Jeff Melnick
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Recent: see link below for Manson book! Current: “Boston Sounds: Music in the City, the City in Music” ; UMass Boston American Studies; Anti-Zionist 🇵🇸
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Older kid just taught me to make "fuck" a contact in my phone so it stops autocorrecting me to "duck" when I text.
I believe that children are the future.
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"There is a fairly high likelihood I will be fired today...I can't sit here and watch this anymore."
Chills.
Associate Dean for Graduate Education Elizabeth Dunn spoke at the faculty gathering.
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After my first full-time semester, my chair took me aside and said "you gave more As this semester than the rest of the department put together. What do you think that means?"
And I looked right at him and said "I am apparently a much better teacher than the rest of you."
I've never understood the logic of "you shouldn't give too many As in your class."
First, idk if grades should exist.
But if we have them, it's my job to ensure everyone is set up to get an "A" because they understand the assignment and have the skills to complete it well.
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From my daughter, in Free Derry today for the commemoration of Bloody Sunday: these words from the martyr Refaat Alareer
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Jeff. Those "antisemitic thugs" include my Jewish daughter.
You pernicious fuckwad.
The Jew-hatred is spreading to more left-wing campuses. Students at
@MIT
and
@EmersonCollege
are promoting their "solidarity" with the antisemitic thugs and bigots at
@Columbia
who have assaulted Jews, cheered Hamas, and called for Tel Aviv to be burned to the ground.
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My daughter just FaceTimed me on her walk home from the subway and some guy catcalled her on the street and without missing a beat she held up her phone to him and said “wanna talk to my Dad too?”
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An active shooter alert, but the twist is that the school is the shooter.
Reporting from WKCR: Columbia telling students to shelter in place and they may subject to disciplinary action if they don't
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Got one of those precious "hey professor I was in your class 7 years ago and still think about how great it was" emails today and that blessed student has no idea how good his timing was.
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People.
What is happening on US college campuses is an emergency.
University leaders are trying to terrorize the very people--students--they are supposed to represent, support, nurture.
I have literally not seen anything like this in my lifetime.
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This open letter from Jewish students just arrested at Brown made me actually cry.
These are my Jews.
So many of us.
I'm so proud of them for standing up and sitting in.
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Amazing to see Colombia the country subtweeting Columbia the university.
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Are these students allowed to "feel" scared now? Or is that campus menu item offered only to Zionists who heard a chant?
Two Columbia University students, both IOF soldiers, sprayed a chemical weapon on peaceful protesters. Skunk spray is used on Palestinians in the West Bank by the Israeli occupation. It is known to cause nausea, abdominal pain, and vomiting.
@Columbia
must take action.
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God bless these neighbors who saw all the paint colors and chose this one
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I wrote a book about Charles Manson and I wrote a book about 9/11 but still nothing prepared me intellectually for how evil Eylon Levy is.
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I have commented lightly on the absurd propaganda about Jewish Zionist students feeling unsafe on US college campuses but want to make clear: pro-Palestine students and faculty are being punished regularly for their speech. Nobody else.
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I don't want to unduly influence anybody's vote, but I live in Cambridge and my 22-year old daughter just reminded me that at least back when she used to trick-or-treat here Warren gave out full-size candy bars.
So yeah.
NYT: Elizabeth Warren wants to return the wealth and power of America to the hands of the people, and yet she used to be paid for her labor.
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This is getting a lot of traction so can I just, as a historian of American music, say that Mr. David doesn’t really know much about the history of country music
On the "hick-libs." 🧵
Several years ago I was shocked when I heard that a Texas country singer whose music I really enjoyed was a Beto O'Rourke-supporter (Ryan Bingham). For the life of me, I couldn't understand how someone associated with rural West Texas could be on the left.
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Just want to get this straight; I’m supposed to be upset by Columbia students blocking Broadway but not by Israelis blocking humanitarian aid?
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He turned out to be a horrible racist and serial sexual harassed who had been protected by colleague silence for years and I will say I gave him other reasons to dislike me
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From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
Uh oh.
Looks like my Jewish ass "must be condemned" for being antisemitic.
377-44-1: House passed a resolution that the "slogan, 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' is antisemitic and its use must be condemned."
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Jew and historian who has actually published on antisemitism here. “Blood libel” has only recently become a colloquial term—and almost exclusively through its usage by Zionist propagandists, paid and unpaid.
Jew and history PhD here. Blood libel has become a colloquial term for when gentiles rush to accuse Jews of deliberately evil acts without proof. Antisemitism is when gentiles level criticism at Israel they do not at other countries. This is both.
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Gonna walk up by Columbia later and see if I can make Shai Davidai cry with my scarf and my sweatshirt.
Back in the New York groove, baby!
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As a parent you don’t often get a chance to witness how your grown kids move thru the world and this was a true gift
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A 🧵on math:
NY Times staff writer Jazmine Hughes got forced out of her job for signing a letter opposing Israel's genocide in Gaza.
The Times' podcast guy Michael Barbaro broke their social media policy a few different ways yesterday--endorsing Shai Davidai---and crickets...
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[I'm a scholar of Black-Jewish relations and finally have to say that I'm really uncomfortable with the whole minstrelized aspect of the whole "Notorious RBG" thing]
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I'm trying not to give him attention but the wild thing about Shai Davidai is how radically he is undoing the relationship between signifier and signified.
He is sharing footage of campus and saying MY GOD LOOK. And then the camera cuts to one undergrad braiding another's hair.
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My partner grew up friends with a family whose four boys were named Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Chester and remembering that fact gives me a little bit of a lift at least once a week.
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Well, they forced Harvard's first Black President, Claudine Gay to resign.
At least now I, a Jewish man, an alum of the grad school, and a long-time resident of Cambridge, can finally walk safely on campus again.
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I think this is my fourth time in this city and I’ll never stopped being moved by how the people of West Belfast insist on using their walls to remind us never to look away
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Harvard Dining Hall worker from Unite HERE outside Elizabeth Warren’s house tells us he’s Irish and teaches us some necessary lessons about colonialism
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I can't figure out how to say this w/o sounding judgmental--this is just how I'm living right now: I just can't find any pleasure right now in any of the highly orchestrated popular media events of the moment because the most highly orchestrated popular media event is a genocide.
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My daughter was a part of this.
I can't imagine being prouder of her, ever
Falls Road in Belfast, Ireland. These artists did such a good job. The way they wove
@itranslate123
’s words throughout 😭. Brought tears to my eyes on the train home. Couldn’t find the reel on X to share but follow
@CairdePalestine
and the other accounts on IG.
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That baby dancing a little while she ate made me cry
There’s a food influencer I used to follow on TikTok from Gaza who did reviews of restaurants and dishes there. He disappeared for months after the war but now he’s back making cooking videos using things from aid packages for kids in the refugee encampments:
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I live 1.5 miles from Harvard and not too far from the med school. I'm thinking of starting a service where you contact me and tell me which ridiculous Harvard prof you are mad at and for a small fee I will find them and scream "Shame" at them like I am some rowdy back bencher.
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I've been working full-time in academia for more than 25 years and I've accrued virtually no wisdom to share, except this one very important thing: get it in writing.
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@pmgentry
I recently said to an old college friend "Remember when we went to that Derrida talk senior year? My French was *really* not up to that." And my friend said "That was not in French."
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@silkky_smooth
Once had ID twins in a class and asked them the first day how to differentiate them and one said “it doesn’t matter”: horror movie shit.
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I don't know why it's so complicated to say what's right in front of us: Joe Biden is enthusiastically supporting the murder of Palestinians on a terrifying scale on purpose.
Because he is a racist piece of shit.
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Plenty of people (me!) have joked about Shai Davidai's hysterical antics.
But for months he has been putting vulnerable students of color on his campus at great risk.
It is beyond time for .
@columbia
to investigate his purposeful targeting of these students...
unbelievably cruel. This professor at Columbia University is using his personal social media to bully my Palestinian friend who lost over 20 family members in Gaza.
My friend spoke about his experiences growing up in a refugee camp. He is grieving & doesn’t deserve this.
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Zionist Jews applauding—or at best saying nothing—while our Jewish women elders are beaten by cops on the orders of college administrators is like Yiddish dictionary definition of a shonda
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He also reminded me that his then girlfriend was also in the class and loved it and reader, he married her.
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This just got very fucking personal
BREAKING: The University suspended the Columbia chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace on Friday following a Thursday walkout that drew hundreds of protesters to Low Steps. This is a developing story.
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@AlishaGrauso
Elizabeth Warren gives out real candy bars (and not that "fun-size" bullshit) on Halloween.
[This is actually true: I live in Cambridge and my 22-year old daughter recently reminded me of this fact]
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Dear Josh,
I am Jessie's dad and couldn't be more proud of her righteous activism and strong voice.
Also: watch your fucking mouth when you talk to my daughter, okay?
Sincerely,
Jeff Melnick
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@NathanKDay
Like I always say, in our world, there are few limitless resources. A grades are.
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This piece on the weaponization of "campus antisemitism"--by former director of Harvard Hillel--is astounding:
"Be boldly critical of Israel — not despite being Jewish, but because you are."
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If you want to understand the cooked-up "campus antisemitism" crisis, it's really simple: the Zionist project simply cannot exist without regular infusions of "antisemitism"--real or imagined. It is literally the lifeblood of this political, cultural, and military formation.
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I get that Joe Biden is an Islamophobic piece of shit. I really do. But he's also been a canny political player for decades. So I'm left confused by why he's decided to end his career as a sick enabler of a genocidaires who cannot be bothered to hide their contempt for him.
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Just remembered the one time I ever went to Midnight Mass--in high school, this cute Catholic girl invited me to join her.
I kinda thought it was like a date? And then I got to the church to meet her, and like three other Jewish boys showed up as well.
It was not a date.
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One interesting tell.
The Zionists who attack me for "brainwashing" my (brilliant, 20something) daughter never seem to imagine that the teaching flow was in the other direction. My understanding of and politics around Palestine are very much the product of her guidance.
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Mask mandate back in place at UMB as of Monday.
My union pushed hard on this front and I'm pleased to see our leadership doing the right thing.
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How do you say Kristallnacht in Hebrew?
Israeli soldiers filmed themselves destroying a Palestinian shop in Ramallah and posted it on their social media accounts.
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At vigil outside Elizabeth Warren’s house: corner of Linnaean and Bowdoin
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She’s running
Vice President Kamala Harris calls for "an immediate ceasefire" in the Israel-Hamas war during a speech in Selma, Alabama.
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All that shit we said about Biden—that weird self-soothing shit we did to try to cool out our blood pressure after Trump—was plain wrong.
He is a stone cold Islamophobic killer.
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Simon you and I are both Jews and both historians and I am shocked to learn that you just don’t do the reading.
Are Jews now supposed to be fine with weekly public calls for their annihilation " from the river to the sea"? Because they are not.
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There is so little I can do to mitigate any of the capital H horror that is being done in my name, with my tax dollars. But if you come for my students, their right to protest the genocide in Gaza, I'm gonna leave whatever I have on the field.
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I know someone who is on one of those "antisemitism" commissions on a fancy campus. Seemed like an interesting person when I met her. And yet she's willing to carry this toxic water, this brazen attempt to silence dissent on her campus. If you don't know, now you know.
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The way Zionist people and institutions have purposefully misread Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar speech maybe is a little bit of a hint about their reliability in general?
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The oligarchs are making a strong move, in broad daylight, to kill the voices of young people. Our children. One of them is literally my beloved younger child. Time to say no. Fuck no.
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When I watch videos of young people standing up to interrupt events with their protests I am struck both by their courage in speaking and by the utter contempt they are met with by the older people sitting near them.
It's just one more sign of what a sick culture we are.
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I was sitting near a drunk bro at the Celtics game tonight. At some point another guy walked by with an adorable baby in his arms. My guy called out "oh! that baby! can I hold that baby!" and that's how we are supposed to be. We are supposed to want to hold all the babies.
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I’ll never write a comment on a student paper as devastating as this one, from my intro to philosophy professor in 1982: “quite a solid paper, especially given that it seems clear you did not understand a word of the reading.”
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"Protect Jewish students" from what?
I am losing my fucking mind because we all know that this is the rankest flim-flammery. The only Jewish students who need protecting are the ones being doxxed and roughed up for supporting justice for Palestine.
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"For students who are feeling increasingly isolated, it did not help that" other people are also Jews.
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@gabrielmbross
He just did that great wave in the air thing to indicate he had been kicked in the balls and could not breathe
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I really love teaching largely because it’s like doing improv comedy without having to be funny
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The Times' social media policy is draconian and frankly stupid. But it *is* their policy (more on the details in a second). And Barbaro's approving retweet of the heinous Zionist Campus Antisemitism Diva clearly crosses many lines.
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TFW you are 40 years late to the party
I am personally boycotting all products from South Africa. I hope people of conscience do the same.
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The graffiti is gonna be so good!
Wall put up on Gould Plaza outside the NYU Stern School of Business following a violent NYPD clearing of a Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
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I should clarify: I have no doubt that some Jewish students *feel* unsafe b/c there are Palestine justice rallies on their campuses. But that is b/c they have been so inculcated with the notion that simply being pro-Palestine is an existential threat to Jews.
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Golda Meir was talking this shit way back when—about how hard it would be to “forgive the Arabs” for “forcing us” to kill their sons.
I think the direction Zionists will go, especially as the war ends and more atrocities come to light, is less outright genocide denial and more “Hamas is especially evil because they emotionally manipulated us into doing genocide”
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My friend Ruth was hollering about this yesterday
This is the cohost of The Daily saying "worth a read" about a guy who has spent the last two months doxxing, harassing, and doing other violent shit to his STUDENTS. And the NYTimes has the audacity to punish journalists for saying genocide is bad?!!!! Fuck all the way off
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Oh my god.
This young man.
Hisham Awartani, one of the 3 Palestinian students who was shot two days ago in a targeted hate crime in Burlington, VT, in his own words. The PYM stands with Hisham and his loved ones at this difficult time and we ask our community to join us in wishing him a full recovery.
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I mean in one sense the math is pretty simple, right? Barbaro is a high-profile, well-paid white man who, in retweeting Davidai, was basically rearticulating the Times' editorial priors.
Hughes is a queer woman of color who was...not.
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A student stopped on the way out of the hip hop class today and caught my eye and said "Thank you Professor" and I sorta glibly said something like "yeah, of course, sure." And he fixed me in his stare and said "No really. Professor. Thank you."
I need to slow up and listen.
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Academic versions of great song titles: OutKast’s “The Way (In Which) You Move”
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As someone who has written a book on the cultural legacies of 9/11 I salute Jonathan Glazer’s use of the word “hijacked” to describe Zionist weaponization of the Holocaust.
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It’s so weird that relatively marginalized anti-Zionist Jews are the ones who get called “Kapo”; I would never use that insult but damn there’s Jonathan Greenblatt literally cozying up with mainstream/white supremacist forces, calling our Jewish children terrorist proxies.
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There are real threats to Jewish safety and happiness in the United States. These come almost exclusively from the right--from white supremacists. I have seen no trustworthy evidence that Palestine liberation rallies in the US have led to any actual violence against Jews.
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I keep reading articles about faculty burnout. And student burnout. And staff burnout.
But never administrative burnout. I have theories why but most of all I guess that the nice second home in the woods in Maine you used to zoom in from must take the edge off?
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I keep reading and re-reading this breathtaking statement issued by these brave young Jews at Brown University calling for ceasefire.
It is politics and it is poetry.
And I think that Jewish Anti-Zionists might finally have our manifesto.
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@pmcottrell
@faineg
I'm here for all the Harper's-letter-tea (or coffee in this case) and at the risk of overdoing my one twitter bit, I will note that another signatory (last name rhymes with Stinker) used to go to same gym as me and he is a performative grunter.
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Note to all my non-Jewish friends who might be a little confused right now.
Rabbinical teaching requires that in the first 24 hours after an elder's death, we must say the most hilariously cruel things we can about the deceased. It guarantees a safe passage to the next world.
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