Alex גדעון בן װעלװל
@JewishWonk
Columnist @JDForward. U.S. Foreign Policy and Jewish communal concerns. Bylines in @TheAtlantic, @WashingtonPost, @TabletMag. All bad takes are mine alone.
I wrote about the Soviet Union's treatment of Holocaust memory and the role that this deliberately incomplete memory is playing in Russia's assault on Ukraine, and Ukraine's response for @TheAtlantic. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
My heuristic here is if I am at a restaurant and you are bringing me the food I am tipping, because your livelihood is primarily tips in this broken system. If I am walking up to the register to buy food, you're probably not relying on tips so I am not tipping.
A rant: Tipping culture is out of control. I'm a generous tipper. But 20% for someone to make eye contact & hand me a muffin is crazy. Restaurants widely suggesting people tip 30% now is kookoo bananas. At this rate we'll soon be tipping the price of the meal. Make it stop.
The most interesting thing about the backlash to ICE rampages is that REPUBLICANS are becoming sharply more pro-immigration. Trump really overreached.
David Sacks has to be pretty mad about this. But he can console himself that at least he got America to surrender to China on chip controls!
Now that Trump has decided to send weapons to Ukraine, 67% of Republicans/MAGA support sending weapons to Ukraine. It's now higher than Democrats.
Puerto Rico deserves a stable, reliable electric grid. At the latest House Natural Resources Committee hearing, I pressed PR’s FOMB Director Robert Mujica to make solving the island’s energy crisis a top priority.
DISGUSTING: Muammar al-Sharaa, cousin of the Syrian president Ahmad al-Sharaa, posted on his Facebook account about Druze: “It is permissible to enslave their women.”
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act has transformed US clean energy policy, gutting EV & solar/wind incentives. But it’s weirder than a straight repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act. Today at @heatmap_news, we have a new summary of the past 20 years of tax credits — in one table
I love how every so often some American with like one Irish grandparent gets a little too obsessed with the IRA and it leads them in a straight line to trying to join Hezbollah.
Calla Walsh message form the IRGC Aerospace Park in Tehran today. 2/2
Drop Site News now employing open Assad supporters from Blumenthal’s Grey Zone fascist disinformation blog. I’d say I’m surprised but this is exactly what I’d expect from Grim.
Look folks, this is nothing more than an empty gesture. Don’t fall for it. Means nothing. There is nothing under the exceptions under Rule 6e that applies here. Moreover, GJ “transcripts’ will only reveal stuff about Epstein, not too much about others. Transcripts are not…
President Trump has directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to unseal grand jury transcripts related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. ABC News' Mary Bruce reports from the White House. abcnews.link/3WK0r0Y
"Trumpism" is whatever Trump says it is, part 5427.
When Trump says we're arming Ukraine, the support follows. Big one here is the GOP shift but some interesting moves amongst independents and democrats as well.
Decreased HBCU funding, DOJ terminated the environmental justice agreement in Alabama, Instructed Texas to gerrymander a black district, Removed Tuskegee Airmen USAF videos, Attacked NMAAH…I’m starting to think the trump administration isn’t too fond of Black folks…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has ended key support for Black farmers and will no longer use the term “socially disadvantaged,” saying it has sufficiently addressed historic discrimination capitalbnews.org/usda-ends-dei-…
A day ago, Hijiri and Israel were said to be the only things standing in the way of a Druze genocide in Suweyda perpetrated by Syrian government forces. Today Hijiri is asking the Syrian government for protection and Israel is briefing that the government can indeed move its…
This is not satire. Through Al-Jazeera, the Druze narco-warlord Hikmat al-Hijri is now publicly begging President Ahmad al-Shar’a to send a protection force to Suwayda - to stop the tribal assault. In doing so, he has completely and utterly destroyed his own narrative that the…
Bad news for ~24 million Americans. “Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois wants a 27% hike, while its sister Blue Cross plan in Texas is asking for 21%. The largest ACA plans in Washington state, Georgia and Rhode Island are all looking for premiums to surge more than 20%.”
Health insurance premiums going up by ~25% in 2026 is going to be a major economic and political problem. And there is no real attempt from the Administration to do anything about it. wsj.com/health/healthc…
Nowhere in the nonsensical report that he is citing does it say the the US government sent almost $1 billion to Israeli NGOs. Pure fiction. Does not exist. The rest is wildly overstated/false as well, but at least has some basis in the memo. The $1B is just pure invention.
מפלגת הליכוד: לראות ולא להאמין - התערבות זרה מסיבית בניסיון להחליף ממשלת ימין בישראל. מסמך רשמי שפורסם על ידי הקונגרס האמריקאי חושף מידע מדהים שמאשר את מה שרבים חשדו בו כבר זמן רב: ממשל ארה״ב הקודם העביר קרוב למיליארד דולר לעמותות שמאל בישראל, במטרה לערער את שלטונה של ממשלת…
The Calla Walsh storyline is insane, a cautionary tale of how hating Jews will destroy your life. ✅ becomes a young organizer for Senator @EdMarkey, starts a legitimate career in Democratic politics. ✅ hatred of Jews literally microwaves her brain ✅ makes a database of Jews…
Calla Walsh message form the IRGC Aerospace Park in Tehran today. 2/2
My father has a very specific way of speaking. People all over the world have mimicked it for decades. The insanity written in the Wall Street Journal, AIN’T IT and everyone knows it. Also in 47 years I’ve never seen him doodle once. Give me a break with the fake “journalisming’
My father has a very specific way of speaking. People all over the world have mimicked it for decades. The insanity written in the Wall Street Journal, AIN’T IT and everyone knows it. Also in 47 years I’ve never seen him doodle once. Give me a break with the fake “journalisming’