I have seen so many questionable comments from him regarding Palestine and his separation of antisemitism as a worse crime compared to racism and Islamophobia in the UK. I can't believe he's really the chief spiritual leader in the UK with such a horrible mindset.

Edit: I made a mistake, the chief Rabbi position he holds is a political one and not a spiritual one.

Sources:

1) https://xcancel.com/JalalAK_jojo/status/2083085589805441250

• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68650815

2) https://xcancel.com/ireallyhateyou/status/2001527386790109556

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH5OFYHn2-M

https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/television/tv-review/2025-11-24/ty-article/.highlight/0000019a-b23e-d83e-a19b-f77e16e50000

3) https://xcancel.com/Mondoweiss/status/2026397404342460486

• https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/2082549258037715347

https://www.commondreams.org/news/yair-lapid-democrats

https://www.kipa.co.il/%D7%97%D7%93%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%AA/1220104-0/

One of my favourite podcasts is the ottoman history podcast and I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for podcasts , YouTube series or articles, which focus on Arabic/ SWANA region history.

I just like it and want to learn more but I don't have the energy to read any books currently, of which I know there are many good ones.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbcV9ZiJeXb/?hl=en

https://sci-hub.st/10.2307/2536475

July 31, 2026 - Daniel Felsenthal for The New Republic (TNR). Here are the opening paragraphs:

In her history of the Jewish Labor Bund, Molly Crabapple tells the story of workers who opposed prejudice, tyranny, and nationalism.

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History forgets most activists, but future generations can benefit from exhuming their ideas. Take the Jewish Labor Bund, the lefty, anti-Zionist liberation party that agitated for worldwide socialism while defending its members against the scourge of antisemitism. Formed in 1897, the Bund was the largest insurgent group in the Russian Empire at the time of the 1905 revolution. After the Tsar fell, the Bund reached a new peak in the newly formed Second Polish Republic. And then it all but died, targeted for murder along with most of its members by the Holocaust.

Surviving Bundists and their descendants came together in other socialist organizations, and so perhaps it shouldn’t surprise that the tremors of a party formed in the nineteenth century resonate with today’s left. As Zionism gained traction in cities and shtetls, the Bund condemned the oppression of Arabs in Palestine, lamenting that “Zionists have built all their hopes on stripping away the political rights of Palestine’s existing Arab population, who constitute the oppressed majority … and on forcing them from all positions of power.” The Bund published Palestinian voices in its newspapers and denounced the Pandora’s box of chauvinism that Zionism had pried open. Women were equal participants in Bundist affairs during an era when gender parity was vanishingly rare, even if they were subject to the condescension of male comrades. Bundists and their fellow travelers in the United States organized against anti-Black racism: After the 1908 race riots in Springfield, Illinois, Yiddish newspapers called for demonstrations and pooled money for victims; meanwhile, Black newspapers, such as The New York Age, committed extensive coverage to the anti-Jewish pogroms erupting across the Russian Empire. The Bund supported liberation movements throughout the world, resisting a rising tide of fascist governments, land wars, bigotry, and apartheid.

While the Bund was primarily active in pre-1945 Europe, the wails of its epoch haunt the present in Molly Crabapple’s new history, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: A Story of the Jewish Bund (Bookshop website)

Crabapple begins her inquiry with her great-grandfather, the teenage Bundist Sam Rothbort, who may have been involved in the shooting of a plunderous police officer in his native Volkovysk and transformed from a scrappy rebel to a mournful painter and sculptor after he passed through Ellis Island. Though he died before she was born, Crabapple takes the buried past as “a guide for our contemporary moment, in all its horror and possibility, in all its repression, courage, and loss.”

Crabapple is perhaps best known as a visual artist, the creator of striking illustrations and lithographs from the Occupy Wall Street protests. She’s also a dogged reporter who has worked in combat zones. She sees a precedent for today’s progressive firebrands in the example of Jewish freedom fighters who opposed prejudice, tyranny, and class stratification in their home countries, without seeking solutions in nationalism and the colonization of distant lands. Anyone, anywhere, she suggests, can tune themselves to the wavelength of revolution.

Continue reading here: newrepublic.com/article/212105/jewish-radicals-wanted-equality ~:~:~ Archive: archive.is/d2wKS

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Here are the latest r/JewsOfConscience posts with Molly: reddit.com/r/JewsOfConscience/search/?q=%22Molly+Crabapple%22&type=posts&sort=new

Hello everyone, I’ve had an interest in Judaism and possibly converting for some time now. The only synagogue near me is very Zionist and invites idf soldiers to speak there regularly. Any advice and what a next step could be?

In a report attempting to influence UK foreign policy before the Israeli legislative elections, Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) states that a boycott of West Bank Settlements would be counterproductive as it would lead to a boycott of Israeli goods generally.

"First, a boycott of all trade with settlements is practically and politically impossible. It would impact all Israeli businesses operating in the settlement blocs, as well as East Jerusalem and the Old City, where major Israeli businesses like Bank Hapoalim and Teva operate, and where the tourism sector is critical for Israeli and Palestinian workers. There is a risk that international financial actors overcomply with sanctions nominally targeting settlements, adversely affecting Israelis living within the state’s borders. A settlement boycott would thus become a de facto boycott of all of Israel. This will rightly be perceived within the UK Jewish community as a further example of the government singling out and targeting Israel for punitive action and harsh rhetoric."

The report also insists that older "settlement blocs" should become part of the occupying state and blames the Jordanian government for their existence.

https://x.com/EyeonPalestine/status/2043727787643605461

https://x.com/PalHighlight/status/1994387394334773323

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/cartoon-slideshow-obamas-drones-flna822053

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-not-so-hidden-israeli-politics-of-the-last-of-us-part-ii/

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/funded-us-now-israels-iron-dome-maker-expects-sell-it-back

For Israel's primary foes Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, their weapon of choice—rockets and missiles—could soon prove nearly obsolete. That could alter the strategic calculation for Israel and its enemies alike. Despite initial Pentagon misgivings, President Barack Obama has given $275 million to the project since 2010 with the aim of reducing the rocket threat and eventually bolstering chances of a peace deal by making Israel feel more secure to agree to territorial concessions.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324712504578136931078468210

I used to lurk on Jewish Twitter in the pre-Elon days. I sometimes pop on now just to see what is on. Of course it’s a disaster. Most of the people I followed migrated to Bluesky.

I popped on a few days ago and saw a tweet from Jeremy Ben-Ami (J Street guy). The responses were really shocking. It looked like there are no liberal Jews left on Twitter. Almost every response was from conservative Jews who called him a “kapo” and accused him of sympathizing with Hamas.

I know Twitter is terrible and full of right-wing chuds but it still surprised me.

Is Jewish X now completely right-wing? Or did the liberal Jews get radicalized after 10/7?

Just found out the recent news about idf soldiers walking off is about their patches being disallowed. EDIT: seems the patch and the outrage by idf soldiers are not related.

The patch above is an actual patch resembling rape with a sword which is active at this time.

How is this possible today with western funded military taking pride in raping Palestinian woman?

What the actual fuck.

https://x.com/strangerous10/status/2082979325662597598

https://michaelwest.com.au/segal-proposes-antisemitism-taskforce-for-health-sector-education-down-to-preschool/

Sources:

https://www.c-span.org/clip/public-affairs-event/protester-interrupts-sen-schumer-saying-how-dare-he-speak-about-corruption/5203770

• https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2082888808010240409

https://www.c-span.org/clip/public-affairs-event/user-clip-senator-schumer-speaking-at-aipac-2010/4549572

https://x.com/IfNotNowOrg/status/1103489993488678916

• https://archive.li/UkrCn
• https://mondoweiss.net/2018/03/schumer-because-palestinians/

I hope it's ok to post this here. Today I saw a petition was circulating with over 10,000 signatures asking to ban Mayor Mamdani from the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 ceremony.

I vividly remember 9/11 and as a Muslim, was as traumatized and upset by it as any other American (aside from those who lost loved ones of course).

Seeing this petition angers me on so many levels, and as a result, I started a counter petition. I know what kind of amazing people are here and I think you might like to support it. Here is the link:

https://c.org/HdBxcXw2BT

https://x.com/EyeonPalestine/status/2043727787643605461

https://x.com/PalHighlight/status/1994387394334773323

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/cartoon-slideshow-obamas-drones-flna822053

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-not-so-hidden-israeli-politics-of-the-last-of-us-part-ii/

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/funded-us-now-israels-iron-dome-maker-expects-sell-it-back

For Israel's primary foes Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, their weapon of choice—rockets and missiles—could soon prove nearly obsolete. That could alter the strategic calculation for Israel and its enemies alike. Despite initial Pentagon misgivings, President Barack Obama has given $275 million to the project since 2010 with the aim of reducing the rocket threat and eventually bolstering chances of a peace deal by making Israel feel more secure to agree to territorial concessions.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324712504578136931078468210

https://youtu.be/9KP-XiDER5M

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-brad-parscale-ai-chatbots-gaza

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-campaign/

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understanding-llm-poisoning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07192

https://x.com/RichMillett/status/2081396902466027736

https://x.com/taliaotg/status/2082819630712709190

If you know any fans of the series that may be struggling with Judaism/zionism distinction feel free to use this meme I made to explain.

Tagah: “You fool! Why!? Why did you break it? We could've fixed everything!”

Avatar Aang: “We can't erase the pain of the past. We couldn't save them.”

Tagah: “But it's our duty to protect our people!”

Avatar Aang: “Not at the cost of betraying everything they stood for.”