Aviel Roshwald

@avielroshwald.bsky.social

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History Professor.

Comparative study of nationalism.

Latest book—Occupied: European and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937-1945 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023)
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Aviel Roshwald is an American historian and professor of history at Georgetown University.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · Oct 10

I’m a history professor focusing on 20th-century Europe, with a particular interest in the comparative history of nationalism and of responses to Nazi aggression. My most recent book is Occupied: European and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937-1945 (Camb. Univ. Press, 2023).

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 10h

It’s classic baiting. If you respond critically, you’ll be painted as anti-Christian. If you don’t respond, the Overton window will have been shifted that much further to the right.

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21h

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

Homeland Security tweet: Merry Christmas, America. We are blessed to share a nation and a Savior.

Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 12h

Dusk in northern Virginia

Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 17h

What do you have against Mickey Mouse?!

Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 19h

Is Trump not an interdenominational Savior?

Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 20h

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Opinion | The old-world antisemitism in a Christmas pageant near you

Does the pope mean what he says about zero tolerance of hatred toward Jews?

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 20h

Trump to be known as King Leer once he’s crowned.

Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 21h

The “conservatives” on the Supreme Court will rule that the suppression of speech is itself a speech act, protected under the First Amendment.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

If only we had an amendment to the Constitution that protected speech . . .

Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 21h

I came across one of its relatives in Granada, Spain last summer.

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21h

Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.

Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d

Mina has her own traditions to observe at this season.

Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d

This must be a misnagid custom from Lithuania. As the grandson of a hasid, I observe this mitzvah at lunchtime on the 25th.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d

Depends on what the meaning of on is.

Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 2d

Trump in 2024: I "was never on Epstein’s Plane".

Trump DOJ 5 years ago: "Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware)".

Stop breaking the the law.

Release ALL the Files.

Trump flew on Epstein jet eight times in the '90s, according to prosecutor email

President Donald Trump flew on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's private jet "many more times than previously has been reported," according to an email from a New York prosecutor that forms par...

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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 1d

“We’ve seen rapid normalization of abuses we once associated with authoritarian regimes or the old Iron Curtain countries. It’s now routine for masked, unidentifiable government agents to sweep people off the street and whisk them away in unmarked vehicles.” @radleybalko.bsky.social

Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here

With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

“Like Prime, but with human beings.”

“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said at a border security conference in April, according to the Arizona Mirror. The administration’s goal, he said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

If only we had an amendment to the Constitution that protected speech . . .

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

An explosion in Moscow on Wednesday killed three people, including two police officers, Russian investigators said, days after a car bomb killed a high-ranking general not far away. https://to.pbs.org/48TwV2Z

An explosion in Moscow kills 2 police officers and a bystander

Russian investigators said the officers were approaching a suspicious individual when the device detonated.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d

Save for the odd hussar whose exploits in the ballroom outshine his accomplishments in the field.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

“If one is unable to fulfill the mitzvah of eating the foods of the East on Erev Christmas, one is permitted to substitute tropical hydration in equal quantities.”

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, in all the ways.

Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose I ought to revamp my syllabus to include some mention of the world wars in my Europe 1914-45 course next semester.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd

Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s White House UFC fight is an elevation of brutality.

Fascism has appeal because its energies exist within all of us. We all have the capacity for hate and violence. What makes liberal democracy unique is how it asks us to transcend our basest selves.

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Merry Christmas, I Don’t Want To Fight: Trump’s White House UFC Event and The Politics of Violence

Trump is seeking to elevate America’s most violent professional sport to an emblem of national identity.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 2d

Trump flew on Epstein jet eight times in the '90s, according to prosecutor email

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 2d

Shrimp are not fish!

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Jaye @jaybird54.bsky.social · 2d

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 2d

We were winning the war to establish a Stalinist Gulag for immigrants, but then the Canadians stabbed us in the back.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d

From the Atlantic attempt to justify Bari Weiss' decision. What's Canadian for "perfidious Albion?"

Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 2d

The stab-in-the-back theory, but featuring Canadians.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d

From the Atlantic attempt to justify Bari Weiss' decision. What's Canadian for "perfidious Albion?"

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d

From the Atlantic attempt to justify Bari Weiss' decision. What's Canadian for "perfidious Albion?"

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Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social · 2d

Very proud to report the publication of my first article in Dutch! It is a review article covering recent work by Dutch historians on the Weimar Republic: www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

Bestaat er een Nederlandse geschiedenis van de Weimarrepubliek? | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online

Abstract Is there a Dutch history of the Weimar Republic? Compared with their British or American counterparts, Dutch historians have shown little interest in Germany’s first democracy, the Weimar Rep...

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