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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Poem #1: You're not sick, it's happening open.substack.com/pub/samschin...

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Poem

You’re not sick, it’s happening

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

IAEA And US Intelligence Dispute Israeli Claims About an Initial Attack by Iran open.substack.com/pub/samschin... Ongoing series on explaining that there's still an org called the IAEA and they actually tell us when countries are in violation of the NPT. We should listen to them. #IAEA #NPT #Iran

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IAEA And US Intelligence Dispute Israeli Claims About an Initial Attack by Iran

Also, There's a Doomsday Gap.

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Of course bombing hospitals and killing civilians is utterly reprehensible. This is an indisputable fact. Right? Right? We all agree on this unequivocally. Right? Don't we? Apparently we don't. #iran #israel #palestine #gaza #genocide #bombinghospitals

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

April 1994 open.substack.com/pub/samschin... At 19, my Israeli cousins warned me that as a Jew in Israel, I had enemies everywhere and that it was best to kill them before they inevitably killed me. #Israel #palestinians #EastJerusalem #MountofOlives #Arabs #shooting

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April 1994

31 years ago, I got to know my Israeli cousins and felt the full weight of their politics.

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Zionism and the "Lachryose Conception of Jewish History" open.substack.com/pub/samschin... Jews from Arab lands have a very different history from European Jews and it is almost always overlooked. What does this mean for Zionism? #zionism #MENA #arabjews #middleeast #israel #UNpartition

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Zionism and the "Lachryose Conception of Jewish History"

The Former Depends on the Latter; Problem is the Latter is Wrong.

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Israel Has Put Us in an Impossible Position substack.com/@wewillnotab... There's actually a good reason why some still adamantly support Israel even now. #Holocaust #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #zionism

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Israel Has Put Us in an Impossible Position

Some of Us Are Stuck Defending Israel, Even Though We Deplore Its Behavior

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

What is Anti-Zionism Anyway? open.substack.com/pub/samschin... Historian Avi Shlaim has long identified as an "Arab Jew," but Zionism has erased that term from our collective vocabulary. Part 2 of 2. #zionism #antizionism #avishlaim #jewishhistory #genocide #gaza #jewisharabs

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What is Anti-Zionism Anyway?

Part II

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

What is Anti-Zionism Anyway? open.substack.com/pub/samschin... The misuse of the term today totally misrepresents a complicated history. Part 1 of 2. #antizionism #jewishhistory #zionism #palestine #herzl

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What is Anti-Zionism Anyway?

Part I

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

jung-naiv.podigee.io/1074-762-pal... The unique perspective of the host @tilojung.bsky.social shapes the conversation with @makdisi.bsky.social ‬ about Gaza today and modern ME history in a brilliantly compelling way. Even if you already know a lot - you'll learn more. #jungandnaiv #middleeast

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#762 - Palestinian American historian Ussama Makdisi on Gaza, Palestine & Israel

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Does the Existence of Israel Make World Jewry Safer? open.substack.com/pub/samschin... If you’re going to insist that antisemitism equals anti-Zionism you’re going to endanger Jews. #dcshooting #antisemitism #antizionism #IHRA #newspeak #gaza #palestine #eliasrodriguez #jews

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Does the Existence of Israel Make World Jewry Safer?

No.

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Cycles of violence www.nefariousrussians.com/p/cycles-of-... Sagacious analysis here from @yashalevine.bsky.social. I write a lot about I/P & anticipate the impending whataboutism. Levine rightly emphasizes the shooter's manifesto: "Israel" as perpetrator, not "Jews." #eliasrodriguez #dc #genocide

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Cycles of violence

On the shooting in Washington DC.

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

You've heard the plaintive refrain: "Why are they so obsessed with Israel? Why can't they complain about other atrocities?" I'll tell you why: Because the Gaza genocide is the WORST CRIME OF MY LIFETIME. We're 'obsessed' just as Zionists are obsessed with killing Palestinians. #gaza #genocide

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

NYU: You Are an Accessory to Mass Murder open.substack.com/pub/samschin... #NYU:: You are unserious, puerile, ignominious, psychotic and bereft of the slightest shred of integrity #LoganRozos #Gaza #genocide

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NYU: You Are an Accessory to Mass Murder

Denouncing a Graduate's Speech is Opposing Opposition to Mass Murder (Which Equals Cooperating in Genocide)

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

A Higher Ed institution penalizes someone who speaks out against killing. I understand reprimanding someone who makes a speech encouraging mass murder. This is someone who wants that to stop. That's a bad thing to promote? Insanity. #Genocide #hypocrisy #censorship #fascism youtu.be/9cwoOmpeDZw

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NYU withholds student's diploma after Gaza remarks in speech

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

To paraphrase the intrepid @michaelhobbes.bsky.social, the program of the "extreme right" can be reduced to one strategic exploit: Selling victimhood to privileged people. It serves White Christian nat'lists, as well as Zionists still using the Holocaust to justify murdering Palestinian children.

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

We are Not the Victims This Time. open.substack.com/pub/samschin... WE are not the victims. Generational Trauma is real, but we're not the victims here. If anything, we're the perpetrators. Stop posting self-righteous, fabricated nonsense to justify your blood lust. #genocide #holocaust

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We are Not the Victims This Time.

No, You're Not a Victim, No Matter How Many Ridiculous Lies You Post on Facebook

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

My almost 13-year-old son: I know we're on the right side of things because we want to protect people and they want to protect things.

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The Crisis of College Concession to the Extreme Right open.substack.com/pub/samschin... It's happening all over the place. #project2025 #hatespeech #transrights #🏳️‍⚧️

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The Crisis of College Concession to the Extreme Right

Liberal Arts Colleges: STOP Giving In to Project 2025 Trolls!

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Nora Grace, Sam Schindler, and Bob Dylan 2/9/25 open.substack.com/pub/samschin... What's on the mind of a 15-year-old aspiring musician in 2025. Nora Grace's first single: open.spotify.com/album/03sfKh... #bobdylan #youngmusician #youngartist #singersongwriter

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Nora Grace, Sam Schindler, and Bob Dylan 2/9/25

After four years, the What We Will Abide podcast returns with this Short, featuring singer-songwriter Nora Grace.

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Revisiting Stages of Indoctrination substack.com/@wewillnotab... Starting a series on charting the stages of my indoctrination as a child and a student into Jewish supremacy. #zionism #jewishsupremacy #israel #education

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Revisiting Stages of Indoctrination

Stage I: Westchester Day School; Age 5-13

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Has Matt Taibbi always been such a self-righteous, self-important prick? At one point he was doing good reporting about kleptocracy, and he's generally right about media censorship, but now all he wants to do is crow about how badly all of us are misreading Trump. Seems like he wants in.

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Because of work like yours, @peterbeinart.bsky.social, I renounce my Zionist, Jewish Supremacist "teachers" of the past. I will call them out in a public forum because they've caused SO MANY Jewish kids to be complicit in erasing Palestinian culture & people. Thank you for your boundless courage.

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Consider the typical colonialist practice that Israelis deploy by coopting words and phrases in Arabic that are "cool." Israelis love to curse in Arabic because it's "slumming" and edgy. They say "mabsoot" and "ya'allah" while they full erase the culture these words came from. #colonialism #arabic

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I renounce my Zionist, Jewish Supremacist "teachers" of the past. Westchester Day School in Mamaroneck, Young Judaea, Beth El Synagogue, New Rochelle. I embrace new mentors & teachers: #EdwardSaid #NurMasalha #MariamBarghouti @makdisi.bsky.social #RashidKhalidi #MahmoudDarwish #hananashrawi & more

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Being Dangerous - Take 2 open.substack.com/pub/samschin... Part 2 on coming to terms with how a value system can separate you from people you've known and loved for decades. Don't I look "dangerous" in this picture? I was 13. #israel #palestine #jews #jewishness #childhood #adulthood

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Being Dangerous - Take 2

It will not surprise you to learn that I don’t find kinship easily in this world.

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Substack post soon: Parallels btwn #Nazi legislation/execution of antisemitic policy & Israeli treatment of #Gaza. Example: Concentration in #Warsawghetto, then liquidation when decision was made that labor Jews did was less valuable than calories they consumed. #genocide #wewillnotabide #history

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Quick refresher - if you're justifying the latest Israeli assault in the West Bank, you need to know one thing: THERE IS NO HAMAS IN THE WEST BANK. You cannot use Oct 7 as an excuse for the settler-colonial barbarism taking place there now. #hamas #genocide #westbank #🇵🇸 #freepalestine

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Hey US Zionists - why aren't you up in arms about the current targeting of #LGBTQ+ people in the US? You're so vocal about how repressive #Palestinians are & how affirming #Israel is to gay and trans people, how about speaking up for them now that they're under attack at home? #gayrights #Zionism

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I feel increasingly solidarity with these folks.

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Can you IMAGINE if a gov't official pressured an institution of higher learning to REMOVE a posting for a Jewish Studies position?? Within seconds everyone from the ADL to ZOA would be howling NAZI GERMANY! ANTISEMITISM!!! #racism #orientalism #essentialism #palestine #hochulisafascist #hypocrisy

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

By far one of the best books I have read, ever. Khalil, by Yasmina Khadra (Mohammed Moulessehoul). #literature #khalil #yasminakhadra

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Q: "Do you condemn Hamas for the Oct 7 attacks?" This is not actually a question, it's an essentialist's trap, so best to respond in kind: Q: "Do you condemn the IDF for shooting children in the head? #essentialism #genocide #freepalestine

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

On Being Dangerous - Take 1 open.substack.com/pub/samschin... A friend recently called me "dangerous," saying he was worried about what I was teaching my students. He should be. It's become all too obvious what's happening in #Palestine and it's too much to cover up, deny or unsee. #genocide

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

When your hear this increasingly common refrain: "College campuses are no longer safe for Jews," respond with: "Which Jews?" There are anti-Zionist Jews. They are protesting #genocide. You might even be one. I'm one. (I'm also on College Campuses--watch out.) #campusprotest #antizionism #palestine

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Say It Ain't So, Norman substack.com/@wewillnotab... A piece about a one-time hero of mine, scholar of Israel/Palestine Norman Finkelstein. I can't endorse his recent embrace of transphobia and anti-woke/pro-bigotry in the name of "academic freedom." #normanfinkelstein #palestine #holocaust

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Say It Ain't So, Norman

Long-time Advocate for Palestinian Independence Norman Finkelstein Misses the Boat on Solidarity in Activism Because He's Actually a Racist Transphobe -- and It Makes Me Really Sad

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The JNF Box open.substack.com/pub/samschin... They were everywhere when I was a kid. My extra change went to plant a tree––on the ruins of a Palestinian village. Maybe yours did too. #JNF #Nakba #Palestine

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The JNF Box

Buying Trees to Hide a Sordid Past

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Sam Schindler @samschindler.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

These days, I see a fair number of otherwise thoughtful people adamantly and vociferously calling for what amounts to the eradication of millions of fellow human beings, the Palestinians. Why? Read more below.

Having endured yet another hideous atrocity perpetrated against Jewish people in Israel, a startling number of fellow Jews have recently become ardent supporters of continued catastrophic Israeli military activity in Gaza. I

In 1928, Columbia University professor Salo Baron pointed to a “lachrymose conception ofJewish history,” in which all of Jewish history is read through the lens of persecution. And
though Baron was critical of this formulation,

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