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Substack Turns On Its ‘Nazis Welcome!’ Sign by Mike Masnick

Back in April Substack founder/CEO Chris Best gave an interview to Nilay Patel in which he refused to answer some fairly basic questions about how the company planned to handle trust & safety issues on their new Substack Notes microblogging service. As I noted at the time, Best seemed somewhat confused about how all this […]

You never go Full Miss Teen South Carolina.

Today’s antisemites are modeling their campaign on 1960s protesters, even though the two conflicts are very different. Still, the same toxic ideology influenced radicals of both eras.

Bezalel Smotrich is not satisfied with playing politics with Israel’s budget in the midst of a crisis. He won’t rest until he has set the West Bank on fire and transformed U.S. security assistance to Israel for the worse.

Even with Hamas soon to be gone, Netanyahu has stuck to his old strategy of sidelining the PA and rejecting its return to Gaza. Chief Policy Officer Michael Koplow unpacks the diplomatic and strategic implications of this approach.

Debates over the link between antisemitism and anti-Zionism are not going away, but in some ways they are beside the point. Anti-Zionism can be just as noxious as antisemitism, and something need not be antisemitic to be beyond the pale.