At the OJPAC event, the mayor of New Square Rabbi Izzy Spitzer and the Administrator of Kiryas Joel Gedalia Segedin are conversing as Rockland Jewish community leader Rabbi Harsh Horowitz listens in. cc @MondaireJones
It is a privilege to have presented a policy issue to @WillABarclay, @KarlBrabenec, @lawler4ny, @MichaelBSpecht, Mayor of New Squee Izzy Zpitzer, @AgudahNews’ Rabbi Zwiebel and Kiryas Joel’s Administrator Gedalia Segedin at the OJPAC Appreciation Event & Policy Conference.
What’s the practical upside of this commission? Dems and @RepJohnKatko already voted to impeach Trump for it. If it’s not political, both parties should have equal subpoena powers and staff space, and the commission should look at deadly political violence that proceeded 1/6/21.
The claim is that Trump’s doubts of 2020 led to 1/6/21.
Commission should look how Dems normalized the doubting of elections (Bush “stealing” 2000; Ohio/Diebold machines 2004; Russia “hacked” 2016 and HRC telling Biden not to concede), which may have led Trump to do the same.
1/6/21 didn’t happen in a vacuum and it was less violence against humans and institutions than the last 5 years of BLM/ANTIFA.
A legit commission would look at Dems’ election doubting and lib violence, and give GOP equal powers. But this isn’t happening because it’s pilitical.
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
“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
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.
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.
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