Mystical Politics

Marc Goldberg wrote an excellent post for Harry's Place on the UN resolution. Here's the beginning: I’ve written two posts about ...

I went to my synagogue's Hanukkah party tonight and people brought many pretty hanukkiyot (menorahs for Hanukkah) to light. I saw a din...

All Coming Together Josh Marshall on the threatened neo-Nazi march in Whitefish, Montana: There was some news of this already. But now i...

The Republican party sent out rather peculiar Christmas wishes this year: I wonder when the author of this statement last read the New Te...

This is the text of today's UN Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, from Haaretz . ...

Two liberal American Jewish organizations, J Street and Ameinu, have just issued statements supporting the UNSC anti-settlement resolution a...

U.N. Resolution Condemning Israeli Settlements Is Approved; U.S. Abstains UNITED NATIONS — Defying extraordinary pressure from President-e...

Mick Mulvaney , whom Trump has picked to be his budget director, made a speech in July, 2016, to a chapter of the John Birch Society. Accord...

The Strange Reaction To Donald Trump and Gleichschaltung So, why the rush to defend Trump’s supporters? Why the self-recriminations? Why the...

Demonstrators in Tel Aviv. Credit: Tag Meir. In Israel,  Tag Meir  organized a demonstration last night to protest the massacres of civi...

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo just posted a strange story sent to him by a reader in Minneapolis: I wanted to share a really diso...

From Think Progress: "White nationalists target Jews in small Montana town" A white-supremacist call to action to “troll” Jewis...

I am reminded of this biblical curse uttered by the prophet Nathan to David (2 Sam 12:9-12): 9 Why have you despised the word of the Lord...

I've wondered for a long time why American leftist groups have not come out strongly against the Assad regime and why they did not supp...

Last Rebels in Aleppo Say Assad Forces Are Burning People Alive From Michael Weiss, Roy Gutman, and Alex Rowell, Daily Beast, December 12...

From Ali H. Soufan: Death toll of terrorist attacks in the past 48 hours: Nigeria: 59 Aden: 50 Istanbul: 39 Mogadishu: 29 Cairo: 25 (List...

In case you mistakenly thought that Donald Trump has nothing to do with the so-called alt right, see this article from Charles Johnson of Li...

President Rochon of Ithaca College signs letter to Trump urging him to speak out against harassment and hate This is the text of the lette...

Just in the last few days..... A few days before the election,  Racist, anti-Semitic and pro-Donald Trump graffiti was found on Mount Tom ...