I think this is really good.

"We are not homeless. We are tenants. The defense we receive is conditional on our usefulness to someone else’s larger story. The lease renews when we fit. It lapses when we do not. The landlord changes faster than we do.

Some #Jews trust strongmen and unapologetic #nationalists. They look at history and conclude that force is the only language anyone has truly respected. A people whose twentieth century included watching civilized societies collapse into pits does not emerge with much faith in polite institutions.

Other Jews trust #liberal institutions, pluralist coalitions, and democratic norms. They know #minorities survive not because powerful men favor them, but because laws restrain power across factions, because institutions outlast moods, because protection that depends on a patron’s loyalty is not protection at all.

Both instincts are responding to something real. Neither is reading the lease."

https://brendenstrauss.substack.com/p/conditionally-defended

Domani: «Patrioti» in gita a Budapest: Salvini e Le Pen tifano Orbán, come Putin e Trump

Meloni ha già fatto il suo endorsement per la rielezione dell’autocrate, ma il vicepremier porta il sostegno pure di persona ed evoca la propaganda antiucraina. La leader del RN loda Viktor «il pioniere»; lui alle urne rischia

“Nationalists” on a trip to Budapest: Salvini and Le Pen cheer for Orbán, like Putin and Trump

Meloni has already given her endorsement for the reelection of the autocrat, but the vice premier also offers personal support and evokes anti-Ukrainian propaganda. The leader of the RN praises Viktor “the pioneer”; he risks it at the polls.

#Nationalists #Budapest #Salvini #LePen #Orbán #Putin #Meloni #anti-Ukrainian #Viktor

https://www.editorialedomani.it/politica/europa/Salvini-Budapest-Orban-Patrioti-elezioni-ungheresi-lg45mfsv

"Discourse about #antisemitism in #America has become a hopeless, meaningless mess. Particularly in the last few years, pro-#Israel and #rightwing organizations and politicians have insisted that anti-#Zionism is a form of antisemitism, minimized the threat on the right while exaggerating the threat on the #left, used the charge of antisemitism to deflect legitimate criticism of #Israeli actions, and weaponized #Jewish fears in their #kulturkampf against higher education, the press, and #progressive activists of all kinds.

It is thus understandable that #progressives’ reflexive response to accusations of antisemitism is to dismiss them. But to do so would be a mistake. Antisemitism does exist on the left; ask any Jewish person active in progressive spaces. Moreover, the failure to condemn and root out real antisemitism enables #nationalists, #racists, and #fascists to defame and delegitimize progressive movements. It is also a betrayal of progressive values."

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/progressive-jews-are-deeply-distressed

Self-defeating landlords - a tale as old as landlords

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1872105/self-defeating-landlords-a-tale-as-old-as-landlords

#Trump #DonaldTrump #FarRight #USA #America #UnitedStates #American #nazi #EU #Europe #Nazis #Immigration #Maga #Propaganda #Politics #USPol #Rhetoric #Immigrants #Dangerous #BBC #News #Security #Denmark #NationalSecurity #Greenland #Annexation #Illegal #China #Russia #Allies #UK #Germany #France #Patriots #Patriotism #Nationalism #Nationalists

China no longer Pentagon's top security priority https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj9r8ezym3ro