No, Rep. Rashida Tlaib did not say Michigan AG @dananessel charged pro-Palestinian protesters because the AG is Jewish. 🧵

metrotimes.com/news/fact-chec… The claim by @RashidaTlaib was that Michigan's AG, through her whole tenure, had never filed charges against protestors doing civil disobedience from other issues like police violence and climate until it came to Palestinians, a common institutional bias in the US.

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BREAKING: A new poll from JDCA confirms what we already know:

American Jews are not a monolith or single-issue voters, and our priorities this election are as diverse as our multi-faith, multiracial community. 🧵

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https://twitter.com/USJewishDems/status/1833196671502524805

American Jews ranked the future of democracy as a top priority, followed by issues like abortion, climate change, antisemitism, and immigration.

Israel ranked 9th for Jewish voters when deciding which candidate to support.

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In the last 24 hours we’ve learned that the ongoing violence has claimed an additional 6 Israeli hostages and at least 47 Palestinians.

We grieve with all of the families and people in deep pain over this tremendous — and avoidable — loss of life.

🧵 We’ve learned the only American who is able to stop it with a stroke of a pen, President @JoeBiden, continues to refuse to enforce his own red line, and make good on his own promise to stop offensive weapons to Israel.

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Jewish people are a vital part of the fight against fascism in this country.

📽️Watch our new video on Project 2025, how the GOP targets Jews, and how we can stop them.

🧵 After Trump's first victory, the right, nor Trump, were prepared to win, so they didn't prepare to use (and abuse) the White House to its fullest, unimaginable potential.

#Project2025 is their response to that, a 900 page plan to build a far right government, in waiting.

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May is Jewish American Heritage month.

Jewish people have been part of the story of the U.S. since its inception, from the promises of its founding, to the many ways the country has failed to live up to those promises, to the fights to make those promises a reality.

🧵 1/ And in this critical moment for American Jews, we can celebrate one important aspiration of our American dream: a true democracy, where all voices are heard and all people are free.

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Read our CEO's response to @JGreenblattADL's Defamation of Student Protestors across the country.

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bendthearc.us/jonathan_green…
@JGreenblattADL @ADL Dear @JGreenblattADL,

I was saddened and shocked to hear you falsely call campus protesters "proxies" of the Iranian government. You run an organization that warns about how defamation can lead to violence.

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You’re going to be hearing a lot more about what’s known as the “great replacement” conspiracy theory.

We’ve been tracking this conspiracy theory in recent years as it’s been increasingly embraced by the Republican party and its pundits.

Here’s why this matters. 🧵 Yesterday a white 18 yo allegedly drove to Buffalo, NY to murder Black people. His manifesto cites the same conspiracy that incited the deadliest antisemitic massacre in American history in Pittsburgh in 2018 & the attack on immigrants in El Paso in 2019.

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1525686878153883649

The McMinn County School Board in Tennessee has voted to ban Maus, the acclaimed graphic novel by Art Spiegelman about his family’s experience in the Holocaust.

Tomorrow is Holocaust Remembrance Day.

This is outrageous and part of a dangerous pattern.

tnholler.com/2022/01/mcminn… Conservative school boards and right-wing legislators are working overtime to ban schools from educating about the history of racism, antisemitism, and bigotry.

They refuse to confront the truth about white supremacy because it enables them to hold on to power.

Three years ago today, a man driven by conspiracies and lies took up arms in order to kill Jewish people and stop new immigrants, murdering eleven beloved community members at the #TreeOfLife - Or L’Simcha building in Pittsburgh.

The lies haven’t stopped. From Charlottesville to Pittsburgh to Poway to El Paso, we’ve seen too often that some lies spill blood and some words echo as gunshots.

This is why we must continue the fight against white nationalism and antisemitism in all forms.

On the eve of the #TreeOfLife anniversary, @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy just went on Fox News to spread fear & lies about a migrant caravan.

This is the same tactic the right used in 2018 — the same conspiracy theory that led to 11 Jews being killed in Pittsburgh three years ago. Three years ago, a chorus of lies and conspiracy theories incited a series of bombs sent to media outlets and political figures, and culminated in the deadliest antisemitic massacre in our country's history.

The SCOTUS ruling in Fulton v. Philadelphia allows a religious child welfare provider to discriminate against LGBTQ+ families.

No. The bottom line must be children’s needs & best interests, not what makes welfare agencies comfortable.

Our full statement:
bendthearc.us/bend_the_arc_r… By prioritizing this child welfare provider’s religious beliefs & allowing this provider to discriminate, the Court has in effect called into question whether LGBTQ children’s needs will be met by families who are willing, able and qualified to provide that care.

NEW: Bend the Arc opposes government use of the IHRA definition of antisemitism.

As an organization committed to dismantling antisemitism, we don’t believe this approach is what will actually build safety for the Jewish community.

Our full statement:

bendthearc.us/bend_the_arc_o… To address antisemitic violence, we need to confront those responsible for using antisemitism to manufacture fear & division.

We shouldn't legalize definitions that can serve as diversions from threats we face or be used to attack free speech of activists & entire communities.

ALERT: Kelly Loeffler just posed for a photo with Chester Doles, a former KKK leader who runs the white supremacist American Patriots USA.

In 1993, Doles nearly beat a Black man to death.

In 2017, he marched in Charlottesville.

This is who @KLoeffler is proudly appealing to. Chester Doles made headlines earlier this year when he posed for photos with @mtgreenee, the QAnon-supporting Representative-elect.

Kelly Loeffler knows who he is & took a photo with him — because her campaign is built on catering to white supremacists.

howtofightantisemitism.com/timeline/georg…

More wins to celebrate — CA, NY, NJ & PA Edition!

In California, longtime progressive champions & Bend the Arc PAC endorsees @BLeeForCongress and @MarkTakano were re-elected, as were @katieporteroc and @MikeLevin, freshmen who flipped & held historically red seats. (THREAD) In NY, voters chose to re-elect longtime progressive champions & Bend the Arc PAC endorsees @RepYvetteClarke and @JerryNadler. We know that they will continue to fight to protect immigrant communities, expand access to health care, and prioritize economic relief for families.

Let's be very clear: Donald Trump endangers Jews.

He calls us "disloyal" & embraces white nationalists.

He pushes antisemitic lies that inspired attacks on synagogues in Pittsburgh & Poway.

The vast majority of American Jews vehemently oppose him — and polls prove it. (THREAD) A new poll shows that Florida Jewish voters support Biden over Trump by a massive margin: 73% to 22%.

That's FIFTY-ONE points.

And the same voters agree that Biden would do better than Trump on confronting white nationalism & antisemitism (75% to 20%).

sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/…

Madison Cawthorn just got caught launching a racist attack website against a journalist & Cory Booker.

10 of his former classmates signed a letter about his predatory behavior towards women.

He's best known for his trip to Hitler's vacation home.

This is what the GOP embraces. Cawthorn, a GOP candidate in North Carolina, created an attack website accusing a journalist of leaving a job “to work for non-white males, like Cory Booker, who aims to ruin white males running for office.”

This is blatant racist fear-mongering.

chicagotribune.com/election-2020/…

BREAKING: The Trump campaign is running Facebook ads portraying Bernie Sanders as the puppet master behind Joe Biden.

There’s a long, dangerous history of Jews being scapegoated as all-powerful puppet masters.

Trump is using this antisemitic lie to spread fear & division. The "puppet master” characterization has been used to present Jews as shadowy manipulators, secretly orchestrating events on the political or financial main stage.

It is an age-old antisemitic trope — one that has been used in Nazi propaganda & continues to be used to this day.

Forced sterilization is genocide.

ICE is performing mass hysterectomies on immigrant women. ICE is committing genocide.

It is part of a long history of eugenics and assaults on reproductive freedom in the United States — a system that directly inspired the Nazi regime. (THREAD) In the 1930s, Hitler and the Nazis were directly inspired by Jim Crow laws in the United States.

They sent researchers to study how the U.S. subjugated Black people and inform how they dehumanized Jews, Roma, and other communities.

democracynow.org/2020/8/12/cast…

In 2017, dozens of Jewish leaders signed this letter in support of Linda Sarsour:

“We will not stand by as @lsarsour is falsely maligned, harassed and smeared."

The same is true today. Linda, we have your back and we’re grateful you’ve had ours.

medium.com/@jewsagainstat… In 2018, after the Tree of Life shooting, Linda immediately asked “What can I do?”

She rallied her Muslim & progressive communities to keep Jews safe at vigils across the country — and she personally headed to DC to join Bend the Arc for a vigil in front of the White House.

Last night, @DrPaulGosar attacked us for calling out Laura Loomer’s bigotry.

He invoked Soros conspiracy theories & told us to “get bent.”

REPEAT: A GOP Congressman publicly attacked a Jewish organization with antisemitic dog-whistles.

It should be a national story. (THREAD) Paul Gosar knows exactly what he’s doing.

When he references “Soros money,” he’s signaling to his white nationalist base.

Just like in 2017, when he falsely claimed that the violence in Charlottesville was as planned by Soros.

These lies kill people. Gosar should resign.

The President of the United States is campaigning for reelection with a Nazi symbol. Again.

On the left: an official Trump/Pence “America First” tee.

On the right; the Iron Eagle, the official symbol of the Nazi party.

It’s not an accident. Bigotry is their entire brand. Trump & Pence are proudly displaying a Nazi-inspired shirt on their official campaign website.

They are promoting genocidal imagery yet again — just days after President Trump retweeted a video of a supporter chanting “white power.”

Link: shop.donaldjtrump.com/products/ameri…