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Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 14h
Still waiting to find out whether 'anyone in Israeli leadership who let October 7th happen should not have a molecule of power today' is a Zionist or antizionist position.
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 15h
This has an appealing symmetry but I’m not sure who the first category refers to. Some argue (persuasively though they preach to converted) antizionism is not criticism of Israeli policies/acts but anti-Israeli bigotry.
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 19h
One can so quickly arrive at 'but was Hitler even an antisemite' territory, because he too had his pretexts. Anyway, me in 2014, evidently: dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/08/12/t...
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The Myth Of Pretext-Free Anti-Semitism
by Phoebe Maltz Bovy Alongside the coverage of Gaza, on the Dish and beyond, has been a steady stream of coverage of a kind of shadow issue: European anti-Semitism. Writes Jon Henley: Across Europe…
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 20h
I am glad to have coined (I think?) "sparkling antizionism" but not glad of how relevant it continues to be.
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What is a "Zionist synagogue"? There are two possible meanings. 1) Any Synagogue affiliated to a denomination which in some way has expressed support for Israel's existence. Which is most of them. 2) Any Synagogue which has prayers which can be interpreted as "Zionist". Which is ALL of them.
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I need to write a thread about this. If you don't like it, feel free to block me. But I hope at least some of you will listen. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Jewish Greens face sanctions for belonging to ‘Zionist’ synagogues
The Green Party rejected an amendment to protect Jewish members attending self-declared ‘Zionist’ organisations from reports of racism
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 21h
Thank you for your service
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are two big implications of the faux-Palestinian story. Zoomed-in: the I believe credulous assertions that she actually is some things she claims but not others. Zoomed-out: the 'she's not Palestinian she's Jewish AND (therefore) WHITE framing.' phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/pretendest...
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Two Jews, three apologies: Avi Lewis and Hannah Gann atone, for Palestine
While Hannah Gann’s lies and apologies are more colourful than Avi Lewis’s, only one of these people is causing harm from an actual platform.
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reupping my best work.
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/what-we-lost Came across a 1995 Sears ad that explains frumpy-but-horny better than I could in words.
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What we lost
On a frumpy-but-horny Sears ad from 1995
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/what-we-lost Came across a 1995 Sears ad that explains frumpy-but-horny better than I could in words.
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What we lost
On a frumpy-but-horny Sears ad from 1995
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
Scientists observed a family of pygmy raccoons near a beach club in Cozumel, Mexico, learning from one another how to craft balls from paper, an indication that the animals have a culture.
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On This Mexican Island, Raccoons Make and Play With Toys (and Also Sip Margaritas)
Scientists observed a family of pygmy raccoons near a Cozumel beach club learning from one another how to craft balls from paper, an indication that the animals have a culture.
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Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Huge props to the headline writers at The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
Province’s rat patrol called in to investigate as town of Bowden announces discovery of dead vermin
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amanda hess @amandahess.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wrote about Bernadine Bluntly, a tradwife who lived with her husband and six children in an off-grid tiny home until last year, when she snuck down the gravel path to the highway, called the police, and got a restraining order. Now she's an ex-trad infuencer: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/s...
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Bernadine Bluntly’s Brand Was Tradwife. Then She Got Divorced.
What happens when a trad influencer leaves her husband, questions her beliefs, stops selling anti-feminism T-shirts — and still needs to make a living online?
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Great headline, perfect www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/s...
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Bernadine Bluntly’s Brand Was Tradwife. Then She Got Divorced.
What happens when a trad influencer leaves her husband, questions her beliefs, stops selling anti-feminism T-shirts — and still needs to make a living online?
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David Weinfeld @davidweinfeld.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
thecjn.ca/arts-culture... great review essay by @phoebebovy.bsky.social in the @thecjn.bsky.social on Aliza Luft’s new book
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When hope kills: Aliza Luft’s ‘Sacred Betrayal’ tells of French Jews’ misplaced trust in Catholic clerics during the Holocaust
A sense that everything would work out just fine prevented collective action or flight while those would have still been (relatively) possible.
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Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fabulous essay by @phoebebovy.bsky.social A lot to think about. French "Israelites" back then somewhat equivalent to today's proud to be shamed, anti-Zionist community? thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
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When hope kills: Aliza Luft’s ‘Sacred Betrayal’ tells of French Jews’ misplaced trust in Catholic clerics during the Holocaust
A sense that everything would work out just fine prevented collective action or flight while those would have still been (relatively) possible.
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Woke is me
From problematicness-flagging to antiwoke incontinence
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wrote a whole entire good-if-I-may-say-so column and then bonkers news stories got in the way so I will be writing a hopefully even better one?
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You still get occasional rays of sunshine on the shitstorm that is X dot com
A Twitter thread pointing out that maaaaybe certain Christians should consider John 8:7 before poking fun of certain Jewish rituals, however esoteric they might seem.
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I did not know this but will suggest that everyone including the monosexuals observe by watching the best television episode of all time: peepshow.fandom.com/wiki/Threeism
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Threeism
Threeism is the third episode of series 9 and fifty-first overall episode of Peep Show. Mark tries to rekindle his relationship with April, but to his chagrin he finds out that she is already married,...
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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The French En-lite-enment
“French Women Don’t Get Fat,” 2004
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Aryeh @aryehcw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The latest edition of my weekly links roundup includes pieces by @phoebebovy.bsky.social, @philipchristman.bsky.social, @jwherrman.bsky.social, and more! aryehcw.substack.com/p/the-best-f...
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The best first sentence I’ve read all year…
…is in this New Yorker piece by Ian Parker.
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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“Famesick,” postscript
Lena Dunham’s return to brand
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Possibly more concerned with the decision to put one’s child on the cover of the NYT Magazine with all the implications than with the school choice itself.
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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Our students don’t deserve this. For those who don’t understand UT Austin admissions, most undergrads get in bc they were top 5% of their graduating class, from a Texas high school. Anyone calling for more white students is advocating for race conscious admissions - to help out white students.
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This person seems nice and not at all like someone for whom any antisemitism hitching onto the Palestinian cause is feature not bug.
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Stephanie Cole AND Duncan Sheik, this is my Dolly Parton.
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh my God, this is absolutely awful. RIP. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a... 
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Duncan Sheik, Who Traded Pop Stardom for Broadway, Dies at 56
Weary of the heartthrob label after his 1996 hit “Barely Breathing,” he pivoted to musical theater and won two Tonys for composing “Spring Awakening.”
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Monoprix in Toronto when?
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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The cleavage take factory
On Sydney Sweeney ‘outrage’
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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The cleavage take factory
On Sydney Sweeney ‘outrage’
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Skunk and wasp season. Not the best wildlife.
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Seth @sethjmeyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is a fantastic thread
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Josh Yunis @joshyunis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The other thing about this is that Israel/Palestine is just pop culture now. That’s how it’s consumed & understood. Which celebrity said what. Did you hear what Macklemore said? Do you agree w/Seinfeld? What about Susan Sarandon? It must all be consumed in slogans that fit the size of an IG story
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Jennifer Rose @jenni4iowa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In a different timeline, this is a top-five story.
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Drunken raccoon found cozied up in Des Moines brewery's dumpster
An intoxicated raccoon was found sleeping one off in Exile Brewing Co.'s dumpster after apparently overserving himself.
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Which is why I'm a hypocrite, having just endorsed Prince Harry as head of the ADL.
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Do I need to Macklemore take is this legally required of me ok fine it is this: I don't think it is helpful to the Palestinian cause to be associated with a man who many-not-all Jews will remember as the one who brazenly wore a schozz-y antisemitic costume.
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My 👏 culture 👏 is 👏 not 👏 your 👏 costume 👏
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Falling ass-backwards into my original calling (theorist of what antisemitism is all about)
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Galliano parallel is that this is about the resurfacing of old incidents. "Free Palestine" PLUS the nose costume is the story.
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The gist appears to be that American Jews are Democrats. Who knew? And discourseville must contend with healthcare being a more important issue to US Jewish voters than Israel is.
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Big in Sweden! www.svd.se/a/zOQPjb/het...
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Vad har hänt med heterokvinnans begär?
Joanna Górecka läser Phoebe Maltz Bovys omtalade bok och frågar sig: vad händer med den straighta kvinnan i heteropessimismens tid?
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"This recipe is best when prepared with fresh rice noodles, which come in sheets that can be cut by hand." Not if you're doing it as a way of using up dry noodles you found in the back of the pantry though is it!
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Clothing is communication so yes if suit-wearing goes out of style you start communicating something different if you still wear one. It’s not about allowed versus forbidden but whether you’d get ‘you look good’ or ‘why so formal?’
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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She wants to hold my ha-aa-aaand.
But in a condescending way
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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September 11, 2026
I don’t really do anniversary posts.
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A new one for the people asking for favors I would have no way of helping them with files: would I consider someone's op-ed for the Globe and Mail?
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Phoebe Maltz Bovy @phoebebovy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The sight of my book in a bookstore, panned by someone who seems to be averse to so much as opening it. www.tiktok.com/@hjulrich/vi...
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Like! #wlw #queer #sapphic #lesbiansoftiktok #fyp
TikTok video by HaileyMcRich🌈
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