Without Andy Levin, we're going to need her voice in Congress even more.
So I just gave to @yuhline because she's the only Congressional candidate in her district not being propped up by Republican funders. For #NY10 and the nation.
There's a reason Yuh-Line's not propped by Republican funders: She's the type of Democrat that fights to make sure New York is a beacon to immigrants and refugees like me and spent her political career standing with working people not lining the pockets of the ultra wealthy.
New Yorkers worked hard to make New York a triple blue state. And when the corporate wing of the Democratic party conspired with Republicans to reverse that, Yuh-Line as widely celebrated Assembly member, played a lead role trouncing them out of office to the unemployment line.
When Cuomo conspired with his Republican funders to reverse New York voters' mandate that we build the most progressive state in the US, it was Yuh-Line who also played a lead role in reigning in his corruption and ending his protection as sexual abuser in chief.
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AIPAC's support of pro insurrection candidates isn't @AIPAC selling out US democracy for Israel, it isn't it throwing Black and brown people under the bus for Israel, it isn't stepping on LGBTQIA+ or abortion rights for Israel.
It's all of that AND supporting antisemitism.
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It is AIPAC empowering Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and neo-nazi loser Baked Alaska who live-streamed from Pelosi's office after storming the capitol.
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It is AIPAC raising the neo nazi Kek flag, as they did during the insurrection.
On the Amnesty report, the simple fact that there is a minority of extremely influential and widely normalized Azov neo Nazis officially embedded in the Ukrainian military immediately disqualifies the notion that only Russian forces are endangering Ukrainian civilians.
Not here to delegitimize all the different critiques, everything should be examined. But I've looked at people attacking @amnesty leaders with more passion and vigor than they've ever done criticizing Azov. Ever.
If you're making the case that during an urban attack by forces as despicable as Putin's it is impossible to adhere to the human rights ideals Ukraine itself signed up to follow, then your beef is not with @amnesty but with laws of war.
A lot of the pro Ukrainian critiques with @amnesty's report aren't really critiques of the report per se, but critiques of the human rights standards Ukraine itself is a signatory to. It may be more honest to say you don't believe in basic human rights laws during war anymore.
I don't mean that as an insult or as derision, just simply that even in a war where there is clearly an unrepentant and evil force like Putin, there are going to be choices those under fire make that put civilians in more danger.
The report itself cites Ukrainian families themselves documenting military choices that killed their loved ones.
Who threw down with AIPAC, funders of racist, misogynistic, insurrectionist, anti-abortion candidates against against a progressive Jew because his opponent was a woman. A woman who would continue bombing Palestinian women.
Israeli forces killed 18 Palestinian kids this year so far. Adjusted statistically, it's like reporting US military killing 123 kids at home and putting 4800 through military courts and prison. Each US made Israeli bomb and bullet is aiming at a community that's 40% kids < 14.
18 is a holy number to us. Hebrew letters have numerical values. 18 spells "Chai". You may have seen it as חי on necklaces we wear. And before a toast, you've joined us saying L'chaim!
18, Chai's the word for "life". From my Jewish faith Israel has hijacked to kill 18 children.
If you want to keep track of the children US backed Israeli violence is aimed at, follow @DCIPalestine and add your name to this petition.
When founders of @TheJewishVote first considered its name, it was in response to decades of the right claiming the "Jewish vote" was primarily about Israel overseas more policing at home.
Yet, VAST majority of Jews, across all polls, hold local housing, health care, schools, jobs as our priorities. And we vote that way. @TheJewishVote's platform is the majoritarian Jewish value across New York City. And if you don't like that, I'm truly not and never sorry.
If u feel sour about Jews organizing candidates and legislation based on the vast majority of Jewish values across NYC on almost every single issue calling themselves The Jewish Vote, you are certainly free to begin your own group to work with insurrectionists. Oh you have: AIPAC