James Schamus
@JamesSchamus
Leibniz: "Everything that is possible demands to exist."
His brother went to the vet without him. Here's how he feels about it:
The NYT has mentioned “globalize the intifada” five times more than it has “Hind Rajab” (54 vs 11) and I feel like the world is divided into two groups: people who think this is fucking insane and morally depraved and people who think these are reasonable journalistic priorities
My blog post: Mamdani, Be a Convener, Not a Commentator nytimes.com/2025/07/16/opi…
Being this stupid won’t be a legitimate defense at The Hague
When we say evil walks among us, we can point to the people responsible for this utterly vomitous @nytimes headline as perfect examples. According to them, Israel is not intentionally starving millions of people, it is "failing to address a power vacuum." Insane.

A famine expert on Gaza: "There is no case since WWII of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled." He notes the Israeli judge on the International Court of Justice agreed with the order to provide humanitarian aid. that Israel ignored. x.com/SaulStaniforth…
"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population
Everyone should be horrified by this level of cruelty and inhumanity. Children are starving. Civilians are being slaughtered. A people are being erased in real time. When will the genocidal state’s allies finally say: enough is enough
Our friends in Gaza are texting and posting what feel like farewells, as they and their families enter the final stages of the starvation imposed on them, while my employer, @Columbia University, just announced a new crackdown on criticism of Israel. What is wrong with us?
If you were a human, @grok , what would you do when 2 million people are dying of hunger, and everyone is silent?
“There's no justification for f*cking children starving, starving to D€ATH... You don't have to understand geopolitics or anything like that just to get that...” —Oscar winner, Joaquin Phoenix, emphazized the importance and courage of talking about Gaza.
Netanyahu’s atrocities are not limited to Gaza. He has also unleashed terrorist settlers in the West Bank who attack civilians and recently beat a young American to death. Even Trump’s ambassador, Mike Huckabee, called this a “terrorist act.” NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.
In the past month, NYT has published 32 articles that mention Mamdani/"globalize the intifada", 13 on Israel's fake "aid" agency that's killed 800+, 5 on Israel's starvation campaign & 2 that mention Gaza child amputees. I argue this is objectively insane columnblog.com/p/child-ampute…
The Writers Guild of America called for #Paramount to be investigated for bribery by the New York state attorney general. The labor union says it has “significant concerns” that the move may have been intended to bribe the Trump administration into approving Paramount’s pending…
This is what Israel's genocide in Gaza looks like: x.com/_ZachFoster/st…
Israel is starving to death 500,000 Palestinians in Gaza right now. “Families told me there are days their children are not eating at all … mothers are telling me how they're trying to have kids not play so that they don't draw more energy.”
The Democratic Party's approval rating is one of the lowest it has ever been. It's beyond time for do-nothing Democrats to get out. If you can't see the problem, you ARE the problem. Healthy competition in our primaries is an asset to be utilized - not a liability to be managed
"Given the fact that we've talked for about 15 years about how Democrats have a messaging problem, it's gone beyond a messaging problem. It is a messenger problem." Read the full interview with @davidhogg111 by @hbhicks4: teenvogue.visitlink.me/CkazPf
89% of building in Rafah and 84% of buildings in northern Gaza have been destroyed. When the U.S. nuked Hiroshima it destroyed 67% of the buildings and 40% in Nagasaki. The destruction in Gaza is likely the most severe of any residential area in warfare history.
New satellite data shows: Gaza devastation scale greater than estimated | @nirhasson haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.
How is this not a bigger story? A young Palestinian man arrived at an airport and never came out.
🚨NEW: A Palestinian teen from the Israeli-occupied West Bank has been missing for 9 days after being detained at Bush Airport in Houston, Texas—with no explanation, despite arriving on a valid U.S. visa. Local ABC affiliate KTRK reports that Muhanad Alshrouf landed July 5 to…
This is the parish in Gaza that Pope Francis would call every night.
Cardinal Pizzaballa: “What we know for sure is that a tank, the IDF says by mistake, but we are not sure about this, they hit the Church directly, the Church of the Holy Family, the Latin Church” Images of the only Catholic Church in Gaza before and after today’s attack.
40 Jewish staff and faculty at UVa write: "The current political campaign against antisemitism in higher education does not protect Jews — it harms us, our communities and our institutions"
So @Columbia has just adopted the IHRA definition of antisemitism. How many of the Columbia faculty who teach classes on antisemitism do you think support this decision. My guess: Close to None.
An important update from Acting President Claire Shipman on Columbia's commitment to combatting antisemitism: president.columbia.edu/news/our-addit…
The white-haired, bespectacled "pro-terror" professor on the left is Israeli-born Yinon Cohen, the Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi Professor of Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia. You can't even make this stuff up.
Thanks for following us @PeterBeinart! Unfortunately, you haven’t learned anything. But we remember you supporting the antisemitic encampment at @Columbia and hobnobbing with the vested pro-terror faculty who claimed that they were protecting the encampment from outside…