Better late, than never: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

30 years ago today Israel's then prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated by a right-wing Jewish extremist, after a campaign of incitement against Rabin led by Netanyahu. Tragically, Rabin's murder deprived the Oslo peace process of the one Israeli leader who could have enabled it to succeed.

The president who hosted Nick Fuentes for dinner

You can’t be for Jewish safety and use dog whistles like “globalist.” And you can’t claim you have zero tolerance for antisemitism while winking and waving at it so long as it’s sufficiently subtle.

We do not join Jonathan Greenblatt in thanking the Heritage Foundation's President Kevin Roberts for trying to have it both ways. You can’t condemn antisemitism and not condemn those ushering it into the mainstream.

“Giving Netanyahu and his far-right allies carte blanche to do what they like in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank does not protect Jews, it makes them less safe,” explain @dovwaxman.bsky.social & @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social’s @jeremybenami.bsky.social.

You can now watch Oscar Award winning documentary No Other Land in the United States of America. Link below.

One target at a time: The logic that helped Israeli liberals commit genocide www.972mag.com/israelis-log...

There are some interesting findings in this new Washington Post survey of Jewish Americans: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

I'm proud to have contributed a short essay, co-authored with @jeremybenami.bsky.social, to this much-needed report by @nexusproject.bsky.social. I hope you'll read it and share it.

I just did an op-ed @thecjn.bsky.social specifically to define those terms!! thecjn.ca/opinion/pers...

This hateful antisemitic vandalism in Minneapolis is alarming and unacceptable. Targeting synagogues with anti-Zionist/anti-Israel slogans isn’t political activism — it’s harassing and threatening Jewish communities.

I was very glad to write this article and I hope people pay attention to it. It’s very important.

I wrote about the Manchester synagogue attack and attempts to blame Gaza protests rachelshabi.substack.com/p/indivisibl...

I agree with this smart analysis by @alonpinkas.bsky.social: Hold that Nobel Prize: This Peace Plan Will Die, and Bibi Will Kill It newrepublic.com/article/2015...

The ceasefire in Gaza, now in effect, depends on the promise given by an inveterate liar and conman (Trump) to a ruthless terrorist organization (Hamas) that he will prevent another serial liar, conman, and war criminal (Netanyahu) from resuming the war:

It's 9am in Israel and I'm standing on a hill in Sderot looking into Gaza and hearing the sounds of distant explosions and seeing dust clouds and plumes of smokes. The war hasn't ended yet.

Very happy and relieved that a ceasefire-hostage agreement has been reached and that all the hostages will be home soon. I hope that the second phase of Trump's plan will also be implemented. That will be much harder to do than the first phase. The pressure on both sides must be sustained.

Today marks two years since Hamas’ October 7 massacre and the start of Israel’s assault on Gaza. We asked Palestinians and Jews on our team how they felt about their home then — and how they feel now. To see the full post, click here shorturl.at/msoVq (1/4)

On the second anniversary of the outbreak of the Gaza war that Hamas initiated with its horrific surprise attack in southern Israel, it’s worth taking stock of the war’s devastating toll. Here's a long thread, which is not exhaustive, of the toll:

An excellent op-ed on the antisemitic terrorist attack in Manchester: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Erwin Chemerinsky, a distinguished constitutional lawyer and expert on the First Amendment, explains why "Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion," and is also blatantly unconstitutional: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

The deadly antisemitic attack in Manchester today has the hallmarks of a jihadist terrorist attack. Islamic State (IS), in particular, has encouraged its supporters to use vehicle rammings as a deadly weapon, and there have been many attacks by IS supporters using vehicle rammings and stabbings.

My friend Keith Kahn-Harris wrote this prescient piece a decade ago. What he anticipated has now, unsurprisingly, happened in Manchester today. It calls for compassion and solidarity, not political point scoring: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Some comments on Trump's plan for ending the Gaza War: First, two big positives: 1. If Hamas accepts the plan--a big 'if'--it will result in a ceasefire, the release of all remaining hostages, and ensure that more humanitarian aid reaches Gazans. This will be a huge improvement on the status quo.

Hamas faces a decisive test: accept Trump’s plan, which is tantamount to surrendering, or reject the plan, which entails prolonging the suffering and slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. Will Hamas prioritize its own interests or the needs of Palestinian civilians in Gaza?

A new survey of Israelis finds that 66% want the war in Gaza to end now, 64% want Netanyahu to take responsibility for Oct. 7 and resign, and less than one in five Israeli Jews (18.5%) think the Palestinian people have the right to a state of their own: en.idi.org.il/articles/61845

Israel's genocidal actions in Gaza have turned growing numbers of Americans against it, and have also made Israel an international pariah (as last week's walkout at the UN vividly demonstrated): www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/p...

When Netanyahu meets with Trump today, I expect he will not outright reject Trump's Gaza peace plan, but Netanyahu will insist on conditions and caveats that he knows Hamas will reject, so that Hamas can be blamed for rejecting it. Netanyahu is adept at this game.

We realize that among Jews who have built their political home within a broader progressive movement, there is particular pain in acknowledging that a genocide is taking place in Gaza.

Important thread from the group leading the fight against antisemitism and for pluralism in the US right now, when too many other groups have abdicated that responsibility.

How governments, advocacy groups, and pundits respond to the recognition of Palestinian statehood is a good indicator of whether they genuinely support the Palestinian right to self-determination or not (although this right won't be realized until Israel ends its occupation of Palestinian land).

Poll of Palestinian opinion by Zogby. Please note -The universal revulsion towards Hamas in Gaza (92% hold them responsible for the "situation") -Low support for armed struggle (only 4% in Gaza) -Low support for "one democratic state" - around 13% institute.global/insights/geo...

The Israeli hostages still held in Gaza have now spent 700 days in cruel captivity. While Hamas is responsible for this crime, the fact remains that all the hostages could have been freed by now if Netanyahu's government had prioritized their release.

An interview I did with New York magazine: nymag.com/intelligence...

This has nothing to do with combatting campus antisemitism. This is a shakedown and an effort to bring the best public university system in the country to its knees: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

Last August, a plurality of American voters (43%) believed that Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza. Now, a year later, a plurality (47%) believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, while the share of those who don't believe this has dropped by 10% to just a third of Americans (33%).

NEW: The University of California said Wednesday that Trump has frozen a total of $584 million in federal grants to UCLA. The figure is more than twice the initial amount tallied last week. UC also confirmed today that it will negotiate to restore the funds www.latimes.com/california/s...

Since I publicly stated my view that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, I have, unsurprisingly, received some very critical reactions from some supporters of Israel as well as from some supporters of the Palestinians. I've written some reflections on these reactions: medium.com/p/some-refle...

Coincidentally, just after I wrote about why I had changed my mind about what's happening in Gaza and reached the conclusion that Israel was committing genocide, my colleague in the field of Israel Studies, Dr. Lihi Ben Shitrit, published a similar piece: forward.com/opinion/7598...

We are completely horrified and sickened by the cynical videos of hostages Rom Braslavski and Evyatar David, who are starving and emaciated, that were published this weekend. (1/5)

This. It is tragically obvious that the goal of freeing the hostages has been deemed far less important to the Israeli government than ethnically cleansing Gaza and keeping Netanyahu in power. If the priority were the lives of the hostages, this war would have ended a long time ago.

This is a well-reported deep dive on how the Anti-Defamation League went from an organization that at least on paper tried to balance support for domestic US liberalism with Zionism, to an organization that is no longer even trying for the former: nymag.com/intelligence...

My article, coauthored with @djpressman.bsky.social, titled "No Limits: The Biden Administration's Support for Israel's War on Gaza," has just been published in the journal World Affairs. The article is freely available for everyone to read and share: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

For the past 21 months of horrific violence and heartbreaking suffering in the Gaza Strip, I've been wrestling with the contentious question of whether Israel is committing the crime of genocide in Gaza. I initially rejected the genocide charge, but now I don't. A thread on why I've changed my mind:

Significantly, all 22 member states of the Arab League have signed onto a declaration condemning Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel and calling for Hamas to disarm. The next necessary step is for all these Arab states to apply real pressure on Hamas to disarm: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/w...

This is an excellent interview, it is mandatory viewing.. for those who care about human rights, Gaza, Palestine and Israel, as well.

More than half of the Senate Democratic caucus voted for a resolution to block arms sales to Israel. Things really are changing.

For @forward.com, I wrote about how we know that Israel has been withholding food as a military tactic because Israeli officials have said versions of “we are withholding food as a military tactic” for the entirety of the war and pretending otherwise is willful ignorance forward.com/opinion/7586...