Matt Mainen

Litigation Attorney at the National Jewish Advocacy Center.

[Matt Mainen @MattMainen]

A federal court in California just ruled favorably for our client @Avaddov in our antisemitism suit against Pokemon, permitting the case to advance for all nine causes of action. You can read the ruling here:

https://t.co/uimRXbS3xz

[𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕥 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟 @ElliotMalin]

It’s fascinating that multiple Americans who oversaw compliance said that the Israelis were complying with the law.

It’s also fascinating that those who didn’t have the same information said the opposite.

[Matt Mainen @MattMainen]

James, on behalf of all Zionists, I am thanking you from the bottom of my heart for generating so much business for our cause today. As a small token of our appreciation, I have planted a tree in Israel in your honor. You are a true friend of Zionism. Same time next week?

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

Came home from the Philadelphia boycott bike ride wondering why the traction on my shoes was less than usual and have discovered that they’re covered in tacks that were deployed on the crowd by Zionist counter protestors

[Jessica Russak-Hoffman @HoffmanJess]

UPDATE: The National Jewish Advocacy Center has sent a letter demanding that organizers of an anti-Israel boycott bicycle ride targeting Jewish-owned businesses in Philadelphia “preserve evidence” in anticipation of potential legal action, and warned that attorneys will be on site Sunday to document any criminal activity.

According to @MarkGoldfeder, the center also sent enforcement letters to Philadelphia District Attorney Lawrence Krasner, Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel and Pennsylvania Attorney General David Sunday, identifying potential offenses including harassment, assault, terroristic threats, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and defiant trespass.

It asks police to activate body-worn cameras at each of the targeted businesses and requests that an assistant district attorney be available by phone during the event.

Obviously everyone is hoping for peace, a successful, fun, and well-attended food crawl supporting the Jewish-owned businesses, and that the "boycott ride" cyclists keep to themselves. But the last 3 years have been very instructive, so the lawyers are prepared.

[Matt Mainen @MattMainen]

Greek Cypriots would like a word with you. @grok, how many Greeks Cypriots were dispossessed of their homes due to the Turkish invasion?

[Meral Hussein-Ece @meralhece]

Americans have joined the global world & woken up to the actions of these vile people. How dare they think it’s great to steal someone else’s home.

[Matt Mainen @MattMainen]

Wrong. Israel was re-established in 140 BCE by the Hasmonean Dynasty. The Hasmoneans embodied "traditional Judaism" by definition, being more than 2,000 years old. The Messiah had not arrived. Therefore, traditional Judaism does not require the Messiah to re-establish Israel.

[History Speaks @History__Speaks]

Zionism is not a 3,000-year old tradition, Adam. It in fact defies traditional Judaism, which prohibits the re-establishment of a Jewish state until the Messiah arrives.

These posts are revealing however. This is some weird psychological thing for you masquerading as "indigenous politics."

[Matt Mainen @MattMainen]

@TaraGragg8igp @anfernyscott Speaking of houses, how'd you like your time in the big house?

https://t.co/5l4HBwKSSZ

[Matt Mainen @MattMainen]

@grok, prior to Muhammad's conquest of Mecca, was the kaaba controlled by another religious group? Did Muhammad usurp control? Did he and his men do anything to the non-Islamic religious items at the kaaba?

[Maher El-Masri @maherme01]

What do you call this kind of prayer at some other group's holy site?

[Mark Goldfeder @MarkGoldfeder]

Dear Jew-hating Philly "Boycott Ride" organizers:

If you don't like our small business owners, wait till you meet our lawyers.

Here is what @NJACLaw has already done in preparation for your antisemitic stunt:

1) Enforcement letters to the AG, DA, and Police Commissioner, reminding them which statutes apply, which specific crimes trigger it, and providing the proof of motive.

2) Preservation notices to each of you, explaining that litigation is anticipated and that deleting relevant evidence to prevent its use in court can lead to sanctions, including a jury instruction that the missing evidence was unfavorable to you.

3) Organized volunteers and lawyers on site so we have a litigation-grade record ready. No he-said/she-said disputes this time.

Play stupid games win stupid prizes. Game on.

[Matt Mainen @MattMainen]

@giostrombo lol

[Matt Mainen @MattMainen]

El-Sayed belongs to a branch of Islam that believes the most moral person to have ever existed presided over the mass beheading of hundreds of Jewish men and the distribution of that tribe's women as sex slaves. But besides that, a true friend of the Jews.

[Shadi Hamid @shadihamid]

I suppose we’re going to have to litigate this same question for the next 6 years but there’s no evidence that Abdul El-Sayed is antisemitic. No one’s been able to offer any said evidence. Unless you consider criticism of Israel to be anti-Semitic (which apparently a lot of people do!)

[Matt Mainen @MattMainen]

Let's be honest. You aren't boycotting anything food related. You'd raid Bibi's Zionist fridge if you could.

[megan | מיה 🌈 @kehillahjewess]

No one is targeting businesses because they are Jewish!!!

This has everything to do with being Zionist and actively supporting the genocide in Palestine whether physically, ideologically, or materially!

Y’all are dumb as fuck!

[Giovanni Aguirre @gundam_pilot]

@GeopolWonk Are you saying Bukele sat down with the gangs, told them he would lock them up for decades, put them on a super basic diet, make them sleep on bunk beds without mattresses, and they just agreed to it?

[Sarah Ettedgui @SarahEttedgui]

“But Palestinians can’t move freely in Area C.”

Meanwhile, Israelis entering Area A:

[Sarah Nadav @sarahnadav]

Israelis speak Hebrew- a language we kept for more than 2000 years across the diaspora. In the meantime- the Irish barely speak Gaeilge. Nobody stopping them or forcing English today. They just dropping the ball on their own culture while fetishing Palestinians

[Nuseir Yassin @nasdaily]

I feel lucky to be Israeli.

Out of 14m Palestinians in the Middle East, Arab Israelis are the *only* ones that get a vote.

Palestinians in West Bank haven't voted since 2006, stuck under a 90 year old dictator.
Lebanese Palestinians don't even get the citizenship.
Jordanian Palestinians have a.........king.

You may not like this, but the best thing to happen to Palestinians is to live inside Israel.

Eat your heart out.

[David Daoud @DavidADaoud]

I see Matt is still biting off more than he can chew. I'll lay out the positions of the Joint List that make it an unacceptable coalition partner to Zionist parties -- and since Matt knows neither Hebrew nor Arabic, I'll translate where relevant to English. 🧵

[Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 @JacobALinker]

The solution is not to ban balad or otzma, but to force them to share the same office space and copy paper

[Yaakov (Jack) Kaplan @JackKaplanNY]

Tell me you know nothing about Israeli politics without telling me.

It would be like a Marco Rubio- Bernie Sanders ticket.

[Mike Coté @ratlpolicy]

Is German democracy "hollow" because the AfD isn't in a governing coalition? Or does this only apply to Israel?

[Matt Mainen @MattMainen]

@History__Speaks Can you explain to me why exactly they are "occupied" in the WB but Arabs living in territories Israel acquired via military force in 1948-49 are not? No secondary sources. Just actual, plainly written, original source material of international law.