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Michelle

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Orthodox Jew in the streets, humanist in the sheets. Dehumanizing Israelis or Palestinians gets you blocked. Lifelong New Yorker, normie liberal, abundance shit-lib. Cars ruin cities.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
After the Green Party's "Zionism is Racism" vote, the Leader of Haringey Council, controlled by the Greens, wrote to some Synagogues in the borough to "reassure" them. I want to show you Highgate Synagogue's reply. I believe it is worth reading in its entirety. www.jewishnews.co.uk/synagogue-re...
Dear Mark Thank you for your emails to us. We take it from both the tone and the content of your email that you are deeply embarrassed with the decision taken by your party to not only brand Zionism as racism but to call for the eradication by any means necessary including violence, of the only Jewish state, the only practising democracy in the Middle East, and also home to half of the world’s Jewish population.  We are not surprised you are embarrassed. The policy decision which has not just been endorsed by but was publicly celebrated by the Haringey branch of the Green Party, of which we assume you are a member, is thus aligning itself with Hamas, a genocidal, homophobic and misogynistic Islamist terrorist organisation not only responsible for the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, but countless murders and torture of its own people. You may not be aware that members of our synagogue have close relatives and friends who perished in that pogrom - of which today is the third anniversary - not to mention other horrendous terrorist atrocities carried out in the name of the resistance that your party supports. We also adopted Emily Damari, a British Israeli hostage who was kidnapped by Hamas from her home at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, suffered terribly at the hands of her Hamas jailers and had to keep her sexual orientation secret from her kidnappers or else would have been murdered, along with 87 others including the Bibas children, four year old Arieh and nine month old Kfir who were killed in cold blood for the sole crime of being Jewish children born in their ancestral homeland.  Our synagogue along with the majority of British synagogues recites weekly Sabbath prayers for both the Royal Family of the United Kingdom and the State of Israel and will continue to do so, irrespective of what you or other Green Party members think. 

 Love of Zion and a hope to be able to return to live in our ancestral homeland is integral to all streams of Judaism, as, it so happens,Earlier this year we hosted at Highgate Synagogue a noted Palestinian campaigner Ahmed Fouad AlKhatib who lost more than 30 family members in Gaza. He told a packed synagogue - and it was really packed -- how he as a Gazan and a Palestinian believed that Hamas had brought nothing but disaster on the Palestinian people, and that those keffiyeh wearing sympathizers in the West who cheer for Hamas are doing more harm than good.   He was no shill for Israel or its Prime Minister, but he at least acknowledged the attachment of Jews to this land, and the fact that non-Jews in Israel have rights that no-one, certainly not Jews or Christians, let alone Muslims can aspire to anywhere else in the Middle East. So no, we don’t accept your assurances that we are safe under your watch. You may see no connection between the ceaseless vilification of Israel, the blood libels that you and your party regularly trot out, and the hostility to Jews in this country, but we do. If this motion does not mean that Jews in Haringey who have family or friends in Israel, or who attend our synagogue, or who maybe aren’t religious but believe that there is a place for a haven for the tattered remnant of the most persecuted race on earth, are considered by you and your party as racists and by implication fair game for ostracism, intimidation, violence or worse, please explain to us what else it means. And if that is indeed what it means, and we are pretty sure that those who voted for it believe that is precisely what it means, how can we as Jews feel safe when the largest party of the borough we live in, entirely peacefully up to now, publicly align yourself with the most virulent jew-hating racists of all, Hamas and the Nazis. As it is, despite living in one of the most peaceful and crime free parts of the borough, we have had as a synagogue to invest substantial sums in building terrorism-proof fences round our premises, and employ both volunteers and professional security with stab vests to enSo your embarrassment is not enough. If you really want us to feel you do not agree with the racist and genocidal implications of your party’s policy, the least we can expect is for you to publicly resile yourself from that policy and commit yourself and your party colleagues to reverse that policy and to educate themselves about the realities of the Middle East conflict, and about Jewish life, before you pronounce on these matters with such unshakeable certainty again.  Yours sincerely,
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thank you, wishing you the best of health as well
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don’t, though I have MS in my family (my father had it and my aunt, his sister, has it) so I worry about whether I am susceptible and something triggering it
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yikes! Glad I’m a lucky one who doesn’t get any reaction
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Only symptoms I’ve ever gotten from any shots is arm pain. The Covid shot itself is particularly painless when administered.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Got both in one arm yesterday. First time I did it like that. Not too bad and I could sleep in the other side.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Lotta SJPs on there
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This has been the playbook for always.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A flourishing, healthy, peaceful Gaza could have proved to Israelis that occupation is the problem and they would have been convinced to end it in the West Bank also. Israelis don’t love occupation, they are scared the WB would become another Gaza.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You don’t think Hamas’s takeover of Gaza and the subsequent tunnel building to kidnap Israelis and constant rockets had anything to do with it? Israelis saw Gaza as a test case.
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ike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Guys, no. That the worst people in New York showed up for their preplanned October 7th protest of Mamdani does not actually show he nailed it in the tweet he sent minutes before they showed up
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
That’s how you do it. Thank you.
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hamaapil.bsky.social @hamaapil.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A small note of correction - Jews were never given citizenship by the Algerian state. In 1963, when the Algerian nationality law was passed, the 15,000 Jews who had remained in the country were denounced as “European Settlers” and denied citizenship.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hope you have a wonderful and joyous birthday tomorrow
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
These crazy people have been harassing Jews for three years, and every time we’ve tried to talk about it we get hit back with “being upset about genocide and criticism of Israel isn’t antisemitic.”
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
maybe *on the anniversary of the fucking massacre* we should primarily talk about the massacre. it's not as if he hasn't been talking about Gaza the other 365 days of the year.
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DOOP High Command @doopcommander.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you declare "Zionism is racism" and then hold up Algeria as your model...yea you're absolutely an antisemite Algeria stripped Jews of citizenship and forced all but 50 out after independence
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I wasn’t blaming you, just explaining the issue people have with the wording. And I’ve been there re: typos and autocorrect 🙂
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Notably, the more than half of Israel’s Jewish population who ended up there when they were persecuted and expelled from Arab lands, their ancient communities extinguished, after Israel was created.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I know people think that the Palestinians are suffering from “European antisemitism.” But the attitude of Israelis towards Palestinians isn’t about European antisemitism and violence it’s about the antisemitism and violence they’ve experienced directly at the hands of Palestinians and other Arabs.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When did violence start? It started in the 1920s with the Nebi Musa and Hebron riots, followed by the Arab revolt in the 1930s. One could claim this violence was in response to Jewish migration, Arab tenant farmer displacement, etc. but it was not the Jews of Palestine who turned to violence first.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The problem is the equivocation. “It didn’t start that day” implies it was deserved or at least inevitable. No it didn’t start that day. There has been a full on century of horrific back and forth violence and the first people to use violence (before Israel existed) weren’t the Jews of Palestine.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I have to say, I feel really grateful I didn’t experience this. Admittedly, being Orthodox and only ever working in Jewish jobs means most people I know are Jewish. But the non-Jewish friends I DO have reached out then and have stayed supportive of me. I feel very blessed in that regard.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hamas has murdered people’s children and destroyed their hope, that’s why the response has been awful. Your need to twist and invert the Holocaust notwithstanding.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Gee, given what happened on 10/7 I wonder why Israel felt the need to control what goes in and out of a state governed by an internationally recognized terrorist group who openly call for genocide and ethnic cleansing and carried out suicide bombings for years.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Did Hamas shoot rockets into Israel and use tunnels to murder and kidnap people before October 7?
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Something ppl need to realize is that almost everyone in Israel--and a good chunk of Jews outside of Israel--knew someone who was seriously hurt or killed by Hamas during the Oct 7 Massacre. It's like if 9/11 killed multiple orders of magnitude more people per capita.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Israel pulled out of Gaza completely. There was no blockade, no occupation, until Hamas took over and started using the territory to shoot rockets into Israel and build tunnels to kidnap Israelis. Egypt closed their border at the same time.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What Israel has been doing to Palestinians for decades has been a response to what Palestinians have been doing to THEM for decades. Since before Israel even existed.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You just described Israel‘s response to 10/7.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 07/10/2026
That's funny, I don't recall the Mayor tacking on a condemnation of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan/Iraq onto his post about the anniversary of 9/11, much less one three times longer than the initial statement.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
By which I mean I rolled my eyes and moved on because it’s not worth getting angry about. It’s a continuation of an existing dynamic between Mamdani and NY’s Jewish community, not to mention its Israeli community (which I don’t think he’s ever acknowledged the existence of.)
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s a shit statement, pretty much exactly what I expected from him.
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JM 📎🟦🪬🥯🥡🥠🦀 @jmdc88.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Screenshot of a social media post with text about a professor posting antisemitic threats, including a quote: "Spaniards knew. American jews have been exposed. Fuck anti-Zionism. HH." "HH" is a common antisemitic abbreviation for "Heil Hitler." 12. On or about April 24, 2026, defendant GUANGTIAN HA, using X account "DiGoyim" posted an image of a woman in a bathing suit with the text, "[I]looks like [Victim 1's] fat ugly pig of a wife." 13. On or about May 10, 2026, defendant GUANGTIAN HA, using X account "DiGoyim" posted the following message directed at Victim 1: "@[Victim 1] Eliminate the jewish cockroaches. Exterminate the jewish state. [Victim 1], you will have nowhere to go. Your family has no future in the US. Give it another 10 years, and you shall see a true holocaust." 14. Between on or about April 16, 2026, and on or about May 20, 2026, defendant GUANGTIAN HA, using X account "DiGoyim" responded to Victim 1's X account by posting Victim 1's home address four times, including the following messages: a. "@[Victim 1] In case you want to know, guys: [Victim 1's home address]" b. "[Victim 1] Yo, watch out, jewish nigga. [Victim 1's partial home address]." c. "@[Victim 1] [Victim 1's home address] @"."
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you want to know why Jews are suspicious of you when you're just trying to be a well-meaning antizionist gentile, consider that these two things were written by the same man, Guangtian Ha, a (currently suspended) religion professor at Haverford
a passage from an article by guangtian ha that reads:

We make this call amidst growing concern about antisemitism on our campus. Questions have arisen in the context of a number of specific situations, including external influences from Lower Merion, from donors, and from some alumni who are hell-bent on defining the " ways to be Jewish. This, of course, flies in the face of thousands of years of Jewish tradition which is fundamentally based on interrogation, questioning, and truth-seeking. We take these attacks on our anti-Zionist Jewish community members seriously and we understand the real damage the state of Israel causes for the entire Jewish world when it claims to be acting on behalf of all Jews while engaging in horrific atrocities that - truth be told- mirror some of the worst stereotypes of Jews that have been a part of European racism for centuries. We will be clear: antisemitism should be unacceptable at Haverford, but the energy and consideration which some in our administration have granted these bad faith actors suggests otherwise.a passage from a court document about guangtian ha that reads:

In or about January 2026, through in or about February 2026, defendant GUANGTIAN HA, using X account "America IstLM" posted a series of threatening and harassing messages directed at Victim 1, including the following:
a. "Jew, get the fuck out of my country" 
b. "Jew pig, get the fuck out of Lower Merion"
c. "If jews are so special then they should also be placed in special  camps and receive special treatments" 
d. "LM jews are going to have it big time, jew. Remember this. You scums have had it too easy. Goyim are taking America back, blood-guzzling demons."
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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
haverfordclerk.com/opinion-a-tr... Shot:
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And once again, Gaza was not under occupation.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Well they’re resisting genocide, which according to you means they get to do it.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The United Nations affirms Israeli’s right to exist and it does not consider terrorism and massacres to be “resistance.”
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carolsweinstein.bsky.social @carolsweinstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
October 7. As they lay dying, Tamar & Johnny kept holding the door shut, trying to protect little Shahar, Arbel, & Omer until their final moments. Tamar managed to send a text saying they had been shot & were critically wounded. The terrorists set the house on fire. They all burned to death.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Gaza was not occupied and the rape, murder, burning alive, and general massacre of innocent civilians including babies and children isn’t “resistance” it’s attempted genocide. You are pro-genocide.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For frum Jews many of us knew something terrible had happened but not the details. I heard people saying “babies kidnapped” and thought it had to be hysterical rumors. Turning on my phone Sunday night October 8 was a trauma I relive in miniature every week since.
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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
on this day? No. Fuck ALL THE WAY OFF.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So what you’re saying is, it was justified to kill innocent people as long as they also killed the bad guys and prevented them from killing even more people on their side.
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hamas is doing genocide. By your very own logic, everything Israel has done is justified because it’s in the service of resisting genocide. (Note I do not agree with this logic.) And Gaza was not “occupied.” Gaza was blockaded because it’s a state run by genociders.
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This whole, "everything I don't like is Israeli," thing people keep doing is getting closer and closer to just being mask off Nazis. And Sunrise doing it is making a bid for a red-brown ecofascist alliance based on shared conspiratorial thinking blaming Israel for everything they don't like.
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Gabrielle🇸🇨 @djangoroo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm not going to let this go. They can't allow us even to mourn our dead without crowing over us. Despicable
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ugh, so sorry that happened to you. It’s awful
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
People keep telling me that the anti-Israel movement isn’t pro-Hamas and yet every time I argue with one a quick search of their feed says yes they are
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Michelle @sneaker328.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Jews who moved to Palestine under the Ottomans were primarily refugees fleeing pogroms. When the world closed its doors to Jews fleeing Europe in the 1920s is when migration to Palestine accelerated. What do many of you are saying is the Jews should have simply done the right thing and died.
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