Carmit Wolberg كرميت وولبِرچ
@carmitw.bsky.social
Ph.D., Postdoc Fellow at The Minerva Cener For Human Rights, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Political Sociology, Social Movements, Memory Activism. #PowerToThePeople
Sham iconoclasm (?) www.bbc.com/news/article...
Four arrested after crumble and custard thrown at Crown Jewels display
The Tower of London was partially closed to the public while the police investigated.
www.bbc.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Sham iconoclasm (?) www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Few celebrities, much less mass protests, have raised their voices".
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/w...
Twenty Years On, Darfur Tips Into Chaos Again
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:39 AM
"Few celebrities, much less mass protests, have raised their voices".
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/w...
The fleeting nature of fe-commemoration. abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...
Confederate statue restored as part of Trump's efforts to reshape how history is told
The Trump administration has restored a memorial to Confederate General Albert Pike in Washington, D.C. Demonstrators took it down during racial justice protests in the summer of 2020
abcnews.go.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The fleeting nature of fe-commemoration. abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...
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de-commemoration commemorated.
Photo from a review of the exhibition that opens on the 23rd: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: a new exhibit by Black US artists transforms Confederate monuments
The sweeping exhibition Monuments opens in Los Angeles on 23 October and is on view through May
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
de-commemoration commemorated.
This is just, wow. This piece is disturbing on so many levels. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/bced69a...
The Windrush generation are the true losers of mass migration
British Caribbeans are being displaced by vast numbers of new arrivals
www.telegraph.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This is just, wow. This piece is disturbing on so many levels. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/bced69a...
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Soviet-era monuments have been disappearing from the Baltic states since the start of the war in Ukraine.
Baltic states have torn down their Soviet past following Ukraine war – a photo essay
Soviet-era monuments have been disappearing from the Baltic states since the start of the war in Ukraine.
tcnv.link
September 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Soviet-era monuments have been disappearing from the Baltic states since the start of the war in Ukraine.
Commemoration is fleeting, but so is de-commemoration. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Protesters toppled this Confederate statue. Now, it’s coming back to D.C.
The statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate Army brigadier general whose wartime career lasted less than two years, is scheduled to be back on its plinth at D Street between Third and Fourth streets NW i...
www.washingtonpost.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Commemoration is fleeting, but so is de-commemoration. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Sharing some great news! Today, I received a publication award from the Center for American Studies at Tel Aviv University for an outstanding article in the social sciences for my paper about the Ferguson unrest in 2014 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
“This Is Not a Riot”: Activists’ Responses to Accusations of Violence in the Ferguson Unrest - Society
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in the last decade has gained widespread support for protests against police brutality targeting African Americans. However, some people during these protests hav...
link.springer.com
May 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Sharing some great news! Today, I received a publication award from the Center for American Studies at Tel Aviv University for an outstanding article in the social sciences for my paper about the Ferguson unrest in 2014 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
So the @uklabour.bsky.social were kicking and screaming about the hostile environment as a root cause of the Windrush Scandal. Now that they have a chance to fix it, they maintain and make it worse. Great Job! hyphenonline.com/2025/05/16/r...
Right to rent: discriminatory housing scheme to continue
Labour peer Ruth Lister had proposed axing the policy as part of the renters’ rights bill — but the government refused
hyphenonline.com
May 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
So the @uklabour.bsky.social were kicking and screaming about the hostile environment as a root cause of the Windrush Scandal. Now that they have a chance to fix it, they maintain and make it worse. Great Job! hyphenonline.com/2025/05/16/r...
When Suella Braverman supports your immigration policy, you are definitely taking the wrong path... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
Starmer’s migration turn shows how even the elite now can’t defend multiculturalism
His words are a welcome start, but they must be matched by real action if we are to restore a shared sense of nationhood
www.telegraph.co.uk
May 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
When Suella Braverman supports your immigration policy, you are definitely taking the wrong path... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
The emotional roller coaster of academia, receiving both an acceptance and a rejection letter within an hour. 🤷♂️
April 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The emotional roller coaster of academia, receiving both an acceptance and a rejection letter within an hour. 🤷♂️
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Historian @drkarenlcox.bsky.social & @uncpress.bsky.social are offering book ⬇️ free online in response “to the EO that included restoring monuments & memorials . . . in a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Educate yourself about what this embrace means.”
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/no...
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/no...
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
Book — Non-fiction. By Karen L. Cox. 2021. 224 pages. Tells the story of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments across the United States.
www.zinnedproject.org
March 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Historian @drkarenlcox.bsky.social & @uncpress.bsky.social are offering book ⬇️ free online in response “to the EO that included restoring monuments & memorials . . . in a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Educate yourself about what this embrace means.”
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/no...
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/no...
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These EOs erasing truth and bringing back symbols/remnants of the Lost Cause and Dunning School are about more than monuments and statues. Along with other anti-DEI/segregationist EOs, they are meant to justify anti-Blackness, discrimination, and segregation while dismantling civil rights policies.
What to watch this weekend?
In light of the admin's EO to erase the truth about U.S. history in museums, historic sites, monuments, & the zoo -- we recommend "The Neutral Ground" by C. J. Hunt on the fight over Confederate monuments & the Lost Cause narrative.
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th...
In light of the admin's EO to erase the truth about U.S. history in museums, historic sites, monuments, & the zoo -- we recommend "The Neutral Ground" by C. J. Hunt on the fight over Confederate monuments & the Lost Cause narrative.
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th...
The Neutral Ground
Film. Directed by C. J. Hunt. 2021. 82 minutes. A co-production of POV and ITVS, in association with the Center for Asian American Media. A student-friendly documentary on the fight over Confederate m...
www.zinnedproject.org
March 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
These EOs erasing truth and bringing back symbols/remnants of the Lost Cause and Dunning School are about more than monuments and statues. Along with other anti-DEI/segregationist EOs, they are meant to justify anti-Blackness, discrimination, and segregation while dismantling civil rights policies.
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These monuments are at the crux of Trump’s new EO. The very ones he wants restored. Partying like it’s 1899 & the Lost Cause is still winning.
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
No Common Ground | Karen L. Cox | University of North Carolina Press
When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to pre...
uncpress.org
March 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
These monuments are at the crux of Trump’s new EO. The very ones he wants restored. Partying like it’s 1899 & the Lost Cause is still winning.
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
A new era of de-commemoration? abcnews.go.com/Politics/mus...
Museums and parks must remove some items related to race and gender: Executive order
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday aiming to eliminate what the it calls “anti-American” content from museums and parks, sources told ABC News.
abcnews.go.com
March 28, 2025 at 5:08 AM
A new era of de-commemoration? abcnews.go.com/Politics/mus...
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‘Let it rot’: artist says Stroud’s ‘racist’ blackboy clock should be destroyed
‘Let it rot’: artist says Stroud’s ‘racist’ blackboy clock should be destroyed
Most in Gloucestershire town agree 240-year-old statue should be taken down, but Dan Guthrie argues against preserving it at all
The Stroud-raised artist Dan Guthrie had just come out of a meeting about what to do with the “racist” blackboy clock that…
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2025 at 6:33 AM
‘Let it rot’: artist says Stroud’s ‘racist’ blackboy clock should be destroyed
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Protesters in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra vandalized statues to British settlers and an English king on Australia Day, a divisive holiday that critics see as a symbol of racism and oppression.
Australia Day Protesters Vandalize Melbourne and Sydney Statues
The vandalism unfolded in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Australia Day is a divisive holiday that critics see as a symbol of racism and oppression.
nyti.ms
January 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Protesters in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra vandalized statues to British settlers and an English king on Australia Day, a divisive holiday that critics see as a symbol of racism and oppression.
At the Memory Studies Association conference two years ago, there was a question on our panel about when and if monuments die. They don't. Monument removals are not the end point; they are part of an ongoing negotiation process about the past www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com
January 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
At the Memory Studies Association conference two years ago, there was a question on our panel about when and if monuments die. They don't. Monument removals are not the end point; they are part of an ongoing negotiation process about the past www.bbc.com/news/article...
