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📰 Top Stories This Week
A new feature from X that allows users to see where accounts are located is raising questions over foreign involvement in online discourse.
- Why it matters: Discrepancies between where X users claim to be based and the data released by X have been particularly clarifying with regard to anti-Israel commentators and MAGA influencers who spread antisemitic rhetoric.
- On the other hand: Some critics claim the location information could be inaccurate or spoofed using widely available technology.
- Our take: Whether or not accounts are spoofing their locations, these revelations make clear that users should be skeptical about the origins of the accounts that they follow on social media.
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has appointed at least seven anti-Zionist Jews to his transition team, despite anti-Zionism being a fringe position in the Jewish community.
- Meanwhile: The same group responsible for the antisemitic demonstration outside Manhattan’s Park East Synagogue earlier this month is planning another demonstration at the synagogue next week.
- Our take: Deliberate efforts to separate Jewish identity from the Jewish people’s right to self-determination will lead to rising hostility toward Jewish New Yorkers and to a city that becomes less tolerant, more resentful, and less safe. This cannot become the new normal across the United States.
Peter Beinart, a Jewish BDS activist and contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, apologized for speaking at Tel Aviv University this week.
- Why it matters: He had initially said the speech was an opportunity to communicate his views to Israelis, but later wrote that he “let my desire for that conversation override my solidarity with Palestinians.”
- Our Take: Half the world’s Jews live in Israel. Refusing to speak to them is the clearest sign that one’s views sit on the radical fringe of the Jewish community.
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