@JoeCruzNYC@VickieforNYC AIPAC does not exist to boost the image of Jews.
Jewish culture, values and beliefs have nothing to do with bagels. But people only like Jews when they lack autonomy.
@_iamblakeley@LizzySavetsky@nytimes Not according to Haaretz, which the minute they spew something intensely critical of Israel, you’ll be holding up as gospel.
GTFO with your retarded takes.
@LizzySavetsky@nytimes So fucked up. Keep doing what you’re doing. You should speak at one of the rallies outside the NYTimes, which this article conveniently does not mention.
Slowly but surely, every IDF attack that was reported by Gazan "journalists" to have "targeted civilians" will be proven to have killed combatants. The "genocide" narrative is falling apart, which is why South Africa asked for a 3 year delay. And Hamas is providing the evidence.
@TheModerateCase This is such a wily attack on Americans supporting Israel.
Contrary to your framing, it’s totally consistent to have backed Trump at the start and now be upset.
That’s not loyalty to Israel over the US.
And supporters vocally wanted Iranian regime change.
It’s entirely possible to disagree with you without AIPAC having anything to do with it.
When you say “AIPAC,” who are you really talking about?
The millions of Democrats who are AIPAC members?
Our 6.5 million grassroots members, donors, and Board of Directors, all of whom are Americans?
The broad and diverse group of citizens who hold a range of views on Israel, Gaza, American and Israeli politics, and the wars in the region, but who unite in support of a U.S.-Israel partnership that benefits America?
And if this is about money in politics, why are you talking about AIPAC members differently from any other contributors? Is our community’s participation in the political process any different from the dark-money, billionaire-funded super PAC backing your campaign or the $175,000 in PAC contributions you’ve accepted?
So who are you really talking about?
What I find riveting about this clip is not that Sarah Wilkinson doesn't see Israelis as human—it's a given for people whose entire worldview is built around a Manichean spiritual dichotomy in which Palestine/Gaza stands for good and Israel/Jews for evil.
What's genuinely worth noting here are the last few seconds of the clip, where she says that she glimpsed Gaza right before the cruel Israeli monsters so abruptly ended her quest.
It's that twinkle in her eye and the swelling music that reveal the real meaning of Gaza for her: Gaza as the Holy Grail, an object of longing, a source of redemption for her and for all humanity, the closest thing to a divine revelation she's ever been granted.
The sense we get from those last few seconds is that, simply by glimpsing Gaza, she reached a level of spiritual transcendence that she will cherish for the rest of her life. And it's the sweetness of that moment, of redemption so tantalizingly within one’s grasp, that is going to bring her back, for one doesn’t abandon the holy quest simply because agents of Satan stand in one's way. Indeed, the greater the obstacles to redemption, the more resolutely one must persevere.
@RachelMoiselle has written about Palestinianism as a replacement faith for post-Catholic Irish. @HusseinAboubakr has a tour de force of a piece out now on Palestine as a symbol whose meaning changes depending on which groups and causes attach themselves to it.
This clip is an illustration of what both of them are talking about. I hope there are people out there studying Palestinianism as a psycho-spiritual phenomenon. It has to be one of the most fascinating subjects of inquiry today.
I just don’t get how she has this annoyed smug look on her face, you’re running for office , you have the biggest politician in the city backing you and some of the most donations from out of state of anyone in nyc right now. Why are you upset the press is asking a few questions? You were plucked from obscurity to having Justice democrats pump millions into your campaign … she will be just as bad if not worse than Espillat if she gets the job
We need to stop treating people like Mehdi Hasan like they’re not textbook enemies of the Jewish people.
We saw what an attempted “dismantling of the state” looked like on October 7. This is a blatant lie - masking genocidal intent in wily sophistry.
To claim that dismantling a state, a governing structure, means murdering the people who live there is beyond absurd. Apartheid South Africa was dismantled. The white people there were not mass-murdered. The state simply became a state for all its citizens, with equal rights.