The Yiddish Singers with Palestine performed at San Francisco’s United Irish Cultural Center, as part of a benefit for the Middle East Children’s Alliance. Friend of Der Spekter and NorCal Workers Circle member Joel Shechter shares this review joelschechter1.substack.com/p/scenes-wed...

My wife quilted a pride flag to hang on the door

I will categorically say that the answer to the question of "does X country have a right to commit genocide" is always no. That's not a thing you get to do, and if you're claiming that your right to exist is incompatible with not getting to commit genocide, you should try harder.

Sholem aleykhem khaverim! The Der Spekter team is taking a little summer break for July but before we go we've prepared some delicious reading for you. First, frequent contributor Ryan Lee Fliegelman shares reflections the power of political cartoons as a medium, this piece, and its inspiration

Where's this energy for fascism?

He killed so many children with drones. He didn’t prosecute any of the war criminals from the previous admin. And this isn’t a war crime but it was a crime against our society to bail out the banks and not make the system take accountability for what they had done to us

The Liberals have used their newly acquired majority to push through major changes to Canada’s laws at the last minute and shut down debate on legislation with major implications for the lives of Canadians. This is not normal. This is what happens when a government thinks it can act with impunity.

They're heeeeeeeere! Pride Bundy is in the shop!

Sharing some stories of Black Americans from @hcrichardson.bsky.social's 250 to 250 today Eatonville youtu.be/89lRJ7WgjsM?...

Happy Juneteenth 💜💜💜 May we see the destruction of all white supremacists in our lifetimes

Still correct. More than ever. "Juneteenth was not the day that Black people in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free, 2 ½ months after Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox ended the Civil War." Our work remains

"This is a lot of words to say one thing, my Torah on one foot: Stay in. As Israel’s impunity persists, it will keep getting harder to organize as an anti-Zionist Jew, but stay in." Read Arielle Angel's last letter as EIC, now unpaywalled from our Spring issue jewishcurrents.org/stay-in

Join us tonight! We hear there are going to be a bunch of public defenders having a happy hour there too!

For clarity purposes: The government cannot intercept or decrypt messages sent on Signal. They can, however, seize devices, use informants, pretend to be protesters so they can be added to Signal chats, as well as subpoena Signal for whatever information they have available to share. (See link.)

the current geopolitical situation is bad for everybody but I do hope the Israelis waking up to what Americans have known-- that Trump is a deranged moron who shouldn't be counted upon for anything but to shit his pants and fuck everything up-- stay woke

Finally...if you're in the Bay Area this week, please join a few of our editors and Bundists at a casual happy hour in San Francisco 6.17. See the poster below And if you're going to KlexCummington, editor Miri Villerius will lead a workshop on Yiddish Op-Sec: cultural autonomy as community safety

Our Pride Bundy stickers are here and they'll be in the store soon!

Khaverim at the @workerscircle.bsky.social did something great! Check out this Yiddish Pride Vocabulary. Hoping to see one in Ladino too!

Sholem aleykhem khaverim. We hope you had a wonderful weekend and have recovered from your celebrations if you're a Knicks fan. Our first essay retraces author Shulamit Ber Levtov's lifelong journey from a X-tian Zionist household through various movement to moral and political consistency.

Did someone say pride? Available in the Der Spekter store at derspekter.bigcartel.com soon!

Us>them

If you go on X, you’d think that the fascists outnumbered us. They didn’t. We outnumbered them in Brighton, Glasgow, Sheffield and Belfast. A reminder that the UK government continues to use X for core comms even as X is being used to spread White nationalism.

Here where we live is our country

Graham Platner is an inexperienced dilettante with a Nazi tattoo who abused his ex-girlfriends. Abdul El-Sayed is an Arab Muslim doctor who directed the Health Department of the most populous county in Michigan. If you think the latter is worse than the former, you might be racist and Islamophobic.

Sacramento, ftw ❤️

Online has often been a refuge but consider whether it still actually is. Maybe stick to private social spaces (servers, group chats) and try to deemphasize news flows and scrolls. Whatever it takes, we're gonna make it through this year, and they're gonna fall before us. Stay alive my love

Incredible news and hats off to the Palestine solidarity organizers, including the Bundists among them, for making this happen

Khaverim! One of the founding editors of Der Spekter is coming through San Francisco next week so we decided to make a thing of it with the Golden State Bund. Please join us for a little Jewish Workers happy hour at El Rio next Wednesday 6/17 at 6pm

That’s called a bribe.

I hate Illinois Nazis. And all the rest of them. Absolutely the fuck not with this KKK bullshit no. The white supremacists do not get to win this time / any time.

Khaverim! One of the founding editors of Der Spekter is coming through San Francisco next week so we decided to make a thing of it with the Golden State Bund. Please join us for a little Jewish Workers happy hour at El Rio next Wednesday 6/17 at 6pm

I cannot agree more strongly. All US matches should be moved to Mexico and Canada. Mexico alone can easily accommodate as many soccer stadiums as needed.

Ms Rachel went to Delaney Hall

Iran’s team not getting its support staff while other teams do means this WC is, by definition, unfair

In the latest "nobody hates Jews quite like a Zionist" news jewishcurrents.org/scenes-from-...

“Jews aren’t safe in Mamdani’s New York” Jewish guy in Mamdani’s New York:

genocide enthusiast meeting with genocide enabler and descendant of genocide enthusiasta

Bundist and acclaimed author @djolder.bsky.social wrote a thing Wrote about @mollycrabapple.bsky.social & Shaul Magid

Good example of a headline that is literally just untrue and amounts to malpractice— there is no "seeing" settlements in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank as illegal, they are factually illegal. UNSCR 2334 and the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice from July 2024 say so.

Pride Bundy sticker coming soon!

It’s pretty regularly erased in the contemporary retelling of the political moment, but acquittals like these of killers like George Zimmerman, along with in-custody deaths like Sandra Bland's, were a big part of the drumbeat of incidents that produced activism that led to the Floyd protests.

As Democratic officials are using the "outside agitators" line again, it's worth noting a deeper dynamic here. For all the complaints about, well, anything radicals do being "purity culture" the politics of centrists and liberals here are a sterling, actual example of a political purity culture...🧵

Happy Pride Month from your khaverim at Der Spekter!

WHAT. THE. FUCK. responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-us-mi...

Only one country has so persistently vetoed UNSCR, called binding resolutions like 242 non-binding or claimed they say something which they do not, legitimized the settlements, recognized Israeli annexations, defended the idea of collective punishment via demolitions, and ignored the refugee issue.

"May you have a long life, since you are not a Zionist. You have no idea the suffering which the Zionists have wrought us. Before the Zionists arrived, we knew of no animosity between Jew and Arab. Now hatred against us is spreading, and only God knows what will become of it."

Having fought university censorship personally, I suggest the exact opposite is true: these people made it where they are at *precisely* because billionaire donors, Christian Nationalists, and Republicans on various university boards selected them for their willingness to go along with fascism

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”