Daniel Wolgelerenter

Former journalist, incurable news junkie. Now into content design. Toiling away, making (kosher) sausages.
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[Michael Geist @mgeist]

Kiva was my grandmother’s first cousin. Sold years ago but bakeries keep his name. Both were holocaust survivors. Never imagined the relentless antisemitic violence would come to Canada with too many silent on the sidelines or quick to gaslight or excuse.

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

Gunshots at one Kiva's bagel shop location, broken windows at another.

•Zero impact on Israeli politics.
•Major impact on Jewish life in Toronto.

Anything coded Jew is a target.

Want to stay safe? Just don't do Jew stuff.

https://t.co/OucyvZBonD

[David Frum @davidfrum]

King Nebuchadnezzar and the Emperor Titus join the Democratic Socialists of America in wishing a meaningful Tisha b'Av to all observing the holy day.

[Daniel Wolgelerenter @dwolgel]

@remigration88 @Fleischmarket X needs fewer troll bots

[Daniel Wolgelerenter @dwolgel]

This piece by @Fleischmarket captures what many Canadian Jews are feeling these days. A must read.

https://t.co/KaSepEgJ91

[Daniel Wolgelerenter @dwolgel]

Interesting piece by @michaelcoren.
https://t.co/MLgv4xjtRv

[Daniel Wolgelerenter @dwolgel]

Common sense from Van Jones.

[Van Jones @VanJones68]

I'm tired of being told that, to be a progressive, I now must swear allegiance to crazy ideas.

I'm a strong Democrat, with a winning bipartisan track record. I'm rooted in progressive ideals and policies: criminal justice reform, Green New Deal, Medicare for All, free education, clean air and water. These are ideas I have fought for my entire adult life.

But some people in groups like the DSA are pushing an agenda FAR outside those ideals. Supporting Hamas is not progressive. "No police, no prisons, no borders" is not progressive. Celebrating the murder of Israeli civilians is not progressive. These ideas are REGRESSIVE.

If there were no police or prisons, if anyone in your neighborhood could do whatever they wanted, while politicians cheered on terror groups — would that represent PROGRESS to you? No, that would be a step back. Those are REGRESSIVE ideas.

On the other hand, if everybody could see a doctor when they got sick, get a good, free education and breathe clean air — would that represent progress? Yes. Those are PROGRESSIVE ideas.

They are NOT the same thing. And the difference matters.

Some defend the far left by claiming they only want Nordic-style social democracy. If that were true, I might applaud them. I want those policies, too! But what does universal healthcare have to do with Hamas? With abolishing all law enforcement? With erasing all borders? With treating every wealthy person as a villain? Ideas matter. And these are terrible ideas.

Right now, extremists are trying to sneak backwards proposals into our party, hoping mainstream Democrats are too frustrated with MAGA and the Democratic Party establishment to notice.

But we see you.

Yes, we want our Democratic Party to be a big tent. But we don’t need "party poopers. So STOP pooping in the punch bowl — and telling us the turds are ice cubes.

They aren't. And we are smart enough to know the difference. 💩

[Van Jones @VanJones68]

I'm tired of being told that, to be a progressive, I now must swear allegiance to crazy ideas.

I'm a strong Democrat, with a winning bipartisan track record. I'm rooted in progressive ideals and policies: criminal justice reform, Green New Deal, Medicare for All, free education, clean air and water. These are ideas I have fought for my entire adult life.

But some people in groups like the DSA are pushing an agenda FAR outside those ideals. Supporting Hamas is not progressive. "No police, no prisons, no borders" is not progressive. Celebrating the murder of Israeli civilians is not progressive. These ideas are REGRESSIVE.

If there were no police or prisons, if anyone in your neighborhood could do whatever they wanted, while politicians cheered on terror groups — would that represent PROGRESS to you? No, that would be a step back. Those are REGRESSIVE ideas.

On the other hand, if everybody could see a doctor when they got sick, get a good, free education and breathe clean air — would that represent progress? Yes. Those are PROGRESSIVE ideas.

They are NOT the same thing. And the difference matters.

Some defend the far left by claiming they only want Nordic-style social democracy. If that were true, I might applaud them. I want those policies, too! But what does universal healthcare have to do with Hamas? With abolishing all law enforcement? With erasing all borders? With treating every wealthy person as a villain? Ideas matter. And these are terrible ideas.

Right now, extremists are trying to sneak backwards proposals into our party, hoping mainstream Democrats are too frustrated with MAGA and the Democratic Party establishment to notice.

But we see you.

Yes, we want our Democratic Party to be a big tent. But we don’t need "party poopers. So STOP pooping in the punch bowl — and telling us the turds are ice cubes.

They aren't. And we are smart enough to know the difference. 💩

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

People say the left and the right can’t agree on anything these days. But there is this one thing:

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

Invite a Jew onto TV, supposedly to talk about the crisis of antisemitism in the UK the day after Jews were stabbed on the street, and then demand that he answer for Netanyahu's sins.

Google "forced disputations" - that is what this is.

(btw, he crushed them anyways)

[Daniel Wolgelerenter @dwolgel]

The silence of those otherwise so noisy is remarkable – and we Jews hear it loud and clear.

[Daniel Wolgelerenter @dwolgel]

Where indeed are the anti-racists?
Great question from @Freedland .
https://t.co/A71R8pAIdV

[Daniel Wolgelerenter @dwolgel]

Where are the actors and celebrities who ordinarily waste no time in declaring their solidarity with the oppressed... now that British Jews are stabbed in London for no reason other than that they are visibly Jewish?

[Daniel Wolgelerenter @dwolgel]

A great question from the inimitable Jonathan Freedland of the Guradian @Freedland.

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

"Why isn't there a call for a huge rally in London this weekend of every committed anti-racist in the country?"

Journalist Jonathan Freedland calls for greater solidarity with the Jewish community following the terror attack in Golders Green.

#Newsnight

[Daniel Wolgelerenter @dwolgel]

Great piece by @mgeist, who's been a leading voice on this issue.

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

A new Senate report on antisemitism documents two-channel targeting: Jews targeted for being Jewish, and Jews targeted for being Zionists. The report's response: label the distinction a "distraction." That's not balance. My op-ed on why it's the problem.
https://t.co/CmmaRiYZtX

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

We have reached the point where evidence of antisemitism is now widely viewed as proof that there is no antisemitism.

Just watch the replies to this story.

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

The attacks on Canadian synagogues are getting bolder. This was not vandalism in the middle of the night. This was during Shabbat services.

What was he hoping to do if he got inside?

[Daniel Wolgelerenter @dwolgel]

https://t.co/vF9HuCprxQ

[Daniel Wolgelerenter @dwolgel]

@ShreeParadkar He told CBC that the fact senior antisemtic officers are in charge of the response to post-Oct 7 protests could account for the insufficient response to them. "Why are we not seeing a response when it's this particular community that's being victimized."
https://t.co/vF9HuCprxQ

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

Former head of homicide for Toronto police says Jew-hating senior officers are in charge of decisions about how to police antizionist protesters. https://t.co/NkWNxCg1Hn