Councilmember emeritus, Beverly Hills. 3x Mayor. 2x Yid. CPO, ICAN (Israeli-American Civic Action Network). Member: CASSE; GFC; THST. 🇺🇸🇸🇪💙🤍 (RANE)
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If Israel had existed in 1930, the Holocaust would never have happened. If you oppose Israel’s existence, you support genocide.
The rest is commentary.
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Since Abdul El-Sayed’s election to the Senate, friends and colleagues have asked me the same question — partly because I’m a Muslim journalist and author, partly because I have been to Mecca.
It concerns a distinction he has drawn more than once, here in his words on NBC’s @MeetThePress: “I love and revere Judaism and the Jewish people. I believe they are a light unto the world… But they are not the same as AIPAC and Israel.”
Their question to me:
if someone said, “I love and revere Islam and the Muslim people, but they are not the same as Mecca and Medina,” would I accept it? I would not. Having been to Mecca, I cannot imagine my faith without the pilgrimage, the qibla, the Prophet’s city.
A fair comparison? He said “Israel,” a state, and I do not answer for what Riyadh does. Yet Islam’s holiest sites are on Saudi soil, and I would not accept hearing my faith is “not the same” as the ground beneath them.
So when he said Judaism and the Jewish people are “not the same” as Israel, what exactly did he mean?
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So he is a physician, and an Imam who delivers Muslim sermons, and also a politician who knows about the economy, foreign affairs and how to legislate policy.
I spent a lifetime studying history, linguistics, government, policy-making, and until now when I get an interview request to talk about domestic affairs of Turkey or Iran, I decline it saying "I don't speak their language, and therefore cannot call myself an expert on their affairs."
And here we have a self-proclaimed, never-practiced physician, imam, legislator, economist, foreign policy expert, who will run for president to lead America to a "better future."
Obama is right. In his memoir A Promised Land (2020), he wrote: "If one of the qualifications of running for the most powerful office in the world was megalomania, it appeared I was passing the test." I think in terms of narcism and megalomania, Abdul, too, passes the test.
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Honored to be named on the list of the "allies we honor" by the Tel Aviv Institute.
Honored to be part of the Jewish story, which -- if we are to believe tradition -- are the cousins of the Arabs. Where I grew up, cousins stick together and look after one another.
tlvi.org/the-jewish-100-5786…
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Either @mahamyahya's expertise is inadequate, or she is propagandizing against Israel. Residents of the Christian villages in south Lebanon did not stay because they're scared that if they leave, they'd lose their land permanently. They stayed because they knew they were safe with Israel, compared to the Shia who fled because they had lent their civilian houses to Hezbollah's missile launchers.
Also, in Nakba, Israel is imagined to have used violence to displace Palestinians in 1948, who did not have the option to stay and were forced to leave. Now she's saying that those who defy Israel and stay, can just stay (two contradictory narratives).
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The UN just elected the judges who will rule on the "genocide" case against Israel.
One of them, Jordan's Mahmoud Hmoud, already called it "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" weeks after October 7, before a single piece of evidence was heard.
Another, Phoebe Okowa, sat on Namibia's legal team arguing against Israel at the same court.
In any real court, that's called a conflict of interest.
At the ICJ, it's called a qualification.
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The ICJ is a kangaroo court.
The UN just elected the judges who will rule on the "genocide" case against Israel.
One of them, Jordan's Mahmoud Hmoud, already called it "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" weeks after October 7, before a single piece of evidence was heard.
Another, Phoebe Okowa, sat on Namibia's legal team arguing against Israel at the same court.
In any real court, that's called a conflict of interest.
At the ICJ, it's called a qualification.
“Money out of politics,” huh?
It’s really only all about getting “Jewish” money out of politics, isn’t it?
Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed has launched a political action committee called “Habibi PAC”, days after becoming the first Muslim member of the US Senate.
🔗: aje.news/juutaz
“Money out of politics,” huh?
It’s really only all about getting “Jewish” money out of politics, isn’t it?
El-Sayed launches Habibi PAC
thehill.com/homenews/campaig…
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🧵Over the last few weeks I’ve watched some of my worst predictions come true about the destructive effects of conspiracist antizionism and the fear & loathing of Israel that have taken over portions of the left in recent years. It didn’t start in recent years of course - it’s simply when it all finally exploded to the surface.
I know about it personally because I was born & raised in the USSR, where these ideas were born & propagated. I’ve been researching it since 2019.
Here’s a 🧵 of everything I’ve written about it, in chronological order: How & why these ideas were developed, what effect they had on the lives of Soviet Jews, how they got pushed out to the global left & the developing world—and how it all relates to us today. Some of these pieces are now taught at universities. Several are part of book collections.
We can’t understand the explosion of anti-Jewish hate & support of Hamas that we are seeing in the US today unless we understand this history.
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Some Jew-haters won an election. Now I need to abandon a 3000-year old tradition.
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Antizionist discourse is simply beneath the intellectual caliber of what is becoming increasingly prominent in the Jewish and associated world, especially as led by @z3_project
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A professional anthropologist today tried to tell me that Judaism was only 150 years old. Apparently, according to this pseudoscientist, the majority of mankind were Marxists and Islamists up to that point, who did not believe in “ethnonations,” something I found surprising indeed, especially given my work with the Desana people of the Amazon.
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🚨NEW:
Jocelyn Benson appoints openly anti-Semitic Nation of Islam "student minister" to serve on her transition team.
Marcus Muhammad, a disciple of Louis Farrakhan, has referred to Jews as "the enemy," and promotes Nation pamphlets that oppose interracial relationships.
He was booted off the Combat Antisemitism Movement after @FreeBeacon reported on this stuff earlier this year.
freebeacon.com/democrats/joc…
New horizons in both gaslighting and arrogance.
To answer his question directly: yes, Zeteo is thoroughly infused with the most raw form of Jew-hatred, genocidally so.
Furthermore, Zeteo is proof that Jew-hatred can transform anyone into a YT supremacist.
Next question?
Ah Ben! So glad to see you on my feed!
Can you explain what you mean about what you think Zeteo will/is becoming? Do you think Zeteo is antisemitic or insensitive to antisemitism?
As to your post, did you read the article?
To clarify: this is a Jewish journalist interviewing a Jewish attorney, author and academic, Kenneth Stern. Stern is a world-renowned expert on antisemitism. He is Director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, and was, FOR FIFTEEN YEARS, the director of antisemitism, hate studies and extremism for the American Jewish Committee.
He helped draft the Working Definition of antisemitism that became the IHRA Definition. He has repeatedly said it is not fit for purpose and that it has been used (amongst other things) to silence Jews critical of Israel. He is very clear, as someone who plainly cares deeply about antisemitism and is himself Zionist, that it should not be used in schools for this and other reasons.
What makes you think that these two Jewish people are part of some "campaign against changes" to protect Jewish children? Why don't you think it's actually because the IHRA Definition has been repeatedly and loudly opposed by academics, legal experts, civil society groups, and even the UN? Don't you think they might be motivated by genuine concerns about how the adoption of the IHRA Working Definition will undermine rather than help the fight against antisemitism?
On another matter entirely, your post has reminded me that I really need to do that thread about your working history as an advisor to David Lammy and John Healey, which is strangely not reflected on your LinkedIn or any professional bios I can find online - and which is ALSO a useful case study in why you should not trust Google's AI search results, so a learning moment all round!
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Zeteo quickly becoming what many suspected it would, and now going all out to campaign against changes designed to protect Jewish children from being abused in schools.
This is a really important interview by Rivkah Brown in Zeteo with Kenneth Stern, who helped draft the predecessor to the IHRA Working Definition.
He's adamant that the IHRA should be dumped, even as an academic and monitoring tool. He's very clear it is so "poisoned" it should never be used in schools, as the government is now planning to do based on the Bell review.
This is what Stern says:
“I think it’s become so poisoned now that I wouldn’t use it primarily for [data collection] or any other purpose...The track record of IHRA in the U.S., Germany, Australia and, yes, the UK has been to use [the IHRA definition] to label pro-Palestinian speech” – including that of pro-Palestinian Jews – “as officially antisemitic."
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The “Jewish journalist” in question:
Hi Ben, this is a truly disgusting (and cowardly) tweet. So glad I have spent the past year turning down your repeated invites to appear on your show.
For the record, this is a Jewish journalist interviewing the Jewish *author* of the IHRA antisemitism definition for Zeteo, and it is Stern himself who thinks it’s a mistake to use the IHRA definition in the way the government is.
But since you can’t engage with the substance of any of this, you resort to smear by insinuation.