Jed Silver

"Liberal Jews like myself need to overcome our shame, which pushes some of us to avoid or deny the reality of Gaza. Instead we must grapple with guilt; not in the sense of personal culpability but in our collective responsibility toward and solidarity with our Israeli kin and Palestinian neighbors."

You help us mobilize thousands of Jews and Israelis, train community and student leaders, and disrupt business as usual across our country – because there cannot be normalcy while our government continues starving and killing Palestinians across Gaza.

Give today:

Literally joined this platform (finally) to share this AEDE blog. If you are not heartbroken at the scale of child suffering in Gaza, you are not paying attention. Call your federal rep — at the very least. u.osu.edu/aede/2025/07...

Do everything within your means to get food and basic necessities in to Gaza. But also consider donating to Standing Together's annual fundraiser, along with so many other organizations doing important work to end these horrors. (4/4)

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Making ourselves see and internalize what we're doing in Gaza, alongside direct relief and international pressure, is an important step towards getting sufficient aid to Gaza, ending the war and returning the hostages in the short term as well as any sustainable long-term solution. (3/4)

This gives consent and cover for the Israeli government and IDF to kill and starve.

Fortunately, organizations like @standing-together.bsky.social are working to change the narrative in Israel, making people realize what we are doing and that it needs to stop, for humanity's and our own sake (2/4)

As a new Israeli, I cannot be silent about Gaza. How can the pictures of skeletal, starving children not shock one into action? Yet so many Israelis do not see these pictures in the media, can't fathom that we're actually responsible for them, or simply do not see these bodies as human kids. (1/4)

Column on the Responsibility of Israelis to Speak Up Against Mass Starvation in Gaza I generally restrict my comments here to economic issues, but some things are hard to ignore.

This piece is very moving, and reflects how I am feeling about the Israel/Gaza calamity.

Silence in the Face of Gaza's Starvation is Absolute Betrayal of Holocaust Victims
By Orit Kamir
Originally published in Haaretz

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Thanks to @deanbaker13.bsky.social for posting it.

While our government starves Gaza, Standing Together is a grassroots organization of Jews and Palestinians fighting to change this abhorrent reality. I am proud to be an ambassador for their annual fundraiser. Please consider donating to amplify this important voice
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but do they call the post-Year 1 PhD exams quals or comps?

Between this and the MIT guy, the AI/productivity lit is having a moment

YouTube video by Young Cardamom & HAB Young Cardamom & HAB - Kanda (Chap Chap)

Not enough people are talking about Zohran Mamdani AKA Young Cardamom's Luganda rap

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"Desert landscaping" sounds very "textile factory"

Can this include negatively-weighted enemies under staggered adoption?

Israelis protest against Gaza war with rare outcry over Palestinian casualties Holocaust survivors gathering on Holocaust Memorial Day speak out against Palestinian starvation and suffering

I am proud to have been a part of yesterday's demonstration mentioned here www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Can papal preferences be represented by a cardinal utility function?

I look forward to the very causal and robust study led by Ariely, Gino and Islam

Leaving this here. bsky.app/profile/jeds...

Exact MAGA hat algebra

15 first responders killed in Rafah, U.N. says; IDF orders mass evacuation Aid agencies say the workers were killed and buried in a mass grave in Rafah in southern Gaza. Residents described being shot at along the evacuation route.

די. מספיק. חלאס. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Almost as fast as a QJE desk rejection

Trying again since the thread didn't appear correctly: today's cool young researcher #econsky is @pbiscaye.bsky.social at CERDI who works on topics related to development, labor + agriculture

Do the Jews submitting lists of purported enemies to the government for deportation have no sense of history, let alone shame?

Look Ma, I did a thing!

Elon Musk isn't destroying American democracy, Big Balls is.

Otherwise it's just a sparkling tax

Happy "foil the evil plot of the wicked power-hungry advisor to the buffoon king" holiday to all who celebrate!

Not sure if intentional but I'm stealing "crUSAID"