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Despicable. Especially after all he and his family have been through.

Let's be clear: This is a dry run for the Trump admin to test denaturalizing and deporting anyone they disagree with based on any criteria.

As Jews, we vehemently reject the persecution of Mahmoud Khalil, especially in our name.

This certainly suggests that Cuomo and Trump came to an understanding when they talked earlier in the summer. Trump will discourage Republicans from voting for Sliwa and in exchange Cuomo will "cooperate" as mayor

Refusing to name the Final Solution in Gaza The ancestors demand justice for the living.

As I wrote last week, every time we deny what is being done by Israel to Palestinians, we deny what the Nazis did to Jews, Romani, and trans/queer and communist/socialist folks
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What Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova are doing here is science denial that is comparable to COVID denialism and vaccine denialism

And scientists who are experts on nutrition and disease should speak out forcefully 🧪

Sorry I missed you!

Both organizations will give you training and you can work with partners to witness what is happening, show solidarity, and maybe, if our numbers grow, limit ICE’s capacity to kidnap our undocumented neighbors.

If you ever asked yourself, “what would I have done in 1938 Germany” now is your chance to demonstrate what you would have done. Sign up with JFREJ or New Sanctuary Coalition for court watch and accompaniment.1/2

Kornberg ran a despicable based on lies and innuendo. But Shahana’s record crushed it. Couldn’t be happier about the result in my district.

As Mayor, I’ve promised to build 500,000 new homes in NYC.

50,000 of those homes will be built in thriving new neighborhoods—on just four of the city’s 12 municipal golf courses.

The Supreme Court May Pick the Worst Possible Case to Cede More Power to Trump Everyone at the Supreme Court seemed to agree that the United States is in the midst of an emergency.

The biggest divide on the Supreme Court today was between justices who assume Trump will follow the law in good faith and justices who are increasingly fearful that his administration can't be trusted to abide by court orders.

Guess which faction represents a majority. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Thank you for your excellent platform! We were so impressed by your commitment to NYC’s libraries

that pcpsr poll i posted earlier says that support for binationalism is extremely low and that most palestinians want an independent state on '67 borders

Senator Murphy, you need to be on every news outlet explaining this to the world. It’s my understanding that if no one capitulates, then the plan does not work. I know there has already been some that have, but that needs to stop!!

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Brown University Professor and Doctor Are Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.

Valid visa and now gone. BTW, she was here to SAVE LIVES.

Doctor and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

I have to say: Chuck Schumer is a weak man and a fool. This was the one cudgel Dems had. Now it's up to the courts which we new from the beginning were at best going to slow some things down. There's 18 hours left to somehow bring additional pressure to bear. It will be really hard to do that.

Release Mahmoud Khalil & Protect All Student Activists Write to Columbia University and the Department of Homeland Security! Over the past two days, we have seen a deliberate and dangerous escalation in the suppression of free speech targeting our moveme...

The Trump regime is trying to crush dissent beginning with those who speak out for Palestinian freedom. This is a threat to all who believe in justice. Tell Congress to protect students & demand Mahmoud’s release: bit.ly/freemahmoudnow

This weekend, DHS targeted and seized Mahmoud Khalil as punishment for his political speech, and indicated that they are revoking his green card. They have since handed him over to ICE where he is being detained — his location unknown — and held for deportation without due process. This is what fascist governments do, and it will not stop here. This extreme escalation is the test case; the Trump/Musk administration is trying to see how far they can go without public outrage and legal checks on their power. Now is the moment to speak out and oppose this as fiercely and loudly as possible.

This extreme escalation is an egregious violation of first amendment rights. Now is the moment to speak out and oppose this as fiercely and loudly as possible.

YouTube video by The Struggle Video News "They have a very warped idea of what constitutes Jewish safety."

Proud to have been with If Not Now, JFREJ & Rabbis4Ceasefire to say to the ADL, you don’t promote Jewish safety youtu.be/3p1UKvGG1co

Proud to have joined @rabbiandykahn.com and Rabbi Rachel Goldenberg offering the priestly blessing as a prayer of protection. Solidarity makes us safe, not cozying up to fascists.

People holding black and white signs that say "ADL is bad for Jews" and "Jews say no to ethnic cleansing" photo by Daniel Efram

Yesterday, hundreds of Jews gathered outside of the ADL conference in Midtown Manhattan to show that the ADL does NOT speak for us– and is actively putting us in danger.

I despise Musk, all he does and all he stands for, but SNL’s parody of Musk is a disgusting ableist mockery of neurodivergent people. Not funny. Just shameful.

This ad speaks for me. I am proud to use my voice in this moment to join this statement. If you would like to sign on, go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

#SayNoToEthnicCleansing

A powerful article that shows once again how prophetic Baldwin was.

Imagine the uproar if a university had cancelled a session with Israeli patients. There would be calls of antisemitism and Harvard would apologise and reinstate them immediately. But because it’s the other way round, this doesn’t matter.

I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.

Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."

She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.

Excellent and necessary info.

And about arresting and detaining people -including children! - for months without formal charges and in horrific conditions.