Seth Mandel

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Asked why he didn't coordinate with allies before going to war with Iran, Trump says, "We didn't tell anyone about it. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor, OK?"

Harvard used to have a cap on Jews. It appears the university has fewer Jewish students now than it did then.

This is what it looks like when the twin nightmares of political violence and anti-Semitism collide commentary.org/seth-mandel/am…

Because it's often getting lost in the discussion here, this is a partial list of Iran's attacks on energy *before* the Israeli strike on South Pars: - Ras Laffan LNG complex in Qatar - Ras Tanura oil refinery in Saudi - hundreds of drone attacks on Saudi oil fields - Ruwais refinery in Abu Dhabi - Shah gas field in Abu Dhabi - port of Fujairah - Bapco oil refinery in Bahrain The list goes on. Point is that, yes, South Pars was an escalation in American/Israeli targeting, but it comes after weeks of Iranian attacks on GCC energy infrastructure.

Belgium and Italy put boots on the ground—in Belgium and Italy, to protect synagogues commentary.org/seth-mandel/am…

EXCLUSIVE: Groypers are NOT welcome, California GOP says. The party is instituting a "vetting process" on candidates to block the influence of far-right streamer Nick Fuentes within the party. New in @TheFP ⬇️ The nation's largest Republican party is the first to formally condemn Nick Fuentes and ensure candidates don’t follow his far-right ideology. A memo sent to local party leaders instructs them to “refrain from recruiting, supporting, or endorsing candidates” who “espouse,” “promote,” or “campaign” on Fuentes’s ideas. They said there was an "organized effort" from Groypers to infiltrate the party and take over from within. “The ideology is characterized as White Nationalist; hostile to constitutional, limited-government conservatism; highly critical of MAGA and President Trump; and opposing of the civil rights of women, gays, and racial minorities,” state party leaders wrote.

Breaking: The IDF confirms it has struck the Iranian naval fleet in the Caspian Sea. The fleet had been used during the war in Ukraine to transfer equipment from Iran to Russia.

Will taking out Hassan Nasrallah end world poverty? Will any one action by the IDF end all wars forever? If not, the media doesn’t see a reason to do it. But Israel is defending its citizens and dispensing justice, and that is reason enough. @SethAMandel commentary.org/seth-mandel/ge…

Israel's campaign of targeted assassination is dispensing justice. And that's enough of a reason to do it. 'Get him before God does' commentary.org/seth-mandel/ge…

"For one amazing year in the late 1980s, an almost unbelievable pair of facts were true: the mayor of Dublin was Jewish and the president of Israel was Irish." Read @MattHennessey on Ireland after Oct. 7 in @WSJFreeEx wsj.com/opinion/free-e…

"It's so refreshing to see a principled public servant resign in protest that the Jews created ISIS."

Joe Kent's resignation letter is a remarkable document, perfect for the right-wing’s podcast-bro laziness and Jews-on-the-brain paranoia. @SethAMandel commentary.org/seth-mandel/jo…

It is great news that Joe Kent is leaving the government. But his entire, disastrous political career was a problem of Trump's own making: commentary.org/seth-mandel/jo…

Jurgen Habermas’s last public controversy was over his support for Israel’s right to defend itself. I argue that his own philosophical ideas, and not merely some oversimplified German guilt, is what led him there commentary.org/seth-mandel/wh…

Twenty-five years after 9/11, the West has returned to a point at which terrorists are essentially treated as noncombatants. This is a travesty, and it is also suicidal. @SethAMandel commentary.org/seth-mandel/th…

🧵An IDF airstrike on a home in Shaboura, Rafah on Dec 14, 2023 was reported as an illegal strike on a “refugee camp” for displaced Gazans. But a Hamas martyr notice now confirms actual target: a Rafah Brigade commander, Subhi Abu Shaer. The truth slowly comes out. Detail: 1/

Why a framework for fighting terrorism remains as essential today as it was after 9/11, as recent events prove once again that it cannot be wished away commentary.org/seth-mandel/th…

Synagogues are being rationalized as legitimate targets of violence on the basis of Jewish collective guilt commentary.org/seth-mandel/th…

The horseshoe effect and the exhausting, nauseating politics of bipartisan anti-Jewish incitement commentary.org/seth-mandel/th…