Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎
@rafaelshimunov
Host @BeyondThePaleFM: Radio’s Home for the Jewish Left 99.5 FM NYC. Art with @artvwar.
A thread of things I was proud of on Twitter. 1) That time Ellen DeGeneres tried to censor my content off of it and succeeded. And how you all responded, risking your accounts to republish it until it reached, collectively, millions of viewers. You all sparked her downfall.
Al Jazeera interviews me about my Ellen DeGeneres Bush/Iraq video. Thank you @meenakshirv @daniel1turi, @rgizbert1 of @AJListeningPost for bringing @TheEllenShow erasure of global war crimes to a global audience.
There is no such thing as a center during genocide, mass incarceration, climate catastrophe and family separation. There are only undecided, uninformed or cowards. Then there are the right wing tech bros that profit off all those problems pretending to be center.
The reality is that America is being pulled to extremes from both sides The center is still strong, but it’s being confused by the extremes The center needs to be louder
Holy shit the "Free Press" just took down the video of @havivrettiggur sounding the alarm about the famine. What a way to welcome him to the organization. @bariweiss wants heterodox views, but stating the obvious, that Israel is inflicting starvation on Gaza, is too much
Things are so hellish in Gaza that @havivrettiggur is issuing an urgent call to Israelis to wake up to the scale of the crisis they’ve caused. x.com/TheFP/status/1…
The crossings are all located in the Israeli free fire zone, where Israeli tanks and snipers consider anyone who enters to be a terrorist who can be shot on sight The idea aid workers can simply walk there and pick up supplies without Israeli permission is utter nonsense
No, the UN is not “participating in the starvation of ‘Gazans’ by not delivering aid.” That’s an outrageous Israeli fabrication to shift blame from those actually engineering the starvation of Gaza. ➤ Sam Rose, UNRWA’s acting director in Gaza, told Channel 4 the reason aid…
“Aid Groups Blame”… No one tries as hard as NYT to whitewash Israel’s culpability.
Bret Stephens called global warming a mass hysteria, BLM "thuggish", said systemic racial profiling by police is a myth and called the Arab mind a disease. He's not only STILL employed by the NYTIMES.. He gets to follow an op-ed by a genocide SCHOLAR to claim there is none.
This will stain @nytimes forever. If they had any shame or decency, they would retract this and apologize.
Remember when we ran Bret Stephens off of Twitter by calling him a bed bug?
the life cycle of a bed bug #bretbug bret stephens
Oh wait, a Hebrew word may mean something different to different people? You’re almost there Uri.
Screaming at someone "This is hasbara!" is such a silly thing to do. Hasbara is basically Hebrew for PSA. Imagine someone replied to a post they don't like with "This is a PSA!" Wouldn't that be terribly silly? Are people doing this just because Hasbara is a scary, foreign word?
I’m a dentist, there is no genocide in Gaza.
x.com/i/article/1948…
Next NYTimes Op-Ed from Bret Stephens: A sinking boat isn’t sinking if it’s not completely under water yet.
A message to liberal Zionists in the West. Even the so called centrists in Israel couldn’t stand up (even symbolically) against the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.
Just now: The Knesset approved 71-13 a resolution backing the unilateral annexation of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Netanyahu voted in favor. Centrist Yesh Atid party did not participate in vote. Motion is non-binding and will not impact the legal status of West Bank.
American Palestinians are literally being killed and he speaks up for them. American hostages he speaks up for. And here you are making up stupid stories because you need to sleep at night justifying genocide in our name.
This tweet got 10 million views here because 1) people were pissed at Colbert leading with this and 2) impressed with Zohran's response in the face of it. With Colbert's firing now it also shows 3) You cannot satisfy fascists, @StephenAtHome's allowing himself to echo bigot…
Wow @ZohranKMamdani’s responses to Colbert on Israel Palestine.
Not really. Throw that guy to the fucking wolves.