Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 20hThis survivor of Nazi Germany, immigrant, feminist pioneer, and leading light in modern American legal education died in 2024, at the age of 95. בָּרוּךְ דַּיַּן הָאֱמֶת 030
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 20hLink to the article here: law.rutgers.edu/news/EvaHank...law.rutgers.eduIn Memoriam: Eva Hanks | Rutgers Law School 110
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 20h I never saw a photo of her before yesterday, but a photo included an _in memoriam_ article from Rutgers Law that I just read depicts her *exactly* as I imagined based on my dad’s description. 110
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 20hWhen I was a kid, my dad (Rutgers Law '69) told me many stories about his professors, He described Eva Hanks (his Property professor) as standing intimidatingly at the front of the room with her arms crossed, gesturing at students with her chin, and asking such questions as “Who takes?" 110
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 20hShe became the first female law professor at Rutgers in 1962 (Ginsburg followed two years later), and eventually became a founding member of the Cardozo Law faculty, where she remained for most of her career. Focusing on environmental law, she wrote the _Environmental Law and Policy_ casebook 120
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 20hShe came to America and got her JD at UCLA and an LLM/JSD (a rare advanced degree in legal studies sometimes earned by lawyers who know for sure they’re going into the academy). 100
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 20hEva Hanna was the child of a Christian-Jewish mixed marriage in Germany; like many but not all children in that situation, she survived the war and graduated from Freie Universität Berlin, which was the West German reconstitution of the University of Berlin, whose campus was in the Soviet Sector. 110
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 20hEva Hanna Hanks: A Tribute Thread The 1969 Rutgers Law Yearbook was dedicated to the two women on the faculty, Eva Hanks (née Hanna) and Ruth Ginsburg—and Notorious somehow managed to be the second-most-interesting of the two! 120
Reposted by Ivan HodesBeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026D+15 Midterm indicator 1016654974
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 11/10/2026NEWFANGLED LAW Also “Circumcized himself“ is really committing to the bit (so to speak) 140
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Robert of Reading? more like Robert of Converting, amirite? 130
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 10/10/2026If software not doing what it’s supposed to do in unpredictable ways is a sign of ”Super Intelligence” then Microsoft Word must be the most brilliant mind in the universe 3273
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The US has a blood-soaked past which includes extrajudicial murders as a form if public spectacle AND ALSO a live-streamed execifion by the Army is new and disturbing 1226
Reposted by Ivan HodesEph @emonet.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Reminder that the Alaska Landmine is owned and operated by a categorically racist, misogynist, transphobic piece of shit that openly advocates for MAGA fascism. Do not read it. Do not support it. Do not attend its events. It’s harming our state and neighbors, especially the most vulnerable. #akleg 0287
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 08/10/2026_Blade_ ain’t nothin but _Sinners_ with tall buildings 011
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 08/10/2026That is, the belief is not that Jews deserve the land because they are superior to Arabs; it’s that they *need* a sovereign state (which entails sovereignty over land) because of the wider world’s antisemitic depredations (again, a belief with considerable historical evidence to back it up). 110
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 08/10/2026..:I would say that the underlying ideology is not necessarily a racist one, at least not for what in America is called “liberal Zionism.” (apparently this is not a term in Israeli politics, but there are Israelis whose beliefs roughly fit this description) 110
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Since we’re both still here: Although many Jewish Israelis are of course very very racist towards Palestinians, and some even towards Arabs in general (that’s a more complicated one)… 110
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My general view on early Israeli history (meaning 1945-1956 or so) is that while the establishment of Israel was a historic error that has mostly been bad for everyone in the region, it is completely understandable why so many Jews wanted to go there and have a state (or support the idea) 020
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Circling back: if you look at the precise language that Mekom Lekulanu uses, it supports “a shared homeland for two distinct people,” which means they think it is *a* homeland for Jews, which means they are Zionists. Its about the broadest possible definition of Zionism but i think it counts 010
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 07/10/2026So now imagine how much of a betrayal it felt like for them, or for eg the German Jews who had served their country in WW1, when their neighbors turned on them and murdered them by the millions 110
Reposted by Ivan HodesIvan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 07/10/2026post-Zionism is probably the best term to describe Mekom Lekulanu: Jews who are at peace with the idea that at some point they will become demographic minorities in this state, and their Arab brethren who are at peace with the idea of millions of Jews continuing to live in what is now called Israel. 131
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 07/10/2026post-Zionism is probably the best term to describe Mekom Lekulanu: Jews who are at peace with the idea that at some point they will become demographic minorities in this state, and their Arab brethren who are at peace with the idea of millions of Jews continuing to live in what is now called Israel. 131
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 07/10/2026As noted in the thread I linked you to, I think of myself as a non-Zionist, but another term is *post*-Zionist: the recognition that Zionism has achieved its goal and now it’s time to move on. 120
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 07/10/2026But sincr by definition Zionism calls for a Jewish-majority state, and you can’t maintain a Jewish ethnic majority in Palestine except by force or coercion, I would say that Zionism is inherently incompatible with liberal democracy *as i understand it.* 120
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Revisionists thought it would either have to be a more or less completely Arab-free state or one in which Arab rights were severely constrained. 110
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Now, different Zionisms differed on the nature of this state. Herzl himself mostly just ignored the “Arab question.“. Labor Zionists thought it should be a social democracy, possibly with equal rights for the Arab minority they imagined living there. 120
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 07/10/2026And if it wasn’t guaranteed in the Third Republic, concluded Herzl, it couldn’t be guaranteed anywhere: ergo liberal democracy itself was incapable of guaranteeing collective Jewish safety. Ergo a Jewish-majority sovereign state was needed. 120
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The founder of modern Zionism saw the Dreyfus Affair and concluded that Jewish safety, collectively, could not be guaranteed in the Third Republic—probably the most liberal, egalitarian society that had ever existed in the world up to that point. 120
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I would say that in some sense, all Zionisms depend on a rejection or at least a deep skepticism, of the ideals of American- or French-style liberal democracy, in which citizenship is entirely divorced from ethnic background and every citizen has precisely equal rights under the law 120
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 07/10/2026NB I no longer call myself a Bundist, other than in a sort of emotional way, as a result of having learned more about Bundism from @mollycrabapple.bsky.social ’s recent book about it. My review of that book might shed some further light on your questions: bsky.app/profile/chug... 110
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 07/10/2026No more so than the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, no. 000
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 07/10/2026in much the same way that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan did not exist until 1947, the State of Israel did not exist until 1948. 000
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I am not, and I’m not sure how you would convince that from the factual statement “Israel did not exist in 1948” 000
Ivan Hodes @chugachmtnblues.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Israel didn’t exist in 1929, what are you talking about? 000
