Jake Romm
@jakeromm.bsky.social
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Jake Romm
@jakeromm.bsky.social
· Sep 29
Against the Wound | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jake Romm navigates artistic depictions of genocide and religious violence—some illuminating, others devoid of substance—from Renaissance Italy to modern-day Berlin, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no...
lareviewofbooks.org
For the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Luca Giordano's St. Michael, but also about art & empire, & airstrikes, & Gaza
I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)
I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)
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New episode of Popular Cradle pod: “No Country is Beyond the Reach of Law”
I interviewed Jake Romm of the Hind Rajab Foundation about the pursuit of legal accountability against Israel’s war criminal soldiers, and what an end to Israeli impunity can look like
open.spotify.com/episode/3Ygn...?
I interviewed Jake Romm of the Hind Rajab Foundation about the pursuit of legal accountability against Israel’s war criminal soldiers, and what an end to Israeli impunity can look like
open.spotify.com/episode/3Ygn...?
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
New episode of Popular Cradle pod: “No Country is Beyond the Reach of Law”
I interviewed Jake Romm of the Hind Rajab Foundation about the pursuit of legal accountability against Israel’s war criminal soldiers, and what an end to Israeli impunity can look like
open.spotify.com/episode/3Ygn...?
I interviewed Jake Romm of the Hind Rajab Foundation about the pursuit of legal accountability against Israel’s war criminal soldiers, and what an end to Israeli impunity can look like
open.spotify.com/episode/3Ygn...?
While at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit earlier this year, I talked with @aywarhiannon.bsky.social and Soraya Shockley for the Popular Cradle podcast about the Hind Rajab Foundation's work and the promise and purpose of law. link below
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
While at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit earlier this year, I talked with @aywarhiannon.bsky.social and Soraya Shockley for the Popular Cradle podcast about the Hind Rajab Foundation's work and the promise and purpose of law. link below
someone should give me a column....
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
someone should give me a column....
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Join the Hind Rajab Foundation’s legal mission to fight impunity. Become a monthly sponsor or make a one-time gift. Every contribution comes from individuals like you — who care. → https://bit.ly/hrf-support
October 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Join the Hind Rajab Foundation’s legal mission to fight impunity. Become a monthly sponsor or make a one-time gift. Every contribution comes from individuals like you — who care. → https://bit.ly/hrf-support
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Yesterday, the U.S. rep of The @hindrajabfoundation.be, Jake Romm, presented at the final session of the Gaza Tribunal in Istanbul — a people’s tribunal of scholars, legal experts, civil society, activists, and students to create a record of and pass popular judgement on Israel's genocide in Gaza.
October 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Yesterday, the U.S. rep of The @hindrajabfoundation.be, Jake Romm, presented at the final session of the Gaza Tribunal in Istanbul — a people’s tribunal of scholars, legal experts, civil society, activists, and students to create a record of and pass popular judgement on Israel's genocide in Gaza.
always cool seeing things in print
October 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
always cool seeing things in print
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For the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Luca Giordano's St. Michael, but also about art & empire, & airstrikes, & Gaza
I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)
I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)
Against the Wound | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jake Romm navigates artistic depictions of genocide and religious violence—some illuminating, others devoid of substance—from Renaissance Italy to modern-day Berlin, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no...
lareviewofbooks.org
September 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
For the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Luca Giordano's St. Michael, but also about art & empire, & airstrikes, & Gaza
I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)
I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)
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What a review.
“The fascist thug and the refugee are the avatars of our age, but only because the extremity of their situations makes them stand out; those of us fortunate enough not to be either are caught up in the end of history all the same. “
“The fascist thug and the refugee are the avatars of our age, but only because the extremity of their situations makes them stand out; those of us fortunate enough not to be either are caught up in the end of history all the same. “
No Such Thing as a Way Out - Strange Matters
Krasznahorkai employs an almost cubist prose—we are somehow given the inside of a narrator’s mind from every angle at once.
strangematters.coop
October 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What a review.
“The fascist thug and the refugee are the avatars of our age, but only because the extremity of their situations makes them stand out; those of us fortunate enough not to be either are caught up in the end of history all the same. “
“The fascist thug and the refugee are the avatars of our age, but only because the extremity of their situations makes them stand out; those of us fortunate enough not to be either are caught up in the end of history all the same. “
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Introducing Turbulence, a new podcast from Séamus Malekafzali, Dylan Saba, and M Ceniza. Dropping October 28.
Subscribe today: turbulencepod.substack.com
Trailer by @seamus-malekafzali.com
Subscribe today: turbulencepod.substack.com
Trailer by @seamus-malekafzali.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Introducing Turbulence, a new podcast from Séamus Malekafzali, Dylan Saba, and M Ceniza. Dropping October 28.
Subscribe today: turbulencepod.substack.com
Trailer by @seamus-malekafzali.com
Subscribe today: turbulencepod.substack.com
Trailer by @seamus-malekafzali.com
this article is the reason he won the Nobel, they told me over the phone
Congrats to friend of the mag László Krasznahorkai for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature -- a well deserved award for someone whom real heads have known for years as a master of neo-modernism.
@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.
strangematters.coop/chasing-home...
@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.
strangematters.coop/chasing-home...
No Such Thing as a Way Out - Strange Matters
Krasznahorkai employs an almost cubist prose—we are somehow given the inside of a narrator’s mind from every angle at once.
strangematters.coop
October 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
this article is the reason he won the Nobel, they told me over the phone
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Congrats to friend of the mag László Krasznahorkai for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature -- a well deserved award for someone whom real heads have known for years as a master of neo-modernism.
@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.
strangematters.coop/chasing-home...
@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.
strangematters.coop/chasing-home...
No Such Thing as a Way Out - Strange Matters
Krasznahorkai employs an almost cubist prose—we are somehow given the inside of a narrator’s mind from every angle at once.
strangematters.coop
October 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Congrats to friend of the mag László Krasznahorkai for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature -- a well deserved award for someone whom real heads have known for years as a master of neo-modernism.
@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.
strangematters.coop/chasing-home...
@jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023.
strangematters.coop/chasing-home...
October 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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"As one of the few Jews on [the flotilla]...they asked me if I was Jewish...threw me in front of the Israeli flag... we were strip-searched & zip-tied & blindfolded, & sent to this detention camp."
Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler:
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler:
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
October 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"As one of the few Jews on [the flotilla]...they asked me if I was Jewish...threw me in front of the Israeli flag... we were strip-searched & zip-tied & blindfolded, & sent to this detention camp."
Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler:
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler:
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
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Further evidence that this supposed legal justification for lethal US strikes in the Caribbean is baseless backfilling:
1) Bondi refused to invoke this justification or any other when asked.
2) Trump himself doesn't invoke it, just jokes about "water drugs."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
1) Bondi refused to invoke this justification or any other when asked.
2) Trump himself doesn't invoke it, just jokes about "water drugs."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Further evidence that this supposed legal justification for lethal US strikes in the Caribbean is baseless backfilling:
1) Bondi refused to invoke this justification or any other when asked.
2) Trump himself doesn't invoke it, just jokes about "water drugs."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
1) Bondi refused to invoke this justification or any other when asked.
2) Trump himself doesn't invoke it, just jokes about "water drugs."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
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reposting for the weekend
I wrote about Luca Giordano's 1663 painting "St. Michael", representations of empire and its victims, and Gaza for the new issue of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...
I wrote about Luca Giordano's 1663 painting "St. Michael", representations of empire and its victims, and Gaza for the new issue of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...
October 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
reposting for the weekend
I wrote about Luca Giordano's 1663 painting "St. Michael", representations of empire and its victims, and Gaza for the new issue of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...
I wrote about Luca Giordano's 1663 painting "St. Michael", representations of empire and its victims, and Gaza for the new issue of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...
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+ featuring contributions from @leannareneehieber.bsky.social @urbanhistorya.bsky.social @historyworkshop.org.uk @literaryhub.bsky.social @cliocontemporary.bsky.social @jakeromm.bsky.social & @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social @inverting-vision.bsky.social +
October 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possible, & thanks, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 244 (10/5/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possib...
blackwhiteandread.com
October 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possible, & thanks, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
reposting for the weekend
I wrote about Luca Giordano's 1663 painting "St. Michael", representations of empire and its victims, and Gaza for the new issue of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...
I wrote about Luca Giordano's 1663 painting "St. Michael", representations of empire and its victims, and Gaza for the new issue of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...
October 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
reposting for the weekend
I wrote about Luca Giordano's 1663 painting "St. Michael", representations of empire and its victims, and Gaza for the new issue of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...
I wrote about Luca Giordano's 1663 painting "St. Michael", representations of empire and its victims, and Gaza for the new issue of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...
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“Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza” — Biden never made this simple demand, despite 15 months of relentless Israeli slaughter of Palestinians during his presidency
October 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
“Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza” — Biden never made this simple demand, despite 15 months of relentless Israeli slaughter of Palestinians during his presidency
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“The dialectic of enlightenment: all this loot, all this beauty, all this murder”
For the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Luca Giordano's St. Michael, but also about art & empire, & airstrikes, & Gaza
I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)
I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)
Against the Wound | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jake Romm navigates artistic depictions of genocide and religious violence—some illuminating, others devoid of substance—from Renaissance Italy to modern-day Berlin, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no...
lareviewofbooks.org
October 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
“The dialectic of enlightenment: all this loot, all this beauty, all this murder”
Reposted by Jake Romm
Jake Romm looks at one painting by Luca Giordano – hard, repeatedly – and what an essay he ends up writing
For the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Luca Giordano's St. Michael, but also about art & empire, & airstrikes, & Gaza
I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)
I feel strongly about this one: it articulates something about art and looking that I'd previously struggled with, & also I think it's my best writing about art)
Against the Wound | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jake Romm navigates artistic depictions of genocide and religious violence—some illuminating, others devoid of substance—from Renaissance Italy to modern-day Berlin, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no...
lareviewofbooks.org
October 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Jake Romm looks at one painting by Luca Giordano – hard, repeatedly – and what an essay he ends up writing