Thinking about how the fascists who imprisoned Gramsci wanted to “stop this brain from functioning for twenty years.”

It’s hard to compete with this

For here is the truth almost all archeologists know, but do not necessarily say aloud – walk into a stone circle and you walk into a relationship between time and space made palpable upon the psychic skin. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

On this day in 1967, Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight boxing championship after refusing to be inducted into the U.S. Army.

Here's a video on why he refused to be drafted into the army to go to Vietnam.

Everyone's heritage is sacred
Everyone's homeland is theirs
Everyone's history is respected
Everyone's culture is honored
Except for the Jews

Everyone's allowed to have trauma, except the Jews. Everyone's allowed to speak truth to power, except the Jews.
Everyone's allowed to have their truth, except the Jews.
Everyone deserves safe space, except the Jews
For everyone else words are violence, but not for Jews.

Sickening antisemitic graffiti spotted on the New York City subway.

'DEATH TO ALL JEWS'

'PRO HAMAS'

'PLEASE NUKE ISRAEL'

The level of sheer hatred against Jews - all Jews - is terrifying.

It was never about Palestine. Not today. Not on Oct 7. Not in 1948. Not the Intifadas. And not the few wannabe Jihadists on American campuses.
No matter how much they repeat it. No matter how much they spin it:
It never was about Palestine, and it will never be about Palestine.

On 27 April 1942, the first transport of 127 Polish women arrived in Auschwitz from prisons in Cracow and Tarnów. Among them was Helena Panek (b. 1922, no. 6892), who recalled the moment of transport as follows:

'On 27 April, at about 3 a.m., about sixty female prisoners were

This is one of my favorite scenes from any movie that I’ve seen so far this year…

I’m sure this will be one of my favorite first watches for the year as well …

scene from:

HANDGUN
1983 • Tony Garnett

28 April 1943 | A transport of 3,070 #Jews deported from a #ghetto in #Thessaloniki in German-occupied Greece arrived at #Auschwitz . 361 women & 180 men were registered in the camp. SS doctors sent 2,529 people to be murdered in gas chambers.

The faction lines in Jewish intra-communal debates don't neatly correlate to who is more Jewishly literate and who is less.

e.g., Many IfNotNow activists are folks who are highly Jewishly literate in text, liturgy, etc...

Many Jews of my background (Soviet) are fierce

A lot of misinformation is out there put out by propagandists who want to get engagement.

Right now to main way to help is to push for a HOSTAGE DEAL NOW.

A lot of positive developments, but it must be kept up.

The citizens of Israel are right to protest and need support.

Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي ✅ ICJ President: No 'plausible genocide'

◾Gaza: 20K civilians/.66% of
Palestinians
◾Armenian Genocide: 1.5M/80%
◾Holocaust: 6M Jews/67%
◾Rwandan Genocide: IM Tutsis/85%

*Reality probably 9K Gaza, since Hamas can't verify 11K.

The Holocaust memorial needs to be covered up while other memorials remain uncovered.

This is because the anti-Jewish racists marching would desecrate the memory of Jews murdered in the Holocaust.

Harvard Jews respectfully asked the administration for an Israeli flag to be flown after October 7 and the request was rejected. As context, Ukraine flag flew for months after the Russian invasion.

It's heartening that even in this climate an Israeli and a Jew is being recognized for his work in a setting where the fashionable opinion is hostility towards those identities.

Yasher Koach, Barak Ravid

Bianna is correct about campuses.

Yet in NY there were many assaults occurring against Russian speakers and 'Russian' businesses, who were mostly Jews as well.

The difference was when we argued for the safety of our neighbors then, we didn't have people arguing back.

Ilhan Omar You're a liar. You link to an article that only mentions anything 'Jewish' one time and in no way associated with anything pro-genocide as justification for your deeply offensive comments. GFY.

I agree with this sentiment. That being said, #Jewish Americans should remember that the Biden Administration has shepherded almost $50B in foreign aid and military arms sales to #Israel in three separate packages just this year.