Lead Now Boulder

A recap of the first #100 days in #Boulder after 10/7.

If you're a conservative who has recently turned against Israel, I just want you to know: You have fallen for propaganda originally meant to trick illiterate peasants in Europe and Russia a century ago, and Leftists and enemy foreign powers fed it to you. Have a nice day!

@Reutshadmon001 Reading the book, Night, made me a Zionist. I'm a Canadian living in Colorado.

If you are not from Israel or Jewish, please tell me what made you support Israel? How can there be so many haters of Israel? How can reality be so illogical

"I can tolerate a lot of criticism of Israel that I disagree with. But there is simply no defensible case for Hamas, and once you start trying to make one, I know who you are" thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfi…

Happy to get you started: meforum.org/podcasts/john-…

@jeremycorbyn It's almost like the terror proxies can dish it out but can't take it

The world watched as Israel razed Gaza to the ground. Now, the world is watching as Israel razes Lebanon to the ground. War crimes beget war crimes — and the failure to bring Israel to justice for genocide has emboldened it to destroy human life with total impunity.

@EliAfriatISR Because the West has a combination of a lack of education and a lack of purpose.

How can it be that the massacre on October 7 only increased the hatred towards the Jews around the world?

@Khalid_SA4 @esjesjesj Hey guys, I found the worst take.

It's not, actually. Communists systematically oppressed Muslims and prevented them from practicing their religion. As much as I hate the colonization of Western countries, at least Muslims in Western countries can practice their religion freely. Just like Christians and Jews did under Islamic rule.

This is just objectively true

Even after his Munk Debate embarrassment, @mehdirhasan still can’t stop lying. UNSCR 487 is not under Chapter VII and is not binding. Here is Chapter VII, so you don’t even have to “google it”. un.org/en/about-us/un…

Name a movie you've seen more than 7 times with just a GIF

What’s impressive about this is that the education system didn’t just eliminate virtually all conservative thought as it moved toward left wing extremism, they got rid of almost anyone who was in the middle too. Anyone who doesn’t fully comply with the groupthink isn’t welcome.

We should ignore the periodic 24-hour schizophrenia of the Left and the media, and instead examine the reality of the war so far, and what will be its likely long-term effects. victorhanson.com/iran-a-longer-…

Buchenwald. Our history is gradually being erased - by design. Never forget. Never forgive.

This Holocaust Remembrance day I'm thinking of 82 yr old Karen Diamond who escaped the Holocaust only to be murdered by an Egyptian jihadist in Boulder Colorado. May her memory be a blessing 🕯

@alaafromgaza92 Not enough as 10/7 could not have been orchestrated and deployed without mass complicity.

I don’t understand how some people can be so naïve as to see a contradiction between criticizing Hamas and loving my country. I am a Palestinian from Gaza. I support resistance against the Israeli occupation that expelled my grandparents from their village in the lands of 1948, and that destroyed my home and my life in Gaza. That is not up for debate. What should be up for debate is this: why is it so hard to accept that many Gazans themselves criticize Hamas? Broaden your perspective. Listen. Many of us have real, lived reasons for speaking out, reasons I’ve written about in my Substack articles. There is a fundamental difference between a form of resistance that uses its people as fuel, strips them of agency, and silences them, and a resistance that is rooted in the will, dignity, and choices of its people. Criticizing Hamas does not make me disloyal. It does not make me a traitor. If anything, it comes from a deeper loyalty to my country and my people than those who claim to speak in their name. Do you understand the difference between the kind of resistance envisioned by Palestinian thinkers like Ghassan Kanafani and the model practiced by Hamas?I will be writing about this soon.

Never Again? It’s not enough to remember what happened in the Shoah for this shared prospective pledge to mean anything. It’s vital to understand how it happened, & to recognize the ‘modern’ strains of an ever-mutating lethal hate that fuelled it - that have hijacked & weaponized the Holocaust itself to demonize, delegitimize, & apply double standards to 🇮🇱’the Jew’ among nations, including in & by the very int’l institutions created & entrusted to ensure that “Never Again”. More with @benitalevin on @i24NEWS_EN

@jeffreypeckham We need to work in Headbandz and Jamba Juice.

So, I watched the last episode of "DTF:ST. Louis. Would have loved to have been at that pitch meeting. It's a show that combines adultery, homo-erotocism, murder, autism, face sitting, recumbent bikes, weathermen, sign language and a Denny's Restaurant. Somehow, it worked!

This is the take.

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah). In memory of 6,000,000 who were murdered solely because they were Jewish. Never Again.

@Rep_Stansbury Yes, that's why he said it was staged.

As someone who worked in the Executive Office of the President for a number of years—let me assure you, there are no DoorDash deliveries to the West Wing.