I tweet mostly about the politics of Israel-Palestine and antisemitism. co-founder of @IfNotNowOrg. featured in @IsraelismFilm. Views are my own.
Joined March 2011
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Jun 11
"I don't believe that any group of people are monolithic. It's just that simple."
@hasandpiker discusses with @simonerzim why pro-Israel critics weaponize claims of antisemitism against him.
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Simone Zimmerman retweeted
I began writing this book in detention and finished it fighting a deportation order. I wrote it because testimony is one of the few things that can make injustice visible before it becomes inevitable. My hope is that anyone who reads it understands: Palestine is not the exception, it is the warning. The rights we are losing were never only ours to lose. Thank you @HenryHolt
#NoLandToStandOn is Mahmoud Khalil's revelatory and powerful testament of protest, courage, and imprisonment—and the story of a man confronting the reality that he had become target number one in a regime shredding basic rights.
Learn more: us.macmillan.com/books/97812…
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Simone Zimmerman retweeted
May 27
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One grocery store boycott won’t end the occupation, but remember, it was workers at Dunnes Stores in Ireland who refused to sell grapefruit from apartheid South Africa that sparked a campaign in 1984 that eventually convinced the Irish gov to join the boycott. Bit by bit.
May 27
Park Slope Food Coop Israeli product boycott passes, 67%-31%.
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Simone Zimmerman retweeted
May 27
"The myth [has been shattered] that the state of Israel has any interest in Jewish safety."
Hannah Einbinder, @mahmoudkhalel, Isabella Hammad, and @simonerzim unpack the "shattering" myths of Zionism.
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Simone Zimmerman retweeted
Dan Goldman's fearmongering and weaponization of antisemitism couldn't kill the boycott. His constituents passed it 67-31. Funny that establishment Democrats can't read the room in their own district.
And yes, BDS is the floor when Israel is a genocidal apartheid state.
May 27
Park Slope Food Coop Israeli product boycott passes, 67%-31%.
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Simone Zimmerman retweeted
May 27
“The Jewish Federations of North America declined to comment.”
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Simone Zimmerman retweeted
A brief dispatch on that party at Gracie Mansion last night, from today's @JewishCurrents news desk newsletter.
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Simone Zimmerman retweeted
May 18
Imagine an adviser to Biden had said this about Jewish Americans on the day of a synagogue attack - or any day of the year!
Just imagine the response.
May 18
In light of the Islamic center shooting today, I think it’s time to make sure Muslims are safe. The best way to ensure their safety is for our DHS Secretary Markwayne Muslim @SenMullin to deport every Muslim in America back to the Middle East where they can live in fully Islamic societies and blast their call to prayer without triggering Amercians into psychosis as a side effect of having their non-Islamic habitats disrupted by invasive species.
Let’s make sure Muslims are safe. Send them back to the Middle East where there’s a mosque on every corner.
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Simone Zimmerman retweeted
May 19
"I grew up into the direct consequences of Zionism in a refugee camp in Damascus… My grandparents, for all of their exile, they lived in tents. They died in mud houses."
Mahmoud Khalil @Justice4Mahmoud speaks about how Zionism has directly affected his family for decades.
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Simone Zimmerman retweeted
"Even as Foxman took subtle digs at his ADL successor, Jonathan Greenblatt, for slow-walking criticisms of Trump and Elon Musk, his issue was never with the current CEO’s steadfast alignment of the ADL with Israel’s interests."
jewishcurrents.org/abe-foxma…
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May 13
It was an honor to moderate this conversation with these three brilliant individuals
May 13
Watch the full episode: zeteo.com/p/beyond-israelism…
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Simone Zimmerman retweeted
May 11
Today Deborah Lipstadt— who built a career on defending the memory of the Shoah & demanding historical justice for its victims— is amplifying a call for New York Times editors to face Nuremberg-style public hanging
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Simone Zimmerman retweeted
May 11
"I look at these [Hollywood celebrities] who have absolutely every privilege imaginable to mankind, and they cannot utter a single word.’
Hannah Einbinder speaks about the cowardice of Hollywood on the Gaza genocide contrasted with Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil’s bravery.
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Simone Zimmerman retweeted
May 3
Abdul El-Sayed: “AIPAC and Israel are not the same as Judaism and the Jewish people. I love Judaism and I love the Jewish people. The single most dangerous thing they’ve tried to tell us is somehow they can extend the definition of antisemitism to include a foreign government and its leaders. I call bullshit”
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Simone Zimmerman retweeted
Apr 30
"[Western democracies] claim themselves as these beacons of human rights... and then actively participated in the extermination of Gaza."
@mollycrabapple and @simonerzim discuss how Western hypocrisy contributed to the conditions that led to the Holocaust and Gaza genocide.
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Simone Zimmerman retweeted
Apr 24
"Your [Jewish] grandparents would've voted for Zohran. Your grandparents were probably socialists because that's what most Jews from Eastern Europe in New York at the turn of the century were."
@mollycrabapple speaks with @simonerzim about the history of Jewish socialism in NYC.
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Simone Zimmerman retweeted
Apr 17
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, an American journalist, has been detained for over six weeks in Kuwait under new security and fake news laws. The Kuwaiti government must release our friend and colleague immediately. Journalism is NOT a crime. Sign the petition here: cpj.movements.mov/pet/kuwait…. #freeahmed #FreeAhmedEldin
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Simone Zimmerman retweeted
Apr 16
"[Zionism] tries to not just take over land, and not just take over culture, but it tries to take over history."
@mollycrabapple speaks with @simonerzim about Zionism's "colonization" of Jewish history, perpetuating the myth that all Jews always supported Zionism.
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Simone Zimmerman retweeted
In our first live taping of On the Nose, we answered listener questions about what accountability looks like for US rabbinic leadership, how American Zionists will respond to Israel’s plummeting popularity, and more.
jewishcurrents.org/mailbag-3…
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Simone Zimmerman retweeted
Apr 16
Chuck Schumer's two votes tonight in favor of bombs and bulldozers to Israel is yet another reason Senate Democrats must vote to remove him as leader post the midterms.
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