. The Labour Party has come a long way since the Corbyn years

Two years after being savagely attacked, Salman Rushdie reflects on his near-death experience in “Knife.” James Kirchick Random House Group Salman Rushdie trib.al/5X18LOO

There’s one thing that can still bring a divided Washington together: the music of Elton John. James Kirchick Elton John trib.al/lDPbOIP

Iran has fired drones at Israel. The United States will stand with Israel as it seeks to defend itself in the face of an Iranian attack.

Iran is the single most destabilizing force in the Middle East. It must be held accountable for the aggression it has long shown toward…

Three elements sustain the “special relationship” between 🇬🇧 and 🇺🇸: a common language, shared values, and @EltonOfficial.

My Air Mail report on the Library of Congress #GershwinPrize ceremony, aka “Bipartisan karaoke,” now streaming on PBS

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David Mixner and Joe Lieberman “lived their lives openly and proudly — one as a gay man, the other as an observant Jew — serving as role models for their communities, and indeed for all Americans,” James Kirchick writes.

Read: nyti.ms/3PQm7Zw

.Amnesty International refused to label #NelsonMandela a prisoner of conscience on the grounds that he advocated for the violent overthrow of the apartheid regime.

Now this:

Joe Lieberman and David Mixner, exemplary outsiders, by James Kirchick.

Read: nyti.ms/3PUboNQ

ATTN: Queers for Palestine

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This is long overdue, and a policy we ought to adopt in the United States as well

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#FreeEvanGershkovich

I love you Joe.

It’s appalling the U.S. allowed passage of a resolution that fails to condemn Hamas.

The UN has always been unwilling to condemn this group of terrorists, cowards and rapists.

We must stand with Israel and stop pandering to the political fringe or Hamas apologists.

How did a once obscure academic notion called “gender identity” triumph over material reality? Credit—or blame—Judith Butler. James Kirchick trib.al/r5SXjez

Yours truly in Air Mail on the preposterous #JudithButler and her migraine-inducing new book

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There's no whinier human alive than the anti-Zionist Jews, most of them probably fake, who are now raging in the responses to my wife's extremely reasonable tweet.

A weird number of them are anonymous or actually entirely foreign people taking insult in the name of Jews. I'm…

.@jeremysternLA in Tablet Magazine:

If German centrists continue to respond to dissenting populists with outrage, legal action, and repression of reality for the sake of preserving dogma, they will turn a manageable problem into a genuinely menacing threat.

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.Ritchie Torres in SAPIR Journal:

“Either we can be Vichy Democrats who cooperate and collaborate with the DSA occupation, or we can resist it. I choose to resist it.”

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Excellent The Chronicle of Higher Education piece on queer theory's contempt for gay men, 'made to bear the symbolic burden of the ills of capitalism, racism, imperialism, etc. to other member groups within an imagined coalition of sexual minorities.'

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Proud to join these other Jews in refuting Jonathan Glazer's historically ignorant and narcissistic Oscar speech

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