Michael Rothberg on the Israeli Embassy's attacks on Omri Boehm leading to the cancelling of his speech at #Buchenwald
#LRB blog
A clear short text on Holocaust Memory and Universal Values
This #LRB article reads like a #dystopian #scifi short story from the 1990s. But it seems to be the 2025 reality in some parts of #China …
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/long-ling/diary
Did they really name it #Skynet?
This is what the (near) future looks like.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n24/eliot-weinberger/incoming #trumpism #DonaldTrump #Trump #USA #politics #USA #LRB
#NGOs #funding vs. #NeverAgain in #Germany
"Fifteen Israeli NGOs said it ‘would be instrumentalised to attack and constrain German funding for our human rights work’."
"The resolution calls for immigration, asylum and criminal law to be tightened to combat antisemitism, and for universities, where antiwar activists have occupied buildings and set up encampments, to be granted wider powers to discipline and expel students. All levels of government are asked to prevent the financial support of projects and organisations – Documenta is mentioned as an example – that ‘spread antisemitism, question Israel’s right to exist, call for a boycott of Israel or actively support the BDS movement’. The IHRA definition is to be considered ‘authoritative’. The new resolution cites the 2019 BDS text as its model, ignoring a parliamentary assessment from a year later, which found that if that resolution had been formulated as legislation, it ‘would not be compatible with the fundamental right to freedom of expression and would therefore be unconstitutional’."
"With a non-binding resolution, recipients of state funding will be drafted, willing or unwilling, as enforcers. Curators, convenors of academic conferences and charity administrators will be expected to screen and blacklist any partners or collaborators who could be seen to violate the IHRA guidelines. An old social media post or a signature on a petition could result in funds being withdrawn."
Ruairí Casey: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/november/questions-of-funding
There's a good article by Rosemary Hill in the current #LRB on #GlasgowSchoolOfArt and the morass after the destruction caused by the two fires in 2014 and 2018.
"It is difficult to construe [the current reworking of an addendum to the GSA's Strategic Outline Business Case] as anything other than an attempt to look busy while nothing happens and nothing is explained."
#lrb we saw that Oldboy was playing at the cheap theater and max went "what's Oldboy?" greatest fucking opportunity of my life tbh
Hey TEAMSTERS!!!
You have a corrupted leadership problem, no idea how, but if Trump is allowed back the LRB that just handed this victory to Teamsters and all unions, would be eliminated, and unions destroyed.
On Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’
“Adrian Moore joins Malin Hay to discuss what Wittgenstein hoped to achieve with the only work he published in his lifetime and to consider how much we should trust his assertion that everything it contains is nonsensical.”
https://shows.acast.com/f8abe2f0-7415-4247-bc89-e5f3f6eff6b1/66aa3a8cdcc0b601b37a2176
#LRB #Audio #Podcast #Wittgenstein #Book #Philosophy #Bookstodon @philosophy @bookstodon
Thomas James Wise war einer der versiertesten Antiquare um 1900, Vorsitzender der Bibliographical Society & Gutachter für zig bibliographische Verzeichnisse. Und er war der größte Buchfälscher überhaupt. Jetzt gibt es eine Biographie & schon die Rezension nötigt einem Respekt vor diesen Nerven ab.
#Bücher #Buchwissenschaft #books #bibliography #Fälschung #forgery #lrb #britishlibrary #collecting #antiquarianism
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n12/gill-partington/every-watermark-and-stain
from #WorldOutlook
Author #AdamShatz on ‘#Israel’s Descent’ (part 3 of 3)
Linked article below gives an introduction and link to an article that appeared in the June 20, 2024, issue of the #LondonReviewOfBooks (#LRB), a magazine based in the #UnitedKingdom.
Shatz addresses the false conflation of #antiZionism with #antisemitism by #USA politicians and others. He explains that argument is not new, and it has never been shared by all #Jews. The books he reviews in this essay single out #Jewish voices that were sharply critical of the main leaders of #Zionism in the years before Israel was established, as well as after 1948.
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israel
https://world-outlook.com/2024/06/29/author-adam-shatz-on-israels-descent-iii/
from #WorldOutlook
Author #AdamShatz on ‘#Israel’s Descent’ (part 2 of 3)
Linked article below gives an introduction and link to an article that appeared in the June 20, 2024, issue of the #LondonReviewOfBooks (#LRB), a magazine based in the #UnitedKingdom.
Shatz addresses the false conflation of #antiZionism with #antisemitism by #USA politicians and others. He explains that argument is not new, and it has never been shared by all #Jews. The books he reviews in this essay single out #Jewish voices that were sharply critical of the main leaders of #Zionism in the years before Israel was established, as well as after 1948.
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israel
https://world-outlook.com/2024/06/28/author-adam-shatz-on-israels-descent-ii/
In Our Palestine Question, Geoffrey Levin shows how American Jewish critics of Israel were dislodged from Jewish institutions in the decades following the state’s formation. ‘The question of the Arab refugees is a moral issue which rises above diplomacy,’ William Zukerman, the editor of the Jewish Newsletter, wrote in 1950. ‘The land now called Israel belongs to the Arab Refugees no less than to any Israeli. They have lived on that soil and worked on it… for twelve hundred years… The fact that they fled in panic is no excuse for depriving them of their homes.’ Under Israeli pressure, Zukerman lost his job as a New York correspondent for the London-based Jewish Chronicle. Arthur Lourie, the Israeli consul general in New York, exulted in his firing: ‘a real MITZVAH’.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n12/adam-shatz/israel-s-descent
"At a talk in Brooklyn [in 1985, Primo] Levi, asked for his opinion on Middle East politics, started to say that ‘Israel was a mistake in historical terms.’ An uproar ensued, and the moderator had to halt the meeting."
Pankaj Mishra in #LRB: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza
"Palestine, as George Orwell pointed out in 1945, is a ‘colour issue’, and this is the way it was inevitably seen by Gandhi, who pleaded with Zionist leaders not to resort to terrorism against Arabs using Western arms".
Pankaj Mishra in #LRB: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza
While working through my LRB backlog I came upon this piece by Gale Walden about her late friend and sometimes fiance David, with it gradually becoming apparent that he is the novelist David Foster Wallace. I've never read anything by DFW and perhaps never will but it was interesting reading something about him that is broadly affectionate, as he is someone I had filed away as somewhat "problematic".
@stiofi The recent #lrb review about #Enheduana was fascinating, as is this podcast discussion.
Everytime I sit down to read the London Review of Books my mind gets a jolt. It's a shame I find it so hard to make time for it.
Today's article of note for me is Rebecca Solnit's "In the Shadow of Silicon Valley". It captures the strange compartmentalisation of disliking many (if not most) of the consequences of the proliferation of hypercapitalist #tech companies, yet contributing to just that in my day job.
**‘Everything is possible’**
