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Melissa Braunstein
@slowhoneybee
Full-time wife & mother, part-time writer, red fish in a blue sea. Find my writing in @dcexaminer @famstudies @jns_org and elsewhere on the Interwebs.
May 8 • 69 tweets • 8 min read
Congress has invited 3 school districts to testify on antisemitism in K-12 schools today. It’s the same committee that’s heard testimony from university presidents. Currently streaming on YouTube. Emerson Sykes of the ACLU is currently testifying about the First Amendment.

I’m unclear why the ACLU is here, except to possibly push back on evidence of left-wing antisemitism as protected speech.
Apr 17 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Shafik says she condemns antisemitism and is committed to confronting it.

Experience since 10/7 says otherwise. #Columbia Shafik mentions Hamas — which an Israeli student told me she hadn’t on campus for a long time.
Oct 20, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
That is correct. Colleges don’t care. Jews and other Zionists have been stigmatized on college campuses and elsewhere. washingtonexaminer.com/politics/the-n…
Oct 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Europe is returning to its typical pattern of not being a welcoming place for Jews. An overview of European antisemitism from 2020 — thefederalist.com/2020/03/06/how…
Apr 28, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Except it's not “extremely rude and disrespectful" to question an elected official's commitment to fighting antisemitism when they vote against a (largely symbolic) bill opposing antisemitism in a city where it's a big problem. forward.com/fast-forward/5… "A council member who abstained accused Jewish community leaders of failing to call out hatred against Palestinians and supporting apartheid in Israel."
Ah, injecting antisemitism into a discussion about why it's important to oppose antisemitism.
Apr 27, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Will the people at this alternative Shabbat dinner be davening beforehand, and if so, will they be facing toward Jerusalem or somewhere else? dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/0… Also, who exactly celebrates "Israeli nationalism over Shabbat dinner"-? Last I checked, Shabbat had nothing to do with Israeli politics.
Apr 27, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
2000 Harvard wouldn't recognize 2023 Harvard. "The most acute examples of discrimination involved Harvard’s Israeli students."
Oct 30, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
So *now* campus antisemitism is a source of outrage? Where was Hochul when anti-Zionist students at NYU crashed pro-Israel students' Israel Independence Day party, burned an Israeli flag, and were generally so rowdy that NYPD arrested two of them back in 2018? nyunews.com/2018/04/27/jvp…
Oct 25, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Dear America, Thursday marks the 4 year anniversary of the deadly attack on Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue, which was followed exactly six months later by a deadly attack on Chabad of Poway, and two more deadly attacks in Jersey City and Monsey in December. Those things didn't pop up out of nowhere, which is to say -- things have been deteriorating for a while. Resurgent antisemitism in the US isn't new.
Oct 24, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Wake up, America. And while we have you here, antisemitism is a multifaceted problem. It's not just the far-right.
Sep 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"The 'substantial equivalency' regulations offer several options for New York’s private schools to prove their secular education is on par with instruction in public schools." Equivalent to the top public schools in NYS or the bottom schools in NYS? jta.org/2022/09/09/ny/… "Advocates for the yeshivas have already denounced the article, before its publication, as an attack on the Orthodox Jewish community." And anyone who's read NYT's coverage of Hasidim understands why.
Aug 28, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Opening line: "Bella Hadid’s personal brand may not be especially political" -- Ha ha ha. glamour.com/story/bella-ha… "'I had so many companies that stopped working with me,' she said." I can't be the only reader who's curious which companies those are.
Jul 25, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
"Levin, for his part, called AIPAC’s involvement 'a politics of domination, wherein AIPAC uses 'vast amounts of money to control or to prevent open space to have rational dialogue about Israel and Palestine.'” TFW you use antisemitic tropes to attack a pro-Israel group that's not supporting you, while emphasizing you're the Jewish candidate, and it's all reported uncritically.
Jul 17, 2022 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
This article was amazingly bad, even for NYT. First, let's just note that this article really muddies the waters. On purpose. For example, Edwards and Ivey are described as "two experienced, liberal lawyers," but if you read even NYT's evidence, Edwards is no liberal. She's leftward of there.
Jul 11, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
New York may be the country's most Jewish city , but its publicly-funded higher education system has been warped by antisemitism. My latest -- bit.ly/3PmfgEG If CUNY's Chancellor hadn't bailed the day before, it's hard to know how well he would've handled the City Council's questions. But the three CUNY employees he sent in his stead were stumped by a surprising number.
Jun 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I vote based on which candidate shares my worldview. And I suspect the Jews in this district say the same. "In an era when his party’s left flank has grown increasingly hostile to Israel, his supporters contend that Mr. Nadler has used his position . . . to try to bridge more traditional Zionists and Israel’s progressive critics on issues like BDS and support for Israeli defense."
Jun 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Don't confirm. Biden should pick someone diplomatic to be a professional diplomat. "'I regret that you would think that [my blatantly antisemitic take in an interview] was a problem,' Bagley told Cardin."
Jun 22, 2022 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
"In response, organizations like the Anti-Defamation League have ramped up their own efforts to crack down on Palestinian activism, which they claim is often only a thin veneer for antisemitism."
This sounds neither accurate nor like a news sentence. "It is harder, some say, to discuss actual instances of antisemitism when accusing anti-Zionists of being antisemitic is increasingly viewed as a conservative smear."
Anti-Zionists regularly engage in antisemitism. That's neither a smear nor conservative.
Jun 12, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This afternoon, I read some more of Marc Weitzmann's _Hate_, which looks at 21st century French antisemitism, but everyone else may be interested in my review of the new Bambi translation. @DBashIdeas bit.ly/3xfGi9a The book, which was written 100 years ago, is nothing like the Disney movie of the same name. It's an allegory about Jewish life in Europe at the time. You sense the rising danger that led to the Holocaust not even two decades later.
Jun 13, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Biden has a reputation for being a great friend to the Jewish community, but in response to last month's surge in antisemitism, he . . . put out a written statement on May 28. The statement is fine as things go, but the only named action is to turn things over to AG Garland. What's Garland doing? On May 27, he'd issued a memo about how DOJ will better handle all hate crimes going forward (a follow-up to his March directive on the subject).
Apr 5, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Another one. Another one! This is the third instance of Orthodox Jews facing discrimination while flying in the past month.