I could be wrong about this! I just don't see why we should believe he is going to be reliably progressive. He's been swimming in strange pseudo-populist waters for years. You really don't know what you're getting.
I don't think Graham Platner is secretly far-right but I am more convinced by the day that he's going to turn out to be a Kyrsten Sinema, Jared Polis, or John Fetterman. That is, assuming he defeats Susan Collins, of which I am not at all confident despite what the polls say.
Genealogy is amazing. It's kinda shocking how many characters I'm one degree away from.
Do you know for certain they were married? I've only found that they were business partners.
I apparently used to know Graham Platner's stepbrother, who was the left-ish opinion editor at The Jerusalem Post when I first started writing around 2015. What a small, small world.
I'm with the Rambam and James Talarico. Anthropomorphism is heresy.
Just finished reading your post. Crazy stuff! I hope some of the more well-resourced parents ensured the teachers got paid. That's a real chilul hashem.
I will probably go to my grave wondering why the Reform movement put out such an unambiguously pro-war statement. No one, no one, was clamoring for it internally. Their constituents hate Trump. The Israeli government just burned them again on the Kotel. They could've just said "we pray for peace."
This was Moishe Postone's hobby horse. I'm guessing you probably arrived at Chicago too late.
If Graham Platner doesn't start seriously addressing this recurring issue, Bernie Sanders and Shawn Fain, as responsible national progressive leaders, should withdraw their endorsement. I'm not even sure seriously addressing it should be enough, but he has yet to do even that. No more evasions.
Notably, all the Jewish groups identified in this article that oppose the US war in Iran are explicitly progressive or center-left groups. All the groups that call themselves nonpartisan or centrist back the war. forward.com/fast-forward...
How is what I said false? You picked the settlement with the highest concentration of American citizens (which definitely includes children of Americans born in Israel or the OPT and who've never lived outside them). There are 530,000 settlers in the West Bank. Only a small percentage are Americans.
I would say it was more true in the '80s and '90s. Meir Kahane was basically an outerborough white ethnic sectarian, and that just didn't translate well in Israel. Today's extremists are homegrown.
This is outdated information. The vast majority of settlers committing violence against Palestinians were born in Israel and the settlements. The fascist movement in Israel speaks and writes in Hebrew. It's not an imported Kahanism anymore.
Why has the leadership of Reform Judaism decided to take a position to the hawkish right of J Street?
He came out against US and Israeli aggression.
Thank goodness for Pedro Sanchez. Europe would be truly hopeless without him.
I can't summon the words to describe this disgrace.
And it's both true that the president and defense sec (and secretary of state, and) are not Jewish and most American Jews did not vote for Trump and that some Jews *did* want this (including the PM of the Jewish state) and explaining all that takes less time than "the Jews got us into war"
Unless you believe the obvious Trump lie that Iran was days away from building a nuclear weapon, the word “preemptive” should not appear in any description of this war. It is an illegal “preventative” war like the US invasion of Iraq and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The lack of self-respect you are exhibiting by just sitting there and taking this shit.
Trump's DOJ lawsuit against UCLA is a clear-cut case of using fears of antisemitism as a cudgel against institutions of higher education.
This fine would lead to massive cuts in research funding, student security, and other resources that would harm everyone, including Jewish students.
It was Nicole Malliotakis, who now represents Staten Island in Congress. I imagine Joe Lhota, the 2013 GOP nominee, is now a Democrat.
Yes. What gets lost in references to how the New York Post supposedly wrecked De Blasio's mayoralty is that De Blasio was easily reelected in 2017, after all the major shots were taken. They never threatened him politically as long as liberals didn't join the white outerborough homeowner reaction.
Zohran's response was the right one: Disapprove of throwing snowballs at cops while not indulging over-the-top rhetoric from the right. Now he has to make sure Jessica Tisch isn't actually wasting police resources to track down teenagers in order to drag them through the system for throwing snow.
On snowball affair: What someone like Hochul needs to understand is that this won't be contained to Zohran. Right-wing moral panics target liberal governance generally. Exaggerated and highly racialized stories of "urban chaos" are used against Democrats everywhere. You can't concede to the premise.
Thank you, Eric Adams.
The replies to links and skeets about antisemitism are really disturbing. Just constant repetition of the mantra "anti-Zionism is not antisemitism" in response to articles that do not mention Israel or Zionism.
Maybe learn to read. Emily Tamkin and Joel Swanson are not pushing the ADL line.
Cuomo voters on the Upper East Side would organize a boycott if a bakery owner started talking like Paladino. It's a shame they didn't notice Cuomo's direct appeals to racism and Islamophobia late in the campaign, but we have four years to break up an unnatural reactive coalition.
The presence of MAGA vulgarians like Vickie Paladino and Inna Vernikov in the City Council is not necessarily a bad thing for Zohran. His political priority should be to win over affluent moderates and liberals who voted for Cuomo. Heighten the contradictions in the latter's coalition.
