I saw a Video Featuring Tom Cotton

This morning, the top post on my Instagram feed had a video of two Pro-Palestinian women having a confrontation with Tom Cotton.

The women were politely trying to convince him not to support a bill regarding nonprofit organizations. And he was less-eloquently telling them that their organizations are antisemitic. 

If I was a non-biased person judging the confrontation on performance alone, I would pick the pro-Palestinian women as the winners.

But I’m very much NOT unbiased. 

 I’m biased in multiple ways.  

I’m not on the so-called pro-Palestine side, because I believe they are pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, and supportive of terrorism.

Yet I also have prejudices against Tom Cotton.  I knew he was Republican and that left-wing people are supposed to hate him. But left-wing people have also been pushed to hate Israel.  So….

Since I’m reading Liz Cheney’s book, I currently have it strongly in my mind that A) Some Republicans are very courageous defenders of Democracy and other lovely things B) Some Republicans have sold their soul to Trump.

I Googled Tom Cotton and Jan 6 and quickly got the sense that he was on team sold-soul-to-Trump. He was not on my team. 

And neither was the Instagramer propping Tom Cotton up as a hero to Jews.  

I unfollowed the account and also looked at the gushing comments to see if I was following any of them.  

I was glad to see I was not.

And THIS is what it’s like to be a woke/progressive Jewish Zionist post October 7.

I tend to do a lot of following, unfollowing… re-following, re-unfollowing.

I am following too many people, though. I want to have a smaller number made up of people who are against both Islamic terrorists AND white-supremacist terrorists.  

I want to follow more people that view both October 7 2023 and January 6 2021 as very bad days rather than inspiring, wonderful, or justified.