Simón Ganitsky

Escribí para Generación de @elcolombiano sobre la costumbre, que se exacerba cada cuatro años en Colombia, de llamar fascistas a quienes no lo son. elcolombiano.com/generacion/la-…

Comunicado 🗣️ | Desde @FEDe_Colombia_ rechazamos el ataque del presidente @petrogustavo contra el @consejodeestado y contra el magistrado Juan Enrique Bedoya Escobar. Una vez más, el presidente Petro excede los límites del poder ejecutivo y la separación de poderes cuando las decisiones de las otras ramas del poder público no se ajustan a su voluntad.

@AMCHAInitiative at @SarahLawrence, we can see how a/s is defined by the exclusion of Jews from public spaces. In this case it is on the basis of a binary a/z litmus test that refuses the right of jewish groups and jewish people to political self-determination

What is so telling about this stance is that a politician can be a literal white supremacist, yet still be offered salvation so long as they meet a single criteria: hating Israel—which is what this is really about, references to Trump and Epstein notwithstanding.

Teachers from Connaught School for Girls were on strike for three weeks during a critical exam period for their students. This resulted in students counter-protesting and demanding that the teachers return to school. Now, I support the right for workers to strike. But look at this picket line. Keffiyehs and Palestinian flags. An all-girls school in London has nothing to do with Gaza or the Middle East. Why are these teachers choosing Palestine over their students?

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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.

3 things re: this clip and "my grandparents" who voted E. Debs and N. Thomas. [1] They would have been repulsed by ghoulish a/s and red-green camp alliance on the "left" today. [2] The turn to religion on the "Jewish left" today would have repelled them....

George Orwell once wrote that "one of the marks of antisemitism is an ability to believe stories that could not possibly be true", and this site proves that to be the case every single day.

By agreeing that “American Zionists have white privilege,” yall are just casually admitting that “Zionist” refers to a specific group of people and not to a “political belief” Kudos.

The skewering is real. The “Gazologists” in @MattiFriedman's brilliant essay come across as worthy heirs to Soviet Zionology’s literary club. On Pankaj Mishra: “Mishra seems to want to be Primo Levi, and even if we understand this is impossible—because Levi is gifted and Mishra is not, because Levi is a witness and Mishra is a voyeur, because Levi’s Holocaust was real and Mishra’s is an ideological fantasy—one still finds something authentic and plaintive in this longing.” On Peter Beinart: “Any worldview that places Jewish malfeasance at its center will draw Jewish adherents who see the advantage of being at the center of something, and on the Gazology shelf we find a sad little volume by Peter Beinart, an American journalist.” It's satisfying for me to see that today’s antizionist literati are just as incompetent, ungifted, and opportunistic as their Soviet predecessors — and have the same instinct for jumping on any bandwagon that can carry them to the heart of the prevailing zeitgeist. And since the zeitgeist today is increasingly coalescing around an antizionist version of the “Jewish Question,” that’s where the grifters are. They’re jumping on the “Jewish Question” fad because that’s what opens doors to cultural insider circles, puts you in the running for the most prestigious literary prizes, and boosts your financial prospects. Most of the “Gazologists” Matti reviews are not the hard-core ideologues: they are downstream from them, busily building their careers as they work ideology into culture. Matti notes that dismissing them would be a mistake, and he is right. The more social, financial, and professional incentives align with the current “Jewish Question” moment, the more cultural entrepreneurs will line up to jump on the trend, populating the cultural sphere with "instaclassics" of post-Soviet Zionology. So we should take them seriously — but we should also laugh at them. And that is exactly what Matti's essay does so beautifully. The "Gazologists" and their enablers have earned every word of ridicule he delivers.

And here on page 167, Goldstein brings a quote from a speech Einstein gave at the Hebrew University, where he states the following: “In this recent period of the realization of our dreams, there was nevertheless something that weighed heavily upon me: the fact that we were compelled by circumstances to assert our rights through the force of arms; this was the only way to prevent total destruction. Nevertheless, the wisdom and moderation demonstrated by the leaders of the new state give me confidence that, gradually, relations with the Arab people will be established, based on fruitful cooperation, mutual respect, and trust. For this is the only means by which the two peoples can achieve independence free from the outside world.” [Source: Speech of Acceptance by Professor Albert Einstein on Receiving Honorary Degree Conferred on him by the Hebrew University, 15.3.1949, AEA, 28-856]

The Gaza of their dreams and hatreds, where reality is replaced by ancient myths and TikTok images. Brilliant and urgent by @MattiFriedman on "Gazology" thefp.com/p/introduction…

For @TheFP, a guide to a new, expanding, and influential literary genre: "Introduction to Gazology." thefp.com/p/introduction…

As I write and document quite explicitly in the piece, Einstein was a binationalist before Israel's founding (as were many notable Zionists!), but then became a supporter of Israel once it was established in 1948. He hosted Israel's first prime minister David Ben Gurion at his home in 1951. When he turned down the Israeli presidency in 1952, he referred to the country as "our state of Israel." Do you think they would have offered the job to an enemy? In reality, Einstein was an ally of the socialist government in power and a harsh critic of the Israeli right that opposed it -- which was actually a problem, because the presidency is supposed to be nonpartisan. Einstein regularly lambasted the Israeli right, not Israel or the Zionist project, which is quite clear if one actually reads the critical statements and who he refers to. In 1955, in one of his last interviews, Einstein said "I have great hopes for the future of the Jewish state." haaretz.com/2014-05-22/ty-… The last speech Einstein composed was intended to mark the 7th anniversary of Israel's founding, and he wrote it in conjunction with Abba Eban, Israel's ambassador to the United States (not the sort of thing an anti-Zionist would do). Explaining his idea in a letter to the embassy, Einstein wrote that "a somewhat critical attitude concerning the behavior of the world powers toward Israel and the Arab states could have a salutary influence. It is easier for me to say those things than for any person connected officially with organized Jewish life. To do this well it has to be carefully prepared in cooperation with responsible Israelis." Einstein died days before Israel's Independence Day, but we have the text of the undelivered speech. In it, Einstein wrote: "The establishment of the State of Israel was internationally approved and recognized largely for the purpose of rescuing the remnant of the Jewish people from unspeakable horrors of persecution and oppression. Another purpose was to provide conditions in which the spiritual and cultural life of a Hebrew society could find free expression. Thus the establishment of Israel is an event which actively engages the conscience of this generation. It is, therefore, a bitter paradox to find that a state which was destined to be a shelter for a martyred people is itself threatened by grave dangers to its own security. The universal conscience cannot be indifferent to such a peril." He also wrote: "It is anomalous that world opinion should only criticise Israel's response to hostility and should not actively seek to bring an end to the Arab hostility which is the root cause of the tension." And, as Einstein always did, he closed with an appeal for peace, coupling his defense of Israel with this conclusion: "International policies for the Middle East should be dominated by efforts to secure peace in Israel and its neighbors." He never stopped advocating for Israeli-Arab peace, and raised the same point in that final interview cited above. To him, all these sentiments were not contradictory but complementary. web.archive.org/web/2014090317… He bequeathed his intellectual assets and likeness to Hebrew University. One does not need to align with Einstein's approach to Israel and Zionism to acknowledge the reality of what it actually was. Einstein was a physicist who died in 1955, not some oracle on world politics, and it is perfectly reasonable to disagree today with his views on these and many other subjects. What is not reasonable is to adulterate those views in service of a contemporary ideological agenda. All of this material is either explicitly discussed or linked in the article. I'm a little confused and surprised that you missed it.

I'm shocked and dismayed to learn that Einstein actually loved the Jewish state. I can't believe the usual suspects would lie to me like that.

El antisemitismo institucional Colombiano nos privó de tener a Kelsen como profesor en Colombia.

The problem is not talking to Hasan Piker or influencers like him. Such conversations are part of democratic dialogue. The problem is figuring out how to constructively engage a new media landscape dominated by smashmouth populists of all political persuasions who talk about everything but are experts in nothing, and whose incentives run toward incendiary virality rather than accuracy. How do reporters and others have these conversations in ways that make their audiences more informed, rather than less? I have some ideas. Gift link: theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…

Aya Vainer, una petita i gran campiona, que fa onejar la bandera d’Israel en plena Catalunya! 👊🏻💪🏻🏆🇮🇱 Des de Catalunya, us desitgem el millor. Shabat Shalom i Hodesh Tov. @fcjecom @IsraelinSpanish x.com/GENGIS9999/sta…

Buena columna.

Muy buena columna 👇