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Since October 7th, 2023, fault lines around Palestinian solidarity have changed the landscape of visual art.

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Bernard-Henri Lévy Speaks the American Media’s Lingua Franca
In a new book, the French intellectual exemplifies a liberal Zionist discourse that has fewer and fewer spokespeople to choose from.
Peter Beinart
Comic
Euro Trip
Eli Valley
Photo Essay
Memories of A Here-and-Now Place
The end of old Jewish Miami Beach and the rise of Little Haiti, 1977–1986
Gary Monroe
Gaza
Exile from Gaza
Four Palestinians describe how they left Gaza—and how Gaza never leaves them.
Zak Hania, Safa Al-Majdalawi, Amal Al-Majdalawi, and Mohammed Ghalayini
A Legal Justification for Genocide
By expanding the human shielding charge to every inch of Gaza, Israel is using a familiar strategy at an unprecedented scale.
Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon
The Epidemiological War on Gaza
Disease is poised to become an even deadlier second front in Israel’s assault on the besieged Strip.
Maya Rosen
“The Only Refuge I Could Offer”
Carrying new life in Gaza, amidst endless loss
Anonymous
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We Are Never Going Back
Democrats’ bid to return to a bygone liberal era failed—and now we’re all going to pay the price.
David Klion
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
Essay
What It Means to Speak With the Dead
A session with a Florida medium in a time of genocide
Fargo Nissim Tbakhi
Poetry
A Building
“in the cloud of dust that crossed the window, / in the echoes of the bomb that leveled the house next door, / in the sirens of the ambulance that couldn’t reach / the wound.”
Ibrahim Nasrallah
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
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
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
Poetry
PURE&LOVE
“because the/ heart can’t pump love / all day, it takes it away / for matters of living—”
Ahmad Almallah
Analysis
Trump’s Israel Instincts Don’t Matter
In his second term, as in his first, Trump may criticize Netanyahu—but his advisers will outmaneuver him to ensure that Israel enjoys a free hand.
Peter Beinart
Analysis
Examining the ADL’s Antisemitism Audit
Shane Burley and Jonah ben Avraham
Report
Inside the Movement to Settle Southern Lebanon
Building on the successes of the Israeli settler movement, a new ultra-right group is seeking to open yet another front for conquest.
Maya Rosen
Editor’s Picks
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    A Textbook Case of Genocide
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    Anatomy of a Moral Panic
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    “Resistance Through a Realist Lens”
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    More Truth
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    The Work of the Witness
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    After the Encampments
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    The Rise of October 7th Tourism
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    Ghosts of the Groves
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    The Campaign to Abolish UNRWA
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    Maqam for a Green Silence
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Essay
“Our North Is the South”
An experiment in radical education
Marina Magloire
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
Fiction
DEATH TO DICTATORS
“They’re crawling all over South Florida, the worst people on Earth, enjoying the sun and the sea, unkillable.”
Ryan Alan Boyle
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
Letter From the Editor
Florida Is Everywhere
And we’re all out of time.
Arielle Angel
Poetry
Hero vs. Common Fate
“It is the hero’s instinct to move / in a different direction, away from the crowd—”
Harryette Mullen
Conversation
Bodies of Water
Shoog McDaniel’s photographs of queer life in rural Florida present a world where all bodies are sacred.
Sasha Wortzel
Essay
Paradis Lost
The life and death of a radical Miami bookstore
Audrey Wright, Brian Wright, and Bianca Sanon
Shabbat Reading List
Weekly Parshah Commentary
Dec
6
Parshat Vayetzei

Readers of this week’s Torah portion, Vayetzei, will be forgiven if they experience some déjà vu. Just two weeks ago, we read about a man arriving at a well from far away, encountering a young woman, and a betrothal that...

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Nov
29
Parshat Toldot

In the fall, when we read in Breishit about days of yore and primeval deeds, I find myself burrowing into the ancient history of the left. What Breishit is to the Jew, Edmund Wilson’s To the Finland Station (1940) is...

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The US right
The Book of Randy
How a Jewish, pro-Israel Florida state rep is building power within the “America First” right.
Alex Kane
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
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
The Energetic Executive
Ron DeSantis wants to make his blueprint for Florida—outlined in the rancorous memoir written for his failed presidential campaign—into a model for the rest of the country.
Samantha Schuyler
Essay
The Destruction of Worlds
A reading of Parshat Breishit
Maya Rosen
Chevruta
How Much Must We Sacrifice for Justice?
An investigation through Jewish text, in the wake of Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation for Gaza
Lexie Botzum

Letters from Our Readers

On “Kamala’s Convention”
It seems that you published Eli Valley’s disgusting attack on Kamala Harris because the magazine disagrees with her policy position on Israel and the Gaza Strip. This kind of absolutism in politics never wins elections. Jewish Currents should take a lesson from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is mature enough to... more
David Gurin
Copake Falls, NY
On “The Hösses’ Colonial Paradise”
Like Jonathan Shamir, I long for a disruption to the monotony of Holocaust films that “prioritize pathos, catharsis, and blunt moral force over historical precision.” Most cultural production “about the Holocaust” actually shields us from having to look too directly at that genocide. Before I watched The Zone of Interest... more
Helen Betya Rubinstein
Brooklyn, NY
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