I was thinking of that tweet when I wrote it. Historian twitter has been ripping it to shreds. It’s truly awful from every excerpt and review I’ve read. Probably the best example of why “pop-histories” can be so dangerous. Add Tom Holland into that and you’ve misinformed so many people. It’s stuff that would be…

I suspect the minute Breitbart or the Daily Caller hears about this it will start a huge bad faith “don’t erase history” screech from the usual subjects. Academia is still grappling with problems around how Native Americans are portrayed and studied, and popular culture is light-years behind academia on that front.…

You’re not aware of a damn thing you worthless stain. Go back to your hate forums.

Please flag this rabidly racist sack of shit. Thank you. 

This shitheel is just copy-pasting this from some random “pro-Israel” website that no doubt contains mountains of anti-Palestinian racism. This is a context-free and heavily distorted narrative that paints the Israelis as far more interested in peace than they ever were.

The cost-benefit analysis of going on Fox leans pretty heavily in Fox’s favor. For the Democrats, you might, maybe, possibly, reach a few voters you might not otherwise. But for the most part you’re largely preaching to a hostile audience that’s watching hoping to see some “own the libs” content.

This is a pretty naked lie from a very unsubtle far-right troll likely on his 40th burner. 

I just dismissed five. They were all boringly predictable too. 

The reason it was denied is that it’ll play incredibly well in conservative circles, where incitement and racism against Palestinians is the norm. Ashrawi has been on the end of quite a bit of incitement form the usual militant “pro-Israel” groups and individuals. Those people have the ear of Trump and his cronies.…

They aren’t playing for the (small in percentage terms) hard-right Jewish circles, this is about evangelical Christians and a lot of right-wing people. Performative concern about Jews and Israel is a lot more potent among mostly Christian right-wing partisans than most American Jews.

Not a defense of leaving it up, but it does very well encapsulate the sort of dishonest pseudo-centrist position I’ve seen some supposedly liberal people take.

That’s another good point. The intra-Jewish feuds and rivalries get written over a lot too, but the large ideological gaps between Labor Zionists and say Jabotinksy’s fascism-idolizing Revisionists were hardly minor. The roots of much of Israel’s current political parties go back to the era, and the basics of their…

FYI, because racists in the greys will bring it up, when they start screaming about the Mufti al-Husseini, when he was a Nazi puppet he’d been exiled from Palestine and had little real influence in the region. He’s a very useful strawman but vastly over-stated. People act like he was some sort of king of Palestinians…

They should! I see countless people screeching that she’s “revising history”. The reality is more complicated. The most common narrative of the Yishuv era, pre-state Israel, is hopelessly distorted by decades of nationalism in Israel. It’s been revised into a foundation myth that focuses exclusively on Jewish…

I’m not sure I’d describe the BBC like that any longer. Maybe the print version, yes, I rarely see too much obvious bias in print, but the television and radio is a hot Brexit-loving disaster. I pretty constantly see problems arising from the support for a class of far-right charlatans that seem to have executive…

Bolton is a very big winner from all these weak “acting” officials and unqualified apparatchiks. He’s pure evil and he knows how to navigate and abuse the bureaucracy. His history of lying about intelligence and retaliating against the officials who contradict him is relevant here. Someone like Shanahan will fail if…

Shanahan is not well-qualified and has shown in his tenure so far a remarkable cowardice. When the DoD wants to disagree with Trump he lets people under him, or uniformed military, take the risk. He didn’t want to jeopardize his position, apparently. What that means is he’s unwilling to fight for the DoD’s…

He also likes to promote fringe “anti-imperialist” lefties of the sort who go on RT, ally with extreme right ideologues, and defend Maduro because Trump dislikes him.

The “mobilization to violence” part is very important. What that means, essentially, is there’s less time between contact with extremist material and activation to violent action. That’s a serious problem, and there’s no chance in hell the current US legal and law enforcement system is ready to cope with it. Even…

Because I’m not ungreyed on Splinter. I lost my old burner and my magical ungrey status.