Sheera Talpaz
@snarkademic
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professor @UNC // previously @oberlincollege // Hebrew & Arabic lit. Palestine/Israel. translation // mama to 👧🏻 // #Fulbright scholar, '23-'24
Joined December 2018
I wrote a thing! Along with some of the sharpest folks I know! Check out the articles in this cluster. P.S. I made a few last-minute edits, including one more paragraph on emergency and exception, which will be reflected in the piece later today.
@eleanoir @oliviastowell @snarkademic @stevenwatts @la_louve_rouge_ @lint_ax @post45 Next, @snarkademicreads Palestinian poetry, Israeli Hasbara politics, and the Canary Mission to think through the uneven dynamics of state suspicion, especially as elaborated in the state of exception as a violent symptom.
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If you refer to killing children as "reducing the number of future terrorists," you are a nazi. Hope you know that, especially if you're Jewish.
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Me: <speaking Arabic with a taxi driver>. Him: you've got a good accent! what's it like being in the cia??. Me: 🫠🫠🫠.
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If someone messaged my workplace about my college-aged kid's politics, I would probably do what I could to ruin that someone's life.
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Nothing radicalized me but zionism itself. When I was 17, my parents were away, & I attended Passover seder at a family friend's home. The father joked about throwing Palestinians into the sea. I've never forgotten. Over the past year+, I've seen ppl speak this way more openly.
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At airport bathroom. Woman in line with a black mask w/yellow star patch that read "not vaccinated" in Hebrew. I started some shit right there. I told her that her mask was incredibly offensive to Jewish people. "How do you know I'm not Jewish?" she asks. Oh, call it a hunch.
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But if you must know a) you're unvaccinated, b) the Hebrew was incorrectly gendered, c) It unequivocally doesn't matter if you are Jewish--the statement stands.
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I'm a Jew and my courses deal with the history of Palestine. I was accused of antisemitism by CAMERA for using the word "Palestine" in my research interests. That is it. That's all they knew about me.
The lawsuit filed ag @Columbia this week claims that Columbia has maintained an environment hostile to Jewish students. Peaceful student protests are described as "pro-Hamas mobs" & the evidence of my antisemitism includes that I am teaching a course on the history of Palestine.
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@JewsFightBack No kidding? "College-aged" is another way of saying adult. I'm indicating their status as offspring, not suggesting they are not fully grown.
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I was reminded of this tweet today and i almost want to keep living
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Bookmark this all you want. My Arabic was awkward (it's been a minute 😭), and my only allegiances are to my child (😭) and poems.
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@RaziHecker i am Jewish, the granddaughter of survivors, and i'm pointing out the ultimate hypocrisy of my own people to my own people (the ones who justify killing children among them). "Haha.".
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Gonna bring my phd advisor here to tell you all i pronounce ق like i'm regurgitating food.
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@NoamNechama Noam, if this is a response to what I wrote above, are you saying you're okay with fellow Jews talking this way about children?.
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The 18-year-old refusenik is more courageous than nearly every single one of you. You don't have to praise him, but going out of your way to say he's not doing enough when you've done nothing but talk online is as unserious as it gets.
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@RaziHecker Yeah, I openly hold contempt for anyone who justifies the murder of children. Especially people who experienced atrocity themselves. Now fuck off with your condescension.
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Oh man that white lady professor yelled the wrong very factual thing when that cop was brutalizing her for no reason except concern over injustice i don't think we should let her get away with it.
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Historically speaking, pogroms didn't begin with hooligans yelling racist threats, making fun of dead children, and ripping down flags.
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weird to (allegedly) read Maus and be repulsed by the swears.
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Every library in Gaza has been destroyed (the majority, including the Central Archives, home to records of 150 yrs) or damaged. Some of these had been destroyed in yrs past and rebuilt. Israel's assault on Palestinian culture and literature is not new and not exclusive to Gaza:
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@hebagowayed I mean, like a) you publicly called my child an antisemite and b) tried to get me fired for something related to my adult child. I would probably ruin myself trying to ruin you. I wouldn't even be savvy about it, idc.
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Blue checks as normal as ever.
You'll always have weeds like Sheera growing in beautiful gardens. you need to keep cleaning your garden!.
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Israel's mass starvation of Gazans is the most unforgivable of its sins. One-third of the population is on the brink of death from a man-made food and clean water shortage. People are dying slowly and harrowingly when there is food mere miles away.
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Yeah man the jews who didn't survive can't exactly hang out rn
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@Tr3s0r I'm generally with you there. But, my friend, this example is the tip of the iceberg.
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They've burnt hospital patients alive tonight. Nothing has been off limits. Those who avert their eyes: even if you don't look, this is Israel's legacy.
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If you justify the killing of children--any child anywhere--unfollow me. I don't want to be around you.
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Is there a German word for when you revise an article, adding 1,000 words, and you made it worse.
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documented the time i spontaneously went off on a stranger
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"Sucks losing a war you started" is, in fact, a psychotic response to the idea of mass starvation of civilians. Doing exponentially more war crimes is not a sign of military victory.
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I call it a genocide. I'm a Jew. And I did NOT ask what you think.
@snarkademic Screw the both of you. If a leftist anti-Israel @ICJ_org doesn’t find Israel responsible for a genocide, and you still call it genocide you’re simply not a Jew.
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One example
הדרך הכי טובה להבין איך חייל מסוגל לירות למוות בילד בן 11 היא לצייץ על חייל שירה למוות בילד בן 11 ולראות מה לחלקים גדולים בעם הזה, שחלקו לובש מדים ונושא נשק לצערי הרב יש להגיד על כך. מין קטע כזה שעם שרובו מגן על פשעי מלחמה באמצעות דה הומניזציה מוחלטת גם יבצע אותם.
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You should take the Palestinian flag off your username. This post spits in the face of the very idea of solidarity.
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I feel sympathy for Hersh's parents and for the hostage families, though people accuse me of not. I also feel anger that an entire society can claim to value individual life and mourn collectively while sending their 18-year-olds to murder others en masse.
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My m. grandmother chose Palestine over death. My p. grandparents came to Israel as refugees after Auschwitz & fighting w/partisans. I wouldn't be alive otherwise. I was there on 10/7. Israel's sin isn't Jewishness. It's that Jews forced their fate onto others: exile & genocide.
To all you Jews in hiding out there: if your grandparents made a different choice you too would be in Israel. Or perhaps, you simply would not be. Stand up.
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"Give Israel a cookie when they don't do war crimes" is the single worst take I've ever read on here.
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Unlike him, a '48 Palestinian who speaks multiple languages and is fundamentally correct. Israelis don't know Arabic and think they can understand Palestinian society without it, or they don't think it matters if they understand Palestinian society.
So true, Israelis clearly don't understand the region they live in , unlike me a guy who learned about it 11 months ago from Tik Tok. AMA.
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I'm concerned that some of you are taken by surprise that kafka was a freak.
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Plenty of Jews, actually, focus their critiques primarily on Israel precisely *because* Israel claims to matter to Jews everywhere, exploits Jewish trauma, and is carrying out a genocide--an act that we vowed should never occur again. It is not antisemitic to reject Nazism.
Hi there! I’m a Jew. Let me make it easy for you: if you never say anything about N.Korea, China, Russia, Turkey, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, the Taliban, ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, Boko Haram but you constantly pipe up about Israel, you’re an antisemite. I hope that clears things up.
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Having to pay for parking at your own job is a racket, and nobody will convince me otherwise.
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Yes, we know. It's not a dilemma when you don't see Palestinians as human beings. You can't even call them "human shields" when you devalue their lives this much.
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Well, first, I don't think Sara understands how protests work. Why would students protest a fallen regime? . Second, it's ugly to see Syrian lives so relentlessly cheapened.
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As someone who gets called a kapo every other day, I have to say I find this a touch surreal. History is the unfunniest farce.
Jews in Germany are celebrating the election success of the "Nazi" party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland). The far-right AfD party won its first state election in Thuringia with 32.8% of the vote. Nationally, the AfD is polling as the second strongest party, just behind the
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@ProfRobAnderson As a woman, I personally don't need tips when an occasional compliment does the trick. I even have a little jar of the nice words a handful of students left in my evals. I call the jar my "pension plan.".
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I know there are many such requests, but if you haven't contributed yet or if you can do more, please do so for this family trying to flee Rafah. I've given what I could & am in contact w/a member of this family, a wonderful young man who deserves to live & return to his studies.
Please help a Palestinian family trapped in Gaza and who are desperately trying to leave to Egypt seeking a safer place. Any contributions made will be used for paying coordinations fees. Kindly donate & retweet if you can.
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Now seems like as good of a time as any to announce that I won't be returning to Oberlin after my sabbatical ends. Instead, I'll be starting as Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill.
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I made myself watch this. My daughter is this child's age. If you want to know what informs my thinking, it's months of this. Thousands of hurt children and murdered mothers like these. As the OP says, there is no Mother's Day for them.
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@giveussomenews I'm writing toward a mixed audience, you fool. Not only am I Jewish and Israeli American but I'm also a scholar of Jewish Studies.
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theoretically, what does one do when one's daycare teacher reports that one's 2-year-old has uttered the phrase "oh shit" twice that day? theoretically.
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Not a self-hating Jew. I'm an Alan Dershowitz-hating Jew.
Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz says, “The worst department in terms of antisemitism and anti-Israel are Jewish studies departments."
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Since this is going viral, let's do something positive for a Gazan family. This campaign is 42% of the way to $25,000 necessary for exit visas when the Rafah crossing reopens. Help keep momentum going to get my friend's family to safety?🙏🏻❤️ Contribute if you can & please share.
Please help a Palestinian family trapped in Gaza and who are desperately trying to leave to Egypt seeking a safer place. Any contributions made will be used for paying coordinations fees. Kindly donate & retweet if you can.
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Believe it or not, the reason I identify as an anti-zionist is not so that antisemites will serve me beer
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Last time I'll say it: Hamas targeted civilians. We know because they provided video evidence of it immediately. Deny or downplay and get blocked.
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That's not the "worst part." It's the obvious part. Your epiphany is worthless and, frankly, entirely irrational if you still maintain faith in the institutions that enable, perpetrate, and hide these crimes.
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A successful hostage rescue does not entail murdering civilians. Look at the videos circulating: the dangling child, the foot, the plastic bags of human remains.
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@ronnie2204 You don't even begin to see the irony that you posted this propagandistic bullshit in response to a rejection of a eugenicist justification for murdering children.
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@ronnie2204 Yes, propaganda. Like your scare quotes around the word Palestinian. Now go away.
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@Arden_Eby If i had a strong taste for revenge, you'd probably have gotten that impression like thousands of tweets ago.
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academia makes it impossible to "build wealth" (i.e., for some, saving $, for others, not being -$) not only by paying little but also by providing time-limited opportunities that force people to move far and frequently, an undertaking whose costs are rarely defrayed.
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@FathelLibya Well all you have to do is ignore everything about the program, including its very name.
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Personally? Same. And i guess i'm one of like 10 israelis (half-israelis?/american israelis) to feel this way. And it'd be great if people understood that not having a murderous ethnostate =/= not having Jews in the world.
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This account makes a mockery of actual antisemitism. That the person behind it is easily triggered by a mere pin of a Palestinian flag is no justification for their threats to this employee's livelihood. They shame us. (Screenshot to avoid spreading the posts w/personal details)
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Respectfully disagree. Completely.
600 pages of reading per week (especially if most of those pages are from novels) is totally reasonable for full-time college students. That’s less than 100 pages per day. If a college student can’t read 100 pages per day without cheating they should not be in college.
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@ronnie2204 Maybe you should look at one of the thousands upon thousands of videos of parents and others sobbing over the bodies of toddlers.
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The comments. Again, the comments. To say it's "mass psychosis" is not to absolve the collective or individuals of blame. Even so, some psychopaths are self-aware; they know they should feel empathy for others. We only see self-righteousness, vengefulness, & indifference here.
שיחת היום ברצועה: הטרגדיה של מוחמד אבו-קמסאן. אב לתאומים בני שלושה ימים, שיצא מביתו לאסוף את תעודות הלידה שלהם מבית החולים. כמה דקות לאחר שקיבל את התעודות לידיו, התבשר כי התאומים נהרגו - לפי עדויות מירי טנק של צה"ל לעבר הבניין שבו שהו בדיר אלבלח. בתקיפה נהרגו גם אימם וסבתם.
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The brutal murder of a terrified, helpless young man. Merciless. Enraging. Fuck the BBC and the IOF.
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Not sure why Israel is gloating. Seems like they came upon Sinwar by chance, and the ~60-year-old they claimed was a coward sitting in a tunnel encircled by hostages was, instead, taking part in combat and kept fighting after he lost an arm.
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@musicmihoyminoy He's not even a faculty member at the same institution as the grad student in question!.
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What does she think apartheid is? Population quotas? Israel is an apartheid state because of its discriminatory treatment of Palestinians--both citizens and non. Waaaay too many followers.
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Students should be allowed to express themselves on campus, and professors should stay out of it unless they're being directly threatened. Calling for Palestinian liberation is neither a direct nor indirect threat. That this needs to be said is appalling.
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Yeah man we just crawl out of our jew tunnels and drag you to the nearest yeshiva for ritual execution by making you watch all of adam sandler's early work until your soul begs to depart your body ✡️
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@teacher_phd i agree with this, though as someone who's recently dealt with the above, i'll say it's very, very emotionally painful to have to tell colleagues and others about your miscarriage.
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Men, your dream girl isn't on dating apps or at a nightclub, she's:. ~ I̲n̲ ̲t̲h̲e̲ ̲l̲i̲b̲r̲a̲r̲y̲.~ I̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶i̶l̶l̶i̶a̶r̶d̶ ̶r̶o̶o̶m̶.~ I̷n̷ ̷t̷h̷e̷ ̷c̷o̷n̷s̷e̷r̷v̷a̷t̷o̷r̷y̷.~ With a candlestick.~ With a lead pipe.~ With a dagger
Men, your dream girl isn't on dating apps or at a nightclub, she's:. ~ At church .~ At the farmer's market.~ In the library.~ In a bookstore .~ Sipping a whole milk latte in a cute cafe.~ Baking sweet treats for loved ones.~ Spending time in nature
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I am a Jew. You have to be kidding. Have some shame.
(((You People))). I would imagine a literature professor would know the word Jews would flow better. I would imagine @UNC wouldn't employ such a bigot.
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