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Come with me as I learn about each person at the official Israeli delegation at today's Israel Day Parade in New York City.

These are the people some of my fellow Jewish and other New Yorkers demanded Mayor Mamdani stand with today.

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This is Itzhak Wasserlauf.

Here he is coaching IDF entering Gaza offering "a blessing on the one who seizers babies and dashes them against the rocks" (video @ireallyhateyou )

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@ireallyhateyou This is Cabinet Minister Amihai Ben-Eliyahu.

He called on bombing humanitarian aid to Gaza.

He called on starving Gazans.

And he called on nuking Gaza.



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This is Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

He said “it may be just and moral” to starve 2 million Gaza residents, but "no one in the world would let us."

He also defined victory after Oct 7 as Gaza "fully destroyed".

He is a supporter of "greater Israel", annexing the West Bank, and beyond into other nations like Jordan and believes Palestinians aren't real.

Speaking of parades, in Israel he organized the anti-LGBTQ parade called "Beast March", claiming the farm animals they forced to march had less sin than queer people.

cnn.com/2024/08/06/mid…

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This is Ariel Kellner.

"Whoever remains in the north, we will truly starve them"

"One goal: Nakba! A Nakba will overshadow the Nakba of '48. A Nakba in Gaza and a Nakba for anyone who dares to join!"

He was one of eight officials who signed a letter demanding the elimination of all food and power sources in Gaza.

mondoweiss.net/2025/01/israel…

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This is Amir Ohana, Speaker of Israeli Knesset (Congress)

Ohana praised Donald Trump's proposal to relocate Gazans and redevelop Gaza, calling it a "bold, new vision for Gaza" and a "fresh perspective."

"If you want a Palestinian state, build it in London or Paris."

Signed petition for annexation of West Bank.

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Not all of the goons were Israeli officials. Behind former Mayor Adams is his NYPD detail, Detective Elvis Montalvo.

Montalvo has over $42K in settlements paid to victims of his police misconduct. Last year he made a almost QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS .

And he's seen with the former Mayor all over the world.



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Jul 5, 2025
White supremacist Jews don’t know we Asian Jews exist?!

The my one cosplaying here is your right wing account pretending to be a civil rights group.

This is a celebration of Hanukkah.
These lyrics are only scary to racists because they’re in another language.

hannukkah, more lights more lights
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hannukkah, where the roti is kosher
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Equally wholesome Christmas and Kwanzaa homage you carefully pretend don’t exist for the sake of your false antisemitism factory.

Zohran also shared the Christmas one by these amazing Punjabi comedians.
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Since Maccabi Tel Aviv is trending, come and get to know its soccer/football fans who ignited anti-Arab hate and violence in Amsterdam, leading to reprisals from Arabs who were attacked (and who are universally being smeared as antisemites engaging in pogroms).

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Here is a report from an Israeli agency, who sent observers to every match to find 190 incidents of racist chants, calling 2022-2023 "the most racist and violent" soccer season in Israel's history. Including routinely chanting "monkey" at Black players.

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This predominant fan culture in Israeli soccer isn't only home calling foreign team bigoted things, but also veers into going after each other. The study found 20 matches where fans would call for "Shoah" of the opposing Israeli team.

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As we go into new campus actions for Gaza across the world, you're going to see a lot of our legacy Jewish orgs using polls to tell you how antisemitic our universities are.

The problem with these polls?

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Nearly all of these polls assume that when a student is asked about antisemitism, they have a good analysis of what it means.

One way to examine the polls that are coming, is to look up their methodology, which is rarely reported in articles that mention the polls.

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So @BrandeisU's new poll will be used in media, talks & emails to politicians, agencies, parents etc saying students are swimming in antisemitism.

Who/how they "fixed" the poll won't be reported.

Here's fine print admitting they only polled kids who went on trips to Israel.

3 Note: See Table B3 in Technical Appendix B for 95% confidence intervals and significance tests. The 2023 data on Jewish students were drawn from applicants to Birthright Israel.
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We’ve been told as Jews that the slightest micro aggressions by individuals births antisemitism so dangerous we must have zero tolerance.

Today we’re told that open genocide, apartheid & ethnic cleansing in co-opting our name, faith, history & even synagogues doesn’t fuel antisemitism & we should tolerate it for our survival. 🧵
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Aug 20, 2024
From a booklet distributed by @DemMaj4Israel at the DNC today, touting 22 years of Kamala Harris' support for Israel, including this bit of her backing the criminal prosecution of Muslim students who interrupted an Israeli government speaker at their school. 62. 5/8/11: As 11 UC Irvine students “accused of conspiring to, then successfully executing, a disruption of Israel Ambassador Michael Oren's speech in February 2010” sought to evade prosecution, Harris said in court documents that “Orange County prosecutors should remain on the case.” [Daily Pilot, 05/08/11] - Democratic Majority for Israel
@DemMaj4Israel The students prosecuted are referred to as the Irvine 11, who were moved by Israel's 2008-2009 massacres inside Gaza which killed 1500 Palestinians and left 100,000 homeless.

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@DemMaj4Israel Here's the amicus brief from lawyers at @theCCR and @jvplive on discriminatory enforcement on the Muslim students, such that had not been seen for other protestors first amendment rights and those who had interrupted even longer.

ccrjustice.org/files/Irvine%2…
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