Tag Archives: Palestine

Antisemitism and Collegiality

Posted on November 8, 2022 by climatechangefork

Two days before the Israeli elections (Tuesday, November 1st) and a week before the approaching elections in the US (Today, Tuesday, November 8th), I received an email from a Jewish colleague about an ongoing, anti-Israeli petition that was circulating in … Continue reading →

Posted in Holocaust | Tagged anti-semitic, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, Election, Israel, Jew, Jewish, Palestine | Leave a comment

Can We Reopen Schools? Who Loses Out if We Don’t?

Posted on September 29, 2020 by climatechangefork

I just read an important op-ed in the New York Times by Nicholas Kristof, “‘Remote Learning’ Is Often an Oxymoron: We need to try harder to get kids back in school.” The essence of the piece is that, while rich … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Education | Tagged Arizona, Barron Trump, Brooklyn College, campus, China, Class, computer, coronavirus, covid, COVID 19, CUNY, Development, distanced learning, Donald Trump, dropout, Economics, Education, Food, Holocaust, Hurricane, in person, infected, infection, Katrina, learning, lunch, mandate, mask, off-line, offline, online, open, Palestine, pandemic, parents, privilege, quarantine, Race, reopen, resource, safety, School, social, social distance, social distancing, socio-economic, socioeconomic, spread, students, support system, teachers, Teaching, Trump, university, Uruguay, US, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto, Wuhan | 9 Comments

Anti-Semitism: Local, National & International

Posted on February 11, 2020 by climatechangefork

As I described last week, I participated in my college’s “We Stand Against Hate” series. While my talk commemorated International Holocaust Day, I didn’t speak directly about anti-Semitism. Instead, I focused on my experiences in the Holocaust and the connections … Continue reading →

Posted in Holocaust | Tagged ADL, Anti-Defamation League, anti-semitic, anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, climate change denier, denier, discrimination, Holocaust denier, Israel, Jew, Jewish, Palestine, prejudice | Leave a comment

Never Again?? Charlottesville, Nazis, the Holocaust, and Climate Change

Posted on August 22, 2017 by climatechangefork

My original plan was to dedicate this blog, and several following ones, to pornography. Not the kind that you have in mind – this is not that kind of a blog – but the kind that the sociologist Daniel Aldana … Continue reading →

Posted in Holocaust, politics | Tagged 30th division, 82nd airborne, alex jones, alt-right, America, American, aryan, Bergen-Belsen, black, Black Lives Matter, charlottesville, confederacy, confederate, daniel aldana cohen, david duke, David Wallace-Wells, demonstration, Donald Trump, doomsday, Genocide, Germany, Heather Heyer, Jew, Jewish, KKK, Magdeburg, march, Nazi, Palestine, Poland, protest, racism, racist, Self Inflicted Genocide, self-inflicted, Social Media, survive, survivor, terror, Terrorism, Theresienstadt, Trump, US, Virginia, vote, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto, white, white lives, white supremacist, white supremacy | 1 Comment

Let There be Light!

Posted on March 28, 2017 by climatechangefork

*Special note: I will stress that this blog pertains to my own reading/interpretation of the book described, but after hearing feedback from my friend, the author, I have made a few minor edits and added explanations. In last week’s blog … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, COP21, Election, IPCC, Sustainability, UN, UNFCCC | Tagged Adaptation, ash, Biology, bipartisan, bottom-up, budget, Clean Energy, climate, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, DOE, Donald Trump, Economics, Electricity, Emissions, emphasis, Energy, energy transition, Environment, EPA, Fossil Fuels, Future, Genocide, Global Warming, governance, Government, grassroots, Health, Hebrew, History, Holocaust, IPCC, Israel, Jew, Jewish, law, light, Mitigation, NIH, NSF, Obama, Palestine, Paris Agreement, Physics, Poland, Policy, president, protection, refugee, regulation, Relli Robinson, Research, Science, Scott Pruitt, Self Inflicted Genocide, Sustainability, Technology, top-down, Trump, UN, UNFCCC, US, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto | Leave a comment

My Global Family Vacation Part 4: Malta

Posted on September 13, 2016 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 (from August 2 blog) Figure 2 – Map of Malta Figure 1 from my August 2nd blog shows my summer vacation route. Malta is a tiny dot on that map but I felt it necessary to show … Continue reading →

Posted in immigration | Tagged aditus, Adrian Brody, Africa, Algeria, app, archaeology, asylum, Australia, Austria, Austrian, Christian, Democratization, detention, discrimination, doctors without borders, Economics, EFUS, emigrant, emigration, Environment, EU, Eurodac, Family, family story, Frontex, Game of Thrones, ghetto, Global Population, Gozo, History, Hitler, Holocaust, Human Rights, immigrant, immigration, Israel, Italy, Jewish, Joseph Muscat, Libya, Malta, Maltese, Mediterranean, migration, Nazi, Nazis, Palestine, Pianist, Poland, Polish, Population, refugee, refugee camp, refugee center, refugees, Roman Polanski, safety, Safi, Sustainability, Szpilman, tapestry, Tourism, tourist, UN, UNESCO, UNHCR, Vacation, Warsaw, Wladislaw Szpilman, World Population, xenophobia, xenophobic | 1 Comment

Global Family Vacation Part 3: Israel: Palestinian and Jewish Refugees, Resettlement, and the Right of Return

Posted on August 30, 2016 by climatechangefork

Figure 1 – A map of refugee camps in the Middle East Successful resettlement is probably the most important aspect of the global refugee issue. Resettled refugees can make major positive contributions to their host societies. We have seen this … Continue reading →

Posted in immigration | Tagged annex, Arab, arab league, Arabist, attitude, Australia, bias, Brooklyn College, camp, choice, Citizen, Citizenship, Civil War, CUNY, document, Egypt, emigrant, emigration, Family, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Holocaust, home, homeland, Human Rights, identity, immigrant, immigration, Iraq, Iraqi, ISIS, Islam, Israel, Israeli, Jew, Jewish, Kuwait, land, Lebanon, middle east, migrant, migration, muslim, opinion, Palestine, Palestinian, Palestinian National Authority, partition, political, politics, privilege, property, pull factor, push factor, refugee, religion, resettlement, return, right, right of return, Saudi Arabia, security, settlement, Suez, Syria, teach, teacher, treaty, Turkey, UDHR, UN, UNRWA, US, War, west bank, Yemen | Leave a comment

My Global Family Vacation

Posted on August 2, 2016 by climatechangefork

Map of my global family vacation I have returned from my month-long vacation with my wife. One of the perks of being an academic is that my summers are my own. I show the route of my trip above. Clearly, … Continue reading →

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Immigration: My Migration History

Posted on July 5, 2016 by climatechangefork

This is what remained of my family’s house in Warsaw after WWII. There is no longer any trace of it. I gave a brief summation of my early life when I wrote my first blog (April 22, 2012). I was … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, immigration | Tagged Adaptation, Afghanistan, Bergen-Belsen, Brooklyn College, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Change Fork, Climate Skeptics, concentration camp, conflict, CUNY, displace, displaced, displacement, Education, emigrant, emigrate, emigration, Environment, Genocide, German, Germany, ghetto, Global Warming, Hebrew, Hebrew University, Hillersleben, History, Holocaust, immigrant, immigration, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jew, Jewish, Jewish Agency, Jordan, Lebanon, Magdeburg, Mercy Corps, migrant, migration, Mitigation, Nazi, Of Bombs and Mice, Palestine, Physics, Poland, prisoner, professor, refugee, Sofia Ahsanuddin, Sustainability, Syria, Theresienstadt, Turkey, US, Warsaw, WWII, Yemen | Leave a comment

Democracy vs. Oligarchy Part 5: Can Psychology Help with a U-Turn?

Posted on April 12, 2016 by climatechangefork

A week from the posting of this blog, primaries will take place in NY State. It is the first time I can remember when the presidential primary will have such a large impact on both the Democratic and the Republican … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Palestine

Antisemitism and Collegiality

Anti-Semitism: Local, National & International

Let There be Light!

My Global Family Vacation Part 4: Malta

Global Family Vacation Part 3: Israel: Palestinian and Jewish Refugees, Resettlement, and the Right of Return

My Global Family Vacation

Immigration: My Migration History

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