Kelly Lobel

Mom to 2 boys & 1 rescue pup. Gluten-free baker. Voter.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

On the anniversary of Operation Barbarossa (which fueled the Nazi genocide), we are faced with educators apologizing for a session on the Holocaust. https://t.co/UbwnnQAkCF In Massachusetts, Principal Johnny Cole apologized for making people feel "unsafe" and "unseen."...

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

The point of Holocaust education is not to protect Muslim students’ feelings, or whatever this claptrap suggests. It’s not about them.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

A guy who lied to protect the WTC bombing mastermind has won the Democratic primary in NJ.

What happened in the UK, which we promised we would never allow in the U.S., is happening in the U.S.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

This is inversion so callous it's hard to believe.

The Holocaust had a survival rate of about 30%. Millions of people disappeared from European cities and towns over several years. Everybody knew because it was happening all around them.

Gaza has a survival rate, despite the worst and most deadly and horrible periods of the war, of 97%.

All the dead Jews were noncombatants. A large percentage of the dead Gazans were combatants.

And the Jews of Europe, even as their millennia-old civilization was being systematically wiped out, wanted nothing from the societies that surrounded them except to be allowed to live in peace.

Gaza's leadership of religious fanatics, meanwhile, wants every last Israeli dead and gone, is willing to fight to the last Gazan to achieve that aim, has said so publicly and worked for decades to blow up every peace attempt -- and even now believes that Gaza's destruction would be a worthwhile sacrifice to lay on the altar of Israel's destruction, because their god told them so.

So Israelis can reasonably believe, given those features of the Gaza war that aren't true about any genocide ever, and were pretty much the opposite of what was happening in the Holocaust, that Gaza's suffering is a bad and painful war, but not remotely a genocide.

But the point of it all, of course, is not to analyze Gaza, but specifically to lump it together with the Holocaust -- to cast the Jews as the new Nazis.

The only reason this person would dare to make such an insanely ahistorical and immoral parallel is because this is the heart of the bigoted propaganda campaign in which he enthusiastically participates: The point of it all is to make the Jews into the Nazis.

A culture that obsessed about Jews being evil and was then shocked by the Holocaust into obsessing about dead Jews as the apotheosis of righteous victimhood is now obsessively engaged in knocking Jews off that moral pedestal they themselves put them on.

That's why they don't care one whit about Hamas massacres of Gazans, about genocidal wars in Syria or Yemen (even when they've funded and armed the sides), about flotilla activists currently held by the Libyans...literally nothing triggers a response except Jews.

They still, even after all these generations, no matter what else is happening in the world or in their own societies, can't stop thinking about Jews.

And as we Jews learned in the 1940s -- the actual, historical 1940s, not the weird fantasies conjured up by these bigots -- a whole society can be in the grip of a callous, destructive bigotry and still believe it is true and righteous.

[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

There’s only one person in this race who has taken a massive amount of dark money — and it’s Brad Lander.

After posting an ALTERED video of me last night, a New York Times article came out this morning revealing that Brad is taking super PAC money. The hypocrisy is next level.

New Yorkers deserve better. And NY-10 deserves a representative you can trust.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

At UPenn, professors are moving exams and deadlines because students are unhappy with the election results.

Where was this when Jewish students were being harassed and assaulted? Where was this when a pro-Hamas encampment shut down Penn's library for two weeks?

[Tom Santos @tommysantos14]

So when Trump fires all non-partisan career professionals in government, replaces them with radical loyalists within every nook and cranny of the US government, and adds radical judges everywhere.

And every one of you that voted for him finally wake up from your fucked up fantasy just like the folks that woke up after 4 years of the last shit show, only to realize it’s much much worse, and much more permanent, this time.

When the cancer you caused has infected every bit of the American system and it can’t be unwound for a lifetime.

What then?

Do you beg this country for forgiveness for choosing fascism because you were conned into believing your eggs are too expensive because of Joe Biden?

You just put Steve Bannon in charge of American policy.

You just put Michael Flynn in charge of our military.

You just put Alex Jones in charge of media and propaganda.

You just put Stephen Miller in charge of immigration policy.

You just put batshit crazy RFK Jr. in charge of health policy.

You just killed free public education and privatized schools, which you will have to pay for.

You just sealed the deal on a national abortion ban, because you’re demented if you think it’s not coming.

You just radicalized the Supreme Court for a generation.

You just made women less safe and less free.

You just made this country an oligarchy with the billionaires quite literally in charge now.

You just put in office the one person that believes a president is a king, with the fucking Supreme Court ruling to prove it in his back pocket!

You just ushered in Fascism.

Because your cereal costs more.

Congratulations.

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

Our nation’s democratic system functioned last night and we have a new President-elect.  All Americans are bound, whether we like the outcome or not, to accept the results of our elections. We now have a special responsibility, as citizens of the greatest nation on earth, to do everything we can to support and defend our Constitution, preserve the rule of law, and ensure that our institutions hold over these coming four years. Citizens across this country, our courts, members of the press and those serving in our federal, state and local governments must now be the guardrails of democracy.

[Kelly Lobel @KellyLobel]

@SSantiagoMayer Yes. So sorry. 💔💔💔💔💔

[Heather @heathem1221]

As someone who DOESN'T live in a swing state, I'm gonna say this with my full chest:

I'm tired of 7 fucking states deciding the fate of 50 states.

[Michael J. Stern @MichaelJStern1]

Is it that Harris is a woman?

Is the misogyny that deep in America?

[Kelly Lobel @KellyLobel]

@Amy_Siskind Ok. Cause I’m kind of freaking out.

[Kelly Lobel @KellyLobel]

What is wrong with people?

[The Persian Jewess @persianjewess]

Domestic Terrorists stand outside of Fox News on Election Night burning Israeli Flags.

A year and a half of this bullshit with zero response from Biden/Harris.

[Dana Goldberg @DGComedy]

No matter what happens, it saddens me deeply that rape, felonies, trying to overthrow our democracy, misogyny, racism and transphobia are somehow not deal breaks for 10’s of millions of Americans.

[L. Joy Williams @ljoywilliams]

If you live in Nevada answer the phone, it may be a call to cure your ballot.

[The Election Center @ElectionCenter_]

Projection:
Democrat Ruben Gallego is the Projected Winner in the Arizona Senate Election. He will defeat Republican Kari Lake.

Democratic Gain

#ElectionDay #Election2024 #AZSen

[Kelly Lobel @KellyLobel]

Stay in line!

[Annie Wu (all socials: @annie_wu_22) @Annie_Wu_22]

it’s 8:30, and polls closed 30min ago. But ALL THESE STUDENTS in the Lehigh valley were in line before 8pm and have the RIGHT TO VOTE

it’s incredibly inspiring to see so many young people out to vote!!

if you are in line, STAY IN LINE