@rubin_eric I don’t understand. Palestinian refugees from Haifa can never return while that Jews from Brooklyn live in Haifa? Seems unfair.
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Tony Princato
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Tony Princato
@TPrincato
Cardiologist. I love all people.
Manhattan, NY Katılım Ekim 2022
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שישה ימים לאחר ה-7 באוקטובר, נחתתי בישראל והפכתי לאזרח. מאז, עשיתי כמיטב יכולתי כדי להגן על השקרים נגד המדינה שלי ופעלתי בחזית ההסברה לחשוף את האמת הישראלית.
בתקופה האחרונה התייעצתי רבות עם משפחתי וחבריי הקרובים ואני שוקל ברצינות להתמודד בבחירות הקרובות לכנסת ברשימה של חברים בעלי דעות דומות לשלי. הגיע הזמן לדור חדש של מנהיגים המייצגים את הפסיפס המגוון של החברה הישראלית. את ההחלטה הסופית אקבל בשבועות הקרובים. כך או אחרת, תמיד אפעל למען עם ישראל. #עםישראלחי
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May I ask you what year the West Bank became Palestinian land?
Because in the original 1964 PLO charter, the Palestinians said they exercised no territorial sovereignty over the West Bank OR GAZA.
Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan
The West Bank isn’t Israel. But nice try.
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@shadihamid @mattyglesias Once you understand that this is about Israel, it will all make sense.
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But that doesn't address my main point, that the center-left shouldn't be focusing so much of its energy, attention, and resources on factional battles with its left flank. You can want Haley Stevens to win, while also seeing the benefit of candidacies like Abdul's for the future of the Democratic Party. Instead, over the last couple weeks, we've seen a concerted effort to demonize the DSA and Israel-critics instead of seeing them as an important part of any future winning coalition.
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This is too meta for me.
People should vote for El-Sayed if they want to.
I don’t really agree with him on the issues and leftists are on average significantly worse electorally performers so my advice would be to vote for Stevens.
Shadi Hamid@shadihamid
With all due respect to @mattyglesias, the last few weeks have suggested to me that the center-left cares more about beating down the left than they do about beating Trump. We've seen the re-introduction of "woke" tropes by the Democratic establishment, weaponized against Abdul El-Sayed to suggest he's some kind of mysogonist, without any actual evidence. To accuse a Muslim man of misogyny is a classic trope, of course. If I was someone who cared about the future of the Democratic Party and it's ability to compete with the GOP, I'd be more enthusiastic about people like Abdul and Zohran, who model a positive "clean-living" masculinity. I'd be be enthusiastic about their ability to turn out young voters who are otherwise disaffected by a party that doesn't seem to want to listen to them. They're also practicing Muslims who respect the role of religion in public life, something we need more of in an overly secularized Democratic Party. This doesn't mean that everyone has to like Abdul or want him to win. Even if you want him to lose, you should see that he has something genuinely positive to offer to the Democratic Party. When the left wants to beat establishment candidates, it's called "factionalism." When the establishment wants to beat the left, it's not called that. It's just normal and unaccounted for. Take @neeratanden for example. Her feed is mostly about her disdain for the left. I don't see how this is constructive. And those of us who are not part of the Democratic establishment shouldn't concede too much ground on these points. I worry, though, that we have.
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@DomingueJordan The fact that you automatically assume when he says War material to your gun just shows how unhinged you are and unable to make a rational decision and regards to the political process
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I protected this man with a gun for two years, some average of 6-7 days a week, typically 12-16 hr days. Like so many things with Abdul, it’s pure hypocrisy. So much so, that a small part of me hopes he could win in order to expose the bottomless pit of populism and the heroes leftist continue create. That would ultimately be disastrous for the party though. The good news is that he continues to give plenty of reason that he might be the only candidate to lose to a Republican in a blue wave cycle.
DSA Watch@DSA_Watch
Abdul El-Sayed: "Do police really need to use guns? Do we need as much of a police force?”
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@GerardFilitti Most of the assault and harassment relates to Israel, that’s why there’s been a change from October 7.
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New AP-NORC polling puts numbers to what Jewish Americans have been saying. About 3 in 10 say they or a household member faced assault, harassment, or vandalism over their Jewish identity in the past year. About 1 in 10 report a physical assault. About 6 in 10 feel less safe than they did before October 7. When a majority of a community reports feeling less safe in its own country, the survey has stopped measuring anxiety and started measuring a failure to protect them.
#Antisemitism #EndJewHatred
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@bluedoggeosh The U.S. gave $22 billion to Israel last year. Why be dishonest?
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I was called bad faith here so let me clear the record.
The US spends $3.8B in military aid to Israel per year, but their entire military budget is $50B . A drop in the bucket essentially.
Stopping military aid to Israel will ultimately do nothing but lose us a key ally in the Middle East and result in more suffering to the Palestinians, not less.
Lisa Bee (she/her)@leebee4life
@bluedoggeosh What do I want from stopping aid? I’m hoping that fewer people will die, be maimed, or be orphaned. That doesn’t mean all violence will cease. But if it saves some lives, that’s a good thing. And again, you don’t have to be rude.
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Brussels is about to treat a trade vote as a statement of principle with consequences confined to Israel. The first bill may land on European companies.
For nearly fifty years, US law has barred US persons - including the US operations of foreign firms and controlled foreign subsidiaries - from complying with a foreign boycott Washington has not sanctioned. Congress reaffirmed it in 2015, naming boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel.
A narrow ban on settlement goods can be defended as a customs measure. Banks, freight forwarders, and procurement departments do not implement principles. They implement paperwork: questionnaires, blacklist checks, negative certifications that no Israeli-origin materials were used. That is the language BIS has named as an illegal boycott purpose.
There is a second obligation most boardrooms miss: report every boycott request the moment it arrives, whether or not you comply. Fail to file, and that is the violation.
The penalties attach per violation. Civil maximum $374,474 or twice the transaction value, each time, plus criminal exposure, lost export privileges, and forfeited foreign tax credits under the Ribicoff Amendment. A new EU regime could generate them across thousands of contracts.
This is not hypothetical. In 2023 BIS fined the Dubai subsidiary of a US manufacturer $283,500 for 84 violations, almost all failures to report. This April it settled with Thales Defense & Security, the Maryland arm of the French defense group, over negative Israel certifications on a single invoice.
“Brussels required it” does not erase the US reporting obligation.
Before Europe casts a vote it imagines is costless, its own companies should ask who pays. The trap is not in the politics. It is in the paperwork.
#BDS #Sanctions #Israel
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@ElliotMalin @umichvoter Hasan Piker didn’t denigrate Black Americans
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I’m confused, are you mad that something that was objectively true was sent out about the terrible person you support, @umichvoter?
umichvoter@umichvoter
AIPAC is mailing this to Dem primary voters in Michigan
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Harley Finkelstein, the Jewish president of Shopify, says antisemitism in Canada has been normalized under the thinnest veil of advocacy, and that Jewish families are quietly planning a way out. He is not speaking from the margins. In 2025, more than two-thirds of religious hate crimes in Canada targeted Jews, who are one percent of the population. When the grandchildren of refugees start asking whether to flee the country that took them in, the fringe has become the mainstream.
#Antisemitism #Canada #Shopify #EndJewHatred
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@realmarksilvers @AbdulElSayed AIPAC is spending $30 million against him
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@AbdulElSayed Do you say anything other than AIPAC this or that? Ask you about your taxes that you reneged on your promise to show (why?) your answer is AIPAC. Ask about funding, foreign policy, domestic policy, your answer is AIPAC. You cant deflect every question your scared to answer.
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Oh, so now you’re *personally* taking credit for the work of all of Congress and the President? Will we see it in an AIPAC funded ad tomorrow—like the fake Obama endorsement?
Haley Stevens@HaleyforMI
Tens of millions, actually—just like you, since I funded the program to erase medical debt that you take credit for. The difference is I don’t lie about it.
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@SlavaMalamud Not letting civilians return is a war crime. All normal people know that. That’s why Zionism is racism.
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@TPrincato I get it, you hate Jews. But every state creation involves some kind of population displacement. Wanna know what Algerians did to their Jewish population? Google it.
Besides, nobody forced Arab state to start a genocidal war to exterminate Jews in 1948.
Try therapy.
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The Mayor's Office made a map of NYC's immigrant enclaves: Little Africa, Little Poland, Little Palestine. But they just couldn't figure out how to represent 11% of the city. Couldn't decipher where the Jews are from. Asked everyone. Huge riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
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Pretty clear at some point between now and 2018 she got bonked on the head or something.
gato fumante@KweenInYellow
Starting to entertain the possibility this lady went out on a woodland hike one day and her brain got hijacked by some sort of psychic bog goblin. 🫥
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I hate it when I’m ready to leave too early 🙄 because all I really want to do is sleep, but I can’t get back into bed now, I’m dressed.
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Israel is willing to allow Saudi Arabia into the Abraham Accords with few conditions; Saudi Arabia must allow:
• Drinking of alcohol
• Freedom of speech
• Public displays of affection
• Synagogue in Mecca
• Ability to display Star of David ✡️
Raylan Givens@JewishWarrior13
🚨 The Saudis conveyed messages to the US that they are willing to resume discussing joining the Abraham Accords, but with two conditions: replacing Netanyahu after the elections and canceling Smotrich's moves in Judea and Samaria
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Israeli Research Offers New Hope for Overcoming One of the Deadliest Brain Cancers unitedwithisrael.org/israeli-resear… Hope this leads somewhere. Then Israel can produce the drug in Judea so countries like Ireland can quietly overlook their silly boycotts. Which they will.
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@rafaelshimunov Or as Phil Ochs once said : “D.A.R., that's the Dykes of the American Revolution”
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Descendants of the American Revolution come to the defense of their trans members. MAGA heads exploding.
lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/daught…
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@SlavaMalamud Creating a state by kicking others out is depraved but typical of the thieving Zionist mentality.
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@TPrincato You can slur the Jewish state any way you want to. It won't change the fact that it exists, it has won its right to exist against genocidal invaders, and you need to deal with this reality.
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@SlavaMalamud Well yes, Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa also determined their own policies.
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@TPrincato Israel will determine its own immigration policy. Israel will remain a majority Jewish state, just like Palestine, I am sure, will remain a majority Arab one.
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@SlavaMalamud Under a peace plan, can the Palestinian refugees return?
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@TPrincato Israel exists. You'll need to deal with this fact. If you want to undo a country that has existed for 4-5 generations, you clearly are a genocide enjoyer and can benefit from a good Jewish doctor.
They don't come cheap, but it's worth it.
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@fulton5280 Oh that’s a good one. Jews were exiled 2000 years ago yet insist on returning to this day. It’s not just Zionist thievery, but the low class hypocrisy.
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@TPrincato Asked and answered. Won’t happen. Grapple with why Palestinians can’t adultup, move on and build a state. Everytime the Jews have been offered real opportunities they’ve said yes & went forward. The Palestinians only say no. Why? Because they don’t want a state, just no Israel.
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For nearly three years, many Jewish writers, artists, and creatives have quietly lived with a reality that too few institutions were willing to acknowledge. Books became harder to sell. Opportunities disappeared. Jewish identity became something to soften, explain, or hide. Too often, artists were judged not by the quality of their work, but by assumptions about their beliefs or identity.
This week's conversation surrounding @PENamerica is bigger than one organization. It raises a fundamental question: Can an institution truly defend free expression if it cannot defend the expression of everyone - including Jewish and Israeli writers?
I know this question isn't theoretical because I lived it. After October 7, the book deal I'd spent nine months building disappeared after I chose to publicly educate about antisemitism and advocate for Israel's safety and security. That experience ultimately led me to write White. Blonde. Jew. As a founding member of Artists Against Antisemitism, I've watched countless creatives face pressures that many people never see. The answer isn't to retreat. It isn't to self-censor. And it certainly isn't to accept the erasure of Jewish voices from our cultural institutions.
Our artists, writers, and storytellers are part of the moral and creative fabric of a free society. If we believe in intellectual diversity and free expression, those principles must apply even when the speaker - or the subject - is unpopular. Free expression is only meaningful when it protects the voices we don't all agree with.
That's not just a literary principle. It's a democratic one.
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