@nadavw
Student of Cognitive Science and Philosophy at Rutgers University National VP for Mid-Atlantic JStreetU Co-Founder of Peace Is Possible at Rutgers Founder of Nadav Union of Twitter (soon-to-be founder of Nadav Union of Bluesky)
We should use either semicolons (“;”) or commallipses (“,,,”) to separate dependent clauses where one clause is a list.
e.g. Working with Nibbles, Jerry, and Quacker,,, Butch trapped Tom in a cage.
e.g. By working out, fixing my diet, and getting more sleep; I was able to improve my health.
It may just be a complement to the motif of territoriality, but the fact that former members of the Irgun were enthusiastic about keeping Sinai makes it seem like it existed as a dream amongst right wingers for 90+ yrs. But irdk enough about revisionist thought to say this authoritatively.
To be fair, the phrase from Bereshit 15:18 does appear in this 1934 Keren Tel Hai poster: shorturl.at/RuFAg .
I hate to sound like the stereotypical, corny, alarmist political commentator, but this is very much what Orwell is getting at in 1984 with the Big Brother slogan “war is peace.”
Netanyahu & his partners characterizing their crimes as “broaden[ing] the circle of peace” is why some of our Palestinian partners reject the rhetoric of “peace”. The Jewish + Israeli left cannot let Netanyahu & his partners co-opt terms like “peace.”
www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-he...
It took all of *4 days* before a Republican introduced a constitutional amendment to allow Trump to run for a third term.
It seems like ADL forgot to unfollow us.
The Israeli government was going to postpone its discussion on the hostage agreement till Saturday evening, "because of Shabbat"
פדיון שבויים? פיקוח נפש? יחכו לצאת השבת
Jewish State? Can't think of a more Goyish government
They've been shamed into approving it today.
“The greatest trick the fossil fuel industry ever played was convincing us that the climate crisis is a suicide, rather than a homicide. With slick PR campaigns(…) fossil fuel companies got us to ignore their coal-fired power plants, and instead view ourselves as the villains.”
I’m seeing a lot of people framing the debate between the anti-H1-B visa faction of the MAGA base (Bannon, Miller) and the pro-visa faction (Musk, Ramaswamy) as a debate about how racist to be. I think this is the wrong way to frame it. It’s ethnonationalist racism vs. scientific eugenic racism.
Post See new posts Conversation StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites Visitors to @MuseumModernArt in New York City were shocked to find a guest services employee wearing a keffiyeh—a symbol widely appropriated to promote violence against Jews. How does this align with your code of conduct?
Accusations of antisemitism for wearing a keffiyeh conflates cultural identity with hatred & trivializes real antisemitism. It also fuels anti-Arab/Palestinian prejudice.
Posts like this undermine efforts to combat antisemitism by diluting its seriousness & fueling confusion of its definition.
🗞️ Our inspiring J Street U student movement in the New York Times this week: “As a progressive, sometimes it’s difficult to be in some Jewish spaces,” said one of our George Washington leaders, “and as someone who really cares about Israel, it’s hard to be in more progressive spaces.”
BREAKING: US President Joe Biden has announced he is commuting the sentences of 37 people on federal death row.
This is a landmark step to reject racist violence and the human rights abuse of the US death penalty. #CommuteTheRow
Read more: bit.ly/4iQXCZa
Please give us at least fifty more EXACTLY like Rep. DeLauro.
A government shutdown isn't a joke and isn't funny. It harms really people, both those who receive government support and services and government employees. Republicans do this because they want people to think that government is bad and ineffective. Government isn't bad and ineffective. They are.
🚨 Message from the father of a hostage held by Hamas: "American Jewish legacy organizations have abandoned Israeli hostage families who have spent over a year in the streets putting their own lives on the line to demand a hostage-ceasefire deal."
If you follow online arguments over Israel, you’ll know there’s a group obsessed with repeating that J Street is “many things, but not pro-Israel.” It’s not just an insult to us and our supporters, but it’s a distraction from urgent, meaningful debate over Israel’s future. 🧵
Nonviolence works. It just needs more popular support. But many of the people who condemn violence are just as quick to condemn nonviolence or to simply bow out of any action.
So if you’re condemning violent action it should be a time of introspection about how you support nonviolent action.
Members of congress representing tens of millions of Americans want an honest evaluation— that’s all.
This is something that anyone who is pro-Israel and/or pro-Palestine should support (i.e. all of Congress...).
🚨 In a letter to President Biden, 77 Members of Congress – led by Representatives Crow, Dean and Houlahan – express growing frustration at the White House's continued reluctance to honestly evaluate the Netanyahu government’s compliance with US law.
Members of Congress are frustrated by the White House’s failure to fully enforce our laws. Backtracking from our own requests makes America look weak, is costing lives in Gaza, and is allowing Netanyahu to continue to degrade Israel’s reputation and mock our shared values.
I would be genuinely curious to see support for the nation-state law polled among Diaspora Jews. As far as I know, such data does not exist. Diaspora Jewish organizations are probably not interested in funding such a survey.
Excellent piece on a difficult subject:
This is what has me so crazy about Kash Patel. Everyone has jumped right to the merits of Patel and no one has even paused to say, “Presidents don’t get to fire the FBI director without paying a huge political price.”
פרשנותי הפוליטית הנושכת.
As we approach Thanksgiving next week, an important reminder. From 100 years ago, 1924, in the "Jewish Daily Forward."