Joel S.

They're discovering that gender is all performance all the way down but in the most cursed way possible.

"״הוֹדַע אֶת יְרוּשָׁלִַם אֶת תּוֹעֲבוֹתֶיהָ״ נִקְרָא וּמִתַּרְגֵּם. פְּשִׁיטָא! לְאַפּוֹקֵי מִדְּרַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר. דְּתַנְיָא: מַעֲשֶׂה בְּאָדָם אֶחָד שֶׁהָיָה קוֹרֵא לְמַעְלָה מֵרַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר ״הוֹדַע אֶת יְרוּשָׁלִַם אֶת תּוֹעֲבוֹתֶיהָ״. אָמַר לוֹ: עַד שֶׁאַתָּה בּוֹדֵק בְּתוֹעֲבוֹת יְרוּשָׁלַיִם צֵא וּבְדוֹק בְּתוֹעֲבוֹת אִמֶּךָ. בָּדְקוּ אַחֲרָיו וּמָצְאוּ בּוֹ שֶׁמֶץ פְּסוּל. The Tosefta continues: The section of: “Make known [hoda] to Jerusalem her abominations” (Ezekiel 16:2) is read and translated. The Gemara comments: This is obvious. The Gemara answers: This is needed to exclude the opinion of Rabbi Eliezer, who held that this chapter may not be read as a haftara, as it is taught in a baraita: There was an incident with regard to a certain man who was reading the haftara in the presence of Rabbi Eliezer, and he read the section of: “Make known to Jerusalem her abominations.” Rabbi Eliezer said to him: Before you examine the abominations of Jerusalem, go and examine the abominations of your own mother. The Gemara relates that they examined his lineage and found him to have a stain of illegitimacy. His mother had engaged in illicit sexual relations, and therefore he was of questionable lineage."

The Talmud has the original "yo mama" joke. (Megillah 25b:9)

Nearly every time someone says, "X is the only minority group that has to deal with...", they are about to say something that some other minority group has had to deal with in recent memory.

Tweet from Alexander Dugin: "Soros hates Trump, Netanyahu and Iran. How does he feel now? Whom he hates less?"

I don't know why this post from Putin's court philosopher is supposed to be a gotcha. Hating the governments (but not the people) of all the countries involved in this war seems like the only ethically defensible position.

Because they all agree with him. Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism are completely normalized on today’s right.

I think this may be true for now, but the trend lines are such that there is a plausible scenario where it isn’t true five years from now.

More than half of Republican men under the age of 50 are Holocaust deniers so we’re probably five years away from them electing someone to Congress who openly tells Jews to all go to Israel.

The only way to fight it is through solidarity.

I mean Elon Musk’s career was totally unaffected by doing a Nazi salute and endorsing the German neo-Nazi party, and Tucker Carlson hosted multiple Holocaust deniers and regularly goes to the White House.

This tweet about Muslims was appalling and we can oppose it without making this comparison.

The administration that cares so deeply about fighting antisemitism.

I’m all for a revival of mainline Protestant theology in the US, which I think would be broadly positive, and I wish Talarico well. I don’t mind at all that his Christianity inspires him, but I do wish he could find a way to express that without making Second Temple Judaism the obstacle to overcome.

Progressive Christianity arguably has even more of a supersessionism problem than conservative Christianity, since it needs to define itself as a Christianity of love against the conservative Christianity of rules and legalism, which is then inherently associated with Judaism.

This is probably true for now, but the way the trend lines in US right-leaning youth look, it may not be true in a generation. Still a good reason why Jewish organizations should support expelling a Congressman who said this about Muslims.

Activist Orgs Against Iran War Have Soros Money All Over Them George Soros-backed nonprofits have funneled millions of dollars into anti-Iran war activist groups through nonprofits since 2016.

It's notable how, even as the antiwar right like Tucker Carlson are leaning hard into "Israel manipulated us into this war," the prowar right is also finding a way to blame powerful Jews. dailycaller.com/2026/03/09/a...

It's actually interesting how they are overtly doing what many folks who want to control discourse around Jews do.

When they don't like what other Jews believe, they find ways not just to invalidate their views, but to invalidate their very Jewish identity.

And now they are doing it with polling.

This is more of an American liberal Jewish thing, right? Most Israeli Jewish voters don't even claim that their opposition to Netanyahu is based on his settlement policies, but mostly his personal corruption and/or letting right-wing and religious parties into his coalition.

68% of 'connected' American Jews support the US-Israel war against Iran, survey finds - Jewish Telegraphic Agency The results suggest U.S. Jews are more supportive than Americans overall but less than Israeli Jews.

The first poll that claims to determine what American Jews think about the Iran War actually only polled "connected" US Jews, meaning they constructed their universe of respondents so as to produce a desired result - and still only got two-thirds support for the war. www.jta.org/2026/03/09/i...

The New GOP: Survey Analysis of Americans Overall, Today’s Republican Coalition, and the Minorities of MAGA A new national survey conducted by the Manhattan Institute examines today’s Republican Party and the coalition assembled by Donald Trump in 2024. It is one of the most exhaustive studies to date of th...

54% of male Republicans under the age of 50 believe "the Holocaust was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe." manhattan.institute/article/the-...

Tweet from Rep. Andy Ogles: "Muslims don't belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie."

Obviously the extreme bigotry against Muslims is more than enough reason to oppose this, but it's worth noting that this is also an attack on the very basic principle of religious pluralism that has made the US a comparatively safe place for Diaspora Jews.

GOP Congressman Says ‘Muslims Don’t Belong In American Society’ Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee also called it “a lie” that diverse groups of people can respectfully engage with each other.

I would so much rather live in a community with Muslims in the US than with hateful bigots like this: www.huffpost.com/entry/andy-o...

Saying “accurately describing the nature of Israeli governance in the West Bank harms American Jews,” as Josh Gottheimer is saying, won’t stop people from seeing the reality of the West Bank. It will ultimately make them think that is taking antisemitism seriously requires lying, they can’t do that.

Gottheimer calls Newsom’s Israel apartheid comments ‘dangerous’ The New Jersey Democrat asked, ‘Is it really worth throwing Jews under the bus to advance your political ambitions?’

The position that Jewish safety in Diaspora requires lying about the fundamental nature of the state of Israel and the West Bank occupation is deeply unfair and dangerous to Palestinians, but it is ultimately dangerous to Diaspora Jews, as well: jewishinsider.com/2026/03/josh...

Gottheimer calls Newsom’s Israel apartheid comments ‘dangerous’ The New Jersey Democrat asked, ‘Is it really worth throwing Jews under the bus to advance your political ambitions?’

This is not an argument for why it is inaccurate to describe Israel as an apartheid state, though: jewishinsider.com/2026/03/josh...

Saying that Jewish safety in the US requires lying about the fundamental nature of Israel, as Gottheimer seems to be saying, will ultimately harm Jews more.

Synagogue in Belgium damaged in blast, no injuries; mayor: ‘Violent act of antisemitism’ Counter-terror police investigating Liege explosion; mayor says 'there can be no question of importing external conflicts'; house of worship also serves as Jewish community museum

“A synagogue was damaged in a blast early Monday in Liege, eastern Belgium, police said, in an incident denounced by the mayor as an ‘extremely violent act of antisemitism.’” www.timesofisrael.com/synagogue-in...

While all eyes are on Iran, Jewish terrorism is rising in the West Bank | Editorial Israel, by Means of the Jewish Marauders, Is Advancing the Gradual Expulsion of Palestinians From Their Lands, and in Doing So, It May Be Responsible for Committing War Crimes and Crimes Against Human...

“Israel, by means of the Jewish marauders, is advancing the gradual expulsion of Palestinians from their lands, and in doing so, it may be responsible for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.” www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

How the Rapture Explains the Rupture Over Israel on the Right The waning of a religious concept among younger evangelicals is reshaping the right’s once unquestionable support for Israel.

"The 2025 Yale Youth Poll found that, amid a rise in antisemitism among young people across the political spectrum, “self-described ‘extremely conservative’ young voters were the most likely to agree” with antisemitic statements." www.politico.com/news/magazin...

I don't think we are prepared for what is going to happen to the US public opinion of the state of Israel - and the spillover onto people's opinions of American Jews - if it comes to be widely believed that Israel started a war that led people to be unable to afford gas.

We probably aren't even going to be lucky enough to get something as much fun as first-wave punk rock out of this crisis, alas.

Everything about the way the White House is messaging about this war seems perfectly designed to feed the ZOG conspiracists out there.

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

"While I was leaving I noticed there wasn’t a single bird in the sky and you know what they say? When the birds abandon you, you are truly on your own." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

‘Love Is Strong as Death’ Review: Triangles of Life Franz Rosenzweig started his most provocative work of philosophy in the trenches of World War I.

Lovely review of the last book written by my late Doktorvater, composed shortly before his untimely passing: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...