Policing the Borders of Suffering
When it comes to concentration camps and other carceral spaces, the debate over vocabulary lays bare the inconsistencies in our fights for justice.
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Whose Concentration Camps?
AOC is drawing the correct lessons from Holocaust history, unlike mainstream Jewish institutions.
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Apartheid Is Israel’s “Desired Reality”
An interview with Haaretz journalist Amira Hass about occupation, the diaspora, and what comes next.
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One Year of
Jewish Currents
Anti-Choice Activists Have Invented an “Abortion Holocaust”
New legislation codifies an insidious comparison.
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A Divorce Story, from “Both Sides”
Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s debut novel reflects the irrelevance of Jewishness to the most pressing concerns in many American Jews’ lives.
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If You Prick Watto, Does He Not Bleed?
Twenty years after The Phantom Menace, an antisemitic caricature reconsidered.
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Atrocity in the Off Hours
What can we learn from photographs of cross-dressing Nazi soldiers?
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The Congressional Black-Jewish Caucus Is a Sham
Linking arms with allies of white supremacists to fight white supremacy won’t work.
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UChicago Wildcat Strike Empties Classrooms
The grad student union’s three-day work stoppage was a demonstration of power.
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New York’s First-Time Women Voters
A 1918 dispatch from a Yiddish newspaper documents the experiences of women legally voting for the first time.
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