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[dby @el_dby]

JMP TO_CODA

[TSA @TSA]

If you’re visiting for a very large sporting event & you happen to discover RANCH while you’re here… pls pack it in your CHECKED BAG on the way home.

Thank you.

[Olivia Reingold @Olivia_Reingold]

Some of the loudest voices against Israel are Jews.

A study of one of them: Catherine Bock, a Jewish Voice for Peace member, I recently met while reporting in Vermont.

She told me her parents were Holocaust survivors—then said that they were both Christian. The Nazis had discovered that her “great-grandparents or somebody” was Jewish through old church records, she said. She added that no one in her family was raised Jewish. And yet, she has introduced herself as a Jew before the Burlington City Council.

Why? “Because they listen more,” she responded flatly. “I say, okay, my parents are Holocaust survivors. And I think they listen better.”

She said that people whose grandparents were lucky enough to have been born in the U.S. are often the ones “screaming anti-Semitism.”

“They haven't had any Holocaust experience. And I have. And yet, I don't feel at all traumatized by it.”

In the past few years, she told me she had joined a Burlington synagogue because she “wanted a fob” for easier access to the building, where she bakes bread once a month. When speaking with the rabbi, she said she told him her story—to which he replied: “that’s Jewish enough.”

She turned to me, stunned. “I’m feeling like that is a pretty prejudiced type of way. Because if I hadn't had that story, if I'd just been me, I don't look Jewish, I don't know a thing about Judaism, I would have had to get educated, learn Judaism, and convert.”

In short: she found it “prejudiced” that some people are considered Jewish and others are not. That reflects a striking misunderstanding of Jewish identity—and of how religious belonging generally works.

Next time you encounter a Jewish Voice for Peace activist, remember Catherine.

[Track Ukraine @TrackUkraine]

NY-13 congressional candidate @DarializaforNY has been silent on Ukraine while campaigning. Her website said she opposed all military aid until it was removed in February with no explanation.
❌Opposes military aid
❌Framed Russia as victim
❗️Future aid position unclear

[Adriano Espaillat @EspaillatNY]

We can't just sweep things under the rug. Darializa has taken very extreme positions as reflected in her comments on social media not too long ago.

She is unfit for office and voters are smart enough to see that. #NY13Debate

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

Dear US government,

Since you've just blocked Fable and Mythos on critical national security grounds, here are some other tools that pose a similar threat to the American people:

- Microsoft Teams
- SAP
- Salesforce
- Jira
- Outlook

Please do what you must to save America 🇺🇸

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

last one

[Chaim Levinson @chaimlevinson]

אני לא מאמין שאני מתייחס ברצינות ל"חוק יסוד לימוד התורה" אבל היה לי יום קשה.

מה הרציונל החרדי?

החוק בעצם נותן כיפת הגנה לכל הטבה לבחור חרדי - מהטבה כמו לא לשרת בצבא, עד הטבות כלכליות. מבחינתם (הם שוגים בזה, אבל נניח) מהרגע שחוקק החוק, שירות צבאי זה כמו לימוד תורה. אז אין דרך לגעת בזה.

מה החרדים נותנים בתמורה? שום כלום מהותי. קולות לנתניהו.

אפילו בחוק הגיוס הגרוע של נתניהו, החרדים נותנים "משהו", מעין הכרה סימבולית באיזה מכסות שאנשים אמורים ללכת לצבא.

לכאורה, בעיני הימין, זה "התהליך". בערוץ ה14 מסבירים שהנה, החוק החשוב הזה, יביא לגיוס חרדים.

בחוק יסוד לימוד התורה אין שום תמורה, אין תהליך ואין גיוס. אם הולכים עם המחשבה החרדית, זה פטור נצחי בלי שניתן לגעת בהם בשום דרך חוקית.

איך בליכוד מצביעים על דבר מטורלל כזה? אתם יודעים לבד.

[arian ghashghai @arian_ghashghai]

“Series M”

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Reporting from the Financial Times on Xinjiang remains incredibly grim:

* In some areas, 90% of children are taken from parents to be educated in boarding schools where they aren't allowed to speak Uyghur
* Officials monitor who eats during Ramadan and report those who skip meals
* Basic items like prayer mats and religious text are considered illegal contraband
* Adult Uyghur women are pressured to marry Han Chinese men, and there are official goals to sterilize a certain % of them.
* Xinjiang has the largest prison capacity in the world relative to population
* Huge numbers of Uyghur prisoners are now being shipped across the country in forced labor schemes, as a way to dodge Xinjiang sanctions/boycotts
* The CCP shut down all 10 existing Uyghur-language publishers, none remain. They fed one university's book collection into a shredder.

There's a lot going on the world, but it's worth remembering that China is still actively engaged in cultural genocide. They're barely even hiding it, they openly talk about the need to 'correct' Uyghur culture and create 'ethnic unity'. They are openly destroying an entire culture as efficiently as they can, cutting children off from parents, restricting language, restricting religious practice, forcing sterilizations and intermarriage, imprisoning anyone who resists the tiniest amount and shipping them out to forced labor factories. That is what the CCP is.

https://t.co/gHK9ZS38Vx

[Naor Narkis נאור נרקיס @NaorNarkis]

@BarakRavid צריך להטיל על המתנחלים מס יסף שישקף את הנזק שהם עושים לביטחון ישראל

[Barak Seri ברק סרי @BarakSeri]

הלקח הגדול של ראשי האופוזיציה צריך להיות אחד: תלחמו באכזריות, בלי טהרנות ובלי חירטוטים. היריבים שלכם ישרפו הכל כדי לנצח, בלי עכבות ובלי אלוהים. ולכן אתם חייבים להילחם בדיוק כך. בלי טהרנות, בלי בכי ובלי נהי

[dby @el_dby]

@mrtreyporter @themeasuredtake Bye Felicia 👋

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@FDavidsonT @YasminRazavi Very interested!

[Not a Good Jewish Girl✡️ @estherzelda0514]

I think the pigheaded ignorance of the BDS movement is really illuminated best by what they did to SodaStream.

An Israeli company, SodaStream was one of BDS's earliest boycotts, leading to the closure of its West Bank facility in 2015. At the time, the company was the largest private employers of Palestinians in the area, and 600 Palestinians were immediately laid off. Their Palestinian employees received the same benefits, wages, and conditions of Israelis, and all of that was lost due to BDS, who hilariously (and wrongly) claimed that SodaStream was "exploiting" Palestinians.

SodaStream then moved into Israel proper and to a new plant in Lehavim, which is close to Rahat, a large Bedouin town in the Negev. The facility, like the West Bank one, employs the locals: hundreds of Bedouins, particularly Bedouin women, who otherwise lack economic opportunities.

Did this satisfy BDS? Nope. They continue to boycott SodaStream entirely, claiming the factory is part of the Israeli government's plans to ethnically cleanse the Bedouins, which are Israeli citizens of Arab descent. BDS, of course, did not ask the Bedouins, who receive the same wages as Jews, guaranteed by equal rights laws that BDS pretends do not exist in Israel. Those wages are significantly higher than the average income in nearby Arab towns, and SodaStream provides benefits that are rare outside of the urban areas of Israel, like a healthcare plan, pension contributions, and daily transportation. Job satisfaction is very high.

In short, these boycotts just make rich white WASP Westerners feel good. They do nothing for Palestinians or Israeli minorities.

[Eli Kowaz - איליי קואז @elikowaz]

Al Arz tahini got boycotted in 2020 by conservative Arabs because its Nazareth owner funded an Arabic LGBTQ hotline.

Now the Park Slope Food Coop is boycotting it for being Israeli. Full circle.

Great tahini, btw.

[Hagar Shezaf @hagar_shezaf]

בן גביר מסתובב כבר כמעט שלוש שנים ומתגאה בכך שהפך את בתי הכלא בישראל לגהנום ומחנות עינויים, כולל סרטוני יח״צ של ביקורים שלו בבתי כלא.
רק השבוע שוחחתי עם עלי סמודי, עיתונאי פלסטיני בכיר שהיה עצור שנה במעצר מנהלי בבתי הכלא מגידו וקציעות והשיל חצי ממשקלו וסיפר על אלימות, השפלות והרעבה. תמונות משפילות של עצורים זה גם דבר שהרשויות פה מפיצות בשגרה.
היחס לפעיל המשט עכשיו מחריד אבל הגיע מזמן שאנשים פה יתעוררו - לא הכל בחיים זה הסברה ואיך דברים נראים. יש מציאות שהרוב מעדיפים להתכחש אליה במקרה הטוב או אפילו מעודדים אותה. זה המשך ישיר של זה.

[עומר לובטון גרנות Omer Lubi @Omer_Lubi]

הבעיה אינה הסברה
הבעיה היא כהניזם

תודה

[Bar Peleg @bar_peleg]

אפשר לצעוק עד מחר שבן גביר ביצע נזק להסברה. אבל זה לברוח מהמהות. זה עמוק מבעית הסברה כשהמפכ״ל ונציב שב״ס שותפים לכך, זו בעיה עמוקה בערכים. בן גביר הוא נזק אמיתי למדינה לחברה, למוסר ולעתיד שלנו. יקח שנים לתקן את מה שהוא עשה למשטרה ולשב״ס בין היתר בחסות המלחמה והגזענות. אני מקווה ורוצה להאמין שנצליח

[Turner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak]

No AI data center is worth losing this