Just ran into Alan Dershowitz leaving the UN compound after the Netanyahu speech. Dershowitz condemned the mayor of New York as a bigot and praised the Israeli prime minister. He told me he's been to 24 years of UNGA but has no faith in the institution. Here's a snippet...

Benjamin Netanyahu mentions Hasan Piker when attacking Zohran Mamdani "It's no wonder you praise criminals convicted of supporting Hamas, you count as friends people like Hasan Piker"

Bari Weiss just finished speaking at a ceremony in Berlin ahead of Peter Thiel being awarded the Axel Springer 2026 Award. (Sorry for the poor video quality.) Weiss listed out some of her differences with Thiel. Among them: "And of course there's a difference in our attitude, at least sometimes, toward the press, and to the vital role that it plays in maintaining a liberal democracy. I view it as essential. It's my life's work. I see it as an instrument of liberty. And as an engine of progress that deserves to be in invested in and perfected."

they pay him to write this stuff

Normalize saying “I don’t know enough about this.”

Ed Sheeran fans in Philadelphia reacted after the singer addressed the controversy surrounding Macklemore’s removal from his Loop tour. cbsnews.com/philadelphia/new…

Imagine for 1 second that you have it wrong and Jews are telling the truth. That the genocide libel is bs. That Hamas are terrorists. That you are being manipulated to desire the removal of Jews from society. Do you understand if we’re right, that makes you the millions of European and African and Asian friends and neighbors who wiped millions of us off 3 continents just a few decades ago? What’s more likely - that we, the tiny minority who have been libeled and blamed and persecuted by every society in which we’ve ever lived for centuries, are the bad guys? Or that you, the non-Jewish masses who have hounded and defamed and slaughtered us all over the world over and over and over again, have once again been suckered in by propaganda you unquestioningly latch onto because it gives you a scapegoat to blame for your own problems and sins? “History repeats itself… except this time! I’m different!” Is essentially what every Jew hater tells themselves. No. You are no different than the Iraqi or Soviet or German or Algerian who turned on their Jewish neighbors the second they got the societal green light. Never in the history of the world has the group persecuting Jews been “on the right side of history.” Not once. Courage isn’t going with the crowd to hate on us some more. That’s easy. Courage is looking in the mirror, in a history book, at what is happening to Jews in our society, and saying stop this train, I’m getting off.

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