Batya, do you have any thoughts on Megyn Kelly? She has really disappointed me. She was an avid supporter of Israel, and now she seems to speak with such disdain. It pains me.
Anti Zionism is a stalking horse for antisemitism. For two generations now since the horrors of the end result of that form of insanity were revealed anti semites have laid low waiting. Anti Zionism, anti Semitism, anti Israelism are all the same and are each and all distractions from whats important: Building a economy that works for all American citizens,
To all of the Democrats in NY who happen to be Jewish- do you feel safer today? That is unacceptable in 2026 . WTF are you doing voting for democrats ?
Here’s the thing: Israel has - & always will be - an ally. Our best in the region. However, certain factions label any criticism of Israel as “anti-Semitic”; that isn’t fair, any - & every - ally is fair game for criticism. It’s the govt being criticized not the people. Personally I always liked Bibi Netanyahu; not an expert on him but I know he’s an IDF veteran & Israeli patriot. I respect that. I know he’s been banging the “Iran will have a nuclear weapon within weeks” for 20yrs or more. Overblown? Perhaps but I don’t know for certain, I’m not in on the intel briefings he & Trump receive. However, Iran is on record: when they get a nuke they are going to drop it right in the middle of downtown Tel Aviv & also get one into NYC/Long Beach. Sticking a dirty nuke in a shipping container with a digital timer is not a hard thing to do anymore. So - due to their stated intent & demonstrated intransigence over this issue - the mad mullahs invited this war.
If they’d come clean - which they won’t- everyone could go home happy. However without regime change we’re always going to be barking up the same tree. But we’ve already gone down that “regime change” road & it’s fraught with one disaster after another.
As far as the growing anti-Semitism of the Dem party, anymore the Dem party is a loose confederation of special interest groups working @ cross purposes of each other; the Muslims will not tolerate the Jews or the gays or the feminists.
Iran might not want to bomb NYC now that they have a Muslim ally running the city. But it's hard to know, given that the 9/11 terrorists had no qualms about killing the Muslims who worked at the World Trade Center (or anywhere else the terrorists chose to attack).
They’re all cogs in a machine to be expended for “just cause” in their worldview. A good example of this is The Red Army during World War II; Soviet commanders would attack German positions in relentless human wave assaults, one after another after another. It never mattered how many men they lost, only that they would break through the German line. Stalin knew he had an inexhaustible supply of manpower & he used it in profligate fashion. The Germans inflicted about a half dozen Stalingrad-size defeats on The Red Army - the Izyum Bulge was even larger, forcing over 600,000 Soviet troops to surrender - but there was always another hundred thousand men in reserve to throw into the meat grinder. And the Soviet troops had NKVD -forerunner of the KGB - security battalions behind the advancing troops to shoot on sight any shirkers. Col Douglas MacGregor, USA, Ret., has referred to The Red Army as “an army of slaves” & that observation is absolutely spot on. To compare: the U.S. lost about 430,000 Killed in Action entirely in the war; the Soviets lost over 300,000 men taking Berlin alone.
I digress but my point is the individual is nothing to them; simply a pawn to be moved about the chessboard & discarded when used up.
The Democrats have completed their long march to the far left which began in the aftermath of their defeat in 1968 They will remain in a deserved desert of their making unless and until moderates regain control of that party
I see no sign of moderates reversing the trend. The Democratic Party has been transformed into an entirely different entity, and not enough is left of the original party to resurrect at this point.
The guys at the Liberal Patriot substack tried for a while to do that, but they have admitted to failure and shut down their substack. The traditional Democrats I know have shifted far to the left but don't seem to recall that they have done so, which is very weird. Most of them also don't know that the explicit Democratic platform is what it is. They think the Democratic Party still advocates the policies my acquaintances endorsed 40 years ago.
My concern is that in the longer term those on the regressive left and woke Reich will eventually coalesce around their hatred for Jews and decide to start a new political party, sidelining both moderate Democrats and establishment Republicans, with Carlson at the head - with so many prominent people this could really gain traction and by 2040 you have a firmly established new IslamoNazi party in the White House.
Don’t forget the Nazis did not need majority German support to gain control of the country - and eventually of Europe.
“ certain factions label any criticism of Israel as “anti-Semitic”
I am so sick of hearing this canard. No one says this. The conversation that leads to this statement usually goes like this:
“Israel is the most evil country in the History of the world and needs to be destroyed”
“Holding Israel to a different standard than every other country and destroying the only Jewish majority country in the world, and making 7 million Jews stateless is antisemitic”
“Why is it whenever I criticize any Israeli policy, it’s antisemitic?”
Tucker Carlson is very simply a whore. When Putin gave him some money he went to Russia. "Russia is a wonderland" He declared. Then Qatar gave him money. He bought a estate there and "Israel bad". Tomorrow if BiBi gave him some money he would be a raging Zionist. He doesn't want to be a Republican anymore? Well good. We are not a party of street walkers.
No doubt the left is far worse, Batya, but I think this may be wishful and selective thinking regarding the right. Either way, we’re getting it from both sides now (not to quote Joni Mitchell) and we may have some decisions to make soon about the viability of our presence here in America. I still believe Americans as a whole don’t buy into this shit, but the parties have been taken over by extremists.
By any measure, if Ilhan Omar is antisemitic, Donald Trump is.
While Omar isn’t mentioned in this particular post, it’s a similar argument, and it goes to the very top of the party. And of course it gets much easier when we consider how JD Vance is trying to normalize the likes of Nick Fuentes. Marjorie Taylor Greene wasn’t kicked out of the party for blaming wildfires on Rothschild space lasers, but for crossing Trump on other things. Etc. etc. etc.
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You believe in collective punishment, at least when it comes to Jews. Why shouldn't the same standards be applied to Arabs and Muslims?
"Always lived there", with surnames like Al-Masri (the Egyptian), Al-Hurani (the Syrian), and al-Bagdadi (self explanatory). Go sell your wolf-tickets somewhere else.
Define genocide. What Hamas did on Oct. 7th fits the Genocide Convention's criteria. What Israel has done since then has not.
It's a capital crime in the Palestinian Authority to sell land to a Jew. You cool with that?
Nope I don't believe in collective punishment, you're confusing me for an Israeli, i think every israeli who has participated in war crimes should be tried.
Why would I define genocide for you? If the Hamas attack on October 7th is genocide it should be tried in front of an international tribunal, for some reason the Israelis have resisted this happening.
Yes people have always lived in Palestine all the evidence shows this to be true I have no idea why you're trying to get me to buy into your delusional mythology.
The Israeli government has never tried an Israeli settler for murder and has just made it legal to execute Palestinians without a trial, you cool with that? You cool with the rape prisons?
Here we go again! You made the phrase “antisemitism” utterly meaningless. Americans do NOT want to fund the war machine of a wealthy foreign country, which enables them to fund their social services while Americans lack these services. It is a righteous call.
OK, I largely agree but this is not why I came here. I was looking for perspective that you seem uniquely positions to provide. The issue of populist fusion animates me and I thought you.
Batya, do you have any thoughts on Megyn Kelly? She has really disappointed me. She was an avid supporter of Israel, and now she seems to speak with such disdain. It pains me.
The Republicans are purging antisemites, how?
J.D. Vance is joined at the hip to Tucker Carlson.
Vance is not going to be the 2028 nominee. He is done
Who do you think it will be?
honest question, not trolling.
Maybe Rubio.
I really doubt that. But we’ll see.
Indeed we will!
Republicans will not win in ‘28. And Israel is only a burden in 28, not a plus. Nobody will exclude an anti-Israel candidate In GOP primaries.
Rubio. Heck I’d vote Gabbard in a nano second…
Republicans will not win in ‘28. And Israel is only a burden in 28, not a plus. Nobody will exclude an anti-Israel candidate
Anti Zionism is a stalking horse for antisemitism. For two generations now since the horrors of the end result of that form of insanity were revealed anti semites have laid low waiting. Anti Zionism, anti Semitism, anti Israelism are all the same and are each and all distractions from whats important: Building a economy that works for all American citizens,
If JD doesn’t call out Tucker, his political career will end with this administration. IMHO.
I'm not so sure. We'll see, won't we?
We will indeed.
100%
To all of the Democrats in NY who happen to be Jewish- do you feel safer today? That is unacceptable in 2026 . WTF are you doing voting for democrats ?
Here’s the thing: Israel has - & always will be - an ally. Our best in the region. However, certain factions label any criticism of Israel as “anti-Semitic”; that isn’t fair, any - & every - ally is fair game for criticism. It’s the govt being criticized not the people. Personally I always liked Bibi Netanyahu; not an expert on him but I know he’s an IDF veteran & Israeli patriot. I respect that. I know he’s been banging the “Iran will have a nuclear weapon within weeks” for 20yrs or more. Overblown? Perhaps but I don’t know for certain, I’m not in on the intel briefings he & Trump receive. However, Iran is on record: when they get a nuke they are going to drop it right in the middle of downtown Tel Aviv & also get one into NYC/Long Beach. Sticking a dirty nuke in a shipping container with a digital timer is not a hard thing to do anymore. So - due to their stated intent & demonstrated intransigence over this issue - the mad mullahs invited this war.
If they’d come clean - which they won’t- everyone could go home happy. However without regime change we’re always going to be barking up the same tree. But we’ve already gone down that “regime change” road & it’s fraught with one disaster after another.
As far as the growing anti-Semitism of the Dem party, anymore the Dem party is a loose confederation of special interest groups working @ cross purposes of each other; the Muslims will not tolerate the Jews or the gays or the feminists.
But apparently they can’t see that.
Iran might not want to bomb NYC now that they have a Muslim ally running the city. But it's hard to know, given that the 9/11 terrorists had no qualms about killing the Muslims who worked at the World Trade Center (or anywhere else the terrorists chose to attack).
They’re all cogs in a machine to be expended for “just cause” in their worldview. A good example of this is The Red Army during World War II; Soviet commanders would attack German positions in relentless human wave assaults, one after another after another. It never mattered how many men they lost, only that they would break through the German line. Stalin knew he had an inexhaustible supply of manpower & he used it in profligate fashion. The Germans inflicted about a half dozen Stalingrad-size defeats on The Red Army - the Izyum Bulge was even larger, forcing over 600,000 Soviet troops to surrender - but there was always another hundred thousand men in reserve to throw into the meat grinder. And the Soviet troops had NKVD -forerunner of the KGB - security battalions behind the advancing troops to shoot on sight any shirkers. Col Douglas MacGregor, USA, Ret., has referred to The Red Army as “an army of slaves” & that observation is absolutely spot on. To compare: the U.S. lost about 430,000 Killed in Action entirely in the war; the Soviets lost over 300,000 men taking Berlin alone.
I digress but my point is the individual is nothing to them; simply a pawn to be moved about the chessboard & discarded when used up.
The Democrats have completed their long march to the far left which began in the aftermath of their defeat in 1968 They will remain in a deserved desert of their making unless and until moderates regain control of that party
I see no sign of moderates reversing the trend. The Democratic Party has been transformed into an entirely different entity, and not enough is left of the original party to resurrect at this point.
At what point will "moderate" or "traditional" Democrats realize that their party no longer represents them, and move to restore it or abandon it?
The guys at the Liberal Patriot substack tried for a while to do that, but they have admitted to failure and shut down their substack. The traditional Democrats I know have shifted far to the left but don't seem to recall that they have done so, which is very weird. Most of them also don't know that the explicit Democratic platform is what it is. They think the Democratic Party still advocates the policies my acquaintances endorsed 40 years ago.
My concern is that in the longer term those on the regressive left and woke Reich will eventually coalesce around their hatred for Jews and decide to start a new political party, sidelining both moderate Democrats and establishment Republicans, with Carlson at the head - with so many prominent people this could really gain traction and by 2040 you have a firmly established new IslamoNazi party in the White House.
Don’t forget the Nazis did not need majority German support to gain control of the country - and eventually of Europe.
You make an interesting point. I do think the younger generations are going to make big changes in the US.
Yes I don't the changes will be good.
“ certain factions label any criticism of Israel as “anti-Semitic”
I am so sick of hearing this canard. No one says this. The conversation that leads to this statement usually goes like this:
“Israel is the most evil country in the History of the world and needs to be destroyed”
“Holding Israel to a different standard than every other country and destroying the only Jewish majority country in the world, and making 7 million Jews stateless is antisemitic”
“Why is it whenever I criticize any Israeli policy, it’s antisemitic?”
Tucker Carlson is very simply a whore. When Putin gave him some money he went to Russia. "Russia is a wonderland" He declared. Then Qatar gave him money. He bought a estate there and "Israel bad". Tomorrow if BiBi gave him some money he would be a raging Zionist. He doesn't want to be a Republican anymore? Well good. We are not a party of street walkers.
Good analysis of the DSA earthquake but bad on Carlson.
Carlson is now free to be a rogue node. He's the right wing version of a fellow traveler.
Tucker Carlson is doing immeasurable damage to the young coalition that helped win the 2024 election.
Concur, So Disgusting
https://substack.com/@thinktorah/note/c-275207903
No doubt the left is far worse, Batya, but I think this may be wishful and selective thinking regarding the right. Either way, we’re getting it from both sides now (not to quote Joni Mitchell) and we may have some decisions to make soon about the viability of our presence here in America. I still believe Americans as a whole don’t buy into this shit, but the parties have been taken over by extremists.
I for one don’t. I’m not Jewish but I’m smart enough to know there is no such thing as Palestine.
By any measure, if Ilhan Omar is antisemitic, Donald Trump is.
While Omar isn’t mentioned in this particular post, it’s a similar argument, and it goes to the very top of the party. And of course it gets much easier when we consider how JD Vance is trying to normalize the likes of Nick Fuentes. Marjorie Taylor Greene wasn’t kicked out of the party for blaming wildfires on Rothschild space lasers, but for crossing Trump on other things. Etc. etc. etc.
https://meirbrooks.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/antisemitism-and-us-politics-ilhan-omar-vs-donald-trump/
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'They hate Israel and Jews that's why they chanted Free Palestine'
You don't think they chanted that because Palestine isn't free? Mad how you guys are still going for this nonsense lol
Palestine has never existed as an entity, just a name for a place.
Yeah because it isn't free? That's why people chant free Palestine lol
Palestine has already been decolonized and freed by Jews.
Why is the Muslim conquest so sacrosanct to you?
Please, though, tell us what will happen to the Jews of Israel when Palestine will putatively be freed as you would like?
Gibberish, the people of Palestine have always lived there, this is backed up by every genetic study of the region ever completed.
Why would we care about the Jews of Israel when they're conducting a horrifying genocide? I think they should all be tried for war crimes obviously
You believe in collective punishment, at least when it comes to Jews. Why shouldn't the same standards be applied to Arabs and Muslims?
"Always lived there", with surnames like Al-Masri (the Egyptian), Al-Hurani (the Syrian), and al-Bagdadi (self explanatory). Go sell your wolf-tickets somewhere else.
Define genocide. What Hamas did on Oct. 7th fits the Genocide Convention's criteria. What Israel has done since then has not.
It's a capital crime in the Palestinian Authority to sell land to a Jew. You cool with that?
Nope I don't believe in collective punishment, you're confusing me for an Israeli, i think every israeli who has participated in war crimes should be tried.
Why would I define genocide for you? If the Hamas attack on October 7th is genocide it should be tried in front of an international tribunal, for some reason the Israelis have resisted this happening.
Yes people have always lived in Palestine all the evidence shows this to be true I have no idea why you're trying to get me to buy into your delusional mythology.
The Israeli government has never tried an Israeli settler for murder and has just made it legal to execute Palestinians without a trial, you cool with that? You cool with the rape prisons?
Here we go again! You made the phrase “antisemitism” utterly meaningless. Americans do NOT want to fund the war machine of a wealthy foreign country, which enables them to fund their social services while Americans lack these services. It is a righteous call.
OK, I largely agree but this is not why I came here. I was looking for perspective that you seem uniquely positions to provide. The issue of populist fusion animates me and I thought you.