On Getting What You Wish For - Book and Film Globe Like most people, I like to determine whether a film positions itself politically on the left or the right. Usually I find this easy; but not so with

A little thing I wrote about #AriAster‘s #Eddington. Thanks to Dan Friedman!

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Can someone tell me what “woke right” either refers to or is supposed to mean? Thanks.

I’m undoubtedly late to the show, but I just discovered that the link to the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs on the home page of the U.S. Embassy in Israel website simply reloads the U.S. Embassy in Israel home page.

Here’s something I wrote as part of a module on “Late Academe” in the /American Book Review/. It’s the third in a triptych of post-October 7 essays I’ve written.

Project MUSE - Scholarly "Community" and the Affective Politics of Identity: A Case Study from Late Academe muse.jhu.edu/article/956730

Conservatives fighting ‘antisemitism’ are actively targeting US Jews. Why? | Josh Schreier The pro-Israel campaign to ‘protect’ Jews by punishing anti-Zionist speech often targets Jews. That is no surprise

Brilliant analysis of the US pro-Israel movement and right wing antisemitism.

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When the history of this era is written (if we’re lucky enough to get there), a substantial chapter will address the role Zionism played as a leverage point in the consolidation of the second great wave of fascism. Many who imagine themselves via fantasies of liberalism played a willing part.

Back to the drawing board

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This cabbage offers more hope and possibility than the contemporary scene.

Bari Weiss once again proving that Zionism has jumped the shark.

Police said to raid leading bookstore in East Jerusalem, arrest owner, seize books * * *

Solidarity with the Educational Bookshop and its owners, Mahmoud and Ahmed Muna. A pillar of Palestinian culture and civil society, and two absolutely wonderful people. Another travesty.

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AI proving Said’s 2000 claim that he’s the last Jewish intellectual. Which I guess means the last guy named Irving. In the final instance I guess it hardly matters whether it’s Howe or Malin.

How many of my friends are boycotting and/or not going to #mla2026 on account of politics?

Well, I tried to join Mothers Against Campus Antisemitism—I do, after all, have two kids in college—and was blocked instead of admitted.

Herzl’s great line from the never-goes-out-of-style file came to me for no particular reason this morning:

“The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies.”

Hanan Ashrawi @MLA2025

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Excellent book

Art Spiegelman Won’t Shrink Back From Controversy The artist has illustrated more than one contentious New Yorker cover in his career, chronicled in a new film, and his next project will be no less gutsy.

“Wiesel ‘has a lot to answer for, including ultimately putting the word “Holocaust” into circulation. . . . It was part of putting this religious baggage on something that was more urgently human baggage.’”
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Looking forward to an unsatisfying and frustrating online AJS conference (through no fault of any of the presenters), beginning today!

Jewish studies dissertation idea: The Omen trilogy as post-67 text. And extra credit for going for gold: it’s the defining text of post-67 Zionism.

Working class hero discourse in the Trump times

Nice essay, but I think the author falls into the same zero-sum nationalist trap he diagnoses Agnon as having done with Bellow.

Orientalist zombies FTW

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Volume 43 Issue 2 | Studies in American Jewish Literature (1981-) | Scholarly Publishing Collective

New issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature just out, guest edited by Michael Kramer, on Jewish American Periodicals. This is a really amazing piece of work; Kol HaKavod to Michael!

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Besides MTM, Michael Gross’s father character in Family Ties worked at the pbs station

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Now that Trump is back in the saddle I guess we can all look forward to more fascist-adjacent fever-dreams from Russell Berman

Do I know anyone with scholarly familiarity with Indian or South Asian Jewish literature?

The copyright statement from Ephemeral City which reads in part: No part of this book may be used as data for ‘training’ any large language model or as part of any machine learning or neural network architeture. Human creaivity cannot be replicated by doing maths with stolen art. Altman, Andressen, and all their cronies can get fucked. Enquires should be made to the publisher.

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement?
Me: Definitely. How specific can we get?
Publisher: As specific as you like.