“Abe Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League…sounds more defeated: “When we talk about ‘We’re losing the kids’, we’re not,” he laments in an uncharacteristically perceptive moment – “we lost them.”

Brilliant piece from ⁦Rivkah Brown⁩ novaramedia.com/2024/05/16/you…

CEO of the Index on Censorship when 105 journalists are killed in Gaza:
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CEO of the Index on Censorship when people are mean to a Eurovision entry:

A masterclass in burying the lede

Joining Michael Walker on #NovaraLive in just over an hour

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🇵🇸 Biden marking Nakba Day by giving Israel $1bn to finish the job
👩🏻‍🏫 Tories trying to ban sex ed for under 9s
👮🏻‍♀️ The woman being investigated by police for calling Sunak a 🥥

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I, too, would like to support the liberation of Palestine, but sadly these text messages from my quite possibly imaginary friend make that impossible

The Observer doing free PR for the disaster capitalist build-to-rent sector to soothe the guilty consciences of Guardianista landlords (we all know them)

.Ari B Lesser here describing Israel's genocide in Gaza as 'a fight between brown folks'

A master class in a certain mode of politically supine middlebrow commentary that mistakes tortured ambivalence for moral rigor, and juridical hairsplitting for profundity.

'Eurovision is meant to be an apolitical contest, but that's a fantasy' – okay so you're *are* making a political statement by choosing to participate, and it's that your career is more important than genocide x.com/i/status/17870…

Despite what liberal intellectuals will have you believe, it is not boorish or anti-nuance to have strong moral convictions and identify right from wrong

Zadie Smith is the product of multicultural Britain and Cambridge uni. She became a star of the publishing industry and then a uni professor in her twenties. Her confidence in the establishment makes sense: it’s what made her and gave her the opportunities she’s had

A good rule of thumb: the more 'unbelievably labyrinthine' someone insists 'Israel/Palestine' is, the more they want you to sympathise with Israel