Some professional news — I’ll be leaving the @Forward.com in mid-July. I’m excited for a new opportunity, but also sad to be leaving the Forward, which remains an essential source of independent Jewish news at a crucial time for just that. More soon.

My colleague @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social, who covers antisemitism for @forward.com, is from San Francisco and has an excellently local assessment of what just happened (twice) to @scottwiener.bsky.social. .

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

“Allegations of anarchist conspiracy still have the power to quicken the pulse of opportunistic prosecutors, who have made, among other things, the presence of anarchist zines in the homes of the Prairieland defendants central to their case in Texas.”

A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears. www.texastribune.org/2026/06/15/t...

They also sent fighter jets to do a flyover at midnight

Yet another Platner ex - this time a leftist who he didn’t tell he was already engaged - describes him having known that his Nazi tattoo was a Totenkopf long before running for office, corroborated by her own private texts to her mother about the tattoo before it became public knowledge.

“X owner Elon Musk shared a post from Robinson (whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) announcing locations of protests, and another from the far-right Restore Britain party that read: ‘Do not make peace with evil. Destroy it.’”

I think the strangest Graham Platner takes I’m seeing is this “I don’t live in Maine so I don’t have an opinion on this” — as if that’s a standard that we apply to literally any other Congressional candidate

"Omar Artan was set to be the first match official from Somalia to referee at a World Cup finals"

Noticing a weird new thing on social media that I believe started with people defending AI data centers but is now being applied to golf courses and other "wastes" of water — people say "good thing water is a renewable resource," as if it can never be wasted because it eventually recirculates

700 shops in half a decade is just a fucking bananas velocity. @sbworkersunited.org continues to rack up wins, putting lethargic Big Labor to shame as it does.

Love the Knicks, but a reminder of how the Garden’s ownership approaches security.

“If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty... nothing can be done?” asked Judge Patricia Millett. “I think that’s right, yes,” responded DOJ attorney Yaakov Roth www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

With its brand toxic in Democratic primaries, the lobbying group has set up portals to steer donors to campaigns without attaching its name forward.com/news/828070/...

“Almost half of American Jews under 35 say the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be solved by creating a single country in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza with a government elected by both Israelis and Palestinians, according to a poll conducted by the Jewish Voter Resource Center.”

New Jewish Voters Resource Center poll (GBAO): 24% of American Jewish voters back a binational state in Israel-Palestine. Per @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social reporting, 51% of non-Orthodox Jews under 35 do. Only 1% of Israeli Jews support same w/ equal rights. forward.com/news/827329/...

The share of American Jews who want a binational state has doubled in recent years — 13% to 24% among all adults, and 22% to 44% among those under 35 forward.com/news/827329/...

24% of American Jews support replacing Israel with a binational state — I believe this is the highest % ever jewishvoters.org/wp-content/u...

I'll be speaking with Flora Cassen about her new book, which blends memoir and historical analysis to trace the arc of European antisemitism, at the Shalom Hartman Institute in New York next week. Register to join us (or get a recording of the event sent to you): hartman.tfaforms.net/4720923

Terrible search is driving a lot of this — if I have a slightly complicated search query, I can either Google it and be handed a block of mediocre AI with confusing sourcing followed by often barely-relevant links or I can ask a chatbot and get a clean answer with better sourcing faster

“We do well when we’re in the center,” Foxman told me shortly after I started this job. “And there is no center today.” forward.com/news/antisem...

A lot of attention has been paid to the collapse of traffic to The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel. But other ragebait sites are also seeing huge drops in audience. According to The Righting, Outkick, The Federalist and The Blaze are down at least 48%. therighting.com/traffic-repo...

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Extremists Links: U.S. Army Specialist Jakob Marcoulier, assigned to the 10th Mountain Division’s 3rd Brigade at Fort Polk, Louisiana, allegedly made online threats including attacking a synagogue and killing 'every single Jew.'

I'll be going live tomorrow with @fieldsmeyer.com to talk Jewish power, authoritarianism, antisemitism and more — RSVP here to join 👇 open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Just definitionally this has to void a "ceasefire," right? Otherwise what possible meaning of ceasefire allows ongoing warfare between the two parties

U.S. soldier accused of threatening Jews posted whites were also victims of racism

"America is a big country, with a lot of irate and insane people who own a lot of guns. The miracle is that there is actually so little political violence in relation to the wide availability of the means." open.substack.com/pub/johnganz/p/the-shooting-that-wasnt

Haaretz brings dramatic figures for mental health among Israelis: -28% suffer from insomnia compared with 5% before October 7 -One in four suffers from addiction compared with 1/10 in 2022 -20% suffer from PTSD (average in developed economies - 5-6%) -7% have OCD (global average 2%)

For a more detailed look at how this interview does indeed lean into antisemitism, I really value this perspective from @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social in The Forward and think it’s worth a read by everyone discussing this: forward.com/news/antisem... 7/7

Excellent piece and thread.

I wrote about Julian Casablancas and the new style of American antisemitism forward.com/news/antisem...

Note: there is only one non-Christian faith leader currently on the docket to speak: Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, Senior Rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City, who sits on Trump's religious liberty commission.

BREAKING: The Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces investigation by Justice Department over past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

ghoulish

The NYPD cop who ran over and fatally dragged a man laying in a Flushing Meadows park path was putting on lipgloss while driving — and will not face charges for the incident.

RIP Hampshire College. Not to neighboring Yiddish Book Center, fortunately.

Remember the @pewresearch.org data on the decline in Israel's standing in the US published last week? We asked them for the crosstabs which they graciously shared with us, and we're publishing for the 1st time. Bottom line: total collapse of Israel's standing among young Americans across the board.

Apple is closing down the first of its US stores to unionize. Apple says that because of the collective bargaining agreement with these workers, they "couldn’t offer to transfer them to nearby locations.” The union is outraged, and exploring options to hold Apple accountable.

I did wonder about this

This is a deep misreading of the political dynamics around the campus protest movement

"The image that the White House sought to paint of him seems to have fallen flat." Well done piece by @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social. Many won't come away convinced by Khalil, but hopefully readers will grasp the heterogeneity within the antizionist movement. forward.com/news/817276/...

This is an extremely informative and well-done profile. Thank you, @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social.

EXCLUSIVE: I spoke with Mahmoud Khalil about Hamas, Zionism and what "free Palestine" means to him "This is what we should aspire for: to get a place where there’s no more conflict, no more killing in that place and its open to anyone who wants to call it their home." forward.com/news/817276/...

Mahmoud Khalil sat down with @forward.com for an extended interview because he wanted to talk to Jews, including those who see his Free Palestine movement as an existential threat. His message, take it or leave it: "I want to liberate everyone."

In case anyone is wondering how LAPD is doing tonight at following the injunction against arresting or detaining journalists. He was cut loose, I spoke with him after. He said he had asked multiple officers earlier for a supervisor and they refused — also a violation of injunction.