Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
— George Orwell, 1984
Wait, Darializa is with Ramzi Kassem??
An actual attorney for Al Qaeda and Zohran’s chief counsel?
Amazing stuff.
The DSA is not only an anti-American terrorist organization, it’s also a completely astroturfed racket.
Get these people out of our country.
Yasser Arafat was Egyptian. He literally invented the “Palestinian people” in the late 1960s.
Now we’re supposed to believe this 60-year-old political invention is an ancient indigenous population.
The historical illiteracy is actually embarrassing.
Terrible old ideas that have been forgotten, or were never known, for a generation and seen as new and exciting by young, often affluent activists. Meanwhile, the one group you can be certain despises socialism is made up of everyone who has ever lived under it.
What really changed after Columbia University announced it would reform its Middle East studies curriculum as part of its agreement with the Trump admin?
I spent weeks talking to students and faculty to figure it out. The verdict: the Mideast studies department at the center of the controversy has been left untouched by the revamp.
Come fall, the only class the department will offer on Israel is taught by Joseph Massad, who praised the Oct. 7 attacks.
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I hate to say this but please hear me out. For decades, I have made a daily Herculean effort to warn people about the dangers facing the West. My goal was to ensure that any auto-corrective process meant to address the problems would be a peaceful one. I fear that this window has closed. Prepare for astounding violence. It may not come tomorrow, next week, next month, or next year. But it is coming. Save this post.
Mamdani isn’t opposed only to the Jewish state, you see, he opposes all states that privilege a religion.
But he’ll only ever talk about one of them.
Dozens of states are officially Muslim — and privilege Muslims more than Israel privileges Jews. (Before you come at me on that, look it up. Religious freedom, family law, you-name-it.)
He’ll never complain ad hoc about those Muslim states. They don’t trouble his moral imagination.
Heck, Palestine is officially Muslim, drawing not a whisper of rebuke.
And all of them is beside the points that the Jews are not a religion and that they desperately need a state of their own.
Selective outrage isn’t outrage, it’s fake outrage covering for bigotry.
🚨 NYC-DSA’s Decade-Long Power Grab, Explained by Its Own Co-Chair
Even though this is a five-minute clip, people should watch the whole thing.
NYC-DSA Co-Chair Grace Mausser gives a remarkably clear history of how DSA clawed itself back to life.
From Bernie’s 2016 reboot to AOC and Julia Salazar proving DSA could win power in 2018, to the razor-thin 55-vote Queens DA loss, to the 2020 slate that built their “inside-outside” governing strategy, Mausser traces a decade of wins, losses, tactical growth, and co-governance that ultimately led to Zohran.
Bernie brought DSA back to life. Zohran showed them what it could become.
Reasonable Democrats are going to have to get off their couches, roll up their sleeves and start organizing real voters on the ground.
We can no longer rely only on TV ads, digital spend and endorsements. Just donating from afar and complaining about the DSA won’t cut it.
The DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) can beat moderates in a growing number of blue strongholds. Why? Because the DSA has patiently built an army of on-the-ground organizers — who go to meetings, help each other, study together and THEN work to turn out voters on Election Day. That army grows every day — election or no election. Their investment in real people grows (and compounds) with each election cycle. The DSA has a bigger army, every time, win or lose.
But at the end of any election, all moderate Dems have for their efforts is a bunch of ads that nobody will ever see again. That’s not going to work anymore.
If you are a Democrat who believes in opportunity, dignity and democracy for all — but you don’t hate rich people, cops, free enterprise, the West, Israel and the United States of America — I’m talking to you!
At first glance, the agreement with Lebanon is excellent. It addresses the key elements that have been missing from every previous ceasefire agreement:
1) It has been conducted, and will continue to be conducted, directly, thereby breaking the pattern whereby Lebanon refuses to engage in direct negotiations with Israel.
2) It speaks clearly about the goal of achieving peace.
3) It places Lebanon and Israel on the same side, as two countries that both seek a sovereign, functioning Lebanese state that exercises control over all of its territory and is able to prevent attacks on Israel from its soil.
4) In doing so, it identifies Hezbollah and Iran as enemies of Lebanese sovereignty, which is exactly what they are.
5) It makes clear that the effort against Hezbollah and other actors will not be only military, but will also include economic and other means.
6) It speaks about the need to address the underlying structural problems (UNRWA? the issue of the “refugees”?).
Of course, we have all learned, through years of pain and disappointment, to be cautious about Lebanon: a country held together by bandages, which has bled us for decades, while groups such as Fatah and Hezbollah have operated from its south, exploiting its weakness to attack Israel.
Clearly, everything depends on implementation. We all have a huge and entirely justified question mark over whether there are enough people in Lebanon with the will, determination, and capacity to seize this moment.
Thanks in large part to Israel’s actions, those who have systematically undermined Lebanon’s sovereignty, from the Palestinians to Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah, have been significantly weakened. The question is whether Lebanon’ people can finally take their country back.
One final point: I very much hope that Israel’s official representatives will actively promote this agreement at every opportunity and work to firmly establish Israel as the principal actor with a clear interest in a sovereign, functioning Lebanese state that can prevent attacks from its territory by forces that seek to undermine its sovereignty. It is a simple, positive message that frames Israel’s actions as being directed toward that goal.
@InnaVernikov Thank you! The America to which we immigrated from the Soviet Union was a guardian of Western values of liberty and democracy rather than being an enabler of terrorists.
Don’t turn a blind eye: A political unknown with a Nazi SS tattoo just won the democratic primary in Maine. Make no mistake, the Democratic Party excuses it, supports it and embraces it. No political party is perfect, but this party has been completely HIJACKED by radicals, communists, Hamas & Nazi sympathizers and it’s at a point of NO RETURN.