I'm not trolling, I'm making an observation that you have confirmed @AmerZahr. So thank you for not gaslighting me. And I don't think our community should feel bad about prioritizing I/P, but I do think we shouldn't blindly pick the most pro-Palestinian candidate..
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Warren is a stronger candidate across all other issues and a more effective legislator, and lags only slightly behind Sanders on I/P. But that difference is enough for our community to throw most of their weight behind Sanders and I think that's a mistake 2/
I also should have been explicit that I was trying to point out there is no mystique behind why Sanders is the candidate for Muslims and that the entire "look we are voting for a Jew aren't we great" narrative is disingenuous. We don't care 3/
..about any candidate's religion. Our singularly qualifying or disqualifying issue is I/P. Everything else is secondary for better or worse. It's not a value judgment. It just is the truth. Now I know I could say anything about I/P and the same crowd jumps on me 4/
Last week I was condemning the bullshit peace plan and someone tweeted that I should shut up bc Palestinians are in pain. Literally makes no sense. But there's an abiding hatred for me by some bc I was a @Hartman_Inst Fellow. 5/
Hartman is a liberal Zionist theologian institution, with faculty that span the spectrum of liberal Zionism and include Palestinian faculty too. Ironically Sanders is a liberal Zionist and would fit perfectly well in the Hartman universe. 6/
The reaction to my tweet is evidence of the high intensity emotion around I/P to the extent sometimes of irrationality. Like attacking me or other Hartman Fellows but supporting a liberal Zionist like Sanders. End/
