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And many of us think that calling out AIPAC's actions -- whether the person doing so is Jewish, Muslim, or something else -- does nothing to harm Jews. Indeed, some of us invested in the safety and security of Jews around the world are more worried about what happens if we don't do that enough!

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Also, for the 1,000th time, AIPAC actively calls itself not-a-Jewish-organization. Talking about AIPAC is not talking about Jews. They (correctly!) don't see themselves as a Jewish voice -- we shouldn't either. Whether I call AIPAC monstrous, or awesome, or medium, I've said nothing about Jews.

Whatever terrible things you are worried will happen to me and other Jews if we call AIPAC monstrous...worse has happened already to innocent Palestinians, I promise. And those things have happened partially due to AIPAC's actions. It's good to say so!

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It's good that Zohran Mamdani calls AIPAC's support for the death of Palestinian children "monstrous." If you oppose the death and starvation of children, I do not understand holding a position of "It's more dangerous to call AIPAC 'monstrous' than it is to not-call AIPAC sufficiently monstrous."

Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

For 1 month anytime somebody says they’re going to “the cape,” referring to Cape Cod or Cape May or whatever, I’m going to respond with “Oh wow, Cape Verde? Amazing! Vozinha was awesome in goal.”

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

It's May Day and nobody has offered me Bund cake

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The two kinds of Jews are those who need over a month to plan out their learning, and the Jews who have a diagnosable allergy to envisioning their Jewish observance more than 24 hours beforehand. That's actually what the Judean People's Front and People's Front of Judea were.

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I've felt targeted by posts before but this is for sure the most targeted. It's good honestly!

Because Mel would forgive your typo of his name I will also forgive it.

We should call them out if they say that what they're doing is about "Jews on campus" or "Jewish life." It's not! It's about making sure anti-Zionism is stigmatized. Working against antisemitism on campus is a great thing to do! They're not particularly interested in it. They just say they are. (4)

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Some people simply don't-care about Yiddish on campus. Which...not great! But some others more than don't-care. They actively resent Yiddish Studies courses, scholars, and learning, given how much of Yiddish history intersects with leftist (and sometimes anti-Zionist) organizing. (3)

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But the decimation of Yiddish at Harvard doesn't matter to enough people. It certainly doesn't matter enough to be a priority for self-appointed organizations who define "combating antisemitism" as "suppressing pro-Palestine speech" along with "championing the IHRA definition of antisemitism." (2)

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If all the discourse about antisemitism at Harvard had actually been about antisemitism at Harvard (as opposed to pro-Palestine protesters -- many of them Jews), it would probably matter to more people that Harvard is decimating the study of Yiddish on its campus. (1) saveharvardyiddish.org

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Save Yiddish at Harvard!

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The problem with artificial intelligence, that people don't talk enough about, is how I can no longer refer to Allen Iverson as AI without it being very confusing to people.

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Hear me out hear me out. What if bundt cake, but at an event for Jewish socialists, so it's Bund cake?

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I think the Heated Rivalry development I'm most thankful for is that the word "Hell" is actually less spicy than saying "H-E double hockey-stick."

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

A lotta people watching figure skating results and I know half of you are also thinking of Borat’s Kazakh national anthem and not wanting to admit it.

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Gus Kenworthy has great penmanship. Sorry I typoed, *peenmanship*.

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

eat the rich more like eat the young

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

She has no idea this is wildly Islamophobic (to say "well 'intifada' is the term we should use for every person's hatred of Jews no matter their identity") and that it has the potential to make us blind to all antisemitism from non-Muslims.

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Deborah Lipstadt's "clarification." If you're saying "What's the problem? I referred to a white Christian 19-year-old's antisemitism as being part of 'intifada' and that's logical actually"... Maybe just take a step back from participating in conversations about antisemitism? You're not helping.

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It means we will fundamentally misunderstand antisemitism and ignore many historic causes of it (like Christian texts). That's bad, and endangers me and all other Jews. It's deeply irresponsible, along with being morally abhorrent, to call Christian and other non-Muslim antisemitism "intifada."

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and they want all antisemitism to be understood as indelibly intertwined with anti-Zionism. That's dangerous in a world where lots of Zionists and lots of neutral-about-Zionism/Anti-Zionism folks are also antisemites! (cont...)

It's an attempt to assert all Jew-hatred ultimately boils down to an Arabic term used by Muslims, such that even non-Muslim antisemitism should be associated with them. The reason people are doing that is that "intifada" is associated with anti-Zionists (cont...),

I...what? Zionism obviously isn't the cause of Christian antisemitism and I didn't say it is? I implied that the knee-jerk inclination to call all attacks on Jews "intifada" is Islamophobic (continued next message)...

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Can you talk me through, like I'm a child, how calling a devout Christian's antisemitism "intifada" serves the safety of Jews or anyone else? And why it doesn't make it less likely we'll all notice and fight violent forms of Christian antisemitism that have harmed Jews around the world repeatedly?

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Lipstadt should be ashamed, and everyone invested in making “intifada” a catch-all word for hatred of Jews, to the degree it would be used to distract from a violent antisemite’s devout Christianity (WILDLY Islamophobic!) should consider that they’re endangering all of us for the sake of Zionism.

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

It makes Jews much less safe when we presume all antisemitism comes from Muslims, and imply it couldn’t possibly be Christians. Sincerely, A Jew who lived in Jackson, loved living there, wore a yarmulke every day, and is unsurprised a white, religious Christian man set fire to the synagogue there

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Wow it’s worse than they predicted. Zohran got elected and immediately there are all these floating monsters in the New York City sky, trying to prey on our children and take their parents’ money. #Socialism #ChagTurkeySameach

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

You buried, due to admirable modesty, that that book launch was the greatest book launch of all time ❤️

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Who is making the Hannah Einbinder “Go birds, F%#* ICE, Free Palestine” tote bag? The answer is not “nobody,” and I’d like to purchase 18 even though I’m meh on the birds part.

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

So honestly I do think it was more made for you than me (and other Jews from a coast -- or, like you, with relationships to both coasts -- who have one or more siblings). But it's also for me, without a doubt!

Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Full title -- amazing shout-out to the show included -- is "Don't Close the...Door: Rugrats and Its Impact on Jewish Children."

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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I am pleased to report this is a deeply correct and widespread opinion! Here's Terri McGuire's master's thesis entitled "Rugrats and its Impact on Jewish Children." scholarworks.brandeis.edu/view/pdfCove...

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