David Bernstein retweeted
Replying to @AbdulElSayed
The only genocidal parties in the current war are Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Hamas, and we aren't selling weapons to them.
The genocide lie re Israel is a well-recycled one going back decades in anti-Israel propaganda. Given all the genocides Israel has purportedly committed, there shouldn't be any Arabs alive within many miles of Israel.
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David Bernstein retweeted
Evergreen tweet: Whatever inadequacies you perceive in Israel's response to the humanitarian situation in Gaza, now or in the past, always keep in mind that the underlying cause of the situation is Hamas refusing to surrender and end the war, despite having been defeated militarily.
Indeed, it has been intentionally exacerbating the humanitarian situation, both to give it leverage over the civilian population it controls, and to try to get world pressure on Israel to end the war without Hamas surrendering, so it can survive to restart it genocidal agenda.
David Bernstein retweeted
Thank you @ChrisVanHollen for leading this letter demanding US-Israel military tech and intelligence-sharing provisions be removed from the NDAA. We were proud to support it.
No deepening of our military relationship with Israel unless they comply with the Gaza peace agreement, end settler violence and reverse their de facto annexation of the West Bank.
A group of 12 influential Senate Democrats is demanding that the NDAA exclude language deepening Israel-U.S. defense technology sharing — the first sign of how the incoming Democratic majority may position itself toward Israel.
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David Bernstein retweeted
Hamas literally prevented a weatherproofing of the tents.
David Bernstein retweeted
Replying to @RepThomasMassie
Never forget that Thomas Massie happily embraced Ryan Matta earlier this year at a campaign event. Matta is an explicit Nazi, saying "Hitler was a hero!" Matta was wearing his favorite "American Reich" shirt when Massie hugged him. Matta and Massie hate Jews.
David Bernstein retweeted
Three newly elected Jewish House members — Brad Lander, Daniel Biss and Scott Wiener — sent a letter to Israeli ambassador calling for the release of Palestinian journalist Abed Abu Shehadeh, an Israeli citizen arrested after interviewing former Knesset member Azmi Bishara, who was accused of treason and espionage ⬇️
David Bernstein retweeted
“If you think that Vance will out-MAGA Trump and be able to ride a base of bigots, isolationists, and economic populists to electoral victory, you are delusional. It would be a Goldwater-style shellacking, if the Democrats nominated someone from the sane wing of the party.”
Trump completely dominates the Republican Party. There is no "Old Right" in charge, except in your imagination.
MAGA is in charge, and MAGA lost big.
The idea that the real problem is that Trump isn't MAGA enough is delusional. Trump is MAGA, MAGA is Trump.
If you think that Vance will out-MAGA Trump and be able to ride a base of bigots, isolationists, and economic populists to electoral victory, you are delusional. It would be a Goldwater-style shellacking, if the Democrats nominated someone from the sane wing of the party.
David Bernstein retweeted
It's hard to be more wrong about a subject that Rogan on Israel and DNA, but then again, Rogan is an ignoramus who thought there are 500 million Jews in the world (actually about 16 million). To wit:
(1) DNA tests are not banned in Israel. They are restricted for individualized results for fear of discrimination based on genetics, but population studies are allowed, and there are plenty of population studies on Ashkenazim that include Israeli subjects, easy enough to find via google or AI.
(2) There is no such thing as "Semites." Semitic is a language group. A German racist made up the "racial" category of "Semite" to refer to Jews, and said he was not a religious bigot, but a racist "antisemite," which is where the term comes from.
(3) Jews and Palestinians are both mixed groups of primarily LEVANTINE (not "semitic") origin.
(4) Genetic studies show the male Ashkenazi Jewish DNA is primarily of Middle Eastern origin. There is more debate about maternal, but the most recent and most sophisticated study suggests that most AJ maternal DNA is of middle eastern origin.
(5) Even if Israel for some reason wanted to cover up the results of DNA tests, most Ashkenazim live in the US, not Israel, so it would be pointless to try.
(6) Most Israeli Jews are descended in whole or in part from the 55% of Jews who settled in Israel who came directly from ancient Jewish communities in the the Middle East and North Africa, not from Europe, so he also doesn't know that most Israeli Jews are descended in whole or in part from people who have no ties to Europe at all.
David Bernstein retweeted
Replying to @ProfDBernstein @dilanesper
At least when I ran the survey in May 2026, a large majority (65%) of Republicans were willing to tolerate $6-7 gas prices for 4 straight months if it meant achieving the war's objectives
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David Bernstein retweeted
Replying to @jeremiahscholl @jacobkornbluh
And while I'm concerned that El Sayed is vehemently anti-Israel, I'm more concerned that he ran an antisemitic campaign, and relatedly didn't make any effort to reach out to mainstream Jewish Democrats who really just wanted a few soothing words so they could support him in good conscience. He basically gave non-far-left Jews, ie, the vast majority of Jews, a huge FU, and many voted for him anyway.
David Bernstein retweeted
Jewish Democrats are hopeful today that with U.S. funding to Israel ending and AIPAC politically diminished and no longer funding candidates, the hatred will stop.
Here in Canada we have no AIPAC equivalent, and our funding to Israel is insignificant.
The hatred is worse.
David Bernstein retweeted
In this list of "Jewish leaders" there are five rabbis. One "is the first rabbi to lead a Unitarian Universalist Congregation."
None lead mainstream congregations.
One leads a tiny Reconstructionist group that meets in a church.
Another is part-time, leading a small congregation in part-time services every other week.
The other two have no congregations.
There is also a Reverend Lauren Zinn, who was ordained by an interfaith program and doesn't purport to be any sort of Jewish clergy.
And like half the people who signed don't even provide their last names, so you have no idea if they are Jews are even real.
This is what I call news by press release, where some fringe group issues a press release and gullible or willful media outlets print it like it's real news.
NYT: The letter, signed by more than 500 people who identify as Jewish leaders or voters in Michigan, says that the election of Abdul El-Sayed, is “clearly the better choice for Jews” compared with Trump MAGA Republican Mike Rogers.
#JewsForAbdul
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David Bernstein retweeted
I would be a lot more sympathetic to the “both sides are hateful” attitude if Abdul wasn’t straight-up excusing criminal conduct.
Only one side in the Michigan Senate race is doing this
Asked about the indictment, @AbdulElSayed defended the perpetrators: “It's a lot more about what you're advocating for that gets you indicted or not indicted, rather than what you did.”
Sure.
When asked about the one who worked for him, the campaign story/dates changed 3 times.
David Bernstein retweeted
Much like Fetterman, I'm not going to magically like Haley Stevens because she did something I think is good, but man oh man have the reactions to her belied the narrative that only one of the parties is a dangerous toxic mob that you never want to cross.
David Bernstein retweeted
Replying to @chuckschumer
Since October 2023, Senator Schumer has completely capitulated to the antisemitic socialists who've dominated the Democratic Party, and his condemnation of Haley Stevens is another example of his abhorrent cowardice and appeasement.
Senator Schumer now harshly condemns Haley Stevens, but he's NEVER condemned the blatantly antisemitic colleagues in the Democractic Party - Omar, Tlaib, AOC, Sanders, Mandami, etc. He's never condemned El-Sayed's antisemitism or his embrace of the nihilistic Hasan Piler. Senator Schumer has not condemned the antisemitic thugs who rampaged on university campuses and in American streets for the past 3 years. Instead, he embraced and endorsed Zohran Mandami, an antisemitic socialist who promotes genocidal slogans ("Globalize the Intifada!"), praises Jew-killing terrorists, and refused to condemn Hamas as a terrorist organization when asked directly to do so multiple times during the mayoral campaign. He accepted Graham Platner who proudly wore a Nazi SS tattoo for two decades and spouted antisemtic tropes and dog whistles, just like Abdul El-Sayed. But he has condemned Stevens for refusing to support El-Sayed, who embraces Hasan Piker, accepts Cenk Ugyur's antisemtic ads, makes excuses for a Hezbollah-linked terrorist who attacked a Jewish daycare in Michigan, and peddles Jew hatred under the Societ propaganda term of "antizionism" and socially acceptable dog whistle of "Israel."
For too long, too many of Senator Schumer's fellow Democrats in Congress have peddled pro-Hamas propaganda, such as falsely accusing Israel of "genocide" and "famine" with never a word of criticism from Senator Schumer. In fact, Senator Schumer has joined Tlaib, AOC, El-Sayed and a majority of his Democratic leadership in attacking Israel as a "false" ally. He's never condemned the Democratic resolutions to impose arms embargoes on Israel, a U.S. ally, in the midst of 7-front existential war for survival. Never forget that Senator Schumer has even joined them, speaking on floor of the Senate in April 2024 calling for regime change in Israel - literally trying to undermine a U.S. ally's goverment in the midst of an existential war started by Iran and its proxy terrorist armies of Hamas and Hezbollah on October 7, 2023.
If there was one American Jew who could have stopped the radical mob and woke Brownshirts that have normalized antisemitic violence in America that has left five American Jews murdered in cold blood since November 2023 with their woke murderers screaming "Free Palestine!," it could have been Senator Schumer.
But this shanda has consistently shown that he prefers political expediency over doing the right thing. So Senator Schumer should just shut the hell up, because we've reached the disgraceful point in America with Brownshirts now regularly rioting, assaulting, and murdering Jews in the U.S. in part because of Senator Schumer's open tolerance, if not embrace, of nihilistic antisemites as El-Sayed, Graham Platner, Adam Hamawy in his own party. Even Nick Fuentes has now joined the Democractic Party, and Tucker Carlson has endorsed El-Sayed. Senator Schumer's moral cowardice is beyond the pale. @SenSchumer's book on antisemitism came out in February 2024, and it should have had this title if it was truthful:
David Bernstein retweeted
You all realize that @HaleyforMI's entire thing was about a demand that @AbdulElSayed simply condemn antisemitism and hate, right?
She endorsed Mike Rogers because Abdul refused to condemn antisemitism. All of those who are furious with Haley for this seem to forget this point.
David Bernstein retweeted
Replying to @DerekPederson3 @FishyMicah
I’m getting really tired of people portraying El-Sayed’s antisemitic campaign as something one would only object to because of Israel.






























