When gay culture traded rebellion for conformity, and independent thought became the ultimate social crime.

SUBSTACK
Bandwagon Gays: Will They Ever Learn?
Daniel-Ryan Spaulding
October 23, 2026

…The Birth of the Bandwagon Gay. I first started using this expression around the summer of 2024, after a friend of mine experienced an ugly confrontation on Fire Island. Fire Island has historically been one of the great sanctuaries of gay male culture. It also has a substantial Jewish community, including many gay Jewish men with deep connections to Israel. My friend, who is a gay Orthodox Jew, had been attending a house party when the topic of Israel came up, and in their gaggle of homos someone said something along the lines of “We don’t support genocide here!” He gently told them he had family members serving in the IDF, that he knew people who had been murdered on October 7, and that people he knew had been taken hostage. They shut up quickly, with the slightest eye roll. “Oh. Okay. Whatever.”READ MORE

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In the war with Iran, “Israel has contributed intelligence, targeting capabilities, technological innovation, and sustained offensive military power on a scale few American allies could match”

TABLET MAG
Is There an Effective ‘America First’ Position on Israel?
Michael Doran
October 21, 2026

…What is the proper “America First” position on Israel? Trump has answered through his actions, taking American military cooperation with Israel to unprecedented heights and treating the Jewish state as a powerful partner against Iran. Vance’s position is more complicated. In a recent interview with Sean Spicer, he acknowledged having disagreed with Trump over the Iran war and expressed sympathy for Tucker Carlson’s anger about it. Carlson has depicted the war as a betrayal of American interests undertaken at Israel’s behest. The contrast between Trump and Vance therefore reaches beyond a disagreement over Netanyahu. It concerns the meaning of American nationalism, the country’s strategic interests, and the future of the political coalition Trump assembled. The United States faces an emerging coalition linking China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. These powers are developing military, economic, and technological relationships that threaten to consolidate a hostile Eurasian bloc increasingly insulated from American maritime power. Washington cannot contain this challenge alone. READ MORE

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Haredi IDF conscription: “If my rabbi says to leave Israel, I’m going to leave”

JPOST
‘We do whatever they say’: Yeshiva students defer to rabbis over response to IDF draft enforcement
Sam Halpern
October 26, 2026

Yeshiva students attending a massive United Torah Judaism election rally in Bnei Brak on Sunday told The Jerusalem Post that whether they would leave Israel, stay in the country, or enlist in the IDF if the next government stepped up draft enforcement would depend on their rabbis’ instructions. The rally, held two days before Israel’s election, drew tens of thousands of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jews under the slogan “Gather and Stand Up for Our Lives.” Central to the gathering was military conscription for haredi yeshiva students, regarded as a red line by much of the haredi community but widely supported among Jewish Israelis. An October Israel Democracy Institute survey found that 72% of Jewish respondents supported legislation requiring young haredi men to enlist. Speaking at the rally, Rabbi Dov Landau, a leading haredi rabbinic authority, urged supporters to defend Torah study. “Never have yeshiva students and kollel scholars been persecuted as they are being persecuted now,” Landau said. READ MORE

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Jewish actor Adam Brody’s comments called “truly shocking and disgusting”

NEW YORK POST
‘Nobody Wants This’ star Tovah Feldshuh has thoughts on her fellow celebrities calling the war in Gaza a genocide
Jonathan Harounoff
October 25, 2026

For a show about an interfaith romance, “Nobody Wants This” has become an unlikely battleground over Jewish identity and Israel — perhaps even between some of its biggest stars. As the hit Netflix rom-com returned for season three on Oct. 22, one of its stars found himself at the center of a political firestorm. Adam Brody, who plays progressive California rabbi Noah Roklov, accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza in a September interview with GQ. “Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide,” Brody said. “Put me down as wanting a free Palestine.”…[Brody co-star Tovah] Feldshuh has her own thoughts on the genocide controversy. “To accuse the Jewish people of genocide is wild,” she told The Post. “It’s right out of Hitler’s playbook. You take the victim and you make the victim the perpetrator.” READ MORE

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‘CTU advertises itself as a bastion of education,’ said event organizer Jonathan Greenberg. ‘They don’t care about education’

FREE BEACON
Chicago Teachers Union Abruptly Cancels Screening of Documentary on Hamas Sexual Violence Following Complaints From Anti-Israel Activists
Alana Goodman
October 20, 2026

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) abruptly canceled the screening of a film documenting Hamas violence on Oct. 7, 2023, after anti-Israel activists objected to the film being shown at the union’s conference center, event organizers told the Washington Free Beacon. The news comes three months after the far-left union hosted a Marxist, anti-Israel conference at which speakers called on attendees to support Iran’s “axis of resistance” and advocated for violence against the United States and Israel. Defending Education, a nonprofit group that supports parental rights and fights antisemitism in the education system, organized the October 19 screening of Screams Before Silence, a documentary by businesswoman Sheryl Sandberg that chronicled the sexual violence Hamas terrorists committed while carrying out the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks on Israel. The CTU Foundation agreed to host the screening at its event space in Chicago before reversing course on Friday, just two days before the planned event…READ MORE

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“Some people are ready to swear they heard from the prime minister over the past year that he intends to step down around 2028 or 2029, around the end of the 47th president’s term”

ISRAEL HAYOM
Netanyahu’s remark hints at when he might step down
Amit Segal
October 22, 2026

One sentence from Netanyahu this week should have made every ear perk up: “We have two years left of my great friend Donald Trump’s presidency, two years to finish the job.” In that sentence, for the first time in 12 races for prime minister, is Netanyahu marking an end date? Since 2015 the Likud campaign has toyed with such a declaration, tested it in polls and always backed off at the last moment. It’s called “iron”, the link between the words “prime minister” and “Benjamin Netanyahu.” The original argument is that many swing voters will find it easier to support him for final arrangements for one last job (toppling the regime in Iran, peace with Saudi Arabia and Lebanon) if they know it ends afterward. But in most polls the result is that it deters more voters than it attracts. If it turns out, by mistake, that Netanyahu is a mortal of flesh and blood, and not someone with the prime minister’s office registered in his name in the land registry, then why not vote for someone else? READ MORE

POLITICO Trump throws Netanyahu a last-minute lifeline. It may not be enough. President Donald Trump’s political brand is still riding high in Israel — but it may not save Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from an electoral defeat next Tuesday. Despite providing an important signal of support from the leader of Israel’s most crucial ally, Trump’s last-minute endorsement of Netanyahu this week landed amid a series of opinion polls that show the prime minister’s governing coalition falling several seats short of a parliamentary majority…Netanyahu’s coalition held 60 of the 120 seats in the Knesset before parliament was dissolved in July, and recent polls suggest his bloc could erode in next week’s election. A Walla survey published Tuesday projected just 48 seats for Netanyahu and his allies — 13 short of the 61 needed to form a government. A separate Channel 12 poll put his bloc at 51 seats.

JERUSALEM POST Fueled by a life’s mission, Netanyahu asks Israelis for time to ‘finish the job’ in Iran Netanyahu to ‘Post’: I want five more terms • ‘I’ll form gov’t with current coalition partners; Eisenkot ruled me out’ • Trump’s support ‘surprised’ PM, Israel must capitalize before tide turns in US

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“Notice how effortlessly the “liberation of Palestine” becomes a campaign to dismantle Western societies”

FUTURE OF JEWISH
‘Globalize the intifada’ arrives on Europe’s doorstep.
Lucy
October 19, 2026

…The Palestinian cause has been used as a Trojan horse for anti-Western ideology, providing movements hostile to Western civilisation with a powerful vehicle to mobilise populations, advance their political ambitions, and exploit the sympathies of the progressive Left to do their bidding. Islamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood have explicitly identified the Palestinian cause as a “key tool” in their wider ideological struggle. In the Brotherhood’s document known as “The Project,” it is presented as a cornerstone of a broader Islamic political programme. A separate 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memorandum, written by Mohamed Akram and seized by the FBI in 2004, was entered into evidence during the 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial. It describes a strategy of “civilizational jihad” — undermining Western civilisation from within through networks of organisations, institutional influence, and political alliances…The language of “decolonisation” is tailor-made to appeal to progressive Western activists, whose worldview is largely shaped by collective guilt over the West’s colonial past and a moral imperative to dismantle its supposed structures of oppression. READ MORE

CONSERVATIVE CLARITY Is Paris Burning ? Yep, this time it will The streets of Paris are burning through a rampage of destruction by a combination of uncivilized hordes, all of whom likely sympathize with Islamo-Nazis and Communists. They don’t care about social norms, due process, or “peaceful protest,” although, laughingly, the Media, of course, claims most of the Barbarians are engaged in “peaceful protest.” The violence, mayhem, looting, and disruptions in the streets of Paris have already metastasized like the cancer that they are into other cities and will ultimately destroy those countries. This time around, while there will be ebbs and flows in the violence and civil disorder, this will become the new normal for all of Western Europe unless and until those nations take their countries back. That means kicking out any and all so-called “immigrants”… actually invaders. 

FREE PRESS Inside France’s Night of Terror “You bourgeois bitch, we’re going to rape you!” That is what young French protesters shouted at Raphaëlle, a young Parisian mother, after she tried to stop them from looting the small shop below her apartment on Saturday. As she spoke with me on Monday, her voice trembled. I saw her relive the civil war–like scenes that all of France has just watched unfold. The demonstration began at 2 p.m. on Saturday, when protesters gathered to chant against the uncertain future of high school students, rising fuel prices, and falling purchasing power. By late afternoon, they had been eclipsed by hordes of rioters: thousands of mostly young people, dressed in black, faces masked, storming into shops across the country to loot and steal whatever they could, from Sephora’s Huda Beauty palettes to brand-new Foot Locker sneakers.

ARUTZ SHEVA As riots rock France, Shin Bet director holds high-level security talks in Paris October 21, 2026Shin Bet Director David Zini traveled to France on Tuesday and met with local security and intelligence officials amid the ongoing protests and riots in the country. Kan News reported that the visit had been scheduled in advance, but that during the visit, the sides also discussed efforts to counter terrorism and radical Islam in light of developments in France. During his working visit to Paris, Zini met with senior representatives of two of France’s main intelligence agencies: the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieure (General Directorate for Internal Security-DGSI), whose responsibilities are similar to those of Israel’s Shin Bet…

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Obama’s distortions of Jewish history appear carefully considered—which compounds the wound.

WALL STREET JOURNAL
Obama’s Dangerous Mideast Words
Elisha Weisel
October 19, 2026

…In Mr. Obama’s telling, Jews were oppressed in Europe and then arrived somewhere else and took too much. Jewish history in the land disappears. My father drew a line when he wrote in the New York Times in 2001: “To compromise on territory might seem, under certain conditions, imperative. . . . But to compromise on history is impossible.” That is the line Mr. Obama crossed in Belfast. The timing of his remarks matters. This week he will rally in Detroit for Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic U.S. Senate nominee, who has accused Israel of “genocide” and “apartheid,” called it “bloodthirsty” and a “rogue state,” and, when asked three times on CNN whether Israel has a right to exist, refused to say yes. Mr. Obama is free to campaign for whomever he chooses. But when he, the most trusted voice in the Democratic Party, misrepresents Jewish history and then shares a stage with Mr. El-Sayed, Jewish Americans can be forgiven for hearing one message. Perhaps it is not the one he intends…I hope Mr. Obama reconsiders his words and takes them back. It would be an act worthy of his friendship with my father. READ MORE

ALL ISRAEL NEWS Obama’s ‘stolen land’ claim ignores the legal and historical record Former U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent remarks in Belfast—claiming that Israel “took land off people” during its establishment—are not merely ahistorical; they ignore the documented legal, diplomatic, and historical record. A careful reading of that record, including declassified archives and the foundational documents of international law, shows that the Jewish claim to the land is rooted in law and history, not theft. Obama’s framing presumes a one-sided narrative of expulsion. Yet the historical evidence reveals a far more complex reality. While there were indeed cases of expulsion—such as al-Bassa, Iqrit, Kafr Bir’im, and al-Qubayba—there is also extensive documentation of Arab evacuation orders and advice. In Haifa, a contemporary document from the Arab Emergency Committee dated April 23, 1948, confirms that the transfer of the Arab population was “voluntary and came at our request.” 

NEW YORK POST Netanyahu fires back at Obama after he accuses Israel of stealing land, defends Palestinian terror “The Jewish people are not foreign occupiers in the land of our forefathers,” Netanyahu responded in a stern video rebuke posted on X Friday. “The Jewish people are not foreign occupiers in the land of our forefathers,” Netanyahu responded in a stern video rebuke posted on X Friday.

JEWISH JOURNAL Micha Danzig: Obama Got a Doctorate in Belfast and Failed the Local History Lesson  On Oct. 13, Barack Obama collected an honorary doctorate from Queen’s University Belfast. That evening, at the city’s O2 arena, he gave his audience a short “history” of Israel. Jews, he said, had been persecuted for millennia and understandably sought refuge. “What is also undeniable is that they took land off people and they were excessive.” Israel, as the stronger party, had to make concessions or risk having “ceded moral ground.”

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“This week, AIPAC announced it was doubling down on its political strategy, while also making changes to its tactics. The mission remains, the fight continues, the methodology is evolving. That is the very nature of our political landscape”

TIMES OF ISRAEL
AIPAC: The Courage to Evolve
David-Seth Kirshner
October 21, 2026

Eight years ago, a group of insurgent political candidates launched a war on the pro-Israel base of the Democratic Party – the party I’ve belonged to my entire adult life. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took down Joe Crowley, a ten-term pro-Israel Democrat. Ayanna Pressley beat Mike Capuano, another 20-year House Democrat. Two years later, Jamaal Bowman ousted Eliot Engel, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. And Cori Bush unseated Lacy Clay, who served for two decades in the Congressional Black Caucus. Four Democratic, pro-Israel leaders unseated by anti-Israel challengers…The organization is expanding. It is introducing new tools that give our community the greatest possible political impact, and sunsetting others that are no longer critical to the mission. Among these changes, AIPAC’s PAC will no longer issue endorsements, make direct contributions to candidates, or be listed publicly as an earmark on individual contributions. READ MORE

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European delegation claims they were assaulted by settlers even though not a single one of them needed medical care, nor are there any videos of them actually being being beaten

URI KURLIANCHIK SUBSTACK
Israel Has a Settler Violence Problem, but It’s Not What You Think
October 20, 2026

Every day, Palestinians supported by foreign leftists attack Jewish homesteaders in Samaria. They throw rocks at them, attempt to steal their herds, poison their dogs, insult and harangue them and so forth. This is well documented, but even the Israeli media ignores it because such behavior came to be expected from Arabs and leftists, so reporting it isn’t “news.” However, when Jews react, this makes headlines based on the principle of “man bites dog.” Folks like Heidi Levine, the “neutral” WaPo camerawoman who claims she was assaulted by settlers, are there to record the cases when Jews fall to these provocations, so they could report about “settler violence.” Because this trope is already engrained, they can embellish events without fear. For example, Heidi claims she was beaten for ten minutes. There were over a hundreds people and dozens of cameras there. Where is this video of her being beaten for ten minutes? READ MORE

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