We should not forget that Ta-Nehisi Coates gave a far better answer to the "right to exist [as a Jewish state]" question than Tucker Carlson. The issue isn't that Tucker is the only one who will say it, but that the American commentariat ices out left-liberal, and often nonwhite, people who say it.

Israel doesn’t have a “right to exist” as a state grounded in ethnic cleansing and oppressing minorities. The same goes for the US, which Tucker says is under siege from minorities seeking to “replace” whites. This is where silencing leftwing anti-Zionists gets you: the right cornering the market.

Highly recommend those who still dispute the racial inequality of the Israeli system of control in both the pre-67 and post-67 territories read this report from Adalah, aka the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, on over 30 new laws passed since 10/07/2023 that cement Jewish supremacy.

“Our traditional responses — policing, and prosecution and arrest — have not reversed the trend of rising hate violence, because they can’t.” www.jta.org/2026/03/20/n...

No one better personified the political status quo's ability to identify the danger we faced in intimate detail while declining to act on it out of a sense of propriety.

TBH I'd love to see a state do a carbon tax on industrial polluters and earmark all of the money for subsidizing the buildout of renewables.

“a natural shortening of a word” describes a very solid range of common slurs. I’ll leave it to the experts to decide if it’s a majority of slurs by weight but, like, it’s most of the ones you think of when you think “slur”

Angie Craig delenda est.

Reminder that CBS spends thousands of dollars a day on an unnecessary security detail for Bari pagesix.com/2025/11/03/e...

The man who was killed—backed into and left in the road to die like a dog— was walking to his job at Home Depot on 1st Ave. He never made it to work. Traffic violence is a CLASS issue. The working class is disproportionately affected.

Tips from a Jew who wants to see Israel abolished and replaced by an egalitarian state with full political and civil rights for all residents of its territories: -"Zio" is a slur, in any context -"Zionist" is a vague term that you should really try to define before you go throwing it at people

Oh my god bro

Proud to stand w/ JBS workers from UFCW Local 7 on strike this week. Politicians from both parties have told us that we have no choice but to live this way. That’s a lie. When working people, ranchers & families come together, we can defeat the monopolies—we’ve done it before, & we will do it again.

Back in 2020 I saw an Azerbaijani victory parade in the streets of New York--literally a parade of trucks and buses, covered in Azerbaijani flags and lists of conquered towns--and if we all treated AIPAC and other Jewish communal organizations as the equivalent of those guys, we'd all be better off.

Something I think about a lot is @peterbeinart.bsky.social talking in THE CRISIS OF ZIONISM, all the way back in 2012 about how American Jews don't have a communal language or logic for processing the reality of Jewish power, as opposed to Jewish powerlessness.

the Nazi and Soviet files are full of stuff like this.

right, exactly. we are constantly manipulated by the {{{{{saudis}}}}} and ||||qatar|||| enages in essentially no other type of diplomacy. }{}china{}{ presumes to police and speak for its diaspora everywhere on earth, and makes claims to places which aren't even historically chinese. this is normal!

On this point, I think one of the best things that could happen to the American Jewish community is for everyone to stop giving a shit about our opinions about Israel.

AIPAC is going to be the 2028 primary's NRA.

It turns out that sometimes when you post a thread criticizing someone for letting their legitimate horror and anger lead to them drifting into the sea of algorithmically-promoted conspiratorial hateful slop, they read or & absorb it & engage productively & realize where they went wrong.

Here is Naftali Bennett, former Prime Minister and likeliest next Prime Minister of Israel, saying *explicitly* that the Bedouin-Palestinian citizenry of Israel is an existential threat to the Jewish nature of the state, and he even went as far as to imply that they'd do an Oct 7th style attack.

contrary to being *terrifying* these numbers speak to the fact that Trump admin hacks are still the significant minority in the federal government and/or Trump I hacks have been negatively polarized against Trump II

Damn you're telling me that if you cut two hours of commuting out of people's days, that they suddenly have time to reallocate to childcare and leisure and thus are more willing to have children, the world's largest and more adorable time suck?

Eid Mubarak to all those who celebrate. I wish everyone good food and good company on this blessed day.

It shouldn't be possible for a city to be this poorly governed.

I hope they try it.

minorities are very much not equal under the law! even many Jews aren't equal under the law! the bizarre fusions of Ottoman millets, compromises with the ultra-Orthodox, conquest and occupation, and straight up bigotry have left Israeli law a total mess.

Cool I hate this shit

The one positive from the Trump era is that we've all learned in how bad our constitution is. It's entire point is to elevate the desires of minorities over majorities, but without ever considering that minorities might coordinate their behavior. Trumpism is just 30% of the US running the other 70%.

Just as one example, in Israel a Jewish majority town with 700 households or less is allowed to operate what is called an "admissions committee" which explicitly permits the city to deny an Israeli citizen the right to move there on the basis of race. Ie, if they're Palestinian or Druze.

I was watching an interview with Novak, the B'tselem director, where she says that when she was young, she kept trying to advocate to reform Israel and shed away the occupation, and, to paraphrase her from memory, "Israel kept telling me, no, no, Israel IS the occupation".

Hmm pretty bad!

even if you came up with the terribly clever 'zio' all by your little selves, people are using it as a slur for Jews, and it has been a slur for Jews for decades, and a minority group that literally needs security on its community centers and places of worship is telling you not to use it.

I think some on this website and in general are confused. Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. I have written I do not know how many pieces saying this. Also, if you are using anti-Zionism as an opportunity to say hateful things about Jews qua Jews, you are, I am sorry to say, being antisemitic.

freedom of religion is a guaranteed thing that will be here forever therefore we dont have to worry about setting any precedents about targeting a particular religion for narrow political gain.

My synagogue meets in a church because we can't afford our own building, you pompous fucking dipshit.

Hell is not hot enough

This dude is basically the guy in this quote, childishly giddy about getting to say slurs.

Say what you want about the #CAGov clown car primary, but billionaire/ self-proclaimed "class traitor" Tom Steyer rebranding Prop 13 as the "Trump Tax Loophole" is an interesting rhetorical move. I wonder why nobody else is taking a page out of his playbook. (h/t @jdcmedlock.bsky.social)

I've been pointing out that the term Zios is a David Duke creates term for years to the people who have casually used it and not one person has said "Oh shit? Really? My bad." They all just ignore what i said or double down on why the use is ok.

Hundreds of Jews and Palestinians gathered in Tel Aviv today to protest our government’s forever war — in Lebanon, Gaza, the West Bank, and Iran. We know this isn’t normal. We know all of us deserve better. Enough.

As I told a Torontonian Jewish Islamophobe on Twitter who tried the same - you aren't taking our Kiddush Levanah and you're not touching our neighbours practices either

It would be cool to see more people on social media who are capable of denouncing or at the very least eschewing both antisemitism and Islamophobia, and recognizing that both are very real and very wrong, without any buts or caveats

It feels like we’re playing Jenga with the underpinnings of society. There‘s the peaceful transfer of power norm. There’s the norm against antisemitism. There’s the stable global energy market. Idk how long this is sustainable before something breaks for good.

this is going to sound mean but the most normal DSA members tend to be the ones that do the most offline organizing

everyone knows "going out like Stan Chera." I propose "going out like Chuck Norris" to mean "living a life such that literally everyone finds out you died via a tasteless joke about your death"

took me a hot second to follow the thread back to some guy calling Kat "Abu Ghraib" because, he said, she supported the National Endowment for Democracy being involved in Gaza reconstruction. it feels like insanity is catching

chat is this bad?

Again asking to people to consider the possibility that Hasan Piker is not a good dude and that his influence on politics is ultimately deleterious

The responses to this are really making me despair for the possibility that this site is ultimately going to be any different than the Bad Place.