Jewish lives are not saved by the Islamophobia of our Democratic leadership and that of our news media. Muslim lives are not saved by the antisemitism of leftist activists. In fact, quite the opposite.

If you’re not a citizen, if you’re a tourist who for whatever reason is coming to this god forsaken country, cancel your flights. Especially if you aren’t white. Wait until this shit is over. It’s not worth it.

New way to entertain yourself while waiting for a flight: observing and reporting

A lot of people in the US [more than a majority] don't simply have the cops in their heads and hearts. They also play cop in their own lives and communities. It explains things like this.

Republicans could end the TSA disaster immediately by passing a funding bill. Ds want to pass such a bill. Rs are refusing because they want to attach ICE funding to it. even though ice doesn't even need funding.

I'm genuinely really quite fucking disappointed in this country's abilities to support the Palestinian people without becoming rancid antisemites in the process. The government doesn't meaningfully do the former, the people don't meaningfully do the latter

Well, the Roberts Court is a Trump-Republican lapdog and no longer has any legitimacy. The Revolution can’t stop at the White House.

This is long and deeply thought out piece that digs into Der Spekter's ongoing effort to explore what diasporism and Bundism means in a world where Jews live a dramatically different material reality than 100 years ago and Israeli nation-state contains half of the world's Jews.

Sholem aleykhem khaverim Two great pieces for you. First, Leonardo Uderman responds to Joshua Leifer's "Tablets Shattered" writing that surrendering to the Israel's "reality" leads to a capitulation to the Zionist "negation of the Diaspora" and a failure to adequately confront Israel's crimes.

The very *day* of October 7th, antizionists correctly predicted that Israel's inevitably genocidal reaction would make every single Jewish person on earth less safe by allowing anti-Semitism to effortlessly infiltrate and assimilate antizionist movements.

This is not about labor or fiscal policy. This is about how 30 members of city council are willing to use tipped workers and their livelihoods as pawns in their ongoing campaign to embarrass and disempower Mayor Johnson.

Trump's got about 39% support right now. How is that possible? two things: 1. fascism has a constituency 2. partisanship is powerful I talk about both at some length here. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/why-isnt-t...

Today, Father Pierre Al-Rai was killed by Israeli army artillery shelling.

Pogromists pogroming

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

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Sholem aleykhem, khaverim Happy belated Purim to our wonderful readers! In our latest piece, Ian Weiner discusses the space this holiday creates for silliness, mockery, and satire. The piece even includes a cheeky blessing thanking hashem for not making us Bret Stephens.

Purim sameach people

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The central message that unifies the far right around the world is the “George Soros is the puppet master who wants to destroy straight white Christian civilization” conspiracy theory. The person behind that fascistic meme was not only Jewish, but also gay.

They don't call themselves Bundists but Bundism - doikayt, khavershaaft, & yiddishkeit - animates and infuses their work

"The situation in Gaza is so horrific. It’s still a genocide ongoing. Since the so-called ceasefire went into effect, Israel killed over 642 people, including 197 children. That’s like killing 10 classrooms of students in a public school in the United States."

Me with a scoop/exclusive Five days after Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest, federal authorities “directed” NY law enforcement authorities to “stand down” their investigations related to Epstein, new documents released by the Department of Justice show. Part of new Timeline on NY and Epstein.

Sholem aleykhem khaverim. Two items for you: The rhymes of history and song First, as history gallops apace across the US and globe we're sharing another translation of Henryk Erlich's words, this time in a column on the events of Feb 12, 1934. Today's resistance and labor actions echo those days.

We don't like nationalism, whether its the Christian or the Jewish varieties

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Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.

they’re radicalizing guys name colt shelby who work in the oil and gas industry

This is, as they say, Bad For the Jews

When Der Spekter was first getting going we asked ourselves whether we should set up in the Nazi bar and very quickly decided against it

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Christian nationalism from Rubio requires denying the historic differences between Spanish Catholic and English Protestant colonialism, and especially the extent to which the latter stigmatized the former for its racial creolism. Rubio, like Jews who try the same thing, wants one rung up the ladder

Sending this to ever elder who’s asked me “Why would you learn Yiddish now?”

Solidarity & support

Jewish mothers never quit

There was an odd period of time on here / in public discourse where if you acknowledged that there was a causal relationship between the longest military occupation in postwar history and the 10/7 attack you were accused of legitimating the latter. But nobody says this about Nat Turner and slavery.

Our fates are bound together. Our fight against the imperialist stranglehold is from Gaza to Cuba is one in the same. So it should be no surprise that a Jewish organizer who was brutalized by Israel for his efforts to help the people of Gaza is doing this on behalf of the people of Cuba.

yeah, it's fascinating how Christians seem to see Jesus as having "freed" people from the burden of observing Shabbat but like, most Jews LIKE observing Shabbat? it's a day of rest then Christians went and made blue laws and all kinds of oppressive rules about what you can't do on Sunday anyway

In our last newsletter, we published a statement by the IJLB on U.S. imperialist intervention in Venezuela with commentary by Cassy Bishop, who highlights the Bund's failure "to critique its own Western and US American chauvinism." A new piece this week seeks to challenge that narrative👇

Pleased to announce a special supplementary issue (v.29A) of "Southern Jewish History," containing a variety of scholarship related to the history of Jews in the U.S. South. SJH is the peer-reviewed journal of the Southern Jewish Historical Society, published annually since 1998. 🗃️

In our last newsletter, we published a statement by the IJLB on U.S. imperialist intervention in Venezuela with commentary by Cassy Bishop, who highlights the Bund's failure "to critique its own Western and US American chauvinism." A new piece this week seeks to challenge that narrative👇

The fact that Vance and Miller - the most powerful members of the administration - are publicly socially intermeshed with open and unapologetic Nazis is the Chekhov’s gun of Trump’s second term, even if the press have refuse to acknowledge. Now it’s shooting us in the face.

USA Today is openly lying in this story. There is not "widespread criticism," there is: * Criticism from a body that Donald Trump controls * Criticism from a far-right body aligned with Donald Trump * Criticism from a political appointee appointed by Donald Trump That's it. That's the "widespread"

I voted against the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security and I was pleased to speak with Ta-Nehisi Coates @VanityFair about the mood surrounding that debate. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Two Democratic members of Congress attacked in three days. Maxwell Frost was assaulted on Saturday, Ilan Omar tonight.

In further evidence of the moral bankruptcy and desiccated humanity of institutional Judaism, here we have a Rabbi making it clear that "Never Again" is "Never Again for Me But to Hell With You." He never learned that "to be a Jew means always being with the oppressed, never with the oppressors.”