Alan Singer

Alan Singer

@alansinger.bsky.social

Historian of Great Britain, Europe, Jews and antisemitism, teacher, guitar player, baseball watcher.

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I’m watching “Nuremberg” and Netflix warns there is “sensitive content” about “smoking.” The fact that this refers to cigarettes, not people, seems so oddly prissy and twisted to me.

And, she will not be ignored. bsky.app/profile/impl...

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social

Glenn Close, "I have watched our democracy being systematically disemboweled and torn apart along with the institutions" "I am outraged and sickened by what is happening under the Trump regime" "Mark my words, there will be hell to pay"

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Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

BNO News@bnonews.com

WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney

Yeah, me too.

Ruth Zakarin@ruthz.bsky.social

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

… and on this day, the name #Cuomo was never heard again in the Empire (State) and the ossified and monetized Democratic Party shuddered as it realized that for everyone, the future was 🌹.

RIP Mr Redford.

Dave Itzkoff@ditzkoff.bsky.social

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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Replying to @joelhs.bsky.social

I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.

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Note from a human rights lawyer to members of the U.S. military: If directed to execute illegal orders, remember, declaring “I was just following orders” was not a valid defense during the Nuremberg trials, & it won’t be here either. Your oath is to the US Constitution—not to a 34X convicted felon.