Jeff Melnick
@melnickjeffrey1
Recent: see link below for Manson book! Current: “Boston Sounds: Music in the City, the City in Music” ; UMass Boston American Studies; Anti-Zionist 🇵🇸
Israel killed more Palestinians in the week following October 7 than Hamas has killed Israelis in its entire existence.
“Hamas can have no role in post-war Gaza because of the horrific crimes they committed on Oct 7 but Israel killing 20,000 kids, starving 100,000s, and raping their captives somehow doesnt morally disqualify them as having a post-war role I am a liberal this is a serious position”
After decades of being a fan, finally got to see the mighty Beausoleil avec Michael Doucet. Bliss.
Getting some writing done today, but completely stymied trying to decide which past tense of "abide" ("abided"? "abode"?) I can, you know...abide. Utterly wretched choices.
Trying to sell my 2009 Subaru Outback and wondering whether the Bernie bumper sticker has to go.
Say it again for the hopeless sinners who would hurt all just to save their own
And finally, POWER to the young student activists at Columbia who put their entire futures on the line to stand up against genocide, in the face of an institution that sought to absolutely crush them. You are all genuine heroes, and one day that will be conventional wisdom.
Just learning that the great Lebanese musician Ziad Rahbani has died. I was lucky enough to catch him doing a set in Beirut in 2018 while visiting my daughter there and was thrilled to learn that he was the son of the amazing singer Fairuz. RIP.
Remembering when we had to defend ourselves against the disgusting "blood libel" charge when we pointed out that Israel was purposefully murdering Palestinian babies. Now it's just a day ending in "y"
Is there anyone in the world who has been able to answer the question of why Israeli Jews love torturing, starving, and killing children, especially and including infants? We are coming to two years of this.
My two favorite people in the world--my kids--are currently together in Belfast, one of my favorite places in the world, so I think maybe I should buy a lottery ticket or something?
Jeffrey Lewis, singing his most beautiful song, about what it’s like to love a singer no one else seems to care about: “you were so awesome”
My actual child graduated from Barnard with honors and is currently a graduate student at Columbia on full stipend. But, go off doofus!
Your theoretical child wouldn’t get in anyway. Just saying.
But even more importantly, it's no longer a safe place for academic discourse, the free exchange of knowledge & ideas, etc. By capitulating to Trump these schools are signing their own academic death warrants.
It’s not a safe place for antizionist Jews like my kids
As far as I know Israel has not tattooed numbers on the wrists of Palestinians before slaughtering and starving them so
I will say this once again: if someone’s “safety” or “security” requires the mass extermination of a people, then their safety is a genocidal ideology rooted in exceptionalism. It is incompatible with a shared future for humanity.
Wake me up when Steve "Ain't Gonna Play Sun City" Van Zandt wakes up
Bob Geldof has now come out of the woodwork to criticise Israel as the ship goes down. Bono will be next, watch.
If I had a college-age kid I wouldn’t let them apply to Columbia University any more than I’d let them apply to, I dunno, Bob Jones University