Mark Horowitz

Former editor @wired @nymag @tabletmag @nytimes. Still writes. Mostly about Hollywood or Israel. Onetime pedal-steel guitarist in a French rockabilly band.

[Mark Horowitz @MarkHorowitz]

Swamped by war and tragedy, mundane life in Israel still goes on. I was in Tel Aviv last week and tried to capture a little bit of the mood. https://t.co/q2mG47eVWV via @airmailweekly

[Mark Horowitz @MarkHorowitz]

@adam_louis52328 @soulkhan I finally asked X who this guy @soulkhan is. He claims to be Jewish and just reeks of rage and hatred. Of course he has 40k followers!

[Mark Horowitz @MarkHorowitz]

Why does this feel like the same media story I’ve read a hundred times before in the last three years?

[LTC Ariella Mazor @LTC_Ariella]

‼️This wasn’t a student detained for studying abroad. Mahmoud Al Najjar is a Hamas terrorist operative who was apprehended after being identified as having infiltrated Israel on October 7, 2023 and participated in the Hamas-led massacre that murdered approximately 1,200 people and took over 250 men, women, and children hostage.

[Mark Horowitz @MarkHorowitz]

The best explanation for the Pulte nomination to he Intelligence job. Trump is counting on him to double down on collecting actionable intelligence on his domestic enemies. https://t.co/74BM1Ohl3c

[Mark Horowitz @MarkHorowitz]

This is just a lie. Nobody knew Smotrich was going to be there until the middle of the march itself. Lander, who still claims to be a Zionist, announced his boycott of the march days before it happened. Why?

[Brad Lander @bradlander]

We’re both proud Jewish New Yorkers. But there are sharp & clear differences between us on Israel/Palestine.

For example, Dan Goldman marched alongside war criminal Bezalel Smotrich yesterday, who called it “just & moral” to starve Gaza. I did not.

[ADL @ADL]

Yesterday, on the one-year anniversary of the antisemitic firebombing attack in Boulder, the local SJP chapter chose to share a lengthy social media post glorifying the attack, lauding the terrorist for his actions, and calling for his release.

While we and others around the country remembered and mourned Karen Diamond z''l, who died from her injuries, and honored the other victims who were badly burned, the local SJP chapter chose to condone the violent attack that claimed an innocent life and left others with devastating injuries.

The content of the post is beyond reprehensible. It is so detached from basic facts, human decency and reality that it would be difficult to take seriously if its message were not so dangerous.

This is unacceptable and simply horrific.

[Rachel Moiselle @RachelMoiselle]

Mr Totenkopf gets caught cheating on his wife and almost immediately starts ranting about AIPAC. Classic.

[Mark Horowitz @MarkHorowitz]

@SaraHirschhorn1 @K_AminThaabet @DrAlexJoffe I suspect Bibi knew he was in NY, not that he could or would do anything about it. He’s as helpless against Smotrich as he is against Trump.

[Mark Horowitz @MarkHorowitz]

Watching BBC News right now and Kiev is under heavy attack. Reporter in basement mentions reports of Patriot missile launchers standing empty because US is not supplying new missiles. Shameful.

[World Source News @Worldsource24]

Kyiv residents are sheltering in underground metro stations throughout the city.

[Mark Horowitz @MarkHorowitz]

Israelis and right wing supporters who thought Trump had their back are starting to feel a bit like Flounder in Animal House.

[Axios @axios]

"You're fucking crazy": Trump fumes at Netanyahu in call on Lebanon https://t.co/toxsZ3VPDd

[Eli Kowaz - איליי קואז @elikowaz]

Israel's far-right ministers weren't invited to the NYC Israel Day Parade. They weren't on the consulate's list. The organizers didn't know they were coming.

They showed up, walked to the front anyway, and handed Mamdani's boycott a cover story it hadn't earned.

Link in reply.

[Mark Horowitz @MarkHorowitz]

I can’t believe Bibi sent Smotrich to represent Israel here at this moment. Good grief. Was Ben Gvir unavailable? @yechielleiter do you have any response ?

[Eli Kowaz - איליי קואז @elikowaz]

Everyone spent the week furious that Mamdani skipped the parade. Then Israel sent Smotrich, Amichai Eliyahu, and Yitzhak Wasserlauf to lead it: the annexation minister, the one who suggested to nuke Gaza, and another Kahanist from Otzma Yehudit.

If the goal was repairing Israel's image in New York, these are the last people you put at the front.

Video: Liri Agami

[Mark Horowitz @MarkHorowitz]

@jpodhoretz @MikeBinderjokes For five favorite screenwriters, I’d have to go with:
Preston Sturges
Billy Wilder
Jules Furthman
Ben Hecht
Robert Towne

[j wall ✡ @jwhaifa]

In 1943, the Gestapo finally caught Raymond Aubrac — one of France's most wanted Resistance leaders. He was sentenced to death. His execution was days away.
His wife Lucie was six months pregnant.
Most people would have hidden. Would have grieved quietly and prayed for a miracle. Lucie Aubrac did something else entirely. She obtained forged identity papers, constructed a cover story, and walked straight into the office of Klaus Barbie — the man history would remember as the Butcher of Lyon — and convinced him to grant her a visit with the condemned man.
She wasn't there to say goodbye.
She was memorizing guard positions. Counting minutes. Mapping the route the prison truck would take.
On October 21, 1943, that truck rolled through the streets of Lyon carrying Raymond and other prisoners toward what should have been the end. Lucie had spent weeks quietly assembling a team of Resistance fighters, planning an ambush with the precision of a military operation. When the truck reached the ambush point, the team struck — fast, coordinated, and without hesitation.
In the chaos of gunfire and confusion, Raymond Aubrac was pulled free.
Lucie — visibly, unmistakably pregnant — had organized every detail of his liberation.
They went into hiding. Weeks later, Lucie gave birth to their daughter in a safe house while German forces searched for them across France. When liberation finally came, the Aubracs didn't merely survive — they rebuilt.
Raymond became a celebrated engineer and entered public life. Lucie became a historian, pouring decades into ensuring that the women of the French Resistance — so often unnamed, so easily forgotten — were written permanently into the record. They raised three children. They traveled the world. They argued and laughed and grew old together.
When journalists asked Lucie, years later, what had compelled her to risk everything that October day, she didn't hesitate.
"He was my husband. What else would I do?"
Lucie Aubrac passed away in 2007 at the age of 94. Raymond — who had once needed a commando team to be freed from a German prison — lived on until 2012, reaching 97 years old. In his final years, he continued speaking publicly about the Resistance, about memory, about the obligation to tell the truth.
They had been married for 64 years.
Not a love story built on grand gestures or perfect circumstances. A love story built in occupied France, in safe houses and forged documents and a prison truck ambush on a Lyon street — forged in fire, and never broken.
True love doesn't wait for rescue. Sometimes, it does the rescuing

[Yardena Schwartz @yardenas]

The most telling part of the genocide debate is that the ICJ & the ICC have never accused Israel of committing genocide. That hasn't mattered to the many people who continue to claim they have. Last month, in an interview that has received conveniently little attention, the ICC prosecutor even told @mehdirhasan that charges of genocide were not brought against Israel due to a lack of evidence. You can watch that interview here: https://t.co/IsVEZhzIft

[Mark Horowitz @MarkHorowitz]

For God’s sake, the review mentions AIPAC’s lobbying against Obama’s 2015 Iran deal! Someone tell these idiots it failed. The deal went through. That sure is some all-powerful lobby controlling America!

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

One of the most important books that will be published this year is from my @QuincyInst colleagues @EliClifton and @ILustick92525 titled:

Israel's Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power

In some ways, it's a follow-up to Walt and Mearsheimer's best seller from 2007: The Israel Lobby.

This is what @PublishersWkly just wrote about it:

"The book is most revelatory when surveying how several presidents’ “own assessment of the nation’s interests were supplanted” by the lobby, starting in 1948 with President Truman, who recognized the state of Israel despite being “torn” about Palestine, or highlighting lesser-known attempts to sway policy, such as AIPAC’s $27 million effort to prevent the 2015 U.S. nuclear deal with Iran. Clifton and Lustick trenchantly warn that the U.S. is risking its own standing to “serve the ambitions of what has become a rogue state.” It’s a serious wake-up call."

https://t.co/281v9pBNz0

You should pre-order it now (see subtweet for link).

[Mark Horowitz @MarkHorowitz]

“ ‘Jewish space lasers’ has become a joke. But the ‘Israeli rape dogs’ slur has now gained credibility at one of the world’s most prestigious media outlets.”
Frum gets it exactly right about the New York Times’ inflammatory turn.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

The globalized intifada shot 20 bullets into my boyhood synagogue in Toronto. The supposed line between antisemitism and anti-Zionism is a semantic device, not a real barrier. Latest in @TheAtlantic https://t.co/pXkkga2Vhg

[Mark Horowitz @MarkHorowitz]

And Lander’s 20 points ahead in my fairly Jewish district running against a Jewish progressive incumbent Democrat. The only real difference: the incumbent is a liberal Zionist. Welcome to Jewish New York 2026.

[MEMRI @MEMRIReports]

NY Democratic Congressional Candidate Brad Lander Recites Quran Verse at Queens Mosque, Says He Hopes to Partner in Congress with Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib; Imam Prays for Mahdi to Kill Infidels with His Sword

[Mark Horowitz @MarkHorowitz]

@SaraHirschhorn1 @Columbia Also, JVP is allied with Mayor Mamdani. They co-sponsored his Shavuot celebration at Gracie Mansion and he just appointed a JVP veteran rabbi to a top city hall post. So JTS officials should ask him to intervene or risk being seen as OK’ing this antisemitic action.

[Mark Horowitz @MarkHorowitz]

@jpodhoretz Another Times columnist weighs in with the kind of sophisticated analysis that really makes me think

[Mark Horowitz @MarkHorowitz]

Sorry, Mr. Daroff, but I hope that’s not all. To have an effect, ask for a meeting with the editor of the Opinion pages and her boss, the publisher, to discuss the pattern at Opinion that has been going on for years. (This is not a newsroom issue, since Opinion is not under the direction of the paper’s Executive Editor.) Bring experts on Times journalism and bring top leaders of NY’s Jewish community, including business leaders like Mike Bloomberg and other top Wall Street people. Ask for answers and ask for some changes. Then you might have an effect.