Today is a historic day. I did something I never believed I’d be capable of. I went to an academic talk and when the time came for Q&A, for the first time in my life, I had more of a comment than a question.

This is because Iran, unlike Gaza,can hit back

I guess a kiss is not on their list pinkvilla.com/entertainment/…

Excellent analysis and much-needed truth-telling by Stephen Walt :

foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/15/mid…

The woke cancel culture mob strikes again

1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is still too silent about the war in Gaza. Following my viral tweet last month, this is the updated & expanded version of how I see things based on >1000 articles and 1000s of videos/images of the war. 🧵of summary conclusions:

USC announced that valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s commencement speech has been canceled, stating it was “necessary to maintain the safety of our campus and students”

‘I am surprised that my own university has abandoned me,’ Tabassum said in a statement

uscannenbergmedia.com/2024/04/15/pro…

Salvador Dalí, “The Nobility of Time”, in Shanghai

I can’t stress enough how widely it is understood in DC’s foreign policy and security establishment that civilian suffering, death, and famine is part of Israel’s Gaza policy and yet so few will publicly say so because they fear for their careers. This is how corruption works.

These are the people Netanyahu has been best friends with since the 1980s

I’ve had an iPhone for at least 15 years now, and while I know (more or less) how to turn it off, I’m still not sure how exactly how I’m turning it back on. It seems to be somewhat different every time.

He’ll turn on Israel in two seconds if he thinks his crowds will like that

If I had to guess, I’d say that Obama (who actually understands the Israeli-Palestinian reality, unlike Biden) would have let Israel bomb Gaza for a week or two after October 7, but then would have wrapped it up. There’s no way he would have let Israel go crazy for six months.

A genius

Trump crowd chants: “Genocide Joe! Genocide Joe!”

Trump takes it in, seems to like it, or at least likes that the crowd likes it. “They’re not wrong,” Trump says.

That’s indeed a problem, but the much bigger and worse problem is that the western media has mostly ignored the reporting from Palestinian journalists who ARE in Gaza - or at least were there until the IDF killed them.

Jewish faculty at Columbia denounce the weaponization of anti-Semitism and call for the defense of the university as a 'site of learning, critical thinking, and knowledge production.' Really good letter, worth reading in its entirety. columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

guys ADHD isn't sociopathy

The phrase 'worse than the Nazis' heard so often these days (vs. Hamas, Putin etc) is not just analytically ridiculous. It calls into question what used to be an unquestionable global consensus: that the Nazis were the absolute worst that ever happened in history.

The excellent translation is by juanpascual. Thank you!