This is why I don’t truck with BDS anymore. There are legitimate criticisms of Israel: but so much of the BDS and Palestinian Solidarity movement is tied up in crazy conspiracy theories and legitimate anti-semitism. It’s like the Republican Party: most don’t behave or believe like Donald Trump, but Trump still is the…

This will likely have a huge impact on dozens of shoppers.

I am a public school teacher. I am sitting at my desk, which is in a classroom in a public school full of minorities and SpEd students, and I am weeping. I have about 9 minutes left on my lunch break, and I don’t know that I can pull it together in time. I am crushed, absolutely gutted. I am afraid for my students, I…

Ah, that’s ok. It’s tough out there right now. Yesterday, I got up and read the news over coffee as is my usual habit, and cried into my coffee for hours. Everything that’s happening is hard to process.

I did mean you with regard to the hoping for more Snowdens thing, but now that I have settled down a bit (sorry, I was reading too much Trump news before I commented) I want to explain that I know it is not the fault of the vast majority of people that they have the opinions they have because obviously it is hard to…

It’s saddening how many people are totally unaware of how devastating the Holocaust was for Judaism as a broader culture. Obviously the deaths of millions of people, Jew or not, is the main tragedy of the Holocaust. But we didn’t just lose those people, we lost whole communities. And the result has been that many…

Yes, and this is how people defend Trump against accusations of fostering (or at least turning a blind eye to) anti-Semitism in his administration and supporters. It’s a fig leaf. Kushner is obviously not going to stand up for Jews, or anyone besides himself and his own interests.

no one in their right mind would ever fuck them?

oh, but we didnt demoralize him, sean - he came to us, quite honestly, without any morals at all.

It seems like White women are getting more shit for this than White men, even though White men voted Trump in far greater numbers.

I know, man, vegans are the fucking worst, aren’t they, with their weird dietary choices? Always, always try to lump them in with any asshole you want to shame. It’s totally expected and acceptable on Jez. Funny, funny stuff.

I guess I’m an oddity, (actually sure that I am) because I give zero fucks about what anyone thinks about just about everything, including who I voted for. Or is it “whom?” Don’t GAF about that either!

So when Egypt and Jordan and Lebanon and Syria invaded Israel, it was because Israel had oppressed them?

To preface, these are not arguments I personally agree with, but these are some arguments posited FOR settlements:

Oh so great. So tell me, after Netanyahu pulls out of the settlements, when will Hamas not be an anti-Semitic terrorist organization elected to control the purported government of Palestine?

There can’t be a two state solution as long as Palestine is run by terrorists. :)

What serious consequences could the world effect on Israel? Are you talking things like economic sanctions, travel ban, and referals to international courts? The world has done everything short of those extreme measures.

It’s so weird that you think the U.N. has treated them with kid gloves. Israel certainly doesn’t think that. The U.N. made the initial mistake of creating Israel in the way that they did. But since the creation, it has been the U.S. who has propped them up. The U.N. has been down-right hostile to Israel. Kid gloves?…

This is the biggest pile of false equivalency I’ve read today! Two state solution indeed. Israel will just keep waiting, Hamas will disappear real soon I’m sure, and then everything will be just fine! If only Netanyahu stopped the settlements, there would be peace. We would have Israel, a democracy, and Palestine,…