November 3, 2026

WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTISEMITISM? Philadelphia anti-Israel groups to stage ‘boycott ride’ past Jewish-owned restaurants on eve of Kristallnacht anniversary.

Philadelphia anti-Israel groups are planning a bicycle ride targeting Jewish-owned businesses on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 Nazi-orchestrated pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria.

The “Boycott Ride,” organized by Philly Bike On Your Left in collaboration with Philly Writers Against the War on Gaza, Boycott CookNSolo and Philly Solidarity Calendar, is scheduled for Nov. 8 at 11:30 a.m. at Rittenhouse Square in the heart of Center City. A flier promoting the event states, “No business for Zionists,” adding, “These Zionist establishments must go.”

The flier names several Philadelphia businesses, including Dizengoff, a modern Israeli restaurant; Huda, a sandwich shop; Schlesinger’s Restaurant and Delicatessen, a Jewish deli; Mac Mart, a macaroni-and-cheese kiosk; K’Far Cafe, an Israeli cafe; and Goldie, a kosher falafel shop.

“Ride around Rittenhouse with us as we show these zio business owners that we see them for the disgusting humans they are,” organizers wrote.

The Anti-Defamation League of Philadelphia, American Jewish Committee of Philadelphia/Southern New Jersey, the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and StandWithUs released a joint statement on Monday calling the boycott ride “Jew-hatred, plain and simple.”

“The ride falls on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, Nov. 9-10, 1938, when Nazi-organized mobs destroyed thousands of Jewish businesses, homes and synagogues in Germany and Austria, while thousands of Jews were beaten, assaulted and sent to concentration camps,” the groups stated.

“The public targeting of Jewish businesses should alarm every person of conscience,” they stated. “No business should be targeted because of the identity, heritage or perceived political beliefs of its owners.”

In September, Bill Maher had this exchange with veteran music producer David Foster:

Foster: “What turned the Democratic Party antisemitic?”

Bill Maher: “Israel. It’s what turned them. It’s a question I explore a lot on my show.”

David Foster: “I don’t know the answer. And you don’t either?”

Maher: “I do. Again, it’s lack of education… They don’t know anything about the Middle East or the history. They just know one thing that they’ve been indoctrinated in, which is that the world is divided between oppressors and… people who are oppressed. And it has everything and only to do with race, which is ridiculous.”

“It has sometimes something to do with race; certainly in America it did. But slavery wasn’t invented in 1619. And as far as this connection somehow between the brown people who are Palestinians — they must be right because they’re brown and they’re poor and the Israelis are rich and white, which is not even true. Israelis are brown too. They’re different.”

“It just seems to always land back at the Jews. I mean, it’s so bad now that the right wing is doing it — Tucker Carlson is doing it, and Candace Owens is doing it, and so is everybody in the Democratic Socialists. You have to get on the page that Israel is the monster country of all time.”

A whole lot of people need to be asking themselves, “Are we the baddies?”

UPDATE:

Posted at 6:55 pm by Ed Driscoll

YO, TEXAS:

Posted at 5:05 pm by Stephen Green

NOT ALL DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH:

Posted at 5:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

WHERE WAS THIS GUY A MONTH AGO?

And does Pete’s newfound “courage” mean the Dems are reasonably sure El-Sayed is toast?

Posted at 4:35 pm by Stephen Green

CONSERVING CONSERVATISM MOST CONSERVATIVELY:

Bill Kristol’s Website just went full Salon. Never go full Salon, man.

UPDATE: Steve Hayward’s review of Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, from the January 2008 edition of Kristol’s former publication, The Weekly Standard: Who’s Fascist Now? 

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

SPACE: NASA Is Looking For Ways To Save The Hubble Space Telescope From An “Uncontrolled Reentry”, And Extend Its Mission Beyond 2032.

“Lifetime analysis performed in July 2026 identified a 10% probability of reentry by September 2032, and 50 percent probability by December 2033,” NASA explained in a notice. “[Hubble] does not have a propulsion system and, without a servicing action, will ultimately experience an uncontrolled reentry.”

Now, NASA is looking once again at rescuing the space telescope.

“Hubble still has important science ahead of it, and we should be looking at every reasonable opportunity to keep it delivering for as long as possible,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman explained in a statement.

“If there are innovative and cost-effective ways to extend the life of an asset already on orbit, we owe it to the American taxpayer and the scientific community to explore them. Extending Hubble’s life would mean more discoveries, more science, and more opportunities to expand our understanding of the universe.”

The main problem is that the telescope has outlasted the Shuttle program that serviced it. As such, NASA is now looking to see whether commercial partners could feasibly re-boost the telescope by 2032, ensuring its continuation.

That would be a helluva thing for a satellite that was originally supposed to cease operations and deorbit in 2005.

Posted at 3:49 pm by Stephen Green

SHE SEEMS NICE:

Posted at 3:33 pm by Stephen Green

FINALLY:  My new book—WHY WE WALK ON EGGSHELLS:  How Our Civil Rights Laws Stifle Our Civic Discourse–is being officially released TODAY!

Here’s the way the book is described in on the Amazon web site:

What happens when left-of-center ideas on matters of race or sex can’t be challenged in polite company? Free from criticism, they slowly grow increasingly extreme, eventually losing touch with reality. This is how we find ourselves in the Woke Era. In Why We Walk on Eggshells, Gail Heriot sketches out the practical incentives created by our civil rights law and policies that caused the woke ideology to develop and flourish. One of the most important of those incentives was the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which for the first time made employment-discrimination lawsuits–including those based on harassment–lucrative for plaintiffs. Employers understandably panicked and started requiring what came to be called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training to ensure that employees would never say anything, no matter how trivial or even how true, that might be considered offensive. Employees were urged to walk on eggshells. Even statements like “I believe the most qualified person should get the job” were often forbidden. Slowly workplace culture (and eventually American culture in general) evolved to resemble the culture that had taken hold on college campuses more than a decade earlier as a result of another of the many wrong turns in civil rights law–the Supreme Court’s fateful decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke(1978).Why We Walk on Eggshells is a masterful treatment of the legislation and judicial decisions that helped give birth to the Woke Era. It is for anyone who wants to grapple with how we arrived at our present woke crisis and discover a way out of it.

I hope you find it worthy of a read.

Posted at 3:10 pm by Gail Heriot

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS A DSA SKINSUIT:

Posted at 3:02 pm by Stephen Green