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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

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Facing Amalek
Reading the biblical injunction to genocide amid a genocide
Maya Rosen March 22, 2024

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The Work of the Witness
Three months into a livestreamed genocide, we must ask—what does all this looking do?
Sarah Aziza January 12, 2024

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The Luminous Dark
How can we understand Hanukkah in a way that rejects colonial conceptions of light and dark?
Lexie Botzum December 12, 2023

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The Abolitionist Logic of “Everyone for Everyone”
A call from the families of hostages contains the seed of true safety.
Dan Berger December 1, 2023

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Hayim Katsman’s Vision of Struggle
In a 2019 paper, a scholar and activist killed by Hamas on October 7th imagined a way forward for the Israeli left.
Hayim Katsman November 14, 2023

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Light Among The Nations
For Yoram Hazony, the founder of the National Conservative movement, Israel is an illiberal model for the international nationalist brigade.
Suzanne Schneider September 28, 2023

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Meditations on Cixous
Four writers reflect on the feminist theorist’s work.
Jo Mrelli, aracelis girmay, Sarah Hamerschlag, and Jules Gill-Peterson September 28, 2023

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To Grieve the World Like a Dying Friend
What does it mean to build toward a future on a planet in the midst of collapse?
Cynthia Friedman August 3, 2023

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Looking for a Lineage in the Lusk Archive
The records of a New York surveillance committee from the time of the First Red Scare document a radical world—and its demise.
Ben Nadler and Oksana Mironova July 18, 2023

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Even the Survivors Are Poisoned
A diary of wartime in Gaza
Anonymous May 18, 2023

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The Strange Hours
Finding a new relationship with rest in early motherhood
Maryam Ivette Parhizkar April 10, 2023

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Dreams Under Confinement
Mapping the pandemic’s collective unconscious
Rona Lorimer April 3, 2023

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The Right to Grieve
To demand the freedom to mourn—not on the employer’s schedule, but in our own time—is to reject the cruel rhythms of the capitalist status quo.
Erik Baker March 13, 2023

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The Trap of Palestinian Participation
An open letter considers the impossible choice facing Palestinians: Participate as a token in conversations premised on their oppression, or be branded rejectionists.
Tareq Baconi February 10, 2023