HeyJaredTomer Dotan-Dreyfus
Author of Birobidschan (2023) Translator of literature from German to Hebrew Next: a non-fiction to be published in the autumn of 2025.
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The Trojan Horse as a War Crime (opens the original)
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Remark 1: This text is in no way meant to show sympathy with the perpetrators of genocide or other war crimes and crimes against humanity. If anything, it suggests that literature might help one be aware of ancient psychological mechanisms that might make us think we are doing the right thing while we commit atrocities.Remark 2: This text includes spoilers from the Odyssey. As much as one can spoil a 2700 years old work of literature. But also it discusses things that were done differently in th
In Defence of Books and People (opens the original)
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At the age of 26, at his apartment in Brooklyn, programmer and internet rights activist Aaron Swartz died by suicide. At that time, Sam Altman, now the CEO of OpenAI, was running the location-based social app Loopt and got more and more involved with the start-up accelerator Y Combinator. In the context of the latter, he had met Aaron Swartz in 2005. They knew each other, and after Swartz’s death Altman said this impersonal comment about his illness: “It’s a major issue, and it’s one of the leas
Israel, Palestine and the West: Reflection with "Apocalypse Now" (opens the original)
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The experience of living in our God forsaken West is a constant experience of fending off gaslighting. That is, constantly doubting one’s own sanity. One feels the temperatures rising every year, record heat is breaking, asphalt is melting and hundreds of people die across one’s continent, yet one keeps hearing the climate change is not taking place. One hears Israeli politicians, officers, even celebrities demanding, then ordering, then celebrating the complete annihilation of Gaza on its schoo
On Israel's Right to Exist (opens the original)
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Now that the Bundesrat, Germany’s upper house of parliament, is backing a bill proposed by the state of Hessen to criminalize the denial of the state of Israel’s right to exist, an opportunity falls into our hands - to quickly actually talk about Israel’s right to exist, before it is illegal for me to type these words from my apartment in the German capital.I’ll start by saying that Israel’s right to exist doesn’t exist legally, but it exists discoursively. It is being a topic of conversation an
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