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@JewishWonk In fact, the "Track AIPAC" is davka so antisemitic because it defines "AIPAC" as whatever Jews it feels like, even J Street. But we can draw a distinction between the AIPAC Tracker and the Biss position. A distinction the belief in which you imply makes one naive and boneheaded.

@JewishWonk You were criticizing Barak for an entirely accurate tweet. The fact that the antisemites are presently worked up about AIPAC doesn't mean AIPAC doesn't deserve to be decried.

I like Barak's reporting but this is a pretty good example of how Israelis across the ideological spectrum (he's a liberal) are boneheaded when it comes to what political waters American Jews are swimming in.

@JewishWonk Yes. there are plenty using AIPAC as a fig leaf for antisemitism. That doesn't remotely mean that being anti-AIPAC is antisemitic or anti-Israel. It is precisely become I'm an American Zionist who loves Israel that I decry the harm AIPAC is causing.

@JewishWonk I'm a former AIPAC Advocate of the Year who passionately disagrees with you. Daniel Biss and Tom Malinowski and many others are classic Zionists and supporters of Israel who became primary AIPAC targets (and are now leaders in the righteous anti-AIPAC movement).

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Congrats to the Pohlads.

@speechboy71 True. The behavior of the current Israeli government and police/military leadership in the West Bank is what *should* piss people off, but most Israel haters are too ignorant and bigoted to be well informed enough, so instead they're distracted by a largely false Gaza narrative.

Except this is not why Israel is less popular in the US (it’s all about Gaza)

@YeahThatsKosher You're missing the Target Field Minnesota Twins kosher stand, now in its tenth season. mspkosher.com/businesses/tar…

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@KatakuriCanon Thank you for sharing this and thank you to @adumb_codes for creating it. (And thank you to @jon_bois who I assume helped inspire this model of YouTube video.) I absolutely loved everything about this. The graph is absolutely beautiful. The stats are so fun. Awesome job.

@achester99 This is nifty af & possibly something you'd appreciate. youtu.be/LtJxJqAqt0Q?si…

@Timberwolves @nbaleave Hopefully in the playoffs Ayo comes to Crypto.com Arena and replaces the Laker toilets with toilets that only have a tiny joke hole for farts.

‘TWIN TURBOS’ IS OFFICIAL.

@FakeCanadian65 @seaweedanxiety

@seaweedanxiety I like how he has “insured up to 250k” as if that isn’t true for every credit card because of the FDIC. lol

bro is going to learn very fast why credit cards have visible numbers

The fact that kids say "third is the one with the treasure chest" instead of "the hairy chest" says something about this generation. Maybe something about gender fluidity. Maybe something about an aversion to body hair. Maybe something about capitalism. But definitely something.

@podoffame Jrue will make the HOF cuz everyone makes the 🏀 HOF, but Mo was a tier above him (relative to era). I think Mo had 7 All Star and 4 All-NBA caliber seasons, vs 1 and 0 for Jrue.

Jrue Holiday will definitely end up in the HOF. He is Mo Cheeks with another ring, more scoring, and an international career.

Very few people who agree with both of these correct claims: A) The settler movement in the West Bank are modern-day fascists, and the Netanyahu government's implicit endorsement of the recent rein of terror there against Palestinians is not only morally repugnant but potentially catastrophic for the future of Israel and the region. B) The IDF did not systematically target civilians in the Gaza Strip and I still have no idea why that became consensus when it's pretty obvious to me that, even if the IDF were simply *indifferent* to civilian loss of life, they would have easily killed orders of magnitude more people than they actually did kill, and in a much shorter time frame. And it would not even really be that unusual for urban combat.

BREAKING: Rabbi Yehuda Gilad, head of Yeshivat Ma’ale Gilboa, visited Khirbet Humsa in the West Bank following a settler pogrom in which a 29-year-old Palestinian farmer was sexually assaulted, his family was beaten, and hundreds of his sheep were stolen. Below is his full statement, translated from Hebrew: Letter from the Head of the Yeshiva, Rabbi Yehuda Gilad With God’s help, Rosh Chodesh Nisan — “a time of atonement for all their generations” Yesterday I went through a very difficult and deeply disturbing experience. I visited Khirbet Humsa (about a 30-minute drive from our yeshiva), where a pogrom carried out by hilltop youth took place about a week ago. I heard the details of what happened there from several sources, including Ruti — a woman I have known for years and trust completely. It turns out that in the early hours of the night, a group of rioters (around 30–40 people) arrived, equipped with sticks and many zip ties. They bound the men (and apparently also two foreign volunteers, though I am not certain of this), and then beat them all over their bodies with fists and clubs. We saw many remnants of the zip ties on the ground. The men required treatment at the hospital in Afula for injuries of varying severity. At the same time, the attackers stole the entire herd — about 300 head — belonging to the few families living there, under unimaginable conditions of poverty. At first, I heard that there had also been sexual violence, and I did not believe it… Yesterday we arrived at the site with Ruti, a friend of mine who is well known to them. When they saw us — Rabbi Avidan Friedman and myself — they visibly recoiled in terror and anxiously pointed to the kippot on our heads. Ruti tried to calm them, explaining that we were not among the attackers. Even so, at the beginning of the meeting, they were hesitant and afraid. I heard directly from a young man — a firsthand witness — what had happened there. From his face, the blue bruise in his eye, and his sorrowful expression, it was clear he was telling the truth. In that same conversation (with the help of a translator), he described in detail the prolonged abuse they endured while bound. Then, with deep shame, he told us something I had previously found impossible to believe. I find it difficult — my hands tremble as I write this about Jews — and yet I will write it, because I am convinced it indeed happened. Yes, these wicked individuals bound his genitals in an extremely painful way — not to mention the humiliation involved. These events recall the pogroms our ancestors endured in various diasporas. Have we become like the worst of the nations? I want to turn to the question: what should be done? But I feel that I am still at the stage of crying out. Alas — what has become of us!

That El-Sayed employs a single person, no less a staff full of people, who believes it's risky to condemn an attack on a nursery school, because the kids are Jewish, is reason enough for no self-respecting progressive to cast a vote for him. Of course, many will still do just that.

@DBashIdeas I didn't love that they made me choose between the Rambam and Maimonides It's like making me choose between David and Dovid (l'havdil)

Interesting quiz on your philosophical approach to Judaism. I didn’t love the questions or the choices—felt like it was written by someone who overdosed on Jewish Leadership seminars but it was fun to take! (I still liked my Jewish quiz better! 🫣)

@maplewedgie My newborn son and me in late January 2013

gotta start them young