Jewish ethics
Moral philosophy of the Jewish religion or Jewish people
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| 2024 | Judith Butler published 'Who's Afraid of Gender?', a book that examines the roots of current anti-trans rhetoric and the historical context of the anti-gender movement. |
| November 15 2024 | United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted an emergency stay motion from Louisiana, limiting the injunction to five specific parishes. |
| November 12 2024 | United States District Judge John W. deGravelles granted a temporary injunction, declaring Louisiana's Ten Commandments school display law unconstitutional. |
| June 2024 | Chomsky was discharged from the hospital to continue recovery at home. In the same month, false reports of his death circulated on social media, leading to retracted obituaries. |
| June 19 2024 | Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed House Bill 71 mandating Ten Commandments display in every public school classroom. |
| March 3 2024 | At a public event in Paris, Judith Butler described the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel as an 'act of armed resistance' rather than terrorism. |
| 2023 | Texas Republican Phil King introduced SB 1515 to require Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms, which ultimately lapsed without voting. |
| 2023 | Butler asserted that the anti-gender ideology movement should be viewed as a neo-fascist phenomenon. |
| 2023 | Following the start of the Israel–Hamas war, Butler published an essay titled 'The Compass of Mourning', condemning the massacre while arguing that the actions of Hamas should be viewed in the context of historical injustices over the past seventy years. |
| June 2023 | Suffered a stroke and moved to Brazil full-time. |
| September 7 2021 | An interview with Butler was published by The Guardian, where Butler discussed trans-exclusionary feminists and labeled the anti-gender ideology as a dominant strain of fascism in contemporary society. Following its publication, some paragraphs were removed due to editorial standards issues. |
| 2020 | Butler commented that trans-exclusionary radical feminism (TERF) is 'a fringe movement' that should not be allowed to speak in the name of mainstream feminism. |
| 2020 | Judith Butler published 'The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind,' where they explored the connection between nonviolence and the political struggle for social equality, challenging traditional understandings of nonviolence. |
| 2019 | Judith Butler explored the confusion of discourses regarding anti-gender movements in a paper, arguing that this confusion is part of what constitutes the 'fascist structure and appeal' of some of these movements. |
| 2019 | Judith Butler was elected as a Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
| 2018 | After facing backlash for her involvement in the letter, Judith Butler apologized to the Modern Language Association (MLA) for her actions. She expressed regret for allowing the MLA affiliation to be used in the letter and extended her apology to MLA members and officers. |
| 2018 | Butler delivered the Gifford Lectures with a series entitled 'My Life, Your Life: Equality and the Philosophy of Non-Violence.' |
| 2018 | Judith Butler was awarded a Doctorate of Letters, honoris causa, from the University of Belgrade. |
| May 11 2018 | Judith Butler joined a group of scholars in writing a letter to New York University concerning the Avital Ronell sexual harassment case. The letter accused the complainant of waging a 'malicious campaign' against Ronell and defended the scholar's reputation. |
| 2017 | Hired as a part-time professor in the University of Arizona's linguistics department, with duties including teaching and public seminars. |
| 2017 | Taught a short-term politics course at the University of Arizona. |
| 2017 | Judith Butler was attacked while speaking in Brazil, during which at least one individual shouted at Butler, saying 'Take your ideology to hell!', prompting Butler to explore themes of anti-trans rhetoric in their future works. |
| 2017 | Before a democracy conference in Brazil, Judith Butler was burnt in effigy, depicted as an 'antichrist' due to their gender and Jewish identity, reflecting societal fears regarding minority politics. |
| 2016 | Judith Butler expressed support for Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election. |
| 2015 | Purchased a residence in São Paulo, Brazil, and began splitting time between Brazil and the U.S. |
| 2015 | Chomsky and Valeria Wasserman acquired a home in Brazil. |
| 2015 | Released the documentary 'Requiem for the American Dream', which summarizes his views on capitalism and economic inequality. |
| 2015 | Judith Butler published 'Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly', which continues to explore issues related to social and political vulnerability. |
| 2015 | Butler was elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. |
| January 2015 | In January 2015, Judith Butler discussed the Black Lives Matter movement in an interview with George Yancy for The New York Times, emphasizing the importance of recognizing that all lives must matter equally and critiquing the societal conditions where some lives are deemed less valuable. |
| 2014 | Chomsky married Valeria Wasserman. |
| 2014 | Judith Butler was named one of PinkNews's top 11 Jewish gay and lesbian icons. |
| 2014 | Butler was again the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Visiting Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University for the spring semester. |
| 2014 | Butler was awarded a Doctorate of Letters, honoris causa, from the University of Fribourg. |
| 2014 | Judith Butler analyzes the power and possibilities of protests in her work 'Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly,' specifically referencing the Black Lives Matter protests that emerged in response to the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. |
| 2013 | Judith Butler received a Doctorate of Letters, honoris causa, from McGill University. |
| 2013 | Judith Butler co-authored the book 'Dispossession: The Performative in the Political' with Athena Athanasiou. |
| 2013 | Butler was awarded a Doctorate of Letters, honoris causa, from the University of St. Andrews. |
| 2013 | Butler continued as the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Visiting Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University for the spring semester. |
| 2012 | Butler became the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Visiting Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University for the spring semester. |
| 2012 | Judith Butler was accused of describing Hamas and Hezbollah as 'social movements that are progressive' and part of the global Left, leading to significant criticism. |
| 2012 | Judith Butler received the Theodor W. Adorno Award, leading to significant criticism from Israel's Ambassador to Germany and other prominent figures, due to her remarks about Israel and calls for a boycott against the country. |
| 2011 | Supported the Occupy movement, speaking at encampments and publishing on the movement, which he described as a reaction to a 30-year class war. |
| October 2011 | Judith Butler attended Occupy Wall Street and articulated the importance of demanding social equality and economic justice, declaring the right to shelter, food, and employment as essential yet often deemed impossible. |
| 2010 | Butler was listed as one of the '25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World' by Utne Reader. |
| June 2010 | Judith Butler refused the Civil Courage Award at the Christopher Street Day Parade in Berlin, Germany, citing racist comments from organizers and the event's commercialism. |
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