Joel S.
@joelhs.bsky.social
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Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist elite and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social‬. He/Him/הוא/ער
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Seems notable that Republicans are now pushing dual loyalty allegations against prominent Jewish political donors.
Facebook post from Congressman Thomas Massie: “Trump asked dual citizen Miriam Adelson, a billionaire running nasty ads against me in Kentucky, “what do you love more, the United States or Israel?” She refused to answer him. He says that might mean she loves Israel more.

This isn’t AI, it’s real video…”
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The upcoming generation of Republican staffers are disproportionately Groyper types. This is something that has not penetrated the public consciousness nearly as much as it should have.
politico.com
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
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This represents a sea change in American political culture that the party leaderships will not be able to resist forever. And it will not be limited to one political party either.
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"For the first time since it began asking Americans about their sympathies in 1998, a New York Times poll last month found that slightly more voters sided with the Palestinians than with Israelis." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...
A Test Now for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?
www.nytimes.com
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"For the first time since it began asking Americans about their sympathies in 1998, a New York Times poll last month found that slightly more voters sided with the Palestinians than with Israelis." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...
A Test Now for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?
www.nytimes.com
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Sure hope Jonathan Greenblatt is feeling good about himself right about now.
"‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape."
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This is not really about Hamas violating the terms of the ceasefire. This is just collective punishment of the people of Gaza. And the fact that Israel is still doing this is a big part of why people are not celebrating the ceasefire just yet.
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Really glad to see this much needed report. The Nexus Project is the moral voice we need against antisemitism and for democratic pluralism, at a time when too many other organizations have abdicated that role.
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The party of Christian values endorses shooting pastors with pepper balls.
atrupar.com
Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.
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The Trump administration is targeting nine left-leaning organizations as part of its crackdown on activism. Two are explicitly Jewish. If you include Soros, it's three.

The Trump admin believes the US left is one-third Jewish. forward.com/opinion/7755...
The Trump administration is targeting Jewish organizations — what are we prepared to do?
Even if you're not a fan of organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace or IfNotNow, you need to stand with them nonetheless.
forward.com
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The story of how a holiday originally instituted to celebrate an embattled immigrant community seen as culturally and at times racially distinct from Anglo Protestants, has become associated with the same political coalition that hates immigrants today, is the story of whiteness in America.
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Christopher Columbus himself was a monster, but Columbus Day was instituted in 1892 to combat rising anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic bigotry after the lynching of eleven Italian-Americans. The same revanchists defending Columbus Day as "part of our US heritage" in 2025 would have opposed it in 1892.
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None of this changes the fact Columbus himself was a horrible monster who does not deserve to be honored. But Columbus Day originally represented an attempt at inclusion, the opposite of the revanchists who embrace it today. That effort at inclusiveness should cause us to move past Columbus Day now.
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In the wake of that nativist crime, the celebration of Columbus Day represented a conscious effort to construct a more multicultural historical history of the US, at a time when the "whiteness" of Italians was still in some flux. It was an attempt to find a non-Anglo Protestant US founder to honor.
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Columbus Day was first proclaimed as a national US celebration in 1892, following the 1891 lynchings of eleven Italian-Americans in New Orleans, a crime rooted in Know Nothing anti-immigrant sentiment and anti-Catholic bigotry.
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It's notable that the only ones who continue to defend Columbus Day as a holiday in the US are now revanchist right-wingers, because the history of the observance of the holiday is almost the exact opposite - an attempt to construct a more multicultural US historical heritage.
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It's astounding how JD Vance takes every opportunity to be the absolute worst possible human being he can be.
Tweet from JD Vance: "The president told me he did this on Indigenous Peoples Day in honor of you."
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You'll never guess what this is in response to.