Imagine if a US Congress member rose up to admit that he thinks a Native American Congress member is only in there by mistake because American genocide didn’t finish the job.
Jewish mothers should not share the same space with Arabs in maternity wards, since the Arab baby will want to kill the Jewish baby in 20 years.
Organized march to oppose Israel Pride march called the Beast Parade, in which LGBTQ are the beasts
Started a non profit that systematized denial of permits for Palestinians and other non Jews to build anything.
Defended Israeli Jews who refused to sell homes to Israeli Arabs and Palestinians.
Believes LGBTQ “control the media”
Said Palestinian children accused of throwing stones should be shot.
After an entire Palestinian family was murdered by settlers, said settler violence on Palestinians isn’t terrorism because it’s “not against us” and calling it such is a civil rights violation.
When Twitter got a complaint that Bezalel Smotrich tweeted a call to shoot a Palestinian child while in jail, Twitter suspended him only for 12 hours and asked him to delete the tweet.
He didn’t delete the tweet and still uses Twitter at @bezalelsm and remains verified.
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I always regret clicking Holocaust when it's trending. And I regret it again.
It almost always means opening a wave of ignorance either questioning it or abusing its lessons to protect violence today.
And those two things aren't unrelated. Because so many institutions we trust abuse the Holocaust to justify violence, colonialism and attacks on speech and protest -- we are no longer filling the gap in actual Holocaust education. Feeding and enabling hate and antisemitism.
Does it have anything to do with @SenGillibrand being the person who nominated a partner from the very law firm representing Chevron, who lost a $9.5B judgement in Ecuador thanks to the work of indigenous people and Steven Donziger?
Do you really think we aren't paying attn?
@SenGillibrand Does it have anything to do with the $30,000 from Jennifer H. Rearden to @SenGillibrand? And all those pricey fundraisers organized by JHR?
South Park did a great example of Amazon monopoly power here. And against small business in the past. While one clip can't do everything, the reality is much darker when you reveal how the business model preys on climate and on health and freedom of Black and brown communities.
And even outside of racial capitalism, the clip doesn't depict that no one stays at the job for long. That the warehouses are injury factories. That the workers and their communities are spied on. And that Amazon itself is ushering in carbon and pollution levels we cannot reverse
Longer one would depict Amazon's role criminalizing Black neighbors with ICE and police, car pool driving through smog, truck and airplane poison, injuries and COVID deaths at work, coworkers disappearing, wages being lowered across the community and rents skyrocketing...
One of the challenges of showing up to close places like Rikers Island or enact bail reform is simply that most people just don't understand what bail is.
I didn't either, so we have to keep explaining it because every time we do, people are hearing it for the first time.
Cash bail is simply a financial incentive you're able and willing to put up as a pretrial defendant. You get the money back if you show up to court so the argument is that it will incentivize you to show up.
However...
However, in practice, cash bail is abused by prosecutors and judges. Bail is set at rates that are unaffordable on purpose, and set at even higher rates for Black and brown people for same types of cases as whites...
The immigration, refugee and asylum policy of President @JoeBiden is likely troubling to anyone paying attention, but I will tell you as a refugee myself, who lives among the largest multi racial, multi faith refugee population in the world here in Queens -- it is grotesque.
From my own family to my neighbors to my entire community -- the majority of people I interact with, I hold closest, are immigrants. Many of them asylum seekers and children of them. To watch these same people be sealed under a bridge, and herded like animals is shattering to me.
It would be enough of a horror on its own, but add to that many people seeking asylum today are seeking safety from right wing governments the US upheld, democracies the US sabotaged, war and exploitation the US led, and climate policy the US is asleep at the wheel at.