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Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant. Menasky
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The Israeli cabinet decided to break the ceasefire agreement and not to release the 600 prisoners slated for release today.

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

on the language of weaponisation www.theguardian.com/science/2017...

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

the subtext here is “liberal jews are bad for us and bad for you, so when we come for them, don’t get mad at us”

submitted 7 hours ago • 14 comments

This was the moment, just over a month ago, when the ADL could've put an end to Republicans doing Nazi salutes. They didn't. They chose instead to provide cover by calling it "an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm." Now the sieg heil salute has been normalized. The ADL literally had ONE JOB.

submitted 9 hours ago • 126 comments

So far it's a combination of the courts and the states

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Prediction: Elon Musk will not die a natural death

submitted 7 hours ago • 10 comments

you can rewrite shit but you can't rewrite nothing (ht @mikeduncan.bsky.social, for years ago cutting through a rough swath of my writers block with this unsubtle knife)

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

"We have nothing against Jews, we just hate Zionists*" (*vaguely defined) Now has its inverse version "We have nothing against Jews, we just hate anti-Zionists*" (*anti-MAGA Jews) This version is not put out by noisy yet powerless activists, but rather by the US government.

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

I feel like we’re weeks away from seeing Trumpers do this en masse at a rally

submitted 11 hours ago • 38 comments

251 people were taken from Israel to Gaza on October 7th Around fifty were killed on that day and their bodies were taken 145 returned alive 33 died in captivity in Gaza 24 are assumed to be alive and are still in Gaza

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Following his Nazi salute, Steve Bannon engages in unalloyed antisemitism, calling progressive US Jews the "#1 enemy...inside the wire" for Israelis, "progressive Jewish billionaires funding all this stuff", disloyal to Israel & MAGA

submitted 11 hours ago • 13 comments

Hostage ordered by gunmen to kiss a couple of his guards as he is paraded in front of the cameras. Idiots on social media: look how they treated him so well, he kisses them!

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

Palestinian prisoners who are released are made to wear this jumper by the Israeli prison service. The writing says: "I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back till they were destroyed." Psalms 18:37-42 In other words: we will chase you and kill you Subtle

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the swimming pools, we will never surrender.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Drop site news published this yesterday on X - it is, supposedly, Israeli leaflets dropped on Gaza, threatening the population with complete annihilation. All indications so far is that this is fake. That is: they were not dropped by Israel, if dropped at all. Faked by whom - still unclear.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Ofri Bibas. The Aunt of Ariel and Kfir: We are not seeking revenge now. We want Shiri

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There are many mysteries and ambiguities in life but the nature of this gesture is not among them. It's a Nazi salute.

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

My thoughts on the death of Oded Lifshitz

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The responsibility for the death of Shiri Bibas and the disappearance of her body lies firmly with Hamas. Having said that, the Israeli government and military, who left Nir Oz without protection on the 7th of October, chose to prioritise a war of vengeance over the safe return of the hostages.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

The entire premise of diaspora mainstream politics in the last few years has been "not recognising" that the Israeli govt are JDL-equivalent. The more that tension comes to the surface - the better.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

The DOGE trials, 2029

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A month ago, at the Jewish Labour Movement Conference, I had the privilege of sharing a panel with Sharon Lifshitz, Oded's daughter. Her dignity and humanism shines so bright, like that of her late father.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Trump's Plan is normalising ethnic cleansing as a geopolitical tool. The mood in Israel is firmly against return to war, but risk of mass expulsion of Palestinians is very real. Such a scenario would involve atrocities on a greater scale than the last 16 months. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Apparently Adorno used to be a regular in Frankfurt's strip clubs

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Otto Krayer. The only German scientist who refused on moral grounds to succeed a Jewish colleague who had been dismissed from his professorial chair by the Nazis. Left Germany to lead the Pharmacology department at the American University in Beirut before moving to Harvard.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Think I preferred the end of history

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Dr. Abu Safiyah is being released. Should never have been arrested.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

The worst ethnic cleansing in the West Bank since 1967 is taking place in the last few weeks. About 40,000 have been ordered to leave three refugee camps. This is from Jenin.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

‏הפעיל אנדרי מדווח על המתרחש במחנה ג׳נין: כ20,000 תושבים אולצו לעזוב

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Before the end of this winter, something would give

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

It's been only 31 days, and NATO is pretty much dead

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

“May we some day be able to honor your loss with peace & rebuilding.”

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Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, is among the Palestinian prisoners who will be released Saturday as part of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments