Billionaire CEOs didn't just reach Mayor Adams in a private chat urging him to arrest pro-Palestine Columbia students, they also offered PRIVATE staff to help NYPD. The Mayor accepted.
Members of the group also coordinated with Israel's war cabinet, UN ambassador and former PM.
And while many quoted Columbia's president as requesting the NYPD, including the Mayor, apparently these billionaires via Ted Deutch @AJCCEO of @AJCGlobal put pressure also on Columbia's board to invite the NYPD, while they encouraged the Mayor to send them.
@AJCCEO @AJCGlobal They then literally bribed @NYCMayor with donations to ActBlue. They may even have asked for a special way to code the donations to appear they are for fighting antisemitism, but told by the Mayor's lawyer it's not needed.
An average olive tree lives 500 years. Some have lived as long as 1500 years. Indigenous people are too attached to their land to do this, this is the work of settler colonialists.
If this were Gaza, they would blame Hamas for this too. Yet this is West Bank, in a town where Palestinians are unarmed families occupied by Israeli settlers from New York.
It’s not only ethnic cleansing of millions of Palestinians that marks Israel’s founding in 1948, since then, Israel has destroyed over 800,000 olive trees. Olive trees are miracles that survive almost anything. And a symbol of peace.
I don't know how many times this has to be said to so called democratic politicians.
When you say a Jewish state in Israel, it's like saying a white Christian state in the US.
That's what you're endorsing.
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And in order to maintain Israel as a Jewish state, they must expel non Jewish voters.
Which is what Gaza is. Palestinians in Gaza used to live all across what is Israel today, and were removed to change the voting demographics.
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So if you say Israel is a Jewish state, you're saying the US can be a white Christian state.
And if you're saying that, you're saying forced removal of non white Christians as voters. By voter suppression, by mass incarceration, and by deportation.
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