half of Jewitter blocked for questioning his choice to low-key support doxxing?
Seems like we still haven't dealt with the toxicity & now it's apparently getting worse.
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@egavactip
She came and got me. We had a real long talk about everything and I had to stop playing with those kids after that. No one at the church was ever punished for what happened as far as I know.
I was 5 years old. I am Jewish.
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I'm a former professional disability advocate. This whole thread is pure, 100% liquid truth that took me years learn and/or unlearn (as applicable). The hardest part, for me, was ultimately confronting & accepting my own lifelong medical conditions & they aren't a character flaw.
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Oh, additionally, if you can't recognize & accept Jewish indigeneity to Israel, then obviously you're going to disagree with me! So also work on those flawed assumptions.
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The way some leftists are making Israel & Jews the center & cause of every social justice struggle is the same global antisemitism we've seen before, just with a new face. It's the international Jewish Conspiracy from ZOG & Protocols to deadly exchange & even some antizionism.
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@canuduh73
@notcapnamerica
I don't think the devil needs an advocate. But, if that's the part you're playing I would say this...
No, because that's an entirely different sentence, different scenario, & different situation. I would respond differently to something that's different.
Hope that helps.
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That Ariel would do something this heinous, this disgusting, this bigoted, regardless of her personal history or current circumstances, cannot be condemned strongly enough. It was digital blackface. It was chillul hashem. 9/
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@coffeespoonie
*NOTE* yes, I know cops can & do retaliate against people regularly, but her specific situation makes it unlikely because of the optics & low probability of conviction that a DA would actually want on their record.
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@TalbertSwan
This is disingenuous drek. Jews have been calling out the White tiki torch crowd far more often than BHI. Your own antisemitism is on full display here.
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The wisdom of Calvin & Hobbes is more Jewish than their names suggest.
In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man.
Pirkei Avot 2:5
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