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I wrote about the Soviet Union's treatment of Holocaust memory and the role that this deliberately incomplete memory is playing in Russia's assault on Ukraine, and Ukraine's response for @TheAtlantic.
Alex גדעון בן װעלװל
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Alex גדעון בן װעלװל
@JewishWonk
Columnist @JDForward. U.S. Foreign Policy and Jewish communal concerns. Bylines in @TheAtlantic, @WashingtonPost, @TabletMag. All bad takes are mine alone.
- Man have I got upsetting news for a lot of very concerned White people about why Black people have slaver ancestors.
- I'll be voting for Harris today. A brief thread of my reasons why. This is not to argue with Trump supporters, this is to share with anyone who is on the fence.
- If your media consumption is a Fox morning show, Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman, Jordan Peterson, Prager, Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder, right wing memes on reddit, Twitter, and Instagram, and your nightly consumption is Fox, you will have no way of knowing anything good Dems do.I keep seeing the argument that Democrats abandoned the white working class, but from a policy perspective most of Biden’s legislative accomplishments benefited the working class. The sad reality for Dems is that “doing things” simply doesn’t translate into electoral benefits
- A "Jewish and Israeli owned falafel restaurant" in Philadelphia cannot do a single thing about Israel's military campaign against Hamas. What you're looking at is people normalizing antisemitic incitement against their Jewish neighbors.Protestors in Philadelphia stand outside of a Jewish & Israeli owned falafel restaurant “Goldie, Goldie you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide”
00:00 - Dropping a Nazi flag in front of a Jewish candidate isn't rude or mean. And it's not just a message for Bernie Sanders. It's a signal of intent.
- At Hersh Goldberg-Polin's funeral his family makes no calls for revenge. They could be forgiven if they did. Instead, they speak of their love for Hersh. His curiosity. His desire to understand people. His convictions for peace. They are the best among us. So was he.
- Chappelle made a lot of excuses for Kanye and Kyrie Irving's antisemitism on SNL last night. I want to focus on one idea in particular, because it's prevalent far beyond these 3 Black entertainers. "The Jews control Hollywood."
- Replying to @ChineseEmbinUSThis tweet is going to end up in genocide museums.
- You're never going to convince me foreign influence operations play no role here. Americans don't talk like this.Hundreds of anti-Israel Yale students chanting “we will honor all our martyrs” last night at their new encampment.
00:00 - Hamas is brave enough to wear their uniforms while surrounding an unarmed woman. Not brave enough to wear it when the IDF comes for them though. Fascists are always cowards.A photo can say a thousand words.
- Jew haters discovering that Mizrahi Jews exist is currently my favorite social media phenomenon
- Watching this press conference I have a lot more questions about the cognitive capacity of America's intelligentsia than I do about Biden's
- Listening to Zelensky's interview with the last remaining independent Russian media outlets and I'm struck by how insane it is to paint this man as some kind of Russophobe. He speaks Russian with such comfort and speed. It is his mother tongue.
