It's from this weird little conversation between Horkheimer and Adorno, published as "Towards a New Manifesto," in which they mostly just say aphorisms at each other

Why I will not stand for Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day siren A state that commits genocide cannot claim to honor the Holocaust. Each ceremony it holds in its name defiles the memory of the victims.

Deeply moved and unsettled (complimentary) by this essay from Iranian-Jewish Israeli Orly Noy, whom I've admired for years:

Dismissing China’s repression in Xinjiang Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak recently defended China’s policy toward ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang. David Brophy exposes the weakness of their case.

He could have gone for cheap shots (there were plenty of opportunities) but David took the time to write a thoughtful and super informative rebuttal to the drivel in Monthly Review.

Worth a read even if you didn't see the original

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that most often we are talking about right-wing actors carrying out *attacks* and left-wing *rhetoric* that seeks to justify them. I completely agree that both are problems. But the article's framing doesn't distinguish between these two in any way at all.

No argument with your point or the report's findings, but I wish you would have pointed out, as Michelle Goldberg did in her podcast you recently shared, that the left and the right are not at all *equal* contributors to antisemitism in word and even less in deed.

Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

Delete this immediately

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Horkheimer: I couldn't care less about sending spacecraft to the moon. Adorno: There is nothing sacred about technology.

Apropos whatever nonsense is happening on the moon

The Iranian-American voices you see paraded on TV begging for Iran to be bombed were never a majority of the community.

But now, a month into the disastrous war they pushed for and celebrated, the Iranian-American community has turned overwhelmingly against the war - 66%-33%!

The Factory Was Always the Target Yesterday’s strikes on Iranian steel plants are being covered as news.

"Yesterday’s strikes were presented to the world as part of a campaign against the Islamic Republic’s nuclear and military threat. But a look at history suggests the target is not Iran’s government. It is Iran’s industrial independence itself."
alikadivar.substack.com/p/the-factor...

Yes exactly. I deleted my Twitter account and really miss having a connection to people in the Middle East and South Asia

I was sufficiently struck by the way in which the Israeli government is using historic antisemitic tropes in its messaging against Iran that I wrote about the trend, and what it says about the relationship between Israel and the Diaspora: forward.com/opinion/8151...

Thank you!

Very cool. Can you share the Hebrew?

Not to mention the watad (tent-peg) and sabab (cord)

US intel chief Gabbard says Iran was not rebuilding enrichment prior to war Gabbard's testimony contradicts one of several justifications Trump has given for launching war with Iran.

Gabbard's testimony contradicts one of several justifications Trump has given for launching war with Iran.

The South Pars attack is a major escalation and worsen the war, but it also will really hurt many Iranian civilians. Iran’s electricity production is built around natural gas, in particular South Pars.

To be clear, Israel deserves plenty of blame and is pursuing an even worse endgame than the US in their war on Iran, but it's easy to lose sight of US hegemony (even if declining)

"Israel made the US go to war" > Trump gets to evade responsibility for his disastrous and unpopular war, Netanyahu gets to portray himself domestically as all-powerful, and if antisemitic conspiracy theories make diaspora Jews unsafe, both Trump and Netanyahu are happy with that outcome too

This is really good and insightful, worth reading/listening.

It only overlooks how politically useful it is for both Trump *and* Netanyahu to portray Israel as calling the shots and dragging the US into war.

Persian equivalent: az to harakat, az khoda barakat (از تو حرکت، از خدا برکت) "movement from you, blessing from God" = you need to take action, and God will help/reward you for doing so

It's sometimes posited that the US is not bothering to manufacture consent for this war, and I think that's just empirically untrue or at least vastly overstated

The cover of Matthew Thomas Miller's book *Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism*

It was a pleasure to get a chance to read an advance copy of Matthew Thomas Miller's exceptional new book *Feeling Like Lovers: Affect in Medieval Sufism*!

It's an extraordinary contribution to affect studies and religious studies/Islamic studies.

www.ucpress.edu/books/feelin...

Strikes on Iran Damage Cultural Heritage Sites, Infuriating Iranians

wounds that can scar forever: strikes on Iran damage cultural heritage sites, and of course infuriating Iranians www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...

For the new South Asia book forum section, I reviewed and put into conversation three excellent recent books: Rishad Choudhury‘s Hajj Across Empires, @ajab.bsky.social 's The Making of Persianate Modernity & Daniel Majchrowicz’s The World in Words.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks for this Amanda! 🙏 I appreciate the generous review, of course, but I also just admire how deftly you situated my work and others in the larger field.