Mystical Politics

First post of 2026 is on a racist (and ridiculous) post by the Department of Homeland Security. They appear to want to deport all people of ...

Simon Schama, the distinguished British historian, writes, "Globalise the intifada just means kill Jews wherever and whenever you can....

  Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah, the festival of lights. Today has been a very heavy day. Sixteen people were murdered in Sydney, A...

Why is the Ithaca Committee for Justice in Palestine holding a vigil in memory of Saleh al-Jafarawi on Friday afternoon, October 17? I had n...

  The complete post: Hamas’s brutality on October 7 was the plan! Newly released documents from Hamas’s underground dungeons include a hand...

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, founder of the Realign for Palestine project, spent today at a commemoration at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, ...

The Cornell University "Progressives" seized the opportunity presented by the second anniversary of the Hamas attack to desecrate ...

Israel and Gaza are not the only sufferers from death and destruction in the greater Middle East. Yashar Ali just wrote about the persecuti...

Destruction in Gaza last week.  Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP From an article by Nir Hasson in Haaretz, published on August 7, 2025, " One ...

 

  Link:  https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/787448 About this event In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.   NO KINGS is a nati...

  I'm holding the sign that reads "I stand with Israel Palestine Peace" This is the other sign I took to the rally - "Han...

Last night, Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Palestinian-American from Gaza who came to the United States in 2005, spoke at Ithaca College about ...

 

From Josh Marshall's newsletter today, The Backchannel: SCOTUS Can Let the President Break the Law, But It Can’t Change the Law Josh M...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/politics/lisa-murkowski-trump.html?smid=url-share Senator Lisa Murkowski, the moderate Alaska Republic...

A short excerpt from a post by Tristan Snell in the Big Picture (Substack). Last year, I did a series called Decoding Project 2025 — and on...

From Jonathan V. Last of the Bulwark , "Inside the Mind of an ICE agent": I know what it is like to lose your job because you won’...

 

Who does this remind you of? King George III, or someone else today? From the Declaration of Independence: He has refused his Assent to Laws...

Peter Baker : “Trump and Vance Berate Zelensky During Testy White House Meeting.” President Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated Presi...

It seems there is no end to evil.  This morning (between 9:00-10:00 am Israel time, between 2:00-3:00 am east coast US time, Hamas handed ov...

Among the many evil things the Trump administration has already done only in his first month in office (hard to believe!) is their attempt t...

 

The Southside Community Center in Ithaca is hosting a panel discussion on "Solidarity in Struggle: Black and Palestinian Resistance,...