Rafael Shimunov
@rafaelshimunov
Host of Beyond The Pale on WBAI 99.5 FM NYC, Board alum Jews for Racial & Economic Justice. Co-founder of the Jewish Vote. Art at Art V War. Queens is the Future. @rafternoon on IG, leaving my 100K on X.
There are only two ways to instantly know if ethnic whites are part of your nyc block.
US Judge: Israeli Flag = Jewish Race? Unhinged ruling from an infamous Trump appointed federal judge, Trevor McFadden. Same person who protected Jan 6 insurrectionists, Trump taxes, anti-vax, banning press. www.thejewishnews.com/news/israeli...
I don't know which lobby, Amazon or Israel, but someone is writing these Zohran talking points for them.
“A Shiite meat bomb” Just casual Islamophobia from Jay Leno. Conan and Letterman would never.
Reclaiming Arab Jewish identity through music with Laura Elkeslassy.
Israel's torture and starvation machine is so bad, that even the Wall Street Journal has to investigate it. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
And even among the most right wing Jews, only fractions believe that Israel is a dealbreaker issue for their vote. Wow. Not the narrative the establishment wants us to believe.
Additionally, only 10% of Reform and 16% of unaffiliated, that 70% block of American Jews, rank Israel as a top two issue for them. We knew this for a while. With some polls putting Israel at places like 11th.
Poetica Coffee, an immigrant owned brooklyn small biz, was smeared by Rep. Dan Golden as a last ditch campaign tactic to stoke fear. He played w human lives who are now getting death threats, a DOJ investigation and white powder in the mail. Read their statement www.instagram.com/p/DaQlBOplP_...
Breaking: Mayor Zohran Mamdani makes good on another campaign pledge: freeze the NYPD headcount.
Will Ben Shapiro cratering among fellow Republicans months after the ADL and Jonathan Greenblatt were booted from the Trump regime teach them there is no amount of bootlicking Jews can do to right wing Christian white nationalists? Not even turning your fellow Jews in.
This is Amir Ohana, Speaker of Israeli Knesset (Congress) Ohana praised Donald Trump's proposal to relocate Gazans and redevelop Gaza, calling it a "bold, new vision for Gaza" and a "fresh perspective." "If you want a Palestinian state, build it in London or Paris." 6/6
This is Ariel Kellner. "Whoever remains in the north, we will truly starve them" "One goal: Nakba! A Nakba will overshadow the Nakba of '48. A Nakba in Gaza and a Nakba for anyone who dares to join!" 5/6
This is Israeli Finance Minister and settler Bezalel Smotrich. He said it was "just and moral" to starve 2 million Palestinians. Supports an Israel that also takes portions of Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. He once organized an anti-gay "beast march", look it up. 4/6
This is Cabinet Minister Amihai Ben-Eliyahu. He called on bombing humanitarian aid to Gaza. He called on starving Gazans. And he called on nuking Gaza. 3/6
This is Itzhak Wasserlauf. Here he is coaching IDF entering Gaza offering "a blessing on the one who seizes babies and dashes them against the rocks" 2/6
Come with me as I learn about each person at the official Israeli delegation at today's Israel Day Parade in New York City. These are the people some of my fellow Jewish and other New Yorkers demanded Mayor Mamdani stand with today. I'm proud that @mayor.nyc.gov didn't. 🧵
And if you’d like to chip in, or volunteer your skills, please do let me know. 6/6
Coworkers of these volunteers know what’s going on, and we want to find them and offer them a way to whistleblow their employers violation of international law and human rights. 5
In the US, Republicans love this so much that they want to offer volunteers to the IDF all the same benefits American veterans get for serving in the US military. 4
They’re able to do this because employers have been offering them paid and unpaid leave to help facilitate and even subsidize their volunteering to the IDF. 3
The IDF has thousands of volunteers from all over the world partaking in occupation, ethnic cleansing and genocide. 2
Want to help me expose companies with secret Palestinian genocide leave policies? 🧵
We speak with @noahhurowitz.bsky.social of The Intercept who was undercover at an Israel land sale at a synagogue and Lexi Sasanow of @jfrejnyc.bsky.social who is organizing to sustain @mayor.nyc.gov’s veto of a buffer bill.
Trump admits 1) there was no threat from Iran 2) he started the war for PR reasons finance.yahoo.com/sectors/ener...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani skips Jeff Bezos chaired Met Gala. Honors instead "thousands of workers behind the scenes—seamstresses, tailors, retail workers, delivery drivers—whose immense talent and dedication deserves to be celebrated," i-d.co/article/mayo...