Seth Rosenblatt

@Mr_Planner_2u @VladSF Better than a locked-up lot, but yeah... Losing the Coronet stung.

@VladSF ...and the Coronet, the theater where Star Wars premiered in the '70s with lines around the block. Now: Senior housing

I love San Francisco's movie theater history and every time i'm on the 38 Geary rumbling past the Alexandria I get sad seeing the state that it's in. The theater has been closed for over 20+ years now - here's hoping something finally happens there. sfyimby.com/2026/03/new-bu…

Max Fleischer’s granddaughter has been funding these restorations on her own and we’d really appreciate if we can get the public support on the blu ray. It will help us get more out of the vault and keep the legacy alive. Thank you!

@VladSF CalMatters had a good story on this the other day, about how even affordable projects that mostly-pencil face funding shortfalls. calmatters.org/housing/2026/0…

I remain bemused and slightly perplexed as to why high-rise construction pencils in Berkeley but not Oakland or San Francisco. sfyimby.com/2026/03/constr…

Hamas has abducted 65-year-old Adel Asfour, father of my friend and anti-Hamas activist Mustafa Asfour, as a way of pressuring him into silence to stop/end his social media activism against the Islamist terror group, despite living in Belgium and being out of Gaza. The terror group is doing the same with many families of Gazans who are abroad to inflict maximum cost upon those who even think of going after Hamas's fascistic rule, criticize its behavior, or demand better for the people of Gaza. This has been done dozens of times in the past few weeks alone, with the terror group massively escalating its attacks against the people of Gaza in a desperate bid to maintain its violent rule, despite nominally agreeing to turn power over to the US-endorsed technocratic committee for the administration of Gaza. If you still support Hamas and proclaim to be "pro-Palestine, you are an evil, fascist, ignorant, irritated, antisemitic, vile, and pathetic bunch of noise. Shame on anyone who still endorses Gaza's ISIS regime, pretending it is somehow a form of "resistance."

Starting a year ago, I have been repeatedly sharing this image that Al Jazeera itself captured of Hamas's terrorists emerging out of the al-Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, after the first ceasefire was announced when Trump first became president, pleading with journalists, humanitarian advocates and organizations, and political mediators to demand Hamas end its horrendous activities in medical facilities. It took over a year, thousands of dead, tortured, jailed and beaten Gazans at the al-Nasser Hospital for @MSF (Doctors Without Borders) to stop its operations there and publicly acknowledge that Hamas terror operatives are in the facility and endangering the sanctity of this critical medical installation. Shame on all who knew, and most NGOs have in fact known about this, but chose to remain silent, opting instead to just "keep the focus on Israel" for political and fundraising convenience.

I’m lying in bed thinking about how I don’t think any of us has the capacity to truly comprehend the scale of the destruction of the Shoah. The annihilation of six million precious lives, one third of world Jewry, meant the annihilation of Eastern Europe’s once towering Jewish civilisation. An entire inimitable society erased from this earth in a few short years. It’s hard to internalise a time when Jews were a sizable minority rather than an infestimisally small minority in Europe, and it’s simply devastating to try to envision an alternate reality today wherein Jewish life maintains more of a presence on this continent. Instead of a stolperstein stone, a Jewish restaurant. Instead of a Holocaust museum, a synagogue with a full congregation every Saturday. In 2009, Prof. Sergio DellaPergola of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said that, had the Shoah not happened, the number of Jews alive in the world could be as many as 32 million. There are fewer than half that number alive today. Think about the far greater presence of Jewish life we could currently have. Instead the ashes of six million Jews are ‘piled up on the hills of Auschwitz and the fields of Treblinka, and are strewn in the forests of Poland. Their graves are scattered throughout the length and breadth of Europe. Their blood cries out, but their voice is not heard.’ It is important that, one day a year, we stop to listen to those voices. But in a better world, we would be listening instead to the laughter of the grandchildren they never got to have.

Thank you to the incredible chef, friend, and ally, Michael Solomonov, for his tremendous hospitality at the Zahav restaurant (@zahavrestaurant) in Philadelphia, where he displayed immense kindness, love, accommodation, understanding, and joy in hosting me following an event discussing the war in Gaza and the complex issues that both our people face. He even went out of his way to prepare an off-menu dish for the dinner guests and me, that is authentically Gazan, called Sumaghiyyeh, researching recipes, gathering ingredients, and bringing into his space something that is uniquely Palestinian from the coastal enclave. Palestinian and Israeli cuisines share common traits while also having distinct differences that allow each to shine in different ways. Michael is a conscientious, cognizant, compassionate, humanistic, and emotionally intelligent individual whose Israeli identity is an asset, not a hindrance. I hope everyone has a chance to try one of his myriad restaurants and experience his loving-kindness and hospitality, which augment and complement his astute political demeanor, awareness, balanced perspective, and strong connection to the world.

Just so people understand what I have been subjected to for my Sunday Independent piece: they are threatening to create a petition about me and to call my dad and his partner at their business. For the record, my dad knows exactly what I do and I sent him my article to read prior to publication. He bought the paper first thing Sunday morning and read it aloud at home. He was so proud. Now we are here together in my parent’s sitting room. He is sitting opposite me. I have shown him this threat and we are both just so bowled over and devastated that a piece we both thought might provoke empathy, has instead provoked personal threats. I won’t be writing another one, our family’s safety must come first.

I have spent the past few weeks talking to humanitarians in Gaza, anti-Hamas activists, human rights organizers, feminists, widows, divorced women, desperate civilians, people in tents, civilians barely getting by, youngsters, and a diverse cross-section of Gaza’s professional class. They all shared the hardships they have been experiencing as a result of the past two years of a devastating Israeli war that has decimated the coastal enclave and made it virtually unlivable for those picking up the pieces after the ceasefire. I have asked almost every single one of them: Why are we not seeing a mass anti-Hamas movement, and why are we not seeing large-scale uprisings against the terror group? Every single one has referenced the horror that Hamas carries out against those who have enough of a platform and dare speak out. Specifically, and disturbingly, they have each referenced the use of Gaza’s hospitals by Hamas as interrogation centers, and how the terror group threatens its opponents with “rods in their legs” if they dare open their mouths. They have described how Hamas has been breaking the legs of opponents, attacking tent occupants, kidnapping men, beating their mothers and sisters, and taking them to one of the three main hospitals: al-Shifa in Gaza City, Al Aqsa in Deir al-Balah, or Nasser in Khan Younis. Despite widespread public knowledge of what happens, none of the international humanitarian or “human rights” organizations have said anything about the horrendous human rights atrocities being committed by Hamas against the Palestinian people of Gaza. This is how many such organizations have become a joke, making a mockery of their so-called “activism.” The crimes being perpetrated against Palestinians are only relevant to these organizations when Israel is the culprit, and hardly ever if Hamas, the Islamist, fascist, terror organization, is involved. Some of the same organizations who regularly decry abuses by Islamist movements and anti-Western extremists in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, or elsewhere, and the same who scream about gender-apartheid, freedom of expression, and the need to push back against dictatorial and absolutist regimes, are cowardly, and willingly, remaining silent, when it comes to the violence and atrocities of Hamas in the Strip. This is why “human rights” activism needs a serious makeover; this is why Hamas needs to be treated and considered as a human rights issue, and not only when seen through the lens of the very legitimate human rights abuses by Israel. Instead, everything has become this kind of blind obsession with calling out Israel, without understanding the evils that this Muslim Brotherhood-backed, Iranian Islamic Regime-financed terror entity is the ultimate enemy of the Palestinian people in Gaza and beyond. Shame on all of these fraudsters who are unable to hold multiple truths and who are asleep at the wheel now that there is a ceasefire in Gaza.

This Jimmy Kimmel FCC threat thing is full anti-speech fascistic nonsense and is a huge breach of the republic. I do not talk like this lightly.

While attending the Haaretz Conference over the weekend, it was disappointing that several participants took issue with my critique of Hamas and “pro-Palestine” activists in general, and in particular those who were protesting outside of the newspaper’s conference for the whole day. Some critiques came from fellow compatriots, who did not like my dismissal of the anti-Haaretz protestors outside, my not using terms like “genocide” and “apartheid” in every other sentence, speaking perfect English, wearing a suit and tie, or even failing to acknowledge that Hamas is supposedly the “resistance product of Israeli occupation and oppression.” Others believed that anti-Haaretz protestors had a right to voice their opposition to the paper’s choice of guest speakers, including myself. The amount of self-flagellation that some are willing to engage in, hoping that they will be accepted and tolerated by what is an inherently intolerable and intolerant group of so-called activists, was astonishing to see. I spoke ad nauseam about the criminality of the Israeli government, the behavior of individual Israeli soldiers and military units, the horrors perpetrated by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, and how that is entirely separate from the need to call out the fascism and evil perpetrated by an ISIS-like entity in Gaza, called Hamas, which has served the Palestinian people on a silver platter to Israel’s most far-right government in Israel’s history. I pleaded with the audience in different sessions to understand that Hamas is a core and central threat to the Palestinian people that is inseparable from the far-right in Israel and that must be thoroughly acknowledged by liberals, leftists, and social-justice voices and activists. Some were interested in what I had to share, while others were visibly hostile and resentful of my mere presence. What I do know is that I shared my lived experience, background, my story, that of my family, and my hopes and aspirations, in a way that made it clear how the entirety of my ethos and actions are motivated by a Palestinian-centric self-interested point of view and that no one has any right or ability to subject me to “authenticity” or “legitimacy” litmus tests, especially if their lived experiences is solely based on a diaspora one and if they are not Palestinian themselves.

Congratulations to the "pro-Palestine" movement in the US, Europe, and elsewhere. You refused to call out Hamas, celebrated or excused October 7, wanted a ceasefire without the release of hostages whom you demonized and called "prisoners of war", thought your vicious "activism" would win public opinion & force Israel's hands. Two years later, Gaza is worse off than ever before, and it is about to be permanently lost. You are tools and partners of Netanyahu's vision; you are useful idiots for a fascist terror organization; you are a disgrace - you embarrass me & all sane Palestinians; you embarrass yourselves. Gaza is finished, and so is Palestine - but hey, "from the river to the sea", right? "Zionism is finished", and "long live the resistance", right? Negligent, unintelligent fools.

Confirmed: Hamas is now the only and sole obstacle to reaching a ceasefire deal to stop the killing and starvation in Gaza; so disgustingly so that mediators, including those who have tried to be understanding of the group's position, are sick & tired of the games. The newest issue relates to how aid will be delivered during the ceasefire, as the terror group insists on a mechanism it can exploit to make money and claim a victory.

Thread: The Soviet Union & Palestinian radicalism 🧵 The PLO, founded in 1964, was shaped by the KGB to destabilize Israel, a U.S. ally. Soviet funds and arms fueled PLO’s Marxist anti-Zionist agenda, aiming to weaken the West in the Cold War (1/?)

this “critical thoroughfare” carried as many cars as an average residential street when it wasn’t closed for sand buildup. Now Sunset Dunes an awesome park open every day

The city’s big fear of the rogue benches is “vandalism”, so I adopted one that got “tagged”. Was pretty quick to paint this I hope this helps the benches last longer as 100% of people I talked to at the bus stop said they love them

The evidence of sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7 was present from the beginning. In other conflicts, scenes like the ones left behind—bodies of women stripped, bound to trees, their legs spread—would have been recognized immediately as credible indicators of rape, even before witnesses came forward. International investigators have relied on similar forensic markers for decades. In Bosnia, Rwanda, Darfur, and elsewhere, they have drawn on: ▶️ The condition and positioning of other women's bodies ▶️Physical evidence of restraint and assault ▶️Witnesses who heard women's screams begging them to stop ▶️Observed assaults ▶️Repeated patterns of similar violence ▶️Delayed witness or survivor testimony, a common response to extreme psychological shock. All of these were present after October 7. Yet, the denials came swiftly—not just from distant political corners but from inside the professional communities entrusted with understanding trauma and safeguarding human rights. Inside my own professional community. While in Israel a few weeks ago, I treated a man who only now, over a year later, can describe what he witnessed that day: three women raped—two killed immediately after, and one abducted to Gaza. He has yet to report what he saw to authorities. Trauma psychologists recognize this delay as typical. Psychological stability comes first. More witnesses will likely come forward, despite the difficult climate they face. The evidence has always been there. It should not have required the painful courage of delayed witnesses to convince the public, a standard that is not used in any other conflict. And yet, some well-known trauma professionals publicly downplayed or denied the attacks. Dr. Gabor Maté, a family physician long regarded as a trauma authority, stated there was no evidence of “mass deliberate rapes” by Hamas. He made this claim repeatedly on Al Jazeera—a Qatari-funded network known for promoting Hamas narratives and banned in several Arab countries for its links to the Muslim Brotherhood. His influencer son, Aaron Maté, went further, categorically denying that any rape occurred. Their denials were quickly amplified—not just by Al Jazeera, but across social media, podcasts, and online platforms where outrage and contrarian takes drive visibility and profit. What is less visible, but equally concerning, are the many psychologists, physicians, and influencers who did not explicitly deny the rapes—but who quietly capitalized on the surge in attention and credibility that followed those denials. They distanced themselves from the most extreme claims, yet rode the coattails of the fame, followers, and monetization that now reliably accompanies those who undermine or hold Israeli suffering to a different standard. Denying or minimizing sexual violence, when politically convenient, has become lucrative. It extends beyond individuals. At the University of Alberta, the director of the sexual assault center signed an open letter denying the rapes occurred. At the University of Minnesota, a gender studies professor publicly dismissed reports of Israeli rape victims altogether. In other conflicts, even less evidence has triggered immediate global condemnation and investigation. But when the victims are Israeli or politically inconvenient, the standard shifts. That is not trauma-informed practice. It is not science. And it is not advocacy. It is a betrayal of the very principles too many medical professionals claim to uphold.

CyberNews pushed the same fucking story last year. It's even written by the same author. You can't keep fear mongering people every time a Threat Actor assembles a data leak package

In an op-ed for the @washingtonpost, I argue that now is the time to finish off Hamas & end the unspeakable suffering & misery of Palestinians in Gaza, given the weakening of the Mullahs' regime in Tehran. Gazans shouldn't be paying for Hamas's criminality washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

🚨NEW REPORT: exposing a new hacking tactic. 🇷🇺Russian state-backed hackers used an App-Specific Password attack against prominent Russia expert @KeirGiles & others. It's like they know what we all expect from them...and then did the opposite 1/ By us @citizenlab & @google's GTIG