College student from Jersey who goes to school in DC, flies out to Michigan to ask a candidate a question and said question has a never-ending preamble.
$100 that is an American University Eagle.
Just told my 10yo daughter about
#LindseyGraham. She had tears in her eyes. And then she did the Wakanda pose and said "#Grahamkanda forever" -- which is the sort of pop culture cross-over that I can celebrate.
I was detained last week by an armed Israeli sitting behind thick glass, demanding my passport. He asked how long I was planning to stay. I replied, "One week." So he aggressively asked me, "That's it?!" I replied, "I wish it was longer." Him: "Not too late to change your plans."
I truly don't care about your opinion of me. You are just one of the many who I used to march with against hate in all of its forms, until you learned I was Jewish. Then, you and yours found it easy to direct hate at me.
Take your bullshit elsewhere.
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan says he can debunk Israel's defenders in under 60 seconds.
His method? Reading a list of names really fast.
That's not an argument. That's a filibuster with a bibliography.
Fine. Start the clock.
Here's the problem with his fifty sources: it's one source wearing fifty costumes.
The UN cites Amnesty. Amnesty cites a different UN report. That one cites the BBC. The BBC cites UNRWA. UNRWA cites the Gaza Ministry of Health. The Gaza Ministry of Health is Hamas.
Even a member of his own genocide scholars association has a name for this: "citation washing."
Congratulations. You just traced fifty "independent" voices back to one terrorist press office.
Now, a few of his star witnesses.
The International Association of Genocide Scholars? $30 and you're in. Emperor Palpatine is a member. So is Cookie Monster.
Amnesty? Their own report — page 101 — calls the established legal standard too "cramped" to reach a genocide finding. The law as written wouldn't convict Israel, so they loosened the law.
B'Tselem said the quiet part louder — their report openly adopts "a broader analytical framework" than the legal definition. That's lawyer-speak for "we changed the rules."
The UN? The General Assembly passed 17 resolutions against Israel in 2024. Seven against the entire rest of the planet combined. North Korea, Iran, Syria, Russia — one each. Sudan, where actual mass slaughter is happening right now? Zero.
And here's a name Mehdi will never read off his list: Alice Wairimu Nderitu.
The UN's own Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide. Their in-house expert. The one person whose entire job was answering this exact question. She looked at the evidence, looked at the law, and refused to call Gaza a genocide.
Her reward? "Hounded, day in, day out. Bullied, hounded, with protection from nobody." Her words. Then her contract quietly wasn't renewed.
She said the pressure to declare a genocide "never happened for any other war. Not for Ukraine, not for Sudan, not for Democratic Republic of Congo."
The UN's genocide expert said no — so the UN got a new genocide expert.
Oh, and one more name he forgot: the jihadist terrorist group Hamas. The original proponent of the genocide libel — the source his fifty sources trace back to. Somehow they didn't make the list. Neither did any of the scholars, military experts, former hostages, survivors, and millions of common-sense humans united in rejecting the claim.
Instead of rattling off a list of "because they said so," how about evidence? Millions of warning leaflets. Humanitarian corridors. Polio vaccines. 130 babies born a day. The Jewish birth rate during the Holocaust was statistically zero. That's what genocide looks like.
Fifty sources quoting each other isn't fifty sources. It's an echo chamber with footnotes.
So, Mehdi's big question: Who do I believe?
Wrong question. It's not about Who. It's about What.
I believe incontrovertible evidence. Population data. Millions of tons of aid. Hard casualty numbers. Weighed against the actual legal definition — not a list of people and organizations quoting each other.
Because I fact-check.
Time.
🧵 The major Sepharadi corridor of South Brooklyn, Syrian, Egyptian, Lebanese, and others, from the East side of Ave. J down toward Ave. V, gets left out completely.
So does the Bukharian Jewish community in Queens, largely from Uzbekistan and Central Asia.
The Brooklyn community is not some tiny side community. Flatbush, Midwood, and Gravesend alone have roughly 54,000 people living in Jewish households, comparable in size to the Pakistani community being recognized here as number 26.
So no, this is not a small omission. It is one of New York’s most distinctive immigrant-descended Jewish communities, and it gets erased from the story.
Weirdly enough, Zohran Mamdani’s @NYCMayor office “wanted” to speak with me about this very issue and has not followed up since the election.
I guess Sepharadi voices must be muted for those “Polish folks.”
Curious angle.
P.S. Both communities even have museums.
The Mayor's Office made a map of NYC's immigrant enclaves: Little Africa, Little Poland, Little Palestine. But they just couldn't figure out how to represent 11% of the city. Couldn't decipher where the Jews are from. Asked everyone. Huge riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Can’t have Pete Buttigieg because he spent a year getting coffee for partners at McKinsey but the mercenary with the Nazi tattoo who beats women was fine up until this afternoon according to leftists
The next time you see Graham Platner will be his announcement of dropping out. The next time after that will be his interview on Tucker about how AIPAC and the Epstein Class did this to him.