Shany Mor שני מור شني مور

@ProfBZZZ What did you press? Subscribe? (I'll see myself out.)

Another student who seemed really interested in history... confirmed he was... but doesn't read. He watches Youtube... ... which explained how the conversation went after when I pressed further.

A student today at my elite university admitted to me today that she took a class so she could work on reading for more than 20 minutes at a time. She can't read. She mainly skims and summarizes, she says and still gets A's. This student is, by professional standards, illiterate. Gonna have high GPA when she graduates. This conversation was had after 6 of 22 students dropped my course because the maximum reading per week in one week was over 100 pages. What people aren't grasping is that this is literally *dangerous*. These people are going to be come doctors, engineers, etc. They are - by any metric - vastly less capable than prior generations. These effects are cumulative over a lifetime. This grade inflation is part of the problem, but not even close to the entirety. And the problem obviously starts in K-12. Students don't know history because, you can't actually become historically literate on the advice of 'never assign more than 30 pages a week'. You can't develop any of the skills that came with literacy. This is, quite honestly, a civilizational catastrophe.

@paulrubens @Alonso_GD Wrote more on it here. stateoftelaviv.com/p/capital-offe…

@paulrubens @Alonso_GD From a five-year old tweet. Four contradictory norms, always selected at convenience and never consistently applied. x.com/ShMMor/status/…

Famously, anywhere in the world, when terrorists hold civilians in a hostage situation, every state in the world logically and lawfully just bombs the entire building and kill everyone inside. Problem solved. Only Israel isn’t allowed to do this! What an incredible injustice. /s

@CathyYoung63 @Harryruth32 @christianjbdev It is the prime motivator of this particular libel, both its power to offend and its dark unspeakable pleasure. stateoftelaviv.com/p/israels-obli…

@Harryruth32 @christianjbdev Right. It's the whole "Jews have become the new Nazis" trope, which is incredibly offensive even if you believe that Israel has committed atrocities in Gaza. It's nothing comparable to the Holocaust.

I am personally shocked by images of the destruction of Gaza, but I think the false claim that Israel has committed a genocide is motivated by prejudice.

It does feel like this portends the end of a kind of civilization, but not necessarily in the way intended. Or maybe both ways even.

@erezsh Being elected is not immunity from international law. Nor is an ongoing war. Neither is the absence of conclusive proof (which would be necessary for a conviction, not an arrest). Plenty wrong with the ICC warrant, but not these three things.

@ShMMor What part is true, that they should be allowed to do so?

I can name a lot more than 5. Let's start with 23 easy ones: 1. Designating a combatant a journalist automatically immunizes that combatant from attack. 2. A territory is occupied even if there is no presence whatsoever after a hostile armed force by virtue of being blockaded.

@erezsh That part, as worded, is technically true. But, the ICC can't claim jurisdiction over a non-member state, or issue arrest warrants in violation of complementarity, or claim complementarity has failed on account of "starvation" not having been investigated when on one starved.

@ShMMor Don't forget - "International courts can issue arrest warrants for acting elected leaders, without any conclusive proof that they have committed a crime. They can even do it in the middle of a war."

@NYTimesPR @nytimes She’s not an “aunt,” she’s a “sister.” (Of your father.) What an asinine response. And an ironic use of “misrepresent.”

@ShMMor @nytimes This is not an “article on Bundism,” it's a screenshot from a Book Review. You've misrepresented this work. nytimes.com/2026/04/06/boo…

From a supercilious @nytimes article on Bundism comes this gem which both denies the scope of contemporary antisemitism and alleges that concern about it is self-consciously dishonest posturing with nefarious motives, two falsehoods that function as shibboleths of sophistication.

@orenlotan נושא שעולה בתגובה (אם אני זוכר נכון) זה שכל הסיפור אודות הגובה הנמוך של הגשרים בלונג איילנד (אשר לפי קארו נועד למנוע תנועות אוטובוסים) מומצא לגמרי. אין לי מושג אם זה נכון. ולמען הסר ספק, גם אני לא מעריץ של מוזס ואת כל מה סימל. שם וגם כאן.

@ShMMor אני כן אלך ואקרא את התשובה שלו לרוברט קארו אחרי שאני אסיים את הספר, מתישהו ב2028. אבל בינתיים - אני לא מעריץ, איך לומר.

אני קורא כבר כמה חודשים את הpower broker, וזה נהיה מאוד קשה. לא בגלל האורך (גם), אלא כי ספר שהדמות הראשית שלו היא הנבל זה פשוט מאתגר

@orenlotan הספר מייחס המון סיבתיות למוזס ולא תמיד מעמיד את כל ההקשרים במקום. בכל זאת ניו יורק עשתה פחות טעויות אנטי-אורבניות מעודדות תלות ברכב פרטי מאשר ערים אמריקאיות אחרות.

@ShMMor עכשיו כמובן שהוא בנאדם, ובני אדם הם יצורים מורכבים. היחסים שלו למשל עם אל סמית' הם מקסימים, בעיקר החלק שהוא נותן לו את המפתח לגן החיות. והוא היה נשוי ואב לשתי בנות. אבל אול אין אול, הדברים שהוא עושה פוגעים ישירות בחיים של אנשים, וזה פשוט לא מזיז לו

@orenlotan כן. בריברסייד קארו נותן לקורא להרגיש איך אפשר לטעות אולי ולחשוב שמשהו טוב מתרחש כאן ואז בסוף הפרק מרסק אותך. בברונקס הטונים כבר שונים לגמרי.

@ShMMor בקטע של הברונקס אין דילמות, אתה מתכוון

@orenlotan בניגוד לקטע על הכביש בריברסייד פארק, בקטע הזה אין ממש דילמות לכאן ולכאן.

@ShMMor עוד לא הגעתי לברונקס אקספרס ויי, הבנתי שזה החלק הכי מדכא

@GershomG It's an unsubtle metaphor on the general principles of cause and effect used to cognitively process events that involve Jews and Zionists. Like, even some very current events.

Our reviewer follows with one sentence grouping the Nazis, the Bolsheviks, & Zionists as the groups to which the Bund lost. As if Zionists had killed Bundists, or were responsible in some other way for the Bund's historical failure.

Burying the lede: 10 paragraphs down: "The Bundists lost, of course."

@davidfrum x.com/ShMMor/status/…

I see more and more high-profile progressive accounts doing what I predicted in February.

Isn't it Iranian policy that has done that? I'm just wondering how to square this notion of cause and effect with everything you have written about Gaza since October 7.

22. An entity meeting zero of the four Montevideo conditions can be recognized as a state. 23. “Genocide” can be redefined if it feels really good to throw it at those people who are always going on about that Holocaust thing.

...for citizens of enemy nationalities is not only not a block on population transfer but itself a violation of fundamental human rights (even if no such provision exists anywhere else in the world). 21. A law of return for immigration is “apartheid.”