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Whether as ignorant useful idiots, reckless anti-Semites, or active terrorist sympathizers, some Western leftists cannot stop reciting anti-Israel and pro-Hamas propaganda talking points. Within Congress, the loudest and most relentless apologists for the Gaza-based terror group is the Squad, whose endless torrent of Israel-bashing assertions while the people of Israel have been targeted by thousands of rockets intended to murder them, mind you has been stomach-turning but instructive. Consider these points, which must bring joy and satisfaction to the hearts of Hamas propagandists:
Bombing a school is a war crime. Bombing a hospital is a war crime. Bombing news outlets is a war crime. Firing rockets at civilians is also a war crime.
Former State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortaguson Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., confronting President Biden on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The union for the liberal magazine The New Yorker was accused by critics of promoting the genocide of Israel while expressing solidarity with Palestinians.
On Wednesday, the union s Twitter account posted, Solidarity with Palestinians from the river to the sea who went on a 24-hour strike yesterday for dignity and liberation. #palestineonstrike.
The from the river to the sea portion of the tweet stems from the pro-Palestinian saying, From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free, which has long been interpreted and criticized as a call for the elimination of the Jewish state.
New Yorker Magazine Union Posts Anti-Semitic Tweet in Solidarity With Palestinians Getty Images Graham Piro • May 20, 2021 12:15 pm
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New Yorker Union posted a tweet Wednesday that used an anti-Semitic trope to express solidarity with the Palestinian people. Solidarity with Palestinians from the river to the sea who went on a 24-hour strike yesterday for dignity and liberation. #palestineonstrike, the union wrote on its Twitter account Wednesday afternoon.
The union deleted the tweet three hours later and posted a tweet apologizing for engaging in the anti-Semitic trope. It added that it did not intend for its endorsement of the elimination of Israel to distract from its solidarity with the Palestinian people.
The music industry, at just about every level below the C-suite, has had enough.
The recording business is still haunted by its 2000s slump, which resulted from a rapid decrease in physical and digital unit sales as well as the fallout from multiple economic recessions. Yet it’s largely recovered from those lows: The industry has been consistently profitable as a whole since 2014, thanks primarily to streaming and, in part, still-growing vinyl sales. But both artists and label staffers have time and again made clear that the industry’s newfound wealth is not trickling down to most of them; unjust label deals and the complicated mechanics of streaming finances have excluded them from this economic turnaround. And, after experiencing decades of career precarity while falling back on a fragile safety net, receiving little to no government support, and facing relentless deprivation due to the pandemic-induced economic crash, musicians and music workers in all sectors of the industry
Patient readers, this is a bit short. More soon. –lambert
Bird Song of the Day
Another migratory bird from the Birds of the Atlantic Flyway. From the Note: “See 1:27 for a masterful run.”
#COVID19
At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site.
I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching.
Early in February, I said a simple way to compare Biden’s performance to Trump’s on vaccination would be to compare the curves. If Biden accelerated vaccine administration, the rate of vaccination post-Inaugural would kink upward, as the policies of a more effective administration took hold. They have not. The fragmented, Federalized, and profit-driven lumbering monstrosity that we laughingly call our “health care” “system” has not responded to “energy in the executive,” but has continued on its inertial path.