Eric G Forster

Suburban social worker, father and husband.

[Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar]

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), in concession speech: “Jews have given back so much to this country. As history has taught us, antisemitic tropes and stereotypes, some of which I heard personally on this campaign, will ultimately be the undoing of our democracy if we all don’t lean in and speak out — even if it’s not politically expedient.”

[Cookie Monster @MeCookieMonster]

Me love you and all your jokes, Pop! Happy #FathersDay! 💙

[Eric G Forster @EricGForster1]

@steveschale @nypost My understanding was always that he felt pressure to pick Edwards, and never really wanted to.

[Mike Vaccaro @MikeVacc]

This might honestly be my favorite post of all time kin this site.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Might be worth underscoring that the USS Liberty is a dog whistle for rabid Israel haters, conspiracy theorists, and quite a few anti-Semites. I agree it was tragic, but for the Ron Paul crowd, it might as well as be the geopolitical equivalent of Pizzagate. And Massie knows exactly what he’s doing, regardless of what he understands about the facts.

[Mark Changizi @MarkChangizi]

The strongest argument for Zionism wasn’t October 7. It was the reaction to October 7.

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

Please take 8 minutes to watch this monologue by @billmaher on Israel and the West, to understand what moral clarity, truth and courage looks like.

[Eric G Forster @EricGForster1]

Yep.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher just dedicated the end of his show to throwing his own party under the bus for defending every minority group except Jews.

“There is a frothing anxiousness for the literal extermination of this one group. And Democrats, where are you?”

“If any other minority group was being talked about this way, you’d break out the Kente cloth and have 10 benefit concerts.”

“But because you see that so many of your brainwashed-by-TikTok constituents now have an unfavorable view of Israel, you indulge them when you should be correcting them.”

“All the people likely running for president now on the Democratic side want it known they don’t take money from AIPAC, the Israeli lobby… You take money from crypto and factory farmers and big tech, from Diddy and Weinstein and Epstein, but AIPAC is too far?”

“Let me just say this to all who ask me, ‘Why are you harder on the Democrats than you used to be?’ Until you fix this whole issue, stop asking me.”

[Eric G Forster @EricGForster1]

@michaelbd The world really did feel new in late 1991.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

A reference from history of the “puppet master” trope.

Antisemitic imagery depicting Jews as puppet masters began appearing in European political cartoons in the late 19th century.

The imagery became increasingly common in the early 1900s and exploded in Nazi propaganda during the 1920s and 1930s.

[Eric G Forster @EricGForster1]

Gross. And dangerous.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Disgusting. Also cowardly. Attacking Jewish journalists for actions taken by world leaders one doesn’t approve of allows these bigots to let the powerful off the hook while running toward a prejudice that is in vogue.

[Eric G Forster @EricGForster1]

@yuriisthegoat @BenjaminABoyce I've had that song in my head all week!

[Eric G Forster @EricGForster1]

@312SportsChi @dan_bernstein Great, thanks!

[Jonah Platt @JonahPlatt]

Jews aren't white. We're not technically a race at all — we precede and exceed this Western social construct.

The majority of Israel's population doesn't even present as white. These are people from Ethiopia, Morocco, Yemen, Algeria, Asia, South America — all over the place.

Jews are not from Europe. Jews are from Judea, which is modern-day Israel.

[Eric G Forster @EricGForster1]

@Lumberjackish_ @mattyglesias Wow, I was finishing up high school then, but I have no memory of those numbers? How long was that a thing for?

[Frank McCormick @CBHeresy]

Just to be clear, “ride at dawn” means violence and “Bolshevik descendants” means Jews.

So, yes, this is a call for violence against Jews if Tucker faces charges, and it will get Jews killed.

[Eric Adams @ericadamsfornyc]

We were seconds away from a mass slaughter of Jewish children at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, today.

We got lucky.

Next time we might not.

Antisemitism is being normalized across America by extremists on the left and the right, while too many politicians are too weak, too cynical, or too complicit to speak up.

If the center won’t confront the radicals, the radicals will replace the center.

Enough is enough.

[Eric G Forster @EricGForster1]

Tucker is an ignorant fool.

[Karol Markowicz @karol]

If you see even more irate Jews than usual today it's because Tucker came for Chabad, the warmest, kindest, most welcoming organization ever that does nonstop charity work. It's akin to Obama taking on Little Sisters of the Poor, it's a real line that has been crossed.

[Joel Mowbray @joelmowbray]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE — Tucker Carlson claims that a sect of Judaism called Chabad is ultimately behind the military strikes on Iran.

This might be Tucker's most absurd claim to date.

And it's yet another shot at Trump.

Why? Well, @jaredkushner & @IvankaTrump have belonged to Chabad in DC, and Kushner helped lead the U.S. negotiations before the strike began last week.

As for Tucker's rant about Chabad — which he helpfully spelled for his viewers — it is beyond preposterous.

It's also dangerous — Chabad buildings and events have repeatedly been targeted by terrorists.

For example, the horrific massacre last December at Bondi Beach in Australia, where 15 were murdered, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, was a Chabad event.

Tucker explained in tonight's monologue that the "real" reason for the strikes on Iran — meaning why Israel, in his telling, is forcing the U.S. to help topple the Mullahs — is to launch a "holy war" for the purpose of destroying the Al Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock in the Old City of Jerusalem, in order to rebuild the Third Temple at the same site.

And who does Tucker claim is behind this insidious plot — and thus the military campaign he called "evil"?

Chabad.

As anyone active in Jewish life knows, Chabad focuses on outreach to its own local Jewish community, particularly to more secular Jews who don't feel connected to a standing synagogue.

But because Chabad is not known to almost anyone outside of the Jewish community, it makes for an easy target of dark conspiracy theories.

That's why Candace Owens has made Chabad into a villain in her increasingly unhinged rants.

But here is why this theory is as crazy as it is dangerous.

Chabad is a loosely-knit collection of synagogues (and related community/educational centers), each run by a Rabbi and his wife, who stay in a given community or neighborhood typically for life.

Far from being structured like, say, the Catholic Church, each Chabad House raises its own funds.

Tucker's "logic" for his outrageous allegations is that Chabad wants to bring about the building of the Third Temple, known in Hebrew as the beit hamikdash.

But... how does Chabad actually to bring about the building of the beit hamikdash?

Through acts of kindness. Truly by doing good deeds in order to "merit" God rebuilding the Jewish holy site.

In fact, Jews have for prayed for the rebuilding of the beit hamikdash — every single day — since shortly after the destruction of the Second Temple almost two thousand years ago.

It is literally part of Jews' daily prayers.

But it has nothing to do with tearing down an Islamic holy site, let alone starting a holy war.

It's a prayer asking God to return us to the elevated state of spirituality that existed during the time of the Temple, and more importantly, for Him to send "Moshiac," or the Messiah.

That Tucker would turn ancient Jewish prayers into some kind of sinister plot that is responsible for a very real and ongoing military campaign should be shocking.

Sadly, though, it's not.

But that doesn't mean that it isn't dangerous.

Real people and actual families go to Chabad synagogues, and little kids across the U.S. and in other countries attend Chabad schools and preschools.

It takes just one person already on the fringes to use this kind of rhetoric as justification for violence.

That's not speculation. It has happened again and again — just in recent years.

Yet Tucker is so blinded by his desire to take a swipe at Jared and Ivanka — because he knows he can't attack Trump directly — that he simply doesn't care.