Benjamin Schreier
@bjschreier.bsky.social
Professor of American literature, Jewish studies, more recently Arab American literature, a few other things @pennstate; at work on new book on Palestinianism; into antagonism, polemic, the dark arts of criticism; (((libra)))
A little thing I wrote about #AriAster‘s #Eddington. Thanks to Dan Friedman!
bookandfilmglobe.com/film/on-gett...
bookandfilmglobe.com/film/on-gett...
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
bookandfilmglobe.com
August 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A little thing I wrote about #AriAster‘s #Eddington. Thanks to Dan Friedman!
bookandfilmglobe.com/film/on-gett...
bookandfilmglobe.com/film/on-gett...
Can someone tell me what “woke right” either refers to or is supposed to mean? Thanks.
June 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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.
May 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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
Project MUSE - Scholarly "Community" and the Affective Politics of Identity: A Case Study from Late Academe muse.jhu.edu/article/956730
Project MUSE - Scholarly "Community" and the Affective Politics of Identity: A Case Study from Late Academe
muse.jhu.edu
April 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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
Project MUSE - Scholarly "Community" and the Affective Politics of Identity: A Case Study from Late Academe muse.jhu.edu/article/956730
Brilliant analysis of the US pro-Israel movement and right wing antisemitism.
Conservatives fighting ‘antisemitism’ are actively targeting US Jews. Why? | Josh Schreier www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Conservatives fighting ‘antisemitism’ are actively targeting US Jews. Why? | Josh Schreier www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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
www.theguardian.com
April 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Brilliant analysis of the US pro-Israel movement and right wing antisemitism.
Conservatives fighting ‘antisemitism’ are actively targeting US Jews. Why? | Josh Schreier www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Conservatives fighting ‘antisemitism’ are actively targeting US Jews. Why? | Josh Schreier www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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.
Not In Our Name
docs.google.com
March 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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.
This cabbage offers more hope and possibility than the contemporary scene.
March 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This cabbage offers more hope and possibility than the contemporary scene.
Bari Weiss once again proving that Zionism has jumped the shark.
February 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Bari Weiss once again proving that Zionism has jumped the shark.
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.
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
Police said to raid leading bookstore in East Jerusalem, arrest owner, seize books
* * *
www.timesofisrael.com
February 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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.
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
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.
February 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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.
Well, I tried to join Mothers Against Campus Antisemitism—I do, after all, have two kids in college—and was blocked instead of admitted.
January 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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.”
“The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies.”
January 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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.”
“The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies.”
Hanan Ashrawi @MLA2025
January 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Hanan Ashrawi @MLA2025
“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.’”
hyperallergic.com/973444/art-s...
hyperallergic.com/973444/art-s...
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.
hyperallergic.com
December 29, 2024 at 3:33 PM
“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.’”
hyperallergic.com/973444/art-s...
hyperallergic.com/973444/art-s...
December 18, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Looking forward to an unsatisfying and frustrating online AJS conference (through no fault of any of the presenters), beginning today!
December 16, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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.
December 13, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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
December 10, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Working class hero discourse in the Trump times
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!
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/sajl/is...
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/sajl/is...
Volume 43 Issue 2 | Studies in American Jewish Literature (1981-) | Scholarly Publishing Collective
scholarlypublishingcollective.org
November 20, 2024 at 12:11 AM
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!
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/sajl/is...
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/sajl/is...
November 18, 2024 at 8:27 PM