Andrew Weinstein

Attorney • Presidential Appointee • Former U.S. Public Delegate to the United Nations • Civic Advocate • Music & Hockey Fan

[Andrew Weinstein @AWeinstein]

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[Andrew Weinstein @AWeinstein]

Mayor, this is the wrong message for this day. October 7 was the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. Choosing this day to level an attack on Israel while erasing Jews from your statement is profoundly offensive to the Jewish New Yorkers you represent and puts them in harm’s way. Whatever one’s beliefs about Gaza, this is not the day to sidestep Jewish grief. Your statement misses the mark. I urge you to reconsider.

[Andrew Weinstein @AWeinstein]

Today marks three years since October 7, the deadliest attack against Jews since the Holocaust. As I stood recently in a quiet Paris courtyard looking at the plaque in this photo, I was struck by how close history truly feels.

The names engraved there belong to Jewish children arrested by the Vichy regime, deported from France, and murdered at Auschwitz simply because they were Jewish. Standing before the memorial, the distance between their fate and our present felt far smaller than the decades that separate them.

The survivors who carried the lessons of the Holocaust into our lifetimes are still living or still remembered. The words “never again” are not relics of a distant past, they are responsibilities handed directly to us by people whose voices we have heard and whose stories shaped the world we inherited.

History does not repeat itself in exactly the same way. But hatred follows familiar paths: the dehumanization of people, the normalization of prejudice, the excuse that some victims somehow matter less than others. What begins as words often ends in violence. What begins with indifference can end in tragedy.

As we remember those murdered on October 7, we should remember something else as well: hatred is never harmless, and it is never a relic of history. The distance between memory and warning is much shorter than we would like to believe.

May we never forget. May we never become indifferent. And may we have the courage to confront hate before it becomes history once again.

[Andrew Weinstein @AWeinstein]

I disagree. Whether he meant to say it, misspoke, or was speaking in his usual stream-of-consciousness style is beside the point. He is the President of the United States, and his words carry enormous weight both at home and abroad. When a president makes comments that can be interpreted as defending or justifying catastrophic outcomes, the consequences of that rhetoric matter.

[Andrew Weinstein @AWeinstein]

Sure, Donald Trump floated letting Iran wipe out Los Angeles and San Diego, but Kamala had an awkward laugh once, so really it’s impossible to choose.

[Andrew Weinstein @AWeinstein]

We all know how this goes: Joe Biden’s choice of stairs on Air Force One got a week of headlines. Trump invites Iran to take out two major American cities, and the coverage vanishes by lunchtime.

[Andrew Weinstein @AWeinstein]

Not even the memory of fallen officers is off-limits for Donald Trump if there's political capital to be squeezed from it.

https://t.co/TtK6k6cTaZ

[Andrew Weinstein @AWeinstein]

Congress appropriated taxpayer dollars to honor officers killed in the line of duty. Donald Trump used that money for campaign ads. If you need a clearer illustration of who he is and what he values, you won't find one.

[Andrew Weinstein @AWeinstein]

This is the diplomatic equivalent of pulling the covers over your head and pretending the outside world doesn't exist.

[Matthew Kroenig @MatthewKroenig]

The US State Department lobby used to display the flags of the roughly 200 countries with which the US maintains diplomatic relations. Now, it displays 200 American flags, to remind State Department employees who they work for.

[Jewish Insider @jewishinsider]

Andrew Weinstein (@aweinstein), who served as a public delegate to the U.N. General Assembly during the Biden administration, said the U.N. “has built a structural bias against Israel into its machinery,” and that the next secretary-general must be prepared to inherit what he described as a “credibility crisis.”

“Whoever’s chosen is going to face a simple test, which is, can they speak both honestly about the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and the rights of Palestinians, and at the same time reject the politicization of antisemitism, condemn U.N. actors who traffic in antisemitic tropes, and insist that Jewish fears and Israeli security are treated as seriously as that of any other people,” Weinstein said.

Full story from @mattsheareports:

https://t.co/f00RidX4kj

[National Security Leaders for America @NSLforAmerica]

Every U.S. service member killed, wounded, or injured in military operations must be fully and accurately accounted for.

NSL4A is calling on the Pentagon to provide a full public accounting of U.S. military casualties related to the war with Iran, reconcile discrepancies in its records, and publish accurate and timely casualty totals.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/s8O9Gar4Vl

#MilitaryFamilies #Pentagon #NationalSecurity

[Andrew Weinstein @AWeinstein]

When Donald Trump says "America First," what he's really saying is "America Alone." Lasting alliances are built on trust, respect, and shared interests, not bullying or coercion. A nation that turns its back on its allies eventually stands alone.

[Andrew Weinstein @AWeinstein]

A free press is not a crime. Authoritarianism always starts by pretending it is.

[Andrew Weinstein @AWeinstein]

Want to help prevent mass shootings? Stop voting for people like this.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

NEWLY UNCOVERED AUDIO: Texas GOP US Senate candidate Ken Paxton calls the Uvalde shooting a "plan" by "God" and says "life is short” about children murdered in an elementary school.

This man is vile.

[Andrew Weinstein @AWeinstein]

Criticism of Francesca Albanese is one of the rare points of continuity between the Biden and Trump administrations. Her tenure has done serious damage to the credibility of the United Nations, and it is outrageous that she continues to be afforded such a prominent platform.

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

UN RAPPORTEUR: “WE NEED TO STOP SENDING WEAPONS TO UKRAINE”
Russia invaded Ukraine, but “there are a number of reasons that led to that war...”
She accuses “NATO led by the United States” of “a political calculation to have a weak Europe. . .That’s why that front remains open.”

[Andrew Weinstein @AWeinstein]

When an agency like ICE builds an environment where red flags don’t matter, where violence is minimized, where accountability is optional, this is what it produces. This isn’t a one‑off tragedy. It’s a system functioning exactly as designed.

https://t.co/FSbo256g0c

[Andrew Weinstein @AWeinstein]

G’mar chatimah tovah to everyone observing Yom Kippur. May you have a meaningful day of reflection and an easy fast.