Jessica Methot

Prof of HRM @RutgersU @RU_SMLR & DRP @UofEBusiness | PhD in Org Behavior from @UFWarrington #GoGators | Researcher in #workrelationships #socialnetworks

[Jessica Methot @ProfMethot]

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[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

Redemptive Antisemitism intoxicates good people to do horrific things and to believe hate and violence are actually doing something good.

Like Germans escorting little Jewish children to the gas chambers, the Free Palestine mob thinks they are helping people in Gaza by harassing Jews in suburban Maryland.

[Casey Babb @DrCaseyBabb]

This should be one of the biggest stories in the country. Canada is short 25,000 doctors — and we’re losing some of the few we have because antisemitism is so out of control. This is insane.

[Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM]

Most criticism of Israel can be summarized as: "Stop defending yourself! Can't you see it's hurting the people trying to kill you!"

[Mike Ginsberg 🇺🇸🇮🇱🟧 @MikeGinsberg6]

It's people like @SummerForPA that have nearly radicalized me into being a one-issue voter: voting for whatever keeps Jewish Americans safe. Because her "genocide" blood libel killed Karen Diamond in Boulder and Yaron and Sarah in DC, and nearly killed a synagogue and school full of Jewish children in Michigan.

MLK would reject @SummerForPA as an antisemite emphatically and with disgust.

[Alex Gandler @AlexGandler]

I met Ben once. We were seated at the same dinner table.

At first, we did not recognise each other. Neither of us had any idea we would end up at the same table.

I asked him where I knew him from. He replied, “Ben, from Ben & Jerry’s.”

I smiled and said, “Nice to meet you. I’m Alex, Deputy Consul General of Israel to the Southeastern United States.”

This was at the height of the Ben & Jerry’s Israel controversy. I decided not to raise politics, out of respect for our gracious host. But I was also biding my time, because I suspected he would not be able to resist bringing it up.

About an hour into dinner, he came over to talk.

I saw it as an opportunity to understand where he was coming from, to explain a few things, and to keep the conversation as civil as possible. And to be fair, it was civil. He was pleasant, curious, and polite.

But quite quickly, I also realised he was completely ignorant about Israel.

He had never visited the country or the region. He had basic facts wrong, not only about the narrative, but about the foundations of the conflict itself: the makeup of the countries involved, the history, and the deeply rooted reasons each side sees the conflict the way it does.

For him, it was simple: there are people who appear oppressed, so someone must be the oppressor.

I do not blame Ben personally. He is a businessman who sells ice cream. Why should he be expected to understand Israel, the Middle East, or geopolitics?

The real problem is with those who treat him as an authority.

The media gives him a pedestal to speak about issues he clearly does not understand. And that is the absurdity of it all: taking an ice cream salesman and presenting him as a voice of moral clarity on one of the most complex conflicts in the world.

[LoLNothingMatters @DastDn]

"Gaza Genocide" is such an elegantly toxic piece of gaslighting. Invent a Holocaust facsimile to blame on Jews, appropriating one of their defining tragedies & weaponizing it against them. And then accuse anyone of challenging your lies of Holocaust denial, devaluing that as well

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

In case you didn't know, SJP supports bringing anti-Jewish terrorism to American soil.

Yes, really.

[Jon Levine @LevineJonathan]

So the Dem tent is apparently big enough for a Nazi degenerate and actual Al-Qaeda — but not AIPAC

[Rachel @rachelbsol18]

While the media fixates on Adam Hamawy’s win in NJ-12 (a safe blue seat where the progressive, sharp Israel critic prevailed in a crowded field), several anti-Israel challengers took losses or underperformed in yesterday’s primaries.

Here are some notable ones:

- Mussab Ali (NJ-8): Left challenger lost decisively to incumbent Rep. Rob Menendez (69%-31%).

- Brian Varela (NJ-7): Anti-Israel Latino candidate backed by CAIR/A New Policy defeated by moderate Rebecca Bennett.

- Terri Reese (NJ-2): Grassroots progressive finished last (~10%).

- Randy Villegas (CA-22) & Ammar Campa-Najjar (CA-48): High-profile critics underperformed against pro-Israel/moderate Democrats amid heavy AIPAC/DMFI spending.

While Hamawy’s victory gives progressives something to point to, the day showed limits for strongly anti-Israel insurgents in contested or swing-leaning terrain. Voters often prioritize electability and local issues over maximalist foreign policy stances.

[John M Chell @JohnMChell]

The biggest loser today was our Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Another rookie error.

So many New Yorkers of Jewish heritage and others came together on a beautiful Sunday to just have a pleasant day. To enjoy the parade.

The Mayor chose to play politics and appease his DSA base who hates Jews and Israel as a whole.

Well- it did not work. Congrats to NYC today, congrats to PC Tisch and her team, and all the people who attended. There is still hope.

@NYCMayor @samraskinz @NYPDPC @MikeBloomberg @BilldeBlasio @ericadamsfornyc @MOSSADil @GovKathyHochul

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

There are some greedy assholes attempting a hostile takeover of the Democratic Party right now and given our lack of leadership (see: weak ass answers from Congressmembers on Sunday shows with the exception of @CoryBooker), they just might succeed this cycle, sending the party into a moral and financial black hole.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

What makes Zohran Mamdani dangerous isn't that he's economically literate and wrong. It's that he's economically illiterate and politically skilled.

He can sell policies that sound compassionate, mobilize resentment, and win support, while the economic consequences arrive long after the applause. That's a far more dangerous combination than being merely mistaken.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

“It is the mayor’s decision not to march and it is my decision to march proudly.”

- NYC Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch

Moral clarity.

[ftxclone anti-groyper @ftxclone]

Antizionists have made me radically Zionist. I miss the days when my X feed wasn’t dominated by antizionists talking flooding the entire conversation about Israel. But if the goal was to make me turn against Israel when before I never really thought about Israel I am now a radical Zionist and they have themselves to thank for it.

[Jamie Metzl @JamieMetzl]

43% of American voters are dissatisfied with both political parties. That’s not surprising.

Many Americans believe the Republican Party too often acts as a rubber stamp for President Trump rather than standing up for the interests of ordinary citizens. At the same time, many feel the Democratic Party has been too willing to accommodate its extreme far left, failing to forcefully condemn bigotry, intolerance, and anti-Americanism.

The good news is that most Americans are not looking for more polarization. They want sensible leaders who can work across differences to solve our shared challenges.

If our increasingly unbalanced political system can find ways to better reflect those voices, America can begin digging itself out of the hole we have dug for ourselves.

[J.C. Polanco, Esq. @JCPolancoNYC]

Damn, I've been outed as a proud American who supports Israel and despises anti-Semitism and racism. I must say, I am proud to garner such hatred from the DSA interlopers.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Something is deeply shocking me, some people who call themselves “human rights activists” speak endlessly about Palestinian rights, yet won’t utter a single word about Hamas’s brutality against Palestinians. Not just silence, they actively cover for it.

Spare us the hypocrisy.

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

Imagine how people would react if a Republican candidate for the senate had had a Nazi tattoo.

But because it's a Democrat, that's OK??? Do you hear yourselves?

[Mazelit Airaksinen 🎗🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @Mazelit_]

My first year at Barnard College I had roomates in SJP who brutally harrassed me, stalked me, and tried to get me fired from my work-study job.

Why?

Because I refused to sign a BDS petition.

I didn't even know much about Israel at the time.

This was before I converted.

But after all that harassment, I posted on Facebook about all the trouble I was having at school and Jews from all political backgrounds called me, thinking I was a fellow Jew in distress.

"I'm not Jewish" I'd say.

"That's ok, we want to help anyways" was always the response.

They never forced their religion on me.
They never disparaged me for my (at the time) atheism.
They didn't even treat me like an outsider.

What they did do? They showed me what family, mishpacha, is.

I was a "gifted and talented" student from a broken home. I grew up struggling with homelessness. I had no family to turn to for help, in K-12 or college.

But I will say that the Jewish community's propensity to help one in need — especially in my case, helping someone who wasn't Jewish — is something I'll forever be deeply appreciative of.

I was scared to go to class because of the harrassment in college. One UES mom bought me pepper spray so I'd feel safer in case someone started to stalk me again.

When I posted about not having family over the holidays, someone from Columbia Hillel sent me a care-package.

Rinse and repeat 100x over my four years in college.

Jews taught me what family is and I'll never forget🧡