Claudius Link
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Sacha Baron Cohen was Racist the Whole Time… We Just Didn’t See it
Sacha Baron Cohen was Racist the Whole Time… We Just Didn’t See it
Alex Akselrod
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"The #Jewish population is now nonexistent, but for thousands of years the #Jews of #Libya lived under the rule of the #Greeks, #Romans, #OttomanEmpire, #Italian, #British and #Arabs. In 1911, they made up roughly 4% of the #Libyan population. In 1938, “race protection laws” banned Jews from sending their children to school, working in skilled professions or intermarrying. Later the community was divided and sent to concentration camps across #Europe and #NorthAfrica.
In the years following World War II, the remaining Libyan Jews were forced to emigrate, leaving just 100 in 1969 and none at all by 2004. Many went to #Israel and many to #Rome, adding to the spread and diversity of Libyan and North African Jewish #cooking. Today we enjoy such dishes as #mafrum (stuffed #potatoes), #couscous and #chraime (a spicy #fish #stew). Learning about these #foods helps us to understand our people."
"The #Jewish population is now nonexistent, but for thousands of years the #Jews of #Libya lived under the rule of the #Greeks, #Romans, #OttomanEmpire, #Italian, #British and #Arabs. In 1911, they made up roughly 4% of the #Libyan population. In 1938, “race protection laws” banned Jews from sending their children to school, working in skilled professions or intermarrying. Later the community was divided and sent to concentration camps across #Europe and #NorthAfrica.
In the years following World War II, the remaining Libyan Jews were forced to emigrate, leaving just 100 in 1969 and none at all by 2004. Many went to #Israel and many to #Rome, adding to the spread and diversity of Libyan and North African Jewish #cooking. Today we enjoy such dishes as #mafrum (stuffed #potatoes), #couscous and #chraime (a spicy #fish #stew). Learning about these #foods helps us to understand our people."
Alex Akselrod
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This is tomorrow. I continue to be extremely jealous of NYC. 😆
"An upcoming #educational event in #Manhattan aims to grapple with the foundations of #Jewish #history, following renewed interest after the #Hamas-led terrorist attacks on #Oct7, 2023.
The daylong s#ymposium, titled “The Past, Present and Future of #JewishHistory” and hosted by the Center for Jewish History in #NewYorkCity on Nov. 2, will gather 20 leading #historians to examine some of the field’s most pressing questions. The event, organized by the Center’s Jewish Public History Forum, features five sessions exploring fundamental themes, from the significance of #antisemitism in Jewish history to the relationship between #Israeli and #Diaspora narratives."
https://www.jns.org/ny-event-aims-to-pull-back-curtain-on-how-scholars-think-about-jewish-history/
This is tomorrow. I continue to be extremely jealous of NYC. 😆
"An upcoming #educational event in #Manhattan aims to grapple with the foundations of #Jewish #history, following renewed interest after the #Hamas-led terrorist attacks on #Oct7, 2023.
The daylong s#ymposium, titled “The Past, Present and Future of #JewishHistory” and hosted by the Center for Jewish History in #NewYorkCity on Nov. 2, will gather 20 leading #historians to examine some of the field’s most pressing questions. The event, organized by the Center’s Jewish Public History Forum, features five sessions exploring fundamental themes, from the significance of #antisemitism in Jewish history to the relationship between #Israeli and #Diaspora narratives."
https://www.jns.org/ny-event-aims-to-pull-back-curtain-on-how-scholars-think-about-jewish-history/
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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🚨 NEW ARTICLE ALERT 🚨 from me, Victoria Simon & Nathaniel Laywine
"What’s with All the Tapestries?
Intersectionality and the Discursive Vacuum of Generative AI”
We use methods called “kibbitzing” and “futzing” to critique the representation of intersectional identity in ChatGPT & MidJourney.
#academia #commodon #academicChatter #amWriting #Jewish #intersectionality #AI #race #identity #article #openAccess
🚨 NEW ARTICLE ALERT 🚨 from me, Victoria Simon & Nathaniel Laywine
"What’s with All the Tapestries?
Intersectionality and the Discursive Vacuum of Generative AI”
We use methods called “kibbitzing” and “futzing” to critique the representation of intersectional identity in ChatGPT & MidJourney.
#academia #commodon #academicChatter #amWriting #Jewish #intersectionality #AI #race #identity #article #openAccess
Alex Akselrod
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‘In an open letter…460 signatories - including former #Israeli officials, #Jewish artists & intellectuals - urged heads of state to address "the underlying conditions of #occupation, #apartheid and the denial of #Palestinian #rights" absent from the current #ceasefire agreement. …Addressed to the #UN secretary general, the letter called on world leaders to uphold #internationallaw, halt #armssales…as well as ensuring the flow of #humanitarianaid to #Gaza. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hundreds-jewish-figures-and-israelis-urge-world-leaders-hold-israel-accountable-over
‘In an open letter…460 signatories - including former #Israeli officials, #Jewish artists & intellectuals - urged heads of state to address "the underlying conditions of #occupation, #apartheid and the denial of #Palestinian #rights" absent from the current #ceasefire agreement. …Addressed to the #UN secretary general, the letter called on world leaders to uphold #internationallaw, halt #armssales…as well as ensuring the flow of #humanitarianaid to #Gaza. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hundreds-jewish-figures-and-israelis-urge-world-leaders-hold-israel-accountable-over
Alex Akselrod
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I am starting to blame #Netanyahu for these types of attacks. His government has created more #antisemitism due to their #CrimesAgainstHumanity.
2 dead in attack at #UK #synagogue on #YomKippur, suspect shot dead
2 people were killed Thursday when a man drove a car into pedestrians & stabbed a security guard in an attack at a synagogue in #England where worshippers were marking Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the #Jewish calendar, British police said.
I am starting to blame #Netanyahu for these types of attacks. His government has created more #antisemitism due to their #CrimesAgainstHumanity.
2 dead in attack at #UK #synagogue on #YomKippur, suspect shot dead
2 people were killed Thursday when a man drove a car into pedestrians & stabbed a security guard in an attack at a synagogue in #England where worshippers were marking Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the #Jewish calendar, British police said.
PersonalEscrito
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How Germany’s fight against anti-Semitism is empowering the far right
"Prominent #Jewish #Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein returns to his ancestral home, #Germany, to investigate how the country’s impulse never to repeat the horrendous anti-Semitism that led to the #Holocaust has resulted in the suppression of any criticism of Israel and its actions in #Gaza.
With critics of Israel being sacked, cancelled, silenced, arrested and banned from Germany, one Jewish philosopher has called this a “McCarthyism” for the 21st century. We’ll see how in today's Germany, a nation that killed most of his family but granted him citizenship in 2011, Loewenstein is told, as a Jew, what is acceptable to say about Israel. To find out why the German authorities are so committed to stifling any criticism of Israeli actions and what it means for #democracy and #humanrights in the country, he will meet those being arrested and suffering job losses for criticising Israel, the people enforcing these laws and those on the far right claiming to support #Israel. "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfK10unkiGw
#farright #extremeright #fascism #antisemitism #zionism #antimuslism #racism #StateRepression
@palestine @israel @EndIsraeliApartheid
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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Gonna start working of sequels for The Price of Survival -- one book for each character.
Just not sure what order to put the books in.
These stories are directly inspired by the experiences of Jews in Renaissance/Early Modern Europe, and are in effect an examination of the ways Jews survived and the different traumas those survival's caused.
Navin, at the end of Price of Survival, has settled into the role of Court Jew, walking the tightrope of survival in the highest circles based on the advantages he brings, but his survival hanging by the thread of his patron's support and forced to work alongside the enemies of his people.
Cyneburg is tasked with establishing a sort of rural ghetto, where she will spend the rest of her life.
Elisabeti... she'll be following the path of the converso, giving up her people and culture in order to assimilate into the dominant culture while trying to secretly retain as much of her true self as possible.
In the Price of Survival, I started with Navin, then introduced Cyneberg, then Elisabeti. I'm not sure if I want to write the sequels in the same order, or if I want to reverse it and tell Elisabeti's story first...
How Germany’s fight against anti-Semitism is empowering the far right
"Prominent #Jewish #Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein returns to his ancestral home, #Germany, to investigate how the country’s impulse never to repeat the horrendous anti-Semitism that led to the #Holocaust has resulted in the suppression of any criticism of Israel and its actions in #Gaza.
With critics of Israel being sacked, cancelled, silenced, arrested and banned from Germany, one Jewish philosopher has called this a “McCarthyism” for the 21st century. We’ll see how in today's Germany, a nation that killed most of his family but granted him citizenship in 2011, Loewenstein is told, as a Jew, what is acceptable to say about Israel. To find out why the German authorities are so committed to stifling any criticism of Israeli actions and what it means for #democracy and #humanrights in the country, he will meet those being arrested and suffering job losses for criticising Israel, the people enforcing these laws and those on the far right claiming to support #Israel. "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfK10unkiGw
#farright #extremeright #fascism #antisemitism #zionism #antimuslism #racism #StateRepression
@palestine @israel @EndIsraeliApartheid
Gonna start working of sequels for The Price of Survival -- one book for each character.
Just not sure what order to put the books in.
These stories are directly inspired by the experiences of Jews in Renaissance/Early Modern Europe, and are in effect an examination of the ways Jews survived and the different traumas those survival's caused.
Navin, at the end of Price of Survival, has settled into the role of Court Jew, walking the tightrope of survival in the highest circles based on the advantages he brings, but his survival hanging by the thread of his patron's support and forced to work alongside the enemies of his people.
Cyneburg is tasked with establishing a sort of rural ghetto, where she will spend the rest of her life.
Elisabeti... she'll be following the path of the converso, giving up her people and culture in order to assimilate into the dominant culture while trying to secretly retain as much of her true self as possible.
In the Price of Survival, I started with Navin, then introduced Cyneberg, then Elisabeti. I'm not sure if I want to write the sequels in the same order, or if I want to reverse it and tell Elisabeti's story first...
Alex Akselrod
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"A strong majority of #Jewish #Americans said they are concerned about #antisemitism on #college campuses but disagree with President #Trump’s approach to combating it, a national #poll showed.
By nearly 3 to 1, #American #Jews believe that Trump is using antisemitism as an “excuse” to “penalize and tax college campuses,” according to the poll released Tuesday by Ipsos in collaboration with social and political scientists at UC Berkeley and the #University of Rochester."
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/jewish-americans-trump-poll
"A strong majority of #Jewish #Americans said they are concerned about #antisemitism on #college campuses but disagree with President #Trump’s approach to combating it, a national #poll showed.
By nearly 3 to 1, #American #Jews believe that Trump is using antisemitism as an “excuse” to “penalize and tax college campuses,” according to the poll released Tuesday by Ipsos in collaboration with social and political scientists at UC Berkeley and the #University of Rochester."
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/jewish-americans-trump-poll
"A strong majority of #Jewish #Americans said they are concerned about #antisemitism on #college campuses but disagree with President #Trump’s approach to combating it, a national #poll showed.
By nearly 3 to 1, #American #Jews believe that Trump is using antisemitism as an “excuse” to “penalize and tax college campuses,” according to the poll released Tuesday by Ipsos in collaboration with social and political scientists at UC Berkeley and the #University of Rochester."
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/jewish-americans-trump-poll
Kevin Carson
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US #Holocaust #Museum announced temporary closure of exhibit detailing #UnitedStates turned away #Jewish #refugees during #worldwarii This decision reportedly follows an order from #Trump to vet #Smithsonian museums for content considered to be #antiamerican. Closure of the exhibit, which highlights a critical historical narrative, has sparked a conversation about the boundaries of such vetting processes and their impact on historical education. @NoLieWithBTC: Museum closes exhibit #censorship