People on multiple sides have protested Mayor Mamdani for this, and I'm sure Fox News thinks this is some kind of a dunk, but this is just about the most humane position that anyone could possibly take, and the fact that it's at all controversial shows how easy it is to lose our humanity.

Anti-Black racism is the major story, but I’m not seeing much talk about the antisemitism angle in the Mississippi Senate race. Cindy Hyde-Smith blocked Scott Colom’s nomination for a judgeship because Colom once took money from Soros. Hyde-Smith’s statements about Soros were deeply conspiratorial.

More than half of American Jews think the Trump administration's campaign to cut funding to universities in the name of "fighting antisemitism" actually results in more antisemitism. That campaign was never about helping Jews. It was about instrumentalizing Jews to destroy higher education.

The lesson from 2026 is that even amidst rising criticism of Israel, American Jews prioritize liberal pluralism above Israel support, which is bad news for American Jewish groups that have made support for Israel a litmus test, but also evidence Jewish voters are not why US policy is too pro-Israel.

American Jewish groups like the ADL so bought into "Republicans are the pro-Israel party who will protect us from the anti-Israel left" that they are unprepared for a world where JD Vance runs on "Israel betrayed MAGA." And unlike Mamdani, he won't be careful to distinguish "Israel" from "Jews."

Whatever you think of Hasan Piker (and I don't think much of him), I will never forget how the world's wealthiest person is singlehandedly bankrolling multiple Republican Senate candidates, and is also posting about "Jewish DNA" on social media, and Republicans are never asked to disavow it.

I am skeptical this will actually happen, but it is still noteworthy that a panicked Trump, knowing his party stands to lose the election badly, thinks it is politically advantageous to back away from an association with Israel. Shows how much opinions have changed in the past few years.

I don’t think there’s a lot of actual evidence that American Jewish voters en masse are about to defect from the Democratic Party tomorrow. But I do think the largely false perception that American Jews are so eager to switch sides because of self-interest is bad for the community.

Yes, but Jews have been used this way a lot lately, to push an agenda from Christians that polls show that majority of us oppose. The worst example was the Trump administration's use of "campus antisemitism" to push an anti-higher education agenda they wanted to push since long before 10/7/2023.

What Haley Stevens has done is ensure that if Mike Rogers wins, there will be a backlash that will make it far harder for actual Jews in the Democratic Party to have their concerns heard. And she will not personally bear the brunt of that, because she is Not. Jewish. www.politico.com/news/2026/11...

There are plenty of Michigan Jews who will vote against El-Sayed for bad and racist reasons. But it's still weird that Haley Stevens, who is not Jewish, keeps appointing herself "voice of the Jews" without our consent. Particularly given that she ended the career of an actual Jewish Rep, Andy Levin.

"We have never seen a candidate for US Senate act so recklessly toward the safety of Jews in the community as we have seen from Abdul." Really? Not Joe McCarthy, when two-thirds of those he accused of Communism were Jews? Not Robert Reynolds, who praised Nazis and blocked Jewish refugees in 1939?

These people are just desperate to find something wrong with Mamdani. Mamdani did not deny Marc Chagall was Jewish; he simply also listed him as an Eastern European artist. You know who agreed? Marc Chagall, who wrote in 1936, "I think of myself as a Russian artist and take pleasure in doing so."