At every crisis in Jewish history, there were always members of the community who earnestly believed that if we just tried to see things from the other side's point of view, the hatred would go away. It never works though. They get treated just as awfully as any other Jew when the bad stuff happens. I call them the Shoot Me Last crowd these days.
👏👏👏 You absolutely demolished NYC Jews for Mamdani, Jill! These naive, uneducated fools have no idea what their talking about. Mamdani beating Andrew Cuomo and Dave Brat beating Eric Cantor aren’t alike at all. Mamdani essentially won by default because he was running against a disgraced former Governor and one of the most corrupt politicians in U.S. history who made him look like JFK by comparison. Andrew Cuomo killed thousands of elderly people by putting COVID patients with them, sexually harassed numerous women and has been brought up on corruption charges multiple times. Dave Brat’s victory over Eric Cantor was a real accomplishment because Cantor was a prominent figure in the GOP.
It’s more like AOC’s victory over Joe Crowley I agree. Crowley was a do-nothing, establishment party flunky. People were so desperate to get rid of him they voted for AOC. Same with Mamdani, he was basically the de facto nominee. But let’s not act like he was some great candidate in his own right. Let’s not go anointing him the next RFK or Barack Obama as some are. Make no mistake about it, Mamdani is an antisemite and his policies are pie in the sky, idealistic nonsense. Free public transit for all? Prepare for crime in the subway to skyrocket! City-run grocery stores? Because that worked so well in the Soviet Union right? Totally defunding the police? Can’t wait for NYC to return to the dark days of the 1970s! Defending “globalize the intifada” is NOT okay! Yes, it has different meanings to different people, that’s true. But the original meaning is clear. To use terrorism to inflict death and destruction on Israeli civilians.
The letter these NYC anti-Zionist Jews wrote was a word salad gobbledygook that made no sense. It’s sounds like something a student at UC Berkeley or Harvard wrote. He has no plan to fight antisemitism and couldn’t care less. The Forward wrote about it? Who cares! The Forward is complete garbage. Peter Beinart is the Jewish version of Owen Jones. He’s a talking head who just spews out nonsense that he cloaks in big words to make you think it’s something profound. Opinions on Israel are “changing fast” he claims. He presents no data or evidence of this claim.
These NYC anti-Zionist Jews clearly know nothing about the First and Second Intifadas. They also seem to be unaware of who Hamas is or what they stand for. Hamas are Islamist radicals who seek world domination. These people chopped off people’s heads, burned babies alive, mass raped young women, brutally murdered foreign nationals, kidnapped concert goers, looted and ransacked kibbutzims, molested children, shot dogs in the head because they felt like it, sprayed playgrounds with bullets, and slaughtered Jews in pogroms. That’s who these demons are. Are these morons not familiar with the long history of Arab antisemitism? Or how the Arabs of the holy land treated their Jewish neighbors? Are they unaware of the 1929 Hebron Massacre or the two bloody Arab Revolts? How about the Grand Mufti’s alliance with Adolf Hitler? How about the Arabs and black Africans who fought for the Nazis? I guess not.
I care about what happens to New York, and I’m not even an American! It’s a powerful symbol of the West, the financial capital of the world and a place where 1.3 million of my brethren live. Not to mention that it suffered the worst terrorist attack on US soil on 9/11, which seems to have been forgotten.
These so-called rabbis are outliers providing cover for a radical Islamist who would eliminate them in a heartbeat given half a chance!
Well said. I have seen that Op-Ed from those rabbis on social media, usually posted by other "As a Jew" Jews. As for Beinart, he is the beneficiary of incredible privilege, namely the privilege of expressing his contempt for the vast majority of his fellow Jews because the existence of Israel means that when the sh-t hits the fan in the West (as it may already be doing), he will have somewhere to go. In short, I can't stand him.
Beinart is always drawing lazy and erroneous comparisons that crumble quickly with some basic scrutiny, but he's still making a lucrative living off of making them, and his shit is being eaten up by other elites. It's insane.
It's the same reason why Bernie Sanders is so popular among the Israel-haters. They like to use the self-hating "As a Jew" Jews to beat the rest of us in the head with their smug proclamations that "See, even other Jews hate Israel".
When they blew up the Park hotel in Netanya during a pesach Seder during the second intifada, tell me Mamdani apologists, that this mean ‘a shaking off of ‘occupation’. Unless you think Netanya on tne Mediterranean is ‘occupied territory’. Well maybe these rabbis think that. Who knows and quite frankly who cares. Btw Beinart bringing up Eric cantors loss is just fucking bizarre.
Even when you manufacture the most advanced computer processors, you will inevitably get some that are partially defective, or complete duds. The comforting thing is that they are an insignificant minority.
I recently watched a JStreet panel where some woman named Shifra presented herself as both Jewish and Israeli (your favorite “as a Jew” type), and she said she is part of a Jewish organization that endorsed Mad-mani. I believe she quoted 6,000 members. It’s not nothing, but definitely a negligible, statistical error. They do a lot of damage, but only when used as a talking point, an anecdote. By the way, she(?) also defended him on the “globalize” question. If you are an Israeli that does not know what “intifada” means, you are either a liar or extremely stupid (and you probably also believe that “jihad” means “internal, peaceful struggle”).
Their kind *may* wake up when their “African-American” mayor (by his own reporting, allegedly) does nothing to stop the next wave of protests and violence against Jews. Then again, they may also stay comfortably asleep as our city burns.
I will fight to the death against antisemitism and the demented losers who peddle and practice it, but when a fraction of our already outnumbered tribe actually aids & comforts our tormentors and killers, it's just very, very hard to process and I have to look away.
As I wrote before, one facet of the crisis of contemporary Western civilization is that there is a shortage of sane, non-nonsense leaders. On one hand you have the US Right setting up secret police which is above the law and which controls prison camps, and cutting off the elderly from healthcare; on the other hand, you have the US Left engaging in empty populism and pandering to Qatar, Iran, and their local Islamist lackeys.
I'd rather see a sane social-democrat running against a sane moderate-conservative, competing over how to make the lives of citizens better rather than establishing authoritarian rule under various pretexts. But there are no such politicians in sight in the US, at least...
At every crisis in Jewish history, there were always members of the community who earnestly believed that if we just tried to see things from the other side's point of view, the hatred would go away. It never works though. They get treated just as awfully as any other Jew when the bad stuff happens. I call them the Shoot Me Last crowd these days.
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Thanks Jill
I “love” the new Orwellian talk:
Globalize the Intifada means “different things to different people” and “safety for Jews”.
“Death to America” now means “live long and prosper”.
Idiocy is a cureless sickness.
Sieg Heil means "I love everyone"
Well shit then what does live long and prosper mean now, I shudder to ask.
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“Die broke and unhappy”
👏👏👏 You absolutely demolished NYC Jews for Mamdani, Jill! These naive, uneducated fools have no idea what their talking about. Mamdani beating Andrew Cuomo and Dave Brat beating Eric Cantor aren’t alike at all. Mamdani essentially won by default because he was running against a disgraced former Governor and one of the most corrupt politicians in U.S. history who made him look like JFK by comparison. Andrew Cuomo killed thousands of elderly people by putting COVID patients with them, sexually harassed numerous women and has been brought up on corruption charges multiple times. Dave Brat’s victory over Eric Cantor was a real accomplishment because Cantor was a prominent figure in the GOP.
It’s more like AOC’s victory over Joe Crowley I agree. Crowley was a do-nothing, establishment party flunky. People were so desperate to get rid of him they voted for AOC. Same with Mamdani, he was basically the de facto nominee. But let’s not act like he was some great candidate in his own right. Let’s not go anointing him the next RFK or Barack Obama as some are. Make no mistake about it, Mamdani is an antisemite and his policies are pie in the sky, idealistic nonsense. Free public transit for all? Prepare for crime in the subway to skyrocket! City-run grocery stores? Because that worked so well in the Soviet Union right? Totally defunding the police? Can’t wait for NYC to return to the dark days of the 1970s! Defending “globalize the intifada” is NOT okay! Yes, it has different meanings to different people, that’s true. But the original meaning is clear. To use terrorism to inflict death and destruction on Israeli civilians.
The letter these NYC anti-Zionist Jews wrote was a word salad gobbledygook that made no sense. It’s sounds like something a student at UC Berkeley or Harvard wrote. He has no plan to fight antisemitism and couldn’t care less. The Forward wrote about it? Who cares! The Forward is complete garbage. Peter Beinart is the Jewish version of Owen Jones. He’s a talking head who just spews out nonsense that he cloaks in big words to make you think it’s something profound. Opinions on Israel are “changing fast” he claims. He presents no data or evidence of this claim.
These NYC anti-Zionist Jews clearly know nothing about the First and Second Intifadas. They also seem to be unaware of who Hamas is or what they stand for. Hamas are Islamist radicals who seek world domination. These people chopped off people’s heads, burned babies alive, mass raped young women, brutally murdered foreign nationals, kidnapped concert goers, looted and ransacked kibbutzims, molested children, shot dogs in the head because they felt like it, sprayed playgrounds with bullets, and slaughtered Jews in pogroms. That’s who these demons are. Are these morons not familiar with the long history of Arab antisemitism? Or how the Arabs of the holy land treated their Jewish neighbors? Are they unaware of the 1929 Hebron Massacre or the two bloody Arab Revolts? How about the Grand Mufti’s alliance with Adolf Hitler? How about the Arabs and black Africans who fought for the Nazis? I guess not.
Thank you for caring about my people more than these so-called rabbis do.
I care about what happens to New York, and I’m not even an American! It’s a powerful symbol of the West, the financial capital of the world and a place where 1.3 million of my brethren live. Not to mention that it suffered the worst terrorist attack on US soil on 9/11, which seems to have been forgotten.
These so-called rabbis are outliers providing cover for a radical Islamist who would eliminate them in a heartbeat given half a chance!
Thanks for caring about the well-being of my country. 🇺🇸
Well, I’m Canadian, your northern neighbour and “almost” 51st state!😂🤣
Well said. I have seen that Op-Ed from those rabbis on social media, usually posted by other "As a Jew" Jews. As for Beinart, he is the beneficiary of incredible privilege, namely the privilege of expressing his contempt for the vast majority of his fellow Jews because the existence of Israel means that when the sh-t hits the fan in the West (as it may already be doing), he will have somewhere to go. In short, I can't stand him.
Beinart is always drawing lazy and erroneous comparisons that crumble quickly with some basic scrutiny, but he's still making a lucrative living off of making them, and his shit is being eaten up by other elites. It's insane.
It's the same reason why Bernie Sanders is so popular among the Israel-haters. They like to use the self-hating "As a Jew" Jews to beat the rest of us in the head with their smug proclamations that "See, even other Jews hate Israel".
So true. These people are out of touch with reality. My real Jewish friends in NY are very concerned / scared.
When they blew up the Park hotel in Netanya during a pesach Seder during the second intifada, tell me Mamdani apologists, that this mean ‘a shaking off of ‘occupation’. Unless you think Netanya on tne Mediterranean is ‘occupied territory’. Well maybe these rabbis think that. Who knows and quite frankly who cares. Btw Beinart bringing up Eric cantors loss is just fucking bizarre.
Even when you manufacture the most advanced computer processors, you will inevitably get some that are partially defective, or complete duds. The comforting thing is that they are an insignificant minority.
I recently watched a JStreet panel where some woman named Shifra presented herself as both Jewish and Israeli (your favorite “as a Jew” type), and she said she is part of a Jewish organization that endorsed Mad-mani. I believe she quoted 6,000 members. It’s not nothing, but definitely a negligible, statistical error. They do a lot of damage, but only when used as a talking point, an anecdote. By the way, she(?) also defended him on the “globalize” question. If you are an Israeli that does not know what “intifada” means, you are either a liar or extremely stupid (and you probably also believe that “jihad” means “internal, peaceful struggle”).
Their kind *may* wake up when their “African-American” mayor (by his own reporting, allegedly) does nothing to stop the next wave of protests and violence against Jews. Then again, they may also stay comfortably asleep as our city burns.
If the city burns, easy -- it's the Zionists' fault.
There are some things in this world that make me consider giving up, and "Jews for Mamdani" is one of them.
Don’t give up! We need each other more than ever!
I will fight to the death against antisemitism and the demented losers who peddle and practice it, but when a fraction of our already outnumbered tribe actually aids & comforts our tormentors and killers, it's just very, very hard to process and I have to look away.
As I wrote before, one facet of the crisis of contemporary Western civilization is that there is a shortage of sane, non-nonsense leaders. On one hand you have the US Right setting up secret police which is above the law and which controls prison camps, and cutting off the elderly from healthcare; on the other hand, you have the US Left engaging in empty populism and pandering to Qatar, Iran, and their local Islamist lackeys.
I'd rather see a sane social-democrat running against a sane moderate-conservative, competing over how to make the lives of citizens better rather than establishing authoritarian rule under various pretexts. But there are no such politicians in sight in the US, at least...
"While the phrase conjures up fear and concerns of violence for many Jews, for many Palestinians, it literally refers to a shaking off of occupation."
Yes, they're "shaking off occupation" just like Taylor Swift shakes it off. Right? 🙄 This is such a dangerous delusion.
They wear t shirts
We wear short skirts
They’re cheer Captain
And we’re on the bleachers
“In some cultures, this would be considered a mental illness.” HELP ME, you’re too funny and brilliant!🤣👍🏼‼️✨👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Jews that support genocide of Semitic people are Antisemitic.
Here is another solid take:
https://phyllischesler.substack.com/p/outcasts-masquerading-as-rabbinical-442
Just curious, are the Mamdani supporting Rabbis only women or are those just the photos you chose?