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A nice piece on the fall and rise of Marty Peretz and his fellow travelers: jewishcurrents.org/the-end-of-t...

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The prose in this piece by David Klion piece is excellent, but I still had a hard time reading it. I had to take a break after almost every paragraph. jewishcurrents.org/the-end-of-t...

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"The lineup suggested a reunion, or perhaps a resuscitation, of an intellectual community that hasn’t properly existed in more than a decade." @jewishcurrents.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/the-end-of-t...

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Marty Perez once tried to discourage people from reading my 'Engaging the Muslim World' on the grounds that there was 'nothing in it.' It distilled 2 decades of scholarship in Arabic, Persian and Urdu. What he really meant was that it didn't replicate his belligerent Zionist narrative

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The political dynamic of the American Jewish community is one of the most important stories of our time, and that is why I am so glad @davidklion.bsky.social is on the beat, because he’s a very good writer and journalist and his stories always leave me with much more understanding

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I appreciate party photographer @davidklion.bsky.social for this enormously cursed image. Also read the piece: jewishcurrents.org/the-end-of-t...

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Dave's braver than the troops for this

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Excellent piece by the always excellent @davidklion.bsky.social. So many issues to further unpack in this piece, esp as, in my view, the Jewish community is facing a moral crisis many have not even acknowledged. The End of the Marty Peretz Era jewishcurrents.org/the-end-of-t...

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Take two here with the link: @davidklion.bsky.social excellent take on the CJH panel that featured Bill Ackman as the keynote speaker, providing a fascinating long durée analysis. jewishcurrents.org/the-end-of-t...

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This is excellent reading of what sounds like a total nightmare of a day.

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Its a Shanda that this crap happens in the YIVO building and the legacy of the Bundists who sweated, bled and died for YIVO and its archive will be rescued in the coming decades- mark my words.

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"Against the backdrop of Israel’s daily bombardment of Palestinian civilians, the panelists were overwhelmingly concerned with the Jewish student experience closer to home."

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jewishcurrents.org/the-end-of-t... ... both Ackman and Lipstadt seemed to float the conspiracy theory that student protesters coordinated with Hamas and had advance knowledge of the October 7th attacks. “This wasn’t an organic protest,” said Lipstadt. (who was a point person in the Biden admin)

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David told me about this piece last week and it was well worth the wait.

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At a controversial event at the Center for Jewish History on Jews and elite universities organized by Marty Peretz, Trump donor Bill Ackman held his own against an exhausted brand of liberalism. A dispatch from contributing editor @davidklion.bsky.social:

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This is really good, which is not surprising, given that it's a Klion / JC joint

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All noted Jewish Historians, to be sure.

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Two weeks ago, the Center for Jewish History hosted a controversial all-day event featuring Bill Ackman, Marty Peretz, Leon Wieseltier, Deborah Lipstadt, Steven Pinker, Eli Lake, Jamie Kirchick, and more. I was there; here's my write-up for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social

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This map highlights very clearly two of my favorite takes: -Montgomery County MD, where I grew up, is properly understood as a city of a million people -Maryland is part of the South in a meaningful way, still

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This is a good statement but its author should maybe interrogate how much of it applies to another cache of stolen homemade porn—maliciously released to advance a political agenda—which he spent 4 years gleefully, obsessively promoting.

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I guess Bari is still mad about this @mariabustillos.com interview, recorded a few months before Bourdain's death popula.com/2018/07/15/b...

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Shadi Hamid, not exactly a radical leftist, is calling it "genocide" in the Bezos-owned Washington Post. If you haven't started using the term, which at this point is considered factual by mainstream human rights orgs and scholars, it's probably not for a great reason.

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Great fun chatting w/ @davidklion.bsky.social & the @bangbang1492.bsky.social boys about ANDOR. Hear me talk about my alternative plot idea for bringing Saw into the Ghorman plot and why it's hard for any social movement to know whether a particular strategy/tactic will be effective.

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Pure joy getting @davidklion.bsky.social and @pauladlerstein.bsky.social on the pod for the latest installment in our Andor mini-series! @lylerubin.bsky.social www.bangbangpod.com/p/andor-2025...

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Not that I'm sympathetic to any of these people but a consistent theme if you follow this world is that Bari Weiss is so evil, so cynical, and so hypocritical that lots of her former friends and allies have been backing away since Trump's return to power.

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I dive into the large life and sordid politics of David Horowitz with @davidklion.bsky.social www.thenation.com/podcast/arch...

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After 10/7 we got sanctimonious lectures about how we need to value all lives equally. Ok, then write 25,000 equally mad columns about every two Palestinians who have been killed, and about the “cult of violence” (the overwhelming majority of the Israeli public) that supports it.

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A HAPPY UPDATE! Mahmoud Khalil was allowed a "contact" visit—without plexiglass divider—with his wife and newborn son this morning before his immigration hearing, ACLU tells me, so I think we can safely assume that he was finally able to hold his child for the first time.

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The facts recounted alone would make this worth reading, but there's a degree of introspection, ambivalence, and humility about the limits of justice and tidy historical narratives that makes it extraordinary.

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Watching the end of Andor, then Rogue One, then A New Hope rocks, because the plot and the aesthetic are basically seamless, but everyone in the galaxy gets way stupider over the course of maybe a week

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Probably the right time to announce that I am no longer the head men's basketball coach at the University of Austin.

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