@liorsternfeld.bsky.social
Historian of modern Iran, Jewish communities of the Middle East.
How do you neutralise all the background noise to tell Israelis the real story of Iran? Prof. @liorsternfeld.bsky.social , author of the Hebrew book "Iran: Life Itself" explains in this subscribers-only episode. Sign up to listen.
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תודה רבה, חביבי.
07.08.2025 21:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ספרי, ״איראן: החיים עצמם״ כעת במכירה מוקדמת ומשתלמת בהדסטארט. הספר מבקש לספר את ההיסטוריה המודרנית של איראן לקהל הרחב בצורה שמעגנת בהקשר את ההתפתחויות הפוליטיות, חברתיות ותרבותיות בעיקר ב-200 שנים האחרונות.
פרטים נוספים:
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I have the utmost respect for @peterbeinart.bsky.social for this remarkable interview. He makes so many excellent points. It is highly recommended.
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When you lost Bari Weiss…
25.07.2025 18:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
בלחיצה קלה גמרנו
על אנשים שלא הכרנו
הרגנו בטח כמה בטעות
יצאתי חי יכולתי גם למות
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAeU...
My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
לא למפלגתו או למפלגות הציוניות- אלא שיתמכו בהמוניהם במשותפת. כי אם המשותפת תקבל 15-18 או 20 מנדטים- זה יהיה הצעד הראשון לשינוי אמיתי.
www.mekomit.co.il/ps/150842
וגם, אם יאיר גולן באמת רואה את עצמו מוביל את גוש הלא-ימין הוא צריך בלי להתערב בתוך הדיון הפנימי של מריכיבי המשותפת, להגיד שבכל הרכב- הרשימה המשותפת תלקח בחשבון כחלק מהקואליציה.ואז, הוא צריך לצאת בקמפיין שני לחברה הערבית על מנת לעודד מצביעים. /2
29.05.2025 14:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
אני לא בטוח מה קורה עם הפלטפורמה הזו והאם היא ממריאה או לא, אבל ננסה שוב. אני ממש מקווה שהרשימה המשותפת תחזור עם ארבעת מרכיביה. כמו שמצוין בכתבה- הדרך עוד ארוכה. יש חילוקי דעות משמעותיים. אבל כל מי שרוצה לראות שינוי אמיתי בארץ חייב לרצות בזה.
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28.05.2025 21:16 — 👍 32406 🔁 4164 💬 313 📌 178
The Qatari plane thing shows just how low Trump’s price is, so I’m gonna try bribing him with a Panasonic VCR
16.05.2025 14:17 — 👍 237 🔁 19 💬 15 📌 3
The moron is doing two good things (so credit goes where credit is due). The engagement with Iran towards an agreement that he broke in 2018, and lifting sanctions from Syria, which would allow the new regime to have a clean slate and rebuild the country.
13.05.2025 19:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How is it possible that it’s been only 100 days?
29.04.2025 00:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are happy to share the newly published articles in Palestine Israel/Review (PIR):
28.04.2025 13:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0A new article on @pir1948.bsky.social
Arie Dubnov with a must-read. Check it out.
@soniaboulos.bsky.social
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21.04.2025 00:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How did Iran's environment shape histories of labour, revolution, and empire? Listen to the latest
@ajammc.bsky.social podcast, featuring James Gustafson discussing his new I.B. Tauris book 'The Lion and the Sun'. 👇
We had a packed house yesterday at the fascinating lecture with Lior Sternfeld, discussing the Iranian Jewish diaspora! Please join us for our next big event, coming up this thursday, our annual conference on the "Global Middle East", click here for details: shorturl.at/OQr9T
08.04.2025 17:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
And how do the other 27 percent think tariffs work?
08.04.2025 18:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There is an old joke in Turkey about Adnan Menderes, who won the election in 1950, but turned autocratic and was deposed in a coup in 1960, which then led to the country’s best constitution. “He was the father of Turkish democracy.” “Why?” “Because he screwed the mother of Turkish democracy.”
06.04.2025 00:58 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0While Big Oil raked in profits, they ignored the risks of wildfires fueled by their emissions. Californians now face devastating losses and soaring insurance costs.
SB 222 offers a solution: holding oil companies responsible for the damage they caused. #SB222
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To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
Love it
06.04.2025 02:14 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This may be the most beautiful sign I have seen at one of these (even though the subject matter is so ugly). The artist who painted it said she started it feeling angry and it was therapeutic. Especially love the bling. #HandsOffLA
05.04.2025 23:20 — 👍 15888 🔁 3020 💬 282 📌 104It will be interesting if Trump will be the one to end Capitalism as we know it
04.04.2025 12:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This morning, I was shocked to read the news from Harvard—the university where I completed my doctorate and which once felt like home. The director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies was removed from his position amidst a political purge led by the Trump administration. That director is one of my doctoral advisors, Professor Cemal Kafadar. Professor Kafadar is a distinguished scholar, a true intellectual, and a kind and generous person. As his former student and a current colleague, I can say that I never once heard him say anything that made me feel uncomfortable as an Israeli—quite the opposite. He always spoke with great respect about his Israeli colleagues and consistently made sure to avoid engaging in “sensitive” political topics, both in class and in personal meetings. Three years ago, the Israeli Historical Society invited Professor Kafadar to deliver a lecture series at the prestigious Stern Forum in Jerusalem, and I had the privilege of interviewing him for History, the journal of the Israeli Historical Society.
I’ve been familiar with the vile crusades led by some Jewish and Israeli individuals against anyone who dares utter a word of criticism about Israel. In my Harvard years I first encountered the cynical manipulation of the term “antisemitism,” stripped of all meaning and weaponized for right-wing agendas. Now some group of Harvard alumni (I have no idea who they are) published a report that cites an anonymous student who claimed Professor Kafadar expressed a pro-Palestinian sentiment. In the twisted conceptual universe of these antisemitism hunters, most of my posts and opinions would earn me the label of “antisemite.” This is how autocracies—and autocracies in the making—operate. Everyone is a target, even those who think they’re safe because they’ve always made sure to stay outside the danger zone.
Professor Avi Rubin of Ben Gurion University, on Harvard's shameful removal of Professor Cemal Kafadar from his role as head of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. (Statement from Facebook).
29.03.2025 17:06 — 👍 113 🔁 50 💬 0 📌 2If Trump had been president in the 1950's, when the moral panic du jour was Communism and not DEI, he would absolutely have gone after Eastern European Jews for deportation. And the Jewish organizations getting behind deportations in the name of "fighting antisemitism" do not seem to realize this.
29.03.2025 18:28 — 👍 391 🔁 77 💬 7 📌 5🎯🎯🎯
29.03.2025 23:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0RIP to the U.S. Institute of Peace — nearly all staff members have been fired.
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