Ian Williams
@iangwilliams.bsky.social
Writer, occasionally contrarian, militant Menshevik!
Homeopathic tribalism, Someone converting because DNA show 2% "Jewish" ancestry. How can they tell? My DNA showed 3 to 4% Neanderthal, can I claim a cave somewhere?
forward.com/news/786154/...
forward.com/news/786154/...
DNA test kits spark a surge of online conversions to Judaism in the U.S.
As DNA tests become more common, people who "feel" Jewish are discovering hidden ancestry and converting through American Jewish University.
forward.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Homeopathic tribalism, Someone converting because DNA show 2% "Jewish" ancestry. How can they tell? My DNA showed 3 to 4% Neanderthal, can I claim a cave somewhere?
forward.com/news/786154/...
forward.com/news/786154/...
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True.
Also I think this proposal merits further discussion.
Also I think this proposal merits further discussion.
November 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
True.
Also I think this proposal merits further discussion.
Also I think this proposal merits further discussion.
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It’s getting real for Home Depot. The flash mob is only the warm up, the nationwide boycott hits on November 27th.
Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It’s getting real for Home Depot. The flash mob is only the warm up, the nationwide boycott hits on November 27th.
Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
Loved Dark Star. one of the funnies SF films ever.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
‘We used a beachball as an alien!’ John Carpenter on his gloriously shonky sci-fi comedy Dark Star
‘The control room buttons were upside-down ice-cube trays, one space suit had a dish-drying rack on it – and the special effects guy wrote the theme tune lyrics’
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Loved Dark Star. one of the funnies SF films ever.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeEs...
Trump, FPA and John Bolton's world!
Trump, FPA and John Bolton's world!
John Bolton, Trump and the World
YouTube video by Foreign Press Association USA
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeEs...
Trump, FPA and John Bolton's world!
Trump, FPA and John Bolton's world!
Resolution 2803 on Gaza, bad for the world, catastrophic for the UN and toxic for the Palestinians! - former UN Human Rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber talks to the FPA!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FRn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FRn...
Clueless in Gaza with Craig Mokhiber
YouTube video by Foreign Press Association USA
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Resolution 2803 on Gaza, bad for the world, catastrophic for the UN and toxic for the Palestinians! - former UN Human Rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber talks to the FPA!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FRn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FRn...
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Twitter has disabled Hebrew to English translation because the shit Israelis are posting is so disgusting and vile,
the monsters don’t want the world to see and understand what they are saying.
It is that repulsive.
the monsters don’t want the world to see and understand what they are saying.
It is that repulsive.
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Twitter has disabled Hebrew to English translation because the shit Israelis are posting is so disgusting and vile,
the monsters don’t want the world to see and understand what they are saying.
It is that repulsive.
the monsters don’t want the world to see and understand what they are saying.
It is that repulsive.
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An #ICE Agent was BUSTED by Bloomington Police in "Operation Creep" trying to solicit sex from a minor.
When arrested, he said "I'm ICE, boys."
🇺🇸 www.instagram.com/reel/DROOJNM...
When arrested, he said "I'm ICE, boys."
🇺🇸 www.instagram.com/reel/DROOJNM...
November 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
An #ICE Agent was BUSTED by Bloomington Police in "Operation Creep" trying to solicit sex from a minor.
When arrested, he said "I'm ICE, boys."
🇺🇸 www.instagram.com/reel/DROOJNM...
When arrested, he said "I'm ICE, boys."
🇺🇸 www.instagram.com/reel/DROOJNM...
I first joined the Labour Party (Young Socialists) in Harold Wilson's Huyton constituency. Rejoined in the 1970s, fought Militant, was a writer on Neil Kinnock's 1987 election team, and was a founder member of Labour International in New York. Just joined the Green Party, thanks to Mahmood!
November 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I first joined the Labour Party (Young Socialists) in Harold Wilson's Huyton constituency. Rejoined in the 1970s, fought Militant, was a writer on Neil Kinnock's 1987 election team, and was a founder member of Labour International in New York. Just joined the Green Party, thanks to Mahmood!
Shabana, Starmer, why not extract gold teeth from refugees? I know the idea has been implemented before, but since you're importing performative inhumanity from the continent, why not this one? Or perhaps compulsory organ donor cards? Come on - SERIOUSLY outflank Farage!
November 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Shabana, Starmer, why not extract gold teeth from refugees? I know the idea has been implemented before, but since you're importing performative inhumanity from the continent, why not this one? Or perhaps compulsory organ donor cards? Come on - SERIOUSLY outflank Farage!
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Of course Schumer is facing backlash - he deserves it. In the article, it ponders whether Schumer is “a liar” or “inept”. I’d argue that he’s both. And, oh my, it comes as no surprise to read that Hakeem Jeffries is defending his weak, useless colleague. Schumer must go. Jeffries can go too.
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Of course Schumer is facing backlash - he deserves it. In the article, it ponders whether Schumer is “a liar” or “inept”. I’d argue that he’s both. And, oh my, it comes as no surprise to read that Hakeem Jeffries is defending his weak, useless colleague. Schumer must go. Jeffries can go too.
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Is he getting a job controlling Settler burnings of croplands in the West Bank?
The rich were always the problem and they been crashing out since Mamdani won.
🇺🇸 www.instagram.com/reel/DQud5at...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Is he getting a job controlling Settler burnings of croplands in the West Bank?
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I must protest the rumors that FIFA will award its inaugural Peace Prize to Trump. Everyone knows it should go the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans for their devotion to peaceful coexistence. I am sure Keir Starmer would nominate them - if Trump allowed him!
November 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I must protest the rumors that FIFA will award its inaugural Peace Prize to Trump. Everyone knows it should go the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans for their devotion to peaceful coexistence. I am sure Keir Starmer would nominate them - if Trump allowed him!
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Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”
November 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”
So support for Zohran by Corbyn, who's hounded by spurious A-S slurs, is now being marshaled to redouble the witch-hunt against Zohran. And timely as the Forward often is, the current issue has a primer on how to say "witchcraft" in Yiddish. We await follow -up with "ducking stool," or "the stake."
November 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
So support for Zohran by Corbyn, who's hounded by spurious A-S slurs, is now being marshaled to redouble the witch-hunt against Zohran. And timely as the Forward often is, the current issue has a primer on how to say "witchcraft" in Yiddish. We await follow -up with "ducking stool," or "the stake."
The Forward headline "Why Jeremy Corbyn’s support for Zohran Mamdani is fueling antisemitism fears."
Because the "fears" are free floating, like witchcraft allegations, untethered, as they say, from reality. But there a many people, from Cuomo to Trump to Netanyahu, who will stoke those fires.
Because the "fears" are free floating, like witchcraft allegations, untethered, as they say, from reality. But there a many people, from Cuomo to Trump to Netanyahu, who will stoke those fires.
November 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The Forward headline "Why Jeremy Corbyn’s support for Zohran Mamdani is fueling antisemitism fears."
Because the "fears" are free floating, like witchcraft allegations, untethered, as they say, from reality. But there a many people, from Cuomo to Trump to Netanyahu, who will stoke those fires.
Because the "fears" are free floating, like witchcraft allegations, untethered, as they say, from reality. But there a many people, from Cuomo to Trump to Netanyahu, who will stoke those fires.
There are mediaeval Gothic cathedrals must be looking bare because all the gargoyles seem to been Drago(o)ned into standing with Speaker Johnson in a sinister unblinking row.
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
There are mediaeval Gothic cathedrals must be looking bare because all the gargoyles seem to been Drago(o)ned into standing with Speaker Johnson in a sinister unblinking row.
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go home everyone we have a winner
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
go home everyone we have a winner