I spend way too much time thinking about the Middle East and NYC local politics. Happy for dialogue if it’s constructive. We can disagree amicably.
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Ramon Maislen retweeted
Philly’s massive pushback against the antizionist hate movement today is a shining example to those who actually care about brotherly love, social justice and civil rights.
Bravo.
This is called stomping out hate.
I appreciate his honesty. “As-a-Jews” want nothing more than to be accepted and appreciated even if it means tokenizing themselves and demonizing the majority of Jews.
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And they keep claiming that American Jews are the ones not putting America first…
🚨NEW:
Cori Bush registers as foreign agent for shadowy NGO to lead anti-Israel propaganda tours to the West Bank, according to docs filed with DOJ.
She's tasked with taking members of Congress on "fact finding" tours to document Israeli settlers.
freebeacon.com/democrats/squ…
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Ramon Maislen retweeted
🚨NEW:
Cori Bush registers as foreign agent for shadowy NGO to lead anti-Israel propaganda tours to the West Bank, according to docs filed with DOJ.
She's tasked with taking members of Congress on "fact finding" tours to document Israeli settlers.
freebeacon.com/democrats/squ…
Palestine Derangement Syndrome. They don’t care about Palestinians. Their own feelings and their place in the circle jerk of virtue signaling is the most important element.
Ramon Maislen retweeted
We can’t wait to see Darializa & Claire vote against Hakeem (the first Black speaker of the House) and then get primaried in two years. We are already so tired of you two….
In case you needed another reason to hate Mark Ruffalo. I’m excited for @RepJeffries to be the first Black Speaker of the house.
Sign this petition if you want a new speaker of the house.
change.org/p/house-democrats…
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Ramon Maislen retweeted
An activist from Israeli Democrats sends a message to Senator-elect AES, "from one Democrat to another"
Ramon Maislen retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: NYC-DSA Co-Chair Gustavo Gordillo was at the NYC-YDSA General Body Meeting on Oct. 30, speaking in an official capacity while @NYCSchools high schools and CUNY chapters planned coordinated campaigns.
One slide explicitly lists “CUNY Divestment (SJP).”
This is the adult leadership of the same organization whose youth wing runs recognized clubs at public high schools like Stuyvesant and William Cullen Bryant.
Public schools are supposed to be neutral. Adult political operatives directing high-school clubs is not neutrality.
Jewish students and parents deserve better than this.
Ramon Maislen retweeted
If many Jews you know are a little bummed today, it’s not because they’re big Republicans or love Trump. It’s because we see too many people who excused and even celebrated our death gain power, backed by mainstream institutions.
Are they going to put us on trains? Hell no. Are they fueling violent hatred and spreading populist lies about us? Yes, and history shows that never works out well for ANYONE.
The good news is, Jews wake up this morning and continue to be Jews.
Most of us don’t have the luxury to “rethink” our identity when it’s unpopular, or ride the tides of antisemitism when it suits us (looking at you, Lander). A few will, hell, maybe many. But there has never EVER been a politician or leader in history who has changed who we are as a people - and G-d knows many have tried.
Ramon Maislen 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.
Ramon Maislen retweeted
A progressive strategist tells @axios the left "can't really extract much now [with this] colossal majority."
Rep. Greg Stanton, a leader of the center-left New Dems, said this lets Jeffries "govern without worrying about being leveraged by anyone."
axios.com/2026/11/04/hakeem-…
NEW: This is the majority Hakeem Jeffries and centrist House Dems wanted. And progressives know it, too.
The left's strategy is "going to look different from what it would have been with a smaller margin," one incoming House progressive told me.
@axios
axios.com/2026/11/04/hakeem-…
Ramon Maislen retweeted
Why do I secretly want El Sayed and Nixon to lose?
Because I want the far left to just STFU, crawl back under a rock, and go away!
I want the Democratic Party to win without the people who shit on Jews while praising communist countries and terrorist organizations.
Got that?
Ramon Maislen retweeted
🚨NEW: Voter poll of Jewish early voters in Michigan shows Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson outperformed Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed by 21 points. Among self-identified Jewish Democrats who did not vote for El-Sayed, 99% said they likely would have voted for a different Democrat. 92% cited concerns about antisemitism. Full poll: jewishmajority.org/poll-10-2…
Ramon Maislen retweeted
Look at that. Centrist Democrats winning purple and red states and districts all over the country. Let me know when the DSA flips one of these, LOL. I won't hold my breath. #CentristsWin
Former Gov. Roy Cooper will win the Senate race in North Carolina, CNN projects, defeating Republican Michael Whatley for a seat that had long evaded Democrats. Follow live updates. cnn.it/4zqFU6D
Ramon Maislen retweeted
I have refused to talk about Sarah. She was the last person within this orbit I communicated with after I departed from the campaign, and I do actually like her. Wives are off limits generally, and I know she is just being supportive, but she is lying here.
Between this and Abdul giving Instagram advice to young men on how to treat women, I have to say something I’ve held off on mostly.
Abdul’s mistreatment of staff was what first me woke up to him, and pulled my rose colored glasses off. In particular one person was emotionally/mentally abused to the point their parents had to check them into the hospital. I made an effort to check in on this person daily just to make sure they ate and actually slept. Most days they didn’t. This moved me to the area of concern of this person potentially committing self harm, to which I called DC general council (Max Glass) leadership and told him that he needed to tell Abdul to back off. This person would break down in tears often, and once in front of Abdul at a breakfast in Dearborn. To which he reacted detached and even annoyed.
This framing of this honest principled caretaker of a man is a lie. I have witnessed him blame his wife for things he’s done, express interest in cheating on her, abuse staff, lie to one group of voters and then the next, and so much more. Abdul would and did do just about anything to win.
My closing point still stands, as my opening project since I felt the duty to warn. Even if you take away the national security concerns. Abdul is a manufactured man, and if he wins (I expect benson to carry him over the line), there will be plenty of stories out of that senate office to confirm this.
Sarah Jukaku, physician and wife of Abdul El-Sayed, speaks on what her husband is like outside of the limelight:
With Abdul, what you see is what you get. Abdul is the same to me and my daughters as he is to you. He says the same things no matter where is and no matter who he’s talking to because he believes and means those things. And that’s what makes him such an unusual politician, no corporation, no billionaire, no special interest, no one tells him what to do or what to say—except maybe me sometimes.
Ramon Maislen retweeted
Shaimaa Rabah is a newly elected councilwoman in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, and a member of Fatah, who was part of a limited set of local municipal elections inside Gaza back in April. After Al Jazeera aired a documentary featuring exclusive footage from Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades about the life of slain military leader Mohammed al-Deif, Shaimaa Rabah shared a Facebook post condemning what she viewed as the glorification of Hamas, which she blamed for Gaza’s devastation. She described the program as “a rich meal of animal feed for the Muslim Brotherhood” and criticized Al Jazeera’s efforts to portray Hamas as heroic despite the destruction and suffering that followed its rule and the 10/7 terror attack.
In response, Hamas and its supporters pressured members of Shaimaa Rabah’s clan with a wave of threats and harassment to compel her to delete the post and issue a public apology, which she did. Even that has not satisfied her critics, who are now demanding her resignation from the Deir al-Balah municipal council, arguing that her status as the council’s first elected woman does not entitle her to disparage the memory of those they regard as “martyrs.”
This episode is a reminder to those who believe elections can produce meaningful political change while Hamas retains effective control over Gaza. Democracy is not the foundation of a free society but the product of one. It depends on the prior existence of independent civil institutions, a free press, freedom of expression, and mechanisms for holding power accountable.
I have shared this concern with Dahlan-affiliated Fatah reformists, EU officials, Arab ministers, and others who advocate elections as a solution to the Palestinian Authority’s legitimacy crisis and the search for an alternative to Hamas. In today’s Gaza, any non-Hamas voice can be rapidly silenced, making meaningful reform, let alone a challenge to the entrenched “resistance” narrative, nearly impossible.
Before any credible democratic process can take place, Hamas’s system of control must be dismantled. Until then, the most realistic path forward is a transitional administration focused on restoring basic services and rebuilding a truly free civil society while removing the coercive structures Hamas and its patrons have spent decades creating.
