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The answers from the presidents showed that they lawyered up with their universities’ counsel on academic freedom issues, and got a script. They were narrowly and technically correct, but they failed to challenge Elise Stefanik’s toxic neo-McCarthyism, as
@mehdirhasan
notes.
Yep. The answers from the presidents were insensitive, foolish, robotic, and offensive, but they didn’t at any point push back at Stefanik’s false premise: that students are going around on those campuses calling for ‘genocide of Jews’ or that ‘intifada’ is a call for genocide.
@jblumenfeld100
@Green_Footballs
@nhannahjones
MA in anthropology here. As if transitions from hunting and gathering and nomadic pastoralism to settled agriculture and urbanism never entailed any violence by white people anywhere: Said NO reputable anthropologist, archeologist, or historian, ever!
@Ananias66012035
What he did is a horrible tragedy but he didn’t do it for “some terrorists.” He did it because he cares about human rights for Palestinian civilians who are not part of Hamas:
I’m Jewish. I’m holding painful truths: Revulsion and rage towards Hamas apologists on the left, revulsion and rage at Israeli Kahanists like Ben Gvir, and Yoav Gallant, and support for a ceasefire as the best policy at this time for both Israeli and Palestinian civilians. /1
I'm not Jewish. I will say from an outsider's perspective that I have never seen this level of socially accepted anti-semitism in my life and it is deeply disturbing.
I deleted the
#IfNotNow
flame symbol from my Twitter profile. I'm not ready to cut all ties with the NY branch, but I'm very upset with
#IfNotNow
DC's support for offensive Jewish star monitoring at the DC Dyke March, and before that, at the Chicago Dyke March!
@RevJasperP
I’ve read The New Jim Crow, Chokehold, Ebony & Ivy, Between the World and Me. & White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo—with which I have some issues. I still need to read Stamped from the Beginning, How to Be An Antiracist, & They Were Her Property. Then there will be more to read.
@jmillerlewis
Tim Kaine’s testimony was disheartening. He’s going to support the Pro Act but he wasted a lot of time on center/right blather about not being “too hard [!]” on Amazon. This exemplifies the political bankruptcy of centrist and center/right approaches to labor issues.
@RuthMarcus
A space laser? What is a nice Jewish girl doing with a space laser? All that college tuition I pay, she hasn't dated a Jewish guy yet, and she uses physics lab to make a space laser!
@RutiRegan
Christianity's obsession with a single crucifixion is fetishistic and morbid. And it valorizes the death of one Jewish man over the later deaths of six million Jews. Therein lies the origin of a lot of Christian theological antisemitism.
@RobinMBernstein
I cried because of her artistry and because her song tells a tragic American story. And because Luke Combs—a white, straight, male country music star—backed her up and brought the universality of loving and longing for a better life in “Fast Car” into his country music world.
@TMIJOS
I love how the modern Orthodox women who attend Stern College for Women get great secular educations but also know so much more about Torah and Talmud than I do. Some of them also go on to become great in professions, including law & medicine.
@ElishevaSays
Contact an attiorney and see if they will contact
@CalArts
on your behalf. They may still have a copy of the dissertation. Try to get the degree rewarded retroactively.
I still think the most dangerous antisemitic entity in the United States is the Republican Party, but the number of Hamas apologists on the left has shown me that antisemitism is a more serious problem on the left than I realized.
/2
@aliamjadrizvi
This is not the time for a lecture about atheism. Either show some compassion for the Jewish community, or be quiet! I'm saying it nicely!
Evita Peron was a fascist. Coco Chanel had a high level Gestapo lover and was an extreme antisemite. NOTHING that they accomplished in their lives erases these ugly realities!
@LakotaMan1
Sending gratitude and solidarity. No one should ever again have to experience the oppression that your people—the Indigenous Americans—and my people—the Jewish people have experienced. Never again to anyone!
@emoscreemo1
@DovWaxman
Your “resistance” is a resistance of cruelty, including cruelty to children that replicates the conditions for future oppression. You should listen to Dov Waxman. You would learn a lot from him if you opened your mind and heart.
@JGreenblattADL
@JeffreyGoldberg
[Heavy sarcasm] We Jews SO NEED the ADL to praise theocratic tyrants who use antisemitic tropes like "makes Hitler look
good."
@sarahleah1
@Columbia
On First Amendment grounds, I am not thrilled about the firing at the NY law firm. But the firing wasn’t because she was pro-Palestinian. The firing was because she was pro-Hamas.
@QueenMab87
@AngryBlackLady
And the doctor in Europe who first said wash your hands was ridiculed, ostracized, and demonized for it. It breaks my heart.
@SSH_FL
This is disgusting. You know nothing about the spirit of Passover. Take down this antisemitic and racist abomination. How dare you associate Passover with the terrorist Confederate flag?!
@faniaoz
We (Jews in and out of Israel) can’t play it both ways. With Ben Gvir In Netanyahu’s coalition it doesn’t make sense to deny that the South African case at ICJ has plausibility.
I'm exhausted by the notion that if I criticize Farrakhan at all, from the left, then that automatically means I don't see the much greater threat of Trump and the Republicans. I DO!
@moontwerk
Also: stop saying that Critical Race Theory teaches that white people and white skin are evil, because it doesn't. It says what
@moontwerk
says, that the problem is white supremacist systems and structures, or whiteness.
@datingdecisions
It's your choice & I respect that, but I wish it wasn't called "childfree." What if a man said he wanted to live "womanfree," or a straight person said that they wanted to live "lgbtqfree?" It stigmatizes a whole class of people. Why not say you decided not to become a parent?
If one has medicine a sick person needs, it's forbidden to charge more than a fair price for it. Even if the sick person agreed to the high price out of urgent need.. one can still only accept the appropriate price. (Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah 336:3)
Thread:In addition to the blatant misogyny, for the Pope to say that a woman having an abortion is like hiring a hitman is deeply insulting to doctors, nurses, & other health professionals/ workers. It's anti-intellectual & anti-science!
@jasonintrator
Unfortunately a lot of uneven, neoliberal moves under the catchall term DEI are happening at scale because Fortune 500s are vigilant not about wanting to end racism, but about litigation avoidance. That’s why critiques from the left by
@OlufemiOTaiwo
&
@aeconwright
are vital.
@hollyrob19
@kthalps
What do you call settler violence, Palestinian civilians tried in IDF military courts, uprooting Palestinian olive trees, civilian house demolitions, and arbitrary prohibitions on Palestinian movements out of the West Bank & Gaza for medical treatment or university attendance?
One look at Sarra Cannon's latest YouTube video showed me this is true. Contrary to what she's alleging, Alexandra Sokoloff does not own three part structure, index cards, and list making as writing tools.
Alexandra Sokoloff has no case against Sarra Cannon, so instead she’s running a smear campaign against her on Facebook and encouraging her fans to “spread the word” about her (false) allegations against Cannon. Disgusting, childish behavior from Sokoloff. Looks bad.
I can't speak for other places, but in New York City, charter schools are authoritarian pressure cookers that "teach to the test" and socialize poor & working class kids to be compliant cogs in the capitalist machine. They are feel good projects for white corporate executives.
Reaction to
@ewarren
's K-12 plan from Nat'l Alliance for Public Charter Schools: "Elizabeth Warren’s unfortunate rejection of the Obama legacy on public charter schools is fundamentally at odds with her party."
@charteralliance
@Joe_Roberts01
Palestinians have a right to a negotiated right of return that unites close family members. If Jews have a right to return, then so do they. The main barrier to peace now is the corrupt Netanyahu government and its contempt for human rights:
The “Hitler did a white on white crime” trope is one of the most vicious and ahistorical ways that antisemitism shows up on the left. It’s a form of Holocaust revisionism, and it erases the existence of Black Jews and other Jews of color. It’s the “anti-colonialism” of fools.
@danielsmilowitz
@AJCGlobal
Her agenda: ending a horrific human rights abuse and institutionalized cruelty to children! I'm Jewish and I share her agenda!
@but_im_kim_tran
@rabiasquared
Because straight women are human beings with human hormones & human needs for respite from the pain in life. Also, I know our needs & desires are misrepresented by corporate media & it's complicated. But I happen to find both Trudeau & Zelensky attractive. No harm in that.
Someone I follow on X challenged why a Metrocard is one of the images on this shirt. Former resident of Brooklyn, NY here. (I now live in Poughkeepsie.) The sight of the Metrocard as a symbol of working class Jewish New Yorkers almost moved me to tears. Yes, it belongs here!
Classic antisemitic scapegoating of the type that says: “I can get away with it if I say (((Israel))) when I mean Jews.” No you can’t! Manolo De Los Santos should read Immanuel Wallerstein, who taught us that capitalism is a *world* system, not an Israeli system.
“When we finally deal that final blow to destroy Israel. When the state of Israel is finally destroyed and erased from history, that will be the single most important blow we can give to destroying capitalism.”
-Manolo De Los Santos speaking at The People’s Forum in NYC.
@thomaschattwill
That's an insightful thought. I read a an interview with DiAngelo in which she said she's ultimately not very different from Donald Trump because she's also internalized racism. I'd have asked her: In that case, why should I read White Fragility instead of Art of the Deal?
Tarek Fatah claims to be a friend of women & Jews but his claim is false! I will not be silent when he demonizes Ilhan Omar in our name! This incitement to anti- Muslim bigotry is endangering Ilhan Omar's life.
#IStandWithIlhan
#BoycottNYPost
!
The
@NewYorkPost
delivers an appropriate response to Rep.
@IlhanMN
Omar trivialising 9/11 as the day “some people did something.” A more accurate remark would have been “My people did something,” but that would be too honest for any Hijabi, let alone Ms. Al-Shabab.
@Joe_Roberts01
@alanadweck
Your choice. But I live in New York and I’ve vacationed in Toronto and Montreal. If Trump is re-elected, I’d consider moving to either of those cities before I would move to Israel under Netanyahu.
Fighting antisemitism matters just as much to me as fighting racism does AND in my junior high & high school I had white privilege in relation to students of color; who were more often tracked into NON college prep & faced harsher & often abusive discipline. I refuse to deny this
What you’re saying, when you insist that a Jew recognize her “white privilege”, is that she may suffer from racism—but a racism that is subordinate to the more important issue of color-bias. You’re saying that anti-Semitism matters less.
@mattlieb
@TheHipsterRebbe
I'm not hurt by Ms. Billoo because she criticizes Israel. I'm hurt by her because she thinks that criticizing Israel is an excuse for conflating Israelis with Nazis and making a demeaning comment about a Holocaust museum. Womens March was correct to remove her from the Board.
@daciatakesnote
It’s the business of anyone who saw what happened. Anyone who goes to the Oscars know that millions of people watch what they say and do. And it’s your business who you will agree with, who you will disagree with, and if you will disagree with anyone enough to block them.
@temasmith
@ADL
The report that the ADL did on the intersections between white supremacy and extreme misogyny is superb, and I wish it was more known on the left and more often used as a resource on the left because I agree with its analysis.
Newsflash to some Jewish men on the left who ought to know better: There's a lot of valid things to criticize Meghan McCain about but her blond hair is NOT one of them! Women with blond hair come in left wing, right wing, and centrist varieties.
@cmclymer
Nonsense is not the precise word I would use. Hypocritical is more like it. Conservatives claim to want First Amendment standards that I agree for places like Harvard and Stanford, but not for Bob Jones, Hillsdale, or College of the Ozarks and more.
I refute the hijacking of my Jewish identity & the Holocaust by the fascist Kahanists of the Netanyahu cabinet. In memory of Vivian Silver, who served on the board of B’Tselem before Hamas murdered her, I join their call for a ceasefire now!
I refute the hijacking of my Jewish identity and the Holocaust by an occupation that has caused conflict for countless innocent people.
I am proud of my Jewish heritage and identity, proud to be the grandson of an Auschwitz survivor, and proud to stand against the occupation.
@robreiner
Nope.
#SheThePeople2020
#Warren2020
I'll worry about centrist white men's souls later, after Warren is POTUS! White men centering their souls as the gold standard of souls is part of the problem!
@pdnell
The extent to which antisemites like him are lauded by gullible and complicit students because they know how to whitewash their antisemitism with anti-colonial, pseudo left language is appalling!
@ProfessorCrunk
Rabbi Hillel said: "What is hateful to you, thou shalt not do to another. All the rest is commentary. Now go and study." In honor and in memory of Rabbi Hillel, I pray for the defeat of evil Donald Trump.
I’m a democratic socialist, or as I prefer to say in response to debacles like this, a DEMOCRATIC socialist. This is not the DSA I 1st learned about in the late 1970s. Why historically do many leftists have a pattern of being right on domestic policy & wrong on foreign policy?
This is troubling. Eric is a well known international labor activist and joined DSA decades ago. What explanation does DSA have for un-publishing his first person account of a solidarity trip to Ukraine? Apparently, a decision at the NPC level, not just the IC folks this time?
@TamikaDMallory
Black culture is complex & I wish that Farrakhan honored complex Black trans lives. Instead he demeans those lives with antisemitic tropes.
@livingforjc
Which bible? Jewish, Protestant or Catholic, and which of the translations in each of these categories? Unfortunately for fundamentalists, they aren't exactly the same.
Another reason for my vote of
no confidence in the leadership of
@JGreenblattADL
. He is weaponizing false accusations of antisemitism and undermining the work of principled investigative journalists. Listen to
@yaffedorg
instead. They have expertise on this issue.
Especially in this time of rising
#antisemitism
and violent attacks against Orthodox Jews in NY, it is not just disappointing, it is irresponsible that
@nytimes
took an issue that merits investigation and framed it in such a way that can encourage more antisemitism.
@TaliaRinger
It is not 100%
@jvplive
’s fault, but the way some non-Jewish anti-Zionists use
@jvplive
as token Jews to sanitize forms of anti-Zionism that are antisemitic is galling, & was made worse by
@JVPBayArea
’s caping for an antisemitic conspiracy theory about (((Zionist))) doctors.