Nothing better could sum up the sickness plaguing modern American Judaism than this: cancelling a talk from a Holocaust survivor, after a decade of speaking out about his experience, because of his unforgivable sin of of protesting Israel forward.com/news/618082/ho…
The Jewish family has realized “that it’s not a family at all,” he said. “It’s got these Jews that are traitors. That’s me. I’m a traitor."
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This is obviously very stupid. But there's a fascinating contradiction in her video proof that's worth breaking down. The video's description describes Werthmann as a "Holocaust survivor" while the video itself says she "survived WW2 in Austria." These are very different things
Werthmann goes around the country saying how innocent the Austrian people were, how they were fooled by Hitler's promises. This is actually a very common Austrian perception! nptelegraph.com/news/austrian-…
It's known as "Austria Victim Theory" and was actually pretty crucial to Austrian identity post-WW2. They weren't the ones killing the Jews—in fact, they were Hitler's first victims!
Toni McBride is an LAPD officer who, in her spare time, is an IG and Facebook gun videos. She just killed a mentally ill man threatening suicide a significant distance to her, shooting four times while he was on the ground nbclosangeles.com/investigations…
On Instagram, McBride is associated with Taran Tactical Innovations, which mixes celebrity endorsements from Halle Berry and Michael B. Jordan with "beautiful girls who shoot as good as they look.” lamag.com/citythinkblog/…
here's a video of her and Keanu Reeves, for example, leading a cheer with the long-time police nickname for the area, "Shootin' Newton" instagram.com/tv/B6UFuA-HXa0…