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The November issue of Commentary is now available. Why liberal Jews need to reject the left, why the culture war is never-ending, and more. With contributions from @AbeGreenwald, @jkirchick, @NaomiSRiley, @rcbl, @jpodhoretz. Read on at and subscribe at

Anti-Semitic campaigns used to require some effort, some commitment. Now online Jew-baiting and blacklisting are moving into their Jetsons era, a futuristic digital playground. If you thought anti-Semites were ignorant before, just wait till they fully indulge their laziest instincts. @SethAMandel

RT @AbeGreenwald: "When a new cause bubbles up, the potential activist asks himself what’s in it for him. Consciously or not, he works out a few things: Will this make me look good? Will I be more accepted by others? Will my conscience be soothed? Will it raise my status or increase my power? And, maybe most important, will it be cost-free or even fun?"--From today's newsletter

Suspicion, anxiety, hostility, and fear are experiences described by another woman from a previous century who also wrote about a woman-only space, albeit one far more menacing than Woolf’s imagined room of one’s own.

Things didn’t work out quite as he expected. When he told his classmates where he was from, “the news was received much like the gift of a wounded bird—gorgeous and vulnerable and not long for this world.” He goes on: “I’m so sorry, I heard more than once. You’re so lucky you made it out, I heard as well.” He was pitied and isolated. By the time he had graduated, he didn’t belong in the world of Leech Lake—or the world of Princeton.

The other day, a Palestinian appeared to be caught on video trying to kill Knesset candidate Fleur Hassan by throwing a football-sized jagged rock through her car window while she and others were driving through Judea and Samaria.

LISTEN: Contributing editor @EliLake joins us today to correct the record on Jon Lovett’s comments on Michigan Jews and Abdul El-Sayed, and discuss the larger implications of centering Israel in US politics and the different flavors of antisemitism on the left and right as both parties struggle with their own cohorts in the approach to the midterms. Is there any cause for optimism going forward, or do even darker days lie ahead?

Is this moment one that calls for Holocaust memorials or is there some better way to meet the challenge? Perhaps now would be a great time to build a memorial or a museum to some element of Jewish vibrancy. @SethAMandel

@officialbenshapiro: "The thing for Americans and people outside Israel to understand . . . Israeli elections are not about you." Watch & subscribe to the Commentary Magazine Podcast:

"People are talking themselves into supporting an obviously unfit candidate just to stop Republicans." Watch & subscribe to the Commentary Magazine Podcast:

Rubio is following in Churchill’s footsteps.

As it stands, Bibi hasn’t been defeated. In Israeli politics, that means it’s time for the opposition to see if they can go around Bibi instead of through him. @SethAMandel

There are freedom-loving Muslims around the world who would make fine American citizens. Mehdi Hasan fails the test.

LISTEN: @benshapiro joins us today to discuss the results of the Israeli election, where the anti-Bibi coalition underperformed and likely denied Eisenkot the prime ministership. Can Netanyahu form a new type of coalition or rely on Smotrich, Ben Gvir, and the ultra orthodox parties, and what might another round of elections look like if he can’t? Plus, the election results as viewed through the prism of American politics, and @jpodhoretz recommends the movie Confession.

RT @CommentaryRec: October 27, @jpodhoretz recommends The Cheesecake Factory

"They hate it because it is because it exists and that none of the policies will actually change." Watch & subscribe to the Commentary Magazine Podcast:

We should not blame Zelensky for refusing to allow his country to be overrun, destroyed, and erased from the map.

The sub-Rothian sexual humor that marred some of his earlier work has been burned away by fury and sorrow, even as familiar Jacobsonian tropes and themes—a nebbish protagonist, a half-mad brother, a mysterious mother, a tolerant shiksa wife, an errant daughter, treacherous colleagues—remain present. But here they serve a greater purpose.

Does it require an astonishing level of innumeracy and economic ignorance to believe that when the U.S. gives Israel vouchers to buy weapons from American manufacturers—thus expanding American jobs and American manufacturing—it’s somehow taking eggs and bananas out of the mouths of theoretical Abdul El-Sayed voters? Yes, it does. @SethAMandel

All was going according to plan—until the Houthis struck the main airport in Riyadh, killing over a dozen and injuring hundreds and forcing flight cancellations.