Rebecca Vilkomerson

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

Hassan Ayman Herzallah | Shawarma in Gaza City My friend Mahmoud called to check on me at the beginning of January. We hadn’t been in touch for a while. I told him,...

‘In my first year at university, I had taken the bus through Gaza City every day. Now we were travelling through streets and neighbourhoods that had once been familiar to me, but I barely recognised anything.’

Hassan Ayman Herzallah eats shawarma in Gaza City.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

MINNESOTA NICE MEANS PROSECUTE ICE

see also: zionism

ICE was blocked and impeded by people all the way to the Lincoln Tunnel

this is how we do it NYC! ❤️✊🏻

absolutely overjoyed to wake up in MAYOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI’S New York!

How Zohran Mamdani Achieved Escape Velocity from Politics as Usual An optimistic, disciplined Left can draw centrists into the coalition—by rejecting their politics.

An optimistic, disciplined Left can draw centrists into the coalition—by rejecting their politics.

@daniarajendra.bsky.social and @rvilkomerson.bsky.social explore how Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign has upended NYC politics—uniting voters around affordability, justice, & solidarity.

this actually made me cry.

honored my book with @alissashira “Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish anti-Zionist Organizing” is included in this list from @haymarketbooks.org with so many other crucial titles

more here: www.solidaritylovebook.org

Shana Tova, fuck ICE, and Free Palestine!

appreciate this coverage! I and others quoted here all noted that humanitarian aid often obscures culpability--in this case that Palestinians in Gaza are not just experiencing famine as a humanitarian crisis but are being starved by Israel as a weapon of genocide

Opinion | Barnard President: Charlie Kirk Challenged College Students. We Need More Like Him.

it takes some serious chutzpah for the president of BARNARD, who punished STUDENTS for speaking out against a GENOCIDE, to say we need more right wing zealots on campus in the name of “nonviolent disagreement.” every word of this is hypocrisy of the sickest order www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

NY Times headline that says "Cuomo, Staunch Supporter of Israel, Says "horrific" Gaza War Must End. The remarks were a departure for former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who trails Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayor's race

When Andrew Cuomo has to shift (slightly) his position on the genocide in Gaza because he understands that the New York electorate simply cannot abide by standing by and letting it happen, you know times really are a-changing, at an unspeakable cost in blood.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/n...

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

charlie kirk has received infinitely more sympathy and support from liberals than every single trans person, immigrant, and palestinian combined

The “We Are All DC” March is massive. Thousands of people marching down 16th Street NW against the occupation of DC.

How Zohran Mamdani Achieved Escape Velocity from Politics as Usual An optimistic, disciplined Left can draw centrists into the coalition—by rejecting their politics.

1/ Zohran Mamdani’s upset win in the NYC Democratic mayoral primary was powered by a massive grassroots campaign:

50,000 canvassers.

Over 1 million doors knocked.

A message centered on affordability across communities.

screen shot of the NYTimes being it’s stupid self asking if law enforcement masking is Un-American, with a picture of a balaclava with an american flag peeping through its eye hole

way to normalize masked men kidnapping people off the street @nytimes.com

But, to answer: as American as the KKK, I guess

@daniarajendra.bsky.social and I have a new piece up at @inthesetimes.com looking at the Mamdani-Lander alliance and what it can mean for left-led coalition building, the power of principled politics, and the flow from protester to canvasser. Take a look!
inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

Why Does the New York Times Keep Ignoring Polls Showing Mamdani Leading with Jewish Voters? Polling shows mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a commanding lead with Jewish New Yorkers, but you won’t read about it in the paper of record.

makes me feel slightly less insane to read this by @ahjohnson.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com

inthesetimes.com/article/new-...

Rhetoric Without Reckoning A new wave of liberal Zionist criticism of the Israeli government rings hollow without accountability for the genocide.

this piece does something desperately needed: offers a meaningful path forward for liberal zionists beyond recent handwringing, while calling out (with receipts!) their complicity with the genocide until very recently. By @simonerzim.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/rhetoric-wit...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Yesterday, 12 countries announced their commitment to a full arms embargo on the Israeli government. The resolution comes out of an emergency summit in Bogota where the Hague Group gathered to coordinate legal and diplomatic action to counter the “climate of impunity” for Israeli war crimes.

Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures

Friends of the IDF in crisis after internal report alleges financial abuse and toxic culture - Jewish Telegraphic Agency The U.S.-based charity has raised hundreds of millions of dollars by promising to meet the emergency needs of Israeli soldiers during the war in Gaza.

Oh so the organization raising private funds for a genocidal army is having ethical problems? Shocking

www.jta.org/2025/07/08/i...

The National Education Association just voted to cut all ties to the Anti-Defamation League In a momentous vote, the National Education Association voted to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League. The reason? “Despite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the so...

extremely excellent news. the ADL is a dangerous right wing org still trying to masquerade as a civil rights group and has no place in our schools. kudos to the NEA for this decision!

mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-...

An evening with the authors of a book on Jewish anti-Zionist organizing (encore) Podcast Episode · Redeye · 2025-07-04 · 1h 1m

Season Highlights: Rabbi Alissa Wise + Rebecca Vilkomerson in B.C. - Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist organizing @rvilkomerson.bsky.social @alissashira.bsky.social @avilewis.bsky.social @ijvcanada.bsky.social @mivasair.bsky.social from Jan tiny.cc/wfuo001

I ❤️ NY

Thank you @mollycrabapple.bsky.social--this completely nails it, in tone and facts