Jewish author here, and for years I've used my social media to teach folks about the history of 'antisemitism,' but I will not be using that term anymore. And to fully explain why, we need to get clear on the history of the word. 1/🧵

Jews in 1930s Germany had far more in common with Palestinians today than w/Israeli Jews, in terms of oppression.
Because antisemitism in Germany THEN was white supremacy. And anti-Palestinian hate NOW is white supremacy. All that’s changed is who gets to define whiteness. 16/

“No country has more self-made female billionaires than China.”

Two of the world’s richest self-made women are Chinese entrepreneurs who founded companies that are key suppliers to Apple. Incredibly, both started as migrant factory workers.

Wang Laichun (aka Grace Wang) started…

The devastating floods which are causing misery and mayhem across Kenya are exactly what scientists and environmentalists have been warning will come if we don't start taking  the climate crisis seriously.

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Join the European March commemorating 76 years of the ongoing #Nakba against the Palestinian people, and demanding an end to Israel’s #GazaGenocide and its underlying regime of settler-colonial apartheid.

Read the full statement: loom.ly/YiIOnLk

And new US Climate Envoy John Podesta was only just waxing lyrical about the threat of imported embodied carbon. Looks like the domestic front is where he should focus.

BYD makes around €14,300 in profit on each SEAL U model sold in the EU, compared to €1,300 on units sold in China.

Read why that matters in the context of the EU's investigation into imports of China-made EVs:

rhg.com/research/aint-…

Everyone said that The Three-Body Problem is full of mind-bending ideas, but no one told me that it is also extremely badly written. I mean, just awful.
(And it's not a translation thing. I have read stacks of books in translation from Chinese writers.)

Stephen Stapczynski I think a realistic assessment is that Japan will, on current settings, be burning roughly the same amount of coal in 2035 as it is burning in 2024, absent a major change in policies.

Stephen Stapczynski One other striking thing: the project pipeline for solar in Japan has basically ground to a halt. The current power plan assumes that about 10x more solar and hydro is connected by 2030 than has ever been announced.

I’m pleased to be part of a joint UN Trade and Development-United Nations ESCAP panel next week discussing the new Commodities and Development Report 2023 on Inclusive Economic Diversification and Energy Transition for Developing Countries.

Sign up here: lnkd.in/gDcJ9MgN