When Jews Go to the Polls
Recent polling offers potential answers—and raises additional questions—about what choices Jewish voters might make in the 2020 elections.
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The Rise and Fall of The Israel Project
A leaked cache of documents reveals how the pro-Israel media advocacy group operated—and the factors that led to its demise.
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Creeps of Late Capitalism
In Serotonin, Michel Houellebecq maps the degradations of neoliberal notions of “progress” and “free trade” directly onto sexual politics.
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States Are Moving to Class Criticism of Israel as Antisemitism
Bills making their way through the Arizona and Iowa legislatures would codify the controversial IHRA definition of antisemitism into hate crime and civil rights law.
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“The One Issue That Matters”
Time and again, Michael Bloomberg’s unquestioning devotion to Israel has led him to defend immoral and disastrous policies.
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Civic Religion and the Secular Jew
The discourse around Bernie Sanders’s faith highlights the inadequacy of conventional frameworks for understanding American Jewish life.
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Palestinian Student Activists Face Detention and Torture
A new report from a prisoners’ rights group details the interrogation methods that Mais Abu Ghosh and other young Palestinians have endured.
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Ocean Hill-Brownsville and the Myth of “Black Antisemitism”
The co-producers of the new podcast School Colors discuss how a narrative of Black–Jewish conflict overshadowed an important example of community control of schools.
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Strangers in Our Homeland
A Palestinian Member of the Knesset reacts to the Trump-Netanyahu “peace plan.”
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Portrait of a Movement
A photographer attempts to capture the face of contemporary socialism.
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On The 10th Anniversary Of The Disappearance Of America’s Anti War Movement While The Wars Rage On
“lies from our government and / lies of corporations seem to / find common ground”
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A Threat, Not an Offer
Trump and Netanyahu’s so-called peace plan is designed to be unacceptable to Palestinians, to justify the repression that will follow.
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