The Sharia Free Caucus is rooted in many of the same conspiracy theories that antisemites make about Jews antisemitismdecoded.substack.com/p/politician...

Prairie Home Minyan: @benyamincohen.bsky.social spent four days in Tulsa reporting on the program flying young Jews to Oklahoma to see if they might make a life there. forward.com/news/814312/...

I don’t actually think that fear of antisemitism allegations was the main thing holding back criticism of Israel, especially over the past 20 years — a time of arguably unprecedented criticism of Israel, including from Jews in the U.S.

An investigation by The New York Times found extensive evidence that Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers co-founder, groomed and sexually abused young girls who worked in the movement.

During the Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union gave the Republican government cutting-edge tanks — but the tank commanders they sent with them refused to use proper tank formations because Stalin had just purged the head tank strategist and made effective tank strategy essentially verboten

I was looking for a @forward.com article that started with "young Americans" and here's what else the archive turned up

God www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

In 2013, 34% of Democrats said their sympathies were with Israelis vs. only 18% who sided with Palestinians. That has more than reversed: In 2026, only 17% of Democrats side with Israelis vs. 67% siding with Palestinians, according to an @NBCNews.com poll. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

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After an active shooter attacked a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, we are grateful that all congregants and the children in the temple’s preschool are reportedly safe. Our hearts are with the greater Detroit Jewish community today. We are monitoring the situation as more details emerge.

The local sheriff at a press conference said a security guard was the only person injured during the attack — more to to come www.mlive.com/news/detroit...

New: Senior Denver ICE official says in court that officers involved in leaving “death cards” in arrested immigrants’ cars have been removed from field work and placed on office duty. ICE’s office of personal responsibility is still investigating. Background: www.denverpost.com/2026/01/23/c...

Beyond the threat Iran poses to Israel and its own people, Jews in Iran have been living in an impossible situation where the only way to survive is to genuflect to the regime. We posted this at @forward.com yesterday, before the strike began and ahead of Purim, which begins Monday night.

Reform movement comes out in favor of the war

A major shift, via Gallup. More from @joshuakeating.bsky.social www.vox.com/politics/480...

Important+interesting story on support for Hamas among Americans under 30. Support is probably an overstatement or not quite the right term, but certainly willingness to excuse/deflect.

In the aftermath of Oct. 7, many rush to paint the pro-Palestinian movement in the U.S. as supporters of Hamas terrorism — often relying on tenuous claims about slogans and political platforms that didn't hold up to scrutiny. 🧵

In my newsletter: A mayoral candidate in LA is trying to convince Jewish voters she’s not Zohran Mamdani Plus: Trump convenes his Board of Peace • Jesse Jackson's Jewish ally • The Zionism controversy roiling the romance world • and Netflix’s 'Nobody Wants This' returns. mailchi.mp/forward/1292...

If you dig into the data, reports @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social, you'll see "nearly half of the Jews who don’t identify as either Zionist or anti-Zionist," who make up 56% of the total, "think Israel committed genocide against the Palestinians" and is guilty of apartheid. forward.com/news/antisem...

The longtime director of the ADL’s Center on Extremism — which tracks this kind of thing on social media — left last month to work for another watchdog group that has been deeply critical of the ADL’s political shift

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The Antisemitism Beat: This week we interviewed @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social, the @forward.com antisemitism beat reporter, about covering antisemitism, how it has changed in recent years, and how archives and history might help us better understand what’s going on today.

Stephen Pittman, a 19-year-old man accused of setting fire to Jackson’s only synagogue, Beth Israel, declared that “Jesus Christ is lord” after the judge asked him if he understood his rights in federal court today. @nickjudin.bsky.social reports + AP:

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

The Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Miss., recently bought the historic Fountainhead House, known for architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s geometric designs. After restorations, the museum will open the home for tours.

At least seven historically Black colleges and universities were forced into lockdown after a series of terroristic threats after Charlie Kirk's death. In recent years, HBCUs have stepped up their efforts to protect their campuses. https://capitalbnews.org/hbcu-bomb-threats-shootings-campus-safety/

One extremely notable exception aside, Jews are really not leading this talk of “heritage Americanism” and in fact are more critical of Trump’s immigration policies than Americans overall

You might hope that a shocking event like Bondi would shake people from their stupor, but instead it just reenforced that every discussion of antisemitism is now a proxy for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict forward.com/news/antisem...

"Despite his clear love of the Jewish Shabbat, he cannot help but reject it because it’s not Christian. And this is key to his argument: At its roots, Kirk’s praise of Shabbat is more concerned with convincing his readers to embrace Christianity than it is with learning from Judaism."

Looking around the corner, expect defense attorneys in the Turtle Island Liberation Front sting case to zero in on the FBI informant, the FBI undercover, and the impact of Trump’s antifa executive order / NSPM-7.

"data suggests Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles" that's just really really bad sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...

Elon Musk's AI robot is spewing misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting

Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting

Horrific news out of Australia, where violence toward the Jewish community has been mounting for years forward.com/fast-forward...

NEW! The Shakedown: How Trump's DOJ pressured lawyers to 'find' evidence that UCLA had illegally tolerated antisemitism. by me and @KatherineMangan w/ @chronicle.com www.propublica.org/article/ucla...

An absolutely insane story:

The D.C. Metro is selling these nonsense dreidels as part of the holiday merchandise collection — kind of love it?

After the Center for Jewish History gave Bill Ackman the keynote address at its academic symposium on antisemitism last spring, Ackman and his wife have donated $25 million to the organization ejewishphilanthropy.com/center-for-j...

Two nits to pick: 1. If I only bring a personal item and no suitcase, I should be able to store it in the overhead 2. If I can stuff my coat and personal item on top of my suitcase, that should also be OK www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/...

Piers Morgan gives Nick Fuentes another opportunity to present himself as more moderate than basically his entire record of public comments would suggest forward.com/news/788512/...

Thrilled to have @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social on The Jewish Angle @thecjn.bsky.social to discuss his stellar reporting on Indiana University's Jewish studies program and the broader implications of a genuinely bonkers story. thecjn.ca/opinion/indi...

Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine. She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”

In Aug., the NY Young Republican Club posted a statement to its website in support of the AfD. The statement concluded with the phrase “AfD über alles” in bold, a play on the line “Deutschland über alles,” which was frequently used in Nazi propaganda www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

That would be this, antisemitic and white nationalist activist, who was a cohost of The Charlie Kirk show.

An important thing to note is that Jeremy Corbyn was also incessantly asked about antisemitism but proved constitutionally incapable of giving Mamdani’s style of gracious answer

We've got our follow-up on our deep dive into Rumble, this time looking at the coordinated networks of scammers targeting fans of the platform's top creators with impersonation scams. The scale of these efforts is really insane to wrap your head around. openmeasures.io/dan-bongino-...

NEW: Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites a neo-Nazi website 42 times, researchers say www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

"George and Alex Soros have their hands all over this."

The best solutions to addressing K-12 antisemitism often involve building partnerships with school officials and teachers — something that's much harder to do if you think they're proxies for Qatar antisemitismdecoded.substack.com/p/some-blame...