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We have all been here before. We as Jews often say “we’ve been here before” to remind us what happens when rising authoritarianism is not confronted. Today, we as Americans of all faiths and backgrounds can say we’ve collectively been here before — and not that long ago. 🧵1/12

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Israel isn't in control of the United States. This is just who the US is and has always been. Saying we're controlled is just a way of saying we're victims. We're not. We're an imperial power that likes war because it's profitable and enriches our oligarchs. That's it.

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

My original video just hit one million views on Insta, so I decided to remix it. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is a C class rapper

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This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

submitted 4 days ago • 86 comments

There were two intifadas. And one of them, according to even the IDF, was 99% non violent. But let’s continue to define and ban Arabic words for Arabs. While promoting genocide. forward.com/opinion/3896...

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@bradlander.bsky.social has been regularly doing accompaniments and volunteering as a legal observer. ICE clearly singled him out to punish him for bringing attention to what they are doing. This is political persecution.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I’m ☠️

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Andrew Cuomo listing his accomplishments is like when an oil company makes an ad about how it cleaned a body of water it was forced to by a court.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

A shocking revelation at today’s anti-Zohran press conference in Queens. “Mr Mamdani’s name is Mr. Cardamom.” “Mr Cardamom is a C class rapper.”

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

submitted 8 days ago • 1092 comments

Suburban New York community chases ICE out. ICE crashes while fleeing.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Two Palestinians legally visiting the US with visas, invited by local Jewish leaders to speak on human rights, are being held at SFO to be sent to West Bank.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Cuomo PAC darkens skin of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in new mailer to NYC voters.

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

WATCH: Rabbi Susan Goldberg (founding rabbi of Nefesh and a Bend the Arc board member) appeared on NBC to firmly reject the Trump administration’s ICE raids, false narratives, and dangerous escalation in Los Angeles — and to model why we show up as Jews and allies to protect our neighbors.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Los Angeles vs The Three Pillars of Fascism 🧵

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Anyone know a (pro-bono or sliding scale) CPA or tax attorney to help a movement comrade out of danger?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

On this day in 1939, the MS St. Louis was turned away from the United States, and the 937 refugees — almost all Jewish — were sent back to Europe. While some found refuge, 254 of the ship’s passengers were killed in the Holocaust. 🧵 1/12

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

From an Israeli living in Boulder, Colorado. www.facebook.com/micha.kurz/p...

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

"Bend the Arc: Jewish Action refuses to allow the Trump administration to bogusly claim that his authoritarian policies on travel and immigration have anything to do with keeping Jews safe." Read our full statement on Trump's Muslim and Africa travel ban. www.bendthearc.us/statement_tr...

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In 2017, after my 12 million viewer live stream of Muslim Ban protests at JFK Airport with groups like @thenyic.bsky.social @workingfamilies.org, CNN asked me: Yeah, but can you all win? Then we won. We can beat Trump's Muslim and Africa ban again. And we will. www.cnn.com/2017/02/09/p...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Are we gonna talk about how Black and brown people, including Arabs, are automatically said to be motivated by "the left" when many of them are apolitical or right wing AF?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

It says a lot about where we’re at in this country that a beloved voice actor was murdered by his homophobic neighbor and every headline is still running passive defense for his killer, doing everything not to call this hate crime what it was. These are scary times. RIP to Jonathan Joss.

submitted 20 days ago • 63 comments

Our hearts are with the Boulder Jewish Community and everyone impacted by this horrendous violence. We will be back online Tuesday night as we observe Shavuot, and will return to building a world where violence and suffering are replaced with care and safety for all.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

On erasure and forced-assimilation of non-wht Jews | @mostmoralpod.bsky.social 109: Living in Shai-aspora, with @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social Full episode: www.patreon.com/posts/129495...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

submitted 28 days ago • 760 comments

Bend the Arc joins the Jewish call for food aid for all people in Gaza. Read a message from Bend the Arc CEO, @jamieberan.bsky.social.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

A doctor who worked in Gaza shares what she saw and demands immediate accountability from Marc Carney. This is not a war. It's a genocide. Silence is complicity

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Hey Shai Davidai, it’s you dad. Thanks @mattlieb.bsky.social and Daniel Maté for space on Bad Hasbara podcast for this critical intervention.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

The cruel MAGA budget plan is a shanda! 🙅 Here’s why no one (especially Democrats!) has an excuse to give it a single vote. Use our easy tool to contact your reps: bendthearc.us/budget

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Hopefully, no one tells Joe Biden that genes play a role in his cancer, disproportionally targeting specific people for death. Because he might give it $22 billion dollars.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Working on something special @jvp.bsky.social

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

"why don't kids play outside anymore must be the phones" abc7chicago.com/post/amid-pl...

submitted 43 days ago • 43 comments

Say what you will about Qatar, they understand corruption!

submitted 43 days ago • 8 comments

Don't miss our latest episode with @simonerzim.bsky.social @moustafabayoumi.bsky.social and Andrew Ross covering the book Ta-Nehisi Coates called "masterful" by Amy Kaplan (z"l).

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

The Israeli gov has enough soldiers to battle fires. Yet they’re asking for volunteers. So every international who refuses to volunteer, can pull an IDF ethnic cleanser out of the West Bank or an IDF genocider out of Gaza. Stay home. Fire will be covered. Plenty of soldiers.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

I can’t believe rape culture threatens to allow Cuomo to be mayor. A culture so pervasive that even women and unions with large memberships and leadership of women are endorsing this monster.

submitted 56 days ago • 6 comments

Never forget The New York Times recruited, further enriched, celebrated, and refused to fire the most vindictive McCarthyite since the 1950s, a MAGA operative who is now trying to end Wikipedia.

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

Really great performance by Michael B. Jordan and Michael A. Jordan.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

They keep telling us we need to abandon trans people, dehumanize Palestinians, forget immigrants and give up on health care, college and housing in order to win over independents. Yet here is @aoc.bsky.social splitting them in a Siena poll of New Yorkers. scri.siena.edu/2025/04/22/h...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Deborah Lipstadt, Biden’s former antisemitism envoy, claims that Trump is protecting democracy by targeting student protestors. I’m losing my mind.

submitted 61 days ago • 17 comments