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Jeff Jacoby
@Jeff_Jacoby
I'm an op-ed columnist at The Boston Globe, a purveyor of refreshing conservative cheer in the midst of a dusty liberal wilderness.
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    Jeff Jacoby
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    Nov 20, 2023
    This is sheer sophistry. Muslims came from Arabia in the 7th century to invade, conquer, and colonize virtually the whole Middle East. Today, as a result, there are 55 Muslim nations and 21 Arab countries — not one of which the left seeks to decolonize. As for historic
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    Malcolm Harris
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    Nov 19, 2023
    "Why does the left care so much about Palestine?" Because it's been a keystone struggle in the world decolonization movement for multiple generations. Pretty simple answer.
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    Jeff Jacoby
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    May 2, 2019
    In 1945, my father, starved and unconscious, was mistaken for a corpse at the Nazi concentration camp in Ebensee, Austria. By a miracle, someone realized that he wasn't yet dead. Last week, my father and mother welcomed a new great-grandchild. !עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי #YomHashoa
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    Jeff Jacoby
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    Nov 19, 2023
    Israeli women & girls were savagely raped and sexually mutilated by Hamas terrorists. But @UN_Women hasn't said a word. Nor @GlobalFundWomen. Nor the Working Group on Women, Peace and Security. Nor @nationalnow. Their silence is deafening — and sickening.
    Israeli women and girls were raped during Hamas attack. Where’s the outcry? - The Boston Globe
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    Jeff Jacoby
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    Jul 11, 2024
    Buried deep in the same story: Two-thirds of IRS audits initiated last year were on taxpayers making less than $200,000.
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    Elizabeth Warren
    Senate Democrats
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    Jul 11, 2024
    Democrats boosted IRS funding, and it's already gotten back $1 BILLION from millionaire tax cheats. Republicans want to cut IRS funding again to protect their rich tax-dodging buddies - no way.
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    Jeff Jacoby
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    Oct 13, 2023
    The plight of innocent civilians in Gaza, suffering in this war caused by their leaders, is genuinely terrible. Pictures of babies killed in airstrikes are heartbreaking. So why aren't Arab nations offering to evacuate refugees? During Syria's civil war, millions of people fled
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    Jeff Jacoby
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    Nov 17, 2023
    It wasn't "just" rape Hamas committed. It was gang-rape. It was raping 13-year-olds. It was sexual mutilation. It was shooting women in the back during rape. It was a ghastly crime against humanity. And it generates no sliver of outrage from those who roared over #MeToo. Watch:
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    Jake Tapper 🦅
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    Nov 17, 2023
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    Jeff Jacoby
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    Oct 16, 2023
    After the worst massacre of civilians in Israel's history, a major survey by the polling firm YouGov finds that just 32% of US adults between 18 and 24 believe that Hamas deliberately targets civilians. You have raised a generation of idiots, America.
    Only Slim Majority of Americans Believes Hamas Is ‘Deliberately Striking Israeli Civilians’ | The...
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    Jeff Jacoby
    @Jeff_Jacoby
    Dec 22, 2019
    My father, an Auschwitz survivor, came to the US w/ nothing. My mother spent much of her childhood in an orphanage. They started businesses that paid the bills, fed their kids & put others to work. I'd call that "pulling themselves up by their bootstraps," @RBReich. Wouldn't you?
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    Robert Reich
    @RBReich
    Dec 20, 2019
    Just a casual reminder that 60% of all wealth in America is inherited. “Pull yourself up by the bootstraps” is a sham.
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    Jeff Jacoby
    @Jeff_Jacoby
    Nov 20, 2023
    This is almost funny. It's certainly telling. A group of left-wing anti-Zionist Jews stages a Torah reading at the Capitol, and one chants from the weekly portion. But when she gets to Genesis 26:3 — where God tells Isaac, "To you and your descendants I will give all of this
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    Jeff Jacoby
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    Dec 20, 2017
    Here's a fun fact, @Rosie: Under 18 U.S. Code §201, offering $4 million in bribes to senators to influence a vote is punishable with up to $12m in fines and/or imprisonment for as much as 15 years. law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18…
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    ROSIE
    @Rosie
    Dec 20, 2017
    so how about this i promise to give 2 million dollars to senator susan collins and 2 million to senator jeff flake if they vote NO NO I WILL NOT KILL AMERICANS FOR THE SUOER RICH DM me susan DM me jeff no shit 2 million cash each
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    Jeff Jacoby
    @Jeff_Jacoby
    Feb 23, 2022
    $929 billion isn't two thirds of $1.7 trillion, it's 54% — and women account for 60% of college students. So if there's a "gender justice" issue here, it is that 𝘮𝘦𝘯's college debt burden is disproportionately high. Try learning some basic math. It might improve your tweets.
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    Jeff Jacoby
    @Jeff_Jacoby
    Apr 21, 2024
    If white bigots did this to black students anywhere in the US, every liberal journalist in America would erupt in outrage. Yet most of my left-wing media colleagues, so quick to deplore any hint of racism, remain silent in the face of this ugly, naked, menacing #antisemitism.
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    David lederer
    @Davidlederer6
    Apr 21, 2024
    Jewish students get harassed trying to leave @Columbia’s campus tonight. You can hear someone yell “Yehudim Yehudim”- “Jews Jews.” They curse and yell “go back to Poland.” Antisemitism has become the new normal here.
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    Jeff Jacoby
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    Nov 21, 2023
    A member of the Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response likened Israel to Nazi Germany and said only "fake Jewish babies" were murdered on Oct. 7. Unsurprisingly, she works for CAIR, a terrorist front group whose founder openly supported Hamas.
    Maryland Hate-Crime Commission Official Suspended after Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany | National...
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    Jeff Jacoby
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    Jun 9, 2024
    Hey, @MarkRuffalo, you know what would have saved all civilians from being killed? If Hamas hadn't smashed the ceasefire that existed on Oct. 6 with a genocidal orgy of murder, rape, and kidnapping. For every drop of blood shed since then — on both sides — Hamas bears full guilt.
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    Mark Ruffalo
    @MarkRuffalo
    Jun 9, 2024
    It’s so good to see the hostages returned. A ceasefire would have gotten many more hostages back and no civilians and children killed. This siege is cruel and senseless. Grinding innocent human beings and their culture into blood soaked rubble and dust, to be buried and
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