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This is the most succinct description of a key feature of the current moment that I’ve read so far—by M. Gessen writing in the New York Times today in support of our need to support @jewishcurrents.bsky.social as a magazine navigating us through this confusion. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
December 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This is the most succinct description of a key feature of the current moment that I’ve read so far—by M. Gessen writing in the New York Times today in support of our need to support @jewishcurrents.bsky.social as a magazine navigating us through this confusion. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
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For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, Jess Schwalb & I explored the Zionist Right’s flailing attempts to counter rising antisemitism and criticism of Israel within the MAGA ranks. We cover last week’s conference in DC held by a task force on antisemitism which recently left the Heritage Foundation/
A conference aiming to confront antisemitism on the right offers a portrait of a Zionist old guard left twisting in the wind,
@benlorber8.bsky.social and Jess Schwalb report.
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@benlorber8.bsky.social and Jess Schwalb report.
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The Zionist Right Has a MAGA Problem
A conference aiming to confront antisemitism on the right offers a portrait of an old guard left twisting in the wind.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
For @jewishcurrents.bsky.social, Jess Schwalb & I explored the Zionist Right’s flailing attempts to counter rising antisemitism and criticism of Israel within the MAGA ranks. We cover last week’s conference in DC held by a task force on antisemitism which recently left the Heritage Foundation/
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THEY! COULDN’T! EVEN! MAKE! A! MINYAN!
I’m sorry, I know this is all very serious stuff, leopard-triggered facial reconstruction is a serious business, but I had to laugh when I got to that part.
These are numerically-challenged people.
I’m sorry, I know this is all very serious stuff, leopard-triggered facial reconstruction is a serious business, but I had to laugh when I got to that part.
These are numerically-challenged people.
A conference aiming to confront antisemitism on the right offers a portrait of a Zionist old guard left twisting in the wind,
@benlorber8.bsky.social and Jess Schwalb report.
jewishcurrents.org/the-zionist-...
@benlorber8.bsky.social and Jess Schwalb report.
jewishcurrents.org/the-zionist-...
The Zionist Right Has a MAGA Problem
A conference aiming to confront antisemitism on the right offers a portrait of an old guard left twisting in the wind.
jewishcurrents.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
THEY! COULDN’T! EVEN! MAKE! A! MINYAN!
I’m sorry, I know this is all very serious stuff, leopard-triggered facial reconstruction is a serious business, but I had to laugh when I got to that part.
These are numerically-challenged people.
I’m sorry, I know this is all very serious stuff, leopard-triggered facial reconstruction is a serious business, but I had to laugh when I got to that part.
These are numerically-challenged people.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Good morning! I have a few gift subscriptions to @jewishcurrents.bsky.social to give away. FCFS for replies here.
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As the Right continues to fracture after Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes, the Zionist Right is struggling to confront the surge of antisemitism from within their own ranks. @benlorber8.bsky.social and Jess Schwalb explain more in their latest piece for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social:
The Zionist Right Has a MAGA Problem
A conference aiming to confront antisemitism on the right offers a portrait of an old guard left twisting in the wind.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
As the Right continues to fracture after Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes, the Zionist Right is struggling to confront the surge of antisemitism from within their own ranks. @benlorber8.bsky.social and Jess Schwalb explain more in their latest piece for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social:
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This should be worth a tote bag or something @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
I listened to more Bad Bunny tho, and also am planning to drop Spotify anyway.
I listened to more Bad Bunny tho, and also am planning to drop Spotify anyway.
December 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
This should be worth a tote bag or something @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
I listened to more Bad Bunny tho, and also am planning to drop Spotify anyway.
I listened to more Bad Bunny tho, and also am planning to drop Spotify anyway.
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Excellent deep-dive into the violence perpetrated by fascist Zionist thugs at UCLA. Democrats, Republicans, the ADL, and the media have spent over a year lying that the violence was an antisemitic attack on Jews, and have used it and other lies to eviscerate higher education in the US:
“That was the day that it hit: UCLA has changed forever. It marked a turning point in the militarization of campus.”
Read Will Alden's deep dive on political dynamics at California's largest public university:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Read Will Alden's deep dive on political dynamics at California's largest public university:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Portrait of a Campus in Crisis
UCLA capitulated to its own hardline pro-Israel activists long before President Trump came calling. As a result, its students have repeatedly become…
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December 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Excellent deep-dive into the violence perpetrated by fascist Zionist thugs at UCLA. Democrats, Republicans, the ADL, and the media have spent over a year lying that the violence was an antisemitic attack on Jews, and have used it and other lies to eviscerate higher education in the US:
On the newest episode of On the Nose, Antony Loewenstein and Rhys Machold debate the "Palestine Laboratory," and whether Israeli military innovation is, in fact, a myth.
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Debating the “Palestine Laboratory”
Antony Loewenstein and Rhys Machold discuss whether Israeli military innovation is, in fact, a myth, and what could be gained from changing the narrative.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
On the newest episode of On the Nose, Antony Loewenstein and Rhys Machold debate the "Palestine Laboratory," and whether Israeli military innovation is, in fact, a myth.
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"The brain-breaking effects of autocracy are why we need small magazines as places of sense-making." Could not agree more. That's why I am a sustaining member of @jewishcurrents.bsky.social at the Elder of Zion level, and you can be, too. (Gift link to always brilliant M. Gessen.)
Opinion | A Small and Impossibly Brave Voice for Truth
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December 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"The brain-breaking effects of autocracy are why we need small magazines as places of sense-making." Could not agree more. That's why I am a sustaining member of @jewishcurrents.bsky.social at the Elder of Zion level, and you can be, too. (Gift link to always brilliant M. Gessen.)
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Watch the full discussion — co-hosted with @rightsdissent.bsky.social and moderated by @chipgibbons.bsky.social — featuring @dropsitenews.com’s @recolston.bsky.social, @jewishcurrents.bsky.social’ Emily Wilder, and Noa Avishag Schnall.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Watch the full discussion — co-hosted with @rightsdissent.bsky.social and moderated by @chipgibbons.bsky.social — featuring @dropsitenews.com’s @recolston.bsky.social, @jewishcurrents.bsky.social’ Emily Wilder, and Noa Avishag Schnall.
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Standout reporting about what has happened at UCLA by Will Alden at @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. The most unexpected data point: much of the grossest activism is coming from a group based in the med school who have ZERO contact with undergraduates. jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Portrait of a Campus in Crisis
UCLA capitulated to its own hardline pro-Israel activists long before President Trump came calling. As a result, its students have repeatedly become…
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December 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Standout reporting about what has happened at UCLA by Will Alden at @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. The most unexpected data point: much of the grossest activism is coming from a group based in the med school who have ZERO contact with undergraduates. jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Jewish organizations have benefitted financially from Viktor Orbán's investment in Budapest Jewish Quarter tourism. But one shop owner compared the situation in the neighborhood to “living in a kind of Shoah Disneyland.”
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jewishcurrents.org/why-hungaria...
Why Hungarian Jewish Institutions Are Embracing Orbán and Netanyahu
Since October 7th, Hungary’s Jewish federation has backed away from criticism of its right-wing prime minister, prompting an increasingly vocal…
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December 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Jewish organizations have benefitted financially from Viktor Orbán's investment in Budapest Jewish Quarter tourism. But one shop owner compared the situation in the neighborhood to “living in a kind of Shoah Disneyland.”
jewishcurrents.org/why-hungaria...
jewishcurrents.org/why-hungaria...
ICYMI: Will Alden's deep-dive into UCLA is now out from behind paywall. Read here
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December 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
ICYMI: Will Alden's deep-dive into UCLA is now out from behind paywall. Read here
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“That was the day that it hit: UCLA has changed forever. It marked a turning point in the militarization of campus.”
Read Will Alden's deep dive on political dynamics at California's largest public university:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Read Will Alden's deep dive on political dynamics at California's largest public university:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Portrait of a Campus in Crisis
UCLA capitulated to its own hardline pro-Israel activists long before President Trump came calling. As a result, its students have repeatedly become…
jewishcurrents.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“That was the day that it hit: UCLA has changed forever. It marked a turning point in the militarization of campus.”
Read Will Alden's deep dive on political dynamics at California's largest public university:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Read Will Alden's deep dive on political dynamics at California's largest public university:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
"[In Hungary,] it feels like Zionism is the only world for Jews, the only planet. If people exit Zionism, it feels like walking off the face of the earth.”
Larkin Cleland reports on the collapse of the progressive-except-Palestine consensus in Hungary:
jewishcurrents.org/why-hungaria...
Larkin Cleland reports on the collapse of the progressive-except-Palestine consensus in Hungary:
jewishcurrents.org/why-hungaria...
Why Hungarian Jewish Institutions Are Embracing Orbán and Netanyahu
Since October 7th, Hungary’s Jewish federation has backed away from criticism of its right-wing prime minister, prompting an increasingly vocal…
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December 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"[In Hungary,] it feels like Zionism is the only world for Jews, the only planet. If people exit Zionism, it feels like walking off the face of the earth.”
Larkin Cleland reports on the collapse of the progressive-except-Palestine consensus in Hungary:
jewishcurrents.org/why-hungaria...
Larkin Cleland reports on the collapse of the progressive-except-Palestine consensus in Hungary:
jewishcurrents.org/why-hungaria...
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"UCLA capitulated to its own hardline pro-Israel activists long before President Trump came calling. As a result, its students have repeatedly become targets of vigilante and police violence" jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
December 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"UCLA capitulated to its own hardline pro-Israel activists long before President Trump came calling. As a result, its students have repeatedly become targets of vigilante and police violence" jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
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A new pattern has emerged out of the repression of pro-Palestinian protests: "the Zionist provocateur spoiling for a fight, the police gunning for pro-Palestine students, a protester taken to the ER, and the university adopting wholesale the narrative spun by pro-Israel actors."
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
A new pattern has emerged out of the repression of pro-Palestinian protests: "the Zionist provocateur spoiling for a fight, the police gunning for pro-Palestine students, a protester taken to the ER, and the university adopting wholesale the narrative spun by pro-Israel actors."
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Comprehensive deep dive into how Zionist reactionaries attacked the University of California. UC failed to anticipate an organized political attack and gave into pressure by violating the rights of all UC students, faculty, staff.
Required reading for UC workers!
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Required reading for UC workers!
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Portrait of a Campus in Crisis
UCLA capitulated to its own hardline pro-Israel activists long before President Trump came calling. As a result, its students have repeatedly become…
jewishcurrents.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Comprehensive deep dive into how Zionist reactionaries attacked the University of California. UC failed to anticipate an organized political attack and gave into pressure by violating the rights of all UC students, faculty, staff.
Required reading for UC workers!
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Required reading for UC workers!
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
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this article is excellent and well worth your time
and even better in print - subscribe to @jewishcurrents.bsky.social !!
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"Contrary to the ubiquitous narrative of Jewish victimhood, a sober look at UCLA reveals that the power on campus overwhelmingly accrues to the most right-wing Zionist students and faculty."
Read Will Alden's deep dive into one post-10/7 campus, now unpaywalled:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Read Will Alden's deep dive into one post-10/7 campus, now unpaywalled:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Portrait of a Campus in Crisis
UCLA capitulated to its own hardline pro-Israel activists long before President Trump came calling. As a result, its students have repeatedly become…
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December 2, 2025 at 4:57 AM
this article is excellent and well worth your time
and even better in print - subscribe to @jewishcurrents.bsky.social !!
and even better in print - subscribe to @jewishcurrents.bsky.social !!
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what to notice about Epstein and Israel — @jewishcurrents.bsky.social podcast with Arielle Angel, Noah Kulwin, Ryan Grim
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pdbowman.studio | 2 dec 2025: shady dealers and Davos-class social reproduction
paul bowman at work and play
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December 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
what to notice about Epstein and Israel — @jewishcurrents.bsky.social podcast with Arielle Angel, Noah Kulwin, Ryan Grim
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When Netanyahu visited Hungary in 2017, he and host Viktor Orbán were rebuked by Hungary's Jewish community. But this year, Netanyahu, Orbán, and local Jewish officials seemed closer than ever. Larkin Cleland reports on Hungary's changing Jewish politics:
jewishcurrents.org/why-hungaria...
jewishcurrents.org/why-hungaria...
Why Hungarian Jewish Institutions Are Embracing Orbán and Netanyahu
Since October 7th, Hungary’s Jewish federation has backed away from criticism of its right-wing prime minister, prompting an increasingly vocal…
jewishcurrents.org
December 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
When Netanyahu visited Hungary in 2017, he and host Viktor Orbán were rebuked by Hungary's Jewish community. But this year, Netanyahu, Orbán, and local Jewish officials seemed closer than ever. Larkin Cleland reports on Hungary's changing Jewish politics:
jewishcurrents.org/why-hungaria...
jewishcurrents.org/why-hungaria...
“The only way UCLA really has been exceptional is in its exceptional failure to protect the students in its encampment from violence.”
Read Will Alden's deep dive into political dynamics at California's largest public university:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Read Will Alden's deep dive into political dynamics at California's largest public university:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Portrait of a Campus in Crisis
UCLA capitulated to its own hardline pro-Israel activists long before President Trump came calling. As a result, its students have repeatedly become…
jewishcurrents.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“The only way UCLA really has been exceptional is in its exceptional failure to protect the students in its encampment from violence.”
Read Will Alden's deep dive into political dynamics at California's largest public university:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Read Will Alden's deep dive into political dynamics at California's largest public university:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
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“The attack of April 30th, 2024, remains an untreated wound, with the university thus far avoiding any official reckoning with its role in the most extreme night of vigilante violence endured by any Palestine solidarity encampment nationwide.”
"Contrary to the ubiquitous narrative of Jewish victimhood, a sober look at UCLA reveals that the power on campus overwhelmingly accrues to the most right-wing Zionist students and faculty."
Read Will Alden's deep dive into one post-10/7 campus, now unpaywalled:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Read Will Alden's deep dive into one post-10/7 campus, now unpaywalled:
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Portrait of a Campus in Crisis
UCLA capitulated to its own hardline pro-Israel activists long before President Trump came calling. As a result, its students have repeatedly become…
jewishcurrents.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“The attack of April 30th, 2024, remains an untreated wound, with the university thus far avoiding any official reckoning with its role in the most extreme night of vigilante violence endured by any Palestine solidarity encampment nationwide.”
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This podcast is sooooo good and sooooooo informative, bravo @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
On Jeffrey Epstein
Ryan Grim and Noah Kulwin discuss new revelations about Epstein’s role in international affairs, and how to understand a story that reads like an…
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December 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This podcast is sooooo good and sooooooo informative, bravo @jewishcurrents.bsky.social