Richard Ross

Legal historian at University of Illinois. Early American and comparative legal history.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

🇩🇪 A beloved Jewish bakery in Berlin closed last week after receiving so much hate.

🇮🇪 The only kosher cafe in Dublin is receiving hateful reviews

🇫🇷 A kosher cafe in Paris was destroyed by vandals who broke in and sprayed it with acid.

🗽 An Ethiopian-Israeli-Jewish restaurant in Harlem is now open only for events due to receiving so much hate.

🇦🇺 A kosher bakery in Sydney closed its doors after the Bondi attack, unable to keep diners and staff safe.

🇵🇹 An Israeli restaurant in Lisbon is closing, after a neverending stream of hate.

🇧🇪 An Israeli eatery in Antwerp is closing, after facing bankruptcy brought on by boycotts.

🗽 A Jewish bakery in NYC is dealing with workers who think catering Jewish events is a violation of their rights.

🇬🇧 Acclaimed Israeli restaurant Miznon has faced protests in London telling it to shut down.

All over the world, Jewish and Israeli cuisine is being wiped off the menu in the name of “justice.”

But depriving the world of rugelach, kubeh, latkes, and sfinj won’t help anyone.

It will only hurt Jews.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Trump’s total surrender to Iran is a humiliating display of national weakness that Trump is trying to cover up with faux displays of strength via some dudes kicking the crap out of each other on the White House lawn. A disgrace for the ages.

[Richard Ross @Rross10688]

@Mr_Andrew_Fox @JSchanzer Or the Klingons.

[Richard Ross @Rross10688]

@earlymodjustice @southernphd It is always so kind when an older, established scholar writes something encouraging to a younger scholar.

[Casey Babb @DrCaseyBabb]

Within the last 48 hours, we've seen:

1. A synagogue in Toronto vandalized

2. A synagogue in Montreal firebombed

3. Swastikas drawn on a Jewish family's driveway in Ottawa

4. Threats to attack Jews at the Walk with Israel event in Toronto today

This is our new normal.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

.@Wikipedia has been transformed into a blunt instrument of propaganda in the deliberate effort to erase a nation and its history.

Read this thread before shouting at me that it ain't so.

[Noam Dworman @noam_dworman]

Pay Mubarak's estate $700!

(I'm assuming the translation is legit?)

[Eyal Ofer אייל עופר @Eyalo365]

Why ?

Because if they do Hizbullha would hurt others from the UN.

The same as they are threatening journalists not to report on how Hizbullha using civilian infrastructure

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Democrat Graham Platner has just had a new article written about him in the New York Times, and it is less than flattering.

Most interesting in the article were the interviews with past girlfriends, where it was revealed that Platner called his tattoo "my Totenkopf." So, he lied when he said he didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo.

Who would have guessed that the man who constantly shares how much he hates Israel would be antisemitic?

Me. I knew. And the Jews around you knew too.

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

The sickening rot in academia is a global pandemic.

[Maarten Boudry @mboudry]

Here are some harrowing testimonies from Jews still living in the West (for now), from @IzaTabaro in @Quillette. These are the flames that all those useful idiots in academia are fanning.

"Musician and writer Deborah Conway talks about a call from the director of a writers festival, telling her there's been pushback against her participation in the programme. He assures her everything is fine, but at the festival, she finds herself surrounded by heavy security. At one panel, people rise to their feet, unfurl signs, and start screaming at her. In Brisbane, a dozen masked people pound on the glass of the bookshop where she is speaking, screaming to globalise the intifada, while policemen do nothing. Intimidation bears fruit: music critics sidestep her new album, and she can't book venues to perform it in. Her public presence is quietly diminished. Has anybody noticed?

But it doesn't stop there. Large social media accounts target her daughter, an online food personality. Her hummus adds to Palestinian suffering, apparently, so they threaten to show up at markets where she sells the food. "She had to pack and leave," says Conway. At those markets, did anybody notice she's no longer there?

There is a history of Jews vanishing and others choosing not to notice. "I don't know where the Jews who lived here went—they just moved out at some point," was a common postwar refrain about the murdered Jews next door.

Some of the most striking testimonials in "Some Were Neighbours," an exhibit originally shown at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, come from German Jews recalling non-Jews disappearing from their lives as the antisemitic Nazi state asserted itself. One-time friends, neighbours, classmates, colleagues, dance partners, lovers just marched on into the promise of a great new German future, leaving Jews behind. So strong was the sting of this personal betrayal that neither the horror of the genocide that followed nor the passage of time diminished the force of its memory.

Another testimony from the present: Joshua Moshe, an award-winning saxophonist and composer. His career is destroyed after his bandmates of seven years publicly expel him from the band via a social media post declaring that they do not tolerate Zionism in any form. Other fellow creatives follow: one pulls out of a joint show, another withdraws performance rights to his song. Invitations vanish. It's business, nothing personal; these are the times. Nobody wants to lose work "by association."

Doxxed and targeted in a "coordinated online pile-on across every channel," Joshua and his wife make a hard decision: move to another part of Melbourne for the sake of their son, who is also now being threatened. As they pack up their gift and homewares shop, passers-by scream, "Good, we don't want Zionists in our area."

If you want to understand what it feels like to watch one's world narrow, with the walls closing in on you, ask Moshe: the "relentless" abuse left him "with anxiety, night sweats, an elevated heart rate, and an inability to sleep," he told the Royal Commission. He felt "devastated," sensing that his life "was starting to unravel—not knowing what would happen.""

https://t.co/qYN9U7D6Od

[Izabella Tabarovsky @IzaTabaro]

Antisemitism is often understood as visceral hatred of Jews. But that is only part of the story.

Antisemitism is also a politics and a zeitgeist; a conspiracy theory that fuels mass hysteria about Jewish power; an underlying culture that teaches people that Jews are different, they don't belong, they aren't on our side—and ultimately, that they are our misfortune. It draws an invisible line between Jews and the broader society, gradually normalising their marginalisation and exclusion.

What emerges from Australian Jews’ testimonies for the Bondi Beach massacre inquiry is precisely this: an unmistakable cultural shift in which Jews are increasingly left outside the circle of social solidarity.

In many of these stories, it’s not ideological antisemites who exclude or distance themselves from Jews, but people who sense the cultural shift and adapt to it.

‘It’s nothing personal—it’s strictly business. These are the times. And what if there is something to that "Zio" label? Better stay away.’

This isn’t just happening in Australia. Jews across the free world are reliving a deeply familiar historical pattern. The fact that the broader societies around them remain largely oblivious to it is troubling—and is itself part of that pattern.

My latest for @Quillette

[Jonathan Greenblatt @JGreenblattADL]

A new report by @CIDI_nieuws found that despite making up just 0.3% of the population, Jews in the Netherlands account for 26% of all discrimination offenses. Let that sink in. And that’s only what gets reported. This normalization of antisemitism is deeply alarming and it demands real action. Now. https://t.co/T18iC4YXpP

[Deborah E. Lipstadt @deborahlipstadt]

These are dark days

[Richard Ross @Rross10688]

@aziz0nomics @ZedSoxs The pre-WW2 Bundists did not know what was coming. They made honest mistakes in their political analysis. Today's neo-Bundists write as though the 20th century didn't happen in an effort to discredit Zionism.

[Ari Hoffman @AriHoffmanWrite]

A talk on “Ancient Israel and Judah” at the British Museum was postponed for "security reasons" — we're told that massive disruptions were planned.

A heckler's veto on Jewish history.

British Museum Retreats on ‘Ancient Israel and Judea’ @NewYorkSun

https://t.co/KXfMJGgxN2

[ADL @ADL]

We join our Canadian partner @CIJAQC in denouncing this vile, antisemitic display in Montreal. As @CIJAinfo warns, hateful displays like this put Jewish lives at immediate risk, and swift action by Montreal municipal authorities is urgently needed to ensure the safety of the Jewish community.

[The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post]

For the second time in 6 days, pro-terror demonstrators besieged a New York City synagogue to shut down an Israeli real estate expo. Combat AntiSemitism reports on the rise in antisemitism globally.
https://t.co/XLcuCX3kO7

[Dan Levy ✡ דניאל אליהו בן מאניש דוד @TheDanLevy]

Posters torn down for a missing 14 yr old Jewish girl in North York in one of the most Jewish neighborhoods in Canada & reportedly happened across the city of Toronto.

Reminiscent of the disrespect of the Hostage Posters. The same exact Jew hate.

Be ashamed, 🇨🇦 Canada