An important story by @dbonny about survivalist & combat training going on in some Pacific Northwest New Apostolic Reformation-adjacent networks:

yoursourceone.com/columbia_basin…

This is part of a broader convergence I & others are seeing bw right-wing militias & NAR-style groups. 1/

🧵A reminder that claims of 'The vast majority of American Jews are Zionists'...are completely baseless. A thread with numbers from the 2 most recent local Jewish population studies that have asked about Zionist self-identification. Most studies haven't asked, but these 2 have:

Around 3:00AM at 'Hind's Hall,' Columbia students chant:
'Went down to Columbia
And I took back what they stole from me
Took back my dignity
Took back my humanity
Now they're under our feet, under our feet
under our feet, under our feet
Ain't gonna let no system walk all over me'

Last week, I stated that I could no longer utilize the important work ADL once did regarding monitoring antisemitism and would rely on the FBI numbers, though not ideal. They reached out and I was honest that I thought their CEO Jonathan Greenblatt was no longer able to define it

'The Anti-Defamation League Has Abandoned Some of the People It Exists to Protect'

'For those with the wrong opinions, the group is now a threat to Jewish safety.'

By Emily 🗣️ Tamkin for Slate

slate.com/news-and-polit…

In this 101, Aidan Orly provides a comprehensive overview of the vast and diverse organizations promoting Christian Zionism in the U.S. and abroad. Learn more about these organizations and the tactics they use to propel this movement at politicalresearch.org/2024/04/24/101….

It will never not be funny to me that a movement which claimed to root the Jews upright and unafraid in our land, still cowers weak-kneed at the sight of 19-year-olds reading Fanon on some campus quad thousands of miles away

One of my favorite Rashid Khalidi quotes from a few months back: (and it's my own approach too)

'Students are students, They’re not scholars, or fully developed adults yet. I think you have to cut them a lot of slack.”

Grateful to Bend the Arc: Jewish Action for this. Clear, measured, unflinching. All of us invested in Jewish safety and justice for all need to demand better.

Some neo-Nazis looking to cause trouble showed up to the ASU Gaza Solidarity Encampment tonight and were quickly identified by protesters.

The chickenshits stopped filming and left pretty quickly after that. Know your local fascists, folks!

ADL coming at us with that hard-hitting investigative research, uncovering the hidden hand behind the encampments….it’s SJP 😱

Add your name to tell ADL's Jonathan Greenblatt to stop defaming students protesting in campuses across the US.

bendthearc.us/greenblatt?rec…

Sean is toying with the idea of coming to UCLA. He lives in OC so this makes sense. If I know LA like I think I do, this should be fun. See you there bestie!

Tonight: Near the encampment, Columbia Jewish students for a free Palestine hold Shabbat, standing by the gates so suspended students can attend

A clear and powerful rebuke of Greenblatt and the ADL, written with heart and fire, from a Jewish organization that is well-respected among left and liberal Jews far beyond anti-Zionist circles, as well as in the broader organizing ecosystem. We're witnessing a sea-change.

More liberal and progressive American Jewish institutions should follow the lead of groups like Bend the Arc: Jewish Action and take the principled, popular moral stance we need against out-of-touch leaders like Jonathan Greenblatt who don’t represent our community’s values!

Getting arrested today trying to deliver aid to Gaza was the only way I could figure out to mark pesach this year with integrity. Next year in liberation!

If your activism for Palestine finds you frequently railing against the 'hostile foreign power' of Israeli influence, consider whether you're adopting the rhetoric of the Right (you are) and whether that helps the cause (it doesn't)

I’m not ready for End Times Christian Larry David.

In early 2008, I exposed another sermon from John Hagee, that he gave in 2005, in which Hagee claimed that Adolf Hitler had been sent by God, to persecute Europe's Jews and force them to flee to what is now Israel. vimeo.com/1447986