Jim Cohen

Univ. de Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle (2011-2023); Univ. Paris 8 Saint-Denis (1986-2011); productively retired (2023- )

[Jim Cohen @JimCohen226]

@MsMelChen This is some very tendentious nonsense. You really don't know what country you're in. There are exceptions as everywhere but Mexicans in general are among the most welcoming people you could hope to meet.

[Jim Cohen @JimCohen226]

@GranadosCeja Absolutely right. This is nonsense. I'm a frequent visitor to Mexico and I see none of the hostility alleged. Mexicans are very welcoming people.

[Mexico Solidarity Media @MexSolidarity]

“All Countries Have the Right to Be Free”: Sheinbaum in Congratulating the US on Its Independence

Speaking at an event in Michoacán, Sheinbaum tied the US's 250th anniversary to every nation's right to be free and independent.

https://t.co/UAQOjajoTX

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔵 Alex Vindman, the retired lieutenant colonel who rose to fame testifying in Trump’s first impeachment, is running for US Senate in Florida as a Democrat while refusing to call Israel’s slaughter in Gaza a genocide.

Confronted at a recent event over his support for Israel, Vindman declined to explain his support.

He faces progressive state Rep. Angie Nixon of Jacksonville in the August 18 primary. Nixon has centered the plight of Palestinians since the genocide’s early weeks, most memorably when her question on the Florida House floor, ‘How many dead Palestinians will be enough?’, drew a Republican colleague’s shout of ‘All of them,’ in a moment that went viral. She was arrested in May protesting DeSantis’s mid-decade gerrymander and accuses the party establishment of rigging the race for Vindman, who holds $6.5 million to her $178,000 and has so far declined the debates she has accepted.

The winner faces Republican Sen. Ashley Moody, appointed by DeSantis to Marco Rubio’s seat when Rubio became secretary of state. Recent general election polling shows Moody leading Vindman 47-40 per an Associated Industries of Florida survey, while Vindman’s campaign touts a Change Research poll showing him within three and tied among likely voters.

[Jim Cohen @JimCohen226]

@IngrahamAngle @DaveMcCormickPA What really freaks you people out is democratic socialism. 🌹

[Jim Cohen @JimCohen226]

@thehill What the MAGAs really can't deal with is the advance of democratic socialism. 🌹

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Brad Lander tells Haaretz Podcast: • 'Israelis will not be truly safe until Palestinians are free' https://t.co/l0qfOvETTa

[Jim Cohen @JimCohen226]

@ForeignPolicy Maybe they should first sweep in front of their own door.

[Jim Cohen @JimCohen226]

@le_Parisien Ce sont donc les sondages qui nous gouvernent ? Si on cherche un.e candidat.e de gauche il faut decidément chercher ailleurs.

[Jim Cohen @JimCohen226]

@CBSNews How about some democratic socialism? That should calm him down.

[Jim Cohen @JimCohen226]

@tparsi @FT Fortunately there are alternatives to Hillary Clinton.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Absolutely brilliant answer by @AbdulElSayed to the moronic and ritualistic insistence by mainstream media to ask whether candidates believe "Israel has a right to exist."

It is not that Abdul points out that Israel already exists while no one asks him about the right for Palestine to exist. After all, they are the ones suffering through genocide - at the hands of Israel.

It's that he juxtaposes the question of Israel's right to exist with the question of whether Israel has a right to American taxpayers' money (which it currently spends on genocide).

Just like Mamdani brought the conversation back to the needs of New Yorkers instead of the needs of Israelis, Abdul brings it back to the rights and needs of his constituents in Michigan.

Many won't like me calling it as such, but this is the Democratic version of America First. And it is not surprising that it has such a strong appeal.

[Jim Cohen @JimCohen226]

@haaretzcom Damn right it cost him support. The paradigm is shifting. Voters are catching on to Israel's horrendous record on civil rights and human rights.

[Guillaume Long @GuillaumeLong]

Brave, principled, strategic, historic… We need more states to follow suit.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

🚨NEW: @AbdulElSayed responds to Dem powerbrokers saying it’s too dangerous for him to be Dems’ Senate nominee:

“If you’re Chuck Schumer, I’m dangerous. If you’re AIPAC, I’m dangerous. If you’re a corporate PAC, I’m dangerous. If you’re Blue Cross Blue Shield’s CEO, I’m pretty damn dangerous.”

[Alon-Lee Green - ألون-لي جرين - אלון-לי גרין 🟣 @AlonLeeGreen]

אנחנו בבאר שבע ביחד עם אלפי תושבים בדואים ומפגינים יהודים, בהפגנה נגד הריסות הבתים בנגב. למעלה מ-6,000 בתים נהרסו בשנה האחרונה, בתים של משפחות שאין להם לאן ללכת. בתים של ילדים. בשבועות האחרונים הממשלה, בהוראה שלבן גביר, הורסת כפר שלהם של 700 אנשים, תל ערד. >>

[Jim Cohen @JimCohen226]

@GranadosCeja And to state the obvious, the sheer hypocrisy of it! As if she weren't complicit in covert U.S. presence.

[Jim Cohen @JimCohen226]

Question: how much intelligence did it take to figure this out? "U.S. intelligence warns Israel is likely to undermine Iran peace deal, officials say" https://t.co/PRIyTinkoG

[Députée Obono @Deputee_Obono]

Cette décision est honteuse et injustifiable (mais ces gens sont nés avant la honte).
Elle devrait être retoquée par la justice (qui n'a que ça à faire, n'est-ce pas ?).
C'est une nouvelle illustration de l'autoritarisme nauséabond d'un pouvoir en fin de course.
Vivement 2027 !

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

"The Israeli strategy of deploying the U.S. to destroy Iran has backfired."

Iranian American international affairs scholar @vali_nasr reacts to the 14-point deal signed by the U.S. and Iran on Wednesday, why President Trump was desperate to end the fighting, and how it creates a new "fissure" between the U.S. and Israel.