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Seth Mandel
@SethAMandel
Dad to the six Irishest Jewish kids on earth. Senior Editor @Commentary Magazine. @bethanyshondark is my better half. smandel@commentary.org
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Sep 25 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I reviewed Hussein Agha and Robert Malley's new book on the two-state solution for @thedispatch. Many thanks to the editors there, wonderful to work with. Some thoughts to follow: Image 1. I appreciate their honesty in moments when others would not be straight with the facts. For example, the chapter that seeks to challenge the CW on Camp David--that Arafat was at fault--ends up showing that the CW was right all along.
Jan 13 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
The Most Important Moment of Marco Rubio’s Career

Last night's Hamasapalooza on 60 Minutes was intended as a shot across the bow of the SecState nominee. He should welcome the fight: Image
Image US diplomats who resign to run interference for the terror group currently holding Americans hostage are the most replaceable people on the planet. If it's Rubio vs. the Foggy Bottom-feeders, he should see it as an opportunity to fix the rot: commentary.org/seth-mandel/th…
Apr 21, 2024 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
They threw bottles at Jews, at Yale a girl was stabbed in the eye with a flag, several Israelis were assaulted in NYC.

Anyone who got suckered into thinking this was about free speech should acknowledge how wrong they were. As I wrote *four months ago*: commentary.org/seth-mandel/wh…
A father's note posted to instagram has made the rounds: Image
Mar 21, 2024 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Some thoughts on the Matisyahu concert last night and seeing the full scene for myself: ~ There were two people whose presence I deeply appreciated. The first was the owner of the 930 Club. Matisyahu thanked him from the stage. He was there to show his support for the idea of free expression and the power of music. More like him please!
Feb 19, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This NYT piece by Lydia Polgreen accepts the lie of Jews as colonizers but argues it's best not to murder them anyway. Important to point out that this is what the world is used to: *letting* Jews live. Welcome to the future, where Jews don't need your permission. Image The Polgreen piece represents a particular line of thought throughout history: if you ethnically cleanse your land of enough Jews, the Jews lose their inalienable human rights.

This is why the modern blood libel of decolonization caught on: it lets NYT columnists play God.
Nov 5, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Very fine ppl on both sides I accept Obama’s apology for his complicity in both Gaza and Dolan.
Oct 9, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
MSNBC's coverage is such a national embarrassment that Greenblatt has to shame them on live tv--and they are completely blindsided by it. What an unbelievable disgrace this network is, a stain on America's image and a laughingstock akin to Russia Today. Propaganda for tyranny. Greenblatt shaming MSNBC on air also specifically for showing pictures of 'rubble in Gaza' or 'rockets' instead of the still-bleeding rape victims was also fire. Then he turns to the camera and says I'm begging you, watch the footage. Translation: watch a different network.
Sep 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It appears I missed some drama regarding the ADL this weekend. I'll say this as clearly as I can:

The groypers tweeting 'ban the ADL' are bad people with bad intentions and bad designs. Don't be fooled, don't "consider their argument," they are ghouls who hate you. No nuance. I have written more than anyone on the problems of the new ADL under Greenblatt from a Jewish communal perspective, and most ppl here know about the ADL's campaign against me. But the ADL and I are arguing over how to keep Jews alive. The groypers want us all gone.
תזכר את החבל.
May 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The Met Gala, the one night a year when everyone gets together and says 'understood the assignment' and nothing else James Harden understood the assignment Image
May 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
so you can follow your stolen car and take it back, like Liam Neeson New York is absolutely lit
Apr 24, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"Succession" opening with Ken bumping Jay's "Takeover" in the car is either 12-dimensional chess or accidentally meta. He's made to look badass in taking over the company but that song is a hallmark of the one major feud Jay Z lost--in part bc his mother intervened against him! "Takeover" was Jay's claim that he inherited the NY crown and that Nas was over. But the beef escalated until Jay made comments about having slept w/ Nas's gf and the mother of his daughter. Jay's mom called Hot 97 and said basically I didn't raise him to disrespect like that.
Mar 27, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
In every made-for-you mix Spotify makes sure to include Scandinavian punk rock open.spotify.com/track/78GKQBZd… Idk what any of it means but if Spotify is sure of anything in this fallen world, it's that Meth Sandel needs his daily spoonful of Scandinavian punk like it's some kind of nutritional supplement.
Mar 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Love to see that Community Notes corrected her for her audience, but it's a good demonstration of just how dangerous she is: she's posting videos and lying about their contents in a powder keg. I'd like her to stop constantly trying to get ppl killed. Tlaib is a blood-libel-a-day at this point, her dedication to this is like watching Sharpton in his prime. Except she's a member of the United States Congress. It's like a district elected 8chan.
Mar 27, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Good thread on how and why Israel's courts got so antidemocratic and why reform attempts to democratize it became inevitable To this I'd add a fascinating element of the dynamic-- the ideological switcheroo that has resulted in US Democrats and Israeli Likudniks being indistinguishable on high court rhetoric, with the American right and Israeli left echoing each other:
Mar 27, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
The Israel situation reminds me of the William F Buckley line about being governed by the first few hundred names in the phone book. The protesters appear to finally have stopped the rest of this judicial reform and they did so in the *complete* absence of anyone in Knesset. In some respects this is understandable: the leaders of the opposition actually agree with Bibi and Rothman on the problem of Israel's antidemocratic judiciary, and they've made that clear in the past, so they're a bit boxed in. They're riding the protesters' coattails.
Dec 16, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I spoke to Bibi Netanyahu about his unfinished business: He wants a formal peace deal with the Saudis. Plus, we talked the Iran standoff, Israel's rightward movement, and more: washingtonexaminer.com/news/benjamin-… I asked Bibi about his persistent focus on economic freedom, deregulation, fighting the union stranglehold. Bibi: "The only way you're going to really have the material needs for a strong military is by having a strong economy. To have a strong economy, you need a free economy."
Nov 16, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I was just telling @TPCarney about this but then I re-read it and had to share it again: the oral history of Buck Showalter walking Barry Bonds with the bases loaded with two outs in the ninth is one of the greatest baseball pieces you will ever read si.com/mlb/2020/05/28… Brian Anderson on how it was the moment the Diamondbacks realized their manager was a mad scientist Image
Nov 15, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Lack of live music is responsible for my recent bout of debilitating insomnia change my mind This town has two profound weaknesses: lackluster live music and no street fruit. So you end up with insomnia and scurvy.
Nov 4, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Truman needs drops for his ear infection. When I took out the bottle he ran upstairs, and he is now holed up in Altima's bed, on the bottom bunk, with Altima literally still fast asleep next to him. Live shot, folks: Altima is inside that tent bed snoring away blissfully unaware the dog has claimed sanctuary in it. The light was on bc Altima's older brother is in the top bunk reading. And laughing. I tried offering Truman treats. He responded 'mama ain't raise no fool.'
Nov 3, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
After his Dem opponent filmed an ad in front of his home? Yikes. Seems like the ad ran, then was taken down after protest, if I'm reading this correctly dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… Local paper where story originated corrected their own story to say his parents own this house, his is nearby carolinajournal.com/shooting-at-nc…
Nov 2, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Excellent point by @DouthatNYT, that for many on the Right the problem isn't contrarianism it's that they'll believe literally 'anyone but ____' nytimes.com/2022/11/02/opi… Image Example: My initial position of 'pro-vaccine, anti-vaccine-mandate' held. (And I think has been vindicated.) But many on the Right were so angry at the mandate they became overly credulous to anything that made the vaccine seem nefarious, when really it was mostly just oversold.