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Alex Maws

@alexmaws.bsky.social
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Head of Education & Heritage at the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR). IHRA delegate. Podcaster. Bagels/humous. Guitar/vox. US/UK. He/Him.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What does it mean to be a member-led party when the Greens have 230,000 members but only 1835 voted on the Zionism Is Racism motion? Doesn't seem like you can claim the result as the iron-clad democratic will of the membership while dismissing the concerns of actual democratically elected MPs
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Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Green party motion on Zionism shows little understanding of what Zionism is, who Jews are or how antisemitism works. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Green party’s anti-Zionism motion is yet another attempt to tell Jews how we should think | Jonathan Freedland
The resolution shows little understanding of what Zionism is, who Jews are or how antisemitism works, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I find myself getting quite frustrated with this 'well it's a contested definition'. It's only contested if you think the views of ignorant people are as valid as those who know what they're talking about.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ouch.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'd say 'new' is relative. There's lots of stuff that historians (🫵) wouldn't consider new, but that's a pretty high bar. Most of what Martin has researched for the new memorial does not appear in other museums, or classroom materials, or popular conceptions more generally. And it's really good!
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I was not listening to Choosin' Texas way before it was cool to not listen to Choosin' Texas. Actually, I'm more into not listening to her early stuff.
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 27/09/2026
The new semester opens tomorrow and I've updated my AI guidance. Feel free to steal and share with your students as well. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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AI Guidance
AI Guidance The use of artificial intelligence (in particular generative AI or genAI) is expressly forbidden in this module. This does not include the spellcheck function in Word, for example. Why am...
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Important reality-check for those of us living in a very particular bubble. Most Britons don't have a particularly strong opinion on Israel-Palestine. www.jewishnews.co.uk/the-thoughtf...
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The moderate majority: Most Brits refuse to take sides over Gaza war - Jewish News
Major poll of 2,000 adults finds 62 percent do not clearly support either camp, while just 43 percent believe Britain is now safe for Jewish people
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just been told that this antisemitism explainer has more than 60K views and has been translated into French and Spanish. Merci, amigos!
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Honestly, if I lived in NYC I'd join Central Synagogue just to be able to listen to Rabbi Angela Buchdahl's sermons. This is great. forward.com/opinion/8513...
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I want to rescue the word Zionism. We cannot reduce a vast Jewish idea to the politics of the moment.
Angela Buchdahl, senior rabbi of Central Synagogue in Manhattan, delivered a sermon on Zionist ideas and ideals
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here's some video from that day. youtu.be/60LxVySw10U?...
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EURO 2012 England squad visit camp Auschwitz | FATV
YouTube video by England
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
OK, this is going to sound like a weird brag, but I accompanied Wayne Rooney last time he went to Auschwitz in 2012, and he seemed genuinely interested in the history and the fact that he is now taking his own children there shows that the visit stuck with him.
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Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why the Israeli opposition fears next month’s election could be the last. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This Israeli election could be the country’s last – this week I saw that for myself | Jonathan Freedland
Spend time on the ground and you see how high the stakes are for next month’s contest – for Israelis and Palestinians alike, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Terrifying. Not surprising, but terrifying nonetheless. www.thehandbasket.co/p/republican...
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have found my very specific corner of the internet.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So many people discovering Macklemore for the first time today.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sometimes allies also have blind spots. Maybe more than sometimes.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
An interesting counterpoint to that piece 👇about Trump's instrumentalisation of Jews. I believe that Burnham's longstanding support of Jewish communal things shows him to be a genuine ally and the sort of person it's OK to have a principled disagreement with. www.jewishnews.co.uk/jewish-commu...
jewishnews.co.uk
Jewish communal groups must work with the government now more than ever - Jewish News
Many British Jews may fundamentally disagree with the stance Andy Burnham has taken on Israel - but the answer to that should be stronger engagement, not abandoning the floor
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I get asked a lot about how to respond in X, Y or Z situation. Generally speaking, I have no idea. This is a good case study to illustrate why there is rarely a "right" thing to do.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dammit, I think I need to read his book.
haaretz.com
What we can learn from 100 years of American failure to fight antisemitism
In his new book, James Loeffler traces a century of U.S. battles over antisemitism and free speech. He tells Haaretz how American Jews are caught between Tucker Carlson and Hasan Piker and why Trump's...
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is a paragraph I wish I had written.
As the categories of majority and minority now shift and blur, Americans find themselves returning, almost obsessively, to Jews: a group that doesn’t fit easily into racial binaries, that troubles the boundaries between religion and ethnicity, whose members are not people of color but whose claim to whiteness was always suspect in the eyes of white supremacists, and who have diasporic ties to a polarizing nation-state.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I haven't read @jloeffler.bsky.social 's stuff before, but based on this I'm pretty sure I like the cut of his jib. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/o...
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Opinion | For Trump, Jews Are Proving to Be a Very Useful Tool (Gift Article)
Debates about Jews are never just about Jews.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It is possible to have nuanced discourse around Israel/Palestine and antisemitism. Algorithms have rewired our brains to make it seem like it isn't. I'm going to make an effort to post good examples of non-shouty things on these topics.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hope you pushed some children out of the way to do it.
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Can’t help but find the cognitive dissonance astounding when people who very actively post on Twitter tell people to boycott things/organisations for ethical reasons Like… you are posting that on TWITTER, you know that? Elon Musk’s Twitter!? You might want to start by examining yourself idk 😭
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Three.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Sure, but that describes like 95% of albums. It's often referred to as the "Oh Daddy rule".
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I was chuffed recently when my 18-year old nephew - a bona fide young person! - told me he really liked one of my songs. But then he went for the kill… “It sounds a lot like Coldplay,” he raved.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I did not know that!
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is obviously wrong. But Springsteen doing Romeo and Juliet would be pretty great.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Took this video in Costco on 18 July.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I hope this idea takes hold beyond California as well. Not only would it give me an option other than 'other' to tick (on British forms) but maybe it would in some small way help the general public to better understand Jewishness. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
nytimes.com
California May Let Residents Choose ‘Jewish’ as an Ethnic Identifier (Gift Article)
A bill would allow Jews to identify themselves as an ethnic group on state forms. Supporters argue it’s a step toward acknowledging the complex nature of Jewish identity.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Literally nobody saw an eclipse that looked like this.
BBC headline and photo of the eclipse.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
For sale: £1 million.
UV glasses
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
DSA is so sixth form.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
And Shapiro... and Ossoff... and...
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I feel like there is a whole generation of politicians who learned to speak by watching Barak Obama.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Showstopper is a mainstay and consistently great. www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...
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Wheelchair Access, Wheelchair Accessible Toilets, Audio Enhancement System, Captioning
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Also they had started to sell Christmas stuff. It was July.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I was at Costco last week and it was absolute carnage. The police had to be called to break up a fight over cases of bottled water. It felt like foreshadowing for the fate of humanity.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The rebranding team knew exactly what they were doing when they ruled out Wells-ON-Sea.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Many left-wing writers are still on X. I think if you’d asked them five years ago if they’d stay if the owner was a white supremacist who advocated race war and the murder of people who opposed mass deportations they would have said no of course not, that’s crazy. And yet
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
You couldn't hear it on TV, but here's what it sounded like in the stadium. www.tiktok.com/@sports.illu...
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Closing out the World Cup in the U.S. #worldcup #worldcupfinal #trump
TikTok video by Sports Illustrated
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
All the more niche given how shit they were that year. Crashed out at the group stage.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Next time I see you remind me to tell you about the time I took the 2012 England squad to Auschwitz. tl;dr Joe Hart is a real one and can do no wrong in my book.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Yes. 100% this.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Platner is the Horseshoe Theory personified.
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 09/07/2026
So, Graham Platner is like two Bud Lights from going full Protocols of Zion, isn't he?
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Lunch in Greenwich Market, stroll through the Royal Naval College, optional visit to the Maritime Museum, walk through lovely Greenwich Park up to the Royal Naval Observatory (totally worth a proper visit), riverside pint at The Trafalgar. Sorted.
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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
But even goths need to pay their respects to George Michael. 😉
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