Judith Shulevitz

Essayist, critic. Staff writer, The Atlantic. Author, The Sabbath World.

[Mark Horowitz @MarkHorowitz]

If his goal was just to powerfully expose and criticize Israeli policies, there were more than enough verifiable stories and credible charges to make a strong column, but @NickKristof chose to pin his case to the least credible but most incendiary-sounding sources instead, as @elikowaz points out here. That’s bad journalism. It discredits @timesopinion. https://t.co/FHKUGCa3kM

[Judith Shulevitz @JudithShulevitz]

@CathyYoung63 @conor64 @jon_rauch @anneapplebaum @jonathanchait @DavidAFrench @thomaschattwill @mattyglesias @CaitlinPacific @sapinker @Kasparov63 @jessesingal Nice piece, @CathyYoung63 . Thanks for doing it.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

The New Deal–era murals that adorn the walls of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building offer an important lesson about patriotism, propaganda, and beauty, @JudithShulevitz writes. What will happen to them if the government sells the building? https://t.co/hwoLVWDpaO

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

The New Deal–era murals that adorn the walls of the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building offer an important lesson about patriotism, propaganda, and beauty, @JudithShulevitz writes. What will happen to them if the government sells the building? https://t.co/EuBznHE8TW

[Judith Shulevitz @JudithShulevitz]

Glad to see a non-Jewish organization take an unequivocal stance against Jew hatred. The Ontario Camp Association flatly rejects the demonization and would-be boycott of Canadian Jewish summer camps.

Sadly, not something that happens everyday.

https://t.co/E3C3O0yZCi

[Judith Shulevitz @JudithShulevitz]

I wrote a piece about Toni Morrison's complicated views on black history.

What about Confederate statues? someone asked. Leave them up, she said. Talk about them. Hang a noose around their necks. She wasn’t kidding.

Which explains some things about her novels. Gift link.

https://t.co/BONv31ayk7

[Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific]

This an incredible, incredible story. It’s about a massive fortune being deployed, grant by grant, to transform the humanities into an activist training ground.

By ⁦@Tyler_A_Harper⁩ https://t.co/ZjmBfAMfp7

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

I’ve spent the last year working on a story about the Mellon Foundation, the mega-wealthy private nonprofit that has a monopoly on humanities funding in America. The article, about how Mellon has held the humanities hostage to its progressive political ideology, is out today. 🧵

[Judith Shulevitz @JudithShulevitz]

George Washington set the benchmark for presidential temperament. Here's how Trump blew it up.

https://t.co/WL1n04PSgg

[Roya Hakakian @RoyaTheWriter]

Superb piece on the silence of the left on the protest in Iran by @galbeckerman

https://t.co/u4rL05x6aB

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

The National Portrait Gallery removed key details from the caption under Donald Trump's photograph. It still has a story to tell—@JudithShulevitz looks deep into the portrait and describes what glowers back: https://t.co/4oFeLLKX5W

[Judith Shulevitz @JudithShulevitz]

Like some demonic trickster, Trump moves through the world robbing it of speech. I analyze a case of censorship at the National Portrait Gallery--and the bullying new portrait of him that just went up there. Gift link. @TheAtlantic
https://t.co/HCQAFgegoI

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

The National Portrait Gallery removed key details from the caption under Donald Trump's photograph. It still has a story to tell—@JudithShulevitz looks deep into the portrait and describes what glowers back: https://t.co/6J6vUhPQHL

[Judith Shulevitz @JudithShulevitz]

Washington's portrait set the benchmark for presidential temperament; Trump's occupies a whole other universe. Me on the National Portrait Gallery and the president with the gorilla posture, in The Atlantic. (Not paywalled.)

https://t.co/WbWBRuXCdY

[Claire Lehmann @clairlemon]

The @WSJ has analysed 13 other incidents where ICE agents have fired into civilian vehicles & identify a pattern of agents boxing in running vehicles while engaging in escalatory & intrusive tactics which police are trained to avoid.
https://t.co/BmIAueohzb

[Judith Shulevitz @JudithShulevitz]

@TenuredRadical @lawler4ny Last point: you may not like Lawler's tendentious characterization of the IHRA order, but he was referring to that.

[Judith Shulevitz @JudithShulevitz]

To be clear, quoting the Daily News: "Among them was an order Adams issued earlier this month that pushed back against Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, a movement that supports putting economic pressure on Israel’s government and Israeli companies in protest of the country’s treatment of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

The order prohibited senior city government officials from making any city contracting moves or engaging in any policy “that discriminates against the state of Israel, Israeli citizens based on their national origin, or individuals or entities based on their association with Israel.” The order threatened to subject city employees to disciplinary proceedings if they are found violating that restriction.

Yet another revoked order directed the city to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism. Critics say that definition conflates criticism of the Israeli government with antisemitism."

https://t.co/sl4GUXU7p5

[Judith Shulevitz @JudithShulevitz]

@CHSommers Thank you!

[Judith Shulevitz @JudithShulevitz]

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