Re the new member of the Abraham accords: I spent two hours in Kazakhstan in 1998. I was crossing from Uzbekistan to Kyrgyzstan. This was where I learnt the Russian word for "customs". Had a great lunch by the side of the road - three ladies selling amazing soup. Abrahamic soup, maybe.

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign defended Miller in 2021, but decided earlier this year not to platform him (you can find his rants about it). That's good, better late than never. However they haven't said about this publicly, which is bad. The guy thinks calling out swastikas is zionism.

Haredi Kahanism with all its ugliness

I assume there are quite a few Palestinian activists who have Zohran Mamdani's number. That kind of access to power is a new and positive development. It's not sufficient for anything, it doesn't guarantee anything, but it's a necessary one.

The ADL is terrified that the Mamdani administration will continue to demonstrate that a genuine, tangible commitment to the well-being of Jews in America can coexist alongside staunch opposition to the policies of a country on the other side of the planet. It hurts their bottom line

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

First we take Manhattan.

I don't know how my colleague Nathan Brown does it, but he produces one deeply thoughtful and extensive analysis of Israeli and Palestinian politics after another. Here is one of the most recent, on the lack of realistic strategic direction in Israel: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

The best day since the fall of Granada to the infidels

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

Andrew Cuomo’s pronouns are also/ran

Dear GOD do I hope Zohran gets to actually arrest Bibi

This article contains the longest consonant cluster I've ever come across in a Semitic language other than Moroccan Arabic, from a Hebrew article written in 1897: hit-ašknz-u "they Germanised", a denominal verb from Ashkenaz (which, in this context, meant "Germany")

WATCH: Settlers attacked us, Palestinian farmers and activists from Standing Together and Rabbis for Human Rights who were helping harvest olives in Qarawat Bani Hassan! They flew a drone into an activist, injuring her, and then threatened us and shot into the air. (1/2)

Shocking Mamdani on camera here calling numerous people who are clearly not his siblings "brother" The guy doesn't learn

UK universities are being driven to bankruptcy because of Tory sledgehammer legacy and the Labour government's apathy and ineptitude. Of course they'll seek funding abroad, and good luck with expecting them to live up to their humanistic rhetoric. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

In a new article (open access!) I argue that the Ottoman state played a crucial role in creating Ashkenazi identity in Jerusalem - as an overarching category for Yiddish speaking Jews from Central and East European countries. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"On the right, the leaking of the video is denounced as a defamation of the Israeli military, all but amounting to an act of treason...On the left...[it] is seen as the one time she lived up to the responsibilities of her post." She has now been arrested. www.bbc.com/news/article...

After two years of a genocidal campaign, the first and only officers arrested in Israel were the military prosecutors investigating war crimes. 1/

81 Palestinians died in Israeli custody in the last two years, due to torture and neglect. Since 7th October 2023, Israeli prisons have become an instrument of mass torture on unprecedented level. There are currently over 11 thousands Palestinians in those prisons, most of them held without charge.

This from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social is a clear and horrifying explanation of the atrocities underway in El Fasher. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israeli's chief military prosecutor has been arrested and will likely face trial for "perverting the course of justice". Over the past two years, she provided legal cover for numerous crimes against humanity in Gaza. All this didn't protect her when she pursued a single torture case.

It's striking to see people on the supposed pro-Palestine left struggle to understand that "the right for self-determination" means Palestinians should decide on their future

There is not a single political party or mass movement in Palestine that advocates for this idea. Or in Israel for that matter. A British politician making such statement is doing imperialism pure and simple. Giving up on an independent Palestinian state is for Palestinians to decide on. Not you.

Perhaps interesting to note that previously Podhoretz took a much more permissive attitude toward flagrant antisemitism on the right.

Following the documented rape of a Palestinian prisoner in Sde Teyman, the military prosecutor ordered the arrest of the soldiers involved. There was govt-supported riots trying to prevent their arrest. In response, she leaked the video evidence. Now she has been removed by the Israeli govt. 1/

Also if you are going to pretend that Tucker Carlson is purely criticizing Israel, ignoring his storied history of antisemitic conspiracy and his choice to interview Nick Fuentes, you’re not a serious person. There are many critics who manage not to push replacement theory.

Who could have foreseen?????

The thing about the groyperfication of the GOP is that practically every single major American Jewish institution dedicated to fighting antisemitism has spent the past two years enabling the far right because of the Gaza genocide.

The left can be antisemitic, and that's not new. But basic commitment to equality and solidarity is a powerful check against this. The right, on the other hand, has no such check. That's why right wing antisemitism always poses a much bigger danger, regardless if they like Israel or not.

Read this thread.

Fascinating talk from @simchagross.bsky.social on rethinking Jewish relationship with their Zoroastrian/Sasanian environment - at UCL Institute for Jewish Studies - below is a recording of a similar lecture he gave last year www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qry...

Your shitshow www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

THREAD: This week, Tucker Carlson hosted one of the most dangerous antisemites in America. Nick Fuentes leads the “Groyper” movement, a large online hate network devoted to building a white Christian nationalist America. It marks a serious escalation in how antisemitism reaches the mainstream.

"Nathaniel Redmond, director of the Yale school of public health, said on Tuesday that the “horror, scale and velocity of killing” in El Fasher had left pools of blood visible from satellites" Pity the West simply does not have any tools to pressure UAE, which is the RSF's main funder and supplier

This is a response to a post I made about a white man who was arrested yesterday with guns and ammo, planning to attack multiple synagogues across the US South. Personally, I think it is bad that a growing portion of the left now dismisses actual antisemitism as just being pro-Israel propaganda.

It didn't work out so well last time www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaWL...

More than 460 people were reportedly killed in a North Darfur hospital that was overrun by Sudanese paramilitary forces, the WHO said

The only way I can concentrate in online meetings is by having them audio-only and cleaning / sorting laundry / cooking at the same time.

19 doctors from Gaza are still held in Israeli prisons, without any charges against them. They were abducted from hospitals in the Strip many months ago, and are held in inhumane conditions.

Mark Rossman, world leading, award-winning historian of the Holocaust, removed abruptly as head of Jewish Studies at the University of Indiana, in what appears to be a political intervention. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Israel is due to have an election before Nov 26. If Hamas is still in power in Gaza, Netanyahu would struggle to explain it to his voters. If Hamas cedes power to an alternative govt and an armed intl peace keeping force - it's even worse for the Israeli govt.

it's wild to me that we have a letter from 850+ rabbis denouncing zohran mamdani for things he never said and positions he never took while no such letter has been written condemning stephen miller for claiming to "defend jewish values" while being an utter fucking nazi and dismantling our democracy

I did not enjoy writing this; it can't even serve as an ad for my newsletter, which I've suspended due to an overbilling situation that has me almost regretting leaving Substack. But, you know, it's evidence for the piece I just didn't get to include. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...

My position on "from the river to the sea" is that if you consider this a racist or even genocidal slogan, I expect you to demand the expulsion of Israel's ambassadors - given that this is Israel's official position, not just rhetorically but also put in action on a daily manner.

The evidence of Andrew Cuomo's Islamophobia is substantially greater than the evidence of Zohran Mamdani's antisemitism, and the former deserves far more media coverage than it is getting.

The violent persecution of Palestinian farmers in the West Bank is the worst it's been since 1967. This is a state orchestrated campaign of terror.

Grim stuff

Having a rogue developer as president