Thread by @EricRWeinstein

1/ Glenn Greenwald, @IlhanMN, the Rosenbergs, Anti-semitism, Progressives, Silence, Speech and the IDW: a thread.

Glenn is upset. He’s a skilled and very smart partisan in my opinion. But I do see him as being on a team & envy him in that regard. That’s why I named the #IDW.

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1096221844540194816

2/ I don’t give hot takes on many items for a reason. Many years ago Bob Dylan made the mistake of recording, in my opinion, the rocker “Julius & Ethel” about the 1953 executions of the Rosenbergs. I think it immoral to have a position on the Rosenbergs:

3/ As I see it the execution of Julius as a filthy spy was justified. The execution of Ethel Rosenberg was an abomination. It was a “message killing” dropped like Luca Brasi’s vest on the doorsteps of progressive Jewish homes: “Go too far left and we *will* orphan your children.”

4/ I grew up in a world where the Soviet side wasn’t yet clear so all I had were my intuitions. In the mid ‘90s, my intuitions were confirmed that Julius was a ring leader and traitor. Ethel wasn’t totally clean IMO, but a minor figure & executing two parents was unconscionable.

5/ My point here is that often you don’t have a ‘take’ on a topic like “the Rosenbergs” because you‘re breaking the topic into components. That’s how I feel about @IlhanMN for example. I don’t have a single take. I feel differently on BDS v El Mozote:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mozote…

6/ I am for and against Hijab as it is not one thing. I am for and against freedom for “hate speech”. I support @aoc’s courage on campaign finance, and can’t stand the authoritarianism. And on&on.

This gets exhausting. So I don’t weigh in the way people who are on one team do.

End/ So I don’t know where I am yet on all of this @ggreenwald. I’m pretty sure we are moving to normalize anti-semitism through clear support for BDS in the Democratic Party, but not yet 100% positive & I’m not done fighting. But I’m not cowering or silent. I’m right here Glenn.