Jordan Michael Smith

Journalist and ghostwriter. Contributing Editor @newrepublic. Interested in foreign policy, crime, journalism, and dogs.

[Jordan Michael Smith @WriterJMS]

What happens when you get locked up for something you *might* do in the future? Can you ever get out?

@typeinvestigate @LipmanCenterCJS

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@AKDay89 But what about this? This looks like 'some' evidence: https://t.co/EkPzBvT5ED

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@mattduss Mearsheimer's wrong that there's no evidence that Iran even knew about October 7th, though. He goes too far a lot with those kinds of statements.

[The Walrus @thewalrus]

Congratulations to journalist @WriterJMS on being awarded the Michener–Deacon Fellowship for Investigative Journalism for his forthcoming project, “The Hague Mothers." Read more about the project and the fellowship on https://t.co/IRnOKxU9Qg: https://t.co/3soM1AjYQT

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@DrSarteschi For the movie, or the parallel world????!!!

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@elikowaz They were forming a colony on behalf of a people dispersed across Europe. But a colony nonetheless.

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@elikowaz They were forming a new colony. Herzl called it "something colonial." Menachem Usishkin, head of the Jewish National Fund, wrote that, “Transjordan would be either be made available for Jewish colonization or for the resettlement of those Arabs." This wasn't a secret.

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@NegarMortazavi @AJInsideStory "a month of US-Israel war on Iran; its growing impact on civilians as strikes continue on schools, hospitals, cultural sites, and critical civilian infrastructure, the Strait of Hormuz crisis, risks of U.S. ground invasion, and various escalation dynamics."

That's some month!

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@yjtorbati @SanamMahoozi Excellent story. Very familiar to us Jews, sadly.

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@emilysweeney @jessesingal

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@BostonBroker33 @hjessy_ @BostonGlobe That narrator has written books about organized crime AND Dropkick Murphy. She is the MOST from Boston.

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@SimonLewsen @JeffreyASachs @TheAtlantic I like the sentiment. But both of these can't be true: "Overwhelmingly, Jews are safe and protected in Canada." AND "there really truly are people in this country putting bullets in the Jewish day schools."

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@vmochama This matter seems too important for glib sarcasm, but I guess that choice is itself an answer

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@vmochama Well, safety and security would include the freedom to succeed and pursue individual self-determination, no?

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@DesmondCole @HonestRepCanada I'd love to discuss with you. Anytime! I detest HonestReporting but I admit I was taken back by your response.

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@DesmondCole @HonestRepCanada There are, I'm sure you're aware, a multitude of shootings and acts of vandalism since October 7th in Canada. One synagogue in Toronto has been vandalized 10 times. You think 'let's keep each other safe' is a reasonable response to that?

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@DesmondCole @HonestRepCanada How is 'keeping each other safe' a specific enough answer to what's happening to Canadian Jews in 2026? How exactly would that deter, or prevent, or respond to, shootings at synagogues?

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@DesmondCole @HonestRepCanada Again, we're talking about Canadian Jews, in 2026. A specific intervention at a specific time in a specific place. The notion that we should avoid safeguarding Jewish houses of worship here and now because in England five years ago a council issued a report is underwhelming.

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@DesmondCole @HonestRepCanada Is there any evidence that an increased police presence around synogogues leads to more shootings of Black people? Or more harassment or stops? I can't counter a fantasy you envision.

How should they synagogues be protected exactly? Just wait for a Bondi massacre?