"Alareerโs work, tenderly keening at its best and banal and formulaic at its average, relies on strained cultural and historical transpositions."
On the intifada generation that sacrificed its poets, from
@MaximDShrayer
.
If youโre going to try to write a hit piece about a poet who was martyred and whose work will be remembered, you gotta come with a CV a little stronger than this one.
@Vanessa_ABee
Given the very limited evidence that has been presented for a very serious allegation (mass rape), it's a real problem for a journalist to frame this as a question of "How?" as opposed to a question of "If?"
"Despite not being particularly bright, Kushner managed to make an impressively early call that the Biden administration would embrace, rather than repudiate, his legacy and worldview. And he was right."
@TingedFunny
Guys like Maxim are a quintessential type of Israeli intellectual: he lives in a wealthy Boston suburb, has comfy professorship at expensive college & 2nd home on Cape Cod. According to his bio he's never actually lived in Israel.
@admiralmpj
"What does one state founded on the principles of ethnic supremacy and ethnic cleansing have to do with another state founded on the same principles?"
@Angry_Staffer
@HC_Richardson
I've seen far worse images out of Gaza nearly every day for the past 80 days.
You expect outrage for one atrocity by Putin, yet express none for the thousands of atrocities committed by Biden/Netanyahu.
@BrandonLBradfor
@Aobius
You're mistaking "ally" for "proxy." Israel is far more dependent on US than Ansarallah is on Iran, yet you still wouldn't call Israel a US proxy
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
Huge scam underway now at
@Columbia
as antisemitic students seek to expel a couple of students who sprayed them with something that didnโt smell so good! They shamefully are exploiting this minor incident to demand an end to Columbiaโs joint degree program with Tel Aviv
@JacksonAntione
@_waleedshahid
"Why folks gotta get political at black churches that invite the president of the US, currently committing war crimes, to speak?"
@melnickjeffrey1
Of course the historians in question have been almost entirely silent on the subject of Gaza for the past 3 months, which is why they were invited to the White House.
Black folks wanted Voting Rights, so we marched on the Courthouse to demand our right to vote.
Black folks wanted to be treated equally, so we stopped spending money where they segregated against us.
Gaza Protests want peace...so...they... block...roads to...Airports?
Irish icon & long-time Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams with
#Africa4Palestine
โs
@MuhammedDesai
Adams - a true internationalist - was an important ally in the struggle against apartheid & remains steadfast in support for the Palestinian people
Tiocfaidh รกr lรก โ
#World4Palestine
In journalism, shocking allegation demands greater corroboration. There is ONE named source in this interview (cited by the interviewer).
This is baseless atrocity propaganda to justify an ongoing genocide.
New Interview: I talked to Hadas Ziv of Physicians For Human Rights about the sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7th, and how best to support those who survived.
@GoldmanEleanor
Thank you for speaking out. I for one try to keep tabs on which of my kid's schoolmates' parents support the ongoing mass murder of children in Gaza.
@DanielDenvir
@SikhFeminist
Liberal Zionism is over. There's no veneer of sophistication to "grappling with complexity" anymore (not that there ever was). People saying shit like this today come off as boring and braindead at best, depraved nihilists at worst.
The
@BostonGlobe
is out tonight with a mind-blowing story about an MIT prof who commandeered her students into making and sending a thank-you gift for Jeffrey Epstein -- at the behest of Joi Ito.
There are so many layers to this one...1/4
@chriskunzler
"I'm sorry your Palestinian grandma has lived under apartheid for 75 years, but did you know the stories she told you are pseudohistory/Palestine Studies/Critical Theory?"
@Joe_Roberts01
Apologize for defending genocide. Make amends publicly with Palestinian orgs in your community, and ask forgiveness from those on whom you've wished harm. It will be a difficult process, but that's how you'll move forward.
Exhibit A: Bernie Sanders.
-Opposes both a ceasefire and Biden's veto of a UN res. calling for ceasefire
-Denounces AIPAC and is praised by AIPAC
-Opposes both the occupation and nonviolent resistance to occupation
Liberal Zionism has never been stronger or more coherent!
Really is a testament to this website that some of the wealthiest people in the world, who could easily shrug of such earthly cares on a private island somewhere, choose instead to log on and throw epic public meltdowns for days on end.
There has been no due process.
@NeriOxman
was given 90 minutes to respond to a 7,000-word plagiarism allegation before Business Insider published a piece saying she was a plagiarist.
Claudine Gay had the opportunity for many weeks of private review of the accusations if not a
President Biden at a campaign fundraiser in Weston, MA:
"I got in trouble many times for saying you don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist, and I am a Zionist.
"I make no apologies for that. That's a reality."
Been punching left a little because people are being morons about the Houthi thing, but while bombing people doing piracy is clearly in our interests, unconditionally supporting an unreliable โallyโ whose leaders openly say theyโd like to do ethnic cleansing is uhh not.
@markames1969
@debi_sews
@pamjoy67
@Angry_Staffer
@HC_Richardson
Genocide would be the use of daisy cutters, thermobaric bombs, and chemical or nuclear weapons. It would be rounding up hundreds of thousands of Gazans, transporting them to concentration camps, and conducting mass executions. This isn't genocide. It's war.
I asked this 9-year-old what he thinks about the cause of the Civil War was. He said โIt was about slavery, state rights and it was also about human rights.โ
Medical racism is well-documented in the US. Believing that Zionism โ an ideology of ethnic supremacy widely supported by the US professional class โ is somehow a non-factor in the persistence of medical racism here is magical thinking.
This person needs to listen to Palestinians and stop speaking for them.
3 years ago every American racist said "Black Lives Matter" actually meant white genocide.
The oppressor will always twist the language of resistance.
The phrase โfrom the river to the sea, Palestine will be freeโ is a knowing call to essentially destroy Israel and kill and/or expel Jewish people from the region. It is disgusting and deeply antisemitic. There is no excuse for using it.
This is Peak Activist Narcissism that is
Again, there is a VAST difference between "protesting appropriately" and murdering 1,400 people. I don't pretend to have a solution. I only know that murder, kidnapping, and rape ain't it.
This admin will do literally anything the genocidal Zionist entity requests, but can't be bothered to even take a position on a domestic public health issue of life-or-death importance.
Did you know that chanting in solidarity with the people your government has been bombing and starving for most of a decade, and is currently bombing, dehumanizes them, actually?
We need to call this what it is. These people are reducing some of the most extreme suffering in the world-that of the Yemeni people-to a symbol of their own righteousness. It is not the same kind of dehumanization as conservatives engage in; but it is dehumanization all the same
@buffsoldier_96
Rationalization, equivocation, and denial of terrible violence is the bedfellow of every war, though. Nothing inherently "Stalinist" about it.
@Opportunitweet
@CoffeeBeBestest
@IfNotNowOrg
Definitely not what? American white nationalists are a real threat to American Jews. How many acts of violence has Hamas committed outside Israel/Palestine?
@amsoufi_
Don't say what Rupa said.
If you see it, just call it out for what it is: racist garbage. I don't think they say what they say because of "Zionism". I'm certain most of them are utterly ignorant about it. They probably barely know who Herzl is
Midway thru this steaming pile, Larry refers to Rashid Khalidi "who many see as anti-semitic."
If you're going to slander a man, do it an the active voice, you pissant weakling!
My confidence in Harvard leadershipโs ability and will to confront anti-semitism and the demonization of Israel continues to decline. Unfortunately, it is becoming ever clearer why Harvard ranks first on anti- semitism, even as it ranks last on upholding free speech.
Confronting
I'm sorry you're lonely. Maybe start a reading group and read some Palestinian writers. Hell, read Zionist and anti-Zionist writers.
Throwing your hands up and saying "it's complicated" is lazy and boring in normal times. It's cowardly and despicable during a genocide.