Yasmine Mohammed ياسمين محمد  🦋

Palestinian nationalism would be fine from an Israeli, especially if they'd lost friends or family to Palestinian terrorism, does it not? Twitter being what it is, I'll add that obviously this in no way excuses the use of racist, dehumanising, bigoted language against her, /2

Do you not see how the incessant criticism and hyperfocus on these two women has a direct impact of the amount of threats they get?

I do, but I don't think the right response is to step off on the criticism. People who threaten them should be held accountable, as should those who attack them in bigoted and hateful ways. But they're leaders, and part of that means accepting criticism and responsibility.

Obviously there's a huge difference between saying "they've been conistently harmful and should leave their positions as leaders" and threatening them with harm, or calling them slurs, etc. And I do agree there's been too much of those things happening.

So, one option is to simply not follow them. They aren’t elected officials. Following them is a choice. There are options available to ya besides dogpiling.

Problem is that they have a lot of influence in progressive spaces and are emblematic of the widespread failure of progressive movements (by and large - not all) to make themselves safe places for Jews. This isn't like a local DSA chapter, where people elsewhere can just /1

Do you think that the progressive movement is going to be improved if a Palestinian woman is pushed out for having strong opinions on Israel? How, specifically, does that help?

I’m sorry, are you suggesting that being a Palestinian woman somehow excuses her abhorrent antisemitism? Rhetorical question. The answer is no.