One of the few Israelis with a direct line to Gazans urges public to confront horrors ***

Please read the interview that Nir Hasson did with Assaf David in Haaretz. It's really important www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

“We spoke about bread, the most urgent necessity of our lives.”

Shojaa Al-Safadi writes about the newly named Refugee Street in this creative nonfiction piece in our July issue, translated by Ibtisam Barakat.

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Opinion | How Trump's ‘antisemitism’ deal with Brown University actually endangers Jewish students The agreement, the latest between the Trump White House and major universities, raises pertinent issues about who is protected and who is not.

For MSNBC Opinion, I wrote about Brown’s agreement with the Trump admin and how promoting the idea that “DEI” is bad for Jews and also simultaneously that only Jews are entitled to it is totally counter to promoting understanding of Jewishness/fighting antisemitism

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

The Big Ten Rises Up Against Trump The press acts as if “higher education” = Harvard. But a more interesting and gutsier stand is being taken in the heartland by schools that have a lot more going for them than football.

The Big Ten Rises UpAgainst Trump newrepublic.com/article/1983... via @newrepublic.com

Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/gaz...

Opinion | What We Talk About When We Talk About the Right of Return

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...

The Dam of Gaza Genocide Denial Has Broken Several prominent media outlets are coming off the fence over Israel’s actions, but a conspiracy of helplessness still prevails

Martin Shaw, the author of “What is Genocide?” and “The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges After Gaza” reflects on this moment in the global debate newlinesmag.com/argument/the...

My review essay of Beyond the Land is published at @worldlittoday.bsky.social.

Historicide in Gaza Israel’s destruction of official and personal archives is changing how Palestine’s story can be told

The number of “cides” in Gaza is growing, but beyond its destruction of schools, hospitals, farmland and entire family lineages, Israel is also engaging in historicide — the destruction of history itself — argues @lsmwilson.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social

Thanks for a great conference!

Horrific news. IU is one of the best public universities.

The Key to Understanding Iran Is Poetry Even a casual observer could notice the importance of poetry in Iranian society, if only because a disproportionate number of tourist sites in Iran are the graves of medieval poets. When classical poe...

Poetry is ubiquitous in Iran: It is on tombstones, skin, walls, cars, shirts and social media bios. Learning the story of Persian letters helps us better understand Iran as it is today and how it views itself, the world, and its future, writes Muhammad Ali Mojaradi

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Shachar Pinsker offers reflections following Gali Drucker Bar-Am, I Am Your Dust: Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose, 1948-1967, translated by Natalie Melzer.

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My reflections on Yiddish in Palestine/Israel following a recent book by Gali Drucker Bar-Am are published in a new essay @ingeveb.bsky.social ingeveb.org/articles/ref...

Looking forward to this lsa.umich.edu/judaic/news-...

www.npr.org/2025/04/29/n...

טקס יום הזיכרון המשותף ה-20 | The 20th Joint Memorial Ceremony | مراسم يوم الذكرى المشترك ال-20 YouTube video by Combatants for Peace

www.youtube.com/live/cIW-9Xa...

Sami Michael Broke New Ground by Centering Arabs in His Hebrew Novels The Iraqi-born writer introduced characters previously marginalized or omitted from Israeli literature

I fear only demons - Sami Michael

The Iraqi-born Israeli author, who died in April 2024 aged 97, first caught the attention of Israel’s Hebrew-reading public with his 1974 debut novel, “All Men Are Equal — But Some Are More.”

On Monday, April 15, 6pm, I will give the Fordham-NYPL Lecture: “When Yiddish Was Young in Israel,” presenting materials from my new research. I hope to see you at Fordham Lincoln Center (140 West 62nd Street). For more details and to register (in-person and online), see here: tinyurl.com/b256yt34