this piece for the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social about Luca Giordano's "St. Michael", representations of empire, aerial bombing, and Gaza. my favorite thing I wrote this year
lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...
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A nice win: PEN America has retracted their statement
pen.org/press-releas...
holy shit.
extremely proud of Omar and his team for taking this stand.
what a stain on HRW's reputation.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
On Jan. 20th, the @hindrajabfoundation.be
filed a request for prosecution in the US against Israeli "comedian" Guy Hochman for incitement to genocide
On Jan. 29th, @penamerica.bsky.social issued a press release condemning the cancellation of some of Hochman's inciting performances
Our response:
On Jan. 20th, the @hindrajabfoundation.be
filed a request for prosecution in the US against Israeli "comedian" Guy Hochman for incitement to genocide
On Jan. 29th, @penamerica.bsky.social issued a press release condemning the cancellation of some of Hochman's inciting performances
Our response:
spoke with my favorite couple @shaabiranks.bsky.social and @seamus-malekafzali.com about international law, the so-called "war on terror," and the long shadow of colonial warfare for Turbulence
turbulencepod.substack.com/p/episode-11...
spoke with my favorite couple @shaabiranks.bsky.social and @seamus-malekafzali.com about international law, the so-called "war on terror," and the long shadow of colonial warfare for Turbulence
turbulencepod.substack.com/p/episode-11...
Write about it a little more here as well if you’re interested bsky.app/profile/jake...
This reminded me of @jakeromm.bsky.social’s analysis of Israeli hasbara as fascist propaganda in his essay “Elements of Antisemitism” in @parapraxismag.bsky.social
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/ele...
Here is a video of my full talk with Dror Dayan about the Hind Rajab Foundation, German complicity in the genocide, and the international legal order at the Rosa Luxemburg Conference this past weekend
[starting around 6:12:00]
www.youtube.com/embed/470xHH...
I’ll be speaking at the Junge Welt Rosa Luxemburg Conference today at 3pm Berlin time: on international law, the genocide in Palestine, and the Hind Rajab Foundation
Live stream link here:
jungewelt.de/?lang=en
I’ll be speaking at the Junge Welt Rosa Luxemburg Conference today at 3pm Berlin time: on international law, the genocide in Palestine, and the Hind Rajab Foundation
Live stream link here:
jungewelt.de/?lang=en
junge Welt Abonnement Malgré les preuves accablantes documentant les crimes israéliens, malgré l'horreur manifeste de leur ampleur et de leur brutalité, les Israéliens n'ont jamais véritablement subi de conséquences. Plus un crime reste impuni, plus on a l'impression qu'il n'en est peut-être pas un. En effet, des avocats israéliens soutiennent que les actions de leur État sont légales, et certains experts juridiques américains et européens, ainsi que des gouvernements occidentaux, les appuient dans cette position; de cette manière, un crime peut, avec le temps, devenir loi. Ajoutez à cela le soutien de l'armée américaine, la complicité ou la défaite de la quasi-totalité des autres forces armées conventionnelles de la région, et le déséquilibre extrême des armements et des capacités entre l'armée israélienne et la résistance palestinienne, et un sentiment d'invincibilité vient s'ajouter au sentiment d'innocence. Ce dernier imprègne une société fondée sur l'anéantissement du collectif palestinien, dont l'existence même exige une violence constante contre les autres, internes comme externes, afin d'assurer la domination ethnique. Parce que la dynamique du colonialisme de peuplement conduit inévitablement à la violence, chaque crime impuni prépare le terrain pour le suivant, qui sera encore plus radical. C'est le cycle de l'impunité.
par @jakeromm.bsky.social
I'll also be speaking at the Rosa Luxemburg Conference in Berlin this weekend. Come through if you're in the city.
jungewelt.de/rlk/
I spoke with Susann Witt-Stahl for Junge Welt about the genocide in Palestine, international law, German complicity, the coming new world order, and the @hindrajabfoundation.be
www.jungewelt.de/artikel/5154...
"What we are seeing now from the Trump administration is a US empire increasingly willing to dispense with even the perfunctory legal legitimation that past presidents leaned on." www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Seems like a good time to revisit @jakeromm.bsky.social’s piece in @thenation.com from October:
favorite albums I listened to in 2025 (alphabetical order)
playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/03x...
favorite tracks I listened to for the first time in 2025 (no particular order)
playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Zu...
favorite tracks I listened to for the first time in 2025 (no particular order)
playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Zu...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...
This by comrade @jakeromm.bsky.social is first thing that came to mind
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favorite albums I listened to in 2025 (alphabetical order)
playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/03x...
"Frontier names a duality where the place is important but the people are unimportant"
Two brilliant scholars @triofrancos.bsky.social@lalehkhalili.bsky.social in conversation, highly recommended!
proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
Hello Romm-heads,
here is a thread of some things I wrote and said this year:
big things in the works for the upcoming year: in terms of writing, @proteanmag.com, and the HRF
Thanks to all the writers who I had the privilege to edit for Protean
Thanks to all the editors without whom my writing would be much worse
Thanks to all the Romm-heads 🫡
