Usually I ignore comments like this one. But it is such a perfect distillation of everything wrong with how weaponization of antisemitism is being deployed and how Palestinian rights activists are being blamed for right wing attacks that I can’t 1/

https://twitter.com/leonpmc/status/1183391829791657991

this person(and others like him) is saying that those of us who talk about human rights for Palestinians are responsible for people dying at the hands of actual Nazis. And let’s not forget that in this particular case a Muslim person was actually killed in the attack 2/

Before sun had even set on day that a white nationalist opened fired in #Poway synagogue, killing 1Jewish person at prayer & injuring 3 more, at least 3 Jewish men in positions of power & accountability were using the occasion to foment Islamophobia & their right-wing agendas 1/7 Dov Hikind is a NY State Assemblyman. Chip Roy is a Congressman from Texas. Mort Klein is head of the ZOA. Each tried to personally connect Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the first Muslim women in Congress, to this heinous attack. We need some accountability 2/7

I cannot begin to express how much it saddens (and angers) me that white Jewish women, many of whom identify as progressive, are playing the role of spoilers of the @womensmarch. I'm not talking here about anyone specific, but about a general trend 1/ nytimes.com/2018/12/23/us/… Antisemitism is rearing its head in this country, joining other virulent forms of bigotry-in particular anti-Black racism, islamophobia, and anti-immigrant forces --which are sadly ever present and systemic in our society. 2/