Ritchie Torres: On Christmas Day, anti-Israel extremists vandalized my Bronx Office

[lapucelle]

On Christmas Day, anti-Israel extremists vandalized my Bronx Office with red paint, symbolizing blood.

Covered in “blood” is a doll meant to symbolize Jesus, whom the vandals describe as a “Palestinian child messiah.”

The escalation in intimidation and incitement against Members of Congress feels like it is heading in a dangerous direction.

I, for one, will not be intimidated.

Link to tweet

[Beastly Boy]

1. The least you would expect from these morons is that they would get their symbolism straightened out.

But no!

[lapucelle]

2. "Jesus was not Palestinian, we need to dispel that myth forever - opinion"

Jesus was not Palestinian, we need to dispel that myth forever - opinion

The ahistorical myth that Jesus was a Palestinian is often rooted in nationalist propaganda designed to erase Jewish history and memory, a centuries-old system of anti-Jewish oppression.

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-779313

[stopdiggin]

6. the Jewish religion, people, and state were well established LONG before

Jesus came upon the scene. Painting him as anything other than Jewish - is either flummery, or rank ignorance, depending on how charitable one feels toward the purveyor.

[yardwork]

3. They're just throwing all antisemitic tropes out there, because they can.

Nobody has been arrested for these vile "protests" that are just excuses to hurl vile hateful imagery around and try to intimidate Democrats. They're getting away with it

Bunch of effing losers.

[The Magistrate]

9. Haven't Seen 'Christ-Killers' Surface In Some While, Ma'am

And yet here we are....

[yardwork]

11. They're being egged on, Sir.

They tiptoed into it and discovered that there were virtually no consequences, so why stop?

[sarisataka]

4. The biblical Jesus was Hebrew and Jewish.

Palestinian as we understand did not exist at the time.

As an ironic twist, the faith of the majority of Palestinians is Islam which does not consider Jesus a Messiah. He is a prophet according to the Quran.

[Beastly Boy]

5. And it doesn't come out of nowhere:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-rep-ocasio-cortez-slammed-over-christmas-message-comparing-jesus-to-gazans/

[SoFlaBro]

7. This is what the pro Palestinian movement has always been. They hate Jews and anyone allied with the Jews.

[betsuni]

8. Thank you.

[EX500rider]

10. Jeez..

She wrote:
Drawing parallels between Jesus’ persecutors and present-day Israel, Ocasio-Cortez wrote in an Instagram story on Sunday that Jesus was born in “modern-day Palestine”

Pretty sure he was born in Roman Judea.

[OilemFirchen]

12. Nee Canaan.

Were one inclined to identify the area based upon the Tanakh, this is the land that God promised Abraham permanently for the Israelites. Apparently this covenant is inconvenient for the other Abrahamic religions.

Whatever. Considering the religious and ethnic makeup of Israel, it's really never been an issue for Jews. Similarly, the historic or mythical Jesus was just a MOT. If Christians and/or Muslims want to fetishize him, that's on them.

[Elessar Zappa]

16. Well, all religions are pretty dumb, including Judaism.

Of course Judaism hasn’t caused the harm that extremist Islam and Christianity have caused. But it’s all mythological bullshit. The polytheistic religions are bullshit too.

[OilemFirchen]

18. Fair enough.

But at least there's a written mythology that oughtta, at the least, trump stupid semantics: "It's Judea!" "It's Palestine!"

Nope. It's Israel.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Let Me Get This Straight

To protest in support of Palestinians, they trashed the office of a gay, black guy with a Hispanic surname.
Oh, and his whole career has been focused on the underprivileged citizens.
He must be one of the bad guys.

[lapucelle]

14. You do have that right.

Link to tweet

[Cha]

21. TY for that Tweet!❣️

[Beastly Boy]

23. I am borrowing this one:

"I refuse to be intimidated by a fanatical fringe that represents no one and nothing but itself."

[Cha]

19. Well Rep Torres supports

Israel 🇮🇱 so the so called protesters can’t have that.

[ProfessorGAC]

22. And Here's The Thing

We have posters right here in GD that insist that these actions call attention to the cause.
But, 95% of the conversation ends up being about the protest, not the cause.
And in this case Torres' "...will not be intimidated..." statement makes it obvious they haven't won HIM to their cause.
Protesting by picketing, protesting outside an event, ... I got it.
But, when the protest becomes the news the point is lost.
Geez, even the antiwar protests in the 60s, as plentiful as they were, didn't shorten that war. One reason, IMO, is that run amok protests shifted public opinion AWAY from their cause.
Good protests may cause inconvenience. If that's ALL they do, they're for naught.

[The Magistrate]

24. They're Making A STATEMENT, Sir

Not really trying to do anything besides strike postures they conceive to be virtuous ones. And falling into the common error of mistaking notoriety for fame.


'So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.'

[mcar]

30. That'll show 'em

Or something.

[Elessar Zappa]

15. Jesus was Jewish too.

Idiots.

[Cha]

17. I love Rep Richie Torres 🕯️🕊️💙🌊🏝️🌈

Link to tweet

[TheKentuckian]

20. Another day, another gaggle of Nazis and terrorists.

[LexVegas]

25. Fuck Hamas sympathizers. That is all.

[question everything]

26. See also: New York Rep. Ocasio-Cortez draws fire for Christmas message comparing Jesus to Gazans

https://www.democraticunderground.com/122314518

[lapucelle]

27. I saw that. It's interesting that she posted it to Instagram rather than twitter.

Link to tweet

[The Magistrate]

28. This Is Foolish Stuff

Attempts to appeal to history based on Bible texts are doomed to failure at best.

There was no 'massacre of the innocents': it is a completely made up story. There was no campaign to kill all newborn males in Judea undertaken by a client king of Rome. There would be a record.

Judea groaned under no more than the usual oppressions of life under Roman rule, and they really wanted little of people besides paying their taxes and not gathering in groups greater than three without a license. In Judea they had even reached some accommodation with the Temple priesthood, by which the High Priest once a year in the Holy of Holies beseeching G-d's blessing on the Emperor and Rome, relieved any Jew of need to make any ritual obeisance to the Imperial cult.

[mcar]

29. What the fck is wrong with these people?

[EllieBC]

31. Wow marching out some the more old school

antisemitic tropes I see. Jews as “Christ killers.”

Newsflash, morons. That one has already been done. And by a group who would also hate you.

[betsuni]

32. K&R

[Hekate]

33. Kick