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Lisa Eckstein

@lisaeckstein.bsky.social
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Health law, research ethics,, clinical research. Being kind is more important than being right.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Absolutely horrifying report on an 80 year old man who was used as a human shield by Israeli soldiers. After eight hours, he and his wife were sent off by the soldiers only to be shot dead by other soldiers. www.ha-makom.co.il/1057919-2/
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חשיפת המקום: פלסטיני בן 80 שימש מגן אנושי כשרצועת נפץ קשורה לצווארו. כעבור 8 שעות הוא נורה למוות - המקום הכי חם
קצין בכיר בחטיבת הנח״ל קשר פתיל נפץ לצווארו של קשיש עזתי, שאולץ לטהר בתים בשכונת זייתון. במשך שעות שימש כמגן אנושי, עד שהחיילים ציוו עליו ועל אשתו לעזוב את השכונה. לאחר דקות שניהם נורו למוות | חשיפת המקום הכי חם בגיהנום
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NPR @npr.org · 26/12/2024
Only about 300 to 400 people a year give a kidney to someone they never met. It's an act of generosity so unusual, a neuroscientist studies the people who do this.
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Giving a kidney to a stranger? Researchers call it 'extraordinary altruism'
Only about 300 to 400 people a year give a kidney to someone they never met. It's an act of generosity so unusual, a neuroscientist studies the people who do this.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I could write a 100 posts on things in the Pro-Palestine Discourse that I find annoying and worse. But these things are almost never important enough to be a priority. The priority is saving lives. The priority is stopping this catastrophe before it gets even worse. edition.cnn.com/2024/12/25/m...
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Four babies die from hypothermia in Gaza, as Israel’s war pushes Palestinians deep into tent camps | CNN
A newborn baby died from the cold in a tent encampment in Al-Mawasi, in southern Gaza, highlighting the stark challenges to survival faced by Palestinian children displaced from their homes amid Israe...
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James Finn @rjamesfinn.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Israel severely weakened safeguards for protecting civilians; adopted flawed methods to assess risk of civilian casualties; "routinely" failed to conduct post-strike reviews of civilian harm; and ignored warnings about these failings, the @nytimes.com found.
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Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians
Surprised by Oct. 7 and fearful of another attack, Israel weakened safeguards meant to protect noncombatants, allowing officers to endanger up to 20 people in each airstrike. One of the deadliest bomb...
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P. Y. Mund @pymundgenealogy.com · 25/12/2024
Rabboisai, you've gotta see this (Twitter screenshot, apologies in advance)
Twitter screenshot from user Syrian Girl 🇸🇾 /@Partisangirl:
"Hunnikah is a celebration of the start of a Jewish gorilla war against Greece-Syrian empire in the Syrian city of Antioch that has been under illegal Turkish occupation for 100 years."
(Image of a map of Turkey and bordering nations, Antioch marked)
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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
If the facts as reported are correct, this is about as far as you can get from the organisation’s mission of promoting ‘social justice, civil and human rights’. I have nothing but contempt for those requiring a litmus test of 7 Oct as ‘legitimate resistance’. m.youtube.com/watch?si=yeN...
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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
SBS Examines has confirmed the that $50 notes marked with antisemitic graffiti were indeed dispensed from a service station ATM in Bondi: sbs.com.au/language/eng.... I had honestly thought this was an elaborate hoax.
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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Honestly, this just strikes me as knee jerk with a huge potential for discriminatory policing. I would support a small exclusion zone around places of worship akin to termination clinics but requiring a ‘social cohesion pledge’ for multicultural orgs??? www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...?
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Victoria unveils ban on protester face masks, locks and glue
The Victorian government has pledged to introduce a raft of new restrictions on protesters, including banning protests from being held near places of worship.
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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Good news. It was Mossad that firebombed a Melbourne synagogue so no one needs to worry about antisemitism in Australia
Article titled Who Benefits from an Attack on the Synagogue in Melbourne
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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This is in a heavily Jewish area of sydney. Enough! Australian Jews are not a proxy for the actions of the Israeli government!
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P. Y. Mund @pymundgenealogy.com · 09/12/2024
BTW I really, really mean this, it's one of my longest held political beliefs - as a teen I (1) had never heard of the Nakba and (2) believed the Israeli narrative re 1948 of fending off annihilative attacks from all sides - but like my father, who thought the same, raised me to think:
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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Bleurgh. Between this and Netanyahu’s suggestion that the attack would somehow have been prevented by Aust not voting in the UN to support a 2SS…
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Jerusalem tonight
Protest in Jerusalem. 
Sign: End the Fucking War
photo credit: Orna Kupferman
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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Melbourne, a man yields a hammer at a kosher bakery the same day synagogue fire bombed. timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
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Melbourne police remove man wielding hammer from Jewish bakery near synagogue that was set on fire
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@WildImmunity @wildimmunity.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Mammal to mammal transmission of #H5N1. I think the question for human to human is not if but when. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Epidemiological data of an influenza A/H5N1 outbreak in elephant seals in Argentina indicates mammal-to-mammal transmission - Nature Communications
Here, the authors detect clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 viruses in elephant seals associated with a mass mortality event in Argentina, show that the viruses belong to a clade primarily seen in marine mammals in ...
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
“Today, no one minds whether they are Christians or Jews and there is no antipathy between Jews and Gentiles as there is in the Slavonic East. A repetition of today’s Russian attitude would not have happened even in the Middle Ages.” Written in 1907 in a book about the Jewish Community in Frankfurt
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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Two members of the Adass Israel congregation were inside at the time of the arson preparing for morning prayers. Also worth noting, this is a highly orthodox (and traditionally non-Zionist) community.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Well, there’s a story.
When Nazi Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from stealing them. He placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. After the war, he returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The Nobel Society then recast the Nobel Prizes using the original gold.
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This disaster in Samoa was worsened by vaccine disinformation fuelled by an eager RFKjr. I dread to think what harm he can do next 🧪
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‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and a visit from RFK Jr
A few months before the outbreak in 2019, Kennedy travelled to Samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contributing to what health experts claim was a ‘significant disinformation campaign’
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
A friend who is a descendant-ish of the actual Alfred Dreyfus posted this, am sharing the part I'm allowed to share with permission. CC: this whiny war crimer: www.ndtv.com/world-news/n...
Alfred Dreyfus was a captain in the French army, and was convicted of treason for passing military secrets to Germany.  The thing that made this so notable was that he didn't do it.  Not at all.  The acts were indeed committed, but not by Dreyfus; he was falsely accused of someone else's crime.

It was NOT the case that Dreyfus passed military secrets to Germany, but had a really good reason for doing so (and the authorities were ignoring this important context).

It was NOT the case that Dreyfus passed military secrets to Germany, but was being unfairly singled out when others who committed similar acts were walking free.

He didn't do it at all.

Anyone who wants to make analogies to the Dreyfus affair should keep these characteristics in mind.
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Jennifer Barry @jennisifire.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Here is an unofficial conference guide I wrote up in 2017 on how not to sexually harass at #SBLAAR24 #SBLAAR
image of fb post with steps on how not to sexually harass at SBLAAR
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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Frantically scrolling back episodes of Maintenance Phase podcast for the answer…
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Arnon Degani ארנון @arnondeg.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
"Greatest tweets:" Judaism and Zionism are ofc not the same thing, but if you'd like to make helpful contributions to the debate on Israel/Palestine, at least try to understand how Zionist Jews see these concepts. To its Jewish adherents, Zionism is an intrinsic part of their Jewish identity. >>
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Gift link: good piece on what RFK Jr. could actually do about vaccines. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/h...
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Five Ways R.F.K. Jr. Could Undermine Lifesaving Childhood Vaccines
If he is confirmed as H.H.S. secretary, the longtime vaccine critic would be in a position to change the government’s immunization recommendations and delay the development of new vaccines.
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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Just watched Your Fat Friend. Laughing and crying all in one snotty mess. You should watch it too. www.yrfatfriendfilm.com
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Your Fat Friend a film by Jeanie Finlay
Your Fat Friend a film by Jeanie Finlay
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Michigan Muslims began seeing pro-Israel ads this fall praising VP Kamala Harris for marrying a Jewish man and backing the Jewish state. Jews in PA saw ads saying Harris wanted to stop U.S. arms sent to Israel. It was a multi-pronged dark money effort by advisers to Musk. Gift link: wapo.st/4fMMdHw
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Inside the Republican false-flag effort to turn off Kamala Harris voters
A multi-pronged dark money effort by advisers to Elon Musk targeted liberals, Jews, Muslims and Black voters with ads that were not quite what they seemed.
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Michael Hoffman @michaelhoffman.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
University of Toronto to increase base funding for PhD students to $40,000 per year www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-inc...
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U of T to increase base funding for PhD students to $40,000 per year
The University of Toronto is increasing funding for PhD and SJD (doctor of juridical science) students across its three campuses in an effort to alleviate students’ financial stress, advance equity, i...
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Hoping the second rise of fascism will pull some leftists from the brink they were going to as they radicalized due to Gaza, but not sure. The evils we’re about to see might make it worse. More important than ever to build a radical nonviolent coalition that values life instead of just hating evil.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
On the most popular podcast, the guest who hosts the 15th most popular podcast claims the “left leaning media” (mainstream media) is “mostly Jewish” and asks “why do they hate white guys?” I cannot overstate how bad antisemitism is about to get.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
"Jewish students in Vienna on Friday prevented the first far-right speaker of Austria’s lower house of parliament from laying a wreath in remembrance of the Nazis’ 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, arguing he was abusing the memory of its victims." www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
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Austrian Jewish students block far-right parliament speaker from laying Kristallnacht wreath
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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
She did not. Because as you know, the person who won said he would let Israel do whatever it wanted. The issues you care about most are not necessarily the issues people voted on.
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StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Three Jews meet for coffee. The first says "oy". The second says "oy vey". The third says "if you guys don't stop talking politics, I'm leaving!"
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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 06/11/2024
Random balls of shit washing up on Sydney beaches seems like the perfect metaphor for the times we live in. theconversation.com/...
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Black balls on Sydney beaches are likely ‘fatbergs’ showing traces of human faeces, methamphetamine and PFAS: new analysis
When lumps of black goop washed up Sydney’s beaches, an oil spill was the initial suspect – but a detailed chemical analysis points to sewage as the likely source.
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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Honestly right now I just feel anger at all the morally righteous US leftists who’ve spent a year gloating about all Israelis being genocidal because of the genocidal actions of Netanyahu.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
IDF: the ethnic cleansing of Northern Gaza Strip will soon be completed.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
I wrote a piece about the need for a progressive approach to antisemitism about a month after October 7th. At the time I was worried a bit about getting backlash from some and put it behind a paywall. Took the paywall down just now because as things get worse and worse, I think it's very important.
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The Urgent Need for a Progressive Approach to Antisemitism
Causing trouble, fighting for morality, and empowering people to think through the complicated mess of the world.
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