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I wrote about *why* Sally Rooney would stage an elaborate self-boycott after Britain refused to censor her. Crazy only gets crazier commentary.org/seth-mandel/s…
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"Audiences didn’t want to see Hasan’s execution, and it would have been showbiz malpractice not to listen to them." --From today's newsletter
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"The left knows only how to take offense, and Shane Gillis doesn’t owe anyone an apology. But it’s hard to say that a joke is “just a joke,” if it’s also something else: a deliberate taunt."--From today's newsletter
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Now that the Palestinian Authority has dropped the elections that were a key reason France recognized their ‘state,’ I have a modest proposal for how Paris can pressure Ramallah to get back on track: try BDS! commentary.org/seth-mandel/p…
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"It would be too dramatic to call any of this a crisis for El-Sayed at the moment, but he’s just not showing anything like clear frontrunner momentum."--From today's newsletter
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My latest on why it was so important to see American Jews stand up to Mamdani and speak for their own values and their own security commentary.org/seth-mandel/a…
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Notable from @FalkOphir on the first two calls to come in to Bibi after the 10/7 slaughter: Biden’s “How can I help” vs Macron’s diplomacy gobbledygook wsj.com/opinion/what-i-saw-o…
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“The changes Obama wrought in American political culture were large and lasting. He made it possible for someone like El-Sayed to get to where he is today.”—From today’s newsletter.
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I wrote about how we now have several on-the-record Israelis who have direct knowledge of the NAZA-related systems explaining what the movie got wrong--but they're only in Jewish and Israeli publications, b/c mainstream pubs are in blackout mode: commentary.org/seth-mandel/t…
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"You will not mitigate the potential damage of AI by trying to shape its soul—because it has no soul."--From today's newsletter
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"The drug satisfies the tedious and ceaseless hunger that is now a part of me—a hunger that the drug created in the first place. If it also makes me calmer or more focused, that’s only because I don’t have to worry about when I’m getting my next fix."--From today's newsletter
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Today I wrote about the musicality of Jewish survival: Why the returning Israeli passengers sang what they sang, why certain songs have become Israeli anthems of hope and resilience post-Oct. 7, and the deeper meaning of it all commentary.org/seth-mandel/t…
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"Yes, much of the West’s unhinged rage toward Israel can be traced back to anti-Semitism. But there’s another factor at work. Israel shames the rest of the developed world."--From today's newsletter
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September 30, @continetti recommends To Jerusalem and Back by Saul Bellow
