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Jake Romm
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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · Dec 27
Hello Romm-heads,

here is a thread of some things I wrote and said this year:
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A nice win: PEN America has retracted their statement

pen.org/press-releas...
February 3, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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soupmuse.bsky.social
holy shit.

extremely proud of Omar and his team for taking this stand.

what a stain on HRW's reputation.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Human Rights Watch researchers resign after report on Palestinian right of return blocked
The organization claims the report, which finds Israel’s denial of the right of return is a crime against humanity, is ‘paused pending further analysis and research’
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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jakeromm.bsky.social
On Jan. 20th, the @hindrajabfoundation.be
filed a request for prosecution in the US against Israeli "comedian" Guy Hochman for incitement to genocide

On Jan. 29th, @penamerica.bsky.social issued a press release condemning the cancellation of some of Hochman's inciting performances

Our response:
January 31, 2026 at 6:02 PM
jakeromm.bsky.social
On Jan. 20th, the @hindrajabfoundation.be
filed a request for prosecution in the US against Israeli "comedian" Guy Hochman for incitement to genocide

On Jan. 29th, @penamerica.bsky.social issued a press release condemning the cancellation of some of Hochman's inciting performances

Our response:
January 31, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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jakeromm.bsky.social
spoke with my favorite couple @shaabiranks.bsky.social and @seamus-malekafzali.com about international law, the so-called "war on terror," and the long shadow of colonial warfare for Turbulence

turbulencepod.substack.com/p/episode-11...
Episode 11: Deconstructing the Law of War
With Jake Romm
turbulencepod.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:34 PM
jakeromm.bsky.social
spoke with my favorite couple @shaabiranks.bsky.social and @seamus-malekafzali.com about international law, the so-called "war on terror," and the long shadow of colonial warfare for Turbulence

turbulencepod.substack.com/p/episode-11...
Episode 11: Deconstructing the Law of War
With Jake Romm
turbulencepod.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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felicitycallard.bsky.social
This reminded me of @jakeromm.bsky.social’s analysis of Israeli hasbara as fascist propaganda in his essay “Elements of Antisemitism” in @parapraxismag.bsky.social

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/ele...
opposite. As Adorno writes, the apparent falsity and absurdity of fascist propaganda is itself "relished cynically and sadistically as an index for the fact that power alone decided one's fate in the Third Reich, that is, power unhampered by rational objectivity." Hasbara does not utilize argumentation so much as the rote repetition of slogans: "am yisrael chai," "we are the most moral army in the world," "there would be a ceasefire tomorrow if Hamas would release the hostages," "liberate Gaza from Hamas," and so on, ad nauseum. The repeated and almost exclusive use of slogans and cliches serves to fashion out of the Zionist polity and its supporters a stereopathic type: rational argumentation requires the engagement of an individual subjectivity, reciting slogans only memorization. On a societal level, a type of equality emerges: we share a nation, a destiny, because we share these thoughts, and vice versa. Through repetition, people congeal into a mass and adopt an obedient group psychology.
January 26, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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Here is a video of my full talk with Dror Dayan about the Hind Rajab Foundation, German complicity in the genocide, and the international legal order at the Rosa Luxemburg Conference this past weekend

[starting around 6:12:00]

www.youtube.com/embed/470xHH...
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January 12, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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I’ll be speaking at the Junge Welt Rosa Luxemburg Conference today at 3pm Berlin time: on international law, the genocide in Palestine, and the Hind Rajab Foundation

Live stream link here:
jungewelt.de/?lang=en
junge Welt – die linke Tageszeitung
Die junge Welt ist eine linke, marxistisch orientierte, überregionale Tageszeitung mit einem hohen Anteil an Hintergrundberichten und umfassenden Analysen
jungewelt.de
January 10, 2026 at 12:40 PM
jakeromm.bsky.social
I’ll be speaking at the Junge Welt Rosa Luxemburg Conference today at 3pm Berlin time: on international law, the genocide in Palestine, and the Hind Rajab Foundation

Live stream link here:
jungewelt.de/?lang=en
junge Welt – die linke Tageszeitung
Die junge Welt ist eine linke, marxistisch orientierte, überregionale Tageszeitung mit einem hohen Anteil an Hintergrundberichten und umfassenden Analysen
jungewelt.de
January 10, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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par @jakeromm.bsky.social
junge Welt Abonnement Malgré les preuves accablantes documentant les crimes israéliens, malgré l'horreur manifeste de leur ampleur et de leur brutalité, les Israéliens n'ont jamais véritablement subi de conséquences. Plus un crime reste impuni, plus on a l'impression qu'il n'en est peut-être pas un. En effet, des avocats israéliens soutiennent que les actions de leur État sont légales, et certains experts juridiques américains et européens, ainsi que des gouvernements occidentaux, les appuient dans cette position; de cette manière, un crime peut, avec le temps, devenir loi. Ajoutez à cela le soutien de l'armée américaine, la complicité ou la défaite de la quasi-totalité des autres forces armées conventionnelles de la région, et le déséquilibre extrême des armements et des capacités entre l'armée israélienne et la résistance palestinienne, et un sentiment d'invincibilité vient s'ajouter au sentiment d'innocence. Ce dernier imprègne une société fondée sur l'anéantissement du collectif palestinien, dont l'existence même exige une violence constante contre les autres, internes comme externes, afin d'assurer la domination ethnique. Parce que la dynamique du colonialisme de peuplement conduit inévitablement à la violence, chaque crime impuni prépare le terrain pour le suivant, qui sera encore plus radical. C'est le cycle de l'impunité.
January 5, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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I spoke with Susann Witt-Stahl for Junge Welt about the genocide in Palestine, international law, German complicity, the coming new world order, and the @hindrajabfoundation.be

www.jungewelt.de/artikel/5154...
Genozid in Palästina: Neue Weltordnung der Rechtlosigkeit
Die Hind Rajab Foundation über den Charakter israelischer Kriegsverbrechen, den Kreislauf der Straffreiheit und die Diplomatie der Gewalt. Ein Gespräch mit Jake Romm • Foto: IMAGO/Anadolu Agency
www.jungewelt.de
January 5, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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thenation.com
"What we are seeing now from the Trump administration is a US empire increasingly willing to dispense with even the perfunctory legal legitimation that past presidents leaned on." www.thenation.com/article/worl...
January 3, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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tylermcbrien.com
Link: www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Why Trump’s Venezuela Attacks Matter So Much
They signal a US empire increasingly willing to dispense with even the perfunctory legal legitimation that past presidents leaned on.
www.thenation.com
January 3, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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tylermcbrien.com
Seems like a good time to revisit @jakeromm.bsky.social’s piece in @thenation.com from October:
January 3, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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jakeromm.bsky.social
favorite albums I listened to in 2025 (alphabetical order)

playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/03x...
December 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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favorite tracks I listened to for the first time in 2025 (no particular order)

playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Zu...
December 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
jakeromm.bsky.social
favorite tracks I listened to for the first time in 2025 (no particular order)

playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Zu...
December 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...

This by comrade @jakeromm.bsky.social is first thing that came to mind
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
December 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
jakeromm.bsky.social
favorite albums I listened to in 2025 (alphabetical order)

playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/03x...
December 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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eatingpolitics.bsky.social
"Frontier names a duality where the place is important but the people are unimportant"
Two brilliant scholars @triofrancos.bsky.social@lalehkhalili.bsky.social in conversation, highly recommended!
proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
Extractive Frontiers: An Interview With Thea Riofrancos • Protean Magazine
In this extensive, wide ranging interview, Laleh Khalili speaks with Thea Riofrancos about her new book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, the political economy of lithium mining, the poss...
proteanmag.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Hello Romm-heads,

here is a thread of some things I wrote and said this year:
December 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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“It is a service to the enemy to cast Palestine into the past—to presume that there is a pre-given, finalized totality to be examined—as much as it is a disservice to those fighting and surviving on the ground: they still believe in a future; there is no ‘after,’ not yet.”
December 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
jakeromm.bsky.social
Hello Romm-heads,

here is a thread of some things I wrote and said this year:
December 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM