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On the “Victims of the Victims”

Revisiting Edward Said’s ethical humanism in the context of the Gaza genocide

Ussama Makdisi
Report
Inside the Yale Police Department’s War on Student Protesters
Exclusive documents reveal the YPD’s use of counterterrorism tactics in suppressing pro-Palestine activism.
Theia Chatelle
Report
Defunding Dissent
Philanthropists have quietly withdrawn funding from grassroots groups that spoke out for Gaza, imperiling a broad range of social justice movements.
Will Alden
Art
Things Not Seen
Since October 7th, 2023, fault lines around Palestinian solidarity have changed the landscape of visual art.
Hyperallergic x Jewish Currents
Conversation
Difference Without Power
In her recent book, The Reeducation of Race, Sonali Thakkar excavates the mid-century roots of contemporary liberal anti-racism.
Ben Ratskoff
Materia Medica
Buenezas of South Florida
How plant wisdom connects Indigenous communities and the diasporas that make their homes in the region
Monica Uszerowicz
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
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
Opinion
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
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
Comic
Euro Trip
Eli Valley
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
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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    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
  6. 6
    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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Book Launch: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Beinart

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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
Essay
What It Means to Speak With the Dead
A session with a Florida medium in a time of genocide
Fargo Nissim Tbakhi
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
PURE&LOVE
“because the/ heart can’t pump love / all day, it takes it away / for matters of living—”
Ahmad Almallah
Essay
Paradis Lost
The life and death of a radical Miami bookstore
Audrey Wright, Brian Wright, and Bianca Sanon
Conversation
Bodies of Water
Shoog McDaniel’s photographs of queer life in rural Florida present a world where all bodies are sacred.
Sasha Wortzel
Shabbat Reading List
Weekly Parshah Commentary
Jan
17
Parshat Shemot

The Book of Shemot, whose first parshah we read this week, is an epic tale of the redemption of an enslaved and suffering people—but it is not only that. It is also the fulfillment of a divine promise. Hovering behind...

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Jan
10
Parshat Vayechi

This week’s parshah, Vayechi, literally means “he lived.” Yet despite its name, the parshah is about death—Jacob’s deathbed blessings to his sons, the mourning rites that follow his passing, and then Joseph’s death. This past year, I, like so many...

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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
Report

The Civil Rights Law Shutting Down Pro-Palestine Speech

Pro-Israel groups have remade Title VI into a tool of repression—and a second Trump term will supercharge their crusade.

Alex Kane