NEW: state Rep. Don McLaughlin says New World Screwworm within 1 mile of Texas border and urged state leaders to set up response modeled after Operation Lone Star.
Says the federal government is "failing to take seriously a threat that could devastate our livestock industry."
Bezalel Smotrich is a far-right extremist whose hateful and divisive rhetoric is fundamentally at odds with the values we hold dear in New York.
Yesterday’s parade was a celebration of Jewish pride, community, and unity. I strongly condemn his participation.
It's antisemitic to conflate Jews and Israel. Which is exactly what the ADL is doing by calling the "Israel Day Parade" a "Jewish celebration"
As a Jewish person who lives here, I'm pretty fucking glad we finally have a mayor who isn't at a parade celebrating atrocity crimes.
I appreciate Smotrich comparing the Parade to the Jerusalem Day flag march. The two are interconnected, after all: one is an annual Kristallnacht for Palestinians, the other exists to support that effort.