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  1. Copying my response to an unlisted communication. Highly recommend reading Ora Herman's "The Furnace and the Reactor: Behind the Scenes at the Eichmann Trial"

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    @[…] you raise important questions but I’m not sure what you mean by building bridges. Israel, in a way, is the #golem Europe created and now is in full control, destroying everything in its wake and it’s not limited to Palestinian resistance.

    Apropos investment in Israel’s economy, science and military, in the 1960s #Germany used #Holocaust guilt to justify funding Israel's nuclear program while demanding the #Eichmann trial not implicate ordinary Germans in genocide. Today's Europe uses "shared values" rhetoric to justify continued research cooperation.

    Ben-Gurion insisted on "Nazi Germany" versus "Germany" to protect German sensibilities and secure nuclear funding. Today's discussions about Horizon Europe carefully avoid confronting Europe's role in enabling Israeli capabilities used against Palestinians. The program has provided Israeli institutions with billions in research funding, much of which has enhanced dual-use technologies, surveillance systems, and military applications now deployed in Gaza and the West Bank.

    IMHO Suspending Horizon Europe participation wouldn't just be about current Israeli actions - it would force Europe to confront how its historical and ongoing support has made those actions possible. The current framing avoids this uncomfortable truth about European complicity.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

    See Ora Herman's "The Furnace and the Reactor: Behind the Scenes at the Eichmann Trial"

    Maybe the solution is to encourage brain drain. Support Israeli scientists who will come and work in Europe, make them sign a cooling-off period preventing them from working with any industry complicit, supporting or enabling the occupation in any way. The world will benefit from continued investment in research, and #Israel will be left to deal with the consequences of adopting messianic #Zionism.

    Regardless, polling shows that most Israelis support the continued occupation, and now more than ever, they also support population transfer - I believe the figure is around 86% of the Jewish population. There's little reason to assume that scientists and academics are somehow exempt from these broader societal attitudes.

    @academicchatter
    @bookstodon #bookstodons
    @palestine @israel

  2. The books that helped me most in the last year (and that I would have loved to hear about sooner) are

    Patrick Dunleavy's "Authoring a PhD.
    How to Plan, Draft, Write and Finish a Doctoral Thesis or Dissertation" for setting up a suitable structure and argumentation plan.
    (thanks again so much @metacramer for pointing this out!!!)

    and

    Joli Jensen's "Write No Matter What. Advice for Academics" helped me get into the flow of writing.

    #phdlife #histodons #bookstodons #recommendation
    #writing

  3. Back to reading📚 ...
    Bought 11 book today ...
    Tired of being bombarded by notifications..

    #life #reading #book #bookstodons

  4. #history #reference / Peretz, Dekel. 2022. Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine. De Gruyter.

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    Introducion: Zionism for the Diaspora: Bridging the Gap between German
    and Zionist Historical Narratives [p. 6]

    An important step towards interlinking these narratives is to contextualize Oppenheimer and like-minded Zionists in a period when Germany’s colonial and imperial aspirations were peaking. It seems to go without saying that historical research needs to consider contemporaneous geographical, political and intellectual conditions. Yet this basic staple of the historian has been often neglected by researchers of German colonialism and of German Zionism in respect to the correlation between these two coetaneous affairs. It is not the purpose of this book to examine the causes of this neglect. Nevertheless, I would like to make some hypothetical suggestions.

    First, Germany did not have a long-established colonial apparatus of the size and quality of France and England. There were certainly fewer Jews active within the German colonial service and, apart from a few prominent protagonists mentioned in this book, research into this matter is sparse. However, the lack of active service within the colonial bureaucracy alone is not indicative of the level of enthusiasm and advocacy of German colonial ambitions among German Jewry. There were other spheres in which support for colonial undertakings could manifest themselves

    Second, due to the racialist and outright racist aspects of colonialism as well as the ultimate devastation that German colonial and imperial ambitions brought on the Jews during the Second World War and the Holocaust, it retroactively seems unfathomable that Jews could have ever been involved in any way with
    German colonialism.

    Third, the Zionist narrative is shaped by a teleological perspective. The focus of Zionist historiography on the contributions made to building the state of Israel, together with the ideology of diaspora negation¹⁷ – preaching total separation and distancing from Europe – blurred out conceptions of Zionism in which the establishment of Jewish sovereignty did not contradict a continued Jewish life in Europe or even envisioned realizing this sovereignty in places other than Palestine. During the First World War, Oppenheimer and his Zionist contemporaries proposed the establishment of Jewish cultural sovereignty or autonomy within (Eastern) Europe, in remarkable affinity with the anti-Zionist Bundism prevalent in Eastern Europe, revealing the diversity of opinions within early German Zionism. Furthermore, the Balfour Declaration and the subsequent British endorsement of Zionism overshadowed earlier attempts by German Zionists to integrate
    Zionism into a broader German colonial scheme.

    Fourth, further clouding the vision is the tension in Zionist historiography between the depiction of the intellectual origins of the Zionist movement within the context of European nationalism on the one hand, and the conceptualizing of Zionism as an anomaly of nationalism with independent roots in the ethnic, messianic character of Judaism on the other. The international nature of the movement makes it from the start a difficult object for comprehensive study.¹⁸ Finally, and probably most importantly, the negative association of colonialism with violent subjugation, foreign transgression, and unjustifiable occupation made it an unlikely candidate for integration by a Zionist historiography charged with constructing the national narrative of a Jewish state in a long-running conflict with indigenous and neighboring populations.

    @bookstodon
    @histodons
    @israel
    @palestine
    #histodons
    #bookstodons
    #israel
    #zionism
    #germany

  5. #hisotry #reference / Between Prague and Jerusalem : the idea of a binational state in Palestine. Dimitry Shumsky (2010). [Hebrew; German edition 2013]

    Prof. Dimitri Shumsky, a Russian-born historian at Hebrew University, argues that the Zionist vision prior to 1948 was for a bi-national political entity in Israel/Palestine, not an ethnic Jewish nation-state as exists today.

    Most early Zionist thinkers and leaders, across ideological camps, advocated some form of bi-national framework that would provide collective rights for both Jews and Palestinian Arabs. This view changed drastically after 1948.

    Shumsky says the bi-national vision broke down due to the Holocaust, World War II, and the 1948 war, which led to Jewish sovereignty and control rather than a power-sharing agreement.

    He sees reviving the civic currents in Zionist thought as a way to "re-Zionize" and make more inclusive the Israeli state today, though he recognizes the challenges given dominant Zionist nationalism that resists such change.

    Shumsky situates himself as trying to uncover suppressed Zionist intellectual streams that were responsive to the reality of a land shared by two peoples, not just idealistic notions. Bringing these to light can impact views today.

    Hebrew haemori.wordpress.com/2011/06/

    בין פראג לירושלים: ציונות פראג ורעיון המדינה הדו לאומית בארץ ישראל"

    @israel
    @palestine
    @histodons
    @bookstodon
    #histodons
    #bookstodons
    #israel
    #zionism

  6. #hisotry #reference / Between Prague and Jerusalem : the idea of a binational state in Palestine. Dimitry Shumsky (2010). [Hebrew; German edition 2013]

    Prof. Dimitri Shumsky, a Russian-born historian at Hebrew University, argues that the Zionist vision prior to 1948 was for a bi-national political entity in Israel/Palestine, not an ethnic Jewish nation-state as exists today.

    Most early Zionist thinkers and leaders, across ideological camps, advocated some form of bi-national framework that would provide collective rights for both Jews and Palestinian Arabs. This view changed drastically after 1948.

    Shumsky says the bi-national vision broke down due to the Holocaust, World War II, and the 1948 war, which led to Jewish sovereignty and control rather than a power-sharing agreement.

    He sees reviving the civic currents in Zionist thought as a way to "re-Zionize" and make more inclusive the Israeli state today, though he recognizes the challenges given dominant Zionist nationalism that resists such change.

    Shumsky situates himself as trying to uncover suppressed Zionist intellectual streams that were responsive to the reality of a land shared by two peoples, not just idealistic notions. Bringing these to light can impact views today.

    Hebrew haemori.wordpress.com/2011/06/

    בין פראג לירושלים: ציונות פראג ורעיון המדינה הדו לאומית בארץ ישראל"

    @israel
    @palestine
    @histodons
    @bookstodon
    #histodons
    #bookstodons
    #israel
    #zionism

  7. #hisotry #reference / Between Prague and Jerusalem : the idea of a binational state in Palestine. Dimitry Shumsky (2010). [Hebrew; German edition 2013]

    Prof. Dimitri Shumsky, a Russian-born historian at Hebrew University, argues that the Zionist vision prior to 1948 was for a bi-national political entity in Israel/Palestine, not an ethnic Jewish nation-state as exists today.

    Most early Zionist thinkers and leaders, across ideological camps, advocated some form of bi-national framework that would provide collective rights for both Jews and Palestinian Arabs. This view changed drastically after 1948.

    Shumsky says the bi-national vision broke down due to the Holocaust, World War II, and the 1948 war, which led to Jewish sovereignty and control rather than a power-sharing agreement.

    He sees reviving the civic currents in Zionist thought as a way to "re-Zionize" and make more inclusive the Israeli state today, though he recognizes the challenges given dominant Zionist nationalism that resists such change.

    Shumsky situates himself as trying to uncover suppressed Zionist intellectual streams that were responsive to the reality of a land shared by two peoples, not just idealistic notions. Bringing these to light can impact views today.

    Hebrew haemori.wordpress.com/2011/06/

    בין פראג לירושלים: ציונות פראג ורעיון המדינה הדו לאומית בארץ ישראל"

    @israel
    @palestine
    @histodons
    @bookstodon
    #histodons
    #bookstodons
    #israel
    #zionism

  8. #hisotry #reference / Between Prague and Jerusalem : the idea of a binational state in Palestine. Dimitry Shumsky (2010). [Hebrew; German edition 2013]

    Prof. Dimitri Shumsky, a Russian-born historian at Hebrew University, argues that the Zionist vision prior to 1948 was for a bi-national political entity in Israel/Palestine, not an ethnic Jewish nation-state as exists today.

    Most early Zionist thinkers and leaders, across ideological camps, advocated some form of bi-national framework that would provide collective rights for both Jews and Palestinian Arabs. This view changed drastically after 1948.

    Shumsky says the bi-national vision broke down due to the Holocaust, World War II, and the 1948 war, which led to Jewish sovereignty and control rather than a power-sharing agreement.

    He sees reviving the civic currents in Zionist thought as a way to "re-Zionize" and make more inclusive the Israeli state today, though he recognizes the challenges given dominant Zionist nationalism that resists such change.

    Shumsky situates himself as trying to uncover suppressed Zionist intellectual streams that were responsive to the reality of a land shared by two peoples, not just idealistic notions. Bringing these to light can impact views today.

    Hebrew haemori.wordpress.com/2011/06/

    בין פראג לירושלים: ציונות פראג ורעיון המדינה הדו לאומית בארץ ישראל"

    @israel
    @palestine
    @histodons
    @bookstodon
    #histodons
    #bookstodons
    #israel
    #zionism

  9. #hisotry #reference / Between Prague and Jerusalem : the idea of a binational state in Palestine. Dimitry Shumsky (2010). [Hebrew; German edition 2013]

    Prof. Dimitri Shumsky, a Russian-born historian at Hebrew University, argues that the Zionist vision prior to 1948 was for a bi-national political entity in Israel/Palestine, not an ethnic Jewish nation-state as exists today.

    Most early Zionist thinkers and leaders, across ideological camps, advocated some form of bi-national framework that would provide collective rights for both Jews and Palestinian Arabs. This view changed drastically after 1948.

    Shumsky says the bi-national vision broke down due to the Holocaust, World War II, and the 1948 war, which led to Jewish sovereignty and control rather than a power-sharing agreement.

    He sees reviving the civic currents in Zionist thought as a way to "re-Zionize" and make more inclusive the Israeli state today, though he recognizes the challenges given dominant Zionist nationalism that resists such change.

    Shumsky situates himself as trying to uncover suppressed Zionist intellectual streams that were responsive to the reality of a land shared by two peoples, not just idealistic notions. Bringing these to light can impact views today.

    Hebrew haemori.wordpress.com/2011/06/

    בין פראג לירושלים: ציונות פראג ורעיון המדינה הדו לאומית בארץ ישראל"

    @israel
    @palestine
    @histodons
    @bookstodon
    #histodons
    #bookstodons
    #israel
    #zionism

  10. "Facilitates an in-depth understanding of data-intensive methods

    Is the most advanced survey of data practices across the sciences

    Presents a ground-breaking and comprehensive framework for data studies".

    Leonelli, S., & Tempini, N. (2020). Data Journeys in the Sciences. In Springer eBooks. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-3717 #OpenAccess #Data #DataScience #Science #Ethics #Epistemology #Philosophy #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodons @philosophy @science @bookstodon (59)

  11. Ankündigung
    Ein Vortrag des Kollegen Werner Treß vom Nachbarinstitut MMZ Potsdam:
    Alfred Kantorowicz als Gründer der Freiheitsbibliothek in Paris 1934 und Begründer der Erinnerungskultur an die Bücherverbrennungen

    1. Juni 2023, 18 h, Kosmos im #Rechenzentrum, #Potsdam
    verbrannte-buecher.de

    @histodons @historikerinnen @bookstodon

    #Bücherverbrennung #Erinnerungskultur #AlfredKantorowicz #bookstodons #histodons #BookBurnings

  12. The CARNACKI: STARRY WISDOM AND OTHER STORIES paperback is now up on pre-order at the Weird House Press site

    weirdhousepress.com/product/ca

    Shipping March of 2023
    100 signed and numbered trade paperback editions
    Signed by the author

    #ghoststory #amwriting #bookstodons

  13. Why is a novel about bowling balls from space invading a suburb on Earth titled “They Walked Like Men”? Because, apparently, this 1960 novel is a shaggy dog joke of the first order. (The bowling ball aliens can also take the form of sexy dolls, surprisingly not featured on this 1979 cover.) #scifi #bookstodons #bowling #alieninvasion

  14. My recent readings of Dracula and then Frankenstein have led me to Daisy Hay’s book Young Romantics. I do love a good context-rich biography, even more so when it encompasses a group of fascinating and intense friends in a turbulent historical moment
    #bookstodons #biography #amreading #histodons

  15. Finished Leila Mottley‘s Nightcrawling today. A book like a knife, every sentence a cut straight to the bone.

    Blurb: "What begins as a drunken misunderstanding turns into the job Kiara never imagined wanting but now desperately needs: nightcrawling. Her world breaks open even further when her name surfaces in an investigation that exposes her as a key witness in a massive scandal within the Oakland PD."
    (If you need CNs for a book, feel free to let me know)
    #bookstodons #amreading #LuxBooks

  16. I’d like to write my next book entirely in Autocorrect. #bookstodons @bookstodon

  17. CW: Kindle monthly deal & paperback price drop

    I’m excited that The Redeemer has been chosen for an Amazon UK Kindle Monthly Deal for December - just 99p!

    And my paperback has dropped in price too - but the paperback price will go back up soon!

    The Redeemer has been shortlisted for Best Debut Crime Novel of 2022 in the Crime Fiction Lover Awards. Winner to be announced in the next week or so. (I don’t expect to win!)

    #bookstodons #bookstodon #CrimeFiction #books

  18. Happy Friday! This week's #FridayKiss prompt is THRILL. Here's an excerpt from my work in progress:

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    I'm beyond thrilled to see the woman I haven't been able to get out of my head standing before me, the woman I thought I'd never see again. So why did she look so...annoyed? If anyone should feel vexed it ought to be me. She ran off without so much as a kiss goodbye.

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    Have a great weekend! 💕 #bookstodons #RomanceReaders #romance #romancelit #romancelandia #romancenovel

  19. Happy Friday! This week's prompt is THRILL. Here's an excerpt from my work in progress:

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    I'm beyond thrilled to see the woman I haven't been able to get out of my head standing before me, the woman I thought I'd never see again. So why did she look so...annoyed? If anyone should feel vexed it ought to be me. She ran off without so much as a kiss goodbye.

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    Have a great weekend! 💕

  20. Happy Friday! This week's #FridayKiss prompt is THRILL. Here's an excerpt from my work in progress:

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    I'm beyond thrilled to see the woman I haven't been able to get out of my head standing before me, the woman I thought I'd never see again. So why did she look so...annoyed? If anyone should feel vexed it ought to be me. She ran off without so much as a kiss goodbye.

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    Have a great weekend! 💕 #bookstodons #RomanceReaders #romance #romancelit #romancelandia #romancenovel

  21. Hi everyone! I'm a beginning writer looking for some ARC readers for my latest novel. If you're interested in signing up to get a free copy and give me some feedback I'd really appreciate it.

    First line of the blurb: Tonight, Beatrix will conquer her demons or destroy all life in the universe. Who she trusts will determine the fate of all.

    Sign up here to be an ARC reader: timkulp.com/beta-reader-l3

    #writingcommunity #darkfantasy #UrbanFantasy #novelsinverse #arcreaders #bookstodons

  22. From my long list of literary classics I'd never actually read:

    My nightly Kindle read = working my way through Bram Stoker's Dracula. Almost done. Such an interesting novel, with its fragmented epistolary narrative and the technology on the cusp of modernity as key plot devices (phonograph recording device, typewriter, telegrams, trains ...) #amreading #literature #bookstodons #books #dracula #gothic

  23. That part in a love story when the hero sees the heroine in a perdy dress with her hair done and he’s like “Oh.” 🥹

    #romancelandia #RomanceTropes #RomanceAuthors #bookstodons