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Jun 26, 2020 9 tweets 4 min read Read on X
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I've been really struggling w #BlackLivesMatter

1. I support the *statement* SO deeply, bc I know that for centuries in 🇺🇸, the idea that Black lives *don't* matter has been institutionalized, enshrined in law. I'll affirm that Black Lives DO Matter till pigs fly.
2. I struggle w/ the anti-Zionism & anti-Semitism expressed by many of the @Blklivesmatter @Mvmnt4BlkLives leaders, & their refusal to 'cancel' Jew-haters like Farrakhan, & ppl who defend him/ make excuses for his Jew-hate.
3. I struggle w/ the anti-Semitic vandalism & assaults that have plagued some #BLMprotests & riots. I wish more #BLM leaders & leaders in Black communities (AHEM @NAACP) would condemn the Jew-hate that somehow finds a receptive home w/i strains of otherwise justified Black rage.
4. BUT, I also recognize that many Black folk live in fear. Fear that any interaction they have w law enforcement could end in their deaths or unjustified incarceration. It must be a terrifying way to live. Trauma affects our thought processes.
5. Ppl like Farrakhan (& @AMPalestine, obvi) aim to drive wedges b/w Blacks & Jews by capitalizing on/ exploiting that fear. The best way I know to fight them is to *refuse* to hate my Black brothers & sisters. To proclaim that #BlackLivesMatter does NOT mean I ignore Jew-hate.
6. It's crucial to distinguish b/w ppl who're peacefully protesting institutional anti-Blackness; police killings; de facto segregation; a still VERY present legacy of Black enslavement in the US; from ppl who hijack protests to riot/loot/satisfy a craving for chaos/ drama.
I do believe that the former type of ppl outnumber the latter by quite a lot. (This is anecdotal. I have not seen any data presenting or comparing those numbers.)
Also: Some in #BLM feel Black folks are in crisis, their house is burning, they need all hands on deck. They feel like they can't afford to turn anyone away, especially charismatic Black leaders who've helped mobilized the movement--even if those leaders are anti-Semites.
My challenge is to unequivocally condemn anti-Semitism in any form, from anyone; while holding empathy for ongoing struggles & current crisis in Black American lives.

If my neighbor's house was on fire, I think I'd help him put out the flames--*even* if he were an anti-Semite.

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Mar 6, 2021
Researching @ADL @JGreenblattADL. Found some troubling trends: less focus on Jews/ fighting Judeophobia & more focus on general "anti-bias". Even whitewashing some who've *contributed* to anti-Israel coffers. Why? Do we really need yet another generic social justice org?
Ofc we Jews should do what's right & oppose *all* "ism"s, but we also need to 'put on our own oxygen masks before helping others'. Is @ADL more focused on gaining social justice street cred than confronting *all* anti-Semitism? CC: @LegInsurrection @DrCharlesJacobs

Examples:
Fawning @ADL lesson re @Malala ignores that she gave $50k to "rebuild a UN school" in Gaza (she essentially gave $ to Hamas) destroyed bc Hamas used it as weapon storage!
Plenty of brave women ADL could teach instead who *haven't* (inadvertently or no) helped enable Jew-killers.
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Oct 4, 2020
So @AOC won't meet w mainstream Jewish community, incl @ZionessMovement, but will meet w/ anti-Jewish conspiracy theorists from @AMPalestine & Neturei Karta (you know, just those "rabbis" who attend Iran's Holocaust denial conference). WTF. jewishinsider.com/2020/10/new-yo…
This is grotesque. Here she is meeting w/ NK in 2019.
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The pic @HenMazzig tweeted features @AOC w NK's Yisroel Dovid Weiss (on the right), who spoke at Iran's Holocaust denial con, met repeatedly w homophobe & anti-Semite Ahmadinejad, & was a guest of Hezbollah murderers in Beirut in 2018.

AOC will meet w him, but not @JCRCNY. ImageImageImage
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Sep 1, 2020
Researching @Dreamdefenders trips to "Palestine". @NGOmonitor @JerusalemCenter & others correctly noted how 2016 #DDPalestine trips met PFLP terrorists.

But the 1st trip, in 2015 (w @OsopePatrisse @msladyjustice1 @marclamonthill) did too:

Ali Jiddah, 1968 PFLP bomber. 1/ ImageImageImageImage
Following the 2015 trip, #BLM co-founder @OsopePatrisse took this pic in Northern Ireland & posted on her website, in which she wears a Yasser Arafat keffiyeh. Pic was there as recently as May 2020. It's now gone, as is any mention of #DDPalestine. 2/ ImageImageImageImage
When ppl wonder how @Blklivesmatter platforms & protesters (supposedly for "justice") show overt Jew-hate, bigotry, or violence towards Jews, it's partially this^

Co-founders & prominent activists of BLM approve of Pal terrorism/ blame Jews & Israel for U.S. racism. 3/ ImageImageImageImage
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Jul 16, 2020
.@Rav_Mike @jdforward criticizes @simonwiesenthal for condemning "Black leaders/clergy" silence on "Black anti-semitism"; claims we don't similarly ask for White leaders/clergy to condemn "White anti-Semitism." But imho, this misses some crucial points. 1/
forward.com/opinion/450951…
1. Blacks & Jews = both minorities in the USA, both face discrimination (often from the same ppl). So, it can be doubly hurtful to either community if one feels the other has turned on it.

2. The "connection" is that they repeated same Farrakhanist tropes, distinctive to...2/ Image
...Black Separatist movements, whereas "White anti-Semitism" is often rooted in more 'universal'/'broad' anti-Jewish tropes (horns, Holocaust denial, $$$) in which almost all anti-Semites indulge.

3. Many Jews played a big part in the fight for Black civil rights... 3/
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Jul 9, 2020
Under guise of "#humanrights", protesters scream "Allahu akbar" & "the Jews are our dogs" at anti-Israel rally. Apparently, "no one is free when others are oppressed" applies to all but Jews--"dogs" to be subjugated. But y'all #notantisemitic tho, right? 🙄 ImageImage
Here's the video, in case you can't see it in my previous tweet (possible if on desktop):

A pic at the rally. Protesters screamed "Jews are our dogs" while appropriating #BlackLivesMatter & #ICantBreath slogan to justify overt anti-Semitism. Will @OsopePatrisse @opalayo @aliciagarza condemn the use of #BLM mvmt to legitimize literal declarations of Jews' inferiority? Image
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Jun 30, 2020
Thread: In today's episode of Academics Say the Darndest Things, (former?) @UTAustin prof @spwells says that he "despise[s]" the "Apartheid oppressor" Israelis, who thus all "deserve to die."

What a paragon of moral fortitude & human rights advocacy!

H/t UTA law's @JordanCope12 ImageImage
Meanwhile @UTAustin's response to this grotesque display of hate = almost non-existent; its @Twitter statement is a dismissive, weak-kneed, boilerplate claim that @spwells' contract ended at the end of spring semester.

Yet Wells' @LinkedIn lists his 5-yr job there as 'present'. ImageImage
I looked all over @UTAustin's website & other social media. Not a single statement addressing @spwells' literal call for a second genocide of Jews.

I also looked thru his @Twitter account. He seems to have deleted those tweets & removed his UTA position from his Twitter bio. ImageImage
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