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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...

Fifteen-year-old Miguel Vazquez was one of the people who took off running when federal agents arrived. “I thought, ‘Wait, why am I running? I’m a citizen,’” Vazquez said. newrepublic.com/post/203321/...

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

NEW: The White House intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation. “It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said. www.propublica.org/article/andr...

Credit where it's due, Dokupil does ask many of the questions I had — it wasn't a puff piece with Portnoy as an ambassador for fighting antisemitism, though the promo was certainly framed that way www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pCp...

Dasha Nekrasova has been fired by Gersh and from an upcoming film project for a recent episode with Christian nationalist Nick Fuentes.

Oh I guess putting the period first actually breaks the handle @reformjudaism.bsky.social

[email protected]'s latest blog post about settler violence in the West Bank is going for a pun? arza.org/the-wild-wil...

NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week. prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...

Over on Substack, I wrote about some of the background of my piece on Indiana University and how it ties into a German approach to fighting antisemitism that I covered a few years ago antisemitismdecoded.substack.com/p/behind-a-s...

Really crazy story from @mantzarlis.com for INDiCATOR about “Grokipedia” and the sources it’s citing. In addition to crazier stuff: “Grokipedia largely emulates Wikipedia in over half of its entries, seemingly content to transcribe pages verbatim…” indicator.media/p/grokipedia...

The Justices speaking, dressing, and acting like Fox News talent probably deserves more attention than it's received.

Something strange is happening at Indiana University... The school removed its respected director of its renowned Jewish studies program without explanation and replaced him with a professor focused on contemporary antisemitism known for vocally supporting Israel. 🧵 forward.com/news/783205/...

A majority of rabbinical students are LGBTQ! forward.com/fast-forward...

2. “Jews are running society, women need to shut the fuck up, Blacks need to be imprisoned for the most part, and we would live in paradise,” Fuentes said on the March 28 edition of his podcast.

Also that lots of people talk about these three things but don’t actually want them, they want news they agree with. We all insist that’s something *other people* do, not ourselves, but there’s a lotttt of it about.

Tony Dokupil giving a friendly platform to Dave Portnoy of all people to decry rising antisemitism is such a perfect item for Bari Weiss TV www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/dav...

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

It seems untenable for the Democratic Party’s top leader to view himself as a “guardian of Israel” at a time when like 70% of the party’s voters think Israel committed genocide

Lost in the uproar over the simple fact that Carlson gave Fuentes a platform is the reasoning behind it — Carlson wants Fuentes and his Groyper Army to help turn MAGA against Israel. antisemitismdecoded.substack.com/p/why-tucker...

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...