Chance McMahon-Harrer, PhD

What is the Meaning of Ancient Israel? The main question in the history of the ancient Levant today is whether the existence of ancient kingdoms in Judah and Israel has modern political implications. Every excavation and scholarly publi…

How is the ancient kingdom of Israel relevant today? To do history or archaeology here is inevitably to take a moral and political stand on genocide. Gut Shabbes, chevrei!

If you’ll recall, the “antisemitism” at UCLA involved primarily campus police allowing Zionist counter protesters to attack the pro-Palestinian camps (incl. many Jewish participants) while they did nothing, and arresting the anti-genocide students & faculty afterwards.

this is a good thread but I might actually take it further -- I don't think manosphere shit is actually about getting laid, I think it's literally about male loneliness, by which I mean, men addressing their loneliness via homosocial bonding through misogyny

i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"

No because I can get laid

I’m not the most conventionally attractive person and I’ve had no problems with this and I even have a husband. So maybe the issue is just that some men are just not genuinely good people and that you shouldn’t live your life thinking that sex is owed to you.

it should go without saying now, but the ADL in 2025 is totally out of step with the values and views of the 70-80% of American Jews who vote for Democrats, support civil rights, racial justice, LGBT rights, etc. etc. etc.

My article "Jewish Interconnectivity and Diasporic Unrest under Trajan" is out in the Journal of Ancient Judaism!

Check it out if you're interested in transregional relationships between Jews between North Africa & West Asia. DM if you don't have institutional access!

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I'd love to read this if you're able to share!

Brooks: I deigned to eat a meal with my one friend with ‘only’ a high school education.

Also Brooks: elitists are so elitist omg they are so elitist, they aren’t my kind of elitists I’m not here you don’t see me just those elitists over there, waaaaaaa

Tonight my husband and I are finishing the original Frasier and can't decide whether we switch to Neon Genesis Evangelion (certainly a pivot) or go with the Frasier revival (which is not that good tbh).

Surely this piece will fit in nicely amongst all the op-eds major media outlets have published from the 1000s of folks who leave academia because higher ed is underfunded and there aren't enough jobs, academic culture is often abusive & exploitative, and so on...oh wait.

Please give what you can to help Sama'a and her family survive. Help her bring her second child into the world and fight off starvation

One of the most dangerous tropes in political media is how the only Jewish voices that matter are the most right-wing ones, hence the ease with which reporters assumed Jews are scared of Mamdani. (This is also how Jewish protestors were erased from the discourse about antisemitism on campuses.)

one more day to download a free PDF of my element. if you read it, let me know if you find something fun or interesting to think with. 💜

Love too reinvent antisemitism from first principles.

The failure of the United States government to do what it needs to do regarding climate change is one of the most undemocratic and possibly consequential things to ever happen in human history

This is why it's so disturbing to me to have colleagues benefiting right now from collaboration with the perpetrators of a genocide, perpetrators who are actively extinguishing Palestinian education and scholarship.

How does one think about the ethics of citation re: the fact that I needed to cite literal settlers in my dissertation or that the DSS were seized from the Palestine Archeological Museum?

I’ve been thinking about this a lot, along with the fact that so much our field has benefited from the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and military occupation.

Its only surprising that Mamdani has a plurality of the Jewish vote and 2/3rds of 18-44 Jewish voters to people who spend very little time among (a variety of) NYC Jews but a lot of time absorbing unadulterated propaganda.

Shades of the Clinton White House in 1994 admitting "acts of genocide" may be taking place in Rwanda while refusing to agree that it constituted "genocide."

At some point you look at a debate on such terms and ask, OK, what are we even doing. What is the point of this. Let the lawyers argue later.

Gaza is one of the richest archaeological landscapes on the planet, with thousands of years of continuous occupation and layer after layer of history going back to the Neolithic. The destruction of that is nothing next to the human cost, but it's still a cruel, thoughtless act of destruction.

A tweet in German by Tobias Huch that states, “Nachdem wir in den letzten Tagen so viele Kinder mit Erbkrankheiten in #Gaza gesehen haben, für deren genetische Erkrankungen #Israel nicht verantwortlich ist, sollten wir vielleicht mal den Menschen in Gaza erklären, dass man nicht mit seinem Cousin oder seiner Cousine ersten Grades oder allgemein Verwandten heiraten sollte. Auch wenn das angeblich Mohammed (der "Prophet") gemacht haben soll. Das ist der u.a. der Grund für die vielen kranken Kinder. Hinzu kommt, dass solche Cousin-Ehen für einen niedrigeren IQ (zwischen 5 und 13 Punkten) sorgt, die Kindersterblichkeit bis zu 50% höher ist und es zu körperlichen Fehlbildungen kommt.”

A translated tweet by Tobias Huch that states, “After seeing so many children with hereditary diseases in #Gaza in recent days, for which #Israel is not responsible, perhaps we should explain to the people in Gaza that one should not marry their first cousin or relatives in general. Even if Mohammed (the "Prophet") is said to have done so. This is, among other things, the reason for the many sick children. In addition, such cousin marriages lead to a lower IQ (between 5 and 13 points), child mortality is up to 50% higher, and it results in physical deformities.”

It looks like the tweets are now deleted but some Germans (a journalist in this case) will really say the most unhinged and racist things all in the name of claiming to fight antisemitism

Gaza Freedom Flotilla has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He has been severely beaten in Israeli custody.

Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.

Wait? There are people who don’t think that monologue is moving?

My pessimistic take is that we’re now going to start seeing all the people who were chiding student protestors or staying silent about the genocide being viewed as “brave” for tepidly suggesting that Palestinians in Gaza should get food.

it’s cliche at this point but always bears repeating that modern Republican politics is: Dude Terrified of Walking Around in a City