Noah Silverman

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

As smart and pragmatic as he has demonstrated himself to be, the endorsement of Chevalier over an incumbent progressive Democrat who literally endorsed him in 2025 pretty much tells us that he is indeed a far-left extremist who hates America.

[Jeb Fain @JebFain]

The DSA are a clownish group for many reasons, but one of the biggest is the almost-cartoonish gap between their constant self-proclamation as a movement of the working-class and the constant reality that their voters are overwhelmingly the complete opposite.

[Jacob N. Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh]

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of the Union for Reform Judaism:

“One can oppose AIPAC in good faith, but to demonize AIPAC as monsters crosses the line into antisemitic tropes about sinister Jewish political influence. Such rhetoric, used by Mayor Mamdani and other politicians, emboldens people who are bent on harming the Jewish community.”

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Two American governors put out an ad with a simple message of unity and not letting political differences destroy relationships.

The video, from 2025, is recirculating, and now the comments are a deluge of hateful comments accusing them of being bought by AIPAC.

Yet AIPAC doesn’t spend anything on governor’s races, since governors don’t have any power over US foreign policy.

The extreme claims about AIPAC obviously play on antisemitic tropes about Jewish control.

And they are creating a political culture in the United States in which consensus is interpreted as manipulation.

This is a very dark direction for democracy, and not because of AIPAC.

Because of those who have decided antisemitism is a winning strategy.

[daniel hanuka📟 🇮🇱 @LionsOfZion_ORG]

JD Vance said Israel was “built with American money.”

That sounds great to people who learned Middle Eastern history from campaign slogans.

But it is not history. It is political theater from someone who discovered Israel yesterday morning.

Israel was not built by an American check.

Israel was built by Jewish money, Jewish labor, Israeli taxes, Zionist institutions, loans, diaspora donations, Israel Bonds, German reparations, austerity, immigration, sacrifice, industry, agriculture, and people who did not wait for Washington.

Long before Israel existed as a state, Jews in the land were already building towns, farms, kibbutzim, schools, universities, banks, defense groups, factories, hospitals, roads, and national institutions.

Before “American aid,” Jews put coins into blue JNF boxes.
Before billion-dollar defense packages, Holocaust survivors built a country from tents, ration cards, sweat, and trauma.

In 1948, when Israel declared independence and five Arab armies invaded, America did not “build” Israel’s army. America recognized Israel, which mattered, but the U.S. also supported an arms embargo.

Israel survived its first war not because America built it, but because Jews fought for their lives with too little money, too little ammunition.

So where did the money come from?

From Jews in the diaspora.
From Keren Hayesod.
From the Jewish National Fund.
From Israel Bonds.
From Israeli taxpayers.
From loans.
From German reparations.
From austerity.
From exports, agriculture, factories, innovation, and people working like their lives depended on it.

In 1951, Israel launched Israel Bonds to raise money from Jewish communities and investors abroad. That was not foreign aid. That was a young state borrowing money, building infrastructure, and paying it back.

In 1952, Israel signed reparations with West Germany. That money helped the young state absorb hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors and immigrants while recovering from severe shortages.

And Israelis themselves paid the real price.

The austerity years were not a slogan. Israel absorbed mass immigration, built housing, roads, ports, schools, hospitals, factories, and an army — while citizens lived under rationing, taxes, shortages, and a controlled economy.

Israel was not born because America clicked “send payment.”

Yes, America later became a crucial ally.
Yes, American military aid is important.
Yes, real friendship deserves gratitude.

But there is a massive difference between helping an ally become stronger and claiming you built that ally.

American aid helped strengthen Israel.
It did not create Israel.

By the time U.S. aid became central to Israel’s defense, Israel had already been founded, survived wars, built institutions, absorbed millions of immigrants, and turned itself from a poor country under rationing into a serious economy.

That is the part Vance wants to erase.

Israel was not a Washington real estate project.
Israel was not a startup that got seed funding from America.
Israel was not a charity case with a flag.

Israel was a nation that came home, built before it had sovereignty, fought before it had enough weapons, absorbed refugees before it had enough houses, built an economy before it had enough foreign currency, and became strong before American politicians started taking credit.

Today, Israel is one of the world’s most advanced economies. Its high-tech, cyber, defense, medical, agricultural, and AI innovation help the United States and the free world.

That did not come from foreign aid. It came from human capital, education, military necessity, research, risk-taking, and Jewish survival instinct.

America is an important ally.
But America is not Israel’s parent.
America is not Israel’s owner.
And America does not get to erase 3,000 years of Jewish identity and 78 years of Israeli sacrifice with one cheap populist line.

Israel was built with Jewish money, Israeli hands, Israeli brains, and Jewish blood.

America helped.
Israel built.

There is a huge difference.

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

CRAZY: The FBI just unsealed a complaint against a 19-year-old accused of helping plan Sunday's White House UFC attack.

Per the affidavit, he picked congressional targets by who took "pro-Israel" money. He named Marsha Blackburn because she'd "taken money from the Israel pro Israel lobby."

Then he sent photos of four more — the entire West Virginia delegation — that the FBI says "appear to have been taken from TrackAIPAC."

In other words, a terror cell used TrackAIPAC's content as raw material for a kill list.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

This week I've heard from dozens of women who have been victims of domestic violence.

Many have remarked not just how much they relate to my story overall but how they, too, once qualified their abuse in the same way I did in my interview with the Times: Clarifying that Graham didn't break my arm, didn't ever punch or slap me.

I didn't realize that was what I was doing—I just didn't want to exaggerate. If anything I wanted to downplay his violence and the deep, lasting impact it has had on my life.

I also have felt I need to be clear that I was never, ever antagonistic, never picked a fight, and took great pains to try to keep him from becoming enraged.

My friends have pointed out that that's not normal. I shouldn't feel the need to insist to the public that I didn't do anything to deserve or provoke physical intimidation, control, or abuse. No one does.

I forgave Graham years ago and was glad to see that he had gotten sober and seemingly had gotten help for his mental health issues—I sincerely wished him well but when I realized I was not the only woman he had done this to, that he has a lifelong pattern of deep contempt for women, I realized he had suckered me once again.

And instead of support for coming forward, Jenny and I have been met with horrific smears, told it was “karma,” or that it wasn’t “that bad.”

So... yeah, that is actually pretty classic.

[Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific]

Who better to speak on the subject of journalistic practice at 60 Minutes than Dan Rather, who was forced to resign from CBS after broadcasting a hoax on that show? https://t.co/m9pohFCKf2

[Gabe Einhorn @EinhornGabe]

“Not interested in working for a jew”
This kid applied to our job on handshake, we accepted him, and then he responded this.
He probably knows nothing about Jews accept for what they tell him in college and on social media. Sad world.

[Craig McCarthy @createcraig]

NEW: A far-left congressional candidate backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani peddled a crackpot COVID-19 theory that said the virus originated in France – and quoted a Chinese communist propaganda organ as evidence.

https://t.co/U2wrOxtYmV

[Eli Lake @EliLake]

Pro tip for democrats. These DSA losers are terrible. Most Americans hate them. Keep these commies out of your primaries. They are trying to take over your political party.

[Sara Forman @SaraL4man]

The Corbynization of the Democratic Party continues.

[Jonathan Greenblatt @JGreenblattADL]

When a movement celebrates a deadly antisemitic attack, it shows us exactly who they are. Glorifying a man who firebombed a group of people as they peacefully walked to call attention to the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza is not activism. It's a moral disgrace.

This attack resulted in the death of an 82-year-old grandmother, Karen Diamond z"l, and left others with life-altering injuries, and this SJP chapter chose to celebrate the perpetrator and call for his release.

That should be condemned by anyone who believes in basic human decency.

[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.

[Deborah E. Lipstadt @deborahlipstadt]

More than interesting, it’s telling

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

You want to know why kids aren’t reading books anymore? Here is an actual statement from the National Council of Teachers of English.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

RT if you think @bariweiss should hire me for 60 Minutes to be their new Andy Rooney on LSD

[Eli Kowaz - איליי קואז @elikowaz]

The Jewish sponsor of Mamdani’s Jewish Heritage event at Gracie Mansion: Jewish Voice for Peace — an antizionist organization that has framed October 7 as legitimate resistance.

These are the Jewish faces he chose.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

The national debt just exceeded 100% of GDP for the first time since 1946: https://t.co/VSDBUUTaUH