Arielle Angel
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Writer, editor-in-chief @JewishCurrents.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined June 2016
I tried to say something. I know it is not equal to this moment, but it's the best I have.
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The Israeli government just introduced a bill that would allow them to shoot protesters with live fire. It will likely be passed tomorrow. Increasingly these kinds of protests are going to require a lot of bravery.
Israeli left wing activists blocking a road near the ministry of defense in Tel Aviv during an anti war demo
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I feel utterly sick. If you don't understand how genocides happen, now you do. Taking away fuel and electricity, cutting Gazans off from the world. Casting doubt on death tolls that human rights groups consider reliable. They are trying to make this disappear. Don't let them.
Biden doesn't have confidence in the Gaza death toll: "I have no notion if Palestinians are telling the truth. I'm sure innocents have been killed & it is the price of waging war. Israel should be incredibly careful to ensure they're going after the folks propagating this war."
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“It is much easier to consider genocide in the past tense rather than contend with it in the present. Legal scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer urgent.”.
The Harvard Law Review refused to run this piece about genocide in Gaza. The piece was nearing publication when the journal decided against publishing it. You can read the article here: .
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God protect these students. The amount of force arrayed against their nonviolent protest is obscene.
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My grandmother, Stella Angel, was liberated from Auschwitz after almost 20 months on this day 76 years ago. She would tell a story about how Mengele came to her as the Russians advanced and asked for prisoner's clothes. She played dumb, saying they only had women's clothes. 1/5.
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Say what you will about the GOP, they saw where their base was headed and the party followed them. The Democrats have showed nothing but contempt for their base. And here we are.
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My mom worked on the Florida abortion ballot initiative for nearly two years. She is besides herself. "We can't sustain raising 125k a month to help women travel. We won't be able to get them abortions." This is devastating.
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This morning I watched a video of a young girl in Gaza who lost all of her family asking the world "Where are you?" When I see these lone survivors, I see my grandmother, who lost all but one sister, and my grandfather, who lost his wife & children, all in Auschwitz. 1/3.
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Explaining the seder plate at the Columbia encampment. These students truly embody the meaning of Passover in their provisional seder and their commitment to liberation.
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I wrote about exactly this narcissistic thought pattern earlier this year.
Just walked out of Brussels train station from the Eurostar. This is what greeted me. Nice way to make the Jews feel uncomfortable. We are clearly not wanted here. Sorry I came.
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“If world leaders wait for the war to stop before they stop supporting the Israeli government, the war will never end. So I’m crying to the world: Don’t support Netanyahu. Don’t send us weapons, don’t send us ships of war, send us peace. Send us love. Send us reconciliation.”.
My Hero: Maoz Inon, son of Bilha, 76, and Yakovi, 78, murdered at Netiv HaAsara on October 7th, started a protest tent outside the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem calling Netanyahu to resign and to end the war
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I cannot overstate how dangerous this is. If you think that the US government should treat these students the way they are treating Hamas and Hezbollah, you are basically saying there is no level of violence that is off-limits.
"Iran has their military proxies like Hezbollah, and Iran has their campus proxies like these groups, like Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace." -Jonathan Greenblatt, Anti-Defamation League
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It was really fun editing Bernie Sanders because whenever we were like "is this a Bernieism or just an awkward sentence?" we just read it aloud in his accent and if it sounded right we kept it.
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Just got back from the Columbia encampment. Students feeding one another, sitting in tents, chanting about divestment. If I didn't know better than to form my impression from what I saw on the news/twitter or what I heard from the White House (?!), I might never have come!.
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I don't know, Zelenskyy, I don't think "Ukrainians saved the Jews during the Holocaust and now it's time for Israel to return the favor" is the kicker you think it is.
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My grandparents spent the rest of their post-Holocaust lives "hiding," never joining a synagogue, never gathering publicly with other Jews. These past few months, I've begun to see the appeal of disappearing. That hurts me.
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I hold onto the few references to Greek Jews in Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz for glimpses of my grandparents. I suspect there's much more we could have known about their experience in the camps if not for entrenched patterns of marginalization in the Jewish community. 5/5.
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No one from any official Holocaust organization ever took her testimony. I can't help but wonder what kind of outreach they had to Sephardic Jews and Ladino speakers, if any. It's a great loss, as the experience of Greek Jews in Auschwitz was unique. 3/5.
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This small refusal was a big moment of resistance for her. She was in close proximity to Mengele throughout her imprisonment. Greek Jews were selected for certain positions—and for experimentation—bc they spoke Ladino and often had no shared language with other Jews. 2/5.
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The thing that kills me about images like these is how young the Israeli far far right is. This is the future of Israel, plain and simple.
Screaming "REVENGE!" Itamar Ben Gvir's hoard clashes with police who are blocking its way to the Old City's Muslim Quarter. (@SuleimanMas1)
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In 2003, due to lobbying from the Judeo-Espagnol A Auschwitz Association, they added a Ladino plaque at Auschwitz to the 20 others representing languages spoken by the prisoners. This delay/oversight even though 48,000+ Greek Jews went through the camp and very few survived. 4/5.
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I have to admit I'm in shock.
There’s literally thousands of people marching in the streets of Miami in solidarity with Palestinians. I have never seen this level of support for Palestine in Miami. Freedom for Palestine.
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This thread is a prime example of the misleading ways that antisemitism is often reported. I can tell you as EIC of @JewishCurrents that often we look into a high-profile antisemitic occurrence and it falls apart under scrutiny. Most of the time, no one corrects the record.
I did hear "kill the Jews," said by a counter-protester holding an Israeli flag, seemingly as a provocative joke in response to the group's pro-Palestine chants. Not sure if that's the specific incident @Northeastern leadership is referring to
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"Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza is quite explicit, open, and unashamed." - Raz Segal, associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University, in @JewishCurrents.
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Speaking specifically to other Jewish communal leaders right now: The eyes of history are watching us. We cannot allow the desire for revenge to cloud our moral judgment. We must oppose genocide, full stop. We may not agree on anything else. Let's agree on this.
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Campus protest crackdowns claim to be about antisemitism – but they’re part of a right-wing plan. I wrote about the broader autocratic project exploiting fears for “Jewish safety” in @guardian.
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Studies say that those who were more resilient after the Holocaust were people who had been helped in some way, had experienced a kindness & could retain a sense of the value of the world. We must work for that. Even from afar, we must show the people of Gaza they are not alone.3.
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My grandparents never recovered, never had a normal life. I think of them and I weep for Gaza. We cannot take back the things that are being done in our name & with our tax dollars now. And it will reverberate for generations 2/3.
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We don’t need to deny the evidence & extent of Hamas's atrocities on 10/7—even with credible reports that some may have been killed by Israeli forces—in order to insist that there is no military solution & what’s happening in Gaza isn’t justified. Denialism doesn’t help the cause.
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Let's not forget the Arab student hit in a hit-and-run after a Stanford protest. Or the student protesters sprayed with skunk water at Columbia.
Just a reminder that:.•A 6-year old Palestinian boy was killed in Chicago.•His mother brutally stabbed .•3 Palestinian students shot in Vermont, leaving 1 paralyzed from the waist down.•A Muslim was stabbed in Austin. -Yet no media talks about “Muslim” or “Palestinian safety.
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How hard is it to understand that it was a catastrophe *for them*? For goodness sakes, a Jewish state was built on top of them, at their expense. Were they supposed to celebrate? This is nothing but a kind of collective narcissism.
Sen. Jacky Rosen condemns the Tlaib event in a statement to me, the 1st Senate Dem to speak out. "Calling the establishment of the world’s only Jewish state a ‘catastrophe’ is deeply offensive, and I strongly disagree with allowing this event to be held on Capitol Hill."
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I keep thinking of this slogan, "Everyone for everyone." What a thing of beauty. A call that troubles the binary in a wholly productive way.
NOW: Representatives of families of the hostages who just met with Netanyahu say they demanded of him that he agree to Hamas terms to free all hostages for all prisoners. “Everyone for Everyone”.
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By the way, while you read this piece, ask yourself what was so scary about it that it was killed by NYTimes Opinion after a round of edits.
Campus protest crackdowns claim to be about antisemitism – but they’re part of a right-wing plan. I wrote about the broader autocratic project exploiting fears for “Jewish safety” in @guardian.
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Fascinating letter from Hillel student leaders to the off-campus Jewish community. “We cannot have a clearer ask for the off-campus Jewish community: stay off our campus. Do not fund any actions on campus. Do not protest on campus. Your actions are harming Jewish students.”
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I will also add that this decision is likely to be aimed at Palestinian citizens of Israel. And also that, as the judicial overhaul has shown, a lack of democracy for Palestinians will come around to Israeli Jewish society as well.
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The rally at Foley Square was a depressing exercise in powerlessness. Most people there were not "captured" in any way, not asked to do anything further, not being organized. The mood was pep rally, which may be cathartic, but is not equal to the threat we're facing. What's next?.
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In college, early 2000s, my roommate went to see Dershowitz talk about Israel at the NYU Hillel, and asked a pointed question about human rights abuses in occupied Palestine. He publicly attacked her, calling her an antisemite worse than Hitler.
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American Jews, do not look away. This is not about a few right-wing settlers. This is not a fringe position. And it's not at all new. Polls of Israeli public opinion have for years shown a majority holding views favoring expulsion, apartheid, Jewish supremacy.
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Friend just sent me a video of them barricading Cadman Plaza at NYU where the demonstrations took place yesterday.
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Everyone needs to understand that we are facing a genocide and it must be stopped.
Today I spoke to several distinguished genocide scholars & educators. We discussed the situation & focused specifically on this statement & the many others like it coming out of Israel’s govt. All 6 of us agreed that this fully espousing genocidal intent.
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Man it's going to be so hard for American Jewish establishment groups to pretend they were against Israeli apartheid in the decades after it falls. They'll still try, but. .
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Woke up to another ferocious attack on journalists, from Gaza to Jerusalem. Three attacked just today, including Al Jazeera's Wael Al-Dahdouh, whose wife and child were already killed by Israeli airstrikes. Every journalist worldwide should be speaking out about this.
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Instead of linking today's terrible attack in Jerusalem to Holocaust Remembrance Day, which it has nothing to do with, you might connect it instead to the 30 Palestinians that have been killed by Israel just this month. This is a cycle of violence borne of Israeli apartheid.
On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, the tragic mass shooting in a Jerusalem synagogue reminds us that we must turn the tide of hate around the world. My heart hurts for the victims of this tragedy and their families.
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My father has passed suddenly and taken with him a whole world. He was a kind, gentle, generous person who was loved by so many. I'll be out of work and off here for a little while.
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Unacceptable. The response to these prohibitive laws, especially in states that still have access, should be "make me." @PPFA is making this easy for anti-abortionists, & showing that it is untrustworthy and incapable of leadership at this crucial moment.
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There was a time when I thought the images coming out of Jerusalem would move the Jewish community to meaningful action in solidarity with Palestine. Today I'm sitting with the fact that I'm not sure I believe that anymore.
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As @jonathan_shamir reported for @JewishCurrents, they are going to try to sell this mass ethnic cleansing as a "humanitarian" solution to the crisis they caused.
And today, @netanyahu publicly acknowledges that his government is working to advance the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza. He says the problem is to find where to send them. "We are working on it. It's the direction we are heading"
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Israeli scholar Raz Segal's directorship of U of Minnesota's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies was rescinded partially because of his 10/13 piece in @JewishCurrents calling Israel's war on Gaza a genocide. In our Oct 7 anthology, I explained why we published this piece.
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People in the group chat trying to figure out where they're going after Twitter like it's the last scene in Fiddler and everyone's been kicked out of Anatevka.
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I can't tell you how many texts I've gotten in the last two weeks from friends to the tune of, "Well, I guess I'm not a Jew anymore." But strangely I'm over here lighting Shabbat candles for the first time in ages.
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Can guarantee there were no actual college students involved in this conversation. Or college professors. Or anyone who has spent time on an actual college campus since the 70s.
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“Just as our movement is led by students, at the seder, it is the youngest who ask the hard questions and demand answers.”
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announced like it's some kind of fucking video game.
The IDF has just announced the beginning of Operation Shield and Arrow. Follow for updates in real-time.
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As I mourn my father, I keep thinking about how painful it is to grieve even in the best of circumstances. And then I see videos from Gaza and think of all who have lost loved ones and have nowhere to sleep and nothing to feed those who remain. For heavens' sake, ceasefire now.
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This response to our new investigative program—and to the very idea of a robust Jewish press which holds our (deeply undemocratic) institutions accountable—underscores its importance. We know mainstream press ignores these stories partly for fear of antisemitism smears. No more.
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As we are face a dangerous, ever-widening rollback of reproductive rights, I'm so proud to share this guide and community resource for self-managing abortion by @ArielleSchw, illustrated by @Lubchansky. Everyone deserves to control their own reproduction.
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This is not journalism. This is propaganda 101. Shame on @DanaBashCNN.
Today: Destruction, violence and hate overtake college campuses across the country with Jewish students feeling unsafe at their own schools. It is unacceptable, and harkening back to the 1930s in Europe. Our @InsidePolitics show open, here.
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Ok this is actually hilarious.
Jewish Currents has nothing to do with Jews. It was a part of the Communist Party and acc to NYT not one of their editors is Jew. It's just another piece of American trash!
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Did Jake Sullivan just call for the right of return?.
US National Security Advisor @JakeSullivan46 on rights of refugees from Gaza: “When people leave their homes in conflict, leave their houses in conflict, they deserve the right to return to those homes—to those houses. And this situation is no different.”.
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Wow I can't imagine what it would be like for someone to tell me I'm not Jewish because of my politics 🙄.
I'm incensed about this because politically speaking, I'm a minority within a minority. As a Jewish Republican, if someone told me I'm not Jewish because of my politics, it would be offensive. It's contrary to individualism and it's disdainful of idelogical diversity.
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I was sent this extraordinary letter by Henry Schwarzchild resigning from the small journal Sh'ma during the Lebanon War in 1982. It echoed the many notes I've received since 10/7 of people narrating their resignation from Jewish institutions. Felt like finding an ancestor.
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For people trying to understand why the German conversation around Palestine is so backward, read this.
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We used to read these emails and laugh. Here was famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz wasting his time writing unhinged emails to teenagers like he had nothing better to do. Now I think maybe he was looking for a date.
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De Blasio is a moron and that was a dangerous tweet. But to talk about this as though it's primarily an antisemitism issue and not a) a real public health concern and b) a plot point in a larger story about Hasidim and city politics, degrades the antisemitism discourse.
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Instead of reading that Bari piece in NYT, you can read this piece on Weiss's war on free speech when the speech is about Palestine: Or this piece by Judith Butler dismantling the arguments of Weiss's book: 1/2.
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I had a dream that this article came out and it was just videos of the @JewishCurrents staff hula hooping
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5 current/former ADL employees discuss internal turmoil & high-profile departures following Greenblatt's praise of Musk. Post-10/7, sources say their antisemitism work has been redirected to focus on anti-Zionist activism. @maricohen95 & @alexbkane report
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For a comedic interlude, a satire on the four children featuring the Columbia administrators
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There should be a NYC app where you put in two addresses and it tells you the best coffee shop/restaurant in your price range equidistant from both people and accessible by public transport.
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Heartbreaking remembrance by Maya Rosen and Erez Bleicher of their friend Khalil Abu Yahia, killed with his family in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
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H*n M*zzig knows, because I told him, that I am a Sephardi/Mizrahi woman & the EIC of Jewish Currents. He continues to erase that fact because he is 100% bad faith. This is not about Mizrahi representation, it's about redirecting the American convo re: race, Zionism, & the left
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Florida is the global capital of diasporic fascism.
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I just straight up don’t understand why a sympathetic editor would let the fartlow piece go through. ?.
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It should be clear to everyone that this kind of harassment of young people should be completely off-limits. And also, if you are becoming aware of these kinds of tactics for the first time, you should know that this is par for the course.
Don't worry @Harvard, we haven't forgotten about the anti-Semites on your campus. Starting today @AccuracyInMedia will visit them w/billboards at their homes. Then they can explain to their neighbors why they don't like the Jews. As always, we'll never share private addresses.
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Imagine the chutzpah of saying this line when Gaza is *actually* under siege, starving to death with no water, electricity, or medicine.
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Students now connecting the story of the courageous midwives Shifra and Puah resisting the decree to kill male children to those helping others give birth in Gaza in impossible conditions and the precipitous rate at which children have been killed by the IDF.
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Of course, rallies like these serve a basic function of demonstrating support, and I don't want to be too dour. But I wish I didn't so often feel like they were being presented as an end in themselves, not a tool for further organizing.
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I am so proud of the work this team has done since 10/7—& in the past several years—to trace this ongoing catastrophe. At the risk of grandiosity, I truly feel as though we are keeping a record for the Judaism of the future, for a community in need of a very different lineage b"h.
(1/5) Announcing our Winter special issue, "After October 7: A Jewish Currents Reader," a book-length anthology featuring archival pieces that speak to the current moment in Israel/Palestine alongside highlights from our coverage this fall. 🧵
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Surprise! It was campus antisemitism! With no details about any actual antisemitic incidents/microaggressions/etc but a lot of reports of young Zionists "feeling bad" in left spaces.
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this is hardly their biggest problem but the JNF clearly does not know how pronouns work lol
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Jewish Currents and I were profiled in The New Yorker. Grateful for the privilege of this work, and for the people who do it with me.
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"Palestinians need to remember that we are not the defendants here. We have the right to back our oppressors into a corner & interrogate them, not the other way around.". @m7mdkurd with a rejection of perfect victimhood in an interview with @23cschwartz .
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Everyone for everyone. Release them all.
Released Israeli hostages make statements to the government. Part 1
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Now is the time to get loud. Stop the genocide.
Any person can see that ordering 1+ million people to move in under 24 hours is not possible. It is unacceptable. The UN has already deemed the order “impossible” without “devastating humanitarian consequences.”. Humanity is at stake. Nearly half are children. We must halt this.
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She decided to write him an email telling him why this behavior was inappropriate. For at least a week, he exchanged emails with her where he just unloaded vitriol on this teenaged student. She came off as the adult in the conversation.
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And here's another one from a group of students involved with J Street U, Hillel, Chabad, and the Jewish Student Union at the University of Oregon, supporting the protest encampment in the spirit of "machloket," which they describe as constructive conflict.
Fascinating letter from Hillel student leaders to the off-campus Jewish community. “We cannot have a clearer ask for the off-campus Jewish community: stay off our campus. Do not fund any actions on campus. Do not protest on campus. Your actions are harming Jewish students.”
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This by @PeterBeinart compiles a list of mainstream Israeli pundits & politicians calling for Palestinian transfer & expulsion. He also cites polls showing significant support in Israeli society. If you think it's far-fetched, you're not paying attention.
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I wrote this piece when @RepRashida's colleagues tried to shut down her Nakba Day event at the Capitol. Their continued refusal to see her and to engage with her truth is downright shameful.
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Yiddish students and faculty signing Zog nit keynmol, the Partisan song
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