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Analysis
After the Encampments
For the student movement, translating chaos into real leverage will require a “long-haul protest” that sustains the crisis semester after semester.
Aparna Gopalan
Photo Essay
The Siege of Jenin
In a brutal, ten-day-long incursion, the Israeli army reduced large swaths of the West Bank city to ruin.
Wahaj Bani Moufleh
Review
The Hösses’ Colonial Paradise
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest disrupts the genre of Holocaust cinema by re-situating the Shoah in history.
Jonathan Shamir
Report
Searching for the Jewish Future in South Florida
Does Miami’s hardline Zionist consensus make it an outlier in American Jewish life—or a harbinger of things to come?
Max Freedman
Chevruta
(How) Should We Vote?
An investigation through Jewish text on the ethics of choosing the “lesser of two evils.”
Raphael Magarik
Analysis
The Right’s Anti-Israel Insurgents
A burgeoning anti-Zionist strain in the America First movement looks to capitalize on popular disaffection over Palestine for its own ends.
Ben Lorber
Analysis
A Dangerous Alliance
UCLA students arguing that Zionism is a First Amendment-protected religious belief have joined a powerful right-wing legal project.
Raphael Magarik
Poetry
PURE&LOVE
“because the/ heart can’t pump love / all day, it takes it away / for matters of living—”
Ahmad Almallah
Report
The Book of Randy
How a Jewish, pro-Israel Florida state rep is building power within the “America First” right.
Alex Kane
Report
The Rise of October 7th Tourism
Harrowing “solidarity tours” of Israel are reinscribing American Jews’ sense of victimhood.
Maya Rosen
Dispatch
“No One Is Coming to Save Us”
Eight Florida activists on the experience of organizing under Governor Ron DeSantis’s far-right onslaught.
Zaina Alsous

Peter Beinart in Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates

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October 10, 2024
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Comics & Human Rights

Thursday
October 17, 2024
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET
Letter From the Editor
Florida Is Everywhere
And we’re all out of time.
Arielle Angel
Review
Is This Anything?
Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Long Island Compromise reproduces the nullity at the heart of contemporary American Jewish life.
Mitchell Abidor
Essay
The Work of the Witness
Three months into a livestreamed genocide, we must ask—what does all this looking do?
Sarah Aziza
Conversation
Weeping for Babylon
Avi Shlaim discusses the factors behind the exodus of Iraqi Jews and how the concept of the “Arab-Jew” can chart an alternative future.
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Comic
Put Up, Take Down
A hostage poster diary comic
Solomon Brager
Analysis
Anatomy of a Moral Panic
The repressive machine currently arrayed against campus protests follows a familiar pattern.
Adam Haber and Matylda Figlerowicz
Comic
Kamala’s Convention
Eli Valley
Conversation
The Complicity of Israeli Academia
Scholar Maya Wind discusses Israeli universities’ longstanding role in Palestinian subjugation.
Raphael Magarik
Essay
Weaponization and Denial
Since October 7th, Israel’s use of evidentiary claims as justification for its devastation of Gaza has fed a countervailing strain of untruth.
Linda Kinstler
Archival
“In the Middle of Fighting for Freedom We Found Ourselves Free”
June Jordan’s 1993 tribute to Audre Lorde, her sister-in-arms from the ’60s student protests and beyond
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Conversation
“The Law Cannot Let Itself See the Nakba”
Rabea Eghbariah on the restorative potential of codifying “Nakba” as a legal concept.
Joshua Abramson Cohen