The actual question here is "Does supporting the existence of the Jewish State justify upholding its currently extant apartheid reality?" which nobody actually wants to address, which is why we all spend so much time dealing with hypotheticals and counterfactuals.

can someone please go visit the senate progressive caucus and take a carbon monoxide detector with them

Slightly clouded, unlike this fellow who is so clouded as to be indistinguishable from mud:

worrying number of guys gaze a while and then decide the abyss makes some good points. you could simply not do that

This is straightforwardly correct and I would subscribe to such a podcast even if I never listened to it.

kat abu should be the joe rogan of the left

Why did you say ZOG is objectively correct?

The endless cycle: Pro-Israel people weaken arguments against antisemitism by insisting it is antisemitic to, say, accuse Israel of apartheid or genocide, some anti-Israel people respond by dismissing actual antisemitism as mere criticism of Israel, everyone's position hardens. Repeat ad infinitum.

Listen, if you hear someone describe a class of people as "inbred" and don't immediately recognize that they're sliding down the slope towards justifying death camps, you are a fool or yourself a fascist, and you need to fix your heart or die.

A lot of this discourse just comes down to this imho.

people have maybe heard "it is impossible to be antisemitic while criticizing Israel" and that is 1) a different statement than what's below and 2) obviously not true

The wrecker behavior regarding Talarico is just so bizarre to me, and I'm positive some of it is coming from right-wing accounts, but it has been disappointing how so many left-wing people have run with it, not only on here but on Threads and Facebook.

A number of Jewish organizations are shrilly insisting that any criticism of Israeli genocide and warmongering is an illegitimate attack on Jews. At the same time, an increasing number of non-Jewish people are insisting that any attack on Jews is a legitimate attack on Israel. This sucks, man

The level of absolute gutter anti-semitism that people are happy to accept now as long as the word Israel is thrown in there somewhere is fucking nauseating. And meanwhile the big Jewish orgs are busy hanging out with Nazis. And American Jews are caught in the middle and it fucking sucks so bad

it's such a bummer to see people respond to a better kind of religious politics by basically saying the most fundamentalist and chauvinist voices within any belief-tradition are actually right about what their faith demands. i mean, it makes sense; but it's a drag.

Everyone who is like "criticizing Israel is not antisemitic" is correct but also the man said that Jews are inbred, which is psychotic racism.

abolish all streamers imo. every single “political streamer” is a crank, even the ones who are ostensibly on our side

(((neoliberal)))

That Bernie and Warren didn't both retire in 2024 and that Markey isn't retiring this year drives me completely insane.

Nobody pretends not to understand that screaming "down with the Taliban!" or "end Islamist oppression!" at random Muslim-looking people on the street is anything but a form of harassment, regardless of whether you agree with the theoretical political objectives.

i also actually just vaguely do not give a shit about whether Israel is causing upticks in antisemitic conspiracy theory or not. Israel does not control your actions. you have the power to simply not believe antisemitic myths and therefore if you do, you are responsible, you alone are to blame

What an incredible post. Thank you so much for your urgent context and thoughts about how Dolores Huerta was a bully.

Outrageous. Stripping Liam Conejo Ramos and his family of asylum is beyond cruel and indefensible. This decision must be overturned. Shame.

The increasing use of zio as slur is not great

I wonder if it might have had any other effects

Average Bsky poster: "We must inaugurate a Second Reconstruction with blood and fire." Average Democratic politician: "We are in a war for the Republic, which is why I propose a 23.7% tax cut." Average liberal columnist: "For too long the transgenders have blocked research into the racial IQ gap."

I hope this forces some soul-searching inside the labor movement. UFW is an extreme case, but the reality is that the relationship between leadership and organizers in other unions is ripe for abuse and domination in the hands of the wrong leadership or the absence of internal accountability.

If someone yells "free Palestine" at me because I'm visibly a Jew, they are not expressing solidarity with the concept of a free Palestine, they're expressing hostility towards me based on a racist assumption that I am opposed to a free Palestine.

Bouie said it best: Trump and Bibi are just two dumb bitches saying exaaaaaaaaactly to each other

Noticing a motte-and-bailey thing going on, where as soon as you point out that "Israel sock-puppeted the United States into war against Iran" is an antisemitic conspiracy theory, people act as if you're arguing against the obviously true assertion that Israel wanted the US to go to war with Iran.

Karen Bass is a comically bad mayor and Nithya is our only hope for turning LA into a well-functioning city

Every. Day www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/w...

I'll be honest: I was less alienated by the Michigan attack itself (as I've said, I "price in" such attacks) than by the amount of effort and energy expended in its aftermath trying to explain why either a) the synagogue was fair game or b) calling advocates of "a" antisemitic is a terrible smear.

There's a lot of chatter about what makes diaspora Jews cleave to Zionism, and I honestly think it's less the antisemitic attacks themselves, and more how people *respond* to those attacks. It's the latter that underscores the fear that our "friends" won't be there for us when we need them most.

hey man nice to see you! just following up on the Platner wife issue. 1) you ever confirm that she’s Jewish? 2) you happen to remember who told you she was?

Wrote about how MAGA is a rebellion against the reality of interdependence, and how that led the Trump administration to completely ignore the potential fallout of going to war with Iran. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It's really important that we calibrate the distinctions between impropriety, abuse, carelessness, violence, etc. There are many ways things are bad, and it's not dismissive of harms to emphasize that.

What's really difficult about the AIPAC stuff is that two identical posts can be antisemitic or not antisemitic depending on the motivations and inner-world of the poster.

oh look at that www.pew.org/en/research-...

He's a great Eastern European, and a hero in this house.

"George Soros funded the Euromaidan" Very good if true. "George Soros is funding the Hungarian opposition" God I hope so. "George Soros invested tons of money into ending the career of Benjamin Netanyahu" Fucking ideal.

yeah man George Soros rocks

It is a recurring tragedy for women and girls on the left that many of us believe that the men in our movements include us in their visions of a more just, equal, and dignified world, and we have to learn the hard way that they don’t.

Right wing men desire a world ruled by hierarchy and domination, and the way they treat women and girls is an extension of that principle. Left wing men desire a world ruled by equality and dignity, and the way they treat women and girls is an exception to that principle.

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is about the righteousness of fighting fascism, while also recognizing the inevitability of defeat and the moral necessity to keep fighting even after you lose. The fact that the revolutionaries are all deeply broken, messed-up people is not incidental, it's the whole point.

The African-American veterans who gathered at Thaddeus Stevens' grave in 1886 to pay their respects did not do so because they knew they embodied the zeitgeist of the nation or rode the arc of history to its apex, but rather because they knew they didn't. The cause endures.

This is incredibly horrifying and also you know exactly how every part of this is going to go, like it's Mad Libs swapping out a megachurch or commune for the farmworker movement.

obviously this story wouldn't have been any less dark if this wasn't true, but I really wasn't prepared for one of the victims to have been Dolores Huerta