elizabeth shakman hurd. Author: Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global US
Chicago/Evanston
Joined August 2011
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What makes the relationship between the U.S. and Israel unique, one that can’t be captured by ordinary frameworks? It’s as if the two were a single entity — “AmericaIsrael” — which functions like a political religion, argues @eshurd for @newlinesmag.
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“U.S. borders become ambiguous when it comes to Israel: Where does the U.S. end and Israel begin? Where is the border? Is there one?”
U.S. support for Israel functions like a political religion, argues @eshurd for @newlinesmag.
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“It is possible to stand outside the prevailing rhetoric, to escape the rip current that merges Zionism and Americanism. The alternative is easy to find: It is with the heretics and dissidents.” | @eshurd
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What makes the relationship between the U.S. and Israel unique, one that can’t be captured by ordinary frameworks? It’s as if the two were a single entity — “AmericaIsrael” — which functions like a political religion, argues @eshurd for @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/argument/ame…
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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In the second part of their CM conversation, @eshurd and Hannah Strømmen discuss the role of masculinity in far-right movements today and the importance of focusing on affect when studying them.
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You don’t get a @ZohranKMamdani victory without the extraordinary grassroots movement that rallied around him. And you don’t get that movement without an economic agenda that speaks to the needs of working people.
My op-ed on Zohran's victory:
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In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
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Iran doesn’t have a single nuclear weapon.
Israel has hundreds.
Iran signed the NPT.
Israel never did.
Iran has never used a nuke (because it doesn’t have any).
Israel has threatened to, and America dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Iran is not the problem here.
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Our conversation with @eshurd is out now wherever you podcast. We discuss the American border, its religious meanings, and 'AmericaIsrael' as a single entity.
Check out her new book: Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States.
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📣 Millennium is excited to announce the Vol. 54's Call for Abstracts for the 2025 Symposium! This year's theme is "After International Relations." We hope to engage with scholars from across the discipline and beyond. 🔗 Read the full call here ⤵️ millenniumjournal.org/call-f…
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If you have been wondering — “Why Mahmoud Khalil Remains in Detention as Other Protesters Are Freed”
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Instead of responding to MAGA populism by offering a genuine alternative, Democrats leaned into a defense of a militarist status quo that most Americans rightly recognize as broken. They must not make that mistake again.
My piece in the @guardian theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i…
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Well, yikes: The Financial Times editorial board is calling out "the west's shameful silence on Gaza": "Each new offensive makes it harder not to suspect that [Netanyahu's] ultimate goal ... is to ensure Gaza is uninhabitable and drive Palestinians from their land." Quotes 🧵
The west’s shameful silence on Gaza on.ft.com/3Z2yQge | opinion
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Those in the Chicagoland area can get an exclusive preview of @eshurd's forthcoming "Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders & the Global US" at our Buffett Book Talk with her on Weds. May 21 at 4 PM on @NorthwesternU's Evanston campus. Learn more and RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/buffett-boo…
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Days before ICE agents detained a Tufts University student, the State Dept. said the Trump administration hadn’t produced evidence she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization washingtonpost.com/national-…
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In which I have a radical proposal. nytimes.com/2025/04/14/opini…
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When you send innocent people to a foreign gulag, you are not fighting terror. You are practicing it.
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Professor @eshurd calls the new @NorthwesternU training on antisemitism "unscholarly": "This is a university that values debate and discussion, not political propaganda.”
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