@mirele.bsky.social
Professor, author of Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the 21st Century. Co-writer, with Shayna Weiss, of the newsletter It's No Ibiza. https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/beyond-land https://noibiza.substack.com
I wondered if you were related! Accomplished family!
Cal State University’s deal with OpenAI — providing ChatGPT to all faculty, students, and staff — will expire in June 2026. Amid the prospect of layoffs in the CSU, we’re asking the chancellor not to renew this costly and demoralizing contract.
Link below and anyone can sign:
What do you think the pictures in the calendar are? Fetuses?
I spent a lot of time in this bar in my early 20s. Lived down the street. Memories!
And you would SIT ON THE BED while being interviewed.
Every woman in academia has her Larry Summers.
What if you are the opposite? 😂 (I still have no idea how to pronounce Ghislaine but I’ve never had an issue with Mamdani.)
Same! I often promise myself I will change that before next Yom Kippur but I guess that’s why we’re released from our vows 😂
I don’t live in New York but I am taking this as a personal message nonetheless.
My music teacher tried to make us sing the national anthem when Reagan invaded Panama. I refused and she started CRYING. Haven’t thought of that story in a while.
After having two new classes dumped in my lap yesterday, this is the only thing that’s made me laugh!
This is a very niche joke but I want you to know I got it.
As clear as the fact that the Bible is history!
This reminds me of an article review I received once about a piece that discussed literature that described human rights abuses by the IDF in which the reviewer wrote something like, “the article should make clear that the Israeli army is the most moral army in the world.” 🙄🙄🙄
Thoughtful review of my book by @spinsker.bsky.social in @worldlittoday.bsky.social
My review essay of Beyond the Land is published at @worldlittoday.bsky.social.
And one more wrinkle here that I think challenges this point - Sayed Kashua lives in the US but he still produces Israeli culture. He had a new TV show (a very interesting one!) debut on the Kan kids channel about 2 years ago. As far as I know he still works as a script doctor on other shows as well
I also don’t think this is entirely accurate and there are several examples to the contrary I named above.
And politically, the rise and fall of the Joint List is a case in point.
To name just a few, who you can easily follow on social media if you would like to know more: Tamer Nafar, Lucy Aharish, Valerie Hamaty, Nasrin Qadri.
They have not all emigrated! This population, like all groups, is diverse and complicated. There are many prominent Palestinian citizens of Israel who represent wildly different ways of belonging (and not belonging) to Israeli society.
I find I often have this problem at the beginning of the summer. I usually give myself some space and rest for a few days and my focus returns.
Amen.
Charoset, a paste made of ground apples, is found on the Passover seder plate to remind us of the mortar used by the Israelites when they were slaves in Egypt. Let's remember farm workers who do the hard work so we have apples on our tables. #WeFeedYou
I was just wondering the same thing.
As a rule, I never sign open letters. But I’m proud to have signed this one. Desperate times, desperate measures. #notinourname. docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Last Spring, in an interview with CNN, Mahmoud Khalil expressed how Palestinian and Jewish safety are intertwined.
Diaspora Alliance is working on this (as are faculty at many institutions with their help 🙋🏻♀️). diasporaalliance.co
You might want to check out the work of Anna Elena Torres.
“How do regimes manage to impose minority rule on enormous populations? By getting the majority to give up. Don’t do that.”
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...