Amanda CAARSON

@dukepaaron @imstilljeremy @raf @littlemiao @peribotsarah @gavi @spiegelmama @tobie1 @Sibshops @fraying @jessamyn It took the American Democratic party less than a year to go from having its antisemites on the fringe to having its antisemites baked in enough to make concerns about whether or not a week-long campaign by said antisemites to take out the visibly Jewish VP pick to be absolutely valid. There are ways the Harris campaign could have handled all this, and so far the way its done so has been absolutely unserious at best and accommodating the antisemites at worst.

@imstilljeremy @raf @littlemiao @peribotsarah @gavi @spiegelmama @tobie1 @Sibshops @fraying @jessamyn Including quoting probably the second most well-known thing by non-Jews from Pirkei Avot, the other being "If not now, when?"

The fact that she even sent a third party who is not part of her campaign out to send a tweet with a screenshotted letter complete with the "asajew" formula says everything we need to know about how serious Harris is about dealing with the antisemitism in the party she now leads. And spoiler alert: She's not that serious. At all.

@imstilljeremy Exactly. I keep forgetting "asajew" is now a verb.

@imstilljeremy Also, the fact that you're sending out someone else who isn't part of your campaign, let alone you, with an at best lukewarm statement kinda sorta pinky swearing that that bigoted campaign against the only Jew in the running who holds the same views on Israel as the other guys had nothing to do with the choice, is a huge tell that you as the leader of the democratic party plan to do absolutely nothing about your major problem with antisemitism.

@imstilljeremy This.