This is one of those cases where a politician gets in trouble for saying something that everyone obviously knows to be true, but which is politically inconvenient, so everyone just agrees to pretend it isn't true. www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
"The boycotted man believes in pressure on his own state more concretely than many of those boycotting him — he only rejects the version that lands on artists instead of governments."
“The Israelis, who grew up with the question, ‘How could people live normally while perpetrating horror?’ have themselves become the answer.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
I'm not surprised by the gap here on opinions on Jews, but it is not necessarily what one would expect from the way the media talks about the issue of antisemitism.
When the world's first trillionaire is an actual ideological neo-Nazi who is personally responsible for 750,000 unnecessary deaths, it's hard to blame young people for concluding that capitalism simply does not work.
The CEO of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a prominent pro-Iran war think tank, is effectively threatening Peter Beinart, an American Jewish writer and academic. Is there any other way to read this message?
"A complex system to tell you how you are going to live your life" could describe halakhah just as much as sharia. The idea that religion is a private matter of belief and disbelief is a modern, post-Enlightenment Protestant concept of religion.
Gut Shabbos and Shabbat Shalom to everyone except the people who are okay with this. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/06/09/b...
The professors who wrote that terrible report accusing the humanities of being terribly biased are admitting they used AI to "analyze" texts for bias, and defending their conclusions based on a right-wing caricature of postmodernism that no actual postmodernist would ever defend.
This new UN report condemns human rights violations committed against Palestinian civilians by both Israeli West Bank settlers and by Hamas, so the question is how many people can read it for both without using it to condemn the “other side.” www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-member...
Human rights office finds extrajudicial punishments carried out during war include 'executions, kneecapping, bone-breaking with metal pipes or cement bricks and beatings'; says acts 'amount to war cri...
Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire as SpaceX becomes a publicly traded company.
Shares opened at $150, setting valuation at $1.96 trillion.
Next speaker is Rebecca Mistereggen, a self-described journalist from Norway. Islam "is not a religion," she says. "This is a complex system to tell you how you are going to live your life. Everything from how you eat or beat your wife to how you wipe yourself… Islam is a cult of death.”
