Antisemitism is protean. Whatever you hate, you can transfer to the Jew. Today colonial-settlerism is the evil of choice, so Jews are colonial settlers. Nazism is a perennial hatred, so Jews are Nazis. If you hate communism, Jews are communists, if you hate Capitalism, Jews…

Columbia University once produced Lionel Trilling. It's quite the fall.

The Wisdom of Norman Geras
Part 2: The Pleasures of Sport (photo: my lad at Wembley)

'Sport today gives as much genuine and memorable pleasure to millions upon millions of people as can be claimed for most other human pursuits ... there is a communal enjoyment of competitive

Fathom Deputy Editor Calev Ben-Dor critiques the assessment – widespread in western analytic circles – that the Iranian attack was precisely designed to pose no threat to life and to inflict minimal damage. Drawing on interviews with experts, Ben-Dor argues that ‘those claiming a…

Norway 2024 vs Norway 1942
Pro-Hamas activists started marking shops.

Photos 1 and 2 are from Bergen today. Photos 3 and 4 from Oslo 2nd WW.

Last week, ALLMEP concluded its long running series, Stories from the Field. Created in partnership with Jewish-Israeli journalist, Dina Kraft, the series profiles the work of 12 peace activists from our community since the beginning of the war: allmep.org/news/stories-f…

Great piece by Kyle Orton in Fathom Journal on the recent Iranian attack; the ludicrous pressure on Israel not to retaliate and accept this as the new normal; the nature of the IRGC; and the need for the West to course-correct on Iran. fathomjournal.org/iran-is-slowly…

Its an NPR article about a bi-partisan House committee report. There are 110,000 drug overdose deaths every year in the US.

Vernal works at the University of Oxford, where he heads the Equality and Diversity Unit which fosters “an inclusive culture which promotes equality, values diversity..” ..except political and philosophical diversity, and the right to express views with which he disagrees.

Really interesting interview Fathom Journal. Do read ⬇️

The Wisdom of Norman Geras (an occasional series)
Part 1. Valuing liberal democratic norms and institutions

'... the insistence, under the rubric of 'smashing' the state, on a total discontinuity between bourgeois-democratic and projected socialist polities has tended to obscure…

'Soleimani’s ‘ring of fire’ strategy surrounds Israel with IRGC units in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, Iraq, and Yemen with missiles to threaten Jewish pop centres+the Israeli econ-a war of attrition ending in Israel’s destruction.' Kyle Orton in Fathom Journal
fathomjournal.org/iran-is-slowly…

So poor from Streeting. They'll come for him one day. And no doubt call him Far Right as well.