Shaul Magid attended the "United Against Hate" rally on the Upper West Side on Sunday. To little surprise—it was obvious from the videos—there was quite a lot of hatred on display at this demonstration. Including hatred directed towards Jews. shaulmagid.substack.com/p/the-hate-a...

Looking forward to presenting and seeing folks at AJS in December!

I am quoted in Haaretz on the evolution of DSA's position towards Israel/Palestine. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...

A distant relative of Alfred Dreyfus left this comment on a Facebook post by Rabbi Avi Weiss likening the charges against Netanyahu to the false ones leveled at Dreyfus.

The Reform movement is where it's most apparent. No one put their heart into this statement. No one working at @reformjudaism.bsky.social who is under, I don't know, age 60, is on board with this. I'm not even sure Rick Jacobs believes in what he's saying here.

I cringe a little reading some of my late left Zionist language, but I mostly stand behind this from 2022. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2022...

The walk from my Airbnb to Duke would be quite pleasant if it weren't so humid.

Came across a handwritten letter by Jeane Kirkpatrick in the archive today in which she jokingly laments "the state of the culinary arts at a Catholic (or any other) woman's college."

Jonathan Greenblatt is doing to allegations of antisemitism what Bill Donahue did to allegations of anti-Catholic bigotry in the 1990s: turning them into a joke, claims that can be dismissed as political posturing. It's dangerous and our community deserves better.

Matt Taibbi is traveling the David Horowitz arc but without the precipitating trauma that made the latter an occasionally interesting character. Boring and stupid opportunism.

This is who the 92Y turns to to discuss how progressives have "lost their way" or whatnot. I wonder if Batya drops the whole uber-MAGA act when speaking to liberal Jews on the Upper East Side.

Arthur Hertzberg in 1988 arguing that American Jewish support for Israel was undergirded by a distinct lack of fear of antisemitism in the United States:

You're sitting on the couch after a long day, catatonically staring at the floor. Suddenly, the television turns on without you touching the remote. A green light blinks at the top of the screen, a built-in camera of which you were heretofore ignorant. Judgment Day is here.

At this point, I don't know who can possibly deny that Brad Lander is an extraordinarily generous human soul.

Here we go!

Eli Northrup, the candidate Mamdani endorsed in that race, is also Jewish. Had he not endorsed in the race, one could have framed that as Mamdani spurning Jewish ally Eli Northrup. Of course, that would have been most unlikely to happen—as this is about attacking progressives and not defending Jews.

You will not find any survey in which over 85% of American Jews support AIPAC's positions. Polling on support for Israel's "right to exist" is being used to rhetorically conscript American Jews as supporters of more controversial pro-Israel positions.

Face-to-face with the Angel of History.

100%. Sean Wilentz and Kwame Anthony Appiah are activist scholars. The latter even a somewhat interesting one at times.

England's "right to exist" as any type of state has been continuously denied since 1707.

My response:

The rejectionist posture of the UJA is ironically rooted in a (correct) belief that Mayor Mamdani is not an antisemite and will not retaliate in any meaningful way. The cynicism of this boycott is lost on no one. Jewish leaders who meet with Mamdani, i.e., doing their jobs, are cast as "tokens."

100 years ago, you would've heard mostly Yiddish and Russian among the parents at the City College graduation. Real New Yorkers admire such people.