Mark Horowitz @MarkHorowitz

I wonder what Salman Rushdie, a former president of PEN, thinks of this disgraceful behavior. nytimes.com/2026/07/10/art… via @nytimes

“The idea that Israel and Zionism can easily be factored out of American Jewish life seems almost fantastical. It asks us to give up a portion of our souls.”

David Suissa @DavidSuissaJJ

22 hours ago

A new Jewish movement is punishing Israel while it’s under siege. Just when Israel needs the most help, it’s abandoning ship: “Sorry, everybody hates you, we’re out.” jewishjournal.com/commentary/col…

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@xIsraelExposedx @Kredo0 Why did Hamas build the largest bomb shelter system in history… and then not let Palestinian children shelter there from Israeli bombs?

Are Jewish authors, both Israeli and American, whether critics of Israel or boosters, being discriminated against and silenced? You betcha. Even PEN has to admit it, which is saying something. pen.org/a-silent-morat…

As everyone discusses the plight of @grahamformaine, I can’t help thinking of the late great Norm Macdonald discussing the Cosby case with ⁦@JerrySeinfeld⁩. Decide for yourself if it’s apropos. (At least stay to see a genius at work and then Jerry lose it at the end.)

I know. I was an editor myself at Times Opinion. I’m just highlighting the irony. For fun. And also maybe taking advantage of the confusion created by Opinion, which now runs reported and investigative pieces, hires fact checkers, and aggressively tries to break news… thus infringing on the newsroom’s turf, a longstanding source of tension between the two fiefdoms.

New York Times editor says that the New York Times would never have published the piece that the New York Times published. open.substack.com/pub/freebeacon…

Anyway, I have been keeping relatively quiet for too long on what has been festering on our side, because I am consumed with keeping up with the news for my Weekly List project, and I was hoping to keep the peace on our side. But what has happened now is some real stupid group think has metastasized and become normalized on our side. How did AIPAC and Israel become enemy #1, and the litmus test of our party? Does Bibi suck? Yes. Know who else sucks? YOUR PRESIDENT! And like the U.S., there will be an election there, and with any luck, Bibi will be gone in a few months. Also, half of you on this bandwagon probably don't even know what AIPAC is, or how small their influence is. This is the hill we are dying on now to lose in midterms? So fucking stupid! We almost lost Maine. We would have if he was our candidate. Maybe we have a shot now. We are going to punt Michigan too if we use this inane litmus test in a purple state. So if you are on my page, be prepared for some pushback to the mainstreaming of this stupidity. I should have done it sooner. My bad. If you're not wanting to listen, feel free to unfollow now. Here's your hat, what's your hurry. My goal is to WIN in November. Trump will do untold damage if we don't take at least the House, and hopefully the Senate. We need some damn common sense in our party, and fast! Platner is exhibit A of that! I plan to do my part.

Democratic consultant interviewing new candidate to replace Graham Platner in Maine Senate race

You don’t need to be a psychiatrist to recognize a narcissist. His ex’s have been telling us from the start, the lies, the refusal to apologize to women he hurt, the excuses for bad decisions, and never acknowledging the harm he’s done. Here it’s in full bloom.

Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024

4 days ago

Axios: Another person close to Platner's adviser, Morris Katz, said Katz has discussed suspending the campaign with Platner and planned to meet him in Maine on Tuesday to tell him it's not a question of whether he drops out, but when. The same person said Platner has told his

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A Profound Question Haunting Jews Today nytimes.com/2026/07/06/opi… "With jarring suddenness, it now seems no longer possible to be at once comfortably Jewish, and also Zionist, and also liberal, and also fully accepted outside the Jewish world."

In so many ways, it’s amazing how little parts of Spain have changed since the Middle Ages.

Joe Truzman @JoeTruzman

5 days ago

Meanwhile at the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, Spain:

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Every word. Clip and save. Finally, someone gets all the facts and subtleties about the Weiner horrorshow right — the same facts and subtleties that the Times coverage and others missed.

Matt Dorsey @mattdorsey

7 days ago

Thank you, Eric Kingsbury, for this powerful indictment of the left’s antisemitism and anti-Zionism problem. Many of us non-Jews are noticing, too. 👉 “You don’t get to make Jews feel unsafe here and then tell them they don’t deserve safety anywhere.” sfstandard.com/opinion/2026/0…

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1) If October 7 hadn't happened there would not have been a single IDF soldier in Gaza. It was not the "goal" but the consequence of 7 October. 2) The ceasefire that took effect on 10 October 2025 was built on a plan that required Hamas disarmament. It has refused to accept that and has continued to attack Israelis (and Gazans).

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan

a week ago

Some of us warned that this was the goal in October 2023 but we were told it was about the hostages. It was never about the hostages. It was always about conquest and ethnic cleansing.

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@TomDohertyfilm That’s pretty funny. I saw something similar: Led Zeppelin when they were second on the bill to Iron Butterfly!

@thislouis Is that its weakness or its strength? Read like an anodyne homily chosen by editors happy to offer a singel generic pro-Israel text to "balance" scores of other Israel-as-genocidal-regime screeds they routinely publish.

“I think now, the best place to study the Middle East at Columbia is everywhere but the Middle East Studies Department.

Simone Saidmehr @saidmehr_simone

a week ago

What really changed after Columbia University announced it would reform its Middle East studies curriculum as part of its agreement with the Trump admin? I spent weeks talking to students and faculty to figure it out. The verdict: the Mideast studies department at the center of

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Mark Singer was a great writer and a really nice guy. apple.news/A8r5arybkRv2wY…

@JoshKraushaar And almost sad to watch his own confusion trying to separate the antizionism from the antisemitism and realizing maybe he just said it’s the same thing… and then trying to get out of that by jumping to Lander race.

People who want to deny the Jews a state claim that they are not a nation, just as people who want to deny the Palestinians a state claim that they are not a nation. In the Jewish case, there’s an assertion, like Mamdani’s, that Judaism is a religion. Religions don’t have a right to self-determination, case closed. But Judaism was never merely, or even originally, a religion in the modern sense, but a people. Even according to our own cultural/mythical narrative we were a nation first – coming out of Egypt – and only then, seven weeks later, entered into a covenant with God. Historically Jews were always a separate ethnic group, which, of course, had it’s own way of worship – just like any ethnic group before the modern era. In that sense Jews were and are no different from any other minority ethnic group, whether the Druze, the Navajo, the Yezidis, the Swahili or the Alawites. All are endogamous, culturally distinctive ethnic groups with their own kinship structures, collective memory, and, naturally, religious beliefs and practices. Broadly speaking, there are two genres of religion: the universal, such as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism (and Hinduism, if we insist that mosaic of faiths and rituals is one religion); and the ethnic, of which there are numerous. Judaism is just one of the latter, simply more famous and more hated. In fact, the very understanding of “religion” as the separate, confessional, ritualistic “part” of life is a modern, Protestant conception, while for most peoples around the globe even universal religions take on a local character, and involve local allegiances and power struggles (think Armenians, Kurds, Assyrians, Copts). This doesn’t settle the question of Israel’s borders, policies, minorities, occupation, or the relation between Jewish self-determination and equal citizenship. These are real and serious questions, and they must be confronted honestly. But it does mean that the facile reduction of Jewish peoplehood to “religion” is false. I suspect Mamdani’s denial of Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state stems more from his animosity towards it than from a principled rejection of religion based states. His formulation sounds liberal because it invokes equality, but it manipulates the facts in order to avoid saying that Jews not are entitled to the same national status routinely granted to other peoples. Putting it mildly, that’s not very liberal. x.com/Acyn/status/20…