"Indigenous" Palestinian whose father sold their land in 1930's sits in an NYC apartment adorned with a poster made by an evil Zionist from the 1930s but claims it was all stolen from her family, all amplified by the radical in Gracie Mansion.
I noted earlier that Inea Bushnaq, the New York woman in Mamdani's Nakba Day video, is from a Bosniak family (Bushnaq = بشناق = Bosniak) that settled in Ottoman Palestine in the 1880s – the same time the first modern wave of Jewish settlers arrived.
But the plot thickens...
11 years of telling my kids what to do in small hits then following up to make sure they did it all while trying to rewire their brains for honesty, accountability and collaboration has prepared me for the AI agent era in an amazing way.
@TimmyFacciola_ i did. When you reposted Latimer at a pizza shop, you didn't have any commentary. With this, you do. What's the difference? In both, the congressman is drawing attention to the same core issue. weirdos harassing a pizza shop = weirdos putting an Israel event flyer in a toilet.
@TimmyFacciola_ Again, if the student event targeted had been a black, asian, Muslim, or Irish event - literally any other group, you'd have never thought to chime in. Check in with yourself about why that is.
You began by calling it out as odd. That shows bias to you believing this is a non issue. You aren’t reporting on it - you’re commenting on it. If you think this is just normal high school behavior, I’d have hated to have gone to your high school.
The normalization of vilification and targeting of Israel supporters is abhorrent. When issues like this occur at the high school level, it's an indication for society that something has gone fundamentally wrong in the way that this issue is being processed.
The fact that other student groups were able to hold events without this, including a pro-Palestinian event, without their flyers defaced and pissed on in the bathroom, shows increasingly that people, potentially you included, think there's one set of rules that applies to everyone and a different one that gets applied to Jews and Israel supporters.
Again, just shouting “Free Palestine” first doesn’t make bigotry acceptable.
@GenBellisarius@TimmyFacciola_ Didn’t they already and also hosted an event that no one defaced or disrupted?
Funny how there is one set of rules only for one group of kids.
It is unacceptable in any school to deface student event flyers like this. If you have special rules that apply only to those that are pro-Israel or Jewish, that seems discriminatory.
And yes, Israel is an integral part of Jewish identity and has been for thousands of years. This student club is a primarily Jewish students who proudly support israel. It is not up for debate whether or not it’s appropriate in a school environment.
Says the head of an org exclusively focused on challenging dems in safe blue seats.
To be clear this is all about @Leahgreenb (aka @IndivisibleTeam ) rushing to defend @hasanthehun without the slightest discernible push back on his bigoted, misogynistic, or rape denying comments.
personally I am team #bigtent, but if we're gonna start kicking people out of the party on brand/moral grounds I would like to nominate 1) the foreign policy team behind the Gaza genocide, and 2) every Dem former elected/staffer who takes a cushy job with an overtly evil company
Waiting patiently for the @AIPAC = “foreign nations buying our elections” crazies to hard reboot and figure out what to say about @actblue allowing foreign donations.
Then again, and stay with me here, I’m starting to think maybe it never had anything to do with foreign influence on elections and it was about something else? 🤔
Two sets of rules, one written special just for pro-Israel Jews. Strange. Is there a term for that?
It’s the “quiet” that’s allowing these views to fester. Candidate and elected officials are so scared of being in the crosshairs of the radical online left they’re trying to hide in plain sight.
To many of our “leaders” are empowering this. We need to start forcing our allies to speak - silence is not a solution.
Left-wing antisemitism is often savvier than the brash, neo-Nazi rhetoric of the right. Their attacks are loaded with words taught in social justice seminars and are often less blatant. They replace the word "Jew" with "Zionist" while pushing age-old tropes about Jewish wealth and influence.
@jonahplatt highlights this in detail on CNN with @jaketapper.
“Following the interview, the Democratic committees for Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Dutchess counties issued a joint statement condemning Piker’s “hateful rhetoric” and expressing “deep disappointment” with @effie4congress for appearing alongside him.
“Her decision represents a dangerous and unacceptable step toward legitimizing rhetoric that has no place in this District, in mainstream Democratic politics, or in any serious political discourse,” the committees said.”
https://t.co/F1w7P4sXPo
In an unprecedented joint statement, the Chairs of ALL Democratic Committees representing the NY-17 (Westchester, Putnam, Rockland and Dutchess) have denounced @effie4congress's normalization of @hasanthehun's vile, racist, misogynistic, antisemitic, and pro-terror rhetoric.
In their statement, they called on ALL candidates running in the Democratic Primary (@CaitforNewYork, @BethDavidson17, @MikeSacksEsq, @jcappello12, and @peterchatzky) to speak out against the normalization of antisemitism in the Democratic Party and demanded that @effie4congress "make clear that she rejects his vile rhetoric."
This moment of moral clarity matters. All elected officials and candidates running for office in the district must be held to account and forced to say where they stand.
If not, their silence will speak for them.