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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 7h

The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect’s 7 October 2026 ‘Atrocity Alert No. 497: Ethiopia, Israel and the and the UN Human Rights Council’. www.globalr2p.org/publications... @globalr2p.org

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 9h

'The "Red Front" Trial', from the Summer 1973 issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies. doi.org/10.2307/2535...

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 9h

Amy Stone, 'Trial Ushers Israeli Repression', from the 11 April 1973 edition of US paper The Guardian. www.jstor.org/stable/commu...

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 9h

Interesting commentary on why they were considered a threat (and appearance of Daniel Cohn-Bendit), in this excerpt from 'Joint Jewish-Arab Espionage', in the Spring 1973 issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies. doi.org/10.2307/2535...

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 9h

And also... Very brief article from the 21 March 1973 issue of US paper The Guardian. Torture? Absurd!

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 9h

Counting the aspects of this from 1973 which could never be true now... 'Witch-Hunt in Israel', article in the February 1973 issue of MERIP Reports. doi.org/10.2307/3011... @merip.bsky.social

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is the footnote to his first mention of the steady stream of evidence of Israeli forces being engaged in "widespread and systematic abuses of the human rights of Palestinian Arabs", in Simpson's January 1979 Current History article.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

From the January 1979 issue of Current History, just a dozen-odd years into the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, this is Dwight James Simpson briefly describing living under Israeli occupation, in his 'Israel After Thirty Years Available to Purchase'. doi.org/10.1525/curh...

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There's a lot of these sexually dimorphic parrots around these days, the smallest parrots in the area, notably smaller than the lorikeets. Not sure what they're called.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

An old photo recovered from the phone of one of my favorite people, who passed away recently. Recovered by her partner, doing the 21st century work of mourning, which I guess includes every question or task related to her phone. I'm grateful that he sent me the photo.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This letter from Derek Summerfield, given the title 'Torture In Israel', appeared in the 27 May 1995 issue of the British Medical Journal. @bmj.com

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the ‘90s, human rights organisations and other NGOs started to more seriously report on abuses by the Israeli state. Jonathan E. Fine’s ‘Torture in Israel and the Occupied Territories’ appeared in the 17 July 1993 issue of The Lancet. doi.org/10.1016/0140... @thelancet.com

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Which is the context that gives a particular meaning to this excerpt from Noam Chomsky's 'Thought Control in the US: The Media and the "Peace Process"', from the November-December 1986 issue of MERIP Middle East Report. doi.org/10.2307/3012... @merip.bsky.social

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And on the 1977 Sunday Times investigation into torture by Israeli military and intelligence agencies, this letter appeared in the January-February 1986 issue of MERIP Report. @merip.bsky.social

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Excerpt from Richard Lee reflecting on evidence of repression and violence by Israel before the 1982 invasion of Lebanon and resulting massacres, in his 'Ethnicity, Militarism and Human Rights: Israel and South Africa', from the October 1983 issue of Dialectical Anthropology.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On the issue of torture in Israel including the Sunday Times investigation, an excerpt from Edward Said's 'The Idea of Palestine in the West', in the September 1978 issue of MERIP Reports. doi.org/10.2307/3011... @merip.bsky.social

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Every party except the Greens competing over who can be the most xenophobic is like experiencing the debates that led up to federation. From the 1899 pamphlet by S. A. Ross, ‘The Federal Bill analyzed: being an examination of the Federal Bill as amended by the secret conference of premiers’.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was just over one year old when his 'The Intelligent Reader's Guide to the International Monetary Muddle' was published, in the March/April 1973 issue of Challenge, and I think just over twenty when I read it.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Since resistance didn't stop, Scientific American raised the question of whether African fighting ability could seriously "menace the white man's superiority". Excerpt from 'The Fighting Tribes of Southern Africa', in the 21 July 1906 issue of Scientific American. @sciam.bsky.social

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The colonial struggles which would lead to the imposition of Apartheid in South Africa, as described by William R. Shepherd in his 'Record of Political Events' in the June 1901 issue of Political Science Quarterly. doi.org/10.2307/2140...

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ah, the debates leading up to federation in Australia… Excerpt from the January 1899 pamphlet by S. A. Ross, ‘The Federal Bill analyzed: being an examination of the Federal Bill as amended by the secret conference of premiers’. www.jstor.org/stable/60229...

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Excerpt from William Roberts delivering the ‘Harveian Oration On Science And Modern Civilisation’ to the Royal College of Physicians, as printed in the 23 October 1897 issue of The British Medical Journal. (Also appeared in The Lancet on that date.) doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... @bmj.com @thelancet.com

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How Nat Turner's slave rebellion was described by T.R. Gray in his 1831 book compiled after interviewing Turner in prison, The Confessions of Nat Turner.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On the KPRF as ‘systemic opposition’, an excerpt from Sofya Glazunova’s 2020 Queensland University of Technology PhD thesis, ‘Digital media as a tool for non-systemic opposition in Russia: A case study of Alexey Navalny's populist communications on YouTube’. doi.org/10.5204/thes...

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One interesting recent account of the Russian parliament is David Szakonyi’s ‘Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia’, in the February 2025 issue of American Political Science Review. Discussing the period from 2007 to 2021, he writes: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Communists slowly built bases in the Jewish-Israeli and especially Arab populations. From Martin W. Slann’s ‘Ideology and Ethnicity in Israel's Two Communist Parties: The Conflict Between Maki and Rakah’, in the Winter 1974 issue of Studies in Comparative Communism. doi.org/10.1016/0039...

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In the '70s, Israel refused to recognise any Palestinian political organisation, calling them terrorists. Easily the most substantial Palestinian political group at that time and for many years, the central group in the PLO, was Fatah. This was an account of how they saw their aims in 1970.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For decades the only notable party in Israel with both Jewish and Palestinian members was the Communist Party (MAKI). From Israeli diplomat Pinchas E. Lapide's deeply anti-Communist article, 'The Communist Party in Israel/Il Partito Comunista in Israele', in the September 1963 issue of Il Politico.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Excerpt from the account in the 1954 University of North Carolina Press book, Schools in Transition: Community Experiences in Desegregation, a multi-authored study of some scale. Does try to make the police look conscientious but… Note who is charged and what for. This is the point of the thread.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Article in the 16 February 1952 edition of The Black Dispatch, the Oklahoma City newspaper.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Excerpt from the 13 February 1952 edition of the New York-based National Guardian (“the progressive newsweekly”).

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For some historical context, an excerpt from Alexander Flores, 'Judeophobia in Context: Anti-Semitism among Modern Palestinians', which appeared in Die Welt des Islams in 2006. www.jstor.org/stable/20140...

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The comment on Mario Offenberg's book in the 'Recent Books on International Relations' section of the April 1976 issue of Foreign Affairs, de facto journal of the US foreign policy establishment.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Offenberg's book has never been translated into English; these were the comments by Alexander Flores in 'Recent studies on the history of the Palestine Communist Party', which appeared in the Khamsin 7 in 1980.

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Ben Rosenzweig @benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

Two days earlier, this appeared in The Daily Worker, reflecting the efforts to organise working class support for the Child Labor Amendment, which would have made possible federal regulation which up until that time had been repeatedly struck down by the courts.

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

The proposed Amendment was already a moderate, compromise version but would have created a new terrain for struggle over federal regulation, which is why the organised Left supported the Amendment but also wrote things like this, from the 29 January 1925 edition of The Daily Worker.

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

As has often been the case, the Catholic Church framed its opposition to the Child Labor Amendment in terms of perceived attacks on Catholic schools. 'The 20th Amendment', from the 15 January 1925 issue of the Bulletin of the Child Welfare League of America.

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

An array of groups tried to get enough states to ratify the amendment, including the Child Welfare League and related welfare organisations, the American Federation of Labor and a variety of unions, the American Nursing Association… From the 27 December 1924 edition of a New York prison newspaper.

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

During the period of the struggle for ratification by the states, an editorial in the 18 December 1924 issue of The Journal of Education commented in relation to propaganda:

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

Albert Bushnell Hart's account of 'The Presidential Election in the United States', in the December 1924 issue of Current History, again highlighted the role of the Catholic Church in the opposition to the Child Labor Amendment

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

A century ago, the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) was the Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations. In reporting on the PTA-to-be’s national convention, the 13 November 1924 edition of The Catholic Telegraph noted support for the Child Labor Amendment, amongst other things.

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

Here's R.C. Gleaner in the 5 September 1924 edition of The Catholic Columbian, probably America’s most overtly pro-white supremacist Catholic paper, on child labor laws, claiming that only “propaganda of Eastern cotton mill workers” made child labor a public issue anyway.

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

From the regular section on 'Child Labor' in the July 1924 issue of Monthly Labor Review.

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

The 1924 Convention of the National Council of Catholic Women unsurprisingly also opposed an Equal Rights Amendment and the legal provision of birth control.

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

The attempt to constitutionally prohibit child labor began in the mid-'20s. Of the dozens of letters on the subject received by the newspapers, many were from people and groups actively involved in the campaign. No bots though, and no troll farms. People forget how much child labor was normalised.

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

Writing a 'strongly worded letter to the paper' is still a go-to form of satire whenever someone wants to make fun of political actions considered either insincere or just ineffective, weak at best, deliberately useless at worst. But back then people on a substantial scale actually did that.

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

The study was of 1935, and about two issues in particular, though they highlighted four subjects that were getting much discussion. Easily the most substantial was the New Deal. Attached is part of the description of the others.

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