now, these laws are being used as part of a larger scale criminalization of pro-palestine protest. Since Oct 7, prosecutors have pursued hate crime prosecutions even when evidence of the crime proved dubious, or have sought to equate anti-Zionism w antisemitism.

hate crime laws have long faced criticism from the left on the grounds of being ineffective for deterring racist violence and paradoxically most likely to criminalize the vulnerable.

growing up, the state made us write essays every year that were graded by a computer program. By the time I was a young teenager I was on a mission to destroy this concept by being as annoying as possible. I think I won some battles doing this but it's clear on a larger scale I've lost the war.

and is impacted by the fact that many holocaust and genocide studies centers have non-academic stakeholders — donors, community participants—invested in keeping out criticism of israel

Today, much of this also hinges on debates over the relationship between "warfare" and "genocide"

These tensions have existed since the field's founding, where scholars formed competing associations over questions about genocide's relationship to colonialism and the role of US intervention in genocide prevention.

The answer, first of all, is that many AREN'T grappling with it, instead only condemning Hamas's October 7th attacks or staying silent, even if they previously spoke up about, say, genocide in Myanmar or Azerbaijan's blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh

and now—as analysts feared would come to pass—sustainalytics has now decided it will stop reporting on eastern ukraine, kashmir, nagorno karabakh, western sahara, & more:
files.slack.com/files-pri/T9...

link: jewishcurrents.org/shabbat-read... (2/2)

wrote for today's shabbat reading list about ta-nehisi coates's "the message" and the need for writers to be both accountable for our power and aware of our impotence (1/2)

I’m sorry but imagine having the gall to post in a Taylor swift subreddit if you’ve never once listened to speak now

indeed

Got it I’m good now thanks

Me 🤝 azealia banks
James mercer is a dilf

Ask me about my life’s work

Adam Gopnik has never met a Train Guy apparently