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Jelena Subotić

Jelena Subotić is a political scientist. She is Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She is… more

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Political science 46%
Sociology 18%
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This is so incredibly dumb and a waste of everyone’s time and money.

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Every time I watch any Pete Hegseth speech, it's clear the main audience for said speech is his own insecurities.
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I have an earnest post (sorry!) My son lost his grandma this week and when he came back to his dorm after the funeral he found a sympathy card signed by his roommates and a bunch of other kids from the dorm. This kind of thing simply did not happen in my generation. The kids are really alright.
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Too soon
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Riffing on an old Russian joke for my USian academic friends: If you're feeling miserable today, remember that somewhere at your university, someone is studying international relations.
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Riffing on an old Russian joke for my USian academic friends: If you're feeling miserable today, remember that somewhere at your university, someone is studying international relations.
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My book is up and about in the world or, at least, in Vancouver.
image of people handing books
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wait WHAT who is handing these out for free???
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super Nazis like actual Nazis who think that the Trump Nazis are too soft. I need a shower now thanks
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please don't make me explain groypers to the normal people in my life
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I regret to inform you that my son is busy annoying his college professors by promoting both @gsqjournal.bsky.social AND my war against AI. Good boy.
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In this great conversation with Natasha Roth-Rowland and Valentina Pisanty, I talk about the weaponization of antisemitism by Trump, Netanyahu, and other autocratic populists who feed on conspiratorial frameworks, and the danger this poses to the fight against actual, rampant antisemitism.
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In this episode of Lifting the Curtain, guest host Natasha Roth-Rowland talks to scholars Valentina Pisanty and @jelenasubotic.bsky.social about the anatomy and function of conspiracy theories and the role of antisemitism within them. Tune in now at bit.ly/47v3Bj6.
Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism
episode 2:
Conspiracy Theories, Antisemitism, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory with Valentina Pisanty and Jelena Subotić

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praeyesright.bsky.social
In this episode of Lifting the Curtain, guest host Natasha Roth-Rowland talks to scholars Valentina Pisanty and @jelenasubotic.bsky.social about the anatomy and function of conspiracy theories and the role of antisemitism within them. Tune in now at bit.ly/47v3Bj6.
Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism
episode 2:
Conspiracy Theories, Antisemitism, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory with Valentina Pisanty and Jelena Subotić
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You are too kind. I wish I had written all of your books.
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I managed to trace most of these paintings to their original owners. Serbia continues to argue nothing to see here, this is "just reparation." This flies in the face of any contemporary understanding of restitution especially in clear cases of Nazi looted art!
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Art of Status cover
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But I have receipts. I found lists of this shipment in the archives which partly show where the paintings were taken from. A few paintings were taken from the Rothschild collection in Paris, for example.
arhival list
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In 2016, Italian government determined some of the art in this collection was looted by Nazis in Italy and should be returned, including this Carpaccio. The National Museum was 🤷‍♀️
art by Carpaccio
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But YU authorities did not care, and argued even if this was a mistake, it was "just reparation" for massive war losses YU endured. The paintings have been at the National Museum (now of Serbia) ever since, with no provenance acknowledgment.
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The valuable paintings were by Titian, Tintoretto, Carpaccio, Robert, and were happily accepted by the National Museum in Belgrade (then called Art Museum) in 1949. The officers in Munich figured out quickly they sent the wrong package as claims to these same paintings came from France, Austria, etc
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Amidst the chaos at CCP, a Croatian con-man Ante Topic Mimara appeared in Munich in 1948 and said he was a representative of Yugoslavia. He made a list of art he claimed was looted from YU. The officers at Munich believed him and put 50 paintings and other art onto 4 trucks that went to Belgrade.
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As the war was ending, Nazis moved this hoard into various hiding spots in Germany, Austria and elsewhere. After liberation, the Allies consolidated these discovered artworks into a Central Collection Point (CCP) in Munich, and started to figure out who the art belonged to and how to send it back.
Image of Monuments Men
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I begin this chapter with a familiar story of the massive art looting by the Nazis, who stole from the Jews, of course, but also from various museums and collections in all the countries they occupied. Peak looting was in France, as that was where most valuable art was. They hoarded at the Louvre👇
Image of Nazi looted art at the Louvre

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