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Hadas Thier

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Hadas Thier

@HadasThier

Author of People’s Guide to Capitalism + writing @TheNation @HammerandHope @Jacobin etc + unrepentant Berner + mom to aspiring Major League Baseball player ⚾️

New York, NY

Joined June 2009

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Hadas Thier
@HadasThier
Sep 12, 2025
DSA is Zohran Mamdani's Special Sauce. I wrote for the Nation about the politics and the electoral machine behind Mamdani's campaign. Look out for it in their October print edition as well. (And with gorgeous illustrations from @mollycrabapple!)
thenation.com
How DSA Built Zohran Mamdani’s Electoral Machine
The unsung hero of Mamdani’s campaign is its field operation. It may make him mayor of New York City.
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Hadas Thier
@HadasThier
Dec 23, 2021
A reminder that the shortage of Covid tests was completely manufactured for profit.
Hadas Thier
@HadasThier
Aug 23, 2021
CAPITALISM 101: When demand for covid tests fell, millions of kits were destroyed instead of donated/sold cheaply. The company didn’t want to flood the market with cheap tests so they destroyed them. “It’s all about the money” a manager explained. Thousands were laid off. 1/4
Hadas Thier
@HadasThier
May 26, 2021
I’m a Jewish New Yorker. And incidentally, was born in Israel to parents who had fled Europe pre- (dad) and post- (mom) the Holocaust. Conflating anti-Israel sentiment with antisemitism is an insult to my parents and to the family that they lost in Europe. 1/3
Hadas Thier
@HadasThier
May 2, 2024
I participated in today’s Columbia’s press briefing. When they thought the webinar was over, they accidentally kept their mic on & zoom rolling. One congratulated the other for a job well done, told him he “sounded genuine” and that he did well “hammering and repeating points ->
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Hadas Thier
@HadasThier
Nov 24, 2023
The Palestinian-American students I spoke with are going through hell. College administrations- by vilifying pro-Palestine voices - have played a huge role in creating hostile and dangerous environments on campus.
Eli Meyerhoff 🍉
@EliMeye
Nov 23, 2023
A student at Harvard: “The day I learned that my cousin was killed by the IDF on a raid of his refugee camp, was also the day that I found out that the truck with my name and face on it, calling me an antisemite, would be sent to my parents’ home.” thenation.com/article/activi…
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Hadas Thier
@HadasThier
Aug 23, 2021
CAPITALISM 101: When demand for covid tests fell, millions of kits were destroyed instead of donated/sold cheaply. The company didn’t want to flood the market with cheap tests so they destroyed them. “It’s all about the money” a manager explained. Thousands were laid off. 1/4
Hadas Thier
@HadasThier
May 26, 2021
Replying to @HadasThier
There are real instances of antisemitism, fueled by the growth of white supremacy. The solution to is solidarity with other oppressed people. There is no such thing as “liberation” via the oppression & colonization of another people. Only solidarity leads to liberation. 3/3
Hadas Thier
@HadasThier
May 26, 2021
Replying to @HadasThier
I want to be clear that fights between pro-Israel & pro-Palestine protestors is about *Israel* not about antisemitism. Politicians now decrying and weaponizing antisemitism is an all too predictable backlash against the growth and successes of the movement for Palestine. 2/3
Hadas Thier
@HadasThier
Apr 25, 2024
Hi @SenGillibrand I’m a Jew who spent the day at the Columbia encamp yesterday. Here’s what I saw: - a thoughtful Jewish led teach-in on antisemitism - kosher for Passover food available for observant Jews - Jews and non-Jews who told me how meaningful it was to participate in ->
Hadas Thier
@HadasThier
Apr 24, 2024
As the daughter of a holocaust survivor & as an Israeli-born Jewish anti-Zionist, I’ve been around too long to be shocked by shameless weaponization of antisemitism. But is it too much to ask that those throwing around accusations of antisemitism give just ONE concrete example??
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Hadas Thier
@HadasThier
Apr 24, 2024
As the daughter of a holocaust survivor & as an Israeli-born Jewish anti-Zionist, I’ve been around too long to be shocked by shameless weaponization of antisemitism. But is it too much to ask that those throwing around accusations of antisemitism give just ONE concrete example??
Kirsten Gillibrand
@SenGillibrand
Apr 22, 2024
I’m deeply disturbed by the appalling antisemitism being displayed on Columbia University’s campus. Threats of violence against Jewish students are absolutely despicable, and this appalling rhetoric must end now. Our Jewish friends and neighbors deserve the right to live and
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Hadas Thier
@HadasThier
May 2, 2024
Replying to @HadasThier
… like we have to do over and over again” about “bad guys, bad operators, not our problem.” Shameful to hear Columbia admin talk about their students this way. Tellingly, they didn’t congratulate themselves on being honest and truthful.
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Hadas Thier
@HadasThier
Feb 26, 2020
The $1750 tickets were actually for the nose-bleed seats. The higher-end seats were $3200. Thank you DNC and CBS for the #WineCaveDebate.
Hadas Thier
@HadasThier
Nov 27, 2021
What if… instead of blaming Africa, the US had followed South Africa in calling for patent waivers? What if wealthy nations stopped hoarding vaccines?
Hadas Thier
@HadasThier
Sep 24, 2021
What people don’t understand when they call Iron Dome a “defense” system, is that there’s nothing defensive about occupying another people for 73 yrs, holding on to their land via war crimes, then using a multibillion dollar anti-missile system to try to nullify their resistance.