Men brought guns inside the Michigan statehouse to protest pandemic lockdowns (but really to frighten and intimidate lawmakers) and no one shot them. They weren’t even arrested.
NEW: A motion to censure the mayor of Richmond, CA for antisemitism failed 4-3 last night. Last month, Mayor Eduardo Martinez shared social media posts claiming Bondi Beach was a "false flag" and another saying the victims were engaged in a "performative" takeover of public space. In @jewishsf ⬇️
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"Therein lies one the starkest flaws of Palestine 36: the near-total absence of violence inflicted by Arabs... The film inverts history to suggest it’s the Jews who draw first blood, and much more of it."
Welcome to a new semester at @Columbia, where Prof. Joseph Massad is *still* teaching a course on Zionism. Prof. Massad has faced no consequences for his celebration of Oct. 7th and his attendance at a conference with Hamas officials.
Is it anti-Zionism or antisemitism when they start keeping track of who has Jewish blood and who sullies their bloodline by having Jews marry into their family?
You have to do due diligence in a campaign and that includes asking uncomfortable questions of potential running mates.
However, there wasn't a concerted effort to paint Walz as a traitor to America because of his ethnic heritage. Hope that clears up the context difference.
If you're only concerned about antisemitism on the "other side" of the political aisle, then you're not fighting it you're weaponizing it. Be disturbed by Josh Shapiro's vetting by Harris team, but don't forget this. Carlson in White House 2x in 2 weeks?? https://t.co/ccxzBzgTVJ
.@akeyak, the former Deputy Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism in the Biden administration, said of PA Gov. Josh Shapiro being asked if he's an Israeli Agent that he had similar experiences.
"I have heard from too many being asked similar questions over many years and I can speak from personal experience. During my vetting process I faced questions in a classified setting that my fellow non-Jewish political appointees did not. These sort of antisemitic questions are anti-American and do not represent the best that the Democratic Party offers. Now and especially during the next Presidential campaign we must demand better.”
@JillFilipovic You are wrong. Honestly, as a Jew, I'm politically homeless right now. And I've been a die hard Dem all my life. You guys just don't care about us. And I've fought for so many....
ICE should return to being a police force. No masks. No combat gear. No armored vehicles. They should audit employers suspected of employing illegal labor - and enforce deportation orders - with badges, warrants, and professional manners. "Demilitarize ICE" not "Abolish ICE."
“Their discussion was especially tense when Kamala Harris asked Shapiro if he would apologize for some of his comments about protesters at the University of Pennsylvania, who had built encampments to decry Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and, in some cases, had intimidated Jewish students.
Shapiro wrote that he ‘flatly’ told Harris that he would not. It was one of several times he claims that he had to stand his ground after Harris’s team brought up issues where he had taken a different stance from hers and asked if he would be willing to apologize or otherwise make a public about-face.”
BREAKING:
The Department of Justice is reportedly investigating elected officials for criticizing the administration’s immigration enforcement operations. If this is the basis for the investigation, it is blatantly unconstitutional and intolerable in a free society. The right to condemn government action without fear of government punishment is the foundation of the First Amendment.
This would not be the first time the administration has used boundless, imaginary definitions of “obstruction” or “incitement” that have no basis in the law and run headlong into constitutional limits. The few exceptions to the First Amendment are defined by narrow, exacting standards for a reason: to prevent the government from wielding its power to squash dissent.
If criticism of government policy can be rebranded as a crime, then constitutional protections become meaningless and the government becomes unaccountable. That is precisely the danger the First Amendment is meant to prevent, and it is a line no administration may cross.