Los Angeles: How are these two spending their weekend?
Standing in the Fairfax District holding "F*ck Israel, Free Palestine" signs directly across the street from a Synagogue and a Jewish girls' day school.
Mamdani is wrong. Israel is not a state founded on religion. It is the nation-state of the Jewish people, based on the Jewish people’s right to self-determination just like any other nation. Framing Israel as a religious state (hello, Israel’s current religious coalition) reflects a misunderstanding shared by many Americans about what a nation-state is, why it exists, and the fact that most countries in the world are nation-states. That doesn’t necessarily make him antisemitic, but it does suggest a fundamental misunderstanding of the issue
BREAKING: Mamdani SLAMS Palestinian Authority, Egypt, Jordan for having Islam as official religion; sides with Israel, which has no official religion despite being only Jewish-majority state in the world.
The attack on Scott Wiener underscores how far-left progressives are attempting to highjack the LGBTQ community. Black people can relate because they tried to do that to us.
He is either deeply ignorant or so consumed by hatred that he cannot acknowledge a basic historical fact: the Jewish people have been both a nation and a religion for thousands of years.
This is Hajra Amjad. She is employed by the Montreal Jewish Library.
Yesterday she posted on Linked in the following:
"In an era when pro-Palestine voices are amplifying across the western world, when Mamdani backed candidates win the seats and cause a "political earthquake" by defeating AIPAC endorse pro-Israel big political weights, the Zi0nist deep state is trembling with fear....
They are cracking down on free speech and bringing in laws to criminalize any criticism of Israel as anti-semitism.
Isra-el does not monopolize the voice of all Jews, thinking that is an act of anti-semitism in itself...."
Fire her. Our community should never be employing people who think they can define us, and hate us.
FIRE HER.
@AnaKasparian ONLY except for 28 countries such as United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Japan, and Argentina plus the Gulf Cooperation Council comprised of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain.
Senator Wiener’s Statement on Physical Intimidation and Harassment of Political Leaders
SAN FRANCISCO – In two separate incidents this week, Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) was harassed, threatened, and physically intimidated while attending public events to engage with the San Francisco community. Both incidents were sparked by people who had previously targeted Senator Wiener with aggressive behavior in the past. Senator Wiener issued the following statement on the incidents:
”Last night I attended the trans march, as I’ve done each year for the past 22 years since the first march in 2004. I attend each year in solidarity with our trans siblings, who are facing existential threats from right wing extremists, including the President. It has been a deep honor to partner for many years with trans people to advance legislation and budget requests to support the community.
”As I walked through Dolores Park to participate in a trans-led Pride Shabbat service in connection with the trans march, a group of people began screaming at me, ran up to me, surrounded me, and began harassing me, both verbally and physically, including physical contact. They made statements about my ‘Israeli handlers,’ among many other inaccurate, extreme, and vile statements. They were so physically and verbally aggressive that it was impossible for me to safely remain in the park. As a result, I left the park and, for the very first time, did not participate in the trans march.
“This follows an incident Wednesday night at a bar in the Mission where I’d gone to watch a World Cup game. During the game, a man accosted me in a corner of the bar, effectively cornering me and the young women staffers who were with me. He screamed abuse at me and our staff before being ejected by the bar’s employees. After being ejected, the man remained outside the bar, shouting my name and pounding on the side of the bar near where I was sitting for several minutes. The same individual, in December 2023, stalked me on a plane and in an airport, shouting at me about my ‘tainted bloodline.’
”I have no objection whatsoever to anyone disagreeing with me, opposing me, or protesting me. All of that is core to democracy. I also have no issue when people talk to me on the street and ask questions or express opposition. That’s democracy, even when the people engaging in this conduct misrepresent my views.
“But when opposition and disagreement transition to harassment, including cornering me, touching me, or trying to physically bully me out of a public event, that crosses a line. We’re living in a time when violence is all too often threatened or used against people in public life. In San Francisco, we’re better than that.”
If you’re not disturbed by this, I encourage you to log off and spend some time remembering why it’s worth being human in the world. If you find yourself doing this to another human being and posting it for clout, I would strongly encourage you to log off and figure out some way to reconnect with your better impulses. This is ugly. This way lies ugliness.
The same person who made this video of Sen Scott Wiener him and his Left- Wing followers wanted to cry foul play when I came at him like this but they cheer him on when he verbally assault other people
I can’t be part of a coalition that treats Scott Wiener as not far left enough. They can keep pushing for this but they’re going to bleed moderate support
This video is one of the saddest videos I've seen this week.
Scott Wiener has all but completely changed his view on Israel, from being critical of some policies but still advocating for peace, he moved all the way to the extreme.
He condemned Israel and called the war a genocide, as plenty of other Democrats do. His opinions on Israel now are really no different from Graham Platner's.
But nothing a Jew does is enough for them.
Thanks for responding! That’s not genocide. Genocide is any of the five acts with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such.
First, Palestinians are absolutely protected as a group as a distinct national group of people.
Second, genocide requires an intent threshold called dolus specialis (special intent). To prove this level of intent requires that no other reasonable explanation exist (known as the only reasonable inference test). Other reasonable explanations for the destruction in Gaza include, but are not limited to: (a) human shielding in violation of GCIV 28 & API 51(7); (b) weaponization and human shielding of healthcare infrastructure in violation of GCIV 19 (head of Hamas, Mohammed Sinwar was killed under the European hospital and years of evidence exist demonstrating such weaponization); (c) lack of distinction by Hamas (they don’t wear uniforms); (d) firing rockets from the humanitarian zone where majority of civilians were; (e) existence of a valid casus belli (hostages until October 2025); (f) diversion of aid in violation of GCIV 23.
Further, it requires a substantiality element (“in part”) that requires a demonstration of the intent to destroy such a large number, compared to the whole, that it would threaten the existence of the group itself in the geographic area. (See: Krstić). In Gaza the death toll is 73,000 out of 2,230,000, or 73,000/2,230,000=0.0327 (3.27% of the whole). In Sikirica the ICTY chamber determined that about 3% does not constitute such a substantial portion to threaten the whole, so it is not genocide.
Now, you mentioned that 40% are children. The number of children killed is about 20,000 (which some were combatants and lawfully killed, and really we measure this as under 15 since that’s when children under the Rome Statute lose certain protected statuses). 20,000/73,000=0.274
So, 27.4% of the death toll is children. Not 40%. 27.4% also represents a lower percent of death for the population that’s half of the entire population of Gaza that it does not demonstrate the ability to infer intent to genocide. The other part of substantiality requires measuring this to see if the population is representative of the whole. Here, it’s not. Another way to represent this is 20,000/1,115,000=0.0179 (1.79% of all people under 18 in Gaza have been killed). Again. 1.79% death rate for children when the population is 1/2 of all of Gaza demonstrates a better ratio than would be expected, especially if it was genocide.
Anyways, this is a long way of saying you don’t know what you’re talking about and are spewing bullshit. You should stop that.
One thing that jumps out is the main speaker starts speaking to Wiener pretty calmly but when other people show up and they are now part of a group start screaming like a crazy person. I wonder if that is a microcosm for anything?
A coffee shop in Portland, Oregon, after receiving a grant check from the Jewish Federation, posted this on their Facebook page
This is antizionism in action
It must be named and confronted without delay