By Joshua Scheer In an extraordinary opening salvo against New York City’s newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani, the government of Israel joined major U.S. Jewish organizations in accusing him of antisemitism following his first official actions in office. On his first day as mayor, Mamdani rescinded two executive orders issued by his predecessor, Eric Adams. […]
Analyst Trita Parsi lays out three different ways the US and Israel could attack Iran, the potentially disastrous consequences, and how the Iranian people are not the priority for DC or Tel Aviv.
Fascism is one of the most overused terms in any language, such that even socialists have started to weary of seeing it splayed on everything. In recent American history everyone from Barack Obama and Kamala Harris to Donald Trump and the MAGA movement have been called fascists. One of the most obscene iterations of this have been efforts by (mostly center-right) commentators to suggest that fascism was in fact a movement of the far left, or that fascists were even socialists. From Jonah Goldberg’s by now widely mocked Liberal Fascism, to Peter Hitchens calling the Nazis “left wing racists,” the genre is popularenough to have spawned numerous mocking responses.