The ICC one is pretty bad. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

Big day for Qatar. They're gonna need some more airplanes.

Anyway, I laid out how all this was going to happen over a year ago. Wish I'd been wrong. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is a great idea in theory but in practice would incentivize massive voter fraud (speaking hypothetically, for a friend)

This is refreshing in its unvarnished clarity. No more "Zionists," no more "Frankists," no more euphemisms. Just Jews.

Worth revisiting what I wrote in 2022 after Trump dined with Nick Fuentes. As I said then, all of this was foreseeable: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I wrote this in September 2024. If you want to understand where we are and how we got here, read it all. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Worth revisiting what I wrote in 2022 after Trump dined with Nick Fuentes. As I said then, all of this was foreseeable: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

What's really going on with the right and Jews right now: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I wrote about J.D. Vance's bad answer to that anti-Semitic question, and the choices that he and other contenders for the conservative future will have to make about how they treat Jews, antisemitism, and Israel. Gift link:

I wrote about J.D. Vance's bad answer to that anti-Semitic question, and the choices that he and other contenders for the conservative future will have to make about how they treat Jews, antisemitism, and Israel. Gift link:

I wrote this in September 2024. If you want to understand where we are and how we got here, read it all. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

So close to getting it, and yet so far

FOX just put up a graphic saying that Shohei Ohtani's hard hit percentage is "100th percentile." Apparently, not only does he transcends the normal bounds of baseball, he transcends the laws of mathematics.

“I *love* Jews, by which I mean people who don't exist” is a very popular idea

Hard to find a better illustration of why you should ignore everything before the 'but':

"One lesson I learned about running that also applies to writing: The best time to do something important is usually right now. And when you have to get something done in a short amount of time, it’s wise not to spend that time complaining about how little time you have."

The Israeli hard right’s "program of unfettered settler expansion and violence, unending war and eventual settlement in Gaza, and no negotiations with the Palestinian Authority is irreconcilable with a more regionally integrated Israel and an expanded Abraham Accords."

Last week, an Israeli far-right politician boycotted Trump's Knesset speech. This week, the far right voted symbolically to annex the West Bank, against Trump's wishes. The Israeli settler right is at war with Trump's Middle East agenda, and the conflict is only going to grow. My latest (gift link):

J. D. Vance called a Knesset vote on West Bank annexation “stupid.” @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social on what his comment means for the future of U.S.-Israel relations:

Last week, an Israeli far-right politician boycotted Trump's Knesset speech. This week, the far right voted symbolically to annex the West Bank, against Trump's wishes. The Israeli settler right is at war with Trump's Middle East agenda, and the conflict is only going to grow. My latest (gift link):

Oh man, this actually worked

"Netanyahu perceives himself as indispensable & his leadership as the only thing standing between his country and catastrophe... The truth is, Israel does not & has never needed Netanyahu to survive; it needs to survive Netanyahu." @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Most Israelis oppose settlements in Gaza and want the war to end. Here's how the Israeli hard right might use the current Gaza agreement as cover to attempt to settle the area anyway: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

My latest: For the moment, Trump has stuffed the Israeli hard right into a locker, vetoing settlements in Gaza and annexation of the West Bank. One far-right politician even boycotted his Knesset speech. But if Trump doesn't keep them in a box, they'll capsize all plans for peace in the Middle East:

"Netanyahu perceives himself as indispensable, and his leadership as the only thing standing between his country and catastrophe... The truth is, Israel does not and has never needed Netanyahu to survive; it needs to survive Netanyahu."

Oh man, this actually worked

My latest: For the moment, Trump has stuffed the Israeli hard right into a locker, vetoing settlements in Gaza and annexation of the West Bank. One far-right politician even boycotted his Knesset speech. But if Trump doesn't keep them in a box, they'll capsize all plans for peace in the Middle East:

This sentence: "This is not a rewriting of history as much as a DDoS-ing of it—flooding the zone with so much synthetic crap that engaging with reality and humanity becomes just one of many content experiences to choose from."

I wrote this a year ago: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I wrote this a little over a month ago: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I wrote this a little over a month ago: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I wrote this in 2022: "In today’s Israel, men like Smotrich no longer feel the need to feign shame. They have moved from hypocrisy to outright advocacy." Piece has sadly held up well. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Shouldn't be overlooked: Trump's victory visit to Israel doubles as a straitjacket that binds Netanyahu's government to the agreement. You can't give Trump a standing ovation in the Knesset for his fabulous peace plan, then go back to bombing right after without embarrassing him. That matters.

Yet another poll finding the same thing polls have found for months: 66% of Israelis want to end the war, 69% think Netanyahu should resign either now or after the war. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

@yair-rosenberg.bsky.social: “Trump successfully bullied Netanyahu—and if this latest round of talks is going to get results, he’ll need to do more of it.”

My latest on what is really happening with the Gaza negotiations and what it will take for them to succeed (gift link): www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

My latest on what is really happening with the Gaza negotiations and what it will take for them to succeed (gift link): www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

In case you are wondering, we are here www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

How the conspiratorial race to the bottom works: Marjorie Taylor Greene tweets that she is not suicidal and implies Israel would try to kill her but doesn't name them. Days later, Theo Von just says it straight out, because you need to keep upping the antisemitic ante to shock.

Art of the deal

Trump presented his peace plan as a done deal. But it's not even close. Qatar and Turkey need to get Hamas to agree to things it has refused. Trump must ensure that Netanyahu adheres to the agreement, even if it threatens his coalition. I wrote about what's missing from Trump's plan (gift link):

"The Israeli right has spent decades trying to prevent people from conceiving any alternatives to its ultimate victory," writes @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

"71% of Israelis back the US framework, the survey finds. Support is particularly high among Arab citizens, with 93% backing the plan." This has been true of every attempt to end the war with a hostage deal for months. Most Israelis and Palestinians want the war to end. The question is leadership.

Palestinian recognition is symbolic and will have little immediate impact on the ground. But in the long term, it could have dramatic consequences for Israel's relationship with the world. I wrote about the real reason Palestinian statehood recognition matters. Gift link to full story:

Notable from Trump's Gaza plan: It's the first time he's officially repudiated his prior proposal to empty out the Strip to build his "Riviera on the Middle East." That plan emboldened Israel's settler right seeking to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Now Trump says Gazans should stay.

Will be back on the road again after the High Holidays, joining both local communities and campuses! Calendar is pretty packed, but if you'd like to bring me to yours, drop a line and we'll see what we can do: yairrosenberg.com/speaking/

As tech companies rush to create devices they can sell as interventions in America’s loneliness epidemic, @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social argues that they are bound to fail, “because they are the same technologies fueling it in the first place.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We'll see if this holds, but as I wrote this month, Trump had actual reason to stop Israeli annexation of the West Bank: it threatens the Abraham Accords, which he considers one of his greatest accomplishments. If he sticks to this position, Bibi will have to swallow it. My story on all this here: