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29 Jun, 8 tweets, 4 min read
This is Nick Fuentes. He is a white supremacist anti-Semite. That's not Twitter hyperbole, just a straight-up description. Here he is smilingly denying the Holocaust:
This is Republican congressman @DrPaulGosar. He spoke after Fuentes at a political event in February. Fuentes claims that he is doing an actual fundraiser with Gosar on July 1. Fuentes is a liar, so this needs to be confirmed, but if true, Gosar should be expelled from Congress.
@DrPaulGosar The most racist member of the U.S. Congress, a story in two parts
@DrPaulGosar Very instructive to look at the replies here from Fuentes's fans, half of whom insist he is a brave truthteller, and the other half of whom claim he is just joking. Antisemites have no commitment to the truth, so they constantly play games like this.
If you want to understand Fuentes's trollish antisemitic cult, @janecoaston's primer is a good place to start: vox.com/policy-and-pol…
At this point, seems pretty clear that Gosar is doing this event with the Holocaust-denying creep Fuentes. This is not how you deny it. If/when it happens, every one of his Republican colleagues should be asked if they think this is acceptable conduct for a member of Congress.
In other news, I have apparently triggered this snowflake.
Now Gosar is doing the troll thing where he's like "maybe I'm doing it, maybe I'm not, and also I don't know what you're talking about." We'll see on Friday.

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28 Jun
This looks VERY bad. On June 10, after anti-Jewish crimes spiked, the Black Jewish diversity officer for the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators @scbwi posted a condemnation of antisemitism. Today, she was fired, apparently for not mentioning Islamophobia? Yikes.
@scbwi Here are the link to both posts in question (the condemnation of antisemitism and the apparent apology for it). A lot of understandably angry and bewildered comments on the latter:
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@scbwi To emphasize: The statement condemning antisemitism was put out by an American organization, and did not mention Israel at all. That some people would interpret it as an attack on Muslims or Palestinians says something unfortunate about their worldview, not the statement.
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People think crazy people being congresspeople is new, but this person was a Democratic member of Congress from 1993-2003 and 2005-2007, then was the Green party candidate for president in 2008. None of this is new, it's just more obvious thanks to social media.
This person is no longer consequential, but the antisemitic bigotry she is reflecting still is. Notice how she doesn't say "the Jews" did 9/11, she says "the Zionists" did it. This substitution is one of the most common ways antisemites today lazily try to launder their hate.
Anti-Zionism is not ipso facto antisemitism, as I've said before. But many antisemites use anti-Zionism as a flimsy cover for their old-school anti-Jewish ideas. It's important to be aware of this common bait-and-switch and not to fall for it.
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The idea that the Biden administration was reversing Golan recognition never passed the smell test. If they're going to pick a fight, it's not going to be over ceding the Golan to Bashar Assad, something no serious person entertains. Come on.
As I wrote in my piece today, Netanyahu is doing everything he can to poison the well between the new Israeli government and both Democrats & Republicans. Leaking false claims about shifting US positions to undermine the relationship wouldn't surprise me. tabletmag.com/sections/israe…
The Biden administration has plenty of actual issues of consequence to negotiate with Israel, from Iran to the Palestinians. A symbolic spat over the Golan, which isn't going anywhere, isn't one of them.
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Israel has an independent judiciary. Netanyahu's case is in the court system. The new government has nothing to do with how fast it proceeds. (The charges were brought against Netanyahu by his own attorney general.) Worth learning something about Israel before tweeting about it!
That @mattgaetz tweet is ignorant about Israel, but revealing about America: some Republicans who claim to support Israel actually just support it as a partisan wedge issue against Democrats. When the new Israeli government refuses to play along with this, they will turn on it.
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(a) Will Netanyahu explicitly encourage Republicans to turn on the new Israeli government and hold out for his return?
(b) How many Republicans will side with their party's pro-Israel base, and how many will instead go with Bibi and their partisan interest?
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The Knesset votes for the speaker, then the new speaker holds the vote for the new government. One step away.
The members of the opposition government, in their first vote as a bloc, have successfully replaced the speaker of the Knesset. Next comes the vote to approve a new government.
The Israeli Knesset is now voting on the new government. If the vote succeeds, it will replace Netanyahu's coalition.
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Right now, right-wing Knesset members are heckling Bennett non-stop as he tries to give his maiden speech laying out the agenda of the new government. This is unlikely to impact the new government other than remind its members why they got together in the first place.
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