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David Bernstein retweeted
Mar 16
"Hamas literally livestreamed a pogrom and still ended up with large parts of the world on their side. That isn’t an Israeli PR failure, it’s a failure of the West to be able to distinguish good from evil." Well said.
Hamas literally livestreamed a pogrom and still ended up with large parts of the world on their side. That isn’t an Israeli PR failure, it’s a failure of the West to be able to distinguish good from evil. This impairment will manifest in ways far more serious to them than this. Israel could have more quickly countered the bullshit but it’s hard to outrun the Brandolini principle.
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In fairness, the average western Hamasnik has no clue where Hertzeliya is or its history. They are sufficiently ignorant that it could just as easily be a hilltop outpost infringing on Palestinian property.
That said, the organizers of the campaign again Paltrow surely do know better, and it reveals that they think that any Jew has no right to live anywhere in Israel, revealing their underlying genocidal ideology.
Jun 10
Let me make sure I understand. The scandal is that a Jewish woman advertised apartments… in a Jewish city… in the Jewish state. A city older than the BBC’s coverage of it. Truly the crime of the century.
Somebody call The Hague, Gwyneth is showing people a park.
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GFY!
I have seen several indications that universities thathave had significant antisemitism problems, such as Harvard and Columbia, want to lean on Jewish donors to pay the bill to enact the recommendations of antisemitism committees the universities established. 1/
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The donors' response should literally be GFY. Universities let antisemitism fester, and then they expect Jewish donors to pay to clean up the mess they created? This is the lite American 2026 version of fomenting a pogrom and then ordering the Jews to pay for the damages. 2/
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None of the Jewish family foundations that donate to the relevant schools should give them a penny, and they should explain the level of chutzpah it takes to even ask. /end
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And will Platner even actually help the Democrats keep the Senate? Even if he beats Collins, the GOP is poised to run nationwide on Democratic extremism, with Platner and his various scandals and sympathy for Hamas, Hamaway and his friendship with the Blind Sheikh on the ballot and potentially terrorism apologist El-Sayed getting the Democratic nomination in Michigan.
Jun 11
Democrats could have united to force Platner out before the primary, and Mills was still available as a candidate. The left-wing of the party wanted to keep Platner because they expect he will be far more left-wing than Mills would have been, a special concern for the Hamasnik wing of the Party. So that was ultimately the issue, not Platner vs. Trump et al., but Platner vs. a more moderate Democrat.
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Democrats could have united to force Platner out before the primary, and Mills was still available as a candidate. The left-wing of the party wanted to keep Platner because they expect he will be far more left-wing than Mills would have been, a special concern for the Hamasnik wing of the Party. So that was ultimately the issue, not Platner vs. Trump et al., but Platner vs. a more moderate Democrat.
Jun 10
To Democrats who oppose Platner: Just be honest about what you're doing. That's all. Be honest and admit that you think it's more important to take a stand against personal peccadilloes than to enact any reforms to undo the harms of Trumpism or to have a non-reactionary Supreme Court in our lifetimes. And if you claim Democrats who support Platner are just like Trump supporters, just admit that the comparison is disingenuous, since Platner isn't campaigning to "own" half of America and no one is supporting him in the hopes he will.
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Correction to previous post. Mohsen Mahdawi came here on a marriage visa, not a student visa.
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But the Biden administration Justice Department took rioting and mayhem by people like this less seriously than local cops treat tp-ing a house on Halloween.
Jun 10
Ahmet Korkaya, then a medical student, wrote in a private conversation in May 2024 that he was "gonna be the dirtiest fuc*ing doctor ever," and that he was "gonna be [V-l]'s doctor /poison her ass slowly."
V-l was Sarah Hubbard, a regent at the University of Michigan.
Korkaya's co-conspirators would descend on her house, trash her property with "dismembered and bloody baby dolls," threaten her directly, and spread those threats on social media.
What was Hubbard's crime? Leading a university that did not divest from Israel and Israel-supporting businesses.
Note that there have been a spate of doctors publicly espousing the same worldview as Korkaya since October 7th.
They may likewise pose a threat to their patients, and society more broadly.
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David Bernstein retweeted
Jun 11
Who better to speak on the subject of journalistic practice at 60 Minutes than Dan Rather, who was forced to resign from CBS after broadcasting a hoax on that show? thedailybeast.com/obsessed/c…
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"Free Palestine" types like to talk about a made up "Palestine exception to free speech."
We should instead talk about a "Palestine exception to criminal law." Thousands of Hamasniks arrested for widespread lawbreaking, almost no one charged, must less convicted.
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It's worth point out that anonymous Biden Justice Department officials told the AP that they were not pursuing cases like this because they considered such actions to be free speech adjacent, which is not only absurd on its face, but if taken seriously would have precluded all the Jan. 6 prosecutions, 1/
🚨 Early this morning, @FBI and partners arrested 7 individuals on a 10 count indictment for allegedly targeting University of Michigan leaders and businesses in the Eastern Michigan region with violent threats and attacks.
The indictment alleges that after the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, these individuals - a group of college-aged adults - engaged in a coordinated campaign of violent, criminal acts seeking to pressure University of Michigan leaders and other businesses in the Eastern District of Michigan to cut off all ties with Israel.
The subjects allegedly vandalized the victims’ property, spray painted their homes with messages like “Intifada” and “Free Palestine,” left threatening notes on their doors, and even broke windows of the victims’ homes - throwing glass jars filled with chemicals while children slept inside.
They deliberately chose the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s attack to engage in some of their most visible criminal acts - including one subject who specifically targeted the Bloomfield Township Jewish Federation on October 7, 2024. On the same day, another subject - employed by the University - vandalized the University President’s home.
The alleged criminal targeting occurred for over a year - beginning approximately March 2024 and continuing until April 2025.
@FBIDetroit and our partners pursued a thorough, detailed investigation of this case - and subjects have been charged for their alleged role in conspiracies to transmit threats in interstate and foreign commerce.
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which were also free speech adjacent (ie, the illegal acts in both cases accompanied lawful political protest). The Biden administration has not been sufficiently pilloried for its two-tier justice system in which violent left-wing activists were excused, but every single person who breached the capital on Jan. 6 was tracked down and prosecuted. /end
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Nazi Tattoo Guy is extremely well-read and intellectually curious, but somehow didn't recognize that he was sporting a Nazi tattoo for 18 years, despite calling it "My totenkopf"--a skull-and-crossbones emblem historically used by Nazi SS concentration camp guards.
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People dying in war when civilians aren't targeted isn't "murder" and failing to differentiate between the victims of war who are combatants and Hamas combatants, as he does here, is an extremely good example of terrorism-sympathizing, and since the terrorists in question are Hamas, also Jew-hatred, since that's their animating ideology.
Jun 9
Also I'm sorry this does not sound like a "terrorism sympathizing Jew hater"
This is basically a moderate opinion among young Democrats lmao
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She's not an ignoramus, so she is purposely trying to obfuscate antisemitism, and the fact that she is an antisemite. This is the person that various Western institutions are honoring.
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Ultimately, the most salient fact about the USS Liberty is that it happened 59 years ago. Let's imagine the conspiracy theories are right (they aren't, but...) Anyone who would have ordered the attack is now dead. The only relevance to American-Israeli relations is the implicit 1/
Jun 10
WATCH: Lead USS Liberty truther Phil Tourney says that the following exchange happened:
Israeli pilot: "But it's an American ship."
Air controller: "You have orders, hit it!"
Cam Higby points out that this quote is completely fabricated and appears nowhere in the transcripts.
Wow.
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by Japan is WWII. And no one was so obsessed in 2004, the same 59 years after the events in question. Nor is anyone so obsessed with the torture of American POWs in Vietnam in the 1960s, around the same time as the USS Liberty. Again, with no doubt of intention. Japanese 3/
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and Vietnamese behavior (also China and North Korea in the Korean War) pales in comparison to even the worst claims about the USS Liberty.
It's not about Israel, or the incident itself, it's about promoting the longstanding antisemitic mythology of the perfidious Jew. /end
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