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[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

Holocaust erasure in the name of "safety". This is the Polite Pogrom. https://t.co/iUX5IgPqgx

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

I just took the floor at the United Nations to deliver a speech that never in my life I could have imagined necessary:

Madam Chair,

History teaches that the health of a society may be assessed by a simple test: Is it safe for Jews?

Sadly, today we need to pose this question to the West’s proudest democracies.

Australia: Synagogues firebombed in Melbourne.
“Gas the Jews” shouted in your streets.
A terrorist massacre of Jews at Bondi.
You rejected visas for Israeli lawmakers, while rewarding Hamas by recognizing a non-existent state.
Australia, you have more than 100,000 Jews.
How many now think of leaving?

Britain: Mass marches chanting for intifada and destruction of the Jewish state.
Jewish ambulances torched in Golders Green.
You impose an arms embargo on Israel—yet refuse to proscribe the IRGC.
Britain, you have 300,000 Jews.
How many now think of leaving?

Canada: Synagogues riddled with bullets.
Jewish schools under siege.
Your minister promotes an Internet hoax that Israel bombed a hospital.
Canada, you have 400,000 Jews.
How many now think of leaving?

France: Rabbis attacked in Paris. A Holocaust memorial defaced with graffitti.
State-sponsored media whitewash the UN’s Hamas apologist.
France, you have half a million Jews.
How many now think of leaving?

History teaches: Nations that welcomed Jews grew stronger; those that drove them out diminished themselves.

Prime Ministers Albanese, Starmer, Carney, President Macron: You failed to confront the hate. Worse, by applying a constant double standard to the Jewish state, you sent signals to the mob.

A society may be judged by a simple test.
We ask Leaders of the West: Are your countries safe for Jews?

[Bianna Golodryga @biannagolodryga]

It’s hard to read this without concluding that @MarkJCarney is failing to protect his Jewish citizens.

Canada’s Polite Pogrom
Is a national tolerance for zealotry purging Jews from public life?  
https://t.co/7FVAbYbl2R

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

If you can’t call out antisemitism clearly, you are part of the problem.

Canada is drifting.
And now the world is noticing.

“More synagogues… desecrated, burned, shot at… than in any other country.”
“We’re witnessing a polite pogrom.”

Read that again.

That should stop us in our tracks.

https://t.co/LBHgVGSaCy

[Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll @skjask]

Imagine if on October 8th, an Israeli attacked a Muslim daycare and NBC, the NYTimes and the mayor of the town said he had family killed by Gazans.

[The Free Press @TheFP]

The guardrails that prevent the world’s oldest hate are falling away, and no one seems to notice—so we’re tracking it every week. https://t.co/Ysxqvl7j33

[Reihan Salam @reihan]

It’s rare that I’m as moved by an essay as I was by @alananewhouse's latest for @tabletmag, “Zionism for Everyone.”

Newhouse answers the question of why Zionism vs. antizionism has emerged as a central ideological faultline in the market democracies of the West, something that became true long before October 7th. The Zionism wars are a synecdoche for a foundational conflict between the oikophobic, post-national impulse on one side, and a pride in inheritance, continuity, and self-assertion on the other—a belief that the national future can and must be grounded in respect for the past.

And she gets at why I’m so invested in this debate: Zionism is an enterprise that connects an optimistic, agentic conception of the future to the past, and she emphasizes the ways in which community, memory, and continuity are becoming more valuable in our dislocating, disoriented moment.

We’re living in an age of deculturation: the 1968 rupture has left western publics bereft of stable sources of meaning and identity, etc., and the technological-media context turns our brains into soup. It evaporates the sense of the eternal and the stability of the family, contributing to a crisis of meaning that has fueled the collapse of fertility and devalued childrearing across the West.

Against this at times rather bleak landscape, Zionism offers a vision of survival and the promise of a recognizable human future. It passes the tests many other free societies are currently failing:

Demographics: Can you maintain your population and inspire the next generation?

Defense: Are you willing to fight for your own survival?

Happiness: Can you remain a high-energy, joyful society despite constant struggle?

Newhouse argues that Zionism—by modeling that the universal is only reached through the particular—is a “technology for national renewal” that could conceivably be used by anyone, from Argentina to Singapore to America.

Such a dynamite essay.

https://t.co/2bnVS1Et3a

I'm grateful @tabletmag exists. There is nothing else like it.

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

Tens of thousands of Jews have lost relatives that were murdered by Gazans on October 7th.

Not one of us decided to ram a car full of deadly explosives into a US Mosque.

If heaven forbid someone would, that would be morally inexcusable and all Jews would rightfully condemn it.

The Mayor of Dearborn should apologize to the Jewish community for his reprehensible, abhorrent, and immoral justification of violence.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Insane.

I'm tired of walking into synagogues in North America and meeting armed guards at the door, or having to walk through metal detectors, or hearing upon leaving that a sheriff's department squad car is always in the parking lot at prayer times, because the local police don't want to take any chances.

[Deborah E. Lipstadt @deborahlipstadt]

If you read anything today, read the words of Yosef Weiner

[Deborah E. Lipstadt @deborahlipstadt]

No comment necessary

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

“White men, you are tired of seeing the Jews destroy your country…”

These flyers were handed out in Paris over the weekend. Not in the 1930s. Not in some fringe online forum. In the streets of a European capital in 2026.

The text is openly neo-Nazi: it blames Jews for “destroying” the country, attacks LGBTQ people as “degeneracy,” and calls for restoring “white racial domination in Europe.”

This isn’t coded language. It’s not subtle. It’s straight from the ideological playbook that led to the Holocaust.

Ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. It makes it grow.

[Seth Mandel @SethAMandel]

A Bondi Beach survivor was allegedly given a non-Jewish alias to ensure she was treated at the hospital. The implications of this cannot be exaggerated:
https://t.co/igIh0G22VM

[Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific]

Hey beautiful people, could you take ten minutes from the climate change/Palestine/ Minneapolis praxis and take a look at what’s happening in Iran?

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

“Israel saved us from genocide”

Read that again: “Israel saved us from genocide”
https://t.co/i5n8eUfIQU

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

Two sources, including one from within Iran, told CBS News that the number of people killed in the regime’s massacre is at least 12,000, but it may be more than 20,000.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Beth Israel in Mississippi has a link up for donations to help it rebuild after an arson attack.

This is the second time Beth Israel has been attacked, the first time was by the KKK in 1967.

Donation Link: https://t.co/YYOJ1q8kaL

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

An arsonist set fire to Beth Israel Congregation, the largest synagogue in Mississippi. A house of worship whose history stretches back to 1860 was reduced to ruins in a single moment by the flames of Jew-hatred.

The arson against Beth Israel is a repeat of history. In 1967, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the same synagogue in a campaign of terror directed at Rabbi Perry Nussbaum, whose home was also bombed for his righteous alliance with the Civil Rights Movement.

Domestic terrorism against Jews never happens in a vacuum. Instead of extinguishing the fires of antisemitism, American politics is often guilty of fanning the flames.

[Deborah E. Lipstadt @deborahlipstadt]

Even after decades of studying antisemitism and Jew-hatred, I still manage to be shocked by some things. This is one of them. @NTarnopolsky

[מיכל קוטלר-וונש | Michal Cotler-Wunsh @CotlerWunsh]

🚨“…antisemitism has become so prevalent in the country that Jewish life now exists only behind armed guards and concrete barriers.”

True not only in Germany...

You can’t “protect Jewish life” without addressing all lethal forms of ever-mutating antisemitism as defined by @TheIHRA - that threaten it.