A little thing I wrote about #AriAster‘s #Eddington. Thanks to Dan Friedman! bookandfilmglobe.com/film/on-gett...

Can someone tell me what “woke right” either refers to or is supposed to mean? Thanks.

I’m undoubtedly late to the show, but I just discovered that the link to the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs on the home page of the U.S. Embassy in Israel website simply reloads the U.S. Embassy in Israel home page.

Here’s something I wrote as part of a module on “Late Academe” in the /American Book Review/. It’s the third in a triptych of post-October 7 essays I’ve written. Project MUSE - Scholarly "Community" and the Affective Politics of Identity: A Case Study from Late Academe muse.jhu.edu/article/956730

Brilliant analysis of the US pro-Israel movement and right wing antisemitism. Conservatives fighting ‘antisemitism’ are actively targeting US Jews. Why? | Josh Schreier www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When the history of this era is written (if we’re lucky enough to get there), a substantial chapter will address the role Zionism played as a leverage point in the consolidation of the second great wave of fascism. Many who imagine themselves via fantasies of liberalism played a willing part.

Back to the drawing board blogs.nasa.gov/planetarydef...

This cabbage offers more hope and possibility than the contemporary scene.

Bari Weiss once again proving that Zionism has jumped the shark.

Solidarity with the Educational Bookshop and its owners, Mahmoud and Ahmed Muna. A pillar of Palestinian culture and civil society, and two absolutely wonderful people. Another travesty. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

AI proving Said’s 2000 claim that he’s the last Jewish intellectual. Which I guess means the last guy named Irving. In the final instance I guess it hardly matters whether it’s Howe or Malin.

How many of my friends are boycotting and/or not going to #mla2026 on account of politics?

Well, I tried to join Mothers Against Campus Antisemitism—I do, after all, have two kids in college—and was blocked instead of admitted.

Herzl’s great line from the never-goes-out-of-style file came to me for no particular reason this morning: “The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies.”

Hanan Ashrawi @MLA2025

#WhatIJustRead Excellent book

“Wiesel ‘has a lot to answer for, including ultimately putting the word “Holocaust” into circulation. . . . It was part of putting this religious baggage on something that was more urgently human baggage.’” hyperallergic.com/973444/art-s...

Looking forward to an unsatisfying and frustrating online AJS conference (through no fault of any of the presenters), beginning today!

Jewish studies dissertation idea: The Omen trilogy as post-67 text. And extra credit for going for gold: it’s the defining text of post-67 Zionism.

Working class hero discourse in the Trump times

Orientalist zombies FTW www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...

New issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature just out, guest edited by Michael Kramer, on Jewish American Periodicals. This is a really amazing piece of work; Kol HaKavod to Michael! scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/sajl/is...

Now that Trump is back in the saddle I guess we can all look forward to more fascist-adjacent fever-dreams from Russell Berman

Do I know anyone with scholarly familiarity with Indian or South Asian Jewish literature?

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.

When is Torah Judaism, the only twitter account worth following, going to come over here?

As the American Studies Association meets in the city where I live with me not in attendance, I once again face the eternal question: do I actually /do/ American studies?

MLA’ers: I’m standing for election to the MLA Delegate Assembly, representing the LLC Jewish American forum. Consider casting a vote for me, if you’re so inclined (and in a position to). I put in the effort to pen a statement on matters of professional concern.

Whose hands are Jewish and philosemitic intellectuals who insist on equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism playing into? religiondispatches.org/heritage-fou...

I think I’d have a pretty decent chance of getting into a starter pack of critics pursuing Groucho-based I-wouldn’t-want-to-be-in-any-club-that-would-have-as-a-member scholarship.

I use this account to replace my Twitter account. So it’s basically dedicated to my professional life: what I write, what I read, and what I think about—in the areas of intellectual politics, literary studies (rooted in American lit, but not exclusively), Jewish studies, Arab American studies.

Here’s a little thing I wrote about Jewish studies, the AJS, Jewish privilege, and inclusivity—and Zionism—in scholarly discussions of Israel-Palestine. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/pir/art...

I embrace the ethical and intellectual rigor of both-sides logic and argumentation.

Re-upping this a few weeks after it was originally published. www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4569...

MLA’ers! I’m presenting on 2 panels. 1.I’ll talk about Zionism and rhetorics of inclusion on “Postcolonial Traditions in Global Jewish Literature” (238) Fri @ 12:00. 2.I’ll talk about critical literary study on “Reimagining the Field of Arab American Studies” (510) Sat @ 1:45.

Rare books library

B”h approved for sabbatical

(Jewish (American)) literature people: what are y’all’s feeling about Foer’s /Here I Am/? I’d be interested to hear if anyone has taught it; I’m sort-of half considering it for a grad seminar…

What if Netanyahu went rogue and offered citizenship to Palestinians as a way of breaking the back of Hamas

Part of the horror of the Hamas attack is that it represents the return of the repressed as history for Zionists on both left and right. This is the fantasy at the center of their political identity—that which always threatens if their idea of a solution isn’t realized. 1/3

“American Zionism is, in other words, a political movement fundamentally at odds with reality itself.” “Having long since lost all the academic arguments, contemporary Zionist institutions have gone to war against argument itself.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Benedict Anderson in 1979 (and as someone on FB said, in his Daddy phase) <3 <3 <3

Reminder: Why “Jewish American Literature” Matters: An Emerging Scholar Conference February 25-26, 2024 Vanderbilt University Deadline for submissions is October 1, 2023! Get your proposals in! FYI: here's the google doc with the submission link.... docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Roth’s “Eli, the Fanatic” as intertextual parent of Appelfeld’s /Badenheim 1939/. Yes? I think maybe yes.

Salman Abu-Sitta at #PalestineWrites on how to “reverse the war crime of ethnic cleansing”: “Imagine the imaginable.”

Viet Nguyen at #PalestineWrites: “The American Dream is a euphemism—for settler colonialism.”

What I'm doing this weekend. palestinewrites.org