Jon Polon

Director of Business Development @BrivoInc focused on cloud-based access control and video. Formerly @TRUECar and @AARP

[Jon Polon @jonpolon]

@Jerusalem_Post To see

[@jason @Jason]

Disgraziad @AOC @ZohranKMamdani

[Josh Wein @jmwein]

.@edsheeran I brought my wife and two daughters to MetLife Friday because we are huge fans of yours. We arrived early, I spent $180 on two sweatshirts for them, watched the first two opening acts and were having a great time.

Then Macklemore decided to turn your concert into his political rally.

When he started chanting “Free Palestine” and pushing his clearly uneducated version of the Israel/Gaza conflict, my daughters looked at me completely confused. I had brought them to an Ed Sheeran concert, not to have an opening act lecture them about Middle East politics.

After Friday night, I started looking into Macklemore’s history. What I found, including his repeated use of antisemitic tropes, made the whole thing even worse.

So I took my family and walked inside alongside hundreds of your other fans. As we were walking in, even the MetLife security guards were rolling their eyes at what was happening on stage.

We waited until Macklemore was finished before returning to our seats. Then we watched your show, which was phenomenal.

I left Friday hoping maybe this had caught you and your team off guard.

Then tonight you allowed it to happen again.

You knew exactly what Macklemore had done the night before, and you gave him the stage again.

Friday might have been Macklemore’s decision. Saturday was yours.

You have a lot of Jewish fans who love your music, buy your albums and merchandise, and bring their kids to your concerts.

Tonight, you lost four of them. And I suspect plenty more.

@CombatASemitism
@StopAntisemites

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

For 40 years Iran built a ring of fire around Israel. The jewel in the crown was Hezbollah. Hezbollah’s own jewel was the complex it dug into the Ali Taher range—the closest base of that caliber to the “little Satan.”

Yesterday, it fell to the IDF.

Twenty years in the making, with Iranian help and enormous expense, the base contained command-and-control rooms, weapons and supply depots and field clinics, all buried 30 to 50 meters into solid rock. Just ten kilometers from the Israeli border, with a clear view of the Litani and the Israeli Hula Valley, it was the place from which Hezbollah intended to coordinate its own October 7 in the Galilee.

Israeli forces first reached the ridge on the thirty-first of May. By the twelfth of June, the division had taken Kfar Tibnit and the main body of the ridge. Then the ceasefire, a week later, leaving 40 Hezbollah fighters trapped beneath Israel’s feet. An assault would have inflicted casualties Israel was unwilling to absorb and broken a ceasefire it was unwilling to break.

So they began a siege. They shot down every attempt at relief, infiltrators and supply drones alike, and escalated steadily from there—pushing their own drones into the shafts, running loudspeakers into the ground around the clock. After a summer of siege, the men below broke—some retreating, others unable—leaving the IDF in full control of the ridge.

In mid-August, Iran warned Washington that a full Israeli assault on Ali Taher would draw a large-scale response. More than a dozen IRGC personnel were on the ridge, three officials told Reuters, including at least two senior officers. Set aside the obvious question of what a foreign army’s officers were doing on sovereign soil—after all, it isn’t sovereign, it’s Lebanon. The fortress has now fallen, and the question of a response falls to Iran.

The trouble is that the Iran that made the threat is not the same Iran that has to keep it. In the intervening month, the United States blinded Tehran in the strait, restored much of the commercial shipping it had disrupted, and drew the economic noose tighter. A month of siege has sapped much of the bravado from the Islamic Republic.

They have three options: a large response, a small one, or silence. A large response inevitably resumes the war. The prospect has its attractions for a regime on the edge: wartime discipline is the easiest form of crowd control, and if Iran is even weaker than we believe, a heroic death in resistance is well within Jihadist sensibilities. A small response risks arriving at the same place by accident—Israel is eager to answer disproportionately to any provocation and weaken the regime further.

They may still risk it. But Tehran has had chances to significantly escalate in recent weeks and declined every one, settling instead for the uneasy equilibrium of neither war nor peace.

It is a tightrope, and the regime may well make it to the other side. But while desperately trying to balance it won’t be able to stop Israel plucking the jewels from its crown, one fortress at a time.

[Fred Guttenberg @fred_guttenberg]

I stand firmly with @MichaelLaRosaDC on this.

As for you DSA dipshits, I do this because I am a proud Democrat, who has fought for Democrats, who has fought MAGA, and who wants the Democratic party to remain a viable alternative.

DSA has made clear that they are not Democrats and do not support Democratic positions or values.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Well this is a brave move from Boy George. He will be attacked for doing this. I will be attacked just for posting it!

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

Instead of announcing 'I will never go to Isreal' why doesn't Annie Lennox do a concert in Palestine or do an online concert? I wonder if all this is about her bitter divorce with a Jewish guy?

Sweet dreams are made of this!

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

Massacred but you don't care?

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

Why?

https://t.co/UxDrq3iSfu

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

Your turn a blind eye?

https://t.co/v4RkJvdCkc

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

"As long as Isreal exists on earth there will no peace" If this is ambiguous to you then please fuck off my timeline. And trust me, right now I have the best lawyers. Jewish ones! :)

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

@MsDayglo @DUALIPA Yes. Ever last one of them. If any of their daughters or family had been massacred on Oct 7 they would not be saying this shit.

[Democrats For Mike Rogers @DemsForMike]

In less than a day, we already have over 1,100 followers. We’re building a movement that puts country over party. If you’re a Democrat supporting Mike Rogers, retweet this and give us a follow. Let’s protect Michigan together.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

You don't defend the humanity and dignity of all people. You stay silent while terrorists plough through the Middle East. You stayed silent when the IRGC massacred upward of 30k in 2 days. You had "no opinion" on whether Hamas should disarm, after they'd murdered and kidnapped babies.

You defend only selective humanity as part of a manicured script, carefully curated for maximum virtue and infinite applause. All of it is driven by your ego's need to appear righteous, even if it costs you the humanity of those on the wrong side of the script.

The world may be blind, but those of us from forgotten, ignored, and inconvenient communities, we know the truth.

[Apranik 🇮🇷🇮🇱 @patriot_apranik]

American Patriots and allies of Israel, we need you in D.C. this Sunday! 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷

The people of Iran are fighting on the frontlines to destroy the regime that terrorizes the Middle East and targets America.

Come and join us with the true Lion and Sun flag, stripes and stars and Star of David to support true peace, crush radical extremism, and secure the region.

📅 Sunday, March 29 | 1:00 PM
📍 National Mall (Between 3rd & 4th St NW), D.C.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

Melika Azizi is 18 years old. The regime wants her dead because she isn't afraid of them.
​While the world slept, they raided her home. While they beat her in Lakan Prison, she held her head high. When the judge handed down a death sentence, she didn't beg for her life—she demanded justice for the fallen.
​"How can I stay silent?" she asked.
​We cannot be the ones who stay silent while they try to hang a teenager for her bravery. Silence is a death sentence. Noise is a lifeline.
​ACT NOW: Save this post. Share it. Tag three friends who will help spread her name. We have to make the cost of executing her higher than the cost of letting her go.
​#MelikaAzizi #SaveMelika #StopExecutionsInIran #HumanRights

[Jon Polon @jonpolon]

@elicalebon Incredibly well said to put it mildly. Thank you for all you do.

[Melanie Notkin @SavvyAuntie]

URGENT! Please watch this to help save #EfranSoltani today. Literally today!

[Jon Polon @jonpolon]

@elicalebon #efransoltani

[Jon Polon @jonpolon]

@NoaMagid So deeply sorry we all you a debt we can never repay.