Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan)
@labendz.bsky.social
I do all the English dubbing for OyKay Torah: https://www.oykay.tv
Jewish, Czech & Cold-War history (belonging, diaspora, antisemitism, cemeteries, minority governance)
Books: https://tinyurl.com/yc77by39 & https://tinyurl.com/2xutcwkt
Jewish, Czech & Cold-War history (belonging, diaspora, antisemitism, cemeteries, minority governance)
Books: https://tinyurl.com/yc77by39 & https://tinyurl.com/2xutcwkt
Why should I buy a 3D printer for the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies?
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Why should I buy a 3D printer for the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies?
I have to admit that this is hitting pretty oddly. I’m projecting new specificity and “realness” on memories of experiences that lacked for nothing in their completeness. Yet I wonder inside why she never told me when I was there, so many times. I fear conjuring her too lightly for pedagogical ends.
I’ve been taking students to the Theresienstadt Ghetto for over two decades. I just discovered the one of my great-great grandmothers died there, before her husband was sent to Treblinka. They were elderly German Jews, which explains the trajectory.
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I have to admit that this is hitting pretty oddly. I’m projecting new specificity and “realness” on memories of experiences that lacked for nothing in their completeness. Yet I wonder inside why she never told me when I was there, so many times. I fear conjuring her too lightly for pedagogical ends.
I’ve been taking students to the Theresienstadt Ghetto for over two decades. I just discovered the one of my great-great grandmothers died there, before her husband was sent to Treblinka. They were elderly German Jews, which explains the trajectory.
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I’ve been taking students to the Theresienstadt Ghetto for over two decades. I just discovered the one of my great-great grandmothers died there, before her husband was sent to Treblinka. They were elderly German Jews, which explains the trajectory.
It only took them until the 21st century to recognize the Armenian Genocide.
A planned protest by Israel’s Sudanese population at the United Arab Emirates embassy was canceled on Thursday, with police reportedly citing fears of disturbing the Israel-UAE relationship.
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
Sudan protest halted over fears of harming UAE ties | The Jerusalem Post
Protesters told The Jerusalem Post that the right to demonstrate in a democracy like Israel was important and that this demonstration was calling for accountability.
www.jpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
It only took them until the 21st century to recognize the Armenian Genocide.
Come for the 8am panel. Stat for reactionary takes on communist society and post-communist transition.
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Come for the 8am panel. Stat for reactionary takes on communist society and post-communist transition.
BREAKING: CDC has just announce that attending my panel will cause autism.
Come hang out, talk about Eastern-European communist attempts to manage Jewish affairs in emigration, collectivization, and generation.
I’ll be talking about the sadly topical issue of swastikas as hate symbols.
Come hang out, talk about Eastern-European communist attempts to manage Jewish affairs in emigration, collectivization, and generation.
I’ll be talking about the sadly topical issue of swastikas as hate symbols.
November 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
BREAKING: CDC has just announce that attending my panel will cause autism.
Come hang out, talk about Eastern-European communist attempts to manage Jewish affairs in emigration, collectivization, and generation.
I’ll be talking about the sadly topical issue of swastikas as hate symbols.
Come hang out, talk about Eastern-European communist attempts to manage Jewish affairs in emigration, collectivization, and generation.
I’ll be talking about the sadly topical issue of swastikas as hate symbols.
Yes, I cracked my head open on the doorframe and I’ve got a bloody concussion… but do you know how tall you have to be to do that, you shrimps.
it's actually really good our stock is down $500 billion, you fool, you absolute simpleton
www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang...
www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang...
November 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Yes, I cracked my head open on the doorframe and I’ve got a bloody concussion… but do you know how tall you have to be to do that, you shrimps.
You want this too. You want this.
would anyone be interested in a book that was all of my art (with explanations/personal background)?
the internet won't last forever, I think it might be cool to have a record of whatever it is I've been doing here.
the internet won't last forever, I think it might be cool to have a record of whatever it is I've been doing here.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
You want this too. You want this.
At a panel. Presenter asked if there was anyone in the audience who comes from a country without deep (political and social) divisions.
Two people raised their hands: a man from Korea… and a man from France who apparently does not read the news.
Two people raised their hands: a man from Korea… and a man from France who apparently does not read the news.
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
At a panel. Presenter asked if there was anyone in the audience who comes from a country without deep (political and social) divisions.
Two people raised their hands: a man from Korea… and a man from France who apparently does not read the news.
Two people raised their hands: a man from Korea… and a man from France who apparently does not read the news.
There is also an MRNA vaccine for dogs agains arthritis. My dog is so much better for it… there’s not human version… and my hands hurt.
“70 other human cases of bird flu have been reported in the US as part of the outbreak, according to the CDC. Another elderly person… died in January after a bird flu infection.”
There’s a bird vax but US farmers are forbidden from vaccinating their flocks. A human vax for bird flu is not available
There’s a bird vax but US farmers are forbidden from vaccinating their flocks. A human vax for bird flu is not available
heartbreaking & really frightening with the people leading our cdc drumming up anti vaccine sentiment & spreading falsehoods about vaccines www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/h...
November 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
There is also an MRNA vaccine for dogs agains arthritis. My dog is so much better for it… there’s not human version… and my hands hurt.
WARNING: Going to a good panel will make you want to try writing your book again… but when?
November 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
WARNING: Going to a good panel will make you want to try writing your book again… but when?
Reposted by Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan)
"Antisemitism is bad" followed by "get out of my country go back to yours (and die so that Jesus can come back)" is both wild and a fairly honest take for a christofascist😑
Mike Pence wrote an opinion piece for Fox News. Reading the headline, I was like, "Okay, seems like a normal take."
Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?
Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?
November 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"Antisemitism is bad" followed by "get out of my country go back to yours (and die so that Jesus can come back)" is both wild and a fairly honest take for a christofascist😑
Gov. Abbott designated CAIR—the most prominent US-Muslim civil rights organization—a terrorist organization.
Just as Trump calls for Democratic Senators to be tried (and presumably executed) for seditious conspiracy. (Levitt invoked the word “conspiracy” on purpose. Trump just said “sedition.”)
Just as Trump calls for Democratic Senators to be tried (and presumably executed) for seditious conspiracy. (Levitt invoked the word “conspiracy” on purpose. Trump just said “sedition.”)
November 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Gov. Abbott designated CAIR—the most prominent US-Muslim civil rights organization—a terrorist organization.
Just as Trump calls for Democratic Senators to be tried (and presumably executed) for seditious conspiracy. (Levitt invoked the word “conspiracy” on purpose. Trump just said “sedition.”)
Just as Trump calls for Democratic Senators to be tried (and presumably executed) for seditious conspiracy. (Levitt invoked the word “conspiracy” on purpose. Trump just said “sedition.”)
… and more! I’m giving a talk on the “global” Swastika Epidemic of 1960.
Last night, the US Coast Guard briefly took swastikas and nooses off its list of hate symbols.
Last night, the US Coast Guard briefly took swastikas and nooses off its list of hate symbols.
It's deeply disturbing to see my syllabus on "Antisemitism and Islamophobia" unfold right before my eyes.
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
… and more! I’m giving a talk on the “global” Swastika Epidemic of 1960.
Last night, the US Coast Guard briefly took swastikas and nooses off its list of hate symbols.
Last night, the US Coast Guard briefly took swastikas and nooses off its list of hate symbols.
Panelist introductions should be short: X has Y job. They work on Z.
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Panelist introductions should be short: X has Y job. They work on Z.
People, like me, who never took classes or did any research on those continents, like me, are not qualified to teach “world civ”’and should not be made to teach it… as they made me do at one of my previous institution… which conceded to me, at least, that as a modernist, I could teach 500CE—>.
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
People, like me, who never took classes or did any research on those continents, like me, are not qualified to teach “world civ”’and should not be made to teach it… as they made me do at one of my previous institution… which conceded to me, at least, that as a modernist, I could teach 500CE—>.
Also, this was a bananas thing for Altman to say… He’s literally announcing that the most important thing he wants to ask AGI is how to get us to give him unimaginably more money than all of us collectively will ever earn.
The AI cultists and especially the dorks who own it all have created a new, sad little messianism. They operate with a screen-memory fantasy about money, power, promise. Altman said he’d ask AGI how to make his investors $$$ back. They just want to ask why we die and why is baby boy so special.
November 20, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Also, this was a bananas thing for Altman to say… He’s literally announcing that the most important thing he wants to ask AGI is how to get us to give him unimaginably more money than all of us collectively will ever earn.
The AI cultists and especially the dorks who own it all have created a new, sad little messianism. They operate with a screen-memory fantasy about money, power, promise. Altman said he’d ask AGI how to make his investors $$$ back. They just want to ask why we die and why is baby boy so special.
November 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM
The AI cultists and especially the dorks who own it all have created a new, sad little messianism. They operate with a screen-memory fantasy about money, power, promise. Altman said he’d ask AGI how to make his investors $$$ back. They just want to ask why we die and why is baby boy so special.
Today was the last in a long string of intellectually and physically exhausting days… but I did successfully pick up a kick ass new suit from the tailor.
I don’t care if you don’t want to hear me talk about the Swastika Epidemic in Czechoslovakia, you should come to my panel just to look.
I don’t care if you don’t want to hear me talk about the Swastika Epidemic in Czechoslovakia, you should come to my panel just to look.
November 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Today was the last in a long string of intellectually and physically exhausting days… but I did successfully pick up a kick ass new suit from the tailor.
I don’t care if you don’t want to hear me talk about the Swastika Epidemic in Czechoslovakia, you should come to my panel just to look.
I don’t care if you don’t want to hear me talk about the Swastika Epidemic in Czechoslovakia, you should come to my panel just to look.
Reposted by Jacob Ari Labendz (Lion Swan)
So there really is a Soup Nazi!
November 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
So there really is a Soup Nazi!
Just finished my paper for #ASEEES25!
"State Security and the Swastika Epidemic in Czechoslovakia"
Panel: "Emigration, Collectivization, and Desecration: The State Management of Jewish (and Israeli) Affairs in Global Perspective" (11/22, 2:00)
w/ @rkpejsova.bsky.social, Attila Novak, Kim Zarecor.
"State Security and the Swastika Epidemic in Czechoslovakia"
Panel: "Emigration, Collectivization, and Desecration: The State Management of Jewish (and Israeli) Affairs in Global Perspective" (11/22, 2:00)
w/ @rkpejsova.bsky.social, Attila Novak, Kim Zarecor.
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Just finished my paper for #ASEEES25!
"State Security and the Swastika Epidemic in Czechoslovakia"
Panel: "Emigration, Collectivization, and Desecration: The State Management of Jewish (and Israeli) Affairs in Global Perspective" (11/22, 2:00)
w/ @rkpejsova.bsky.social, Attila Novak, Kim Zarecor.
"State Security and the Swastika Epidemic in Czechoslovakia"
Panel: "Emigration, Collectivization, and Desecration: The State Management of Jewish (and Israeli) Affairs in Global Perspective" (11/22, 2:00)
w/ @rkpejsova.bsky.social, Attila Novak, Kim Zarecor.
It’s a good sign that Lily calls itself a “medicine company,” in lieu of a “pharmaceutical” company.
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It’s a good sign that Lily calls itself a “medicine company,” in lieu of a “pharmaceutical” company.
BREAKING: Home Depot found that its employees have cultivated a culture of rampant DYI-ism.
In this new essay on the internal culture of the right, I report on something big: allegations by a Heritage Foundation insider that the organization has allowed a toxic culture of "open misogyny and racism" to grow among a segment of the staff
www.vox.com/on-the-right...
www.vox.com/on-the-right...
The toxic culture behind the right’s civil war
A Heritage insider alleging “openly misogynistic and racist” conduct shines a light on the right’s inner workings.
www.vox.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
BREAKING: Home Depot found that its employees have cultivated a culture of rampant DYI-ism.
Who would have expected this from the guy who, as president of Harvard, announced women's relative inferiority in math and science?
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Who would have expected this from the guy who, as president of Harvard, announced women's relative inferiority in math and science?