Shabbos Soul

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

Genocide or not?

[New York Post @nypost]

NY Times sued by Florida pension fund over Israel coverage after whistleblower complaint https://t.co/JwuZwFof8M

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

BOMBSHELL lawsuit just dropped: Florida’s state pension fund and another NYT shareholder are suing The New York Times, demanding access to internal records over alleged anti-Israel bias and failures to enforce editorial standards.

According to the filing, a veteran NYT employee raised concerns at least 15 times.

HR allegedly responded - "If you don’t like our values here, maybe you should go find a place whose values align with yours."

The petition also cites 72 admitted errors in eight months of Israel-Hamas coverage, buried complaints, ignored standards and antisemitism training promised in 2019 that was allegedly never implemented.

Wow.

[Bentzi Avtzon @filmrabbi]

The only genocide in this picture is Reform Judaism which is about a generation away from complete extinction

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

The prevailing view of so much of the young left in America is that we’re the worst country ever, so if someone attacks us, they can’t be all bad.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

This should be pushed far and wide. Watched in every college class in the U.S. Thank you @billmaher The moral confusion is gross. "It is not a genocide, it is a counterattack in a war...Gaza equals genocide is a lie, an easily provable lie (as I have argued from first hand observations in Gaza). The fact that so many democrats go along with it is to me the party's worse moment since they undid reconstruction after the civil war...words have meaning...genocide, kill or try to kill an entire people, you can't just change the definition of genocide to mean counterattack in a war where people including civilians die, that's every war..."

[Prof. Jeffrey Lax @CUNY_Prof]

This, right here, is the reality in NYC and across the world. Jewish leaders like Lander and @PeterBeinart (who has been dodging me about this for months) who say, "well if I just say I agree with them about everything, I will be spared" are lost. To these ppl you're just a Jew.

[New York Post @nypost]

Dem pol Brad Lander ripped as 'Zionist balls-k' by hate-filled lefty protesters outside Hindu-nationalist speech at MSG https://t.co/tpT8WLCtGH

[Jabotinsky Jews @Betar_USA]

Dhimmi JEW boy Brad Lander, congress candidate in NYC. Jew scum for Zohran gets told to get lost at rally in NYC. He panders to jihadis and the Jew boy gets sent away.

We urge him to go to his local transgender mosque and seek solace

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Despite Brad Lander simping for Mamdani and pro-Palestinians, they are now violently harassing him on the streets of NYC.

[liel leibovitz @liel]

When a pudgy pogromist stormed Central Synagogue this Friday, not a single Jew present dared fight back. And a congregation that expects others to protect it while it cowers in the pews is nothing more than a hospice, as I explain in @tabletmag.

https://t.co/pXUtbnJyIN

[Jonathan Greenblatt @JGreenblattADL]

This @NYMag article has too many issues to count. But one line really stands out: “[SWANA New Yorkers] still face xenophobia, Islamophobia, and Zionism — along with the repercussions of speaking out against them.”

Now replace “Zionism” with its definition: “...still face xenophobia, Islamophobia, and the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland...”

Calling for other peoples’ self-determination while labeling the Jewish people’s request for the same treatment as hate is not factual — its a blatant, disgusting double standard.

By defining Zionism as hate, the author apparently thinks she has permission to rewrite Jewish history, erase Mizrahi identity and reinvent the history of the MENA region itself — or, as she calls it, SWANA — a term supposedly meant to promote regional self-determination....quite the irony.

More on this to come.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

This Wood Cricket Jew, @jonstewart, is the epitome of a castrated smug imbecile. Knows nothing. Understands nothing. Experienced nothing. But because he is a progressive "comedian," he has a platform to spew his self-loathing shite.

[David/Dovid Bashevkin @DBashIdeas]

I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of Color War breakouts we can figure out what is going on. 😂

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

In Buddhism we understand that every action comes with a consequence. Due to my decision to stand up for my Jewish friends I am losing a few people from my life. Today I parted company with Tony Pontius who has run my record label BGP for a number of years. I wanted to release 'We Will Dance Again' but he was unequivocal and said 'I want nothing to do with this song' and I responded 'ok, we are done'.
When someone is gutless it really does not hurt to say goodbye. My faith in humanity will not diminish and the truth will always win.

I will release it!

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

#Shalom

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY CRAP. NYC Councilwoman just exposed that Mayor Mamdani's plan to transfer ownership away from landlords will go into "NONPROFITS" to the tune of BILLIONS

It's a recipe for fraud. The 3rd world scammer is ripping everybody off!

"They want to take this and fund this all through non-for-profits. Once the non-for-profits take over these buildings, this is multi-billion dollar stuff we're talking about. We're talking about the New York City buildings!"

"I mean, can you imagine? This is absolutely insane." — Councilwoman Paladino

Democrats LOVE NGOs. It's their vessel for fraud.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

The most interesting aspect of Zohran Mamdani’s housing plan is that it doesn’t simply transfer seized properties to the city as that could later be reversed by a future mayor.

Instead, it funnels them directly to NGOs and “community stewards” that are reliably aligned with leftist priorities and unlikely to ever relinquish control.

Even tenants who gain temporary possession will soon discover they lack the expertise and resources to manage buildings themselves, forcing them to rely on these permanent third-party intermediaries.

This expropriation strategy didn’t start with Mamdani.
Democrats laid the groundwork years ago but lacked the nerve to follow through fully.
Mamdani is openly commie and has no such hesitation.

The play:
>impose strict rent controls that make it financially unviable for owners to properly maintain or repair their properties
>blame the landlords for the resulting deterioration
>label the buildings “chronically neglected” based on your own standards
>seize the properties and transfer them to your political allies, the nonprofits, community land trusts, or tenant groups

Because the criteria are deliberately vague and subjective, virtually any owner can be targeted.
This gives authorities the power to confiscate private property at will.

Mamdani’s campaign made this direction explicit. It’s about pursuing “equity” by redistributing housing stock, often framed as taking from wealthier (white) neighborhoods to benefit others.

In reality, many of these properties are expected to end up under the control of nonprofits serving the city’s large foreign-born population, all within a framework of permanent “progressive” dominance.

TLDR: it’s leftist plunder and pillaging, again.

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

New Yorkers who came tonight to Gracie Mansion protesting Zohran Mamdani discovered that Mamdani has a buffer zone near his house.

Let that sink in: the mayor who used his veto power to prevent Jewish schools from having buffer zones against Nazis protesting at their doorstep, has a buffer zone against New Yorkers that are persisting him.

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

Let's understand a few things about what's actually about to happen here if Zohran gets his way -- which he almost certainly will, unless courts intervene.

First and foremost, Cea Weaver and DSA 'organizers' will be unleashed with the full institutional and legal support of the city government to ramp up tenant complaints in targeted buildings. No complaint will be too small. No building will be too small. Everything will be treated as catastrophic. Full-scale demagoguery will ensue, complete with protests, rent strikes, street theater, and harassment of property owners.

Accordingly, the city buildings department will be weaponized to begin writing as many violations as possible in order to bolster the city's effort to justify a seizure. It won't matter how small or large the violations are, the total number will be breathlessly cited as evidence of mismanagement. It will be impossible for landlords to clear these violations in good faith.

The combination of a weaponized buildings department writing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, rent strikes, and constant threats and harassment against landlords by militant activists will make the situation untenable for any property owner to realistically fight back, and the city will seize the property. The landlord will be lucky to walk away without prison or being beaten to death in the street by an angry mob (as Zohran's buddy Hasan Piker referred to landlords -- 'let the streets run red with their capitalist blood').

But that's only the first half of the plan, and everyone needs to pay very close attention to the big picture here, because it's hugely important and has national implications.

The properties will then be turned over to nonprofits. This is no small detail. This is in fact the whole point.

The idea here is to build up Zohran's DSA-connected nonprofits with a multbillion-dollar portfolio of hard assets -- New York City real estate. This portfolio could theoretically reach into the hundreds of billions or even the trillions, depending on how aggressive they get.

Now these highly political nonprofits would become the new land barons of New York, complete with all the political clout, leverage, and reach that goes along with it. It would be a true nightmare scenario.

As it stands now, the nonprofits depend mostly on the largesse of grants, donations, and other third-party resources to stay afloat. They are lavishly funded of course, and many do hold significant assets, but it would all pale in comparison to simply handing them the keys to a New York City real estate empire, courtesy of Zohran Mamdani and the DSA.

The resources at their disposal would be immense. The organizing potential that goes along with those resources will have national implications. Every DSA candidate in every town and city in the country would be trained, funded, and staffed by organizers with ties to the NYC nonprofit empire backed by a trillion dollars in free real estate. And they would be shameless in leveraging those resources for pure political power.

That's the game plan here. That's the whole ball of wax.

Zohran isn't interested in making housing better for anyone. If he was, we'd be talking seriously about solving the NYCHA disaster.

Hell, if he was even remotely sincere about seizing these properties from 'bad landlords' for the 'public good' he'd be focused on turning them over to the city itself, as misguided as that would be.

No, this is about nothing more than consolidating political power for the DSA. Just like everything else these people do. Giving the DSA a massive war chest backed by seized real estate.

Once you understand that they have no interest in fixing anything other than elections, it all makes a lot more sense.