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Karen Caplan @quillkdc.bsky.social · 2d

This is the group that I helped to found and currently chair. Feel free to share far and wide; this is frankly unacceptable behavior from an elected official.

Montgomery County Jewish Collective @mcjewishcollective.bsky.social · 3d

Last week, hours before the start of Yom Kippur, Montgomery County State Senator Ben Kramer sent us a belittling diatribe, insulting his Jewish constituents and repeating debunked talking points from the Israeli government.

Read the letter and our response: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We sent a letter condemning Sen Kagans trip to Israel, we got a letter in response from Sen. Kramer

Sen Kramer accused us of getting our information from the “Hamas propaganda bureau” and made Islamophobic statements

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 9d

EMERGENCY TIMELINE CLEANSE: Godzilla says Trans Rights 🏳️‍⚧️
youtu.be/xG1T0URuTWw

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 17d

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com

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Karen Caplan @quillkdc.bsky.social · 27d

So, did any WHITE profs who are on the watchlist have this experience? I ask because the only one I know has not.

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 27d

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.

Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?

My own colleagues are silent.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · Sep 11

Wild how political alliance with Zionism sweeps all sorts of wild statements about Jews under the table

Kirk said that Jewish people control “not just the colleges; it’s the nonprofits, it’s the movies, it’s Hollywood, it’s all of it.” Kirk also said ”the number one funding mechanism of radical, open border, neoliberal, quasi-Marxist policies, cultural institutions, and nonprofits" is “Jewish donors.” Claims that wealthy Jewish people and donors control major institutions and Hollywood are common antisemitic tropes. [Salem Media Group, The Charlie Kirk Show, 10/26/23; The Washington Post, 10/17/22; The Times of Israel, 11/17/22]

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Karen Caplan @quillkdc.bsky.social · Sep 11

The thing about the right's outrage at anyone pointing out the hateful nature of Charlie Kirk's politics is that you know that behind the scenes they are thrilled to have this to blame on the left.

Karen Caplan @quillkdc.bsky.social · Sep 11

depressingly true

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · Sep 10

if charlie kirk didn't get shot the right wing would be equally and as consequentially as mad about a tv commercial or restaurant logo or something else, they're gonna do what they're gonna do regardless

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Karen Caplan @quillkdc.bsky.social · Sep 10

ADL sucks.

Arno Rosenfeld @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social · Sep 10

The ADL has a new survey claiming: "Widespread Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Bias Reported by Faculty in Higher Education."

But it's basically a survey of faculty who already belong to a pro-Israel advocacy group.

www.adl.org/resources/re...

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Der Spekter @derspekter.bsky.social · Sep 8

Please enjoy this history of klezmorim in radical Jewish organizing in pre-war NYC:

Organized Labor, Politics and Klezmer Musicians in New York Until the First World War

From the early days of the 1880s to the First World War, klezmorim were present at every twist and turn of immigrant Jewish radicalism and labor organizing, from strikes to union elections.

www.derspekter.org

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Karen Caplan @quillkdc.bsky.social · Aug 28

Oh, yes.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 28

What if scientists hadn’t waited until this point to speak about politics

Every time I see a headline like this, my brain just shouts

Like what if scientists hadn’t sat around silently watching everyone around them get attacked

Maybe the fight on campus would have gone differently

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Aug 28

"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now."

www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

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Karen Caplan @quillkdc.bsky.social · Aug 25

keeping a list, of course, I mean.

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Karen Caplan @quillkdc.bsky.social · Aug 25

DC's New Synagogue Project and Baltimore's Hineinu are other communities that deserve a mention. Is anyone keep a list?

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Karen Caplan @quillkdc.bsky.social · Aug 22

Pritzker, not Newsom.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Aug 22

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.

As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Aug 22

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.

As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

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Karen Caplan @quillkdc.bsky.social · Aug 21

It's so... nipply.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · Aug 18

As we continue to obsess over discussions about left wing antisemitism, far right antisemitism continues to explode.

The incidents are largely overlooked. They don’t fit the narrative for those most tasked with this fight. And they don’t get the clicks for media. But they are happening regardless.

The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · Aug 18

In the last 24 hours:

1. A school's banner was defaced with swastikas (again)

2. Nazi flags were hung outside another school

3. An antisemitic screed was written on the sidewalk outside a kosher restaurant

Neo-nazi ideology and language is spreading. We cannot allow it to become normalized.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 15

Proud of the members of my synagogue that are part of the group that pushed Katherine Clark to finally do this. The next step is to get her to act on this understanding.

www.axios.com/2025/08/15/i...

No. 2 House Democrat Katherine Clark calls Gaza war a "genocide"

Clark is one of just over a dozen House members who have used the word to describe the conflict in Gaza.

www.axios.com

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Karen Caplan @quillkdc.bsky.social · Aug 14

Yeah, he’s gross, but also I think unlikely to be actually intimidated out of doing this.

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Karen Caplan @quillkdc.bsky.social · Aug 13

it's true.

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Karen Caplan @quillkdc.bsky.social · Aug 13

My kid got to play the guitar solo on the song Marquee Moon at School of Rock and it. was. awesome.

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Karen Caplan @quillkdc.bsky.social · Aug 13

I'm in MD, and I hadn't heard this at all. Interesting.

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Karen Caplan @quillkdc.bsky.social · Aug 13

Love this.

#StrikeForMutualAid 🍉 Cockroach Queer Trans Kafka 🦇⚧️ @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · Aug 12

So, cis people reading this?

You don't have to be trans to opt-out.

You just have to work on thinking of yourself as a person before as a gendered category.

Make your identity things you are proud of about yourself, not old gendered wounds you still carry from childhood.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Jul 31

Jews will not be favored. “Jews” will be defined to include only the subset of Jews who meet evangelical Christian criteria for Jewishness, specifically unequivocal support for the state of Israel and the current U.S. administration.

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · Jul 30

Am a broken record on this but do we think “your university is losing money and jobs because of The Jews for whom there are special exceptions to the rules” encourages or discourages antisemitism newrepublic.com/article/1925...

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Karen Caplan @quillkdc.bsky.social · Jul 30

This is in Brown's agreement with the Trump admin. What the actual F.

Christopher Nugent @cmbnugent.bsky.social · Jul 30

And the following language: "Student course evaluations that are collected on an anonymous basis at the end of each semester will be regularly reviewed to identify any reports of antisemitism, which will be promptly referred to OECR for appropriate action."