Investigating Covert Attacks On Student Activists

Hi folks! I'm sending this newsletter out to let you know about my new investigative series on covert attacks on Israel's critics.

I've written little essays for the past few editions of the newsletter, but it's the height of summer and you're all on your way to the beach, so I'm keeping this one pithy.

Part 1: Covert Ops

Shadowy operatives are rolling out a suite of aggressive, covert, and sophisticated new tools to attack Israel's critics. I'm writing an investigative series about it. Here's the first installment, about how the new secret tactics seem to be coming from inside the Jewish establishment. And here's the second, about how an anonymous blacklist of student activists is being used to decide who can and can't cross the Israeli border.

Finally, for the superfans, here's a Twitter thread about an interesting nugget that we cut from the second story.

Part 2: Words of Advice

• For some reason, Benno Kling translated a 30,000-word blog post about the history of an Italian village with a population of nine. It's bizarre, heroic, absurd, and totally worth checking out.

• ​This song only rhymes when sung in an absurdly overstated Yiddish accent.

• This song is about how Bill Browder's grandfather was a Russian stooge.

Thanks for reading! Send any comments my way by replying to this email.

Josh