Lihi Yona

A crucial, timely report on the weaponization of antisemitism. @itamann.bsky.social and I contributed an essay exploring its legal dimensions, reflecting on Jewish plurality and the knotty relationship between Jewish and Israeli identities. Grateful for @emilyctamkin.bsky.social brilliant guidance.

This sounds oddly....."familiar" 🤔

Don't let all the news distract you from the ongoing starvation and killing of Palestinians in Gaza.

The Israeli govt is deliberately trying to prevent news getting out . It dismisses what news there is as Hamas propaganda while refusing to let international journalists in. An information war too.

Harvard appears to think all Jews support Israel. That is discriminatory | Barry Trachtenberg, Victor Silverman, Atalia Omer, Raz Segal, Rebecca T Alpert We are Jewish scholars who filed an amicus brief with the US supreme court on Harvard’s discriminatory assumption that being Jewish means supporting Israel

Harvard appears to think all Jews support Israel. That is discriminatory | Barry Trachtenberg, Victor Silverman, Atalia Omer, Raz Segal, Rebecca T Alpert

Beyond Classification and Subordination: A Case for Anti-Essentialism - Harvard Law Review Employment antidiscrimination law has been steadily eroding, the result of a dilemma it has never fully resolved: its relationship with identity. I. From Ricci...

My collaborator and overall bestie Maayan Sudai and I wrote for the Harvard Law Review Blog about Title VII's identity problem, and how to (hopefully, maybe) solve it. Check it out: harvardlawreview.org/blog/2025/06...

Beyond Classification and Subordination: A Case for Anti-Essentialism - Harvard Law Review Employment antidiscrimination law has been steadily eroding, the result of a dilemma it has never fully resolved: its relationship with identity. I. From Ricci...

My collaborator and overall bestie Maayan Sudai and I wrote for the Harvard Law Review Blog about Title VII's identity problem, and how to (hopefully, maybe) solve it. Check it out: harvardlawreview.org/blog/2025/06...

70 days of Israeli blockade on Gaza, using starvation as a weapon of war.

This is awesome!! Congrats!

Asks to Universities/colleges are 3-fold: (1) daily check to see if visas have been revoked (2) provide immigration counsel upon visa revocation, & (3) keep students enrolled.

@aaup.bsky.social

Intersex, Trans, and the Irrationality of Gender-Affirming-Care Bans This Article provides a comprehensive legal analysis of gender-affirming-care bans, concluding that their internally inconsistent treatment of trans-affirming care and coercive intersex-normalizing in...

Finally out! Maayan Sudai & Ido Katri wrote for YLJ on the irrationality of gender affirming care bans, illuminated most vividly via the pov of intersex people. This is such a powerful intervention because it manages to expose something deep in the ideological apparatus of the state. Must read!

Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

Merit!

Newspaper account of the raid and arrests describes six women attending, on a circle, eating hummus and bread sticks.

Danger: Six women, ages from 18 to 38, in a circle, eating hummus and bread sticks.

Thank you! 🙏

Thanks!!

Thank you, much appreciated! 🙏

Wow I had no idea about the Bannon quote! Crazy stuff, thanks for sharing this!

Thanks!

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Thank you! 🙏

Wow, thanks for sharing!

"By legally enshrining support for Israel as a defining characteristic of Jewish identity, the new definition of antisemitism imposes a straitjacket of Zionist identity on American Jews, in effect telling them that certain political positions are incompatible with being authentically Jewish."

not mincing words: @itamann.bsky.social and @lihiyona.bsky.social on the instrumentalization of the #IHRA Working Definition
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The new definition of antisemitism is transforming America – and serving a Christian nationalist plan Redefining antisemitism in the law was never about Jewish safety. It is about consolidating authoritarian power under the veneer of minority protection

The new definition of antisemitism imposes a straitjacket of Zionist identity on American Jews.

Must read from Israeli scholars @itamann.bsky.social & @lihiyona.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The new definition of antisemitism is transforming America – and serving a Christian nationalist plan Redefining antisemitism in the law was never about Jewish safety. It is about consolidating authoritarian power under the veneer of minority protection

A brilliant essay by @lihiyona.bsky.social and @itamann.bsky.social on what the project to redefine antisemitism is doing to America
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The new definition of antisemitism is transforming America – and serving a Christian nationalist plan Redefining antisemitism in the law was never about Jewish safety. It is about consolidating authoritarian power under the veneer of minority protection

@itamann.bsky.social and I wrote for the @theguardian.com about the new definition of antisemitism, and how it has never been about protecting Jews, but rather a part of a larger attempt to silence dissent, entrench Christian nationalism, and undermine democracy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

New by @lihiyona.bsky.social and me, on how the redefinition antisemitism is transforming American democracy in the service of Christian nationalism

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

"Identity politics can turn on us through the right’s new grammar that casts white men as a subordinate group ... We saw it with white farmers in South Africa, and we see it in the U.S. with this imagined idea that society accepts racism as long as it’s against white people" - Lihi Yona

🔥 Interview with the amazing
@lihiyona.bsky.social, on our co-authored article and beyond

myemail.constantcontact.com/A-new-approa...

Israeli soldiers used 80-year-old Gazan as human shield, then killed him Soldiers put an explosive cord around the man's neck and forced him to scout buildings for eight hours. After his release, another division shot him dead.

One of the most horrifying stories to come out of this war of extermination. I posted the Hebrew reporting a few days ago, here it is in English.

www.972mag.com/gaza-human-s...