Daybreak: Debating the Debate
Plus the Free Gaza Movement’s promotion of Holocaust revision
October 04, 2012
Candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney Square Off in Last Night's Debate(Getty)
• If you manage to stay up for the presidential debates–or managed to stay up through them–you’ll note the amount of sly references to swing states. Here’s a dispatch from a GOP and a Democratic viewing party in Florida. [Forward]
• Avi Mayer reveals the Free Gaza Movement’s promotion of a video that claims that Zionist Jews perpetrated the Holocaust, including claims that Jews operated the concentration camps. [Storify]
• Shmuel Rosner on Jerusalem and the refusal of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to recognize its Jewish heritage. [IHT]
• Our friends at the Gefilteria had their carrot horseradish ‘chosen’ as one of the “best dishes and drinks” in New York by Time Out. You probably not ought to drink it though. [Gefilteria]
• Mark Zuckerberg will be popping bottles tonight. Facebook’s billionth user was reported. [Times of Israel]
Adam Chandler was previously a staff writer at Tablet. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Slate, Esquire, New York, and elsewhere. He tweets @allmychandler.
