Marc Weinstein

Lawyer, sports fan, father

[Marc Weinstein @marckweinstein]

@tanpukunokami Lived in Tokyo for 10 years. Saw Fuji on clear days from my office in Nishi Shinjuku. The Empress once waved at me from her car. Participated in a Sumo practice session at a sumo stable. Saw Yakuza on a subway, once (it’s a good story). But also saw them at matsuris.

[Marc Weinstein @marckweinstein]

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[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

An astonishing 98% of Canadian Jewish medical professionals say antisemitism is a serious problem in the medical field
https://t.co/7vMfJUKdgd

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

This is how the New York Times reported on Wesley Bell's victory over Cori Bush.

It couldn't possibly be that voters made an informed choice after being represented by both candidates over the last 4 years.

Nope, it's just a win for those manipulative Jews.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

My family and I escaped execution in Lebanon because Islam wanted to kill us. My parents were kidnapped by Fatah and were severely mistreated. Our home in Beirut was stolen by Palestinian Muslims. My wife's family escaped Lebanon because Islam wanted to kill them. Her ancestors escaped the Armenian genocide because Islam wanted to kill them. My grandparents escaped Syria because Islam wanted to kill them. My brother-in-law's family escaped Alexandria (Egypt) because Islam wanted to kill them. My family and I are leaving Montreal because Islam wants to kill us (the number of threats that I've received forced me to take a two-year leave from my home university). I'm moving to @olemiss /@umdeclaration to defend American liberties and freedoms from ideological threats. @LibyaLiberty, a vile Islamist who despises Jews, is now "reporting" me to my new institution because I dare criticize Islam. Imagine the chutzpah. I will NEVER stop defending the West from the dangers that it faces. Long live the United States.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Beautiful. The man loves Judaism and Jews.

Except that Israel is half the Jews, including millions of Jews kicked out of Arab countries to which they cannot return even now.

If you hate Israel, you can't "love Judaism" or "love the Jewish people."

You say these kind words as a threat. You hold out to American Jews -- Jews who didn't actually need Israel to survive the 20th century -- the promise of acceptance into your moral world on the condition that they reject the other half of the Jews, the ones who *did* need Israel to survive.

And you call this abusive gatekeeping love, and you congratulate yourself for your righteousness.

You're a man who would happily watch half the Jews die to satisfy your ideological vision -- and like every Muslim and Christian and communist and fascist antisemite who came before you, and like the Arab nations you admire where explicit antisemitism ("Jews control the world" antisemitism, not anti-Bibi sentiment) is polling at 90% of the population, this bloodlust feels to you purifying and righteous.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: UNICEF confirms that Gaza has the lowest rate of malnutrition in the Middle East.

The Gaza famine was a complete hoax.

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

Tucker Carlson preaches that debt is slavery, that lending at interest is the sin of usury, and that a society organized around debt "enslaves people."

He then reads an ad for a mortgage lender and personally endorses it: "We recommend American Financing. They're called America's home for home loans for a reason."

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

It should go without saying, but, amazingly, it doesn't: "Genocide" is a heavy charge to lay on a nation, a people. It is the most severe accusation you can make.

All of my life, I have heard Israel accused of genocide. People take special pleasure in accusing the Jews, of all people, of genocide.

Abdul El-Sayed, among many others, accuses Israel of genocide. Is that a just charge? Or is it a blood libel, in the long, long line of blood libels?

I believe it is a blood libel. And this is a big reason I could never support the likes of El-Sayed, no matter what I think of a Trump-loyal Senate or anything else.

In any event, the charge of genocide should never be a light one, and it should never be shrugged off. It must never be just another accusation, or policy position, or piece of campaign rhetoric.

I trust you know what I mean. If the word "genocide" is devalued, what word do you have to describe what the Chinese government is doing to the Uyghurs?

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Are pro-Israel Democrats really losing everywhere?

Just in recent Democratic House primaries:
- Missouri: Wesley Bell beat the Squad’s Cori Bush for the 2nd time
- ⁠Virginia: Elaine Luria, a Jewish Navy Veteran, won her primary over a DSA-backed candidate with 80% of the vote
- ⁠Michigan: Jeremy Moss, a gay pro-Israel Jew, won his primary
- ⁠Kansas: Sharice Davids, the first LGBTQ+ Native American woman to be elected to Congress and a supporter of Israel and the 2-state solution, won her primary for re-election with 80% of the vote.

Even the El-Sayed victory was only by 1%, and he would still need to win the general election.

Bashing Jews as an electoral strategy has been tried many times before, with disastrous results for society.

Maybe more candidates should learn from the many politicians getting elected without it.

[Marc Weinstein @marckweinstein]

@SteveKrak @VSaxena20 Ah, the as a Jew defense. TC's has guests like Fuentes and Cooper with no push back. His sub silentio blame of Jews for killing Jesus at the TP event. Like Dreher says, you don't have to be explicit to speak and promote antisemitism. TC is smart enough to do it surreptitiously.

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

Why is @DUALIPA allowed to say 'Isreal should be wiped off the face of the earth' and I get abuse for defending my Jewish friends?

[𝔼𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕥 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕟 @ElliotMalin]

Hi, this is not true.

I was given a very detailed accounting of how Ariel and Kfir Bibas were killed, before it was publicly released, and it was that they were strangled to death by their captors.

I'm very close with Shiri's uncle, and have worked to bring him closure and justice for them.

What Ibrahim is saying here is wholly untrue and repugnant.

May the memory of Kfir, Ariel, Shiri, and every Israeli taken hostage or murdered by Hamas on October 7 be a blessing.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

This feels like a good moment to remember that Ireland got rich not by producing much or innovating anything, but mostly by becoming one of the world's biggest tax havens -- by enabling large companies from other nations to hide their tax revenues from their home nations.

Apple, Microsoft and Google have routed many hundreds of billions of dollars through Ireland to shelter their profits.

Israel, in contrast, got rich by innovating at a colossal scale. It spends 6% of its GDP on R&D, the highest of any nation on Earth. 10% of its workforce works in tech.

That's why those same Apple, Microsoft and Google all built massive R&D centers in Israel, alongside 500 other multinationals. The defense tech is famous, but Israel is also a global powerhouse in water and agriculture. And it draws 10% of global deep-tech investment in medical devices and food R&D.

So a tax-cheat nation that got rich by impoverishing others now refuses a safety system meant to land planes safely in the fog from a nation that actually produces new and useful things for the world.

It's one thing not to buy arms, or to exact political costs for a war you hate. This isn't that. This is just sanctimonious narcissism.

Take the fog safety system, you preening tax-cheats. We promise to look the other way.

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

Hamas' child soldiers participated in 10/7, such as 17-year-old Rami Al-Khaidi, praised by family for his actions that day. He is one an estimated 1,800 child soldiers killed in the Gaza war. Not a single "human rights" NGO has commented on this abuse of children by Hamas & PIJ.

[Benjamin Weingarten @bhweingarten]

Only fitting this @SenTedCruz-led hearing regarding Muslim Brotherhood influence in America occurs at the very time a man who pledged his support for Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi, served as VP of the Muslim Brotherhood-originated Muslim Students’ Association in college, and has participated in events convened by Muslim Brotherhood front group CAIR and adjacent organizations was just nominated by Michigan Democrats for the U.S. Senate

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

Turkey hosts Hamas, Russian air defenses and Chinese technology at the core of its telecommunications infrastructure.

The Islamist regime in Ankara must never get our most advanced fighter jets.

[Shabbos Kestenbaum @ShabbosK]

I'm glad El-Sayed won.

Now we can stop pretending there's a normal moderate base in the Democrat Party.

The Democrats of today are Muslim men who believe America deserved 9/11 weep over the death of the Ayatollah.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

Jews are the only people in history told they are “colonizers” for returning to the only land in which they were ever indigenous.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

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The Mesha Stele (also called the Moabite Stone) is one of the most important extrabiblical inscriptions related to ancient Israel.

Erected around 840 BCE by King Mesha of Moab, it is a black basalt monument that openly names Israel, its king Omri, and its G-d, YHWH.

Here’s why it matters.