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Necessary Defense

Director Daniel Goldhaber on turning Andreas Malm’s eco-terrorist manifesto How to Blow Up a Pipeline into a heist movie.

Malcolm Harris April 18, 2023

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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

The Jewish Currents staff takes on Christmas.

Jewish Currents December 23, 2022

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Playing Jewish

The Jewish Currents staff discusses Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal.

Jewish Currents September 19, 2022

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The Widening Net of Punishment

Dorothy Roberts and Charlotte Shane on the criminalization of abortion and the expansion of the police state.

Claire Schwartz July 28, 2022

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Immigrants From a Place That No Longer Exists

A conversation between post-Soviet millennial Jews on the left

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Sex According to the State

Andrea Long Chu talks to Paisley Currah about setting aside identity in trans scholarship and politics in favor of a focus on material harm.

Andrea Long Chu June 29, 2022

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The View from the Ground

What overturning Roe means for abortion funds.

Arielle Swernoff June 24, 2022

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Learning in the Dark

Feminist writer and organizer Meredith Tax on her reissued classic The Rising of the Women, and the long, entangled histories of women’s movements and labor struggles.

Avi Steinberg June 1, 2022

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“You Cannot Unsee This Image”

Rashid Khalidi on the colonial logic that devalues eyewitness accounts of the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh

Dylan Saba May 17, 2022

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Assuming the Perspective of the Ancestor

Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on building constructive, future-oriented politics, at scale.

Claire Schwartz May 3, 2022

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Waiting on the French Left to Decolonize Itself

Houria Bouteldja and Françoise Vergès on the French Presidential Elections.

Claire Schwartz April 8, 2022

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The Limitations of the Scream

Filmmaker Nadav Lapid discusses the difficulty—and dangers—of attempting to cast off his Israeli identity.

Corey Atad April 6, 2022

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Reclaiming a Minor Literature

The editor of diasporic Hebrew journal Mikan Ve’eylakh seeks to recover the possibilities of Hebrew language not tied to the State of Israel.

Maya Rosen February 21, 2022

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Activestills and the Making of a Decolonial Archive

Members of the Israel/Palestine-based photo collective explain their approach to their work.

Alex Kane January 28, 2022

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A Logic of Elimination

Historian Lorenzo Veracini discusses settler colonialism, Zionism, and decolonial futures.

Abe Silberstein January 11, 2022

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Meir Kahane’s Long Shadow

The far-right activist and politician died in disgrace, but Shaul Magid’s new book argues that his ideas have shaped mainstream American Judaism.

Raphael Magarik November 24, 2021

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“I Campaigned on Right, Not on Fear”

If he loses due to his support for BDS, Florida congressional candidate Omari Hardy says his “conscience will be clear.”

Alex Kane October 25, 2021

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For the Sake of Truth

Poet and activist Mohammed El-Kurd discusses his debut collection, the vexed meanings of visibility, and the long history of Palestinian freedom struggles.

Claire Schwartz October 21, 2021

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Selling the Holocaust

Three writers and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, including Plunder author Menachem Kaiser, discuss the conventions of the “3G memoir” and the commodification of Holocaust stories.

Arielle Angel, Maia Ipp, and Menachem Kaiser July 28, 2021