Maya Beiser

Retweeting what Musk deleted:

I have been saying this. Ever since they began talking and Trump repeatedly lied to the media about whether they were in ongoing discussions. This is a crime by Trump *and* foreign election interference by Netanyahu (and not for the first time).

Every day, @janeclimatepac and I work to elect leaders committed to a brighter future. That's why I'm proud to endorse @KamalaHarris for the next President of the United States — and I hope you'll join me in this historic fight for our future.

Kamala Harris is exactly the person we need for this moment. I could not be prouder to support her - let’s do this 💪🏼 #WomenforHarris

All of the reported VP candidates have similar views on Israel, yet some on the extreme left only attack the Jewish candidate. This is antisemitism. These are not progressive values. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

VOTE FOR THE PROSECUTOR NOT THE PERPETRATOR

In honor of the full solar eclipse happening on Monday 4/8/24 in North America, here is an excerpt from “Just Ancient Loops” (25’, 2012) with music composed by Michael Harrison, performed by @CelloGoddess vimeo.com/141566534

So what other options did Israel have after October 7th? There are many possible answers, which were clear from the beginning. You may disagree with some or all of this, but six months later, and after all of the most recent disasters, I believe even more strongly that this was the way to go: 1. First, stop and think. Even for just a few days. Don't react *exactly* as always, and exactly as Hamas expected and wanted. Don't give them what they want. It's Gaza. Hamas is not leaving. A response can wait a few days. 2. Take a moment to mourn, grieve, sit shiva together (after securing the border, of course). 3. Make the hostages the #1 priority and get them back *whatever* it takes. A victory for Hamas? Of course. But life is more important. 4. Use that pause to focus the world's attention—for more than one day—on what Hamas did. Shame and isolate them the way ISIS was shamed and isolated. 5. Make it clear that in whatever war or campaign comes next, protecting civilians will be a priority, and *act* that way. (Don't block all aid, use only precision weapons, don't bomb civilian infrastructure, warn the soldiers that any shenanigans will be punished, etc.) 6. Separate the Palestinian people from Hamas's leadership by reiterating a commitment to a real two-state solution (yes, I know (!) that Netanyahu and this government would never do that. I am simply stating what would have been the right thing to do). 7. Go after Hamas methodically, surgically, financially, with much of the world behind us. (For example, using drones and helicopters, no armed man walks the streets of Gaza again until all hostages are released.) 8. Clamp down on the Jewish extremists in the West Bank. Make it clear that you will not allow them to open another front. Arrest as many as necessary. 9. Explain to the Israeli public, again and again, exactly why you are doing all this. Why there is great strength in restraint. That the goal is to prevent this from ever happening again. But that this will take heart and brains, and not just muscle. 10. Speak softly. No need to make big empty threats when you have so much power. This would have been a start. One can wish. And to all those, especially non-Israelis, who will call me "naive," are you happy so far with the results of your "only way?" Come on.

Feel the ‘Mad Rush.’ On Mar 30, @CelloGoddess performs the works of legendary composer Phillip Glass at #TheNimoy. Tickets: bit.ly/3wYFtoA

A brilliant essay in @TheAtlantic by @judgeluttig and @tribelaw on SCOTUS’s “supreme betrayal” of the Constitution in 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘷. 𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯: “Whether born of a steeled determination 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘺 the presumptive Republican nominee from the presidency, or of a debilitating fear of even deciding 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 the Constitution disqualifies the presumptive Republican nominee precisely because he 𝘪𝘴 the presumptive Republican nominee, this step that all nine justices took represents a constitutionally unforgivable departure from the fundamental truth of our republic that ‘no man is above the law.’” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

I will always apologize for my mistakes. I will always apologize for my moral failures. But I will never apologize for standing up for myself. I will *never* apologize for my existence.

I am shocked that you haven’t RESIGN by now. Under your lame supervision as a chief of this “humanitarian” agency, your teachers fuel hate and a sick desire to kill jews. Under your supervision, your eternal refugees managed to build the biggest terror base known to man. How quietly one can dig hundreds of miles of tunnels, so none of your 13 000 employees in Gaza can hear about and report to you ? Your employees participated in Oct7th massacre, your employees held hostages in their home, your employees were holding AK47 next to their UNRWA badge. Your employees were celebrating publicly the rapes, the crimes, the kidnapping. All proved in a vast documentation. Yes, Gaza needs help in time of war - the war you are very much responsible for, throu your disgusting teachers and your bad local management. Gaza needs help from people with a moral compass and a sense of duty, when being in charge with managing billions in humanitarian money. You are nowhere near these standards. #resignlazzarini

@Ron_Prosor @Ostrov_A @UN_Women Help us make #israeliwomen voices heard . Sign our petition here : metoo-unlessurajew.com/?fbclid=PAAaZB…

At the Tate Modern last night, a group of extraordinary women reminded a feminist crowd gathered about the rapes of Israeli women and the ongoing horror of the hostages. The tape across their mouths is a reminder of silence of the feminist organisations who have failed to speak up for their Jewish sisters.

John Kelly, the longest-serving White House chief of staff for Donald Trump, rips his former boss: “What can I add that has not already been said? A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them… A person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about… A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law. There is nothing more that can be said. God help us.”

After Friday’s new anti-Semitism task force announcement, I have lost confidence in the determination and ability of the Harvard Corporation and Harvard leadership to maintain Harvard as a place where Jews and Israelis can flourish. The previously touted advisory committee has disbanded without any ripple, except for the resignation in frustration with the Harvard Administration of its most respected member, Rabbi David Wolpe. Now we are to have a new task force, whose members have remarkably not yet been chosen, but we have been told that Professor Derek Penslar will be a co-chair. I have no doubt that Prof Penslar is a profound scholar of Zionism and a person of good will without a trace of personal anti-Semitism who cares deeply about Harvard. However, I believe that given his record, he is unsuited to leading a task force whose function is to combat what is seen by many as a serious anti-Semitism problem at Harvard. Recall that AMCHA ranked Harvard worst among over 100 institutions on anti-Semitism. Harvard is subject to Title Vi litigation and to both Congressional and Executive Branch investigations over anti-Semitism. Note also that Harvard has suffered worse admissions drop off than any major university in memory because of the events of last semester. Prof Penslar has publicly minimized Harvard’s anti-Semitism problem, rejected the definition used by the US government in recent years of anti-Semitism as too broad, invoked the need for the concept of settler colonialism in analyzing Israel, referred to Israel as an apartheid state and more. While he does not support BDS he has made clear that he sees it as a reasonable position. None of this in my view is problematic for a professor at Harvard or even for a member of the task force but for the co-chair of an anti-Semitism task force that is being paralleled with an Islamophobia task force it seems highly problematic. Could one imagine Harvard appointing as head of anti-racism task force someone who had minimized the racism problem or who had argued against federal anti-racism efforts? This is yet another example of a double standard between anti-Semitism and other forms of prejudice. As interim President, Garber made clear increasing the sense of belonging of Jews is a central objective of the task force. Recent media reports confirm my view that whatever the intellectual merits of his arguments, Prof Penslar is far from the ideal chairman of the task force. I hope Prof Penslar will recognize that he can best serve the task force s objectives by stepping away from serving as co-chair. Perhaps his colleagues on the task force can help him to the right conclusion. I also hope Harvard’s leadership will recognize that they have exacerbated Harvard’s credibility problems on anti-Semitism with the Penslar appointment and take steps to restore their credibility. As things currently stand, I am unable to reassure Harvard community members, those we are recruiting or prospective students that Harvard is making progress in countering anti-Semitism.

Bring back our girls. youtu.be/eFVXFXZ9xGA?si…

The first victim she said she saw was a young woman with copper-color hair, blood running down her back, pants pushed down to her knees. One man pulled her by the hair and made her bend over. Another penetrated her, Sapir said, and every time she flinched, he plunged a knife into her back. She said she then watched another woman “shredded into pieces.” While one terrorist raped her, she said, another pulled out a box cutter and sliced off her breast. “One continues to rape her, and the other throws her breast to someone else, and they play with it, throw it, and it falls on the road,” Sapir said. She said the men sliced her face and then the woman fell out of view. Around the same time, she said, she saw three other women raped and terrorists carrying the severed heads of three more women. Sapir provided photographs of her hiding place and her wounds, and police officials have stood by her testimony and released a video of her, with her face blurred, recounting some of what she saw. Yura Karol, a 22-year-old security consultant, said he was hiding in the same spot, and he can be seen in one of Sapir’s photos. He and Sapir were part of a group of friends who had met up at the party. In an interview, Mr. Karol said he barely lifted his head to look at the road but he also described seeing a woman raped and killed. Since that day, Sapir said, she has struggled with a painful rash that spread across her torso, and she can barely sleep, waking up at night, heart pounding, covered in sweat. “That day, I became an animal,” she said. “I was emotionally detached, sharp, just the adrenaline of survival. I looked at all this as if I was photographing them with my eyes, not forgetting any detail. I told myself: I should remember everything.” nytimes.com/2023/12/28/wor…

It was about slavery.

I held the door for 20 hours straight. Maya held Ziv, just like in the Holocaust, a hand on his mouth, so he wouldn’t make any noises. During that time, we are getting these messages from other people: “They’re burning me alive.” “They killed my parents.” “She died in front of her kids.” “Someone needs to go and help him, he’s wounded.” And you have to understand that when you get a message of “Please, he’s dying,” this is someone you grew up with and is 50 to 100 meters from your home. *** I will never forget this conversation with Maya and Dvir Rosenfeld. Please listen: thefp.com/p/miracle-in-h…