The new travel ban issued by President Trump halts people with Palestinian Authority-issued passports from entering the United States. Immigration law expert Samah Sisay (of @ccrjustice.org) says the new restrictions are about politics, not security.

🚨BIG JOURNALISM JOB ALERT🚨 @jewishcurrents.bsky.social is looking for a new editor-in-chief (now that the LEGENDARY Arielle Angel is stepping back to be an editor-at-large):

In wartime, expressions of sorrow are pushed away. But, as Abdullah Hany Daher writes from Gaza, Palestinian grief is sacred. It demands to be felt.

"An American public steeped in the responsibility it bears for the atrocities of Timor, Bangladesh, and Guatemala, among others, would have been more likely to recognize how history was repeating itself in Gaza." Analysis by Zachary Jablow: jewishcurrents.org/the-genocide...

"the US was no bumbling humanitarian but a hegemon ready to pursue its interests through brutality, and willing to support its clients’ and allies’ mass killings until doing so becomes impolitic."

"The historical events that the New York Times has most clearly remembered as genocides, as crimes that demand outrage and accountability, are those where American complicity was not part of the story." Analysis by Zachary Jablow: jewishcurrents.org/the-genocide...

Comparing The New York Times’ treatment of genocides in which the US was not directly involved to its coverage of genocides that, like Gaza, featured active American assistance to aggressors yields striking results. Read the analysis by Zachary Jablow: jewishcurrents.org/the-genocide...

Samuel Stein looks at how New York City Hall is "booby-trapped to prevent progress on housing"—and how mayor-elect Mamdani and his allies can overcome the obstacles. jewishcurrents.org/zohran-mamda...

"All Mamdani’s socialist bonafides cannot change the fact that he will be governing from within a capitalist system,” writes Sam Stein. “But Mamdani’s opponents are not the only ones who can harness structural power.” jewishcurrents.org/zohran-mamda...

A case study in how the "real estate state" overrides democratic will: after Mamdani's decisive victory, Adams and his allies are using bureaucratic maneuvers to block rent freezes and kill affordable housing before Mamdani takes office. A crucial piece by Sam Stein in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social:

Can Zohran Mamdani overcome the snares being set for his affordable housing agenda? Samuel Stein outlines the challenges that face the mayor-elect on housing.

And props to @jewishcurrents.bsky.social for the Chanukah tweak to their logo. 👍

Good for them! Imagine: Informing students. "In my classrooms, students continued to move toward the political analysis that two successive university—and presidential—administrations seemed determined to suppress." jewishcurrents.org/scenes-from-...

Glad to be referenced in this @jewishcurrents.bsky.social essay by the great Samuel Stein! jewishcurrents.org/zohran-mamda...

A really thoughtful conversation about antisemitism and violence, about reactions to this attack, about needing to grieve and the pressure instead to adopt an approved position. From one of the best podcasts there is.

This week, we spoke with Sarah Schwartz of @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social. We parsed the various responses to the Bondi Beach attack; explored the folly of conflating ISIS ideology w/ Palestine politics; & reflected on the role & responsibility of the Jewish left amid antisemitic violence.

"A classroom, no matter how closely patrolled, has a stubborn way of remaining a place devoted to inquiry" jewishcurrents.org/scenes-from-...

"I braced for arguments . . . for Zionist students to file reports of discomfort caused by pro-Palestine writing, or activist students to drop out at any hint of Zionism in their peers’ work. But something altogether different unfolded." Ade Khan writes: jewishcurrents.org/scenes-from-...

"No matter how the specifics play out, it’s clear that the ADL’s efforts to appease Trump and MAGA have backfired—failing to pacify the right, while further alienating liberals."

The ADL Tried to Appease MAGA. The FBI Cut Ties with Them Anyway. The Jewish defense group—whose partnership with federal law enforcement goes back decades—has never been more isolated. bit.ly/4pCOTwK

“Indeed, six former ADL staffers told Jewish Currents that under CEO Jonathan Greenblatt’s ten years of leadership, the organization’s attention has shifted to focus primarily on the alleged threat that Palestinian solidarity activists pose to the Jewish community”

Fascinating story, of how the ADL came to abandon all of its civil rights works, lost federal partnerships, and is now just a far-right troll group. In brief, they became what they originally despised. jewishcurrents.org/the-adl-trie...

"Fiction offered distance from the regime’s official records—its denials of the atrocities, its criminalizing of our grief—and a route to enter memory." Author Sahar Delijani on Iran's Evin Prison and defying the narratives of dictatorship and empire alike jewishcurrents.org/the-view-fro...

On the new episode of On the Nose, Sarah Aziza and Tareq Baconi discuss their new memoirs and the political necessity of turning silence—around queerness, Gaza, the Nakba—into speech. jewishcurrents.org/writing-the-...

Incredible story. Bravo to @maricohen.bsky.social and @alexbkane.bsky.social

"The prison, filled with generations of dissidents, contains—and attempts to extinguish—a story that defies the one upheld by dictatorship and empire alike." Read Sahar Delijani's essay, now unpaywalled, on Israel's June airstrikes on Evin Prison in Tehran jewishcurrents.org/the-view-fro...

From our fall issue, now unpaywalled: Sahar Delijani on her family’s history with the notorious Iranian prison and a world of unfinished liberation movements jewishcurrents.org/the-view-fro...

"The relationship between the ADL and the FBI began decades before Comey professed his “love” for the antisemitism watchdog on the stage of its 2014 leadership summit." Read @maricohen.bsky.social and @alexbkane.bsky.social's report: jewishcurrents.org/the-adl-trie...

“My entire portfolio was focused on white supremacists and violent extremists. After October 7th, it was exclusively pro-Palestine.” Read @maricohen.bsky.social and @alexbkane.bsky.social's report on the state of the ADL as it faces isolation from the FBI: jewishcurrents.org/the-adl-trie...

Last month, Trump welcomed the UN Security Council’s approval of his “20-point-plan” as “a moment of true historic proportion.” In reality, the plan continues a century of Western and Israeli efforts to shrink Palestinian territory. Anne Irfan explains jewishcurrents.org/how-trumps-g...

Losing its long-cultivated partnership with the FBI is a major blow to the Anti-Defamation League. But the group has few left allies to support it against MAGA after recent attempts to align with Trumpworld. @maricohen.bsky.social & @alexbkane.bsky.social report: jewishcurrents.org/the-adl-trie...

Every facet of Israeli society—its government and politicians, its media and its culture—have collectively agreed to “make the decimation of Palestinian life in Gaza simply disappear from Israeli memory,” writes Lee Mordechai for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social.

Great paper 👏👏👏 many thanks Lee Mordechaï and @jvp.bsky.social and @jewishcurrents.bsky.social . Some Jews remain aware, fortunately.

I was at the Ackman keynote, a squalid affair but also an illuminating one. Wrote it up for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. Ackman's donations were the obvious subtext of the whole event. jewishcurrents.org/the-end-of-t...

"Before, the children were learning about Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Nakba, and the Naksa; now, they are taught about the Wailing Wall, Israeli Independence Day, and the Six-Day War." Jonathan Shamir reports on Israel's educational crusade in East Jerusalem jewishcurrents.org/an-education...

Read Will Alden’s portrait of UCLA’s capitulation to pro-Israel activists and Trump, and the ongoing harm this has caused pro-Palestinian students, for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social:

Enduring hardship in Gaza: Famine's Long Shadow @JewishCurrents

"Winning justice for Palestinians—and the enduring security that Jewish Israelis claim to want—will require reckoning with this entrenched national ethos of denial."

Great to hold the latest issue of @jewishcurrents.bsky.social in my hands. The reporting from UCLA in this issue is especially important.

This is the most succinct description of a key feature of the current moment that I’ve read so far—by M. Gessen writing in the New York Times today in support of our need to support @jewishcurrents.bsky.social as a magazine navigating us through this confusion. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...

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For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, Jess Schwalb & I explored the Zionist Right’s flailing attempts to counter rising antisemitism and criticism of Israel within the MAGA ranks. We cover last week’s conference in DC held by a task force on antisemitism which recently left the Heritage Foundation/

THEY! COULDN’T! EVEN! MAKE! A! MINYAN! I’m sorry, I know this is all very serious stuff, leopard-triggered facial reconstruction is a serious business, but I had to laugh when I got to that part. These are numerically-challenged people.

Good morning! I have a few gift subscriptions to @jewishcurrents.bsky.social to give away. FCFS for replies here.

As the Right continues to fracture after Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes, the Zionist Right is struggling to confront the surge of antisemitism from within their own ranks. @benlorber8.bsky.social and Jess Schwalb explain more in their latest piece for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social:

This should be worth a tote bag or something @jewishcurrents.bsky.social I listened to more Bad Bunny tho, and also am planning to drop Spotify anyway.

Excellent deep-dive into the violence perpetrated by fascist Zionist thugs at UCLA. Democrats, Republicans, the ADL, and the media have spent over a year lying that the violence was an antisemitic attack on Jews, and have used it and other lies to eviscerate higher education in the US:

On the newest episode of On the Nose, Antony Loewenstein and Rhys Machold debate the "Palestine Laboratory," and whether Israeli military innovation is, in fact, a myth. jewishcurrents.org/debating-the...

"The brain-breaking effects of autocracy are why we need small magazines as places of sense-making." Could not agree more. That's why I am a sustaining member of @jewishcurrents.bsky.social at the Elder of Zion level, and you can be, too. (Gift link to always brilliant M. Gessen.)

Watch the full discussion — co-hosted with @rightsdissent.bsky.social and moderated by @chipgibbons.bsky.social — featuring @dropsitenews.com’s @recolston.bsky.social, @jewishcurrents.bsky.social’ Emily Wilder, and Noa Avishag Schnall.