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Rebecca Vilkomerson

@rvilkomerson.bsky.social
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Co-Director, Funding Freedom; Co-Author Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing (Haymarket 2024); formerly @jvplive; @surj board 🧶 linktr.ee/rvilkomerson

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 06/02/2026
‘In my first year at university, I had taken the bus through Gaza City every day. Now we were travelling through streets and neighbourhoods that had once been familiar to me, but I barely recognised anything.’ Hassan Ayman Herzallah eats shawarma in Gaza City. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
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Hassan Ayman Herzallah | Shawarma in Gaza City
My friend Mahmoud called to check on me at the beginning of January. We hadn’t been in touch for a while. I told him,...
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LA Star @lastar.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/01/2026
MINNESOTA NICE MEANS PROSECUTE ICE
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
ICE was blocked and impeded by people all the way to the Lincoln Tunnel
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
this is how we do it NYC! ❤️✊🏻
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
absolutely overjoyed to wake up in MAYOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI’S New York!
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 04/11/2025
An optimistic, disciplined Left can draw centrists into the coalition—by rejecting their politics. @daniarajendra.bsky.social and @rvilkomerson.bsky.social explore how Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign has upended NYC politics—uniting voters around affordability, justice, & solidarity.
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How Zohran Mamdani Achieved Escape Velocity from Politics as Usual
An optimistic, disciplined Left can draw centrists into the coalition—by rejecting their politics.
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
this actually made me cry.
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
honored my book with @alissashira “Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish anti-Zionist Organizing” is included in this list from @haymarketbooks.org with so many other crucial titles more here: www.solidaritylovebook.org
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Solidarity is the Political Version of Love
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Shana Tova, fuck ICE, and Free Palestine!
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
appreciate this coverage! I and others quoted here all noted that humanitarian aid often obscures culpability--in this case that Palestinians in Gaza are not just experiencing famine as a humanitarian crisis but are being starved by Israel as a weapon of genocide
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
it takes some serious chutzpah for the president of BARNARD, who punished STUDENTS for speaking out against a GENOCIDE, to say we need more right wing zealots on campus in the name of “nonviolent disagreement.” every word of this is hypocrisy of the sickest order www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...
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Opinion | Barnard President: Charlie Kirk Challenged College Students. We Need More Like Him.
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
When Andrew Cuomo has to shift (slightly) his position on the genocide in Gaza because he understands that the New York electorate simply cannot abide by standing by and letting it happen, you know times really are a-changing, at an unspeakable cost in blood. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/n...
NY Times headline that says "Cuomo, Staunch Supporter of Israel, Says "horrific" Gaza War Must End.  The remarks were a departure for former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who trails Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayor's race
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys
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may @maysuser.name · 11/09/2025
charlie kirk has received infinitely more sympathy and support from liberals than every single trans person, immigrant, and palestinian combined
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Alex Taliadoros @alexctaliadoros.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The “We Are All DC” March is massive. Thousands of people marching down 16th Street NW against the occupation of DC.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 05/09/2025
1/ Zohran Mamdani’s upset win in the NYC Democratic mayoral primary was powered by a massive grassroots campaign: 50,000 canvassers. Over 1 million doors knocked. A message centered on affordability across communities.
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How Zohran Mamdani Achieved Escape Velocity from Politics as Usual
An optimistic, disciplined Left can draw centrists into the coalition—by rejecting their politics.
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
way to normalize masked men kidnapping people off the street @nytimes.com But, to answer: as American as the KKK, I guess
screen shot of the NYTimes being it’s stupid self asking if law enforcement masking is Un-American, with a picture of a balaclava with an american flag peeping through its eye hole
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
@daniarajendra.bsky.social and I have a new piece up at @inthesetimes.com looking at the Mamdani-Lander alliance and what it can mean for left-led coalition building, the power of principled politics, and the flow from protester to canvasser. Take a look! inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...
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How Zohran Mamdani Achieved Escape Velocity from Politics as Usual
An optimistic, disciplined Left can draw centrists into the coalition—by rejecting their politics.
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
makes me feel slightly less insane to read this by @ahjohnson.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/new-...
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Why Does the New York Times Keep Ignoring Polls Showing Mamdani Leading with Jewish Voters?
Polling shows mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a commanding lead with Jewish New Yorkers, but you won’t read about it in the paper of record.
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
this piece does something desperately needed: offers a meaningful path forward for liberal zionists beyond recent handwringing, while calling out (with receipts!) their complicity with the genocide until very recently. By @simonerzim.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/rhetoric-wit...
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Rhetoric Without Reckoning
A new wave of liberal Zionist criticism of the Israeli government rings hollow without accountability for the genocide.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Yesterday, 12 countries announced their commitment to a full arms embargo on the Israeli government. The resolution comes out of an emergency summit in Bogota where the Hague Group gathered to coordinate legal and diplomatic action to counter the “climate of impunity” for Israeli war crimes.
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Oh so the organization raising private funds for a genocidal army is having ethical problems? Shocking www.jta.org/2025/07/08/i...
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Friends of the IDF in crisis after internal report alleges financial abuse and toxic culture - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The U.S.-based charity has raised hundreds of millions of dollars by promising to meet the emergency needs of Israeli soldiers during the war in Gaza.
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
extremely excellent news. the ADL is a dangerous right wing org still trying to masquerade as a civil rights group and has no place in our schools. kudos to the NEA for this decision! mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-...
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The National Education Association just voted to cut all ties to the Anti-Defamation League
In a momentous vote, the National Education Association voted to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League. The reason? “Despite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the so...
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Redeye @redeyeradio.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Season Highlights: Rabbi Alissa Wise + Rebecca Vilkomerson in B.C. - Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist organizing @rvilkomerson.bsky.social @alissashira.bsky.social @avilewis.bsky.social @ijvcanada.bsky.social @mivasair.bsky.social from Jan tiny.cc/wfuo001
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An evening with the authors of a book on Jewish anti-Zionist organizing (encore)
Podcast Episode · Redeye · 2025-07-04 · 1h 1m
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I ❤️ NY Thank you @mollycrabapple.bsky.social--this completely nails it, in tone and facts
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
got a real lesson in the political economy/climate justice of trees while canvassing in the crazy heat (ZOHRAN#1, NO CUOMO). Wealthier blocks have trees & shade & are bearable. The poorer the block the fewer the trees, the more brutal the heat. it must be a difference of 10-20 degrees
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I think that if you were not familiar with the supposed political values of the Democratic Party, its performance over the last five months would lead you to conclude that they are primarily a pro-genocide party with center right economics and a fierce commitment to loyalty and gate keeping.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 22/06/2025
Khalil is now leading a march up alongside his supporters up Amsterdam Avenue and towards Columbia.
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
fuck the islamophobes, the dessicated and debased Dem establishment, and the craven and willfully clueless New York Times. We have a city to win! #JewsForZohran
a woman wearing a blue shirt with yellow text that says new york jews for Zohran and a button saying Jewish Voice for Peace Action
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Mahmoud Khalil is free. May his release lead to the release of all who are detained and incarcerated from the US to Palestine, in ICE facilities and in prisons. And may his courage inspire us to remain steadfast in fighting for Palestinian liberation.
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Think about what it means that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is polling 2nd (of 9) among Jewish voters. Zohran endorses BDS & has been fighting fiercely against the genocide. The idea that the Jewish vote in NY is monolithic or one issue pro-Israel voters is utterly outdated (Poll from @forward.com)
poll shows Andrew Cuomo in first place with 31%, Zohran Mamdani in 2nd place with 20%, Brad Lander in 3rd place with 18%, and the rest with single digit support (13% don't know)
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
LOVE MY PEOPLE
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Important coverage in @chronphilanthropy.bsky.social re WellSpring Foundation punishing their grantee 18 Million Rising for speaking out on the genocide in Gaza. A particularly egregious case, but the tip of the iceberg in terms of funding cuts in last 18 months www.philanthropy.com/article/how-...
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How a Single Instagram Post Cost One Nonprofit a Quarter of Its Budget
When a progressive group posted in support of Palestinians in Gaza, it saw funding evaporate. Similar fissures are reverberating across the nonprofit world.
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The Sparrow Project @thesparrowproject.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
DEVELOPING: There is chatter coming out of the White House that as early as next week Donald Trump may issue as many as 5 Executive Orders targeting US-based nonprofits and civil society organizations.
Trump signing executive order
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
"In its coverage of Jewish Voice for Peace’s Trump Tower protest, Fox News obscured the Jewish identity of protesters—while echoing antisemitic conspiracy theories and racist tropes." fair.org/home/fox-new...
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Fox News Can’t Admit Jewish Identity of Anti-Israel Protesters
In its coverage of Jewish Voice for Peace’s Trump Tower protest, Fox News obscured the Jewish identity of protesters—while echoing antisemitic conspiracy theories and racist tropes.
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
sharp, fierce brilliance from @benehrenreich.bsky.social, read every word!
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Momodou Taal, the Black Cornell University student targeted by ICE for protesting against Israel’s genocidal assault against Palestinians, has announced he is leaving America. x.com/MomodouTaal/...
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The tactics ICE is using--thugs in plain clothes kidnapping people simply for their political views--these tactics were developed by the US and spread across the world to hunt down Leftists from Latin America to Indonesia. They've also been used locally for decades to terrorize Black communities.
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The staff at this public elementary school in DC showed far more courage than an Ivy with $15 billion endowment
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
“This is a tale not so much of capitulation to an authoritarian leader as of collusion with him” Must read on the shameful situation at Columbia and beyond by Adam Shatz www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
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Adam Shatz | Submission
There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the universities, or on the liberal law firms that he also...
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I chafe against the word aid, because it erases how Gaza was blockaded from the world for decades, how it was made dependent on Israeli-controlled borders, how the infrastructure Gazans built to feed themselves even under these conditions was intentionally destroyed.
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
i spoke with WAMC in Albany about the genocide and our role in the U.S. in stopping it. if you’re in the Hudson Valley please join in a convo with me and Riham Barghouti at the Hudson library March 22nd, 3:30 pm sponsored by @cc4p.bsky.social and many others!
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Rebecca Vilkomerson @rvilkomerson.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil, from detention, “I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people” www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana March 18, 2025
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