Susan Greenberg 🇺🇦

@Frances_Coppola I don’t know that perfectly well because that’s not what she was doing. Her point was that the research didn’t support Kristof’s argument at the level of basic principles.

@sgediting You know perfectly well she was applying it to Palestinians in Israeli custody.

@dmdebruijn Have long felt many people pay lip service to citation. When I come across references to my own work, often the selected quote is a generic observation grabbed from the first few pages, to justify adding it to the list. So a real quote (not AI hallucination) but kinda pointless.

Right but this is the problem: the credibility and legitimacy is supposed to arise from *understanding* (hence having read) the authoritative material. You cannot legitimately piggy back on others having done so. (But that constantly happens, creating the current debate.)

My latest essay: What the Palestine word-symbol does to the populations that internalize it is not, in the first instance, a matter of ideology or belief, even though the ideology of anti-Zionism is indeed its only ideological content. But, in the first order, it is a matter of cognitive occupation. The symbol, once installed in the political consciousness of a population, takes over the entire space of political reasoning and renders the actual structures of that population’s political and economic condition unthinkable. The mechanism operates not by suppressing alternative explanations but by occupying, in advance, the cognitive territory in which such explanations would have to be developed. The alternatives are not censored but are simply completely unavailable, because every available cognitive pathway runs through the symbol, and the symbol terminates every line of inquiry before it can reach any other destination. Link below

@ProfDBernstein Same thing in the UK: a year ago the Supreme Court ruled that in the 2010 Equality Act, the protected characteristic of sex = biological sex, and orgs up and down the land are still saying, ‘But we don’t want to.’

Supreme Court: It's illegal to use different admissions standards depending on what racial "box" students check. Them: Here are all the reasons it's good policy to have different standards for URMS. Me: Which part of "you made all these arguments to the Supreme Court, and they told you it's illegal" do you not understand?

@JFAULEYHANCOCK @TheCiderShedPod Precisely. She’s doing that thing of taking the dutiful daughter for granted, and romanticising the son.

@TheCiderShedPod Richard was her favourite.

Does Carol hate her daughter? #TheArchers

@DAaronovitch @HadleyFreeman @simonmontefiore @RobBurl You’re right that it *should* be hard to believe. But over the last few years I have come to be shocked by the amount of sheer cowardice shown by many people in professional roles of all kinds when faced with fashionable bullying, on this and other topics.

@HadleyFreeman @simonmontefiore @RobBurl I find it hard to understand how hardened and experienced journalists in senior positions could allow themselves to be bullied by junior colleagues or outsiders.

Anyone who was working at a liberal media organisation between 2016 - 2022 and claims not to recognise everything in this is lying. Fantastic and important piece by @RobBurl with receipts and on the record interviews

@BelindaLondon @MissLauraMarcus Whoops, no — voting opened just before the acts *began*.

@MissLauraMarcus Hi Laura, you can vote via phone and on the app. Voting will open once all acts have been on.

How do I vote for Israel🇮🇱in the Eurovision please? Thanks.

Wrote this about King Lear and the assisted dying debate. Share with interested people. Was the prelude to the last novel, Let Go My Hand. observer.co.uk/style/features… @kimleadbeater @LordCFalconer

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If the answer cannot be found to repeated, violent attacks on Jews, than modern Britain has failed. I don’t mean it would have failed its Jews: I mean that Britain will have failed itself. What is to be done? Here are some suggestions everydayhate.substack.com/p/what-is-to-b…

I want to stress British Jews are super concentrated in NW London. there are only 250k of us. Roughly around 100k of us live in this area and surrounding areas. It’s like a small town that’s now under sustained attack. This is the heart of the community and every connected Jew across the country will ties, friends, family here. It’s not felt like disjointed and episodic attacks but like small town the size of Worcester is under attack by an IRGC-cut out.

I just want to highlight how easy it is to find the same sinister reactions whenever innocent Jews are violently attacked. Variations on: 1. They deserved it. 2. A reflex pivot to Israel. 3. It was staged. 4. It was staged by Jews to drum up sympathy for Israel. Antisemitism is a cancer.

Today, beyond all reasonable doubt, it is clear that both Russia & Iran are paying British citizens to commit acts of terrorism on British soil, & both the government & the state still seem to be in reactive mode, even after it became clear Russia was targeting the PM directly.

If you want to know how to support British Jews today one of the simplest things is to just check in with us and ask if we’re ok. So few have & it’s one of the things that has upset me most.

@dilanesper No heads of state in a split system ‘actually run anything’ but they still have a function. And the issue of who was thrown out 250 years ago is irrelevant. In any event, the constitutional monarchy of today is not the same animal.

@sgediting I realize that. That's my point. We should not accept the King who we correctly threw out of the United States and who does not actually run anything as a real government official.

one of my more quixotic positions is I think American politicians should not treat the King of England as a real King. We should just treat the Prime Minister as the Head of State.

@portraitinflesh The problem is that the whole complaints feels orchestrated. It’s the new line to take.

As for this response: it may technically be true that being an MP isn't a job, but as they get a salary for it, I think most ordinary people would struggle to see the distinction. Parliament operating under different, laxer rules can only breed resentment. x.com/defossardf/sta…

People are calling this puritanical, but she has a point. Most British workers wouldn't get away with being intoxicated at work, and it's not unreasonable to hold MPs to a similar standard. A pint or two at lunch is one thing, but *smelling* of booze is something else altogether.

@edwardlucas I read your lovely piece today for The Times. This Saturday I will add your mother’s name to those spoken before the Kaddish.

I don't think people quite understand how up until even as short a time ago as the early 2010s, this sort of language was only really expressed publicly on the far right, among those with Neo-Nazi views. Now it's openly, blatantly being expressed outside Parliament.