In fairness, people who get their news from Al Jazeera and like sources have a consistent fantasy in their head in which Jews suddenly swarmed into "Palestine" kicked out the Arabs, and were given a state by the British. They are entirely ignorant of these basic facts:
(1) Jews purchased every bit of land they owned in 1948, immigrated gradually and with great resistance by local Arab leaders, even during the Holocaust; 1/

https://x.com/ProfDBernstein/status/2025332345155334147

(2) the British from 1936 on basically sided with the Arabs to placate the broader Arab world in anticipation of potential war with Germany, stifling Jewish immigration which they had already slowed, while still permitted Arabs to come in;

I will repeat that the craziest thing about the USS Liberty incident is that if contrary to the strong way of the evidence you believe the worst about it, every single person who would’ve been responsible for the order to kill Americans is now dead. 1/

https://twitter.com/MaxAbrahms/status/2020500649352335493

The obsessives about this incident are not similarly obsessed with holding today’s Vietnamese people accountable for the well-documented torture of American POW’s, which happened around the same time. 2/

Weird dynamic among Democratic talking heads, in that the far left and the mainstream left have converged on the unsubstantiated-by-anything-but-feelz view that the Biden administration's moderation on Gaza cost the Democrats the election. 1/ The far left says, "see, if Biden and then Harris would have denounced Israel's 'genocide' and cut off weapons" Harris would have won, so it's their fault for being too moderate. 2/

Hamas keeps saying that *they* think 71K Gazans have died during the war, without differentiating between combatants, civilians, those who died of natural death, and those killed by Hamas itself intentionally or through errant missiles, and Hamasniks in the West keep insisting that it's 600K civilians or more, including more children than actually existed in Gaza during the war. 1/ How do we explain this psychological phenomenon? It's not that shocking that a nutjob or two would promote it, but you would expect they would lose credibility with anyone who has even a tenuous grip on reality. Instead they get tens of thousands of likes, etc? 2/

Jews used to be a left-wing influence on Democratic politics. But Democratic Jews, and especially pro-Israel Jews, are now more moderate than other white Democrats, and pro-Israel Jewish Democratic activists on average are *much* more moderate than average Democratic activists. 1/ This is a major, generally unnoticed reason why the left-wing activist class is happy to embrace Hamasniks, be soft on antisemitism coming from their side of spectrum, demonize Israel, and so on: They *WANT* to drive Jews out of the party, because Jews are a barrier to leftist dominance. 2/

@MikeCarlton01 It’s actually getting a lot of attention see the links below. What you’re really saying is that you think Jews get too much attention. @MikeCarlton01 theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/news…

Re the ICE shooting, there are two separate questions. The first is whether the shooting was unnecessary: should the agent have not been standing in front of the vehicle, should the agents have recognized that she was trying to drive away and not run one over, did they give her contradictory orders that left her scared and confused? 1/ Those are all legitimate questions. But none of that ultimately determines the legal question: at the time one or more officers shot the driver, was it *reasonable* to fear that she posed a danger, ie was trying to run one over? 2/

Ben, below, is not just an X rando, he has an apparently respectable day job with something called the Taiwan Policy Center, which advocates better relations between Taiwan and the UK. So he makes a good case study of how deranged the discourse on Israel often is.
There are many plausible criticisms one can make of Netanyahu. But Netanyahu telling Americans to be "white, proud and unapologetic like me?" Completely crazy.
How do you even begin to explain depicting Netanyahu as a white supremacist? It has literally nothing to do with anything he has ever said or done.
It's basically: I'm a Western progressive. The worst thing in Western progressivism is to be a white supremacist. I think for whatever reason Netanyahu is evil. Therefore, he must be a white supremacist.
Totally deranged.

https://x.com/ProfDBernstein/status/2007795260488028470

Just for example:

I don’t know anything about these particular loans, but section 7 loans go to minority-owned businesses, and unlike in universities where Asians faced discrimination, in government loan and contracting programs they get the same treatment as other minorities like African-Americans, and Indian Americans are considered Asian Americans. 1/ Why, you may ask, should immigrant business owners be eligible for affirmative action business programs Originally intended to bring African-Americans into the economic mainstream, and especially immigrants from the wealthiest ethnic group in the US?

Now that the shock of the mass murder in Sydney has worn off "Free Palestine" types, after first claiming the massacre had nothing to do with their cause, now are posting a consistent stream of anti-Israel invective with comments along the lines of "this is the sort of thing that creates antisemitism." 1/ What they are really saying is that (a) most Jews support Israel in a general sense, if not all policies of the government; (b) Israel is incredibly evil; and (c) therefore, even if they don't quite *endorse* antisemitism and attendant violence, they find it understandable. 2/

Two things that should be clarified:
(1) You can be a spreader of antisemitism even if you have no personal hostility to Jews. If you spread rumors about the Rothschilds controlling the world economy, whether out of ignorance or because you know it's false but you think it will help with a political cause, you are spreading antisemitism. 1/ (2) Antisemitism isn't just some political spectrum that Jews should be expected to tolerate. As in, "why do you care if Kevin Roberts is allowing antisemitism into Heritage, so long as he also has a lot of pro-Israel and pro-Jewish stuff coming out of Heritage." Nope. 2/

I was reviewing the Title VI hostile environment case of Yakoby v. University of Pennsylvania, currently on appeal to the Third Circuit. The district court dismissed the case with the remarkable and totally false assertion that “At worst, Plaintiffs accuse Penn of tolerating and permitting the expression of viewpoints which differ from their own.” 1/ Reviewing the plaintiffs complaint, here are some of the allegations made by the plaintiffs that have nothing to do with "tolerating the expression of viewpoints that differ from their own." 2/

Some folks in the anti-DEI camp oppose *any* efforts by employers to increase cultural knowledge of coworkers from different backgrounds by employees. I've never been in that camp, though I do think that DEI bureaucracies were too captured by the far left to transition appropriately. 1/ To take a rather innocuous example, Mormons have Family Home Evening on Monday night. It would be helpful for managers and co-workers to know that they should avoid asking their Mormon colleagues to work late on a project that night, and if one declines to stay late that evening 2/

I wonder if young right-wing Catholics enticed by groyperism, who are eager to declare all sorts of other people "un-American," are aware that for most of American history Catholicism was considered "unAmerican" by much of the American population. 1/ This led to mandatory Protestant education in pubic schools, laws prohibiting any sort of aid to Catholic schools, the rise of the KKK in the 1920s as a huge political force, the 1924 immigration Act shutting off immigration of Italians and Eastern Europeans... 2/

Most notoriously, before the first Gulf War, he wrote that there were only two groups "beating the drums for the war in the Mideast," and that was the Israeli Defense Ministry and its "amen corner" in the United States, and then you went on to say later that "kids with names like McAllister, Murphy, Gonzalez, and Leroy Brown were going to do the fighting."
As William F. Buckley concluded: "There is no way to read that sentence without concluding that Pat Buchanan was suggesting that American Jews manage to avoid personal military exposure even while advancing military policies they uniquely engineered," and, I would add, that those policies would be at the expense, intentionally of non-Jews. 1/ What makes it especially egregious is that it was simply false. Not only was there an obvious precipitating caus for the war that had nothing to do with Israel, Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, but a total of 42 countries joined the US-led coalition against Iraq, and contributed troops. 2/

@gracecamille_ If you think Zionism has anything to do with "white supremacy," saying that you are an ignorant fool would be a gross understatement. 1/ @gracecamille_ Like any ideology, Zionism, the idea that Jews should have a modern homeland in part of their ancient homeland, which in turn means simply that Israel should continue to exist, is subject to criticism. 2/

Well, Ron should have rethought the last sentence, but there is an important point here: Christianity has historically defined Judaism by its rejection of Jesus. But Jews don't define themselves that way at all. Jesus just isn't part of Judaism, period. 1/

https://twitter.com/kampeas/status/1984245707818270969

I've met well-meaning Christians who have asked me, "but Jews think that Jesus was a great rabbi, he just wasn't the messiah or Son of God, right?" Nope. Jesus just isn't part of Judaism. He isn't in our holy books, he isn't part of our rabbinical literature, he is just the 2/

Again: The rise of identity politics on the right was an entirely predictable reaction to the Great Awokening and its identity politics, including demonizing white people as a class.
That doesn't in any way exonerate the dipsticks who are promoting racism, antisemitism, nativism, and so on. 1/ But again, it was entirely predictable, which I can say because I (among others) predicted it, but any attempts to warn the identitarian left about it were met with one of two objections. 2/

It's important to reiterate that Nazi antisemitism is not only not the only form of antisemitism, it's aberrational in that it thought every Jew an enemy warranting extermination. More standard political antisemitism tends to have a conspiratorial tone blaming Jews for everything, 1/ BUT, it exempts the "right kind" of Jews. The right kind may be Jews who convert to Christianity, Jews who adopt the right political ideology, Jews who join antisemites in attacking other Jews, etc. Antisemite @MearsheimerJ exempts "righteous Jews," for example. 2/

In all seriousness, part of the Mamdani phenomenon, and the related growth of "socialism" in the circles of young, highly educated Democrats is that the traditional jobs you'd get as a humanities major from fancy liberal arts colleges--publishing, media, paralegal--have disappeared. 1/ You are an under-30 graduate in English, Art History, etc from the likes of Vassar, Smith, Oberlin, and move to NYC to make your fortune like prior generations. You aren't likely to get a job at the Times, or Harper & Collins, or Sullivan & Cromwell. 2/

If you are philanthropist and want spread ideas you care about, eg pro Israel or pro free market, instead of reinventing the wheel why not look for individuals or institutions that are already doing a good job and ask them if incremental additional resources will help, and how. 1/ You are likely to get a much bigger bang for your buck this way. Imagine for example you find someone who already has a book forthcoming on the topic you care about. That person has already invested a huge amount of time and resources in the book. 2/