Daniel Kohns

[Daniel Kohns @dknyindc]

.@EmpirePodUK William, the contortions to which you subject listeners to topic-irrelevant criticism of Israel are tortuous, disingenuous and embarrassing to someone of your purported intellectual erudition.

[Daniel Kohns @dknyindc]

@EmpirePodUK

[Daniel Kohns @dknyindc]

Hey, @dcwater, is there an outage in the 7700 block of 16th St, NW?

[Daniel Kohns @dknyindc]

.@gettleman, includes Nazareth among West Bank cities on the War Briefing. It’s not. @lourdesgnavarro

[DC Police Union @DCPoliceUnion]

DC has reached 60 homicides for 2023.

Homicide ⬆️ 33%
Sex Assault ⬆️ 62%
Motor Vehicle Theft ⬆️ 109%
Violent Crime ⬆️ 4%
All Crime ⬆️ 23%

We are still short 100s of cops and the responsible policing that used to address this has been prohibited by misguided legislation

[Daniel Kohns @dknyindc]

@YousefMunayyer Sir, perhaps, now and then,
permit honesty to trump ideology, and not adjust reality to suit your preconceived notions? The host country makes homosexuality illegal, is an ally of a terrorist state across the Gulf, etc. That’s why Qatar is spoken ill of, not “Islamophobia”.

[Daniel Kohns @dknyindc]

@YousefMunayyer Equating opposition to BDS to anti-Palestinian is as logical as necessarily equating Judaism w/Zionism. One may be anti-BDS and supportive of Palestinian equal rights. To argue otherwise is to hold that only your definition of “pro-Palestinian” is legit, which is narcissistic.

[Daniel Kohns @dknyindc]

@YousefMunayyer .@MairavZ APARTheid was by definition irredeemable. Zionism-if defined only as my people’s right to inhabit our historic homeland (co-equal to that of Palestinians)-is inoffensive. If ur committed to a solution, then please meet reality and not incessantly recite stale rhetoric.

[Daniel Kohns @dknyindc]

@YousefMunayyer .@MairavZ @YousefMunayyer Dutch & British colonists didn’t have the millennial ties to Africa that BlackAfricans do. ANC didn’t turn its children into living bombs that murdered innocent civilians on their way to school and work. Yes, one is objectively wrong. the other nuanced.

[Sidney Poitier @sidneypoitier]

In 1949 I consciously remember saying to my dear friend Beverly that a home computing machine was a far fetched idea..now I'm on Twitter!

[Daniel Kohns @dknyindc]

@YousefMunayyer If Zionism were narrowly defined as the right of my people-the Jews-to safely/sovereignly inhabit our historic homeland on the same terms that Palestinian Arabs who-just as legitimately-have the same claim to the same piece of real estate, would you be OK w/Zionism?

[Daniel Kohns @dknyindc]

@YousefMunayyer Which one?

[Daniel Kohns @dknyindc]

@AdamWeinstein Note that that the poster references his weapon’s “clip”. Clearly not someone with sufficient firearms familiarity to be, you know, owning one.

[Daniel Kohns @dknyindc]

@DanielPipes @gabrielboric While the (let’s note, democratically elected) rise of pro-USSR/Cuba, communist Allende was awful, your “going very badly” also had a smidgen to do with us installing a fascist dictatorship that rounded up innocent civilians in a stadium and shot them.

[Daniel Kohns @dknyindc]

@stevesalaita Yeah. Tell that to the legions of civil rights heroes who fought, bled and often died for the right to vote. Talk about privileged paternalism; your comment is the embodiment of that. Serious question. No snark: Given how much you hate America, why stay?

[Daniel Kohns @dknyindc]

@AliAbunimah Revel in a “settler, colonialist…” tired, dogmatic playbook I can recite in my sleep, or draw on your obvious intelligence and make actual progress. Self righteous indignation in the face of power you’ll never overcome is as hurtful to Handala refugee kids as occupier bullets.

[Daniel Kohns @dknyindc]

@AliAbunimah If “Zionism” was narrowly defined as the right of Jews to live securely in our historic homeland - no more/no less than the co-equal right of indigenous Palestinian Arabs to do the same in their historic homeland (the same piece of real estate) - would you be OK with Zionism?

[Daniel Kohns @dknyindc]

@stevesalaita My pizza guy’s name is Salvatore. It means “savior”, which is pretty cool, also. People call him “Sal”, too. He’s cool with it.

[Daniel Kohns @dknyindc]

@stevesalaita My name means “God is my judge.” I’m often called “Dan”, for short. Should I be offended? Every culture does this. It’s usually affectionate. When u hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras. There’s not a colonialist racist under every leaf. Crying wolf tends to backfire.

[Daniel Kohns @dknyindc]

@SamSifton .@SamSifton, “A real cornucopia of victuals”? I mean, who writes like that? It’s like an SNL parody of a non-self-aware, effete, CPW, ascot-wearing character from a Tom Wolfe piece, back in the day.