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
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 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
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
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
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
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. 🧵
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
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 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
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
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
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