There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A fortress won’t save American Jews On the importance of staying in the fight @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social forward.com/news/antisem...

A fortress won’t save American Jews

On the importance of staying in the fight

forward.com

My final edition of Antisemitism Decoded on why Jews can't retreat in the face of antisemitism forward.com/news/antisem...

A fortress won’t save American Jews

On the importance of staying in the fight

forward.com

It’s worth noting how much of the left mobilized around the concept that all the allegations against Platner were concocted and pushed by Zionists — that it was all a pro-Israel conspiracy against a brave truth teller

Some professional news — I’ll be leaving the @Forward.com in mid-July. I’m excited for a new opportunity, but also sad to be leaving the Forward, which remains an essential source of independent Jewish news at a crucial time for just that. More soon.

My colleague @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social, who covers antisemitism for @forward.com, is from San Francisco and has an excellently local assessment of what just happened (twice) to @scottwiener.bsky.social. .

How seriously should we take San Francisco’s anti-Zionist hecklers?

The confrontations with congressional candidate Scott Wiener bubble from a tradition of Bay Area provocateurs

forward.com

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

“Allegations of anarchist conspiracy still have the power to quicken the pulse of opportunistic prosecutors, who have made, among other things, the presence of anarchist zines in the homes of the Prairieland defendants central to their case in Texas.”

The Invention of Antifa | Lauren Fadiman

The Justice Department wants to prosecute “Antifa” members for domestic terrorism. The only problem? The Antifa they describe doesn’t really exist.

thebaffler.com

A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears. www.texastribune.org/2026/06/15/t...

Muslims at Texas GOP Convention told to leave party, country

Muslim delegates and attendees hoping to participate in the state Republican convention were shunned and rejected by members as they espoused themes of party unity ahead of the November election.

texastribune.org

They also sent fighter jets to do a flyover at midnight

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2mo ago

lol @ the dc subreddit this morning

Yet another Platner ex - this time a leftist who he didn’t tell he was already engaged - describes him having known that his Nazi tattoo was a Totenkopf long before running for office, corroborated by her own private texts to her mother about the tattoo before it became public knowledge.

Exclusive | Graham Platner cheated on fiancée and bragged Nazi tattoo was reminder ‘US was the evil bad guy,’ lover tells Post

Maine Senate Dem nominee Graham Platner says he kept his Nazi tattoo to remind himself “the US was the evil bad guy” while he was deployed overseas, according to a woman who says she dated him whil…

nypost.com

“X owner Elon Musk shared a post from Robinson (whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) announcing locations of protests, and another from the far-right Restore Britain party that read: ‘Do not make peace with evil. Destroy it.’”

‘There’s wee girls inside’: panic as masked men storm house in Belfast

Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night – with some police officers acting as if it wasn’t safe to intervene

theguardian.com

I think the strangest Graham Platner takes I’m seeing is this “I don’t live in Maine so I don’t have an opinion on this” — as if that’s a standard that we apply to literally any other Congressional candidate

"Omar Artan was set to be the first match official from Somalia to referee at a World Cup finals"

Le Monde in English@english.lemonde.fr · 2mo ago

Somali referee is dropped from World Cup after turned back at US border

Noticing a weird new thing on social media that I believe started with people defending AI data centers but is now being applied to golf courses and other "wastes" of water — people say "good thing water is a renewable resource," as if it can never be wasted because it eventually recirculates

700 shops in half a decade is just a fucking bananas velocity. @sbworkersunited.org continues to rack up wins, putting lethargic Big Labor to shame as it does.

Starbucks Workers United@sbworkersunited.org · 3mo ago

🚨STARBUCKS WORKERS JUST WON THEIR 700TH UNION ELECTION!! A huge congratulations to baristas around the country who are taking on corporate greed and fighting for a better workplace. We make change when we take action! ✊🔥

Love the Knicks, but a reminder of how the Garden’s ownership approaches security.

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine

Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

wired.com

“If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty... nothing can be done?” asked Judge Patricia Millett. “I think that’s right, yes,” responded DOJ attorney Yaakov Roth www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Trump could also tear down the Statue of Liberty, DOJ argues in defense of White House ballroom

Justice Department lawyers said the courts are powerless to intervene in the dispute over the former East Wing.

politico.com

With its brand toxic in Democratic primaries, the lobbying group has set up portals to steer donors to campaigns without attaching its name forward.com/news/828070/...

AIPAC is funneling pro-Israel money to candidates and covering its tracks

With its brand toxic in some Democratic primaries, the lobbying group has set up portals to steer donors to campaigns without attaching its name

forward.com

“Almost half of American Jews under 35 say the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be solved by creating a single country in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza with a government elected by both Israelis and Palestinians, according to a poll conducted by the Jewish Voter Resource Center.”

Arno Rosenfeld@arnorosenfeld.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The share of American Jews who want a binational state has doubled in recent years — 13% to 24% among all adults, and 22% to 44% among those under 35 forward.com/news/827329/...

New Jewish Voters Resource Center poll (GBAO): 24% of American Jewish voters back a binational state in Israel-Palestine. Per @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social reporting, 51% of non-Orthodox Jews under 35 do. Only 1% of Israeli Jews support same w/ equal rights. forward.com/news/827329/...

Nearly half of young U.S. Jews want to replace Israel with binational state, poll finds

The new data reflects generational shift and growing gulf between American and Israeli Jews

forward.com

The share of American Jews who want a binational state has doubled in recent years — 13% to 24% among all adults, and 22% to 44% among those under 35 forward.com/news/827329/...

Nearly half of young U.S. Jews want to replace Israel with binational state, poll finds

The new data reflects generational shift and growing gulf between American and Israeli Jews

forward.com

24% of American Jews support replacing Israel with a binational state — I believe this is the highest % ever jewishvoters.org/wp-content/u...

I'll be speaking with Flora Cassen about her new book, which blends memoir and historical analysis to trace the arc of European antisemitism, at the Shalom Hartman Institute in New York next week. Register to join us (or get a recording of the event sent to you): hartman.tfaforms.net/4720923

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Terrible search is driving a lot of this — if I have a slightly complicated search query, I can either Google it and be handed a block of mediocre AI with confusing sourcing followed by often barely-relevant links or I can ask a chatbot and get a clean answer with better sourcing faster

Andrea Grimes@andreagrimes.com · 3mo ago

I asked why he doesn't just use regular google results, and he said (1) Google sucks now, which I agree entirely with and (2) it saves him a step of clicking on two or three articles.

“We do well when we’re in the center,” Foxman told me shortly after I started this job. “And there is no center today.” forward.com/news/antisem...

Abe Foxman built the Jewish establishment. He died troubled by what it had become

The longtime Anti-Defamation League was frusturated that his successors shied away from condemning Trump for enabling antisemitism

forward.com

A lot of attention has been paid to the collapse of traffic to The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel. But other ragebait sites are also seeing huge drops in audience. According to The Righting, Outkick, The Federalist and The Blaze are down at least 48%. therighting.com/traffic-repo...

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school

Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs

scim.ag