@fred_guttenberg@TheCivicsDean You are in denial. An Israeli soldier was photographed smashing a statue of Jesus on the cross with a hammer in Lebanon this year.
Jeffries naming Moskowitz — one of the most pro-Israel Democrats — as ranking member of HFAC’s Middle East subcommittee tells you *everything* you need to know about Dem party leaders’ preferred plan for dealing with their base’s fury at Israel (ignore it, maybe it’ll go away)
The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.
This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.
Ohio governor's race: Vivek Ramaswamy spent nearly $700,000 leasing private jets for campaign events, including a data center conference in Utah https://t.co/3UcWOFB6yW
Paramount just issued a lengthy statement responding to @MarkRuffalo:
"We are, as always, troubled when antisemitic tropes are invoked in purported service of a business dispute. Words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far, and they cheapen the very real suffering those words are meant to describe. This doesn't deserve a response in kind — and to be clear, we don’t tolerate prejudice of any kind, against anyone.
This brings us to a moment to lower the temperature, not raise it. We’d rather build than further engage in such rhetoric. This simply exposes the true motivation of some who have advocated opposition to this transaction. On the other hand, our commitment to great content is matched by our commitment to acceptance - to every story, every storyteller, and no blacklists, no exceptions, for anyone.
We understand people feel strongly about this merger and are hopeful and expect that it will be judged based on the legal merits, not underlying bias. We’re asking for the same good faith we’re extending: less rhetoric, more understanding. Paramount’s future is being written for everyone who wants to make and watch great stories."
Retired IDF Colonel Doron Meinrath was arrested today by the IDF for protecting a Palestinian community in Khirbet a-Tawil in the occupied West Bank from settler violence. The IDF arrested him after declaring the area of a water cistern he was protecting a "closed military zone".
Doron is one of several thousands of Israeli activists risking their health and freedom to serve as "protective presence" against settler terrorists.
https://t.co/pAc8EzTvkq
WaPo: Chuck Schumer says Democrats don’t necessarily need to win Michigan to flip control of the US Senate.
“A path to winning back the Senate clearly goes through Michigan, but we have a whole bunch of different paths,” Schumer said.
https://t.co/6EvrfocF9C
Palestinian-American Louai Abu Ridi traveled from the U.S. to Qusra in the occupied West Bank to defend his family's home from a settler siege.
By @OrenZiv_@mekomit
Palestinian-American Louai Abu Ridi, the owner of a home besieged by Israeli settler terrorists in the village of Qusra, returned from the United States today and raised an American flag over his home, calling on the U.S. Embassy to provide him and his family with protection.
CC: @USAmbIsrael
Just listen for yourself: Vivek Ramaswamy dismissed our first responders in the Ohio Association of Professional Fire Fighters as “small” and not “important.”
We already knew that Ramaswamy wants to dismantle unions, but to show this little respect for first responders who put their lives on the line every day is shameful.
What happened to "if Hamas agrees to release the hostages & disarm, there would be peace immediately"?
Netanyahu is now openly rejecting Trump's plan to disarm Hamas & that crowd is completely silent! What's their next talking point?
WE told you this was NEVER about "Khamas"!
El-Sayed says he'd consider supporting aid to Israel only "in a scenario where there were equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination for the Palestinian people and Jewish Israeli people and they had come together to achieve that ultimate peace, and there were circumstances in which that was guaranteed."