Helmut Smith

Finally, the Statement against the #Boycott of Israeli #Academics and its 8,000+ signers has a permanent home. Find it at: bit.ly/AgainstAcademi… Also there are articles etc. about the statement and these boycotts, if you want to follow the issue. #Israel #IsraelHamasWar

Bill Maher: “You’re a Democrat running possibly for [President in 2028], and you’re Jewish. And this is somehow maybe a complete deal breaker in the Democratic Party. I mean, the speed at which antisemitism has gone to a place where I never imagined it would go.” “Just this past week, bombings at synagogues in Toronto, Belgium, and Michigan. The guy drove a truck with explosives into the largest synagogue in West Bloomfield, Norway. They arrested someone. Suspicious behavior outside of the synagogue in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.” “I see a pattern here. And somehow it got to where among the young people, antisemitism got to be kind of cool.” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro: “There are seeds of antisemitism being planted all over this country… Folks are looking the other way and nodding toward it and allowing it to happen in their businesses, on their screens, and in their politics, and we have to speak up about it.”

All I can safely say at this time is that I love seeing Iranian women shedding tears of happiness.

Teheran, nachdem die Nachricht Khamenei ist getötet worden, öffentlich wurde:

Hundreds of Iranians seen cheering in the streets and celebratory gunfire heard in Isfahan, Central Iran, following the reported elimination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

We need to support the people of Iran in every way we can.

What’s unfolding in Iran may be the most consequential and underreported story in the world. Free elections there won’t just be a human rights victory. The fall of the Ayatollahs will release tens of millions of people, who come from one of the most creative civilizations in history. Iranian culture has shaped art, science and innovation for centuries. Suppressing it hurts not just Iranians, but humanity as a whole.

JUST IN 🔴 Fars News Agency, which is linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reported that the U.S. government has taken down the .com domain of the Islamic regime Tasnim News Agency.

🚨 Jews make up just 0.2% of humanity. And half of us live in a country smaller than Maricopa County, Arizona. So when mobs scream to “wipe it off the map” or “from the river to the sea” that’s not politics. That’s a call for extinction. Remember that. H/t @ScottJenningsKY

@NYTimesPR Without a retraction on the front page, with the words WE MISLED YOU under the image you used to mislead your readers through emotional manipulation—this makes no difference.

Not an apology Not a retraction And it was posted on @NYTimesPR, which has 88k followers, instead of @nytimes, which has 55 million So a massive lie spread across the world, and now less than 1% of the people who saw it will ever see this pathetic little footnote

Largest Teachers' Union in United States Erases Jews From the Holocaust freebeacon.com/america/larges…

A bit of very good News #Detmold

Eine sehr begrüßenswerte Stellungnahme der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. soziologie.de/aktuell/stellu…

I am looking forward to participating in this workshop, where I will be giving a talk on academic boycott campaigns in the aftermath of #October7.

In full agreement that this is an awful decision on the part of the ISA. They should be ashamed of themselves. Deliberately hurting the very people in Israel who are out on the streets constantly protesting

Yes, the rockets were heavy this morning in #TelAviv, but hopefully this war will come to an end soon now. There is this option, and I will stick to it for now. Not only TLV – the whole region could be so beautiful. Strong nerves: stop and go – buses are already back in service.

Israelhass an der Uni: "weniger sichtbar, radikaler, gefährlicher" juedische-allgemeine.de/?p=2534933 via @JuedischeOnline

BREAKING | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: “What happened on October 7th is unacceptable. Hamas must disarm and release all hostages immediately.”

While scholars are once again preoccupied with the #IHRA and #JDA definitions - and, along with them, with debates about anti-Zionism, anti-Israelism, and/or #antisemitism - it is worthwhile to take a step back in history, namely to the year 1948. (1/5)

🚨BREAKING: Hamas militias opened fire on thousands of people in Gaza City after they gathered in front of a warehouse to get flour—killing at least five. This happened after civilians saw Hamas members looting the flour and went to confront them.