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Thanks to its regime, Israel is losing the justification for its existence | Opinion ***

The abandonment of its citizens in captivity in favor of pursuing the messianic ideology of the radical right, in addition to the rampant repression of government critics, has rendered Israel a failed state.
My new oped @haaretzcom.bsky.social
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

At some point we need to discuss what it means that some cry for 2 children but not for 10,000. It never seems like the right time, but it has to happen.

And yes, we need to discuss how anyone can overlook the murder of children. It’s is becoming increasingly more common, utterly heartbreaking.

omfg they’re invested in tesla!

The pro-occupation lobby does not rest.

So neither can we.

Reuters photo by Kent Nishimura of Benjamin Netanyahu posing with nine members of Congress, including Richard Blumenthal, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff. (Not 100% sure that's Blumenthal, as he looks shorter than usual, but the pic has jarringly odd perspective and cropping)

Even today, leading Democrats rushed to pose with a MAGA-allied terrorist wanted for crimes against humanity.

From Greenland to Gaza The New American Imperialism

@peterbeinart.bsky.social
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Tweet from Hakeem Jeffries: “ Presidents come and Presidents go. Through it all. God is still on the throne.” 1:37 PM • 1/26/25 • 740K Views

We are not going to ‘thoughts & prayers’ our way out of fascism or throw up our hands and leave it to God, but that is what Dem house leader seems to be suggesting here.

Musk is deadly serious about his antisemitic, neo-Nazi, racist, and far right beliefs.

Among other things, he:

1. Supports the German far right party
2. Works with and communicates with neo-Nazis
3. Pushes Great Replacement, Rothschild, and more conspiracy theories
4. Reinstated neo-Nazis on X

how do we know anything?

Mexico refuses to accept a U.S. deportation flight The Mexican government has criticized President Donald Trump's unilateral immigration actions, and the landing would have required Mexico's assistance.

(NBC News) - Mexico denied a U.S. military plane access to land Thursday, at least temporarily frustrating the Trump administration's plans to deport immigrants to the country, according to two U.S defense officials and a third person familiar with the situation.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Trump's freezing of all civil rights cases at the DOJ is not part of an anti-DEI agenda, but an anti-civil rights agenda. DOJ was *founded* to protect Black rights during Reconstruction. That this difference is unclear speaks to the success of conservative propagandists and the failures of liberals.

Elon Musk appears on video at German far right campaign event Elon Musk made a surprise appearance during Germany's AfD (Alternative fuer Deutschland) election campaign event in Halle in eastern Germany on Saturday, speaking publicly in support of the far right party for the second time in as many weeks.

Nazi addresses Nazi rally
www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Disney CEO Bob Iger's Pay Package Rises 30% to $41.1 Million in 2024 Bob Iger's total compensation for the 2024 fiscal year climbed to $41.1 million. Iger is slated to lead the media conglomerate through the end of 2026.

Bob Iger gets about a $10 million per year pay raise.

www.thewrap.com/disney-ceo-b...

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.

Billionaires Should Not Exist Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.

Read our op-ed here ⤵️

Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.

a bunch of posts about abortion pills vanished from Instagram. Meta put them back after we asked what was happening: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

If someone is working to make sure people don’t know what the law is, it means they’re trying to undermine the law, not uphold it.

The fact that this targets some of the most vulnerable in our country is deliberate, meant to acclimatize us to denials of rights that will extend well beyond migrants.

Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza? A discipline born from the study of the Holocaust faces its contradictions as Israel stands accused of the “crime of crimes.”

Now out from behind the paywall: @maricohen.bsky.social
goes long on the crisis facing the field of genocide studies as institutions that emerged from the study of the Holocaust grapple with—or ignore—genocide in Gaza. jewishcurrents.org/can-genocide...

Add your name: Elon Musk’s Nazi Salute Is Unacceptable On January 20th, Elon Musk repeatedly performed a Nazi salute on stage at a Donald Trump inauguration event. It was chilling, especially for those of us whose ancestors faced persecution and mass murd...

ADD YOUR NAME TO CONDEMN MUSK’S NAZI SALUTE & TRUMP’S FASCIST POLICIES: innmvmt.org/musk

Now is the time for Jews—& everyone—to say loud & clear what should be obvious: we won't find safety by aligning ourselves w/ Musk, Trump, & movements that spew racism, white nationalism, antisemitism, & hate

What you can do Ten ways to resist Trump II

In light of Trump II’s predictably cruel and bonkers beginning, many people are asking: “What can I do now?” Here are 10 recommendations. robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-c...

The actual release into our country of violent criminals hostile to our way of life.

Trans men are men.

Trans women are women.

Trans people are sacred.

Everything sacred will be defended.

When they come for one of us, they threaten all of us.

We knew throughout all our history.

We know now and we will know every day.

Immigrant safety is Jewish safety.

Just to be clear, you are defending a Heil Hitler salute that was performed and repeated for emphasis and clarity. People can officially stop listening to you as any sort of reputable source of information now. You work for them. Thank you for making that crystal clear to all.

I’m just going to say that AOC is the acting leader of the Democratic Party until someone proves otherwise. At least insofar as she is responding to the moment with leadership.

The Senate has voted 64-35 to pass the Laken Riley Act, which will enable Trump’s ICE to put migrants in detention without due process & empower states to block visa programs & federal immigration policy.

12 Democrats voted with Republicans.

BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration to block the president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship.

An executive order does not have the power to override the Constitution.

“The Germans imposed the Nazi tyranny on themselves. Many of them, perhaps a majority, did not quite realize it at that noon hour of January [as] Hindenburg, acting in a perfectly constitutional manner, entrusted the chancellorship to Adolf Hitler.

But they were soon to learn.”

— William L. Shirer

My review of Max Strassfeld’ relatively new book Trans Talmud came out.

muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

The chilling effect of this—as is clearly intended—will be immense.

If major news organizations find it too expensive to speak the truth about Trump and his lackeys, what chance do smaller outlets, watchdog groups and individuals have when faced with financial ruin via defending against such suits?