Asaf Marco

Assistant Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem @HebrewU
Neuroepigenetics and Molecular Neuroscience

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@EladLax Thank you Elad!

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Excited to share our new paper in @FASEBJournal

This paper represents a pivotal moment for our lab as we consolidate our focus on the intersection of metabolism, epigenetics, and brain resilience.

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Check it out: https://t.co/xrRtvAN7aC

#Neuroscience #Epigenetics #Metabolism #Resilience #FASEB

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In this work, led by PhD candidate @HadarParnas and our amazing team (Joanna Bartman, Tali Rosenberg, Ronit Yosofov, & Noa Gabsi), we show how BHB signaling through intermittent fasting "primes" chromatin to safeguard genome integrity and boost neuronal protection.

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@EladLax Congratulations Elad and colleagues !!

[Ben Caspit בן כספית @BenCaspit]

Cornell student unbelievable testimony

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@RetsefL @DrLiHueiTsai a leader at MIT and an employer of many Jews and Israelis in the present and in the past, what is your position? Do these students not deserve protection? We need your voice and we need to take a stand now

[Retsef Levi @RetsefL]

This is the reality that MIT President wants to hide. A letter from Israeli & Jewish MIT students:

To all students at MIT,

Today, Jewish and Israeli MIT students were physically prevented from attending class by a hostile group of pro-Hamas and anti-Israel MIT students that call themselves the CAA.

This is after students from the CAA harassed MIT staff members in their offices for being Jewish and interrupted classes in the past few weeks. All of this has occurred with no clear response from the administration. With each passing day, MIT admin’s silence makes Jewish and Israeli students feel unsafe at MIT.

Many Jewish students fear leaving their dorm rooms and have stated that they feel MIT is not safe for Jews. This message is compounded by the public and private warnings of Hillel and many faculty that Jewish students should not enter MIT’s main lobby today, November 9th, 2023.

Instead of dispersing the mob or de-escalating the situation by rerouting all students from Lobby 7, Jewish students specifically were warned not to enter MIT’s front entrance due to a risk to their physical safety. The onus to protect Jewish students should not be on the students themselves.

MIT administration recently announced guidelines to avoid illegal and unsafe protests on campus. The CAA, which planned the protest, knowingly and proudly violated these requirements, and even invited people from outside of MIT to join them. Their actions inhibit the possibility of safe and peaceful dialogue and endanger Jewish students on campus.

The CAA hosted a blockade that not only disregards MIT guidelines, but also obstructs Jewish students from attending classes.

Some Jewish students who saw the administration’s failure to respond to the targeted harassment of Jews on campus by the CAA came together to support each other and peacefully together stand against this threat to their safety.

Four hours after the blockade started, at 12 pm, the MIT administration passed a letter to all students, threatening their suspension if the crowds did not disperse from Lobby 7. Only the Jewish students left immediately. The CAA protesters did not cooperate. Indeed, the CAA proceeded to invite more students and non-MIT protestors to join them in calling for a violent uprising (“Intifada”) and justifying the terror attacks of Hamas on Israeli civilians.

At 5 pm, all students on campus were warned through MIT’s emergency notification system to “avoid Lobby 7” –– officially recognizing the danger present to students as a result of this violent protest. No Jewish or Israeli students were present at this point.

As of 10:30 tonight MIT has officially decided not to academically suspend CAA students who repeatedly violated the administration's guidelines and threats. They have shown that actions against Jews at MIT do not have consequences. Additionally, in an email to DUSP students, the Department Head indicated that he would protect any DUSP students involved in violating MIT’s rules today by protesting with the CAA. Not only do Jewish students feel unsafe on campus, but now they also feel excluded from and unsafe in DUSP.

Today, on the 9th of November, on the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, which marked the beginning of the Holocaust, Jews at MIT were told to enter campus from back entrances and not to stay in Hillel for fear of their physical safety.

We are seeing history repeating itself and Jews on MIT’s campus are afraid.

Signed,

The MIT Israel Alliance and its supporters

[Denver1920 @OmereKS8]

@Epoch_Magazine

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@StopAntisemites 🧐

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Voice your outrage:

President David Harris: [email protected]

Dean of Students Annette Diorio:
[email protected]

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Worth a read, especially strong on the self-hating Americans who are promoting terrorists and medieval thugs who would happily kill them and every liberal value they care about. https://t.co/3BtUmKA0ev

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Mohammed Hadid on his holiday in Israel "I'm having such a good time here" https://t.co/3pk99eomrw

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@StopAntisemites

[Gal Markel @GalMarkel]

An eye opener for those who are blind to see the truth: Hamas terrorists should be eliminated. An interview with an ex-Hamas man, eldest son of a Hamas founder, who spent 27 months in Israeli prison. Listen for yourself.
#HamasIsISIS
#StandWithIsrael

https://t.co/hQ8ra5iLg1

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@StopAntisemites @BrooklynDA Isn't that a hate crime? What are you doing to stop this horrific phenomenon?

[Tracy-Ann Oberman MBE @TracyAnnO]

True this :

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RT @BenCaspit: The arrogance and hypocracy of BBC is unbelievable

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University of Michigan - Wissam Iman Nuwayhid, a graduate student instructor, posted this sickening comparison in his Middle East 207 class to students.

This is unacceptable @SantaJOno!