Deborah Achtenberg
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Deborah Achtenberg
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· Mar 24
Ceasefire now!
Return hostages and prisoners!
Stop evictions in the West Bank!
There is no military solution.
Return hostages and prisoners!
Stop evictions in the West Bank!
There is no military solution.
"Tisch told congregants at Park East Synagogue that it was the police department’s duty 'to ensure that people could easily enter and leave shul.'” Good for the commissioner.
It seems to have taken a while for NYC to figure this out. People have a right to... /1
www.jta.org/2025/11/24/u...
It seems to have taken a while for NYC to figure this out. People have a right to... /1
www.jta.org/2025/11/24/u...
NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch apologizes for allowing ‘turmoil’ outside synagogue - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani also spoke to the rabbi of Park East Synagogue, where a protest took place against an Israeli immigration event.
www.jta.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"Tisch told congregants at Park East Synagogue that it was the police department’s duty 'to ensure that people could easily enter and leave shul.'” Good for the commissioner.
It seems to have taken a while for NYC to figure this out. People have a right to... /1
www.jta.org/2025/11/24/u...
It seems to have taken a while for NYC to figure this out. People have a right to... /1
www.jta.org/2025/11/24/u...
Good for Obama. Yes we can!
Good news: Obama Calls Mamdani to Praise His Campaign and Offers to Be Sounding Board www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/n...
Obama Calls Mamdani to Praise His Campaign and Offers to Be Sounding Board
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Good for Obama. Yes we can!
Reposted by Deborah Achtenberg
Cuomo says he’ll move to Florida if Mamdani becomes mayor. Mamdani isn’t even mayor yet, and he’s already driving out the criminals!
October 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Cuomo says he’ll move to Florida if Mamdani becomes mayor. Mamdani isn’t even mayor yet, and he’s already driving out the criminals!
I'm not interested in sports (in case the new algorithm wants to know).
November 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I'm not interested in sports (in case the new algorithm wants to know).
"We have to move toward ending the occupation, establishing a Palestinian state, and reaching a real peace agreement. This is the only way all of us, Palestinians and Jews, can live on this land with the justice, freedom, and safety we deserve." I agree.
Members of Standing Together's national leadership met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah today as part of the delegation of peace groups called “It’s Time.” (1/3)
October 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"We have to move toward ending the occupation, establishing a Palestinian state, and reaching a real peace agreement. This is the only way all of us, Palestinians and Jews, can live on this land with the justice, freedom, and safety we deserve." I agree.
In case it needs to be said: Trump signed the Abraham Accords without addressing the Palestinian situation at all. Doing so created conditions that made a Palestinian uprising likely. Now, he is cleaning up the horrific situation created by the uprising. /1
October 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
In case it needs to be said: Trump signed the Abraham Accords without addressing the Palestinian situation at all. Doing so created conditions that made a Palestinian uprising likely. Now, he is cleaning up the horrific situation created by the uprising. /1
Happy to hear a ceasefire is coming.
Of course there are problems with the plans for after. For now, I'm glad the killing and dying will stop.
What a hellish two years.
Of course there are problems with the plans for after. For now, I'm glad the killing and dying will stop.
What a hellish two years.
October 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Happy to hear a ceasefire is coming.
Of course there are problems with the plans for after. For now, I'm glad the killing and dying will stop.
What a hellish two years.
Of course there are problems with the plans for after. For now, I'm glad the killing and dying will stop.
What a hellish two years.
Want to oppose both antisemitism & its weaponization? This series will help you do that. Ep. 1 is with Ben Lorber, co-author of Safety through Solidarity, and Shoshana Brown, co-founder of the Black Jewish Liberation Collective.
I really recommend this series.
politicalresearch.org/2025/09/03/w...
I really recommend this series.
politicalresearch.org/2025/09/03/w...
What is Antisemitism and its Weaponization? A Conversation for Movement Organizers with Shoshana Brown and Ben Lorber
This episode dives into discussing antisemitism—its history, how it looks today, how to understand it, & why the fight over defining it has become a means of targeting Palestinians and their allies wh...
politicalresearch.org
October 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Want to oppose both antisemitism & its weaponization? This series will help you do that. Ep. 1 is with Ben Lorber, co-author of Safety through Solidarity, and Shoshana Brown, co-founder of the Black Jewish Liberation Collective.
I really recommend this series.
politicalresearch.org/2025/09/03/w...
I really recommend this series.
politicalresearch.org/2025/09/03/w...
Reposted by Deborah Achtenberg
Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.
Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.
Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.
September 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.
Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.
Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.
That's good news.
The AfD qualified for three mayoral run-offs in cities in North Rhine-Westphalia today, and lost all by big margins. The lesson is not that we have overdone the AfD's rise, but that we do perhaps sometimes underestimate the counter-mobilisation effects - including in east Germany, incidentally.
September 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
That's good news.
If Klippenstein's got the story right, Jahn's not a leftist. But of course why would a leftist shoot ICE *detainees*?
ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
The ICE Shooter’s Motive
Joshua Jahn's friends speak
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM
If Klippenstein's got the story right, Jahn's not a leftist. But of course why would a leftist shoot ICE *detainees*?
Respect.
Holy shit - shoutout to these brave pilots who are doing what every single one of us need to be
September 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Respect.
Reposted by Deborah Achtenberg
A Statement From US Jews Opposing Trump’s Attacks on Colleges and Students www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Statement From US Jews Opposing Trump’s Attacks on Colleges and Students
The statement condemns Trump’s “disingenuous” weaponization of antisemitism to target universities and deport campus activists.
www.thenation.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
A Statement From US Jews Opposing Trump’s Attacks on Colleges and Students www.thenation.com/article/soci...
To understand why some academics, including me, say Charlie Kirk was not a free speech supporter, listen to Sonali Kolhatkar interview Tariq Khan, Yale history lecturer, who was targeted relentlessly after TPUSA members confronted him. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Rising Up With Sonali
Politics Podcast · Updated Semiweekly · Solutions journalism for social justice.
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September 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
To understand why some academics, including me, say Charlie Kirk was not a free speech supporter, listen to Sonali Kolhatkar interview Tariq Khan, Yale history lecturer, who was targeted relentlessly after TPUSA members confronted him. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Susie Wiles, Trump's chief of staff, explains that Charlie Kirk delivered Arizona and Pennsylvania for Trump (through canvassing campaigns). The loss of TPUSA would be huge for the Republicans.
The plan is for a group of individuals, including Vance, Don Jr. and others, ...
The plan is for a group of individuals, including Vance, Don Jr. and others, ...
September 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Susie Wiles, Trump's chief of staff, explains that Charlie Kirk delivered Arizona and Pennsylvania for Trump (through canvassing campaigns). The loss of TPUSA would be huge for the Republicans.
The plan is for a group of individuals, including Vance, Don Jr. and others, ...
The plan is for a group of individuals, including Vance, Don Jr. and others, ...
Thousands of French are out in the streets blocking everything (#bloquonstout), streets, ring roads, schools, etc. It's pretty amazing.
A nationwide day of disruption has started in France, “Bloquons Tout” (Block Everything). Triggered by new austerity measures, the call demands a total halt to work, consumption & banking activity — “We don’t pay. We don’t consume. We don’t work.”
Stay tuned for more from France. #BloquonsTout
Stay tuned for more from France. #BloquonsTout
September 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Thousands of French are out in the streets blocking everything (#bloquonstout), streets, ring roads, schools, etc. It's pretty amazing.
These High Holiday prayers for God's mercy and forgiveness seem even more poignant than ever this year.
I learned wonderful new tunes for them at an online workshop offered by the Egalitarian Sephardi Mizrahi Kehilla in NYC. Check out their High Holiday services. www.instagram.com/egalsmkehill...
I learned wonderful new tunes for them at an online workshop offered by the Egalitarian Sephardi Mizrahi Kehilla in NYC. Check out their High Holiday services. www.instagram.com/egalsmkehill...
September 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
These High Holiday prayers for God's mercy and forgiveness seem even more poignant than ever this year.
I learned wonderful new tunes for them at an online workshop offered by the Egalitarian Sephardi Mizrahi Kehilla in NYC. Check out their High Holiday services. www.instagram.com/egalsmkehill...
I learned wonderful new tunes for them at an online workshop offered by the Egalitarian Sephardi Mizrahi Kehilla in NYC. Check out their High Holiday services. www.instagram.com/egalsmkehill...
2.5 million Israelis demonstrated against the war today.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Israel Protests: Hundreds of Thousands March in Tel Aviv Demanding Hostage Deal and End to Gaza War
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www.haaretz.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:30 AM
2.5 million Israelis demonstrated against the war today.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Peter Cytanovic has left white nationalism and found a new life in Christ. He is now a Catholic personalist and distributist writing a PhD thesis at Catholic University in D.C. on the world's largest cooperative, the Mondragon Corporation in the Spanish Basque Country. pacytanovic.com/about-me/
About Me
Hello and God Bless! If you’re searching my name, you’ve likely come across my past involvement with the Alt-Right Identitarian movement in 2017, most notably through the widely circulated photogra…
pacytanovic.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Peter Cytanovic has left white nationalism and found a new life in Christ. He is now a Catholic personalist and distributist writing a PhD thesis at Catholic University in D.C. on the world's largest cooperative, the Mondragon Corporation in the Spanish Basque Country. pacytanovic.com/about-me/
The dark orange square in southern Nevada is a planned new soft side facility to hold 450 people.
Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE’s breakneck expansion, a chaotic effort that has already triggered lawsuits and accusations of cruelty. wapo.st/41FWkck
August 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
The dark orange square in southern Nevada is a planned new soft side facility to hold 450 people.
More disturbing news.
Gov. Lombardo has authorized the Nevada National Guard to assist ICE.
If you are in Nevada and not following the article's author, I highly recommend it.
behindtheborder.substack.com/p/the-nevada...
Gov. Lombardo has authorized the Nevada National Guard to assist ICE.
If you are in Nevada and not following the article's author, I highly recommend it.
behindtheborder.substack.com/p/the-nevada...
The Nevada National Guard Joins the Deportations
The news tonight that Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo has authorized the Nevada National Guard to assist ICE is an ominous milestone, on a road already lined with escalating markers of devastation to our...
behindtheborder.substack.com
August 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
More disturbing news.
Gov. Lombardo has authorized the Nevada National Guard to assist ICE.
If you are in Nevada and not following the article's author, I highly recommend it.
behindtheborder.substack.com/p/the-nevada...
Gov. Lombardo has authorized the Nevada National Guard to assist ICE.
If you are in Nevada and not following the article's author, I highly recommend it.
behindtheborder.substack.com/p/the-nevada...
How much do taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country? She asks a good question.
Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?
August 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
How much do taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country? She asks a good question.
Stories like this one just make me want to cry.
"Her businesses, known for donating meals to homeless shelters, supporting local police, providing funding for high school baseball teams...
“She gives back to the community, creates jobs for young people, pays taxes. Why would you want to remove someone like that?”
www.12news.com/article/news...
“She gives back to the community, creates jobs for young people, pays taxes. Why would you want to remove someone like that?”
www.12news.com/article/news...
Peoria sushi shop owner faces deportation after 21 years of living in the US
Kelly Yu, who does not have legal status in the U.S., is in ICE custody in Arizona, leaving her business, customers and family behind.
www.12news.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Stories like this one just make me want to cry.
I am so proud of people who turn out when their neighbors are being kidnapped. Respect.
July 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I am so proud of people who turn out when their neighbors are being kidnapped. Respect.