Ben-Gvir Can’t Bring Himself to Pretend
The Israeli national-security minister came to New Haven to tell the story of his political awakening.
Itamar Ben-Gvir spoke at an event near Yale last night. So @gcaw.bsky.social went and asked him about why he'd idolized Baruch Goldstein, the infamous mass murderer of Muslims in 1994. Read what happened:
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Yes, in 2015 or so. It was troubled then, but this time people described basic goods like milk and eggs as unattainable
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It was incredibly depressing
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I was there in 2023. It was worse than I’d ever seen it. Begging for soap, children’s clothes. Desperation to leave. This was all in Havana
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