Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing!

Yes, great point. I think generally the weakness of this metaphor is that it doesn't do a great job of foregrounding the sociomaterial aspects of AI, so something to keep working on.

Am working on a longer piece that develops a more detailed account of GenAI, epistemic practices, and the science system, so keen for feedback.

And Jewish safety certainly won’t come by following through on Segal’s recommendations, which should be seen for what they are: a right-wing fantasy story of antisemitism as the product of humanities education and student organising.

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The Australian govt can and must do more to fight antisemitism, but Jewish safety won’t come by treating antisemitism as an isolated phenomenon, disconnected from other forms of racism.

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- Proactive strategies to further their missions through GenAI, which could include using GenAI to supercharge decentralised campaigning and to support evidence gathering and campaign research, and supporting new GenAI-focused advocacy organisations to emerge.

Keen for feedback & chats.

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The TL:DR is that I think advocacy orgs need to develop:
- Reactive strategies to protect themselves from the ways GenAI is changing patterns of Internet use, enabling new attacks on the credibility of civil society, and being put to use by government and corporate decision-makers.

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And if you made it this far: Shabbat Shalom.

I’ve no magic solutions. But I’m hoping that writing more about this creates space for productive dialogue and some new voices.

As I’ve discovered this week, an unnamed source pedalling untrue rumours can also be enough to warrant expulsion. But, this isolation works in favour of right-wing pro-Israel movements: it creates an inherent social barrier to Jewish people joining the pro-Palestine movement. Where to from here?

We also feel that our membership in progressive pro-Palestine movements is contingent on us remaining within the boundaries of the pro-Palestine Good Jew. Saying this out loud, of course, falls foul of these very boundaries.

Jews, like me, who are opposed to the genocide in Gaza and occupation of Gaza and the West Bank are doubly isolated. We struggle to see ourselves reflected in mainstream Jewish cultural and religious organisations.

(Sidenote: if you’re not familiar, please do check out the Jewish Council of Australia for an example of an alternative community voice.) But, the appearance of Western Jewish uniformity is the product of the Good Jew caricatures of the pro-Israel and pro-Palestine movements.

I know that it can appear that Western Jewish communities have almost entirely internalised the pro-Israel caricature of the Good Jew – especially due to the prominence conservative media gives to organisations like the Australian Jewish Association.

3) in both caricatures, Judaism and Jewish culture is almost exclusively understood through the prism of Israel-Palestine. Jewish people are defined by whether they are pro-Israel or anti-Israel, Zionist or anti-Zionist. There are no complicated Jews. Yet, my community is full of complicated Jews.