Knife: Meditations after an attempted murder. And the, The Eleventh Hour. By Salman Rushdie #glykoreads

The real reason Thomas Massie lost: The MAGA movement is united, not by any particular set of ideological commitments but by commitment to a particular person. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... #trumpism #MAGA

British Jews are increasingly concerned about antisemitism in the #UK, with some even considering leaving the country. The situation is exacerbated by the government’s perceived inaction and the influence of Iranian-funded terror cells. www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/... #antisemitism

Iran’s state-sponsored mass weddings blend religious symbolism, national defence, and civilian life. The weddings, timed for the anniversary of Imam Ali and Fatima’s marriage, serve as spectacles of solidarity and national unity, drawing on the Shiite framing of martyrdom and sacrifice.

The religious and cultural symbolism of Iran’s state-sponsored mass weddings newlinesmag.com/running-note... #Islamism #nationalism #IranWar

US intelligence indicates that Iran is rebuilding its military capabilities, including drone production, faster than expected; aided by support from Russia and China. edition.cnn.com/2026/05/21/p... #IranWar

Why would anyone trust Pakistan to mediate with Iran? Pakistan’s role as mediator in the U.S.-Iran conflict is questioned due to its past support for the Taliban and al Qaeda, and its close ties with China. www.wsj.com/opinion/why-... #IranWar #Pakistan

It’s easy to get annoyed at Bardem, but what would we do without him? We wouldn’t fully understand just how good it is for your career to accuse Jews of genocide. Meanwhile, as if he needed it, Bardem is living vindication of Laszlo Nemes’s words. Yet again, perfect casting and directing all around.

There’s no such thing as the petrodollar: War on Iran is changing the currency calculations of Gulf energy exporters. But the dollar’s global role depends on far more than the denomination of a barrel of oil archive.ph/TSYJm By @bhgreeley.bsky.social #economy #IranWar

A U.S. pressure campaign, including an oil blockade, is causing widespread blackouts and fuel shortages in Cuba, leading to high food prices and a lack of water. While some Cubans hope this will lead to positive change and greater freedom, others fear American military intervention. archive.ph/3wtG4

Inside the US strategy to indict Cuba's Raul Castro: For decades, the secret audio recording of top Cuban officials was shared among U.S. intelligence officials and lawmakers – but never acted upon. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/w... #Cuba #authoritarianism #communism #terrorism

Two teenagers, radicalised online, killed three people at a San Diego mosque. The attackers, who expressed white supremacist views, were stopped from reaching a nearby school by the victims, including a security guard who sacrificed his life. www.yahoo.com/news/article... #terrorism #FarRight

Ankara is assembling the architecture of permanent regional power, and it is doing so quietly enough that the alarm bells have yet to ring in most Western capitals. www.jpost.com/opinion/arti... #Islamism #Turkey #Syria #MuslimBrotherhood

Don’t cry for Qatar: Qatar’s success has been terrible for the world. And a deal that #Qatar is happy with would likely be a deal whose terms are to America’s detriment. www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/... #IranWar #Islamism #terrorism

French probe into murder of Jamal Khashoggi renews scrutiny of Saudi crown prince, raising tough questions for Israel over normalization with Riyadh and its strategic bet on a royal who operates outside any legal or diplomatic boundary www.ynetnews.com/opinions-ana... #authoritarianism #SaudiArabia

Ukrainian drones have been effective in targeting Russian air defence systems, ammunition dumps, and fuel depots, forcing Russia to move these assets further from the front lines and complicating their logistics and command and control. By @jimmyrushton.bsky.social #RussiaUkraineWar

Sudan’s civil war, sparked by a power struggle between Abdel Fattah Al Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, has deepened ideological divisions. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) are accused of aligning with Islamist loyalists and extremist militias, while the RSF positions itself as anti-Islamist.

#Sudan ’s war is also an Islamist power struggle: Tuesday marked 3 years since the turning point in the brutal civil conflict in Sudan, starting in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) www.i24news.tv/en/news/anal... #Islamism

I agree with Wells that progress, pluralism, democracy, science, rationality, and meritocracy are tools of liberation from poverty, feudalism, and authoritarianism. But I also agree with Orwell that there are many who will see these tools as weapons, aimed at them.

Uyghur islamists, fleeing persecution in China, became a significant force in Syria's civil war; they were integrated into Syria's new army, but their presence in the country is precarious, facing suspicion from some Syrians and pressure from China, which views them as terrorists. #Islamism #Syria

Rashida Tlaib’s nakba denial www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/... #nakba #antisemitism

#UK: This anger we see on the Palestine demonstrations, for a war 2,000 miles away, has only grown even though the war – or the latest iteration of it – is over. This is not a peace movement but one which is as dangerous, as racist and, yes, as against our values as the far-Right. archive.ph/kPOAY

Cut off Hong Kong’s support for Iran: Hong Kong’s financial system is a critical conduit for funding Iran’s regime and its global terror activities. www.wsj.com/opinion/cut-... #Islamism #terrorism #China #Iran

Hidden inside one of Russia’s most prestigious technical universities, a secret department is systematically training the GRU’s next generation of hackers, saboteurs, and intelligence officers. vsquare.org/welcome-to-t... #putinism #GRU #espionage #hacking

The time it has taken Democratic Jewish figures to come around to the need to fight #antisemitism within their own tent has left them forever playing catchup. Worse, it has enabled the rise of the very candidates Soifer now claims to be concerned about. www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/...

Boycott is a pernicious strategy silencing Jews, Israelis and Palestinians. As @boygeorgeofficial.bsky.social said: ‘If you don’t know any Jewish people, maybe that’s the problem.’ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026... #antisemitism #Ireland

#FreeGazaFromHamas: Hamas has been brutalising its own civilians in Gaza, carrying out torture and executions without trial for crimes like theft and collaboration. This is the true face of Hamas as a brutal force oppressing its people. www.hamastelegram.com #Islamism #terrorism

The arrest of Mohammad al-Saadi, a high-ranking figure in the Iranian-backed Iraqi militia Kataib Hezbollah, has raised concerns about Iran’s use of proxy groups to target Western interests beyond the Middle East. archive.ph/2Vzy6 #Islamism #terrorism

A leaked EU threat assessment warns of rising #terrorism risks from Iran, Afghanistan, and Russian veterans. The threat level in the EU, according to the assessment, "remains high" with "Islamist/jihadist terrorism" remaining the most prominent concern. www.rferl.org/a/leaked-eu-...

The Laughing Monsters: When #Hamas defenders in the West refuse to watch video evidence from October 7, they are doing so in part because while they may be able to handle the gruesome details, they cannot handle hearing and seeing the laughter of the murderers. www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/...

The future of moderate Israeli-Arab politics: Mansour Abbas wants to be the model for future Arab moderates. His fellow Arab politicians don’t want to let him. This election will reveal who wins that battle. www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/... #IsraelElections

Syria’s sudden return to global finance and energy markets marks a historic turn, but the West may be betting billions on Ahmed al-Sharaa’s reinvention before securing the guarantees it needs www.ynetnews.com/opinions-ana... #Syria #Islamism

Hamas believed it could wipe out Israel in one grand operation. In pursuit of this goal,it dragged its allies into a war they did not believe in & one they would ultimately lose; according to an analysis of captured Hamas documents newsletter.amitsegal.net/p/its-noon-i... @amitsegal.net.web.brid.gy

Military snipers are being put out of a job by drones: Ukrainian special forces soldier who claimed world-record shot hasn’t been out to shoot in more than a year www.wsj.com/world/europe... #RussiaUkraineWar #DefenceTech #Drones

The United States plans to indict Cuba's Raul Castro. The timing of the potential indictment, ‌which would need to be approved by a grand jury, was not immediately clear, but the official said it sounds imminent. www.reuters.com/legal/govern... #Cuba #communism

Israel and Lebanon are expected to agree to an IDF withdrawal from Lebanese territory in exchange for Hezbollah's disarmament, KAN reported on Friday. The report added that the CIA prepared a plan to disarm the Iran-backed terror group. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

How ‘@nytimes’ helped hide Stalin’s mass murders in Ukraine: Journalism doesn’t have to stifle the truth in the service of fashionable causes and personal narcissism. It’s a choice. www.tabletmag.com/sections/art... By Izabella Tabarovsky #HistoricalPoliticalMemory #media_press

If you allow people to watch Jews sing, who knows—it could lead to mixed dancing. Before you know it, impressionable kids may be using offensive language, like “Israeli couscous.” No singing. No dancing. No watching, singing, or dancing. It’s like Footloose with keffiyehs. #eurovision #antisemitism

Conflation! Conflation! A frequent means of avoiding the #antisemitism that hides under apparent criticism of Israel is to claim that hostility to Israel is legitimate and accusations that it could be antisemitic are an unfair conflation. fathomjournal.org/conflation-c...

God didn’t do this, so why do you? #Egypt ’s conditional morality, where a woman’s right to dignity and protection is treated as secondary to sectarian identity. www.skeptic.com/article/god-... #patriarchy #theocracy

China’s industrial strategy now touches almost every major sector in the economy and their underlying supply chains. These state interventions are accelerating China’s trade dominance and expanding foreign dependence on Chinese supply chains. rhg.com/research/chi... #communism

Iran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz is throttling the world’s energy suppliesand inflicting global economic pain, but the struggles of the Islamic Republic’s own economy are testing its ability to withstand the war and defy Washington’s demands. apnews.com/article/us-b... #IranWar

America’s conspiratorial consensus: The idea that conspiracist anti-Zionism can cut both ways—radicalizing people on the left and on the right through its conspiratorial framework—is crucial to understanding this American moment www.tabletmag.com/sections/new... #conspiracism #antisemitism