I found this piece incredibly thoughtful, and it clarified and expressed so much of what I've been feeling recently.

@benjaminmoser.bsky.social and @nesrinemalik.bsky.social discuss the entanglement between American Judaism and the project of American power -- and how it has led to tragic consequences in Gaza. Visit us at www.equator.org/podcasts to hear more.

At a remarkable @equatormag.bsky.social panel this week, #NanGoldin screened "Gaza" - a doc shown in silence,a montage of clips from Gazan journalists.The silence forces us to look,to imagine the soundtrack & it's vital for us to not watch the horrors in isolation as we have for the last 2.5 years

"critics of Germany's repressive reading of memory culture are treated as antisemitic – suggesting that the real Staatsräson is not just the protection of Israel, but of German moral purity." Menasse has written a superb analysis of Germany's frightening memory culture malaise.

On 28 May, @equatormag.bsky.social will host a free online event featuring @newlefteviews.bsky.social and @mona-ali.bsky.social – about the fallout of the war in the Middle East and the end of American hegemony. Register here! equator.org/events/after...

What I found in editing this essay by Eva Menasse about German moral panic is that no matter how many stories you've read about the absurd abuses of German memory culture, there are always more examples you haven't heard yet: www.equator.org/articles/ger...

To my mind the most thorough account yet of what’s been going on in the German-speaking world. www.equator.org/articles/ger...

"Given Germany’s history, there is a bitter irony in the increasingly aggressive attacks by non-Jewish politicians and journalists on Jews who refuse to be ‘protected’ by Staatsräson. At the same time these noisy debates divert attention away from the everyday racism directed against German Muslims"

Antisemitism and Zionism. The best I’ve read so far.

Eva Menasse Bad memories Nothing can stop Germany’s moral panic over antisemitism

Great stuff in @equatormag.bsky.social “It would be hard to surpass the absurd spectacle of a Jewish philosopher being blocked from speaking at a German Holocaust memorial because he intended to say that the lessons of “never again” should be applied universally.” www.equator.org/articles/ger...

“In Germany, the reality of Israel and Gaza, and even the ongoing wars in Iran and Lebanon, is less significant than German guilt, and the subsequent pride in memory culture, which is regarded as a kind of vaccination that will prevent Germans from ever again feeling such guilt.”

“Hormuz has made the end of American hegemony imaginable. It has also shown that, perhaps for the first time, the Global South, which stands to gain the most from a different order, possesses the political will and economic tools to begin building it.” www.equator.org/articles/the...

Really, really good article on the far right weaponising antisemitism and suddenly claiming that Jews are their bezzies. You do have to log in, but it's free. www.equator.org/articles/goo...

In the aftermath of the “rally against antisemitism” in London this weekend, to which Zack Polanski was not invited, read the interview with Barnaby Raine published a few days ago in @equatormag.bsky.social

Great to see Gaza: Doctors Under Attack win a Bafta... my piece from last year for @equatormag.bsky.social on what was going on behind the scenes at the BBC after 7 October 2023. www.equator.org/articles/ins...

This is so good. ‘While other diasporas have a physical homeland, our only true homeland is the future: as in the religious concept of a Messianic era when everyone is free and safe.’

"By letting the West set Jews against its other victims, we suffer alongside them, while only the civilisation that historically abused us truly benefits.” Incredible interview with historian Barnaby Raine.

"This is not a ‘Judeo-Christian’ civilisation; it is a Western order whose first hated Other was the Jew. We can choose instead to be part of the coalition that brings down this order – including its Zionist outpost."

@siddharthadeb.bsky.social tells Pankaj Mishra about his disillusionment with American academia: its lack of free thought, its steep cost and its grab-bag of jargon that allows it to "cultivate a moral distance from capital and empire." Visit us at www.equator.org/podcasts to hear more.

Read. Read. Read this & reflect on every word. www.equator.org/articles/goo...

This is excellent.

www.equator.org/articles/goo... Brilliant inspiring analysis of racism and antisemitism. The wealthy and powerful sow divisions turning oppressed against each other, diverting rage from themselves. Rich with subtle insights and historical data. Unites the moral core of Marxism and Abrahamite faiths.

"The current public discourse about antisemitism is defined by two claims. First, that Jews are victims of Muslims and the pro-Palestine left, and, second, that the proper response to racism is more aggressive policing." Typically sharp analysis from Barnaby Raine in @equatormag.bsky.social:

Having swept to power in Assam and West Bengal, the Bharatiya Janata Party now controls 20 of 28 state governments in India. We spoke to Neelanjan Sircar about the election results – and about the future of a resurgent Hindutva. www.equator.org/articles/fro...

Rising antisemitism is the UK is real, but mainstream commentary on its meaning and causes has been worse than useless. We spoke to Barnaby Raine about the moral panic deployed by those who claim to be "protecting Jews". www.equator.org/articles/goo...

"My father squeezed my hand and told me to be careful. “How?” I asked him. “Do I hold my hands above my head when a missile comes my way?” We both laughed nervously. Then it really was goodbye." www.equator.org/articles/lea...

Another reminder for our very timely online event tomorrow, 6 May – with @nesrinemalik.bsky.social talking to @trillingual.bsky.social about how the British media made the far right acceptable, introduced by @shainin.bsky.social. Free to all! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-the-br...

“Or maybe just power, which is a motivation of many politicians, not just in Africa. We have this perhaps delusional idea that people want power as a means to an end, but it can be the end in itself.” www.equator.org/articles/the...

Excited to be talking to @nesrinemalik.bsky.social about IF WE TOLERATE THIS on Wednesday - 6.30pm UK time but you can join from anywhere in the world as it's online (and free!) courtesy of @equatormag.bsky.social. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-the-br...

@samanthsubramanian.bsky.social talks to @yilingliu95.bsky.social about the Chinese internet – from the ever-shifting cycles of state oversight to the surprising spaces where creativity and subcultures thrive. Visit us at www.equator.org/podcasts to hear more.

What's really going on in Cuba: life without fuel, power, not enough food mixed with a glimmer of hope www.equator.org/articles/aft...

This week, @equatormag.bsky.social published translated dispatches from Iran and Cuba, two countries battered by the US imperium and blacked out by the world's media. Sara Mokhavat recounts the agony of leaving her family behind in Tehran. equator.org/articles/lea...

For an editorial statement for a new magazine this is pretty fine: www.equator.org/articles/gho...

Virtual event on Monday with Eleanor Goodman and Kaiser Kuo on Zheng Xiaoqiong, a poet and writer who depicts the world of Chinese migrant workers. NYRB Poets published Zheng's poetry collection In the Roar of the Machines last year, translated by Goodman. Organized with @equatormag.bsky.social.

“It is strange how we Cubans have normalised our extreme living conditions, have learned to adapt to chaos, as if societal collapse were just a part of our daily routine.”

Equator is fast becoming a regular read for me, and this conversation about Mali and the Sahel juntas was particularly interesting

“The junta can no longer offer a solution to this crisis, and it has in fact turned into an obstacle to a solution” - a conversation with Rahmane Idrissa about the extremist offensive in Mali.

What comes after the end of the American empire? www.equator.org/articles/gho...

On May 4, join @equatormag.bsky.social and @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social for an online event celebrating Zheng Xiaoqiong, perhaps the most important Chinese writer to depict the lives of migrant laborers on Guangdong – where she once herself worked at factories.

Read the novelist and filmmaker Sara Mokhavat’s account of traveling from Iran to Turkey – under constant US bombing.

I'm going to sign up for this amazing 4 week course with Molly about the leftist history of the Jewish Bund, hosted by Equator magazine. www.equator.org/courses/the-...

"In no other period in my life did I live with such intensity. I never drank more extravagantly, loved more fiercely, hated more passionately, worked more diligently or partied more recklessly than I did in those 15 years." www.equator.org/articles/the...

Can’t make it to a HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY event? I’m teaching an online course on The Bund this June with @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/courses/the-...

Great editorial by @equatormag.bsky.social drawing a parallel between the Strait of Tsushima (1905), the beginning of the end of the Russian and other European Empires, and the Strait of Hormuz (2026) for the US Empire. www.equator.org/articles/gho...

This is a necessary and emancipatory reading. So glad I found @equatormag.bsky.social : America’s defeat in the Persian Gulf reveals the world to come www.equator.org/articles/gho...

I spent this Sunday morning reading the beautiful writings on @equatormag.bsky.social site and listening to their podcasts. Read, listen, support, share.

This editorial by @equatormag.bsky.social embodies a new perspective in a way that's kind of breath-taking. www.equator.org/articles/gho...

@raniaab.bsky.social Syria dispatch for @equatormag.bsky.social, on the monumental task of repairing the country's social fabric: www.equator.org/articles/fro...

this is shocking yet true to many of us whose only experience of the world that has shaped our lives is american primacy post 1991 www.equator.org/articles/gho...