Av Michal אביגיל מיכל @avygal

@RicknShira The DNC continues to support candidates that are vocally anti American and Jew hating bigots So I’m an independent until they get their shit together

@BUVTHALAW Doctors have literally been caught in several countries saying they want to kill their Jewish patients

If you are shocked about the NYC primaries, this was foreshadowed over a year ago in Canada and Australia. Just like in Canada and Australia, it’s going to get way worse and frankly, I don’t think anyone is ready for that reality. On that day, I wrote: “The reality is that Jewish issues, and more or less the importance of antisemitism, is proving to be a tangential to non-issue at best, to a negative impact issue for a party, at worst, in deciding elections. With Australia's election set for May 3rd, and with the Labor Party polling far ahead, there is a real possibility that we are going to see just how powerless the Jewish diaspora is in many liberal democracies. The sad truth is that the demographics are not there. Jews are a minuscule percentage of the population in every country where we reside and hold very little power in deciding elections outside of our local municipalities anymore, even in the US. The issues that concern us, chiefly antisemitism, the relationship to Israel, and so on, do not move the needle on elections. Jewish leadership needs to start recognizing that the integration of Jewish issues into the fabric of politics is not working. Unless and until we recognize that we are too small a community everywhere to be divided anywhere, we will become even less relevant. I do not foresee this current crop of Jewish leadership recognizing this, and as such, I think we are going to become irrelevant. To that end, I believe that the diaspora is facing a crisis unlike any faced since the end of World War II. Liberal democracies have moved away from a society that champions a strict set of morals, for example, standing up to antisemitism irrespective of political leaning, to one that champions election victories over all else. Number one target in that? Us. What happened last night in Canada, which Australia will mirror on May 3rd, is a clear indication of the state of the Jewish diaspora and where it is heading. For Israel, it is also a telling sign of the decade to come as it pertains to relations with western nations.” We have learned nothing in over a year except Jewish leadership is incompetent.

The Jews are in peril and there have been 6 powerful earthquakes. I will let all of the believers make of that what they will. God is watching.

All day Astronomy @forallcurious

3 hours ago

JUST IN🚨: Six powerful earthquakes happened in less than 24 hours

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@BriannaWu We need a happy medium party

Nearly two years later, it has become much worse. It has been validated by election results and primaries across the world. Canada, Australia, UK, USA. Everywhere across the English speaking world, in places where antisemitism has thrived, the issue has not been on the ballot. Contrarily, it has helped candidates win and sway elections. The day after the Canadian elections, I wrote, “What happened last night in Canada…is a clear indication of the state of the Jewish diaspora and where it is heading.” I added, “we are going to see just how powerless the Jewish diaspora is in many liberal democracies.” Now, those who are likely to walk in the hallowed halls of Capitol Hill will be those who celebrated Hamas on October 8, 2023. Those who tormented and ran out Jewish students. They are not just those who already had suits on and can pretend they aren’t antisemitic, like Prime Ministers Carney and Albanese. Instead, we will see those who were full fledged activists who had stated that their goal was to “bring down the west,” put on suits to professionalize their antisemitism. Diaspora, we have no real way out of this one. It is being led by a generation primarily under the age of 45 who is light years ahead of Jewish leadership on how to get their message across, mobilize, and win. They have built their morality on the idea that Israel, and by extension the Jews, are the first domino that must fall in order to right the world. People who build their identity on this hate will never abandon it. As such, we are facing a segment of a generation of people, much more numerous than there are Jews in the world, who will die holding onto this belief. This is how antisemitism retools, repackages and regrows. Unlike past generations, social media has made this worldview so widespread that it cannot be limited to just a nation or a region or a religion. For the first time in our history, it is a global movement unified simultaneously around our demise. What has always been so frightening living in the diaspora is how slow we are to see things. What is so telling about liberal democracies in this interconnected age is that it reveals to us the potential for a global cataclysm against us. Canada, Australia, the UK and now the USA. All of our fears validated by elections.

Zach זק @ZachLewis3187

2 years ago

Well diaspora, it was a good run. Our presence in the west is no longer tolerated. It does not matter which political party is in control, nor who the leader of that party is. It doesn’t matter if the country is the US, Canada, the UK, France, Brazil, or Australia. The truth is

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@colouredchord So psycho for not wanting to be killed

As a lifelong Democrat if my choices are DSA or MAGA I can tell you for certain I'm not choosing DSA....

@DTheRockLobster @FormerModerate “As a Jew myself” lol One way to tell someone a not, in fact, a Jew

Jewish gay activist Meir Brauner has left Italy and returned to Israel, saying he no longer feels safe living openly as a Jew in Rome. Brauner, deputy director of Keshet Italia, an Italian Jewish LGBTQ organization, says the atmosphere has deteriorated sharply since October 7. He claims many of his non-Jewish friends now refuse to speak to him while regularly posting anti-Israel content online. His organization was barred from Rome Pride after refusing to sign a statement accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza. He says that during last year's Pride march, activists screamed at Jewish participants that they did not believe October 7 had happened and threatened them with death. Brauner now hides his Star of David necklace on public transport, avoids speaking Hebrew in public and worries people will see Hebrew on his phone.

NY-15 is the West and South Bronx, mostly Latino and Black, with a minority of Whites and Asians. It is the poorest Congressional district in the US, with a median household income under 45K, and one of the youngest, with a median age of about 31. Nearly everyone there is a renter, over a third were born outside of the US, and most are employed as essential workers. On paper, working-class, young, and majority-minority should be the prime terrain for the DSA, right? Well, that's wrong. Socialist candidates in NYC do best in young, college-educated, and economically mobile gentrifying areas like Queens, Brooklyn, or Western Astoria, not the Bronx, where the median voter is focused on their own economic survival, not the minutia of foreign policy. Voters in the Bronx do not have aspirational and rigid ideologies. They are pragmatic, because they have to be. They prioritize voting for candidates who bring services and tangible benefits to their constituents. Earning social media points for progressive goals feels good in Queens, but in the Bronx, young families want Child Tax Credits and funding to fix dilapidated local infrastructure. Rep. Torres himself is also not an ideologue or carpet bagger with coastal elite funding. He was raised by a single mother in the Bronx, and built his political reputation in the NYC Council hyper-focused on fixing up public housing. He has a history of delivering results directly to his own district, and that is why progressives do not appeal to his constituents. The DSA has also not caught on that working class Hispanics and Blacks are much more socially moderate than progressive activists. Abolish the Police would poll terribly in the Bronx, where voters are much more besieged by public disorder than highly educated white people in gentrifying areas of Brooklyn. But most importantly, and what the chattering class who are mostly progressive refuse to admit, Rep. Torres has smartly created a model of how to leverage a public anti-far left reputation into massive electoral success. In aggressively breaking with progressives on issues like Israel, he deliberately draws fire from the far left. This positions him to gather nationwide attention he would not otherwise gain, so that he can amass a huge campaign war chest long before his primary. FEC filings show Torres raked in >6.5 million during the election, while Blake struggled to raise just a tad over 400K. This allowed Torres to flood his district with ads and completely lock down important institutional support from local unions and other Bronx political leaders, so Blake had no chance at at all. By the end of the primary, Torres still had over $14 million on hand, while Blake had less than 100K. What political commentators miss is that Torres has created a political juggernaut of liberal success that should be replicable in any district, even heavily blue ones, that are not likely to break ultra-progressive, because he knows what working class liberals actually care about. Hint: it's not aggressive rhetoric on Israel or policing.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

a day ago

It’s interesting that the one NYC guy who easily brushed off a primary challenge was Ritchie Torres.

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@SchlimmH I’m a centrist so no lol

The protests are scheduled for tomorrow and I no longer know if they will happen. Everyone was so energized for them and now all of the organizers are under house arrest and people that posted about it on social media were threatened with their lives if they participate. And NO NEWS has covered this. Shame on them.

Av Michal אביגיל מיכל @avygal

15 hours ago

Hamas is currently arresting peace activists in Gaza and holding them hostage and interrogating them at Al Ahli hospital ahead of the planned anti Hamas protests on Friday Not one word from pro Palestinians Not one They don’t care about Palestinians they care only about

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@MrJamesWait yes I've spent 25 years in peace activism bc I loooove genocide and you think you're not a bigot amazing

Took me a while to realize this but yeah

Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain

a day ago

Liberal Zionists need to wake up. You have no place in the modern Democratic Party, you are not even at the table, you are simply on the menu

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Socialism literally is fascism lmao

Dudeblade's alt: SlashSlashX 🍉 @SlashSlash_X

9 hours ago

@avygal Tale as old as time…

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@PaulFeldstein A kibbutz is one community where people choose to live that way. Forcing socialism (which in practice becomes communism) is, by definition, fascist. Tell me you don't have any Cuban or Soviet bloc friends without telling me

@ChrisA3030911 source is actual Gazan friends living in Gaza

Hamas is currently arresting peace activists in Gaza and holding them hostage and interrogating them at Al Ahli hospital ahead of the planned anti Hamas protests on Friday Not one word from pro Palestinians Not one They don’t care about Palestinians they care only about destroying Israel

@Nogooooodnick you can't find it because the news refuses to cover it. I have dozens of friends in Gaza.

@ToriVillar76624 @AngelicaKamen $

Because their parents are not interested in watching over them and proberly educate them so who is ever more active on the ground wins, simple as that.

The Uri @uricohenisrael

a day ago

Why are they all white?

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