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Helmut Smith

@SmithHelmut

Prof. History. Germany, Holocaust, maps.Bks: Germany. A Nation in its Time (2020); The Butcher's Tale (2002), a few others. https://t.co/Uw5qmZelGD

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Azmat Khan(@AzmatZahra) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There is more to say, but for now let me tell you how proud I am of our Columbia Journalism students, whom I've watched report non-stop for days, sleep on floors, support one another & give their all to bearing witness under dire conditions: pulitzer.org/news/statement… The Pulitzer Prizes

There is more to say, but for now let me tell you how proud I am of our @columbiajourn students, whom I've watched report non-stop for days, sleep on floors, support one another & give their all to bearing witness under dire conditions: pulitzer.org/news/statement… @PulitzerPrizes
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David Meyers on the violence at . Why didn't the administration stop last night's egregious violence? forward.com/opinion/608479…

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Helmut Smith(@SmithHelmut) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A wonderful thread. . Anyone who teaches at a college or university and listened last night to WKCR 89.9 FM NY (until it went blank) will know exactly what she means.

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Helmut Smith(@SmithHelmut) 's Twitter Profile Photo

With great sadness for the passing of one of the great scholars of German and European literature: a sharp, ironic, critical, and compassionate mind who lived in truth, to borrow V. Havel's words.
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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib(@afalkhatib) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Bombardment throughout Rafah has intensified as the deadline looms for achieving a ceasefire. Netanyahu seems intent on sabotaging the deal with his declaration that the IDF will invade the southern city regardless, and Palestinian civilians & hostages suffer the consequences.

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WKCR-FM NY(@WKCRFM) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our team of 18 student volunteers is immensely proud to be providing this coverage to the Columbia community, NYC, and the world at large. We are incredibly appreciative of your support and understanding.

Our team of 18 student volunteers is immensely proud to be providing this coverage to the Columbia community, NYC, and the world at large. We are incredibly appreciative of your support and understanding.
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Susan Bernofsky(@translationista) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This senior faculty member at Columbia University learned about NYPD entering campus from *student-run radio.* I still haven't been officially informed. Unless you count the text alert telling me to 'shelter in place' and threatening 'disciplinary action' for 'non-compliance.'

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Helmut Smith(@SmithHelmut) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Always worth listening to @barov_omer, even, or especially, when you disagree with him. I suspect he's right about the core of campus protests. I wished the interviewer had also pressed him harder on some of the violence we are seeing.

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Jenny Wüstenberg(@JennyWustenberg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I am hiring a short-term research associate (until July, hourly-paid). Would love to work with someone who is interested in & social science (possibility of co-authoring). Let me know if you have Qs! Memory Studies Association Pls share! vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

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Shaiel Ben-Ephraim(@academic_la) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There was a good deal of optimism that Hamas will accept the latest hostage deal offer after they said they have “no major issues” with it. Since then Netanyahu has taken steps that may endanger the deal:

1) He told the forum of right-wing hostage families that, “we will enter…

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Adam Tooze(@adam_tooze) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today locked out of offices. Not just a place of work but the place we define by our teaching and research without which it is literally nothing more than a bunch of badly managed assets and a hospital.

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Adam Tooze(@adam_tooze) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Somehow trying to prepare for final lecture of term whilst digesting fact that Columbia University President deliberately misled Faculty over their clear intention to escalate anti-camp measures, deadline 2 pm today.

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