In other news, I was invited to join Ukrainian-Israeli author Yuri Volodarskiy for a chat and poetry reading in his show on Wednesday, 19:00 JLM time. I'll read from the book and beyond.
Although the cast would be in Russian, I'd be happy if somebody here would be interested in checking it out!
Pleased to say I will on Monday be teaching @MagdaTeter chapter on the #history and (sadly!) contemporary persistence of the ritual murder myth from our new Routledge History of #Antisemitism, in which she distills she essence of her masterful and justifiably acclaimed definitive book on the subject.
After various Amazon difficulties (thank you to my publisher for sorting them out!) my new book is here!!! Thank you for your patience & pls spread the word!
POWER TO YIELD AND OTHER STORIES - available from all major retailers!
"This intimate yet expansive collection is not one to miss." - @sloane Leong
"a conversation to help teachers, at the K–12 & college levels, develop strategies to teach the #Palestine – #Israel conflict & many of the attendant sensitive historical topics it entails. It might seem that this history is a minefield worth avoiding, but thoughtful & engaged teachers have been teaching such difficult topics in a civil & empathetic way for decades"
Re: authentic & fake #Jews: the tragic #Gaza war has predictably led to bad #history going viral:. European Jews are descendants of medieval #Turkic converts--#Khazars-- thus have no #historical & #genetic connection to the land of #Israel
A myth, promoted by a combination of the cynical or stupid, sadly embraced by the naive & uninformed
Sadly relevant, as I will give a virtual talk about this at Indiana Uni this week.
However, right-wing extremists & racists, from the Christian Identity movement to McCarthyites, appropriated it in the early C20 & grafted it onto existing conspiratorial #antisemitism
Here, one of my "favorite" examples, which shows you just how loopy this shit was. The book earned praise from major political & military figures
However, right-wing extremists & racists, from the Christian Identity movement to McCarthyites, appropriated it in the early C20 & grafted it onto existing conspiratorial #antisemitism
Here, one of my "favorite" examples, which shows you just how loopy this shit was. The book earned praise from major political & military figures
So, after all that historical-scientific background, we return to the present to find (random example) people in Indonesia (of all places) promoting this nonsense
Again, note strategy:
Bold assertion of sinister suppression of dark secret, buttressed by citation of supposedly authoritative sources that reader (at least here) is in no position to evaluate (& reader, trusting source, does not go on to scrutinize)
Prof. Yair Bar Haim, professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and director, the National Center for Traumatic Stress and Resilience, discusses the current situation in Israel. Specifically, what work psychologists perform on the ground while we are at war with Hamas.
He also provides guidance for those in the diaspora about dealing with the associated trauma of what is occurring in Israel.
They had not known names of US #CivilRights icons A. Philip Randolph, Thurgood Marshall, Mary McLeod Bethune, Marianne Anderson--yet presumed to understand the intricacies of one of the most tragic & intractable conflicts on earth
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> An associate professor at the University of California Santa Barbara claimed during a recent speech that the Israeli Defense Forces fighting Hamas terrorists is akin to police officers "murdering" George Floyd. He called Israel a "white supremacist Zionist project" and issued a chilling call to action; American progressives must kill the Jewish nation.
More than 20 #ActuallyAutistic comrades have dropped out of my groups, both paid & free over the past 2 days for the express reason that I speak out agaisnt antisemitism, denounce murder. and want peace for Palestinians and Israelis.
Some for the express reason that I’m a “killer” and “white supremacist”
Many of you follow me for a long time and have met me and worked with me.
I often speak about antisemitism in our community. No, opposing the Israeli occupation isn’t antisemitism. I oppose it. Daily and my entire life.
This isn’t the question. This is about using antisemitic tropes and illogical standards. This is about bigotry towards Jewish people and Israelis as humans.
I won’t shut up. If you think my words are sullied and dirty and immoral because I am a JEW and an ISRAELI, if you think because of that I am not a valuable human, and if you haven’t unfollowed or dropped out yet, GO AHEAD NOW and drop out. I don’t need bigots in my spaces or world.
I'm so sorry you having to deal with this but deeply appreciate you speaking out for #Peace.
I normally am proud of the #Autistic community on mastodon but what you've experienced from these folks is wrong.
P.S. For any Autistic antisemitic bigots out there --- please know that there are a lot of autistic Jews in the world. Your attacks on people for being Jewish are attacks on fellow autistic people. I'm one of them.
TIL that the term "Mizrahi" is a reclaimed term, originally a racist term and slurrish, it's since been reclaimed by those Jews as a way to self-identify, especially for those Jews who live in Israel.
I've only heard it in the context of its reclaimed use, but knowing the history is important.
The preamble to the Program called for establishment of a "home in #Palestine for the #Jewish people, secured under public law," thus leaving open the question of statehood but affirming that the result required international support
#Ephemera: When unfolded, this album commemorating the First #Zionist Congress (August 29-31, 1897), depicts the delegates.
Here, 162 of them. Figures vary, but 200-250 persons took part, including 17 #women—though they became voting members only in 1898
Interesting that this evidently American document featured portraits of not only the movement’s leaders—but also #Washington and Columbus. Trying to suggest an equivalence of nation-building—or just patriotic filler?