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Does the Jewish Body Keep the Score?
Parts of the Jewish left believe trauma explains attachment to Zionism. But what they call “trauma” is more likely a collective story than a biological fact.
Jon Danforth-Appell April 16, 2026
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The Death of Asylum
How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved way for authoritarianism
Tanvi Misra April 16, 2026
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The Line Between Affinity and Conspiracy
Epstein relied on Jewish in-group bonds to cultivate the network that facilitated his crimes.
David Klion February 25, 2026
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Minnesota Goddam
In the Twin Cities, the hand of a polluted country reaches to choke the future out of us.
Danez Smith February 5, 2026
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Swarm Like Locusts
A dvar Torah from occupied Minneapolis
Joey Glick January 28, 2026
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Scenes from a Columbia Writing Workshop
In my classrooms, students continued to move toward the political analysis that two successive university—and presidential—administrations seemed determined to suppress.
Ade Khan December 16, 2025
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The View from Evin
My family’s history with the notorious Iranian prison links me to a world of unfinished liberation movements.
Sahar Delijani October 31, 2025
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Higher Ed’s Bad Bargain
To salvage academic freedom amid Trump’s attacks, universities must break from their Cold War compromise with US militarism.
Madeleine Baker October 31, 2025
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Rhetoric Without Reckoning
A new wave of liberal Zionist criticism of the Israeli government rings hollow without accountability for the genocide.
Simone Zimmerman August 22, 2025
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The Gavel and the Gun
Palestinian history shows that armed struggle campaigns often catalyze gains in international lawmaking.
Darryl Li June 17, 2025
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Wrestling with Martin Buber
The Zionist philosopher couldn’t escape a colonial mindset, but his binationalist vision offers a way forward in Israel/Palestine.
Raef Zreik May 6, 2025
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“All He Draws Is Monsters!”
Understanding Zionist forefather Max Nordau’s vision of “degenerate” art and his attitudes toward diaspora Jews can illuminate our present-day crisis.
Eli Valley April 18, 2025
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Against Zionist Realism
Is “Not In Our Name” Jewish organizing around Palestine inflating our culpability as Jews—and downplaying our complicity as Americans?
Jon Danforth-Appell April 9, 2025
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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 January 17, 2025
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The Algeria Analogy
We must turn to histories of decolonization not in order to predict
outcomes, but to expand our sense of how to fight without knowing the future.
Arthur Asseraf December 20, 2024
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The Destruction of Worlds
A reading of Parshat Breishit
Maya Rosen October 25, 2024
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“The Only Refuge I Could Offer”
Carrying new life in Gaza, amidst endless loss
Anonymous October 16, 2024
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Must the Sword Devour Forever?
With lessons from past deadly invasions of Lebanon shoved aside, the US and Israel are escalating toward endless war.
Seth Anziska October 2, 2024
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Ghosts of the Groves
In Israel and Florida, violent parallel histories of citrus cultivation have set the stage for a budding agricultural alliance.
Gavriel Cutipa-Zorn August 12, 2024
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Paradis Lost
The life and death of a radical Miami bookstore
Audrey Wright, Brian Wright, and Bianca Sanon August 12, 2024
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“Our North Is the South”
An experiment in radical education
Marina Magloire August 12, 2024
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What It Means to Speak With the Dead
A session with a Florida medium in a time of genocide
Fargo Nissim Tbakhi August 12, 2024
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Co-Resistance at a Crossroads
As anti-Palestinian violence in the West Bank reaches new heights, a beleaguered movement gathers to reflect.
Maya Rosen April 16, 2024
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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 April 10, 2024
