@SethAMandel

Dad to the six Irishest Jewish kids on earth. Senior Editor @Commentary Magazine. @bethanyshondark is my better half. [email protected]

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Sharon Horgan is a genius.
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Grateful to lead this letter with nearly two-dozen @UkraineCaucus colleagues calling for Ukraine to be allowed to use Starlink to hit launch sites within Russia. Ukraine must be able to defend itself, its people, and the West! The best way is to destroy Russia’s ability to launch its terrorist attacks. thehill.com/homenews/house/6…

7 Republicans join letter urging Trump, Musk to give Ukraine targeting access in Russia

A bipartisan group of nearly two-dozen House members is urging President Trump to ask Elon Musk to give Ukraine access to Starlink systems inside Russia to hit missile launchers, according to a let…

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Extremely damning piece on Sally Rooney’s anti-free-speech crusade by George Packer theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…

Sally Rooney Is Wrong, and So Is What’s Happening to Her

You don’t have to agree with the author and activist to see that Britain’s suppression of speech is a problem.

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A trustee of PEN America just nuking Rooney from orbit like this suggests a return to sanity is possible if we want it:
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NEW: Pope Leo XIV will need no chemotherapy or radiation, his doctors at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital said Wednesday, after final lab results showed the cancer in his right lung had not spread. His surgeon has already cleared him for his Nov. 6–17 trip to Uruguay, Argentina, and Peru. The news came hours after Leo returned to work in St. Peter’s Square, where he blessed babies from the popemobile at his first general audience since surgery and closed it by leading the crowd in singing the Our Father in Latin. thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope…

“Thank You for the Support of Your Prayers” — Pope Leo XIV Needs No Further Cancer Treatment,...

Final lab results confirmed the tumor in the pope’s right lung was localized. Hours earlier, eight days after surgery, Leo rode through a rain-soaked St. Peter’s Square, blessed babies, and sang the...

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Jarvis
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Taking a selfie while getting briefly stopped by the IDF for committing some minor visa violation is the new kissing babies for lefties with aspirations for higher office. It’s in the book.
Brad Lander
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I’ve been detained by the IDF, along with a group of rabbis & volunteers. We were simply harvesting olives in a grove near Nehalim in the West Bank. The occupation is a crime under international law. Harvesting olives isn’t a crime under any law I know.
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One difference is that Trump’s headwinds (Iran, tariffs, his own weird behavior, ballroom obsession) are entirely self inflicted. As in no other person or circumstances intervened at all.
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And Bush had Katrina, the lingering opposition to Iraq, and eventually (though closer to the end) the housing crash
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Trump approval starting to look like a dead ringer for Bush's second term.
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Pyromania as a political doctrine, from Paris to Palestine commentary.org/seth-mandel/p…

Pyromania, from Paris to Palestine

Brad Lander is currently on a selfie tour of Judea and Samaria. Here he is on a comfy bus ride guarded by IDF soldiers—Lander w...

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My latest is my continuing search for an answer to the question: What planet is Tom Barrack on? commentary.org/seth-mandel/w…

What Planet Is Tom Barrack On?

Tom Barrack is the U.S. ambassador to Turkey. His hobbies include saying strange things about the Middle East. His preferred form of exercise is walking those comments back. One recent example...

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What can Zelensky do to mitigate the risk that the president’s volatile mood swings pose to Ukraine? @SethAMandel commentary.org/seth-mandel/w…

What Zelensky Can Learn from Rabin

President Trump’s increasingly hostile treatment of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky raises the question: What can Zelensky do to mitigate the risk that the president’s volatile mood sw...

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what a time to be alive
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David Wolpe
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My review of Benjamin Moser's book, "Anti-Zionism" (spoiler alert: not a fan). commentary.org/articles/davi…

A Word from an Informer

The subtitle of Benjamin Moser’s Anti-Zionism is a Jewish History. I have enough respect for Jewish history to believe that an inaccurate, tendentious, and se...

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What Zelensky Can Learn from Yitzhak Rabin commentary.org/seth-mandel/w… Is there a way to rally American support with a hostile president stomping his feet? I offer a couple of ideas.

What Zelensky Can Learn from Rabin

President Trump’s increasingly hostile treatment of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky raises the question: What can Zelensky do to mitigate the risk that the president’s volatile mood sw...

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I wrote about the Europeanization of the keffiyeh that began 90 years ago, the Palestining of the UK Remembrance Poppy, and the general monetization and commodification of globalized 'resistance' commentary.org/seth-mandel/t…

The Revolution Will Be Accessorized

If Western Europeans are going to adopt the keffiyeh as the modern symbol of woke capitalism, I suppose it’s only fair that the pro-Palestinian movement hijacks the remembrance poppy. Though...

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My latest is on the high cost of Saudi pride: Instead of normalizing with Israel and defeating the Houthis, Riyadh is trying to pull Egypt into the war. The result: Riyadh's flagship investment conference has been postponed till next year commentary.org/seth-mandel/t…

The High Cost of Saudi Pride

In sports movies or TV shows there’s always that one episode when the bad-luck team holds open tryouts. Magically, miraculously, there appears a diamond in the rough among the would-be walk-ons...

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My latest on Mamdani’s mob turning on him. You hate to see it commentary.org/seth-mandel/y…

You Hate To See It

Spare a thought for poor Zohran Mamdani. He had no idea that if he spent his entire adult life egging on a radical pro-violence movement and then used that movement’s talking points to demagogu...

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"Members of one of the Democratic Party’s most loyal constituencies are breaking with their [Michigan Senate] nominee because he rationalized the attempted killing of their neighbors, including preschool-aged children, on the basis of a conflict on the other side of the planet" washingtonpost.com/opinions/…

Opinion | In Michigan, Jewish voters are reconsidering what their faith demands

Communal preservation must accompany universal concern.

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Marc Thiessen
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🚨BREAKING: This new chart from @TheStudyofWar overlays Ukraine’s strikes on Russian refineries with the price of diesel fuel. There is NO CORRELATION between strikes on Russian refineries and spikes in the price of diesel here in the U.S. They are not driving up prices here.
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My latest is on the way anti-Semites waste so much of our time by using this One Weird Trick commentary.org/seth-mandel/a…

Anti-Semites Waste So Much of Our Time

Now she’s really gone and done it. Francesca Albanese, the U.S.-sanctioned unofficial Hamas mouthpiece with a UN badge, has finally crossed J Street’s line. Yes, it turns out, even J Stree...

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