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Nov 8Liked by Elissa Wald

as a black woman I am privy to many feelings and communications that perhaps everyone does not have access to and I have the same conversations that you are having and I am having them with Black people.

And the conversations centers around illegal immigration. I know plenty of Black people that are ready willing and able to call ice on our undocumented neighbors because 54% of the men voted for Trump. I will never punch down in my disappointment and anger.

Much like your friend, black people, particularly black women are --"saying we are only for ourselves now. So whatever is happening in Gaza and Lebanon it's not our business; whoever gets deported by ice, it's not our business; we intend to mind our black business"; as you know, I do not have that luxury.

So I find community where I build it. I like it here, I like this space.

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You are so beloved to me, so deeply cherished, and your integrity is a rock I cling to daily.

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We’re all in this together. Let’s stay together. ❤️✡️🎗️🇮🇱

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Hard agree.

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Thank you for articulating so brilliantly what I've been struggling to put into words: we are not teams. We need to put our humanity first. We need to built community. We need to find common cause. The work that you're doing—even, especially, when you acknowledge being scared, discouraged, despairing, exhausted—is invaluable. Thank you.

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I so needed this today. Thank you! I’m feeling a similar squeeze, friends in both directions falling away. And I love the story: “If nothing matters, there’s nothing to save.” Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Shabbat shalom. I see many things differently from you but I respect your POV and I love your integrity.

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Shabbat Shalom and you are NOT alone.

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What happened in Amsterdam was a pogrom. What happened on October 7 was a pogrom. Where are voices on the left that acknowledge it? I personally don’t find the distinction between right and left useful in mapping the current political reality. Zeev Sternhell’s foundational book on fascism is called Neither Right Nor Left. In fact, Nazism and communism have more in common than either does with traditional liberalism. New maps and new vocabulary are needed to understand why the self-declared left today is viciously antisemitic, while the populist right, at least in Europe, is not.

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Unfortunately right and left are not something I can ignore in Americ's political reality.

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