davel [he/him]

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Cake day: October 23rd, 2023

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  • I’d never heard of David Draiman or his band before.

    David Michael Draiman was born to Jewish parents in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on March 13, 1973. His father, YJ, had worked as a real estate developer and small-business owner before he was arrested for embezzlement and sent to prison when Draiman was 12 years old. YJ would later become a candidate in the races for Mayor of Los Angeles in 2013, 2017, and 2022.

    After high school, he spent a year studying at the Yeshivas Neveh Zion in Kiryat Ye’arim on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

    In 2019, he described former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters and other activists seeking to boycott Israel for alleged human rights abuses as “Nazi comrades”.[21]














  • I was wondering if it would or wouldn’t eventually lead to this after Katie Halper got fired from The Hill for the same reason about a year ago. Briahna publicly mulled quitting at the time in solidarity. (Probably this is talked about in this video—maybe I should watch it before commenting—nah, we’ll do it live!)

    Chris Hedges got fired by Max Alvarez at The Real News Network last month for the same reason.


    Edit to add: here’s a link to the “unlisted” full video: The Hills Have Lies

    In her first interview after being fired from The Hill, Briahna Joy Gray sits down with the co-hosts of the Due Dissidents podcast, Keaton Weiss & Russell Dobular, to discuss the long trajectory of attacks from Zionist Representative Ritchie Torres and others that led to her dismissal for pro-Palestine speech. This censorship has been a long time coming, and the attacks have escalated since Briahna attended a “Dissident Dialogue” conference early last month, which was clipped and circulated about a week before her ouster in a failed attempt at getting her canceled. Russell attended that conference, and gives a first hand account of his experience from the audience, and from subsequent interviews with the staff that put together the event. This is a comprehensive, raw account of what happened, recorded within 24 hours of Briahna receiving the news she’d been canceled. This wasn’t about an eye roll.