Reminder: Don’t buy simplistic narratives about Jewish Americans & their views on Gaza, antisemitism, Zohrani, etc, presented by pro-Israel actors who pretend to represent all US Jews, but in fact deliberately invisibilize US Jews who disagree with them. A quick 🧵with receipts. On war crimes/genocide: “Many American Jews sharply disapprove of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, with 61% saying Israel has committed war crimes & about 4 in 10 saying the country is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians…”

washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

Hill nerd here again. Remember the bill a while back, to let the Exec target non-profit status using allegations of support for terror, with no real recourse (dead for now)?

Now there’s an effort to apply this approach to target US citizens' passports, & it's moving fast! 1/ On 9/17/25 (this coming Weds) the House Foreign Affairs Committee will mark-up a set of bills (text just dropped) regarding the State Dept, including HR 5300, the "Department of State Policy Provisions Act" 2/

congress.gov/bill/119th-con…

Love it or hate it - on Monday the House will vote on HR 1867, “The IGO Boycott Act”, the current iteration of the “Israel Anti-Boycott Act” - to impose harsh penalties, incl fines/jail on Americans who, in line with their values/political views, boycott Israel or settlements. 1/ As covered in the 2/27/25 edition of the Round-Up:

“HR 1867, like its predecessors, seeks to amend/expand current US anti-boycott law. That law is based on the idea of preventing US citizens from being **compelled or coerced** into boycotting Israel… 2/

The fact that backers of the Antisemitism Awareness Act were caught flat-footed by today’s Senate hearing, where there was strong opposition from BOTH sides of aisle to legislating criticism of Israel=antisemitism, shows what happens when you fall for your own false framing. 1/ The false framing here is that the AAA is opposed only by far-left Democrats who allegedly want to enable antisemitism (to be vilified & mocked) & far-right GOP-ers worried they won’t be allowed to say the Jews killed Christ (to be mollified with a chair’s amdt to the bill) 2/

ICYMI, next week the Senate HELP Committee will be voting on (& for sure passing) 2 bills intended to enable - indeed, to require - the wholesale suppression & punishment of campus free speech/protest critical of Israel, Israeli policies/actions, & Zionism.

1/ 1st - the return of the Antisemitism Awareness Act (S 558). Love it or hate it, this bill seeks to enact/enforc the IHRA definition & its examples into Title VI, in order to define criticism/protest of Israel as antisemitism (& once IHRA is law here, apply it elsewhere).

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Over the past 2 yrs, and especially these days, I’ve been thinking a lot about the unquestioned assumptions that define the worldview of many Jewish Americans when it comes to the ideas of safety and vulnerability — a 🧵 (excerpted from a recent essay I wrote, link at the end). 2/

Celebrating Purim in Jerusalem by lynching/shooting a Palestinian and getting away with it - a 🧵

As you read this, imagine the exact same scenario if the victim were an Israeli and how differently it would play out both in Israeli court & in the world media. Palestinian in downtown Jerusalem attacked — incl being shot — by mob shouting “death to Arabs” -

Israelis' embrace of Trump plan to ethnically cleanse deliberately hides the fact that this has been an Israeli aspiration/plan for decades that was immediately energized/normalized after 10/7/23. Just a few receipts for those with short memories, covering just Oct 2023-Jan 2024: Summary/discussion of the pro-transfer plans/support, published by the Carnegie Endowment for Intl Peace 10/31/23 -- carnegieendowment.org/sada/2023/10/s…

After Israel systematically violates Gaza ceasefire from day 1 with impunity, while in parallel opening massive front in West Bank with impunity, in response to Hamas crying foul Trump gives Bibi the green light to complete the genocide/ethnic cleansing of Gaza with impunity. 1/

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1889087774135103725

As if Israel for 15 mos reducing all of Gaza to rubble — displacing & starving entire population, killing 10s of 1000s of civilians (conservative estimate), wounding 100k+ — wasn’t already “all hell breaking loose” on every man/woman/child (including hostages) in Gaza. 2/

JPost sets a moral line in the sand on 1/1/25 - exhorting soldiers in World’s Most Moral Army to stop posting vids/pix documenting their morally & legally indefensible actions in Gaza.

Subtext: fine to keep doing what you’re doing, just stop handing antisemites the evidence! m.jpost.com/israel-news/ar…

Trump has nominated Mike Huckabee as US amb to Israel. Time for a quick review of the views/agenda re: Israel/Palestine that this nomination effectively endorses 🧵

This week @axios reported Sen Schumer will pass the hugely controversial Antisemitism Awareness Act during lame duck. Axios presents the controversy as an intra-Democratic issue. This is FALSE. House passage of the AAA in May also catalyzed opposition from GOP & Libertarians. 🧵 Don't believe me? Let's go to the receipts! 🎺

The anti-UNRWA campaign continues in Washington, now using as its hook the (alleged) UNRWA ID doc (allegedly) found with or on the body of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. And as always with these attacks, facts don't seem to matter.

A 🧵.
1/ Most notably this week: an article in The Hill (the paper aimed at members of Congress & staff) by a longtime UNRWA antagonist & a letter to the Biden Admin from longtime UNRWA antagonist Sen. Cotton (R-AR).

Links:
- thehill.com/opinion/494734…
- cotton.senate.gov/news/press-rel…

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A year into Israel’s war to erase/annihilate Palestinian existence in Gaza, read/share the letter to Biden/Harris from 99 US medical professionals documenting what the US is supporting/enabling. Let nobody say they didn’t know.

Excepts in thread
Letter: gazahealthcareletters.org/usa-letter-oct…

Observations on the current the moment - a 🧵

Israel used 10/7 to manufacture US consent/collaboration to undo what Bibi & his Greater Israel/neocon fellow travelers (incl in US) have long viewed as historic errors forced on Israel by weak leaders & intl appeasers of terror.

1/ These are: Gaza disengagement (viewed as capitulation to Hamas), the Oslo Agreement (viewed as capitulation to the PLO), and withdrawal from southern Lebanon (viewed as capitulation to Hezbollah).

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A short 🧵 on people who maligned/defamed/slandered @RepRashida now trying to pretend they didn't. CNN's Jake Tapper saying he "misspoke" when he said Tlaib "is suggesting" that Nessel is only prosecuting Palestine protesters "because she's Jewish and the protesters are not. That's quite an accusation."

9/22:
9/23: cnn.com/2024/09/22/pol…

https://x.com/matthew_petti/status/1838386377739653442

Love it or hate it, pressure is ramping up on Schumer/Senate Dems to pass the Antisemitism Awareness Act (massively controversial bill conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism via adoption/enforcement of IHRA definition) after summer recess.

A quick thread w/ receipts. First, from my Round-Up of Mideast stuff on the Hill published a couple of days ago:

fmep.org/resource/fmep-…

Haaretz: Israeli Minister talked to Black Cube about spying in the US on Students for Justice in Palestine

In recent days the Israeli govt has taken MASSIVE steps to consolidate/expand Israeli hegemony over East Jerusalem & the West Bank (in parallel to devastating attacks on Gaza) - gathering key news here in a quick 🧵: 25 Jun 2024 (public 3 July 24): Israel expropriated 12,700 dunams (3138 acres) in West Bank (Jordan Valley) in largest land seizure (theft) since Oslo. Since beginning of 2024, Israel has expropriated 23,700 dunams (5856 acres) of the West Bank.

Details: peacenow.org.il/en/state-land-…

A Jewish woman (who isn’t a big supporter of Israel) was elected president of Mexico. So the Forward investigates her & publishes a piece both impugning her credibility (despite facts reflecting a deeply Jewish story of survival) & feeding into antisemitic attacks on her.

Article:

forward.com/news/622618/me…