Robert Levine

First I took Manhattan and then ich bin ein Berliner.

[Robert Levine @RobertBLevine_]

This stabbing can be blamed on a mental health problem, Mr. Mayor -- yours.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I have been briefed on today’s horrifying stabbings on the Upper West Side, where an Asian man and a Jewish man were attacked. According to witness and victim statements, the perpetrator yelled “Allahu Akbar” during both attacks. I am relieved that both victims are in stable condition.

The NYPD responded immediately and arrested Raul Morales in connection with both assaults—and I am grateful to the officers for their swift response.

The NYPD’s initial investigation suggests that mental health may have been a factor. They are also evaluating these stabbings as potential hate crimes.

These hateful and despicable attacks have no place in our city.

[Robert Levine @RobertBLevine_]

Because nothing says "America" like violating the creator's rights of a Jewish-Canadian Buddhist....

https://t.co/aTgaM7fqfa

[Robert Levine @RobertBLevine_]

Music festival responds to mass killing of fans at music festival with a 'safe space' for.....what, exactly?
https://t.co/EEIeXQluZa

[Robert Levine @RobertBLevine_]

No.

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

Noteworthy: Paramount's chief legal officer, Makan Delrahim, tells the Los Angeles Times that some people who oppose the Paramount/W.B.D. transaction are doing so "because of their own antisemitic views."
https://t.co/NOqWRojHVk

[Robert Levine @RobertBLevine_]

No one is better at identifying problems - or worse at finding solutions

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America.

This would guarantee that the trillions created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people.

[Robert Levine @RobertBLevine_]

It's important to remember that SXSW London, which invited Hasan Piker, is NOT run by SXSW. Rather, it's licensed to a financier with close ties to the Saudi government.

https://t.co/qxqpBo07o0

[Robert Levine @RobertBLevine_]

Who could have imagined that an event backed by Saudi money would end up in this kind of controversy....

[Variety @Variety]

SXSW London has released a statement regarding speakers Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur being barred from entering the U.K.:

“Decisions on entry to the U.K. are a matter for the Home Office and the individuals concerned. SXSW London’s role is to convene a broad range of diverse voices and perspectives. We remain focused on delivering a programme this week fostering open dialogue and exchange of ideas and featuring more than 800 speakers, artists and screenings.” https://t.co/pUYzABJIgW

[Robert Levine @RobertBLevine_]

When did SXSW become a festival of music, film and antisemitism?

https://t.co/vqk7jgaIoj

[Robert Levine @RobertBLevine_]

Get ready for another @nytimesarts investigation! Hopefully this time with math that makes sense!

[Robert Levine @RobertBLevine_]

@PreislerKa Die haben "Sweet Caroline" gesungen? Das lied is von Neil Diamond, 'die Judisches Elvis!'

[Robert Levine @RobertBLevine_]

This is a fascinating part of history. It's heartbreaking that it didn't work. But it didn't.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Hear from @mollycrabapple about her new book "Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund," chronicling the 20th-century socialist revolutionary party that fought antisemitism in Europe and opposed the formation of a Jewish ethnostate in Palestine.

[Robert Levine @RobertBLevine_]

As Clausewitz might have said, Eurovision is nothing but the continuation of politics by other means....

[Robert Levine @RobertBLevine_]

On the subject of Israel and Eurovision, I will paraphrase Jean-Paul Satre: The New York Times didn't accuse Israel of stealing Eurovision because it think Israel stole Eurovision. Rather the Times enjoys seeing Israel try to prove it didn't.

[Robert Levine @RobertBLevine_]

Interestingly, this story mentions that other countries also promote their own acts, which the NY Times didn’t get into…. https://t.co/L4o8j2iM39

[Robert Levine @RobertBLevine_]

The NY Times arts section “investigation” seems to have uncovered….something that had already been uncovered…. https://t.co/L4o8j2iM39

[Robert Levine @RobertBLevine_]

How is it that young members of the Austrian Green Party can talk about this more intelligently in their second language than US Democrats can in their first?

[ThoSo @th_so2]

Die Grüne Jugend Österreich legt nach und zeigt, dass die Trennung zwischen legitimer Kritik an israelischer Regierungspolitik und antisemitischen Verallgemeinerungen, die sich gegen Israelis u. Juden als Kollektiv richten, nun wirklich keine intellektuelle Höchstleistung ist.

[Robert Levine @RobertBLevine_]

From this guy, a „festive kosher dairy menu“ sounds like a Blintzkrieg….

[Jacob N. Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh]

🚨NYC Mayor Mamdani is hosting the annual Jewish American Heritage Month reception at Gracie Mansion next week marked as a celebration of the Shavuot holiday, according to this invitation sent out.

Cheesecake and blintzes, maybe?

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

The New York Times just published a 4,000-word investigative exposé on the shocking revelation that countries participating in Eurovision…...want to win Eurovision.

That’s it. That’s the scandal 🤷‍♂️

Israel promoted its contestant? Governments viewed Eurovision as a soft power opportunity? Diaspora groups encouraged people to vote? Officials lobbied broadcasters to avoid being kicked out of the contest?

Congratulations to the Times for uncovering what literally every country involved in Eurovision has understood for decades.

Ukraine benefited from massive geopolitical solidarity voting. Balkan countries openly mobilize diaspora voting blocs every single year. Eurovision has always been political. The entire continent knows this.

And after thousands of words, the Times itself admits:

🔸️no bots,
🔸️no hacking,
🔸️no vote rigging,
🔸️no covert manipulation,
🔸️no evidence rules were broken.

Their big “investigation” boils down to "Israelis encouraged supporters to use the voting system exactly as designed."

The whole article is just a sad attempt to retroactively delegitimize Israeli public support because certain European broadcasters were furious Israel kept doing well in the televote despite the anti-Israel climate.

The funniest part is the faux horror over “vote 20 times” campaigns — as though Eurovision itself didn’t create the very system allowing viewers to vote 20 times.

If your voting system can be swung by a few hundred highly motivated fans, that’s an indictment of Eurovision’s structure, not proof of some sinister Israeli operation.

But that’s a much less dramatic headline than “The Jooz' Eurovision propaganda machine"

[Robert Levine @RobertBLevine_]

@alexmarshall81 I voted for Israel and I am prepared to be investigated.

[Robert Levine @RobertBLevine_]

This is an extraordinary number of words to devote to the fact that Israel is….advertising.

How Israel Turned Eurovision’s Stage Into a Soft Power Tool https://t.co/xFsTmJkqLu via @NYTimes