Ben Levitan

Proven CEO, Independent Director, Advisor, Investor. Arsenal F.C. Cedalion Partners. Cedalion Talent. Delta Payments. Staley Capital

[Ben Levitan @benlevitan]

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[Dan Primack @danprimack]

In 1999 I was a college senior and wrote an undergrad thesis on the rise of "Christian Identity," an antisemitic and racist philosophy that had animated Timothy McVeigh.

The concept of "white genocide," coined by the man convicted of killing a Jewish radio host in 1984, and its close cousin "replacement theory" were key features of Christian Identity.

In 1999, my thesis advisor pushed back, because it still seemed like a few disaffected individuals with access to weapons -- rather than a movement. At best, such a movement would always remain fringe and widely condemned. After all, we were in the enlightened time before the millennium turn.

Neither one of us imagined this moment, when these theories are mainstreamed. By well-known politicians, pundits, and even the owner of this site (who doubled down today on Jewish orgs having "anti-white policies").

So mainstream that some either don't notice it, or excuse it as just a reasonable difference of opinion. So mainstream that some of its regurgitators likely haven't given any thought to its murderous history, or why it's not just another political theory.

I now long for when this shit was just at the fringes.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

This is a math class this morning at @MIT. This is the state of learning and ‘free speech’ at our top universities. It would not be happening without a failure leadership at MIT.

Imagine being a student who borrowed $250k to attend MIT or a professor who is trying to do research in this environment.

[Christina Buttons @buttonslives]

Listen to Sam Harris skillfully eviscerate the “both sides” argument in the Israel-Hamas war:

“The boundary between antisemitism and generic moral stupidity is a little hard to discern, and I’m not sure it’s always important to find it. I’m not sure it matters why a person can’t distinguish between collateral damage in a neccessary war and conscious acts of genocidal sadism that are celebrated as religious sacrament by a death cult.

Our streets have been filled with people literally tripping over themselves in their eagerness to demonstrate that they cannot distinguish between those who intentionally kill babies and those who inadvertently kill them — having taken great pains to avoid killing them — while defending themselves against the very people who have just intentionally tortured and killed innocent men, women, and yes, babies. And who are committed to doing this again at any opportunity, and are using their own innocent non-combatants as human shields.

If you’re bothsidesing this situation, or worse, if you’re supporting the wrong side, if you’re waving the flag of people who murder non-combatants intentionally, killing parents in front of their children and children in front of their parents, burning people alive at a music festival devoted to peace, and decapitating others and dragging their dismembered bodies through the streets — all to shouts of ‘God is Great.’

If you’re recognizing the humanity of actual barbarians, while demonizing the people who worry about war crimes, and who drop leaflets and call cell phones for days, in an effort to get non-combatants to leave specific buildings before they are bombed, because those buildings sit on top of tunnels filled with genocidal lunatics, who again have just sedulously tortured and murdered families as though it were a religious sacrament, because for them it is a religious sacrament.

If you have landed, proudly and sanctimoniously on the wrong side of this asymmetry, this vast gulf between savagery and civilization, while marching through the quad of an Ivy League university, wearing yoga pants.

I’m not sure it matters that your moral confusion is due to the fact that you just happen to hate Jews — whether you’re an antisemite or just an apologist for atrocity is probably immaterial.

The crucial point is that you are dangerously confused about the moral norms and political sympathies that make life in this world worth living. What is more, you don’t even care about what you think you care about, because you have failed to see that Hamas and Jihadists generally are the principal cause of all the misery and dysfunction we see, not just in Gaza but throughout the Muslim world.”

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[Ben Levitan @benlevitan]

So proud of my #sister Julie upon the occasion of her retirement from her role as Summer Camp Director @ Temple Beth El in New Rochelle #29yeatsofservice #iamajew

[Ben Levitan @benlevitan]

#istandwithevan

[Ben Levitan @benlevitan]

@Wilco #waronwar

[Kenneth Cole @kennethcolereal]

Gotham city becomes electric in an unintended 9/11 tribute.

[Ben Levitan @benlevitan]

Aren’t the actors on-strike?! @Arsenal

[Ben Levitan @benlevitan]

Let Ukraine Direct Its Own Counteroffensive by @gen_jackkeane #glorytoukraine https://t.co/CuX30wdI6u

[Ben Levitan @benlevitan]

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[Ben Levitan @benlevitan]

#coachoftheweek @m8arteta @Arsenal COYG

[Ben Levitan @benlevitan]

WINNING @Arsenal #COYG @EddieNketiah9

[Ben Levitan @benlevitan]

COYG @Arsenal

[Ben Levitan @benlevitan]

@Patticus I should add that I am new to health insurance industry (my experience lies elsewhere) so am keen to LEARN

[Ben Levitan @benlevitan]

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[Spaulding Rehab @SpauldingRehab]

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[XBTO @xbtogroup]

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[Ben Levitan @benlevitan]

#truth

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

I’ve been banging my head against the wall trying to articulate my definition of “Life’s Work”

Then @GrahamDuncanNYC pointed me to this, by the incredible poet David Whyte

Hard to imagine improving this discussion:

[Ben Levitan @benlevitan]

Happy 10th Rocky ! #doglife