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Dr. Matt Boxer

@mboxer.bsky.social
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Assistant Research Prof, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies @ Brandeis University. Jewish studies and sociology. Writes broadly about contemporary Jewish life using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Might have a space laser.

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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Accurate.
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Coming soon; reviewing proofs this week:
Title of book chapter to be published this December:  "What is 'Emotional Attachment to Israel'?  Perspectives of North American Jews."
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I remember a decade-long panic about undergraduates, activists, or Tumblr pages declaring new language rules and denouncing people for violating them.
post from Trump on Truth Social declaring that anyone who uses the term "Artificial Intelligence" is THE ENEMY!
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Antisemitism, in its original form, was literally racism against Jews. Pretending otherwise is very much in the spirit intended by Wilhelm Marr when he founded the League of Antisemites.
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Feel however you want to feel about Israel, but this term was created in the 1870s because it was no longer politically correct to hate Jews on the basis of religion. The folks who hate us decided they needed to invent a mechanism -- antisemitism -- by which to hate us on the basis of race.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The option of not moving on from "this is an illegal, unconstitutional outrage that should end his presidency immediately" was available to Peter Baker & every other journalist in the country, not only in 2019, but still in 2026.
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“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
Mark Copelovitch unpacks his signature phrase.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/10/2026
one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In many small Jewish communities, teen leaders are included on synagogue boards. In my PhD research, this appeared to be a reason why so many small-town Jews develop strong Jewish identities. ejewishphilanthropy.com/the-next-gen...
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The next generation is already leading. Give us a vote.
I read Betsy Berns Korn and William Daroff's piece in eJewishPhilanthropy ("The next generation is already leading. Let's make room.” Sept. 18) and reacted the way I think a lot of teens would: I nodd...
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Turns out that people don’t like it when you make health insurance more expensive and burdensome.
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I am not a Catholic, but it is my sincerely held religious belief that Alito's right-of-Torquemada views on religious liberty are a significant threat to the First Amendment.
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Protip: Sending someone a text message with the following text is not likely to lead to anything resembling valid data. "Hi, I'm Sara. We're gathering views on America's relationship with Israel. Got a sec to chat? Stop2End"
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm sure JD Vance will explain that it's all part of forming a more perfect Union, establishing Justice, insuring domestic Tranquility, providing for the common defence, promoting the general Welfare, and securing the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity. Or something about couches.
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We're about three-and-a-half weeks into the new Jewish year, and already I've had two people send me documents I can only describe as manifestos. I should've gone into the antisocial sciences instead of sociology...
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is an important statement people, and especially elected Dems need to really understand. The current Republican project is one of destruction, by design. Yes, they have other goals, in RFK’s case he’s objectively pro-disease, but their primary metric of success is breaking government.
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The primary message of New Hampshire political ads this cycle seems to be "we're all slimy, but I'm slimy in a less offensive way than my opponent."
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's almost as though science works and it was a bad idea to put public health in the US in the hands of a homicidal cult.
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Antisemite 1: "Why are there so many Jewish cemeteries in the United States?" Antisemite 2: "Must be the Zionists." I've already seen this re: synagogues. It was only a matter of time...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The "all anti-Zionism is always and forever antisemitism" people and the "all antisemitism becomes fine if we just say it's anti-Zionism, even if we're ranting about the Talmud" people reinforce one another, even if both sides utterly fail to see it.
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a few years in the '70s, the Supreme Court banned capital punishment on the grounds that it was cruel and unusual punishment as well as discriminatory. It still is both of those things, but today, SCOTUS cleared the way for a botched execution before appeals were properly exhausted.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/09/2026
Jesus Christ Cornell
What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eric Schmitt’s conspiracy theory, slander and b-ball ignorance yesterday was humiliating. But also remember who he is: a natcon with a blood-and-soil belief that the only real Americans are descended from white Christians who immigrated before the mid-1800s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Say The Thing Tee @saythethingtee.com · 30/09/2026
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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026
this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the dumbest scumbags on the left are now attacking zohran for *combatting antisemitism* Zohran derangement syndrome is real and applies to the alt-left just as much as the alt right
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I'm not criticizing Zohran for doing this because I understand he has to deal with a very toxic political reality. Politics is a different game.
But to me launching a "Strategy to Combat
Antisemitism" in a time of the Gaza genocide is akin to a
"Strategy to Combat Anti-Whiteness" at the height of South African apartheid. That's not even a fair analogy:
Israel and its apologists do infinitely more to both fabricate and encourage anti-Semitism.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani O
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The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's really nothing like the narcissism of replacement theology.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"97.6% of Americans are not Jewish. If we want to be safer, we need as many of those 97.6% as possible to want us to be safer too." Rabbi Rachel Timoner nailed it 💯
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's amazing how much money can be saved, not to mention lives, by *not* putting a homicidal, anti-science cult in charge of public health.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They were cool with the racism, sexism, bigotry, corruption, dismantling of social services and common decency, burning every ally, shooting American citizens in the face in the street, the insurrection, Trump being besties with Epstein etc etc. But once the price of gas got too high it was over.
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Feel however you want to feel about Israel. The second you use Israel to justify a shooting at a synagogue on Yom Kippur, you're rationalizing your desire to see Jews murdered. If you're tempted to argue with me on this point, seek therapy immediately in the hope that you could become less evil.
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
People forget that you can WALK to Canada from parts of Buffalo. Of course Buffalo franchises have lots of Canadian fans, and it's not somehow un-American to respect those fans. Frankly, I question both the intelligence and the morality of anyone who has a problem with this.
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Mike Maples @mikemaples.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Put a pin in your AI panic and read this thread because it’s not theoretical, it’s right fucking now. Clinical trials saved my life. I don’t want to be the last to benefit.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
1. This is a naked attack on press freedom by a president who hates it. 2. There are limits to the president's ability to carry out this threat thanks to the First Amendment. 3. It's also a threat to the "Other Fake News Media Outlets" who can face similar punishment based on their reporting.
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bragging about them before, after, and while committing them would seem to be clear evidence.
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Nice to see the hometown represented on Jeopardy. Would've been nicer if it wasn't for our toxic waste dump, the neighborhood built over it, and all the people harmed by that choice.
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Putin.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 16/09/2026
My favorite video essay on the subject by @hbomberguy.bsky.social youtu.be/8BIcAZxFfrc?...
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Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response
YouTube video by hbomberguy
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Periodic reminder why American Jews disproportionately vote Democratic.
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One more thing for the justices to atone for next year.
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thought this was about Hegseth for a second.
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I actually do think that Democrats should disavow anyone with a significant following who claims to support them but habitually traffics in bigotry. I just think Republicans should be held to the same standard, and if they were, they'd have to drop most of their leaders, not just Twitch streamers.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Why are people still telling scientists that we need to compromise with MAHA? How about if we tell MAHA that they can come to the table when they respect the scientific method instead.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
On Nov. 21, 1922, in the NY Times' first story about an up-and-coming politician named Adolf Hitler, the Times said "Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded." Yes, really. We should remember that when news media dismiss Trump's insane rhetoric. Take. It. Seriously.
"But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semite propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political purposes."
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
$16 million later, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was supposed to be open by July 4. Instead, it looks like this.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I wonder if all R candidates are going to be asked to denounce the guy who attacked Amy Acton.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’ll just note that right before Elon threw out two Sieg Heils to celebrate installing Donald Trump, he rallied a group of literal German fascists (AfD).
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Now thats a headline. Hat tip to @crampell.bsky.social. www.thebulwark.com/p/europe-gol...
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Europe’s Gold Fled the Nazis. Now It’s Fleeing Trump.
Our allies once trusted America to safeguard their reserves. Now they worry the president might freeze them.
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Dr. Matt Boxer @mboxer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Her statement, "I do agree with [Musk] that we need to eliminate waste and be much more efficient in government," sounds like she's endorsing Troy Jackson.
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