Very excited to be talking about Harris, Trump, and the long shadow of how the Romans vilified their women in The New York Times today nytimes.com/2024/08/31/opi…

How did people describe the brain before computer metaphors? Charles S. Sherrington in 1942 called it "that enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern."

We need the entire world to see this and share.

🧵This clip is circulated as example of how low Israeli discourse sunk during the war, but imo its other way round: "Radio Rwanda" has been our background noise for decades. It's a cause, not consequence, of Israeli wanton cruelty in Gaza. Here's my journal entry from Nov 2007..

11. There’s a reason for that. We’re not the intended audience. He is. He’s telling himself the ultimate story – that what’s happening to him isn’t happening or if it is, no one can see it, especially his enemies.

Jewish German Michael Barenboim, Head of Chamber Music at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin, categorically rejects what Israel stands for: "Israel tries to present itself as the only representation of Jews, I don't want to be represented by Israel, quite the contrary"

Holy shit. THIS IS MASSIVE. Liberal Jews have been under vicious attack by conservative Jewish accounts for months now. Telling us daily we are not real Jews, and are kapos. We all felt like its intensity made no sense. We are in the middle of a wave of antisemitism, and why any

While we spend so much political capital talking about pensioners, school exclusions have risen by a fifth, children in the UK are being denied healthcare and we are seeing increasing incidents of child abuse and violence. Children are being massively let down in this country.

Seriously. This is not 5-dimensional diplomatic chess. Netanyahu is willing to sacrifice both Palestinian and Israeli lives to preserve his own power, and will keep doing that until his cost/benefit calculation changes, which only the US can do, and which Biden refuses to.

All that's missing is Douglas Murray telling us how _terrible_ they felt making this suggestion and how traumatised they were by carrying it out

I'm just gonna frame this for posterity. After news that the Israeli hostages murdered by Hamas last week were drastically malnourished, Israeli news anchor Lital Shemesh is demanding we... stop any provisions going into Gaza.

סליחה הרש שחקניות הפועל קטמון ירושלים עלו הערב (חמישי) למשחק חצי גמר גביע אתנה עם כיתוב על החולצות סליחה הרש, אוהד הקבוצה שנרצח יחד עם עוד חמישה חטופים בשבי החמאס. שחקניות שתי הקבוצות עמדו דקת דומיה לזכרם.

Even if you truly believe the death toll is Hamas’s fault, if u refuse to believe it’s not about the hostages,that the worst atrocities were debunked,that Israelis snipe children in the head & rape prisoners,your refusal 2 support ceasefire at this point is a gross lack of mercy.

Stop digging, boys 🕳️