Lisa Schneider

@bellewriter @MegKeene Reader, her book does not, in fact, suck

@MegKeene Well… that might explain the 200+ passes after all the full requests and aggressively encouraging praise. Alternatively, my book might just suck

Being pro-Israel is career suicide in publishing. The data I’ve pulled from Publisher’s Marketplace shows that since 10/7 *ONE* Jewish fiction deal has gone to someone who has made public pro-Israel statements, and she was already an established author. Jews as a whole, regardless of their stance on Israel, have not faired much better. (I have a data driven OpEd on this that I’m trying valiantly to get a mainstream publication to pick up. If any editor in the non-Jewish media is interested please let me know.)

The problem is the double standard. There are all kinds of things I find disturbing about Israeli domestic politics. Violence in the West Bank towards Palestinians would be towards the top. Netanyahu’s attack on the rule of law would be number two. But it’s hard to see the point of giving voice to it when people can’t even acknowledge that Arabs literally create training videos about how to go on busses and execute all the Jews. Which they go and do. Or how they snipered a pregnant woman on her way to the hospital to give birth. It’s a dynamic that gives people the misleading impression that Jews are the aggressors. They are not. Their actions are overwhelmingly defensive. I can’t vote in Israeli elections, but if I did, I sure wouldn’t vote for Likud. And maybe I would be more critical of Israeli domestic politics. But I’m not. I’m an American that values our national security alliance. And is the best use of my time feeding into a narrative designed to mislead the public? I don’t think it is.

BREAKING: The Islamic Republic is preparing to hang eight women. Not a word from the international community or so-called human rights organizations.

I am still shaking from a soul-crushing Uber ride today in Dublin. It started with "Where are you from?" I said Iran, and the driver's face lit up as he thought he'd found a partner in his hate. He looked at me and said, "It must be crushing what the f***ing Israelis are doing to your country." ​The moment I pushed back, the moment I told him the truth, that I support Israel and want to see the regime in Iran fall, he erupted in pure rage. ​He began screaming about his uncle's high rank in the IRA, glorifying terror as a "success story" to justify the total erasure of Israel. To be trapped in a car with that level of brainwashed vitriol, being shamed and attacked for defending the Jewish people, is a burden I can't describe. ​Being Iranian is so incredibly taxing. You spend your life fighting the regime that destroyed your home, only to have strangers weaponise your identity to justify their antisemitism. To my Jewish friends: I see the hate you face. I will never stop standing with you, no matter how much it costs. 🇮🇱🦁☀️

This fawning celebrity profile of antisemitic bomb-thrower Francesca Albanese manages to ignore all the ways she's sabotaging the UN's mission of peace, from trying to debank Americans to eliminating their jobs, all just for doing business with Israel. She even calls Israel a “threat to humanity.” This happens under a UN banner that Americans fund — so we sanctioned her for doing us harm. POLITICO's @DaniellaCheslow and @KarlMathieson (who just deleted his account for antisemitic tweets) unethically reached out at the last possible second and claimed they were just doing a story about the sanctions. Why is POLITICO running cover for this anti-American, anti-Semitic zealot?

Israel already does pay for a substantial portion of the Iron Dome. But that's not the point. Israel is a strategic ally. Strengthening the relationship helps Americans. Some of the U.S. funding is required to be spent in the United States, helping us directly. But importantly, the U.S. uses Iron Dome cooperation to gain access to missile-defense technology, testing, and battlefield data which inform American systems. Also remember, the Dome is purely defensive. Helping an ally defend themselves is a good thing for America, strategically and morally.

Hate Israel all you want but one thing is absolutely, abundantly clear after the rescue of the American pilots and as this war has proceeded: No other ally in the world today actively assists the US as Israel does. They are the truest ally in every sense of the word. NATO won't even let the US fly through their airspace. Israel? They'll put their own pilots in the line of fire to rescue an American. That's allyship.

The 4 Children of Far-Left Jewish Passover - 2026 edition. The "Woke" Child asks: Why do you care so much about Israel? Isn’t Zionism just colonialism? He removes himself from the story, forgetting that Jewish people are indigenous to the land of Israel. He swallows hashtags and TikTok takes as if they were sacred texts. You respond: Because if we don’t care, no one will. And had you been in Egypt, you’d have called Moses an oppressor. The Performative Child declares: I stand with all oppressed people... but not you. He shows up to every rally, every cause, unless it involves Jews. He lights candles for strangers overseas but stays silent when synagogues are vandalized. To him you say: Your silence is not neutrality. It is consent. The Naive Child wonders: Can’t we just have peace? If both sides just stopped fighting? He thinks this is a conflict about land, not the annihilation of a people. He doesn’t understand that “peace” without justice is surrender. You gently explain: We’ve tried. We withdrew. We gave. We were met with rockets, murder, and silence. The Child Who Doesn’t Know What a Jew Is: He mumbles something about decolonization, stares blankly when you say “pogrom,” and thinks the Maccabees were a boy band. To him you say: Come sit. Let me tell you a story. It starts in Egypt, winds through exile, and ends, not in Brooklyn, but in Jerusalem.

Saghar (25) and Ghazal Ghodrat (29), Sisters from Shiraz, were kidnapped in January by the regime in Iran. Since then, no one has heard from them. No message. No sign they’re even alive. Their family has been threatened into silence. Their only hope now is for the world to keep saying their names. Because if no one does, they don’t just disappear once. They disappear twice.

🚨"This is how 6 million Jews were sent to the gas chambers. It started like this. Everyone now needs to wake up!" Julia Hartley-Brewer says if you are not speaking out against anti-Semitism, then you are "part of the problem". @JuliaHB1

This evening I visited Golders Green to stand with the Jewish community. Enough words. We need action: proscribe the IRGC and the Muslim Brotherhood, ban the hate marches, stop two tier policing and bring an end to antisemitism in our institutions like university campuses, the NHS and the BBC.

It’s been 900 days since October 7th 2023, and I can’t think of anyone else I’d want to be with today. You know, there is a strange, quiet guilt in breathing the air of a different city while your heart is still synced to the rhythm of sirens back home. A few days ago, I was in Israel with my family, ducking for cover and today, I’m in London with @ArgamaniNoa. It feels contradictory to smile while the sky at home is filled with missiles, and antisemitism persists here in London— but Noa is a living testament to the fact that our joy isn’t a betrayal, it is our most potent form of defiance. While we were out, Noa mentioned a membership she’d joined for young people under 27. Knowing she is 28, I asked her about it. She looked at me and said, “I told them that Hamas stole a year of my life, so they agreed to make an exception.” That will stay with me for a long time. Our lives are so short, and every moment stolen is one we can never truly take back. It’s why I told her today that whatever she needs, she will have. She deserves everything this world can offer, and I will do everything in my power to ensure that no one will ever take her time, or her rights, from her again. Noa is so human, so real, and so grounded. She is a reminder that our visibility is our greatest strength against the dehumanization weaponized against us. Every shared meal, every walk, and every photo is an act of resistance. We don’t just survive; we live. We show up. We refuse to let the shadows dim the light we’ve fought so hard to keep. We are choosing life, loudly and proudly— for everyone still waiting for their own freedom and peace. And we don’t stop praying for a better future, for peace, and for unity.

🇵🇹 expressa solidariedade com as vítimas e o sofrimento de todos os atingidos pelos ataques do Irão no sul de Israel. Impõe-se a máxima contenção e responsabilidade, condenando-se os ataques contra alvos civis e infraestruturas altamente sensíveis, como as nucleares. @IsraelMFA

They take the hits. We don’t. Thank you, Israel. Say it.

Hopefully Iran’s missile threat to UK will be eradicated by US & Israel — without our support. But we know other potential enemies have missiles able to hit us. We also know drones are prolific. The threat from both will increase. Britain lacks adequate air defences, which must obviously be addressed. Worth noting also that the majority of missile & drone casualties in Israel have been inflicted by people not getting to shelters in time. Last time UK mainland came under missile & drone attack was in 1945 (V1 and V2), when we had bomb shelters. Has our government addressed a shelter system, together with associated warning system?

Zohran Mamdani, @NYCMayor, says his wife is a “private person.” But she didn’t simply like a post. She liked what happened on October 7. She helped spread blood libel. And she stood with terrorists. That’s not private — not in a city with nearly a million Jews. Watch this.

Holy shit. Wow. This is HANDS DOWN the best take I’ve heard. If there is one video you listen to today it’s this one. Every single word of this and it’s a huge “f*ck you” to @antonioguterres for propping up the barbaric terrorist Islamic Regime in Iran. Must be shared everywhere in my opinion. Unfortunately I have no idea who this young British woman is to credit her, if you know who it is feel free to tag below.

Does he ... know what Purim is about???

Chag Purim Sameach and a freilichen Purim! To Jewish New Yorkers, may you have a joyful Purim, celebrating the courage, bravery and resilience at the heart of the holiday. As many begin to celebrate Purim, the NYPD will be deploying additional resources to synagogues and cultural institutions across the five boroughs to help ensure a joyful and safe holiday.

‼️Please sign the petition written by Yossi Klein Halevi repudiating the genocide libel (inversion) against Israel. The genocide libel or inversion is not only a means of shielding the truth of Hamas’ attempted genocide on the Jewish people on 10/7 but a means of inflicting more psychological pain on the Jewish people‼️ Below is also an excerpt from an article by Russell Shalev (8/25), a genocide scholar, demonstrating that Hamas attempted genocide of Jewish Israelis on 10/7, and the criminal use of genocide inversion (Cambridge University Press). “The evidence examined in this article demonstrates that the attack on October 7th by Hamas constitutes genocide under international law. This conclusion rests on three interconnected pillars. First, the physical acts committed – the systematic killing of over 1,200 Israelis, accompanied by torture, sexual violence and mutilation – satisfy the actus reusrequirement of the Genocide Convention. Second, Hamas’ specific intent to destroy Israeli Jews as a group is evidenced through multiple channels: its foundational ideology of eliminationist antisemitism, its decades-long systematic policy of incitement, its detailed operational planning for mass killing, and explicit statements by its leadership before and during the attack. What distinguishes this case, however, is the third element: the immediate deployment of reverse genocide accusations against the victims. This strategy of genocide inversion, exemplified by South Africa’s application to the ICJ, represents a sophisticated evolution in how perpetrators shield themselves from accountability. By appropriating and weaponising genocide accusations, Hamas and its allies have created a rhetorical shield that both deflects attention from its own genocidal actions and exploits Jewish historical trauma – a pattern observed in previous genocides but never executed with such rapid precision.”