#art#history: o, the ignominy of admitting that i'm not extremely intimate with the oeuvre of my subject...
still, she sounds so rad that i had to make sketchy ode to adrienne rich (born #otd in 1929). an essayist & poet who centred the oppression of women & lesbians in her work, adrienne was also a jewish pro-palestinian activist involved with the new #jewish agenda who supported the #BDS movement. #adrienneRich#illustration#poetry#freePalestine#ceasefireNow#feminism
Today in Labor History May 16, 1912: Studs Terkel was born, New York City. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for his book The Good War, a collection of oral histories from World War II. He was born to Russian-Jewish parents. He joined the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Writers’ Project. This provided him work in radio. He is best known for his oral histories, and his raido program, The Studs Terkel Program, which aired on WFMT, Chicago, from 1952-1997. Some of the people he interviewed on this show included: Bob Dylan, Big Bill Broonzy, Frank Zappa, Leonard Bernstein, Martin Luther King and Tennessee Williams.
"I can no longer in good conscience continue to represent this administration amid President Biden's disastrous, continued support for #Israel 's genocide in Gaza."
article contains links to a statement by over 1,000 [#Jewish professors opposing equating #antiZionism with #antisemitism. Also contains link to a statement by Jewish students of #Columbia with the opposite position]
"Criticism of the state of Israel, the #Israeli government, policies of the Israeli government, or #Zionist ideology is not—in and of itself—antisemitic" says letter
"President Joe Biden on Tuesday issued a call to fight a 'ferocious surge' of antisemitism, saying such hate has no place in America as he connected the horrors of the Holocaust to Hamas’ attack on Israel."
CNN reports on Biden's speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s annual Days of Remembrance ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. "Biden’s staunch support for Israel’s war against Hamas, which has now led to the deaths of more than 34,000 Palestinians, has caused deep fractures in the coalition that sent him to the White House in 2020."
#DartmouthCollege professor arrested during protest: 'It's really shameful
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Story by Hannah Cotter
5/2/2024
"Video captured by News 9 showed the moment #Orleck was arrested by police during the protest. She said she was among a handful of professors who showed up to support students at what she called a peaceful protest until law enforcement arrived in #RiotGear.
"'And it's really shameful in a sleepy little campus, in a rural area like Dartmouth, that they brought in this ridiculous show of arms and strength and violence,' she said.
"She also wanted to address Gov. #ChrisSununu calling the protests against the war in #Gaza#antisemitic. She said she's a #Jewish woman and did not feel safe after last night's police response.
"'As a Jewish woman of an age that I grew up in a neighborhood full of #Holocaust survivors and knew Holocaust survivors, I have to say that I think this is disingenuous,' she said. 'It's a weaponizing of #antisemitism for their own #political purposes, which is to #SuppressDissent. And if, in fact, as the governor and the college president said, the point is to make the campus safer for the Jewish community members, I have to say that what happened next made it decidedly less safe for all of us.'
"Orleck, who has been a professor at Dartmouth for more than three decades, said as part of her bail condition, she is being banned from Dartmouth's campus. She said her emails to the institution have gone unanswered."
Today's review! The Sins on Their Bones by Laura R. Samotin:
"A dark themed story infused with Jewish folklore... magic, demons, secrets, violence, abuse, gore, romance and true love, along with a raft of other emotions. I highly recommend The Sins on Their Bones." ...
from #Facebook
"Huge crowd last night at the #LiberationShabbat service at the UW Madison tent encampment (liberated zone)! Organized by a group of #UWMadison#Jewish students. Very moving! And a quick transition afterwards in time for the Muslim call for prayer in the same space, beautiful!"
Daily reminder that The Most Moral Army of the so-called #Jewish (#Ashkenazi#whitesupremacist#settlercolonial) State tied up #patients (men, women, and children) and medical staff at #Nasser Hospital in #Gaza and executed them in cold blood before dumping their bodies in a mass grave.
Jewish students participating in pro-Palestine protests on their campuses would have valuable things to say about the alleged "rising antisemitism" at their schools. But the media is ignoring them.
Every caller who repeats the Manufactured Narrative™️ about protesters' #Antisemitism is reminded that many of them are #Jewish & the #GOP has been normalizing #antisemetic memes on #Xitter for some time
I also 🙏🏼🙏🏼 blessings on #BernieSanders ,who is flexing against this #Genocide on every platform & daring anyone to call him #SelfHating
Today in Labor History April 30 1945: Eva Braun and Adolph Hitler committed suicide, in Berlin, after being married for less than 40 hours. Many Nazis were tried, convicted and executed. And literally thousands were secreted into the U.S., given false identities, and put to work as spies, intelligence officers, informants, and rocket scientists in the Cold War. Some of them had even been high-ranking Nazi Party officials, secret police chiefs, and heads of concentration camps. In fact, during the first few years after WWII ended, it was easier to get into the U.S. as a Nazi than it was as a Jewish concentration camp survivor. There were policy makers in Washington who said the Jews shouldn’t be let in because they’re “lazy” and “self-entitled.” For more on this sordid history, read “The Nazis Next Door
How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men,” By Eric Lichtblau.
@RememberUsAlways@palestine@israel I had the same chat with my wife last night. She is a Peacenik & the idea of using violence goes against her spiritual ethics. I get that. But she’s not #jewish and never learned this culturally as I did.
I explained that there’s no negotiations with those who cannot accept your existence.
#Passover 2024 / Time for Exodus from Zionism (Naomi Klein)
#Zionism is a "false idol" that has betrayed core #Jewish values of justice, emancipation, and liberation and turned the biblical story of the “Promised Land” into a justification for "colonial land theft, roadmaps for ethnic cleansing and genocide" against Palestinians. Naomi Klein calls for liberating #Judaism from the #ethnostate of Zionism, which wants Jews to live in perpetual fear.