Jake Romm

Had a good talk with Sam on the @medicinered.bsky.social podcast

about Zionism as an Antisemitism, paranoia and false projection, the burgeoning fascist world order, and more.

listen here:

open.spotify.com/episode/5OHa...

Popular Cradle Podcast, episode title “No Country is Beyond the Reach of Law: The case against Israel’s genocidal soldiers.” Episode thumbnail image: a replica of the car Hind Rajab was murdered inside of, with hundreds of bullet holes numbered and labeled.

New episode of Popular Cradle pod: “No Country is Beyond the Reach of Law”

I interviewed Jake Romm of the Hind Rajab Foundation about the pursuit of legal accountability against Israel’s war criminal soldiers, and what an end to Israeli impunity can look like

open.spotify.com/episode/3Ygn...?

open.spotify.com/episode/3Ygn...

While at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit earlier this year, I talked with @aywarhiannon.bsky.social and Soraya Shockley for the Popular Cradle podcast about the Hind Rajab Foundation's work and the promise and purpose of law. link below

turk mode

physical or otherwise....

someone should give me a column....

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Yesterday, the U.S. rep of The @hindrajabfoundation.be, Jake Romm, presented at the final session of the Gaza Tribunal in Istanbul — a people’s tribunal of scholars, legal experts, civil society, activists, and students to create a record of and pass popular judgement on Israel's genocide in Gaza.

always cool seeing things in print

Against the Wound | Los Angeles Review of Books Jake Romm navigates artistic depictions of genocide and religious violence—some illuminating, others devoid of substance—from Renaissance Italy to modern-day Berlin, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no...

For the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Luca Giordano's St. Michael, but also about art & empire, & airstrikes, & Gaza

I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)

What a review.

“The fascist thug and the refugee are the avatars of our age, but only because the extremity of their situations makes them stand out; those of us fortunate enough not to be either are caught up in the end of history all the same. “

Introducing Turbulence, a new podcast from Séamus Malekafzali, Dylan Saba, and M Ceniza. Dropping October 28.

Subscribe today: turbulencepod.substack.com

Trailer by @seamus-malekafzali.com

Lmao

in many ways, most actually, this is *my* win

this article is the reason he won the Nobel, they told me over the phone

No Such Thing as a Way Out - Strange Matters Krasznahorkai employs an almost cubist prose—we are somehow given the inside of a narrator’s mind from every angle at once.

Congrats to friend of the mag László Krasznahorkai for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature -- a well deserved award for someone whom real heads have known for years as a master of neo-modernism.

@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.

strangematters.coop/chasing-home...

Rand Paul, confirmed Romm Head

reason.com/2025/10/08/t...

"As one of the few Jews on [the flotilla]...they asked me if I was Jewish...threw me in front of the Israeli flag... we were strip-searched & zip-tied & blindfolded, & sent to this detention camp."

Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler:
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told

Further evidence that this supposed legal justification for lethal US strikes in the Caribbean is baseless backfilling:

1) Bondi refused to invoke this justification or any other when asked.

2) Trump himself doesn't invoke it, just jokes about "water drugs."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

reposting for the weekend

I wrote about Luca Giordano's 1663 painting "St. Michael", representations of empire and its victims, and Gaza for the new issue of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...

+ featuring contributions from @leannareneehieber.bsky.social @urbanhistorya.bsky.social @historyworkshop.org.uk @literaryhub.bsky.social @cliocontemporary.bsky.social @jakeromm.bsky.social & @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social @inverting-vision.bsky.social +

#ScholarSunday Thread 244 (10/5/25) – Black and White and Read All Over Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possib...

Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possible, & thanks, all! 🗃️

blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

reposting for the weekend

I wrote about Luca Giordano's 1663 painting "St. Michael", representations of empire and its victims, and Gaza for the new issue of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...

“Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza” — Biden never made this simple demand, despite 15 months of relentless Israeli slaughter of Palestinians during his presidency

“The dialectic of enlightenment: all this loot, all this beauty, all this murder”

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