JonLew

Follower of many; followed by few

[JonLew @jonlew]

@dansenor @danielsgoldman @bradlander An election about identity given only one issue separated the candidates.

[Ben Max @TweetBenMax]

Dan Goldman immediately moves toward the top of the list for potential Mamdani 2029 challengers.

[Andrew Lynch @andrewglynch]

if a toddler puts a sticker on you, that’s a sign of great respect in their culture

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Happy Fathers Day to the best and most involved generation of dads in recorded history

[@jason @Jason]

not fan of Mamdani

But this speech was fire 🔥

[Bill Simmons @BillSimmons]

This is an unfathomable Brunson performance even for him.

[Caroline McCaughey @TheCarolineMc]

At a Graham Platner rally in Portland.

“Would an Israeli flag tattoo be a deal breaker?”

“Honestly yeah, because I don’t support genocide.”

[Maya Luna @envisionedluna]

At this point the only thing that could hurt Platner with progressives is if it came out that he has a Star of David tattoo

[Scott Stringer @scottmstringer]

Bradford getting wacked during debate. He would be the first Jewish antisemite in Congress.

[Daniel Rubenstein @paulrubens]

There is an enormous gap between what Westerners think the Palestinian cause is and what Palestinians think the Palestinian cause is.

[Darren Rovell @darrenrovell]

"The Wiz" electronics catalogue from June 25, 1999, the last time the New York Knicks played an NBA Finals game.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

This real-time 1948 article from The Economist completely destroys the modern “Nakba” narrative that was invented decades later as political propaganda.

Straight from British eyewitnesses in Haifa, October 2, 1948:

“Jewish authorities urged all Arabs to remain in Haifa and guaranteed them protection and security ... However, of the 62,000 Arabs who formerly lived in Haifa, not more than 5,000 or 6,000 remained.

The most potent factor was the announcements made over the air by the Arab Higher Executive, urging the Arabs to quit ... those who remained and accepted Jewish protection would be regarded as renegades.”

They didn’t flee because of “Zionist ethnic cleansing.”
They fled because Arab leaders ordered them to get out of the way so their armies could “drive the Jews into the sea.”

Then they lost the war they started — and spent the next 77 years rewriting history to blame the Jews.

The “Nakba” you were taught? Pure revisionist fiction.

[Adam Fisher @AdamRFisher]

This is a devious rhetorical trick. Labeling someone a “Nakba survivor” is designed to evoke instant sympathy and a false sense of moral clarity, but it is little more than taxpayer-funded propaganda.

Consider the absurdity: roughly 99% of Palestinian Arabs alive in 1949 survived the war and its displacements. Calling the displaced a “survivor” stretches the word beyond recognition. It is a newly coined term, crafted in academia and activist circles long after the events.

Its real genius lies in creating false equivalence. It places ordinary Palestinian civilians who were displaced amid a war their own leaders launched on the same moral plane as Holocaust survivors (of whom only about one-third emerged alive).

It airbrushes away the ~6,000 Jews killed in 1948, elevates the ~12,000 Arab deaths, and erases the thousands of Jews forcibly expelled from the Old City of Jerusalem and other areas.

By anointing the displaced as sacred “survivors,” the term invites us to forget that the Nazi-aligned Palestinian leadership rejected the UN partition plan, chose war to prevent any Jewish state, and promised quick victory while urging Arabs to flee.

It glosses over Israel’s Declaration of Independence, which explicitly invited Arab inhabitants to “participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship.” And it conveniently overlooks the ~150,000 Arabs who stayed put, accepted Israeli citizenship, and whose descendants now form over 20% of Israel’s population.

This is international grievance politics pushed by the Mayor of New York City, who genuinely believes that Palestinians should be able to “return to their homes” – a nonsensical idea designed to justify perpetual victimhood and violence.

The move weaponizes real civilian hardship while inverting roles: turning a war of choice and rejectionism into an unprovoked “catastrophe” inflicted by the intended victims. It sustain grievance and does not nothing to advance peace.

[JonLew @jonlew]

@greg16676935420 What’s the toilet situation on AF1?

[Chris Cillizza @ChrisCillizza]

I actually think a little bit of a vindictive streak is good in a politician

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

Netanyahu’s main challenger, former PM @naftalibennett, promises to “dismantle Jewish terrorism” in Judea and Samaria.

He frames it as part of a broader countrywide breakdown of law and order under Netanyahu’s government.

via @newsisrael13

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

This is legitimately insane.

Banning cell phones in schools might turn out to be the best thing we’ve done for our kids in a generation.

[JonLew @jonlew]

@MicahLasher They’re not swimmable???

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Judas Iscariot was paid 30 pieces of silver for turning Jesus Christ in to the Roman authorities. But he made nearly 10 times that amount by placing a Polymarket bet accurately predicting the day of Christ’s death.

[Michael Elgort @just_whatever]

Breaking: reports of mass bread shortages across Israel

Bread shelves are all empty. That’s a very significant development

I will dig deeper into that matter and will let you know what happened. Stay tuned