"@ZohranKMamdani's victory will reshape the national dialogue around what we can achieve in progressive elections and governance and around the role of the Jewish community in coalition building that work."
- Jamie Beran
Chief Executive Officer
Bend the Arc: Jewish Action
Columbia student and New Yorker, Mahmoud Khalil - who was targeted and detained for constitutionally protected speech - should be home with his 8 months pregnant wife today.
Not missing in ICE detention, unreachable by his lawyers.
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The White House's authoritarian actions are being falsely done in our name as Jews, by a President and politicians who actively use antisemitism and do not speak for Jews.
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We’ve been afraid this day would come since campus protests began. Free speech and education are pillars of our democracy, and a healthy democracy is what keeps Jews safest.
The White House's authoritarian actions are being falsely done in our name as Jews, by a President and politicians who actively use antisemitism and do not speak for Jews.
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We’ve been afraid this day would come since campus protests began.
Free speech and education are pillars of our democracy, and a healthy democracy is what keeps Jews safest.
You’ve heard of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, and its plan to help Trump disassemble US democracy to replace it with an authoritarian right wing Christian ethnostate.
The claim by @RashidaTlaib was that Michigan's AG, through her whole tenure, had never filed charges against protestors doing civil disobedience from other issues like police violence and climate until it came to Palestinians, a common institutional bias in the US.
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The @ACLU itself made the same claim, saying it represents "a pattern of excessive response by law enforcement to the campus protests".
In the last 24 hours we’ve learned that the ongoing violence has claimed an additional 6 Israeli hostages and at least 47 Palestinians.
We grieve with all of the families and people in deep pain over this tremendous — and avoidable — loss of life.
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We’ve learned the only American who is able to stop it with a stroke of a pen, President @JoeBiden, continues to refuse to enforce his own red line, and make good on his own promise to stop offensive weapons to Israel.
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We’ve learned that the person leading this nation with him, VP @KamalaHarris, who is promising Americans a new chapter, is doubling down on militarism which will only take more precious lives.
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