It was great to speak today at the IOHA oral history conference in Krakow as part of a leftist Jewish panel, in which we attempted to draw on various aspects of modern Jewish history to oppose genocide in Gaza.

Speaking French with an Anglo brain is like Husband: the government has fallen Me: what will happen now Him: *what will-t-he happen to itself now Me: there isn't another way to ask that? Him: what is that who will happen to itself now

Me, whimsically: you ever imagine the people you love as fictional woodland creatures? Like we could be Mr and Mrs Beaver Husband, v. serious: You would have to fetch wood. 

 Me: ok...

 Him: It's A LOT of responsibility being a beaver. They affect their whole environment. You could be a rabbit.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

🔴 Need a laugh , today ? 🤭🤣🙃🤭 #Dogsky #Dogs 🐥

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In case you were wondering what to get your kids for Yom Kippur this year, a clever friend and collaborator has turned my cemetery and grave measuring ritual guides into a cute little grave measuring kit, complete with wax to make soul candles 🧵🪦🕯️ pushcartjudaica.com/products/gra...

This is your regular reminder that, under international law, there is no such thing as "arriving illegally" if you are claiming asylum. Every single time you hear a journalist talk about "illegal arrivals", you are hearing propaganda at work.

It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. It's capital. The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.

Extraordinary piece from @simonerzim.bsky.social - searching, tough, honest and with all the receipts. Please share it with anyone you think is ready for a reckoning. The genocide is not only ongoing but accelerating and expanding, this is urgent.

L'accord-cadre US-UE est catastrophique. Humiliation sur humiliation. En plus de dérouler la liste de tous les milliards que l'UE promet unilatéralement aux US, c'est la course à la dérégulation (déforestation, CBAM, CSRD/DDD). A pleurer. Voilà une bonne raison de "tout bloquer". urlr.me/gdzMwV

here's a plain-language explainer for anyone who wanted one:

"How do new stigmas emerge? How do they relate to existing #Stigma? Why are we seeing an emergent devaluation & discrimination of people who have #LongCOVID, given how common it is to have experienced COVID-19?"? Via @priviligienschrek.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap-o...

🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷 BREAKING NEWS At last, in the UK, we now have official guidance on the use of respirators (FFP3) vs Fluid Resistant Surgical Masks (FRSM) which has been prepared SPECIFICALLY FOR THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR. 🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷🚨😷

Here’s what appears to be a little girl shackled at the wrists and ankles boarding an ICE flight on Avelo Airlines yesterday. Seattle (Boeing Field) to Mesa, AZ, an ICE detention hub. Not one of those men helped her up the stairs. Courtesy @lalabote.bsky.social

"How to Report ICE" regional zines available for free printable download: Northern California Southern California Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Durham Massachusetts NYC Philly Pittsburgh More to come! Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Long covid research coming of age.

If you watch nothing else today please watch this video from the Covid inquiry and consider if you still feel safe handwashing for a predominantly airborne virus. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cpR...

The Board of Deputies and various UK Jewish orgs have called a march this sunday, one which is really an anti-peace and anti-hostage demonstration. I felt compelled to write about it: josephfinlay.com/march-of-the...

I can’t keep posting this enough. Bravo @privateeyenews.bsky.social

IT'S GETTING WORSE.

There seems to be a bipartisan agreement in the UK to let the NHS fall to pieces through neglect and underfunding. Or am I missing something?

A dérouler car c'est effrayant. Ce sont les données pour le Royaume-Uni mais je suppose que c'est la même chose en France.

I've just seen some staggering data on how badly infections are affecting urgent care here *now*. It's hard to comprehend. It's hard to get your head round it. You need to see it to believe it. 👀

American and British Jews often ask me if I find it difficult living in France as a Jew and usually I am confused by the question but today I found out that 30 lactase tablets costs 60 euros here so I can now definitively answer yes, this is an antisemitic country

I don't think I've seen a better example of an animal smiling in my life... 🥹

Tell me you're a Communist Party archive without telling me you're a Communist Party archive

A Yiddish curse for the 21st century: you are in a place that has paid for an institutional subscription to verterbukh.org, but the wifi connection is so bad that you cannot access it

associationarra.wordpress.com/2024/04/06/f... - Nouvel article de l'ARRA : FIGHT COVID, ACT UP / COMBATTRE LE COVID ET AGIR IGNORANCE = PEUR INFORMATION = POUVOIR SILENCE = MORT ACTION = VIE

I am retyping up this thread from x to share from 2023. This is why I have campaigned on COVID since early 2020. The background to how we arrived at this point is very important and at the beginning only clinically vulnerable who shielded and scientists were posting. This might take a long time 🧵

I'm staying in Montreuil for three weeks while I teach in Paris, and while I was exploring this weekend I realised that it was exactly OTD (11th-15th July specifically) in 1936 that my hero and dead celebrity crush Felicia Browne passed through on her way to Spain ...

For those up the back... Just catching up with the sage insights of Anthony Leonardi (after whom this hashtag is dedicated-my bad) This 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Please consider donating to my fundraiser for my friend Mohamed and his family. Mohamed is now volunteering for a Gazan legal association set up to respond to the destruction of legal and governmental infrastructure chuffed.org/project/122725-support-mohammed-and-family-to-survive-and-rebuild

Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.

Also, if you are in Paris, I'll be talking about this and other research at the Paris Yiddish Center, 4pm July 22 (and earlier that day in a separate talk af yidish). Talk is free and open to everyone programme.yiddish.paris?tribe_events...

Pretty darn exciting to be submitting the final proofs of this chapter, which represents about a year of some of the most interesting and rewarding research I've ever done. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

“We stand in solidarity with those… being targeted because their protests are… illuminating actions by governments and state institutions that are criminal, corrupt or just wrong.” Statement by the Jewish Socialists’ Group. www.jewishsocialist.org.uk/news/item/st...

🔴 Le GUIDE JOURNALISTIQUE COVID est à retrouver sur notre site. Il a pour but d'aider les journalistes à évoquer le COVID sans négliger sa forme longue et chronique.

As NB.1.8.1 spreads, there’s only one thing spreading faster: misinformation. Here, I run down 5 of the most common errors I see circulating about COVID and encourage people to integrate airborne disease mitigation into their lives holistically. www.thegauntlet.news/p/common-mis...

Israel claims the ship was heading for Israeli waters when it was actually heading for Gazan/Palestinian waters. The fact that Israel doesn’t recognise the existence of the latter, or that Palestinians have the right to an independent existence, is what this is really about.

If you’re making jokes about Greta Thunberg today you clearly think the starvation of Gaza is funny

I'm struck by the vituperative rhetoric being directed at Greta Thunberg. Activists can never win. They are too biased, too outsider, too militant, not militant enough, hypocritical, self obsessed. But here people are saying the things they want to say about Palestinians, but can't, about Greta.

London: has anyone noticed how stressed out the Thameslink voice is when it says "Streatham"?

yasher koyekh www.thejc.com/news/uk/ujs-...