I’ve never been a single-issue voter. I’m still not.
But I now disqualify a candidate from receiving support based on a single issue.
If you condone, support, or actively remain silent about antisemitism, I’ll vote for someone whose policies I don’t like against you.
Jewish blood isn’t cheap. And Jewish political support shouldn’t be either.
The most basic standard of decency isn’t a high bar, but today, far too many in politics can’t reach it.
I have been saying for many months that Zohran Mamdani’s incitement of violence against the Jewish community will lead to actual violence against the Jewish community. Now, once again, that appears to be the case.
This 👇from my NY friend/legislative colleague.
Could not be said more clearer.
Every anti-Jew violence & each horrid anti-Jew rhetoric puts all of our Jewish communities on even higher alert and it must stop. @nily
If you can’t fully condemn calls to “globalize the intifada,” you should be prepared to confront the normalizing of that rhetoric. Words inflame, embolden, and lead to violence against Jewish communities.
Leaders must reject hate—clearly, consistently, & without qualification.
If you can’t fully condemn calls to “globalize the intifada,” you should be prepared to confront the normalizing of that rhetoric. Words inflame, embolden, and lead to violence against Jewish communities.
Leaders must reject hate—clearly, consistently, & without qualification.
ALLIED SIGNAL: Arizona state Rep. Alma Hernandez won a contested Democratic state Senate primary with 54% after an opponent’s campaign called her a “genocide enabler” and urged voters to unseat a Zionist.
https://t.co/kYGOuxMfm3
@JoshKraushaar I hope other Democrats will realize you don’t have to cave into the pressure, or blame everything on @AIPAC or @DemMaj4Israel, and say that it's a genocide to win Democratic voters over. They don't need to hate Israel to win. Period.
We've hit the point where if you aspire to hold political office in the Democratic party you have to performatively signal your allegiance to the anti-Israel dogma.
Ro Khanna has to pretend to be detained in Israel. Rahm Emmanuel has to fly to Israel to deliver an anti-Israel speech. Mini-Mao Mamdani in NY gives a national campaign speech about failing to arrest the Prime Minister.
It's purely performative. It's only net effect is possible incitement.
It's obscene. It's evil. And it's really bad for the country.
The hypocrisy of wishing Jews a peaceful Tisha B’Av while relentlessly attacking the Jewish state is hard to miss. It is yet another example of Mayor Mamdani gaslighting the Jewish community.
Tisha B’Av isn’t just about mourning the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. It’s a reminder of what Jewish statelessness has meant throughout history: exile, persecution and slaughter.
It is the day the Jews were expelled from England in 1290, from Spain in 1492, the day the Nazis began the Great Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto - sending more than 265,000 Jews to their deaths at the Treblinka extermination camp over the course of two months. These and so many other calamities.
Extending holiday wishes while opposing the Jewish people’s sovereignty in their ancestral homeland misses the historical lesson that lies at the heart of Tish B’Av.
To folks who still defend AOC — here she is telling a flat-out lie, easily debunked by a simple reading of the bill. Her SOLE aim is to spread hatred of Israel, and by extension, those of us connected to it, assuming her fans will take her word as truth with no critical thinking.
Last night, Mayor Mamdani used official city resources to present disputed accusations against Israel as settled fact. When a mayor who refuses to condemn calls to globalize the Intifada repeats libels against the Jewish state, is it any wonder that NYC has averaged nearly one antisemitic hate crime a day since he took office?
This one-sided demonization from City Hall helps create the climate in which anti-Jewish hatred thrives.
BOMBSHELL: Former AP correspondent @MattiFriedman says the "genocide" narrative wasn't a reaction to how Israel fought the war; it was already loaded before October 7 even happened.
- The same "machinery of condemnation" appears in essays he wrote in 2014, describing an identical dynamic on a smaller scale
- NGOs like Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, plus the UN system, were already primed to supply the coverage
- By the evening of October 7 itself, protests in the West were already accusing Israel of genocide
"The genocide charge predates October 7, and this was all ready to go."
@Mr_Andrew_Fox@JakeWSimons
BREAKING @Jewishinsider via @HaleyCohen19: "College Dems’ conference, co-sponsored by J Street U, is featuring Hasan Piker"
"J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami said his organization is ‘proud’ to sponsor the event"
https://t.co/yPrTdJcfSV
So Sen. Tracy McCreery had the SAME EXACT roll call vote as Williams....why isn't Jake saying "women can't trust her" either?
Logic flies out the window when the goal is to attack & defame.
A mailer stamped him MAGA. His response graphic stamped it FALSE. But the roll call vote is real, so I asked Sen. Brian Williams which part is fake: the vote or the spin. His answer: "the spin of the vote." You make the call. Full interview streaming now on 5 On Your Side app.
Threatening letters have been sent to multiple Jewish leaders in the US, the ADL reports.
“The letter contains explicit, threatening language targeting Jewish people and relies on vile antisemitic tropes that have historically been used to incite violence.”
The letter also refers to God angrily destroying the Jews and to Jews extorting and blackmailing the U.S. government. The ADL is in touch with authorities.
Credit: JNS
Missouri’s AG says she’s “looking into” what we reported on Cori Bush’s tornado fundraising. So we’re publishing the emails in full. They announce “a new 501(c)(4),” ask for tornado fund donations, and say the gifts are “not political.” Read them yourself: https://t.co/2hsw0wJ6mo