Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan)

Guess the game of who owns Lemkin has moved to the next level.

I take your point on the minority governance. My perception, however, is that this round of elections, at this moment has drawn new lines, political frames, and alliances. ANO’s biggest weakness to my mind is that it’s a cult of personality based around an idiot. It will feel even more like home now

And this is bad for the region, as Czech held out, not as a perfect state by any means, but as a successful alternative to current trends.

So terribly depressed by the Czech elections. We will be having different discussions next summer, when I re-run my study abroad program focused on the legacies of genocide for contemporary human rights. The Czech analog to AFD (the SPD) will likely be in or attached to the governing coalition.

It’s not nearly the worst offense, but talk about “erasing our history.”

"The Jewish National Minority and the 'Globalists' of Donald Trump's America" The New York Times sparked acrimonious debate when it reported misleadingly, on 10 December 2019, that President Donald Trump would sign an executive order against antisemitism that "will effecti...

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Výsledky voleb 2025 ONLINE: Volby ovládlo ANO, uspěli i Motoristé. Piráti předstihli SPD, Stačilo! pohořelo Volby do Sněmovny s bezmála 35 % vyhrálo ANO, druhá koalice SPOLU získala 23 %. Andrej Babiš prohlásil, že preferuje jednobarevnou vládu svého hnutí. Do Sněmovny se dostali Starostové, Piráti, SPD i M...

Bad news from Czechia, which had heretofore resisted the Central European trend towards EU-skeptic, pro-Russian, populism… No longer. The new coalition centered huge ANO victory, also includes an overtly racist party.
www.idnes.cz/volby/jasny-...

I make a similar case that the Christian-nationalist right, ie, the Judeo-Christians, see Jews as a national minority subject to reciprocal loyalty and thus belonging, rather than an essential one of blood and faith.

Problems persist. The original issue was elevated traffic (which no one could have expected?!!!). The company said that new issues may resolve shortly and they will make their announcement if people should bring their physical IDs.

Reports of E-doklady [electronic ID] services in Czechia failing to function for voters who have not recently opened the app, adding delays to voting. The company said that it will resolve the problem within tens of minutes [this makes idiomatic sense in Czech and means, well, within tens of...].

The “beta” energy of I’m still registered to vote from my parents’ basement is just “A1, that’s how steak is done” delicious.

All eyes on the Czech elections.

Voter fraud (allegedly) by a leading Republican conspiracist.

I couldn’t care less about the hypocrisy, which is an incoherent claim from within a White-Christian-Nationalist framework.

I just want him shamed and to suffer all possible legal consequences.

Regional State Security in the Czech city of Ustí nad Labem claimed in 1960 to have uncovered a 9-member cell of middle-schoolers who had formed a "revanchist group."

Allegedly snuck a paper into teacher's stuff: "Jews out, Long live Adenauer and Speidl, they are friends, commies are wreckers."

The answer, in Czech, is fascinating. Such stamps began appearing in late 1938 in the occupied Sudeten lands.
www.frantisekbenes.cz/a-ten-den-js...

The answer, in Czech, is fascinating. Such stamps began appearing in late 1938 in the occupied Sudeten lands.
www.frantisekbenes.cz/a-ten-den-js...

QUESTION (that most people would likely ask me, but I don't know!):

When the Nazis occupied Bohemia and Moravia, did they continue using postage stamps from the first republic, transforming their meaning by stamping them with a swastika and the words "Wir sind frei"?

"Away with communism! Whoever cuts the balls off the communists will receive a crown [currency]."

Written on the walls of the Smichov train station in Prague in January 1960.

In the name of all that is holy and beautiful in the world, I hereby skeet you all into the Book of Life.

May our mitzvot be as plentiful as the seeds of the pomegranate.

Let the great shofar awaken and stir our souls to action.

May we all merit to hear the still, silent voice of the hosts.

Can confirm.

Yom Kippur announcement from IT announcing a shift to MS-Teams does not suggest that I am to be sealed in the good book.

JD Vance Trivializes Jewish History by Referring to ICE Criticism as 'Blood Libel' — But Reveals What this Admin Thinks of Jews Last week, in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Vice President JD Vance accused critics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of committing “blood libel” against ICE agents. As Va...

I wrote something today about JD Vance and the rhetoric of "blood libel." religiondispatches.org/jd-vance-tri...

I was so proud of it!

And that they are reading on phones.

Saying that God can’t hear our prayers on Yom Kippur is ableist.

It’s not that God’s not listening. It’s just that they are atone deaf.

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Absolutely fascinating.

It was great to see clips from the Oval wherein Trump seemed to believe that other nations’ generals were coming here.

This must be put into the context of US support for Azerbaijan over Armenia, the denial of the Armenian genocide and its recent cynical acknowledgment by Netanyahu, and Israel’s arms relationship with Azerbaijan.

Cruising crackdown in Penn Station bathroom puts at least 20 men in ICE custody State and city laws prohibit local police departments from turning people over to ICE. That restriction does not apply to the federally run Amtrak Police Department.

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color

Every queer press org should be picking up this story