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Nov 4 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Just thinking of that time in 2018 when Quincy Jones gave a couple of remarkable interviews with eye-popping details. RIP to a real one.

Here's the Vulture interview (1/2)

vulture.com/2018/02/quincy…Image
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(2/2) And here's the GQ one. Unbelievable stuff. What a life.

gq.com/story/quincy-j…Image
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Hard to choose a favourite anecdote. I reckon it's a tie between him meeting the Pope and saying "my man's got some pimp shoes on" and him talking about buying drugs from Malcolm X.
I may just start ending stuff with "You like Brazilian music?" from now on, in tribute.

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Oct 15
For many years, more UN resolutions have been passed against Israel than every single other nation *combined*.

Either you’re an idiot & truly believe Israel is more evil than Russia, Iran, North Korea, Myanmar & every other nation. Or you can accept the UN has an Israel problem. Image
The Assad regime has carried out unimaginable atrocities against the Syrian people.

Number of UN resolutions passed against Syria since 2011: 49
Number of UN resolutions passed against Israel in the same period: 261

If you think the UN is a clear moral arbiter you are unhinged.
For years, everyone who has seen this has somehow had to pretend that this is normal.

It's not normal. A bunch of nations have worked very hard to use the UN to falsely make Israel appear to be the worst nation on earth. And the structures of the UN have fully enabled this.
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Oct 2
1) In 2021, when it was already clear what David Miller believed, hundreds of UK academics signed an open letter in his support alleging he was the victim of "false allegations and the weaponisation of the positive impulses of anti-racism so as to silence anti-racist debate."
2) Over the subsequent years, when he continued to air his disgusting views online as well as on Iranian State Television, a small handful of those academics quietly withdrew their names.

Most did not. You can see that list here:

supportmiller.org/educators-and-…
3) Try and imagine you are a young Jewish student going to a UK university. You have chosen to study history, or sociology. And you know that in your department there is are academics who publicly defended David Miller & have not withdrawn that support despite language like this. Image
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May 26
In this thread, I’m going to go into some detail about what the phrase “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” means to many Jewish people. You may not agree, but I hope that it may enlighten those who simply don't understand the almost visceral reaction to it.

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2) For the benefit of a number of students at some of America’s most expensive higher education institutions, let’s start by clarifying - the river is the River Jordan, the sea is the Mediterranean. Image
3) So what do those chanting it mean? When asked, a bunch of them will say they want a single state in this area in which all people can live together in dignity and equality. Sounds great, right? Who would argue with that?
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May 7
A short thread on the favourite slogan of anti-Zionist Jews - and how it very powerfully expresses a very basic disconnect from the rest of us.

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2) The words you see here feature prominently in the rhetoric deployed by anti-Zionist Jews (those who can actually read Hebrew, unlike 'Jewish Voice for Peace').

It translates as "Righteousness, righteousness, you shall pursue". It's from the book of Devarim (Deuteronomy). Image
3) The words have become a rallying cry - a call for the fearless pursuit of "righteousness" - which of course is identified by such people as being obsessively anti-Israel.

Just one small problem. It's a third of a full sentence.

Here's the full sentence. Image
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May 1
I want to respond to this with a thread, because I don’t feel like a tweet will do it justice. I will share this screen grab in each tweet in the thread, so that people can see what I am responding to.

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2) Paragraph 1 isn’t wrong. There will always be problematic elements of student protest groups: eg. The SNCC was extremely sexist, despite the incredible work by women in that group. Women fought to change that culture from within.

This “anti-Israel” movement is very different. Image
2) The language around lack of awareness & education in paragraph 2 is *extremely* telling. The OP fails to understand this “antisemitic shit” is a *feature*, not a bug. It’s what the SJP chapters, “Within Our Lifetime”, Samidoun etc - all the groups energising this -all believe. Image
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Mar 18
1) I’m going to explain a few things about Jews and Zionism for the benefit of people on here who might not know or understand.

(This isn't for the watermelon/red triangle-emojis-in-the-bio people, who are beyond rational thought, but everyone else, please do read)

A thread:
2) Zionism, at its most basic level, means *the belief that the Jewish people have a right to a state in their historic homeland*.

That doesn’t automatically mean there’s only room for 1 state. Many Zionists believe in the 2-state solution as the only way to a lasting peace.
3) Most Jews in the world subscribe to the above definition, meaning they are Zionists.

You will no doubt hear other definitions of Zionism from people who loathe Zionism - some Jewish, most not.

Remember, to *most* Jews, that is the fundamental core of what Zionism is.
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