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Good at crosswords but not, like, THAT good | Jew Alum: @YaleSOM , @Columbia , @JTSvoice | Past: @AJCglobal

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@seffikogen
Seffi Kogen
3 years
I think this is the most antisemitic thing I have ever seen in a TV show
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
For those of you unfamiliar with Jewish law, which puts precedent on healing and saving lives, there is no prohibition on the kind of bone graft in this clip. The writers made it up, dressed their actors in Jew-face, and put random extremist nonsense in their mouths.
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
What if I told you that a former @AP journalist ( @MattiFriedman ) had written IN 2014 that Hamas regularly operated in and around the AP office in Gaza?
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
You either stand with Israel, or you stand with the terrorists who indiscriminately fire rockets at civilian populations. I know which side I'm on.
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Amichai Stein
3 years
#BREAKING : Direct impact on a school in Ashkelon, no children were at the school due to IDF orders
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Seffi Kogen
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"Progressive" Twitter is enraged by this exchange. To me it looks like a leader confident enough in his beliefs that he's willing to engage across the aisle to make his case, and maybe even win a few people over in the process. Remember those?
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
The ⁦ @nytimes ⁩ bizarrely highlights Rashida Tlaib as POC while marking Chris Sununu (who is also Palestinian!), Alex Azar (Lebanese), Farnam Jahanian (Iranian), and probably others as white. Why not use the same criteria across all sections?
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Seffi Kogen
3 months
This sociopath smilingly told two Columbia administrators in a disciplinary hearing IN JANUARY that he wanted to murder Zionists and he is still a Columbia student??
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Khymani James
3 months
Read my statement below:
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
Prime Minister Netanyahu tweeted his congratulations to President elect Biden less than 40 minutes ago. There are several thousand quote tweets. Shall we take a look...?
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Seffi Kogen
2 years
Progressive Americans on Twitter think Ukraine is Palestine. Ukrainians know Ukraine is Israel:
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
Never forget that AOC boycotted an event run by Israeli leftists in honor of peacemaker Yitzhak Rabin. She isn't interested in peace, she's interested in smearing Israel because it's popular among her antisemitic base. Call this shit out on the right, call it out on the left.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
3 years
Utterly shameful for Yang to try to show up to an Eid event after sending out a chest-thumping statement of support for a strike killing 9 children, especially after his silence as Al-Aqsa was attacked. But then to try that in Astoria? During Ramadan?! They will let you know.
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Seffi Kogen
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Staff are refusing to work venues when Jewish artists perform. Surely this will free Palestine?
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Seffi Kogen
5 years
Dvir was a yeshiva student. He wasn't wearing a uniform. He was holding a book by celebrated left-wing Israeli author David Grossman when he was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist. Hamas called the stabbing a "heroic and courageous act." IfNotNow blames Israel.
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Seffi Kogen
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Me: I want a slice of pizza Kosher pizza place: yep Me: … and mozzarella sticks Kosher pizza place: yeah we got you bro Me: also weird q but do you know where i can find a spicy tuna roll? Kosher pizza place: you’re not gonna believe this
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sophie
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Me: I want to buy a graphing calculator Texas Instruments: yep Me: …and a high-speed, high-res analog-to-digital converter TI: yeah nw we got you bro Me: also weird q but do you know where I can find a javelin antitank guided missile? TI: buddy ur not gonna believe this
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
Thank you to the people who pointed out that Justin Amash (independent member of Congress from Michigan) and Tom Gores (owner of the Pistons) are both ALSO Palestinian, like Tlaib, but are listed as white. Marc Lasry (owner of the Bucks) is Moroccan, and is also listed as white.
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
Democrats who are just learning that minorities aren't monoliths would do well to follow some new voices. A few I'd recommend: @shadihamid , @mattyglesias , @kittypurrzog , @bungarsargon , @thomaschattwill , @sullydish , @kmele , @PeterHamby , @SarahLongwell25 , and @jessesingal
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
. @jaketapper is always really Jewish on here but over the last couple of days he's been really, EXTREMELY Jewish and I just want to say, Jake, אחי, I am so here for it.
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
Incredible! @ericadamsfornyc is delaying his inauguration until after dark on Jan. 1 because he wants Sabbath-observant Jewish New Yorkers to be able to participate. What a mensch!
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
This isn't all of it, I just got tired wading through the antisemitism.
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
"It turns out, if you ignore all evidence, turn Israel into the villain in your morality play, and insist Americans have a 'responsibility' to do something about Israel, the thing that they will do is beat up American Jews." From my new op-ed in @Newsweek
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
If you're done with your blood libel against Israel, now would be a good time to watch this interview with the head of @UNRWA in Gaza who says he "would not dispute" that Israeli airstrikes were "very precise" against Hamas targets.
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Seffi Kogen
5 months
With gratitude to God and the @YaleSOM admissions office, we're thrilled to announce that we're engaged!
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Seffi Kogen
5 years
Fellow Jews: Let's set aside the first amendment concerns for a moment (though they are important considerations!). Let's set aside how we feel about the President. I'm a member of the Jewish nation, aren't you?
@nytpolitics
NYT Politics
5 years
President Trump will sign an executive order defining Judaism as a nationality, not just a religion, thus bolstering the Education Department's efforts to stamp out "Boycott Israel" movements on college campuses
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
It's so INTERESTING that her anti-Israel tweets that incite antisemitism come from @AOC (more than 12 million followers), while her tweets telling people not to be antisemitic come from @RepAOC (with less than 700k followers).
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
3 years
There is no room for anti-semitism in the movement for Palestinian liberation. Our critique is of Israel and their human rights abuses. This is not an excuse for anti-semitic hate crimes.
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
It is NEVER ok for an American elected official to single out the Jewish community like this. That de Blasio is the mayor of the most Jewish city in the country makes this that much worse.
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Mayor Eric Adams
4 years
My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed. I have instructed the NYPD to proceed immediately to summons or even arrest those who gather in large groups. This is about stopping this disease and saving lives. Period.
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Seffi Kogen
10 months
"In this war between baby beheading terrorists and a democratic ally of the United States I simply don't know who to trust!"
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
"From the river to the sea" is also a genocidal chant and when it was chanted in your home state last month you had nothing to say about it. You don't get to trot out the fact that you have a very Jewish district only when you want to condemn Jews. You need to also defend us.
@JamaalBowmanNY
Rep. Jamaal Bowman Ed.D.
3 years
This is a genocidal chant. Let’s call it what it is. I represent many within the Jewish community who disavow and condemn this hateful language. So why does only a small portion of our Congress?
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Seffi Kogen
5 years
Going through old things in my parents' basement and found this, from 1967: a nearly 100-page special edition of @LIFE commemorating Israel's miraculous victory in the Six-Day War.
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Seffi Kogen
2 years
@IfNotNowOrg @elivalley Can you or @elivalley (who "doesn't miss") just remind me about the specific Nazi pasts of each of these AIPAC endorsees? I'm drawing a blank.
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Seffi Kogen
2 years
@abierkhatib @ShehabAgency Beautiful pictures, thank you for sharing!!
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
What a truly ODD thing to write about the presumptive (((Secretary of State))), who has no domestic remit and certainly not one related to law enforcement. How INTERESTING. Whatever could this really be about? 🧐🧐🧐
@RashidaTlaib
Rashida Tlaib
4 years
So long as he doesn't suppress my First Amendment right to speak out against Netanyahu's racist and inhumane policies. The Palestinian people deserve equality and justice.
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
Literally the greatest technological breakthrough the Israeli military is known for is Iron Dome, the missile defense system that shoots rockets out of the sky in order to SAVE lives.
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The New York Times
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The Israeli Defense Ministry’s research-and-development arm is best known for pioneering cutting-edge ways to kill people and blow things up. Now it is turning to saving lives.
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5 years
"BDS activists want students to be ignorant. The more a student knows about Israel, the less likely they are to cast the conflict as a morality play, a simple choice between big, bad Israel and the poor, piteous Palestinians." My latest in @jdforward :
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Seffi Kogen
7 months
Jamaal Bowman is just an absolute clown and the people of Westchester deserve better.
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
Every time critical ethnic studies is in the news, I think of this paragraph Albert Murray wrote 50+ years ago which is among the most stirringly beautiful things anyone has written about race in America. (big h/t to @thomaschattwill for recommending Murray to his followers)
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
Why do I feel like Boris Johnson's tweet didn't garner this much hate?
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
Since this tweet, Amy and Pete have both announced that they're speaking at AIPAC, despite it being Super Tuesday. So @IfNotNowOrg 's campaign to get Dems to skip the conference was a pretty big failure.
@IfNotNowOrg
IfNotNow🔥✡️
4 years
. @ewarren , @BernieSanders , @amyklobuchar , and @PeteButtigieg all made the courageous choice to #SkipAIPAC , rather than share a stage with bigots and those working against Palestinian human rights. And @JoeBiden ? He’s choosing to stand with the racist billionaire @MikeBloomberg .
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Seffi Kogen
5 years
Remember when the Trump administration said "discrimination against Jews...violates Title VI when that discrimination is based on [Jews'] actual or perceived shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics” and everyone was fine with it? Oh wait, that was the Obama administration.
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Seffi Kogen
5 years
Imagine thinking that the words "for decades [Israel] has occupied Palestinian territories" belong anywhere near a video essay entitled "Holocaust Survivor Fears World will Forget." Sick. Antisemitism. @OrlaGuerin should be deeply ashamed.
@OrlaGuerin
Orla Guerin
5 years
#VIDEO #BBCNEWS #YadVashem “Holocaust Survivor Fears World will Forget” . Our story from Jerusalem. Thanks to the team @Goktay @mdMarshall
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
35,000-member??? Did they just count anyone who has ever used a 🔥 or 🌹 emoji?? IfNotNow is like 50 people plus a few hundred anonymous shitposters.
@jacobkornbluh
Jacob N. Kornbluh
4 years
After potentially losing the Dem primary, Bernie Sanders touts IfNotNow endorsement.
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Seffi Kogen
5 years
I'm not over this yet. I'm trying to imagine what would have happened if Donald Trump came to campus and said "why is it that I can't say something against the Mexicans?" Or against "the Muslims." Morningside Heights would have erupted. Yet it seems only Jews care about this.
@chedetofficial
Dr Mahathir Mohamad
5 years
I am exercising my right to free speech. Why is it that I can’t say something against the Jews when a lot of people say nasty things about me and about Malaysia and I didn’t protest? I didn’t demonstrate.
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
But wait, there's more
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Seffi Kogen
5 years
Do people not understand the purpose of the Civil Rights Act? It's not about making groups *less* American, it's about guaranteeing our rights *as* Americans! One can doubt the president's motives, but the idea that Jews shouldn't have protections as a minority is really weird!
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
My point here isn't to try to discredit this entire project — it's striking how few of the "most powerful people" in this country aren't white. But it would still be striking if they had actually done the reporting correctly.
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Seffi Kogen
5 years
Bernie Sanders is obviously not an antisemite. To suggest that he is one is ludicrous. Bernie Sanders is supported by antisemites. To suggest that they are not *because they support him* is also ludicrous. What follow is a THREAD on the nature of antisemitism...
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
.⁦ @AMPalestine ⁩ literally published a list of good and bad Jews and it's just like "a few dozen weirdos" on the good side and "allllll the Jews" on the bad side.
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Seffi Kogen
6 years
Shouldn't Tom Lantos, who was born in Budapest, enslaved in Nazi-occupied Hungary, and, penniless and with much of his family murdered, made his way to the US on a scholarship after the war, count?
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Seffi Kogen
5 years
What a cool Sandy Koufax moment for American Muslims!!
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
This was about three hours before Shabbat ended.
@Bencjacobs
Ben Jacobs
3 years
. @mayawiley and @bradlander light a Havdalah candle in Grand Army Plaza
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Seffi Kogen
1 year
There are about 7 Orthodox synagogues "between Zabar's and Barney Greengrass" and only 3 non-Orthodox ones but guess which type of Jews @danarubinstein considers the "archetypical Jewish New Yorkers"
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
To be clear, I don't at all think that the AP works with terrorists. I think they just make the calculation that part of the cost of doing business safely in an enclave ruled by terrorists is keeping your head down.
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Seffi Kogen
2 years
. @mckaycoppins does a real service in taking down this offensive show. In doing so, he basically describes what happens whenever Orthodox Jews are portrayed on TV.
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
I checked out this synagogue's website. It's a Reform temple (i.e. progressive Judaism), has a note on its homepage calling for justice for George Floyd, and a section on anti-racism. But if Jews don't actively reject Israel, some on the left will always see us as enemies.
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Julio Rosas
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Someone from the BLM crowd spray-painted “Free Palestine” in the driveway of the Beth Hillel Temple in Kenosha.
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Seffi Kogen
2 years
It's a great time to be a pro-Israel progressive!!
@AIPAC
AIPAC
2 years
AIPAC PAC and AIPAC activists were deeply engaged in these campaigns because of the clear contrast between the candidates on issues of importance to the pro-Israel community. #OH11 #NC01 #NC04 #KY03
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Seffi Kogen
5 years
Look, I listen to The Daily, well, daily. And I think that @mikiebarb generally does a great job. But he and @Max_Fisher got Trump’s executive order on antisemitism very, very wrong this morning. Here is a THREAD explaining how...
@nytimes
The New York Times
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President Trump has issued an executive order cracking down on anti-Semitism. But some Jewish Americans fear that the plan could end up deepening prejudice instead of curbing it. Listen to today's episode of "The Daily."
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
Some personal news: After 7 wonderful years at @AJCGlobal , I will be departing in August to pursue an MBA at @YaleSOM . I started at AJC fresh out of college and was blessed to find an organization that gave me every opportunity to grow and to succeed (1/)
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Seffi Kogen
10 months
Here is what I would honestly like to know from my friends and followers who are uncomfortable/disagree with Israel's actions: What would you do?
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
It's tempting to make jokes about how stupid these antisemites are, or how thinly they veil their bigotry against Jews, but I'm too sad thinking about the pain this causes the thousands of people who lost loved one on 9/11. Their memories are a blessing for us every day.
@cynthiamckinney
Cynthia McKinney PhD
3 years
The Final Piece of the Puzzle . . .
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Seffi Kogen
6 years
I posted this on FB and someone asked me what my point was. My point is that there are people within US society on the whole and in certain segments of minority communities specifically who, intentionally or not, don't acknowledge historical and/or present-day persecution of Jews
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
What is even remotely "holy shit" about this? The BDS crowd places full blame for the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Israel, absolving Palestinians of any responsibility for their actions. Biden refuses to buy into that skewed, antisemitic worldview.
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jordan
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I really don't know what to say about this. Holy shit.
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
Twitter is not real life.
@CBSNews
CBS News
4 years
. @edokeefe says a Biden campaign aide told him weeks ago a crucial part of their strategy: "They said, 'It's very simple. We turned off Twitter. We stayed away from it. We knew that the country was in a different headspace than social media would suggest'"
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
For some reason I never thought @mattyglesias was for me. I didn't read Vox much, and didn't seek out his opinion, until just a few months ago. Now, I've subscribed to his Substack and holy HECK are his posts absolute fire. Incredible thinking, great writing, VERY worth reading.
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
. @bariweiss 's resignation letter is one of the most important texts of our current political moment:
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Seffi Kogen
2 years
Remember folks, @IfNotNowOrg aren't antisemites because they hate Israel. They're antisemites because they believe that progressive Black politicians are turned evil and monstrous by pernicious Jewish puppet-masters. It's an EXACT copy of white supremacist ideology.
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Seffi Kogen
2 years
@IfNotNowOrg @elivalley Here are a few screenshots from their actual priorities. Medicare for All, codify Roe, cancel student debt, ban private prisons, ban cash bail, pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. You probably agree with every word. Yet you smear them as monstrous Nazis.
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
No one wants to read your take on who the "real" heroes of Purim are. They are Mordochai and Esther.
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Seffi Kogen
5 years
This is jaw-droppingly vile. A Holocaust survivor spoke at Benedictine University. Some students (look at the smirks on their faces) decided that it would be appropriate to ask him to condemn Israel. He is not Israeli. His talk was not about Israel.
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Benedictine SJP
5 years
Earlier this week, Holocaust survivor, Harold Kasimow spoke at Benedictine University. He described to us what it felt like to undergo horrific circumstances such as the Holocaust at a very young age.
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Seffi Kogen
6 years
Or Rudy Boschwitz, who was born in Berlin and fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1933?
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Seffi Kogen
2 years
@IfNotNowOrg @elivalley Here are a few screenshots from their actual priorities. Medicare for All, codify Roe, cancel student debt, ban private prisons, ban cash bail, pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. You probably agree with every word. Yet you smear them as monstrous Nazis.
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Seffi Kogen
5 years
Broke: Jews control the media Woke: **Zionists** control the media
@yashar
Yashar Ali 🐘
5 years
Former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill claimed that news outlets like NBC and ABC were “Zionist organizations” that produced “Zionist content,” during a panel at the annual Netroots Nation summit. @Bencjacobs reports
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
“For too long, one small wrongdoing came with a huge cost, taking a large toll on New Yorkers’ lives and opportunities. A minor nonviolent act of poor judgment should not determine one’s destiny." -Bill de Blasio, June 2016
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Mayor Eric Adams
4 years
Good. Her racist behavior could have had dire consequences for a Black man. Glad she’ll face consequences of her own.
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
Did you know that Baghdad used to be 40% Jewish? 80 years ago (yes, BEFORE the founding of the state of Israel) the Farhud was the beginning of the end for that ancient community. Today there is no Jewish community in Iraq.
@AJCGlobal
American Jewish Committee
3 years
On this day in 1941, during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, 180 Jews were murdered in Baghdad in a Nazi-inspired pogrom, the Farhud. Within a decade, the majority of Iraqi Jews fled the country, in which they had lived for over two millennia.
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
There used to be a saying, something like "be kind, everyone you meet has something going on you know nothing about." I wonder how many of these people have overcome things unrelated to race — how many are gay, or not Christian, or grew up poor, etc — to get where they are.
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Seffi Kogen
5 years
. @timkaine , @brhodes , @AOC , & @IlhanMN all accused Israel of not letting Omar and @RashidaTlaib into Israel because of a "Muslim ban." Israel's gov't deserves a lot of criticism for this decision. But Israel has no Muslim ban. My op-ed in @jdforward :
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
I'm honored @SethAMandel saw fit to quote me in this steel-toed piece in @Commentary . A key takeaway: if you're serious about fighting antisemitism and not shy about calling it out whether it comes from the right or the left, you belong with @AJCglobal .
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
Please, for the love of God, someone teach IfNotNow a language other than Yiddish. No, American Jews are not "with" this mob of angry men screaming about attacking Tel Aviv. Because we'd rather our Israeli family not need to live in fear of Palestinian terrorism again.
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
“The progressive position is to promote a Jewish state and a Palestinian state, not to end the existence of Israel as a Jewish state.” God bless @RitchieTorres .
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Seffi Kogen
6 years
Or no, cuz the international refugee system didn't really exist until after WWII? Seems like a technicality (that erases Jewish suffering and tribulations)
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
Someone should tell Bernie that Israel has high literacy rates, socialized medicine, and lovely train stations. That should be sufficient for him to overlook its flaws, right?
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
A stats-obsessed friend adds a great point: Americans aged 50+ (basically everyone on this list) are whiter than the US as a whole. So, while it's still disproportionate (this list should be ~30% POC in order to be proportionate), it's not as bad as the Times suggests.
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
What — and I cannot stress this enough — is wrong with you.
@nytpolitics
NYT Politics
3 years
How a loose alliance of lawyers, lobbyists and Orthodox Jewish leaders won clemency from Donald Trump for white collar criminals.
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
People really flatten Adelson because of political partisanship. He basically funds the Las Vegas Jewish community (one of the fastest growing in the country), he donates a ton to Yad Vashem, a ton to Birthright. All good and non-controversial causes.
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Seth Mandel
4 years
The pettiness and partisanship tearing apart the American Jewish community—a topic near and dear to my heart and which I chronicle regularly—in stark relief again today with the silence of so many in reaction to Sheldon Adelson’s act of generosity.
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Seffi Kogen
5 years
A few thoughts on that awful long-form opinion piece by @NathanThrall masquerading as reportage (I won't link to such garbage).
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Seffi Kogen
8 years
Valjean, at last, we see each other plain...
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Seffi Kogen
10 months
Chanting "there is only one solution: intifada revolution" is EXACTLY as antisemitic as chanting "Jews will not replace us" and all Jew-hating rallies need to be addressed with the same seriousness, whether they feature tiki torches or keffiyehs.
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Eli Klein
10 months
Just came home to hundreds of people outside of my apartment here in NYC calling for Intifada, which given recent events, may well be considered a call for the mass murder of Jews. Never did I expect to see this kind of open antisemitism so close to home.
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Seffi Kogen
6 years
30% of Israel's members of parliament are now women. This is a LARGER percentage than in the U.S. Congress (outgoing or incoming). And there are two parties in the Knesset that don't even allow women on their lists.
@LahavHarkov
Lahav Harkov 🎗️
6 years
Likud MK Jacky Levy resigned from the Knesset, after being elected Mayor of Bet Shean. He will be replaced by Osnat Mark, bringing the number of women in this Knesset up to a record 36.
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Seffi Kogen
6 years
Last night, Ilhan Omar referred to herself as "the first refugee elected to Congress."
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
This by @shadihamid is a critical addition to the examination of the decline of religion in America. For too many, Peloton is their church, Bernie is their prophet, and anti-racism is their revealed wisdom (or Trump rallies/Q/Fox News, for the other side)
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
The king of Saudi Arabia has never received a rabbi in Saudi Arabia before. Until this morning, when my colleague Rabbi David Rosen, an Israeli Orthodox rabbi, joined him for this important interfaith meeting. Another incredible milestone set by my amazing @AJCGlobal colleagues!
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
Anyway, read my op-ed about how Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Sanders, and others incited the wave of antisemitism that has been sweeping America this week:
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Seffi Kogen
5 years
I mean, John Lewis is a founding member of this caucus, but sure, @lsarsour , @EgSophie , and @rafaelshimunov definitely know more than he does about fighting hate.
@AJCGlobal
American Jewish Committee
5 years
BREAKING NEWS from #AJCGloFo : Reps. Brenda Lawrence (D-MI), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), and Lee Zeldin (R-NY) announce the launch of the bipartisan Congressional Black-Jewish Caucus, which AJC helped facilitate.
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Seffi Kogen
2 years
Grateful to @Yale 's Ukrainian students for planning today's rally, and to @SenBlumenthal , @rosadelauro , @TimothyDSnyder , and the students who spoke so powerfully about their loved ones defending Ukraine and what their home symbolizes. Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
One awkward thing about #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay is that people cite the entirely made-up stat that 11 million people were killed in the Holocaust. WRONG. 6 million Jews were killed by gas, bullets, fire, and starvation, along with no more than 500,000 non-Jews.
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Seffi Kogen
5 years
Jews were stabbed in NY tonight. The shooting in JC made headlines, but Jews have been attacked several times in the weeks since. The perpetrators are not white supremacists. Gentiles: we need your solidarity even when our pain doesn't fit your narrative.
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Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt
5 years
Three Jews stabbed in a synagogue in Monsey tonight. An intruder came into Rabbi Rottenberg's shul with a machete. There are no words to describe the anxiety of this moment.
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
@SethAMandel Seth, does the release say who is writing the essays on —Driving away 25,000 high-paying Amazon jobs —Voting against a historic infrastructure bill which included $ to replace lead pipes in cities across the country —Cheerleading antisemites during a virulent spike in Jew hatred
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
You would think everyone could get on board with fighting antisemitism. Not this guy.
@AliAbunimah
Ali Abunimah
3 years
Anti-Palestinian hate group @AJCGlobal wants all first-year US college students to be indoctrinated with the bogus @TheIHRA “definition of anti-Semitism” that equates criticism of Israel’s brutal apartheid regime and racist state ideology Zionism with anti-Jewish bigotry.
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
NYT headline: Weapons Cache Uncovered in Synagogue in Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights.
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
The goyim have discovered meorav yerushalmi
@lifehacker
Lifehacker
4 years
If you've never tried grilling chicken hearts, now's the time:
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Seffi Kogen
4 years
Maybe @DavidCornDC and @MotherJones could just provide us Jews for a list of American NGOs that we're allowed to donate to without being smeared as being loyal to a foreign government?
@DavidCornDC
David Corn
4 years
SCOOP!! Top Biden cybersecurity aide donated (via a foundation) over $500,000 to AIPAC while she was an NSA official. Should a top US intel official be giving money to a group aligned with a foreign gov't? NSC won't answer that. Please read and RT.
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Seffi Kogen
5 years
Wow, she really does have Jewish ancestry
@thehill
The Hill
5 years
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s mom hopes she gets married soon
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Seffi Kogen
3 years
Ultimate mensch @jaketapper told me he read a quote from my @newsweek piece on @TheLeadCNN today. @hilaryr 's answer is…not good! But it's gratifying to see the idea that progressives can be antisemitic (and regrettably sometimes are) enter the discourse.
@TheLeadCNN
The Lead CNN
3 years
GOP Commentator: Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene more powerful than GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy @amandacarpenter @hilaryr discuss
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