Josh Yunis
@joshyunis.bsky.social
I tried articulating my reservations about Mamdani's candidacy in a way that is grounded in both Jewish experience and leftist principle here:
joshyunis.substack.com/p/the-mamdan...
joshyunis.substack.com/p/the-mamdan...
The Mamdani Sting
Learning to see Jewish pain when you need Jewish votes is better than nothing – just don’t confuse it for leadership
joshyunis.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I tried articulating my reservations about Mamdani's candidacy in a way that is grounded in both Jewish experience and leftist principle here:
joshyunis.substack.com/p/the-mamdan...
joshyunis.substack.com/p/the-mamdan...
This is an ok statement, but it'd be better if Nexus simply acknowledged the concerns the Jewish community has about Mamdani's views without qualification (1/2) >
The Nexus Project is deeply concerned by the divisive, hyperbolic and aggressive response that we are seeing from some corners of the Jewish community to the election of Zohran Mamdani as the next mayor of New York City.
Our full statement: nexusproject.us/press-releas...
Our full statement: nexusproject.us/press-releas...
November 8, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This is an ok statement, but it'd be better if Nexus simply acknowledged the concerns the Jewish community has about Mamdani's views without qualification (1/2) >
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I would have voted for Mamdani but I do have some misgivings, well highlighted here. Excellent piece👇
I waded into the Mamdani discourse, against my better judgement:
joshyunis.substack.com/p/the-mamdan...
joshyunis.substack.com/p/the-mamdan...
The Mamdani Sting
Learning to see Jewish pain when you need Jewish votes is better than nothing – just don’t confuse it for leadership
joshyunis.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I would have voted for Mamdani but I do have some misgivings, well highlighted here. Excellent piece👇
This is how I feel about Mamdani and Bernie Sanders and the New Yorker mainstreaming Hasan Piker too
Not every idea is worth airing. Not every point of view is worth hearing. Not everything that "a lot of people believe" should be credentialed by homepage space. Would the NYT editorial board run "Did Homosexuals Ruin Culture?" or "Did Black People Get Too Big for Their Britches?" I guess we'll see.
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This is how I feel about Mamdani and Bernie Sanders and the New Yorker mainstreaming Hasan Piker too
There needs to be some word for Jews who hate Jews and their descendants who didn’t get on the right boat before 1924
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
There needs to be some word for Jews who hate Jews and their descendants who didn’t get on the right boat before 1924
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It's like, come on now. Dude won 2 elections 8 years apart. He's touched a lot of nerves and built a cult following.
It is a vast overstatement to say he's been carried entirely by happenstance and the errors of his opponents.
It is a vast overstatement to say he's been carried entirely by happenstance and the errors of his opponents.
His charisma is fundamentally incompatible with me (and likely many of the people on Bluesky) but it’s kind of insane to say it doesn’t exist
November 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It's like, come on now. Dude won 2 elections 8 years apart. He's touched a lot of nerves and built a cult following.
It is a vast overstatement to say he's been carried entirely by happenstance and the errors of his opponents.
It is a vast overstatement to say he's been carried entirely by happenstance and the errors of his opponents.
I waded into the Mamdani discourse, against my better judgement:
joshyunis.substack.com/p/the-mamdan...
joshyunis.substack.com/p/the-mamdan...
The Mamdani Sting
Learning to see Jewish pain when you need Jewish votes is better than nothing – just don’t confuse it for leadership
joshyunis.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I waded into the Mamdani discourse, against my better judgement:
joshyunis.substack.com/p/the-mamdan...
joshyunis.substack.com/p/the-mamdan...
Refusing to participate in mainstream Israel advocacy lest I be seen as endorsing the mere suggestion of war crimes only to see Mamdani dodge questions about his participation in analogous pro-Palestine activism and then hear his supporters snicker at any criticism of it makes me feel like a chump
November 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Refusing to participate in mainstream Israel advocacy lest I be seen as endorsing the mere suggestion of war crimes only to see Mamdani dodge questions about his participation in analogous pro-Palestine activism and then hear his supporters snicker at any criticism of it makes me feel like a chump
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Turns out to be used by the Nazis lmao that’s a hell of a phrase
He is comparing Byrd, an actual klan member who had a redemption arc, to a guy who has always been a lefty and drunkenly got a skull and bones tat that turned out to have been used by Nazis. It is insane to compare those two things. What arc is he referring to? This is insane.
November 2, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Turns out to be used by the Nazis lmao that’s a hell of a phrase
"Anti-globalism is not antisemitism" will be the new mantra on the groyper right
October 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM
"Anti-globalism is not antisemitism" will be the new mantra on the groyper right
It would be tempting to say that the "Red" in the red-brown alliance is limited to fringe cooks like Cenk, but the truth is that far too much of the left - including the Jewish left - has failed to draw any kind of red lines w/r/t the illiberalism in the pro-Palestine movement over the last 2 years
Two things I feel absolutely confident about is that it is entirely possible and indeed necessary to criticize the state of Israel without legitimizing antisemitism, and also that this Red-Brown alliance is not going to manage to do it.
somehow, zeev sternhell's work returned
October 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM
It would be tempting to say that the "Red" in the red-brown alliance is limited to fringe cooks like Cenk, but the truth is that far too much of the left - including the Jewish left - has failed to draw any kind of red lines w/r/t the illiberalism in the pro-Palestine movement over the last 2 years
Saying "criticism of Israel isn't antisemitism" while in fact running interference for a conspiracy-peddling blood and soil nationalist sounds awfully familiar. I wonder where the Heritage Foundation learned to use this language...
1. A watershed moment.
The President of the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, Kevin Roberts , has announced that the organization is standing by Tucker Carlson in the aftermath of Tucker’s interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.
This isn’t Kevin bending his knee to Trump…this is something new
The President of the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, Kevin Roberts , has announced that the organization is standing by Tucker Carlson in the aftermath of Tucker’s interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.
This isn’t Kevin bending his knee to Trump…this is something new
October 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Saying "criticism of Israel isn't antisemitism" while in fact running interference for a conspiracy-peddling blood and soil nationalist sounds awfully familiar. I wonder where the Heritage Foundation learned to use this language...
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The state of the 2,000 Palestinians released as part of Trump’s Gaza ceasefire deal has cast a renewed spotlight on the abuse of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and how it has worsened in the war triggered by Hamas’s October 7 2023 attack on.ft.com/4hBxyAY
October 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The state of the 2,000 Palestinians released as part of Trump’s Gaza ceasefire deal has cast a renewed spotlight on the abuse of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and how it has worsened in the war triggered by Hamas’s October 7 2023 attack on.ft.com/4hBxyAY
A bit more on Mamdani vis a vis his past organizing with groups that endorse violence, like WOL or SJP: I wouldn't attend pro-Israel rallies after 10/7, in spite of supporting some aspects of their message >
October 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
A bit more on Mamdani vis a vis his past organizing with groups that endorse violence, like WOL or SJP: I wouldn't attend pro-Israel rallies after 10/7, in spite of supporting some aspects of their message >
Yes but the disappointment that Jews on the left like myself feel is precisely this: renouncing the slogans happened bc he's a politician who realized he needs to win the votes of Jews other than the narrow group of ones who he seemed to exclusively be speaking to >
Yeah Mamdani is having to play actual politics & publicly renounce or complicate simplistic slogans. Whatever you think of his prior statements, the best possible way to cut out the ones who want to push such slogans and preconceptions is to bring him into the realm of a proper politician.
Also, just following this line of pragmatism and putting Mamdani aside - there's a nasty rift between his supporters and the more disturbed parts of the anti-Zionist left. He wins, the rift is guaranteed to grow. He loses, and his supporters ultimately get divided.
October 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Yes but the disappointment that Jews on the left like myself feel is precisely this: renouncing the slogans happened bc he's a politician who realized he needs to win the votes of Jews other than the narrow group of ones who he seemed to exclusively be speaking to >
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who is paying Ryan Grim these days, anyway
Ryan Grim accusing someone criticizing Graham Platner's SS tattoo of being paid by the DSCC.
October 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
who is paying Ryan Grim these days, anyway
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Grim says he'll take the internet's word that it's a Nazi symbol.
There's also, you know, recorded history that shows it as a Nazi symbol.
There's also, you know, recorded history that shows it as a Nazi symbol.
October 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Grim says he'll take the internet's word that it's a Nazi symbol.
There's also, you know, recorded history that shows it as a Nazi symbol.
There's also, you know, recorded history that shows it as a Nazi symbol.
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Ryan Grim accusing someone criticizing Graham Platner's SS tattoo of being paid by the DSCC.
October 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Ryan Grim accusing someone criticizing Graham Platner's SS tattoo of being paid by the DSCC.
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Oh wow Ryan Grimm likes the rape apologia guy? That's so out of character for him.
Ryan Grim accusing someone criticizing Graham Platner's SS tattoo of being paid by the DSCC.
October 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Oh wow Ryan Grimm likes the rape apologia guy? That's so out of character for him.
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Speaking seriously, it's entirely possible for a person to (a) do something dumb in their youth without ill intent, that (b) they shouldn't be forever defined by, and (c) suggests that they have not currently demonstrated the judgment to be one of the 100 people who get to be U.S. senators.
October 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Speaking seriously, it's entirely possible for a person to (a) do something dumb in their youth without ill intent, that (b) they shouldn't be forever defined by, and (c) suggests that they have not currently demonstrated the judgment to be one of the 100 people who get to be U.S. senators.
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Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
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More than 40 percent of Jewish Americans say they’ve avoided publicly wearing, carrying or displaying anything that might identify them as Jewish in the past year, a Washington Post poll found.
More U.S. Jews shield identity in public amid antisemitism fears, Post poll finds
A third of U.S. Jewish people say they don’t feel safe, and two-thirds report seeing antisemitic content online at least once a month, a Washington Post poll finds.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
More than 40 percent of Jewish Americans say they’ve avoided publicly wearing, carrying or displaying anything that might identify them as Jewish in the past year, a Washington Post poll found.
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A not-paywalled post about the place of 'cancellation' art in 2025. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/a-bit-of-a...
"A bit of a silly anachronism”
Cancel-culture art and the cringe it now inspires
phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A not-paywalled post about the place of 'cancellation' art in 2025. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/a-bit-of-a...
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Fellas, this upzoning thing ... doesn't it strike you all as a little Jewy, if you catch my drift?
October 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Fellas, this upzoning thing ... doesn't it strike you all as a little Jewy, if you catch my drift?