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The lesson is we have to fight every battle. If even one GOP lie is allowed to get absorbed into the mainstream—like the lab leak shit—we’re all worse off for it. Lives will be destroyed because of it.

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Even if it was true it doesn't matter. Leaving a war zone is a smart thing to do if you don't want to be killed in a war

Since Nakba Day is tomorrow (US time), I thought it would be a good time to remind people on here that "the Arab states told Palestinians to flee on army radio" is a definitively disproven myth and has been disproven since at least 1959. Even Israeli historians admit it is untrue today.

This Sunday, May 17th, 2:45–6:00pm at NTU, come discuss and even craft poetry around human rights in this free event co-organized by Taipei Poetry Collective, Amnesty International Taiwan English Speaking Group, and @derspekter.org! RSVP + more info: forms.gle/nVH9kmd1MTBN...

hearty salute to the guy (David Wieder) who went and took photos of the graves of dozens of old klezmer musicians at Mount Hebron cemetery in Queens in the last few months and posted them on FindAGrave. I got notifications about a few but I didn't realize he has maybe done about 2/3 of the section.🕵️

Any politician or commentator NOT actively expressing outrage over this is an existential threat.

We've been offered an opportunity to review a interesting documentary and would love to hear from folks who might be interested in reviewing the film and interviewing the director. Hit us in the DMs or email [email protected]

Where We Live Is Our Country

very much of the view that a democratic congress should wield the guarantee clause against ad hoc, mid-decade redistricting, a practice which is an end run against representative government itself

Reading. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

The Israeli military illegally attacked a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid for Gaza & abducted at least 175 civilians, including US citizens. This is a violation of international law. I joined Rep. Rashida Tlaib demanding an end to the blockade on Gaza & protection for civilians providing aid.

This is a *very well-written* article if you have friends/family who are falling for the “Tucker has changed, he really has!” act. I don’t pay enough attention to have picked up on the glaring differences btw two interviews in a week, but @parkermolloy.com did the work here.

In anticipation of protests against the event selling West Bank land at an Upper West Side synagogue this evening, the NYPD is out like it’s the marathon, with barricades restricting access to six city blocks, from 66th to 69th on both Lexington and 3rd Avenues.

Another one!

Sholem aleykhem khaverim! The past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind for Der Spekter. Thanks to the buzz around @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's new book about the Bund, our inbox has been flooded with new subscriptions, donations, and magazine purchases.

Considering that Daily Wire are going bust almost three weeks after Péter Magyar announced that Hungary will no longer fund CPAC, it's at least plausible that Ben Shapiro was more or less dependent on Orbán cash to stay afloat.

happy May Day, happy American Jewish Heritage Month, and may it be a גוט שבתּ this evening! youtu.be/rvdtteuZGIc

Happy May Day these ghouls cant even make a media channel work with nearly unlimited billionaire money

Portland! Day after tomorrow catch me and Omar El Akkad over at Powells www.powells.com/events/molly...

What a beautiful way to enter shabbat with. A thread of photos from 17 cities where Jews and rabbis sang, prayed, took arrest to oppose ICE.

Important article in @thenation.com about the legacy of the Jewish Labor Bund, May Day, and radical Jewish labor organizing. The Bundists are back in town and we're reclaiming the labor movement we built www.thenation.com/article/acti...

A very good mail day: I got the current issue of @derspekter.org, and a bunch of books I ordered from @firestorm.coop! 🔥

Our team copy!

I got my cozy pjs and my chair and my 2nd anniversary commemorative issue of @derspekter.org because I believe that Jews belong with everybody.

Front row with Molly Crabapple at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social San Francisco

Anyone who wants to end birthright citizenship wants to bring back slavery. Those same people also claim non-citizens have no rights—not the right to protest against deportation, nor the right to not have police break down their doors, nor the right to defend themselves in a proceeding.

I wonder if any of the properties at this event sent to @forward.com newsletter subscribers are in the occupied territories

Our fulfilment master @misoshnik.bsky.social is getting your orders out!

Look at what we have here

An important essay on how everything from covid to climate to imperial wars the rich, and those who imagine they are or will be, act not only as tho they are insulated from social and very literal ills, that the ills are believed only hurt the poor encourages the rich exacerbate them

The print job is done! Shipping begins this week! Get your copy now

One should not underestimate the osmosis benefits of sharing office space with a radical left publication

We'll be getting these and the Erlich pamphlets from the printer first thing next week. Order yours now!

As an American Jew, I refuse to allow this anti-immigrant xenophobia to be done in my name. This policy does not make me any safer - not when far-right conspiracists are serving at the highest levels of government. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

me (biking past both drivers): hey you can't park there

Yay I finished the highest Yiddish course offered by the Yiddish Book Center and they gave me a cool diploma! Check it out, translation in alt text. Still got a lot to learn so I'm still gonna be taking other lessons, but I'm excited to have gotten as far as I have in about a year & a half!

A very good review in @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/04/jewi...

Speaking of critiques from the 30's here's Jacob Pat making these critiques, which were already more than 35 years old

“Fans, journalists and others traveling to the [US] risk encountering a deeply troubling human rights landscape, shaped by the Trump administration’s racist immigration policies, mass detention and deportation, and attacks on freedom of expression and peaceful protest." www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Demand Congress stop arming Israel. www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/cal...

The magazine and pamphlet are in production! Order yours today and get your easy chair ready for some great bundist writing, art, & music.

This is a very good thread. As we wrote in our review of @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's book at www.derspekter.org/here-where-w...

The "success" of the Zionist project, if you call it that, at creating a Jewish state in the Holy Land, has utterly failed at the task of normalizing the Jews as a nation among the nations, and reducing antisemitism against the Diaspora. In fact, the exact opposite.

These folks are right here. There are new Bund chapters forming in Krakow, Vienna, Vilna, Paris, London, & Warsaw. The Bund is what we make it. www.patreon.com/cafebund/about

Wishing the @forward.com and its staff a happy birthday today

I don't want Salah Sarsour to get lost in all the noise. Born in the West Bank, Sarsour was jailed by Israeli occupiers at 15, supporters say he was tortured. Just like today. After 30 years in the US, Sarsour is now sits ICE jail after being doxxed by Canary Mission and targeted by Marco Rubio

but the fact of the matter is that with the notable exception *of* the mid to late 20th century, every major change in our political system and government has been a partisan or ideological political project.