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If you want to know what's happening in the Israeli election, @timesofisrael.com's liveblog is a good place to be

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

AIPAC shutting down its PAC doesn’t solve the deeper problems with their strategy: Equating support for Israel with unquestioning support for its government, and pouring dark money into elections with little transparency. 1/2

Yet another example of Trump's long history of saying that Jews are "disloyal" or shameful if they do not vote for him or his chosen candidates. According to him, one can only be a real American Jew if they support Israel specifically by voting for him and his picks.

To somewhat push back: the Israeli electoral system is fine, actually. The trend the thread describes of personality vehicle parties is real, but it obscures the origin of it. It's not inherent to the system - it only emerged after Sharon broke Likud during the Gaza Disengagement.

(As an aside, this is but one of the ways in which an overexposure to American news, politics, and online conversation has harmed Israeli discourse. When Israelis talk about alternatives to the current political system, the only thing they seem able to imagine is a US-style presidency.)

There hasn’t been a trend of kids of Russian origin getting targeted here because of Ukraine. Or kids of Chinese origin getting targeted because of Xinjiang. But there has been a massive surge in Jewish kids getting targeted because of Gaza. Mehdi seems to want to pretend that’s fine.

If you support Palestine, remember Hamas is more unpopular there than Bibi is in Israel, and the majority supports two states, to be achieved by negotiations. And if you support Israel, ditto. Terrorism failed on 7.10; let negotiations succeed at effecting two states. www.pcpsr.org/en/node/1018

Paging @nerd4cities.bsky.social

People of Owen Jones political persuasion have for a long time tried to delegitimise any Jewish grievance when it comes to antisemitism, because the think it might justify an argument for Israel as a safe haven. He's now genuinely claiming that even antisemitism isn't just about Jews.

just in case military-grade tactical camo antisemitism for men guy blocks me here's the tweet he just ed out

My friend Rabbi Jill Jacobs of @truahrabbis.bsky.social, the US rabbi for human rights org, with whom @bradlander.bsky.social was arrested helping Palestinians harvest their olives, on NPR. R' Jacobs has been doing this work for decades. She's the real deal.

Israel cannot achieve lasting security by sidelining the Palestinians or undermining those willing to pursue peace. 1/2

After watching a non-Jewish person who used to have the twitter tag of "Broseph Stalin" attempt to try and tell a Jewish journalist (@rmcunliffe.bsky.social) what is and isn't antisemitism, I felt frustrated enough to write the following piece: www.jewishnews.co.uk/why-the-gree...

Happening now: Barbara Gaffin, a Friend of Standing Together from Boston, was detained by Israeli police after joining around 80 other activists near Nahalin, west of Bethlehem, to provide a peaceful protective presence for Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest.

Jewish tradition calls on us to pursue justice. Today, American rabbis and advocates lived out those values by helping Palestinian farmers harvest their olives. Israeli authorities detained them, including congressional candidate @bradlander.bsky.social. 1/3

For people wondering why The Canary has come to grief, I have an example. In April, I was due to cover the trial of the men eventually convicted of arson offences against then-PM Sir Keir Starmer. The trial was listed to start on April 27. But it started with two days' jury selection and legal stuff

i think personally if you're siding with people who are arguing that a certain group's DNA entitles them to live somewhere and another group's DNA disqualifies them from living there you are not a human rights advocate or on the left

How did you find out the young man’s identity, @wsj.com? hmm?

This is pretty insidious, because it uses a video to make it seem legitimate. But the video is in Hebrew, so anyone relying on the translation must assume this is what he actually said. It is not. The parenthetical "there is no crime" is fabricated. So yes, it's antisemitic. Onto my list they go

Inflation doesn't work the way we are told it does. It is not simply the result of supply and demand. It's a crisis of corporate power. It's a crisis of livelihoods. If democratic governments continue to ignore this reality, fascism will continue to rise. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj_G...

The most absurd part of the “antizionism is not antisemitism” catechism is that it’s invariably recited in anticipation of, or in response to, a Jewish person saying “that’s antisemitic” & any good-faith movement would respond by asking “how can we be antizionist w/out being antisemitic?”

NEW BRIGHT SPOTS: Industrial overcapacity is usually treated as waste. But what if it's a hidden grid asset? E.g. aluminium smelters that pause every winter to give grids the seasonal flexibility they lack. I'm not sold yet. But it's worth a look. janrosenow.substack.com/p/could-indu...

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Ysabel Yates'... I mean Cookie Monster's superb takedown of why GenAI in the workplace sucks.

The Palestinians routinely victimized by settlers should be no less important but it’s hard to miss here that the photojournalist a bunch of them savagely beat is named Heidi Levine — almost certainly an American Jew. The story says she’s a 64 years old woman Staggering levels of impunity

We are horrified by this plot and relieved no one was hurt. We stand with Hindu and Indian Americans. No one should fear being murdered at prayer. The white supremacist behind it targeted Jews and Black people too, as often happens. Showing up for others is how we protect ourselves.

This was out of line. Criticizing foreign investment and real estate, including Israeli investment, is fair game. But it's not fair game to frame Israeli investments as part of a broader narrative about global domination and the root of society’s problems.

I have no problem saying things on here that get me yelled at, so I'll just say it: I think the demonization of "well, actually" is itself a corrosive plague on society. If I'm wrong, tell me I'm wrong. We decided at some point that it's gauche to correct people for being factually incorrect. Why?

Jewish groups condemn broadcaster for giving airtime to former Apprentice contestant with history of inflammatory remarks about Jews and Israel

Parents posting videos of their kids is such a killer resource for teaching developmental science Heres a mostly two-word utterer, en français

NEW BRIGHT SPOTS: How countries with hot climates, fast-growing economies, expensive energy, and fragile grids turn to solar. Not because of policy. People and businesses voted with their feet. janrosenow.substack.com/p/the-solar-...

“This is the new normal: a climate of opinion in the West in which Jews are blamed for their own deaths, whether they are killed in the towns and kibbutzim of southern Israel or on the streets of a major city.” Read every single word of this

Excellent piece in Haaretz by Joshua Leifer: "In the Jewish Diaspora, It's Still October 8" www.haaretz.com/jewish/2026-...

Just as many Pro Israel people have no clue about the atrocities committed against Palestinians in Gaza, I wonder how many people are aware of the atrocities Hamas committed and the intimate nature of it.

I’ll never forget the jubilation in that crowd of tens of thousands in Gaza as the coffins of murdered Jewish children were turned into a grotesque propaganda spectacle. Those children had been murdered in captivity, their bodies returned in a public display condemned even by the UN as abhorrent.

Great story about how the state has given up on doing anything about cranks selling their bacteria filled dairy products (ha ha that photo obviously did a number on me woooooooo) www.propublica.org/article/cali...

www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/10... Let's see how many people try and justify this.

We in the EU need to be more Zionist, not in the sense of pro-Israel policy (we should sanction settlements while keeping the alliance with Green Line-to-sea Israel) but in that of developing a single toothy state with the will to use force against powers that wish to destroy us and our democracy.

My statement on the Green Party's 'Zionism' motion 👇

Restore Britain supporters are sharing Britain First's petition to deport Kemi Badenoch

The Bjg Time Chatlie account seeking to identify & incite vs RNLI staff as traitors was run by a recruitment consultant in Worcestershire who is a Restore donor & Cromwell Club member. He hss now deactivated the anon troll account after being publicly identifird www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Some of you who have been following the Isrealis for Peace Oct. 7th vigil, and the anti-Mamdani counter-protest there might appreciate this. It's from one of the attendees, claiming that a big group amongst the protesters had no idea they were gonna protest a vigil: Full text below.