Hard to explain to anyone who’s never been to Gaza how jarring this is. Gaza had a population density in range of Greater London or Hong Kong. 87% lived in urban areas. They now mostly live in tents. By the sea. Half of them: children. Waiting for fourth displaced winter.

Holy shit, Google Maps just updated its satellite view of the Gaza Strip.

אחרי צפייה בסרט נז"א רק אגיד שהדבר שלא ראיתי בשלל הביקורות/פוסטים ולכן לא הייתי מוכנה לו - המכה הרגשית ונפשית. בתום הסרט דממה וקולות בכי בחדר. אני עוד לא מסוגלת להציע ניתוח או פרשנות. צריכה קודם כל להפנים את המציאות שלנו, לפחות דרך חלון אחד. יש עוד חלונות ואי אפשר לסגור את כולם

Despite the fines and mounting pressure, Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair continues to honour Palestinian children killed in Gaza. This time, it’s Lana, 12, and Bana, 8, who were killed alongside their family in an Israeli attack earlier this month.

I’ve seen NAZA. It is not about Gaza or even about IDF rules of engagement. It is 100% a film about Israeli society. It is about how the most liberal, educated and enlightened socioeconomic elites among us could carry out such mass killing, some even while being well aware of it.

Remember what I said last week, they're going to try and blackball Azeez Al-Shaair if he doesn't back down. He's a team captain, a pro-bowler, and in his prime. He's one of the best linebackers on the planet. They'll try to ruin his career because he stands with Palestinians.

Abdul El-Sayed on America: This is a country where there is no ethnic identity, there’s no religious identity, there is just a national identity. And I didn’t appreciate it as much until I went to grad school in the UK, where I’d meet third generation Pakistani kids and I’d be like, "You’re British." They’re like, "I’m not British. I’m Pakistani." I was like, "Yes, but you’re British. You have a British citizenship." They’re like, "Yes, I’m a citizen of the United Kingdom, but I’m not British. I’m Pakistani." And so America to me is the notion that we can come together around our differences to build something that’s greater than the sum of its parts because we believe in the process by which we do that thing. It’s funny, you know, my dad, I don’t think he’s been to Egypt in like 20 years. And he still has an accent. He still looks the way he looks. And you watch him watch the Lions on Sunday and you’re like, that’s a full-blooded American.

This heckler got mad that my show was pro-Palestine (side note: I’m Palestinian)

Kasparov is a whiny little b!tch

I don’t think it’s normal to be this obsessed with a group of people.

The NYT confirms Haaretz's report that Benjamin Netanyahu was secretly warned before Oct. 7, 2023 by the Emirati president that Hamas planned a major attack, per 2 sources The warning was not shared with Israeli security chiefs, per 5 ex-officials nytimes.com/2026/09/25/world…

Gaza is now largely out of mind for many around the world, but not if you're one of the 94 percent of Gazans who lack shelter as winter approaches. And of course the US provided weapons in ways that make us complicit in that nightmare.

I saw NAZA yesterday with @joshnathankazis and Natasha Roth-Rowland. It was a completely shattering film. Our convo on the movie here jewishcurrents.org/naza-will…

Mr. Netanyahu, you do not speak for New York’s Jewish community. Your government arrests hundreds of innocent yeshiva students each week, while we in New York practice our faith and live freely and safely. Mayor Zohran Mamdani is a friend and ally to our community You are not.

Netanyahu taking time to attack Mamdani from the UN podium is such a compliment to Mamdani.

Bloomberg just dropped the most disturbing investigation I have read this year, and every AI builder should read it and take it seriously. On February 28, two Tomahawk missiles hit an elementary school in Minab, a small town in southern Iran. 156 people died. At least 123 were children. The Pentagon knew within hours that it had bombed a school. The school had its own website. It was labeled on Google Maps. You could see the soccer pitch from a satellite view. You could see the brightly painted walls. Any 12-year-old with a browser could tell what the building was. The AI system could not. Inside US Central Command, personnel were using Palantir's Maven Smart System. It is an AI targeting platform running on a $1.3 billion Pentagon contract, and embedded inside it is Anthropic's Claude. On day one of the war, more than 1,000 targets went through it in 24 hours. Work that used to take a team hours per target got compressed into minutes. The satellite imagery Maven was pulling from was seven years old. The site was still tagged in the database as an Islamic Revolutionary Guard facility. The system spat it out as a recommended day-one target. Humans signed off. The first missile flew. Then a second one landed minutes later to hit the people who came to help. Investigators later found that some Central Command staff had assumed Maven would flag stale intelligence for them. It did not. Nobody had told it to. Palantir told Bloomberg the government is responsible for the underlying data. The Pentagon's civilian harm mitigation team, the people whose actual job is to catch a target like this, had been cut back before the war started. This is not AI going rogue. This is the opposite. This is AI doing exactly what it was built to do at exactly the speed it was built to do it. And a school full of little girls got vaporized because the humans in the loop trusted the machine more than they trusted their own eyes. I keep thinking about the version of this story that comes next. What happens when the system is faster. When the target list is not 1,000 in a day but 10,000. When "review" becomes a button the operator has three seconds to hit before the next target loads. When there is no human left slow enough to notice that a soccer pitch is not a helipad. We are not talking about a spam filter mislabeling an email. We are talking about a system that turned a seven-year-old database entry into two cruise missiles landing on children in the middle of a morning class. A UN-backed panel has now called it a potential war crime. In terms of children killed, it is the deadliest American targeting error of the entire 21st century. And according to Bloomberg, some of Defense Secretary Hegseth's own advisors are worried that too much public scrutiny of Maven might slow down its adoption inside the Pentagon. Read that last line again. If you build this stuff, you own what it does. You do not get to hide behind "the government owns the data." The whole pitch of your product is that speed and integration save lives. When it takes them instead, that is also on you. I am not against AI in defense. I am against AI in a hurry. Speed is the entire mechanism that made Minab possible. Every guardrail we already know how to build takes time, and time is exactly what the system was designed to eliminate. So here is the question I have not been able to stop asking, and I genuinely want to know what you think. If a piece of software helped kill 123 children in a single morning while behaving exactly as designed, what does "responsible AI" even mean anymore?

That’s just not how Kol Nidrei works. It’s not a get-out-of-jail-free card, it’s a prayer about cleansing ourselves of any earthly hang-ups that disallow us from the hard task of asking for repentance

Knife-wielding man chases a yeshivah in Crown Heights, shouting "Heil F*cking Hitler." As the student runs into his home, the many shouts "Now I know where you live."

You might be surprised to hear me say this, but I think Zohran Mamdani is the future of the Democratic Party. Just not for the reasons you probably think. He has a sharp strategic mind and the credibility to say uncomfortable truths to his own people and be heard rather than exiled. Underestimate him at your own peril.

Israeli Amb to US, Yehiel Leiter, whose son is in critical condition after Palestinian car ramming attack, uses his platform speaking at hospital to say that Jews are fighting for their right to live in West Bank (occupied territory) and that Palestinians are trying to expel them