Ok this has a simple fix: Israel day parade organizers can pledge to ban Smotrich and other “extremists” from all future marches. But they won’t because their opposition to him is superficial and performative and they know he has a sizable and necessary constituency in NYC
@DanRosenthalNYC I bet you (or more likely, your staff) think this is clever, but it actually is broadly revealing about the limits of your own thinking.
Ravid performed this fake stenography for Biden in an attempt to inoculate him from culpability and now he’s running the playbook again for Trump.
“Hey Bibi, you better cool it or else”
lmao sure ok
“What the fuck are you doing?!” Trump lit into Netanyahu over the Lebanon bombing:
“You're fucking crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this."
@BarakRavid & I
https://t.co/b1lEZEmN6p
The Israel Day parade is not about Jewish pride, but the foreign country of Israel. It was created to show support for Israel, & every official description explicitly says that's what it's about. The presence of an Israeli cabinet member is not some mysterious aberration.
Interesting to read some people dismiss Smotrich's presence at the Israel parade as not representative given their position that if a single person has a shitty sign at a protest it proves the left is a pack of anti-semites. Bad apples for me but not for thee