jonny goldstein

@shadihamid On the verge of losing my vote

The idea that Democrats are going to lose Jewish voters if they speak out against Israel isn't based on any real empirical evidence. You might lose white evangelicals, but that's not really a big Democratic constituency.

This is why conflating American Jews with the state of Israel isn't only antisemitic. It's just factually wrong. More Jews oppose the Gaza war then support it, and nearly 40 percent believe Israel has committed genocide.

@SpencerGuard Can we add: eliminate Iranian regime support of regional proxies and global terrorism to the list? And such down their information war?

I’ll bite. Finish the job for the U.S. IMO, destroy Iran’s current ballistic missile stockpile, destroy their ballistic missile building capability (industrial complex), destroy their navy and other means that allow them to threaten the strait of Hormuz, i.e. destroy their ability to project power outside of Iran; destroy all parts of Iran’s nuclear program and obtain their 1,000 pounds of 60% enriched uranium, deny Iran from ever getting a nuclear bomb. The new leadership in Iran discontinues its current and long standing behaviors to develop a nuclear bomb, ballistic missile shield and increasing range program, and use of the strait of Hormuz as a tool of regional and global economic coercion. Many military, political, and economic means and ways (not just military) can be used to achieve these ends.

WW2, Korea, Grenada, Pamama, Kosovo, Gulf War 1 and 2....

@BenGoldsmith Sickening...but nothing new for us in the long course of history

Turns out the woke generation is in fact the most racist generation since the 1930s.

@realzoestrimpel What a nightmarish experience. Good for you for keeping calm and offering a bit of cognitive dissonance to these brainwashed souls. Hope you have a supportive community to help you process this obscenity. #AmYisraelChai

In Margate. My cheeks are red. I am shaking. I popped into an exhibition that turned out to be the insane fever dream of an artist called Matthew Collins: ‘Drawings Against Genocide.’ The exhibition is described as ‘drawings… raising consciousness about hell…. Israel is the pure encapsulation of it. Zionism is this terror state’s ruling ideology.’ Shocked by the use of Nazi imagery - the room is full of the Star of David pasted around figures meant to be Israelis and the Jewish ‘lobby’ spewing blood, to say nothing of blonde yummy mummies wearing ‘globalise the intifada’ shirts, I spoke to the artist to share my reaction as a Jewish person. He was instantly aggressive. As soon as I started to say I was shocked and threatened by what I was seeing because it was Nazi imagery, the artist started yelling at me that I didn’t mean anything I was saying. Anytime I tried to speak (calmly) he said: ‘you don’t mean any of what you said, you’re just repeating ‘hasbarah talking points’ because ‘you’re defending a genocide’. On and on he yelled, in my face. I said: ‘if I was a Black person…’ but couldn’t finish the sentence because: ‘you’re not are you?’ On the Nazi ideology point he said: ‘yeah. Why do you think it’s there. Israel are the Nazis’. His breath was disgusting. The crowd began booing and closing in around me, making to shoe me out. I said: ‘fine, get the Jew out’ and he yelled more across the room at me, ‘repeatedly jeering ‘call the police, go ahead, call the police’. I said I would, and the community security trust, which features as a devil in his exhibition. This was met with even more jeering. ‘Yeah, call the CST’ was the last I heard before leaving. Someone snapped pictures of me while I was being shouted at. Short video shows the artist. The longer video, of our final almost surreally disgusting exchange, didn’t record.

@adam_louis52328 Yep.

This is incitement to genocide under international law.

@Aizenberg55 I am so grateful you post these common sense doses of sanity. Keep it up!

If it wasn’t clear already, Beinart should not be welcomed in Jewish spaces. His call for synagogues to disavow Israel is bigotry, national-origin discrimination by targeting the country where nearly half of Jews live and that ~90% of Jews support. One can oppose a government and its policies. But Beinart demands something else: rejection of an entire nation. There is no shortage of people who believe Trump is evil incarnate and that his administration commits terrible acts. Yet those people do not demand schools and churches stop displaying the American flag. Everyone understands you can support a country while opposing its government. But Beinart insists that when it comes to Israel, the nation itself must be disowned. Worse, he frames terrorist attacks as a consequence of synagogues expressing solidarity with Israel and warns that Jews are therefore not safe if they support Israel. Not a word about the racist terrorists, under Beinart’s framing it is Jews who are at fault for becoming targets. His attempted “And (not but)” disclaimer changes nothing, his framing remains morally grotesque. I’ve seen Beinart welcomed in synagogues and Jewish institutions as a speaker with a perspective worth hearing. At this point, that makes about as much sense as inviting Tucker Carlson, but perhaps worse, because Beinart delivers this hostility with the wrapping of speaking as a practicing Jew. It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing: promoting the destruction of Israel from within Jewish spaces. For clarity: I don’t believe Beinart is actually antisemitic, as strange as this may sound based on my comment. But his position and actions are unmistakably bigotry against Israelis and the nation of Israel, and in effect completely aligned with many of the worst antisemites.

@PeterBeinart So you’re suggesting all American synagogues disavow support for the State of Israel? You are truly an enemy of the Jewish people. There is no sugarcoating this evil statement.

@Aizenberg55 Great resource. Thanks!

This is one of the key charts of the war. It shows that adult male deaths in Gaza are 3.3x higher than adult female deaths, with older teenage males similarly disproportionate at 2.8x higher. Women and children were killed at rates far below their share of the population, which definitively contradicts claims of indiscriminate bombing or deliberate targeting of women and children. If such targeting were occurring, civilian deaths would at minimum resemble the population’s age and gender structure. Instead, the chart shows a large excess of adult male deaths, roughly 23,000 excess adult men, and when excess male teens, many of whom are documented combatants, are included, the total closely corroborates the IDF’s claim that about 25,000 combatants were killed, a figure publicly affirmed by the United States. Rather than contend with this evidence, critics have come up with a new talking point: men always die more than women in wars, so the pattern proves nothing. Meaning that they claim these excess male deaths are civilians not combatants, all said without evidence. With that logic in place it makes it impossible to ever identify large-scale combatant deaths, because any excess male mortality is dismissed by definition as “what happens in war.” Comparisons to other conflicts are also misplaced. Gaza is structurally different on many levels from the wars commonly cited as evidence, such as Yemen, Syria, Congo, or Tigray. For example, Gaza had repeated mass evacuations and was the only war in history where one side facilitated massive quantities of food and humanitarian aid throughout active combat. In another post I will show statistics that contradict this claim as well. Crucially, no affirmative evidence is presented that adult male civilians in Gaza died at much higher rates than women; that claim is simply assumed by analogy to other, dissimilar wars. The effect of this reasoning is to ensure that excess male deaths can never be attributed to combatants, while simultaneously sidelining specific, evidence-backed claims about Hamas losses. The irony is also striking; many of the same voices accusing Israel of targeting women and children must also argue that Gaza followed the standard wartime pattern of excess male deaths. Both cannot be true. Chart credited to @GabrielEpsteinX

@RealZoya1 @Aizenberg55 The population of Gaza skews very young because of the high birthrate, so the natural rate of death (predominantly happening among older people) would be much smaller than just extrapolating from the 2 million population as if there was a more even age distribution.

@Aizenberg55 Natural death for a population of 2 million over 24 months is ~30,000. Is it included?

🧵Hamas' new fatality data (Jan 7, 2026) shows a record level of excess adult male fatalities. Over 23,000 more men (18-59) killed than women. Teen male deaths are also ~2,000 higher than female, meaning teen combatants. Note the figures also include natural deaths in Gaza. 1/

Breaking it down for you. Don't hate yourself for getting caught up in the libels...unfortunately thwy are the water we swim in. But do try to look outside the antizionist bubble. That waylies sanity.

Just want to boost the signal of this guys X stream. He is incisive and cogent AF on the Hamas-Israel conflict.

.@balajis I'd love to see you as a guest on @DoomDebates. Seems like you have some good arguments for low (p)doom which I'd love to see tested. How 'bout it?

There is so much crypto chatter which just flays Biden admin on what they consider its destructive attitude toward crypto community.This had to be a major factor in Dem defeats...40% of Americans own crypto.This alienated both masses with votes and entities with serious $

.@Timodc I'd love to see you do an episode exploring how the Biden admin alienating the crypto industry influenced election results. This was a completely unnecessary own-goal that should be aired out. Interview @Scaramucci or some other politically knowledgeable crypto fan.

Not really. I read but rarely post. Also spend more time on Blue sky. Hope you are doing well!

Thank you Mr Blank. I would love to hear from other biz titans from our community. The fact that it takes real guts to state the obvious, that Trump is unfit and that Harris is a far better choice, shows how important it is to support her campaign.

@Timodc More like fear and malice

From “Fair and Malice” thebulwark.com/p/fair-and-mal…

"The inside dope is pretty much the outside dope. The private story is the public story. Things really are as they seem. The race is insanely close." - @billkristol on the ground at the Republicans for Harris event in Philly. Namaste!

Thank you Senator Flake. This is what principle looks like. I encourage those of all parties who are devoted to preserving and enhancing what makes this country great to join Senator Flake in supporting the Harris/Walz ticket.