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Daily Briefing: MAMDANI’S PRIMARY WIN SETS JEWS ON EDGE, EVEN AS OTHERS VOTED FOR HIM

“Mamdani’s game is a shotgun marriage of ideological convenience. As Glastonbury’s descent into Nuremberg-with-tents shows, sticking it to the Jews has become integral to the radical performance: a kinds of degenerate Passion Play, the symbolic heart of the Omnicause.” — Dominic Green *** FOR REAL? The Buffalo Blueprint for Defeating Zohran Mamdani:  Jason L. Riley, […]

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Zohran Mamdani and the Corbynisation of New York

  Dominic Green The Jewish Chronicle, July 3, 2025 “The young anti-Israel agitators on the party’s Left believe that tomorrow belongs to them.” And the winner of the Democratic nomination for the next mayor of New York City is… Zohran Mamdani. Is New York, the city of Seinfeld, Streisand and the 9/11 attacks, really going […]

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What NYC Mayoral Frontrunner Zohran Mamdani has said about Jews and Israel

  Gabe Friedman Times of Israel, July 2, 2025 “I’m not comfortable supporting any state that has a hierarchy of citizenship on the basis of religion or anything else.” Though he was elected to represent Astoria, Queens, in New York’s State Assembly, Zohran Mamdani — who last week pulled off a stunning upset in New […]

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Why are Jews Voting for Zohran Mamdani?!

  Gila Isaacson JFeed, June 10, 2025 “For some Jewish voters, Mamdani’s criticism of Israel, including his support for the “Not on Our Dime” bill to prohibit nonprofits from funding Israeli settlement activity, is less a dealbreaker than a point of debate.” In the bustling, diverse landscape of New York City’s 2025 mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old […]

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Mamdani Apologists Play the Fake Islamophobia Card

  Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, July 1, 2025 “Mamdani has been an ardent advocate for the cause of “free Palestine,” which is to say the effort to “free” the territory—meaning, from the Jewish population—of the only Jewish state on the planet.” It didn’t take long for the Democratic Party’s media cheering section to demonstrate how […]

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Bob Vylan He chanted anti-Israel slogans at the legendary English festival during a BBC live broadcast. : SOURCE: Heute.at

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Daily Briefing: GLASTONBURY ERUPTS WITH JEW HATRED WHILE LIVESTREAMED ON THE BBC

  “ … the [BBC] episode was “a time of national shame” that “brings confidence in our national broadcaster’s ability to treat antisemitism seriously to a new low.” — Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Sir Ephraim Mirvis MORAL COURAGE This is an anti-Fascist:  Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, June 30, 2025 — The name we should remember from this […]

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How the Antisemitic Meltdown at the Glastonbury Festival Unfolded

  Joseph Brean National Post, July 1, 2025 “The British broadcast regulator Ofcom said the BBC “has questions to answer” and that it has been urgently investigating what procedures were in place to ensure the BBC complied with its own editorial guidelines.” When Pascal Robinson-Foster, 34, a rapper from Ipswich, U.K., who goes by “Bobby […]

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Bob Vylan Reaction Reveals a Split on the British Right

  Mary Harrington Unherd, June 30, 2025 “Those on the Right that hew to a civic-nationalist view of identity tend to break older and more wealthy.”  Another year, another Glastonbury culture war moment. Last year it was Banksy’s inflatable model Channel migrant boat, which “sailed” across the crowd during an Idles set. This year it was Bob Vylan, […]

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Bob Vylan He chanted anti-Israel slogans at the legendary English festival during a BBC live broadcast. : SOURCE: Heute.at

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Bob Vylan, Glastonbury and the Banality of Jew Hatred

  Tom Slater Spiked, June 29, 2025 “The Gail’s crowd, the Glastonbury goers, have imbibed the poison fully now. Screaming blood libels against the world’s only Jewish nation is now what it means to be a Good Person.” If you can’t see it now, you never will. The sight of tens of thousands of people […]

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Nuremberg at Glastonbury

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  Melanie Phillips Substack, June 29, 2025 “We are watching the performative moralisation of mendacity and murderous hatred.” Another inflection point has been reached in Britain’s embrace of cultural suicide. The Hamas-led atrocities against Israelis on October 7 2023 threw down a challenge to the west. Did it support civilisation or barbarism? On Saturday, the […]

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Daily Briefing: TURKEY LEARNS FROM ISRAEL-IRAN WAR: SHOULD ISRAEL TAKE HEED?

STRENGHTENING TURKEY WATCH:  Episode 24: With Iran Down, Turkey Steps into the Breach – with Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak: Ask Haviv Anything, June 26, 2025   — Turkey was the first Muslim country to recognize Israel. I was an ally and vital trading partner for decades — until the rise of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, […]

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Neo-Ottoman Power: Erdoğan Positions Turkey as Israel’s Main Middle East Challenge

Jonathan Spyer Middle East Forum, June 2, 2025 “For the Turkish leader, Israel is a symbol of both Turkish and Muslim weakness.” It has been a good few weeks for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. All current indications suggest that the Turkish leader is making notable advances in his effort to place Turkey at the center […]

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