Mark Shuster
@markshuster.com
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All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
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Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
October 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
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"I have trouble with the term 'liberal Zionism'"
Anti-Zionist Jewish Hollywood star Hannah Einbinder on the "settler colonialist ideology" and "apartheid" of Zionism, in the new Zeteo podcast 'Beyond Israelism with Simone Zimmerman'.
Full show: zeteo.com/p/beyond-isr...
Anti-Zionist Jewish Hollywood star Hannah Einbinder on the "settler colonialist ideology" and "apartheid" of Zionism, in the new Zeteo podcast 'Beyond Israelism with Simone Zimmerman'.
Full show: zeteo.com/p/beyond-isr...
October 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
"I have trouble with the term 'liberal Zionism'"
Anti-Zionist Jewish Hollywood star Hannah Einbinder on the "settler colonialist ideology" and "apartheid" of Zionism, in the new Zeteo podcast 'Beyond Israelism with Simone Zimmerman'.
Full show: zeteo.com/p/beyond-isr...
Anti-Zionist Jewish Hollywood star Hannah Einbinder on the "settler colonialist ideology" and "apartheid" of Zionism, in the new Zeteo podcast 'Beyond Israelism with Simone Zimmerman'.
Full show: zeteo.com/p/beyond-isr...
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This week I’m going to raise money for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social to help Palestinians in need.
On Fri I'll start & finish Metal Gear Solid, MGS2 on Sat, Delta on Sun. It'll be 9 AM PT each day on www.twitch.tv/tamoorh.
Fundraiser is live on my Twitch. Please share if you can!
On Fri I'll start & finish Metal Gear Solid, MGS2 on Sat, Delta on Sun. It'll be 9 AM PT each day on www.twitch.tv/tamoorh.
Fundraiser is live on my Twitch. Please share if you can!
October 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This week I’m going to raise money for @medicalaidpal.bsky.social to help Palestinians in need.
On Fri I'll start & finish Metal Gear Solid, MGS2 on Sat, Delta on Sun. It'll be 9 AM PT each day on www.twitch.tv/tamoorh.
Fundraiser is live on my Twitch. Please share if you can!
On Fri I'll start & finish Metal Gear Solid, MGS2 on Sat, Delta on Sun. It'll be 9 AM PT each day on www.twitch.tv/tamoorh.
Fundraiser is live on my Twitch. Please share if you can!
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"As one of the few Jews on [the flotilla]...they asked me if I was Jewish...threw me in front of the Israeli flag... we were strip-searched & zip-tied & blindfolded, & sent to this detention camp."
Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler:
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler:
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
October 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"As one of the few Jews on [the flotilla]...they asked me if I was Jewish...threw me in front of the Israeli flag... we were strip-searched & zip-tied & blindfolded, & sent to this detention camp."
Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler:
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler:
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
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New WaPo poll —
61% of American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes against Palestinians.
39% say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
61% of American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes against Palestinians.
39% say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
October 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
New WaPo poll —
61% of American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes against Palestinians.
39% say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
61% of American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes against Palestinians.
39% say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
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Happening now: Hundreds of rabbis and Jewish community members gather in Brooklyn for a mass public memorial service on Yom Kippur, demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and for the U.S. to stop arming Israel.
October 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Happening now: Hundreds of rabbis and Jewish community members gather in Brooklyn for a mass public memorial service on Yom Kippur, demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and for the U.S. to stop arming Israel.
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The judgment of history is not an inevitable emergence from academic rigor or plain documentation. It’s the result of political contestation as well. And the same imperatives behind present-day Israeli genocide denial will exist as long as Zionism does.
One Day, Zionists Will Continue To Deny This
Riffing off Sana Saaed's essay riffing off Omar El Akkad
www.forever-wars.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The judgment of history is not an inevitable emergence from academic rigor or plain documentation. It’s the result of political contestation as well. And the same imperatives behind present-day Israeli genocide denial will exist as long as Zionism does.
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What is happening in Gaza is genocide.
Those enabling it—lawmakers sending arms to Israel, officials giving it cover at the UN and international courts, the lobby groups demanding such support—aren’t just accomplices, but full participants in a crime against humanity.
They must be held to account.
Those enabling it—lawmakers sending arms to Israel, officials giving it cover at the UN and international courts, the lobby groups demanding such support—aren’t just accomplices, but full participants in a crime against humanity.
They must be held to account.
September 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
What is happening in Gaza is genocide.
Those enabling it—lawmakers sending arms to Israel, officials giving it cover at the UN and international courts, the lobby groups demanding such support—aren’t just accomplices, but full participants in a crime against humanity.
They must be held to account.
Those enabling it—lawmakers sending arms to Israel, officials giving it cover at the UN and international courts, the lobby groups demanding such support—aren’t just accomplices, but full participants in a crime against humanity.
They must be held to account.
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Paul W. S. Anderson's Event Horizon was released 28 years ago today.
"A rescue crew is tasked with investigating the mysterious reappearance of a spaceship that had been lost for seven years."
In the year 2047. Only 22 more years to go!
"A rescue crew is tasked with investigating the mysterious reappearance of a spaceship that had been lost for seven years."
In the year 2047. Only 22 more years to go!
August 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Paul W. S. Anderson's Event Horizon was released 28 years ago today.
"A rescue crew is tasked with investigating the mysterious reappearance of a spaceship that had been lost for seven years."
In the year 2047. Only 22 more years to go!
"A rescue crew is tasked with investigating the mysterious reappearance of a spaceship that had been lost for seven years."
In the year 2047. Only 22 more years to go!
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Some thoughts on @noahshachtman.bsky.social's very good piece about the ADL & the contradictions of Zionism as a nativist movement that enjoys elite respectability.
The ADL's Descent And The Trajectory of Zionism
Noah Shachtman's New York Magazine piece doesn't just reveal what the ADL has become, it highlights the contradictions of Zionism as a nativist movement with elite respectability
www.forever-wars.com
August 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Some thoughts on @noahshachtman.bsky.social's very good piece about the ADL & the contradictions of Zionism as a nativist movement that enjoys elite respectability.
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At least in California a lot of it comes down to the simple fact that we don't adequately fund school transportation. www.kqed.org/news/1198071...
July 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
At least in California a lot of it comes down to the simple fact that we don't adequately fund school transportation. www.kqed.org/news/1198071...
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The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
Aid Groups Blame Israel’s Gaza Restrictions for ‘Mass Starvation’
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
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At a comedy show, Mahmoud Khalil told Zohran Mamdani, “I am excited about the possibility of raising my son in a city where you are mayor.” It was a stunning moment, Hanif Abdurraqib writes.
Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are In on the Joke
What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.
www.newyorker.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
At a comedy show, Mahmoud Khalil told Zohran Mamdani, “I am excited about the possibility of raising my son in a city where you are mayor.” It was a stunning moment, Hanif Abdurraqib writes.
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I can't emphasize enough how ugly and pervasive and persistent the "Mamdani hates Jews" campaign was. I'm happy that so many Jews stood strong against that vileness. Maybe people will start to understand that we've had it with being treated as a paranoid, easily manipulated single-issue bloc.
June 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I can't emphasize enough how ugly and pervasive and persistent the "Mamdani hates Jews" campaign was. I'm happy that so many Jews stood strong against that vileness. Maybe people will start to understand that we've had it with being treated as a paranoid, easily manipulated single-issue bloc.
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My latest — The accusations of antisemitism against NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani have been some of the most appalling smears I’ve seen in my years covering politics.
I wrote about the concerted attack, & pressure for American Jews to define a local political race through the lens of Israel:
I wrote about the concerted attack, & pressure for American Jews to define a local political race through the lens of Israel:
The appalling smearing of Zohran Mamdani as 'anti-semitic'
It's Islamophobic. It's racist. It's also completely untrue.
www.thehandbasket.co
June 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
My latest — The accusations of antisemitism against NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani have been some of the most appalling smears I’ve seen in my years covering politics.
I wrote about the concerted attack, & pressure for American Jews to define a local political race through the lens of Israel:
I wrote about the concerted attack, & pressure for American Jews to define a local political race through the lens of Israel:
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The leader of the most powerful US antisemitism watchdog says that the people who shoot up synagogues because of the Great Replacement Theory aren’t as dangerous as students who yell FREE PALESTINE too loudly. And the implication that the students are ISIS is just vile racism.
June 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The leader of the most powerful US antisemitism watchdog says that the people who shoot up synagogues because of the Great Replacement Theory aren’t as dangerous as students who yell FREE PALESTINE too loudly. And the implication that the students are ISIS is just vile racism.
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New FOREVER WARS is about question I can’t get out of my mind since I saw the little girl in the burning school yesterday.
If We Were in Hell, Would We See More Children Burn Than We See in Gaza?
Edited by Sam Thielman
I SAW THE SILHOUETTE of a little girl, alone, as everything around her burned in the predawn darkness.
Her name is Ward Jalal al-Shaikh Khalil. Only five years old, she surv...
www.forever-wars.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
New FOREVER WARS is about question I can’t get out of my mind since I saw the little girl in the burning school yesterday.
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modern Zionism consists of exactly one belief: that no person on Earth, including diasporic Jews, has any civil right which might supersede the most paranoid right wing Israeli's suspicion that they are a threat to Israel.
May 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
modern Zionism consists of exactly one belief: that no person on Earth, including diasporic Jews, has any civil right which might supersede the most paranoid right wing Israeli's suspicion that they are a threat to Israel.
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What is happening in Gaza will be a permanent stain on the world's collective conscience.
History will never forget how our government was complicit in enabling and sustaining this ongoing humanitarian disaster.
We must end funding for the Netanyahu war machine.
History will never forget how our government was complicit in enabling and sustaining this ongoing humanitarian disaster.
We must end funding for the Netanyahu war machine.
May 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
What is happening in Gaza will be a permanent stain on the world's collective conscience.
History will never forget how our government was complicit in enabling and sustaining this ongoing humanitarian disaster.
We must end funding for the Netanyahu war machine.
History will never forget how our government was complicit in enabling and sustaining this ongoing humanitarian disaster.
We must end funding for the Netanyahu war machine.
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Congress says it's antisemitic to say Jesus wouldn't approve of killing Palestinian children but not antisemitic to say Jews killed Jesus
SCOOP: The Antisemitism Awareness Act — up for vote in Senate committee tomorrow — now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements by Christian conservatives.
New added language in the bill clarifies First Amendment protections.
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New added language in the bill clarifies First Amendment protections.
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Why the Antisemitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements
The Antisemitism Awareness Act's added language says it would not infringe on religious liberty to protect the claim that Jews killed Jesus.
forward.com
April 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Congress says it's antisemitic to say Jesus wouldn't approve of killing Palestinian children but not antisemitic to say Jews killed Jesus