If the ADL would transcend its shallow, shortsighted approach to Jewish safety and safeguarding Israel, it would abandon its Mamdani Monitor and instead adopt a Settlement and Ethnic Cleansing Task Force.

This has been evident for years. It’s why we need a younger generation of politicians to take the reins of power. And it’s also why AOC is going to beat him, if she chooses.

Those of us who want to see a change in the land owe a huge debt of gratitude to folks like Ihab who are doing a huge public service by documenting the daily, routine violence Palestinians in the West Bank face at the hands of settlers and the state. Ignorance is no excuse.

He can’t even say the word “Palestinian.”

This is true for a segment of the “anti-Zionist” crowd. But a lot of self-identified “anti-Zionists” use that label as a mark of protest against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and the occupation, not Israel itself. Ending the occupation would “satisfy” them.

This is how you fight fascism—and how you move when you’re in the opposition.

The very fact that random citizens from other countries feel compelled to travel thousands of miles to put their bodies on the line to engage in protective presence is itself a damning indictment of the Israeli government and its permissive settler violence policy.

This just goes to show that many wield the term “Zionist” as a degrading slur and that those who do have no true guiding definition undergirding it.

Gilad Kariv’s act of solidarity shatters the fallacy that apologizing for your people’s sins is a mark of weakness. Righting a wrong is an act of service that not only humanizes the other, it humanizes oneself by modeling for your people how to stay true to your highest values.

“I can’t return to Israel for 10 years — but I won’t turn my back on it.” The “pro-Israel” label has been tossed around so casually to the point of bastardization, but Leila’s determination and devotion in spite of this in-house betrayal epitomizes what “pro-Israel”-ism is.

Rahm Emanuel is pushing a failed strategy that rests on persuading the American public that the unpalatable actions of the Israeli gov. are somehow palatable. So long as the Jewish communal strategy remains sanitization and not struggle, it is bound to fail—and fail Israel, too.

That no major opposition leader in Israel is seizing and speaking on the Saudi offering as the centerpiece of an alternative vision for Israel’s future speaks to how much of the opposition’s offering is by and large just an elegant repackaging of the same dystopia.

If true, Mamdani’s approach is the wiser one because some of the left’s hyper-fixation on Zionism is futile, counterproductive, and often harmful (to Jews who identify as Zionists and to the Palestinian struggle). Tailoring criticism to the Israeli government is more pragmatic.

At some point, every pro-Israel institution and activist will come to the realization that all the time, energy, and money spent on combatting anti-Israel activists is better spent combatting Israelis like Smotrich who do more to undermine Israel than any activist could dream of.

Making opposition to the “Greater Israel plan” and Israel more broadly (using colonial vocabulary) a centerpiece of a fresh campaign shows there’s a new, younger crop of Twitter candidates who’ve formed their identity based on the truncated worldview that social media curates.

Yes. One shared mistake that too many pro- & anti-Zionism people make is to assume that figures like Bezalel Smotrich threaten Zionism less than anti-Israel advocacy. But many of the most potent risks to Jewish national self-determination in Israel come from within Israel.

The Prime Minister is amplifying an article about Epstein’s ties to Israel (him being a victim of Epstein’s collusion with Ehud Barak) because Netanyahu has always put himself before his country. This grants every conspiracy theorists the green light to run rampant.

Is ADL’s Mamdani Monitor tracking this too?

Rest assured, if a Democrat said this, the ADL and others would accuse the Party of being irredeemably antisemitic and of throwing Jews under the bus for paying no mind to their claim that Jews will not be safe in Mamdani’s NYC.

Institutions condemning Mamdani for ‘condemning Jews moving to Israel’ are acting in bad faith and signaling a stance shift that the West Bank is part of Israel. Criticize him—and the protest chants—without lying. Houses of worship don’t confer a shield to promote illegal acts.