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a Day of Politics & Culture
September 15, 2024
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
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
Responsa
More Truth
To truly oppose the right’s attacks on education, Jewish communities must face Palestinian history.
Letter From the Editor
Florida Is Everywhere
And we’re all out of time.
Arielle Angel
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
Inside the Movement to Settle Southern Lebanon
Maya Rosen
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
Anatomy of a Moral Panic
The repressive machine currently arrayed against campus protests follows a familiar pattern.
Adam Haber and Matylda Figlerowicz
Poetry
Hero vs. Common Fate
“It is the hero’s instinct to move / in a different direction, away from the crowd—”
Harryette Mullen
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
Analysis
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
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
Dispatches
“Any Second They Could Come”
As Israeli demolitions and settler attacks escalate, Palestinians in the village of Umm al-Khair stare down the possibility of expulsion.
Maya Rosen
“The Scenes in Rafah Are Straight From a Nightmare”
Three displaced Palestinians describe unlivable conditions in a city bracing for imminent Israeli invasion.
Zak Hania, Ahmed Totah, and Sameera Wafi
“Even as We Are Trying to Help, We Are Being Attacked”
Three humanitarian workers in Gaza describe the challenges of providing aid while struggling to survive.
Jameel, Juliette Touma, and Mohammed Al Khatib
“We Have Lost the Ability to Provide True Care”
Three doctors describe coping with fatal shortages and agonizing choices in Gaza’s overwhelmed hospitals.
Hammam Alloh, Yousef Al-Akkad, and Reda Abu Assi
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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
The Anti-Union Lobby’s Newest Weapon
Now armed with cynical antisemitism allegations, the corporate-backed effort to destroy unions is ramping up.
Jeff Schuhrke
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
Newsletter
Israel’s Crackdown on Hebron
Intensified restrictions on Palestinian life in the West Bank city, introduced after October 7th, could become permanent and even spread elsewhere.
Maya Rosen
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
Editor’s Picks
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    “We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other”
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    Understanding Apartheid
  3. 3
    The Hindu Nationalists Using the Pro-Israel Playbook
  4. 4
    Bad Memory
  5. 5
    Light Among The Nations
  6. 6
    The Problem of the Unionized War Machine
  7. 7
    After the Hit-and-Run
  8. 8
    “Biden’s Legacy Will Be Apartheid”
  9. 9
    Point of No Return
  10. 10
    Teshuvah: A Jewish Case for Palestinian Refugee Return
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The ADL
Examining the ADL’s Antisemitism Audit
A line-by-line reassessment of the organization’s data illuminates the flaws in its methodology.
Shane Burley and Jonah ben Avraham
Top Executive Leaves ADL Over CEO’s Praise of Elon Musk
Yaël Eisenstat’s departure is the most prominent instance of post-October 7th dissent within the organization.
Mari Cohen and Alex Kane
The Anti-Democratic Origins of the ADL and AJC
The history of the ADL and AJC reveals that they were created to consolidate the power of wealthy men and stifle the grassroots left.
Emmaia Gelman
ADL Staffers Dissented After CEO Compared Palestinian Rights Groups to Right-Wing Extremists, Leaked Audio Reveals
A special meeting called to answer internal critics shows that the ADL’s vocal opposition to the anti-Zionist left is controversial even within the organization.
Mari Cohen and Alex Kane
Report
An Israeli “Buffer Zone” Could Shape Gaza’s Post-War Reality
Alex Kane
Report
Israel’s “Humanitarian” Expulsion
Jonathan Shamir

Letters from Our Readers

On “Religion, Secularism, and the Jewish Left”
The recent On the Nose episode about religion and secularism reflected an entrenched Ashkenormative approach to Jewishness—that is, the assumption of Ashkenazi culture, history, and religious practice as the “default” in Jewish life as a function of internalized Eurocentrism, and even white supremacy, within Jewish society. I was disappointed that... more
Devin Naar
Seattle, WA
On “Bad Memory”
Too bad. With only a little research the authors would have known that much of contemporary German memory culture was painfully fought for by Jews who stayed in Germany after the war, and who kept disturbing the peace of a country all too eager to forget the crimes of its... more
Joel Kohen
Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Belgium
Analysis