Know Your “Enemy”
Ethiopian Israeli organizer Avi Yalou discusses the usefulness of the occupation to maintaining oppressive systems within Israel.
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We Will Protect Each Other
Efforts to scare anti-ICE protesters with extrajudicial violence won’t work.
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This Is the Important Part
Leveraging US military aid to Israel is the only serious path to peace.
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Jewish Currents
Kaddish for David Berman
His albums took up the grand project of Jewishness, to which he came honestly: wrestling with God, playing the stranger.
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The Right Kind of Continuity
Jeffrey Epstein and the sexual politics of Jewish philanthropy.
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Who Needs Social Realism?
As the popularity of social realist cinema wanes, Ken Loach and the Dardenne brothers offer possible visions for the genre’s future.
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Gods, Guns, and Country
Trade in weapons and ultra-nationalist ideas is driving an expanding India–Israel alliance.
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Happiness, As Such
An excerpt from a 1973 novel by Natalia Ginzburg, newly translated by Minna Zallman Proctor.
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A Diaspora of One
A new biography of Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm downplays his Jewishness and attempts to soften his radicalism.
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Searching for Black Thought in White Antifascism
Natasha Lennard’s otherwise incisive new essay collection fails to adequately address what nonwhiteness might offer antifascist thought.
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