Josh

How anti-Israel rhetoric led to the killing of two in Washington, D.C. The Jewish Museum DC murder of 2 Israeli embassy staffers shows how hateful anti-Israel rhetoric incites violence against Israelis and Jews.

"The legitimate struggle for Palestinian rights, the necessary opposition to the current Israeli government’s callous and self-defeating policies.. has been hijacked by an international movement poisoned by violence and hatred."

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Tell us Max, what antisemitism should we NOT be concerned about?

I know who he is. It doesn’t matter that he’s Jewish. His post is badly worded and insulting.

But that’s not what he said. If he’d said “this is real antisemitism” or something that would be different. Instead he implied that some versions of antisemitism (from the right?) are worse than others (from the left?)

We should be concerned about all antisemitism.

“The Aristocrats!”

Trump’s Jewish Cover Story The administration claims to be protecting Jews while advancing an agenda that most Jews oppose.

Trump's antisemitism agenda isn't about the Jews. I wrote about how the president and his allies are using the pretext of protecting Jews to protect their policies from criticism, while advancing an agenda that most American Jews oppose. Gift link:

"That Mr. Musk has come to hold so many of the same beliefs about social engineering and economic planning as his grandfather is a testament to his profound lack of political imagination, to the tenacity of technocracy and to the hubris of Silicon Valley."

We're working hard to re-launch K'lal as a technology and cybersecurity hub for the Jewish community.

Tech thought leadership, cybersecurity strategies, knowledgebase of best practices — all tailored to Jewish communal needs.

I couldn’t be more excited.

klal.tech

Trump’s Fight Against Antisemitism Has Become Fraught for Many Jews American Jews have watched with both alarm and enthusiasm as strong-arm tactics, including arrests of activists, have been deployed in their name.

From @nytimes.com + J. David Goodman: Trump’s Fight Against Antisemitism Has Become Fraught for Many Jews - American Jews have watched with both alarm and enthusiasm as strong-arm tactics, including arrests of activists, have been deployed in their name. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

Outro is forming a new haute cuisine dining experience in a hip Toronto neighborhood and has JUST been cast in a prestige HBO series.

We categorically deny Jeffrey Golberg's report that he was accidentally added to the band chat, and any suggestion that we are planning to rehearse new songs on Thursday is FALSE.

Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.

Dr. Bill Cassidy, you could have stopped this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...

Those who know me know I was highly critical of what I saw as some of the rhetorical excesses of the campus protests. Khalil and I wld probably get into a spat immediately. It's all the more important for people who believe as I do to say clearly, the protections of the law are for everyone.

I don't take a back seat to anyone on the subject of anti-semitism. Jews are being used here as a fig leaf to advance a broader attack on universities and higher learning. Trump wants to bring Universities to heel and obedience. Jews are just a convenient cudgel here and just as disposable.

I pair what Vance is doing with the timidity of modern Dem coms. Politico's Elena Schneider did an interview w Walz and a Harris source demanded anonymity for a totally bland quote on it. They are just terrified of stepping out of the box. Vance doesn't even know where the box is.

Patricia Bauman died a year ago.

ActBlue is a payment processor. Almost anyone who’s given to a D candidate in the last 20 years could be mischaracterized as a “ActBlue funder.”

Listing five Jews, two of whom are long dead, as “ActBlue funders” secretly behind the Tesla protests is antisemitism.

Track One of the playlist here is Track One of the Broken Promise EP... and let me just say we are amped to be leading the charge for this crowd of serious rockers.

The Most Relevant Movie in Theaters Is Poised to Make Oscar History. It Would Be a Shameful First. It swept the critics’ awards and seems like an Oscars lock, yet it still doesn’t have a distributor.

congratulations to No Other Land, which may be the first film to win a major Oscar but not theatrical distribution.

The thing that everyone thinks is nuts, but I absolutely think would work: a presentation that looked like an Apple keynote product launch, but for all the cool shit that the government makes for people. Cancer treatments, national parks, space discoveries, free tax filing, cool new airports.

Actual question, after watching Oval Office spectacle w one president standing up for his country, and a prez and VP pandering for Putin:

I don't recall ever being more ashamed, as an American, of a president's public behavior. (Many have erred in private)

What has been more shameful than this?

Very true. I hope they wield it responsibly.

No. He installed Hegseth to protect against that.

Technically, the mafia is also run like a business

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

People need to understand that we are in an entirely new paradigm. It is now Russia the US against Ukraine and Europe. This is not a shift in US policy, it is a transformation of what kind of country the United States is in the world

Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.

there really ought to be more discussion about the fact that virtually every promise (or denial) trump made during the campaign was a total lie

We’re witnessing a Brexit-level instance of completely unnecessary economic destruction. A country that’s not hit by any shock, but simply chooses policy self-harm.