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 đ§”:
Rebecca Vilkomerson
@rvilkomerson.bsky.social
Co-Director, Funding Freedom; Co-Author Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing (Haymarket 2024); formerly @jvplive; @surj board 𧶠https://linktr.ee/rvilkomerson
âIn 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.â Hassan Ayman Herzallah eats shawarma in Gaza City. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Hassan Ayman Herzallah | Shawarma in Gaza City
My friend Mahmoud called to check on me at the beginning of January. We hadnât been in touch for a while. I told him,...
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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 BeltrĂĄn Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo NĂșñez: $1,935
ICE was blocked and impeded by people all the way to the Lincoln Tunnel
absolutely overjoyed to wake up in MAYOR ZOHRAN MAMDANIâS New York!
An optimistic, disciplined Left can draw centrists into the coalitionâby rejecting their politics. @daniarajendra.bsky.social and @rvilkomerson.bsky.social explore how Zohran Mamdaniâs mayoral campaign has upended NYC politicsâuniting voters around affordability, justice, & solidarity.
How Zohran Mamdani Achieved Escape Velocity from Politics as Usual
An optimistic, disciplined Left can draw centrists into the coalitionâby rejecting their politics.
inthesetimes.com
honored my book with @alissashira âSolidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish anti-Zionist Organizingâ is included in this list from @haymarketbooks.org with so many other crucial titles more here: www.solidaritylovebook.org
Solidarity is the Political Version of Love
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Haymarket Books@haymarketbooks.org · 12mo agoA reading list for building durable organizations for both short term survival and long term social transformation.
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
Jewish Currents@jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 12mo agoA prominent Jewish group gave $1 million to an Israeli group for aid in Gaza. One philanthropy expert said the grant reflects a âshift" in the Jewish community towards increased concern for Palestiniansâwithout compromising existing political alignments.
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 ânonviolent disagreement.â every word of this is hypocrisy of the sickest order www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...
Opinion | Barnard President: Charlie Kirk Challenged College Students. We Need More Like Him.
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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 âWe Are All DCâ March is massive. Thousands of people marching down 16th Street NW against the occupation of DC.
1/ Zohran Mamdaniâs 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.
How Zohran Mamdani Achieved Escape Velocity from Politics as Usual
An optimistic, disciplined Left can draw centrists into the coalitionâby rejecting their politics.
inthesetimes.com
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...
How Zohran Mamdani Achieved Escape Velocity from Politics as Usual
An optimistic, disciplined Left can draw centrists into the coalitionâby rejecting their politics.
inthesetimes.com
makes me feel slightly less insane to read this by @ahjohnson.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/new-...
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 wonât read about it in the paper of record.
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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...
Rhetoric Without Reckoning
A new wave of liberal Zionist criticism of the Israeli government rings hollow without accountability for the genocide.
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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 âclimate of impunityâ for Israeli war crimes.
Oh so the organization raising private funds for a genocidal army is having ethical problems? Shocking www.jta.org/2025/07/08/i...
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.
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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-...
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? âDespite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the so...
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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
An evening with the authors of a book on Jewish anti-Zionist organizing (encore)
Podcast Episode · Redeye · 2025-07-04 · 1h 1m
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I â€ïž NY Thank you @mollycrabapple.bsky.social--this completely nails it, in tone and facts
Molly Crabapple@mollycrabapple.bsky.social · last yr."They tried to cut Jewish New Yorkers off from the rest of New York, as if we donât also suffer from staggering rent and inflation. They tried to use fear to play us for chumps. And they failed." mollycrabapple.substack.com/p/we-fucking...
got a real lesson in the political economy/climate justice of trees while canvassing in the crazy heat (ZOHRAN#1, NO CUOMO). Wealthier blocks have trees & shade & are bearable. The poorer the block the fewer the trees, the more brutal the heat. it must be a difference of 10-20 degrees
