Etan Nechin

@etannechin.bsky.social

New York correspondent, Haaretz

QT @etannechin.bsky.social "My friend, a South Sudanese refugee, fled violence with his family. Denying him safety is like turning away the St. Louis in 1939. Rubio is a modern day Breckinridge Long—calling to halt immigration and refuge despite clear persecution. He'll he remembered as such."

John Skiles Skinner@skiles.blue · last yr.

I taught a US citizenship class to South Sudanese refugees in Nebraska, 2006-2007. Fleeing civil war, they worked arduous jobs at a meat packing plant. Many had no literacy in any language. But they studied hard for a citizenship exam which many native-born Americans would not be able to pass.

29 years ago today, Russian-Jewish poet Joseph Brodsky passed away at 55 in his Brooklyn home. Though a Nobel laureate and beloved professor in the U.S., exile's shadow never left him. In the photo: Brodsky with Vladimir Vysotsky during Vysotsky's visit to New York.

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Sad thing is most Americans won’t know the U.S. withdrew from the WHO or Paris Agreement. While exporting violence and pollution, they’ve retreated into consumerism and escapism so deeply they see these issues as irrelevant. This is why you get climate denial and RFK in charge of your kid's health.

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