Noa Yachot

Jewish New York’s reckoning with Zohran Mamdani: ‘He’s become a vehicle for our tensions’ A tour of the mayoral hopeful’s Jewish outreach reveals an electorate fractured over Israel and grappling with his historic candidacy in radically different ways

We lived to see it: a richly reported piece filled with depth and nuance about New York Jews and Mamdani www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Jewish New York’s reckoning with Zohran Mamdani: ‘He’s become a vehicle for our tensions’ A tour of the mayoral hopeful’s Jewish outreach reveals an electorate fractured over Israel and grappling with his historic candidacy in radically different ways

New Yorkers get to make history next week. And as with all things on this particular point in history, it's complicated.

@noayachot.bsky.social masterfully presents the particular complexities for Jewish New Yorkers in the excellent long-read:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000

The Israeli military’s own data indicates a civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza – a figure largely unmatched in modern times except in Srebrenica, Rwanda and Mariupol www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

A front page of the Guardian newspaper is entirely given over to the famine in Gaza. A large photo shows a mother holding her emaciated child’s body. The banner headline says, “We have faced hunger before, but never like this'

Tomorrow’s Guardian front page

Mahmoud Khalil is free

‘I worried I might start finding it normal. But I never did’ – what I learned as the Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent After four years reporting from Israel and Palestine, our correspondent is returning to the UK. She reveals the grief, horror and hope that defined her time there

A beautiful, sad punch in the gut. How lucky we were to have had Bethan in the region to narrate this nightmare. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Pope's frequent calls to a Catholic church made him a revered figure in war-battered Gaza In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza Strip to see how people huddled inside were coping with a devastating war.

“In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent evening ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza Strip to see how people huddled inside were coping with a devastating war.

That small act of compassion made a big impression on Gaza’s tiny Christian community.”

US student journalists go dark fearing Trump crusade against pro-Palestinian speech Newsrooms forced to adapt as writers resign and request takedown of stories to avoid potential repercussions

Editors at student newspapers are grappling with a deluge of requests from terrified students to pull their names from stories
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The new definition of antisemitism is transforming America – and serving a Christian nationalist plan Redefining antisemitism in the law was never about Jewish safety. It is about consolidating authoritarian power under the veneer of minority protection

A brilliant essay by @lihiyona.bsky.social and @itamann.bsky.social on what the project to redefine antisemitism is doing to America
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

‘I am a political prisoner’: Mahmoud Khalil says he’s being targeted for political beliefs Exclusive: Palestinian activist and green card holder speaks out from Louisiana detention for first time

"I am a political prisoner," Mahmoud Khalil says in his first statement since being detained
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How Amy Coney Barrett’s close friendship could affect the future of this major supreme court case Recusal from case with huge implications for education could tilt scales in cause her friend spent a career defending

Thanks to the great @noayachot.bsky.social and our friends at @us.theguardian.com for publishing this timely piece from @lrj417.bsky.social of @the74.bsky.social!

Excellent, clarifying reporting from @alicesperi.bsky.social on how Gaza has rocked the genocide studies world.

Gaza has been besieged for 14 months. The US has hardly accepted any refugees Palestinians seeking urgent protection in the US must navigate a Kafkaesque system that’s unique to them – and it could get worse under Trump

Palestinians from Gaza are facing unprecedented violence yet are largely excluded from the international refugee system. @isabeau.bsky.social has a powerful investigation looking at how this can be

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Democrats should stop mocking Trump’s ground game and start learning from it Cable ads and bussed-in volunteers don’t cut it any more. If the party wants to win, it must engage voters in a collective push for change

Time to learn how to use this thing, I guess.

I'll start with a plug for this brilliant essay by @astra.bsky.social about how it's time to change what we mean by "ground game" to more meaningfully reach people and speak to their needs www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...