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AIPAC mourns the passing of Pat Robertson, who was a great friend of Israel and a pioneer in the modern Christian Zionist movement. twitter.com/AP/status/1666…
We can’t believe we have to say this, but: please do not compare a Jewish presidential candidate to a disease. twitter.com/MuseWendi/stat
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CRITICIZING ISRAEL IS NOT ANTISEMITISM
CRITICIZING ISRAEL IS NOT ANTISEMITISM
CRITICIZING ISRAEL IS NOT ANTISEMITISM
CRITICIZING ISRAEL IS NOT ANTISEMITISM
CRITICIZING ISRAEL IS NOT ANTISEMITISM
CRITICIZING ISRAEL IS NOT ANTISEMITISM
CRITICIZING ISRAEL IS NOT ANTISEMITISM
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Israeli Minister: Natalie Portman's Boycott of Netanyahu Borders on anti-Semitism
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BREAKING: 10 young American Jews just interrupted President Trump’s speech at the ! "Jews are here to say, the Occupation is a plague. Jews are here to say, white nationalism is a plague."
Freedom and dignity for all!
Press release and statement: ifnotnowmovement.org/2019/04/06/you
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BREAKING: Our members in New Hampshire just asked if she would commit to pressuring the Israel to stop their 52 year military Occupation over the Palestinian people.
She said YES.
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Our statement on the news that both and are joining and in not attending 's conference.
This is a watershed moment and a major victory against the bigotry that AIPAC has legitimized for decades. #SkipAIPAC
There are no Palestinians at this press conference. No Palestinians were invited to the White House meeting about the plan. No Palestinian leaders were involved in the "process" that led to this plan.
The whole thing was designed to support the project of endless occupation.
Yesterday, we asked “Do you believe the Occupation is a human rights crisis for Palestinians?” He got visibly frustrated.
He admits: “If that's your issue I would understand if you want to support somebody else”
Looks like he’s choosing over the grassroots.
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BREAKING: Another group of young American Jews just walked off their trip, to meet with a Palestinian family and see the reality of the Occupation for themselves, a reality Birthright actively hides #NotJustAFreeTrip
Full video: facebook.com/IfNotNowOrg/po
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This was not 's Hanukah message to the whole Jewish community. This is a message she sent specifically to our Detroit chapter related to work we're doing together. You misleadingly edited it to strip out that context, to make it seem like something sinister. It's not.
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We refuse the false choice between Palestinian freedom and Jewish safety.
Razan al-Najar, 20, before she was killed by an IDF sniper: “Women are often judged. But society has to accept us. If they don't want to accept us by choice, they will be forced to accept us. Because we have more strength than any man.” Full interview: nytimes.com/video/world/mi
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“We had the attack in California on a synagogue. It’s the same person who’s accused of attempting to bomb a mosque. So I can’t ever speak of Islamophobia and fight for Muslims if I am not willing to fight against antisemitism.” - gets it.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar
Our members in NH just asked if he’s also an anti-Occupation Jew and looks like the answer is YES!
Learn more about us bringing the crisis of Israel’s military occupation over Palestinians to 2020 elections w/this exclusive from : politico.com/story/2019/06/
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Democracies don’t raid human rights offices in the middle of the night.
"I stand by my congresswoman in demanding accountability from the Israeli government. I stand by her in the face of racist, Islamophobic attacks by those who seek to pit my Jewish community against Muslims."
Rosa, an IfNotNow member, spoke alongside & .
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Young Jews blocking the entrance to #AIPAC2017 to stand up for freedom and dignity for all Israelis and Palestinians! #JewishResistance
We are proud to be the first Jewish organization to endorse for President.
As a movement of young Jews fighting for freedom and dignity for all, we know that this fight is not over. #NotMeUs #JewsForBernie
We don’t want your ‘thoughts and prayers’
We want you to stop enabling white nationalism and antisemitism in this country.
We want you to stop using your support for Israel and Netanyahu’s racist government as a cover for your hate.
WE WANT YOU TO STOP
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Thoughts and prayers to all of those affected by the shooting at the Synagogue in Poway, California. God bless you all. Suspect apprehended. Law enforcement did outstanding job. Thank you!
This is how you respond to a full-page smear in the New York Times by apologists for apartheid.
The decision by the Israeli government to only allow into the country on humanitarian grounds — while still barring entirely — is a cruel joke, directly in line with how Israel uses humiliation & control to maintain its military occupation over Palestinians
As Jews, we’re repulsed by the results of the Israeli election. But we’re not surprised. We need to recognize how we got here.
The victory for Kahanists is the product of an apartheid regime that suppresses the rights of Palestinians on both sides of the green line.
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. is showing what real political consequences for unjust Israeli government actions looks like.
We call on other members of Congress to join her and refuse to travel to Israel until the government reverses their decision and allows and to enter.
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Netanyahu’s discriminatory decision to ban members of Congress from Israel harms int’l diplomacy.
Visiting Israel & Palestine are key experiences towards a path to peace.
Sadly, I cannot move forward w scheduling any visits to Israel until all members of Congress are allowed. twitter.com/nytimes/status…
“If you want to engage in actual discussions of antisemitism, that is an actual conversation that we can have...There are really amazing orgs of young people, like , young Jews organizing for justice because they realize that all of our fates are intertwined.“-
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Replying to
#JewsAgainstFascism in Philly are now playing a rendition of Mir Veln Zey Iberlebn (We Will Outlive Them), a Yiddish resistance song first sung by Hasidic Jews from the Polish city of Lublin in 1939.
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JUST NOW: grounds his opposition to Netanyahu's racist policies in his Jewish identity.
"As someone who is proudly Jewish, to be critical of a right-wing Netanyahu government in Israel is not to be antisemitic."
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NOW: American Jews are joining with Palestinians and others in front of the State Department to say #SaveSheikhJarrah and #EndApartheid.
The Jewish moral tradition demands action.
In 1939 more than 900 Jews left Germany on the MS St. Louis, seeking refuge from the Nazis. The US and Canada turned every single one of them away. They were forced to return to Europe, where 250 of them were killed in concentration camps. May their memories be for a blessing.
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My name is Ilse Karliner. The US turned me away 79 years ago today. I was murdered in Auschwitz #NeverAgain
We are leaving behind white roses, a symbol of German student resistance to the Nazis, in front of Trump Tower #JewishResistance twitter.com/aaron_leib/sta
Chanting “Death to Arabs” in Jerusalem at a nationalist march attended by three Knesset members.
17 Palestinians were arrested and over 30 were injured by Israeli forces protecting this incitement. The problem is bigger than Netanyahu — it’s apartheid.
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The second time in as many weeks that an MSNBC commentator has used Nazi comparisons when talking about , a Jewish candidate with family that was murdered in the Holocaust.
We demand an apology from — and we’re still waiting for ’s apology.
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Chris Matthews just compared Bernie's victory in Nevada to the Nazis taking control of France.
Incredibly offensive thing to say about someone from a family of holocaust survivors.
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The fact and the Democratic leadership are putting up a resolution to condemn rather than coming together to condemn the white nationalists calling her a terrorist & threatening her life is a damning indictment of their priorities. politico.com/story/2019/03/
BREAKING: Today, the first day of Sukkot, IfNotNow members in Louisiana confronted at a town hall and asked him to answer for his party’s complicity in antisemitic and white nationalist violence. He refused.
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Big win! Two years ago 1,000 young Jews protested AIPAC's conference. Now Dems recognize that AIPAC and Bibi will never represent progressive values. So far:
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The idea that Jews are disloyal and trying to undermine our country from the left has been the animating force behind the deadly, antisemitic violence we've seen under the Trump administration.
This rhetoric from the president is going to get Jews killed. It already has.
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Replying to @atrupar
TRUMP: "I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat -- I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty."
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If you are angry at US policy and rhetoric toward immigrant communities but don’t see anything wrong with Israel’s occupation, its imprisonment of Palestinian children, or its treatment of asylum-seekers, you may be in need of a reality check.
Replying to
The Israeli government did not tell the PA that vaccines were expiring in June, which is <checks calendar> more than half over. It was a PR stunt, not an act of goodwill.
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We are disgusted by this comment — in reply to Rep. Omar’s happy birthday message to her daughter (!) — from Maurice Hirsch, the former IDF chief prosecutor in the occupied territories.
This sort of racist misogyny is par for the course for defenders of unjust Israeli policies.
#JewsAgainstFascism are currently playing and dancing to Klezmer music at the Philadelphia #CountTheVote block party outside the convention center where votes are being counted!
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Jews 👏 are 👏 not 👏collectively 👏 responsible 👏 for 👏 Israel's 👏 actions 👏
It's antisemitic to act otherwise, and it's antisemitic to vandalize a memorial to victims of a pogrom. This is antisemitism.
Did you ask them to stop killing Palestinian civilians, or did that just kind of slip your mind?
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We have communicated directly to the Israelis that ensuring the safety and security of journalists and independent media is a paramount responsibility.
“If this body is looking for something productive to do with $3 billion instead of funding a military that polices and kills Palestinians, I have some communities in St Louis City and County where that money could go…Let’s prioritize funding life, not destruction.” - .
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The fight for Black lives and the fight for Palestinian liberation are interconnected.
We oppose our money going to fund militarized policing, occupation, and systems of violent oppression and trauma.
We are anti-war. We are anti-occupation. And we are anti-apartheid. Period.
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As Americans slept last night, our tax dollars were used to demolish another Palestinian home in East Jerusalem
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From
Zachary Foster
Replying to
Thank you Bernie for choosing to #SkipAIPAC! We are grateful for your commitment to freedom and dignity for all Palestinians and Israelis.
To keep up the momentum, sign our petition demanding the other Democratic candidates join Bernie and #SkipAIPAC
Tonight 2,000 Israelis came together — but stayed socially distant — in order to fight back against the latest anti-Democratic actions by Prime Minister Netanyahu.
The situation is dire but this protest is breathtaking.
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Yep. You know who else agrees the Palestinian human rights crisis amounts to apartheid?
Nearly 40% of young American Jews.
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Let’s examine one of the GOP’s arguments yesterday: that criticism of US/Israeli gov’s role in the Palestinian human rights crisis, which orgs from @hrw to @amnesty are sounding the alarm on, is equivalent to antisemitism.
It’s a dangerous conflation, and we must recognize that.
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For the first time in any of these debates, a candidate spoke up forcefully for Palestinian freedom and dignity.
said that unequivocally, advocating leveraging our funding to Israel to ensure the U.S. isn’t supporting the occupation.
There was raucous applause.
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"We must speak treat the Palestinian people as well with the respect and dignity that they deserve." @BernieSanders on a national debate stage. #DemDebate
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“The Palestinian situation”
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The United States firmly opposes an @IntlCrimCourt investigation into the Palestinian Situation. We will continue to uphold our strong commitment to Israel and its security, including by opposing actions that seek to target Israel unfairly.
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"We cannot be talking only about Israelis' need for safety at the same time Palestinians are living under a violent apartheid system... We must be consistent in our commitment to human life. Period. Everyone deserves to be safe there."
- , with courage and clarity.
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This is not Russia attacking Ukrainians or trying to suppress protests inside Russia.
These are Israeli forces spraying “skunk water” on Palestinians — including children and the elderly — for the crime of celebrating a Muslim holiday in Jerusalem.
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Jack khoury.جاك خوري
Huh. We wonder why one Minnesota congressperson gets the benefit of the doubt and the other one doesn't.
Spoiler alert: it's racism
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Two members of Congress representing Minnesota.
Two statements that sparked accusations of antisemitism.
Two very different responses from @ADLMidwest.
The fact that people are getting angry at Emma Watson for posting a graphic standing up for Palestinian human rights is.... so exhausting
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Thank you, for making these two points crystal clear:
1) Lots of antisemites support the racist policies of Netanyahu and the Israeli government.
2) Trump was an antisemite in the 80s, in the 90s, in 2013, in 2015, and still is today.
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Mehdi Hasan
There is absolutely no reason why America should subsidize this violence.
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Israeli occupation forces arrested this 10 year old Palestinian child in East Jerusalem today, as his sister pleaded for his release. Hundreds of Palestinian children are in Israeli prisons. This is beyond illegal, it’s sick. Children should be in playgrounds not prison cells!
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BREAKING: IfNotNow Movement Rejects Racist Attacks, Becomes Latest Jewish Group to Endorse for Re-election.
Thread with our full endorsement statement ⬇️ (1/4)
The New York Post knows exactly what it’s doing.
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What's happening in DC right now is an act of white supremacists terror, implicitly supported by Trump and his cronies.
Calling it anything else would be dishonest.
One year later, we remember our 11 elders killed by a white nationalist at the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue
Joyce Fienberg
Richard Gottfried
Rose Mallinger
Jerry Rabinowitz
Cecil Rosenthal
David Rosenthal
Bernice Simon
Sylvan Simon
Daniel Stein
Melvin Wax
Irving Younger
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On Thursday, made a crucially important point about antisemitism on : Just as white folks have to unlearn white privilege, non-Jews have to unlearn antisemitism—and that can be a process.
Thank you, Ilhan, for your vulnerability about your process.
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“Love the courage you all have at the forefront and pushing on this issue that I think is so important” —
We are proud to stand with Rashida in demanding that the Democratic Party takes meaningful action towards the Israeli government to end the Occupation.
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Ilhan Omar: The Israel lobby exists
ADL: *loses their damn minds*
Marjorie Taylor Greene: Jews are burning down the West with space lasers
ADL: *silence*
Ilhan Omar is being targeted for her statements about Israeli accountability and Palestinian justice. We have seen her and others smeared before for speaking out for freedom and dignity.
As American Jews in the same fight, we stand with .
#JewsAgainstFascism are celebrating the American people’s victory in DC right now!!
Shabbat Shalom to all the progressive Jews, Muslims and allies who who mobilized and fought hard to change the resolution against . We all deserve a day of rest
American Jewish institutions need to stop smearing Ilhan Omar and instead defend her from the fascist in the White House who is trying to get her killed.
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Trump has spent the last several minutes attacking @IlhanMN which culminated in the crowd chanting "Send Her Back"
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BREAKING: IfNotNow members are confronting Ron DeSantis at a GOP fundraiser in New Hampshire this evening.
We’re making clear that DeSantis is an antisemite whose actions and policies both support Israeli apartheid and put Jews in danger. THREAD
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This your dad?
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The truth of my family’s long lasting, devoted love for the Jewish community 
twitter.com/BorisEP/status…
twitter.com/BorisEP/status…Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert: “How can Israel condemn the Russians when they deny another people’s right of self-determination for fifty-five years?”
We’re a growing wave of young American Jews unafraid to criticize Israel and its Occupation over Palestinians.
Looks like Natalie Portman is on her way to joining the movement or should we say, the light side 🔥
We guess Joe and Jill wanted to send warm greetings to Palestinian Muslims in the form of US-funded airstrikes.
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As the holy month of Ramadan comes to an end, Jill and I send our warmest greetings to all those celebrating Eid. May you be well throughout the year. Eid Mubarak.
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STEPHEN. MILLER. IS. A. WHITE. NATIONALIST.
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I don’t just co-sign this. Progressive Jews have BEEN saying this since Miller first stepped on the scene. Stephen Miller’s own uncle has said this. @ilhan is stating basic fact. twitter.com/IlhanMN/status…
#JewsAgainstFascism in Chicago are taking to the streets with thousands of other activists to make sure we #CountEveryVote.
Trump’s recent “Bernie puppeteer” Facebook ads borrow the same antisemitic imagery from the “evil Jewish puppeteer” propaganda that Nazis used in Germany during the holocaust.
Trump and the GOP are a threat to all of us.
"Criticizing the Israeli government is not antisemitism. At all."
As Democratic and Jewish leaders weaponize antisemitism to intimidate progressives from criticizing the Israeli Occupation, we want to share this message from Retired General of the Israeli Air Force, Zvi Kanor.
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Our statement on the escalating violence in Israel/Palestine:
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Chants from yesterday’s state-sanctioned nationalist march through Jerusalem:
“Death to Arabs!”
“The 2nd Nakba is coming. You will end up in refugee camps.”
“A good Arab is a dead Arab.”
“The Arab is the son of a bitch.”
“May your village burn.”
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From
Mohammed El-Kurd
.: “I’m disappointed and concerned by their government’s exclusion of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation from these vaccination efforts, despite making COVID vaccines available to Israeli settlers in the West Bank.”
Jared and Ivanka’s smug, arrogant, callous Judaism does NOT represent American Jews. We reject Trump's Embassy of Occupation, and will continue to fight for freedom and dignity for all Palestinians and Israelis
Today we celebrate ending a fascist reign, tomorrow we get to work.
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Today we celebrate ending a fascist's reign, tomorrow we get to work.
🔥🔥🔥from in response to @GOPLeader’s call for her to apologize.
“Until he stops supporting the absolutely dehumanizing conditions on our border, I will not apologize for holding him to account for it.”
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From
The Intercept
Anthony Bourdain visited a besieged Gaza and showed the world that Palestinians are human beings with hopes and dreams -- people deserving of freedom and dignity. Here he is reflecting on that experience
May his memory be a blessing.
Young Jews are blocking the entrance to the NY Metropolitan Republican club demanding the GOP renounce the white nationalism that led to the murders of Black and Jewish folks last week.
#WeAreHere, we are Jews and we're not going anywhere. We will not be intimidated into silence twitter.com/DavidKlion/sta
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“My children go to Jewish day school, I lead services in an orthodox synagogue. Judaism is the center of my life. The first time I went to spend time with Palestinians in the West Bank, it was a shattering experience.” #YouNeverToldMe
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"Just as National Review (@NRO ) defended apartheid, just as you defended segregation, you now defend Israel's oppression of Palestinians' basic rights. It's a tradition for you guys." - @PeterBeinart to @RichLowry
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No, Jews who speak out against the Occupation are not self-hating anti-Semites 🙄. We oppose the Occupation because of our Jewish values, not in spite of them.
77% of Jews voted for Biden which indicates that fewer American Jews are falling for your fake (and desperate tbh!) accusations of antisemitism against progressives like , who better represents our community's interests than any of you ghouls ever could.
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Jews voted Republican in bigger numbers than ever before, and unless Democrats remove antisemite @IlhanMN from leadership positions they will lose even more Jewish voters. twitter.com/IlhanMN/status…
LIVE: Boston Jews are gathered outside the conference calling on attendees, and the broader Jewish community, to reject Israel's apartheid system and embrace a future of equality & justice. [thread]
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Suggesting that American Jews are not American — that our "home country" is Israel — is antisemitic.
As activists are being smeared as antisemites for calling out Israeli dispossession of Palestinians, the racist extremists at Newsmax continue to show their true colors.
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Newsmax host: "If you are Jewish and you are a Democrat and you are living in America today, how do you support an administration that turns its back on your home country?"
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Someone please explain to us how arresting a child for taking pride in his Palestinian identity makes Jews any safer? twitter.com/mohamedhemish/
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There’s a word for this.
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Dozens of Palestinian workers ordered off Israeli bus to make room for Jewish passengers haaretz.com/israel-news/20
Shabbat Shalom to everyone especially , @workmenscircle and everyone else who understands that ‘Never Again’ means never again for anyone
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Feels a big disappointmenthat 72% of the American Jews do not have the gratitude and chose Joe Biden.
I was expectings they will support President Trump who is the best American president for the State of Israel has had.
The "betrayal" of longtime American Jews on President
“My name is Sally Abed. I'm Palestinian, I'm an Israeli citizen…when I call for freedom it’s not only that of Palestinians — but freedom for all of us. We all pay the horrible price of occupation.”
WATCH: Rep literally turns her back and walks away from a young Jewish mother who politely asks why Stevens takes funding when AIPAC supports insurrectionists.
Just last week, AIPAC's super PAC UDP used far-right ad firm to buy ads for Stevens 🧵
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Trump's plan is totally and utterly bankrupt and reveals the shameful way that our government has catered to the Israeli right — at the cost of Palestinian freedom — for our entire lives. All people of conscience must publicly reject Trump's plan for permanent occupation.