It doesn't really matter, but just found out Mazower is Scholem Asch's great-grandson.

Today I had to inform someone that Borsalino doesn't only sell black hats to Jews.

The footage indicates no such thing. But even if this was true, it's not a serious trap at all. Painting a swastika on a yeshiva is a prima facie hostile act against the Jewish community. It's an easy lay-up to denounce this, and unsurprisingly Mamdani didn't drop the ball because he's not dumb.

The gap in quality between Mark Mazower's "On Antisemitism: A Word in History" and basically every other book on antisemitism published by a trade press in recent years is basically the Grand Canyon. Do yourselves a favor and read it ASAP.

Within Our Lifetime is indeed a pro- Palestine group, but one that has isolated itself in the NYC organizing community. They were protesting Jamaal Bowman campaign events. They are are a problem but not on the vanguard of anything.

Nothing can persuade you of the value Reviewer 2 brings to society than reading a Yuval Noah Harari essay full of banalities built around his "sensible" persona. Did you know nationalist historical narratives are not 100% correct, and if everyone moved on from them we might live more peacefully?

The assimilated part is a head-scratcher. David Axelrod is as identifiably Jewish as Alex. The fact that he is calling himself Jewish in a politicized manner suggests he does not desire assimilation, the telos of which would be "white American who practices the Hebrew faith in his private life."

This is so good. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

"The approach taken by the Anti-Defamation League’s 'Mamdani Monitor,' and by several other organizations, is dangerous and counterproductive. It is generating fear and mistrust by targeting New York City’s newly elected leadership with aggressive and confrontational tactics".

The opening lines from an op-ed in the last serious remaining independent newspaper in Israel. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

Yes. In the battle between Mike Huckabee and Tucker Carlson over the right's orientation over Israel, I remain aloof. I have nothing to do with the 'kesher' with Christian Zionism.

Particulars of Israel-Palestine aside, it's a bit surreal seeing a mayor get grilled on foreign policy while everyone shrugs when the actual president appears to be throwing darts at a map blindfolded to decide our next war. Sorry, Cameroon. Nothing personal.

I stopped caring about what Norman Finkelstein said after he came out in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And I am not exaggerating someone's skepticism about Western narratives as support for Russia. Norm affirmatively and repeatedly expressed his support for the Russian invasion.

i feel confident saying that zohran mamdani has likely never said or done anything as remotely antisemitic in his life as the horrifyingly islamophobic things being said and done right now by people in positions of power and authority in the jewish community in reaction to him

This is a really thoughtful discussion on how progressives should relate to the anti-Zionist right (oppose them—they are hardline Christian nationalists and fascists).

J Street denounces the ADL's Mamdani Tracker.

I mainly want this meeting to happen for the Commentary Magazine crash outs.

It is insane Jake Tapper had Liora Reznichenko of Stop Antisemitism on CNN. Stop Antisemitism regularly publishes fake news, lies and slander about people, and even recently forged texts from a serial fraudster on the run from the FBI. There's very little daylight between SA and Libs of TikTok etc

There is a weak argument, bolstered by hysteria's triumph over consideration, that Zohran does not care about antisemitism and will not protect Jews. But few non-GOP public figures have gone as far as to call him an antisemite himself—as there is not a shred of proof. Enter the Great Philosopher:

A politics of consistency! What does this upstart think he's doing?

Now that the ADL has deleted its entire "glossary of extremism" because Republicans did not like it, it is entirely fair that Democrats are treating them as a partisan organization. That is bad for American Jews. But it is entirely the fault of the ADL's decisions in the past year.

Unfortunately, we have every reason to believe the ADL's "monitoring" of appointments in the Mamdani administration will resemble the standard Canary Mission hit-job: Establish connection to the Palestine protest movement and then guilt-by-association for actions and statements they didn't do.

Zohran Mamdani pledged to fight "the scourge of antisemitism," which if you don't think about it is exactly what Karl Lueger would say.

Donald Harris, Joseph Buttigieg, and Mahmood Mamdani would be a great podcast trio.

Did your faith ever waver, anon?

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

100,000 campaign volunteers. That's nearly 10% of his vote total. It's really quite astounding.

"We will fight for you because we are you."

HE QUOTED EUGENE DEBS! LET'S GO!

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

Compare how Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL responded to Zohran Mamdani winning the mayoral election in NYC to how he responded to the Heritage Foundation mainstreaming actual neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.

Driven to his cat apartment in a Gambino taxi.

31% is not a "fringe." It's about double the percentage of American Jews who identify with Conservative Judaism (Pew 2021).

We did it!

"You have to be deliberately obtuse, as the Ground Zero Mosque hysteria was, to claim that Mamdani was calling himself the real victim of 9/11."

Maybe our conservative Democrat mayor should have done a better job governing the city the last 4 years.

Last November was a dark one. A clear blue sky today.

Before you laugh in the face of anyone who warns you about "the decline in your property value" if props 2-4 pass, remember that they're probably voting for Curtis. Smile and walk away.

My hot take: If months of relentless hate-mongering propaganda from the New York Post couldn't convince Republican white ethnics to abandon Sliwa and support Cuomo to stop Mamdani, I don't think a last-minute endorsement from Trump will do the trick.

This is literally the inverse of what happened, Cuomo was the one who constantly played up the issue under the erroneous assumption that being pro Palestine was a campaign killer for the Democratic electorate. Why does Cuomo want to peddle this narrative anyway? It makes being pro Pal look better.

I don't want to appear overconfident, but I think Mamdani will win easily tomorrow. The widespread fear and loathing that Cuomo is depending on are just not present in sufficient numbers.

By most accounts I've heard, Cuomo has lost support among Black voters, especially in areas like Flatbush and Upper Manhattan. He's presumably trying to make up for them with outerborough Trumpists, but the messaging needed to reach them alienates normie liberals (if they're listening).

Make some room in the City College cafeteria. The neocons are coming home to Alcove 1.

I think the poll showing Zohran winning only 16% of the Jewish vote is an outlier, but I wouldn't be surprised if in the end he only wins 25% or so, with Cuomo winning a clear majority (maybe more than 60%).

Almost all mainstream pro-Israelists claim to oppose settler violence. In February 2023, there was a settler-perpetrated pogrom in the West Bank, which might explain Zohran's fervency. Who exactly is this messaging for?

From the acknowledgements of Michel-Rolph Trouillot's "Silencing the Past". #AltAc

Bari Weiss makes a clean sweep, firing all women, Blacks and Hispanics in high-profile positions at CBS News. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The only effect I noticed at NYU (2008-2016) and Vassar (2016-…) was that stories about cancel culture had far more pervasive impact on classroom discussions. It was second and third hand accounts circulating in the media that created spirals of silence and suspicion among my students.

Western governments preferred to break the world, destroy every institution that uplifted human rights in some capacity, just so they didnt have to extend those human rights to us. Think about that.

Here’s what they actually thought: they’ll just go after the left wing Bad Jews (who aren’t really Jews so it’s ok) but we’re the Good Jews so it will be fine. joelhs.bsky.social/post/3m4gzansohs2a