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Why did U.S. journalism professors attack NYT story on Hamas sexual violence? Superb dismantling of a really ill advised letter by journalism profs, by ⁦Laurel Leff⁩ haaretz.com/opinion/2024-0….

'When it comes to Israel and Palestine, it’s like sharing the road with a drunk driver screaming about how much they care about human life while drag-racing a truckload of MAGA-merched-out Nazis' thenation.com/article/politi… via me

Sounds like a big number until you remember there are 160,000 Jewish students at American universities.

This is what tokenism looks like.

'Making anti-Z a precondition for = membership in a community is functionally AS. It is the way that antisemitism has most often operated historically in free societies: by forcing Jews to repudiate communal values in order to enjoy full social equality'
nymag.com/intelligencer/…

'The anonymous senator... said he and many of his fellow senators initially voted yes to no confidence 'out of fear of being doxxed' for voting against. He said they changed their votes of no confidence during the closed session when they felt safer to express their own beliefs.'

Exxxxxxactly. So put some money into education and not a new Bills stadium.

'Protesters should be free to gather and make their demands, of course, but these particular demands are not, by any reasonable definition, 'anti-war.'' theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… via Jill Filipovic

Such a delight to see a former constituent at the Met Gala last night.

The Bronx of people's imagination x.com/zachreports/st…

I wrote about Standing Together last week. Today they stood at 3rd and Fairfax to advance the *only* hopeful way forward for Israelis & Palestinians.

Not great either x.com/persianjewess/…

Anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the failure of Holocaust education: Some thoughts for Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, which begins tonight:
blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-war-agains…

Do read this brilliant, complex, passionate, lyrical, humane essay by Zadie Smith. newyorker.com/news/essay/shi…

The thought of writing a #YomHaShoah note broke me. This year—even for someone whose work is focused on antisemitism, hate, & extremism—has been too much. So I’ll simply share these photos of my grandparents who survived & their families who didn’t, and recommit to their legacy.

I needed this Zack Beauchamp vox.com/politics/2024/…

For writers to enforce ideological conformity is always appalling. Wrecking PEN America will do nothing to relieve Palestinian suffering -- but as George Packer cogently explains, it will advance authoritarianism both here and abroad. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Missouri law requires women seeking divorce to disclose whether they're pregnant — and state judges won't finalize divorces during a pregnancy npr.org/2024/05/03/124…

The other thing you can take away from this data is how *furious* Jews are over campus antisemitism. Remember that Jews as whole are liberals well to the left of the general populace.

Remember these numbers too when someone talks about their token Jews participating.