My profile probably confuses a lot of people because I'm a Lebanon-raised Palestinian-Lebanese quasi-anarchist who learned some Hebrew and did my MA on the linguistic politics of Yiddish and Hebrew. A 🧵

Great thread 👊

when I was preteenish, the way zionists denigrated yiddish was like, the first little ping in my brain like "something isn't right about these guys."

I'm obsessed with Jewish history and consider radical Jewish thinkers as my primary influences (besides James Baldwin, naturally). Levi, Arendt, Goldman, Bookchin, Solotaroff, Walter Benjamin, Bauman, Graeber, Postone, Butler, Shohat and so many more.

Great thread, but I understood German pro-Israelism didn't start until former Nazis began to die off. West Germany didn't have diplomatic relations with Israel until 1965, and its government was at the very least unhelpful when Israel was hunting Nazis, including Eichmann.