Mikhail Shmidt

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Meanwhile, in Russia’s Kronstadt on the Baltic Sea: the Russian corvette Boykiy under attack by Ukrainian drones.

The “special military operation” is still proceeding in strict accordance with the plan - don’t you ever forget that.

[Jon Levine @LevineJonathan]

So the Dem tent is apparently big enough for a Nazi degenerate and actual Al-Qaeda — but not AIPAC

[Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar]

Canada, 2026.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Anti-Israel progressives can cheer themselves up that their candidate who testified for the man who tried to blow up the World Trade Center and who later volunteered for an al-Qaida front group seems to be an excellent husband.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Core problem:

If you're recruiting for people who are comfortable mouthing the lie that Israel's just war of self-defense was a "genocide," you'll find yourself hiring people who are comfortable mouthing a lot of other lies as well.

[Ian O'Doherty @OdohertyI64991]

There is something wrong with this country and last night was a perfect example.
Ireland played a slave state with a shocking human rights record and Irish fans protested- against Israel, who weren't even playing.
This level of obsession is deeply stupid and genuinely sinister.

[Peter Savodnik @petersavodnik]

By singling out AIPAC, these two have greatly bolstered the claim -- spouted by antisemites on the so-called left and right -- that Jews wield an outsized and, of course, ill-gotten influence.

At least the kapos were fighting for their lives.

[David M Friedman @DavidM_Friedman]

It’s the “Salute to Israel” parade not the “Salute to the Government of Israel” parade.
By your logic, you should refuse to celebrate America’s 250th Birthday since you don’t support the current US government.

But I wouldn’t expect you to be logically consistent since this always was about Jew hatred — nothing else — as your wife has so conclusively demonstrated. You are despicable.

[Daniel Rubenstein @paulrubens]

There is an enormous gap between what Westerners think the Palestinian cause is and what Palestinians think the Palestinian cause is.

[Igor Levit @igorpianist]

Roma Pride hat die einzige jüdische LGBTQ-Organisation Italiens rausgeworfen.

Grund: Zu jüdisch.

Exclusion, but make it intersectional, baby.

[Dave Rich @daverich1]

Imagine if, during Black History Month, the British Museum advertised an event about ancient black civilisations in Africa, and it had to be postponed because racists planned to disrupt the event.

That’s what just happened, but to Jews. https://t.co/ucpFTfAGBZ

[Dave Rubin @RubinReport]

@AnaKasparian Ana you literally told me they asked him to work from home because of all the sexual remarks he was making to you and other females there. And you couldn’t believe that was the punishment. Maybe you blocked it out, but that’s what happened.

[Not a Good Jewish Girl✡️ @estherzelda0514]

I was an American Jew in the diaspora that did not want to tie myself to Israel. I was only tangentially aware of it, and in pure young adult fashion, rebelliously annoyed to be reminded of it by the Jews around me. I talked about Israel not at all. If you had asked me, I was opposed to it.

That changed with Operation Cast Lead. I had no idea what it was called at the time. I was checked out completely. I was starting my PhD, and had no idea that there was anything happening in Israel. If it was mentioned, I just kind of glazed over and forgot about it. I was American, what did I care?

But the people around me in academia? They knew. They cared. They saw my posts on Facebook spending time with a cousin who lived there; a trip to Tel Aviv five years ago.

This was all it took.

I was asked by other students about Israel, where I stood on it, what I thought. These questions carried an air of accusation that puzzled me. When I said I do not know, and I do not care, the questions became more pointed, more hostile. Was I a Zionist?

What is a Zionist, I asked.

I did not know. I heard the term only in circumstances of it being in the title of Jewish organizations mentioned in temple conversations. I wasn't there for that, though, I wanted a second helping of kugel and the ladies gossiping at the post-services buffet were in the way.

My ignorance and nearly complete disinterest in Israel did not matter. I was tied to Israel whether I liked it or not. My dark eyes, tan skin, long dark curly hair, Mediterranean features, my Jewish husband who wore a kippah to fancy occasions... inquiring minds needed to know, was a good Jew or a bad Jew?

It was a game, and I did not know the rules. Tails they win, heads I lose. I quickly learned that unless I verbally prostrated myself and proclaimed the most violent of antisemitic terrorists had a point, I had to answer for Israel. Even if I did that, I would still have to answer for Israel.

Israel did not make me a Zionist. My Judaism did not make me a Zionist. Antizionists, who have always been antisemitic, always been hostile, made me a Zionist. Because I was not allowed to be anything but that, not if I wanted to have any respect for myself.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

In Santa Monica 🇺🇸, a man exited his car in the middle of traffic, chasing a Jewish couple while screaming that they are "genocidal" and calling his dog to attack them.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

המוזיאון הבריטי האגדי ביטל הרצאה על ״ישראל ויהודה בעת העתיקה״ בשל חשש בטחוני.

בריטניה 2026. עצוב ועלוב.

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

The Bund is fascinating and always interesting and it is great that there is a new book on this for people who have not heard of the party but this review like the Bund itself is a triumph of wish over reality, fantasy over history, ideology over facts.
The Bundists who werent killed by Hitler were shot by Stalin inc Liber Alter Erlich Feffer Markish Bergelson, some secretly, some in the Jewish AntiFascist Committee case, others in the Night of Murdered Poets 1952. Autonomous Jewish life in the Soviet Union was destroyed: Stalin arranged a faked carcrash to kill the famous Jewish actor Solomon Mikhoels. By 1952, he was planned in the Doctors Plot a killing purge of Soviet Jews.
It was a dangerous world and Stalin like all Marxists loathed socialists more than he hated imperialists and he also loathed nationalists: since Bundists were both Jewish and socialist, he regarded them with lethal malice.
It is odd that people on X keep saying HItler killed the Bundists and 'others went off to Stalin's Gulags.' No, most of the Bundist leaders never made it to the Gulags. They were shot in the back of the neck in Moscow or Kuybishev etc
The argument of the review and apparently the book is that this is a wonderful Jewish culture in p art because does not lead to a Jewish republic of Israel. But actually, the whole point is that the entire world, the universe, that created the Bund, was the realm of Eastern European and Russian Jewry that was entirely liquidated by Hitler killed in the gas chambers of the murder camps - but also effectively ended by the Bolshevik Revolution in Soviet Russia. Some Bundists acquiesed in the Bolshevik revolution; some were even excited by Stalin's creation in 1928 of a Bolshevik Zion, an Autonomous Jewish Oblast, Birobizhan, on the distant Chinese border.
The ex-Bundists who joined the JAC during WW2 were regarded by Stalin as dangerous Jewish nationalists if not American agents and were killed in waves. Of course a few Bundists made it to NYC and Israel. In other words, whatever else radical ideologues would like this story to prove, whatever trajectory they would prefer Jews to have taken, the Bundist experiment merely illustrates the exact opposite - that the European way was closed decisively and forever.
The Economist is generally delightful and essential reading but this review strangely erases the actual history to make the same point of the book. Given all of the above, it is just a little bit of a euphemism to say as it does: ‘Bund ceased operating in 1949'.

PS There are a lot of very good histories of the Bund that do not manipulate the material for the sake of presentday ideologies. Some of the history of Stalin and the Bund is in my 2003 book Stalin the Court of the Red Tsar.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

The Bund rejected Zionism. The Bund were all killed by Nazis and communists. For the vast majority of the Jews of the Eastern Hemisphere, the only survival and freedom they could find -- after trying every other imaginable option -- was Zionism.

Zionism is big and diverse and complex and beautiful. Zionism is also the product of a vast, unspeakable tragedy.

The Bund *should* have been able to build an interesting and flourishing Jewish world all its own, in the "hereness" of Eastern Europe. And in a better world, the Bund would have. But this isn't that world.

In this world, the Nazi war on the millenia-old European Jewish civilization was successful, the Jews of Europe were wiped out -- and old ideas that once animated Nazis and Stalinists in their murder of Bundists have now returned into fashion on left and right and gone looking once more for the Jews.

Is there a word that describes a Jew so pitiably afraid of the current whirlwind of hatred that they choose to build a fake past to live in, just so they can pretend that Jews ever had an alternative to Zionism?

The Bund's story, like Molly Crabapple's ahistorical polemics, is merely one more data point demonstrating that Zionism's case is actually -- tragically, in fact -- impregnable. That it is a story of the transformation of catastrophic annihilation into triumphant freedom and survival.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

Here is @ryangrim ‘s terrorist-supporting publication DropSite sharing private details and info on Israeli soldiers and the associated bounty in their heads from a terror group.

I cut off the private info.

The DoJ needs to investigate DropSite for their terror ties.

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

While physical tunnels were dug under every place in Gaza, metaphorical tunnels were dug under the most hallowed institutions of the west - UN, so called human rights NGO's, top universities, media - and the assaults on Jewish life were launched from both on that same dark day.

[Global Index @TheGlobal_Index]

These are the top 15 most expensive cities to live in the world, 2026:

1. 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
2. 🇨🇭 Geneva, Switzerland
3. 🇨🇭 Basel, Switzerland
4. 🇨🇭 Lausanne, Switzerland
5. 🇨🇭 Lugano, Switzerland
6. 🇨🇭 Bern, Switzerland
7. 🇺🇸 New York City, United States
8. 🇮🇸 Reykjavik, Iceland
9. 🇺🇸 Honolulu, United States
10. 🇺🇸 San Francisco, United States
11. 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
12. 🇺🇸 Seattle, United States
13. 🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway
14. 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
15. 🇬🇧 London, UK

Source: Numbeo 2026 Cost of Living Index