David Bernstein

@yeselson awokening

Each outlet has been biased against Israel for a long time, but it’s just gotten worse since the great awakening. And of course your leftist friends think the opposite just like Pol Pot undoubtedly thought that Mao was a right wing reactionary. As to other point, yes people love dead Jews, there’s even a book with that title that you should read.

It gets a lot less attention than it should that the wave of anti-Israel and antisemitic sentiment in the US since 2024 is at least in part the result of an Iranian influence operation, as identified by the Biden NSA.

She wants to be the first elected official in New York who *openly* supports Hamas.

@yeselson @Press4BC Also, you replaced love with not hate. you can hate Israel and be entirely indifferent to Jews.

@yeselson @Press4BC Would the end of Saudi Arabia mean the murder or expulsion of half the world’s Muslims, less than 100 years after 1/3 of the world’s Muslims were murdered?

“I love jews but not the State of Israel” quite literally is a winning message.

@AberKawas This you, supporting US-designated and sanctioned terrorist orgainzation, Hamas?

I’m running to be the first Palestinian Muslim woman elected in New York State. That’s making the right wing very angry.  Before you hear their Islamophobic, bad faith attacks against me, know the facts.

85% of Jews think wanting Israel to be destroyed as the state of the Jewish people is antisemitic. So, no. And but for antisemitism, no one would believe, or purport to believe, the genocide nonsense, a propaganda claim about Israel that's been on the far left for five decades, a product of USSR propaganda, but only gained traction more recently. IOW, the decision that Israel by the relevant ideologueswas "genocidal" predated even remote evidence of genocide, and the charge has never had much to do with Israel's actual behavior.

if you agree that israel is committing a genocide and is an apartheid state, then separating this state from jews in the us is probably a winning message and combating antisemitism, dont you think?

@OrinKerr Just make shit up based on your ideological/political priors like everyone else. Don't you want to be an "influencer?"

Maybe I'm alone in this, but as I try to follow the news in Iran, I have a hard time putting the news in context. It's not a topic I know enough about to have an independent perspective, and it's hard to tell what is going on from the usual news sources. It's frustrating.

The actual historical Bund was not reflexively anti-Zionist, either. It just thought the Zionists were pipe dreamers ignoring the immediate, obvious needs of 9 million or so eastern european Jews. 3 million Jews in Poland in 1920, 60K in what became Mandatory Palestine, not an unreasonable position at the time.

An actual Bund still exists in Australia. It is not reflexively anti Zionist, and boy is this writer, Michael Gawenda, pissed about how the now gone/slaughtered European Bund has been eroticized (my word) by the U.S. Jewish left. open.substack.com/pub/michaelgaw…

@CrotserJeremiah No, I’m saying that there were many antisemitic incidents at U Mich, created by the students Peterson in praising.

@ProfDBernstein You can. But most people aren't. You are making the equation that any protest is by default antisemitic. How do you get there?

Peterson was asked by the university to give congratulatory remarks to the graduates. He submitted his remarks in advance for approval. He then deviated from those remarks to praise students responsible for a wave of antisemitism at his university, including the repeated harassment of a Jewish trustee. But of course, he thinks that he is now the victim and martyr, because he is rightfully facing severe criticism for his clear misbehavior.

@EthanLevins2 Every line in your tweet is a lie.

Israel will be prosecuting 2 members of the Gaza Flotilla has 'Hamas terrorists'. This carries the death penalty. Their crime? Bringing food to starving children.

@NatalieElsberg The Palestinian territories had among the highest economic growth rates in the world before Oslo and after "the occupation" began, and also have had among the highest population growth rates in the world outside of Africa. So, no, not clever, not accurate.

The main problem for the Israelis is they want to murder Palestinians and Palestinians really don’t like being murdered. One of those two attitudes has to change for there to be peace.

It’s not surprising that you both absolutely believe in a nonexistent genocide and also hate Jews whether or not they have anything to do with the war to which you attribute a nonexistent genocide. Because as your Spanish inquisitor ancestors coukd attest, antisemitism is a sign of brain rot.

@ProfDBernstein @CrotserJeremiah No sea usted pendejo, el genocidio sigue Y el antisemitismo lo han generado los mismos judíos asesinos que ya no merecen que nadie les crea nada en sus películas lava cerebros El genocidio de los nazis judíos de Palestina se ha extendido a Líbano No defiendas lo indefendible

@HeTows South America would likely be the largest source given the documented converso heritage so many have

@ProfDBernstein From where? Nigeria? I don’t think these communities are large enough for those numbers.

There has been a lot of talk in recent years about emigration from Israel, as well as Jewish immigration *to* Israel. But the discourse often bears only tenuous links to reality. I wrote an opinionated article to discuss the trends, and drew attention to a few issues that are rarely talked about. Link and discussion below. /1

@HeTows Quibble: I can easily see Israel getting 10-30k immigrants a year who identify with the Jewish people, often have Jewish ancestry, and would like to join the Jewish people in israel (and come from mostly poorer countries) if the chief rabbinate doesn’t stand in the way.

There is a lot more in the article; this thread was supposed to be only a teaser. But here are the two main upshots: 1. There indeed was an emigration wave in 2024-2025, but it primarily consisted of the transitory migration of former immigrants, and its socioeconomic composition was quite heterogeneous. It wasn't the mass departure of the sabra elite. 2. There indeed was a spike in Aliyah to Israel from Western countries, but the absolute number of immigrants from these countries has always been small, and it continues to be small. Russia and the FSU continues to dominate Israel's primary aliyah pool, even now, even at wartime. 3. Israel's future primarily depends on the people who already live there. The era of large Aliyah wave is over, and the Jewish people's future is now largely determined by two countries: Israel and the United States. /13-end

@LarryRothfield He said wasn’t a “commencement Speaker“ in the sense you mean, he was president of the faculty senate invited to give congratulatory remarks on behalf of the faculty

@ProfDBernstein If you are invited to give remarks, the assumption is that we want to hear what you have to say, not that we want you to say only what we decide you can say. I very much doubt that commencement speakers anywhere are required to submit comments in advance, or would agree to do so.

@briantashman I’m a pro-Israel activist. Israel has been far too lenient in dealing with violence by Jewish extremists on the West Bank. Not antisemitic to say so. Liar.

There is no criticism of Israel or show of support for people in Palestine that won’t be decried as violent antisemitic hate speech by pro-Israel activists. Ms Rachel was even called an anti-Semite for raising money for children who had their limbs amputated due to bombings