Chuck Pascal

Attorney-crim defense, election law; Chair @ArmstrongCoDems ; Leechburg boro council member; ex school board member & mayor

[Chuck Pascal @chuckpascal]

@Costello4Senate 🤡

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Smotrich was not the only Israeli official with disgusting views who marched in the Israel Day parade. This should not be surprising. Israel is an apartheid state committing genocide. Their elected leaders and the vast majority of their citizens support apartheid and ethnic cleansing. There is no way to march in a parade for such a state and not be associated with their crimes against humanity.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Smotrich: "It's either us or them. There is no middle ground. We are killing the idea of a Palestinian state."

The finance minister just admitted what the world pretends not to see: this isn't about security. It's about expansion. One people erased so another can expand

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Genocide is not just the destruction of human life. It is also the eradication of heritage. If you swim down in that water near the Christian quarter and you see mosaics.

Tyre was one of the most important cities in the ancient world. Israel is, in essence, bombing Rome.

[Chuck Pascal @chuckpascal]

@speechboy71 Sit down and be quiet.

[Chuck Pascal @chuckpascal]

@davidsirota Salacious marital scandal?? 🤡

[Butlerian Jihad🍉 @Baudib1]

This terrorist Smotrich is literally a national hero to Israelis, you can’t pretend he’s not mainstream.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Lebanon is being ethnically cleansed in real time. We told you they wouldn't stop with Gaza

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

The situation unfolding right now is the perfect example of why the majority of the American people have either outright rejected or are at least requestioning the US-Israeli relationship.

Currently, there is an obvious divergence between the US interests and the goals of the Israeli government.

We desperately need a deal to end this disastrous war and save the global economy. Trump obviously wants that at this point and has already said Israel was forbidden from attacking Lebanon. (You may recall every pro Israel account on here claiming this as proof that Trump calls the shots). The ceasefire that the President of the United States of America wants depends on Israel not attacking southern Lebanon.

So, Israel announces they’re doing it. The best Trump can say is no boots on the ground and he won’t even hold on that.

This is a country whose very survival let alone ability to conduct any of these elective wars is completely dependent on US tax payer money, and support. We unconditionally support them even as they undermine our nation.

This is beyond intolerable. You can call all of us every name in the book but it’s just too obvious.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Now that Gaza lies in ruins—shattered, like a beloved face after a long brutality—Israel moves with a terrible confidence to the next act: The act of leaving every soul there not merely wounded, but permanently disabled. Injured, sick, hungry, homeless, without work, without hope. This is not war’s collateral damage. This is design.

As my friend Gideon Levy writes—and he knows, he knows—this is the prelude to expulsion. Think of it: a society without teachers, without doctors, without social workers, without engineers, without clerks. That is not a society. That is a holding pen. A slow erasure. And when nothing functions—no school, no hospital, no office, no heart—then it becomes ‘easy,’ they tell themselves, to scatter the people to the four corners of the earth. Like seeds from a broken pod, except no soil will take them.

We must name this. Not with rage alone, though rage is honest. But with the cold, clear tears of recognition: they are making life impossible so that departure becomes the only ‘choice.’ And the world watches, adjusts its spectacles, and calls for restraint. Restraint! There is no restraint in a slow drowning.

[Eli Kowaz - איליי קואז @elikowaz]

Update, from the parade's own organizer. The head of JCRC-NY says the ministers were "neither invited by JCRC-NY nor known to us in advance," and accused the Israeli consulate of a "complete lack of transparency" about who it was bringing.
The organizers didn't want them. The government brought them and didn't say so.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

BREAKING: ISRAELI forces RAIDED the women’s dormitory at Birzeit University near Ramallah and ABDUCTED FOUR Palestinian FEMALE STUDENTS.

The students were identified as:

• Jolan Abu Awwad
• Natali Abu Dayya
• Laila Nael Khalil
• Sama Safi

The arrests came during an Israeli military raid on the town of Birzeit in the occupied West Bank.

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

The thing about libel is it has to be untrue.

A Jewish baby born today in a West Bank community will have full rights in Israel, a vote in national elections, and access to civilian courts; a Palestinian baby born in that same community will have no democratic rights, tight restrictions on their movement, frequent harassment from settlers, and no access to justice beyond what Israel’s unaccountable military courts mete out.

That’s apartheid. It’s just literally apartheid.

If you think apartheid is really evil, such that it’s a terrible thing to say about a country, well, you’re right, it is. That’s why we have an issue here.

[Chuck Pascal @chuckpascal]

@chwolfson @PublicSourcePA I meant the OT. Courts don't have overtime usually because they routinely close on time.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ As Israel continues to systematically torture and rape Palestinians, and mass murder civilians in both Gaza and Lebanon in a publicly declared effort to seize and ethnically cleanse territory, the following New York politicians attended and marched in the New York City Israel Day Parade in support of the State of Israel:

🔸 Chuck Schumer — U.S. Senator and Senate Minority Leader

🔸 Daniel Goldman — U.S. Representative (NY-10)

🔸 Kathy Hochul — Governor of New York

🔸 Letitia James — New York State Attorney General

🔸 Jessica Tisch — NYC Police Commissioner

🔸 Mark Levine — NYC Comptroller

🔸 Julie Menin — NYC City Council Speaker

🔸 Michael Bloomberg — Former Mayor of New York City

🔸 Eric Adams — Former Mayor of New York City

🔸 Bruce Blakeman — Nassau County Executive and Republican gubernatorial candidate

New York Mayor Mamdani and ally Brad Lander skipped the event. More on the Israeli attendees in the thread below ⬇️

[Chuck Pascal @chuckpascal]

@nicholeaileen Wtf is this even supposed to be??

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

🚨 A WANTED WAR CRIMINAL IS WALKING THE STREETS OF NEW YORK AS A VIP

Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is being given the red carpet treatment despite being a WANTED WAR CRIMINAL.

He is seen marching with fellow war foreign war criminals and even Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in an “Israel Day” Parade in NYC.

There shouldn’t be an “Israel day”…

Why is America hosting parades for a foreign apartheid state?

Mamdani had enough integrity to NOT attend. Which he is somehow being attacked for…

Conservatives would crucify Mamdani if he walked with Mojtaba Khamenei in an “Iran day” parade as a Muslim. But Chuck Schumer being a Zionist Jew abusing his position to prop up war criminals is met with silence.

This is a travesty.

Image source: Haaretz

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

Come with me as I learn about each person at the official Israeli delegation at today's Israel Day Parade in New York City.

These are the people some of my fellow Jewish and other New Yorkers demanded Mayor Mamdani stand with today.

🧵

[Engo @engo2_a]

so let me get this straight. we send israel $3.8 billion a year, $21.7 billion since october 2023, more than any country in american history. aipac drops a hundred million to take out anyone in congress who even asks about it. and the regime we’re bankrolling has killed tens of thousands in gaza

and the move is to throw it a parade on fifth ave? “proud americans, proud zionists.” then run the biggest nypd operation in the city’s history to guard it. on our dime.

so we pay for the bombs. pay for the lobby that shields it. pay for the cops protecting the party. three times over. for a foreign government.

meanwhile the subway’s held together with tape and rent’s a joke. but yeah, the real scandal is one mayor not showing up to clap.

fuck off !

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Betore Rome, there was Carthage. Before Carthage, there was Tyre.

Israel is currently demolishing Tyre—a city more than 5,000 years old and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.