Sasha Senderovich 🌻

Pub day!!! Our book is now out.

Based on exit polls (which may be wrong) from Israel’s election: I suspect that Bibi forces Eisenkot into a unity govt, coercing him into it with racist propaganda about the huge success of Ra’am and the Joint List that Eisenkot’s voters will likely buy. I don’t Bibi goes anywhere anytime soon…

Look at this clown, he’s an art critic now! 🤡

Like I said, probably not gonna happen but this sort of thing did happen when Serbia extradited Milosević to The Hague so who knows!

Dream scenario for tomorrow's election in Israel (it's not gonna happen, I know): the opposition to Netanyahu can put together a coalition only with Ra'am and the Joint List, who agree to join on the condition that the warrant for Bibi’s arrest is honored + that he’s extradited to the Hague.

Fuck fascists. Thank you, Serbia and Brazil for showing us the way.

"Reading books is active resistance" is something I tell to my students every day.

This is fucking insane. It reads like a bad spy novel. The corruption is almost cartoonish at this point. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

If Zohran Mamdani or Abdul El-Sayed had used the word “Shylock” as an insult, the ADL would be attacking them by name relentlessly. But Donald Trump used it, so we get a generic condemnation of the word without any specific reference to who actually used it, and with no assumption of intent.

🦁 🐻 🐍 🦒 🤡

Oh FFS.

This is genuinely good to see. More of this sort of solidarity, please.

"A written statement wasn’t enough.” Hundreds of UW students, faculty, and campus orgs rallied in solidarity with Cornell survivor “Jane Doe” and survivors of sexual violence everywhere. Read why SARVA and ASUW felt they had to act: (Via @thedailyuw.bsky.social) www.dailyuw.com/article/stud...

Quite the read. Businees Schools as currently organized are a poison in the university. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...

This article makes me think of one of my esteemed doctoral Religion advisors, who made the University of Chicago admin angry every year by submitting a proposal to construct a memorial on campus to the worldwide victims of the UChicago Economics Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...

Fuck him.

Our “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union," got reviewed in TLS, alongside Vasily Grossman's journalism from WWII, translated by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler. An enlightening pairing, indeed. @stanfordpress.bsky.social @thetls.bsky.social

He's probably doing it because he authentically wants Putin to win. The war between Putin and Ukraine is a proxy war between the forces of nationalist far-right reaction and those against it. Which is why the anti-Ukraine left is so deeply misguided.

The state of American Jewry in 2026, elite college campus edition. FFS. jewishcurrents.org/emorys-hille... @jewishcurrents.bsky.social @joshnathankazis.bsky.social

There’s a lot going on here 🤡 🤯 Emory gave her her own antisemitism institute to run, too.

A former UW student is suing the university, alleging it failed to protect her from a Pi Kappa Phi (Pi Kappa) fraternity member who sexually assaulted her in 2022. Read more from my coverage via @thedailyuw.bsky.social. www.dailyuw.com/article/t7h4...

This Tuesday in Seattle! Join #translator Michelle Quay, the inaugural recipient of the Mo Habib Translation Prize in Persian Literature, for a presentation of her award-winning text! 🎶 thirdplacebooks.com/event/2026-1... @returnstosender.bsky.social #UWTranslation #MoHabibTranslationPrize #MELCUW

Seems bad that the security services are being used to persecute opposition leaders

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

The problem with this framing is that they always define “right to exist” as “right to prioritize maintaining a Jewish voting majority above enfranchising everyone who lives in the governed territories.” Which gets you precisely into the policies in question.

Fuck yeah

I read so many reviews of “NAZA” before finally seeing it earlier today; one detail that I hadn’t expected and found startling was the filmmakers’ camera lingering—knowingly—on the screen above the Tel Aviv Cinematheque playing snippets of a sequence from “Shoah” in a Claude Lanzmann retrospective.

Going to see “NAZA” this afternoon.

Uh oh Tablet took Sharansky — who was oh so helpful whispering into Bush’s ear about Iraq in the 2000s — out of mothballs and unleashed him on Navi Pillay.

We are officially in for James Talarico! It's time that Gen Z Texans get a Senator who'll fight for them. couriertexas.com/news/politic...

Perfect.

@thedailyuw.bsky.social stands with The Cornell Sun, its student journalists, and Jane Doe. We don’t limit our concern to our own campus; sexual violence at any university is a problem for every student. Students across the nation deserve to feel safe, secure, and comfortable on their campuses.

My contribution, along with @thedailyuw.bsky.social's Editorial Board. We cannot stay silent. We stand with The Cornell Sun and Jane Doe. www.dailyuw.com/article/edit...

Oh, the genocide denial!…

Waking up on the West Coast of the U.S. just now to the news of the Nobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay. Today will be a long day of people losing their fucking minds.

Perhaps not a great idea to be the party where white nationalists are part of the base.

Joyce. Joyce Meadowcroft is my favorite “Thursday Murder Club” character. Just finished the third book in the series.

Republicans are such asshats.

This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇

My Autumn 2026 course on the Russian and Soviet Jewish Experience at the University of Washington kicks off tomorrow. Check it out.

Second time as farce, etc. etc. jewishcurrents.org/the-modern-o... @jewishcurrents.bsky.social

Brilliant. (Don’t know who made this, lyric credit obvious though.)

Uh oh guess where I’m not getting any more rubber chickens etc again? (I have, in the past gotten their rubber chickens — the store is in my neighborhood and sometimes one needs the whimsical junk they sell). Not Archie McPhee!

The new projected Berlin Bürgermeisterin — now that’s cool news.