Emily Tamkin
@emilyctamkin.bsky.social
Writer, reporter, editor, all-around delight. Work lots of places. Author of THE INFLUENCE OF SOROS and BAD JEWS. Working on new book on Holocaust remembrance. Don’t yell at me. emilyctamkin@gmail.com. emilyctamkin.substack.com.
"The guilt-by-association firing represents an escalation of a longstanding pattern of Jewish groups firing staffers over pro-Palestine speech: In this case, it wasn’t even the staffer’s own speech that was at issue."
Sasha Senderovich 🌻@returnstosender.bsky.social · 2d agoThe state of American Jewry in 2026, elite college campus edition. FFS. jewishcurrents.org/emorys-hille... @jewishcurrents.bsky.social @joshnathankazis.bsky.social
We are horrified by this plot and relieved no one was hurt. We stand with Hindu and Indian Americans. No one should fear being murdered at prayer. The white supremacist behind it targeted Jews and Black people too, as often happens. Showing up for others is how we protect ourselves.
Teen accused of plotting mass shooting at Chicago-area Hindu temple | CNN
Police in a Chicago suburb announced Wednesday that they had thwarted a potential mass shooting, arresting a 19-year-old man who they said may have planned to target a Hindu place of worship.
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To use everyone's favorite phrase, I wrote about why the reported attempt to denaturalize Ilhan Omar is outrageous as an American and yes As A Jew for @forward.com forward.com/opinion/8561...
Whatever you think of Ilhan Omar, these threats are unconscionable
American Jews should oppose the intimidation and denaturalization of the Minnesota Congresswoman
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I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Breaking: The Trump administration has imposed new sanctions on the International Criminal Court, the latest effort to try to cripple it. The Nobel Peace Prize was just awarded to a former ICC judge. Many US allies are among the 125 court member states. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
Trump Administration Hits International Criminal Court With Severe Sanctions
U.S. officials announced new punishments aimed at the court, just hours after the Nobel Peace Prize committee gave its annual honor to a former court judge.
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a man who's run out of road standing on the edge of a cliff
Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.
Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 2w agomeanwhile on Xitter...
It's easy to imagine someone who believes "it would be wonderful if there could be a state that is both Jewish and democratic, but this one does not seem to be, and if forced to choose, I will prioritize democracy." The "everyone is a shy Zionist" theory fails to account for this.
The "Atlantic" parses the fact 88% of US Jews want Israel to exist as a "Jewish, democratic state" but only 37% identify as Zionist as evidence the word is stigmatized. But some of that 51% might believe Zionism is about prioritizing "Jewish" over "democratic," and oppose it on those grounds.
That's relatively early Soros conspiracy theorist Dennis Hastert to you!
Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing
Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…
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"And insisting that our understanding of antisemitism always and only adhere to one definition is like insisting that we always and only use a hammer for home renovation. Sometimes that is useful; sometimes that can result in destroying your house."
Emily Tamkin@emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 2w ago"the decision not to select one definition shows that it is focused more on fixing the problem than prematurely picking just one method to solve it" Me for @forward.com on Mamdani's antisemitism strategy forward.com/opinion/8529...
"the decision not to select one definition shows that it is focused more on fixing the problem than prematurely picking just one method to solve it" Me for @forward.com on Mamdani's antisemitism strategy forward.com/opinion/8529...
Mayor Mamdani's antisemitism strategy doesn’t define antisemitism. That’s a good thing.
Contrary to some critics' beliefs, we don't need a definition to fight hatred
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For @forward.com, I wrote about Jewish Democrats in Michigan (and elsewhere) and how sometimes the most important part of a decision is understanding that you are deciding between a certain set of choices forward.com/opinion/8519...
The choice in Michigan between El-Sayed and Rogers is one all American Jews have to make
Elections are between the candidates you have — not the ones you might want
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Crazy how the guy who's definitely not a quack for money and his spouse and friends who are also definitely not in it for the money keep doing things for lots and lots of money.
Christina Jewett@by-cjewett.bsky.social · 3w ago🧵NEW: Kennedy drew $4 million in book advances from Tony Lyons, a publisher who also runs MAHA groups that accept $$ from health companies with business before HHS. The advances were set the month when Kennedy dropped his presidential bid to back Trump: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
Congratulations to @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social on the publication of Crossing the Red Line. There are so many who would have us forget that to report on foreign policy is to report on power. Fortunately, Akbar never does. wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Crossing the Red Line
A powerful and authoritative account of how the Biden administration fueled atrocities in Gaza, from an award-winning foreign affairs journalist., Crossing the Red Line, Biden, His Advisors, and Israe...
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National Jewish Survey, Sep 1, 2026 Generic congressional ballot: 67% D, 26% R Approvals JD Vance: -68 MAGA: -59 Donald Trump: -53 ICE: -50 Benjamin Netanyahu: -40 Marco Rubio: -33 "Israeli policy in Gaza": -30 Barack Obama +32 jewishvoters.org/wp-content/u...
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Some thoughts on Dana Nessel's remarks and the discourse emilyctamkin.substack.com/p/to-live-in...
To live in the world
On a personal essay (by me) and a political speech (by someone else)
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For @forward.com, a very personal essay on the stories we tell at the High Holidays and my last year of new motherhood and family health crisis. An early Shanah Tovah to you and yours. forward.com/opinion/8490...
Why I yelled at God on Kol Nidre
On navigating new motherhood during an acute family health crisis
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New op-ed from me in @haaretzcom.bsky.social. "A Netanyahu loss in this fall's election will present Israel with a profound opportunity for a reset. But messaging alone won't be enough to repair the damage of the last four years. www.haaretz.com/2026-09-07/t...
Opinion | Ousting Netanyahu Won't Fix the U.S.-Israel Relationship
Netanyahu has done extraordinary damage to Israel's relationship with the United States, but replacing him this fall will not be enough for a reset. Israel will need broader policy changes to win bac...
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Will we see a comment on the election from JD Vance, purported champion of Jewry worldwide?
Trump administration emerges as a staunch defender of Germany's far-right AfD
In a recent interview with NBC News, Vice President JD Vance said governments shouldn't try to "delegitimize another competing political party."
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"Germany's leading Jewish organization reacted with alarm to the result. 'I am personally appalled by this election result,' Central Council of Jews President Josef Schuster told Die Welt." www.haaretz.com/world-news/e...
Far-right AfD set for historic win in German state election, exit polls show
Exit polls after the election in Saxony-Anhalt left it unclear whether the AfD could govern alone – potentially giving Germany its first far-right state government since World War II. The leader of th...
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Latest numbers from Saxony-Anhalt. Big picture: AfD is out-performing polls, CDU is under-performing them, and the BSW may hold the balance of power. All of those things are a nightmare for Friedrich Merz, whose political stock has fallen (further) tonight.
Remembering Gloria Steimen, the leader of the second-wave feminist movement who dedicated her life’s work to advocating for women. www.vanityfair.com/story/gloria...
Gloria Steinem, Trailblazing Feminist Icon and Activist, Dies at 92
The leader of the second-wave feminist movement dedicated her life’s work to advocating for women.
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"JD Vance is the literal vice president. [Tucker] Carlson has arguably done more than anyone to push conspiracy theories about the Great Replacement and George Soros into the mainstream and is currently selling a hat that says 'Not Our War' in a font that you can see for yourself here."
Emily Tamkin@emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 2mo agoWrote a little thing on JD Vance's attempt to address Jews emilyctamkin.substack.com/p/jd-and-jew...
Wrote a little thing on JD Vance's attempt to address Jews emilyctamkin.substack.com/p/jd-and-jew...
JD and Jews
This is about our vice president
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A mini interview on learning Czech for this month's ET Speak Home emilyctamkin.substack.com/p/et-speak-h...
ET Speak Home, a monthly mini-interview
For August, Czech
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