Micah, I am almost inspired by your post today. I think you will understand my "almost" if you read the front (and inside) page of the NY Times today (10/29), one of the most depressing reads ever with regard to the election, immigration, racism, Trump, Israel's Genocide in Gaza, and the list goes on. Heretofore, I think you have been unclear about the Genocide. Today you make a clear statement. Regarding the ADL, Martha Rosier's comment is an understatement. Israel, in how it engineering the timing and extent of its killing, is going all out to elect Trump and, more than complicit, ADL is an active partner. I cannot help but add that the ADL is and always has been a racist organization. It 's role since October 7 2023 has been to change the subject from Genocide to anti-Semitism. Such weaponization makes all Jews unsafe. Hopefully, they have tarnished the brand which will make it easier for Jews and everyone to Drop the ADL.
I must be getting very old. The ADL has ALWAYS been disappointingly terrible, Swap the Vote was in play (under another name or no name) in the election of 2000 (how I got to vote for Nader in NY), and yenta means a busybody or annoying woman--a shadchan is a matchmaker (yes, people can misuse words, but why mess up two good terms?) .
Finally, Eddie Glaude must have been out of his mind to imagine that his "strategy" of not voting for Clinton would "send a message" to move to the left. The message received by Dems, in any loss, is invariably "move to the right.")
But thanks very much for promoting vote-swapping-- I was wondering why it had disappeared! and thanks for injecting some hope into our gloom.
Your analysis of Greenblatt and the ADL is spot on. You would think their name would remind them
of the role they are supposed to play for Jews and other minorities. As you point out, So much of Trump's rhetoric is defamatory yet, at most, we get a tepid press release. What happened to standing up loud and bold when we see anti semitism in any form?
Micah, I am almost inspired by your post today. I think you will understand my "almost" if you read the front (and inside) page of the NY Times today (10/29), one of the most depressing reads ever with regard to the election, immigration, racism, Trump, Israel's Genocide in Gaza, and the list goes on. Heretofore, I think you have been unclear about the Genocide. Today you make a clear statement. Regarding the ADL, Martha Rosier's comment is an understatement. Israel, in how it engineering the timing and extent of its killing, is going all out to elect Trump and, more than complicit, ADL is an active partner. I cannot help but add that the ADL is and always has been a racist organization. It 's role since October 7 2023 has been to change the subject from Genocide to anti-Semitism. Such weaponization makes all Jews unsafe. Hopefully, they have tarnished the brand which will make it easier for Jews and everyone to Drop the ADL.
I must be getting very old. The ADL has ALWAYS been disappointingly terrible, Swap the Vote was in play (under another name or no name) in the election of 2000 (how I got to vote for Nader in NY), and yenta means a busybody or annoying woman--a shadchan is a matchmaker (yes, people can misuse words, but why mess up two good terms?) .
Finally, Eddie Glaude must have been out of his mind to imagine that his "strategy" of not voting for Clinton would "send a message" to move to the left. The message received by Dems, in any loss, is invariably "move to the right.")
But thanks very much for promoting vote-swapping-- I was wondering why it had disappeared! and thanks for injecting some hope into our gloom.
Your analysis of Greenblatt and the ADL is spot on. You would think their name would remind them
of the role they are supposed to play for Jews and other minorities. As you point out, So much of Trump's rhetoric is defamatory yet, at most, we get a tepid press release. What happened to standing up loud and bold when we see anti semitism in any form?