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Joel Pollak Profile picture
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Sep 29, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Biden’s tax returns showed he and Dr. Jill barely give anything to charity. The “Scranton vs. Park Ave.” thing is funny, because he barely lived in Scranton and Trump was born in Queens.
I should qualify this: they barely *gave* until the last few years, when they started giving more, including large sums to their own charities.
"Joe Biden and his wife donated just $70,000 to charity in the two decades leading up to 2017, per their tax returns. But when their earnings skyrocketed in 2017, so did their giving." forbes.com/sites/chasewit…
Prior to the 2008 election: "Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden and his wife gave an average of $369 a year to charity during the past decade, his tax records show."

$369 per year.

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Aug 8
Some thoughts on the Jewish vote.

You *should not* believe polls that tell you Trump is winning the Jewish vote, especially polls with small samples and large margins of error.

Here is what you are more likely to see, given Harris's VP choice and other developments. (1/5) 🧵
Trump will do very well with Jews, given 1) his record on Israel; 2) Biden's perceived weakness on Israel; 3) Harris's snub of Josh Shapiro; 4) acute fears of left-wing antisemitism; 5) reduced fears of right-wing antisemitism.

But the ceiling for Trump among Jews is 40%. (2/5)
Many Jews are dogmatically loyal to the Democratic Party. The reasons have to do with self-perception, i.e. being seen as on the side of "social justice," both for narcissistic reasons and self-preservation in big cities; and about irrational fear of Christian conservatism. (3/5)
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Apr 10
Allow me to respond to @TuckerCarlson's interview here with @MuntherIsaac by talking about the facts, rather than speculating about whether Tucker hates Israel, or is an antisemite. He says he is concerned about Christians; I'll accept that. But there's no excuse for this. (1/nn)
First, a fact about Bethlehem. Christians used to be a majority there; they are now a minority. The Palestinian Authority has been Islamizing the city since taking control of Bethlehem 30 years ago. Israeli "occupation" is hardly the primary issue. (2/10)jcpa.org/jl/vp490.htm
Another fact: Bethlehem has become an antisemitic city under Palestinian control, far worse to Jews than even to Christians. In 2007, I was told not to speak Hebrew there; in 2023, I was told to remove my yarmulke, or cover it with a hat. In the birthplace of Jesus, a Jew. (3/10)
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Dec 17, 2023
I have spent an anguished 24+ hours thinking about the 3 hostages who were tragically killed by the @IDF as they escaped from Hamas. Here are a few thoughts about the event and what happens next. It's the darkest moment of the war thus far, but also perhaps a turning point. (1/9)
First, a salute to the heroism of these young men -- one Arab, two Jews. They survived more than 70 days in captivity and escaped their captors. Who knows how long they lived without food or water. As the IDF Chief said, they did everything right. They should have survived. (2/9)
The Israeli public does not want the soldiers who shot the hostages punished, tho they broke the rules -- unlike the case of the reservists who mistakenly killed Yuval Kestelman after he stopped a terror attack. I think the difference is that higher-ups took responsibility. (3/9)
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Nov 30, 2023
Some commentary on @ggreenwald interview with Rashid Khalidi about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I agree with Greenwald on free speech; this has always been his blind spot. He begins with providing "context" to October 7; however, no such context is needed/appropriate. (1/12)
I may have missed it but I did not see Greenwald acknowledge Khalidi's history of association with the Palestine Liberation Organization during its days as a terror organization (he has said elsewhere that he was not a spokesman). Certainly that is some important "context" (2/12)
Both Greenwald and Khalidi assume that Israel's actions in Gaza are "indiscriminate" and show disregard for civilian casualties. This is untrue and is contradicted by ample evidence. Nor do they comment on Hamas's appalling disregard for Palestinian civilian lives in Gaza. (3/12)
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Nov 18, 2023
A thread on what is currently publicly known about rape and sexual assault during the Hamas terror attack on October 7, which some anti-Israel activists are attempting to deny (casting aside the principle of "believe every women" to which many of the same people subscribe). (1/8)
There are several eyewitness testimonies to the rape of others, including one that has been partially revealed to the media, in which an account of gang rape is accompanied by descriptions of extreme violence, culminating in the murder of the victim. (2/8) breitbart.com/middle-east/20…
There is video evidence suggesting sexual assault, including the abuse of the partially undressed body of deceased victim Shani Louk, 23, on a truck, and the dragging of a female hostage (apparently Naama Levy, 19) into a jeep as she appears to have bloodstains on her pants (3/8)
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May 21, 2023
.@Peggynoonannyc's column obsessing -- STILL -- about a "Trump-Russia" connection is both hilarious and illustrative of the way in which those in the elite media and political classes fell completely for their own propaganda, originally concocted to explain Trump's victory. (1/5) Image
Noonan finds it mysterious that Trump was so friendly to Russia. It was simple. Putin praised Trump in the GOP primary. Trump returned the compliment. If Putin attacked him, Trump would have attacked Putin. That's not how he is with *Putin*; it's how he is with *everybody.* (2/5)
On a deeper level Trump was pleasant to Putin in public but confrontational in strategic terms. He urged Europe to cut its energy ties with Russia. He used the U.S. military against Russian allies and mercenaries. Trump's dual-track policy worked -- unlike the alternatives. (3/5)
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