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Michaela Früh

2 months

Sadly, this thread with antisemitic incidents is getting longer & more violent, the latest a knife attack on a Jewish man in Zürich with the attacker reportedly shouting “Death to Jews”. If people downplay antisemitism, feel free to reply with this thread. #NeverAgainIsNow

Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

This is how it starts. These people feel so good about themselves; they think they’re on the right side, the righteous ones. But so thought every single mob persecuting, boycotting & eventually murdering Jews throughout 2000 years of history. Future generations will judge them.

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3 months

When I first met my husband 24 years ago he told me that Israel was every Jew’s life insurance in case antisemitism surged again. It’s only now that I truly begin to grasp what he meant. /1

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Michaela Früh

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3 months

At 13 I learned about the Holocaust & read Anne Frank's diary. Back then I made a pledge to myself that I would always call out antisemitism. Today it feels like a losing battle but I'm so grateful to anyone fighting it, despite all the hate received in return. #NeverAgainIsNow

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

I, too, find it hard to sleep at night or to think about anything else (and I’m not even Jewish). Impossible to imagine this rampant antisemitism 4 months ago. Jews can now openly be hated, defiled & blamed again & hardly anyone is speaking up against this.

Times Radio

@TimesRadio

3 months

“People are saying things about Jews that they were saying in the 1300s.” Author Howard Jacobson says he “can’t sleep at night” and he is “flabbergasted” by the state of antisemitism in Britain. @HugoRifkind | #TimesRadio

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@KeelanFaugnan One: I'm not Jewish. Two: Israel is a tiny (!) country & they evacuated Gaza in 2005 so the Palestinians could build their 'Jew-free' state. Note that 2 million Israelis are Arabs. Just like the Jews, Palestinians were offered their own state several times & always rejected it.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

From casual antisemitic “jokes” to unprovoked Israel bashing (he’s German not Israeli) to subtle excuses of Nazi atrocities there was everything in the book. But I never could have predicted the level of open antisemitism happening now & it honestly makes me dread the future. 3/

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

He also said I would encounter quite a bit of antisemitism if we stayed together. I was naive enough to think he was exaggerating but I was in for a shock when I mentioned to colleagues, friends and even some family members that my new partner happened to be Jewish. 2/

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

6 months

600+ academics in Ireland have signed a call to boycott academics in Israel. The letter downplays the atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October, calling them an “incursion by Palestinian armed groups on October 7th [that] included criminal attacks against civilians.” (1)

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@XeinabMajed Israel is the Jewish homeland; it has a right to exist. Palestinians, too, have a right to their own state. If only they hadn’t rejected the numerous offers over the years. Also, keep your dirty mouth shut about my husband.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@youzensan And you are apparently not the brightest candle on the cake if this is alll you take away from my post. Sorry, but I’m really fed up with complete strangers making all kinds of nasty assumptions just because I’m concerned about the very clear & worrying rise of antisemitism.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@Roseph7u Why are you not also enraged with Hamas & how do you feel about the hostages? How do you propose Israel defend themselves against Hamas when the terrorists hide among civilians & use civilian infrastructure such as schools & hosptals for terror purposes?

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

23 days

I’m sure they have no trouble handling Chinese mail. Iranian mail. Russian mail. North American mail. If there’s a silent majority opposing antisemitism, now might be the right time to speak up. Solidarity with all Israelis in Ireland.

CWU Ireland

@CWU

24 days

Conference has passed a motion calling on the National Executive Council to support CWU members in An Post who do not wish to handle Israeli mail. #CWUBDC24

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@OscarJ43943261 The son of a Holocaust survivor who stayed in Germany after the war & kept a packed bag all her life just in case she had to escape in a rush. People like you are so delightfully smug & self-righteous.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

5 days

In the past few weeks I have spoken to several colleagues who are horrified by the rise of antisemitism in academia but are afraid to speak out. I also noticed that some Jewish/Israeli colleagues have closed their social media accounts. It’s a very concerning development.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@xxnllmx Jews already lived there.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@micheal_mor Israel is a bit older than the Netanyahu government. You paint such a simplified picture of a very complex history & your hate of Israel clearly shows. In my experience debating in such a case is pointless.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@thechasinglife Just scroll on then, why comment here? I certainly didn’t invite you.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

6 months

I don’t understand how anyone could sign such a letter only 4 weeks after the worst massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust. There’s huge suffering in Gaza but Israelis suffer too. Empathy can’t possibly be this selective. (4)

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

6 months

This letter was signed by a broad range of academics many of whom describe themselves as feminists, and who must be aware that Hamas terrorists raped women and children to the point of breaking their pelvis before parading their broken, bleeding bodies through the streets. (2)

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

6 months

This is not the time to be silent though. With waves of antisemitism sweeping across the world, how can anyone remain silent? I know I’m shouting this into a void. But I’d rather be the unheard, possibly ‘blocked’ minority than to remain silent. Never again is now. (8)

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

6 months

How can one call for a ceasefire, or peace, without a call for the return of the hostages and complete surrender of the terrorist organisation Hamas? I can’t even begin to imagine how Israeli academics in Ireland must be feeling right now. (5)

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

22 days

Today’s day on X: Was called all kinds of names from genocide supporter to old hag, told I shouldn’t be allowed to live or teach in this country, blamed for Germany’s Nazi past. Why all this? Because I’m opposed to boycotting Israeli mail. The world has officially gone mad.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

6 months

The atrocities committed are there for anyone to see. Hamas themselves recorded them and partly posted them on Facebook on their victims’ phones so that family members had to witness the torturing and killing as it was happening. (3)

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

This is how it starts. These people feel so good about themselves; they think they’re on the right side, the righteous ones. But so thought every single mob persecuting, boycotting & eventually murdering Jews throughout 2000 years of history. Future generations will judge them.

Aviva Klompas

@AvivaKlompas

3 months

The pro-murder, pro-rape, pro-Hamas mob shut down New York’s @MuseumModernArt because the museum has Jewish trustees. Terrifying families and tourists is not legitimate public protest. It is rampant, ugly Jew-hatred.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@p02462599 @KeelanFaugnan And how is that even relevant to my thread? Did I ever say all Jews are sane or good? That would be philosemitism. Jews are people.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

6 months

Important letter which I signed.

Edward Burke

@Edward__Burke

6 months

Below is a letter in the @IrishTimes from a group of academics in Ireland - including myself - opposing a call for an Irish boycott of all Israeli universities. It focuses both on what was said (and not said) in the pro-boycott letter of 4 November.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

1 year

@Sigrid27981901 @buitengebieden How is this funny?

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@dfatirl @he_ireland 6 million Jews

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

4 months

@faniaoz Not being Israeli or Jewish I obviously can’t pretend to know what you’re going through. But even for me it feels like an abyss has opened up & the world’s response to Oct 7 fills me with dread. For what it’s worth, voices like yours are a ray of hope in these dark times.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

6 months

I believe (and very much hope) that the vast majority of academics in Ireland and elsewhere holds more nuanced views on this complex conflict than the signatories of this letter (some of whom may not have realised the implications of what they were signing) but remains silent (7)

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

6 months

On Twitter, a few well respected scholars have criticised the call for academic boycott in general and the wording of the letter in particular. In response to this some of the initiators suggested anyone critical of the letter should simply be blocked!! (6)

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@Joe53927015 @KeelanFaugnan I remember loads of suicide bombings & attacks that happened in Israel via Gaza after the Israelis left. Which is why they built the fence & established border control. There was only a partial blockade for security reasons.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

27 days

Irish Twitter today seems to be full of people siding with Iran. How infinite must anyone’s Jew hatred be to express disappointment over the lack of casualities (thanks to Iron Dome) or to proclaim Iran’s right to defend itself against the “terror state” of Israel?

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

6 days

On Oct 7 when the first Hamas atrocities were reported I thought people would be bound to stand with Israel. Who could have known that the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust would unleash a wave of the antisemitism. It’s a changed world, terrible & utterly unbeautiful.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@youzensan My husband, for your information, is the son of a Holocaust survivor & most of his maternal family was wiped out by the Nazis just for being Jewish before he was even born. So take your judgmental attitude elsewhere.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@Roseph7u Also: antisemitism is very much in the rise as countless incidents document (I have a thread compiling some of them).

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@Joe53927015 @KeelanFaugnan If you look at videos of Gaza it was actually a pretty nice place & apparently there were sufficient supplies to build hundreds of miles of tunnels & also for missiles, rockets etc.… You do realise Gaza has a border with Egypt as well, right?

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

Writing Jews out of history?

Irish Foreign Ministry

@dfatirl

4 months

On Holocaust Remembrance Day we remember the millions of innocent victims who perished during the Holocaust. This day grants us the opportunity to honour their memory & renew our commitment to protect peace, security & human rights in today’s world #ProtectTheFacts @he_ireland

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

For the first time ever I’ve changed the settings of a post so that only accounts I follow can reply. I’m just tired of the whataboutism. If you can’t side with Jews against Jew hatred, regardless of your views on Israel/Palestine, what are you if not an antisemite?

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@mormo_music This is one of the oldest & most perfidious antisemitic tropes: that Jews are to blame for antisemitism.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@p02462599 @KeelanFaugnan Yes, & I’d absolutely criticise these far-right extremists, & I think what happens in the Westbank is definitely wrong. But does any of this justify antisemitism, esp. targeting Jews in Europe? Because that’s what’s happening if you open your eyes & it’s getting worse every day.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

5 days

I’ve been keeping Moshe Ridler’s photo on my phone for the past six months. #NeverForget #NeverAgain #NeverAgainIsNow

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Moshe Ridler survived the Holocaust as a child all alone, without his family. On October 7th, Hamas terrorists broke into his house and brutally murdered him. Moshe was of 91. He survived the Holocaust and the Nazis, but did not survive the terrorists of Hamas. #HamasTerrorists

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

2 years

Can‘t wait to see this book published with @RoutledgeLit in May 2022! Co-edited with @AntonyRoland and including stellar contributions by @maggieoneillt @darling_orlaith @duffles1 @brendamaynooth @AineNiLeime @CiaraLynnMurphy @ASKarhio and many more.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@DEW20247 I’m so sorry. My husband’s mother (who I never met) was a Holocaust survivor & kept such a bag until her death. These people have no idea. It’s truly scary that antisemitism is becoming socially acceptable again.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

5 years

@guardian Please revise this absolutely disgraceful headline.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

If someone had told me 6 months ago Jews across Europe would be chased out of theatres, would have to go into hiding due to death threats, would be physically & verbally abused & would receive little to no solidarity I wouldn’t have believed it.

Soho theatre apologises after comedian ‘abused Jewish audience member’

Paul Currie allegedly swore at and hounded out Israeli man who refused to applaud Palestinian flag

www.theguardian.com

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

7 months

@ConorReddy95 @ipsc48 @TrinityBDS Despicable tweet. I’ve just unfollowed every follower we had in common. Shame on you for applauding terror and murder of innocent civilians.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

2 years

If I hear one more word about staff mental wellbeing in academia I'll break down either laughing or crying or both. I have never felt so broken in my life (which is saying a lot).

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

2 months

Before Oct 7, I mainly posted about my research interests & followed other academics who shared these. Now it feels like everything else has been eclipsed by this wave of #antisemitism sweeping over a world that has turned completely upside down.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

6 months

@LilaR Unfassbar. Leider wird auch das vielen nicht die Augen öffnen.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@AvivaKlompas I so hope they’re still alive 🙏💔

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@PixelCrew @XeinabMajed The first time a Palestinian state was offered was in 1948 as far as I know.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

2 years

Delighted to have received an @IrishResearch #NewFoundations21 Award for "Restorying Ageing: Older Women and Life Writing". Very much looking forward to collaborating with @Age_Opp and @maggieoneillt on this exciting project! #LoveIrishResearch @nuigalway @WomenandAgeing

IrishResearchCouncil

@IrishResearch

2 years

Minister @SimonHarrisTD announces 77 @IrishResearch New Foundations projects that will bring researchers and community organisations together to tackle societal issues including gender-based abuse, homelessness and housing affordability @DeptofFHed

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@micheal_mor @youzensan Firstly, I’m not labelling all protestors as antisemites, only those calling for the annihilation of Israel or using antisemitic tropes, images & narratives. Secondly, the war in Gaza, begun by Hamas, is terrible but not genocide & what you just wrote is Holocaust inversion.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@lifeafterkosovo I don’t particularly enjoy sharing oxygen with antisemites either. At least we can mutually block each other here.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

6 months

Imagine this. Just imagine this.

Maayan Zin

@ZinMaayan1007

6 months

Today marks 30 agonizing days since my daughters, Dafna (15) and Ela (8), were abducted by Hamas after witnessing their father's horrifying murder right before their eyes. I find it impossible to sleep, to think clearly, to even catch my breath. Please, I beg for your assistance.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

4 months

@nicolelampert I’m not Jewish but would have loved to be there. The masses are not always right.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

2 months

@RachelMoiselle I was and am completely shocked by this & similar reactions if Irish colleagues to the Oct 7 massacre. What do they teach their students & how are Jewish (not to mention Israeli) students ever meant to feel safe in their classes?

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

4 years

Please register now for our webinar "Imagine Ageing: Irish Culture and Society", 18 September, 2-3.30 pm. @EuMascage @MooreInst @IrishResearch @GENDER_NET_Plus @ResearchatNUIG #mascage

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

2 months

In the past few months whenever I posted about antisemitism some people automatically assumed I must be Jewish. Well, I’m not. And the onus to call out Jew hatred should not be on Jews, a minority comprising 0.2% of the world population. #NeverAgainIsNow #FightAntisemitism

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@FabioA You can’t even spell her name right.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

1 year

@AKSAND100OTHERS @buitengebieden Some people are so predictible - and not funny at all….

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

14 days

“The World Jewish Congress calls on the Irish government and educational authorities to intervene immediately and prevent the use of this pernicious curriculum. It is crucial that educational materials foster understanding and dialogue rather than incite division and hate.”

World Jewish Congress

@WorldJewishCong

15 days

❌Schools in Ireland are set to begin using an antisemitic curriculum later this month. ❌WJC condemns this unabashedly antisemitic curriculum, developed by Teachers for Palestine, which fans the flames of hate at a time of surging #antisemitism . ⬇️

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

I couldn’t be more disgusted. The twenty-first-century version of “Don’t buy from Jews” with no mention of Hamas terror at all nor any demand to release the Israeli hostages. The war would be over in a heartbeat if Hamas surrendered & released the hostages.

The Green Party

@TheGreenParty

3 months

The Green Party is clear on what is needed to stop the killing in Gaza. The UK government must now call for an immediate ceasefire and the release of all hostages and political prisoners.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

2 years

Lovely to receive the physical copies of our edited collection with @RoutledgeLit today, including my chapter on Older Widowers in John Banville, Sebastian Barry and the wonderful @AnneGriffin_

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@mormo_music The vast majority of Jews are Zionists in the sense that they believe in Jewish self-determination & Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. So your distinction is meaningless. Also, many of the tropes used today to defame “Zionists” are exactly the same used to defame Jews.

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@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@OscarJ43943261 Oh shut up. Really now.

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@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@mormo_music And finally, if Jews and Israel are not linked, why the worldwide surge in antisemitism since Oct 7? Perhaps you ought to start thinking more carefully.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

1 year

Solidarität mit allen Protestierenden. Ohne das #WissZeitVG wäre ich nicht nach Irland gegangen. Nach 12 Jahren auf meist halber Stelle war meine Zeit kurz vor der Fertigstellung meiner Habil vorbei und der Traum von einer Anglistik-Professur geplatzt. (1)

PD Dr. Jennifer S. Henke

@jenniferhenkeHB

1 year

Auf geht's nach Berlin zur BAMBULE vor dem BMBF - für bessere Arbeitsbedingungen in der Wissenschaft! ✊ #WissZeitVG #WitzZeitVG #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

30 days

They may think they’re on the right side of history but all they do is engage in a modern-day version of “Don’t buy from Jews”. The German government has designated the BDS movement as antisemitic for a reason. The hate on their faces makes my stomach turn. #NeverAgainIsNow

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@JakeWSimons

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The oldest hatred is back.

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@eoinmauricedaly So my thread is not helpful / in good faith but the letter you signed is, though it downplays the worst massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust & calls for a boycott of Israeli universities w/o even mentioning the 200+ hostages, incl. children, still being held by Hamas?

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 years

Out today! With excellent articles by @crassmuss , @cathyfowley , @6thinline , @annauthentic , @LeonieHannan , @DrHannahGrist , @RosJennings , and others (originally published as a Special Issue of @LifeWritingJnl .) With @maggieoneillt @WomenandAgeing

Women and Ageing: Private Meaning, Social Lives

This edited collection considers the ways older women’s life narratives redefine culturally imposed conceptions of what it means to grow older. Drawing on research from age studies as well as social...

www.routledge.com

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

A third of the comments under this post claim I drew the wrong lesson from the Holocaust, while a third do their utmost to demonstrate that the lesson I drew is spot on. Thankfully there also those committed to the same cause of fighting the oldest & ugliest hate. #Antisemitism

Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

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At 13 I learned about the Holocaust & read Anne Frank's diary. Back then I made a pledge to myself that I would always call out antisemitism. Today it feels like a losing battle but I'm so grateful to anyone fighting it, despite all the hate received in return. #NeverAgainIsNow

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Not mentioned: Hamas, Oct 7, hostages. There’s outrage about the indeed disgusting posing of IDF soldiers with lingerie but no mention of raped Israeli women. No mention of Hamas’ stealing aid & rejecting ceasefires. How are such one-sided takes helpful?

Sally Rooney: Killing in Gaza has been supported by Ireland’s ‘good friend’ in the White House

Our Government is basking in the moral glow of condemning the bombers, while preserving a cosy relationship with those supplying the bombs

www.irishtimes.com

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@VigoMontana53 Q.e.d.

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@sohotheatre @paulfoot @dinamartina @lolwordcomedy @JuliaMasli I think a statement about what happened last night would be in order…

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Michaela Früh

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If only people could view the conflict through the lens of Jewish history & persecution rather than the inadequate lens of postcolonialism. Perhaps this might allow them to understand the trauma of 7th Oct & the antisemitic tropes & patterns prevalent in ‘anti-Zionist’ protests.

Claire

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The October 7th pogrom was eerily reminiscent of other pogroms Jews have suffered, but the scale, barbarism, blood frenzy, and sheer sadistic nature of each account will burn throughout history as the worst atrocity to happen to Jews post the holocaust.

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There’s so much confusion about the term “Zionism” which many now use as a swearword when it basically just means the belief in Israel’s right to exist as the Jewish homeland. For those in doubt please read Fania Oz-Salzberger’s excellent piece:

Opinion | A Quick Guide to Zionism in Hard Times

Herzl’s version of Zionism is still alive: a liberal-democratic country, a home for the Jewish nation and for all its citizens.

momentmag.com

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

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@EtcBionicles I’m not a victim. Did you read my thread? It’s about the rise of antisemitism. I’m not Jewish.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

5 years

Finally published! So happy to see this in print 😀

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

2 months

Great to see our book out now as (very affordable!) paperback @AntonyRoland @obrien_eugene @RoutledgeLit @brendamaynooth @maggieoneillt @cass_tully @duffles1 @darling_orlaith

Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture

This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary. Exploring the shifting representations of older men...

www.routledge.com

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

5 years

Check out this CFP for a conference on Ageing Masculinities in Irish Life & Culture @nuigalway in June 2020. We look forward to many interesting proposals! @AntonyRoland @HustonFilmNUIG @WomenandAgeing @ResearchatNUIG @IrishResearch @GENDER_NET_PLUS #LoveIrishResearch #mascage

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@rtenews For Israel it is (and has always been) about survival rather than revenge. Imagine Oct 7 had happened in Ireland. Imagine Iran had attacked Ireland. Imagine Israel had no Iron Dome. It‘s easy to talk about reason & revenge from your own secure home with nothing at stake.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

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@MatthewPease The vast majority of Jews are Zionists.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

1 year

It's slowly sinking in that after twenty years in academia I am no longer precariously employed. The relief and gratefulness ( @TPusse ) is immense but I think it will take time for the constant sense of anxiety, stress & worry to fade. #academicprecarity is not ok. #IchWarHannah

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

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@TreenieCurran Yeah, you see, that’s precisely one of those antisemitic tropes: the Jews are to blame for antisemitism.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

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80 years after the Holocaust the age old antisemitic tropes & libels have become socially acceptable again. They never went quite away but at least a few years ago you couldn’t have voiced them publicly w/o being challenged or put in your place. What a dreadful world we live in.

Alex Hearn

@hearnimator

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The accusation of Jewish power controlling everywhere they live is undiluted racism. It is concerning that these fantasies were given a platform on @BBCRadio2 by @theJeremyVine without being challenged as virulently racist and the caller cutoff immediately.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

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While grieving the children in Gaza we can’t forget the children murdered & kidnapped on Oct 7. This brutal attack was not an “act of resistance” & endorsing it as such only prolongs the conflict. There needs to be increased pressure on Hamas to surrender & release the hostages.

Aviva Klompas

@AvivaKlompas

2 months

Aline Kapshitter 🕯️ Just 8 years old, Aline was slaughtered by terrorists on October 7. Her family had spent the weekend on a camping trip in southern Israel and on the way home, Aline, her parents, and little brother were brutally gunned down by the invading terrorists. There…

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

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Rest in peace, Matthew Sweeney.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

4 years

I so enjoyed our webinar “Imagine Ageing: Irish Literature and Society”! Thanks to our wonderful contributors and audience. If you missed it, the video will be available soon. @Age_Matters @AnneGriffin_ @AntonyRoland @maggieoneillt @AineNiLeime @MooreInst @EuMascage #mascage

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

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Lucy Lipiner

@LucyLipiner

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These protesters are standing along the same route that my uncles, aunts, and baby cousins walked from the Auschwitz train station to the gas chamber of Birkenau where they were murdered.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

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It's publication day! @AntonyRoland With thanks to @MichelleSalyga @obrien_eugene @RoutledgeLit @IrishResearch and all our fantastic contributors @brendamaynooth @duffles1 @darling_orlaith @maggieoneillt @AineNiLeime @ASKarhio @cass_tully

Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture

This book engages with ageing masculinities in Irish literature and visual culture, including fiction, drama, poetry, painting, and documentary. Exploring the shifting representations of older men...

www.routledge.com

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

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Some people on X are hilarious. Recently s/o suggested that I (a literary scholar) read more books. And now this. I literally completed my PhD on Irish poetry. And no, my husband does not interfere with my research or freedom of expression. Why would he? And yet she gets likes 🤦‍♀️

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

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@_MPSherlock Who are you to lecture me about the decent thing? I’m not Jewish by the way & I will address antisemitism in whatever form it raises its ugly head. Would you kindly get off my feed now?

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@kare80298 @karenievers So am I. I honestly had no clue when I dragged my family to Ireland 12 years ago. Then the 2014 war happened & I vividly recall an Irish sports celebrity announcing he wanted to “punch a Jew in the face”. And how there was no outrage at all.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

2 years

@mikiyo_am @rickygervais 😹

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@jimobrienMSc Look at some of the signs carried and chants sung at the protests. They are blatantly antisemitic. Solidarity with Gaza & criticism of the Israeli government, the West bank settlements in particular, are all legitimate. But antisemitism is not.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

3 months

@RickEBlaine2022 Q.e.d.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

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@sabinedoering Diese “German Guilt”-Debatte macht mich unglaublich wütend. Vielleicht haben wir uns aufgrund unserer Geschichte einfach wesentlich intensiver mit dem Thema Antisemitismus und seinen Folgen auseinandergesetzt. Und es geht nicht um Schuld, sondern um Verantwortung.

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Michaela Früh

@MichaelaFrueh72

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@shane_malley I’m German & always wondered how my grandparents’ generation could let the Holocaust happen. I now see a very similar situation unfold around us & don’t know what to do about it. My husband is Jewish, his mother & sister survived the Holocaust. Trust me that I feel terrified.

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