It’s going to be a top issue for me and since 2008 I’ve never voted for a losing candidate. I swing between dem and 3rd party and If the democrats can’t win me over they lose.
Something I’ve been thinking about a lot is how 2028 Dem presidential candidates are going to talk about Israel during the primaries.
I don’t think it’ll be a top issue (or even top 3 issue) for most primary voters, but how candidates talk about it will be a moral barrier to entry for a lot of them, particularly as they are responding to any heuristic to help narrow down their choices from what I expect to be 20+ viable-ish candidates.
Basically it comes down to “do you have the judgment, courage & moral compass to call out horrible things when you see it.” Which extends beyond Israel-Gaza, but to domestic matters as well. Will you stand up to bullies? Corporations? Corruption?
And what polls like this show is that “Netanyahu is just a bad egg, once he’s gone things will be fine” is just plain wrong — and will likely not be enough for even many normie Dem voters.
This is another in a long line of data points that shows that the desire for right wing, aggressive policy toward Palestinians is deeply embedded in the Israeli people at this time. Bibi is a war criminal and sociopath, but the issue is systemic — it won’t magically get better once he’s out of office.
And Democratic presidential hopefuls would do well to be open and honest with primary voters about that, and move beyond the talking point of “Bibi bad” as a way of skirting around the issue.
Even after adjusting its figures, the Committee to Project Journalists finds that Israeli forces were still responsible for “by far the majority of killings of journalists and media workers worldwide since 2023.” https://t.co/wD7p6Nbo7h
I reported that a DA had a "fighting antisemitism" page on his campaign website that highlights his felony prosecution of Palestine student protestors.After defense attys dug up more evidence of conflict, the DA was recused––a rare outcome.
Now the state AG has dropped the case.
@TheEvilEsquire I stole this profile pic from a Zionist bot named Love Winn that an Israeli bot farm created during operation protective edge lol. But thanks for noticing! Palestine is the land that has been colonized by the Zionist entity commonly referred to as “Israel.”
I say this in the nicest way possible. People think Mamdani has power over the NYPD bc they believe we live in a democracy. The NYPD is a mafia-like military force that protects big capital and empire. They are above Mamdani in the order of power.
@TheEvilEsquire During my time in Palestine I never saw a camel but I did learn that there’s nothing more embarrassing and סאחי than an American using the word sharmuta
Florence Pugh on Palestine:
“It’s still happening. Babies are still dying. Mothers are still in pain. It’s really horrible to be watching such pain when so much of our lives just seem to be moving forward. I think that’s what I’ve found so difficult about social media as well: How can I say I’m having a really good time when literally one scroll up, I’m looking at a baby that’s motherless and fatherless?”
Read the cover story: https://t.co/NYlpvQWDyB
Tonight at an award ceremony, Peter Thiel is asked why he considers himself German.
Thiel mentions speaking German until age 12 but doesn’t say he was not in Germany but SW Africa in an apartheid town pretending to be a Nazi village. The everyday greeting was “Heil Hitler.”
Tonight at an award ceremony, Peter Thiel is asked why he considers himself German.
Thiel mentions speaking German until age 12 but doesn’t say he was not in Germany but SW Africa in an apartheid town pretending to be a Nazi village. The everyday greeting was “Heil Hitler.”
America: Built by the world's hungriest and most talented immigrants, for the next generation of the world's hungriest and most talented immigrants!
America's foundation is built on human rights and individual freedoms, the exact opposite of communism and socialism.
Never forget this, America: we're winning because we assimilate the great, and we maximize human potential through individual sovereignty.
My most controversial opinion is that there is an inherent selection bias in these studies. If they were testing the effect of short form video on people’s ability to effectively context switch perhaps they’d conclude that short form video is good for the brain.
10 minutes of TikTok was enough to impair people’s ability to remember and carry out intentions.
Twitter and YouTube didn’t show the same decline.
Rapid context-switching may be where most of cognitive cost is.
The liquidator of the Warsaw Ghetto describes what was to replace it: “The former ghetto area was designated as a residential and recreation district. Villas, gardens, red roof tiles, green shutters, roses, swimming pools, tree-lined avenues, parks and gardens.” Remind you of anything?
https://t.co/GaC320wgjn
Jewish students from YULA high school harassed a woman in Los Angeles today for wearing an "Israel Kills Children" shirt. The young Zionist thugs chanted "Am Yisrael Chai" and waved Israeli flags.
https://t.co/Zbvt1zzXzo
Reminder: YULA high school sends its students to party with Israeli soldiers in Occupied Palestine while a genocide is being carried out.
Ilan Pappe has a new piece out titled, "Why Al-Aqsa Flood Happened."
In it, he argues that Yahya Sinwar confronted Israel similar to how Anwar Sadat confronted Israel in 1971 & Palestinian leaders such as Yasser Arafat in 2000.
Sadat warned that if Israel did not return the Sinai to Egypt through diplomacy, Egypt would go to war...
Arafat warned Ehud Barak & Bill Clinton that if he was unable to return from the Camp David summit in 2000 with a promise to reduce the oppression of the Palestinian people, another uprising would be inevitable...
In Sinwar’s case, we now know that he negotiated with Israel the basic demands of the people of Gaza: an end to the siege, an increase in the food and raw materials entering the besieged enclave, and the release of Palestinian political prisoners.
(This was revealed in a Sep. 2026 @haaretzcom investigation which showed that, in September 2023, Sinwar arranged a private meeting with Fatah official Coal Eyes. "Tell the Israelis that if they don't make progress, I'm preparing a huge surprise for them," he declared emphatically. Here, he dropped a key word for the first time, one that should have triggered red flags: "Tell them to expect a 'zilzal,' an earthquake." https://t.co/tRqzxdxr0c)
Pappe argues that, like Sadat, Sinwar eventually chose the military option when it became clear that Israel had rejected the political option.
source: https://t.co/yWGqXbqGmc