Maybe @DavidCornDC and @MotherJones could just provide us Jews for a list of American NGOs that we're allowed to donate to without being smeared as being loyal to a foreign government?
The only way this makes sense as a scandal is if you consider 'AIPAC' and 'the Israeli government' to be interchangeable terms. But AIPAC, like all American non-profits, is forbidden by law from coordinating with any foreign government!
So what we have here is a journalistic outlet deciding to smear a Jewish woman who has devoted her career to the security of the United States as a potentially disloyal American.
There's a major ring of Dreyfus to this smear and, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it's hard not to be reminded as well of the German Jews who served loyally in the German Army in WWI and were not spared when Nazism decided that Jews couldn't possibly be true Germans.
In my initial tweet, I neglected to give 'credit' to @KenDilanianNBC for this antisemitic attack. He, too, should be ashamed and owes Anne Neuberger an apology.
Do @DavidCornDC + @KenDilanianNBC think Neuberger is a national security threat? Do they think her background checks didn't turn up these (totally fine, normal, unproblematic!) donations? What is their goal here, just to incite antisemitic attacks against an Orthodox woman?
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One awkward thing about #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay is that people cite the entirely made-up stat that 11 million people were killed in the Holocaust. WRONG. 6 million Jews were killed by gas, bullets, fire, and starvation, along with no more than 500,000 non-Jews.
The Holocaust was a uniquely Jewish tragedy and citing the 11 million number has the effect (and sometimes the intent) of universalizing the Holocaust. Some people, more provocative than I, refer to this as "all lives matter"-ing the Holocaust.
The 11 million number comes from famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal who chose it because 5 million was close to, but crucially not more than, 6 million. He hoped to elicit non-Jewish sympathy, by helping them see themselves in the tragedy, without outnumbering Jewish victims.
The most sociopathic thing about Harry is that he never once wishes Hermione a happy birthday or otherwise acknowledges her birthday, even though it's in mid-September!
When she buys Crookshanks in Prisoner of Azkaban she mentions that she is using money her parents gave her because “It’s my birthday in September…”
Zero acknowledgment from Harry (or Ron).
It's not just Hermione, btw. Harry doesn't wish Ron a happy birthday until the SIXTH book! He unceremoniously says “Happy birthday, Ron...have a present” (as though this wasn't the first time that he ever did anything to acknowledge Ron's birthday).
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.