Suri

Digesting this e-world 1 chirp at a time & occasionally tweeting as I go

[Suri @suri_cee]

From #ATreeGrowsinBrooklyn. Reflection of the times. When white was good, Jews weren’t it. When white is bad, Jews are it.

[AP @Average_NY_Guy]

The way so many people reacted to Mamdani’s disgraceful speech on America’s 250th Independence Day explains exactly why he and his movement keep winning.

“His speech was a miscalculation.”
“He’ll regret giving that speech.”
“We can’t let him get away with it.”

Are you people still not getting it?

That speech wasn’t a mistake. It wasn’t a blunder. It was the message.

Did you honestly expect him to celebrate America this year? Or next year? This is who he is. This is the movement. They despise America’s history, values, and identity. They’re not hiding it. They’re telling you exactly what they believe.

The frightening part isn’t the speech. It’s watching people on our side convince themselves it was some kind of political error instead of recognizing it for exactly what it was.

As long as people keep pretending this is anything other than a movement fundamentally opposed to the America we know, they’ll keep winning. You can’t defeat a threat you refuse to acknowledge.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

This is what the pro-Palestine movement produces.

A girl raised in the most elite circles who now lives in Beirut and works for Iranian state TV to sell terrorism to Americans.

She went from working on Elizabeth’s Warren’s presidential campaign to leaving the DSA because its views on Israel were not radical enough.

[John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz]

Yes, usually paid agents of foreign countries can go there. As you likely know from your own checking account.

[Suri @suri_cee]

@ggreenwald He can’t be this dumb

[Raylan Givens @JewishWarrior13]

⭕ WATCH: This is how we, the Jews, win: Hamas captivity survivor Sasha Troponov breaks a glass under the chuppah in his wedding today

[Suri @suri_cee]

@karol ☺️💕

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@hakeemjeffries @MelatKirosCO Oy- this an alarming endorsement

[Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon]

Graham Platner is demolishing Susan Collins with the college-educated and women. So much for solidarity! Those HR ladies the pundits said were vanquished looked at Platner, who manhandled his ex girlfriend and locked her in a room, and thought, “Me, too.”

My column: It's Still the Class Divide, Stupid: College Grads Are Electing 'Socialists' Over the Wishes of the Working Class: https://t.co/QzuG02yeXl

[Suri @suri_cee]

@EFischberger @TMasudin @AnaKasparian She knows…

[Suri @suri_cee]

@hartfordcourant Near Gaza? The whole of Israel is the size of New Jersey so if you mean within 100 km I guess but no one who goes or lives to Ranana considers it near Gaza. Which you know.

[Suri @suri_cee]

@HistoryBoomer Not Jewish in name or genetics. She’s referring to practicing Jews, identifiably religious Jews. Not “tikkun olam” bagel eating, my dad’s dad was born Jewish Jews

[Suri @suri_cee]

@mtracey One is as Jewish as a pork chop

[Suri @suri_cee]

@mtracey Yeah cause Jews never had to fear kappos

[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.

[Suri @suri_cee]

@RoKhanna @DarializaforNY A great night for some dark money groups for sure.

[Suri @suri_cee]

@svershbow Eating bagels and lox doesn’t make someone Jewish.

[Suri @suri_cee]

@SohrabAhmari She’s talking about practicing Jews, identifiably religious Jews. Takes more than bagels and lox. Other religions don’t understand that Jews are a people not just a religion. There are atheist Jews and self hating Jews and fake Jews (like the ones you’re referring to).

[James Kirchick @jkirchick]

With Darializa Chevalier’s victory tonight, publicly exulting in the mass murder of Jews is no longer a barrier to high office in the Democratic Party.

[Suri @suri_cee]

@RossBarkan Everyone?

[Suri @suri_cee]

@hollypret @CityAndStateNY He’s as Jewish as a pork chop