At an event this afternoon, a group of individuals that were chanting "tax the rich" began to shout "tax the Jews." This was an event I put on with Supervisor Mahmood, labor leaders, and dozens of workers to announce a plan that creates more jobs for those workers and housing for San Franciscans.
Suggesting that Jews are wealthy is a tired trope, and targeting our community at an event focused on creating economic opportunity for San Franciscans is decidedly antisemitic. I will never accept hate directed at the Jewish community or any community in our city. Those are not San Francisco values—we’re better than that.
“Israel is the only state which when attacked, gets attacked more.”
Absolutely phenomenal opening statement of @DouglasKMurray at the recent @munkdebate on whether anti-Zionist is antisemitism.
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Today’s Oakland K-12 teach-in calls for the destruction of Israel.
It lies about Jews, eg: Jews weren’t in Israel until 1948 (Jews have been there millennia) & only “white Jews” are welcome (3.2M Jews of color live there)
It’s straight-up anti-Israel/anti-Jewish indoctrination
The presidents of @Harvard, @MIT, and @Penn were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism:
Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?
The answers they gave reflect the profound moral bankruptcy of Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth.
Representative @EliseStefanik was so shocked with the answers that she asked each of them the same question over and over again, and they gave the same answers over and over again.
In short, they said:
It ‘depends on the context’ and ‘whether the speech turns into conduct,’ that is, actually killing Jews.
This could be the most extraordinary testimony ever elicited in the Congress, certainly on the topic of genocide, which to remind us all is:
“the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group”
The presidents’ answers reflect the profound educational, moral and ethical failures that pervade certain of our elite educational institutions due in large part to their failed leadership.
Don’t take my word for it.
You must watch the following three minutes. By the end, you will be where I am.
They must all resign in disgrace.
If a CEO of one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour.
Why has antisemitism exploded on campus and around the world?
Because of leaders like Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth who believe genocide depends on the context.
To think that these are the leaders of Ivy League institutions that are charged with the responsibility to educate our best and brightest.
On the bright side, our congressional leaders deserve accolades for showing tremendous leadership and moral clarity in their statements, by the questions they asked, and the respectfulness with which they conducted the hearing.
It was a masterclass of how our government and democracy should operate.
If you have time, please watch the entire hearing. Throughout the hearing, the three behaved like hostile witnesses, exhibiting a profound disdain for the Congress with their smiles and smirks, and their outright refusal to answer basic questions with a yes or no answer.
I never thought I would wake up 50 years after the Yom Kipour war and see that another pogrom has happened to our people. Rounding up Jews and shooting them for being Jewish. I grew up being taught never again… today I can't help but think it happened again.
The Palestinian Authority has all but abandoned Jenin, leaving behind a power vacuum that has been filled by terrorists.
In the past six months, those terrorists made Jenin a launching pad for more than 50 shooting attacks against Israelis.
Israel is responding with a counterterrorism operation aimed at surgically removing these terrorists and their terror infrastructure.
There’s a word for this: self-defense, which is the right of every sovereign country, including Israel.
@patrick_oshag Rabbi Abraham Joshua Herschel’s essay the great homecoming in the book, moral grandeur and spiritual audacity. Radically changed my view of thinking about the afterlife in conjunction with the pre-life.
Torres: If you're a Republican, like George Santos who systematically defrauds and deceives his constituents, the Republican Party will protect you from expulsion. But if you're two black Democrats who speak out against gun violence..
@SlowLakeStreet I was on Clement Street last night and it was a mess:
1️⃣ double-parked cars
2️⃣ cars parked in crosswalks
3️⃣ drivers circling the block
4️⃣ drivers not yielding to people walking or using mobility devices to cross the street
Clement should be “pedestrianized” ASAP. CC @skelovenko