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8 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Prime Minister Netanyahu tweeted his congratulations to President elect Biden less than 40 minutes ago. There are several thousand quote tweets. Shall we take a look...?
But wait, there's more
Why do I feel like Boris Johnson's tweet didn't garner this much hate?
This isn't all of it, I just got tired wading through the antisemitism.

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11 Sep
The ⁦@nytimes⁩ bizarrely highlights Rashida Tlaib as POC while marking Chris Sununu (who is also Palestinian!), Alex Azar (Lebanese), Farnam Jahanian (Iranian), and probably others as white.

Why not use the same criteria across all sections? nyti.ms/2GGD7k5?referr…
Thank you to the people who pointed out that Justin Amash (independent member of Congress from Michigan) and Tom Gores (owner of the Pistons) are both ALSO Palestinian, like Tlaib, but are listed as white. Marc Lasry (owner of the Bucks) is Moroccan, and is also listed as white.
My point here isn't to try to discredit this entire project — it's striking how few of the "most powerful people" in this country aren't white. But it would still be striking if they had actually done the reporting correctly.
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18 Dec 19
Look, I listen to The Daily, well, daily. And I think that @mikiebarb generally does a great job. But he and @Max_Fisher got Trump’s executive order on antisemitism very, very wrong this morning. Here is a THREAD explaining how...
@mikiebarb @Max_Fisher Their central question at the beginning of the episode is “why [do] some Jewish Americans fear that the logic behind [Trump’s EO] could provide a rationale that ultimately furthers antisemitism?” The answer, unfortunately, is that the Times’ reporters got the story wrong!
@mikiebarb @Max_Fisher I’m a proud subscriber to the Times (the paper AND the crossword app!), and I have tremendous respect for @maggieNYT and @peterbakernyt, but they just flat out misreported and misrepresented the EO last week, touching off a maelstrom among Jews who didn’t understand.
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11 Dec 19
Here’s a thread on why the president’s Executive Order is a fine thing:
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin. It explicitly DOES NOT protect religious minorities from discrimination.
Why? Because religious groups like to discriminate a bit. Catholic nursing homes WANT to be able to prefer taking Catholic residents, for example. Jewish nursing homes too. So on the basis of those objections, discrimination on the basis of religion wasn’t written into the law.
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11 Dec 19
Fellow Jews:
Let's set aside the first amendment concerns for a moment (though they are important considerations!).

Let's set aside how we feel about the President.

I'm a member of the Jewish nation, aren't you?
Remember when the Trump administration said "discrimination against Jews...violates Title VI when that discrimination is based on [Jews'] actual or perceived shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics” and everyone was fine with it?

Oh wait, that was the Obama administration.
Do people not understand the purpose of the Civil Rights Act? It's not about making groups *less* American, it's about guaranteeing our rights *as* Americans!

One can doubt the president's motives, but the idea that Jews shouldn't have protections as a minority is really weird!
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28 Nov 19
Going through old things in my parents' basement and found this, from 1967: a nearly 100-page special edition of @LIFE commemorating Israel's miraculous victory in the Six-Day War.
Gonna tweet some incredible pictures from inside...
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31 Mar 19
A few thoughts on that awful long-form opinion piece by @NathanThrall masquerading as reportage (I won't link to such garbage).
1. I am generally center-left on these issues and sat down to read it with much interest—after all, if it was good enough for my @nytimes (which I spend countless hours defending in my circles), it would surely be nuanced and thoughtful. Disillusionment set in by the third 'graf.
Thrall describes the trio that Sanders sent to shape the Dem platform as "fearless crusaders for civil rights" and HRC's reps—15-term Rep. Howard Berman, diplomat Wendy Sherman, and trailblazing CEO Bonnie Schaefer—as "a bunch of kikes" (I'm paraphrasing, but see for yourself!)
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