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Shachar Pinsker

@spinsker.bsky.social
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Professor of Middle East Studies and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Writer, Editor, Translator.

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Shachar Pinsker @spinsker.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Please read the interview that Nir Hasson did with Assaf David in Haaretz. It's really important www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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One of the few Israelis with a direct line to Gazans urges public to confront horrors
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Shachar Pinsker @spinsker.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
“We spoke about bread, the most urgent necessity of our lives.” Shojaa Al-Safadi writes about the newly named Refugee Street in this creative nonfiction piece in our July issue, translated by Ibtisam Barakat. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/july/wi...
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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
For MSNBC Opinion, I wrote about Brown’s agreement with the Trump admin and how promoting the idea that “DEI” is bad for Jews and also simultaneously that only Jews are entitled to it is totally counter to promoting understanding of Jewishness/fighting antisemitism www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | How Trump's ‘antisemitism’ deal with Brown University actually endangers Jewish students
The agreement, the latest between the Trump White House and major universities, raises pertinent issues about who is protected and who is not.
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Shachar Pinsker @spinsker.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The Big Ten Rises UpAgainst Trump newrepublic.com/article/1983... via @newrepublic.com
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The Big Ten Rises Up Against Trump
The press acts as if “higher education” = Harvard. But a more interesting and gutsier stand is being taken in the heartland by schools that have a lot more going for them than football.
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Shachar Pinsker @spinsker.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
www.bostonreview.net/articles/gaz...
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Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review
The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.
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Shachar Pinsker @spinsker.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...
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Opinion | What We Talk About When We Talk About the Right of Return
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Shachar Pinsker @spinsker.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Martin Shaw, the author of “What is Genocide?” and “The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges After Gaza” reflects on this moment in the global debate newlinesmag.com/argument/the...
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The Dam of Gaza Genocide Denial Has Broken
Several prominent media outlets are coming off the fence over Israel’s actions, but a conspiracy of helplessness still prevails
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Shachar Pinsker @spinsker.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
My review essay of Beyond the Land is published at @worldlittoday.bsky.social.
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The number of “cides” in Gaza is growing, but beyond its destruction of schools, hospitals, farmland and entire family lineages, Israel is also engaging in historicide — the destruction of history itself — argues @lsmwilson.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social
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Historicide in Gaza
Israel’s destruction of official and personal archives is changing how Palestine’s story can be told
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Shachar Pinsker @spinsker.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Thanks for a great conference!
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Shachar Pinsker @spinsker.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Horrific news. IU is one of the best public universities.
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Poetry is ubiquitous in Iran: It is on tombstones, skin, walls, cars, shirts and social media bios. Learning the story of Persian letters helps us better understand Iran as it is today and how it views itself, the world, and its future, writes Muhammad Ali Mojaradi newlinesmag.com/essays/the-k...
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The Key to Understanding Iran Is Poetry
Even a casual observer could notice the importance of poetry in Iranian society, if only because a disproportionate number of tourist sites in Iran are the graves of medieval poets. When classical poe...
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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Shachar Pinsker offers reflections following Gali Drucker Bar-Am, I Am Your Dust: Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose, 1948-1967, translated by Natalie Melzer. ingeveb.org/articles/ref...
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Shachar Pinsker @spinsker.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
My reflections on Yiddish in Palestine/Israel following a recent book by Gali Drucker Bar-Am are published in a new essay @ingeveb.bsky.social ingeveb.org/articles/ref...
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The Vanguard of Their Peoples: Reflections following Gali Drucker Bar-Am, I Am Your Dust: Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose, 1948-1967, translated by Natalie Melzer | In geveb
We are discovering that the story of Yiddish in Palestine/Israel is vast, complex, and utterly fascinating, and it’s being written not (yet) by a novelist or fi
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Shachar Pinsker @spinsker.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Looking forward to this lsa.umich.edu/judaic/news-...
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Shachar Pinsker @spinsker.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
www.npr.org/2025/04/29/n...
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Shachar Pinsker @spinsker.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
www.youtube.com/live/cIW-9Xa...
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טקס יום הזיכרון המשותף ה-20 | The 20th Joint Memorial Ceremony | مراسم يوم الذكرى المشترك ال-20
YouTube video by Combatants for Peace
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I fear only demons - Sami Michael The Iraqi-born Israeli author, who died in April 2024 aged 97, first caught the attention of Israel’s Hebrew-reading public with his 1974 debut novel, “All Men Are Equal — But Some Are More.”
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Sami Michael Broke New Ground by Centering Arabs in His Hebrew Novels
The Iraqi-born writer introduced characters previously marginalized or omitted from Israeli literature
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Shachar Pinsker @spinsker.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
On Monday, April 15, 6pm, I will give the Fordham-NYPL Lecture: “When Yiddish Was Young in Israel,” presenting materials from my new research. I hope to see you at Fordham Lincoln Center (140 West 62nd Street). For more details and to register (in-person and online), see here: tinyurl.com/b256yt34
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