Assoc prof of multiethnic US lit; au of Dedication (2011), Anti-Imperialist Modernism (2016), Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism & the Cultures of the US Jewish Left (2025). He/him. 🕎🌹😷🇵🇸Chicago 🐢
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Benjamin Balthaser
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The wall of silence around Claudia Sheinbaum in the US & particularly US-Jewish press is astounding: you wouldn’t know by reading the NYT or FWD that she is perhaps the most popular leader in the world, not only but not least bc she is clear about US imperialism & Israeli genocide
H/t to my friend Raffi for the NYT story
Bari Weiss believes - or at least wrote in her book on antisemitism - that there is a “great replacement” of Jews by “woke” POC & their allies in US culture, akin to the Inquisition. She is literally fighting a race war
TBC, the far-right staged anti-immigrant pogroms in American cities as well: ICE is simply an institutionalized & incorporated expression of fascist mobs raiding American cities. We can also be grateful uprisings in Minneapolis, Newark & Chicago have prevented such pogroms from being even worse
(Note the review is over 6 years old - I take credit for being an early Weiss hater)
Benjamin Balthaser
It’s unclear if the newspaper in question intentionally buries war crimes w its passive voice, or knows what a war crime is.
Deliberately obfuscating breaches of the Geneva Convention could constitute an act of state propaganda.
Further inquires will be made.
I quote Weiss claiming a “great replacement” of Jews by “woke” POC & allies in my review of her book jacobin.com/2020/02/bari...
Benjamin Balthaser
Benjamin Balthaser
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Benjamin Balthaser
“people of the bot”
I am only half joking when I say an Ivy League “Jewish AI bot” is the objective correlative for their anti-antisemitism policy
Benjamin Balthaser
If I may quote “Short & Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” yes, the rich are different from you and me: they have more money
