1/ I am writing here as someone who a) had many roles in political campaigns in NY but gave it up a few years back to expand the work of OJPAC so I know a thing or two and b) as someone who is actively involved in policy as it relates to elected office so I know even more things.
2/ Some of the rhetoric that people are using against @AndrewYang and more so against @ericadamsfornyc as it relates to votes and voters in the Orthodox Jewish community is inflammatory and also false. Yang as being new to the scene has a right to evolve on issues the more info
3/ that he hears and sees. It does’t make him an opportunist or a hack. Having been in elected office a long time, @ericadamsfornyc has had agreements and disagreements as it relates to Orthodox Jews. Agreeing to do the right thing does not mean automatic support; disagreeing
4/ does not mean he is a hater. Policy work is more complex and level-headed than what fits on a meme or in a Twitter thread. Choosing one candidate as a first in rank choice voting does not mean than the number two is not being supported or that she/he should be defamed.
5/ More than once, leaders and voters in the OJ community supported the losing candidate, yet productive long-lasting relationships have been built after the elections. Why? Because leaders and elected people generally understand that advocacy and public service take more than a
6/ a meme or snark. The most important thing that people in a community can do regarding elections is to participate. Vote! Having large numbers even for what it turns out to be the losing candidate is more important than having less numbers for the winning candidate.

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25 May
“It’s not wrong to compare Trump’s America to the Holocaust. Here’s why.” - 7/16/18 in @PostOpinions
‘He’s sort of like Goebbels,’ Biden compares Trump to the Nazi chief propagandist. - 9/20/20

“Jewish Democratic group’s ad compares Trump era and 1930s Germany.” - 9/20/20
Gore took 37 days to concede 2000, but within days of the Nov elections, the Number 3 @HouseDemocrats compared Trump to Hitler for refusing to concede 2020. “That’s what Hitler did in Germany,” said @WhipClyburn
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23 May
Hey @GOPLeader. @davidmweissman walks around like an unaffiliated white but pulls his “as a Jew card” for politics. I however am visibly Jewish; an ethnicity whose members are being beat up after a week of inflammatory language by @AOC @IlhanMN. At this time, please focus there.
When visibly Jewish people faced dozens of assaults in 2019 and nasty language from politicos in 2020, some members of the tribe were MIA. But the MINUTE they can score political points, they pull the “as a Jew” line.

Well, AS A JEW fight hatred no matter the source, you HACKS!
Most Jews murdered by the Nazis were not identifiably Jewish. Haters hate no matter how affiliated.

But if you move around like a white guy with a lower chance of facing hate assaults, and you are also MIA when visibly Jewish peopele are beaten, don’t “as a Jew” me for politics.
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23 May
Leaders at Twitter jump when there is negative information regarding Coronavirus vaccine despite the fact that the CDC/FDA highlight those issues. It’s as if @TwitterSupport has more confidence in those vaccines than FDA/CDC. Why hide side effects that CDC/FDA alone say R legit?
This NYT headline and quote from a doctor are amazing: There are reports of inflammation next to the heart in dozens of young people who took the Coronavirus vaccine, but it’s not yet determined it is from the vaccine; it’s possibly just a coincidence. #myocarditis
Fauci said days ago that if 70% of the population is vaccinated, a major outbreak in the fall will be avoided.

Kids under 18 are 22% of the population; we can reach 70% with out them. They are a fraction of Coronavirus deaths and a fraction of their deaths is from Coronavirus.
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21 May
1/4 When floodgates are opened from countries where intolerance and violence is embedded in the education and culture, you get the same results in the new countries.

Try all you want to have me only worried about white supremacy, but we need look at hate from all sources!
2/4 Since mid-2015 so much focus about antisemitism was on whites. But almost - if not - all physical hate attacks on visibly Jewish people in NY and NJ in recent years have been by bigots of color. Hatred comes in all colors (literally). Stop politicizing it. Be real about it!
3/4 Unlike the “as a Jew” crowd, I don’t ID publicly “as a Jew” just when it fits my politics. Plus, I spend time daily running an org focused on bigotry against visibly Jewish people. I know this issue better than most of the clowns who pop off in need retweets. The fact is that
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BREAKING in the #DiamondDistrict:

(I don’t know the source of the video)
Video: Moments earlier, a device went off in what is said to be in the #DiamondDistrict in NYC:
Video: As the smoke cleared in NYC. (Please beware of language)
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19 May
Lawmakers in Congress (as well as opinion hosts) who use inflammatory language, loaded with verifiable lies and lack of current-day context when discussing the flareup, are fueling physical attacks against Jews. cc @AliVelshi @Trevornoah @AOC @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib @USJewishDems
When listening to the lawmakers and commentators above, you don’t know that 1.5 million Arabs in the Israel-controlled areas of Israel are free to vote, work, travel, be openly LGBT, be appointed to judgeships, be elected to the Parliament and have Sharia Courts.
More Arabs R elected to the Israeli Parliament than the number of civilian Jews who can walk freely in Gaza, yet @AOC uses the Aprtheid term against Israel; not against Hamas which controls Gaza and BTW refuses to hold elections since 2005; same is the case with Fatah in the WB.
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