Jessica

[Hope 🦬💙❤️ @HopeisaBison]

Oh goody. We get to hear from a Stein-Biden-Stein voter 🤨 🤔 and an academic whose guidance to the community in 2016 was, "we can afford to lose an election."

[Jessica @JBlibbie]

@WajahatAli "Without any condemnation or pushback" aka loudly and publicly condemned by most major players in the democratic party including Hakeem Jeffries. You're so dishonest.

[Hutch @hutchinson]

Kirk’s rhetoric was completely consistent with what we hear from mainstream Republicans. They didn’t complain because he was their bullhorn.

The vast majority of partisan dems absolutely do not cosign Hasan’s rhetoric, which goes WAY beyond wanting everyone to have healthcare.

[Panican Skywalker @ThomasJCarcetti]

@charizardavis Yes your addiction to social media got worse. You are mentally ill

[Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 @JacobALinker]

Hamas was a big part of why Israelis over time became more and more averse to leaving the West Bank though.

Hamas said "if you withdraw from territory, we will use it to try and kill you" and Israelis believed them.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

The Nazification of the so‑called “pro-Palestine” movement is no exaggeration. Large segments of this conglomerate have turned what should be a moral cause into an exceptionally hateful, racist, antisemitic, homophobic, and toxic ecosystem of low‑information activists, journalists, academics, and online personalities. Since my New York Times opinion piece, “To Save Gaza, Resist Hamas,” I have been targeted by a global smear campaign driven by Hamas, “pro-Palestine” fascists, antisemites, racists, and deeply disturbed individuals with hundreds of thousands of followers.

They have circulated AI‑generated images and fabricated posts claiming I am Jewish, an Epstein‑connected agent blackmailed by Mossad, a closeted gay man, and a paid influencer funded by Israel (I am none of those things, in case you are curious). This is happening at the same moment other corners of the “pro-Palestine” industrial complex are calling a Black member of Congress a “monkey” and a “boy.” Add to that the meltdown among supposed journalists, academics, and influencers who clearly did not read the op‑ed and reacted only to the title, furious that I criticized Hamas, their favorite “resistance” Islamist fascist group in Gaza, or that I refused to place all blame for the coastal enclave’s problems on Israel.

The backlash actually proves my central argument in this piece. Many in the “pro-Palestine” industrial complex refuse to engage with complexity around Gaza, Hamas, and Palestinian agency and responsibility, even within the reality of Israel’s overwhelming power advantage. By personalizing their reactions and resorting to insults instead of substance, including my explicit critique of Israeli policies, they are doing exactly what I argue must change. Palestinians and their allies can criticize Israel as much as they want, but fantasies about Israel’s destruction are neither moral nor pragmatic. Most critically, no one holds a monopoly on what counts as a legitimate Palestinian viewpoint. Palestinians are diverse, their opinions are deeply fragmented, and many in Gaza are furious with Hamas’s narratives and actions, a reality ignored by externally based Palestinians and non-Palestinians in the “pro-Palestine” industrial complex.

It is time to delegitimize, call out, resist, and dismantle the current “pro-Palestine” movement and build an entirely new apparatus that rejects the hateful, bigoted, racist, homophobic, Jihadi, violent, and antisemitic voices that have become mainstream within this failed environment.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Imagine [hopefully] reading a piece that calls for Gaza to become the pride and joy of the Palestinian people and a hub of compelling Palestinian national identity by rejuvenating the territory, embracing peace, and rejecting a terror organization that admitted to refusing Gaza development offers worth billions, including an airport and seaport, only to proclaim that the op-ed is "pro-genocide." And how was this brilliant conclusion reached? Because the article I published in The New York Times didn't do the ubiquitous "everything has to be Israel's fault" that seems to be the only line of thinking within the supposed "pro-Palestine" camp.

Speak to Palestinians in Gaza who aren’t Hamas or making content for the “pro-Palestine” community abroad, and you hear the same thing again and again. They describe, plainly and without theatrics, how Hamas halted Gaza’s development and crippled the broader Palestinian national project since its founding in 1987. They do not need to mention Israel in every sentence to sound authentic to outsiders, including other Palestinians or non-Palestinians alike. They simply recount their lived reality. For Gazans, Hamas is the central problem. There were no Israeli soldiers inside Gaza before October 7. The blockade that everyone loves to speak about was imposed after Hamas’s cross‑border abduction of an Israeli soldier in June 2006 and tightened after the group’s violent takeover of the territory on June 14, 2007. From that point forward, Hamas massively built tunnels, fired rockets, smuggled weapons, waged repeated rounds of conflict, and declared its intent to “destroy” Israel, while turning Gaza into a fortress of armed “resistance” that got Gaza destroyed, tens of thousands killed, millions displaced, and wasted billions of dollars. Hamas imposed punishing taxes on Gazans to fund its terror; stole diesel from Gaza’s only power plant and caused chronic power outages; suppressed women’s freedoms; blocked travel for anyone it disliked; and routinely killed, tortured, jailed, beat, and humiliated countless Gazans.

Research the political and cultural divides between Gaza and the West Bank, and you quickly see how many Gazans resent West Bankers for cheering Hamas and October 7. These dynamics are complex, real, and central to understanding Palestinian politics, yet they are brushed aside or overlooked to satisfy low‑information audiences who consume the toxic narratives produced by the "pro-Palestine" industrial complex. Some people are simply uninformed. Some are unsophisticated. And then there are those who know exactly what they are doing and deliberately twist, manipulate, and distort reality to manufacture ignorance and maintain obedience and Orwellian-grade compliance among the crowds.

[Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) @speechboy71]

This is a good point but I’d draw a different conclusion: lots of people on this website (like the PSA guys) regularly pontificate about Jews, Judaism. Zionism and Israel even though they know fuck all about each and are at the same time deeply resistant to listening to Jews who tell them they don’t know what they are talking about

[James Kirchick @jkirchick]

Progressives defending Rula Jebreal show that they hate Jews more than they care about Black people.

[Corey Walker 🇺🇸 @CoreyWriting]

The funny thing about the Wajahat Ali and Rula Jebreal controversy is that progressives have spent years engaging in witch hunts and taking down adversaries over the slightest ideological disagreements.

Now that the shoe is on the other foot, they want people to have understanding and grace instead of rushing to condemn them and turn them into pariahs.

[The Nation @thenation]

When you hear Piker’s contention that simply believing Israel should exist equates you with “a fucking rabid neo-Nazi,” you begin to see how Piker makes people who have recently been the subject of antisemitic violence in Michigan and all over the country a bit nervous.
https://t.co/bYu8Vy1LwA

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

@yeselson While not racist in the same way, I actually think the left’s insistence — which is universal dogma — that all disagreement is caused by non-leftists being “bought and paid” is what makes factional peace genuinely impossible.

[Lauren Underwood @LaurenUnderwood]

I stand with Leader Jeffries.

I reject the ugly and racist rhetoric used against him.

[Jessica @JBlibbie]

@nlfuller27 @mattyglesias She did better than most of us in 2026, you are crushing it.

[The okayest poster there is @ok_post_guy]

Another feather in @RebeccaKKatz and @fight_agency's cap!! Congrats to the whole team @katz_morris and @Annie_Wu_22 !! Cannot thank you guys enough for everything you've done!!!

[Brendan Hartnett @BrendanHartnett]

Also, do you know how much of a dick you have to be to be beefing with CHOP? I don't think there is one single person in the Philadelphia-area who could think of one bad thing to say about CHOP. They literally offer unmatched care and perform life-saving miracles for children.

[Derek Pederson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪 @DerekPederson3]

Yeah moderates should stop defending Fetterman just because they agree with some of his criticisms of the Democratic Party.

All indications are that he objectively just sucks at his job. I’d easily vote Lamb over Fetterman in a primary at this point.

[Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸 @GaryWinslett]

When I was opposed to Platner on fitness-for-office grounds, there were a bunch of leftists who kept insisting that I was being disingenuous. But I also think Fetterman isn’t fit for office.

Ideology isn’t the only thing that matters.
Some people just shouldn’t be Senators.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

John Fetterman is a great reminder that beyond ideology, it really does matter that we pick candidates who are honest, thoughtful, hard-working, and just good people.

If you pick lazy idiots or scumbags, you're going to have a very bad time. And the signs are usually there.

[Lakshya Jain @lxeagle17]

@MC_of_A We had a lot of evidence Fetterman was a very bad person in 2022, but there was a large segment of the Democratic electorate that wanted to ignore pulling a gun on an unarmed jogger because Establishment Bad.

Here we are now, and yet people did the same thing with Platner.