Brad Lander is not a Kapo. He's not even a bad person. In fact, he's trying to be a good Jew.
The problem is that he was robbed of an authentic Jewish education. He was raised to believe bagels, Seinfeld, chinese food on the 25th and liberalism are the sum total of Jewishness.
He wants to be a good person. He wants to be a good Jew. He wants to make his bubbe and zayde proud. I can guarantee you that he's not sitting around thinking 'How can I betray my people? How can I work against Jews, Torah, and Judaism?' He genuinely is trying to live up to his perception of what being a Jew and Jewishness means.
The issue is he was robbed of most of the tools that would have helped him do these things the Jewish way.
Don't blame Brad Lander. Blame the American Jewish establishment who decided that funding museums, galas, and Upper East Side cultural events was good enough to ensure Jewish continuity instead of trying to give each and every Jewish child a Jewish education.
He's a symptom, not the disease.
As a liberal progressive, I would be fine with the party moving left if these wins were about Medicare for all, reproductive rights, universal childcare, taxing billionaires, and creating affordable housing, But they weren’t.
Exposing Hamas’s Use of a Primary Gaza Hospital for Repression: Hamas’s intelligence and internal security services are in full fascist mode across the Gaza Strip, beating, interrogating, and threatening anyone they suspect may join the June 26 protests against their rule. A few friends of mine in Gaza City have already been summoned. They were told explicitly by al‑Qassam Brigades operatives, Hamas police, and internal security officers that if they post anything supportive of the protests on Facebook or offer any help to protestors, they will be executed under “revolutionary conditions” and treated as collaborators with Israel; no trial, no process, just immediate death.
And where were some of my friends interrogated, threatened, and placed on house arrest? Inside Al‑Ahli Arab Hospital or the Ma'amadani/Baptist Hospital in Gaza’s Zeitoun neighborhood. Yes, the same hospital that grabbed global headlines early in the war after a faulty Islamic Jihad rocket fell and caused an explosion, which killed hundreds of people. That hospital is now a central hub for Hamas’s intelligence, militancy, and internal repression.
This is criminal on every level. And it raises a basic question: if overwhelming, well‑corroborated evidence shows Hamas using Gaza’s medical facilities to hide among civilians and enforce its armed rule, violating the October 2025 ceasefire, why have the UN and international medical and humanitarian NGOs and charities remained silent? Why has no one suspended operations until Hamas withdraws from the hospitals they support?
I want every follower and every official who sees this to contact and tag the World Health Organization, UNICEF, UNRWA, the United Nations, Doctors Without Borders, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and any organization supplying Gaza’s hospitals. Demand that they confront Hamas’s presence in the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital/ Ma'amadani / Baptist Hospital and every facility they fund, staff, and sustain. Even though the Episcopal Church/Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem manages Al‑Ahli, every medical facility in Gaza depends on international aid, equipment, and expertise, during the war and even more so since the ceasefire.
It is time to get Hamas out of Gaza’s hospitals. It is time to support Gazans risking their lives to protest the Islamist fascists who have destroyed their society for twenty years. And it is time for the international community to finally recognize that Hamas cannot be trusted to uphold any agreement. The group is committed to a last‑stand ideology – much like Hitler in his bunker – regardless of how many civilians in Gaza suffer or die as a result.
This is inversion so callous it's hard to believe.
The Holocaust had a survival rate of about 30%. Millions of people disappeared from European cities and towns over several years. Everybody knew because it was happening all around them.
Gaza has a survival rate, despite the worst and most deadly and horrible periods of the war, of 97%.
All the dead Jews were noncombatants. A large percentage of the dead Gazans were combatants.
And the Jews of Europe, even as their millennia-old civilization was being systematically wiped out, wanted nothing from the societies that surrounded them except to be allowed to live in peace.
Gaza's leadership of religious fanatics, meanwhile, wants every last Israeli dead and gone, is willing to fight to the last Gazan to achieve that aim, has said so publicly and worked for decades to blow up every peace attempt -- and even now believes that Gaza's destruction would be a worthwhile sacrifice to lay on the altar of Israel's destruction, because their god told them so.
So Israelis can reasonably believe, given those features of the Gaza war that aren't true about any genocide ever, and were pretty much the opposite of what was happening in the Holocaust, that Gaza's suffering is a bad and painful war, but not remotely a genocide.
But the point of it all, of course, is not to analyze Gaza, but specifically to lump it together with the Holocaust -- to cast the Jews as the new Nazis.
The only reason this person would dare to make such an insanely ahistorical and immoral parallel is because this is the heart of the bigoted propaganda campaign in which he enthusiastically participates: The point of it all is to make the Jews into the Nazis.
A culture that obsessed about Jews being evil and was then shocked by the Holocaust into obsessing about dead Jews as the apotheosis of righteous victimhood is now obsessively engaged in knocking Jews off that moral pedestal they themselves put them on.
That's why they don't care one whit about Hamas massacres of Gazans, about genocidal wars in Syria or Yemen (even when they've funded and armed the sides), about flotilla activists currently held by the Libyans...literally nothing triggers a response except Jews.
They still, even after all these generations, no matter what else is happening in the world or in their own societies, can't stop thinking about Jews.
And as we Jews learned in the 1940s -- the actual, historical 1940s, not the weird fantasies conjured up by these bigots -- a whole society can be in the grip of a callous, destructive bigotry and still believe it is true and righteous.
My favorite thing about Mamdani avoiding the Israel parade is he attends the Pakistan one. Pakistan has:
-Had fraudulent elections
-Relies heavily on American military support
-Ethnically cleansing 2 million Afghans
-Has engaged in a well documented genocide
Something is deeply shocking me, some people who call themselves “human rights activists” speak endlessly about Palestinian rights, yet won’t utter a single word about Hamas’s brutality against Palestinians. Not just silence, they actively cover for it.
Spare us the hypocrisy.
You insist that you aren't allowed to criticize Israel without being called antisemitic.
Right now, Israelis are tearing into Ben Gvir.
No one's calling us antisemites.
But when you criticize Israel, you deny it should exist. When we do, we demand it be better.
Get it?
A democrat candidate for congress is suggesting a concentration camps for Americans who support Israel.
I can't believe the world I am raising my children in. Like, I actually can't believe this is America in 2026.
(also I'm a zionist, so she wants me imprisoned too).
Another reminder that the leftists who've accused Israel of indiscriminate bombing and genocide for the past 2 years were projecting.
These people don't care about "human rights." They just want to see Israelis die.
So let me get this straight.
Iranians who lived Iran have gotten it all wrong.
Venezuelans who lived Venezuela have gotten it all wrong.
Cubans who lived Cuba have gotten it all wrong.
But you—who have never left the four corners of your own sublime comfort—are the bearers of truth?
BULLSHIT -your family signs up for this as well, it's how it works. She is living in Gracie mansion off of tax payer dollars. My mom had to answer questions about being rodeo queen because of my dad's role in office.
Your wife celebrated the slaughter of Jews. You're both vile.
I’ve personally met with women who survived heinous sexual assaults both on October 7 and while in captivity in Gaza. Many have publicly described what they endured. But to the former press secretary for @BernieSanders, no such crimes occurred. My God this is disgusting.
If you have ever passionately posted about women’s rights, human rights, occupation, abuse, the killing of children or the safety of a people and you are not speaking on Iran , you are a performative fraud.
It’s insane that this rabid antisemite who relies on lies and long-discredited bigoted bullshit is a popular conservative voice.
It’s also profoundly disappointing that powerful conservative voices whom I once thought knew better stand by her — or are silent.
These people are not just stupid. They are malicious. There are books of Jewish history attesting to their malice. They have gotten us killed several times over. Not listening to them is not enough. Confront and embarrass them.
Actor Guy Pearce, who was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of the helper-turned-tormentor of a Jewish-Hungarian Holocaust survivor in "The Brutalist," has been sharing wildly antisemitic and, frankly, insane conspiracy theories online.
Not only has he shared a post from known antisemite Nick Fuentes, that claims Jews pray for Christians to die every day, but he also made posts claiming that Israel was responsible for 9/11 and Charlie Kirk's assassination.
He also shared a post that claimed that Jews are destroying American society and that "the top three pornography companies are owned by Jewish people" and that Jews are responsible for all of America's "gambling addictions, debt, and prostitution."
He later "apologized" for these comments, saying that "It has been brought to my attention that, in my support for Palestine, I have inadvertently re-posted articles, and / or statements, that have contained misinformation and falsehoods."
As if saying Jews are responsible for all the bad things in the world somehow helps Palestine? I'm honestly offended on behalf of Palestinians for that one.
How disgusting that a man who made so much money from a movie about a Holocaust survivor is now using his fame to spread antisemitic hate.
No wonder he got the role of the antisemitic monster.
You’re an idiot who does damage global Jewry and you need to go away.
You don’t have an ounce of self-awareness because you are a malignant narcissist.
I don’t know a single Jew — and god knows I know many — who likes or respects you.