I was expecting Israel to be a little America—mostly English-speaking, a land full of convenience. What I found was distinctly Middle Eastern—the people are brash, speak with their hands, and often don't know a lick of English. There are stray cats everywhere, mopeds, and graffiti. The street signs are in Hebrew, English, and Arabic. There is a mosque on prime beachfront property in Tel Aviv. There is every kind of citizen imaginable. I saw Ethiopian Jews serving in the IDF. While touring an ancient Jewish site, I ran into a group of Arab schoolchildren also there to learn. I met a Mizrahi cab driver whose parents fled Morocco in the 50s. Douglas Murray famously made Americans irate when he flamed Dave Smith on an episode of Joe Rogan for having never traveled to Israel—but he’s right. Visiting Israel shows you just how wrong the west is about the Jewish state. Just go there.

What I saw at Cornell was the Omnicause personified. At one point, a student took the mic and shouted: “Race matters! Gender matters! Sexuality matters! Class matters! Disability matters! Immigration status matters!" The rally felt like a mash-up of every left-wing causes of the last decade—from Black Lives Matter to the anti-Israel craze. Think: "no justice, no peace" chants and keffiyehs.

Abdul El-Sayed is touting a letter signed by 500 Jewish supporters—but did anyone actually look at who signed this thing? - Liano Sharon, an anti-Israel radical, who said this about the Temple Israel attack: : "That was not an anti-Semitic attack. It was anti-Zionist."

Almost exactly a year ago to the day, I uncovered that a dozen of the most viral images presented as evidence of famine in Gaza in fact showed children with unrelated medical issues, including cystic fibrosis and autoimmune conditions. The investigation earned me death threats, calls for me to be tried at The Hague, and jabs by a high-profile comedian on national TV—despite the fact that we’ve had to issue exactly zero corrections on our story. Our point was simply to tell readers that if there was a famine in Gaza, photographs of these children were not evidence of it. What is indisputable today is that there is currently no famine in Gaza. That is the major finding from a UNICEF-led team that recently produced the most comprehensive and robust nutrition survey of Gaza since the war began. The survey found that less than a year after a famine was declared in Gaza, the territory has one of the lowest malnutrition rates in the region. A recovery that swift is not just “miraculous,” in the words of a malnutrition researcher I spoke with—it raises questions in and of itself. Questions like: How can a war-torn territory go from famine to showing some of the lowest rates of child malnutrition in the region in less than a year?  In my report today for @TheFP, I investigate that question, its implications, and what it means for the debate over the official decision to classify a famine in Gaza still raging 12 months on.

If Mamdani’s campaign first signaled a possible shift, last night confirmed it: the insurgents are becoming the establishment. Ask yourself: who would most Democrats in competitive races rather have an endorsement from—Mamdani or Chuck Schumer? There you go.

Is anyone else on this DSA call right now? Anyone thinking: ‘oh, that’s just NYC’ will be proven wrong. It might take an election cycle or two—but this movement is coming to your town.