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[The Jewish Majority @JewishMajority]

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[The Jewish Majority @JewishMajority]

"The contradiction becomes even harder to ignore because T’ruah’s leadership recently urged the Jewish Theological Seminary to disinvite Israeli President Isaac Herzog from speaking at commencement. There is something profoundly revealing about a moral framework that seeks to deny a platform to the president of the Jewish state while enthusiastically offering one to a politician openly hostile to its existence."

https://t.co/jwwjH7Orrj

[The Jewish Majority @JewishMajority]

"The contradiction becomes even harder to ignore because T’ruah’s leadership recently urged the Jewish Theological Seminary to disinvite Israeli President Isaac Herzog from speaking at commencement. There is something profoundly revealing about a moral framework that seeks to deny a platform to the president of the Jewish state while enthusiastically offering one to a politician openly hostile to its existence."

https://t.co/jwwjH7Orrj

[The Jewish Majority @JewishMajority]

"The contradiction becomes even harder to ignore because T’ruah’s leadership recently urged the Jewish Theological Seminary to disinvite Israeli President Isaac Herzog from speaking at commencement. There is something profoundly revealing about a moral framework that seeks to deny a platform to the president of the Jewish state while enthusiastically offering one to a politician openly hostile to its existence."

https://t.co/jwwjH7Orrj

[The Jewish Majority @JewishMajority]

"The contradiction becomes even harder to ignore because T’ruah’s leadership recently urged the Jewish Theological Seminary to disinvite Israeli President Isaac Herzog from speaking at commencement. There is something profoundly revealing about a moral framework that seeks to deny a platform to the president of the Jewish state while enthusiastically offering one to a politician openly hostile to its existence."

https://t.co/jwwjH7Orrj

[Kevin Deutsch @kdeutschjourno]

T’ruah, one of the most influential rabbinic organizations in America, says it is committed to Israel’s future as a Jewish and democratic state.

Yet an investigation by AFTER OCTOBER 7 found that the left-wing organization has repeatedly hired, partnered with, promoted, and honored activists who falsely accuse Israel of “apartheid,” “genocide,” forced starvation, and ethnic cleansing — and promoted antizionist libels themselves.

Among other problematic stances, T’ruah has challenged discriminatory anti-BDS laws aiming to protect Jews from racialized boycotts; worked to undermine support for the widely-accepted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism; and aligned itself with organizations at the forefront of the antizionist hate movement that supports the ethnic cleansing of Israelis in the name of Palestinian “liberation.”

The disconnect between T’ruah and the views of mainstream American rabbis and their congregants is perhaps best illustrated by one of the organization’s highest-profile honorees.

Read the AO7 article here: https://t.co/MF7o1towuf

[The Jewish Majority @JewishMajority]

"The contradiction becomes even harder to ignore because T’ruah’s leadership recently urged the Jewish Theological Seminary to disinvite Israeli President Isaac Herzog from speaking at commencement. There is something profoundly revealing about a moral framework that seeks to deny a platform to the president of the Jewish state while enthusiastically offering one to a politician openly hostile to its existence."

https://t.co/jwwjH7Orrj

[The Jewish Majority @JewishMajority]

@TPrincato It’s not ironic. It’s the reason your argument is incoherent. In any event, IHRA doesn’t stifle criticism of Israel.

[The Jewish Majority @JewishMajority]

Absolutely bonkers that a leading candidate for mayor of Washington, D.C., Janeese Lewis George, wrote about the local Jewish Community Relations Council in a DSA candidate questionnaire: "I also disagree with their definition of anti-semitism".

It's like a man telling a woman he disagrees with her definition of misogyny.

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[The Jewish Majority @JewishMajority]

@TPrincato There is not a recognized international legal principle that descendants of refugees indefinitely inherit refugee status and an enforceable right to return generations later. It is discriminatory to apply a unique legal standard to only one nation.

[The Jewish Majority @JewishMajority]

@TPrincato So you're using a different definition of refugee than that applied to any other refugee population.

[The Jewish Majority @JewishMajority]

@TPrincato Are you claiming that there are 5 million living Palestinian refugees from the war between Israel and Arab states in 1948?

[The Baltimore Sun @baltimoresun]

Bobby Zirkin, who represented Baltimore County in the General Assembly for 21 years as a Democratic state senator and delegate, writes that "criticism of Israeli governments is not antisemitic. But anti-Zionism is not merely criticism. It is opposition to the existence of a Jewish state."

Zirkin opines that "when an ideology seeks to deny only the Jewish people the right of national self-determination while accepting that right for everyone else, it ceases to be a neutral position. It becomes discrimination."

Read more: https://t.co/AZVFCd2M6Y

📸: Associated Press

[The Jewish Majority @JewishMajority]

@TPrincato How many refugees do you think there are?

[The Jewish Majority @JewishMajority]

@TPrincato Saying a country shouldn't exist is not a critique.

[The Jewish Majority @JewishMajority]

@TPrincato So you're saying that IHRA stifles criticism not of Israeli policy, but of Israel's existence?

[The Jewish Majority @JewishMajority]

@TPrincato That's not a critique of Israel. The IHRA definition of antisemitism doesn't shut down criticism of Israel and you haven't explained why you claim that it does. Moreover, IHRA doesn't say "policy prescriptions that would erase Israel is antisemitic."

[The Jewish Majority @JewishMajority]

@TPrincato 1. This is non-sequitur from "IHRA is meant to shut down criticism of Israel."

2. IHRA says nothing about the right of return.

[The Jewish Majority @JewishMajority]

@TPrincato People who want to replace Israel reject the IHRA definition because it explains the ways in which anti-Zionism is antisemitic. It explicitly does not shut down criticism of Israel.

Our detractors don't get to define antisemitism.

[The Jewish Majority @JewishMajority]

Most NY Jews recognize that the normalization of anti-Zionism is linked to increasing antisemitism.

A mayor for all of NY should be using his power to calm tensions, not using public funds for propaganda videos that stoke divisions.

[The Jewish Majority @JewishMajority]

No surprise that Mayor Mamdani showed up as T'ruah gave their human rights award to Gili Getz, someone who libels Israel with charges of genocide and apartheid.

[Jacob N. Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh]

Mayor Mamdani addressed T’ruah’s annual gala tonight.

Video of his remarks — by @giligetz, who was one of the honorees ⬇️

[The Jewish Majority @JewishMajority]

@jacobkornbluh @giligetz No surprise that Mayor Mamdani showed up as T'ruah gave their human rights award to Gili Getz, someone who libels Israel with charges of genocide and apartheid.