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Seffi Kogen
@seffikogen
MBA student at @YaleSOM | Former @AJCGlobal Director of Young Leadership | Alum: @Columbia and @JTSvoice | Good at crosswords but not, like, THAT good | Jew.
Jan 27, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
One awkward thing about #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay is that people cite the entirely made-up stat that 11 million people were killed in the Holocaust. WRONG. 6 million Jews were killed by gas, bullets, fire, and starvation, along with no more than 500,000 non-Jews. The Holocaust was a uniquely Jewish tragedy and citing the 11 million number has the effect (and sometimes the intent) of universalizing the Holocaust. Some people, more provocative than I, refer to this as "all lives matter"-ing the Holocaust.
Jan 27, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Maybe @DavidCornDC and @MotherJones could just provide us Jews for a list of American NGOs that we're allowed to donate to without being smeared as being loyal to a foreign government? The only way this makes sense as a scandal is if you consider 'AIPAC' and 'the Israeli government' to be interchangeable terms. But AIPAC, like all American non-profits, is forbidden by law from coordinating with any foreign government!
Jan 27, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The most sociopathic thing about Harry is that he never once wishes Hermione a happy birthday or otherwise acknowledges her birthday, even though it's in mid-September! When she buys Crookshanks in Prisoner of Azkaban she mentions that she is using money her parents gave her because “It’s my birthday in September…”

Zero acknowledgment from Harry (or Ron).
Nov 8, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Prime Minister Netanyahu tweeted his congratulations to President elect Biden less than 40 minutes ago. There are several thousand quote tweets. Shall we take a look...? But wait, there's more
Sep 11, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The ⁦@nytimes⁩ bizarrely highlights Rashida Tlaib as POC while marking Chris Sununu (who is also Palestinian!), Alex Azar (Lebanese), Farnam Jahanian (Iranian), and probably others as white.

Why not use the same criteria across all sections? nyti.ms/2GGD7k5?referr… Thank you to the people who pointed out that Justin Amash (independent member of Congress from Michigan) and Tom Gores (owner of the Pistons) are both ALSO Palestinian, like Tlaib, but are listed as white. Marc Lasry (owner of the Bucks) is Moroccan, and is also listed as white.
Dec 18, 2019 • 23 tweets • 31 min read
Look, I listen to The Daily, well, daily. And I think that @mikiebarb generally does a great job. But he and @Max_Fisher got Trump’s executive order on antisemitism very, very wrong this morning. Here is a THREAD explaining how... @mikiebarb @Max_Fisher Their central question at the beginning of the episode is “why [do] some Jewish Americans fear that the logic behind [Trump’s EO] could provide a rationale that ultimately furthers antisemitism?” The answer, unfortunately, is that the Times’ reporters got the story wrong!
Dec 11, 2019 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Here’s a thread on why the president’s Executive Order is a fine thing: Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin. It explicitly DOES NOT protect religious minorities from discrimination.
Dec 11, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Fellow Jews:
Let's set aside the first amendment concerns for a moment (though they are important considerations!).

Let's set aside how we feel about the President.

I'm a member of the Jewish nation, aren't you? Remember when the Trump administration said "discrimination against Jews...violates Title VI when that discrimination is based on [Jews'] actual or perceived shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics” and everyone was fine with it?

Oh wait, that was the Obama administration.
Nov 28, 2019 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Going through old things in my parents' basement and found this, from 1967: a nearly 100-page special edition of @LIFE commemorating Israel's miraculous victory in the Six-Day War. Gonna tweet some incredible pictures from inside...
Mar 31, 2019 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
A few thoughts on that awful long-form opinion piece by @NathanThrall masquerading as reportage (I won't link to such garbage). 1. I am generally center-left on these issues and sat down to read it with much interest—after all, if it was good enough for my @nytimes (which I spend countless hours defending in my circles), it would surely be nuanced and thoughtful. Disillusionment set in by the third 'graf.
Nov 7, 2018 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
Last night, Ilhan Omar referred to herself as "the first refugee elected to Congress." Shouldn't Tom Lantos, who was born in Budapest, enslaved in Nazi-occupied Hungary, and, penniless and with much of his family murdered, made his way to the US on a scholarship after the war, count?