Prof. History. Germany, Holocaust, maps.Bks: Germany. A Nation in its Time (2020); The Butcher's Tale (2002), a few others. https://xitter.cf/t.co/Uw5qmZelGD
Vanderbilt U. Nashville
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Finally, the Statement against the #Boycott of Israeli #Academics and its 8,000+ signers has a permanent home. Find it at: bit.ly/AgainstAcademicBoycot…
Also there are articles etc. about the statement and these boycotts, if you want to follow the issue. #Israel #IsraelHamasWar
Brilliant short analysis telling us that empathy is not enough. And where to go from there!
My article "Was kommt nach dem Leiden in Israel und Gaza?" is out in @faznet. Taking Carolin Emcke's "asymmetrical empathy" as a point of departure, I ask: Does the claim that every life counts equally have to rest on our capacity to feel with others?
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Bill Maher: “You’re a Democrat running possibly for [President in 2028], and you’re Jewish. And this is somehow maybe a complete deal breaker in the Democratic Party. I mean, the speed at which antisemitism has gone to a place where I never imagined it would go.”
“Just this past week, bombings at synagogues in Toronto, Belgium, and Michigan. The guy drove a truck with explosives into the largest synagogue in West Bloomfield, Norway. They arrested someone. Suspicious behavior outside of the synagogue in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.”
“I see a pattern here. And somehow it got to where among the young people, antisemitism got to be kind of cool.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro: “There are seeds of antisemitism being planted all over this country… Folks are looking the other way and nodding toward it and allowing it to happen in their businesses, on their screens, and in their politics, and we have to speak up about it.”
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All I can safely say at this time is that I love seeing Iranian women shedding tears of happiness.
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Hundreds of Iranians seen cheering in the streets and celebratory gunfire heard in Isfahan, Central Iran, following the reported elimination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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What’s unfolding in Iran may be the most consequential and underreported story in the world. Free elections there won’t just be a human rights victory. The fall of the Ayatollahs will release tens of millions of people, who come from one of the most creative civilizations in history. Iranian culture has shaped art, science and innovation for centuries. Suppressing it hurts not just Iranians, but humanity as a whole.
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JUST IN 🔴
Fars News Agency, which is linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reported that the U.S. government has taken down the .com domain of the Islamic regime Tasnim News Agency.
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🚨 Jews make up just 0.2% of humanity.
And half of us live in a country smaller than Maricopa County, Arizona.
So when mobs scream to “wipe it off the map” or “from the river to the sea” that’s not politics. That’s a call for extinction.
Remember that.
H/t @ScottJenningsKY
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Without a retraction on the front page, with the words WE MISLED YOU under the image you used to mislead your readers through emotional manipulation—this makes no difference.
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Not an apology
Not a retraction
And it was posted on @NYTimesPR, which has 88k followers, instead of @nytimes, which has 55 million
So a massive lie spread across the world, and now less than 1% of the people who saw it will ever see this pathetic little footnote
We have appended an Editors' Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below.
ALT Children in Gaza are malnourished and starving, as New York Times reporters and others have documented. We recently ran a story about Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians, including Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, who is about 18 months old and suffers from severe malnutrition. We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records, and have updated our story to add context about his pre-existing health problems. This additional detail gives readers a greater understanding of his situation. Our reporters and photographers continue to report from Gaza, bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war.
Largest Teachers' Union in United States Erases Jews From the Holocaust freebeacon.com/america/large…
A bit of very good News #Detmold
Neuigkeiten zum Streit um die ehemalige #Hofsynagoge in #Detmold. Das Urteil des OVG ist rechtskräftig, das Gebäude darf nicht abgerissen werden. Jetzt muss es darum gehen, es vor dem Verfall zu retten. Immerhin wurde nun diese Infotafel aufgestellt. sueddeutsche.de/panorama/den…
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Eine sehr begrüßenswerte Stellungnahme der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie.
soziologie.de/aktuell/stellu…
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I am looking forward to participating in this workshop, where I will be giving a talk on academic boycott campaigns in the aftermath of #October7.
Antisemitism Research Workshop | The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
We are pleased to share that two of our colleagues, Dr. @TomEshed and @AnneRethmann, will be participating in the Antisemitism Workshop (July 13–14, 2025), organized by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, in collaboration with the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (HUJI), and The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism (TAU).
More information about the workshop is available here: vanleer.org.il/en/events/ant…
In full agreement that this is an awful decision on the part of the ISA. They should be ashamed of themselves. Deliberately hurting the very people in Israel who are out on the streets constantly protesting
Just writing on a paper about boycott calls after Oct 7 - with every passing note like this, it feels increasingly in vain to me. Meanwhile, parts of Western academia believe they are being canceled. It's ridiculous. The decision of the ISA is a disgrace. t.ly/r3VVE
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Yes, the rockets were heavy this morning in #TelAviv, but hopefully this war will come to an end soon now. There is this option, and I will stick to it for now. Not only TLV – the whole region could be so beautiful. Strong nerves: stop and go – buses are already back in service.
Israelhass an der Uni: "weniger sichtbar, radikaler, gefährlicher" juedische-allgemeine.de/?p=2… via @JuedischeOnline
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BREAKING | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: “What happened on October 7th is unacceptable. Hamas must disarm and release all hostages immediately.”
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While scholars are once again preoccupied with the #IHRA and #JDA definitions - and, along with them, with debates about anti-Zionism, anti-Israelism, and/or #antisemitism - it is worthwhile to take a step back in history, namely to the year 1948. (1/5)
