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Simchat Torah is one of my favorite holidays for many reasons. One of which is the place it held in the imagination and activism of Soviet Jews.
Elie Wiesel wrote a great essay on what he witnessed in Soviet Moscow. You can read it here.
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RT @JGreenblattADL: As part of our State of the Arts research, @ADL conducted a survey of U.S. adults to better understand how U.S. audienc…
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Sara Leigh retweeted
This is a recurring theme: That Jewish unity is "artificial" and thus dangerous. In a book on punctuation (!!), that the New Yorker deemed important enough to review, the author argues that the revival of Hebrew united Jews "artificially" and was effectively criminal. We aren't even allowed our ancestral language, let alone a land.
Remember that, in 70 CE, Jerusalem's factions ravaged each other before Rome finished the job. Our enemies have always preferred us divided. And some of them appear in the book reviews we once cherished.
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Sara Leigh retweeted
In general in most institutions fixated on "diversity" Jews don't count. We only count when losers and the politicians they vote for need a group to blame for why their gas is expensive and their healthcare insurance is bad.
No major U.S. art museum counts Jewish identity in its diversity commitments, ADL report finds, @HaleyCohen19 reports
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Imagine you’re reading a book about punctuation and you suddenly land on some racist schizophrenic screed about how how periods in Hebrew makes Jews “around the world” violent.
That moment when Gazology jumps the shark. 🦈
Shame on @NewYorker for giving this @$#%!& the time of day.
ALT https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/28/on-the-mark-louis-menand-book-review
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RT @BanquoDyar: If Democrats hope to regain the public trust, they should not advocate for terrorists who murdered people —
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Yes, The New Yorker actually published this racist garbage
Write to them: themail@newyorker.com
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NEW: Mamdani set to be honored next week, alongside group with alleged ties to Iranian regime.
The National Iranian American Council—with whom New York's mayor will share honors—champions "friendlier U.S. policy toward the Tehran regime" and has been accused of violating the Foreign Agent Registration Act.
No response from City Hall, NIAC, or PAFNYS on whether Mamdani administration officials will attend.
But the $150 tickets to the ceremony have sold out.
Investigation from @dedwardro and me in @CityJournal below.
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Last night I was invited by @ushmm, @MomentMagazine, and @StateSEAS to share remarks on the occasion of my father's 98th birthday. I took the opportunity to challenge the Musem from a place of love. I challenged them to do as an institution what it's leaders @EizenstatStuart and @JeffMillerCA2TX have already done as individuals -- to repudiate the hateful, dangerous lie that Israel has comitted genocide.
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Sara Leigh retweeted
There has been a lot written about antisemitism in the publishing industry, first from Jewish authors on social media, then from PEN, then from several Jewish publishing professionals and literary agents who have openly expressed discrimination and formed new independent imprints for Jewish authors, and now from the ADL.
What I have not seen are mainstream literary agencies and acquiring editors coming out and saying that they are welcome to or explicitly soliciting books by Jewish authors. Not a single Big 5 imprint has made such a statement. Instead a number of literary agents have issued statements that they will not represent work by "Zionists."
This is a glaring omission because, after the death of George Floyd, hundreds of publishing professionals explicitly solicited black authors, leading to a glut of books about race and racism over the subsequent few years that wildly oversaturated the market for that kind of content.
Now the publishing industry is being accused of discrimination by major organizations and they are refusing to acknowledge it or step up in any way. This is deplorable.
The ADL’s State of the Arts report is out. Apparently the best defense that can be mustered is, “Publishers are only discriminating against the *vast majority* of Jews,” and, “This group of *Jews in the arts* are all right wing.” 😂 (Famously.)
However! This is the first time I’ve ever been called a ‘right-wing activist,’ (given my log public career as a… left wing activist), so put it in the scrapbook!
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Sara Leigh retweeted
Redefining every left wing institution around its subordination to Islamic conquest ideology—and making Jew-hatred a central pillar—creates a self-fulfilling prophecy in which anyone who still supports justice and equality is suddenly coded as “right wing.”
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“Settlers will choose to move due to imposed incentives.”
This is called “voluntary migration,” also proposed by Smotrich, Ben-Gvir, and others on the Israeli right for hostile Arab populations in Gaza and Judea & Samaria.
When they propose it, it is cast as genocidal. When this liberal antizionist proposes it, it is framed as justice and moral principle.
For 50 years, American leaders have asked Israel to stop expanding settlements in the West Bank. For 50 years, Israeli governments have refused. It is past time to stop asking and start imposing consequences, and in the past week we are starting to see the beginnings of a new approach.
First with a narrower bill in the Senate led by Senators Coons, Warren, Wyden, and Gallego that would impose sanctions on anyone supporting construction in E1. And now a broader bill in the house led by Castro, Dean, Beyer, Casar, and Jacobs with 40 of their colleagues.
It is time for the United States to impose targeted sanctions on entities that finance, build and support settlement expansion that threatens the viability of a Palestinian state, and on officials responsible for it.
This is bigger than Netanyahu. Settlement growth has continued under Israeli governments across the political spectrum. The settlement movement is organized and politically powerful. Palestinians living under occupation cannot vote in Israeli elections. There is little domestic political counterweight. Polite or even loud American objections have never been enough to change that calculation. Targeted sanctions could.
How would you do this? Start by actually designating the worst offenders: organizations and entities supporting the tremendous boom in farming outposts over the past few years from which most of the violent attacks and officials such as Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir who are behind the effort. Make an example of them and make it much harder for them to operate.
Then give other companies and financial institutions a deadline to wind down activities that support settlement construction.
What you would likely get relatively quickly is a de facto settlement freeze on Israeli construction in the West Bank. Israeli banks are quite risk averse and deeply value their connection to the U.S. and international banking system. They would respond relatively quickly by pulling out from all of these projects. You’d have to couple that with continued targeting of the most problematic settlements and activities that threaten the viability of a Palestinian state, but you could fundamebntally shift the momentum.
Over time there would also be a change in incentives for settlers. Many live in the West Bank because housing is cheaper and subsidies are generous. If living in the settlements becomes financially harder, if new construction and roads aren’t happening, if businesses are pulling out since it’s simply too risky to operate, some of these settlers will choose to move inside green line Israel and you start changing the overall momentum on the ground.
Importantly, this approach targets the settlement enterprise, which makes it distinctly different from the BDS movement which calls for sanctions on al of Israel and boycotts on Israelis including those working for a better future with Palestinians.
And once Palestinians and Israelis can agree on a map, which likely means Israel keeping many of the settlements in exchange for unpopulated land beyond the Green Line, Israelis can build to their hearts content inside those borders.
The reality is that only the President of the United States with the tools of the executive branch can fully implement such an approach. But it is vital for members of Congress to start going on the record, building political support for a future policy, and beginning to signal to Israeli companies that it's time to stop investing in or supporting the settlements. That is why the new legislation this week is so important.
After 50 years of failed persuasion, the settlement movement needs to face consequences.
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An amazing story for the Spanish Jewish community today. My friend Juan Caldes managed to get the IHRA definition of antisemitism adopted by a town originally named Matajudios (meaning "to kill Jews"). The mayor there changed the name of the town to Mota De Judios ("the hill of the Jews") because Jews lived there for 300 years. A historic day. The fourth city this year in Spain to adopt IHRA. Vamos 🇪🇸 instagram.com/p/Dd9bUEJERQT/…
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A co-pilot stabs the pilot and tries to crash a plane with 150 passengers on board - and the @nytimes and @CNN call it an “altercation”?!
It’s very dangerous when media platforms bend over backwards to avoid the word “terrorism.” They even withhold facts as if to shield their audience from facts.
The facts include that an Omani co-pilot tried to murder an Indian pilot of a Dubai-based airline on a flight to Israel and then sought to crash the plane. The Indian pilot was heroic and managed to open the cockpit and be aided by other heroes - Israeli passengers who managed to regain control over the plane and land it safely - in Saudi Arabia. And Saudis provided humane care to the crew and the passengers, even though Saudi Arabia and Israel don’t have diplomatic relations!
I’ve seen the effects of hiding facts. In Germany, for example, both politicians and the media studiously avoid reporting on terrorist incidents by Islamist fundamentalists. As a result, citizens have lost trust in them. This has created a huge void now being filled by extremist parties that are far more radical.
Many Muslim leaders like Dr. @MissDiagnosis courageously condemn Islamist fundamentalists but most mainstream media won’t give them a voice. These media screeners think they might be helping but instead they hurt all of humanity, including the Muslim community that doesn’t want to be associated with fundamentalists.
It’s high time that this change, and that we allow Builders to speak against all Destroyers and stand for humanity.
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Who knew that singling out and demonizing AIPAC would result in violence and plans to commit acts of violence?
If only there was a minority group that could have warned all the pols about the risks of such overheated rhetoric. Surely they would have listened.
NBC News: Plot to attack Texas capitol foiled, DPS says.
Suspect allegedly told his friend that he was angry at AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee) and that "these people have to be exterminated."
Story: nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-…
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Sara Leigh retweeted
Look at what happened when this man showed up to an anti-racism rally to stand against antisemitism.
(Spoiler: it didn’t go well.)
h/t @SussexFOI
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RT @AngryLevantine: Virtually all Israelis served in the military and deal with existential threats that American Jews largely do not
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