That might be the case but this type of moaning existed since Israel was founded. Going on an on about the Palestinians while ignoring what happened to Jews in continental Europe and the Middle East/North Africa has been the norm for decades.
There have been more people killed in the Syrian Civil War and Yemen Civil War since 2011 than the entire I/P conflict but all the Pro-Palestinian people go around like the I/P conflict is the worst thing that ever happened in human history. I wonder why.
Why do people who keep accusing Israel of "ethnic cleansing" at any time in it's history don't seem to have any issue with the rest of the Middle East giving their Jews the boot? It tends to be overlooked in the name of "anti-colonialism" and Jews are just supposed to take it on the chin as communities hundreds or thousands of years old get destroyed over night. And don't say that the Mizrahi Jewish communities would have been fined but for the creation of Israel. The rest of the non-Muslims and even the wrong types of Muslims aren't doing fine in the Middle East either.
Tablet started off as an interesting Jewish online magazine whose politics reflected standard American Jewish politics. The editors eventually started leaning right but also knew the politics of most American Jews so controlled themselves. It looks like they decided to go full into the far right edge of American Jews.
I think the hope was that by "humanizing the homeless", people would have a but for the Grace of God go I moment and vote for generous welfare provisions and social services. That did not happen. And yes, certain sections of the left took to a rather strong defense of visible disorder.
There have also been credible reports of teachers taking it upon themselves to do teach ins about the I/P conflict that are basically "Zionism is settler-colonialism" rather than an actual honest history of the Zionist movement and what it was responding to and trying to do. I do not see these people as mere people on the internet but people who are educating people and basically keeping out the Jewish perspective of what happened.
Diaspora Jews might not like Netanyahu or Likud but most of us hate Hamas more and did not like a bunch of people out and about celebrating the massacre of Jews as kinetic decolonization. I really doubt that many of these types could tell you how many Jews are there and how many of them live in Israel.
Republicans in Congress seem to be willing to shut down the government for no reason other than Trump is opposed to the continuing resolution. I'd say that the Republicans are not waking up.
I don't know. They seem to be on a march to me. Jews have been explaining to them with great patience on what they seem to the shortcomings of intersectionality towards Jews for years before 10/7. Nothing seems to get them to pause and reconsider things.
If anything they seem to be at lost worse after 10/7/ Lots of reports from public and private schools of teachers doing some very ideological and without context teachings of the I/P movement that completely ignore the conditions that led to Zionism in the first place. Not just in America but abroad and nobody can make them stop.
The identarians keep getting caught doing some really embarrassing things in public. The University of Michigan's DEI chief was just fired for basically saying "Jews Don't Count" at DEI conference. Meanwhile, a DEI conference for private schools, ended up doing a lot of anti-Semitism and saying that "Israel was founded on racist principles" while apparently Arab and Muslim states are fine under DEI principles.
These people do not understand how hypocritical they seem to everybody not remotely sympathetic towards them. They have the groups they believe are the wretched of the earth and everybody else can pound sand.
I'm not sure how Harris could have thrown Biden under the bus when she was his VP. Many Democratic voters did not want Biden to run again but they actually think that Biden is a good President. Totally throwing Biden under the bus would cause a big fissure in the party. There is no way to communicate we are throwing him on the bus for electoral purposes only to the millions that need to hear this.
Inflation was considered preferable to recessions and depression during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s because everybody wanted to avoid another Great Depression and the radicalization that came from it. You had to go to the extreme right to find pro-mass unemployment politicians who hated Keynesian stimulus. Things started to slowly change during the 1980s. By now, most voters seem to consider recession preferable to inflation.
As mentioned to my brother, maybe not. Liberal-left parties tend to be big tent coalition parties. The problem with big tent coalition parties is that you have lots of different groups that won't vote if their needs aren't being met and many times the needs of groups within the coalition are contradictory and oppositional. This is why the Israel-Hamas War was such a hard needle to thread for the Democratic Party. The most passionate Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestinian voters are within the Democratic Party and the leadership needed to deal with both groups when both groups were feeling extremely angry at each other.
What need to be done is a more universal liberalism but that isn't the style of the time and too many people won't have it.
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That might be the case but this type of moaning existed since Israel was founded. Going on an on about the Palestinians while ignoring what happened to Jews in continental Europe and the Middle East/North Africa has been the norm for decades.
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There have been more people killed in the Syrian Civil War and Yemen Civil War since 2011 than the entire I/P conflict but all the Pro-Palestinian people go around like the I/P conflict is the worst thing that ever happened in human history. I wonder why.
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Why do people who keep accusing Israel of "ethnic cleansing" at any time in it's history don't seem to have any issue with the rest of the Middle East giving their Jews the boot? It tends to be overlooked in the name of "anti-colonialism" and Jews are just supposed to take it on the chin as communities hundreds or thousands of years old get destroyed over night. And don't say that the Mizrahi Jewish communities would have been fined but for the creation of Israel. The rest of the non-Muslims and even the wrong types of Muslims aren't doing fine in the Middle East either.
On “From Tablet Mag: Rapid-Onset Political Enlightenment”
Tablet started off as an interesting Jewish online magazine whose politics reflected standard American Jewish politics. The editors eventually started leaning right but also knew the politics of most American Jews so controlled themselves. It looks like they decided to go full into the far right edge of American Jews.
On “Open Mic for the week of 12/23/2024”
The Gaetz report was released and the findings are what one expects:
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/23/us/matt-gaetz-report-trump-news
On “Open Mic for the week of 12/16/2024”
Currently we are facing the liberal society paradox where a liberal society faces threats so great that an illiberal response is necessary.
On “From The Wall Street Journal: How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge”
Republicans in the House voted against Trump's own preferred CR bill. That's dysfunctional.
On “Open Mic for the week of 12/16/2024”
I think the hope was that by "humanizing the homeless", people would have a but for the Grace of God go I moment and vote for generous welfare provisions and social services. That did not happen. And yes, certain sections of the left took to a rather strong defense of visible disorder.
On “From Semafor: Kamala Harris’ digital chief on Democrats ‘losing hold of culture’”
They out number the global population of Jews in the United States alone, so that isn't much of a consolidation.
On “Are Republicans Waking Up?”
Boebert or MTG.
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We will know by the 20th. Johnson is out as speaker if this happens. Johnson is out if it does not happen.
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There have also been credible reports of teachers taking it upon themselves to do teach ins about the I/P conflict that are basically "Zionism is settler-colonialism" rather than an actual honest history of the Zionist movement and what it was responding to and trying to do. I do not see these people as mere people on the internet but people who are educating people and basically keeping out the Jewish perspective of what happened.
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I oppose these a-holes all the time but it feels like being a trench soldier against an enemy that won't quit.
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Diaspora Jews might not like Netanyahu or Likud but most of us hate Hamas more and did not like a bunch of people out and about celebrating the massacre of Jews as kinetic decolonization. I really doubt that many of these types could tell you how many Jews are there and how many of them live in Israel.
On “Are Republicans Waking Up?”
Republicans in Congress seem to be willing to shut down the government for no reason other than Trump is opposed to the continuing resolution. I'd say that the Republicans are not waking up.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-opposes-funding-bill-pushing-government-closer-shutdown-rcna184745
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I don't know. They seem to be on a march to me. Jews have been explaining to them with great patience on what they seem to the shortcomings of intersectionality towards Jews for years before 10/7. Nothing seems to get them to pause and reconsider things.
If anything they seem to be at lost worse after 10/7/ Lots of reports from public and private schools of teachers doing some very ideological and without context teachings of the I/P movement that completely ignore the conditions that led to Zionism in the first place. Not just in America but abroad and nobody can make them stop.
"
The identarians keep getting caught doing some really embarrassing things in public. The University of Michigan's DEI chief was just fired for basically saying "Jews Don't Count" at DEI conference. Meanwhile, a DEI conference for private schools, ended up doing a lot of anti-Semitism and saying that "Israel was founded on racist principles" while apparently Arab and Muslim states are fine under DEI principles.
These people do not understand how hypocritical they seem to everybody not remotely sympathetic towards them. They have the groups they believe are the wretched of the earth and everybody else can pound sand.
On “Are Republicans Waking Up?”
Delusional would be a better word.
On “Open Mic for the week of 12/16/2024”
Private school diversity conference seems to have devolved into a conference of anti-Semitism. Odd how anti-Semitism keeps propping up at DEI events:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/nyregion/antisemitism-conference-private-schools.html
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Israel and Saudi Arabia have normalization talks break through. Meanwhile, Hamas is finally surrendering.
https://archive.ph/C7QsZ#selection-543.19-547.88
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-gaza-palestine-ceasefire-hostage-negotiations-d599e1d1?mod=russia_trendingnow_article_pos3
On “From Semafor: Kamala Harris’ digital chief on Democrats ‘losing hold of culture’”
I'm not sure how Harris could have thrown Biden under the bus when she was his VP. Many Democratic voters did not want Biden to run again but they actually think that Biden is a good President. Totally throwing Biden under the bus would cause a big fissure in the party. There is no way to communicate we are throwing him on the bus for electoral purposes only to the millions that need to hear this.
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The lost might have been a lot bigger against a conventional Republican and the loss was closer because it was Trump.
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Inflation was considered preferable to recessions and depression during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s because everybody wanted to avoid another Great Depression and the radicalization that came from it. You had to go to the extreme right to find pro-mass unemployment politicians who hated Keynesian stimulus. Things started to slowly change during the 1980s. By now, most voters seem to consider recession preferable to inflation.
On “Open Mic for the week of 12/9/2024”
Chief DEI officer at University of Michigan shocked to learn that anti-Semitism is seen as racism rather than resistance:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/us/university-of-michigan-dei-administrator-antisemitism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hU4.voeJ.cZqQF94j4VHj&smid=url-share
Also Jewish University of Michigan regent has his home vandalized by anti-Semites, I mean Pro-Palestinian activists:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/103f7dfd6e64ba236194a452ddfaa8314876d38fbb9617b3d04c1f4bd12c97fc.jpg
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As mentioned to my brother, maybe not. Liberal-left parties tend to be big tent coalition parties. The problem with big tent coalition parties is that you have lots of different groups that won't vote if their needs aren't being met and many times the needs of groups within the coalition are contradictory and oppositional. This is why the Israel-Hamas War was such a hard needle to thread for the Democratic Party. The most passionate Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestinian voters are within the Democratic Party and the leadership needed to deal with both groups when both groups were feeling extremely angry at each other.
What need to be done is a more universal liberalism but that isn't the style of the time and too many people won't have it.
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