Steven Lewis

Chicagoan. Bowling Green State University Alum. ΣΑΕ

[Steven Lewis @slewis921]

@PaulVallas Beyond that, the fact he blames Israel for opposition he’s faced is just lazy. I’m sure Chicago’s business community cares far more about his attempts to raise taxes on real estate transactions than wars being fought on the other side of the world.

[Steven Lewis @slewis921]

@PaulVallas For starters, the interviewer misstates the US military’s actual relationship with Israel’s. They have not been merged; they’ve just coordinated for years, and now will have an American official in charge of that coordination. The idea our military answers to Israel is false.

[Steven Lewis @slewis921]

@barstoolWSD It was Sal Stewart. And as you said, considering Stewart homered off Martin in the previous at-bat, I get why he acted the way he did after the second pitch hit him.

Really, the umpires be-clowned themselves by not issuing Martin a warning before ejecting him.

[Steven Lewis @slewis921]

@neontaster I haven’t seen the finale, but I’m glad I’m not the only one thinking this so far. Immediately when he said that his strategy was to force Rhaenyra to burn him out or let him keep causing havoc, this is where my mind went.

[Nicky Smokes @nickysmokess]

Girls look so much hotter in White Sox gear it’s not even funny

[Ambassador Yechiel (Michael) Leiter @yechielleiter]

Let's not lose our grip on the facts - instead of recriminations and accusations - just the facts.

1) Congressman @RoKhanna was offered to coordinate his visit with the State of Israel - this goes beyond notifying of his presence in the country. He was offered in-depth coordination of his schedule to avoid misunderstandings, and he chose to ignore that offer.
He also chose not to coordinate his visit with the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem.

2) He chose to conduct his visit accompanied by Palestinian activists, and, for some reason, @nytimes journalists with cameras at the ready. With him was also a person affiliated with @jstreet, an organization that actively lobbies against the government of Israel on Capitol Hill.

3) Mr. Khanna and his entourage entered what was believed to be a closed military zone without permission. The military had no prior knowledge of him going there, due to his refusal to coordinate with them. The vehicle they stopped was unknown to them and therefore provoked suspicion. The moment details of the Congressman's identity were cleared, he was free to go. At no point was the congressman, or any member of his party, threatened by the soldiers, or civilians bearing arms.

4) To add insult to injury - the Congressman used this instance as an opportunity to tout "genocide" and "apartheid" libels to the press, propelling himself to the center of yet another anti-Israel media frenzy.
The facts don't lie - this was a cheap, anticipated provocation, that could, and should have been avoided.

5) Calling me a liar won’t change the facts. I’d be happy to host Congressman Khanna at our embassy for an in-depth conversation on his grievances regarding Israel.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

Letter from Israel's President @Isaac_Herzog to President @realDonaldTrump, on the occasion of July 4th, celebrating 250 years of American independence!

[Steven Lewis @slewis921]

@CentristAllWay @JillianMichaels The Rockefellers aren’t Jews.

Soros is just a villain in general. A prototypical self-hating Jew.

There are many Pritzkers that don’t hate themselves like Soros does. From the article you shared, the Tides Foundation were previously receiving money from Bill Gates.

[Steven Lewis @slewis921]

@RetroCoast Do you have any evidence for this claim? Any statement or video from AIPAC affirming as an organization that they support today’s decision?

[Steven Lewis @slewis921]

@RhianFazzini Okay, shouldn’t the onus though be on “Retro Coast” to prove that AIPAC actually believes this? Shouldn’t the original poster need to refer to an actual statement or video from AIPAC verifying that they as an organization supported this decision?

[Seth Frantzman @sfrantzman]

The Lebanese Army should do what almost all other militaries in the world do...control their own country and not let an armed militia/mafia/terrorist group stockpile 150,000 rockets and masses of guns and IEDs and drones and take over towns and tunnel under them.

We all know that if this was basically any other country that this would be expected. Solely because it's Lebanon there is this excuse. We all know if cartels in Mexico launched thousands of rockets at Texas...that the US army would be in Mexico fighting them until it stopped.

The Lebanese Army is being asked to do a very simple basic task, the most basic that armies do...which is control the territory of their OWN state. And in this case it's an area in southern Lebanon, it's not even all of Lebanon.

No one is asking the Lebanese Army to go out and fight foreign wars...it's being asked to just secure parts of Lebanon. Lebanon is a small country, it's being asked to secure an area the size of a few counties in VERMONT...it's being asked to basically secure an area that is the size of LESS THAN half of PIMA COUNTY in Arizona. An area the size of Greater Manchester in the UK....or a bit larger than Berlin.

That's all it's being asked to do...police an area the size of Berlin in southern Lebanon...remove Hezbollah from that area. Literally...police it...it doesn't even have to do army stuff...this isn't the Louisiana Maneuvers...it's barely being asked to do what the LAPD does. That's all, just do the same work as the LAPD and secure the area....

[Zach זק @ZachLewis3187]

How Palestinian activism works:
- Make an egregious unprovable claim
- Get social media bots to push that claim
- Have NGOs “verify” the claim
- Use the UN to cite the NGOs in making the claim “official,” albeit it lacks any and all evidence
- Media outlets then report the claim
- Social media pushes the media narrative creating a closed verification and reinforcement loop

Eventually, when the claim topples and falls apart with evidence, as seen below, the narrative is too far gone.

It happens every single time.

[Steven Lewis @slewis921]

@chisportsross This is how it started before Justin Ishbia worked out an agreement to eventually become owner of the WhiteSox. I hope the same happens here.

[Steven Lewis @slewis921]

@BKNBAPocketLint @janecoaston @CrookedMedia The Young Turks lol. They’re definitely number 1.

At least Crooked hasn’t reached the level of vitriol Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian display daily.

[Steven Lewis @slewis921]

@BKNBAPocketLint @janecoaston Idk what Jane knows or doesn’t know. What I do know is that Brad Lander is a useful idiot to the haters of the Jewish community. Between endorsing Mamdani last year and hosting a Shabbat dinner last month with Linda Sarsour, calling him a token, self-hating Jew is legit.

[Steven Lewis @slewis921]

@janecoaston Brad Lander is a token. He legitimizes Jews’ enemies like the DSA, Linda Sarsour, and Mamdani while doing nothing to support the Jewish community.

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

The Yevsektsiya were Jews. They blamed Zionists and traditional Jews for alienating Soviet society. They believed that if Jews abandoned religion, nationalism, and every trait the regime found objectionable, Communism would reward them with acceptance.

They helped shut down synagogues, persecuted Hebrew teachers, and denounced fellow Jews as enemies of progress. When they were no longer useful, the Soviet state disbanded the Yevsektsiya. Many of its members were executed during Stalin's purges. Others disappeared into labor camps. Their loyalty bought them nothing.

The Antizionist League of Iraq was made up of Jews as well. Its members insisted that Zionism was the source of hostility toward Iraqi Jews. They argued that if Jews publicly rejected the idea of a Jewish state, suspicion and hatred would disappear. They were wrong. The League itself was dissolved and its leaders imprisoned. The Farhud left hundreds of Jews dead, Jewish homes and businesses were looted and destroyed, and over the following years an ancient community was driven into exile. Nobody stopped to ask whether their victims were Zionists before burning their homes or stabbing them in the streets.

A century ago, Baghdad had one of the largest Jewish communities in the world. Jews made up roughly a quarter of the city's population. Today there are fewer than ten Jews left in all of Iraq. Trying to prove that you are one of the "good Jews" has never altered the outcome.

German Jews were among the most assimilated Jews in the world. They were educated, patriotic, and deeply proud of being German. Many of them fought proudly in WWI. They often looked down on poorer Jews arriving from Eastern Europe. Some convinced themselves that antisemitism was directed only at those less refined than themselves. Even the Association of German National Jews sought accommodation with the Nazi movement and declared its opposition to Zionism. The Nazis outlawed the organization anyway. Its members were deported and murdered alongside the rest of European Jewry.

Today there are fewer Jews in all of Europe than there are Arab citizens of Israel. So much for Europe lecturing Israel about tolerance.

Once a society begins stigmatizing Jews, or even just one category of Jews, the writing is already on the wall. Assimilation has never provided lasting protection. Appeasement has never provided lasting protection. Explaining ourselves politely and hoping to be accepted as the "good ones" has never provided lasting protection.

We are living through a dangerous moment. The United States, and perhaps Argentina, remain among the few places where Jews are not broadly stigmatized. But even that cannot be taken for granted. A 2023 Harvard-Harris poll found that two thirds of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 agreed that "Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors." Those young people will shape the future of public opinion.

We have no choice but to speak plainly about antizionism.

Because if antizionism were merely opposition to Netanyahu, it would not predate Netanyahu. If it were merely opposition to Israeli policy, it would not predate Israel. Long before 1948, Jews were being massacred for refusing to accept their place as a tolerated minority.

The uncomfortable truth is that antizionism did not emerge in response to Jewish power. It emerged in response to the idea that Jews should possess power at all.

Kind explanations did not save the Jews of Baghdad. Compliance did not save the Jews of Germany. Revolutionary zeal did not save the Jews of the Soviet Union.

Clarity matters. Memory matters. And the refusal to lie about what we are facing matters most of all.