The Nexus Project here is doing the brave and necessary work of standing up to the JD Vance's gross antisemitism, but as far as I can tell, larger and better funded American Jewish groups like the ADL and AJC have said nothing about Vance likening criticism of ICE to a "blood libel."

UK to formally sanction Israeli ministers over war in Gaza – Middle East crisis live Far-right ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich will have assets frozen and travel bans imposed

The UK will join Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other nations and formally sanction Israeli ministers over war in Gaza

Israel, Palestine, and the Poetics of Genocide Revisited In “Israel, Palestine, and the Poetics of Genocide Updated,” Mark Levine and Eric Cheyfitz, taking into account the Post October 7th Israeli invasion of Gaza, revisit their 2017 essay “Israel, Pale...

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"In “Israel, Palestine, and the Poetics of Genocide Updated,” Mark Levine and Eric Cheyfitz revisit their 2017 essay “Israel, Palestine, and the Poetics of Genocide,” to focus on the question of the limits of the definition of genocide in the1948 Convention."

“Do Not Participate”: The Absurd Excuse Notre Dame Gave Me When They Canceled My Talk What a tragedy when we cannot rely on universities to house our most critical conversations.

inthesetimes.com/article/notr...

Lex Lumina’s Statement on the President’s Executive Orders Targeting Law Firms — Lex Lumina PLLC The President’s recent attacks on lawyers and law firms for daring to have represented the President’s personal enemies or causes that he and his supporters dislike are dangerous threats to the rule o...

Proud to be in the legal profession, and proud to call this firm’s lawyers my friends. Let’s celebrate courage wherever and whenever we find it.

50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza. This is how it happened, day by day הארץ

"50,000 Palestinians Have Been Killed in Gaza.
This Is How It Happened, Day by Day"
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Gut Shabbos and Shabbat Shalom to everyone, but especially the people who understand that destroying higher education and research will not keep us safe.

Just got a call for papers for a conference on campus free speech. Feels like a relic of another era.

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...

"Antisemitism" and Antisemitism The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon

Historian of authoritarianism and the Holocaust Timothy Snyder’s lucid new take on the instrumentalization of antisemitism.
TLDR: Columbia is likely targeted to *appease* antisemites rather than truly targeting (the genuine problem of) antisemitism.
Don’t skip the full article!

We are all Palestinians now. 🕊️

Proud that the Department of Economics at @ucalgary.bsky.social continues to value diversity equity inclusion and access! Canada isn’t afraid of human values!!

United States District Court judge enjoins ICE from deporting Mahmoud Khalil.

Tweet from the White House with a big image of Khalil Mahmoud with the text "Shalom Mahmoud." The tweet text reads: ""We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again." –President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸"

A Christian president using "Shalom" this way is just about as Big a Chillul Hashem as I have ever seen.