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“The event they attended wasn’t inherently anti-Semitic”
The organization itself is inherently anti-Semitic!
” and neither of them said anything remotely anti-Semitic at the event.”
Simply being there was an endorsement!!!
“is guaranteed to send them in that direction”
They are already there.
“I don’t remember any large OUTRAGE headline over AOC or Ilhan Omar”
I have taken both on on their own social media sites. Ditto Tlaib and Sarsour. No need to do that here; all the anti-Semites who comment on this site are on the political right. And YWN management allows them to continue to post their hate.
“almost all republicans are very anti putin.”
No, the only one who is clearly anti-Putin is Mitt Romney. Nobody else voted to remove Trump from office for trying to end US security aid to Ukraine. All others bowed down and worshiped Trump’s totally pro-Russia policies. Now that they are embarrassed about that they are trying desperately to walk back their horrible error. Romney would have to become a Democrat in any state other than Utah. Trump’s Cult is going to do their best to end Romney’s political career and only his long support of his LDS Church may save him.
“they started paying more.”
Most did. (Turkey is an exception.) But the US didn’t benefit, as Trump still insisted on massive needless increases in US defense spending.
ujm is an anti-Zionist who thinks that Israel is an Apartheid state, and Health seems to be cut from the same cloth.
No wonder they are supporting Putin.
Ukraine has a horrible history but in 2019 it elected a Jew as President with 73% of the vote.
Remember that the OP also thinks that Israel is an Apartheid State. No surprise that he is siding with Putin, too, against Ukraine’s Jewish President who was elected in a free and fair election with 73% of the vote.
“why so many rabid anti-semites support Biden, Harris, Clinton”
Why do so many anti-Semites support Trump? David Duke. Louis Farrakhan. Marjorie Tayor Greene. Rand Paul. (I didn’t use to think Paul was an anti-Semite but his blocking of Iron Dome proves that he is.)
“Mitt Romney had a clear anti-Russian position and was laughed at by everyone.”
Mitt Romney voted to remove Trump from office because Trump tried to stop US aid to Ukraine when President Zelensky refused to kowtow to Trump’s demands to stage a fake investigation of President Biden.
No other Republicans voted to hold Trump accountable for this horrible abuse. No other Republican has standing to complain about what is happening now as they empowered Trump in his attempts to destroy Ukraine.
Rabbi Avi Weiss has not spent a lifetime cheating in business and cheating on multiple wives. He has fought for Jews all over the world while Trump spouts anti-Semitic memes.
Or do you really believe that the Torah is okay with all of Trump’s sewer-like personal and business conduct?
“Anyone who believes we are objectively doing better under this administration than under Trump has literally lost a grip on reality.”
Anyone who believes otherwise has no grip on reality.
Under Trump we had the highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression, negative economic growth overall, and a totally botched response to the COVID pandemic. Now the unemployment rate is down to historically low levels, the fastest economic growth in almost four decades, and the problem with COVID is idiots who refuse to get vaccinated or wear masks, not the government response. Oh and the infrastructure bill Trump promised but never wrote got enacted and we are finally going to start fixing water systems, bridges and tunnels, transit systems, and the like.
Trump has been raving like a madman ever since the invasion, praising Putin!
Anyone who still thinks we would be better off with Trump is a either a Putin Propagandist or a Useful Idiot. Trump has been a Putin fan for a long time and said so back in 2007! In 2016 he forced the Republican National Convention to gut a plank that supported Ukraine. In 2018 he threw all US intelligence agencies under the bus, denying the danger that they claimed Putin was, and said he believed Putin. In 2019 he tried to block security assistance to Ukraine. The question is, is Trump himself a Fellow Traveler or a Useful Idiot?
Any Jew who voted for Trump turned their backs on everything the Torah teaches. Trump is a case study in everything the Torah tells us NOT to be and do.
“DJT who took TOP SECURITY level documents out of the white house”
The Trump supporters here hate America and at least some of them hate Israel. You have already cited one area where they are hypocrites; they also whine about BLM rioting but ignore the January 6 insurrection which was far worse. And they ignore the fact that Trump kowtowed to Putin repeatedly, emboldening him in his aggression.
That the facts don’t fit with the Trumpist narrative doesn’t make them not facts. Jews are supposed to live in reality, not fantasyland.
Trump was the firat President since Herbert Hoover to lose his party the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate during his term. Yes, he is definitely a loser.
And we all should thank HaShem that he is not the President trying to deal with the current Ukraine crisis today. Biden may or may not be able to save Ukraine, but he isn’t going to be doing anything stupid and he isn’t going to be kowtowing to Putin the way Trump repeatedly did.
“Let’s rename the Democrat Party”
There is no “Democrat Party” In the United States.
ujm doesn’t understand what either Apartheid or Communism are.
“so you want AOC and bernie sanders ”
Sanders is not and has never been a Democrat.
“I understand when you say “natural immunity” is better, for example. ”
Natural immunity was similar to being vaccinated prior to the omicron variant — assuming you survived COVID in good health, which a lot of people did not. But natural immunity did not provide protection against the omicron variant.
“how long vaccines are tested (10-15 years) until they are released”
More lies. For example, the Salk polio vaccine was developed in 1953 and given to 1.8 million children in 1954. Go back further, the smallpox vaccine was adopted almost immediately after it was discovered by accident in 1796. And that has been the case with more recent vaccines, too. We don’t waste time because there are lives to be saved.
“this isn’t a vaccine it’s an mRNA. Isn’t that worse?”
How to say, “I know nothing about vaccines and am proud of that fact.” The Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are just that, vaccines. They use new technology, developed over the past two decades, that allows for vaccines to be developed and manufactured much more quickly and they have fewer side effects. So they are in fact better.
Why are you trying to kill Jews by spreading anti-vaxxer lies on a Jewish site?
“When the vaccines first came out they were sold as once and done (either one or two shots, vzeh hu.)”
You lie about Israel and Apartheid and now you lie about this. There was always the question regarding how long the immunity would last. There are many vaccines that require boosters and this is no exception.
Some sources interpret Divrei Hayamim 30:2 to mean that Chizkiyahu HaMelech intercalated a second Adar — but later than he was supposed to.
“Dr. Fauci and Bill gates together came up with this Coronavirus pandemic plan together quietly to bring it upon the nation”
Pure vile motzi shem ra.
“Time for klal yisroel to come together for serious teshuva and achdus”
How about starting by apologizing for your lies to Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates, and for your false statements about unemployment? Your post is an example of something that destroys achdus!
“everyone is staying home from work as they continue to collect unemployment from the government.”
That isn’t true. The extended COVID unemployment benefits are history.
“Why should a person go work if they can get free money?”
Why should a person go to work when he/she has to deal with abusive customers, insensitive bosses, unvaccinated unmasked coworkers, zero ventilation office buildings, and inadequate pay? Not to mention the usual horrible traffic and overcrowded subways.
A lot of folks have decided to take early retirement. A lot of folks have decided to spend more time with their families. A lot of women are homeschooling their kids. What is wrong with that?
“YWN is not general social media.”
No difference between YWN and any other social media outlet. Anyone can sign up to participate.
You would require YWN to accept comments from Christian missionaries, neo-Nazis, Nation of Islam racists, and Hamas apologists. They all have First Amendment rights. So do Reform Rabbis and Jews for Jesus. There would be no more frum internet. Essentially you want to strip away First Amendment rights of every person running a business in the US.
“total restraint is the same as eliminating one element of checks & balances from the federal government, especially during “progressive” era.”
Their restraint was a reaction to the excesses of the notorious “Lochner” era in which the Supreme Court repeatedly tossed out attempt after attempt to provide any sensible economic regulation at either the state or federal levels. Brandeis and Cardozo felt that it was appropriate for State and Federal Governments to take actions to make markets fairer (Brandeis had been a huge anti-monopoly advocate) and to relieve human misery during the Great Depression and that the courts shouldn’t be trying to legislate. But they even voted along with the majority in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States to rule the National Recovery Act unconstitutional.
Frankfurter didn’t join the Court in time for the New Deal cases. (He took Cardozo’s seat.) But he in general was quite hostile to having the courts overturn what legislatures had done, objecting for example to the Court trying to enforce religious freedom mandates. He would be horrified by the current Court.
“A Swastika was found where I’m from and local and state police and FBI all investigated. ”
A few years ago someone reported swastikas in front of my house to NYPD. I was in shul, davening Shacharit. I got a text message to come home ASAP, and by the time I made it home, the entire block was crawling with NYPD officers trying to find any evidence regarding who was responsible. The swastikas were gone within a few officers — NYPD has an entire unit dedicated to eradicating hateful grafitti.
“Palestinians in the west Bank and Gaza do not enjoy the benefits of citizenship.”
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza don’t want to be Israeli citizens.
“do you think the same of secularists who are vehemently anti charedi”
Yes.
Israeli Arabs also don’t have to deal with the always opaque and sometimes corrupt official Rabbinate, which loves to ignore halachah. For some reason Israel’s government-run Sharia courts don’t seem to generate such controversy.
“among the big mistakes the Brits did in 1920 was to reinstate the Falastin newspaper which the Turks banned for its racism in Apr-1914”
That newspaper and the people who ran it started Palestinian nationalism.
“why Yidden need Social Media?”
I go on social media in part to attack Jew haters on their own turf. I have challenged Omar, Sarsour, Tlaib, and a whole host of lesser figures. I have reported and blocked at least a dozen Jew haters on Twitter in the past week.
Today I found the same Jew hatred on this site. Some vile troll used the A word to describe Isreal. I’ve gotten people suspended from social media for less. Hopefully YWN will take action.
Kontorovich is right about Arab anti-Semitism but it clearly isn’t Apartheid. He needs to learn more about South Africa.
“why don’t you”
There is no point in trying to engage in logical discussions with Jew haters like ujm. I have reported and blocked about two dozen such hatemongers on Twitter in the past week. If I ran a Jewish site I would ban anyone who accused Israel of Apartheid and block all their IP addresses. Let them spout their hate on stormfront and electronic intifada.
“how is that Apartheid?”
It isn’t. The central feature of Apartheid was the stripping of citizenship from South Africans who were not white. Israel doesn’t do that and the extreme fringe of the Israeli political spectrum who would do that (Kahanists) have little support.
“wouldn’t expansion into west bank and gaza constitute apartheid if the arabs there are to be governed by the Israeli government but they will have no right to vote”
if the territories are annexed but the residents don’t automatically become full Israeli citizens with voting rights — whether they want that or not — then it isn’t an annexation at all. That is why East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights aren’t part of Israel.
“The A slur was invented in Oct 1961 by Shukeiri who helped Hilter since 1941”
And the people in South Africa who created the A system had openly supported the Nazis during WW2. Smuts should have hanged Malan and Verwoerd.
“The zionist State IS an apartheid state.”
Which Jew-hating group do you belong to? DSA? AI? PFLP? Hamas? JVP? INN? Sunrise? Or all of the above?
If I want to read Jew hate I can go to electronic intifada dot org.
“When did the Arabs of Israel even start defining themselves as Palestinians”
It began in the 1910s.
“We can’t have all Brandeises, Cardozos, and Frankfurters ”
The first three Jewish Supreme Court Justices!
Brandeis’s nomination by Wilson brought out every anti-Semitic Jew hater in America. He was the first SC nomination to be forced to have hearings in the Senate and his confirmation was delayed by months. Wilson’s previous appointment had been James McReynolds, the most anti-Semitic SC Justice in US history. Interestingly, Brandeis had been a Republican.
Cardozo’s nomination 16 years later by Hoover was the opposite. It brought Hoover enthusiastic praise from all parts of the political spectrum. It may have been the last time that there was wide agreement that the best judge in America had been appointed to the Supreme Court. Interestingly, Cardozo was a Democrat.
Frankfurter’s nomination 8 years later brought a return to the past. Not only anti-Semites but nativists (Frankfurter had been born in Vienna) joined the opposition. Frankfurter was the first nominee to have to appear in person before a Senate committee. Frankfurter was as political independent.
All three believed in judicial restraint, trying to avoid overturning actions by the legislative or executive branches. Brandeis and Cardozo often dissented from decisions by the Hughes Court overturning New Deal legislation; Frankfurter often dissented from decisions by the Stone, Vinson, and Warren courts.
Sadly, none of the three seemed to have the slightest interest in Judaism. Brandeis’s family had been Frankists and he himself had no interest in Judaism until for some reason in the 1910s he suddenly became a passionate secular Zionist. Cardozo admitted that he was agnostic although he did contribute financially to an orthodox Synagogue, Shearith Israel in New York City. Frankfurter was descended from rabbis, but was completely disinterested in religion, married a Christian minister’s daughter, and on the court consistently voted against expanding First Amendment religious freedom protection.
I think that the last Supreme Court appointee who was universally agreed to be the “most qualified” was Benjamin Cardozo.
Judge Childs would be a great appointee. She will being some diversity to the court because she didn’t go to an exclusive law school like every other Justice appointed to the Court in the past half century.
“Where have you ever heard that they stop people who already got off the bus and are on the public street?”
I have personally had an NYPD officer demand to see my proof of payment after disembarking from the bus. I didn’t mind; I despise the fare evaders.
I visited three African countries months before the pandemic hit. No cannibals. No genocide.
“we will have trillions of dollars worth of obsolete infrastructure whose financing costs will still have to be paid ”
Not an issue in New York City. The last major subway line was completed in 1940. The bonds have long since been paid off. Fewer commuters means that we might not have to build another half dozen lines to handle the still booming population. (NYC has about 1.3 million more people today than it did in 1940. That is roughly the population of Dallas.)