Jake Romm
@jakeromm
your pal | writer | associate editor at Protean Mag | sometimes lawyer let me write for you: jakeromm@icloud.com
was busy with some stuff this week so didn't get to say: had this poem published in the great @burialmagazine.bsky.social on the 2nd which you can read here:
here is the course description We'll cover texts by Adorno & Horkheimer, Sayegh, Abu el-Haj, Amery, Diner, Bauman, Daqqa, Palestinian testimony/NGO reports on the genocide, & testimony from the genocidaires themselves (all subject to change as course evolves through discussion)
A nice win: PEN America has retracted their statement pen.org/press-releas...
On Jan. 20th, the @hindrajabfoundation.be filed a request for prosecution in the US against Israeli "comedian" Guy Hochman for incitement to genocide On Jan. 29th, @penamerica.bsky.social issued a press release condemning the cancellation of some of Hochman's inciting performances Our response:
favorite tracks I listened to for the first time in 2025 (no particular order) playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Zu...
favorite albums I listened to in 2025 (alphabetical order) playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/03x...
forgot an article: This piece for @thenation.com about what Trump's murders in the Caribbean signal about the coming world order and these murders' origins in the so-called "War on Terror" thenation.com/article/worl...
A review of Blake Little's beautiful photobook "Construction Nudes 1981-1985" for The Brooklyn Rail brooklynrail.org/2025/06/art_...
a piece for The Public Review about a very moving exhibition I saw in Bogotá of Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz's work thepublicreview.org/read/jake-ro...
A piece for @parapraxismag.bsky.social on Holocaust trauma and its relation to Zionist exterminationism parapraxismagazine.com/articles/ide...
A review of Kenneth Roth's bad memoir for @thebaffler.com / the limits of the human rights framework thebaffler.com/latest/the-l...
A piece for @defector.com on the almost comically bad hasbara film "October 8" and Zionists' Eichmann like inability to think defector.com/the-paranoid...
this review of two Kirstin Ross books (The Commune Form / The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life) for the @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social nyra.nyc/articles/to-...
A few days late but: I wrote about the incredible Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz and his attempts at a kind of materialist art for The Public Review www.thepublicreview.org/read/jake-ro...
Had a good talk with Sam on the @medicinered.bsky.social podcast about Zionism as an Antisemitism, paranoia and false projection, the burgeoning fascist world order, and more. listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5OHa...
While at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit earlier this year, I talked with @aywarhiannon.bsky.social and Soraya Shockley for the Popular Cradle podcast about the Hind Rajab Foundation's work and the promise and purpose of law. link below
reposting for the weekend I wrote about Luca Giordano's 1663 painting "St. Michael", representations of empire and its victims, and Gaza for the new issue of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...