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Sam Brody

@samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social

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religious studies professor in Kansas. modern Jewish thought. book: https://tinyurl.com/4tncyj76 new yorker by birth, father of two kansan children by the grace of god. אֱהֹב אֶת הַמְּלָאכָה, וּשְׂנָא אֶת הָרַבָּנוּת, וְאַל תִּתְוַדַּע לָרָשׁוּת

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hi, new followers! I wrote a book back in 2018 about Jewish anarcho-theocracy. You might like it if you are interested in the idea of God’s direct rule without a human intermediary, as devised in Weimar Germany and with application to colonial Palestine. Also if you only know Buber from “I and Thou”

The cover of “Martin Buber’s Theopolitics” by Samuel Hayim Brody. An image of a field of crosses, at the base of which are a mass of raised fists.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 1h

that right there is a little bit of cultural Protestantism, probably unconscious. “oh, who needs the church to look nice? it’s all about what’s in your heart. and let’s get rid of these priestly vestments, too. and the crucifixes. and the stained glass. all that decoration is besides the point”

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 12h

this guy’s crime was that he “advocated for organizing the working class to form a revolutionary socialist party.”

apparently that’s illegal in Texas

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 14h

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

spectrumlocalnews.com

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 14h

“who’s funding it”

last time I checked walking downtown was still free

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 15h

studying babysitter availability at this very moment

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 15h

Lawrence, Kansas?! TOMORROW?!

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 16h

The ops continue. Do not underestimate the far right or think they are stupid. They are truly capable of this level of cleverness and calculation, they really do this on purpose, and it does work

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 16h

a fake quote being attributed to zohran mamdani is igniting the pro-palestine left.

he never said arresting netanyahu would make him a trumpian fascist. that phrase was posted by an account known for using extreme rhetoric to accuse mamdani of effectively saying that as a result of him softening.

image circulating claiming to attribute a fake quote to mamdani. text reads:
dec. 2024: “as mayor of nyc i would arrest benjamin netanyahu”
sept. 2025: “arresting netanyahu would make me a trumpian fascist.” - this second quote has in big letters over it the words “fake quote.”

post from the originator of the phrase. text reads:

@zei squirrel
here you have it side by side. Zohran in December 2024, when he was running in the primary, pledging that he will definitely arrest Netanyahu. Then fast forward to Zohran in September 2025, after he won the primary, and suddenly arresting Netanyahu makes you a Trumpian fascist:

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 16h

I’ve always liked RATM’s “Ghost of Tom Joad.” Takes Springsteen trying to cover his own Nebraska era and turns it into something apocalyptic

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 17h

amazing, thank you! I will check it out.

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 17h

it is out of fashion in religious studies to express open agreement or disagreement with source texts rather than just analyzing their reception and significance.

buuuuut every time I read Krishna’s advice to Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, every pore of my body goes “nooo not equanimity”

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 18h

…did this class have a professor

was any of this cleared with the professor ahead of time

if someone ran into my classroom and was like “I’m an important YouTube personality here to give your students $30K and take up the rest of your class time” I would call security

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 20h

“oh he was acquitted”

yeah, that’s 16th-century Spanish justice for you. did they give him back the viceroyship of Hispaniola after that? they did not

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 20h

“oh he was a man of his time”

sure, that’s why the catholic monarchs who ten years earlier had no qualms about expelling every single Jew and Muslim from Spain had him relieved of duty and hauled back across the ocean for trial

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 21h

Airlines today doing delays, then moving the delay times SOONER - don’t think I’ve ever even seen that before! Who does that?

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 22h

Remember when Christopher Columbus cut off a woman’s tongue and had her paraded naked through the streets for the crime of saying that he was of low birth? He also had a guy’s ears and nose cut off for stealing corn. Great guy

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 23h

The return of the hostages and political prisoners is unequivocally good. So many families reuniting with their loved ones today.

When reports say “second phase unclear” they mean we have almost no reason to think the ceasefire will hold. Like any Trump promise

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 1d

Indian Man Joins White Christian Nationalist Movement in Well-Thought Out Scheme

Try as he might, Vivek Ramaswamy will never be fully accepted by MAGA world.

newrepublic.com

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 1d

the ghost of Christmas future has the chance to do the funniest thing

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

why does he keep bringing this up people.com/donald-trump...

Donald Trump Says He Doesn't Think He's 'Heaven-Bound' After Fundraising for Help Getting There

President Donald Trump is once again referencing his wish to be 'heaven-bound.' Speaking to press aboard Air Force One on Oct. 12, the president joked, 'I think I'm not maybe heaven-bound.'

people.com

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 1d

yeah but it’s not even a clueless article writer, it’s a fake page that’s part of a fake meme series made by a nazi

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 1d

I agree, what matters is the text itself. In this case though we have some insight into the creation process (see here as an incredibly corny but innocent piece about jews and pizza is used as the basis for this “Zionist” colonization meme)

99% Johnny Graz on X: "I made these as jokes, but the Zionist cuisine colonizers are rendering them obsolete. https://t.co/wHOOw5rbQ5" / X

I made these as jokes, but the Zionist cuisine colonizers are rendering them obsolete. https://t.co/wHOOw5rbQ5

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 1d

yeah the page calling Za’atar an “Israeli spice” was gross and ripe for parody, but the other one (the pizza one, corny and innocent) provides context that this is just Nazi shit

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 1d

do you have a link to that, would come in useful right about now

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 1d

correct. there are some who will say it is already antisemitic because of the baked-in tropes. like if a Nazi made an anti-Hillary meme in 2016 that was like “god what a nag,” and leftists shared it. not a perfect analogy because the misogyny tropes are more well-known than the antisemitism ones

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 1d

“In country” is short for “Indian country,” isn’t it?

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 1d

another one was probably to draw in leftists who would see it as solely a reference to the erasure of Palestinian culture and falafel-hummus controversies and think it was funny on that basis. that is where I am more generous than some of my colleagues on here

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 1d

the point is that the page is fake. it is a joke, although many people thought it was a real thing and that myjewishlearning was really claiming that gumbo was Israeli, which they did not do. but making people think they did was one of the goals of the creator

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