Wally Rashid on Netanyahu’s MELTDOWN over Mamdani, in the lead up to his SHORTENED trip to NYC: They just kinda make up this continuous propaganda, and then he say he’s gonna “expose the lies of Mamdani”. These people, you know, actually a little delulu, they’re CRAZY.

Mehdi Hasan on how the claim that Macklemore’s statements were “antisemitic” devalues the term’s meaning: The idea that one would listen to his remarks on stage and say any of that is antisemitic, this is my real worry, is that you are emptying the word “antisemitism” of all meaning. I happen to think the struggle against antisemitism is super important, please don’t undermine it by pretending Macklemore and Ms. Rachel are the biggest purveyors of antisemitism in this country.

Kyle Kulinski on Ed Sheeran’s statements at his show this weekend in Philly: The person who actually gives a sh!t about unity and humanity is Macklemore. He was smeared as an antisemite and Ed Sheeran didn’t come to his defense. His free speech was taken away by a billionaire pervert and Ed Sheeran didn’t come to his defense. His only message was one against genocide and apartheid and Ed Sheeran didn’t come to his defense. Instead he’s like “You’re being political, I’m not political, I’m in favor of unity and humanity”, no it’s Macklemore who’s in favor of unity and humanity, you are cucking yourself to big money Epstein class perverts and to genocidal freaks.

Wajahat Ali on Ed Sheeran saying this was one of the worst weeks of his life: Ed Sheeran’s fine. He’s worth $400 million, he went back on stage surrounded by sycophantic fans, he performed, he’s going to keep performing and yet somehow HE’S THE VICTIM. You’ve lost the culture.

Emma Vigeland on Hasan Piker telling Axios that a nuclear Iran would make the Middle East more stable: The problem with Thompson’s question is that those that do not want Iran to develop a nuclear weapon—not exclusively all of them, but the ones that are using that argument cynically—actually DON’T want regional stability. Regional stability would be a THREAT to Israel’s expansion.

Owen Jones INTERROGATES the idea that Israel’s campaign in Gaza is simply “disproportionate”, as claimed by Ed Sheeran: It has been portrayed as Israel’s right to self defense with a side debate about whether the response is “proportionate”. A genocide is not “disproportionate”, it is the crime of crimes. There is no worse crime than genocide.