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A Logic of Elimination

Historian Lorenzo Veracini discusses settler colonialism, Zionism, and decolonial futures.

Abe Silberstein
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2021 at Jewish Currents
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Republicans’ Revealing Arguments Against the Islamophobia Envoy
Peter Beinart
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Jamaal Bowman’s Trip to Israel Sparks Debate in DSA Over Electoral Strategy
Alex Kane
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Survivor’s Guilt
Jess Bergman
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Demiurge
“Don’t make universes out of nothing / Use what’s there– take it easy, but take it”
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The Long Reach of Restraint
For Israel’s Supreme Court, to exercise power might be to lose it.
Elisheva Goldberg
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Nicholas Muellner and Helen Betya Rubinstein
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The Politically Expedient Jewishness of Éric Zemmour
Mitchell Abidor and Miguel Lago
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“Pro-Israel” Pundits Don’t Talk About Israel
Peter Beinart
Fiction
The Passenger
“It’s Jewish blood that’s bringing the German people together.”
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
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The Club Recreates the Ladino-Speaking World of Jewish Istanbul
The Netflix series punctures Turkey’s official narratives to present a more complicated and realistic picture.
Nesi Altaras
Israeli Forces Kill Two Elderly Palestinians in Two Weeks
The latest victims of the occupation include a US citizen and a revered nonviolent activist.
Elisheva Goldberg
Surviving Yet Another Prison Quarantine
Every Covid lockdown means losing the few privileges that make incarceration more bearable.
Christopher Blackwell
We’re Still Living Through the Aftermath of January 6th
The Capitol Riot was an extreme manifestation of the right’s decades-long efforts to subvert democracy.
David Klion
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    That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
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    My Mommies and Me
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    Lost and Unfounded
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    How Not to Fight Antisemitism
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    Teshuvah: A Jewish Case for Palestinian Refugee Return
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For the Sake of Truth
Poet and activist Mohammed El-Kurd discusses his debut collection, the vexed meanings of visibility, and the long history of Palestinian freedom struggles.
Claire Schwartz
The Rise of the New Settler State
In Lod and other so-called “mixed” cities, recent violence stems in part from the presence of religious Zionist groups that have transposed the settler movement’s methods back inside the Green Line.
Joshua Leifer
A Guide to the Current Crisis in Israel/Palestine
We asked our readers what they needed to know about the situation in Israel/Palestine. Our staff is compiling a developing set of answers to the most commonly asked questions.
Mari Cohen, Joshua Leifer, and Alex Kane
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From Minneapolis to Jerusalem

On Black–Palestinian solidarity

Hannah Black

Letters from Our Readers

On “The Politically Expedient Jewishness of Éric Zemmour”
In Mitchell Abidor and Miguel Lago’s recent article, “The Politically Expedient Jewishness of Éric Zemmour,” the authors neglect an issue that is central to the subject at hand: Zemmour’s specifically... more
Ilan Benattar
Los Angeles, CA
On “Travesty Show”
I've never set foot in Ukraine, and yet I grew up in its shadow in southern Brooklyn. Much like the actual Ukraine is missing from my life as a post-Soviet... more
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Brooklyn, NY
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When Settler Becomes Native

Examining the claim of Jewish indigeneity in the land of Israel

JB Brager