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Apr 16 2 tweets 1 min read Read on X
Let's review the Chemerinsky incident:
Student shows up to celebratory graduation dinner at the dean's house with a speaker system, begins political tirade. Dean and wife plead with her to stop, then ask her to leave multiple times, as they have every right to do. She refuses. She is now a trespasser. Wife, instead of calling police, tries to stop disruption by the much more peaceable means of taking trespasser's microphone away.
Pro-Hamas progressives: Dean's wife is a violent racist.
The pro-Hamas progressive subtext, of course, is that the dean is a "Zionist," ie Jew who doesn't think that Israel should be destroyed and therefore he and his family deserve to be given no quarter, and also have none of the normal rights people have, like stopping trespassers from disrupting events, when confronted about their "Zionism" by a Muslim student.

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Apr 7
"With so may serious people accusing Israel of genocide, how can you not take it seriously?"

Because these are not, in fact, serious people, and many of them have been accusing Israel of "genocide" since well before 10/7. In case you don't believe me, I did a google search for Israel Gaza Genocide for 2016, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21. Below are the top results from these searches, the tip of the iceberg. Let's start with 2016.

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Mar 18
This really may be the dumbest thing I’ve read in the Jewish American media all year. In ch. 9 of the Book of Esther, Jews, given the right to defend themselves by the king, gather in self defense and kill 75k enemies who were prepared to kill every Jew in the kingdom. And…. A bunch of left-wing rabbis find this objectionable. So, the Jews should have what? Let their enemies murder them? jta.org/2024/03/15/rel…
I should note that some if the rabbis quoted don’t seem to understand the story. Haman’s decree to kill all the Jews had already gone out to the kingdom, it could not be revoked. But the king could and did send a new decree allowing the Hews to defend themselves from the onslaught.
So it was defend yourselves with force or die.
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Feb 25
Orthodox Jews are 17% of Pew's sample 2021 sample of American Jews aged 18-34. If you limited the sample to active Jews (Jews that are in some way practicing or affiliated with the community) it would be higher. Of committed Jews, those to whom Judaism is an important part of their lives, it would be even higher. OTOH, far leftist jews of the same cohort are less than 17%, and then diminish once you get to practicing, and even more for committed. But you can't tell me that JTA gives attention proportionally... Every obnoxious rally/disruption by the second group gets a story. How many massive mitzvah projects are going on right now to help Israel are going on, and how many have you covered? Of course, they don't send out press releases, which brings me back to my earlier point about how much modern journalism is just regurgitating press releases from interest groups.
@kampeas @JTAnews @NYJewishWeek Just the past month: jta.org/2024/02/25/ide…
@kampeas @JTAnews @NYJewishWeek jta.org/2024/02/23/ny/…
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Feb 12
It's kind of horrifying that the loudest voices bemoaning Palestinian civilian suffering in Gaza will harshly criticize everyone and anyone--Israel, the US, the EU, the UN, American Jews, you name it--except for Hamas, and the one thing they won't do is suggest Hamas surrender, even though that would immediately end the war, and also end Gazans being ruled by an oppressive medieval theocracy that steals aid money to build weapons and villas for its leaders. In short, no matter how much they purport to care for Palestinians, their biggest priority is that Israel not emerge victorious over Hamas. I won't go so far as to claim that they don't care about the Palestinians. I will claim, strongly, that they hate Israel much more.
(A perfectly good example is @KarenAttiah, who has a sufficiently influential position as world opinion editor at the @washpost that someone like her deciding that hey, maybe Hamas should just surrender and release the hostages could help move the needle.)
And they won't even suggest that they want Hamas to surrender for rhetorical purposes. Like, "Of course my preference would be for Hamas to surrender and release the hostages, but if that can't happen, and it looks like it can't, to end the civilian suffering Israel should cease fire." Nope, they won't even suggest that they would *prefer* Hamas to surrender. How twisted does your mind have to be to think Hamas is the relative good guy here?
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Jan 29
According to their press release, they seem to mostly be complaining about outside actors "doxxing" them, criticizing them, denying them job opportunities, etc. I doubt Harvard has any responsibility/liability for "protecting" students from non-Harvard affiliates. Perhaps the full complaint has allegations involving people at Harvard.
@steveplotnicki @OrinKerr mlfa.org/mlfa-files-fed…
@steveplotnicki @OrinKerr The fact that they don't link to the complaint is not promising.
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Nov 26, 2023
I've learned from "X" that the "pro-Palestine" movement lives in a fantasy world where, putting mythology regarding 10/7 aside (for the uninitiated, please note that every single one of these beliefs is utterly false)...
--There was a country called Palestine, where Muslims and a small Jewish minority lived in peace and harmony, as they did throughout the Arab Muslim world
--Every Palestinian is indigenous to Palestine going back to the Canaanites, every Jew is not
--Zionists "invaded" Palestine
--The UN, trying to compensate Jews for the Holocaust, "gave" the country to the Zionists, even though Palestinians were stalwart opponents of the Nazis
--Israel, entirely unprovoked, proceeded to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian population because of Zionist racism
--Israel then duped the happy Jewish populations of Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, etc to leave for Israel
--Israel, entirely unprovoked, proceeded to seize the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 as part of its imperialist agenda
--The PLO arose spontaneously as a national liberation movement, with no help from East bloc secret services
--Hamas though a national liberation movement, also was created and funded by Israel
--Palestinian governments in the West Bank and Gaza somehow arose spontaneously, Oslo never existed
--Israel made no legitimate peace offers in 2000 or 2001
--Israel started the war that became known as the Second intifada
--Israel's reaction to the Second Intifada involved indiscriminate murder of Palestinians, part of a broader campaign of genocide
--After Fatah was defeated militarily Hamas became the focus of the "resistance," while simultaneously being funded and supported by Israel
--Under Hamas rule, Gaza was both a paradise and the world's largest open-air prison
--Palestinians in Israeli jails who were duly convicted of various crimes including murder, after trials in which they were represented by counsel, are "hostages," while actual hostages held by Hamas are all guilty of something or other.
And if you believe any of these things, read some actual history and use whatever critical thinking skills God has given you.
And "even the fairest Palestinians are brown, and even the brownest Jews are white."
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