Powerful essay by Adam Shatz: 'The belief that the best way of honouring the memory of those who died in Auschwitz is to condone the mass killing of Palestinians so that Israeli Jews can feel safe again is one of the great moral perversions of our time' lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

1/ I’m an Israeli historian. My community is still too silent about the horrible war in Gaza. Over 8 months I’ve closely followed the war, reading >1000 articles and viewing >1000 videos/images of the war from all sides. My summary conclusions & full report are in the 🧵:

Yesterday (June 19), ICMP issued this press release: icmp.int/news/accountin… Included in my remarks as well:  As we know, the war in Gaza, like horrific conflicts elsewhere, has created an agonizing legacy of missing persons. And – as is the case with Ukraine – this legacy must

Israel has lost this war and Israelis have no idea how badly they have lost. The war of revenge that Israel is fighting in Gaza has crossed every moral red-line that is imaginable...Israelis cannot imagine the despair that has become the overriding emotion of our neighbors.

I feel stupid and ashamed. In May, an expose came out on CNN detailing the abuses in Sde Taiman. Then, the NYT released their own article on it. Both were backed up with Israeli sources, crossed with Palestinian ones. I dismissed them because my government sources and Israeli

A very thoughtful approach and well worth a read foreignaffairs.com/israel/two-sta…

Catholic Bishops from Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo, Steubenville, Youngstown, Parma and Canton signed the letter condemning Vance’s racist lies. It was released in anticipation of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees on Sept. 29. joemygod.com/2024/09/ohio-c…

Kamala Harris uses sign language to say she supports ending language deprivation for deaf kids. I love Kamala Harris. #TrumpIsInsane #VoteOutEveryRepublican #UnitedWeStand #WhenWeFightWeWin #HarrisWalz #TrumpIsAGlobalLaughingStock

It’s the first day of Fall!! 🍁🍂🍁

Fall-ing for these campus views 😍 #FirstDayOfFall

#OtD 22 Sep 1962 Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini punched a fascist who had confronted him outside the premiere for his film, Mamma Roma. Pasolini's radical politics and openness about his homosexuality made him a frequent target of the right stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9526/p…

Enslaved people who dared to speak up to/against their master suffered the punishment of the Iron Mask. During the harvest of sugarcane, the iron masks were used to prevent them from tasting or eating the cane when they were thirsty or hungry.

Fredric Jameson (1934-2024). Rest in Power. Sad for many reasons not least because he remained unceasingly and generously productive until the end, publishing three books this year alone and, until a recent accident, had been scheduled to teach this term at Duke. He changed how I

Betty Shabazz with twins Malaak and Malikah Shabazz, born in 1965 after the assassination of their father Malcolm X.

Trump says Jews will have “a lot to do” with a potential election loss in November. (((DeanObeidallah))) calls out Trump as “transactional even in his bigotry." He “can’t get it through his head” that Jews may not vote for him, says Peter Beinart. #Velshi

Excited to be at Farm Aid 2024 yesterday with amazing farmers and musicians from across the nation challenging corporate control of agriculture and fighting for a more equitable, democratic, and community-based food system. We must support small family farms! ✊🏾💛

"The Booker Prize was first awarded in 1969, with the aim of stimulating public interest in contemporary fiction." ICYMI, our round-up of the Booker Prize-winning novels of the past two decades (the 2024 winner will be announced on 12 November): buff.ly/3XQ7l9p

This is unconscionable, even if someone thinks it was justified to fire this teacher, which it was not. Has Spence ever heard of severance pay?!

After years of discrimination, US makes a historic $2.2 billion payout to Black farmers Black farmers lost an estimated $326 billion worth of land due to discriminatory lending practices from the USDA bit.ly/4e9t1Dh

Republicans might disavow Mark Robinson now, but they elevated him knowing his extremism. bit.ly/4gAvW9C