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Solidarity with the record-breaking number of people who will attend Budapest Pride today despite (or perhaps because of) Viktor Orbán's attempts to ban it and punish those who attend. The fascists cannot and will not erase queer people from existence. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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During a hearing on the vote to expel Ayman Odeh, Likud MK Ofir Katz, parliamentary whip of the Netanyahu coalition government, called MK Odeh a "terrorist" and said, "If he had behaved like this in countries like Syria, they would have hanged him in the city square."

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"Jews were barred from Spain’s New World colonies − but that didn’t stop Jewish and converso writers from describing the Americas" theconversation.com/jews-were-ba...

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Flying back to the US today, after a trip to Ukraine for an academic conference. It feels very 2025 that I am much more nervous about being allowed back into the US without any problems than I was about going to a country at war.

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“Our slogan this year is that we are at home. By this, we want to draw attention to the fact that LGBTQ people are an integral part of Hungarian society, just as any other people. In our history, in our culture, this is where we belong.” Heroes.

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““This is something you might expect before protesting Erdoğan in Turkey, not in an EU country,” one MEP taking part in the Pride told Euractiv.” Maybe we need to stop assuming “European” implies progressive and democratic, and Middle Eastern implies backwards?

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This is the kind of Jewish leadership we need in the US right now. Gut Shabbos, everyone.

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The only way that you could possibly get me interested in a James Bond movie in 2025 is to cast either a woman or nonbinary person to play James Bond. Otherwise, the franchise has long since outlived its cultural relevance.

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Reading Hannah Arendt's writings on statelessness in light of today's Supreme Court ruling, and while she definitely got some big things wrong, her prescience on a lot of points is eerie.

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Notably, Christian Croatian nationalists in the 1980's saw themselves as more in conflict with their fellow Christian Serbs than with Muslim Bosniaks, who were seen as Croatians who just needed to come home to their Croatian identities.

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Gut Shabbos and Shabbat Shalom, everyone. May we all come to know this truth before Moshiach comes.

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The idea that "religion" and "race" are fundamentally separable categories is a modern construction reflecting a modern form of Christian particularism asserting itself as the universal. This is not how most people throughout history have experienced their identities.

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The ADL should be seen as more akin to ethnic diaspora lobbies like NORAID or the Serbian Unity Congress than to civil rights groups like the Brennan Center for Justice. When we view it in those terms, everything they do makes a lot more sense. forward.com/news/732493/...

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Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.

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My Jewish homeland is New York City.

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There has always been some tension between the ADL's stated goals of being a voice for universal civil rights in the US and a particular voice against what it sees as antisemitism, but it is no longer even really trying to pretend it is doing the former anymore: forward.com/news/732493/...

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This piece by @diplomatofnight.com is good: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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I am glad to see the NYTimes forthrightly call this out as the Islamophobia that it is. Some rare praise for the framing here.

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Do Reform Jews - for whom the availability of legal abortion is an important part of religious belief - have a right to opt their children out of seeing any materials in school reflecting anti-abortion arguments?

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Trump manages to be racist against Palestinians and also against Jews in one single statement. Let no one say he is not a unifying figure.

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Does he... know what he is saying here?

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Every time I read this statistic, and I remember that there is Jewish community philanthropic money to send every single American Jew on an all expenses paid vacation to Israel, I get angry all over again.

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I think "concerned" is just the permanent state of the Jewish community, though.

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Went to the burial place of the Chatam Sofer to pay my respects.

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This court is ruling in such a way that is systematically demolishing the very idea of an independent judiciary.

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Atrocities beyond atrocities. This genocidal war is a moral stain that will never be erased. Ceasefire yesterday, end this war.

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I do not know how anyone can read this report and argue that continuing this war is morally defensible: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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The administration that cares so deeply about fighting antisemitism: forward.com/fast-forward...

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If your anti-Zionism leads you to target Jews indiscriminately, regardless of their feelings on Israel and Zionism, then what you are doing is not anti-Zionism, but antisemitism, regardless of the theoretical question of when anti-Zionism is or is not antisemitism. www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant...

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Also reinventing antisemitic visual tropes and redeploying them against Muslims.

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Bratislava Castle this morning.

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Love when non-Jewish politicians tell Jews how we should be feeling.

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"America Deported Her for Publishing a Book Titled ‘Lesbian Love.’ Years Later, She Was Murdered by the Nazis for Being Jewish" www.smithsonianmag.com/history/amer...

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As opposed to Amichai Chikli himself, who is enabling antisemitism against the Diaspora by hosting flashy conferences in Jerusalem where he invites historically antisemitic European far-right parties to get kosher seals of approval from the Israeli government.

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Even if you are not a fan of Mamdani, comparing him to Karl Lueger is so historically illiterate I don't even know where to start. (www.ynetnews.com/article/ryzv...)

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It's no surprise that the far-right has been more effective at using AI-generated art than any other political faction thus far. There's no more need to find actual images of the glorious past to which you want to return when you can just generate it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/t...

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And people really try to tell me Freud is archaic...

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Breaking news: Jews have a disagreement about a political candidate.

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So many people are going to suffer so unnecessarily because of this decision.

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A lot of the people who want to make this argument want to argue that "true antisemitism" is nonpolitical hatred of Jews just as Jews, utterly disconnected from any ideological understanding of what Jews as a community represent. But that has never been how antisemitism actually functions.

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