CAPITALISM 101:
When demand for covid tests fell, millions of kits were destroyed instead of donated/sold cheaply.

The company didn’t want to flood the market with cheap tests so they destroyed them. “It’s all about the money” a manager explained.

Thousands were laid off.

1/4 Now demand is back up but production can’t be ramped up quickly enough.

And a global fund run by W.H.O. hasn’t been able to secure a fraction of tests poor countries need.

nytimes.com/2021/08/20/us/…

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Like most Jews of my generation, I grew up with the phrase “Never again.” My mom is a Holocaust survivor and it resonated. But if the phrase is to mean anything it has to apply to all people.
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https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/1397023731722113032

Last week was 73rd anniversary of the Israeli massacre at Tantura, a Palestinian fishing village. It was one of at least 37 massacres that took place during the Nakba (or “war of independence” as Israel calls it).
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I’m a Jewish New Yorker. And incidentally, was born in Israel to parents who had fled Europe pre- (dad) and post- (mom) the Holocaust. Conflating anti-Israel sentiment with antisemitism is an insult to my parents and to the family that they lost in Europe.

1/3 I want to be clear that fights between pro-Israel & pro-Palestine protestors is about *Israel* not about antisemitism. Politicians now decrying and weaponizing antisemitism is an all too predictable backlash against the growth and successes of the movement for Palestine.

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