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Published: Jun 16, 2024

Antisemitic comments by professors, harassment of Jewish students – Columbia University's antisemitism task force has heard hundreds of testimonies since its formation in November. Its members tell Haaretz about the mandatory orientation they plan and say they have agreed on an 'educational' definition of antisemitism

NEW YORK – One professor encountering a Jewish-sounding surname while reading names before an exam asked the student to explain their views on the Israeli government's actions in Gaza. Another told their class to avoid reading mainstream media, declaring that "it is owned by Jews." A third revealed a student's complaint about an offensive comment regarding Jews by publicly displaying their email to fellow students.

Several times, professors encouraged students to participate in pro-Palestinian protests or the Gaza Solidarity Encampment for extra credit, or conducted classes at protest sites. Other incidents included students wearing Jewish symbols having them torn from their person. Some were pushed out of student clubs they had been part of because they did not want to participate in group actions and statements against Israel's right to exist.

These are just a few of the hundreds of testimonies the Columbia Task Force on Antisemitism has documented that detail harassment, intimidation, discrimination and exclusion against Jewish students by professors and fellow students at the New York university since the October 7 Hamas massacre and subsequent war in Gaza.

The task force conducted over 20 listening sessions across the university, which found itself at the epicenter of the campus protests that have engulfed America this year, hearing from about 500 students and receiving dozens of written appeals.

Some of these testimonies are set to be published in the coming weeks in a new report focusing on Jewish students' experiences at Columbia.

The task force was formed last November by Columbia University President Minouche Shafik, Barnard College President Laura Ann Rosenbury and Teachers College President Thomas R. Bailey. The aim was to address the "harmful impact of rising antisemitism on Columbia's Jewish community and to ensure that protection, respect, and belonging extends to everyone."

From its inception, the task force faced accusations of being illegitimate from some pro-Palestinian faculty and students. Critics claimed its existence was politically motivated, designed to spread fear by exaggerating antisemitism and perceived dangers to Jews, suppress criticism, and distract from the plight of Palestinians in Gaza and the violent arrests of pro-Palestinian protesters.

Jewish students active in the pro-Palestinian protests and Gaza Solidarity Encampment also criticized the move, saying the task force misrepresented Jewish students who did not feel endangered on campus.

Haaretz has interviewed several members of the task force, who say they have documented hundreds of cases of Jewish students feeling discriminated against. This month, the task force has commissioned a large survey of the entire Columbia student population in order to collect data about different aspects of antisemitism on campus.

The members also discussed Columbia's planned response, including a new antisemitism orientation – mandatory for all new students and faculty – to educate on what Jewish students might find offensive. It will also provide for the first time an educational, not legal, definition of antisemitism.

The new definition is expected to determine that statements calling for the destruction and death of Israel and Zionism can be considered antisemitic, while criticism of the Israeli government cannot.

A real problem

"I'm a social scientist, and I believe exploratory research is important. Therefore, in order to make recommendations for changes on campus, we needed to truly understand student experiences first," says task force co-chair Prof. Ester R. Fuchs, who teaches at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

"We heard from students who feel their identity, values and very existence on campus have been under attack," adds Fuchs, who has been a public affairs and political science professor at Columbia for 40 years. "My heart was broken listening to these students and what they were being forced to deal with."

Another co-chair, Prof. David M. Schizer, from Columbia Law School, notes: "Only when we talked to the students did we realize how serious the problem is. Unfortunately, there are still many faculty members who do not believe that there is antisemitism on campus, and some claim that antisemitism is being weaponized to protect pro-Israel views. We can put it this way: have there been antisemitic incidents? Yes, absolutely. Are there antisemitic faculty and students? Yes, there are some. Are all of them antisemitic? Absolutely not."

The third co-chair, Prof. Nicholas Lemann, from Columbia Journalism School, highlights the fact that the task force didn't have the authority to investigate specific cases. Instead, it was intended to identify wide patterns and solutions.

"In terms of what we've heard, Jewish and Israeli students are feeling very targeted and ostracized," he says. "The concept of Zionism has become unacceptable in some circles at Columbia. People are asked to promise that they're not Zionist. In the classroom, some feel uncomfortable because of intense criticism of Zionism."

Prof. Gil Zussman, an Israeli electrical engineering professor and member of the task force, is especially concerned by faculty members "who have been creating a discriminatory environment – by, for example, moving their classes and office hours into the encampment where 'Zionists were not welcome.'

"Based on conversations with students, we now know that some faculty members are unfortunately also creating a hostile environment toward Israelis in classrooms and are encouraging rule-breaking by student protesters," Zussman says. "For example, over 10 faculty and staff were standing outside Hamilton Hall when students broke in [on April 29 as part of the pro-Palestinian protest]. If I were a parent of one of these students, I would have major concerns about these faculty."

Schizer, who has worked at Columbia for over 25 years, says he is concerned about the inability of opposing groups on campus to have discussions with each other. "There used to be healthy discussion, including debates about Israeli government policy and the occupation," he says. "However, since October 7 the conversation has changed, with many asserting that Israel itself is illegitimate, and with students who disagree refusing to speak and study with one another.

"Part of what a great university does is introduce us to people with different opinions," he continues. "For a democratic society to flourish, we need shifting coalitions, not warring camps. People can agree about X and disagree on Y. The situation now on campus is not healthy. We're really missing something because we see the world as divided into two opposing camps that have nothing to do with each other."

One of the key points emphasized by task force members is that, unlike past protests at Columbia, which were directed at the establishment and the university itself, this protest has in many ways been aimed at students who lack the tools to cope with the intensity of the anger directed against them.

Student protesters targeting other students "are causing pain and isolation in a way I have never seen before on campus," Schizer says.

Fuchs adds that one of the task force's observations is that "the burden of dealing with these situations of harassment, intimidation, discrimination and exclusion has primarily been on the students. We can't allow it."

Several task force members highlight what they see as the university's double standards in ignoring discrimination against and exclusion of Jewish students.

Zussman elaborates. "If, for example, a student group were to use an abhorrent chant such as 'We don't want BLM supporters here,' there would be immediate consequences. However, chants such as 'We don't want Zionists here' have been normalized and currently have no consequences. These double standards are unacceptable and will eventually fracture the university."

Fuchs concurs, noting that the "standard at the university has always been to listen to those experiencing discrimination or hate. During the Black Lives Matter movement, we recognized the need to understand how certain words and behaviors affected individuals. Now, we need to be consistent and apply the same standard to Jewish students."

Burning questions

Both pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli groups have demanded that the task force provide a legal definition of antisemitism to address the burning questions: Is anti-Zionism a form of antisemitism? Is challenging the right of the State of Israel to exist antisemitic? Is criticizing the Israeli government antisemitic, as some Israelis believe?

However, the task force members told Haaretz that providing a specific definition in the university's rules would contradict federal law – specifically Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which requires that policy definitions of discriminatory harassment be general and not treat separate groups differently. Title VI stipulates that no person in the United States shall, on the grounds of race, color or national origin, be excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.

"In theory, we could specify what terms like 'discriminatory harassment' and 'hostile learning environment' mean when applied to Jews. But doing so would violate the law," says Schizer, who adds: "We don't need a dedicated definition for Jews."

A second reason the task force did not define antisemitism straight away was their belief that the university's definition should emerge from the experiences of the people themselves.

"If we were to define antisemitism for the students in advance, then we are narrowing the possibilities and precluding their experiences," says Fuchs. "In fact, other task forces at Columbia – such as those focused on gender and race following the George Floyd [murder in 2020] – did not start with a definition."

But after hearing from hundreds of students, the task force has decided to establish and publish a definition of antisemitism based on the students' experiences – an educational one, that is, not a legal one. This definition is designed to inform faculty and students about what can offend Jewish people and which types of statements can cause pain and discomfort.

An educational definition will not infringe upon freedom of speech on campus or prohibit potentially antisemitic phrases. It will simply inform community members of the harm their words might cause. This approach is not the decisive action some Jewish groups on campus were seeking.

"We are not trying to draw a very thick boundary around what is antisemitic and say everything outside that boundary is fine," Lemann explains. "However, certain kinds of statements can make a lot of Jewish and Israeli students at Columbia feel intensely uncomfortable. This does not necessarily mean that you will be forbidden to say those things – but you should understand how they are received."

The task force members confirmed to Haaretz that their definition of antisemitism will likely include chants calling for the annihilation of the Jewish state as being offensive to many Jews on campus. Chants criticizing the Israeli government will not be considered antisemitism in any way.

Antisemitism knowledge gap

One of the key innovations the team is working on is a new antisemitism orientation and training program, which will be mandatory for all new students and faculty.

"Columbia is a highly international community, and we recognized a significant gap in people's understanding of what can constitute an offensive statement for Jewish and Israeli students," Fuchs relays. "The training and orientation are designed to provide everyone beginning their time at the university with initial knowledge of what is acceptable and unacceptable in our community – similar to programs on sexual harassment and other issues. We aim for consistency: a consistent set of rules that are consistently enforced, ensuring everyone feels they are being treated fairly within the system."

Since the protests began, the university has initiated disciplinary proceedings against numerous students who allegedly broke Columbia's rules. This included suspending students and initiating other disciplinary actions, including putting them on disciplinary probation, restricting attendance at future events, and being required to attend educational meetings about their behavior and conduct.

Until this April, the initiated actions were published transparently on the Columbia website, but these have been deleted in recent weeks. The university also brought outside law enforcement onto campus to empty the pro-Palestinian encampment. More than 100 students were arrested, which resulted in harsh criticism of the university and widespread pro-Palestinian protests on campuses across the United States and Europe.

The first release to emerge from the task force was a report on protests, demonstrations and free speech, published in March. The next report will include a series of recommendations expected to go into effect before the next semester begins in September.

The task force has also highlighted the urgent need for better management of antisemitism complaints. The task force uncovered deficiencies in the complaint-processing systems across the university's various schools, with some complaints lost in bureaucratic procedures without any response. Many students are unaware of the appropriate channels for reporting issues, while many staff members are unsure how to handle such complaints. Additionally, there is a lack of transparency in the complaint-handling process and its outcomes.

"Different complaints go to different offices and you almost need a law degree just to understand the process," according to Schizer. "It's not enough to have good rules on paper: they must be enforced. Jewish and Israeli students currently experience unequal treatment, and I don't want them to get different treatment – and the law entitles them to the same protection as other groups. The key issue for the coming year is whether Columbia will enforce its rules equally."

In response to this story, a Columbia University spokesperson said: "We are committed to combating antisemitism and taking sustained, concrete action to ensure Columbia is a campus where Jewish students and everyone in our community feels safe, valued and able to thrive."

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Last December, in a column about the Jewish books of 2023, I predicted that “next year’s list will include a slew of books dealing with the crisis in Israel or will be read through the lens of the war.”

It was an easy call: If this year’s nonfiction Jewish authors didn’t focus directly on the tragedy or aftermath of Oct. 7 — Israeli journalist Lee Yaron in “10/7: 100 Human Stories,” massacre survivor Amir Tibon in “The Gates of Gaza” and Adam Kirsch in “On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice,” to name a few — many added a chapter on the crisis to projects that had long been in the works. 

Joshua Leifer told me he had to rewrite “about 20,000 words” of “Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life,” his autobiographical critique of the Jewish mainstream. Three books of Jewish theology intended for wide audiences — “To Be a Jew Today” by Noah Feldman, “The Triumph of Life” by Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg and “Judaism Is About Love” by Rabbi Shai Held — included additional chapters taking into account the fresh wounds and nascent implications of the attack and the war.

In a typical year, the books by Leifer, Feldman, Greenberg and Held — and perhaps “The Amen Effect,” an inspirational volume by Rabbi Sharon Brous — would have competed for the book that best captured the Jewish moment and discourse. It’s a category I’ve been thinking about lately, after asking JTA readers to suggest Jewish books that define 21st-century Jewry and that — here’s the key part — are likely to be found on the shelves of the Jewish readers they know. I was inspired by universally read, era-defining books like 1958’s “Exodus” by Leon Uris, which fed and presaged the Zionist fervor of the 1960s, and “World of Our Fathers” by Irving Howe, which in the 1970s remembered what the children and grandchildren of Eastern European immigrants were already starting to forget.

I’ll get to the readers’ nominees in a moment, but I want to start by suggesting that it is still too early to pick a book, or books, that best reflects where Jews have landed in the wake of Oct. 7. The war still grinds on, and the Jewish community remains uncertain how it will end or what it will ultimately mean. Some themes are emerging, including resurgent antisemitism, the international isolation of Israel, a rupture between Jews and the political left, and perhaps a return to Jewish religious practice and belonging. Any author will need some time and distance to make sense of the upheaval.

It may not be surprising then that the book most frequently suggested by the dozens of readers who responded to my callout, “People Love Dead Jews,” anticipated these upheavals and the Jews’ sense of abandonment. Novelist Dara Horn’s first nonfiction collection, published in 2021, posited that societies that are happy building memorials and museums to Jewish suffering are reluctant to show respect or understanding to actual living Jewish communities. The book “really helped me wrap my head around present-day antisemitism,” wrote reader Marianne Leloir Grange. 

For many readers, “People Love Dead Jews” serves as a skeleton key to understanding the worldwide backlash against Israel in a war that began when Hamas slaughtered 1,200 mostly Jews on Oct. 7. As Horn explained in an interview in April with the online European Jewish magazine K., “You’ll see that people love dead Jews, as long as they’re vulnerable and helpless. In fact, I found it remarkable how much people seemed to relish the idea of showing their support for murdered Jews, until Israel responded with force. That’s how people love the Jews: powerless to stop their own slaughter. As soon as the Jews show any capacity for action, it’s all over.”

(When I asked Horn this week what books spoke to her this year, she said she appreciated Kirsch’s book, the anthology “Young Zionist Voices” edited by David Hazony, and Benjamin Resnick’s dystopian novel “Next Stop.”) 

Another frequently mentioned book seemed almost to act as a balm to Horn’s thesis: “The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride. Last year’s best-selling, prize-winning historical novel is set in a small Pennsylvania town at a moment when immigrant Jews and poor Black families found common cause. “‘The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store’ by James McBride is probably one of the most popular recent books likely to be on an American Jew’s bookshelf,” Galina Vromen wrote me. “I would argue that part of the attraction to Jews today is in light of antisemitism and nostalgia when Jews and Blacks saw themselves on the same side of just causes and Jews were not regarded as enemy white people.”

Vromen, a novelist, had a number of strong suggestions for the kinds of recent books likely to be on American Jewish bookshelves, including “The Netanyahus,” Joshua Cohen’s 2021 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that serves as a cutting critique of present-day Israeli politics; “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” Michael Chabon’s best-selling 2000 novel about the Jews who pioneered superhero comics; and “Start-Up Nation” by Dan Senor and Saul Singer. The last one, published in 2009, presented Israel as an incubator of high tech innovation (and coined an enduringly popular nickname for the country) and offers readers a comforting rebuke to the activists who see Israel as an oppressor and colonizer. 

A number of readers recommended Philip Roth’s 2004 novel “The Plot Against America,” which imagined an America run by the populist, isolationist, Nazi-sympathizing and antisemitic Charles Lindbergh in the early years of World War II. The book has had a number of lives: Roth said he wrote it as a rumination on Jewish security in America, but by 2016 it was seen by Donald Trump’s critics as an eerie prophecy of his rise and first election; HBO adapted it for a miniseries in 2020; and this year the New York Times named it one of the “100 Best Books of the 21st Century.”

Beyond that, no other book was suggested by more than one reader, although the ones they did mention seem like strong contenders for the current Jewish book shelf: “Everything Is Illuminated,” Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2002 magical realist novel that anticipated the current vogue for works about Jewish roots tours in Eastern Europe; “My Promised Land” by Ari Shavit and “Like Dreamers” by Yossi Klein Halevi, two 2013 nonfiction works by Israeli authors attempting to explain the country’s heart and soul; and Deborah Lipstadt’s 2019 “Antisemitism: Here and Now” (although I am guessing her 2005 memoir “History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier,” which became the motion picture “Denial,” is better known). 

Samuel Freedman’s “Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry,” published in 2000, fell just short of the 21st century, but was a prescient look at the internal political and religious divides that would only yawn wider in the coming decades. 

I was also pleased to hear from readers who suggested cookbooks. “Jerusalem” by Sami Tamimi and Yotam Ottolenghi (2011) not only kicked off a mania for high-end Middle Eastern cooking but presented a complex and even hopeful version of Jewish and Palestinian coexistence (which did not, over time, include the authors). Joan Nathan’s “Jewish Cooking in America” (1994) cemented her role as Jewish cuisine’s Julia Child. And it’s the rare kosher-keeping home cook who doesn’t own a volume in Susie Fishbein’s “Kosher By Design” series. Fishbein “single-handedly raised Jewish cooking to a gourmet level [and] opened the floodgates to a new sub-industry,” Barbara Kessel wrote me from Jerusalem.

What became clear from my unscientific survey is that in a polarized and media-saturated age, there are fewer books that American Jews might have in common than, say, 40 years ago. But maybe that’s OK. Each year sees a flood of new Jewish books, capturing voices beyond the ashkenormative assumptions of the 20th century and as diverse as the people who write and read them: Mizrachim, women, interfaith families, LGBT Jews, Jews of color, Jews by choice, the religious, the formerly religious.

“Today, my understanding of Jewish life is so much bigger (and richer),” the writer Erika Dreifus wrote me, remembering her own childhood among Ashkenazi Jews in the metro New York area. “I��m so much more aware of Jewish experience that differs from my own.”

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„Innerhalb des ersten Jahrzehnts nach der Staatsgründung kamen um die tausend Israelis bei Hunderten von Terroranschlägen ums Leben, die palästinensische Fedajins aus dem von Ägypten kontrollierten Gaza und aus Jordanien verübten. Die Öffentlichkeit, an die sich Dayan über das Radio wandte, erinnerte sich noch gut an den Besuch von Amin Al-Husseini, dem muslimischen Führer im britischen Mandatsgebiet Palästina, im November 1941 bei Adolf Hitler in der Reichskanzlei in Berlin. Dort hatte er, den offiziellen Naziberichten über das Treffen zufolge, die Gelegenheit genutzt, um klarzustellen, dass »die Araber Deutschlands natürliche Freunde sind, da sie die gleichen Feinde haben wie Deutschland, nämlich die Engländer, die Juden und die Kommunisten«. Hitler seinerseits hatte verkündet, ein wichtiges Ziel der Nazipolitik sei es, eine jüdische Heimat in Palästina zu verhindern. Vier Jahre später war ein Drittel der jüdischen Weltbevölkerung ausgelöscht, und für den verbliebenen Rest war Palästina nur noch ein nahezu unerreichbarer Traum. Nicht weniger lebhaft hatte Dayans Zuhörerschaft noch die Weigerung seiner arabischen Nachbarn im Gedächtnis, den Teilungsplan der Vereinten Nationen für zwei unabhängige Staaten, einen jüdischen und einen arabischen, zu billigen, den die UN-Generalversammlung und die Jewish Agency im November 1947 verabschiedet hatten. Ein Volk, das nur knapp der vollständigen Vernichtung durch die Nazis entgangen war, hatte breite internationale Unterstützung für sein Recht auf einen autonomen jüdischen Staat gefunden, auch wenn die Nachbarn dieses neuen Staates  Rechtmäßigkeit der UN-Entscheidung bestritten. […] Der jüdische Staat wurde in einen Krieg hineingeboren. Zwei Drittel der 67000 Israelis, die gegen die sie angreifenden vereinigten fünf arabischen Armeen antraten, waren neu ins Land gekommen, zu einem Großteil aus den Konzentrationslagern der Nazis. Nach mehr als eineinhalb Jahren der Kämpfe gewann Israel den Krieg, den es selbst als seinen Unabhängigkeitskrieg bezeichnet, allerdings um den Preis von etwa sechstausend Menschenleben, also rund einem Prozent der Bevölkerung der jungen Nation. Ungefähr die Hälfte der Toten waren Holocaust-Überlebende, einige davon die Letzten ihrer Familie.“

Yaron, Lee: 7. Oktober. Protokoll eines Anschlags. 

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Israeli High Court rules threat of female genital mutilation is a basis for granting asylum

This article was written by the journalists Netael Bandel and Lee Yaron and appeared in the English version of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. It was published on 10 February 2020.

Israel's High Court of Justice set a precedent [February 9] in asylum-seeker cases, after ordering the state to give refugee status to a family from the Ivory Coast for fear that their daughters could face genital mutilation if forced to return to their homeland.

Justices Daphne Erez-Barak and Ofer Grosskopf granted the petition over the opposition of Justice Yosef Elron. In their majority opinion the justices ruled that genital mutilation can be seen as a form of persecution for which a woman is deserving of refugee status on the basis of international conventions.

Interior Minister Arye Dery said [February 10] he intends to order Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit to ask for a rehearing, arguing the court’s ruling “could have very harsh consequences and totally change Israel’s immigration policy.” [Read more here.]

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Protesters Across Israel Decry Sexual Violence After Suspected Gang Rape of 16-year-old

Organizers criticize the government's handling of sexual violence, calling to fund prevention programs

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More than a thousand protesters gathered on Thursday evening at Tel Aviv's Habima Square and hundreds more in around 30 other locations across Israel following the suspected gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in the southern resort city of Eilat.

Organizers said the case in Eilat was not an isolated one, and was a direct continuation of what they saw as a weak public response to the case last summer when Israeli teenage boys were initially accused of raping a British woman in Ayia Napa, Cyprus, as well as two soccer players recently accused of raping two 15-year-old girls.

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החשד לאונס הקבוצתי באילת: תיעוד מבית המלון

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„Etwa eintausend ukrainische Flüchtlinge, die die Ukraine nach der russischen Invasion verlassen und sich in Ashkelon und Ashdod angesiedelt hatten, mussten im Oktober 2023 erneut fliehen. Seit dem Beginn des russisch-ukrainischen Krieges haben etwa 45000 Ukrainer in Israel Schutz gesucht, ein Viertel davon ist jünger als 17 Jahre. Seit dem 7. Oktober sind Dutzende von ihnen in die israelische Armee eingetreten, und fast 2500 dieser Neuankömmlinge haben Israel wieder verlassen - und sich erneut auf die Suche nach einem neuen Zuhause begeben.“

Yaron, Lee: 7. Oktober. Protokoll eines Anschlags.

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Muca & La Marquise, the brainchild of London based songwriter and music producer Muca, is a project that uses sound and vision to bring to life a twenty-two-year-old girl who possesses a hauntingly unique voice that will inspire the hearts and minds of all who come across her.

Imagine, if you will, a female Jeff Buckley with a dash of Rickie Lee Jones and Kate Bush. The  accompanying video, animated by Clara Santos, further illustrates Muca & La Marquise’s love affair with the city, and the hidden gems of our beloved London, by featuring endearing landmarks like the Flower Market, Cat & Mutton, Paper Dress Vintage, Regent’s Canal, Hackney Central and others. A full-length album is expected for later this year. With a Pop/Soul feel, and blending unique jazzy-Bossa references.

In Review: The track London is a bright and refreshing piece, with upbeat and jazzy notes that are playfully bouncy. It really “sounds” like youth finding the world, one day and one dream at a time. And though it is a short song, it really fills the time well and sits on the tip of the tong, so to speak, and is a delightful ear-worm that take residence in your head. You will find yourself thinking and humming it often.

Inspiration behind release:

“The song was written on a sunny afternoon in London Fields Park, bringing a nostalgic feeling, and La Marquise realized she had to move back home. It’s an ode to the place where she felt most at home, this city, that allowed her to become who she is.”

Writing process:

“It all came up when Muca and La Marquise were writing songs at the music studio. It was a lovely summer day, so they decided to head to London Fields, to get some inspiration and enjoy the day. Muca started out some chord progressions, La Marquise really liked, and both started jamming. The track came up quite fast, in literally twenty minutes time.”

Recording process:

London’ and all the tracks for their debut album came up unconventionally. They were meant to be guide tracks. “When we started, it meant to be demos. However, I wanted to capture some sort of chemistry between us on those recordings. I set myself at the recording booth and herself at the mixing room, literally holding a dynamic microphone and pressing record herself. We did two takes only.”

Muca adds: “As a producer, you have a strong tendency to think of those first recordings as guide tracks, to then record it properly at a later time. After a week, I came back to it, and I felt it sounded so great, that really, we had the vocals and guitar takes for the track! I then built up the arrangement getting Yaron Stavi on double bass, Jonathon Holder on keys and Bruno Buarque on percussions. I then just had the work to mix it. With such great musicians on board, it always makes it much easier.”

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He Had Never Sold a Ventilator. New York Gave Him an $86 Million Deal.

NEW YORK — The offer to the Federal Emergency Management Agency sounded promising: A Silicon Valley engineer said that he could deliver thousands of ventilators from manufacturers across China to help hospitals treat coronavirus patients.The engineer was asked for more details. Within 12 hours, he responded with a 28-page digital catalog of medical supplies at his disposal, including protective masks and goggles.But there were also a series of caveats: Interested buyers had to sign a contract within four hours of receiving a quote and pay the entirety of the order upfront. “Nonnegotiable,” the catalog said. And the engineer, Yaron Oren-Pines, had no apparent background in procuring medical equipment.Federal officials passed on the vendor’s information to senior officials in New York and, within days, the state struck a deal to buy 1,450 ventilators from Oren-Pines for $86 million, one of the largest contracts for medical supplies since the outbreak.The deal, however, began to unravel as quickly as it had come together.In a matter of days, a bank had frozen funds that the state had wired to Oren-Pines because it found a transaction from his account suspicious. State officials were then warned by Oren-Pines and his business partners of possible shipping complications and were told that the ventilators might have to be routed through Israel, where they said they had connections.Before long, Oren-Pines and his partners began accusing the state of breach of contract. State officials later tried to send inspectors to confirm the stockpile in China; that effort was unsuccessful, and the contract was terminated.Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office said that the contract was canceled because the state’s hospitalization rate fell far short of projections and New York’s need for ventilators lessened, diminishing the urgency to proceed with a contract mired in complications.But interviews with state and federal officials as well as emails obtained by The New York Times underscore how the challenges of a pandemic may have clouded a decision that placed millions of taxpayer dollars at risk.The voided contract illustrated the desperate measures New York took at the height of the pandemic to procure precious medical equipment as officials scrambled to find as many of the 40,000 ventilators that the state believed it needed to stave off a catastrophe. As the state scoured the globe for supplies, it eschewed competitive bidding protocols to expedite acquisitions and resorted to vendors that had never done business with the state.Without a coordinated federal approach to distributing medical equipment based on need, states were left to fend for themselves, bidding against one another amid a global shortage.Federal officials, in fact, also referred Oren-Pines to New Jersey. But officials in that state said they were troubled by a series of warning signs and declined to procure equipment from Oren-Pines, according to a person familiar with the matter.New Jersey officials saw Oren-Pines’ insistence for upfront payment as problematic, and they balked at the price of the ventilators and how long it would take for them to be delivered, according to the person.But in New York, officials decided to take a chance.Oren-Pines’ offer to help was originally fielded by a team of inexperienced young volunteers recruited at FEMA by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. New York officials said they were told by an official assigned to the Department of Health and Human Services that the federal government had vetted Oren-Pines and that a consulting firm had conducted a video inspection of the ventilators in China.A spokeswoman for FEMA said the agency did not recommend Oren-Pines to New York and noted, “While the volunteers played an important role, they were not FEMA employees."A Trump administration official involved in the White House coronavirus task force defended the vetting process of leads that were funneled through FEMA but said that states should still be doing their own due diligence.New York officials said Oren-Pines provided certificates for the ventilators and passed a background check conducted by the state."While New York was struggling to purchase ventilators to meet the demand of the federal government’s projection models, the Department of Health and Human Services referred us directly to Oren-Pines, confirming they were vetted and approved by the federal government themselves,” said Richard Azzopardi, a senior aide to the governor. “The idea that the federal government is now effectively saying states cannot trust the federal government’s own recommendations is bizarre."A spokeswoman for the HHS said it was "reviewing this matter and has nothing further to add at this time."Oren-Pines rejected several requests for interviews, saying in a text message that a confidentiality agreement prohibited him from talking to reporters. "Keep on following your leads and sources and hopefully one day the truth will come out and my name will be cleared,” he wrote.A graduate of the University of Maryland who studied electrical engineering, Oren-Pines, 50, has experience in mobile communications technology and has worked in a number of technology-related roles, including as a consultant for Google, according to his LinkedIn profile.He is also a co-founder of a networking company called Legasus Networks; its other co-founders, Douglas Lee and Thao Tran, said the firm had nothing to do with ventilators. Tran said Oren-Pines was the type of person who would jump at an opportunity if he spotted one.“His personality is, he will go take a chance and do any kind of business outside his field,” he said.It is unclear when Oren-Pines reached out to the federal government offering to provide medical equipment. But his offer was received by Kushner-appointed FEMA volunteers who were drawn from venture capital and private equity firms and had little to no experience with government procurement procedures.On March 24, one of the volunteers, an associate at a private equity firm in New York City, thanked Oren-Pines for reaching out and asked him to fill out a form detailing the stock and price of the supplies he had access to, according to emails.Oren-Pines quickly emailed back the form along with the 28-page catalog.The volunteers passed on the lead to two federal officials — both of whom worked for the HHS — who then sent it to Cuomo’s aides by March 27.But Oren-Pines and his associates appeared to become impatient with the pace of the process and simultaneously took to Twitter in search of other prospective buyers.On March 27, after Trump used Twitter to urge General Motors and Ford to expedite ventilator production, Oren-Pines addressed a tweet to the president: “We can supply ICU Ventilators, invasive and non-invasive. Have someone call me URGENT."The tweet by Oren-Pines was reported last week in a BuzzFeed News article that suggested that the Twitter post to the president may have been connected to the New York state contract. Oren-Pines, however, had been in touch with federal officials days before he posted his sales pitch on Twitter.One of Oren-Pines’ two partners, Segev Binyamin, also used Twitter to try to get the attention of the Israeli defense minister, writing, "I own a Chinese company that is capable of shipping 1,400 machines to Israel."In an email to a New York official March 28, Oren-Pines urged the state to expedite the process because he said he had access to the ventilators for "a limited time.” He said he had been vetted by FEMA.On March 30, New York formalized the $86 million contract for 1,450 ventilators, or about $59,000 per ventilator, and agreed to pay Oren-Pines $69 million upfront. It was a steep price: At the time, Cuomo said officials had witnessed ventilator prices surge to $45,000, up from $25,000.The contract did not go through the typical procedures that require the state comptroller to independently review contracts before issuing a payment. Earlier that month, Cuomo had issued an emergency order exempting emergency contracts from going through such procedures.In early April, Wells Fargo, Oren-Pines’ bank, froze his funds after it flagged a transaction as suspicious, state officials said. Oren-Pines, however, had been able to transfer $10 million before the funds were frozen.After the freeze, and as the state’s need for ventilators began to subside, New York officials sought to arrange their own inspection of the ventilators in China. They were unsuccessful.On April 9, Guy Peleg, another of Oren-Pines’ business partners, sent an email to Judith Mogul, a special counsel to Cuomo, accusing New York officials of acting unlawfully, breaching the contract and freezing their bank account. He said they had retained lawyers and were unlikely to deliver the ventilators by the agreed-upon date, April 29.Regardless, Peleg said, Chinese regulations were complicating ventilator shipments to the United States, so he proposed funneling the machines through Tel Aviv.“Our participation in this venture is crucial in order for these precious ventilators to leave Chinese soil and land in Israeli territory, and then sent to the U.S.,” he wrote. “As you can see we have established a very expert and tight outfit here to serve your demands. No other constellation can achieve our goal to supply these vents to the U.S."Mogul replied that it was Wells Fargo, not New York, that imposed the freeze and informed the men that the state would terminate the contract unless they could begin to secure ventilators with the $10 million they had on hand."In light of the changing facts, we are not willing to place additional funds of the state at risk with no certainty when or whether we will receive the specified goods,” she wrote.New York eventually terminated the contract. Azzopardi said the state had recovered $59 million, with the remaining $10 million being negotiated among the parties.Mark Werksman, a lawyer for Oren-Pines, said his client and his partners hoped to arrive at an amicable resolution with the state.“They worked tirelessly to begin delivery of the promised ventilators, and they would have fulfilled the terms of the contract if the state hadn’t abruptly canceled it before they were able to deliver the first set of 150 ventilators,” he said. “Yaron acted swiftly and in good faith to provide vital medical equipment to the state in its hour of need."Last weekend, Oren-Pines emailed New York officials describing the personal and financial fallout from the botched ventilator deal, pleading with them to issue a statement to clear his name.In a reference to the BuzzFeed News story, he said he was being victimized by a "fictional/fake story” about his connection to the White House and that he and his family were now receiving threats and anti-Semitic messages.A spokesman for BuzzFeed News did not address Oren-Pines’ criticism but said that the outlet was “proud to have been first to report that New York state gave a $69 million contract to an unqualified vendor who failed to deliver."In the email to New York officials, Oren-Pines said, "What has happened to me personally over the past few days is worse than death itself.” He said the sudden cancellation of the order had left him and his partners “with tens of millions of dollars in liabilities and contracts.”“In Israel, I am called a traitor and accused of a Sting operation against NYS,” he wrote. “I have done Nothing wrong! All I wanted was to help New York state and in the process got thrown under a bus."This article originally appeared in The New York Times.© 2020 The New York Times Company

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Yamo Revenge – Action platformer featuring the protagonist from Bruce Lee (WIP)

We’ve certainly featured the 1984 game of Bruce Lee more than a few times this year, especially with games such as Eel Ecurb announced for the Atari XL/XE. But now we look towards something slightly different for our retro kicks, as Yaron Nir has released an early work in progress version of his upcoming game called ‘ Yamo Revenge ‘; An Atari 8bit game which features the protagonist Yamo from

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