Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Academics: If you’re thinking about attending the ACLA Conference (Houston, TX; May 20-23, 2027), consider submitting to the seminar I’m organizing, “The Politics of Criticism: After Said, After Identity Politics.” Submission deadline: September 22, 2026; you must use the ACLA conference website. 100
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 05/08/2025A little thing I wrote about #AriAster‘s #Eddington. Thanks to Dan Friedman! bookandfilmglobe.com/film/on-gett...bookandfilmglobe.comOn Getting What You Wish For - Book and Film GlobeLike most people, I like to determine whether a film positions itself politically on the left or the right. Usually I find this easy; but not so with 020
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Can someone tell me what “woke right” either refers to or is supposed to mean? Thanks. 130
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 30/05/2025I’m undoubtedly late to the show, but I just discovered that the link to the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs on the home page of the U.S. Embassy in Israel website simply reloads the U.S. Embassy in Israel home page. 020
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Here’s something I wrote as part of a module on “Late Academe” in the /American Book Review/. It’s the third in a triptych of post-October 7 essays I’ve written. Project MUSE - Scholarly "Community" and the Affective Politics of Identity: A Case Study from Late Academe muse.jhu.edu/article/956730muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE - Scholarly "Community" and the Affective Politics of Identity: A Case Study from Late Academe 000
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Brilliant analysis of the US pro-Israel movement and right wing antisemitism. Conservatives fighting ‘antisemitism’ are actively targeting US Jews. Why? | Josh Schreier www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comConservatives fighting ‘antisemitism’ are actively targeting US Jews. Why? | Josh SchreierThe pro-Israel campaign to ‘protect’ Jews by punishing anti-Zionist speech often targets Jews. That is no surprise 022
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 18/03/2025When the history of this era is written (if we’re lucky enough to get there), a substantial chapter will address the role Zionism played as a leverage point in the consolidation of the second great wave of fascism. Many who imagine themselves via fantasies of liberalism played a willing part.docs.google.comNot In Our Name 030
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Back to the drawing board blogs.nasa.gov/planetarydef...blogs.nasa.govLatest Calculations Conclude Asteroid 2024 YR4 Now Poses No Significant Threat to Earth in 2032 and Beyond – Planetary Defense 130
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 10/03/2025This cabbage offers more hope and possibility than the contemporary scene. 1131
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Bari Weiss once again proving that Zionism has jumped the shark. 010
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Solidarity with the Educational Bookshop and its owners, Mahmoud and Ahmed Muna. A pillar of Palestinian culture and civil society, and two absolutely wonderful people. Another travesty. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...timesofisrael.comPolice said to raid leading bookstore in East Jerusalem, arrest owner, seize books* * * 020
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 07/02/2025AI proving Said’s 2000 claim that he’s the last Jewish intellectual. Which I guess means the last guy named Irving. In the final instance I guess it hardly matters whether it’s Howe or Malin. 110
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 28/01/2025How many of my friends are boycotting and/or not going to #mla2026 on account of politics? 010
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Well, I tried to join Mothers Against Campus Antisemitism—I do, after all, have two kids in college—and was blocked instead of admitted. 011
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Herzl’s great line from the never-goes-out-of-style file came to me for no particular reason this morning: “The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies.” 030
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 29/12/2024“Wiesel ‘has a lot to answer for, including ultimately putting the word “Holocaust” into circulation. . . . It was part of putting this religious baggage on something that was more urgently human baggage.’” hyperallergic.com/973444/art-s...hyperallergic.comArt Spiegelman Won’t Shrink Back From ControversyThe artist has illustrated more than one contentious New Yorker cover in his career, chronicled in a new film, and his next project will be no less gutsy. 030
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Looking forward to an unsatisfying and frustrating online AJS conference (through no fault of any of the presenters), beginning today! 030
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Jewish studies dissertation idea: The Omen trilogy as post-67 text. And extra credit for going for gold: it’s the defining text of post-67 Zionism. 010
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Working class hero discourse in the Trump times 010
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Orientalist zombies FTW www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...thecrimson.comHarvard Denied Its Only Yiddish Professor Tenure. Did the Process Fail Him? | News | The Harvard CrimsonWhen Yiddish studies professor Saul Noam Zaritt was denied tenure in June at the direction of Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76, Zaritt’s own tenure review committee was stunned. They say Harvard m... 110
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 20/11/2024New issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature just out, guest edited by Michael Kramer, on Jewish American Periodicals. This is a really amazing piece of work; Kol HaKavod to Michael! scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/sajl/is...scholarlypublishingcollective.orgVolume 43 Issue 2 | Studies in American Jewish Literature (1981-) | Scholarly Publishing Collective 0112
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Now that Trump is back in the saddle I guess we can all look forward to more fascist-adjacent fever-dreams from Russell Berman 010
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Do I know anyone with scholarly familiarity with Indian or South Asian Jewish literature? 107
Reposted by Benjamin SchreierSimon Groth @simongroth.com · 17/11/2024Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like. 189112662883
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 14/11/2024When is Torah Judaism, the only twitter account worth following, going to come over here? 000
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 13/11/2024As the American Studies Association meets in the city where I live with me not in attendance, I once again face the eternal question: do I actually /do/ American studies? 020
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 12/11/2024MLA’ers: I’m standing for election to the MLA Delegate Assembly, representing the LLC Jewish American forum. Consider casting a vote for me, if you’re so inclined (and in a position to). I put in the effort to pen a statement on matters of professional concern. 010
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Whose hands are Jewish and philosemitic intellectuals who insist on equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism playing into? religiondispatches.org/heritage-fou...religiondispatches.orgHeritage Foundation's Christian Nationalist 'Project Esther' Won't Combat Antisemitism — But it Will Weaponize JewsOn the anniversary of October 7, the Heritage Foundation released Project Esther: A National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. The 33-page document calls on the federal government to use counterterrori... 110
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 10/11/2024I think I’d have a pretty decent chance of getting into a starter pack of critics pursuing Groucho-based I-wouldn’t-want-to-be-in-any-club-that-would-have-as-a-member scholarship. 000
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 10/11/2024I use this account to replace my Twitter account. So it’s basically dedicated to my professional life: what I write, what I read, and what I think about—in the areas of intellectual politics, literary studies (rooted in American lit, but not exclusively), Jewish studies, Arab American studies. 010
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Here’s a little thing I wrote about Jewish studies, the AJS, Jewish privilege, and inclusivity—and Zionism—in scholarly discussions of Israel-Palestine. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/pir/art...scholarlypublishingcollective.orgWho Gets to Talk When “WE” Talk about Israel: An Intersectional Meditation on InclusivityAbstract. Occasioned by a recent article by Jill Jacobs criticizing the underrepresentation of women in American Jewish debate about Israel and by a recently implemented policy by the Association for ... 010
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 01/04/2024I embrace the ethical and intellectual rigor of both-sides logic and argumentation. 000
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 31/01/2024Re-upping this a few weeks after it was originally published. www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4569...jadaliyya.comOn Identification: Theses on Liberal Discourses about Zionism and Israel Since October 7Much has been written and said in the last few months—since 7 October 2023—about Israel, Palestine, Zionism, the occupation, self-determination, nationalism and identity, human rights, and the jus... 000
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 02/01/2024MLA’ers! I’m presenting on 2 panels. 1.I’ll talk about Zionism and rhetorics of inclusion on “Postcolonial Traditions in Global Jewish Literature” (238) Fri @ 12:00. 2.I’ll talk about critical literary study on “Reimagining the Field of Arab American Studies” (510) Sat @ 1:45. 010
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 18/10/2023(Jewish (American)) literature people: what are y’all’s feeling about Foer’s /Here I Am/? I’d be interested to hear if anyone has taught it; I’m sort-of half considering it for a grad seminar… 000
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 16/10/2023What if Netanyahu went rogue and offered citizenship to Palestinians as a way of breaking the back of Hamas 100
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 12/10/2023Part of the horror of the Hamas attack is that it represents the return of the repressed as history for Zionists on both left and right. This is the fantasy at the center of their political identity—that which always threatens if their idea of a solution isn’t realized. 1/3 100
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 03/10/2023“American Zionism is, in other words, a political movement fundamentally at odds with reality itself.” “Having long since lost all the academic arguments, contemporary Zionist institutions have gone to war against argument itself.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comThe War Against Palestinians on Campus Keeps Getting More AbsurdIt’s become so predictable: Palestinians try to gather at a university and all hell breaks loose. 000
Reposted by Benjamin SchreierLaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 01/10/2023Benedict Anderson in 1979 (and as someone on FB said, in his Daddy phase) <3 <3 <3 46912
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 29/09/2023Reminder: Why “Jewish American Literature” Matters: An Emerging Scholar Conference February 25-26, 2024 Vanderbilt University Deadline for submissions is October 1, 2023! Get your proposals in! FYI: here's the google doc with the submission link.... docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.com5.8.23 CFP draft.docxUpdated Why “Jewish American Literature” Matters: An Emerging Scholar Conference February 25-26th, 2024 Vanderbilt University This conference seeks to chart possible futures for the study of Jew... 043
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 26/09/2023Roth’s “Eli, the Fanatic” as intertextual parent of Appelfeld’s /Badenheim 1939/. Yes? I think maybe yes. 000
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 23/09/2023Salman Abu-Sitta at #PalestineWrites on how to “reverse the war crime of ethnic cleansing”: “Imagine the imaginable.” 000
Benjamin Schreier @bjschreier.bsky.social · 22/09/2023Viet Nguyen at #PalestineWrites: “The American Dream is a euphemism—for settler colonialism.” 110