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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 21h

Time again for this, from Fred Halliday writing on Mario Offenberg's 1975 book, Kommunismus in Palastina: Nation und Klasse in der Antikolonialen Revolution. From the April 1977 issue of MERIP Reports. Poale Zion was the 'socialist Zionist' party. doi.org/10.2307/3011... @merip.bsky.social

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Social scientists in the '30s used to study the quantity and contents of letters to newspaper editors to try to measure how successful propaganda had been on particular questions, such as in the famous 1937 study, 'Letters to the Editor as a Means of Measuring the Effectiveness of Propaganda'.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Managing stratification and exclusions in a state organised around ethno-religious hierarchies, like Israel, can involve concerns that genetic testing for matrilineal Ashkenazi markers - to inform access to citizenship, rights and resources - might also expose inconvenient family secrets.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People have ideas in their heads about capitalism becoming more capitalist, more totally capitalist, whether they're talking about total subsumption or the commodification of everything or a variety of formulations - all gesturing toward what is experienced as an almost social obvious content.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Excerpt from ‘Palestinian Communities at Risk of Erasure Amid Escalating Settler Violence and Access Restrictions across the West Bank’, the 23 September 2026 ‘Humanitarian Access Snapshot’ released by a large coalition of NGOs- Oxfam, MAP, Save The Children, etcetera.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Excerpt including footnote from Karen Horney's 'Neurosis and Human Growth', in the Autumn 1950 issue of The American Scholar. "vindictive triumph"

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Many years ago I was an acquaintance of and friendly with a couple of people, siblings, in the aftermath of their father having had an I'm Old and About To Die Confession. I don't think it was literally a deathbed confession but very close.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pigeon with injured leg sitting out the front of the Royal Women's Hospital, Parkville.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Semiotics of the Royal Women's Hospital, Parkville.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A hundred and thirty years ago, Irish economist, statistician and writer Michael G. Mulhall wrote an article reflecting on and partially exemplifying what would really become a template for much 21st century racist bullshit concern-trolling about relative birthrates and population decline and such.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Am I correct in thinking that two entirely separate movies entitled Blackout have been released this year, and that both of them have Mike Ferguson in the cast?

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Description of Roland Simon's history of the ultra-left on Anna's Archive. Nailed it.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Semiotics of the Royal Women's Hospital, Parkville.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

'A Sketch in Black and White', an article in the 22 October 1891 edition of The Catholic Telegraph, a US newspaper.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Excerpt from 'International Aspects Of Alcoholism. With Special Reference To Prohibition In America’, arguing for prohibition in the 22 October 1921 issue of The British Medical Journal. One reason given being to “save white women from negroes inflamed by drink”. doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... @bmj.com

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Yezid Sayigh @yezidsayigh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

B’Tselem's Yuli Novak writes: "The logic of elimination does not require every Palestinian to disappear. It seeks to make Palestinian collective life increasingly impossible while securing permanent Israeli Jewish control." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Brief coverage of some reactions to the KKK-glorifying movie Birth of a Nation, which came out in February 1915, from the 16 June 1915 issue of Herald of Holiness, a Church of Nazarene paper.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Republicans are now the fascist party constantly doing things that sound like satire but are real, like speeches in the Four Seasons Total Landscaping carpark or photos of Piker posing in his underwear on the Republican convention jumbotron only to have Grindr collapse a half hour later...

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Once again I have become what I despise: someone who constantly loses their own glasses.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

America is the place where someone just decides to walk into a place like a school and just shoot everyone. But... twice I turned up to university in Australia and had either shooting or just severed body parts around the place. But then I did stay as a student for a really long time...

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Semiotics of Coburg. War memorial. bsky.app/profile/benr...

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Might have been good if someone translated Sergio Bologna's 2010 book, Le multinazionali del mare. Letture sul sistema marittimo-portuale. Maybe to better understand the politics of maritime trade and travel and the particular forms of private capital and state management involved in such processes.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Remember how Henri Lefebvre said that Michèle Bernstein financially supported the work of the Situationists by writing the horoscopes of horses for racing publications?

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is Liz Oyer, who used to be the lawyer who did the due.diligence and recommendations for federal pardons until Trump wanted to...create a new system for such things. So she had to go. Here she's talking about what the Justice Department is like now. youtube.com/shorts/GtWVr...

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DOJ fires prosecutor seeking accountability for ICE shooting

YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Excerpt from André Siegfried, a nominally centre-right French writer who would become a significant collaborator in Vichy France, on his racial understanding of the 'War for Our World', in the April 1940 issue of Foreign Affairs. doi.org/10.2307/2002...

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My dad was already old when I was born. I mean, the guy hung out in the same coffee shops as the Beats. He did bureaucratic accountancy work for the Manhattan Project. He got rickets and was generally insufficiently 'nourished' growing up in a Depression-era Jewish ghetto, which used to exist.

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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Our statement responding to the news that Israel will not be pursuing criminal liability for the murder of Zomi Frankcom or her fellow aid workers. We renewed calls for sanctions, the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador, and demands for justice: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/08/comp...

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Letter to the editor in the 18 November 1937 edition of the Hobart Herald. How unimaginable was a continent-wide rise of fascism...

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I have now become aware that there's such things as 'cordless.battle ropes'.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

After the overthrow of Iranian democracy, the US supported the Shah's dictatorship. Excerpt from Fred Halliday on ‘Trade Unions and the Working Class Opposition’, in the October 1978 issue of MERIP Reports, not long before the anti-Shah revolution. doi.org/10.2307/3011... @merip.bsky.social

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I feel like there's been an increase in the portion of the media whose salaries really involve paying them to refuse to understand or sometimes see things that are very obvious and clear - that we've never really recovered from the years of pretending not to notice an active genocide.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is an excerpt from Pierre Cot, then in exile from fascism, discussing the forces of collaboration in France, in the Spring 1942 issue of The Antioch Review. doi.org/10.2307/4608...

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

1900 saw the publication of America's Economic Supremacy, by Brook Adams, arguing that with the “decay” of Britain: "The centre of the economic system of civilisation is in motion .... all signs now point to the approaching supremacy of the United States.” Also stuff about the"energetic races"...

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Adorno in his immediate post-war masterpiece Minima Moralia, talking about the Nazis, lies and atrocities in ways that also capture much of the logic of the propaganda and political machinery of Zionism and the Israeli settler-colonial state.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Mike Figueredo on the campaign against Hasan Piker currently de facto uniting the most corporate- and AIPAC-funded Democratic politicians, a desperate attempt to push back a tide of people in favour of Medicare For All, and against helping enact genocide to support of ethnic cleansing and apartheid.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Not big on posting links to YouTube videos I like, but the campaign against Hasan Piker feels endless, not just the cynical deployment of bad faith, but assuming if people notice they're being manipulated, it won't even become a brief theme in the fictions that are 'news' youtu.be/gtR6c2I8meY?...

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House Democrats Puts Israel-First Dem in Charge of Middle East Policy — Approved by Hakeem Jeffries

YouTube video by iamblakeley

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Excerpt on race, war and American imperialism from an article in the 2 July 1898 edition of The Catholic Columbian, by James R. Randall, who would go on to play a large role in making that paper probably the most overtly White Supremacist Catholic publication in the United States.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

in recent times I've encountered former fundamentalist Christians talking about the long difficult struggle to pull apart and move beyond the ideologies and forms of life which had entirely defined their lives for however long, sometimes from childhood, calling that process their 'deconstruction'.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In his immediate post-WW2 masterpiece Minima Moralia, Adorno wrote about the conditions of diminishing indignation at cruelty. "The constantly encountered assertion that savages, blacks, Japanese are like animals, monkeys for example, is the key to the pogrom."

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I used to own a copy of the journal that had the first English translation of Derrida's Right to Inspection', along with the photographic works in question. I found it in a second-hand bookstore when I was maybe twenty-one years old.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Politics during a rise of fascisms is sometimes a bit like walking in on someone jerking off to something they vaguely remember should be embarrassing, where they react with the fury of someone who wants to cum and knows they maybe should feel shame just to prove they're not a complete pervert.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I guess we all just accept now that normal people - starting in the US but expanding outward - for some reason have to use this new euphemism for extreme grinding poverty: an 'affordability crisis'. 'Look at those people starving in the streets, they're experiencing the affordability crisis...'

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'm sure people remember this bit from The Second Sex.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Israeli settlers are torturing and killing sheep, donkeys and other animals with impunity for the crime of belonging to Palestinians. The Animal Justice Party haven't said anything about this so far as I can tell. aje.news/q61111 @animaljusticeparty.bsky.social

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Sanctioned by EU, Israeli settler steals and kills Palestinian donkey

A donkey belonging to a Palestinian farmer was reportedly stolen and dragged to death by Israeli settlers.

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