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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3h

"Christians United for Israel, the evangelical Zionist group founded in 2006 by Texas pastor John Hagee, claims 10 million members, more than the entire population of 7.5 million Jews in the United States." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

God's "blank check": Christian Zionists are pouring billions of dollars into Israeli extremism

Evangelicals have become Israel's most important American allies.

www.motherjones.com

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 5h

This form of leftist campism serves the psychological need of defining the enemy very clearly. If the United States is the final boss of fascism, all one has to do is defeat that one country and the world is free. Unfortunately, history does not work that way.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 5h

This is American exceptionalism, every bit as much as the Trumpist movement is. This perverse psychological need to make the United States the source of all the world's evil is the flip side of people who insist the US is the greatest country in history.

chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 7h

Post like this and I unfollow and mute. This is erasing centuries of European pogroms and other violence prior to WWII by making America the sin-eater for the entire Western world. I won't have it and I won't let it slide:

Cærsten (@cara.city) posted:

"we didn't cause Nazism" dude Hitler based the Nuremberg Laws on the Jim Crow south and Lebensraum was partially inspired by the native genocide of the 19th century idk what to tell you
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By quote-posting:
Will Stancil‬ (@whstancil.bsky.social‬):

we didn’t cause Nazism. whatever caused incumbents to tank in 2024, it wasn’t unique to us. we aren’t uniquely corrupt, or violent, or authoritarian. there are good things and bad things about our country like any other, and Americans work a lot like people anywhere

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 6h

I think this is the most cursed social media post I have ever seen.

Tweet from Dinesh D'Souza: "I asked Bibi Netanyahu—the Jewish head of a Jewish state—to comment on the most famous Jew of all time, Jesus Christ."

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 7h

"Jewish man in Montana assaulted on Oct. 7 anniversary by self-declared Nazi" www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-man-i...

Jewish man in Montana assaulted on Oct. 7 anniversary by self-declared Nazi

Suspect accused of accosting victim with Star of David tattoo who asked him if he had any Nazi-linked tattoos, reportedly told arresting officer he is a member of the '4th Reich'

www.timesofisrael.com

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11h

It’s such a telling sign of this person’s view of the world that he cannot imagine anyone deciding to participate in political action out of genuine conviction and not just because they’re being paid by a shadowy puppet master.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11h

Good piece, but just as we should expect the pro-Palestine movement to police antisemitism in its ranks, so too should pro-Israel political groups in the US do a whole lot more to purge the overt Islamophobes.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 4d

“Uttering, promoting, and in some cases even tolerating anti-Israel rhetoric that crosses the line into anti-Semitism does double damage,” @ibishblog.bsky.social argues: both fueling violent attacks and tarring the pro-Palestinian movement.

Anti-Semitism Is Poison for the Palestinian Cause

No good will come to the pro-Palestinian movement from any association with violent attacks.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11h

The trope of the shadowy Jewish puppet master is not just about Jews, but about telling a story that discredits all movements for progressive change as inauthentic and inorganic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15h

I didn’t see the American right turning against circumcision in large numbers, but honestly, that one’s on me.

The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 2d

The health secretary, who has mused that COVID was designed to spare Ashkenazi Jews, is now alleging that a tradition practiced by Jews is linked to autism.

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FactPost on X: "RFK Jr: Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. Trump: There's a tremendous amount of of proof or evidence. I would say as a non-doctor, but I've studied this a long time https://t.co/9g8U6oWIiL" / X

RFK Jr: Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. Trump: There's a tremendous amount of of proof or evidence. I would say as a non-doctor, but I've studied this a long time https://t.co/9g8U6oWIiL

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15h

Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, son of Nathaniel Rothschild, the first Jewish peer in England, once rode a zebra-drawn carriage to Buckingham Palace, to prove that zebras could be domesticated and should be legally permitted as transportation in London.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

They're cutting religious studies programs so everyone can study tech, just when the tech world increasingly demands religious studies education to understand it.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

Soros conspiracy theories are antisemitic, but they aren't just about Jews. They're about politicians like this using the figure of the perfidious Jewish puppet master to explain away all progressive social change, to avoid reckoning with how unpopular their policies really are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

New Henry Purcell music just dropped. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

The historical parallels are glaring.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

"A “very significant” unpublished story by Jack Kerouac described as “a lost chapter of the On the Road saga” has been discovered after languishing in the files of an assassinated Mafia crime boss for at least 40 years." www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction

Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature On the Road

www.theguardian.com

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

The concept of "virtue signaling" is fundamentally culturally Protestant, premised as it is upon a distinction between some fundamentally stable notion of internal character attributable to a person which can be split from the actions that person commits within the world.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

Famous progressive hero, Otto von Bismarck.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

It's in "Jewish Organizations' Response to Communism and to Senator McCarthy," by Aviva Weingarten, p. 68.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

If the party leadership admits this, they have to admit that we are not in normal political times anymore and that the response cannot be to just do normal political campaigns on topics like healthcare coverage, and they are not prepared for that world.

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, so you're saying that they lied to us?

"Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism
The head of a conservative watchdog organization acknowledged that its report did not find evidence that the network of liberal billionaire George Soros had broken the law."

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

"Thousands are still buried beneath the rubble. We don’t even know all their names. These aren’t just numbers. These are entire families erased, students who will never return to school, newborns who never made it past their first cry." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

We Are Genocide Survivors. But Our War Is Far From Over.

We in Gaza will remember the martyrs—those who died teaching, reporting, healing, mothering, surviving. We will carry their memory like fire in our hearts. And we will begin again.

www.thenation.com

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

I realize we're all distracted by a lot of other things right now, but I was still shocked by just how little coverage this got. I hardly saw any other media sources write about it. So I had to write about it myself.

Religion Dispatches @religiondispatches.org · 1d

Joel Swanson on VPOTUS' casual, horrifying antisemitism

religiondispatches.org/jd-vance-tri...

JD Vance Trivializes Jewish History by Referring to ICE Criticism as 'Blood Libel' — But Reveals What this Admin Thinks of Jews

Last week, in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Vice President JD Vance accused critics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of committing “blood libel” against ICE agents. As Va...

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

"Anti-Zionism" can mean everything from "Every Jew goes to Poland" to "what we used to call Martin Buber's binationalist Zionism" to "Haredi belief in waiting for Moshiach." So when people ask me if anti-Zionism is antisemitism, my response is always, "Define your terms."

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

Ian Carroll, who is being platformed by Rep. Ro Khanna, is not precisely a Holocaust denier, he’s a Holocaust denier denier. Which is to say, he denies that Holocaust denial exists as a real force on the ideological extremes, and claims it was invented by Israel to discredit anti-Zionists.

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 2d

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a thing.

Religion Dispatches @religiondispatches.org · 1d

Joel Swanson on VPOTUS' casual, horrifying antisemitism

religiondispatches.org/jd-vance-tri...

JD Vance Trivializes Jewish History by Referring to ICE Criticism as 'Blood Libel' — But Reveals What this Admin Thinks of Jews

Last week, in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Vice President JD Vance accused critics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of committing “blood libel” against ICE agents. As Va...

religiondispatches.org

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