Here’s a random one. We’ve got former Eagles President Joe Banner going back and forth with former Eagles writer Nick Fierro about Israel:

I would like to know what the deleted post was!

But anyway, Banner is Jewish. He was inducted into the Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2017. He tweets a lot about politics and non-sports stuff and his timeline over the last several days has mostly been quote tweets about the Israel/Gaza/Hamas conflict, obviously coming from a pro-Israel angle.

I guess what Fierro is calling out is a perceived false equivalency. He writes that Banner “just called millions anti-semites who are not,” which is, admittedly, a curious sidebar topic in this whole mess. I’m just a sports writer and not some geopolitical expert, but criticism of Israel’s government doesn’t necessarily mean you hate the Jews. Sometimes we get things conflated! Same thing on the other side, where sympathy for the Palestinian people doesn’t equate to support of terrorism. Varying thoughts can intertwine and co-exist. More than one thing can true!

And what a novel idea it is. It’s almost as if these are incredibly complicated topics that can’t be packaged into absolutist Twitter arguments. Measured and detailed thought is unfortunately passé in 2023, especially on the site that Elon Musk is running into the ground. You can’t tell what’s legit and what’s not legit. Can’t tell which accounts are real and which are fake. This conflict has brought out the worst in journalism and basic discourse, which, admittedly, haven’t been great for many years now.


Anyway, that’s enough of that. Let’s get it back to the Eagles.